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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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werner
sometimes when i'm dreaming and things are going wrong in my dream i tell myself that it's only a dream. Immediatly the situation in my dream changes and i'm in control again. Is it possible to control your whole dream and not just parts? What can I do to rember more of the dream?
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werner at 12:35AM, Nov 24th 2009.
CapricornSoapco
I do this, too. I've actually - over the course of the last year - been recording my dreams in a journal. I keep a journal by my bedside, and I tell myself every night before I go to sleep what I am going to dream about.

At first, this yielded little or no results. But I started to do this every night, and then during the night if I woke up at all, I would immediately reach for my dream journal to record what happened.

As I've looked back over the course of these journal entries, I see that I have actually been controlling my dreams. It is not 100% yet, and it also depends on how stressful my day has been, but it is working.

Hope this helps.
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CapricornSoapco at 09:25AM, Nov 24th 2009.
CancerCrabEmotion
I don't necessarily believe in the last statement of the fact. "Interesting facts is that our body is paralyzed during our sleep probably to prevent the body from acting out dreams."
With this, how do you explain sleepwalking? Myself sleepwalk almost every night. I can walk around, speak, open close doors, basically everything achievable.
There have been several stories reporting people sleep walking and getting themselves killed. So, with this, ARE peoples bodies paralyzed at sleep?
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CancerCrabEmotion at 07:09PM, Nov 30th 2009.
cathy
CancerCrabEmotion wrote: #
I don't necessarily believe in the last statement of the fact. "Interesting facts is that our body is paralyzed during our sleep probably to prevent the body from acting out dreams."
With this, how do you explain sleepwalking? Myself sleepwalk almost every night. I can walk around, speak, open close doors, basically everything achievable.
There have been several stories reporting people sleep walking and getting themselves killed. So, with this, ARE peoples bodies paralyzed at sleep?


well sleep walking is caused when the paralysis of the person in question is incomplete hence the fact that they are able to move about. without the paralysis you would act out your dreams which means that walking talking and everything you mentioned is entirely plausible. only a few people are not paralyzed whilst sleeping and it can be very mild or in your case pretty severe.
you might have experienced the sensation, immediately after waking, of not being able to move. this often quickly disappears however this is proof that paralysis happens whilst you are asleep.

personally i have achieved lucid dreaming and as a matter of fact cannot remember ever NOT having control over what i am dreaming. i am always aware of the fact i am dreaming and this has only, once, not occurred in a particular nightmare. and i happily don't suffer from sleep walking!
i too keep a dream diary and find my dreams are often very interesting and reflect my daily life and worries.
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cathy at 04:50PM, Dec 2nd 2009.
Beemer
CancerCrabEmotion wrote: #
I don't necessarily believe in the last statement of the fact. "Interesting facts is that our body is paralyzed during our sleep probably to prevent the body from acting out dreams."
With this, how do you explain sleepwalking? Myself sleepwalk almost every night. I can walk around, speak, open close doors, basically everything achievable.
There have been several stories reporting people sleep walking and getting themselves killed. So, with this, ARE peoples bodies paralyzed at sleep?


Contrary to common belief, sleep-walking does not occur during REM sleep (the stage of sleep in which one dreams and is paralyzed); it occurs during "deep sleep", which is part of non-REM (or NREM) sleep.

There are in fact individuals who have an uncommon condition where their bodies are not paralyzed during REM sleep, and they act out their dreams, often (though not always) in a violent manner. This condition is known as REM behavior disorder (RBD).
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Beemer at 11:53PM, Dec 2nd 2009.
Paul
thats amazingly true

when ever i have a dream were im about to fall of a cliff or some sort

it ends up that i wake up in bed checking if I broke my arm or something
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Paul at 11:13PM, Dec 3rd 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
brodie
whhooo cha




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brodie at 07:14PM, Feb 21st 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.

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