Dreams

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Anyone want to talk about dreams? The night before yesterday I had a nightmare about a skeleton.

My dreams never make any sense. It's mostly a random slideshow of images and things that happen, that are completely unrelated to each other.

I almost don't have any nightmares. I was told I once had a nightmare where I was screaming ("Don't kill me!") but I do not remember that. The only other nightmare that I have isn't even a real nightmare, more of a feeling. It's the feeling of being completely overstimulated. I used to have it a lot when I was a kid, most often at night, so that's why I call it a nightmare. It can happen when I'm not sleeping, too.

I had a very weird dream once...

I was at school, and the task I was to complete was to find certain things in a
group of photos. I looked at the task, and it said to "find examples of the
social ladder"
Perplexed, I asked the teacher what that meant. The teacher was Miss Kylie
McCarthy from my Year7 days.
She looked at me as though I was an idiot, and asked "You don't know what social
ladder means?"
I replied that I did not.
She turned away and returned to playing cards in the dark with people I could
not see (cos of the dark).
I followed her, and asked her for her assistance.
She replied, "Don't be an idiot."
Seriously irked, and I replied in anger, "Are you insulting me?"
She paused for a moment, and then said "Yes I guess I am." I got in her face and
practically screamed, "DO NOT INSULT ME!
I then returned to my table/desk, the person sitting across me shrugged. The
dream then went onto some weirdness about the person sitting across from me's
house on a cliff and cutting into that cliff for some reason.

... Weird...
The weirdest part is that Miss McCarthy was one of the few teachers that
actually understood me in my early high school years. And from what I've learnt
since (through a study my cousin did on me at my school), she was the most
willing to learn about my Asperger's and how it could affect my learning... Why
she was so negative in this dream I don't know.


I'm not entirely sure what that dream meant, if anything... But it has left me
wondering.


GA

Aside from the dreams that I can't mention here, my dreams are usually a mixture of sensations and events from the previous day.

I used to have this recurring dream in the past. It's very comfortable and pleasant, almost ethereal.

The dream is set in a forested campground of some sorts, although signs of anyone camping there are present. There are train tracks running through the area. The tracks seem brand new, as if they've been laid very recently. I'm standing right on the tracks (on one of the rails), talking to a girl who's standing next to the tracks. She seems very friendly and warm, making me feel completely as ease right from the start. Suddenly, I hear the sound of a train rumbling in the distance. At that point, the girl grabs me by the wrist, gives it a light pool, and says in a soothing voice: "hey, there's a train coming". I step off the tracks, and the train passes by. Once the train is gone, I'm about to thank the girl for saving me, and try to get to know her better. Unfortunately, that's when I wake up.

Like sleepflower, most of my dreams don't have a running story line. Mostly they are random scenes and images. But there are the more rare occasions when my dreams seem to be more than that. I have noticed this is usually in times of stress.

I think this is because more of my recent memories have much more emotion attached to them and this higher emotional component produces more opportunity to actually make a hodge-podge story from all this.

I think with random, unemotional images, it's much harder for the brain to synthesize them into a semi-coherent whole. But an emotional charge makes that easier to do.