Dreams

Yes I remember my dream very much but none last more than a day or so unless it is a very startling dream. Yes I do fly not so much of late, for me to fly I have to jump up to a layer just above my head and move my arms like a bird, once in that layer flying is effortless and the feel is like you said so much freedom. Yes some of my dream are recurring, most are places and how I am there and the things I do. No commercials and no smoking.

I am alway meeting a lovely woman, I believe my soul mate or someone who is trying to contact me or who is having the same dream. She is alway being chased by someone or animal, I join up with her and we are alway looking for ways to get away. Many years ago I used to dream about Grizzly bears and when I did someone in the family would dies---very scare dream being chased by bears.

I wish I know more about what dreams mean or if they mean anything at all, I know I love to dream because I feel so good when I am in my dreams.

I hope you can make some sense out of this---like dreams pretty screwed up.

Very interesting Ronald. My brother has to flap his arms too. I wonder how common that is. I think most people have a dream woman or man. Every time I see mine, I fall more in love with him. I'll have to look up Grizzly bears in my dream book. That sounds pretty scary! I hope you never have another one of them. Thanks for you're comments.

i too used to be able to fly in my dreams.. that was the coolest... and yes arm movements are a must, but it only lasts for a specific amount of time... the i am grounded but can refly...its weird.. but cool.. I can escape bad people doing that..

I had recurring levitation dreams for decades, from about 7 years old. I could use my feet like magnets that had like poles pointed towards each other. I guess that's how high speed trains do it now. They were wonderful dreams, very vivid. I could move any direction, any speed.

My last dream I remember I was at a cocktail party, and Mickey Mantle was trying to borrow my yacht because this model "ain't never done it on a boat, and she WANTS TO!" I let him use the boat.

Trish, are you still able to fly in you're dreams? With me, it seems the older I get, the better I am at flying.

Michael, that sounds really cool. Iv'e never had levitation dreams.

I've had dreams of flying ever since I was a child...not so much, the older I get. Sometimes I have to flap my arms, sometimes not. Yes, there is a feeling of freedom, but it is fleeting for me. I'm usually trying to fly to get away from someone and I start to get bogged down. I get closer to the ground and they almost catch me, but I flap really hard and gain a little altitude. Dreaming like this is pretty exhausting.

I don't have recurring dreams, per se, but I do have a recurring theme. I may only dream it every few years. I'm usually in my house and it's larger than I was ever aware of before. I find new rooms that I need to do something with and there's always an element of fear involved. Some kind of haunting or evil presence. I'm always grateful to wake up from this dream.

Sometimes I'm aware I'm dreaming and that usually wakes me up. I've never had commercials, but I think that's a way cool concept. I don't ever remember smoking, but I probably have, especially during one of my many attempts at quitting.

Ina, We seem to have the same nightmare. Every so often I dream of a huge mansion, with many rooms. There is a large winding staircase I have tried to climb so many times. But like you said, I can feel a great evil pressence up there. I have only made it to the second floor because I become so frightened. This dream seems to last all night long. I try warning everyone about it, but no one will listen, and one by one they all disappear. I usually wake up screaming.

So far it seems like I'm the only one who smokes in my dreams, or has commercials. Oh well, Mama always told me I was special. LOL!!

I've never been able to fly in my dreams, although I do think it would be a neat feeling. Sometimes I remember my dreams, usually the really weird ones. I had a dream the other night that there was a man way back in history who burned down buildings in order to kill people. Well, in my dream, he came back to the present time. And he was going to burn down a house that me and my family and friends were in. I kept trying to tell everyone to leave before he burned the house down but no one believed me. Every time I tried to leave the would grab me and pull me back in the house. Well, finally, I grabbed my two year old nephew and ran like crazy. As soon as we got out of the house it went up in flames. Everyone died except me and my nephew. Weird, huh? The only recurring dreams I have are usually nightmares...really only two. I've had them since childhood. They don't scare me during the day thinking about them, but when I am actually having the dream it terrifies me.

Michelle, that sounds like a real terrifying nightmare. I have a recurring nightmare about a serial killer. He kills everyone with a straight razor. I follow him around trying to warn people, but no one believes me. They all end up being killed.

At least now I know I'm not the only one with dreams where people don't belive me when I warn them they are about to die.

Yes, I remember my dreams about half of the time.
Yes, I fly. I kind of soar, I don't have to flap my arms. The harder I try, the more I can't do it. I just have to relax and then it works (like so many other things in life).
No recurring dreams.
Lucid dreaming: I went through a period of that about 20 years ago by consciously affirming that I would be lucid in my dreams before I went to sleep (I have done the same thing with my flying dreams). I occasionally experience lucid dreaming now, but not regularly.
No commercials.
I have dreamed about smoking, but only after I quit smoking, very infrequently. When I awoke I would be filled with despair that I had blown it and had had a cigarette.

I've never had a dream about flying. I remember dreams either very vividly, or not at all. I have had recurring dreams about:

1) Being trapped in a virtual reality game
2) Being a WWI soldier
3) Being back at college looking for my best friend and unable to find him
4) Being at an airport about to board a long international flight and unable to find any Dramamine
5) Driving a car with unreliable brakes

I'm aware that I'm dreaming about half the time.
No commercials
No smoking

Wendy, I know what you mean about trying to hard to fly. It's better when you don't even think about it.

David, that's the first dream I've ever heard about where someone was trapped in a virtual reality game. Cool....was it scary?

I wonder if I'm the only one who regularly smokes in their dreams.

Do you remember you're dreams? Usually. How stressed I am in waking life certainly plays a role.
Do you Fly? Sometimes...sometimes I can't achieve "lift off" because I am too aware that it is a dream and instead I end up with those "Seven League Boots" kinda steps where you take one huge leap into the air and travel a distance as if it were one flying step lol
Do you have recurring dreams? Sometimes. It depends on what kind of dream it is. I can have recurring stress dreams, which are endlessly annoying. I can have dreams about a situation that hasn't happened yet and those dreams will play, stop, rewind and then replay the same scene playing out different variables. Interesting, tiring but thankfully rare.
Do you ever become conscious of the fact that you are dreaming? Yes. This is called Lucid dreaming and you can read quite a lot on the topic.
Do you have commercials in you're dreams? Sometimes a commercial will come on over a radio or tv in my dream, but I do the same thing I do in waking life...change the channel or ignore it lol.
Do you smoke in you're dreams? I quit smoking over three years ago. In the past year I have been under extreme stress and have had several dreams where I "wake up" to see me smoking in my dream. A second me always appears and begins to berate the smoking me! The first time this happened I woke myself up laughing!

Dreams are truly amazing things. They can reveal more about our selves and our world to us than our waking perceptions...which we argue with any way lol.

Wishing You Laughter~Entwife

Quinn, I think I smoke more in my dreams than I do when I'm awake.

I just thought of another question. Do you ever see and talk to people you know that are deceased?

Yes. though not often, and the dreams are usually memorable and poignant.

I started recording some of them beginning here..

Dream Time #1

Wendy, do you remember what they said to you when you wake up? Most of the time I can only remember the emotions they evoke in me.

Awesome dream Travis. I hate when I can't wake up though!!

ya carolyn..especially if it is scary or just annoying

Do you ever have any sword fights in you're dreams? Sometimes I have to fight all night long. I know they say that dreams only last a few seconds, but sometimes they feel like they last a lifetime.

lol no fist fights are my dream of choice, but I never hit, nor I do get hit..needless to say it makes for a frustrating dream sometimes lol..probably like a fist fight in space...LOL

Tee Hee!...A fist fight with no hitting...I like it. LOL!

Oh yes to the deceased person, definitely.

Quinn, do you ever remember what they say to you?