Dreams that move you.

[StardustSprinkles]

I hate spiders. I hate them so much that many nightmares of mine have included them. I want to destroy them all, and lasers help me do it. :yabbem:

 

[Things]

I haven't really experienced the moving dream thing, though I've experienced something else that is really weird, which is incorporating real life sounds into your dream.

For example, one morning I was having a dream about something I can't really remember, though I think someone ended up throwing something at me. They missed, and hit a pole behind me. At that EXACT same time the object hit the pole, someone in the kitchen actually dropped and smashed a glass cup, which woke me up.

It has happened many times before also, like having a dream about jumping into water, and someone just happens to be jumping into the pool outside at the same time as I hit the water.

Might just be coincidence, but it's a damn frequent and well suited coincidence!

I've also had the falling off high object dreams - many times. Sure fire way of waking you up in the middle of the night that's for sure.

 

[Elektrotechniker]

How do you explain the fact the when I set the alarm clock at 8 am and I wake up ALWAYS 5 min earlier than 8 am ?

 

[Things]

Probably because of this: Circadian rhythm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[skir0987]

You know what's the worst? When you play too much tetris then dream tetris. It's way too easy to do... I think they've done studies on why it happens.

 

[InfinitusEquitas]

I've experimented with lucid dreaming, and also using some medications in slightly off label methods in order to enhance the dream experience.

Currently I don't practice either, but it was interesting.

There is no way that you could actually move as a direct cause of your dream, but it is not uncommon at all to incorporate elements of outside stimuli into the dream experience. For example if you're hot and dreaming of a jungle.

What's always truly fascinated me about dreams is that they are really the only way that we can experience the plasticity of time, where minutes seem like days and vice versa.

Btw, for me, flying dreams are/were by far the ones easiest to gain some level of awareness in. Unfortunately the effect doesn't long in either real time, or perceived time in the dream.

 

[Elektrotechniker]

Probably because of this: Circadian rhythm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Like a built in clock in our brains which keeps working even if we sleep?

 

[Tech_Junkie]

I'd love to have nightmares that would wake me in a sweat, heart racing. It just never happens. All my dreams are like in-depth movies, but nothing scary. I have trained my self to look into the sky while dreaming and its always amazing.

If you want a lucid dream take a lung full of Salvia and close your eyes. Its the best 7 minute dream money can buy. :tinfoil:

 

[Things]

Like a built in clock in our brains which keeps working even if we sleep?

Yup, it's how our body ensures we always get a good few hours sleep.

You've probably experienced what it can do anyway. For example, if you have a habit of going to bed at 11pm every night, then staying up past that time you'll get very tired. But, if you slowly go to bed later and later each night, you'll wake up later and later each morning and get used to going to bed so late.

So for your case, if you make a habit of waking up at 8pm every morning, your brain syncs up with this cycle and can help awake you before your alarm.

 

[Tech_Junkie]

So for your case, if you make a habit of waking up at 8pm every morning, your brain syncs up with this cycle and can help awake you before your alarm.

Meh, I worked for 11y at a job that started at 11AM, and I never got up before the alarm. I used to set my alarm clock to Country music because I'd sleep past the beeper, and I hated Country so much it made me wake up. My natural clock is 5AM -2PM. Nothing I do changes this. Its been that way for as long as I can remember.

My girlfriend too. No matter what time she has to be up, or goes to bed, she wakes up at 5AM.

 

[scopeguy20]

Yes, I dreamed I fell back off a skate board, I shook the bunk enough to wake my bro in the other bunk! (Felt like I bounced a foot! ) I was about 15 at the time... -GH

 

[Fretwrecker94]

A few nights ago, I had a very odd experience with dreaming. I dreamt that I was in a room of monsters and they told me I needed to draw a pattern within graph paper that looked like this...
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... except all neat and orderly.
If I messed up twice, they would eat me.

Anyway, in the dream I messed up and was eaten.

I woke up the next morning I had a piece of paper next to me (I always keep paper on my nightstand) with what resembled that pattern, only messy. I think I drew in my sleep?

 

[Sigurthr]

When you fall asleep a portion of your motor cortex shuts down, not completely, but just enough that the surrounding neural activity involved in dreaming does not cause movement.

When we fall asleep or wake up, several seperate sections of the brain need to shut down or start up, and there is a preferred order for them to do this in. Sometimes the order gets mixed up a bit; one part falls asleep before it should, or wakes up out of order. This is what causes the phenomena of having a dream that moves you physically as you wake up, as well as the disorder of sleep paralysis - waking up but your motor cortex has not woken up yet and you are paralysed until it wakes up.

I've had a sleep paralysis episode once before, and let me tell you, it is the most frightening thing ever. You are awake, you can think, feel, hear what's going on around you, but you cannot open your eyes, you cannot move a muscle, and you cannot talk. I spent minutes laying there in the dark trying to scream at the top of my lungs for my wife to wake me, but no sounds came out. It wore off all of a sudden and hasn't happened again (thankfully).

Gotta love our brains, cross a few neurons and all hell breaks loose.

 

[Ash]

I was just curious as to what causes it. I assume it is just a flinch reaction, kind of like when you instinctivly pull your hand away from a brass door knob on a hot summers day after it gives you a tickle from static,.....

It is a flinch (type of reaction), yes... but it happens on a subconscious level just as your mind is becoming awake, at the instant it's able to control the physical body.
You actually do move because your muscles are reacting to the last action in the dream scenario. Of course the movement is only slight but feels intense (as everything does in a dream).

How do you explain the fact the when I set the alarm clock at 8 am and I wake up ALWAYS 5 min earlier than 8 am ?

Probably because of this: Circadian rhythm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Internal clocks are wonderful when they work

I'd love to have nightmares that would wake me in a sweat, heart racing. It just never happens. All my dreams are like in-depth movies, but nothing scary. I have trained my self to look into the sky while dreaming and its always amazing.

If you want a lucid dream take a lung full of Salvia and close your eyes. Its the best 7 minute dream money can buy. :tinfoil:

Thanks for the advice :eg: +Rep
It takes quite a bit of skill to achieve this naturally... The most difficult thing is to maintain consciousness through the transition to the dreamstate. It lasts a bit longer and is more controllable than a drug induced "lucid dream" but is much more difficult to achieve.
DMT... um, won't even go there


..I have a question:
Why do dreams feel more real than reality?

 

[Lase]

..I have a question:
Why do dreams feel more real than reality?

It has something to do with the DMT that is naturally released in your brain while you sleep. So don't say you'd never try it, because everyone does every day

I've had many dreams where I've fallen off something and hit the ground and woke up as I did. After waking up I felt like I had litterally just hit the bed and was still bouncing from it.

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[Ash]

It has something to do with the DMT that is naturally released in your brain while you sleep. So don't say you'd never try it, because everyone does every day

I've had many dreams where I've fallen off something and hit the ground and woke up as I did. After waking up I felt like I had litterally just hit the bed and was still bouncing from it.

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Oh, I never said I didn't like DMT. I just find it unecessarily intense when a controllable experience is desired.
Falling dreams are interesting. Many theories try to explain the reason. Perhaps it has to do with the feeling of a lack of control in some aspect of life, or an internal fear of failure. :undecided: