Do you dream? What context?

[intpz]

Regards to @Etheri for the idea.

I didn't dream for a while, that's when I felt that my brain function was higher, I was able to calculate fast and all that. Before that, I used to dream, my F side was there, I spend a lot of time outside, alone, or with my ISFJ grandpa, etc., as I didn't have a computer and gadgets. And perhaps a year into when I had a computer too, until I took the interest really seriously AND had the means to pursue something with regards to it.

When I was dreaming, I used to have odd dreams, something odd happening to me or the people I've seen.

Now I dream almost every night and I hate it. Dreams are odd, sometimes about how things could've been if I wouldn't have done something (monetary stuff, I could've had a better PC, means more opportunities, or other gadgets); on the days when I'm really bored, in the night I dream about social stuff, some girl I found pretty at school, or something like that. Nothing sexual. The last week for example, as my PC is broken and it's really slow, I can barely browse pages, sometimes it takes a couple minutes to load for a Javascript giant.

I remember dreaming about a fire at some place, or about death of some people. Not murder. When I was young that is, I guess it's influenced by some of those SFJs around, who are paranoid as fuck and always kept (still keep) telling me that they'll die soon. Annoying, meaningless and as a kid, apparently affected my psyche, as I didn't have anything to do: no toys, no computers, no TV, etc.. At the time that is.

P.S. Be specific, keep the topic ON TOPIC, and don't post a short sentence or two.

 

[Absurdity]

I dream every night, and for the most part enjoy it. My dreams are usually pretty surreal or otherwise unrealistic. This allows me to achieve lucidity pretty easily (the strangeness makes me realize I am dreaming). I can fly and use telekinesis, but sometimes the dream will resist and change on me. If I try too hard to control what is happening, I usually wake up.

Most of the time the subject matter is pretty intensely emotional. In the last dream I had last night before I woke up, I met a girl (her appearance seemed to be a composite of girls I know in real life) and we flew around in a spaceship. She dumped me off in a jail reminiscent of the one in The Dark Knight Rises, though, because I wouldn't open up to her enough. I told her that once we both matured a little bit she could come pick me up. The symbolism there seems readily apparent to me. When I woke up my chest felt tight from how seriously in love I was with this girl while I was in the dream. The feeling was much stronger than anything I experience while awake in my day-to-day life.

I've been lucid (or at least semi-lucid) dreaming for a few years now. It is an interesting experience, and I recommend at least trying it to everyone. I wrote a little how-to guide on another thread that I will include here.

Spoiler

The first step toward achieving a lucid dream is to remember as much as possible about your dreams. The best way to do this is to start a dream journal. Keep it by your bed, ready to write, as the more you do once you wake up the less you will remember. At first you will probably only be able to write a few lines about the dream you had, but with practice you will be able to write pages. I grew so serious about journaling that when I woke up in the middle of the night during the dream I would grab my notebook and write it down.

Once you have been consistently writing down your dreams you may notice that they take place in odd situations or feature people and things that were once in your life but have since moved on. Write yourself notes. I had a dream where I saw an old red Mini Cooper that my dad had had a while back, so when I woke up I told myself to watch out for it the next time I dreamt. Other people suggest attempting to read clocks or text or focus on pictures, because these will swirl around and make you realize you are dreaming. I know some people who have done this and it has worked for them, but it's never worked for me.

Eventually, you should be able to enter a lucid state when you realize the absurdity of a dream (just like in Inception!). One of my friends was having a dream where she was talking to someone who was shirtless and wearing a backpack, and then put on a shirt that magically appeared under the backpack even though they had kept it on the entire time. For me, my first lucid dream was the result of several improbably circumstances.

To begin with, I was at church, which I don't attend anymore. Next I saw a girl I had known in high school who had moved several hours away. These things made me suspicious, and I asked her if I was in a dream, and she smiled and said, "Yes."

Once you achieve a lucid state it is easy to get too excited and lose it. This has happened to me a few times and some people I know as well. There are a few things you can do to remind yourself you are dreaming, such as waving your arms or spinning around. Just keep practicing, and be patient. It took me a few months before my first lucid dream, and I have had many since then.

 

[Etheri]

Why are you so obsesses with order within your threads? What's wrong with slightly derailing topics? It's not like it's offtopic ALL the way.

Anyways, I remember about 5 dreams in a year on avarage, I'd say, 2 of those would be me waking up from a nightmare. (Waking up 100% aware, sitting up straight, heart pumping, cold sweat)
I'll never remember anything more than the last few moments. I don't mind not remembering my dreams, if I did, it'd feel as if my brain truly never ever stopped.

 

[intpz]

I dream every night, and for the most part enjoy it. My dreams are usually pretty surreal or otherwise unrealistic. This allows me to achieve lucidity pretty easily (the strangeness makes me realize I am dreaming). I can fly and use telekinesis, but sometimes the dream will resist and change on me. If I try too hard to control what is happening, I usually wake up.

Most of the time the subject matter is pretty intensely emotional. In the last dream I had last night before I woke up, I met a girl (her appearance seemed to be a composite of girls I know in real life) and we flew around in a spaceship. She dumped me off in a jail reminiscent of the one in The Dark Knight Rises, though, because I wouldn't open up to her enough. I told her that once we both matured a little bit she could come pick me up. The symbolism there seems readily apparent to me. When I woke up my chest felt tight from how seriously in love I was with this girl while I was in the dream. The feeling was much stronger than anything I experience while awake in my day-to-day life.

I've been lucid (or at least semi-lucid) dreaming for a few years now. It is an interesting experience, and I recommend at least trying it to everyone. I wrote a little how-to guide on another thread that I will include here.

I often have a realization that I'm dreaming, indicated by some illogicality. I would like to not dream at all actually. But if I have to (divine intervention ), I'd like to CHOOSE about what to dream. A dream about me having 15 PCs around me, coding and shit - cool, ain't it?

Why are you so obsesses with order within your threads? What's wrong with slightly derailing topics? It's not like it's offtopic ALL the way.

Because when one idiot posts something nonsensical, at least a few others follow him. I prefer keep it on topic.

Also, I've never woke up from a nightmare, or I didn't have one.

 

[Vladimir]

I'm trying to explore lucid dreaming. It's awesome.

 

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@Absurdity

That sounds like me. Actually, flying has become such a habit in my dreams that sometimes I start flying before I'm lucid and then the lucidity comes after.

 

[hablahdoo]

It's been something recent in the last few months that as it nears bed time sometimes my mind starts going off on tangents that carry into my sleep. Maybe? It's hard to tell. Sometimes I'll get into bed still thinking about things and it gets a bit more vivid and eventually I notice sleep paralysis- my body goes numb. And my eyes are noticeably dilated. It's really weird. I expect this is a result of experimenting with lucid dreaming a couple months back. I usually make myself snap out of it so I can actually get to bed. It doesn't feel like a very full experience of dreaming, it's like my crappy imagination being enhanced a bit. I don't know what to really make of it.

Actual completely automatic dreams are somewhat rare for me, I can't remember them well. They're still usually not too wild.

This is probably a hard post to follow. I don't really know how dreaming works or how to describe it.

 

[Absurdity]

I would like to not dream at all actually.

Why wouldn't you want to dream?

 

[intpz]

Why wouldn't you want to dream?

I like reality. I do like imagination, games, etc., but as far as life goes - I prefer reality, I prefer control over what I do, I prefer do what I want, and I want that what I do to reflect in the real world. If I dream that I wrote a chunk of code, it won't be there in real life.

 

[Absurdity]

If I dream that I wrote a chunk of code, it won't be there in real life.

But if you wrote a chunk of code in real life, it could be in a dream.