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On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:26:21 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> On a scale of one to ten, "lucid dreaming" sounds like the most
>>> terrifying thing imaginable...
>>
>> Personally, I find it quite enjoyable.
>
> According to scientists, we dream every single night, but some of us
> rarely remember our dreams. And personally, not remembering my dreams is
> COMPLETELY FINE WITH ME! Every time I dream, I have the kind of highly
> disturbing dreams that make me afraid to sleep for months afterwards...
That would explain your reaction to the idea, certainly.
But I have a feeling that the ones you remember are the disturbing ones,
but the ones you don't remember aren't disturbing at all. I find that
the ones I remember are the ones that have fairly strong imagery, just
not always disturbing.
The flying dreams are the ones I have the most fun with - I have those
quite frequently.
Jim
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On 26/08/2011 6:26 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> According to scientists, we dream every single night, but some of us
> rarely remember our dreams. And personally, not remembering my dreams is
> COMPLETELY FINE WITH ME! Every time I dream, I have the kind of highly
> disturbing dreams that make me afraid to sleep for months afterwards...
I've taught myself to wake up when I have dreams that I don't like.
I'm not too sure how I do it but it is a deliberate decision.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On 8/26/2011 10:22, Jim Henderson wrote:
> Personally, I find it quite enjoyable.
I remember once being able to wake myself up and then fall back to sleep
into the same dream, and I asked the butler what happened when I woke myself
up. he told me I fell asleep in the dream. YMMV.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
How come I never get only one kudo?
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On 27/08/2011 12:29 AM, Darren New wrote:
> On 8/26/2011 10:22, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Personally, I find it quite enjoyable.
>
> I remember once being able to wake myself up and then fall back to sleep
> into the same dream, and I asked the butler what happened when I woke
> myself up. he told me I fell asleep in the dream. YMMV.
>
What SF story does that remind me of?
--
Regards
Stephen
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On 8/26/2011 10:26 AM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> On a scale of one to ten, "lucid dreaming" sounds like the most
>>> terrifying thing imaginable...
>>
>> Personally, I find it quite enjoyable.
>
> According to scientists, we dream every single night, but some of us
> rarely remember our dreams. And personally, not remembering my dreams is
> COMPLETELY FINE WITH ME! Every time I dream, I have the kind of highly
> disturbing dreams that make me afraid to sleep for months afterwards...
>
Actually, in point of fact, **everyone** have about 90% of their dream
being negative, every night. The thing is, we only remember the ones
where we make a rapid transition from a dream state, to a nearly
conscious one. And since that only usually happens at the beginning, or
end, of the night's sleep, we just don't remember the rest of them at all.
Other interesting points - We suffer from moments of arousal several
times a night too, and most people don't bounce around in bed at night
due to sleep paralysis, a condition that keeps the body from responding
to what you are doing in those dreams. So.. If you ever wanted to know
what the concept of "succubi" came from, imagine being some celibate
twit, waking from a nightmare, which suffering sleep paralysis, and
having an erection. lol
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> According to scientists, we dream every single night, but some of us
> rarely remember our dreams. And personally, not remembering my dreams is
> COMPLETELY FINE WITH ME! Every time I dream, I have the kind of highly
> disturbing dreams that make me afraid to sleep for months afterwards...
I think you are having an unintentional choice bias here.
In general, during sleep dreams come in cycles. You have a dream, then
nothing, then you have another dream, and so on. If you wake up between
dreams you don't remember any. Only if you wake up during a dream, you
remember that one dream.
The likelihood to wake up during a nightmare is much higher than with
normal dreams, for obvious reasons. If you tend to have nightmares, then
it's likely that you will wake up during one. If this happens often, you
get the impression that you have nothing else than nightmares. However,
it's just that you don't remember the normal dreams because you didn't
wake up during them.
--
- Warp
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As usual, Randal is way ahead of me...
http://www.xkcd.com/776/
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On 27/08/2011 04:54 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> As usual, Randal is way ahead of me...
Way, *way* ahead of me...
http://xkcd.com/269/
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On 08/27/2011 08:00 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 27/08/2011 04:54 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> As usual, Randal is way ahead of me...
>
> Way, *way* ahead of me...
>
> http://xkcd.com/269/
>
"A big obstacle in experimenting with the mind's dream-simulation-engine
is holding onto the details as you wake up..."
This obstacle seems to be not that big,
if you can stop any body movements as you wake up
and just try to focus on tracing the dream details backwards
from the last you remember.
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Am 26.08.2011 22:07, schrieb Stephen:
> I've taught myself to wake up when I have dreams that I don't like.
> I'm not too sure how I do it but it is a deliberate decision.
I prefer to modify my dreams if I don't like them :-)
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