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05 May 2019, 2:04 pm
auntblabby wrote:
^^not a mere dream but at least one was a nightmare! 
Strangely enough, I was not terrified. It didn't feel genuine like it wasn't actually happening to me. I was probably on the verge of figuring out it was just a dream. Often when I do figure out it's a dream and exert my will I just wake myself up eventually.
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05 May 2019, 9:38 pm
blackicmenace wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
^^not a mere dream but at least one was a nightmare!
Strangely enough, I was not terrified. It didn't feel genuine like it wasn't actually happening to me. I was probably on the verge of figuring out it was just a dream. Often when I do figure out it's a dream and exert my will I just wake myself up eventually.
sounds like you are well on the way to mastering lucid dreaming.
05 May 2019, 10:25 pm
auntblabby wrote:
blackicmenace wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
^^not a mere dream but at least one was a nightmare!
Strangely enough, I was not terrified. It didn't feel genuine like it wasn't actually happening to me. I was probably on the verge of figuring out it was just a dream. Often when I do figure out it's a dream and exert my will I just wake myself up eventually.
sounds like you are well on the way to mastering lucid dreaming.
Perhaps if I ever figure out how to avoid triggering my mind waking from the dream. I have been able to go back to sleep and successfully determine it was just a dream a second time, but I always end up waking up even when struggling to stay in the dream. Once I have the realization, it's only a matter of time. It's like the more I break "reality" or attempt to change the dream, the more my mind wants to abort the dream.
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05 May 2019, 10:27 pm
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05 May 2019, 11:04 pm
blackicmenace wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
blackicmenace wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
^^not a mere dream but at least one was a nightmare!
Strangely enough, I was not terrified. It didn't feel genuine like it wasn't actually happening to me. I was probably on the verge of figuring out it was just a dream. Often when I do figure out it's a dream and exert my will I just wake myself up eventually.
sounds like you are well on the way to mastering lucid dreaming.
Perhaps if I ever figure out how to avoid triggering my mind waking from the dream. I have been able to go back to sleep and successfully determine it was just a dream a second time, but I always end up waking up even when struggling to stay in the dream. Once I have the realization, it's only a matter of time. It's like the more I break "reality" or attempt to change the dream, the more my mind wants to abort the dream.
out of curiosity, what are your opinions of hypnosis?
06 May 2019, 1:47 am
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06 May 2019, 2:50 am
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^I don't know enough about hypnosis to have one. Why do you ask?
i've read that through hypnosis a person can learn to have better dreams. hypnosis doesn't work worth a darn for me and reportedly a majority of those on the autism spectrum.
Interesting, I think I'd need a great deal of trust to even try it. I would say I don't recall much of the vast majority of my dreams. I like to think dreaming is our way to simulate dangerous situations like training simulations to gain experience in situations that would normally be deadly or simply emulate skill building during down time. Likely a very useful thing for primitive humans to fail without deadly consequences.
hmmm...
i wonder, then, what my "toiletmobile driving" dreams are warning me of? 
06 May 2019, 4:41 am
auntblabby wrote:
blackicmenace wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
blackicmenace wrote:
^I don't know enough about hypnosis to have one. Why do you ask?
i've read that through hypnosis a person can learn to have better dreams. hypnosis doesn't work worth a darn for me and reportedly a majority of those on the autism spectrum.
Interesting, I think I'd need a great deal of trust to even try it. I would say I don't recall much of the vast majority of my dreams. I like to think dreaming is our way to simulate dangerous situations like training simulations to gain experience in situations that would normally be deadly or simply emulate skill building during down time. Likely a very useful thing for primitive humans to fail without deadly consequences.
hmmm...
i wonder, then, what my "toiletmobile driving" dreams are warning me of? The modern mind has a lot of information to use. I imagine it would have been far more useful with much less useless information to use. If you do a new activity and do it often, I have noticed I will often dream about said activity. For instance, if I pick up a new game and start playing it a lot, I might dream about it.
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07 May 2019, 7:51 pm
"infobesity" 
07 May 2019, 8:39 pm
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"infobesity"
Information overload.
