Dreams

I have lot of those myself, Nancy....very, very detailed, with plots and everything.

How are you, Nancy?

As a crazy, elderly phsychiatrist said to me a long time ago: "Dreams don't mean a fuckin' thing!" One of his other favorite sayins was: "All work is shit."

I've had dreams with songs that don't exist. How did I compose it without even knowing how to compose a song? Like being in a mall and hearing a song with vocals.

Me too, R3. I used to wake up regularly to such beautiful music still "playing" from my dreams.

A dream is the fulfillment of a wish.

R5 Then George Michael must have died happy, because I sure as hell fulfilled my wish one night long ago

It's your brain learning and evolving. New neural connections are being created, scenarios are being played or replayed multiple times.

There is no such thing as dreams. It;s all fake news

Some dreams give you a sense of control that helps you cope.

Some others help you solve problems. I understand the structure of DNA came to its discoverer in a dream.

OP - Did you dream that you landed a triple axel in competition? What an amazing dream that must have been.

Dreams are way of cataloguing what we see and experience. The vividness helps the process.

I had an amazing sex dream last night, then I woke up and was sad :(

Last night I dreamt that I had sex with my ex. Then I found out he got his girlfriend pregnant.

I'm not into that New Age shit, but I keep a dream catcher underneath the framed poster of Marilyn Monroe above my bed. I've had less nightmares ever since. I also write down all of my dreams and nightmares in a Wizard of Oz diary I keep on my nightstand. My dreams are often cinematic and surreal.

R14 What misappropriated quote is on your Marilyn poster?

[quote]I had an amazing sex dream last night, then I woke up and was sad :(

you're an old whore, darlin'....just like Gabrielle

Usually I can make sense of my dreams as processing the day that preceded it.

I just woke up from a doozy, but there were elements of Our new reality: I was trying to avoid walking past a coughing man, and was relieved that I wouldn’t be able to attend a destination wedding. Also a dead family member was working as a bartender, wearing a fabulous pink sequined dress she’d never have worn in real life.

R15 No quotes. Just a photo of her wearing the iconic golden gown designed by William Travilla.

Studies have shown that you retain your studies better if you sleep after studying, as long as you don’t drink.

At night as the body relaxes, your brain fires random neurons to help it release energy and reorganize.

This is just random. However your brain is wired to always make sense out of things. This is why we see things or hear things that aren't necessarily so (such as "Paul is dead, when played backwards on a record player."

That doesn't exist but our mind needs to make some sense out of the randomness. Thus dreams and it also explains why dreams tend to be symbolic and with training you can influence them

I usually have dull dreams. But for a period of a few weeks earlier this year I was dreaming about swimming in the ocean every other night.

Is anyone having disturbing dreams to do with their unprocessed traumas, thanks to this lockdown?

Recently my mind has been chucking up all kinds of fucked up scenes, to do with old hurts of which I thought I’d let go. For example, two nights ago I dreamt that I purposely pushed my late younger sister into moving traffic to die - in waking life she passed two years ago of an illness at an age far beyond her predicted span. I did not know my sister well or grow up living with her as a family member, because she was adopted out as a baby to a different family on account of her severe cerebral palsy. She died at age 25; the doctors never believed she’d see 18. My mother has stressed to me over the years that letting a family with more money and space and experience in childcare/special needs care than us was the best decision and that we should feel no guilt, but I guess the little two year-old kid in me still feels immense torment and blame over the whole thing.

I’ve never dreamt of my sister before in my life, so I’m assuming the weird psychological effects of lockdown might be the culprit.

I'm an insomniac and can't tell you how much I miss this nightly entertainment. Having vivid dreams means you slept well and processed all that happened during the day. God, how I miss 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep with a great ludicrous dream.

I had the weirdest dream about sharpening kitchen knives last night. I have no idea what that means.

I posted this on another thread once. I don't remember my dreams. Nothing, all my life. I wake with zero sense I have dreamed. I have never "had" a nightmare, never woke up scared, never had a flying or falling, teeth falling out or any everyone seems to have. Never had a sex or wet dream.

I know I must dream but because I don't remember anything, I use the phrase I never had. All my life friends would say "I had the strangest or wild dream and I just couldn't relate. I quit a therapist because she just wouldn't believe me. She said keep a pad and pencil by the bed and write down exactly what your thinking as soon as you awake. She didn't get I open my eyes and nothing is there but looking at the ceiling. Even naps, nothing. After a few visits with nothing to report she actually screamed at me EVERYBODY DREAMS! I got up and left. I have zero to gain by claiming it this, it's just my life