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Posted Jul 22, 2012 by Willem | | Post: 1
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I wish I could remember more of my dreams. I had an interesting one last night. It started out with me getting a message from a girl or possibly girlS that indicated she/they liked me and I should meet her/them somewhere. I tried to find out from other folks what it was all about, and it turns out there was to be an event to which LOTS of people were also going. So I was very excited, but still didn't know exactly what was going to happen. Finally when I was already on my way to the meeting place, and committed without the option of turning back, another dream character informed me that it was a kind of a mission from which nobody could expect to return alive. The person said this very casually as if it was nothing at all to worry about. Also there seemed to be some secret to survival this person knew about but didn't tell me. Well anyways, I was not going to chicken out at this point, not when completion of the mission meant I would get to meet some nice girls. So anyways this mission did involve facing lots of very dangerous enemies and situations and nearly getting my head chopped off and in the end after all that I did not even get to meet the girls. But it was pretty exciting. I wish I could remember more details. But I get lots of dreams sort of in this mold. I'm quite an action hero in my dreams, I've often faced enemies in large numbers and without my 'friends' really backing me up or telling me all they know, and I've done some pretty brave things, as in being scared almost out of my wits but still going on, and often without even having a very good reason for all the 'bravery'. And also in my dreams I seem to be popular with the girls as well, except that it never gets me anywhere in the end. But it *is* nice that in my dreams at least on occasion I get to talk to a nice girl or two.
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Posted Jul 22, 2012 by aka Bel
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That sounds exciting, Willem.  I usually don't recall my dreams, either. Sometimes I'm glad I wake up because they're nightmares, other times I vaguely remember having dreamed some very weird 8but not threatening) stuff. I've woken up laughing a couple of times.
I wish you could have heard Elektra reading your post...there was chuckling, followed by chortling, highly entertaining...
Wow. Don't you hate it when your dreams talk you into dangerous stuff like that? 
| | Subject: Action-packed Dreaming
Posted Jul 23, 2012 by Willem
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Heh heh, hi Bel and Dmitri! I wish I could have a word or two with my subconscious dream-director ...
heheh, I like that, the subconscious dream director.  .
The Subconscious Dream Director in fact. I think he/she needs capital letters. A new character enters my life. . Must go meet him/her for coffee.
Good to wake laughing, Bel. I don't think I've ever woken laughing. I've woken crying, although not so often these days. A couple of times I have woken realising some important Knowledge for my life , which I promptly forget of course .
Uh oh, I feel a weird stupidity coming over me ....
The Subconscious Dream Director lit a cigar. Don't go there! I said, grabbing the cigar from her hand, and snuffing it out in a potted plant that was on a shelf behind our table. At this rate we will both be ejected from this dream cafe.
Two blue butterfly thoughtshapes  fluttered over the table, and disappeared into the same potted plant. Don't go there! I said to them, too late.
My entire dream was disappearing into a potted plant.
Help! Help!Subconscious Dream Director! I need you! I said, but she had gone over to the potted plant and was peering into it.
What? What? I said. Nothing you should know about, she said, mysteriously.....
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And I should be asleep. . It is three am. Goodnight, magic dreamers.....
Willem, your dreams sound very like some my young friend has, though he has some terrifying ones also which leave him miserable when he wakes, and has difficulty shaking it off. Happy dreams upset him too when he wakes and finds the reality is different.
I do wonder how much medication plays a part in these?
So long as they don't inflict them on your day time lifeI wouldn't think there is a problem, it is only wishful thinking after all, about how you would really like to be, and how you would be without the anxiety and social problems.
To be girl's 'Knight in Shining Armour' seems to be the ambition of both of you
Websailor 
| | Subject: Action-packed Dreaming
Posted Jul 31, 2012 by Willem
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Hi Cactuscafe! What's with that potted plant? Is there some kind of transdimensional portal in it? Sounds to me like you were sleeping already ... thanks for the shared dreaming.
| | Subject: Action-packed Dreaming
Posted Jul 31, 2012 by Willem
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Hi Websailor, thanks for dropping by. I know the feeling of happy dreaming only to be upset when waking up and realising what the reality was. I actually don't have badly scary dreams ... by now there's not much that could scare me any more.
My medication - when I first started using it - caused very vivid dreams. Now they're 'normalised', but how 'normal' my dreams are compared to other people's I won't know.
I only wish my dreams were really wish fulfillment! The things that I really wish would happen in my dream scenarios never do. There's always something frustrating me. At least the difference is that in my dreams the people I meet are generally OK ... except the supervillains of course. But I get to meet people who are my own age and without nonsense, so I could speak to them and do things with them. Whereas in the real world:
I almost never meet people my own age.
The people I meet are so full of nonsense that I despair of being able to communicate with them on anything but a superficial level.
I honestly wonder if it's them or me. Bear in mind that my country does seem to be stark raving mad in an objective sense. It is strange to me to be coming back after crippling mental illness only to find I am now the only sane man ...
Bear this in mind as well: I am using you fine people that I meet and communicate with here for comparison to the people I meet 'in real life' here in South Africa.
Been reading a lot about South Africa and have come to love the place, but the people seem to have more problems than we do hear, and that is saying something.
Like my friend, I am sure if you could get out and about more you would find a lot of people who feel the way you do, but I suppose sometimes speaking out might be contentious. We are so politically correct here now that free speech, for which we have always been known, is being eroded.
Websailor
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