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I thought it would make an interesting thread to have a place for everyone to share the dreams you've recently had, and perhaps have some of us analyze them. If not, well, whatever. I'll go first.
Ever since i was six i've been having a re-occurring dream, perhaps one per month, it never fails.
As it starts out, i wake up 'into the dream', and find myself in a hedgemaze. The walls are pretty tall, and above them all i can see in a swirly, cloudy silver sky. The whole setting is pretty Laberynth-esque. As the dream continues, i start to explore the maze, but somewhere along the way, it shifts from an exploration to a desperate search for an exit. Just as i find one, im cut off by a tank, a large tank, and the instant i see it i get the distinct impression that it means to harm me. I begin to run, and run and run, but this tank just dozes over the walls and never falls more than 50 feet behind. I look back once more, and see the tank fire its cannon, and just as i look forward, i reach a courtyard of sorts, no exits, no entrances. Somehow everything gets quiet, and the sound of the tank fades away. In the center of the courtyard i see a tree, on each branch a beautiful rose, and oddly enough, hovering above the tree is an arrow, (not the directional kind, the kind you shoot with a bow). i reach for one of the flowers when it ends. And it doesnt just end, i get the distinct impression that im killed by something, or someone.
Sorry it was kind of long, but feels good to share it. Anyone else want to share? Or want to comment on my expanding insanity?
Equilibrium
07-07-04, 02:01 AM
interesting..
Every once in a while ill have a dream where i am in some way hurting chucky..u know from child's play. As a child I used to be scared of that movie and the doll, and id have haunting dreams. My my my, how the tables have turned right chucky?
Equilibrium
07-07-04, 02:01 AM
and oh congratualtions on 400 posts
Wow- just woke up. Had another wacky dream!
It starts out im in a small room with 10 or 11 of my old friends from High School. We're testing out some sort of new program, or something. We all agree. It is explained to us that in this new place we will be going, it is possibble to enhance any particular aspect of the human expierence, (i remember those words specifically), through a lot of practice in this place. And some people with enough meditation and practice can completley change into nothing but engergy. I didnt get that far, but as i was walking around in this strange place, (which looked a lot like the main street of my home town) i did a little stronger, and i can remember punching through a Guinness truck. I leave the place, and find myself in a pool. Turns out the pool is the exit for this strange place. And thats all i remember.
Maybe its all that cocaine i snort before bed....
angelwingsdevil
07-07-04, 04:58 PM
I often have dreams where I need to hide or escape some danger. I am never quite sure what it is and the dreams are never quite the same but they leave me with a feeling of deja vu. Normally I am in a house I never seen before and have to hide. I usually find myself in the basement, which has unusual crawl spaces and tunnels, but the thing (whatever it is) is always nearby. I freaks me out just thinking about it.
Caitlyn
07-07-04, 09:47 PM
I’ve had two different re-occurring dreams since I was a little girl… one is about a huge two story house that reminds me of a few I have seen from the late 1700 or early 1800’s … the house is always either painted white with flowers beds in the front or it’s just raw lumber with dirt piled up like it was just built… In some of the dreams there are people moving around but in others, I never see anyone… Most of the time I am always in front of the house, but a few times I have been inside and the ceilings were extremely high… at least 14 feet… and the rooms are filled with dark furniture and the walls covered with dark paneled wood and wall paper… but I never see anyone or hear anyone inside… The other dream is always about a man wearing a brown jacket riding a horse through the woods at night… and someone shoots at him… but I always wake up before I know if they hit him or not…
Anyone have any ideas?
What does it mean to dream in black and white?
i used to dream about a large house too..but i would be inside and i would run from room to room, but had no idea why
i did have a dream that i got my hair cut once when it was long..i woke up to look in the mirror to see if it was real or not
What does it mean to dream in black and white?
its widely speculated that people cant dream in color- we can only subconciously associate certain things with color, but we dont actually see them. It is also believed that the subconcious would put color in a dream as a means to force the concious to remember that dream more vividly.
one is about a huge two story house that reminds me of a few I have seen from the late 1700 or early 1800’s … the house is always either painted white with flowers beds in the front or it’s just raw lumber with dirt piled up like it was just built… In some of the dreams there are people moving around but in others, I never see anyone…
Most of the time I am always in front of the house,
Dreaming about being outside of a building looking at it, but not knowing what lays inside, often times represents that you are in the process of uncovering something within yourself or someone else, but you have yet to get pass the surface.
but a few times I have been inside and the ceilings were extremely high… at least 14 feet… and the rooms are filled with dark furniture and the walls covered with dark paneled wood and wall paper… but I never see anyone or hear anyone inside…
Dark and dreary, or damp interiors appear in dreams often when the dreamer is revovering from an illness. Thats all i have on dark interiors, so if you havnt been sick, im not sure.
The other dream is always about a man wearing a brown jacket riding a horse through the woods at night… and someone shoots at him… but I always wake up before I know if they hit him or not…
I cant give you much on that one, but i do know that having an unknown person in your dream represents someone you would like to know. And sometimes bullets, or being shot at, represents fear of being emotionally hurt. So, perhaps there is someone you want to get to know, beacue you fear for them, or because you dont want them to get hurt.
Hope all that helped, and to everyone- these are just the interpretations that i have studied, and no one can really tell you whats going on in your head, but maybe it will help.
Equilibrium
07-08-04, 12:13 AM
Speaking of dreams I just had the weirdest ever. It involves me meeting this hot girl (almost as hot as my gf) in a very weird situation.So we started making out and i undressed her. And eventually this girl got undressed and i started to as well. Now, may it be known to all that I am very well endowed..very well. Well in this dream this girl looks at my package and says "Are you kidding me? Get out of my house"......i was like..what the hell.
Now someone interpret THAT.
Speaking of dreams I just had the weirdest ever. It involves me meeting this hot girl (almost as hot as my gf) in a very weird situation.So we started making out and i undressed her. And eventually this girl got undressed and i started to as well. Now, may it be known to all that I am very well endowed..very well. Well in this dream this girl looks at my package and says "Are you kidding me? Get out of my house"......i was like..what the hell.
Now someone interpret THAT.
Lol- thats easy to interpret. Your feeling inadequete with some portion of your life. Perhaps its your job- your aspirations, your $$, or maybe its your compulsive lying regaurding a certain male organ. :D
its also possibble your feeling vulnerable, perhaps its a commitment issure your having with your girlfriend.
Equilibrium
07-08-04, 12:21 AM
Lol- thats easy to interpret. Your feeling inadequete with some portion of your life. Perhaps its your job- your aspirations, your $$, or maybe its your compulsive lying regaurding a certain male organ. :D
its also possibble your feeling vulnerable, perhaps its a commitment issure your having with your girlfriend.
Maybe that is it..the commitment thing...cn u elaborate?
Well, dreaming of being physically inadequate (from what the girl said in your dream, im guessing thats it.) has direct relation to a.) fear of actual inadequacy in that specific area. since you can supposedly rule that one out, we'll use interpretation b, which is fear of vulnerability. If it was your girlfriend in the dream, it would have probably meant you were worring about making her happy, or fearing loosing her. Since it is with another woman, not your girlfriend, im guessing your feeling vulnerable with the commitment with your girlfriend.
answer me these quesitons:
Have you dated many girls?
How serious are you with your current girlfriend?
Have you and your girlfriend sexually active?
(you cam PM me if you dont want to post it, we can work from there.)
I can give you a better answer with that information.
Equilibrium
07-08-04, 12:32 AM
Well, dreaming of being physically inadequate (from what the girl said in your dream, im guessing thats it.) has direct relation to a.) fear of actual inadequacy in that specific area. since you can supposedly rule that one out, we'll use interpretation b, which is fear of vulnerability. If it was your girlfriend in the dream, it would have probably meant you were worring about making her happy, or fearing loosing her. Since it is with another woman, not your girlfriend, im guessing your feeling vulnerable with the commitment with your girlfriend.
answer me these quesitons:
Have you dated many girls?
How serious are you with your current girlfriend?
Have you and your girlfriend sexually active?
(you cam PM me if you dont want to post it, we can work from there.)
I can give you a better answer with that information.
I'll PM you.
So, this thread is going in a different direction. I would be more than happy to analyze any of your dreams, no matter what the subject matter. I've taken 3 classes on dream history and interpretation, and i have a wide variety of rescources at my disposal, so, if you want, post your dreams and i'll see what i can do. And im sure there are others who can input as well! :D
The Taxi Driver
07-08-04, 12:10 PM
a couple of months ago i had the scariest dream i ever had. Me and my best friend won a contest to meet Biggie Smalls' mom. so we go to her house and she tells us about a dream she has where Biggie comes back to life and tries to kill her. than we stopped talking about that. later someone knocked on the back door and she was like "who could that be" and my friend was being a idiot and he was like "its biggie" in like a wierd voice. so i was like "dont joke about that stuff man" then the door swung open and it was biggie and he linged forward and stabbed my friend in the back. i turned to look but his mom disapeared. i ran out the door and for some reason i as in front of my house. it was night time and foggy. i sprinted down the street and i heard him say "i cant catch you im too fat" i was so happy then i turned around and he smiled and went to stab me but i woke up. i was so freaked out that night.
Equilibrium
07-08-04, 02:54 PM
You were outrun by a selfproclaimed fat man...
The Taxi Driver
07-08-04, 07:28 PM
no i think its like this. you know in dreams when someone is chasing you and you cant run fast. it was like that except i could run fast. but since i could run fast he could teleport. thats how he got behind me i think.
how to interpret your dream (http://www.avcweb.com/dreams/howto.htm)
here's one site that i found...i'm looking for others...
its widely speculated that people cant dream in color- we can only subconciously associate certain things with color, but we dont actually see them. It is also believed that the subconcious would put color in a dream as a means to force the concious to remember that dream more vividly.
Damn, i wish i could remember any of my dreams at this moment. They're such a trip. But coz i can't... i can't remember if they're really in colour, although that's always been my impression. As a kid i definitely had more running-away fear dreams, and the odd sudden-nudity insecurity dream. I know had a boring job-stress dream the other day where i had to check my email as soon as i got up coz i thought i'd missed a deadline etc.
My 2 cents then is just that: i think Jung suggested dreams are a way for our unconscious minds to go through all the things "it" appreciated throughout the day that our conscious mind/ego blocked out. I'm fascinated by the ideas of how the conscious/unconscious divide might work - i.e.: The idea that the ego is both vital coz it narrows down the world into something manageable, but is also liable to "block-out" too much in the name of efficiency/rationality etc. So we benefit as a whole from processing all the excluded information unconsciously, and from the "mix" that happens when we are conscious of our dreams. It's a chance for important stuff we've missed to filter through. Well, it makes dreams make a bit more sense anyway... Doh, that'll be my sneaky sense-seeking consciousness interfering again ;) :rolleyes:
one subject i dont see under relationships is friendships/family, so i am asking for help on one of mine that i have had reacering for close to a year now, i have a friend, about 8 to 9 years already and we became very close, and about 10 months ago, i started having a dream about how her and i are twins and we are getting back from a trip, not sure where the trip was, and i am telling her that mom is waiting for us at bagge clam. what does this meen???
Equilibrium
07-09-04, 12:54 AM
one subject i dont see under relationships is friendships/family, so i am asking for help on one of mine that i have had reacering for close to a year now, i have a friend, about 8 to 9 years already and we became very close, and about 10 months ago, i started having a dream about how her and i are twins and we are getting back from a trip, not sure where the trip was, and i am telling her that mom is waiting for us at bagge clam. what does this meen???
Maybe ur really siblings?
one subject i dont see under relationships is friendships/family, so i am asking for help on one of mine that i have had reacering for close to a year now, i have a friend, about 8 to 9 years already and we became very close, and about 10 months ago, i started having a dream about how her and i are twins and we are getting back from a trip, not sure where the trip was, and i am telling her that mom is waiting for us at bagge clam. what does this meen???
I'll have a stab at it.
Recurring dreams can posibly represent a problem in your concious life that you have not solved, whether you are aware of it or not. An unknown destination would mean that you do not know how you will solve the problem, or, in essence, you do not know where the answer will lead you. Im sort of puzzled that you return from the unknown destination, though. Perhaps that means that your relationship with this girl started out of uncertainty, and you have come out of it closer, (siblings.)
thats all i can gather so far, i'll look futher into the baggage claim thing. And you feel like giving me some more information on your relationship with this girl, i could probably give you more of an analysis. Post or PM me. :D
Equilibrium
07-09-04, 01:28 AM
I'll have a stab at it.
Recurring dreams can posibly represent a problem in your concious life that you have not solved, whether you are aware of it or not. An unknown destination would mean that you do not know how you will solve the problem, or, in essence, you do not know where the answer will lead you. Im sort of puzzled that you return from the unknown destination, though. Perhaps that means that your relationship with this girl started out of uncertainty, and you have come out of it closer, (siblings.)
thats all i can gather so far, i'll look futher into the baggage claim thing. And you feel like giving me some more information on your relationship with this girl, i could probably give you more of an analysis. Post or PM me. :D
Yes I agree, the whole issue with possibly not knowing where you are going could mean something.
SamsoniteDelilah
07-09-04, 02:22 PM
So, this thread is going in a different direction. I would be more than happy to analyze any of your dreams, no matter what the subject matter. I've taken 3 classes on dream history and interpretation, and i have a wide variety of rescources at my disposal, so, if you want, post your dreams and i'll see what i can do. And im sure there are others who can input as well! :D
Can I take you up on this?
I can usually interp my own dreams, but this was so bizarre...
A young mother and her little girl (3yrs old, white nightgown) buy a house, happily enjoying their first morning in the kitchen. They see evidence that the house is haunted and just then, the toaster lever screeches upward, and unseen hands fling scalding hot poptarts (yes... poptarts) at the little girl, burning the bottoms of her feet.
I remember wondering why the ghost attacked the little girl, when in any horror movie you see, they go after the parents.
What was that all about??
Can I take you up on this?
I can usually interp my own dreams, but this was so bizarre...
A young mother and her little girl (3yrs old, white nightgown) buy a house, happily enjoying their first morning in the kitchen. They see evidence that the house is haunted and just then, the toaster lever screeches upward, and unseen hands fling scalding hot poptarts (yes... poptarts) at the little girl, burning the bottoms of her feet.
I remember wondering why the ghost attacked the little girl, when in any horror movie you see, they go after the parents.
What was that all about??
Well, as i said about unknown people, they usually represent people you would like to know in real life. this may not be true in your case.
Feet are a symbol of progress and/or moving forward in one's life. considering this, im wondering if you had an expierence as a child, or perhaps something with your parents, something that you still feel held you back. Perhaps you missed an important opportunity and your subconsious is still trying to deal with it. Overall by number 1 guess is some sort of past regret your trying to deal with. The presence of the mother in the dream leads me to believe that perhaps it was a parental figure that created this regret in your life.
As always, if any of this rings true to you, PM me and we can talk some more.
I had another dream last night- it was really long, and really vivid. All i remember is waking up thinking 'My God, that would make an amazing movie! I should write it dow.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz'
I dont remember any of it though. Something about a woman.
Frustrating.
allthatglitters
07-12-04, 01:20 AM
i just woke up from a nap in which i dreamed my parents got a divorce and i went and moved out and went to live with these really random peopel looking creatures- it was all very sad and random- and when my dad woke me up i didn't know i had been dreaming and was a bit shock that nothing had happened and that my mom had come home
Sidewinder
07-12-04, 03:37 AM
I had a dream about going on a Road Trip following some mates to I don't know where. I meet a friend I know along the way. Then I found a whole city built out of Rocks and waterfalls which was hiding behind a mountain. After going through the city which was filled with little blue people I found myself in a train station unable to pay for a train, then suddenly turning blind and then trying to run from some people who I could not see. I start to lose track of the rest after this point...
Not only are interpretations welcome, I dare someone to find meaning in that!
My dreams have been pretty bizarre lately. Last night was all over the place...one second I'm running around a city with a blanket, then a hooker's helping me figure out how to get where I'm going (though I don't remember where that was, or why I wanted to get there), then we start to fall in love. Next thing you know I'm in a room with some of my family and a big praying-mantis looking bug falls from the ceiling and we start chasing it around. Sometime after that I'm biking on a trailer with my stepmother and step-grandmother, and we get to a point which is flooded. There's a few pairs of shoes there.
I'm not making this up.
My dreams have been pretty bizarre lately. Last night was all over the place...one second I'm running around a city with a blanket, then a hooker's helping me figure out how to get where I'm going (though I don't remember where that was, or why I wanted to get there), then we start to fall in love. Next thing you know I'm in a room with some of my family and a big praying-mantis looking bug falls from the ceiling and we start chasing it around. Sometime after that I'm biking on a trailer with my stepmother and step-grandmother, and we get to a point which is flooded. There's a few pairs of shoes there.
I'm not making this up.
Yup, that is directly out to lunch! ;)
Funny, I just remembered this... This weekend I had a dream where I went to see Spiderman 2 (which I did really see that previous day) and I ended up meeting Holden at the movie randomly. He had a beard and a cap on and we chatted about films and MoFo in line and went our separate ways after getting tix. Does Holden have a beard? I remember scanning the pic thread when I first came and I can't remember if I had seen a pic of Holden or not...
MoFo invading my dreams???
SamsoniteDelilah
07-12-04, 02:03 PM
...MoFo invading my dreams???
I've had more dreams with people I know only from online than I have with people I actually know. It's a straight shot into the subconscious here...
Caitlyn
07-12-04, 02:21 PM
Funny, I just remembered this... This weekend I had a dream where I went to see Spiderman 2 (which I did really see that previous day) and I ended up meeting Holden at the movie randomly. He had a beard and a cap on and we chatted about films and MoFo in line and went our separate ways after getting tix. Does Holden have a beard? I remember scanning the pic thread when I first came and I can't remember if I had seen a pic of Holden or not...
MoFo invading my dreams???
Did he look anything like THIS? (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showpost.php?p=152823&postcount=25)
I'll have a stab at it.
Recurring dreams can posibly represent a problem in your concious life that you have not solved, whether you are aware of it or not. An unknown destination would mean that you do not know how you will solve the problem, or, in essence, you do not know where the answer will lead you. Im sort of puzzled that you return from the unknown destination, though. Perhaps that means that your relationship with this girl started out of uncertainty, and you have come out of it closer, (siblings.)
thats all i can gather so far, i'll look futher into the baggage claim thing. And you feel like giving me some more information on your relationship with this girl, i could probably give you more of an analysis. Post or PM me. :D
mabe the fact that she helped me alot by keeping me from doing something to hurt myself and keeping me out of a padded room, could that do something???
Did he look anything like THIS? (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showpost.php?p=152823&postcount=25)
I had to have seen that before and didn't remember, I must have missed reading that was Holden when I skimmed the pics....
SamsoniteDelilah
07-12-04, 08:45 PM
I had to have seen that before and didn't remember, I must have missed reading that was Holden when I skimmed the pics....
Either that, or Holden Pike is Freddy Kreuger with a pretty face...
Yeah, I'm sure you'd seen the pic.
...what kind of place [i]is this!!??
Ash_Lee
07-12-04, 08:55 PM
I used to have a recurring dream where I was being chased by a giant dog in a revolving door with no exit (the dog would be in the section behind me) and I would just run round in a circle until I woke up. I think it was something to do with not being able to get away from the stress of my exams , because as soon as I'd done them the dream stopped.
I used to have a recurring dream where I was being chased by a giant dog in a revolving door with no exit (the dog would be in the section behind me) and I would just run round in a circle until I woke up. I think it was something to do with not being able to get away from the stress of my exams , because as soon as I'd done them the dream stopped.
Dogs usually signify loyalty, protection, and unconditional love.
In dreams they can indicate that the dreamer is feeling lonely, unloved, or unaccepted.
considering that the dog seems to be agressive, i bet your subconciously dealing with the fact that your repressing your lonliness. Of course, these feelings could have been triggered by the stress of your exams, or perhaps it was indeed the exams.
The revolving door might signify the need to escape from something in your life, but as of yet, you cant find a way out. PM me if you have any more questions.
Equilibrium
07-14-04, 03:57 AM
I had to have seen that before and didn't remember, I must have missed reading that was Holden when I skimmed the pics....
You might have subconciously seen that picture and the name. Thats where dreams come from..ur subconcious mind, just because YOU don't remember it, doesn't mean ur other mind doesnt. ;)
Another dream of mine, i had it last night;
As it starts, im in the middle of the football field of my old High School. Its night time, and the field lights are on, blinding me. As my eyes adjust i can see into the bleachers, and in the bleachers i can see almost everyone that i can recall ever knowing. I mean, TONS of people. Before long i can see that they are looking at me, as if waiting for me to dance for them or something. Next to the bleachers i see the girl that im going to marry, (in real life- im totally in love with this girl- im insane for her. :) ) Anyways, she is standing all alone next to the bleachers, looking beautiful. I begin to go to her, when a bright light beams down from the sky, (real UFO like), blinding me again. The light leaves, and im all alone in the field with a blue bandana in my hand.
Very vivid dream, and i cant stop thinking about it. Im not sure what to make of it either. Any thoughts?
blibblobblib
07-19-04, 04:10 PM
Aaaah dreams. I have had some really random ones lately. I cant interpret them at all.
I had quite a strange one last one last night where i was at some beach somewhere, and this guy came up to me, he really looked like this guy from a show called Average Joe thats just come on over here in the UK. He offered me this new treatment for something, i cant remeber what, but he started injecting milk into my face. it hurt a little bit. then he made me eat mouldy spaghetti. Seriously weird.
I also had one the other week that i was in the shower getting ready to go to work and all of a sudden all of the gravity on the planet stopped working and everything and everyone started floating off into space. It was gorrid, my mum and dad were in the garden and they flew past the window. That morning i was so scared it was going to happen whilst i was the shower i kept expecting to see my mum shoot past the window. Crazy.
SamsoniteDelilah
08-04-04, 12:53 PM
So... this morning, I had a very brief dream that I was on the phone with my sister, talking about whatever, and suddenly she says, "they're going to kill him". I say, "what?!" And she says mom (who lives with her) had just heard on the news that they caught Osama Bin Laden.
So... this morning, I had a very brief dream that I was on the phone with my sister, talking about whatever, and suddenly she says, "they're going to kill him". I say, "what?!" And she says mom (who lives with her) had just heard on the news that they caught Osama Bin Laden.
Ohh- thats creepy. I dont know quite what to tell you on that one, but i can say that perhaps it just you dealing with some kind of inner frustration towards the subject. Thats just the blatently obvious analyzation- but ive never heard of anything like that.
SamsoniteDelilah
08-04-04, 04:31 PM
My first thought, after that dream, was "I have to put this on MoFo for Zeiken." :p
blibblobblib
08-05-04, 03:36 PM
Ohh- thats creepy. I dont know quite what to tell you on that oneHEY! How comes Delila gets her dream immediatly analysed but you over look mine!
Did i touch a raw nerve with that milk injected into face thing? It happens more than people realise i think....:yup:
Aaaah dreams. I have had some really random ones lately. I cant interpret them at all.
I had quite a strange one last one last night where i was at some beach somewhere, and this guy came up to me, he really looked like this guy from a show called Average Joe thats just come on over here in the UK. He offered me this new treatment for something, i cant remeber what, but he started injecting milk into my face. it hurt a little bit. then he made me eat mouldy spaghetti. Seriously weird.
I also had one the other week that i was in the shower getting ready to go to work and all of a sudden all of the gravity on the planet stopped working and everything and everyone started floating off into space. It was gorrid, my mum and dad were in the garden and they flew past the window. That morning i was so scared it was going to happen whilst i was the shower i kept expecting to see my mum shoot past the window. Crazy.
Im sorry man- i mustve missed it, totally an accident though. Here ya go:
In the first one, coming into contact with a celebrity or someone who looks like a celebrity suggests that perhaps you are seeking recognition for something you recently did. Milk is an obvious refrence to the abundance of life, and in some cases, motherhood, we'll go with the former in your case. ;)
So im guessing maybe you found a new way to live your life, or perhaps you were just feeling pretty good about things, and you just wanted people to notice before things went sour again, (the moldy spagetti)
The second dream- i cant really put a finger on. Are you just about to take a big step in life? Or do you have a big decision to make? It could be that your dream was you dealing with your anxiety of becomeing disconnected with the world/people that you know. Are you moving? Getting married? A little more info and i can go a little further.
Sorry again for missing your dream!
blibblobblib
08-05-04, 04:12 PM
Im sorry man- i mustve missed it, totally an accident though. Here ya go:
In the first one, coming into contact with a celebrity or someone who looks like a celebrity suggests that perhaps you are seeking recognition for something you recently did. Milk is an obvious refrence to the abundance of life, and in some cases, motherhood, we'll go with the former in your case. ;)
So im guessing maybe you found a new way to live your life, or perhaps you were just feeling pretty good about things, and you just wanted people to notice before things went sour again, (the moldy spagetti)
The second dream- i cant really put a finger on. Are you just about to take a big step in life? Or do you have a big decision to make? It could be that your dream was you dealing with your anxiety of becomeing disconnected with the world/people that you know. Are you moving? Getting married? A little more info and i can go a little further.
Sorry again for missing your dream!
Thats ok ;) Some very interesting points here. Your first interpretation could be correct, ive been working full time for the summer and finally got paid the other day. Im usually a lazy student and this is my first time job and im kinda proud that ive stuck it out even though sometimes i wanted to quit so bad and hang about with my mates. I guess i was just pleased that i earnt all this money and actually done something this summer instead of sponging off the parents for a change.
Good! :yup:
My second dream and your interpretation i think is pretty close too, i had this dream just as i started work and was going through the phase when i felt like all my friends were having fun and i was stuck at work all day. Perhaps that could explain me seeing all my family float away, family obviously representing the people i care about.
Again, Good! ;)
Krackalackin
08-20-04, 09:18 PM
What dreams are depend on what you study. The Cognitive pyschologist believes it's the time of the day when your memories transfer to their permanent locations, binding and twisting the information. The Social Psychologist believes it has to do with what you were thinking about sub-consciously during the day. It's a play-back and continuum of events that crossed you inner mind. I personally go with the latter. I can't agree with the top because I've had things in my dream I've never seen before, let alone that day or is in my memory at all. But somethings I dream are relevant to a path of thinking I might've sub-conciously taken during the day. Cognitive psychologists don't believe in the sub-concious. I sort of do.
SamsoniteDelilah
11-10-04, 02:47 PM
I had a dream the other night that I was trying to post something here and my system kept shutting down. : / My first MoFo dream!
2wrongs
11-10-04, 04:14 PM
This seems to be a good place to ask this question:
Does it bother anyone else when people tell you their dreams?
I seriously used to hate it when my sister would wake up and say," I had the weirdest dream!" I knew I was in for this long, confusing, random depiction of some dream sequence that I had no interest in. I don't mind when someone says, " I dreamed I was flying!" Then we could enter in to a discussion of all the various ways people "fly" in their dreams...for instance I flap. My mom soars with her fists out in front like Superman. What I don't like is the play-by-play run down of the entire dream...
SamsoniteDelilah
11-10-04, 04:56 PM
I like it, as long as the person telling the story is prepared to analyse it a bit. If they're just blathering with no intent to think about it, then I'm with you.
2wrongs
11-10-04, 05:06 PM
amen sistah!
I don't mind hearing about the dream if it really IS weird, and not just somewhat unusual. For example, I had a dream a day or two ago where I was playing my brother in a video game where he was controlling Bill Clinton and I was controlling George Bush Sr., and I had to dive into this water tank where he was tied up with chains and inject him with something and then avoid these two sea creature things. I kid you not.
I'm sure it just means I want to have sex with my mother, or something.
I'm sure it just means I want to have sex with my mother, or something.
Oh God I hope your mom logs on to read that.
2wrongs
11-10-04, 05:54 PM
I don't mind hearing about the dream if it really IS weird, and not just somewhat unusual. For example, I had a dream a day or two ago where I was playing my brother in a video game where he was controlling Bill Clinton and I was controlling George Bush Sr., and I had to dive into this water tank where he was tied up with chains and inject him with something and then avoid these two sea creature things. I kid you not.
I'm sure it just means I want to have sex with my mother, or something.
Despite what it means, that game would be fun!
I like hearing about dreams that people have about me. I am usually a murderer or have a penis growing out of my head, or am laughing all creepy and psychotic. This is what my best friend dreams about me hehehe.
Wow- its been awhile since this thread has seen the light of day- but i figure MoFo's need a place to share dreams, eh? I'll start us off:
The last few weeks i have been having zombie dreams. Like, CONSTANTLY ZOMBIES. Almost every damn night its zombie this or zombie that. The ones that i remember almost always feature me with big guns, of course, doing what i can to quell the uprising plague. They're not like typical zombies, mind you- they are agile, quick, kind of like zombie ninjas, if you take my meaning, but still, no match for the size of my guns. ;) I've shared the dreams with a few friends, who insist that its only because i watch too many movies. To be honest- i havnt seen a zombie flick in months and months!
Some of them are pretty stylized, though- kind of stuff i could draw out and put in a movie, if i so desired. Any thoughts?
Some of them are pretty stylized, though- kind of stuff i could draw out and put in a movie, if i so desired. Any thoughts?
It seems like zombies are just representative of your adventurous nature and it could have been anything from vampires to aliens because as you said yourself zombies aren't particularly relevent to right now, i.e. you haven't seen a zombie flick in ages. Maybe the dream is just telling you that you don't have enough outlets for your creative nature. I reckon you are actively designing the sequence in your dream and getting a kind of satisfaction out of the scene of you blasting them away. Not so much the actual killing of the zombies (if it is that, tell me :p) but rather the idea of danger and action and cool enemies. Maybe try something like script writing......game development.....or even just creative writing. what do you think?
Maybe the dream is just telling you that you don't have enough outlets for your creative nature...what do you think?
Its eerie how spot on that may be. In a very conscious way, i was thinking about this last week, how i have been lax in my writing, (i usually write at least 20 minutes a day, be it poetry or journaling or fiction or whatever, just a hobby really.) And i havnt made a film or movie in a while. I never stopped to consider that these movie dreams could be a result of that. Quite intuitive, Spook. Top drawer... ;)
Sexy Celebrity
05-09-06, 10:28 AM
My dreams don't often have a real storyline to them... this is what I remember from last night:
Being on the top floor of a HUGE skyscraper, overlooking a vast city, and laying down/sleeping right by the windows, which were big. Then, trying to get up, but feeling dizzy/sick, maybe experiencing vertigo due to fear of how high up I was.
Trying to watch something on a TV while laying down in a sleeping bag, asking some guy trying to sleep beside me if the TV was too loud. He said "a little", so I turned it down a little. Have no idea who the guy was.
Traveling in a metro train outdoors in this foreign city - this city doesn't look like any real city, but it feels like it's always the same city I go to in my dreams. There was another metro train coming up really close behind mine, but I knew it wouldn't hit us. Finally, it switched tracks and went away. That's all I remember.
My dreams don't often have a real storyline to them... this is what I remember from last night:
Being on the top floor of a HUGE skyscraper, overlooking a vast city, and laying down/sleeping right by the windows, which were big. Then, trying to get up, but feeling dizzy/sick, maybe experiencing vertigo due to fear of how high up I was.
Trying to watch something on a TV while laying down in a sleeping bag, asking some guy trying to sleep beside me if the TV was too loud. He said "a little", so I turned it down a little. Have no idea who the guy was.
Traveling in a metro train outdoors in this foreign city - this city doesn't look like any real city, but it feels like it's always the same city I go to in my dreams. There was another metro train coming up really close behind mine, but I knew it wouldn't hit us. Finally, it switched tracks and went away. That's all I remember.
Hey SC, it's pretty hard to interpret from just one night's dreaming. Recurring stuff is the best to get into. All I can point out is the fact that in all three dreams you are being passive in some way; waiting to arrive on the train, sleeping and maybe the third one is your frustration at not being able to smack yourself out of it. The only thing that comes to mind is that you feel you are letting your life spin out of control, or letting it pass you by by not taking control and the train coming up behind you is your denial that you won't have any regrets later. Am in any way on track?
AmyLovesYou
05-10-06, 12:26 PM
I used to ave this dream that I was in my town pool but somewhere really hot, like New Orleans mid-summer, and I had forgotten to swim and there were Alligators nipping at me with a Jaws like soundtrack playing along.. I bet a psycho-therapist could have a fieldday with that one.
I used to ave this dream that I was in my town pool but somewhere really hot, like New Orleans mid-summer, and I had forgotten to swim and there were Alligators nipping at me with a Jaws like soundtrack playing along.. I bet a psycho-therapist could have a fieldday with that one.
Alligators tend to represent treachery- if you want to take the classical approach to imagery. It's hard to say anything else here; there is a lack of surrounding images and people that would help. Maybe you just saw an alligator on TV before you were going to bed. ;)
And Spook- cool of you to put a link to this thread is your sig. Hopefully we can get the rest of the MoFo community to open up their subconscious minds!
And Spook- cool of you to put a link to this thread is your sig. Hopefully we can get the rest of the MoFo community to open up their subconscious minds!
:laugh: come one, come all! to dream interpretation, normal fee waved if you post in the next year! limited offer, this thread only!
*~*SilverScreen*~*
05-12-06, 05:06 AM
I've had this dream more than a few times in my life....
I see a brown building, with windows high up; the sills aren't normal, they are slanted down and I see my father standing up there. He's not quite in human form though, more like an eagle. He then spreads his wings and flies from the sill. That's about the extent of the dream.
The weirdest dream I ever had:
I was in a pie eating contest and I don't even like pie...
I've had this dream more than a few times in my life....
I see a brown building, with windows high up; the sills aren't normal, they are slanted down and I see my father standing up there. He's not quite in human form though, more like an eagle. He then spreads his wings and flies from the sill. That's about the extent of the dream.
I'm guessing you don't recognise the building at all right or you would have said? The slanted down sills could be to do with a dangerous situation or a seemingly threatening situation that your dad was/is in. But he surprises you with something you didn't expect. Something that you might not like at first but something he needs to do. An acceptance of circumstance maybe or a passion to seize control of something. (ha that's a bit of a stab in the dark but it's more fun that way and if I'm near to the truth then it's heaps better if I go specific :P)
The weirdest dream I ever had:
I was in a pie eating contest and I don't even like pie...
;) I once dreamt I was a medieval warrior and I don't even like killing people....... :p ok that was silly. Yet still I dream stuff like that as well and I reckon that we sometimes face our fears in our dreams; maybe in a different form though (obviously you aren't afraid of pies) but perhaps it's about you being competitive in something you aren't entirely comfortable with.
ash_is_the_gal
05-17-06, 12:19 PM
i keep dreaming about the same person... over and over again.... i miss him... he is in my dreams... i know he misses me... but in the dreams he pushes me away, tells me i had my chance but that its over now.
i wake up and feel sick.
okay, too serious for public, here we go, someone push me on a swing.
i keep dreaming about the same person... over and over again.... i miss him... he is in my dreams... i know he misses me... but in the dreams he pushes me away, tells me i had my chance but that its over now.
I Think one of the biggest things that influence our dreams are our anxieties. It's like the 'naked in class' dream, or 'test and i forgot to study.' We have all these fears and intimidations that perhaps we refuse to deal with in the waking life.
I can relate to you personally, though. This girl, well, my girl, currently lives on the other side of the world. Its rough- but we get along alright. I know she loves me as i love her- but still i have these horribble dreams about us just falling apart. My biggest fear in life is loosing her. Scares me more than death, war, ebola virus- you name it, so it makes sense to have that fear in my dreams.
Its that same sickness you spoke of upon awakening- and i just have to call her to get it to go away. Sometimes its not so easy. If the dream is bad enough, the images will just burn themselves in the back of my mind. I'll see them for days. Could it be some kind of message? If i bear in mind these sickening images and thoughts given to me in my dreams, will it somehow be better for me awake? What a sucky way to live...
But- i hope for the good dreams. Like the one i had a few weeks ago where her and i met up on the moon. We drank wine from big ceramic jugs and danced to Sinatra, looking down at Earth. Thats the kind of dream i'll keep my thoughts on...
Strummer521
05-21-06, 12:47 AM
The strangest dream I've ever had:
I'm at my grandmother's house. There is a very old and somehow creepy little lady there that everyone knows but me. That is irrelevant to the strange part, but it is the first half of the dream. In the dream, I have my own room at the house. In the room, there is a soda machine. I go to bed, and I hear noises from out in the hall. The grim reaper comes into my room and takes a broom out of the soda machine. When the reaper tries to attack me with the broom, I grab it and break it over my knee. This event occurs several times with the grim reaper taunting me in a young woman's voice....and then I wake up.
daiTHEflu
05-22-06, 06:49 AM
I've had some wierd dreams lately. Wierder than my usual!
ON the weekend i had this one..
I'll try to explain it, it was basically my best friend and i camping then suddenly getting attacked by hyena's who became our friend but still scheduled to attack us in a few days (wtf?).
Then im all of a sudden at my old house with the pervert nxt door watching me.
Then seeing a girl who im not friendly with anymore suddenly saying to me, "hey! let's put the past behind us!".
For me. IT was just WAY too wierd!
You'd all think i was the wierdest person ever if you heard some of the other ones i've had!
Is it just me or sometimes when you go to tell someone your dream you suddenly forget it!
xx
Ophelia
05-27-06, 01:58 PM
So apparently I was still in New York visiting a dentists...they didnt require any payment for my dental care, which I thought was nice of them...I was then approached by an old nursing pal who asked me why I had spread lies that her and I had some sort of lesbian affair when we were out one night on the tiles....I was flabbergasted, I didnt know why I had spread these rumours either...
I then went on to a little shop where I purchased a small chubby wooden doll without a face...her face had a hole in it and the inside was painted red...but paints came with the doll, so you could paint your own face, but with the hole, it was impossible for me to do so - I still bought it.
Then I had a bit of flying...I was visiting the dentists house in the middle of the sea...it was like a floating barge, but part of the flooring was completely clear....I was running about it, ran too far and floated over the sea and back onto the clear flooring...I then ran and dived into his swimming pool...and thats when I woke up.
What a bore.
Caitlyn
05-27-06, 06:39 PM
I dreamed last night that I went to some old house in the middle of no where with Nebbs, Susan, and Piddy to see my sister's mother-in-law…. :eek:
Ophelia
05-28-06, 04:36 AM
I dreamed last night that I went to some old house in the middle of no where with Nebbs, Susan, and Piddy to see my sister's mother-in-law…. :eek:
Hmmm, tell us what was really going on in that house Caity...never miss a chance to make that piddy blush.
So apparently I was still in New York visiting a dentists...they didnt require any payment for my dental care, which I thought was nice of them...I was then approached by an old nursing pal who asked me why I had spread lies that her and I had some sort of lesbian affair when we were out one night on the tiles....I was flabbergasted, I didnt know why I had spread these rumours either...
I then went on to a little shop where I purchased a small chubby wooden doll without a face...her face had a hole in it and the inside was painted red...but paints came with the doll, so you could paint your own face, but with the hole, it was impossible for me to do so - I still bought it.
Then I had a bit of flying...I was visiting the dentists house in the middle of the sea...it was like a floating barge, but part of the flooring was completely clear....I was running about it, ran too far and floated over the sea and back onto the clear flooring...I then ran and dived into his swimming pool...and thats when I woke up.
What a bore.
I dont even know where to begin with this one... :D
Spook?
Ophelia
05-28-06, 11:17 PM
I dont even know where to begin with this one... :D
Spook?
Yes, it's rather non specific about anything. Just a 'blah' dream with no doubt little meaning to it. Thanks for considering to decode it!
Yes, it's rather non specific about anything. Just a 'blah' dream with no doubt little meaning to it. Thanks for considering to decode it!
I've been called to interpret by Zeik even though it's his thread, I love it though so totally don't mind. Anyway I'll give it a go Laura, but please don't slam me for my crazy interpretation, all in fun ;)
The dentists just represents something you used to do regularly and perhaps something you took for granted at the time. The old nursing pal confronting you probably represents how you hadn't stopped to smell the roses so to speak and did some things you regretted (interp of rumours) in that time of your life.
The shop where you purchased the doll is your childhood or perhaps a cherished memory from your past. The doll is your desperation to recapture that feeling, that moment, when you were happy. The face is your happy moment and because there's a hole you believe you've lost it forever and you can't paint it back on either that time in your life is over.....at least you believe you'll never get back to that kind og joy in your life.
The flying and the sea represents your future, because of the sea being an endless expanse with lots of possibilities it's a parallel to the future. The dentists office is something you are about to start that's going to be a big commitment, something that will last for ages and you aren't sure you are ready for it. You might fail (fall off) or hate it (jump off) and you are worried about it.
So apparently I was still in New York visiting a dentists...they didnt require any payment for my dental care, which I thought was nice of them...I was then approached by an old nursing pal who asked me why I had spread lies that her and I had some sort of lesbian affair when we were out one night on the tiles....I was flabbergasted, I didnt know why I had spread these rumours either...
I then went on to a little shop where I purchased a small chubby wooden doll without a face...her face had a hole in it and the inside was painted red...but paints came with the doll, so you could paint your own face, but with the hole, it was impossible for me to do so - I still bought it.
Then I had a bit of flying...I was visiting the dentists house in the middle of the sea...it was like a floating barge, but part of the flooring was completely clear....I was running about it, ran too far and floated over the sea and back onto the clear flooring...I then ran and dived into his swimming pool...and thats when I woke up.
What a bore.
Okay- now that i've thought about it- my guess would be that its a dream about regret- probably something you did or did not do in your childhood. I agree with spooks idea about the flying/ocean representing the future- but the end bit is tough.
This is an interesting bit- to dream of a dentist, in modern interpretations, represents your periodic doubt over the sincerity or honor of some person. If you chose this interpretation, then the old nursing pal would be the obvious connection to doubt. Could she just be the manifestation of some kind of doubt you have? Perhaps over your career, or education?
The dentist returns at the end, which puzzles me.
If you want to go with these ideas, then what you have is a picture of doubt around both your future and your past. But what does that mean to you?
Ophelia
05-29-06, 02:27 PM
Spooks and Zeiken...I see how you came to some of your thoughts and theories from what you have written and I find it quite unsettling that to a great extent, what you have written makes sense to me. Maybe it wont next week, next month, but right now....it does.
I basically posted this on a whim, not expecting anything in return. Maybe it sounds a little bizarre to say this but I am more sure of what I wish to do and what decision I need to make and you're right it was cast in doubt, but no longer....its a big step...numerous oceans and seas away.
I do not know how accurate dream interpretation is...I do not take it too seriously, but I will say this, you put something to me which I needed to hear/explore in thought.
Thanks.
SmegFirk
05-29-06, 06:42 PM
this was last night and I have been up and around today around 11 hours so things are a lot more hazy than they were when I first went up however...
I was back at my secondary school and there was some sort of function going on, I think it was a party of some sort. I was completely depressed in my dream and went off to be alone and hide from everybody. From a third person perspective I could see that everybody else was worried about me and they started moving throughout the school grounds in search of me. My secondary school was quite an open planned place much like a university campus on a smaller scale. I managed to elude them without too much difficulty. They called the bus company who used to take me to school to come along so that when I was ready I could go home. From my position I could see the bus arrive and I did not want to go home because I felt I would not be understood and would not be able to explain why I was feeling down.
I went back to where we had all gathered in the beginning and a couple of old staff members said I should talk to them. I said that I would at the end of the party when most of the other people had gone. Then I woke up.
*edit*
just a couple of things, I do not know why I was so depressed in my dream, and for the first time ever that I can recall I was my normal disabled self in my dream. Throughout my entire life to this point, I am 27, I have always been able bodied in my dreams.
slasher25
06-01-06, 05:22 PM
i've had too many dreams come true, i wonder why that is. could my dreams be a sign?
ash_is_the_gal
06-02-06, 11:18 AM
this isn't going to be one specific dream, but a theme i have in my dreams very, very often... and not just recently, but pretty much as far back as i can remember.
i often have dreams that have to do with tornadoes... it varies, but normally, it happens in the middle of a normal, nothing special dream... its like la la doo de dooo doo and then boom im standing in the street, or more than once, im driving down the street and i look ahead and there is a tornado. it is always very scary, for me in the dream. a lot of the times when it happens i am trying to flee, get away, and 9 times out of ten i am trying to save a loved one as well. sometimes the dream ends with me holding on to dear life to a loved one, and i will wake myself up, cause i lost them.
i have had two that i can remember in the last month. the first one is a little hazy and i don't remember the whole dream but i do know i was overlooking my town, the town that i live in, i could see across the whole city and there were several tornados. they were just overtaking the entire city. everything was left in ruins. i was surrounded by a group of people on top of a higher ground. i have a feeling most of the people in the city had already evacuated and we were all that was left, us on this higher ground. it was scary but i also felt this deep sadness, watching my city left in ruins this way.
the second dream was just a few nights ago. i was an employee in the grocery store that is right around the corner from my house. i was one of those baggers that goes out and gets carts. i was pushing a cart of groceries for this middle aged woman who had a child. the child was sitting in the front of the cart. as we approached her car i looked up and saw a huge tornado in the distance, coming closer. this is the first time i ever remember not feeling so scared. i was a little scared, but nothing like i usually am in these dreams. i kept on doing my job like it was nothing, but there was a part of me that was frightened too. all i could think about was that little girl in the cart. i think i covered her in groceries--that was my way of protecting her. the mother seemed annoyed with me and just wanted to get in her car and go.
after they drove off i was continued walking around the lot grabbing carts. i could still see the tornado, it was very close now, but i kept doing my job. i went back into the store and everyone seemed like they were trying to find somewhere safe to go. the last thing i remember is seeing it through the front window. i think in this dream, it was the first time i wasn't so scared or worried, but it was still there... slightly.
and this next part is going to sound strange, but i think in this dream i had some kind of powers. i have powers in my dreams a lot, by the way. i could make the tornado bigger or smaller.
this whole thing sounds very odd. anyway, if anyone could give me any kind of input it would be appreciated. these dreams are so often and usually very frightening. thanks.
Smeg-
Perhaps you dream is simply about your desire to be alone sometimes? Is solitude something you seek? fear? unable to attain?
Ash- I think it may be too easy to use the contemporary translation of tornado- the idea of a destructive or overwhelming force, symbolizing the same characteristics in a relationship. For instance, trying to save a loved one from a tornado could possibbly represent the destructive / abusive / dangerous / violent aspects of the relationship with that particular person.
But it is more important for you to look at the context of the tornado every instance it presents itself, so you can decide for yourself what it means. For example, i dream of trains. Trains are never the focus of my dreams, but they appear as a motif indefinitley, in any dream of consequence. After analyzing my dreams over and over again- i decided that trains appear to symbolize the transitory periods in my life. They represent my personal journey. They represent my need to always me moving forward, my drive to be in constant change and growth and movement.
A contemporary analyzation, though- would say that trains = conformity, and if you dream of trains, you live a conformed life defined by set tracks. Thats not me, and that certainly has nothing to do with my trains.
So again, all you have to do is take a closer look and decide for yourself.
Sexy Celebrity
06-02-06, 01:33 PM
Odd dream last night:
Attended some kind of showing with a group of people (about 30, I'd say). It was for some bizarre Tim Burtonesque cartoon show that was quite popular. The group of people was a bunch of unknown, B movie stars - I can't even tell you their names. But they looked... different. Like, I knew who they were, but they had aged - maybe it's how they look now, some I haven't seen pictures of in years.
After the show, we all started discussing it, but for some reason it wasn't done in person, it was done via Myspace bulletins and instant messenger.
The next part I remember grosses me out. I went to a chinese restaurant - it was sort of a buffet, except they kept bringing you a plate of meat, and you had an unlimited bowl of vegetable stuff. The food was NASTY. It was *****. Weird stuff I had never seen before. A chunk of white white meat... some orangey noodle stuff strung around it, and some kind of hard crust. The vegetable bowl was.... well, I didn't see that very well, it was mostly the plates of meat that this waitress kept bringing me. Anyway, the whole meal was only $5.00.... $5.02 with tax, I remember that correctly. The odd thing is the staff of this restaurant looked pretty normal. There were two blonde haired girls at the cash register, both good looking and happy. I refused to pay the bill... why? I saw some bugs crawling around the food. Little ones. I remember that before I went to bed, I saw a really weird little spider. That appeared in my dream, with the food.
k SmegFirk here's my take but be wary I'm fairly new at this. :)
Smeg-
Perhaps you dream is simply about your desire to be alone sometimes? Is solitude something you seek? fear? unable to attain?
Hey Zeik i'm thinking a little differently this time but I see where you're comin from.
Smeg- I think for sure the fact that you were your 'normal disabled self' has to be hugely significant because you have never been this way in your dreams before. You going off to be alone and people wanting to find you could be a representation of you distancing yourself from people who are reaching out to you. It's an idea of you seeing people as not understanding, because they can't truly see your perspective (all that entails your life, including your disability), or maybe you are even using this as an excuse for keeping people away. If this is the case then perhaps you are imagining a future scenario whereby if you continue to keep people at arms length and not let people in then you will be this depressed person and it will all come about by a perspective that nobody understands, nobody gets it, but if that were to happen you would be selling yourself short of the great life you deserve.
Connection with the world, including people around us, is what makes a life worth living, people don't have to understand to love/care for each other even if you want them to, sometimes they just can't.
This interpretation may be very irrelevant but I got carried away with an ideal that many people around me hold, so feel free to say I'm way off track :p
Odd dream last night:
The next part I remember grosses me out. I went to a chinese restaurant - it was sort of a buffet, except they kept bringing you a plate of meat, and you had an unlimited bowl of vegetable stuff. The food was NASTY. It was *****. Weird stuff I had never seen before. A chunk of white white meat... some orangey noodle stuff strung around it, and some kind of hard crust. The vegetable bowl was.... well, I didn't see that very well, it was mostly the plates of meat that this waitress kept bringing me.
Time to consider becoming a vegetarian again :yup: who knows what kind of meat it was :eek:
Time to consider becoming a vegetarian again :yup: who knows what kind of meat it was :eek:
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i've had too many dreams come true, i wonder why that is. could my dreams be a sign?
oops missed this. Um it depends on what they're about, if they're about predictable events like meeting somebody new and fun, then you do, it's less exciting than dreaming a friend got fired then they do the next day. Also you could take it from a spiritual sense, are you religious at all?
I find it amazing how i can conceive, direct, and edit entire movies in my dreams. i guess thats how i know im a film major...
Last night i dreamt out an entire movie about 5 misfit kids. They all go to the same church where their parent's force them to sit in the children's section, although most of them are clearly too old. In an act of rebellion, the older boy cracks a plan to escape right at the beginning of the service, and asks the older girl to come with. (By older, in this instance, i mean 12 or 13.) Of course, each has a younger sibling that insists on tagging along, much to the aggrivation of the older kids. Somewhere during the escape they pick up one more.
They exit the rear church doors and start runnung. Its a beautiful summer day- blue skies, birds chirping and everything. Cue music- "Rise Above it", the song from the montage in Cool Runnings. This part was my favorite- the kids just running through the grass, climbing trees, doing handstands, having a great time. They end up near a baseball field- watching a few kids toss a ball around. One of them spots the local sherriff driving by, who had obviously been alerted to the kids' absence by their parents. Our misfit heroes duck behind a shed and don uniforms as a disguise.
But of course, they are mistaken by the coach as players. They toss around, hit some balls, and guess what? They're pretty good. The coach approaches them afterwards, asks them to join so they can finally win against the neighboring town. It is at this point that we are introduced to a minor subplot involving the coach's past. He is fresh from a two-week stint in jail for alcoholism, and is given the option of community service to reduce his sentence and clear his record. Totally original idea, i know. *Cough Cough* Quack *Cough Cough* ;)
So they join, the two kids finally kiss at the end, the coach discovers a new passion for life and dumps out all the alcohol in his house, the parents suddenly approve of their misfit son, and all ends well over A Bruce Springsteen song that i cant remember. Roll credits.
It seriously feels as if i went to sleep and watched a movie. I realize its not the most original plot by any means- would probably go no further than a few mil at the box office- but i think
it would do well with the kids- nice and wholesome.
There was one more dream in which i was strangling my professor, but thats not nearly as interesting. ;)
Darth Stujitzu
06-22-06, 03:29 PM
I have this reoccurring dream that I'm in the chase scene at the end of the Benny Hill Show, getting chased by semi clad buxom women is fine, but why does the old bald guy keep appearing............ :eek: :laugh:
I know I'm dreaming, cause in real life it's normally me that does the chasing............
I find it amazing how i can conceive, direct, and edit entire movies in my dreams. i guess thats how i know im a film major...
That's cool Zeik I liked the story. Your dreams sound so specific and I'm amazed about how much you can remember. For me I lose quite a lot of the detail and don't dream that often......ugh! I've been meaning to post this nightmare I had but now I just forgot it and it's so weird cause I hadn't had a single nightmare for like 6 years and I could barely remember the one I had then (I think it was about spiders :p, although now I'm not really scared of them).
Why does my brain choose to forget all my dreams?? & the one's I do remember my brain slowly erodes away as quick as it can.....it's kind of frustrating cause i usually enjoy dreaming but they're always so random like a friend who now lives in South Africa is standing in my uni and somehow i don't even notice until I wake up! *hey what was she doing there?? (then 5 minutes later I forget the dream but remember that my friend was there :rolleyes: )
if you're really interested in dreams, you may want to look at this (http://www.dreamviews.com/index.php)
I've been at it for a while, and my dream recollection is getting pretty good. I'm at least glad the nightmares are gone.
ash_is_the_gal
07-07-06, 12:09 PM
here is a strange one which i had last night (funny thing is, its vivid yet i didn't think about it until just now, several hours after i woke up).
its only sort of bits and pieces but give a listen:
it started out i was on the phone with a female friend. i don't know who she was, i had this feeling it was someone i had just met not too long ago, and we had become close, she seemed really cool. anyway we were speaking via phone and i remember we were talking about movies. she told me about her favorite movie in the world, which was some movie i had never heard of, about a demonic rabbit (no, it wasn't Donnie Darko). it was more morbid than DD. the plot of the movie almost reminded me of Poltergist. she told me how much she loved the movie and instilled in me how much she wanted me to see it. i remember feeling excited i had found a friend in someone i really liked, such as her. i was sort of looking up to her and admiring the various things that were said in the phone conversation, which had a lot more to it but i don't remember what.
then it was like later on that day and i was hanging out with her, and there were other people there too, people i didn't know very well or had just met so i think they were her friends. i really liked them all. everyone was still talking about the movie, and i kept forgetting what the title was. i mean, someone would tell me the title, and i'd say, "oh yeah!" but then five seconds later someone would ask me what it was called and i could not remember. i remember, it became a sort of a joke, that i couldn't remember the title even when someone told me it several times. they were poking fun at me for it (good-naturedly) but i almost had the feeling that my friend, the one whose favorite movie it was, was sort of offended and took it personally that i kept forgetting it, like that meant i didn't care about it or something. i was trying so hard to keep the title in my head but it keep disappearing. it was indeed odd.
then it was some time later... i remember going to the video store to rent the movie, like she wanted me to. all the while, various mutual friends and acquantances where warning me about her, telling me not to trust her. they told me she did not have my best interest at heart and she was only going to do harm to me. they told me it had to do with the movie, whatever i do, do NOT rent that movie. i thought that sounded really silly and ridiculous and i did not listen to them.
i don't remember exactly how it ended, only that i should have headed the warnings and advice because in the end she was trying to do physical harm to me i think... she all of a sudden completely changed, like how cool and lovely she was, was just an act. i remember how hurt i felt that i had lost someone whom i had finally found, someone whom i loved so dearly, and she was only setting me up for hurt... like the whole reason she befriended me in the first place was to hurt me.
John McClane
03-27-07, 06:49 PM
I'm like Chuck Norris, I don't dream. :D
I'm like Chuck Norris, I don't dream. :D
Well, of course, how would chuck norris dream if he doesnt sleep? ;)
Funeral
03-28-07, 04:29 PM
I had a pretty interesting dream last night.All I really remember is at the beginning of my dream it shows a view of a Soviet dictator, and then hundreds of tanks start coming down this road in four single file lines and just keeps repeating.
I had a pretty interesting dream last night.All I really remember is at the beginning of my dream it shows a view of a Soviet dictator, and then hundreds of tanks start coming down this road in four single file lines and just keeps repeating.
So, what did you eat before you went to bed :)
Funeral
04-04-07, 02:19 PM
You know the usual, a couple hits of acid, a couple joints smoked.So that would explain why I had that weird dream.HAHA!
Well if any of you MoFo's need something to ponder on, take a hack at this. It may have more to do with my personal life than most would prefer, but it also has to do with dreams.
I'll start by saying that i am in an amazing relationship. It is long distance, but i know it's the real deal. Like, long-term marriage & kids kind of stuff. I've loved her for years, and I know I always will.
What does it mean, then, when a dream comes along that seems to betray these feelings? For instance, last week i had a dream where i was alone with this other girl, (a mutual friend of ours.) I remember experiencing very genuine feelings for this other girl within the dream. I reached out, touched her, kissed her. If it were a simple sex dream, that is, motivated by physical attraction, then i wouldnt be worried. But these were realistic emotions.
I awoke in a sweat. Those feelings in my dream didnt follow me into my waking life, but i was thinking about it all day.
Now here's the kicker; this isnt the first time something like this has happened. I often have dreams where i function as a very different person. My thoughts, emotions, feelings, likes and dislikes can change in so many different ways in the deep reaches of my subconscious.
What does this indicate? I have always believed in the power of the mind. I like to think that our minds are the closest physical manifestation of divinity. For me, faith and the mind are very closely linked, so if a dream sticks out at me, i tend to listen.
There are simple answers, sure. My friends would tell me that i fear commitment and this dream is exemplary of that. My old stress counselor, as he called himself, would say i need to take more hot baths and long walks. Frued would tell me to stop fantasizing about my mother.
But me, i know there is something behind this. It is my faith that assures me of that, but it is my humanity that has got me so determined to figure out what that is.
Any ideas?
What does it mean, then, when a dream comes along that seems to betray these feelings? For instance, last week i had a dream where i was alone with this other girl, (a mutual friend of ours.) I remember experiencing very genuine feelings for this other girl within the dream. I reached out, touched her, kissed her. If it were a simple sex dream, that is, motivated by physical attraction, then i wouldnt be worried. But these were realistic emotions.
Sometimes the person we are dreaming of is just a stand-in for someone else, e.g. your girlfriend, they are not real emotions, it was just a dream :yup:
Now here's the kicker; this isn't the first time something like this has happened. I often have dreams where i function as a very different person. My thoughts, emotions, feelings, likes and dislikes can change in so many different ways in the deep reaches of my subconscious.
Thats the thing about dreams you can be who ever you want.:yup:
But me, i know there is something behind this. It is my faith that assures me of that, but it is my humanity that has got me so determined to figure out what that is. Any ideas?
Maybe you are missing your girlfriend, this other girl was just a symbol of her :goof: I'm not much help :nope:
Sometimes the person we are dreaming of is just a stand-in for someone else, e.g. your girlfriend, they are not real emotions, it was just a dream :yup:
Thats the thing about dreams you can be who ever you want.:yup:
Maybe you are missing your girlfriend, this other girl was just a symbol of her :goof: I'm not much help :nope:
Nebbit. Do you mind if I ask what kind of a counsellor you are?
Nebbit. Do you mind if I ask what kind of a counsellor you are?
No, My background is in Psychiatry, I mostly see people with Anxiety, Depression, eating disorders, anger management, well really anything, if I can't help someone I usually find someone who can. :yup: during my training we didn't do any dream stuff :nope: except for Freud and Jung :)
No, My background is in Psychiatry, I mostly see people with Anxiety, Depression, eating disorders, anger management, well really anything, if I can't help someone I usually find someone who can. during my training we didn't do any dream stuff, except for Freud and Jung :)
Yay! A free shrink at MoFo's. Empty your pm box nebbit. Cause I got allot of skeletons that want out.......NOW! :D
Seriously though, that's pretty cool. Helping others like that. I'm sure without you guys around, this world would be a crazier place than it already is. :)
Yay! A free shrink at MoFo's. Empty your pm box nebbit. Cause I got allot of skeletons that want out.......NOW! :D
Done :laugh:
Done :laugh:
You ready nebbs? Cause this is gonna blow your socks off!
Here they come!!!!!!!!
Nebbit's face immediately after reading the first line of the first pm.
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Nebbit's face immediately after reading the first line of the first pm.
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Movie_watcher_18
05-10-07, 11:07 AM
my dream was weird!!
There was a hole with a monster-type thing in it. It grabbed hold of my leg and tore part of it off. i was in the mall. my mom helped me. even though i was passing out and bleeding everywhere, she never took me to the hospital. instead she took me to my grandmas house,and i was fine!!
explain that!!
my dream was weird!!
There was a hole with a monster-type thing in it. It grabbed hold of my leg and tore part of it off. i was in the mall. my mom helped me. even though i was passing out and bleeding everywhere, she never took me to the hospital. instead she took me to my grandmas house,and i was fine!!
explain that!!
Ok :goof: You are going through a very difficult time :yup: but not to worry :nope: your family are there for you and they will make things better :yup: :goof:
Any ideas?
Hey Zeik, I haven't seen this thread humming along for a while so in an attempt to reawaken it I'll pose a few ideas for ya :)
Well in relation to the dream about your friend. There could a few interpretations of it but in truth I doubt it is telling you that you secretly love your friend or anything extreme like that. It's not a fear of commitment either but perhaps a self doubting. Obviously if this played out in real life it would be a huge betrayal and you would really let down the girl you love. Maybe you are thinking that you might not meet the expectations of the girl you really love and that you might let her down in the long run. This is an extremely common worry so if this is true don't worry but it's perhaps an important part of your heart that you need to look at.
Take for example if a guy married a girl who has a body image issue and for a very long time believes she's terribly ugly. No matter how much the guy tells her she she's beautiful, in the end she doesn't believe it and becomes extremely depressed over time. In this case you couldn't really blame the guy could you, because while he was trying to fix the problem by encouraging her there was a deeper part of the girls heart that's broken. Maybe the dream is telling you that there's a part deep inside you that needs fixing too before you enter into a serious relationship. You need to trust yourself and believe in yourself that you are worthy of this woman and can be an awesome husband.......because right now you don't have that self belief, well not very strongly anyway.
I often have dreams where i function as a very different person. My thoughts, emotions, feelings, likes and dislikes can change in so many different ways in the deep reaches of my subconscious.
I'm not sure how much I agree with all the theories of the unconscious mind but certainly there can be parts of ourselves that want to ignore and come out in our dreams. Although its hard to interpret and has no real scientific basis (unless it's a recurring dream over a long period of time). In this case particularly dreams can show fears that we may become something we hate. You could dream that you beat somebody up because you are worried that you may have a bad temper....whether you do or not is a different story but do you see what I mean? This wouldn't mean necessarily that deep down you have all this hidden rage but perhaps you have an irrational fear that you do.
Hey dude a lot of this is just my own theorizing :P So feel free to disagree with what I'm saying about interpreting or the actual interp I gave you k.
Movie_watcher_18
05-12-07, 10:58 AM
Ok :goof: You are going through a very difficult time :yup: but not to worry :nope: your family are there for you and they will make things better :yup: :goof:
ok thanks!
i wonder what difficult time im going through??
ok thanks!
i wonder what difficult time im going through??
Probably nothing :nope: see what happens when an idiot :goof: like me interoperates your dreams :yup: :laugh:
It's sad Ophelia doesn't mofo it anymore :bawling:. Well if you pop in again deary, let me know how it all worked out in the end :)
bleacheddecay
06-11-07, 03:37 PM
I can't really interpret dreams for anyone. I wish I could.
At one time I had an online bud who did dream analysis using a combination of the Jungian model and he also used his back ground in Lilith female / male roles throughout history and mythos.
I had never encountered any system of dream analysis that felt right to me. Most have standard dreams symbols in them such as a cat represents a woman. In my dreams cats are cats, usually specific beloved cats. LOL.
In this model of his everyone and thing in the dream mostly were parts of me. So when there was a child in the dream it was my inner child or the child I'd once been. When there was a powerful male character it was the side of me that was like that and so on.
Anyway, I would love to find someone who can interpret my dreams so well again. I miss that guy.
Lately my dreams have been excruciatingly detailed with a little (not nearly enough), sex thrown in.
For instance, I dreamed, I decided to take a Methodist pre-school and turn it into a K-12 Catholic school. I then have to find, persuasively argue before the board and implement the perfect curriculum for each area of study. I also have to write up the conduct manuals and such. In the dream I actually reviewed pieces of curriculum or wrote word for word manuals. Argh!
If not for the few crumbs of sex, I'd hate dreaming right now. Details, I hate details! Again, I'll say it, I need a direct brain to computer connection. Sometimes I compose music or write books in my dreams. Yet later they are fragmented and less powerful.
*sigh*
The other dream is always about a man wearing a brown jacket riding a horse through the woods at night… and someone shoots at him… but I always wake up before I know if they hit him or not…
Anyone have any ideas?
A male figure in your life is missing/lost, maybe Father, Grandfather, lover, brother, etc... and you think/know/desire that he is looking for you, searching for you, needing you. He gets close, very close to finding you and you finding him, but then something violent prevents it from happening and he is taking away from you, but you are clueless as to why.
A male figure in your life is missing/lost, maybe Father, Grandfather, lover, brother, etc... and you think/know/desire that he is looking for you, searching for you, needing you. He gets close, very close to finding you and you finding him, but then something violent prevents it from happening and he is taking away from you, but you are clueless as to why.
Interesting analysis, but it may be a little cut-and-dry for my tastes. I think it may be too simple to interpret the man in the forest as a man in her actual life. I do think the idea of mystery is there, so we could say that there is some measure of frustration in her life regarding unanswered questions.
In the classical method, a forest could represent the subconscious or a personal transitional phase. The image of the horse usually denotes a strong physical energy, one of power and mystery. What these images mean put together, i cannot say. But it's interesting to think about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tinlvdaW2Zs
Caitlyn
01-21-08, 07:24 PM
A male figure in your life is missing/lost, maybe Father, Grandfather, lover, brother, etc... and you think/know/desire that he is looking for you, searching for you, needing you. He gets close, very close to finding you and you finding him, but then something violent prevents it from happening and he is taking away from you, but you are clueless as to why.
Interesting analysis, but it may be a little cut-and-dry for my tastes. I think it may be too simple to interpret the man in the forest as a man in her actual life. I do think the idea of mystery is there, so we could say that there is some measure of frustration in her life regarding unanswered questions.
In the classical method, a forest could represent the subconscious or a personal transitional phase. The image of the horse usually denotes a strong physical energy, one of power and mystery. What these images mean put together, i cannot say. But it's interesting to think about.
Wow... I totally missed these posts earlier.... sorry guys... and I thank you both for trying to analyze my dream. You've both given me food for thought and I'll get back to you after I think about it for a bit.... I'm still having the dream by the way...
Is there any way your dreams are connected, and can you tell where they take place? You say the house resembles those from 200+ years ago. Homes built where? America? Ireland? What kind of roof does the house have? Does it have columns in front? Do you have any other info on what happens before the rider gets shot at? Why are you in the forest and where are you? Or is this like watching a movie? (If you know.)
Caitlyn
01-22-08, 01:13 AM
Is there any way your dreams are connected, and can you tell where they take place? You say the house resembles those from 200+ years ago. Homes built where? America? Ireland? What kind of roof does the house have? Does it have columns in front? Do you have any other info on what happens before the rider gets shot at? Why are you in the forest and where are you? Or is this like watching a movie? (If you know.)
I've often wondered if the dreams are related and I have had both of them in the same night... but normally wake up in between. Although I really can't explain it other than just saying it is a feeling I have, I've always thought the house was somewhere across the pond... and the woods were on the east coast... possibly in Virginia.
I'm looking for a picture of a house that is similar and will post it if I can find one.... After looking at a few, I think I might be wrong about the number of floors though and there may be one more... and I'm pretty sure the roof is slate. There is a very tall square tower in the middle and two smaller ones on each end and sometimes the house is painted, and sometimes it is just unpainted wood like it is still being built.
As for other info on the man in the woods... I seem to just be an observer but not like a movie... I'm actually there and can hear who ever does the shooting right behind me slightly to the side... but can never turn around to see who it is.
Hope some of that makes sense.... :D
chet seven
01-22-08, 02:16 AM
how often do people have lucid dreams here?
if you don't know what that is, it's when you can control what you are doing in your dreams. It mostly starts out as a normal dream then the dreamer realizes that he/she is dreaming.
i've had lots of lucid dreams, none too recently though. Once I just made my self have the powers of spider-man, i couldn't websling but i could stick on walls. boy did i try so hard to web shoot though, that would of been schweet.
Ravynn_Marstalas
01-22-08, 03:11 AM
I had a couple really odd dreams the other night. Here they are:
I was with these people I don't know, but I knew them in my dreams. I was still high school age, and I went to a religious school. I was hanging out with my friends and we were driving around. Well eventually we are being really stupid and doing things that we really shouldn't have been, like speeding and drifting and crazy things like that. I remember that the guys I was with were brothers.
Well we're being crazy and driving stupidly, and we hit someone and killed them. I was freaking out, but the other two just picked up the body and threw it in the trunk. We found a place later and dumped the body. And they threatened me that they would kill me and dump my body if I told anybody.
Well awhile later I decided that I didn't want all of the weight on my shoulders, so I went to the Priest/principal of the school to tell him what had happened. There were like three things that I wanted to tell him, (all of them happened throughout my dream, but I couldn't remember them) and I told him about the stuff that had happened with the car and the brothers when we heard a noise, then we realized there was a hole in the wall that lead to a different room, but whoever was in there had run out before we saw them. The priest/principal came back in and told me that I should run and hide.
So I left, I got home and packed up a bunch of stuff, and took off. I was a far way away and I went into this diner to rest, thinking I was far enough away I could just rest for a minute. But as I was walking in the brothers walked out and grabbed me and threw me in the trunk.
Then I woke up.
It was creepy. I was a little scared when I woke up. But lets continue....
Last night I had a dream that me and my boyfriend were getting married, but not really. Like we were having the ceramony, but not actually getting married. Like it was just for show. It was wierd.
But like half way through I messed up and we had to start the whole ceramony over again. I felt so stupid. Like all the way from me walking down the isle again and everything. I don't know why we had to go clear back.
Well I had invited some wierd people. Like I didn't invite anyone from my mum's side, but I had invited all of my step dad's family, and my dad. That was it. There was like noone there. After me and my boyfriend left and hitched a ride in the back of a hay truck. We were just laying there in all this hay, me in my wedding dress (which was actually pretty cute) and Mikey still in his tux, just watching the sky and talking.
Then I woke up from that one.
Sorry that was so long, but I had those dreams and just curious as to what people thought about them.
Caitlyn
01-22-08, 11:11 AM
I'm looking for a picture of a house that is similar and will post it if I can find one.... After looking at a few, I think I might be wrong about the number of floors though and there may be one more... and I'm pretty sure the roof is slate. There is a very tall square tower in the middle and two smaller ones on each end and sometimes the house is painted, and sometimes it is just unpainted wood like it is still being built.
Okay, this is as close as I've been able to find, so far... the tower roof is shaped differently from the one in my dream and the end towers are missing... they're shaped just like the one in the middle but would be approximately the same height as the main section of the house... which would be quiet a bit wider in my dream and the house in my dream is higher off the ground with wider set of stairs going to the porch... I'll keep looking and hopefully find one a little closer but maybe this one gives an idea of what I am talking about....
valhalla
01-27-08, 06:51 AM
What does it mean to dream in black and white?
i think it means your colour blind:D
Swedish Chef
09-07-08, 12:27 AM
I've been having a really insane recurring dream over the past couple of weeks or so. I'm sitting in this tree in the middle of the jungle and it's pretty much pitch-black out. I'm just sitting there, when, all of a sudden, this really old, bony monkey comes up behind me. He's all emaciated and scraggly... he looks like Rafiki from The Lion King. Well, he puts his hand on my shoulder and he always gets really close to my face and I can feel his breath right on the side of my head. And then he starts whispering, really quickly in a super-hoarse voice, all kinds of crazy stuff to me. Like it's just a weird, random stream of consciousness. Just mindless ramblings about the oddest stuff. It's usually about world history and his takes on certain events over the coarse of human existence. I'd say I have the dream about two or three times every week and I always wake up sweating and scared out of mind.
Maybe I'm getting an aneurysm or something?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4e/Rafiki_TheLionKing.JPG/250px-Rafiki_TheLionKing.JPG
I'm sorry I never got back to Caity about her dream. It was only because I didn't want to mislead or BS you. If you have anything to add, I'll try to do better this time. I've stopped having this next dream, but it was one of the freakier ones I've had, at least since I got all old and stuff.
The weirdest recent dream I had was that I was my age now, back at the first house I remember living at. Everything was just like the old 60s. There were no people though. I looked out across the intersection in front of my house to see a low-riding vehicle appproaching me, as I stood on my front lawn. As it go closer to me, I recognized this object to be a coffin with wheels, and I stepped into the street to look through its glass cover. My mom (who's been dead since 1987) looked very lifelike but immobile inside, so I leaned over her. Just then she opened her eyes, told me she loved me, and said that "they" didn't need me right now. Needless to say, I immediately woke up, but instead of it actually freaking me out, I was strangely comforted and could only think of something along the lines of Wild Oranjebooms (forgive me, Ingmar.)
As far as when I was younger, I often had dreams of flying or floating, and I think it happened so often that I actually believed that I could at least float in real life. I also seemed to ride my bike off of freeway overpasses often and took a very long time to ever land. In fact, I don't recall ever landing at all, so I guess that's a good thing.
Dill-man
12-17-08, 07:17 PM
I never remember any of my dreams contents exactly (well I do the day of but I always forget them later) but I remember the feelings going with it. My most intense dreaming experience was sleeping in the car with Radiohead's Kid A playing in my ears. The music went with my dreams and I just remember having one of the best feelings of my life... I was completely enthralled with my dream.
I just wish I could remember the contents because I'm sure they were increadible...
rice1245
12-17-08, 07:39 PM
I've been having a really insane recurring dream over the past couple of weeks or so. I'm sitting in this tree in the middle of the jungle and it's pretty much pitch-black out. I'm just sitting there, when, all of a sudden, this really old, bony monkey comes up behind me. He's all emaciated and scraggly... he looks like Rafiki from The Lion King. Well, he puts his hand on my shoulder and he always gets really close to my face and I can feel his breath right on the side of my head. And then he starts whispering, really quickly in a super-hoarse voice, all kinds of crazy stuff to me. Like it's just a weird, random stream of consciousness. Just mindless ramblings about the oddest stuff. It's usually about world history and his takes on certain events over the coarse of human existence. I'd say I have the dream about two or three times every week and I always wake up sweating and scared out of mind.
Maybe I'm getting an aneurysm or something?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4e/Rafiki_TheLionKing.JPG/250px-Rafiki_TheLionKing.JPG
that is soooo weird and alarming!
I just woke up from my nap and i had a dream that i parked in the school parking lot and when i came back out all the cars were buses, big yellow school buses, so i got in my car (i don't know how i could have seen the difference) and all the pedals were super far away from my foot, at least the brake pedal was. So i started driving down this hill towards a green light which then turns yellow and it's all snowy of course since everything here is covered, so i start to brake and i couldn't make it and ran the red light and got pulled over and tried to explain what the school had done to my car. that's all
bleacheddecay
12-18-08, 04:35 PM
Last night I was, once again trying to kill my ex in my dreams. It's so frustrating that this occurs. I think I'm done with certain issues and here he comes hurting our child and me in my dreams.
Even if I do manage to kill him, reduce him to goo, grind his bones down, suddenly he's in the shower again, ready to hurt us again.
*sigh*
mikeython1
12-18-08, 04:44 PM
That sucks! I hear the last thing you think about before you fall asleep you dream about! If you listen to music or the television while you are trying to fall asleep it could alter the dreams you may be having into more pleasant ones!
Last night I was, once again trying to kill my ex in my dreams.
*sigh*
Sounds a healthy way to kill him :yup:
John McClane
12-18-08, 06:22 PM
I had a very surreal dream last night where I visited a friend of mine for the first time and stayed several nights. We went to the mall, movies, restaurants, etc. It was just like normal life. Then I woke up and seriously couldn't tell reality from dream until I gave it some thought. I love those types of dreams.
FILMFREAK087
12-18-08, 06:44 PM
I usually have the falling dream, or more often the dream where I am in a car going EXTREMELY fast. The sensations are very similar and VERY intense.
My last few days have been occupied with researching papers for college that are due the 4th of January (I have 5 all together) and the last few nights my dreams had something to do the essays! God i have such a boring life at the moment!!
rice1245
12-18-08, 06:50 PM
i love that too McClane, i most of the time don't even remember them until something sparks my memory. Like i was in the shower this morning and i noticed my pinky nail was really long and then was surprised because i remembered i had a dream that it broke 0.o stuff like that.
i had a very unpleasant dream about marriage last night =\ and then a really freaky one where me and Morgan Freeman were working for the french government trying to stop James Mcavoy and his girlfriend from killing people :shrug: the freaky part was that it kept showing them killing people
igor_is_fugly
12-18-08, 07:10 PM
I had a very surreal dream last night where I visited a friend of mine for the first time and stayed several nights. We went to the mall, movies, restaurants, etc. It was just like normal life. Then I woke up and seriously couldn't tell reality from dream until I gave it some thought. I love those types of dreams.
I'm so bad about that. I always start talking to people about things we did or conversations I thought we had and they're like....um...I think you just dreamed that cause that for sure did not happen... And the other night I woke up and was walking around for a good 30 seconds completely confident I was dreaming(cause I have self aware dreams a lot) but then it occured to me that it was really reality and I felt so crazy
bleacheddecay
12-19-08, 03:20 PM
True, I can't go to jail for that at least! Unfortunately, they are not triumphant dreams. I want him to stay dead (which he is in RL), and out of my dreams. There are a few things like him that I feel so done with and yet they creep back into my dreams. *sigh*
I felt the book I was reading was tapping into some negative emotions and causing those kinds of nightmares. I don't like dreams in which I have to deal with toxic, dangerous people. I'm enjoying the book but I do think it's bringing out my buried fears, fears that I can't seem to shake.
So, last night I read a book that is mostly about sex. Sure there is a plot of sorts, but it's mostly about erotica. I cleansed my mental palate and what did I dream about? SEX!!! Yesss! Yesss! Yesss!
*note to self, get more sex books!*
Of course my mind had to take this in a strange direction. The sex was with a man I would never normally have sex with, one who might even need a good delousing, but hey, I'll take it! LOL.
Sounds a healthy way to kill him :yup:
bleacheddecay
12-19-08, 03:22 PM
I wasn't thinking about him before I fell asleep.
I do want to look into lucid dreaming and how to make your dreams what you'd like.
I like action dreams.
I like sex dreams.
I don't like nightmares in which I'm trying to protect my kids.
That sucks! I hear the last thing you think about before you fall asleep you dream about! If you listen to music or the television while you are trying to fall asleep it could alter the dreams you may be having into more pleasant ones!
John McClane
12-19-08, 04:11 PM
Dreams are generally how your brain processes information it has received throughout the day and decide what to file and what not. Other times, your brain is just whack. ;)
bleacheddecay
12-19-08, 04:17 PM
I totally agree with you!
http://bestsmileys.com/signs1/17.gif what John said :yup:
mikeython1
12-19-08, 09:19 PM
I dont dream much but when I wake up the nightmares begin!!!!!!!
Along those same lines, it's sometimes infuriating when you're having a pleasant dream and the alarm goes off, informing you that you have to get out of bed and go do something much more mundane. It's also a pisser when you're doing something fun in bed and you're not sleeping, when that stupid thing goes off. :cool:
Last night, I had the coolest/craziest dream I think I've ever had.
It was like a movie, and it's hard to fully explain what was going and the emotion it gave (hell, I think all dreams are like that since they are so personal), but basically it was about a man who was dealing with a lot of inner turmoil whilst unwillingly dealing with a bunch of time warping...
He wore a face (that somehow came from his) over his own mutilated face. The shot I remember best is a close-up profile shot of him looking down, meditating on what sh*t his life is, and then we get just a little closer to where we only really see his right eye, and we see a transparent eye directly over his actual eye, which is moving around beneath it.
It was also a depressing love story.
And it dealt with time travel (more like time warp actually, but nonetheless).
So it was like... a crazy mixture of The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Darkman, and Replay (my favorite book).
I wish I could have that dream again and record it onto a video camera or a DVD or something.
bleacheddecay
12-20-08, 02:53 PM
Sounds awesome!
Last night, I had the coolest/craziest dream I think I've ever had.
It was like a movie, and it's hard to fully explain what was going and the emotion it gave (hell, I think all dreams are like that since they are so personal), but basically it was about a man who was dealing with a lot of inner turmoil whilst unwillingly dealing with a bunch of time warping...
He wore a face (that somehow came from his) over his own mutilated face. The shot I remember best is a close-up profile shot of him looking down, meditating on what sh*t his life is, and then we get just a little closer to where we only really see his right eye, and we see a transparent eye directly over his actual eye, which is moving around beneath it.
It was also a depressing love story.
And it dealt with time travel (more like time warp actually, but nonetheless).
So it was like... a crazy mixture of The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Darkman, and Replay (my favorite book).
I wish I could have that dream again and record it onto a video camera or a DVD or something.
linespalsy
02-18-09, 01:11 PM
I don't know if this counts but I've been told I talk in my sleep pretty frequently (and will often respond while asleep if I am talked to).
When I was a kid and had sleep-overs this came up a bit but I don't remember any specifics.
About six years ago when I was on summer break from college my mom tried to wake me up for work one morning and ended up being yelled at by me while I was asleep. She recalled the conversation to me later when i was awake and it went something like this:
lines' mom (through my closed door): Lines, get up! It's time to go to work!
lines: I'm already at work!
lines' mom: You're at work?
lines (sounding annoyed): yeah, leave me alone!
lines' mom: What are you doing?
lines: I'm selling comeuppance.
lines' mom: You're what?
lines: Selling comeuppance!
lines' mom: Who are you selling it to?
lines: Anyone who will buy it and I'm very busy, now [expletive deleted] off!
More recently my goil foil has told me that I've woken her up to tell her things that can lead into a brief conversation. At least once recently I've woken her up by talking about Run DMC (who I don't like that much and hardly ever listen to), and on Monday at 3 am I started talking about teaching math.
I'm not sure if these are connected to dreams but if they are I wish I could remember them.
Since your mom heard it through the door, maybe you actually said "I'm selling some muppets"?
http://blogs.suburbanchicagonews.com/bauman/muppets.jpg
linespalsy
02-18-09, 01:32 PM
Not out of the realm of likelihood but I did actually use the term comeuppance conversationally in those days (starting from way back when I read The Magnificent Ambersons as a teen) so there's that too. :)
king_of_movies_316
02-20-09, 01:12 AM
I had a dream a couple of nights ago that i was watching the Exorsist and half way through the movie became real and i was fighting the possed chick in my backyard.
NewGoblin
02-20-09, 01:19 AM
I had a strange dream last night that my Pokemon toys came to life and started playing with my cat, and I pulled down my pants and started peeing on the floor and my math teacher was their!
rice1245
02-20-09, 01:24 AM
haha this is a really weird one but i've been watching scifi channel lately and they always have that paranormal investigation team show on so i had a dream that they were investigating my house for something and i was part of the team but i just ended up cuddling with benicio del toro on a couch. i dunno...that was my dream
I woke up a little before I had to the other day, and went back to sleep for something like 15 minutes, and somehow managed to have a dream in that span that felt about as long.
I thought that was odd.
Sometimes those dreams which seem to happen so quickly out of the blue are the most intense.
NewGoblin
02-20-09, 01:48 AM
One time I had a Family Guy dream when I was little and Peter was picking out a bed with Lois and Peter was like "I want that bed!" and then Peter slid down on a waterfall bed. I woke up peeing on my bed, 'cuz I was peeing in my bed while I was dreaming.
My dream life so far has been weird. A few years ago (around 5) I stopped having dreams altogether. Then a year or two after that a storm of super crazy dreams came out of nowhere. And it continues...
Harry Lime
02-20-09, 02:06 AM
I don't think I'll be relating my extremely messed up dreams here, although I never have nightmares they're still kinda crazy. If I were to use my dreams as a guide, they are in no way only my brain going over the day. The closest I've had in assistance to viewing my dreams and making some sort of sense to them was through Carl Jung's writings. For the longest time I never dreamed (or at least I didn't remember them), and then one day - Bam! Here you go buddy, have fun trying to figure these out.
NewGoblin
02-20-09, 02:10 AM
One time I had a nightmare I was helg gunpoint by a robber, he shot my leg and I was sceamin'. But my brother has a brief fight with him and my brother throws hot water at the robbers face burning him and he proccecced to beat up the robber!
linespalsy
02-26-09, 11:47 AM
The other night I had a dream I was reading -- or more likely having read to me -- a long blog post about - I'm not sure but it seemed to be about the internet. But the only bit I can actually remember was how the post ended:
“The famous military artist Wolverineisnitz (2000 BC - ?) spent his last years ensconced in an obsessive search for his anonymous rival, whom he had never met but was somehow certain held the title of head mortician at the Naval Academy. As for his final words, Wolverineisnitz proclaimed his solemn gratification at having lived to see his opponent bested in a game of death.”
BadaBing
03-06-09, 03:39 PM
Last night I was dreaming I was arguing with my mom about what plates we were going to eat off of for dinner. I was holding a plate and all of a sudden my teeth fell out of my mouth into the plate. My teeth turned into a $100 bill and I went to the dentist to get some new teeth. Instead of giving me new teeth the dentist inserted candy corns into the teeth holes in my gums.
SamsoniteDelilah
03-06-09, 04:00 PM
...bested in a game of death.”Ah, the inescapable fate of humanity! :p
I had a very brief dream recently that Yoda was reprimanding me for using rough language on mofo. I was shocked!
SamsoniteDelilah
03-06-09, 04:00 PM
...bested in a game of death.”Ah, the inescapable fate of humanity! :p
I had a very brief dream recently that Yoda was reprimanding me for using rough language on mofo. I was f***ing shocked!
Last night I was dreaming I was arguing with my mom about what plates we were going to eat off of for dinner. I was holding a plate and all of a sudden my teeth fell out of my mouth into the plate. My teeth turned into a $100 bill and I went to the dentist to get some new teeth. Instead of giving me new teeth the dentist inserted candy corns into the teeth holes in my gums.
Ok, listen to your Mum, stop spending all your money on candy as your teeth will fall out :goof:
Tacitus
04-06-09, 07:57 AM
Here's a cracker!
Last night, in the land of Nod, I was transported back to my old secondary school, walking along a corridor, pushing past various spotty oiks (I was in adult form here).
I met my old Latin teacher and walked past him. He shouted after me "I've got epilepsy!", then I turned round and shook his hand....
Reality time - It's been years since I've seen the old fella. He's well in his 80s now and apparently in the best of health. Epilepsy has not been mentioned in relation to him, nor has it about anyone in my circle. ;)
spudracer
04-06-09, 10:31 AM
I had a doozy of one last night, don't remember a majority of it, but I do remember walking into a store and they, I sh*t you not, had Mr. Potato Head lava lamps. Needless to say, I'm intrigued and walk over to look at them. As I pick one up off the shelf the alarm starts going off, no not the store alarm, my alarm clock. :D
I remember nothing before that.
ash_is_the_gal
09-11-10, 07:40 PM
a few years ago i posted in this thread and talked about how i have recurring dreams of tornados, and how i have been dreaming of them for almost as long as i can remember. these past few years are the first in a long time that i don't dream about them as much, and if i do, they no longer scare me.
a few days ago, Mom was telling me how she's been having dreams about bears ever since my Memere died. she said they show up all the time for no apparent reason, and when they do, it isn't weird or frightening, and everyone else acts like they are normal. when i looked up the meaning of bears in an online dream journal, it said,
To see a bear in your dream, symbolizes independence, the cycle of life, death and renewal, and resurrection. You are undergoing a period of introspection and thinking. The dream may also be a pun on "bare". Perhaps you need to bare your soul and let everything out into the open.
my question is, why do you think certain objects signify the same meanings and feelings for people, the way that bears mean the life cycle?
Sexy Celebrity
09-11-10, 08:33 PM
a few years ago i posted in this thread and talked about how i have recurring dreams of tornados, and how i have been dreaming of them for almost as long as i can remember. these past few years are the first in a long time that i don't dream about them as much, and if i do, they no longer scare me.
Tornadoes are supposed to represent feelings and emotions of being powerless. Perhaps that is why there's a tornado in The Wizard of Oz -- Dorothy was powerless when it came to Miss Gulch wanting to take her dog away, so she dreamt that Miss Gulch was a witch and she defeated her. Also, the other characters - Scarecrow, Lion, Tin Man - are passive and powerless, too (Scarecrow - stuck in the cornfield, Tin Man - rusted and can't move, Lion - too scared to roar).
Have you reached a point in your life where you no longer feel powerless? Or are you at least braver when it comes to dealing with feeling powerless?
I'm not sure about the answer to your question.
SammyJ88
09-12-10, 04:01 PM
One dream i had about a month ago was about some friends and other people getting killed in fires and they couldn't work out how the fire started, it was more of a nightmare tbh, anyway a bit more into the dream im sitting at the computer at my parents house by myself and i suddenly hear the igniter on the stove going off really fast and loud in the kitchen, i suddenly run for the door outside, see fire all around me and wake up.
Last night i had a dream i was on the side of a big cargo ship about to get squished between another ship but i manage to climb up and on to the deck. Next thing im getting orders from the captain who is Bill Hader from snl to do electrical work on the ship, which i do then wake up.....weird.
Sexy Celebrity
09-12-10, 05:14 PM
One dream i had about a month ago was about some friends and other people getting killed in fires and they couldn't work out how the fire started, it was more of a nightmare tbh, anyway a bit more into the dream im sitting at the computer at my parents house by myself and i suddenly hear the igniter on the stove going off really fast and loud in the kitchen, i suddenly run for the door outside, see fire all around me and wake up.
Last night i had a dream i was on the side of a big cargo ship about to get squished between another ship but i manage to climb up and on to the deck. Next thing im getting orders from the captain who is Bill Hader from snl to do electrical work on the ship, which i do then wake up.....weird.
I'm seeing electric things here... the electrical work on the ship, the computer at your parents house. Cars - and probably cargo ships, as well - are supposed to represent your own body. Well... electric could mean your nervous system. Do you perhaps have anxiety?
Electricity can also mean -- energy, the flow of life, action, shock.
The fires and the stove (stoves can be electric) - suddenly running for the door outside, seeing fire --- all could be saying you're running for your life. Perhaps you are very nervous and afraid of things that are happening to you on the inside. The captain, Bill Hader from SNL, is an inner guide warning you that you need to do some work on yourself. Maybe get your health checked out. Check on your nervous system and mental health.
Fire is good, though. Fire is vitality. Fire igniting, according to what I'm reading, can represent the beginning of a process likely to bring life. Is something new happening in your life?
SammyJ88
09-13-10, 02:14 AM
I'm seeing electric things here... the electrical work on the ship, the computer at your parents house. Cars - and probably cargo ships, as well - are supposed to represent your own body. Well... electric could mean your nervous system. Do you perhaps have anxiety?
Electricity can also mean -- energy, the flow of life, action, shock.
The fires and the stove (stoves can be electric) - suddenly running for the door outside, seeing fire --- all could be saying you're running for your life. Perhaps you are very nervous and afraid of things that are happening to you on the inside. The captain, Bill Hader from SNL, is an inner guide warning you that you need to do some work on yourself. Maybe get your health checked out. Check on your nervous system and mental health.
Fire is good, though. Fire is vitality. Fire igniting, according to what I'm reading, can represent the beginning of a process likely to bring life. Is something new happening in your life?
Hmmmm, yeah i recently quit my job and i'm looking for one that i can really enjoy as a long term career, and i am a little bit stressed that i'm not going to find the right one.
Sexy Celebrity
09-13-10, 02:17 AM
Hmmmm, yeah i recently quit my job and i'm looking for one that i can really enjoy as a long term career, and i am a little bit stressed that i'm not going to find the right one.
Why do you think the captain of your cargo ship was Bill Hader? Also, do you remember what kind of cargo was on it?
Sexy Celebrity
09-13-10, 02:21 AM
By the way, I would love to dream about Bill Hader steering my ship.
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/dupreeprem02.jpg
O Captain! My Captain!
SammyJ88
09-13-10, 02:26 AM
Why do you think the captain of your cargo ship was Bill Hader? Also, do you remember what kind of cargo was on it?
Not sure why it was Bill Hader tbh, i do think all the small roles he has had in recent films have been really funny, thats about it lol. I'm pretty sure they were just big sea containers on the ship, i can also remember the front-right side of the ship was sort of missing...as if i couldn't be bothered finishing the ship off in my dream lol.
Sexy Celebrity
09-13-10, 02:36 AM
i can also remember the front-right side of the ship was sort of missing...as if i couldn't be bothered finishing the ship off in my dream lol.
Hmmm. Might mean you have something you need to work on. You know, if you were think of the ship as your brain, the front part of your brain is involved with planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality and behavior. Here you are trying to decide on a career path. The fact that you dreamt about a cargo ship - and more importantly - Bill Hader as your captain - might be a clue as to what you should do with your life. Is there something about you and Bill Hader that's alike? Were there any roles/characters of Bill Hader's that you relate to? Think about it.
SammyJ88
09-13-10, 02:53 AM
I'll have to think about it a bit more. At the moment im thinking of going to uni but a little while ago maybe a year ago, i thought a police officer wouldn't be too bad to fall back on. Bill Hader - Superbad lol.
Does anyone else out there ever have dreams where you're sitting in a movie theater and whatever you're dreaming about is projected on the screen that you're watching, so that nothing that's going on--good or bad--is directly related to you? You're just watching the story play out on the screen. That's the form most of my dreams take.
I read once that it's supposed to be impossible to hear music in one's dreams, but I don't only occasionally dream musicals, I come up with some great original lyrics in my dreams. If only I could remember them all when I awake.....
As a change of pace, I sometimes dream of dead friends and relatives, and it's always like a family reunion where we're just sitting around telling jokes and laughing about things. I wake up feeling very pleasant like we've really been visiting. The one exception is my mother--from my teens on, I never got along with her when she was alive, and she's still a bitch in my dreams--her and my second wife who is still alive but sometimes shows up. There was a period in my middle age when I used to have a lot of nightmares, but I haven't had a single nightmare since I left my second wife in 1987--other than when she or mom occasionally crash my dreams to give me a bad time. My first wife, who died a few years ago, never shows up in my dreams, although she left me other psychic scars to remember her by.
It's funny--I often have sweet and loving dreams about old girlfriends, but never about ex-wives. :)
One of the strangest things is that the most realistic and disappointing dreams I ever had was when I was in the Army--I'd often dream that I'd wake up in my old bedroom at home instead of being stuck in a barracks in Germany. I mean it looked like home, it felt like home, it smelled like home, and it was like a great weight being lifted off my back because I was finally home and free at last--right up to the moment some sergeant would kick open the barracks door and blow a whistle to wake us up, and I'd come crashing back to reality still stuck in that gawd-damn barracks. Only slightly less as bad as that is a recurring dream I've had periodically over the 46 years since I got out of the Army. In this dream some sergeants and officers come to tell me that some of the paperwork for my discharge wasn't properly filled out, so I'm still in the Army and not only have to get back in uniform but report to my old outfit in Mannheim, Germany, until I can get all the paperwork completed properly and the Army gets around to approving my discharge. Sometimes they take me all the way back to basic training at Fort Carson, Colo., in the winter of 1961 when we did a 20-mile march full packs in 20-degree weather. Even with the Colorado wind howling round my ears, I awake in a sweat from those dreams! It's worse than mom and my ex-wife showing up to tag-team me.
Caitlyn
09-13-10, 05:17 PM
I read once that it's supposed to be impossible to hear music in one's dreams
Just goes to show that not everything you read is true... I've heard music numerous times and even sang along with it once in a while...
my question is, why do you think certain objects signify the same meanings and feelings for people, the way that bears mean the life cycle?
I don't buy into one item--a bear, for instance--having the same symbolism for everyone. Some people have different experiences with bears--for instance, my younger brother has hunted them and lions and other varmints, whereas my only close experience with a bear is that I one time did a story about this guy who kept a "pet" black bear, who, I'm ashamed to say, I let my pre-teen daughter feed candy to. The owner had a muzzle on the bear and a chain on his collar, but it was big enough that it could have killed my daughter with a swipe of a paw or a slash of its claws. I've cursed myself over the years for being dumb enough to let her get that close to a powerful wild animal. But then some years later, I let her ride an elephant.
Anyway, people can say cars represent certain things, bears represent certain things, airplanes represent certain things, but people haven't the same experience or reaction to any of those things and besides, the individual's mind is coming up with that image. The bear could mean a life cycle or it could mean your hairy Uncle Oscar molested you as a child. Dreams are not one-size-fits-all. Or even fits-most.
Just goes to show that not everything you read is true... I've heard music numerous times and even sang along with it once in a while...
Well, I can't remember the article for sure--it was either music or you can't hear people speak to you in dreams or maybe both, but I've heard both--I've even woke up singing or saying something that I was singing or saying in my dreams. Dreams are old things, an odd way for our brains to make certain adjustments, I think, and I'm pretty sure many things are possible in one's dreams yet may not be common.
I had an unusual experience some weeks ago--dreamed I got in a fight and actually punched my wife in her shoulder! Now try explaining that to someone with an achey arm! Few nights later, I got into another "fight" and woke up punching hell out a pillow--had it down and pounding the hell out of it. My wife awoke before I did and moved way over. Said she didn't know whether to try to wake me up or get the hell out of the room! In between fights, I also started reaching for imaginary items or plucking at the sheet trying to pick up something and would often wake myself up saying something. Just odd actions without any remembered dream images to explain them. I readjusted some of my medication and started taking a prescribed anti-depressant at night instead of morning--that seems to have resolved the problem.
linespalsy
09-13-10, 06:05 PM
Does anyone else out there ever have dreams where you're sitting in a movie theater and whatever you're dreaming about is projected on the screen that you're watching, so that nothing that's going on--good or bad--is directly related to you? You're just watching the story play out on the screen. That's the form most of my dreams take.
I read once that it's supposed to be impossible to hear music in one's dreams, but I don't only occasionally dream musicals, I come up with some great original lyrics in my dreams. If only I could remember them all when I awake....
Yeah, I've experienced both those things. The dreams-as-movies thing started happening some time around my early 20s and continues on to today, though I don't think it's quite as clear cut for me that it's "just a movie". Often what happens is that at some point in the middle of my dream a sort of meta-narration kicks in where I'm explaining what's happening with an understanding that it's a movie. Sometimes I'm in the "movie" and sometimes I'm not.
The first time I woke up from one of these I thought I had actually seen a hitherto-forgotten early Buster Keaton film that was also one of the first movies to feature stop-action animation (among other things, Keaton was playing a trombone that was devouring other smaller brass instruments that would sort of dance around and arrange themselves by type into various rows and slowly grow smaller and smaller as they approached the "mouth" of the trombone, using "stop-action" animation). It took me until I was done with my shower to realize that the movie didn't exist outside of my head.
Up until I was 6 I had nightmares of being eaten by various different types of canine animals every night, so I think I became desensitized to being freaked out by most of my dreams, however graphic. Whatever the reason, I tend not to get too worked up over my dreams anymore. Still, I'll occasionally have a somewhat unsettling dream. The most recent one happened sometime shortly after the first time I slept with my first girlfriend. In the dream she told me "before we have sex, I think one of us should do heroin, and I think it should be you." I don't remember what happened after that but when I "woke up" I was describing it to her and she interrupted to ask who I was sleeping with, so I turned around and literally jumped awake and out of bed because I saw some other person in the bed next to me. It sounds cheesy but that does happen sometimes, I have to wake up from a dream twice, and it's always kind of freaky.
The music thing definitely happens but unfortunately I don't generally remember the tune or the lyrics. The only one I can remember is a fragment of a song I heard in one of my dreams that started "in order to steal your enemy's locusts, you beat them to death with a memory focus." I think it's usually that sort of stuff.
linespalsy
09-13-10, 06:17 PM
I'm trying to remember some other good dreams I've had and having a hard time. Usually they're either kind of awful or just kind of weird. The Buster Keaton one was really good. Another one I remember liking a lot was just a complete narrative blank in that it consisted entirely of a girl I know (who I had a crush on at the time) brushing her blond hair while it would keep trying to curl and turn really bright red. She would brush it blond and straight, and it would try to change back. I always feel kind of tender when I think of that dream.
I also like flying dreams though for me it's always kind of out of control. Sometimes I can glide about three feet off the ground, sometimes I can sort of float but can't control the elevation and sometimes it seems more like I'm falling horizontally or at all sorts of odd angles and trying to go as high as possible to avoid obstacles like tree tops.
Sexy Celebrity
09-13-10, 07:37 PM
Does anyone else out there ever have dreams where you're sitting in a movie theater and whatever you're dreaming about is projected on the screen that you're watching, so that nothing that's going on--good or bad--is directly related to you? You're just watching the story play out on the screen. That's the form most of my dreams take.
No. I actually can only recall one dream in my life that took place in a movie theatre. There were probably more, but, they're dreams, I can't remember all of them vividly. But I definitely don't dream of movie theatres much.
If I dream about watching a movie though, I'm watching the movie, but I'm IN the movie with everybody. I can't be affected by the people in the film, but I'm standing there with them, watching. I had a dream like that recently.
I read once that it's supposed to be impossible to hear music in one's dreams, but I don't only occasionally dream musicals, I come up with some great original lyrics in my dreams. If only I could remember them all when I awake.....
I think I have heard music before. There's a lot of things I've read about dreams -- like that you can't dream in color -- which isn't true for me.
As a change of pace, I sometimes dream of dead friends and relatives, and it's always like a family reunion where we're just sitting around telling jokes and laughing about things. I wake up feeling very pleasant like we've really been visiting. The one exception is my mother--from my teens on, I never got along with her when she was alive, and she's still a bitch in my dreams--her and my second wife who is still alive but sometimes shows up. There was a period in my middle age when I used to have a lot of nightmares, but I haven't had a single nightmare since I left my second wife in 1987--other than when she or mom occasionally crash my dreams to give me a bad time. My first wife, who died a few years ago, never shows up in my dreams, although she left me other psychic scars to remember her by.
It's funny--I often have sweet and loving dreams about old girlfriends, but never about ex-wives. :)
Were your mom and your ex-wives -- especially your second wife -- a lot alike? You may have been psychologically choosing to marry women who were like your mother to deal with issues you had with your mother. Interesting that your nightmares ended after the second wife. Aren't you in a good marriage now? Or were there others?
On some level, you must have had better relationships with the old girlfriends than your ex-wives.
One of the strangest things is that the most realistic and disappointing dreams I ever had was when I was in the Army--I'd often dream that I'd wake up in my old bedroom at home instead of being stuck in a barracks in Germany. I mean it looked like home, it felt like home, it smelled like home, and it was like a great weight being lifted off my back because I was finally home and free at last--right up to the moment some sergeant would kick open the barracks door and blow a whistle to wake us up, and I'd come crashing back to reality still stuck in that gawd-damn barracks. Only slightly less as bad as that is a recurring dream I've had periodically over the 46 years since I got out of the Army. In this dream some sergeants and officers come to tell me that some of the paperwork for my discharge wasn't properly filled out, so I'm still in the Army and not only have to get back in uniform but report to my old outfit in Mannheim, Germany, until I can get all the paperwork completed properly and the Army gets around to approving my discharge. Sometimes they take me all the way back to basic training at Fort Carson, Colo., in the winter of 1961 when we did a 20-mile march full packs in 20-degree weather. Even with the Colorado wind howling round my ears, I awake in a sweat from those dreams! It's worse than mom and my ex-wife showing up to tag-team me.
Those sound like good dreams, though. Healthy dreams. It sounds like your mind is just keeping you functioning as a responsible adult. You're no longer the younger man who wishes he was back in the comforts of your old childhood home. Dreaming of being back in the Army, with paperwork to do, is keeping you young at heart and responsible at the same time. I would embrace those dreams -- they're better for you than mom and your ex-wives.
Sexy Celebrity
09-13-10, 07:44 PM
Just goes to show that not everything you read is true... I've heard music numerous times and even sang along with it once in a while...
Does anyone here ever wake up laughing from something you see or hear in a dream? I have literally awakened myself by laughing at stuff in my dreams -- out loud in the real world! It doesn't happen often, but it did happen to me at least once this year and some other times in the past. And it's usually something absurd that causes me to laugh - something that doesn't even make sense. But I find it hilarious.
Yeah, I've experienced both those things. The dreams-as-movies thing started happening some time around my early 20s and continues on to today, though I don't think it's quite as clear cut for me that it's "just a movie". Often what happens is that at some point in the middle of my dream a sort of meta-narration kicks in where I'm explaining what's happening with an understanding that it's a movie. Sometimes I'm in the "movie" and sometimes I'm not.
Up until I was 6 I had nightmares of being eaten by various different types of canine animals every night, so I think I became desensitized to being freaked out by most of my dreams, however graphic. Whatever the reason, I tend not to get too worked up over my dreams anymore. Still, I'll occasionally have a somewhat unsettling dream. The most recent one happened sometime shortly after the first time I slept with my first girlfriend. In the dream she told me "before we have sex, I think one of us should do heroin, and I think it should be you." I don't remember what happened after that but when I "woke up" I was describing it to her and she interrupted to ask who I was sleeping with, so I turned around and literally jumped awake and out of bed because I saw some other person in the bed next to me. It sounds cheesy but that does happen sometimes, I have to wake up from a dream twice, and it's always kind of freaky.
The music thing definitely happens but unfortunately I don't generally remember the tune or the lyrics. The only one I can remember is a fragment of a song I heard in one of my dreams that started "in order to steal your enemy's locusts, you beat them to death with a memory focus." I think it's usually that sort of stuff.
I love your lyric--please tell me it really was a dream composition and not a real song with which I'm not familar!! :laugh:
My "movie" dreams don't necessarily occur in anything resembling a real movie theater, but there's a definite feeling that "it's only a movie" and therefore not real or threatening. So they can have zombie looking creatures or werewolves and vampires and I don't feel threatened because they're in the movie and I'm not.
linespalsy
09-13-10, 09:28 PM
thanks. yeah, that song was definitely a "lines' subconscious original."
That's interesting about how the "it's just a movie so I won't be scared" thing works for you. I don't think the part of my mind that's rationalizing the dream as a movie is usually that aware or detached from what it's seeing.
I just remembered a dream I had where I found a really old movie theater/train-station that looked like some sort of early-20th apartment high-rise in NY, and you could watch as many movies as you wanted for 1¢. The seating consisted of these gray-carpeted amphitheaters with steppes instead of seats and everyone just seemed to be wandering from one theater to the next, which were all showing grainy, super-saturated films of burning jungles.
Were your mom and your ex-wives -- especially your second wife -- a lot alike? You may have been psychologically choosing to marry women who were like your mother to deal with issues you had with your mother. Interesting that your nightmares ended after the second wife. Aren't you in a good marriage now? Or were there others?
My first wife and my mom hated each other. Lady I'm married to now (yes, a good marriage) got along with my mom when mom was behaving herself (between drug overdoses and psychotic episodes), but she chewed her out big time on the phone one time when she started wrongly accusing me.
My second wife, who was one of the most beautiful women I've ever known, looked nothing like my mom (none of my wives or girlfriends did, although early photos of my mom are pretty foxy) and when I first knew her was much more cheerful and good natured than my mom. But somewhere toward the end of our marriage--kinda the beginning of the end--I was in an argument with my mom because she was driving everyone nuts on what was supposed to be a vacation and my wife jumped in my mom's side; and suddenly I realized how very alike the two of them were in many ways. Like I said, beginning of the end. I didn't even like my mother and now I suddenly discovered I had married her!!! So yeah, that's probably why they always get on my case when they show up in my dreams.
On some level, you must have had better relationships with the old girlfriends than your ex-wives.
Oh, definitely. Nearly every girl I dated and then we drifted apart, we usually came back together sometime later for another fling or at least remained friends. Not my ex-wives!!! With them the parting words were "eat worms and die!" You couldn't have tied me up and thrown me back on either of them.
I think it was my second wife who once told me I was a great date but a lousy husband, and I think that was fairly close to the truth. In my current marriage, I once ran off for a week with an old girlfriend who had come back into my life, but realized in time that the lightening I was trying to bottle in that relationship had already fizzled. Called up my wife and said "Please let me come home." She did and we went to a counseler--my suggestion--and in the process it suddenly dawned on me I have had the wrong idea about marriage most of my life. (It's like one of my favorite cousins told me when we were just teens, I wasn't in love, I was in love with the idea of being in love.) I was hung up on infatuation of those early days when its all wine and roses and you just can't wait to see your significant other again. Of course, you can't sustain that high forever, and when it seemed the flame started dying down and the heat dissipated, I thought, "well it's all over" and I'd drift on.
Infatuation is easy, all fun and games, love means responsibility and commitment, and marriage is a lot of hard work and sacrifice, but still worth it if you're working at it together.
Those sound like good dreams, though. Healthy dreams. It sounds like your mind is just keeping you functioning as a responsible adult. You're no longer the younger man who wishes he was back in the comforts of your old childhood home. Dreaming of being back in the Army, with paperwork to do, is keeping you young at heart and responsible at the same time. I would embrace those dreams -- they're better for you than mom and your ex-wives.
Yeah, it's been a while since I last had a back in the Army dream, but I know it will pop up again. Dreaming of home while in the Army and going back into the Army when I home were some of the most realistic dreams I've ever had. There's only one recurring dream that was more lifelike and even worse. When I was in my early teens I had a motorcycle that I loved showing off on and playing The Wild One, and one night I almost got broadsided by a speeding Cadillac that I never saw coming. I was making a U-turn on a highway just outside of town and suddently this car, which apparently was starting to pass me runs over in the far bar ditch to keep from running smack over me as I apparently turned in front of him. It happened so fast I didn't even have time to brake--and then suddenly everything slowed down to like stop-frame motion where I could see the Caddy's rear tire and fender move up an inch and the front wheel of my bike got an inch closer--it was like click, click, click, closer and closer and I could see as plain as day the corner of the Caddy's rear bumper was going to catch that front wheel and flip me rolling over the pavement, dirt, and debris. I knew sure as god made little green apples I was about to die.
And then suddenly the Caddy whipped by, my front wheel passed just about an inch behind the bumper and I completed my turn. Scared hell out me at the moment but by the time I got home, I'd pretty well shook it off, and the next morning I was up and on my cycle again. In time I forgot about it. Then suddenly some years ago (during my second marriage) it came back to me in a dream and I was there again watching the wheel and bumper coming together, click, click, click. I'd wake up pouring sweat, my heart beating like an anvil, and gasping like I had run a marathon. That dream would come back on occasion, always the same, and I'd see it just as plain as the night it happened. Again I haven't had it for years since my second divorce. But at the time it was the most real, most frightening dream I've ever had.
genesis_pig
11-24-10, 07:40 AM
Few weeks ago, I dreamed of a movie directed by Spike Jonze titled "Joke"
It was set in a huge swimming Pool & had some sharks swimming around.
Few kids are swimming, Their parents are hanging around as well.
1 small kid feels ignored.
I can recall a scene where the small kid swims in the open mouth of a large dead shark.
The dead shark is lying on the side of the pool & it's lower half seems to be inside a sort of a cave in the swimming pool wall.
Slowly the mouth begins to close as the kids swims in, a guy swims in to get the kid out & does so.
Some small dead sharks tumble out of the mouth behind them.
Damn creepy.
mrtylerdurden
08-12-14, 12:14 PM
I had a very strange dream last night, and for some reason, I think this must mean something. In real life, my mom has an apartment just down the street from my dads house, but it's still quite a walk. Anyway, in my dream, I was walking down the street in my pajamas to my father's house with a blanket wrapped around my shoulders. (I think this took place in the morning) I think it was still summer, but for some reason it was cold. The streets were eerily empty without anyone in sight. I walked to the front door of my dad's house and saw that it was locked. I remembered that sometimes my dad forgets to lock the back door and walked around back and got in. To my surprise, it was even colder inside the house, and I had seen that the back screen door was slightly ajar. I looked around and saw snow and frost all over the furniture and walls. I think it was dark and gray in the house a sort of strange uneasy feeling inhabited the house. And the strange sound of the wind blowing surrounded me. I walked into the dining room, and saw my dad sleeping on the futon, with my dog sleeping on a blanket on the dining room table. I think I went over to pet my dog and then I woke up. This is most of what I remember happening. I had another couple of strange dreams last night, but this one seemed most compelling.
One of the other dreams involved me playing video games with some friends, even though they were extremely realistic, almost like virtual reality.
The other dream involved me once again becoming friends with a girl I liked.
Anyway, just thought I should share. I found the snow dream to be very interesting, and if you have any interpretations on it, I would be interested to hear them.
Derek Vinyard
08-12-14, 12:46 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX0ws6y7p5g
matt72582
04-19-15, 09:14 AM
I had a few great dreams... The first one was that I met the President with no effort at all. I had the feeling like I was going to challenge him, call him a conservative, etc. etc., I don't remember what he said, but I came with away with a feeling of "He's a great debater" and then he left, and I was alone in Air Force One (where you can take the whole country with you!)
Then, I see myself on a lake with my brother and his friends. I ride in this helicopter, and then he tells me how easy it is. I'm worried about it running out of gas, and finally pop a few Xanax and go for the ride of my lifetime. I come back, and now I'm at the house I grew up in. I ask my sister if she could take some pictures with the same red digital camera I have now. She says she's can't, how it's Sunday, and she needs to change. I laughed and said it would take only two seconds. My older cousin intervened and she supposedly took them. I got on the helicopter, it felt amazing, but shortly after I had stretched in the dream and real life, and I see it's 7:45am, and I have a message of good news on FB.
Mr Minio
04-19-15, 09:16 AM
I had a dream about MoFos today, but I don't think I should post it here as it concerns some users...
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