I had a bad dream...

I woke up this morning with my alarm clock blasting in my ear. Realising that it was like 9:30, I hit the snooze button and fell asleep, "15 minutes wont hurt me."

Then I was at my computer. I went on the internet, and tried to log onto the The Snarkpit. I was surprised to see that I wasn't logged in . 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.

I then awoke from my panic and terror, and realized that it was just a dream :biggrin:

Yippie Ki Yay!

yeah right,i cannot seem to get myself banned.. lord knows i have tried. :rolleyes:

What's that supposed that mean?

Yippie Ki Yay!

What does this thread suppose to mean ?

It's not funny, it involves banning, which I wouldn't like to see on the SP, and it's a crappy story too.

:sad:

Forceflow said:
What does this thread suppose to mean ?

Most people have bad dreams about being attacked by a stalker, watching the stock market crash, nuclear war, blah blah blah, and I'm lying in bed having bad dreams about being banned from website.

Not to stupid for because most of my life revolves around my computer :biggrin:

Yippie Ki Yay!

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 :wink: , 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)

9:30 ?!! I haven't gotten up that early in ages!

I believe I had a dream that the Snarkpit was seen in some obscure fashion, because (yes this is stupid) my dreams for a long time were about what I was going to do after I woke up; I would dream of going to school and having conversations with people. Quite freaky when you tried recalling a totally mundane event being unsure if it was real :eek:

[EDIT] My best recent dream was one where I had the ability to super-jump, much as you can in The Specialists.

A dream I've been most convinced was real was where I had this conversation with a girl I had known about a year before this dream; it was so crazily real that I didn't even give any thought to it, and I was mad at this girl for a while for a conversation that never actually occured. [/EDIT]]

HM.. well, I suppose we could actually turn this into sort of an interesting "post your cracked out dreams" thread

For the longest time, all I dreamed about was my own violent death. I once was so convinced that my chest cavity had collapsed from a fall, that when I woke up, I had to consciously make myself breath in order to convince myself I wasn't actually dead! My dream was so detailed, I could actually feel the bubble of blood where my ribs had punctured my lungs.

Orph was in one of my dreams once, he was playing piano, which was weird. Anyway, that was ages ago and I can't remember it that well! I believe I told Orph about it already. :razz:

funny, my generation dreams about girls

on a serios note, i have had precognitive dreams.. might be interesting to have a thread about them, but... (i hesitate to say this) many younger peoples imagination, would ruin the authenticity of it.

i also dream normal dreams like, being allowed to see my daughter :sad:

precognitive dreams

Is that the ones where you can do what you like? I think I had one once, but it was in some really boring setting, so doing what I liked couldn't get very interesting. I know everyone dreams otherwise they go insane, but I hardly ever remember mine.

I've dreamed that I could fly quite many times. I hate to wake up just to realize that it was just a dream and that I can't fly :sad:

Sometimes, when I'm half sleeping, half awake I dream a very bizzare "dream": the pattern on my wallpaper (on the walls in my room :biggrin: ) begin to move and sometimes I'm very close to the wall and sometimes very far away... this is damn scary even if it doesn't sounds like that.

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.

Well it's a fact that I can see into the future sometimes :smile: 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.

People always say it's just deja-vu, but it really is different to that - I have deja-vu like everyone else, and it's different. It's not that I feel this has happened before, it's that I can remember the time when I thought of this happening. Some people have said maybe I just imagined remembering something, and I suppose this is possible (how could I tell), but my memory is pretty good and accurate in any other situation.

No, I cannot predict what will happen to a certain person or at a certain time, so don't try and test me like that :smile:

mazemaster said:
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.

....maybe I can fly.... :biggrin:

I have often dreamed of having cool things and was convinced I
possessed them. I was deeply disappointed when I woke up and looked for
them. :sad:

I used to have those dreams you have where you can't run. I could only
move slowly away from something and the sun was always in my eyes.

i remember seeing a thing on telly once. it was this chinese guy who claimed that he had had this dream that he could fit himself into a smallish urn he had at home. he claimed the dream was so realistic that he just had to try it when he woke. he said he was scared in case he got stuck, and would never have tried it without having the dream first. it was a bit of a squeeze, but he could do it. fook knows how. i reckon i'd need a quick spin in a liquidizer before i'd have managed it.

I have had dreams as MM has said, by chance, and then get deja-vu, when i get to a point where it is like the dream.

I hope this sense, i don't believe in the supernatural.

did i mention mine had girls in them :razz:

i also dream normal dreams like, being allowed to see my daughter :sad:

Wow damn. That sucks.

mazemaster said:

i also dream normal dreams like, being allowed to see my daughter :sad:

Wow damn. That sucks.

there is a moral there i suppose.. keep it in your pants guys..

Whoa, I never knew you had a daughter you couldn't see Orph, I'm really
sorry to hear that :sad: Anyway, my condolences, but I'm sure its not a
topic you want to dwell on so I'll switch topic.

My dreams range from hugely realistic to ultra-wierd, just like most
peoples (and yeah, helluva lot of girls in em too orph!), but unlike
most people I speak to, I can sort of control them a lot of the time.
Its not 100% of the time and I can't do whatever I want, but often a
dream will be playing out, and if something happens that I don't like,
I change it.

For instance, once a long time back, I was being chased by a wierd big
spider thing, sort of the size of small dog. Like A_S said, in dreams
like this its often the case that you can't run properly, and this was
happening to me. Eventually it caught up to me and I just rewound the
dream, and tried a part again. No matter how hard I tried I kept not
getting away from the thing though, be it tripping over rubbish,
running too slow, or whatever. Despite this I could just keep repeating
it over and over and trying different things. This sort of thing
happens a lot to me, bit odd really, but I guess its better than dying
in a dream and remaining dead for the remainder of it.

I once laughed in my sleep. I was watching a episode of Bottom (yes, in my dream), and apparently I was laughing so loud I woke everyone up. :biggrin:

I don't know about dreaming, but I do know that I talk in my sleep. A lot. And apparently have carried on conversations with people.

Also, since I completely suck at sleeping, I tend to wake up in the middle of the night and I don't really know what's going on for a while. Just the other night, in fact, someone knocked on my door at about 2:00 AM. I was thouroughly convinced that it was a friend of mine from a town about 3 hours away that just decided to come and visit. I felt bad too, because the people down the hall that he planned on staying with were both out of town, so he had nowhere to go. I just sort of assumed that he wouldn't mind hoofing it back to his home town, so I just went back to sleep.

Needless to say, he hadn't come up, hadn't made plans to visit or anything like that. It was just really bizarre, I don't really know what else to say about it.

Another strange dream of mine. I was driving in a car... but eating
crisps in the back. There were a bunch of people in the middle of the
road and I tried to reach around the seat to the pedals but my arms
wouldn't reach. I then had to jump in the seat and press thee brake.
The pedals were tiny though and the brakes were very bad. Thankfully I
stopped in time! Analyze that one please. :biggrin: I very rarely remember
dreams and I never get much sleep. :sad:

I've had a stupid dream where I dreamt that i knew it was a dream and i was in control of the dream (I have controlled dreams several times before). I was trying to bring this particular lass in :biggrin: but no matter how much i tried to control the dream, she just didnt turn up...

I hate dreams which you speak in, i was sleeping round my girlfriends [keepin it in my pants] and when i woke up she started telling me how i was saying stuff when i was sleepin, but none of it made sense, afterwards there was a long silence....

Orpheus said:

mazemaster said:

i also dream normal dreams like, being allowed to see my daughter :sad:

Wow damn. That sucks.

----->keep it in your pants guys..<----

UhHhHhHHHHHHhHhHHH..... :eek:

Right... Well.... Moving on...

I find it surprising, where (I think I had a dream like this) I have dream where this girl who I like is in it, I'm more than aware that its a dream, and yet strangely enough, I don't "make a move" at her! It appears that I have concieouns in my dreams! ..... did I spell that right...

Yippie Ki Yay!

I sometimes lack conscience in my dreams :rolleyes:

I think this could turn out to be a good thread, so ease up on the motherf**king wet dreams kids.

Ever guessed a friend of yours was dreaming and said stuff aloud to try and screw it up? I have. My friend woke up and was mad at me for 'screwing up a good dream.'

My theory is that dreams exist to sort out and clarify short term memory, turning it into long-term.

Cassius said:
I think this could turn out to be a good thread, so ease up on the motherf**king wet dreams kids.

cass rides in, advises we remove the female portion of the discussion.. topic dies

Well, I just recently had a dream where I killed someone..(no I'm not a pycho). All I can remember is that I had the choice, made it, and felt bad because I had thrown my life away. Then I woke up, relieved It was a dream.

I do remember that the person in my dream deserved it in some way, can't remember why. :ar15firing:

Orpheus said:

Cassius said:
I think this could turn out to be a good thread, so ease up on the motherf**king wet dreams kids.

cass rides in, advises we remove the female portion of the discussion.. topic dies

Not at all; I just don't want to have my eyes fall out in a puff of smoke when I read "lol in my dreams rofl i have BUTTSAXCKS!!!BH /1h !! oeneo ea AOLO!L!O!L!OL! OL!O !OL 1O !L! 111"

Oh s**t, I'm blind.

I once dremt I was in world war 2 and I was behind enemy lines and wasy trying to hide from the germans with the rest of my squad but the weard thing is that we were moving around sky scrapers which theey didnt have then. oh and it was all in black and white like it was some old war movie.

I can carry on a coversation with someone that talks to me when im asleepand i dont remember anything about it. I can also sleep through someone phisacly shaking me but wake up if someone opens my door slowly so you can hear it rub on the carpet.

I typically don't remember the content of my dreams, but on more than one occasion I've had my dreams interfere with the real world, while I'm waking up. For example, I'm sometimes convince myself that the alarm clock beeping is in fact the dragon's alarm clock, and can therefore be ignored safely.

I got up in time, though.

DesPlesda said:
I typically don't remember the content of my dreams, but on more than one occasion I've had my dreams interfere with the real world, while I'm waking up. For example, I'm sometimes convince myself that the alarm clock beeping is in fact the dragon's alarm clock, and can therefore be ignored safely.

I got up in time, though.

i used to think that was an age thing, cause when i was younger i used to do similar things.. as i grew older, alarm clocks became a failsafe, i usually woke up on my own by just setting my internal clock..

but it turns out, its just a lazy person thing, i now know several dozen older people, who couldn't get up without some serious motivation, usually in the form of a horribly loud clock-radio, with an unlimited snooze option :rolleyes:

i have noticed, people who were of some sort of military background, are taught better sleeping habits.. getting up is a sleeping habit people.

my advice, teach yourself to wake easier, someday your life may depend on it. sleeping hard is not genetic, its a learned thing, you are just lazy.

my only issue now, is i sleep so little, a sleep problem seems to run in my family.. i get up at all odd hours, seldom sleep more than4 or 5 hours, and usually not all at once.

dreams run from vague to vivid, most involve normal stuff, but a few are so absurd it goes beyond reason.. i have also woke up so angry at times, because of events within the dream that i am shaking with pent up adrenaline, and cannot go back to sleep.

i too have killed people in my dreams, all deserved it, and i had no remorse upon waking to ruin my day.

I've killed plenty of people in my dreams who probably DIDN'T deserve it. I've also been killed many times in my dreams. My favourite of these (strangely, once I wake, I enjoy whatever experience I may have been having, however horrible it would be in real life), would have to be falling to death. The speed - the exhilaration - then -> all back to the real world...

My housemate last year was in big trouble with his girlfreind for a week on two occasions. The first was because she had a dream where he was kissing someone else, and the second where she had a dream where he was sleeping with her mum!

Orph, i know what you mean.. alarm clocks are merely there in case I do
miss my scheduled time to get up - the only time i really do need them
is if i've had a few beers or similar the night before.

Otherwise my body seems to recognise the optimal time to wake in
relation to when im going out/going to work.. etc - yet like you say,
some people really struggle with waking up.. strange ^_^

Dreams... ahh...

Sometimes I'll have a dream, I'm walking somewhere (like my school), I trip over something, then just before I hit the ground I wake with a jolt. Pisses me off really, mainly because I get the dream minutes after actually falling asleep, then I have to start all over again...

I think dreams are just memories somehow mixed around in your brain and combined, and you notice them when you wake up.

Are there really lucid dreams? Or do you just "remember" having a dream, and knowing it was a dream?

I have lucid dreams all the time, and they are usually absurdly impossible in real life.

How do you know they are lucid...? Do you know you are dreaming while you are dreaming, or do you remember the dream as if you are aware its a dream during the dream... but you werent..

wil5on said:
How do you know they are lucid...? Do you know you are dreaming while you are dreaming, or do you remember the dream as if you are aware its a dream during the dream... but you werent..

care to simplify that? I am now...confuzzed

OK...

Maybe its easier to think of it like, dreams dont actually happen, theyre just random memories imprinted in your brain so you think they happened but they didnt. If its a lucid dream, you remember it as if you know its a dream...

The funniest dream I've ever had, was when I dreamt that I was spitting off a balcony onto some peoples heads. I was sleeping on my back, and spit a big luggie straight into the air, which, of course, fell right back down onto my face. I woke up confused as hell, then laughed my ass off when I realized what happened.

The worst dream experience: I had a girlfriend that was a very active dreamer. I woke up one night, to find her strattling me. Well, of course, I asked her what she was doing......right before she started to relieve herself. She thought she had reached the toilet.

heh. my two wet dreams.

As for lucid dreams. I have had them on a couple of occasions, but very rarely. In them, I realized that I was dreaming, and tried to take control of my dream. Lucid dreaming is like juggling, though. If you try to concentrate on how you are managing to juggle, you drop the balls. The minute I realized I was dreaming, it started to fade, and I woke.

I had a friend who tried this Mega Memory program. The program had him associate bizzarre imagery with numbers, letters, and words, to help him remember them. He got crazy with it, and got to where he could memorize a 20 digit string of numbers in a few minutes, and retain it for months. Anyway, he used to talk about how he started having lucid dreams as a side effect of this program. I guess conjuring up all the bizzare imagery for this method, somehow triggered a similar part of his dreaming brain and exercised it more.

Basically sometime in the middle of the dream you suddenly realize the fact that you are dreaming. No dream-within-a-dream or any of that. The concept may seem very alien if you haven't experienced one. You literally are doing some dream thing, and then it hits you - "Hey, this is a dream!".

After that you can think rationally and consiously control what you do in the dream. Occasionally you can actually control the entire dream itself, make things change and have whatever you want happen.

I've only had a few in my life (and they were all when I was young), and only in one could I control the entire dream. The first one was rather scary actually since I knew it was a dream, but I couldn't control it, and I couldn't figure how to make myself wake up. I was literally trapped in my own mind.

Actually eventually I did figure out how to wake up - Close your eyes in your dream really really tightly for 5 seconds, then when you open them you will open your real eyes and wake up.

sleeping hard is not genetic, its a learned thing, you are just lazy.

Dammit I hate having to put up with this sort of crap from people who can wake up easily. You haven't experienced what we go through every day, so please shut the hell up. Sleeping hard IS GENETIC, and it IS REALLY REALLY HARD for these people to wake up. Its not due to laziness; it is due to low nighttime blood sugar levels, breathing rates, and pulse rates, and slow nighttime metabolisms.

My whole family and extended family on one side sleeps hard, and I mean really hard. We are not lazy people (well, some are), we just have trouble waking up.

Sometimes when I haven't gotten enough sleep, when I wake up I feel pain - real pain - in my whole body, and it doesn't go away for about an hour unless I go back to sleep. I turn off my alarm in my sleep all the time, not waking up or remembering it. Sometimes I sleep straight through loud alarms that go on for 30 minutes. In college sometimes I even get out of my bunk, climb down, turn the alarm off, and climb back up, all sleepwalking. My friends have seen it.

One week this last semester was so bad that each night I built a stack of soda cans (house of cards style) on top of the off button so that when I reached for the button I would knock over the stack and hopefully wake up. One day that week I woke up and found myself standing in front of the clock in a confused state with empty soda cans everywhere.

What pisses me off to no end are fascist bosses and teachers who consider it a crime to be a little bit late in the morning. After all, its easy for them to wake up so for everyone else it must just be laziness or some consious decision to sleep in.

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Ooh, I have lucid dreams all the time. They generally end pretty quickly once I realize I'm dreaming though, which is rather a shame - no opportunities for mischef!

When I was a lot younger though, I dreamed I was in an orphanage somehow. Then I picked up a coat hangar off the ground and realized it was all a dream (don't ask how or why!) Being young and rather scared, I really didn't want to dream about being in an orphanage, so I started to try to wake myself up. Then I actually dreamed I woke myself up successfully and was eating breakfast with my family. I discussed with them about my dream and how it was so horrible... Then I woke up, dazed and confused.

mazemaster said:

sleeping hard is not genetic, its a learned thing, you are just lazy.

Dammit I hate having to put up with this sort of crap from people who can wake up easily. You haven't experienced what we go through every day, so please shut the hell up. Sleeping hard IS GENETIC, and it IS REALLY REALLY HARD for these people to wake up. Its not due to laziness; it is due to low nighttime blood sugar levels, breathing rates, and pulse rates, and slow nighttime metabolisms.

My whole family and extended family on one side sleeps hard, and I mean really hard. We are not lazy people (well, some are), we just have trouble waking up.

Sometimes when I haven't gotten enough sleep, when I wake up I feel pain - real pain - in my whole body, and it doesn't go away for about an hour unless I go back to sleep. I turn off my alarm in my sleep all the time, not waking up or remembering it. Sometimes I sleep straight through loud alarms that go on for 30 minutes. In college sometimes I even get out of my bunk, climb down, turn the alarm off, and climb back up, all sleepwalking. My friends have seen it.

One week this last semester was so bad that each night I built a stack of soda cans (house of cards style) on top of the off button so that when I reached for the button I would knock over the stack and hopefully wake up. One day that week I woke up and found myself standing in front of the clock in a confused state with empty soda cans everywhere.

What pisses me off to no end are fascist bosses and teachers who consider it a crime to be a little bit late in the morning. After all, its easy for them to wake up so for everyone else it must just be laziness or some consious decision to sleep in.

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preach on, brother! I always have trouble waking up in the morning, and if someone or something wakes me up I'll be tired no matter how many hours of sleep I have gotten. I also had a talent for sleeping completely through alarms. After my freshman year (which was a disaster because of sleeping through alarms and skipping class) I decided to make a drastic change from having 8am or 9am classes to having nothing before 10am on three days and 1pm on two days. My grades went up from a C+ average to an A- average :biggrin: