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Post by ivory on Jul 9, 2009 21:29:38 GMT -5
Just 'nother curiosity I'm afraid. ;D
When you dream can you actually feel it?
What about thinking during it?
Or a sense of deja vu?
And when you dream do you sleepwalk?
Or talk in your sleep?
And the bonus: Can you have whole conversations in your sleep? O.o?
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Post by Dougal on Jul 10, 2009 0:10:18 GMT -5
I always know when I am dreaming, but that's usually as far as I will go about thinking during the dream. Sometimes, if I'm about to wake up or am only half asleep I will try to control or restart the dream, but I tend to wake up pretty quickly after trying this. I don't sleepwalk, but I have been known to talk in my sleep (even yell at times) and some of my dreams eventually do resurface as a feeling of deja vu. I swear, sometimes I dream or imagine something and then go to that place years later and wonder why it all looks familiar. I've also been told that I can carry out a kind of incoherent conversation while asleep, but I'm pretty sure that I was half awake during that conversation (I can almost remember some parts of it, but not quite). Plus half a dozen large rocks had landed on my swag just before my sleep talking debut, so I might have been awake after all.
Just out of curiosity, is there anyone here who texts while asleep? I know a couple of people at school who've done it before, and I'm just wondering if us Aussies are freaks or if it is a worldwide phenomenon.
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Post by Cutebabys on Jul 10, 2009 1:39:06 GMT -5
I will know when I dream, what do mean by feel? Literally? Depends. Usually when I 'feel' it, I will wake up. Yes, I think when I dream. And I'll have a sense of deja vu. Some people once told me that I sleepwalk, but I don't believe them. Yes I talk in my sleep. Almost always. But I'm not as funny as my sis. Once she started screaming,"Stop! No!" *grins* Yes, I can have whole conversations in my sleep. My mum once told me she found me and my sis sucking each other's toes. *shrugs* Suppose we're weird. I can turn around 180 degrees in my sleep. Which means when I wake up my head will be facing down. Or rather the part that my feet should be in.
To Dougal: No, I never text while I sleep. What do you mean by text? Handphone? I don't even sleep with my phone nearby.
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Post by Dougal on Jul 10, 2009 2:17:31 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm talking about your mobile/cell phone.
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Post by Cutebabys on Jul 10, 2009 2:34:48 GMT -5
Nope. I don't text in my sleep. That's totally weird!
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Post by ivory on Jul 10, 2009 10:13:22 GMT -5
'feel' as in use of all five sense. You not only hear and see them, but taste it, smell it, feel it.
hahaha. If you think that's weird. Check this out. I can have whole conversations in my sleep and I don't mean just the mumbled yes or no. I mean, actual whole conversations. There was this one time when I woke up to find the family packing right. Well, I had a door then to my room and they said they told me last night and I replied that I was packing and yeah I wanted to go, ect. ect. I don't remember any of it and hadn't anything packed. So I was stuck in the car for hours with nothing to do. Then there was this other time when I woke up to find my sister using my stuff and I asked the heck she was doing. She said she asked and I said yeah as long as you bring it back [normal answer, but still I think she was lying...*grin*]. This is also a pain in the butt when it's a school day and they tell me to get up [usually I wake up on my own, but sometimes I don't] and I answer that I am up and then only have five minutes to catch the bus. *grin* Eh, skip breakfast those mornings and usually don't eat lunch [school food's gross], don't get home until six-thirty/seven so that's like a whole 24 hour thing. *grin* Don't really mind though. Anyways, back to dreams.
I feel whatever happens in my dream and I can think while I'm in there. Lately it's all been about death and I'm dagon happy I haven't been tortured yet because that'd suck. *sigh* Even in my dreams there is pain. Eh, oh well. That's my life for you. *grin* Usually the deja vu thing is in my dream. I could've sworn I had this dream before because I got shoved out that window on the fifth story [good thing I woke up before I hit. Man, that would've hurt. *grin*]
I don't sleep-walk much anymore, but I used to every other day. One time, I almost walked off a second story balcony. I talk then too. I ask about pizza , the holes in my feet [irony, seriously *grin*], ect. ect.
My phone's usually off when I sleep and I don't know how to text, but I can half-sleep/half-awake. Great thing during school. I'm awake yet my body and mind sleeps. It's totally cool and when I do it for the day I don't sleep at night. *grin* I can go days doing this without feeling the least bit tired. So I'm awake, aware of what's around me, but yet am sleeping. *grin* Best thing ever! ^-^
Yes, I know I'm weird. No, I'm not an alien. lol. :-)
Not sure about the texting thing, but there have been people who can write when they're asleep. And people say the brain controls the body. lol. *grin*
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Post by Cutebabys on Jul 10, 2009 10:16:44 GMT -5
Yes,I feel my dreams. But when they get too intense, I tend to wake up.
My sis had this really weird dream: She dreamed that she murdered somebody, then hid the body under the bed, then when our maid cleans the room, the maid finds the body. My sis ends up killing the maid as well. Then she starts killing everyone, sadly including me.
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Post by ivory on Jul 10, 2009 10:18:58 GMT -5
I dream every night and remember them all. They're really weird/random though. Whoever said they're secret messages need to be shot. What the heck does playing baseball, humans turning into spiders, attacking everyone, super abilities, outrunning cars, war against human humans and spider humans, cashing a check, and fenced in woods have to do with anything? And all within the same dream.
PS: this is one of the better/realist ones. *grin*
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Post by Firehead on Jul 10, 2009 11:08:55 GMT -5
(Those actually make for some great stories, you know.)
When you dream can you actually feel it?---Yeah, in about seventy-five percent of my dreams, I can hear, taste, feel, smell, and of course, see.
What about thinking during it?---Yep. I've thought a lot in most of the dreams I remember.
Or a sense of deja vu?---I used to have the same dream every day for about two, three years after I went to sleep. I still have repeats of some dreams, on separate nights, or right after I finish it. With the later, it's usually in sync with thinking.
And when you dream do you sleepwalk?---no, but I have sleep-moved, and yes I did have a dream about it once. I dreamed that I was sitting up, and all of a sudden I woke up and stopped moving. I WAS sitting up and I had stopped moving with my nose about an inch away from a picture on the wall.
Or talk in your sleep?---- My one sister says I talk in my sleep every once in a long while, but she says that I give some sort of really high-pitched whining hum more often. I've actually heard what she's talking about twice-- I was sub-consciously awake.
Can you have whole conversations in your sleep?------yeah, I've had quite a few of those.
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Post by ivory on Jul 10, 2009 11:24:35 GMT -5
Wow. The same dream for years? Wouldn't that be boring? *grin* And you can think. Man, I'd hate there. *here we go again* You'd know everything. So boring. lol. :-)
My cousin sleep-walks too [never invite her over for a sleep-over though]. It's creepy. She gets up, walks over to the nearest person, eyes open mind you, and just stares. I don't know if she does it anymore, but it's creepy. And she stays there until you wake up. Just standing over you and staring. *shivers* lol. :-)
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Post by Brandwyn on Jul 10, 2009 17:27:05 GMT -5
When you dream can you actually feel it?
Yes, I can hear, taste, feel, smell and see things when I dream. I also dream in black and white and in color - often in the same dream. Certain things will be in B&W and then I will see something that is in color. Like the red carpeted stairs in the huge old mansion. Everything was a sepia (faded brick brown color) except for the bright red stairs and the tiny blue door in the wall. The door was only 6 inches tall and at the top of the stairs. When I touched it I shrank or the room expanded so that I was able to go into it. Inside the walls was a whole community of people. (Plan to make that into a book sometime...)
What about thinking during it?
Yes, I often realize I am dreaming and can direct the dreams. I am getting better at this and not waking up immediately like I used to do. Also, if I wake up, like from a bad dream, when I go back to sleep I slip right back into that dream unless I read or watch tv to get it out of my head.
Or a sense of deja vu?
Big time. I once was a camp councellor at a Handicap camp and the day the kids arrived I knew everyone's faces and their names. I had never met a single one of them before that day. However I don't remember dreaming about them. It kinda freaked me out. Lots of other times since then when I have had dejavu too.
And when you dream do you sleepwalk?
Never been known to. I am generally a light sleeper and most likely would wake up if I tried to get out of bed just from the motion. However I did wake up once and was beating the wall. I had been dreaming about beating up the ex-boyfriend at the time (Ivory knows who I mean.) Messed my hand up on the brick wall of the dorm with that one.
Or talk in your sleep?
So I have been told - but I never heard myself do it, so how do I know???
And the bonus: Can you have whole conversations in your sleep? O.o?
I don't know - maybe, but I don't think I ever have.
As to Dougal's, no, I just learned how to text recently and the phone is in the other room. However I did wake up one morning in high school and found a bunch of poetry written in my notebook in my handwriting. It was mostly total gibberish, but I don't remember writing it. (wonder if I still have that somewhere?)
Now, my question: Have you ever dreamed something that came true either later or at the time you were dreaming it?
I have prophetic dreams quite often. I dreamed my cousin smashing up his jeep. As near as we can figure it, I was dreaming it while he was living it and in my dream I was the one driving. He had dozed off and ran into the back of a semi and I was screaming in my dream to wake up cuz this was a dream, but I could not wake up. Not until the jeep got squished, pushed up the embankment under an overpass and rolled over and came to a stop. Then I woke up. I called my aunt to find out if my cousin was home in bed and when he wasn't, she freaked out. They put out a 911 call, based pretty much on my dream and the fact they couldn't find him at his friends' houses. So help got to him fairly quickly and he ended up being ok, though he got banged up a bit. Pretty traumatic over all.
I also dreamed for several nights in a row that my horse got shot by a drunken hunter the weekend before Thanksgiving one year when I was in college. I had the dream so often, that I told Mom about it and she brought the horses into the barn for that weekend. Turns out the neighbor's goat that was the same color as my horse got shot in the same spot as in my dream by a drunken hunter on that same night that I dreamed it was going to happen. I have no doubt that if she had left the horses in the pasture/woods, that my horse would have been the one shot. That dream ended with me finding the hunter and I always woke up just as I pulled the trigger of his own rifle pointed at his forehead. Fortunately THAT part of the dream didn't come true!
I also dreamed my Grandpa came and said goodbye to me. I woke up from that dream around 5 am, and then went back to sleep. At 6:30 am we got the call that he had passed away suddenly from a heart attack. That dream still kinda bothers me sometimes.
Then I have the wierd sci-fi dreams (spiders being rather prominent in many of them), like the Nyquil induced nightmare where there were alien spider shaped creatures capturing humans on a colony and I was a space marine who found where the aliens were taking all the people. They were all trussed up spread-eagled by their wrists and ankles in a sticky web like stuff in a honeycomb rising from floor to ceiling of a huge cave. They were storing the people for food. I couldn't wake up from that one because of the Nyquil. It went on for hours. Worse nightmare I have EVER had. But it would make a cool sci-fi movie. If I ever get the time and courage, I might write the whole thing down.
I have lots and lots of dreams every night and remember most of them usually, unless I am just super tired. A great many of them would make interesting books, I think. I also don't see how they relate to things in every day life that my brain is trying to process. I think that people with greater imaginations use dreams to let their imaginations run wild and that dreams are actually not for processing information, but for allowing out mind "down" time or "play" time to just have fun.
A great many of my dreams involve me being chased by someone or something while protecting or searching for someone else.
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Post by ivory on Jul 10, 2009 17:44:54 GMT -5
If you ever find that poetry you should totally post it on here. lol. *grin*
Never had a prophetic dream, but I read that a guy had one about the Titanic two weeks before it happened. *grin* And I'm quite glad none of my dreams had come true. Unfortunately, not only do they never make sense, practically the whole population seems to either die, get tortured to death through numerous ways [eaten alive, stabbed repeatedly, hunted in a 'game', ect. ect.], or are forever being attacked/hunted.
And when my dreams 'repeat' they're never in the exact same fashion. It's like I 'learn'. I have that knowledge so I use it to my advantage. If going up those stairs got me thrown out a window, I don't take those stairs. Or if last time that guy snuck up behind me and tried to kill me, I'm ready for him. *grin* I learn. lol. :-)
Though there have been times [not during any dream or anything] where I just 'know' things. Usually when I meet people. *shrug* I read them. Idk what I'm actually reading, but I know, so I'd have to be reading something right? Have no idea what though. Really irritating when you're trying to watch/read a mystery book/movie. Right when you meet the 'killer' you know who it is. Ruins the complete book/movie. That's why I don't read/watch mysteries anymore. Drove me crazy. Same with the other characters, but to a lesser degree - ie: I know who's going to die, who's going to end up falling for who, who's going to be the lone survivers, why they did that, ect. ect.
Actually, come to think of it, there have been a few times when that's happened in the dreams...
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Post by Cutebabys on Jul 11, 2009 8:31:04 GMT -5
O.O. I think you're a prophet, Brandy.
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Post by Brandwyn on Jul 11, 2009 15:19:43 GMT -5
Yikes! Thank you, but no, Don't want to be a prophet. Too much pressure. Then if you are ever wrong, they say you are a crackpot!
You could have 24 dreams that predict the future and come true, but just let one slip in that doesn't come true... and wham! labeled for life!
LOL
I just have esp. Helps when driving so I can slow down before I get to the cops and avoid speeding tickets. Grin!
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Post by ivory on Jul 12, 2009 7:05:27 GMT -5
lol. That's coolio. What exactly is ESP? I mean, I know the technical terms, but I was wondering if you could explain it yourself since you've had experience with it...?
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