Dreams

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>so lately i've been having this strange curiosity about dreams.
1. do babies and blind people dream ? (i'll google this soon but i do want opinions)</p>

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<li><p>Do YOU dream? and if so, what about? are they normally good or bad? and do they have a certain theme? ** example: ** i just woke up from a nap and my dream had a strange connection with a song that i had been playing repeatedly.</p></li>
<li><p>can you get yourself out of dreams? ** example: ** at the end of the dream, i had pretty much had enough ( it was kinda creepy ) so a random song began to play and then I woke.</p></li>
<li><p>can you manipulate your dreams? like are you able to somehow change a certain part of the dream, subconsiously?</p></li>
<li><p>do you ever stop moving? ** example: ** one of my friends had told me about a time where he was awake (or thought he was) and could not move his body. like he could see things around him (at least in the direction that his head was turned) but he could not move a single part of his body.</p></li>
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<p>answer as many as you can please ! :)</p>

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<li><p>I think blind people dream, but I don’t think babies do. :/</p></li>
<li><p>My dreams are iffy. Some are good, some are bad. I dream a lot about clouds, and floating. I also have nightmares about failing school, and losing my friends. </p></li>
<li><p>i dont think i can, but i think others can get me up.</p></li>
<li><p>i think if i keep thinking about one thing, or one person, i end up dreaming about that :)</p></li>
<li><p>no haha…ive never had that happen to me</p></li>
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<p>thank you !</p>

<p>and btw i meant babies in the womb :)</p>

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<li><p>Yes and yes. Blind people who were formerly sighted can often see in their dreams, but people who are blind from birth usually can’t. I’m pretty sure babies dream, just from the way they twitch and seem to be responding to sensations when they sleep.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes, I do. Usually my dreams put me in dangerous situations, but I usually am able to cope with them. For example, last night I dreamed about escaping from a Nazi concentration camp. I somehow managed to lay a false trail going south, then ran through some woods to the north. The rest of the dream involved making my way across country and trying to avoid raising suspicion in any of the people I met.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes, usually when I dream I am aware that I am dreaming, so if things take a turn for the worse I “dial out” matrix style.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes, once again I often manifest matrix-style powers while dreaming. I remember one time when a bunch of people had died I basically said “Whoa, that didn’t happen. Actually so-and-so did such-and-such, saving them all.” and past events ret-conned themselves to fit.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes, that happens all the time. Either I feel extremely weak and require extreme effort to move, or I lose my voice and am unable to shout.</p></li>
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<p>^ lol at the matrix style thing. i actually do the same thing. </p>

<p>ANOTHER QUESTION:</p>

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<li>Do any of your dreams come true? and if so how many times. (a lot or occasionally?)</li>
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<li><p>Yes</p></li>
<li><p>Yes- and they are very bizarre. Most of my dreams revolve around wacky events and… death. However, many of my “death” dreams deviate from the norm, where in my case I am the one killing people or watching death happen. I probably sound like a nut job, but such flagellation’s often involve supposed terrorists, and I am the good person who is making right in the world. haha!</p></li>
<li><p>No, at least never been able to. Guess I don’t have the matrix skills.</p></li>
<li><p>Nope, no inception for moi!</p></li>
<li><p>YES- well, it happened once, last week. I believe you are referring to sleep paralysis, and it generally happens to most humans at least one or two times in their life. During REM sleep, the brain stem secretes acetylcholine that immobilizes body movement, to prevent one from acting out their dreams. It happens when your body basically is between sleeping stages. I was trying to fall asleep and suddenly, I could not move at all. I tried to call my mom, but I couldn’t make any noise. My heart rate was exceedingly fast and I became paranoid about aliens outside my window, lol (blame sci-fi movies!). It was quite the outlandish experience, but I would like to experience it again some time.</p></li>
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<p>Look up lucid dreaming and REM sleep. Those two topics will answer most of your questions.</p>

<p>1 & 2) Everyone dreams (although I’m not sure about babies in the womb). Everyone. It’s part of REM. The only reason people don’t think they dream is because they don’t remember their dreams. I, for example, haven’t remembered a dream since before senior year began in August.</p>

<p>3 & 4) Lucid dreaming is when you are aware that you are dreaming. In this situation you have complete control over your dream, including the ability to wake yourself up from it.</p>

<p>5) When in REM (and I believe Stage 4 sleep too), your body is literally paralyzed. This is to prevent your body from acting out what your mind is imagining, which could potentially be dangerous. If you wake up during/just after REM, your body may still be paralyzed, which is why you would experience exactly what your friend did.</p>

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<p>Correction: I hadn’t realized you were talking about being paralized after waking. That hasn’t happened to me that I can remember.</p>

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<p>@ fallenangel9 thanks for the info. i did look it up and found out that number 5 is called Sleep Paralysis . however, i was actually looking for peoples actually experiences.
i’ll answer :</p>

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<li><p>Yes. almost everynight. lately, i’ve been forgetting them. last year and the year before i went on dream overload ! sometimes i dream about things i want and sometimes they have to do with something im worried about, or have listened to, or have recently watched or am curious about.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes. sometimes i force myself out of it if i dont like the predicted outcome.</p></li>
<li><p>yes. </p></li>
<li><p>it actually used to happen a LOT last year and the year before. usually around 1am - 5am. never beyond 5:30 i guess because that was when i usually woke up for school. i usually felt like someone was holding me down and before every and after every single occurance, i heard this ringing in my ears. it just built up to the point where i thought i’d go deaf and then went away and that moment was when i would wake up.</p></li>
<li><p>yes. especially two years ago, they almost always happened. now, not so much</p></li>
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<ol>
<li><p>do babies and blind people dream ? - I think this was already answered haha.</p></li>
<li><p>Do YOU dream? and if so, what about? are they normally good or bad? and do they have a certain theme? - yes, i dream but I can never remember what they’re about!</p></li>
<li><p>can you get yourself out of dreams? - yep i think so.</p></li>
<li><p>can you manipulate your dreams? like are you able to somehow change a certain part of the dream, subconsiously? - i think i tried to one time haha.</p></li>
<li><p>do you ever stop moving? - yep.</p></li>
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<p>Alright, so I’m guessing this goes with number 5.</p>

<p>I occasionally have “dreams,” I really don’t know if that’s what they are though, in which I’ll feel awake, but I won’t be able to move, so I kinda struggle to move for a few seconds, until I actually do move, at which point I’ll wake up, basically I feel paralyzed for a few seconds.
Does this happen to anyone else?
It freaks me out, but it happens a lot, like it’ll happen up to about three times some nights, and on average about 3 nights a week. and it always happens right when I’m about to go to sleep.</p>

<p>Soo, I just basically wanted to share, even if it’s making me sound like a freak. hahah.</p>

<p>I’ma go ahead and answer a few more of the questions, since I think this is a pretty intersting topic.</p>

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<li>In my opinion, I would think that blind people can dream, but like much more hazier or whatever than how we dream, in noises, or just thoughts. Babies, no clue, hahah.</li>
<li>I think I have pretty basic dreams, like usually I don’t really remember them though, or I can’t really remember details. They range from bad to good.</li>
<li>I don’t think I can, I can easily get back in them, like if I wake up from a dream, and I wanna know what happens at the end or whatever, I’ll just go back to sleep and it’ll continue the dream. hahahah, that sounds weird.</li>
<li>Noo, but I have some pretty in depth day dreaming sessions right after I wake up, like I’ll be having all these random thoughts in my head that I pretty much just guide through, so that it’s kinda like a dream, usually when I’m brushing my teeth or something.
Last Edit:</li>
<li>No, like I’ll have the “deja vu” moments that I’m pretty sure everyone has, but I can never relate it to a specific dream.</li>
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<p>ALRIGHT, THIS POST HAS OFFICIALLY MADE IT SOUND LIKE I’M ON SOMETHING.</p>

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<ol>
<li>do babies and blind people dream ? (i’ll google this soon but i do want opinions)</li>
</ol>

<p>Yes. But they might not “see” the same things, or the same way. Dreams don’t depend on actual vision, but on brain capacity. Babies…i think that might be a little more limited, depending on what stage they are in. Maybe more so when their brains develop.</p>

<ol>
<li>Do YOU dream? and if so, what about? are they normally good or bad? and do they have a certain theme? example: i just woke up from a nap and my dream had a strange connection with a song that i had been playing repeatedly.</li>
</ol>

<p>I dream. I used to dream a lot about bad stuff, but for some reason, in those dreams, i’m kind of in an apathetic state, even if the bad stuff is happening. More recently i have more realistic dreams, which often include recently familiar things…but sometimes my dreams are completely RANDOM. I have friends who have really AWESOME COMPLEX dreams, though.</p>

<ol>
<li>can you get yourself out of dreams? example: at the end of the dream, i had pretty much had enough ( it was kinda creepy ) so a random song began to play and then I woke.</li>
</ol>

<p>I am usually always aware that i am dreaming, but i consciously decide to act as if the rules of life don’t apply. i used to be able to get myself out of a dream by thinking really hard about how it was a dream.</p>

<ol>
<li>can you manipulate your dreams? like are you able to somehow change a certain part of the dream, subconsiously?</li>
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<p>no. except one time, i jumped off a building in the dream, and i said “i’m going to fly” and i was flying for a few moments, but then i remembered it was a dream and it became more like suspended falling. weird, huh?</p>

<ol>
<li>do you ever stop moving? example: one of my friends had told me about a time where he was awake (or thought he was) and could not move his body. like he could see things around him (at least in the direction that his head was turned) but he could not move a single part of his body.</li>
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<p>no. but that’s freaky.</p>

<p>Do my dreams come true?</p>

<p>Weirdly enough, i have had several premonitions that came true or close to true.</p>

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<ol>
<li><p>Yes, definitely. Babies dream because it’s an evolutionary way of teaching them how to avoid or deal with (predators, drowning in a river, etc) that doesn’t actually involve danger - kind of like a tutorial. Blind people dream, and even people who are blind from birth can sometimes see in dreams.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes, but I only remember it when it’s at the end of a full night of sleep - I never remember dreams that I have on a school day except for afternoon naps.</p></li>
<li><p>Not that I remember. Maybe subconsciously, but not on purpose.</p></li>
<li><p>I have had occasional lucid dreams in the past year - I actually found a forum full of people dedicated to it who taught me some techniques to increase the chance and frequency of it happening. I frequented and posted on from about February of last year to about August, then forgot about it, but the techniques do work. My first one was during an afternoon nap almost exactly one year ago (I actually recorded the date, April 23, 2010 - a Friday). I’m going to try to find the URL of that forum and edit it into this post (If I find it within 15 minutes).</p></li>
<li><p>That’s called sleep paralysis, as some have mentioned. Some people get it naturally and are sometimes scared of it, but if you know what it is when it happens, you can manipulate it into a vivid lucid dream. In reality it’s something that is definitely not worth any fear at all. I personally have never had it, although I have tried (because it can lead to lucid dreams).</p></li>
<li><p>Just by probability, some dreams are likely to come true if you remember them. Remember that dreams exist to allow us to experience what you subconsciously think might actually happen before it does, so it’s likely that your subconscious will guess right sometimes. If you remember the dream, it can be really weird. If you don’t remember the dream, it usually results in a feeling of deja vu. I’ve had it occasionally, about as often as I would expect by probability.</p></li>
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<p>

That’s sleep paralysis, and as I mentioned earlier, if you can manipulate it successfully, you can turn it into a lucid dream each time. It’s not something to be afraid of.</p>

<p>EDIT: I found it right away. Here’s the forum that I mentioned earlier:
<a href=“http://www.dreamviews.com/content/[/url]”>http://www.dreamviews.com/content/&lt;/a&gt;
I have an account there, with the same name as my account here.
EDIT2: Some people there are into some strange paranormal stuff, though. It’s a great resource if you use it correctly, but be warned that if you look in the wrong place there is a lot of that. It’s very avoidable, though, and they’re tolerant if you’re like me and aren’t into that.</p>

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<p>It’s really weird, and I remember it happening since I was really young, but it’s happening so much more often now. Like, it happened three times in one night about two days ago. Not gonna lie and say that I’m not scared by it sometimes though, cause it’s rough sometimes hahah.
Especially the picture on this page, it gets me everytime, hahah:
[Sleep</a> paralysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis]Sleep”>Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia)
Also, the possible causes on that page really don’t affect mee, like I sleep well, i’m not under much stress at all, and I don’t drink, and it only happens to me when I’m trying to go to bed, it’s never happened after sleeping.</p>

<p>But the site you gave seems really interesting, and I’ma have to look over it a bit.
Also, I don’t really understand what a lucid dream is?</p>

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<p>A lucid dream is simply a dream in which you know you are dreaming (and are consciously aware of the fact). It doesn’t necessarily mean you can control the dream, although you almost always can.</p>

<p>What I’ve read about sleep paralysis is that it is scary, but if you know what it is and that it’s perfectly harmless, and can control your fear while experiencing it, it can be a door to the most vivid lucid dreams, almost whenever you want them.
And the most common times to experience it are when you’re either just going to bed or just waking up, so that’s not uncommon either.</p>

<p>EDIT: I’m going to bed (It’s almost 2 AM) now, so I won’t be able to answer any more questions until tomorrow. Good night (and sweet dreams, of course!).</p>

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<p>I read that wiki link that jonnathan just posted.
“24.1% of students reported experiencing sleep paralysis at least once in their lifetime. The same result was reported among Japanese, Nigerian, Kuwaiti, Sudanese and American students”</p>

<p>im nigerian lol . and it used to happen a lot actually when i slept in upward position. my aunt told me that once, so i slept on my side and it happened less frequently. i also noticed that whenever it happened again, i had turned back to upward sleeping position (in my sleep). so now i sleep on my stomach. barely ever happens.</p>

<p>but when it does, no matter what sleeping position im in, i can usually feel it coming on. like my ears start ringing and then i force myself to get up just to avoid it.</p>

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<ol>
<li>Yes. I tend to remember dreams a lot more frequently when I sleep late (as opposed to when I have to get up early for school). They’re normally pretty neutral, although I’ve had a few nightmares. They tend to be more bizarre than anything else. Sometimes, they’ll integrate books or other things I recently interacted with; for example, once I had an entire dream in which I reenacted War of the Worlds in a white room with a closet. I also once had an Atlas Shrugged-inspired dream that somehow also had to do with being a member of British Parliament and saving someone from drowning in the harbor.</li>
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<p>Probably the most fascinating dream I’ve ever had: I was the leader of an African slave revolt, and after this whole blurred sequence that involved red paint (blood?) on white walls, I realized that we were losing, so I ran to go get help. I sprinted out of the woods and ended up in my old camp, where I desperately tried to get someone to listen to me about how everyone was dying, but no one would believe me. Finally, I was so frantic that I got someone to come, and I took them into the woods where the fighting had taken place.</p>

<p>It turned out that what I had thought was real was actually a movie, projected on a huge screen. I woke up feeling distinctly foolish.</p>

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<li><p>No, I can’t, although I think I might have been able to when I was much younger.</p></li>
<li><p>Not that I can remember.</p></li>
<li><p>I’ve never experienced sleep paralysis.</p></li>
<li><p>My dreams have never come true, and for sanity’s sake I hope they never do.</p></li>
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<p>whoaaaa . your dreams are pretty … bizarre and historical</p>

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<p>Idk what this thread is about but I have experienced sleep paralysis. It usually happens if you don’t sleep enough or you are under stress. When I have it, I wake up from sleep but my body still thinks it’s sleeping so I can’t move it at all. I can consciously think, move my eyes and look around the room. There is also a whooshing and ringing noise in my ears. You get scared too because you can’t move your body and you panic that this will last forever. However, you can wake your body by trying to move your fingers and try to cough and everything goes back to normal. You can experience it again when you fall asleep again. I avoid this by listening to music and falling asleep.
You can avoid sleep paralysis by catching up on your sleep and relaxing. I haven’t had any sleep paralysis for a while now, but I miss the ones where I’m half awake and half lucid dreaming. Feels good, man.</p>

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I can never open my eyes. Like, they stay closed, and I’ll just be lying there thinking and trying to move my arm. Until I finally am able to move it, then I can open my eyes and move, basically I’m completely woken up.
And about the swooshing, there have been times where I literally feel like I’m falling, like I’m on a roller coaster. But that doesn’t happen too often.
And yeah, I do panic, like I know it’s not bad, but for some reason I just get kinda nervous about it. It’s weird.</p>