Dreams

[Borachio]

Here you go. Post your dreams, either those you have at night, or those you have during the day.


Link to video.

What do you think dreams are, in themselves?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams

Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.[1] The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, as well as a subject of philosophical and religious interest, throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology. Scientists believe that, in addition to humans, reptiles, birds and other mammals also dream.[2]

Do you think dreams are significant and have meaning?

Have you ever had lucid dreams? That is dreams in which you knew you were dreaming.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I have read that dreams can yield meaningful insight into ones own psyche, because according to the article, when we sleep, we process all the sub-conscious information we had no time and/or attention to reflect on when awake. Our genuine feelings, worries, desires, fears etc would then freely unfold within our dreams, because the sub-conscious is free of all the rationals we carry around with us when awake and which sort of entrap us.

 

[JohannaK]

Tonight I dreamt that I took the subway to go back home from uni. Quite oddly, the station was one related to a different campus of a different uni, and even though I had it labelled as "Universitat" station, is somehow resembled "Catalunya" station in the inside, and the lines stopping at the station aren't those that stop either at "Universitat" or "Catalunya", but those that stop at "Urquinaona" station.

So I got to the platform when the train had its doors closed already, and there were many people standing in line and at the edge of the platform waiting for the next train. So I walked down the platform and stumbled upon some luggage. I sat on a long bench that stretched for the length of the whole platform and looked back at it.

One person from the line was now looking at the luggage, then looked at me and told me it wasn't his, that he could not help and he sat on the bench too, at the other side of the luggage. Then I stood up and went to sat by his side to chat because, you know, this person is actually this person I met through the Spanish brony forums...

And today he told me that he tried to project himself into someone else's dream, and that when he does that he projects some kind of power, which manifests in shades of blue. He told me that after I commented that he was wearing a blue sweater in my dream. Awkward things... all of the time...

EDIT: He also asked me if the station resembled "Catalunya" which, as I just said, it did.

 

[classical_hero]

I have dream that I am falling from the sky.

 

[Borachio]

Opinions about the meaning of dreams have varied and shifted through time and culture. Dream interpretations date back to 5000-4000 BC. The earliest recorded dreams were acquired from materials dating back approximately 5,000 years, in Mesopotamia, where they were documented on clay tablets.[6] In the Greek and Roman periods, the people believed that dreams were direct messages from the gods or from the dead, and that they predicted the future. Some cultures practiced dream incubation with the intention of cultivating dreams that are prophetic.[7]

The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, who developed the discipline of psychoanalysis, wrote extensively about dream theories and interpretations. He explained dreams as manifestations of our deepest desires and anxieties, often relating to repressed childhood memories or obsessions. In The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud developed a psychological technique to interpret dreams and devised a series of guidelines to understand the symbols and motifs that appear in our dreams.

I once read a book, (Was it the Interpretation of Dreams, itself? I doubt it.) featuring lots of pyschoanalytic descriptions of dreams. Whereupon I went on to have lots of Freudian type dreams.

I don't put much store in Freud. I think he just made stuff up. Like lots of people, I suppose.

 

[JohannaK]

I remember one dream from some 7 or 8 or maybe even 9 years ago. Its the only dream which I can remember in which I die.

 

[Borachio]

Well, what happened? Did you really die? What was it like? How did you come back to life again? (I presume you did.) Or did you wake up, just like that?

 

[JohannaK]

Well , I was in a forest, chatting with friends, like 60 feet away from this house with classmates and acquaintances, and in front of the house there was a chopper (motorcycle, not helicopter), and this unknown guy starts the engine and then the tires become a snake which is faster than weeping angels and throws me to the ground at the speed of light. And then the snake turns into a classmate holding a stick with a pointy end against my neck. He says this aint a videogame, there aint no extra lifes. I calmly reply that I know that, he stabs me in the neck with the stick and I woke up as calmed as I was in that last moment in which I accepted my inevitable doom. Then I was like, so it was a dream, and I am alive...

 

[Borachio]

"A snake which is faster than weeping angels..." is certainly a fast snake!

How quickly does the typical weeping angel move, btw? This is a novel idiom to me. Is it Catalonian?

(That dream is great. Have you got any more?)

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I posted this yesterday in Random Raves:

Last night I dreamed I was Gordon Freeman. And then I was in that cool yellow car from Episode 2, and Alyx was driving it, but then she drove it into a pond and it sunk and we had to walk the rest of the way. So we ended up at a place with a radio tower and then some striders and hunters and a few overwatch soldiers appeared out of nowhere and we were fighting them and then Father Grigori came out of nowhere and somehow killed the Strider with his rifle and then turned into the Heavy (??!?!). And then apparently White Forest Base was actually a treehouse and I woke up and my arm still hurt where a hunter rammed into it.

That was odd.

The dream I had last night involved manhacks (those little flying robots in Half-Life 2 that tore you to shreds). Lots of them. In my high school.


Personally, I think dreams are just the brain trying to get rid of weird stuff while you're asleep.

 

[Kennigit]

My dreams suck.

First off I rarely remember my dreams, and even then no more than a few tidbits. No long drawn out story plots that other people are able to remember.

The most recent dream I woke up being to remember (about 3 weeks ago):

I dreamt that I went to the movies with some friends. The movie projector in the theatre didn't work, so the screen was only black. However, the theatre said "we can move you to a different projector room, and we'll refund your tickets"

Movie occurs; no actual seeing the movie. I.e. you just get the feeling "it happened" with 0 details. Time lapse to later that month.

The tickets were $20 for some reason, but I was on hold with the credit card company because it was still charged to my credit card and I never received a refund and wanted to dispute the charge.

BOOM END STORY

other stories in memory include (a) walking to school; end of dream (b) being too tired to get out of bed to go to breakfast with a girl (Emma stone/a redhead) so I just slept in and ignored girl; end of dream (c) shaving; end dream. Like come on, instead of dreaming about having sex with a foxxy redhead I dream that I slept in and ignored a date opportunity.

 

[JohannaK]

"A snake which is faster than weeping angels..." is certainly a fast snake!

How quickly does the typical weeping angel move, btw? This is a novel idiom to me. Is it Catalonian?

(That dream is great. Have you got any more?)

Weeping angels. As in, Dr. Who occasional antagonists. Creatures that can only move while nobody is looking at them, but that when they do, they do so at extraordinary speeds.

 

[Borachio]

Ah right. That rings a vague bell, now you mention it.


Link to video.

So they only move when you're not looking at them? I'm a bit like that.

Spooky. Well, not that spooky.

I wonder how that's supposed to work? Keeping things at bay just by looking?

 

[JohannaK]

Yeah, that kind of weeping angels. Also I have more dreams, now that you ask.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Has anybody else had a dream-inside-a-dream? I think the proper term is false awakening.

 

[JohannaK]

The proper term in... well, depends on if youre stealing or implanting ideas, but its either Extraction or Inception.

I think I may have had one or two of these, but If I have I dont remember.

 

[Murky]

I have all sorts of dreams. Most of them I forget.

 

[warpus]

Have you ever had lucid dreams? That is dreams in which you knew you were dreaming.

Yes.

There was a period in my life where I was reading up on dreams and especially lucid dreaming. I learned the lucid-dreaming-induction techniques and went to work. It lead to maybe 10-15 lucid dreams overall. (I'm not counting dreams where I realized I was dreaming and woke up right afterwards - that usually happens when you first start trying - there are ways for you to remain in the dream, but at that point I hadn't mastered that technique or figured out how to do it)

It wasn't easy but I had a couple incredibly vivid lucid dreams.

In one I was learning how to fly.. Not in a plane, just in my body. It's a weird experience and other people report the same thing - that when you "fly for the first time", in a lucid dream, you first have to learn how to do it. So you end up going in random directions until you get good at it.

In other dreams I've been conscious and attempted to approach the people in the dream and talking to them, asking them questions like: "Who are you?" and "What is this place?", but they never respond directly. They just keep going with whatever is happening in the dream, such as "The Germans are coming!" or whatever.

In one unexpected lucid dream, one that I didn't induce directly, I experienced the most vivid dream I ever had - the space shuttle exploding. The dream was so incredibly vivid and offputting and it "touched" me to such a degree, that as soon as i woke up I went on iRC and ICQ and wrote the dream out to all my friends. (This was before social media) .. Two days later? The space shuttle blows up and everyone is calling me a prophet. It's just coincidence of course, but it felt very.. weird.

I haven't had a lucid dream in years, mostly because I have stopped trying to induce them (I'm guessing). You've inspired me though! I want to lucid dream again!

 

[JohannaK]

This summer I dreamt something curious. I was walking around, on a sunny day, and there were these tiny bungalows to on one side. I happily met this girl who I know in real life, who happily gave me a Luger p09. Chrome plated or something, because it shone grey/silver. She asked me if I knew how it worked, to which I replied by pulling the arm and letting the first bullet enter the barrel. Behind her there were other people with firearms.
She told me I was ready and I went into one of the two bungalows, which was twice or four times bigger on the inside. At one end there were these two dark, doorless, squared holes in the wall. They Were like doors, but without doors. And it seemed that light could not cross their threshold.
Then the dream became a shooter, as zombies appeared from these doors and I shot them down. I remember reloading a couple times before the dream was over, and I dont remember the zombies getting close enough to bite me or anything.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

I remember last year I went through I phase of writing down what I could remember of my dreams as soon as I woke up. I could remember quite a bit and it made for some pretty interesting reading. I might start doing it again, in fact- in the meantime I'll have a look if I've still got my notes on last years dreams