DaisyRose
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I try and look up my dreams online too to find some sort of symbolism. It’s really cool how the subconscious can form pictures in your mind while you’re sleeping. I hate dreaming about teeth falling out or falling.
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dreaming while sleeping
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I've got that condition called Visual Snow Syndrome, so all of my dreams are this horribly pixelated, foggy, speckled, "twinkling lights" mess. My mind has some understanding of what is going on during the dream sequence, situations and events are implied, but I rarely have any sort of recognizable visual component.
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Okay, so, I'm going to do a copy-paste of a post I made in a different topic that had to do with dreams as well, as I figured it explained my experience pretty well:
I dont have nightmares, per say, but I do have a trend in dreams, a recent trend that I find a bit disconcerting. It's not a matter of anything being scary or whatever, it's more along the lines of them sorta "evolving". I'll try to explain.
Originally, I didnt dream all that often. That was the case through most of childhood and into adulthood. It was rare enough to be special when it happened.
At some point a couple of years ago, that abruptly changed. Now, it happens every single time I sleep, without exception.
From there, the dreams started to intensify, in terms of how vivid they were.
And then the REALLY odd one: the first time I could actually *feel* something while in a dream. Could feel it in my hand as much as if I'd picked the horrid thing up IRL. This effect does not happen every single time, it is sporadic. The first time that happened is also one of the dreams I have a complete memory of.
Next, others. Previously I'd never had any other people appear in dreams, and then suddenly that started happening. That is now frequent. They are not anyone I know. They are... fuzzy, distorted.
Finally, talking to those others. That started recently and is also frequent. Prior to that, they never spoke, and neither did I. But now they do.
Also, the dreams started to become more "stable". Less of that sort of... popping around, less abrupt warping.
Now, that all being said, I do occasionally have dreams that to some, might be considered nightmares, due to something dangerous being present, though I usually dont find myself scared during them... moreso, cautious.
If you'd like to hear about one, I wrote it down in this topic here: A dream story
One of those rare ones that didnt crumble upon waking. I still remember it like it was yesterday. I could also describe the first "feel something" dream, if you'd like. It makes even less sense than the one I just linked to.
And yes, all of my dreams are that strange. Even back as a kid, they were surreal, bizarre, twisted. Warped and endless structures, bent into impossible angles, clearly non-euclidean in nature. Other things that I cant actually find the words to describe.
There is one very specific thing that has often shown up, the only sometimes-repeating element, which is the library, and it basically looks like this:
Took me forever to get it to give me that.
But anyway, it's basically like that, but it never ends. No matter what direction you go in, there's always another corridor, another door that opens into more halls, another stairway, another bridge between sections often placed in nonsensical spots. And all the books are the same green & brown as everything else. Some sections look sorta normal-ish, like that bit, others get very surreal and twisted.
No idea where that one comes from or why it repeats every now and then. But it does.
I dont have nightmares, per say, but I do have a trend in dreams, a recent trend that I find a bit disconcerting. It's not a matter of anything being scary or whatever, it's more along the lines of them sorta "evolving". I'll try to explain.
Originally, I didnt dream all that often. That was the case through most of childhood and into adulthood. It was rare enough to be special when it happened.
At some point a couple of years ago, that abruptly changed. Now, it happens every single time I sleep, without exception.
From there, the dreams started to intensify, in terms of how vivid they were.
And then the REALLY odd one: the first time I could actually *feel* something while in a dream. Could feel it in my hand as much as if I'd picked the horrid thing up IRL. This effect does not happen every single time, it is sporadic. The first time that happened is also one of the dreams I have a complete memory of.
Next, others. Previously I'd never had any other people appear in dreams, and then suddenly that started happening. That is now frequent. They are not anyone I know. They are... fuzzy, distorted.
Finally, talking to those others. That started recently and is also frequent. Prior to that, they never spoke, and neither did I. But now they do.
Also, the dreams started to become more "stable". Less of that sort of... popping around, less abrupt warping.
Now, that all being said, I do occasionally have dreams that to some, might be considered nightmares, due to something dangerous being present, though I usually dont find myself scared during them... moreso, cautious.
If you'd like to hear about one, I wrote it down in this topic here: A dream story
One of those rare ones that didnt crumble upon waking. I still remember it like it was yesterday. I could also describe the first "feel something" dream, if you'd like. It makes even less sense than the one I just linked to.
And yes, all of my dreams are that strange. Even back as a kid, they were surreal, bizarre, twisted. Warped and endless structures, bent into impossible angles, clearly non-euclidean in nature. Other things that I cant actually find the words to describe.
There is one very specific thing that has often shown up, the only sometimes-repeating element, which is the library, and it basically looks like this:
Took me forever to get it to give me that.
But anyway, it's basically like that, but it never ends. No matter what direction you go in, there's always another corridor, another door that opens into more halls, another stairway, another bridge between sections often placed in nonsensical spots. And all the books are the same green & brown as everything else. Some sections look sorta normal-ish, like that bit, others get very surreal and twisted.
No idea where that one comes from or why it repeats every now and then. But it does.
A lot of my dreams are very realistic almost like living an alternate life.
https://www.autismforums.com/threads/lucid-dreaming.249/https://www.autismforums.com/threads/whats-the-weirdest-dream-you-had-or-any-dreams-really.39361/https://www.autismforums.com/threads/strange-hallucination-lucid-dream.37996/https://www.autismforums.com/threads/nightmares.42751/https://www.autismforums.com/threads/the-border-between-dream-and-reality.22212/
(10 additional links to dream related threads in the last thread of this list)
(10 additional links to dream related threads in the last thread of this list)
damoisellepeachy
Music is life
I’ve been trying to lucid dream lately because I’ve noticed how I seem to become slightly aware that I’m dreaming in a dream, but the moment I notice that that stops me from dreaming. It’s interesting because I never really have controlled my dreams before despite the fact I seem to have started getting an awareness about dreaming now. The method I’m using hasn’t succeeded yet but it seems to help me fall asleep rather fast
I also sorta want to control my dreams because my dreams are too weird and surrealistic lol
I also sorta want to control my dreams because my dreams are too weird and surrealistic lol
I realize I'm dreaming when a thought invades my dream such as, "It's time to wake up."
Or I think of something I have to do today.
So, I guess a part of my brain can know it's a dream.
I never use an alarm to wake up either.
There is a neat trick I found that works like 99% of the time.
I look at the clock before I go to sleep and think of the time I need to wake up.
It works.
Or I think of something I have to do today.
So, I guess a part of my brain can know it's a dream.
I never use an alarm to wake up either.
There is a neat trick I found that works like 99% of the time.
I look at the clock before I go to sleep and think of the time I need to wake up.
It works.
I have a lot of night terrors where I keep waking up in my bed, or I think I keep waking up, but I’m still dreaming. These are the most realistic and most terrifying dreams I have.
The times I have been aware that I was dreaming and woken up, I woke up screaming.
My dreams are completely unhinged. I would rather have no dreams than lucid dreams at this point.
The times I have been aware that I was dreaming and woken up, I woke up screaming.
My dreams are completely unhinged. I would rather have no dreams than lucid dreams at this point.
On occasion while in REM (rapid-eye-movement) sleep I'll have some kind of hypnopompic hallucination that can abruptly wake me up. Like the phone ringing. That of course when I go to see if they left a message I find that the phone never actually rang at all....lol.
An often weird experience because it leaves you at a brief point in time where you cannot tell your dream state from reality until you are fully conscious.
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/hypnopompic-hallucinations
An often weird experience because it leaves you at a brief point in time where you cannot tell your dream state from reality until you are fully conscious.
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/hypnopompic-hallucinations
Obviously every dream I have is different, but most of my dreams are mostly based on the following:-
- Trying to drive a car or a bus but not breaking in time and ramming into the vehicle in front
- Being out in public for a long time only to suddenly realise I am half-naked
- Having an embarrassing meltdown in front of colleagues or in public
- Being back at high school (I have these most nights)
- Being put somewhere huge and unfamiliar, like a high school, where I don't fit in but can't leave, so I'm miserable and anxious
- Being bullied by girls who I experienced being bullied by in real life when I was younger
- Being pregnant, or other childless women in my family being pregnant
- Being back at my old job (which was cleaning at a care home) and wasting a lot of time so only getting about 2 rooms cleaned throughout my whole shift then realising I have only like 5 minutes left to clean 20 more rooms
- Trying to run really fast but it's like running in water, all frustratingly slow-motion (usually running to catch a bus)
- Traveling to space (yes, really)
- Riding a really fast rollercoaster, where I literally lose my breath from the G-force, which feels so real in the dream
- Being in a small child's body (but with my adult mind)
- My mum being alive again
- My pets dying
- Being far away from home with my pets or teddy bear, and being afraid I'll lose them
- My grandparent's houses
- My aunt's old house she used to live at
- My friends, family and colleagues
- Crying nonstop about something or someone
- Going on vacation only to realise I didn't pack
- Random strangers being rude to me and making me feel patronised
- Trying to avoid looking at a nightmare fuel sort of face, like that horrible Momo thing, then screaming when I see it (these are nightmares I guess)
- Being outside at night in an abandoned fielded area, where there's an abandoned house, and wishing I was just safe at home in my bed (which I really am lol)
- Being chased by teenagers or drug-addicts
- Spiders
- Trying to grab as many of my cherished possessions as I can before having to quickly flee somewhere
- Huge stairwells
- Trying to do a videogame-like stunt, usually on a grassy verge, where I have to jump up on something very high and very quickly before the enemies get me
- Rearranging my bedroom and feeling pleased with the change
Some of my dreams can go beyond weird, and can look like that The Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror segment where Homer goes into a 3D dimension. In these dreams I'm sort of standing on the edge of time and space, with just nothingness behind me.
I could go on, but I'll leave it there lol. I enjoy sleeping so I sleep a lot as a way of escaping sometimes, so that is why I dream so much and so vividly that I can very easily remember them. I seem to dream a lot about my fears and my demons. In fact probably all the dreams I listed above are somehow related to my fears and demons.
- Trying to drive a car or a bus but not breaking in time and ramming into the vehicle in front
- Being out in public for a long time only to suddenly realise I am half-naked
- Having an embarrassing meltdown in front of colleagues or in public
- Being back at high school (I have these most nights)
- Being put somewhere huge and unfamiliar, like a high school, where I don't fit in but can't leave, so I'm miserable and anxious
- Being bullied by girls who I experienced being bullied by in real life when I was younger
- Being pregnant, or other childless women in my family being pregnant
- Being back at my old job (which was cleaning at a care home) and wasting a lot of time so only getting about 2 rooms cleaned throughout my whole shift then realising I have only like 5 minutes left to clean 20 more rooms
- Trying to run really fast but it's like running in water, all frustratingly slow-motion (usually running to catch a bus)
- Traveling to space (yes, really)
- Riding a really fast rollercoaster, where I literally lose my breath from the G-force, which feels so real in the dream
- Being in a small child's body (but with my adult mind)
- My mum being alive again
- My pets dying
- Being far away from home with my pets or teddy bear, and being afraid I'll lose them
- My grandparent's houses
- My aunt's old house she used to live at
- My friends, family and colleagues
- Crying nonstop about something or someone
- Going on vacation only to realise I didn't pack
- Random strangers being rude to me and making me feel patronised
- Trying to avoid looking at a nightmare fuel sort of face, like that horrible Momo thing, then screaming when I see it (these are nightmares I guess)
- Being outside at night in an abandoned fielded area, where there's an abandoned house, and wishing I was just safe at home in my bed (which I really am lol)
- Being chased by teenagers or drug-addicts
- Spiders
- Trying to grab as many of my cherished possessions as I can before having to quickly flee somewhere
- Huge stairwells
- Trying to do a videogame-like stunt, usually on a grassy verge, where I have to jump up on something very high and very quickly before the enemies get me
- Rearranging my bedroom and feeling pleased with the change
Some of my dreams can go beyond weird, and can look like that The Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror segment where Homer goes into a 3D dimension. In these dreams I'm sort of standing on the edge of time and space, with just nothingness behind me.
I could go on, but I'll leave it there lol. I enjoy sleeping so I sleep a lot as a way of escaping sometimes, so that is why I dream so much and so vividly that I can very easily remember them. I seem to dream a lot about my fears and my demons. In fact probably all the dreams I listed above are somehow related to my fears and demons.
I dream a lot and remember a lot. I have narcolepsy. Narcolepsy involves malfunctioning REM sleep. I am on a medication to totally suppress REM. I used to believe all dreaming occurred during REM, but it's only the most vivid ones. That said, I still have pretty vivid and often bizarre dreams. Whenever I realize I'm dreaming (pretty much when things get odd), I can redirect the dream and do fun stuff like flying or breathing underwater.
Even though it doesn't seem that way to me, my neurologist said from my sleep studies that on the average, once I relax for sleep, I am gone in 2-3 minutes. I would swear it takes longer, but that would explain why I start seeing imagery so quickly when I relax.
Even though it doesn't seem that way to me, my neurologist said from my sleep studies that on the average, once I relax for sleep, I am gone in 2-3 minutes. I would swear it takes longer, but that would explain why I start seeing imagery so quickly when I relax.
lovely_darlingprettybaby
Well-Known Member
I used to have really vivid dreams but I do not anymore, lately they have come back a bit
I used to dream about mad things like Hillbillies, Cinderella and one direction.
But then I never dreamt again for a long time.
Last night I dreamt I was at work but it was school too. I had lots of cleaning to do, and wanted to get it done. But I had to clean near this huge dam place where some schoolchildren were gathered around with a male teacher. I suddenly had this urge to knock some of the children into the dam, just to see what happens, so I did rather discreetly. The teacher stopped talking and stared at me. I said it was an accident, then started panicking. I had thought the dam was shallow but I was then told it was extremely deep and that the children I pushed in wouldn't survive. So I then had to sit with a couple of people (don't know who they were) to wait for a meeting to discuss exactly what happened and whether I should face prosecution or not. I was so scared, but also anxious because the time was getting on and I hadn't finished my cleaning.
Then at last it was time for my meeting, which was being held in the worst place possible - the school cafeteria. I begged to have the meeting take place somewhere more private, so we went around the whole building looking for an empty room.
Then suddenly there was a strange noise and someone said the police was here, and I filled with anxiety and dread even more. But the strange noise was my alarm and I woke up, relieved it was just a dream and hadn't killed anybody. Phew.
TR;DR
But it gets me thinking, when they say that dreams last 2 seconds each time, how come my alarm always manages to go off during a dream? To me that sounds as though a dream lasts longer and is constant.
Then at last it was time for my meeting, which was being held in the worst place possible - the school cafeteria. I begged to have the meeting take place somewhere more private, so we went around the whole building looking for an empty room.
Then suddenly there was a strange noise and someone said the police was here, and I filled with anxiety and dread even more. But the strange noise was my alarm and I woke up, relieved it was just a dream and hadn't killed anybody. Phew.
TR;DR
But it gets me thinking, when they say that dreams last 2 seconds each time, how come my alarm always manages to go off during a dream? To me that sounds as though a dream lasts longer and is constant.
lovely_darlingprettybaby
Well-Known Member
I used to dream but have not for many years but lately they have come back a bit.
I love daydreaming too and I hold those dreams very near to me.
So..those dreams make me happy and I cling onto them each moment. It somehow reminds me of being younger and possibility.
I hope my daydreams come true.
I love daydreaming too and I hold those dreams very near to me.
So..those dreams make me happy and I cling onto them each moment. It somehow reminds me of being younger and possibility.
I hope my daydreams come true.
I read somewhere that the dreams we remember are the ones just prior to waking. That would explain the preponderance of alarm during your dreams. The ones without an alarm, you largely don't remember.
Hmm that's interesting. I always set an alarm, even on my days off, and when I'm taking a nap, because I don't really have a body clock (ADHD makes it too difficult to stick to a routine).
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