What's the last weirdest dream you had?

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can you tell me how you get that sense of their appearance? and can you tell me if intellectually you can see what the chances are that this perception deviates from reality?

I don't think it's either. The strongest element of the dream was thought "don't mess up or all hell will break loose." I'm sure the dream was a result of a movie I watched last nite where a character was in a similar situation. I thought it was amusing because the scenario is definitely relateable in a metaphoric way. Until I remembered the movie, I thought my mind was trying to tell me something, because it does that a lot.

One word:

Selfies.

For most folks on WP I have no sense of what they look like. Gender, and a vague notion of what age group they are is about all I envision behind their posts. And even that can be off.

But some folks on WP post pics of themselves (sometimes as their avatar, other times occasionally in their written posts).

The person who turned up in my dream both writes frankly about themselves- and post selfies. So they are very vivid as a person to me . Its that dream I told you about (I pm'd you about that dream a while back). That WP'er is an exception.

You used a selfie as your avatar for while. So I have pretty good idea of what you look like. May not be a perfectly accurate image. But its probably pretty accurate. The mythic Auntblabby vs the real Auntblabby!

ok, would you say you have a pretty good picture [figuratively speaking] of this person's true personality also, in real life, face to face?

Kinda.
Its a matter of degree. People date, and then after marriage sometimes get "shocked" at how their spouses "really" are. The personality of folks you know in real life are imperfect mythic constructs in your head.

Thats hilarious.

A friend exploding in your room? Maybe her hand fragment just happened to get entangled in the trumpet when she exploded! Lol!

Symbolically?

Maybe this friend imposes on you and stifles you in some way. When she messed with your horn in the dream she went to far and got dismembered by a trumpet blast? Just a thought.

i had fragments of remembered dreams this morning- i dreamt i was riding a bus that was high-speed like a japanese bullet train but was constrained by dense traffic. we pulled into a left turn lane headed for my old workplace, only for some reason it turned into a tall bridge with a chasm underneath, and the bus was on the concrete divider barrier on the side of the bridge which turned on its side, and was balanced on one bank of wheels, and i was riding on top of the bus sitting on top of another concrete divider thing atop the bus, and it was very tipsy and it took all i could do not to fall off into the chasm below. then it segued into my kitchen where i grabbed a chocolate bar, opened the wrapper only to find a large chocolate brown hairy spider sorta ooze away from me. strange.

auntblabby, you have such good recall. Do you know you're dreaming?

If I had excellent recall of my dreams, I could have been the next James Joyce!

I vaguely remember last night I dreamed that I was living in a house with my sister and Snow White. Snow White was trying to become a famous artist (painter). We were out of coffee and I was really worried about waking up and going to get some, but when we woke up Snow White had already gotten it. I was surprised that she could do that.

Before I went to bed, I was reading books about drawing graphic comics and also the graphic novel Fables (Snow White is a character), so that kind of explains it.

Jaeger: how do you feel about Louis Armstrong? I think he's the greatest trumpet player ever!

To me, my dreams have been either of the "wish fulfillment" variety or "paranoid." In my "paranoid" dreams, I'm frequently near the top of a precipice, about to fall down. Or else, I'm going to get my butt kicked by a bunch of bullies.

Thanks for explaining that. Do you realize that that's a really unique way to store and retrieve information? I was just telling somebody in another thread that scientists are really creative.


Edit, come to think of it, I think you responded to that thread.

once in a blue moon I will be semilucid while dreaming and know vaguely that it is just a dream that I can alter somewhat. most of the time, though, I'm just a passenger, a stranger in a strange land. just like in waking life.

LOL....that's actually happened to me.

I've been able to alter my dream while I'm dreaming!

I've had a great many floating dreams over the years.

I had a thought some time ago that one thing that may contribute to the dreams is that when I'm asleep there is no weight on my feet so maybe my mind interprets the combination of movement in the dream with no weight on the feet to come up with floating.

The other night it was pretty cold and I had a rather heavy comforter on top of me. I had a floating dream, but in the dream I felt so weighted down by my clothes that I had real problems maintaining distance above the ground. Whenever I got some altitude and then rested, the weight of my clothes would cause me to start to sink again.

Thank you for the kind comment. Many people just think it is weird how I can remember things with songs. I have been able to do this since I was very young and never really thought much about it being special. There used to be a radio station that would play 15 seconds of a rock song backward and to win you had to be the first caller with the correct band and title. I won so many times that they basically banned me from participating for a year, even though they had no rules on how many times you could win per week, month or year (I checked on that). I even had a side bet with one of the DJs that he could not stump me on it off air, he tried and failed with "Dude looks like a lady" by Aerosmith. To me, it was never about winning the prize (I usually gave them away), just the challenge of doing it. I am just one of those people that can name the song, artist/band, title of the album, what position it was on the album and year of release just from hearing the very beginning of it (less than a second is usually all I need) if I have heard the song before. There are a few early ones that occasionally escape me if they sound very similar to another song. If you tell me a song title that I know, I can usually get the band and possibly the year but not much else. My memory is somehow keyed into the sound of the songs. So, I progressed it into tying other information to the songs as a particular series. If I can do it, I am pretty sure everyone else can if they really wanted to learn to do it and practiced enough.