10 things you probably didn't know about Dreams

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Interesting thread, thanks mrk.

I have extremely vivid dreams and always feel much more refreshed after a remembered dream sleep than a normal one. There is definitely something to the theory that dreams are a way of clearing our emotional junk and stuff that you, subconsciously, needed to think through but hadn't. For instance, a few years ago one of my best friends from school had died suddenly and I never found out about it until a few weeks after the funeral. Therefore, I didn't get the chance to say goodbye and pay my respects. A few days later, I started having dreams about my friend and over a few nights I dreamed that we were talking and reminiscing about past times, like friends do. The last dream I had was him saying goodbye and shaking hands. I have never dreamed of him since.

That is a clear symbolic dream where it is easy to place the reason behind it so I disagree that dreams are not what they seem, clearly some are. Just a little snippet of my dream experiences I thought I would share. The others, particularly my dreams about Avril Lavigne and Kate Moss, I will keep to myself thank you! :eek: :D
 
This might be normal or whatever but does anyone ever have a dream about an everyday situation with dialogue from yourself and the people you're with in your dream...and then say a few weeks later you have that same situation happen except it's real life? :confused:

You know what to say, you know what other people are going to say before they say it and things like that?

It used to happen more when I was younger but it has happened at least 5 times in my life - kind of like looking into the future :p

Anyone else had this?
 
Killa_ken said:
I've woken up with no movement in my arm it was pretty scary, I had to pick up the other arm with my other one and it was just dead.
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Will Lucky said:
That can happen to quite a few people, sometimes it's the entire body that is effected and can last quite a while. I've not had it happen though.
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erm, what you're talking about is sleep paralysis, what he's talking about is falling asleep on his arm :p
 
B@Th*nG said:
i dream constantly, wish i could do something about it tbh - short of Valium or something

B@
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Same here, I wish I didn't dream so much. Some nights I wake up and I feel like I have been at the movies all night and I am exhausted! From what I have been told, when you dream you are in a shallow form of sleep and not in proper, restful deep sleep. That is what I need!

Do other people also dream about computer games if they were playing before going to bed? Some games have been particularly bad for me and I feel like I have been playing the game all night in my sleep. Worms and Rollercoaster Tycoon come to mind!
 
In 1981 Keele University paid me £250 to be hooked up to a machine for a week which was a well paid gig at the time.
Luckily for me when I go to sleep I go immediately into dreamstate (REM !) so I don't need as much sleep as some people.
 
mrk said:
External Stimuli Invade our Dreams
This is called Dream Incorporation and it is the experience that most of us have had where a sound from reality is heard in our dream and incorporated in some way. A similar (though less external) example would be when you are physically thirsty and your mind incorporates that feeling in to your dream. My own experience of this includes repeatedly drinking a large glass of water in the dream which satisfies me, only to find the thirst returning shortly after - this thirst… drink… thirst… loop often recurs until I wake up and have a real drink. The famous painting above (Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening) by Salvador Dali, depicts this concept.
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When I was a lot younger, I could often tell when my brother was dreaming, he often spoke in his sleep, and did a fair bit of sleepwalking too.

I used to say things like "Pirates off the starboard bow!" Sometimes he would have remembered one of these by the next morning.
 
tisonlyme said:
I once had a dream where me and the family lived in a really run down flat with paper peeling off the walls, dirt everywhere etc. My mum told me we had no money for food, so I had to choose which of my 2 brothers we had to kill and eat. The next scene was the flat filled with little sandwich bags filled with meat (my bro). I woke up and literally cried my eyes out!!

I've known all along the dream reflects my fear of being poor. It sucked :(
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:( reading that just reminded me that I woke up crying my eyes out a couple of months ago about a dream I'd had either of my dead grandparent being alive or about one of my living grandparents dying. It seemed so real for that 5mins while I was semi-awake, then I fell asleep again and forgot about it until just now.

Dreams are funny things.
 
mark66 said:
Do other people also dream about computer games if they were playing before going to bed? Some games have been particularly bad for me and I feel like I have been playing the game all night in my sleep. Worms and Rollercoaster Tycoon come to mind!
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I had a Lylat wars related dream the Christmas I got my N64, It was awesome :D
 
I used to dream about being chased by bears frequently. Apparently :

"If a bear is chasing you, this means you are avoiding a big issue in your life, and it is time to deal with it."

Does anyone else find that in your dreams you are in a familiar location.. but in the dream its has a different purpose. (for instance recently I was dreaming that I was in my brothers house, but in the dream it was my own)
 
ive had loads of weird dreams in my life and i still remember most of them that
have stuck in my mind.

but do any of you ever have dreams where you die in your dreams.

ive had loads of them in my life time. but i don't know what they mean. and most
of the time, as soon as i die i wake up.

they use to bother me when i first had them. but now they don't bother me.

also in my nightmares i seem to know im in a dream state and i seem to control things
that happen with in my dream. but not all of the time.
 
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The craziest dream I think I can remember having is one where I was at some cross-combo of my university campus and my sixth form. All my friends were knocking around and I was hanging out with my ex (who I'd broken up with like 2 weeks before) when suddenly everything went Jurassic park and there were dinosaurs attacking everywhere, Richard Attenborough was even there I think. Anyway we were all escaping in these tank/jeep things and after my friends and ex got in one I was like "No I have to go back to....". So I dashed back. Then I was in the high street of my home town where I met some girl randomly in the street. We then decided to go to Starbucks for Hot Chocolate (despite there not being one in my home town). We went in and then I got woken up.

It was...interesting.

mrk said:
My long term memory is excellent and I can remember things (with details) from before I was 5yrs old. Quite strange considering that sometimes I forget why I went to Morrisons :p
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I'm literally exactly the same, as previously mentioned it must be the sign of genius.
 
I've never gone in for an actual test but think I may suffer from Sleep-apnia. The Mrs. has told me quite a lot that while I'm sleeping I tend to stop breathing for a ridiculous/scary amount of time, then start again. I also tend to wake myself up going "huuuurrrgghh!" or some other largely audible exhalation, in between moaning most of the time.

I also wake up laughing occasionally when I have a very funny dream. The actual "funny" point that wakes me up can vary extremely into things that actually aren't funny. For example one time it was the father of a friend of mine who was on a talk show in my dream - at a random point he started rambling then went "Huurraarrruhghhuuwwarrr" and his mouth stretched to massive proportions, splitting his head in two horizontally. I woke up with a massive laugh.
 
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