Dreams and Meanings?

JupiterKid

So do ye all get vivid dreams?


Yep. Had a very vivid dream last night about a huge party to celebrate another web forum's 20th anniversary. I had a huge mansion of a gaff with a huge garden and a swimming pool and the music was blasting (dance numbers from the 90s and 2000s) as guests were arriving. I was the host but Forum webmaster was MC of the event. It was summer and hot and humid. All the familiar forum heads past and present were in attendance. I however remained indoors shuffling through my collection of CDs trying to select the best music.:hippy: I really wanted to frolic around in the pool in the nip.:biglaugh:

At some stage a woman who looked uncannily like former Pres Mary McAleese knocked on my door with a smile and offered me a plastic bag stuffed full of literature. After she left I looked through it and realised it was really homophobic religious fundamentalist stuff.:(:td: I showed the literature to other party goers and we all had a good laugh. I enjoyed the huge bash but because I couldnt drink I tried to be on my guard most of the time.

Dreams...:D

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Weird dreams usually means
- stressed out
- had cheese before bed
- too hot

kikiole

"had cheese before bed"
haha, if life only was this simple 

My dreams are often strange and unsettling. Some are just regular old surreal ones but then I have ones which are so close to real life. I've often woken up from one and it hangs like a strange shadow around me for days and sometimes weeks.

In my dreams I have been stabbed, loved, terrified, ecstatic, pregnant, a mother, raped, running away, swimming, exploring, in the dark. And the rest. Our unconscious mind is so so powerful. I firmly believe that certain dreams are a manifestation of this, in particular recurring ones.

There are people from my past I dream of regularly. We aren't friends anymore but in the dreams we have made up. I can't figure it out though because I feel I've made peace with that part of my life but perhaps not. My mam is a prominent figure in my dreams. I used to dream that she had died but not much of that these days thankfully.

Rubberlegs

Most nights, well its actually in the couple of hours before waking, I have incredibly vivid dreams. I can taste, smell and feel in them. I have dreamt I am pregnant and feel the baby moving. The last couple of weeks there has been a theme of death in them. I dreamt I could see my late Dad over at his house smiling at me and looking young and healthy and was completely freaking out asking everyone else could they see him too. I dreamt a woman I used to be friendly with years ago son died falling off a cliff. Yesterday I dreamt the old lady up the road who I get on well with died. It leaves me feeling very unsettled and stays with me for days. Also feeling like I never get a decent sleep, sure how could you when your brain is racing when you are asleep?

LushiousLips

Couple of nights ago I dreamt my young daughter was kidnapped in a park. The fear felt so real that when I woke up I was really unsettled for a few hours after.

Had a sex dream last night thou, and that was much better!

saintsaltynuts

Had a dream I was a toilet roll that was pretty sh1te!

jamesbere

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

Had a dream I was a toilet roll that was pretty sh1te!

Bah dum tish

take everything

Dreams are a fascinating subject.
I'm as hardheaded and rational as they come but I do think dreams can tell a lot about our unconscious. As Freud and Jung talked about.

Jung to me is more interesting as he developed Freud's stuff about just sex and death into myriad archetypes. These archetypes manifest themselves endlessly in dreams, myths, stories etc. The stuff that makes us human.

So, seeing certain symbols or images in dreams can be instructive as to what you really want in life. Tying in with the whole wish fulfilment stuff.

I'm always trying to analyse my dreams. Dream Moods is a decent enough app if your interested in understanding dreams a bit better.

TerrorFirmer

Whenever I think of dreams I think of that classic scene in Intermission.

Or you're relieving yourself on O'Connell Street. What does that mean, an muinteoir. Number twos, like, in a little toilet outside the GPO...and you're afraid to wipe your bum because everybody will look at you.

Dr Crayfish

I often have the tooth falling out dream, does anyone else? Last night I was dreaming about falling asleep on a long haul flight. Something I have never managed to do.

neonsofa

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I often have the tooth falling out dream, does anyone else?

I've been told by so many people that this dream is due to money worries- it really isn't though in my case, if I see that ad with the gum disease and tooth falling into the sink I'll have this dream. If I floss straight before bed as opposed to a few minutes before, I will dream about my teeth. If I get tooth sensitivity at all, that night I will have the losing teeth dream. It is definitely linked to my teeth! It's a horrible dream though- I cry and all in my dream cause I have no teeth left!

Robineen

There is nothing more tedious in real life than somebody who frequently loves telling people about their dreams in great detail. The subtext always seems to be "Aren't I so wacky and creative, my mind is so fertile!"

Not getting at the OP, a thread where people elect to discuss their dreams is obviously different, it's going to attract people who want to talk about dreams.

JupiterKid

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I often have the tooth falling out dream, does anyone else? Last night I was dreaming about falling asleep on a long haul flight. Something I have never managed to do.

I've had dreams about teeth falling out, apparently they're quite common. Something to do with fear of loss of something personal or so they say. Now that I'm in my 40s and a front tooth had to be worked on for a cavity, they may just become a real possibility.:(:eek:

TerrorFirmer

I think there's a few common ones almost everyone gets - tooth or teeth falling out, sitting an exam and you know nothing, suddenly realizing you're going to the bathroom in public, giving a presentation at work and you've forgotten everything, etc.

ToddyDoody

JupiterKid wrote: »

Had a very vivid dream last night about a huge party to celebrate another web forum's 20th anniversary.

WHAT??!

neonsofa

Robineen wrote: »

There is nothing more tedious in real life than somebody who frequently loves telling people about their dreams in great detail. The subtext always seems to be "Aren't I so wacky and creative, my mind is so fertile!"

Not getting at the OP, a thread where people elect to discuss their dreams is obviously different, it's going to attract people who want to talk about dreams.

I love hearing about people's dreams!

Robineen

I will say though that my dreams became scarily vivid when I was morphined up in hospital. Not fun.

Dr Crayfish

Robineen wrote: »

There is nothing more tedious in real life than somebody who frequently loves telling people about their dreams in great detail. The subtext always seems to be "Aren't I so wacky and creative, my mind is so fertile!"

Not getting at the OP, a thread where people elect to discuss their dreams is obviously different, it's going to attract people who want to talk about dreams.

Do you run into these people who go on about their dreams and think they're wacky and creative regularly?!

Robineen

neonsofa wrote: »

I love hearing about people's dreams!

Oh yeah, some people certainly do, hence this thread, but people who tell others about their dreams are often indiscriminate. Anyone will do! :P

Robineen

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Do you run into these people who go on about their dreams and think they're wacky and creative regularly?!

Sadly yes, I've experienced more of this in my life than I'd like. Unless you know someone is into hearing about other people's dreams, don't tell them about it! I know I'm not alone in glazing over when it happens. The reason I find it so tedious is, we all have mad dreams. Why would I want to hear about someone else's? They're not a rare thing. And some of the dreams that have been described to me are so goddamn long-winded. Painful.

neonsofa

Robineen wrote: »

Sadly yes, I've experienced more of this in my life than I'd like. Unless you know someone is into hearing about other people's dream, don't tell them about it! The reason I find it so tedious is, we all have mad dreams. Why would I want to hear about some of else's? They're not a rare thing. And some of the dreams that have been described to me are so goddamn long-winded. Painful.

Just go into great detail about your boring dream. "So I walked out to the garden and I put on my blue, no no wait it was green, jacket. I put my keys in my pocket. Then I realised I forgot my purse, so I took my keys back out and went back in and my purse was there on the kitchen table! I went back out the door. Then I decided I'd take the long route to the shops, I usually go the other way but there has been roadworks on that road lately so I've started going the other way. So I started walking...." you get the picture, really long-winded boring dreams. They'll never speak to you- about anything- again.

RobertKK

Had dreams where I was back in school at social events rather than school work.

My most vivid dream was in the summer of 2001, where it felt so real, so vivid was the sound and colour that it felt very real, Ireland was being invaded by these planes and they were bombing civilians, there were so many of these planes as they flew from south to north. The planes looked strange, anyway I was hit and felt myself dying, saw a very bright white light and felt a presence and woke up like I had been given an electric shock. I only realised recently the planes in that dream looked and sounded like a drone aircraft, which was before what I knew what a drone aircraft looked or sounded like. Yes I told this before...

Robineen

neonsofa wrote: »

Just go into great detail about your boring dream. "So I walked out to the garden and I put on my blue, no no wait it was green, jacket. I put my keys in my pocket. Then I realised I forgot my purse, so I took my keys back out and went back in and my purse was there on the kitchen table! I went back out the door. Then I decided I'd take the long route to the shops, I usually go the other way but there has been roadworks on that road lately so I've started going the other way. So I started walking...." you get the picture, really long-winded boring dreams. They'll never speak to you- about anything- again.

I don't necessarily never want to talk to these people, just not about their dreams. My sister who I get on well with is one of them. So I'd hope they wouldn't ostracise me if I did the above! But hearing any wacky dreams is every bit as tedious to me as the above!

neonsofa

Robineen wrote: »

I don't necessarily never want to these people, just not about their dreams. My sister who I get on well with is one of them. So I'd hope they wouldn't ostracise me if I did the above!

It was a joke dear.

riffmongous

I regularly have a Resident Evil, dream, ****e graphics and all, then at some point I can never shoot the zombies anymore

JupiterKid

RobertKK wrote: »

Had dreams where I was back in school at social events rather than school work.

My most vivid dream was in the summer of 2001, where it felt so real, so vivid was the sound and colour that it felt very real, Ireland was being invaded by these planes and they were bombing civilians, there were so many of these planes as they flew from south to north. The planes looked strange, anyway I was hit and felt myself dying, saw a very bright white light and felt a presence and woke up like I had been given an electric shock. I only realised recently the planes in that dream looked and sounded like a drone aircraft, which was before what I knew what a drone aircraft looked or sounded like. Yes I told this before...

That's eerie, happening just before 9/11. I used to have nightmares of airplanes crashing into buildings and having to flee from the destruction in the years before 9/11.

Esel

Are all these threads coming to you in a dream, OP?

andekwarhola

I don't really assign any cosmic or personal meaning to mine. I just imagine it's like somebody randomly throwing out stuff from my mental filing cabinet

Capt'n Midnight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)

In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector, or just collector, attempts to reclaim garbage, or memory occupied by objects that are no longer in use by the program.