Dreams

[Artemis]

16 hours ago, Arcadia said:

I called a lot of mine "frustration dreams" because in them I'd keep trying to do something (like get dressed) and everything kept happening to delay me. So my main sensation upon waking was frustration.

Same!  I also call them "frustration dreams".

 

[J.P.]

Oh, those obstacle course dreams are actually permanent on the menue here. When they are emotionally loaded and feel more like reality than watching a movie - I wake up totally exhausted.

What I was wondering recently though: sometimes I seem to recall strange parts while I'm dreaming. Kind of wrong memories, but somehow I think they were other dreams in the past. Which is - of course - not possible to confirm.

And I've had some more of the pseudo-lucid dreams. I'm suddenly aware that I'm dreaming, but because I still have no (or hardly) control of the situation, I just might dream of having a lucid dream. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Carol the Dabbler]

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32 minutes ago, J.P. said:

I've had some more of the pseudo-lucid dreams. I'm suddenly aware that I'm dreaming, but because I still have no (or hardly) control of the situation, I just might dream of having a lucid dream.

That's interesting!  With me it tends to be either I'm not aware that I'm dreaming, or else I have some control over the dream.  In the latter case, making the effort to tweak things will half-wake me, so that it gradually turns it into a regular daydream.

Regarding remembering prior dreams while having a new dream:  I've definitely had those (and can be sure because I had remembered the prior dreams after I woke up).

 

[J.P.]

The problem is: did I also remember the older dreams before I had a dream where I remembered them? I'm not that sure. This remembering might be also a part of the dream, a kind of false memory.  In dreams the memories don't feel like something I've dreamed before but parts... of a parallell universe or something.

[Carol the Dabbler]

1 hour ago, J.P. said:

The problem is: did I also remember the older dreams before I had a dream where I remembered them? I'm not that sure.

Luckily, I can be sure -- well, sort of.  I had been having dreams where I could levitate, and of course was disappointed when I woke up (I even tried levitating a few times, using the same technique as in the dreams, just in case).  Then I had another dream where I remembered -- well, not the prior dream, exactly, but the part when I woke up and tried -- and of course in the dream I could once more levitate just fine, and I thought "See?  I told you so!"  I felt so relieved -- till I woke up!

Is that close enough?

 

[J.P.]

Okay, flying abilities - This is a whole special sort of dreams and they sometime seem to belong to the same alternative universe. But I also often dream about places that seem or actually are familiar - from somewhere, and they are definitely not real.

[Carol the Dabbler]

3 hours ago, J.P. said:

I also often dream about places that seem or actually are familiar - from somewhere, and they are definitely not real.

Many (most?) of my dreams (or at least the ones I remember) are set in my home, my workplace, etc .  Some are not, but they seem like real places, albeit ones I don't recognize.  My levitation dreams typically occurred (don't think I've had one in ages) in the latter sort of places.

I apparently did have one dream that took place aboard the starship Enterprise, though -- for years I thought it was a real scene (I just couldn't place the episode), but I've watched the entire series a few times now on DVD, and it's definitely not there.

 

[Artemis]

On 1/9/2022 at 3:27 PM, J.P. said:

Oh, those obstacle course dreams are actually permanent on the menue here. When they are emotionally loaded and feel more like reality than watching a movie - I wake up totally exhausted.

Ditto.

On 1/9/2022 at 3:27 PM, J.P. said:

And I've had some more of the pseudo-lucid dreams. I'm suddenly aware that I'm dreaming, but because I still have no (or hardly) control of the situation, I just might dream of having a lucid dream. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ditto again.  I don't think I've ever had an actual lucid dream, where I can control anything in my dream.  But I often become aware that I'm dreaming within my dream.  I just can't do anything with that knowledge, except occasionally force myself to wake up.

 

[Artemis]

Ready to hear something weird?  Last Wednesday night, about 3 1/2 years after I posted my first dream post on this thread, I dreamt a continuation of that dream.

Brains are weird.

 

[Artemis]

I dreamt that I was accidentally kidnapped by four guys who were robbing a bank and stole my car as a getaway vehicle, not realizing I was there when they all shuffled in.  They didn't know what to do with me, so they were just like "Well, looks like you're going to Ohio with us," lol.  They were afraid I would go to the police, so they were trying to scare me and act threatening, but I wasn't convinced by their act because they were funny, non-murdery guys who practically couldn't help themselves from being nice.  I asked if they had guns and one of them tried to scare me by showing me his, but I could tell it was a fake plastic gun and it had an Avengers sticker on it, lol.  It was an interesting road trip and I'm not sure whether they were annoyed or amused by me or both.  I was a younger me in the dream, maybe late teens or early 20's.  We eventually ended up at one of their safe houses on the way to Ohio, and they were trying to figure out what to do next.  I heard them talk about killing me, but I don't think any of them wanted to or could stomach it.  When I asked to go to the bathroom, one of them took me and stood guard outside while I was in there, but I spent most of the time trying to think of what to say to them to reassure them that I wasn't going to go to the police or turn them in if they let me go (because I really wasn't, I was fine and I liked them and I didn't care that they stole the money); and that's when I woke up.

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

10 hours ago, Artemis said:

I spent most of the time trying to think of what to say to them to reassure them that I wasn't going to go to the police or turn them in if they let me go (because I really wasn't, I was fine and I liked them and I didn't care that they stole the money....

You could have offered to become their gun moll.

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Last night I apparently had a fairly detailed dream.  As usual, I didn't remember it when I woke up.

BUT later in the day, I suddenly remembered having had a dream -- and was able to remember it in a fair amount of detail.  It involved an obnoxious driver, ending with me driving off shouting "Try using the passing lane!"

As I've said before, I rarely have / remember my dreams anymore.  But more to the point in this case, I either remember them as I'm waking up or not at all.

Not do I recall ever having a real-life encounter quite like that (which I'm sure I would have remembered in the usual way).

But if I wasn't remembering either a dream or a real experience, then what was it?  

I should mention that I am currently a bit ill.  It seemed like such a slight thing that I forgot that I *cannot* just carry on -- so I did and realized this morning that I still can't do that!  Today I've been out of bed only long enough to care for the cat, use the toilet, and eat a few grapes.  (But I'm actually starting to feel interested in a sandwich now, for the first time in a few days -- yay!)

I'm haven't been running a fever, though, if that's what you're thinking.

Any ideas what might have triggered that memory -- or if it wasn't an actual memory, what it really was?

 

[J.P.]

To celebrate my 10th anniversary of meeting him for the first time, I've had my first actual, story-like dream with Sherlock. Sadly, I don't remember the story, but we spent a significant amount of time roaming through some ominous backstreets of Frankfurt, Germany. 
Sherlock was… tall and slightly annoyed, probably by my presence.

It's so funny how I never dream about topics (or persons) I obsess about, no matter how I'd love to, but some slight, hardly noticed detail can trigger a dream the following night. Sometimes I'm even able to remember what a detail it was.
This time, zapping through the channels, I caught a few seconds of Sherlock on TV. Didn't stop by, as the German version is still a no-go.

Brain, you little rascal!