What dream did you have recently?

[Josu]

I have a recurrent dream.
Someone in the college has reviewed my exams, there is one subject which I did not pass and I have to go back.

 

[xwyhzol]

Dreams also take data from you in some cases, the dream will be their attempt at siphoning data you collected that day, using your REM skill.

This doesn't only highlight what is but also what to track. If you know this process occurs, what?

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I have a recurrent dream.
Someone in the college has reviewed my exams, there is one subject which I did not pass and I have to go back.

I think everyone has had these dreams or similar at some point. They are very unpleasant. I did when i had not job, or was short of money.

Probably you are anxious because there are important things you're not focusing on, or important life lessons you fail to learn.

 

[Josu]

I think everyone has had these dreams or similar at some point. They are very unpleasant. I did when i had not job, or was short of money.

Probably you are anxious because there are important things you're not focusing on, or important life lessons you fail to learn.

Currently I am bit anxious for several reasons, but none of them is related to my studies or my career

 

[MaryKB]

I realized I haven't had one of my abduction dreams in over a year now; they used to be a recurring nightmare.

 

[Moriarte]

Dreams are what your conscious mind makes of the charge flows through your neurons that are occurring at the moment you wake up. Those charge flows are unstructured and basically incoherent because they are just the dissipation of accumulated charges into the "charge sink" of melatonin that is provided when you sleep. So, yes, that awakening consciousness will try to impose order on the incoherence by creating "little stories," and like any other creation your consciousness provides they may be useful. But they are basically instantaneous, and only have a temporal progression because you are "reading" the memories of that instant.

Training yourself to "read" them is one option that will tend to lock in that memory. Training yourself to ignore that moment of "reset clutter" is another and will tend to leave the memory clearer for tasks you may find to be more useful. Either is a valid approach to the situation.

Interesting. I noticed sometime in the past that in my case dreams tend to appear after “peak” physical and emotional moments, so I assumed there’s a process, which allows the brain to clear itself, gravitate towards some equilibrium. Glad to learn I wasn’t too far off. I treat dreams as something mundane now, don’t pay much attention. And I don’t get too many of them. Maybe couple times a month. Usually when I come to senses I know exactly why I had a dream and dismiss it. The dream relates to something I did/thought recently and can take any shape.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Interesting. I noticed sometime in the past that in my case dreams tend to appear after “peak” physical and emotional moments, so I assumed there’s a process, which allows the brain to clear itself, gravitate towards some equilibrium. Glad to learn I wasn’t too far off. I treat dreams as something mundane now, don’t pay much attention. And I don’t get too many of them. Maybe couple times a month. Usually when I come to senses I know exactly why I had a dream and dismiss it. The dream relates to something I did/thought recently and can take any shape.

The "thought process" in your brain involves neurons moving charges. The charge crosses some synaptic boundaries into connected neurons, but not others, and in some cases gets carried into a neuron and doesn't pass to any other neurons. What determines which if any synaptic boundaries pass the charge is a mystery that has something to do with the greater mystery of "consciousness," but throughout the process the accumulation of charge in some neurons is inevitable.

In those "peak" moments neurons that are somehow associated would likely be among those passing, and accumulating, the heaviest charge loads, so they would be expected to have the heaviest activity during the rebalancing process. Meaning that when you return to consciousness they would be among the most noticeable points of activity. They would also be easy to create a "story" about, since they relate to that recent memory.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I think everyone has had these dreams or similar at some point. They are very unpleasant. I did when i had not job, or was short of money.

Probably you are anxious because there are important things you're not focusing on, or important life lessons you fail to learn.

They have started to go away for me but for years after graduation I would have dreams of failing out college.

 

[civvver]

I had a really messed up dream last night that these people we're interrogating my daughter for the password to this laptop and she kept telling them the password but it was incorrect. They were threatening her with a pot of boiling water that they were going to dump on her if she didn't get it right. I was saying to myself I won't let them do this and if they go to pour it I'm jumping on top of her and I don't care what they do to me. And then we figured out the password was monsteRRR with three capital R's at the end and the weird thing was I said you idiots changed the password! cus the interrogators had changed it and they knew it and were just messing with my daughter the entire time who thought it was the old password. It was really, really weird.

I followed that up with a dream I stopped at a gas station and this kid asked to pump my gas for me for a tip and I said no but I'll give you this $5 to go buy me a diet mt dew and you can keep the change. He came back and had gotten regular dew and had $18 in change and he said I gave him a $20 and I said uh no I didn't I gave you a $5 so I kept $15 and gave him $3 cus I'm a cheapskate I guess. And I didn't want to make him feel bad so I drank the regular dew. It was also really weird.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I dreamed I went to the library to get a book but all the rooms were instead filled with computer mainframes. So I went into the basement and took all the books because they were going to throw them out anyways. Then I teleported into some sewers and found Donald Trump worshipping some sort of weird tree deity. I asked him what he was doing and he threw a pizza at me and ran away.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I had a dream last night that I was in a bar and this nice young man was trying to pick me up. He was so inexperienced and inept that his entire approach was a series of bizarre statements and non sequiturs. In the end, we had dinner and went dancing just because of the pure entertainment value in his company. He never really did make any sense, and neither did the dream. Incidentally, he slept in my bathtub. I'm not sure how he got there as I came home alone.

 

[Kyriakos]

They have started to go away for me but for years after graduation I would have dreams of failing out college.

The college can be just a metaphor; a quite common dream is that one has failed highschool exams/ is still in highschool, even though in reality they graduated years or decades ago.
So look on the bright side: at least you identify yourself as having passed the intermediate stage

In one of my dreams I was trying to get an MA, and at the same time there was the fear that I never actually finished highschool.

Anyway, yesterday I saw a very impressive dream, but have forgotten almost all of it. But it did feature some girl in a photograph which when you saw very sinister things happened and the place effectively became silent hill
Also there was some version of the Three Graeae, three women (demons) which in this dream had their left eye be twice as big as the right one.

 

[Hygro]

I have a recurrent dream.
Someone in the college has reviewed my exams, there is one subject which I did not pass and I have to go back.

To which you woke up like “yesss!”

 

[xwyhzol]

Had multiple Dreams last night because I kept falling back to sleep.

My grandmother (who is dead) had a new dog, and another dog who was someone else's made it into the house. The rest of it is partial in my memory. However - I can still read what was meant. It's not universal - it's personal.

You wouldn't understand if I told you, but the simplest touch of a dream is readable.

I have a question about Lucid Dreams; sometimes you say that a lucid dream is where you are in control, but, doesn't that boil down to determinism? Am I really in control or is it sugar coat?

 

[MaryKB]

Okay, I had this really weird dream last night.

I remember it starting with @Timsup2nothin and @Synsensa doing some kind of live-streaming video thingy. Both were like hanging out in a living room, on a couple sofas drinking cans of what I imagine to be pop, and watching television. For some reason, we're all watching this.

Then suddenly, instead of watching, I'm there, on a third sofa. I decide I want to just relax, so I put on my sleep mask. Then Tim comes over and kisses me, and his kiss was perfect ... I was later trying to explain to Syn that it's like his lips melted into mine. Then Syn kisses me, but his is awful. I tried explaining to him that it was like he was trying too hard to be cool or something, and he was putting way too much pressure on me: I felt like I was being crushed and suffocated.

Then suddenly we're at this big arena or something, with hundreds of televisions, and we're watching the Olympics. I've got a program (like you get at a theatre) listing all the events and who's participating, and who's won (somehow they knew in advance?) Anyway, I became really upset because I saw that the sports were broken down into "Men's" and "Girls'", and I was going on a tirade about it.

Then one of my friends, and my brother-in-law are there. My friend's explaining that she can't take pictures with her phone, because it doesn't have a camera. I ask her what phone she has, and she says she has a "Samsung Six-Five," and I'm really confused, trying to ask if she has an S5 or an S6 ... and I'm wondering why the phone doesn't have a camera? Anyway, I'm trying to take a selfie, and my breasts are HUGE (my normal size is 34A), and I'm trying to find an angle for my picture where you can actually see me and not just these huge things.

Then we're decorating Christmas trees, like hundreds of them, in a warehouse all in cubicles or something. I'm supposed to string up special lights on all of them, and I feel despair because there's literally hundreds. And my brother-in-law is making fun of me because I can't reach all the way to the top.

That's all I can remember. I thought it was especially funny that CFC:OT was involved in my dream.

 

[Synobun]

I won't stand for this slander of my smooching talents.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I won't stand for this slander of my smooching talents.

You've long since been little brother zoned, so we all understand that wasn't an objective test. No one gets a good smooch from their little brother.

 

[dusters]

I dreamt of all girl's school and there was a girl being bullied by sadistic and mean girls.

I arrived and resolved the conflict, but only for one shy girl. Others were still bullied after i left. It felt like there was strong twisted feminine presence in the school. Girls compared each other only with looks and make-up and dresses.

 

[Zardnaar]

I was in the TV show Survivor played on a farm and Jeff Probst was outside my house.

Don't ask.

 

[Camikaze]

I had my first "late on a school assignment" dream in a while th either night. I think it's because I'm enjoying my first annual leave for like a year so I'm not thinking about work and my brain thinks I must be missing something.