Dreams

[sunrise]

I've had quite a few strange dreams, but most of the ones involving water tend to scare me into waking up at the time- I tend to dream of being underwater and losing the need for air, not like I can breathe underwater, just that I don't need to breathe. Then I freak out from that, and start to breathe, but realize I'm underwater and freak out for a second. Then I realize it's a dream, but at that point I end up waking up because of all the excitement and stress. My weirder dreams are when I've fallen asleep with the news on, or when I've gone lucid- in one, I was flying, when I guess I got confused by the logic of it, since I started to fall- so I gave myself a parachute, but it broke, and I ended up landing in my driveway on my side. There was a lot more to it all, but that was the interesting, and easy to follow half of it XD.

[Mermaid Julianne]

Yeah, when I was younger, I had lucid flying dreams. Most of them involved levitating on my sisters ceiling, but I remember one where I flew out the window and went to the eiffel tower, big ben, etc. When it ended, I landed on my sisters bed, and when I woke up, I was in her room. I got so freaked out when I woke up that I actually thought I could fly! Little did I know this was the first time I sleepwalked. I didn't find that out until a few years ago though. Ah, I miss my lucid dreams...

[SeaGlass Siren]

I had lucid flying dreams when I was a baby. I dreamt at night while my dad put me to sleep I could fly to the moon outside the building I lived in. I played with tiny specks of stars and then I flew back home and landed on my bed.

Id do it ten more times because it was fun but I was never able to fly back to the moon

[Mermaid Julianne]

It seems like you enjoyed lucid dreams as well. Those were the days, huh?

Anyways, Until I was about 8, I was able to control my dreams. I used to picture a tv screen in my head, and when I felt like it, I changed the channel or directed what I saw into something I liked. Saying this out loud makes it sound extremely bizarre... But yeah. That's pretty much what happened.

I also dreamt a lot of my old memories from when I was a baby, like my cousins wedding when I was 2. I had that one a lot now that I think about it.
Actually, I had a bunch of recurring dreams, epsecially this one in particular involving a man eating chicken which ate all my friends and family...

I'd give you the details but its way too bizarre for you guys to understand.

[Mermaid Pickles]

Most of my dreams are lucid to a certain degree, meaning I can control certain things. Also, a lot of my dreams, almost all of them, in fact, are repeating. SO basically, I have a pattern that my dreams follow. Certain ones at certain points every few years, and I keep track of them, too. Though, the thing is, all the dreams have been happening over and over again since I was about two or three. Which is really odd, since quite a few of them feature people I met after high school or didn't meet until middle school (and always have featured those people. For instance, when I was five, I had a dream about someone I wouldn't meet until sixth grade.). Also, the things I can control are usually small things that can be used to tweak HOW a certain thing will happen, though the action or event always happens. It's like a video game almost, and very frustrating sometimes. My water related ones are usually either mer-related, or have to do with car crashes. (I always worry about being in a wreck and not being able to get out. Even in my dreams.) My dream with me flying through a desert trying to find a tootsie roll because my sister wants a bicycle is about to come around on the schedule of dream-happenings. Don't even ask about the logic of that sentence. That particular dream makes no sense to me even when I'm dreaming.

[Mermaid Pickles]

And you know what, if I were to post the details of some of my dreams, they'd probably be just about as strange as that, if not stranger.

[Thalassa]

I love lucid dreams! In many of my dreams they're lucid or at least I have power in the dreams to manipulate things.

However, lately my dreams have become...mundane. I'm a teacher, and I'll dream that I'm at work answering kids' questions or that I'm dealing with behavior problems. I'll almost literally go through a whole day at work in the dream, and just as I'm coming home I wake up...and it's time to get up and go to work. I hate those dreams! They exhaust me, and I feel like I've worked twice as much. Sometimes they give me good ideas, but more often than not they just stress me out.

And let's not even get into the nightmares I have around parent-teacher conference time...*shudder*

[SeaGlass Siren]

I actually have two bookfuls if dreams I've recorded. Maybe one day I will scan some fr u guys to read xD

[Miyu]

All of my dreams involve either swimming or flying. When swimming, it's always as a mermaid/water nymph; that is, not struggling like a human :P When flying, well, that's more open to interpretation to my subconscious mind. I'll either physically be flying with this feeling of pushing energy out from myself to fly (not wings, ever), or I'll be in a flying craft (never an airplane, it's usually a flying building - usually a school or mall, or a spaceship, or flying-mall-school-spaceship-thing sometimes :P), or sometimes just kept afloat by some force outside me, as in say a meditation/medicine session where you just float places as you need to go)

[artorias]

To what extent have modern technologies, including neuroeducation and data analysis, changed our understanding of the origin of dreams and their role in revealing the contents of our subconscious?

[valkyrie]

Neuroeducation, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography, allows you to study brain activity during sleep, and identify patterns and correlations between brain activity and dream elements. This contributes to a more accurate definition of the possible sources of dreams and their relationship with mental processes and creative dreaming. At the same time, data analysis allows us to process large amounts of information, and identify general trends and dream themes, which reveals the subtleties and symbolism associated with our subconscious. This symbiosis of technologies contributes to a deeper understanding of the role of dreams in revealing our hidden thoughts, emotions, and needs.