Well speaking of anxiety I dreamt I was stuck in a restarant while an air raid/missle attack was going on - I could see tracers in the air and the other two people in the restaurant with me were on the floor - the owner a middle-aged woman and an actor (Daniel Kaluuya who was in Get Out) I was wondering if it was real or just a panic because who would attack Geneva in a neutral country? IRL recall Biden and Putin had a summit last June. Been thinking of the war in Ukraine too much it seems....
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Memorable Dreams, Had Any?
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I had what I believe is a first in my dreams, at least what I can remember. It was a typical bothersome, the category might be an “anxiety dream” trying to gather a variety of items to travel somewhere, but these items were not in one place, scattered about the dreamscape, hard to find, hard to move, hard to get to the departure point, trying to make it to the airplane in time.
But last night during my dream, after some period of time trying to get organized, I simply declared, saying the words, “all these obstacles are resolved”, and they were and I was able to continue on to something else in my dream, but damned if I can remember any more. 😆
But last night during my dream, after some period of time trying to get organized, I simply declared, saying the words, “all these obstacles are resolved”, and they were and I was able to continue on to something else in my dream, but damned if I can remember any more. 😆
I've played many computer and board games like that. Well, at least the first paragraph.
I've even done development work on a few computer games with exactly that scenario. I only wish that getting to the golden master shippable product was as easy as saying "all these obstacles are resolved".
This morning I had a brief photorealistic dream where I was driving through a town/settlement on a snowy mud road by a pile of logs, and what I'd call Fallout 4 style shacks, and I was commenting on how realistic everything looked.
After that there was a weird old guy walking around between shipping containers, who I was trying to avoid. Funny what playing games can do to you... 😆
After that there was a weird old guy walking around between shipping containers, who I was trying to avoid. Funny what playing games can do to you... 😆
A few years back, I had a very vivid dream I'm taking pictures with my ancient 20D w/24-70 f2.8. I'm standing at a cliff, photographing nature. After a few shots, I start chimping (checking pictures on the camera). I look up and I'm in the middle of a Brazilian Carnaval.😲 I start take a some pictures. More chimping, I look up. I'm in the middle of a warzone. A soldier pulls me into a foxhole. I take more pictures. Chimp. Now I'm at a wedding reception, the bride is about the throw the bouquet. More photos. Chimp. I'm at Comic Con surrounded by cosplayers. More pictures. Chimp. I'm stand on an active volcano, lava flowing towards me. Holy Sh😱😱😱😭😭... and I wake up.
This would a real life dream for me. I've never been to a Carnaval. I would love to take pictures of that event. Not so keen on being a wartime photographer though. Wedding, nature, conventions...did that before. Active volcano, oh hail no!
This would a real life dream for me. I've never been to a Carnaval. I would love to take pictures of that event. Not so keen on being a wartime photographer though. Wedding, nature, conventions...did that before. Active volcano, oh hail no!
Obligatory quote #4b:
"Before, I was wise.
After, I was wise.
In-between, I was otherwise."
--Osho the Fool
I've not found myself overwhelmed with soul-searching dreams since my early teens (approximately 147 subjective years ago).
Then, it was being chased by wild dogs through catacombs of warehoused antiques; before it was dinosaurs snatching me out of the VW Wagon on a dam; before that it was (basically) driving-to-vertical atop a Mt. St. Hell(en-esque) precipice in {same-said VW Wagon}, and falling-back to a shocking, sweaty consciousness following the awareness that we (TINW) had achieved apogee, and were on the way back-down to . . . *this* is when a awoke.
These days, dreams are much-more placid.
My days are so filled with activity, it's currently--practically--impossible to describe that which replaced the turbulence of yester-year.
Then, it was being chased by wild dogs through catacombs of warehoused antiques; before it was dinosaurs snatching me out of the VW Wagon on a dam; before that it was (basically) driving-to-vertical atop a Mt. St. Hell(en-esque) precipice in {same-said VW Wagon}, and falling-back to a shocking, sweaty consciousness following the awareness that we (TINW) had achieved apogee, and were on the way back-down to . . . *this* is when a awoke.
These days, dreams are much-more placid.
My days are so filled with activity, it's currently--practically--impossible to describe that which replaced the turbulence of yester-year.
One of my blood brothers is a gastro doctor. A couple decades ago he went through a Buddhist phase. While at his office for a check up he took me into another room where hung on the wall was a colored medical chart of the human body opened up labeling the internal body parts.
He put his arm around me and said, “You know from the day we are born we start to die….”. At that point I interrupted him saying, “What the f*** are you talking about?” He dropped his arm and said, “I should save that speech for someone else.”
Two things about my dreams:
I also experience from time to time that I fully realize, that; this can't be real - it must be a dream, and several times I've somehow 'shaken' myself to awake.
Sometimes I can fly. Actually, in my dreams I always experience the eather as much thicker than air, like a liquid, like under water, which means that it's always very hard to move fast, but it's also very easy to extend my steps to leaps of unnatural lengths, so much that I sometimes manage to go from long-leap running to stretching out into a slowly ascending flight head first. I've also dreamed I stood on an elevated point, remembered that "hm, I can fly, though" and throw myself out into fligh. It's really cool.
I don't remember noticing any of those two things from my youth or childhood, though.
My bad dreams always consist of stress and confusion. Lots of people, more or less known to me, suddenly showing up in my house, making a mess, and getting me upset and frustrated, and nothing I can do to get rid of them. Also dreams of rushing around trying to find something, and the scenario changing all the time so it's impossible to find anything, so again, frustration en masse. This is when I know I've been drinking too much lately.
I can't remember the last time I had a real nightmare. Must have been some high-fever illness in my youth sometime.
(Added: One thing I find really bothersome about the combination of the 'thick, liquid eather' and the stressful frustrated dreams is when I lose my temper and try to hit someone in the face, I can't! My hand and arm moves so slowly thru the 'liquid' that I can't manage to give the bstrds a lip! Grrrr.)
I'll also add that if this sounds funny to most of you - the flying and thick eather etc - I have some neurological conditions that might contribute to my specific experiences: 30 years of epilepsy and some other damages to reflex, movement, balance etc., caused by exposure to solvents in glue and stuff, in my first ten years of work in the advertising biz. ('Paste-up', before 'desktop publishing'.). I also have a vagus nerve implant that sends a small current into my nervous system every few seconds, that no one really knows how it works. It's had me seizure-free for five years though, so jippi!
I also experience from time to time that I fully realize, that; this can't be real - it must be a dream, and several times I've somehow 'shaken' myself to awake.
Sometimes I can fly. Actually, in my dreams I always experience the eather as much thicker than air, like a liquid, like under water, which means that it's always very hard to move fast, but it's also very easy to extend my steps to leaps of unnatural lengths, so much that I sometimes manage to go from long-leap running to stretching out into a slowly ascending flight head first. I've also dreamed I stood on an elevated point, remembered that "hm, I can fly, though" and throw myself out into fligh. It's really cool.
I don't remember noticing any of those two things from my youth or childhood, though.
My bad dreams always consist of stress and confusion. Lots of people, more or less known to me, suddenly showing up in my house, making a mess, and getting me upset and frustrated, and nothing I can do to get rid of them. Also dreams of rushing around trying to find something, and the scenario changing all the time so it's impossible to find anything, so again, frustration en masse. This is when I know I've been drinking too much lately.
I can't remember the last time I had a real nightmare. Must have been some high-fever illness in my youth sometime.
(Added: One thing I find really bothersome about the combination of the 'thick, liquid eather' and the stressful frustrated dreams is when I lose my temper and try to hit someone in the face, I can't! My hand and arm moves so slowly thru the 'liquid' that I can't manage to give the bstrds a lip! Grrrr.)
I'll also add that if this sounds funny to most of you - the flying and thick eather etc - I have some neurological conditions that might contribute to my specific experiences: 30 years of epilepsy and some other damages to reflex, movement, balance etc., caused by exposure to solvents in glue and stuff, in my first ten years of work in the advertising biz. ('Paste-up', before 'desktop publishing'.). I also have a vagus nerve implant that sends a small current into my nervous system every few seconds, that no one really knows how it works. It's had me seizure-free for five years though, so jippi!
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Quite an adventure.
I don’t often have adventure dreams, but when they happen, can be cinematic.
Stress and confusion, for me as in being lost, unable to get somewhere where I need to be. It’s very interesting that you can be in a dream, not thinking, ah this is a dream, but when it reaches a certain level of discomfort, you can basically say “enough” and wake yourself up. I can’t say I experience nightmares, just levels of discomfort or annoyance.
I’m a retired pilot, but never experienced a scary plane crash, although in a dream, I did crash land an airplane after flying through the woods avoiding large trees until we landed and everyone walked away. And after being shot in a dream I experienced a slow fade to darkness although it was more of an experience, not being frightened.
A certain Presidential Candidate has also been appearing in my dreams off and on for years, but in the dreams he equates to just another face in the crowd without any associated negative emotions. 🤔
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I have a couple of reoccurring dreams as an adult but that’s all they are…dreams. So they’re meh to me.
Commercial television from my childhood still impacts my dreams. For example I had a dream where Captain Crunch (from the sugary kid’s cereal) helped me [successfully] battle an invasion of giant blue land crabs that were trying to sneak into my house.
Throughout my career I worked downtown at the office and commuted by train everyday from my home in the suburbs. Now that I'm retired, I have the frequent dream that I can't find the train station after work to get home. I'm doomed to wander endlessly along crowded downtown streets desperately looking for the railway station and my train home. I wonder what psychologists might say it means.