Dreams and Interpretations

[Nyororin]

I would say that 90% of my dreams are someone other than myself. I also never have nightmares. I honestly cannot even remember the last time I had a dream that was frightening in the slightest. Frustrating or unpleasant - sure - but nothing that was frightening.

1)Do you dream in colour, or black and white?
I imagine it is in color - although I have to say I`ve never really paid much attention. As I`ve never noticed, I am going to assume that everything is in the same sort of color scheme as real life.

2)Are you able to realize that it's just a dream while you are dreaming?
If I am dreaming as myself and something incredibly irritating happens - for example something like a car accident happens and dealing with things after it looms - I can wake myself up. Something clicks as "This is NOT really happening" and I can push myself out of sleep to end the annoyance.
As far as lucid dreaming - actually realizing it`s a dream and controlling events - I don`t think I can do so as the moment I realize it`s a dream I tend to wake myself up. I can influence what I dream about by coming up with a plot of sorts and starting the sequence in my head just before drifting to sleep.

Does anyone else get sensory input during their dreams? I mean like taste, touch, smell, pain, hot, cold etc or is it all limited to visuals for you?

Sound, touch, taste, and smell are there - but pain is not. That is one of the things that will alert me to it being a dream. In fact, I don`t feel pain from reality while asleep either. (As in I can have a seriously painful injury, and as long as I am asleep or mostly asleep I can`t feel it at all. It really sucks to be in pain, sleep, and think it`s gone for the first 5 minutes after waking up because I don`t feel anything... then have reality kick in.)

Another thing that I often notice is when in water, things don`t feel wet - and when underwater I will breathe... And then something will click and tell me "this can`t be real" so I wake up. It always disappoints me as swimming underwater in perfect comfort would be a really great dream to have.

And have you ever died in a dream?

I`ve died, been in fatal accidents, been murdered, and killed myself in dreams. I seem to be unable to feel fear in a dream, so it just sort of happens and... that`s it.

[dogsbody70]

I often dream that I am flying-- they are my favourite dreams. recently I keep dreaming of getting lost or losing some thing.

Dreams fascinate me-- just wish I could remember them-- plenty of plots for stories if we could really remember. No I can't control them at all-- Just wish I could record them.

Years ago I used to dream about being good at things that in real life I could not do. One was being a fantastic swimmer and the other being a great horse rider. I can do both now but not terribly well.

Hate the feeling when I am desperate to take a jumper off over my head but cannot, usually wake up with bed clothes tangled around me.

[YukisUke]

I don't really keep track of the colors in my dreams. But the dream I always have is when I'm falling out of the sky. When I wake up, it feels as though the breath gets knocked out of my lungs. It's scary. LOL.

[Ryzorian]

I dream in color with surround sound and even sensation such as touch, though not allways with the touch. I have fallen a great hight and hit bottom and walked away, ( left a good sized crater though), been eaten by dino's, been shot, been zaped by some wizard and his lighting bolt..at highschool graduation of all places.

[manganimefan227]

My weird dreams take place when I doze off in class due to part anemia but mostly lack of sleep, this only happens at the end of the say.

The dreams are like of rush of people saying the weirdest stuff.

[yumyumtimtam]

Wow... I enjoyed all of your stories, thank you for sharing!

I had this dream...
I was with my friends from Australia who had no interest in Japan at all, but they were all fluent in Japanese and said something to me, so I wanted to tell them that I was impressed! in Japanese すご～い！but all the words came out from my mouth were all English and I felt great cos I was speaking English totally fluently!
and suddenly they said I had to give up my passport and give it to them since I can't speak Japanese any more, and I agreed (in that dream!) so I was looking for my passport in my bag, but it's not there.
I said "Oh no, I can't find it, I lost it!" then I looked up, there was a police man or someone in a uniform (very cute) said "You! Speak Japanese!" so I tried to say things in Japanese to him, but I couldn't... oh it was hard...

[YukisUke]

Originally Posted by yumyumtimtam

Wow... I enjoyed all of your stories, thank you for sharing!

I had this dream...
I was with my friends from Australia who had no interest in Japan at all, but they were all fluent in Japanese and said something to me, so I wanted to tell them that I was impressed! in Japanese すご～い！but all the words came out from my mouth were all English and I felt great cos I was speaking English totally fluently!
and suddenly they said I had to give up my passport and give it to them since I can't speak Japanese any more, and I agreed (in that dream!) so I was looking for my passport in my bag, but it's not there.
I said "Oh no, I can't find it, I lost it!" then I looked up, there was a police man or someone in a uniform (very cute) said "You! Speak Japanese!" so I tried to say things in Japanese to him, but I couldn't... oh it was hard...

Wow. I hope I never have a dream like that. Sounds like you had a "Lost in translation" dream.

[manganimefan227]

Or form hearing this little song for the sirst time . . .

"Shame shame shame,
I don't want to go to Mexico no more more more,
There's a big fat police man at the door door door
If he grab you by the collar
Girl you better holler
I don't want to go to Mexico no more more more . .

SHAME!"

[protheus]

The best dream I had, was the one that gaved me the chance to say goodbye for the last time to my grandparents.
The worst one, is a remember of the bus wreck it happened when i was very small (about 4 years old), I don't know why, but it still comes back once in a while, and even though I'm a third party in the dream, just looking from up at the small me, it still gives me shivers and feels bad.

For the questions, my dreams are full of color, but nightmares are mostly black and white. When i dream i mostly know that I'm dreaming, so I can change what im doing in the dream. Tasting, hearing, smelling is common in my dreams. I even tried things I didn't know already how they should taste (for example, squid rings, octopus), but later when i got the chance to eat that, i found out that it was exactly like in the dream. It must be something in the DNA that tells us this things, dunno.

Greetings,

Catalin C.

[SleepAddict]

1)Do you dream in color, or black and white?
Always in color and always very vivid
2)Are you able to realize that it's just a dream while you are dreaming?
When or if you do, can you do whatever you want in that dream?
Usually i can figure out I'm dreaming but once i have i usually wake up

Usually my dreams are affected by the TV which sucks because i mostly watch horror movies as well as a condition known as sleep paralysis.

When i manage to turn off the TV. My dreams usually start off simple enough but i find myself thrown from scene to scene random nonsense When sleep paralysis sets in i find my mind waking ahead of my own body. It's the closest thing to being vegetable there is. You have full thought ability you can hear and understand everything around you but cannot move. Your entire body is numb and you are trapped inside of it. Breathing begins to feel harder and harder. Sometimes you can gain mobility of a finger, I find moving it move and more seems to reanimate my body until i am able to come out of it and move again. Sometimes dreams mix with the sleep paralysis and even when my consciousness is awake i am still dreaming making nightmares and dreams appear extremely real. Real enough i can feel it if i am touched or hit.