The Dream Thread

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

Well, the thing about lucid dreaming is that you're aware that you're dreaming. You can't force it because it won't work. I once had a lucid dream where a changeling from MLP was sleeping on my lap. This occurred when I was listening to "This Day Aria" and thinking what it would be like to have a pet changeling. I could feel it's slimy skin with as I gently stroked it, and could feel it's warmth on my lap. When I went to touch one of it's wings, my thumb twitched and I woke up. 

[Serbon div 386]

@, Yes dreams are thoughts, that are meant to be forgotten. For many reasons, this isn't something I made up, that is what most psychologists say.

[Oblivion 20,266]

Well, in any case their are a ton of sites out their aimed at helping people lucid dream! Just google it and you'll get lots of results.

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@, Yes dreams are thoughts, that are meant to be forgotten. For many reasons, this isn't something I made up, that is what most psychologists say.

 

I don't think that's true... my psychologist told me that dreams are only "bad" because it just means you aren't getting a deep enough sleep.

 

Unless you can prove to me with a medical source or proven study that dreams are somehow bad for your mental health, I don't believe you.

[Serbon div 386]

@, I never said dreams are bad for you. It is just something you shouldn't pay attention too, simply because you have a real life to live.

[Malinter 3,064]

@, I never said dreams are bad for you. It is just something you shouldn't pay attention too, simply because you have a real life to live.

 I think you mean there not meant to be taken too seriously. not that they are meant to be forgotten

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@, I never said dreams are bad for you. It is just something you shouldn't pay attention too, simply because you have a real life to live.

 

But people who focus too much on dreams and can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy actually have a mental condition.

 

If you think about your dreams and remember them, it doesn't mean you're going to develop or cause a mental illness. :/

[Malinter 3,064]

But people who focus too much on dreams and can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy actually have a mental condition.

 

If you think about your dreams and remember them, it doesn't mean you're going to develop or cause a mental illness. :/

 

if they use it too often, some folks can develop a problem where they can't tell if they are awake or not.

[Moved to Elsewhere 11,331]

Well I had a dream last night that like 2 people first shot up my house and then my school. We have police in my school and in the dream when they saw the school getting shot up. They just laughed.

[SasQ 1,376]

I'm a long-lasting lucid dreamer (over 15 years), so I think I can help, from my own practice.
 

I want to learn to lucid dream but this requires storing ones dreams somewhere

 
Who told you that? ;-J
First you need to have something to store in that diary, right?
 
Starting a diary can be an impulse for your subconscious mind that you want to remember your dreams better, yeah. But there are better techniques for training your dream memory. E.g. recalling your day before going to sleep, in a reverse order. Why reverse? Because when you wake up from your dream, you often remember only the last couple of events, but you can use them as an anchor to bring more flashbacks, by recalling them backwards. Recalling your memories from the present moment backwards is also useful when you're in a dream, because this way you can get back to the moment when you cannot remember anything which has happened before your first memory, and this is often an indicator that you're dreaming now, and the earliest memory you could remember is actually the beginning of your dream.
 
Remembering your dreams could be important when you practice lucid dreaming, since there's nothing worse than having a lucid dream and forgetting it. But when you're in a lucid dream, and the dream comes to an end, you can program yourself to awake and then you'll be remembering your dream well, because you've just had it, so you can write it down and get back to sleep (or start your day).
 
You can also use mnemonic techniques inside your dream. For example, I often dream about mathematic formulas or discoveries in quantum physics which I need to remember to make use of them in real life. In most cases I cannot remember all the stuff  so I learned to use mnemonic techniques to at least remember some details. E.g. when I dreamed about a historical date, 1916, it could be hard for me to remember the digits just like that. So I remembered a song: "Twentieth century, sweet sixteen", and this way I remembered it after waking up. I also use keywords for the most important events in the dream, and when I wake up, I write down just those keywords in my dream diary, so I don't need to write elaborate texts. I can just jot down those couple of worlds and get back to sleep, and expand the dream report after I wake up for good. The keywords help me recall the whole dream.
 

DON'T DO THIS. IT'S BAD FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH. DREAMS ARE MEANT TO BE FORGOTTEN.

 
Sorry, but you cannot be more wrong. I'm a dreamer for over 15 years so far, I write down my dreams, I analyze them, I enjoy them, I can control them, and I can learn from them or use in a creative way. And guess what: I'm still alive and my mental health is better than OK. Dreams are NOT to be forgotten! They are like letters from your unconscious mind (which is a huge part of yourself you're not aware of), so forgetting your dreams is like throwing those letters into the fireplace When you do that, you waste a great opportunity to learn about the unconscious part of your psyche and integrate with it better; better understand yourself, so to speak. There are thoughts you've missed out during your daytime, or you consciously suppressed them, and such thoughts often pop out in your dreams. Suppressing them there too won't help your psyche much. It could even make things worse, because those suppressed thoughts can agglomerate, and then break your dam the hard way. So I think that it's more dangerous to suppress your dreams (which are important part of your psyche) than to enjoy them and learn from them.
 
And there's nothing difficult in understanding your dreams. Your subconscious mind uses the language of symbols and feelings, but it doesn't encrypt them. They reflect who you are, and the things you don't know (or don't want to know) about yourself. So the better you know yourself, the more you understand your dreams. There's a great book of Gale Delaney, who's a psychologist and knows much about dream analysis. Its title is "Everything about dreams". She describes the history of dream analysis in many cultures around the globe, and how it come into psychoanalysis of Freud and Jung, and how it is perceived in modern psychology. There are also techniques of analyzing your dreams, or other people's dreams, and a bit of lucid dreaming techniques (not much though, and it's the only drawback of this book :-/).
 

this isn't something I made up, that is what most psychologists say.

 
Strange psychologists you have there. I don't know any psychologist who would forbid remembering dreams or working with them. And I have shown above one example of a psychologist who actually wrote a lot about dream analysis in psychology and psychotherapy. So it probably depends on psychologist. But really, there are not much of those who don't use dreams in their work. If they don't, then they're probably not good psychologists at all.
 

It is just something you shouldn't pay attention too, simply because you have a real life to live.

Well, then I prefer to have two lives instead of just one. Kill me
 

remembering artificial thoughts while you are asleep can actually have many benefits

Well, they're not artificial. They're no less artificial (and no more) than the thoughts you have now. See above.

Edited February 27, 2014 by SasQ

[Serbon div 386]

@@Malinter, @,

Think about it practically, why do dreams exist? There are two theories I know of, one is that it's a consequence of some brain functions during sleep, and the other is that it was used to prepare early humans for some situations they might encounter, to help them survive. Both of these theories render them useless, which is why you shouldn't waste time on them.

 

 

There are thoughts you've missed out during your daytime, or you consciously suppressed them, and such thoughts often pop out in your dreams. Suppressing them there too won't help your psyche much.

Your brain leaves information out because it is useless, by bringing them up back you are just wasting time+energy.

I never said you should suppress them, they should just be ignored. Visions are a different story, though.

Edited February 27, 2014 by Serbon

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if they use it too often, some folks can develop a problem where they can't tell if they are awake or not.

 

But that's not caused by focusing on your dreams or remembering them or even by lucid dreaming. Especially not by lucid dreaming because it means you know you're asleep/dreaming and are aware of it.

 

The majority of people who can't tell if they're awake or asleep have a sleeping disorder. The other small percent of people are either sleep deprived, have a medication side effect, abuse alcohol or illicit substances, or they possibly already have a psychiatric condition.

 

Remembering your dreams isn't going to hurt you or your mental health in any way.

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@@Malinter, @,

Think about it practically, why do dreams exist? There are two theories I know of, one is that it's a consequence of some brain functions during sleep, and the other is that it was used to prepare early humans for some situations they might encounter, to help them survive. Both of these theories render them useless, which is why you shouldn't waste time on them.

 

 

Your brain leaves information out because it is useless, by bringing them up back you are just wasting time+energy.

 

I think you're confusing facts with opinion.

 

There is no accurate census on why we dream, that much is true. However, there is nothing wrong with wanting to dream or remembering your dreams.

 

It's no different than me wanting to watch a science fiction film or read a book based on false events in a fantasy world of magic and dragons. It serves no real purpose in my life. And like you said, I have a reality to deal with so why bother with the fantasy? After all, someone might confuse the fictional with the non-fictional.

 

If you don't want to remember your dreams and think they're a waste of time? That's cool. You have every right to do that. But you do not have the right to try and convince your opinion on others and back it up with incorrect science.

[Serbon div 386]

It's no different than me wanting to watch a science fiction film or read a book based on false events in a fantasy world of magic and dragons.

Books enrich your vocabulary more or less depending on the writer. And both movies and books can have a moral.

 

 

I think you're confusing facts with opinion

And who are you to judge what is fact and what is opinion, none of us has quoted any scientific sources yet, I was just using stuff that I remember more or less.

Edited February 27, 2014 by Serbon

[An Old Head 4,816]

PSA: I've hidden a few posts in this thread for being unnecessarily argumentative/off-topic. Please don't start arguments over petty things, folks, they only derail the topic. Otherwise, carry on.

[Best Username Ever 211]

Wow this thread is like a warzone   unfortunately last night i didn't really dream that much so nothing to write down really

[Floris 287]

I wish I could get control in a dream.

 

 

That would be awesome.

[Oblivion 20,266]

My point is guys, is that if he wants to do it, then he should! It's not like remembering dreams is going to make you go crazy or anything!

[~Silver Essence~ 2,625]

I've had a few lucid dreams of my own, very great if I may say so.

 

But I just keep them a secret for the most part.

[Scootalove 10,689]

I've had a lot of dreams lately including lucid dreams, a lot of them are pony dreams.

[Nohbdy 4,108]

I want to learn to lucid dream but this requires storing ones dreams somewhere so i thought why not here so starting tomorrow i am gonna post my dreams here whenever i get the chance it would be cool if other people joined in to.

Yo, sup. I've merged your thread with an existing one, since both threads covered the same topic. In the future, please run a search before creating a new thread. Thank you!

[Celtore 2,770]

Well, You know you're overworked when you start programming in your sleep. And that's exactly what I was doing. The dream switched over to programming in assembly by using food to represent the various instructions. It was strange... On the plus side though, I think I may have found a bug in one of my projects...

 

Edit: believe or not, that dream just saved my project. I decided to do some extra testing. There were indeed a few bugs that evaded my sight, a memory leak and a few I/O issues.

Edited February 28, 2014 by Celtore

[Best Username Ever 211]

I feel obligated to put these here.

 

 

 

 

You're welcome. The first two are parts one and two of a dream, and the third one is a stand alone video.

Haha i remember watching those what about Gavins lucid dream 

Yo, sup. I've merged your thread with an existing one, since both threads covered the same topic. In the future, please run a search before creating a new thread. Thank you!

I did a quick one but didn't find anything i guess i mustn't of searched correctly LOL 

[Foxx 258]

Usually I just shut my eyes and POOF! It's the next morning. Today was an exception though since I started to keep a dream journal today. For some reason, that triggered me to remember my dream in vivid detail. I am trying to eventually have lucid dreams, and maybe lucid dream myself into a equestria.

[Commander Hurricane 170]

I never remember my dreams. The only thing I can remember about my dreams is that they are completely insane and make zero sense. Like, my dreams are completely illogical I can't even remember them or describe them. I remember this one dream I had when I was, like, 6. And I have never had a nightmare...well not that I can remember.