about DREAMS

Lucid dreaming is not uncommon but for most people it seems to happen quite randomly. It is possible to encourage a lucid dream to happen even for those people who never have them. Outside of lucid dreaming, where you as the dreamer can control things, it is also possible to affect the dreams of others both before thay go to sleep and while they sleep.Freud has little to say about dreams when compaired to Jung http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung@nomercy - I have a feeling that you may enjoy reading a book called The Dream Illuminati by Wayne Saalman ISBN: 0-941404-72-2
it is all about people who dream of flying.

Cahos Rahne VelozaStrange topic, but I have a strange answer.... yes.Before I begin with a huge wall of text, you might realise that I might be an insane person after reading through here. So if you don't want to ruin your respects for me then I suggest you skip this post altogether. But if you're an open minded person, then read on.It actually depends on several factors but I am able to "control" what happens in my dreams both consciously or un-consciously.Say what!? You might react to what I said above, but let me explain, rather let me put it into words I can describe.Ever since I was little I have "strange powers" of sorts in my dreams. Unlike what most people tell us, Psychiatrists, psychologists mostly, who say that we only dream in black & white or we don't "feel" anything in our dreams, I dream in full colour! A friend of mine told me that "maybe" I dream in colour because in the "real awakened" world I have some vision impairment, this he said was my mind "comforting" me in my dreams.Also some Psychiatrists & Psychologists say that inside dreams our cognitive functions don't work exactly as it should, so reality can be distorted. An example of this, they say, is the inability to read things in our dream. Say you dreamt you were reading a book, they say you can't remember what you were reading in your dream because the book in your dream is either having blank pages or the "text" is garbled or non-sensical. To be honest, before I read that I remember being actually able to remember things I read in my dreams, no kidding.Some other things I find weird in my dreams are:A distorted map, which correlates to actual places I know, except distances & actual locations are wrong. Say in the real world to get to Uni from my home, it takes two to three rides to get there, in my dream world I just walk like a few steps & I magically get there. Also, in my dream world, my old High School IS inside my Uni's compound, which is not & my classmates both in high-school, College & Grad studies are ALL THERE & they seem to know each other, which isn't true at all.There is also an area there I call the nightmare zone or the scary place. It's a weird area that seems to not correlate to any place I know of. It's a little worn out dusty road with lots os tall grasses & no lamp posts or lights what so ever, lined with eerie trees & a wrecked wooden fence that look like creepy crosses. There are also scary beasts there that always try to get me & there's either a building or village there where the inhabitants are either Cannibals or demons who take the form of humans who lure people there to eat. It's a place I "try to avoid" in my dreams, but some of my dreams strangely need to make me go there, like one time I dreamt me & my classmates were on a field trip & the bus in my dream took us there, alot of my classmates died there & I woke with such a fright.My other senses are also active in my dreams.Say I dreamt I was eating a luscious chocolate cake with strawberry based icing, in my dream I could actually taste the cake as if I were actually eating one. And when I wake, the tastes &/or smells still linger in my mouth &/or nose, no kidding, seriously! Touch is also active in my dreams, like this one time I dreamt somebody gave me a coin, when I woke my hands were still closed as when I recieved the coin in my dream & for a brief moment (until I fully awake), I swear I could still feel the coin actually in my hand, but ofcourse there is none.TV Channel surfing mode:Sometimes I can consciously (that is I perceive to be) &/or unconsciously can change what happens in my dreams, EXCEPT when I get to the scary place of which I really have no "power" & hope only to awaken from. This power to change what is happening takes the form of you as if watching TV & changing channels if you don't like what you're watching.Point of view travelling:This by far is the weirdest thing in my dreams. Say I dreamt I was talking with loony, as the dream proceeds I "see" myself talking to loony, then on random occassions I would be "inside" loony's mind & see myself talking in front of me as if I was loony talking to "me". This also occurs with multiple people in my dream, "my consciousness" would hop around everyone's "consciousness" randomly.The Matrix slo-mo moves:OK, before I explain this one I would like to say that I have been having this power in my dreams since I was very little, BEFORE The Matrix was ever been made. Basically there are sometimes where in my dreams I would go uber slo-mo like Neo dodging bullets or Agents' punches.And the last weird thing in my dream is when I dream inside a dream in my dream ???Basically, I would awaken from a dream only to awaken several moments later from another dream in which I was dreaming in my dream. It's like awaking several times in a row until I actually awaken.So there it is, call me insane, psycho, nut-case whatever you want, but all this shit is true :'(

It's amazing how i have exactly these things happening in dreams too :Otho i really can't explain it to anyoneand i also got some sort of thing where i dream thing happening to me (example something falls down an i get hit with it) it kinda like deja-vu but when i wake up and it happens i usually avoid it...

geekalot · #22dreams may be visions through the future.....

they often are, but they can't be interpreted literally.

The whole "dreaming in B&W" thing is BS...In the meantime I once thought I controlled what I did in dreams...
I realised, I only THINK I'm controlling my own actions, if that makes any sense.Dreams have always interested me, the senses they create, those of freedom or trapping, power and weakness, immortality and death.
Ah well, all I can do is hope I get an interesting dream tonight ;)

Dreams facinate me depending on who i may speak to about them they change in so many ways they are truly amazing and it is because of dreams that i really do think that there is more to us as human beings than this life that we are living here and now, i also dream in colour and i now that i can read and think in my dreams because i am working on a script at the moment that has been floating around for the past few years and on more than one ocassion have come up with an idea for it during a dream, i also have dreams where they feel so real that we i wake i am gob smacked when i realise that i was dreaming in the first place thats how real the seem to me and with certain members on my family myself included i believe that in a way we can see in some way what will happen in advance of it actually occuring although not neccessarily in the capacity of the way the events end up turning out, for example i have often dreamed of people that i would have met through work that i may not have seen in a long time or that i may dealt with recently but they had a problem or issue with a particular item i may have sold them and they would turn up a day or so later to tell me about it, i recently had a dream where a customer i had dealt with a few weeks before hand was in a night club i was in , it was loud and packed to the gills with other people and the music was blaring through the sound system but i could only see his face as i walked through the club his face was the only one i could make out, as it happens he rang me in work a few days later to tell me he had a problem with his order. This happens on a regular basis, i also dont really need an alarm clock i usually have no problem waking on time no matter how late/early i go to bed on most occasions i tend to dream that i am were i should be when i wake up ie work or if i have to be somewhere thats not home yet i know its a dream as something unusual is always going on in them. Some of my sisters have them same ability in there dreams i was to go see a medium with my sister who lost a son who was knocked down by a car a few years ago and she dreamed that we missed the show two weeks for we were due to go but only though of telling me on the day the show was due yet we were both convinced that it was due on different dates it ended up we did miss it. These are just a few examples of dreams that i or family members have had and they have in a way convinced me that there is without a shadow of a doubt something more to the life that we are living.

Holy. I dreamed about Japanese girls 5 hours ago. *yawn* And lotsa zombies.

With me, right, it's a lot like cahos
I mean, i can control my dreams and shit, but when people say things like 'one second im superman next second im batman'
Thats a load of crap. Controlling your dreams doesn't meen completely changing it!
Control/Manipulation of dreams means changing things like say i started walking left, in my mind i say (whether in the subconcious or not) turn around. Or like you know stop, you're dreaming.
Often i have realised that i dream and change colour tones.
Especially if like i have a dream that im like in the present, then i go back like 40 years, theres a sepia tone, and like if its a really dark and evil place its very dark and often incorporates black and white into it. If i am, for example, getting sucked into a vortex, there is a negative tone, as you would be able to do in such programs as windows movie maker.
its quite wierd, and i know i can do more than that, it just wont come to mind.
One thing i cannot do, however, is remember reading in dreams.

I like dreaming because of the sci-fi thingythat goes in yer head whe ye sleep

if you go back in time, dreams were always related to sex. it all started with a genious, and i dont mean it in a sarcastic way, Sigmund Freud. he was the father of psychoanalysis. he said that most dreams are related to sex and in some ways they actually are.most of my dreams are a bit odd though. i dont see how having a police booth having the upper half of it being ripped off and me useing a paintball gun that looks exactly like an M4 and me shooting at a bunch of students in it have to do with sex.

Freud was absurd, tell me how can a 3 year old think of sex?His idea that infants "feel" sexual things about suckling on their mothers breasts or kids who have been potty trained "feel" sexual satisfaction pooping is so retarded. Methinks mister freud is just one big pervert.

back on the Dejavu thing all the new songs, i've already heard in dreams EVERY SINGLE ONE and really its getting annoying now

geekalot · #22dreams may be visions through the future.....when i was a puny freshmen i dreamt that i was in the highest class of all!! :Dnext school year i became a sophomore guess what it came true(though there are only two sections ;D)COINKydoEHky? :-\

that is the truth i normally have [visions]in my dreams and i am not crazy at all

doesn't this go with the lucid dream topic...

Replying to #34

F.Y.I., this thread was posted over a year before that one :P

Replying to #35

oh........k......

I dream in full colour and occasionally use the "reality check" method to pull myself out of really weird dreams (I don't have nightmares, just crazy-ass dreams). I remember one time I was walking down a railroad in Arizona (weird because I live in Australia) and I see Mel Gibson in his Mad Max costume (weird because I've never seen Mad Max) and then I heard this really weird noise so I was like, "Screw this, Imma jump this crack-fest," and then I woke myself up.

Replying to #37

lol

It's all been done.

i once had a dream that elvis presley was gonna kill me, and to make me afraid, he hung up 5 children heads in front of my house, i wanted to run away, but then i landed into a lego world, with elvis presley and me in a tunnel, he was chasing me, i was running away, and just when i got to the stairs i woke up, brrrr never gonna play with lego again XD