I used to have really bad dreams on a regular basis, horrible sleep patterns and awful general mental health. My now ex tried to claim I was 'astral projecting' and all sorts of mad crap, which funnily enough is why she's now my ex.
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I used to have really bad dreams on a regular basis, horrible sleep patterns and awful general mental health. My now ex tried to claim I was 'astral projecting' and all sorts of mad crap, which funnily enough is why she's now my ex.
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Dreams are awesome. I get some canny cracking dreams.
just embrace them sounds like they good dreams to have.
just embrace them sounds like they good dreams to have.
Psychotic behaviour increases with age, as well as acute and chronic stress. OP, go look in that research area for the mechanical drivers - they are very well known. Note the correspondence in the literature between sociogenic, psychogenic and biogenic 'inflammation'/ decay and disruption to mylenation processes being strongly associated with the symptoms you describe.
Delusions, illusions, delirium, psychotic episodes are common in Parkinsons, Alzheimer's, etc, as well as in automatic coping habits formed as a result of chronic sleep loss (common in the early grief phase), or the amount of time you spent on an assisted breathing apparatus (delirium effects also vary by breathing apparatus brand) during and after surgery, etc.
You might want to get a preliminary brain health check for both PD and AD if the symptoms persist (as you indicated you are at the geriatric stage of life where these are common conditions). Ie. Your medical doctor likely knows and can assist you best.
e: Insistence that the imaginary is real, when coupled with low self-awareness and poor reality-testing (fact-checking), is also a prodromal symptom of a split mind (aka schizophrenic) episode. These episodes are common enough even in healthy individual populations, and most are brief and non-recurring. For example, belief that the events which occurred during a dream are objective facts upon waking, or being prematurely woken during REM sleep (see recent work by British researchers on this).
Delusions, illusions, delirium, psychotic episodes are common in Parkinsons, Alzheimer's, etc, as well as in automatic coping habits formed as a result of chronic sleep loss (common in the early grief phase), or the amount of time you spent on an assisted breathing apparatus (delirium effects also vary by breathing apparatus brand) during and after surgery, etc.
You might want to get a preliminary brain health check for both PD and AD if the symptoms persist (as you indicated you are at the geriatric stage of life where these are common conditions). Ie. Your medical doctor likely knows and can assist you best.
e: Insistence that the imaginary is real, when coupled with low self-awareness and poor reality-testing (fact-checking), is also a prodromal symptom of a split mind (aka schizophrenic) episode. These episodes are common enough even in healthy individual populations, and most are brief and non-recurring. For example, belief that the events which occurred during a dream are objective facts upon waking, or being prematurely woken during REM sleep (see recent work by British researchers on this).
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Thank you Dan.
God bless you.
It truly breaks my heart when people say there is no God and look for rational explanations for out of body or spiritual experiences...delusions, etc...
There is an incredible amount of evidence documenting people who have clinically died and come back to life, and have been able to recount every conversation and minute surgical procedure during the intervening period.
I'm a scientist professionally and a chemistry graduate but science only gives hypothesis to substantiate physical phenomena.
It cannot measure what is beyond this dimension and is not bound by the physics of this earthly plane.
Galileo was one of the first scientists to accept this distinction.
Spiritual saints/ ancient mystics such as Jesus or Buddha have been one of many few to attain spirituality where they were able to leave their body at will.
Just to counter what I hope is RxR's approach to humour...
Dreams are often where we try to resolve issues and make sense of things. The fact you're seeing these people means that it's their reassurance you're looking for, maybe something now missing from your life. Losing certain people can leave big holes in our lives and it sounds to me like your subconscious is just trying to process your emotions, possibly in a way you don't/can't/won't acknowledge in normal every day life.
It's strange to think that everyone we've ever spoken to in a dream is really ourselves and that our minds create these little 'plays' for us when we sleep.
Who knows maybe we're tapping into an alternate dimension but sadly it's probably the more mundane option.
Dreams are often where we try to resolve issues and make sense of things. The fact you're seeing these people means that it's their reassurance you're looking for, maybe something now missing from your life. Losing certain people can leave big holes in our lives and it sounds to me like your subconscious is just trying to process your emotions, possibly in a way you don't/can't/won't acknowledge in normal every day life.
It's strange to think that everyone we've ever spoken to in a dream is really ourselves and that our minds create these little 'plays' for us when we sleep.
Who knows maybe we're tapping into an alternate dimension but sadly it's probably the more mundane option.
Well, life itself is good for a laugh, especially when events are adverse (when laughing at it does the most good). 
The more general condition / test I personally use in such ambiguous matters of interpretation is plain utility:
(i). Does it do more good than harm (to an individual and their kin and lawful interests) to believe so?
And
(ii) Is any lawful (ie. Not illegal) coping method any individual may prefer (that works for them) ever really bad?
e. Of course, I expect criticism of the above from those who have no truck with the western liberal tradition, of the one-shoe-size *must* fit all variety.
As an aside, who do you think is best placed (most of the time) to know what coping method works best for them:
A. A stranger (online or not) unconversed with their needs; or,
B. The individual who has those needs together with full-enough knowledge of why, when, where, how, etc?
My money is on B.
The more general condition / test I personally use in such ambiguous matters of interpretation is plain utility:
(i). Does it do more good than harm (to an individual and their kin and lawful interests) to believe so?
And
(ii) Is any lawful (ie. Not illegal) coping method any individual may prefer (that works for them) ever really bad?
e. Of course, I expect criticism of the above from those who have no truck with the western liberal tradition, of the one-shoe-size *must* fit all variety.
As an aside, who do you think is best placed (most of the time) to know what coping method works best for them:
A. A stranger (online or not) unconversed with their needs; or,
B. The individual who has those needs together with full-enough knowledge of why, when, where, how, etc?
My money is on B.
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This is talked about in an Irvine Welsh book, and I've never wanted to do drugs so much ever. .
my dreams have turned epic as i get older ,we are talking lotr extended some nights and i wake up trying to hold on to the fragments .
when i first went veggie i ate fish then i had a dream i was eating fish and chips and the damn fish started flapping about on my plate ,havnt ate fish since
i do have the odd dream about my dog who i lost in may at 16 yrs and its amazing to almost see him again
life after death may be the same as life before birth is one of my ideas ,the other is being born as someone or something else ,well having an awareness of their consciousness
when i first went veggie i ate fish then i had a dream i was eating fish and chips and the damn fish started flapping about on my plate ,havnt ate fish since
i do have the odd dream about my dog who i lost in may at 16 yrs and its amazing to almost see him again
life after death may be the same as life before birth is one of my ideas ,the other is being born as someone or something else ,well having an awareness of their consciousness
Astral projection is like lucid dreaming where you know you are dreaming.I used to have really bad dreams on a regular basis, horrible sleep patterns and awful general mental health. My now ex tried to claim I was 'astral projecting' and all sorts of mad crap, which funnily enough is why she's now my ex.
Difference is you consciously put yourself in this dream state, and there's different worlds you can go to depending on your "vibration".
Jürgen Ziewe is an interesting person who can do it, he's even made paintings etc. From his experiences.
I believe our own awareness of consciousness is due to how advanced we are in terms of brain power - i.e. we are fully self aware and have the mental capacity / realisation to understand our actions etc., say vs. an Ant as discussed earlier that whilst alive probably has no self awareness - would it look in a mirror and recognise itself etc.? Thus consciousness per se in my view is a result of a higher level of intelligence and evolution.
On the religion front, whilst I am an Atheist, I can understand the benefits of non-extreme religions as a way of instilling a good moral compass in an individual to instill values of behaviour that are compatible with being a generally decent human with respect for others.