Thought I'd make my 100th post on MAP an interesting one... I know this is kinda 'linked' to KC's How Do You Sleep? thread (hope you don't mind me 'exploring' a different aspect of your thread here KC... at least I might maybe keep you'rs on topic! )... but just an interesting question... I know there are bits of tests here and there on this subject about dreams and what they mean etc, and stories of folk dreaming actual 'predicitions' of events and that. Of course some of that maybe indeed just be utter rubbish... But I'm just wondering how dreaming is part of you as well, how it effects your body and such like including all that stuff on possible 'predicition' (if it is possible at all!). Can any of you remember what you dream? Because I rarely can do such a thing... I know I 'day dream' and can remember that, but that is more because it's a 'conscious' thought and you do more often than not, know what you are 'day dreaming' about(or should anyway! ) Just wondering, thought I'd try to throw something of interest onto MAP on my 100th post! Hoping no one's going to 'doze off' on this one! Oh and does any one have any idea, at what number of posts, do MAP send you a 'carridge clock'? LOL only joking, I have to say I've enjoyed being on MAP for 100 posts and seeing everyone's view on many subjects... hope I'll be here for another 100 or so!
I wake up remember at least one dream every morning. Very weird dreams. Not exactly nightmares, but frustrating. The one I had this monring was that my bedroom, had two beds (the same as each other), two desks, two computers. Opposite each other. I was only using one computer, but problems kept happening. I was only trying to talk to someone... but the comp I was using kept changing itself. Changing itself very weirdly.... The room kept ****ing me off too. People kept coming in being noisy, and making a mess of everything. I try to tidy it up, but it never works, as more people keep coming in... Agh the computer is making things difficult to. All I wanna do it talk to someone on it...
i can barely ever remember mine dreams once i actually made up a song with words in a dream, i quickly forgot both words and melody but it was weird. also my bro once had a dream in spanish. weird stuff our brains put out
Yea i dont usually dont remember my dreams. Is one a couple i still remember that happened a long time ago. One dream I remember having like 3 times. Anybody else ever have the same dream more than once??
Grifter I don't think I've had the same dream twice but I have had continuations of dreams over a period of time. Sometimes over the length of a few weeks.
I'm alot like Ving, in that I usually wake up having remembered at least 1 dream. I have have dreams that have predicted events, such as being in places I've never been in, then later on (not that exact day) going to a place and knowing my way around it, thanks to the dream. I've had dreams that occur more than once, but the frequency of them is rather long, as in I don't get them regularly. I haven't had a nightmare since last year and before that, since I was like 14. So I don't get nightmares often or at all. My dreams themselves, are usually just bizzare and incorporate (as I figure) things that I've been reading or seen on television in some respects only with a strange twist to them. I don't have the "flying dream" that most people have, and the majority of my dreams have no dialogue, it's more of a mental knowledge of what everyone is thinking.
I Normally dont dream but when I do I remember it vividly. They are usually unpleasent, not mightmares but no fun. What really annoys me is when the alarm clock radio doesnt wake me up and I begin to dream about what ever they are discussing. I no longer wake up to talk radio any more, espescially Stern.... Wierd dreams.
I remember my dreams of that night each morning & I am a very light sleeper. My "better half" is a very sound sleeper & claims to hardly ever dream, but I know that she does as she is often muttering in her sleep.
I have been pondering a question myself on similar lines : Can we learn from a dream while we're sleeping? I've had dreams about working & then woken up first thing having to go to work feeling tired as though i'd already done the work. So if this is possible.....maybe we can learn to do a technique better or at the very least understand it better........ Anyone have any deeper thoughts
I knew a guy at college that dreamt the lottery numbers! ....he used them over the next few months and never got more than 2... Another mate dreamt he got up for work had breakfast, got dressed and got on the bus to work, just as he was walking in the door to work he woke back up in bed again - this went on 5 or six times and the poor guy was in a right state by the time I met him (in this reality) in the real morning. He's a real 'left brainer' creative type, so maybe that's his fate - he hated the job too. A book I read ages ago now said to look for and focus on your hands when your dreaming (if you remember to of course), it focuses the dream creating a dream reality which you can then be in like this reality. I managed to do it and had some real experiences, but have since been unable to replicate it - it did take a few weeks and loads of sleep to do it though. Just need to pack in work so I can start over again
I've had so many dreams that I can remember I've lost count. Colour dreams, de ja vu dreams, creative dreams (actually a repetitive dream that I kept having until I got up in the middle of the night and used it as a basis for a screen play), abstract dreams that have had odd meanings, 'those' kinda dreams ....
anyone have like a memory dream, I'm not talking like when you were 4 i mean like you remember the feeling of say jumping on a trampoline and when you sleep you feel it. I remember after coming back from 4 wheeling my bed started to 4 wheel i could actually feel the bumps and hills. Other times i'll have been sledding and i'll start feeling like i'm going down a gigantic hill when i lay down. Anyone else have that or am i crazy?
I look forward to sleep every night for the dreams. They come in all shapes and sizes. A dream saved my ass at work once. It showed me how to design a programming course that I had to deliver the next morning. I'd gone to bed in a right state, sure that I'd really messed up. As it was, I had the dream, woke up refreshed at 6am (normally I wake at 8) and created the course and materials ready for delivery at 9.30. It was brilliant. Night before last I had a night of what I call deja-vu imagery where I am presented with lots of images which then crop up throughout the next day. If I wake during the night, I go back to sleep and continue where I left off. Gotta go, something's come up. Rgds, David
Interesting replies.... Thanks for the replies guys, it's interesting to read them. David and your 'inspiration' in a dream... yeah that's well good! I suppose what you could say there is that the dream was helpful as it helped to 'process' the stress you were feeling and in doing so were able to have a 'fresh' mind to come up with the ideas. Quite likely I'd say morphus, anything is indeed possible, maybe it's slightly akin to what David experienced in a way, where the brain 'processed' the ifno he had... I know there are some companies that try to teach you things when you sleep by listening to a tape or some such when you sleep... but as to it's credibillity I could not be certain. Speaking of which, I know that on the site for the Matrix Trilogy there is a section on Philosophy ... which I'm sure when I read it had things to do with dreaming on it, such as "Dream Skepticism" and so on, which I thought was quite interesting (even if it is a bit of a long read! ) , I'll see what you guys think on it (not sure if this 'direction' I thrown in would warrant this being moved into MAP's "Philosophy" section, but just thought I'd throw this into the 'melting pot'.
I sometimes have dreams that are so vivid, I'll remember them for days. If I don't write them down, the memory will then fade. Other times, I won't remember them, or remember just snippets very briefly. I have had some nightmare-ish dreams that were so realistic that I would be intensely grateful upon waking and discovering that they weren't real. I've also had those "continuation" dreams, sometimes going on for years. And I always dream in color. Zamfoo, regarding those "memory dreams", you're not crazy. I had the same thing when I was learning to fly (in small airplanes). I could feel the turbulence all night long after having a lesson. Maybe that has something to do to with the inner ear.
Congrats on the 100th post "TB" and here's to many more... I do enjoy your "style" And no I don't mind your llinking yours to mine... it makes a good transition. As far as dreams... I always had a fascination with them. In college I took a year's course that focused on the psychology of dreams. We had to keep a sleep journal by our beds and when we woke from a dream we had to jot down as much as we could. In the morning I rarely remembered writing in it .... and my writing was downright horrendous! I learned a great deal about dreams and more often than not can interpret my own dreams and other's. The subconscious mind is fascinating! A lot of people believe the subconscious mind is a faithful recorder of information. Dreams are widely supposed to be a good way of generating creative ideas by either getting around mental blocks or by recovering information that the conscious mind has forgotten... such as in David's case. They say that those who forget their dreams are often the same people who have difficulty remembering in their daily life. To help in remembering your dreams, place a pad and a pen next to your bed. Before you go to sleep, make your last conscious thought and action be that of writing down the next day’s date. This will serve as a signal to your subconscious mind that you consciously expect to remember your dream. Immediately when you consciously awake the next morning, write down what you recall. Want to interpret your dreams? Check out this site..... Dream Moods Sweet Dreams!
gonna have to bore u with a dream story now Let me explain: - I was to deliver a programming course to a group of fellow IT techies from all over my organisation. They all have different specialisms and job descriptions. I left the coursewriting to the last moment because I knew my subject. Only when I began to write, did I suddenly realise I couldn't pitch the material to all of them without knowing them better. I got nowhere. I gave up at 10pm and decided to cancel & apologise (not good!). I went to sleep and dreamed about travelling back in time to ancient Egypt. I took loads of gadgets and gizmos from our time and spent the entire dream talking (gesticulating) to the Egyptian priests. We were managing to communicate. They were fascinated by some of the things I brought but the were dismissive about others less relevant/useful to them. I woke up and knew exactly what to do. That was the dreaming taking up where I'd given up and producing results that I was able to apply immediately upon waking. This was far beyond stress relief/processing and although the imagery isn't contemporary, it all made sense: I knew what each thing in the dream meant in terms of the materials and the outcomes. BTW, my party trick (ie alcohol req'd) is dream interpretation. I often have nauseating dreams of dimensional twists, recurrence, loops, missing time. There are places I frequently visit in dreams that do not equate to any physical space in my experience. The dreams of air turbulence etc are not something I've had. Dreams don't have to be imagery, though, you can dream music or just thoughts too. Rgds, David
Re: Re: How Do You Dream? Why thank's KC, I'm flattered you like the 'unqiue' way I post things, I try my best! :love: Interesting post too KC (seems like everything I post you end up replying somewhere! Not that I mind! ) Trired that website, but parts of it didn't seem to want to work! Good info on there from what I had a look at. But trure the subconscious mind can be very interesting, there are indeed many things we do not know about the brain and such things to do with sleep and dreams and perception and so forth. As far as dreaming in the creative sense, in the conscious mind, I'm sure I do that quite a lot and have a bit of an 'active' imagination coming up with natty wee stories and such! (but then who doesn't?!?) Have to admit I can't really remember my dreams when asleep, I'm sure I do have them tho... but rarely do I remember... but I seem to remember I dream in colour, duno what the significance in that might be but I know when I was a kid and saw black and white movies or tv pograms I thought the world back then was all in black and white! Sounds like fun! I'm sure there are other ways to do such things, but yeah a pretty neat party trick, again thanks for the replies guys.
