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returning to dreams

psy kick

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psy kick
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I have alos had that phenomenon that Randi mentioned; you are dreaming, wake breifly, and go back to the same dream.
So cool.
 
3 years ago I had similar surgery to Randi's. Immediately afterwards, I began having vivid, often very violent dreams, many of which I could go back to after waking up.

Now, the violent dreams have stopped (thankfully), but I can still return to a dream if I go back to sleep quickly enough.

I have wondered if it has to do with any of the medications.
 
I've never had that experience, to the best of my knowledge. However, I can go for years without remembering even one dream. But, no matter, they're just dreams.
 
Mmmm I often have such dreams, but the dream is not always identical to the dream I had before I awoke.

I also have frequent dreams where my alarm clock plays a significant role.
Sometimes it's a telegraph or radio that I must press in order for it to work (snooooze) sometimes it's an alarm, other times it's an air raid siren, sonar device or other things that are woven into my dreams causing me to press the snooze button. I'm not sure if I am awake or asleep when I press the button though.
 
I've never experienced this. If I wake up and then go back to sleep, it's always a different dream.

Mind you, my dreams are so wacky and way-out that the inherent illogic of them erases them from my brain within seconds of me waking up. I know I've dreamed, but I just can't get my head around what I've dreamed about. There are very few exceptions.
 
I've had this happen to me as well. I've never had any major surgery, so I don't think its related to that.

I also sometimes have whole dreams that I've had before, so I know what is coming, and just sort of go along for the ride...
 
But when it involves Chris Kattan, you don't want to return to it!
 
money said:
I also sometimes have whole dreams that I've had before, so I know what is coming, and just sort of go along for the ride...
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I've occasionally had repeat dreams, but they're never exactly the same. I have had dreams that take place in the same location though.
 
If these sort of dreams tend to happen more while recovering from major surgery, I should think it might be because you are sleeping more.
 
I've had that happen. I usually have pretty vivid dreams, and can usually remember quite a bit of them - years of practice! :D

When I wake myself up screaming at the occasional "snake on the plane" type nightmare, I have to MAKE myself wake up enough to come completely out of it, or else I'll slip back into the same dream. Big bummer.
 
I've taken to calling certain dream-locations part of my "dreamlands". I've identified the first house I lived in in the dreamlands after I left home. It was a cool house. I lived in a huge basement room. Then sometime after that I moved into another place with a bunch of students. All these are places that I've had repeat dreams about.
 
My dreamlands are always buildings where I am looking to get out of, but can never, ever find the exit.
 
I dream up the coolest buildings. And they all have immense bathrooms. I mean multiple-acre-big bathrooms with showers and sinks and water slides and lockers and piped in music and incense...

and either no toilets, or out-of-order toilets...

No place to take a whiz! How can that be? HUMONGOUS bathroom, and no place to relieve oneself? Oh... you're dreaming, Beleth... now wake yourself up, go into your real bathroom, and go drain your bladder in real life.
 
psy kick said:
My dreamlands are always buildings where I am looking to get out of, but can never, ever find the exit.
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I often used to have dreams about running around huge buildings, leaping up and down stairs, opening doors, etc. It always seemed that something was chasing me, but it wasn't generally scary.

Those dreams seem to have stopped.
 
Bathroom dreams

I guess the "multiple acre bathroom" is a universal human dream...especially after overeating watermelon in the evening, but not enough watermelon to make you wake up. Then you try to pee in the shower and there are other people around you, so you don't do it...and eventually have to wake up.

Anyway, today I dreamed of a cool purple bat-like cartoon character and tried to continue my dream to get more details. I will try to draw the character today...
 
In the last year, I have occassionaly partly woken up and gone back to the same dream. I have no explanation as to why this started to happen.
 
Curnir said:
Mmmm I often have such dreams, but the dream is not always identical to the dream I had before I awoke.

I also have frequent dreams where my alarm clock plays a significant role.
Sometimes it's a telegraph or radio that I must press in order for it to work (snooooze) sometimes it's an alarm, other times it's an air raid siren, sonar device or other things that are woven into my dreams causing me to press the snooze button. I'm not sure if I am awake or asleep when I press the button though.
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Oh, I get that kind of dream. Sometimes, I'm even anticipating the alarm, so I hit the snooze button before the alarm actually kicks in and starts making noise.

The worst ones are the ones where I dream I can control time, so I don't have to worry about getting up just yet.
 
politas said:
Oh, I get that kind of dream. Sometimes, I'm even anticipating the alarm, so I hit the snooze button before the alarm actually kicks in and starts making noise.

The worst ones are the ones where I dream I can control time, so I don't have to worry about getting up just yet.
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Yupp. Those dreams are nasty.
 
Occasionally I have dreams that follow on directly from where one left off years before, or ones feature the same characters. It's not just deja vu, since I often write down dreams and sometimes use them to kickstart short story writing. I think I spent too much of my younger life watching TV.

Incidentally, writing key points down about a dream as soon as I wake up really does seem to make me remember them more.
 
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