I once dreamt someone told me that the dreams we forget are the ones that come true, so when we have a deja vu, it's our brain actually recalling that forgotten dream.
Right. But what about premonition dreams? When I was 20 and away at school, my mom called and told me that our beloved Siamese cat had disappeared and had not been seen for two weeks. A week or so after her call, I had a dream that our beloved Oscar, the cat, had come home. A few days after the dream, mom called to tell me the great news that Oscar had come home. Was my dream a premonition, or just my subconscious in a state of wishful thinking? I don't know.
One of the most painful "lucid" dreams I ever had was a few weeks after my fiancé passed away last year. We were together and I realized I was dreaming when I sensed myself starting to wake up. I looked at him and said "I don't want to go yet. I want to stay here with you a little longer..." Of course, I woke up and just had the saddest day ever. Dreams might be all in our heads, but the emotions they generate are very real!!! 🥺🥺🥺
I too had a similar dream that included my bf that passed away, I was so glad to see him and didn’t want to wake up. When I did I cried for a while. My condolences on your loss😢
My dad has been dead several years but he is in my dreams all the time. Funny thing is that I never dreamt about him when he was alive. Funny how dreams often compensate for some kind of loss.
Sounds like similar lucid dreams I've had of my former fiance, or my deceased parents. In the fiance dream, she's with me again, we're together, but she's never really with me, it's fake. In the mom and dad dreams, one or the other is there. And I'm like, 'Mom! Are you okay?', and she says, 'Yeah. I'm fine.' And, I'm thinking, 'but... you're fine? That's great, mom!' But then, even while still in the dream, my RATIONAL mind takes over and says, 'But mom, you're dead! You can't be here!' It's really painful, both dreams.
There is a moment there, how long, I have no idea, where, when one is between the dreaming and awake state, where your mind is not sure or not what you were dreaming is real or not. It's truly fascinating. One that happens to me is, that in the dream, I'm about to graduate from college, BUT, I've neglected this one class, all semester, that I have to pass in order to graduate. Then I wake up, consciously thinking, "Oh God! I'm going to fail to graduate!". Then, I guess, my MORE conscious/aware mind is reassured and I say to myself: Sam! It's done! You HAVE graduated! It's an incredible relief, I kid you not, because unless it's a lucid dream, one doesn't know that a dream is not reality.
To know if you're dreaming, try to find a clock that has hands or is on, but speaking from experience, I think that at least probably won't work if you take any brain-based prescriptions. And I hope you find which vitamin helps with remembering dreams from a reliable source, I forgot it.
@@samr.england613 I've had the same kind of dreams for decades about not completing my Marine Corps service and I have to go back to serve one more day at the age I am now and it's very physically demanding as an old man. Then I wake up and it takes me a few seconds to realize I did finish and what a relief.
I had one while my apartment was being broken into. I had a k-bar sitting right next to me as I watch this dude climb into my window during the midnight. Took 3 mintutes before I could regain motor movements and fought him off. Not going to lie scary AF 😖
Happens to me every month. I have tricks to be able to move. And I see and hear nothing since I'm so used to it that I have no fear that my mind can create any hallucinations so it doesn't happen
It doesn't have to be scary. The best thing to do is research it as much as you can and listen to stories of other people who got rid of their fear. For example: I was nine when it fiest started happening to me. I told just about everyone about it and barely anyone believed me (people didn't know about it back then as much as they do now) and my cousin found an article about it whicu got me to research it more. I just remember one day at age thirteen waking up in the living room and walking back to my room to sleep but as I'm falling asleep I notice I can't move but this time I'm not scared
Weirdest case I had was when my body woke up in bits & pieces. I had 1 eye open but was still dreaming. So while dreaming, I was seeing the bedroom out of the open eye while moving around in the dream & wondering why I had bedroom eye vision. Creepy. Then both eyes opened with me waking up & the sleep paralysis still active on my limbs before my entire body finally woke up together.
I've always wished I could invent a dream recorder. To literally record what you are seeing through your minds eye within the dream. How amazing would that be? Not just writing it down or attempting to explain the next day. I have so many horrible nightmares and bizarre dreams that I wish I could share with people but can't find the words. And I'm a writer.
I said the very same thing on TIS's last video on dreams. I've been fascinated with dreams all my life. In 2012 I also wrote about a dream recorder and one very cool reply broke down how there's a company already working on it. I hope I live long enough to see it. 😴😌😊
There have been studies on mapping where brain activity happens and their intensity when we visually see different images (and if i remember correctly videos) so they can use that to digitally create a reconstruction of our dreams based on our brain activity while dreaming. I had to read multiple scientific articles about it in college and it was super interesting, but I don’t know how it’s been progressing so far.
Ai art comes pretty close. I want to combine video editing techniques with ai video to try to recreate my dreams accurately. I've also been using ai generated images to recreate my dreams and some have been very accurate
I've experienced the dreams where you "wake up" in to another dream. I've had ones where it kept happening. Again and again. At least five or six times in a row. Constantly waking in to another dream. It gets scary and feels like you are trapped and can never wake up for real again.
Yeah I've had that a couple of times or so. One was sort of a lucid dream at that because I woke up in a dream telling someone about the dream within that dream.
As I held both my parents when they passed away, I begged them to meet me in my dreams. It rarely happens, but when it does I wake up feeling so peaceful.
@@moondog908616:30 I have been through the same experience. It doesn't happen a lot but when it does it is when I most need them and they are letting me know that they are always with me
I've come to believe that dreams are really two things: 1. A means for the brain to process and compartmentalize everything it has learned or experienced during the day and 2. A way for the brain to practice various scenarios so as to be prepared just in case something happens. A part of the fight/flight response. I've never actually been attacked by a pack of wolves in real life but I have multiple times in my dreams. I suspect that whatever I may have done in those dreams would be recalled and brought into play if I was ever actually confronted with a similar danger.
It's plausible that our dreams mean much more than your points 1 and 2. For example, what about 'negative' dreams where you dream that you're somehow socially unnacceptable, or, rejected by women? Or generally sexually rejected? Is it 1 and 2 in your examples, or is it some kind of subconscious doubt in one's subconciouss mind about one's self-worth? All this is still poorly understood, even by the specialists who study it.
@@samr.england613 It could be that your brain is leaning how to deal with social anxiety or possibly desensitizing itself to something that is causing you stress. Then again it could be that you shouldn't eat so many tacos so close to bedtime.
Sometimes I dream of being in love with a stranger, I wake up feeling in love with that person, but I can't see the guy's face but I know it was a stranger. It makes me sad that I don't have that love, not even when I'm in a relationship.
@genevieve… I have had the same exact kind of dreams… the emotions or love or connection I felt in that dream, were so deep and intense that upon waking I feel so sad that it wasn’t real or that I woke up and it ended. These feelings of enormous loss last for days even a week afterwards & I remember even almost looking for that person in faces of the public to no avail. Eventually it ware’s off but still remain in memory.
I have that too a few times actually felt so real that when I wake, I feel so sad remembering I'm single and that man wasn't real. I now understand the stament 'the man of my wildest dreams'. 😢
I wonder if the person is our true soulmate. We don’t find them in every lifetime. I have dreamt of the person, but I never see his face clearly. I wake up sad, but I remind myself that he is waiting for me somewhere also. If not now, then when we both are passed.
Oh wow, so have I, you put it so well in this comment. I had never been able to put those dreams into words. Like, I'm confused who this stranger actually is.
As a child I did a lot of sleepwalking. My father told me I came to his room sleepwalking, holding an ashtray, and said "Is this where it all goes? Is this where it all goes!" My father eventually removed himself from this reality without a word. I inherited some money and spent it all on weed. I didn't remember the sleepwalking until after. I had gotten heavily into substance abuse to cope with the depression he caused me. So yes, that is where all the money went.
True. I’ve had multiple precognitive dreams. Also my dreams tend to intertwine with events from my current reality. Eg. I would be talking to a dream character about something that transpired in my waking life.
@@EmeraldEyesEsoteric dam . I hope you doing good now 💓 I've spent alot of money on weed and now trying to quit , it's really hard but I need to do it as it's also a gateway to stronger drugs for me In regards to your dream. Maybe that's where it all went... But it doesn't mean that's where it's all going to go ❤️☮️
For years, Ive had a dream about an old house with a secret stairwell that leads to a room full of my antiques. Recently, I went to the house in a dream, and was told I couldnt go up to my secret room anymore. When I ask why, I was told it was because I sold the house! The irony of it ? I buy and sell houses for a living. I loved my dream house dreams, and I dream of the day the new owners put it back on the market 😂 ❤
I've had ones with a secret special "closet", then I haven't had it again for a long time. I keep waiting as I want to get lucid and explore it! I still get the ones with the time capsule room theme, but those are not the "closet". They are similar but not the same. The "closet" does contain time capsule things though.
In fact, this dream may symbolize your old ones wife. Sale means divorce. The secret door is a metaphor for the relationship between you. You seem like a chaste man
I’ve always have crazy dreams. I check all of the above boxes. I can lucid dream and control my dreams sometimes. I have had sleep paralysis. I remember most of the dreams & I’ve definitely had dreams with false awakenings, the worst one I woke up 3 times. When I finally really woke up I just laid in my bed looking at everything around in my room, too freaked out to move. I’ve also had dreams that pick up again but sometimes years later. I really want to be able to record my dreams.
You can it's called a dream journal. As soon as you wake up, write down what you remember. Just be prepared for your dreams to get even crazier than they already are. Before I started a dream journal, my dreams weren't super crazy, but after I started a dream journal, oh boy things have got gotten insane in my dreams lol
DONT YOU LOVE when you have multiple false awakenings back to back? itslike thats how you get SO LUCID to the dream so "AWARE" of the dream its just an incredible experience! I LOVE IT I LIVE FOR IT
As someone who has nightmares and night terrors almost every single night, I try just about anything to FORGET my dreams, but I can't. They feel as real as everyday life and I remember every single one I have, as well as being able to remember them in horrifyingly accurate detail, from the colours, smells, sights and sounds. I've died in just about every way you can imagine and have felt every bit of it. I've experienced some of the most terrifying things people can experience in reality and the most morbid fiction one can imagine. People ask why I don't sleep much... This is why. And yes, I have PTSD and that is one reason I struggle. I've had sleep issues since I was born though.
Been there before too bud, your best bet is to think of a situation you might be in your real everyday life that you need to get out of. For me, it was a Bible study 📖 lead by a leader who was verbally abusive towards me from the start.
when I was a teenager I dreamed that an enormous monster was outside my house and shaking it roughly. Then I woke up and to my horror found that the entire house really was shaking. Apparently we were having a mild earth tremor, and my mind incorporated that into my dream
This video by The Infographics Show is an absolute gem! I never knew dreams could be so mysterious and fascinating. From lucid dreaming to recurring themes, it's incredible how our subconscious minds work. Kudos to the team for putting together such an informative and entertaining compilation. Now, I can't wait to share these mind-boggling facts with my friends and spark some intriguing discussions. Dreams truly are an endless source of wonder! Thank You❤
Most of my dreams are in color,and very detailed,especially in the layout of a house. I had a dream once where there were some older people sunbathing next to a green field. The sky above had puffy white clouds,and it was the most beautiful shade of deep turquois blue that cannot be described in words. It was awesome!
I dream in color, too. They say roughly 30% of most people do. My gf dreams in B&W, and, as she thinks she knows everything, claims that ALL people dream in B&W as well. (Okay. She's an entirely different issue!) haha!
I dream in colour, too! I didn't realise a lot of people don't. A lot of my dreams, on the other hand, have very little sound and the people in them don't really speak very often. I am a pretty quiet person IRL so that might be a factor?
Sometimes I think I am having two dreams simultaneously: The two halves of my brain have different functions and there is only a narrow connection between them. So long as I am awake, I seldom notice the difference, but when I am asleep, random synapses go off on both sides, and my brain tries to patch them into some kind of a coherent picture, a dream, but sometimes it just fails, and the two halves each produce its own version of these imaginary inputs.
Me too, and I know they are strangers. I lost my ability to dream/recall dreams some years back, but randomly, during a bout of fever and while on strong antibiotics more recently, I had a night of lucid dreaming, it was a scene full of people I didn't know but one.
ive heard that if u dream of a stranger, it is a person u saw but didnt really take notice of... a face in a crowd, a busboy on the other side of a restaurant...
I lucid dream quite a lot, ive been practicing since childhood. I had a dream once that i was looking thru a cardboard box. In the box were items i had lost over my life but had completely forgotten about, or so i thought... i think the human mind can be an amazing thing, cataloging things and storing them in your subconcious. Imagine if we could access it at will, while awake! Practice makes perfect 😉
Yeah it can be. I learned to lucid dream as a kid because I was having nightmares actually. I'd dream I was being chased down a dark hallway that never ended, I never knew what was chasing me as I never looked back... I was tired of it one day and told myself the next time I had the nightmare, I was going to turn around and run at what was chasing me... In order to do that I had to first realize I was in a dream (or nightmare), and make the decision to turn around. Boom, could lucid dream ever since. My motivation to start lucid dreaming was to overcome my nightmares, even though I didn't know what lucid dreaming was at the time; So I rarely have them anymore. Be brave, it's well worth it! And be patient, it can take a lot of practice. Also, once you're in a lucid dream it isn't very hard to will yourself awake from it so don't worry.
Recently, i've had quite many dreams where i've heard people talking. I've had these dreams over the last three weeks. It has been a few different dreams, but they have all the same thing in common: i've heard voices in the dreams. I can remember them all, but i can't remember what i dreamt about
I talk to myself in dreams. I ask questions a lot. It’s weird because usually I have colorful and vivid dreams, but these dreams I just see blackness and only hear voices.
What I love is when there is music in my dream and it will be something I never heard in the real world. So I have several reasons why I'd love to have a dream recorder just to record music from my dreams. But one of the creepiest dreams I had was one in which there was dead silence.
In many of my dreams I can fly but I really have to jump hard to launch and focus. But then I can survey cities and states and coastlines, etc. Often I find myself trying to find my home again from way up high.
Fun fact: I have a brittle bone disease and have been in a wheelchair most of my life (I used to walk when I was a kid though). I walk in all my dreams but there have been dreams where I am walking and then I randomly say “…wait a second I can’t walk.” & then I’ll break both my legs, fall and wake up in a cold sweat😂😂
ME TOO Im a fcukin DREAMING NINJA...I can lucid dream like CLOCK WORK basically everytime I dream, IF i dream? Im lucid...sometimes I just WATCH it playout.... others I'll interact and try to make different things happen I love fkn with my dream characters I'll be like>...."Its a dream dude< look at my hands!!!" (look at your hands when you lucid dream)(its always trip b/c your brain cant recreate the detail of your fingers so your hands always look crazy in a dream did you know that?
I recently had a lucid dream that I was a Roman soldier in a massive field and I was fighting in a war. I originally was only holding a sword and someone rushed me from my left and I thought “I need a sword in my other hand” and I blocked the attack with a sword in my left hand that I didn’t have before. Hands down the coolest dream I’ve ever had.
I had a dream someone broke into my house he was wearing a backpack then I woke up scared and checked the locks and it woke up my boyfriend I told him about the dream and what the intruder looked like , he said thats not going to happen go back to sleep, then the very next day a man wearing a backpack that looked like the man in my dream broke into my house while I was at work and my boyfriend was home alone. He was able to get him out of the house safely by saying "you must be looking for the house up the street thats for rent." My boyfriend walked around him out of the house then the intruder hesitated stayed in the home for a while before eventually exiting. The man didn't have a weapon that he saw, just a backpack on. As I was getting home the intruder had JUST left I actually passed him on my way home so I saw him, and then my boyfriend told me what just happened when I got home. Thats the only time I ever had a dream come true.
False awakenings are terrible depending on the dream. Only had it happen once but I got to the point I was questioning reality and if I actually was awake after the 6th false awakening in the same dream. I just wanted it to end.
ME TOO! dont you love it!!!??? you lucid dream? you remember them, but can you find the words to EXPLAIN them to sombody else?!!?? thats where I struggle b/c alot of them are so over the top its completely rediculous!
@@AdamADavis1 I write what I remember down , if it’s hazy. In your case you should voice record it as soon as you wake up. At least keys words. Then look them up
Very interesting! I've been recently having dreams that I realise that I'm dreaming, and then I can control the dream. I've also been having a dream within a dream. I had one last night. I was on some sort of holiday, then I woke up, and found myself back in the old house I was living in with my mum. I sat there with my mum standing in my bedroom, and I was telling her about my dream, before she went to tidy her bedroom. Then I eventually woke up, and realised I just had a dream within a dream. These types of dreams do mess me up. It just makes me wonder what is real.
Knowing your dreaming and then controlling the dream is called lucid dreaming I've had them all my life maybe one in ten dreams I can control some aspects of its a skill that can be learnt I am not particularly good at it but some people can do it on command and then fully create their own dream!
this is crazy,something like this happend to me too,i woke up from a dream that i thought it was cool and started writing it down,then i went and prepared breakfeast and ate it.Once i was done i woke up in my bed and was angry as i forgot about the other dream i just wrote down :(
I've been having episodes of sleep paralysis for as log as I can remember. My mother described how, as a baby I would wake in the night screaming in terror. As a very young child I had no idea what these episodes were. I have clear memories of flying around. Then I heard about alien abduction and I thought that was what it was. As an adult I finally found out what was really going on. It's a dream, but it feels completely real.
As a child I did a lot of sleepwalking. My father told me I came to his room sleepwalking, holding an ashtray, and said "Is this where it all goes? Is this where it all goes!" My father eventually removed himself from this reality without a word. I inherited some money and spent it all on weed. I didn't remember the sleepwalking until after. I had gotten heavily into substance abuse to cope with the depression he caused me. So yes, that is where all the money went.
The funniest sleep talking phrase I've ever heard came from an old roommate. She told her boyfriend, "that wasn't very chicken sandwich of you," then rolled over and didn't say anything else 😂
I use to have sleep paralysis a lot. But, the worse one of which I don't have an explanation for, is during sleep paralysis I heard and saw these warriors around me. I felt like I was being dragged out of my bed. When I woke up, I was no longer in my room but on the floor in the living room.
I had a dream that I fell off the side of my bed and stopped right before hitting the floor. I looked to my left and it was just the carpet and shoes and I looked to the right and it looked like the quantum universe lol… pink and glittery with orbs and triangles floating around. When I woke up my body felt like I had fallen and my stomach was upset.
This is just a theory but you definitely could've sleepwalked to the living room when your body was trying to get away from the warriors? Don't know if that makes sense but just a thought
I used to have nightmares about demons all the time when I was younger, but I also had an incredibly intense fear of them so badly I couldn’t even utter the word 😅 It was so bad I actually would get recurring nightmares with the same story that would continue itself. I also had a dream that a bear mauled me to death while my brother fled, and then years later we passed the same road that appeared in my dream, crazy ish
I had been depressed for almost a year due to an ex and we have a son together...I had a hit of acid but was afraid to take it thinking because I'm depressed I'd have a bad trip, I hadn't done acid since highschool I'm 40 now...but I got drunk and had a free day and WOW...it did EXACTLY what they described as far as rewiring my mind and that was a week ago and I'm no longer depressed...it was amazing
I have this recurring dream of attending an examination without any semblance of preparation or readiness. This was before the war and experiencing the euphoria of flying in my dream was undeniably among the most exquisite sensations I have ever felt.
Every pet I have had in my life, came to me in a dream along with their name. And often times when lucid dreaming, some of my pets are in them exploring along with me. Very cool.
I have sleep paralysis so often that when it happens I try to analyze it in my head and go like mmmmmh interesting what my body/mind is doing. Btw to be able to move there is a trick, just stay calm gather all your strength and try to do 1 fast sudden move. Usually works at 1 try.
I used to experience sleep paralysis almost daily. I also talk in my sleep a lot even having whole conversations. When I i was younger I would even get up and open the door and tell my mom that I was getting up and getting dressed. Basically having a conversation with her but while I'm completely asleep. 😅 Also one time when I was co-sleeping with my youngest I woke up screaming from a nightmare and accidentally hit him in the head with one of my teeth. He still has the scar on his forehead to this day.
You could have added a point about Ramamujam. Considered as one of the best mathematicians of all time. He claimed some of his theorems were written by a god on his tongue in his dreams.
Sleep paralysis is scary to many because they don't understand it. Anything that's unknown (take the darkness for example) is naturally gonna be scary.
The unconscious mind is not rational. Whether your conscious mind understands sleep paralysis or not, it doesn't matter when one is in the REM or dream-state. When in the normal, that is, not lucid, dreamstate, one doesn't KNOW that the dream is not real.
I frequently wake up crying. I've been divorce for 13 years after a 30 abusive relationship but for unknown reasons i still love him and wake up crying after dreaming of him
Same here. A year ago I left my girl. She was one of those crazy, come at you with a chef's knife Ke-razy types the whole neighborhood hears screaming all the time. I dream of her often, then I argue with her, then I cry. Probably because I still love her, but shhhh, we won't say that out loud. One girl a few months back woke me up in the middle of the night because I woke her from shouting nonsense. I was the usual sweaty and had tears, the whole shebang. I don't know, maybe I'm the crazy one. I often wonder that.
Couple of years ago for two nights I had the dream in a dream. And it was the most real feeling and crazy scary thing I've ever felt. It was so real. Also the 3rs night I had a dream, the next morning I called my gf and said I had a dream and she was in it. She said she had a dream with me in it that night. I let her tell hers first. It was the exact same dream down to every single detail. I've always had wild dreams my whole life. So end up happening, day, weeks,months or years later. And right before it happens it will pop in my head I dreamed about what was fixing to happen and can change it from what happened in my dream.
12:12 this actually isn't true, it's misinformation from a meme spread online. You can actually debunk this right now by thinking of a face and changing it around. In fact, this actually happens in dreams on its own sometimes. I actually have recurring dream characters, none of which I've seen in real life
TRUE I Invent new dream characters all the time....this one dream I had recently i was at the mall and standing at the top of an escalator and pouring in where just DREAM CHARACTERS every one uniquely dressed and different face just like you would see in real life but my brain was just conjuring up all these dream characters at will and they were just pouring past me I was sad b/c I wanted to mess with all of them and say..."HEY?! LOOK AT MY HANDS! haha
I suffer from frequent sleep paralysis and chonic severe insomnia. I have very strong medications to sleep . The plus side is that i also frequently can enter lucid dreaming mostly in the morning
When I was a kid I used to wake up in the middle of the night and that's when my nightmares would start. I Would see my nightmares while i was awake. I'm good now but now my daughters gets the same symptoms.
Camping trip with my wife and kids, my middle kid starts sleep walking. Almost tore down the tent while my wife yelled at him, which only made him panic. When my first wife was pregnant I woke up only in my underwear in the apartment elevator. Apparently I was dreaming the building was on fire and convinced her to leave lol. It's hereditary for sure.
#20 - When I was a kid, I was sleeping over to a friend's house. I woke up in my friend's room, it was still night and walked out of the room and then woke up again in my friend's room. I remember that it happened so much that I lost count after the third time. They all start in that room but some of them I felt I was still sleeping and I choose to stay in bed; I would still feel that shock as if I woke up again. It was intense and I always thought about it because it scared me. I recall that it was always night, I was alone and it was quiet, every time till morning came
i’ve had dreams where things happend and i never thought about it so much until it happens irl and then i have some deja buc thing where i’m like this already happend to me or smth and i just get confused it happens regularly to me idk why
I’ve had many dreams, I can even remember dreams from years ago, sometimes I can recall almost every detail. My partner doesn’t know how I do it but he says I could write books about my dreams.
17:47 there's actually a name for this phenomenon, persistent realms. My dreams are persistent realms, they all basically take place within the same world which I've created combining past dreams. It's really fun honestly, it feels like I'm living two different lives
Famously, Paul McCartney dreamt the entire melody for "Yesterday"; when he woke up, he ran to the piano in the house and played it at once, to fix it in his waking memory... and thank goodness he did! I've had dreams of: conversing entirely in whistles and musical motifs (in which everyone understands what the others "say" via strings of notes); playing the piano and improvising new music with a prodigy's ease (and much, much better than I ever did as a student); flying (but having difficulty with either lateral or vertical movement control, so I'd rise too high, sink too low and crash into a tree or bush, or bump awkwardly into doorways); doing research in various libraries, in which I skim and take notes on a stack of books which, AFAIR, don't exist in real life and sometimes cover subjects (such as structural engineering) which I've never read about in books, or read about at all, beyond the rare magazine or website article. I also have had a cinematic, seemingly very long dream of an action-adventure/espionage story in which I was a James-Bond-like woman by turns fleeing and martial-arts-fighting a heavily armed gang of mysterious bad guys dressed mostly in dark Armani suits, and prevailing over them all, one after another. (The external walls and corners of miscellaneous buildings really helped me in getting the jump of them, as they pursued me at full speed blindly around corners.) Needless to say, that latter dream was a 100% unfounded fantasy, except perhaps for the general tendency for certain govt. or mafia goons to wear Armani. Unfortunately, those dreams are the exhilarating exception. Much more common is that I let my laundry pile up and then I dream that I stop putting it off and resignedly set about doing the laundry... without so much as The Pretenders' "Watching the Clothes" playing in the background to at least enliven the tedium.
The Paul McCartney thing is awesome. Had one really creative dream once, and I woke up totally jazzed. Then immediately forgot everything. But I remember feeling like I discovered something cool.
If I go by the logic presented here, then I'm absolutely a dreaming weirdo. I dream intensely vivid dreams most of the time, if I fall into a deep sleep, and I remember them a long time after. I'm occasionally prone to becoming aware of myself during dreams, although it doesn't interfere with anything. I'm just aware of my body and know I'm asleep yet still dreaming. I can't call it sleep paralysis because I'm never frightened of it and I actually can move my limbs and stuff. I was one of those kids with a very active imagination and I wrote a lot, and the imagination part persists to this day, even though that fact I usually keep to myself, lest I be accused of living inside my head or something. I'm ambidextrous, always loved reading and listening to science and documentary stuff of many kinds, so I guess I am not surprised if my brain goes into vivid territory at night. There are many nights I don't sleep much, if at all, due to my work schedule, so when I do sleep from being tired, I go right into deep sleep, vivid-dream territory.
i dont know if you believe in spirituality, but look up spiritual awakening if youre interested and honestly remembering your dreams and becoming aware of yourself during it something so so cool- your intuition is really strong dude (just kinda gives u a reason to look back at when you wonder why you think youre a dreaming weirdo lol)
When slowly falling asleep, concentrate on the tiny colored spots you observe with your eyes closed. Make them growing bigger, wait for other colors coming from besides, make all colors swirl around. Concentrate on colors emerging and disappearing... Than, if you start dreaming, it will be in beautiful colors. Magnificient landscapes, sunsets, clouds, light and dark areas, it is all possible.
I actually remember my dreams quite well and can even recall the entirety of my first nightmare from age 2 I also can recall plenty other dreams ranging on from 2 years of age all the way to present day where I’m a 19 year old man
Lucid dreams are amazing. For a while it was really easy to induce them but got a little harder over time for me. I don’t have total control but I can fly, walk through walls and most importantly change the setting of the dreamscape incase im in a scary place. The reason I say it’s amazing besides having full memory of the experience is it leaving me in a good mood the entire day. The freedom and joy of the dream followed me around the day until I slept and dreamt again. False awakenings are the first defense your brain uses to keep you unconscious. At least for me my brain started pushing back making it harder to maintain lucidity.
My top 2 craziest dreams were the most realistic by far. 1. Dreamed a tornado hit my friends house. 6 months later I was there and a tornado hit his house. 2. Had a dream i got shot up but I didn't die, just layed there bleeding. 6 months later I got shot in the stomach but didn't die. There was another one, I was like 5 and sleep paralysis occurred, couldn't scream or move and there was a monster that looked like Kabutops the pokemon, 6 months later pokemon came out.
I have had PTSD since I was a kid.. Had really, really bad night terrors for years. I have learned how to control my dreams but it did take a long time before I could and its kind of strange. If I am not careful I can easily cause a dream to become worse.. For example, giving a person who is trying to harm me the ability to stretch out.. Able to reach me as I was trying to fly away from them. Its extremely rare for me to have bad dreams now as I am able to control them and turn said dreams into better ones. But sometimes its very difficult to prevent the dreams from becoming sour. Yes, this does mean I constantly have "lucid" dreams. Its something I learned once again.. Due to the constant night terrors. Its kind of difficult to describe but its like willing things to happen. ( Oh and, the "superpower" thing is very much something that I use a lot. Flying/hovering is common, breathing underwater, making things explode, creating weapons, making black holes.. I have also ended up destroying a planet.. I was extremely angry in that dream... A LOT of different things basically.. But I have also made things that ended up being determent for me in said dream.. lol )
I was shot and paralyzed at 29 in a brutal robbery at work and left paraplegic with PTSD, but it's never affected my dreams. I've had a few nightmares about spiders, once flying swarms of black widows were chasing me and I turned a corner only to find myself facing another swarm coming at me, but I used to suffer from arachnophobia, I just woke with my heart pounding from fear. However, I have been awakened by loud bangs or people yelling nearby that set my PTSD off, awakened feeling like I'm back in the robbery again. Thankfully, I've never experienced sleep paralysis, but I do suffer from severe chronic pain and when I first wake up I'm usually pain free for 20 minutes or so before the pain starts returning.
Number 27 is not true.. I had dreams about strangers before.. does not always have to be somebody you know ( although it would happen more often then someone you do not know ).
I have chronic asthma and too many times have I had asthma attacks in the night that have lead me to have false awakenings where i dream i get up to have my inhaler over and over again and i often dont actually wake up until i cant breath anymore and my body forces me to wake up. Its terrifying because when i do finally wake up my asthma is at a dangerous level and i usually start panicking
A lot of these comments are new to me. I can only speak on my own experiences. I definitely know how to fly once I know I'm dreaming. I can also wake up from sleep paralysis if I become aware. Certain things that I can do once I become aware but I would agree that it's not normal to realize.
I have lucid dreams almost everynight. Usually it is just knowing that I'm dreaming. Although sometimes I'm able to correct the course of a dream. I think I started having them after having night-terrors and sleepwalking as a kid/pre-teen. And out of desperation, I taught myself how to either wake myself up, or at least pull myself out of the dream and into another. I have had sleep paralysis a few times. But not for a few years.
This was chilling to read because my reasons for almost nightly lucid dreaming are the exact same as yours. Timeline of the events too. The constant nightmares made me desperate to beat them. I’m also mostly just aware and occasionally able to actually control them
10:57 this actually isn't unuversally true (just majority) for example: I get sleep paralysis almost every time I sleep on my stomach and I've mostly experienced it while laying on my sides. I rarely if ever experienced it on my back
Funny things is I had this dream so many times in the past year or so, and when I’m dreaming about my teeth falling out I try to put them back in, it’s not just one tooth, its all of them.
Ive had the Teeth falling out dream ...now i have the denture falling out dream...no but seriously...no seriously I did lose all my teeth but still when I had teeth I would dream that they all suddenly just let go of my gums and it was like I was trying to chew gravel with my gums it was weird AF
As a child I did a lot of sleepwalking. My father told me I came to his room sleepwalking, holding an ashtray, and said "Is this where it all goes? Is this where it all goes!" My father eventually removed himself from this reality without a word. I inherited some money and spent it all on weed. I didn't remember the sleepwalking until after. I had gotten heavily into substance abuse to cope with the depression he caused me. So yes, that is where all the money went.
I have a weird reoccurring dream of a giant brown bear coming down the driveway of my childhood home. I always run and hide in my parents room. It always gets in the house and always starts tearing down the door of that bedroom and then I wake up. I have a lot of animal themed dreams for some reason. I had a terrifying one of alligators all outside our front door because it was a flood and a big bright red one started trying to attack me. I’ve also had a dream were I hand been hand a baby with the head of an owl from a giant towering barn owl headed person that then telepathically told me “this is good “.
I also had one of those multi level ‘inception’ dreams. I thought I was awake, noticed something weird, looked at my reflection and it turned the wrong way… I freaked out and realized it was a dream and I woke up, the I noticed my door to my bathroom opened the wrong way, it freaked me out and I realized it was also a dream, so I woke up again, but I was freaking out and had to wake my husband up to make sure I was really awake. It was so weird
I have had some scary dreams. Normally being chased running with my son finding a place to hide, killing bad people. And I have the same dreams over and over again. I can write a book lol
This may have something to do with how my autistic brain works, but I have vivid dreams often, to the point that if I don't remember even a trace of an idea from a dream the night before, it's freaky to me. I have lucid dreamed once. There were other times where I was aware I was dreaming, but pretty much only partly acknowledged it and didn't care enough for the dream to become truly lucid like that once I referred to. Pretty much a "oh, I'm dreaming? Cool. Don't care." Let me just tell you The one time I lucid dreamed was a nightmare. My subconscious mind overused a character as symbolic of very specific, deeply-rooted fears at the time, so when I did have a moment to pause, I realized every single time I'd seen that character, it hadn't been real, so more likely than not, I was dreaming. It took a lot of focus to keep the dream lucid, so I only focused on one intent: to find the character and tell them to back off. A nightmare turning lucid is one of the most amazing things that can happen, let me tell you, even if you don't care to directly change the setting!
well in my case of autisic brain my lucid dreams are also put into full memory with very clear details. aslo i rember very clearly even when i was like 2 years old at the time i still rember that dream i had where my fovtre buzzlighter toy got thown into a magma pit.
Years ago i witnessed a shooting where my friend was shot in the head and chest by his father in law and the guy turned the gun on me. I started having night terrors so bad i wasnt paralyzed while having them and one night i was facing my fiancee at the time and hit her in my sleep. That morning i went to a counselor to get some help. Worst feeling ever was hitting someone i loved in my sleep
I have sleep paralysis at least once or twice a month. Before I started wearing a cpap, I would wake up face down in my pillow. I would have to fight for control of my body to get my nose or mouth enough to breathe.
Here's a tip. The next time you get sleep paralysis, try to stay calm. Close your eyes and focus on something nice, like a beach or any place you're comfortable being in. I've heard this way you can transition from sleep paralysis into a lucid dream.
@@infinitedeath1384 yes I came to this same conclusion about ten years ago. Also stopped sleeping on back and stomach helped a lot. Now with the cpap mask helps me calm down quicker knowing that I am not able to be face down in my pillow. Also the cpap pressure is high enough so I don't have to worry about not getting enough air.
@@tomdillan Honestly, I sleep on my back all the time hoping it happens, because I want to lucid dreams. Other than a couple weird dreams, and only one that was eventful, my sleep has been mostly relaxing, yet boring. I want to spice things up with lucid dreaming.
I've tried the calm approach but it has never worked. I always get freaked out. The strange thing is, this has only been happening post lockdowns. Maybe I had some anxiety issues. I've been getting it three or four times a week. I hate it.
I have the flip side of sleep paralysis. Where sleep paralysis occurs upon waking (hypnopompic hallucination), I get hypnogogic hallucinations where it occurs in between being awake and falling asleep. It can be super peaceful and relaxing sometimes when it happens this way around.
Yeah im very aware of my dreams, I can control them and everything, I wake up a lot during the night and each time I go back to sleep the same dream continues like I paused a movie or something, it's really cool, but can be extremely scary sometimes.
For me the craziest dream experiences were recent, this year. I've never had a dream that felt real but this year i had two. The first one my long distance ex i was with for 3 years, the first girl i ever loved was here with me. We were driving in my Escape around my town, shopping, running errands, and having a chat while driving around. I remember looking at her talking with the sun through the windows on her dark tan and the sunroof open. When i woke up i was in shock and it made me so depressed, a crazy experience I've never had. Then it happened again, i used to talk to a lot of foreign people so this dream was just that, in the dream i was laying in my bed, i woke up early and couldn't fall back asleep so i started texting a friend from a foreign country, and the entirety of this dream was me having a great conversation over text, but in this dream they sent me a picture of where they were standing, it was night out aimed down a street with some houses lined down the road and street lights with moumtains in the back and for some reason that picture haunted me and then i woke up and it was crazy
