Her name? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" /> Yes it's the planet's real name if that's what you mean.
<!--quoteo(post=1618747:date=Apr 3 2007, 08:55 PM:name=Sonic)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sonic @ Apr 3 2007, 08:55 PM) [snapback]1618747[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Wait planet? I couldn't bothered reading the post or or your first post and thought you'd met a crazy hippy girl. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Um no. And the scary thing is that I'm being serious. Now what you've been smoking? Or are you really just not paying attention?
Everyone dreams every night more than once. The problem is that dreams are pretty much stored in temporary memory which gets replaced with your next dream. So unless you wake up before the dream is erased you wont remember it.
If you're talking about controlling your own dreams that's simple. But you need a trigger. You need to find something that's not right in the dream. Something that is clearly wrong. Like seeing your reflection in a mirror being not you. Everyone has different triggers. Once you find these triggers you'll know you're dreaming and will therefore be able to take control of your dream fully or partially.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming" target="_blank">Lucid dreaming</a> is a fascinating topic to me. I've managed to have lucid dreams a couple times (before learning that you could attempt it consciously) and it's very cool.
So there is a name for this? Lucid dreaming eh? But how many of those dreams are fully lucid for all the senses? How many are consistent and chronological? Is it that far fetched to say that there isn't some possibility in physics that people who have these dreams could be tapping into parallel universes? There is so much about the mind we don't not understand. Our concious minds are really limited.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The problem is that dreams are pretty much stored in temporary memory which gets replaced with your next dream. So unless you wake up before the dream is erased you wont remember it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh I remember it, but it fades away at and exponential rate. I literally have seconds before it'll all be forgotten. Worse it's that feeling of trying to hold onto something and feeling it all fade away -- kind of like Alzheimer's. It's like trying to hold a lot of falling sand. You can only grab so much data, and the rest just falls away. Some of what you even grabbed manages to sift though you fingers despite your best attempts. That's why I wish I could control it.
Where is a hard drive when you need one?! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
I was actually paid a little to have some brief but decently in-depth voluntary tests done by my university. (since we have a medical school with a federal mandate to do research) I think I was one of the people they wanted to do sleep tests on because I don't use any drugs or medication at all and that apparently is kind of rare. But in any case it was basically hey we'll pay you to sleep, just wear these wires on your head. Not a whole lot of money mind you, but as a college student, do you really care? Sleep = money? Duh, go for it. It was all nominal to my disappointment except for two tests. The ones where I dreamed about Xzianthia. There's clinical proof of what my heart rate was during different events in the dream. And the really creepy part. The EEG of the part where personally I know I was fighting for my life in the dream and was casting spells (which I was pleased was actually caught on the EEG), I was told was deemed confidential from me at that time. The person who told me that quit and one of the graduate students tried to find the file for me. It couldn't be found! It's like it never existed. Now you can say one of two things from that: bad luck -- the file didn't get recorded or just got lost, or did it "intentionally" get lost. Now I'm far away from a conspiricacy theorist, but it's one of those mysteries that you wonder about in the back of your mind.
For the record, I've have dreams about this same world, Xzianthia, with the same constants for years. Come to think of it... it's a little more than a decade! Hell that's essentially half of my life on this planet! Over time I've gotten better at recording them and more open to discussing them.
<!--quoteo(post=1618762:date=Apr 4 2007, 03:27 AM:name=the_x5)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_x5 @ Apr 4 2007, 03:27 AM) [snapback]1618762[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Is it that far fetched to say that there isn't some possibility in physics that people who have these dreams could be tapping into parallel universes?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Zig...I am Captain Planet!Join Date: 2002-10-23Member: 1576Members
One weird thing that happens to me at least once or twice a week:
Within 30 mins or so of falling asleep, or in otherwise very shallow sleep, I'll dream that I'm doing something physical like driving a car, kickboxing, or jumping in the air, and my body will convulse when I do it, waking me up quite violently. It's weird. Most recently, I was going to step up onto a ladder and my leg suddenly shot up, waking me.
Ever dream of being a fade, Zig? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> jk.
<!--quoteo(post=1619042:date=Apr 5 2007, 03:04 AM:name=Zig)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Zig @ Apr 5 2007, 03:04 AM) [snapback]1619042[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> One weird thing that happens to me at least once or twice a week:
Within 30 mins or so of falling asleep, or in otherwise very shallow sleep, I'll dream that I'm doing something physical like driving a car, kickboxing, or jumping in the air, and my body will convulse when I do it, waking me up quite violently. It's weird. Most recently, I was going to step up onto a ladder and my leg suddenly shot up, waking me. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I use to have this sort of problem, though it wasn't so much convulsions I would usually get hit by something or fall down and wake up. For example the classic branch to the head while running happened to me once or twice.
The theory goes that if you're sleeping in a bad position which might prevent you from breathing properly, your brain actually wakes you up by acting on your dream.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->One weird thing that happens to me at least once or twice a week:
Within 30 mins or so of falling asleep, or in otherwise very shallow sleep, I'll dream that I'm doing something physical like driving a car, kickboxing, or jumping in the air, and my body will convulse when I do it, waking me up quite violently. It's weird. Most recently, I was going to step up onto a ladder and my leg suddenly shot up, waking me.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Fun little thing from psychology: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk" target="_blank">hypnagogic jerk</a>.
ChocolateThe Team MascotJoin Date: 2006-10-31Member: 58123Members
<!--quoteo(post=1619042:date=Apr 5 2007, 05:04 AM:name=Zig)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Zig @ Apr 5 2007, 05:04 AM) [snapback]1619042[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> One weird thing that happens to me at least once or twice a week:
Within 30 mins or so of falling asleep, or in otherwise very shallow sleep, I'll dream that I'm doing something physical like driving a car, kickboxing, or jumping in the air, and my body will convulse when I do it, waking me up quite violently. It's weird. Most recently, I was going to step up onto a ladder and my leg suddenly shot up, waking me. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> I've had that a few times, its quite strange...... even when I sleep in a normal position.... I dream of just being tripped or me just about to fall on the ground and I act on it.... Eh
(I wish I could be paided to sleep, they could test "irregular sleeping patterns" because I can fall asleep 4 am one day (wake up at 1 pm) and the next fall asleep at 12:30 am (wake up at 7 am). <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" /> ).
LikuI, am the Somberlain.Join Date: 2003-01-10Member: 12128Members
<!--quoteo(post=1619042:date=Apr 5 2007, 02:04 AM:name=Zig)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Zig @ Apr 5 2007, 02:04 AM) [snapback]1619042[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Within 30 mins or so of falling asleep, or in otherwise very shallow sleep, I'll dream that I'm doing something physical like driving a car, kickboxing, or jumping in the air, and my body will convulse when I do it, waking me up quite violently. It's weird. Most recently, I was going to step up onto a ladder and my leg suddenly shot up, waking me. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> No f*ckin' joke, that's been happening to me often too, strangely enough I don't even know what the dream was. My body literally jolts and I thrust myself a couple inches off the bed and my pulse is racing.
I just remembered the strangest dream I ever had. I was running from the cops and I was suddenly surrounded. I had my hands up in the air clearly and stopped. Then someone yelled "He's got a gun" and they shoot me. Normally that'd wake me up, but instead of waking up, I floated above my body like I was dead. I thought to myself am I dead. And then I woke up.
And just last night, I had this dream. Most of the dream is a little fuzzy in my memory atm, but I'm sure something can trigger remembering it fully. I remember my cousin walking out of the door of my old house holding a VHS tape and saying, "Oh I get it, it's JUMANJI" . Then everyone on the block yelled JUMANJI at once, including me.
About that jolting out of sleep. That happens to me too. You get a really strong jolt while trying to fall asleep. Almost like your body was actually physically trying to do what you were semi conscious was thinking about.
Thanks for the link semi. Almost missed it . <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk" target="_blank">Hypnic_jerk</a>
LikuI, am the Somberlain.Join Date: 2003-01-10Member: 12128Members
<!--quoteo(post=1619168:date=Apr 5 2007, 03:23 PM:name=TheGuy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TheGuy @ Apr 5 2007, 03:23 PM) [snapback]1619168[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Thanks for the link semi. Almost missed it . <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk" target="_blank">Hypnic_jerk</a> <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> The description just sounds like a flinch, mine are quite harsh.
Private_ColemanPhD in Video GamesJoin Date: 2002-11-07Member: 7510Members
I have these every now and then.
Last time I can't remember what I was doing in dream-world, but I punched my desk lamp and knocked it off the bedside table. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
Me and this fat chick were getting it on but I couldn't get it up because fat people are a turn off <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
<!--quoteo(post=1618762:date=Apr 3 2007, 10:27 PM:name=the_x5)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_x5 @ Apr 3 2007, 10:27 PM) [snapback]1618762[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> For the record, I've have dreams about this same world, Xzianthia, with the same constants for years. Come to think of it... it's a little more than a decade! Hell that's essentially half of my life on this planet! Over time I've gotten better at recording them and more open to discussing them. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
LikuI, am the Somberlain.Join Date: 2003-01-10Member: 12128Members
<!--quoteo(post=1619422:date=Apr 7 2007, 01:49 AM:name=Josheh)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Josheh @ Apr 7 2007, 01:49 AM) [snapback]1619422[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> The other night:
Me and this fat chick were getting it on but I couldn't get it up because fat people are a turn off <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" /> <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> That's a horror show.
[WHO]ThemYou can call me DaveJoin Date: 2002-12-11Member: 10593Members, Constellation
I've got one semi-interesting one and one pretty lame dream.
First, the lame dream. I went to sleep around 2am last night and woke up at 8:30 for no reason. Didn't have anything to do. Stayed awake for an hour or so and went back to sleep and had dreams where I was trying to do stuff but was really REALLY tired.
Now to the semi-interesting one, which I can only remember about 2 seconds of the ending from, but these require a bit of back story. About every 2-3 weeks (just average, not like clockwork) I wake up and act out the end of dreams for up to 10-15 seconds. I usually never remember WTH I was dreaming, but I am definitely very awake acting out something very dreamlike, It's always something that needs to get done right freaking away. The absolutely most memorable one of these was one where I jumped out of bed and hurriedly had to find a remote control somewhere in my bed covers, and it was important that I find this remote right freaking now because it was a remote control that could delete things from the world, and I had rolled onto it and random stuff was deleting out my room and any second it was going to start deleting organs. After the 10-15 second mark I slowly realized that that was retarded and there wasn't a remote at all. It's very very odd to have this kind of realization every few weeks.
So, the one I had last night was much more ambiguous. I had to close my window shade as fast as possible because there was some kind of laser or something that was going to start slicing me up. I feel like it was really the shade's string that posed the threat, but as with most dream events, I don't get how grabbing the string to close the shade was going to save me from the string I was grabbing.
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Is that her real name?
Wait planet? I couldn't bothered reading the post or or your first post and thought you'd met a crazy hippy girl.
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Um no. And the scary thing is that I'm being serious. Now what you've been smoking? Or are you really just not paying attention?
If you're talking about controlling your own dreams that's simple. But you need a trigger. You need to find something that's not right in the dream. Something that is clearly wrong. Like seeing your reflection in a mirror being not you. Everyone has different triggers. Once you find these triggers you'll know you're dreaming and will therefore be able to take control of your dream fully or partially.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The problem is that dreams are pretty much stored in temporary memory which gets replaced with your next dream. So unless you wake up before the dream is erased you wont remember it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh I remember it, but it fades away at and exponential rate. I literally have seconds before it'll all be forgotten. Worse it's that feeling of trying to hold onto something and feeling it all fade away -- kind of like Alzheimer's. It's like trying to hold a lot of falling sand. You can only grab so much data, and the rest just falls away. Some of what you even grabbed manages to sift though you fingers despite your best attempts. That's why I wish I could control it.
Where is a hard drive when you need one?! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
I was actually paid a little to have some brief but decently in-depth voluntary tests done by my university. (since we have a medical school with a federal mandate to do research) I think I was one of the people they wanted to do sleep tests on because I don't use any drugs or medication at all and that apparently is kind of rare. But in any case it was basically hey we'll pay you to sleep, just wear these wires on your head. Not a whole lot of money mind you, but as a college student, do you really care? Sleep = money? Duh, go for it. It was all nominal to my disappointment except for two tests. The ones where I dreamed about Xzianthia. There's clinical proof of what my heart rate was during different events in the dream. And the really creepy part. The EEG of the part where personally I know I was fighting for my life in the dream and was casting spells (which I was pleased was actually caught on the EEG), I was told was deemed confidential from me at that time. The person who told me that quit and one of the graduate students tried to find the file for me. It couldn't be found! It's like it never existed. Now you can say one of two things from that: bad luck -- the file didn't get recorded or just got lost, or did it "intentionally" get lost. Now I'm far away from a conspiricacy theorist, but it's one of those mysteries that you wonder about in the back of your mind.
For the record, I've have dreams about this same world, Xzianthia, with the same constants for years. Come to think of it... it's a little more than a decade! Hell that's essentially half of my life on this planet! Over time I've gotten better at recording them and more open to discussing them.
Yes.
Within 30 mins or so of falling asleep, or in otherwise very shallow sleep, I'll dream that I'm doing something physical like driving a car, kickboxing, or jumping in the air, and my body will convulse when I do it, waking me up quite violently. It's weird. Most recently, I was going to step up onto a ladder and my leg suddenly shot up, waking me.
I parachuted out of an airplane, and landed in the desert.
Its fuzzy, but from what I recall I was trying to find the SG1 headquarters. I had to walk 24 miles to get there.
12 miles in, I found a seven eleven in the middle of the desert. I got some propel water and some oreos.
Then I walked out of the store and....wokeup with my cats feet in my face.
One weird thing that happens to me at least once or twice a week:
Within 30 mins or so of falling asleep, or in otherwise very shallow sleep, I'll dream that I'm doing something physical like driving a car, kickboxing, or jumping in the air, and my body will convulse when I do it, waking me up quite violently. It's weird. Most recently, I was going to step up onto a ladder and my leg suddenly shot up, waking me.
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I use to have this sort of problem, though it wasn't so much convulsions I would usually get hit by something or fall down and wake up. For example the classic branch to the head while running happened to me once or twice.
The theory goes that if you're sleeping in a bad position which might prevent you from breathing properly, your brain actually wakes you up by acting on your dream.
Within 30 mins or so of falling asleep, or in otherwise very shallow sleep, I'll dream that I'm doing something physical like driving a car, kickboxing, or jumping in the air, and my body will convulse when I do it, waking me up quite violently. It's weird. Most recently, I was going to step up onto a ladder and my leg suddenly shot up, waking me.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Fun little thing from psychology: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk" target="_blank">hypnagogic jerk</a>.
Fun little thing from psychology: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk" target="_blank">hypnagogic jerk</a>. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I suppose that's exactly it, lol.
One time a while ago, after particularly hard muay thai training, I threw a kick in my sleep and smashed my leg against the wall. :/
Within 30 mins or so of falling asleep, or in otherwise very shallow sleep, I'll dream that I'm doing something physical like driving a car, kickboxing, or jumping in the air, and my body will convulse when I do it, waking me up quite violently. It's weird. Most recently, I was going to step up onto a ladder and my leg suddenly shot up, waking me.
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I've had that a few times, its quite strange...... even when I sleep in a normal position.... I dream of just being tripped or me just about to fall on the ground and I act on it.... Eh
(I wish I could be paided to sleep, they could test "irregular sleeping patterns" because I can fall asleep 4 am one day (wake up at 1 pm) and the next fall asleep at 12:30 am (wake up at 7 am). <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" /> ).
Within 30 mins or so of falling asleep, or in otherwise very shallow sleep, I'll dream that I'm doing something physical like driving a car, kickboxing, or jumping in the air, and my body will convulse when I do it, waking me up quite violently. It's weird. Most recently, I was going to step up onto a ladder and my leg suddenly shot up, waking me.
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No f*ckin' joke, that's been happening to me often too, strangely enough I don't even know what the dream was. My body literally jolts and I thrust myself a couple inches off the bed and my pulse is racing.
And just last night, I had this dream. Most of the dream is a little fuzzy in my memory atm, but I'm sure something can trigger remembering it fully. I remember my cousin walking out of the door of my old house holding a VHS tape and saying, "Oh I get it, it's JUMANJI" . Then everyone on the block yelled JUMANJI at once, including me.
About that jolting out of sleep. That happens to me too. You get a really strong jolt while trying to fall asleep. Almost like your body was actually physically trying to do what you were semi conscious was thinking about.
Thanks for the link semi. Almost missed it . <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk" target="_blank">Hypnic_jerk</a>
Thanks for the link semi. Almost missed it . <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk" target="_blank">Hypnic_jerk</a>
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The description just sounds like a flinch, mine are quite harsh.
Last time I can't remember what I was doing in dream-world, but I punched my desk lamp and knocked it off the bedside table. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
Me and this fat chick were getting it on but I couldn't get it up because fat people are a turn off <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
For the record, I've have dreams about this same world, Xzianthia, with the same constants for years. Come to think of it... it's a little more than a decade! Hell that's essentially half of my life on this planet! Over time I've gotten better at recording them and more open to discussing them.
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You should write a book about it >_>
It was gross and full of craps (literally).
I think I'm gonna puke.
The other night:
Me and this fat chick were getting it on but I couldn't get it up because fat people are a turn off <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
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That's a horror show.
First, the lame dream. I went to sleep around 2am last night and woke up at 8:30 for no reason. Didn't have anything to do. Stayed awake for an hour or so and went back to sleep and had dreams where I was trying to do stuff but was really REALLY tired.
Now to the semi-interesting one, which I can only remember about 2 seconds of the ending from, but these require a bit of back story. About every 2-3 weeks (just average, not like clockwork) I wake up and act out the end of dreams for up to 10-15 seconds. I usually never remember WTH I was dreaming, but I am definitely very awake acting out something very dreamlike, It's always something that needs to get done right freaking away. The absolutely most memorable one of these was one where I jumped out of bed and hurriedly had to find a remote control somewhere in my bed covers, and it was important that I find this remote right freaking now because it was a remote control that could delete things from the world, and I had rolled onto it and random stuff was deleting out my room and any second it was going to start deleting organs. After the 10-15 second mark I slowly realized that that was retarded and there wasn't a remote at all. It's very very odd to have this kind of realization every few weeks.
So, the one I had last night was much more ambiguous. I had to close my window shade as fast as possible because there was some kind of laser or something that was going to start slicing me up. I feel like it was really the shade's string that posed the threat, but as with most dream events, I don't get how grabbing the string to close the shade was going to save me from the string I was grabbing.