Strange Dreams

[themuel1]

Yea, it'll be something like that. Like the feeling of being helpless and just having to sit by and watch. Like if you know a friend of yours didn't do something he was accused for but you've got no way of proving it or telling anyone he's innocent.

Something on your mind Zorax....?

 

[shravi]

More than dreams, I'm more intrigued about how d?j? vus work. That is some freaky ████. Once I had a d?j? vu within a d?j? vu. The freaky thing is, whenever I begin to notice that I haven't had a d?j? vu for a while, I have one the very next day.

 

[sohum]

I wonder how it is that so many people, every person supposedly different, dream about falling. Surely it is something in the human physiology or composition of the brain that is deterministic enough to summon that feeling.

I've had dreams of falling a lot. In fact, I've grown pretty used to them. They're never the same scenario and they never feel good.

Another dream I have is of running. I don't recall if I'm being chased every time, but the thing I do remember is that I am running at like half speed. I try running faster and the best I can do is flying/gliding across the ground.

Which brings me to another point. The whole flying thing in a dream is so natural. It's like an action committed to muscle memory... like in real life you don't have to think about walking--you just do it. Flying in my dreams is kind of like that (not really flying, just about a foot in the air). That leads into my next point of text/symbols/etc. I've heard claims that you cannot actually comprehend letters/text in dreams because of some left/right brain separations. However, I'm extremely certain that I have. This makes me wonder whether it is not words I am reading but symbols that actually make me comprehend something in my head. For example, in real life if it is written somewhere:

"This apple is sweet"

I will know that the apple is sweet. Now that knowledge in my head is something I can comprehend in my dream, but I'm uncertain if that knowledge is passed through English/some scriptual language or just some random symbolic composition in my head.

I frequently have lucid dreams. They're actually pretty useful because when I'm in the middle of a bad dream, I can just cut straight out of it. But I do not have lucid dreams where I control everything (well, most times). When I try to control stuff, it usually ends up that I keep repeating something over and over again in a loop.

 

[TumTum]

I haven't dreamed of falling for years

 

[pcfan123]

I kind of like the falling dreams because I usually realize that I am dreaming and from then on its almost like a semi conscious thrill ride.

 

[TumTum]

I kind of like the falling dreams because I usually realize that I am dreaming and from then on its almost like a semi conscious thrill ride.

Hehe same.

Usually in nightmares where I am about to die, I finish it off quicker myself.

 

[themuel1]

I wonder how it is that so many people, every person supposedly different, dream about falling. Surely it is something in the human physiology or composition of the brain that is deterministic enough to summon that feeling.

I've had dreams of falling a lot. In fact, I've grown pretty used to them. They're never the same scenario and they never feel good.

Another dream I have is of running. I don't recall if I'm being chased every time, but the thing I do remember is that I am running at like half speed. I try running faster and the best I can do is flying/gliding across the ground.

Which brings me to another point. The whole flying thing in a dream is so natural. It's like an action committed to muscle memory... like in real life you don't have to think about walking--you just do it. Flying in my dreams is kind of like that (not really flying, just about a foot in the air). That leads into my next point of text/symbols/etc. I've heard claims that you cannot actually comprehend letters/text in dreams because of some left/right brain separations. However, I'm extremely certain that I have. This makes me wonder whether it is not words I am reading but symbols that actually make me comprehend something in my head. For example, in real life if it is written somewhere:

"This apple is sweet"

I will know that the apple is sweet. Now that knowledge in my head is something I can comprehend in my dream, but I'm uncertain if that knowledge is passed through English/some scriptual language or just some random symbolic composition in my head.

I frequently have lucid dreams. They're actually pretty useful because when I'm in the middle of a bad dream, I can just cut straight out of it. But I do not have lucid dreams where I control everything (well, most times). When I try to control stuff, it usually ends up that I keep repeating something over and over again in a loop.

The falling dream:
Some psychologists believe that these are archaic memories from the time when we were tree-dwelling monkeys. The ape-men that survived their fall passed on their genes with the memory of the event. The dead ones did not. And that's why so often you dream of falling but of never hitting the ground.

Though this is more likely true:
Dreams about falling usually occur as you are "falling off" to sleep. They may be triggered by a drop in blood pressure, a movement of the fluid in the middle ear, or a limb dangling off the side of the bed.

 

[pcfan123]

Id be more willing to believe a physiological explanation for dreams like drop in blood pressure etc than a psychological one.

I tend to think most of psychology is BS (yes I have studied it at Uni)

 

[ZoraxDoom]

I dunnow, I appreciate psychology a lot. It makes a lot of sense, and I've found a lot of what I've read and learnt to be true in not only me, but people around me. Not everything, mind, but some stuff.

Like the falling dream - I've rarely experienced it. The few times I did experience falling dreams and being chased were at times I was out of control or scared of an upcoming event (at the time, my IGCSE Board Examinations). So I prefer the psychological explanations to the physiological ones.

And no Sam, I'm not hiding anything. Honest

 

[BKB1991]

Like the falling dream - I've rarely experienced it. The few times I did experience falling dreams and being chased were at times I was out of control or scared of an upcoming event (at the time, my IGCSE Board Examinations).

Out of curiosity what did you get in your IGCSEs

 

[Auwais]

The falling dream is an interesting one.

Just think of what happens when you run off the edge of a building in Mirror's Edge.

More or less the same but without the sound of you smashing to the ground, for me anyway.

 

[themuel1]

I dunnow, I appreciate psychology a lot. It makes a lot of sense, and I've found a lot of what I've read and learnt to be true in not only me, but people around me. Not everything, mind, but some stuff.

Like the falling dream - I've rarely experienced it. The few times I did experience falling dreams and being chased were at times I was out of control or scared of an upcoming event (at the time, my IGCSE Board Examinations). So I prefer the psychological explanations to the physiological ones.

And no Sam, I'm not hiding anything. Honest

I agree with both sides. I believe that physiology and psychology both play their part in everything we do.

Ahhhh Spy. How I've missed that smiley. Didn't realise how much it looked like Kev on a "night out."

 

[ste_mc_efc]

I used to have recurring dream where I was a ghostbuster, only I used swords instead of the proton pack.

How that works I don't know but the coolness factor was immense.

 

[TumTum]

Id be more willing to believe a physiological explanation for dreams like drop in blood pressure etc than a psychological one.

I tend to think most of psychology is BS (yes I have studied it at Uni)

I think medical things just can make you have a bad night of sleep, but I don't think they can effect your dreams.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Out of curiosity what did you get in your IGCSEs

8 A* and 1 A