Dream Experiences

Slartibartfast wrote: By the way anyone ever have that dream where you're falling and feels like you physically hit the bed on your back and you wake up? I haven't had that one in a long while. It only seems to happen when I'm asleep on my back and I haven't been sleeping on my back in a while which may explain why it hasn't happened in a while.

I have those weekly It always does feel like you're thrown back on to your bed when you wake up, though

Actually to answer the question, it completely varies on the dream.

By the way anyone ever have that dream where you're falling and feels like you physically hit the bed on your back and you wake up?  I haven't had that one in a long while.  It only seems to happen when I'm asleep on my back and I haven't been sleeping on my back in a while which may explain why it hasn't happened in a while.


Edited by Slartibartfast - January 15 2010 at 21:01

Negoba wrote:   I wanted to start a new subject to shoot the breeze about, so....   I think I have a fairly unique experience that it feels, to me, that I am dreaming continuously from the time I go to sleep until I wake up. Anytime I wake up, I could tell you what I had been dreaming. There is a set of dream where I literally feel like I'm walking through syrup in the dream, which I assume is some sort of deeper sleep.   Last evening I was meditating and actually could feel the transition happening and had a little power over the process (not as much as I'd like). Unfortunately, I often fall asleep while meditating or anything relaxing.

Sorry dude, I did a thread though not a poll on this before.  Or am I really here?  The Stupid Dream thread.  So if you want to write on stupid dreams specifically rather than dream experiences in general feel free to drop by. ***

So I've written on the forums about dreams before.  I wonder if I'll contradict myself or provide new insights into my twisted mind. 

I've been fascinated by dreams since a young child.  I think my enjoyment of prog music ties in in some way. 

From what I've read you are more likely to remember your dreams from the morning than the evening, which has correlated with my personal experiences.  And from further experiences in life, it tends to be dependent on waking up at the end.

Lucid dreaming can also be fun.  That's when you realize you are in a dream and start to take control or participate more actively in the events of the dream. 

I have found that the dreams I remember most tend to be of a rather dark nature...

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Edited by Slartibartfast - January 15 2010 at 20:41

BTW I voted 'rarely'

Notwithstanding the disjointed, convoluted and plain vanilla 'surface irrational' nature of the dream world, I suspect that it is probably impossible for our subconscious to lie to us i.e. can an individual be disingenuous while dreaming ? Was I guilty of nothing more than 'boyish high spirits' when I stole that candy bar at age 6 ?

Jay, as a medical man you must have some thoughts on this ? (Hope you weren't a newsagent in Scotland in 1968 however )

A Person wrote: I find that if I concentrate on my dreams when I first wake up, it helps me to remember my dreams. I have read that it is best to keep a dream diary, in which you right down everything you remember from your dreams. I think it is supposed to help you focus on your sleeping habits and can allow you to have lucid dreams.

I find that if I concentrate on my dreams when I first wake up, it helps me to remember my dreams. I have read that it is best to keep a dream diary, in which you right down everything you remember from your dreams. I think it is supposed to help you focus on your sleeping habits and can allow you to have lucid dreams.

I still remember very clearly what I dream last night... so I really can't be on the regular 10 minutes of remembering dreams... I was a very bizarre dream and I don't like the feel of it...

I remember most of my dreams but they get hasy after a while but sometimes i dream something so awesome that i get stuck in my mind. i love dreaming, it´s like another reality but exaggerated and much unstabler and distorted ahhh just love it 

harmonium.ro wrote: Negoba wrote: I always assumed everyone had naked dreams. It's always being out in public. No one else is naked, of course. I've heard of lots of folks with these before. Or maybe it's just people raised Catholic...hmmm.... I'm an Orthodox Christian and it's the same. Walking around the town, having to do something (which is why I can't go back home, for some reason I have to keep going), and suddenly noticing I'm wearing only a t-shirt, with no pants or anything. The typical dreams I used to have as a boy were about falling from great heights or hanging on to some weird object with the weird capacity to fly and drag me over many places, in the air. When I hit adolescence though, those dreams suddenly disappeared. I think Freud described this but I'm not sure (I haven't read any). The funniest thing when having a regular dream is consciously remembering (while dreaming!) that I've been in this setting/landscape before, in another dream (which I can, vaguely but good enough, remember). I haven't been dreaming much since quite some time (years), but from time to time I do get chased mercilessly by that T-Rex. Damn you Spielberg!

floydispink wrote: Here's a recent dream I had, it was epic : floydispink (at the off at tangents thread) wrote: I'd like to share the brilliant dream I had last night with you: I was sitting in my room, and when I looked outside into the backyard I saw a bunch of filthy rats. Obviously I didn't want those there, so I dressed up like a ghost and tried to scare them away. Unfortunately they weren't scared and they got angry at me. They called some of their mates and suddenly my house was surrounded by a huge army of rats. There were millions of them, and they were furious. They were ravaging cities close to my house and attacking innocent people. Suddenly I got a vision... I needed to show the rats a little lamb, so that I could summon the army of angels. So, I summoned a little lamb, went outside, showed it to the angry rats and went back inside. the rats were looking anry at me, but they didn't attack me. Then the army of angels appeared and the rats fled.

You've seen the Paranoid Android video way too many times