I had a dream that I cut my hair yesterday.

I never used to have traditional nightmares about ghosts and witches when i was younger either. My dreams I would feed the ghosts, cook them a nice meal. I was a strange kid.

i am one of those rare few that very rarely remembers any dreams. I recall dreaming about once every 40 nights of sleep. For me, sleep comes very quickly (ussually under 45 seconds) and, from my perspective, I wake up insatntly, but with 6-8 hours havuing elapsed. i have no sense of time in my sleep. I literally wake up as soon as I fall asleep 99% of the time, although, like I said, I have been sleeping for hours and hours.
the dreams I very arrely remember are ussually deeply horrific, tortured, terrifying brutality, and rampaging carnage to all I love. The most twisted nightmares conceiovable, but these I can remember clearly and for years afterwards.


dreams Are meaningless. Nothing I hate more in the world that sitting whiel someone tells me their dreams seeking some sort of meaning. There is none. whatever meanintg you derive from them you are dong so strictly with your waking mind assigning "meaning" from your conscious experience. This in no way applies to your subconscious dreaming.

freud was a hack.

Rob ive looked at a great deal of the studies concerning dreaming. There are people like you that say dreams are just randoming firings of brain activity that have no meaning at all. However there is considerable evidence to suggest that dreams serve other important purposes.

Some psychologists point to the fact that often dreams help us solve problems. I for example used to have a terrible fear of lifts (or elevators) until I had one dream when I was about 7 and from that point on I loved going in lifts. Scientists often say that problems they have been working on solve themselves in dreams.

Freud's Wish Fulfillment is obviously the most famous of all dream theories. But as with everything with Freud there are some ideas that are nuts, absolutely insane and some ideas that are brilliant. Although I like many psychologists nowadays am extremely sceptical about his ideas on dream symbolism, the idea that we indulge in ideas and emotions whist dreaming that would be too disturbing in waking life is not that far feached an idea.

Well isn't waking up at the last moment of a death dream equivalent of dying? Because when you die you do lose consciousness.

I had a dream I was shot, and in the end I blacked out on the pavement. Who's to say if I was dead?

20. If you dream about whiteness and space, it means that you cosmic soul takes the form of an albatrosss. That or a shopping bag.

The probable reason why one wakes up just before dying may be that we have no idea how it's like to be dead.
Maybe you have more imagination than most and associated dying with losing consciousness.

Never underestimate the power of the shopping bag.

hmm , how can we know this to be true ?

i have just the same thing. mostly my friends. it's rather disturbing to know that everyone i like for a bit has already died in one of my dreams.

I got shot a bunch in a dream once and I was bleeding (which was rare for my "getting shot" dreams"). After bleeding and looking up at my brother, I got woozy and pasted out. I remember wondering if I was dying or just passing out at the time. Like "is this death?" then I was out/awake.

I usually have very terrifying dreams (mutilated dog corpses talking to me, etc.) or absolutely bizarre dreams (being chased by Darkseid's goons from Super Friends).

Dreams, they're okay.
Quite over-rated.

People rate dreams? I always saw dreams like a force of nature. Like "taking a piss is overrated".

Any thing can be over-rated.
If you try hard enough.

Can overrating things be overrated?

I realize I'm in a dream we the girl was in love with when I was a teenager, comes and says that she loves me too and wants to have sex, NOW !!! At this point, I think it's not possible, it's a dream, and I wake up. And when I fall asleep, I look for her but I can't find this girl... I had this dream a million times. She was so cute.
That's horrible.

has no one fucking seen waking life?

I've seen it. I hated it. But I'm a philosophy major, so it felt partonizing.

i was annoyed by the tour of philosophy bit at the start but then it got more interesting when became more about dreams and whatnot.

I didn't like the dream stuff either. Hip psycho babble, like a less dumbed down version of 'Matrix' philosophy. Life could all be a dream! Wow, you really blew my mind there, Waking Life... :rolleyes:

Unfortunately, deconstructive perception theory is old hat to anyone that has read Decartes far too many times for comfort.