Dreams (general)

[Cyvaris]

Originally Posted by Clarke

I want to have that dream now.

Is it weird that I had a similar dream....except minus the Doctor. Of course it was combined with the architecture from Metroid Prime.


I know its not a curse...its just annoying having to leave these perfect little dream worlds that I can create.

[Ashen Key]

Originally Posted by Clarke

I want to have that dream now.

It was so very, very, very weird. But then, dreams ARE weird. I suspect the link was: I think a lot about Avatar because that's mostly what I write; I'd been marathoning the Resident Evil movies; I write Jake as if he has ADHD because that makes the most sense to me; and the way Eleven talks is very ADHD, too. And somehow, yeah, it all jumbled up in my head.

[applejuice]

I used to dream a lot, but after been diagnosed with depression about year and a half ago, I just can't remember if I dream or if I dream at all. Before that, I always had this dream of me looking at myself sleeping. Another recurring dream was that I could fly! After that particular dream, I always woke up very tired and, in a certain way, a bit disappointed of knowing it was just a dream.

[Empty Glass]

I used to feel like I barely dreamed until I discovered lucid dreaming via avatar-forums.com early 2010. I learned that it's essential to keep a journal where you write down everything you remember from a dream soon after you wake up. Once I started doing that, I was able to recall so many more dreams than previously. I stopped doing it for a while after getting discouraged over not achieving lucidity, but I just started getting back into it again. It's kind of fun.

Funny...these days I'll frequently be going about my day perfectly normally until I see or hear something that triggers my memory, and I recall something from a dream that I had forgotten. Like how when I was at the grocery store today and walked past the cauliflower and suddenly remembered that I had a dream last night in which I was growing cauliflower with friends. It's a really weird sensation...

Fortunately I do have dreams that involve more exciting things than cauliflower...

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Empty Glass

I used to feel like I barely dreamed until I discovered lucid dreaming via avatar-forums.com early 2010. I learned that it's essential to keep a journal where you write down everything you remember from a dream soon after you wake up. Once I started doing that, I was able to recall so many more dreams than previously. I stopped doing it for a while after getting discouraged over not achieving lucidity, but I just started getting back into it again. It's kind of fun.

Funny...these days I'll frequently be going about my day perfectly normally until I see or hear something that triggers my memory, and I recall something from a dream that I had forgotten. Like how when I was at the grocery store today and walked past the cauliflower and suddenly remembered that I had a dream last night in which I was growing cauliflower with friends. It's a really weird sensation...

Fortunately I do have dreams that involve more exciting things than cauliflower...

I stopped as well, because it wasn't working for me - I did have one dream which form descriptions sounds like it might have been at least partly there - I was with Neytiri in a hammock... but then I woke up, and I could feel myself waking up. It wasn't even a normal waking up -type time, it was still the night, and that experience was not nice

Originally Posted by Aquaplant

Same here pretty much, can't even remember when I last had a memorable dream. Although my problems with sleeping are not as severe as yours, if I correctly recall our past conversations about the subject.

I long for the days when I could dream, even though many of those dreams were unpleasant. Dreams are great entertainment as long as one has the ability to dream in the first place. Then again it is said that we all do dream and that it's only a matter of being able to recall those dreams, although I'd say that things one can't experience in any fashion might as well not exist.

The dream that I can remember most strongly other than the above mentioned one and a few other Avatar ones, is a really bad one I kept having hen I was quite young, where I was running away from something, on a road that seemed to be made of copper or something similar, and there was nothing in the distance in any direction. I have no idea now, but back then it was really bad for some reason.

As it is, I can remember that I dreamed something, but I can never remember any detail of it. If I did, I would probably write it down, but getting it started is a bit hard it seems.

As for my Avatar dreams, there is the above mentioned one, which had a huge amount of detail - I could feel Neytiri's skin, and how she moved as she breathed... then I woke up
The other, which I've had quite a few times, is me watching myself somewhere (not sure about the point of view, if it's a person, me, or what, but I'm somehow watching myself), where I'm a Na'vi in Hometree in that part where Jake becomes one of the Omatikaya
That dream makes me cry

[Advent]

I have my dreams when I'm awake - seriously. I go outside every day for about 2 hours, and walk back and forth in a straight line imagining various things. Usually, it's the best time in the day for me when I'm completely left to my thoughts. Apart from sometimes of course, when I have a block in my imagination. Though that normally doesn't last long, I find there's nothing worse then a blocked mind.

My dreams while asleep are often very strange, and unexplainable. Sometimes however, I get deja vu in real life, from something I witnessed in my dreams. I can never quite remember them though.

[Moco Loco]

Originally Posted by Advent

I have my dreams when I'm awake - seriously. I go outside every day for about 2 hours, and walk back and forth in a straight line imagining various things.

That sounds very odd.

My dreams are usually pretty normal, and by normal, I mean that they make some measure of sense given real world rules and limitations, sometimes with a few exceptions. Recently, I dreamed I was in Seattle again and that I was on a scavenger hunt with Sheldon Cooper Sure, he's funny on Big Bang, but actually having to work with that guy is terrible. What a little pissface.
I mean in retrospect, it is pretty funny, but at the time it was happening, I was mad.

[mikkowilson]

Originally Posted by Moco Loco

What a little pissface.

It's either almost 4pm on a sunny Friday, or that was absolutely hilarious!

Both! \o/


- Mikko

[Mother of the Forest]

I used to have some really far-out dreams, but now I just have dreams of people I shouldn't be dreaming about and everyday things. However, I often have dreams of events that haven't happened yet. One just came true recently, and it did pertain to something of real importance to me. It left me wondering if my subconscious was trying to get my attention so that dream wouldn't come true, or if it was just a warning and there was nothing I could do. Thanks to these dreams, I've had some interesting insights into time, the human mind, and even the possibility of something greater.

Wow, TMI for sure XD...

[Moco Loco]

Originally Posted by Mother of the Forest

Wow, TMI for sure XD...

Shut up, that's what this thread is for

[apache_blanca]

Originally Posted by Mother of the Forest

I used to have some really far-out dreams, but now I just have dreams of people I shouldn't be dreaming about and everyday things. ...wondering if my subconscious was trying to get my attention .... Thanks to these dreams, I've had some interesting insights into time, the human mind, and even the possibility of something greater.

Wow, TMI for sure XD...

I take dreams seriously (how serious is dreaming about a tsunami 4 times in 2 months before Japan was hit??? but I had no idea it would be for real, I thought it was some kind of personal warning/danger... )

Here is one just before yesterday, either dream or that stage when you are already shifting in and out:

I see myself driving to work on the highway as usual. A silverish van appears behind me & it's just toooooo close to me for my liking. I tell the other driver mentally: "You're too close... get back... slow down... Brake!!" then I feel a "shake-up" & the shards of broken glass are flying around. Here I say: "Stop. Freeze. Where's the <-BACK button??? Rewind!.." The dream rewinds to seconds before the accident, & I "rewrite the script" & make it a "happy end movie": I say "Brake NOW" - the other driver slows down, gets further behind, & then moves to another lane. Then I know for a fact that I am waking up but I still have the time to declare: "No accidents for me, not today not ever! My way shall be clear & free!"

Guess what happens that very morning in RL? I drive to work as usual & at one point notice behind me a silverish van just toooooo close to me for my liking. It's strange cos the highway is quite clear, he could overtake me if he wanted to any time, but he doesn't, instead he stays glued to my behind. I think "What a pervy weirdo" & start telling the other driver mentally: "You're too close... get back... brake!!" And then I feel chilled all over & my hair stands up cos I recognize my dream in all the fine details. I think: "SH***!!!" & start "telling" the weirdo to slow down, brake & go to the other lane. He does so after a minute or two & moves to the next lane.

I was pretty shaken. What the.... happened????? I don't know but I do take dreams seriously, that's for sure!

[rasomaso]

Originally Posted by apache_blanca

I take dreams seriously (how serious is dreaming about a tsunami 4 times in 2 months before Japan was hit??? but I had no idea it would be for real, I thought it was some kind of personal warning/danger... )

Here is one just before yesterday, either dream or that stage when you are already shifting in and out:

I see myself driving to work on the highway as usual. A silverish van appears behind me & it's just toooooo close to me for my liking. I tell the other driver mentally: "You're too close... get back... slow down... Brake!!" then I feel a "shake-up" & the shards of broken glass are flying around. Here I say: "Stop. Freeze. Where's the <-BACK button??? Rewind!.." The dream rewinds to seconds before the accident, & I "rewrite the script" & make it a "happy end movie": I say "Brake NOW" - the other driver slows down, gets further behind, & then moves to another lane. Then I know for a fact that I am waking up but I still have the time to declare: "No accidents for me, not today not ever! My way shall be clear & free!"

Guess what happens that very morning in RL? I drive to work as usual & at one point notice behind me a silverish van just toooooo close to me for my liking. It's strange cos the highway is quite clear, he could overtake me if he wanted to any time, but he doesn't, instead he stays glued to my behind. I think "What a pervy weirdo" & start telling the other driver mentally: "You're too close... get back... brake!!" And then I feel chilled all over & my hair stands up cos I recognize my dream in all the fine details. I think: "SH***!!!" & start "telling" the weirdo to slow down, brake & go to the other lane. He does so after a minute or two & moves to the next lane.

I was pretty shaken. What the.... happened????? I don't know but I do take dreams seriously, that's for sure!

pretty cool dream! I didn't have a dream that happened in detail IRL for quite some time now!

[fkeua vrrtep]

dreams are reflections created by your brain to process what is going on in your life, basically all kinds of feelings , desire , lust , fear , curiosity etc.

When you are in REM sleep phase your brain is actually as awake ,as if you were in fact awake , your dreams are just as "real" as the "real" life since the same electrical signals are processed by your brain throughout your body as in the awake state .

[James of terra]

I do not remenber any dreams, I can not rember any more fo along time. I hope to dream again in the future.

[Sight Unseen]

Either I don't dream, or never remember. I don't have trouble sleeping, in fact I probably sleep too much, I'll stay out cold until something wakes me up. But no matter how long or short a time I spend in bed I never remember having a dream, and I'm always as tired as when I got in bed, most of the time I feel like a zombie or something, never fully awake or fully asleep. It really sucks.

The only dream I remember having was about two years ago. I dreamed that I woke up, got ready, and went to school. I was about half way through a perfectly normal, dull school day when my alarm woke me up and I had to do it all over again. I was quite pissed at my subconcious for trolling me like that. It felt real too. I spent two hours on a homework assignment my Chem teacher gave me in the dream the next day, turned it in irl, and my teacher was like wtf is this.