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Re: Your Dreams

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:57 am
by pilau
jayshields wrote:I think if you don't run back through dreams shortly after you've had them you can never remember them
That's true, mate.

Man your dreams are so funny!
Most of my dreams are like action films really. I have dreamt a lot of dream where I was near the sea, or the beach, or actually swimming in very stormy waters (yes I know what it means).
I have never dreamt a dream where I was alone, and in most of my dreams there are a LOT of people.
Most of my dreams (the very-very most) were of me in my house or with my family. Actually I can only remember one like that from when I was 6. It was my first nightmare, and my first sleeping paralysis.
My dreams are often about my friends, or me going to someplace, and/or meeting people I don't know in real life.

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:29 pm
by RobertGonzalez
This is an interesting thread. Personally I have not had nearly the number of experiences you all have mentioned, though I have had a few memorable dreams in my life.

When I was about 8 years old I had a dream where a man was in my house trying to kill my family. He was chasing us all throughout the house with a gun. I was in the living room and he was in the kitchen, he saw me and chased me. I jumped over the back of the couch, landed on my back and looked up in time to see the gun barrel explode at me. I could have sworn I was shot in the chest. I felt the hit, the tightening of my chest, the pain. Then I woke up and all was normal. Weird for an eight year old, eh?

When I was in college I studied various levels of math including differential equations and linear algebra. Somewhere in my sophomore year I remember waking my roommate up because I had almost drowned (in my dreams) in a sea of numbers, letters, mathematical symbols and integration/differentiation symbols. I dreamed I was swimming in a sea of numbers and letters! That was a weird one.

And the other night I dreamed that I was in a Nash Bridges meets Law and Order SVU episode. Me and Don Johnson were trying to take down some drug dealers when Cheech Marin walks into the room with an Uzi. He was badly beat up and one of the drug dealers said to him "You've got a set on you." Then Cheech tried to shoot the drug dealer but couldn't work the gun. So the drug dealer tried to shoot Don Johnson as I got Cheech's gun working and shot the crap out of both the drug dealers. Munch and Fynn from SVU eventually got me taken to the police department where, after a long investigation by like 30 members of the cities management, I was cleared and they declared that the entire incident was one bad script on a TV show. This dreamed really wiered me out.

On a side note, when it comes to night terrors, dream paralysis or whatever, I know from the experiences of two of my young children, that these episodes are frightening. Two of my kids have woken up in the middle of the night crying hysterically but completely unable to be woken up. I have tried shaking them, putting ice on their foreheads, taking them outside, all to no avail. In almost all cases they cried themselves back into a state of sleep from which they were ultimately able to wake up. That is very scary.

Enough rambling. Keep posting. This is a very interesting thread.

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:34 pm
by pilau
Your story about your kids' sleep paralysis sounds awfuly scary.. I just imagine a parent in a case like this who don't know anything about sleep paralysis. Argh! So scary. I bet you worried like <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>.

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:52 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Terribly frightening is a good description of it. And when the kids is like three years old (even when she is six) it is still really scary. My wife had several tearful nights of trying to calm down kids that were essentially stuck in a state between sleep and terror.

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:57 pm
by pilau
:(

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:28 pm
by seodevhead
The problem with this "sleep paralysis" or Night Terrors as they are called is... when I have them and finally wake up. Later on when I go back to sleep it happens again. I've just learned that the best thing to do now when I wake up from such an awful experience is to stay awake for at least 10 hours after it, no matter how tired I am. I have had it reoccur again right after falling back to sleep and have punched myself in my face over and over trying to wake myself up. You think the punching yourself in the face is just the dream, but the next day you will know you did some damage. I hate it more than anything. If you haven't ever had this happen to yourself... consider yourself lucky.

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:14 am
by pilau
seodevhead wrote:If you haven't ever had this happen to yourself... consider yourself lucky.
Exactly.
Well, according to recent researches sleep paralysis occurs when a person's sleeping habbits are badly damaged.

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:18 am
by josh
Like staying up until 3 am to post on devnet
:?:
pilau wrote:a person's sleeping habbits are badly damaged.

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:15 am
by pilau
jshpro2 wrote:Like staying up until 3 am to post on devnet :?:
Definitely.

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:58 am
by spitfire_esquive
you know a good way to lessen stress and therefore lessen sleep apnea? EXERCISE :)

i suffer from apnea myself, you could hear me snore and then stop a lot of times in the night but when i took to jogging every other day i lost weight and was able to sleep better; and i was able to wake up more refreshed too!

the hardest thing would be the first stage where you force yourself or to psyche yourself to run, after a couple of days it becomes a habit, before you know it you sleep better, wake up more refreshed and have lost weight :)

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:45 am
by mickd
the moment i realise its a dream i wake up...

i have had alot of dreams repeated numerous times over the years.

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:09 am
by Chris Corbyn
seodevhead wrote:The problem with this "sleep paralysis" or Night Terrors as they are called is... when I have them and finally wake up. Later on when I go back to sleep it happens again. I've just learned that the best thing to do now when I wake up from such an awful experience is to stay awake for at least 10 hours after it, no matter how tired I am. I have had it reoccur again right after falling back to sleep and have punched myself in my face over and over trying to wake myself up. You think the punching yourself in the face is just the dream, but the next day you will know you did some damage. I hate it more than anything. If you haven't ever had this happen to yourself... consider yourself lucky.
8O 8O

OK I'm scared.... dial 911!! Go to a doctor!! Stop eating cheese before you go to bed!! LOL... :lol:

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:57 am
by Moocat
Some facts (if I remember correctly) is that the only sense that doesn't work in "dream world" is your sense of smell. Pain, sight, taste even are all "emulated".

Whenever I have a dream including water I always find out that I can breath underwater (which is cool). Someone mentioned something about stormy seas above, whenever I have those dreams, they're relaxing for some reason (I don't feel panic, it's far more calming).

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:47 pm
by pilau
Yeah! Same with me, even with stormy waters, I am so calm when I'm dreaming those dreams. And though I cannot breathe underwater I can swim pretty good and out of any danger. Note that these stormy water dreams reflect a certain unsolved issue in your life :P