In my dreams when asleep:
- I often:
- am late or lost;
- eat but remain hungry;
- drink but remain thirsty;
- run but hardly get anywhere and cannot feel my legs or feet;
- have trouble finding a usable public restroom;
- have trouble reading;
- forget to put on my shoes;
- always seem to be going somewhere, but do not know where, yet feel a need to get there.
- I rarely:
- get sick;
- experience sharp pain;
- live out sexual fantasies;
- break the law or do something immoral;
- watch television.
- People disappear – not right in front of me, but I turn and they are gone, nowhere to be seen.
- I meet people I am unlikely to meet in waking life, like the famous (Alicia Keys), fictional (Jesse Pinkman) and dead (my father).
- Nightmares: When my fears start to come true – a crashing plane, failing an exam, etc – I wake up. My nightmares are few, mostly post-traumatic stress: they take place after the danger in question has passed, like after finals are over. I had more nightmares when I was little.
- Most dreams seem real at the time. If I know it is a dream, I can change it or wake up.
- The strange seems ordinary, like a woman with green skin, talking to people who I know are dead, a library underneath a roller coaster, a floor made of chocolate, etc.
- I have access to my memories and all of my senses, but my powers of reasoning are terrible.
- I dream in colour.
- I can be in the past, present or future. My dreams generally take place between 1965 and 2040, which, curiously, is close to my probable lifetime.
- I find money, on the ground, in my pocket, but it is foreign or fake.
- I can see round corners and make out letters in a book across the room. I do not need glasses.
- I often find myself in an old house, especially one with a long hall with doors going off to the left and right, like in “The Shining”. My earliest memory, of my grandmother’s house, is like that.
- I often find myself in a library, most of it in darkness. My university library was like that: it had so many books you had to turn on the light for a particular section.
- The people and places are mostly those I already know, though it may have been a long time since I last saw them, like old neighbourhoods.
- Things in the “outside world” affect my dreams: cold, hunger, thirst, whatever is playing on the radio or television, etc.
- To get rid of a bad dream I change the position of my head.
- When I have not had good sleep in a long time my dreams are frequent and strong. They also start right away.
- My memory of a dream fades in a matter of minutes, much quicker than a waking memory. On the other hand, I can still remember certain dreams I had as a boy.
- I have never kept a dream journal.
– Abagond, 2014.
See also:
- My sometime dream journal – now I am keeping a dream journal, of sorts
- Breaking Bad – the television show Jesse Pinkman is from
- Alicia Keys
- The Abagond Library
In the future even our dreams won’t be safe:
http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2013/06/27/mit-neuroscientists-say-inception-will-soon-be-possible-in-real-life/
The future battles of the world will be fought in our heads.
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Interesting, thanks for sharing! Although I feel well being when awake, my dreams are a scary, unhappy place most often. I also feel loss of control or stability. Example–last week I dreamed I gave birth to quadruplets. Despite everyone telling me how blessed I should feel–I was overwhelmed with the need to adopt them to families ASAP.
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Interesting. This correlates with the kind of dreams I have and the kind my friends tell me about.
All except for that reading thing. I do read in dreams and it’s not gibberish, but the letters turn to gibberish when I wake up. What I’m left with is whatever pictorial imagery accompanied the words I was reading. In the dream whatever I’m reading is perfectly understandable and legible.
Like you I never have dreams about crime and they’re rarely sexual.I have vivid memories of dreams I had as a child and barely remember the stuff I dream about now. (Does this mean something as you get older?)
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(http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/a.htm)
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@Mosh
Inception happens to me my favorite movie. Though I am confused on if he was still in dream state or the real world.
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Sometimes, only sometimes, I dream the future.
I don’t realize what it is, and don’t want to think about what it is.
But later when it happens, and when I see it, and recognize it, I feel nauseous.
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Interesting you should write about this. I was wondering if anyone else who comments here is noticing an increase in how much they are dreaming? I’ve noticed that I have been dreaming every night for the past month. Last month it was the power ball for the mega millions. Unfortunately I didn’t purchase a ticket
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@ Bulanik
Interesting that you mention that as I too would dream the future in my youth. As I have gotten older I do so, but very sparingly compared to when I was young. Most of my dreams now just appear meaningless or perhaps it just means I need to pay them more attention.
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@anonymous
When I was younger I had several dreams and every night, but for me I have noticed a major decrease. It could be that I am less intuitive than I was. I at one time was more in tune with my dreams and thus had more understanding of them. Though I have had to wonder how many of them were really dreams or if they were some form of astro projection.
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My OH had a dream that I was snogging someone else once. Apparently the dream was so vivid that she didnt speak to me for most of the day.
She believes in mysticism and things like that – I get it, but I didnt like it at the time 🙂
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I used to have a lot of dreams and nightmares when I was younger, now I don’t dream much. I used to have some recurring dreams one about my family being on the run and being chased by the black horse rider things from lord of the rings. When I was really stressed I had a nightmare about being killed, and another one about a tornado coming. I also had a dream once about the rapture.
As for wet dreams I sometimes have those but I never see their face.
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sometimes I day dream and experience deja vu, it is weird when something happens and it feels familiar yet unfamiliar.
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There are a variety of dream types, two of which being vivid and lucid.
Lucid dreams are where the dreamer is aware he is dreaming and is able to manipulate the content of the dream. Supposedly, a lucid dream can lead to an out of body experience for the dreamer.
Thus far, I’ve only managed two of the vivid type and none of the lucid. My first vivid dream was full of detail and highly illuminated (my somewhat shadowy house was the setting, in this dream, though, there was lots of bright sunlight pouring in everywhere, and every single thing appeared shiny and new; and though my own real life windows are conventional in type, my dream windows were leaded and beautifully ornate).
In this dream there was only one oddball element — and was oddball even to my dream self : when a male friend of mine showed up for a visit, his afro-textured hair had the appearance of a little blue sail boat seemingly growing out of the top of his head. It was, my friend announced, “the very latest style.”
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I always have the one about the money and it is always some kind of foreign currency. I had recurring dreams about being in a cemetery and it is dark, I am in a car and can’t steer the car out of the cemetery, and the car just stays in the cemetery and I am trying to get the stering wheel to go in another direction out of the cemetery. The car just stalls and I am in the darkness. The dream morphes to a scene in a church, I see a man in a coffin, and the man looks like my father, the man sits up in the coffin, and coughs and lays back down in a reclining position. A couple of months later I get a call from my father twlling me he has cancer. 3 months later he is dead. Had the same recurring dream again this time it was my mother. She dies several months later.
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I dream about the rapture, and the one about the bathroom. In the dream I am looking for a usable bathroom and everyone is nasty and the toilet doesn’t work.
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Last night i dreamed of one of two houses that always show up.
This particular house reminds me of my uncle’s and he and my aunt are not there and a long staircase is in the back room, and for some reason i feel forbidden to climb it.
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@Omnipresent: snogging, that word reminds me of Harry Potter. They used that word a lot. is snogging kissing in the UK?
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I’ve had several dreams of the ‘lucid’ variety in which I became aware that I was dreaming. In one I distinctly remember walking over to a table filled with different kinds of packaged foods to see if it was true that you can’t read anything in dreams. Found out that it was (for me), because when I tried to read what was on a box of cereal it turned out to be gibberish. It didn’t look like that from a distance though. The whole experience was both weird and interesting at the same time. But dreams are weird, as we all know.
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I have no memory of my dreams.
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Though it’s been years since I stepped foot in a classroom, a dream I had quite recently was the one concerning school. In this version of my ‘school dream’, I find myself studying for an advanced mathematics final for a class I hadn’t bothered to attend except once or twice at the start of the semester.
Even now, more than a year after having this dream, I still remember going from chapter to chapter in the course textbook, frantically trying to memorize the more complex mathematical formulas and equations
A similar one is where I, for some unknown reason, have to take an indirect route to my school, where I’m scheduled to take an important exam.. After taking a number of buses, trains and taxis, I finally arrive at the school, but it’s well after closing time, and I’ve missed the exam by many hours.
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Hi there, Peanut! I noticed you hadn’t commented in a while. Hope things are going well with you and yours.
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“In one I distinctly remember walking over to a table filled with different kinds of packaged foods to see if it was true that you can’t read anything in dreams. Found out that it was (for me), because when I tried to read what was on a box of cereal it turned out to be gibberish. It didn’t look like that from a distance though.”
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Interesting, Pamela! I had one dream that might be classify as being of the lucid type. In it I found myself traveling from shop to shop, and sampling a wide variety of desserts (probably because I love sweets but in real life need to watch my sugar intake). It seems that I must have been aware that I was dreaming as I kept watching the time and telling myself that I would soon need to be awake. Other than that it was a regular dream.
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That almost mirrors the experiences I have dreaming.
When I was a child, I remember being able to stop a particularly nightmarish scenario (I had lots of very vivid night-terrors up to the end of primary school – the amount of times that I’ve been eaten or killed or chased after in dreams is to numerous to count) from occurring during my dreams by thinking about it clearly and obsessively just before going to sleep. If I briefly thought of a particular ‘creature’ from a nightmare during the day, it’d oft appear in my sleep. But if I concentrated upon it really hard, visualising it in my head, I wouldn’t have the nightmares. Always thought about asking a psychologist about it, but I thought I would sound stupid and didn’t bother.
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Pretty good, Peanut! Thanks for asking. 🙂
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@ Peanut
I doubt very much dreams are just random neurons firing. Almost everything about us serves a purpose, so it would be very strange If we dreamed for no reason. But I do not know what that purpose is. It probably is whatever most human cultures, particularly hunter-gatherer ones, think it is.
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It is just my opinion and from my experiences I feel dreams are God’s way of communicating to us, and preparing us or warning us of things to come.
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Dreams are a place where life is rehearsed in private, and life is restored in some way, sometimes.
I believe dreams help the mind to stay “sane”: it’s a psychological sorting centre where old memories and new experiences get sifted and organized.
So, what we “see” in dreams is not with our eyes, but visual memories instead that “take stock” of what happened during the waking hours…
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Dreams are and were the only place where I can feel okay with the death of my father, and the coming death of the loved ones that are old, or sick, now.
The loss is bearable in that world — it’s a time machine and a refuge.
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“[…]do you believe that dreams can tell you things or just random neurons firing off in your head?”
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With regards to the imagery typical of near death experiences, the firing off of neurons in the brain within moments of death has certainly been offered as up as a scientific explanation . I have my theory as to might be behind such experience though it is in not particularly scientific in nature.
Dreams, though, might be seen as telling us things e.g., our worries, fears, wants and desires, they also have, however, been credited with the ability to solve problems and predict the future as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dreams
I myself have experienced precognitive dreams and hypnopopic (occurring during the transition period of sleep to wakefulness) imagery. I’ve experienced hypnagogic imagery (which occurs during the transition of wakefulness to sleep) as well, but this type has not been shown to me to be prophetic in nature. Mostly just random visual images and auditory gibberish, though the occasional retrocognitive vision does pop up here and there!
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Corrections to a couple of glaring issues in this last comment:
“I have my own theory as to what it is behind such experiences, though it (my theory) is in no way scientific in nature.”
“…however, they have also been credited with the capability to solve problems and to predict the future as well.”
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An interesting read. Nice to sometimes step back from race issues. Haven’t had a dream (that I’m aware of) in a long time (maybe a year+, maybe more) and the ones I’ve had I wouldn’t be able to describe in nearly that kind of detail… The fading memory of dreams (when you can remember them at all after you wake up) in minutes is a real trip. It’s almost like you’re not supposed to keep them in your conscious mind.
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Do certain sleep positions favor having a dream?
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I realize this is going to sound like kooky made up bs – it even seems so to me sometimes because the memories are vague with time but still rather vivid. Oh well, here goes.
I swear I used to experience what I came to know as Astral Projection for a time when I was a child. I used to have all these night time wandering adventures. At first I would just be in the parking lot of the apartment complex where I lived. I remember being incredulous and feeling so naughty and bold that I was outside without my mother knowing. I would quickly go “back” to my bedroom. But eventually I would be in other places, other countries, islands, over the ocean and just the sky.
My most vivid memory of this is that once I went to a large city in what now think may have been somewhere in Japan, China, Korea or Thailand. I spent time with a child with Asian features who was also traveling like I was. I followed her and she took me to see an old man who was in the waking world realm but he could see us and talk to us. She understood him but I couldn’t understand either of them.
I didn’t know about Asian countries or much about geography at all when this happened. I was only seven. I remember being at my Grandmother’s that summer and hearing about digging a hole to China. I went out in the yard and tried to do exactly that, hoping I would see that little girl again if I made it. I had other experiences but I never saw that girl again and rarely did I come across other travelers.
At first I confused these experiences as dreams. But anytime I had one of these experiences, no matter how deep and heavy my sleep had seemed, I would wake up tired as if I had been up all night. I can remember being in school on these days feeling logy from sleepiness.
I never understood all this as a child. As a preteen I came across a novel about a girl who experienced Astral Projection. Everything in that book seemed so plausible and fit what had happened with me. I read that book over and over again and later. as an adult, several others about Astral projection.
We moved to a different house and the experiences stopped. So this happened from the time I was about six or seven until I was about ten. It’s never happened to me again. I’ve since read that Astral Projection happens most when someone’s bed is oriented from North to South with the head at North. That is the only time in my life where I am certain that the head of my bed pointed straight North.
Actually, now that I think about it, there was a time when my bed didn’t face that way in that apartment. Only when we changed my room around did I begin to have the Astral Projection experience and it was only when we moved that it stopped.
Just another story from left field that probably means nothing.
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Just another story from left field that probably means nothing.
That’s not you talking, that’s the world; don’t dismiss your experience to fit the straightjacket of the world.
It makes no sense to write seven paragraphs about something that obviously meant something to you and then dismiss it with a single sentence; but quite honestly, you already know that and don’t need for anyone to point it out, do you?
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Thank you for the north-south positioning suggestion.
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I’ve never dreamt about celebrities (nor would I want to) or family members (that I recognized) in my dreams. My dreams are always a cast of characters whom I intuitively know have a purpose in the story of the dream.
I am never at ease in my dreams. There is always some thing that is supposed to be done by me and everyone in the dream is a layer of interaction toward figuring out what I’m supposed to do and how to do it.
I once dreamed about a woman I was in love with. It was the first time I ever had a dream that had a flavor of being a message about the future. Apart from that, my dreams are typically not of the precognitive type. I long envied those who could dream the future, but lately I think I should consider if the style my own dreams have not been an ignored gift, by me, all this time; the grass is not greener.
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* if the style my own of my own dreams,
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Well Legion, I’m not sure how much it meant to me. It may have just been odd dreams. It may have just been the vivid imagination of a child. I’m honestly not sure – and reading back over it, it sounds so very far-fetched. Sometimes I feel kind of the girl who discovered lipstick and boys and forgot all about Narnia. Other times I just think it was a delightfully pleasant experience that I’ll probably never have again until I shuffle off this mortal coil.
As far as my actual dreams, they always seem to revolve around me trying to help someone or accomplish something. I used to hate the sensation of falling in dreams because it always gave me the craziest feeling in my stomach that would immediately wake me up.
I used to have a recurring nightmare as a kid where I would go into a house and there was a room full of monsters. They would toss me around the room, like a ball and they were everywhere. They’d toss me up to ceiling, down to the floor, across to a monster at the door and then back up again. Their claws would scrape and scratch at my skin, but other than that I wouldn’t be really hurt. One night my minister came into my dream and made them cut it out. And then they stopped and the dream stopped too. Yay Church!
I don’t do well with horror. I’ve had to stop reading Anne Rice, stop playing Resident Evil, and I never watch slasher movies – all because whatever I read about or view on screen has an awful way of chasing me around in my dreams for years.
Fortunately, those dreams, as vivid as they may be are few and far between. Most of dreams are pleasant and fairly forgettable.
It was really cool reading about your dreams Abagond. Maybe I will find some books and try to see if there’s more to this Astral Projection thing. I even looked up that old book I read online. Who knows. Maybe I’ll see some of you among the stars : )
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@Legion
“Do certain sleep positions favor having a dream?”—That is a good question and one I fear I can’t answer. I used to meditate a lot before bed and that would bring about very vivid dreams. Most I remember and would put in my journal. Others would slip from me the moment I awoke.
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ThatDeborahGirl,
I have read several accounts similar to yours of adults that remember having out-of-body experiences* (known as OBE or, sometimes, OOBE) during childhood. It seems to me that the experiences you’ve described are more than likely spontaneous OBEs than they are dreams. They probably seem like dreams mostly because they occurred after you were asleep.
It’s said that a sizeable number of people have spontaneous, dreamlike OBEs at some point in their lives; most simply do not remember the experience.
*Although the terms “OBE” and “astral projection” are often used interchangeably, the term astral projection by itself actually denotes the type of OBE where the astral body / spirit body,after leaving the physical body, travels to the “astral realm”.
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A most memorable prophetic dream had me sitting in the driver’s seat of a car, which was stationery, and seemingly park. There was, at this point in the dream, only a trace of light inside the car, and just enough of it to allow me to see that I was inside of a car. Outside the car was total blackness; I could not tell where I was or why I was sitting in an unmoving vehicle. I had the feeling though that I was waiting for something to happen.
The next thing I know, the windshield of the car I’m sitting in lights up, and, as I look up, I become aware that another car is racing headlong in the direction of my car. The approach of this other vehicle is so fast and immediate, all I have time to do is open my mouth to a horrified but silent scream, as the other vehicle nears a high speed impact with the front of my car. This is where the dream ended.
About a week after having this dream, I’m in my car and bringing it to a full stop at the end of a side street that opens onto a wide, two-way boulevard. While waiting at there for a break in traffic, I watch as a another vehicle, which is traveling eastwards on the boulevard, slows down a bit in the intersection adjacent to where my car stands, at the opening to the west-bound lane.
Well, what do you know but the very next thing I see, after it makes a sharp left turn, this other vehicle is speeding headlong towards my car. For my part all I can do as I’m sitting stopped at a stop is to open my mouth into a silent scream and await impact.
But then, within inches from impact, the young driver of the other vehicle slams his foot on the breaks and stops his car. The driver, along with his passenger, another guy about the same age, point and giggle at my gaping mouth and horrified expression, as he quickly backs his car away from mine a bit, makes another sharp left turn and speeds westwards down the boulevard.
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@ Pay it Forward (Abagond will appreciate it too, I know)
Ahahaha!
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Legion,
“Do certain sleep positions favor having a dream?”
I often have “dreams” where I’m awake but I’m paralyzed. I can’t even open my eyes but I can sometimes see around me or in another part of the house. Usuallg I feel that someone has broken into my house.
An old roommate mentioned she couldn’t sleep on her back because they caused these type of “dreams”.
I read online that it was caused by pressure on the back of the head
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Continued from previous comment:
or because your body is still too tired to wake up and is trying to force you to sleep.
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Umm. *parked* and not *park*… *stationary* rather than *stationery* — I have got to stop relying on that darned onscreen keyboard to do part of my typing for me!
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Wow, Legion! That’s kind of spooky actually. The main difference between Walken’s character and myself, though is that I was horrified by both my dream and the actual event, as I have no desire whatsoever to experience a car crash of any type.
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Solesearch,
What you have just described is sleep paralysis, a state which is said to be a precursor to an OBE. A feeling of dread often accompanies this experience (e.g. that feeling of yours that someone had broken into your house.)
I myself have experienced sleep paralysis on three separate occasions; the first one being far more horrifying than the last two.
One night after being asleep for a brief period I awakened feeling myself — my consciousness — locked up inside unyielding prison with no room to spare. I couldn’t lift / re-position any part of my body and I was having to struggling to breathe even a tiny bit. It felt as if someone was sitting on my chest A moment later it caught my attention that my heart was pounding very hard and very loudly in my chest, and it came to me that I must be in the throes of a heart attack. And even though I was not in any actual pain, I could not explain what it was that was happening to me in any other way….
The dread / vulnerability aspect of sleep paralysis was not a factor in this first experience of mine, but was a major player in the last two.
On both occasions, I awoke feeling seized up but far worse than that was my sense of dread from the feeling that someone or some…thing horrific was standing just outside my bedroom door. I kept my eyes riveted to the door as I waited in terror for that *something* to make its way into my bedroom. The thing that quelled that feeling, however, was when I finally reminded myself that such a feeling is a typical of sleep paralysis, something which I was so obviously in the middle of experiencing.
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@Abagond
During sleep the mind begins a process of trying to sort out your thoughts. But while acetylocholine is active (the processing of memories), serotonin and norepinephrine shut down; the frontal lobe is inactive, so there is no rationality to our dreams. Being that dreams are our mind trying to sort out our thoughts and memories, if you’re having dreams where you are often running from danger, chances are you’re dealing with some sort of anxiety in your life at the time.
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After eating sweets before bed give me nightmares, and lying on my back I have nightmare.
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+Eg you go to bed angry, because it’s a strong emotion, it will manifest in your dreams, but because dreams are a mixture of our emotions and memories, they will be combined together where (for example), your anger plays out as a character in a movie you just watched, or with the actors you fell asleep watching.
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@Pay it forward and Soulsearch
Maaannn! I suffered from sleep paralysis for years throughout my teens. I haven’t experienced it in a few weeks now, but at one point I would suffer with it multiple times a night. I was so frightened by it for the first year that I often couldn’t go back to sleep. I was operating on 2-4 hours sleep a night while studying. I had an emotional breakdown after the stress of studying and living with such a heavy schedule, without hardly any sleep that I couldn’t do anything but sleep for months.
You kinda get used to it after a while. I just pray when it happens and usually it won’t happen again for the rest of the night.
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wtf sleep paralysis, ok are yall sure it wasn’t a ghost. I’ve experienced it once but I think it was due to paranormal things.
Then there are times I have recurring night mare of me going for a walk and getting separated from my family member I am walking with and it gets dark and I am either lost or trying to hurry home. then a stranger in a car or truck tries to kidnap me and I run. sometimes I dream about an old neighborhood I lived in and other times it is long winding streets and I get lost, I always wake up before i can dream about what happens next i always wake up when i begin to run away from the attempted kidnapper.
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I don’t experience seeing things during sleep paralysis, it’s just a case of where your mind wakes up but your body is still asleep, so you’re fully conscious but unable to move. Panic can quickly set in, but you can get used to it where it’s more dread than panic.
I’ve always had dreams where I’m flying away from an attacker. I run and run, and just as they’re about catch me, I take off flying. But the danger is still there on the ground, so I can’t land, I have to keep flying. Sometimes my mum’s there and I have to pick her up and carry her and fly.
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I had a dream that Michael Jackson died a few weeks before he did.
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Very strange. At least it feels strange.
I clean my ears very frequently with q tips. My ears are always clean. They never have an opportunity to become dirty.
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Preamble
As a teen, I was, for a time, bussed to school. One day, I noticed something odd on the ears of the boy seated in front of me. I silently decided to visually scrutinize his ears. Easy to do, people just think you’re looking forward and the boy was busy in conversation with the person beside him. So, I begin to watch, to stare because I must determine if the unthinkable really is, looking back at me.
Holy high Heaven! The disgust of it all! This poor boy had a condition that promoted excessive wax or he was just negligent in his hygiene. He had a build up coming out of the center of the ear that was like a small wax waterfall; hopefully, you can appreciate how revolting it was to behold.
It was surreal to me how he and his seat partner conversed with complete normalcy, (seemingly) oblivious to the alarming breach of hygiene.
This experience always stuck with me. I made sure never to befriend this boy or talk to him, ever; he just became a high school stranger. Also, a quick lesson had been given me, in the importance of hygiene.
So, what is it that is so strange?
The Dream
I was seated beside someone. No one else was around. Seated at some generic venue created by my dream just to have a place to sit. The person next to me is talking in measured phrases, as though his words are a cover to the actual thoughts he is having. I do not know what we are talking about, we are just talking.
I can see that he is positioning himself awkwardly and surreptitiously, as if to gain a good view of my ear. I come straight out and ask why he is doing that. He says, “you’ve got build up.” He pauses, he isn’t done. He keeps looking. He wears a concerned expression on his face not a mocking or disgusted one, “you’ve got a lot of buildup.”
I’m horrified. How can I have build up? I’m fastidious about my ears.
Being Awake
It has taken several hours to realize this was a dream that happened last night. I don’t think my conversation partner was talking specifically, or at all, about ear hygiene.
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Had you been thinking about this memory, at all, before this dream?
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Ebonymonroe,
“I was so frightened by it for the first year that I often couldn’t go back to sleep. I was operating on 2-4 hours sleep a night while studying. I had an emotional breakdown after the stress of studying and living with such a heavy schedule, without hardly any sleep that I couldn’t do anything but sleep for months.”
Same for me, except I still have horrible insomnia which was triggered by it. I usually sleep for two to three hours. It’s not so stressful since I’m not working now. I just decided to get medicated for it, since I plan on going back to work. Hope it helps.
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I just got it two nights in a row. I guess I’ve gotten used to it and just pray and go back to sleep. Lol.
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Had you been thinking about this memory, at all, before this dream?
No dear, not in the slightest.
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Sounds like your mind was trying to work something out, through symbols, or something.
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Yes, and using a past memory that would really get my attention.
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Lately i have been dreaming of healthy, huggable and sweet kittens! They always surround me in the dream and i am trying to organize them by lining them up, but they keep getting out of line with all of their prrring, and i just get frustrated in the dream and start playing with them.
That is what i call a sweet dream!
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Yesterday was Death Day.
And last week an inferno in the kitchen.
(will say no more)
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@ All
To anyone’s recollection is there a story in Greek mythology where the hero fights (for a time) a fearsome enemy, only to realize this enemy is just an irrelevant decoy from the real foe to be fought.
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@Legion
There are religious stories of foes of distraction from a real enemy, but I can’t think of any in Greek Mythology at this time. Only stories of having to defeat foe before facing the ultimate foe.
@Phoebeprunelle
Cats usually represent independence. It sounds like your mind could be trying to organise that.
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@ Sharina
Re: Re-watching Full Metal Jacket. (ref. thread: #CancelColbert)
Unfortunately, I can not find it now (uploader may have taken it down) but there was an interesting 12 min vid on youtube that gave a surreal interpretation to various parts of FMJ. As a sidepoint, none of them go into racism in the film. Given that black soldiers faced very high mortality rates and given that the Civil Rights Movement was taking place “back home”, it’s pretty amazing to make the omission of racism obsevations in these fan vids; the people who create them are white, one can just tell because of the omission of a race discussion. There’s exotic commentary on women, prostitution, weird Freudian shit, etc. … but race? bring out the crickets. The wiki article on FMJ regarding the black character is a thing of profound idiocy: 8ball is described as being “insensitive to his ethnicity” (the writers/editors could not even use the correct word: race), a quote from 8ball is placed in the article to “prove” the point; it’s lame as hell.
“Insensitive about his ethnicity”, really? Could he be cynical and bitter about his place as a black man in a war against other people of colour, fighting for the country he (we’ll assume) loves but is not treated or regarded as a full human in that country. Could he have come to a place where he felt alienated from himself and this self alienation increased as his time in the Vietnam War continued?
Okay, rant over. I couldn’t find that better video but I did find the following. Make of it what you will, I thought it was interesting.
(http://youtu.be/jF5oZJpw2_w)
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Thanks Legion. I will watch the video and comment later.
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