Seasons

Anyone ever get deja vu dreams? Where, in the dream, you know you've dreamed it before, but when you wake up you're pretty sure you haven't? I get those on occasion. I especially enjoy the ones that almost have a plot, and there's some "obvious" solution to the problem that makes no sense whatsoever once I've woken up.

One that I remember: "Oh, of course. Blue is the far yellow torment." Somehow, that was the key to the whole plot.

Corwin: I dont know if your familiar with the nueral pathways that the synapse fire along, but did you know that as you think more they naturally get larger? The ramifications of this is that "random thoughts" are really only so when you are pretty young as after that you begin to develope 'paths of least resistance' where electrical charge will more likely flow through; thus if one decides that they are bad at math an commence to doing very little of it as one grows older it LITERALLY becomes physically more difficult to think about AS WELL AS proportionately easier to be distracted from (becuse if say 'art' is your thing when you sit struggling w/ a math problem your white noise thinking is more likely to fire off in those wide open art-related nueral pathways). On the positive side though: if you find ANY form of thought or genre of being to be difficult or alien you simply should have faith that keeping with it and thinking about it a lot WILL eventually open up a path of least resistance to it and it will become natural or easier. Exactly like building the musculature to play a musical instrument- it takes a little time that is akward and torturously uncomfortable, but that time- relatively speaking- is insignificantly small.
...eh, kinda wandered there a bit... what all that was intended to preface was: perhaps a form of what you theorize is how the brain injects actual randomness into the psyche's workings to prevent deep inescapable stagnation due to slavery to our nueral pathways.

revscrj: I like that explanation of De Ja Vu. Sounds plausible.

How's this for an odd dream: I dreamt I had bubonic plague, and my grandmother (for some reason restored to youth) was going to heal me of it, but first we had to find the right energy connection, so I was touching hundreds of different objects to find the right one. Oh, and there was a large blue couch wedged into my grandmother's bathroom, making it impossible even to get in there.

That's a weird dream. My dreams are so annoying. Whenever I have, um, shall we say, interesting dreams, they always involve people I hate, never people I fancy. Why is that? I have no taste when I'm asleep, it seems. And whenever I'm having a good dream, I always wake up halfway through and can never get back into it to see how it turns out. Yet I slip straight back into nightmares. What gives?

That IS interesting, Laydee.

I rarely have any sexual dreams. My dreams just tend to be very long and continue the next night wherever they left off. I used to write them down, until I got sick and tired of writing.

I have always had epic length cohesive storyline dreams myself. I dont know about you BD but I have always felt blessed for it (despite never having had a graphicly sexual dream).

You need to talk to the producers and ask them to spice up the ongoing storylines.

I had the oddest dream once. The actual subject of the dream was rather mundane, but I swear to you, the whole thing was SUBTITLED.

Whoa - there are other people that don't have any sexual dreams? Good to know... I thought I was abnormal or something.

I dream a lot about fighting or soccer (odd - I've never been such a big soccer-freak). There are "epic storyline"-dreams as well. But they are usually quite confused. Some of them are what Ulrike called deja vu dreams (I know what will happen next, I'm absolutely sure I've been in this dream before... and when I wake up I'm sure I've never had this dream before). With strange "solutions" as well.

But I can't remember having any nightmares for years now. In my dreams I'm always stronger than everything what gets in my way. Seems like the only purpose of my dreams is to entertain me and to strengthen my self-confidence. Cute... somehow...

I get disturbing dreams sometimes, but rarely what I would call a nightmare. The last nightmare I remember having was over ten years ago, about a big black dog that ripped people's throats out. I woke myself out of it.

I don't consider it a nightmare if I'm not actually frightened in the dream. *shrugs*

Wah! I'm trapped in puberty forever...
I just had another dream about fighting against someone. But it's pretty ridiculous when everyone in this dream is a character from "Dragonball Z" (if anyone knows this anime he knows just *how* ridiculous the fight was ). The badguy mined the whole city we were fighting in, so I had to fistfight and couldn't use any "energy attacks" if I didn't want to blow the city up. He was stronger than me but it was entertaining anyway. Well - except for the part where he broke my arm. But I could finally trick him into fighting somewhere else and beat him.
Ouch...
(big ouch - it was a long, loooo~ng dream with many twists & turns...)