(WARNING---WEIRD!) Does anyone out there want to analyze a dream?

[Blake Isaac Gordon]

Last night I had a very DISTURBING dream…

The Dream:
I had this dream where for some reason I went enrolled back in my old high school…(far as I can tell that’s my subconscious way of showing disappointment in missed opportunities…)

I was walking down the halls feeling out of place being so much older than everyone else when I made a wrong turn and ended up in some weird abandoned hallway.

All along the wall were numerous holding cells. As I walked passed each cell I saw numerous deformed women all dressed in spandex and “playboy bunny” outfits chained to the wall. When I passed each one their chest began to swell unnatural-like and their exposed skin became an angry red…And as this occurred these half-women would scream madly in pain.

At this point I snapped myself awake and was very rattled…

So here’s my concern for any others out there who knows to analyze dreams…
1.   Why would my subconscious take something I enjoy and twist it like that?
2.   This is not the first time I’ve had BE dreams (It’s the second or third…I think?) and each time the woman (having the BE) in question looks in pain.
3.   Anyone know any good sites on dreams (beside the MSN psychic page… been there done that)

[Janus]

The human brain needs creativity output. Whenever it doesn't it decides to make weird dreams. It's your minds way of saying "testing, testing 1...2...3."

You ever wonder why you'll remember something out of the blue, like a line in a movie. Doesn't have to be one you've seen 12 million times, or one of your favorites. You just remembered the line because someone put an apple core on the table, and *shuff* it appeared in your mind? Well that's because your mind remembers everything, you just don't link to all of it at the same time.

 So when you dream, your sub-conscious takes a mixture of experiences and mixes them in an odd manner. I've had two dreams where I looked like a completely different man than yself, and I turned into a woman. I've been a janitor cleaning the elevators in a building where the execs get their jollies by shooting employees. I've lived in an anime, become president of the united states, was a college student in a 3rd world country that was discouraging his best friend from starting a communist revolt.

 Since you have a fetish, there's no question where your mind got that from. In fact I'd suspect a few of your dreams have had BE in them. As for the pain: the shock factor. People are exposed to violent and disturbing images all their lives. So, your sub-conscious, not really having a personality, made chop-suey of your experiences.

 Dreams sometimes can predict the future, merely by mixing the past in the right way. You can't see what will happen, but you can get a high probability.

J- "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

[Leviathan]

It's a weird dream, to be sure, but I wouldn't put too much stock in it. Dreams rarely symbolize anything complicated. The only thing to "interpret" about them is the mood you were in when you went to sleep and the things you did the previous day.

If I stay up late reading BE stories and then _immediately_ go to bed, chances are pretty high that I'll have a BE-related dream that night. It doesn't mean anything significant.

But dreams _are_ good sources for creativity and ideas. And the more vivid dreams you have can mean that your mind is more creative than other peoples, or that you just had a troubled/disturbing day the previous day.

[MrHHH]

It means you need to send me money. These horrible dreams will continue until you release yourself of all that finincial burden.    

[Zorlond]

quote:Originally posted by Leviathan:
The only thing to "interpret" about them is the mood you were in when you went to sleep and the things you did the previous day.

Not really. Last night I had a dream that seemed to center on me watching ST:NG. I hadn't watched -any- TV the day before, let alone any Star Trek, I was on my computer all day. In fact, I haven't watched Next Gen in months...

[ February 10, 2002: Message edited by: Zorlond ]

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Here's a pretty decent site for ya   http://www.dreamtree.com/

[Leviathan]

It doesn't mean my general statement is wrong though. All I was saying is that dreams are scattered and usually recent memories that the mind is putting together into random order and trying to put some sense into them. It's not a hidden message or a phrophesy from the future or a subliminal secret about yourself. Nothing so exciting or mystical or complex.

[Kanodin]

The brain does not record everything.  Get some phychology books and read up on "long-term memory encoding."

Dreams often just jumble related memories together based on how your brain links them.  You can associate school with oppression and associate oppression with pain and associate pain with some of the many fetish stories you read.  There are literally 1,001 ways to generate a dream, so to say that one thing was the cause would be oversimplifying things.  The best interpreter of dreams is usually the dreamer of the dreams.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Dreams are the TV shows for the mind ... just simple entertainment

-Munch "too bad I only get Home Shoping Network" Wolf

[Zorlond]

Not all TV shows are simple entertainment. There are educational shows, after all, and the now-infamous Infomercial...

But, as you said, not everybody gets every channel. :/

[F_Cup_Fitzgerald]

Originally posted by Blake Isaac Gordon:

quote:Last night I had a very DISTURBING dream. . . .

1.   Why would my subconscious take something I enjoy and twist it like that?
2.   This is not the first time I’ve had BE dreams (It’s the second or third . . . I think?) and each time the woman (having the BE) in question looks in pain.

My non-professional opinion is that CONSCIOUSLY you enjoy BE, but that SUBCONSCIOUSLY you are experiencing a bit of guilt over it. The women in your dreams suffer as a result of your waking fantasy about BE. Perhaps you unconsciously believe that BE fantasies are wrong, or immoral, and the women in your dreams are the part of your mind that is rebelling against deriving pleasure from BE fantasies.

Just a thought.

(signed) Dr. Sickman Fraud

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Huh.  About dreams in general (I just looked at that site...)

They say that people usually experience dreams in real-time.  I beg to differ. I have all KINDS of dreams that were definitely seeming to take more time than I could possibly have been sleeping, _obviously_.  Must've been "time-lapses" or whatever.  For example:

1.  The dream where I was this character (that I didn't even LIKE, which makes it quite amusing and strange) from these fantasy books, I woke up in the morning and then spent most of a day running around town lost before I woke up for school.  The dream itself COULDN'T have been longer than an hour, considering that it was interrupted, and also considering that I tend to do my best dreaming when it's technically _morning_--past SUNRISE, morning, not just past midnight--instead of when it's dark. And I had to wake up early for school.

A couple months ago, I had this dream where I was wandering around the basement of some really weird mansion, a basement that became more and more like some bizzare puzzle-infested DUNGEON as I went along...for three or four DAYS.  _Obviously_ I wasn't asleep THAT long!

And then there's the ultimate:  The dream I had where I got the overview, and some actual up-close plot highlights, of a HUGE _epic_ space-opera story spanning a gigantic solar-system of over 20 planets and THREE GENERATIONS of the same family.  I've never had a dream that took _decades_ before, wow!    

So OBVIOUSLY "time compression" things actually DO happen in dreams.  Those people don't know WHAT they're talking about, at that site...

Oh, and as for "lucid dreaming" or dreaming that you are dreaming...I do that all the time.  I've had dreams that were SO realistic, I was extremely disappointed to NOT find the neat out-of-print book I THOUGHT I'd bought, or the doughnuts that I thought I had already eaten for breakfast, sitting in the house in real life when I did wake up!  Damned annoying things, lucid dreams.  Real pests.  Wish they'd go away.  

Mello

[ February 13, 2002: Message edited by: Mello ]

[Zorlond]

Hafta agree about the lucid dreams... Well, technically I've only had one that I recall, but it was bad enough to put me off them. Wasn't exactly a nightmare, but wasn't nice either.

Imagine, if you will, that you're 'waking up' (not really, but that's what it seemed like at the time, lying down, slightly curled up) when you discover that your eyes refuse to open. At all. Slap you hands onto your face, try to force them open with your fingers. Just as they crack open (and you get an extremely blurry bit of light past your lids), you find yourself suddenly back in the position you started in (lying down, curled up in exactly the same way). Get up into a sitting position on the edge of the bed, try forcing eyes open again, suddenly back in the starting position. Over and over again, brief periods of physical activity suddenly going back to where I started, all with my eyes apparently glued shut. And all the while, I keep thinking "Wake up, wake up, WHY THE HELL CAN'T I WAKE UP???" I even got up, yanked open the door to my bedroom and started staggering down the hall blind, looking for help. Didn't get far before I got sent back to start. Over and over again.

Definitely not fun.

[F_Cup_Fitzgerald]

Sounds like an out-of-the-body experience to me, Z.

[Zorlond]

Maybe, but it doesn't explain the yo-yo bit...

[**DONOTDELETE**]

I've never had more than one layer of "dreaming you're dreaming", but my lucid dreams tend to be pretty annoying for another reason.  I dream that I got up and did real-life stuff that is perfectly plausible, and perhaps obtained or achieved something moderately nifty, but nothing all THAT strange.  When I wake up, the thing I thought I bought or found is NOT in the house and I knew everything about it in _such_ detail and it seemed so REAL, and it was something that I thought was so NEAT, that I am _majorly_ bummed that it never existed.    Usually it's some way-cool out of print book for a series I love that stopped years ago, or a lost book by my favourite author....that kind of thing.

Not a nightmare, but annoying.  

Mello

[Fret Pearson]

Zorlond, I've had dreams very similar to the one you describe.  They're just annoyingly frustrating.

I wish to hell I could have some BE dreams, but I don't believe I ever have.  I'd even settle for a good old-fashioned sex dream, but I don't even get those that often.  Just weird jumbles of places, events, and persons that are impossible to describe after waking.  Even immediately after waking when they're fresh in my mind.

I've found that severe dehydration (AKA alcohol and/or cola overdose) increases the   factor of my dreams.

Fret