I have (had) a recurring dream. It goes like this: In the dream, I want to have the college experience again--a "do over"--and I manage to get myself readmitted to the same college that I graduated from, by applying again but concealing the fact that I already went all the way through their undergraduate program. The tension in the dream is that I realize or start to fear that someone in authority is about to discover this masquerade. I had this same thematic dream recall a few different times, in a period of just a few years.
And now that I think about it, I have (had) another recurring dream. I'm in college again, and I am having a "crisis" because I know that there is a course that I signed up for, but have not been attending any of the course meetings. In some versions of this dream, I am not even clear about which course(s) I signed up for. I am thinking, what did I do (?) with the paperwork that has the list of courses that I am registered for. In some versions, it is a math course. Others--some kind of English literature course.
It's been awhile since I have awakened with the memory of having experienced either of those thematic dreams.
... And now that I think about it, I have (had) another recurring dream. I'm in college again, and I am having a "crisis" because I know that there is a course that I signed up for, but have not been attending any of the course meetings. In some versions of this dream, I am not even clear about which course(s) I signed up for. I am thinking, what did I do (?) with the paperwork that has the list of courses that I am registered for. In some versions, it is a math course. Others--some kind of English literature course.
It's been awhile since I have awakened with the memory of having experienced either of those thematic dreams.
This type is common from what I understand. I've heard it said that its your unconsious fretting, noticing that things in real life are not in your control. Time running out, a problem that needs addressing, etc. Beyond that simple description it could apply to pretty much anything specific.
I've had a similar one, but it was high school.
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When a person awakens and recalls a dream, and the recall is of a dream that seems (in recall) as if it went on for an appreciable period of time--a complicated dream with various scenes and plot twists or turns that followed one another in sequence--is that actually what happened in the person's mind as they were asleep and in the dream state?
Or is the recall more like something that is just created all at once, just before or as the person is awakening from sleep?
An intriguing question (IMO).
From time to time, my Fiero (or some other Fiero) has been part of my dream recalls. But not recently.
Don't remember a single one. I know I do dream, but once awake, any memory is gone.
That's because I actually don't care about them. That is probably why I don't remember them.
I don't think there is any meaning or special messages in dreams.
Scientifically, the best explanation I have heard on why mammals dream is that it allows us to replay different scenarios in our mind in a sort of "safe mode" operation. That is why kids have nightmares or whatever. That is why they are assumed to be bizarre, scary and radically shifting. It is an evolutionary trait that allows us to enact and adjust our reaction or at least have one and practice, while we sleep, consume little energy and do it under a safe mode, so we actually don't die.
They said if we didn't dream, if we were faced with say a bear in front of us growling, we wouldn't know what to do but sit there and act curious. Dreams enact this and tell us to run away. So when we face the unknown, we have at least some survival instinct to do something. Without dreams, we would leave every scenario to chance.
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When a person awakens and recalls a dream, and the recall is of a dream that seems (in recall) as if it went on for an appreciable period of time--a complicated dream with various scenes and plot twists or turns that followed one another in sequence--is that actually what happened in the person's mind as they were asleep and in the dream state?
Or is the recall more like something that is just created all at once, just before or as the person is awakening from sleep?
An intriguing question (IMO).
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I think we really don't have a concept of time while we dream. I do know I have gone to sleep, had a dream or two, got up to go to the bathroom, with maybe an hour left to sleep before I had to get up. In that hour I have had a dream that seemed much longer than the one before it, though I had many more hours of actual time sleeping for the earlier one.
I went 24 years without dreaming as I only slept 2 hours between 2 fulltime jobs.. job, sleep 2 hous job sleep 2 maybe 3 hours, till sat. then crash all day.. I just started within a year starting to have dreams again.. So I'm finally hitting rem sleep. and my body clock is starting to loose the memory of you have to get up after a few hours.. Now, I am having odd dreams.. like they could be movie scripts.. I wake up and remember them, roll over and go back to sleep and then it is gone.. The rolling over and try'n to go back to sleep is to see how it ends, but they never return that night, but weeks later I'll get act 2.. and I can't remember the first part so it is odd, like starting to read a book from the middle to end.. Now I understand why bands, keep a recorder or note pad beside them, so when they wake they can write it down.. and not loose it.. I was in the 1850's last night.. that is all I remember.. and that is a guess based on what books and movies have shown that time to look and be like..
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Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
For decades I was seldom even aware of dreaming, much less my dreams' content, but on vacation (especially at high altitude) I would tend to dream like crazy. In 1990 or 1991, in a hotel in Albuquerque (a La Quinta near the airport), I had a dream so vivid and profound that I actually woke up and scribbled a line verbatim on the notepad on my night stand:
I had dreamed that I was a frail, 80-something year old black man being installed as Professor Emeritus of Law at Tuskegee Institute. (N.B. I checked later, and Tuskegee doesn't have a law school.) Apparently, my CV included substantial involvement in the civil rights movement of the early to mid 1960s. I don't remember the rest, but I concluded my acceptance speech with the following line, presented here exactly as I wrote it on that hotel notepad: "... And all this came about because I spoke to defend an idea that I didn't particularly agree with in the first place."
What did it mean? I don't know, but that sentence is probably as succinct an expression of a core personal value as I will ever be able to duplicate: Ideas are important, even when you don't fully understand or agree with them.
Dreams can be funny things.
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... I have (had) another recurring dream. I'm in college again, and I am having a "crisis" because I know that there is a course that I signed up for, but have not been attending any of the course meetings. ... I am not even clear about which course(s) I signed up for. I am thinking, what did I do (?) with the paperwork that has the list of courses that I am registered for.
BTDT.
Another variant: I am sitting in the lecture hall for what is clearly the wrong course, and I am befuddled by the lecture itself, but I can't remember where I'm supposed to be.
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The weird ones are the ones where, Knowing what I know now, and going back 15-20 years to the time I had crushes on girls and was to shy, and the dream plays out as if I knew then what I know now.. I don't know if I'd call it weird or odd, or what. but If it is at all based on reality that could've happened ,man where is that time machine..
What brought these on, Not sure but I did run into a girl that I was friends with 22 years ago, that while talking about our lives now and the families we have, that she had as big of a crush on me as I did on her.. I think God built a part of our brain to just screw with us while we sleep.. One of the greatest gifts to the human race is a vivid imagination, And your brain uses this at full tilt while dreaming.. I've talked to many in music and they have said the draw of some of the drugs was not the high, but the way the imagination would take off and just go to places it normally would not go..
This Maiden song explains it better than I ever could
Infinite dreams I can't deny them Infinity is hard to comprehend I couldn't hear those screams Even in my wildest dreams
Suffocation waking in a sweat Scared to fall asleep again In case the dream begins again Someone chasing I cannot move Standing rigid a nightmare's statue What a dream when will it end And will it transcend?
Restless sleep the minds in turmoil One nightmare ends another fertile It's getting to me so scared to sleep But scared to wake now, in too deep.
Even though it's reached new heights I'd rather like the restless nights It makes me wonder it makes me think There's more to this I'm on the brink It's not the fear of what's beyond It's just that I might not respond I have an interest almost craving But would I like to get too far in?
Can't all be coincidence Too many things are evident You tell me you're an unbeliever Spiritualists? Well me I'm neither Wouldn't you like to know The truth? Oh what's out there to have the proof And find out just which side You're on Where would you end in Heaven or In Hell?
Help me. Help me to find my true Self without seeing the future Save me, save me from torturing Myself even within my dreams
There's got to be just more to it than this Or tell me why do we exist I'd like to think that when I die I'd get a chance another time And to return and live again Reincarnate, play the game Again and again and again.
I was newly enlisted in the Navy and too young to buy alcohol but I could go to a pharmacy and buy terpin hydrate that was mostly alcohol and codeine if I remember right. I chugged the whole bottle and when I slept I had a dream about my highschool girlfriend. I was so disappointed when I awoke in the middle of the dream but when I went back to sleep the dream resumed just as though I had an intermission. It was fantastic. Never before or after. I rarely remember my dreams these days but I have a hard time remembering anything else either
Unfortunately. They're typically unpleasant or very abstract. I can count the number of good ones on one hand. Usually forget them shortly after waking up.
Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
No. I rarely dream, unless I'm completely forgetting about them by the time I wake up. I don't think I get in to REM sleep; that might have something to do with it.
In the past couple of years, I have started having really vivid - and sometimes really strange - dreams. Usually several times per week. They aren't particularly bad dreams, though. Frequently, they revolve around my work, but usually my previous job (which was more hands-on than my current one, that I've had for ~12 years.) Sometimes, even my old coworkers are in those dreams. This morning one of my current coworkers (who I really don't like) was there.
Strangely enough, I found that when I started drinking real coffee again (only one cup per day, though) I actually sleep better and seem to have fewer dreams. I'm confused.
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"Scientists test three different techniques for developing the capacity for lucid dreaming"
While in a lucid dream, a person is not only aware they are dreaming but also actively controls the experience. According to a popular German study, researchers found that about 51% of people have experienced a lucid dream at least once. Some, however, are so proficient at lucid dreaming that they can enter the state almost every night.
We now have a breakthrough. Australian researchers at the University of Adelaide led by Dr Denholm Aspy tested three popular lucid dreaming techniques and found all of them improve the chance of success. One technique had an impressive 46% success rate.
There was a period of time when I was having lucid dreams on a very regular basis. When it started to scare the hell out of me, I had to stop. I could do fantastic things in my dreams. When I was awake, I knew I was awake, but when I was dreaming, I was often not quite sure.
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Far too often and more often than not, I'm in the dream as myself, but as 2 people, doing 2 different but related things. 1. I'm doing whatever the dream dictates and where it carries me, often to any one of several long past real life events. 2. At the same time, I'm dreaming I am observing myself as I dream the dream, which is almost always an unpleasant if not downright terrifying dream, and always ends up with me seeing myself in bed, all but paralyzed and screaming for my wife to wake me up..all of this while I'm asleep and have several times, woke up in a sweat, and berated my wife for not waking me up so the dream would end. "I know you had to have heard me screaming...why wouldn't you wake me up?"
The above hardly ever happens in pleasant dreams tho..and I do often remember the pleasant ones as well. You have no or very little control over what you dream of course, and they can get really 'out there' and even comical., and sometimes, for me, the comical dreams are dreams about dreams or something of that sort. Hard to explain.
One from several years I remember quite well.. [It is somewhat confusing, but All of the following was a dream] : I was at work, running the CNC saw in the plant where I used to work. It was monotonous, and in the dream, I dozed off at the control station. When I did, I dreamed (a dream within a dream) that I could fly, and just levitated up from the saw, and slowly floated around looking down at all the other people in the plant. I could go in any direction I wanted, just by turning my head. Instead of being astonished at my newfound ability, they all just pointed up at me and laughed. I returned to my work station, finished the day out and went home and told Jane "You'll never guess what happened at work today!" She replied with a roll of her eyes (still all part of my dream) : "I've already heard..your buddy Joe just called me. You fell asleep at the saw and dreamed you could fly".
[end of dream.]
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Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
Yes, some of them. Also sometimes only parts and missing some detail. Ive also had recurring dreams. I do know that sometimes I have a dream about whatever I was thinking about before going to bed. I think some dreams may come out of your own subconscious thoughts.
Far too often and more often than not, I'm in the dream as myself, but as 2 people, doing 2 different but related things. 1. I'm doing whatever the dream dictates and where it carries me, often to any one of several long past real life events. 2. At the same time, I'm dreaming I am observing myself as I dream the dream, which is almost always an unpleasant if not downright terrifying dream, and always ends up with me seeing myself in bed, all but paralyzed and screaming for my wife to wake me up..all of this while I'm asleep and have several times, woke up in a sweat, and berated my wife for not waking me up so the dream would end. "I know you had to have heard me screaming...why wouldn't you wake me up?"
The above hardly ever happens in pleasant dreams tho..and I do often remember the pleasant ones as well. You have no or very little control over what you dream of course, and they can get really 'out there' and even comical., and sometimes, for me, the comical dreams are dreams about dreams or something of that sort. Hard to explain.
One from several years I remember quite well.. [It is somewhat confusing, but All of the following was a dream] : I was at work, running the CNC saw in the plant where I used to work. It was monotonous, and in the dream, I dozed off at the control station. When I did, I dreamed (a dream within a dream) that I could fly, and just levitated up from the saw, and slowly floated around looking down at all the other people in the plant. I could go in any direction I wanted, just by turning my head. Instead of being astonished at my newfound ability, they all just pointed up at me and laughed. I returned to my work station, finished the day out and went home and told Jane "You'll never guess what happened at work today!" She replied with a roll of her eyes (still all part of my dream) : "I've already heard..your buddy Joe just called me. You fell asleep at the saw and dreamed you could fly".
[end of dream.]
I've had the paralyzing dreams before. Feels like you are being held down by something while laying in bed and can't move. One I had kept repeating cryptic numbers over and over in a rather disturbing sounding voice. I remembered what was being said and tried to make sense of it and came to a conclusion it was some kind of date. That date came and went with nothing in particular happening.
In most my dreams I can fly. It's like it's no big deal. I just fly when I think I need to. It's actually quite fun. Got to watch for powerlines though. They can sneek up on you. And there is really no limit how high I can go.
Most of my dreams are very lucid. I remember almost everything.
