Only the dreamer knows what the dream means, that's true. One of the classic ideas, though, is that dreams are wishes. Another is that for every character in a dream, we are actually dreaming of part of ourselves, not necessarily the other actual characters.
Nightmares
Do any of you have nightmares constant nightmares? Almost like a flashback or something that happened in your life? It is really making sleep something I do not want to do. I was just wondering if I am alone with this. 
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I had a very bizarre dream experience as a teenager that made such an impression on me that I recall it vividly to this day.
It was so real that at the time I believed it to have been an alien abduction (though in hindsight I recognize that it was only a very lucid dream.)
It wasn't really a nightmare, it was just strange.
It occurred during an early evening nap, as I was just dozing on my bed.
In it, I found myself lying paralyzed on my back staring straight up.
It was a basket ball court type setting, or a school gymnasium.
Above me were these clusters of floodlights shining down on me that actually hurt my eyes, and felt uncomfortably hot.
Stranger still, there was a giant man (about the size of King Kong) staring down at me from above.
He looked like a scientist, or a doctor (50'ish, white coat, black plastic-framed glasses).
He was just staring down at me studying me dispassionately.
Also, I noticed that the surface I was lying on was actually a clear acryllic polymer type material, which reflected the light from above (I later thought that it might've been a glass microscopic slide, though I don't recall actually seeing a giant microscope above me).
It felt as real as anything ever did in my entire life, and I just presumed I was wide awake and it was really happening at the time (though it's normal to do so in dreams, this was different somehow).
I have no recollection of the ending, but I still recall clearly how the whole thing felt at the time.
The point to this?
None.
I've just always wanted to share that, and this thread seemed as appropriate a venue as any for it.
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It was so real that at the time I believed it to have been an alien abduction (though in hindsight I recognize that it was only a very lucid dream.)
It wasn't really a nightmare, it was just strange.
It occurred during an early evening nap, as I was just dozing on my bed.
In it, I found myself lying paralyzed on my back staring straight up.
It was a basket ball court type setting, or a school gymnasium.
Above me were these clusters of floodlights shining down on me that actually hurt my eyes, and felt uncomfortably hot.
Stranger still, there was a giant man (about the size of King Kong) staring down at me from above.
He looked like a scientist, or a doctor (50'ish, white coat, black plastic-framed glasses).
He was just staring down at me studying me dispassionately.
Also, I noticed that the surface I was lying on was actually a clear acryllic polymer type material, which reflected the light from above (I later thought that it might've been a glass microscopic slide, though I don't recall actually seeing a giant microscope above me).
It felt as real as anything ever did in my entire life, and I just presumed I was wide awake and it was really happening at the time (though it's normal to do so in dreams, this was different somehow).
I have no recollection of the ending, but I still recall clearly how the whole thing felt at the time.
The point to this?
None.
I've just always wanted to share that, and this thread seemed as appropriate a venue as any for it.
e
Enigma,
So how did you feel after/during the dream?
So how did you feel after/during the dream?
During it I felt wide awake, It was like I had just been transported to another place.Sojourner said:Enigma,
So how did you feel after/during the dream?
After it, I felt no different (if something higher and superior really did have me, they obviously did nothing to help me, because I was just as f*cked up afterwards as I was before).
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In other words, you didn't wake up the next morning farting fire and complaining about a giant probe coming out of your ass....if something higher and superior really did have me, they obviously did nothing to help me
Enigma,
I am asking more about the affect or feeling or emotion than about reality vs. unreality.
I am asking more about the affect or feeling or emotion than about reality vs. unreality.
As far as emotion was concerned, I didn't really feel anything except intense confusion (I wasn't even all that afraid, actually).Sojourner said:Enigma,
I am asking more about the affect or feeling or emotion than about reality vs. unreality.
Afterward, there was just a sense of mystification.
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