Strange Dreams Options

[LoLo]

I just think sometimes it's fun to share strange dreams, so a thread discussing them might be fun.

Last night's dream for me was sex in a bouncy house. So odd yet entertaining.

[Phantom]

Hello all, I amnew here!

I dream all day long, day dreams and other kind of dreaming,
even ''blinking your eyes'' dreams (just split seconds that throw me in consciences and subconscious levels, more like a prelude for my day dreams I suppose).

But being with your head in dreamland can help! When I was younger and I went to a therapist,
I told him how much dreams I had, and that some of them occur every several years randomly.

One example would be a dream that I walked with my mother and her best friend and that
I had a bicycle in my hand. When we almost reached the end of the street (about 5 steps to go)
the environment changed into a oval shaped grass land in front of a forest. I still don't know why
(never bothered thinking about it) but we just kept walking and when we almost reached the forest
we ended up being in the beginning of the grass area. A monster would turn up and break my bicycle
and than kill my mother in a brutal way.

For years I had this dream (started when I was three years old than re-appeared a couple of times the same year, and than it stopped until I was about six, and so on), and it always woke up sweaty and with my eyes full of tears.

To go back to the therapist story; He asked me wetter I had some control in these dreams. I answered yes.
My dreams seems to be an interactive game of choise (like being awake in a sometimes bit to depressing world
is not enough).
He challenged me to ''summon'' those dreams as I went to bed. And I did, and I tried to change things that he recommended.

To explain the he challenging me part. I am a very stubborn person and it was hard for him to break me (he never succeeded I was there for only 5 weeks or so, did not see the point). But in a way challenging me seems to always work

But to reach my point, taking control of my dreams seemed to have immediate influence in my ''awake period''.
It was/is like I can make a bad choice to see and feel what the consequences are. This helped immensely.
After being very active with my dreams I also helped other with figuring out what a dream could mean and
what the influence was. Have not done that in a very long time but if someone feels like sharing and
exploring their dreams, I would like to be a helping ear.

[Hobbes]

Hello all, I am new here!

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But to reach my point, taking control of my dreams seemed to have immediate influence in my ''awake period''.
It was/is like I can make a bad choice to see and feel what the consequences are. This helped immensely.
After being very active with my dreams I also helped other with figuring out what a dream could mean and
what the influence was. Have not done that in a very long time but if someone feels like sharing and
exploring their dreams, I would like to be a helping ear.

Welcome to the forums Sharazad!

Taking control of dreams (or 'lucid dreaming') has always interested me, and I have had varying levels of success with it over the years - directly proportionate to how much effort I have put into trying it. I think I first heard about the possibilities fifteen years ago, or so, and I was fairly obsessed with researching it back then. Nowadays, I still have my love of dreams/dreaming, but haven't put quite so much time into it. I used to write down all the dreams I had, which would also encourage me to remember them each morning. An eight-hour sleep usually gives about five REM periods, meaning five dreams, and writing these down every morning with enough detail as possible, whilst desperately trying to cling to their fading memory, was quite a challenge at times.

Anyway, in the last six months, I have seen three or four articles about lucid dreaming in reputable science magazines and papers, suggesting there has been some more resarch into it (Stephen LaBerge was the only person I was familiar with who was associated with researching lucid dreaming). Maybe I should give myself some time again...

[Phantom]

Welcome to the forums Sharazad!

Taking control of dreams (or 'lucid dreaming') has always interested me, and I have had varying levels of success with it over the years - directly proportionate to how much effort I have put into trying it. I think I first heard about the possibilities fifteen years ago, or so, and I was fairly obsessed with researching it back then. Nowadays, I still have my love of dreams/dreaming, but haven't put quite so much time into it. I used to write down all the dreams I had, which would also encourage me to remember them each morning. An eight-hour sleep usually gives about five REM periods, meaning five dreams, and writing these down every morning with enough detail as possible, whilst desperately trying to cling to their fading memory, was quite a challenge at times.

Anyway, in the last six months, I have seen three or four articles about lucid dreaming in reputable science magazines and papers, suggesting there has been some more resarch into it (Stephen LaBerge was the only person I was familiar with who was associated with researching lucid dreaming). Maybe I should give myself some time again...

Hey PDH, thank you!
Btw Cath thanks it was hilarious ^^

Do you have some links to that PDH? I would be very interested to read that. Going to google Stephen right away
I do not have to put in any effort to control them, but dreaming does makes me very tired. And I still have not managed to write down my dreams, I do remember them, sometimes for years but I guess I am to lazy to write it down.
I have to put in more effort into writing since my dreams have became stronger since a little while back ago.

[Hobbes]

Do you have some links to that PDH? I would be very interested to read that. Going to google Stephen right away
I do not have to put in any effort to control them, but dreaming does makes me very tired. And I still have not managed to write down my dreams, I do remember them, sometimes for years but I guess I am to lazy to write it down.
I have to put in more effort into writing since my dreams have became stronger since a little while back ago.

Stephen LaBerge's second book on the subject, "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" is pretty good, and an easy read: not too much 'science', but a fair amount of personal experience.

When you do manage to recall a dream, just telling someone about it can help you remember more, and remember later dreams. But writing the dream down (like writing anything down) helps to reaffirm it in your mind. If I look back at dreams I've written about from over ten years ago, I can still picture them again fairly easily. They may as well be an experience from 'reality'.

So, once you do remember one, write it down. Keep doing this as, and when, you remember a dream, and gradually you'll find yourself recalling more and more.