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What do dreams mean to you?

Dreams are amazing

After going through a whole bunch of fantasy, unexplainable phenomenons, breaking curses and more, it has become the lace I wish to visit.

My dream is typically at one of these places:
- Near my old house in Japan, but extremely distorted near the bridge where it leads to America
- My school, which somehow doubles up as a camp. This has been getting increasingly common (in camp forme). Perhaps it's signaling me something? The school takes on the form of my old school and my new school, and sometimes I stumble across a dark hallway, at one point where Darkrai was found
- Daycare. This is perhaps the only place nowadays that lead to a Pokemon world, and even hen, only one appears. The daycare itself has a strange portal to the Distortion World for whatever reason, and the city that it resides in holds a lot of my activities. A strange event, one that felt horribly awkward and can still leave my mouth wide open lies in this place...
- Swimming pools. They appear a lot for some reason....

There are also places that fall unnaturally out of these bounds. They usually signal an evil entity that controls them. When I was 9 years old, I was cursed by a witch, who prevents me from talking most of the time. Eventually, in 5th grade, I trekked a teleport-frenzy adventure to stop her on one day. I woke a lot during this (whether I really did or it's just my mind is left to be interpreted), but the events flowed smoothly. I saw my 6th grade teacher in there, and I thought that was odd because I've never seen him before.

Every so often I go into places out of order. I've had dreams that signal other dreams. Like an alien invasion, a strange creature at the bottom of the swimming pool, and only last night where the story continues into an alien statue that must be brought forward in time (an extremely dangerous mission as no one knows the effects), only to lead to a series of unexplainable reactions that led to human enslavement, yet if a single human breaks out of the prison the whole thing changes wildly, becoming a movie scene as if the whole alien prison camp was a movie set up. I can't explain this but the whole time I was running away from prison it felt amazing.

One of the strangest dreams I've had to this day was during the daycare. I only remembered the later parts of it, when night falls and a vicious storm whips the place, creating a black-hole like object. Evacuating everyone else and saving he mirror that leads to the Distortion World, I braced against the fury that tore apart half of the building. The black hole scene looked very much like the black hole scene in Zathura, and I evenntually lost my grip and was about to be sucked into the hole. Out of nowhere, Seph saves me, which is awkward as he's never appeared before, but I've known him. But Seph can't hold on forever. That is, until a mysterious light appears and a blurry figure appeared in front of tthe vortex. The figure was someone I could've never EVER expected.

Seph said quietly "It can't be..."

Now this what freaked me out. From that incident, every time I look at his username in Smogon, this comes back. It's creepy.

The figure turned around and said in a loud and booming voice, "I AM TAY!" Somehow, I knew this is the Smogon TAY. Plus, Seph was PMing him on his laptop with one hand still trying to save me from the black hole. Having never seen him in any pictures, it's really strange.

Still obscure in the stormy clouds, TAY is only seeable as a blurry figure holding the cloud back. Seph vanishes into thin air and the prortal to the Distortion World opens, where I safely hid from the storm. But I could sense what was happening into the other world, as TAY is enguled by the voracity. He sacrifices himself into the storm, and it subsided.. For the remainder of the dream, where people came back, I was practically frozen staring at the distance. Seph and TAY did not return for the remainder of the dream, and any dream following that.

Everything slowly fades, and I'm back at my bed, still frozen trying to recollect the dream...

I still wonder why out of all the people in the world, TAY appeared in the dream. Seph I can perhaps understand, but I've never gotten any other Smogon member except Great Sage once (though he only appeared as a conscience).

All of this did happen btw. I'm not making it up.
 
For me, dreaming often brings out hidden thoughts in my head.

This is especially helpful when I am programming lol.

Once I had an optimization project and I was stuck trying to optimize one function. It was basically traversing through a 3-D cube and updating values in each cell.

Frustrated, I went to bed.

Next thing I know, I am in my room and one of my close female friends is in the room. She's in a polka dot bikini and trying to solve a rubix cube.

For the oddest of reasons (this is a dream, after all), I was like "gee...I see a lot of dots...can I count them?" or something like that. So she smiles and stands up. I begin counting all the dots but keep messing up. Then I look at the Rubix cube and I notice that...all the sides are all the same color. It then hit me...I could count sections at a time.

At this moment I woke up. It was morning and the idea was still fresh in my head. I ran over to my computer and implemented the idea of counting it by blocks and using previous information. It doubled the speed of the function!

Moral:

- I guess I fantasize about a close friend because I have some secret feelings about her

- Sometimes you can solve problems in your sleep (House taught me that one!)
 
About 30% of the time somebody dies in my dreams, (o____o) in about 60%, I'm with my girlfriend, and the other 10% I can't remember. :p
 
I really like lucid dreaming. Generally when I lucid dream, its about things or people I haven't thought about or talked to in a while, and it will make me think of it/them when I wake up. I haven't had nightmares since I was very small, but I do tend to have a lot of unwanted dreams. Some dreams I notice a lot of other people have as well. Such as dreaming about not being able to move or talk, a feeling a fear but vision is blurry... or teeth falling out. (ACK) Some of my more blissful dreams include being able to fly. Flying is fun! Especially in a lucid dream. I also dream a lot about some of my old cats that have passed on that I miss a lot. I sometimes dream that they can talk to me and understand me. Dreams are fascinating, and I love talking about them, though I don't really know what sort of purpose they serve, if any at all.

My dreams aren't always about things that I'm familiar with though. I've had dreams in the form of animated movies with characters that are completely unfamiliar to anything I've seen before in real life, and odd plots that in some ways make a bit of sense. Sometimes if I wake up in the middle of a dream I'll write down something fresh in my mind if it seems interesting, because usually everything dissapears rather quickly.
 
doesn't exist, you may remember It seeming Lucid, but the brain is furiously calculating in dreams. No dream is lucid. Its an oximoron Lol.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. I'd like your sources please on lucid dreaming not being real.

Also wikipedia says:

Wikipedia on Lucid Dreaming said:
A lucid dream, also known as conscious dream, is a dream in which the sleeper is aware that he/she is dreaming. When the dreamer is lucid, they can actively participate in and often manipulate the imaginary experiences in the dream environment. Lucid dreams can be extremely real and vivid depending on a person's level of self-awareness during the lucid dream.


It is incredibly real. I am able to easily control my dreams when I realize that I am in fact dreaming, and the feelings generated from such dreams are very realistic.
 
I don't know if someone said this already or not, but we would go crazy without dreams. Our minds need to make stuff up when we are asleep. If we don't have dreams, then we didn't make stuff up when we should have. Therefore we start seeing illusions.
 
doesn't exist, you may remember It seeming Lucid, but the brain is furiously calculating in dreams. No dream is lucid. Its an oximoron Lol.

yes the brain has shut down for regen and repair, but certain processes still function during the REM cycle. and some of them can be triggered to create a lucid dream. it's not certain what some of them are for exactly but lucid dreaming is a widely recognized phenomenon, and it's fucking out there. some trippy shit.

speaking of which, i had one last night about my ex-girlfriend's suicide and i actually stopped her from doing it. and all through the dream i kept having to save her from being run over by trains and hit by lightning and all this different stuff and i couldn't wake myself up until i woke up at five today.

lemme tell you, waking up in a cold sweat right before your SATs is not fun.
 
I'm divided...

I don't actually know how I feel about dreams, but one thing I know is sure; they are simply figments of the imagination. You can be anywhere you want to be, anybody you want to be, any time you want to be, but it all ends when that dreaded alarm clock rings in your ear. I feel like dreams present false hope to a hopeful person or that dreams are a goal that you want to reach but can never fulfill. No, I am NOT being a debbie downer (or at least I don't mean to) but dreams are pure imagination and sometimes that doesn't cut it.

Then again, there is the feeling that there is one place where nobody can take you down, that one special time that happens every night where you can do whatever you feel like. You can be anybody you want to be blablabla...and then you can FEEL like you are living it. Magic. Purely magic. If it wasn't for the fact that dreams are drop you down from that high every morning then I would be sold. But, I can't count out the feeling of pure happiness that one feels when they dream.

My dream a few nights ago was exactly what I needed to get through the rest of this week. My girlfriend and I were laying down in a bed by a beach with the waves crashing over the wooden legs of the bed. We cuddled and then went to a limo that appeared on the beach somehow. We ended up at her house and drank coffee or w.e. (there really wasn't any way for me to remember, but I like coffee...). Then something else happened, I forget what, but she smiled at me. That was the last thing I remembered from the dream, but the best part.

You could say that I'm being hypocritical because I started off saying dreams were nothing more than imagination, but I know what I know and this was no different. My girlfriend died 2 years ago and I have no memory of her smiling. There is your magic and there is your crash. So, yes, I'm divided...
 
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