Dreams and Nightmares -

Leto · #31 01-23-2005, 10:25 PM

I find me dying funny. Especially when I am smooshed between two metal walls. Then again, I don't fear death that much (I aint this macho guy, I just don't care that much... Life aint great, anywho...).

The Marching Mudokon · #32 01-23-2005, 10:30 PM

Last night I had a dream I was the na-Baron of House Harkonnen (from Dune) and I was attacking this palace. Then out of no where I was pushed off a balcony. Then I woke up. Strange!

***Nate*** · #33 01-24-2005, 12:48 PM

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Abot 6 months ago in my dream, I was being suffocated by a wig. I couldn't breath or nothing, and I was pretty freaked. Then I woke up and thought "What the ****?".

Had you recently watched that Simpson's episode where Homer gets a hair transplant from Snake?

*unintentional segue*

I used to get nightmares about snakes all the time as a kid. Thankfully I've mostly gotten over that phobia now.

When I was very young I was petrified of Ghost Trains and I once had a dream that there was a huge Ghost Train that was one big tunnel under Melbourne that you drive through (not really a train, I know...) and my Dad went into it intentionally (laughing maniacally) because I was frightened of it.

The worst thing is that's the sort of thing he would do in real life also. Only without the cackling.

sligster · #34 01-24-2005, 02:48 PM

worst dream:

when I was little (fiveish), I was terrified of this old man living across the street. I dunno exactly why, but he had some medical conditions... he was very, VERY old, and I had never seen anyone like him before. I now know I shouldn't have been afraid of him- but I was.

I dremt I was walking down a dark hallway, and I got to the end and a cloaked man was standing there. His lifted his hood and it was the old man. I ran, and the hallway became misty- fog everywhere, with spiderwebs hanging down from the cieling. The hallway became a maze, and every way I turned would stop in a dead end with the man standing there reaching out to me. I came to one hallway and the man managed to make his arm longer (hey... it was a dream..), grab me and pull me closer to him. He started laughing maniacly and I woke up in cold sweat....

........ it was creepy as hell....

Leto · #35 01-24-2005, 10:14 PM

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Had you recently watched that Simpson's episode where Homer gets a hair transplant from Snake?

No, but since I remeber now, its even funnier!

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I used to get nightmares about snakes

Was that because of Snake of the Simpsons?

(couldn't resist, kill me now)

Has anyone else except me experienced 'lucid dreaming'? I have been doing so for most of my life, without aide of those lights spoken of earlier.

Facsimile · #36 01-25-2005, 12:05 AM

I've done it once, but I didn't have long enough to do much stuff. I pretty much just walked somewhere else.

Leeum · #37 01-25-2005, 12:30 PM

Normally when you're dreaming and you die you wake up before you hit the floor, bullet hits you or whatever context. I've heard that in rare cases if you don't wake up you can actually die...anyone clarify this?

Leto · #38 01-25-2005, 01:01 PM

Yes, I always die, then go from first perspective to third, or something, giving me a nice view of my corpse, mutilated or not.

sligster · #39 01-25-2005, 02:14 PM

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Yes, I always die, then go from first perspective to third, or something, giving me a nice view of my corpse, mutilated or not.

sounds like you've been playing too much Halo

TheRaisin · #40 01-25-2005, 02:19 PM

Heh heh. I wonder, if video games and movies and TV weren't so ingrained in my person, if I would view my dreams from a first-person perspective. As it is, almost all of my dreams are from a third-person POV. It's like, I'm myself, but at the same time I'm someone watching me. Very strange.

I've heard that, Leeum. I've seen no proof either way, so I can only assume it's an old wives' tale. Although the human mind can do some fairly strange things (I refer you to my example of the ant nightmare) I don't think it would ever go so far as to kill a person, seeing as how the entire purpose of the brain is to preserve itself.

Al the Glukkon · #41 01-25-2005, 04:04 PM

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The hallway became a maze, and every way I turned would stop in a dead end with the man standing there reaching out to me. I came to one hallway and the man managed to make his arm longer (hey... it was a dream..), grab me and pull me closer to him. He started laughing maniacly and I woke up in cold sweat....

........ it was creepy as hell....

It sounds like the old guy just wanted a hug.

Leto · #42 01-25-2005, 08:04 PM

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sounds like you've been playing too much Halo

Yeah, but it didn't go 'beep, beep, beep, beeeeep!'

Facsimilie, that sounds like a very, very exciting dream.

TheRaisin · #43 01-25-2005, 08:16 PM

Only once have I been able to do that thing, and not very well. I was boxing a giant praying mantis. It was trying to kill me, and I was boxing it with boxing gloves. Anyway I could just kind of control how I fought. It didn't help. The dream ended with me in its mandibles, my organs just on the verge of bursting. Not a wonderful experience.

Leto · #44 01-25-2005, 08:37 PM

Too bad, lucid dreaming is the best thing since, uh, bread, yes. I don't know why it happens, but on those rare occurances when I dream I always lucid dream, if that is a verb.
Mabye you people should sleep with flickering lights, you'll never dream normally again...

TheRaisin · #45 01-26-2005, 02:27 PM

Ugh. Yeah, that's exactly what my sleep-deprived brain needs, some flickering lights and weird dreams while I sleep.

Sligster, your description of your old man nightmare, combined with the fact that I failed a test because I never learned how to utilize the law of sines and the law of cosines, lead to a dream in which this old guy was explaining to me how to do the problems on my math test. That was pretty hilarious. Too bad the dream ended before he could explain it. I would love to come to school and say that an old man in a dream had taught me how to solve those problems.

Leto · #46 01-26-2005, 06:26 PM

I had the coolest dream eva last night, and it wasn't a lucid one.
I can only really remeber specific bits, so bear with me.

OK, A bunch of people (who were the main focus of the dream, the view followed them) were stuck in a building which was mainly stairs except for a room at the top. It was inhabited by a weird corparation who all wore those weird 12th century wigs, or like those ones they wear in court in the England area. And for some reason the bunch of people were ushered to the car park, which was full of zombies. They managed to kill them all, and turned a corner to exit the carpark. Around the coner

SUPER ZOMBIES! They were all purple for some reason. Everyone died except three people who were kept alive because the Corparation guys told the zombies not to eat them.

I do not remember anything except the end from there on in, except the last survivor got to a beach, then commited suicide becuase he was bitten by a zombie by jumping in the water. He sunk, but then after about 5 second, rose again as a zombie. (He looked disturbingly like Xavier... XD)

Very abstract, I just can't remeber most of it... It has now taken place as favourite dream. It wasn't a dream, but it wasn't a nightmare either, cause it was just cool! Sure as hell lightened up the rest of my day...

***Nate*** · #47 01-27-2005, 01:03 PM

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Normally when you're dreaming and you die you wake up before you hit the floor, bullet hits you or whatever context. I've heard that in rare cases if you don't wake up you can actually die...anyone clarify this?

Its totally a myth. I mean how could you test this scientifically? You can't exactly find out what the people were dreaming whilst there asleep and finding out afterwards would immediately invalidate the theory because if it were true they'd drop dead when you woke them.

Rich · #48 01-28-2005, 11:04 AM

If you have a weak heart, and you have a nightmare, could you die of a heart attack whilst dreaming?

***Nate*** · #49 01-30-2005, 01:24 PM

Yeah, probably. I mean, I've woken up from a nightmare with my heart beating rapidly so I guess there's no reason why someone with a weak heart would not overload.

It would be hard to tell what caused it though.