I'm not sure. What does fighting hordes of alien invaders on a space station mean? Bloody, horrible, entrails all over everything violence, too.

Woah this sounds great. After all, the author of 'THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF BIRDS TAROT' and the epic 'THE MAGIC OF ANGELS' must surely have some real, valid and insightful commentary about dreams.

Molavian: I'm not sure. What does fighting hordes of alien invaders on a space station mean? Bloody, horrible, entrails all over everything violence, too.

Is there a giant 80 foot satellite dish coming out of your anus?

Those reasons for having those kinds of dreams listed in TFA do not match my reasons for having those types of dreams at all. More succinctly, the human mind is still beyond our comprehension.

/ or maybe I'm the only one
// doubt it

What does it mean if you don't dream?

Last night I had the weirdest dream that all the cell phone/cable/internet/electricity providers were all going to stop working and mass pandemonium was going to ensue. I was the only one that knew it was going to happen and I had all the company g-men like people after me trying to kill me. Apparently all of these services are meant to keep the masses subversive.

/weird

knightofargh: What does it mean if you don't dream?

You're a really deep sleeper

Oldiron_79: Molavian: I'm not sure. What does fighting hordes of alien invaders on a space station mean? Bloody, horrible, entrails all over everything violence, too.

Is there a giant 80 foot satellite dish coming out of your anus?

Only when I want good reception.

... Buttmaid

TFA totally worth reading just for that.

knightofargh: What does it mean if you don't dream?

You drink too much.

knightofargh: What does it mean if you don't dream?

That's the basis for my new book, Do Humans Dream of Living Sheep?

Hang on, I'm getting a phone call from Ridley Scott.

knightofargh: What does it mean if you don't dream?

I think (but don't exactly recall) that no matter what, you experience dreaming, you just don't always remember it.

knightofargh: What does it mean if you don't dream?

Probably that you're not sleeping well and possibly have sleep apnea.

I dream of being alone in the dark, listening to a monster breathe.

RexTalionis: I also have a dream where I'm naked and covered in blood, jumping from tree to tree in some ancient forest and I find a deer walking under the tree, so I jumped down on it, broke its spine and started eating the fresh kill.

In some states that's just a weekday.

Nods approvingly

Happy Hours: oh and flying dreams. Generally I'm the only one in the world who has the ability to somehow just will myself to defy gravity.

I don't aim for it, but I lucid dream every now and then. It never fails in those dreams that I fly or parkour to get around.
The most recent (non-lucid dream) I had was me and two random rappers driving around in a beat up truck and making random stops for shiat. Then we stopped at some weird building and one of the guys got out and went off for about two minutes. The driver told me to go see what had happened and when I went looking I encountered him in the middle of a gunfight. So I ran back, jumped in the truck, and we barely got away (as I was closing the door on the way in, a guy reached in to grab me and was shot in the face by the driver, after that I slammed the door and we drove off). Then I woke up.

m2313: knightofargh: What does it mean if you don't dream?

I think (but don't exactly recall) that no matter what, you experience dreaming, you just don't always remember it.

This.

dragonchild: RexTalionis: I also have a dream where I'm naked and covered in blood, jumping from tree to tree in some ancient forest and I find a deer walking under the tree, so I jumped down on it, broke its spine and started eating the fresh kill.

In some states that's just a weekday.

Or sometimes it means you're Ted Nugent.

That's a bunch of green arrows...

I've always assumed that I just sleep like I'm in a coma. Seriously, I don't dream or at least don't remember the damn things.

I also get hit in the head a lot, so that might explain the memory loss.

My dreams are like David Lynch films, only more weird and less coherent. I also almost never dream of familiar places or real people.

If they are trying to tell me anything, it's "Chaos Reigns! Nothing and no one looks right! Watch out for the bear-tiger! It's made of cake!"

Meh. I usually don't recall my dreams, but when I do they're usually mundane crap.

Although several times a year I have one of a few recurring and quite detailed ones.

My dreams have never been all that hard to interpret.

In junior high I had a recurring dream of finding my family and friends frozen in the basment of my school. I was depressed then, and felt isolated from everyone I cared about, and school was a large part of the problem.

Right before graduating high school, and again right before graduating from college I had recurring dreams of flying, but not being able to get back down. Getting out into the real world was freeing, but a little scary too.

When I was seeking help for depression, and my psychologist was trying to convince me I wouldn't risk changing my core personality drastically by taking medication I kept dreaming about everyone I knew having turned into zombies, and trying to make me one too.

After graduating college, and before finding a job I kept dreaming I was a super hero whose powers never worked at a critical moment, which was obviously anxiety over my degree being ultimately useless. I was working at a gas station at the time.

Of course I've had much more nonsensical dreams that have defied easy interpretation, but I figure the really important ones repeat themselves, and the one with me being paid to kill celebrity chefs by dropping wedding cakes on them only happened once.

On one hand, there is science to dream images. On the other hand, there's this lady.

You know who you should talk to about interpreting dreams? A psychologist.

The symbolism is individual and while based on cultural upbringing most of it's not something that has easy book definitions. We get flying, being chased, showing up naked for a test; but more specific the things get the less likely that it can be generalized for everyone.

But what do I know, I'm just an illiterate farker.

Dreams can definitely help you, and that's what they're for, although it doesn't always seem that way.

CSB: I was divorced from my first husband, and was saying bad things about him around our children. I had a dream that I was on the first floor, and my kids were on the second. There were long curtains to the left that stretched from the first floor carpet to the ceiling of the second floor. All of a sudden, these curtains caught on fire at the bottom, and the fire was rushing up the curtains and toward our children. Of course, I was terrified that they would be hurt.

When I woke up, I eventually figured out that the message was "The way you're expressing your anger toward your ex-husband around your children is going to seriously harm them." I stopped doing that immediately, and all of our lives improved.

Two nights ago I dreamed that I went to a Foo Fighters concert. The singer wasn't Dave Grohl, couldn't sing, and couldn't play the guitar. I was pissed off and left. That afternoon, I was listening to the radio and a 30 minute block of Foo Fighters songs came on.

I had a dream just last night that my wife and I were visiting my parents when they still lived in the house I grew up in. We were getting ready to leave, and for whatever reason I had thought we parked in the garage - but our car wasn't in there, so I had to go to the front yard to see if we parked on the curb. For whatever reason, I was naked and it was dark out, so I crouch-walked/crawled to avoid being seen by passing traffic. Our car wasn't there, so I went back to the garage to tell my wife I didn't know where the car was.

I sometimes have dreams about urinating, and then wake up and have to go to the bathroom. Around a year ago, I dreamed that I was urinating into the refrigerator and realized in the dream that I shouldn't be doing that, and attempted to wipe of the food containers in the fridge before actually waking up.

A few months ago I woke up and told my wife about a dream I had just had, and then went back to sleep after that. Or so I had thought. Apparently I had dreamed that too, so it was a dream within a dream (and I hadn't watched Inception recently).

The strangest though, was my smoking rabbit dream. I was on the patch to quit smoking and dreamed I was in my childhood neighborhood. One of the kids I grew up (and had sometimes picked on) with was still young in the dream, delivering newspapers. He told me to come into one of the houses on my street, and inside there was a rabbit on a kitchen table, scooting across the table on his back while smoking a cigarette. He had a slice of bread on his stomach and butter knives in his front paws. When I saw that, I went out and told someone else - some guy working on the phone lines, who had sometimes picked on me.

I like having really messed up dreams, truthfully. If a dream is vivid enough, I'll remember it years or even decades later.

Nurglitch: I dream of being alone in the dark, listening to a monster breathe.

Don't worry, you're not alone. Everyone feels that way around your mom.

My recurring dream involves being in an elevator that's crashing. Occasionally it hits the ground, but usually I wake up before that happens.

Last night I dreamt that the man I've had a school-girl crush on for about a decade told me that I missed out on a relationship with him because I spent too much time talking about American Idol. Highly disturbing.

In my dreams, I'm no mere Viking; I am Dragonborn.

/after 48 straight hours of playing upon release, I fell asleep, and in my dream I had all the shouts I had memorized. Was in the house with my friend and I shouted FUS RO DA at the wall and blew that side of the house off (with perfectly rendered physics). Dad came downstairs and told me to not do that again

//csb

QUESTION:

When you guys have flying dreams, do you also get that weird sensation in the middle of your back at takeoff as if you were being pulled upward? Do you need to get a running start?

Just wondering...

The Irresponsible Captain: We get flying, being chased, showing up naked for a test;

Yeah, but what does it mean when I'm chased naked down the aisle of a plane in flight, interrupting my STD testing?

m2313: Happy Hours: oh and flying dreams. Generally I'm the only one in the world who has the ability to somehow just will myself to defy gravity.

I don't aim for it, but I lucid dream every now and then. It never fails in those dreams that I fly or parkour to get around.
The most recent (non-lucid dream) I had was me and two random rappers driving around in a beat up truck and making random stops for shiat. Then we stopped at some weird building and one of the guys got out and went off for about two minutes. The driver told me to go see what had happened and when I went looking I encountered him in the middle of a gunfight. So I ran back, jumped in the truck, and we barely got away (as I was closing the door on the way in, a guy reached in to grab me and was shot in the face by the driver, after that I slammed the door and we drove off). Then I woke up.

If you can train yourself, Lucid Dreaming is awesome. You can do anything, be anything... like Neo in the matrix, you can alter reality as you see fit. I first did it in a standard "chase" dream. I realized that it had to be a dream, and instead of waking up I ALSO realized that in a dream I can freely modify anything. I destroyed my pursuer with a energy beam from my hand.I then played with flying and some other stuff before I woke up. Ever since then I have been able to Lucid Dream whenever I want.

Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em . It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man.

Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it.

The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there.

And then I woke up...

The Smails Kid: Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em . It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man.

Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it.

The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there.

And then I woke up...

I had a dream last night about you my friend
I had a dream I wanted to sleep next to plastic
I had a dream I wanted to lick your knees
I had a dream - it was about nothing

What if you dream you're an accountant?

/only a viking on weekends.

Is it a dream where you see yourself standing on a pyramid in sort of Sun God robes, with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

/Why am I the only person who has that dream?

//ABSOLUTELY not obscure...but I can't believe I'm the first.

washington-babylon: m2313: Happy Hours: oh and flying dreams. Generally I'm the only one in the world who has the ability to somehow just will myself to defy gravity.

I don't aim for it, but I lucid dream every now and then. It never fails in those dreams that I fly or parkour to get around.
The most recent (non-lucid dream) I had was me and two random rappers driving around in a beat up truck and making random stops for shiat. Then we stopped at some weird building and one of the guys got out and went off for about two minutes. The driver told me to go see what had happened and when I went looking I encountered him in the middle of a gunfight. So I ran back, jumped in the truck, and we barely got away (as I was closing the door on the way in, a guy reached in to grab me and was shot in the face by the driver, after that I slammed the door and we drove off). Then I woke up.

If you can train yourself, Lucid Dreaming is awesome. You can do anything, be anything... like Neo in the matrix, you can alter reality as you see fit. I first did it in a standard "chase" dream. I realized that it had to be a dream, and instead of waking up I ALSO realized that in a dream I can freely modify anything. I destroyed my pursuer with a energy beam from my hand.I then played with flying and some other stuff before I woke up. Ever since then I have been able to Lucid Dream whenever I want.

This is how it worked for me. All the way up through college I had reoccurring dreams of being chased, and night terrors, and it got to the point that I barely slept. I got one of those frou-frou dream analysis books that had a chapter on teaching yourself how to lucid dream, and taught myself that when I was being chased to either turn around and attack whatever it was that was chasing me, or change the dream, or wake-up,, etc. Don't have problems with nightmares anymore, and now I lucid dream all the time. it's awesome.

edip1976: QUESTION:

When you guys have flying dreams, do you also get that weird sensation in the middle of your back at takeoff as if you were being pulled upward? Do you need to get a running start?

Just wondering...
I use a running start and take a couple of big jumps to get going. Occasionally I can jump off a cliff or building, but its usually the jumps. And then sometimes I have to flap my arms to keep myself at a higher altitude, lol. It's a bit silly but it really FEELS like I'm flying. Same with riding a horse which I also sometimes do. Super fun.

i keep seeing references to dreaming not starting until you're an hour or so into deep sleep, but i absolutely dream within minutes or even seconds of falling asleep. I dream when i nod off for 2 or 3 seconds at work.

once i nodded off for a few seconds and had a dream that seemed like it lasted about 5 to 10 minutes (i guess my brain goes by the Inception rules). it culminated in a gun being fired very loudly right near me, the sound of which was actually the sound of a large chunk of concrete being dropped into the back of a dump truck outside of my open office window which startled me awake. i think my brain constructed that whole scenario to explain the loud sound but slowed it down to real time for me to experience.

but i'm no expert on the matter...

i also love flying dreams. i usually just realize it's a dream, then start to float a little, and eventually take off like superman.

It would have been useful if the FA had started by explaining what dreams are. I have a friend who took a degree in dream analysis (she's got three masters and two PhDs; the chick can't get enough college, I guess). It's really quite fascinating. Dreams come from the subconscious, which doesn't have language. But it does have emotions and uses existing imagery stored in the brain to represent them. So, she taught me not to pay too much attention to the images themselves, which can be disjointed and confusing, but to focus on the emotions they evoke. It is also interesting that most dreams only last a few seconds to a few minutes, though the perceived time is much longer.