Ever have one of those deep sleep dreams...

[WtchyChick13]

...where when you wake up, you feel like the dream is still going on? If you just close your eyes even for a second, you can instantly be right back into it? It's also extrememly vivid--almost like having a second life being played out for you?

Ok, maybe I'm the only one. It happens to me a lot--happened again today! I was in such a tremendously deep sleep and woke up with a start. Usually, that knocks the dream right out of my head and can't for the life of me remember what I had been dreaming about.

But today, I had it with me all day. It was a frightening dream too. I had been shot four times--that was a very strong point that got played out--four times--shoulder, stomach, center of chest near the heart and down low right side near appendix--and the person I was with was shot also and then later died. (The funny thing is, I don't even know this person in real life, he's a newsanchor I had seen before going to bed--the fact that he's gorgeous probably had something to with why I was dreaming about him to begin with! LOL)

When I saw him on tv tonite, I started to tear up. This was just so real that even though I was watching him live, it still felt like I was watching a ghost!

I fell asleep in front of the tv for about a half an hour and was able to manipulate the dream a little--I've always been able to do that. In the original, I never saw him before he died. Someone just told me about his death. But when I took my nap, I was able to visit him in the hospital room.

I figured I'd post this here since dreams are discussed here.

I was just wondering if anyone else has ever gone through this. A sleep so deep that you wake up with two "lives" being lived at the same time? Or, (and LdyStarlite, if you see this, no comment necessary! lol) am I just insane? :eek:

[Flar's Freyja]

I've had several dreams like that but the one I remember the most was one that I had around the time that my mom, who died a few years ago from a terminal illness, had just started to get sick. We lived 1500 miles apart. In the dream, I was at some sort of carnival and my mother was pregnant.....and someone kept telling me that she needed me. I was trying to find her and couldn't. Within a few days, I found out that she'd been diagnosed with COPD and congestive heart failure, and had had a heart attack.

Both guns and shooting represent aggressive sexuality in dreams, especially according to Freud who sees shooting as male ejaculation. This would make sense since you say that the newsanchor is someone you could be attracted to, but also dreaming of being shot can symbolize that you feel victimized in some way. Death represents the ending of one phase so that a new one can begin and when it is someone else that dies in your dream, you might want to examine which part of yourself that person could represent.

Hopefully, your dream is not a premonition as mine was. Let us know if anything significant happens in the near future.

[shnen]

I have been able to manipulate them, but only slightly... and if I was woken up too suddenly (like forgetting to shut off my alarm on the weekend), I can not resume it or try to continue it...

I do have the ones that confuse me with reality too though... soo real...

[Myst]

Originally posted by WtchyChick13
...where when you wake up, you feel like the dream is still going on? If you just close your eyes even for a second, you can instantly be right back into it? It's also extrememly vivid--almost like having a second life being played out for you?

Yup. *shrugs* :)

[*~*Chary*~*]

yup of course

[Flaire-FireStar]

It's happened a couple of times....none recently though

[WtchyChick13]

Well, at least I know I'm not alone! I just hate it when someone is trying to have a conversation with me and the dream is still going on in my head--gets a little confusing. hehehe

I seem to be in a cycle of nightmares right now. Had more last nite and right now, I can hardly keep my eyes open. The last time I went through this was the first six months after 9/11. But the strange thing is that usually the nightmares happen all around me or from an observers point of view and this time the bad things are actually happening TO me.

Freyja I hope you are right--I'm hoping these are not premonition dreams. Hitting the lottery--now THAT would be a great premonition dream!!! LOL I thank you for your insight. I like the idea of it being the ending of something. I've never been big on Freud though--"If it's not one thing, it's your mother." :p

So, anyone else going through a bad or intense dream cycle out there?:blushake: :ack: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:

[Myst]

Yeah I'm having a lot of vivid dreams now, but there's a reason for it :)

[Flar's Freyja]

:lol: Myst, I had lots of them during my pregnancies about misplacing the baby in the laundromat and other absurdly scary things.......

I don't agree with alot that Freud said either, but he was one of the pioneers in dreamwork and some of that information is pretty good even though he does point it all back to sex or parents......

[WtchyChick13]

even though he does point it all back to sex or parents......

Ah yes, but think about it, without one--there wouldn't be the other! LOL

I've heard that pregnancy dreams can be quite amazingly vivid. :eek:

[Mnemosyne]

I love having vivid dreams. Fortunately, I don't have to be up early at the moment. So if I am having a really good, vivid dream, I sleep a little bit longer to keep on experiencing it. I have been remembering my dreams in more detail, since I come into consciousness and then go back into dream world.

Interesting that we all responded the same on the poll. The poll explictly asked about manipulating dreams. This question has been on my mind a lot in the last few months, but I don't think that I have asked about it yet. Can you manipulate your dreams by consciously thinking about an object with positive symbolism. For example, blooming tulips tend to symbolize good omens. Now if you think about flowering tulips or even have these flowers next to your bed, is it possible that you will dream about this good omen since they were the last thing that was on your mind? I was wondering if I we could manipulate dreams after having unpleasant ones a few months ago. I like to have vivid unexpecting dreams, but I was just wondering if we could manipulate dreams in stressful time periods.

[MammaStar]

Okay, I promise not to make a crack about your sanity.....:p

HOWEVER, usually when I have "death" dreams, and especially this past year, a friend has told me that they are pregnant. For instance, I had this VIVD dream in August. A person that Eshallet and I know was killed in this dream. Later that day, my best friend called to tell me she was pregnant. Happened again in December and 2 days later, yep, another friend called me with her news. Wanna go for 3?? Had a "death" dream, my sis in law calls to tell me....yep, you know where I'm going here.

For the other side of the spectrum, on Sunday, while I was in PA, I had a dream about my best friends son. (who's a doll baby and just a month old). I found it odd that I was dreaming about him (and she was in it too, but it focused on Little Hunter). On my way home from NY, my son's step-mother called me to tell me that my son's great-grandmother had passed on.

So, my dear friend Wtchy....I'm hoping that MAYBE your dream means one of your friends and/or relations could be with child.

But I definitely think, that if not a pregnacy for someone you know, then a rebirth for you is getting ready to happen to you.

[Mythrel]

sweet, I'm the lone vote of no...

I have dreams all the time and if I manage to control a dream, it's because I have started to wake up...I can't control my dreams.
My theory on that is I am supposed to see something, or learn something...I'm being told something and that doesn't need me to go in and mess with it...

[WtchyChick13]

So, my dear friend Wtchy....I'm hoping that MAYBE your dream means one of your friends and/or relations could be with child. So LDY, got news for us? LOL

Yes, I'm hoping for the rebirth also. This cycle I've been in now has been going on for waaaaaaayyyyyy too long.

I think I solved one problem--while I'm still having trouble sleeping and having some strange dreams, the most vivid happened...well...let's put it delicately...two nights before and the night before...(ok ladies say it with me)...my "happy time of the month". *****Soooo embarrassed here*****

However, I've noticed in the past that I've had extreme dreams just before it happens. I just wasn't expecting it at this particular time so it caught me off guard! I believe that just like those who have vivid dreams with pregnancy, that hormones play a major role as well.

I do believe in signs of course! I was kind of hoping that it was also a sign that I'd meet that news guy--but hey, that's just wishful thinking!!! LOLOL:D

[materra]

My son has vivid dreams and we are still puzzling over a few of them. :confused: He does control them, he can make things change in them. He also "viisits"people and places in his dreams he knows, and doesn't know. What is odd, is he can often describe things to family and friends that are in the room with them or such that "prove" he was there. Like a meal, or book or flowers etc. :eek: He has had them in Alaska, Arizona, Minnesota, Korea, Rome, Thailand and now Qatar. So it isn't about the location. They have slowed down alot...He isn't able to sleep as much due to his job. A friend told me that he is visiting other lives, and other planes of existance. :huh:

I have them too, but my vivid dreams are prophecies and foretellings for my family and friends. No pregnencies tho...lol.

[Flar's Freyja]

Originally posted by WtchyChick13
So LDY, got news for us? LOL

Yes, I'm hoping for the rebirth also. This cycle I've been in now has been going on for waaaaaaayyyyyy too long.

I think I solved one problem--while I'm still having trouble sleeping and having some strange dreams, the most vivid happened...well...let's put it delicately...two nights before and the night before...(ok ladies say it with me)...my "happy time of the month". *****Soooo embarrassed here*****

However, I've noticed in the past that I've had extreme dreams just before it happens. I just wasn't expecting it at this particular time so it caught me off guard! I believe that just like those who have vivid dreams with pregnancy, that hormones play a major role as well.

I do believe in signs of course! I was kind of hoping that it was also a sign that I'd meet that news guy--but hey, that's just wishful thinking!!! LOLOL:D

No need to be embarrassed about that. Your moontime is a very powerful time, and the veil between the mundane and spirit world is thinner for us then. This is a very powerful time for us to practice meditation and receive messages from our guides and dreams.

[tainted echoes]

wow ok this is perfect for me..dream readings.

actually, ive had many of those dreams where you have them and it's so vivid, it's like a second life. a recurring one that i have had since i was 3, (only going on 11 years of the dream..i'm 13) is a freaky nightmare actually but when i wake up, and i mean literally wake up, i find myself trapped in the dream. i'll start crying (when i was younger anyway) and i look awake, it's not sleepwalking but i can't get out of it. it's almost like i'm trapped until i finish it out, then i can finally wake up and be ok. my dad used to worry until i turned 8, when i didn't get scared so much.
-anyway, if no one minds, i'm gonna post it on here..not so vivid as i once used to describe it because i get embarassed(sp?) easily now.

i start off around 4 years old, and it's like a huge cave. sort of harry potter set up, but more gruesome, scary (at that age anyway) and everything is stones. no lights are needed..if you have seen the movie artificial intelligence, it's kind of like when the kid/robot comes across all the different robot parts before "the moon" type of light. i'm walking in the huge mouth of the cave, there is no exit behind me, there never was one. if i were to keep walking ahead, there is a weird, lighted dresser, almost like the ones in a motel room. instead, i walk to the left and then kind of explore, everyone looks normal and mutated at the same time..just a feeling i have in me. i start walking up this weird plank sort of thing..made of stone and such but i'm not really sure what it is, i keep hoping to find my mom. (i wont tell the rest of this part of the dream because it gets kind of long and boring, <--although it already is-->)
after a little while, the setting immediatly jumps to me being in a cavern thing, a lot like the cave but with water..like an underwater hide out. there is some weird race going on and i'm both spectator and competitor. it's like a drag race with cars, but the cars are specifically designed to fit around your waste and it's canoe looking. as soon as my "friend" bumps into me, hard, i fall into the water and end up in a hotel room. then i see my mom and my dad, my cousin and my aunt. their faces are all twisted up and freaky looking, and yet they talk like normal. there are other people in the room that i dont know, (ironically, i saw one of the women about a month ago, in a store. it was kind of creepy.) anyway, it's like everyone in the room shares a secret that i dont know..and so i run down the hotel room's "hallway" into a dressing room. my cousin is there with her lips all twisted and she's pointing at the plank so i run down there and end up in a empty room. there are two doorways, i'm standing in one of them, and there is a blanket hanging from the other one. my dad is sort of there, sort of not. beds are lined up on the walls, but the beds are big boxes without tops. i run through the white sheet and i'm in a grocery store, running while i look for my parents. i find them, together, laughing and happy, looking as if they had never fought and buying a queen side bed. i asked them for help and they acted like they had never met me, (ironically, my parents divorced when i was 6).
the end of my dream is weird, this is the part where i usually wake up and as soon as i open my eyes, i see a white two story house, cut in half. i can see the insides and some guy is singing "edelweiss" (but i hadn't seen sound of music yet, or heard the song). i never really remember the ending, but i think that the dream has manifested inself into my memory, and mutated over the years. strangely enough, it changes right before something happens, and for some reason, my dreams always seem like they know the future. call me crazy if you like.

<--if you actually read that, i'm sorry it was so boring. just, if i tell someone about it, sometimes the dream goes away for a few weeks.-->

[MammaStar]

Not me Wtchy....though I was hanging with a few gals from school.......I have news..........

ANNE D!!!!!!!! She's preggers!!!!!

[WtchyChick13]

Well that's just eerie!


GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (but eerie) :eek:

[Scarlettvixen]

I have these sort of dreams infrequently and I hate them as generally they are precognition type dreams.

I never seem to have good precogs just disasters, and no matter how hard you try you cant change them, it just unfolds as in the dream, when you try and alter something so the precog doesnt happen it doesnt work

[tainted echoes]

little nothing i thought of a while go: sleep on silk or satin or something just as soft..(i sleep in smooth white cotton) and that could help the bad dreams, it does for me. i used to have one of those bumpy, warm blankets, that are sort of knitted, and it kept me too hot and too "anxious" while i slept, which caused bad dreams.

as for manipulating your dreams, just be aware. make sure that in the dream you tell yourself that, "it's just a dream" and then try to control it. never works for me but it has for a friend.

[Grey]

Those dreams are the only ones I can ever remember every thing else dissapates before the morning.
As for Manipulating it I simply will it to happen by making it the most important thing I want and it happens.:blushake: :boing: