15 Interesting Facts about Dreams
Dreaming is one of the most mysterious and interesting experiences in our lives.
During the Roman Era some dreams were even submitted to the Roman Senate for analysis and dream interpretation. They were thought to be messages from the gods. Dream interpreters even accompanied military leaders into battles and campaigns!
In addition to this, it is also known that many artists have received their creative ideas from their dreams.
But what do we actually know about dreams?
Here are 15 interesting facts about dreams – enjoy and what’s most important, don’t forget to share your dream stories in the comment section!
1. You Forget 90% of Your Dreams
Within 5 minutes of waking half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.
2. Blind People also Dream
People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.
3. Everybody Dreams
Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder). If you think you are not dreaming – you just forget your dreams.
4. In Our Dreams We Only See Faces That We already Know
Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.
5. Not Everybody Dreams in Color
A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s maintained that the majority of dreams were in black and white, but these results began to change in the 1960s. Today only 4.4% of the dreams of under-25 year-olds are in black and white. Recent research has suggested that those changing results may be linked to the switch from black-and-white film and TV to color media.
6. Dreams are Symbolic
If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. Whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.
(bamboo for h.koppdelaney)
7. Emotions
The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive ones.
8. You can have four to seven dreams in one night.
On average you can dream anywhere from one or two hours every night.
9. Animals Dream Too
Studies have been done on many different animals, and they all show the same brain waves during dreaming sleep as humans. Watch a dog sleeping sometime. The paws move like they are running and they make yipping sounds as if they are chasing something in a dream.
10. Body Paralysis
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20-25% of total sleep, about 90-120 minutes of a night’s sleep.
During REM sleep the body is paralyzed by a mechanism in the brain in order to prevent the movements which occur in the dream from causing the physical body to move. However, it is possible for this mechanism to be triggered before, during, or after normal sleep while the brain awakens.
11. Dream Incorporation
Our mind interprets the external stimuli that our senses are bombarded with when we are asleep and make them a part of our dreams. This means that sometimes in our dreams we hear a sound from reality and incorporate it in a way. For example you may be dreaming that you are in a concert while your brother is playing a guitar during your sleep.
12. Men and Women Dream Differently
Men tend to dream more about other men. Around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman’s dream contains almost an equal number of men and women. Aside from that, men generally have more aggressive emotions in their dreams than the female lot.
13. Precognitive Dreams
Results of several surveys across large population sets indicate that between 18% and 38% of people have experienced at least one precognitive dream and 70% have experienced déjà vu. The percentage of persons that believe precognitive dreaming is possible is even higher – ranging from 63% to 98%.
*Precognition, also called future sight, refers to perception that involves the acquisition of future information that cannot be deduced from presently available and normally acquired sense-based information.
14. If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.
This fact is repeated all over the Internet, but I’m a bit suspicious whether it’s really true as I haven’t found any scientific evidence to support it.
15.You can experience an o r g asm in your dream
You can not only have s e x as pleasurable as in your real life while dreaming, but also experience an o r g a s m as strong as a real one without any wet results. The sensations felt while lucid dreaming (touch, pleasure and etc..) can be as pleasurable and strong (or I believe even stronger) as the sensations experienced in the real world.
(Many many bamboos for all the dreamy images to alicepopkorn)
Well, I hope you had a great time reading these strange facts about our dreams. Now I’m going to my bed to check those facts once again. Good night and sweet dreams!
P.S.: don’t forget to share your weirdest dream experiences below!
P.S2.: If you decide to learn more about it, this book could be a good way to start: The Dream Book: Symbols for Self Understanding
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cool !
I have a strange re-occuring “environment” in my dreams (same place that doesn’t exist but different situations): very hard to describe but I wonder what they mean
when i was a little girl, I had a dream that I wanted to buy make-up and my mother would not let me, and then I was walking on paths similar to a tree maze my aunt had, and then I was chased by a piece of bread and a skeleton.
@aurelienne haha, the part with a piece of bread made me laugh
Nice post. I agree with all post exept number 4. Im pretty sure i dream with faces ive never seen before and i would like to know the scientific evidence that can proove the opposite. I cant understand how scientists can assure that.
Mostly my dreams end with me falling from a cliff or a high building. The anxiety maxes out and opens my eyes.
I went to a college that is documented to be haunted. I was laying down to sleep during my freshman year when I thought I saw a ghost under my roomates bed. At that time I began to try to talk or move and I couldn’t. I tried to turn my body over and fall off the bed but couldn’t.
For the longest time I spooked myself into believing a ghost had paralyzed me. To this day I’ve had dreams where I can’t move for what feels like minutes, and when I wake up it’s always a bit scary.
I think #10 explains why this happens. Thanks for this!
I see in my dreams that I am walking then running and then suddenly start flying like super man
)..its not possible in real life but I njoy it too much in dreams…thats the beauty of dreams., good use of 8 passive hours every night 
@Pablo — I agree with you, I see many strange faces in my dreams …
I dream every night and remember my most of my dream if I repeat the whole thing to myself when i wake up. I always have lucid dreams as well.
Recently, a lot of my dreams involve water. I had one where I had to run across water to get away from the effects of a bomb. I could see the waves right behind me as I finally made it a safer spot. I’ve had dreams where I’m living in a cabin, and right outside my upstairs window is just the ocean. If I went out my window, I would be in the water. Last night, I had a dream I was in this beautiful mountainy place with a gorgeous lake and I was going water skiing with one of my friends that I actually know. That one was a bit more erotic. Lol.
I’ve had dreams where people are after me- one I was involved in a robbery and everyone was looking for me so I was trying to escape. I made it into a hospital where I tried to get my story straight and tried to find a way to get someone to help me. I had left my iPhone in the getaway car ao I searched the hospital for a phone. I accidently met a lawyer who offered to help me. Minutes later, the manhunt was over and I was no longer being hunted. It was like everything has been forgotten and I was off the hook. For whatever reason, I could not get over the fact that I might have sold my soul to devil in order to recuperate my freedom.
Had a dream about brainwashing event that was taking place where I was living. It was like a body snatcher thing.
Sooo many fun dreams
. I love dreaming!!
Wow very interesting post, I like that all dreams are symbolic. My weirdest dream was when I was in the middle of a school shooting. What was weird is that it seemed so real. I got shot, and as soon as a did I woke up! Intense to say the least.
Seldom do I recall my dreams, even when I’ve just awaken up.
I took a dream class for about a year. Here’s how you remember dreams: When you go to sleep, you set your intention: I will welcome and remember my dreams tonight. Keep a journal and pen on your nightstand. As soon as you wake up, write your dreams down! You really do forget them quickly. When I re-read my old entries, it feels like someone else wrote them. I seem to forget them even after I write them down!
Class members could see repeating themes for each other much more easily than we could for ourselves. I learned about another aspect of myself, and my classmates too. I am a painter, and dreams provide unusual and often beautiful visuals that are unique and have great meaning for me (at least subconsciously!). I love the illustrations you used in this post.
I think I’ll find a notebook to put by the bed for 2010. Thanks for the inspiration! (Found you via Guy Kawasaki’s Tweet)
@betty thanks for sharing with everyone! I known this technique and tried it one night
It was fun, however the night turned out to be rather sleepless.
As for me, I find lucid dreaming the most interesting and incredible experience. There are also very easy techniques for it, and then – fly, jump sky high, have s e x and virtually do anything you want, because you are in control. I remember how hard it was learning to fly – I always couldn’t stop and land, and I flew as fast as Jet plane which was really scary and it often waked me up. (It is like Avatar – you have to learn things). But when I mastered the flying skill, I had so much fun many many nights I was lucid dreaming.
I had a dream where I was hanging out with rapper Jay-Z. We were walking around town doing different things. When I woke up the next morning I found that I had gone to sleep with itunes playing. One of his albums had indeed played during the night. Scrolling through my library to see what else had played, I began to remember some dreams I had forgotten. The really interesting thing was that there were huge gaps where I didn’t have any associations with the music, and then there were spots where I had vivid associations. These gaps seemed to correspond with the length of sleep cycles.
I tend to be in situations involving high anxiety and mostly with people trying to kill me. Or I dream about my surround area (snow covered mountains and forests) as they were before they were modified. As in cartoons, the laws of nature do not apply unless they are already implied in the dream, such as real-world situations like close-combat, or I become aware of gravity, such as flying with no problem, then realizing I shouldn’t be able to fly and crashing into the ground.
I liked No. 1; good reasoning to start a dream log. Sometimes I wake up and think, “What the hell was that all about?”
I have a recurring dream that I am walking on what feels like a bridge, against a huge brick wall but even though my eyes are open in the dream, I can’t see anything. I can feel bitter cold, and the wet wall and I can feel that when I step too far out, my foot slips into water so I have to walk with my hands against the wall beside me and I walk and keep winding and winding and I bump into other people sometimes and they are always whispering but I can never really hear them. The only thing I ever know in the dream is that I have to get to the middle, wherever that is. I feel dread and I feel like I am going to die if I don’t get there soon but I always wake up before I get there. When I fall back asleep, it’s the same dream but I am back at the start and I feel like I’ve been forced back to the start and like I have lost time.
When I was about six I really coveted this transformers toy. One night I dreamt that I was given it. Upon waking I spent what seemed like hours hunting the house looking for it. The realisation that it was not real was a crushing one, and one that has stayed with me. To my mind dreams are a particularly cruel joke of nature…
i respont to people when i sleep not always talking but sitting up and looking at them.
am i weird or wat
One time I had a dream that I was in the middle of a wasteland and there was nothing but me, a dead tree, a bench covered with surgical tools, and Gene Wilder. So me and Gene were bent over the bench staring at the tools, laughing. Then he turns to me with a serious face and sticks a scalpel in my gut and whispers “No one will hear you.”.
Once I had a dream that came exactly true in real life the next day. It was really weird.
Whenever I have a bad dream, I can always wake myself up! It is really great! And it’s always in the moment right before something really bad is going to happen! I say to myself “You have to wake up!” and I can feel my eyes FIGHTING to open! Very strange…
When I was younger I used to have a recurring nightmare about a monster ( the one seen out side of the Hauted House ride at Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk) Chasing me on some sort of floating object while I had to hope rock to rock over a lava river.
When I was a kid I was eating raisins from a plate with a blue Chinese dragon on it. Shortly afterwards I fell asleep and dreamt that the dragon was rampaging through our village chasing me and everyone else down the street and eating people!
I always have dreams about people getting shot and killed. About a month ago I had a dream that I was in Washington DC with my family and it was a beauiful day and kids were walking up this green hill to the white house and all of the suden the ground was shaking and people were screaming then huge bombs came from the sky Destorying a lot of things and the sky went fom a blue to a dark red It was a crazy ass dream and it seemed so real….as if it was yet to come.
4 is not true.
I once dremt I had something,and upon waking I spent hours looking for it and asking all my family members if they had seen it.Everyone told me no,and some said I had never had what I was llooking for.Now I can’t rember what it was I was looking for.Recently,for the past two years or so I have been having very vivid dreams about my wife.They are about doing things,and going places that we didn’t do or go to.Some times they are about having sex with her,the strange thing is these dreams about my wife are usually the only ones I am able to rember.The really strange part about these dreams is,we have been divorced for nine years I haven’t spoken to her and I have only seen her once in all that time.She wanted the divorce,I didn’t.After ten years she told me she was not over her boyfriend from before me and went back to him.I thought I was over her,is this my mind’s way of letting me know I’m not?Does this happen to other people?Is it normal?
I once dreamed I heard a noise, coming from the windows. I got up, but couldn’t locate the source of the noise. It was coming somehow, from all around me. Then I realized. I was inside my own head and hearing my snoring!
Number 4 may be true since our mind can warp, switch features and colours of people.
I usually have dreams where I am going with the “flow” of the dream in a surralistic enviroment… before suddenly realising that this IS a dream and that I am in control… then I usually start to mess around with things.
i heard a roumer that if you die in your dream then you will die in real life…like if you die in your dream by a train, then the shock is enough to kill you in your sleep..is this true?
REM & SNORING
The reason why you can not dream while snoring is that REM sleep is a deep state of the sleeping cycle and snoring occurs while you are falling asleep or just before waking up (for example in ppl that suffer from sleep apnea), in a superficial state.
COOL POST!! Thanx!
you can kinda die in your dreams or at the least hit the ground and not die i had one dream i was in a field with my friend and he started running so did i and i realised we were getting chased i started to float and tried to run but i couldnt then i fell down into hell and was fine and then it went on for what seemed a while with a whole school ordeal on how i couldnt spell in there language down there and strangely i could see my own house from hell….
I often dream about being chased and It always feels like i’m running in super slow motion (like running under water), it frustrates the heck outta me.
when I was in my early 20′s after a night of drinking I dreamt that I was in a pool and the water got increasingly warm. When I woke up, I had actually wet the bed. It was pretty hilarious.
Crazy dream…
I was on a huge field broken up into checkers (much like a chess set) and the sky was really grey. I was playing a game of chess against the devil for my soul haha. I was both a piece (the queen I believe) and directing the board. I don’t remember much of the game except that there was a lot of action, the game happened very rapidly, and it was a lot like a battle. The pieces didn’t have bases but feet, like people would, but they still looked like the pieces (ie- bishops with feet). The only difference in the game was that you didn’t say “checkmate” when the other player’s king was in danger- you just took it. Anyhoo it was my move and the devil was either going to have his knight kill me or he could take my king with his rook but I took his king with my bishop and won (and hence, got to keep my soul)!!!
You know how when people are right about to die in dreams they wake up? I don’t….I actually die and am in this weird purgatory that is all white, just white nothingness.
When i was in 2nd Grade, i had this dream that i woke up in the back of my Dad’s Car and that i felt my gums with my tongue and there were no teeth. I had blood on my shirt and i felt paralyzed in pain. I had this same dream about 2 or 3 nights in a row.
Then on the last day of 2nd grade me and a friend were racing our bikes down a steep hill by my house. We had done it before, no problem, but one time he slowed down and i didnt know why.
Then i saw a car come around the blind corner, and i slammed on my FRONT brakes of my bike and went over the handlebars. Face first, taking a bite out of asphalt, i tore the right side of my face up, and lost my 2 front permaenant teeth.
I was knocked unconscious and woke up in the back of my dad’s car, with my mom driving. I woke up asking if this was real life, over and over again. I couldn’t believe this had happened.
I agree with the #5 post, my brain can spontaniously( sp?) generate entire environments, creatures, feelings and other sensations, yet it cannot produce a face that it has never seen before? I dont think the brain is being given enough credit in this regard.
10: Body Paralysis, this happened to me one night.
i woke up and tried to move my arm. i could feel it moving but i could see it, it wasn’t moving.
i was scared as hell.
thats cool but this video explains dreaming alot more and why its happening its really sickkkkk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgMOOwlOsnM
I remember that I was dreaming of ghost spirits of whatever you wanna call them. and in my dream I was running out of my step=granma’s house. then I woke up. I was on my right side and I looked behind me to see a little girl. dressed in clothes from colonial times and she had her hands behind her back and she was rocking back and forth on her heels and toes. then I turned away and went back to sleep, then some loud and non human noise woke me up. I looked and the girl or someone a tad older was sitting on my bed just staring at me, she had long hair and was wearing some kinda night gown with sleeves. and she was just looking at me. she didnt speak and I went to scream but I couldnt. I was afraid. so, in my mind, I started praying and it seemed like forever, before the image started to disappear into the wall behind it. This has never happend again, I’ve never told my family. I have actually only told acouple of people. Im afraid if I keep talking about it, it will happen again. tell me what you think
@cheesyrockstarmullet just reading your story frightened me enough, I can only imagine how it felt when it actually happened!
Actually, my distant cousin also told me an interesting story. Back then she was just a little girl when this happened.. She woke up one night and started crying. Suddenly, out of nowhere some kind of old lady appeared near her bed and said “don’t cry, everything will be ok”. After that, the place became really haunted.They often heard the door bell ringing, but there was no one behind the door.
First, I knew this story from my mom, and recently I met my cousin (now ~18 I believe) and she reassured this is truly what happened back then, and they even called a priest to help them. They don’t live in that place anymore.
In my most recent dream, I was engaged to be married to my roommate, but we were told we would have to wait. I think it has to do with gay marriage. It is something I think about a lot, and one of my goals in life is to be married in my home state.
Does anyone have the answer to why I always end up waking up after I’m dreaming that I fall off a cliff? I always wake up before I hit the ground.
omg, that;s awesome.
I hate a sexual dream ocne and it was amazing, I woke up what felt like directly after the dream orgasm and i was panting, it was marvelous!!
I run sleep studies @ night on people. I can solidly deny #14. People snore all the time during REM sleep. They also certainly don’t even breath sometimes (sleep apnea) and still be dreaming, and I have seen someone’s heart stop beating for 15 seconds while in REM sleep (dream stage). Not only can you snore, but you could also not be breathing, and your heart not be beating and you could still be breathing. However, you better only do it for very short periods of time of you may be dreaming forever.
well here’s some personal facts regarding my own dreams:
1. sometimes even if i have already forgotten a dream i had, i sometimes tend to remember some as actual memories often making me say something like “oh i remember doing the laundry yesterday, but hey, wait, I didn’t! ah yes! it was a dream!” but only for dreams that relate to everyday living.
2. even if most dreams are forgotten, some tend to be really unforgettable.
3. The body paralysis some of the commenters have said are called “Bangungot” here in the Philippines. It can even cause death in some cases. I myself have experienced it too and have somehow grown accustomed to it so I just sleep back and ignore it *suddenly waking up and realizing you can’t move – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangungot
Up until the last couple of years, when I began to form my first stable intimate relationship; I have had re-occurring dreams involving deformed or disabled children. They started when I was really young, less than ten years old. They’ve all been specifically MY children. They fall apart, or die on the spot, or simply didn’t develop properly in the womb. I finally had a dream about a little girl that looked like a mixture between my boyfriend and myself. She was perfect and happy. Haven’t had a bad one since then.
Heh yea I have definitely had orgasms while dreaming, and I always remember them when I wake up, but I’m rarely ‘wet’!
I guess that explains why i don’t dream when i sleep on my back. Im too busy snoring!
Weirdest dream ive ever had was that my brother was one of those things you pour water on and they expand…It was a pink flamingo to be exact..I knew it was him because the voice..Sadly at the end of my dream i accidently stepped on it
I had a dream that I was a mellon in the market in one of those big bins. I was waiting for someone to pick me take me and eat me. What could that meen
My most recent dream started as a false awakening in the middle of the night, and I was still laying in my bed. I looked over to my closet and saw a small garden gnome walking across the top shelf of my closet. For some reason I was under the impression that this gnome was evil and was stealing my stuff. I got extremely angry and grabbed it and tried to choke it (but of course it was still a ceramic garden gnome and I don’t think this worked). And then I woke up wondering wtf just happened, double-checked my closet, and went back to sleep.
I had a dream with my recently deceased brother in it. He had a big puffy down jacket on and I was hugging him but couldn’t feel his body.
Love the imagery that goes along with the 15 themes. Really beautiful stuff.
for some reason i don’t sleep at night anymore but when i do sleep I love dreaming there is noting better
I once had a dream that I was lucid dreaming, but I still had no control over it. In fact, the dream was about what I could and could not do when I lucid dream. In the dream I realized I was dreaming but without actually realizing it. When I woke up I was totally confused about it.
I was sleeping with my Media Player going on my laptop and I had a dream that these aliens were chasing me and I fell down and one got on top of me and started going: “Hey baby do yah wanna lay down with me, hey ababy do you wanna lay down by my side, hey baby, HEY BABY!” I woke up and saw that I was listening to “Tommy The Cat” By: Primus Lolol it freaked me out
i had the weirdest dream last night and i was at a school and the teachers were all weird and i can only recalll some of the names like my friiend jessica. in my dream jessica was raped by one of the teachers and i had to stop him from being evil and wut not. it was weird though cause it had alot of magical ailment like i was a vampire, and so were many. i had to pertect her and others it was very strange especially cause i havent seen her for about 3 to 4 years in real life then all the sudden i have a dream about her getting raped by a teacher who has powers greater then most. well anyway i kill him cause i hate rapist and then i killed myself which made no sense but it happened.
Tho im not a reader type lol but i really enjoyed reading these facts. thx
Interesting until you got to the bogus “dreams are deeply symbolic” crap. No, they’re not.
i know you forget most of your dreams but i think you may be able to remember some of the forgotten ones while you are dreaming, i have recurring dreams sometimes that follow a story with the same characters and “plot” of numerous previous dreams, but when i wake up i cant remember the specifics, just the feeling that i have a separate “dream life” that follows its own world rules like physical laws like gravity or time but also emotional laws between characters, it is hard to explain but i often feel upon waking up that i am living a separate life in my dreams to which my waking self is unaware… anyone else experienced anything like this?
@ Pablo and DT… I’d like to see the proof behind this too but the reason why you don’t recognise the faces whatsoever is because that includes people you’ve even just walked past in the street apparantly… I read that… like your mind sees the faces but you don’t consciously register them
Many a times I find myself dreaming of my office and things that I don’t like there. Don’t know what it, dreaming of things we hate, actually means?
#1 & #4 seem to be in conflict.
Precognitive dream I had:
The day before this crane collapsed in NYC, while taking a nap on the couch, I had a dream of a crane collapsing, only in San Francisco. Told my wife about it that evening, and then I saw the news the next morning and couldn’t believe it!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23649318/
When I was young I had a reacquiring dream about this park, always different situations but the same park. About a year ago driving home from Vegas we passed the park, a very creepy feeling.
I have about one precognitive dream per month. I never remember the dream until I get that Deja vu feeling and then I realize whats going to happen next.
I wonder how it was established it’s a ‘fact’ that dreams are symbolic. I find it highly doubtful it could be prove. What I think is more likely is that somebody is drawing off Freud’s theories, which weren’t really supported by sufficient evidence to constitute fact.
This article was great. The topic is one i like to discuss with strangers and friends alike. I have very vivid and seemingly real dreams. Have: been ripped to pieces by sharks and everything went white, hazy and numb; murdered (throat slit) in a parking lot while walking to my car (felt the rain and the cold knife on my throat); Owned a ‘playboy’ type mansion; had or developed super powers many times; found the love(s) of my life. A fair amount of the time when things seem very unreal I will become aware that I am in a dream and am able to control or alter it, once I was on Jurassic Park type island and being chased by the dreaded velociraptor and had the thought ‘wait raptors dont exist anymore’ and was then able to chase and fight them with ease. There was a time when I would experience such strong déjà vu 3-4 times a week that it would hit me like a rock and I would stop mid sentence or stride (whatever I was doing at the time) and try to declare or explain what was going to happen. A lot of the time part of a dream would flash through my mind again. I have even had horrible horrible night terrors where I wake up unable to breathe or in that instant know that there is something evil in my room or hovering over me. There are a lot of other instances that I have written down or still remember. Dream interpretation has always been an interest of mine, if anyone wants to talk further feel free to hit me up ! yesbakin@gmail
I know I have had precognitive dreams…
The most memorable one was when I woke up after dreaming about getting beaten by a bunch of dudes that I could not evade. The beating was brutal and kept going and I could not escape (I rarely have violent dreams). I called my sister because it was so disturbingly vivid and told her about it…. That night I was jumped by about 10 dudes when I was walking back from a bar…. I told my sis the next day she wasnt gonna believe what had just happened.
Its happened before and since then but that is the only time I happened to tell someone about the dream BEFORE it came true.
Most of the precognitive dreams seem so completely out of place that I do not fathom for a second they could ever come true, nor do I necessarily care because they are usually trivial occurrences that I couldnt care less whether they happened or not, so I forget about them until they happen…. sometimes multiple years later. I wonder if its happened more times than I can remember because I think I only recall the ones that are unique and/or surprisingly unlikely.
And very rarely I can tell when Ive just experienced a precognitive dream… Its hard to describe but the pacing of the dream as it unfolds is different and its more vivid…Or rather it doesnt unfold at all but more like Im observing through the eyes and ears of a participant in a pre thought out play that Im strongly emotionally and perceptively connected to.
This seems to summarize #1
http://xkcd.com/430/
my first wet dream is i was having sex with avril lavigne
come to think of it, most of my dreams nowadays are lucid dreams.
i never knew it till just now; i’ve always wondered why i could control what i do in my dreams, like i’m simply thinking up stuff even if i know they’re not real.
usually, they’re almost no different to my reality actions(like waking up sleepy and not wanting to get out off bed). i usually wake my self up at these states because i feel i’m already awake
i’ve always wondered about Precognitive dreaming.
i notice sometimes i see peoples actions or states i’m in, like watching a certain movie at a certain time with certain people at a certain position, and some how they feel familiar. like i’m going back in time, and even if i have control, somehow i end up doing the same thing i knew i was going to do. for some reason the familiar scenes up come when i watch A-team. lol
Hey …..
thanks for the info, i have been having some very vivid and insane dreams, something I only found out much later in intro psych, lately, i have just been posting em on my blog.
I found 4 and 5 on this list to be very interesting. Thanks for posting this!
Due to a brain malformation that presented when I was 38, I completely lost my sense of balance in 2004. Having no equilibrium, I cannot walk, or run, an activity that I enjoyed since High School.
Once in a while I have a wondrously vivid, recurring dream. In it I have complete freedom of movement, more than running, more than flying…it is an effortless and graceful gliding, without the boundaries of physics, yet I still feel the rushing wind of great speed about me. With only a thought I am swimming through the air over endless dunes, or over the chop of open waves.
It is so compelling, so realistic in it’s sensation, that I have often found myself weeping as I wake, desiring nothing more than to be back in that dreamscape, without gravity, without friction…only the moment and the movement.
I cry bull on number 4. If we can’t recall the faces how can we identify that they are the people in our dreams. Perhaps, they are similar, but haven’t we all mistaken a stranger for someone we thought we knew?
My boyfriend totally clocked my in the face the other night while he was dreaming. I’m not too sure about that whole paralysis thing
Every once in a while I have a dream that I’m running from something. The whole time I need to urinate but I can’t. At the last moment I wake up and run to the toilet. Whew!!! I’ve had some close calls.
i’ve had three truly memorable dreams. The first one was a warped scooby-doo/ invasion of the body snatchers dream that i had as a kid. It’s the only dream i can remember that was totally in 2-d (and scared the bejezus out of me).
Next, is the classic “Get a toy you REALLY wanted” dream. (damn gamecube…)
The third is the most vivid dream I’ve ever felt. I got into a fight with a bunch of guys, and they got me on the ground and actually drilled my head with a screwdriver. I even remember the “pop” i felt as the vacuum was released from the inside of my head.
I always have dreams that come true a week later. It’s really bizarre when my dream is happening. I also have dreams that I remember dreaming about as a kid and sometimes the story that is happening continues. Isn’t that strange?
to GeorgeB16 i heard that the reason to this is ur minds defence mechanism, i wakes u up before any harm can b done. just wat i heard though
Lol reading all these dreams is awsome. heres mine:
When i was young i would have this dream over and over and over again, then for about 10 years it stopped, i had it again a couple months ago. im floating in space or something and theres like a floating grid infront of me, like a calendar but nothing in the squares, i can walk on it. this is where it gets wack, theres a row of basketballs bouncing infront of me all in a row. some nights it was basketballs other nights it was soccer balls. I always got this clamy feeling in my mouth and then it ends. ROFL so wack. i also have dreams like i walk out my front door and theres a polar bear across the street, he starts running at me and i try to run away but i feel like im made out of lead and i run in super slow motion. very aggravating, ppl also chase me around with giant swords and t-rex’s are always running around. lol my dreams are nuts
I always have the same dream whenever I’m sick with a fever. I dream I’m sitting in a school desk while everyone I know – teachers, students, family, and friends – surround me and point and laugh at me. I don’t know what I did, but I instantly get humiliated and wake up.
Prepair for the science. DMT is produced in the brain naturally. It is also a severe psychedelic drug. Speculation is that DMT is produced while we sleep. It is also know to erase the experience after it is stopped being produced. Smaller production means a greater likelyhood of remembering what happened. On another note, check out youtube for Joe Rogan’s experiment into DMT, hilarious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine
I can’t remember exactly, but I thought it was about March 2004, I dreamt about being at a hill side 10 story shopping complex in Thailand, when I heard a loud roar and then saw everybody running for high ground. It was a giant wave that smashed as high as the seventh story of the department store building. And of course, about 9 months later, the south Asia tsunami of 2004 took place.
I once had a dream where I realised I was dreaming, whilst still dreaming.
From that point on I could control what I was doing in my dream.
I had a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners were to sat down together at the table of brotherhood.
Once I had the most vivid dream ever.
I was in a car crash with my best friend, coming back from Uni one day, I still remember the sound of the cracking steel of the car, crystals all over while we were going down the hill…
…but the most scary thing is that i remember SMELLING my own blood and the petrol of the car, even my ears didn´t let me hear anything (just like when you hear a very strong noise, and you remain deaf for a minute).
Very Scary…
…I just hope it will not be premonitory.
I once had a dream that a dark spirit was walking up the stairs on the side of the building I lived in and was trying to get into the apartment, I woke up rather shaken. What was even scarier was when I told my flatmate about it she had exactly the same dream that night.
since i’m teen i dream with a man , i call him Mr. death because everytime someones death had impact in me or i was related . i dream wtih him night before and then boom ! someones dies the next day
he is very weird character , beautiful young man with charms (i’m girl )
i remember his face in great detail , the night my grandfather died , i dreamed him in a hospital wearing doctors clothes he’ll always stare at me while doing somehting in this case performing some operation with lots of blood , trying to seduce me or mock me with those black eyes … then he suddenly start to scream and chase me down the corridors with horrible screams , i ‘m crying and lock myself in room and i can hear his laugh , just few hours later my uncle called us (we’re living in another country) that gradad had passed in hospital early in the morning
i had another dream with him , this time he was chasing some group of boys in a highway , but with different clothes like playing another role , if he catch one of the boys he will chop they head off … like that till he kill them all , and again he start to smile at me and chase trying to scare me , he never talk just smile or scream and have this charming look … whatever … the next day i heard the news , one of my mother’s friends dies in car crash along with a group of his friends
and i remember this one in particulary , because it was different, i wake up in a room , nice room with lots of book and art pictures tons of culture … i see him .. now he is in black robes , he has atractive face … what hes doing this time? …. this time he just paints , at moments he lift his eyes and invite me friendly …without saying a word , i understand and start walking in the room , theres some weird conexion between him and me in this dream , after watching the room i carefully stay close to him …he throws me looks and shows his painting smiling like always , some flowers … the next day ..yes ,it always got to do something with death or dead things that really impact me .. but i’m not gonna tell what was that it’s creepy as hell
away from this freak … i remember as a kid having a momentary dream image in a dream when i see scissors just open and closing , i somehow remembered this 2 seconds image , next day i see my mother’s hand trying to open some thing with scissors , form the same angle i see them as in my dream
sorry the poor english but i’m sure it’s readable
May I ask where you got the images that were used in this article?
oh yeah , another dream
i was like 15 when this happened , rememember 11m terrorist attack in madrid? just before this 11m morning i dream as i travel in a train , “renfe” as we call it here , travel near coast of the sea so you can actually see the sea water ,like we usually do in barcelona but not in madrid , so as i travel i see a giant shark coming from the water and then screams of people , the shark is like anormaly big somehow manage to near the train and hear some impacts then just nothing
i don’t know how i manage to remember those things maybe humans do that all the time just some people have luck with their good memory
What is the name of the art used in #s 1,6,8,12, and 13?
Good bit of information still doesn’t explain why I always dream about boobs and naplam.
My father worked as a bush pilot during summers when I was young. I used to have nightmares about wearing a parachute that was strapped so tightly I couldn’t breathe- I would wake up gasping for air. The summer that I turned ten years old his plane crashed and he was killed, I have always wondered if the dreams were connected to a fear of that happening. I don’t recall having those dreams after that.
On quite a few occasions I have realized that in fact I am dreaming and am then able to interact with the dream. I can choose what I want to do and where I want to go and at times alter the dreamscape to whatever suits my fancy. Lucid dreaming is by far the most entertaining way to dream. As far as sleep paralysis goes, I have experienced that many times as well. When I was younger I would wake up but be unable to move or even scream. It felt like something was sitting on my chest and it was quite terrifying. It wasn’t until later that I learned that it was actually a natural part of the sleep process, and that people had been describing a similar experience all throughout history, with many different, and usually superstitious, explanations for what was going on.
It is actually quite easy to realize that you are dreaming and learn how to interact and control them. Most of what I learned I did by trial and error, but there are a lot of good books about the subject with many useful hints to get you going.
Aurelenne is lucky a dish didn’t run away with the bread and try to eat it with it’s spoon…
When are dreams going to be in high defiinition!! The first hurdle is getting beyong the fact that most dream defy deifinition!
I’m working on a research paper about dreams. I compare Freud’s theories of the unconscious and interpretaion of dreams with the dream sequences in a japanese author’s novel: The Wind-up Bird, by Haruki Murakami. my final conclusion is that the yin yang is the key to understand the novel.
so those of you who are interested in dreams, you would certainly enjoy this novel and others by Murakami (i also recommend Kafka on the Shore)
i really like the pictures btw! the same it’s hard to write dreams down (as images are essential in them) it’s also hard to capture the weirdness of dreams in a picture. whoever did this did a great job!
I cannot remember most of my dreams as #1 implies. But there have been times where the dream was so real and traumatic that I can remember many glimpses and then my mind fills in the rest.
However, when I was young I had this one nightmare that was permanently etched into my memory, I can recall every aspect of it down to miniscule details.
I was in the backyard of a two-story clay-colored house with a large deck that ran the length of the house. The weather was overcast and gloomy, as if it was going to rain but at the time was just very chilled, and I could smell that distinct rain-scent with each inhale. I was riding one of those plastic animals on the giant springs (the ones at parks that can rock back and forth, like this: http://www.detailedplaypro.com/images/SA-04_200.JPG ). The animal was a rhinoceros. Well as I was riding it, it suddenly became real and bucked me off across the yard as it tore off of the spring underneath. I tumbled and ended up knelt over in the grass, the dew on the ground still moist and coating my shins. As I rose, the rhinoceros had circled the field and aligned itself to me, puffing hard as its breath showed in the coolness, and began to stomp the ground with its front right leg. My breath caught hold as it lowered its head and began to charge at a rapid speed. I awoke seconds before contact in an upright sitting position, panting hard.
One of those dreams I will never forget, I can still see it vividly more than 20 years later.
This one time I had a dream that I was in an airplane and shortly after take off something went wrong and the plane crashed. It was very creepy since I was leaving to study abroad the next day. So I got on the plane the next day and got this weird feeling that the dream was going to come true, so I had a mini freak out and got off the plane along with some of my friends. Wait for it…the plane actually crashed, without me and my friends on it. Over the next few weeks my friends kept dying in very weird circumstances. I think my premenition doomed us all, I feel like I’m next.
Very recently, I had one of the strangest and most memorable dreams of my life. I recall it being sort of like a set narrative in a way, but really disrupted and broken in pieces. Like a film reel that’s been mercilessly editted. Parts were set in an airish forest where I was behind the eyes of some predator racing around trees. And other parts had characters which I believe were my family caught in a twisted Grapes of Wrath-esque plot. I thought it really profound when I first woke up, but it gradually slipped away from me and I hadn’t thought about ’till I read this article just now. Nice article by the way.
@Pablo- The post itself said that they may not be faces you remember, but you may have just seen them once before. It may have been the guy who got attacked by a tiger on Animal Planet, or the waitress at Bob Evan’s from yesterday.
I’m not sure if this is true or not… but I heard that if you are having a dream where you die, then your body may actually believe you have died and your body shuts down so you really do die! It’s kind of scary, but once again, I’m not positive that it’s true.
I was walking in SOHO with my kids and we saw a large fish tank in a store window. The tank was filled with small gold fish. Hundreds of them. So we took a picture. Three days later we were having dinner with my girlfriend and she started to tell us about a weird dream she had where there was this large fish tank that was filled with hundreds of small goldfish. I looked at my daughter and she went and got the camera. My girlfriend asked, “what is this all about?”, and then looked at the picture and screamed. “Oh My God, that is my dream!!”
Weird
I once had a dream that I took a tour of Sea World with a group of elves as my tour guides. It was cool at first, i was petting dolphins and riding on the backs of whales, but then they took me to the shark tank, pushed me in, and laughed as I tried to swim to the top but could not make it.
I’ve had dreams, in which i can’t wake up.
because usually if im having a bad dream i can scream at myself in the dream and wake up.
but i would try, and instead
I would just go back into another dream in which i think i’m awake,
like literally in my room on my bed about to stand up and pee
but i’m still asleep.
i have people talking to me in the dream, telling my i’m not worth life, that no one wants me to wake up.
and i wake up, and freak the F out.
and i’ve cried many times. EH?!
I used to have orgasms in my dreams all the time as a teenager. They’re called wet dreams are pretty messy. I don’t believe I’ve ever had a dry wet dream. That’s why they’re called wet dreams. Perhaps woman dream orgasms are different though…..
Im a very experienced lucid dreamer and i can say first hand that having sex when im lucid does give me wet results.!!!!!
I love dreams, and keep a dream journal that I write in as soon as possible when I wake up. It helps with lucid dreams and also is a fun and relaxing way to wake up in the morning. My dreams are often hectic and involve some sort of adventure with a randomly generated group of people I know in real life (close friends or mere acquaintances).
A recent example: Four friends and I hike out into the desert, find a house stocked with all kinds of food and entertainment and everything you could want. The FBI shows up and infests the place with ants, hoping to attract seagulls which will then poop everywhere. The poop will then catch on fire in the desert sun and burn the house down, as the house is magical and dangerous to the government. We run away, find a lake where we catch a couple kinds of frightening and horrific lake monsters for our dinner. We return to find a couple hundred horribly injured boy scouts, but we ignore them and go inside the now-abandoned and crap-covered house, where we make chicken sandwiches. Only instead of mayo we used frostys from the wendy’s frosty machine in the kitchen. Yeah this is pretty standard, sleeping is fun
I kind of feel like the percentage of people that believe in precognitive dreams is a bit high, but that might just be from experience. I usually dream in color, but when I have a black and white dream, it’s always the same. It’s totally dark except for one spotlight where someone I know is on a stage. Everyone in the audience is mocking and laughing at them.
Within a week or two, something bad happens to that person. I’ve had this dream about two people who have died, one who lost their job, one who got very ill, and two who got in severe car accidents.
I think I was kind of quick to pick up on it because the same thing happens to my mom except she only dreams about people who are dying, and they die soon afterwards.
It’s always really scary, and I never really know if I should tell the person in the dream about it.
Ever since I was 5 years old, the majority of my dreams have involved my death. Just for fun, I’ll post the first one I can remember:
1.) The first dream I ever remember having was when I was 5. I was standing in front of an old run-down spooky building when a pale woman in a tattered white gown came floating toward me, arms outstretched and toes dragging on the ground. I ran, not really watching where I was going, and I bumped into something and fell backward. When I looked ahead of me, it was a small portly man wearing a derby cap, thick Coke-bottle glasses and a trench coat with a turtleneck sweater. I stared at him for a second before standing up. He spoke with an English accent and asked “Well, well, well! Wot ‘ave we got ‘ere?!” Then, he grabbed me by the hair and produced a spoon. I stood there in horror, unable to escape, as he pushed the spoon into my eye socket. I could feel the metal of the spoon scraping against the bone in the hollow space beneath the orb of my eye, and then I heard a ridiculous *POP* as he popped my eye out and put it in a large jar that already had several eyes in it. The pain was excruciating. Then, he repeated with the other eye, as he sang some kind of song. After that, I died and fell on the ground as he walked away, whistling. However, I knew it was only a dream, and I told myself that as I slept. So, as a result, 2 more ridiculous *POPS* occurred, and my eyes grew back, and I stood up…alive again. That was a mistake, because the English man also heard the popping and repeated the process again until I woke up.
I’m pretty sure that dream was a result of a movie I watched, that I wasn’t supposed to watch, about a man who collected eyes in a jar.
My parents and I live in Northern Michigan. We love it up here and feel this is where we belong. We have nightmares that we have to move back downstate – we moved up here in 1981. I bought a house in 2006. I dream that I have to move out of my house into a boring, dark house without windows. I feel sad in the dream! I don’t want to move!! Also I dream about discovering new rooms in my house.
I dream that when I am driving my car I get stuck in the snow. I give up and get out of my car and walk. I am afraid I’ll be late for work but I make it to work on time even though I am running in slow motion.
Comment #61 Dave – This happens to me too. I can’t remember what I dream about. But when I am dreaming I have memories of past dreams.
i remember a dream i had from the middle/end of last year and still havent worked it out. its really not that trivial but in it i was at my school which is an all girls school but in my dream it was co-ed and i was in the toilets at the sinks washing my hands and this angelic looking guy walked in and kissed me but as he did there was an old guy standing beside us yelling at him to eat me or something? the guy and me then started going out and i was showing him off to all my friends and trying to be affectionate with him but he wouldnt let me….i dont even know who the guy is!!!! freakin me out man..
i’ve once had a dream i got a blow job but i don’t have a penis; i am a female-to-male transgender though so i don’t know if that’s got anything to do about it; i’ve also had several dreams where i’m having sex as a male when i still physically am not
I remember having a dream that an A380 (or something like that) was flying right past my apartment then the plane went on fire and crashed below us…
I’ve also had a dream about my friends and boyfriedn in a car accident… I hope it never happens..
When I was young, I had a dream that I was at my cousins house, and everything was in slow motion. I walked into the bathroom, turned to see an adult Simba in the hallway, and then turned back and turned on the faucet and a green slime oozed out so I shut it off, and when I did, I got sucked up the drain where I was taken to the sewer, where I proceeded to ride an alligator through the sewer water with the rats and such. And then I woke up and hallucinated. And was too young to enjoy it.
I think I had too much cough syrup or something…
I had a pre-cognitive dream in which I dreamt that I will dream about reading a website about dreams.
I’ve seen many Precognitive dreams at age 13-15 (im 20 now)
Most were of days in school.
Those often included events that would happen, like having to fend off bullies,
my exam results and most disturbingly in some cases, the exam results of some of my class-mates.
Back in the service from which i was released a few weeks ago.
I had been having hard times wondering why the hallway in the barracks i lived at was SO familiar.
With doors that had wooden nameplates on the sides and a table in the center facing a door-entrance.
One day i figured it out when at the tables side there was a yellow military-newsposter which read in big letters:
“Private fell limb on physical stress and found dead”
I realized that back in school 6-7 years ago i’ve had been having a dream of reading that news from the same hallway which, otherwise was not filled with military looking men
My family always have the weirdest dreams- and we remember a lot more than normal people do. My dad was passing kidney stones one night and he dreamt he was in labor. The pain continued so he gave birth 6 times- and they were puppies! lol. My mom had a dream that she got caught in a time warp elevator, go up and you go forward in time and go down and you go back- but further each time so she couldn’t go back to her own time zone. I had a dream once that I married a talking cricket- no it wasn’t jimeny. It was an inch tall with a top hat, and we went through the whole ceremony and then the wedding night we got into a fight. He stormed out, and a couple minutes later I remembered it had snowed. I rushed out to find him and rescue him and after an intensive search I found him frozen. I wasn’t gonna be a widow on my wedding night so I warmed him up with 2 mcdonalds french fries- one on each side. So like I said, we have weird dreams- and this is almost every night with so many details it’s incredible!
Just thought I’d mention that reason # 2 is redundant considering reason # 3
I think it’s weird that when I have scary dreams (swimming in a river full of severed limbs, about to be mauled by a tiger, seeking someone killed and their eyeball rolling out) I am not actually scared. In the dream, I think these things are normal, so they are not “nightmares.” But one time I had a dream of being in a forest at night at there was a tree there, just this one particular tree, and I was so afraid of it I couldn’t sleep and felt paranoid all night.
Between the end of my senior year of high school and the end of my freshman year of college, I had 3 dreams about zombies. The first 2 also had floods in them. The first dream had my mom & some high school friends in it, the second one had my college friends in it, & the last one had a group of people that, in the dream, I knew they were my family, but they didn’t look like my family at all. Also, I wasn’t myself in the dream. I felt like me, but I was in the body of an actress (I recognized her, but I can’t think of her name). The earliest dream I remember is from when I was 5 or 6. In the dream, I walked into the woods across a field from our house and I stumbled upon a village. Cat-people lived in the village and their clothes and the buildings were like they were from early European colonies. The cat-people walked up to me, sniffed me, & then started chanting “One of us.” When I woke up, I thought that the dream had been real and I tried to go find the village again. I was very disappointed when I couldn’t find it again. Last night, I had a dream that I was at a concert in my high school & I started to panic because my cell phone was ringing. I finally woke up and realized that the alarm on my phone was going off. I’ve had a bunch of other weird dreams, too.
Almost total bullshit, with some vague speculations that might be true just to give it the air of credibility.
Precognition? Go f*ck yourself with your copy of “The Secret”, you pseudo-scientific twat.
Hi … some good reads. I agree with alot of people that No. 4 is in conflict -
My best remembered dreams are alien ones – I have 2 types of Aliens I met in a dream once – spaceship came to my parents garden and I got in it. .. How they looked is my secret.
In another dream I was amongst ‘Predator’ type beings – dark metallic, 10ft tall with the dreads.. . and there were many of them…. One was bemused by me cause I could fly like them… and I had to get out of there – I had a key to the garden shed behind this church yard so I was safe. … before that I was training humans to go to earth and I had got bored and went out of the compound.
I have this strange tendency when I’m sleeping to walk around and have conversations with people about my dreams while I’m still unconcious…
I once had a 30 minute conversation with two ofmy friends how i couldn’t believe that the sky was yellow and where was the moon, which culminated in my asking if the angry stars had eaten it….
One of my wierder nights….
Ok, explain to me how #6 is a ‘fact’. Is there any way to scientifically prove this? If you hold that belief, fine. But to say it’s a fact indicates that maybe the word ‘fact’ is misunderstood. Conjecture? Opinion? Wishes? Maybe. But not fact.
Also, an unrelated source of irritation.
In “4. In Our Dreams We Only See Faces, That We already Know”, please check the use of the comma. Why would there be a comma after Faces? You could probably use one after Dreams, but not after Faces.
I woke myself up with my own snoring while having a nice, comfortable dream, so that bit about ‘snorers don’t dream’ is false. The faces I see in my dreams are too beautiful for the real world-I might have contrived them, but I’ve never seen real faces like them.
I once had a somewhat precognitive dream. I dreamt of walking alone somewhere at night. I saw these buildings and the way straight let to an abbey and there were these plants along the way. I woke up and felt weird
A few years later, I visited my aunt at a place I’ve never been before. There was a street festival, and I walked with her boyfriend around as she was working. And I walked exactly the same way, saw the same plants and the abbey right in front of me just like in the dream! The difference was that I wasn’t alone. It felt very déjà vu
My aunt suggested that there some souls leave the body at night to explore the world..
my weirdest dream is from when i ws like 5 or 6 and i can still remember it: in one part, i was in a lab looking for my mum, whilst running away from an antagonist [forgot wat occupation he was, most likely mad scientist], and in da other scene i remember, i was fighting da antagonist/antagonist’s henchmen and they had me pinned on top of da helicopter, and they were torturing me by leaving gashes on my inner thigh. I seriously blame jurassic park, all da jackie chan movies, and bloody mary…….
i guess this is da 10% dat i could neva forget,
there neva really was a face, i think, i dunno, dang, how i wish for dis dream to occur again…… but i was scared outta my mind, so maybe not….
im not da 12% who dreams in black and white T~T
i really dunno wat my dream is suppose ta be symbolic of… not to mess wit mad scientists?
lol, being scared outta your mind is so a negative emotion XD, especially for a 5/6 y.o.
i hope dis doesnt happen to me in real life, but then again, i could always use an adventure XD
It’s not the strangest I’ve had, but it still makes me l.o.l. every single time I recall it, so here goes-
My roommates brother and I had been drinking at one of the on-campus pubs at the super spy/ninja academy/college we were attending and decided to part ways for the evening.. Being a super spy/ninja, I tailed him. He got a call and went to this other bar off campus that was part chic-club, part Korova Milk bar, (from A Clockwork Orange.) Staying concealed at the other end of the joint, monitoring him for my assignment, I started picking up on a nearby conversation- this popped-collar douchebag was inferring to his friends that I was some sort of homosexual and that my attire was ill conceived, (leaving out the colorful dialogue.) Being rather drunk myself, I wasn’t taking any of it and let him know we were about to fight, via a light slap to the back of the head with my titanium knuckles. As he and his chums were getting up to engage in combat, the guy stumbled a bit and I launched a kick….. only to wake up at that exact instant and kick my very sound asleep cat into the wall. I must’ve just caught her in the stomach cause she was fine, perplexed and ready for war, but unhurt. I never got back to sleep, due to the hysterical laughter that caught me every time I’d lay still and get that mental image of my familiar standing at full attention and mad as hell, but unsure where to direct her aggression.
about the snoring thing i think its true, because snoring takes place during stage 4 of sleeping, and there’s no dreaming during stage 4 we dream during rem sleep.
#14 If it’s not proven, it’s not a fact, so please don’t call it one
I believe that item 4 has merit. I can’t quantify my belief as I have NO scientific proof other than my experiences. I believe that our eye’s sees everything we look at. Our brain processes what we see but for unknown reasons we only see bits and pieces that are significant, either what we want to see or what stands out. Just think of all the images we see during the hours we are awake. Images we see on TV, internet, magazines, etc. We don’t notice everything that we see, so I believe that it is plausible that we dream of people we seen, but not realize we’ve actually seen them or where we’ve seen them.. I have sat down and meditated on specific images. Such as, where I’ve seen it and what was around the image. I’ve actually remember, if you will, items that I didn’t see the first time. So, yes I believe that it is possible that we dream of faces that we have seen, but not actually process during our waking hours. Our brain is a magnificent organ and we don’t know All of what it can accomplish. I believe that dreams are a gateway into our unconscious, and help us to understand and process how we react or relate to life around us. Please note that this my belief and that is not quantifiable….. yet.
this is a true story!!!
a few years before 9/11 I had a few recurring dreams. in those dreams i look out of my window and i see a plane crash into a high rise building next to mine. I had the dream a few times and told friends about it, it never happened again after 9/11 (I am in NYC btw).
I do not see in focus. In my life I think I have had maybe 4 dreams that were clear. Ive been meaining to ask other people that wear glasses if they dream the same as I do
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Also, I wear my glasses constantly, unless Im sleeping or in the shower so I dont understand why my dreams always look like Im walking around without my glasses.
Also, characters in my dreams remember eachother.
I had a dream months ago that I was living with the Botwins (On weeds) and Silas and I hooked up.
A few weeks ago I had a dream that Heath Ledger was my boyfriend and we went to visit the Botwins and SIlas was jealous of Heath lol He pulled my aside and asked what happened to him and me lol.
Does anyone else have dreams like this?
My snoring becomes incorporated into my dreams.
When I was younger, about 5 or 6, I had a very strange dream. My whole family and I were in a library which looked exactly like the library that was in the town I was living in at the time. We were being chased by a large fuzzy orange monster. (if you’ve seen the weight watchers commercial with the hunger monster, It looked a lot like that only larger) Well the monster chased us around much like in a scooby doo chase sequince. Finally I ran and hid under a couch in the library and the watched as the monster ripped each of my family member apart and ate them. It was very graphic.
To this day I do not know why I remembered the dream in full detail or why I remembered it all these years…..
Pablo. there really is no such things as ghosts, so you have nothing to worry about, it even says it right in the Bible, whats dead is dead and cannot come back. there is however two explainations for the things we see, the most common being whats reffered to as playback, everything holds energy, so we may see that energy reoccur. the other is something i cannot say, but it is proven. rest easy it was probably the paralysis spoken of before, it even said it can be triggered while our brains are waking.
Thank you for the wonderful post! I happen recurring dreams, dreams are remembered for a long time. I often have dreams and I like it a lot!
I always have the most bizarre dreams. o.o But somehow each sequence ties together and makes sense. The other day I had an exceptionally odd one. It involved a virus taking over the human race. This virus does not kill, it shrinks the victim to microscopic size. xD As soon as I woke up I wrote down what I remembered. (Lease excuse the horrid writing, I was still half asleep when I write.)
what did my dream about the lobsters exploding with rainbow guts symbolize?
I snore and have many dreams… one in which i was a tiger and actually pounced like one in my bed freaking out the GF. True story
I used to consistently have dreams of zombie apocalypse or similar end-of-the-world scenarios where civilization had failed and the last remnants of humanity fought for survival. I was always the hero, killing zombies and leading people from danger. I study psychology in my spare time and used this information to lead my life. At the time of these dreams I was a high school dropout who couldn’t find a job and did lots of drugs.
Now I’m a network engineer.
Everyday I relish the fact that me, a high school dropout, is now an engineer. I attribute it to my dreams, my philosophical view of life, and my high school psychology teacher, who got me interested in learning the ways of the mind.
I will have to admit, though, that I do believe that some of the more ‘mind-freeing’ drugs had a lot to do with my current success. Not all of the things that society labels as evil IS evil. Expand your mind, but learn the lessons that the vision teaches you.
Ok I was looking for answers in all the wrong places.
I remember being abruptly woken up while I was completely asleep. (I thought something was in my room, I was absolutely terrified) I tried to get up but I felt a heavy pressure in my lower back and I was completely paralyzed!! I couldn’t scream, couldn’t move anything. Next thing I knew it was morning. I never spoke to anyone about this in fear of being judged or thought of a weirdo.
Thank you number 10. (If in fact it’s true, it’ll take my number 1 reason why this paralysis overcame me. It definitely seems a little more likely than aliens coming into my room.)
I’m going to look into this more!! Great Stumble! Great Post!
I have had de ja vu..from dreams
Anyway..my dreams seem to be morbid..
1) I dreamt that there were 3 dead bodies in my bathtub…my parents decided to hang them up on the washing clothing line….and then my mum sprinkled salt on them?!!….haha i have no idea..why the salt..
2) I dreamt that half of me was on fire and no matter what i did or anyone did, i couldn’t put myself out..and then I woke up.
Okay, I think that the reason 4 can be true is think about how many people you see in a day at work or school or on the street some you only see for a split second but your brain may store that information away. SO you may not remember them but them but they are there…
I have precognitive daydreams and they always have to do with music. I’ll be listening to the radio or itunes or pandora or something and I’ll think of a song I want to hear and it will come on next. That actually happens usually at least twice a day. I’ve become accustomed to it but it never works when I try to make it work.
I broke my toe in my sleep one time. I dreamed I was kicking this really mean guy (right where it counts), I pulled my leg back as far as i could and kicked as hard as I could. I happened to kick what happened to be a stud in my wall. It was a really good dream, until i woke up in agony. Perhaps it was because I was hungover?
I remember my favorite recent dream involving making up with an ex, going to a party with him, losing track of him, wandering down a hallway to a room that’s an aquarium because aparrently the house was built partially underwater, and then water started flooding in, so i opened the door only to realize the room was flooding out into the hall. And people were screaming and there was blood everywhere, so we all run around trying to find out what’s happened only to find out people at the party had been murdered. (I know this sounds morbid but i promise it really is a funny dream). So first we think it’s this creepy girl who keeps running through the walls, but we find out it’s actually not her at all, but rather her CAT that’s killing everyone. But the best part about this is that her cat was made out of yarn. To this day I have no idea what the significance of that dream is.
Where’s your proof for these “facts”?
To those of you who have experienced the strange sensation where you were paralyzed, that’s called sleep paralysis. Sometimes it even happens to people who aren’t fully asleep (like me), but just trying to rest. Sometimes, but usually if you’re unaware of what it is and the room is dark, it can even cause hallucinations as the dreaming part of your brain attempts to make sense of your paralysis. This also deals with incorporation, but your inability to move is being incorporated into your altered perception of reality.
Look up sleep paralysis on wikipedia for a wealth of interesting information. People typically used to hallucinate of old women, ghosts, and monsters, holding them down, muffling their cries. The first time I had this experienced, I hallucinated that an evil version of my friend was sitting on my chest, strangling me, and that something had pierced my back. I literally thought I was dying.
After I figured out what it was, the hallucinations ceased entirely, and the paralysis happens less and less.
And, although I have had a dream that could qualify as precognitive, I have to say that dreams like that are purely coincidental. There is NO reason to believe humans have any capacity for predicting the future at all.
The strangest thing about my dreams is that they all seem to happen in geographic locations that are adjacent to each other…like i could draw a map of my dreamscape in its entirety. I’m very curious what this kind of thing means.
I had a dream I was eating a giant marshmallow-and when I woke up my pillow was gone.
I have recently been having a reoccurring theme in my dreams that my legs don’t work or are weak. Not like I’m in a wheel chair but usually in the beginning of the dream my legs will be fine but the all of a sudden they’ll go limp and ill struggle to stand and walk.
I tend to remember most of my dreams ,somtimes in the course of the day,.
A lot of the time I dream of running/escaping people,creatures, things i cant see. I still dream of sitting for college/school exams and going totally blank though I have been good at studies and it 15 yrs since i got my degree. I dream of reading books I haven’t read before or even heard of. months later at the bookshop I see a title and its dejavu as I remember paragraphs or pages. Even events local and global that happen years later mainly to do with inventions or some architectural work like I dreamt of travelling in an overhead train and by sea link in Bombay to and from particular localities 16yrs ago . The sealink came up only last year and planning on the train system has just started . This was way before internet info bombardment . I could go on ,sometimes I have such terrifying dreams I hate going back to sleep. I often dream of missing a bus/train/plane and everyone gets in and Iam all alone or if I get in there is a breakdown and Iiam stuck in the middle of no where. Guess I have written too much .
@Pablo I belive they would be looking at the parts of the brains that are used during dreaming, how much memory related parts light up (A LOT) compared to how much the areas assosiated with creativity light up (not so much)
cool site and facts
My Identical twin sister and I (though we are at college apart) have always had many of the same dreams. It was very interesting to hear my mother telling me my own dream for the first time when I was 8. My twin, Natalie had told her about it, and my mom told me. We’ve had the same recurring dream of a man chasing my sister, mother and me many times.
Lately I have been having really intense and vivid dreams about zombies. Most of them are people i already know. They try to eat me… Whats really bizarre is that my roommates(some of them zombies in my dream) have also had dreams about zombies. Needless to say I have been preparing for the zombie apocalypse.
I have those precognatiove dreams ALL THE TIME! sometimes it’s super freaky, once it lasted for close to twenty minutes. everything i was seeing had happened before, exactly as it was happening, in a dream i had
I always seem to come up with my best artistic ideas when I’m falling asleep or in dreams. It’s usually when I’m halfway between sleep and being awake that these ideas just start to come to me. Very interesting stuff, these dreams. I hope one day we can record our dreams or something.
I once dreamed that whatever I peed on got bigger. I ended up with a huge hand.
uhhh
this sort of scares but
i swear 9/10 i had a dream a plane crashed into a building, i ran around trying to save people
sadly 9 11 happened next day, it was really weird, so i agree with 13.
on a lighter note
i had a cool dream me and my class were at a beach and decided to swim off to an island. in the island we found a grocery store. we went inside to try and figure out what the hell it was doing on this island, inside we found angree natives that took some of my classmates captive. we ra n back to the mainland and realized that we had to go back to the island to save my classmates. so we mounted up on some dragons and flew there. we entered the store and inside there were no natives but instead a man in a chicken suit playing guitar hero, i said hey man i love that game and we began to play together
I know this may sound creepy, but I harm people in my dreams, sometimes kill them. Now, let me justify this by saying in those dreams, it’s because said people are trying to hurt my family and I am merely trying to protect them, but they are so vivid I often wake up crying from them.
Those Are Some Interesting Stories..
So Ever Since I Was A Littile Girl I Have Had This Reoccuring Dream…. In A House That I Have Never Seen Before, In My Dream My Grandmother Lived In This House.. The House Was Surrounded By All These Beautiful Different Types Of Flowers.. And When You Walk Into This House Theres This Vague Smell.. Sometimes When Im Around My Grandmother That Scent Will Fill The Air.. I Have No Idea What Scent It Is But It Seems Like It Should Be Something I Should Instantly Remember.. And When The Air Fills With This Smell It Brings Back These Really Weird Memories.. And These Memories Take Me Back Ta Way Back When, When I Was Little And I Always Helped Around My Grandmothers House.. Sometimes In The Very Beginning Of This Odd Dream Its As If Im Tracing A Long Narrow Drive Way With My Eyes.. I Have Asked My Grandmother Several Times If She Has Any Idea As To Why I’m Having This Reoccuring Dream And She Told Me That My Mother Had Once Had A Dream Similar To Mine When She Was A Little Girl.. So I Went To My Mother And Asked Her About Her Dream And Almost Everything She Told Me Was EXACTLY Like Mine.. So Still To This Day I Have Yet To Reveal The Meaning Of This Dream….
I had a really wierd experience when i was young.
i was having this dream that i was being chased by something and i ran out the front door of my house and down the street, the monster or whatever (i cant remember) kept chasing me and i couldn’t get away. i ran through a park down the street from my house, and climbed on top of this big fence post. some dogs then started barking from a house close by, which scared the monster away. i then sprinted home about a block and a half.
the dream was extreamly realistic and the wierdest thing was when i woke up the next mornig there was Grass Clippings in my bed. i still dont know if i did everything i dreamt but i used to sleep walk, when i was a kid
i had a dream when i was 17 years old about a black raven in a cage. the cage opened and the raven flew out, free.
my dad died after that dream, he was in a wheelchair. i do believe dreams can be symbolic and i think my dad was the raven, his wheelchair the cage.
There is a way how to increase the dream recall. Have the dictaphone or something to write. And when you wake up, lay in a bad for some time and in dreamy state try to catch what you remember and ask questions like “and the happened what?” I saw something and then?” In this way you can increase the recall up to 100%
I sometimes do things in my sleep that are related to my dreams. My roommate tells me I speak French in my sleep on occasion, and I once sat up and tried to sing (about a jingle I had made up to sell turnips in order to ransom back a hippopotamus I had lost from my tour group in Dallas). Only a few nights ago, I dreamed that I was fighting with my younger brother, and it was very important that I punch his foot (don’t ask me why his foot. I just go with it.). I vaguely remember punching the wall, and when I woke up the next morning, I discovered a slice across the back of my knuckles.
Thanks for this thing , it’s interesting
I was just scamming the internet this morning, and I came across these facts and I thought it was weird because last night I had a dream this kid came up to me in a hurry, and gave me 220 dollars saying take this, if you don’t I’m going to overdose I know it. Implying if he would have kept the money he would have bought herion with it and overdosed on it. I know this kid in real life, and I really always wonder what my dreams mean. I have so many weird acurances, and deja vu situations that it really trips me out sometimes.
Does anyone know a dream interpertation website I could go to?
I’m “iffy”on the whole Paralysis thing… I have what are called Waking Dreams where I am asleep and dreaming, get out of bed and wander around while dreaming all the while. I am technically asleep but I see my dream and reality co-mingling and sometimes I know I am dreaming and am able to get myself back into bed but other times I wake up in other rooms with only dreams of going out for a walk.
The snoring thing isnt true. I snore like freight train. Anytime im asleep. And anytime I sleep I have a dream. Without fail. That fact is ludicrous
I love dreaming that I’m flying because it felt real… Sometimes I can transport from one place to another. Isn’t that cool?
The majority of my dreams – I’d say at least 80% – seem to be set in my childhood home, the house I grew up in. Even when it doesn’t exactly resemble the house in layout or design it still “feels” like my childhood home. Strange.
How could anyone know how much of a dream is forgotten? It might be an educated guess, based on some brain scan tests or something, but how on earth could anyone prove that somebody forgot whatever percentage of a dream? Who is recording this dream from outside of the sleeping person’s head, and by what sci-fi mechanism, and then comparing that to what the subject can remember when they wake up?
my girfriend is being chased by chocolate pudding in her dreams
i obviously dream of faces i have never seen because i have dreamed of a person whose face was constantly different drifting in and out of familiarity.. there were others that were wrong like the snoring thing.. ive woken myself from a dream while still snoring
On September 11th, 2001 I woke from a dream in which I was surrounded by flames, and people running around me on fire. I was thinking, “Why would America set me on fire?” I felt the floor buckle and drop, and heard three loud booms. The last boom woke me up. I went out to the front room and told my roommate and his girlfriend about the dream. They have just woken up, and my roommate told me he’d had a dream about fire too. And his girlfriend said she had a dream about a missile flying by and hitting a building, blowing up one side. A half hour later the neighbor upstairs told us about the WTC event. We were all a bit weirded out by it. We were in a quiet area of Montana and had no T.V.. so there was no external influence. I know this is a big can of worms, but I’ve known since that moment that the only terrorists that day were the world leaders. I’ve learned since then that a lot of people had similar dreams that day.
Dreaming of water is meant to symbolise your emotions. If your drowning then your failing to deal with your environment, if you are surfing you are riding your emotions with ease and enjoying yourself. Interestingly, since I heard this I dream of water more and there is a direct link between my interaction with it and what is going on in my ‘real’ life.
I didn’t read anywhere near all the comments here, but there are some great ones. I remember a few times as a kid not making it to the bathroom to pee because I was dreaming I was already in the bathroom. As someone said up above, there have been some close calls since, but now that I can recognize having to pee in a dream as really meaning I really have to go, I make it to the bathroom… lol.
When I was 6 or so, I had the first nightmare I can really remember having, and I still remember it now. Sort of. I dreamed that this monster was chasing me, so I ran to my Mom. She was in her room folding laundry on the bed. I begged her to help me, but she just laughed and said she was busy and kept folding clothes. I got into her bed, but the monster went up under the blankets at the foot of the bed and chewed my foot off. I don’t remember what happened after that but I was pretty freaked out over it when I woke up.
You missed one:
You cannot read in your dreams !!
I’ve has some very strange dreams lately. Has anyone ever had two or three dreams in a row on different nights that have the same people in them? It is like I am living an entirely different life with these people. I have never had this happen before but i usually don’t remember two or three days of dreams in a row either so maybe all our dreams are connected but we just don’t remember enough of them to know. Or maybe the real thrill is we are living more than one life at a time lol.
Has anyone had a lucid dream? This usually happens just before you wake up in the morning. All of the sudden a part of your brain realizes you are dreaming and it is like being a voyeur to your dream lol. Sometimes you can change what is going on in the dream. fun but shocking when it happens.
Sometimes I dream that I am swimming through the air… similar to flying, but to move around and navigate it’s like being in resistance free water. Once I flew over pre-Vesuvius Pompeii.
Comes from years of competitive swimming I’m sure, but I friggin love those dreams.
you can also dream in different languages too if you’re multilingual
I LOVE TO DREAM ACTUALLY WITH MY BELOVED ONE…….
U ALSO DREAM BECOZ DREAMS CAN GIVE U HAPPY EXPERIENCE AND RELAX……..
I had a dream the other night that I was the best basketball player in Arizona. Then one day, I was kidnapped by Walmart and was being held hostage in one of the stores. The only way to escape was to distract the guards by singing a song while playing the piano. The singing turned into a metal fest with Jack Black and we sang some mighty great tunes with words that didn’t even exist. I woke up right when we finished our song fest. Great dream.
when i was a kid i had a dream about this very article.
I dream every night and I always remember in detail what I was dreaming. Sometimes I think I could right a book or a script for a movie if I would only take notes every morning when the dreams are fresh in mind. My dreams are so detailed that I could draw the places I dream about. Often I dream about places, countries, cities that I have lived in and in my dreams I am so happy in that place that I wake up with anxiety wondering why I ever left that place. After a couple of minutes I remember that it wasn’t all that great living in that particular place so it seems I glorify memories and experiences. However, most of my dreams are nightmares and makes me feel anxious when I wake up. My most common nightmare is that I lose my teeth; that they are chipped, bleeding and crushed. I also dream that I am in really bad fights with my mum and call her all sorts of names that I would never tell her to her face. My dreams are as most vivid the hours just before waking up (or at least I think so). I have always been a vivid dreamer since I was a child and in my young years my parents told me that I sometimes confused my dreams with reality. My childhood dreams would often put me in the place of an animal such as a wolf being persecuted and shot by hunters or a deer having its throat cut. This made me develop a strong empathy for animals which later made me an animals right activist as an adult.
I mostly have very unpleasant dreams, but occasionally I have a lovely dream that has been recurring since childhood. I don’t know exactly how to explain it, except that in the dream, I discover suddenly that I can slide down staircases without walking on the steps, as if I’m skiing. It’s a very sensuously pleasant sensation, and it makes me feel very competent and special. I’ve had the dream many, many times and look forward to having it again some night.
I use to have a dream (over and over) that my teeth would fall out. I could be brushing, talking, walking or playing the piano. I quit haveing them when I reached 40 or so. Dream on all!
@ Rich DeMataeo
You probably woke up during REM sleep. If you do, you can still be paralyzed and will see things, often terrifying. And some people even see strange creatures or demons sitting on their chests making it difficult to breathe. People usually wake up during REM sleep when they are under a lot of stress. I did one time. It was very scary. I kept seeing this weird thing move around my room and I was aware of everything but I couldn’t move or speak. It can last anywhere from a few seconds to minutes. Pretty scary stuff.
I’ve had dreams with faces I do no recognize and sometimes people dont have faces at all
reply #7…you did experience body paralysis..i have many times and everytime was accompianed by an evil presence in the room,youre wide awake and your brain still hs your motor functions turned off so moving isn’t possible..i found it scary yet enjoyable,but thata me
I had a dream that I was in a plane crash. The plan landed in a river and you could see land very close on both sides and everyone that was on the flight was okay. Then in real life, a week later flight 1549 landed in the Hudson.
my dreams usually consist of me trying to run away from someone, but my legs won’t take me any faster than a crawl. Also, if I try to scream, it comes out as a whisper…interesting
I talk so loud in my sleep that I wake myself up and sometimes catch myself finishing my sentences. It’s so weird. I think I’m mental. :/
I love dreams and find the whole thing fascinating. There have been many occasions where I have experienced something in a dream, eg. skydiving, hangliding, dying, where I absolutely know that what I dreamed is exactly how it would be so in essence I have done it. I have heard that you cannot die in you dreams buy I did once and I remember it vividly. I was under the sea, my lungs were fighting to inhale but my mind was saying ‘no! you can’t do it!’ all the time I was fighting it was horrible. Eventually I inhaled the water and the life ebbed away from me, but as it did I was still a little consious. My body totally relaxed moving with the current, I would go as far as to say I became the sea. It was actually really beautiful and peaceful but only when I let go.
About point 13 – I have also many times dreamed a situation, often a quite unique situation and it has happened. I have spoken about this with many people about this and a lot of people have had the same thing. Maybe it is info from a higher power? Not the angry gray bearded God though, he’s man made! For more info on dreams go to a website called Documentary Heaven, there is a fascinating docu on there, happy dreaming folks. Peace.
I once dreamt that I was in an Adam Sandler movie. He was determined to join the army but his mom (the same mom from the Water Boy) didn’t want him to get hurt so she joined as well and became his sergeant. Adam Sandler ended up stuck behind enemy lines so he shrunk himself and dressed up as a banana and tried to sneak across in a banana vendor’s cart. It worked but then someone tried to eat him. He was screaming and waving his little banana peel arms, “Don’t eat me! I’m not a banana!” I woke up laughing.
I once dreamed I had insomnia
most ironic dream ever
Most of thse “Facts” have mounds of study behibnd them, and I can only refute a couple of them. The snoring one is nonesense. Snoring happens when the muscles in your throat relax and block or obstruct the air passage (Overweight people tend to snore more often because they have more flesh and less toned muscles in the neck and throat area). It is purely physiological, not psychological. The only other on is the Precognitive/ Deja Vu point. While I believe in precognition to a point, the scientific theory with the most evidence pertaining to Deja Vu has nothing to do with future, but rather a cerebral mistake. The best way to explain it is that our brain is like a PC, with different storage files for different information. Instead of saving our experience to the “happening now” folder, our brain saves it to the “already happened/memory folder.” This is what leaves us with the feeling that its already happened.
I dreamt I was riding in the car with my family, I was sitting on the right side of the car in the back seat. The windows were open. I was looking out the window and I saw a dove flying. I wanted that dove. It flew through the window and I caught it. As it struggled, its right wing came off. I felt horrible. I felt like I didn’t deserve that dove and I should let it go. So, I gave it a chance to leave and fly out the window but it stayed with me. Its wing that fell off turned black. I nurtured the dove, it loved me. I remember it looking back at me and loving me. One day, I felt that I should let it go, like it wanted to leave. So I let it fly out the window and in its mid-flight, it grew another wing but this wing, was a large bat wing. It was black and strong. It looked so strange, the pure white dove with a black bat wing. Soon after we were about to leave, I saw the dove on the ground. It changed into a full bat, black as night with large ears. I didn’t know what to make of it. It almost frightened me.
I am a lucid dreamer. That means every night i dream i dream extremely vividly and most of the time a know i am dreaming. This has allowed me to remember virtually every aspect of my dreams and i have started to study my dreams. Most of these points are valid except a few. “4. In Our Dreams We Only See Faces, That We already Know” I complete disagree with this because i have scene many many faces in detail that i do not recall ever seeing. I had one dream recently where a woman looked right into my face and i did not recognize her face at all. “14. If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.” I can wholeheartedly tell you this is false. I dream every night multiple times a night and i remember them, i also snore every single night too. If you have ever wondered why most people cannot remember they are dreaming it is because when you are quickly or shockingly woken up you do not remember your dreams. Most people are woken up by alarm clock and when this happens the person is most of the time jolted to awareness. When this happens your mind doesn’t have time to reflect on the dream and is immediately focusing on something else. When you wake up on your own terms is when people are able to remember their dreams because the mind slowly comes into consciousness and the transition is smoother allowing you to remember your dream.
My mother passed away when I was 18. My parents were separated and my older brother was in the service. For several months before she died, I had reoccuring dreams of what my 2 brothers, my sister and myself would do if my mom wasn’t around. I had it all planned out and when she died, followed what my dreams had told me. I am now 60 years old and remember the dreams as if they happened yesterday.
I get the paralyzing dreams all the time. I found the best thing to do is just relax. Seems the more you fight it, the harder it is to come out of it.
In most of my dreams, i dont picture faces, but i know who the people are.. they’re mostly just blurs
I am on prozac and have the most vivid dreams ever imagined. Every night is a different dream and most of the time I am interacting in my sleep with my dream. what I mean is that if I was dunking a basketball, I would lunge my arm from one side of the bed to the other. (hitting my wife at the same time). I actually look forward to falling asleep and dreaming. when I wake up I remember most of the dreams and as the day goes on, it becomes faint. I believe my intake of prozac has alot to do with my dreams.
with all due respect, the truth is, nobody actually knows for sure what dreaming is all about; sure, there are lots of theories but that’s all they are, theories. so this post should really read, “15 interesting theories about dreams”…..but what do i know?
*scott 217: yes i’ve had exactly that dream. it was like i was forcefully trying to wake up, but this huge weight upon my chest was trying to stop me; i remember letting out a frightened moan in my sleep, yet somehow hearing it on the waking plane. i don’t mind admitting it scared the bejesus out of me. but i don’t know why. srange stuff.
mine are eerily realistic and gritty.occasionally i’ll have a pleasant dream here and there but the majority of the time my dreams are nightmarish and apocalyptic in nature (zombies, the end of the world, illness, catastrophes of many sorts) what’s odd is that i can’t figure out what would influence these dreams, what i do during the day is quite routine and normal, mundane even (go to work, workout, make dinner, chat with friends) and if i watch tv before falling asleep it’s quite tame, like the travel channel or the weather channel. what i hate most about my dreams is the fact that they are so lucid and vivid. if i get stabbed, attacked, or in some accident, i can feel everything (the pain is intense and so real, it’s almost ridiculous how intense it is) what’s odd is i remember everything after i wake up, and when i do wake up i have aches and bruises like i’ve been moving round and running in real life and not just in the dream. i live with a few people who have never seen me sleep walk so that’s been ruled out.
Good post. I have 2 awesome ones!! When I was pregnant and the hormones-a-reelin’…..
I dreamt that Dave Coulier (from full house) stole my newborn baby girl and named her “Perfume”
Also dreamt that I had a giant tattoo of a pack of hotdog buns on my back and my husband sported a package of wieners.
I urge all expectant mothers to keep a journal by the bed!!! This is good stuff!!!
I dream a lot more than most people that I have talked to. I also talk in my sleep which helps me remember my dreams because I sort of wake up when Im talking then fall right back into the same dream. I have dreams with recurring themes but not the same dream. For example a lot of my dreams I am driving in a car and the road in front of me suddenly has a large sink hole that I have to maneuver around. I also dream a lot of tidal waves coming towards me or tornadoes passing by my window as i look out.
I’ve had a reoccuring dream about driving down a dark road with only the headlights beaming on the road…I’m starting to fall asleep at the wheel and start to swerve…then I see a baby in a diaper ( about 18 months old) and I get scared and try not to hit it and I try to center my car so that it straddles the baby…and right before I get to the baby it turns around as I’m about to run over it and I wake up…EVERY TIME!!!
I love the art work! I am a lucid dreamer and I loved the tips, too. I also make very dreamy art work
My dreams are like a second life. I have a job, an apartment, a cat. I work, go out with friends. I have a boyfriend, we’re in our 20s. These run like a soap opera. Sometimes the story-line is interesting enough that I want to get back to dreaming quickly. Dream-sex is fabulous. Dream hauntings are very frightening. There is such detail in my surroundings. And yet none of the people are anyone I know…even I am not familiar to myself.
IIn this life I’m 59, retired, disabled, married for 28 years and have dogs. Go figure.
Did anyone else notice that it went from saying 15 facts in the title, to 13 facts in the introduction, to having 15 “facts”? But then they said that one “fact” hasn’t been proven as a fact. But anyway, to those of you saying that it isn’t true that your mind uses people you’ve seen, how do you know? Do you remember every face of every person you pass on the street? I’ve found that if I don’t actually know something in real life, I don’t know it in my dreams. I’m inclined to believe it.
@Lelly thank you so much for noticing! shame on me
When I dream and see a room, if I am consciousness to know that I am turning over and then indeed do turn over I then return to my dream but I am on the OTHER side of the room. Weird huh?
i am a female and i do not have many orgasms during sex, yet i have full orgasms while sleeping about 5 times a week. it’s quite interesting.
Just wondering can anyone actually eat things in their dreams? I wake up everytime something touches my lips in my dreams.
I had a dream last night that i put my friends mom’s chihuahua in a skillet trying to cook it and eat it. Then it jumped out and its back legs were burnt and shriveled to a crisp then i was trying to decide if i should just kill it or take it to the vet……like wtf????? I woke up feeling all weird. Wonder what that shit symbolizes.
Number four isn’t always right. I often dream of people I’ve never met.
I love lucid dreaming, it’s a real good high. I always have reoccurring dreams too, with the same or similar environment, and I’m always running, or trying to hide, and there’s always the main character, a bear. I consciously associate bears with fear, so i’m really intrigued about dreams in general, but even more so with dream interpretation. I also thought it was really interesting that we all use characters or people that we’ve seen, ‘cuz I’ve had some damn hot dreams with damn hot people. lol, now I want to meet them…again. I’ve also looked into controlling your dreams, its not very easy for me, but I’ve heard some people who can. That would be awesome, ‘cuz i’m naturally artistic, just think what my mind could create with infinite possibilities.
I think dreams can tell you about yourself. How your really feeling.
Dreams are HUGLEY symbolic and if you look into the symbols a whole other meaning can be found.
My dreams are often about characters in games, books or movies because that’s where my interests lie.
Because I get so attached and involved to the plot and character I often dream of being involved somewhere.
If I’m hoping for a certain person to ask me out Ill dream of our marriage or first date, if I want to go somewhere I will often dream of living there.
Also a lot of the time I dream of places I’ve been but in my dreams they will be called somewhere else.
For example I was once dreaming about Rome but we were Calling it Glasgow. In my dream we truly believed that it was out home town but it was in fact Rome.
I also speak in my dreams. I have conversations with people I miss of have seen regularly.
I think dreams are absolutely fascinating.
Here is an interesting web site in which you can analyse your dreams: http://www.dreamdoctor.com/
You simply type in your dream, the site scans your text for symbols and pick up on the most common ones and explains them to you.
I have orgasms in my sleep often. Except that it’s not just in my dream, it actually happens and I moan and yell. I love it
Back in high schoo, I once dreamt that my super conservative mother made cookies for Marilyn Manson, who was our neighbor. She just kept saying “he’s such a nice boy.”
seriously, this blog is awe-inspiring . I think im gonna stick around and read about 9 more of your posts. Peace out
i have a question… how many of us dream in the 3rd person and how many in the 1st person…
I once had a dream where i was being chased by 4 wolves in a forest with a full moon, i hid under a big uprooted tree and woke up under my bed. Pretty weird.
When I was younger I had reoccurring dreams, in which I would swear and purposefully antagonize Jesus until he started chasing after me in anger. Then when he had almost caught up, I would leap into the air and fly/hover 8ft above his head, while continuing to egg him on. I had that dream like 5 or 6 times, so strange.
i always post comments on websites when im asleep….
Where are these facts coming from? I’d like to see some sources. I’m putting together a presentation on dreams. Would be interested to see some more info…
When I was younger (up through grade school) I would have the same nightmare every night my mother would tell me “Good night sleep tight don’t let the bed bugs bite” if she said “good night sleep tight” I was fine but if she added the bit about the bed bugs I would have this nightmare.
I would be walking down a city street with all these nice houses and in the center of the block was this on old delapidated house, windows boarded up, screen door twisted and handing by one hinge, the front door had a small glass pane in it which was broken and I would go up to the front door when this hideous old lady’s face would appear in the broken glass, emerge from it, and chase me down the block, not a full bodied woman, just her head which was about the same size as I was.
I don’t know what it was about bed bugs, but it got to a point where I would freak out if my mom said the phrase because I knew it meant I’d have the dream. I finally managed to get her use to not saying it and I managed to go years without the nightmare before having it one last time. Now thankfully the saying doesn’t trigger the dream, but I still remember it quite vividly.
Scott, #10 is very common, there is even lore about it. It was once believed that an old hag (witch) was the cause. There are cases where in this state people see someone sitting on there chest and it was once believed that a witch would sit on her victims chest to kill them/curse them/etc. It is also one of the sources for the myth of the succubi (that and wet dreams)
I just had a dream last night where I had died.
And I was a ghost and the guy I liked was the only one who could see me.
And he helped me fix all the wrongs in my life and I finally admitted that I liked him.
Then I was full of resolve and I faded away.
Then I woke up.
..it was kinda like a movie or something
I would like to add, that I have more than once died in a dream, and fallen from a great height and hit ground. It happens and you do not die in your sleep from it.
If anyone wants to know how to be a lucid dreamer (control their dreams) then see an old article I wrote on it once: http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Control-Your-Dreams
I have a few notable dreams to share:
Since I was little the scariest nightmare I remember having is when I was around 1st grade.
I was walking through this street with walls covered in sesame street style graffitti or something of that nature, and my mom and I were just strolling along looking at it all. At the end of the road there was a grassy field where I saw a brown figure sitting on a rock. As I walk up to it, a very cartoonish, humanly characteristic bear turns around and shoots me with a shot gun point blank. I was terrified and ran into my dad’s bed for the night. xD
As for lucid dreams, I only have had a few of them that I really remember permanently, and the first one went like this:
I was practicing the ability to fly throughout the dream and learned quite fast. I ended up flying around as fast as Iron Man in the sky and it was the most fun I’d ever had in a dream! Also, I had acquired the power to slow down time, and I began to practice that as well. I felt like after that I would know exactly how it would feel to slow time in real life, it was amazing.
I had another dream where I was either a vampire from the start, or became one, but it wasn’t like a vampire at all. We had the ability to fly and move through anything physical. I was really good at both skills and it took lots of focus and ‘belief’ that you could do it to succeed. Eventually in the dream I began to doubt that I was special and could only lift off the ground and glide back down soon after. There was an opposing faction of undead zombies who decided to target me for whatever reason. They weren’t like a zombie in a movie, morely just greyed people that were in an organization. I kept trying to escape their clutches but my flying powers were decreasing and I could no longer move through walls or anything, it was terrifying as they grabbed for me. I think towards the end there was a renegade zombie who was helping me, but I was sucked out of the plot as I woke up.
As for reoccuring dreams, I’ve only had that happen once.
Regarding ‘made up’ people, I feel that I have invented countless people, creatures, and settings that aren’t true to reality. Of course all in various circumstances and situations.
I do have deja vu on a pretty regular basis, and different results come to pass. Sometimes I remember a sequence of dialogue people say right as it triggers, also connected with the surroundings at the time. Either they say what I predicted, do what I predicted, or I have a memory of the situation turning out completely differently! Usually in a more negative manner. And lastly, sometimes it is a mixture of going as predicted, with the rest a false or inaccurate turn out. It worries me when it’s a bad turn out, but doesn’t always feel like I’ve dreamt it. Just that I feel like I am replaying my life story over and over again with numerous turn outs. o_O;
Comment: I love reading all these dream stories and am always open to talk about the subject of dreams and lucid dreams. My email is tylerscribble@gmail
Eventually I’d like to maybe create drawings or paintings based on stories I hear or read from strangers regarding their dreams. Seems like an awfully fun idea to me. xD
the most vivd dream i had (and it reoccurs) is that at the end of the school year i got great grades and jumped into a harbor. One boat picked me up and thought i was a convict trying to escape (it was boat of prisoners). They took me to a run down jail (which i can describe completly in detail because i drew it when i wke up). They put me in a room with my friends. When my friends left for good behavior, i was alone.
Dream analyzation and Pyschology is what i want to do for my life. Im really passionate about it. So tell me what you think!
When i was let free i had to take a farry home. When i was on the boat there was a black and white spoted fish. It was about 10ft long and 8ft wide, it had yellow eyes, and kept bumping the boat. When we got near the dock, the boat wouldnt stop so me and 2 little boys i was trying to rescue, had to jump. I made it to the dock, but the boys staid on and i told them to jump anyway and swim to the dock. When they made it the fish was on our tails. The dock had sunken parts that the fish could grab us from. the boys eventually slipped but they didnt get eaten because the fish was after me.
As usual, i have no idea how it ended. My dreams never really end, and re occur alot.
I am afraid of waves, but not water itself. Although i do fear how deep it is, and what is at the bottom.
Im 15, so if u wanna analyze this for me i would really apreciate it.
Thanks!
Some people think there is no artificial light in dreams. I know I can never switch on a light in a dream, and I’ve tried countless times. What’s your experience ?
very nice, thank you for posting all informations, is interesting how people dreaming and what they are dreaming. Dream it’s little world where you fell like you truly live. We spent 20 years sleeping (1/3 of our life).
i wonder about precogniive dreams with unknown faces that we meet after dreaming… seems like deja vu but it’s a little different. And another thing, about REM. i used to experience it but a several time i heard lie a walking cat on my bad (i have no cat). i could even feel how the bed is moving but i couldn’t see him because i couldn’t move. and when he started getting closer i tried to make movement with my head until i totally wake up and the was no cat anywhere…
I can control my dreams. I can realize I am *dreaming* and make them go the way I want too. Doesn’t happen all the time but when it does it’s awesome.
IThat fact is not true I ogasm in my greams all the time
Once i had a dream that polar bears attacked my house and tried to eat me, me and my parents ran into the lounge room and hit behind the sofa with swords fighing off the polar bears. Once we killed them all (abit gorey i know:P) i went outside and one jumped on me and licked me, then i woke up… also another dream, my best friends brother drank something and turned into the incredable hulk and jumped on cars in a car lot, very weird
A long time ago I had a dream that someone was robbing my house and he had a gun. He ended up shotting me in the leg, and I woke up immediately and the place where he had shot me was hurting and it was tingling too, it was a crazy feeling.
About a couple months ago, I had lost my cat and it actually hurt me, since even though he didn’t like me at all, I loved him.
Then two days later after my cat had disappeared I had a dream about him, I was in somebody else’s house then I see him through the window of the door and I ran out, looking through the bushes and everything, but it turned out to be a grey cat with green eyes not a grey and white with orangish-yellow eyes. Then I woke up saying “What the hell was he doing in my dream?”. And the funny thing is, even though #5 says that people under 25 years of age don’t dream in color I happened to dream every one of my dreams in colors and I’m only 13! ^-^
Oh, there’s this other dream that was totally bizarre. I went to get a glass of water in the kitchen at night, then there was this lady that I didn’t know and she was there holding a butcher a knife and she said, “Come here, sweetie.” So I threw the glass at her and somehow, even though it hit her and broke into pieces, it didn’t actually cause any damage. I started to run to my parents’ room, locked the door behind and I only found my mom (wondered where dad went). The old lady managed to break into my parents’ room and I hurrily crawled up into the bed right in front of my mom and the lady stabbed me right in the chest and I felt it! Finally, I woke up sweating and breathing really hard and touched my chest, seeing if a knife really went through but there was nothing. It felt so real. o_o
out of the thousands of people ive seen, i dream about one person
has anyone ever actually watched themselves die in their dreams?
I have, but apparently it’s not supposed to happen?
i keep dreamin were at the bus stop with loads of people and only us to get the same bus , and all the busses are comin for everyone else and ours dont cum so were sittin at the buss stop alone and i no he hates me but i say hello , and he actually starts talkin to me and were gettin along, then he gf comes along and then i wake up …
i have this dream every night what does it mean
I found this information interesting. Mostly I agree with #7 and #11, I once had a dream about standing on a stage and staring at the audience, then the whole audience came on stage and started tickling me, but in reality it was my cat scratching me.
I find that when I meet a new person or take an interest in someone, I start to dream about them alot. Mostly in situations of fear and anxiety.
Also I seem to dream about things that confused me throughout the day, for instance I was listening to a song all dayabout a lake and was confused about the lyrics not matching the build up of music. I went to sleep and dreamt about my friend dieing by a lake and the confusion of how it had happened.
i keep having this dream, where i am in a box (scared of closed spaces) and the box opensand i feel a sign of relief but then needles and sharp object come flying at me (scared of needles and sharp objects) then i start falling (scared of heights, and falling), and all this other phobia shit happpens, i hate it, its scary.
every night for the past month i have the exact same dream of me and my friend in afghanistan, we are in the marine corps in my dream, and i get shot in the leg while he is dragging me away to the helicopter i got shot in the shoulder. we reach the helicopter and he says, “its ok urll be alright.” and right when he says that an rpq hits the helicopter and i wake up sweating…. wut the hell does that shit mean??
lol um wow very interesting i have the strangest dreams. theyre very vivid and keep me quite entertained
#1 okay this was about a year ago in my dream i was a secret agent going to japan. i was going undervoer on an illegal gameshow. it was illegal cus they made you cook for sumo wrestlers and if the sumo didnt like it, they body slammed you and sat on you til you died. next part i was running from the people while they shot at me and i ran into a cafe. then i stayed there for a bit til it went to that dream sequence hypnotizing black and white spinny thing. then it was sims 2. then everything exploded and i woke up.
#2 so i was class and i had to do a project. it was very strange cus i was partnered with a kid version of one of the guys from daisy of love and they left me a video. according to them, i had to pickle a frog by a certain amount of time. so i go off and look around and find no tools to pickle a frog. then i forget how to pickle a frog. then i started crying and i woke up crying. ahaha
#3(last one) this one happened last night i recently was in a musical so thats how it started. but we were in london and had british accents. i played my original part and another lead. the dance moves and everything was different so it was weird. but it was like i was watching it from above, not like i was actually living it, though i was in the dance. then i was in a field with my friend erik. i asked him if i could ride his horse(no he does not have a horse in real life) and he said if i beat him to the building i could. so i ran and beat him. then he gave me very tasty french fries and some other guy popped up, then suddenly it was dark and my friend axel was there. he started talking about God(hes very religious in my opinion) and i woke up lol theyre fun dreams
also @yoyoclo, your actually supposed to wake up right as you die in your dream or right as your about to die, because they say that after you die in a dream, your actually dead because your brain dies or something like that
i once had a dream about an anime girl um shes very cute and we were umm like a football court and we were sitting it was like in america but i live in another country then i realized it was a dream but i couldnt control my actions i could really describe it okay the next thing what happened i felt i like her then we were weirdly transported to my house and my 2 cousins were there and they were teasing me that i like her the dream continued the next day it was a goood dream cuz i get to see her for 2 days
i have dreams where i need to get away but i cant go fast enough no matter how hard i try.. or i have dreams where i really need to see something but my eyes wont let me.. either its really extremely blurry or i cant seem to open them in my dream
Whenever I’m sick, I have the same nightmare: I’m home and there’s someone in the house trying to kill me. So I try to runaway and get out of the house. Sometimes, my younger brother is with me. Before I got my license, I would dream that I drive a car for the first time to run away. It’s really scary and I always wake up sweating. I know there’s a man running after me but I can never see his face. I just know he wants to kill me.
Also, I sometimes wake up right before he catches me. I’ve never been caught before in my dreams. I think, if the man catches me one night in a dream, I’ll actually die.
Oh and in korea, they say that dreams of climbing stairs/upward or falling from cliffs means you’re growing. Don’t know how valid that is though.
When I was a kid, I used to have this recurring dream that I was on the Titanic, in a stateroom with my mother. I knew the ship was going to sink, and I kept trying to urge my mother to get us on a lifeboat, but she kept insisting that I finish my dinner first before going anywhere. I remember feeling an urgent sense of panic and anxiety, trying to convince her of what was to happen, but I would always wake up before anything happened.
I have dream that I’m dreaming in my dream.
I always have dreams about school shootings.
It’s one of my biggest fears ever, and I keep having them.
Is it weird that I have an “out” of every class room that I am in when I go to school?
I suffer now and again from a kind of lucid dreaming, not cool. I call it The Fear because the level of anxiety is tremendous, after the paralysis subsides I can move around (usually sitting up or walking a little), and I know I’m moving and trying to wake but the dream and ‘fear’ remains, then it’s over and I’m awake for real.
ive had alot of dreams that predict the future. it freaks me out. i really only remember the first time this happened to me. it was a dream that i ran into my bf at the airport and found him holding hands with this girl from my school then begging me not to leave because it meant nothing but i didnt believe him. Later that week the same girl from my dream was running around claiming she had “Stolen my bf from me” and they were now together. I asked him if this was true and he said no but like in my dream i did not believe him. So we broke up and i later found out that this girl just did this to mess up our relationship and nothing was going on in the first place. He hated her after that… so yeah its funny how your dreams can predict the future. I believe that we all have a sixth sense and when we are unsettled enough about something it usually has some truth to it and reveals itself in your dreams. Where as normally you would dismiss these feelings with your logic.
no. 4 is not true! i have many dreams and seen people[mostly guys] that i have NEVER seen before
When you have dreams that jerk you awake – Falling or crashing ect. You may have fallen asleep to fast. Your body and brain are still in the kinda between mode- Between deep sleep and falling asleep. My dreams are in stages-at times they are lucid and i remember and at other times my dreams are as black and ignored as the lights i shut off. Stress is NO FUN…and somehow it reminds you in most dreams. But my question is…in precognitive dreams…which we all have at sometime…the faces are blurred. I have had a dream, where the amongst were blurred and i remembered that. 2 years later or so…deja vu happened. The blurred face dream came true…or had just happened ( so to speak). Did i have this dream…or this my brain making sense of it? Do i think i had a dream about this and never did. Contrary- Havent you ever had a dream and believe it to be true later? Its a foolish feeling.
great piece… i just wanted to share that i’ve had the MOST mind blowing orgasms when dreaming. i think that it’s because i’ve allowed myself to be completely uninhibited in the dream state and as a result, the climax is unlike anything i could reach during the waking state… thanks for reminding me! i’m getting sleepy- who knows? maybe tonight could be the night.
im always dreaming about people close to me that have passed away in the dreams they are alive again and find it amusing that i thought they were dead the dreams themselves are lovely but when i wake up and realise they arent alive again is a bit depressing but they say when you dream of the dead it means they are with you so thats nice
it is not weird but it does when you hear it
actually i dream harry potter world, where it really felt amazing!!!
lol, i don’t know how to explain more
I had a dream where i died which is strange because usually you wake up before you die in a dream, i was really freaked out when i woke up
I frequently take naps in the afternoon. I have started leaving History Channel on, expecially during stuff like Monster Quest, because the background noise influences my dreams, and since the naps are short, I tend to remember these very strange dreams.
I think number 13 is really true. I have had several dreams where all kinds of things happened to me; really strange, unusual things. I spent the whole day wondering what did those dreams meant and soon after that those things happened to my friends!!!…
Ok I Agree With All Facts But The First One Sort Of…See In The Morning I Forget Everything.But At Like The Variety Of The Times I Remeber It Is At Like 9:00-How Ever Late I Stay Up.(I Have Bad Sleeping Problems)..Like The Whole Dream. Im A Dreamer.Its One Of My Favorite Things To Do.One Of My Favorite Series Of Dreams When I Was 8 Was When I Dreamt I Was A Sailor Moon Character It Went On For Like Three Days.But Ive Had A Lot Of Those Precognitive Dreams Those Are My Favorite.I Dont Know Why Usually There Bad.But As I Said I Love Dreams&I Am A Dreamer.
I had a dream about some guy my age and we were in a war against eachother. And then we started fighting against eachother. Then he lokoed at me and realized i was a girl and stopped fighting me. He then took me and started talking to me like we were a couple. He then kissed me and then people started to try to kill him. But he survived. I really want to see this boy now! I can’t stop thinking about him. Why is this?
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one night, i dreamed a song… it was a man who was singing it to me, and i still remember the voice. for about 5 minutes after i woke up, i kept singing it. i knew it perfectly. but then i forgot it.
and there was nobody there, cuz i was home alone
and i’m still wondering how could that happen.
I had a dream while I was in high school that I was riding in a car with a buddy, Chuck, down a familiar street on my way home. He wanted to stop and vist a girl we knew, but I was adamant that we not. The argument got so heated, we pulled over and were going to fight about it. We squared off and out of nowhere, a book appeared in his hand and he threw it at me. I ducked, but then he threw another, and another. About that time, our mutual friend, Doug, joined him in throwing these books and I was in a crossfire. I was defenseless, and could not retrieve one of his missed books as turning around would cause me to be hit. All of a sudden I was hit in the back of my head, and the blue book that had hit me fell to the ground at my feet. I picked and up and threw it at my friends and another blue book hit me from behind. I wanted to turn around to see who was the third member of the ambush, but was still dodging Chuck and Doug’s books, and busy returning fire with the blue books.
I was very frustrated and getting a headache, so I decided I had to turn around. As I did, I woke up and to my amazement, Doug was standing over me with my blue history book that I had been reading prior to falling asleep (same as the ones I found at my feet).. He had come into my room and dropped a magazine on the back of my head and hide around the cornerI thinking I would wake up completely bewildered (remember, we were in high school). I didn’t wake the first time, so he kept at it, harder each time. He decided to hit me with a book instead and that’s when I awoke. My facehad been face-down in the pillow, so I could not have seen him prior to awakening.
This happened over 40 years ago but I remember it vividly.
I went to bootcamp a couple of months ago and while i was there i had a lot of anxiety and was anxious almost every day, ever since then i’ve been having these dreams that im still in bootcamp or somewhere similar where i have no control of leaving or getting out. When i dream about this i have panic attacks in my dreams and a very grand amout of anxiety. And when i wake up its very hard for me to realize it was just a dream. Sometimes i get scared of going to sleep and i stay up most of the night. Could someone tell me how to stop this or give some advice?
I actualy had a in which I was in an Anime convention. I woke up being very confused as to why I had that dream. Thinking things would be normal, I go around my house and my mom stops me. She had asked me who Chealsey was. I was so confused and thought it was a bit creepy because Chealsey happens to be a girl I have a crush on. I thought about it a lot and was wondering why I had started saying her name in my sleep. I read this and started woundering if the dream that involved Asian things had to do with Chealsey since she happens to be asian. It turns out I might have started saying her name in another dream that I had on that same night. The night before I had those dreams, I had a conversation with her and it had started making me think a lot about her. I think that the conversation had something associated with my dreams. I wanted to make sure of it by reading more about dreams. I have still yet to find an answer…
I had a dream last night that I was eating a giant marshmalow. As i awoken, I discovered that half my pillow was gone…go figure!
i have these reoccuring dreams with whales and oceans alll the time. or i’m always underwater but never drowing. it is so haunting to always be surrounded by whales, mostly orcas but not always. ater is a big part of my dream world.. i also have constant nightmares. i hardly ever have nice dreams. but i do dream a LOT. cry in my sleep even.
I have had dreams where I am aware it is a dream and I try to wake up. When I try sometimes I can feel my eyes open but the dream is still playing on front of my eyes, it freaks me the hell out.
I almost always have epic dreams. A few nights ago I dreamt of a abandoned city, something I’d imagine Italy (even though I’ve never been there) to be like. Anyway there was this huge kind of man made water way running through the city, like a maze, it defied gravity most of the time, flowing uphill and such other things sloping over obstacles. Anyway I dreamt there was this big swimming race through this river type thing, and me and some other people crashed a van into it and then I ‘woke up’ (not really, I was dreaming about dreaming lol) and my friends were playing a trick on me and somehow implanted this dream into my head to freak me out.
I’ve actually controlled a few of my dreams, there was this really detailed one where huge dragons were flying over my house and they’d breathe fire people, and I had to protect the house. Anyway, I was consciously dreaming at this point, and I made myself a whip and sliced the fire people in half. God, I could go into so much detail about these dreams.. I had sex under the ocean once…. and I was totally the dude, penis and everything, fuck that was weeeeeird.
i always have dreams about different situations in which i am deathly afraid of the lowest height and start hyper ventilating and eventualy pass out. the weirdest part is that in real life I am not afraid of heights at all
My mind is really damn creative. It’s odd, because I am one of the lucky individuals who have very vivid, and even lucid, dreams. In my lucid dreams, I always find it interesting that I can’t always control everything. There are certainly things I can control. I can almost always fly, and sometimes I can shoot fire/lightning from my hands and blow stuff up. Just to digress a bit, flying in dreams is one of the most amazing sensations I’ve ever had. It’s simply incredible how wonderful it feels. Anyhow, I can’t control everything in lucid dreams. I can’t, for example, just hold out my hands and make any person I want appear, or change the situation to whatever I want. However, sometimes if I find a door, I can open it and have whatever I want be on the other side. This makes no sense to me. My brain is in control of my dream. Literally, there’s nothing else. So why does my subconscious actively oppose what I consciously want? I can even feel an almost separate part of me, which controls everything about my dream, actively choose to make things more difficult for me by not allowing me that same control. Never maliciously, but simply as though I’m opposing myself for the heck of it. I just find the psychological implications interesting.
Even during non-lucid dreams, I can still sometimes feel that separate part of me twisting the plot. Almost always, I have actual elaborate, epic plots in my dreams. I’ve been a soldier in some great Persian war who has to travel across the country in order to find some magical room or object, and there have been a thousand different variations on this. Honestly, I’ve lived through pretty much every sort of story I can imagine, and I’ve been every sort of character I can imagine. If I could remember every one of these dreams, I can’t imagine how rich and fulfilling a life I’d feel like I’d lived. I wouldn’t be surprised if I’d feel quite the same way as an old man, remembering all the things and experiences he’d gone through in his life. Anyway, in these stories, I can sometimes actually feel the moment when a new idea or plot twist occurs to that separate part of me, and it is correspondingly soon instigated in the dream’s narrative. It gives me the impression of there being some great mastermind buried just below the surface of my subconscious.
Just think about it. Everything about a dream is controlled by your brain. Every little detail has been put together into a narrative. My subconscious has done some of the most marvelous, incredible things in my dreams. It has composed beautiful music, which I can honestly say I’d never heard before, it has laid out and improvised multi-faceted plotlines with complex character and exhilarating conflicts. Honestly, I feel like I have a great deal of potential that only my subconscious is capable of utilizing, because I could never come up with some of the little twists and intricacies that get put in my dreams. Or at least not on the spot like that. Maybe if I had several hours to plan out the whole thing, but not just as it happens.
I’m just glad I have quite a few more decades of dreaming ahead of me. Even if the waking-world is mediocre, at least I can be assured of an exciting eight hours, each night.
to the people that say they dont recognize the faces.
@pablo- yes you have seen that person, on the street most likely you just walk past him/her you dont RECOGNIZE her/him because that person is not significant in your life.
liked the last one
I had a dream that my friends were being skinned alive so they could donate their skin to science.
I recently had my first lucid dream which was amazing. I’ve been waiting for it to happen for years. It started with me at a friends wedding but I was dressed rather strangely. Blazer jacket, highwater jeans and a pair of flip flops. I was so distressed about my clothes. All of a sudden something clicked. I don’t know how it happened (I wish so bad I did so I could “flip that switch” again) but I realized I was dreaming. I became fully conscious in an unconscious world.
I read an earlier comment that states you have to “learn” things in lucid dreaming. AND ITS TRUE! In my short lucid experience I learned how to change my clothes by thought. I started by starring at my feet and trying to picture dress shoes instead of flip flops… it wasnt working. The second I thought of how dress shoes FEEL on my feet… WALLA! dress shoes were on my feet. I changed my clothes by imagining what they would feel like on my body, not what they would look like.
Long story short… lucid dreaming is fantastic and I look forward to my next one. Hopefully it will last a little longer
Great post
I think that you don’t always forget dreams. For instance, I had one last night that freaked me out so much, I was actually crying when I woke up. It was about how my gf was cheating on me, and we all went to a concert, me, her, and him, and they got a twosome seat on a balcony, and I was so sad and mad that I woke up and, just like in my dream, I was crying. And I still remember it, an hour later!
One of the coolest things you can do is keep a dream journal!
I read somewhere on the internet to do it and it’s so cool.. As soon as you wake up write down your dream and usually when i went back and read it again i completely could not remember writing what i did. You will also most likely notice a pattern.
A lot of my dreams are about a guy who I sort of had a summer affair with and we don’t talk anymore. Also many about fires, but the fire is never hot. and I have a lot of dreams about this abandoned meat packing factory that my friends and i have hung out in since we were younger.
There is also a condition (similar to sleep paralysis) that you are asleep but your eyes are open while you are in a dream state. So you can’t move, but you see where ever you are and usually ghosts are pretty common in those dreams. Some people never go through it, some people do several times.
I once dreamed about a guy with a really scary face and i am 100% sure that i haven’t seen him i real life (neither in a movie).
I think the facts are pretty interesting but i doubt that number 4 is true…
when i was small i had this dream.
me and my family were going to the beach. my mom’s back was kind of… rotting and she asked me to fix it. then after a while SHE MELTED.
and my brothers were building a sandcastle while i screamed my head off.
this dream was repeated a few times before (not now though).
sometimes it still scares me.
Very nice article! I enjoyed it a lot!
Very nice page. I learned a lot about dreams I never knew about. I love dreaming.
i had dreams that i was talking to my bestfriend’s girl in our classroom and she was by the board and i was standing at the back. the same thing happened a few days after my dream and i told her, “Hey! I had a dream about this. You were there and i was here and we were talking.” and she told me. “You’re crazy.” am I?
i also had this dream about the fictional characters i read. when one time i read a book about vampire, i dreamed i was one of them too. which i wish is true…
i had dreams about having sex then i wake up and I had wet dreams.
I Sleep walk + some times act out my dreams, i have to put the keys to the house in a bucket of cold water, soo it will wake me up, going back years ago i strangled my wife to death in my sleep, i was having a night mere that some one was trying to kill me but i killed them i had to burry her in the garden, + i leged it out of the country that night!!! cos i knew, the police would never believe me, its nice to be able to talk about it cos ive never talked about it… for obveus reasons
I tells my misses that she snores + i dont wana sleep with her… if she only knew!
Not 5 minutes after I finish Yume Nikki I stumble this! Creepy man… it all makes sense now.
P.S. (Don’t turn off the light, Madotsuki!)
I commonly think I’m falling while I’m asleep (why, I can’t usually remember) I always fake up abruptly only to find I am still lying down on my bed. Does anyone else experience this? Please tell me if you do!
So last night I was dreaming that I was in a mass of Cubes exactly like the movie The Cube, you know what I mean if you’ve seen it, We were going room to room throwing our shoes and we also had a mentally handicapped person in our group. We we’re picked off one by one until it was just me and the mentally handicapped. My alarm started going off, however, I was still in the set of cubes and the mentally handicapped guy in the cube with me was opening his mouth and what I thought was his annoying voice was my alarm and he wouldn’t shut up, I have a Sonic Boom alarm clock, it makes more noise than a jackhammer google it. As it grew louder I grew frustrated(this thing really hurts your ears) and in my dream I in fact beat to death a mentally handicapped man in my dream. It was awful
My most recent dream started as a false awakening in the middle of the night, and I was still laying in my bed. I looked over to my closet and saw a small garden gnome walking across the top shelf of my closet.
Strange……………
I once had a dream while I was over at a friends house that I was being kidnapped. The kidnapper strapped me to a board with my arms tied and my feet tied as if they were going to stretch me out. I started screaming in my dream and woke up from that. BUT I wasn’t screaming in real life, although I was trying my hardest. I couldn’t move (my ‘real’ body was in the same position that my dream body was in!!), make a sound, …. anything. It was terrifying. Number 10 explains it finally! I’ve been wondering about that for years!!
I once had a dream that I was up above myself and was looking at myself, and everything was blurry around the edges, and then I woke up. I think it was an out of body experience.
At one point i had a dream i was snow skiing and took a nasty fall on a drop and landed right on my back… waking me my entire body jumped at least and entire foot off my waterbed and i was extremely sore a few hours afterwards…..
Also, i can be sleeping and feel the presence of others in the same room as myself as well as the objects in the room and when the door is opened the feeling extends beyond the room im in
Ive had that body paralysis thing after my brain wakes up…totaly creepy but know i know what it is lol
I totally agree with #15. I have orgasms while dreaming at least once a week, and they seem to be alot stronger than when im awake. It seems like I have a lucid dream almost every other night. But hey, im not complaining!
I agree with number 15. I think that touch and feeling are stronger in your dreams. I have dreams that involve touch all the time and then when I wake up I feel like it really happened to me. Thanks for the facts. I love dreaming!!!!
I have learned to control my dreams… It takes practice but it works and I do it all the time!
You just have to realize you are dreaming and then without waking do what ever you want!
It’s fun, easy and it doesn’t cost a thing.
Sweet dreams
About a year ago I had a dream where I was driving on a highway, only I was in the backseat (still controlling the car.) I hit the retaining wall and then hit it a second time. I awoke on the second impact and could physically feel where I the airbag would have hit me. I told a couple of people because the dream was so vivid.
A week later I was driving home from a friend’s house in the mid-morning and tried to avoid getting into an accident which led me to hitting the retaining wall and then everything went white and I felt a second impact (I found out later it was a truck.) I remember feeling very calm, and never thinking “this is it.” Everything felt so familiar –the way my body felt afterward. The texture of the cuts on my face…
As such, I fully believe in precognitive dreams. I think my dream about my car accident help me remain calm and controlled while it actually happened. It was oddly peaceful.
I dreamed about my cousin before he was born, and he had exactly the same face! Then the theory of familiar faces has failed …
I also dreamed that a dinosaur had turned into a mosquito…
And sometimes, I get paralyzed before sleeping and things start to move, like I’m getting dizzy … : /
Dreams are interesting … : D
Last night i had a dream that i was playing baseball. i was on the same team i am in real life, but was playing two teams, which we had lost to in real life. the cardinals were in the same dugout as us. i soon realized we were in the gym from my school. the room was huge, though. i went up to bat, and i hit (or mabye bunted) the ball. it went to the ight (towards 1st base) and i started running. the, the ball turned into a beachball. the beachball hit my leg (which had happend in gym class this year, and my terrible gym teacher called me out) and a turned second. i slid head first into second, turning to the side, exactly like another little luege baseball player who i respect did in real life. i then went to the overcrowded dugout where my friend (whos sometimes a jerk) who was on the cardinals in real life, was telling me off that i should be out. i then whispered to my 2 friends (one who was accualy on my real baseball team and 1 who wasnt) “hey, he’s jealous of me and wants to kill me.” i was batting 8th in the lineup, and we were at the top, so i asked my coach (same as real life) if i could go to the bathroom. he said yes, and i left the dugout, and i was in my cousins house (who lives right by me) and i went in, it was exactly like it is in real life, and i did my buisness. i cant remember the rest, but so much was just like real life . THE CRAZIEST PART–i had broken my thumb in baseball getting hit by a pitch just 2 days ago!!
i had a seris of dreams about a girl a few months ago, ii was sure i had never met her before, than i went on a trip with my friend down to his girlfriend’s sisters house and the girl i was dreaming about was the sister, now she is 8 years older than me and iam quite sure i had never met her before, after i met her i have not dreamed about her since.
I used to dream alot of flying (like superman w/o the cape and tights) and breathing under water. when it occured to me that doing these were not possible I would fall out of the sky or struggle not to drown and then fight like hell to wake up
“Sometimes When I cook…I weep”
had a dream about that ad.
I’ve been learning to lucid dream more, the flying is fun.
how do you lucid dream reliably?
There is absolutely no scientific evidence for precognition. It is absolute and utter nonsense and should not be referred to as if it is factual. It is pseudo-scientific rubbish.
@ Jane
Maybe she saw the short that followed the re-release of Night of the Living Dead. The short was called Night of the Living Bread. It was pretty goofy, but bread was chasing people. lol
Something really weird is that i have a dreams that come back every few years and sometimes there the really frightful ones. Has anyone had this experience before?? If so… yay im not the only one
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was sleeping with my brother and dreamnt i was in the bathroom peeing and wet the bed and my brother had a dream it was raining:)
When i go thru my insomniatic stages, i lay down and my body feels as if is going back and forth between being tiny and huge and i see very dark undescribable images in my head, and when i finally do get to sleep i have a reacurring dream of where i see myself from an aerial view in a massive labyrinth surrounded my endless nothing and i see and hear myself screaming my sisters name then it morphs into me being on my third story balcony of a house i used to live in as a kid and i feel panic and see all of my family running in terror and i look up and i see the stars but they arent stars they are a mixture of dark green and purple spirals that look as if they were drawn by crayon then i wake up, it happened about every 6 months until i was 12 that night it took its normal chain of events then i woke up, realizing that i had wet the bed i stood up and started taking off my clothes until i seen a flash of light coming from my window so i looked out and seen a beautiful meteor fly across the sky i dont know if it symbolizes anything but i thought it was pretty wierd because after that night i never had those dreams again, i still do suffer insomnia though
i had a dream that i was talking to a purple monkey and then it turned into a blue squirrel and then this frog came up and ate the squirrel and started talking to me and then it grew into a giant frog and thats all i remember. it’s really random
When i was about 6 or 7 playing soccer i dreamed that the next day the soccer game would end up being 5 – 2 and i would score the 5th goal. Well i woke up extremely happy and told my mom who ended up telling my coach, and by the end of the game the score ended up actually being 5 – 2. I wont forget that dream since i knew i had predicted it would happen that way and it actually happened. Good to know that those can happen hopefully ill see some lottery ticket numbers in my future.
I’ve had a few precognitive dreams in the past. One of the most notable ones was when I dreamt that I was on one of the ferries that had left the mainland where I live. Moments later I was in the water watching the boat sink between the waves, and life rafts were all around with weeping and coughing people, it was dark, but the water was lit up by the moonlight. We were near some islands in between one of the passes. It was extremely vivid. The next day it was said on the news that one of the last ferries of the day, from the mainland, had sunk. It was the first ferry to sink in something like 20 years. More interestingly, though, the ferry had sunk near an island. A remote first nations community live on the bay and were able to provide assistance to the survivors. The island is incredibly similar to the one in my dream.
I just had a dream last night about me going over to one of my best friends house (who happens to be female while I’m male) and we ended up having this weird party, and then I randomly crawled into bed, and her right next to me, and then I looked over at her and she transformed into a cat, but not just any cat. When I was younger, I had a cat named Gracy that was my fav cat of all time, but she ended up getting killed (not related to dream). Anyway, my best friend turned into Gracy basically. Which really is weird, cause I don’t know what to think of it.
Love this post, although I’m not agreeing with them all. My view of dreaming is more a shamanistic view. I’m a lucid dreamer. For me the images we see in our dreams are related to our internal dialogue. Like in the waking state. We never stop talking to ourselves or thinking or judging. All these things in ourselves are reaffirming the objects we see. When all that stops, when we stop, when we are still and silence, then even our reference system will stop and then we’re just perceiving and aware nothing more. Total freedom. In our dreams we also have a internal dialogue so when I dream I just sit somewhere quiet and start to meditate.
But that’s just my view. The pics in this post are great, I really like them.
People, we see millions of faces in our lives. We see so many strangers’ faces just going about our everyday business, faces of people we don’t know and will never see again, but the brain retains those faces. Think of all the strangers you see over a lifetime – millions, all stored away in our brains. Is it that hard to believe the faces we see in dreams are ones we’ve never seen before? It’s just that we don’t remember them.
I had this dream a long time ago and I still remember it,
I was running away from someone & i had a bunch of money in my pocket and I wanted to see if it was like that one Harry Potter movie so I woke up and I checked in my pocket but there wasn’t any money there.
:/
This dream I had a lot. Like 3 times.
So my family and I were staying in this haunted house and this giant guy owned it and it was night the whole time that we stayed there and all these horrible, creepy things kept happening to us.
And at the end, the giant was holding a beautiful white pony with a pink mane and tail in his hands and told us that the pony was doing all this because the pony was harassed when it was smaller.
WEIRD DREAMS.
i had this recurring dream (like ten times!) that i was in my elementary school and someone was chasing me. He wanted my blood for some sort of transfusion thing, and then one of my friends came in, she had broken like every bone in her body and the chances of her survival were slim. She said he could have her blood instead, and then she died. I woke up crying. The weirdest thing is, i moved the next school year and met the guy from my dream. i swear i had never met him before. i never managed to trust him.
Ok, most things that ppl see all the time come up in there dreams. So I had played Grand Theft Auto EFLC (ps3) for like 12 hours and when I closed my eyes all I could see was a Chopper flying. ………I went to sleep and in my dream I was driving with someone in the car with me, when a chopter flys by and kills the passenger but leavs me unharmed, and the rest of the dream is about me trying to bring them back to life in some house with an evel scientest. (btw) Don’t be mad at my generation!
omg this is ssoo cool i had to wright a speech on “i never knew that” and i found this websight and now MY SPEECH IS DONE WOOP WOOP! yeahhhhhh rest of the night 4 facebook HELL YEAH! hahahahah no seriosuly this was a cool website it is cool no jk i didnt no any of the shit that was written there! i mean bind ppl can dream like woahhhhh! sick much?
thx 4 this website! it was awsome! Xx
Yesterday I had a dream that I went online and looked up dreams, and today i went online and looked up dreams without even realizing i had just done that in a dream.
i’ve always wondered why is it that whenever i realize that im dreaming and try to talk to a character in my dream about it they look at me like im crazy? i asked a friend of mine if he had the same expierence but he said that the characters in his dream acted like they were scared to talk about it and kept insisting that “we dont talk about that here” if anyone has any ideas on this matter feel free to drop me an email at llamaboi666@yahoo.com
i accidentally whispered my classmate’s name when i was in first grade and she did appeared in my dream…we have sex together..(in drmy dream)..hehehe weird..that was so crazy dream of mine..
When I was a kid I would have a lot of precognitive dreams about scenes off of movies. I remember two scenes that I dreamed, one was the scene of Jurassic Park 3 when they are sinking in the cage on the boat with the dino, the other was at the end of SpiderMan 2 when Peter crawls to his girl on the web.
Last year I traveled to Germany.
I didn’t know any german, but suddenly I started dreaming in german!
and I didn’t understand any word from my dream
I also started dreaming with subtitles.
I contemplate consumers are advised to not insult Jennifer Love Hewitt’s physique. She can be described as a lovely woman and has curves in every one of the correct spots.
Matisse, ohhh, you are so funny
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