Talking about Dreams

[dagmarjung]

A friend told me once that people tend to have a recurring theme in their dreams. I don't know if that is true for all people, but have found that is certainly true for me. I don't speak of unusually exiting dreams, not to mention prophetic or life-changing dreams, just your common everynight dreams.

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[sirielle]

I was told that our memories are in grey scale, but I think I remember colors. Heh.

Very interesting subject!

I see no pattern in my dreams or maybe I'm to tired to see it. I think usually it's like a movie I see from distance, not looking through my eyes. And I can't remember ever dreaming about flying, that's annoying! Almost every person on Earth had a dream where they were flying, I don't. But I managed to do things I don't know in reality as you driving - like speaking for a whole dream in unknown language, understanding all then and being able to repeat some words after being awake, but understanding nothing anymore...

Recently I sleep in wrong hours, so I rarely remember anything :(

[broom__rider]

Hey, I am with you: I don't remember any dreams about flying - ever. And my dreams are also sometimes movie-like :)

[dagmarjung]

My memories are in colour too... why should memories be in greyscale?

If you see your dreams like a movie, do you mean you are not there as a person? But if you dream of talking in various languages, you must be there, or is that too much logical thinking for the dreamworld?

I have dreamt of flying once or twice in my life. And also only once or twice of riding a horse, which is again frustrating since I have ridden regulary for some years. I wish my brain would make a bit more of that experience instead of placing me in trains or busses all the time.

Did you take notes of the foreign language after waking up? Was it Quenya? :-)

[tehta]

I have very vivid dreams, obviously in colour, and full of sounds and smells and tastes and touch, too.

I am afraid my recurring dream theme is really pathetic: it's me feeling mistreated by people, and trying to get them to stop it, only to have everyone get mad at me for being selfish and unreasonable. I don't need a psychiatrist to interpret that one! But I have a lot of dreams about living in strange worlds, or doing strange and exciting things, too. A lot of the time my dreams are actual plotted stories, and quite enjoyable.

I wonder what your movement dreams are about...

[wulfila]

The plotted story thing sounds familiar...

[dagmarjung]

What makes your dreams about strange places enjoyable?
And why am I not surprised that you dream plotted stories...? Does anything of the plots still make sense after waking? My own dreams are usually rather plotless. Unlinked scenes at best. I usually have a vague sense of purpose of why I am going here or there, but that's about it.

It seems my senses are more limited than yours in dreams. I can't remember ever experiencing taste or smell in a dream. But sometimes my full bladder invades my dreams and makes me desperately search for a toilet in my dreamworld. And everytime I find one, it is unusable for some weird reason, which makes my dreamself quite desperate. My wake self however is deeply thankful that my subconscience is well potty-trained and refuses to let go.

No, I haven't any idea of why my dreams tend to be kinda road movies.

[tehta]

Well, I like strange places and travel. And the plots of my plotty dreams do still sort of make sense: if they do not, I often get to fix them inside the dream. (As in, "no, that did not make sense... rewind, rewind!")

I definitely have taste and smell in my dreams, especially when I am on a diet: then my dreams often include me stuffing my face with forbidden food. I think toilet needs tend to just wake me up, though.

[wulfila]

I dream in colour, and, yes, there is a recurring theme in my dreams (not in all of them, but in surprisingly many): I fight and fail. There are two main versions of this theme. Either people scold and/or mistreat me, and I try to fight back, or I am some sort of soldier or warrior. Unfortunately, most often I end up failing to protect the things or people important to me, whether I win the actual fight or not.

Some of those dreams have been vivid enough and had enough of a plot to have made it into a story at least partly.

[dagmarjung]

You fiction writing folk seem to dream more plotty than I.

A very intersting recurring theme. How do you fight in your dreams? Sword, fist, gun? Does your fighting has any source in your RL, like Judo lessons? And how are your feelings in those dreams? Agressive, or desperate when you fail?

Do you feel in RL you have to fight all the time? (Sorry for waiting room psychology here)

[wulfila]

There is no RL source for this (I have never learnt Judo or anything of that kind), but the feeling that I have to "fight" in one way or another, or that I would like to fight (back) in certain situations when I may not is definitely a constant companion. As for the "how"... Depends on the dream. Most often, a staff or sword is involved, and more despair than random aggression.

[broom__rider]

That's an interesting subject

[dagmarjung]

I'm sure Dzzirtnafein would take to a modern setting with his usual style. :-)

When I fall in love with a new piece of music, I also tend to hear it for days on end, but I never dream of music.

Lying on my back is a sure ticket to nightmares for me. I never go to sleep lying on my back. If I wake from a nightmare, I usually find I have rolled on my back in sleep. Gahhh!

[broom__rider]

Wow. But I don't have nightmares. I did a while ago, and always the same kind: climbing on some very high, very unstable metal construction which is about to fall down. But I always managed to wake up before if did. Another element which was always present in those dreams were this sad, cold, white-gray clouded sky. But I didn't have a nightmare for years now

[dagmarjung]

Isn't that typical for your drow thief that he would chose something that is sure to annoy his creator? He wouldn't be himself without this little rebellious streak.