A random memoir of a dream or two

[Queso]

Anybody had any interesting dreams lately?

[Turtle]

___Hey Orb! Love your contemplative posts. I rarely remember dreams lately; I think because I smoke so heavily. However, will an old dream be OK if it's a doozy? I brought it up indirectly in the thread 'Spinning Button on a String', but I've been so obsessed with my math posts I let it languish. :(

[Queso]

I read on howstuffworks.com about how dreams work, and I found it very amazing that the brain stem just sends completely random electrical charges every 90 minutes or so, left for your brain to decode, and that's what dreams are. Just random things mashed together, and us trying to make sense of them.

Last night I remember I was looking down on a beach, from a balcony at night. A lighthouse off in the distance made me jump every time it shined my way...funny I'm even paranoid when I sleep..anyway I looked down there, and there was a mock-egyption civilization down there on the sand. Just for fun, entertainment, and I remember it was only temporary. I could see people move around down there like chess peices, they all moved one at a time, and in set motion.

I went back into this house that seemed to be floating in the sky, but later turned out to be on a cliff (you know how dreams change like that)

there were people I hadn't seen in forever, as if it were casual. I took some pills, had an argument with somebody, and walked out into the forest that I knew somehow led to this beach.

It was just strange and had a nice feeling flowing through the cold air.

[Turtle]

Dude...your dream is sticking in my head! Without reading it again just now (I will after I post), I can see down onto that beach & feel being on the cliff. The idea of Egyptian too, but nothing specific. Since I read your post earlier, it keeps coming into my mind. So, I'll post this, read it again, & then try to dream it myself tonight. You have the coolest thoughts Orb! :hihi:

[Queso]

you should check this out then...these are some crazy thoughts. (i did not make this)

 

http://www.submarinechannel.com/hotel

 

kind of a drag he updates every couple months or so....but there must be a reason for it.

[Turtle]

___I have absolutely no idea what that link means. As is often the case we remember what we like & on rereading the dream I saw I forgot the arguing & I so dislike arguing that I had to abandon the dream.

___I think heavy smoking affects my dream remembering ability; when I've tried to quit before, I noticed I was remembering dreams. :(

[Queso]

Do you ever recall any, or are they completely blank?

ie. You had a dream you were flying on a giant dragonfly, you see a dragonfly land on your windsheild as you're stopped at a stoplight, and you remember...Ah! Yes, my dream.

I've done some...."experiments" and my results tell me if you sleep under the influence of THC, your night yields more creative/vivid dreams. I'm sure this wasn't the kind of smoking you were talking about, though. ;]

[Buffy]

.... if you sleep under the influence of THC, your night yields more creative/vivid dreams....

Uh, quite a few studies show that THC and many other psychoactive drugs actually *inhibit* REM sleep--and therefore dreaming. I had a friend who was quite the pothead who said that *stopping* was the best way he'd ever found to induce nocturnal hallucinations...

 

Cheers,

Buffy

[Queso]

yawnnnnn, for the record, it wasn't a serious experiment, I guess just subcouncious observations brought to my attention by morning, brought to attention mid-morning.

[Turtle]

mid morning ,miiiid mooorrrrnnniiinnnggg. I remember certain dreams from the past, just not the current ones. I do wake & realize I just left a dream, but I loose its memory almost immediately. Of course, I do a lot of daydreaming & maybe because of that I have little need to recall nightdreams. I pretty much live in a dream world people tell me; perhaps my nightdreams are everyone elses dayreality? Who want's to remember that anyway?

___mmmmmiiiiidddddd aafffttteeerrrnnooooonn......:cup:

[Queso]

hah, good point my friend.

[Fishteacher73]

I VERY rarely remember dreams, maybe 20-30 total in 30 years....The ones I do recall have been quite odd though.

 

The stangest was a series of dreams that took several nights and would pick up the following night where the previous had ended..I was maybe 9 or 10. I was fighting a huge catapillar (looked like Teddy Ruxpin's buddy). It ate me and I was running about on the inside poking bits of innards with my sword to no avail. Eventually the catipillar farted and I came out stuck in a fart bubble. In the bubble was a toilet, a sink, and a stack of cermaic tiles. For some reason I could not pop the bubble and was stuck in it on the side of the road in a desert. As people would come by I would ask for them to pop it, but they would all refuse, afraid of the smell. I finally stopped having the dreams, eternally stuck in a fart bubble on the side of the road in the desert.... :cup:

[Queso]

That is quite a sad tale, by now I'm sure there was someone who helped you out, maybe that's why the dreams stopped?!

[Turtle]

I remember a childhood flying dream. I had a 'Beanie Copter' hat on & I was above my house. I could see it all for real, like OBE. I love flying dreams.:naughty:

[Queso]

hah. there would be nothing cooler than putting on a hat and going flying.

i had a very brief lucid dream a few nights ago. i was driving a convertible, and i remember i could hear myself think. i was dreaming, but i could think. i was so amazed because i had been thinking about it before i went to bed to see if it worked, and i guess it did.

"ok wow, i'm thinking...alright, let's test this out....ok...i want to make this car fly"

my car took off, and the world around me danced like an impressionist painting, blurry and colorful. i took off into the air and i guess due to my excitement, i lost control of the dream and fell deeper into sleep or something.

[Aki]

Sometimes it seems like short segments of my dreams later happen in real life. You know what I'm talking about? The feeling of "deja vu"? That is why sometimes, I believe that we live in a closed loop, and events occur over and over again.

[Buffy]

Sometimes it seems like short segments of my dreams later happen in real life. You know what I'm talking about? The feeling of "deja vu"? That is why sometimes, I believe that we live in a closed loop, and events occur over and over again.

Its called "premonition." Have you been watching "Medium" on NBC? I think its tachyons going backwards in the time dimension and hitting random neurons. I've never experienced it personally, although when its been close, its been very much like the "closed loop/deja vu" experience, of the sequence of "been there"/"dreamed it"/"been there again"....wierd....

 

[Twilight Zone Theme],

Buffy