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mawk

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Everyone dreams at least occasionally. Tell us about yours! Ones that stick in your heart, ones you find significant, or ones that are just plain weird or disturbing... Post them here!

I rarely recall my dreams, but I can remember that last night someone complimented me on my mustache. I could try to figure out why I had a mustache in my dream, but I doubt I'd make any real progress or gain any insight into my inner self.

Maybe it was my subconscious telling me to shave more often. :\
 
Hmm, I have a feeling there are many dream threads here...

I don't believe that dreams have any significance. For instance last night I dreamt a girl that I know died, and I heard about It on the radio.

What could that possibly mean?
 

mawk

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I searched before posting this. The closest thing was that Lucid Dreaming thread, but if there's a duplicate to this it's long dead anyway.

Dreams are always significant in some way. I don't believe that dreams allow premonitions or anything like that (not as often as people pretend, at least,) but they're good for other purposes. They're like a subconscious representation of the day's occurrences, and they can offer a great deal of capacity for introspection if you know what to look for. Freud was big on dream analysis. I may not agree with him on many points, but as far as psychoanalysis went he was one of the greats.
 
Well, I rarely dream, but when I do, it's about whatever I decide to dream about. I tend to remember it verbatim for about 30 minutes, and then it's gone forever.
 
i have dreams about me running from those terminator robots that look like big metal skeletons...
I dream this often. In my dream They break into my house and I fight them off one by one, eventually I get out numberd and I'm forced to run away. I usually don't get to far before waking.

The significance of this dream is...
I'm scared of robots. :sad:
 
gratheo":3s60hhve said:
Well, I rarely dream, but when I do, it's about whatever I decide to dream about. I tend to remember it verbatim for about 30 minutes, and then it's gone forever.

You can actually decide what you dream about?
 

Jason

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Money":3pg2wujk said:
gratheo":3pg2wujk said:
Well, I rarely dream, but when I do, it's about whatever I decide to dream about. I tend to remember it verbatim for about 30 minutes, and then it's gone forever.

You can actually decide what you dream about?

Yeah, I can too, it's easy, Whatever I'm thinking about before I go to sleep is what I dream about ! I was humming a song I'd heard on the TV once, went to bed, woke up and knew EVERY word of it !

Also, American Hero, How dare you have HERO in your name if your scared of robots, you know what to do when robots attack, right ? Take out the duracell, see who's longer lasting then ! :thumb:
 
I will try to reproduce this as best as possible.

I find myself plunged into a strange, water covered world, where there is an end less sea and nothing in sight. My physical form seemed to be that of a floating speck of light, twinkling like a star. I witnessed a war between what looked like humanoid species with technological advancements enough to keep them alive in this waterworld, with warships and other devices for combat, and aberrant sea creatures of all species. Massive sharks attacking ships and swallowing them whole, devouring the men aboard. Great tentacled beasts that I can't rightly describe in my memory, pre-historic looking fish with spines and all sorts of other alien creatures. I was like a spectator in this event to hold dominance of the evolution of the planet, and it definitely looked like the humanoids were losing. That was only part one of the dream.

I traveled the vast depths of the planet ocean and came across an abyssal fortress deep under the water. Odd shapes and angles, nothing remotely human about it. I traveled in still in my light body to see what it was. The walls seemed to go on forever, and were covered in very odd and intricate patterns, something reminding me of a hybrid between Giger and Lovecraftian descript. Halls in every direction, endless rooms. My journey through the place seemed to go on forever until I hit what I can only call the nucleus of the alien construct. There was a pit of tentacles in a domed room, which I traveled down into. I plunged deep within the bed of squirming mass, kept going and going until I could not stop. As I was flying through this universe of flesh, I could glimpse outlines of stars and planets, and it made me realize I was crossing over into another dimension through the portal of tentacles. I didn't stop though, and in my travel I could recall myself being taken to many strange places, seeing an assortment of equally strange things. My last memory of the dream before finding myself to be awoke in the real world was of a great pair of eyes off into the blackness of space.
 
Your dream had me on the edge of my seat rexxz, great description.



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Money":2ou8afih said:
gratheo":2ou8afih said:
Well, I rarely dream, but when I do, it's about whatever I decide to dream about. I tend to remember it verbatim for about 30 minutes, and then it's gone forever.

You can actually decide what you dream about?

Yeah, I can too, it's easy, Whatever I'm thinking about before I go to sleep is what I dream about ! I was humming a song I'd heard on the TV once, went to bed, woke up and knew EVERY word of it !

Also, American Hero, How dare you have HERO in your name if your scared of robots, you know what to do when robots attack, right ? Take out the duracell, see who's longer lasting then ! :thumb:
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You could use this skill to dream many great things, my friend.  :thumb:
 
Money":yceapzxl said:
gratheo":yceapzxl said:
Well, I rarely dream, but when I do, it's about whatever I decide to dream about. I tend to remember it verbatim for about 30 minutes, and then it's gone forever.

You can actually decide what you dream about?
You can't?
I always thought everyone could. Weird.

All you've got to do is tell yourself what to dream about while trancing/meditating, then sleep directly afterwards.
Try using a form of relaxationary meditation like this:
Focus on each muscle group in your body. Tense it for a count of five, then loosen it. Keep going until you've done this for every part of your body. While doing this, imagine what you want to dream about. Now, clear your mind. One way I used to do this was by imagining a pair of blue energy rings spinning in opposite directions, with one(slightly smaller) inside the other. But whatever kind of repetitive image you can think of that isn't hard to maintain, but stops other thoughts.
Go to sleep.
 
I can decide what I dream about.  Not so directly as much as indirectly, but certainly on purpose.
Sometimes I'll be stuck on a story.  And I just make sure to think about it and such while trying to sleep.  If I remember any dreams, it's often involving the story in some way.  Dreaming as one of the characters in it, or a narrator, or viewing it, switching between like various camera angles, etc.
Very useful.

I still think it's not so much the effort in meditation, but the thought and drive.  I'm fairly sure if you believe it would work, you don't need the muscle tensing thoughts.  I say it's just your mind's way of accepting the possibility, for me I think I have to dwell on it before going to sleep, so that works for me.  You and your meditation works for you, etc.
Though yours is probably much more peaceful and doesn't cause you to stay awake for an extra two hours because your mind is whirling XD
 
sixtyandaquarter":175lt8tq said:
I can decide what I dream about.  Not so directly as much as indirectly, but certainly on purpose.
Sometimes I'll be stuck on a story.  And I just make sure to think about it and such while trying to sleep.  If I remember any dreams, it's often involving the story in some way.  Dreaming as one of the characters in it, or a narrator, or viewing it, switching between like various camera angles, etc.
Very useful.

I still think it's not so much the effort in meditation, but the thought and drive.  I'm fairly sure if you believe it would work, you don't need the muscle tensing thoughts.  I say it's just your mind's way of accepting the possibility, for me I think I have to dwell on it before going to sleep, so that works for me.  You and your meditation works for you, etc.
Though yours is probably much more peaceful and doesn't cause you to stay awake for an extra two hours because your mind is whirling XD
That could work too.
Given that I meditate each day and night, though, my way is better for me.
And that I can clear my mind when I feel like it, with little effort.
I agree that everyone has their own methods that work best for them. My post was an attempt to describe an alternate method (not one I use, but one others might be able to).
 
Almost all of my dreams comes true.

Like Rm2k3 I didn't know what I was doing in my dream except seeing the map tree and only to realize years later that was in my dream.

The other one is my classmate I never saw before when I just met her in my highschool and it was really weird.

Another one is at IRC , I saw these texts and I would be surprised that they came true.

Recently I've been dreaming I'm at a new school almost same as my old one and helicopters came in and some SWAT-like people came in and took some of us to a place like an asylum and performing experiments and make us fight. I doubt that'll be true though..

Another one was I dreamt about was I have a shotgun, killing zombies that tries to come into my house via backdoor. It was funny and scary since the game is like inside RE and hiding and stuff from people x.x

And there's this End of the World thing where it won't stop raining and it was like happening in a week and some parts of the world was flooding and I believe I saw some New York Bridge being broken apart and I have a relative there (I think it was my mother or me) and I was scared a lot and it was full of tension. I hope that'lll never happen  :dead:

All of them just happen. Even when I'm not thinking I dream weird things...
 

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