Share your nighttime dreams with me if you wish? I know there are other topics on dreams, but I would like to hear recent dreams posted ... that when you wake you go huh?

Last night I dreamed a man who was 25 years younger than me loved me, he was perfect and not taking a no for an answer. And I was curious in my dream. Like what is his attraction to me?

As the dream progressed to the end...he became younger and younger, till he was a teenager and my mind went I went yuck - huh?

In real life I have compatible man who is 30 wanting my love... I just am content being free and single.
Dreams huh?
Do yours do your head in too,

Dreams screw with your mind. Most you don't remember after waking or you forget soon after. The question is who is playing games with your mind and for what purpose? Some dreams are claimed to be from God, but most are just crazy and weird!

Dreams are the mind's defragmentation program mostly.
Its why they don't makes sense when you recall them after waking.

A new medicine I am taking causes vivid dreams.
Last night, despite waking multiple times to use the loo, I had a continuing dream of a common story/theme.
Each time I returned to sleep the same theme continued in my dream.
I woke this morning thinking...that was weird?

I dream in high detail, in stereo and with full colors.
I see anything from messy hair to litter and dust.
I don't really have nightmares anymore.
My dreams do have a certain theme, usually of daily life but with people, animals, I have never encountered. Even a family I never had.

I usually direct my dreams. Anything from jump/flying to complex slightly impossible actions. I've even dreamed of alien environments and alien characters interacting as a normal routine. I once dreamed I folded up the shop I work in and put it in my pocket.

Last night tho, the dream was a continuing story which picked up where it left off each time. Its fading out but I recall I had a sense of commitment to the people who were in the dream.

I read a book a long time ago about a man who existed in another place in the Universe when he dreamed. In the story, each time he fell asleep, he returned to that life. I can't recall the book title or author.
A similar story is portrayed in Edgar Rice Burrows' Barsoom series which the film John Carter (2012) is based upon.

Due to the detail and validity of some of my dreams I could believe I exist in multiple realities. That a different me, sometimes not even human me, exists under different daily lives. The Universe is vast. Might we have a connection to other intelligent lifeforms existing in multiple distant galaxies? Could this 'connection' be the source of what we call imagination?
Might the mind insert familiar references which represent familiar themes or details?

I've noticed when I die in a dream, I no longer have that scenario in my dreams but when I don't, there's a return to the 'world' I dreamed about sporadically over time. In those dreams, I recall every detail but with slight changes as if that 'life' were continuing but "I" was not paying attention. Last night was like that but multiple times and in the same night.

I recall a dream in which I died.
I was with a group of beings (I saw them as human but I had a sense they were not and neither was I) in a bunker underground. It was some sort of hydro power station. I died when a pack of creatures (seen in my dream as lions) found us via a tunnel system. I recall the 'lions' thoughts were understood by us and our thoughts were understood by the 'lions'. I tried to hide but I was found and the last thing I recall was being bitten, then I suddenly woke.
I never returned to the 'lion' dream again. That 'source' of me no longer exists.

I also have dreams of mundane daily life. Daily routine of me doing insignificant things, yet all foreign to the life I lead while awake.
It makes me toy with the idea that when I die, the essence of me switches focus to one of those alternate realities. Its quite complicated to explain but it fits with the chaotic nature of random chance.

It has to do with the path of realities in which I exist. A simple example is the result which unfolds your life from the moment of a decision/event. If I went left my life unfolds as it is. If I go right my life unfolds down a different path. In multiverse, all paths are taken but the 'self' focuses on one. Like BBs in a jar. Each path moves out from the center of every state.

In one reality, my zygote never formed and I never existed. In another, I am female, in another I died as a child, in another I'm left-handed and so on.
Each of these potential realities could exist on a different plane and dreaming links 'segments of awareness' in different planes. The death of 'me' in one plane ends access to that 'segment of awareness'.
During conscious thought, the active mind blocks the connection.
If this is accurate, you never truly die till every possible path of you dies and eventually there will be only one 'self' remaining.
The movie The One (2001) touches on this concept. When I first saw it I was amazed at how closely it touches on the concept I've sensed all my life. Its not completely accurate but it has the same general concept.

Also, I get the sense that not every dream is a 'segment of awareness'. Some dreams are jumbled and nonsensical. Those dreams are my brain sorting out fragments of life to memory.
Last night was a 'segment of awareness' dream but it was continued each time I returned to sleep. It seemed very persistent, detailed and 'familiar'. I don't recall if there was a goal or quest involved because it started fading after I fully woke.

Ladywind, your dream might have been a 'segment of awareness' where 'you' sensed a different 'you' but inserted your conscious morals into the other.
OR...
In real life I have compatible man who is 30 wanting my love
Subconsciously you are dealing with feelings stirred by this real-life situation. Your brain is trying to sort those fragments but is having trouble because you are perplexed about the idea. The dream is vivid because your brain is trying to add detail to make sense of it so it can put that memory in the right place.

I remember years ago when working at a job that I really hated, having reoccurring dreams of driving a bus that was out of control.

I dreamt of Soufie last night. Cannot remember context though. Just that i was visiting her.

I dreamt I was on a yacht with Luca sailing to the Whit Sunday’s . .. when a rogue wave swept him away .... ..funnily enough the next day ....poof .. he vanished .. just like my dream. A premonition perhaps

Once I regulated and maintained my diet, not eating after a certain time, especially sugar, I found that I have absolutely no idea if I dream anymore. Add in some melatonin and I basically just fall asleep, then wake up, not really noticing the time pass at all.

Of course when I turn off the lamp and nestle into the pillow I like to create movies in my head of fun things until I drift off. But those aren't dreams.

2 weeks ago I dreamed of an old friend/lover. just a face , with tears running down. a few days ago i dropped her a line to ask if everything was ok.

her mum had died from a heart attack 2 weeks ago.

I've had similar dreams 6 times over 30/40 years.

Always about someone's trauma.

I'm shaken a bit atm. with a strong sense that there's much more to life that the bundle of senses we have ( compelling as they are )tell us.


more to existence than life. odd feeling....

Sometimes I 'see' different sets of eyes which slowly change to faces when I am drifting off.
Just the eyes first then the faces and shortly after it all just disappears.
Sometimes I recognize the eyes and faces, sometimes not.
Sometimes when I recognize the faces, the next day or two I see or hear from that person.

Could this be some type of telepathic connection...I don't know.
If it is, its kinda scary because I've seen eyes and faces which are not human.
Stranger than anything I've seen in the movies or a TV show.

When I was drinking I used to hear voices I recognize and some I didn't. When I stopped drinking so much, those voices went away.
Perhaps the eyes and faces are a similar phenomenon brought on by the meds I take?

I remember when my kids were little. I would wake from a deep sleep if someone were coming to my door. I would wake and shortly thereafter I would hear the knock at the door. I would also wake instantly if I sensed movement in the house. I still do that.
Its not noise which wakes me. Its the feeling of movement and 'presence' which wakes me. Even in rooms which are not close to me.
Could be I am sensing pressure changes in the air? I know my sinuses are extremely sensitive to pressure changes.

Its possible when I sleep my physical senses are heightened. I sleep in a dark, quiet bedroom. If my senses are heightened during sleep, its possible they drive my dreams as well.

Lately, I've noticed my dreams have background music. Its really strange because when I wake I am drawn to listen to music I haven't heard in a long time and I can't get the song out of my head till I actually listen to it.
Perhaps a side effect of the defragmentation process my brain is going thru?

many times i've seen/heard from someone after dreaming of them, even people i've not seen for some years.

telepathic mixed with premonition. maybe.

who knows. the senses are tools that we see with.

a box that we perceive within. what is outside of the box? we cant know till we are no longer in it.

I've a hunch there's more to be revealed Tom.

I should have posted in the philosopy ore maybe the paranormal section shouldn't I ?

hahahahahahahaha did you get the krupa bonus sighting? ;-)

A side-note about dreams..when the monster of my childhood died, I
stopped dreaming, this was 25 years ago now. Nary a one since. I can
only attribute this to sounder sleep, no nightmares to interfere.

When the fear went, so did the dreams.

You technically wrote a 'reply' to an existing thread started by someone else (Ladywind).

You could start a new thread in one of those sections but I believe there are already similar threads in those sections which deal with similar themes.
If not, go for it. If so, the mods would probably lock it as a duplicate.

If you search out information on the web for 'sensory perception' and 'dream/sleep studies you will get some pretty kooky websites but you will also find reputable websites dedicated to their specific study using scientific methodology. Look for sites which cite references which are accessible with links. Stay away from youtube videos, nearly all are agenda driven.

Do dreams really mean, anything?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/supersurvivors/201801/do-dreams-really-mean-anything

http://dreams.ucsc.edu/Library/domhoff_2001a.html

http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2001-00749-002

Sensory Perception

http://philschatz.com/anatomy-book/contents/m46577.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563136/

Many people do not know the physical or scientific properties of their own bodies or minds. This gives mysticism a playground for unjustified beliefs.
This is why you will find mystic websites which will justify nearly any belief on these subjects. Our imaginations are subject to delusional beliefs.
Likewise, our dreams are interpreted by our delusional beliefs if we do not understand ourselves or how our senses and brain works.
If we are 'clouded' by mysticism, our rational path of logic is also clouded.
This is why while I can 'entertain' mystical reasoning I know there is likely a very logical, reasonable explanation for the dreams I get.

The name always makes me think of Luca Brasi, someone too scary to be near.

Yea I'm very logical and scientific. this is 1 of a very few experiences that cannot easily be explained.
that's why it shakes me when it has happened. I draw no conclusions from it, other than it seems more than coincidence/chance. I'm not a glutton for information anymore. I prefer to ingest small amounts and digest fully and glean what understanding I can before cramming more down. I only end up with wind/gripes/bloat and the like. Thanks for your input m8

No worries...
As I stated in an earlier reply, I still don't understand my dreams.
There ARE things which could have mystical roots but I suspect its my own ignorance which makes them mysterious to me.
However, the human mind has many aspects not fully understood by science.
The Universe is chaotic and vast. Who can say with any surety precisely what is absolute.

I always try to dream in cartoons.