The Dream Analyst

[TheMatrix31]

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Sounds like a stress/security "overwhelm" dreams.

I get **** like that too.

[Majingir]

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Guess I watch TV too much.

Randomly dreamt Michael Jordan showed up to Monday Night Raw (which was being held inside a grocery store) and then walked all around the place as he started singing and dancing as he walked. Somehow I was just following behind him watching it all go down.

Have no idea what it means, but it was as weird and entertaining as you can picture that.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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I wonder what it means when you stop having a particular dream. I used to have this one dream where I could float, almost like I could fly. At various times I would dream it as much as multiple times a week and at least once or twice a month. It was a recurring dream that lasted well over twenty years but about ten years ago, I stopped having it. I catch myself from time to time thinking about it before I fall asleep hoping this is the night I might finally have it again and other times waking up and the first thing I think about after is being disappointed I didn't dream it again. I would give anything to have that dream just start reocurring again. Even tho at times it would turn into a nightmare because I would float too high into the atmosphere and lose control because it was too hard to land when coming down from so far up. But when I only floated up just out of arms reach from below, it was always the best dream ever. Anyway, its sad I don't dream it anymore.

[Majingir]

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Here's another weird one on Christmas morning of all times.

I dreamt Jim Ross was calling WCW Nitro during their peak days in the 90s.

The weird part, I don't know if it was WCW or not, but I also dreamt Owen Hart was there, though possibly reminiscent of the night he died (except I don't think he died in this dream, this time around it was part of the show that he was in the ring).

To make it weirder, as soon as I woke up and opened social media, the first post I saw was one from a few hours earlier of someone posting a picture of the night he died and asking a question about it. The post obviously happened after I went to sleep so not like I was reading that post or anything similar before going to bed and that's what led to this dream.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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I had a dream a few nights ago, I dreamed my grandma and her other little old lady friend were trying to mail a letter and they wanted to stick a preprinted label with the address onto the envelope, but their trembling little old lady fingers wouldn't let them stick it on straight so they had me do it. After I woke up, it didn't seem like a strange dream and the only reason I remember having the dream is because my grandma has been dead for almost twenty years, and I hardly ever think about her anymore. In life she was of the extremely strict type and the polar opposite of my other grandmother. I expect that's why I don't like thinking about her too often. My other grandmother allowed her grandkids (my one set of cousins) to be kids. My strict grandma demanded perfection, even from children (my other set of cousins). Anyway, long story longer, the dream was unexceptional except for it being about my grandma.

Fast forward to about an hour ago, I dreamed I was at work, doing mundane tasks and checked the work mail that was just delivered. The same letter that had the preprinted label on the envelope was among the mail. I wanted to open it and read it but finding the same letter from a previous dream made me wake up immediately and sit bolt upright. It was creepy AF but I need to finish the dream and find out what that letter says.

[Majingir]

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Really random/vivid dreams continue. 2 parter that continues.

On a plane, but instead of flying the plane was basically just driving on it's own private lane.

The flight attendant was telling people that they have a bunch of people training to be airplane security and they're practicing things like using inflatable life jackets and will be practicing on all the passengers for their class and they need to pass it. They turned around and realized we're already pulling up in the city/final destination and once we stopped everyone was leaving before the trainees could do their class.

But as soon as I got out of the plane I was somehow just on the streets walking somewhere and there were tigers and cheetahs on the sidewalk. They didn't bother with anyone and everyone was walking past them like normal, like you do if you see a bird on a sidewalk, but I was walking the entire time having no idea how people aren't afraid of them and how they're not doing anything. Then randomly I see the streets having a few robotic lawn mowers going from house to house.


This dream means absolutely nothing and is one of the more random ones I've ever had.

[BurghFan]

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That last part reminds me of a dream I had a while back that I was walking around some huge store but there were also dinosaurs in the store walking around then a raptor charged me and I woke up.

I've also had occasional dream about being on a plane and it goes totake off but for some reason never gains any altitude and ends up just driving on the highway or something

Last night I had dream that I was at the CVS by my apartment to get milk but it was out of basically everything and the only milk they had had a sell by date of 4/15. Then I found out it was permanantly closing for some reason and I was wondering where I could go to get milk. At one point I remarked that I guess I could go to the gas station a block away but someone replied with something like "No, no one wants to drink hotdog ..." but I don't know/remember what the last word was.

[Ghost Of The Year]

This is going to be kind of longish but it can't be helped because I'm always curious about the subject of dreams/nightmares and dreaming right after awakening from said dreams/nightmares. What I woke up thinking about this morning is how do nightmares psychologically affect a person. My normal mindset is I like nightmares because I view them as like getting a free movie without the price of a ticket admission. Except this morning I started wondering if nightmares are in actuality bad for you if they interrupt your REM cycle and keep it from naturally finishing. Maybe its bad, maybe its not, I don't know, to interrupt your REM cycle. But I would like to know.

I just had a dream a little while ago early this morning where a nightmare interrupted my REM cycle. It wasn't your typical nightmare but it still had the affect of stopping my REM cycle before completion. The ''nightmare'' was I was at work and I had a task to do, so to stop from having to do it, I simply woke up. In that sense, the ''monster'' I was ''afraid/scared'' of was work.

Now, I wasn't really scared or afraid, I just didn't won't to dream about doing something boring, but it still interrupted my REM. So I get up, go get a drink of water, then back to bed for more sleep.

In my next dream, I was at work again and given a task to do that didn't bore me, so I wanted to do the job. Funny thing is the work was from a job I had more than twenty years ago. But I couldn't complete the job because I couldn't find all the material I needed. And the dream ended naturally with the REM cycle fully complete. The reason I know this is because I usually become aware I'm dreaming if the dream is long enough, i.e. not interrupted and cut short (again, is this bad for you, to have your REM sleep screwed with?). So I know this particular REM cycle completed because I became aware I was dreaming, but didn't wake up, I let it play out.

And after the dream was over, while I was sleeping, I wasn't dreaming anymore but I was self-aware I was asleep, and trying to figure out where the material was I couldn't find during the dream. I used to know where it was every time twenty years ago, in that old building that was torn down about fifteen years ago. And I sort of drifted awake, slowly and slowly coming into full consciousness. One can drift asleep, so I assume you can drift awake too.

Anyway, I guess I'm off to Google down a rabbit hole and sort thru what lies and truth A.I. is going to tell me about nightmares being bad for you by interrupting your REM. Easy dreams, fellow OS'ers.

[BurghFan]

I don't think there are any deleterious physiological effects from having REM sleep interrupted. In fact, it is probably quite common for it to be interrupted whatever reason. It's said that you only remember your dreams if you wake up immediately after (or during) them so any dream you remember could be an instance of interrupted REM sleep. Also, I'm not sure your 'nightmare' quite meets the definition of such.

Kind of reminds me of work dreams where I'm dreaming on a case (I review diagnostic genetic testing results which is all done on a computer) then I wake up but my brain is still half in the dream and I start thinking 'how am I supposed to finish this case if I'm not on my computer.

[Ghost Of The Year]

It definitely wasn't a nightmare, it just had the same effect, breaking my REM cycle cut short. The last few years, I've been waking up in the middle of dreams and none were really nightmares. Those times were like I didn't want to have the dream I was having, and I've found that I can wake up out of a ''boring'' dream if I really want to, sort of change the channel and see what else is good on. I also knew what caused the dream, I stepped out of the house last night about 9 p.m. to get a bacon cheeseburger, and as I was eating it, I was a little disappointed to find the bacon wasn't cooked to crispness. I searched and surfed the web this morning and found that having an occasional nightmare wake you out of REM isn't bad, but like I said, I've relatively recently discovered I can end a dream if I want to, but maybe I should now train myself to let boring dreams play their self out naturally and let the REM cycle finish.

[Ghost Of The Year]

Normally when I have a strange dream, I chalk it up to the late-nite snack I usually eat. But I just woke up from one and I haven't eaten since 6 pm yesterday. I don't know if the dream woke me up, the sunlight coming thru my window or my stomach hurting because I'm starving to death, just about. But the strange dream, I just got a new baby brother and he wa s born with webfeet and an extra-large head he couldn't hold up. On the other hand maybe it wasn't a strange dream, are there really any dreams that are ''normal''? Maybe all dreams are ''normal''.

[Ghost Of The Year]

My brother and his kids have been staying at my house the last couple months. This morning I woke up from a strange dream, one of my brothers kids started taking in random stray orphan children. All of them were sick, sickly or had some problem or other. One kid that was the sickest was this little Russian boy who didn't really speak much Eglish, he just mostly kept saying over and over "Make better, be sick". I told him I didnt know if a doctor would see him wihout insurance. He told me he didnt need insurance, he needed a doctor, lol.