When dreams meet reality, what do we end up with? .
It's been months since I had the idea of writing this post... just over 4 months and I've finally made some time to write it.
We're probably all familiar with the occasional nightmare (or bad dream). For me, it's hard to call it either. I'm not being chased by murderers or being attacked by a dog... although I did have one dream where I was. So I guess it's time for the traditional gorilla segue.
It will be many years ago now, probably in the mid-2000's that I was living with my then-girlfriend. We'd both have been asleep when I started dreaming about a dog attacking me. Presumably, I was fidgeting in the bed, fighting off the rabid mutt.
My poor girlfriend, not knowing what I was dreaming makes the decision to shake me to wake me up. Of course, the sensation of touch correlated with my dream - the association of her hands being the dog's jaws.
Fortunately, nobody was seriously hurt and it served as a warning for future events.
Segue complete.
For many years, I've half woken up and seen people in my bedroom. Not real people, all a figment of my imagination. They'd always be standing over me, often leaning in. Initially terrifying in nature, I've grown to live with these visitors and casually tell them to go away. If we did ever have an intruder, my casual response would probably scare them off.
Apart from on the occasion that I'm writing about now.
I don't know what made this night different, but this time, I decided to kick the shit out of the imaginary figure in my room. With such ferocious power and precision, I took the assailant's head clean off and woke up in the process.
I suppose my subconsious thought that I needed a new bedside lamp.
I know, not the most interesting or exciting story that I'll ever tell. I'm interested in hearing if anybody else has these kinds of visions so consistently, that you've trained yourself to ignore them?
I don't have visitors in my dreams like you do, but
Many years ago, that is, when I was a teenager, I had a recurring nightmare. It was very scary.
Right next to the school I went to, there was a large warehouse for fruit and vegetables. And the nightmare was about that warehouse, it was on fire and behind the bars of the windows you could see people desperately trying to get out, but the bars were in the way of their escape.
Luckily, after a few years, I no longer dreamed about it, but it has been burned into my memory.
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Pun intended?
Did the warehouse ever burn down? Was their a point in history when it did burn down?
I wonder why our brains choose to torment us with things that we don't like. Our brains should be nicer to us.
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No it hasn't burned down, it's still there today.
The building has now been converted into a bakery and coffee shop.
Just hope that dream doesn't come true.
What exactly is a dream
I think about the fact that in dreams I talk to other people, it could be friends and it could be people I don't know. Are they also connected and we meet in the same dreams, who knows
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If it does, we'll have to remove all traces of this conversation 😆
Mine are often an aggregation of things that have happened throughout the day - mashed up into an incoherent mess! Sometimes though, there'll be a lucid moment of revelation.
You can understand why some people make a lot of money "interpreting dreams".
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I have experienced hovering figures only during a couple of sleep paralysis episodes but that was a long time ago. I don't usually get nightmares but whenever I do, I'm lying straight on my back. I avoid this sleeping position but sometimes I deliberately sleep that way just to check if my ghosts are still there. 🤣
During my final year in university, I had a Computer Architecture course taught by a professor who was a MIT graduate and was a genuis but his teaching method was not something an average student could grasp, even the toppers would struggle sometimes in his exams.
I remember fidgeting in my dreams for a week after the exam. Instead of human figures, data, memory and instruction registers hovered over me. My mind was stuck on a problem that I couldn't solve in the exam and my brain decided to solve it in my dreams. It sounds funny now but I couldn't sleep properly for a long time. The only thing that helped was not thinking about the subject in the waking hours. Thankfully, it was the final exam. I didn't have to deal with it anymore anyway.
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Did it succeed?
I'll often do that. There are some problems that I know I can solve but concentrating on them makes the solution get further away! I'll even say now "Let's leave that. My subconscious will work it out" and more often than not, the answer will suddenly appear when I'm doing something else.
Like a slow AJAX request 😆
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In reality, it succeeded. But my subconscious was stuck in a loop. It was annoying to the point that I started dreading sleeping.
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Obviously, there is something in your life that you need to get rid of or that just needs to be put in the right place I guess. I have had pretty crazy dreams myself recently, but it's more of a temporary imbalance and not really that consistent like in your case.
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If only I knew what it was!
It used to happen a lot when I was younger. I think I was angrier back in those days. Of course, things still irritate me but not like they did back then.
I'll have to pay more attention next time it happens to what happaned that day and how I felt.
I'll often combine events throughout the day into a random dream - whcih ends up very confused!
I hope whatever's going on gets resolved soon and you can get back to "normal".
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I don't dream at all. Well - I certainly do, I'm just not aware of any dreams when I wake up. Do you know how bad that is? Compared to people with very colourful, creative dreams, you feel colourless and empty...
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That sounds like the perfect, deep sleep that so many of us (especially me) miss out on. I think that remembering dreams means that you're wokrn up before they've finished. So maybe if you set your alarm for random periods throughout the night, you'll remember some 🙂
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I have to admit that your dreams are quite unique. I have had nightmares, but they have never been similar to each other. The strangest thing about my dreams is that if I dream of someone close to me in a nightmare, something bad happens to them the next day. The last time I had a nightmare, it was my father, and the next day he had a hypertensive crisis and had to call an ambulance. It's probably just a coincidence, but such coincidences happen surprisingly regularly.
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Do you make sure of that? 😉
That's so bizarre. I definitely believe that our subconscious is capable of observing things that goes unnoticed by us! Perhaps there are signs that only our subconsiouses pick up on.
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Años atras, aun vivia en casa de mi mama y una madrugada ya todos dormiamos, mientras yo lo hacia soñaba o sentia qie algo me tenia atrapada, no podia pedir ayuda, me estremeci tanto que logre agarrar mi celular y llame a mi mama, ella dormia en el otro cuarto, llego y prendio la luz y comenzo a orar. Con lagrimas en mis ojos no se que fue lo que paso.
Hace poco lo volvi a sentir, esta vez yo dormia con mi esposo y mi bebe; el tenia 2 años: una madrugada mientras dormiamos soñe que alguien me amarraba de las manos y me tapaba la boca, y mientras yo intentaba pedir ayuda escuche unos pasos " pense que era mi esposo quien me queria hacer algo" pero tambien pense que se daria cuenta de lo que me pasaba y me ayudaria" resulta que el si escucho mis quejas y me desperto, le conte todo y me dijo que el no se levanto para nada. Antes yo lo desperte. Aun sigo sin entender el significado de eso que me a pasado 2 veces, y que en este momento ya me dio panico a que pueda pasar. Que sera!! Me gustaria saber.
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When I’m in that half-awake dream state, I usually try to shape the dream the way I want. Luckily, I’ve never seen anyone standing over me though! But if I ever had that chance, I’d probably turn them into Deepika Padukone or Alexandra Daddario 😂
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Ha ha, I try to do that too (only if it's a good one!) I'll try to go back to sleep, specifically thinking about where the dream was when I woke up.
It hasn't worked yet though!
🤣
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Sounds to me that you are lacking large doses of drugs/alcohol in your system.
My advice would be go on a 2 day bender
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Ha ha. I had these same "dreams" throughout my 20's - I can guarantee that there was more alcohol in my system than even the most generous of medical advisers.
The chances are that if I go on a 2 day bender, these figures will cease to be imaginary!
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Nightmares are nothing new, and even less so for those of us who live under stress. In my case, I dream that a dog is chasing me, and when I come to a curve I start to skid without being able to move forward. Once I felt the dog so close that I kicked it, and at that moment I was awakened by a strong pain, because it had hit the bed frame. This nightmare usually occurs when I am stressed from so much work.
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It's interesting that yours is related to stress. Perhaps that's something that I need to consider if it happens again 🤔
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When I'm stressed, I usually put a cold compress behind my neck, it has helped me relax and sleep better. I have a bad habit of waking up all the time in the middle of the night.
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Dreams are an inexplicable part of our reality. Sometimes, they are good, sometimes bad, and sometimes, we revisit our terrors in them.
As one who knows quite a bit about bad dreams and has already learned to make a distinction between dreamtime and physical reality, I'm in total solidarity with your action, as, once, I too used to fight the demons in my dreams, up to the point where falling on the corner of my bedside table almost took my left eye, which included a visit to the Hospital.
So, if it ever happens again, to see figures going around your room, just do what the Beatles say and let it be. Even if they are real, you are lying in bed and at a disadvantage. You may as well pretend to be asleep.
That's what I do, anyway... Cheers, mate!
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I had trained myself to ignore my visitors. It works most of the time but occassionaly I'll fight back - or wrap them in my duvet so that they can't get me. It's normally a kick though - that's the most powerful attack 😆
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You think of good dreams and bad dreams. But I don't think there is any difference between the two. Because both are organized in the dream. There can be many types of dreams. Still, all of them are dreams. Bad or good, these are not dreams. No matter what you see in your dream, laughter, tears, sadness, pain, whatever, a kind of sound or vibration will come in the dream. Which, if anyone sleeping next to you is awake, he will understand. Just like your friend next to you understood. Maybe you saw her in your dream. Otherwise, how did she hold the dog's jaw with her hand ✋ while awake? How did you see it while sleeping. May Allah Almighty keep everyone well and grant us the ability to walk with you further, Amen.
Thank you to Allah Almighty and everyone
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Sorry, yes I will try to rewrite this, InshaAllah.
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If you take #hemp #cannabis #CBD in a very low before going to bed , you will never see any Dreams , Dreams occur when our brain Starts Processing data based on information priority . This happens in REM Sleep and #marijuana helps to increase REM Sleep as well as no Dreams
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