The dream thread!

[FuzzHugger]

After all the recent picture threads, I thought I'd add another discussion thread for use with words!

One of my favorite things...DREAMS!
I love sleep, and love dreaming. Do it almost every night. Both, even!
Weird, scary, etc = FUN!

So let's talk dreams. Y'all dream in color? Details? Long dreams?
Are they totally unimportant?

I dunno...go!

[Trifarce]

Uuh, when I was 4 I had a dream that I was tickled LITERALLY to death. If that counts..

[McSpunckle]

I love when I have a weird/cool dream. Doesn't happen much.

Lately, though, I've been waking up with things on my mind... usually my ex. I assume that means I was dreaming about her, and don't remember. Which is a shame, because I'm sure I was strangling her.



I used to have a lot of nightmares, especially as a child. I still do from time to time, but now I don't mind it so much. It's kinda like waking up is just leaving the movies after seeing a really good horror flick.

Have you guys ever figured out you were dreaming while dreaming? That's the best.

[mutmoo]

How you guys ever figured out you were dreaming while dreaming?

Shit just got Inception'd.

[Ryan]

I used to have really vivid dreams but for the last few years I rarely remember my dreams when I wake up.... I think I still dream every night but they just don't stick with me, barely ever.

[smile_man]

I don't like sleep.

Shit just got Inception'd.

That's what I thought!

[gururyan]

I dream in color.
I rarely get to have sexual dreams.
As a kid I would have night terrors, and I still remember them vividly 30 years later.
Once I awoke completely paralyzed, except my eyes. I had very shallow breathing and couldn't call for help. It lasted about 20-30 minutes but felt like hours.

[Mudfuzz]

My dreams how ever nice always end up in a post apocalyptic world where I am: Running from something, looking for something, lost, found someone and we then have to look for something, run from something, chase something or something....

[Ryan]

I dream in color.
I rarely get to have sexual dreams.
As a kid I would have night terrors, and I still remember them vividly 30 years later.
Once I awoke completely paralyzed, except my eyes. I had very shallow breathing and couldn't call for help. It lasted about 20-30 minutes but felt like hours.

Sounds like Sleep Paralysis, Ryan, it's a well documented phenomenon... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis. I learned about it from my UFO curiosities... some experts think that's the reason behind UFO abduction experiences.. interesting anyway, although it sounds really scary to go through!

My dreams how ever nice always end up in a post apocalyptic world where I am: Running from something, looking for something, lost, found someone and we then have to look for something, run from something, chase something or something....

My wife, Tanya's, dreams are stuff like this every night... I think you guys are born heroes or maybe gonna save some of us in the future!

[gururyan]

I dream in color.
I rarely get to have sexual dreams.
As a kid I would have night terrors, and I still remember them vividly 30 years later.
Once I awoke completely paralyzed, except my eyes. I had very shallow breathing and couldn't call for help. It lasted about 20-30 minutes but felt like hours.

Sounds like Sleep Paralysis, Ryan, it's a well documented phenomenon... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis. I learned about it from my UFO curiosities... some experts think that's the reason behind UFO abduction experiences.. interesting anyway, although it sounds really scary to go through!

Whoa! I never...wow. That sounds like what I went through! It happened about 10 years ago, around the same time I had the first night terror in my adult years. It was indeed horrifying and definitely caused severe panic, the paralysis that is. I really thought I was dead or dying. I saw my wife get up to go to work, I bulged my eyes at her hoping she'd see me and realize something was wrong. She didn't notice and left me there.

...I hope talking about this and remembering it doesn't cause another one.

[Ryan]

...I hope talking about this and remembering it doesn't cause another one.

I hope it doesn't too, buddy! I think it's something that can be controlled once it's understood.... you could have lucid out of body voyages.

Just sleep in that awesome music room of yours, sweet dreams for sure!

[smile_man]

I used to have pop culture-themed hallucinations at night, fuck that. I think it had something to do with having a fever.

I had Minority Report, Gangs of New York, Star Wars (this was when I had pneumonia), GTA Vice City, and one that was sort of like Tony Hawk 4, but on a bike. It was awful.

I don't remember the Minority Report one.

GNY - There were people that dressed like they did in the movie, but they were cannibals and I had to hide from them. My mother went to get me something to drink but I warned against her going because they would get her.

SW - This was strange as it was during the day, I thought my closet was the asteroid that they land on in Empire Strikes Back(the one with the worm) and that there was a tiny Millennium Falcon on my shirts. I also thought that the hallway to my closet was Endor, and that there were AT-ATs there.

GTA - During the night, I thought my room was a city, and I could see helicopters and shit taking off around my room. I don't really know why it was Vice City themed, except that I remember an Infernus.

TH4 - I just remember biking around (or watching someone else) the "College" level from Tony Hawk 4.

I don't get them anymore, it seems like fun to have Star Wars themed hallucinations, but they really aren't all that great.

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I also had a House of Leaves dream last week, it was TOO real. I had trouble falling asleep that night because that book kinda scares the shit out of me, but when I did, in my dream (at the time I was not aware that it was a dream) I went to pull my blanket over me, it was a hot night, and whatever monster thing is in that book pulled the other way on my blanket and pulled me down through the space between my bed and the wall but I said to myself to wake up and I did. No good.

Something about sleeping on a mattress with no boxspring underneath that is on the floor brings strange dreams.

[devnulljp]

[FuzzHugger]

If you do certain things after a dream you can improve recall lots. They are a pain in the ass though and i've forgotten what they are so...Goodnight.

This sounds weird, but I remember my dreams from the night before after laying down the next night...something about being in the same place and position, maybe. I'll wake up and not remember anything til I get in bed again, then it's oh yeahhhhhh.

I like the theory of the brain working things out, etc during sleep. I read some research a year ago about dreams smoothing out the "rough edges" of the day, as in tying up loose ends, making problems of the day less traumatic...basically, the brain resetting or attempting to fix things. Something to that effect.

They're kind of meaningless, not part of reality exactly, but they are part of the life experience, and have to be worth something. I just don't know what. Haha. Maybe they're a red herring / distraction, but I still think they're cool. And even if they don't serve a specific purpose, they definitely can affect our mood and thoughts...I think a lot of people don't think enough about them (but of course, some people think too much about them!). I'm going in circles!

[theavondon]

I always have incredibly insignificant dreams, where I'll see some girl that I used to like, and we're walking in front of my old elementary school, and then she starts running, and i'm just left standing around outside, so I walk home. Or, I'll be hanging out with friends, and they'll all be in clothes that I've never seen them wear before, and nobody is talking. My dreams suck. I'm sorta happy I don't often remember them.