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Topic: Dream Experiences
Posted By: Negoba
Subject: Dream Experiences
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 13:57
 
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.
 
 


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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 13:59
No. And when I dream I can't even remember to look for my hands. Unhappy


Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 14:05
I have extremely vivid dreams (several in the course of one night) and I remember almost all of them.

Many times I can swear I've been to the same scenes multiple times, but the more I think about it while awake, the less sure I am about it (nocturnal deja vu?)

If I were a painter, I could do some really incredible things based on the things I've seen during the course of a night's sleep.


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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 14:07
Rarely ever.  I wish I could, the few I have remembered have been pretty interesting and crazy.

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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 14:09
Mine have many recurring themes. One of the most common is driving a car into or through a flooded road. I never go under, just feel like I'm in trouble.

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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 14:11
I have an active imagination - I often go to sleep while day-dreaming - consciously thinking about (or imagining) something and often I have found myself following the same "plot-line" when waking. I don;t think I could call those dreams as such.
 
I also suffer from migraines that occasionally will force me to wake, often from a deep sleep - several times these migraines have interrupted lucid dreams that involved the kind of pain a migraine exacts - as a child this often involved my pillow turning into something from the Cars That Ate Paris.


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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 14:15
Migraines aren't supposed to wake you from sleep...that really stinks.
 
What do you define as lucid dreaming, then?


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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.


Posted By: Trademark
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 14:21
I rarely remember dreams.  Some years ago I got to feeling inferior in this regard and started working at remembering them.  I kept a pad next to my bed and quickly wrote down whatever i could remember the instant I woke up (middle of the night or whenever) and I actually made some progress.  I got better at "tracking" my dreams.  After I stopped the writing, everything went back to the way it was before.  Now I remember a dream for an hour or so in the morning about once every 10 days or so.




Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 14:22
I don't have a clue honestly. 
I do remember my dreams quite often I think, but I don't have a clue how much of them I forget.

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Many times I can swear I've been to the same scenes multiple times, but the more I think about it while awake, the less sure I am about it (nocturnal deja vu?)

That's something I've also experienced several times. 


Here's a recent dream I had, it was epic Big smile:

Originally posted by floydispink (at the off at tangents thread) 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.


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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 14:28
I'll remember somewhere around 1/2 of my dreams, but only around 1/5 of those or less are interesting.  Most of my dreams are pretty lame, like I finally obtain an album I couldn't find anywhere or something else rather realistic.


Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 14:51
I remember many of my dreams, most of them in this last year were about I'm been a superheroe in a movie, but the emotions I felt were really strong... I also have a lot of vivid dreams...
 
Happened to me last week, I was sleep on a bus at the morning and in my dream i found the final scence for a movie script I'm doing, and the next day on the same bus, before dawn, I end up one of the chapters I'm writing in a novel... so, I don't know how to call to this... It happened to me many other times with songs but I can´t never reach the ideas shown in my dreams but in the case of the script and that chapter of my book I really wrote it as I dreamed and are the both great...
 
I have recurrent dreams as well... but they are not that great as the ones I mention above...


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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 15:15
Originally posted by Negoba Negoba wrote:

Migraines aren't supposed to wake you from sleep...that really stinks.
 
What do you define as lucid dreaming, then?
Migraines ... the world's most misused word - I couldn't say whether it is the migraine that wakes me or the headache I'm left with afterwards.
 
For me lucid dreams are ones where you are well aware that you what you are experiencing is dream but it still seems real.


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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 15:44
Sometimes I remember my dreams, but I'm guessing not always (I'm guessing because if I didn't remember the dream, I wouldn't very well remember that I didn't remember my dream, now would I?  Wink)  The dreams I remember usually involve me trying to get down safely from someplace high, or trying to cross some very precarious bridge up high.  Not sure why I dream that a lot, although I am afraid of heights. 
 
Another dream I have constantly is that I'm always coming on to this progressive rock website and making posts, and lots of other people (who are just figments of my fever dreams I'm sure) also post.  Strange stuff.  Confused


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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 15:57
None of the above options really fits me, since I occasionally remember my dreams for as long as a day or so, though I would lie if I said it is a frequent occurrence. Like Jay's, my dreams often involve recurring situations, and even a whole alternate world (especially as regards places). One of those recurring situations is driving a car - which is odd in my case, since I don't drive - or even sitting in the passenger's seat of a car that is moving by itself. Another is walking around when completely naked, and being understandably worried about itWink.

On the other hand, I very rarely have what you would call nightmares, but whenever I dream of getting seriously angry at someone (occasionally even hitting them), it usually leaves me with a sort of nasty feeling afterwards. 


Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 16:00
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....

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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.


Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 16:04
You know.  I do remember a dream now that I had not too long ago.  In my dream, I was still living in Poland, and walked outside around Christmas.  Was walking down the street, felt a bit cold, and some woman looked at me and gave me the eye that said I should look down and when I did, I noticed I had no pants or underwear on, although I was completely clothed from the waist up. 

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Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 16:09
Well... I never dream about it Jay and I'm Catholic, really, why should I dream about been naked and feel wrong about it...?? but agree with Raff in the part of recurrent dreams... mine are always fill with action, explotions, babes -sometimes- and missions that I have to develop... and most of the times I achieve the goal just before waking up... sometimes it merges with some fear feeling, like a nightmare but it's never negative... I always escapes from what is haunting me...

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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 16:12
I also wake up just BEFORE the climax....Confused

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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.


Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 16:13
Originally posted by Negoba 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've had a few of these dreams.  

I've also had dreams that usually end with me falling to my death.  This has happened so many times I think I almost imagine the experience of falling and knowing you won't survive in the end.  Hopefully this doesn't mean anything.


Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 16:14
Something weird about some of my dreams is that there is usually a lag in time in my dreamworld.  By this, I mean that I usually have to know a person or be in a certain environment for roughly a year before they start making dream apperances. 

Does this happen to anyone else?


Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 16:16
The lag is worse for me, few people appear in my dream who are active participants in my life. The most common characters are people I no longer have contact with who were in the past big parts of my life. Some of them I got out of my life for good reason so it's really annoying.
 
Luckily I'm never naked in those dreams....


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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.


Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 16:19
No... I doesn't happen to me... and how many people is aware that they are in dreams... most of mine I know that I'm on a dream and sometimes I can even create something in my dream, like creating a door when I need one or flying at will or you know, I manipulate my own dream... does this happen to any other as well...???

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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 16:20
Depends.

I remember at least two vivid dreams from my childhood. One involved graphic Lord of the Flies-esque violence and another involved an anatomically incorrect sexual picnic with an attractive neighbor.

Needless to say, my childhood was awesome.


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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 16:25
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Depends.

I remember at least two vivid dreams from my childhood. One involved graphic Lord of the Flies-esque violence and another involved an anatomically incorrect sexual picnic with an attractive neighbor.

Needless to say, my childhood was awesome.

LOL


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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 16:30
Originally posted by gottagetintogetout gottagetintogetout wrote:


Originally posted by Negoba 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've had a few of these dreams.  
I've also had dreams that usually end with me falling to my death.  This has happened so many times I think I almost imagine the experience of falling and knowing you won't survive in the end.  Hopefully this doesn't mean anything.

I have those falling dreams really frequently, usually once or twice a week. I always wake up sweating.

Worst dream I can remember having as a child was Aliens dragging me out of my house after watching Signs when I was 7 or 8

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Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 16:40
My God... you are young man...!!! I saw signs (and love it, by the way, especially for the qoute "It could be possible that there's no coincidences") at 19 or some...
 
falling dreams just when I'm with a cold and I take pills... and was only when I was a kid... but I remember a couple of dreams about it...


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Posted By: Xanthous
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 17:12
I have tons of dreams that I remember, most of them being very unusual/ psychedelic. Ever since I started listening to all this progressive music. My mind has been overflowing with ideas. A lot of this correlates into my dreams.  Multi- colored mountains, floating, alternate realities, Roger Dean, artwork, and many many other things factor into these. Once I can get my Ipod working (This is where I write down and store some of my best ones) I'll try to get a few of the better ones up here.


Posted By: Xanthous
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 17:17
Originally posted by jampa17 jampa17 wrote:

No... I doesn't happen to me... and how many people is aware that they are in dreams... most of mine I know that I'm on a dream and sometimes I can even create something in my dream, like creating a door when I need one or flying at will or you know, I manipulate my own dream... does this happen to any other as well...???

It's kind of like my goal. I've been able to realize I'm in a dream many times, but been able to manipulate them only a few times before.  I conjured up a colour haze one time (also floated) but most of the other times I tried to do things and woke up. 


Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 17:21
Originally posted by floydispink floydispink wrote:


Here's a recent dream I had, it was epic Big smile:

Originally posted by floydispink (at the off at tangents thread) 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 LOL


Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 06 2010 at 17:31
Originally posted by Negoba 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!


Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: January 07 2010 at 08:00
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by Negoba 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!
 
jajaja... Damn directors...!!!
 
I dream with Avatar yesterday... that I was flying through this strange world... but of course, that night I just saw it... Damn Cameron...


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Posted By: Trademark
Date Posted: January 07 2010 at 08:09
My most common recurring dream is a house dream.  Its never the same house, always an unfamiliar one and I have to search through it to someone or something.  I'm always lost and can never get where I need to go.  But for some reason I'm never in a hurry or state of panic; just calmly wandering from room to room; meeting people and seeing what's there.  Sometimes I've gone outdoors and and come back in, and once it was a huge factory.  I've heard that this is not an uncommon type of dream but no one here has mentioned it yet.


Posted By: manch1ech00ta
Date Posted: January 07 2010 at 17:32
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 Big smileBig smileBig smile


Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: January 07 2010 at 17:43
Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Originally posted by gottagetintogetout gottagetintogetout wrote:


Originally posted by Negoba 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've had a few of these dreams.  
I've also had dreams that usually end with me falling to my death.  This has happened so many times I think I almost imagine the experience of falling and knowing you won't survive in the end.  Hopefully this doesn't mean anything.

I have those falling dreams really frequently, usually once or twice a week. I always wake up sweating.

Worst dream I can remember having as a child was Aliens dragging me out of my house after watching Signs when I was 7 or 8

I've never head a go-to-school-naked dream or anything like that. I may have had dreams where I was naked, but if I was it was irrelevant.


Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: January 08 2010 at 08:10
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...

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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: January 08 2010 at 18:05
As a kid, ALL THE TIME!

But now, (I'd say over the last 5 or so years and especially the last 2 or 3) I can NEVER remember them.

Best I usually get is waking up with the slightest, vaguest memory that I had one.
I can honestly say that I remember 3 FULL dreams over the last few years.

I hate it.


Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: January 08 2010 at 18:29
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.


Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: January 08 2010 at 19:47
Originally posted by A Person 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 used to have lucid dreams ALOT, (of course that was back when I could remember them).
Its tough. I wake up and have nothing. Like I said sometimes I have just the memory that I HAD a dream. Maybe if I try focusing when it happens I can coax something out.


Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: January 09 2010 at 08:52
Originally posted by A Person 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.
 
In one teenagers magazine in which Icollab I have to interpret dreams that people sends me... I have like three or four books about it... and those are interesting... I don't believe in those interpretations, but it's fun to do it... and that's a common advise, write your dreams in a dairy, and that's aloud you to control them eventually... I was experiment with the method, but I get scared when I pass to the "Extracorporal experiences Chapter"... it was really odd and scary... you should canalize the vibrations that to sense in the exact moment of falling sleep and do a couple more of mental excercises...
 
BTW: I remember my dreams... I remember the one I have just today...


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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: January 09 2010 at 08:56
I had a dream last night about being in an extreme down-hill skiing competition. I think the current weather may have something to do with that.

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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: January 09 2010 at 12:15
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 Embarrassed)


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Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: January 15 2010 at 18:50
Snoop Dogg in a dream at a chinese restaurant told me I don't get bitches because I don't smoke weed
not saying I advocate the position one way or the other, but there is a direct correlation of lacking both bitches and weedsmoking


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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 15 2010 at 20:26
Originally posted by Negoba 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. LOL ***

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...

*** Proceeds from you contributing to that thread will go to the benefit of no one as there are no proceeds for contributing to that thread.


Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: January 15 2010 at 20:34
Originally posted by heyitsthatguy heyitsthatguy wrote:

Snoop Dogg in a dream at a chinese restaurant told me I don't get bitches because I don't smoke weed
not saying I advocate the position one way or the other, but there is a direct correlation of lacking both bitches and weedsmoking


That's hilarious. LOL

On topic: I rarely remember my dreams. When I do remember them, most of them are very bizarre.


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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 15 2010 at 20:44
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.


Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: January 15 2010 at 20:50
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

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.

I get a more benign variation of "whoops I slipped and fell" rather than the stereotypical falling from the sky bit


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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: January 15 2010 at 20:51
Originally posted by Slartibartfast 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

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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 15 2010 at 21:01
Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast 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.


Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: January 16 2010 at 01:13
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast 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.


Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: January 16 2010 at 02:36
Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast 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.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 16 2010 at 06:01
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

It's called a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk - Hypnic Jerk - (cue jokes Wink)

Alrighty then, joke number one: Sounds like a good name for a prog band, The Hypnic Jerks.

Thanks for that, seriously.  I did not know the phenomena had a name.

Here's another one: That Wiki article was actually informative.  Now I know I must be dreaming.


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Posted By: Mind_Drive
Date Posted: January 29 2010 at 19:47
Originally posted by A Person 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 Wink





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Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: February 03 2010 at 08:01
I've had the 'dream deja vu' that Epignosis mentioned earlier. I get it quite a lot actually. One's I haven't had for years come back exactly as they were... I seem to go through periods of time when I remember nothing from my dreams for a while and then others when I know them in good detail more often than not. Weird isn't it? Confused


Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: February 07 2010 at 23:32
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 LOL

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.


Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 16:19
I do remember quite a bit of my dreams, or at least fragments of them. Statistically speaking though I would probably have to say rarely because if I do not try to recall them after I wake up, I will forget them.

This morning I had one of the craziest dreams. I remember it had David Eugene Edwards from the band Wovenhand in it and instead of being the righteous man that he tries to be, he was an unsavory fellow. It was like he was one of the characters in his songs.


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Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 16:21
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.

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Posted By: Tuonela
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 10:44
Oh man, I have dreams practically every night and I almost always remember them vividly... they usually contain some nightmarish parts as well, I guess my subconscious is a bit messed up...

I also have those "dream deja vu's" where dreams reoccur. Sometimes they are just images that keep popping back in dreams, and sometimes they are like real deja vu, where I know I dreamt the exact dream before, but can't quite remember when... I think it really is just deja vu...


Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 10:58

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.



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Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 11:16

I never ever remember anything at all!
Which makes me conclude I go into some kind of brain-dead state when I sleep. 


Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 11:18
Originally posted by Negoba 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.

 
Oh... creepy dream you've got... at least we know now that you will save us all... Wink I just forgot my last night dream... I do remember it has something about myth and fear inside but right now the dream is gone...


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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 11:28
I usually remember my dreams in some detail..

Last night, I dreamt that I was getting married (I've no idea who to) and my best friend had organised a stag party in Hong Kong. I live in Britain, btw, and have never neen to Hong Kong. I boarded the plane, as if it were a bus, couldn;t find any of my friends, and within a few minutes the plane had turned into a bus and was driving through, what looked like, Hong Kong..

..certainly how I believed HK to look like

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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 11:29

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, thoughThumbs Down

 
About the poll, most of the time.


Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 11:38
I remember a dream I have a couple nights ago...
 
A mortal Virus is destroying the world, there are few that are trying to scape from the virus and I'm one of them... suddenly those that were dead are becoming zombies and I lead the resistence to try to stop them to eat us... we are in a strange island and we reach the shore, where all the boats are loaded of people who try to scape and I can find a place to scape with them... don't remember what happened next... but I'm sure is because of Resident Evil... a game that I'm playing too much lately...


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Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 12:00
Originally posted by NecronCommander 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 LOL

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.

I'd write a movie about that!


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Posted By: cyclysm748
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 22:01
In the last month or two I've had two dreams where my oldest brother died. I can remember them both quite well, in the first one I remember being at his funeral, but the funeral was up in this wicker type hut in a tree. In the second it was much sadder and I woke up after balling in my dream, and it made the rest of my day sad. I can usually remember my dreams, the day after and longer if I think about them enough and tell other people.


Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 10 2010 at 16:55
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. 


Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 14 2010 at 15:44
Actually I don't look much like that guy at all, and I don't wear a cap. And a lot thinner?! ROTFFLMFAO!1111I am very shy though, and smile. Embarrassed


Posted By: Tursake
Date Posted: May 14 2010 at 16:11
I always remember my dreams, I can recall dozens of dreams for years ago Big smile They always seem to take place in a dream version of my hometown. I could even draw a detailed map of the place LOL I've always thought that I dream of very weird things


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