[DIV]

I thought there was already a thread like this, but I can't find it.

Anyway, what is some of the weird shit that floats through your head when you sleep.

I've been having a lot of weird dreams lately. One that I actually remember was a few nights ago. I'm pretty sure I was in blackwater, because I was being trained in a military institution to indiscriminately kill civilians.

[smarmyprince]

Now, who here thinks dreams are representative of things in our subconscious and who thinks it's just the brain being bored and no more?

I keep having dreams about zombies. I mean, I find literature on the subject entertaining, but I'm not especially obsessed (although I have read the Survival Guide several times). Maybe I'm clairvoyant or my brain is preparing without me.

[Cybercat]

I am of the "it's your brains processing your day" school of thought.

Unfortunately I hardly ever remember what I dreamed about. Just some small details, but never the big picture or story of the dream, assuming there was one to remember in the first place.

[wammalammadingdong]

I believe dreams are representative of things in our subconscious. I dream A LOT, and they all have to do with things that I think about often or things that I remember from my past, or things I'm afraid are going to happen in the future.

Yesterday, I remembered a guy I went to high school with. he was my best friend, and of course, I ended up having a huge crush on him, cause that's just how I roll anyway, I dreamed about him yesterday. I'm not going to explain what happened in the dream, but I know what it meant.

Part of the reason I think dreams are representative of things in our subconscious is because I am a VERY paranoid and scared person, and most of my dreams are of my worst fears, such as someone trying to kill me, me losing someone I love, someone breaking into my house and hurting me, and things like that.

Once in a while I have a really good dream that I want to go back to and finish, but most of the time my dreams are bad. I've had bad dreams since I was a kid and just learned to live with it.

Someone told me once that I should learn to change my dreams while I'm having them, and I think I actually did that the other day. not sure how or if I actually did it, but it felt like I did.

I started a dream journal, but I never can write them the way I want to. and because of that, I stopped. I want to start it up again, though. I also stopped because I wake up 20 mins before work, and that is hardly any time to get dressed AND sit there and try to remember everything that happened in my dream.

[Toreshi]

Now, who here thinks dreams are representative of things in our subconscious and who thinks it's just the brain being bored and no more?

I am a believer in dreams being a mish-mash of things in your subconscious. Some stuff I dream is just ridiculous nonsense that pops into my head as a result of events of the day (i.e. I watch three back-to-back episodes of Mythbusters, and then dream that the busters are helping me fix pipe leaks in my parents' basement), other stuff I see as genuine reflection of subconscious thoughts that I don't necessarily face in waking hours (before the wedding I kept having dreams about insane things happening that I just couldn't control no matter how hard I tried). That said, I think dreams have to be taken in stride. If you stretch far enough you can come up with a psychological reason for the existence of any dream, but you also have to realize that most of it is probably just random junk and thoughts getting muddled up in your brain.

I started a dream journal, but I never can write them the way I want to. and because of that, I stopped. I want to start it up again, though. I also stopped because I wake up 20 mins before work, and that is hardly any time to get dressed AND sit there and try to remember everything that happened in my dream.

I'm currently keeping a dream journal for my own benefit, just to see if I can draw anything from them. I also don't like the way I write them out though. I remember so many thoughts and feelings and little, minute details from my dreams that it makes it really hard to put it in writing. I eagerly await the day that they figure out how to visually record dreams.


All that aside, if I started telling you about my dreams I could fill up this thread REAL fast. My dreams are extremely complicated, sometimes normal, sometimes beyond retarded, and they're almost always huge, motion-picture length features of which I can recall so many details that it almost makes my head explode.

Without going into too much detail, I dreamed last night that I married one of my coworkers. It was as though J had never existed, although in the back of my head during the dream I knew he had. The wedding was in a big hall on a long, deserted road in the middle of the night, and afterward we all walked across and up the road to a different hall for the reception. One of the random details was that my uncle (who is also my godfather) wandered away from the pack as we were walking up the road and started running down it. I asked him where he was going and he said he had to go for his morning run (I don't think my uncle has ever run in his life).

Don't know WHAT that dream was about.

[The Illusionist]

This is probably the one you were thinking of, DIV?

However.... How come when I start a thread about this, everyone tells me it's all nonsese and I'm clearly going nuts, but when DIV does it he gets 3 or 4 different sides AND people joining in with THEIR dreams?

That's just favouritism

[smarmyprince]

Someone told me once that I should learn to change my dreams while I'm having them, and I think I actually did that the other day. not sure how or if I actually did it, but it felt like I did.

From what I've heard, to increase the chance of lucid dreaming you can do a few things:

-Keeping a dream journal

-Setting a marker (I continually dream about zombies, so if I can make that my marker, whenever I dream about zombies I should try to recognize it's a dream)

-Waking up somewhat mid-dream then falling back to sleep (since dreams occur in one of the lightest stages of sleep, by waking up you're partially conscious and more able to control your thoughts)

-Constantly do reality checks while awake (like look at a clock, look away, then see if the time changes.) Then, if you're dreaming you may notice a difference.


So...if I'm dreaming about zombies (en masse), what does this mean? I'm up against a nigh unstoppable force and all I can do is run. The real world impinging on my cozy little college life?

[Waycos]

it means you're playing to much Left for Dead and Dead Rising.

[DIV]

This is probably the one you were thinking of, DIV?

However.... How come when I start a thread about this, everyone tells me it's all nonsese and I'm clearly going nuts, but when DIV does it he gets 3 or 4 different sides AND people joining in with THEIR dreams?

That's just favouritism

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

I had another weird one last night. I remember rather a lot, so feel free to skip over this one. I, an unidentifiable friend of mine, and 7 chicks had all been kidnapped by 2 men. They had another unidentifiable friend hidden somewhere so they could get us to do what they wanted. So they locked the 7 girls in a room and told my friend ...er... Charlie and I that if we disappeared in the night they'd kill our friend...er... Betty. So we convinced they that they had plenty of hostages with the 7 girls and that we should be allowed to come along with one of the kidnappers when they went to blow up a cave with Betty. So we sat there playing with dynamite and planning if we could throw it at the kidnapper after he had lit it so Betty, Charlie and I could escape. (Apparently, fuck those 7 girls.) We noticed that the fuse was way too short and that we'd almost certainly blow ourselves up. So I decided to take off one of my shoelaces, pull out the fuse and tie the shoelace to the end of it, before sticking it back in, shoelace first. That's about the time I woke up. I still think I would have blown myself up.

[dreamchaser]

From what I've heard, to increase the chance of lucid dreaming you can do a few things:

Read Carlos Castaneda's The Art of Dreaming.

This post has been edited by dreamchaser: 18 September 2009 - 01:16 PM

[Flying Gremlin]

Usually my dreams involve me being very aware that it's a dream within my dream.

It freaks me out.

[wammalammadingdong]

Now, who here thinks dreams are representative of things in our subconscious and who thinks it's just the brain being bored and no more?

I am a believer in dreams being a mish-mash of things in your subconscious. Some stuff I dream is just ridiculous nonsense that pops into my head as a result of events of the day (i.e. I watch three back-to-back episodes of Mythbusters, and then dream that the busters are helping me fix pipe leaks in my parents' basement), other stuff I see as genuine reflection of subconscious thoughts that I don't necessarily face in waking hours (before the wedding I kept having dreams about insane things happening that I just couldn't control no matter how hard I tried). That said, I think dreams have to be taken in stride. If you stretch far enough you can come up with a psychological reason for the existence of any dream, but you also have to realize that most of it is probably just random junk and thoughts getting muddled up in your brain.

I started a dream journal, but I never can write them the way I want to. and because of that, I stopped. I want to start it up again, though. I also stopped because I wake up 20 mins before work, and that is hardly any time to get dressed AND sit there and try to remember everything that happened in my dream.

I'm currently keeping a dream journal for my own benefit, just to see if I can draw anything from them. I also don't like the way I write them out though. I remember so many thoughts and feelings and little, minute details from my dreams that it makes it really hard to put it in writing. I eagerly await the day that they figure out how to visually record dreams.


All that aside, if I started telling you about my dreams I could fill up this thread REAL fast. My dreams are extremely complicated, sometimes normal, sometimes beyond retarded, and they're almost always huge, motion-picture length features of which I can recall so many details that it almost makes my head explode.

Without going into too much detail, I dreamed last night that I married one of my coworkers. It was as though J had never existed, although in the back of my head during the dream I knew he had. The wedding was in a big hall on a long, deserted road in the middle of the night, and afterward we all walked across and up the road to a different hall for the reception. One of the random details was that my uncle (who is also my godfather) wandered away from the pack as we were walking up the road and started running down it. I asked him where he was going and he said he had to go for his morning run (I don't think my uncle has ever run in his life).

Don't know WHAT that dream was about.

I remember a lot of little things too, but it doesn't come out right when I write them. I guess I will start that up again, even if I can't write them the way I want to, it's better than nothing. and it's not like I'm going to publish them or anything

I agree about the visually recorded dreams =D

This is probably the one you were thinking of, DIV?

However.... How come when I start a thread about this, everyone tells me it's all nonsese and I'm clearly going nuts, but when DIV does it he gets 3 or 4 different sides AND people joining in with THEIR dreams?

That's just favouritism

hahaha *hugs The Illusionist*

[smarmyprince]

I had a dream last night where I woke up, but managed to get back to sleep and control the dream. I only had control for a few minutes dream-time before I woke up.

Just when it was getting good. Boo.

[wammalammadingdong]

lol I hate when I'm actually having a good dream, and then I wake up in the good part! sometimes I can't get back to it, but sometimes I can. if I'm awake for more than 10 seconds, I can't lol

had a weird one... yesterday, I think. short version: I was in my apartment and some people were after me, don't know why. I ended up going to my apartment, the one across from mine, which in the dream apparently belonged to a friend, and some cafeteria place, all trying to figure out why they wanted me and trying to avoid letting them find me. there was also a part where I think I was with a cute guy or something, and he was smoking, and I think we were talking. not sure where the boy was during this, but I know he was in the dream a lot too, just can't remember what he was doing lol.

[Toreshi]

I won't describe the entire dream I had last night, but there's a part of it that has been recurring with me lately. In maybe 3 out of every 5 dreams I've had for the past while, there's a subplot where I've had a baby, but I couldn't take her home right away because she was sick or something, and several months pass without me being allowed to even see her.

In the dream last night I received a call that I could finally go get her, but for some reason the hospital needed my uncle's signature before they would give her to me, and it was the uncle who is really unreliable and hard to get a hold of.

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[fullfrontalnerdity]

Last night I had a dream that I had to go to my high school graduation...for a second time. I knew in the dream I had walked the year before, but also that I needed to do it again. Except that I wasn't wearing a white dress, wasn't in the program, and hadn't been told where to go to line up. I was sitting with my mom and her entire side of the family in my school's auditorium. Even in the dream I was confused as to why I was there, and asked my mom why I hadn't actually graduated the year before. Apparently there was something weird with the number of credits I'd taken. I then resolved that if they didn't call my name this time that I'd just say screw it, since they had already given me a diploma the first time around.

I guess I can add anxiety dreams to the list of fun stuff that goes along with figuring out what I'm doing after graduation (from university) in May.

*wanders off grumbling*

[DollMaestro]

Hmm... what to do after university graduation, huh?
One suggestion that comes to mind is an archaeological dig in Egypt. (We haven't dug out ALL the treasures yet, have we?)

Personal dream/nightmare: Giant orange scorpion the size of a cereal box tried to attack me. It's not exactly scorpion. It has two golden slit for eyes (evil), and a giant clamping mouth with canines. It roared and tried to chomp my hand. Good thing it was still easy to hold the thing back with my bare hands. I forgot how I defeated the thing. Where's a weapon when you need one...

This post has been edited by DollMaestro: 20 September 2009 - 04:37 PM

[Toimisk]

I had what can only be described as an epic dream last night.

I started off in a standard British pub, to which a Russian gentleman entered wearing a furry hat. I approached him and mentioned that it was a rather nice hat, to which the gentleman responded that's not his hat, and he was a bear wearing a human suit. It turns out that the entire pub was populated by bears who were waging a vendetta against PETA. At this point a PETA 'operatives' burst through the door wielding spears. The bears then pull MG42's from under the bar and start waging a Sparta style war against a horde of PETA people. The dream ended in my lounge with several different species of bear in my living room placing bets on horse racing whilst watching it on telly.

It rates within the top 5 dreams

[Sable]

This is probably the one you were thinking of, DIV?

However.... How come when I start a thread about this, everyone tells me it's all nonsese and I'm clearly going nuts, but when DIV does it he gets 3 or 4 different sides AND people joining in with THEIR dreams?

That's just favouritism

We just like DIV better.


My dreams (when I have them) usually incorporate the major events of my day.

I find if I try to influence them, I push too hard and wake up or I lose out on the texture of the dream (Hard to explain).

A lot of my childhood dreams involved being blind and stumbling around trying to find *safety/stablity*. Which was weird because I was outside my body and could see where I was going, but I was also inside my body stumbling around blind. (And now I wear glasses... weird)

Sometimes I feel I have deja vu, and sometimes attribute this to a dream where something similar occured. Which is me saying I've got limited psychic abilities.

FYI: If I end up in a car crash on Keilor Rd, I dreamed that and I am in fact a psychic (It's ok, in the dream I just spun out, so no near death experience)

FYI: This weeks lotto numbers are 4, 13, 33, 34, 78.

[DIV]

I had what can only be described as an epic dream last night.

I started off in a standard British pub, to which a Russian gentleman entered wearing a furry hat. I approached him and mentioned that it was a rather nice hat, to which the gentleman responded that's not his hat, and he was a bear wearing a human suit. It turns out that the entire pub was populated by bears who were waging a vendetta against PETA. At this point a PETA 'operatives' burst through the door wielding spears. The bears then pull MG42's from under the bar and start waging a Sparta style war against a horde of PETA people. The dream ended in my lounge with several different species of bear in my living room placing bets on horse racing whilst watching it on telly.

It rates within the top 5 dreams

That's... awesome.

I'm pretty sure I had a dream last night about sleeping. That's right. Sleeping.