How is the reality of your dreams?

[maai]

This should be interesting.

[Weirdology]

Normal sense, in control. I have all the senses, and can only do normal stuff. Usually I know I'm dreaming because other people are being weird or impossible things are happening (just not by me). The few times I've tried to fly I got an incredible scary feeling and the dream ended before anything could happen. My mom has full control. I don't know what she is, but it's definitely not INTJ.

[OneBadMother]

My INTJ friend apparently never dreams. I feel he's missing out. :P

My dreams are usually pretty out there. All the senses, and very interesting and vivid settings, like my dreams are run through Photoshop filters at times. It's like my subconscious is trying to make up for how little I notice of the background in the outside world. Familiar people are often there, but the situations are almost never familiar. I rarely remember my dreams, but of the ones I can remember only one or two were boring.

[Firelie]

I don't have control of my dreams. They usually play out as strange short stories...sometimes I've even wondered if it was really my brain coming up with the dream or not.

They never include people I know, or places I've been. The only time flying has been included in a dream was when I wasn't me (I was some man in the dream...yeah, I don't know). I got a feeling I was used to flying, though.

[Jezebel]

I don't remember tasting or smelling anything in my dreams. My dreams tend to be "out there". I do dream of people I know, but they're usually in the wrong bodies, and I'm often "not really me". Storylines change as the dream goes on.

[Zeinland]

Sight Only. My dream's are mostly constructed in a War-placed enviroment. Some times Im wounded some times Im not. Im mute and I cannot control myself in those dream's. I cannot hear what people are saying to me... Most of time they use a pen, and a paper to give me the order's. And did I ever mention, that the War is just outside my doorstep?.... Iv'e seen it before, everytime I ever look on to the mountain's, there's a 5 second stop, and I see a bombardment over the hill...

[Chainsaw Dundee]

I tend to have weird dreams. There is usually hearing, vivid full-color sight, and physical sensations. Rarely taste and smell. Mainly they just play themselves like a movie, but sometimes I lucid dream. I seem to have enhanced physical capabilities most of the time. Ninja-like physical attributes and abilities..Like I can jump 15 feet in the air, scale buildings, fight 5 people at once, etc. [smiley=ninja.gif]

Im usually in unfamiliar places, or least familiar places that are significantly different than their real-life counterparts.

[cielo market]

Any one else have dreams where they are aware that they're dreaming? I have them all the time. I even find myself going back and "correcting" my dreams more to my liking. They often become my little short stories and serve for good writing plots ;)

[Rei]

I'm not exactly sure about taste... but my dreams are always super realistic (even the magic and pirates and UNICOOORRNNSSS etc). So much so that sometimes I remember something that happened in a dream as something that really happened... and then I think... wait, I think that was a dream. I've felt pain, I've smelt smoke/food etc (I think it was bread)... I have conversations with people... Conversations in dreams sometimes end up being frustrating. Sometimes I have this distinct feeling I've told someone something, and it turns out I've only done it in a dream. Anyone else have that problem?

Once I dreamed (dreamt?) that I bought an expensive purse after much contemplation. And I woke I and I thought I wanted to use the purse that day. I got up and sat on my bed, very confused for a bit. Other times, I'd be having a conversation with myself in my head before I sleep, and continue that conversation till I wake up (or it could be that I just popped back into it as soon as I gained consciousness, but meh). It's weird, sometimes I wonder if I'm crazy. ;D

Sometimes I'm aware I'm dreaming, and I can choose whether to continue in the dream or to wake up. Most times I keep going, just so see what happens. Other times I don't want to know =/

[cielo market]

*Sometimes I have this distinct feeling I've told someone something, and it turns out I've only done it in a dream. *Anyone else have that problem?

Yes! One time I dreamt (lol) I was getting ready for a trip, then i woke up all excited until lucidity set in and I'm like "wait a minute..."

[thegnat]

Sometimes I have this distinct feeling I've told someone something, and it turns out I've only done it in a dream. Anyone else have that problem?

Yes! One time I dreamt (lol) I was getting ready for a trip, then i woke up all excited until lucidity set in and I'm like "wait a minute..."

I've done that too. I've dreamt I've done something and I really haven't done it yet.

[Firelie]

Sometimes I have this distinct feeling I've told someone something, and it turns out I've only done it in a dream. *Anyone else have that problem?

Yep, me too. I have this problem when I'm not dreaming as well, though, which gets frustrating because I can't always remember what I've done and what I've just thought about doing.

[cielo market]

Sometimes I have this distinct feeling I've told someone something, and it turns out I've only done it in a dream. *Anyone else have that problem?

Yep, me too. *I have this problem when I'm not dreaming as well, though, which gets frustrating because I can't always remember what I've done and what I've just thought about doing.



When I was younger (elementary-middle school) I used to dream that I got dressed and ready for school, only to wake up late. THAT was frustrating. >:(

[thecraig]

I have had dreams that include taste and smell, though not many. *I have dreamed often of being able to fly. *Somtimes my flight abilities are like superman, able to fly fast or just float in place and sometimes it's more like just being able to jump really far. *

I find that dreams involving conversations do tend to be very frustrating. *Many times conversation dreams are played over and over again with diffrent results but I still can't resolve the situation or make sense of it.

When I was a young teenager I heard some one say that it was possible to take control during a dream, so I trained myself to do so. *For me, as I would go to sleep I would repeat over and over in my head that I will control my dreams. It worked. I did the same thing to be able to remember my dreams after I woke up.

[cielo market]

I have had dreams that include taste and smell, though not many. *I have dreamed often of being able to fly. *Somtimes my flight abilities are like superman, able to fly fast or just float in place and sometimes it's more like just being able to jump really far.

When I first dreamed I could fly, I found that I could only do it with great difficulty. Can you believe it? I had to WORK at it even in my dreams. My record is the tree tops. I'm in training for cloud-level ;)

[AntimonyLegault]

I can do everything and nothing that you've listed, anything should be possible in dreams really.

[Vayate]

I have full senses and some small degree of occasional control, but it's very rare that I'm actually in my own dreams; usually I'm just observing other events.

I was once sleeping in study hall back in high school, and I dreamt that I was asleep and dreaming. I first woke up in my dream in the dream, regained "lucidity," and a few seconds later actually woke up... with no memory of who or where I was. Total blank slate. I looked around the room wondering where I was and who all these people were; of course, it came back to me after a short time (maybe ten seconds or so), but it was obscenely surreal.

[wolf]

I'm pretty sure there are never tastes or smells, just visual, auditory (rare), and physical (rare and vague). The weirdest thing is my pre-/post-sleep noise. Nonsensical, yet highly ordered and complex interactions coming to logical nonsense conclusions, which is mighty weird. I have overnight memory, too, where I can remember things from the former day or set something that I want to be thinking about when I wake up. Also, to surprising degrees of precision, I can wake up at selected times without an alarm clock provided I had a good clue about what time it was before I went to sleep.

Dreams tend to be third-person, I'm not usually "me", but I can skip to different locations like in a movie, rotate the scenes, and replay them. When I am in them with control, I tend to have unusual physical constraints or abilities that are highly consistent and the ability to change only specific aspects of the physical world. Dreams are quite rare for me.

[Epicurus]

No smell and no taste what I can remember, sometimes I can get control of the dream but not very much. I can (rarely) fly, drive cars and run as I want BUT its only for short moments or fragments wich usually or sometimes loops back and starts again, I try to correct them (or just want to do them again) but they only get less dreamy and more booring untill I usually wake up.
The characters are often all wrong, wrong bodies and so on, and Im usually quite passive I just feel, see, and hear. The dream tend to change its storyline quite often to... I don't dream very often at all what I can remember.

I remember a long time ago my mum told me to get wake up, so in the dream when she told me that, I heard it as she was telling me to come in (because I was outdoors in the dream).

[qwerty]

Only sight... Well that's all I remember from my dreams.

Everything is vivid first person and in my past my dreams have been so real that I have waken up doing some strange things e.g.
I dreamt that there were spiders on my wall so I started to the squash them into the wall, then they'd burst out of paint bubbles and I'd squish them some more. I woke up half-way through this squashing paint bubbles on the wall, and the thing was I couldn't find any spiders to squish.

[TruorTupnm]

Creepy. I am always myself, never with anyone I know, can never hear anything, which is oftimes unsettling because it's totally my favorite sense. I don't remember any of my dreams, nowadays. Every month or so, I'll have some type of story dream going on, wake up about thirty minutes before I have to, jump back to sleep, then just get back to where I had been when I woke up, only to be woken up by the alarm. Dang. The only dreams that I really remember are mostly me either running away from something superly scary (a mummy attempting to put dish soap in my eyes, a dog the size of a bear) or me going through some tunnel, attempting to discover something, usually with a feeling of, "Dude, you totally gots to get out of here and obtain whatever goal!"

[imoutofhere]

Do daydreams count? My brother and I just established this morning that I actually just lie there daydreaming with my eyes shut, and only get real sleep every other day...

In daydreams, there's full control, and I can do whatever I want...


When I do get real sleep... It'll be no dreams (meaning it still wasn't a deep sleep), or it'll be...
Usually, kind of disconnected... I often won't feel anything, and to smell something is extremely rare. Capable of weird things on rare ocassion, like flying/hovering in one instance, but that's as rare as smelling something... Sometimes... I'm not even in a body in them, but am like a camera following someone around... Sometimes unreal things will be there, like a giant, or again the ability to fly/hover.

[orange]

My derams apear so much like real life that sometimes I have trouble deciding if it was real or not.
Sometimes I have total control over the dream, other times I'm just along for the ride.
That being said it is rare that I actually remeber a dream.

[Rohsiph]

I actively worked on improving my dream recall about two years ago--to middling success. Moved on from that project after choosing to give up the delusion of wishing for "shared dream" experiences, but have maintained a dream recall such that I vividly remember at least two or three dreams for several hours after waking over the course of an average week. If I take notes, it usually means the dream successfully moves into my major long-term memory--available for retrieval for years and years.

I rarely dream without access to human experience . . . I recall a few black and white dreams, and don't often experience vividly senses of smell or taste, but can remember some specific examples to assert that I am capable of such things.

A secondary goal when I was actively building my dream recall was trying to effectively achieve full lucidity--pretty much what turned me off from my primary goal was achieving a partial lucidity, and realizing that the narrative nature of my usual dreaming was completely lost. I choose to avoid lucid dreaming, preferring to experience sequences composed entirely by my unconscious--the potential pleasure of conscious lucid dreaming is sometimes tempting, but I don't see how I can pull anything of value from such dreams (are they really any different from my conscious "daydreams," except for the understood illusion of appearing perhaps a little more real?).

Dreams are interesting--and important . . . many of my most beloved creative concepts have emerged from either a dream I had, or discussing dreams with other intuitives.

[aelan]

My dreams are always in color, and I can see and her. *I have smelt and felt things in dreams before, but if I do on a regular basis it's not strong enough to be really noticable. *I've never tasted anything, but then again, I don't think I've ever eaten anything in a dream either.

I don't have control over them. *A few years ago I had been reading a lot about lucid dreams, and it said that if you realize you're dreaming and are about to wake up to spin around and that keeps you in the dream. *I tried it, and just continuted the dream, but I did know I was dreaming for a split second. *Another time, something horrible happend that felt really real. *I said "this can't be real, I'm dreaming, wake up," and nothing happend (so I thought it was real! that was awful..).

Anyone have any tips on controlling your dreams?



Any one else have dreams where they are aware that they're dreaming? I have them all the time. I even find myself going back and "correcting" my dreams more to my liking. They often become my little short stories and serve for good writing plots ;)
I've had times where I've woken up, and the dream was still going on in my mind. If it's not going way I like it, I feel like I can't really 'wake up' until I change it; but sometimes it's like a normal dream and I just have no control.

[HarleyQuinn]

I was once sleeping in study hall back in high school, and I dreamt that I was asleep and dreaming. I first woke up in my dream in the dream, regained "lucidity," and a few seconds later actually woke up... with no memory of who or where I was. Total blank slate. I looked around the room wondering where I was and who all these people were; of course, it came back to me after a short time (maybe ten seconds or so), but it was obscenely surreal.

I've dreamed of waking up in my dream but not really waking up as well. I had dreamed I had woken up complete with alarm, etc. and used the bathroom. It was weird because I was staring at myself out of body style then the alarm went off and I went right into my normal first person view complete with turning the alarm off, walking through my hallway, lifting the toilet lid, etc. It was so real even when I really did wake up, I was momentarily confused as to why I was still in bed when I should be in my bathroom.

Suffice to say, I wish it had been real to avoid the wet bed :-[

[Paul V]

I have magic in my dreams (being a fantasy writer... talk about dreaming about your work), but I rarely have control. Everything I do, no matter how crazy or irrational it is, seems like the most logical thing to do. Only a few days ago, I had a dream that's too long to tell right now, but it involved me being scared out of my mind, and yet still having the intelligence to use my powers (or actually, threaten to use them). Usually, it sucks not having any control at all.

[cylontoaster]

In my dreams tend to have control over what I do, but I do not always know that I am dreaming. Generally it takes something like me breathing under water, or trying to read a book that turns into gibberish to make me realize that I've been dreaming.

I've also experienced sleep paralysis a few times. It wasn't a very pleasant experience.

[lucki]

I usually don't dream with taste/smell, but the physical sense of touch and orientation is there. I've tried lucid dreaming and the thing I've found to be interesting is that my usual dream tends to have people I know while my lucid dream tends to have people I've never met.

Lucid dreams tends to be hypereal, with many objects/buildings and archetypal themes. I have such a dream about a once in two or three weeks.

[Figmentum]

In my dreams I seem to replay events of the day, or a recent time, that have an alternate ending. If I want to give them some sense of direction I have to think about it as I fall asleep.

[brewmaster]

My dreams are frequently terrifying.

Most recurring is the being hunted dream. My INTJ father has this one too. Someones always after me with guns and I am able to stay ahead of them. I've only been killed twice as I can recall, but of course I just sat there when I should be dead. This is my favorite dream to actually realize that I am dreaming, because as soon as that happens and I can remain asleep, and in the dream, the tables are instantly turned. I then have a gun and can lay ambush.

The other most common is the "I missed a test," or the ever elusive "I forgot to go to class for 2 months" dream. Funny thing is that these latter two are more upsetting than the hunted dream.

[Fissiongrid]

I rarely have scary dreams at all. I can control my dreams, but I can't seem to remember that I can control them while I'm dreaming, so I usually end up doing whatever the dream wants me to do.

[Darklord]

My dream are very surreal, including such things as paddling from Norway to Japan in a rubber raft, a task made easier by the sudden disappearance of Africa. The real problem, of course, came when I had arrived and was looking for somewhere to dock.
I also had one where I had to distract a (Not-too-bright, high-school-dropout-to-be)real-life classmate by having him watch porn on the 'net, while we tried to save the world by rigging a device that would scatter his atoms across so large an area that he could never put himself back together again.

I can't remember ever having a lucid dream, but I have had semi-lucid flashes, where I basically go, "Hey! That isn't supposed to happen/be this way!" and then it changes. My most frequent recurring dream is flying - usually through some ridiculously simple trick that nonetheless only I know about, such as running in circles, or just jumping and "not falling" - about which I dream at least once a week, on average, and the second place goes to being chased by monsters. Unlike Brewmaster, I usually have to hide, and those dreams frequently involve hiding somewhere, then hiding somewhere inside the hiding place, and so on until I find a hatch out and run to the next hiding place.

My dreams are very, very absurd. As in acid-trip absurd, even though I use no drugs.

[Paul V]

My dream are very surreal, including such things as paddling from Norway to Japan in a rubber raft, a task made easier by the sudden disappearance of Africa. The real problem, of course, came when I had arrived and was looking for somewhere to dock.
I also had one where I had to distract a (Not-too-bright, high-school-dropout-to-be)real-life classmate by having him watch porn on the 'net, while we tried to save the world by rigging a device that would scatter his atoms across so large an area that he could never put himself back together again.

I can't remember ever having a lucid dream, but I have had semi-lucid flashes, where I basically go, "Hey! That isn't supposed to happen/be this way!" and then it changes. My most frequent recurring dream is flying - usually through some ridiculously simple trick that nonetheless only I know about, such as running in circles, or just jumping and "not falling" - about which I dream at least once a week, on average, and the second place goes to being chased by monsters. Unlike Brewmaster, I usually have to hide, and those dreams frequently involve hiding somewhere, then hiding somewhere inside the hiding place, and so on until I find a hatch out and run to the next hiding place.

My dreams are very, very absurd. As in acid-trip absurd, even though I use no drugs.

My dreams are frequently terrifying.

Most recurring is the being hunted dream. My INTJ father has this one too. Someones always after me with guns and I am able to stay ahead of them. I've only been killed twice as I can recall, but of course I just sat there when I should be dead. This is my favorite dream to actually realize that I am dreaming, because as soon as that happens and I can remain asleep, and in the dream, the tables are instantly turned. I then have a gun and can lay ambush.

The other most common is the "I missed a test," or the ever elusive "I forgot to go to class for 2 months" dream. Funny thing is that these latter two are more upsetting than the hunted dream.

Lucky both of you. Saving counted exceptions (which I can count with one hand), I am never able to turn the tides on my pursuers or hide/escape indefinetely. It's not rare for me to dream about people stabbing me, shooting me, or harming me in other ways. I am usually hunted, or chased, and I am always terrified that I might run out of places to escape to. It has happened a couple of times, and the results were not pleasant.

And yeah, weird and completely illogical dreams are common for me as well.

[Jedi_sena]

I seem to either be helpless or a mighty heroine (neither one describes me in real life).
Lots of flying/falling sensations. I often dream that I bound into the air freely until realizing how far off the ground I am. During decent I worry that my legs will be broken upon landing.

[Hdier]

Usually, I have Normal sense, No control, but sometimes I have control and sometimes I'll be in a fantasy world and have 'the works'.

[More Tea]

Dreams vary for me. I have plenty of the stereotypical "failed one class so I'm back in high school" dreams. But I also have had a number of sequences with full control and magic. Usually these are set in fantasy worlds, like the Harry Potter or Discworld universe, and have a lot of color and detail. But I've also been in more normal settings and stopped giant tornadoes with energy from my fingertips, walked on water, shape-shifted into an animal, or simply flew.

[Wildflower]

Color, taste, flying sensations, my dreams can be very real or they can be so abstract I cannot make sense of them to journal on them. It just depends but they are mostly pretty realistic. Sometimes they are like watching a movie with a very complex plotline and well crafted characters that are people I have never met.


Dreams vary for me. I have plenty of the stereotypical "failed one class so I'm back in high school" dreams. But

I hate those so bad.

[cielo market]

Dreams vary for me. I have plenty of the stereotypical "failed one class so I'm back in high school" dreams.

Reoccuring stereotypical dreams that I have had: vampires and teeth falling out :(

[Myrak]

I can almost always remember my dreams, if I have them. I always go to bed listening to music, so that usually quashes my dreaming functions. When I don't have music or I just end up dreaming through the music, my mind usually goes nuts, the topics of my dreams are pretty much whatever situation has been on my mind prior to sleeping.

Funny thing is, it's usually me interacting with somebody else, and whatever responses I give in the dream would be the exact responses I'd give in real life if I was asked the same question. This probably stems from my tendency to visualise and re-visualise social situations while I'm awake. My favourite dream phenomena is in those few minutes before you wake up, if I have say a radio or chatter in the background that I can hear it gets vividly incorporated into my dream. It's quite fun. It also happens to song lyrics occasionally as I am going to sleep.

If my dreams don't fall into those two criteria, then they usually end up being very fluid and very scary. I'm a horror movie buff but it's not that kind of scary, its more to do with playing on my fears. A perfect example of everything I've written is typified in the dream I had last night. I dreamt we were getting robbed, yet a character from a TV show I'd been watching directly prior to sleeping just happened to be in my dream, and I'm sure there was some dialogue in there but can't remember the specifics.

[Br3nti5]

"All sense, flying, in control, magic, the works" ...I also dream in color.

I notice my dreams tend to a mix of whats on my mind from earlier in the day/week - and my imagination. When they start I usually don't have control i just drift aimlessly through my imagination, but then it feels like part of me wakes up in my dream - and I have the power to do anything I can think of :)

[Duncan Cade]

I can't find the right answer, oh noes!
I'm always in full control, with all senses, but i can't speak. When I try, i'll wake up.
It's like, when my level of 'control and knowing I'm in a dream' gets to high, i'll end up awake and annoyed because i could have had so much fun.
I rarely remember my dreams though, like once a month.

After giving it another taught, i started wondering:

How do I know wether I wake up because I'm getting in control, and not the other way around? Maybe my dream becomes fluid, just because I'm almost awake?

[Jack]

Just last night I had a extremely lucid dream, the best one I have had so far, I didn't have any flying abilities but I could teleport quite easy. I was dreaming I was in my old neighborhood standing in the middle of the street watching the sky for what appeared to look like a planet self-destructing, it was very, very large in the sky, and moving closer very fast, it quickly turned into a spherical robot(I know..)which began sprouting mechanical shoots, these shoots were vents for semi-transparent entities that had the abilities to pass through walls and doors, as well as being able to grasp any object.

While this was happening in my old neighborhood I teleported back to where I now live, and I guess the military decided on sending warplanes to fight off the entities but their kind of energy force made the plane formations slam into one another, eliminating any chance of the military succeeding.

While planes were falling from the sky, and I could feel them hitting the ground, the invaders were sending down rectangular shaped ships without wings. Every sound and smell felt very real, I even felt the wind during most this...but nobody was running around on the ground in chaos. Simply because nobody was there.

[Laura_Palmer]

I haven't remembered my dreams much lately, but when I do they are usually "normal sense." The few times I have been in control and able to fly were awesome.

[Wapiti]

My dreams are usually normal sense, not much control. I only have control over how I react to what I am seeing, like running or moving somewhere else or talking.... I don't ever remember taste or smell. I enjoy telling people at work about my dream, like the one about "Elk people" or another dream of how one of the guys at work tried to kill me.


. I have conversations with people... Conversations in dreams sometimes end up being frustrating. Sometimes I have this distinct feeling I've told someone something, and it turns out I've only done it in a dream. Anyone else have that problem?
=/

This happens to me also and not just in my dreams. I often have conversations with people in my head during the day and I have a hard time trying to reconcile my thoughts with reality.

[Pinkie]

I tend to have no control over my dreams, and they tend to be very mundane and realistic. This morning, for instance, I had a dream where a friend replied to my email with an answer which I had conceived of but wasn't expecting, and another friend who ditched me, citing 'no time for a relationship' as the reason had just started going out with some stupid blonde girl. I woke up and actually had to think for a moment about whether it was a dream or a memory.

And sometimes I know I'm dreaming, but I still can't control it.

[Antares]

My dreams are strange. I can hear, feel, smell and taste, but it's off somehow. For instance, in my dream, I may be talking to a person, but somehow or another, the next thing I know they're someone else. I may be in my classroom, and when I turn I'm in an entirely different place. I think that makes them quite entertaining to reflect upon :) I often dream that I'm lost. Sometimes, I watch the dream from a detached point of view. Nobody in the dream knows that I'm there. Some of my dreams are horrifying and violent and some I just can't understand. The thing is, rarely do I know that I'm dreaming and when I can't wake up from a nightmare, it's just so real.

There was this once, I found myself awake at 5 am. Being winter here, it's still very dark out. I guess I was only semi-concious because I soon found myself pinned face down to the bed by some invisible force, then I heard female voices talking and watched shadows flit across the room. I managed to choke out: Mom? Before I gave up resisting, passed out, and presumably suffocated. Then I snapped awake, face up. I still don't know why it scared me so, but it was almost life like because in the dream, I am in the same room and same circumstances as in the reality (In my dream, it was still 5, curtains drawn and I'm in bed). I think that because I believed I was awake, when I started dreaming, I assumed it to be real for there are almost no transitions at all.





Camelopardalis added to this post, 5 minutes and 40 seconds later...

If my dreams don't fall into those two criteria, then they usually end up being very fluid and very scary. I'm a horror movie buff but it's not that kind of scary, its more to do with playing on my fears. A perfect example of everything I've written is typified in the dream I had last night. I dreamt we were getting robbed, yet a character from a TV show I'd been watching directly prior to sleeping just happened to be in my dream, and I'm sure there was some dialogue in there but can't remember the specifics.

I think that my dreams, when they're scary, is purely psychological. As I mentioned above, if I watch my dream in a movie, it wouldn't be scary at all, but somehow it scared the living daylights out of me and I was panting when I woke up. I've dreamt of monster waves before. It wasn't scary (I think it was a bit exaggerated, since the wave was monstrous), but I think it gave me some insights into the devastating tsunami that occured a couple of years ago.

[Dreamer]

I have normal senses in my dreams and am in control, only usually I'm too lazy to exercice it unless a monster, a serial killer or a nuclear device is heading my way.

[yondyr]

I'd vote, but I don't remember dreams. It's another land and no connection between.

[Snuggles]

When I do dream... they are very real and might as well have happened.

I have a lot of experiences of Deja Vu... I remember when something like this happened with a previous girlfriend... I called deja vu... she asked if I ever saw anything in the future between us, and I straight up said 'no'... wonder why that one didn't work out?

Also, I had this really strange problem last year where I'd have entire conversations with people I knew, and they all occurred in my head while day dreaming. So I'd be completely alone sometimes and feel as if I was having deep conversations with people... so I never really felt alone until toward the end I was like "Wow... this never happened."

Luckily, I can rationalize that it never happened, so I never ended up asking the other person, when I saw them IN person, if they remembered what we were talking about yestreday/earlier that day, haha.

I legitimately thought I was nuts, and still kind of do... it'll probably happen 6 or 7 times today.

[Zilal]

This has been a fascinating thread to read. It's interesting how people's dreaming "styles" are so different.

I've never had control in my dreams... once I dreamed that I did have control, but then I woke up and realized I hadn't really, I hadn't controlled anything, I'd just had the thought. Although when I was little I somehow trained myself to wake up from frightening moments by opening my eyes in real life.

My dreams are almost universally nonfantastical and fairly innocuous, though I'm often up against some "bad guys" or some other challenge I have to fulfill... it's odd, when I was younger I would always fail or wake up before I'd succeeded, but the past couple years I've been winning more often in my dreams. There are plenty of people from real life in the dreams.

If there's any recurring theme that I have, it's with school... before I went back to college, I used to dream that I was back at the first day of school and couldn't find any of my classes. After I went back to school, I started dreaming that I could find my classes but always got there late. Weird.

I've been on a couple drugs that changed the intensity/themes of my dreams. Weird.

[Jed3]

Has anyone here had a dream where you think its real and then you wake up?
And then your extremely dissapointed and start questioning your life as to why it isn't real?

[King K]

I'm not usually in control of my dreams, but with several methods I can willingly achieve control over a dream, such methods are waking up at night and making my body sleep while my mind is still awake, doing the so-called reality checks (pinch your nose and try to breath while you're dreaming, you'll see), and writing down my dreams so that I have better dream recall.

My non-lucid dreams are usually tragic and about wars, death and stuff, really sucks.

I've tried to fly in dreams several times, but I always end up failing, meh.

By the way, if you realize that you're dreaming you should try to look yourself in a mirror, you can transform into anything if you think about it.

[Bossy Mom]

I have been having exceptionally vivid dreams lately -- I have been saving myself and my daughter from evil things. Last night was very different. I had a dream where I was not involved -- it was like a movie. A young British man was stranded in southern France during the Nazi occupation of WWII, and in love with a lovely French girl (who was a writer). They went thru various adventures and avoidance of the Nazis with him trying to pass as her French husband. At the end, he was captured and burned to death by the Nazis. Odd dream.

[logos]

I virtually never remember dreams. It's been years since the last time I did. I am certain I do dream as I often wake up finishing a sentence talking to someone that's not there or myself. Also, I'm told I talk to people out loud sometimes in my sleep. When I can recall who I was talking to, it's usually people I know who have died like my grandparents. Sometimes it's people that I don't know which I presume to be fictional or represent some sort of ideal. I know, I know... Here comes the spiritual medium jokes, but seriously I've never had any sense that I was talking to anything external, nor do I have any belief in such a thing.

Anyone else never remember dreams?

[lowbrass]

In my dreams, I don't know of any which include taste or smell. For the most part, I seem to have partial control and I've even had dreams where I've had my thinking voice talking inside my head. Talk about being "super scalar".

One common thing about my dreams is that the setting just abruptly changes. For instance, I could be driving a car one moment, then suddenly I'm pedaling a bike, then I'm riding on a plane, then standing in a field and doing who know's what. There's typically no continuity from beginning to end.

Sometimes, though, my mind tries to play bad tricks on me. Like, say I was riding that bike on a sidewalk. Suddenly, the sidewalk becomes a divided highway and my bike is just veering right into the oncoming traffic! Of course, in my mind, I know it's bad, and then I start to feel that fright and feeling of impending doom, so at moments like that (especially falling moments) I usually take control and bail myself out of the dream. Then, depending on how groggy I am, I almost alway ponder, "WTF was that for?" and usually fall asleep again.

Every now and then I will have totally awesome dreams, and without fail, they will end prematurely or abruptly, due to some form of interference. Unfortunately, I've been a poor sleeper for a long time and I realize that dreaming is making a bad thing worse, but it is what it is.

[zero]

Any one else have dreams where they are aware that they're dreaming? I have them all the time. I even find myself going back and "correcting" my dreams more to my liking. They often become my little short stories and serve for good writing plots ;)

Well I've had a dream that I found myself in a tough situation (being hunted by two guys and coming to a dead end) and since I have complete control over everything in my dreams, I thought I'll make a tunnel and leave but then I thought that this will alter the dream's natural flow so I woke up.

This happened a few months ago and it's the first time, usually I just think of what I want to do and it happens almost instantly.

Anyone ever had something similar happening to them while dreaming?

[eMachine]

I virtually never remember dreams. It's been years since the last time I did. I am certain I do dream as I often wake up finishing a sentence talking to someone that's not there or myself. Also, I'm told I talk to people out loud sometimes in my sleep. When I can recall who I was talking to, it's usually people I know who have died like my grandparents. Sometimes it's people that I don't know which I presume to be fictional or represent some sort of ideal. I know, I know... Here comes the spiritual medium jokes, but seriously I've never had any sense that I was talking to anything external, nor do I have any belief in such a thing.

Anyone else never remember dreams?

I could probably count every dream that I can remember having on my hands, right now I can only remember fragments of 5 or 6 different dreams I've had throughout my life. I'm sure that I dream, but I almost never remember them... I seemed to remember them better while I was pregnant and then they were completely nuts, but very vivid.

I can't remember ever smelling or tasting anything in a dream. They're always in color. I can remember one dream where I tried to punch someone and my arm felt heavy and slow. I can remember 2 different dreams about zombies, one took place in my elementary school (tho I was 19 or 20 when I dreamt it)... I've read that 'zombie' dreams are symbolic of one's subconscious feeling that other people are metaphorically 'zombies'. One dream that I had while pregnant was that I was on a sort of school field trip in a forest area where I was attacked by a sort of badger, and then later there was a flock of strange looking birds in the sky that became deer when they landed.

My dreams always seem to be from first-person perspective and include people that I know. Sometimes I wish I could remember them, but then again... no, the ones that I can remember are just too weird.