I have recently been looking into the subject of dreams.
Without them, it is scientifically proven you will go insane.
My theory is that dreams are a way for your mind to show things you've been hoping to happen, while nightmares are a way for your mind to bring bck deep fears that you prefer not to think of during the day. Dreams and nightmares also may answer problems in life, but not a math question. It is a way for your brain to escape, and pull in old memories and fears.
Dreams also depend on your sleeping position. Such as, if your arm is twisted, in the dream you may feel a pain in your arm.
Now to the subject of lucid dreams. A lucid dream is where you can control anything in your dream.
Your friend may say, "I don't have dreams", but actually, they do. The average human dreams 20 dreams per night, only remembering about 15 percent of them, or the last dream they had.
I'll add on to to this later.
Discuss dreams.
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I had a dream I was playing Portal 2 before it came out (night of the day before before it came out) and I was on some Online-Multiplayer thing (yes, i know, there isn't one) and I was playing with a bunch of people and someone goes (off"screen") "I FOUND A CAKE!!!"
He walks into the room holding a red velvet sheet cake with cream-cheese frosting dollops and all the sudden GladOS goes (in her robot, no emotion voice) "You have found my secret recipe. I must destroy you now."
And before that my dream was seeing every topic on the Miscellaneous front page be about Portal 2. My prediction was not true however.
more in my next post here.
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Okay this one has two random book references
and it's strange and disturbing really:
Apparently my whole family had died and before we went, wherever, we were in some deranged carnival. We had to ride all the rides ( I only dreamed one of them) so we walk to this blowup slide thing, but what you did was stand at the top and then hurl a family member through a basketball hoop and they would land on the slide.
There was another one based on Inkheart, and you had to look like a character to go in it, so my family stands there (including me) looking at the people coming down saying "He looks like Bob", "She's a Jimmy".
After that, we all go to a picnic table and sit down when I ask "When did we die?"
And my mom says "September 23rd when the Knight Bus came"
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Oh, I had a dream that I was in another dream, and in that one I was in another dream, and I needed to kick my way out each level.
I'm not even kidding. Inception has had THAT great an impact on me.
Although, one night I had a really peculiar dream. It was when I woke up on the ceiling. My personal gravity seemed to have "reversed polarity", so I was instead falling up instead of down.
I'd recently read a Calvin and Hobbes strip depicting a similar situation. It was so funny that I actually went through that same thing in my dream.

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I had a nightmare which took place in an abandoned house with no end to time and there was always something that looked like it could come from a horror movie. 0_o
There was a lady who found a cat on the ground, picked it up, and it killed her.
Her daughter never knew and raised the cat for 6 years. My friends (what ever creatures they were) and I had arrived at the house when someone had explained that story. Then, the cat appeared in the room...
It was a horrible nightmare. Everywhere you went it was horribly scary and I was told by a person that the house would never let you escape, even after you die. Then the dream became Lucid and I realized it was a dream, and then that control faded. D:
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When I was 3 I had a weird nightmare. (well, scary to a baby)
We were at the bank. I was eating macaroni and cheese in a bowl. We drove by a red curtain and I placed my macaroni and cheese on the counter. We drove past the curtain. A purple octopus tentacle came out of the curtain and took my macaroni and cheese.
I woke up and wailed and then realized, "lol wut?"
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I usually dream about girls I like (not in a perverted way)
Besides that I dream about God, politic problems, environment problems, and I have had some dreams about the government completely shutting down. I have also had one dream about a second American revolution.
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Wait, 20 DREAMS?!?
I thought it was 5.

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By the way, some of your info doesnt make sense. If you had twenty dreams and you remember fifteen percent of them you'd remember three of them, not just the last one.
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agscratcher wrote:
Wait, 20 DREAMS?!?
I thought it was 5.![]()
You remember like 15% of them.
I had one where you fly by eating plastic chips with a circle in the middle.
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12three wrote:
By the way, some of your info doesnt make sense. If you had twenty dreams and you remember fifteen percent of them you'd remember three of them, not just the last one.
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Sometimes you just remember the last one, and you don't always remember 15%, but that's the average number of dreams people remember.
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Dreams are pretty cool. I always thought it was weird how you wake up right before you die. Anyway, one time I had a dream where I could control my actions (I think it was a lucid dream). In it, I was a doctor and was supposed to do some sort of surgery but couldn't because I was controlling my actions, and I have no idea how to perform surgery.
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Like 2 weeks ago I dreamt that I was born as a wolf in a wolf pack. My whole dream was how I lived my life, mated, and finally, died.
Any idea what that means?
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Alternatives wrote:
Like 2 weeks ago I dreamt that I was born as a wolf in a wolf pack. My whole dream was how I lived my life, mated, and finally, died.
Any idea what that means?
Maybe you were unhapy with something going on in your life?
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-iNetMaster- wrote:
Alternatives wrote:
Like 2 weeks ago I dreamt that I was born as a wolf in a wolf pack. My whole dream was how I lived my life, mated, and finally, died.
Any idea what that means?Maybe you were unhapy with something going on in your life?
Umm..... I'm 12. In a good family, got enough money, got good friends..... what could I be unhappy with?
Aaah.... Now I remember, I had just finished a book about wolves, can't remember the title though...
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Nuttlajer wrote:
Dreams are pretty cool. I always thought it was weird how you wake up right before you die. Anyway, one time I had a dream where I could control my actions (I think it was a lucid dream). In it, I was a doctor and was supposed to do some sort of surgery but couldn't because I was controlling my actions, and I have no idea how to perform surgery.
I use that technique in lucid dreams. I think "Cool, this is a dream, but I want to wake up!", so I kill myself in the dream. It works EVERY time.
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I had a dream I was at a camp/hotel(Don't ask) place, and there were these fire monsters who looked a lot like zombies from minecraft. Anyway, we could summon water and I was throwing water balls at the biggest one, while everyone else just watched in terror. I have NO idea what that meant.
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600th post!!!
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TheBlueRocky wrote:
Nuttlajer wrote:
Dreams are pretty cool. I always thought it was weird how you wake up right before you die. Anyway, one time I had a dream where I could control my actions (I think it was a lucid dream). In it, I was a doctor and was supposed to do some sort of surgery but couldn't because I was controlling my actions, and I have no idea how to perform surgery.
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I use that technique in lucid dreams. I think "Cool, this is a dream, but I want to wake up!", so I kill myself in the dream. It works EVERY time.
O: You kill yourself? I would be kind of scared to.
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I hate clowns
Dreams can really be creepy when you think they're not
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