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    So, rather than a thread saying "Do you have dreams? What are they like?" thus making it suitable for OVP, let's have a little bit of a general discussion on the phenomenon. Feel free to speak about dreams you've had in the past, recurring dreams, the reasoning behind certain dreams and what they mean etc. Or a question a lot of people tend to ask is "Hypothetically, someone blinded from birth, what would they dream about?", so raise questions such as this if you so wish.
     
    I have odd dreams. I dream that I'm random fruits that get chased by nickles and pennies; I also dream that I'm an eternally running waffle that's fleeing from a hungry fork. Most of my dreams are forgotten after I take my medication; alas, some are recurring, but, the oddest one cannot be posted here. :<
     
    I dunno. It's weird. Sometimes I don't dream for weeks, and then I'll have several nights in a row when I'll have the weirdest dreams. Like The Beatles playing underwater in a partially flooded shopping centre near a guy with an iPad...

    I suppose I dream every night, but I only consciously dream when I'm about to wake up, so those are the only ones I remember. Normally they have something to do with what went on during the day, things I need to remember, people I know, and things I've seen. It's almost as if my brain is organising itself by remembering all of those things. I think that also helps to explain dreams where you're being chased. You're mentally reminding yourself that you should run when things get bad, but you're also subconsciously letting yourself know that there's something in your life that you either want to escape from, or are afraid of.

    Yeah, I think dreams can be very powerful psychological tools. Even if they are hugely crazy a lot of the time.
     
    Just for the record... I love dreaming. I remember my dreams all the time. I don't understand why it's so common that a lot of people don't seem to remember their's. My dreams usually consist of an ADVENTURE! Sort of like... sort of like it's taken from a movie's "point of view". I guess that's because I have such a big imagination and I'm such an Escapist. ...But as of recently (well... no, as of this past year), I always dream about school. Always. I'm pretty sure it's because I graduated last year, and a part of me deeply misses my high school friends and memories. ...I haven't attended college YET, so that's probably what's keeping me down. Once I start college, I'm sure my dreams will move onto other things. :3
     
    Dreams are very amazing.

    My most recent I tried to kill a man. I think it was teaching me that I could be too hasty in my actions, especially under pressure, though I don't know if I am like this because I have never been in such a situation to know for sure. It could also mean that in a dangerous situation I am not mentally prepared - there was steps I could have taken to subdue him rather than outright try to kill him (he was an intruder). Like I could have hammered the back of his knees instead of his HEAD (I approached him from behind). I did so out of panic. Had this been real, I could have wound up in prison.

    There were more messages in that dream, but I won't continue to bore anyone with it.
     
    hmmm dream, such an interesting concept lol.
    well lets see what i can remember:
    1. Waking up in school with all my friends (no matter what grade) in class reading magazines. then i almost got ran over as i walked outside (the scene changed from my my last elementry school to my first middle school)
    then my dad and mom picked me up and brought me home and i lived in a mansion (I had these dreams allot when zachbell was on) There was someone coming over so i had to change and walked down into a clothing store!
    2. Um fighting a ninja cat with a grandma on a bridge town with volcanos on each side. and a huge storm?
    3. then theres the werewolf dream. it starts in my neighers backyard and when i look out to check it hops in our yard breaks in. me and my brother ran and hide behind a laundry basket (Makes sense, eh?) and then it gets closer then -end-

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~All people who want to remember dreams there is a link below!
    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071220051239AAEWg41
     
    It's funny. I don't consciously dream usually, but I remember some of them in great detail. Like this one I mentioned on another site:

    I once had a dream about a pyramid in the middle of a forest at night.

    I woke up in the middle of a forest that seemed to be densely covered in trees. It was nighttime, the sky was purple, and the moon was full. I felt physically different from my usual self, so I looked down to see if anything had happened to me. It didn't take me long to realize that I was an otter. I had no upper clothing, but I did wear a pair of green shorts-like clothing.

    Immediately in front of me was a pyramid. The bricks were colored yellow, like most pyramids. I went up to the top of the stairs and tried to open the stone double doors. It was difficult, but I managed to open them. I went inside and everything was dark, but not too dark. I could see everything just fine. I went down the long staircase until I reached a room that branched off into hallways in almost every direction. There was a blue fire burning in a metal dish about the size of a king-size bed. The strange thing about the fire was that the flames were traveling upwards at half the speed of a normal fire and that they seemed to travel in a wavy motion.

    I looked to my right and saw a light at the end of the long corridor. I went down the hallway and turned left. Then I went up a short staircase. What I didn't know was that there was a trap door in the middle of the hallway.I fell through it, but slowly floated down to the floor. After I landed, the trapdoor closed and sealed itself with iron bars.

    I was in a narrow hallway. I walked down to the end, listening to ghostly noises along the way. When I reached the end, I was at a room that branched off into three directions. There was a depression in the floor in the center of the room. As soon as I came close, colorful, serpent-like creatures appeared out of nowhere. They began to approach me. After a moment, one of them shot a lightning bolt at me, but it was slow enough that I dodged it.

    When they began to come close, I heard voices, coming from the hallway on the right. Soon, a badger, a hare, and two mice emerged from the dark hallway, each of them carrying a weapon. One of the mice escorted me out of the building, while the battle was happening. As soon as we left the pyramid, he told me to be more careful. After that, he asked me for my name.

    I was about to answer when the dream ended.
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    I love trying to interpret my dreams. Although a lot of the time they seem to consist of mainly nonsense and I have a hard time finding meaning in them, like my most recent dream which involved me attempting to attach hooks onto a train to lock it onto the platform whilst avoiding being flattened by other trains. I do think that all dreams have some connection to my current thoughts though, no matter how random they might seem I don't think any of them are truly pure nonsense based on nothing. Although I can't say if that's the case for everyone, because I can't think of what could possibly inspire a dream about a ninja cat fight.
    I have noticed that my dreams nearly always include characters that I've made up in my head, rather than real people, and I think that a lot of those characters represent feelings that I have at that time. I've never had a recurring dream or noticed any recurring patterns; although there was a hooded character that kept making an appearance in all my dreams a few months ago, whose role would change each time as in one dream they would be my murderer and the next my loved one. I'm not sure what that meant or who it was supposed to be, but that character hasn't appeared for a few months and apart from that I never experience recurring themes.
    Another thing I've noticed is that I'm incapable of having nightmares. None of my dreams feel unpleasant or leave me feeling negative when I wake up; even though the majority of them depict an awful experience and a lot of them end in a massacre, it never leaves me feeling sad or fearful, which I don't understand. I'm not sure if I've just become desensitised to it or if it's something else.
     
    My dreams aren't recurring, but there are several recurring themes in my dreams which pertain to my fears / events during my life.

    I dream about losing my teeth a lot, and this is probably because I had about 7 years' worth of dental work to sort them out, and I dream a lot about fighting video game bosses (because I play waaaay too many RPGs xD; ).

    I do look forward to going to sleep every night, so I can see what dream my subconscious has planned for me.
     
    I have plenty of inexplicable dreams but, I thought I'd post my 2 recurring dreams.

    1) I actually stopped having this dream a few years ago (when my cat was put down) but never mind.
    Me and my sister would be doing something (I forget what) when suddenly my Mum/Dad would tell us to quickly hide under the bed. At this point, a man sized version of one of my cats (Dilly) would be parking outside our house in her little blue car. She would come into my room and once she found us, I'd wake up.

    2) I still have one of these dreams occasionally.
    Well this isn't quite a recurring dream, more a sort of... recurring theme.
    The general idea is that I'm playing a video game of some sort (it's usually a violent game of some sort. Not necessarily GTA violent, but enough so that I can be hurt). Sometimes I am controlling the game, sometimes I am the character in the game. I then try to pause the game, however the menu appears but the game hasn't stopped. The dream ends when I die.
     
    Well, some of my nightmares have given me the glimpse of awful events, some dreams are nonsense. That's just fun, I don't have anything meaningful to add, haha.
     
    I like to think that some blind people dream in color. Not because they've seen color and then gone blind and remember it, but because they have imagination and dreams are always half audio/visual and half emotional/intuitive. I don't know much about how the brain works, but I'm sure that there are blind people who still have a functioning part of their brains which would normally interpret vision even though their eyes don't register anything. Dreams might activate that part of the brain. Kind of like how you can go for days not being afraid of anything and then have a scary dream about something that isn't actually frightening to you normally. Something besides memory is at work when you dream, and my guess is that another part of your brain is being active.

    This is all uneducated speculation, of course.
     
    I've always thought that somone who has never seen before, would have a more vivid dream in the way of sound, and possibly even psuedo scent, touch, taste and any other senses they may be able to experiance. I'd like to think emotion is stronger in their dreams also. I would assume that we see sight as our strongest sense so we automatically see dreaming as primarily vision, possibly more ignorant to the other things we feel during a dream.
     
    I havent got that much recurring dreams. Some of my dreams I remember are very weird. :(

    1) Having uh, sex with random women, including my crush. >_>>>>>>
    2) I killed biscuits.
     
    One time I had a this seriously odd dream, lol. I had dreamt that I was like out a walk with my grandad. We went to the shop after the walk, then we went home to my grandparents house. The front door was locked so I knocked on the door. There was no answer for about 10 minutes. Suddenly we both started to hear like screeching noises coming from the house... a few seconds later we saw a large green figure behind the door. We backed away from it, then it smashed the door open. What emerged was some weird green creature that resembled a mantis only it had no wings or antenae (sp) or anything. So me and my grandad started to run... wondering what on earth had happened to my grandmother. It was as if she turned into this strange creature. We ran up to my aunt's house, instead of knocking her door we just ran straight in to the house. We heard more screeching noises and another green creature appeared right in front of us. By then, the other green creature had already caught up to us. So me and my grandad tried to phone for help, but no answer... then suddenly more of these weird green creatures started coming out of peoples houses. We managed to get outside, but we were being stalled by about 100 of these creatures now. We ran, and ran, and ran as far as our legs would take us, but we came to a dead end.. and all at once, these horrible green creatures jumped at us right before our eyes.

    Then I woke up like heavy breathing. D: This was caused from a film I had watched the night before... I think it was Kung Foo Panda and the mantis dude from that made me dream this. XDDD;

    I felt like I have just wrote a book lmao.

    Also idk if it was okay to post this here but since this thread is about dreams I don't see why not.

    /yay for 500th post.
     
    Dreams huh?
    they show a reflection of what people's lives are like and what they are feeling...
    I haven't had a dream i could really remember or worth talking about in like years but i did have a few back when i was a kid. like my own pokemon adventures (luckly wasnt like the anime, you could get hurt an other crap like that XD. it lasted for about 3 to 4 weeks almost continuously, u know when you have a dream and it picks up from the night before)
    But My weirdest dream would have to be the one i had about shots chasing me (not saki shots or anything like that, but the needles that doctors use). I was like in a garden maze where these things were chasing me all around. I'm not going into the real details besides the fact that a few of my friends were in this dream and saved my ass like 3 or 4 times by sacrificing themselves. They turned like evil after sacrificing themselves and started chasing me to. After all that i was chased into the center of the maze where there was a temple with a light in the center going up towards the sky (kind of like the stuff you see from alien spaceships in movies). somehow i knew this thing would save me so i ran for it with the shots right behind me. One of my friends who turned evil was in front of the light. I never made it and always woke up just before i was taken down. (i left out some stuff cause i didnt feel like writing a book about it lolz)
    I know it has to do with me being scared of shots when i was younger, n having to take allergy shots every week for 5 years. But the other stuff i dont get, although i know it had a meaning to it. other then that ive been having dajavou dreams that happen 5 or 6 days later.
    In other words, dreams are weird XD
     
    Scarf said:
    I like to think that some blind people dream in color. Not because they've seen color and then gone blind and remember it, but because they have imagination and dreams are always half audio/visual and half emotional/intuitive. I don't know much about how the brain works, but I'm sure that there are blind people who still have a functioning part of their brains which would normally interpret vision even though their eyes don't register anything. Dreams might activate that part of the brain. Kind of like how you can go for days not being afraid of anything and then have a scary dream about something that isn't actually frightening to you normally. Something besides memory is at work when you dream, and my guess is that another part of your brain is being active.

    This is all uneducated speculation, of course.
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    Apparently people who where born with vision and became blind dream in images but, people who where born blind dream with sounds and other senses.
     
    Well for me i used to have a recurring dream of me building something, i can never remember what it is though, and i used to start rushing about faster and faster and faster until it was finally finished and when i unveiled it (it was covered in a sheet) it would fall over and smash into a million pieces. I'd then wake up and ever since then if i hear something like music or someone talking with an increasing tempo my heart starts pounding and i get this urge to run away.
     
    I find that many of my dreams take place back in my middle or high school years, or involve anime - not necessarily the show I've watched most recently.

    Also, for whatever reason, the Oldsmobile Cutlass recurs in my dreams a lot... which makes little sense because we never owned one.
     
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