new Dreams thread

[butters]

do you recall dreaming?

how do you dream? what senses are present for you?

what do you dream?

are you always you in them or do you flit person to person, personality to personality?

all that stuff.



























well? what are you waiting for?

 

[hobbit.]

AND do you dream in colour' ?

 

[hobbit.]

do you recall dreaming?

how do you dream? what senses are present for you?

what do you dream?

are you always you in them or do you flit person to person, personality to personality?

all that stuff.

well? what are you waiting for?

Out of interest, are you building some kind of criminal defence here?

" I'd taken tramadol, it was a dark night, the snow was falling, yes, it could have been feathers from the pillow used to muffle the shot, a bird chirrped, the sun, yes the sun, but it could have been car headlights, gleamed, a scream, but it could have been glass breaking, '' that kind of thing ?

 

[butters]

Out of interest, are you building some kind of criminal defence here?

" I'd taken tramadol, it was a dark night, the snow was falling, yes, it could have been feathers from the pillow used to muffle the shot, a bird chirrped, the sun, yes the sun, but it could have been car headlights, gleamed, a scream, but it could have been glass breaking, '' that kind of thing ?

now don't go foreshadowing here, let this play out

psst: wanna be my lawyer?

 

[butters]

AND do you dream in colour' ?

that was covered under 'senses'

i could have gone back to bump the old threads on this but with new people around thought a fresh one would do

 

[Armyvet23]

I dream a lot, mostly about friends and deceased family members, some bad but most good.

 

[butters]

I dream a lot, mostly about friends and deceased family members, some bad but most good.

so how do you actually experience the dreams? sound/colours/touch/taste that kind of thing.

are you intensely emotionally involved in them or do they pan out more like a movie you are watching but are less invested in?

do you see yourself, your own body in them, or is the viewpoint always as if you are looking out through your own eyes?

do the dreams, or the emotional impact they create, evaporate as you wake up or do they hang around to impact on your day?

 

[rae121452]

i have a really complicated dream life. all of my life i've dreamed very vividly, i have dreams that involve taste, smell, taste, colors, pain. sometimes i have dreams about composing music (i'm probably tone deaf in real life) and can remember the music when i wake up.

i have recurrent dreams that unfold almost like the chapters in a novel. they take place in a cityscape that is not any place i've ever been. i wind up in buildings that i don't ever remember being in. i also dream myself in different eras. i had a log running series that took place at the end of and after ww2. i also dream of parts of my town that i am in that are completely changed in nature.

i dream that i'm other people, male and female. i dream a lot about the past but it's not the past as i lived through it. about 40 years ago, my sister who lives in another state and i were having very similar dreams. never did figure that one out.

the worst thing is, i sometimes have dreams so vivid that i'm not sure if the events actually happened or if i just dreamt them.

i should add that i almost never have nightmares. when i do they always involve injured animals, me being lost or me fighting with someone physically.

 

[butters]

i have a really complicated dream life. all of my life i've dreamed very vividly, i have dreams that involve taste, smell, taste, colors, pain. sometimes i have dreams about composing music (i'm probably tone deaf in real life) and can remember the music when i wake up.

i have recurrent dreams that unfold almost like the chapters in a novel. they take place in a cityscape that is not any place i've ever been. i wind up in buildings that i don't ever remember being in. i also dream myself in different eras. i had a log running series that took place at the end of and after ww2. i also dream of parts of my town that i am in that are completely changed in nature.

i dream that i'm other people, male and female. i dream a lot about the past but it's not the past as i lived through it. about 40 years ago, my sister who lives in another sister and i were having very similar dreams. never did figure that one out.

the worst thing is, i sometimes have dreams so vivid that i'm not sure if the events actually happened or if i just dreamt them.

it's exhausting, sometimes, isn't it? like living whole other lives in the course of a night or several nights. my nights are so busy sometimes i wake up freakin tired!

seems to me you need to write down all this incredible material your dreams are giving you... perhaps a book? and if you wake up recalling the music, can you get that down?

you're like me inasmuch as we're not restricted to the person/body we inhabit now but imagination allows us to slip into others without difficulty. i believe that helps build empathy with other people as we're not restricted to seeing things just through the one prism.

when you are someone else, are you still there in their heads doing the thinking/reacting, or are you a passive passenger as you record all they feel/think/experience? or maybe not even aware of yourself as a separate id to the person in the dream at all?

has the way you experience these dreams changed over time at all? do the qualities of the dreams change if you read/write/use some artistic outlet more?

 

[Ziggins]

When I remembered more of my dreams, I tended to have bare sketches that could become stories, such as walking on an unfamiliar rural road. Once I was walking with someone in my own neighborhood but we went too far and faced pitch darkness going back.

 

[KeithD]

I think I dream about a third of the time. My deep-state dreams tend to be from my government career, which ended some twenty-three years ago. They can get a little hairy, as my career was with U.S. intelligence, about half the time abroad and most of the time "specialized." In my later drifting in and drifting out stage of dreaming, my muse is often dropping erotica story ideas, which then I write up and post here and to the marketplace.

 

[butters]

When I remembered more of my dreams, I tended to have bare sketches that could become stories, such as walking on an unfamiliar rural road. Once I was walking with someone in my own neighborhood but we went too far and faced pitch darkness going back.

but do you remember how you experience them? how synchronised are they with your everyday senses?

do you ever use the material your brain's giving you in your dreams to flesh out and write? maybe you 'see' them more like watching a movie?

I think I dream about a third of the time. My deep-state dreams tend to be from my government career, which ended some twenty-three years ago. They can get a little hairy, as my career was with U.S. intelligence, about half the time abroad and most of the time "specialized." In my later drifting in and drifting out stage of dreaming, my muse is often dropping erotica story ideas, which then I write up and post here and to the marketplace.

again, what about the senses in all this and do they follow what actually happened or do they give alternate versions/outcomes?

your muse is keeping itself (and you) nicely busy. i've not infrequently been in that drifting state and had to get up to jot down a line, a phrase, even a complete poem that will remain largely unedited. when we get out of the way with conscious thoughts, don't you think our brains competent suggestions can be heard better?

 

[Lazaran]

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I had two lucid dreams in my life that I remembered. Both times they resulted in something far beyond deja vu many years after the dreams occurred.

I now refer to them as glimpses of my future.

I haven't had one in a loooooong time, which is both a comfort and a worry.

 

[KeithD]

again, what about the senses in all this and do they follow what actually happened or do they give alternate versions/outcomes?

Most often, to the extent I remember the dream, they dwelled on frustrating elements of what was happening at the time--and they don't get resolved in the dream any better than they did in real life.

 

[butters]

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I had two lucid dreams in my life that I remembered. Both times they resulted in something far beyond deja vu many years after the dreams occurred.

I now refer to them as glimpses of my future.

I haven't had one in a loooooong time, which is both a comfort and a worry.

sounds fascinating!

deja vu is linked with the timing of receiving sensory input and the subconscious and then conscious processing, isn't it? my one real experience of it was very banal, involving visiting a sister and spaghetti. that sens of reliving something i'd already dreamt of, though, made me feel physically ill.

perhaps there is something here relating to the theory of folding time, where your senses were able to travel a-b while your brain was in sleep-mode

given your post, i'm assuming you were in your own body in these dreams? even so, at the same time, did your consciousness ever slip outside to see your own body doing what it was? if so, was that through some sort of view akin to a camera-angle, or temporarily seeing yourself through the eyes of another in the dream?

'a comfort or a worry'... maybe it's on a 'need to know, only' basis

what about your other dreams? are they very sensory-aware? do they leave emotional scars or happy places?

 

[butters]

Most often, to the extent I remember the dream, they dwelled on frustrating elements of what was happening at the time--and they don't get resolved in the dream any better than they did in real life.

yikes. sorry

 

[Lazaran]

sounds fascinating!

deja vu is linked with the timing of receiving sensory input and the subconscious and then conscious processing, isn't it? my one real experience of it was very banal, involving visiting a sister and spaghetti. that sens of reliving something i'd already dreamt of, though, made me feel physically ill.

perhaps there is something here relating to the theory of folding time, where your senses were able to travel a-b while your brain was in sleep-mode

given your post, i'm assuming you were in your own body in these dreams? even so, at the same time, did your consciousness ever slip outside to see your own body doing what it was? if so, was that through some sort of view akin to a camera-angle, or temporarily seeing yourself through the eyes of another in the dream?

'a comfort or a worry'... maybe it's on a 'need to know, only' basis

what about your other dreams? are they very sensory-aware? do they leave emotional scars or happy places?

The lucid dreams were totally first person and they were impossible to differentiate from real life, except I don't remember there being sound, smell or touch. Just crystal clear vision. It was like being along for the ride in my own body.

The first of the two dreams involved driving behind a futuristic looking car on a mega highway. At the time of the lucid dream I thought something was weird about the dream, but because I didn't drive at the time, coupled with the size of the highway and the futuristic car, I wrote it off as just an intense dream. Because I wasn't driving at the time, I guesstimated my age at about 16. The "event" or re-enactment of my lucid dream occurred on a trip to California to visit my brother when I was 30, and EVERYTHING was exactly like my dream. The highway, the car, how the car I was following changed lanes right as I was changing lanes, EVERYTHING. What was really crazy, was that even after we exited the highway the car still stayed in front of me on the surface streets all the way until I arrived at my brother's condo. The car belonged to one of my brother's neighbors who he was friends with.

The second "event" was much more mundane but very comical. I was sitting in a conference room getting ready to sign a mortgage when it hit me and the reenactment started. In my lucid dream I was at a conference table with a bunch of strangers and for some reason I looked over my left shoulder and saw a picture of a sailing ship on the wall behind me. In the real life event I got really freaked out but maintained my composure and calmly looked over my left shoulder, and sure enough, there was the exact same picture of the sailing ship. It was so startling that I suddenly let out a little bark of a laugh. Everyone in the room stopped what they were doing and looked at the crazy person, but I just played it off as nothing.

I've always wondered what would have happened if I hadn't looked over my shoulder. In the first event I consciously tried to avoid following the car. Unfortunately, I HAD to get in the correct lane for my exit, and it was like fate or destiny wouldn't allow me NOT to follow the car, because traffic only opened up enough at certain times for both of us to get into our exit lane. In the conference room, I'm guessing I had no choice but to look over my shoulder because in some connected reality, I had already done it.

My scientific explanation is that somehow your DNA provides a connection between your present self and your future self. I've come to this conclusion because I only experienced MY future. Obviously you would have to be alive in the future to complete the connection and have an experience to transmit back to your present self.

I think it may be similar to people who claim to have experienced past lives, or people who have prophesized the future. If they have a past ancestor, or a future relative, their DNA connection may allow them to glimpse bits and pieces of their relatives lives via lucid dreaming. Some people might be naturally more prone to lucid dreaming which could explain their imcreased reporting of these types of events. Nostradamus anyone???

 

[rae121452]

does anyone ever have dreams where they try to tell themselves that it's just a dream? it's an uncomfortable situation, you tell yourself you're dreaming but it's so realistic that you can't pull out of it? and if you do manage to do so, you fall right back to sleep in the same dream so that you're not sure which is reality? i fucking hate that! sometimes, if i can manage it, the only thing that pulls me awake is to sit up in bed. and even that doesn't always work, sometimes i have no muscle control in th dream so i can't even sit up.

 

[rae121452]

it's exhausting, sometimes, isn't it? like living whole other lives in the course of a night or several nights. my nights are so busy sometimes i wake up freakin tired!

seems to me you need to write down all this incredible material your dreams are giving you... perhaps a book? and if you wake up recalling the music, can you get that down?

you're like me inasmuch as we're not restricted to the person/body we inhabit now but imagination allows us to slip into others without difficulty. i believe that helps build empathy with other people as we're not restricted to seeing things just through the one prism.

when you are someone else, are you still there in their heads doing the thinking/reacting, or are you a passive passenger as you record all they feel/think/experience? or maybe not even aware of yourself as a separate id to the person in the dream at all?

has the way you experience these dreams changed over time at all? do the qualities of the dreams change if you read/write/use some artistic outlet more?

i have used dreams as the plot elements for stories and i often wake up and think, "that would make a great play/novel/story." i'm totally not musical so i can't notate my dreams-keith richard does, though. he said that's how he discovered the licks for 'honky tonk woman'.

when i'm someone else, it's like being two people. i'm aware of myself and that i'm not that person but i have their feelings and reactions. this is especially upsetting if i dream i'm female because i really like being a man.

i don't think they've change over time. i still have at least one morning a week where i wake up thinking, "what the fuck was that? was that real? who am i?".

 

[KeithD]

does anyone ever have dreams where they try to tell themselves that it's just a dream?

Yep. I also try to go back to sleep with the intent in mind to change where the dream is going. I don't remember that ever having worked, though.

 

[Ziggins]

but do you remember how you experience them? how synchronised are they with your everyday senses? maybe you 'see' them more like watching a movie?

Mostly sight and words or thoughts. I don't recall ever hearing sound in a dream.

 

[jomar]

I lucid dream all the time. Don’t like the the way it’s going I’ll stop the action an go in a different direction.

I’ve also ha vivid dreams that seem to inform. Like once when I was getting a business off the ground I dreamed of being at sea. A storm came, the boat was tossed about and finally sank, but I popped safely to the surface with a raft and the storm cleared and the sea calmed. I interpreted it to mean that there was going to be some tough times but things would work out fine. And they did!

 

[hobbit.]

now don't go foreshadowing here, let this play out

psst: wanna be my lawyer?

depends, is it cash in hand and is there the death penalty ? if yes then i sure do.

 

[butters]

i'll be back later or tomorrow to reply

 

[Saint_Ann]

i'll be back later or tomorrow to reply

We can hardly wait.

Last night I dreamt about an African American special needs boy who turned out to be homeless and I was trying to locate his parents, if any. At one point I had to pee and fortunately I woke because I really had to pee.