Dakota
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Post by Dakota on Jan 8, 2007 21:18:21 GMT -5
I have realy weird dreams... To bad I don't remember any...
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Barry
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Post by Barry on Jan 9, 2007 14:35:12 GMT -5
Nobody really knows why we have weird dreams. I wish I can stop having these falling dreams.
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Anemone
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Post by Anemone on Jan 10, 2007 21:41:54 GMT -5
A recurring dream, eh, Dwaggie? Maybe it means something.
Anyone here have recurring dreams or recurring motifs in their dreams?
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Barry
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Post by Barry on Jan 10, 2007 22:22:50 GMT -5
I don't know what it means. but it's weird.
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Post by Rosa on Jan 11, 2007 12:20:03 GMT -5
Yeah, I've had recurring dreams about falling off of cliffs and stuff like that, but you know what's neat? In my dreams I learned how to overcome that by flying. I started having dreams where I taught myself how to fly and ever since I've never had a bad dream about falling again. What I love about flying in dreams is that it feels totally real! Toki, I can say that it was really interesting reading about the dreams you had. You know, I've had many dreams that are equally weird. I hope this doesn't shock anyone, but I kind of like it when I have really cool dreams that are pretty far fetched because it's entertaining and they also give me some neat ideas for stories. ;D I always thought I was just weird because I have such vivid and detailed dreams and actually remember them so well so it's nice to know now that I'm not the only one. .....Um, I just realized that didn't sound right. I'm not trying to call anybody weird. I just think it's cool that someone else shares this odd knack for having strange dreams and remembering them in detail.
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Post by Anemone on Jan 11, 2007 17:07:11 GMT -5
I love weird dreams! My dreams are overly detailed, and would often make very intense sci-fi epics. I have one that I completely summarized--about UFOs and government conspiracies and such. It has the coolest take on abductions! What if the abductee... was actually the abductor? Awesome. I then turned it into a comic book script, so you're not alone in your inspiration thing. I haven't gotten around to drawing it yet, though.
I used to have recurring dreams about werewolves. I was very disappointed when they stopped last year, actually, as I enjoyed them, in the same way people enjoy horror stories. I used to love those werewolf books... *sigh* Also, I keep having dreams about this... place. Different people. Same setting. Bizarre, no?
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Barry
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Post by Barry on Jan 12, 2007 0:24:02 GMT -5
The bad part of it is when you have no control of it and it becomes a very disturbing dream. That is how my dreams are.
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Rosa
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Post by Rosa on Jan 12, 2007 11:36:59 GMT -5
I had a dream about werewolves once. It's pretty funny too. I was in an unfamiliar setting: open hill country dotted with small clusters of woods here and there, particularly cedar woods. I had just walked into one of the cedar groves when three werewolves jumped out at me. I had a sword so I quickly drew it and began fighting wildly. It was a pretty gory dream because of all the blood I saw. But you know what's funny? I killed two of the werewolves and then battled with the third, who fought with a sword himself. His blade struck the lower half of my sword arm and it actually hurt! Usually, if I get hurt in a dream, I don't really feel actual pain. Then my arm went numb and I dropped the sword. The werewolf jumped at me and then I woke up. I was lying on my stomach with my right arm kind of twisted in an odd position beneath me and it had gone numb from the fingertips all the way to my elbow! (By the way, that dream wasn't scary, just interesting.) I know what you mean about enjoying some of the scary dreams. I've told some people about some of the dreams I've had and they exclaim on what nightmares they were, but I end up having to explain to them that no, they weren't nightmares, just exciting adventures. Two fantasy novels that I'm working on are based on some dreams I've had and they're actually pretty cool stories. What would we do without dreams to give us such cool ideas? ;D Dwaggie, I wish I could help you in some way about your disturbing dreams, but from my own experience, I've learned that you alone have to learn to overcome that.
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Post by Anemone on Jan 12, 2007 15:41:32 GMT -5
It makes you wonder what dreams actually are. It's a good topic for a philosophy discussion--I'm sure Plato fans could have a field day with it! When I had the werewolf dreams and I woke up, I always tried to play out the story in my head until it reached a satisfying conclusion. The heroes were always the werewolves. That helped me calm down a lot, so it might help you, Dwaggie. And Rosa, I love the thing about your arm. I don't know why, but it makes me smile.
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Post by Wolf on Jan 24, 2007 22:40:45 GMT -5
I have had many weird dreams before. Some more disturbing than others and some that i came to be able to explain later.
Years ago when i was young: I had a dream that i was sleeping in my mother's van and was suddenly woke up by a thumping outside. Turns out is was a T-Rex that came up and ate the van with me still inside. That was my mother's fault for letting me watch the original Jurassic Park when i was just a kid.
Years ago when i was young but not as young as the previous story: I dreamed that i was doing errands with my mother and we went into the bank. Everything was fine in there except that there were a lot of holes in the floor. No one thought this strange. I bent down to look in one and a gopher or groundhog (not sure which) came up and bit my finger. I woke up. Still don't understand it.
Much more recently: I dreamed that i entered someone's house (didn't recognize the place or the people). There were two men in the room with me and a woman in another room that i did not see. The one man went into the room with the woman and came out with a baby covered in barbeque sauce. He hands it to the other man and notices me looking at them strangely and says, "It is good for the skin." I woke up. No clue what that was about either.
Then there was a dream that, while not extremely strange, still has me bewildered as to it's meaning. I couldn't get it out of my head for a couple days but couldn't figure out what it meant. Little bit long but i will add it:
I had fallen in love with someone, though I never did know his name. I had the feeling that I had seen him from afar more than once. The problem was we were born of two different classes. He was a commoner and I was nobility (or royalty, this wasn't 100% clear). We were caught and I was being forced to do a challenge of sorts.
The challenge seemed strange even in the dream. I was wearing a dress, not a normal dress but one of those long, cumbersome ones that were worn in medieval days. People were gathered around me waiting for it to begin and he was there too. He gave me an encouraging look, then took off running which was what I knew I was supposed to do. I took off as well.
I had to run across a bridge and I was wearing heeled shoes. I followed him as fast as I could. I fell once because of the shoes then took them off and threw them away before standing and running on without another mishap. After the bridge was crossed, there was a beautiful meadow and we ran around in delight. I was suddenly in comfortable clothes as soon as I entered the meadow. We continued running and got to the edge of the forest. There, there was a band of people who seemed like gypsies. We were suddenly clothed in nothing but pants, myself included and I felt no problem with this. When night came, we were shown to a bed of bubbles on the ground. This is the first time anyone said anything in the dream. One of the gypsy people said, It is the nature of the bubbles.
I lay down first before he followed me a moment later. We were both clothed, though I don't know what we were wearing. I remember that it was I who instigated the first kiss though it was the second kiss that stood out in my mind. I french-kissed him, again with me instigating (I don't like the idea of french-kissing, seems icky to me but I loved it in the dream.). I remember thinking that he tasted good. We did nothing else that I saw. It skipped suddenly to morning.
When we woke up the next day, we were still on the bed of bubbles and he mentioned that some of our clothes were still missing and our swords. We looked, without standing up, and were in a long hall rather than the meadow that we had gone to sleep in. We saw our clothing on the wall, starting at the very top and the view panned down them, to the center of the floor where our swords were lying, both pointing in the same direction. The view reached them then panned the way they were pointing, down the hall to an open door, brilliant with white light.
Then I woke up but I still remembered the second kiss and thinking that he tasted good. I could still feel the kiss. My waking was as instant transition between sleep and wake and I felt a sense of loss as soon as I realized I was still in my own bed in my own room.
Another thing is that I have never seen him before. He was taller than me though the perfect height that I like. He had brown/blonde hair that was sort of a mix of both and a beard which, while I noticed it, I couldn't feel it when we kissed, as if it didn't matter, which in my mind it didn't.
Confused but happy to remember her dreams, Eb Dr
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Post by RedFeather on Jan 29, 2007 17:04:57 GMT -5
All dreams, actually mean something. Dreams are created by your unconscious mind and although seemingly unrelated sometimes, they do deal with the things you face in your day-to-day life. The recurring ones, though, deal with some kind of issue which is unresolved, and which is kind of eating at you. Something that's not really going away, and which perhaps, needs to be looked at and dealt with.
It helps greatly to look at the feelings you have while you are dreaming. When I used to have falling dreams, they were horrible. I'd have them from time to time, and they were the only dreams I've ever had that I completely hated. They seemed so real, and they'd involve me falling from a high surface, looking down at the ground below me, realizing I was about to die, and waking up as I hit the ground, freaking out, panting, in a cold sweat. It would take me a minute or two to calm myself down and to realize that I was still alive and well. Those dreams, I think, had to do with stresses in my life, or something. Things that were scaring me, making me feel stressed, worried, etc.
What feelings do you get from your falling dreams? Anything of that nature, or are they different?
It also helps to look at things symbolically. For instance, if you see lots of trees in the background, and you notice them in the dream, then perhaps try to figure out what trees would represent to you by figuring out what your feelings are regarding them (this can often be done by writing say, the word "Tree" down, and then writing down the first word that comes to mind pertaining to that word.)
As to Toki's dream, I won't even try to analyze that right now, because it sounds pretty weird and complicated, lol. Whoa... that's the kind of dream you wake up from and think, "Boy, am I tired!"
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Barry
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Post by Barry on Jan 31, 2007 0:45:21 GMT -5
I've been wrestling with this dream for almost 20 years and I'm no closer to finding the answer for it. Not all dreams deal with the things you face in your day-to-day life. I've been told that by different counselors I have seen. How would you determine a dream that in the dream your at a place you never been to or seen before in your entire life? Or a person you don't know or have seen? That sure shoots down things you face in your day-to-day life perspective. Nobody can tell why the mind makes up stuff the way it dose. It's almost like if you ask someone to draw something they never seen or even heard of before but they draw it in full detail. Another thing I've been told why people have disturbing dreams is what you ate before you go to bed. Hogwash, not true. even the counselors agree with me on that.
When I have these disturbing dreams they start out nice that all of the sudden things go black and I start falling. The counselors I spoke with couldn't pin it down. Where wasn't anything in my history that happened to me or I witnessed that could explain it.
The mind is a mysterious thing. It keeps changing everyday. It's like one of life's unanswered questions.
If all is not lost, where is it?
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Post by Wolf on Jan 31, 2007 23:11:46 GMT -5
I agree. It is impossible to describe the inner workings of the psyche. I really need to get that one dream interpretation book that i have been looking at every time i go to B&N. . . I have read bits of it a couple time and it seems fairly comprehensive. In my belief, everything has a meaning whether it is for us or not.
*wanders off to ponder a trip to B&N again. . .*
Eb Dr
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Post by Barry on Feb 1, 2007 0:45:18 GMT -5
IMB, I agree with you on that. I believe that my dream is a message from GOD. What else could it be? One message I don't yet understand. One of these day I will find out what He is trying to tell me.
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Post by Wolf on Feb 1, 2007 11:43:12 GMT -5
We have a different belief when it comes to deity but even in that we can agree. All dreams are messages, especially those that stick with you for a long time or repeat. Lately i have been having waking visions/dreams of my spirit guide, especially when i am driving or in a car. I haven't yet figured it out but i figure i will when i am meant to.
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