Jim Henderson wrote:
> Oh, and on the "dreams" side of things, I had a very strange one last 
> night as I was falling asleep the first time - from Indiana Jones and the 
> Last Crusade, when Indy and his dad are boarding the Zepplin and the 
> officer asks for their papers - in my dream version, Indy held up a slice 
> of pizza and tried to pass that off as a photo ID of some sort.
> 
> I sometimes wonder about what's going on in my brain....

...da hell?! o_O

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:15:03 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson escribió:
>> Oh, and on the "dreams" side of things, I had a very strange one last
>> night as I was falling asleep the first time - from Indiana Jones and
>> the Last Crusade, when Indy and his dad are boarding the Zepplin and
>> the officer asks for their papers - in my dream version, Indy held up a
>> slice of pizza and tried to pass that off as a photo ID of some sort.
>> 
>> I sometimes wonder about what's going on in my brain....
>> 
>> 
> I had a strange one today too. And when I woke up, I thought I should
> model in POV the place I was in, before I forget it...
> 
> BTW, check this out: http://www.dreamjournal.net/

Cool.

I had a friend in high school who kept a dream journal by his bed - one 
night, he had the most bizarre experience:  He had a dream, woke up, 
wrote it in the journal, and went back to sleep.

Got up the next morning and the page was blank.

He worked out (eventually) that he'd had a dream within a dream, woke up 
in his dream and logged the dream-within-a-dream, and then went back to 
sleep in his dream.  That was the only explanation he was able to figure 
out.

Jim

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:46:49 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Oh, and on the "dreams" side of things, I had a very strange one last
>> night as I was falling asleep the first time - from Indiana Jones and
>> the Last Crusade, when Indy and his dad are boarding the Zepplin and
>> the officer asks for their papers - in my dream version, Indy held up a
>> slice of pizza and tried to pass that off as a photo ID of some sort.
>> 
>> I sometimes wonder about what's going on in my brain....
> 
> ...da hell?! o_O

I have a very vivid recollection of being attacked in a dream (when I was 
a kid) by a stuffed "plush" alligator.

But until fairly recently, I haven't slept well enough (I guess) to be 
able to remember my dreams.  I went for years without being able to 
recall anything I'd dreamed, but since I started immunotherapy for my 
allergies, I've been remembering more of my dreams.

I'm kinda wondering if my allergic reactions were causing some form of 
sleep apnea that would prevent me from getting a good night's sleep.  I 
was always tired, but these days, I'm not feeling so wiped out all the 
time.

Jim

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> I have a very vivid recollection of being attacked in a dream (when I was 
> a kid) by a stuffed "plush" alligator.
> 
> But until fairly recently, I haven't slept well enough (I guess) to be 
> able to remember my dreams.

I always *prefer* not remembering my dreams. The ones I remember are so 
upsetting. Still, usually I don't remember a thing. Unless I get woken 
up during a dream...

(The dreams I do remember typically involve me being chased, beated, 
burned, drowned, cut, poisoned, burried alive, frozen to death, starved, 
and other such niceties. Or sometimes just being followed around by 
weird creatures. Yah, *totally* better not to remember!)

By the way... do you ever get that thing where the alarm clock wakes you 
up in the normal, but you're not really awake yet, and you just think 
about random crap for a while? Like, "hey, I should go encrypt that 
sandwich I made once at school, otherwise it'll go mouldy", and other 
nonesense. Or is that just me?

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Jim Henderson escribió:
> But until fairly recently, I haven't slept well enough (I guess) to be 
> able to remember my dreams.  I went for years without being able to 
> recall anything I'd dreamed, but since I started immunotherapy for my 
> allergies, I've been remembering more of my dreams.

Something I noticed: If I'm woken up by something (like a sound, 
including an alarm clock), I rarely remember what I was dreaming. If I 
wake up by myself, I do.

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Invisible wrote:
> You know how sometimes you're just laying in bed trying to go to sleep, 
> and suddenly you get that feeling like you're falling really fast just 
> for a split second? I really hate that. Makes me jump out of my skin... 
> but then of course you realise you only imagined it.

For several years I would always experience this just as I was getting 
drowsy enough to fall asleep.  It never happened more than once per 
night, even during periods when it happened every night.

Regards,
John

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:02:11 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson escribió:
>> But until fairly recently, I haven't slept well enough (I guess) to be
>> able to remember my dreams.  I went for years without being able to
>> recall anything I'd dreamed, but since I started immunotherapy for my
>> allergies, I've been remembering more of my dreams.
> 
> Something I noticed: If I'm woken up by something (like a sound,
> including an alarm clock), I rarely remember what I was dreaming. If I
> wake up by myself, I do.

Interesting.  Myself, I remember these days even if my alarm wakes me up 
(but I have it set to music, so it's gradual rather than a blaring siren).

But more often than not, I'll wake up during the dream, especially if 
it's one I'm having as I'm falling asleep (as the one I described was).

Jim

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:58:12 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

>> I have a very vivid recollection of being attacked in a dream (when I
>> was a kid) by a stuffed "plush" alligator.
>> 
>> But until fairly recently, I haven't slept well enough (I guess) to be
>> able to remember my dreams.
> 
> I always *prefer* not remembering my dreams. The ones I remember are so
> upsetting. Still, usually I don't remember a thing. Unless I get woken
> up during a dream...
> 
> (The dreams I do remember typically involve me being chased, beated,
> burned, drowned, cut, poisoned, burried alive, frozen to death, starved,
> and other such niceties. Or sometimes just being followed around by
> weird creatures. Yah, *totally* better not to remember!)

I read an article a few weeks ago that suggested that dreams are the 
place where your mind prepares you to deal with emergency/crisis 
situations.  I forget where I read that, but the article had a fair 
amount of detail about how they studied it and tied it into people who go 
into "automatic mode" when a crisis hits - like non-trained first 
responders at the scene of an automobile accident.  They typically 
describe feeling like they're on autopilot and not even really thinking 
about what they're doing - almost like they're watching from the 
sidelines.

> By the way... do you ever get that thing where the alarm clock wakes you
> up in the normal, but you're not really awake yet, and you just think
> about random crap for a while? Like, "hey, I should go encrypt that
> sandwich I made once at school, otherwise it'll go mouldy", and other
> nonesense. Or is that just me?

I do that every once in a while, sometimes I even say the weird sentences 
out loud - so my wife tells me.

Jim

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>> Heh, I was wondering how things were over there. "An earthquake near 
>> London" was not something I expected to hear. Glad you're OK, though.
>
> Well, apparently it's "the biggest earthquake in almost 25 years" (so 
> that's, what, 24 years then?)
>
> And I guess Lincolnshire is near to London for suitable definition of 
> "near"... ;-)

I was at the epicenter of the Nisqually earthquake in 2001 (6.8),
had a hutch tip over and break the glassware and doors.
It sounded like a train went through the house.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually_Earthquake
I was taking a bath at the time, and ended up standing there
dripping wet in just my undies =)

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Jim Henderson wrote:

> I read an article a few weeks ago that suggested that dreams are the 
> place where your mind prepares you to deal with emergency/crisis 
> situations.

Then my subconscious must be convinced that I will never be in a crisis 
situation.  All of my dreams recently have involved living an ordinary 
life in an ordinary place, doing ordinary things.

Well, there was one that involved me and four women, looking for some 
privacy, but I woke up before we found any...

Regards,
John

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