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milo Posted Oct 21, 2002
Yeah. They reckon it's a way of getting at what your subconscious is up to.
Madness to think they can predict the future.
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Vicki Virago - Proud Mother Posted Oct 21, 2002
Have you ever had the same dream over and over again, but each time you can change the outcome?
I have had a dream that I was being chased through woods by a monster. When finding a house I hid by the window. Two times the monster has been able to get me until on the third time I realised that if I hid under the winder the monster put his arm through, he couldn't get me!
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sunny Posted Oct 21, 2002
you might want to have a look at "Sylvia Browne's Book of Dreams". She's a psychic. Which can either put you off interest or make you really curious.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 21, 2002
Vicki, it sounds like you are a lucent dreamer - you are partially awake and have some conscious control of the actions in your dreams. Lucent dreamers have discovered a test to find out whether they are dreaming or not: look at a sign which has more than 4 letters on it. Look away. Look at the sign again. If you are dreaming, the sign will say something different. This is because the part of your brain that can read is still asleep, so you can't read in your dreams. Another part of your brain makes up something appropriate, but it is different every time. I've got great amusement from this trick.
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milo Posted Oct 21, 2002
I've only had one lucid dream. Turned into some violent wish fulfilment once I realised. Got even with a teacher I always used to hate.
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milo Posted Oct 21, 2002
I wonder if there is some sort of trick to make dreams more common. I always enjoy them.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 21, 2002
The traditional way to give yourself nightmares is to eat cheese for supper. I've certainly had very detailed dreams after eating cheese, but that might be coincidence.
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The Snockerty Friddle Posted Oct 21, 2002
This probably wont mean you *have* more dreams but you should be able to *recall* more of those you do have. Write down whatever you can remember of your dream each morning, every trivial detail you can recall, which should be more and more as you get used to it.
TSF
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Vicki Virago - Proud Mother Posted Oct 21, 2002
Every night (usually just before you wake up) you dream. God only knows why you remember some and not others. I would love to know how to make a particular dream re-occur.
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Odo Posted Oct 21, 2002
I fly quite a lot in dreams. When I was very young a recurring dream had me flying off to save friends when I wore a pair of blue braces. Very weird and very memorable, I've never had a pair of braces….and won't ever need any.
Now I reach a sort of 'take off' speed if I run/leap in a certain way in dreams. I then go into a sort of gliding soaring type flight.
There are several recurring dreams that I have had for years now. One involves an escape and always finishes in exactly the same place every time, floating down a fast river in a large metal container/tank heading towards a bend in the river. I'd love to find out what's round that bend!
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Oct 21, 2002
Well, I'm not dreaming now...
I'm usually doing something in the dreams I remember. I'm never left idle, there's always a n imperative, although the exact nature of that imperative is sometimes obscure.
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milo Posted Oct 22, 2002
I'm glad I don't have nightmares much.
The last one I had involved Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now throwing snakes at me across the fields of my old school grounds.
He was hurling them at me - the full length of the field.
And shouting at me to do my duty and run away. Which I did.
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Vicki Virago - Proud Mother Posted Oct 22, 2002
I must admit that now I don't have many nightmares. Perhaps it's because when you are a child your imagination is so much more active that the slightest noise preys on your mind as you are falling asleep that nightmares are the consequense.
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milo Posted Oct 22, 2002
I can only remember having one as a child, but I was quite a happy kid. Used to get flying dreams all the time.
The one I had as a child involved snakes invading the house. They got in from the cupboard under the stairs.
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Ballynac Posted Oct 22, 2002
Firstly, on an interpretative note for some earlier posts, Freud claimed that dreams of teeth falling out or being extracted were symbolic of the castration complex - ie the fear of being castrated as punishment for masturbation!
And on a more generic note, the average person, during the average night's sleep spends about 7 hours alternating between REM sleep (when you dream) and Stage 4 sleep (deep sleep) in a regular cycle. Usually, if a person is woken up during REM sleep, they will be suddenly alert and will remember having been in the middle of a dream. On the other hand, if a person is woken up during deep sleep, they will be groggy and dazed and will usually not remember having been in a dream but may somtimes remember an emotion or sensation - "I can't remember what I was dreaming but it was really scary/nice/warm/I was falling".
When you are trying to recall dreams of the night before, you should bear in mind that you will probably have had at least 3 or 4 separate dreaming periods. Sometimes when you wake up in the morning and can recount the most bizarre dream, it may be because you're actually mixing up a number of different dreams. Having said that, I often have the experience of having a dream, waking up in the middle of the night, falling back asleep and re-entering the same dream picking up the narrative where I left off. I've never dreamed I was flying though - shame!
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Vicki Virago - Proud Mother Posted Oct 22, 2002
I don't remember having any flying dreams as a child. They started when I was about 14/15 years old. Didn't know what to make of them.
But what was strange though was that if I swooped down when I was flying I could actually feel my stomach churning. I could also feel the wind in my face.
I always thought that you couldn't feel any sensations whilst dreaming.
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milo Posted Oct 22, 2002
Yeah, you can feel sensations. A recurring thing that occasionally popped up in my was part of my body being crushed, normally a leg or arm. Hurts like hell.
Ooh ooh!! Just remembered another nightmare. Had a drowning one. When I woke up I was breathless like I'd been holding my breath while dreaming.
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Vicki Virago - Proud Mother Posted Oct 22, 2002
Thats really scary!!!
There is one theory that when people die unexpectedly in their sleep, they are dreaming that they are falling and instead of waking up before they hit the ground, they don't and actually hit the ground.
The talk is is that the brain goes into shock and shuts down some vital organs thinking it has suffered a major injury.
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