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Vendaval -> How do you dream? (6/23/2007 5:32:50 AM)

How do you dream?
Do you dream in color or in black & white?
Do you relive the events of the day or times long past?
Do you hear, taste and/or smell in your dreams?

And upon waking are you disappointed to no longer be in the dream?



MyMasterStephen -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 5:34:09 AM)

So far as I'm aware, I don't dream.  I sleep soundly, and wake up with no memory of any dreams.



Aileen68 -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 5:36:59 AM)

I have extremely vivid, colorful dreams.  They vary in time and places and 99% of them are good feeling.  I find the few that are upsetting to me are also very much more realistic and I remember those emotions and feelings that I experienced in the dream much longer than the nice ones.



KatyLied -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 5:49:44 AM)

She dreams in color, she dreams in red...

I dream in color.  And often about work, or people I know, or people from my past.  I've found that some of my dreams can be exhausting.  I often have the "stuck" dream.  Where I'm trying to go somewhere and I am impeded because I can't walk fast enough.  Weirdness!



instynctive -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 6:03:27 AM)

My dreams are always intense, lucid and very highly charged violence and/or explicit sexual activities with My sub/partner and/or random people I know or have seen...

The violence aspect is almost always involving weaponry of some sort, usually guns that don't work (ie. the bullets travel at like 2 feet per second and only go 10 feet beyond the muzzle...).  Sexually, it's almost always vanilla, but extremely "rough vanilla", if that makes sense... even if the sex itself does include hair-pulling or choking, the scene is set in a violent environment, like a battle ground.

I either need to get out more or see a shrink.. :-)



petdave -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 6:12:32 AM)

Full color, sounds, and smells... i don't think i've ever experienced taste, although i can remember at least three dreams where i died (falling, hit the ground, and rose up and "saw" my body laying there). Most of my dreams are usually bizarre or stressful... lots of the classic "back in school realizing that you have a test you never studied for" sort of thing.

...dave



juliaoceania -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 6:19:44 AM)

I have been dreaming less often lately. I believe that is because of meditation (which I have been doing a lot of lately).

I have vivid dreams of all sorts of descriptions.



hotwater07 -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 6:43:35 AM)

I dream with all five senses and can often remember minute details for a long time.  Colors, smells, the pattern on the tile - weird things.  I've also had dreams that were premonitions.  I've never had the typical dreams of falling or going to school in your underwear.  I have Sci-Fi dreams that could be turned into really cool movies. [&:] Usually my dreams are just so vivid that I wake up feeling whatever emotion I was having, the worst being when I am angry (mostly dreams about my mother). 

Sexual dreams are the most vivid for me; I will be dreaming that I am having an orgasm, wake up and think "oh, I was just dreaming" and then realize "oh wait, it's not just a dream!"  In fact yesterday I kept waking up from my nap because my hips were physically mimicing my dream - talk about frustrating!





queencaliph -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 6:51:37 AM)

I dream in bright, vivid colors. The tastes the smells, the scenery are all vivid. My dreams are almost as realistic as my real life. I usually don't relive the past and don't recall the days events, but have ongoing occurrences in my dreams that are completely separate from my real life.  My dream life is almost like another life.  Sometimes I have lucid dreams where I am dreaming and fully aware that I am dreaming.  I like those because I can then control a lot of what happens in them. 
If its a really good dream I am disappointed to wake up.  If its a bad dream I know how to wake myself up from it.



GhostWhoWalks -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 9:54:54 AM)

   The Toltec Seers of pre-Columbian Mexico used dreaming as their vehicle for astral projection, or out-of-the-body experiences. The technique involved going into Inner Silence just before sleep, and giving themselves the command to find their hands in their dreams. Once this occurred, they were to look from their own hands to any object in their dreams they chose. They were to look at this object until It started to shift or change, then look back at their own hands to re-gain Dreaming attention. Eventually, they were able to literally construct their own dreams. After this happened, they were instructed to will themselves to the appropriate time (like, at night), and then to an appropriate place they were familiar with. Once they were able to control this, the next step was to will themselves to their own sleeping body, and look upon it. This is dangerous; if something happens to wake your body while your energy body is partially out of it, it could be fatal.
   After these steps were taken, the apprentices were instructed on how to overcome the 7 Gates of Dreaming. But, this is enough, for now. [;)]



ownedgirlie -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 10:07:06 AM)

I have vivid, active, colorful dreams, and also feel physical pain in some of the scarier nightmares.  I have woken myself up laughing in some of my funnier dreams :)

I started looking into lucid dreaming awhile back, which is a practice of determining where your dreams go while still in your dream.  When I was little I began to have a recurring nightmare, and it was quite horrific.  I'd wake up in a major anxiety attack from it and it would take a long time to calm me down.  Sometimes if I went back to sleep the dream would pick up where it left off, so I'd be too afraid to go back to sleep.  I cried out to my Master one night during my anxiety attack and he contacted me and calmed me, and ordered me never to have that dream again.  I laughed, thinking, "Sure, control my dreams now, haha".  After that, I began to have that dream twice more, but as it began, in my dream I thought, "Oh, I'm not suppose to have this dream." and stopped it.  I am still amazed by that but I am happy as ever to be rid of that awful nightmare.

My dreams are very easily influenced, so I don't watch scary movies or I'll have a nighmare.  I'm so sensitive, lol.



MstrssPassion -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 10:09:47 AM)

I have nights with very vivid & life like dreams... & some nights I have none at all.

Some dreams include me & some I feel as though I am watching a story unfold in front of me but not have any involvement in what I watch.

But when I have those most fantastic dreams, the ones where I feel as though I am right there, interacting & involved with the images I have created... it is difficult to find words to describe.

I have had dreams that can best be described as pure fantasy. I've dreamed of skies that were a glowing purple filled with iridescent clouds.  

Within many of my dreams I've heard many sounds, I've smelled, I've tasted & I've felt. The most amazing was when I woke I still felt the touch of an imagined person who was lightly holding my arm. I still felt the pressure of their hand & the warmth of the skin upon mine.

I've hand dreams about past events & the ones that leave me a bit perplexed are the ones that I have had about events that have not taken place.... & then do.



soultoshare -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 10:30:27 AM)

I dream in color, as most do, but mine are like full movie length technicolor sagas....and they reflect what my unconscious mental status is.....if I'm stressed about something, even if I don't realize it, i have two recurring dreams...one where my teeth literally crumble out of my mouth...they feel so real that I actually check my teeth as soon as I wake up, and then there's the horror movie..usually vampiress or snakes...neither of which really bother me, i LOVE vampire movies of all kinds, and have had snakes for pets.  Many times, while training for a new job, I have often woke myself up dispatching cops to calls.  Occasionally, I have had dreams that are strictly emotion, no real sense of people or things there, but I wake up terrified beyond words or laughing hysterically.

I don't dream about sexual situations much, but have had the falling dream, the "running in slow motion with the monster from Hell behind you" dream, and have actually dreamt of impending death....as long as my sister doesn't have the same dream, all is ok there.  Sometimes, the people in my dreams have faces, others, it's just blank images.  Usually, I know the folks in my dreams, but there have been times when I woke up thinking that i SHOULD know who I was dreaming about.

One weird recurring dream I have concerns Killer whales and sea lions......had it last night in fact.....I'm home in NY, looking out over Lake Ontario at the Canadian/US border, and can see Killer whales and sea lions swimming towards what looks like a building from a Zoo.  They end up being routed into this chute and then literally go thru a drain - type hole, and going someplace else.  There are people all over the place, and we are all watching this occurrence, people are going out in boats, you can actually touch the whales and sea lions.....meanwhile, all this heavy, as in HUGE, truck traffic is going over this huge bridge, and there are killer whales on the beds of the trucks, some of them even in different colors.  And to top it all off, about half the time, I'm there in this place with my ex!  Last night, I'm not sure who the guy was, but I know I should have known him.  It's like right on the tip of my tongue.  Sooooooo...anyone out there wanna take a shot at decoding THAT one?

And no, I didn't have any pizza or other spicy food before going to sleep....finished reading the new Stephanie Plum novel, put Monsters, Inc in the VCR..yeah, I'm a sucker for Disney vids, then rolled over, and crashed.



slaveboyforyou -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 10:42:21 AM)

I rarely remember my dreams unless they are nightmares.  I talk in my sleep a lot, and apparently what I am saying never makes any sense.  That's what people that have heard me say anyway.  Occasionally I will wake up in the middle of a regular dream.  It varies what I was dreaming about.  I often have dreams about people I haven't seen in many years.  I couldn't tell you if they were in color or not.  Someone suggested I write down what I dream about when I wake up.  But I am not exactly a morning person.  I really don't want to wake up and start writing in a journal.  I need to brush my teeth, wash my face, have a couple cups of coffee, and smoke a cigarette before I am able to function.  By the time I finish that routine, my dreams are a distant memory.



SeeksOnlyOne -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 10:54:59 AM)

sometimes i dream in living color, sometimes in black and white, sometimes i remeber them when i wake up and sometimes i remember them a few days later when i hear something that reminds me of it.

the dreams i have thought about most are the ones i had that "starred" my parents.  i didnt dream of either of them until after they passed away, and at first the dreams would make me wake sad.......then a year or so afterwards, i had the same dream about both of them.

were sitting in the living room at the house i was raised in, and talking-i say but i thought you died, and they say i did but i got better, and we laugh and talk as if theyre right there with me.

this happened first when dad died back in 85 and again when mom died in 2000.....now its the 3 of us-and after i fuss at them for making me believe they died-we have a blast.

the second ones that i think of involve sex, but i cant talk about that with my parents here[:)]



michaelOfGeorgia -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 11:08:30 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Vendaval

How do you dream?
Do you dream in color or in black & white?
Do you relive the events of the day or times long past?
Do you hear, taste and/or smell in your dreams?

And upon waking are you disappointed to no longer be in the dream?


i dream in color and create my own dreams...i can be anything in my dreams and quite often wish i could stay in my dreams.



DeviantlyD -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 12:46:36 PM)

I have had similar experiences to most of those who have posted here. I dream in colour and in black and white. I have a variety of sensations in my dreams. I'm not sure I've experienced taste though. Most of the time I don't remember my dreams. I may have a wisp of it when I wake up, but then it's gone. However, when I do remember my dreams, it's incredibly vivid. I can relate to those who say the emotion of the dream stays with them. I've had that with intense dreams, sometimes it's so intense the feelings last for days. I've had the female equivalent of "wet dreams" where I wake up and I'm so completely aroused and wet I'm amazed. I've had the odd dream where I experience something I have never experienced in real life and where I described it to someone else they said "that's how it is!" There was a time I had a dream I was drowning. It was very vivid. About a week or so later, a woman was being interviewed by a local t.v. crew about her drowning experience. Everything she described, with one exception, matched my dream exactly. The exception was music. She heard music at one point, and I didn't.

Yes, I have had dreams where I wish I could stay in the dream state because it was that good! *grins*

Like ownedgirlie, I've heard of lucid dreaming. I bought a book on it, which I have only started to read. I think it would be fantastic to control one's own dreams!

Earlier this year I was taking a prescribed drug that created some of the most freaky and vivid dreams I have ever experienced. It's one of the possible side effects of this drug. At the time, I'd wake up and remember probably every dream I had that night! It was definitely a new experience, as I've mentioned that I don't remember dreams that often. If it wasn't for the fact that the drug really wasn't working, I would have been tempted to take it just for the dreams alone. I wish I had kept a journal of them. *sighs*

Hopefully Vendaval won't mind, but there is another question I'd be curious to see the answers for in this thread. Have you ever had a dream that came true?



Joseff -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 1:09:48 PM)

I dream in panasonic full color 3-D Imax with Dolby surround sound and smellovision. My dreams are incredibly realistic, with all senses  represented.
Joseff



Vendaval -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 2:15:19 PM)

No, I do not mind.  That is another very intersting question.
I have had dreams that became real months or even years later.


quote:

ORIGINAL: DeviantlyD

Hopefully Vendaval won't mind, but there is another question I'd be curious to see the answers for in this thread. Have you ever had a dream that came true?




LadyEllen -> RE: How do you dream? (6/23/2007 2:36:51 PM)

Nothing much to add, except that after a day or so in Germany I start dreaming in German; thats when the mind clicks over I reckon?

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