The Dream Analyst

[Caulfield]

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Last night I just had a dream where, during a moment, another "character" knew more about something than I did. I even had to Google it to make sure it was right.

I was a witness to a bus breakdown that a former student of mine was on, and I guess I had to report it to admin. When I entered the room they were on walkie so they must've gotten the information. As I walked in, the dean said: "Let me guess, she finally overtook the T-1000?" I sat there thinking to myself: "Buses have model types, and I should be aware of them? Also, how could a student overtake a bus?" I didn't understand, and he clarified by saying something about how we call that bus driver 'The Terminator' or something stupid. Don't make much out of the dream, dreams are weird.




However, I had to Google it this morning to make sure that was the model name of the Terminator to begin with. I've seen the first two movies (and I think Salvation), but really not in a long time at all. It's specific information like that which I definitely wouldn't stick around to recall, based on the amount of time it's been since I've seen it. I know some people are asking how that's possible given it's popularity and yada-yada, but to me that's like asking: "Well, do you remember the 6-digit number combination to the safe in Inception? Because I do, how can you not? It's brought up at least four times in the film."




And again, that's besides the point. The question is how did somebody else in my dream know something before my dream self knew something, even if I know it somewhere in the recess of my mind?

its interesting you use the word ''character''; sometimes it seems I'm not only myself in a dream, but ''playing another role'' too, for lack of better description. maybe thats how the other character knew

[BurghFan]

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...And again, that's besides the point. The question is how did somebody else in my dream know something before my dream self knew something, even if I know it somewhere in the recess of my mind?

A psychoanalyst or someone would probably say something to the effect of that all the "characters" in your dream represent different parts of your psyche in that your "dream self" represents your conscious mind and the information that is readily available to it while the other characters represent different parts of your subconscious mind where old memories become buried and cannot be readily accessed by the conscious mind.

[Caulfield]

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A psychoanalyst or someone would probably say something to the effect of that all the "characters" in your dream represent different parts of your psyche in that your "dream self" represents your conscious mind and the information that is readily available to it while the other characters represent different parts of your subconscious mind where old memories become buried and cannot be readily accessed by the conscious mind.

I was gonna go with "he had a late night snack" but this sounds better.

[Blzer]

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I've had several dreams lately where I'm playing baseball again. Not slow-pitch, like I've played in recent years... but back into baseball.

I'd love to do that again. I don't think my head (PCS) will allow me for it, but I would absolutely kill for that again. Maybe I should give it a crack and enter another wood bat league, in time. I really do miss it that much.

[Majingir]

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Forget dreams, who can remember dreams when you can't fall asleep.

I know I'll jinx it, but it takes me forever to fall asleep most nights, but once I'm asleep it's hard to wake me up (the latter is both good and bad for obvious reasons).

Doesn't help when I've done basically everything I've needed to do inside these past few months so there's not much else.

[PVarck31]

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Sleep for me is horrible. I have sleep apnea. And my machine helps a little but it's hard to keep on through the night. I wake up probably at least ten times in around eight hours of sleep.

But that's actually not the worst. The worst is the nightmares. I have them almost every night, or at least a bad dream that's not quite a nightmare. I have very vivid dreams about bad things that have happened in the past. I don't like to talk about them. They are things that I have seen and dealt with first hand. Not abuse or anything like that. My sleep doc says it's PTSD. I also have horrible panic attacks when I flashback to these things while I'm awake. But they seem to haunt me in my sleep more.

I was put on a medicine that is supposed to help with nightmares. And at first it was working. But now I think I need the dose raised. I go to my next appointment on September 6th. So I have to deal with this until then. If I get through a night without a nightmare or bad dream it's like wow I actually got through the night ok.

My poor wife has to deal with me waking up screaming on some days. Obviously something needs to be done because if I try to sleep for eight hours i'm only actually getting about maybe four hours if I'm lucky. So I have no energy and I'm very lethargic.

I'm not sure why I decided to share this. It's very personal. But it's getting to a point where I am afraid to sleep. I feel like its Nightmare On Elm Street.

[Blzer]

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Shoot Phil, I'm sorry to hear that man. I appreciate you sharing that, though. I'm sorry that I don't have the answers.

I share equal troubles with both of you regarding going to sleep at night sometimes, though if I choose to nap during the day I seem to have no problem conking out then.

Nightmares are dreadful. It's one thing to wake up and be thankful it was just a dream, but if it's recurring from something of one's past, it's hard to shake knowing that our subconscious mind chooses to cling onto it, reminding us.

It's crazy that the worst day of my life was seeing my dad pass away while we were on vacation, yet thankfully I have never had a dream where anything near that has resurfaced. He is constantly alive in many of my dreams, often to the fact that I am "aware" he has come back to us and I'm getting that second chance. I guess this narrative could be way different if my dreams were going the other way, so I guess my subconscious wants to cling on the 'otherwise' facet.

Perhaps seeking hypnosis or therapy may help? Maybe there is a way to train the subconscious to work differently when asleep. I'm sure it has to come through doing a nightly journal or something, though.

[l3ulvl]

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having nightly nightmares as a grown man is something I don't really like talking about, either

I've learned from a therapist that because I have such severe anxiety coupled with drinking myself to sleep most nights, it's a combination that pretty much leads directly to nightmares

it's definitely not the same situation and I'm not trying to compare, but as far as grown man nightmares go, you're not alone

[PVarck31]

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Thanks man. And that's great you only have fond memories and dreams about you father.

I am actually in therapy for these issues, and a few others.

I have done multiple sleep study's and my brain is just not doing what it's supposed to do when I sleep. I rarely fall into deep sleep. I also get stuck in a twilight sleep sometimes. I was supposed to have a MRI on my brain right before the Covid thing hit, so it ended up being cancelled. I'm hoping I can get it at some point. My sleep doc is worried because I have tremors in my hands. Sometimes worse than others. He want's to see my brain to see if he can figure this out. He's worried about me possibly having CTE. I've had a lot of concussions, and all of this can potentially point to that as the issue.

And I've been open about this on here, but I also have Bipolar Disorder. So that right there makes your brain work differently. So all of this together is really giving me a lot of issues.

[PVarck31]

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having nightly nightmares as a grown man is something I don't really like talking about, either

I've learned from a therapist that because I have such severe anxiety coupled with drinking myself to sleep most nights, it's a combination that pretty much leads directly to nightmares

it's definitely not the same situation and I'm not trying to compare, but as far as grown man nightmares go, you're not alone

Yeah, that is true. Drinking with anxiety and/or depression can cause nightmares. I'm sorry you have to deal with that.

My nightmares aren't always about past experiences, but they are no less horrible. The problem I think, is that they are so vivid. It's like real life.

Seeing or experiencing these bad things is like real life so I have real life reactions and emotions towards them. Even if they are not something that would happen.

Just the other night, I had one of the weirdest dreams I've ever had. I was floating over a parking lot. Maybe like 10 feet in the air and I was hovering over parking spaces. And during this time it was just horrible anxiety. It was so off the wall, but so real. There are a lot of times when I wake up and have to check to see if something really happened or not.

Not be political, because we can't get into that. But last night I had a dream that Trump died. And it was so real, I vividly remember watching the news about it and reading it in the paper. When I woke up I really thought it happened. It took me at least a few minutes to realize it was just a dram.

[Blzer]

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Welp, concussions are another kind of mother entirely. People on here probably know I still suffer from PCS due to a concussion in November 2014. I think I've been fortunate that it, once again, hasn't been a problem with me sleeping.

I really hope you can take care of what it is you need. I'll tell you what (and I've probably mentioned this in my thread before), I fall asleep to a lot of different audio on YouTube, mostly movie-based stuff (reviews, podcasts, things like that). A lot of times when I'm asleep, that audio can literally enter my sleep/dream or whatever it is. Maybe that person is now talking to me and I'm yelling at them to shut up haha, it's actually quite funny. I've always hoped I could fall asleep while pr0n is playing and see where my dream leads me.

Anyway, I don't know if you've tried sleeping to audio before (or let it play after you fall asleep for example), and maybe that could help alter your subconscious in your sleep. Maybe even try falling asleep to ASMR, ain't no shame.

I'm not really good at this, so these two cents are actually just free offerings given personal experiences. I don't know if you have tried any of these things or if they will allow you to, though.

[Blzer]

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Not be political, because we can't get into that. But last night I had a dream that Trump died. And it was so real, I vividly remember watching the news about it and reading it in the paper. When I woke up I really thought it happened. It took me at least a few minutes to realize it was just a dram.

A week or two ago I had a dream that Hunter Pence died (EDIT: weird since Trump's VP shares that last name). The dream lasted a long, long time. I was with other people I knew, we watched news about it on TV, the whole nine. I was absolutely positive it was real. I woke up and immediately went to my computer to search it up. I can't believe that it wasn't real.

[Caulfield]

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I don't usually get more than 4-5 hours sleep at a time and don't remember those dreams from these ''short sleeps'', if I'm even dreaming at all, but when I am able to sleep longer, that's when I'm able to remember my dreams.

[Jr.]

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I don't usually get more than 4-5 hours sleep at a time and don't remember those dreams from these ''short sleeps'', if I'm even dreaming at all, but when I am able to sleep longer, that's when I'm able to remember my dreams.

You do dream. If you didn't it means your brain is not firing, which means you're dead.

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[allBthere]

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Teeth falling out and being late/unprepared are the two most common themes for me.

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Teeth is a feeling of a loss of power, can be extreme. I used to have those as a teenager. Can be caused by confrontations or changed in your social dynamic, probably work relationships too.

When I remember dreams they are usually semi-bad. Fighting sometimes unable to cause damage etc.

BUT a handful of times in my life I've had lucid dreams which are amazing and maybe even unparalled in terms of thrills. Because they feel no different than reality (pretty much), I've experienced flying like superman on 2 different occaisions and it was unlike anything else and impossible to explain - simply amazing the power our minds have.