Your Dreams

[mafalda]

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Do you usually remember your dreams? Do you have any recurring dreams or nightmares? Do they usually make sense? What was your strangest dream like?

I think dreams are a very interesting subject. I'd like to know more about them, actually. How to interpret them and maybe make use of them. Well, if you know anything about this, i'd really like to hear about it. And about your dreams too. Our dreams seem to be almost always odd :)

[Zooey]

I wish I remembered my dreams more. I too, for some odd reason, have suddenly become fascinated with dreams as of late. You've reminded me, I wanted to read up on it a little.

I wanted to recommend to you a movie I saw recently called Waking Life. Fascinating movie on life and dreams (though be warned, it's all people just having conversations), but it was done by filming the movie and then going over every frame of the movie animating it on the computer. It's very dream-like in effect. If you can get your hands on it, I recommend it.

Here's a quote I really liked from the movie. So very true!

"I wake up and it's 10:12, and I go back to sleep and I have these long, intricate, beautiful dream that seem to last for hours. And then I wake up and it's...10:13."

[Sam Gamgee]

Actually, I have "role-play" dreams all the time (I remember a dream at least twice a week). They are like nightmare to me because things will happen such as this: Once I was Sam Gamgee on the second quest to destroy the ring [? - dreams don't make sense] but Frodo REFUSED to help me. I went through dangers like a cafateria with a lot of people, but the whole time I was upset, and I woke up feeling not too good. The weird thing is, I have a tendency to dream the most when I wake up at 7:30 and then snooze 'til 7:40 - and they say that Dreaming is the deepest kind of sleep!

[cindylouwho]

I have ODD dreams and I usually always remember them. I am very fascinated with the meanings of dreams. I always heard about people dreaming that their teeth were falling out and then one night I dreamed that. I think it means something about a major problem is going to come to an end or something. Anyway, I think dreams are very cool. They allow me to do things that I can't (or won't) do in reality.

[Shea]

Hey! Check out Chaucer's, The Nun's Priest's Tale from the Canterbury tales. It's the story of the rooster, Chanteclier (sp?) who has a premanatory dream about being snatched by a fox. I wonder how much our subcontious minds pick up of our surroundings without us knowing it.

I once fell asleep as soon as I got home from work one night and I dreamed that I was still waiting tables. I was getting ready to give a customer their change which I read on the ticket as $2.47. That may not seem so odd, but I happened to wake up that moment and found that I was facing my digital clock that read 2:47! I also tend to sleep with my eyes open. :o

My favorite dreams are my flying dreams. Everytime I wake from those, I feel so refreshed! I've had 4 of them that I can recall since I was 4-years-old. I feel like I had more, but I can't remember them, however I vividly see that first one with the Jim Henson puppets 18 years ago...

[MarsMonster]

i dream often and most of my dreams could be used to write a book about.
i dream when i am awake all the time i dream when i am asleep, and lately i even dream while in class taking notes. i just go some place else and keep taking notes like a typing machine, i write everything but my mind is somewhere else. i call this dreaming because i feel that is what it is, and i know i can't control it. sometimes i just catch myself and sometimes i don't even remember what i was thinking about
but as for dreams when i am asleep, they are usually connected with what's happening in my life. and sometimes when i am really tired and confused like when something that i don't know what to think about happens late in the evening, then i have some unexplainably weird dreams. like a floatin city that looks like a melted candle and people in it who are forced to work or something and me who is just observing, and then i get out walking on air and i see a man get killed next to me. i had this dream a few nights ago.
i also dream of drowning often. the silly thing is that i really don't breathe when i'm 'drowning' and i wake up taking a lllloooooong breath and feeling the lack of oxygen, but while dreaming i tend to prolong the feeling as much as possible because somehow i know i will wake up. and it feels good. maybe because i love water.

[Shea]

Ugh! :x I just had the most horrid dream. I'm not given to having nighmares, I can't remember the ones I've had before this. It was kind of a cross between "The Fly" and "Resident Evil". These weren't two movies that I had been wanting to see; roommates in my past were watching them. I didn't like them at all. Anyway, I don't know what part I played in the dream, but I observed an experiment gone wrong and all these zombie people came bursting out of a chamber. As I ran, I found myself carefully checking supermarket aisles so I grabbed a long knife from somewhere, stuck it in my belt and darted gingerly across a six lane busy highway.

The worst of all this was coming out of the dream, I'm staying with my Grandmother to take care of her for a short while (oh, I'm speaking reality here, but she so meddlesome it seems a nightmare that I wish I could wake from). The phone rang, and she forgot take it with her from her room to the kitchen. So, I went from crossing a busy six lane highway in flight of zombies, to jumping up from my grandmothers calls to answer the absurdly loud phone. :o

By the way, MarsMonster, do you get enough sleep at night? I hope you don't drive a car in that state!

[Koa]

I've been told that we dream every night, just we don't always remember it. Well, i hardly ever remember my dreams, it's very very rare for me to...

Wanna know my weirdest dream ever??? It was a long time ago, maybe 3 years, but i remember it quite well cos it was so striking that i wrote it down (btw, i know people who write down their dreams in a notebook to keep them...). Well, i dreamed that i was invisible and i saw John Lennon (!!!! :o why him??? I'm not a fan and i hadn't heard anything about him in the previous days...weird, so weird!), with a woman whom i didnt exactly recognise but i inferred to be Yoko Ono (well, who else?)...And he wanted to destroy the world because it sucks, with one of those elctric things that are used to cut trees, i dont know the word in english...So i was hiding behind a chair in my house...But even if i was invisible, Yoko saw me and they started chasing me, and i ran away down the stairs that lead to the undergrund part of the building (i live in a block of flats)...
It was very very scary, but i interpreted it...because it was soon after a very unhappy period of my life, and i think that if the same dream would have occurred a few months before, i wouldnt have struggled so much nit to be killed...It was maybe a kind of sign of a return to life.
Though i still wonder: WHY John Lennon???? :o

[Shea]

The strangest dream that I've ever had... you sure you want to try and make sense of it, I can't. I was driving to a medeival style restaurant and I was to meet my mom there. I was up north, and there was snow on the ground. I saw my mom's car come out from behind a building at an intersection and just before she made the turn, she gave me a funny look and turn the car around to go back in where she came from. She came back out a moment later standing on a sled, holding onto some reigns that were attached to a saint bernard. To top it off the dog was wearing a Robin Hood style hat with a giant fluffy feather sticking out of it!

I thought that was pretty neat, so soon I was also holding a pair of reigns and had a big floppy feather bouncing in front of my face! As we neared the restaurant I was wondering how we would get the sleds to the door, the sidewalk being shoveled. So I watched my mom and as she came to the end of the snow, her sled turned into a skateboard and sure enough, so did mine! There was valet parking, so they hung the skateboards on hooks, and took the dogs to the kennel. Then I woke up.

Now that I think about it, although my mom had her "wild days", she changed her life and became an excellent roll model for me. I always try to follow her example and listen to her advice. She's made a lot of mistakes in her past and I love that she freely shares them with me so that I can learn from hers instead of making them all over again. I guess whatever she does now is what I want to do.

By the way Koa, I think John Lenon was trying to destroy the world with a chain saw.

[MarsMonster]

By the way, MarsMonster, do you get enough sleep at night? I hope you don't drive a car in that state!

i get enough sleep. most of the times i don't want to wake up because i like the dream and YES i do drive the car in that state so CITIZENS OF BELGRADE BEWARE!

[Shea]

I had a friend who really did once drive a car in her sleep! She was given to sleepwalking. She drove for probably around 40 min juging by how much gas she used. Good thing she made it home safely!

[MarsMonster]

now, that's scary

i don't sleepwalk (thank god). but sometimes early in the morning or late in the evening i dream that i should get ready to go somewhere, meet someone, so i go to the bathroom and get half-dressed or once i even put my makeup on, and then i realize that i am too tired to go there where i am supposed to go, and go back to sleep. in the morning i wake up half dressed or even fully dressed with my make up on. scary at least untill i remember what i was dreaming about.

[Sam Gamgee]

I have a relative who was known to climb around on the roof and even once chopped wood in his sleep! - scary

[MarsMonster]

i had a cat that barked in its sleap. how scary is that?

[Sam Gamgee]

My sister makes UNEARTHLY noises - and they scare me - although I think a cat barking would be worse