This was pretty weird

[KillahBee]

So I just woke up from a really really "bad" dream. Same type of dream I have had since I was a child (although very infrequently) with the same theme - me running around lost trying to find something or get somewhere and a million obstacles in the way (yeah, they don't get much more blatant than that, have at it junior psychoanalysts). This time I was in some sort of a sports arena long after it closed and couldn't find my family/jacket/cell phone/will call/exits, etc. Anyway, this one was pretty intense (I've been having some pretty vivid dreams since I've been taking pain meds) and it was getting more and more so as it went on for what seemed like forever. Right when it seemed at its peak, I recall thinking to myself (which is a weird concept on its own while dreaming) with a different "mind" than the one dreaming, "It's just a dream, you can end it anytime by waking yourself up". Then the next second I made myself wake up.

This has never happened before. It's life my subconscious and conscious were completely separate and paying attention to each other. I've enver actually had that much control (or the illusion of control) while dreaming before. I usually just wake up and don't recall the exact moment I woke up. Or I recall thinking at some point that it's a dream but could never pin point when I thought it and never had such control over it.

Odd.....

 

[pintoca]

happens to me all the time, I mean, this "knowing it's a dream" and actually using it agains the foes in my dreams a s weapon of sorts "Back off or I'll just wake up and you'll be fucked up for good"

 

[KillahBee]

Yeah, I figure on almighty EF where everyone is perfect most responses here will be "I do it all the time".

 

[pintoca]

Yeah, I figure on almighty EF where everyone is perfect most responses here will be "I do it all the time".

Beotch, I mean it.

Have I told you about my footandahalf long e-cawk? and my 30'' e-guns? (hard to shop for clothes when your biceps are bigger than your quads)

 

[KillahBee]

I know you do, maing. It's just funny cause that's exactly what I was thinking as I typed it - "now everyone will join in and talk about themselves and use this as an oppty to try and prove some e-self worth".

not you, maing. you're pretty solid from what I know

(wait, I didn't mean your cak, so don't go there)

 

[heatherrae]

Well, I can't say that has happened to me recently, but it happened more when I was a child. I would realize it was a nightmare and would either direct the dream to make it funny or wake myself up.

My guess is you will get lots of "I do it all the time" responses, too, but not because "everyone is perfect" but because it is not all that uncommon, and you have a big sample of people on here to respond.

 

[KillahBee]

Well, I can't say that has happened to me recently, but it happened more when I was a child. I would realize it was a nightmare and would either direct the dream to make it funny or wake myself up.

My guess is you will get lots of "I do it all the time" responses, too, but not because "everyone is perfect" but because it is not all that uncommon, and you have a big sample of people on here to respond.

I would NEVER use EF as a sample. These are not random people across the world that came together in one place totally by chance. Most people here share very similar interests, lifestyles, and traits (this is why we see the same behaviors over and over and over and over again). Might as well go into a Black Panthers meeting and use that as a sample.

But anyway, perhaps it is more comon than I thought. Either way, EF is the wrong place to try and have an interesting convo. My bad. I forgot.

 

[Smurfy]

Perhaps you were close to waking or "semi-asleep" and your conscious mind started to take over while still in the dream. That does seem like it would be weird. Someone who may know something about this would be JeepBoarderMohawkDude, he works at a Sleep Study clinic or some such place.

 

[mustang_00]

i keep having dreams about my ex. I rarely sleep because of it, but it makes for good fuel in the gym.

 

[Scotsman]

Sounds like in Braveheart when he's dreaming of his lady in the forest.

As for me I can relate to the theme of a struggle of some sort. But not the control factor, I usually wake up around the most intense part and sometimes takes a bit to realize I've been dreaming.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[Gambino]

your mind is slowly slipping away ala howard hughes style
in a few yrs you will be incapacitated and regulated to a rubber walled room.
get that nanni while you are still sane bor

 

[KillahBee]

your mind is slowly slipping away ala howard hughes style
in a few yrs you will be incapacitated and regulated to a rubber walled room.
get that nanni while you are still sane bor

shiyat, I was afraid of this.

brb

 

[justinjones1963]

In my early teens I started meditating before bed in order to control my dreams. I've had recurrent dreams over time but I have come to the point where I can control the dreams and I can tell myself it is a dream and force myself to wake up.

When I was a teen I would have vivid dreams of flying yet I would stumble in the dream and not be able to fly as fast or as high as I wanted to. Everynight I would force myself to think of having total control over the flight process and over time I could control it.

 

[Sub-Zero]

So I just woke up from a really really "bad" dream. Same type of dream I have had since I was a child (although very infrequently) with the same theme - me running around lost trying to find something or get somewhere and a million obstacles in the way (yeah, they don't get much more blatant than that, have at it junior psychoanalysts). This time I was in some sort of a sports arena long after it closed and couldn't find my family/jacket/cell phone/will call/exits, etc. Anyway, this one was pretty intense (I've been having some pretty vivid dreams since I've been taking pain meds) and it was getting more and more so as it went on for what seemed like forever. Right when it seemed at its peak, I recall thinking to myself (which is a weird concept on its own while dreaming) with a different "mind" than the one dreaming, "It's just a dream, you can end it anytime by waking yourself up". Then the next second I made myself wake up.

This has never happened before. It's life my subconscious and conscious were completely separate and paying attention to each other. I've enver actually had that much control (or the illusion of control) while dreaming before. I usually just wake up and don't recall the exact moment I woke up. Or I recall thinking at some point that it's a dream but could never pin point when I thought it and never had such control over it.

Odd.....

hows the back

 

[bloodinbloodout]

I noticed that in college when I occassionally took a bit of oxycontin that I would have what they call "heroin" dreams. Very intense and crazy...why is that?

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

So I just woke up from a really really "bad" dream. Same type of dream I have had since I was a child (although very infrequently) with the same theme - me running around lost trying to find something or get somewhere and a million obstacles in the way (yeah, they don't get much more blatant than that, have at it junior psychoanalysts). This time I was in some sort of a sports arena long after it closed and couldn't find my family/jacket/cell phone/will call/exits, etc. Anyway, this one was pretty intense (I've been having some pretty vivid dreams since I've been taking pain meds) and it was getting more and more so as it went on for what seemed like forever. Right when it seemed at its peak, I recall thinking to myself (which is a weird concept on its own while dreaming) with a different "mind" than the one dreaming, "It's just a dream, you can end it anytime by waking yourself up". Then the next second I made myself wake up.

This has never happened before. It's life my subconscious and conscious were completely separate and paying attention to each other. I've enver actually had that much control (or the illusion of control) while dreaming before. I usually just wake up and don't recall the exact moment I woke up. Or I recall thinking at some point that it's a dream but could never pin point when I thought it and never had such control over it.

Odd.....

You be fuckd up, son.







j/k but seriously I've read that a cooler room temperature during sleep makes one more prone to having a nightmare....vs just a regular dream.

 

[justinjones1963]

Take some GABA with the meds...this will open your dreams to a totaly new level