Why do we dream?

Originally posted by patauro
I dream and remember them every night and almost every night I awake in my dream, realize that I am dreaming (while still asleep and dreaming) then I consciously go and do things that I want/need to see and do. I don't know if that makes any sence, but it is very fun, real and enlightening for me.

This is called lucid dreaming. I have sort-of done it a handful of times but not to any great extent. It normally takes a lot of practice to achieve.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lucid+dreaming

It is the realisation that you are actually dreaming that I gather is the hardest part.

--- Penguin.

Originally posted by mlprior
So I had a dream last night that one of my teeth fell out and there was a new one just emerging to take it's place!

So I basically had a third set of teeth coming in!

Does that dream mean that my teeth are far more evolved than the average human teeth?😀

The common dream of teeth becoming loose and then falling out represents the fear of premature ejacualtion.

Yes, I have been doing that sort of dreaming for a long time, I didn't talk to others about it, then found it was called Lucid dreaming. Sounds weird to say this, but this inner dreaming thing, it is a real as right here and now. I have certainly seen and done a lot of things, mostly good things, on the inner. it's a big world in there.

Originally posted by patauro
Yes, I have been doing that sort of dreaming for a long time, I didn't talk to others about it, then found it was called Lucid dreaming. Sounds weird to say this, but this inner dreaming thing, it is a real as right here and now. I have certainly seen and done a lot of things, mostly good things, on the inner. it's a big world in there.

Please send link on article of how to do it.

Originally posted by znsho
The common dream of teeth becoming loose and then falling out represents the fear of premature ejacualtion.

😠

Originally posted by Penguin
This is called lucid dreaming. I have sort-of done it a handful of times but not to any great extent. It normally takes a lot of practice to achieve.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lucid+dreaming

It is the realisation that you are actually dreaming that I gather is the hardest part.

--- Penguin.

That is crazy!

I often have the dream that I need to wake up because someone is in my room, but for some reason I can't move and can't wake myself up. It is very agonizing! I don't know if that is lucid or not. It's probably just a sign of craziness!

Originally posted by patauro
Yes, I have been doing that sort of dreaming for a long time, I didn't talk to others about it, then found it was called Lucid dreaming. Sounds weird to say this, but this inner dreaming thing, it is a real as right here and now. I have certainly seen and done a lot of things, mostly good things, on the inner. it's a big world in there.

I succeeded in doing this only once.

Do you have a sunny disposition? I regular have terrifying dreams which may contribute to my not wanting to wake up in them.

I did have an exceptionally interesting one the other night: I was gaining insight into 'Moebius Man', whose existence was some proof of eternity.

Originally posted by patauro
Yes, I have been doing that sort of dreaming for a long time, I didn't talk to others about it, then found it was called Lucid dreaming. Sounds weird to say this, but this inner dreaming thing, it is a real as right here and now. I have certainly seen and done a lot of things, mostly good things, on the inner. it's a big world in there.

I have done this a few times too, I can't find a particular trigger for
why it happens.

My dreams are much akin to my web surfing experience. They go
something like this. 'Hey, wow I'm in a dream and it's really real'.
Then I get real close to an object, either an ornament or a carpet
and see how good the resolution is.

Then I think 'Oh wow, I can do anything!, see anything, be anyone!'
'Hmmm...'

Then an entourage of big titted women appear and just as I'm about
to paint the mercy tree, I wake up. 🙁

I can usually put myself back under if the intention is strong enough
but the women have usually cleared out and taken the soft
furnishings with them.

What's really weird is coming out of a lucid dream that is staggered
with layers of different realities. You have to go through a kind of
mental checklist of recent memories to confirm it's the right reality.

Can be very disconbobulating.

Originally posted by Thequ1ck
I have done this a few times too, I can't find a particular trigger for
why it happens.

My dreams are much akin to my web surfing experience. They go
something like this. 'Hey, wow I'm in a dream and it's really real'.
Then I get real close to an object, either an ornament or a carpet
and see how good the resolution is.

Then I think 'Oh wow, I ca ...[text shortened]... recent memories to confirm it's the right reality.

Can be very disconbobulating.

You mentioned "layers of reality" which reminded me of my personal expereinces in that respect. This is not really science (yet) and perhaps this/these posts should be in the metaphysical forum, but there is not a metaphysical forum.

Personally I believe there are MANY inner layers of reality, they are experienced by many today and throughout the ages. Recently it seems there is research in this area. For me, I am a well adjusted, good, professional woman who experiences this inner world of dreams and OBE's. I'm not on a crusade here, but I know what I know is real and what is not.

Originally posted by patauro
You mentioned "layers of reality" which reminded me of my personal expereinces in that respect. This is not really science (yet) and perhaps this/these posts should be in the metaphysical forum, but there is not a metaphysical forum.

Personally I believe there are MANY inner layers of reality, they are experienced by many today and throughout the ages. ...[text shortened]... dreams and OBE's. I'm not on a crusade here, but I know what I know is real and what is not.

You should look into "string theory" it sounds like what you are talking about with "layers of reality".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory


I guess I tend to believe more in "layers of consciousness" as I see many people go through life in a kind of coma state.

Originally posted by patauro
You mentioned "layers of reality" which reminded me of my personal expereinces in that respect. This is not really science (yet) and perhaps this/these posts should be in the metaphysical forum, but there is not a metaphysical forum.

Personally I believe there are MANY inner layers of reality, they are experienced by many today and throughout the ages. ...[text shortened]... dreams and OBE's. I'm not on a crusade here, but I know what I know is real and what is not.

There was a transcendental forum for a very brief period of time but now
nobody knows where it's gone.

Studying how the brain utilises and contends with sleep. Together with how
our subjective realities are then perceieved is not bush craft you know?

Nor is the idea that such mechanisms could play a part in the formation
of actual realities.

Maybe this is why such little research has been performed on sleep.

I'm interested in what you meant by this reminding you of your own
experience, care to elaborate?

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Surely not. What is the use of isolated consciousness?

Then there are people who claim to have remained conscious while dreaming. And I've read about people capable of eluding sleep and dreams via a 'higher' state of consciousness.

I want a genuine horn and ivory gate set.

Conciousness allows self analysis, creating empathy and concious self improvement.

Originally posted by Thequ1ck
There was a transcendental forum for a very brief period of time but now
nobody knows where it's gone.

Studying how the brain utilises and contends with sleep. Together with how
our subjective realities are then perceieved is not bush craft you know?

Nor is the idea that such mechanisms could play a part in the formation
of actual realities.

May ...[text shortened]... interested in what you meant by this reminding you of your own
experience, care to elaborate?

I'm usually light hearted, but to get temporarilly "heavy" here , my experience has been that all life experences many "levels" of reality.(which do exist, it's not magic, religous, "metiphysical", ESP, ) It is a matter of scale and awareness in that an aemobie compared to a human compared to an advanced intelligence-obvioslly the feedback loop is more realized as complexity increases.

So to answer your question, perhaps we should do the individual chat thing because others probably think this sudo-science(which it is) and

you coo-coo for asking, and my personal experiences are mine and I don't mind sharing them with you and chatting, but perhaps

not to the whole community/world. Sometimes words fall a bit short.

My doc says it's just our brains firing off neurons.

I've had lucid dreams at least once. It was amazingly pleasurable. I've been trying in a half-assed way to do it again, and I've succeeded only in remembering traces of dreams (I haven't been able to remember my dreams for a while). The trick I use is to count my fingers and/or look at some numbers or words, look away, and read the numbers and words again to see if they're the same. I got that from Wikipedia, which says remembering dreams is the first step to lucid dreaming.