I've been keeping a dream journal a few weeks. I've come to some startling conclusions! I most definately have a dream 'home' I work out of. I seem to take instructions in some dreams. And If I don't immediately write things down they fade out, leaving only a general sense of what what on (good bad, up , down, energy work or not). A dream journal also helps me go Lucid [;)]
Now i have a pda and will start writing my dreams!
Lets see if i can go Lucid!
I still wanna hear your storys![:)]
I really should start up a dream journal, I already started one for obes but since I've started having those my dreams are becoming more meaningful it seems. They are not as abstract as they were before. I have had 2 definate lucid dreams also since I started to have obes.
I would say that my dreams now are definately having an effect on my waking life. I can recognise messages and lessons. Maybe they were always there but the obe thing has made me more focused in the dreams?...not sure, but it's nice anyway. I haven't had any nasty dreams, infact have not had a nightmare for years...is this normal?
Last nights dream was a real epic movie length experience. I won't go into details as it was very personal but will say it had a very positve effect on me, like so many recently. I also noticed in this dream it was extremely vivid at times...I could make out intricate details which were always fuzzy before. I didn't become lucid as such but it was very memorable...
Anyway, happy dreaming [:)]
Dave
Yeah, sometimes i have those dreams too. They really make me different during that day...
Very vivid and emotional, these kind of dreams can really make me feel better!
Dreams hold a great deal of importance for me, I would say almost as much importance as waking life.
I have been keeping a dream diary for quite some time now, I really recommend this as it is an excellent method for personal reflection and recording personal imagery and symbols, also the more you use it the better the dream recall becomes.
The essence of each of my dreams can stay with me for days and often for longer depending on it's impact and power.
I don't always understand every dream I have, but for the majority I intuitively understand the symbolic and overall meaning that I feel is trying to be presented by the 'unconscious/higher self'.
Here is an extract from my dream of Wednesday 1st September, excuse the un-paragraphed nature of the text but this is my preferred method of taken notes and recording dreams:
"I am in the large garden of a stately home, I see a man dressed in dark ornate armour riding a horse at speed across the garden, he is holding a long spear similar to a jousting pole, he makes the spear catch light as he rushes past a flaming torch, at the other end of the garden is a wall in which there is a large elaborately carved oak door, tied to this door is a man wearing only fine white linen undergarments, the horse rider gallops at break neck speed at the door and thrusts the spear into the man and door completely destroying both, the rider is then taken roughly and tied by another group of similar looking men in dark armour, they appear to be hanging him from a large monkey puzzle tree, the sound as he screams are very guttural and horrific and echo all over the grounds of the stately home, the other armour clad men lower the hung man to the ground, as he touches the ground a wild Rhinoceros stampedes through the garden, people run to take cover, I protect myself by leaping into a gothic arch-like alcove, here I am joined by a young child, the toys of the child lay on each of the shelves of the arch, the Rhinoceros stands on it's back legs like a human and tries to reach the toys, I realise it is not as threatening as I first presumed but actually quite harmless and innocent, if a bit clumsy!"
It probably sounds odd to another reader but in a strange way part of it made sense at an emotional level in the context of the whole dream, it also provided further symbols that I can study and add to my growing symbol log.
Rastus, I often have a dream home, building or location my dreams take place or start off in, these locations often crop up time and time again in my dreams, many of these locations involve mutated or fused landscapes, and merged buildings, towns and cities that I am already familiar with.
Rastus, I used to have a dream island which cropped up many times in my dreams, no dream home though.
osprey1_5, Ive noticed the same about nightmares, but its since i began having lucid dreams that ive never had any nightmares. Even when ive had dreams that should of scared me ive always been in the hero frame of mind and been the person to go explore in the darkness fearlessly.
Kazbadan, I think for me dreams are an escape from reality more than anything. Sure ive had many dreams which have affected me and even taught me things about myself, and theres always a good feeling after a good dream that can stay with you for days. Its lucid dreams that have the greatest affect on me, that feeling you get afterwards walking through the street when just hours ago you were flying above it, running up walls etc. Its probebly just the feeling of true freedom, the fact that you can do basically anything... Id say they probebly have a greater affect on me than i realise.
>RooJ
Interesting storys!
Rooj, what about learning obe? You speak on flying on the streets,etc,etc but if you learn obe your pleasure will be doubling (i suppose, since i never obed before[:(]).
Dreams are very important as i said, but sometimes they are negative. In these days i am almost sick (this stupid weather: rain, sun, cold and heat at the same time [:(!]) and because of that my sleep and my dreams are bad. In the morning i will wake up very tired. Its always like that when i am sick: my dreams + sleep are very,very bad.
But i still love dreaming![:)]
dreams are really important to me, becasue many a time they predict a future event. Ive been keeping a dream journal since.. 7th grade about and after each entry i write what i believe it means and then later on i go through it an see whether i was correct.
One example was in 7th grade there were 2 people (im changing their names to andrew and stacy). I had a crush on andrew but i didnt talk to him much and stacy was andrews best friend but we were enemies at the time. So one night i had this dream that i was walking home with stacy and andrew and when we got to this hill leading to my house it started to pour out. I remember andrew had been on my left and stacy on my right, i even remember what they were wearing. I also noted that none of us had backpacks on.
So i didnt think much of this until this year. I became good friends with andrew and stacy and we had been walking home to my house after school. It was a nice day so my mom drove by and we put our bags in the car and walked the rest of the way since it was so sunny out.
But, just as it was in the dream, the second we got to the hill, the skys opened up and it started to pour really hard--exactly how it was in the dream! plus everyones clothes and positions were the exact same as i had seen it 2 years earlier.
There have been many other occasions wehre i have had a dream and it later came true, but that was my favorite one...so yes i believe dreams are really important :D
Dreams are the best part of living in a physical body. I can have fun playing games or talking to friends while awake, but that cant compare to jumping over trees, flying, fighting demons, etc.
I take my "more than just a dream" dreams quite seriously.
Most of my dreams are ridiculous, silly things. I woke myself and my husband up the other night by shouting "potatoes" in the middle of a dream.
However, I've had some amazing dreams, not least one about the date of my own death. Whilst I wouldn't want it to turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy, I half expect it to be correct.
I adore dreaming. If I stopped dreaming, I'd be inconsolable.
Hi ho.
Sarah
beavis, are you a lucid dreamer?
Jumping over trees and flying are withouth doubt very nice things to do! What about safe sex? Hmmm..!![:P]
How does dreams afect your life? I am speaking only about dreams and other oniric happenings, like hyonogogic hallucinations (i am not speaking about the sleep act itself).
Do you think that they are important for you? Is it possible that they afect your physical and emotional life? How? Do you like it? etc,etc
I am wondering if i am the only person thinking that dreams are a small, but important part of its life. The most people that i know dont remember dreams or, when they remember, they seem to do not give any importance at all. Even worst, when i speak about dreams to my friends (there are a few exceptions) they see me like a crazy. They think that i am loosing my time.
Now, about how dreams afect my life. To me, the most important aspect of dreams its the feeling that they leave into me during the day and the beautys that i see during the night.
Let me explain better. At 2 nights ago i had a very nice dream about beautiful things happening to me. During the night i felt good because of that dream and my sleep was calm.
When i wake up, and during that day, i would remember me of the strange and beautiful places that i visited during my dream and i would feel better. If i was tired or upset with anything, i just would think on my dream and imediatly i would have almost all the sensations that i had while dreaming (i don t need to make any effort at all to recall the good feelings). Its strange that if i have a dream, its sensations will only be completly experienced during that day. In the next day i must make some effort to recall the sensations from that dream (but not from the dreams of that same day).
Dreams are good to me to see and experience nice sensations and discover strange and beautiful places thati would never be able to imagine just with my mind. I see nice things and many times i have very good sensations and feelings that i never felt in my awaken life.
This is one of the most important things that dreams do in my life. The other its the warnings. Many times dreams will warn me about something (like eating less sugar food).
In other times dreams will teach me something. When i was learning how to drive i had dreams that would make me wake up with the strong sensation that i knew better how to dreive. And i did and i woulf feel more confident when driving!
So, this are some important things that dreams do for me.
What about you?
Tell us your storys.
-Kazbadan-