I do remember lots of my dreams, and I am very active intellectually during my sleep. I can even sometimes wake up knowing the answers and my mistakes to an exam I passed the day before... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> But what I prefer about dreams is what it teaches me, mostly about myself, and how it help me to see clearer in some situations or about questionning I have. It is pretty hard to explain since it goes greatly with instinct and emotions, though. And my dreams always have a life of their own. I mean, what happens in my head during my sleep is never self-concious, bonded to my concious will. The learning I get from my dream comes from the reminiscence of it and from the reflexion I have about it when I awake. What you talked about earlier, trying things in your dreams, trying to be concious of your dreaming state or trying to wake up are unknown to me (it's highly interesting, though)...
I think that dreams that let very strong (good or bad, although it's most often bad <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ) impressions have often a cause in our subconscious; it can be a kind of unconcious warnings, expressions of unaware or inhibited states, or a kind of outlet, release. Finding the meaning of a dream is so closely related to the individual that dreams it that it can't be interpreted by anyone else than the one who dreamt it imho; you'll feel it when you'll find what it means, if you come to discover it. And if you don't find it, at least it will have had the advantage to have made you think and open your eyes on other points of view & possibilities, wich can't be a very bad thing... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
[color:"orange"] Know what one of the worst type of nightmares are <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/question.gif" alt="" />[/color]
I don't know if there are really a "worst" type of nightmares; my worst ones are always related to real-life traumatic events. The context changes, but the feelings and "threats" remain similar. In these cases it wakes me up (confused, most of the times); then I only wait for the remaining disturbing feelings to calm down and I usualy can get back to sleep with not much difficulty.
I heard somewhere that we never do more than one nightmare per night. I don't know if it is true, but it proves to be right as far as I know until now... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
[color:"orange"] what about getting caught up in some kind of action in a dream; running, panic, climbing, exertion of force (trying to move forward)?
i had some kind of dream where i can see very violent storm just outside my window as i was lying on the bed & i can feel the house being hit by the very strong wind. felt like the house was shaken. i woke up in a panic & looked out the window only to see a very quiet & calm night sky. [/color]
It happens to me once in a while too (most often during bad ones). One that comes back is travelling in a car on a road beside a river/lake, and that, for any reason, the car leaves the road and falls in the water. I awaken suddenly, often with a reflex of trying to grip on something, being confused and quite dizzy by the brutal come back to the (much more stable) reality. I am often very confused when I awake abruptly; it might take a good amount of minutes to me for it to pass when it happens... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />
But the times when dreams like this appeared the most real is when I was "sleeping" while being sick, having a high fever. It happened mostly in these conditions that I dreamt of falling from high places, and the awaking was pretty shocking. It was doing like when we watch 3d movies in wich we have the impression to be on a plane or coaster ride, and that we become kind of dizzy because the brain is tricked by the eyes seeing that we move but the internal ear canals who rule the balance that sense that we're still. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
[color:"orange"] It all seems to point at bottled up rage. I'm not sure what it is trying to tell me. I'm good at bottling up rage, have done for twenty years. At the time of the dream, I was dealing with a very bad breakup and had a lot of rage towards the ex-. Strangely, she had similar dreams about death and theft and the same sense of it not mattering.
I think the dream wants me to change the way I deal with rage, to evolve it. So do I keep control over my rage, control being different to bottling it? Do I cease bottling it and let it spill over? Do I keep a firm hold on it should it cause myself or others harm? [/color]
How to deal with rage, anger or frustration is one of my problems too. Bottling it may be a temporary solution but it gnaws by the inside then; letting it go out with the impulse of the moment often makes big messes (word-for-word and not) that we might regret. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" /> I agree with Alrik's suggestion of channeling rage through something like art, though; sometimes it works for me.
[color:"orange"] Amazing dreams are the ones where you enter a familiar house and find it at least twice the size and full of new rooms that wouldn't have fit before. (...)
Has anyone els had this sort of dream? [/color]
I often dream of familiar places that happen to be very different in my dream than what they are in reality (most of the time it is whole cities and big areas between wich I traveled a lot during a while). It's often much less sinister than your dreams, though <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> but it's as irrationnal. Once in a dream we had discovered that taking the longest road to go from one place to another was in fact a shortcut that was allowing us to make the travel in 30 minutes... The usual road takes two and a half hours by car and going by the "dream's shortcut" takes 5 hours in reality. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
One of the weird things with this dream is that I sometimes make other different dreams that are taking place in this exact same modified familiar places... Does it happen to you sometimes to have dreams that are the continuing of/that are related to a previous one?
