Dreams

musicismylife78
musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited November 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
do you remember your nighttime dreams? Do you typically have nightmares or good dreams?

What is your take on their meanings and significance? Are they merely your mind replaying your day? Are they subconscious signs of what your should do and shouldnt do?
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,370
    little movies to entertain you while you sleep.

    Largely mean nothing , although I think it's a mechanism for working out perplexing conscious problems.
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  • comebackwoman
    comebackwoman Posts: 7,271
    i remember a lot of my dreams and have lucid dreams fairly often. Both nightmares and good dreams. Most of my dreams are a replaying of my day or things going on in my life with some strange images, etc. that give me insight into things I've been thinking about. I think my dreams are a tool to pay attention to things I don't always have the time or insight to focus on during the waking hours. If I dream about rodents it means I'm stressed :p
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  • redmosquito10
    redmosquito10 Posts: 568
    if my dreams are my mind replaying my day, I need to start paying more attention while I'm awake, because apparently I went to the movies yesterday and the power went out and a giant spider had turned off the power and surrounded the entire theatre in a web and....well, it just keeps getting weirder. I can't imagine I would miss something like that happening to me, but hey, you never know, I do space out a lot
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  • unifiedscene
    unifiedscene Posts: 462
    My girlfriend has a lot of vivid nightmares. I don't know why, but it bothers me... makes me think she lives in fear too much... living life defensively versus me who happens to be more of a new-experience, risk-taking type.

    I sometimes remember dreams. I love them. So much fun. Aside from the occasional night where an ex slips into them and then I wake up depressed.
    she was underwhelmed, if that's a word
  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    I remember few dreams. I don't think they "mean" anything. Last week, I had a dream that I walked in on these two sisters (that I know) about to have sex with some random guy. One of the sisters answered the door completely naked and all I remember thinking is, "oh my God! Her boobs are so white!"
    The next day, in real life, she came in to eat at the restaurant and that's when I remembered the dream. hahaha. I could barely look at her....
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • Gossard_Is_God
    Gossard_Is_God Posts: 1,031
    I have very vivid dreams and something weird thats been happening is i just get dream flashbacks randomly during the day, dreams that i had up to 10 years ago. Its freakin me out a bit :P
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  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    I used to have all sorts of crazy-ass dreams (usually fighting shadowy figures that I could never quite kill). Now days I don't remember my dreams at all. What does that mean?
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  • unifiedscene
    unifiedscene Posts: 462
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    I remember few dreams. I don't think they "mean" anything. Last week, I had a dream that I walked in on these two sisters (that I know) about to have sex with some random guy. One of the sisters answered the door completely naked and all I remember thinking is, "oh my God! Her boobs are so white!"
    The next day, in real life, she came in to eat at the restaurant and that's when I remembered the dream. hahaha. I could barely look at her....

    Oddly enough, I have the exact same dream often, but usually when I'm awake.
    she was underwhelmed, if that's a word
  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    unifiedscene wrote:
    Oddly enough, I have the exact same dream often, but usually when I'm awake.

    ;) drumroll please....
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    eyedclaar wrote:
    I used to have all sorts of crazy-ass dreams (usually fighting shadowy figures that I could never quite kill). Now days I don't remember my dreams at all. What does that mean?

    It means you worked it out or it doesn't mean anything.
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    mickeyrat wrote:
    I think it's a mechanism for working out perplexing conscious problems.
    This basically.

    I have very vivid dreams pretty regularly, although I forget the details soon after waking up unless they are extremely memorable. Most of them are easily interpreted by myself and seem to relate to my life at the time, however obscure and abstract they seem at first.
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  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    I had recurring nuclear war and tornado dreams forever...still do once in a while...it's to the point that they don't even freak me out anymore. I also used to have one where all my teeth fell out at once. That sucked more than mushroom clouds.

    On a related note...I had my first ever PJ dream two nights ago. I was at a show and Ed left the stage...my friend came running up and told me to come with him b/c Ed was at a concession trying to buy a round of beer for the crowd...he asked me to carry a few back to the stage for him :D
    Dreams are fucked lol...
  • zacman13245
    zacman13245 Posts: 294
    I never remember my dreams, but I know I have them because sometimes I wake up depressed, then I spend the morning kind of walking around in a fog, I feel distant from myself, it that makes any sense.
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  • riffrandall
    riffrandall Posts: 685
    I love how people really think dreams mean nothing. Like it's not "if you dream about an elephant, then you want your sister to die" but they are definitely your subconscious trying to tell you something.

    Tell you what- dreams are not psychic, you won't predict the future in them, and dream dictionaries are crap. But if you scratch the surface just a little, it's an amazing thing to explore.
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  • Fahka
    Fahka Posts: 3,187
    mickeyrat wrote:
    little movies to entertain you while you sleep.

    Largely mean nothing , although I think it's a mechanism for working out perplexing conscious problems.


    NOT true. Your subconscious is fillled with everything you've ever wanted to know, or have known....


    there are SO many other layers to us (humans) and the dream state is just one of them. I encourage everyone to keep a dream book. Yeah, every dream isnt significant but most of them are. Just keep track of them and try to remember. You will get better at it with time and at worst, it will keep you a bit more in tuned to your "other" self...
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,370
    LeatherMandi wrote:
    NOT true. Your subconscious is fillled with everything you've ever wanted to know, or have known....


    there are SO many other layers to us (humans) and the dream state is just one of them. I encourage everyone to keep a dream book. Yeah, every dream isnt significant but most of them are. Just keep track of them and try to remember. You will get better at it with time and at worst, it will keep you a bit more in tuned to your "other" self...
    well my "other" self MUST be the silent type , cuz I rarely if ever remember what I dreamed. What could THAT mean.
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  • Fifthelement
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    The worst dreams are when you are on the patch to quit smoking. I dreamt that I beat my cat to death with a slipper
    - my cat died a few months later :( To top it off, I wasn't successful in that attempt to quit. That was over eight years ago, and it's still as vivid as the night it happened.

    Lately, I've been having dreams about beheading people :eek: I swear I'm not psycho or anything, but I am curious as to what that dream means. Any ideas?
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    I haven't been smoking any herb recently and I've been having all sorts of crazy ass dreams. :eek:
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  • Fifthelement
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    South of Seattle wrote:
    I haven't been smoking any herb recently and I've been having all sorts of crazy ass dreams. :eek:

    What are you dreaming about?
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Fifthelement wrote:
    What are you dreaming about?

    I had a dream that my Mom died last night for one.

    Everything has just been way more vivid.
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