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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #45 on: April 14, 2009, 11:43:13 pm »
So this is the moment when you can say 'I just had the weirdest dream, for me of course'.

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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #46 on: April 14, 2009, 11:48:56 pm »
So this is the moment when you can say 'I just had the weirdest dream, for me of course'.

Though surely it will not last long in that position, maybe.

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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #47 on: April 15, 2009, 12:11:17 am »
Yeah, maybe not. But it'll definetly be 1-uped someday.

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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #48 on: April 15, 2009, 04:16:10 pm »
Oh, my god. Last night's dream was scary as all fuck. I'm sorry to say that, but... it just was.

I was on my computer in a chat with someone who was either Cartman or used him as his avatar. Then he invited his friend over into the chat and he showed us this picture of some South Park character running and being angry. Cartman-man and I both agreed that it was stupid. He kept posting it, so we left the chat. The next day, or later in the day, I find myself in a massive chat with angry South Park man. And guess what? He's hacking mah compie! He's systematically going through everything, deleting it. When he was done, I didn't know if I had a desktop left.

It... it was so frickin' real! I woke up and had the urge to turn on my computer to make sure it wasn't real. Thankfully, it wasn't. I still have my files and such.

Mom says I need more time away from the computer. I say I need to make sure it doesn't happen.

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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #49 on: April 15, 2009, 05:08:28 pm »
Oh, my god. Last night's dream was scary as all fuck. I'm sorry to say that, but... it just was.

I was on my computer in a chat with someone who was either Cartman or used him as his avatar. Then he invited his friend over into the chat and he showed us this picture of some South Park character running and being angry. Cartman-man and I both agreed that it was stupid. He kept posting it, so we left the chat. The next day, or later in the day, I find myself in a massive chat with angry South Park man. And guess what? He's hacking mah compie! He's systematically going through everything, deleting it. When he was done, I didn't know if I had a desktop left.

It... it was so frickin' real! I woke up and had the urge to turn on my computer to make sure it wasn't real. Thankfully, it wasn't. I still have my files and such.

Mom says I need more time away from the computer. I say I need to make sure it doesn't happen.

Hah, that is scary. Last night I had my first dream in a long time, and it felt so realistic.

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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #50 on: April 15, 2009, 10:17:06 pm »
Yeah, I agree with your mom. That dream was about you in a chat room with a computer hacker. To make sure the dream doesn't happen, maybe you should try turning off your computer and do something else every once in a while. Your computer can't be hacked when it's completely shut down.

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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #51 on: April 15, 2009, 10:57:22 pm »
No dream last night, but instead I woke up at 2:00 AM for some reason. Went back to sleep of course.

Last night I had my first dream in a long time, and it felt so realistic.

So, what it was about?

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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #52 on: April 16, 2009, 12:49:30 am »
No dream last night, but instead I woke up at 2:00 AM for some reason. Went back to sleep of course.

Last night I had my first dream in a long time, and it felt so realistic.

So, what it was about?

I dreamed that I got a new laptop I've been saving for. :P

When I woke up I was like, hey wait where's my laptop? It took me a while to realize I had a dream :P

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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #53 on: April 16, 2009, 08:46:23 pm »
I dreamed that I got a new laptop I've been saving for. :P

When I woke up I was like, hey wait where's my laptop? It took me a while to realize I had a dream :P

I hate those dreams. I've noticed that two classes of dreams are the most realistic and detailed for me: the first class are dreams where I get something that I had been wanting for a long time. When I wake up, I become acutely aware that it was only a dream and life still sucks.

The second is sex dreams. Those are the best dreams ever. Especially when it's a dream about someone that isn't your girlfriend. Because it's not technically cheating, and they are always super detailed and awesome.

This sounds a bit more out there than my previous posts, but as accurately as I can describe it, one of the times I tried salvia and had the revolving door through dimensions effect, I tried to pull myself out of it and "find" the correct universe where I belonged, unsuccessfully I might add. It was like I was leaving each universe in layers, zooming out more and more (I was reminded of the Dilbert animated series intro video) until I was actually at the outmost layer, when the "real" world/universe/dimension was at the center. This could have been a sense of reincarnation, or an out of body experience, but I couldn't put my finger on it at the time, it was like my soul was passing through several different versions of my own body, each one appearing identical but each felt radically different and somehow wrong.

In comment to the first highlighted part, it doesn't seem out there to me at all, lol. But then again I have been there and experienced the same thing you have. I like how you said "as accurately as I can describe it". I'll say that often too. When you experience something so profound that it is beyond words and true comprehension, you often have to explain it in ways that cannot possibly encompass the true experience. In response to the second highlighted part - this is what I was talking about earlier. You get a strong sensation of being outside of the universe and observing it for what it is. I myself had the perception that human life was a cosmic joke, and that from this vantage point it was so clear that the struggles and triumphs of our lives were ultimately meaningless compared to the bigger picture of the universe. It is interesting that when stripped of the ego it is so easy to accept this realization.

It is fitting that you brought up salvia in a thread about dreams, as I often describe the experience as a sensation of "waking up" to a higher or more true reality. It literally felt as if my entire life as a human being had been nothing more than a dream compared to what I was observing at that moment. And there was a strong sense of familiarity about it. Like I had returned to a place that I had visited before I was born.

I imagine this sensation stems from the fact that you are fully conscious but experiencing a reality so vastly different from the one you were in just a moment earlier. The brain is wired to interpret what it perceives as being primarily true and accurate. I think that is why these experiences are so profound. But just because it stems from altered neurochemistry doesn't make the experience any less profound or the knowledge gained from it any less insightful.

Just like the knowledge gained from dreams. No big surprise there, since both dreams and entheogenic experiences stem ultimately from altered neurochemistry and are influenced by the ego/subconscious.
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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #54 on: April 17, 2009, 12:28:53 am »
I dreamed that I got a new laptop I've been saving for. :P

When I woke up I was like, hey wait where's my laptop? It took me a while to realize I had a dream :P

I hate those dreams. I've noticed that two classes of dreams are the most realistic and detailed for me: the first class are dreams where I get something that I had been wanting for a long time. When I wake up, I become acutely aware that it was only a dream and life still sucks.

I remember having a dream like that. When I was 7 or 8 years old, there was this really cool transformers toy I wanted to get for a while. I had a dream(several actually) that I had finally gotten it. When I woke up, I was disapointed until I actually got about three or four weeks later. As for why I had several dreams about getting it all in one sleep could be explained that I tend to usually have several dreams all at once that don't relate to each other at all. It makes one heck of an epic dream.

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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #55 on: April 17, 2009, 12:40:55 am »
Haha, no way Asafigow.  :shock: I had an identical dream when I was about 5 years old. It too was about a transformers toy that I wanted, but it didn't exist in reality. It was completely fabricated by me in my dream, but it was badass. It was some kind of white, giant transformer that was built by combining a bunch of other transformers. I was so psyched about it in the dream and let down when I woke up. I think I went to go search for it only to realized I had dreamed it up. To this day I still remember that.


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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #56 on: April 17, 2009, 12:59:27 am »
I too had once dreamed of something similar. I no longer remember what exactly, but I do remember it was a video game I got much later.

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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #57 on: April 17, 2009, 11:28:41 pm »
Haha, no way Asafigow.  :shock: I had an identical dream when I was about 5 years old. It too was about a transformers toy that I wanted, but it didn't exist in reality. It was completely fabricated by me in my dream, but it was badass. It was some kind of white, giant transformer that was built by combining a bunch of other transformers. I was so psyched about it in the dream and let down when I woke up. I think I went to go search for it only to realized I had dreamed it up. To this day I still remember that.

Sounds like Voltron haha.

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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #58 on: April 19, 2009, 01:07:39 am »
So... I need to ask ya'll a question.

What drugs (legal or illegal) out there can cause one to have a hallucination that one wouldn't really be able to tell it apart from a dream?  As if, recalling the previous' night's adventures one would have trouble knowing what was real and what wasn't?  Not a hallucination per se, but moreso a very realistic dream.

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Re: So... Do you dream?
« Reply #59 on: April 19, 2009, 09:01:42 am »
I don't think, in much the same way that people don't dream the same, that drugs effect people the same. But I'd guess the hallucinogens would probably be the correct path, non? >_>