What do you dream?

[KarenSews2]

I thought I'd start this after reading Oak's aspirin/nightmare thread. I didn't want to hijack, don'tcha know!

Do you remember your dreams? Are they happy, fun, goofy...what? Do you dream in color, and do you experience other senses in your dreams? Do you have nightmares or reccurring nightmares?

I usually remember my dreams. Sometimes I have dreams that I don't really remember, but it's like they are just outside of my consciousness. When that happens, all day I will have fleeting images of what the dream was, and it's rather annoying.

Mostly, my dreams are enjoyable. Mine are in color, and I often experience all the senses. Some dreams are extremely detailed, right down to the texture of a wall. I am sometimes aware that I am dreaming, and know that "somewhere else" I am asleep.

I rarely have nightmares, and I am glad of that. I still vividly remember a nightmare I had when I was young. [I just wrote that nightmare, and it was so creepy that I had to delete it!]

I still have dreams that I'm in college, it's the day of the exam and I've never been to class. Or I have to be in a play or concert and I've never been to a rehearsal.

My daughters and I often enjoy sharing what we have dreamt.

[stardust]

OK, here's the dream. I am enveloped by fire. It is warm and kind of biting, but not painful at all, and I am unafraid. I am frustrated however, because the flames obscure my vision of anything else, and I can't see what's going on around me. As I struggle to see through the flames, the fire begins to change colors. Gorgeous rich pearlized colors. Deep blues, greens, burgandy, gold -- not sure what all colors, but just so breathtakingly beautiful that I become almost entranced by them. Forget to look beyond the flames. Don't care to look beyond the flames. Then I wake up. all sweaty.
What do you make of that?
And BTW Karen, check out the dreampage on my website. I think you belong there!

[Dee]

I dream extensively in great detail, and have many episodes per night. They’re quite interesting while I’m having them and involve all the senses, yet I don't recall them after I wake up. I often wish I did. I rarely have troubling dreams or nightmares.

I think it would be great if someone could invent a dream recorder – like TiVo for the mind or something.

[sister rose]

Im not telling mine.....:o

[Eva]

Im not telling mine.....:o
Was Nathalie in it? :p

Eva

[sister rose]

ummm....I plead the 5th. :rolleyes:

(damn, eva...you know me well)

[Eva]

ummm....I plead the 5th. :rolleyes:

(damn, eva...you know me well)
Is the fifth homosexuality, insanity or flatfeet?

Eva

[GodSistah]

OK, here's the dream. I am enveloped by fire. It is warm and kind of biting, but not painful at all, and I am unafraid. I am frustrated however, because the flames obscure my vision of anything else, and I can't see what's going on around me. As I struggle to see through the flames, the fire begins to change colors. Gorgeous rich pearlized colors. Deep blues, greens, burgandy, gold -- not sure what all colors, but just so breathtakingly beautiful that I become almost entranced by them. Forget to look beyond the flames. Don't care to look beyond the flames. Then I wake up. all sweaty.
What do you make of that?
And BTW Karen, check out the dreampage on my website. I think you belong there!

Cool Website, Stardust!!!

;)

~Andrea~

[RedjackRyan]

I dream of world domination under my iron fisted rule.. alternately I dream of gibbering zombies ravaging the landscape with only me and my trusty M-60 between the surviving human population and utter destruction. Occassionally I'll dream of puppies and kittens.. i usually wake up screaming from that nightmare.

Even rarer still, i dream of specific people i've known over the years. those are extremely rare though.

[Mimi]

Most of the time my dreams - as far as I remember them in the morning - are quite realistic and reasonable and very detailed.

I usually do not have nightmares but there has been a reoccurring - maybe every month or so - theme or motive in most of them: I have to go or climb through a hole or a very narrow door which is obviously much too small and I do not know what is behind and that I'm very scareda and paniccing.

My explanation would be that this is kind of a birth trauma. Indeed my mother told that my birth took very long and that it was very hard for mother and child. They were experimenting a lot with what they called "inducted birth" in the 1960ies and for me it was defintely tooooo early.
And it reflects the claustrophobia I have.

For some years when I was about 20 I reoccurrently dreamed I could fly like a bird. Wonderful! And, almost as wonderful, another reoccurring dream: I could run for a long long time without getting tired. - In reality I've never been a runner at all. I almost and literally die after a few hundred metres. I love mountainbiking and bikeracing and can do that for many hours - but running? No way for me. I've always hated it - when it wasn't part of a game like soccer, basketball etc.

Crossing the Alps by bike - that would be a real life project for me!

But back to the dreams. Sometimes I dream in Italian or English, mostly when I dream of Italian or Englishspeaking friends. - These dreams are usually very nice dreams.

Sometimes I dream of friends I haven't seen for a very long time and it always feels very very close and quite often I managed to reconnect to these friends afterwards.

Another type of reoccurring dreams is about my grandparents. In these dreams they are my age and we talk about our lives, about politics etc. and the times get all mixed up.

And I never dream of close friends or my partner - at least I do not recall.

MIMI

[Bat]

Terrie, your dream sounds like the mother of all hot flashes!! :eek:

[Darlene]

Wow, Dreams,
You may say I'm a dreamer....sorry I couldn't help it.

Dreams...I dream all the time at night and sometimes during the day when I sit down and just relax. I dream in detail, in color, feel heat..cold, I can smell, taste,..what ever you can experience in life and beyond life.

I sleepwalk, which they have told me when I have had sleep studies, is very dangerous. I must have a lock on my front door that is difficult to open so that I will have to wake up a little to open it. They told me some other totally outrageous ideas to supposedly keep me safe, but.....

One of my favorite dreams is...time is during a destructive period and I don't want to become a part of the insanity. I am trying to separate myself from this world when I kinda slide into another dimension and in this world people are so different. I have to learn a different mindset, a higher lever of......... humanity. I slide into the opposite world and learn but because I have not attained the level of consciousnesses(?) I must return to see the world I live in to compare and see if I am ready to make the sacrifices I will need to leave the destructive world that I am from behind and escape to the other ... (I don't have a name it's a "dream").

Darlene

[aabram]

I never seem to dream any more.... I wonder why

[Oak Kitten]

Most of time I don't remember my dreams. I have a few recurring themes, like the academic anxiety dream that Karen mentioned, when it is the day of the final exam and I just showed up for class for the first time, and it is always a math exam. I stink at math.

I do recall the dreams I had last night. They are both recurring. The first one involves being in a corridor in a very large house. I am trying to follow the corridor, but keep coming upon these alcoves where I have to open one of several doors to continue. I pick a door, and keep going, when I realize I am now in someone's residence. I can hear voices approaching from an adjacent room. So I try to beat feet outta there, but when I turn around to go back, I cannot find the door from which I entered. Sometimes I end up diving out a window to get away. I have no earthly idea what this dream is supposed to mean.

The other dream I had last night, which is also recurring, involved driving my car when it suddenly starts to accelerate and the brakes fail so I can't stop it. Last night it was going backwards down a steep hill. I HATE this dream. I think it must have something to do with control anxiety. I get very agitated when I cannot control the outcome of something on which I am working. In my job, I am mostly independent and do my own thing. Sometimes, however, I have to rely on other people to provide information, and when they don't respond to deadlines, I get extremely annoyed.

I do have pleasant dreams as well, but I don't usually remember those.

Oak

[Mimi]

Most of time I don't remember my dreams. I have a few recurring themes, like the academic anxiety dream that Karen mentioned, when it is the day of the final exam and I just showed up for class for the first time, and it is always a math exam. I stink at math.

Well, I forgot this one - with math and latin... and in some of these dreams I realize not to be fully dressed, most of the time I don't wear shoes. :eek:

Eva, what does this mean??? :confused:

MIMI

[Agnes]

My dreams are usually pretty vivid, which is fine when they're the nice and fuzzy type of dream, but which is definitely NOT okay when they're the nightmarish kind. In those situations you don't want the Dolby Surround Sound, smells and full colour of my dreams.

Most mornings I remember very well what I dreamed and sometimes I need to act on them, for some I've learned to recognise as predictions. So far they have saved many of my loved ones, so I'll happily sacrifice some sleep for that!

No specific themes as far as I can tell, except for one. The Walk. Many times I dream of walking through different kinds of surroundings, feeling at ease and smiling while watching animals, who act as if I'm no threat at all and just blend in. Usually, I meet only one or two other humans, with whom I spend some time sitting and talking, enjoying the company. Then we go our separate ways, harmoniously.

[Eva]

*sits back*
*slowly puts glasses on*
mutters: Hmm... yes... of course...
*looks intelligent*

Eva

[Dee]

When I was young, I used to often dream I could will myself to rise from the ground and just hover high above any scene below. I learned later in life that this was my subconscious desiring to escape the house (and the mayhem) I was being raised in. Unlike Peter Pan tho, I could not actually fly anywhere, alas.

Okay, riddle me this. Are you the dreamer, or are you the dream the dreamer is dreaming? Some days, I’m really not sure.

[Eva]

Okay, riddle me this. Are you the dreamer, or are you the dream the dreamer is dreaming? Some days, I’m really not sure.
Good question. As a child I was very puzzled by this. Is a dream a dream and daily life reality? Or is daily life the dream and the so called dream daily life reality? Or do we exist in several places and is sleeping a way to cross the borders to one of the other 'worlds' or, in any case 'places to be'? What is reality anyway?

I should write a book about this. I have a wonderful imagination as you can see. I seriously lay awake thinking about these questions. Somehow I never solved the riddle.

Eva

[stardust]

I kinda slide into another dimension and in this world people are so different. I have to learn a different mindset, a higher lever of......... humanity. I slide into the opposite world and learn but ... I must return to ... the world I live in" Darlene
Darlene, that's not a dream, it's a premonition. Sounds exactly like a Rudie weekend.

[KarenSews2]

Oak, my final exam dreams are usually math, too! Yours reminded me of other themes that repeat. One is that I'm livin in a house - never the same house twice, and never a real house that I've lived in - and I come across rooms that I've forgotten. Once, one of the rooms was chock-full of cans of Diet Pepsi.

The other recurring theme is that I'm driving, and the road suddenly becomes sort of unfinished, but I keep going.

[DaveM]

I rarely remember my dreams, though on occasion there will be one so vivid and powerful that it sinks in and never leaves me. There were a series a number of years ago which just might have had some sort of mystical significance--long story and in case I have told it already, I won't repeat it.

The "trazodone dreams" I have mentioned are also very vivid and often include people I know or recognize. And I often remember bits of them after I awaken from them, but they're disjointed things that seem free-form and don't make a lot of sense. Just brain cells rubbing together at random I guess.

[Dee]

Good question. As a child I was very puzzled by this. Is a dream a dream and daily life reality? Or is daily life the dream and the so called dream daily life reality?

Glad I'm not the only one who wonders about these things, Eva.

Here's another perception riddle I've yet to resolve:

How do we know that colours another sees are exactly the same ones we do?

For example, to most people the sky is blue and always will be. BUT, what if what I see as blue, you see as (my perception of) orange? It changes nothing really, but I do wonder about it sometimes.

It’s all too much for me wee mind.

[Darlene]

Dee I have woke thinking about... that I am dreaming about dreaming about a really horrible dream. Those dreams I don't want to go on. When those disturbing dreams happen and I awake I have to stay up for awhile so that I don't go back to sleep and start dreaming the same dream.

One thing I have noticed about me is that if I don't have a fear about something and I mean I really haven't ever been afraid of that particular thing...like being afraid of heights. I have spent a good part of my life in trees or on the roofs of houses etc.

Darlene

[hoops]

i can't say that i've ever had a nightmare. i've had dreams that produced some level of fear in me, but not the kind of fear that would force one to flee, more the kind of fear that would cause one to act...to solve the situation. like the time i dreamt that i was a prisoner in a nazi concentration camp. i woke up bruised and banged up, but it was freedom for me and my fellow prisoners that i sought, not fear of dying, i was not afaid to die. mostly my dreams are the same ones i've had for years...being back in highschool, at my age and still not wanting to be there, but having the feeling that i had to get thru it, just like in real life. i also dream of a home, a large home with many rooms, fancy rooms and eateries, piano bars and dancing and many hidden passage ways. this house has been willed to me, so, tho i have known it for decades, it is newly mine. it is also on the water, sometime on a shore on a lake, sometimes on an island, some times a little of both. and there is much travel in boats, canoes and kyiaks. and there are waterways, like streams leading thru the woods that no one would care about but i loved them. sometimes it is a huge hotel on the ocean with rides and games and shops...and everyone there is close to me and there because i have asked them to be and paid for everything they need. yes, it is disjointed, but it's my recurring dreams for the last several years...oh almost forgot...someone in my immediate family is always incredibly mad at me and i don;t know why.
pace
hoops

[Oak Kitten]

I am sure there must be some deeper significance to these house-related dreams that are being reported here, but I have not made a study of dream interpretation so I don't have a clue. Does anyone else know?

Oak

[DaveM]

I had a very vivid concentration camp dream several months before I went to Poland (and visited a couple of concentration camps). The idea that I might find the place I had dreamed of was never far from my thoughts during the trip. I never did, though if I were to see it today I would recognize it.

I can only assume that it was a place constructed within some corner of the mind, a small reminder that the mind itself can be both heaven and hell.

[hoops]

oak,
if i think a bit... which i try to do now and then just so i don;t just sit here and drool. i could offer that maybe th houses, homes are ourselves and/or our lives. thinking of my own dreams i could surmise that i welcome everyone in and expect no offering for their place in my life. the secret passage ways could be those parts of myself that i keep hidden...or the particular pathways i use to bring about a desired outcome. how my brain functions. the lavishness is all the love i wish to share. hmmm, just a thought
peace
hoops

[KarenSews2]

I just remembered a dream I had quite a few years ago. At the time I had a friend with whom I had quite a connection. She and I often joked that we had known each other in another life. One night I dreamed that one of us was watching the other being taken away in some sort of rustic wagon or cart that had poles on the side that formed a cage. It was clear that the one in the cart was being taken to be executed. It was not clear which was the one watching and which one was watching. Odd. I had the strangest feeling that this was the life in which we knew each other.

[Judy]

Well, thanks load for this thread, folks. After reading al this yesterday I had the strangest dream last night...I had died. Wasn't a nightmare by any means but was very odd and confusing. Normally I have very ordinary dreams. Leave it to the Rudies to take me to another level....
Judy

[KarenSews2]

I think it's funny that, no matter how "far out" the happenings are in a dream, we take it in stride and seem to consider them normal!

[sister rose]

lol....ok. Not so sure about the normal part.......:o

[gisli]

I have a sleeping disorder and rarely get deep sleep, therefore I seldom dream, but when that happens I can relate my dreams to mu sub-conciouos telling me something or reminding me of something............or plainly warn me that something terrible will happen, usually within 24 hours.

I have read a few articles about dream and suggest everyone should do that, cause in many cases if you understand your dream........you have a deeper understanding of what your needs/problems are.

Here is a good start http://www.sleepfoundation.org/site/c.huIXKjM0IxF/b.2417141/k.2E30/The_National_Sleep_Foundation.htm

[DaveM]

Who one earth would ever want to be normal?

[Beth]

well, last night I dreamt that our youngest, age 6, was abducted at the LA airport. I woke up sweating and heart pounding at 4am and had no desire to return to sleep. Not long after that, I heard her crying in her sleep.

Now, that was too weird.

[DaveM]

Perhaps you need to stop taking aspirin (see other thread)? That's beyond mere nightmare.

[hoops]

wow, i woke up with my heart pounding and sweating...in fact when i think of it, i've been waking up that way for months...i don;t get it
peace
hoops

[Eva]

My uncle (a doctor) usually tells me that as long as my heart is pounding, I am allright :rolleyes:

Eva

[Bat]

Well, Hoops, it's either hot flashes, or you're being faced with some very deep seated fears. Either way, you're dealing with it .

[hoops]

bat, i think it's hot flashes...welp at least it's winter and i'm being kept warm.
peace
hoops

[Bat]

I must have had hot flashes for 12 years, and I really loved winter...never got cold! LOL

[hoops]

i wonder what hormone deficiancy causes hot flashes...cause i've had them on a limited basis since i was about 7 or 8. dang, i should become a dr.
pace
hoops

[sister rose]

I must have had hot flashes for 12 years, and I really loved winter...never got cold! LOL

lol...did you ever find yourself standing outside barefoot in the snow? :o

[Eva]

I woke for years sweating like a horse. But that was sleepapnea. I still wake up like that sometimes. I guess the machine doesn't take all of it away. But it is better now than it has been for years. I also have less nightmares, by the way. Maybe that is because I actually sleep now instead of sleep, wake, half-sleep, wake, half sleep, wake, sleep, wake, etc. God, it even sounds tyring. No wonder I had more nightmares. My sleep feels less restless now. Litterally, I guess.

Eva

[Bat]

lol...did you ever find yourself standing outside barefoot in the snow? :o

Actually, I've been known to run out to get the paper barefoot if I was flashing...it felt very refreshing!!

[Marcia Drummergal]

Actually, I've been known to run out to get the paper barefoot if I was flashing...it felt very refreshing!!

Bat, what do you MEAN? You were outside FLASHING people?! WTF?

Marcia :eek: ;)

[hoops]

Marcia...LMAO!
bat, i walk outside to get the mail in my shorts all the time when, i'm having a hot flash. till it got so frequent i was a cold hater. i was ALWAYs freezing myself to death, except when i had flashes...then i'd be walking thru the house taking layers and layers of clothes off...and my mom would laugh and wonder what the heck was going on.
it was quite funny.
peace
hoops

[Eva]

I had to run out to the street once in Hungary at 6.30 pm because the chickens had escaped. My grandmother and parents had gone to the market and I was the only one home. The chickens were eating in the bushes in front of the house to the home. The neighbour woke me by screaming through the open window (it was summer) I ran out swearing heavily and I chased the bloody birds back to the yard. I think I threatened to put them in the soup. Only then I realised that my nightgown was very, very mini and that I didn't wear any underwear. Oooops! :o I think the neighbours had a good laugh. When I was younger I regularly dreamt that I went somewhere and had forgotten to put on my pants or something. But this one was real.

Eva