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Dreams

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous Conjectures' started by Red Starr, Jan 14, 2013.

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Do you usually remember your dreams in some (if any) detail?

  1. Yes, I usually remember my dreams in detail

    3 vote(s)
    30.0%

  2. Every now and then I remember my dreams in some detail

    6 vote(s)
    60.0%

  3. Rarely remember my dreams in barely any detail

    1 vote(s)
    10.0%
  1. Considering the title above, what do dreams mean to you? Dreams are simply and scientifically an extension of your day. However, what happens when you dream of something entirely different from your current standpoint of reality? When your nights are filled with brilliant mixes of creativity and strange sequences of events? Putting all science aside and going with our gut, what do dreams mean to you?

    Dreams can be a window of opportunities unseen by us during the day OR can be our secret desires. But, the question stands and many others to go with it. ZEJ, what do you make of your dreams? Do you abide by them? Ignore? Or do what I do and decode them for their meaning? If it isn't much of a bug, I'd like to hear some of your interesting dreams and what you make of them. Perhaps we could put our own two cents on it's meaning. It's all in fun and curiosity, since dreams can sometimes reveal our true selves and possibly bridge some connections with others out of similarity and kind.
     
    #1 Red Starr, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:24 PM
  2. I don't usually remember my dreams unless I am particularly sick, so it's usually a sign that I'm getting ill if I can recall just a bit of them. Before my sleeping patterns got out of control, as well, I would wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night if the case was that I had a dream. Basically, fever dreams are typically the only kind I recall... a particularly vivid one from when I was maybe eight has always sort of stayed with me in the back of my mind. It was mostly an irrational, warped sequence of events from days leading up to it mixed in with the surreal and jumbled to no end.

    Most recently, however, I've been remembering broken bits of my muted dreams in little detail, as I saw an image on the 'net that 'teaches' you how to recall your dreams/lucid dream (if I can find it again I'll post it in this thread). It seems like my dreams are mostly just events of my reality that I am able to twist mentally somehow in my mind to be weird and out of character. Often I'll wake up imagining a text that was in my dream at some point and thinking it is reality, though it is normally never the case. Don't really know what that means, but it is strange having conversations forged within myself like that.

    But usually, I'm not able to remember them, nor do I know if I want to. They involve warped and surreal versions of my waking world and I don't know if I can face that on a regular basis. The concept of lucid dreaming, however, is always fascinating to me and if it were a viable career field then I'd love to go into oneirology, but I don't have any prerequisites to go into the study of the human brain or anything, and it is a budding field of study which sort of puts that plan out into the garbage. Unfortunate, but that's the way life works sometimes.
     
    #2 Eebit, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:56 AM
  3. Come to think of it, the most I remember from my dreams results in deja vu. Quite frequently, I'll just be sitting in school and as the subject progresses, right in the middle of it I feel like I've experienced this moment before (school is, nowadays, where I most often get this feeling). At those times, I can almost concisely remember having a flash of this exact scene in a recent dream. It's like... sometimes I can even predict what a person will say-- or at least, it feels like I've heard them say exactly what they're saying in present before. Yeah. Makes me feel like a time-leaper, or a psychic! *mauled*

    Although Eebit's eloquent reply up there reminds me of a recent incident. For Christmas, I wished for the Percy Jackson books (yeah, I've read the series before), except Last Olympian (the final installment). I could swear I already owned it. I checked my bookshelf at mom's, but it wasn't there. Not long after, I had a dream that contained a moment where I found the Last Olympian at my dad's house. "Oh yeeeah, I left it here!" I thought. Except when I woke up I remembered I truly never store any books at dad's. Now, thinking about the Last Olympian just muddles my thoughts, because I must have known I owned it previously... but that dream completely skewed my perception of it, so I have literally no idea anymore. Occasionally, I still check through all the books at my mom's house, half-expecting to find it... The whole thing is just sort of perplexing to me now.

    On a side note, I'm pretty sure Somnambulance also had a humble root as just another one of my dreams, although I've developed it so much I can't even vaguely remember the base. It was nothing like "having my dreams be a receptor to extradimensional sentience" or something to such effect (I recall Shadow saying something like that while musing over This Dream's conception. I think that line is somewhere in the Chatlog Thread... *is too lazy... and tired*)

    Note: "Fireflies"- Owl City. Because yes.
     
    #3 CerberusLycan, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:09 AM
  4. My dreams tend to be an incoherent mess of my real life, various online things, and random video games or TV shows. I don't /usually/ remember beyond a few fuzzy scenes, but sometimes I remember most of the premise of the dream; this usually results in bizarre combinations like one dream where I had throwing knives and was trying to kill Yuuka(Touhou) or something and people from ZEJ AND IC CoU were looking for me for whatever reason. It was... weird...

    When I'm starting to get sick it's usually a lot more scrambled, and when I inevitably wake up in the middle of the night, my thoughts are so incoherent and I always feel either dread or a strong reluctance to something my mind perceives to happen the next day. Usually it involves REALLY not wanting to go to school but I can never ascertain the exact cause for it.

    I get lucid dreams on occasion, but they happen far less frequently than they did a few years ago.
     
    #4 Keileon, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:48 AM
  5. My dreams tend to sprout out of small, insignificant events (Such as watching tv or talking to a stranger) that meld into some other aspects of life as well as my overactive imagination. On a day-to-day basis, I usually dream events that are strange extensions to my life. But the dreams in which I tend to remember more are usually the ones of a result of fatigue or sickness. Being sick brings me the most vivid and worst nightmares, while just being tired brings me very interesting dreams where I tend to feel, smell, see, and listen perfectly. One example could be my infamous school zombie experiment dream.

    To make it short, I had a dream LONG ago that I was at school with my best friend and the city's firefighter's surrounded the outskirts of the school, then released a couple of zombies by the government's orders on the school. According to MY words in the dream as well as a random gym teacher, the government wanted to place a tiny experiment to prove that in times of strange, (can't say mythical, but...you know, that kind of event where something that you only hear in tales comes to life)dangerous emergencies, people tend to rely on what stories have taught them and band together in order to bring social order back into their environment. After that, my dream self knew exactly what to do. I began thinking to myself, looking around in classrooms for weapons, talking to gym teachers for said weapons, commanding my friend to give me her shoes (I had heels on for some reason) and next thing you know...I grabbed a zombie by the face (yes) and smashed it against the wall. Needless to say I felt the skull crack between my fingers lel. After that we literally had a taco break after the wave of zombies were contained. My mouth watered and I could smell that food so well. But...I woke up, so I felt a little hungry and mad.

    After that, I went to school pretty physically tired. And that night I had a dream that could kinda be considered it's sequel. And after that I began to get more sleep and stuff, and the frequency in which my dreams came around and I remembered them began to dip.
     
    #5 Red Starr, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:01 PM
  6. I generally have lucid dreams that often exactly portray future events (Mirainikki in This Dream format) often with ominous and foreboding connotations in the general course of events. I've only had two dreams that defy this category—the first with EoI running aroung scooping our skulls with a spoon and all, which I told you guys, and another one which I may or may not reveal soon based on whether I can bring myself to type out the horrors (the time for this dream to take place was supposedly to be in 2003, but... let's just say that, thankfully, it didn't even come an inch close to occurrence).

    Typically, when I wake up after my dream, I remember it in its entirety—no details lost, full resolution—for about ten minutes. Then I totally forget what I dreamt of. I instead remember the dream after roughly 70% of the time between the dream and the event has elapsed. I've never striven to find out why; whether or not it was contrived by my mind; why I had such dreams; et cetera. Why? I don't know. I had my first future-telling dream—my first dream, to be sure—at the age of six (my mother tells me I was never disturbed in my sleep in any way before that night). It was a good dream, and it was about my best friend's birthday; we were mostly having fun, but this one kid was being annoying, and his mother eventually dragged him home when he destroyed the burners that were keeping the food hot with his Coca-Cola. About two weeks later, I suddenly had a seizure in maths class (when we went to the doctor, I was identified with an epilepsy passed through a genetic problem that's responsible for my bad eyesight) but I didn't pass out or anything; I was having a really sudden recollection of the dream. And then in about a week at the birthday party the exact events in my dream were reproduced by reality.

    It's weird, yes; however, I have the most recollections when alone. Maybe a coincidence? IDK.

    I have more to say, just need time to collect my thoguhts because my dreams can be chaotic.

    [hr]

    Remember that one Acanthite thread which asked how the reader found his/her way to the website? I said that I found it through someone's banner on another forum which I visited. Well, I lied. I never knew of Acanthite's existance before I had this really jarring dream which gave me the name "Pokémon Acanthite"; that prompted me to search for the name, and lo and behold: I was at the Zetaboards dite two months before it shut down to open the current forum.

    Of course I never spoke of this because no one would believe me! I'm sure no one will, still. =P

    And then I found the old CoU though Kudos' signature, but never bothered to sign up until it got moved to Rennervate; then CoUF and ZEJ were merged and then the whole Rennervate to ZEJRPing thing happened and here I am. =P
     
    #6 Zygardia, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:02 AM
  7. Had a dream, thus I'm posting it here because it involved CoU/ZEJ in some ways. However, I forgot many of the details since it happened late at night and such. Blah.

    Anyway, from what I remember, we were at IRC where there was a discussion going on about RtW. Khya, Giga, and myself were trying to hound Shadow about his character for that RP. Since of course, even in my dreams hes just a secretive asshole. After a couple of minutes bugging him, he reveals his character. A female (surprise surprise) from Phantasia of all places, so I kinda called him out about it. He ignored my challenge and began to talk about how this character came to be, even showed us the place where she originated, which was sort of a swamp-like bamboo area called "Treeshard Range." And once he said that, a picture came up (which I will draw later because I still remember it slightly) which showed a runned down wooden shack barely being held up by four wooden beams bellow it. There was some vines adorning above it, and some trees and grass etc. Giga then spoke up and suggested that his character for RtW would fit kinda cutely with Shadow's apparent RtWloli, so I then took the chance to fool around and say that hes going pink (you know what I mean) for Shadow, which everyone just laughed and Giga just raged in the background. Then I was lurking around ZEJ when I saw a post on the RtW OoC-- Giga said some pretty defensive things there. In short, that post said I was a bitch, to which I just smirked and nodded my head, knowing I did a good job in bugging the ol' bald guy. After that, I went back to IRC where Shadow was explaining more about Treeshard Range. All I remember was that supposedly an OP took place there (idk if it even exists, let alone that) and that Ziolang (the character) went there for training, so that was the reason why he couldn't really touch upon that area until Zio came back from his mission in order to get his main out of there. Or something like that. After that, everyone asked me where my character was, to which I responded "In the desert."


    . . . Idk what the hell is wrong with me. Nor what I meant in the end. But it was a strangely interesting thing indeed.
     
    #7 Red Starr, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:06 PM
  8. ... Even to me, OP + Pokemon makes no sense. XD
     
    #8 Keileon, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:01 PM
  9. Exactly. Which is why my dream self called that out. Idk, but maybe my mind is telling me to get started with RtW-*shot*
     
    #9 Red Starr, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:03 PM
  10. Yes, yes it is.
     
    #10 Keileon, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:08 PM
  11. I feel as if I tend to remember my dreams more often than not, but not enough to say I "usually" do to a point of societal acceptance; more like 51% of the time or something. Now that I've started talking, I really don't know where I'm going with whatever point I was trying to make there so I'm just going to stop and continue on with the post. In particular, I remember absolutely absurd dreams that usually have no great meaning behind them at first glance, but eventually spread out into my regular conscience upon deeper thought and bring inspiration to my mind when it comes to writing my stories, hence why they're typically so strangely scribed.

    Heck, sometimes I even see Wally the walrus in the corner of my eye, much like Miyamoto claims to see his Pikmin all over the place. Yeah, I'm weird.
     
    #11 Jonno, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:31 PM
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