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Post by puffy on Jun 27, 2018 22:32:26 GMT -5
This morning I woke dreaming that I was back at work..Strange because I've been retired for over 20 years.The only good things about work was some of the folks I worked with,and that I could smoke my pipe..I don't ever want to be in that place again.I don't even want to think about it let alone dream about it.I wish I could pick my dreams.I would dream about girls and Key Lime pie.I will close this silly post now.It's almost time to go to sleep.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 0:12:18 GMT -5
At least you get to dream, I can’t sleep! I wouldn’t care if my dreams took me back to my high school years when I caught my gym teacher and science teacher having extra curriculum activities in the gym locker. That next Sunday a bunch of us went to Sunken Meadow Beach and caught them at it again! Boy did we harass them! Wonder what their real spouses were doing at the time? That next Monday I was called to the Deans office and was told I was being suspended for a week due to my actions at the beach. My Dad was called to meet at the school to take me home. I remember to this day my Dad telling the principal “ this incident happened on a Sunday, at a beach not on school time or school grounds. Hope the school district has a good attorney “! Ended up I was not suspended but had nightmares for many years watching two of my teachers that were quite overweight going at it. That messed me up for life!!! Might be why I can not sleep properly to this very day....LMAO!
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Post by trailboss on Jun 28, 2018 0:33:29 GMT -5
My dreams are always bizarre and nonsensical...kinda like me!
I have had some dreams where I told myself, 'Time to wake up and end the bullshit"...seriously!
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jun 28, 2018 0:50:31 GMT -5
 Sometimes I dream about the time I was inside a control center, an ethylene trailer across the street exploded, the dream is like the old Alka-Seltzer commercial where everything gets bigger and bigger, well that's how it was then BOOM, darkness, coke machine hit me a glancing blow. The dream always goes to the bigger and bigger part. I don't like that dream, fortunately we survived 5 of us. Don't like that dream.
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Post by Legend Lover on Jun 28, 2018 2:25:57 GMT -5
My dreams are always bizarre and nonsensical...kinda like me! I have had some dreams where I told myself, 'Time to wake up and end the bullshit"...seriously! I'm with trailboss. Mine are just plain weird...badgers playing volleyball, is one that comes to mind. I've never told myself to wake up, but I remember in a dream, that I was on the other side of town, trying to figure out how to get home. I said to myself, 'it's only a dream. When you wake you'll be in your own bed.' |
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Post by Darin on Jun 28, 2018 8:43:46 GMT -5
Try Valerian Root before bed sometime ... things can get whacky!  |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Jun 28, 2018 12:56:37 GMT -5
Wish I could find something that would prevent me from having dreams. Only found 1 substance that worked, but after 50 years of use I needed to get off of it. THAT was one hell of a challenge...never thought I would be finally free, but now I have those crazy nightmares again. Oh well, it is only dreams, but when you wake up shaking you don't get much rest.
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Post by Legend Lover on Jun 28, 2018 13:23:39 GMT -5
Wish I could find something that would prevent me from having dreams. Only found 1 substance that worked, but after 50 years of use I needed to get off of it. THAT was one hell of a challenge...never thought I would be finally free, but now I have those crazy nightmares again. Oh well, it is only dreams, but when you wake up shaking you don't get much rest. That doesn't sound like fun. Have you tried hypnosis? I have heard that works for some people. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 15:30:30 GMT -5
I am in that percentage that don't recall their dreams, only an occasional fragment. The last such, I was talking to an Orange and White Cat named Savinelli who was smoking a cigarette. |
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Post by Matthew on Jun 28, 2018 18:52:25 GMT -5
Like Mike,I very rarely remember my dreams.It's
the nightmare of consciousness that I would rather
wake from.Or should that be escape from?
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Post by pepesdad1 on Jun 28, 2018 20:14:23 GMT -5
legendlover said: "That doesn't sound like fun. Have you tried hypnosis? I have heard that works for some people."
I have enough trouble staying awake these days...hypnosis, not sure that would work....I'm pretty dense.
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Post by gav on Jun 28, 2018 20:21:12 GMT -5
I have nightmares about work all the time
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Post by trailboss on Jun 29, 2018 0:52:24 GMT -5
I have nightmares about work all the time I worked at Modine radiator factory in Emporia Kansas in 1978, it was a sweatshop to be sure... hundreds of solder pots, torches and other heat generating equipment. Salt stations were everywhere, eat salt tablets and carry on. At the end of my shift, my black t-shirt was white with the salt my body had expelled. Guys that were in their 20’s looked like Riff-Raff from Rocky Horror picture show.... but the job paid really well for the time. After my shift and a shower, I passed out and dreamed that I was on the assembly line. I dreamed I was soldering the inlets and outlets of the radiators... that sucked donkey balls and woke up burned out. I was actually happy when I was fired. |
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Post by Baboo on Jun 29, 2018 9:43:26 GMT -5
90+% of my dreams have an anxious nightmarish quality about them which, oddly enough in a diametrically opposed way, mirror my daily reality... these last 40 or so years just ain't been fun, but my propensity for nightmares during restless sleep go back to my toddler years... perhaps the not-so-tall-tale of a lifelong disturbed individual 😱🤯😳👻👺
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Post by Legend Lover on Jun 29, 2018 10:39:22 GMT -5
90+% of my dreams have an anxious nightmarish quality about them which, oddly enough in a diametrically opposed way, mirror my daily reality... these last 40 or so years just ain't been fun, but my propensity for nightmares during restless sleep go back to my toddler years... perhaps the not-so-tall-tale of a lifelong disturbed individual 😱🤯😳👻👺 I'm sorry to hear that, Baboo. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Jun 29, 2018 10:43:41 GMT -5
It appears that I am not the only one who has nightmares on a regular basis. Makes me think I might be (scary) normal. Thanks for the reassurances, folks.
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Post by herbinedave on Jun 29, 2018 12:17:53 GMT -5
fudge dreams.
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Post by Darin on Jun 29, 2018 12:31:35 GMT -5
Yep ... those are my favorite ones too! |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jun 29, 2018 12:54:24 GMT -5
I have a pretty vivid imagination that tends towards unpleasant things, so my dreams can range from entertaining to unsettling to harrowing terror that leaves me sitting up with all the lights on till dawn...
Last night I actually dreamed the equivalent of a Friday the 13th film haha After several of my party were slaughtered, I managed to trap and kill the Jason Voorhees-esque antagonist, the lone surviving female and myself made our way to the rocky shore of the island where she signaled a passing boat to our aid with a flare gun. Due to the rough shore, we had to swim for the boat. As we got closer I could make out the men on board yelling 'go back! Sharks!' haha Of course, right? I saw the woman go down in a gurgling volcano of gore and saw white/grey flesh slide past me in the black water and then I woke up. That was a fun dream.
An example of 'unsettling' would be the time I found myself in my grandmother's house and hearing her voice, I followed it to the basement. I found her in the corner of the basement where she was somehow bricked into the wall from the waist down. She moaned and told me how the beetles eating her bones hurt worse than the cancer that took her life. She told me to think carefully about any questions I may want to ask her. I did and decided it was best we stick to light conversation. It was a nice talk aside from the moaning and the smell of formaldehyde. It was so real, I had a hard time speaking to anyone at work the following day because I couldn't shake the thick doom of it.
I'd rather not give example of harrowing. haha
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Post by jeffd on Jun 29, 2018 13:31:57 GMT -5
Just remember, you are the author of your dreams. When you are being attacked in a dream, you are the author of that attacker. You are just as much in that attacker's head, programming his or her behavior, to which you then respond. Its all you. Unless you have the very rare condition of Multiple Personality Disorder, there is only one person in your head, and in dreams you create the situation that you then respond to. When you argue with your father in a dream, its not your father, its a simulacrum of him, with you scripting his words.
When I figured that out I became much more effective in figuring out what the heck was going on in my dreams.
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Post by Legend Lover on Jun 29, 2018 14:01:39 GMT -5
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Post by haebar on Jun 29, 2018 14:53:08 GMT -5
Dang PhantomWolf ! Those are pretty ghastly, especially the second one about your grandmother! I dream almost every night and only have the occasional nightmare. But when I'm very stressed about something in my life, I'll have more bad dreams than usual. Interesting note is that I discovered that taking Benadryl before sleeping gives me terrible dreams of torture and misery every time. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Jun 29, 2018 15:17:50 GMT -5
Dang PhantomWolf ! Those are pretty ghastly, especially the second one about your grandmother! I dream almost every night and only have the occasional nightmare. But when I'm very stressed about something in my life, I'll have more bad dreams than usual. Interesting note is that I discovered that taking Benadryl before sleeping gives me terrible dreams of torture and misery every time. yikes. And yikes PhantomWolf. I hardly ever dream, or at least remember my dreams... I think I'm glad. |
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Post by Darin on Jun 29, 2018 15:30:04 GMT -5
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Post by william on Jun 29, 2018 15:49:03 GMT -5
I tend to think dreams are meaningless. Freud said that dreams are an attempt by the mind to take the unresolved or unconnected bits of your day and string it all together in a coherent narrative. That's why we recognize the bits, but not the plot (because any plot would be terribly convoluted). And that is why they can be so frightening. Most of that stuff just doesn't go together. I will wake up and think "that was a weird dream," but forgot about it immediately. Just my 2 cents' worth........
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jun 29, 2018 16:03:35 GMT -5
The coolest lucid experience I had with a dream would be when I dreamed I was playing guitar for Black Sabbath. It became kind of lucid at one point as I went from being nervous about messing up to flawlessly playing songs I had never learned in real life. As I played the songs Iron Man and Paranoid I forced myself to look at my hands and visually confirm how I played them. In that instant my subconscious showed me how to play the two songs. When I woke up I knew the riffs from both. haha
I know this sounds insane, but it isn't that incredible. I was playing a lot of guitar at that time (teenage years) so subconsciously I knew where every sound and note came from on the guitar and to be honest, they are not complicated bits of music, so it was simple to make that connection. But it was great when I woke up and went straight to fleshing them out on my guitar and my stepmother peaked into my room before leaving for work and said "You're playing Ozzy!" and I said, "Yeah... I learned these songs in my dream last night." The look on her face hahaha
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Post by jeffd on Jun 29, 2018 16:06:01 GMT -5
I tend to think dreams are meaningless. Freud said that dreams are an attempt by the mind to take the unresolved or unconnected bits of your day and string it all together in a coherent narrative. That's why we recognize the bits, but not the plot (because any plot would be terribly convoluted). And that is why they can be so frightening. Most of that stuff just doesn't go together. I will wake up and think "that was a weird dream," but forgot about it immediately. Just my 2 cents' worth........ I agree that the dreams are meaningless. I don't think there is any symbolism or code to be deciphered to get at "the true meaning". But I think if we can look at and identify at our reactions to what was in the dream we can learn stuff about ourselves that is useful to our waking life. |
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Post by jeffd on Jun 29, 2018 16:09:25 GMT -5
As a kid I used to have a lot of nightmares. My dad's advice was to "wake yourself up when you are scared", which is how I figured out how to do lucid dreaming. A few times I taught myself to fly, in my dreams, but i could only get about six feet off the ground. Enough to clear the fence. These days I have anxiety dreams, where I am going somewhere but find out I forgot to wear shoes, or bring my computer, or the phone number of my destination. I still have that anxiety dream where I discover too late that I never went to a certain class I had signed up for in college, and have to catch up. Uggggh! |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jun 29, 2018 16:12:53 GMT -5
I tend to think dreams are meaningless. Freud said that dreams are an attempt by the mind to take the unresolved or unconnected bits of your day and string it all together in a coherent narrative. That's why we recognize the bits, but not the plot (because any plot would be terribly convoluted). And that is why they can be so frightening. Most of that stuff just doesn't go together. I will wake up and think "that was a weird dream," but forgot about it immediately. Just my 2 cents' worth........ I agree that the dreams are meaningless. I don't think there is any symbolism or code to be deciphered to get at "the true meaning". But I think if we can look at and identify at our reactions to what was in the dream we can learn stuff about ourselves that is useful to our waking life. I agree most are probably meaningless, but there is no way I can say our dreams are unaffected by our subconscious thoughts. I mean if Stilton cheese can run amok in dreamland, imagine if one had cancer or subconsciously suspected their lover has been stepping out on them? Heck, I have dreams about drinking water when I am super dehydrated from going to bed drunk. haha |
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Post by Darin on Jun 29, 2018 16:24:24 GMT -5
Dreams are NOT meaningless to me ... much to be gained from them, actually.
The subconscious is a sketchy place you don't really get to see any other time.
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Sometimes I dream about the time I was inside a control center, an ethylene trailer across the street exploded, the dream is like the old Alka-Seltzer commercial where everything gets bigger and bigger, well that's how it was then BOOM, darkness, coke machine hit me a glancing blow. The dream always goes to the bigger and bigger part. I don't like that dream, fortunately we survived 5 of us. Don't like that dream.
