Dream Experiences

I always remember my dreams, I can recall dozens of dreams for years ago  They always seem to take place in a dream version of my hometown. I could even draw a detailed map of the place I've always thought that I dream of very weird things

Last night I dreamt I met Vompatti. He looked a bit similar to Noi from the film Noi Albinoi, just that he was taller, younger, a lot thinner. He was also very shy, but he smiled. And was wearing a cap just like Noi. 

NecronCommander wrote: Unfortunately, I haven't had a dream in quite a while, possibly weeks. When I do dream, I remember them most of the time, oftentimes because my dreams tend to be so surreal and wonky.  The funny thing is, my dreams seem to make so much sense in the dream world itself, yet when I wake up, I say to myself, 'What the **** was I thinking?  Did that really make sense just minutes ago?' I also remember certain sets of dreams, from as far back as when I was very young to the present, sometimes because they are recurring 'deja vu' dreams like mentioned before, sometimes because they were incredibly cool or thought provoking, sometimes because they were weird as ****. Here's an example of the first dream that came to mind: I owned a one-story motel somewhere outside of a town in Arizona.  Business was okay. One day, though, a torrential downfall started and the water level on the ground actually accumulated so much that it came up to the windows on the first floor.  It kept on raining so hard that I had to build a second floor above the first just so that my motel would stay above the water level.  This downfall kept pouring rain hour after hour, and I kept building story upon story on my motel - for fifty stories. After about a week the rain stopped, and I was one story above the water, with fifty stories below the water.  It was actually kinda cool: you could go down levels and look out the windows; for some reason, no water leaked in.  It was like the opposite of a skyscraper. For about a month, people came in boats over the new ocean planet to stay at my motel.  Then one day, the water levels resided in one night, and my motel, weakened structurally by being underwater, came crashing down to the ground.  Luckily, I could fly Sometimes I get those lucid dreams, and those are pretty fun, but usually end kinda quickly. About a year ago I started hearing music in my dreams.  Really beautiful music that was incredibly moving.  But when I would wake up, I could only remember a few notes of the music, and maybe how it made me feel, but that's about it.  Maybe I should try some Toby Driver-esque techniques to try and put this music to writing.

Last night I had a dream that I started to act the Obi-Wan Kenobi part in Episode 1 where he's falling. Really cool, haha, I didn't have lightsaber or force powers, though

Edited by The Quiet One - February 22 2010 at 11:36

Negoba wrote: Last night I had a dream so intense and action packed that I woke up exhausted. One scene involved me following a river to its source inside some cave where I had to go some mystical transformation to save humanity. However this involved bugs crawling through my body and changing my flesh. I was subsequently able to heal and do cool things, but it was not a restful night.

Last night I had a dream so intense and action packed that I woke up exhausted. One scene involved me following a river to its source inside some cave where I had to go some mystical transformation to save humanity. However this involved bugs crawling through my body and changing my flesh. I was subsequently able to heal and do cool things, but it was not a restful night.

Oh! and I remember one where I was standing in the front yard of the house that I grew up in and a man in white that looked like Jesus with beautiful "technicolor" wings flying in circles around a young oak tree.

Unfortunately, I haven't had a dream in quite a while, possibly weeks.
When I do dream, I remember them most of the time, oftentimes because my dreams tend to be so surreal and wonky.  The funny thing is, my dreams seem to make so much sense in the dream world itself, yet when I wake up, I say to myself, 'What the **** was I thinking?  Did that really make sense just minutes ago?'
I also remember certain sets of dreams, from as far back as when I was very young to the present, sometimes because they are recurring 'deja vu' dreams like mentioned before, sometimes because they were incredibly cool or thought provoking, sometimes because they were weird as ****.

Here's an example of the first dream that came to mind:
I owned a one-story motel somewhere outside of a town in Arizona.  Business was okay.
One day, though, a torrential downfall started and the water level on the ground actually accumulated so much that it came up to the windows on the first floor.  It kept on raining so hard that I had to build a second floor above the first just so that my motel would stay above the water level.  This downfall kept pouring rain hour after hour, and I kept building story upon story on my motel - for fifty stories.
After about a week the rain stopped, and I was one story above the water, with fifty stories below the water.  It was actually kinda cool: you could go down levels and look out the windows; for some reason, no water leaked in.  It was like the opposite of a skyscraper.
For about a month, people came in boats over the new ocean planet to stay at my motel.  Then one day, the water levels resided in one night, and my motel, weakened structurally by being underwater, came crashing down to the ground.  Luckily, I could fly

Sometimes I get those lucid dreams, and those are pretty fun, but usually end kinda quickly.
About a year ago I started hearing music in my dreams.  Really beautiful music that was incredibly moving.  But when I would wake up, I could only remember a few notes of the music, and maybe how it made me feel, but that's about it.  Maybe I should try some Toby Driver-esque techniques to try and put this music to writing.

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.

Thats what i´ve read.. the whole lucid dreaming thing is very interesting!

It is actually a thing one can learn - the more you tend to remember your dreams the easier.

For the ones who are interested in this subject and feel that they could draw something really interesting or important out of their dreams i recommend the book "Exploring the world of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold. ( just ~5 € at amazon).

it requires a bit of discipline but i even had the first improvement in dream recalling while i just started to read this book. it is not about interpreting your dreams but it helps you to remember more of them - the final goal is to get the ability to be aware that you are dreaming (in your dream) and furthermore to take controll of your acting and over the whole dream:

quote: " ... you could do anything your mind could conceive. thus inspired you might fly to the heavens. you might dare to face someone or something that you have been avoiding; you might choose an erotic encounter with the most desireable partner you can imagine; you might visit a deceased loved one to whom you have been wanting to speak; you might seek self knowledge and wisdom."

i think it is worth a trie

A Person wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: progkidjoel wrote: 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 Exactly.  I think your body has a spasm or something and that terminates the dream phase. And I always find myself feeling really good that I fell on to my back on my bed in a dream instead of on the ground in real life.  And yes, I've never been skydiving and don't want to. I think it might be because of your body relaxing and your brain interpreting it as falling. something like that.

It's called a Hypnic Jerk - (cue jokes )

Edited by Dean - January 16 2010 at 02:37