Are everyone else's dreams like this? It doesn't seem so, they all seem to follow some kind of story line or something. Mind are just random. For example: The other night I had a dream that WWII veterans wanted to cover the moon in 2x4's and I went there to go protest it. And then I woke up. Anyone know what might be causing this type of abstract dreaming?
i dunno but i used to have the most bizarre dreams it was almost tradition for me to come to school the next morning and they'd be all at the table waiting for, "so richie, what the hell'd ya dream last night?" and i'd tell them and they would giggle but i still think that most of my dreams are pretty abstract, but these days i treat them normally, to me, dreams are a window to a conscious world where there are infinite possibilities. there's an opportunity in each dream to take control of this consciousness, but i can never seem to manage it. once yes, so i keep trying
Well at least I'm not the only one. Here's another I remember from two nights ago. I was sitting in a theatre and everyone was watching a play, but right inside everyones ears was lava, like right when the ear turns into a tube. And I kept thinking, if everyone else has this lava then I must have it too, and then I was like, well this can't be good for my brain...
I think that is pretty much what dreams are. I truely believe that having dreams is like taking millions of tiny bits of paper with something different on each one, putting them in a hat and shaking them up, and taking out a small handfull. Those are the things that will be in your dreams tonight, put together in such a way that it makes some kind of crazy story. It simply depends on your headspace, and what has been happening in your life at the time. Your mind contains all the memories of your whole life, even if your conscious mind does not remember them. They are still there, waiting to be tapped into by your dreaming mind... For example, I sometimes have dreams of people who I went to grade school with, people I had long ago forgotten all about. In the dreams they are just as they were all those years ago, I remember their names and even where they lived...
First ask yourself where you likely picked up the imagery, like a movie, billboard, internet, book, magazine, game, tv show. Trace it back, months if necessary. So, I'd say that you saw "Saving Private Ryan," "Capricorn 1," "This Olde House," and the Seinfeld episode where Ellaine's boyfriend joins Green Peace to save the whales. The images which are stored in your brain are accessed randomly to mirror what your subconscious wants to say to you. It could very well be that the moon represents your lonely self, your peaceful world; the army could be school, that they want to instill order in your life; you don't want anyone messing with the room in your mind, so you protest. You could either learn to speak to yourself while you're dreaming (keep repeating "what does this mean?"), you could ask yourself what it means just as you start to wake up, or you could programme your mind by reading something which interests you. You may want to start a dream journal, then after a few days or weeks go back and correlate what happened in real life with what you dreamdt.
Thank you so much guys, and whitefeather thank you for the dream journal idea I'm going to start using it, as your description of the dream matched what I think quite often. Peace guys
it's not a matter of not making sense, they make just as much sense in their own context as our waking world does in its. think of it as a parallel universe in which the laws of physics work differently then they do in the one we're awaike in. (which includes teleporting, sometimes inadvertantly, and a certain semi-fluidity of geography and demographics, which our own awairnessess can sometimes influence like being hemi-semi-demigods but still not omnipotent, just, well, just basicly a parallel kind of universe that works perfectly consistently with itself, but NOT an exact carbon copy of the one we're awaike in!) just don't ever confuse it with the one we're awaike in, or loose track of which one you're in at any given time. the ones in which we dream are limited only by what we are capable of immagining believably, the ones we are awaike in are less influenced by our personal perceptions, other then in how we perceive them, though perhapse just as, if not, for some people, even more, diverse. except of course people in our waking one(s) don't generaly teleport and tend to fall rather then float through the air. (that's one reason you gotta be careful and not forget which one you're in!) what you think about a lot and play with a lot and are entertainted by a lot or have to deal with a lot, do, influence our personal languages of them. so you see the crazyness of them is not so crazy after all, just very 'alternative' to the one we're awaike in. and who knows but what, somewhere, there might actualy be a parallel universe, or multiples of them, like, or even identical to, one or more of those each of us dreams in. maybe even one in which you're a butterfly, unlike this one, in which a bucket of cold water is a bucket of cold water. but don't sell the diversity of this one short either. the're just two (or more) different (ok, VERY different, in SOME way, though perhapse not all that much so in others) 'places'. =^^= .../\...
my dreams are always so damn weird. the other night i had a dream that i woke up in my dorm room and everything was stolen out of my room so i woke my roommate up and told her that everything was gone, so we walked out into the hallway and our friend doug had tables set up in the hall with all our clothes on it and was selling all our clothes. i always have weird dreams when i'm stoned, and they are so vivid and i can remember like every bit of them.
