• Sleep and Dreams Megathread V3
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Last night I had a dream that I was playing an Amnesia -esque game with my friend. We were taking turns playing the game. The scenery was as if it was in a really modern skyscraper. My friend rushes a bit, he turns at two junctions both go to the left (going around some kind of room) and one of those monsters is just coming out of a room (seemed like a public toilet), the surroundings were night blue due to being white, just that it was really dark and monster, even tough I couldn't see its shape too well it do recal a pair of small red eyes which were inhumanely far apart. So a chase begins, just that suddenly I'm the one playing the game and short after I was in the game. So I run away from the thing, making stuff fall in its way as I go. I come to a dead end with two high bookshelfs which seem to be attached to the wall to prevent them from falling, as they didn't fall when I climbed them up. As I'm up on the bookshelf and the monster is down, I see that there is a big airduct which open. Suddenly I hear a thud and feel pain in my ribs: The bastard threw a book at me. As a response to this creatures actions I found a potted flower which I dropped down and managed to hit the creatures head. As the creature screeched in pain and fell over I decided to take advantage of the situation and crawl in the airduct when the monster was too busy minding its own hurt head. When I crawled in the darkness of the ducts my dream started fading away and soon I woke up. One thing that I tought that was wierd in the morning was that even tough I wasn't terrified at all in this dream or struck by dream-logic fuelled panic; my t-shirt was all cold and sweaty.
Okay, so I'm probably [b][i]very[/b][/i] late on this, but when you're doing WILD, you keep your eyes shut, correct? If yes, than the hallucinations would be strictly inside your head instead of projected on your surroundings? Unless of course you open them when you reach sleep paralysis. So the question is, do you keep your eyes shut the entire time or do you open them later on or something? This is really the only thing I'm a little fuzzy on.
[QUOTE=Oblivious1;29311561]Bah, we all know it was me who made this thread :downs:[/QUOTE] [quote]we all know it was me who made this thread[/quote] [quote][b]it was me[/b][/quote] ಠ_ಠ
It's 2 oclock and I really don't want to sleep after the dream I had last night about radiation poisoning making my skin peel off.
Does being hungry before you sleep have an impact on you being able to dream? Currently 3:30 here and I'm scared of waking my mom up to get something to eat :ohdear:
Zin, you can't hid. On the subject of dreams i had one last night with it starting off in a town, where a dvd shop with metal counters was being eaten by termites, after leaving the DVD shop i ended up in a pub/internet cafe, and these computers were the weirdest i've ever seen, incorporating impossible geometry into the case and making the entire PC about the size of a room when it's just a normal case.
I had a weird dream yesterday. I was driving my dad's car and I spent the whole dream trying to park it. The car kept moving even though I hit the brakes. I woke up and kept saying I can't park because it was in D2 gear. I snapped out of it after a minute. Weirdest shit I have had in a month.
I remembered three dreams last night,but lost the second and third over the day. I was in my dream world, near a mountainous area (Maybe the ones near the field?). This area was a single strip of land, like the field, but with fences instead of mountains, and indeterminable surroundings past them. There was a church that a friend of mine attends, but with a field of sand instead of the normal back yard. I never went to the front. There were other people there with me. At the other end of the strip, opposite the building, were the mountains. At the edge of the sand, there was a forest, and the sand abruptly stops to turn to leaves and whatnot. Right before the edge there was a dead tree's remaining stump. We were playing hide and go seek. I don't know how dream logic can prove that a mostly empty field of sand is a great place to play hide and go seek, but it lasted for a few rounds. Most of my memory starts at a point where I was hiding behind the stump. Then I ran over to the building, looked at the people who were nearby, and promptly decided to lie down behind a strange stone structure next to the fence a few feet away. It was sort of like an upside down and backwards L. I looked past it and stared at the seeker for a few seconds, the my cousin, who was next to me, trying to find a place to hide, and one of my friends, who was on the other side of the fence, and staring quite intently and creepily at me. I think he was my sub. The seeker started walking past me, so I shoved my head in the sand. It actually felt like sand, it was warm from the sun, and conformed to my face. Near the end of the memory, where it beings to fade, I think I may have pulled my head up, and as the sand fell, I was in the sky or something. As for the mountains: They're from another dream I had, relating to that building in the real world, except they're normal a few hundred miles away. Quite a while ago, I had a dream where I was with a group of hikers, just past the edge of the sand. I was facing away from it, so if it was there I didn't see it. We hiked up the trail a ways, and came upon a dam we walked over. Another one of my dreams it may be from is where we took a turn, and ended up somewhere other than the dam. I have had so many dreams in my life, I couldn't even have begun to imagine that they were interconnected like this until now. It stirs up quite the bundle of emotions in me. Another thing; do any of you even read my posts? I have a feeling all of you are put off by their length, or the fact that I'm a bit crazy. (What with the voices in my head and such)
[QUOTE=ZenX2;29329366] Another thing; do any of you even read my posts? I have a feeling all of you are put off by their length, or the fact that I'm a bit crazy. (What with the voices in my head and such)[/QUOTE] I read 'em, bro.
[quote=Zen2X]Another thing; do any of you even read my posts? I have a feeling all of you are put off by their length, or the fact that I'm a bit crazy. (What with the voices in my head and such)[/quote] I read all your posts short and long here. Don't worry.
[QUOTE=ZenX2;29329366]I have a feeling all of you are put off by the fact that I'm a bit crazy. (What with the voices in my head and such)[/QUOTE] I'm afraid I don't understand. Why would we prefer sanity...? This is the internet
I have a tendancy to have these dreams that might as well be 'video game vomit', that is, a garbled sort of anagram of various games uncomfortably mushed together. Sometimes these dreams can be outlandishly fun, other times I can actually get interesting writing ideas from them. And sometimes they are just a big mess. I'm not sure which this one falls into. But basically I dreamed about Portal 2. Sort of. But I was actually this private investigator in a sort of Suburban Noir, on this case of missing children all across the United States. Children were being kidnapped at an alarming rate, and there didn't actually seem to be a pattern in who was taken, save for the sheer number and the circumstances involved (the latter of which I would eventually witness for myself). ( and of course, the captured kids were taken to an Aperture science testing facility) By interviewing one of the parents, I actually got a hint towards what happened with the original kidnapping, which was that the kid was taken at night, presumably from their own front door. Researching that, I discovered that these kidnappings had been occurring for a very long time, and that there were actually two children that had [i]returned[/i] after being kidnapped. One of these two boys was actually Hogarth from The Iron Giant. Yeah, I know. I spoke with both boys, but neither of them were willing to tell me anything about what happened to them. The only thing I learned from them was that... there was a facility. And when the boys had returned from it, they were wearing the Aperture boots. They were taken to a hospital, where, with both boys, doctors attempted to remove the boots. They were unable to do so properly and with the both of them ended up fucking up their legs and confining them to wheelchairs. So since neither of the boys would tell me anything I had the idea of arranging a meeting between the two to see if they would slip up and talk to each other about what had happened. This failed miserably as they caught on to me. But the weirdest plot twist of this dream came when I finally cracked the code as to how children were selected for capture. I saw a kid getting kidnapped from her house (in a really stupid way, so I'm not going to describe it), and I found out that she had signed up for and played... The Pokemon Dream World. Yeah, I know. It turns out children were being selected through their behavior as they played online and stuff. So I had no choice but to ENTER THE ONLINE WORLD a la every bad show involving the internet. And then I got captured and ended up in the facility myself. shit I didn't mean for this to be so long.
OK. Important thing here. Last night I had the 2nd dream in an apparent series. A man in a suit with his face shadowed by a hat informed me that my grandfather on my father's side would die. Guess what happened around an hour ago?! :saddowns: 2 years ago, I had the exact same dream the day before my grandfather on my mother's side died. [b]WTF???[/b]
The most notable premonition my subconscious has given me was that I was going to hear that "Brick House" song later in the day. Had a fun and frustrating dream last night. I was in a mix between a Japanese house and the out of the way part of an office building, but out in a desert. I was protecting a god who had lost most of his powers from an onslaught of cowboys; Tower Defense style. I was running around, placing down strange transparent zombie slime monsters. In the end, I figured out I could make little square shaped things that would seek out and kill enemies in one attack, so I made about 500 of them and set them loose. The god-thing thanked me and I woke up.
Last night I tried FILD, but I'm not sure I'm doing it right. I lied down in bed, flat on my back with my left arm down straight and my right arm on my chest, twitching my index every half second or so, just enough so that I could barely feel the blanket every time I did it. After ten or twenty minutes I entered sleep paralysis, kept twitching my fingers, and eventually fell asleep. I had a lucid dream, but I hardly remember any of it. I was back in two different happy memories, with full control, but I decided to do the same things I did back then. Am I doing it right? Last night was the first time I've ever consciously tried getting a lucid dream, so I've got no real dream recall. I don't want to start a dream journal because I know I'd do it for a day or two then just forget about it. I can see just laying still and keeping my eyes closed and concentrating as soon as I wake up being the easiest way to recall, but I have a horrible habit of bolting up and throwing fifty punches before my eyes are even open. Suggestions?
Yeah if that's the first time that you've tried consciously inducing a lucid dream you've done pretty damn well, out if curiosity did you wake up in the middle of the night first or did you try it straight away when you went to bed? And yeah I think that's how FILD works, I looked it up on dream views and apparently you're meant to press down with your index and middle fingers on one hand, so lightly that your finger doesnt move but you tense the muscle. Try placing your finger on your keyboard and pressing down on a key without actually pushing it in - I think that's the sort of pressure you use when you fake twitching. I tried a whole bunch of stuff last night to have an LD, I had toast, vitamin B, did RCs all day and even tried listening to an mp3 that had a chant in it. I was woken up early and couldn't remember anything at all, that was frustrating. The night before though, I had Biotin and had an LD so that's something to look into again.
So my mind's figured out how to test if i'm asleep or not by exploiting my worst fear. Just as i'm about to enter an LD, it makes me feel like there's a spider on me. Scares me awake every time. :I
I had yet another dream where my dad was driving. This time he was crashing into the dividers in the center of a highway, then driving off a dirt ramp. Then I ended up in a mud pit with some sort of car or something in the mud, with a cable with something extremely hot flowing through it. I think we drove around the pit before I ended up in it. I got close to the cable, and boy was it hot. Then I started talking to somebody about the Portal 2 launch.
I'm so tired I'm having mild visual distortions. Gonna wait half an hour and try to get into sleep paralysis. It's happened to me twice but I never get to the lucid dream stage.
Does anybody have advice on how I can make my dreams more visible? Do you guys actually feel like you're looking out your eyes? For me, my dreams are always blurry and in the back of my mind, so lucid dreaming doesn't seem like it would be as enjoyable as it should be. Same thing with my mind's eye, I never see things, only kinda fake out my brain into thinking there are barely visible images inside of it. I don't really know how to explain it. It's not really sight, but something else. It's like trying to think of a word in your thoughts without using a language or images. A sort of primal translation into brainwaves. Oh dear, I'm rambling again.
[QUOTE=ZenX2;29368950]Does anybody have advice on how I can make my dreams more visible? Do you guys actually feel like you're looking out your eyes? For me, my dreams are always blurry and in the back of my mind, so lucid dreaming doesn't seem like it would be as enjoyable as it should be. Same thing with my mind's eye, I never see things, only kinda fake out my brain into thinking there are barely visible images inside of it. I don't really know how to explain it. It's not really sight, but something else. It's like trying to think of a word in your thoughts without using a language or images. A sort of primal translation into brainwaves. Oh dear, I'm rambling again.[/QUOTE] There was some advice posted in the last thread about this. 1. Think about what you see 2. Imagine you are wearing glasses 3. take off the glasses, making everything clearer
I don't know if anyone has brought this up, but does anybody have a recurring dream of falling? The details aren't exactly the same, but between me and a few other people I know, there seems to be this common dream of doing some activity and suddenly falling and waking up. For me its going up stairs until the stairs suddenly disappear. I think somebody else I talked to had a dream where he swims and suddenly sinks like a stone.
[QUOTE=GeneralSanchez;29369626]I don't know if anyone has brought this up, but does anybody have a recurring dream of falling? The details aren't exactly the same, but between me and a few other people I know, there seems to be this common dream of doing some activity and suddenly falling and waking up. For me its going up stairs until the stairs suddenly disappear. I think somebody else I talked to had a dream where he swims and suddenly sinks like a stone.[/QUOTE] Do you wake up in a jolt like you hit the bed?
[QUOTE=Eonart;29345971]what have you been doing in your life Zin, can you explain further how to do FILD?[/QUOTE] It's kind of hard to explain. Basically you go to sleep normally, but you passively focus on your finger and very slightly wiggle it. VERY SLIGHTLY. Focus without focusing too hard. Like I said it's hard to explain. [editline]23rd April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Sublata;29369742]Do you wake up in a jolt like you hit the bed?[/QUOTE] OH GOD I LOVE YOU A+ avatar
Last night I achieved lucidity without even trying. (I don't have to focus anymore) "Practice" works. :smile:
Last night I had a dream that Piracy Copyright Gestapos were coming to my house and I was trying to hurry and format my computer before they would take me away.
[QUOTE=ZenX2;29368950]Does anybody have advice on how I can make my dreams more visible? Do you guys actually feel like you're looking out your eyes? For me, my dreams are always blurry and in the back of my mind, so lucid dreaming doesn't seem like it would be as enjoyable as it should be. Same thing with my mind's eye, I never see things, only kinda fake out my brain into thinking there are barely visible images inside of it. I don't really know how to explain it. It's not really sight, but something else. It's like trying to think of a word in your thoughts without using a language or images. A sort of primal translation into brainwaves. Oh dear, I'm rambling again.[/QUOTE] -> Escape -> Options -> Graphics Settings -> Set to maximum If noclip works then that should too.
Had a lucid dream last night. I was able to hear songs that I thought of, I went into my bathroom and spun thinking about how I want to be in a desert. But that failed, I was still in my bathroom. I plugged my nose and I could still breathe, I looked at my hands and it looked as if I was looking at them through a telescope, and my middle finger had tree bark on it. That's all I remember though :smith:
[QUOTE=linksysruler;29376606]-> Escape -> Options -> Graphics Settings -> Set to maximum If noclip works then that should too.[/QUOTE] DREAM LAG damnit, I need more RAM
I had the weirdest dream last night. Wasn't full lucid, only partial, but still worth noting. I was at a large cathedral, outfitted to be a fancy mansion. It, for some reason, had a lot of expensive stuff, and a lot of toilets. I went to use one, but it turns out it was a secret door, leading down a rope to David Hasslehoff's own personal booby-trapped treasure trove. Apparently I was with some chick who liked me too, so it was nice. After a bit of looking around and trying to figure out how to get the loot without setting off the traps, we notice that more people have arrived down here. you know who they were? Goddamn blu team. Goddamnit mind what the hell's wrong with you.
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