Messages

There are a lot of medical / psychological conditions
that make it so that you sleep less / require less sleep.
(e.g. insomnia and such)

So I don't have much trouble believing that he sleeps 1h
a week. I, for one, need to sleep >8h per night to stay
sharp is there a record for needing a lot of sleep as
well ? :p I think I just might go and break it as well...

Cheers

I usually just wake up,
but if I turn over and try to sleep again fast enough,
I sometimes end up in the same dream / scenery / ...
so I can still continue the dream...

Grtz

Did you have this dream before ?
Or was it just a dream where you
had a gift to foretell the future ?

The Dream world is just one place... everyone goes to the same place... to share a dream you simply have to find where the other person is...

It isn't that simple.
You could both be dreaming about
the same location in the dreamworld,
and still not encounter each other.
( you could be in a different 'instance'
of the same location )

But you are right when you say that
it is definitely possible... I bet that if
you are both lucid, that it can be an
amazing experience !

Yes, levitation dreams are amazing, I always enjoy mine.  As I said, I've only recently started to have them regularly.  

Perhaps not a very useful comment to you,
but I wanted to point out that levitation is merely an 'action'
(albeit a fun one) in your dreams, and you shouldn't
rely on the fact that if you are able to levitate in your
dreams that those dreams will be pleasant.
( I am just stating this because one of the most vivid
nightmares I have had included me being able to levitate/fly
- but then again I am almost always able to do so in dreams)

Nice going getting away from him btw...

- This is not really on topic - but you mentioned having a ceiling
height to which you can fly ? Could you elaborate on this ?
I dont really have a ceiling height, but I have that if I go above
a certain height, that I cannot safely return (because the fall
back to the world would develop more speed than I can counter
with my flying ability). Also happens that I "drift off" too far if
I fly too high, and cannot return to the previous dream-scenery...

cheers !

that's pretty normal.
it just occurs because you 'die' but the dream doesn't end
so you realize there is something not really realistic in there.

Then you can realize its a dream and start experimenting.
its a good start !

P.S.: it also works for me if I fly, or breathe underwater,
then realize that's not very realistic either

I (recently) half-woke up from a dream,
and with my eyes closed I saw a room,
100% realistic. Something like a giant stocking
place, pretty white (but dirty) ceiling, artificially
lighted, and I was lying somewhere in that room.
(so in that room, my relative sleeping position
was theoretically correct).
With my eyes opened, I saw my bedroom ceiling
but with light-emitting words written on it (=wtf),
but I couldn't really make any of them out, they were
in some kind of high-backed font, emitting yellow-ish
light.

I found this kind of eerie, so I was like "close your eyes
to get rid of the writing on the ceiling", but then I still saw
the realistic storage room, so I opened them again to get
rid of that, etc. Not sure what I did next (I think I hit the lights
or something) but after a couple of times it was gone.
Afterward I felt kind of sorry that I didn't 'use' this experience
to explore the "dream room" or something, because I got
freaked out...

I should probably mention I have light-emitting stuff on my ceiling,
like a star sky (from the previous tenant of this room), and the
words were in the spaces BETWEEN these stars (somehow)...

I recently mentioned I would make a post about this - so here it is .
Sorry for the crappy description ...

Happy newyear to you too
May 2006 bring you all some interesting and revealing dreams !

I have the experience a lot, where I am living a dream, semi-conscious
I'm excited, having fun, action, etc ... so I'm thinking "WOW they should
make a movie / computer game / book about this." And then I wake up
and usually from what I can remember the dream was rather stereotypical
and not really that exciting to relate it to others.

I think the difference (on my part) is that you arent "experiencing" the
dream anymore when you wake up, its more like a distant memory.
Not all the parts are in place, the setting / atmosphere isnt there, etc ...

And about the meaning of life: I 've had times when the life in dreams
made a LOT more sense than the life in the real world ... Or that I had a
"vision / experience" of this world, with slight alterations to it, which
looked like GREAT improvements, and then I sometimes wake up with a
great feeling of loss ... (if you want me to elaborate on this, drop a line -
wakingly the ideas may sound kind of dull and stupid, however ... but as a
dream experience they can be very powerful)

[I wake up from them with a great satisfied feeling]

I had a similar experience,
and the good feeling stayed around me for a day or two ...

I had this experience only 2 or 3 times in my life.
I made a post about it once.

I also remember these dreams more easily, and sometimes I wake up from them with a great satisfied feeling (as if I had an encounter with a friend) or with a puzzled feeling ( because I sometimes feel as if i know these dream entities, but I can rarely determine who they remind me of).

Is this the same kind of experience you are referring to ?
( I know you remember less than me, but the basic elements
seem to be present... )

And I am referring to a "friend" here, but it felt more like
being in love... I was kind of disappointed when I didn't dream
of the same person again, and I was also kind of disappointed
when the 'good feeling' wore off...

Is anyone else having more dreams than usual over the last two weeks?
Is it been caused by the winter solstice do you think?

I have had more nightmares than usual,
and 1 "waking dream" or "illusion" (will make a post about it later).

Not sure it has to do with winter solstice,
I blame my overheated room for the nightmares.
(I get nightmares easier if its too hot in the room,
or when I'm sleeping on my back).

Dont have an explanation for the waking dream thing,
though. That rarely happens to me.

dont think paying attention to your clothing would have made so much difference, would it

Anyway, I also speak languages in dreams I dont understand,
but with me its not really that strange of an experience, its as if in a
dream i could basicly say what I want and the people would know what
I am thinking anyway. (cant explain it much better) So sometimes I
can speak to monster-like creatures or fake foreign languages and
they would still understand me.

...a wild animal very small similar to a i don't remember it's name in English,it's that animal that uses an disgusting smell as a weapon,..

Do you mean a skunk ?

all of a sudden my field of vision(i was with my eyes closed) changes from a dream to,you know when you close you're eyes all you see is black,well instead of black i was seeing
extreme white ...

could have been beginning AP, most people experience AP in peripheral vision (360°) of sight (which can be very desorienting)...

... and i think i payed attention to the weird shaking incident all of a sudden it stopped and my vision went back to black.
was this a lucid dream?

was probably more than that, or at least the beginning of more gj !

P.S.: what book are you reading on AP ?

You could try sleeping late (if you can spare the time).
It is very easy to remember your dreams if you sleep in very
short periods (like: you sleep 8hrs, then wake, turn over, then sleep 10 mins - the 10 mins dream will be very easy to remember).
Its crucial that you dont awake completely between your sleeping periods:
dont talk to ppl, get up and drink stuff... Just turn on your other side, and sleep on.

This works perfect for me.
Watch out with repeating this btw, you will only remember the last 2 or 3 ...

Good Luck !

Dreams about school are pretty common
I havent been in primary school for over 10 years now,
and I still have dreams about it now and then.

Funny thing is: our schools dont have lockers
so that theme never occurs to me.

I rarely dream about higher education however, for some reason ...

Otherwise I think we would just have a "screen-saver"(so to speak) to look at or perhaps nothing at all.  IMHO.

Your dreams have a useful function for your brain,
dreams help you classify and re-evaluate data you picked up during
your waking state. They also help you deal with things like
stress and frustration. (more or less, for a decent explanation
you should look for a scientific book on dreams)

-> So just a "screensaver" wouldnt be good enough...

Anyhow, I dont think you need to worry too much about this sort of thing.
Things like angels and demons in your dreams can be just symbols, simplifications, or exaggerations of your image of someone (or your feelings towards them).

I don't completely agree.
When having an OOBE, the environment is a lot more like reality.
When having a lucid dream, then environment can be anything, and your power over it is a lot bigger.
In OOBE its more sort of an "observer" status ...

nice dream !

btw funny that you write your dreams in your book, while dreaming
must be very confusing at times !

I get some breathing problem things when I try to reach OOBE.
I think (not sure) that it is just hard letting go of your body and letting it operate on its own.
You want to be in control, and are afraid something will go wrong if you let it just be...
(may be bad explanation, but thats as far as i'm gonna get atm )

I'm no expert, but dreams are more symbolic than they are literal. Death usually symbolizes change, so maybe it just means there will be a new prime minister.

He said it already came to pass :p...

Thats an eerie dream !
Sure hope not all my intense dreams were forebodings :-S

Coping with stress,
re-evaluating the data you absorbed during the day,
fantasising, hypothesising, ...

Seems enough purpose to me already,
but there is probably more

It's often led me to a realization that some dream characters are "drones" (thoughtforms w/little real awareness), & others seem to have a consciousness of their own.I can usually tell the difference now in a LD.Sometimes I think that they could be "real" beings, while other times I think they must be parts of myself.I'm not sure.  

Whoa
I had the same realization ! (View Topic)
Maybe we are on to something ...

nice depiction !

I have this reoccurring dream (that has variations on it as well),
but the dream usually ends with me dieing, ...
This is kind of hard to explain,
but there are certain events in this dream that can vary according
to how you act yourself.
To put it in simple terms, usually the good guys die in my dream,
then I try it again another way, and the dream goes on a little further.
But I can sense if this is the case because then I get this feeling
that I 'failed the mission' or something.

So I have to do some repeating dreams again because I failed them...
At least that's what I make of it.

But I have had reoccurring dreams that didn't change as well,
so its not really a rule of thumb ...

Saying things and asking myself things doesnt really work for me.
I usually realize I am in a dream because certain aspects of a dream
just dont work within real-life physics. (Like opening a door you know
that leads to a room you know, but it ends up in the middle of a field).
There are subtle and not-so-subtle give-aways for this. If you just
stay semi alert, you can notice the fact you are dreaming pretty fast.

The problem with things like your bracelet is, the chances are that you
have a mental image of the bracelet that is pretty strong and alike the
real bracelet, and therefor it could be hard to differentiate between the
two...

Cheers

[remember]

I've talked before to an advanced-energy user, and he told me that his dreams feel more real to him than real life,
he's in a whole different realm there, its diff.

I also have dreams that seem to be real (not really "more" than real, just real enough to be true, so to speak),
although they occur in a somewhat different universe than the one we live in while we are awake.
It can be disappointing to wake up in the regular universe sometimes

Anyway, i can also feel pain in most dreams. Sometimes its "dulled" a little, sometimes its not...

Does sleeping quick, or short sleeping periods let you have more lucid dreams or remember them?

Yes, (this is also posted in other topics):
There seem to be more dreams because the short periods of sleep make you remember more dreams.
(The remembering is also facilitated by the fact that you are awake not long before and after the dream).
And there may in effect be more dreams because you wake up between them (so they get interrupted, and new ones can start).