sleep and consciousness

[Jesin]

One time I dreamt a whole day at school before waking up, and was confused thereafter as to whether or not things that I remembered happening were real.

I've done that before. That was annoying. There was something I had wanted to tell a friend about, and I thought I had already told him, but it turned out I had only dreamed that I told him.

 

[Kronos Zul]

The only time I ever remember my dreams, are when I'm partially awake, and aware that I'm dreaming.
I'm not 100% sure it can be classed as Lucid Dreaming though. It's almost more of a daydream, but then I could be wrong.

I also, almost never remember My dreams or even know if I did dream.
The most recent two dreams I can remember both had to do with spiders for some reason.
In the first one, a spider was on my back, and I couldn't get it off....o.o
The second one, a few days later, I was bitten on my toe and went to the hospital...I think I might have died, but my mom woke me up before the dream was over.

 

[myexplodingcat]

I sleep... however long I get, which is usually a poor seven hours, even though I should get ten. I'm a night owl, and not easily roused. What's funny is that I'll dream that my mom's screaming at me to wake up already, then answer her while dreaming, even though I'm dreaming it because it's actually happening.

I've also dreamed that my mom was doing this, then gotten up very accurately fifteen minutes before she actually did it. I guess I'm used to it.

In the middle of the night, though, I have some really weird dreams, from the kind where you're flying to the kind where you can't run from the impending disaster to the stuff nobody's ever heard before which is so intricate that the first five minutes after you wake up, you really want to write your next story just based on it, but can't remember it thirty seconds later. Bugs me.

In fact, I'm probably asleep, dreaming, and somehow typing this right now, which probably has something to do with the fact that it's really late, even for me.

Gender in dreams. Sheesh. Never thought about that one before. I guess if I'm dreaming, I have better things to think about than that. I can't remember a dream where I was a guy, though, and that would be one I'd remember. That would be weird. But being a girl in a dream would be a little odd, too. If I was a guy, I'd be one scary guy. I'm a girl, and I'm one scary girl.

My INTJ brother has some odd ones, though, like where the dream shuts off and he finds himself on a set where people are running his dreams for him. This elaborated, in his telling, into a very weird series of events, ending in him going up to an Authorized Personnel Only door and reasoning that since it was his dream he ought to be authorized, and it being full of mattresses, which he fell asleep on and woke up in real life.

 

[Zionoxis]

I hardly ever dream. It pisses me off. I think I dream maybe three times a year. So far, my most vivid one was when a friend of mine accidentally killed both her siblings. She has a super strict religion (that is different than mine), so killing someone, even accidentally is the last thing I would see her doing. I never saw her do it actually, just that I just KNEW it happened. That and some boat was on the shore by a lake and they died somehow from a boat on shore. That part never made sense.

Examining yourself is something I am better at consciencely. Dream interpretation is something I have no idea. :P

 

[crippli]

I dream very vividly. Sometimes with sleep paralyses. That sucks. I hate it. As there is a presence in the room, out to harm me.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I hardly ever dream. It pisses me off. I think I dream maybe three times a year. So far, my most vivid one was when a friend of mine accidentally killed both her siblings. She has a super strict religion (that is different than mine), so killing someone, even accidentally is the last thing I would see her doing. I never saw her do it actually, just that I just KNEW it happened. That and some boat was on the shore by a lake and they died somehow from a boat on shore. That part never made sense.

Examining yourself is something I am better at consciencely. Dream interpretation is something I have no idea. :P

Everybody dreams, you just don't remember them. But I'm in the same situation as you.

I dream very vividly. Sometimes with sleep paralyses. That sucks. I hate it. As there is a presence in the room, out to harm me.

Eh, you get used to it.

 

[crippli]

Eh, you get used to it.

To a degree. First time may have been the worst thing I ever experienced. I cried. And you are completely helpless. There is nothing that works. Later I learned to recognize what was happening somewhat, and wait it out until you get bodily movement again. But the evil will still be there. Last time it touched me, normally it just lurks in my periphery.

 

[Zionoxis]

In response to the "everyone dreams", I guess that depends on your definition of "dream". If so, then dreaming is no different from sleeping. Your mind is in a different state as your body rests. My definition means that I actually wake up knowing I dreamed something, whether I remember all the details or not.

*sigh* I wonder if you can force yourself to have lucid dream to the extent that I could access my sub conscience. In theory, it runs your dreams anyway. Why not use that to figure out where I store things or to intentionally memorize something the day before a big test to drill it in. It is a very crappy and unsupported theory, but the logic behind it makes sense....sort of.

 

[Aramea]

I have always had problems with sleep and at one point was slipping into a Tyler Durden-esque experience with insomnia. I had all the symptoms of narcolepsy. So, I went for one of those sleep studies where they hook you up to a vast amout of sensors and you are supposed to sleep. They had to give me something. Found out i dont really sleep very well even when I do sleep and what I thought were "dreams" were not REM sleep, but thinking while in stage 1 sleep. I never got to stages 3, 4 or REM the whole night but I had two dreams that I remembered very well. I do sleep better now, but if I sleep for less than 45 minutes I will have some vivid dreams that are really just thinking.