Sleep and Dreams Megathread - General

g'night

[QUOTE=solid_jake;24484174]Prince with the scroll of tales Glorifying this shit[/QUOTE] Can you put them in paragraph form so they're easy to read? And I just read the wireframe one, very interesting.

Maybe tomorrow if I remember

[QUOTE=solid_jake;24484415]Maybe tomorrow if I remember[/QUOTE] I shall do this. [editline]07:40AM[/editline] Done. Here you go. [URL]http://www.mediafire.com/?5xuvnv1ngbdo378[/URL]

Well have fun jake. I had me some nice banana and peanut butter. t'was good. Anyways can people tell me the level of importance of: Banana (b6 right?) Peanut butter (is it just the 'glue'?) Toast (more B6?) Also wish me luck. :eng99: I really do miss my dreams. :smith:

[QUOTE=D0C H.;24484559] Also wish me luck. :eng99: I really do miss my dreams. :smith:[/QUOTE] Good luck. To answer your question: [QUOTE](For those of you that are wondering, the Vitamin B12 in the Toast greatly increase metabolic [and therefore brain] activity, the vitamin B6 is famous for improving Dream Recall [go figure], and the peanut butter is there because it is delicious and ties the food together.)[/QUOTE] [editline]07:43AM[/editline] Toast isn't as important in my opinion. And instead of peanut butter you can use jam or whatever you like.

[QUOTE=Activeellis;24484590]Good luck. To answer your question: [editline]07:43AM[/editline] Toast isn't as important in my opinion. And instead of peanut butter you can use jam or whatever you like.[/QUOTE] Thanks, to both. I do suppose I could have read the OP once again. Oh well. Night all. [tab]We need a sleep emote for this thread.[/tab]

[QUOTE=D0C H.;24484637]Thanks, to both. I do suppose I could have read the OP once again. Oh well. Night all. [tab]We need a sleep emote for this thread.[/tab][/QUOTE] Night. Now, Time to load up fireworks or some shit. [editline]07:59AM[/editline] [IMG]http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss209/Activeellis/way.gif[/IMG] [editline]08:01AM[/editline] Paint was suffice.

I've never had much luck with Lucid Dreaming, and can think of only one example of a time when I knowignly and intentionally entered a dream, but the imagery and experiences within the dream were incredibly vivid-- vivid to the point where the dream feels like a memory of an actual event rather than a simple dream. I suppose it was a form of self-hypnosis, or a "WILD" which took me into this state, but it was both very peaceful and very exciting. It began with simply laying still for some time. It was during the morning, and the room was lit by sunlight filtered through the sheets over the windows (I worked the vampire shift at the time). I simply lay still and imagined myself floating in an in an infitely huge, black ocean. And after some time, I was. I saw nothing, there was nothing to see. There was no light, but just the same I knew that the place I was now in was infinite. I was floating in a black ocean, and I could feel it. I could hear the waves and I could feel the water. I floated that way for a while in dreamtime, and then I thought, "what if there are creatures in this ocean?" But no sooner had I thought the question than I knew the answer. Of [i]course[/i] there are. I felt myself being gently tugged along in the current of something swimming far below me, and again, though I could not see it, I knew it was indescribably huge. But rather than being scared by the knowledge that I was sharing this forever-ocean with such a monstrously huge creature, I felt rather comforted by it. I knew that the creature had no interest in harming me, that I was so puny in comparison that I didn't even register to it, and this filled me with a strange sense of peace. As I was tugged in the fish's wake, it began to circle back, and I knew I wanted to go deeper. I was ripped below the water at incredible speeds by an invisible force around my waist. The world, though already impossibly dark, seemed to become even darker as I sank, but though I was sightless in the blackness my senses began forming a picture of the world. I sank past the creature, and "saw" an eye larger than worlds, an eye that dwarfed even the view from the cockpit of a commercial airliner. It was gone in seconds, I was sinking so rapidly. I could feel the resistance of the water tugging at my arms and legs as they trailed above me. I asked myself where the bottom of this ocean was, if it even had a bottom, and then I struck it. Rather than stopping, I continued sinking through the sand and muck. It filled my nostrils and my mouth, but I didn't need to breath anyway, and I felt an even deeper sense of exhilerated serenity. "Exhilarated serenity" sounds contradictory, but that's the only way to describe it. I was excited and scared at this rapid descent through unkown and mysterious places, places where creatures bigger than planets swam, but at the same time I felt completely at peace with what was unfolding, and knew that nothing wanted to, or could hurt me. And then I was falling. Not sinking, but falling. I broke through the sand and silt and muck and fell into a void. I simply knew that it stretched forever in every direction but down, but what lay below I didn't know. I was plummeting towards the core of the dreamworld.. As I fell closer and closer towards whatever was at the center of this colossally vast universe, a universe my waking mind can't comprehend, but my sleeping mind simply accepted without question, I started pulling away from my body. I saw myself falling, rather than feeling it, and that was when I woke up. Never before and never since have I experienced anything even remotely similar to that one dream. I felt, heard, sensed, and "saw" everything with perfect clarity. It was magnificent. That deep sense of complete serenity and "oneness" stuck with me the entire day. I'm not a spiritual person by any means, but that was damn near a religious experience. It wasn't mystical in any sense, of course. It was just a dream. But it was much more powerful than I know how to express in words. This was a lucid dream. At any point I could've stepped into any goofy scenario I wanted to. I know that now, and I knew it during the dream. But I didn't want to step out. I wanted to dive deeper and deeper into that sense of peace, and I pushed myself as far into it as I could before I awoke. I didn't snap awake, I just sank into wakefulness and laid still for another ten or fifteen minutes before I wanted to move-- so complete was my relaxation. If I ever experience anything like that in a dream again, I'll consider myself extremely lucky.

*Yawn* Nothing special last night, i was standing in a queue in Asda, (was huge) so i was spredding Zerg creep so i could get through the queue faster. Silly dream logic.

Let's see, I have a good question that hasn't been answered in the first post and this is a thread involving dreams so onto it. I can't remember my dreams with how shall I say it...Ah, Wiki puts it best: Noctural emissions. Does anyone have any idea why these dreams are the only ones I can't recall at all ever? (I feel weird as hell asking this.)

[QUOTE=AshTR;24485159]Let's see, I have a good question that hasn't been answered in the first post and this is a thread involving dreams so onto it. I can't remember my dreams with how shall I say it...Ah, Wiki puts it best: Noctural emissions. Does anyone have any idea why these dreams are the only ones I can't recall at all ever? (I feel weird as hell asking this.)[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.facepunch.com/image.php?u=269021&dateline=1283150811[/img] [highlight][b][i]NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS.[/i][/b][/highlight] [b]edit[/b] Feel any less weird?

Hello.

Hey. Hmm, I know the two main posters are asleep (Most likely) but I have a feeling that I'm going to lucid dream tonight even though I have pretty bad recall... I mean, usually that means nothing, but last time I had a feeling about something, my mousepad finally arrived. I'm also just trying to salvage some sort of a conversation.

[QUOTE=Nick895;24487075]Hey. Hmm, I know the two main posters are asleep (Most likely) but I have a feeling that I'm going to lucid dream tonight even though I have pretty bad recall... I mean, usually that means nothing, but last time I had a feeling about something, my mousepad finally arrived. I'm also just trying to salvage some sort of a conversation.[/QUOTE] Ok, Do this when you go to bed, Say "I will remember my dreams, I will remember my dreams, I will remember my dreams" Repeat many times. Also, Eat bananas and toast.

Overly Late reply time!: I do that already, I only started to try again about this week. Thanks for the reminder though, aha. Do you, or anyone else know if there's something else I can eat other than banana's I don't like banana's... at all, sadly.

[QUOTE=Nick895;24487606]Overly Late reply time!: I do that already, I only started to try again about this week. Thanks for the reminder though, aha. Do you, or anyone else know if there's something else I can eat other than banana's I don't like banana's... at all, sadly.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.drbenkim.com/nutrient-b6.html[/url]

Cheers man, that helps, I eat potatoes for tea (With skin) quite a bit so I'm all good, but I might want to have more bread.

Jake and Zin need to wake up allready.

I agree, I wonder if what Zin predicted has happened to Jake yet...

[Quote=Jakes DJ]Another weird dream occured during my nap. It started off all in wireframe. I was standing in the middle of it all looking around. I started imagining a city, no need to close my eyes this time though, it generated dynamically. I put a fountain in the middle of a city block for ambience. I rethought that, and clashed my hands together. The fountain disassembled and was replaced by traffic lights. Everything seemed prepared for something, so I began thinking of people. Quickly clouds began to take their places on sidewalks and streets and such. I imagined some cars on the streets and more clouds began to come to these places. Now they were forming into people and cars and even the people inside the cars. After they were done taking their shapes they stood there in the middle of an action as if someone pressed the pause button in a movie. I walked to a building and drew a rectangle on the wall, imagining it be a mirror. It began to reflect slowly and then it was a full fledged mirror. I looked around at the people, they were wearing suits, most likely buisness men. I took a look at the mirror and started changing my clothes. I was wearing a black fedora and a black suit. I took another look at myself to make sure and compared it to everyone else. Suddenly the people started moving and I scrambled a little bit. I leaned on the wall and looked opposite the block I was on. And there I saw her. My subconscious was walking through the people I had placed and was holding bags. She came accross the crosswalk and tried to press the button to turn the light red but couldn't reach. I focused in on her and isolated her voice. "Excuse me sir" she said to the guy next to him. I looked at the man. The man was still looking straight. She sighed. "SIR" she yelled louder. The man turned to her. "Could you please press that button" she said to him eying the crosswalk button. He pressed the button for her. She smiled. "Thanks" she said to the man. The light turned red and all the cars stopped. She started walking to my block. She saw me midway of crossing and her eyes widened. I grinned. She looked extremely confused and started walking towards me slower. On the way, she pinched her nose to see if she was dreaming. She looked down at her hands holding the bags. I couldn't help but smile. She was now in front of me. I lifted my hat. "Madame" I said greeting her. "What's this all about" she asked me. "I thought I'd try something a little different" I said to her. "Yeah I can see that" she said looking at me then looking around. The people around us started to get louder and eventually began to fade. "Woh take it easy" I said to her. "You might overwhelm yourself" I said again. She took a few breathes. I started changing the area we were in. I cycled through some relaxing areas. I saw her look up in awe and then back at me. I stopped at a grass meadow. "Is that even possible" she said. I looked at her. "Very possible, infact you're seeing it right now" I said. She shook her head. "I don't believe it" she said looking down now. "It may be hard to believe but it's really happening" I said to her. She was still shaking her head. "Prove it" she said to me. I looked at the meadow. I raised my hand and structures began to rise from the ground. I looked up at the clouds and changed the color of the sky. She was staring in shock and awe. She feel to the grass. "I guess it's true" she said. Something felt weird. I started thinking, how did I know what she was talking about, how I was able to do all these things. It hit me, I was my own subconscious. Now MY eyes widened. I was puzzled how this was possible I was just thinking how the whole time. She looked at me and put her hand on my shoulder. "I think it's time I woke up." she said to me. I was in shock, still. I nodded my head still looking down. She started doing something and with that she vanished and the dream faded back to reality and I was now awake[/quote] [QUOTE=Zinayzen;24481884]So basically you were the subconscious. I knew it. You started as the architect. Then you decided to throw people in there. And then you felt Ellen coming. AND THEN SHE SAW YOU AND HER EYES WIDENED. SHE TRIED SOME REALITY CHECKS, TRIED MORE, AND THEN APPROACHED CAUTIOUSLY. [B]THEN YOU ACTED LIKE THE SUB AND SHE ASKED THE QUESTIONS WHILE YOU KNEW ALL THE ANSWERS. THEN SHE WOKE YOU UP.[/B] [B][I][U]I AM A MOTHERFUCKING MIND NINJAAAA[/U][/I][/B][/QUOTE] Happened on page 86 iirc.

[QUOTE=Nick895;24488182]I agree, I wonder if what Zin predicted has happened to Jake yet...[/QUOTE] Totally off topic but you might want to use an avatar that's not the awesome smiley and transparent if you want to survive here.

I know that, I mean the part where him and his subconscious have a link that Zin said probably shouldn't be there. [Quote=Zinayzen]It's not like it's riding piggyback on my brain. It's kind of like being able to refer to a friend at a moment's notice. [/Quote] That's how he explained the link (The piggyback part was referring to when I asked if it could talk to him at will, turns out only he can contact it, doesn't work the other way around.) [editline]10:09PM[/editline] [Quote=ventnor]Totally off topic but you might want to use an avatar that's not the awesome smiley and transparent if you want to survive here. [/quote] I'll change it next chance I get, thanks for the tip.

Oh Right that bit. Yeah im hoping that's Soon so jake can post about the experience. Godamn i love this thread.

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;24474603]Jake's, as another example, is a horny Ellen Page who loves to jump his bones. that means he's lonely.[/QUOTE] Yeah but can you blame him? Ellen Page is fucking hooootttt. Also, surely if you wanted, you could use your own subconscious as the middleman for finding all of your past memories? I mean, could you ask it to replay or tell you about the first time you saw a film or something?

Actually, thing ive been wondering with Subs, Seeing as i was wondering who mine would be. Do you actually [I]hear[/I] His/Her voice (supposed this is aimed at jake/zin) or does their mouth sort of open and words come out? Just thinking because there are very few voices i can recall.

[QUOTE=kenji;24488698]Actually, thing ive been wondering with Subs, Seeing as i was wondering who mine would be. Do you actually [I]hear[/I] His/Her voice (supposed this is aimed at jake/zin) or does their mouth sort of open and words come out? Just thinking because there are very few voices i can recall.[/QUOTE] I believe that the general consensus among most dreamers is that you don't see their mouths moving, but you hear it anyway. Like they're telepathic. Which makes sense, if you figure it's all in your head anyway.

Well i was just thinking, For the sake of argument say mine is Ellen page, apart from the brief bit in inception, i actually can't recall her voice, so i assume, either i would hear a different voice and associate it with her, Or would i just not get her? As an example that is.

I had dreams when I know I'm dreaming, but then as soon as I do realize, I wake up D:

[QUOTE=kenji;24488907]Well i was just thinking, For the sake of argument say mine is Ellen page, apart from the brief bit in inception, i actually can't recall her voice, so i assume, either i would hear a different voice and associate it with her, Or would i just not get her? As an example that is.[/QUOTE] Not really sure about that one. Your brain would probably try to fill in the blanks as best it can.