Dreams

[Jack]

Birds Eye View

I don't like to wear a seatbelt
Because being safe makes me feel uncomfortable
Walking around like it's my last day, of my first day
Seeing people that I know and wishing nothingness on them
Cause I'm jealous of there sanity?
You know me, I'm the person who would strap cameras to the heads of seagulls
Just for a birds eye view.

Sir?...Sir...Wake up!

STOP!
Can you please be quiet?, you can cut the grass later, it's only December!

Dismember...
Excuse me sir?...umm.

Are you OK?...It's a good thing we got here in time to save your leg, otherwise you would have been dead!
...

This was actually a dream I had once...Involving seagulls, flashing lights, screaming, terror, machinery....You know, the good ones.

Who remembers almost all of their dreams, in vivid details?

[Jezebel]

Who remembers almost all of their dreams, in vivid details?

I usually forget mine really fast unless I make an effort to remember. I only rarely wake up to a dream I remember though.

[Tarrick]

Two main dreams stick out for me.

First one was one of the famous "falling" dreams. I was falling down the side of the cliff...when I bounced. I suddenly felt like a rubbery membrane caught me and catapulted me back up. I woke up after that, it was really different.

Second was (and I forget the details) but it involved a huge superstructure in Britain, a Zeppelin and something about saving the world. It was really cool, but I lost the details about about a day later. So sad.

[Evalis]

I've had about 3 to 5 porno dreams that I vaguely remember, which I have no intention of discussing (though I did write one of them down ^^; ) Then I've had 2 very distinct dreams.. one in which I was transformed into some sort of knight and dropped in the wilderness, and was hunting down my brother who had for whatever reason been placed in mortal danger ... later discovering it was a schoolbus filled with demons carreening over a waterfall... It wasn't a positive ending.

The other was being chased around the house by an unseen force, opening my door.. and waking up to groaning sounds and a witch attacking me, fighting it off mentally and forcing myself awake, to which I lept out of my bed and found a clownish doll at the foot, grappled and choked it, screaming "It's all your fault" .. then woke up again.. and threw the covers over myself. ; ;

Other than that though... I don't dream much. I also don't sleep very well ..

[Jack]

Ive had a dream where it was all black and white, people were screaming and running around like an apocalypse was on the horizon, red bridges, a black cat being slaughtered and consumed by crows, a woman screaming in a blood curdling manner in a phone booth "Don't answer it" over and over, wearing nothing but a red scarf. Buildings on fire, homeless people invading houses and beating the owners to a pulp and disposing the bodies on the lawns, setting everything ablaze. Strangely enough, there were no cars, streets were cleaned of them.

Some people were even ripping up their asphalt driveways, using the chunks to warm their desolate houses, the last thing I saw before I woke up was a pair of dirty hands with calluses covering the palms and fingertips, these hands had bloody and missing fingernails. It was wonderfully chaotic, but not frightening.

I remember most of my dreams, I was told not many don't remember the vivid details, but... ;D

[Jon]

My dreams are seriously the most boring things ever.

One time I dreamt that I had to clear my Safari cache. I woke up and decided that I did not, in fact, have to clear my Safari cache. Another time, I dreamt that someone had cut my LCD monitor's screen with a box cutter and I woke up terrified by the possiblitiy. Last night I dreamt that two of my were discussing how to write a character in a comic. The discussion was entirely possible, but what they were discussing was thematically contrary to what they wanted for the character.

Most of the time I'm conscious of the fact that I'm dreaming when it happens and I can wake up whenever I want. I just assume that the increasing normality of the dreams is my brain trying to trick itself into not being able to tell they're not real, or something.

When I was younger, my dreams were more fantastic, but nothing amazing. I used to have a recurring dream that there were all of these people working in a factory and then a tyrannosaurus rex (not to scale) ripped the roof of the factory off and started roaring at the people, but they were unaffected and just kept working as the dinosaur continued to roar.

[Selly]

I remember my dreams a lot.

Once I dreamed that someone had been kidnapped and in order to save her several other people had to agree to work for the kidnapper. When they refused, the woman's spine was pulled out. This was the first dream I've had where I can remember actual sound instead of just impressions of what people are saying. Ironically this dream had a sort of soundtrack which turned out to be a piano concerto I'd been listening to as I fell asleep.

There was also a dream where I was pretending to be dead, and lying in a small row boat on a river. A pack of wolves discovered that I was alive and stalked me in the forest that lined the river on both sides. When one of them jumped for the boat, I woke up and realized I'd been dreaming. I went back to sleep and discovered myself back in the boat, and that the wolf had just missed me. It was on the side attempting to scramble out of the river and into the boat...and then I went over a waterfall and woke up again.

Another dream I had involved a woman who was attempting to lie to my parents. When I discovered her secret by brother and I were shot a few times and then carried off in an SUV when we attempted to call an ambulance.

Does anyone notice anything in reference to their dreams in real life? Like, I have violent dreams when I'm stressed, and silly dreams when I'm being indecisive about something. Sometimes I dream about people in my life reminding to do things that I really need to do (a few nights ago my roommate was telling me to get up in my dream. I woke up an hour late that morning).

[Cato the Younger]

My dreams tend to involve pain or violence of some sort a lot.

I had one dream where there was this old woman with a withered hand who used it to suck the life out of people. I was the only one who saw this. At one point I was forced to sit next to her. She said something to me that I can't remember but her voice was evil and cracked. I actually felt the life getting sucked out of me.

I had another where I was attacked and eaten by this large wolf like creature with sharp claws and teeth.

I usually tend to feel what is happening to me in my dreams.

[Apococlock]

My dreams are vivid and memorable, and secondly I lucid dream frequently.

I often time find myself lucid dreaming when I do something morally contradictory to how I am in waking life. In which case I usually burst out a window like superman and carve the skies, or pass through walls... you name it.

Dreaming is good fun.

[Jack]

Dreaming is good fun.

Entertainment for all ages :D

[tundra]

Then I guess I'm a bit out of the norm. I hardly ever dream (once per 2 months? 3?), and the occasional one I do have is usually forgotten.

Is it bad not to dream? I actually find it a bit scary not dreaming much.

[TeleportThis]

I usually only remember my dreams when I am stressed, because this will cause me to have nightmares. I commonly have dreams that my teeth are rotting/falling out or that my tongue ring has gotten infected when I am stressed. I've heard that this is a common dream for people to have when stressed, but I don't really know if that is true.

I also have the ability to learn and solve problems in my sleep. I can fall asleep thinking about a problem I didn't understand and will wake up knowing how to do it. I actually relied on this in middle school when learning algebra, and again in high school for physics. I've also fallen asleep thinking about how to write a paper and then wake up knowing exactly how I want it organized.

I've only come across two other people that could do this. One was my sister. The other was my high school chemistry/physics teacher.

[Guido]

My dreams are messed... like beyond messed. When I was little, it wasn't uncommon for me to wake up in the middle of the night screaming and trying to clutch the walls... or so my mom says. I don't remember that much. I'm only remember my dreams for a couple days unless I try really hard to remember them.

One of the last ones I remember was about this book store that was haunted or something. I remember reading the titles of the books, but I could only read one character at a time (it was very hard) and when I went to read the title again, it would always change. Some pretty other 'standard' stuff like random flashes occurring in the book store, books flying around occasionally, random screams. But then it got really interesting. I guess there was some kind of portal around near the cash machine in this book store. Some entity (chaotic light) jumped out and grabbed some dude, and pulled him in. I went into this portal... only to be transported to this nightmarish 'universe'. I use the word universe here, because... well that's all that can be used to describe it. The 'universe' was a 3' x 3' x 8' glass cage that looped on itself along the x and y axis, although I was free to observe in the full x-y-z spaces. So anything above and below this cage was a complete void, but point (3.5, 3.5, 7) was (not identical, but actually the same) point (0.5, 0.5, 7). If that makes any sense... I blame this dream on linear algebra for teaching me about rings. Anyhow, in this cage was the guy who got taken away who was now getting electrically tortured, while being watched by a girl that you could barely make out through the glass. Even though it was impossible for her to be standing at point (-2, 1.5, 0) since her reflection was super imposed on the guy in the next cage over (even though it was the same guy), there she was... watching none the less.

Most dreams won't wake me up... this one did. Granted this is one of the worse ones I've had... my dreams are pretty messed. There seems to be that recurring theme for INTJs so I guess that's some reassurance that I'm not completely messed up. Or at the very least, I’m not the only one :D

[Rei]

I sometimes remember my dreams. *But they usually dissapear after I get pulled into the drill of getting ready for class in the morning. *Unless I take the time to write it down, then it seems the act of just trying to hold it in my head for a little longer gets it recorded and written down in my brain.

I have dreams that FEEL very logical... But once I try to tell my friends about it, all sense falls apart.

I once had a dream about a conversation with the AI in an elevator of a hospital about whether she has heard of other doctors talking about similar cases to my own baffling one in her existance in the hospital. *At the beginning of the conversation (when I initiated it) she actually introduced herself to me, and one thing she said that really struck me was "I am ________________ the AI who lives in this miserable elevator, who hate the alphabet Z-alpha-something or other" I can't remember the exact words anymore, but it was... Odd... It was like her dislike was a glitch in her programming or something...

But anyway... that makes so much sense to me... but my friends were all like "WTF" :suspicious:

[rwyatt365]

I rarely, if ever remember my dreams. I know that I dream because, while dreaming, I think to myself' "I should remembe this and tell ______". But during the course of the morning it starts to fade (I can almost feel the dream slipping away). After an hour or so, I can only remember that I had a dream, but nothing of the contents of the dream.

[Rei]

People always have dreams. Most people just don't remember any of them.

Apparently, the more introverted you are, the better you are supposed to be at remembering your dream.

[Jezebel]

Apparently, the more introverted you are, the better you are supposed to be at remembering your dream.

I don't know about this. I'm positive I'm very introverted, yet I don't remember many dreams. I'm curious, where did you hear this?

[Rei]

I took a psyc course last year and we had to do an assignment on dreams...
I read an article somewhere... I can't find you the exact source though.

but i guess the reasoning behind it is that you don't get as involved with the things going on around you when you're very introverted... and the dream stays on you mind longer?

[StJimmy]

i can influence my dream content sometimes by reading till i fell asleep. i would do it quite frequently as a kid... this exasperated my parents, who were always complaining about how hard i was to wake up. i also had a few instances of sleepwalking, and one in particular (i was on my way out the back door at midnight) had them almost frantic. i don't recall exactly when the last instance occurred, but i couldn't have been any older than nine or ten. i've been a nightowl from an early age though.

now, the freaked out weird/scary dreams... they started around 18, and were infrequent, but extremely vivid. not all were unpleasant; some of them were actually helpful in odd ways, and a few were... quite pleasant. ahem.

but, these days i hardly ever remember dreams. sometimes i have woken in the middle of the night with an extremely important answer or decision clear in my mind, but this is even less common. maybe once every few years.

[Rei]

That leads to the deal with half conciousnesses.
Ever been woken from a dream, and though about something right before falling back into slumber... and end up totally modifying the continuation of the dream?

It's fun actually. It's like living a story

[StJimmy]

not in a long while. i sleep like a stone now. :-X

i used to have problems with insomnia; it was like my internal processes were making too much "noise" for me to sleep. with a little help i learned how to quiet my mind and relax enough to be asleep in 5 minutes most of the time.

i generally only sleep about 6 hours, sometimes less, and if i sleep more then i'll be up that much later the following night.

i have in the past functioned on 2-4 hours of sleep a night with the occasional "binge" of 12 hours or more every week or so, the longest i've done this was about a month. took me a while to recover from it too.

anyway nowadays if i sleep long enough to remember what i was dreaming about upon waking, i'll usually get a splitting headache.

[Rei]

not in a long while. *i sleep like a stone now. *:-X

i used to have problems with insomnia; it was like my internal processes were making too much "noise" for me to sleep. *with a little help i learned how to quiet my mind and relax enough to be asleep in 5 minutes most of the time.

i generally only sleep about 6 hours, sometimes less, and if i sleep more then i'll be up that much later the following night.

i have in the past functioned on 2-4 hours of sleep a night with the occasional "binge" of 12 hours or more every week or so, the longest i've done this was about a month. *took me a while to recover from it too.

anyway nowadays if i sleep long enough to remember what i was dreaming about upon waking, i'll usually get a splitting headache.

In the same situation here.
I sleep like a pig. The last time something woke me was... a fire alarm. When I was younger my mother could cut my toe nails while I was sleeping and I wouldn't know.

I did go through a period of insomnia though; thinking too much. That's been gone for a while (resurfaces during exams perhaps), either it's because I've learned to block everything out, or I'm simply too tired these days to stay awake whenever my head is rested somewhere.

I sleep an average of 6 hours. Less a lot of the time during the school year. I've also been through that "binge" though only for about a week or so. Attention span, and brain function started to deteriorate... and it was exam time; this is when I learned of the benefites of naps ;D


Waking up with a splitting headache after a dream?
Are you sure you weren't just drunk the night before? :D

[Guido]

i used to have problems with insomnia; it was like my internal processes were making too much "noise" for me to sleep. with a little help i learned how to quiet my mind and relax enough to be asleep in 5 minutes most of the time.

...

i have in the past functioned on 2-4 hours of sleep a night with the occasional "binge" of 12 hours or more every week or so, the longest I’ve done this was about a month. took me a while to recover from it too.

Very strange o.0 I had a very similar problem when I was younger as well. My brain just couldn't turn off and I'd have a lot of trouble sleeping. Near this same time, I was also very annoyed when I heard the expression "Don't think about the pink elephant" as I would then start thinking about it. I didn't like the fact that someone else had control over what I thought about, so I taught myself to think about nothing. This solved the elephant dilemma as well as solving my sleeping problems. To this day I often have to 'choose' to go to sleep, otherwise I can stay up most of the night.

I usually sleep about 7.5 hours a night (I tell my friends 9 hours so they leave me alone late at night :D) but there was about a month in university where I wasn't sleeping... like at all. I took 15 min naps every 4 hours ish with an hour nap at around 10 in the morning. The reason for this was because I had realized that if I was up longer, I didn't have to go home for the summer as 'soon'. The summer before was probably the most depressing 4 months of my entire life. When I finally got home, I went from sleeping from about 2 hours a day to about 14. Fun times :-/

[Firelie]

I always have strange dreams. Not those flying/dying/naked at school things. The closest to a conventional dream I've had was right after I moved from PR to CA when I was about 9 or 10, and I saw the neighborhood, but I couldn't find my house. I believe that one stemmed from the fact that all of the houses looked the same on that army base.

Some of them, I don't even feel like I'm actually in the dream as myself, but as another person, so clearly that I half-believe I'm connected to someone else's mind.

Last night's dream was myself, though. I was helping some man move into a crappy house that seemed like it was in a jungle (but not actually in one). I remember thinking he had an inordinately large collection of bongos (they were all over the living room and I kept having to stack them on top of each other). He also had a couple of fluffy orange cats and I wasn't supposed to let them get out of the house, but one of them did, so I had to put down the bag I was holding and catch the cat. For some reason I made a pen out of the bongos and put the cat in the middle of it so he wouldn't try and run again.

I really would've liked to see where else that one went, but my alarm ruined it. :(

[StJimmy]

i should stipulate that the extreme sleep pattern example i gave was while i was working 80 hours a week. up at 9, at work by 10:30, home at maybe midnight and sometimes later, with maybe 30-60 minutes worth of a lunch break. 6-7 days a week. talk about hating life.

and what i mean by getting headaches, is not that dreams can cause them, but if i'm sleeping lightly enough to actually remember my dream upon wakening i've generally slept far too long. i find the older i get the less sleep i actually need.

even when i was in college i'd get at least 7, usually 8. mid 20's, 6-7, nowadays about 6. i don't do the nap thing either. if i'm tired enough to sleep then i sleep. naps are just like having two mornings in one day, i can't fathom doing that to myself ;D

[The Rose]

Then I guess I'm a bit out of the norm. I hardly ever dream (once per 2 months? 3?), and the occasional one I do have is usually forgotten.

Is it bad not to dream? I actually find it a bit scary not dreaming much.I have heard psychologists talk about this.
Apparently, if we truly did not dream at all, we would become psychotic.
Our dreams help us process our hidden emotions.
If you can't remember you dreams, it's okay.
More than likely you are dreaming and not remembering,
otherwise you would lose touch with reality.

I have had a long time fascination with understanding my dreams.
I only occasionally remember a dream.
When I do, I try to understand what it means.
Usually, my dreams are a reflection of how I am feeling.

Just this morning, I had a strange disturbing dream.
After thinking about it I realized it was a reflection of how I was feeling
about an inappropriate encounter I experienced on another website last night.

[Firelie]

Our dreams help us process our hidden emotions.

What does that say for those who don't have disturbing/scary/etc dreams, then? What am I processing when I'm dreaming of unloading bongos?

[The Rose]

Our dreams help us process our hidden emotions.

What does that say for those who don't have disturbing/scary/etc dreams, then? *What am I processing when I'm dreaming of unloading bongos?Do you want me to look up the meaning in my Dream Book? ;)

[Firelie]

Do you want me to look up the meaning in my Dream Book? *;)

Well, if they have an extensive chapter on bongos, that might be nice...

[The Rose]

My favorite Dream Book read most accurate is
10,000 Dreams by Gustavus Hindman Miller (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

However it doesn't say anything about bongos.
If you look up other important facets of your dream,
that might help you gain some understanding.

[Firelie]

I was kinda joking about that, but thanks for the link. It was interesting, but completely unhelpful. lol There was a whole lot about cats, but nothing about catching them, nothing about helping, or moving. I looked up drums, too, and that said something about being amiable of character, but whether that means me or the guy I was helping, I don't know...

Forgive my skepticism, but I highly doubt someone else can predict what things mean in other people's brains.

[NephilimAzrael]

Looking up to a window where there is a fellow in a baseball cap, i cannot see his face as the peak of the cap is down and his head is lulling downward. I shout up. The whole scene zooms out from my first-person perspective, and there i am on a corner where the house is, there are people walking about. I shout again, the fellow looks at me, only he has no face.
Creepy i suppose.

[Seppuku Savant]

I remember them very rarely. Even when I do, they don't seem to be very significant.

[ssrprotege]

I rarely remember my dreams, but I believe that dreams can tell interesting aspects of my life. Dreams are mostly symbolic, and I will be happy to explore symbolism.

[Anderson]

Sometimes when I dream, I am doing violent, belligerent things to people who are pissing me off. There is never actually anyone killed, I just remember assaulting people and being very aggressive in general...perhaps my subconscious is trying to tell me something...

[dandylion]

Teehee. I love dreams. Especially dreams in which I get to have sex. It's all the pleasure without the risk or having to get to know anyone first.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

Teehee. I love dreams. Especially dreams in which I get to have sex. It's all the pleasure without the risk or having to get to know anyone first.
No risk = boring.

[NX375]

I don't have dreams. Just nightmares. For the last six years I've had constant nightmares for some reason.

[demaugustus]

For fun, I bought a dream book some time ago called: 10,000 Dreams Interpreted (A Dictionary of Dreams) by Gustavus Hindman Miller. It's kind of entertaining to have a dream and wake-up in the middle of the night and interpret it. The book is actually remarkably accurate when you have a dream that reflects a recent past event, especially when you're under stress. For example, if you have a dream where your teeth fall out it means you are undergoing a stressful time. It is common for many people have this dream when they're under stress. For dreams that represent future events it is probably no different then reading a horoscope.

[Amar]

I also have the ability to learn and solve problems in my sleep. I can fall asleep thinking about a problem I didn't understand and will wake up knowing how to do it. I actually relied on this in middle school when learning algebra, and again in high school for physics. I've also fallen asleep thinking about how to write a paper and then wake up knowing exactly how I want it organized.

Everybody has that ability. Whether or not they can remember how they solved it is a different question! ;)

[Fej]

I don't have dreams. Just nightmares.

Same here

For example today I had a disturbing dream in which part of my gingiva grew in a tongue-like fashion and I kept biting it to cut it. And after I cut it, it grew again after a short while. And then I had had to bite it continuously to cut it again. And then it grew back again repeating the process.

I was glad I woke up. If I could only know what my dreams mean, if they have a meaning at all.

[Metaphor]

My dreams are vivid and memorable, and secondly I lucid dream frequently.

I often time find myself lucid dreaming when I do something morally contradictory to how I am in waking life. In which case I usually burst out a window like superman and carve the skies, or pass through walls... you name it.

Dreaming is good fun.


Same here. I lucid dream a lot. Fun stuff.