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What do you think of them?

Are they a tool of our mind, trying to help us out with messages and solutions? Or are they meaningless drivel?

I personally think there's something to dreams, and dream interpretation as a means of psychoanalysis. I've been writing my dreams down lately so I can take a closer look, it's pretty cool.

Though, I was not pleased with my dreams this morning. I was with my first girlfriend (incidentally, also my first love and we shared our virginity) again. I still love her deeply, even though I haven't seen her in years.

Stupid emotions.

I can still love other people though.

Back on topic: What do you think dreams are or are for?

No idea, but I keep having really scary recurring ones. I keep seeing this weird mask, and then slowly descending into a dizzying madness that feels like a combination of the time I tried mescaline and the time I had a concussion, before ultimately dying.

I think it’s a mix I guess its not to far fetched for your mind to think something up whilst dreaming but then again its mostly dribble so it could just be luck

What is weird though is dreams vary in time you can have long epic dreams in a short space of time and such (maybe we just remember more?)

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Back on topic: What do you think dreams are?

fun,
most of the time, i get some really stupid funny dreams

I think the mind just tries to reorganize itself while we sleep, which seems to involve combining ideas together in strange ways, resulting in dreams. Or at least mine are strange.

Dumping ground for redundant thought processes.

They are God speaking to you in a cryptic form; however, some are too complex for most to understand, and seem insane, random, and pointless.

No idea, but I keep having really scary recurring ones. I keep seeing this weird mask, and then slowly descending into a dizzying madness that feels like a combination of the time I tried mescaline and the time I had a concussion, before ultimately dying.

Strange dream. I'll ask someone about it, she knows more than I do, I haven't had any psychoanalysis yet.

I know recurring dreams tend to be important.

99% of the time, I can't even remember what the hell I dreamt about the previous night. :(

Dumping ground for redundant thought processes.


I agree. I think Stephen King wrote in The Stand that dreams were the minds way of taking a mental dump every night. I thought that very poetic.

I have recurring dreams of all my teeth falling out. *shrugs*

Well yesterday I was talking to my friend about how I have a hard time getting to sleep.. Well she told me she has stuff that knocks her out, and asked me if I wanted to try it.

Of course, I did the smart thing and took her up on her offer. Took the pill about 15 minutes before school let out, came home, read the new TIME issue, and began to feel the effects.

As soon as I got to my bed I was out. Slept for 12 hours.

Had this really long dream, and it even continued after I woke up for a few minutes and then passed out again. Amazing thing was-- it was on the same theme as this other dream I had a few weeks ago.

Well.. long story short: Never go to concerts in the Middle East.

*nods*

Strange dream. I'll ask someone about it, she knows more than I do, I haven't had any psychoanalysis yet.

I know recurring dreams tend to be important.

when you get an answer, telegram me. I'd love to hear insights on it. I've heard about archetypal images appearing in dreams, and for what its worth, the mask was green (kind of like the one in the Jim Carrey movie "The Mask" although a little more terrifying). The color green, a sort of jade-green floater always precedes the terminal descent into madness, which is then followed by a complete feeling of nausea and panic and disorientation.

The oddest part of it all is that I know that whoever looks at the mask will go insane and die. Even a single glance at it will cause your mind to melt. And I am always shown it in an act of retribution. No matter what I do, I can't delay the onset of the madness, although I have succesfully killed myself in the dream many times, resulting in me waking up.

A lot of my dreams are quite pornographic. Not because I watch an excessive amount of porn but because I have regular lucid dreams and quite a lot of control over them..

That's not all I do when I'm lucid.. I also enjoy blowing my hand up like a rubber glove and waving at all the dream people. That's what dreams are for.

i'am trying not to dream as i keep having this one very dark nightmare

I have a lot of dreams about this hot girl. Once, I asked her out, and another one where she was going out with someone who looked like Frank Burns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank Burns) (and had his nickname "Ferret Face")

What does it all mean, goddamnit? :mad:

I have a lot of dreams about this hot girl. Once, I asked her out, and another one where she was going out with someone who looked like Frank Burns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank Burns) (and had his nickname "Ferret Face")

What does it all mean, goddamnit? :mad:

you still having that one

I have a lot of dreams about this hot girl. Once, I asked her out, and another one where she was going out with someone who looked like Frank Burns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank Burns) (and had his nickname "Ferret Face")

What does it all mean, goddamnit? :mad:


The girl represents your mother who you're worried is going to abbandon you to run off with Frank Burns. And you're gay.

when you get an answer, telegram me. I'd love to hear insights on it. I've heard about archetypal images appearing in dreams, and for what its worth, the mask was green (kind of like the one in the Jim Carrey movie "The Mask" although a little more terrifying). The color green, a sort of jade-green floater always precedes the terminal descent into madness, which is then followed by a complete feeling of nausea and panic and disorientation.

The oddest part of it all is that I know that whoever looks at the mask will go insane and die. Even a single glance at it will cause your mind to melt. And I am always shown it in an act of retribution. No matter what I do, I can't delay the onset of the madness, although I have succesfully killed myself in the dream many times, resulting in me waking up.

Ouch! Ok, I'll let you know!

Trilby63;12079953']The girl represents your mother who you're worried is going to abbandon you to run off with Frank Burns. And you're gay.

Feh.

I don't even like my mom that much.
Frank Burns isn't real.
And I am not gay. (Masturbates to straight porn)

(BTW, I'm not really a homophobe. I just don't like insinuations that I'm gay.)
Nice psychiatrist impersonation, Trilby. Heh heh.

Feh.

I don't even like my mom that much.
Frank Burns isn't real.
And I am not gay. (Masturbates to straight porn)

(BTW, I'm not really a homophobe. I just don't like insinuations of that.)

If Frank Burns isn't real then why are you so worried?

I thought I was watching way too much M*A*S*H. And what happened in that dream is equivalent to the world flipping on its axis.

I thought I was watching way to much M*A*S*H. And what happened is equivalent to the world flipping on its axis.

uh... yeah.. That sounds more likely..

I think my dreams for the most part is my mind trying to make me think about things that I am trying to avoid during the day.......in any case they are exceedingly weird and scary 90% of the time.

Trilby63;12080064']uh... yeah.. That sounds more likely..

Come on. I have an insignificant life. My dreams are no more significant than the rest of my life, yeah. Help me, man.

Eh, most of them are pretty mundane, and some of them have some kind of mental or symbolic purpose, but there have been some that have been unquestionably prescient. I've had dreams about things that will happen in the future; they're usually pretty mundane, but those things do happen and I do recall the dream about them.

There's more going on in there than meets the eye, and I have no idea what causes prescient dreams.

Eh, most of them are pretty mundane, and some of them have some kind of mental or symbolic purpose, but there have been some that have been unquestionably prescient. I've had dreams about things that will happen in the future; they're usually pretty mundane, but those things do happen and I do recall the dream about them.

There's more going on in there than meets the eye, and I have no idea what causes prescient dreams.

Eh?
And no, I am not Canadian. This is pronounced 'e' rather than 'ay'.
What are prescient dreams?

Organic equivalent of defragging a hard drive. All your daily memories getting stored and processed.

Atleast that's the theory I run with. I rarely remember my dreams unless they're bizarre or sexual.

i like having lucid dreams they are fun

There's more going on in there than meets the eye, and I have no idea what causes prescient dreams.

I have a friend who is interested in dream interpretation and he says that our subconscious mind can pick up on patters and signals that our conscious mind does not register and therefore we are able to have dreams that "see into the future" based on information that we already have that leads us to extrapolate the most likely result.

I have a friend who is interested in dream interpretation and he says that our subconscious mind can pick up on patters and signals that our conscious mind does not register and therefore we are able to have dreams that "see into the future" based on information that we already have that leads us to extrapolate the most likely result.

i had two like that
when they happen i ask myself am i dreaming again or is this real

I rarely have dreams, but when I do they are always quite lucid in that I have some control over it, I am partly conscious and know I am dreaming but let it continue because I enjoy the effect. I don't ascribe any meaning to them, they are quite an interesting combination of memories and imagination, but nothing more.

A massive pile of strange, incoherent garbage that your mind uses as building blocks to form the most ridiculous - and sometimes interesting - things, sometimes managing to squeeze something meaningful into it all, which then makes it into the garbled mess of an end result more or less screwed up.