Share with us the dream you had last night.

David777 said:
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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Too much information for me this sleepy Sunday.
 

Took a nap and had another series of weird dreams. One involved some sort of power-whips and combat though no battle had broken out. Bad guys were trying to find me, but I was somehow disguised enough that they never caught on. Another involved some sort of miles-long steep downgrade on a major road here, no idea where these extra miles came from.
 
I don't remember what I dreamt about last night because the day has gone by, but every morning I wake up remembering my dream the night before. I can tell you I dreamt 2 nights ago about one of my friends. She is a tiny, 92 year-old woman and I saw her as someone doll-sized being led around by her hand in some type of public transportation. I've been thinking about her recently so I'm sure this one came from my subconscious.

Most of my dreams involve being in some kind of business function with some type of obstacle (which was pretty much like it was when I was working).

I was thinking just this morning about a dream I had where I was in a tiny open car going really fast around an elevated highway and I came to a corner where I knew I was going to go over. I woke up immediately. It is said that you wake up before you die in your dream.

I wish I had more pleasant dreams but in most I am up against some adversary. I need to meditate more!
 
I find (as I just did a few minutes ago) that my dreams have a profound impact on how my day will proceed. I just now woke up from a pleasant or at least neutral dream and I slept a straight 7-hours. Consequently, I am in an up-beat mood and I do not dread meeting the new day, as I unfortunately often do. Do others experience the same?
 
Inept said:
I find (as I just did a few minutes ago) that my dreams have a profound impact on how my day will proceed. I just now woke up from a pleasant or at least neutral dream and I slept a straight 7-hours. Consequently, I am in an up-beat mood and I do not dread meeting the new day, as I unfortunately often do. Do others experience the same?
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Yes! It has happened that way for me on many occasions; strong, vivid dreams, pleasant or otherwise, have set the tone for my day.
 
I was running a group home for 4 or 5 kids. I'm not sure what they needed a group home for, and I was aware that I was not an expert at it. But I felt somewhat ready to confront the unexpected. The only thing of interest is that I have no clue what the dream was for.
 
@JustDave, I checked AI Dream Interpretation - DreamyBot for, "running a group home for kids." The first paragraph was this:

"Running a group home for kids speaks to themes of responsibility, caretaking, and potentially, a desire for control or a need to nurture. It suggests you're grappling with issues related to guidance, boundaries, and the challenges of fostering growth in others—and perhaps, within yourself."

There was more if you want to check it, but I thought even this much was interesting.
 
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Thanks to this thread, I made sure to remember last night's dream. In it I was occupying a bedroom in an acquaintance or relative's home and there was a small table in the corner next to the bathroom. Each time I went to take a shower there were a couple of business people doing work at the table. I was at a loss as to how to use my own bedroom/bathroom. Figure that one out!
 
Dreamed last night I was at some sort of college-orientation function (had a sorority vibe to it— all young women), and we all had to read off cards. Mine had a bunch of hard words on it and the girl next to me had to help me Then in putting away the tables and chairs I lost my notes.

And some how salsa dancing was part of the dream.

I am now sipping a large mug of tea and trying to shake off the fuzzy-headedness
 
I was stuck in a snowstorm in a town I lived in many years ago. No car, I was walking. Every time I thought I found the way home, I ended up going up stairs to a cathedral. (Me? A cathedral?) No cell phone reception, and no other people to ask. I finally found a pub where a kind woman said she could help me get home. But the dream never got to that point. I woke up thinking "It must be too cold in here." But it wasn't cold at all. The thermostat said 71.

Earlier, I dreamed that I was trying to conduct a singalong concert, except that the audience hated it and people kept getting up to leave. Practically no one was left. Finally we got to the intermission, and whoever was running this event advised me to just leave, as there was no audience left. Pretty scary in its symbolic implications.

I should probably stop watching creepy movies in the evening.
 
Sunny said:
I was stuck in a snowstorm in a town I lived in many years ago. No car, I was walking. Every time I thought I found the way home, I ended up going up stairs to a cathedral. (Me? A cathedral?) No cell phone reception, and no other people to ask. I finally found a pub where a kind woman said she could help me get home. But the dream never got to that point. I woke up thinking "It must be too cold in here." But it wasn't cold at all. The thermostat said 71.

Earlier, I dreamed that I was trying to conduct a singalong concert, except that the audience hated it and people kept getting up to leave. Practically no one was left. Finally we got to the intermission, and whoever was running this event advised me to just leave, as there was no audience left. Pretty scary in its symbolic implications.

I should probably stop watching creepy movies in the evening.
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You know, I've watched a few scary movies in the morning with my coffee and it's fun. :)
 
There was one (interesting to me, at least) I had just before I got up this morning, and I remembered some fragments...

I was on some university campus for a while, and had a brief visit to a building with an enormous optical telescope system, for looking out into the starry night sky. Then I was in some neighborhood of a city where I was apparently staying for a while, with shops and vintage low-rise apartment buildings. I guess I was staying in one apartment.

Looking across the street from the the apartment building, I saw what I knew to be a building that had been converted to house a more modest optical telescope for looking at the sky, though it was daytime and I didn't go in there. Then the scene shifted to me sitting in a some sort of sunny room with a few comfortable chairs. I was quietly waiting for two women who were supposed to meet me there, and I expected one to return a book I'd loaned her.

But the scene shifted, and I was then standing in a small, quiet courtyard with a tree, decorative shrubs. Two people came out, first a blind man and then a woman. Neither of them paid any attention to me. The woman asked the man, "Don't you like me, even a little?" I began to wake up, and a voice from somewhere said "Buddhism accepts everyone into the afterlife." At which point I woke up for the day.
 
Medusa said:
@JustDave, I checked AI Dream Interpretation - DreamyBot for, "running a group home for kids." The first paragraph was this:

"Running a group home for kids speaks to themes of responsibility, caretaking, and potentially, a desire for control or a need to nurture. It suggests you're grappling with issues related to guidance, boundaries, and the challenges of fostering growth in others—and perhaps, within yourself."

There was more if you want to check it, but I thought even this much was interesting.
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Well, that does hit the nail on the head in some respects and is mostly true. I am interested in fostering personal growth, but mostly in myself. I can't make others grow. But it does sound like something that would fit nicely into an astrological description for a sign someone was born under.
 
JustDave said:
Well, that does hit the nail on the head in some respects and is mostly true. I am interested in fostering personal growth, but mostly in myself. I can't make others grow. But it does sound like something that would fit nicely into an astrological description for a sign someone was born under.
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I can't claim much faith in astrology, but I do find dream interpretation interesting. Sure most of dreaming is probably just the brain detoxing or whatever, but it's fun to explore the possibility of other purposes for dreams.
 
I believe some dreams are solidly connected to both our conscious understanding and truths buried in the subconscious. Even interpreting the senseless detoxing dreams can be useful in the same way ambiguous ink blots are.
 
jujube said:
My sister and I (but it wasn't one of my real sisters, though) were struggling to operate a big balky old-time printing press to print a batch of protest posters.

What the protest was, I can't remember, but I can remember the fear that we were going to get caught and thrown in prison...or worse.

I woke up in a panic.
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Sounds like one of those dreams wherein you are filled with relief to wake up and realize you were dreaming and it wasn't real.
 

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