what really sucks is when your brain decides to combine horrible nightmares with false awakening
that's a fucking circle of hell, right there
yeah, that kind of crap can just go fuck off. Seriously. It feels like you're stuck in some psychotic film you can't escape. The worst part is how episodes like that usually leave me feeling not rested at all. It's like, what was the point of going to bed? Because now I just got to experience a bunch of bad shit and I still feel tired.
looking back on my dreams they always seem like they're pretty much auto-pilot, but that's my conscious self looking back on hazy memories of an unconscious world that i'm pretty sure was fairly vivid and detailed, so i think i might have more control than i give myself credit for. still nothing where i'd definitely say i knew i was dreaming and (sub???)consciously manipulated that fact. except i was aware of when the ocean in my dream was suddenly a desert, though whether i actually knew it was a dream i'm not sure. i think it was maybe something like what weaver said:
Mine are self correcting. If I run into something in the dream that draws my attention to the dream, I'm briefly aware that I'm dreaming, just long enough for the problem to correct itself and allow the story to continue. Then back to cruise control.
I'm fine with letting my dreams take their course. I very very rarely ever have night terrors or sleep paralysis or nasty dreams anymore. They're vivid and fantastic and wild and fun. Last night I was traipsing through the Italian countryside with my lady and it felt real.
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
Had one about two or three months ago, boating in some Louisiana marshland with folk I knew back in my early 20's. Mosquitoes were horrible.
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Raneadospolice apologistyou shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered Userregular
I haven't lucid dreamed in a while, but my dreams tend to be really awesome without it
I can usually do at least something cool, but I'm never like "oh this must be a dream" these days
I've often wondered what it is about dreams that makes us not question them
like a duck could fart its way inside the space shuttle you're on and kick the pilot in the face and say WE'RE GOING TO THAILAND FUCKERS and then ram the joystick through the floor
and all you'd think is "oh no do I have a passport that's good for thailand"
instead of your brain exploding from everything that's going on
IS there a name for the process where we just accept everything that's going on in a dream as normal?
I've had false awakenings. Problem is, I can from time to time have these freakishly detailed dreams, so I literally don't know if I'm awake or asleep, even if I'm aware at the time that I'm *probably* asleep. So I have this "is this the real one" moments and then bam! I wake up. But I'm still asleep. I usually do this four or five times until I wake up for real.
Every time I try to read text in a dream goes exactly like that Batman episode where Mad Hatter has him in a dream world and the text falls apart when he tries to read it
complete with my horrified reaction and everyone else in the dream totally not noticing anything wrong
Are we still on really disturbing dreams? I could list a whole bunch of these since I have them really regularly but last night's was of some crazy guy ripping the arms off everyone on a train I was on (in the dream).
Then I realised the crazy guy was me and I woke up.
This is fairly standard for my dreams.
I have some other really interesting but not exactly disturbing reocurring dreams that I have every so often. One is about every 2 months, the other I've had about twice a year for maybe 9 years now. Some of them are exactly the same, and some of them are a little different every time. One of them changes the people in the dream as my friends have changed (so people I don't see as much anymore are replaced by new friends I've met recently, etc), there was even an extra spot in the dream for the three years I was dating my ex, then the first time I had it after that there wasn't anyone in that place.
I haven't lucid dreamed in a while, but my dreams tend to be really awesome without it
I can usually do at least something cool, but I'm never like "oh this must be a dream" these days
I've often wondered what it is about dreams that makes us not question them
like a duck could fart its way inside the space shuttle you're on and kick the pilot in the face and say WE'RE GOING TO THAILAND FUCKERS and then ram the joystick through the floor
and all you'd think is "oh no do I have a passport that's good for thailand"
instead of your brain exploding from everything that's going on
IS there a name for the process where we just accept everything that's going on in a dream as normal?
there probably is because
if you showed a two-year old kid that you could fly, he would be stoked, but it wouldn't be crazy to him because grownups do all kinds of crazy things like cook and shave and drive cars
but if you showed your mom the same trick she would die
also I've always been able to read text in dreams but I think it's because when I read I read big clumps of text and just kind of snatch out meaning instead of individual words so I don't have to build the whole words
the last time we had a thread about lucid dreaming somebody came in pissing all over it, all "Lucid Dreaming is BORING!! I've done it and it's not so great"
and I thought jesus christ that has the be the perfect litmus test for a boring person, if you find a personal universe of limitless possibility and creation to be some boring ol bullshit
I got home from work the other day and stripped down to a pair of shorts and tshirt and took a quick nap on my bed. I woke up to my sister was trying to wake me up telling me something happened to mom and dad and that we needed to go. I figured out it was a dream without moving because I was wearing a sweatshirt all of a sudden and I never do that. I told her that this was a dream and she needed to back the fuck off and let me sleep and that she would have to hit me in the face for it not to be a dream.
I find if I fall asleep with the TV on, bits of the shows playing in the background will seep into whatever dream I'm having. Few weeks ago I guess I fell asleep with Adult Swim on, because I distinctly recall Hank Hill showing up in the dream (I couldn't tell you what happened, I've forgotten the dream at this point).
Anyone have dreams that are 'silent' as there's no sound, but you still act and think in the dream like you can hear people talking and sounds going on around you, but you don't actually hear anything and when you go to speak you can't (sometimes. mostly in nightmares)?
Every time I try to read text in a dream goes exactly like that Batman episode where Mad Hatter has him in a dream world and the text falls apart when he tries to read it
complete with my horrified reaction and everyone else in the dream totally not noticing anything wrong
I virtually never have nightmares (which I'm grateful for), only last night was an exception:
I was in a house in a forest with something that looked mostly human but wasn't quite - it was too tall and its skin was too mangled. There was no colour, only shades of grey. Near the house there was a narrow tunnel in a unnaturally flat stone surface, with perfectly smooth walls and pitch black inside. The human thing had found it long before I arrived, and they'd gone inside only to find it terminated a few meters in. The wall at the other end was warm. We lived in the house for a long time, reading in the library and exploring the forest, but occaisonally we would return to the tunnel to find it had grown taller which worried us (I get the feeling we were supposed to be watching it). Occaisonally we would enter the tunnel again, and each time the back of the tunnel grew further away from the entrance, and each time the trip took longer and longer until we walked in absolute blackness for hours at a time.
It's difficult to explain exactly why this was really disturbing without sound or images, but I still have some extremely vivid pictures in my head.
Lucid dreaming is awesome because there's some horrible nightmare happening and you're like, "Wwwwwwait a minute, axe-wielding zombie version of my mom: I'm fucking out of here."
Then you spend the rest of the dream dipping in and out of clouds, flying at high speed.
A few nights ago I dreamt my sister had somehow reverted to being 6 years old and we had to take acid together for a research experiment.
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Lucid dreaming is the best thing ever. Fucking flying, man. It's always so disappointing when you wake up and it's like oh yeah I don't have control over the real world, I'm not invincible and I can't fly.
I had a pretty cool Silent Hill inspired dream last night. I have a dream journal that's gotten very long but I've been too busy to update it recently, I really need to get on that.
Every time I try to read text in a dream goes exactly like that Batman episode where Mad Hatter has him in a dream world and the text falls apart when he tries to read it
complete with my horrified reaction and everyone else in the dream totally not noticing anything wrong
I read things in dreams perfectly, myself
also, I've died in dreams
I die in dreams all the time
One of the worst dreams I've ever had ended with me being shot in the head, execution-style
The shot itself hurt like a bitch for the briefest instant, but the worst part was the moment or two of complete silence and blackness that followed
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kind of reminds me of http://www.powernapcomic.com/
I'm fine with letting my dreams take their course. I very very rarely ever have night terrors or sleep paralysis or nasty dreams anymore. They're vivid and fantastic and wild and fun. Last night I was traipsing through the Italian countryside with my lady and it felt real.
I can usually do at least something cool, but I'm never like "oh this must be a dream" these days
I've often wondered what it is about dreams that makes us not question them
like a duck could fart its way inside the space shuttle you're on and kick the pilot in the face and say WE'RE GOING TO THAILAND FUCKERS and then ram the joystick through the floor
and all you'd think is "oh no do I have a passport that's good for thailand"
instead of your brain exploding from everything that's going on
IS there a name for the process where we just accept everything that's going on in a dream as normal?
...creepy
I looked around and saw my desk lamp sitting on a table
then a hand came out of nowhere and turned it off, plunging me into darkness
then I woke up and discovered I'd left my lamp on and the bulb burned out
http://www.powernapcomic.com
complete with my horrified reaction and everyone else in the dream totally not noticing anything wrong
Then I realised the crazy guy was me and I woke up.
This is fairly standard for my dreams.
I have some other really interesting but not exactly disturbing reocurring dreams that I have every so often. One is about every 2 months, the other I've had about twice a year for maybe 9 years now. Some of them are exactly the same, and some of them are a little different every time. One of them changes the people in the dream as my friends have changed (so people I don't see as much anymore are replaced by new friends I've met recently, etc), there was even an extra spot in the dream for the three years I was dating my ex, then the first time I had it after that there wasn't anyone in that place.
there probably is because
if you showed a two-year old kid that you could fly, he would be stoked, but it wouldn't be crazy to him because grownups do all kinds of crazy things like cook and shave and drive cars
but if you showed your mom the same trick she would die
and I thought jesus christ that has the be the perfect litmus test for a boring person, if you find a personal universe of limitless possibility and creation to be some boring ol bullshit
Basically I just prevented inception.
Coran Attack!
Anyone have dreams that are 'silent' as there's no sound, but you still act and think in the dream like you can hear people talking and sounds going on around you, but you don't actually hear anything and when you go to speak you can't (sometimes. mostly in nightmares)?
also, I've died in dreams
my father texted me to say "haha that's awesome lemme send you some cash so you can get me some bombs"
then I evaded the police and got on a bus and they had a picture of me to identify me but I scrunched up my face so they didn't make the connection
A monster dream with awful special effects.
I'm not sure how many times I woke up and fell back to sleep
it seemed like my train of thought carried through dreams and waking up and dreaming again
lemme tell you it is so depressing to wake up in the morning and realize that you are not in fact a spooky skeleton wizard
I was in a house in a forest with something that looked mostly human but wasn't quite - it was too tall and its skin was too mangled. There was no colour, only shades of grey. Near the house there was a narrow tunnel in a unnaturally flat stone surface, with perfectly smooth walls and pitch black inside. The human thing had found it long before I arrived, and they'd gone inside only to find it terminated a few meters in. The wall at the other end was warm. We lived in the house for a long time, reading in the library and exploring the forest, but occaisonally we would return to the tunnel to find it had grown taller which worried us (I get the feeling we were supposed to be watching it). Occaisonally we would enter the tunnel again, and each time the back of the tunnel grew further away from the entrance, and each time the trip took longer and longer until we walked in absolute blackness for hours at a time.
It's difficult to explain exactly why this was really disturbing without sound or images, but I still have some extremely vivid pictures in my head.
Then you spend the rest of the dream dipping in and out of clouds, flying at high speed.
A few nights ago I dreamt my sister had somehow reverted to being 6 years old and we had to take acid together for a research experiment.
I had a pretty cool Silent Hill inspired dream last night. I have a dream journal that's gotten very long but I've been too busy to update it recently, I really need to get on that.
Anyone else keep a dream journal?
I do not know why
The more fantastic and impossible the better.
She's stealing your friend from you!
I die in dreams all the time
One of the worst dreams I've ever had ended with me being shot in the head, execution-style
The shot itself hurt like a bitch for the briefest instant, but the worst part was the moment or two of complete silence and blackness that followed
The emptiness terrified me
so I hit the hot key sequence to exit warcraft 3 and woke up
Hmm. Maybe try spinning in place?