Do You Remember Your Dreams?

[arwalden]

For the most part, I rarely remember any specifics. Just the "theme" of the dream. Whether it was a sex-dream or a flying-dream (or whatever), I only wake up with a foggy and vague recollection of what was happening.

The EXCEPTION to that is when a dream scares the bejeebus out of me and I wake up screaming. THEN I remember every horrifying detail. Whether I'm falling, or attending the funeral of a loved one, or trying to find my lost dog... the details are vivid and unforgettable.

I don't have a LOT of nightmares, but those tend to be the ones that I'll remember for years and years.

-- Allen

P.S. Wouldn't it be neat if we could videotape our dreams for playback later on?

[bocadem]

1. sex dreams

i've been having a lot lately

i always meet my significant others between aug and oct

i dunno why the falll is lucky for me

shit i am drunk

[Ohio Dem]

2. Very rarely do I remember the details.

I think you are right about the themes. That's what I usually take from a dream in the morning. If it wakes me up, I remember the dream. But I don't really remember it the next morning, unless it was really bad.

[liberalmuse]

3. Some of them...

I remembered a dream I had last week because it was the night before the power outage. I dreamed of these wicked lightening bolts hitting everything in my back yard, especially the BBQ grill. After that, flash floods roared through and I, and whomever else was in the dream had to run inside the house. I'm sure it was because I had read some disturbing articles on Iraq, including the rioting in Basra over lack of power. The flash floods probably signified I was overwhelmed by it all.

As much as I hate the 'evil' feel of nightmares right after waking up from them, I've found them to be really valuable in helping to solve current situations in my life because they seem to be a symbolic representation of my emotional and subconscious state, all laid out for me to deal with.

[Rowdyboy]

4. Sometimes...

and they're a little disturbing. I dream a lot about my grandparents garden tho-which is nice.

[sasquatch]

5. I used to have real bad nightmares

About being attacked by cockroaches (gross) then I used to have nightmares about investigating murders and cult slayings.

[BurtWorm]

6. I just had a memorable dream last night

involving getting lost with my parents in a car on beautiful, strange city streets in winter going off in search of some black market financial transaction that would make the wheels of city government grind more smoothly for them somehow. Part of it was in a building that was breaking apart, a portion of it swinging back and forth in the wind as though it were attached by a hinge. I have no idea what the meaning of the dream was, but I think it was inspired by the blackout. (I live in NYC.)

[populistmom]

7. I forget them on purpose

Rarely do I ever have nightmares, but my dreams seem to consist primary of boring or meaningless tasks or really good sex dreams in which I always wake up before it's completed. I'm a clear dreamer, but they're usually not worth putting in the long term memory banks.

[Ediacara]

8. sometimes

I remember nightmares, but also remember just weird dreams.

For instance the other day I had a dream where I was walking on the campus of dream-University of Washington (in my dream it's UW, but it is not at all the real UW), and went to the dream-arts library. I like the dream-arts library very much and have had a few dreams there actually, which is weird, and it's magnificent! Huge open hall, like the great room of a castle, with beams on the ceiling, and expensive furnishings everywhere, and IIRC a fireplace. The walls are lined with books (and about 40 feet high) and there are study areas on raised platforms about 4 feet high on either side of the main corridor. Many very attractive people sit at couches and read up there and are fun to watch.

Anyway, there is a very large, terraced stairway at one end toward the exit into another building. Off the left side of the stair was some sort of an exhibit about Beuwolf (I haven't thought about Beuwolf since I was 14!) where a mechanical Grendel (well just his head and neck) comes up from under the stairs and roars and actually chases you around! How weird is that!?

A dream I had this morning centered around a friend I have at school (who I also have a massive crush on) named Jake. We were hanging out and talking about classes, and how I still needed to register for a class (taphonomy) and why he wasn't in the invert paleo class, which I thought was a little odd because he was an invert paleo guy. Anyway, we were on a field trip camping and stuff, and all I could think about was that I hadn't been to calculus class yet, even though we had been in school about 2 weeks! Ya... anxiety about the fact I still haven't registered for all my classes, plus the obvious crush on Jake hehehe...

I did recently have a nightmare of sorts. I drempt that someone had put my parrot in the microwave and tried to kill him. He survived the microwave, but wa ssuffering, so I had to kill him to put him out of his misery. I did this by chopping his head off, which was terribly cruel and gruesome in my dream. I then decided I had to go and buy another parrot to trick my boyfriend into thinking that our parrot was a-ok. This really disturbed me when I woke up, and I felt like I really had killed him. eedless to say I spent most of the day appologizing to my parrot for this dream. I don't think he really understood what I was saying, but was happy for the extra kisses and cuddles.

[leftofthedial]

9. comes and goes in cycles for me

I'll dream vividly and remember for a couple of weeks and then not for several months.

I don't have that many nightmares these days. I mainly remember the more vivid dreams better. I also remember quite well any new "installment" of three distinct, different recurring/related dreams I have been having for years.

Life under Bush is enough of a nightmare, without having scary dreams.

[Kamika]

10. Never and its scary

I havent remembered a dream since i was maybe 10 and im 21 now.

If i do have a bad dream i remember it for maybe 5 minutes then its gone

[Nomad559]

11. I go for months without remembering a dream

About four months ago I had two dreams In one week.
That's very unusual for me, both dreams were about the same thing, someone stole my van.

Why would someone steal my 87 Ford Cargo Van. :eyes:

[soleft]

12. Need someone to analyze this one

I dreamt I was driving my car on the upper west side of Manhattan, and my girl friend was in the back seat. But where I was driving didn't really look like the west side at all, it was very hilly and wooded, and then I came upon a really steep hill.

It was almost like a 45 degree drop, and part of me thought, wow, this is going to be fun to drive down this hill, but then I was afraid because I thought, no way can I control my car, and it's not just me, my girl friend is in the back. I think she was sleeping.

So I decided not to drive down the hill and turned off onto another road. Shortly, I saw I hubcap on the side of the road, and I was missing one, so I stopped the car and got out to get it.

All of a suddenly, my car started to move without me. As I looked at it, my girl friend was sitting up in the back seat, looking very frightened. I yelled, step on the break, step on the break. But she couldn't get to the front seat.

So the car continued on and disappeared around the bend.


Now, I know there's a chance that my girl friend wasn't my girl friend but represents something else, but even so, dream just seems laidened with meaning.

[Kamika]

14. To quote Mr Burns

-That mother blaming freudian fool! Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!"

[BurtWorm]

20. When did you have this?

Might it be 9-11 or blackout related?

[soleft]

22. Sunday morning - but isn't this weird, this one might be black out related

And I had it on the 12th.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=91379&mesg_id=91379

[BurtWorm]

24. That is weird.

I'll bet you had interesting 9-11 dreams too. I dreamt during the night after 9-11 that I was trying to tune into the news on TV and all I got was snow. About a week later, I dreamt I was sitting in a rooftop cafe above an avenue watching a stream of mourners holding candles march by.

[soleft]

25. I have recurring dreams

Since 9/11 about once every month or so I dream about watching airplanes crashing.

I used to have recurring dreams about tornados, which is weird because I don't live in tornado alley, but since 9/11 I don't have tornado dreams anymore.

[soleft]

27. dupe

[DS1]

13. all the way down to individual conversations with people

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Yes and I remember the exact day they were all snuffed out!

12/12/2000, the day the Unpatriotic SCOTUS Terra-ists Hi-jacked the American Dream forever!

[NightTrain]

16. A little too well, unfortunately....

And far too many of them dredge up bad memories of my fucked-up childhood and adolescence.

[SiouxJ]

17. I had the weirdest dream last night ;-)

well I really did. Funny but lately I haven't been remembering too many but last night I dreamed I was whitening my dog's teeth - lol. I had these plastic molds and was putting this gunk in them and making him keep them on his teeth. The weird part is that my dog is so old (17) that he has very few teeth left.

I wish it was a juicy sex dream but no, it was a slobbery, dental, dog dream :-( .

[BurtWorm]

21. Sounds like a sex dream to me

In disguise, of course. Teeth are sexy.

[buddhamama]

18. no, and it bothers me

it is a rare occurance for me to remember my dreams. i've tried the dream recall techniques but they don't work for me.

[AlienGirl]

19. I sure do

Last night I dreamed that I forgot I had to work on Christmas Day. I'd volunteered to take that day so a few other people could have it off, but then I forgot it was a work day and I had to run around getting ready.

The night before, I dreamed my roommates and I had bought a huge house and we were all living contentedly in it. That dream was so good I didn't want to wake up.

Tucker

[Aristus]

23. Sometimes, I wish I didn't remember my dreams. They make no sense

and people laugh when I try to tell them about my dreams. For example, couple of weeks ago, I dreamed that white supremacists broke into my house at night and stole my wife's knick-knack collection! What the hell is that supposed to signify?

[BurtWorm]

26. "Wife's knick-knacks" sounds sexual to me.

But then so does cleaning an old dog's teeth.

[SiouxJ]

29. *snarf*

Hmmm, I'm sensing a pattern here. ;-)

[BurtWorm]

30. Sometimes an obsession with sexual imagery

is just an obsession with sexual imagery. (In my case it's probably not!)

[samsingh]

28. some dreams are vivid

i usually remember them for about a half hour after i wake up.