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Dream Facts

Dream is a semi-conscious state where we have absolutely no control over our thoughts and expressions (unless we master lucid dreaming). Did you know that most of us spend six years or more of our lifetime dreaming? Research proves that all of us dream at least twice or more in our sleep though we may not remember when we get up. In 5 minutes of waking, half of our dream is forgotten and within 10 minutes, almost all dreams are forgotten. People who are blind from birth too dream. It is just that the dreams of these individuals are formed by other sense such as the touch, smell, sound and taste. During roman era some dreams were even discussed and interpreted in the senate as the dream was considered to be a God sent message for the mankind. Lucid dreams are considered those dreams where person can take full or partial control of their dreams. Most important fact in order to be aware that we are dreaming is practice. Writing down and keeping track of your dreams is very important. Second thing is noticing signs or triggers that can help us stay aware that we are in dreaming state. Once we start dreaming lucidly we could control the imaginary experiences in the dream environment. This is extremely important for people that have nightmares. Interesting facts is that our body is paralyzed during our sleep probably to prevent the body from acting out dreams.


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divyata  narayan
I've done Masters in Psychology & know dat dreams are the reflections of the repressed impulses, deep seated in the unconscious .....upon resistance they emerge in our dreams in some symbolic form......the feeling associated with dreams can give the person some idea about the real conflict and his own intetion about the same issue
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divyata narayan at 05:07AM, Aug 29th 2010.
Rose
rainey wrote: #
I had a dream once that I was falling for like.... 5 minites, and wen i woke up it felt like i fell into my bed....i dont sleep walk so i couldnt have jumped into bed. really weird




I've had a dream like that more then once one time I was in the car and we were going down hill but in my dream I thought I was falling from a tree. Another time I was in my bed and woke up face down on my bed it was weird because I know I don't sleep walk because that night my mom was in the living room the whole night.
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Rose at 07:07PM, Aug 23rd 2010.
deviruichi
"People who are blind from birth too dream. It is just that the dreams of these individuals are formed by other sense such as the touch, smell, sound and taste."

wow i didn't know that 0.0
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deviruichi at 03:34AM, Aug 10th 2010.
Promis
Sleepwalking can be very dangerous. Once a person is in a sleepwalking state they still remain in their semi-concious mind but end up getting out of bed naturally. They say it occurs due to a delay in one's maturity. And from what i heard it might also be because one's muscles still react to the action commands still being given in the person's dream. ie* if one dreams of cooking a steak the brain sends commands sayin: "get up and cook a steak." It is very odd, However; what makes sleepwalking so dangerous is that, yes, they can cause harm to others but if woken up while in this state will 90% of the time cause the person to go through shock, which could cause stroke, seizures, etc.

Strange, I know, but i know through experience for i have. I was 8 at the time and I was walking to the bathroom 2 doors down my hallway when 3 bubbles came down from my ceiling. its quiet silly, but inside each bubble were characters from the Disney Pixar film Toy Story. one of my favorite movies. but not for long. i reached out to touch the character, Woody, and as the bubble popped it grabbed me hard on the arm and i started to panic. i struggled and fought only to find myself in my mother's arms and its was her hand that was grabbing me. she took me to the doctor the next day and found out that i went through shock. strange eh? hah!
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Promis at 08:13PM, Jul 14th 2010.
Jakob
Sometimes I wake up jumping out of my bed. I really don't know what it is, but I alaways find myself shaking in the whole body afterwards. It's really a weird feeling. I always think "what the hell was I dreaming?!"
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Jakob at 07:11AM, Jul 13th 2010.
Jake
I've had a few dreams where I'm about to say something, wake up, and say it while I'm awake. It's nothing crazy,but it IS kinda cool.

I've tried saying the dream I want over and over, but it won't work ):
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Jake at 07:56PM, Jul 1st 2010.
lizz
rainey wrote: #
I had a dream once that I was falling for like.... 5 minites, and wen i woke up it felt like i fell into my bed....i dont sleep walk so i couldnt have jumped into bed. really weird



The same thing has happened to me, more than once
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lizz at 11:48AM, Jun 15th 2010.
shaun
steve wrote: #
i once had a few dreams that were very similar in my younger days of a teenager,i still to this day do not know why when i would wake up in the morning my penis would be erect and have seamen throught out my p.j.s




its a wet dream ya homo
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shaun at 06:05AM, May 14th 2010.
steve
i once had a few dreams that were very similar in my younger days of a teenager,i still to this day do not know why when i would wake up in the morning my penis would be erect and have seamen throught out my p.j.s
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steve at 06:02AM, May 14th 2010.
lena
Nessa wrote: #
I have really weird dreams sometimes, but then again im a very contemplateive thinker, 13 and iove had dreams of the earth rotating back wards and like a month later the movie "A day the earth stood still" Came out. And ive had another dream where people where looking for some code/secret that was ihdden in a ovie that ive never seens, and for some reason i new what the code/secret was. When i woke up i was tramtized for like 15 minutes trying to know why i had a dream like that. ive had a couple of other odd dreams but only remeber very few parts. times i think i might be psycho.


i am too 13 and i too have odd dreams, up until last month the only dreams i remember i had were nightmares the latest one whas one in which a pink heart sparkle was a shapeshifter and was determined to kill everyone on the planet by burning them. i now remember my dreams regulary, bfore i only remembered once evry 2-3 weeks,(my life has been very streessful the last two years which resulted in me not remembering)

i remenber all kinds of dreams and even keep a dream journal at my bedside and i write fictional stories about them :D
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lena at 12:13AM, Apr 22nd 2010.
Kim H. Kjelsberg
Mon wrote: #
i remember a dream that i had when i was around 3yrs old which i think is really weird considering that i dont even have memories from back then. i remember walking outside to the porch of our house where there was a small whole on the ground. all of a sudden the whole began to grow and my mom tried to save me and got pulled into the vortex. i remember crying so loud i woke myself up and then the next day i went out to make sure the whole wasnt getting any bigger...more than 20yrs later and i still wake up crying when my dreams get too intense


I've had a similuar experience. I remember sitting in my living room with my dad, the suddenly someone starter banging on our door furiosly. Im not quit shure if this was a dream or real, but its the only thing i remember from when I was around 2-3 years old.
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Kim H. Kjelsberg at 08:58AM, Apr 9th 2010.
Kim H. Kjelsberg
In my experience, i've never sleepwalked, but I have done things in my dreams. The most common is that I wake up kicking a soccer ball.
I allso have a friend which woke up pretending he was riding a bicycle in bed. Would that be considered as breaking the paralyzis?
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Kim H. Kjelsberg at 08:55AM, Apr 9th 2010.
Mon
hole**
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Mon at 12:29AM, Apr 6th 2010.
Mon
i remember a dream that i had when i was around 3yrs old which i think is really weird considering that i dont even have memories from back then. i remember walking outside to the porch of our house where there was a small whole on the ground. all of a sudden the whole began to grow and my mom tried to save me and got pulled into the vortex. i remember crying so loud i woke myself up and then the next day i went out to make sure the whole wasnt getting any bigger...more than 20yrs later and i still wake up crying when my dreams get too intense
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Mon at 12:27AM, Apr 6th 2010.
rainey
I had a dream once that I was falling for like.... 5 minites, and wen i woke up it felt like i fell into my bed....i dont sleep walk so i couldnt have jumped into bed. really weird
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rainey at 09:51AM, Mar 17th 2010.
Jack
One time, i dreamed i was at school, we learned about sound waves and how they move, i learned a whole lot, the next day at school we learned evewrything i learned in my dream, isn't that really wierd?
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Jack at 09:37PM, Feb 21st 2010.
brodie
whhooo cha




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brodie at 07:14PM, Feb 21st 2010.
warshon
what about recuring dreams ive had multiple dreams were i would repeat word for word a dream that i had months ago its very strange and i also wonder what makes you dream about certain things such as how your day went or what you were thinking of right before you fell asleep? i really dont know dreams are weird
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warshon at 01:12AM, Feb 18th 2010.
warshon
i have control over most of my dreams, in which i love because i can do anything i want to do without any negitive side effects. but when i am controlling a dream real life sounds are always affecting my dream - such as one time, i was going to go to jail but all of a sudden my alarm clock went off. everyone in the dream looked around wondering what it was and then i remember smiling at the cop then waking up
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warshon at 01:07AM, Feb 18th 2010.
Haley
About the sleepwalking some people do and some people dont thats just how the world goes around its just like anyone else with cancer with anything..Also you can control your dreams and im not just saying this to say it but i can wake myself up from my dreams when i have a scary dream i tought myself to wake myself up its pretty awesome
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Haley at 01:14AM, Feb 17th 2010.
Karrie Willis
Sometimes I will have dreams that continue like an episode usually involving people i know or later that month meet. The setting of the place i'm in is a like a church i see later on and it triggers my memory of the dream(s) i had. Sometimes I have dream that i meet someone that i don't know at a place i don't know. Then I meet someone exactly the same and almost exactly the same place. Does that all have to do with the myth of Indigo children I was born May 11th 1997. I do have a attention defect and is a gymnast but being hyperactive interferes with my concentration. I think it might have something to do with Deja Vu
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Karrie Willis at 06:02PM, Feb 8th 2010.
GLOWING IN THE WIND
The funny thing about dreaming is that you dream about silly things,scary things or just plain weird things.When i was 10 i was having nightmares for the longest time.Now i dont have nightmares.Isnt that odd?I mean you have nightmares for a certain period of time and poof now you dont.Im just relieved i dont have nightmares anymore.
Another thing wat about Deja Vu?Now thats strange your practically telling yourself the future.I had Deja Vu all last week now tell me that's not weird.....
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GLOWING IN THE WIND at 03:50PM, Feb 8th 2010.
CosminJebe
wyatt wrote: #
sometimes I wake up while my body is still paralyzed I guess. I can still hear everything in the room and sometimes open my eyes but am unable move. Most of the time it only last for a few moments sometimes about ten minutes. I used to fight it and try really hard to get up but now I just try to go back to sleep.


the same thing happened to me about 3 times.
the first time was the scarriest because it felt like, as you said, i was unable to move and a light from my window started to get bigger and bigger and was somehow taking a human shape. on the other hand, it felt like the door of my room kept opening and closing. i've tried to scream but all i could produce was a very weak voice. i couldn't even move properly as every move i tried to do ended somehow in "slowmotion"... i eventually woke up... The second and the third time were a lot better as i, being in that state inoculated myself that everything will be ok and that i have to step out of that dream which eventually happened.
now i pray before every night and convince myself that my nights will be "nightmares free" and i can say that i didn't have a nighmare for a lot of months.
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CosminJebe at 11:39AM, Dec 11th 2009.
wyatt
sometimes I wake up while my body is still paralyzed I guess. I can still hear everything in the room and sometimes open my eyes but am unable move. Most of the time it only last for a few moments sometimes about ten minutes. I used to fight it and try really hard to get up but now I just try to go back to sleep.
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wyatt at 11:54PM, Dec 10th 2009.
Nessa
I have really weird dreams sometimes, but then again im a very contemplateive thinker, 13 and iove had dreams of the earth rotating back wards and like a month later the movie "A day the earth stood still" Came out. And ive had another dream where people where looking for some code/secret that was ihdden in a ovie that ive never seens, and for some reason i new what the code/secret was. When i woke up i was tramtized for like 15 minutes trying to know why i had a dream like that. ive had a couple of other odd dreams but only remeber very few parts. times i think i might be psycho.
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Nessa at 02:06PM, Dec 10th 2009.

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