I didn’t want to threadjack the resurrected Dream thread, so I started a second one for the following question:
What does it look like when you dream?
Unfortunately, I no longer dream often, as I tend to drug myself to sleep because I am a very lucid dreamer, and I can’t turn it off (which means I get little to no restful sleep). For a while, I could pretend to go to sleep in my dream, but that eventually stopped working. I also have a propensity to dream while driving (Sorry other drivers!).
For me, I dream in the third person, in color. Almost never am I actually me as I appear in waking life. I don’t recall ever having issues reading in my dreams, though I’ve been told it is supposed to be impossible. I have on occasion had second person dreams, with little to no active scenes; just narrative.
My wife is first person, also color. She is unable to read within the dream.
My mother-in-law is first person, black and white.
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I didn’t want to threadjack the resurrected Dream thread, so I started a second one for the following question:
What does it look like when you dream?
Unfortunately, I no longer dream often, as I tend to drug myself to sleep because I am a very lucid dreamer, and I can’t turn it off (which means I get little to no restful sleep). For a while, I could pretend to go to sleep in my dream, but that eventually stopped working. I also have a propensity to dream while driving (Sorry other drivers!).
For me, I dream in the third person, in color. Almost never am I actually me as I appear in waking life. I don’t recall ever having issues reading in my dreams, though I’ve been told it is supposed to be impossible. I have on occasion had second person dreams, with little to no active scenes; just narrative.
My wife is first person, also color. She is unable to read within the dream.
My mother-in-law is first person, black and white.
There's a Dream thread?
EDIT: Doh! Actually on the way to bed. Will reply tomorrow.
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There's a Dream thread?
EDIT: Doh! Actually on the way to bed. Will reply tomorrow.
As you very well know! I decided to resurrect it rather than start my own...
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I most often dream in first person, although I also have third person or second person dreams – sometimes my dreams change perspective or even “narrator” as they progress.
I am usually “me” in my dreams, although not always. Sometimes I am “me” but do not look like me, or I look like me and think like me, but people call me a different name.
I nearly always dream in colour, or at least I have memories and impressions of colour from my dreams.
I can read in my dreams, or at least “know” what writing reads as.
My dreams are usually fairly vivid, although they may be disjointed.
I rarely dream lucidly, although it does happen on occasion.
I usually remember my dreams fairly well immediately upon waking, but the memory usually fades very quickly unless I make a conscious effort to retain it very soon after waking.
I usually dream in third person... As I can recall seeing myself in the dream afterwards.
I dream in color (Technicolor, lol), and seem very real to me.
Sometimes (in about 40% of my dreams), I realize that I'm in a dream and can control stuff, like events and surroundings, permitting me to bend reality to my will and have fun.
In most dreams, I dream that I'm flying, or that I am attempting to fly.
In the few dreams that get really ugly (nightmares), I usually realize that I'm dreaming and can wake myself up by blinking my eyes in the dream.
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Sometimes (in about 40% of my dreams), I realize that I'm in a dream and can control stuff, like events and surroundings, permitting me to bend reality to my will and have fun.
That's what we mean by "lucid" dreaming. That's very impressive, actually. Quite a few people try very hard to achieve what you've managed naturally. Personally, I wish I could "quit."
I usually dream in first person, in color, or third as a onmiscient observer above. Usually, that means the dream is very similar to a video game. I tend to switch in between each view through out the sequence.
I rarely dream lucidly and don't like to when I do, cause that means it's a nightmare.
I think I can read, though I'm not sure if that's ever happened. I used to not be able to see clearly, though that seems to have stopped.
I don't remember all of my dream sequences, most of the time, and just have the impression of what happened.
I almost never remember my dreams when I wake up. I usually dream in color and first person, although usually I remember the perspective and angle of things being strange.
I was told a long time ago that boys don't dream in color. But I always did. (I was told i only think I was dreaming in color. baah how do they know?)
I ussually dream in first person. But can switch to a third person view and watch my self in a dream.
I to have momments where I am in comtrol of my dreams. Other times I have no control even over my own actions in a dream.
I rarely have nightmares any more. I have learned to recognize them. If I am in control of the dream I will change the situation and the mightmare changes into a dream. If I am not in control and recognize the nightmare, I will wake up.
I often speak in German in many of my dreams, but never learned to speak german in the real world. I don't remember learning German in dream either.
I will also speak Hawaiian and Spanish in my dreams. I can speak Hawaiian in the real world. I also can swear in Spanish, but not converse in it.
I usually dream of mundane things like getting ready for work, shopping and hanging out. I dream of surfing a lot too. I day dream about surfing too.
But sometimes I have real fantastical dreams, like I'm Conan riding the back of a dragon into battle. These are the most lucid dreams and I seem to be in control with these ones.
Does anyone else dream in a language they do not know?
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I didn’t want to threadjack the resurrected Dream thread, so I started a second one for the following question:
What does it look like when you dream?
I dream infrequently, but when I do, it's a trip. Lovecraftian, even. Try to imagine colors, shapes, and even dimensions nonexistant in waking life, all blending together in a whirl of sound and light, silence and darkness. The dreams frequently are simultaneously in color and black-and-white, as well as ultraviolet and infrared. Distance and depth have no meaning, and the viewpoint switches from first to third to even second person, and sometimes I'm a completely different person altogether. Or an object, even. My dreams contain almost no recurring themes, and are almost never lucid. (My most lucid dream of all time involved a woman in a 1940s-style dress screaming, merging with the ground, and becoming a strange, claw-armed tree.) I think the last time I dreamed was several months ago, which is good, since when I wake up after a dream, I feel more exhausted than when I wnt to sleep.
I dream normally, at least if you are asking about color. No black an' white for me! I do have some pretty strange dreams, though. It sorta switches between first and third person. I rarely have nightmares, nowadays. My favorite dreams are when I get to dream tjhat Im a D&D character myself. when i said I never had nightmares now, that wasn't all true. I often have (shudder) dreams where there is a big spider. Once, i dreamt that there was a big, gray spider as big as my foot, comin' out of its web. I watched it, but when it got too close I coudn't bear it anymore. I stepped on it. But it was a very tough spider. In my dream, a huge shriek filled the air, and the bits of the spider were moving. On my foot. AAAAAAAH!!! To this day, the dream haunts me.
Things look normal when I dream, it's just the subject matter that's trippy. Like a surrealist painting almost, but moving...
It's usually in first person, and when it's not, the "me" I'm dreaming about looks nothing like the image in the mirror. That happens pretty rarely, though.
I can never tell when I'm dreaming, despite the fact that I do things like leap over things out of control and various miscelaneous bizzare occurences (I had a dream in Junior High in which the school breakfast consisted of microwaving our own backpacks). I can often remember my dreams quite well, about one to three a week, and for a long time (the earliest dream I remember is from when I was about seven -- a sequence that was a mix between Indiana Jones and Dawn of the Dead).
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Things look normal when I dream, it's just the subject matter that's trippy. Like a surrealist painting almost, but moving...
It's usually in first person, and when it's not, the "me" I'm dreaming about looks nothing like the image in the mirror. That happens pretty rarely, though.
I can never tell when I'm dreaming, despite the fact that I do things like leap over things out of control and various miscelaneous bizzare occurences (I had a dream in Junior High in which the school breakfast consisted of microwaving our own backpacks). I can often remember my dreams quite well, about one to three a week, and for a long time (the earliest dream I remember is from when I was about seven -- a sequence that was a mix between Indiana Jones and Dawn of the Dead).
I dreamt that I was a shrub once. No joke.
I dream in either first or third person, always in color, and I lucid dream all the time (as in 100% of all my dreams). Thankfully I only dream about once a month at most, though I've been dreaming the past four or five nights for some reason. Usually I let a dream go on its own until something in my dream's plot annoys me, at which point I take over. Nightmares are very rare for me, and I have enough willpower to pull out of one in short order. I can read in some of my dreams, but usually there's nothing to read. Sometimes I'm myself, other times I become someone else-my active imaginary life means I've got a lot of personas in my head somewhere. Heck, in one dream in high school I was a giant spider, another one a Transformer, and an Achilles Neo-Human in a third. My control's pretty good.
As compensation for all the power I've got over my dreams, I rarely sleep well at night because my brain will usually only let me sleep for 3 hours before waking up to check the time. The fact that I've slept and dreamed for the passed four or five nights is strange.
I often feel like I have lead weights strapped to my feet while dreaming (most of the time this happens when someone is chasing me, which makes for a pretty scary dream.) Every now and then in my dream I know I'm dreaming, and go around doing all kinds of fun stuff, like eating everything in sight and skydiving off buildings. Most of the time, I forget my dream about 10 minutes after I wake up, but sometimes I can remember them for a long time. I swear I can remember a dream I had when I was about 5.
All my dreams are in third person, in technicolor, and often horrific. Both the Skinsaw Murders and Hook Mountain Massacre reflect my normal dreaming state.
I don't believe I'm sick. ;)
I had a dream once that my day was in fast forward and when i woke up i thought i didn't have to go to school. Sadlt i was wrong:(
As compensation for all the power I've got over my dreams, I rarely sleep well at night
Sucks, eh? I've taken to drugging myself out (half a benadryl) when I know I'm going to need to be functional.
As compensation for all the power I've got over my dreams, I rarely sleep well at nightSucks, eh? I've taken to drugging myself out (half a benadryl) when I know I'm going to need to be functional.
Alas, for me drugging myself isn't an option. I have this propensity for becoming resistant to drugs. Benadryl is worthless to me, for example. And my sleep is a problem because I need to be completely exhausted mentally to get a good night's sleep. I've been a college student the last three years and even academia isn't using up brainpower fast enough to de-charge the brain. I think that other than the past week the last good night's sleep I've had was back in February. Of course, that was during the semester with the 80 papers, and I crashed that month in order to get a head start on them all.
Oh, and one other note: I do remember my dreams on waking, but I forget them (or not) based on how entertaining or scary they are. I remember one of my nightmares from when I was 4 years old, for example, but only 1 dream out of the last few nights.
Sounds as if we came from the same clone vat, though in my case I'm only resistant to anesthetics (that's a real joy during an operation, by the way).
Something you might try that worked for me until my brain wised up to it: go to bed in your dream.
Sounds as if we came from the same clone vat, though in my case I'm only resistant to anesthetics (that's a real joy during an operation, by the way).
Something you might try that worked for me until my brain wised up to it: go to bed in your dream.
Not usually an option; my dreams are too entertaining and/or weird. I can use all the entertainment I can get. That, and I've tried it. My brain didn't really care and kept working anyway. I've also tried doing things that might be otherwise exhausting in my dream, to no avail.
BTW, I'm awake right now just because of this annoying habit. So much for the nice little stretch of pleasant nights I had going. But I was dreaming for the three hours I was asleep, at least . . . .