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Re: Your Dreams
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:35 am
by Chris Corbyn
Skittlewidth wrote:The most recent one was caused by some PHP related stresses at work and I dreamt through most of the program I'd written and woke up thinking I was an initialized but empty array.
Yeah...I think I need help....

LMFAO... I can't stop laughing

Re: Your Dreams
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:35 am
by Grim...
Skittlewidth wrote:It's sleep apnea you want to worry about I think!
I have that! The wife smacks me in the head until I breathe in and wake up.
I've been to the hospital and everything and they did some test and said 'Meh - there's nothing we can do about it - come back if it gets more serious.'
Now, call me dumb, but if it gets more serious I die in my sleep.
But anyway, I've lasted 28 years, so it doesn't worry me that much.
Re: Your Dreams
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:38 am
by Roja
Grim... wrote:Roja wrote:Dreams are your mind's attempt to address stress that isnt getting dealt with during waking hours.
Is this fact? I thought scientist people were still trying to figure out exactly why we dream.
Sadly, very few things about dreams are to the level of "fact".
That opinion (that dreams address unrelieved stress) is however a widely held theory in psychology these days.
As to night terrors, they can vary incredibly, as that page documents.
You may be unable to wake up, unable to vocalize, or able to do either. The one consistent issue is that it is not a full sleep. It occurs before full REM state, which is what makes them so horribly real.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:23 am
by Moocat
I dreamt that my cat was chewing on my newly installed phone cord for my DSL modem. I was <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>, considering I had just replaced my old cable modem ethernet cord which he had eaten when he was a kitten.
Luckily, I have not actually yet installed my new phone cord, and the cord will be above reachable level for cats. I believe he is also out of the "bite cord" phase as well.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:25 am
by Charles256
I suffer from the sleep apnea myself... Oh well, if it does kill me at least I'll be asleep. On a side note I didn't suffer from it for about a forty minute period last night..I practically slept on my nose..and that worked...though I bout had to pop the bone back into place when I woke up. owie!
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:06 pm
by josh
I read somewhere online that dreams are the reuslt of our subcontious minds trying to make sense of audio/visual inputs your mind is still receiving in the best way possible, and that HOW your mind interprets that input depends on your stress and all, but for some reason it said its not actually caused by stress.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:07 pm
by pilau
Yes that is sleep paralysis. It's not a dream. It is pretty horrifying.
It msotly occurs because you are not sleeping well or have too much stress upon yourself.
I've had sleep paralysis two times only in my life. Both of them were horrible. Terrifying.
You'd might want to consult your family doctor for help about that, if you're having it occasionally, since it is not normal.

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:10 pm
by m3mn0n
jshpro2 wrote:I read somewhere online that dreams are the reuslt of our subcontious minds trying to make sense of audio/visual inputs your mind is still receiving in the best way possible, and that HOW your mind interprets that input depends on your stress and all, but for some reason it said its not actually caused by stress.
I heard that too, but I disagree. I think stress has something to do with it.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:19 pm
by pilau
Sami wrote:I heard that too, but I disagree. I think stress has something to do with it.
I have to disagree about that. Well, I have dreamt a lot of dreams and I have them each night, all night (sometimes more than

. Ususally I remember the most of them. I don't think that each and every one of them has relation to stress in any way.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:27 pm
by timvw
Last year i've read a bit of Freud and even he talked about 3 sorts of levels/chambers of consciousness. Here is what i remember from his theories: Dreaming is the proces where your mind tries to censor thoughts (without waking you up and requiring a more active method). Thus, if you have dreams, they are a result of that censoring, but they are generally not the thoughts that you couldn't handle...
Although we are now 100 years later and science has evolved seriously so i think you'll be able to find much better and more advanced theories about dreaming in psychology now. (Doesn't mean that Freud's theories are completely outdated though)
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:15 pm
by Burrito
Pimptastic wrote:Isn't dreaming of your teeth falling out a sign of personal insecurity?
no....(digging deep into my days of studying psychology at school)...I think loose teeth and or teeth falling out means you're going through major changes in your life.
Re: Your Dreams
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:06 pm
by jayshields
Roja wrote:I've also battled with horrific true nightmares. In one, I got in a verbal argument with a large man who was unfamiliar to me. He pulled out a large gun, and shot a single shot directly into my chest. I felt the pain of the shot, the bleeding, the constriction in my chest, felt unable to breath, and upon waking up during this whole process, I was in total pain and fear. It lasted for several minutes.
Oh my god! I thought I was bad! I have dreams similar to that, but mine make alot less sense, you didn't mention the build up though. In about 75% of dreams that I can actually recall I am about to die, but I'm so scared of it happening I can just wake myself up, I've always been able to snap myself out of dreams if they're getting bad. Dreams that don't involve me dying often don't stick in my mind, because when I wake myself up out of a bad dream, I run through whats happened in my head and try to forget about it before I fall asleep again. I think if you don't run back through dreams shortly after you've had them you can never remember them.
I used to sleepwalk too. You might not believe this, but when I was about 7/8 I could fall asleep on the sofa downstairs, and then walk up to bed and go to sleep and not remember moving from the sofa. Once, this you will
not believe, I got up out of bed, walked around my landing (about 10m, with a turn aswell!), into my computer room (opening the door), and I had a full pee on my old computer keyboard! It was a commodore 64 aswell! By this point my Mum came to see what was wrong (I was only about 6/7 and it was about 4am) and she woke me up and showed me what I'd done. Amazingly the keyboard and the amiga still worked
Top that!

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:12 pm
by Charles256
um..not hard to believe at all really

When I was 16 my dad came out to the hallway to see me beating onthe bathroom door and yelling "Open up damn it!" over and over again. He opened the door, I went in, peed, then went to sleep on the floor in front of the toilet. Appearantly I moved back to my bedroom because when I woke up I was back in my bed none the wiser...I have serious sleep issues..constantly..damn programming is the cause..
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:58 pm
by timvw
I'm pretty sure programming isn't the cause.. Because it has happend to me before i was aware of the fact that i liked programming (or i really knew what programming is). We have 4 doors, one to the bathroom, one outside, one kitchen and one to the basement... for some reason i've opened accidently opened the one for the basement and peed in there... another time in the kitchen.. but never made it to the toilet or outside...
When i was a child i remember that i dreamed that i was at the toilet... But when i felt the warmth i woke up and quickly realised i wasn't there yet...
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:13 pm
by seodevhead
Speaking of dreams and going to the bathroom... I have had a number of dreams where I either pee or poop myself like crazy... luckily to wake up from the dream and realize it didn't happen in real life. You know how you wake up from peeing/pooping in a dream and do the "quick check" with your hand to see if all is well...hehe.. no joke.