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On this thread record the dreams you feel are 'significant'

Ashles

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As mentioned on this thread started by Patricio Elicer I noticed that just about every vivid dream which I have woken up during and thus been able to clearly remember, that has contained a representation of possible harm of catastrophe has for a short while been considered significant by me.
This has faded fairly quickly.

Of course had anything terrible happened during the time which it felt significant it would have been imprinted indelibly on my memory as inexplicible.

What I was wondering is how often other people have dreams they feel are significant?
Note it's not dreams that actually ARE significant, it's just an exercise to see how often people feel their dreams are.

So what would feel like a 'hit'?
Let's say that any dream that, if the events in that dream happened within a relatively short period (say a day or two) of having the dream it would feel seriously weird.

Or else if you dream of someone you haven't thought of in years.

Or even something significant in a well known building or location.

Or a type of natural disaster.

You get the idea.

These things fade from memory fairly quickly so anyone who feels like it, try and get those dreams down here as soon as possible.

(And please, only include filthy perversions if it is vital to the dream's plot)
 
I had a dream that I was visiting my grandparents when I noticed the door to the house across the street was wide open. Being that it was winter, I found this odd and rushed over to close it. When I got there, I heard sobbing inside. A whole family was inside weeping. The father grabbed me when I asked if everything was okay. He thrust a picture in front of me of his daughter, who they'd just discovered was abducted.

I did what I could to console him while making a discrete exit to leave them to their grief. On my way out, I saw a grey van driving very slowly down the street. When the driver saw me, she tried to drive quickly away. I rushed out and forced her to stop the van. She was crying and saying something about how she "didn't want them to take it this far."

I saw a little girl in the back of the van and rushed to open the doors. The father had run out of the house at this point to join me. The girl's entire head was bandaged like a mummy and she wasn't saying anything. For some reason, this was really upsetting. I rushed to get the bandages off and free the girl while the driver kept weeping next to us. Getting in further, I saw blood all over the bandages, which made me panic and rush even more to get them off.

When I removed the last bandage, I saw that they'd pulled out this poor little girl's eyes.

I had that dream about 5 years ago, and I can still see her face vividly in my mind. I think we remember these desturbing dreams because we're just wired to remember emotional, disturbing things. There's certainly an evolutionary advantage in remembering things that harm us or reward us. This page has lots of good citations about research supporting the idea that emotion produces stronger memories.:

http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/neurobio/Faculty/Cahill/cahill.htm
 
I once dreamt I ate a 15-pound marshmallow. When I woke up my pillow was gone.
 
This morning I had a dream I consider very significant. I was on a bus reading the paper and there was an ad in it advertising an appearance by C. Montgomery Burns at a local mall. In the ad was a picture of huge statue of him, sort of like the ones you saw in that episode where he made himself a god.

Then a couple pages later there was a comic strip with the words to "See My Vest" :

Some men hunt for sport,
Others hunt for food,
The only thing I'm hunting for,
Is an outfit that looks good...

See my vest, see my vest,
Made from real gorilla chest,
Feel this sweater, there's no better,
Than authentic Irish setter.

See this hat, 'twas my cat,
My evening wear - vampire bat,
These white slippers are albino
African endangered rhino.

Grizzly bear underwear,
Turtles' necks, I've got my share,
Beret of poodle, on my noodle
It shall rest,

Try my red robin suit,
It comes one breast or two,
See my vest, see my vest,
See my vest.

Like my loafers? Former gophers -
It was that or skin my chauffeurs,
But a greyhound fur tuxedo
Would be best,

So let's prepare these dogs,
Kill two for matching clogs,
See my vest, see my vest,
Oh please, won't you see my vest.

I was laughing my butt off and eventually had the entire bus singing along with me. This means something. I know it has to.
 
I almost never remember my dreams. But I had one a few months back that I did remember and wrote down. Here it is:

I was walking in a hilly county park. I met two park rangers, and convinved one to help me track Michael Jackson's older brother (no, I don't know which one) who not only had a big head start, but had shape shifting abilities and was currently in the form of a 20-ish blond girl. After going up and over a very steep hill, we spotted him going into a mall. Once in the mall, I and a force of black uniformed SWAT officers surrounded him. Michael Jackson's older brother (from here on "MJOB") then formed a synchonized dance formation with about a dozen mall goers. As the dancers moved around, MJOB would take the form of other dancers and tried to lose us. But I knew that he would always seek the spotlight and return to the location of the head dancer, so I detected which one was him and told the SWAT snipers. We called out on megaphones that we knew which one he was, and to give up. Then MJOB reverted to his original body, but pulled out Michael Jackson to serve as a shield. A police sniper shot, and the bullet went through MJ and into his brother. I had a good close-up view of both of them as they fell in slow motion when I woke up.

Dreams are bunk.
 
...(Snip)I noticed that just about every vivid dream which I have woken up during and thus been able to clearly remember,(snip)... - Ashles

A. I rather think this is the significant part. All dreams are emotional, because the limbic system is in overdrive with no frontal lobe control. We remember the ones we have just before waking up. The other (99%??) are never committed to memory.

Accordingly, we assign importance to these particular dreams. I suggest that the content is wholly irrelevant.
 
I like to remember dreams, so I remember a lot of them at least on first waking. Many have been what I would consider significant, but none of them has ever struck me as having premonitory significance. Instead, it's about the past or some decision I've made or am about to make.

Rather than being mysterious, the "message" in my "significant" dreams is usually so obvious and so ham-handed it could have been written by a network prime-time scriptwriter. For instance: Early in my marriage I had a dream where I'd married an old crush and ran into my real-world wife on the street. The feelings of loss I got when I realized in my dream I married the wrong person were huge, and the feeling of relief when I woke up equally large. Should I consult with Sylvia Brown to figure out what that dream meant?
 
I know somebody who dreamt about one of their colleagues dying.
She woke up at 5 am after the dream and then went back to sleep and told everyone she thought something had happened to the person she dreamt of when she woke up.

When she arrived at work the first thing she was told was that the woman she dreamt of had ... died of lung cancer at 5 in the morning.
 
delphi_ote said:
I had a dream that I was visiting my grandparents when I noticed the door to the house across the street was wide open. Being that it was winter, I found this odd and rushed over to close it. When I got there, I heard sobbing inside. A whole family was inside weeping. The father grabbed me when I asked if everything was okay. He thrust a picture in front of me of his daughter, who they'd just discovered was abducted.

I did what I could to console him while making a discrete exit to leave them to their grief. On my way out, I saw a grey van driving very slowly down the street. When the driver saw me, she tried to drive quickly away. I rushed out and forced her to stop the van. She was crying and saying something about how she "didn't want them to take it this far."

I saw a little girl in the back of the van and rushed to open the doors. The father had run out of the house at this point to join me. The girl's entire head was bandaged like a mummy and she wasn't saying anything. For some reason, this was really upsetting. I rushed to get the bandages off and free the girl while the driver kept weeping next to us. Getting in further, I saw blood all over the bandages, which made me panic and rush even more to get them off.

When I removed the last bandage, I saw that they'd pulled out this poor little girl's eyes.

I had that dream about 5 years ago, and I can still see her face vividly in my mind. I think we remember these desturbing dreams because we're just wired to remember emotional, disturbing things. There's certainly an evolutionary advantage in remembering things that harm us or reward us. This page has lots of good citations about research supporting the idea that emotion produces stronger memories.:

http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/neurobio/Faculty/Cahill/cahill.htm
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Why, that is simply an unconscious desire you had at one time to kill all your grandparents and sexually dominate your mother.
 
I'm extremely bad at remembering dreams. Of the comparatively few dreams I had remembered, I can say that in my whole life only a handful have had a coherent and potential prophetically or premonitory content. The one about my mother dieing I described on the other thread is one of them. It was very real in the sense that the story was completely coherent regarding places, people involved, etc. It was an unfulfilled dream, fortunately :).
 
jambo372 said:
When she arrived at work the first thing she was told was that the woman she dreamt of had ... died of lung cancer at 5 in the morning.
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And she'd been perfectly healthy the day before!

Well, perhaps not.
 
Can there be any basis as'physiological/bio-chemical imbalances' of dreams? Homeopathy/TRS indicates remedies for many dreams. Eg; Dream of: accident; NS, cats; Cp, Confused; Cf; Fp; Nm; Sil, Dead of the; Cf, Sil, Dead bodies; Np, Approaching of Death(self death); Sil, Death of relatives;Cf, Dogs; Sil.......so many.:)
 
One thing that could get me convinced of paranormal powers would be if a particular dream of mine came true.

So, if I ever start posting in support of paranormality, you may assume that I have met an overweight comodo dragon, an iguana with two of its legs in cast, and a hairy gila monster in my parents' home.
 
Kumar said:
Can there be any basis as'physiological/bio-chemical imbalances' of dreams? Homeopathy/TRS indicates remedies for many dreams. Eg; Dream of: accident; NS, cats; Cp, Confused; Cf; Fp; Nm; Sil, Dead of the; Cf, Sil, Dead bodies; Np, Approaching of Death(self death); Sil, Death of relatives;Cf, Dogs; Sil.......so many.:)
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I think this homeopathy thing is affecting your posts, Kumar.

Take one sensible word, throw in 99 nonsense words and shake vigorously.
 
TheBoyPaj said:
I think this homeopathy thing is affecting your posts, Kumar.

Take one sensible word, throw in 99 nonsense words and shake vigorously.
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Good, will then all 100 will become sensible words?:D I am trying to search molecular existance of senses. Btw, whether dream is a sense or non-sense?
 
Kumar said:
Good, will then all 100 will become sensible words?
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Apparently not. Congraulations! You have disproved homeopathy. One million rupees is yours.
 
TheBoyPaj said:
Apparently not. Congraulations! You have disproved homeopathy. One million rupees is yours.
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Why one sesible person can teach to 99 non-sensible people resulting into 100 sensible people? So simple?

Btw, whether dream is a sense or non-sense? Whether dream is by some physiological/energy change in our body or are just supernatural? These can't be only "recall" as we also dream, which we had never seen/heard in any kind during our life. HOW??
 
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