What kind of dreams do you have?

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I have multiple vivid dreams every night. They a very clear and make sense when I am dreaming them but not when I review after being awake for a while. I wake up often from them during the night and usually with a panic attack or something like it. Its annoying to put it mildly. I read somewhere that its the way the AS brain downloads all the extra sensory crap we keep in our brains all day long. I don't know if thats true but I like the way it sounds. It makes the bad seem at least productive.

My 'special interests' are usually TV shows (I'm not sure if it makes sense to call them a special interest, but I watch compulsively and want to talk about them all the time). Whatever TV show I'm currently into, I dream from that perspective and with the people in my dream being the characters of the TV show. I also get this with novels.

Psychotic.

Reoccurring things:

A large, mazelike building that is supposed to be my grandparents house. It's always changing.

Video games, only they often aren't even video games and are a lot creepier. The weirdest thing is that the games actually do have levels, rules, logic, everything to them, but they are all original.

Actual games or other special interests, or at least that's what they are supposed to be, only they are nothing like they are supposed to be, and often make very little sense in retrospect.

Good guys and bad guys.

Flying and other super/magic powers, but mainly flying and telekinesis. I can also sometimes magically kill people, or I just kill them using my wrestling techniques as I'm badass in my dreams.

Needing to use the bathroom, but none of the rooms have locks, if they even have doors, and then the bathroom randomly transformed into a different freaking room while I'm using it. There is often just toilets in the middle of some great and spacious rooms.

Randomly being naked. If there are other people around I usually strip them.

Randomly having sex with girl, sometimes she ends up being a guy. As I often use my lucid dream powers to do this this may make the dream become less intense and more like awakened imagining than a dream.

Big Creepy School, it's a different building every time, but it's always creepy for one reason or another.

New fantasy places to explore in what is supposed to be familiar places, giving sense of wonder.

Going to a new country. They are always weird as hell in the dream, a lot weirder than they are in reality.

A story or something tying the dream together, giving a sense of adventure.

An adventure through somesort of an ice world. Maybe it's a mountain, maybe a glacier, maybe it's a sea of ice. I remember multiple times there was alternating bands of ice and water. Once I remember their being this spectacular ice palace.

Changing perspectives, a lack of self.

Being reunited with someone from long ago in my past.

Vast, but sometimes gradual changes in setting.

This giant, etheral museum, with mysterious things in it.

Creatures.

Falling. Sometimes a survive. If a die I wake up.

Violence.

Teeth falling out.

Dinosaurs.

Other weird creepy stuff.

Keep in mind all this crap is mixed together. It makes so much send while dreaming, but next to none in retrospect. A think dreams are a mixture of your most awesome and terrible memories and your greatest fears and dreams, all blended together with a good old spring of nocturnal psychosis.

Stuff that would make Freud and David Lynch happy men.

Since I've seen many of my dreams fulfilled over the years, dream meanings from these dream dictionaries and dream websites don't apply. Many of my dreams have been fulfilled by me doing the same thing in real life or seeing something in real life.

Let's take floating dreams for instance, since they've had the most influence on me. I started having floating dreams when I was in my early twenties. I was floating around in a room where objects were also floating around. Than later in life I started seeing myself floating around in airplanes and even in the space shuttle. And of course these dictionaries and websites tries to put a different spin on them in symbolism.

FLOATING DREAMS


But, the opportunity was open to me to really float in modified passenger jets and cargo jets during the 1990's with my last flight being in 1996 on a zero gravity flight in Florida sponsored by Sprite.

So what I'm getting at is what a dream means to one person may mean something else to someone else. In the case of my floating dreams I put them all in dream diaries in which my future was quickly unfolding. Something this major, a person don't quickly forget that they had such dreams.

Keeping dream diaries and taking note of the dreams associated with future events require a lot of work. Some weeks or even months, it is dream research when something in my life is about to happen.

Therefore, using dream dictionaries and dream websites are highly unreliable.

Many of the older WP members probably remember the Jeffry Dalmer murders where he ate his victims (cannibalism). I had a very accurate and disturbing dream about this that I also put in one of my dream diaries. I was so shocked and horrified that this dream was fulfilled so accurately.

But, again, dream dictionaries and dream websites will put a different spin on cannibalism.

CANNABILISM IN DREAMS

So you are your own best interpreter of your own dreams. However, it can get to be work.

I don't have many, at least not many that I can recall. If I can recall one a month, that is a lot. I'd say I average 2-3 a year.

HOWEVER when I do have them they are so real I have a hard time telling them apart from reality. For example a few months ago I went to work and asked a coworker if she was feeling better and was surprised at her confusion and also that she had seemingly fully recovered from her laryngitis. She never had laryngitis. I had just had a dream that she did. Another time I congratulated a (male) coworker on their new baby. This person was really upset because their wife had just gotten pregnant and hadn't told anyone yet and was really creeped out that I congratulated them on their little boy.

This started in my childhood. NOW I can tell usually if something is off the wall (zombies) that it was a dream, but if it's mundane (like a sick coworker), I can't tell. It's a real memory to me. When I was a kid? Thought they were all real (I had a lot more) and I could usually recall them VERY clearly. There were several times I made my parents look for stores that didn't exist at the mall, or the one time I cried for a week because the elepahnt that was in our back yard was gone. They had a real hard time with this and I just didn't understand for a long time.

Mine are totally random but somehow relate to my real life. I have a pretty good memory for dreams so I'll describe a few:

- My stand out dream that's pretty clear in my mind is one where I meet a girl who can transform into anything she desires. We both attended a school that is on a beach which has a Hawaiian bar hut and surfing lessons (ohhh if only it were true!). She teaches me this ability and I transform into a newt (probably inspired by the film Matilda I watched that day ). I remember feeling as if i was suspended in water (no comment )

-Another completely nonsensical dream was one where i was working in Blockbusters with the Simpsons . The shelves were stacked with games and videos that were yet to be released in real life. The shop inexplicably exploded at the end and i ended up in a bin before i woke up.

-As I was falling asleep one night I had a vision (probably hypnagogic imagery) of a woman drowning . Not pleasant. Later on that night, I had a dream where I started off in a mine cart with my family which travelled through a dump before ending up at this sort of governmental address thing. The mine cart travelled up the side of a skyscraper before stopping on a float hanging off the building. My family and I made a speech before the float collapsed and next thing I knew I was in a suburb. One house stood out to me and so I immediately entered it. It was empty but I felt a strange presence there. I went to the living room where the television was on but there was nothing but static (mustve seen a horror movie that day ) and I found a DVD case which had a cryptic message on it that told me to go upstairs once I deciphered it. Upstairs, I found nothing but ordinary items but I caught things moving just out of eyesight and before I knew it I woke up. I felt compelled to go to America once i woke bizarrely. I just firmly believed that this house actually exists and I needed to go there to exorcise this ghost. .

I wont bore you with any more of my dreams but I usually get a strong feeling that my dreams foretell the future or I am controlling events somewhere far away. Creepy, huh?

You may remember your dreams but you lose important details by not keeping dream diaries and the longer the time goes on the more detail is lost. And since you have a strong feeling of prophetic dreams, you lose your credibility as well when you don't keep dream diaries and save the followup articles, pictures and documents, since people might think you had a dream after the fact.

I dream about:

- Flying. Like one of the other posters said, it's like swimming. It's fun, though.
- Traveling, but never reaching my destination. Airports with transfer areas that are like mazes and infinite loops. Those dreams were more frequent and even more nightmarish before I decided to start over with a different university degree.
- Fleeing. Usually involves black helicopters. Fun.
- Real life events. Sometimes nice, sometimes bad.
- Computer games. Seems to be a bit like the Tetris effect - my nocturnal adventures as a gnome warlock sadly came to an end after I quit WoW.
- Those dreams sometimes involve Liara.
- Fictional universes from literature and movies. I dreamed I went to Hogwarts once. That was fun. I've also been to the Shire, from time to time. And BSG.
- Certain cylons are sometimes involved.
- I sometimes dream that I get unforeseen, huge bills. Sadly, they often come true. I wish the dreams including blue aliens (or the cylons) came true instead. Or better executive function. Or both.

I can't remember the majority of my dreams, though. Even though I dream a lot. But when I do, they are usually very vivid, and I have excessive daytime sleepiness. I'm currently awaiting the results from a sleep study, I wouldn't be surprised if I have excessive REM activity.

That's exactly how my dreams work. Sometimes I notice afterwards that they could not have been real memories because of very tiny details, people that could not have been there, clothes I could not have worn the day before because I find them in the closet or just because I remember that it was raining but it hasn't rained in the last few days. Usually they just seem like ordinary memories which I quickly forget after waking up.
Very rarely I have dreams that are obviously dreams; usually if I watched a film before going to sleep which left lingering, emotional impressions. Horror films, for instance. But for those dreams I am usually partly awake realising that I'm dreaming; if I then end up in a situation that scares me, I change the story to come out of it alive.

You're right! I know I probably cant foretell the future I just strongly believe I can! It's just one of my delusions...I'm not crazy by the way . I've since thought about keeping a dream journal but it will probably just prove that i'm wrong and I like to be blissfully ignorant .

I remember a couple of dreams over the previous couple of years where I feel neurotypical. These dreams related back to a childhood i.e., seven-years of age while I was attending a Montesorri school program.

I'm planning further discussions (outside the topic of dreams) on how some non-traditional educational experiences may be helpful where (high-fuctioning Autism) is a factor. Once more, Autism (let alone high-functioning Autism) was largely unknown throughout much of the 1970s - the time of my childhood.

My dreams tend to have a combination of violence, torture (someone doing it, not me) and sci-fi experimentation on humans (mind-operated devices, etc.). Great stuff for fiction stories we had to write in English class.

My dreams do involve one of my special interests as well. However the items of the specific interest are being used to torture me and others in a facility where experiments are carried out on us to create "super-soldiers" via mind-control.

wow...I thought for sure I was the only person to have this happen to them! Yay kindred spirit!

I feel weird saying TV shows and movies are my special interest too! But they are...PM if you ever wanna chat.

[Off-topic comment: I, too went to a Montessori elementary school and I believe this was the best thing that could have happened to me school-wise. I doubt that I would have learnt to function that well had I gone to an ordinary school. It might be interesting to compare experiences.]