Top 10 Amazing Facts About Dreams

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This afternoon I had a (very rare) nap. During that nap I had a lucid dream (most of which I no longer remember). As I was waking up, I was thinking about my dream and thought that it would be a great idea to write a list about dreams for the site. So, here are the top 10 amazing facts about dreams.

10. Blind People Dream

People who become blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion. It is hard for a seeing person to imagine, but the body’s need for sleep is so strong that it is able to handle virtually all physical situations to make it happen.

9. You Forget 90% of your Dreams

Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone. The famous poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, woke one morning having had a fantastic dream (likely opium induced) – he put pen to paper and began to describe his “vision in a dream” in what has become one of English’s most famous poems: Kubla Khan. Part way through (54 lines in fact) he was interrupted by a “Person from Porlock“. Coleridge returned to his poem but could not remember the rest of his dream. The poem was never completed.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
[...]

Curiously, Robert Louis Stevenson came up with the story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde whilst he was dreaming. Wikipedia has more on that here. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was also the brainchild of a dream.

8. Everybody Dreams

Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder) but men and women have different dreams and different physical reactions. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women tend to dream equally about men and women. In addition, both men and women experience sexually related physical reactions to their dreams regardless of whether the dream is sexual in nature; males experience erections and females experience increased vaginal blood flow.

7. Dreams Prevent Psychosis

In a recent sleep study, students who were awakened at the beginning of each dream, but still allowed their 8 hours of sleep, all experienced difficulty in concentration, irritability, hallucinations, and signs of psychosis after only 3 days. When finally allowed their REM sleep the student’s brains made up for lost time by greatly increasing the percentage of sleep spent in the REM stage. [Source]

6. We Only Dream of What We Know

Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts – did you know that your mind is not inventing those faces – they are real faces of real people that you have seen during your life but may not know or remember? The evil killer in your latest dream may be the guy who pumped petrol in to your Dad’s car when you were just a little kid. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces through our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.

5. Not Everyone Dreams in Color

A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. People also tend to have common themes in dreams, which are situations relating to school, being chased, running slowly/in place, sexual experiences, falling, arriving too late, a person now alive being dead, teeth falling out, flying, failing an examination, or a car accident. It is unknown whether the impact of a dream relating to violence or death is more emotionally charged for a person who dreams in color than one who dreams in black and white. [Source]

4. Dreams are not about what they are about

If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. The unconscious mind tries to compare your dream to something else, which is similar. Its like writing a poem and saying that a group of ants were like machines that never stop. But you would never compare something to itself, for example: “That beautiful sunset was like a beautiful sunset”. So whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.

3. Quitters have more vivid dreams

People who have smoked cigarettes for a long time who stop, have reported much more vivid dreams than they would normally experience. Additionally, according to the Journal of Abnormal Psychology: “Among 293 smokers abstinent for between 1 and 4 weeks, 33% reported having at least 1 dream about smoking. In most dreams, subjects caught themselves smoking and felt strong negative emotions, such as panic and guilt. Dreams about smoking were the result of tobacco withdrawal, as 97% of subjects did not have them while smoking, and their occurrence was significantly related to the duration of abstinence. They were rated as more vivid than the usual dreams and were as common as most major tobacco withdrawal symptoms.” [Source]

2. External Stimuli Invade our Dreams

This is called Dream Incorporation and it is the experience that most of us have had where a sound from reality is heard in our dream and incorporated in some way. A similar (though less external) example would be when you are physically thirsty and your mind incorporates that feeling in to your dream. My own experience of this includes repeatedly drinking a large glass of water in the dream which satisfies me, only to find the thirst returning shortly after – this thirst… drink… thirst… loop often recurs until I wake up and have a real drink. The famous painting above (Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening) by Salvador Dali, depicts this concept.

1. You are paralyzed while you sleep

Believe it or not, your body is virtually paralyzed during your sleep – most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dreams. According to the Wikipedia article on dreaming, “Glands begin to secrete a hormone that helps induce sleep and neurons send signals to the spinal cord which cause the body to relax and later become essentially paralyzed.”

Bonus: Extra Facts

1. When you are snoring, you are not dreaming.
2. Toddlers do not dream about themselves until around the age of 3. From the same age, children typically have many more nightmares than adults do until age 7 or 8.
3. If you are awakened out of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, you are more likely to remember your dream in a more vivid way than you would if you woke from a full night sleep.

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1 Cat Skyfire
November 14th, 2007 at 9:24 am

External Stimuli – I often have dreams wherein this annoying klaxon is sounding, and won’t go away. No matter what’s going on in the dream, there’s no way to turn it off.

When I do wake, it is to the sound of the alarm clock, the klaxon of my dream.
2 mix2323
November 14th, 2007 at 9:27 am

i love dreams and i love to dream
3 michael
November 14th, 2007 at 9:34 am

regarding point 1 and 2. a lot of people who claim to be abducted by aliens (with all the probing and what-have-you) when they go through sleep analysis it turns out they have this condition that allows your eyes to be open during sleep, especially during REM sleep and while dreaming. I forgot the name of the condition, but because the body is immobile, and they are dreaming of being abducted by aliens or some such thing, it seems extraordinarily real to them. Because they are literally seeing their dream.
4 jfrater
November 14th, 2007 at 9:39 am

Cat Skyfire: I have the same thing happen with my alarm too – and as a kid when my mother would call me to get out of bed.

mix2323: I agree – it is especially cool when you can control your dreams.

michael: wow – that is amazing – I haven’t heard of that – I don’t think I would like it very much.
5 Martin L
November 14th, 2007 at 9:41 am

I can attest to Fact #3: I’m coming up on three years smoke-free (after 33 years as a slave to the noxious weed), and particularly over the past year, my dreams have been like successful collaborations by Lynch, Kubrick AND Spielberg. Very intense and vivid, full of interwoven plots in cities full of strange architecture where I know my way around perfectly. From my present standpoint, given the choice between tobacco and cool dreams, I’ll take the dreams, no contest.
6 jfrater
November 14th, 2007 at 9:42 am

Martin L: congrats on 3 years! I am a full time smoker and I have just decided never to quit – I enjoy it too much and it gives me a good reason to fight the anti-smokers
7 evan
November 14th, 2007 at 9:45 am

Michael its called sleep paralysis, I used to have it. The first couple times it was extremely freaky. You’re eyes are open and you’re somewhat aware that you’re awake but your dreams still continue in kind of a muted way. It’s like you’re awake and your dreams are taking place in your room and you’re still paralyzed and unable to move. Scary stuff, you get a distorted tunnel vision and hearing was weird/altered. Strange lights, images, sounds stuff like that, and again you try to move and can’t. You’re correct most doctors attribute UFO abductions and such as episodes of sleep paralysis.
8 smac
November 14th, 2007 at 9:45 am

My dreams tend to include supernatural or mythical beings – such as giants, living skeletons, and zombies. I guess this would be a common theme like those mentioned in #5. My dreams also tend to be quite violent. This used to freak me out, but I’m used to it by now.

I hope nobody thinks i’m too insane now. I’m only slightly crazy – i just have messed up dreams.
9 kristin
November 14th, 2007 at 9:46 am

someone told me that you were paralyzed when you sleep, but i didnt believe them until now, but that makes me wonder how do people sleep walk if they are paprlyzed?
10 dangorironhide
November 14th, 2007 at 9:51 am

I love having lucid dreams, its like daydreaming, but more a lot more realistic and fun. I can remember those dreams for ages after I wake up. Theres one I had years ago I can still remember.

Someone should do a list of ’10 facts about lucid dreaming’ or something like that.
11 jfrater
November 14th, 2007 at 9:52 am

smac: that is interesting – I almost never dream of supernatural beings – in fact, I can’t remember a single dream in which I did.

kirstin: I would presume that they are not in the REM state when sleep walking – there are four stages of sleep – paralysis may not occur in all four stages.
12 dswissmiss
November 14th, 2007 at 9:54 am

Any references for #4? I think dream interpretation got a bad rep with Freud since his theories seemed to be based on complete guesswork (as were most of his theories IMO). I’d be interested to know what modern psychology has to say about this.
With regards to #1, I once woke up while my body was still paralized. I couldn’t move a muscle for about a minute…freaked me out!
13 Shane
November 14th, 2007 at 9:59 am

You are only paralyzed during REM sleep, during stages 1-4 muscles are still active. It is more true to say that you are paralyzed when you ‘dream’ because most dreaming is done in REM sleep. Some dreaming is done in the earlier stages however so even this is not completely true.
14 jfrater
November 14th, 2007 at 10:01 am

dswissmiss: I am not sure what modern psychology says, but I think that a lot of reputable people do consider that some of the symbols may be interpreted but probably only by the person dreaming – the method of which is not to interpret the dream itself, but the feelings elicited by the dream. I have also woken up while paralysed – it is an incredibly awful feeling – I think it is related to the feeling you sometimes get of needing to drag yourself out of a sleep.
15 jfrater
November 14th, 2007 at 10:06 am

Shane: ah – thanks for clarifying that
16 Shane S.
November 14th, 2007 at 10:16 am

I remember taking a nap in college and “waking up” still paralyzed. I could not tell if I was still dreaming, but dreaming about being stuck on a couch and not being able to move, or if i was actually awake enough to detect my surroundings, but was still paralyzed from dreaming. Either way, it scared the crap out of me! All I wanted to do was get up, but I couldn’t!
17 EAL
November 14th, 2007 at 10:24 am

A lot of times in my dreams, I slowly realize that I am dreaming because of some small detail that is different, and upon seeing this detail, I notice more and more things that aren’t right and that are pretty bizarre, and then my dream usually ends
18 Ravyn
November 14th, 2007 at 10:27 am

I love dreams. I used to remember them so well. I have recently been able to recall dreams more and more and keep a dream diary. Dreams are fun to decypher. You never know what you will get but most of the time when you figure it out you will know exactly what part of your life it is aimed at. I also tend to have “series” dreams where it’ll have a to be continued ending and then a few days or weeks later I will have the follow up dream. Like I have said before in another list, I tend to have prophetic dreams. Oh the dreams we dream….
19 Joel Wideman
November 14th, 2007 at 10:28 am

#3 contradicts #4. #4 is total BS anyway. Dreams are simply a side effect of the purging process the subconscious mind goes through. Making any sense of them whatsoever is your conscious mind trying to sort them out.
#10 is absurd as a fact. Yes, it’s true, of course. But why would lacking a certain sense mean you can’t dream? Not to mention that we dream with all our senses.
#7 Nope. A researcher recently spent an extended time without sleep, or any negative effects other than tiredness. He also avoided stimulants. It’s possible that the negative effects associated with sleep deprivation are due more to the method used to stay awake.
#6 isn’t the whole story. If it were true, human imagination wouldn’t exist. We create faces and such BASED on what we know, but we do a lot of mix and match.
#5 also is not the whole story. People who claim to dream exclusively in black and white only remember the dreams that were influenced by old television shows. They have many more dreams that are in color, they just don’t remember them. Much like people who claim not to dream at all.
Bonus: Yes, you can snore and dream at the same time.
20 TerranRich
November 14th, 2007 at 10:30 am

As for sleep paralysis, I used to be able to relax myself just before sleeping, to the point where I’d slip into sleep paralysis. It’s like this switch, where all of a sudden you’re in complete fear. You also sense a presence nearby, something ominous and evil. You also hear a weird light buzzing sound, and your vision is kind of… I don’t know, it’s like the contrast is turned way up. Pretty freaky stuff. I can’t do it anymore, mainly because after having a kid, I just want to sleep.
21 mix2323
November 14th, 2007 at 10:36 am

TerranRich: i have the same problem when i sleep on my back i hate it
22 TravelerDante
November 14th, 2007 at 10:57 am

As a clinical psychology graduate, I can affirm what Joel said about #4. Dreams have no hidden meanings. The brain is simply firing off neurons in a seemingly random way in an attempt to form memories and give the conscious mind a rest, which is an organ just like any other that requires energy and rest to function properly. The concept of dream analysis did not even really exist in any form other than anecdotally before Freud, and most of the legitimate, modern psychological community now agrees that Freud’s theories were total bunk. Freud is hailed as the father of modern psychology not for the theories themselves, but for the method and thought processes he used to formulate conjectures.
23 bucslim
November 14th, 2007 at 11:05 am

I dream of Jeannie. I mean, some hot chick with a big rack that pops out of a jar and calls me master. She can get me things I really need, like an iPhone or some nachos, then pops back into the jar when Sportscenter comes on.

Err, what were we talking about?
24 carny666
November 14th, 2007 at 11:07 am

#3, quitters, happened to me, just like the article says, 4 weeks after quitting I had a dream where I was smoking and wow did I feel guilty. #5 I think is kind of ridiculous, dreams are your imagination, if you dream you are wearing red pants you wake up remembering that, at that point try and remember what colour shirt you were wearing. If you are not focusing on it in a dream then it has no relavence and therefor not imagined or remembered.
25 MzFlyFemme
November 14th, 2007 at 11:56 am

Awesome Post! Definitely added a few wrinkles on my brain with this one.
I can definitely relate to #1. I have actually had a few nightmares where I am only partially aware that I am sleeping, however, when trying to wake myself up I realize that my arms, legs & torso are virtually immovable and do not respond to my mental thoughts. Thie 1st time it happend I was really scared and it brought my nightmare to a whole other level. But after I’ve experienced it a couple times I realize I just have to wait a few moments for my body and mind to catch up to one another…haha
26 chadster
November 14th, 2007 at 11:58 am

This isn’t fair… my dreams almost never make any sense. They are completely random, so much that i can’t even explain most of them. How can they prove 6 btw…

also my psych teacher in high school told us that when one dreams of the open ocean, it alludes to sexual fantasies for his or her mother?!?!
27 Charly
November 14th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

Jfrater: You said something about controlling your dreams. I think thats a little bit scary. That means that you are sleeping, but you are aware of what happens in your mind, so you are inside your own mind. What if then you can’t find a way out??? Maybe you can confuse the reality with your dream, and you think that your mind is the real world, and then you never wake up again….

SCAAAAAAAAARYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
28 jfrater
November 14th, 2007 at 12:25 pm

Charly: heh maybe I am The One?
29 DiscHuker
November 14th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

not to be a dissenter, but how can we know “facts” about dreams? we can speculate, sure. but facts…?
30 jfrater
November 14th, 2007 at 12:44 pm

DiscHuker: You are right – but it sounds better than “Top 10 currently accepted but occasionally disputed psychological opinions on dreams”
31 aplspud
November 14th, 2007 at 1:02 pm

I agree somewhat with DiscHuker, we can’t really know facts about dreams. Which means that the clinical psychologists with their fancy degrees really don’t know any more than anyone else. Its all speculation. More and more we find chemical responses that cause things like sleep paralysis, but what is really REALLY happening in the brain may always be a mystery.

Joel: If black and white dreams are based on television shows, does that mean that no one ever dreamed in black and white before television? Also, staying awake is not the same thing as being woken up constantly throughout the night. In addition, “one researcher” does not qualify as a theory buster.

TravelerDante: Dreams can definitely have a “hidden meaning” if the unconscious is pondering something that the conscious mind isn’t willing to understand. I agree that Freud’s one size fits all approach to dream interpretation has been basically disregarded, but that doesn’t mean that dreams are merely neurons firing off at random intervals.

My dreams are extremely linear and very often deal with something in my daily life that is troubling me. Of course, I sleep very poorly because my mind is almost never at rest. Every therapist I have ever seen has been amazed at how explicit my dreams are, how much I remember, and how much the are affected by my life.

Another note, that paralysis hormone is what is attributed to causing the sensation of having something or someone sitting on one’s chest upon waking, an experience that is traditionally blamed on Incubus (the demon, not the band).
32 deameree
November 14th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

How could item #6 be proven? I’d be fascinated to know…

(Seems to be you’d have to prove that nobody has ever invented a face in a dream. How do you prove billions of negatives?)
33 Joe
November 14th, 2007 at 1:18 pm

I talk in my sleep alot. I used to date this girl who would try to ask me questions when I did this to see if I was running around on her. I would inevitably wake up at some point in mid sentence with her looming over me hanging on my every word. She’d always be so ashamed at getting caught she would never tell me what I said.

Crazy far out girl was that one.
34 Xavier
November 14th, 2007 at 1:19 pm

Another example of how external stimuli invade our dreams, when your alarm goes off and it is incorporated into your dream as maybe a fire alarm or security alarm. So many time has this happened to me that I’ve switched my alarm to the radio (which is like having the radio talk host suggest to me what to dream about haha).

By the way, I love Dali.
35 evan
November 14th, 2007 at 1:23 pm

i often fall asleep with the tv on, so when i awak im usually dreaming about something related to whats on the tv. ie ill wake up while having a dream about being in WW2 and look at the tv and itll be saving private ryan or something on.
lately because of tivo, ive been waking up to a lame espn workout show lol.
36 benetnash
November 14th, 2007 at 2:33 pm

I have a lot of recurring dreams that I’ve had since I was a little kid, and they are the dreams I remember most…I still remember the original ones from when I was a kid.

And a few instances of outside stimuli…I often have dreams about trying to find a bathroom and I can’t find one or when I do find one, it’s usually a huge room with tons of tiny, unaccessible stalls or there’s no privacy and then, I wake up having to go real bad. There was also one time that in my dream I was being continually stung by a hornet in the palm of my hand and I couldn’t shake it off. When I woke up, my hand was pounding…I don’t know what was actually happening. And if I sleep in some way that my arms fall asleep (usually up across my head, or one might be under my side), in my dream, I have no arms…and that’s usually not what the dream is about, I just happen to not have any arms.
37 TravelerDante
November 14th, 2007 at 2:42 pm

aplsud: Tarot cards and horoscopes have hidden meanings too if you look hard enough for them and believe in that sort of thing. Just because you think your dreams are your unconscious mind pondering what your conscious mind isn’t willing to understand doesn’t mean it is. The best scientific evidence we have to date is murky on the subject, as dreams are highly individualized, often sharing common themes that we as humans in general have hard-wired into our brains but expressing those themes in entirely idiosyncratic ways; ergo, it is honestly impossible to objectively determine the answer to this question, so the answer comes to this: do you believe that your dreams have hidden meanings? Then they do. Good luck figuring them out. I for one don’t tend to believe in that kind of stuff. Our brains are organic computers, and IMO dreams are nothing more than the short-term memory banks cleansing themselves.
38 Kelsi
November 14th, 2007 at 3:03 pm

TravelerDante: “The concept of dream analysis did not even really exist in any form other than anecdotally before Freud, and most of the legitimate, modern psychological community now agrees that Freud’s theories were total bunk.”

That’s not true, many Native American cultures relied heavily on dream interpretation for many things.

Good list though. I dream frequently about being chased, and a new theme has been emerging involving my younger brother protecting or helping me. I have also dreamed about supernatural creatures, such as tiny mutant trees come to life, posessed multicolored cartoonish donkeys, and vampires. The vampire dream was really cool actually. =p I have never dreamed about riding that I can remember however, which is strange since it completely consumes my life.

I often have a LOT of trouble waking up to my alarm. This began over the summer and continues. I thought it was because I was used to it, so I used my cell phone, bought a new alarm clock, set two alarms, and so on. I frequently don’t remember my alarm going off the first time and wake up half an hour later afer hitting the snooze button several times. I should probably look up some information on this. It has caused me to miss class on more than one occasion, and I’m not sleep deprived.
39 amanda
November 14th, 2007 at 3:13 pm

Charly- I can also control my dreams. Just last night I changed a dream. My son was about to be killed, and I changed it. I don’t know how Ido it, but I do it often.

Traveler, my mother in law is a practicing neural psychologist, and she believes that dreams are a way for our unconscious to help us discover things about ourselves that we would otherwise ignore. For instance, I’ve had a reccuring dream for years about being trapped in a trunk underwater. There are fish and mermaids swimming all around me, some happy, some sad, some angry, and etc. After using me as a guinea pig for a psychological battery, she found that I have an emotional block. I prevent myself from experiencing emotions, and instead I just take a deep breath, and push them down. So is it just a coincidence that I’ve had dreams for years about being trapped underwater with emotions surrounding me?
40 Joel Wideman
November 14th, 2007 at 3:13 pm

aplspud, television certainly wasn’t the first source of black and white images. But unless you had seen such imagery – like, say, early photographs – how would you know what anything would look like without color? It is not naturally occuring.
People forget a great deal of what they dream. We dream many times throughout our sleep, and in fact have several separate dreams in the space of what we remember as one continuous dream. We remember only the most recent and most significant parts. Dreaming in black and white would definitely stand out, as it is so unnatural.
And I wouldn’t be so eager to dismiss clinical psychologists. After all, we barely understand physics and yet you don’t dismiss physicists, do you?
The discovery of one researcher – and I wish I could find the study so you’d understand it was a respected scientist and not some kid on a WoW bender – IS enough to suggest that what we know about sleep isn’t necessarily correct.
I’m not sure why you brought up staying awake vs having sleep interrupted.
41 Joel Wideman
November 14th, 2007 at 3:23 pm

Charly, I’ve never had that problem. I have lucid dreams. The whole point is that you’re aware you’re dreaming. The moment you forget that, you lose control. People who lucid dream on purpose have little tricks to remind themselves that they are dreaming. The hard part is staying in the dream, as lucid dreaming occurs in a mental state very close to being awake.
Lucid dreaming is probably even less understood than more typical dreaming. If it’s more effort, why do we feel more refreshed upon waking?
42 James
November 14th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

I used to dream of a house with monsters serially when I was a child, also had dreams where I battled the devil (yet I am not christian now) yet I can see patterns from those dreams repeating in my life (im 32 now). I had one recurring dream around age 6 or 7 where everyone in the world had gone crazy and had been taken over by a huge eye in the sky. If you looked at it, you were possessed by the eye. Me and this huge monster were running from the crazy people, the monster made a mistake of looking up in the sky at the eye and started bowing up and down then it came after me. I always awakened after this. Anybody have anything similar?
43 Arkz_Archduke_of_Geeks
November 14th, 2007 at 3:31 pm

.. is it a problem if i have lucid dreams without trying
44 Joel Wideman
November 14th, 2007 at 4:07 pm

Sorry for not getting these all in one really long post, but I’m addressing issues I get the email notice.
If you look at your dreams as expressing hidden thoughts, you’re looking at it backwards.
Sleep consists of several stages of consciousness. There’s the deepest stage, where no dreaming occurs. It’s complete downtime. It is impossible to wake directly from this state – your mind MUST go through higher stages to become awake.
There’s the next deepest stage, right below where dreaming occurs. Not much is going on here, but this is the place your mind rests between dream “snippets”.
The REM stage. This is where the subconscious mind is throwing out all the garbage, which generates all the stuff you remember as a dream. It is possible to wake up from here, and you won’t even remember what you were just dreaming because your mind wasn’t awake enough yet.
The semi-conscious stage. This is where your conscious mind looks at what your subconscious mind has been spewing and says “WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?!?” Because your conscious mind is very literal, it tries to assign meaning to it. To the point where it will edit what you’ve been dreaming and try to suggest to the subconscious what it thinks it should see next. From here we can either wake up the rest of the way and remember the dream we just had, or go back down to the deeper stages.
The highest stage of sleep is actually full consciousness, though only aware internally, and we always pass through it on our way to waking up. Usually it’s so brief we don’t notice – one moment we’re dreaming, the next we’re awake – but it is possible to keep returning to this state before going back down for REM. That is lucid dreaming.
We bounce up and down through most of these stages repeatedly the entire time we’re asleep, even several times throughout a single dream. We stay in one stage or another for only a short time usually, but some stages we sort of hover in for a long time depending on where we are sleep-wise.
And we know all this because each of these stages coincides with brainwave activity, which we can measure. This explanation is a bit simplified, as there’s some more stages at the bottom end.
45 Joel Wideman
November 14th, 2007 at 4:18 pm

Arkz, only if for some weird reason you don’t want to have them. The rest of us wish we could have them without trying.
46 dswissmiss
November 14th, 2007 at 4:20 pm

I feel like most dream interpretation theories rest on this idea that you have an unconscious part of the brain separate from the conscious. I really think this should be questioned as there is no evidence for the existence of a fully reasoning subconscious brain. Just because your head is filled with memories you are not currently focusing on, does not mean that these thoughts are being mulled through and incorporated into your world at a subconscious level, no?
It just seems to me like another Freudian theory that stuck with our culture even though modern psychology has left it long ago. Not to be too negative though, I still think we should have an open mind about this.
47 Bryce
November 14th, 2007 at 4:31 pm

a lot of times when im dreaming and remember soudns from it i recognize them sometimes from commercials on tv from when i left it on when i slept. its weirddd
48 deedee0323
November 14th, 2007 at 5:02 pm

It’s weird…sometimes when I have a nightmare or a sad dream, I start to tell myself in my dream that it’s a dream and I need to wake up…then I do!
49 Fallenangel
November 14th, 2007 at 5:09 pm

They say you can’t dream until you’ve reached the 15 minute REM phase, or something about there, but I have had vivid dreams with less than 9 minutes of sleep, my dear you haven’t touched on prophetic dreams, one that I am well familiar with.
50 Ashley
November 14th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

I used to have dreams when I was younger that I was really busting to go toilet… finally I made it to the bathroom but all of a sudden everything was warm and I had wet the bed… Lucky that one doesn’t happen anymore

Also, I used to sleep listening to the radio, one night I had a dream that I was in a radio ad!!

My boyfriend and I will sometimes wake up at about 4 or 5am and speak to eachother for a bit / go toilet and then go back to sleep. We agreed that after going back to sleep for that last hour or so we always have very vivid dreams.

Such an interesting topic..
51 aplspud
November 14th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

Joel: The study in #7 is about people being woken up repeatedly without the chance to dream. You were talking about someone just staying up. They are different. For instance, I know if I can only get 7 hours of sleep, I am going to be insanely irritable all day. But if I get 6 hours, or 8.5 or more hours, I’m fine. Probably because of where I’m being woken up in my sleep cycle. Likewise, if I just stay up all night, I’m usually ok the next day.
By scientific method, you’re partially correct that one dissenting study can mean the previous theory isn’t “necessarily correct” but it doesn’t mean the new study is correct either. And to have an experiment on only one subject without any control is usually discounted.
And I didn’t dismiss clinical psychologists. I was referring specifically to dream study. I’ve participated in many medical and psychological studies, as I am actually very scientific minded. But I think here are some things that are either beyond our understanding, or at least beyond what we can understand at this point in our evolution. I think its fascinating that we can measure brainwaves and make images of what is happening physically in the brain while dreams are occurring. But that doesn’t account for what makes up dreams, what the images are, where they come from.
52 aplspud
November 14th, 2007 at 6:00 pm

TravelerDante: The difference between Tarot and astrology and dreams is that in the former, one is taking an outside, physical element and attempting to match it up to certain behaviors and events in a person’s life. Dreams on the other hand are coming solely from within. Why did my brain create that story, image, event? I think we are interpreting “hidden meaning” in different ways. I’m not implying that everything one dreams has to be a symbol for something else. But I do think dreams are a way for our brains to grapple with something we are either struggling with in our life, or are unwilling or unable to process consciously. Sometimes. Not always. If its simply a reset of the short term memory, why, for instance, would I as an adult have recurring dreams about my elementary school? What kind of purging is that? But as you said, we can all believe what we want to believe.
53 marc
November 14th, 2007 at 6:03 pm

I have to take issue with calling these facts. I mean really can anyone know for sure?

#6 Only dream about what we know.. How was this verified? Have they analyzed every person in the dream and determined, somehow, that well yes they had seen them before?? What about creative works produced?

#3 Quitters have more vivid dreams..
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Carl Jung said – People you dream about signify those characteristics in yourself that they symbolize.
54 HollyTamale
November 14th, 2007 at 6:37 pm

Once in my pre-cal class, I had to go to the bathroom really bad but I fell asleep during the first five minutes of class and didn’t go. While I was asleep, though, I had a dream that I did ask to go and I was walking into the bathroom stall. I’m lucky that a really loud girl was sitting next to me and I woke up because i’m pretty sure I would have wet my pants.
55 Jack11
November 14th, 2007 at 8:13 pm

Ok, I don’t remember who said what and I’m too lazy to look but anyways.

Whoever said you can’t dream in the deepest stage of sleep is wrong. The dreams in NREM sleep (Stages 1-4) “tend to be more like thoughts about daily occurences and far shorter than REM dreams.” (Foulkes & Schmidt, 1983; Takeuchi et al., 2003)

According to the Psychology book I have open in front of me, people do not necessarily have to go through the higher (or lighter) stages of sleep before awaking. Naturally, yes that happens, but you can awaken someone even if their in deep Non-REM Stage 4 sleep. The book does say they are more difficult to awaken, and upon awakening they are commonly disoriented and confused.

I don’t think anyone else has stated this (at least not clearly). The 4 stages of sleep and REM sleep comprise the sleep cycle, which is repeated 4 or 5 times throughout a single night’s sleep. A normal sleep cycle takes an average of an hour and a half, with Stage 4 sleep being longer in the beginning of the night and REM sleep being longer in the last part of the sleep period, just before awakening.

Awake
Stage 1 NREM sleep (Average 10 minutes)
Stage 2 NREM sleep (As long as 20 minutes)
Stage 3 NREM sleep (As long as 40 minutes, after the first stage 3 that is shorter than 40 minutes)
Stage 4 (As long as 30 to 40 minutes)
REM (A few minutes to an hour)

Now, going to the sleep deprivation argument going on right now. Here is what my textbook say has to say.

Sleep deprivation, or loss of sleep, is a serious problem, which many people have without realizing it. People stay up too late at night during the week, get up before they’ve really rested to go to work or school, and then try to pay off the “sleep debt” on the weekend. All of that disrupts the normal sleep-wake cycle and isn’t good for anyone’s health. Some typical symptoms of sleep deprivation include trembling hands, inattention, staring off into space, droopy eyelids, and general discomfort, as well as emotional symptoms such as irritability and even depression.

How serious is missing a few nights’ sleep? Sleep researchers conducted a study in which healthy adults between the ages of 21 and 38 were randomly placed in one of four restricted sleep conditions (Van Dongen et al., 2003). Participants began the experiment with at least three days of regular sleep and then were either allowed to get only four hours, six hours, or eight hours (this was the control group) of sleep each day for 14 days. A fourth group of participants was totally deprived of sleep (by being kept awake by the researchers) for three days in a row. Measurements of the participants’ cognitive abilities and physical alertness were taken every two hours during the scheduled “awake” times. The results showed that even in the six-hour sleep condition, participants’ abilities to function mentally and physically were as negatively affected as if they had been entirely deprived of sleep for two nights. All participants in the sleep-deprived and no-sleep conditions were seriously impaired in their functioning and were relatively unaware of the seriousness of the impairment. That the participants did not seem aware of their problems in functioning may account for the impression many people have that a few nights of poor sleep is not that serious. The results of this study seem to indicate that even moderate sleep loss is a serious problem.

The above is from the book “Psychology” by Saundra K. Ciccarelli and Gleen E. Meyer
56 jfrater
November 15th, 2007 at 12:58 am

Jack11: wow – thanks for going to the trouble to post all of that – very informative.
57 Joel Wideman
November 15th, 2007 at 1:30 am

Two questions, Jack11.
Aren’t the “dreams” in NREM usually forgotten?
You are disoriented after waking from stage 4, isn’t that because your brain is still getting through the other stages?
58 rbR
November 15th, 2007 at 5:38 am

Was wondering, do colorblind people dream exclusively without color?
59 jfrater
November 15th, 2007 at 5:56 am

rbR: color blind people generally can see color – just differently from non-color blind people. I would guess that they dream in the color set they see in real life.
60 Joel Wideman
November 15th, 2007 at 6:14 am

People who are colorblind see two different colors – red and green, for example – as the same color. An interesting phenomenon, which seems exclusive to women (which explains a whole lot) is that a small percentage of women can perceive a color the rest of us cannot.
And don’t even get me started on synasthesia.
61 Vicky
November 15th, 2007 at 8:18 am

I remember I once had a horrifying experience for whatever reason. I was three and I was dreaming about eyeballs floating all over the room and when I woke up I was still seeing them. And for some reason I hate olives because of it.
62 SlackJack
November 15th, 2007 at 8:29 am

I cant believe everyone is agreeing with #1. Sure, there are times of being “paralyzed”, but what about sleep-walkers?? What about sleep-drivers??? What about the ones we hear about that think they are wrestling someone (or something) and almost kill their mate?? I’ve been known to punch my wife while dreaming I’m protecting my family from an intruder. #1 is bunk.

By the way, some day I hope to be as smart as Joel Wideman.
63 Ozhan
November 15th, 2007 at 8:46 am

Everyone dreams about “being chased” but tell me, do you feel tired afterward?
64 Fallenangel
November 15th, 2007 at 8:53 am

I must say JFrater, I love the topic you picked for this list. I’ve always had an interest in my dreams. I’ve even opened myslef to Carl Jung, and Freud’s ideas on matters of the psyche in regarding dreams. I’ve gotten books to help explain symbolism, most are not too far off. This is fun hearing about what people have to say, think, and have experienced. Thank you very much for this one. Oh and I agree, I’d like to enjoy the intelectual abilitis of Joel Wideman as well, and interprising as Jack11. Thank you two as well.
65 aplspud
November 15th, 2007 at 9:05 am

SlackJack: My understanding about sleep walking, etc. is that for some reason the chemicals that keep you paralyzed are not created or stop working. I have a history of sleep walking, talking in my sleep, and once I punched my boyfriend while dreaming of fighting off Republicans.
66 AndyB123
November 15th, 2007 at 9:12 am

A guy named Roger woke up one night. He sat straight up in bed, and uttered a few words. He wrote them down and went back to sleep. He told the guys in his rock band about it, and they liked the line so much that they used it for a song. The song ? Smoke On The Water.
About Sleep Paralysis – I’ve experienced it twice. It wasn’t scary at all. I can understand that some people freak out, since you’re seeing strange things, and you can’t move. But it’s not dangerous, and it’ll pass. Interesting list, by the way.
67 evan
November 15th, 2007 at 9:13 am

“dreaming of fighting off Republicans.” lol too funny
68 Fallenangel
November 15th, 2007 at 9:25 am

It is funny AndyB123 should mention the ‘smoke on the water’ reference, I’ve woke up many times with the lines for a poem in my head, I’ve learned to write them down, other wise I will only have a vague recolection of them when I actually wake up. Also, I was told Smoke on the Water was about a fire one night at a place that Deep Purple played burned to the ground.
This is from Wikipedia:
The lyrics of the song tell a true story: “on December 4, 1971, Deep Purple had set up camp in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio (rented from the Rolling Stones and known as the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio – referred to as the “Rolling truck Stones thing” in the song lyric) at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino (referred to as “the gambling house” in the song lyric). On the eve of the recording session a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino’s theatre. During the gig a fire broke out: “In the middle of Don Preston’s synthesizer solo on “King Kong”, the place suddenly caught fire. Somebody in the audience had fired a flare gun into the ceiling, at which point the rattan covering started to burn.”[1][2], as mentioned in the “some stupid with a flare gun” line. There is an undocumented version of the story that claims the blaze was a result of faulty wiring, but whatever the cause, the resulting fire destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the Mothers’ equipment. The “smoke on the water” that became the title of the song (credited to bassist Roger Glover, who related how the title occurred to him when he suddenly woke from a dream a few days later) referred to the smoke from the fire spreading over Lake Geneva from the burning casino as the members of Deep Purple watched the fire from their hotel across the lake. The “Funky Claude” running in and out is referring to Claude Nobs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival who helped some of the audience escape the fire.”
I love the concept, I’m sure it’s more than relevent in other aspects of creative genius.
69 anesb
November 15th, 2007 at 10:17 am

I thought this list was great. Though I didn’t realize there were so many sleep experts reading this site. I just hope this site doesn’t turn into all those other blogs and websites, where the people commenting seem to know everything and ruin any sort of fun. The last thing this awesome place needs is 20 comments saying “First!!” or “Photoshoped!!” Ugh.
70 BB
November 15th, 2007 at 10:58 am

Just a quick note to Joel, color blindness is found mostly in males not females!
In the United States, about 7 percent of the male population – or about 10.5 million men – and 0.4 percent of the female population either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2006). It has been found that more than 95 percent of all variations in human color vision involve the red and green receptors in male eyes.
71 alisa
November 15th, 2007 at 11:34 am

I can relate to number 2. About 3 years ago I was dreaming I was walking on the top of a tall brick wall, and i was yelling “Pieces, Pieces, Pieces of me!!” But actually..that song was playing on the radio while I was dreaming. It’s by Ashlee Simpson. haha.
72 TravelerDante
November 15th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

aplsud: I am well aware of the difference between astrology and tarot cards versus dreams. You’re missing the point of my argument. The point is, people will believe what they want to believe, and if one honestly believes there are “hidden messages” and meanings that can be coded and dissected by their themology, then one will find them. Similarly, according to your definition of hidden meanings, our dreams are a way of dealing with stressors in our concious lives. Why then would one have dreams of flying unicorns and chasing giants when one’s relative has just died? The dream content is blatantly different in content and context than the stressor. Are you then saying that dreams have symbology or don’t have symbology? My answer to your argument is: if dreams have significance to our waking lives, why arn’t all of our dreams responsing to those significant waking events?

In response to your argument about recurring dreams, the reason you have recurring dreams is that those neural pathways in your brain are very strongly connected, and as your brain is purging itself of unneccessary “information” (if you will) these neural pathways are lighting up. The thoughts in our brains are generated by chemical reactions between the neurons and all it takes is one or several neurons lighting up one or several of the neurons along this pathway to generate that thought (i.e. stimulation along the strongly connected neural pathway will stimulate the whole pathway).

Kelsi: I meant in the scientific community, sorry I didn’t clarify. Many cultures have thought dream analysis was significant, but I meant in the modern psychological community.

Amanda: I hope your mother-in-law was not performing experiments on you, because it is considered highly unethical to perform experiments and analysis on one’s relatives; practicing psychologists have lost their licenses and their business for similar situations. And yes, if you’re asking me, it is just coincidence. I’ve already stated that people will believe what they want to believe, but the evidence that we have just doesn’t support this idea of dream symbology.
73 JOE ROSSON
November 15th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

I love to dream, when I go to bed I say to myself, well I wonder what I will dream about tonight.One strange thing is that I am in a wheelchair from a diving accident 6 years ago and in my dreams I can always walk, I am never in the chair.
74 aplspud
November 15th, 2007 at 12:26 pm

TravelerDante: You, like Freud, have a very one size fits all approach to your reasoning, ie if it doesn’t always fit the rules, then it cannot ever be that way. But that’s your choice not to believe. For such a pragmatist I would have expected fewer grammatical errors.
75 TravelerDante
November 15th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

By the way people, general statement here: The ideas of Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung are considered antiquated and outdated in modern psychology. Please don’t pick up these texts now and think that 60 years ago, 80 years ago, these experts had any real idea about the human mind. There are a few ideas these men had that had some merit (e.g. defense mechanisms, the subconcious, etc.) but the vast majority were created, not based on falsifiable scientific evidence, but pure speculation and interpretation on the part of these men. The method that they went about forming these conjectures makes them no more qualified to speak on many of these topics than George Bush or George Clooney. Sad but true. They had some good ideas, but there was just no evidence at the time to back up their claims.
76 TravelerDante
November 15th, 2007 at 12:36 pm

aplsud: I particularly appreciate the ad hominem arguments. Since you can’t better argue your position, you choose to attack me. For someone who claims to be scientific minded, your are not very open to debate. As for your idea that I have a “one-size-fits-all” approach, that is simply untrue. I am a scientist, and I base my beliefs and arguments on falsifiable scientific theories and proven scientific facts. If the evidence shows that one explanation is better than the others, then that explanation is the best one. If you call this “one-size-fits-all” than you are sorely mistaken and should perhaps take another look at why you have the beliefs you do.
77 aplspud
November 15th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

Sorry, I was merely applying my expertise the same as you.
78 TravelerDante
November 15th, 2007 at 1:23 pm

It doesn’t seem like it. I’m trying to argue a point and you are trying to point out my occasional sub-par grammar. There seems to be a difference of intellectual scope here. I’ve already said that people will believe what they want to believe, regardless of what the evidence and scientific reasoning shows. It’s the same way with religion. A devout person will continue to believe no matter how many inaccuracies and inconsistencies their cosmology and morality shows. If you want to believe that your dreams have meaning, then by all means, don’t let me talk you out of it, as long as it helps you to deal with whatever is bothering you in your waking life.
79 Joel Wideman
November 15th, 2007 at 1:48 pm

SlackJack, that’s when there’s not enough of the hormone that paralyzes us while asleep.
And if you do a lot of reading, you’ll know twice as much as me, because I’ve forgotten half of everything I know.
80 Ralph
November 15th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

One of the others on here mentioned the non-private bathroom situation dreams. I have this almost once a month. In the last one I had all the toilets were in the dining room of a Denny’s (that might be saying something as well). I finally decided to just go ahead and go. However I woke up before anything happened.
I have always attributed these dreams to the real life stress involving shitty situations and just being unable to do anything about them.
81 Fallenangel
November 15th, 2007 at 2:50 pm

Traveler: Thank you for pointing that out about Freud and Jung. I never really thought about it before. Luckily I never subscribed myself to their opinions solely. There are multitude of possibilities in the vastness of our lack of knowledge to vehemently refuse any posibility of what we may or may not know. There are always going to be things that are out of our control, or scope of knowledge. This may be a subject in which only the tip of the ice berg is ever presented to us. This is not a definate science and with such a malleable subject to stand on, I see no reason why anyone should conform to one idealology. I love hearing what you all say. This is quite informative and entertaining.
P.S. you two, it’s just a forum, no corners please
82 amanda
November 15th, 2007 at 3:23 pm

Traveler- She was still a student when I got my battery, so no ethics codes have been broken! It was an assignment for an assesment course. She is doing her post-doc work now. She decided to go back to school after raising her family. Anyway, you make very good arguments, but I prefer to believe that dreams are important. It makes sleep more interesting! And about Jung and Freud. How could there be scientific evidence to back up their work when they were the pioneers? Although most of their work is now antiquated, modern psychology would not exist without their brilliant minds.
83 Jack11
November 15th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

Joel Wildeman: Perhaps people are going through the upper stages of sleep when awakened, and that accounts for the disorientation, but they are awake. And from my own personal experience of being woken up in the middle of the night (no idea what stage I would have been in) the disorientation usually doesn’t last much longer then a few seconds. My book says nothing about that, so perhaps you’re right.

And yes, dreams in NREM sleep are usually forgotten. Not always, but they are usually forgotten. In my case, dreams in REM and NREM sleep are usually forgotten, I hardly ever remember my dreams except for maybe once a month or so. haha

I was just saying what I had been taught in my psychology class and what I have read in my textbook. I have obviously not spent much time going in depth about it.

Fallenangel: Thanks for the compliment!
84 Jack11
November 15th, 2007 at 5:30 pm

Traveler is right about the Freud and Jung thing. Yes they pioneered psychology, but that doesn’t mean everything they thought was correct. Freud for example pretty much believed everything had to do with sex. If someone had a problem, they were sexually deprived. Ok, it’s a bit of an exaggeration but still.
85 gemmy
November 16th, 2007 at 1:30 am

Thats very interesting about being paralyzed while you sleep. I have been dealing with some severe sleeping problems for many years now. There have been a few times where I have had nights where I could swear I was so awake and alert yet I could not scream nor move a muscle. I remember it detail for detail to this very day about an ex of mine comming into my house drunk in the middle of the night screaming and yelling at me and ready to attack, but I couldnt do a thing to protect myself. It was so wierd and freaky.
86 Dyvahdoc
November 16th, 2007 at 4:18 am

As a licensed clinical psychologist with a doctoral degree I felt the need to comment. Shouts out to jfrater for his excellent work (I LOVE THIS SITE!) and the person who quoted her textbk (how industrious)! A mere degree in clinical psychology does an expert make. There really is nothing more infuriating than reading pseudo-intellectuals make declarative statements without providing suitable credentials. Anyway. To allay most concerns “modern psychology” as it has been referred to here, generally does accept that dreams do have some meaning to the dreamer. There are several ways of viewing dreams within the field: a) viewing dreams as a way of the the mind processing the day’s events; b) each individual seen in the dream is actually the dreamer, so when trying to interpret the dream, doing so from each perspective, c) noting places, objects, animals and interpreting thoses for symbolism, etc., etc,.
P.S. Kudos to those pointing out that pioneers promote theories that psychology is founded upon! As sex focused as he was, Freud has many points upon which we continue to ponder.
87 jfrater
November 16th, 2007 at 4:25 am

Dyvahdoc: Thank you And thanks for the comment – it is always excellent when someone qualified to comment does so – it helps us all understand the subject with clarity.
88 Raffaele
November 16th, 2007 at 6:34 am

Freud was wrong about dreams, just like he was wrong almost about any other topics in psychology.

Dreams are produced by our mind that tries to give a meaning to random thoughts caused by chimical reactions that happen in our brain while we sleep. It’s us that give a meaning to our dreams, just like we do with our memories, and not viceversa. This is a good explanation to many phenomena like the so called ‘premonitory dreams’ or the ‘revelation dreams’ where we are sure to have understood deep meanings (of live, of science etc) that evaporate when we get awake, or telepathic dreams etc

Beside this I don’t believe that dream have special meanings more than any other random thing that we produce like free association and similar
89 Bracey
November 16th, 2007 at 6:38 am

Haha I have awesome dreams where I’m a Vampire hunter or a Rock star and such like. Even when I have horrible dreams I wake up thinking shit I wanna go back lol. The only dream I can say I woke up in panic is where my son had died and he was a ghost talking to me then he got sucked back into the spirit world screaming “Daddy help”. Just typing this now the hairs on my neck are standing up
90 Josh
November 16th, 2007 at 7:16 am

I have to disagree with bonus #1. Since I snore lightly (or so I think) every night and I do indeed dream. Last night I had a dream that my teeth were tiny and half shaped so they’d break off easily. I know a person like that! The point is I thought I snore pretty regular — maybe not. I know that when I’m in an alcohol induced sleep I do not dream. Also quite frequently I dream that I’m back in the military and it’s almost never good. Although I have an honorable discharge and no negative feelings toward the military.
91 chandlersford
November 16th, 2007 at 7:24 am

Am I dreaming this?
92 heavenly-johnson
November 16th, 2007 at 7:57 am

I’m interested to know how anyone could possibly know that ‘we only dream of what we know’. It sounds like a tricky one to test.
93 jared
November 16th, 2007 at 8:22 am

I have never remembered a dream… even when I am woken up, I do not recall even experiencing them. I go to sleep and then wake up, nothing in between. I assume I dream, as everyone always says “Everyone Dreams”, but I kinda wish I knew what dreaming is like
94 paul
November 16th, 2007 at 9:30 am

Something interesting happened to me when I was about seven years old – for three nights I had the same nightmare. I would be walking down the stairs and would spot some kind of monster at the bottom, I would turn around and go back up the stairs only to see a monster at the top too. So I was stuck. And very scared.

I would be stuck there terrified for what seemed like a couple of minutes before waking up in a sweat.

On the fourth night I was stuck on the stairs again, but this time I said to myself ‘don’t be silly, this is obviously a dream’. I’d become conscious that I was dreaming. I walked towards the monster at the bottom of the stairs and he simply disappeared.

I never had that dream again, and from that point on I have regularly been able to control my dreams (lucid dreaming). Not always, but often.

That’s why I adore dreaming – I can do anything I want – I fly, I swim, I run at extreme speeds, I jump across huge chasms, I visit and converse with relatives that have passed away, I can choose. It’s amazing.

On the downside, I do occasionally get sleep paralysis, which can be terrifying. This usually happens if I stay too long in bed and I’m slipping in and out of sleep. If I lay on my back during that time I can almost guarantee sleep paralysis. So I avoid sleeping on my back at all costs.

Still, dreaming is amazing, sometimes I have dreams that are almost like watching a film – they seem to have plots that make sense. I wake up and feel amazed that MY brain can come up with such creative stories and stunning visuals.
95 infornography
November 16th, 2007 at 9:54 am

I used to have 100% control over my dreams and knew that I was dreaming (at least for the portions that I could remember when I woke up). This got tedious after a while. If there is a god, he gave us free will because controlling everything yourself gets boring and he needed some uncontrolled variables to keep from going insane.

#4 is total bunk. Neurons strengthen their connections when they fire. Whatever connections lead to their firing have a stronger influence next time. When you sleep, your brain has a bit of an electrical storm as your brain strengthens the neuron connections that are above a certain threshold and then your semi-conscious mind tries to make sense of it and fills in the gaps with other details.

The result of this is that your dreams are usually largely influenced by the events of the past day or week or whatever has been on your mind or even the memories that are close to whatever has been on your mind. Without proper sleep you will have a hard time remembering things as your brain will not have had an opportunity to convert the short term memories into long term ones.

This is why college professors stress the importance of a good night’s rest before a test and the fact that cramming just before the test is less effective than studying the few days before.
96 Phil E. Drifter
November 16th, 2007 at 10:48 am

Re: External Stimuli, I can tell you that I remember a dream I had in my youth (i’m 30 now) where I was running around and around a school bus (which is strange because I went to a catholic school and never once needed or used a school bus to get there)…anyway, running around and around a school bus because I heard my mother calling me, in the dream from my perspective I felt like I was chasing her around the bus, following where her voice was coming from, and eventually I woke up and my mother was still calling me and I realized in that instant that it was her calling me in real life that I had been hearing in my dream.
97 Ken
November 16th, 2007 at 11:07 am

I have asthma, and I often dream of having an asthma attack, which my dream inhaler fails to remedy. Eventually I wake and take my real medicine.
98 jfrater
November 16th, 2007 at 11:09 am

Ken: wow – I can only imagine how awful that must be.
99 Ovidiu C.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:15 am

Teeth falling out. Ha. I tought I was the only one dreaming that. I used to dream that *all* my teeth were falling out. I actually saw a documentary that said you should take heed of such dreams, because it could really happen. During the night the brain can “pay attention” to the stimuli the body sends. The funny thing is, after visiting a dentist (who removed tons of calculus from between the teeth and the gum) those dreames stopped.
100 Valerie
November 16th, 2007 at 11:37 am

Hi. I dunno why the Psych grad didn’t say this, but there’s actually a hormone, a chemical that is sent out by the body during REM sleep that paralyzes you, causing you not to physically react to what you’re dreaming. People who sleep-walk lack this hormone. There are also things called night terrors. There’s a different between the two, but I can’t remember. Look it up.
101 nepawoods
November 16th, 2007 at 12:02 pm

The list is baloney. “Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts – did you know that your mind is not inventing those faces – they are real faces of real people that you have seen during your life but may not know or remember?”

Evidence? Proof? Can anyone suggest any possible evidence? I have a dream about a face I don’t remember ever having seen before … what possible evidence can there be that I did see it before, but forgot?
102 jfrater
November 16th, 2007 at 12:05 pm

nepawoods: by your reasoning that we must have proof for something to be real, I presume you don’t believe in evolution or the big bang – as they are also unable to be proven? In this list I am simply stating what the general psychological view is at the moment.
103 nepawoods
November 16th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

“In this list I am simply stating what the general psychological view is at the moment.”

I’m asking how there could possibly be evidence for this? Not solid proof, just a shred of evidence. Prove to me that the face I dreamt, I also saw somewhere.

How about a citation? Provide a link to where this is discussed by reputable experts.
104 Chad Reitsma
November 16th, 2007 at 12:54 pm

Dreaming is so awesome! But even more awesome than that is something called “Lucid Dreaming” the act of realizing that you are dreaming while you’re dreaming! Go look it up!!
105 Amanda
November 16th, 2007 at 2:54 pm

The external stimuli thing happens to me when I have to pee while I’m sleeping. I keep dreaming I’m going to the bathroom but can’t get there, and it’s very frustrating, because I keep thinking I woke up and try to go to the bathroom and I still can’t get there. :/
106 scott
November 16th, 2007 at 9:41 pm

i always dream that i try to punch someone but my fist goes slowmo and it never reaches the person, i wake up and i punch someonthing to make sure i can , and another is i dream i turn off my alarm clock, but it doenst stop, and it always makes me sleep in
107 scott
November 16th, 2007 at 9:41 pm

oh yeah and i use to dream i could breathe underwater
108 sjmarshy
November 17th, 2007 at 2:35 am

good list
only one thing, body is only paralyzed during REM sleep, otherwise it moves and twitches about
109 ajm
November 17th, 2007 at 5:14 am

For years i could not work out why i was always squinting in my dreams, like I was trying to focus on whatever it was infront of me. Then for some reason I worked it out – I dream without my glasses on!!! I am really shortsighted and wear my glasses all the time (except for when I sleep and shower.) How weird is that? I wonder what would happen if I had laser surgery on my eyes – would my dreams become more clearer?
110 jfrater
November 17th, 2007 at 6:00 am

ajm: that is really weird – I am shortsighted too but I don’t seem to recall it being the case in my dreams
111 Cathy
November 17th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

I’ve often dreamed full length, detailed, colorful dreams…woken up to visit the frig for some water, gone back to bed and went right back into the same dream. Anyone else?

Also, I remember once reading that once you awaken and move around, you forget your dream…but if you stay perfectly still upon awakening, you will be able to recall your dream.
I have since tried it and find it to be true.
Any opinions on this one.

Thank you all in advance, for you sharing. This site is wonderful.
112 paul
November 17th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

@Cathy

If I half wake up and then go back to sleep I can go back into my current dream, but not if I get up and walk around. Sometimes, I really which I could.

I never get up as soon as I wake up, I usually stay awake in bed for at least twenty minutes before I get up and I tend to remember my dreams quite well.
113 Joel Wideman
November 17th, 2007 at 4:56 pm

That’s one of the tricks some use to lucid dream. I can’t do it, because once I wake a rarely can go back to sleep.
Another thing that helps remember is writing the dream down. Have a pen and paper beside your bed and write down the dream without getting up.
114 Bugsy
November 18th, 2007 at 11:38 am

I keep a note-pad next to my bed to write down what I dreamed.

The pad is almost empty after two years except for lines of text which make no sense.
115 DistantThunder
November 18th, 2007 at 2:52 pm

Some random thoughts from my own experience:

I’ve experienced the situation of sounds coming into dreams. Once my wake-up alarm became the siren of a fire truck in my dream. Eventually the dream shattered and I woke up with the alarm still sounding.

Often in my most vivid dreams I come to realize I am dreaming, and then I can do whatever I want. Many of my dreams involve an endless being chased and barely (but always) escaping sequence. But once I realize I’m dreaming, it turns fun … cause then I can throw lightning from my fingertips or whatever I want in my dream, and it always ends happily.

Sometimes I relive the same sequence of events over and over. Each time I learn from my previous encounter with the imaginary scenario, but invariably the situation gets more and more difficult (scarier or more threatening) until I wake up. Usually this happens all in one night, not between nights.

Many of my nightmares seem to be tied to external stimuli. For example, the most common cause is getting chilled. If I sleep comfortably and warmly, I have very restful sleep. But many times when I’ve had a bad dream, I’ve awakened to realize my covers have rolled off and I’m shivering under the fan, or else maybe I have a stomach ache. I’ve heard that heart attack victims have higher rates of subsequent bad dreams, especially after surgery. I wonder if this is because pain and circulatory problems create the nightmares. The nightmares (in my dad’s case after his heart attack and bypass surgery) had no connection to the heart attack or the consequences of it; they were just weird nightmares about all kinds of crazy things.

There are so many common themes in dreams (google it), it seems inconceivable that it is just all random junk. People seem to have certain kinds of dreams when they are going through certain kinds of situations, and many elements or scenarios are VERY common. I was shocked when I first discovered that many of my supposedly strange dreams were exactly the kinds of dreams many other people had all the time. So I think there is meaning in dreams, although not necessarily that everything symbolizes something, or that our mind is offering us deep wisdom about anything.
116 Dirk
November 20th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

External stimulii: I guess I’m not the only one dreaming that I am somewhere (e.g. a party or restaurant), that have to pee, search for the toilet, finally find it, and start peeing… to wake up some moments later, peeing in my bed…

Or am I the only one?
117 antony hawkins
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:14 pm

i have dreams where i can do what ever i want but i dont realise its a dream. if i knew it was a dream i would be running free, no rules to hold me back, i just wish i knew i am dreaming when i am dreaming.
118 kyle
November 22nd, 2007 at 4:15 pm

sometimes i can controll my dreams… they are more interesting
119 chook
November 22nd, 2007 at 8:41 pm

i fell asleep on the couch when i was 3 or 4 and was having a crazy dream about these blue dots who were killing my mum. i started sleepwalking, but my family thought i was awake. i remember vividly, waking up and my dad was brushing my teeth. i freaked out so much! it’s been 9 years since then, and i still experience reoccuring dreams about blue dots, at least once a month.
120 Rounin
November 27th, 2007 at 10:13 am

There is a myth among Vietnamese people that if you play with your shadow during the day, you will be sat upon/laying on top by a ghost at night when you sleep. Well, I’ve had a few of those experience. It is strange and a bit scary at the same time because I am aware of my surrounding, yet I can’t move. I can hear people talking, but when I try to yell out, no sound escape my lips.
Also, I always have that type of dream when sleeping next to a mirror. Since I found out that the two things are related, I removed all mirrors in my bedroom, and now I rarely experience that anymore.
121 drake
November 27th, 2007 at 10:33 am

Is anybody else ever amazed at the distortion of time-perception while they are dreaming? I mean, it happens to me sometimes when I wake up and look at my clock and it says something like 8:17am and then fall sleep and have a very lengthy and involved dream where lots and lots of stuff happens but when I wake up the clock says that I was sleep for only 2 or 3 minutes. I just wonder, do brain processes run at a different speed when we are dreaming? If not, then how can events in dreams seem like they are running in normal time while in reality they must be running in fast forward?
122 Kelsi
November 27th, 2007 at 11:07 am

Drake: I know exactaly what you mean! It is very strange. It takes longer to explain the dream to someone than it did to dream it. =p
123 Angela
November 27th, 2007 at 5:09 pm

just this summer i began to be able to wake myself up if i was getting to a point in my dream where it was becoming a nightmare, and sometimes i feel pain in my dreams, but i think its just the memory of a pain i felt, also, today in my dream i had a headache and when i woke up i had one also. Dreams are extremely fascinating, i want to write my dreams down but i am too lazy to do so =P, actually, i did write my dreams down once, those were really weird XD
124 Jose
November 28th, 2007 at 12:23 pm

Beautiful!

Regards from Brazil
125 KT
November 29th, 2007 at 12:11 pm

When I was younger, I would have the same dream for weeks at a time. I could also control my dreams, to a point. I was aware in the dream that I was dreaming and I could wake myself up if I wanted. This has gone away as I have gotten older, but my son, who is 13, says that he can do this. Seems like it may be something that children can do. I’m a very deep sleeper. Takes a lot to wake me up, not sure if that has an effect on anything. My recurring dream for the last 15 years or so, (not nightly but once every few months or so) involves a house. It’s like I find a hidden doorway from my home into another home, very, very nice home, until you go into the living room and you immediately sense something. It’s nothing you see, it’s more like just a sense of something there that’s evil or very bad and the dream ends with me leaving the house and realizing why we aren’t living in it. Wonder what that’s about? Basically, I think dreaming for humans is much like defrag for computers. It’s giving your brain a chance to sort out all the junk, file away what’s worth keeping and delete the rest and if you don’t get this REM sleep, all of your memory will be used up and you will be so scatterbrained you can’t do anything.
126 Fran
November 29th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

I have had external stimuli a lot! I would dream that zombies were eating my head and I’d wake up with my arm around the back of my head and me hand just resting on top of my head. Another time, I fell asleep reading a comic book and slept over the pages… It was awesome because I dreamt that the characters came alive and that I was inside the comic strip.
Since I was a kid until about 2 years ago I would have sleep paralysis. It was so scary! Especially because I would see what was happening in tunnel vision (sort of ) and I would try to move and every time I tried it felt like there was something on top of me pushing me down harder. I would panic and it would freak me out. I used to think that it was ghosts because I could see my surroundings but I couldn’t see whatever was crushing me. Then I started relaxing every time it would happen, and try to convince myself that it wasn’t ghost, it was angels or something and now it doesn’t happen anymore(even though my conscience mind doesn’t believe in angels). Weird.
127 mooster
November 30th, 2007 at 5:52 pm

Surely #4 is pure speculation. I don’t think anyone really knows if dreams are even “about” anything, or just random scenes that our brain tries to decode into rational occurances.
128 Dan
November 30th, 2007 at 6:12 pm

The other night I dreamed I was a chicken, suddenly I had an intense pain in my stomach. I asked another chicken what the deal was and she told me it would pass. Well it got worse, and worse, and worser still, until it did pass and behind me I could see I’d laid an egg. I awoke to my wife punching me in the ribs saying, “Damnit dan wake up, you’re shitting all over the bed!”
129 Nick
December 1st, 2007 at 5:10 am

Lucid dreaming isn’t always so great – I had a nightmare recently during which I became lucid. I was trapped in a horrible dream, knowing it wasn’t real but unable to wake myself up. I can’t even remember what the dream was about, but I can remember how horrible it felt being trapped like that.
On the flipside, I have had some pretty awesome lucid dreams, so I won’t complain too much.

@Ovidiu C.: I never had teeth-falling-out dreams until not long after someone told me about one they’d had. Maybe I should brush extra!
130 joe
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:40 am

Dreams are weird. I NEVER remember my dreams, but i did this morning. I was locked in a little cylinder, and couldn’t escape. Then it turned out i was in a reality tv show, where i won a crapload of cash for not panicking.
131 Kind1002
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:38 pm

great discussion! I love dreams, and reading all your stories…and wow, finally I understand what sleep paralysis is. That has definitely freaked me out before…..didn’t realize the possible back sleeping position connection?

I too can have some pretty involved full color, full lucid dreams in a 15 min power nap in the afternoon….they always end the same way: I start wondering if it is a work day in my dream, then I realize I am possibly oversleeping (even though I always use an alarm)and I panic thinking about it being actually 5pm already, since I have been having this incredibly long detailed dream…..Bam! I wake up with an adrenaline rush to find out I was sleeping for 12 minutes….

I wake up one minute before my alarm, 95% of the time, even though I have different waking times throughout the week….even when traveling in different time zones…usually my alarm goes off randomly in my dream, waking me to see the time is one minute before I have to wake up….thus preventing me from having to actually wake up to an alarm, which I hate more than anything…

I used to be in outside sales, always driving…I would pull off for naps when I got TOO tired to to drive, and I would sleep in the front seat….I always dreamed at some point that I had fallen asleep driving and I would wake up and slam my foot on the brake….only to realize I was in a rest stop! Fun!

I find it is damn near impossible to read any printed text or magazine/ book in a dream, I have only pulled it off a few times, mostly I see what should be letters, but when I focus on them, they are moving shifting symbols for letters? or just squiggles…

I taught my kids how to control a bad dream, that you can stop it at will, it seems to have helped them with their dreaming skills.

My favorite reoccurring dream, mostly from childhood, but recently it is back: I have a magic peanut butter jar, mostly empty, no lid, and with it, in my extended arm, I can fly at will….I do not enjoy flying in my waking state, not on small planes, big planes or helicopters, I would never sky dive or bungee jump for fear of an actual heart attack in real life….but in my dream, I love it! I go all over the place, see places I have been, and new ones I explore, I can cover thousands of miles in a night it seems….

Music: I can remember it from dreams, and enjoy seeing my favorite bands live in my dreams, complete with them playing, sometimes songs that they have never played, or “new material”

I do find that I wake up tired after a long dream of walking thru the snow, or being lost looking for a friend, or being at work struggling….
132 Diogenes
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:04 pm

Kind1002: You seem to have a zooming mind on such matters. At first I thought you might be over-worked/under-compencated(sp?) Are you speedy thoughted in general? Just wondering? Do you abide by a very fixed schedule or are you receptive to what occures in novelty? i’m only asking because your comment intrigues me. I dont know.. I would love for you to elaborate further.

p.s.– I agree and have experienced most of what you say.
133 Kind1002
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:11 pm

Diogenes: I am a zooming kind of guy yes…..coffee makes me tired, so I enjoy drinking it at night sometimes…

Fixed schedule in a sense: I work 40 hrs a week, but have loads of freedom at work.

Novelty rules…..Novelty is a big part of how I see the world, as opposed to good and bad…..It’s clear to me that we live in very novel times!

So….can you read in your dreams at all?
134 Diogenes
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:35 pm

Kind1002: Perhaps the reason I replied first of was because of a rther irksome awaking today, regarding texets, a book, and bugs.
Reading to me has never been a life long “skin” . I have never connected my thoughts or beliefs to what I have read. ,,for the most part. What I say is simply for tellng you of the dream I recall today and that I have thought about it in this way:

From what I woke up too early to was a tiny travel clock that I had placed elsewhere last night aand this morning was ticking trimple volume.. Anyway, (i’m only trying to extent this rather banal aspect of my reply} In the dream I was outside and about, maby off the sidewalk as I walkes, I saw a weatherd book on the ground and picked it up. I knew it to be of importance and stared to look through the rippled firm/ slightly stuck together/ and somewhat brittle pages. I realized that it was a book of “knowledge” that I was in search of, but HERE THERE tiny bed bugs started to catch me finger eyes and I flicked the book down and began to see the bugs expand in growth as I searched them out in horror as I knew the book that I wanted was also within my domain…

Yeh that’s most recent. otherwise I dont really dream of reading or books. The contents or abstract mulch tends to be the results in another form.
sorry if I ramble here. I just toss this out to you.
135 Diogenes
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:59 pm

dont blame you for not understanding a word of what I just said. reading over –the letter configuration makes no sense.
in any case- There are fleeting truths told and bugs in bindings. I am with you on the novelty of life. I dont know how much it is a part of my day to day ..NO! wait. …I do know and it has its way at times as mostly a buffering between -with what is considered matter of fact.
hmm.
136 Jon P
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:28 pm

When I was young I had a loft bed, about 4 feet off the ground. One night had a dream I was being chased off a cliff. After running off the cliff I fell for what seemed in my dream to be 1 to 2 minutes, and then was awoken by the impact of hitting the floor… I actually fell out of bed. This has always made me wonder how long dreams really last. Is a dream that seems several minutes/hours/days long is really just a second or two?
137 Technology Blog
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:47 am

nice dream facts…
138 Punjar
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:27 pm

I saw this sketch in the deleted scenes of robot chicken season 2 that 2 reminded me of. Some kid is getting chased by a bear and suddenly it stops and starts making alarm noises, and he’s yelling at it to stop. Then it show him asleep with his alarm going and his mom starts calling “Billy, wake up”. Back in the dream, something else shows up (I think it was a bird or something) and starts saying “Billy get up” in his mothers voice. Then Billy crosses his arms and just says “I hate you guys”.
139 carrie
December 4th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

my most vivid dreams were when i was a child. i can still see images from some of them. i had two in particular that at the time i swore were reality. i must have been about 4 or 5 at the time. one involved my sister who is younger by two years. she has a pretty big mole on her forehead by her hairline. i dreamed i was looking in the mirror and it was my mole, always had been. then i put my finger on it and the mole slid onto my fingertip. to get rid of it i wiped it off onto my sister’s forehead. i woke up feeling so guilty that i apologized to my mom who, of course, denied that this happened. to me it was reality and i could not be persuaded otherwise. the other is that my mom taught me to peel oranges into the toilet. that really pissed her off the next morning.
140 wheelnut53
December 5th, 2007 at 8:28 am

I’ve had dreams in parts 1 2 and 3 some good some bad
141 Paul
December 5th, 2007 at 10:23 am

LOL @ wheelnut, it’s true, sequels are rarely as good as part one.
142 Ray
December 5th, 2007 at 4:51 pm

whoa that iz koolioz badoolioz
143 KT
December 6th, 2007 at 2:51 pm

the modern theory on dreaming states that it is the experience in the conscious world that helps create dreams, by neurons firing and sorting out images in the subconscious state.
I agree with this theory, but i think there are more variables in play here. i beleive we have a soul, or spirit, or source of complex energy pattern, or whatever you want to call it. i think this is what gives us our consciousness. without it, i beleive we are zombies, or a zombie-like state.
when we fall asleep, i beleive there may be some complex mechanism that releases our souls. as we travel into unknown realms, the meterial our souls are composed of absorbs some kind of information, valuable or not (another persons soul, future events, things occuring in another place). meanwhile our zombie-like brain is now free to fire neurons in a random disordered state. when we awake, our soul comes back… but the information it contains most likely will not be complimentary (will not fit) with our brain system of memory. an analogy would be converting one type of file in a computer into another type of file. perhaps some “special” people can gain this information.
this will be proved one day. if ghost particles such as dark matter exists, this theory of mine is not to far off.
144 Sarah
December 6th, 2007 at 6:45 pm

about that parylized thing everyones saying they were thinking there awake but cant move…same here lol

about 5 weeks ago [[it stopped after 2 weeks]] i keep seeing a hand coming up next to bed in the tiny little crack between my bed and the wall…im 99 percent sure i was awake and i tried to scream and get up to turn on the light, and hit it or get up but it never worked…but then i would blink a few times and it would be gone…and i KNOW it wasnt a real hand…it was really scary…one time i thought it was trying to strangle me.

you know what else is weird?
you ever have those dreams were like your falling or something, and you wake up like sweating on your stomach and your like jumped awake and scared outta your mind? I always have the same dream when that happens lol…you ever see that optical illusion, its like crazy stairs or something and there all like weird…well i always see my selfe walking up those and the railing breaks and i fall awake.
145 TOTALFUNWORLD
December 7th, 2007 at 6:27 am

Good post about facts of dream
146 Sierra
December 7th, 2007 at 1:57 pm

“1. When you are snoring, you are not dreaming.”=FALSE!!!
One morning i woke up extremely scared cause i was dreaming of an invisible monster crawling near my bed slowly to reach me and eat me. )
I was hearing the monster’s horror sounds louder and louder as it was approaching to me, and when i heard it right near my head i woke up almost screaming. )
Guess what were actually the monster’s horror sounds that woke me up.
147 Paul
December 8th, 2007 at 11:19 am

I experience an interesting phenomena that occurs during my dreams – I’m a programmer and on occasion I leave work with an unsolved coding problem, this always bugs me and I end up thinking about it laying in bed. The interesting part is when dreaming my brain is still processing the problem.

I often see a visual representation of the problem, it can be blocks moving around or odd diagrams that don’t seem to make much sense, although I can tell they are related to the issue.

Often when this happens, I will wake up in the morning and instantly have the solution to the problem. I shoot into work, code it up and it works.

This has always fascinated me and I think it’s proof that the brain is processing data acquired during the day.
148 Lucky
December 8th, 2007 at 5:56 pm

I don’t have recurring dreams that are exactly the same but i often dream about a particular place. i dream i am in a kind of field, and its long, and its got hills rising up on all sides so its shaped like a kind of basin, but its a bit fuzzy, and all i can focus on is the gap in a fence at the farthest end away from me, and I’m running towards it, but i mustn’t run straight across the middle of the field, its not allowed, i have to run around the outside. I run up the side of the far hill, and then, suddenly, either i switch dreams, can’t remember any more, or i wake up. I have no idea why, it’s not exactly scary, but its puzzling.

I want to take a degree in clinical psychology in a few years time.
149 Elixeo
December 8th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

I know a lot of people like to attribute all kinds of things to dreams but the plain simple truth is that it is the brain running through your memory banks to see what is still valid and what is not. For example, the section that talks about smokers, the same is true for anyone withdrawing from any dependency. Alcoholics usually have the same type of dream. At some subconscious level the brain knows that the neurons associated with you addiction have not been tripped in awhile. The brain will replay the experience to see what the emotional reaction is. Depending on the response, it will maintain either a positive or negative memory of the experience. The same is true for someone who has died who you were very close to. The brain has not received the stimulus of that person so it replays the experience to see the emotional reaction. We of course attribute it to a visit from the beyond, which is okay if it makes us feel better.

EF
150 Spooky
December 8th, 2007 at 11:13 pm

For those who suggest that dreaming takes place during deep sleep, you are mistaken. REM sleep occurs in stage 2 sleep, quite light and easy to awaken from.

Stage 2 sleep, or REM, is when our bodies make their routine repairs and maintenance psychologically. People deliberately deprived of this stage of sleep eventually go crazy.

Stage 4 sleep, very deep sleep, is when our bodies do their physiological maintenance and repairs. It is hypothesized that many of the symptoms of fibromyalgia are caused by their inability to get adequate stage 4 sleep due to stage 1 & 2 sleep intruding into our stage 4. It is called alpha intrusion.
151 DD
December 9th, 2007 at 4:03 am

I’m sure no one cares but I just wanted to say:

All the dreams I can remember are very video-game like, where I have some mission in a surreal environment, often with obstacles. I remember one where I was traversing a castle full of of booby traps and monsters and everytime I died I would respawn at the beginning and start again. Who needs a playstation anyway

I find that I almost never dream (or never remember anyway) and I blame smoking pot for this, cause I smoke pretty much every day. But if I don’t smoke for a day or 2, I get dreams. I only mention this cause of the bit about smokers and dreams.
152 Bob
December 9th, 2007 at 1:47 pm

Interesting list. Dreams are fascinating.
My dreams are always vivid, colourful and I never see myself.

Lately I’ve been having this dream about fighting groups. There are lots of people in a field(high school football fields, usually), and there are a series of fights going on. It’s almost as if they’re regulated. Often people watch me cause I take them by surprise(I hate people watching me). After my fight, the guy I beat comes after me. He has glowing blue eyes that look like sunglasses but it’s nighttime. He comes into the light to threaten me and I kiss him.

I also have created a character in my dreams to represent me being sick. In these dreams, usually my Mom, sister and cousin are with me and we’re going out to do something, but have to stop at this guy’s place(seems like a drug deal at first). He gives my family gifts, but I don’t trust him, so I fight him. He’s supernatural. Sometimes I hit him and he breaks into a million little pieces, and his brother sweeps him up into a dustpan, brings it upstairs and then the guy I am fighting comes back. We fight and fight and I keep hurting him but his brother keeps bringing him back. I’ve never had this dream unless I am sick, which is not often at all.

I also have this really weird occurance where I’ll be fully awake, the middle of the day and a dream I’ve had, anytime throughout my lifetime, will pop into my head, out of nowhere. It happens at least 2 or 3 times a week.

And finally, I don’t think that we dream only of what we know. I used to have this recurring dream about a man I just met at my work. I recently had this dream and finally realized it was this man. There’s kind of a mutual crush between us. It’s almost as though he exists because of my dreams. There is no way we could have met before as he just moved here from Europe. It’s scary because he’s perfect.
153 THE EN1GMA
December 9th, 2007 at 4:19 pm

Re #4, some people say dreams don’t have meaning, but some of them do. dreams about sex and wet dreams mean you’re horny.
154 buds
December 9th, 2007 at 5:08 pm

I have lucent dreams often, I can control dreams easily.. usually when you take hold of the reings it fades quickly. Unless it is extremely disturbing I therefor opt to just sit back and watch the show.

Many of my dreams have come true, many of my dreams do have very deep meaning.

Nicola Tesla dreamt an angel was flying down to him, turned into his mother, and he knew she had died, which turned out to be the case. His personal beliefs as to how he could see/know this, led to the invention of what we all know today as radio.

Freud was a coke head and most shrinks today are dope pushers themselves, I will put faith in my own reasoning and not what they have read off the latest pill pamphlet.
155 killer247i
December 9th, 2007 at 7:53 pm

i never dream, well ok, maybe once ina few months.. what does that mean then?
156 pegasus
December 10th, 2007 at 9:19 am

Not dreaming? Well you must be dreaming we all dream every night several times. Look more into why your not remembering your dreams. You could be like stressed out or something that is conflicting on awaking with remembering the content of your dreams. and are you interested to remember? Having an interest is really important in remembering your dreams. Check out this site http://www.realmeaningofdreams.com
They have some really insightful information on everything about dreams but also on how to improve your dream recal! Go check it out…
157 pegasus
December 10th, 2007 at 9:24 am

The website link above doesn’t seem to be working so here it is again:
http://www.realmeaningofdreams.com
158 Bugs
December 10th, 2007 at 12:45 pm

As one that haven’t been able to remember a single glimpse of a single dream for more than 13 years, This discussion gives a great insight to how others tackle their dreams.

To me, the last dream I ever had was a nightmare – my father had just died less than 1 month earlier, and I just remember lying in his coffin. I woke up quite sudden when I sat up in it… luckily it turned out that I was just sitting in the bed. This was in March 1994.
159 Aaron
December 10th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

Last night I slept with Bethoveen’s Moonlight Sonata (first movement) repeating over and over and not only did I find a distinct increase in remembering and being aware of dreams, but the music seemed to incorporate itself into the dream in abstract, vague and subtle ways.
160 Aaron
December 10th, 2007 at 6:20 pm

I once had a dream where I was being stabbed repeatedly by a group of babysitters. Not only did I sort of feel the pain

(This used to happen rather frequently, I once dreamed I was in a flying chair and I could actually feel the wind going past as I soared overhead, as well as other occasions)

I ended up being in control of the dream and telling the babysitters that I forgave them because I realized that it was only a dream and that I was going to wake up.
161 Steve
December 11th, 2007 at 2:21 am

I have also had that sleep paralysis. Happened randomly over roughly a 2 week period. Scared the crap out of me. The best way I found to break out of it (after researching on the net) is to just concentrate on moving your toes. Just when you start to feel them move you will instantly snap out of it and be fully awake. Very strange. (was told by the doc it can be caused by stress, not getting enough sleep)
162 jfrater
December 11th, 2007 at 2:27 am

Steve: that is interesting – when it happened to me last it was in the middle of a nightmare and I just could not get myself out of it – it was an awful feeling!
163 Dandelion
December 11th, 2007 at 5:47 am

I have never thought about the fact that I’ve seen all the people in my dreams before. It’s odd. I’ve always thought of them as some random faces I’ve never really seen.

A couple of times I’ve realised in the middle of the dream that I’m dreaming. It’s a wonderful experience. I’d alway thought what it would be like to jump from somewhere high in a dream. It was great to realise I was dreamind and I could try jumping.
164 jfrater
December 11th, 2007 at 7:06 am

Dandelion: it is a really amazing feeling when you can control your dreams – apparently there are things you can do to improve at it too.
165 Ravyn
December 11th, 2007 at 10:38 am

I always listen to nature music when I sleep (waterfalls, wind through trees, birds, and all that crap). It is so relaxing. Controlling dreams is fun and amazing but I generally don’t do it anymore because there is a reason that I am dreaming what I am and if I alter it I might not be able to figure out the meaning behind the real dream.
166 Brian
December 11th, 2007 at 11:56 am

If I am really tired, but have set my alarm clock set to wake me up, I will often have a recurring dream where the beep beep beep is incorporated. Most often I find the source of the beeping in my dream and usually smash it with a hammer or something, but it never stops beeping no matter how hard I try to destroy it. Some times I unable to find the source and run around like a mad man. I then wake up after my alarm clock has been going off for 30 minutes and I’m late. Very very stressful.

I don’t have OCD but because of this, I often check my alarm clock upwards of 10 times before going to bed.

Stumbled This
167 bobster
December 12th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

If you are paralyzed when you sleep then how do people sleepwalk???
168 Paul
December 12th, 2007 at 4:31 pm

@bobster – a chemical imbalance.
169 alexa
December 13th, 2007 at 10:02 am

hi, im from mexico so i apologize now for my grammar…
I usually have like the paralysis but its horrible!
i feel like i can´t breath and when i try to wake up i can´t move at all! and also y can´t open my eyes..i hate this feeling…and i think that i really stop breathing ..is this part of the dream paralysis? somebody told me once that my brain wakes up first but my body reacts a little later…
what do you think about this?…
170 evan
December 13th, 2007 at 10:17 am

alexa, it sucks but you usually “grow” out of it within a year or two. I had it for like 2 years.

The stop breathing part, you might want to mention it to a doctor just in case.
171 Joe
December 13th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

Regarding external stimuli: I once had a dream where I fell asleep with a pencil in my bed. during the night, i had rolled onto it so that the point (dull thought it was) was pushing into my side. In my dream, I am behind glass and my deceased grandmother is on the other side, strapped to a table. I scream, but no noise comes out. Two men in white robes walk into the room with a large needle and shove it into her side. I feel it instead. Then I woke up and removed the pencil. It was a terrifying (and very realistic) dream.
172 James
December 17th, 2007 at 1:30 am

About the “Snoring” one.. Many number of times I’ve either been brought out of a dream by someone sleeping with me saying I was snoring, or the snoring itself waking me up.
173 Em
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:06 am

Cite your sources. These sound like urban legends.
174 mia
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:10 pm

goodnight to everybody
175 Mia
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:10 pm

goodnight to everybody xD
176 Driver
December 24th, 2007 at 12:52 pm

Interesting stuff here, the comments are even more fun to read than the topic!!
I also have been able to control my dreams in a few occasions. It’s when the girl I’m not supposed to be with in real life turns up and we get intimate. This happened after several nights of waking up from comparable dreams in which I chose not to react to it, because I didn’t know I was dreaming.
But after a couple times, I somehow learned to recognize it was a dream and went for it, waking up very happy….
Being stabbed or killed is also very common to me, though I don’t remember pain or much fear, the fear usually stops when the knife’s in, with the stabber and me just looking at it, talking as friends, forgetting the whole issue of a knife sticking in me.
And then there’s the super-fast running dream, in which I reach car-speeds, and the helicopter-like flying dreams. Super-cool rides!
On the other side, though, indeed dreams sometimes just follow your activities during the day, like waking up (half) out of a dream and trying to figure out how the hell I’m supposed to drive my taxi down the stairs.. lol

Keep dreaming!!
177 Driver
December 24th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

Haahaha oh yeah, forgot this one: During our road-trip this year, my friend and I parked the car after being unable to find a place for the night. We turned the seats back and tried to sleep. After about 10 minutes or so, I violently get up out of my seat and in panic turn the wheel, to avoid a collision with a truck (in my dream). My friend, awakened by my frantic wheel-turning, suggested (after finally having stopped laughing at me) it would be a good idea to take the key out of the ignition and hide it while I was looking the other way, since we were standing at a harbour, car facing the water.. lol
Also, on the way home, we took precautions ’cause we drove in 3-hour ‘shifts’, with the other driver sleeping while the other drove. I suggested he always had to have a firm grip on the steering wheel, so I wouldn’t crash ourselves waking up from a similar dream. It happened about 3 times, though, but luckily I was just trying to brace myself for the impact and not reaching for the wheel. We got home safely.. lmao
178 Omg
December 26th, 2007 at 11:25 am

Oh my ged. I thought I was the only one who dreamed.
179 Anya
December 26th, 2007 at 5:11 pm

Lucky (148) – I believe Descartes developed the Cartesian graph in a similar manner! Bloody Descartes…shattered my GPA.
180 Mullaccio
December 28th, 2007 at 2:53 am

Some believe the other realm you enter when you dream is more “real” and significant than our waking reality. This is not something I personally believe but I do find it extremely interesting.

I can also relate to some of the so-called facts about dreams. Until I gave up smoking cannabis I could not remember any of my dreams. Now I remember most of them very briefly.

I have awoken in a dream and found myself unable to get up off the couch….this was very disturbing as I dreamt a burglar was in the house!!!
181 davo
January 7th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

i agree somewhat with the “we only dream of what we know”
i lucid dream quite often and try to fly. I found this much easier after playing GTA San andreas for many months and using the jetpack. this then allowed me to know what it would look like to suddenly levitate off the ground and fly over building etc. I could never do it before quite so vividly.
same as with drumming. when I was younger i would dream about trying to get onto a drumkit and play but I could never do it, as I hadn’t ever in reallife sat behind a drum kit. now I am a drummer and have drummer for years, I will now dream and be able to be behind a kit, although being a dream, often the cymbals and setup of the drumkit would be oddly different to my real setup, but that is the naure of dreams.
182 lucid dreams
January 7th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

Lucid dreams are another interesting facet of dreaming that could have made it into the list…

Check http://howtoluciddream.wordpress.com/ for some interesting bits and pieces about it.
183 Bob
January 16th, 2008 at 9:41 am

That opium bit is nonsense, however common that particular calumny may be.
184 Chud
January 20th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

I started having fully lucid dreams about 3 years ago but unlike many others who describe unnatural abilities in their dreams (being able to fly, shoot lightning, etc.) I find I am unable to do anything I wouldn’t physically be able to do in real life. Even when controlling other objects in my dreams, I have to make logical sense of their motion before it begins. For example, instead of shutting a door simply by looking at it, I will dream of a stiff breeze blowing the door shut. Or if I need to reach a high place, I can’t just jump to it, but rather I’d need a ladder. It becomes complicated when I can’t just imagine a ladder into existence, but I can conjure up a sort of street-side closet with what I need.

On another note, I’ve read before that while having a lucid dream, an interesting thing to try is to check the time on a clock in the dream or read specific text in the dream. Looking at a clock twice, with only about 10 seconds between glances, can yield a few hours-difference in readings and text in a dream is usually undecipherable; as though you know what it says but when you really try to look at the letters they are just blurred or gibberish.
185 mike
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:06 am

if you were paralyzed.. wouldn’t that mean that mean that you could get your leg cut off and you wouldn’t wake up?

what exactly do you mean my “paralyzed” from the neck down?
186 jfrater
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:09 am

mike: paralyzed means you can’t move – not that you can’t feel pain. As soon as they started sawing your leg off the pain would awaken you and you would have your mobility restored.
187 Mystern
January 24th, 2008 at 10:57 am

JF: Is that true? I’ve woken up and not been able to move or feel various limbs. I always thought it was due to paralysis.
188 Kristin
January 24th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

I found this list a while ago when it first came out and I loved it, and the other day I was reading through old list and I read it again. Last night I had a dream about #6. It says that we see so many people in our life and we have lots of people to pick from to dream about, well I believe that now.
If you have ever seen the movie Clueless you should remember the part when Cher was picking out clothes in her massive closet that spun around. In my dream I had one of those closets, but instead of clothes there was all these random people spinning around the closet like they were on a marry-go-round. I was standing there picking out the people I wanted in my dream. I picked out a random lady that at the time I really did know. Well I found out who she was this morning.
I go to a gas station every morning to get a soda before work and this lady is in there alomst everyday at the same time is me. I looked at her at I realized she was the random lady i picked from my closet-o-people to be be in my dream that night. It was so weird, I kinda freaked myself out that I would remember someone that I really have never talked to in my life.
189 NB
January 25th, 2008 at 12:14 am

Wow, this is the best conversation on the Internet. I haven’t been able to remember a dream for over a month now, although I always enjoy them when I can remember them. Unlike some of you guys’, they’re never threatening or dark in nature, although this sleep paralysis thing might give me nightmare material. Your stories are all immensely interesting.
190 Jason Leary
January 26th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

Joel Wideman ,

I want to get you started about synesthesia !
191 jrjb
January 27th, 2008 at 2:14 am

Very informative. I’ve had weird dreams about being in different types of bathrooms and of course waking up and having to go. A recurring dream that I have also is about high school or college and even though I am enrolled in classes I never go. I just walk around campus or in the hallway, etc.

I also felt like I’m being bitten by a kitten with a the cat’s teeth so sharp it feels like I’m being pierced. Then I wake up and I’m fine.
192 alicia
January 27th, 2008 at 4:11 am

i love to dream but when i am sleeping i cannot remember my dreams..
193 LClaire
January 27th, 2008 at 8:26 am

I used to sleep with my eyes open when i was younger, my parents have photos of me sleeping with my eyes slightly open. I can still remember a dream i had often after i went to a theme park with my aunt and cousins and my family, that was about 6 years ago, when i was 7 (i thihnk it was 6 years ago). I had gone to the toilets, and when i came out to find my family, everyone had turned into aliens, and i can probably draw out the rout i ran around the theme park it was so vivid.
It’s quite embarassing when you try to explain your dream to someone, but then half way through you find yourself making it up ’cause you can’t remember the rest! (or that might just be me being wako)
194 avi
January 28th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

u would wake up cause sunlight resets your body so you realize u r dreaming and it is time 2 wake up
195 Joe
January 28th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

Psychology is made up.
196 soyer
January 29th, 2008 at 5:32 am

dreams freaking out men!!!!!
197 soyer
January 29th, 2008 at 5:34 am

i am a passer in philsci
198 soyer
January 29th, 2008 at 5:35 am

soyer the destroyer men!
199 cryndigo
January 30th, 2008 at 9:08 am

I don’t believe that dreams prevent psychosis. I dream all the time and still have psychosis.
200 jfrater
January 30th, 2008 at 9:21 am

cryndigo: haha – it is only ONE cause
201 sketch
January 30th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

I used to have really bad night terrors, like I would wake up and see people in my room or be smothered or strangled by something in my sleep but I remember the strangest thing that when I was dreaming about something it would get more and more intense and it would feel as if something were creeping up and on me and I remember feeling as if my brain were sending off alarm signals that if I didn’t wake up within the next few seconds something terrible would come out of my dream…Often this was the case and I vividly remember one of those such cases and immedietley afterwards I felt pressure on my bed as if something was crawling close to me and something with icy cold breath whispered to me “she’s hiding” then proceeded to crawl off my beds backwards and go underneath it to make scratching noises for the rest of the night. The next day I saw a guy wearing a shirt that said “where is she?” I was a slightly deranged child. Thankfully none of these things happen to me anymore.
202 Ember
January 30th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

Eeek sketch, I think I’m going to have nightmares now.
203 JLo
January 31st, 2008 at 10:35 am

I would like to know why I dream such disturbing things. While this hasn’t happened in awhile, I used to dream of murder, suicide, dead babies, etc., and believe me, my job or life does not involve these sorts of things. I heard someone say that destructive acts in dreams are related to unspent creativity in real life. I hope that’s true. I think it runs in my family, though. My sister is such a sweet person, but she once had a dream that she tied up her whole family, poured gasoline on all of us and lit us on fire….she then laughed through the whole thing.

We joke about that now at family get togethers, but we still don’t let her light candles for us at meal time. j/k
204 Polly Odyssey
January 31st, 2008 at 7:58 pm

The fact about forgetting dreams is sometimes true, but if I have a weird dream, and I imagine myself telling my friends enough, I remember all of it.
205 Ashyja
February 1st, 2008 at 8:58 pm

I don’t remember my dreams that often, but if I do, they’re quite weird most of the time.
I dream quite often about people chasing me with guns and after some time they catch and shoot me. The really weird thing is that I’m somehow invincible and no matter how hard they try, they can’t kill me. I feel the bullets passing through me, it’s a really weird feeling but it doesn’t cause any pain.
The other thing I often dream about is me sitting on some “thing” (chairs, boards, things like that) and I try to fly on it. It’s really hard to control the movement for me so I usually end up clinging to the thing and shoot through the air.
Luckily these dreams aren’t nightmares, although one might think so. But I don’t feel any fear during or after the dreams.
The only really frighting ‘dream’ I rarely have (3-4 times a year) is that I hear someone screaming, I cringe and instantly wake up, still being in some sort of half-dream, half-awake state trying to figure out if that scream was real or not.
206 Ashyja
February 1st, 2008 at 9:01 pm

I just remember, the only time it was really easy for me to control the movement when flying was when I dreamt about meeting Jesus (and damn, I’m really not that much of a religious person) giving me angel wings. That surely was a weird dream.
207 avi
February 3rd, 2008 at 10:55 am

jfrater; actually there is very strong evidence for evolution just because noone saw it it doesn’t mean there’s no evidence
208 Mom424
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:32 pm

Jfrater; Love the new site!, Beeeeautiful.
People who aren’t paralyzed during dreaming have been found not guilty of some pretty horrendous crimes. If they actually were dreaming, I have pity for them.

I don’t really believe that your dreams mean anything, other than to reflect your general state of mind. (lucid dreams being the exception) Case in point, dreamt I was babysitting, put the kid in a roast pan in the lazy suzan cupboard, returned and opened the lid…Kid turned into a big pan of cornflakes that percolated just like a pot of coffee….
C’mon you psych majors,,,tell what that means!
209 stormy617
February 4th, 2008 at 1:25 am

I don’t know about anybody else, (I am to tired to read the comments tonight LOL), but I had really weird dreams when I was pregnant. And I mean they were truly bizarre sometimes.

And I have experienced the sound thing before and one time really sticks out in my mind. The first time I ever heard this song I think the name of it is American Dream. My clock radio alarm had gone off and that song was playing on the radio and I was dreaming about an American dream it was pretty weird when I woke up and heard that song playing.
210 Kris
February 4th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

I don’t if anyone would really believe it…
Bu guys this is so very true…

Most of the dreams I dream….actually happens ( I mean comes true) after a few days or weeks…
I don’t if its blessing or Curse in my life
Could sum1 help out of it…

I do get horrid and bad dreams sumtimes Errr… many times actually…..

I have a few health concerns… and have to wake up frequently during my sleep…

But when I see my dreams coming true… I m scared… as I share those to my friends and they think that I predict future which I don’t …..and unexpectedly …..when i feel XYZ will happen ….it happens

PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ HELP
211 Kris
February 4th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

its an amazing website… an intersting one
212 david
February 6th, 2008 at 10:41 pm

kris go see a doctor you obviously are stressed about your situation.

my take on dreams is how silly I feel on occassions when I awake and have to write something down because it is so incredibly important, then go back to sleep.
When I read my note the next morning it either makes no sense or is just so unimportant like “buy canned tuna” or some other lame instructions.
213 Monkey
February 6th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

This list is awesome! I thought I had read all of the lists on this site at one point but I just discovered this one. It’s so interesting… Sometimes I have dreams in Spanish… I speak a little Spanish, but I’m no where near fluent in it. However, in my dreams I can speak and understand it perfectly. My heritage is mostly Spanish, but that part of my family came here so long ago that no one I know speaks it anymore. I don’t know why I can comprehend it so easily in my dreams. Isn’t that weird??
214 Annie
February 19th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

Number 7 is actually mispoken: Dreams don’t prevent psychosis, but if you are deprived of the ability to dream, you will become psychotic. In other words, if you already have psychotic tendencies, dreams won’t change that. Furthermore, if you are awakened repeatedly during the same period of REM sleep, you can begin to display psychotic tendencies (tendencies, not actual psychosis).

I read once that lucid dreaming is a highly evolved ability. I’ve had the ability to lucid dream since I was very young. Not only can I wake myself from a nightmare, I can go back to sleep, re-enter the same dream, and change the outcome. While I haven’t tried looking at a clock in my dreams, I have seen print and been able to read it. I also dream in color.
215 YashaMaru
February 26th, 2008 at 2:40 am

ahh, dreams are wonderful:)

i have, so many times, dreamt of winning a years suply of chocolate or taco. i am always frustrated when waking from those.. =_=
216 Lalalaaa
February 27th, 2008 at 8:32 am

Ive woken up before, and I cant breathe or move. It is very strange and scary, it’s like i can’t remember how to breathe. It usually goes away within a few seconds.
It has happened 4 or 5 times. Does this have to do with being paralyzed when you sleep?
217 Randall
February 27th, 2008 at 8:39 am

Lalalaaa:

Yes, that sounds exactly like sleep paralysis. It’s usually nothing to worry about, but if it persists (i.e. if this happens often) you should see a doctor. It could be indicative of a form of sleep apnea, and should be treated.

Dr. Randall has spoken.
218 AJ
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:11 am

hey…………i definately nt ferget 90% of my dreams………..yep bt dts possible dt i may b thinkin i hav remembered d complete dream..bt actualy fergettin 90%…………n false…….i dreamt abt som mythical creature..which i swear i had never laid my eyes on bfore………i finaly after searchin came 2 no i had dreamt abt a cerberus…………
219 specialist8
March 9th, 2008 at 8:34 pm

I’m a dream psychologist (specialist) and I snore ALL the time, my girlfriend (who has big boobs) finds me snoring during the middle of the night consistently has reassured me that I do snore all the time. SOOO, if i snore all the time, I’m not dreaming, and since I don’t dream, I’m crazy right? I can’t remember 100% of my dreams either.

HELP me.
220 Jakkals
March 11th, 2008 at 6:10 am

I really enjoyed this discussion and what people dreamed and what people think dreams mean.
Here is my experiences for what it is worth.

I totally disagree with people saying that we only dream about things we experienced, did or thought about in the last week or days.
I frequently dream about things I did not even thought about or otherwise can’t comprehend or would have predicted.
These include people I did not meet or know before, places I have not been to before. Some also include warnings or premonitions of things to come, even though in actual reality later they do not happen exactly as dreamt (maybe I was in an alternate reality?), but the end result is the same.
E.g. for months I dreamt of wrecking my car (student car), to such an extent that I told my best friend to take extra precautions when driving my car. The dreams were all different, but the end result was the same, a totally written off car.
About 1 year later, I wrote-off the car (it was an old rust bucket, but still) due to me being careless and disregarding my mother’s warning that same day. Had we continued with our orginal plan and my car was not written off, I am sure some of my friends who was with me that day would have died, drowning in the raging river after heavy rains. In the end, a small price to pay.

I am a very light sleeper and dream on average 3-6 dreams a night, almost every night. It is so bad that I feel that I have chronic insomnia. The only exceptions are when I am so tired that I basically sleep right through the night with no dreaming. Most of them are happy ones, and they seldom repeat. I can also control my dreams to some extent and can remember most of my dreams when I wake in the mornings. If they repeat, I normally take care as these have particular significance in my life, they tend to come true to some extent (like my car dream).

I do sometimes dream of reading a book, some scripture or scripture in the bible. Sometimes about songs, music, jokes/laughter, sex/love, family and death, flying on dragons or fighting them or deamons, flying/floating through the air instead of walking, dreams in the current time, past time (dark ages of castles and kings), and the future or space craft and such.
None of these I consider nightmares, some are disturbing though.
Most of the time it is more like watching a movie, but you are in it, with full colour, full emotional(love/hate, sadness/happiness), tactile(touch,smell,feel,taste) experiences, full interaction with all present characters (you can ask them questions and they reply, full reasoning).
One person in this forum said it is like you are transported to a different reality or time period.
I would agree with that statement, although there is no current way to prove that.
The person also mentioned that that sounded kreepy and that what happens when one gets stuck in that reality?
Simple, you become what doctors describe as being in a coma or a veg (at least that is my theory of it).
So in theory then, it would be possible to “wake” a coma patient if you know what they are dreaming and then induce the correct external stimuli such that they will clearly know that the reality they currently are in is only a dream and not their physical reality.

I also agree on the external stimuli, because I can and do talk to people while I am actually dreaming and “asleep”.
Many of my family members teased me about this that I answered them on things while asleep as if I was wide awake.
I was also aware that they asked me the questions and what my answer was because I dreamt it.
I know that I was asleep, because I either continued sleeping or it took me a while to get out of it and to change “reality”.
They know it because they can see that I am asleep and that I am not responding to them as I would when I was awake.
So the external stimuli thing is quite true and I have lots of experience there.

I would love for a scientist to invent the “dream recorder” which is like a video movie recorder of ones dreams, which you can then afterward reply like you can with a movie.
Maybe then we will start to understand while at a full consious state about what we are dreaming and if there is a meaning, truely find out what that is.

I also frequently experience what people call Deja Vu or what religious people will call visions or profecies.
However in my case it is more a state of knowing or sense of familiarity, where I know or feel I did something before or have been there before, yet I know in my current life I have not done or been there or known about it.
So do I know or feel this because I dreamt it before in one of the reality shows?
The only way to prove that is if I could fully record my dreams like it was a movie so that I can search through it afterwards when I experience the Deja Vu.
Some of the Deja Vu included things like quoting and exact 9 digit member number a staff member had on a claim in front of them while I am casually pouring a cup of coffee (I had no previous knowledge of the claim or member number, I just knew it). Archival clark asked the claims clark which month the claim as for, I walk past in a casual fling on my way to another department said “May”, and they stared in amazement at me. The claim was for May, and I had no idea, it was just a “casual comment” and joke.
Every woman thus far, I casually teased and told them they will have a baby shortly, within a year has one, even after they on that day replied they had no intention or plan to have another child or that they are too old.

Sometime I just have a Deja Vu, but I can’t remember what will happen next or the context or why I feel as such, I just know.

The Bible claims that God gives us dreams and that dreams does have meaning.
I do believe this to some extent and in God to a degree.
Let me say I have my doubts as there is lack of proof, but it is pausable and therefore will in any court be classified as having reasonable doubt.
I found out that the people who claims that they don’t dream or they can’t remember that they did, actually when I asked them about their religion that they totally don’t believe in God or some other similar super being.
So then, it does make you think twise about God, the bible, other religions and where dreams fit into all of this.
Maybe dreams are as some said the soul transported to a different reality for that time period.
It also then possibly starts to explain why we lose our sense of time in dreams.

Anyways, just my 2 cents.
221 T
March 11th, 2008 at 10:07 am

I live in the dorms at a college and i kept waking up last night having dreams ABOUT fire alarms. I never actually heard a fire alarm. I woke up several times between 3-5 after I fell asleep around 1 only to be awakened by an ACTUAL fire alarm around 9:30am. I woke up very confused and unfamiliar to my surroundings. I feel like I don’t live here nor do I know anyone who does. They are familiar to me but there is no connection in my brain. Maybe I am still dreaming? Very confusing and interesting. What does this mean?
222 helloimannie
March 13th, 2008 at 7:05 am

To specialist8, I think we are all a little crazy, we’re just different flavors.;) I have to think that, at some point, the snoring stops, and the dreams commence. And I’ve read that while a dream feels like it goes on for a very long time, scientists tell us that the duration of a dream is at most a couple minutes. Perhaps rathr than listening for your snoring, your girlfriend could watch your eyelids for REM. She’d have to watch all night, though. Have you been to a sleep clinic? Frankly, I’d be more worried about the fatigue and other possible health problems arising from the inevitable sleep interruptions, for both you and your girlfriend. You might want to talk to your doctor about your snoring.
223 ron/winky
March 17th, 2008 at 3:13 am

Dreams from an entity we call god,well some dreams,but not all,I could make you believe in dreaming the future but it would make all the theories of so many seem wasted.It is not clever or psychic or something I have seen or experienced prior to a dream,unless people think I have seen exactly how my three siblings would meet their demise prior to their illnesses.Not all are so sad,some are enlightening,some have saved friends and family from harm,many that concern us all are still to come,as I have said,its not clever,it just happens in dreams.But just one question,how many a coincident does it take to make it more than a coincident,has it got an equasion?
224 joan
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:30 am

a few years ago while sleeping i felt (not dreamt, since i wasn’t sure if it were really a dream or something more bizzare) that i was floating off my bed and out of my room, the same feeling as relaxing your whole body while holding your breath in deep water
225 Scott
March 24th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

I always dream in the first person.
226 rneiderman
March 24th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

I’ve always wondered how blind people know when they wake up. I know that sounds really stupid, but I’ve never known a blind person well enough to ask.
A weird thing I get is dreaming that I need a haircut. First, I notice it’s getting a little long, and I try to style it (my hair is usually really short). As the dream goes on, it gets longer and longer, until it’s ridiculous. This happens kind of a lot.
I like when I occassionally have action movie dreams. I’ll be fighting villains or zombies or something, but it won’t be scary, I’m in control. The only problem is that my adrenaline wakes me up, ruining it.
I see a lot of people dream about pee. Whenever I have to go really bad, I dream about peeing, often in places not you shouldn’t. Like my bosses refrigerator (he didn’t think it was weird at the time). When I wake up, I frantically check to see if any came out, but so far, so good.
227 Ghidoran
March 26th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

joan- that often happens to me. I have no idea why
228 Jennabug
March 26th, 2008 at 10:34 pm

What I love most about dreaming is that if I wake up mid dream, I can almost always make my way back into it, right where I left off…can everyone do this???? I do it a lot, it’s great when you are having one of those amazing dreams that are so great and seem so real. I also remember a very large amount of dreams, the earliest one I would say I remember was when I was around 3. It was so scary…a giant evil Easter egg rolling down my street…Is it true that a dream really only lasts a few seconds??? I was always told that….great list btw.
229 Jennabug
March 26th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

Also, I forgot to mention that I have on a few occasions had dream and the next day it came true….EXACTLY true. In my dream, I was sitting in the smoking area in the back of the nursing home I worked in and a co-worker of mine who hadn’t been to work in a long time came out of the building, walked up to me and told me she was having a lot of personal problems and would not be returning to work for a while..she was dressed in street clothes (we only wore scrubs to work)…she then walked away from the building and left. The VERY NEXT DAY the same exact thing happened, EXACTLY as I had dreamed it. Almost every dream I remember is in vivid color and EXTREMELY detailed. I would love to buy a dream book, but the ones I have read were pretty stupid. Know of any good ones??? I would love if someone commented back on my post with any ideas of how it’s possible what I dream sometimes comes true….thanks )
230 cutie _ cutie
March 27th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

this web is very intresting and it helped me alot finish my project about dreams!!thank g-d for this website!!!!
it was very informative!!
231 Rosey lips
April 7th, 2008 at 10:06 am

when isleep i mearely have dreams regarded to my friends….or more about the person whom i think mostly before sleeping………………..i love to sleep so that i can have alots of good dreams
232 Denzell
April 7th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

Why do I dream about agreeing to make out with someone who is just my friend? It occurred to me a couple of repetitive times. Do I like her romantically deep inside? I just want to know, for it really bothers me.
233 Denzell
April 7th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

Please, help me! Do I like her? No! It can’t be! We’re just friends! (but do I? I’ve been sleepless for some days just thinking about it.) I absolutely want the making out to stop.

Help me! Anyone? (nice list though)
234 Micah
April 12th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

Awesome list very interesting read but can you explain if I’m virtually paralyzed when I’m asleep how is it that I’ve had dreams where I was playing soccer and I kicked a goal but in actuality my leg swung and punted the wall, it was not pleasant waking up to a stubbed toe due to soccer dream lol and what about whump-dreams you know the falling sensation then waking up as you smack down on your mattress
235 2worlds
April 20th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

for 6 does this include places to?
236 guess who
April 26th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

wow freud is pretty famous for his theories but its sooooo true nearly every solution and reason for things happening in his eyes is sex linked lol!
237 Louis
April 29th, 2008 at 4:57 am

This might scare some people. I would like to talk about my own experiences with sleep and dreaming. Just before researching dreams and finding this site just now i woke and distinctly remembered what happened to me. i had a rather intense experience. I have lucid dreams and sleep paralysis and nightmares from time to time. It was only last night that all three happened in the same dream. I went to sleep at 3.05am and within seconds i was dreaming, i was in this room not familiar, i was in control, there was this girl there that i met when i was austria recently and we were close and talking. everything was quite dark. for me like many of my dreams this was as real as real life although many more amazing things happen. there were lots of people in this room. i moved my arm and i could penetrate peoples bodys with it like they were ghosts. I picked up an acoustic guitar and i tried my best but really couldnt play it even though i am an accomplised guitarist. An african guy walked in the flat and took the girl into the hall way and although i couldnt see them or hear tham i could feel with out looking that thay were kissing. when they came back i could feel something was wrong. A group of african men walked in and i could feel one walk behind me, i was grabbed and i immediatly wanted to leave the dream as i was scared, so while in the dream i slammed my eyes shut and they opened in real life, in my bed but i did not like what i saw, bright lights and even more frightening than my dream, i closed them again and re-opened and the lights were gone but i was paralysed, unable to more anypart of my body not even t my eyes although i could see.

I frequently have sleep paralysis and it scares the hell out of my, especially when i have company. When this happens, my eyes open and i am 100% aware that i am paralysed and i am screaming inside trying to vocalise, my dread is that when this happens someone looks me in the face. i suppose 30 seconds is the longest i have had it but it seems like forever.

what i didnt mention is that that dream i had before seemed like 4-5 minutes and in real time it was 35 minutes as i checked the time before and after.

what i will say is that humans should not smoke marijuana as it stops your dreams and dreams are our brains way of working problems out during sleep. Also the brain expells crap and also turns worries into life like situations. We have all had those dreams where we are having a fight and our punches are pathetic. i had these in the past untill i had had few punch ups and i now know in a fight my punches are not like marshmallows.

i have only had lucid dreams for the last couple of years but these are amazing, i control everything i do, i can fly, not like superman but i can push off surfaces and get around alot quicker. i have had some amazing dreams but in time they have left my memory.

one last thing that people should try that works for me is to set an alarm so you wake up an hour before you get up and think of a person or environment immeditely and go back to sleep. often i can create dreams before they start and then once in them decide what happens.

There are only 2 drawback to my amazing dreams. 1 is that they are so intense i am often dissapointed with real life. 2 is that sometimes my mind cant tell the difference between if something happened in real life or in a dream and leaves me confused.
238 Rusty
May 1st, 2008 at 6:23 am

In the 60s Dream Therapy was in vogue. The Esalen Institute, and Ann Faraday promoted popular interest in therapeutic use of dreams. Even I went to workshops on Dreams, analysis and how this could help you in a therapeutic sense as I trained in Therapy. One of the key tenants of this ‘movement’ was an anthropology study by Stewart and Garfield of the Malaysian Senoi. We were told that for generations there had been no violence or psychological disorders and they were the most happy race on Earth. This was because of their Dream Therapy.
An Anthropologist friend later introduced me to Castenada where we were instructed to ‘see our hands’ in our dreams and increase our ‘flying dreams’ as the Yaqui Shaman instructed.
It does Anthropology no credit that both accounts were embraced and world wide movements allowed to grow unchallenged by leading University departments and professionals until challenged by ‘laymen’. In the case of Castenada, De Mille (son of Cecil and author of a great little children’s book on imagination, “Put your Mother on the Ceiling”). For the Senoi debacle read http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/senoi.html
So it seems to me that from Freud on, modern scientific endeavour to reveal and utalize dreams is fraught with poor scholarship, methodology and straight cons!
It could be that the list could have been ’10 reasons you should not trust what you read about dreams.’
239 NAomi_mamah
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:11 am

lalala…uhm when you sleep your throat or something closes up….if you are obese this becomes difficult because then you cannot breathe….you are forced to wake in order to open that airway….That is probably why it feels as if you forgot how to breathe when you suddenly awake
240 Jess/mileyfan/fhilfhillian
May 7th, 2008 at 11:51 am

Do dreams come true???and i have way wierd dreams its weired lol dunno what 2 put!!lol dreams are cool xoxo
241 sandeep
May 8th, 2008 at 10:06 pm

i see my self sleepping in my dream i see that i am sleeping and there are severel peopele roaming arruond me in my room i am not able to see there face i feel like aweken but i found my self unable to move even after trying with full of power i have its all is very scaring.
242 Nerrad
May 10th, 2008 at 1:22 am

Sometimes when I dream, I’ll make choices which I would when in reality. It feels alittle like being able to control my dreams ^_^
243 Good Wolf
May 10th, 2008 at 5:00 am

Nerrad. That would be lucid dreaming (moreso if you know its a dream and use that knowledge to do stuff.

I am really really glad to say that I have never awoken and had a bad experience with sleep paralysis. THANK GOD and AMEN!
244 Good Wolf
May 10th, 2008 at 5:07 am

MAN, most of my friends have flying dreams and will tell me about them with such glee and happiness and here is my all willowed up because I have never flown in-dream. Also one of my friends (who I trust is not lieing – it would be out of character) tells me he has almost perfect dream recolection.

Also I experience something frequently that I liken to ‘time-control’. If the dream is going off in a way I don’t want I go back to a particular point and redo whole chunks of dream, but I think that to be the half awake dream type.
245 HOTROD
May 12th, 2008 at 6:04 pm

hey ive read mostly all these comments lol yeah kina bored and well interested in this stuff ….

kinda wierd but at times jus during the day when im bored in school ….and friends playing some game or jus talking during lunch time …..

i guess this is what they call day dreaming
i close my eyes n start wondering about stuff like problems as some people sya they solved in their dream … and well my gf n stuff ….. it jus kinda wierd because …. after a few minutes wit my eyes closed its like if ive gone into a different state of mind ….and i could actually see vivid virtual images in motion but it fades in and out …. wierd thing is that i am still aware of my surroundings that i cud still hear whats going on n feel n smell …. but yet im dreaming ???

sometimes when this happens i even workout solve problems whenever i have trouble codeing writing programs its like i lay it all out infront me in my dream and find whats wrong
then i write it down or else il forget lol i dont hav good memory for those stuff
246 heinrich
May 14th, 2008 at 12:30 am

can someone please explain this to me, i have had countless dreams where i am predicting a future action taking place, having to do with sound. Example, i will dream of something falling, i already see and know the object is falling, and once it hits the ground, a loud “real” noise will wake me up, coming from the real life, like a firework, something falling or hitting against the roof or whatever.
I want to know, how can this prediction always be perfect in sync, without sensing an action of sound coming from the future… thanks
247 jfrater
May 14th, 2008 at 12:33 am

heinrich: I am not sure what scientists say about it, but I suspect that your brain is back-dating part of the dream which makes the sound appear to be in sequence. I could be wrong though. It reminds me a lot of Deja Vu and it happens to me too.
248 HEY!
May 14th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

dreams are awsomly awsome.
249 kris
May 14th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

Well, I am reading this list after long time again…I found this list when I wanted was searching ans for my Questions on Dreams…. Well I did go to a doctor to seek some help… but trust me I haven’t got anyhelp… its same…

Just to remind what I wrote I am pasting it below again here…. AND PLEASE if anyone knows what I must do to overcome it or should i just live with it… premonitions/scarry dreams???
and as I told after I dream…. most of them actually happen!!!

As also mentioned about my health probs… I have problem called polyuria… with no remedy again even after taking mediction from the best doctors in my city and spending loads of amount….

Once my family use to call me telephone directory coz of my sharp memory … and now I can’t remember things easily how I use too … what is happening to me… I work as trainer for Corporate company… if this happens I can’t support myself or a family and there is no I can actually depend on…
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I don’t know if anyone would really believe it…
But guys this is so very true…

Most of the dreams I dream….actually happens ( I mean comes true) after a few days or weeks…
I don’t if its blessing or Curse in my life
Could sum1 help out of it…

I do get horrid and bad dreams sumtimes Errr… many times actually…..

I have a few health concerns… and have to wake up frequently during my sleep…

But when I see my dreams coming true… I m scared… as I share those to my friends and they think that I predict future which I don’t …..and unexpectedly …..when i feel XYZ will happen ….it happens

PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ HELP
250 kris
May 14th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

jfrater : thanq for this list on dreams… its awesome…
251 Brad
May 15th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

I remember once when I was about 6, in a dream I was using a urinal, and then I woke up and I had wet the bed…
252 LS
May 16th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

kris: I was reading up on some other sites about prophetic dreams. Basically, you are very perceptive. What types of things are coming true? You can subconciously pick up on hints about events that are going to happen. And your subconcious runs this by your concious in your sleep.

Everthing else: Those are a lot of interesting theories. And the sleep paralysis thing sounds scary: just knowing that my brain has the ability to actually cease all movement is terrifying. Oh, what if my body is on the fritz at a critical moment and sends that hormone out rather than adrenalin?

Anyway, I read over half of the comments before I got bored. But to add to some of those old debates, we wouldn’t be thinking about it in the first place if it didn’t hold some meaning to us. And dreams are technically thinking in yor sleep, no? Therefore, dreams must have some meaning. M’right?

And another thing to add. One trick for waking up from nightmares, that usually works for me. First, you realize you’re dreaming. This is the hard part. Since it’s then lucid dreaming, you’re very close to being awake. Close your eyes very tightly…then snap the open. You may need to repeat the eye part a few times to avoid slipping back into the nightmare, but eh.

Interesting site. I’m going to go check out the rest of it. Pardon my long and most likely rambling comment.
253 funnynotfunny11
May 16th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

I would have liked to see a little more Freudian Dream Analysis in this list (not sure if anyone else stated similarly). [Look here: http://alexfiles.com/otiod.shtml

Being paralyzed while asleep… how do people roll around and move though paralyzed? I speak full sentences and often times I have been said to roll around and/or twitch a little bit. I will say that there have been times where I think that I want to wake up in my dream and I try to make my body move so I can wake up but I have this feeling of paralysis. I keep trying and trying and I ended up hitting the wall and waking up… coincidence?

Lastly, I just quit smoking 3 months ago after 7 years of doing it (patting self on the back), and I have to say my dreams have been pretty screwy ever since; involving a lot of violence. I have all this pent up rage and whatnot from quitting I guess.

Overall, great list!
254 Good Wolf
May 18th, 2008 at 3:26 am

There is a part of the brain that puts the body into the state of paralysis. I believe that in people who sleep walk and talk its either not working properly or not working 100%. Ive never sleepwalked or snored but i have mumbled from time to time. I have a mate who has night terrors who doesnt experience full sleep paralysis. its realy creepy.
255 Kris
May 19th, 2008 at 8:55 am

LS-Thanq for addressing my message…I think what u said might be true

Wel I would tel u 2 of my dreams that came true,
Just 1 week before my friend Ashley’s death I got a dream of crowded place with Ashley beautiful dressed in wedding gown but she was lying is coffin…as I was scared I dint share it wit anyone and I was not aware of her death too as I was out of country… wen I returned to visit her family I came to know the she is no more (I wish I could have told and do something to stop it)
I dreamt a similar dream bfo my grandmother died

2nd dream was strange one… I dream of a black hooded person standing in th middle of church touch few of th church members and making them vanished.. ( that’s my dad’s church)

I told this to my dad.. he could understand what I said- but then after a month one of our asst.pastor started a new church li’l far fm my dad’s church and more than 40% members joined that uncle’s church ( no regrets tho) n yes I am now in India… n living with my foster parents

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there has been many many incidents like these… I knw it bfo when some gud or most of the times bad happens i dream or is it a vision coz its all in colors and I can actualy feel my presence in that places… bt then a few time I ignore th dream/ vision and also sometimes I feel some talkin to me n asking me to do things or avoid things…I faced horrid consequences if I ignored it… I took help from psychiatrist nothin changed tho…
256 Kris
May 19th, 2008 at 8:55 am

LS-Thanq for addressing my message…I think what u said might be true

Wel I would tel u 2 of my dreams that came true,
Just 1 week before my friend Ashley’s death I got a dream of crowded place with Ashley beautiful dressed in wedding gown but she was lying is coffin…as I was scared I dint share it wit anyone and I was not aware of her death too as I was out of country… wen I returned to visit her family I came to know the she is no more (I wish I could have told and do something to stop it)
I dreamt a similar dream bfo my grandmother died

2nd dream was strange one… I dream of a black hooded person standing in th middle of church touch few of th church members and making them vanished.. ( that’s my dad’s church)

I told this to my dad.. he could understand what I said- but then after a month one of our asst.pastor started a new church li’l far fm my dad’s church and more than 40% members joined that uncle’s church ( no regrets tho) n yes I am now in India… n living with my foster parents

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there has been many many incidents like these… I knw it bfo when some gud or most of the times bad happens i dream or is it a vision coz its all in colors and I can actualy feel my presence in that places… bt then a few time I ignore th dream/ vision and also sometimes I feel some talkin to me n asking me to do things or avoid things…I faced horrid consequences if I ignored it… I took help from psychiatrist nothin changed tho…
257 Kris
May 19th, 2008 at 8:55 am

LS-Thanq for addressing my message…I think what u said might be true

Wel I would tel u 2 of my dreams that came true,
Just 1 week before my friend Ashley’s death I got a dream of crowded place with Ashley beautiful dressed in wedding gown but she was lying is coffin…as I was scared I dint share it wit anyone and I was not aware of her death too as I was out of country… wen I returned to visit her family I came to know the she is no more (I wish I could have told and do something to stop it)
I dreamt a similar dream bfo my grandmother died

2nd dream was strange one… I dream of a black hooded person standing in th middle of church touch few of th church members and making them vanished.. ( that’s my dad’s church)

I told this to my dad.. he could understand what I said- but then after a month one of our asst.pastor started a new church li’l far fm my dad’s church and more than 40% members joined that uncle’s church ( no regrets tho) n yes I am now in India… n living with my foster parents

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there has been many many incidents like these… I knw it bfo when some gud or most of the times bad happens i dream or is it a vision coz its all in colors and I can actualy feel my presence in that places… bt then a few time I ignore th dream/ vision and also sometimes I feel some talkin to me n asking me to do things or avoid things…I faced horrid consequences if I ignored it… I took help from psychiatrist nothin changed tho…
258 kris
May 19th, 2008 at 9:44 am

Well 2 dreams r examples. bt there many many dreams tht come true n I remember them while they r either happening or when already happend and my family or friends say it to and I knw that is one of dreams…
259 Giant Peach
May 24th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

Sometimes when my parents have the news on in the morning and I become more conscious, the stories are incorporated in my dream. This can be extremely eerie.
260 LS
May 25th, 2008 at 7:38 am

Oh, that reminds me of the time my little brother was watching Dora the Explorer and I was asleep in the living room. I dreamed I was in the show, but it was really R-rated. I never thought Dora even knew those words! O.o
261 Denzell
May 26th, 2008 at 6:07 am

(see comment 232 for previous events)

After a while the making out dreams have stopped, things have become worse. Last night, I dreamed that my friend who is a girl (the same one I made out with for a freakin’ ten times) r**ed me. Well, so much for my respect for women…

Help! I can’t sleep anymore for this has scarred me for the rest of my life.
262 kris
May 26th, 2008 at 6:33 am

Denzell… may b u shud share ur dream with ur friend… coz sumtimes if v don’t share it with the person whom we dreamt about…things may go worse… may its a sign for sumthing.. share the dream and be careful…
263 Lizz
May 26th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

None of my dreams make any sense. D:
And I’ve suffered from sleep paralysis before, as well.
Except I wasn’t experiencing a dream or anything, I just woke up paralyzed, I couldn’t even talk or anything.
264 Toast
May 27th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

Those facts are all true,but as this “article’ said we do not dream of the unknown.You forgot to point out that every sound and picture that we interpret as a thing when ur awake are twisted in a way that makes it like an unusual one thanx to our mind we remember this sounds and pictures becouse both uncounsious and consious are conected.Mainly we remember things that usually u wanted them to happen or maby it was that thing u got scared of in that nightmare.Its a great life,but we all do want to get some things other than the ones weve got.For example:ur 12 and want a PS3,in a dream u bought it or was given to u.A bizare nintendo game comes with the PS3.

How the hell did that happen?Ur mind knows the PS3 and the Nintendo but still represents it in another way.Like she/he said we dont remember most of our dreams.

(@_@)-Do not oversleep if u wanna continue a dream,ull forget it faster and end up with a bad mood!I like dreaming of the perfect girl that isnt there but is there.Its bizare but I enjoy spending time with my dream girl(^w^)
265 Toast
May 27th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

Heres the happy answer to the Dora thing-DORA is just a little girl lying!Spanish is not that crapy,thats like mexican,she speaks mexican(Not good spanish)And Id say the fact is that Dora has lots of perverted drawings by the perverted kids.Did u know that the less things u know about life,the more bad things u do!Dora is a badtalking girl that tried to r**e her Coousin Diego,thatl show u what she wants to do to small children!
266 FriedToast
May 27th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

Toast,Im the king around here!Not u,ur plain toast,@-/-@
267 Toast
May 27th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

I never said I was,and I just made a random name dipface.
268 meow
May 28th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

one of my 3rd year university lecturers told us that dreaming in colour versus black & white depends on what stage of sleep you are in. it’s normally the dreams in colour that you remember. he got that out of a text book but i have no idea which.

i wish i could wake myself up when having nightmares! they are really scary. i still remember nightmares from when i was 4 and 6 years old.
i also once dreamt falling off a clif and woke up as i litteraly hit the bedroom floor.

and what is the deal on recurring dreams?

love your lists jfrater!!
269 Bones
May 29th, 2008 at 3:53 am

dreams are fascinating. you learn so much about your subconcious mind that you wouldn’t be able to tap during a concious state. i love it.
270 x-Morgan–x
May 30th, 2008 at 8:37 am

its soo cool but ihad a dream once that i was in a lift and all of a sudden the doors closed and i went shooting down and had that falling sensation when you practically jump out your skin while you sleep in real life. did you know that 53% of sleep deaths often relate to when you have the falling sensation if you dont wake up after that falling dream you die. its honestly true…x
271 pault107
May 30th, 2008 at 9:11 am

@x-Morgan–x

That’s a great theory but how can it be proven?

78% of statistics are made up, it’s honestly true.
272 WarningDontReadThis
June 1st, 2008 at 4:46 am

Nr 6 sort of freaks me out.
273 Ro
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 am

Me too
274 miles
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm

it is so weird. i constantly have these wierd dreams where i can’t seem to run normal, and it feels like i am running underwater almost. and it is always when I am being chased. I just can’t seem to run normal. It is actually really obnoxious. Regarding the paralysis thing, one time I had this dream that I was controlling kind of with my brain, but I was on the very verge of waking up, but I just couldn’t make myself do it. I tried and struggled, and i even could see my room partially, but couldn’t wake up. It was like i was trapped. It scared the hell out of me, but i eventually escaped.
275 Denzell
June 4th, 2008 at 2:54 am

kris: I’ll do it. But I hope it helps…
276 Pocket
June 5th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

has anyone ever experienced heightened intelligence during their dreams? i feel as if sometimes i’m a genius in my dreams. on more than one occasion i’ve woken up from a dream where i either said something 10 times smarter than i would when i’m awake, or have come up with some brilliant idea for my own creative purposes. the big problem is i wake up with the feint feeling that i was on to something so amazing but i can’t remember… i’m not sure if i got just the “feeling” of coming up with something or if i really did but forgot. on a few of them i could barely recall what i was touching on but not nearly enough to be useful. i’m kind of a shy person so on a daily basis my thoughts tend to get easily stunned. i wonder if i am able to think much clearer when i’m asleep.
277 Denzell
June 13th, 2008 at 2:09 am

kris: thanks,your advice helped a lot, and my nightmares of getting r**ed by a girl are over. I just hope it won’t happen again. This was the first time I actually slept for 8 hours within several days from May 26.

pocket: yup, did so (dreamed about discovering the portion in lizard DNA that enables it to restore its tail and creating a medicine that enables human body parts to grow back normally even after amputation or fracture in my first 8-hour sleep since May 26 due to the nightmare). It feels weird considering that I’m just smart enough to be a straight-A student in real life.
278 kris
June 18th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Denzell: I am glad my advice helped.Well I am still searching for an answer regarding the dreams I get u knw! its like i get premonitions of wats gonna happen and it does happen… its worries me most of the time… can u imagine u knw sum1 is going to die and u can’t help…..in th beginning i ignored most of th dreams bt i am expressin it n it helped me a bit…
279 kris
June 18th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

Oh Jfrater…would u plz come up with solution for these sort of probs where doctors give up!!!
280 jfrater
June 18th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

kris: I don’t understand your comment…
281 WarningDontReadThis
June 18th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

haha owned xD
282 Vera Lynn
June 18th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

I have very vivid dreams and recall them often. I can even get in the shower and keep dreaming (I shower in the dark). I am also a lucid dreamer. I can control the dream. I usually do this if I am being threatened. I can pause the dream, and reroute it. Or I can go back, like rewind to go another way. I often dream of the same house. It is always mine in my dream, but it is somewhere I have never really been. It has lots of rooms that I have “forgotten” were there. And I do read in my sleep. I have wondered if I was reading something that I have read before (I don’t think so because as I am “reading” it, it does not seem familiar), or something I am creating. In reality, I am an avid reader. No less than 500 pages a week, working full time. On break, not even countable. Thousands.
283 wally
June 19th, 2008 at 12:27 am

Interesting list! I’d never even thought about how blind people dream. Number 6 would be impossible to prove though, only we can see our dreams. Or maybe that’s just what they want you to think…..:)
284 Pocket
June 19th, 2008 at 7:39 am

On several occasions i would wake up during the night after a dream, open my eyes and after a few seconds i would start seeing my dream sort of appearing right over my actual sight. i would stare at some window reflections on my ceiling and slowly a scene from whatever i’m starting to dream about will just start appearing. sometimes with a bright day sky scene in contrast to the dark room ceiling. it’s the closest thing to hallucinating i have ever experienced. i now wonder how much we can trust what we see…
285 kris
June 19th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

Jfrater: I meant would you be able to research on having dreams that comes actually come true and about premonitions… something like what Wendy has it in movie Final fantasy-3..I first came across your site when I was searching for an answer from my problem with dreams coming true and having premonitions and then see them happen!!!! may be you can see my 1sr comment # 210..I did take help from doctors they dint help me… some ppl say i m blessed with supernatural gift of knowing things…

but can u imagine u knw sum1 will be hurt or they r dying n u cant do anything!!!!

I guess even u cant find the answer no one could including doctors… i have to be like this !!!!
286 kris
June 19th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

Jfrater: I meant would you be able to research on having dreams that comes actually come true and about premonitions… something like what Wendy has it in movie Final destiny -3..I first came across your site when I was searching for an answer from my problem with dreams coming true and having premonitions and then see them happen!!!! may be you can see my 1sr comment # 210..I did take help from doctors they dint help me… some ppl say i m blessed with supernatural gift of knowing things…

but can u imagine u knw sum1 will be hurt or they r dying n u cant do anything!!!!

I guess even u cant find the answer no one could including doctors… i have to be like this !!!!
287 kris
June 19th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

sorry abt comment # 285
288 Mel
June 19th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

Stephanie Meyer thought of the book Twilight in a dream.
289 Personal Trainer
June 27th, 2008 at 8:58 am

What an absolutely AWESOME article. Dreaming is something which we cannot really figure out for ourselves, obviously because we’re unconscious.

Learning this information is not only cool, but useful to improve the quality of our sleep.
290 RLP
June 28th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Cat Skyfire

I had a dream kinda like that once. My cat was out on the porch meowing and I could hear something in my dream- I don’t remember if it was a cat meowing or something else. It wouldn’t go away. And when I woke up she was still meowing the same way she was in the dream.
291 Neu
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:39 pm

Dreams are truly a mystery.I think these articles about dreams are very educational but there are a lot more about dreams that science cannot explain.I was very fascinated by most of your articles because I could relate to them.

anyway,when I was in my early twenties,I had the same problem as “Kris” and even worse.I was able to solve those problems except for Dreaming and sleepwalking at the same time which I frequently still experience up to now.
292 kris
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:38 am

Neu:
can u tel me if u took any medicle help… I dont walk in sleep but then … i m glad u understood my situation and I m trying my best to ignore them n liv normal bt thts really tuff…

J.Frater… any advice
293 bubbles
July 4th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

Hi, I’m kinda new to this sight n I found it yestrday cuz I wuz bored, anyways, my sister and my dad told me dat when I’m asleep I talk during my sleep and it freaks them out, what can I do 2 stop this, n is there a name for it? And when I dream its usually about dumb confusing things and people dat don’t even exist, I don’t know. It really is weird.
294 Neu
July 5th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

if I undestand it correctly you are having premontions in your dreams.now this is what you call in paranormal sciences as forsight.I had the same thing before ,and much much more,and it was very difficult knowing the good and bad events that are going to happen without knowing exactly when they would happen.Like any other types of extrasensory perception, forsight can be controlled but very very difficult and tiring,mentally and physically.Extrasensory perception runs in our family,on my mother’s side.My problem then was I think I inherited all of them,so just imagine how difficult it was for me.there were psychic organization inviting me to join and develop my abilities but in the end it seemed like a curse.
I researched on self hypnosis and that eventually solved all my problems except for the sleepwalking.Try reading and practicng self hypnosis and learn how to meditate.try to build strong mental wall around your third eye. hope it could also work for you.
295 kris
July 7th, 2008 at 9:18 am

Neu:That is very kind of u…will do that… my dad says I am fortunate… bt I don’t want these premonitions are forsights as it disturbs me.

Well I am glad you have recovered this gives me hope that I will be fine too. I am just out of school and a long way to go so hopefully I will be fine… and have SWEET DREAMZZZZ
296 kris
July 7th, 2008 at 9:23 am

bubbles: to avoid talking in sleep you must either think of sumthing nice or a TV programme or cartoons… coz in sleep you would let ur secrets out!!!

and if u r dreaming confusing things then u must be doing sumthing wich u r not sure of in ur life or half hearted!!!
U wud not dream of unknown people… actualy u wud come across them in ur daily life but wont remember them

I am sharing this with my experience… or above all SIMPLE ignore ur dreams and think WISE
297 bubbles
July 7th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

Kris: thank you! I will try doing that. It also is more frequent when I get nightmares. I’ll try to do what your saying. Thnx. =) =)
298 kris
July 8th, 2008 at 9:54 am

Bubbles: u r welcome…Nightmares comes wen we r scared or disturbed..
299 Sleeping Pro
July 10th, 2008 at 7:17 am

How do you know for sure faces aren’t made up? Where is the proof? I will take that point with a pinch of salt and I think others should too
300 kris
July 10th, 2008 at 9:46 am

Sleeping Pro: whose comment r u referring to? none of the faces r made up as we do come across them in our daily lives or sometimes during traveling… but we don’t remember them

I am just out of school can’t debate on these much, but can assure u as my grandpa told me and i having a few issues related to “DREAMS”
301 kris
July 10th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

I have to tel what happened last week… I dreamed about one of my uncles “he wakes up at 4 am tells his younger son that he is not keeping well and drinks some water and goes back to sleep again…and he dies in the sleep and my cousin and her husband are trying to wake him up”
Its was on Thursday… and I didn’t share that with anyone… on Friday noon I got a message that he passed away… we all drove to the funeral, every one said he died while he was asleep and again I went to see my cousin this sunday and asked exactly what happend…she narrated my dream…

I am very upset after hearing that… I am posting comments on other topics and reading them…to kill my time… reading my old school books and few other books,talking to friends from my town in Isle of wight online for hours… watching TV doing a lot to get over it…

was it my fault that i didn’t tell what is going to happen or am i suppose to shut up and concentrate on my Hindi lessons thinking it was just another dream… m clueless

I think i will some how ask dad to send me back to UK as I didn’t like India love the people tho and this place Mumbai
302 RabitSneeze
July 12th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

I don’t dream very often. But I rarely sleep for more than 4 hours at a time. I wake up several times a night and can not sleep past 6. I even have trouble sleeping often but am still able to function : study/workout/social life etc. Only sometimes does it really affect me. (I get a little crabby) It is likely that I am overtraining. I found a list on it and have all 15 symptoms. Any OTHER Ideas?
303 Mike
July 17th, 2008 at 8:46 am

Theres a mistake on number nine. The way it is explained suggests that When you are within ten minutes of waking up, you only remember 10% of your dream, but five minutes later when you are within five minutes of waking up, you remember another 40%.

Other than that, it was a good list
304 kris
July 17th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

RabitSneeze: I think you can ask a doctor? did you fight any good friend or miss them a lot?
305 Momopuff
July 17th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

But…what about when you dream something that becomes something in real life? Like a scene you see in a dream that seems so insignificant that you eventually forget it, but then you see it in reality and waves of deja vu set in.
306 Cedestra
July 17th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

Clairvoyancy?
307 kris
July 18th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Momopuff: ask me how I feel….about the firts Qn…second one we hardly see it happen
308 kris
July 18th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

first***
309 JK
July 19th, 2008 at 12:56 am

Wow…what a post. For those who are interested in dream stuff, check out [www]dreamviews[com] for great info and a forum on “lucid dreaming”.

Now a joke on dreams :

Patient: Since a few weeks, I have been dreaming about these actual monkeys playing football worldcup. Please Help.

Doctor: Dont worry, just start taking these medicines and you’ll be alright.

Patient: Can I start it from tommorow ?

Doctor: Why not today ?

Patient: Well…Today is The Final Match.

(Not funny? Just ignore my comment, except the top 3 lines)
310 JK
July 19th, 2008 at 1:07 am

Kris: DOnt feel bad. Maybe you should be happy. It might be a gift, that you can see future in dreams. I dont know…but you should do something to master this skill. Maybe you’ll someday benefit someone by this.

And oh, did anything strange happen to you in India prior to this dream ?

And why did you come to India ?
311 kris
July 19th, 2008 at 5:00 am

JK: thanq for your encouraging words
It all started when my mother went to live with God… and after that I had epilepsy attacks frequently( I was 12 then)
these epilepsies have reduced a little bit but from that time I started to dream things and see them happen and not only while dreaming some times I actually have a sense of fear or uneasiness and then come to know that something would happen… I try best to ignore it… but then when i hear or know or see this happend exactly the way I felt it upsets me… that’s one of the reasons my dad won’t send me to school again!Its 2 and half years now I am trying to live with it
Reason for coming India was my dad’s business and also my health My dad thinks Indian medicines or treatment might help me which hasn’t done anything yet

I am trying to be as normal kid as anyone out there… but its hard…

Well atleast thanks to the listverse and Mr.Frater… I spend lot of time reading this site…

but i do wanna go back to school
312 rosemirror
July 20th, 2008 at 5:34 am

About being paralyzed, once after falling asleep (when i hadn’t meant to) I woke up severely confused and could not move a muscle, but the thing is I was hearing voices in my head- really loud, demanding scary ones. They were definately connected to not being able to move. I felt my dream was evil, trapping me and trying to pull me back in! I was terrified, now thanks to reading this i know it wasn’t an invisible force holding me down, but the voices…. ?

Also, i try and try to have lucid dreams or wake myself from dreams but even when i know i am dreaming i can not control what happens around me. I merely know that at least i am safe, and can do what i want to do. For example, once i realised i was dreaming: i was with my friend who i have always fancied so decided to kiss her, right there and then- but instead a shoe insole came out of her mouth!
313 Paul
July 20th, 2008 at 5:53 am

“but instead a shoe insole came out of her mouth!” Haha, dreams are strange like that.

As for the voices during sleep paralysis – I believe it’s fairly common.
314 Joebecca
July 21st, 2008 at 3:22 pm

What a cool list! i have had dreams where I feel like I can’t move too, but i’m in my room and someone is trying to hurt me or touch me and i can’t scream or anything, i think because i’m in my bed in my room in the dream it feels like i’m awake. I get so scared of those! also i have the falling dream, and i have ALOT of dreams about driving, only the road starts getting hilly and more and more until i can’t get up the hill anymore and the car starts to flip backwards. it’s pretty crazy. wonder what that could mean.
315 Joebecca
July 21st, 2008 at 3:24 pm

LOL and my dad had a dream one time that he was a soldier marching and when they turned the corner, he fell out of bed! too funny!!!
316 bob
July 26th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

someone said to me the other day.

“when you dream your running and keep falling over its because your moving your legs but are restricted so you trip over”

this goes against #1 although dogs move there legs when dreaming about chasing things?
so why wouldn’t we?
317 jak
July 30th, 2008 at 10:23 am

i dream every night. when i dream now i have learned in my dream to actually sya to myself in my dream , oh i didnt like the ending of that dream, so i go through the dream again choosing it another way to see what another ending would end the dream like.cant explain this, but i can make my dreams suit me sometimes, as if im writing them. the only time i never dreamed was in the week my dad died.
318 Brickhouse
July 31st, 2008 at 4:02 am

Love this list! I’ve always been fascinated about dreams. That blind people dream is amazing (I always wondered that). Thanks.
319 Jen
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:03 am

Funny thing….
I watched that old night of the living dead movie when I was 4 or 5 and it scared the pants off me.
To this very day (some 20+ years later) I randomly have frequent nightmares of being eaten by zombies.
They scare me witless while I’m asleep, but then I wake up and realize just how silly that is >.
320 Chris
August 7th, 2008 at 11:34 pm

I had one of the best dreams ever! It was about my dream girl…
321 nickname
August 13th, 2008 at 12:37 am

number six is an interesting concept, if we can only dream of what we know, how do we have the knowledge and familiarness with things we don’t know? how did we ever dream up magic, vampires, ghosts on our own?
322 nickname
August 13th, 2008 at 12:45 am

something else, i probably won’t get this completely right but i remember reading somewhere about how after a person dies, usually there is still 10 minutes or so of brain activity. if dreams really last much longer than they seem, we could be living a whole life in a dream after we die!
323 rushfan
August 15th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

2. Toddlers do not dream about themselves until around the age of 3.

How would anyone know that?
324 Jessie
August 19th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

Ok..so WOW. This list has been going on for a long time. I love it. I’ve just skimmed through most of it because it IS SO long. I was wondering if anyone has heard of dreaming in another language and understanding everything that was said and replying back!
I sleep with my radio on, but the radio station plays nothing but hard rock and metal so I don’t think this is outside influence.
I was dreaming that I was in an old gothic house that had been turned into a museum. I was with my Japanese friend (I do not have a Japanese friend in real.)and she was pointing out different objects that were on display and speaking (I’m assuming) Japanese to me. (I thought, in my dream itself so I obviously knew I was dreaming, that why is she speaking like that. I don’t know Japanese.) And then to my surprise, I understood what she was saying and then replied in Japanese.
Like I said, my radio was playing, but there is nothing, not even and Ad, on that station that would speak Japanese.
I don’t even know if the language that we were speaking was Japanese or if I just assumed so because of my friends obvious race. I don’t know. It was weird, but cool. I know a few words, I’m sure like some people do, but not to the extent that I can carry a full convo.
I’ve had a few dreams where I am speaking Latin also. But I know more of Latin than I do Japanese, which is why I am more confused with this language.
Any ideas?
325 Rose Tyler and the Doctor
August 20th, 2008 at 6:20 am

i had this really intense dream the other night, it was that someone tricked me into this cage and then sucked the life right out of me i woke up at 4 in the morning trying to fall back asleep. and don’t think i’m completly mad but this is the last dream i can remember its been a week now.
326 jo
August 20th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

I dream all the time and then a week or two later they become true.Ive accepted dreaming as part of my life, i also write my dreams in a diary.I feel there is a big link in life, which involves imagination,dreams and being positive and negative.when i was little i used to feel that there was something around me ,always listening to my thoughts and if i didnt do what it said ,then it used to tell me that somthing bad would happen (and it did) after years of being a slave to this voice,feeling i was insane, i became to realise it was my fear side in controll of me (if that makes sense)now i am in controll!i put all my positive energy into imagining good things happening(and it becomes true).Iam always wondering do we create fate? or are we just following it? dreams maybe have the answer to this questions.
327 elleh
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:55 am

in never used to have any nightmares until i moved into a new house, theyre not really that scary while im having the dream, but i wake up feeling a little disturbed that my brain has made up something so weird, like i dreamed that there was a stalker in the backyard just standing in one spot an looking in through the open door
another one was the museum of famous corpses.
i also have deja vu in my dreams, where im slightly aware that its a dream, and i have the felling that ive had the same dream before, but cant remember whether or not i have. does anyone else get that?

its also strange that im not usually myself, even though it is always in the first person, quite frequently i dream that im a boy…
328 nieves
August 26th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

once i dreamed i was in a bed and there was a snake in front of me and i just shook the covers and the snake fell off…i also felt myself doing the same thing in real life as i was doing in my dream..when i woke, i was sitting upright(just like i was in my dream). it was weird…has that ever happened to anyone else??
329 Tegan
August 27th, 2008 at 8:41 am

Before, I woke up from a dream and saw a crab next to my pillow where I was laying. Obviously there wasn’t a crab there but I saw it and it scared me so I ran out my room into my mums telling her about this crab. I wouldn’t sleep in my bed for about a week because I was scared.

I have the same dreams now and then about me getting kidnapped and also when I wake up from a dream I go back to sleep and carry it on soemtimes.

I have recently had this dream where I was looking into something and you can see and hear whats on your mind and it was a lady screaming. It really scared me and I woke up imediately and I really want to know if there is a meaning behind this dream.
330 Nick Palla
August 31st, 2008 at 11:23 am

When i quit drinking and smoking,my dreams actually had storyline in which ive written books about!
331 Lorenzo
September 6th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

Ok, from what I’ve read, I share similar expierences with a lot of you, yes I have had a dream where this song was playing (in real life AND in my dream). And being in bed mid-coincious I have to go check the time to go to school, going back to sleep and dream that I get up and check the time and it’s early and I go back to sleep then It keeps repeating until I actually go check it out for real. And the control your dreams thing, yeah, I’ve done it a couple of times too, scary, freaks me out ALOT. But theres this other things, what about when you just went to sleep and in a couple of minutes if not seconds ur dreaming ur walking and all of a sudden u fall or trip and bruttaly wake up completely disoriented, happens sometimes, what about daydreaming, sometimes that get too real, and also how once I was dreaming and one of my friends just screamed at me and I felt like this horrible emotion of total fear, almost like made up fear, that applies to other thigs like having a nightmare and seeing the scary monster that makes u be in complete fear in the dream but when u recall it in real life it was not that scary, almost as if ur brain can produce fear, can it?
332 Lorenzo
September 6th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

About my last comment, the friend that screamed at me did it in the dream, not in real life, and I had that dream when I was like 7.
333 Marlina
September 9th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

this was very fun and interesting to read
334 Vivian aka foxy lady
September 26th, 2008 at 10:55 am

i dreamt of a hippo last night!! What does that mean!!? am i gonna get fat. or am i already, subconciously? i cant swim, does that have anything to do with it? im so distressed! help guide me through my subconcious quarrels!
335 m0nk3yhum0r
September 26th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

Hey Foxy Lady (whistle) your dreams are just you processing your own life, they may still be symbolic though.

I lucidly dreamed with my eyes open it was really cool. every time closed my eyes and opened them i would have a different dream i did this three times but the 4th time i tried i was awoken by the sun

I believe we can unravel a sushi roll, I mean some mysteries and common philosophy we fail to see in our ignorant, physical eyes. I also beleive that there may be some way to communicate through dreams. God could of given us that ability… or not. But i have uncovered some stuff through my dreams, did you know the secret to nonmechanical flight is in your heart?
336 m0nk3yhum0r
September 26th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

On a less serious note. Has anyone ever dreamed about eating a giant marshmellow only to wake up to find your pillow missing? Haha… no seriously, have you?
337 me
September 28th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

I was actually very surprised when my friend told me he fins it difficult to control himself in his dreams. I almost always have complete control over my movements when i dream, and if i realize that i am dreaming, i can do anything at all.
338 Joaquin
September 28th, 2008 at 8:16 pm

Yeah this explains a few things, sometimes when i am just about to drift off to slumber land i might here a noise which makes me lucid but I find that I am completely paralyzed. This continues to scare me since i can’t do nothing til the effect wears off. Overall i’v had docile dreams, I only remember a few violent ones
339 Joaquin
September 28th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

and me, i don’t know what it does to attest to the strength of my will but i also have no control of myself in my dreams, often whatever i don’t want to happen, happens
340 BLACKBIRD
October 15th, 2008 at 11:30 pm

When I sleep I tend to dream about the future like I do a test in my dream and about a week later I am re inacting the same dream out but in reality. It freaks mw out because I know all the questions I saw in the dream. Most of my dreams are too real!
341 random
October 20th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

I had different types of dreams during my life. when i was a kid around 8 years old i would dream about what ever i was thinking about before i fell asleep. when i was a teenager i would wake up on the floor or with a hole in the wall. I also had a dream where someone was trying to strangle me to death and when i woke up my head was in the pillow and i couldn’t breath. now i’m 22 and i always have dreams where my parents mostly my father try to kill me but i never die i wake up first. my most recent dream was my mother busting a wine bottle over my head and i reached into my head and felt my brain. crazy
342 dana
October 26th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

one time i was tryin to sleep. for some reason i was thinking about dogs and all of the dogs started jumping on me. i was still awake so i remember seeing my bedroom. i couldnt breathe and when i tried to scream for help, i couldnt say anything. i also tried to move but i couldnt. i thought i was going to die. after a minute eeverything came back to me. i dont know if i was paralyzed or if it was just my brain playing tricks on me
343 mynameisbob
October 26th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

last week i had a dream of something chasing my into this cage. i closed the door behind me but it disappeered(sorry if i spelled it wrong) as soon as i closed it. i tried to find another exit. soon i woke up. last night i had a dream about one of the people i know(i forgot who…probably my dad or my uncle) chasing me into the same cage. i closed the door behind me and it disappeared…again. but this time i actually found an exit. i think it means something but i dont know what.
344 ave
October 27th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

what does it mean when u say something in your dream but u dont hear anything come out of your mouth??? please answear!!!!!
345 RJ Vaughn
October 30th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

ave: i am not entirely sure what you mean maybe it has something to do with the paralysis thing

anyway i have to tell u about this one dream i keep having, had it since i was 7 or so, always starts out same im standing on top of mt rushmore and then i am pushed off by someone i dont know who it is never see a face or anything i just know im pushed i fall toward a forest below and then blackness and then its kinda random i either end up in heaven with every girl ive ever crushed on or dated staring at me or i end up in hell staring at a road weaving in the darkness with no end, its kinda random heaven or hell dream happens least once a month not sure what decides heaven or hell last time it was heaven…but i love when its heaven, all the pretty girls
346 meiz
November 1st, 2008 at 3:46 am

Has anyone had this kind of dream that you really want to wake up n open your eyes, u are 50% conscious at that time, in ur mind u seem to struggle to open ur eyes or maybe move your hand but u just cant. Another one is when you feel like peeing, in your dream u feel very relieved cos you release it in ur dream, but when you wake up your stomach is still very full n need to pee right away. Maybe this is why kids pee while sleeping..
347 Kate
November 9th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

I fell asleep on the couch in the dorm’s lounge once, and when I woke up, my body took a few seconds to get the message across that I didn’t need to be paralyzed anymore. But between my waking and it happening, it was a few seconds of utter panic when I realized I couldn’t move!
348 Katie
November 11th, 2008 at 10:34 pm

Awesome list! I’ve incorporated my alarm clocks in my dreams a lot. There’s one I still remember very well, in which I was outside of a motel smashing alarm clocks into trees by swinging them by their cords. It was really frustrating b/c my alarm clock just continued to sound.
349 Leah
November 18th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

I survived a tragic car wreck, and spent months in a coma.
I don’t remember dreams at all, and it bothers me.
350 Interesting
November 30th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

I remember one time that I heard a phone ringing in my sleep. It was really wierd. I was in an office talking to someone and he had three phones on his desk. I heard a ring and he picked up the first phone and said hello. It ringed again and he picked up the second phone. It ringed again and he picked up the last phone and said hello, then he just stared at the phone. That’s about when I woke up and heard my answering machine taking the call I just missed. I happen to remember that dream very vividly because I thought it was pretty cool when it happened.

I also have the sensation of falling a lot, which causes me to wake up, but I never remember if I was having a dream.
351 oneiros1313
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:52 pm

Did a paper in psychology class about dreams long ago, theorized that since we don’t see color with our eyes shut, we don’t dream in color, but REMEMBER in color upon waking.
352 punk
December 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

i hate it when you trip over or something in your dream and jolt awake, with me its just as im going to sleep. it takes me a minute to calm down!!

Apparently eating cheese before bed makes you dream!
353 Clubit.tv
December 8th, 2008 at 6:45 am

Amazing info, i allways dream every night dont know what it is
354 Atlantean Sword
December 14th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

Once I had a dream, and at the end of it a bunch of monks were singing. When I woke up there was a Sprite commercial on the radio with a bunch of monks singing. Actually at the end of the commercial they said “Why are we singing we aren’t even monks” so I guess they weren’t monks.
355 Daratora
December 17th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

I once had a dream where I was literally paralyzed. in the dream i jest kept staring into Jesus’ eyes, but he had red eyes. I woke up again and again after a couple seconds paralyzed and staring. I had to stay up the whole night because of that.
356 Lauren
December 20th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

Kind of like the first comment…In my dream i hear weird ringing or something i wake up, and realize my alarm clock has been going off for a while, and the sound in my dream is the clock, it’s strange.

I also have dreams, about i’m walking down a large hallway, and there something at the other end, every night it’s different, one night i’ll slip and fall then wake up, another the bell (clock) goes off and the hall is crowded. and i never reached the thing at the other end, i havn’t yet…

I also heard you can die in real life if you die in your dreams. that actually scard me alot. The reason is because if you die in your dream your actually “living” it and seeing it, through ur own eyes, and ur body reacts to it, and gets scared which makes your heart beat faster and faster, which would ultimatly give you a heart attack.

Once i had a dream i was fighting, like in a wrestling or boxing ring, with my boyfriend, we both had boxing gloves
and we were ful on fighting. he punched me in the eye and in the nose then pushed me over on my back. i woke up the next morning, i had a black eye and a bloody nose.(THAT was freaky!) but at first my back was KILLING me, and i went to the doctor that day and needed to get a brace because i actually broke my tailbone. the doctor asked how, and i said..My body did it…
357 mery
December 20th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

I was very surprised to see fact 1. It sometimes happens to me that I kinf of half wake up and can barely move, once I couldn’t even move my eyes. The first time I was scared as hell and seriosly thought I could be paralyzed.

Awesome list. I can relate with most facts, I’ve always found sleeping and dreams interesting and have very vivid dreams.
358 Firespell
December 25th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

with the paralysis of the body during dreams, I guess that the chemical isn’t distributed until REM sleep, because I often am a little more than half-asleep and I dream of tripping, and the leg behind me shoots forward and my hands move forward a bit, and I wake up.
359 Mememe
January 7th, 2009 at 4:08 pm

Nr.6 might explain a very, VERY odd experience I had a few years ago while looking at the sky at night.

I was extremely concentrated on the twinkle of the stars and the contours and textures of a full moon when I began to experience a non-stop flash of images of human faces, most, if not all of them smiling.
I didn’t know any of them, but it was like I was flipping through an archive of photos at super speed, like 3 or 4 different faces a second.
The faces were of different genders, ages, race and had no link between them, because as I said, I didn’t recognize any of them.
This experience is extremely hard to explain because I’ve never heard of anything like this happening to anyone. Maybe my brain was de-fragmenting my memory bank like a hard drive on a computer, and because I was so concentrated on that particular moment, so completely immersed in my own mind and the bright white moonlight, that it acted like a projection screen for random memories, though I could clearly see them, not just feel like I was seeing.

I was never afraid of the feeling of this experience, but rather sort of felt like I was seeing every human face in the world at the same time. But I would like it to happen again someday, just to see if it was a hallucination or something stranger but much more interesting.
360 Eurydice
January 9th, 2009 at 10:04 pm

Oh, wow. Reading some of the comments, I now know what the hell happened the four separate times when I woke up half awake unable to move. Very scary experience, but it’s definitely the sleep paralysis. Thank you!
361 Frank White
January 11th, 2009 at 6:48 pm

I had a dream where I was carrying around a boom box that was made out out legos. Then I found myself riding a bike down a path in my neighborhood with one of my dead friends, and enganged him in a discussion about him being dead and how he shouldn’t be here right now. I believe it was resolved with me coming to the conclusion that people change after they die. Then I found myself talking to a fellow from my high school debate team, and he let me wear the jacket from his suit as it had was covered in blood and dirt and he didn’t want to wear it anymore. He said it would help improve my luck with the ladies. I was then in the back of a van with a few guys and two girls who were cadets at the US Naval Academy. We then found ourselves riding on a train, only it was very small, like the one that is set up for kids at the mall around Chirstmas time. Then someone said we have to move faster and a condcutor type fellow was moving around the outside of the train rearrangeing the pieces of it so we sped along faster thru the woods. When we reached our destionation I was talking to one of the girls from the naval academy and she told me to shut up and kiss her which I did for several seconds until she had to leave. She gave me a key and told me to find her again later, but told me to leave the cell phone and not worry about the number or something like that. I then woke up early in the morning and went back to sleep, and found myself finishing my dream. I was sneaking through the horse pasture by my house as search lights were trying to find me. Bear Grylls from Man Vs Nature was helping me sneak though the field, and was flashing a light at the people who were using the search lights. He said it would help although I didnt see how drawing attention to ourselves would be a good idea, but he was the guy with the TV show not me so I went along with it. We reached the tree line and were chased by a little dog which bit me on the hand as I was running. Finally we came to a clearing and there was a mental track on the floor which was electrified and was all in a jumble, not ini any particular design. Around that time I finally woke up again.
362 Ven
January 17th, 2009 at 11:59 am

Once when i was dreaming, i was going threw school, talking to teachers students, just like normal. But constatly I would feel a shot of pain, i ignored it but then i got tired of feeling and i ‘woke up’ and realized i was sleeping on my arm which went compelty numb(i couldn’t move it at all).
363 shineumbreon
January 17th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

I have certain skills in my dreams. I would often have dreams about falling, but eventually I learned how to fly. The other night I was having a big long epic video game-like quest sort of dream. I had to go through this obstacle course and there were these impossible monkey bars over a huge bottomless pit. I was totally freaked out until I remembered that I could fly.
364 megjane
January 18th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

for the past 7 years, around the time my father died, i was 11 years old i had really weird dreams. my first dream, i got out of my bed acted like i didnt have a dream, about a month later i went 2 my school, i saw the real life vision of a school girl opening the door exactly same thing in my dream. i thought i had that vision somewhere. I kept having these dreams, a couple weeks later i have the vision. every visions, its exactly same thing, etc. the way i move my eyes, same details and characters. that really freaks me out. is it something to do with my father? why i keep dreaming? what is it?
365 usurper7
January 19th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

My dreams are consistent, and usually related. When I am dreaming, I know I am this alternate universe and thus proceed to act as such. It is another coherent world, which is strange. However I sometimes have a dream out of this dreamworld or don’t realize I am dreaming
366 Dana
January 25th, 2009 at 7:01 pm

Umm that last image was just not nice. Now I’m afraid to go to sleep and be paralyzed in case that thing is stalking around. Brrr.
367 adion:P
January 27th, 2009 at 3:25 pm

The two dreams that really stood out to me when I was about 16 is that a girl in school “took the Mick” out of me of when I was in year 6 for crying in school. The very day I got up and when to school the same girl in my dream called me for crying from when I was in primary school. it realy scared me when this happend i went all hot and pannicked becouse the exact same thing happed.

This happened again when i was 17 dreaming i simply found a catapiller in a box when i was a work hahaha. The next day i found a cattapiller in a box at work. This realy creeped me out and a sort of went into a pannick. At the time i beleaved i had powers haha. however i dont now. and it hasent happons since i was just wondering if this had happond to anyone elts?
368 google monster
January 31st, 2009 at 10:19 am

Sometimes I can remember my dreams and sometimes I cant, the dreams I remember is dreams that I have repeatedly. One of the dreams is that someone is after me, and in the other one im in a car and it goes over the edge of a bridge and goes crashing in the water below. I get those dreams often and they always happen the same way.
Also, I Believe that people are paralyzed when they sleep, because sometimes when I am sleeping and I wake up from a deep sleep because of a nightmare I feel like there is some kind of pressure hold me down, and when i try to get up i cant so I start to panic.
369 NaskU
January 31st, 2009 at 7:36 pm

I remember,maybe it was 5-6 years ago.I dreamed a blond girl in a red dress.I don’t know her, but in the dream we knew each other,she just turned to me and smiled.I had the feeling that this is the girl I will marry someday.So maybe in 4 years I recognized the place, where we’ll meet and I’m not really sure, but I think I found her a month ago.The problem is, that I’m not really sure if she is this girl,because I saw a woman, which is approximately 26 years old and now she is 22.We are now together, but she didn’t know about my dream(of course).
The 2nd thing is, that I have some periods when I have often a deja vu. When it comes I know what the other person is going to say,what I should say and is pretty strange,because sometimes I change my words and it happens something different.And I am sure, that we build our future alone, we can choose and decide it alone,but we still can’t realize this.Which of course is very sad!
370 Purple
February 9th, 2009 at 1:54 pm

I have deja vu things too!! Like some body will say something and i heard it before. i knew it was coming. or i will see something or somebody will do something and i saw it before!
371 Si
February 12th, 2009 at 9:58 am

No. 9 might be generally true but certainly not always. I have detailed recall of many thousands of dreams and certain dreams from 20+ years ago are more vivid than my recall of what I did this morning (and I mean far, far more vivid). When I have time I keep a dream diary which has around 1500 entries – some dozens of pages long – and I can recall every second of what I’ve written about, and much more!

No. 6: This is just speculation and there is no evidence that it’s true. In fact, there’s no reason to suspect it has any basis in fact.

The same is true with No. 4 in that there is little evidence that dreams are, in the main, symbolic. Some may be, most are not. Certainly few of mine could be said to be symbolic and those that could are unlikely to have been “generated” for that purpose, more a case of back-fitting dream events into some arbitrary structure of interpretation.
372 me(but you knew that)
February 13th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

i have lucid dreams, most times i wake my self up when i have a nightmare. One time i was being chased by a monster and ichanged my dream and turned around and went horseback riding with the monster.
373 Yolo
February 17th, 2009 at 11:36 pm

I tend to have very vivid dreams all the time. There is not a night where I do not have dreams. The weird thing I’ve noticed is that I have several dreams in one night and most times I can remember all or most of them. I sometimes forget parts but if I try hard enough I can make myself remember them. I usually know when I’m in a dream so I tend to control them somewhat, I can change the story as its going on. On most occasions, if I wake up and really liked the dream I can go back to sleep and continue where I left off. When I have nightmares that are really bad I tend to tell myself to wake up and will myself to do so. I dream about alot of people and places and strange things. I have dreamt about being shot in the head and remembering the sensation of the bullet moving through my skull. Alot of the pains in my dream I feel when I wake up which means i guess I hit myself when I sleep. I have woken up paralyzed and very conscious of my surroundings. The scary part though is sometimes when falling asleep or after waking up I feel a weight on my body, like a person is on top of me. I am usually paralyzed and when I try to struggle something starts to choke me and I fight to breathe. This happens alot and as far back as I can remember. I wonder if this is a sort of sleep disturbance.
374 ainacariaga
February 18th, 2009 at 8:39 am

everytime i sleep, a long one or just a nap i always dream..i am beggening to get scared of my dreams now..actually i really have a hard time sleeping but when i sleep and begin to dream its like im not going to wake up anymore.in my dreams i can see my self sleeping i can see my surroundings..but when i want to wake up,i cant wake myself..i even cant move my body and extremities.i remember once i had a nap after eating lunch, in my dreams i can see and i knoow im sleeping but when i tend to moove my foot and hand,i failed..i feel its like for about half an hour iwas trying to wake up and move my body..i was begining to cry in my dreams i was shouting but theres no voice coming ut of my mouth..i was so frightend that i might not wake up anymroe.that dream was really wierd and scary…when i was begining to lose faith that im going to wake up, i heard smebody knocked to my door 3x, then i woke up.but when i checked who was that..it was nobody.i really want to know why is this happenning to me in my dreams.im really tired of having this dreams and i am also cnfused because others say i might have heart or neurological conditions.
375 gabi319
February 18th, 2009 at 9:49 am

374. ainacariaga
If you truly feel there could be real damage being done, try seeing your general practitioner or a sleep doctor, but generally they aren’t harmful or longterm. One of my old roommates slept with the bedroom lights on because he often woke up feeling paralyzed. There is a biological reasoning to this since the body naturally releases a hormone to paralyze the body during rest. It should naturally diminish as you leave REM cycle but…everyone’s different. I had one weird morning where it wasn’t completely gone from my left arm and leg and SPLAT, I fell on my face.

Question… do you take sleeping pills? They have been known to cause lucid dreams and even night terrors. I dealt with an extremely traumatic time two years ago…Nightmares, nightmares because of nightmares, insomnia because my mind was terrified of the nightmares… I was prescribed Lunesta and I threw it away after one extremely stressful nightmare in which I felt trapped, screaming to wake up but unable to. I could physically feel tears run down my face but unable to open my eyes. I was already enough of a mental wreck that I didn’t need the pills to up the crazy. It’s not perfect but what’s worked best for me is time. I waited for the nightmares to go away naturally, used exercise as a way to naturally exhaust my body to sleep, and tried to take as much stress out of my life as possible.
376 ainacariaga
February 19th, 2009 at 4:54 am

I really appriciated your advice..and surprisingly I think your right about the pills…i am taking this pill from china to gain weight its called wisdom..they say its pure herbal so i thught it was ok..the pill help me get sleep also.but got run out of that piil last day so gt hard time to sleep again..but, i slept smoothly…tnx!
377 reina
February 20th, 2009 at 8:20 am

i was wondering if you could explain what is happenning to my kid everytime he sleeps..he is 2yrs old and very active.but when he sleeps i hink he’s also active even in he’s dreams..when he was 1 and half yr old he talks and move when he sleeps, he even slap or kick me but i got used to that.but this past few months he started to sit and stand like he was awake..and last night he fell out of bed. luckily i got good reflex..got him before he bumps his head..im so bohered coz i think its no normal anymore and tha it might get worse as he grows.
378 Antonia
February 20th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

Thats really cool! I never knew those facts. Nearly a quarter of my dreams come true! Seriously.
379 dracon
February 27th, 2009 at 8:26 pm

I quit smoking cigs and pot three weeks ago and have had terrible nightmares. They are getting less frequent and more pleasant. Thanx for the info.
380 pearl
March 7th, 2009 at 10:19 am

im from philippines and old people here believed hat if you dreamed of loosing your teeth you should not tell or talk abut it t somebody..coz if you d smeone close to you or one of your family will die soon.an dif you dreamed that you are swimming in the waer or your drowning they say a very big problem will come your way and if two of you in the family dreamed f a baby, an unexpeced pregnancy in the family will happen…it’s funny but i think iots kinda true..coz we’ve alreardy experienced he baby thing.every time hat happens for sure somebdy in he family is pregnant!
381 joanna
March 7th, 2009 at 11:00 am

Once I had a dream about a guy I really liked finally asking me out. We were walking in a mall, holding hands. I knew something was wrong, and as we walked, my fingers were slowly parting from his. He told me that nobody knew us and told me that nothing is wrong with holding hands. I replied ” this is a dream” and woke up. Never in real life would he ask me to date him, so I knew that it was a dream.. Just something I wanted to share. It was probably a wish-fulfillment type of dream.
382 emma b
March 8th, 2009 at 8:19 pm

i loooove dreams, but i have had this crazyscary dream ever since i was like 3-4 and its not the dream itself that i scary (its me on this seesaw (is that even the right word? i used the google translation thing)), but its the fact that everytime i hit my feet on the ground someone i love is dying and im aware of it but cannot stop it. this is the only real nightmare ive ever had and its been the same my entire life.
any suggestions why it might be like this?
383 Question!
March 11th, 2009 at 4:40 am

#6: How can anyone prove this? Obviously, he/she wldnt remember everyone they had seen, so how do you arrive at this conclusion? Even the person researching it wouldnt know for sure right?
384 shyla
March 12th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

i had a dream of my boyfriend alex like 7 times in a row every night…what does that mean.?he even told me he had a dream of me like 3 times….i think were meeant together..
385 pearl
March 13th, 2009 at 8:43 am

maybe you were thinkingking of your boyfriend before you sleep,maybe thats the reason why his always in your dreams..but you know what before i got married to my husband, i had this boyfriend for five years and i never dream of him..that time i find that really wierd coz im dreaming of this guy i never knew..in my dreams we were holding hands and kissing..and i knew him..in dreams.surprisingly hat guy in my dreams is my husband.Now i dont dream anymore of poeple i dont know..maybe you and your boyfriend are really meant for each other,but dnt expect too much..dreams dont make our future..
386 pearl
March 13th, 2009 at 8:46 am

hey toddlers do dream..watch them sleeping you’ll see there eyes are moving even theyre close..that means they are dreaming.
387 Martin G
March 16th, 2009 at 2:46 am

Once, after pulling an all-nighter studying, I decided to rest for a few minutes and ended up falling asleep. I woke up a few minutes later but couldn’t move. Yep… sleep paralysis. It was the second time it had happened to me so I kept calm and waited for it to fade away. It’s spooky at first but kind of fun in a scientific sort of way in the sense that you know what your body is going through. I wonder if there is a strong propensity for it when you’re not well rested.
388 Rahim
March 24th, 2009 at 2:45 am

When people try to pass of dreams as nothing more than neurons shooting off randomly, with no meaning whatsoever, they are doing themselves a great disservice. Recognizing a bodily action that is a symptom of dreaming doesn’t identify what a dream is itself. Dreams clearly mean a great deal to a lot of people now, and throughout history. I personally have a made a lot of important life decision based on guidance I received in my dreams. Personally I believe there is a connection to God in dreams, but that doesn’t apply to everyone. What does apply is the fact that they are very influential and there is a message in them. Not everything in this world can be explained, and dreams I believe will never be something science can pin a clear label to.
389 joe
March 26th, 2009 at 10:29 pm

whenever dreaming…and need to read something in a dream i lose my vision, but when i take the paper away vision comes back…suggestions???
390 Bobbio
March 27th, 2009 at 3:44 pm

I don’t think I’m paralyzed when I sleep. I am often told by my friends that sleep over that I roll around, kick people, and put my arm around people (with very awkward results).
391 Toba122
March 29th, 2009 at 10:03 am

I like waking up in the middle of the night so I can go back to sleep and have more dreams.
392 justan0therleaf
March 29th, 2009 at 5:52 pm

…I’m looking for some logical explanations about people who rapidly got dreams about what will happen in the future. It could be some visions of near future or something that will happen long-long time afterward. It sounds unbelievable, but I have a friend who got that kind of dream…
393 pearl
April 4th, 2009 at 8:28 am

guys have u heard abut the 2012 planet x?end of the world they say..it really got into my head,cant stop thingking about it..igot this wierd dream..i frequently dream about stars falling to sky..red yellow and blue stars.in my dreams i find the falling stars beautiful because of the colors but i am so afraid that it will hit us…yhen when i heard abut this yr 2012 that this planet x will ruined earth, i am really scared.i have two kids and they’re still babies..by that time they will be just tddlers and if ever that will happens i dont know how to evacuate my whole family,we are only poor and my husband is working abroad by that time he cant be with us…im really scared..i started reading the bible and it is true there are texts smilar about that event (there is a prediction in the bible about it)i cant stop thingking about it…
394 deviantmiss
April 4th, 2009 at 8:33 am

pearl- take a chill pill. One never knows whats around the corner you shouldn`t believe everything you will become paranoid
395 pault107
April 4th, 2009 at 8:37 am

The have always been, and always will be, predictions about the end of the world. All of the past ones have come and gone without drama.

Like devientmiss said, just relax – you’re doing yourself more harm than good worrying about predictions.
396 deviantmiss
April 4th, 2009 at 8:54 am

@pault107 well said
397 andy
April 9th, 2009 at 1:14 pm

my dreams are so real when i wake its now a dream. i have controled. flown. woken from a dream to wake from a dream to think am i awake or dreaming then wake again.
398 Nawar
April 16th, 2009 at 5:45 am

I alwayzzz forget my dreamzzzz when I wake uppp!!!Isn’t it funny;)
399 Nawar
April 16th, 2009 at 6:09 am

Coooooooooool!!!! Factzzzzzz above
400 Nawar
April 16th, 2009 at 6:10 am

IMMMMMM the 300th one.!!!!!!!!!!
401 Nawar
April 16th, 2009 at 6:12 am

Ohh!!!!Sorrry IMMM
the 400th one1111111111
402 pearl
April 16th, 2009 at 7:14 am

pault107 and deviantmiss, tnx for the advise..im frequently reading the bible now.and it helped me so much..im so cool and relaxed now.
403 Nawar
April 16th, 2009 at 8:29 am

Pault107 well said from my side too:):):)
404 pault107
April 16th, 2009 at 8:53 am

Thanks.

I used to have a friend that was obsessed with that kind of thing. He get more and more stressed when the ‘next big’ date’ got closer to the point it affected his sleep. And this would start months before the due date.

Once the date passed and nothing happened he started researching the next predicted date and the cycle would start again.

It was quite sad to see.
405 Nawar
April 17th, 2009 at 1:42 am

Last night I had a dream that my best friend had left me.It was a sad dream:):):):)
406 Nawar
April 17th, 2009 at 3:58 am

I have some quotes to share with u all:
Donot spoil what u have by desiring what u have not;remember that what u now have was once among the things u only hoped for:):):)
407 Nawar
April 17th, 2009 at 5:42 am

Pault107 the comment u wrote in393, is it really true.After reading this I was really scared.And I’ve also heard about this in my society.Please reply:(:(:(:(
408 Mark
April 17th, 2009 at 5:50 am

407. Nawar : Don’t stress, they’re a bunch of nutcases. They first thought it was going to happen in 2003 or something like that and then they heard about some “prophecy” that was going to be fulfilled in 2012 so they changed it. It won’t happen bro, and even if it does, does it really matter?
409 pault107
April 17th, 2009 at 5:59 am

407. Nawar : 393 wasn’t me, it was pearl and I replied (395) asking her to relax as it’s all rubbish.
410 Cybogen
April 17th, 2009 at 6:06 am

407. Nawar -
Pault107 the comment u wrote in393, is it really true.After reading this I was really scared.And I’ve also heard about this in my society.Please reply:(:(:(:(

Hello Nawar- Don’t you worry about what may or may not happen in 2012. If it happens we probably could do nothing about it. But yet you were right that there is some talk about climatic events such as that to happen near the time of Christ return. Just remember even moreso the important fact that the Lord promised that all those who believe in HIM and obey the commandments of GOD will be saved. This does not juist mean after death but at his 2nd coming all those who are on the earth who believe in Jesus CHirst will be drawn away by Jesus from the earth to be saved. It is written in Revelation my friend and don’t worry of this for if you believe GOD will keep HIS promise to you. GOD is infalliable.HE keeps his promises.
GODs Peace be with you Nawar
411 Mark
April 17th, 2009 at 6:12 am

410. Cybogen : Back off, no one here needs scripture
412 Cybogen
April 17th, 2009 at 6:21 am

I am comforting Nawar and I tell Nawar the truth unlike you. It may help you to read what you need in your life.
Nawar has mentioned her as reading the Bible and she knows thats it is real truth from GOD. What about you?
413 Nawar
April 17th, 2009 at 7:33 am

Hey Cybogen!!! Thankxxx:):):):)
414 Nawar
April 17th, 2009 at 7:35 am

Hey Mark ,he is just comforting me!!!
415 Nawar
April 17th, 2009 at 7:44 am

Has anyone of u read the novel JANE EYRE by CHARLOTTE BRONTE D0 REPlY!!!:):(:):(:):(
416 pearl
April 17th, 2009 at 7:45 am

guys,after reading and seeing that 2012 end of world i was als really scared..but you know what it some how related to the bible(well the makers f that 2012 relates it to the bible like those 7 planets too the 7 creatures in revelation)..but only God knows what will be our destiny.CYBOGEN, yes you are right if we really believe in God we dont have to be scared..’if that happens everybody who believes in our only God,will be with him and a great life awaits for us….sorry for bringing this topic up..
417 Mark
April 17th, 2009 at 7:53 am

412. Cybogen : Mine was the truth, so let’s not get hostile here. What I said was completely truthful and what you said was only comfort, there was no “truth” in it, so your claim is faulted.

I’ve never read the Bible, I may one day though. All I was saying is that LVers are generally not very tolerant of Christians. I’m probably one of the best here in that regard and even I don’t like you posting scripture here. I could’ve asked a bit more politely I guess, but I just wanted you to refrain.

It doesn’t really matter anyway, I’m not going to take you outside over this or anything. But it would be nice if you could continue this correspondence in private?
418 Mark
April 17th, 2009 at 7:56 am

414. Nawar : Well that’s good for you, really, it is. I think that’s a major attraction of faith in God, there’s a lot less inherent fear of death. This is in itself both a good and a bad thing but I’m too tired to start talking about that

416. pearl : No need for apologies, you started a conversation on an LV list, that’s something to be proud of.
419 pearl
April 17th, 2009 at 8:00 am

mark..thank you too…it doesnt really matter at all…coz i believe in God..we will be with him.as i said much much much much great life awaits..;)
420 Mark
April 17th, 2009 at 8:09 am

419. pearl : No, we won’t all be with him. If you’re right about the grand scheme of things… Well suffice to say that I’d need another couple of lifetimes before God could justify letting me up there with him
421 Nawar
April 18th, 2009 at 1:13 am

Mark and Pearl u both r very right.I think that v shoul stop discussing about this topic.:):):):)
422 pearl
April 18th, 2009 at 4:00 am

mark:if you believe in him,there’s no doout…if there is still time and life,there’s always second chances my friend.

nawar:ook lets start a new topic..’bout dreams this time..anyway this site is for dreams…right.

got this frequent dream..stars in diffrent colors falling out in the sky..it was beutiful but in my dreams i was really scared eventhough it was beautiful…someone care to explain what might he meaning of his dream…
423 Mark
April 18th, 2009 at 4:17 am

422. pearl : Heh, if God would forgive me I doubt that he makes a very good lord. That’s all I really need to conclude on the matter. Have fun discussing your dreams, boring people
424 pearl
April 18th, 2009 at 4:24 am

mark:you know what you make me curious of what kind oof sin you did…and boring people like us are very intresting kind of people…coz if were not you would not dare read or write a comment here.

and mark God is a very forgiving Lord….may peace be with you.
425 gabi319
April 18th, 2009 at 4:25 am

Pearl, there’ve been a few lists discussing 2012 and I’ve explained it as best I could from what I’ve learned at school, but I suppose you haven’t seen them? The date is significant but not for the reasons they are commonly known for (i.e. the mass hysteria).

December 21, 2012 is the ‘end of this age’ as according to the Mayan calendar. Any references within the bible are merely presuppositions but not the true origins of 2012. I put that ‘end of this age’ in inverted commas because to get real technical, this age ended in 1987. Then there’s a ‘period of darkness’, which is right now and used as a time of reflection on the past age. The significance of the date comes from the three Mayan calendars all ending at the same time, which takes more than 25,000 years to achieve. But there’s no end date; their calendars are cyclical and thus will reset and continue fresh. According to the Mayans, we are currently in the fifth age. No specific details are given because one of the Mayan calendars is a heavily guarded secret passed on only to specific members of importance. However, we do know that the new age begins on December 22, 2012 and that they expect this new age to be a “Period of Enlightenment.” Nothing scary, right? Just relax and ride the wave.

And everyone stop preaching. It is AGAINST the Commenting FAQ. Read it.
426 pearl
April 18th, 2009 at 4:34 am

gabi319:thnx a lot for the explanation…honestly im not scared at it at all…for all those who commented..big thanks!it helped me a lot…
427 Mark
April 18th, 2009 at 4:35 am

424. pearl : I know you’re all interesting, just not as interesting as some others around here

They’re not so much “sins” yet – but I’m sure a lot of them will be – they’re just thoughts, images, ideas, and they, well, frankly, they scare the life out of me sometimes.

425. gabi319 : “…And everyone stop preaching. It is AGAINST the Commenting FAQ. Read it.”

Amen to that sister
428 Dreamer
April 18th, 2009 at 6:45 am

Last night I had a dream that I was watching porn. I was watching porn in my own fucking dream.

Then, a hot half-Japanese girl walks into my dream and gives me a handjob. I got a handjob in my own fucking dream.

I need to go to sleep.
429 Cybogen
April 20th, 2009 at 4:02 am

Dreams are a visual aid in showing you where your life is been and where it is going.
430 Cybogen
April 20th, 2009 at 4:35 am

Pearl= please listen to me and I think you got the message now. What you read in revelation or any of the bible is true. I could not be more truthful to you and I am serious when I say this despite what anyone else will tell you. ‘If you believeth in the Jesus the Son of God you shall not perish (die) but have eternal life.”
You have nothing to worry about for our Loving lord Jesus will save us from the catastrophies that will strike the earth at the time. i believe nad I know my Lord will save me. GOD’s word istruth, HE cannot lie He keeps his promises! God be with you and your family Pearl!
431 Mark
April 20th, 2009 at 4:41 am

430. Cybogen : NO PREACHING! Stop quoting scripture, I’ve already told you that we don’t need that here. If you want to contact Pearl privately, please, go ahead, but if not, just stop please.
432 Cybogen
April 20th, 2009 at 5:18 am

Pearl- you know the truth and now believe it. If the truth is in you then you shall live.
The truth hurts some people and they do not want it. SO BE IT.
433 Mark
April 20th, 2009 at 5:31 am

432. Cybogen : Oh for crying out loud will you just stop? Pretty, pretty please? I don’t mind you mate, you’re not that bad, neither is Stizzy. Unlike a lot of people here I don’t have a problem with you just “because you’re a Christian”. But could you please stop with the preaching, it *is* against the rules and I can understand how it would comfort Pearl but if she (he?) really needs it can’t the pair of you talk in private, please?
434 pearl
April 20th, 2009 at 6:16 am

cybogen:tnx a lot..now im happy ‘coz sombedy believes me and im not alone in praising our Lord…

mark:oh please!chillax ok!got question for you,have you ever share something here about dreams or related to a dream? at least everybody here (boring people according to u)shares good and intresting things..i think you are a troubled person…and i think…you dnt even dream when you sleep..try praying at least…It will help you.PEACE BE WITH YOU MARK!
435 Cybogen
April 20th, 2009 at 6:24 am

You welcome Pearl~
436 Brenda
April 20th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

I dream almost every night, usually the last 2 hours of sleep, and ALWAYS in full color. I have only dreamed of my Mom once, but my Grandpa, Dad and Son are regulars. I can’t remember what the dreams are about but know they are pleasant..My parents & grandpa have passed on but my son is still with us and I have a good relationship with him. Could someone give me an idea of what this means? Thanks so much..Brenda
437 pault107
April 20th, 2009 at 2:49 pm

I had a really intense dream last night and I still remember it fairly clearly now, which is unusual for me as the dream usually fades from memory quite quickly after I wake up. This one was so intense that I kept thinking about it and so remember it pretty well.

Sometimes my dreams have film like qualities and it amazes me that my brain can come up with such interesting story lines.

I won’t go in to too much detail but this one involved aeroplanes and other flying machines falling from the sky at high speeds and smashing into the ground. And I mean A LOT of things smashing down.

There were a lot of people running and hiding. Pretty scary, yet exciting at the same time as it really did feel like I was actually in a movie. When really weird stuff happens in my dreams I usually become aware that I’m dreaming and I can just enjoy the show.

It was one of those dreams where you wake up and think to yourself “whoa, that was amazing”.
438 Nawar
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:45 am

Last night I dreamed that I became a superstar but it was only my dream not reaLLLLL!!!!!!
439 pearl
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:31 am

does emotions affect our dream?
440 pault107
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:30 am

Sure pearl – I have much more pleasant dreams when I’m happy and content. If I’m stressed about something my dreams tend to not be so nice and not enjoyable.
441 pearl
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:42 am

i hope it doesnt have a meaning or something..last last night i and my hubby had a little misunderstanding..and i dreamed that i caught him taking care of his daughter,not to me..and i thought maybe it was a warning or something.i hope its not..and its just because i was really upset and sad that night..tnx pault107!
442 ARU
April 28th, 2009 at 12:49 am

Its vry nice 10 facts abt dreams, i belive in dreams, so, its real dont ignore that ue dreams. last night i had one dream, its personal i didnt share anyone, but the dram is very near to my real life its true.
443 Gian9
April 28th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

Hey people I have a question and I think many of you are asking the same thing so if someone knows the answer please reply…Does anyone know if when you dream about someone, that someone is dreaming about you? I mean are dreams somehow connected?
Please reply!!!

P.S. Sorry if someone already asked this LOL
444 pear
April 29th, 2009 at 9:23 am

gian9:yeah dreams are connected.specially if that person is one oof your family (mother father brother..or twin).or if there is special or somehing not nice(hpe its not) will happen to both of you.

always think positive!
445 Lauren
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:30 pm

I never had a Scary dream that I remimber, it’s werid that I remimber some dreams for a few days then they vanish from my mind. I never had a chasing dream untill last week, when there was a indruder in my house and I had to escape, so I jumped out of my 2 story house and started to fly away, and I flew around my school and neihborhood, but in my neiborhood lots of things were changed. After flying for a minute I landed on a horse and started to ride off into the wilderness, then the rest I forgot. I loved that dream but it was very soothing and not scary at all, even when there was a intruder in my home.
446 Aarti
May 4th, 2009 at 1:51 am

Hey hi….
I often see snakes in my dreams, and this really scares me at times… I have turned 24… And as far as I remember I am getting the similar kind of dreams since I was a child.
Does this have any connection with my past or something…? I have no clue
447 Zoombafoo
May 5th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

im strange. i will see places in my dreams that ive never seen before. and then later in real time i will see that exact place that i saw previously. its weird
448 roro
May 6th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

i don’t snore yet i don’t dream is there something wrong?
449 Cybogen
May 15th, 2009 at 4:38 am

I once had a dream of an Angel that appeared to me one night. As I went into a deep sleep, I was in a valley that seemed to be located some .place in Isrrael because of the building architecture designs located there. It was a large valley and as I stood there I saw the skys turned purple and very large as if a fierce storm was approoaching. There were people around me that were panic strickened and everyone was full of fear. There were peals of lightning shooting from the dark purple sky and from the deepest reaches of the clouds there came a bright light with the sound of a very loud horn or trumpet playing a long blast that shook the earth. It was truly a fearsome sight and as the bright powerful light came closer I saw a person get down on their knees with their arms stretched out to the sky praying something I could not understand. Suddenly the multitude of people all kneeled down and did the same.
After a minute or so of praying there appeared an angel Bright as the SUN not far in the sky above us that only said “Prepare the way of the Lord for your datys draw near” and then the Angel disappeared and the skys turn normal again. All the people that were there were astonished at what they saw and were changed somehow.
Thats when I woke up and wrote the dream down immediately. It was the most incredible dream I had ever had.
450 Nawar
May 19th, 2009 at 6:27 am

I often see dreams
451 Vi
May 20th, 2009 at 3:37 am

I’ve had lots of dreams with people I don’t know, or meet in the future. So, dreaming of things you know – isn’t 100% true. I also have precognitive dreams, even though I don’t know the future. XD
452 Shran
May 27th, 2009 at 8:20 am

Quite often I can control my dream and I really love to dream. A few months back however dreaming was pretty scary.
I heard the alarm clock, I did wake up, I even got out of bed, but… my dream decided it needed 2 minutes more to finish. It was like being in 2 places at the same time.
453 Relyt
June 25th, 2009 at 7:04 am

For as long as i remember i was never good at remembering my dreams when i wake up in the morning. i dont sleep in a consistant spot each night. sometimes i sleep on my family room floor sometimes my own bed and sometimes our guest room bed. but depending where i sleep i remember more or less of the dream. sleeping in my own bed i dont remember any. sleeping on the floor i remember some and on my gueest room bed i remember most. its really wierd and im quite puzzled.
secondly, i talk alot in my sleep and i sleep walk. my friennds have told me the ridiculous things i have done while in my sleep. but my eyes are always open and i still see the dream i dont see any of the real world. if ones bodyis paralyzed while sleeping then how come i still walk and talk and do other actions in my sleep?
454 katie Godfrey
June 28th, 2009 at 9:35 am

you dream something different every night!
455 Jubbs
July 1st, 2009 at 3:43 am

One of the scariest dreams I have ever had was one where i knew i was dreaming. I kept demanding that everyone try to wake me up by hitting me on the head and such, of course they refused. I was then dragged away by something from the evilest part of my mind and right before i was tortured by it I woke up. I was sweating, and, needless to say, i needed a new pair of pants.
456 Becca
July 1st, 2009 at 6:35 am

The external stimuli one always gets me. -_-
I think my favourite occurence of that was when I was in a very deep sleep and my sister was holding my nose to try to wake me up. My dream instantly changed from whatever it was before to an image of Goofy, the title card from the original cartoons, holding his own nose.
457 Megan
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:04 am

I love dreams. I’m fascinated by them.

I remember this dream I had… it must’ve been 9 years ago? I was 11 or close to that age… and it was morning. My mom was awake getting ready for work… she always played music while she was getting ready… and I could hear it from my room. I had woken up… but I dozed off again I guess… but the song that was playing on the radio was incorporated into my dream… so I kinda had a music video dream. I even remember the song! It was ‘Everywhere’ by Michelle Branch… or I think that was her name. ‘Cause you’re everywhere to me! And when I close my eyes it’s you I see!’ lol

I think in the dream I was being chased by someone… not scary… more annoying… like I was trying to get away from them but they kept popping up… they were ‘everywhere’!
458 pwscott
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:42 pm

I (and some of my friends) have the abilty to predict exactly what people are going to say in certain situations. These are dreams that I remember having at some point in the past. So I must disagree that dreams are only from things you’ve already seen. When I was a child I dreamed of an older man in a stange place. I was terribly confused as a child because I did not understand the images. More then ten years later it became clear when I began working my second job at the very place and with the older man in my dream. Spooky yes, but I had these types of dreams all my life and as I got older they became less frequent. I would like to hear from others who have experienced this.
459 deanosantino
July 4th, 2009 at 8:12 am

people in my dreams rarely have faces but i act like i recognise them in the dream but when I’m awake i have no idea who the faceless figure is.
460 Mark
July 4th, 2009 at 8:16 am

@pwscott (458): “I (and some of my friends) have the abilty to predict exactly what people are going to say in certain situations…”

So do I, it stems from social experience and good percecptive skills, it’s not all that special. House can do it
461 Norman
July 10th, 2009 at 4:33 am

I´m one of the 12% who dream in black and white. This list is one of the best on Listverse.
462 d
July 20th, 2009 at 9:03 pm

@ainacariaga (374):

Don’t be afraid of your dreams. Despite what modern phycology says, dreams are a gift from God. Science only causes confusion in something beautiful. Fear is not from God, so if your fearing something pray to God about it. This may be symbolic of your soul screaming at you to come back to God. So try yelling at God to come back to you. See if the dreams stop.
463 Str4nded
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:26 pm

about number 2.. That frequently happens to me.. I usually if my head is against the pillow I have the feeling of not being able to breath as much in my dream.. which often follows with a dream about my old house burning down with certain friends and family with me…
464 Str4nded
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:30 pm

Scariest dream I had was as a little kid.. I always had this dream about a guy husky tall chasing me around my house it was never ending and I would always incorperate a strangers face onto it….. I had it over and over again alot of times atleast 9 times…. Everysingle time the charactors face and cloths will change sometimes it would wear a buisness suit to maybe casual cloths.. One of my most strangest dreams aswell as scariest and I can’t explain why I’ve had it more than 9 times….
465 melissa
July 27th, 2009 at 7:22 pm

i do not agree with we dream what we know. see faces we have once seen, etc.

i recall my dreams very well, everynight, recalling dreams can be done more easily if you make a mental effort to do so, every night.
466 SnowKid32
August 1st, 2009 at 4:48 pm

You stretched out the page. Mission accomplished. Happy?
467 dreamer
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 am

Sometimes, I dream of future events, but I usually forget them the moment I wake up, but remember them at the time of the event actually happening…
468 LOL
August 9th, 2009 at 8:41 am

hi
469 dreamer
August 9th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

I once had a dream,maybe I was too stressed that time of the overnight work I was doing with my thesis partner. We slept at around 6am already. An hour after, I was in that state where your whole body gets paralized like what you’re saying earlier in the comments. Then I hear a very strange language, more like latin or some kind of a gregorian chant (i don’t know what that was). Then I suddenly woke up (or was I really awake that time), my body still frozen..some seconds later, I saw a figure of a little girl (more like a ghost coz I can see right through her..very creepy). I looked at her intently and felt like she was the one murmuring those strange words to me..She doesn’t open her mouth while talking to me over & over again like she was talking through my mind. Then all of a sudden she slowly laid next to me and placed her mouth closer to my ear like wanting to whisper something to my ear..I was so scared that I tried everything to wake up..from moving my fingers to moving my hands then my whole body..I awoke a minute after, gasping for breaths..very scary!! I asked a paranormal expert and told me that was my angel telling me to take more rests than stressing myself over some work..It was a really scary experience but the funny thing is, I want to see that little girl again..I don’t know why but she never showed up again..
470 yuenx
August 16th, 2009 at 4:05 am

i dream about the end of the world and i know the dates and happenings.
i just cant explain why.
if you wanna know just simply add me up at yuenxaugusto@yahoo.com at ym service.
lets talk bout it.
471 Kaelea Majere
August 18th, 2009 at 11:32 am

My roomate once burned (turned to charcoal) a pizza that filled the house with smoke. I was dreaming of meeting a man at the time, and when I leaned close to speak to him I noted that his hair smelled like smoke, and found it strange. Shortly thereafter I woke up (lol).
472 Kaelea Majere
August 18th, 2009 at 11:36 am

@Vicky (61): That’s happened to me before as an adult many times. It’s something close to sleep paralysis, but I can move so that kind of counts that one out. If you ever find out what it was, please let me know. I’ve only met a few people who have had these ‘waking dreams’.
473 Elisa
August 24th, 2009 at 5:31 pm

i remember once when i was little i thought i was awake and in my bed but couldn’t get up but woke up not too long after. i figured that i had dreamt i was awake or something . . . weird.

i haven’t had any lucid dreaming for a while but i do remember when i was younger i would make myself wake up by lying down in my dreams
474 mariferh
September 6th, 2009 at 1:50 am

@Joel Wideman (60):

For what I know about colorblindness, your info is wrong.

A person with colorblindness sees the red color as gray and the brown color as brown. They also see pink as gray, as it is derived from red.

Also, colorblindness affects mostly MEN, not women.
If your father is colorblind, and you are women, your boy children are most likley to be colorblind, but you will not be.

And even when synesthesia is a super interesting “disorder”, it has nothing to do with colorblindness.
475 Terri Eeza
September 6th, 2009 at 3:50 am

wow wow wow. people keep on replying in LONG messages! the list was GREAT!!!
476 gagagoga
September 13th, 2009 at 9:40 am

I Love Dreams
477 tymccail
September 15th, 2009 at 2:12 am

I once had a dream in which I healed a very minor sore on my lip. Did you rip a piece of dead skin off your lip? Well I did and it took off too much skin. So it stung and every time I touched it burned more and I tried to smoke a cigarette but it burned too much even if I placed the cigarette as far from the raw spot as possible. It was in the middle of the afternoon and I fell asleep.

While sleeping I had a dream that I was in a weird room with some middle aged white woman and we were feeding a snake. She had a turtle in a plastic bag that she was going to feed to the snake. The snake spoke to us and said, “I don’t want turtle today.” It attacked us, the woman disappeared, and I escaped the room and slammed the door shut. I was then in a large warehouse. Seconds later a purple smoke descended from the ceiling and a white snake with red eyes emerged and bit me on my lip.
I grabbed hold of the snake and tore its head off. The severed head and the rest of its body disappeared in a puff of purple smoke just like it had emerged from. I then found my way to a bathroom, which I entered to look at my snakebite. The bathroom was black with a long, black marble counter with either a lot of mirrors or one long one (I can’t remember). But a black guy in a gold and green pimp style outfit with a feather in his hat and gold sunglasses appeared behind me (I believe he had been hiding behind the door). He said to me with full confidence, “Use your power…heal your self.”
So I concentrated on the wound and saw a gold energy materialize around my lip. It felt good and I KNEW it was healing. The pimp vanished and I woke up.

I immediately touched the spot on my lip where the sore, knew in my heart that it was healed but needing to prove it to myself. It had indeed been healed. I looked it over in the mirror in my disbelief and skepticism. The wound had been visible before I took the nap and it was completely gone as I looked at it in the mirror. As a final test I smoked a cigarette all the way down, repeatedly placing it directly on the spot where the sore had been and even in other places to make 100% sure that I hadn’t just remembered where the sore was and it never hurt at all. As soon as I was done smoking (which was half-way through the cigarette because I didn’t want to forget the amazing episode) I typed down the whole dream and saved it on my computer. Although I still remember it so vividly (Likely because I wrote it and have read it as well as countless retellings) that I never had to look at that original copy while typing this blog entry.

Someone have a scientific argument to dispute that? Other than I’m lying or crazy. I’m not making a challenge I’m just curious because I am as skeptical as anyone (I don’t believe in any religion or pretend to have any certainty about what happens after bodily death) I don’t believe in fate or hexis or demons or angels or monsters or any other happy horse shit that primitives invented that for some reason wont stay in it’s place in the fiction section. I do however know with absolute certainty that my lip healed instantly inside of a dream.
478 chelsey
September 16th, 2009 at 8:32 am

if i am paralized while i sleep how come when i wake up my bed sheets are all over?
479 alie
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:09 pm

I tend to have these dreams where my teeth are super loose and they keep falling out. What’s the fucking meaning of that?

It sucks lol.
480 dream no. 9
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 pm

It means that someone you know will die. May it be you or someone else. But I hope that is not true…
481 shelley
October 7th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

i dont understand how you can be paralyzed while dreaming? what about sleep-walkers? they dream while that theyre doing something right?
482 weasel
October 8th, 2009 at 8:52 pm

i used to have this one dream where iwas tiny and surrounded by bigger people and there was like a flower in the middle of a ring that we all wanted but everytime some one moved i could see the vibration like sound waves i have no idea what it means, does anyone?
483 ianz09
October 8th, 2009 at 9:01 pm

@weasel (484): Means you’re gay.

Joking. Nah, idk actually.
484 Eric
October 9th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

i have a dream when i was 3 that i still cant forget. in that dream i dreamed i was being carried by a stranger in a hot desert. we seem to be going to this castle with distinct towers. when i was awakened we encountered an vehicular accident and a stranger is pulling me out and some shattered glass is in my upper lip. thats probably up to now i am already 29 i still remember that dream.
485 Eric
October 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

to: 481 alie

falling teeth in filipino culture means someone close to you or someone you know is going to die.
486 Lisa
October 11th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

I know exactly what you mean. My dreams are vivid, but I do not remember seeing the person I dream about. She is running away from a man who chases her, and his face is also unfamiliar. I dunno… maybe I’m just weird or something. ;D
487 LuLuzoo
October 12th, 2009 at 10:00 pm

This site http://www.uphaa.com/blog/index.php/dreams/ copied your exact post. They did list you as a source but created the illusion that it wasn’t copied and pasted by listing other sources.
488 Maddie
October 15th, 2009 at 10:52 pm

Has anyone had that thing where your not asleep, but you feel like you’ve “tripped up” and you open your eyes with your heart racing?
I get that all the time…
489 luke
October 16th, 2009 at 5:03 am

yes maddie, a couple of days ago i lied down to rest, and i was thinking about riding a bike, i went head over on the bike in my thoughts and SHOCK jumped myself awake.

now to something more serious, for me anyway because this is really getting to me.

im 19, and for about 6 years i have this ‘person’ you could say, that is i really dont know how to explain it, i dont like this ‘person’ at all, iv found hes name is ‘green horn’ yes just typing this is making my spine fucking shiver, i dont know wtf it is i just occasionaly waking up with that name in my mind and this fucking shadow person in my head, ‘for example say in my dream i see someone, i would glance behind where they are standing and see a figure of something/someone, and i always wake up, and ye that name comes up in my head, its really fucked up…

anyway..anyone else have this sort of thing, or know what it means?
490 Jitesh
October 25th, 2009 at 10:48 pm

Hi…..Aarti where do u live ..?
send me ur email id
491 Vishna
October 28th, 2009 at 12:31 am

im using these facts in my “dream” eng oral! these are really good.
492 Twirly
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:56 am

I’ve got a congenitally blind friend who says he “saw” something in a dream once. (Only once.)
493 meg
November 6th, 2009 at 8:31 am

one tiiiiiiiiiiime. . . i dreamed that i was a panther…..then liiiike i woke up and.. wasn’t yahhhhh.
494 sakshi
November 11th, 2009 at 7:31 am

@sakshi (494): @sakshi (494): this is not a good fact
495 Ryan
November 11th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

I had a dream once where i heard this here annoying ehh ehh ehh noise and i had to win a gold tournament to get it to stop which took hours in the dream. But when i did the noise didn’t stop and i was all i thought you said you would make the noise stop if i won and the guy said i did and i will and then i woke up and it was my alarm clock. 3 mins.
496 Biscus
November 18th, 2009 at 8:33 am

Several times, over the years, I have dreamed a solution to a problem I had been working on in real life. Now that I look back on it, all three times that come immediately to memory were times I was trying to arrange things (living room furniture, sections in my dept at work, and a math problem I couldn’t remember the formula for on the civil magistrate test). I think my left brain drowns out my right brain during the day, and sometimes the only way my right brain can communicate with me is by pictures at night. I think it’s a kind of sorting function that goes on while I am sleeping.
497 Lily
November 18th, 2009 at 11:23 am

It’s not “sleep analysis” it’s “sleep paralysis” – to Michael.
498 sherilynxrose
November 18th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

Awesome list! All of the facts were extremely cool, and I especially liked the fact about how every single person we see in dreams are actual people we’ve seen.

I highly doubt I’m paralyzed when I dream – I’m such a restless sleeper; half the time I wake up with the covers off the bed! :]
499 frank
November 22nd, 2009 at 1:22 am

has anyone had a dream they dreamed before but it was a nightmare so you knew how to avoid it
500 smokingfrog
December 1st, 2009 at 10:12 pm

About #9: i think i can remember many of my dreams clearly and to a full 100%. Is it really tht u forget 90% of ur dreams? This really has made me thinking!!

Also there have been so many days, when i have not dreamt at all, u know, went to sleep and just woke up directly the next morning not knowing anything abt wht happnd and all(i sleep like a rock btw..)

I remember this fact clearly tht if ur stomach is upset before sleeping, then u will surely get a dream, and if it is perfectly alright u will not get a dream at all!!

Has any1 experienced this before??
501 tinky
December 21st, 2009 at 10:56 pm

the paralysis one: when i’m half asleep in bed i act out what i’m slightly dream thinking about. it’s the weirdest thing ever. i do it involuntarily. i’m sure other people do this as well.
502 tr
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:52 pm

@Joel Wideman (41):
u don’t know how to read!!!
503 Marissa
December 31st, 2009 at 1:30 am

I don’t know if I’m the only one, but sometimes I jerk in my sleep, when I’m dreaming of falling off of something.
504 Marissa
December 31st, 2009 at 1:35 am

And everytime I have a dream aboout someone, my friends say its because it’s the last person I think about or talk to. Not true, right?
505 J. A. R.
January 4th, 2010 at 9:38 am

this page is really interesting and is really going to help me and my cousin jmc on our science fair project.
506 J. A. R.
January 4th, 2010 at 9:39 am

im still talking hahahahahaha
507 J. A. R.
January 4th, 2010 at 9:40 am

jmc and jar are having fun in science class
508 J. A. R.
January 4th, 2010 at 9:41 am

im 7 years old and jmc is sposedly way more mature whatever
509 Lucide
January 4th, 2010 at 10:22 am

I’ve had most of these kind of dreams, from paralysis, to lucid dreaming and dreaming about violent or supernatural beings.

On the whole, i do not like these dreams that I remember, because i’ve trained myself to do so, somehow, when they have particular meaning. (although some are junk dreams, which are quite fun)

They can be prophetic (or simply subconscious conclusions of the future that I have drawn up, or so I like to think) or answers to questions I have been looking for for myself.

Things I have dreamed about but not spoken to anyone, tends to come true so I do so whenever the dream bothers me. Might be just me being paranoid though.

I’ve also had dreams of zombies, one including me and my family and seeing all the rotting mass and maggots in full HD detail. Then again, I have those where I get frozen after I wake.

Once, I had one in my room where I was literally trapped within. My room’s kind of like my safety hole, so it really freaked me out. The only thing that saved me from screaming my head away was the funny fact that I was trying to use my laptop camera to capture them on film and so they wouldn’t bug me. I assumed this to be a junk dream.
510 Jason
January 6th, 2010 at 10:28 pm

i tend to think that their is meaning to alot of dreams and they are directly related to whats going on in ones life at present, in the past or in the future…
i have some very vivid dreams and i have found that i dream best when i have over slept, i am a shift worker, i work 2×12 hour days and then 2×12 hour nights and i go thru times of sleep deprivation every week, then i will stay in bed for 12 hours or more to try and catch up on some sleep to get over the tired feeling, which is a paradox because generally over sleeping will still leave me feeling tired, and its not until i actually have sometime off from work and i get a few weeks normal sleep that i get past this feeling of being tired…but it is generally when i stay in bed for the 12 hours or more that i dream the best and wake up remembering the dream…i can also wake up and then go back to sleep and get back into the dream i was having before i woke up, this generally only happens when i go straight back to sleep, sometimes i try and tune back into a dream as its more pleasureable than being awake….i can also sometimes control my dreams in a way that is like changing the tv station, if i am having a bad dream i can sometimes realise this is a bad dream and just change the whole dream to something more pleasureable…i have also had dreams come true days weeks or years later, i get a feeling sometimes that hey i have seen this before when in actual fact theirs no way i could have…one example of this is years before i got my present job i was dreaming about a very long dark space with wiring and cables trays and such running thru it, turns out that where i work now their are these long dark spaces running behind the inner walls that house all the wiring and cables trays, exactly like in my dreams years earlier, and their was no way i had seen anything like these spaces before i got my present job, and as soon as i saw the spaces it hit me that i had dreamt about them and i put it down to a preminition that i was going to be working their, some may say that i had seen it somewhere else previously but this is not the case as its a fairly unique set up for controlling computer micros that control aluminium producing pots in a potline at an aluminium smelter and these dark spaces are 1km long…
i have also woken up realising that i have just had a dream where i have invented something really cool and useful but i generally forget what that something was by the time i try and write it down…i have also been known to sleep walk and talk and also act out a dream while in bed, so its hard to say that it is clear cut that dreams work one way and not another as i have experienced most things imagineable to do with dreams…i also think that the experts dont know it all just as when the powers to be would lock someone up for being gay, since being gay means that your mental and in need of being institutionalised, this was happening up until the 1970,s in america i think i read somewhere…another interesting dream i use to have as a kid was that of falling, and i know this is a common one and has been interpretted into many different meanings, but yes i use to have bad dreams where i was falling and it wasnt until i went skydiving years later that these dreams stopped, so make of that what u will these are just my experiences and everyone is different…
511 Jake Saunders
January 7th, 2010 at 11:22 am

Relating to paralysis when asleep, I often wake up and all i can move are my eye lids and toes. I read into it and it’s called sleep paralysis and it happens when you wake up but your brain is still asleep. I find myself counting to 3 in my head and trying to jolt my whole body to get out of it which ussually works but its a horrible feeling when I cant move. I’ve always had it since I was a little kid and would often try and call for my mum when this happened, I could move my mouth but no sound came out. Occasionally it even restrics my breathing which is very scary!
512 Yeldarb26
January 13th, 2010 at 8:46 pm

I had a super wierd dream last night that i was my friends house and i walk upstairs and find a giant pink rabit and it poos out one egg then two then three a while later i go back up to the rabit and it poos out at least 4,000 they crack and theyre little yellow chicks?I look down at the stairs and find my gray cat Cody sitting down fattend up withe bird feathers on the cats head.I go down stairs to a room and i see my aunt shes a cat luver and so i say to her wheres the pink bunny?She says under the bed i see a pink cat and a ton of pink kittens that walk out the door.then out of nowhere i hear a growl from behind me and i scream it wakes me up and i hear my sister growling at me trying to scare me.It was such a wierd dream
513 Yeldarb26
January 13th, 2010 at 8:55 pm

Has this happened to anyone I remember a dream from when I was 3 and that dream keeps returning its super weared the dream is im in a musuem me my uncal and older sister danielle we alk in and we explore the musuem and all the sudden the t-rex comes to life shattering glass running in the musuem chasing us we hide behind a circaly bar holding up the 2nd floor the t-rex is trying to sniff us out my uncle grabs a bar of glass throws it at the t-rex it gets all bloody runs out to the parking lot and attacks the city like godzilla.im 11 now and still having that dream what does this mean?
514 Yeldarb26
January 13th, 2010 at 8:57 pm

why do you see your dreams in 1st person why cant you see yourself i hate it
515 Yeldarb26
January 13th, 2010 at 8:57 pm

this page is so interesting im on it 24 7
516 hpstar101
January 17th, 2010 at 5:16 pm

thanks for the information.. these facts will help me on my speech!
517 Sarah
January 28th, 2010 at 1:08 am

I had a dream when i was little that these two old ladies tied me down and were comin at me with knives .. and i cld hear everything that was goin on in my house i knew i was awake in that sense but cldnt get up and cldnt open my eyes and the ladies were gettin closer it scared me soo bad i was tryin so hard to get my eyes open and i was tryin to lift my arm but cldnt
518 Sarah
January 28th, 2010 at 1:12 am

Ive had dreams where i never saw a persons face just their body
519 rizkutty
February 4th, 2010 at 8:52 am

I DREAMT OF FALLING TEETH & SOME UNUSAL THINGS BUT ACTUALLY DREAMING GIVES US RELAXATION,AND IT FEELS HAPPY WHEN DREAMING WITH YOUR BELOVED ONE.
520 Jill
February 4th, 2010 at 8:39 pm

Once I had a dream where I was swimming through a tunnel filled with water with somebody, who said she was my friend’s mom, to get to an amusement park ride. But right before the end of the tunnel started drowning, even though I was in full scuba gear. And then she started yelling (i don’t know how,because she was wearing scuba gear too) “Jill, wake up! You need to cough!” Then I woke up, and I coughed. It was weird.
521 icnelsa
February 4th, 2010 at 11:17 pm

about 80% of all my dreams take place in my grandmas house. this has been going on for about the past ten years. :s
522 Yungstud
February 11th, 2010 at 3:56 am

when i was young i had a dream of an evil demon screaming my name so loud it freaked me out! and just the feeling of evil that surrounded me made me shutter i couldn’t move or see it was the scariest dream ever it was pitch black and i had a feeling the demon was a clown i woke up crying

the best dream i had was a lucid dream which is when you’re totally aware you’re dreaming, my dream looked 95% real honestly! i couldn’t believe it so the best time to lucid dream is 5 1/4 hours after sleep everything looked so real i was outside my nanas house and when i woke up i walked outside and it looked exactly the same its like my soul went there when i was sleeping or something

i hate sleep paralysis, wiggle you’re toes that helps because the smallest muscles aren’t effected! i have a life too i just think dreams are an awesome part of life lol
523 kostas
February 15th, 2010 at 9:19 am

PARALYZED ?!
524 barshofarsh
February 19th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

o i love dreams, i love it how sometimes you can control them too. =)
525 katerinaelaena
February 27th, 2010 at 4:33 pm

@kostas (524): yeah, called sleep paralysis. Pretty scary stuff. Especially if you’re dreaming and think you can’t move and don’t know it’s a dream…
526 sparklesxx
April 7th, 2010 at 8:16 pm

Regarding everyone commenting about how is it possible to prove if you actually dream people you see, it’s because we dont actually create any images ourselves. I mean, I can’t prove this, just a personal theory, but even consciously I can’t ever remember actually creating an image completely from my imagination. I can mix images together, but not create something completely new. For example, you could day dream your dancing on a stage in front of thousands of people. Now, you probably haven’t ever actually danced on a stage in front of thousands of people, but you’ve danced (or seen videos of people dancing)you’ve seen what a stage looks like, you’ve been in large crowds, or at least seen pictures, therefore everything your imagining already exists. It seems like having seen all these people/things just makes sense… I’m interested to know whether someone can prove me wrong…

And if this post is just jumbled up nonsene, I’m sorry, but it’s late and I’m tired..
527 Erin
April 12th, 2010 at 5:43 pm

I can control my nightmares. You know the feeling of when your foot is waking up after being asleep? Where it’s all tingly?

My entire body starts to feel like that when I’m about to have a nightmare, and my eyes can be wide open, but it takes every fiber of my being to actually wake my body up. It’s always kind of scary, but at the same time, I never have nightmares anymore.
528 laurb
April 12th, 2010 at 10:01 pm

can dreams also predict whats going to happen in the future? (i had a dream someone i know killed themselves 3 months ago, then a month later it happened)

what about falling in love? i had a dream 1/2 month(s) ago 4 cousins of mine introduced me to someone who i fell in love “at first sight”. and we started flirting. after we got acquainted (i talked mostly about myself he only knows my name and i dont know his) I WOKE UP. to me he is the most gorgeous looking guy i’ve ever seen, i never saw anyone like him in real life. i know when i see a good looking person in the waking life, and out of all good looking guys i’ve seen, i’ve only seen him in the dream world. so someone help me with this please?
529 spotter
April 12th, 2010 at 10:27 pm

@laurb [529]:

@laurb: be wary with the kind of dreams that u dream. Sometimes it may be real, or future events to happen, or have happened, or others may be because something or someone is causing u to dream that dream. The good-looking guy in your dream may be an angel or a demon who likes u. They may court u or have sex with u in your dreams so be very careful. There are many succubus/incubus around so don’t let them play around with u. Just an advice with regards to the spiritual world…
530 melanie
April 13th, 2010 at 5:55 pm

when i was little i kept having the weird dream where it was dark and i was outside and was running and when i looked behind me i saw this demon with bright red eyes and it scared me to death.
531 violet
April 14th, 2010 at 4:22 pm

I’d have to disagree with 9 and 4
most of the time i remember all of my dreams. i think theres been 2 or 3 times that i’ve had a bunch of blank spots. also my dreams are pretty straight forward and in a prophecy-ic kinda way. like i’ll have a dream that i do something that i kno would never really happen and in like a month or so it acctually happens (altho my most recent happenings i dreamt about 3 years ago.)
532 violet
April 14th, 2010 at 4:32 pm

@Yeldarb26 [514]:
omg! ive had that happen i have a few of them tho theres one from when i was five another from when i was seven and a third one at age ten. the first and third one occur every five years and the second one happens every seven (at least i think so i’ll kno for sure when im 21.)
533 katlyn
April 14th, 2010 at 5:22 pm

i had a dream once that made me wake up crying. how do people cry in their sleep? does that mean that my dream was more intense? and know i will never forget that dream or nightmare. ever.
534 chris
April 14th, 2010 at 6:32 pm

@michael [3]: the condition is known as hypnogogic sleep paralysis i suffered from it for a short time last year it caused me to wake in the middle of the night often with demons standing around my bed chanting…dripping blood from their mouths etc…a minute in this state seems to take longer than an hour
535 Dayviidd
April 14th, 2010 at 6:37 pm

It’s weird, with that sleep paralysis thing, I have the complete opposite I think?
Even last night, I had a dream there was a spider on my bed, and I crushed it and it got twice as big. Kept repeating that ’till it was the size of a couple of my pillows.
I woke up to myself smashing the bed with my blankets. ;P
Some weird stuff, man.
536 raerae
April 14th, 2010 at 7:06 pm

i dont believe the whole sleep paralysis. I have dreams were i’m going somewhere, and i’ll wake up somewhere in my house from sleepwalking. Also, i’ll have falling dreams and i’ll jerk awake, and i’ve fallen off of my bed before. if we are paralyzed, should we not be able to talk to? my siblings say that i always sleep talk, and the stuff i say corresponds with what i was dreaming.
537 ET
April 14th, 2010 at 10:24 pm

I think my wife will tell you that sleep paralysis stuff is hogwash… I thrash so much in my sleep that I’ll wake her up if I haven’t actually shoved her out of bed already… in my sleep, but not in my dreams…
538 jelly
April 15th, 2010 at 4:22 am

ive been having dreams lately, about the most inane things. theyre all things that kind of relate to my life in little ways, and these dreams are always really short. when i wake up in the morning they dont feel like dreams – they feel like memories. its sometimes really confusing :/
539 firedrakegirl
April 15th, 2010 at 5:34 am

I have like a series of dreams, all of which relate to a story i’m writing. Its as if my mind is helping me whenever i have writers block. I still remember everything that happens in all of these dreams, and most of the time i can control what happens in them. Its really weird.

And about prophetic dreams, one of my friends has had a bunch that have come true recently. He dreamed that his aunt was having money trouble, and that his family’s new refrigerator would be hard to instal, and both counts were true.
540 Lucide
April 15th, 2010 at 5:42 am

@laurb

It’s possible. I have regular dreams that are repetitive, continuous, prophetic and self-revealing.

Then I have those junk dreams which I immediately recognize since they’re filled with ridiculous things that I occupy my time with when awake.

I’m used to those dreams mentioned so its easy for me to tell if a dream is a repetitive nightmare, a continuous exploration, a prophetic one or a self-revealing dream.

Though recently I just had a continuous one…since I had a deja vu that I had it once a long time ago. It happened before at my grandaunt’s house where I used to spend my holidays and I recently visited and spent a night.

I remember playing with other children in the pool but this time I actually questioned their presence. I’m older in this dream too so it was ridiculous for me to be in a child’s pool. They turned into green globs (kinda ugly, not scary but friendly) and said that they’re here before I wanted company. (I used to be a lonely kid – I still am) and I get the distinct feeling that they were like imaginary friends.

It was like Alice in Wonderland of my own version but the freakiest thing was when I woke and brush my teeth in the adjoining bathroom leaving the door open… I can swear I saw for a moment the anonymous uncle in Victorian clothing like a circus ring master gave me a sweeping bow that seemed like “goodbye” or “come again”…
541 kkk
April 15th, 2010 at 5:48 am

If I can remember it right, the jerking thing is a signal from our brain to wake us. When we sleep, our body temperature tends to lower. And if the lowering of temperature continues, we could die.
542 Lucide
April 15th, 2010 at 5:48 am

@ everyone else with prophetic dreams

Our subconsciousness have an ability to pick up what we do not consciously take note of and so I’d actually ask all of you to heed these dreams and be wary of what they can mean.

They’re prophetic may be because your mind picked up clues of what is to be expected in the future and hence compiles them and try to tell you.

I had several and I regret every time I dismiss one of those dreams for nothing. And every time I don’t and take heed, I find myself breathing a sigh of relief when I had made effort to help, in some way.
543 Prita
April 15th, 2010 at 6:43 am

i have a lot of different kinds of dreams.. sometimes it’s a dream of something i really desire or someone i really want to meet.. but usually they are mixed with other things happening in my daily life..

it is often that i dreamt of something, just an ordinary simple thing of daily life, and then a few days after that it would really happen in for real.. it’s like getting a déjà vu..
544 Reese
April 15th, 2010 at 1:58 pm

The sleep paralysis thing is so frreaky scary!! it happen to me ALL THE TIME!! If my TV is on I cant hear it and its like my room is in black and white (i dream in black and white more often than color) Actually just a few nights ago I had woken up at about 3 and then turned over towards my window to go back to sleep, as soon as I did i felt this man laying his head in the curve of my neck with long hair rubbing my *arm saying “oh god, oh god” and all the while I could see my bed sheets my phone and my window in EXTREMELy vivid detail I swear that stuff is creepy!! I also frequently “wake up and I can see my whole room but I cant move at all and it scares me because I dont know what will happen
545 Daniele
April 15th, 2010 at 2:07 pm

When I was really little like 5 I would dream that I had to pee so I would go on this journey to get to the bathroom and then Id go, only to wake up drenched in pee hahaha it used to make me so mad
546 Ricecake18
April 15th, 2010 at 2:28 pm

@Jason
sometimes when Im drreaming I realizre that its a dream but i dont actually wake up! I wake up into another dream sometimes Ill even realize that one is a dream and THEN Ill wake up its a very strange thing

I also Wake up in the middle of the night and I cant move although I can see my entire room and sometimes I can even hear the TV usually I close my eyes and go back to sleep and then i wake up for real @luke [489]:

Ive only had this happen 4 times in my life. The first time threre was an angel outside my room not a literal one but like a large glowing light but my dream told me it was an angel, then i had this dream about an elderly woman in my brothers room who just rocked back and forth and she was just a form but my dream told me it was an old lady then again i was having sleep paralysis and there were two demons at my feet just forms again but they looked like the two little demons from hercules but at the time they were VERY scary and then recently a long haired man rubbing my *arm (not my arm if you catch my drift) but i never came into a name. I have never seen any of them more than once though :/
547 bree
April 18th, 2010 at 12:57 pm

one time i had 3 dreams in one. i was super tierd one night & went to sleep, i had a dream that i went into my room & went to sleep & then had a dream that i was telling my mom that i HAD a dream & inside that dream i had a dream, so i went downstairs into my room & i seen my brother & his friend in there touching my stuff so i told them get out & that i wonna go to sleep .. so i did & i started dreaming that i was on this dark road & i started floting & goin super high & i got butterflies, they felt so real .. so then i started flying over all the trees & i could see the city … It was so cool. then i was back on the road & i had this wierd thing around me, like i was in a bubble or somthing & it was glowing, but i could still see everything…so i just stated flying up the street & then when i got up there i seen this really cool bubble car & it was so colorfull & pretty, so i got in & these two old ladys were in the front with really colorful make up, so we started driving on this highway & i was holding this big ballon with a string out the window because it didn’t fit in the car. i was going to my friends house because i had to tell her somthing REALLY inportent …so we got there & i jump out and ran up to her …& i forgot everything that i was going to tell her. and that was it .. i woke up :S this dream happend in 2009, i just cant remember when.. it was pretty cool & ill remember it forever! Did anyone eles have a dream inside a dream, inside a dream? lol
548 blue
April 18th, 2010 at 10:06 pm

I can’t believe you left out night hag syndrome!
549 magnumto
April 25th, 2010 at 1:10 pm

When I was a kid, I wet the bed with distressing regularity. I can still remember that I would dream I was peeing in a toilet in proper fashion, then I’d wake up and, alas, no toilet.
550 gggg
May 14th, 2010 at 6:47 am

try taking away the alarm clock.
551 zimi
May 16th, 2010 at 1:18 pm

wow………..its OWSOME
552 @evotech
May 18th, 2010 at 12:13 am

Point 3 and 4 are very contradicting. Any explanation for this?
553 gigity
May 23rd, 2010 at 1:55 pm

the best kinds of dreams are the ones accompanied by orgasm
554 meeee!
June 5th, 2010 at 1:34 am

iv had a few flying dreams, some where i havent been successful an i think 1 where i have. . hate the scary dreams an the 1s where im being chased expecially my legs wont move an i have to drag myself lol lately iv been dreaming about me an someone (usually my boyfriend) searching for something desprately but ending up getting distracted an stopping an watching tv lol weird. . a few times i have dreams of my partner cheating an me beating him up haha but i guess thats my insecurities coming out.

best dreams for me are the ones in the mornings when you turn off the alarm an go back to sleep for 10 minutes or so, the dreams i dont want to wake from lol
555 Zoey
June 7th, 2010 at 5:04 am

When i was little i used to have wierdly terrifying dreams. One REALLY, REALLY wierd but scary (to me) dream i had when i ws liitle was: I was sitting in my room on my bed watching t.v and (heres the wierd part) a blanket with no eyes walks in the room. And me being the age i was thought that was freaking terrifying! so i hid under my bed and backed up further and further until i fell into what seemed like a black hole. Thats when i woke up. I hurried to go turn on my light, but it blew out i was so scared i ran into my bed with my mom.
Other dreams i used to have when i was around 7 or 9 is dreams about mainly ghosts and aliens. probably because i had started a huge obsession with the two somehow. Such as, finding an alien in my house or somthing. Some nights ill be sound asleep and it will feel like im falling off a cliff or somthing and i feel butterflies in my stomach and ill quickly jump as if i hit the ground.
Most of the time if i have dreams anymore they really dont make any sense and they're really wierd and unexplainable.
Now that i've gotten older though, i dont have dreams that oftten anymore. And my ability to be able to control my dreams dissapeared too. That sucks…
556 Zoey
June 7th, 2010 at 5:22 am

Oh,yea i would also have dreams of using the restroom in the TOILET, but then using the rest room in my BED which is really disgusting. Its wierd though
557 steven
June 7th, 2010 at 11:32 pm

the strangest thing happend i had a dream and i new i was dreaming so i almost controlled the dream
558 idk5
June 10th, 2010 at 11:40 pm

i've had the same dream over and over again where i am being chased. Each time i have the dream i know what is going to happen so i try and change it but always end up the same; dying or waking up in the dream. how is it that i am changing my dream?
559 MEEEE4
June 25th, 2010 at 3:46 pm

deedee0323 – I can wake up from nightmares, too. (As long as I realise I'm asleep.) I just close my eyes as tight as I can, and when I open them, I'm awake. Very useful.
Also I once heard you cannot dream that you die- you always wake up just before it actually happens. Obviously this would not be true if the dream was about you already being dead, but anyway- is this true? I did once have this strange dream where I was Robin Hood (the disney fox version) and I was fighting and I was shot in the back with an arrow. It didn't really hurt, but it was horrible because I couldn't breathe and everything started going black. But it was ok- I was strangely "re-incarnated" as Friar Tuck, just like in some video games where you die and change character to another person.
Another strange dream I had was I suddenly felt dizzy and fainted, but I was still concious and I couldn't move. It was scary, especially as I didn't realise it was only a dream so I couldn't wake up. Could this be related to sleep paralysis, mabey? (I have never fainted before that I can remember, so I have no idea what it's really like to faint.)
560 monkeybread
June 25th, 2010 at 9:31 am

My dreams are nuts. I am a lucent dreamer. Once I dreamed that I was at our local fairgrounds. I was walking around exploring when I saw a soda machine by a big hole in the ground. This little boy came running up to get a soda when he fell into the hole. His mom was frantic. She was completely paniced (one would be if their child fell into a hole). I tried to tell her that it was ok because we were in a dream and it wasn’t real. She wouldn’t believe me, saying through her tears, “oh how can you be so sure?!” To convince her it was only a dream, I put both hands on each side of my face and lifted my head off of my body and said, “now could I manage this if we weren’t in a dream?” She agreed, said thanks, and walked away. The problem, though, was that I couldn’t get my head to stay on after that. Silly thing just kept falling to the ground.

I have a bunch of weird dreams like that. What freaks me out though, are the ones that, well, like I once dreamed I walked outside my house one morning, and my grey cat was nursing off of a big ole rat (we live on a farm with about 6 cats running around). They were sitting under my car. The rat looked up at me and said with a smile (and one of those nursing bonnets on her head), “it’s my job to feed your cat.” The next morning I walked outside, and there was the same cat eating a rat, under the car. What the heck does that mean?? I hate that cause I feel like I am missing something that I am supposed to know or do. Like maybe God has plans for me to do something and I’m just too ignorant to see it. What do little, stupid dreams like this mean??
561 Lucide
June 26th, 2010 at 1:34 pm

@monkeysomething

It's just a prophetic dream. Maybe you should treat rats better? Its your own choice though.
562 Unknown
July 6th, 2010 at 10:51 am

#6… No. Our mind makes up faces. One of my favorite things to do inside dreams when I am aware of dreaming is to just play with faces. Out mind takes features from others and makes composites.
563 cat
July 10th, 2010 at 3:20 pm

once when I was sick and very thirsty I dreamt that I was living in a land with out water. And then after that while i was running a high fever I dremt about living in a hot land and doing countless continueing operations on a giant person
564 cat
July 10th, 2010 at 3:24 pm

Oh, and i and another dream where i was betrayed and stabbed by one of my own men. I was so scared that i woke up. Makes me wonder what my mind was going on about. Maybe one of my friends?
565 jackie
July 14th, 2010 at 4:23 pm

well i ussaly have some intense dreams that are unreal and theyy can be dark, and weiryy like the lighting is dark and its a cold climate or raining.. but theree aree three dreamss threw out my wholee life i rember fully, they all seem to havee my cousin alyssa and they all givee me signss i think dreams were givin to us for a reason
566 new jersey
July 19th, 2010 at 5:05 am

Hello everyone, i have something to share

well i have dreams just like everyone else, but i force myself to try not to have a dream and just go to sleep and wake up again in the morning so i can start a new day and what not, i "traine" myself to sleep right away but it sometimes never works and i stay up all night like right now, i cant sleep, but there;s these nights where im half asleep and i know i am cause ill have my eyes open and ill feel so sleepy but i get that kick and wake up fully? and do that same action about 3 to 5 times in one night ? TIll i finally fall asleep! But onces that happens i try to wake up fully ,BUT MY body mind soul what ever you call it doesnt let me wake up! It;s pretty freaking wierd and ive done this several times in my life! The dreaming part well ive read this artically and i can deff relate to alot of these! please anyone email me back at bbustos1124@yahoo.com if you have the same thing that i go through!
567 12233zozo
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:45 am

I had a dream today, it was about my highschool teacher being sadistic and tortuering my whole class, but the funny part is, that I knew I wa dreaming. I told in my dream like: Why the F*** can't I wake up?! This is a dream for crying out loud…. as I really knew it was a dream, and I had bit of control in my dream ( making the class finish 30 minutes earlier…) but I think the dream was caused by an indirect thinking that our teachers are tortuering us with schoolwork and stufff
568 wawa
July 28th, 2010 at 10:22 pm

THAT WAS SOOOO COOL thanks for posting that!!!!!!
569 Charlie
July 30th, 2010 at 7:26 pm

Sometimes girls I know or that are friends of mine appear in my dreams as one of the "main characters" (just to put it like that) and in the dream I end up falling love with them or we end up together or something always happens that states a relationship between us and when I wake up I end up liking that girl. -.- It's happend to me like 3 times in my life already…

btw.. sorry for my bad english.

P.S. Fuck Joel Wildeman. HAH!
570 Kenny
August 6th, 2010 at 7:00 am

I had a dream of peeing on the toilet one afternoon. I peed full on then I felt something cold. I woke up and it was all over. My whole family shares one bedroom (Third World what you expect). Then I took some tissue from the bathroom next room and wiped off the pee carefully not waking up my dad (just me and my dad were asleep). He woke up! He asked me "what's going on? what's that", then I replied "I don't know, probably my saliva".
571 Jesse C
August 11th, 2010 at 5:18 pm

belive it or not, but i when 1 to 3 i had a blank dream (in real life i was awake) then i finally woke up in a cradle and got out without help
572 Christian
August 21st, 2010 at 6:10 am

I believe it’s called “Sleep Paralysis
573 Carina
August 27th, 2010 at 3:45 pm

Once when I was like 7 I was too lazy to use the bathroom before bed, and I dreamed of little elves leading me away to a big white castle into a bathroom with a golden toilet. Needless to say, I woke up with a rather wet bed.
574 Grew up in SF
August 27th, 2010 at 3:46 pm

For me it's always falling and/or someone now alive being dead. Sometimes I'll be half asleep and then I'll move suddenly and unconsiously and I feel like I'm falling.
575 Mel
August 31st, 2010 at 3:43 pm

@Dragorironhide: Yes! I can remember dreams that I had years ago on my childhood and I can actually remember specific places.

For example I dreamed once with a flea market of toys when I was a childXD … and over the years I've been dreaming with the same flea market but as I grow old it sells different stuff, now it seems old and dirty and now it's like a goth antique flea market; but it is the same structure and located in the same "city and streets" and I can walk trough the narrow streets like I would do in physical places I know well.
576 Pedro
September 1st, 2010 at 8:14 am

"You are paralyzed while you sleep", i believe because when i was young, i dream a lot times, and in the dreams i try to wake up and that was very difficult, but is not impossibel.
I whant to ask about one thing about a dream i have, i dream and wake up but when i wake up i was in another dream and in a different place. I remember a dream i have like that, i dream that i am in a boat, and then i wake up in another dream, in this one i was in my summer house. What this kind of dream means?
577 Ian
September 1st, 2010 at 5:07 pm

during REM sleep the body becomes paralyzed that is thy you may feel like you are falling, sleep walking occurs in stage 4 of sleep when your body is not paralyzed anymore
578 dreamer
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:53 am

One night I had a dream that my girlfriend was cheating on me. I had never suspected her doing that and in my dream it came as a real surprise. Then the next night we talked and said good night. 20mins later i called her again to ask her something but she didnt answer, which was strange because she always answered. Then I remembered about my dream the night before. So i decided to drive to her home because I was a little worried and to my surprise she was not home, and still would not answer. Then on my way home I stopped at the gas station and I seen her with another guy. My dream came true the very next night. How do you explain that
579 edy
September 3rd, 2010 at 4:01 am

I had a dream that my x girlfriend was pregnant and half of her face looked disfigured especially her eye. I hadn't seen her or talked to her or even thought of her in months. Then about a week after I had that dream I seen her and said hi and we talked for a little bit. During the conversation she said shes been having a really bad eye pain…then I said wow thats crazy I just had a dream about you a week ago and in my dream your eye was horribly disfigured. (it wasnt disfigured in real life but she said it really hurt) Then i said …you were also pregnant in my dream, you didnt look pregnant but I just somehow knew in my dream that you were pregnant, then she said omg I am pregnant. Then my jaw dropped well sort of because i was really amazed and a little skeptical.. i said really no way are you kidding because you dont even look pregnant…she said well im only about a week or so pregnant…so how do you explain that dream
580 Dale
September 5th, 2010 at 1:49 pm

I have had many dreams where I' am walking around school naked and no one seems to care. I wonder what this means. These facts are also highly true for me atleast, and i love controlling my dreams atleast the ones I could remeber, and also i notice that if i "Dream think" to hard in a dream yourdream changes, like one time I was singing and walking in a hallway and i coud hear a crowd roaring and my voice was powerfull singing just like a famous singer singing a christmas song and i was thinking there must be a huge crowd behind that curtain and when it opened a huge crowd appeared i kept think wow this is a big crowd but when my performance was over and i weent to take a seat the crowd changed to a little school auditoriom. Haha i forgot what i was going to say next.

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