Re: I had a bad dream...
Posted by GrimlocK on Wed Jun 16th at 4:45am 2004
9:30 ?!! Wow, I havn't gotton up that late in ages!
/go's to make sure alarm clock is still set to 5:oo am for work
/gets book titled "pycho-oligy 101"
I think your dream is telling you that you sleep in too late and that you spent too much time on this site (maybe you stayed up late with the snarkpit which caused you to sleep in). Also you fear Orpheus, but then again don't we all 
, he still retains the ability to crawl through screens at random and strangle younger posties at will. /jk Orph
Actually my honest answer is that I think its pretty insignificant. (why am I typing this then, could be a better question)
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Re: I had a bad dream...
Posted by mazemaster on Wed Jun 16th at 10:58am 2004
Those are known as lucid dreams - where you are consious while you are dreaming and know it is a dream.
Precognitive dreams are where you see the future in your dream. Now, actually seeing the future is highly dubious and of course not scientific, but a _lot_ of times people report these. A scientist would explain them in the following ways:
1: You dream a helluva lot. Many dreams every night of your life. It makes sense that some very small percentage of those dreams might by coincidence match some real-life situations that happen soon-after.
2: Even if a dream by chance matches a very small thing that happens in real life, people have a tendency to make more out of it then there really was. Like, you might have a nightmare about falling, and the next day on the news you see that a guy jumps out of a building. To the dreamer that would seem creepy, but to an unbiased observer its just chance. Plus you are more likely to remember a dream in the long run if something related to it happens in real life.
3: In your dreams your subconsious does a *lot* of thought-crunching and analysis of what you have experienced or what is on your mind. The subconsious mind is a smart motherf**ker. Many famous discoveries in math and science have been made by someone while they were asleep.
For example, the person who realized the (then baffling) shape of a benzene ring got the idea from a dream where there were 6 snakes eating each other's tails in a ring. Most of us all have probably had some experience where there was a problem we just couldn't figure out (not necessairily scientific), and then we had a dream and the answer/what to do became clear.
While swirling around your thoughts and experiences, your subconsious may see patterns and connections and express them in a dream even if you can't consiously see those patterns. Thus you might have a dream where a friend breaks up with his girlfriend, and then the next day it actually happens. Even though you never paid attention to your friend's relationship with his girlfriend or gave it a second thought, your subconsious picked up the details and small clues in the behavior/actions, peiced it all together, and told you the "answer" in the form of a dream.
4: Sometimes if you have an especially vivid dream about something, you can unconsiously make it happen. You know how if you think you can do something and have confidence you are more likely to succeed than if you believe you can't do it? Same thing. Your subconsious can manipulate your actions and makes things happen the way you think.
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. So, I continued through the site, and went into the General Banter area, where I was confronted by a topic, with a topic starter that was 6 paragraphs long, all dedicated to how Orpheous had just banned me from the site, and how when he did, I crumpled up into a big heap of bones and dust.
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It's not from dreams either, things normally come to me in more of a daydream of a very specific situation or short series of events (a few seconds max). A few weeks or perhaps up to a couple of months later, the exact image or short series of events will happen. Sometimes it involves specific times (a clock is in view) with people saying specific things in a specific location, other times it's just a simple image of something unusual. Before my second year of university, it was the summer, and I had a daydream about standing in this kitchen with a weird toaster. I was actually going to write that one down, but thought 'nobody would have a toaster that stupid'! Anyway, a while later, I got to my new house at uni, which I had never been to or seen a picture of before, and the kitchen was the exact one from my daydream, with the weirdo toaster that I had never seen before.
