I've never met anyone who dreamt in black and white. I wonder where the idea came from…?
Maybe the same guy who said you couldn't read texts in your dreams?
I totally have color dreams and read books in my dreams too… Does anyone else find that they can read in their dreams? I sometimes wonder if there's something wrong with me…
Anyway, I have many moments throughout the day where I'm thinking about nothing at all… Usually it's about 15 minutes each time. I feel like my time management is terrible because of this, and wish I could fix it.
There's no way I can empty my mind enough to think of nothing. Something's always in there, whether it be one of my current worries, the latest thing about some of my favorite topics, or something completely random from the left field…
I've never met anyone who dreamt in black and white. I wonder where the idea came from…?
I think it'd be mostly old people. I read something once that said that people who grew up watching a lot of b&w movies/tv are more likely to have b&w dreams. I, for one, have really awesome awesome dreams (oh if ONLY you guys could be there…!!)
one time in 7th grade I played pokemon red version all day long and I was like, 'wah I dun wanna go to bed I wanna play pokemon!' but that night my dream was all pixelated and pseudo-color; an overhead shot of Ash from the game just riding his bike and battling caterpies and stuff. good times.
I had a black and white dream once; it was really noirish and gritty and cool; it even had the flickering, unsure lighting of a silent movie.
Speaking of reading text in a dream, Freud wrote something about that in the Interpretation of Dreams… he noted that text has a semblance of meaning but is warped. I remember one time I was half-asleep (this made a big impression on me; it was at my old house so I was under 12) and there was this picture frame that said "best friends" but I looked at each letter and it was more like blooorit reifffleongog" or something.
Again you're falling for the fallacy of believing that your thoughts define your identity. Be aware only of your own being, banish all thought and just be.
But then I am a mindless twit to begin with. lol!
OT to the dreams: selective color is pretty cool too. Just red for blood and washed out fleshtones. And the sky was an ink wash. Though the credits at the end are dead give-aways. I read them so I can read text in my dreams. I also read subtitles. That's something I learned to combat nightmares; adding something ridiculous to remind me that it is just a dream after all.
Talking about dreams, one talent I've picked up over the years from random napping is the ability to control my dreams, if only for a few minutes. Can any other DDers out there do this?
Thanks to this skill I don't know how many times I've had "romantic" relations with Zac Efron and Johnny Depp (yay!).
lol @ jonko i have some control of my dreams…but mostly i just kinda enjoy it.
i like the crazy scary dreams cause i always wake up and try to write it down for a story. i've learned though that some dreams don't translate well to the real world.
i had a dream story about reptiles living in the earth @ the year 4000 ad where a tree of life was in the middle. the reptiles were guardians and there were spiders who weaved the sky with webs. there was a tick bad guy who killed everyone in the valley except for the reptiles…
while i was in the dream i keep thinking it was a good story until i woke up and i started to write it down on a notebook. and i was like WTF! this shit don't make sense
Controling dreams? Sort of. I refused to enter a house in one of my dreams cause I knew it's that creepy house I dreamt about in another dream. And once I went on a stroll through my "dreamlands" knowing that I have only a couple of minutes to enjoy the views before I wake up, haha.
Also, there's supposedly some meditative technique that either allows you or requires that you tune out all your thoughts. Or it's just my memory being funny (happens often).
Talking about dreams, one talent I've picked up over the years from random napping is the ability to control my dreams, if only for a few minutes. Can any other DDers out there do this?
Nope, but I've always wished I could. You lucky person! I get the impression it'd a fantastic skill for story development.
i had a dream story about reptiles living in the earth @ the year 4000 ad where a tree of life was in the middle. the reptiles were guardians and there were spiders who weaved the sky with webs. there was a tick bad guy who killed everyone in the valley except for the reptiles…
And yet just from that description I started to imagine all these awesome comic visuals…. D:
thinking about nothing doesnt exist.
I'd agree with that. I'd suppose thinking pre-requires even a vague conceptualisation of something. How about… "Do you ever suddenly realise a significant portion of time has elapsed for which you can't recall any specific thought processes?"
Talking about dreams, one talent I've picked up over the years from random napping is the ability to control my dreams, if only for a few minutes. Can any other DDers out there do this?
Thanks to this skill I don't know how many times I've had "romantic" relations with Zac Efron and Johnny Depp (yay!).
I've actually seen a book at the bookstore that teaches you how to do this (it's apparently a way to combat nightmares.)
Some times I have little moments in dreams where I recognize that it's a dream, which is always kind of funny. (I have really dirty dreams all the time… I've dreamt about sleeping with just about everyone I know. my subconscious knows no boundaries, no taboos. I even had one with (underage) Lily from Hannah Montana, actually… with that one, I woke up and I was like, 'ah, I feel satisfied. And guilty.' )
Anyway, once I was having this dream and this creepy guy grabbed my arm and started dragging me off somewhere and so I did one of those, 'ooh la la I'm hitting on you' sort of mini-gropes and he turned around and said, 'no, this isn't THAT kind of dream.' lol?
Recently my dreams take on a form of movies or something and I'm more of a spectator hopping from one body to another while watching the action. Last night it was a horror movie although the dream wasn't a nightmare despite having some weird zombie-like beings and um… "flesh vampires"? I know what it caused though. I ate lots of noodles last evening and then started to feel bad for some reason, so I went to bed couple of hours earlier than planned (so basically while still digesting food). that always spices up dreams :D
Revised question answer: Not remembering whether I was thinking or not? That could happen but only because I have REALLY bad short term memory. I get startled too easily and then forget everything I was thinking… although usually I'm aware that I was thinking of something, so I guess it's not quite that either.
I even had one with (underage) Lily from Hannah Montana, actually… with that one, I woke up and I was like, 'ah, I feel satisfied. And guilty.' )
I think my disney channel viewing has done permanent damage to both you and Kathleen. I'm jealous you can realize halfway through it's a dream. For me it's when I'm really tired, I can control it from the start to finish. Oh, Zac Efron.
Talking about dreams, one talent I've picked up over the years from random napping is the ability to control my dreams, if only for a few minutes. Can any other DDers out there do this?
It's called Lucid Dreaming, if I'm not mistaken. Every so often I can
Talking about dreams, one talent I've picked up over the years from random napping is the ability to control my dreams, if only for a few minutes. Can any other DDers out there do this?
It's called Lucid Dreaming, if I'm not mistaken. Every so often I can
Correct. I'm pretty good at it once I realize that it is a dream. If I don't I'm stuck.
It's possible to read text in dreams, rarely! I once woke up with a very clear memory of a few lines from a book in my dream.
See, I was researching the history of my crazy, murderous, aristocratic husband in the hopes that I could solve his mystery and survive, so it was really important that I memorize the books, since he could cut off my access to his library at any time. That dream had a really convoluted plot… XD
Most of the time it really is nonsensical symbols or clusters of letters that don't make words, though…
Sometimes I'll come to only to realise I've been zoning out for the past half hour. Just wondering… does it happen to anyone else? What's your longest marathan of zero brain activity (I estimate about 40 minutes for myself).
Unfortunately the only time I don't think is when very sick or whenever I am watching any form of television whatsoever. At all other times my brain is running like a calculator . . . even when I am daydreaming. Sometimes that gets very frustrating.
I used to try and meditate and mostly I would wind up meditating about meditating. Even when doing Yoga I THINK about doing Yoga. Arrrrrgh!
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Oh . . . and about controlling the dream thing. Yeah I can do that to an extent. Usually it applies to nightmares. What happens is that I am unhappy with the outcome of the nightmare [well duh!] and so I can actually detect or hear the moment when my frustrated subconscious says, "That sucked. Let's try that again, only THIS TIME try doing something different BEFORE whatever bad thing that is going to happen to you happens" and then I go right back and I run through the scenario again AND if my subconscious is still not satisfied with that outcome it suggests ANOTHER alteration and then the bastard sends me in again and again and again until IT is happy with the result.
Ultimately I generally come out on top of the situation but I also usually wake up tired as hell, as if I had just spent hours in a fight to the finish.
I learned how to control my dreams from arthur …and I love to dream of myself as satan
Actually it's more fun to dream that you are some kick rump angel strolling through Hell with a magical arsenal of lethal weaponry. I mean, it's even LEGAL.
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