Dream Theory

[Futurama]

10 hours ago I woke up from having what was probably one of the most emotionally charged dreams of my life, i won't go into details but I woke up actually nearly crying and shivering after hearing the most amazing piece of music i've ever witnessed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This got me thinking again about Dream Theories, what dreams really mean and why you have them, and I came to this conclusion :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dreams are your bodies way of monitoring your physical state. A couple of weeks back my brother decided to smack me in the back whilst I slept (*ahem* prat) and I actually felt it and saw myself getting hit by a basketball in my dream. I didn't wake up but my brother told me about it later. So my general idea is that if you hear a sound loud enough, or are shook whilst you're dreaming, it'll be seen in your dream as something terrifying enough to wake you up. It's your bodys way of protecting you whilst you sleep.

 

 

 

This would also explain why you dream about things that matter to you in the real world - a couple of weeks before I visited Marmaris in Turkey, an old woman who lives across the road from me died. One night in Turkey I dreamed that her zombie was chasing us over the fields. The dream got a little silly, and we started throwing cake at her - then she bit my right arm. I Immediately woke up to find a mosquito on my right arm...so it's my idea that my body felt the pain, created a reason for the pain being there, and awoke me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just an idea, but i needed to get that down in writing.

[kingkonk]

Intresting.....I always have been intrested in dreams seeing as I am haunted by disturbing ones. Your theory is quite good. Id type more but I G2G

[seangotgame]

I also have real world stimuli effecting my dreams, namely my alarm clock. Some will be talking in my dream then suddenly WHAHWAHWAHA will come out of their mouths. a bit annoying really.I have things like my hand got wrapped up in the sheets tight enough that i dreamt i got my handed bitten by a person.

[Godslayer]

I can't tell if I have dreams, maybe I forget them, but whatever. I thought this was going to be a more 'far out' theory when I saw the title, but the hypothesis seems pretty sound. Now, get 20 people to go to sleep and affect them in differant ways, afterwards asking them about how they dreamed. :D Then you'll know!

[bucky]

I have read in some sort of sciency book (I think it was probably a Dr K book) that when you sleep some nerve cells in your brain strat firing somewhat randomly as you slip into regualr brainwaves. Dreams are just your consciousness trying to figure out what the [bleep] your brain is doing, making sense of the random memories, thoughts etc being summoned, as well as outside stimuli. I can't remember it exactly, but I think this is pretty much the gist of it. This would explain why you dream about the zombie of someone who died recently.... and then start throwing cake at them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't remember dreams very well except for the fact that they are incredibly random. Also, wierd thing is, when something happens to wake me up I have a fair amount of warning somethings going to happen. Like if a loud noise wakes me up I'll see something leading up towards making a noise for a few seconds. I dunno if my brain makes up a reason for it before letting me notice it, or I just remember things different to what actually *happened*.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyways, for those of you who can't be bothered reading my post :):

 

 

 

Dreams are VERY wierd.

 

 

 

Futurama's theory is (as far as I know) *kinda* correct.

[Killerken]

there are many theory's on this.

 

 

 

i think that what you body feels and your brain thinks, comes into your dream.

 

 

 

and you NEVER dream about something you have never heard about, thought about, saw, felth, smelled... etc etc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for exemple

 

 

 

lots of kids wet they're beds because they dream that they are on the toilet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and sleepwalking is mostly something people do out of addiction, like gaming and stuff

 

 

 

when i was 4 years old, i walked down 2 stairs (while asleep) put on the tv, and the nintendo (the oldest one ever :P ) put in supermario 1 two or three i dont remember... took the control, sat down and fell asleep...

 

 

 

when i was 6 i walked down 2 stairs again, went to the basement, found a load of chocolate bars, ate em all and went back to bed ( all while asleep)

 

 

 

i didnt remember, but my mother definateley knew it, my whole face was covered in chocolate and all the bars were gone :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hope you enjoyed, killerken 8)

[bucky]

 

 

 

and sleepwalking is mostly something people do out of addiction, like gaming and stuff

 

 

 

when i was 4 years old, i walked down 2 stairs (while asleep) put on the tv, and the nintendo (the oldest one ever :P ) put in supermario 1 two or three i dont remember... took the control, sat down and fell asleep...

 

 

 

when i was 6 i walked down 2 stairs again, went to the basement, found a load of chocolate bars, ate em all and went back to bed ( all while asleep)

 

 

 

i didnt remember, but my mother definateley knew it, my whole face was covered in chocolate and all the bars were gone :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hope you enjoyed, killerken 8)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lol those are pretty funny, especially the chocolate one :lol:

[cxf466]

u no wen u said ur brother hit u in the back wen u were asleep n u dremt tht wen he did that u were hit in the back wid a bat. do u remember the person holding the bat or sumin before u were hit?

 

 

 

this prob stupid lol but i herd wen u r asleep sumin happens to ur brain or sumin making u tons more aware of things and links in wid being phycic. maybe while u were asleep u somehow phycicly (cant spell by da way) could tell u were goin to be hit and dreamed tht sum 1 was holding a bat which leads to u being hit n waking up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i prob make no sence but still :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[The_Dragon_Reborn]

u no wen u said ur brother hit u in the back wen u were asleep n u dremt tht wen he did that u were hit in the back wid a bat. do u remember the person holding the bat or sumin before u were hit?

 

 

 

this prob stupid lol but i herd wen u r asleep sumin happens to ur brain or sumin making u tons more aware of things and links in wid being phycic. maybe while u were asleep u somehow phycicly (cant spell by da way) could tell u were goin to be hit and dreamed tht sum 1 was holding a bat which leads to u being hit n waking up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i prob make no sence but still :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If what I think you said, is actually what you said, then I think it made sense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OFF TOPIC:You should take extra English classes. :-#

[Peter]

u no wen u said ur brother hit u in the back wen u were asleep n u dremt tht wen he did that u were hit in the back wid a bat. do u remember the person holding the bat or sumin before u were hit?

 

 

 

this prob stupid lol but i herd wen u r asleep sumin happens to ur brain or sumin making u tons more aware of things and links in wid being phycic. maybe while u were asleep u somehow phycicly (cant spell by da way) could tell u were goin to be hit and dreamed tht sum 1 was holding a bat which leads to u being hit n waking up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i prob make no sence but still :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Translation for personal character building:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"You know when you said that your brother hit you in the back when you were asleep, and you dreamed that when he did that you were hit in the back with a bat? Do you remember the person holding the bat or something before you were hit? This is probably stupid, but I heard that when you are asleep something happens to your brain or something making you tons more aware of things and links in with being psychic. Maybe while you were asleep you somehow psychically (I cannot spell by the way) could tell you were going to be hit and dreamed that someone was holding a bat which leads to you being hit and waking up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I probably make no sense but still..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now that the above is out of the way (READ: big hint to 'louist44' that just the smallest amount of effort into making posts readable is much appreciated around here), I find this dream stuff pretty interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ever heard of lucid dreaming? In short it is being aware that you are dreaming while asleep, therefore you can control what you do in your dreams. While it's still all in your head, it's a cool idea to decide you want to jump up and fly, and then suddenly be able to do it in as realistic a way as your brain can comprehend. But unfortunately, lucid dreaming is pretty hard to do and takes a while of proper training to get into the correct mindset, and even people who have achieved lucidity can't control when they do it, and sometimes they only have a couple of lucid dreams a year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some people also use lucid dreaming to reenact things they did in their life to see another possible outcome, or sometimes they practice something (like a job interview, etc.) so they do better with it when they actually need to do it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've never had a lucid dream but it's pretty cool. But I really enjoy waking up from an 'emotionally charged' dream as you put them, usually they keep my interest for a couple of hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's said that if you keep a dream journal, like write down your dreams to the closest detail you possibly can right after you wake up, then it can lead to having better dreams. I tried it for a while, and I can vouch for it's legitimacy. Plus it trains your body to remember your dreams after you wake up. We all dream at night, what separates us is some of us remember our dreams and some don't. How can you enjoy a dream if you don't remember it?

[anonimu]

Louist, maybe it's not being phsicic, maybe your brain registers the hit/thing and in a fraction of a second makes up a story about what could've caused it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree with the first post... I've had things like that happen to me too...

 

 

 

Killerken, some people dream about things they've never experienced... Like my father, one day we were talking about something, somehow got to dreams, and then somehow got to the fact that he dreams of people he's never seen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh and bucky, about the warning thing, I get that too sometimes... I don't think that theory is completely correct though... I think that if there's something that's worrying/puzzling/etc.-ing you before you fall asleep, your dreams tend to be about it... None of my dreams were completely random if one analyzez them... Here's an example:

 

 

 

Dream (age: 7-8):

 

 

 

This dream was in third person. I run out of the school grounds, and a huge robot comes out of my school, but has to stay on the school grounds. Suddenly it switches over to a video-gamish select-difficulty-menu that has three things on it. One of them said "save the day and live", and the others described ways of dying (not too much detail). Suddenly all the text goes fuzzy and I pick the middle one. The robot's dissapeared, and I'm walking home feeling dissapointed.

 

 

 

Explanation:

 

 

 

I was worried about school because I got in a lot of trouble. I wanted to not get in trouble and act like everyone else at the same time (two contradicting things).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As the reader probably noticed, I've been reading the posts backwards, didn't get enough sleep last night, have nothing to do, are listening to music, my freaking speakers just broke, omg the speakers just ruined the best song ever, god I'm hungry, so bored, I need sleep, bored, omg i'm getting halo 2!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TIDE: Srry bout the above... anyway, somehow I can also control myself and give myself powers and stuff in my dreams... Like if I'm having a nightmare, I know that it's one, and I can "cheat" by teleporting, phasing through things, giving myself a spherical shaped personal shield, etc... But when I do it, I get really scared about the antagonists in my dream "cheating" too...

[dangeresque]

This could be true because, my dad has a friend at work who was in the vietnam war on the front lines serving with the marines. He Claims that he could and still can hear in his sleep...

[assassin_696]

(cant spell by da way)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Naw...really?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funny you should mention dreams, I had a great one last night. Involved owning a cool rocket space shuttle type thing and living in a ridiculously big and cool house. :) Kinda gutted when I woke up though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter, I remember having a few lucid dreams as well. They are pretty rare, and normally I only become aware that i'm dreaming towards the end of the dream, which is a shame.

[deloriagod]

 

u no wen u said ur brother hit u in the back wen u were asleep n u dremt tht wen he did that u were hit in the back wid a bat. do u remember the person holding the bat or sumin before u were hit?

 

 

 

this prob stupid lol but i herd wen u r asleep sumin happens to ur brain or sumin making u tons more aware of things and links in wid being phycic. maybe while u were asleep u somehow phycicly (cant spell by da way) could tell u were goin to be hit and dreamed tht sum 1 was holding a bat which leads to u being hit n waking up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i prob make no sence but still :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If what I think you said, is actually what you said, then I think it made sense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OFF TOPIC:You should take extra English classes. :-#

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amen to that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've never really had any experience with physical pain during sleep. Mostly because I've established with my friends that if they hurt me, I'll retaliate. So they've never done anything to me while I was sleeping ;) However I do think this is quite a good (and possibly plausible) theory.

[Garrgoyle]

Really interesting topic, I think I've learnt more reading this than I did the whole day at college.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most of my dreams tend to be "lucid" (as long as they are in first person) in the sense that I can defend myself if I want to and wake up if I want to. But having almost complete control over your dreams sounds pretty damn cool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had a dream the other day just after I was babysitting:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I heard a noise in the house, and decided there was a burglar in there somewhere. So I took a large knife from the kitchen drawer and continued to search every room in the house, knife poised. I got to the master bedroom, where there is a large mirror, and (at this point the dream pretty much switched to 3rd person) as I saw my reflection in the mirror I stabbed the mirror, in the place of my stomach in the reflection. (Switches back to first person.) I looked down, (the knife wasnt in my hands, guess I dropped it) and put my hand on my stomach, and saw that I was somewhat leaking blood. At that point I woke up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really freaked me out at the time. If someone could analyse this that would be great :P :)

[eias]

cool

 

 

 

great job :)

[Flyingkami00]

Thats pretty cool! I've had some dreams I can remember, some are terifiying and some are funny. It's odd, because sometimes I have the same dream 2x in a row or more! It's kinda funny that your bodies do these things.

[Peter]

I'll also throw into the informational melting pot that there are certain foods that supposedly enhance one's dreaming experience. Namely ones high in vitamin B6, and when eaten within an hour or two of sleep can make your dreams more vivid, and I can vouch for this claim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some foods high in B6 are tuna, bananas, chicken, turkey, salmon, beef, spinach, avocado, and baked potatoes.

[rushrock]

Dreams are pretty amazing...

[Markup]

From what I read above I am a Lucid dreamer.

 

 

 

I have the full control of my dreams. I thought it was normal to be in control. I don't get scared of nightmares, sometimes I actualy enjoy them. I like to not interfere with my dreams as most of them are intresting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please note that I am not getting confused about the difference between day dreaming and real dreams.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~MAK

[pompey_spud]

from what ive read on 'lucid dreams', it seems i have them regularly too. I can control when i wake up (which means i very rarely have nightmares as i wake up when i dont like it anymore) and generally decide, at least to an extent where the dream will head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One very strange time however was i dream i had when i was younger. i was sat on a coach surrounded by my friends at the time, and dozed off. I dreamt i was tied up to a chair in the middle of a dark room, and 3 big dogs were circling me. They did this for a while, and then one of them jumped up at me as though trying to bit my face. Just before it reached my face, i woke up and the kid sitting next to me's hand was just cm's from my face, covered in water....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

weird eh?

[Parabola]

When it comes to dreams, Crick & Mitchison say they are for clearing out 'parasitic thoughts', Jung says they're for developing underdeveloped parts of our personalities and Freud says they all mean you want to have carnal relations with a member of your family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i prob make no sence but still :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try typing in English and it might make sense in the future. Have you not got the hint yet? People don't appreciate the laziness displayed in your posts.

[Garrgoyle]

and Freud says they all mean you want to have carnal relations with a member of your family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone heard Iggy Pop - Sister Midnight? :uhh: