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arachnophilia
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Message 16 of 27 (450349)
01-21-2008 5:01 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by CK
01-21-2008 5:24 AM


Here's a recurring one - I know I can fly but I can only manage to get a few feet off the ground and it takes great effort.
huh. i guess that's pretty common...

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arachnophilia
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Message 17 of 27 (450350)
01-21-2008 5:02 PM
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01-21-2008 6:04 AM


Re: Anyone else experienced this...
Over the past few months I have had several dreams where I have become aware that background speech, incidental to the dream 'topic', has actually been gibberish - e.g. presenter on TV that happens to be on, public speaking, etc. This has alerted me to the fact that I am dreaming - my brain is simply not filling in the detail - and I've usualy woken at this point. The question is: has this always been the case and I've just not noticed this before, or is my brain losing the capability to fill in such detail as it is getting older
what's interesting to me is that i can always read and understand things in dreams. but when i wake up, and try to remember, it turns into gibberish.


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arachnophilia
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Message 18 of 27 (450352)
01-21-2008 5:07 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by molbiogirl
01-21-2008 4:31 PM


Re: Hot off the Presses
One dream was a black and white movie of a train chugging down some tracks. It was a MOVIE. Flickering, jumpy frames, the whole nine.
Another was a 2D world. A 2D girl living in an empty 2D room. Omigod, it was so cool.
it's funny, i've heard about people dreaming in black and white and such. never been able to do it. which is strange, because i spent several years taking only b+w photographs, so it was for a while how i saw the world...


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Message 19 of 27 (450361)
01-21-2008 5:30 PM
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01-21-2008 5:07 PM


Re: Hot off the Presses
it's funny, i've heard about people dreaming in black and white and such. never been able to do it. which is strange, because i spent several years taking only b+w photographs, so it was for a while how i saw the world...
Well, it hasn't happened since.
Another was over an hour long. It was a series of different cartoons. Each segment done in a different cartoon style.
(I know it was over an hour long because I took note of the time before and after. Like I said, I wasn't properly asleep. More like "not there" because of the intense pain.)
Another was a color movie projected on the white wall facing my bed. I saw a window with rolling green hills outside. Then I looked down and saw I was floating, my feet and lower legs very near the window. Just as I started to float outside, I jerked awake in a panic.

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Message 20 of 27 (450363)
01-21-2008 5:32 PM
Reply to: Message 10 by Hyroglyphx
01-21-2008 11:00 AM


Re: Dreamscapes
Its like I remember the mood of whatever it is I am dreaming about, but the details evaporate as I become more awake.
Try writing them down as soon as you wake, whatever you remember. That may help 'train' your memory.
I don't know if its because of the military, that I now possess the ability to wake up and be ready very quickly,
I've always woken up that way. It also makes it difficult to sleep in, even when tired.
Enjoy.

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Message 21 of 27 (450404)
01-21-2008 7:11 PM
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01-21-2008 5:32 PM


Re: Dreamscapes
Try writing them down as soon as you wake, whatever you remember. That may help 'train' your memory.
Yeah, I've thought about it. Just never when I'm getting ready to sleep, especially since I have a bad habit of falling asleep to the tv or a book.
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I don't know if its because of the military, that I now possess the ability to wake up and be ready very quickly
I've always woken up that way. It also makes it difficult to sleep in, even when tired.
Oh man, tell me about it... That's frustrating.

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Message 22 of 27 (450415)
01-21-2008 7:43 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by CK
01-21-2008 5:24 AM


Here's a recurring one - I know I can fly but I can only manage to get a few feet off the ground and it takes great effort.
Or use the Hitchhiker approach -- dive at the ground and miss.
Enjoy.

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Message 23 of 27 (450438)
01-21-2008 9:49 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by arachnophilia
01-21-2008 4:59 PM


Re: two of my typical dreams
there's a third rather common dream i forgot to bring up, the "not knowing my lines" dream. i used to participate in plays and such in school. i'm not sure why, i never really liked it. suffered from stage fright like you wouldn't believe -- guess i did it to get over my fears? but i still have this recurring dream where i'm on stage, and have no idea what the play is, and everyone's waiting for me to deliver lines i've never seen the script for.
This reminds me of another apparently common dream that I don't think has been mentioned yet (I've had it myself a couple of times that I remember and friends have said that they've had it too), the "caught out in public wearing only your underpants" dream. A horrible feeling for sure.
I suspect this and the "forgotten lines" dream all reflect a general fear of being caught in a situation that we are completely unprepared for and cannot control, resulting in humiliation in front of many spectators. I'm also reminded of another dream, the "violently vomiting in the gutter in the middle of an entertainment district on a busy crowded Saturday night while people watching from hotel balconies up above are cheering you on" ... oh wait, that one wasn't a dream

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arachnophilia
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Message 24 of 27 (450443)
01-21-2008 10:04 PM
Reply to: Message 22 by RAZD
01-21-2008 7:43 PM


Or use the Hitchhiker approach -- dive at the ground and miss.
well, the problem with that is that it's very hard to do consciously at first. you have get distracted and totally forget you're falling.


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Message 25 of 27 (450451)
01-21-2008 11:18 PM


Fly like an eagle...
I love to fly in my dreams. It is SUPER easy too. All I do is jump, and then when I am in the air, I jump again, using the air beneath me to push off from. I can just keep jumping and go as high as I want.
It seems so easy and logical in the dream”like a simple property of the physical world. So easy, in fact, that I have sometimes started jumping after I wake up just to see if I ain't missin' out on something in the real world
Jon

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arachnophilia
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Message 26 of 27 (450453)
01-21-2008 11:30 PM
Reply to: Message 25 by Jon
01-21-2008 11:18 PM


Re: Fly like an eagle...
I love to fly in my dreams. It is SUPER easy too. All I do is jump, and then when I am in the air, I jump again, using the air beneath me to push off from.
like a classic videogame double-jump! i've been having videogame dreams recently, including exploiting save points and reloads.


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Message 27 of 27 (461835)
03-28-2008 5:19 AM
Reply to: Message 25 by Jon
01-21-2008 11:18 PM


Re: Fly like an eagle...
The question is, what did you eat before you went to bed??

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