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Post by solgroupie on Apr 5, 2010 9:20:12 GMT -5
those kinds of dreams can be frustrating, for sure. it's like dreaming about work. i don't want to dream about work. i sleep to escape work. at work.
i went through a period of a couple years or more where i kept having dreams of traveling. but it wasn't the good part of traveling -seeing interesting places and whatnot. most of them took place in airports. always trying to find a gate, catch a flight, look for lost luggage, etc. i still have dreams of being on an airplane, but rarely is it in the air. usually i'm just waiting for it to take off when i suddenly remember something important i've forgotten to do or bring with me.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 5, 2010 17:40:58 GMT -5
That's a strange coincidence, for that's what I dreamed about this morning. I was visiting an Uncles house on Oahu, and I was trying to get all my stuff packed to leave, but my cousins kept interrupting me and trying to get me to sit down and watch TV. The dream then changed and I was sitting next to one of my brothers at an open roof terminal, waiting to leave. There was a silver radio playing The Dark Side Of The Moon, but it kept skipping from Breathe to The Great Gig In The Sky. I went to check why, picked up the radio and looked for a cassette tape, couldn't find it, turned around and said a few words to my brothers best friend. That's where it ended. It's amazing, that I have so many dreams that I can remember. And it's almost every night. I can't stop laughing at your, "I sleep to escape work. At work." I must remember that.
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Post by callipygias on Apr 7, 2010 11:24:31 GMT -5
It's amazing, that I have so many dreams that I can remember. And it's almost every night. It is amazing. I'm in a long stretch of not being able to remember my dreams. Like groupie, I go in phases.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Apr 7, 2010 11:28:47 GMT -5
It's amazing, that I have so many dreams that I can remember. And it's almost every night. I'm with you there. I dream so much that I have trouble remembering them all. I'm also pretty self-aware in my dreams, in that I generally know that I'm dreaming and can control what happens in them. Probably related to the fact that I'm a very light sleeper, and am often close to waking up during the dreams.
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Post by spackle on Apr 7, 2010 14:03:55 GMT -5
I go in phases, too. Right now I'm in a wow-did-I-dream-a-lot-last-night-but-durned-if-I-can-remember-a-single-one phase. I have rarely been blessed with lucid dreams, but when it happens, it's just delicious.
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Post by solgroupie on Apr 7, 2010 17:36:23 GMT -5
what i hate is when you know you had a funny/interesting dream and as you try to remember it, it just slips away. forever!
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 7, 2010 18:49:24 GMT -5
It does seem like the funnier/interesting dreams disappear faster. They pop like soap bubbles. But, those dang surreal dreams tend to wander forever-in-the-fields of our mind. It's amazing, that I have so many dreams that I can remember. And it's almost every night. Probably related to the fact that I'm a very light sleeper, and am often close to waking up during the dreams. I think you're right. I suffer from insomnia, so I do a lot of light sleeping, myself. I had a dream yesterday, but this morning's dream did slip away. I didn't post it because it's hard to describe, and doesn't make much sense. I was on Oahu, again! I was a passenger in a car my parents were driving, I opened a laptop, where there was a nickelodeon type show with a male, red-head detective, playing. He then appeared on the side of the road as the car stopped. Next, some police showed up and was chasing him. Cut to a large auditorium, where I'm playing a board game, but there's only one pair of dice for two different games being played. The game seemed to involve building a miniature chicken out of Lego's. (Finally, a post here haunts my dreams.) I then remember I have too change to get ready for a dance(!) ( I don't dance!) I was supposed too go to. I can't find my suitcase in the restroom and there it ends. Aren't you glad I didn't post it?
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Post by spackle on Apr 7, 2010 22:36:20 GMT -5
what i hate is when you know you had a funny/interesting dream and as you try to remember it, it just slips away. forever!I know, I hate that. Come back here, you little dream, damn you! But then there are those epic, apocalyptic, widescreen technicolor miniseries kind of dreams that stay with you forever. Or at least I've had some. One was from when I was in college, lo, these many years ago, but I still remember... the sky was dark overhead but bright on the horizon... 360 degrees around the horizon! Everything was flooded except for a few hills with big stone buildings, and helicopters were rounding people up by chasing and shooting them with acid-filled glass darts, and you had to keep swimming and swimming, but they caught you anyway and put you in one of the big stone buildings. And you slept on mattresses on the floor, and later got posted to some sort of work, not of your choice. Dark and gothic. I still sort of zone out when I think about it. It felt very real, swimming in all that water, which was kind of warm. Ewww.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 7, 2010 23:41:34 GMT -5
That would make a good mini-series. Sounds like a combination of J. G Ballard's "The Drowned World," and George Turner's "Drowning Towers." You dream in CinemaScope? I have full frame dreams, I hope. I would hate to think I dream in pan&scan. Warm water? Maybe all the water came from a hot spring? If I were you, I'd go with that.
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Post by spackle on Apr 8, 2010 7:30:09 GMT -5
I think I dream in Dalivision sometimes. Hot spring, yes, that sounds much better. Thanks to this thread, I think I'm remembering more of my dreams lately. Just thinking about dreams in general makes me more aware of them during those first crucial waking moments.
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Post by solgroupie on Apr 8, 2010 10:48:35 GMT -5
i write down keywords when i wake up so i can write them down later, when i have time. i'll stick a piece of paper in my pocket with words scribbled on it like, TALKING CHICKEN, ROAD MADE OF JELLY, HITLER.
i also love it when i think i didn't dream the night before and then i'll look at an object - anything - a glass of milk - and suddenly a whole dream comes back to me, just because that happened to be a part of it.
last night i had a very strange variation of the server dream. someone had died, and i think i knew them in my dream, but not in real life. i wore my server uniform and went to what was part restaurant, part funeral home. wave of the future! anyway, everyone was signing a book and instead of it being the traditional "my deathbook" kind of thing you see at these shindigs, it was a training book that the restaurant had. although we didn't really have these when i was waiting tables, in my dream it was a big book that you had to sign when you were done with it. there were hundreds of these books and the one i picked up was the one i had read when i worked for that restaurant, over ten years ago. i saw a lot of signitures i recognized, and when i saw my own i just freaked the hell out. i dropped the book and began to shake so hard that i fell to the floor. i distinctly remember the shaking - i wonder if i was thrashing around in my bed during the dream. it seems more silly than creepy to me now, but at the time i was completely flipped out.
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Post by spackle on Apr 8, 2010 13:29:42 GMT -5
when i saw my own i just freaked the hell out. i dropped the book and began to shake so hard that i fell to the floor. i distinctly remember the shaking - I remember a dream like that, where I had an inexplicably strong reaction to something, and the feeling was important in the dream and carried through it for a while, but all the while, another part of my mind was observing and thinking, "Hmpf, I sure am scared but that isn't all that scary. I wonder what gives."
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Post by solgroupie on Apr 8, 2010 18:51:57 GMT -5
nope. i was pretty much all freaked out. but it is funny how you can be so weirded out and scared in a dream, but when you are remembering it - it just seems so lame.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 8, 2010 19:10:16 GMT -5
I agree. I have been more shaken up by something said to me in a dream, then with nightmarish types. It effects me for hours afterward, because I know the words didn't come from that person, but from myself.
I had the wake-up dream, that everyone has, this morning. The "you-keep-waking-up-but-it's-only-in-your-dream" dream.
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Post by callipygias on Apr 8, 2010 19:27:31 GMT -5
I had the wake-up dream, that everyone has, this morning. The "you-keep-waking-up-but-it's-only-in-your-dream" dream. People really have that dream? I thought it was just in fiction that it happened. If it's ever happened to me I can't remember. When you actually do wake up is there ever doubt that you're really awake?
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