Dream Oddities

Alluscion · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:23 pm

I am guessing this would be the proper location for dream topics..?

Anyone ever look at your own reflection in a dream?
I had it happen for the first time the other night, it was a unique and unusual sensation/senario.. I realized i had never heard anyone ever discuss seeing their reflection in a dream and I am curious of wether or not it has happened to anyone else....

Alluscion · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 10:23 am

So just out of curiosity anyone elses dream activity seeming to pick up rercently?

Mine have been so intense that I have the sensation of fighting paralasys to pull my self out of the dream realm.. They are so vivid real and feel actually exhausting to awaken from..

Last nights was intense beyond intense-basically I was in a gun fight with a betrayed clan of people who once were my kindrend and due to their leader felt I had needed to be "removed" there werent guns in the fight though more like energy balls and something else that is less memorable at the moment. The sensation fo frustration, betrayle and fear were thick in the air, I fought valliantly and in the end only one of the "clan" treated me with dignity and honor allowing me to choose the last moment of my life, and how it wold end.. it was dramatic and unlike a normal dream of my own- well it started out pretty normal(in the beginning Pras you and your daughter{which was really weird cause she's never been in my dreams yet} were there as well as Transfixed)

I guess I am just sharing my dream cause its thick still in my mind, I know that the person I was in my dream (post people I knew) was not me persay.. more like the me that may exist on another realm... either way she was surely a fierce chick.. wouldnt mind channeling her every once and a while...

Do you ever have dreams where you are some one other than your self? Some one who fits you perfectly but you have never met nor been anything like in reality?

What do you think the role of identity is within the dream world?
Are you to always be you? or parts of you? or can you Actually become some one else from some one elses perspective?

If you havent yet noticed I tend to have a less i guess you could say "realistic" perspective of dreams and the things pertaining to them.. I believe alot of things about dreams that arent founded in fact rather my "feeling" I may sound crazy at times but hell its not like dreams are something you can share in its natural form to explain why I feel the way I do... until then I might just sound looney bins to all of you.. or maybe not?

Alluscion · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 10:24 am

Also apologies, on my literary crappiness today.. brain is still kinda in the dream realm......

prasutagus · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 10:45 am

Wow! No, I've never had a dream where I wasn't myself. And I haven't had a really intense dream in a long, long time. My dreams are always lame enough that I always forget them instantly upon awaking. But, I see your brain goes ALL OUT, Xena - Warrior Princess style. Pretty cool (I hope).

But, more importantly...

What is my precious girl doing in the middle of your imaginary "gun" fight? That doesn't seem all too conducive to healthy child development. I sure hope she wasn't asleep last night "living" your dream (Freddy Kruger like). And also, if I was there, why didn't I jump in and kick some evil former kindred ass. Get Real, will ya!

Alluscion · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:33 pm

No no she showed up with you- obviously to guide her through the dream realm- she was before the gunfight.. when things were calmer but equally weird..
She was talking fluent english(as I have heard she is well on her way) and we were discussing her Birthday present- which is AWESOME BTW! I mean it isnt the single most coolest thing ever but.. its pertty cool..

The two of you didnt stick around too long I think the 2 of you and ole transfixed took off before things went all sci-fi and the like...

(coulda used your help.. maybe if you busted out your sword I coulda had a better chance....way to leave a brutha hangin....)

prasutagus · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 11:03 am

Yeah, sorry 'bout dat. Had to go watch out for the lil bro, I guess.

Saturn · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:23 pm

the last couple of months, i've been dreaming like a fiend!
it's to the point that i hardly ever feel rested, because my dreams keep me from achieving any real, solid, deep sleep. i feel ultra stressed, and my dreams are crazy and chaotic. this has been better and worse since the beginning of the year, but at least i've stopped killing someone in my dreams! that was really f-ing scary for me. i know it was my subconcious acting out my anger, therefore keeping me from doing any actual violence.. but to know that i was so affected by anyone else is troublesome. and knowing i'm capable of that kind of hatred and anger even scarier!
the last time i encountered my victim in my dreams, i just kicked ass.. there was no death or finality. i just beat him/her up and then sent one last kick to them as i walked away, cool and collected. a little smug, but i was always a little smug after the killings too..
a nice, colorful side of me - don't you think?!
Hurk!.

anyhow, now my dreams are a little more realistic, and a little less angry. i'm mostly content, but it's pretty obvious there are still some unsettling issues i need to deal with(fear has become prominent, and i find myself having more "nightmares" than i have since i was a kid!). i'm starting to think, more and more, that this "quarter life crisis" i've heard of a time or two is really adequate to explain where i'm at right now. the intense emotions(not always fear, i might add) i feel during my dreams carry with me into the day. sometimes they're great for me, sometimes not so much.
i'm trying to control it more. today(just woke up an hour ago) i dreamt a lot, but was able to suppress the emotions after i woke up. of course, that means i don't remember the dream, but i feel i slept well!

long post. and my first in a month or two. sorry, been distracted. >.<

Alluscion · **Posted:** Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:53 am

MAN, my head hurts, I dont know if I am just overusing my dream brain, or if the moon is causing it but I have been dreaming hard. Literally hard, I wake up my brain feels like it had been squeezed for every last drop and the dreams.. man they are WEIRD and extremely visual..

GIANT, and I mean GIANT moose and its mate dive off a cliff into the ocean running from walking people. At first I am watching from above but going in for a closer look I find myself hanging by my fingertips on a rock cliff right beside the Giant moose who is in between these two rock faces, I dont know if he is stuck or if he just is watching me but we have a moment of staring at eachother, before my dream mind goes elsewhere.. but the images of them are so thick.. I think i might've yelled reactionarily to the moose(s) right as they were jumping almost like when an animal runs out infront of a car and exclamation breaks free from you to urge it our of harms way... It was weird colorization as well like the contrast and hue had been played with and the sun was for sure setting... Oddness.. theres more but they are for me to know..

[ko] · **Posted:** Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:50 am

I started practicing Qigong a bit ago since it is a mandatory class once I start school in the fall and I wanted to get a jump on it. Since then I have noticed a great increase both in dreams that I remember, which I rarely did before, and the clarity of the dreams. Nothing outrageous though, mostly interesting rearrangments and living mosaics of things in my life. Just think it's an interesting side effect.

Alluscion · **Posted:** Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:25 pm

huh, i wonder if it is releasing trapped neuo-somethinerothers from your muscles and the like..

[ko] · **Posted:** Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:18 pm

well none of my books on qigong say anything about neurosomethinerothers or dreams but one book by Jack Willis on Reichian Therapy (a body-based psychotherapy where specific physical exercises are used) offers this possible expanation:

Quote:

“If you’ll accept my premise that the subconscious is a homeostatic mechanism, then we have an explanation of something I said much earlier. I noted that the great majority of changes produced by this therapy occur in the dream. The reason for this is that dreams are the method that the subconscious uses to rid itself of conflict. A dream is a self-written novel (more an allegory) in which various conflicting ideas or experiences of the subconscious are attempted to be harmonized - it is attempting to remove the conflict which disturb its homeostasis. The therapy disturbs the homeostasis (the body is no less a part of the subconscious than is our past experience, thinking, and emotion) and the subconscious responds to the disturbance by way of the dreams."

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