Dreams -

Leto · #31 01-09-2007, 11:52 AM

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I just dream about a lot of random crap that I usually don't remember...I do write them down sometimes though, and then I look over them later and I'm all wtf?

Most odd. Usually if you jot down a few words about it, they will make you remember pieces of it. In fact, I've remembered whole dreams from a two words synopsis. "Racist Toys", "Cinema Planetsuck" and "Work J. Fox" are all dreams I've had in the previous year that I've remembered and provided synopsis, yet the ones I havent I've pretty much forgotten.

Humph.

skillya_glowi · #32 01-09-2007, 03:56 PM

Lol

But most of the time, though, it takes a lot more than two words to remind me of a dream I've had. In the case of yesterday, for example, no way "green statues" would have been enough.

But sometimes, what's really freaky, I remember dreams for a very, very long time. For instance, I still remember this one dream that I've had when I was about five.

I rarely have nightmares, though. That's a good thing. In fact, the last one I remember happened like in 2000...something, when the forest fires were really close to where I was living. I dreamt that I opened our apartment door and saw my dad, and the house behind him was burning.
Ugh D:

What I like about dreams though is that sometimes (not all of the time) I know when I'm dreaming. In dreams you can fly around and breathe underwater. I likey that ^^

snuzi · #33 01-10-2007, 08:03 AM

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I just dream about a lot of random crap that I usually don't remember...I do write them down sometimes though, and then I look over them later and I'm all wtf?

I've done that in the past, and still do that whenever I have a chance. I actually used to have a book that was about a third filled with my past dreams. I always made sure to go into detail though, documenting events in the particular dream that were significant or stood out, so that later, only I would be able to understand what I wrote and remember it

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Lately, I haven't been having many dreams, and the one's I've had, I've forgotten rather quickly. I prefere nightmares over dreams though. For some reason, my nightmares are far more interesting than my dreams, and give me great ideas for characters to draw, or stories to create.

That's why it sucks that I haven't been dreaming lately: no new ideas of that sort

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Leto · #34 01-10-2007, 01:03 PM

My dreams aren't really dreams or nightmares. I mean, they're hardly scary, but they deal with dark material sometimes.

I had two last night, don't remember how they intertwined though. One was a story of these highschool children wagging and trying to get someone fired, which concluded with me (not me, as such, you know... the protagonist) and one other, presumabley a friend, at the end of a corridor where our room was being assailed by a zombie. Very nonsequitor to the main story.

The other revolved around me and a friend Ian (who halfway through the dream turned into a Goonies-like fat kid without explanation) uncovering a pedophile hideout. The start of this one had an entirely different point, like I remember images of me and Ian just going around town, but I don't remember why.

Pretty much to remember your dreams, you have to think of your dreams as soon as you're concious. If you wake up and think "What a nice day, I know I'm going to go out and pick cherries", within the 5 seconds thinking that you've lost your dream. Just think of everything that happened in it once you wake and you'll find you should remember much more.

Bullet Magnet · #35 01-10-2007, 01:22 PM

I've been able to identify long forgotten dreams as the cause of many of my deja vu experiences. And they're always the dreams that you never remember, one of the five or more most people have every night but keep no recollection of it the next morning.

skillya_glowi · #36 01-10-2007, 01:25 PM

I have déjà vu at the weirdest moments sometimes, but it usually isn't dream-induced.

snuzi · #37 01-10-2007, 02:07 PM

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Pretty much to remember your dreams, you have to think of your dreams as soon as you're concious. If you wake up and think "What a nice day, I know I'm going to go out and pick cherries", within the 5 seconds thinking that you've lost your dream. Just think of everything that happened in it once you wake and you'll find you should remember much more.

That's what I do. I replay it in mind mind, over and over again as soon as I wake up, and rush to jot it all down. Once I lose it though, it's gone for good. I just can't seem to find it afterwards.

Arxryl · #38 01-10-2007, 02:53 PM

I had a dream recently, where I realized it was a dream, and thus, I remember all of it a lot clearer.That doesn't mean it was awesome though.
I remember looking at a street sign, looking away and looking back to notice the text was different and then I knew it must be a dream. I do things like that periodically during the day so the habits can work their way into my dreams through my sub-concious mind. (such as, looking at things, then looking away, or tyring to see if something changed or looks abstract.)
Given that none of it made sense the only part I think I really need to tell you is that me and my older brother were at a weird theme park and rode all kinds of vomit inducing, hair raising, and physically impossible rides.
T'was still pretty neat though.

Arxryl · #39 01-10-2007, 02:56 PM

Sorry for double posting. my computer screwed up.

snuzi · #40 01-12-2007, 08:04 AM

I had a dream the other night that I somehow insulted my girlfriend's great-grandparents (who are deceased), and made her extremely angry with me. All throughout the dream, I was trying to apologize to her, but she wouldn't listen. I think there was probably more to it, but that's all I can remember.

The funniest part is, that my girlfriend and I have never been angry at one another or fought, and if such a situation actually occurred, we'd probably just laugh about it

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skillya_glowi · #41 01-12-2007, 07:11 PM

I dreamt today that I was a hooker in LA and had a racecar that I could only ride on my stomach. And something about camping.

Random...

Arxryl · #42 01-12-2007, 07:19 PM

I've had a dream many of you have probably had.

I'm almost completely asleep, and then I run my bike off a cliff and jolt awake, bashing my head on the wall.
Darn those falling dreams... darn them to heck.

snuzi · #43 01-13-2007, 01:38 PM

Oh! Oh! I've had the same thing happen to me! You're falling asleep, when suddenly, while still half-conscious, you get some sort of image in your head of you falling down something. When it happens to me, it's always my stairs, and it makes me jolt up out of bed, waking me up. I hate it so much, since it makes it even harder for me to fall asleep than it already is.

***Nate*** · #44 01-13-2007, 04:05 PM

Sort of similar: I once had a dream that I was fighting with my sister and I kicked her, only to be woken up by my foot making contact with the wall beside my bed.

Hurt for a week!

mitsur · #45 01-13-2007, 07:36 PM

I've been playing too much Final Fantasy X-2. I dunno why, but i'm obssessed with maxing out all the classes and then owning the final boss.

Anyways, on to my bizarre dream.

I dreamnt that I went to Circuit City and they had this brand new console thingy that let you talk to the characters in a game as if they were real. The example game used was FF X-2, and I fell in love with Yuna, or whatever, and I kept running back and forth between the screens or whatever talking to her, and we got all emotional, and I woke up crying.

I gotta lay off the sugar before going to bed....

snuzi · #46 01-13-2007, 08:01 PM

Man isn't it odd how dreams can impact you in real life?

I've had dreams before about people I knew, and certain situations in the dreams actually made me see the certain person differently in real life. I just find it really weird that a fictional event could influence things in real events.

moxco · #47 01-13-2007, 08:31 PM

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Man isn't it odd how dreams can impact you in real life?

I've had dreams before about people I knew, and certain situations in the dreams actually made me see the certain person differently in real life. I just find it really weird that a fictional event could influence things in real events.

At our school there is this kid that acts like sex is discusting, any way I had a dream that he was a hooker. Ever since i've always thought differnetly about him.

ANN NEELY · #48 01-14-2007, 11:39 AM

The other day I fell asleep on the couch, and I had this weird lucid dream (a dream where you know you're dreaming), and I was trying to wake up, but I kept waking up into another dream, even stranger than the previous one. After waking up into fifteen dreams, I finally woke for real. There was a point when I tried to fly by running down the hall in my house and jumping, but I fell face-first.

skillya_glowi · #49 01-14-2007, 04:56 PM

Yeeaah, that happens to me sometimes...dreams within dreams...hmm...

Fortunately, I know a foolproof way to wake up from a dream you don't want to see, like a nightmare or something. I know this sounds really weird but...just open your eyes. I don't know how to describe it. Even though in your dream, your eyes are open, just try to close them and force them open, I guess. It's weird. I dunno.

I've never had one of those falling dreams though. That's weird, because everyone I know has had one at some point in their lives. I haven't, and to be truthful, I don't want to, because from what I hear, it's highly unpleasant...

snuzi · #50 01-14-2007, 08:02 PM

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Fortunately, I know a foolproof way to wake up from a dream you don't want to see, like a nightmare or something. I know this sounds really weird but...just open your eyes. I don't know how to describe it. Even though in your dream, your eyes are open, just try to close them and force them open, I guess. It's weird. I dunno.

Unfortunately, I've tried that, and it hasn't worked in the past. Plus, most of the time, I don't know that I am actually in a dream, so that never really occurs to me

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Has anyone ever had trouble actually seeing in their dreams? In some of mine, I go blind in the middle of 'em or my vision blurs. It's weird.

Jordan · #51 01-14-2007, 10:37 PM

I go sorta blind in my dreams at times.
I just had this freaky dream where I was in this weird castle place, and there was this baby tiger, and all these gorillas, it was really weird.

Facsimile · #52 01-14-2007, 11:07 PM

I can fly in my dreams. It's hard, but it's awesome.
Real life sucks.

Oh and I love the fact that I have so little confidence in myself that my dreams usually focus on my weaknesses. How sad is it if you can't even get girls in your dreams?

Jordan · #53 01-15-2007, 07:44 AM

Sometimes I make my dreams, so I make the events myself, it's great!

Bullet Magnet · #54 01-15-2007, 08:46 AM

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Sometimes I make my dreams, so I make the events myself, it's great!

According to some strange and suspect things I've read, lucidity in dreams and choosing what they are about are just one step away from astral projection, or an OBE.

Abraham Lure · #55 01-15-2007, 11:06 AM

Off-Topic: I've been trying to Lucid Dream. But I can't. I have no control over whether I'm Lucid Dreaming or not. Does anyone have any techniques to help?

On-Topic: I had a very weird dream. I dreamt that I was Superman's Guardian Angel but it turned out he didn't need me and I was allowed to go to become a normal kid again. It was funny though.

skillya_glowi · #56 01-15-2007, 11:46 AM

Most of my dreams are lucid strangely. Like, in the middle of one, I'll say to myself something like, "This dream is weird" or "I don't wanna see this, this sucks."
However, I really don't see how you could have any control over whether your dream is lucid or not.
I don't choose what they are about though....I just choose whether I want to see them or not.

And I don't know what astral projection is...

Jordan · #57 01-15-2007, 11:48 AM

Sometimes I can fly in dreams, it's great. And when I wake up, I try to fly, but can't, it's not fair! >.<

used:) · #58 01-15-2007, 12:04 PM

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And I don't know what astral projection is...

It's moving your conscious mind out of your body, an out-of-body experience.

skillya_glowi · #59 01-15-2007, 12:14 PM

That sounds like that pagan spiritual crap, though...May this only be my opinion, but I don't see at all how it's connected to lucid dreams. Dreams occur within one's own mind, and all people are different, therefore some have control over their mind when it's in the subconscious and some don't.

ANN NEELY · #60 01-16-2007, 11:03 AM

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That sounds like that pagan spiritual crap

*tries her best to ignore that comment*

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but I don't see at all how it's connected to lucid dreams.

That's because it isn't. According to Wikipedia, Lucid dreaming is the conscious perception of one's state while dreaming, resulting in a much clearer experience and sometimes enabling direct control over the content of the dream. The complete experience from start to finish is called a lucid dream. Stephen LaBerge, a popular author and experimenter on the subject, has defined it as "dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming."

As for OBE's, astral projection (or astral travel) is an interpretation of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) achieved either awake or via lucid dreaming, deep meditation, or use of psychotropics. Proponents of astral projection maintain that their consciousness or soul has transferred into an astral body (or "double"), which moves in tandem with the physical body in a parallel world known as the astral plane.

The concept of Astral projection has been around for thousands of years, dating back to ancient China. It is currently often associated with the New Age movement.

There are two general schools of thought on the nature of astral projection; these can broadly be defined as the mystical model and the phasing model.

Astral projection is also known as "Soul Travel", which is one of the main practices of Eckankar, Religion of the Light and Sound of God.