Fathom this Dream!

Fathom

My dream diary. Warning! Beware of my dreams. May put you to sleep. Comments welcome. Or open new thread. Start your dream diary. Your choice. *** Last dream. Early Sunday morning. After Saturday night cool house party. Still dark. Window open. Half Moon. Silvery glow. Slight Pacific breeze. Heat wave warm. Light sweat. No covers. Tossed sheet aside. Drifted off. Dreamed. Seemed to last forever. Really? Probably seconds. Dream starts. Seemed so real. Playing night sand volleyball. Electric light lit. Couple per side. We're winning. Then tied. They serve. Ball goes flying. Like shot out of a cannon! Way out-of-bounds. Into ocean. Waves. I splash to save. Completely soaked. My partner towels me. Gets heavy. Very! Suddenly wake up. Disappointed. Hear guy revving car. Street below my window. Muscle mufflers. Loud! I shout at him. He flips me off, before burning rubber. How unfair. Me mad!

Black Swan

Whoa, your dream Fathom reads like a short-short story. Why can't I have "such" dreams too, and more often? Maybe I will take another look at your "Lucid Dreaming" thread in Sleeping and Dreaming for clues?

Fathom

Lucid dream. Been there. Done that. Works sometimes.

Fathom

Flying. Return trip. Cramped economy. Seats filled. Uncomfortable. Tried reading. Fell asleep. Book on chest. Dream. Flying too. No plane. Sunny day with white cotton ball clouds. Arms outstretched to sides like wings. Souring high before diving. Several times. Breeze though hair. Against face. Used hands to change direction. Curved right. Curved left. Flat straight flight. Dashed through clouds. Misty wet they were. Cloud undersides darkened. Rain. Lightning! Thunder! Awoke. Near airport. Fasten seat belts. Back to real world.

Fathom

Visit Dad's office. Desk for me. Name plate. Cards. Desk top PC. Reserved for daughter. In dream it's all gone. I'm mad! Confront him? No! Pretend all is normal. Use laptop in reception. Steaming mad. But don't show it. Wake up. The dream was so real. Almost called office. Foolish thought.

Black Swan

You don't really work in his office do you Fathom?

Fathom

Old allowance job.

Fathom

Reading. Zero-G novel. Fell asleep. Floating in space suit dream followed. Oxygen ran out. Gasping for breath. Woke up!

Black Swan

Fathom wrote: »

Reading. Zero-G novel. Fell asleep. Floating in space suit dream followed. Oxygen ran out. Gasping for breath. Woke up!

Must be a grand space odyssey if it follows you into your dreams Fathom. Puts sci fi novel on list to read.

Fathom

Dream patterns? Films? Novels? Influence dream content? Several friends report this.

Black Swan

Fathom wrote: »

Dream patterns? Films? Novels? Influence dream content? Several friends report this.

Deirdre Barrett in The Committee of Sleep (2001) suggests "How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Dreams for Creative Problem-Solving."

SwanBot

What's Sleep Committee?

Fathom

SwanBot wrote: »

What's Sleep Committee?

Sleepy & Dreamy forum members?

Fathom

Short dream. Traveling. In airport. Missing luggage. Camera case. Looked about franticly. Reported missing. Looked again in luggage. It was there all the time. Awoke. Feeling foolish.

Black Swan

Lucky Fathom having a dream that resolves itself before waking.

Fathom

Flying dream. Crowded seating. Person next raises arm rest. Invades my space. I leave. Search for seat. Wander aimlessly. No vacancies. Flight crew points to one I left. We argue. I wake-up. Swam that one off. Several laps. Exercise works for me. Now laugh. Why should dreams affect wakeful hours?

Black Swan

Fathom wrote: »

Flying dream. Crowded seating. Person next raises arm rest. Invades my space. I leave. Search for seat. Wander aimlessly. No vacancies. Flight crew points to one I left. We argue. I wake-up. Swam that one off. Several laps. Exercise works for me. Now laugh. Why should dreams affect wakeful hours?

Makes me wonder where the intersection of awake and dream state exists; i.e., nightmares vs daymares?

King George VI

Fathom wrote: »

Flying dream. Crowded seating. Person next raises arm rest. Invades my space. I leave. Search for seat. Wander aimlessly. No vacancies. Flight crew points to one I left. We argue. I wake-up. Swam that one off. Several laps. Exercise works for me. Now laugh. Why should dreams affect wakeful hours?

Why shouldn't they affect wakeful hours? They're still thoughts inside your head. I'd go as far as to say they're as important as your waking thoughts. Maybe they don't have as much weight as your waking thoughts but they mean something.

That's my thoughts on it anyway. Ever since I had my first LD a few years ago I've taken my unconscious mind seriously. Then I got into LDing properly a year ago and am getting good at it. But it's the non lucid dreams I have, the ones I'm not controlling that I would think about all day. I'd constantly be thinking "why did I dream about that in particular, and why two days in a row?". I always assume there's a reason we dream about certain things. It's fun to try figure out what the reason is.

Fathom

Frank Sinatra wrote: »

Why shouldn't they affect wakeful hours? They're still thoughts inside your head. I'd go as far as to say they're as important as your waking thoughts. Maybe they don't have as much weight as your waking thoughts but they mean something.

Dream interpretation? Freud subjective. Unscientific. Who else?

Black Swan

Fathom wrote: »

Dream interpretation? Freud subjective. Unscientific. Who else?

Don't remind me about Sigmund Freud's highly biased, case study driven pseudo-contributions to the phenomena of dream interpretation, or those of his daughter Anna Freud, who stumbled along in his footsteps.

Fathom

Library dream. Accosted. Claimed I damaged book. Wrong! Circular argument. Yes! No! Finally woke.

Black Swan

Fathom wrote: »

Library dream. Accosted. Claimed I damaged book. Wrong! Circular argument. Yes! No! Finally woke.

Close to penalty deadlines, thereby generating a bit of distress, which may in turn influence dream content?

Fathom

Black Swan wrote: »

Close to penalty deadlines, thereby generating a bit of distress, which may in turn influence dream content?

Toss and turn. While dreaming?

Black Swan

Fathom wrote: »

Toss and turn. While dreaming?

I've seen REM dream research, but I am uncertain if there was much conducted regarding tossing and turning while dreaming. Might be worth reviewing the scholarly literature to see what is there?

aaronjumper

Black Swan wrote: »

Swannie straps jumper to a chair, turns on blinding lights, and threatens him with a long whip-like spaghetti noodle: "Talk jumper! Talk! (or rather POST!)" :eek:

I actually like my new post that started last Autumn. It's a dream come true and not a nightmare.

Never! Okay an odd one from last night.
I had a pet lizard, one of those ones that can change colours to match their background.
It lived in my beard, we went on an adventure and it was great.
I don't remember the details of the adventure, just that it was fun.

Are you happy now? :P

I'm just confused. As far as I know lizards are a pain in the arse to look after.

Realised this one probably didn't belong in the upsetting dreams thread.

Black Swan

aaronjumper wrote: »

Never! Okay an odd one from last night.
I had a pet lizard, one of those ones that can change colours to match their background.
It lived in my beard, we went on an adventure and it was great.
I don't remember the details of the adventure, just that it was fun.

I can just guess what all the so-called dream interpreters would make of your dream jumper!

aaronjumper

Something about finding companionship maybe?
Depends on whether you're trying to look at it from a mystical point of view or a psychological one I guess.

My bad dreams are just a play on my fears whereas the nice ones don't usually make sense.

Black Swan

aaronjumper wrote: »

Something about finding companionship maybe?
Depends on whether you're trying to look at it from a mystical point of view or a psychological one I guess.

My bad dreams are just a play on my fears whereas the nice ones don't usually make sense.

Methinks that today's and yesterday's dream interpretations were anecdotal, pre-scientific and essentially useless.

aaronjumper

Pre-scientific I like that.

I never considered trying to interpret dreams until I found this forum.
Since then I've no idea what they mean. Said I'd give it a go though.

Maybe I should read some books on it before my next attempt.

Fathom

aaronjumper wrote: »

Pre-scientific I like that.

Agree with Black Swan.

aaronjumper wrote: »

I never considered trying to interpret dreams until I found this forum. Since then I've no idea what they mean. Said I'd give it a go though.

Why not? Easy to beat Freud.

Black Swan

aaronjumper wrote: »

Pre-scientific I like that.

Leaves the door open for any of us to become a dream interpretation expert, or at least someone who leaves that impression?