[lucky12]

I don't know whether to love or hate dreams right now, but I do have some fond memories of some crazy stuff my mind has projected.

I have got into a bad habit of waking up and falling into a "wake-initiated lucid dream" which is what I take to be after I have woken up and I go into a dreamy state. My thought process at this point is useless, I am paralyzed until I snap out of it. I usually set 5 alarms, works pretty well.

Today I came across a rural area that met the architecture of a recent dream. It had similar characters involved (people at the side of a road who I noticed in my dream), they had the same motorcycles, and were moving in sync (time and space) almost from what I could remember. The funnier part is I had envisioned where we would park, and it was similar to my dream ( I have parked in this area before, but travelled along an alternate route). When we got to this envisioned parking space it was closed off.

Some people take meaning from dreams, I feel this isn't the case all of the time. I just enjoy the infinite possibilities, intuitive feelings can form through dreaming for me.

Anyways.. what do you people dream? what do you enjoy.. etc..
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[1superkawaii]

Not sure how to read that one line. Are you getting sleep paralysis? Try melatonin, it worked for me.

As for the rest I encourage everyone in my family to talk about their dreams. They're interesting. People come up with crazy things. Lately my dreams have been boring. I almost feel like I'm out of ideas and it's bothering me. Could be the meds I'm on.

Last night I beat the crap out of someone for touching my golf clubs in a mall with my old school class in the food court. Very random.

Water, beach, bridges where I always end up in the water are very common for me. I'm told water stands for emotion and I'm always fighting against the water, and always manage to get out.

Recently and for the first time, I started to dream about bombs. I can count at least 5 dreams where bombs were involved. I'm not sure what to think about them. I find the psychology behind dreams very fascinating.

Buildings are supposed to stand for the body. If your changing floors on the building the top is the superconscious the bottom the subconscious.
Vehicles are also a body symobol and how in control you feel and how your life is moving.
Monsters, bugs, fears are all problems and how you deal.

Really look for the meaning of the item. Sometimes it's just there becaus you saw it earlier.

Beware of dream dictionaries that tell you if you dream of such and such you'll have good luck, bad luck , will come into money etc. Look for ones that base their theories on psychology and archatypes. (spell check).

[lucky12]

My dream last night consisted of a large dark mansion, I was exploring it with friends and then I decided to hide on them to mess around. I ended up exploring farther than I expected and found this inner chamber full of ghosts, all female. They didn't welcome my presence so I had to escape, and on my way out of the mansion travelling home I kept running into an old woman who I couldn't fully distinguish? might have been a ghost as well. I had to disguise myself so she wouldn't recognize me.

I have read other places that melatonin supplements will help. Maybe I should look into that, the sleep paralysis got exponentially worse over the past two weeks.

[Gerard91]

I dreamed once that I was in a large tower which was made of red bricks and it looked like it was falling apart (I mean it wasn't standing straight). Anyway I didn't care and walked on the wooden floor high above ground level. I was talking with my sister about something and I don't actually remember where she was.

My other dreams are more ordinary, for example I see myself buying a newspaper and I wonder if I'll be able to buy a ticket for a bus home when I buy it. I even know how much money I had and the look of the place ^^ (I was in that shop many times, but haven't been there for a while).

When I was a child I dreamed about a long and dangerous bridge that I had to cross and my family was standing on the other side. I tried to walk but I always felt into the water.

Other dream is that I was in a place full of railway tracks and I feared about being killed by one. Eventually I came to a tunnel and the dream ends.

All of my dreams consist on fear about something physical that can harm me.

[RBM]

	Originally Posted by Geard91
	My other dreams are more ordinary, for example I see myself buying a newspaper and I wonder if I'll be able to buy a ticket for a bus home when I buy it. I even know how much money I had and the look of the place ^^ (I was in that shop many times, but haven't been there for a while).

If you are interested in pursuing connecting dreams to waking state you might want to check into the technique of 'reality checks'.

	Originally Posted by Gerard91
	All of my dreams consist on fear about something physical that can harm me.

Buck up buckaroo ! For most people, the next layer of dreamwork is fear about something non-physical. Fear can manifest in dreams in totally unimagined ways to the consciousness of the dreaming individual.

	Originally Posted by lucky12
	I have read other places that melatonin supplements will help. Maybe I should look into that, the sleep paralysis got exponentially worse over the past two weeks.

On another BB I frequent, where dreamwork is just as important as waking state, the suggestion to take melatonin would likely get laughed at. Instead the individual would receive tips on how to better use sleep paralysis to enter lucid dream state and ultimately to out-of-body state.

[tms1337]

The recurring dream I've had for a long time now is of myself being chased, usually by some authority (police) figure. It seems I usually do some bad deed, and I have to drop everything and just go on the run.

I wonder what it means.

[lucky12]

	Originally Posted by RBM To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	On another BB I frequent, where dreamwork is just as important as waking state, the suggestion to take melatonin would likely get laughed at. Instead the individual would receive tips on how to better use sleep paralysis to enter lucid dream state and ultimately to out-of-body state.

I'm self-taught, I find the easiest way to drift into a lucid dream for myself is just to wakeup and hit the snooze or daze off after I haven't slept properly within a 24 hour period.

I have experienced an 'out of body state' on several occasions. It generally gets triggered by a sound that I am unfamiliar with, and I 'get up' to check it. I think every time this happened it was like I could move through walls, and I would imagine exactly who/what was making the specific sound. This would be percieved to be in real time: for example, if I was having an OBE it would take place at the exact time of day along with weather conditions, light, people present in my house, where I think they are and what they are doing based on sounds I heard when I wokeup previously.

Why not elaborate more RBM?

	Originally Posted by tms1337 To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	The recurring dream I've had for a long time now is of myself being chased, usually by some authority (police) figure. It seems I usually do some bad deed, and I have to drop everything and just go on the run. I wonder what it means.

I used to have one as a kid where a fox would chase me around my farm. The fox was rabid, as a kid I was always warned to stay away from rabid animals. More of a nightmare lol I actually had this dream a year ago, except I woke up laughing because I recognized it.


The most entertaining dream i have ever had was somewhere between sleep talking and an out of body experience, which I think results in a delirious state. You sort of know whats happening around you, but your response isn't your own and sometimes you imagine people are saying something to you...... ANYHOW my ex-gf was sleeping next to me, and I thought she said something totally inappropriate (sexual) so I started giggling and talking about random things, and then I started to tell her that I was going to leave in five minutes or something stupid. Apparently while I was doing this she woke up and watched me talking to myself, and then she woke me up, and I honestly couldn't distinguish the difference. I had to ask her if she was saying all that stuff, which she wasn't.

[peppersasen]

I have similar experiences (dreams that are 'replayed' in real life) and they scare the crap out of me because I can't find a rationalization or scientific explanation for it. I looked up "jamais vu" (the opposite of déjà vu) but I don't think that's the case with me because I don't have brain damage and I remember the images/happenings from a dream (not from a waking experience). Clearly. And then something in the same lines happens, or I see objects I saw in the dream IRL weeks after I have the dream.

Any scientists, psychologists/psychiatrists, neuroscientist want to donate their $0.02? * desperately bats eyelashes*

[davai]

	Originally Posted by RBM To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Fear can manifest in dreams in totally unimagined ways to the consciousness of the dreaming individual.

Is this why my only 'nightmares' are of ghosts, even though i don't actually believe in them? If i ever get sleep paralysis ghosts/poltergeists are usually there spookin' me out too.

[VF1J]

I really hate dreams which I believe are real, and I screw up badly and am thinking 'Crap, what have I done!? Could this get any worse?', then I'm relieved when I wake up.

When I was child, I had very loud 'drumming' ear drums, this annoyed/scared me alot, and it manifested in my dreams as a man with a large hammer hammering something in the garden of an old house across my road. It creeped me out. I also had nightmares when large wookie-like creatures without faces would enter my house and come upstairs. Even now I can remember it vividly...

[RBM]

@lucky12

It would seem you haven't done any online research on the topic ?

My research is science based but since it's cutting edge stuff, (virtual reality, digital physics, information theory,consciousness research) such science is at an advanced understanding of reality, compared to orthodox science. OOB's, Lucid dreaming, dreamstate versus wakingstate are all topics rolled under the umbrella of it. I've posted links to Robert Monroe in the past on the BB, so you can search this site for information.

@ peppersasen

Odds are you will get the same dismissal of your experience as the scientific dismissal that put the words 'supernatural' and 'paranormal' into the lexicon. Here's the updated scientific, but controversial to the orthodox, view:

Paranormal events are natural artifacts of the nature of consciousness and represent the normal activity of the nonphysical energy that is consciousness. For this reason, they sometimes violate PMR causality rules and are vehemently denied by those ensnared within the familiar and comforting grip of widely accepted scientific or cultural beliefs that are based on the exclusivity of our local physical reality.

@ davai

Yeah. How much sense does it make to have your wakingstate logic not believe something and then be scared of exactly that when you are asleep ?

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@ peppersasaen

You may be interested in this:

Déjà Rêvé? Ian Wilson 2011 Second Revision, Public Domain, Copyright Withheld by Author Abstract This paper examines the very real phenomenon of Déjà Vu and how it connects to an even more profound subtype known as Déjà Rêvé. Déjà vu is French for “Already Seen” and Déjà Rêvé is French for “Already Dreamed”. Often people who experience Déjà Vu link the origin of the familiar memory to something they have dreamed days, weeks, months and even years before they experience “Déjà Vu”. Déjà Rêvé suggests that dreams have a direct and relative relationship with physical reality. If so, then understanding and exploring this is critical to science and critical to understanding the origins of “reality”.

Ian is a professional author who's handle where I found his work is 'YouAreDreaming'. He's had online media interest in his work. Let me know if this interests you.

	dreams that are 'replayed' in real life)

These sound like what has been historically known as 'precognitive dream's, I've had several, to date, in my lifetime, this incarnation.

[mieu]

I typically either lucid dream or don't remember anything that I do dream, but one recurring nightmare that I have is that my mother and i are in a car. We're in a black volkswagen beetle, which ironically is a car that my SO's stepfather owns, but it's not anyone's car in the dream in particular. We're driving, and she inexplicably drives it right down a boat ramp and into the ocean. I try to get us both free, and sometimes I drown. My mother has a mental illness.





Recently I saw this episode of Mythbusters where they tell you how to safely escape from a sinking car and I totally am looking forward to the next time I have this dream. >:]