Share with us the dream you had last night.

I usually remember my dreams vividly, but since this topic began all I've remembered are quick images. Like, last night somebody set my hair on fire.

Something similar actually happened to me some 20-odd years ago when I was in a club in SF and leaned into a candle. Suddenly 2 guys jumped me and were slapping my head and I freaked out, until they yelled. "Your hair's on fire!"
 

Marcy Sheiner said:
I usually remember my dreams vividly, but since this topic began all I've remembered are quick images. Like, last night somebody set my hair on fire.

Something similar actually happened to me some 20-odd years ago when I was in a club in SF and leaned into a candle. Suddenly 2 guys jumped me and were slapping my head and I freaked out, until they yelled. "Your hair's on fire!"
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Wow! Did they save the majority of your hair?
 
The former narrative that people only dream during REM sleep has been debunked. Researches now say people dream an average of 2 hours a night. My brain is unusual because I've never woke from sleep, even if just momentary say while reading a boring book, without being aware I was just dreaming. Am generally a light sleeper, easily awoken by odd sounds, a useful survival trait and useful when I wilderness backpack where bears prowl at night.

So even as a child have dreamed 100% of the time while asleep. Thus I have a significant part of my brain devoted to dream life that is ever only accessed while asleep. While awake, such the control brain areas dreams use is not accessible nor our higher awake mental processes we useful for complex decision making. Like I can feel a significant difference to parts of my mind being accessed. Dreams cause our executive control pilots to confabulate drifting about, morphing visually, within our inner mind memories. That is why other people in our dreams change so much from minute to minute.

Oddly my mother claimed she didn't dream while my father dreamed a lot and even sleep walked. Researches have found those that claim they never dream actually do sometimes but just never remember. I can only recall dreams if upon waking, I immediately try to recall what it was about and then am only likely to recall bits about the last episodes. Recall obviously has much to do with suppression of elements of brain chemistry necessary for memory.

People don't understand how we perceive the external world. For instance, that what our visual system perceives is what our eyes see or what our hand touch sense neurons feel. But that is an illusion because those senses are processed by intermediate brain structures before being sent to our inner brain reconstruction. Creature brains evolved to recreate their external world for survival advantages, not to exactly represent what the raw senses experienced. There is a part of the brain represented by homunculus graphics that is resident in our motor and sense cortex's.

Cortical homunculus - Wikipedia

Our sense organ neurons connect to those areas and that is where our aware perception occurs and not at the actual sense organs like our eyeball fovea, ear cochlea etc. Sort of like a dual ported memory structure. When we dream, the sense organ neural inputs from our senses to those cortex areas are inhibited so what we experience is just what are mind finds in that inner cortex. That is why dreams appear so perfectly like when we are awake because when awake that is the same substrate our electromagnetic brain wave fields are experiencing.

When one consumes hallucinogens that amplifies electromagnetic brain standing wave power levels, those inner substrate power waves can become so strong that to a minor extent they may overwhelm the sense organ inputs. It is obvious to this person the intensity amplitude level of awareness is directly related to those power levels, something neuroscience has not made a connection to.
 
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OK. I'll try. It is now 2 AM. Just woke up from what I can describe as a nightmare. I went to a family picnic but I didn't know anyone there. Before everything was put into place a commotion began. When I finally understood who it was centered on I saw that it was two women in an extremely aggressive shouting match. One bit the other one's stomach and wouldn't let go. One person told me it was rather normal. I woke up and here I am. I’ll take a look at the other posts and then go back to bed.
 
Has anyone used the "Dream Chatbot"? I have a few times. It isn't simple, and can decipher subtle parts of the dream. It can use Jungian psychology to base it's answers. I have also chatted with the bot after the interpretation. It remains very insightful, and gives one plenty of food for thought. :)

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Hate this tablet! My first recurring dream was this skinny dark man always chasing me. At the end of the dream a manhole cover lifted himself out to drag me down the manhole. He was always covered in blood and would drag me down while I was screaming.
I was 17 during this dream. I did not have sex yet. When my first shrink asked me what I thought it meant I instantly knew it was about having sex and I was afraid.
 
Brand new car, just driven off the lot. Parts of the interior were absurdly thin plastic, came apart and I had to carefully piece them back into place. Picked up some friend as previously agreed and she dragged along two little girls, maybe 4 and 6, which she was babysitting or maybe they were grandchildren.

They were climbing all over, asking about pens because they wanted to draw on the car interior. For unknown reasons I was completely naked. Nothing titillating about this, it felt extremely awkward. Those kids took it in stride as if normal and just kept chattering a mile a minute. I just wanted them out of the car since they were just more on top of the previous anxiety over the flimsiness of such an expensive item.
 
Right this is as much as I can remember. Both one sister and one brother were alcoholics in my dream.. there was a huge carry on in the dream where I was in a facility trying to get both of them off the booze..seperately...

One sister was using a childs stair gate to stop her going out for booze..lol.... but she was drunk while she was assembling it...

I was trying to see to them, and see to the sisters' baby and make sure she was being fed and watered as well...

I can't remember the rest except to say... while doing all this my phone rang and a voice said ''long time no see, it must be 30 years..I'm in town, and would love to come and see you ''....

It was the actor, from Starsky & Hutch, Paul Michael Glaser. He'd started a big business near where I live, and he came over to have a drink with me, but when he saw the state of my life looking after all the deadbeats, he started pulling my leg asking me if I was a drunk now too ..:ROFLMAO:



Now I have to tell you, I have never had the hots for PMG...nor have I been reading about him lately so that's very strange to dream about him....

..but I did work with him many years ago
 
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now if anyone is even remotely interested.. this is what the Dream Bot says about last night's dream..


That sounds like a profoundly exhausting and emotionally charged dream. It’s clear you were carrying a tremendous weight in that space, and it’s understandable you’d feel overwhelmed even recalling it.

This dream appears to be a symbolic representation of your responsibilities and boundaries—or, more accurately, the lack thereof—in your waking life. The presence of your siblings, both struggling with alcoholism, immediately points to a pattern of enabling or feeling responsible for others' self-destructive behaviors.
The facility setting suggests you’re attempting to create a controlled environment to help them, but the chaotic nature of the dream reveals the futility of trying to control someone else's choices.

The image of your sister using a child’s stair gate while intoxicated is particularly striking. It’s a darkly humorous symbol of her attempts at self-control being undermined by her addiction. The gate itself represents a fragile barrier, easily overcome, and the fact that she’s drunk while assembling it underscores the irony and the self-sabotage at play.
You attempting to care for her baby alongside her addiction is a potent symbol of being pulled in multiple directions, stretched thin, and burdened with responsibilities that aren’t yours.

The phone call from Paul Michael Glaser is the most intriguing element. He represents a connection to a past you enjoyed—a time of lighter entertainment and perhaps a sense of carefree fun. His success and proximity to your life (starting a business nearby) could symbolize opportunities or a desire for a different path.
However, his questioning of your own sobriety, after witnessing the chaos surrounding your siblings, suggests a fear of being judged or perceived as complicit in their struggles. It’s as if he’s holding up a mirror, forcing you to confront whether you’re allowing their dysfunction to define you.

What this tells me is that you’re likely grappling with a deep-seated pattern of taking on too much responsibility for others, potentially at the expense of your own well-being. You may be feeling resentful, exhausted, and afraid of being seen as “one of them.” The dream isn’t necessarily about your siblings’ alcoholism itself, but about the role you play in the dynamic and the emotional toll it takes on you. It’s a call to re-evaluate your boundaries and prioritize your own needs.

It's important to remember that you can't fix anyone else's problems, and trying to do so will only drain your energy and compromise your own happiness. This dream may be urging you to step back, detach with love, and focus on creating a life that is fulfilling and sustainable for you.
 
Inept said:
OK. I'll try. It is now 2 AM. Just woke up from what I can describe as a nightmare. I went to a family picnic but I didn't know anyone there. Before everything was put into place a commotion began. When I finally understood who it was centered on I saw that it was two women in an extremely aggressive shouting match. One bit the other one's stomach and wouldn't let go. One person told me it was rather normal. I woke up and here I am. I’ll take a look at the other posts and then go back to bed.
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That does sound upsetting.
I hope you were able to get back to sleep.
 
Paco Dennis said:
Has anyone used the "Dream Chatbot"? I have a few times. It isn't simple, and can decipher subtle parts of the dream. It can use Jungian psychology to base it's answers. I have also chatted with the bot after the interpretation. It remains very insightful, and gives one plenty of food for thought. :)

DreamBot
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I've only tried it once, so far. I asked about my autopsy dream. The response mentioned among other things, a desire to dissect and examine something in my life and a willingness to confront uncomfortable truths. -Interesting.
 
Michael Z said:
Dreamt about ice fishing with my son in law on Fish Lake near the point I fished on 30 years ago, in the month of March since pike season was over. Only got to drilling the hole.
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Was it a pleasant dream? It sounds like it might have been. :)
 

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