Dream World Discusion,anyone?

Question

What types of dreams do you have?

Deja vu dreams
Dreams of the past
Dreams based on things you've experienced or seen
Dreams in which your mind takes what you've seen and done and makes it all into somehing really weird

Also,have you ever realized you were in a dream and began messing around and doing weird things?I do that all the time.If you please,could you give me one example of a crazy dream you have had?Here is one of mine:

Anyways,I had a dream I was a merdog.Part mermaid,part dog.I met this mermaid I became friends with.We both went on this crazy adventure.First we bumped into a giant hamburger that ate my friend and when he went number 2 she came out a huge beetle.She turned back into a mermaid and we hopped over a whole bunch of fences.I was scared and excited thinking we would get caught in the backyards of the owners of the houses.We arrived at a big purple gouse.We went into the backyard and fought a bunch of robotic spiders.When we got inside she gave me a...

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A time machine and did not tell me what to do with it.She left me in the kitchen with my dad and grandma.There were lots of numbers on the machine and a lollipop(total LOL).I panicked because I thought I'd be there forever,stuck in the kitchen with the lollipop and the weird machine,thats when I awoke.

Answer 1

Actually sounds like a pretty awesome dream.

The thing is, if things get too fantastical, our human (rational) minds can sometimes panic because it loses the rational footing, and if we lose the thing we depend upon to tell us where we are (and if we are in danger or not) then that feeling can be strong enough to wake us from the event.

I will give a personal example: I dream of flying. Although I have little problems with flying in my dream, sometimes I want to fly higher and higher, above the earth and into outer space. Eventhough the dreaming part of my mind is ok with flying, when I get too high, the rational part of my brain actually starts to worry about whether or not I will die due to the lack of oxygen. So, the higher I get, the more I panic, until I wake up.

It sounds like something similar is happening to you. Sometimes, when things get too fantastical and outrageous, our minds try to latch onto something rational to find our bearings, and thus the dream can mean a feeling, when you are awake, of being free and lost at the same time.

In many ways, the feeling of being free is the same as being lost, only without the fear.