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Fishboy:
I get decidedly odd dreams by most peoples standards. I do not like to sleep a lot of the time.

Iron_Fist:
I had my very first lucid dream experience a couple of days ago. I had a false awakening, and was in some sort of ruined temple in a jungle. It appeared as though I had just fallen from a ladder into the ruins. The ladder led to a portal that was the entrance to my previous dream, the one I had just had a false awakening from. I decided to focus my attention on the Tiger. Because you know, it was a fucking TIGER! I looked at the tiger and said "holy shit... I'm in a dream."
The tiger looked at me and spake, "you sure on that one bro?"
I answered in the affirmative. After that the tiger proceeded to walk around giving me a lecture on the nature of dreams and reality. I really can't remember the specifics. It is also interesting to note that he started clawing at my pants in the way that a cat claws at a couch.

sandysmilinstrange:
Last night for the first time in a long time I had my scary hitchhiker dream.

In this dream I am driving to Oxford (going to visit my sister) and still driving the car I had in high school, mayitrestinpeace. I see a man trying to flag down a ride on the side of the road, but because I am a girl and driving alone, I do not try to pick him up. I drive further. The song on the radio switches to a poorly recorded song played on a violin and I look down to change stations. When I look up, I see the same man standing on the side of the road. Reasonably thinking that he couldn't have traveled this distance faster than me, I decide to look back when I get to the stop sign and see if it's the same guy or just my imagination or what. I stop, look over my right shoulder and see no one on the side of the road. As I turn back around, the violin music comes back on again, and the man is standing right next to my car looking in the driver's side window. I usually wake up right when he breaks the glass, though in the past a few times I have grappled with him for a bit before I wake up.

It's very vivid. And frightening.

onewheelwizzard:

--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 15 Feb 2009, 18:46 ---Last night I had a dream where I was on a toilet going to take a shit but my nieces kept trying to get in through the window until they finally managed, then unlocked the doors and like 10 people came into the bathroom and were just talking and I was like "Dudes, I am busy here." but they wouldn't leave so I got up and went through the door into the bathroom(there was a bathroom adjacent to the first bathroom, because this was a modern house) and I really had to shit so bad that when I finally got to I was both coughing up shit and shitting at the same time and had to spit my shit into the toilet.

I think it means something.

--- End quote ---

If you were a random anonymous person on the internet who I knew nothing about, and that was your dream, my first guess at an interpretation of it would be that you might be a person who is so self-conscious about hanging on to a lot of stuff that you perhaps don't want to let anyone know about (like negative judgments of yourself and/or others that you don't think you "should" have) that, terrified and embarrassed at the thought of being seen associated with the (unpleasant-looking) process of relieving yourself of these judgments (perhaps you would cry, or say things you consider beneath yourself) that it is actually taking a toll on the quality of your life in some way, and that some relief from the stress of "holding on to your shit," so to speak, would be a good idea (usually taking the form of talking about your judgments and fears to someone who wanted to listen to them).

(The trick here is that this is true to some extent for almost everyone, and all I need to do is phrase it in a certain way that makes an implicit connection to the dream.  Dream analysts are people who successfully form a connection between anything that's true for most (or even some) people and any dream that anyone has, such that the dreamer in each particular case finds the connection meaningful or enlightening to some extent and believes it to have revealed something about themselves to themselves.  It's not impossible that this vague and impromptu dream analysis itself might be successful, but I personally think that any kind of dream analysis that isn't actually driven by a lot of personal character judgment, which I obviously have little to no basis for in this case, is really just a guess.  Here, watch, I'll do it again.)


--- Quote from: Iron_Fist on 16 Feb 2009, 15:06 ---I had my very first lucid dream experience a couple of days ago. I had a false awakening, and was in some sort of ruined temple in a jungle. It appeared as though I had just fallen from a ladder into the ruins. The ladder led to a portal that was the entrance to my previous dream, the one I had just had a false awakening from. I decided to focus my attention on the Tiger. Because you know, it was a fucking TIGER! I looked at the tiger and said "holy shit... I'm in a dream."
The tiger looked at me and spake, "you sure on that one bro?"
I answered in the affirmative. After that the tiger proceeded to walk around giving me a lecture on the nature of dreams and reality. I really can't remember the specifics. It is also interesting to note that he started clawing at my pants in the way that a cat claws at a couch.

--- End quote ---

The guess I'd make at what is often true for people and might therefore be true Iron_Fist is that maybe there is a really strong urge (that remains unexpressed as any consciously felt emotion) to explore alternate forms or states of consciousness.  Having a first lucid dream tends to be a bit of a wake-up call to that drive, and the fact that his immediate reaction to having a lucid dream was to examine and question the nature of that mind state suggests that maybe he'd get a lot out of a deliberate effort to explore the subject.

(Of course, anyone who seriously tries to interpret their own dreams is going to fail MUCH more often than anyone who examines the dreams of others.  The whole premise behind interpreting a dream is an attempt to "uncover" something that may have been "true" for a while but was never consciously "known," something that the "subconscious" mind is attempting to bring to the attention of the conscious mind.  Therefore, a conscious mind is going to have a hard time of coming up with precisely the truth that has been hidden for long enough to have surfaced in a dream.)

Man I don't know a whole lot about what I'm talking about but this is pretty easy.  Maybe it's cause this is the first thread I replied to after getting high?  I did the same thing on the "sweeping generalizations based on music taste" thread but I can't remember if I was stoned at the time or not.

Iron_Fist:
Actually I've been trying to lucid dream for a while now. This is just the first one.

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