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2dimes wrote:This is the sort of dream I usually have.TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Pretty great one last night-
So I went to a concert or performance that was held in this giant garage. I don't really know what I was watching, I was just there among the crowd. I started smoking a cigarette with a couple of other guys (I don't smoke in the waking world outside of the occasional cigar) and the management starts freaking out because an alarm goes off. Whatever, no big deal. I'm on my way home and the cops come and arrest me. The whole thing- hands behind my back, cuffed, put in the police vehicle. There were three or four cops together to make the arrest. At this point, all but one leave, and the one who's left is this hard-ass officer who was the stereotypical cop: fat, obnoxious, and had the cop 'stache. He keeps yelling at me and saying that I've got to pay restitution for the damage. I denied that me smoking did any lasting damage in a building that had all the giant garage doors open and all that.
Here the dream takes a violent turn; the cop decides to take me somewhere. His vehicle turned out to be a rocket or some other spacecraft, and pretty soon he's dropping me off on the Moon, trying to leave me with this researcher who was living there studying the native lunar fauna. Now I'm fearing that he's leaving me on the Moon to die, so some words are exchanged, tempers flared. The cop attacks me, but I somehow manage to wrest his gun away from him and I end up killing him.
At this point the dream changes from first person to third person, and the character changes to a slim, brunette female. The researcher is freaking out because the cop is dead, and tells her that he's calling the cops. She tries to convince him not to, but to no avail. She ends up running away, trying to find a way back to earth. Here the dream becomes more of the frenetic pursuit kind, but the scenery changes to something like a Tim Burton film or a Tool video. The most prevalent of the native lunar fauna are these cow-like creatures that just sit around with vacant stares, but there are some snakes as well. The animals are what appear to her to be disfigured and clay-like. Somehow a fire gets started, and again this is very clay-animation like, slowly consuming the cow creatures and buildings. Then the alpha snake, who used to live on Earth but couldn't hack it and came to the Moon, tries helping her and talks to her.
Now at this point, I'm unsure if the dream changed, or if I/she somehow got back to Earth, but I feel like it's a continuation of the same dream. There was still the feeling that I had been hunted. But anyway, the character had changed back to me, and I was living in the house I grew up in, but I had Colin Mochrie and Wayne Brady as house mates. Wayne Brady had dreads, though, and was living in what used to be my sister's room, which was still pink and girly, although he did have a bunch of firearms mounted on the wall. There was this bum who kept rifling through our garbage each night, so Colin Mochrie goes out to chase him off. I hear a gunshot, and I look out and see Colin Mochrie is dead, killed by the vagrant who's peering around the corner at us, very creepily.
Wayne and I are shocked and outraged. I grab a pump-action shotgun and Wayne Brady gets what looks like a .45 handgun. We chase after the bum, but he eludes us initially. We're hunting him down, and we find him down by these train tracks with a baby stroller, his face covered in blood. I think the implication was that he had eaten a baby. And then the dream ends before any resolution.
-TG
A lot of detail, famous people, odd characters, changing locations.
I'll often be in my house or one that is supposed to be mine. I will go to a different room or outside and I end up somewhere completely different.
I havebeenwhat having pretty good luck controlling things sometimes.
This morning I went back to sleep and was making changes but not quite what I wanted. It also was one of those dream where I was trying to figure out if I was still dreaming or had woke up several times.
BigBallinStalin wrote:Sounds like the comic in your avatar. If you see it enough, you'll dream about it.
nietzsche wrote:2dimes wrote:It also was one of those dreams where I was trying to figure out if I was still dreaming or had woke up several times.
Use the switch test, light switches don't work in dreams.
2dimes wrote:nietzsche wrote:2dimes wrote:It also was one of those dreams where I was trying to figure out if I was still dreaming or had woke up several times.
Use the switch test, light switches don't work in dreams.
I don't know if I care if it is a dream or not. I just find myself wondering, "Is this a dream or did I wake up?" I often dream of waking up and then the dream carries on with me presumably awake. Later I actually wake up.
Once I dreamt of waking up and going to work. Then I woke up and it was a dream and I went to work again. I can't remember the final count but it happened 3 or 4 times before actually waking up and going to work.
I was fairly annoyed when I actually had woke up and went to work for real.
2dimes wrote:nietzsche wrote:2dimes wrote:It also was one of those dreams where I was trying to figure out if I was still dreaming or had woke up several times.
Use the switch test, light switches don't work in dreams.
I don't know if I care if it is a dream or not. I just find myself wondering, "Is this a dream or did I wake up?" I often dream of waking up and then the dream carries on with me presumably awake. Later I actually wake up.
Once I dreamt of waking up and going to work. Then I woke up and it was a dream and I went to work again. I can't remember the final count but it happened 3 or 4 times before actually waking up and going to work.
I was fairly annoyed when I actually had woke up and went to work for real.
BigBallinStalin wrote:Um, that whole Light Switch test doesn't make sense to me. Either, I know I'm dreaming, or I know I'm not dreaming. There's not much guesswork involved here.
"Ah, yes, I'm in the land of Weird at the moment; therefore, I'm dreaming."
An analogy: light switch test is for people who can't distinguish English from Chinese.
BigBallinStalin wrote:Um, that whole Light Switch test doesn't make sense to me. Either, I know I'm dreaming, or I know I'm not dreaming. There's not much guesswork involved here.
"Ah, yes, I'm in the land of Weird at the moment; therefore, I'm dreaming."
An analogy: light switch test is for people who can't distinguish English from Chinese.
nietzsche wrote:
Yeah, if you are wondering if its a dream it's most likely a dream.
2dimes wrote:This is kind of just as good a test.nietzsche wrote:
Yeah, if you are wondering if its a dream it's most likely a dream.
If I'm awake there is more physical sensations, so I don't wonder if I'm dreaming. That and really cool/wierd activities happen less.
Real life is basically just using the internet or going for fast food in the hovercraft.
2dimes wrote:I can't recall ever seeing a light switch in a dream. Of course soon I'm going to have a dream about them because of this probably.
Do you think there are any more interesting tests?
If you see an exotic car walk up and see if you can just drive off in it.
Instead of walking try to jump straight to where ever you are going.
Drnk out of a five gallon container and see if you can finish the whole thing.
natty dread wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:Um, that whole Light Switch test doesn't make sense to me. Either, I know I'm dreaming, or I know I'm not dreaming. There's not much guesswork involved here.
"Ah, yes, I'm in the land of Weird at the moment; therefore, I'm dreaming."
An analogy: light switch test is for people who can't distinguish English from Chinese.
So everytime you dream you are consciously aware that you're dreaming the entire time?
BigBallinStalin wrote:natty dread wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:Um, that whole Light Switch test doesn't make sense to me. Either, I know I'm dreaming, or I know I'm not dreaming. There's not much guesswork involved here.
"Ah, yes, I'm in the land of Weird at the moment; therefore, I'm dreaming."
An analogy: light switch test is for people who can't distinguish English from Chinese.
So everytime you dream you are consciously aware that you're dreaming the entire time?
Hmm, I should've been more clear. That above response applies to lucid dreaming.
During lucid dreaming, or "more conscious than usual" dreaming, I know I'm dreaming. There's no need for a light switch test because I just know... That kind of test is weird because in these kinds of dreams, I have a semi-omniscience, or self-awareness. It would be like walking to the local store in the real world, suddenly stopping, and then looking around asking, "Do I EXIST?!? DO I EXIST!!?? AHHHH!!"
I never really understood the lucid dreaming distinction. It's not like one has 100% control of 0% control of themselves and of the dream...
notyou2 wrote:I dreamed I ate a giant marshmallow and when I woke up my pillow was gone.
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