Dreams and Psychology. Your Experience.

[Smart_Guy]

Hey, how's it going ya'll

So, ever had a dream that really touched you? I don't mean a short term touch like waking you up scared or just sad, the usual thing, I mean something that stays with you for some time.

Anyway, enough with this boring introduction and let's get down to business

Here is my experience:

I once had a dream of me and a child standing on front of a fridge. The child was someone I don't know that looked, deciding by his worn-out dress and figure, very poor, very sad as I saw on his face, and starving with hunger. The kinda person that really feels like all sadness and sorrow of the world are on their shoulders.

The kid opened the door of the fridge while I was standing right by his side, looked around inside and his face started to change with a faint smile. He then extended his arm very slowly with a very week looking and shaky hands inside and picked up a red radish, a small one, held it tight to his chest, did the same again but with one a little bigger than the first holding them both very tight. His face became full of happiness like those two radishes brought life to his body.

Then something really bad happened. I was watching him all the time with no emotions or feelings at all. Seeing him holding the two radishes tight like it meant everything to him, looking like he's the happiest in the world, I forcefully took the two radishes from him without caring or thinking about his feeling, returned it back to the fridge and closed the door.

As I did that awful and merciless act, I started to cry very hard in a way I don't remember when I did the last time. I woke up, and was crying with loud moans. Tears hammered down like a waterfall. My facial expressions changed like I had full facial plastic surgery job to have the saddest crying face in the world. I sat down on the bed holding my head and wiping the crazy amount of tears. I stayed like that for sometime trying to hold back my sadness that it felt like hours crying.

This dream can't leave my mind. I feel I did something bad to someone in real life. Now I give away more to poor children I see in the streets. I think I ow the poor so much as I skipped the alms (obligatory charity in my culture) and its conditions are probably met on my side.

 

[Penumbra]

Hey, how's it going ya'll

So, ever had a dream that really touched you?

No.

Well, except sleep paralysis. That made me think ghosts exist for a little while, the first time.

 

[Thana]

I had a dream about the devil..

That he was so handsome, And I was in love with him. And he convinced me to do evil things, But I didn't mind because I wanted to be with him.

I was freaked out for weeks, Thinking I was giving myself over to the devil.
The dream still worries me, But I'm starting to think that my dreams are just manifestations of my inner thoughts.

That because I'm so afraid of being evil, loving evil, that it leaked into my subconcious.

Perhaps it's the same with you?

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I rarely remember my dreams these days, to be honest.
I remember having one dream as a kid which absolutely effected me, but there wasn't anything particularly profound about it.
It's just that whilst having the dream I had the sense that I was dreaming, and that I could control the dream. That I could consciously direct it. And I did, but awoke very soon after the realization.

It was a long time ago, and my memory is that I was primary school age. But like I say, nothing amazing about the contents or topic of the dream.

 

[Badran]

So, ever had a dream that really touched you? I don't mean a short term touch like waking you up scared or just sad, the usual thing, I mean something that stays with you for some time.

Yeah, several times.

One dream was about me and a girl who looked like Maggie Q, where we were getting to know each other, and were kinda intimate, but hardly actually talked at all. We just sat next to each other, held hands, stuff like that. She was very quiet, and i was too. It was so vivid that when i woke up, i had actually already developed so much feelings for her i felt seriously depressed for a while because it turned out to be a dream, and that i will not see her again.

One other time which was positive on the other hand, i dreamt that i was watching a movie with someone, and they were embarrassed at something going on in the movie, and made fun of the movie to break the awkwardness they felt, while looking very shy. It made me laugh in the dream, very earnestly. I woke laughing too, not loudly, but very genuinely. The positive feeling of that dream remained with me for a while.

I also have a decent amount of experiences with sleep paralysis, ranging from extremely disturbing (to the point where i spent a good while with active belief that i underwent a possession attempt by a demon - Jinn, IOW), to some others which while were still a bit scary during the process, were not too disturbing afterwards.

I had a recent one a couple of weeks ago. I slept on the chair at my desk unintentionally, and when i woke up, i couldn't open my eyes or move, but at this point i've gotten pretty accustomed to it so there weren't any hallucinations, i just felt disoriented and tried to break free, eventually striking the desk in my attempt to feel in control again. I laughed about it as soon as i regained ability to move.

 

[Smart_Guy]

No.

Well, except sleep paralysis. That made me think ghosts exist for a little while, the first time.

I hear about this sleep paralysis thing happening to/from others, but I've never really had any as far as I'm 31 now. Could it be because of the protective prayers I recite before sleep?

I'll have to research about this phenomenon. It's really weird.

I had a dream about the devil..

That he was so handsome, And I was in love with him. And he convinced me to do evil things, But I didn't mind because I wanted to be with him.

I was freaked out for weeks, Thinking I was giving myself over to the devil.
The dream still worries me, But I'm starting to think that my dreams are just manifestations of my inner thoughts.

That because I'm so afraid of being evil, loving evil, that it leaked into my subconcious.

Perhaps it's the same with you?

This is one interesting dream.

I agree with your conclusion and its relationship with that dream. It is kind of the same with me but my dreams showed it only once and it was not a beautiful sight. I once had a glimpse of hell. It had red sky and mountains. I don't remember the details but I woke up crying and my heart was beating so hard like it was about to explode.

I was so glad that was a dream when I woke up. It was mixed with a warm fear cry.

I rarely remember my dreams these days, to be honest.

I remember having one dream as a kid which absolutely effected me, but there wasn't anything particularly profound about it.

It's just that whilst having the dream I had the sense that I was dreaming, and that I could control the dream. That I could consciously direct it. And I did, but awoke very soon after the realization.

It was a long time ago, and my memory is that I was primary school age. But like I say, nothing amazing about the contents or topic of the dream.

I had similar setting so many times but I guess I was lucky in comparison to have time to enjoy it.

I realized I was in a dream and did may naughty things (don't ask ). This is the good/evil part, but for the realism part, I could fly and become invisible

Sometimes It was difficult to become invisible and some other times I failed.

Yeah, several times.

One dream was about me and a girl who looked like Maggie Q, where we were getting to know each other, and were kinda intimate, but hardly actually talked at all. We just sat next to each other, held hands, stuff like that. She was very quiet, and i was too. It was so vivid that when i woke up, i had actually already developed so much feelings for her i felt seriously depressed for a while because it turned out to be a dream, and that i will not see her again.

One other time which was positive on the other hand, i dreamt that i was watching a movie with someone, and they were embarrassed at something going on in the movie, and made fun of the movie to break the awkwardness they felt, while looking very shy. It made me laugh in the dream, very earnestly. I woke laughing too, not loudly, but very genuinely. The positive feeling of that dream remained with me for a while.

I also have a decent amount of experiences with sleep paralysis, ranging from extremely disturbing (to the point where i spent a good while with active belief that i underwent a possession attempt by a demon - Jinn, IOW), to some others which while were still a bit scary during the process, were not too disturbing afterwards.

I had a recent one a couple of weeks ago. I slept on the chair at my desk unintentionally, and when i woke up, i couldn't open my eyes or move, but at this point i've gotten pretty accustomed to it so there weren't any hallucinations, i just felt disoriented and tried to break free, eventually striking the desk in my attempt to feel in control again. I laughed about it as soon as i regained ability to move.

Not may romantic dreams here but I had one or two nevertheless. I don't remember her face, I do remember setting by her side and that's all. I woke up with sad feelings as well . I also remember getting married. It was very short that I only saw some of my family members making way for me walking until I reached her finding her setting on a sofa wearing a white head scarf showing here face without make up and smiling. Her skin was fair and this is all I remember. Nothing of her facial features was remembered

Oh, I did wake up laughing a couple of times too. I don't remember the details, but they were happy dreams. I guess they were so happy that the laughter was honest enough to make me laugh for real which woke me up.

Try reciting the specific sleep protective prayers of your religion and perform the practical ones if there's any, before going to sleep. I never drop them and I never had this sleep paralysis problem so far. If it is connected to spirituality, then I think I'm not having them because of that.

 

[LuisDantas]

I had a dream many years ago about a silver surfer-like figure with some birdlike attributes losing his features by the second and jumping from a high peak to regain liberty.

For some reason it stuck with me for a long time.

These days I rarely ever remember my dreams. I suspect that somehow my vigil and dream states are fairly similar, perhaps because I am a good dream interpreter.

 

[Thief]

I have dreamt of death!
The details were more than vivid.

I awoke!!!!!!.... to find my blanket across my chest,smooth and without wrinkle over every edge.
My pillow tucked beneath my head, square to my shoulders.
My hands laid upon my chest.
My head to one corner and my feet to the opposite.
On my back....which I never do for sleep.

As is Someone had laid me to rest....on my own bed.

My right forearm was numb.
Death had taken hold of me as I slept.

A skeletal figure in bright red cloak and hood.
Bright red as was my blanket.

It took quite some time for my hand and arm to return to me.

 

[BSM1]

When I was a kid I dreampted I was hanging wallpaper and I woke up with a handful of paste.

 

[Uberpod]

Smart Guy,

It seems to me that this dream is about your fears of losing your virility - nicely cloaked.

 

[Badran]

Not may romantic dreams here

That's probably a good thing.

I don't remember her face, I do remember setting by her side and that's all. I woke up with sad feelings as well . I also remember getting married. It was very short that I only saw some of my family members making way for me walking until I reached her finding her setting on a sofa wearing a white head scarf showing here face without make up and smiling. Her skin was fair and this is all I remember. Nothing of her facial features was remembered

I remember the faces very clearly, even the clothes that were worn.

Try reciting the specific sleep protective prayers of your religion and perform the practical ones if there's any, before going to sleep. I never drop them and I never had this sleep paralysis problem so far. If it is connected to spirituality, then I think I'm not having them because of that.

Well i believed it was Jinn a long time ago and things have changed, but i did actually resort to prayers and reciting verses back then, and it didn't stop it.

When i researched it there was more than one possible explanation and classification, but generally and for simplicity, it's basically a disturbance or imbalance in sleep states/stages, where you wake up before the REM (rapid eye movement) cycle is complete, and where you're aware but your muscles do not respond normally and you feel paralyzed for a bit, usually for a few seconds or a minute. It's also usually accompanied by hallucinations, usually disturbing and terrorizing ones.

It can be more severe than that and can occur in different ways and at different times and rates, but that's the one i had personally. It's normal that you haven't experienced it, it's not something that happens to all people.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I once dreamed I was average and ordinary. I awoke in a cold sweat, heart pounding. I've never forgotten the horror of that terrible nightmare.

 

[ametist]

Hey, how's it going ya'll

So, ever had a dream that really touched you? I don't mean a short term touch like waking you up scared or just sad, the usual thing, I mean something that stays with you for some time.

Anyway, enough with this boring introduction and let's get down to business

Here is my experience:

I once had a dream of me and a child standing on front of a fridge. The child was someone I don't know that looked, deciding by his worn-out dress and figure, very poor, very sad as I saw on his face, and starving with hunger. The kinda person that really feels like all sadness and sorrow of the world are on their shoulders.

The kid opened the door of the fridge while I was standing right by his side, looked around inside and his face started to change with a faint smile. He then extended his arm very slowly with a very week looking and shaky hands inside and picked up a red radish, a small one, held it tight to his chest, did the same again but with one a little bigger than the first holding them both very tight. His face became full of happiness like those two radishes brought life to his body.

Then something really bad happened. I was watching him all the time with no emotions or feelings at all. Seeing him holding the two radishes tight like it meant everything to him, looking like he's the happiest in the world, I forcefully took the two radishes from him without caring or thinking about his feeling, returned it back to the fridge and closed the door.

As I did that awful and merciless act, I started to cry very hard in a way I don't remember when I did the last time. I woke up, and was crying with loud moans. Tears hammered down like a waterfall. My facial expressions changed like I had full facial plastic surgery job to have the saddest crying face in the world. I sat down on the bed holding my head and wiping the crazy amount of tears. I stayed like that for sometime trying to hold back my sadness that it felt like hours crying.

This dream can't leave my mind. I feel I did something bad to someone in real life. Now I give away more to poor children I see in the streets. I think I ow the poor so much as I skipped the alms (obligatory charity in my culture) and its conditions are probably met on my side.

I think this is a very good dream. You must be a very very kind person.You might find more relief helping poor in your own way. I am sure it will help you recall the dream with love.

 

[Smart_Guy]

I had a dream many years ago about a silver surfer-like figure with some birdlike attributes losing his features by the second and jumping from a high peak to regain liberty.

For some reason it stuck with me for a long time.

These days I rarely ever remember my dreams. I suspect that somehow my vigil and dream states are fairly similar, perhaps because I am a good dream interpreter.

Could it be about age and the feathers are the years passed? Maybe you are worried about aging?

It's said that the older one gets the less dreams they have. It could also be that they don't really have less dreams, but forget that they had them.

I have dreamt of death!
The details were more than vivid.

I awoke!!!!!!.... to find my blanket across my chest,smooth and without wrinkle over every edge.
My pillow tucked beneath my head, square to my shoulders.
My hands laid upon my chest.
My head to one corner and my feet to the opposite.
On my back....which I never do for sleep.

As is Someone had laid me to rest....on my own bed.

My right forearm was numb.
Death had taken hold of me as I slept.

A skeletal figure in bright red cloak and hood.
Bright red as was my blanket.

It took quite some time for my hand and arm to return to me.

In my belief, sleep is called the small death

When I was a kid I dreampted I was hanging wallpaper and I woke up with a handful of paste.

What, um, was the color of the paste?

Oh never mind

Smart Guy,

It seems to me that this dream is about your fears of losing your virility - nicely cloaked.

Hmm, the thing is, I'm not worried about my virility.

I did just once imagine what if I was sterile and didn't need protection to control birth if at one point I had more children than I wanted. It was just a passing thought that never really bothered me.

That's probably a good thing.

I remember the faces very clearly, even the clothes that were worn.

Well i believed it was Jinn a long time ago and things have changed, but i did actually resort to prayers and reciting verses back then, and it didn't stop it.

When i researched it there was more than one possible explanation and classification, but generally and for simplicity, it's basically a disturbance or imbalance in sleep states/stages, where you wake up before the REM (rapid eye movement) cycle is complete, and where you're aware but your muscles do not respond normally and you feel paralyzed for a bit, usually for a few seconds or a minute. It's also usually accompanied by hallucinations, usually disturbing and terrorizing ones.

It can be more severe than that and can occur in different ways and at different times and rates, but that's the one i had personally. It's normal that you haven't experienced it, it's not something that happens to all people.

Man you're lucky to remember her face. Or maybe the other way around

Now that it is confirmed it's physical, I guess it is easier to seek medical treatment.

Try eating more fish, it's good for the blood flow

I think blood flow has something to do with it.

I once dreamed I was average and ordinary. I awoke in a cold sweat, heart pounding. I've never forgotten the horror of that terrible nightmare.

Some times dreams make more sense than real life

I think this is a very good dream. You must be a very very kind person.You might find more relief helping poor in your own way. I am sure it will help you recall the dream with love.

Thank you kind Sir/Ma'am

I'm trying my best to be kind. That dream pushed me even further to do it but I still feel I'm negligent.

I'm still researching and calculating the amount of money I ow to the poor. I think my conscious will be clear when I fully do that.

 

[LuisDantas]

Could it be about age and the feathers are the years passed? Maybe you are worried about aging?

About stolen youth. Bingo. Never thought about that angle before. Thanks.

 

[YmirGF]

One tidbit I like to remind people to consider is in how they describe the dreams. If you write down a dream upon awakening, pay very close attention to exactly how you word things, as your brain won't be firing on all cylinders and there is the possibility that that raw rendering could help unravel the meaning(s) of a given dream. Many dream images are superficial fluff, but other aspects can give a penetrating view into the psychology of the mind at rest. (In essence, when you write down a dream when fully awake, sadly, you begin to fabricate aspects and paper over bumps in the integrity of the dream(s) or converging dreamlets. That is why the only time to write 'em down is as soon as you awaken, regardless of the time. Don't think about it - just report exactly what you remember and don't get too concerned about spelling or grammar.)

In an odd dream the other night, I was with a long time friend who showed me the scars of an operation he had had to strengthen his spine. He had literally had a steel casing imbedded into his back - that looked very high tech. Talk about gaining some backbone. I'd always thought he was a strong character but this was way over the top. In the dream he wasn't sure he liked the changes. I was curious, but doubtful....

 

[NobodyYouKnow]

I had a dream the other night (Freud would have a field day with it).

Now, I hardly ever remember my dreams, but I recall this one vividly (and today is the day when we are discussing dreams, so why not)...

I dislike chocolate. It's not that I dislike it really, I like chocolate, but I cannot eat any more than about 2-3 small squares of it, or I get a tummy ache, get nauseous and start blowing chunks really bad, so I tend to avoid it altogether.

In my dream, I was in a supermarket and they had a whole aisle full of chocolate bars...dairy chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, mint chocolate etc..

Now, I looked around and noticed nobody was looking, so I decided to shove as many chocolate bars into my backpack and try to exit the store without being caught. I was stealing chocolate bars...(I remember stealing one once, as a kid)...

I managed to get away with it, went to a park bench, opened up my backpack and all the chocolate bars were gone...to which I said 'ah well, never did like chocolate all that much anyway'..

Then I woke up and spent the past few days trying to decipher this dream...then decided to forget about it. lol

 

[Smart_Guy]

One tidbit I like to remind people to consider is in how they describe the dreams. If you write down a dream upon awakening, pay very close attention to exactly how you word things, as your brain won't be firing on all cylinders and there is the possibility that that raw rendering could help unravel the meaning(s) of a given dream. Many dream images are superficial fluff, but other aspects can give a penetrating view into the psychology of the mind at rest. (In essence, when you write down a dream when fully awake, sadly, you begin to fabricate aspects and paper over bumps in the integrity of the dream(s) or converging dreamlets. That is why the only time to write 'em down is as soon as you awaken, regardless of the time. Don't think about it - just report exactly what you remember and don't get too concerned about spelling or grammar.)

In an odd dream the other night, I was with a long time friend who showed me the scars of an operation he had had to strengthen his spine. He had literally had a steel casing imbedded into his back - that looked very high tech. Talk about gaining some backbone. I'd always thought he was a strong character but this was way over the top. In the dream he wasn't sure he liked the changes. I was curious, but doubtful....

Did you watch Falling Skies that night?

I had a dream the other night (Freud would have a field day with it).

Now, I hardly ever remember my dreams, but I recall this one vividly (and today is the day when we are discussing dreams, so why not)...

I dislike chocolate. It's not that I dislike it really, I like chocolate, but I cannot eat any more than about 2-3 small squares of it, or I get a tummy ache, get nauseous and start blowing chunks really bad, so I tend to avoid it altogether.

In my dream, I was in a supermarket and they had a whole aisle full of chocolate bars...dairy chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, mint chocolate etc..

Now, I looked around and noticed nobody was looking, so I decided to shove as many chocolate bars into my backpack and try to exit the store without being caught. I was stealing chocolate bars...(I remember stealing one once, as a kid)...

I managed to get away with it, went to a park bench, opened up my backpack and all the chocolate bars were gone...to which I said 'ah well, never did like chocolate all that much anyway'..

Then I woke up and spent the past few days trying to decipher this dream...then decided to forget about it. lol

You just reminded me with a really weird dream I had.

When I was little, I ate Nivea creme and I loved it so much. I saw in a dream that I eat a very big amount of it until I got sick and threw up

It felt so real that I never eaten it again afterwords.

I also had dreams where I had my hands on things, once some rare video games cartridges and in another some juicy crabs I knew I had them for real. I woke up with huge disappointment

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Oh yeah, many times. The most recent correlates my fear of a future, knowing that my apathetic attitude I can't seem to ditch will end me in a waste. The dream was, dying but seeing from third person my mother trying to wake me up for school, and I was dead, and her devastation was very realistic for a dream, I think that's what shocked me.

 

[Badran]

(In essence, when you write down a dream when fully awake, sadly, you begin to fabricate aspects and paper over bumps in the integrity of the dream(s) or converging dreamlets. That is why the only time to write 'em down is as soon as you awaken, regardless of the time. Don't think about it - just report exactly what you remember and don't get too concerned about spelling or grammar.)

I do that usually with my dreams, but mainly for possible inspiration. And indeed, when i wait a bit or postpone it, i often have to fill in some blanks.