|
How real are your dreams? And how real can halluciations be? (pg. 2)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| Jake Benson |
| quote: | Originally posted by netroM
"I hardly, if ever, dream."
Shouldn't it be: "I hardly, if ever, remember my dreams." ?
Everyone dreams, don't they? It's just that they don't remember them? :conf: |
I think you are correct. |
|
|
| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by netroM
"I hardly, if ever, dream."
Shouldn't it be: "I hardly, if ever, remember my dreams." ?
Everyone dreams, don't they? It's just that they don't remember them? :conf: |
[Lira]But if you dream and never, outside of the dream, remember or consciously know that you dreamt, did you really dream at all in that case? I mean, how can you know? [/Lira] |
|
|
| Joss Weatherby |
I have very lucid dreams... Sometimes lasting the course of many many hours of recognizable time, sometimes involving sleeping inside of my dream (no dreams within dreams though). I do not find myself totally aware that it is a dream, nor do I have the ability to totally control my actions in them, but I do not feel as an outsider to the happenings while dreaming.
I recently had a dream that last at least 36 hours and it was really interesting because it took place after I had awaken once in the morning and fallen back asleep. I checked my clock before and after the dream and only a span of 15 real minutes had past, but to my brain it felt like I had been going for 36 hours. It was pretty intense. :wtf:
I rarely if ever use drugs besides alcohol and even then I do not take substances that would cause hallucinations because I fear that I would rather live in the dream than the real.
When I have hallucinated due to fever or other distress to my mental faculties they are often super realistic. I remember once as a child having a horrible fever, I think due to chicken pox, and seeing GI Joe toys walking around on my bed and conversing with each other and talking to me, or at least trying to talk to me. Was very odd. Also when I have a fever my dreams are more continuous, often starting where they stopped when I fall back asleep after waking. The dreams are very annoying, often involving an impossible task that I must figure out and solve, even when awake between sleep my mind continues to try and solve this impossible problem. Its very frustrating! |
|
|
| Ian |
| lucid dreaming comes with the territory of taking anti-depressants. Some of them are awesome, others are the complete opposite but most are remembered. |
|
|
| Voci |
Interesting thread.
Actually I dreamed about someone a while ago that I hadn't seen for over a year.
In the dream, I fell in love (CHEESY!) with this person, like really heavily, and I dreamt that we did certain stuff (lawl). It feelt 100% real in the dream, I didn't know it was fake.
However,the clue is ... after I woke up, and all day long after... I still felt "in love" with that person, just because of that dream.
So feelings that are not 100% controlable, like, falling in love, which is actually a reaction with hormones, is put out during a dream. A chemical reaction in the physical body because of something fake. Really strange and highly awkward.
So apparantly the brain, during the dream, thinks its real and produces hormones accordingly, which are still in your body if you wake up. |
|
|
| Teezdalien |
I've had some pretty whack hallucinations although many of them are quite difficult to describe in words.
One time I was dancing in a club when I saw a locomotive tear across the stage right to left, then the DJ's decks had roast chickens turning around on them. :stongue: |
|
|
| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Teezdalien
I've had some pretty whack hallucinations although many of them are quite difficult to describe in words.
One time I was dancing in a club when I saw a locomotive tear across the stage right to left, then the DJ's decks had roast chickens turning around on them. :stongue: |
:stongue: :stongue: :stongue:
This is why I stopped tripping in clubs. LMFAO. |
|
|
| Teezdalien |
It's funny though, I've only really experienced drug induced hallucinations and always am aware that I'm hallucinating. I'll never go out in public on mushrooms again, it was the closest I've felt to being completely insane and wasn't a good experience, but I have had good mushy trips alone at home. This was quite a few years back and it's not something I do though these days.
Like PKC, I rarely remember my dreams but when I do they are quite vivid and feel meaningful but I can never seem to put my finger on the meaning, if that makes sense. |
|
|
| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Teezdalien
It's funny though, I've only really experienced drug induced hallucinations and always am aware that I'm hallucinating. I'll never go out in public on mushrooms again, it was the closest I've felt to being completely insane and wasn't a good experience, but I have had good mushy trips alone at home. This was quite a few years back and it's not something I do though these days.
Like PKC, I rarely remember my dreams but when I do they are quite vivid and feel meaningful but I can never seem to put my finger on the meaning, if that makes sense. |
That's weird, I've never had problems with mushrooms, and wandering around. I think :nervous:
Acid is waaaaay different though.
I've never tripped on either by myself though. I'd probably go nuts, lol. |
|
|
| Teezdalien |
I guess everyone's different. I always enjoyed tripping on my own, people seem to irritate me much more if I'm around others.
 |
|
|
| Esiotrat |
- I feel I'm free to do what I want to do when I'm dreaming.
- I was able to foresee future events in a dream at least once
- Lira, you think way too much about pointless stuff!
^^^ All 3 apply.
My dreams are almost always lucid. I am aware that I'm dreaming and have complete control over my actions and how I want the dream to unfold (for the most part). I can also decide to wake up if gets scary.
Interesting factoid: I am never walking in my dreams, but rather flying or swimming (and breathing under water). That's my favorite part.
Interesting factoid #2: I dream in 3 languages.
I was able to foresee the future in my dreams a few times, usually negative - the death of my (very young and healthy at the time) uncle - was one of them. I also get very strange presentiments (when I'm awake) when something bad is going to happen. And it usually happens. I hate it because I feel inexplicably depressed and uneasy for days, then I dream about it, and then it happens.. this very rarely occurs but when it does it haunts me for days.
I hallucinated numerous times due to sleep deprivation, I was aware of course that it was all in my head.
The only drug-induced hallucination I experienced was when I consumed a very small amount of mushrooms, that was the first and last time. I was at my friend's house, we turned off the light and started seeing colored travelling spots everyyyywhere, the walls were melting also. And we started being exceedingly philosophical about everything (something that we are anyway but I wish we wrote everything down).
I was also aware that none of the things I saw were real.
In conclusion I never really lose myself in these things, I am usually aware of what's going on, which saved me many a bad-trip.
Oh and I am a genius when I'm dreaming. I think I should start writing my dreams down, they could be worth something some day. ^^
And then there are times where I'm day-dreaming...it's a lot of thinking, just that, and nothing more. I don't consider outcomes, I don't process information; I just think. |
|
|
| Esiotrat |
| Sorry, that was unnecessarily long. >.> |
|
|
|
|
