ever been in a dream and knew you were dreaming ?

[LordMaul]

<< Yeah... it happened before (forgot the dream though).

Once, I was shot in the chest in my dreams... I even felt the pain. Then I woke up. >>




Yeah, I have dreamt(sp?) about being shot into swiss cheese before...but I never die.

I remember one funny thing though, when I was dreaming. I was doing SOMETHING, don't remember what, and I was telling myself it was a dream.(In my dream) So, IN MY DREAM, I pinched myself. You know, they say that it doesn't hurt if you pinch yourself in a dream. It hurt like HELL.
It was just me DREAMING I pinched mmyself, but DAMN I remember how it hurt...I think I woke up because of it....but I &quot;checked&quot; to see if I had pinched myself in my sleep, rather than JUST dreaming it, and I hadn't, because it was right on the top of my leg and there was no sign.

Daaaaaamn.

 

[TheOverlord]

yes, very cool i must say...i was walking around my school once in a dream and would think of the people i wanted to see and when id turn a corner id see them...i've also been shot in a dream then after being shot would realize that it wasn't real and would start exploring the dream and what i could and couldn't do having been shot...

 

[olds]

I once thought I was dreaming, but it was only a dream.

 

[woodly6]

I always wake up when I realize I am dreaming.

 

[Konig]

I always used to know I was dreaming and Freddy would be after me. I'd always kick his ass, but he'd always come back. I could never finish him off.

My dreams were usually like that. I'd be superman, but couldn't get my powers to work. I'd get an assault rifle in a battle, but it would jam or have blanks....

I'd never die, tho. I'd always pull out and wake up. I did get shot once before pulling out. It DID hurt for a while after waking up. Getting sliced with a knife or a sword really hurts, too.

I think I have self-confindence issues...

 

[beamrider]

Yep, but that just spoils the dream, IMHO. But what's even worse is when you're in a dangerous situation in a dream, you're aware it's just a dream, and you try to come out of it and can't. I've actually pulled muscles trying to come out of dreams, by concentrating every ounce of effort I have and trying to just MOVE. Nothing like being locked inside your own head.......

 

[brxndxn]

Supposedly the mind works in such a way that since you are unconscious, you can only remember 8 minutes or so of the dream - even if you realize you are dreaming. So you may never know what you spent the majority of the time dreaming about while you were sleeping. (according to an SRA I did in 5th grade)

I had the best dream of my life about a year and a half ago - it was after 'The Christmas Break of XTC and LSD'.. During the dream, I realized I was dreaming. In it, I happened to be near some orange groves at night (perhaps because I live in Bradenton, Florida - home of Tropicana) and I decided to start flying. I could smell the fresh citrus and everything. I decided to fly as high as I could and start to free-fall. I just started falling faster and faster and then I just landed softly on the ground. I remember doing it over and over again. Biggest thrill ever - I woke up to my alarm (after about 4 hours of sleep) and I felt totally refreshed and energetic.

The second best dream I dreampt that I was in Quake 1 (the best Quake) in my favorite add-on map (forget what it's called). My brother and I seriously kicked some ass. I realized it was a dream and that basically put my brother and I on God-mode and we kicked so much ass..

 

[1967mustangman]

Yeah I have done it plenty of times! Usually bad things happen in the dream within a dream and I am relived to &quot;wake up&quot; and find that something really awesome has happened. Then I am bummed when I really wake up and find out it was just one more twisted night in Andrew's brain.

 

[SilentBoB]

<< Yep, but that just spoils the dream, IMHO. But what's even worse is when you're in a dangerous situation in a dream, you're aware it's just a dream, and you try to come out of it and can't. I've actually pulled muscles trying to come out of dreams, by concentrating every ounce of effort I have and trying to just MOVE. Nothing like being locked inside your own head....... >>



Ever seen THE CELL?

 

[Alienwho]

I tend to have lots of dreams that I know i'm dreaming. One of the dreams I had, the world was like in Terminator 2 when everything was burned and the robots were killing everything. It was nightime, I was running through my neighborhood trying to hide from these helicopters with spotlites. So I run into one of my neighbors house, and they're just sitting there acting like nothing is wrong, but their roof is torn off, and they have one of them big guns (I MEAN BIG GUNS) that are connected to the ground and are made to shoot down helicopters and stuff. I ran behind that and shot down the hellicopter. Then I looked around and I was suddenly in some kind of big warehouse. I then realized I was dreaming and decided to fly. I was flying around the warehouse and I came accross these two teenage guys who were raiding the warehouse, but some of the badguys were trying to kill them, so I flew over and kicked the bad guys ass and told the teenagers to get the fu*k out. I then flew out of the warehouse and on some street two kids (a boy and a girl) were running from a helicopter so I picked them up and flew them into some cover under some trees. Suddenly I had nightvision, then I woke up.

 

[Alienwho]

<< I've actually pulled muscles trying to come out of dreams, by concentrating every ounce of effort I have and trying to just MOVE. Nothing like being locked inside your own head....... >>


Yeah, I probably wake up once a month in the middle of the night with a crazy bad charlie horse in my calf muscle. I would seriously jump out of bed and hop around my room on one foot waiting for the pain to end.

Charliehorse=worst pain ever! it feels like somebody is tearing your muscle appart with their bear hands.

 

[MC]

Last night,

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Weird huh?

 

[pen^2]

<< I would always head immediately to the girl's shower room in my junior/high school. Unfortunately, I would always wake up before seeing anything. I think it was because I'd never actually seen a naked girl so my brain couldn't make up any images for me to dream about -- so I'd wake up. >>


great minds think alike... letsay, i would have a privilidge of staying asleep a bit longer... thourouhly enjoyable too

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

i can rarely rember dreams past 5 minutes after i wake up....
for the first couple minutes im like that was a crazy dream no way im gona forget that one....by the time im downstairs eating breakest i have completely forgotten wtf i was dreaming about its quite annoying

but i can't control dreams ive had weird things like noises actually happening being incorperated into my dream...such as the house alarm went off and i started dreaming that i was some kinda secret agent and someone tripped the alarm and i was running around n whatnot

but no never really died in a dream ive done hte whole fall off a balcony on to a table and wake up quickly thing

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

i forgot what the medical term is called and what percentage it occurs in (over 25% i think)

when trying to fall asleep if u do something in ur dream or whatever while almost sleep....like kick a ball or dodge something ur body actually jerks with that motion....

thats happened to me before im almost asleep and then i kick a soccer ball and my leg moves and i wake up....

this ever happen to anyone else?

 

[AznMaverick]

Sometimes i know when i'm dreaming that's when i go all crazy...and most times my dreams have like 10 different parts that are so unrelated to each other. It's like this...i walk into the store in my dream, when i walk out i'm some where totally different, like in my room...pretty messed up, i wish that i could look forward to sleeping...oh well...

 

[potatoo]

<< I believe in most Asian cultures there is a dreaming phenomenon called a sitting ghost were you know you are dreaming but there is a presence sitting on you not allowing you to wake up or move.

I remember reading a NYT article on it and hear it is a relatively common dream. >>



I got that a couple of times.. freaky... i know i'm dreaming, and this constant noise start ringingn in my ear non-stop and i try to make and stuff i just could, as if i was paralyzed... after i woke up .. i try to avoid the same sleeping position, cuz often if i just go back to the same sleeping position i get what you call &quot;sitting ghost&quot; again.. ruins my sleep..

read a book long ago saying that this phenomenon is caused by too much force pushed onto your chest (ex, your hands.. think vampire sleep ).. i don't think that's true.. i shouldn't be holding myself THAT hard to interuppt my blood flow...

 

[fr]

<< Once I solve a puzzle in my dream, the morning I woke up I went and solved that puzzle in the exact same way I solved it in my dream (it was a rpg). Amazing! >>




I've had that happen to me twice!

 

[cxim]

sure, often dream that I am dreaming a dream in a dream, most of the time it is just AT/OT with multiple screens.

 

[Alienwho]

<< when trying to fall asleep if u do something in ur dream or whatever while almost sleep....like kick a ball or dodge something ur body actually jerks with that motion.... >>


Yeah this has happened to me. I will almost be asleep and i'm dreaming about something, but I don't know what, then suddenly my whole body will jerk and i'll wake up. It's like, wtf?

 

[GreenBeret]

Yeah, and depending on the dream, I choose to wake myself up. Takes some effort though.

 

[RaDragon]

yup... and i somehow 'phase' in and out of my dream (e.g., take myself out of the dream by 'watching' the outcome -- e.g., third-person-view).

 

[StormRider]

My dreams were usually like that. I'd be superman, but couldn't get my powers to work. I'd get an assault rifle in a battle, but it would jam or have blanks....

Wow, I have the same type of dreams. I would dream I would have superman powers but I can only fly about 6 feet off the ground and really slowly. I would try to fly away from someone but could never get away because I fly really slowly.

Another dream I have is that I could hover off the ground. I would do it in school to try to impress people but no one notices.

 

[b0mbrman]

sometimes in my dreams, I get the feeling I might be dreaming...but I'm never totally sure so I hold back a little, just in case...

 

[LordMaul]

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<< I've actually pulled muscles trying to come out of dreams, by concentrating every ounce of effort I have and trying to just MOVE. Nothing like being locked inside your own head....... >>


Yeah, I probably wake up once a month in the middle of the night with a crazy bad charlie horse in my calf muscle. I would seriously jump out of bed and hop around my room on one foot waiting for the pain to end.

Charliehorse=worst pain ever! it feels like somebody is tearing your muscle appart with their bear hands. >>



Bear hands, eh? I'd love it if you would show me someone with bear hands.