AsPD and Dreams

What kind of dreams do you have when you sleep? What is the general subject matter and do they repeat certain patterns? Do you think your dreams are different to others?

I have a poor imagination because I rarely have interesting dreams. Sleep is usually boring for me for that reason.

I wish I could dream like other people.

In one dream I spent the majority of it sitting in the reception area of a medical clinic, waiting to see the doctor, and woke up right as I got called in to see him.

In most of my dreams I'm usually travelling around looking for somewhere new to live or I've just moved into a new house or apartment. I don't know why travelling and moving is such a common theme in my dreams.

Most of my other dreams are sexual, except for the few that are violent. For some reason sex and violence are always separate in my dreams, which I find unusual because they very much go hand in hand in real life.

I very rarely have nightmares. It's been a long time since I last had one.

I know what I dream for, it is just something I have been thinking of. Something small, my brain heal it in right or not right way. Not much more.

Quite simply, i'm usually scheming in my dreams. Dealing drugs, getting away with murder, committing fraud with a hot side of sexual harassment, running from the police, making deals. If not scheming, doing something (strikingly) ordinary.

I don't remember them often at all. Probably twice a month.

I've never remembered my dreams. For years I assumed it was because of all my drug use, regular marijuana consumption interrupting my REM cycle etc. but since being all drug-free I still don't remember my dreams! I'll remember one perhaps every 4-5 months at most, and even then it's not the entire dream, just some random snipit of it immediately before I wake up.

To me dreams aren't important, they're just the side-effect of your brain processing and storing all the information you've absorbed in the daytime. All this crap about dreams meaning things, etc, I don't buy at all.

I have always had very vivid dreams.

I have one dream that has been a continuation of the same story I have been dreaming about since a child and then I have very strange dreams where I am in odd places or doing odd things.

Last night I dreamt I was streaking through a Mosque.

I've written extensively on my dreamspace. Will pull some of my better posts later. In short, I've been lucid dreaming since I was a little kid and can usually recall 3-5 dreams on an average night. Recollection is mostly just a function of practice: wake up and recall the dream before doing anything then write it down in a journal. Keep at it and you'll recall with greater ease as you pick up on cues and dreamsigns.

Last night I dreamed that I was raping somebody which isn't particularly common. It seemed like a coercion of sorts and she got cocky about something so I forced her to take it up the arse. I'm fairly sure there was another situation like that just before the last but I don't remember it very well. Was going to ignore this thread because I've done this topic to death but it seemed relevant to the forum.

Generally speaking, my dreams are not so violent nor do I tend to focus on myself in the world. My dreams happen in places I've never been, populated with people or things I've never met and I'm not there as myself. When t does happen that I make an appearance I usually attach some significance to it when I wake up because I figure my subconscious is relating something directly to me.

The princess in the castle dream I think I posted here to illustrate how it works for me. I'll scout it out.

Do you think that dreams are just subconscious cues or do they have greater meaning than that?

I like to believe that everything happens for a reason and dreams are included in that.

I can lucid dream but I actually prefer not to. I like to see what paths my dreams lead me on. Maybe if my dreams were boring it would hold more fascination but as it stands I don't think I have ever had a boring dream in my life.

Being lucid and having control are different.
Lucidity just means awareness that you're dreaming. I can hold off on controlling dreams and prefer to too because it's more like exploring then creating st that point.

Rest of it I'll respond to properly later

solemnlysworn wrote:Being lucid and having control are different.
Lucidity just means awareness that you're dreaming. I can hold off on controlling dreams and prefer to too because it's more like exploring then creating st that point.

Rest of it I'll respond to properly later

I always thought that lucid dreaming meant you were in control so thanks for enlightening me. In that case all my dreams are lucid.