It's true if you could do this, you'd be able to have a great time flying over the rooftops and experiencing other favourite fantasies (Originally Posted by Mat
), but I'm not entirely convinced. If you felt fully in control, if you always knew what was going to happen next, wouldn't it be a bit tame?
I guess one could get bored of this after a certain quality of time but hey - I wanna try it anyway!
I've had one lucid dream, which was very nice because I usually only have nightmares (I have nightmares about 5 nights out of 7, and I remember almost all of them). Although I was in control unpredictable things still happened (The mind will wander after all). It felt slightly like real life, but with stranger decisions, such as: Should I continue following the beach or cross the ocean by simply walking across the ocean floor without oxygen tanks or any form of pressue relief? and That's an awfully big fish, what is my weapon of choice? :PIt's true if you could do this, you'd be able to have a great time flying over the rooftops and experiencing other favourite fantasies (
It was great fun, really.
I have also had many dreams, well nightmares, which have continued over the course of several nights. I had one that lasted three months, when I was younger, by the end of it I was afraid of sleeping because I knew the man would chase me again. Most of my dreams are chases with murder, or something close to it as the purpose, that is: their purpose is to murder/eat/rape/all of the above.
I've had a few predicting dreams, mostly I just recognise faces I've dreamt about, which is rather odd, since I don't even remember faces I meet.
But being that almost all my dreams are nightmares, I rather hope I won't be recognising many of them in real life.
You seem to be getting far more than your fair share of nightmares, Josephine. Have you ever consulted any sort of sleep expert over what might be the cause or solution? I believe there are "sleep laboratories" where people can be monitored overnight. Or maybe you've learnt to live with it?
I'm also hoping dreams aren't predictive because since I started this thread a friend told me she had a dream in which she came across me rolling around on the ground, filthy dirty and with my head shaven, while some of my relatives stood around watching. "What's wrong with him? What have you done to him?" she cried out. They replied "It's mental illness. There's nothing that can be done."
It spooked me quite a bit, and to be honest I rather wish she hadn't told me about it!
Ugh, sounds dreadful! I think I've more or less grown accustomed to it, I just have certain procedures I complete before going to bed. For example I always sleep with closet doors closed and white curtains drawn, so there aren't many dark spaces for my mind to be creative with when I awaken from nightmares, and besides that I do breathing exercises to soothe myself.
I dreamed the other night that I woke up to find a little infant laying
on a pillow next to me. The child was asleep and content. I kissed
it on the head and he or she woke up but still didn't fuss as if it knew
he or she trusted me. A while later I was nursing it.
Believe me I don't in real life have any children at all. Even though
I'm widowed, I'm still like an old maid who never married. I wonder
if someone could explain that dream.
judy tooley
A baby may symbolize a new path in life, new project, or simply desire for a child. The happy baby is often a symbol of peaceful content and happiness. Nursing can be symbolic of the sharing of love, of protection (you as the protector), or as nurishing (you nurishing the baby, or new path).
So essentially the dream could be interpretedseveral ways: 1. the superficial way, being that you desire a baby.
2. A new path in life. The dream is basically your reward to yourself for starting a new journey in a good way.
Babies can also represent a side of yourself, a characteristic or emotion personified, possibly one that you are growing more aware of, some new discovery about yourself? It could also be another person, a friend perhaps, that you feel a desire to help and protect, and more impartantly, who you feel capable of helping.
Dreams can always be interpreted an infinite number of ways, and you are the only person who can suply the correct meanings, since you make up the metaphors in your head and you know your feelings.
Kindest Regards,
Josephine
The Chinese say that only ill people dream. What they actually mean is that you only tend to remember your dreams when you are unwell for any reason. Lack of dreams, remembered or not can cause mental illness as the theory has been proved that you need to dream, possible to bring some reason to the events in your life, whether they make sense or not. Watching too much television can cause you to dream more as well. The average person experiences three dreams a night. You can tell when a person is dreaming by monitoring their brain waves. Dreamers also undergo REM. Not the group but Rapid Eye Movement which can be seem through the eyelids. Men also exhibit another pysical reaction when dreaming, irrespective of the subject - but we will skip that on this forum.
teddy
Judy
I meant to reply in my edict, but it became rather overlong. I believe that your dream may be associated with a wish, percieved or not, that you had children. Maybe it also reflects the love you had for your late husband.
regards
teddy
A while back I had a recurring dream of falling. I would fall for a period of time, and just as I saw a red light appear below me, I would wake up. Quite often, I would wake up on the floor of my bedroom. Luckily, I haven't had that dream for quite some time.
Falling dreams are so strange! Isn't it amazing what you're mind can accomplish with practically no time? Just in the second you are falling your mind has time to recognize the motion and build a story and landscape around it!
It is amazing, and just one example of how time flows so differently during dreams. I have had dreams where a whole day, or even two go by, and only in the space of an hour or so.
I have heard that some people don't dream in colour. Is this true for anyone here, and does anyone know what it means?
I have been told that the falling dream occurs when your heart stops or skips a beat which everyones does occasionally. The restart tends to wake you and the sensation of flying stops.
teddy
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