Do you ever get those dreams...?

[fable]

@Brink, my wife generally doesn't remember her dreams. I tend to, and I wonder if it's because I'm not quite as logical as she is (that remark would win a round of laughter in our household), and tend to relate more to my emotional/creative side. So I occasionally give her the completely illogical details of my dreams, and she just stares at me, horrified.

She thinks life should make sense. I know better. It's actually a play we're ghost writing for Harold Pinter.

[C Elegans]

Originally posted by Aegis:
<STRONG>Hey C E, if there are stress dreams, and academic dreams.. How in the nine hells do you explain Weasel! What are his dreams filed under? Insane monkey madness? Well, I suppose when you take part on a forum like this, dreams like are bound to come about... Maybe it's something that hits when you hit 2000 or more posts....</STRONG>

Weasel's dreams sounds like a combination of so called "day fragments" (ie fragments of your everyday life, things you have recently thought about, experienced or things you just have on your mind), and typical surrealistic REM sleep dreams. Everybody have those dreams, it's just a question of whether we remember it or not. Dreams can be categorised in many groups, and combinations are frequent.

[C Elegans]

Originally posted by fable:
<STRONG>@Brink, my wife generally doesn't remember her dreams. I tend to, and I wonder if it's because I'm not quite as logical as she is (that remark would win a round of laughter in our household), and tend to relate more to my emotional/creative side. So I occasionally give her the completely illogical details of my dreams, and she just stares at me, horrified.</STRONG>

LOL Fable
No, how much me remember of our dreams is not generally connected to creativity or vivid fantasy, it's more connected to our sleep cycle patterns. We dream most surrealistic and colourful dreams during our REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. A sleep cycle is about 90 mins long, and we start in stage 1, go through 2,3, and deep sleep stage 4, then back 3, 2,1 and it starts all over. REM sleep occurs between stage 2 and 1 on the way up. The more we sleep, the longer REM periods we have, and how much we remember of out dreams is depending on how long time has passed since we last dreamt. Some people tend to awake in the morning just after REM sleep, and then it's easy to remember the dreams.

Everybody can train themselves to remember their dreams if they like to, and a person who is interested in remembering dreams will perhaps focus more on the dream when he/she awakes. If we don't focus or think about our dreams when we awake, most of us tend to forget them within a few minutes.

[Georgi]

@Fable do you keep a dream diary? You should write down all the details of your dreams, take away the detail that is "day fragments" as CE said, and then analyse what's left. Recurring dreams are supposed to be your subconscious repeatedly trying to get a message across to you, that you are not responding to. Also, you might find that different dreams, once you analyse them, have a recurring theme

[Aegis]

@C E: So... what your saying is that Weasel is coo-coo in the coconut, and isn't thiking right?

[fable]

I kept a dream diary briefly, a long time ago, but gave it up. Maybe one of these days, I'll start doing it, again.

[Aegis]

No offense or anything Fable, but the only person I know that keeps a dream diary is Mom, and frankly, she ain't right in the head...

[C Elegans]

Originally posted by Aegis:
<STRONG>@C E: So... what your saying is that Weasel is coo-coo in the coconut, and isn't thiking right? </STRONG>

I say Weasel's dreams are perfectly normal...he might still be totally coo-coo, though

[fable]

Aegis writes:
No offense or anything Fable, but the only person I know that keeps a dream diary is Mom, and frankly, she ain't right in the head...

None taken. But I think you're confusing what people say, and what they do. Besides, there's a lot to be said for understanding yourself better, in lieu of watching yet-another bad sitcom.

[Mr Sleep]

"That boy needs therapy!
Purely psychosematic,
that boy needs therapy
lie down on the couch
what does that mean
Your a nut
Your crazy in the coconut!
What does that mean,
That boy needs therapy,
I'm gonna kill you
That boy needs theapy
Grab a Kazoo lets have a tune"

Relate to anyone?

[Brink]

Nope,definitely not me

[Craig]

No comment on my ghost eating dream?

[Craig]

Originally posted by craig:
<STRONG>I know some one on the elysium boards that had this freaky dream
Once i was making pastery on a snooker table and out of the pasery comes a ghost in the end i eat it then i wake up</STRONG>

Thats the one

[Manveru]

I remember one of my dreams very well - really strange one - nightmare - actually it was like the movie.

In this dream I woke up in the dream's morning in my house. There was some hurry in the air, I and my family escaped quickly from our house that we have the time only to take the most needed things - without any reason. Then we were escaping from the city our car as fast as possible feeling the greater fear in all seconds - at last I saw the reason of our fear - the smoke indicating nuclear explosion. We were still escaping when warm wind reached car..... then I woke up in reality.

[leedogg]

I tell you the dreams that I hate!

I hate it when you go to sleep and dream about work all night. Then you wake up felling even more tired than when you went to sleep. That really ticks me off!

I tend to dream of whatever i am preoccupied with at the time. Like, right now i am looking to buy a car when i get home, and all week long i have dreamed about buying a car...that's how my dreams work.