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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: DrunkenAfficianado on August 13, 2013, 03:14 am
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Hello. 8)
This is a thread for Dreams, Dream Signs, Lucid Dreaming, Steven La Berge info, fear, horror, sex, reoccurring night mares, reoccurring nice dreams, the various effects of chemicals on your dreams, etc.
Anything at all to do with your dreams---
Why!?!
Because I find this stuff interesting and real dreams are too weird to make up, and you can kind of tell when it is real....
So that is why.
Thanks.
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Self-bumping with the first post.
I have a reoccurring dream that is not a nightmare. And it only reoccurs when I am dreaming, I do not wake up the next morning and say, "Oh, that dream", I can only be aware that the dream is reoccurring WHEN I AM ALREADY ASLEEP.
Then I am like, "Ah, I have been here before. I wonder why it has taken so long to get back?"
And the reoccurring dream is in bright afternoon daylight and in color, and I am driving on a very complex interstate in maybe a transparent car, though the method of movement is not that big of part of it, instead the crux of the dream is a see a distant interchange that I need to get to but have never used before, sometimes if I successfully navigate the transition I end up in a geography at a different time of day on a highway that I actually have driven on in real life and the entire scope of the dream then skews into the narrative and environment of the new story until it transmutes again or I have a false or real awakening.
So I guess I am describing some meta-tool that I have experienced in getting through the transition from one dream to another. :o
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On nightmarish horror..... ;D
I am not afraid of things like Freddie Kruger when I sleep. I do wake up with the falling dream, but this is not the usual nature of my personal nightmare.
The worst nightmare I ever had was early in an extremely ugly break-up, which devolved further over the next five years. It was before I consciously knew any of the actual facts, but somehow my subconscious knew, and I had the worst nightmare I ever had.
This would have been around almost 20 years ago in 1995. Again, I dreamed in color and light but this time, the color was extremely wrong, and the dream undulating around me but also in the person of a large snake creature bigger than me and humanoid but also snaking. It was like nothing so much as having the Universe XXI card from the Crowley Tarot open before me and being pulled into it from a normal apartment stairway, and I could only get out the other side I could not wake up until it was time.
The next 20 years would be a living nightmare beyond the norm, and I wish I had of gone insane and lost coherence; instead it was like a literal slow motion amputation.
Now there is nothing I encounter that is in anyway disturbing in terms of fear. Perhaps getting old is simply losing all healthy fear.
Cause I don't fear, sickness, poverty, or death anywhere as much as having to ever live those twenty years over again. And that dream presaged it, and having told myself that a true major shit storm was in the process of hitting, did any kind of fore knowledge keep even the smallest terrible event from occurring?
No. Other than some argument for "catharsis" brought about by an appreciation of insane horror-- no-- all I can say is in this case it exacerbated the suffering in those life events.
Any other comments appreciated.... feel free to share.
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On the experience of music in dreams.....
I have had a dream where I woke up and remember having heard Beck's "Jack-Ass" during a dream about a firing line at a rifle range during a picnic, and when I awoke, I remembered the song but didn't know whichy one it was, so I had to surf through the discography until I found the track.
That is the one time I have heard someone else's music in my dreams unless I am already partially awake, and some how drift back off humming the Stones.
Otherwise, when I hear music in my dreams, I try to wake up and record it and get it down on tape or cell phone or computer.... then I totally forget the inspiration, and then I rediscover the pieces long after and only remember exactly where the tune came from maybe 65%
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Interesting... I have some pretty crazy dreams and do enjoy dreaming very much. When I was growing up I usually only had nightmares, or no dreams at all. Now that my dreams are all happy/fun/interesting/thoughtful (other than the occasional bad thing) I find myself wishing that they were real. I have a sleeping disorder, but when I sleep it is so deep that it practically becomes my reality. When I wake up, I feel like I have been gone for years. Sometimes I am relieved that my dreams weren't my reality, and sometimes I feel a deep sadness for the same reason (I get over it by breakfast). Have you ever felt extremely strong love for someone else in your dreams? That is the most disappointing thing to wake up from :'( Isn't it weird how you are happy to wake up form a bad dream and then sad to wake up from a good one? I guess it can be vice-versa in some situations.