Dreams

[€uroMeinke]

If you haven’t figured it out yet, I love talking about dreams and the dream world. But in my conversations elsewhere (AKA Live Journal) a few different ideas have been kicked about so I thought it time to bring it to the message board to discuss and not just to essay about.

So what do you think about dreams? Are the episodes of wish fulfillment? Are they meant to entertain us while we sleep – B-movies of the mind? Are they windows to the soul? Or are they parallel lives we privately in other worlds?

I’ll come back with my opinions, but I’d like to hear what you’ve got to say about the topic.

[Not Afraid]

I just whant you to bring a notepad into the bedroom on the morning while I'm groggy enough to actually you my dream so I can see what the HELL is going on in my head.

[Prudence]

Damned if I know. I'd love to think that dreams are working out some deeper truths, but I regularly have "action movie" dreams, complete with watching myself in the third person. Really, some of them are quite excellent. Definitely summer blockbusters. And an arguement for "B movies of the mind." Or possibly a wish fulfillment, but I don't have a conscious desire to be an action movie star.

But every so often I have one that really stands out and I wake up wondering "Why?" Why did I just dream that? What does that mean? What was I supposed to learn?

[CoasterMatt]

I have a lot of dreams with blue elephants and purple weenie dogs asking me directions - and they show up in the middle of other fairly plain dreams, too.

I like to think of dreams as the spirit devoid of any kind of facade or pretense - ymmv

[Gemini Cricket]

No comment.

Sincerely,
George W. Bush Jr.

:D

[AllyOops!]

I've been having lots of dreams where I'm a Mommy & have a baby. Or dreams of me being pregnant. I know I'm having these dreams because it's something that I'm becoming very curious about, and it's a stage in my life I feel I'm close to being ready for. The more I dream about it, the more it excites me. Muchly. :) I never thought I'd ever feel that way! Nobody is more surprised then myself. Dreamy, pun-intended sigh.. :)

I could go on and on and on about dreams! I dream very vividly, and in color. And nothing is worse then the night terrors I use to suffer from. I occasionally get bad nightmares, still. :(

And don't even get me started on the nocturnal yowza's that are sex dreams! Holy pillow! :D

[wendybeth]

I think for the most part dreams are your mind's way of tossing the trash. However, I've had a few that were of a more prescient nature, and so I think perhaps there is something more to the dream state than the rational side of my mind wants to admit. I also think we need an 'Interepret My Dream, €uro' section, because you are quite good at it.:snap:

[wendybeth]

No comment.

Sincerely,
George W. Bush Jr.

:D

Lol, GC!

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I have dreams and sometimes I have sequals. I've had repeats and I've had probably 100+ dreams with the same person in it that I've never met.

My earliest dream rememberance was from around the age of 10 and it had to do with me going to our "church." My family and me. Outside it was raining and in the parking area was a coffin on an open cart. It opens and something stares at me. I don't really see it, just cool eyes and pale yellow skin. No real form. Inside the "church" I'm sitting down on the chairs which were like little couches. I suddenly feel somthing pressing against my side. It pushes harder. I look and it's a hand coming from within the cushons of the couch. Same color - pale, dull yellow. I see the cool eyes.

I wake up and there is a throbing in my side.

I haven't forgot it ever since that morning I woke up and whenever i think about it, I feel someone pressing against my side.

Weird huh?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Well, seeing as it was my thoughts that sparked this, I suppose I should respond.

Essentially, I don't discount the fact that some dreams can be insights into your mind, however I don't believe all of them are. I liken it to your brain just randomly flipping channels. Who knows if what you've landed on is a hard-hitting investigative documentary, or a Joe Bob movie. Or perhaps even a cleverly crafted work of fiction that merely appears to be reality, a la War of the Worlds. Because of that uncertainty, I have a hard time putting much stock in them and don't spend too much of my energy analyzing. The only ones I've ever really spent time on have been some recurring ones. And they've been interesting, but so disconnected from anything in my waking life that I've mostly come to the conclusion that it's just my brain playing out some hypotheticals and/or getting some exercise.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I think dreams are like books or movies.

Some are meant to open doors to sides of yourself. Some help you through rough patches. Some are cathartic simply because they make you laugh or cry.

And some are action flicks which are there to give you an adrenaline rush. Some are romances full of longing and fulfillment. Some are stupid comedies filled with slapstick. And some are just straight-up porno.

I think dreams do mean something, and we need that something, no matter the subject matter, much like the way we need books and music and movies. Entertainment helps us work out stuff within ourselves.

What gets me is the seeming randomness of it. I hate when people have dreams in movies filled with super-obvious analogies.

I have sexual dreams about people that aren't even on my mind. And the people that are on my mind are almost never in my dreams.

These days, I mostly dream about competitions of one sort or another, races of all kinds, treasure hunts and creative contests. There's a lot of rushing around. I don't remember them too well.

[blueerica]

I have sexual dreams about people that aren't even on my mind. And the people that are on my mind are almost never in my dreams.

I once read that sexual dreams, are really about becoming closer to something or someone... That the person the encounter is with, perhaps you have a desire to get to know better; or if the person (or whatever -- we're not getting into that, at least not yet) represents a concept.. such as power, or weakness.. it can be about the desire to obtain, or to lose. The idea of a power position in a dream's sexual encounter can be quite telling, as well. Conquering, submitting, and other matters of control.. All kinds of shiz..

Mostly, I think dreams, in one form or another, are about your brain working out something, whether it's a problem, filling a void, or pure entertainment. I do believe that the cryptic messages within a dream can be interpreted, and either therapeutic or lesson-teaching, but I don't think there's always one answer.

The only thing I've found true of dreams of mine that I've interpreted or that have been interpreted by others, is when they feel true enough to sting a little, for good or bad, that's the right one. The one that just can't be shaken. Those are the ones that are the most truthful, to me.

[Claire]

I had a sex dream after meeting the guy who played Dwayne Wayne on A Different World--he's very flirty in person, but I wasn't attracted to him. Til after the dream. And I had one about Kevin Kline after watching Consenting Adults. Those were my first two memorable sex dreams.....I was 18!!! :eek: You'd think I would have had a memorable one earlier......but none.

I haven't had any interesting dreams lately...nothing fun or entertaining or sexy. :rolleyes:

When I dream, it's usually my to-do list. I've taken to keeping a notebook next to the bed, so when I have a nocturnal brainfart related to the auction from hell, I can just roll over, write it down and hopefully get some actual sleep afterward.

[blueerica]

I haven't had any interesting dreams lately...nothing fun or entertaining or sexy. :rolleyes:

Maybe you will after that gay-o-meter test!

Yes, now I'm chasing you!

[Claire]

Fast forward to tomorrow morning:

Dear Diary,

Last night I had the strangest dream. This girl.....I'll call her Erica....brought me flowers. She had a martini in one hand and insisted we go back to her house near the airport to play doctor. She was wearing leather pants and announced as soon as I got into her well-oiled car (no Oil Can Henry service sticker for Erica) that she had recently shaved her pubic hair so that I could see her tattoo. As we walked up to her house, a women came out of the bushes and they got into a physical fight right there in public. Then the three of us made out and got our heads shaved while we watched lesbian porn.

Claire

[blueerica]

Fast forward to tomorrow morning:

Dear Diary,

Last night I had the strangest dream. This girl.....I'll call her Erica....brought me flowers. She had a martini in one hand and insisted we go back to her house near the airport to play doctor. She was wearing leather pants and announced as soon as I got into her well-oiled car (no Oil Can Henry service sticker for Erica) that she had recently shaved her pubic hair so that I could see her tattoo. As we walked up to her house, a women came out of the bushes and they got into a physical fight right there in public. Then the three of us made out and got our heads shaved while we watched lesbian porn.

Claire

HAHAHA!!

OK, you've made my night, Claire!! Teeheehee....

Anyhow, I'm starting to fade fast..

Thanks for being my chase tonight...

-erica

[Mousey Girl]

I dream about work. They are not pleasant dreams.

[€uroMeinke]

Here's my take, Dreams can be a number of things. I think Freud was onto something looking at dreams of wish fullfillmet and represed sexuality - but I think those might have also been the product of his victorian times. When it comes to dreams, I lean on the Jung side.

What I find most fascinating about dreams is they are almost exclusively created internally, so we have the subconscious taking our various, experiences, thoughts, and fantasies, and weave them into something new. The whole thing is completely creative, seldom without any ego intervention.

Because dreams are created internally, I think they almost always give insights into the workings of the subconscious. Of course these insights can be both profound as well as mundane. Still I find viewing a dream as one would a work of art, where you ask yourself just what was the artist intending to do will usually spark a bit of curious introspection.

I'm also fascinated by the aboriginal cultures that view dreams as a seperate reality, where they will give each other advice on what they must do the next time they meet some difficulty in the dream world. I have found that when I start paying more attention to my dreams I am able to expert more conscious controle within my dreams, so I think they may be onto something as well.

But most of all I love the creativity of dreams, the situations that surprise you, the unlikey people thrown together, world that defy physics. I think that stuff is all pretty cool.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I had a friend that was way into "lucid dreaming". He claimed that through his practice, he had reached a point where he was aware when he was dreaming, and he had almost complete control of the dream world. He'd think "wait a minute, this is a dream. I want to fly" and up he'd go. He could make anything happen. Something makes me think it's not what it sounds like, but anyway.

[€uroMeinke]

I had a friend that was way into "lucid dreaming". He claimed that through his practice, he had reached a point where he was aware when he was dreaming, and he had almost complete control of the dream world. He'd think "wait a minute, this is a dream. I want to fly" and up he'd go. He could make anything happen. Something makes me think it's not what it sounds like, but anyway.

I have at times been able to do this. I recall one dream in which there was a tidalwave, which I stopped as it crested above my head realizing it was a dream, and walked away from it. It's kind of like being Neo at the end of the Matrix.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I've had moments like that, where I realize it's a dream and begin to try to manipulate. But it quickly goes from dream-like to boring play acting to jarring me back into awakeness.

[Claire]

I had a friend that was way into "lucid dreaming". He claimed that through his practice, he had reached a point where he was aware when he was dreaming, and he had almost complete control of the dream world. He'd think "wait a minute, this is a dream. I want to fly" and up he'd go. He could make anything happen. Something makes me think it's not what it sounds like, but anyway.

I can do that when I'm dreaming in the mornings...I can wake up slightly, and go back into my dream exactly where and how I want to. It's awesome. I've always been able to do that! I remember doing it on weekend mornings back in high school....I'd do it from like 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., so I never understood those studies that say that dreams actually only last a few seconds. I know that I can go in and out of dreams over a period of a few hours!

[blueerica]

I never understood those studies that say that dreams actually only last a few seconds. I know that I can go in and out of dreams over a period of a few hours!

Yeah, I tend to do that in the mornings, too. I guess that for the most part, I don't try to control my dreaming too much. I'd much rather see what produces untouched, but I suppose, sometimes I can't help it. Mostly, it will be me, partially awake in the morning, wanting to fast forward though a dream. This part's chugging along, and isn't so pleasant, so I've moved on to something else in my dream, something else starts... That sort of thing.

I don't have that kind of control in my middle of the night dreams, though. But also, I don't tend to remember my middle of the night dreams.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Yeah, I tend to do that in the mornings, too. This kinda happens to me. On lazy days I'll fall back asleep and into the dream again, but since I'm then aware it's a dream, it usually just replays the same moments over and over like a stuck record. Or it'll instantly morph into some less related scenario and I won't be able to control it. It's weird.

[Gemini Cricket]

Some notes on my dreams:

My dreams all ultimately end the way I want them to. Like the tidal wave dream Chris had. The outcome is what I want it to be.

I have repetitive dreams. Most of my dreams take place in theme parks and lots of times I've had the actor's nightmare of walking onstage and not knowing any of my lines.

Ralphie has animal attack dreams where he's being chased by a bear or bitten by scorpions or something.

"Scorpions!" ~ Kuzco

But a couple of weeks ago, I had a dream where a wild dog attacked me and I killed it. When I shared that with Ralphie he had told me that none of his dreams have ever ended like that. So, to each his own. I rarely have dreams that have bad endings.

A few things I've heard about dreams, flying is meant to represent happiness and water is sexual in nature. I don't know if that's true or not.

I have dreams about things that happen the day before. Ralphie has dreams about things that he thinks of before he goes to bed.

[Prudence]

I had a friend that was way into "lucid dreaming". He claimed that through his practice, he had reached a point where he was aware when he was dreaming, and he had almost complete control of the dream world. He'd think "wait a minute, this is a dream. I want to fly" and up he'd go. He could make anything happen. Something makes me think it's not what it sounds like, but anyway.

This is a regular feature in my "action movie" dreams. If my get-a-way isn't spectaular enough, it's like I yell "re-write!" and I do that part over again. But like I said -- those dreams almost always have me watching myself in the third person. I'm aware that I'm watching non-reality. I used to have lots of "people trying to get/kill me" dreams that were quite terrifying, so perhaps this is a healthy adaptation.

The other night I had a very vivid dream, not in third person. It's not as clear now. I can't remember if I was helping my grandmother pick out what she was going to be buried in -- and her death was imminent, or if she had already died and I was picking out her outfit for her. But something like that. Very involved and lots of detail that now I can't recall. But I remembered it because it was so vivid -- and because my grandmother died in December 2003.

[Betty]

I have flying dreams and I always like them. But I don't always remember how to fly - or am not very good at it. I run and jump and end up landing on the ground. Then I remember I have to pump my legs and arms and I'm good to go... but I get to high and freak out and have to land. I usually fly to get someplace quickly - but find I end up getting lost because I can't see what street I'm on sort of thing.

Lately I've been having disturbing dreams. Can't think of one right now but I wake up thinking - Oh my! Hope *that* never happens!

My favorite dreams are ones where I dream of my dead friend Leif. They used to always revolve around me telling him: I thought you were dead. And he'd respond. Finally he said - we've been through this before you know. Then I stopped having those dreams. Recently, I dreamed of my dead Grandpa and that was nice because I was able to say things to him I'd wanted to say but didn't.

To me - dreams seem to have a way of reflecting something inside somehow.

[Ghoulish Delight]

It seems I can never speak in any of my dreams. Or perhaps I can in most dreams, but every so often I have a dream where I'm trying to tell someone something and I'm just unable. I try to speak, it takes great effort, and comes out breathless and barely audible. I usually then wake up shortly after, and wonder if, in my valiant attempt to speak in the dream, I've been mumbling incoherently in my sleep. I actually think that that's what it is, that I'm half way to consciousness, so my brain is trying to make me actually speak while my body is still in that REM-induced paralysis.

[€uroMeinke]

A few things I've heard about dreams, flying is meant to represent happiness and water is sexual in nature. I don't know if that's true or not.


It certainly can be - in our cultural history water is often a symbol for either (sometimes both) sexuality as well as spirituality.

But usually, if you do dream interpretation for someone, the first part is to find out what all these dream symbols might be to the individual. Our subconsciousness has it's own language shaped by culture, but always unique.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Chris, I completely agree with you. Somtimes I think they're woven complexities - stories, symbols, etc., that simply help us to some answers about ourselves, or allow us to solve certain problems while our conscious minds are stalled and no longer in control.

Sometimes I think they're the other half of my life.

I love, love, love dreaming. And more often then not they clue me into certain mysteries about myself I've been unable or unwilling to solve on my own when I'm awake. I really rely on them.

Sometimes I can tell when they're just escapist entertainment, though. Like a daydream I've lost control of. I love those, as well.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Like a daydream I've lost control of. I love those, as well.This happens to me. Used to happen a lot. I tend to dislike it because it usually spirals into some horribly negative daymare, involving death/crippling illness to me or those that I love. I've cried over daymares before. :(

[Claire]

I've NEVER had a flying dream! :eek: Never! I think that would be the coolest!

Most of my dreams are about me being unprepared for some event--a test, a speech, a meeting, etc. I have those a LOT. I hate them!! I usually have those dreams when I need them the least....when I'm already stressed out about an even that takes a lot of planning. The feeling in the dream lasts....I hate those!

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

This happens to me. Used to happen a lot. I tend to dislike it because it usually spirals into some horribly negative daymare, involving death/crippling illness to me or those that I love. I've cried over daymares before. :(

Napmares. I have the WORST dreams when I nap. Dreams so bad they leave me sweating, shaking, and sometimes sobbing. And sometimes upset for a couple of days after.

[Tito's Kitten]

I have had horrible dreams about being betrayed or hurt or losing all my teeth (I get that all the time!!!) and I will wake up and I will really think that the dream was real. I was even angry at a friend for like two days because I was sure she had done something to me and I had to really think that holy crap... that was a dream!!!!!

I have even had weird things like charlie horses appear in my dream... (i.e. I had a dream I was sitting in a car with some friends from my old job and we were throwing popcorn out the windows, don't ask, and then as I was sitting there I thought boy it sure would suck if I got a charlie horse right now and them bam!! I had to jump up out of bed becasue the pain was so bad...)

Does anyonw know someone who talks in thier sleep, sleepwalks or will wake up and still be dreaming??

My brother has done this all of the above several times and the worst was when we were younger and I woke him up to tell him to go to his room and he jumped up and kept telling me "we can't get out. What are we going to do?" and he went to the front door and tried to open it but didn't turn the knob and he ran to the window and was pointing to a stop sign at the end of our culdesac and said "we need to get there, how can we escape?" and just kept going on and on. I was so freaked out! I finally convinced him to go back to sleep and after about 15 minutes I tried waking him up again and he woke up and had no memeory of the whole episode. kooky.

[€uroMeinke]

Does anyonw know someone who talks in thier sleep, sleepwalks or will wake up and still be dreaming??


I used to laugh in my sleep - not sure if I still do. Amusing dreams I guess.

[Tito's Kitten]

According to some of my friend's, I used to (ocassionally) sleep with my eyes open... I was so creeped out when I heard that!! Maybe my family just has weird sleep issues...

[alphabassettgrrl]

I love dreams!

I have always dreamed in color, unless there was a particular reason for black and white. I rarely have an "action" position in them, though sometimes I'm actually *in* them, rather than being a spectator. Mine are like reading a book, describing the action rather than being a part of it. Often the male characters are useless, stupid, or come to some horrible end (oh, yeah, no clues to anything there). I don't wake up and go back to one, though once I had to wake up three times to actually wake up. That one involved a nice old lady, a Bible that I had to rip in half with my hands, and a ghost on the hood of a car.

My dead dad has come to me in dreams- there was a progression. Initially he would talk with me, at a place near my mom's house. Later it was shorter, and finally he was at a conference or something and was rushed, told me he didn't have time to talk, sorry.

People from work have appeared in my dreams. During my period and around full moon I get more articulated story lines, instead of still frame shots from a movie. The rest of the month I literally get flashes of images and then it flits to the next, though a scene is often repeated with alternate endings.

I dream about work fairly frequently. This morning was my most recent. I dreamed that one of the women there was mad at me. In real life, she's a little prickly, but she doesn't yell without reason, and she's kind of hard to get to know as she's very reserved.

Lucid dreaming would be so cool. They say it literally is having complete control, though I guess that would vary from person to person.

My husband used to talk to me and he'd be still asleep. I'd wake him up, he'd say something, and I'd go back to sleep figuring he's awake. Then he wakes up, looks at the time, and says why didn't I wake him up! I did.... One time he was arguing with his mother when he was a kid. He said something, still sleeping, she asked what he'd said, he repeated something that made sense in the dream but no sense to mommy, and she wasn't getting it. There was one thing she was supposed to say but she wouldn't do it. So he was getting mad at her and he's not even awake.

My mom has told me I talk in my sleep. I've never heard anything though.

Dreams are fascinating. Sometimes they tell me things, other time it's just inspired by waking life and doesn't mean anything, and other times it's just off the wall.

[Matterhorn Fan]

Last night, I woke up around 6 AM feeling awful because all night I'd been dreaming about work. I hate that--it's like I'd been at work for almost 24 hours. Ugh.

Then I finally got to sleep again and had some not so disturbing dreams. Someone was stealing my groceries right off the conveyor belt at the checkout, and then I went on vacation at some airy non-named (not AKL) WDW resort that had a side entrance to Animal Kingdom, which was really more like MGM. For some reason, I had to wait in line at a complaint window to check in.

So maybe I had to work all night and I've got a lot of half-eaten food in my fridge, but at least I got a vacation. Best sleep I've had all this week.

[Morrigoon]

You know how you'll be struggling to remember something, a word or a name, and you can't think of it, but then, like 3 days later, it'll suddenly pop into your head and you'll randomly say it out loud?

The mind, when set on a task, usually keeps working at it. Some tasks, you don't know you've set it on. For example, a task might be to process the stress you feel about an upcoming event and make some sense of it. So you start having vivid chasing dreams in which two faceless bad guys are chasing you around an abandoned riverboat in a dark swamp trying to steal your bottle of vanilla conditioner. But what I think this really is is the visual representation of your brain's filing and processing systems - the hard disk and the memory working in tandem, if you will. All this goes on all the time as your brain reaches back to fetch items you request of it, but because we exist in the conscious when we're awake, we aren't aware of it. When we sleep, we get to "view" the workings of the subconscious.

Look at it this way - imagine your memory was a file box full of printed LoT threads. Now imagine you were trying to remember the thread title of, let's say, my hot chocolate poem. So you're flipping through the files, and on the way, you come across EH's quote where Mark Twain takes a jab at congress. Then you hit upon the geek t-shirt thread where Tito's kitten links you to a t-shirt that says Pirates are better than Ninjas. And you come across several threads that mention the gold Mickey ears for the 50th. Well, the way you might "see" this in your dream is that Mark Twain is a member of congress, and everyone else in congress is a bunch of idiots, and they're all yelling and screaming like Britain's House of Commons during a "debate" on whether pirates or ninjas are better, and somehow this decision is critical if they're going to be able to acquire the gold Mickey ears, an anticipated national treasure, but the whole thing is finally resolved when someone serves hot chocolate.

This is also why some dreams make more sense than others. In some dreams, you're flipping through random files because your brain is hoping to find something specific within them, and in other dreams, you're literally processing information. If you were thinking about some friend of yours and wondered "what would happen if....", your brain might not know to stop processing this when you move on to another task. You might consciously have forgotten wondering it, but lo and behold, that night you have a really strange dream about marrying some friend of yours to whom you're not remotely attracted. Or you might have a dream where your brain is wondering "what would happen if... something went wrong at my speech next week" and so your brain, in its own inimitable way, comes up with a scenario in which something goes horribly wrong (though why 50-year old bar chicks in liederhosen would bring pickles to your product proposal, no one can explain), in order to give it a chance to figure out how you'd deal with it - to literally prepare you.

Anyway, that's my take. I believe there's a spiritual side too, but it's rare.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Morrigoon, that has got to be the funniest and most logical explanation of dreams I have seen in a long time. I actually laughed out loud, which on the computer is rare. I'll giggle at something funny, but actually laughing out *loud*? Makes the critters look at me funny.

[Not Afraid]

So, I had a dream that my dead Mother was going throught imoortant papers, wills, tax documents, annuities, bank statements and dividing them into her pile and my Dad's pile. all the while berating my father for not being a good record keeper.

Why is she still a a bitch 7 years into the grave?

[Gemini Cricket]

Why is she still a a bitch 7 years into the grave?
They can be that way in the afterlife, too? Great.

I was wondering if Euromeinke could give us a thorough assessment of Akira Kurosawa by watching his movie 'Dreams'. All of these short segments are actual dreams he's had...
:confused:

[€uroMeinke]

I was wondering if Euromeinke could give us a thorough assessment of Akira Kurosawa by watching his movie 'Dreams'. All of these short segments are actual dreams he's had...
:confused:

Heh heh - you know that's one of those films I've wanted to see, but never have. Perhaps, I should add it too my amazon wish list.

[Gemini Cricket]

Heh heh - you know that's one of those films I've wanted to see, but never have. Perhaps, I should add it too my amazon wish list.
Oh my gosh, yes!
It's amazing. Kurosawa is a master in my opinion. Some of it will leave you scratching your head, some of it will leave you blown away. Just like life.
A must see, DreamMaster.
;)

[Snowflake]

Last night's episode was full of weird things and interesting people. I was a spy heading to a small office campus in an industrial section of Sunnyvale off 101 (you can go home again!) and was carrying a firearm (!!) on my person, the campus morphed into a small airport with the terminal being a 2 screen theater. All sorts of people were there and in theater I was hunting for the criminal, was of all people iSm who invited me to join him for a screening of Hugo. During the screening another friend joined us and then morphed into the criminal, climbed into the screen and movie and escaped through the train station. Weird. Very Buster Keatonish

[lashbear]

I had a dream I was reading a 7 year old thread !!!

:p

Now that the topic's back in vogue, I haven't had a flying dream for a long time now. I miss them.

My normal method of flying is similar to if air had the density of water. I do a breast-stroke motion (shutup Kevy) and hoist myself up to an altitude using this method. Once high enough, I can swoop down and coast through the air, using momentum to push even higher. Sometimes I have to get a running start while doing the breast stroke motion with my hands. This is, of course, a picture no artist could paint. But it feels really good.

[Snowflake]

I had a dream I was reading a 7 year old thread !!!

:p

Now that the topic's back in vogue, I haven't had a flying dream for a long time now. I miss them.

My normal method of flying is similar to if air had the density of water. I do a breast-stroke motion (shutup Kevy) and hoist myself up to an altitude using this method. Once high enough, I can swoop down and coast through the air, using momentum to push even higher. Sometimes I have to get a running start while doing the breast stroke motion with my hands. This is, of course, a picture no artist could paint. But it feels really good.

Heh, fine time to revive the thread, dontcha think?

I have not had a flying dream in a long while. Used to have them all the time, sad, I feel like I've become earthbound. :(

[flippyshark]

Not long ago, I dreamt I was walking down Main Street USA, when suddenly, my body was vaulted into the sky by a warm blast of air. At first I was exhilarated, then I realized it was the wind from a nearby nuclear blast. I remember thinking, so this is how it ends, huh? Then I woke up. Sadly, that was the first "flying" dream I'd had in a long time.

[lashbear]

It's "Nukeylar". :p

...did you see any Exploding Gazebos?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

A gazebo!?! Is it evil (http://web.archive.org/web/20080804140516/http://www.dreadgazebo.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8)?

[lashbear]

PM Flippyshark and he'll tell you all about the Amazing Exploding Gazebos.

[Not Afraid]

I dreamt that Jerry Seinfield died.

[Betty]

I had a dream I was reading a 7 year old thread !!!

:p

Now that the topic's back in vogue, I haven't had a flying dream for a long time now. I miss them.

My normal method of flying is similar to if air had the density of water. I do a breast-stroke motion (shutup Kevy) and hoist myself up to an altitude using this method. Once high enough, I can swoop down and coast through the air, using momentum to push even higher. Sometimes I have to get a running start while doing the breast stroke motion with my hands. This is, of course, a picture no artist could paint. But it feels really good.

Great description of it - but I haven't had a flying dream in ages.

Last night I had a disturbing dream that I took my kitty Oliver to have a bath and they dried him in a microwave. I opened the microwave and he was very small and flat except for his head. But he moved! I was so upset and mad and demanded medical attention and was threatening all sorts of things.

I was so happy when I woke up but it took a while to shake that anxious feeling.

Poor kitty Oliver. You know he got lots of extra loves today.