Lucid Dreams

[sincerely_helene]

I don't know if this is a lucid dream, or prophetic or what have you, I have never really paid much attention to those things. BUT when I was pregnant with my first daughter I had a reccuring dream that she was laying on her side, on like pillows or something and there was a really soft light all around her. I would look at her face for a few minutes, and want to reach out and touch her but never did. Then she would open her eyes and look at me, and then I would wake up. I always woke up with tears streaming down my face and feeling very emotional. When she was about 5 mos old I had some pictures developed and she was laying on my bed on a down comforter asleep and she looked just like in my dream. It was a very surreal feeling to look at that picture. I have no clue why I dreamt that, and maybe subconciously set up the picture? OK, I will shut up now. Thanks

I wouldn't say lucid, but certainly prophetic. I would agree with your guess that it was to be taken literally... like an image you foresaw that was burnt into your memory. I don't think it was necessarily trying to tell you something, though, other than you were about to bring a beautiful baby girl into the world, and were extremely and understandably moved by that.

As long as everything is ok healthwise and mentally with the child still today, I wouldn't read much more into it than a blessed event that was about to take place of which you were very emotional about.

 

[sincerely_helene]

Somewhere I read or heard that people aren't supposed to feel emotions in their dreams, which struck me as ridiculous because I've run the gamut. I also have a good sense of color and time, as in it's usually night or twilight.

My dream last night was absolutely horrible. I dreamed that my cat (who is old and fat and it's inexplicable how she is still alive) was being exploited in some way. It was like, she was alive but for the wrong reasons. I can't remember exactly why. But I had to spare her that sort of life and so I broke her neck. It was really visceral and graphic and I can remember exactly how it felt. I wasn't extraordinarily sad doing it but it's awful to think of it now. I've had so many "saying goodbye to my cat" dreams that it's a complete mini-series, all variations on the theme of animal death.

I have personally never heard that before, and it strikes me as ridiculous too, though I guess it is hard to accept certain things unless we experiance them firsthand. I don't think that person's argument, however, holds much weight when compared to the vast majority of society who has on more than one occasion risen with tear stained pillows, or laughed so loudly it woke them up.

With regards to your dream, often when we dream about people or animals that are close to us, we are not literally dreaming about them. Usually, it is an inner conflict of some sort, like an emotion or person we secretly have or want to confront. To me it speaks of perhaps some sort of honesty you had to relay to someone maybe to protect them, and maybe for some reason you spoke more frankly then intended. Or, maybe that hasn't happened yet, and your inner conscience was instructing you to do so. The guilt afterward would be typical of such a dream, especially if you are normally an empathetic person.

Since cats are usually pretty strong symbols in dream interpretation, here are the ones I looked up in a Dream Dictionary that seemed most applicable in case you wanted something more literal or beyond my own personal opinion:

To dream of a cat denotes ill luck, if you do not suceed in killing it or driving it from your site. If you suceed in banishing it, you will overcome some great obsitcles and rise in fortune and fame.

If a young woman dreams that she is holding a cat, or kitten, she will be influence into some impropriety through the treachery of others.

*10,000 Dreams Interpreted

It seems like you made the right move no matter what translation you follow!

 

[sincerely_helene]

I have always had vivid dreams, even as a child.

At times aspects of them have played out in real life, giving a 'de ja vu' feeling.

Twice I have had periods of time where I did not remember my dreams. The first time was when my ex and I split up the second was towards the end of last year.

Now they have returned they are more intense and can be precise in the information they give.

I hate sleep paralysis, I find it terrifying. It has not happened for a number of years but I recollect the absolute terror of feeling awake yet unable to move. It always seemed to be accompanied by a desperate need to wake up, an urgency that something bad would happen if I could not release myself from the paralysis

I am a practising psychic/medium and work with Spirit guides to give readings.
Some of my dreams relate to aspects of that work. Others aappear to be simple random nonsense.
Sometimes dreams are simply a way of processing things in our sub-concious sometimes they are more than that.

I should keep a dream diary but bluntly, I am too lazy.
I like to lay in bed, go over what I have dreamt and then get on with my day.

Pinkpunani the dream you describe is beautiful. A mother/child love is truely special. Thank you for sharing it.

I had an strange dream last night, I dreamt someone was holding my hand. Even once I woke I could feel the sensation of their hand having been in mine.

They had big hands with wide short fingers. It wasn't sexual but I had a feeling of having been comforted during the night.
It was not a healing type of comfort, more a friend to friend understanding.

It was nice, weird, but nice.

Hey, lots of luck with the readings thing! I just had my first one yesterday, and it was kind of a cool experiance.

I'm pretty sure you've already considered this, but do you think there might be a connection with your spiritual evolvement lately and the intensity of your dreams combined with the presence that is holding your hand?

 

[sincerely_helene]

Looking cute Helene!

Well, I was going for sultry and enigmatic, but I'll take cute.

Thanks.

 

[sincerely_helene]

Not only are most of my dreams lucid I can at times control them to some small extent. I usually upon waking from a particularly exceptional dream I jot down as much detail as I am able in a 15 minute span. Now if I had the tongue of a poet I would write the most erotic stories that come from my dreams. I'm thinking that one day I'll get a ghost writer and pour it all out.

Pssst... Talk to Salvor.

 

[Quint]

I have personally never heard that before, and it strikes me as ridiculous too, though I guess it is hard to accept certain things unless we experiance them firsthand. I don't think that person's argument, however, holds much weight when compared to the vast majority of society who has on more than one occasion risen with tear stained pillows, or laughed so loudly it woke them up.

With regards to your dream, often when we dream about people or animals that are close to us, we are not literally dreaming about them. Usually, it is an inner conflict of some sort, like an emotion or person we secretly have or want to confront. To me it speaks of perhaps some sort of honesty you had to relay to someone maybe to protect them, and maybe for some reason you spoke more frankly then intended. Or, maybe that hasn't happened yet, and your inner conscience was instructing you to do so. The guilt afterward would be typical of such a dream, especially if you are normally an empathetic person.

Since cats are usually pretty strong symbols in dream interpretation, here are the ones I looked up in a Dream Dictionary that seemed most applicable in case you wanted something more literal or beyond my own personal opinion:

To dream of a cat denotes ill luck, if you do not suceed in killing it or driving it from your site. If you suceed in banishing it, you will overcome some great obsitcles and rise in fortune and fame.

If a young woman dreams that she is holding a cat, or kitten, she will be influence into some impropriety through the treachery of others.

*10,000 Dreams Interpreted

It seems like you made the right move no matter what translation you follow!

Thank you. This means a lot to me. Here's my response.

I realized recently that, growing up military and moving every other year, my pets are the closest concept to "home" that I have. All my sense of stability and family core resides in my pets, and this one in particular has always been the closest to me. In a way, she epitomizes my childhood. At work recently, I have been undergoing a lot of changes, most of which I believe are for the best, but specifically I've been consciously trying to improve my professional face and present myself as more mature than my years. I think that the killing of my cat and the enormous conflict that I felt upon awakening is a very symbolic battle between the child I was and the adult I'm trying to become.

Right move, I can't say. Promotions and traveling with the company are nice, but I don't know who I am without my inner child. *sigh*

Thank you again; this was extremely thought-provoking.

 

[Marquis]

I categorize my lucid dreams in three ways:

1) Dreams where I am conscious. I know I am dreaming, but there isn't anything I can do about it. In these dreams I often go in and out of knowing its a dream. I'll suspect I'm dreaming, then something will happen where I forget this until I start to snap out of it again later. This transition often takes place in the form of characters in my dream trying to convince me I'm not dreaming. I have no autonomous control over my actions, and tend to play along with whatever's going on around me. I get these fairly often.

2) Dreams where I have a higher degree of consciousness. I know I am dreaming and I cannot be convinced otherwise. In these dreams I have control over myself, and often do drastically rebellious things to prove that I know I am dreaming and my actions won't have real life consequences. These are much rarer, and tend to be short lived.

3) Dreams where I am totally lucid. I am totally aware that I am dreaming, and autonomous, but I often can control my environment to some degree. I've probably had less than a handful of these dreams in my life, but they always have a profound and often terrifying impact on me. These dreams are often INCREDIBLY vivid, almost more vivid than reality itself. I remember colors, smells, feelings, sounds, tastes, changes in temperature and mood.

 

[brioche]

I categorize my lucid dreams in three ways:

1) Dreams where I am conscious. I know I am dreaming, but there isn't anything I can do about it. In these dreams I often go in and out of knowing its a dream. I'll suspect I'm dreaming, then something will happen where I forget this until I start to snap out of it again later. This transition often takes place in the form of characters in my dream trying to convince me I'm not dreaming. I have no autonomous control over my actions, and tend to play along with whatever's going on around me. I get these fairly often.

2) Dreams where I have a higher degree of consciousness. I know I am dreaming and I cannot be convinced otherwise. In these dreams I have control over myself, and often do drastically rebellious things to prove that I know I am dreaming and my actions won't have real life consequences. These are much rarer, and tend to be short lived.

3) Dreams where I am totally lucid. I am totally aware that I am dreaming, and autonomous, but I often can control my environment to some degree. I've probably had less than a handful of these dreams in my life, but they always have a profound and often terrifying impact on me. These dreams are often INCREDIBLY vivid, almost more vivid than reality itself. I remember colors, smells, feelings, sounds, tastes, changes in temperature and mood.

There's so many things in this world that can't explained by normal means.

I was going to post a similar experience, but it's not appropriate at this time.

Your explanation makes sense to me.


In that case, Quint, do you think the significance of your cat is closer to that of a child in your dreams, perhaps? Or of something else? I think they represent much more than a pet to you.

 

[Kajira Callista]

I categorize my lucid dreams in three ways:

1) Dreams where I am conscious. I know I am dreaming, but there isn't anything I can do about it. In these dreams I often go in and out of knowing its a dream. I'll suspect I'm dreaming, then something will happen where I forget this until I start to snap out of it again later. This transition often takes place in the form of characters in my dream trying to convince me I'm not dreaming. I have no autonomous control over my actions, and tend to play along with whatever's going on around me. I get these fairly often.

2) Dreams where I have a higher degree of consciousness. I know I am dreaming and I cannot be convinced otherwise. In these dreams I have control over myself, and often do drastically rebellious things to prove that I know I am dreaming and my actions won't have real life consequences. These are much rarer, and tend to be short lived.

3) Dreams where I am totally lucid. I am totally aware that I am dreaming, and autonomous, but I often can control my environment to some degree. I've probably had less than a handful of these dreams in my life, but they always have a profound and often terrifying impact on me. These dreams are often INCREDIBLY vivid, almost more vivid than reality itself. I remember colors, smells, feelings, sounds, tastes, changes in temperature and mood.

 

[graceanne]

Know something else I do, that's kinda weird. I have dreams when I'm half awake. They're vaguer and harder to remember than a normal dream. I've also been known to hear music or voices when I'm half asleep.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I categorize my lucid dreams in three ways:


3) Dreams where I am totally lucid. I am totally aware that I am dreaming, and autonomous, but I often can control my environment to some degree. I've probably had less than a handful of these dreams in my life, but they always have a profound and often terrifying impact on me. These dreams are often INCREDIBLY vivid, almost more vivid than reality itself. I remember colors, smells, feelings, sounds, tastes, changes in temperature and mood.

I was told once that the more vivid dreams you have, where you have more than just sights and sounds that you remember, the more creative and intuitive of a person you are.

That or a mild case of synesthasia.

 

[graceanne]

I was told once that the more vivid dreams you have, where you have more than just sights and sounds that you remember, the more creative and intuitive of a person you are.

That or a mild case of synesthasia.

LOL Well, I like the first theory. I"ll have to tell K that when he gets home. (He never remembers his dreams.)

 

[DVS]

This is all very interesting, and I do agree that dreams are a way to tap the person within, but I don't remember my dreams. Oh, I know I dream, I just don't remember them.

I know you are lacking vitamin B6 if you don't remember your dreams. Once, I started taking B6, and I started remembering them, but for the most part, because I've never remembered them, I started confusing my dreams with my waking life. That was confusing. I'd be talking to someone and maybe mention something about the topic of discussion, then stop short, because I remembered it happened in a dream.

I remember my dreams some, but very rarely. Sure, I know I could maybe take some B6, and teach myself to be more in tune with my dreams, but at my age, I'd rather continue as I am. I don't like talking to someone, be saying something and then be forced to say "never mind" because what I was about to say happened in a dream. It's happened too many times, and it makes me seem like I'm "spacy", and I'm not.

But, I'm enjoying this thread, just the same.

 

[graceanne]

This is all very interesting, and I do agree that dreams are a way to tap the person within, but I don't remember my dreams.

Guess you're just not as creative and intuitive as the rest of us.

 

[DVS]

Guess you're just not as creative and intuitive as the rest of us.

OK, damn it! Where's that B6?

 

[graceanne]

OK, damn it! Where's that B6?

I probably shouldn't ask this . . . but what's a B6?

 

[DVS]

I probably shouldn't ask this . . . but what's a B6?

Obvously, you just read what you want of my posts and skim over the rest as fluff. <=====been using that smiley an awful lot, recently.

 

[graceanne]

Obvously, you just read what you want of my posts and skim over the rest as fluff. <=====been using that smiley an awful lot, recently.

Oooooh, you meant the vitamin. I read that, but was afraid that B6 was something mean you were wanting to do to me.

Don't know why, though. I'm such a good, sweet subby.

 

[DVS]

Oooooh, you meant the vitamin. I read that, but was afraid that B6 was something mean you were wanting to do to me.

Don't know why, though. I'm such a good, sweet subby.

Right. Uhuh. <====see, there's that smiley, again.

 

[graceanne]

Right. Uhuh. <====see, there's that smiley, again.

Why doesn't anyone ever believe me? I've been taking innocent smiling classes from KC! *pouts*

 

[Marquis]

Yo, I thought he was talking about some kind of Air Force jet.

 

[brioche]

Yo, I thought he was talking about some kind of Air Force jet.

So he could fly over to gracie's and punish her ass?

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Was the B1-B Bomber designed by a woman, cause it really does look like a dildo with wings......

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-1b_22.jpg

 

[brioche]

Was the B1-B Bomber designed by a woman, cause it really does look like a dildo with wings......

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-1b_22.jpg

Hmm. A slimline one perhaps. Personally, I prefer something with more substance. And girth.

Speaking of images, your av looks like a pissed off Han Solo.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Hmm. A slimline one perhaps. Personally, I prefer something with more substance. And girth.

Speaking of images, your av looks like a pissed off Han Solo.

It is a pissed off Han Solo...... Its just temporary until I can figure out what to use next.

Yesterday it was my high school class picture.