JAS_OH1
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And what did Google say? Just kidding.
Do you have weird dreams?
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JAS_OH1
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I did it purposefully in my 20s several times. Never since (I'm 63 now).
I had a dream about a week ago where I was being attacked by a man--a horrible nightmare actually, and my husband tried to wake me...I yelled in my sleep, "I'm going to kill you", and since then he's asked a few times if I want to kill him. I tried to explain I was talking to my attacker, not him. I really think it's better to just let people work through their dreams, even when bad, and not try to wake them.
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I’ve had a few nightmares recently all involving family members who are very much best kept at arms length trying to reconcile and in the dream (as in real life) I think people change and things will be different, then (in the dream) once the reconciliation is well established and they’re back in my life they start to behave in the same terrible ways they did before and the nightmare unfolds.
Not exactly cryptic that one ay!
Not exactly cryptic that one ay!
You can greatly increase your incidence of lucid dreaming by waking up a couple of hours earlier than normal, getting up and doing something for about 30 minutes, then going back to sleep again. This happened to me a lot during the years that I got up to get my kids ready for school, then went back to bed.
There are also phone apps believe it or not, that will ring little alarms at pre-determined times to raise your sleep level from deep to intermediate and those can actually work too.
It's a fascinating topic.
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Interesting - I have the ability to lucid dream, but I’ve never worked at it or tried to - I just kinda can. I’ll be halfway through a dream, realize it’s a dream, and then from there I can kinda control what happens next.
I can’t do this with every dream (and unfortunately it doesn’t seem to happen with nightmares at all), but I can do it sometimes.
I don’t have a lot of detail on this one, but I dreamed I was at my hair stylist’s (not my current one, but an interim one I tried out but didn’t quite mesh with). I was there to get a skunk stripe dyed into my hair, which was jet black in my dream.
The thing was…at first I was the only one in there, and it was a single-chair space. Suddenly, there was another chair in there, someone in that chair, and before I knew it, another chair suddenly appeared on my other side.
Chairs (and clients) kept appearing out of nowhere, and we were all crowded in on top of each other, and I had some tinfoil thing on my head, with a small bunch of my hair pulled through, and all this sort of lotion-like stuff slathered on, and then…I was just walking down the street that way, still wearing a cut shirt and everything, just walking along window shopping.
That was it.
The thing was…at first I was the only one in there, and it was a single-chair space. Suddenly, there was another chair in there, someone in that chair, and before I knew it, another chair suddenly appeared on my other side.
Chairs (and clients) kept appearing out of nowhere, and we were all crowded in on top of each other, and I had some tinfoil thing on my head, with a small bunch of my hair pulled through, and all this sort of lotion-like stuff slathered on, and then…I was just walking down the street that way, still wearing a cut shirt and everything, just walking along window shopping.
That was it.
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What about dogs sleeping on their side and dreaming of chasing a cat?? Legs going flat out but not moving. My German shepherd used to do it regularly.
It amused me.
Russ
It amused me.
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JAS_OH1
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Kate might have been in her golden years there. TR and his wife had her a very long time, I believe.
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oldjanie
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I sleep walk. Poor Mr.Man. Terrified him a few times. Last time I woke up in his room slagging him off. He had angry face. Says it’s because a broke his brain. So embarrassing
Dreamed I hired a young girl, around 11-12yo to follow me around all day on her bike while on my errands. Don’t ask me why. 
Everything took place in one of those sort of indoor communities you see in a lot of ‘60’s-‘70’s dystopian movies, where everyone lives, works, and plays inside. Think Logan’s Run.
Anyway, at the end of the day, I asked her how much I owed her, and she said, “Five dollars.”
“Five dollars? I can do better than that, but I need to run up to my apartment first. C’mon.”
I’d put my hand on her shoulder to sort of turn her toward the turbolift or whatever those places have, and she snapped, “Uh-uh, mister! Don’t touch me! I know what you’re up to! I’m not going up to your apartment! Give me my five dollars! NOW!!!”
I looked at her in a “Can you believe this idiot kid right now?!” way and told her that she was perfectly fine to wait there or anywhere else, but I didn’t have any money, it was all in my apartment, so if she wanted to get paid, she’d have to wait until I could go to my apartment.
She finally agreed to take the lift up to my floor, then I had to get her money (I gave her a generous $20), walk it halfway down the hall, put it on the floor, walk back to my doorway, then she walked from the lift to the money, collected it, and went back down to the plaza area where the dream first started.
That was it.
Everything took place in one of those sort of indoor communities you see in a lot of ‘60’s-‘70’s dystopian movies, where everyone lives, works, and plays inside. Think Logan’s Run.
Anyway, at the end of the day, I asked her how much I owed her, and she said, “Five dollars.”
“Five dollars? I can do better than that, but I need to run up to my apartment first. C’mon.”
I’d put my hand on her shoulder to sort of turn her toward the turbolift or whatever those places have, and she snapped, “Uh-uh, mister! Don’t touch me! I know what you’re up to! I’m not going up to your apartment! Give me my five dollars! NOW!!!”
I looked at her in a “Can you believe this idiot kid right now?!” way and told her that she was perfectly fine to wait there or anywhere else, but I didn’t have any money, it was all in my apartment, so if she wanted to get paid, she’d have to wait until I could go to my apartment.
She finally agreed to take the lift up to my floor, then I had to get her money (I gave her a generous $20), walk it halfway down the hall, put it on the floor, walk back to my doorway, then she walked from the lift to the money, collected it, and went back down to the plaza area where the dream first started.
That was it.
Herbaceous
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I had one the other night where it was discovered that I had actually been a few credits short of earning my degree, so I had to go back to school and take a few more classes (for context, I graduated in 2007).
I was really excited to retake one of the first-year courses, because my friend was teaching it. I was also really excited because the uni had just introduced a course on “the science of rock, paper, scissors” that I was going to take.
Plus I was happy because my husband insists the game is called paper-rock-scissors, and so I was going to prove him wrong and that it’s actually rock-paper-scissors!
I was really excited to retake one of the first-year courses, because my friend was teaching it. I was also really excited because the uni had just introduced a course on “the science of rock, paper, scissors” that I was going to take.
Plus I was happy because my husband insists the game is called paper-rock-scissors, and so I was going to prove him wrong and that it’s actually rock-paper-scissors!