Dreams with a Message
 

I had a dream last night with a very clear message, "You're doing something very wrong, now stop it."

I never remember my dreams, but this one is burned into my head. My subconscious knows how to get it's message across.

what is it that you're doing wrong?

In as few words as possible: I've been allowing my manipulative side more control over my actions than I'm comfortable with.

Kind of eerie how you picked such an apt user title for me.

I would describe the dream, but since other peoples' dreams are never interesting I'll spare you.

eerie lke a fortune cookie

Those types of dreams usually involve symbols. I've figured out some of my dreams but most of mine I don't remember.

My dreams are pretty straight forward, very little symbolism, usually someone/something in the dream just comes out and says it.

The other night I was hit and yelled at in a way that let me know what I was doing wrong in no uncertain terms. The dream was so intense that I woke up covered in sweat, with my heart racing, and sitting upright in bed. :nuts:

I remember perhaps one dream every 2-3 months.

There are three types of dreams. Lucid and two others I can't remember.

The first type is the most common. These are just usually dreams of daily events that will have a little different twist to it. These dreams usually don't mean anything. For example if you dream that you are sitting on your couch and a friend asks you to watch a movie with his grandma, that is usually this type of dream.

The second type are the weird ones. These are the dreams that make no sense but if you break it down, you can usually find out what it means or get at least a good guess. For example, you are senior in high school and you dream that you are waiting in line for a ride with four people from your school that you didn't really know. You get on the ride and you accelerate really fast and you wake up nauseous. This dream means that life is moving too fast for you and you wish you could have had the time to gotten to know people that you don't currently.

The third type is called a lucid dream. These are the ones that you realize that you are dreaming and you can control them. These will sometimes coincide with the second type of dream and you can figure their meanings. For example, if you got raped as a little girl but was traumatized to the point where you couldn't remember the face of the man. You dream of a car chasing you at night, the headlights are shining on you and you can't see who is in the car. You can't get away from the car but it never kills you, just follows, and this dream happens night after night after night. Then you have a lucid dream where you get the car to stop and you look into the car and see the face of the man who raped you.



I usually only remember my dreams when I wake up and go back to sleep.

I usually only recall dreams that have water in them. If I dream of water means I need to get up and pee. So I do.
It is my "clue" to wake up and take care of business...
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Dreams are just your subconsious 'defraging' the data from the recent past. It's just your brain putting everything in the compartment where it's meant to be.

Lucid dreams are the ones where you're interupted or disturbed into wakefulness during a dream - usually through external influences.

Sometimes there's a lot of symbolism in dreams, and they can be your subconscious' way of telling your conscious mind something you don't really want to know or accept.

My husband always dreams he's dying. He was doing that before we met, so no, it's not my fault! I think he just has too much stress and he feels things are out of control a lot.

I hear you actually want to die in dreams.

Like if you are falling or something in a manner that leads to death but you wake up at the last minute usually symbolizes a problem but when you actaully die in your dreams, it is suppose to symbolize that you are over that problem.

Hmmm...well he must have a lot of problems he solves. lol He's always dreaming of dying in all manner of ways!

I had Cellar dreams over the weekend. LJ, Bruce and Wolf all starred.

Although Bruce shared a space with Noel Edmonds (bearded British TV presenter) who was on the TV programme I watched directly before going to bed and Wolf was mixed up with a woman from Dawn of the Dead - again I watched before sleeping.

Last night I dreamt that I was being shot at. I could see the bullets coming at me. They were moving slowly enough that I was able to dodge out of the way at the last possible moment, sometimes I was able to evade completely, sometimes I was only wounded. There were many shots fired at me. I clearly remember seeing the flash then the round getting bigger and bigger coming right at me. It was scary and stressful. I finally raised my own weapon, a rifle, sighted along the barrel and set my aim point at the bridge of the nose of my attacker. I pulled the trigger and watched my round fly towards him. Right between the eyes! and I immediately woke up.

My heart was pounding. I wasn't scared or confused, but I was definitely wound up.

should I be concerned that my part was not described?

my dreams are retarded. i always find my self remembering the transitions of scenes afterwards. I never seem to notice it within the dream, but when i recall them, i'm always perplexed at how my mom's garage became the backdrop to a football game without my noticing, or how what looked like Leonard Nimoy was actually my sister or someshit.

Hopefully I was one of the women with the shotguns blasting the zombies to bits, rather than shambling around looking for brains ...

For the record:

I was at some sort of comedy event/ conference. There was a screen (like a whiteboard in school, but also like an LED scoreboard) with motivational quotes and classic comedy routines on it. LJ and I were manually amending it - adding comments and changing words to make it funnier. I was miserably aware that LJ was actually making it funnier, whereas my comments were of the "Yeah right!" variety.

It was only as I retired in shame that I realised we were at an almost exclusively black event and that our actions might not be appreciated..

Wolf was sat in an audience, but had a rifle (?) across her lap. She was wearing a half-face wolf mask, but so was everyone else in the row (to disguise the fact the row was mainly white people). I found it really funny and said, "Wolf dressed as a wolf! You should wear that to Forks!" She looked at me as if the only reason I wasn't dead was because she couldn't be arsed to move her gun.

Bruce didn't actually appear in "his" dream the next night. My ex had sneakily planned a foursome and included Bruce (as well as a character called Darren from a teen soap opera called Hollyoakes). X sent Bruce a text - ostensibly from me - and we were waiting to see if he'd take the bait.

Bruce always gets invited to the foursomes. Humpf.

[whiney c&w singer voice] I've been baited.... satiated .... oh when.. will I.. find true love? [whiney voice] :lol:

Has anyone ever tried the brainwave cd's? The lucid dream ones? i think they are called Brainwave mind voyages?
i heard about them the other day, just wondered if anyone had ever listened to them? tried them out?
Does it work?
Some guy friends of mine said that when they tried them a couple of weeks ago they had interesting dreams but from their descriptions i couldn't really tell if they were full of shit or not. Plus, i was a little tipsy and i'm not sure i really listened to what they were saying to me so, anyone know?

OMG. I had the worst dream monday night. I dreamt that a huge dragon was sitting on my chest and if I made one tiny move, he was gonna flambe my ass. A woman's voice kept saying, "don't move east to west, move up and down!" but I tried that and the dragon felt my every move and wouldn't let me go. when I woke up, I was all sweaty. it sucked.

Would be a very good dream to dream of a dragon 'cept that's it's sitting on your chest.

my girlfriend was away in india for 6 weeks recently. i had a dream that a snake bit her and she died, i was very upset and worried. the next night i had another dream where i saw a snake. the night after, a dream where a big mo fo snake swallowed me whole.
it was at this point i asked some friends the meaning of snakes in a dream, i was told by 2 friends that snakes were a female symbol, possibley meaning that a woman would harm my relationship with my gf.
this worried me because my gf was 1000's of km's away and i was going camping with a group of girls the next week, alone, on a remote beach. lucky for me the dream turned out to be a more literal message

i ran over one snake with my car, saw 2 more on the 10km walk to the beach and stop another friend from almost stepping on one.

I learned something kind of shocking today. I have a feeling that I'm going to have a weird-ass dream tonight.

Last night I dreamed of a schoolfriend I haven't seen in over 20 years. She was backing out of a picnic we'd arranged, but gave me some money for my Mum to cover the cost of the wasted food. I was trying to sneak it into the toilets so I could skim some off the top before my Mum saw it.

Quite despicable, but I know what I was dreaming about.

I was ill at the end of last week and didn't come to work. I felt horribly guilty about it (because I suspect I was capable of working on Friday). The girl in my dream always said she was coming to parties IRL and backed out at the last minute, so she was a symbol of the fact I felt I'd let my team down.

On my last working day I borrowed some money from the snack box change. I fully intended to pay it back and left an IOU to that effect. It was the day before payday and frankly I was tired of being poor. When I was reviewing my dream in the bath this morning it reminded me to get some change on the way in...