Dreams / nightmares - just a bit of fun.

[Harry Bloomfield]

I seem to go through a series of nights, where I wake up, remembering what I was dreaming about, then nothing remembered on waking for months. I'm going through a 'remembering phase' at the moment, but despite my best efforts, strangely - most disappear from my memory with the morning mist...

Only one, managed to 'stick', and from last week. I was piloting a light aircraft, with a spy/spotter, in the passenger seat, and we were searching woodland for something/someone. I was so engrossed in the search, I ran out of fuel, and crash-landed, and my passenger had disappeared. At that point, I woke up.

No, I don't have a pilot's licence..

Anyone else have weird dreams?

 

[foxhole]

So tired yesterday I dreamt I fell asleep .

 

[Mottie]

I dreamt I was a chicken once and had a terrible pain in my stomach. The other chickens said I had produced an egg and that I should lay it. I did and the pain disappeared. It was at that point that mrs Mottie woke me up saying "Steve, you’ve shìt the bed again"…….

 

[Trazor]

I dreamt once, that I had won the Lottery, it was so real and exiting.

But the disappointment, as I awoke properly, was unfortunately very real........

 

[securespark]

It's funny how your brain works. I have been dreaming of our recently deceased pussy cat. In my dream, everything is so very real. I hear him come into the bedroom, he miaows then jumps on the bed and settles down. I fall asleep in the dream while stroking him, then wake up for real after he gently bites my finger. It's so upsetting to realise he's not actually there.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

It's funny how your brain works.

Yes, it is - The say dreams, are your brains way of making sense of the day's events, but why such very strange dreams? Why do animals need to dream, as they so obviously do?

What puzzles me most, is how/why I forget the dream, despite making a conscious effort to remember the circumstances of the dream, as I wake remembering one?

Even when awake, the brain plays tricks on one...

I've been spending lots of time working to reorganise my workshop recently, the windows of which face the trees at the back. Avril hung one of those glass bobble things, which catches the light in one of the trees. It catches the sun, and shines beams of coloured lights into the dark workshop. It spooks me, thinking I'm seeing movement in my eye corners, in the workshop. It even had me thinking I saw someone, dressed in dark clothing, rush past the window outside, on Saturday. I was fooled enough to actually go out the workshop door and go looking for who ever was wondering around my garden uninvited

 

[Mrs Ten Names]

The say dreams, are your brains way of making sense of the day's events,

If I want to make sense of the events of the day, I stay awake.

 

[gas112]

I have recently been having a really strange dream that i am a horse ....That`s 5 nights on the trot now

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Another weird one last night...

I was on a bus, with the dog, heading for home many miles away. On the bus, I also somehow had my motorbike and sidecar. Part way home, I decided to get on the bike, and follow the bus, leaving the dog on the bus. That went OK for a while, but then the bus began to get on straighter, faster roads, leaving me on the bike behind. Next the bike ran out of petrol, and I had to switch to reserve. Strangely, I could hear the dog, on the bus, ahead of me, being quite vocal.

I woke to her being quite vocal, moaning, groaning, and tapping the side of the mattress, to tell me to get up, at 9am. Avril had got up at 7am, to take advantage of the two hours of free power, to get several loads of washing done, in the machine.

I've never ridden a motorbike and sidecar, though I've had lots of motorbikes, over the years. Do modern bikes even have a reserve tap? The last two I had, just had petrol gauges instead.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

I sometimes have dreams where something is linked even months apart. For example I can have two or three dreams spread over a year and they'll be set in the same abstract setting i.e. not a real setting from my past. A few weeks back I had a dream that featured a couple and, in the dream, I said 'oh I remember you' and when I awoke I remembered they had been in a previous dream. Not a real couple that I know.

Dreams can also be quite emotional e.g. if they feature loved ones no longer here.

I agree, some dreams you remember quite well hours after you wake up, others go as soon as you wake up.

It goes to show how amazing the brain is, all that info from your life contained between your ears.

 

[martygturner]

Dreams happen in REM sleep only, disturbed waking REM sleep is normally when people start remembering their dreams. Lots of physical factors influence the state of sleep you achieve, when and how long. Alcohol, medications, snoring, clocks going back and forwards etc etc Basically your body is shunting you to awake to fast...

 

[fixitflav]

Another weird one last night...

I was on a bus, with the dog, heading for home many miles away. On the bus, I also somehow had my motorbike and sidecar. Part way home, I decided to get on the bike, and follow the bus, leaving the dog on the bus. That went OK for a while, but then the bus began to get on straighter, faster roads, leaving me on the bike behind. Next the bike ran out of petrol, and I had to switch to reserve. Strangely, I could hear the dog, on the bus, ahead of me, being quite vocal.

I woke to her being quite vocal, moaning, groaning, and tapping the side of the mattress, to tell me to get up, at 9am. Avril had got up at 7am, to take advantage of the two hours of free power, to get several loads of washing done, in the machine.

I've never ridden a motorbike and sidecar, though I've had lots of motorbikes, over the years. Do modern bikes even have a reserve tap? The last two I had, just had petrol gauges instead.

I had a strange one a few nights ago, I dreamt I had got two women pregnant. One was a young Asian girl, don't know about the second one. Unfortunately the dream didn't include doing the deed! But the odd thing was, even within the dream I realised this can't be true, it must be a dream.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I agree, some dreams you remember quite well hours after you wake up, others go as soon as you wake up.

It goes to show how amazing the brain is, all that info from your life contained between your ears.

Absolutely, I find them quite fascinating. As you suggest, some evaporate almost instantly, others you can recall for an hour or two, those at least you get the chance to document. Some, I find, can stick around for days - such that they suddenly pop up into my consciousness, maybe having me wondering if I have done something, or not done it.