I recently had a dream in which I was shown/told something which I overwhelmingly felt at the time was an important and vital truth. Something like an "answer to life, the universe and everything".
The problem and resultant frustration I experience because of it now is that I cannot, for the life of me, remember what this revelation was!
:roll:
Don't you just hate that?!! I've had that happen loads of times. What is most aggrevating is that through out the day little tiny hints will pop into my mind, yet I still can't quite "grasp" it all...
Ah well, at least we're dreaming. :grin:
Nay
Nay
It is very frustrating indeed. I even had the thought, during the semi-lucid dream, that this is really good stuff! I should be writing this stuff down! :)
Ah well. :smile:
My most frustrating dreams!
I hate them so much. At the time, I understand, I am so empowered by the knowledge, it astounds me, yet at the same time, it is so damn obvious.
Then I wake up. And I can't quite grasp it, as Nay says.
It's as if it's something that is just out of reach... on purpose.
:brickwall:
Sarah
PS However, have you ever "got" the dream in its entirety? I've done it with something that during the dream was the most hilarious thing I've ever heard and I laughed like a hyena - it was literally the funniest thing I'd come across. I was convinced it was just that and would make the world laugh their socks off. When I awoke, I actually remembered the "joke". It wasn't even a joke. It made no sense, wasn't funny and I wondered why I spent an hour killing myself laughing and I even woke up with tears rolling down my cheeks :confused:
What's that all about?????
It did astound me, the simplicity of it! I remember it being SOOO obvious. It made so much sense it hurt.
I remember in the dream I was actually in orbit around a massive planet. A gas giant I suppose. This revelation was being shown to me, not told in words.
Why is it out of reach? Why on purpose? Why is my waking mind not ready for this knowledge!
:brickwall:
Sarah, I get what you are saying about something being funny in a dream and when you wake up, its just .... not funny anymore. I have also had lucid dreams where something made complete sense in the lucid dream, and then, when I wake up, it made no sense at all. It must be the same kind of thing. Funny vs not funny. Logic vs Illogic. I suppose it casts doubt on my lucidity in the dream (or maybe in the waking moment :roll: ), but it is interesting non the less.
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)
One of the great things about dreaming is that you don't have to remember them for you to get anything out of it. So even though you can not fully remember what happened in the dream or what was said, the information is in there and is being processed.
So when I get dreams like that I just let it happen, think about the dream in general afterwards, and it tends to help.
Quote from: cainam_nazierOne of the great things about dreaming is that you don't have to remember them for you to get anything out of it. So even though you can not fully remember what happened in the dream or what was said, the information is in there and is being processed.
So when I get dreams like that I just let it happen, think about the dream in general afterwards, and it tends to help.
I was thinking the same thing this morning because I had another on of those .."now, what was that?..." moments! I think your right! :grin:
Nay