Sunnywindo wrote:Got a recurring thing going... dreams typically involving the house I grew up in, or a grandparents house, with a paticular involvment of old, dusty attic full of interesting stuff I want to get to but can't. The stairs are falling apart, lack of stairs, lock on the door, door nailed shut, etc. The strange part about the attic thing is that finally, about two or three years ago, I dreamed that I was finally able to get to the attic and it was all clean and open and empty, new and remodeled like a place that's all ready for someone to move in... except for one little tiny one windowed room that was as cluttered and dusty as the old attics had been, just very small. For some reason, that room didn't bother me and I didn't feel like I needed to get in there, being just happy with the vast and newly remodeled part of the attic. I haven't dreamed of attics since. (Did figure the what and why of that one out.) Sara
I think our dreams are therapy sometimes. Some years ago, I nearly lost my daughter to a near-drowning accident. Even though I was able to revive her, it was a trauma. I still have drowning dreams. At first, in the dreams, she was way out in the bay and I would never be able to get to her. Then, later, the drowning person was closer. Or I arrived only moments too late. Finally, about a year ago, I dreamed that I was able to save a drowning friend. I thought I was finished with those dreams. But last week I dreamed *I* was drowning...
I always have strange dreams and usually remember them. I have come to look at them as my brains odd way of entertaining me...
I have had dreams where the entire world is just as it is but underwater, although people don't seem to have any difficulty breathing, movement is restricted just as it would be underwater.
I don't usually have nightmares, unless I'm having a migraine and then I always dream that someone is hitting me in the head with an ax or knife or something like that... I can sometimes control these dreams without waking myself up. I can sortof redirect what's happening.
I have done this in falling dreams also where at first I'm falling and I remember thinking that I don't really like falling so I fly instead.
sandpiper, I know what you're talking about. I can control my dreams too I just have to concentrate, I simply have to "wish" something would happen and it happens (of course, only in my dreams). Like the other night, I produced a fire out of my index finger; I wanted to burn a book in a bookstore
Anyway, sometimes I have a dream in which I have a real hard time moving. Usually I'm escaping from something, but it's like as if I'm bound by unseen chains, I can't move my muscles the way I want.
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I, like everyone else here has weird dreams. I used to dream about this big ugly fish. I would always be standing in fetid water and this huge, sluggish, rotting fish would be writhing nearby and I'd get this feeling of horror. One time, a few years ago, I decided it was MY dream and so I killed the fish. It tried to turn into a lion but I whacked it with a board. I've never dreamed about it since.
I didn't know there were so many LJ people here. How about some links folks.
Nanohedron wrote:
Supposedly the majority of dreamers dream in monochrome. We dreamers-in-color are SPECIAL. Now if only that would make me a richer man....
Who knew? I really thought everyone dreamed in color! I think we should have a poll.
Sara
I just have to concentrate, I simply have to "wish" something would happen and it happens (of course, only in my dreams). Like the other night, I produced a fire out of my index finger; I wanted to burn a book in a bookstore 
