Just woke up from an awesome dream.

[mwkcope]

So yeah,it takesplace in the near future,and I just started dating this girl.One night,I'm walking her home,and some old friends who are now enemies walk out of an alley.One of them shouts,:"Yo,whats up,man!"I stare at him for a second and realize that they have weapons(such as pipes,baseball bats,usual street gang weapons).The guy who appears to be a leader of this gang.He says he wants my girlfriend,and of course,I refuse.Then,they start to try to beat me up,but I kick their asses,Batman style.They run off,and I get my first kiss.

[mad825]

so fear,anger(insecurity) and happiness/sexual urges...

sound likes an outcome because of an personal event.

[The Hylden]

Or, perhaps it's just a dream Dreams can be as random as random gets. Or, as Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

[mad825]

Touché.

I suppose, I shouldn've been more careful

[mwkcope]

Should I delete this thread?

[Nemesis296]

Originally Posted by mad825

sound likes an outcome because of an personal event.

Dream psychology is one thing that is *never* for certain. Sometimes I try to analyze my own dreams and I just end up confusing myself.

Anything can happen in a dream for a variety of reasons. While there are studies that would attempt to prove that certain elements of dreaming are based on real-life experience, I personally do not believe this. Dreams just happen, and most of the time we can't even remember them. It probably is a loosely conjoined experience of our imagination vs. reality. The parts that are from reality are pretty tough to figure out though.

...unless of course people you know are in the dream.

In mwkcope's case, he dreams about Batman all the time I'm sure. It could be that he just wanted Batman to 'get lucky' or what-have-you, instead of being a personal vendetta; he never mentioned anything about the girl and her connection to either the dreamer, or the actions in the dream.

[ThePunkVampire]

.....Wierd....Akward....

[Driber]

Originally Posted by mwkcope

Should I delete this thread?

No, leave it and come back in 20 years and look at what you decided to share with us when you were a teenager

[Lo]

Originally Posted by Driber

No, leave it and come back in 20 years and look at what you decided to share with us when you were a teenager

Oddly, I had a rather bizzare dream recently where I was totally stuck inside a game! I hadn't played any Tomb Raider levels for quite some time but suddenly I slid down this sand dune thingy and I was surrounded by miles of desert and afront me was a shed-like building. Inside the shed was my brother. He was laying down on some craft bench and I couldn't get to him.

The next thing I knew, there was a herd of wild boars heading for me and I tried to open the shed door but it was locked. I was trying to jump up on the shed roof and then a boar ripped into my side with it's teeth and I woke up with pain in my side

It's funny how....when you are in pain during REM sleep, the pain seems to manifest itself within your dream and you wake up and can then hpefully deal with said pain!

Same when you have drunk too much tea or coffee before bed time. You seem to dream of toilets or at least toilets will suddenly become a major factor within that dream!

Just one more thing - allegedly, when you dream of tripping or falling from a great height and suddenly awaken it is supposedly your heart that temporarily stops and needs to kick in again

[mwkcope]

Originally Posted by Driber

No, leave it and come back in 20 years and look at what you decided to share with us when you were a teenager

Will do.

[Rocket Propelled Rocket]

The strangest dreams I have are either ones that include Satan, the devil himself in it; Me dying; Or ones that I can actually FEEL.
Yes, I can actually FEEL some of my dreams, it scares me.

[Nemesis296]

Originally Posted by Rocket Propelled Rocket

The strangest dreams I have are either ones that include Satan, the devil himself in it; Me dying; Or ones that I can actually FEEL.
Yes, I can actually FEEL some of my dreams, it scares me.

Well, you obviously don't FEEL the dream really, it's all in your mind. If you think you are feeling something in your dreams it is more than likely your mind telling you that something like what happened would hurt and it may cause your body to jolt slightly but I'm sure you aren't really feeling whatever happens in your dreams. If you are for real, you probably should go see a therapist or something, you could become a hazard to other humans if you are actually doing things in your sleep. Do you sleepwalk? Could be a sign of it is all I'm saying.

[Rocket Propelled Rocket]

Originally Posted by Nemesis296

Well, you obviously don't FEEL the dream really, it's all in your mind. If you think you are feeling something in your dreams it is more than likely your mind telling you that something like what happened would hurt and it may cause your body to jolt slightly but I'm sure you aren't really feeling whatever happens in your dreams. If you are for real, you probably should go see a therapist or something, you could become a hazard to other humans if you are actually doing things in your sleep. Do you sleepwalk? Could be a sign of it is all I'm saying.

I doubt I sleepwalk, since I always wake up in the same position I fall asleep. But yeah, whenever the devil is in my dreams, I remember everything in that dream. I remember the feeling as he grew nearer to me. It's frightening. It's like fear on steroids.

[N-lyger]

Last night I had a dream I ate a bag of chips. It was pretty exciting.

[Driber]

Originally Posted by Lo

Same when you have drunk too much tea or coffee before bed time. You seem to dream of toilets or at least toilets will suddenly become a major factor within that dream!

Ugh, I get these a lot and they are quite annoying. The most annoying part is not being able to find a toilet in my dream. And once I do find a toilet and relieve myself, I never feel relieved, which of course is logical because I still need to actually pee.

What I do enjoy though are lucid dreams. I used to train myself to trigger a lucid dream and it's pretty easy to do, at least it was for me. Once entering a lucid dream, you can have lots of fun

I like to go flying, or jumping off of high places, knowing that I can't get hurt.

Originally Posted by Lo

Just one more thing - allegedly, when you dream of tripping or falling from a great height and suddenly awaken it is supposedly your heart that temporarily stops and needs to kick in again

Please don't scare people by posting these kinds of hear-say rumors / myths.

What you are describing is a hypnic jerk and it is quite common and harmless. Many people have them and unless they are having a serious heart condition, they should not be worried about having these dreams.

I used to have them when I was a kid from time to time and if I was told that it's my heart stopping, I'd be pretty scared about it, so please be more careful

Originally Posted by Rocket Propelled Rocket

I doubt I sleepwalk, since I always wake up in the same position I fall asleep. But yeah, whenever the devil is in my dreams, I remember everything in that dream. I remember the feeling as he grew nearer to me. It's frightening. It's like fear on steroids.

And I doubt that if you're a sleepwalker, you'd know it about yourself

What exactly do you mean by that you feel your dreams?

If you wake up with a pain somewhere that you've dreamt about, it could simply be that you were getting the pain during the night (could be just harmless, like bowel pains after eating something wrong or stuck gas) and that during your sleep you started to dream about the pain.

So if you wake up and feeling the pain of your dream, just turn it around and think about that you may have just dreamt about the real pain you already had

[Rocket Propelled Rocket]

I only feel the pain in my dreams and only in my dreams, never woke up with physical pain. Lol, I almost said 'It's like my body makes it real' but that would be too close to a Matrix reference.

[ThePunkVampire]

i love it when dreams feel real! sooo cool! sometimes i dont even want to wake up!

[N-lyger]

My dreams are usually boring, except that one time I dreamed I was sitting in a bus, and everyone stood up randomly and started staring at me.

[Driber]

Was that after you saw Inception perhaps?

[aktrekker]

Can't really say I've had any awesome dreams.
Well, except for that kind, and only the couple of times I happened to wake up during......

But I've had a few strange dreams. One particular one I had about 30 years ago and I still remember it. There were two hills in the distance with a valley between them. On each hill was an army on horseback. They started charging down into the valley to fight. The strange part was that both armies were gorillas. Not a standard gorilla, but a human looking gorilla. Or maybe a gorilla looking human. There was more after that but it was very strange and jumbled so I don't really remember it. Mostly some impressions of me hiding from other monkeys, not gorillas. But I couldn't hide from them, they were everywhere, and weren't trying to catch me or anything. I just wanted to avoid them.

And no, I hadn't watched Planet of the Apes yet at that time in my life.

[N-lyger]

Originally Posted by Driber

Was that after you saw Inception perhaps?

It was, actually.

I saw myself in a third person, though.

[The Hylden]

It's a little known fact that Planet of the Apes and all related material are actually mental projections of the great Ape from the future, where these events happen. Only certain people are aware of the projections, so you obviously were one of the lucky ones

Aaaand, on a more serious note: I have lucid dreams now and then. I haven't in a while, but I remember them back to when I was 8, or 9, I think. I've never tried to train myself to trigger them, and don't know how that's done. Sounds intriguing. But, anyway, the first time I happened to realize I was dreaming was seeing my mom from the back at the bar in our then basement. I had actually gone to sleep on the sofa that was the same sofa I was on in the dream facing the bar. Ominous music was playing while I called out "Mom!" a few times. Still seeing her from the back at the bar facing the TV, I realized that if she actually did turn around, or I went over to her, that this would be horror-movie-bad, and realized, wait, I am in a nightmare! I then forced myself to wake up. It took a bit of effort to rip out of that dream. I usually am able to pull myself out of a nightmare on the rare occasion they ever start, by the same "Wait a minute!" realization that it's a dream. Sometimes I wake form it only partially in sleep paralysis and those are the worst, as I watch and hear the dream still playing out, but see it partially over the room and ceiling around, trying and trying to move my head and body, to make a sound. After a lot of will, finally I break free of that. Like I said, that only happens now and then, like once every few/several years, lol, so thank goodness. But, like I said, the first realizations of being in the dream came from this, so in that respect it's a good experience. I like the lucid dreams that are more pleasant, when I realize I am dreaming and it's not a bad dream, and can control it, like Dribber stated. I've flown around a few times, and that's the absolute best! Also, running super fast, or willing the entire scene to change, etc. These are awesome experiences, but they happen infrequently and are usually over before too much fun can be had, lol. It's better than the other version, where you run and run and are in like super slow motion. I've even had a martial arts fight once with some bad dudes and it played out for me in super slow mo while they avoided everything and just stared at my ineptness, lol.

Hm, one other weird thing I get from time to time is seeing images on walls, etc., after I wake up. Not images, but writing, like mathematical equations, or foreign languages, in black ink scribbling itself on the wall/ceiling. I am not a mathematician, or studier of old texts, so this isn't coming from my own inherent pastimes... I don't know what it is, exactly, but it's interesting. It fades after a minute, or two, but I am fully aware while watching it, just kinda' taking it in...

As for pain in dreams, like when stabbed, or falling, etc: sometimes I have it and sometimes I don't. Though, even if ever painful, it's never real, to the point that if I got shot in a dream, I don't feel blood pumping out of the wound, nausea, the internal turmoil I am sure I would if it actually happened. It's usually just a burning, or sharp sensation. So, yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. I believe that's normal.

Conclusion: dreams are an awesome, fun experience, on the whole.

[Driber]

Originally Posted by The Hylden

...or willing the entire scene to change, etc.

Interesting, I've never tried that in a lucid dream. What do you do to try to change the scene? And what do you change it to?

Originally Posted by N-lyger

It was, actually.

I saw myself in a third person, though.

Driber knew it!

[Danielsun]

[QUOTE=Driber;1497314] What I do enjoy though are lucid dreams. I used to train myself to trigger a lucid dream and it's pretty easy to do, at least it was for me. Once entering a lucid dream, you can have lots of fun

I like to go flying, or jumping off of high places, knowing that I can't get hurt. [QUOTE]

Aah i miss lucid dreasm last one where i tried to fly failed i could barely get off the ground

last dream i had appeared to be on te jurassic park island isla sorna being chased by a t rex in 3d like a movie all night is wierd o.0

[The Hylden]

Originally Posted by Driber

Interesting, I've never tried that in a lucid dream. What do you do to try to change the scene? And what do you change it to?

Well, it's been a wile, but I believe that in one instance I was somewhere, a house or building I know, and I decided to leave and go to another spot, which I already had preplanned was going to be somewhere else in my head. Another example is being in a place I know, with certain people there, and thinking to myself that if I pick up this book and read it, those people will go away and the people who should be there (let's say this is a dream that's happened before, but it's not playing the same way), will be there when I look up again. So, it's more of that type of change. Not to say I just morphed the settings like in a CGI film. I think in another dream I was intentionally viewing it as a film, so I'd cut from one "scene" to another by shutting and opening my eyes, rather like what an edit is reflective of in a film. That was a pretty amazing experience.

Speaking of the first couple of examples: I like reoccurring dreams. They sometimes play out exactly the same way, and are familiar in that sense, and sometimes things change. This has happened in dreams where I am aware of the dream and in dreams when I am not. I used to have the same dreams repeating for a couple of years, now and then. I don't think I've had a repeat one in a while, though.