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Kelvarhin
Half-elven


Jan 31 2013, 8:11am


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Return of the Getting to Know You thread

well, sort of, there's really only one question this time aroundSmileLaugh

This came about while I was laying in the bath listening to my iPod and this song by Crowded House came on.

It reminded me of one of the times I was very ill and experienced a very vivid fever dream, it actually had this song playing in it.

It led me to wondering if any of the rest of you have experienced vivid fever dreams whilst ill, that have stayed with you for months or years after.

My most recent one didn't involve any sound, and I'm still not entirely convinced it was a dream, it was just of a tall male figure with dark hair standing in my bedroom doorway, watching me. It was so vivid I actually asked my husband who was visiting us.

So over to all of you SmileHeart

*and that dream was well before The Hobbit came out, so it wasn't Thorin WinkLaughEvil*

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Rolfina
Rivendell


Jan 31 2013, 8:59am


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Lucid Dreams

Just last week I was ill and in bed (don't think I had a fever though). I was alone in my apartment, and was just dozing but not sleeping. Suddenly I heard footsteps next to my bed and went rigid. Moments later I felt how a huge dog jumped onto the bed, and sniffed my face. I was very scared and didn't dare open my eyes, and I was convinced I wasn't dreaming. After a while I realized the dog was gone, so I got up and walked into the hallway. There was my mother's dog, playing with another dog, and a note from my mom saying she found me sleeping and she would be back later. Suddenly I knew I must be dreaming, because my mom would never just come over like that, and she wouldn't leave her dog, leave alone another dog behind. Usually when I realize I am dreaming and I want to wake up, I am able to wake myself up from this dream. This time however, I tried to wake myself up, I woke up, sat up in my bed, and wanted to take my mask of (it was day so I was wearing my sleep mask), only the mask was glued to my face, and I couldn't get it off. I kept pulling at it, and was able to pull off layer after layer, but never the whole mask. I was able to lift a small edge off of one eye then, and looked out the window, and saw the tree on the other side of the canal. And again I then realized I was still dreaming, because there is no tree there. After that I was finally able to wake myself up, and take my mask off for real.

I usually have very vivid dreams, and now I realize I have neglected my lucid dream training, but this is something that really fascinates me, and that I would love to hone. But I haven't quite figured out how to really manipulate a dream once I know I'm dreaming. Sometimes I feel I have achieved something (like I want to turn around and have "him" standing there, and once or twice he was there), but once I wake up I am unsure whether I have actually manipulated my dream, or if I have merely dreamt that I had manipulated my dream. Very confusing. Sorry for the rambling, I love talking dreams, and you asked for it.


Rosie-with-the-ribbons
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Jan 31 2013, 10:56am


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Uhm, you were dreaming of

Edward Wink (hihihihhi!!! you see, you do like him!!!).

But back on topic (even when this is Off Topic).

I have a reference to a song I now hate so much because I had it stuck in my mind when I had a very bad stomach flu (K-Ci & JoJo - All my life). I was up an entire night, feeling terrible and I had an exam the next morning that I had to take, because if I failed I had to re-do an entire year of school. And this song just kept on playing in my mind. (so no link, I can't stand to hear it).

And for dreams, I can hardly ever remember dreams and usually they are totally unlogical. I have one I can remember that was so crazy. I was shopping for a wedding dress with my mum. And she kept on coming with those flimsy thin summer dresses, when I was looking for a dress with fur lining, because I was getting married on a ship in the Ice-sea. (I'm not married, I don't have any intentions to get married, I never went wedding dress shopping and I certainly don't have any plans to get married on a ship, let alone in the Ice-sea, so where all this came from, I don't know).
And the other dream isn't so much of a dream but a moment. I'm with friends or family, usually people I know and some I don't, but there is always somebody I do know. And all of a sudden, out of the blue, a huge lightning bolt strikes right next to us. And that being the end of the dream, because I will totally wake up from that dream when lightning strikes.



sherlock
Gondor


Jan 31 2013, 11:14am


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I don't have to be sick

To have vivid dreams & nightmares-I have them often. My husband died three years ago at home & I often have dreams of him that seem very real although I'm never frightened by them. Once you've watched someone close to you suffer & die things don't scare you much. At least that has been my experience. I love talking about dreams & analyzing them but I have to get myself off to work. Hopefully, I can come back later today to join in the discussion.


Magpie
Immortal


Jan 31 2013, 12:54pm


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I got violently ill while cabining

I had been reading Ender's Game which had this part where the kids are going through this intense, repetitive, training.

The intensity of that training with the obsessiveness of my brain meshed with the illness and I indeed had fever dreams (although I'm not sure I had a fever) that centered on obsessively doing the same thing over and over and over and over again.

I actually often have dreams of this sort. I can remember having an obsessive dream about learning to tie my shoe so that tells you how far back that goes! But those are dreams. Annoying dreams. This evening was elevated in intensity by triple or quadruple fold.

And I was so freaking sick. Up every 10 minutes throwing up. So I'm not even sure if I was dreaming half the time or hallucinating.

I'm not sure if I can watch the movie that's coming out or not.


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Magpie
Immortal


Jan 31 2013, 1:20pm


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I worked through the deaths of my dog and my father in dreams

Neither experience was as intense as what you went through, I'm sure.

But I was very aware that, what I was unable to do awake... I did sleeping.

For my dog (a dog I had while I was living alone and who died suddenly, unexpectedly, and not entirely pleasantly), he came to me in dreams. First, they told me he was sick and was going to die but it had been a long time but he hadn't and now he was fine. Then, he was sick and supposed to die but it had been a long time and I wasn't sure if he would. Then he was sick and dying. Then he had died but then he came back and was fine. Finally, I dreamt he came to me and looked up at me. I looked down at him and said... "Ashley, you're dead." and he never came back.

I did the same thing with my Dad. Those dreams were similar in that they had the same degrees of 'dead': supposed to be dead but not... supposed to be dead but not yet.... dead but not dead - this was not creepy in any way at all... it was more they had gotten another try at life. Like recharging a battery. But in my dad-dream, he was there but no one would acknowledge him. It was as if he was invisible to them. I would get real mad and yell at them, "He's not dead. He's right here. Pay attention to him." Finally, there was extended family at a picnic (there was always extended family with my Dad's side) and everyone was ignoring him and I just sat down next to him and said, 'Dad, you're dead'. And he never came back in my dreams.

In both cases. I don't think I needed to inform them of something they didn't know. I needed to accept it. They were fine with being dead but they were waiting for me to be fine with it and they were giving me a little more time till I got fine with it.

On my Dad's side of the family, there is some experience with talking with the dead. My grandmother and aunt both had experiences seeing family members after they died. I didn't see my dreams as that at all, though. I was very aware they were dreams and that they were driven by my psyche.


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BoromirOfWinterfell
Rohan


Jan 31 2013, 1:47pm


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Comic-book induced dreams

I didn't really have a fever, but I was ill. I had recently discovered The Walking Dead comics, and had been reading them all day. I was so paranoid about zombies that night I checked every nook and cranny in the house, and made sure nothing was behind me. I fell asleep on the couch, and had an extremely vivid and disturbing dream. The problem was that it was a dream within a dream. So when I finally woke up, I thought that I was still in a walker-infested world. My heart rate was rapid and I checked outside to make sure the people were walking normally. Luckily they were.

Needless to say, I've been avoiding reading/watching something for too long at one time.

Þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg - that has passed, so may this.


Annael
Immortal


Jan 31 2013, 3:30pm


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measles

I had the measles when I was 8 (before the vaccine), and it was the worst illness I've ever had. Not only was I ill for three weeks but I developed a strep infection and an ear infection so bad one of my eardrums burst. One night my fever was so high I became delirious and hallucinated or dreamed that my father was coming down the hallway to my bedroom while the hallway tipped from side to side, and he was carrying a bunch of thorny branches like you would a bouquet of flowers. It was so vivid, I've never forgotten it.

I often dream that people are in the room with me; I wake up because I either sit up or put my hand out to touch them.

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Annael
Immortal


Jan 31 2013, 3:41pm


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there are a lot of resources out there on lucid dreaming

both books & online stuff.

I taught myself to dream lucidly in college & still do it. As part of that I taught myself how to fly in dreams so that I could fly at will and soar without effort. I still remember one dream where I was flying along the coast about 50 feet up and just kept going and going. Another time I dreamt I was being chased by a T. Rex, and reasoned in the dream that the Ice Age killed the dinosaurs, so ran onto a glacier and got away. But mostly I use the ability to change dreams in the direction I prefer.

I'm fascinated by the subject too. My favorite book on dreamwork in general (not lucid dreaming) is The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman.

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Kassandros
Rohan


Jan 31 2013, 4:02pm


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Only under the influence of meds

I remember a dream I had when I had to take codeine as a teenager. It was long, vivid, and strange. I probably remember it as well as I do because I had to write about a dream I had for a class back then, so it stuck.

It involved meeting Jesus on an ivy-covered tennis court, walking with the "silly club", and seeing that the Beatles got back together on TV - complete with John somehow. This was actually just a year before the Beatles Anthology reunion where ya had the first new Beatles songs in years. So kind of prophetic.

all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us...


Aragalen the Green
Gondor


Jan 31 2013, 4:12pm


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I had a similar experience

after my father passed away 30 years ago. I dreamed I was walking with Dad, and I kept looking at him, and finally asked him "you are dead, right?" He answered, yes, and that was OK, and we walked together until I woke up.

There it is: dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.


Aragalen the Green
Gondor


Jan 31 2013, 4:19pm


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Television dreams

The weirdest dream I ever had was from a TV show, I dreamed I was on Gilligan's Island (LOL!) and eating chocolate pudding.

Once I dreamed I was an officer on the Enterprise, (TNG).

And once I dreamed I was a pro basketball player (being a 5'4" tall female, it was rather bizarre :)

My favorite dreams though were when I dreamed I was birds. Once a hawk, flying up and landing on a cliff. Another time I was a great blue heron, flying over a swamp; and the third I was a raven flying over a nearby Indian reservation.

None of these dreams were fever or medication induced. Just my crazy imagination.

Fun thread, thanks!

There it is: dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.


Ataahua
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Jan 31 2013, 7:20pm


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I haven't seen that video in *years*.

I love that song - thanks Kel. :)

Until I was five and had my tonsils out I used to get high fevers and be delirious. The only one I remember was when I tried to sleep but whenever I closed my eyes I felt like I was made out of sticks.

About your tall, dark stranger, he might be the result of hypnagogia. After a quick and dirty Google search I see that it usually involves sounds and visual phenomena like speckles - and also those horrible falling sensations where you jerk awake - but it can also generate lucid hallucinations. I've had those hallucinations twice: The first one scared the living heck out of me when I saw a woman standing beside my bed, but she was rotating horizontally so quickly that she was blurring. In second one, there were two other people in the bed with me.

I'd be quite happy to leave my hypnagogia dream tally at two.

Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."

"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.


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Ataahua
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Jan 31 2013, 7:23pm


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I really hate

trying to wake up and not being able to.

There's an episode of House where one of his assistants has to decide whether or not he is locked in a dream state. To get out of it, he has to kill himself - but if he's not dreaming then 'killing' himself will be lethal for real. I was very uncomfortable watching that episode.

Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."

"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.


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Ataahua
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Jan 31 2013, 7:29pm


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One time I had a reaction to codeine

and was taken home to sleep it off - and promptly dreamed of purple elephants!

Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."

"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.


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Magpie
Immortal


Jan 31 2013, 8:11pm


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I used to have dreams...

where I would wake but not be able to move.

I was in bed next to my husband but I literally couldn't move. These always came after having a really bad nightmare.

I'm still not sure if I thought I was awake lying next to my husband but I was really dreaming. Or if I really was awake and I could not move.

I kind of think I was awake but woke abruptly during a stage of sleep where the body is paralyzed and I needed to let my body catch up with my mind's wakefulness. But I don't know if that's even possible.

But I can tell you, waking from a terrifying dream and not being able to move seemed worse than not being able to wake up. I can always tell when I'm dreaming. I may not like the dream and I feel every emotion as strongly as if the situation was real but I know I'm dreaming.

To be awake, terrified, and powerless was awful.

Thankfully, this period of terrifying dreams ended after a number of years. I still have occasionally scary or bad dreams but not as terrifying as those.


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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Jan 31 2013, 8:14pm


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I've been keeping a dream diary for 45 years.

Most of my dreams are interesting to me, but maybe not to anyone else, though I did have a spate of LotR dreams in the years 2001-2004. It might be a measure of something that I had a dream about "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries" the other night.

But occasionally I have a lucid dream, and it's amazing. Usually they take place in a very natural everyday setting. For example, once I dreamed I was attending an outdoor concert in town. I ran across an old friend I knew was really dead. My brain fought for a while with the realization that I must be dreaming. "But this all looks so real!" I argued with myself.

Another time I started dreaming before I really fell asleep and knew I was dreaming from the moment it began. I dreamed I got out of bed and went for a drive. I was looking up at the mountains and thinking "I'm really doing a good job with the visuals in this dream. I've got all the details of those peaks right." It was like being in a virtual-reality game and being amazed at the realism of it.

Another time I dreamed I stood in the corner of my room and suspected I might be dreaming. I tested it by trying to float up to the ceiling. When I succeeded, I knew I was indeed dreaming. That happens pretty frequently.

And I often have what I call flash dreams, where I'm not quite asleep and suddenly have a vivid dream that lasts less than a second but is filled with detail. Once I saw a square in eastern Europe with a statue and a cannon and a palace and lots of people, and every detail was clear and sharp. Another time it was a painting of Noah's Ark, and I could see hundreds of animals in exquisite detail, but only for a flash. Another time it was a stained-glass window in a cathedral, with intricate stonework and colors. I always love those. What an amazing thing the brain is!


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Ataahua
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Jan 31 2013, 8:20pm


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Thank goodness that has stopped.

The idea of being paralysed after a nightmare gives me the chills.

Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."

"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.


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silneldor
Half-elven


Jan 31 2013, 10:54pm


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No fever dreams Kel:)\\

 















Nienna
Rohan


Feb 1 2013, 2:55am


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Yes, a guy chasing me with an axe!

Once when I was a young teenager I was ill and had a stage where I was delirious.

A guy dressed in black was chasing me in the dark waving an axe and trying to bring it down on me as I ran frantically away from him. It was terrifying and I've never lost that sense of terror and helplessness.


Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal


Feb 1 2013, 4:32am


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I've had hypnagogia twice too.

Once I'd seen some TV show about Jack the Ripper, and that night I saw him walking down the hall toward the bed. Luckily I'd read a Psychology Today article about hypnagogia and figured out what I was seeing. It was still really creepy, though.

The other time was when I had climbed a really grueling mountain. We were coming down after being on the trail for about 16 hours, and I saw our son sitting on a rock beside the trail. (He was three at the time, and being babysat by my mom.) As I watched, he disappeared.

I think the flash dreams I related in my post below might be a kind of hypnagogia.


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zarabia
Tol Eressea


Feb 1 2013, 7:22am


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Usually have very vivid dreams, but can't remember any fever induced dream

I've always had crazy, complex, detailed, vivid dreams though I usually forget them soon after waking. Once when I was a teenager living with my mom in Samoa, I had a dream that made me scream so loudly I woke the whole village where we were living. (They have fales there - thatch-roofed with no walls - so sound really travels) I woke to hear my mom and step-dad rushing toward me panic stricken asking what had happened. I really had no idea what they were talking about. I tried to answer, but my throat was raw from screaming and my heart was racing. It was then that I saw lanterns (no electricity in the village at the time) being lit all around in the neighboring fales and heard people calling out to my step-dad to find out what was going on. BlushTongue I just thank goodness that I didn't remember the dream.

The last few years, I've been on anti-seizure medication which turns the vividness of my dreams up to 11. Laugh I often wake up laughing - or at least snerting - gasping with surprise, screaming with anger*, tearing up with either sadness or joy... I sometimes wake up thinking, "Whoa! That was deep." I definitely seem to work through issues and emotions in my dreams; I just don't remember them for very long upon waking.


*Actually, I don't scream aloud, but I'm panting from the exertion of screaming in the dream. Crazy

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Rolfina
Rivendell


Feb 1 2013, 7:49am


Views: 559
flying in dreams

I used to do that a lot when I was a child. One of the few experiences recently where I was lucid dreaming, I actually managed to fly, I ended up in a space like scenario with colorful stars and galaxies around me, it was awesome. How did you teach yourself to dream lucidly? I am going by checking time, or anything written in a dream now. For a while when I was awake I would double check everything to confirm that I was awake, and when I dream I notice that the time on my mobile changes from one moment to the next, or a letter or menu changes, and then I know I'm dreaming. And usually get so excited by the prospect of being able to take control, that I wake up shortly after. Mad


Rolfina
Rivendell


Feb 1 2013, 7:52am


Views: 558
same experience

I was twenty when that first happened to me, and it was very very scary to me at the time. I was lying on my side and looking at the wall and couldn't move. For days after that, I avoided sleeping on that side. But then it happened more often, and I learned that the more I tried to fight it (you try to move and it feels like you're moving, but nothing... moves), the scarier it would get. So I taught myself to endure the paralysis and just wait for it to pass. Luckily that has faded out somewhat, I hardly have this anymore. To this day I am not sure whether it was a dream experience, or actual consciousness with paralysis. I tend to believe it's the former though, because the dog and sleep mask dream felt a lot the same.


Rolfina
Rivendell


Feb 1 2013, 8:01am


Views: 592
Hobbit dream

and since we're on the topic, I want to share a funny dream I had, this was before AUJ came out. I was in some large building, not Middle Earthy, more like a library without furniture, or an old gymnasium. I was there to apply to join the company of dwarves, and when I opened the grand door to the hall where everyone was waiting to audition I guess, I actually bowed and said "Rolfina, at your service". I said Rolfina, and not my real name, because in my dream I felt it was a more appropriate dwarven name. There were lots of other dwarves in the room, and I looked around for familiar faces, and to find Thorin (strictly business!), and suddenly I realized they would be able to tell right away that I don't belong here, because I don't have a beard. So I tied my scarf around my chin. And then Fili came and told me I was in, and showed me my name on a list, but it wasn't Rolfina, it was a new name. I said "yup, that's me". Unfortunately I don't remember the name now, although I did remember it after I woke up, and it wasn't anything from the book or any other Tolkien book or other. A completely made up new name. Well that was all there was to that dream unfortunately, but it gave me a good laugh after I woke up that morning.


Alassëa Eruvande
Valinor


Feb 1 2013, 2:54pm


Views: 528
I've only had one really high fever in my life.

When I was a kid, I got up to 106. Unfortunately, I was awake for it all. My mom even dragged me into the doctor's office, and that's what I remember, sitting miserable in the waiting room.

So, no fever dreams, and not even any drug-induced dreams. Mr. Eruvande is the one with the wacky codeine dreams, so he refuses to take codeine.



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grammaboodawg
Immortal


Feb 1 2013, 5:25pm


Views: 522
Very intense!

I think someone was watching over you, m'dear :) I believe in that sort of thing and have witnessed it many times.

Thankfully, I've never been so ill that I've been hospitalized or lost in a fever, but dreams are always there. One that I just spoke with my family about happened many years ago, but I can still see it, feel it, and fear it! In my many travels (whilst a homeless hippie in the 70s), I dreamt I was driving our old Ford Van back to Michigan from Florida to see my Mom and Dad; but when I got about 2 miles from our home, the roads had all changed and I didn't know how to get there!! 15 years later, the roads were changed to accomodate the growth of the local airport... and the new roads looked exactly like the ones in my dream.

*shudder* Lost a lot of trees and a small park... which all of us still miss.

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Eowyn of Penns Woods
Valinor


Feb 1 2013, 7:13pm


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My one and only really high fever was cause for hilarity.

I didn't find it so hilarious. I was kinda P.O.'d. I drag myself out of bed and down the hall with a nasty case of the flu, and when asked what I'm doing up, I get laughed at for gasping "Bagpipes." ..."I heard bagpipes." ..."On the TV!" ..."Yes, I did!"..."It just took so long to register and for me to crawl down the hall that you've already forgotten the show or news blurb it was on!!! It woke me up, I tell you!!!11!"

I'm often influenced by a TV that's on while I'm trying to sleep, and will wake up in response to some things, and my memory is better than my parents'. I'm convinced I heard a cop's funeral or a parade or something like that through the wall, but the only thing the incident really proves is which cultural heritage runs strongest in me! ;)

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Roheryn
Tol Eressea

Feb 2 2013, 9:14am


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Oh! That reminds me...

One of the most fascinating things I've discovered about dreams and flying is that no two people fly the exact same way in their dreams. I've done polls here in the distant past, and with people in "real life" too, and the range of methods and styles that people use to fly is absolutely fascinating. I'm sure there's some deep psychoanalysis someone could do on this, but I wouldn't know where to start.


Magpie
Immortal


Feb 2 2013, 4:25pm


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In my dreams... I would tread air

in the same way as one treads water.

I would just kind of kick around my feet and wave my hands and arms and I would achieve loft. I didn't travel far or fast nor did I get very high, but I could kind of control the direction I went.

I haven't had that dream since adolescence, though.


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Aragalen the Green
Gondor


Feb 2 2013, 5:06pm


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I taught myself to fly in dreams :)

I started out years ago trying to fly in a dream. I'd run and jump Superman-style (lol) but was only able to fly about an inch above the ground, then fall to earth. It was so much fun that I was determined
to try and actually think about it (while asleep), and over time I learned to go very high up into the air, which was cool too because I'm terrified of heights. Later I "learned" to just step up into the air instead of jumping.

It is interesting because it feels so real in my dreams, and I'm showing my friends how I can fly, and then something reminds me that it's just a dream. Usually like "oh I can't wait to show so-and-so how I can fly when I wake up---aw nuts!". It's such a totally different experience, a little like the weightless feeling when swimming, but without the water.

You should do a poll again! It would be interesting to see how others fly.

There it is: dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.


sherlock
Gondor


Feb 3 2013, 12:00pm


Views: 498
Yes,

My husband either is all better in my dreams or he was dead & now is alive again but will go back to being dead or something similar. It doesn't scare me but can be unnerving. It's been three years now & I'm finally at the point where I think about him with happy memories rather than sadness or longing.


sherlock
Gondor


Feb 3 2013, 12:10pm


Views: 489
I have those half awake half asleep dreams in the morning

I know I'm dreaming & will try to change the dream's outcome. I also went through a period when I had a lot of nightmares & had to learn how to change their outcomes.


sherlock
Gondor


Feb 3 2013, 12:12pm


Views: 489
I used to fly in my dreams when

I was younger-it was great &I I'm afraid of heights, too.


Kelvarhin
Half-elven


Feb 4 2013, 7:48am


Views: 480
Yeah me too

and I really love that song too, it's on one of my music playlists that I play a lot :)

Hm, never heard of hypnagogia before, but it sounds plausible with what I experienced, it was so vivid!

I'm glad mine wasn't as bad as yours!

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One by one they faded, and fell into shadow...

One book to rule them all
One book to find them
One book to bring them all
And in TORn bind them
In the land of TORnadoes...where the brilliant play



Kelvarhin
Half-elven


Feb 4 2013, 7:48am


Views: 481
How about regular dreams sil? //

Cool

Bag ENZ Home of the Hobbit *with thanks to cameragod ;D*


One by one they faded, and fell into shadow...

One book to rule them all
One book to find them
One book to bring them all
And in TORn bind them
In the land of TORnadoes...where the brilliant play



Kelvarhin
Half-elven


Feb 4 2013, 7:52am


Views: 482
You know

you could be right gramma. What I didn't say before was that the image was backlit by a very bright white light, so all I could make out was that it was male and had dark hair, I couldn't see their face very clearly because the light was so intense. Curious...

I find it really sad whenever we drive up to Perth, it's spread so far south that much of the land that was bushland when we moved south has pretty much disappeared. I'm so glad my town is completely surrounded by state forest that can never be built on.

Bag ENZ Home of the Hobbit *with thanks to cameragod ;D*


One by one they faded, and fell into shadow...

One book to rule them all
One book to find them
One book to bring them all
And in TORn bind them
In the land of TORnadoes...where the brilliant play



Kelvarhin
Half-elven


Feb 4 2013, 7:53am


Views: 493
Got any normal

whacky dreams you'd like to share with us?

*I know, I'm an evil little kitty Sly *

Bag ENZ Home of the Hobbit *with thanks to cameragod ;D*


One by one they faded, and fell into shadow...

One book to rule them all
One book to find them
One book to bring them all
And in TORn bind them
In the land of TORnadoes...where the brilliant play



Kelvarhin
Half-elven


Feb 4 2013, 7:58am


Views: 481
Funny you should say

about hearing footsteps. I woke up the other night, convinced I'd heard someone outside our bedroom window, down the side of our house saying "Come on, we can get in here".

I was out of the bed almost before I was awake and checking all the rooms, doors and windows, making sure the boys had remembered to lock them. When I looked outside there wasn't anyone there. Mr Kel told me the next day it was probably in response to us talking about replacing the side fence. It certainly freaked me out lol.

And rambling is fine dear, I do it ALL the time. At least I do when I have the time to come and play here, don't get to do that as much as I used to.

Bag ENZ Home of the Hobbit *with thanks to cameragod ;D*


One by one they faded, and fell into shadow...

One book to rule them all
One book to find them
One book to bring them all
And in TORn bind them
In the land of TORnadoes...where the brilliant play



Kelvarhin
Half-elven


Feb 4 2013, 8:01am


Views: 484
*twack*

You should know by now I only fancy REAL men WinkLaugh

Comment from youngest son after seeing an ad for Twilight "That's not a REAL vampire!!!" SlyEvil See out of the mouth of babes Wink

Bag ENZ Home of the Hobbit *with thanks to cameragod ;D*


One by one they faded, and fell into shadow...

One book to rule them all
One book to find them
One book to bring them all
And in TORn bind them
In the land of TORnadoes...where the brilliant play



silneldor
Half-elven


Feb 4 2013, 3:11pm


Views: 480
Ok kel just for you....no one else look.....

When i was in my teens living with my folks (in my high school days), I would have these dreams occasionally. I would dream i was bounding down the street and all over actually, 50-100ft at a time, finding spots up through the tree branches and back down again. I would realize after a bit that i was naked and felt embarrassedBlush. . It was momentary because the sense of elation and freedom was so intense i ceased to be alarmed by it. The lightness and grace i felt was incredible....

I had largely forgotten them until i first read the passage form 'Fog on the Barrow -Downs' as Tom Bombadil told them, 'You've found yourselves again....Be glad, my merry friends, and let the warm sunlight heat now heart and limb! Cast off those cold rags! Run naked on the grass, while Tom goes a-hunting." From that and getting to know Tom and Goldberry, how can one not know how to live and love.

....Hey, who's peeking?















Kassandros
Rohan


Feb 4 2013, 4:50pm


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Although I love flying, I never fly in my dreams.

In addition to flying different ways, some people don't ever dream of flying. Oddly, I don't seem to have any of the "normal" dreams like flying, falling, or going to work or school naked.

It's funny, too, because I actually am fascinated by flying. I've only tried hang-gliding once but absolutely loved it and hope to get into it more regularly at some point in the future. And I love watching birds in flight. A fair portion of my poetry involves flying in one way or another. But dreaming about it? Pretty much never.

all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us...


imin
Valinor


Feb 4 2013, 5:42pm


Views: 469
Has anyone ever dreamed they died in the dream? //

 


Kassandros
Rohan


Feb 4 2013, 6:53pm


Views: 471
I usually wake up just before I would be killed.

I used to have a recurring home-invasion type dream which usually involved lots of fleeing and eventually being cornered in an impossible situation. That's when I'd wake up. I believe if I'm ever trapped and about to be killed in a dream, I wake up. Thankfully, I haven't had many of these dreams lately.

all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us...


Aragalen the Green
Gondor


Feb 4 2013, 11:07pm


Views: 477
Luckily no,

but I have the stupid-falling-edge-of-sleep dreams, when I wake up with a jerk (sorry Mr. the Green :)

And when I was very young, I had a recurring dream where a tractor was chasing me down the street. In front of my Grandma's house. Cool

'"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb.'


imin
Valinor


Feb 5 2013, 12:28am


Views: 465
Yeah that is what happens to me

apart from one time. I just wondered if anyone else had.

For me it was kinda weird as i couldnt believe it and as i died i realised it was a dream and it went into rewind almost. And i woke up again and watched the blood going back into me, then i sat up, stood up and as i knew i was dreaming i just flew up into the air and away, haha.

I regularly have dreams where i know i am dreaming. For the most part i can then do what i want, but if i have had a bad day then something will be lurking in the dream pestering me e.g. some zombies or something random like that, but as i know its a dream i can just get rid of them easily but some how i cant stop them from coming back after what seems like a few mins.

the most useful dream i have had was when i was revising for some exams. I was stressed out and was looking at the pages of this text book for hours but nothing was going in and i felt like i had learnt nothing. Then in my dream i dreamt i was revising (how dull!) but i could read the pages and basically i revised in my dreams and when i woke up i knew lots of the info i needed to and i was amazed! Somehow my mind must have remembered the pages and pages of content like lots of photographs. Wish i could do it more often, would be really handy!


arithmancer
Grey Havens

Feb 5 2013, 1:37am


Views: 460
I had a dream like that once...

One time in college, after spending hours and hours on a quantum mechanics problem set, I solved the one problem I could not figure out in a dream. And when I woke up, I remembered and could write down the solution (and it was correct). Alas, it was a once in a lifetime event, apparently!


Kelvarhin
Half-elven


Feb 5 2013, 2:07am


Views: 461
Thanks sil!! :D

You know that dream could explain your pink bathing suit episode Wink *hugs*

In seriousness though, your dream seems to be saying, just be yourself and embrace life, which you do SmileHeart

Oh no one was peeking I've just read your reply lots and lots of times AngelicLaugh

*there ya go people, got you out of trouble Laugh*

Bag ENZ Home of the Hobbit *with thanks to cameragod ;D*


One by one they faded, and fell into shadow...

One book to rule them all
One book to find them
One book to bring them all
And in TORn bind them
In the land of TORnadoes...where the brilliant play



silneldor
Half-elven


Feb 5 2013, 2:28am


Views: 460
Snert;)

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dernwyn
Forum Admin / Moderator


Feb 5 2013, 3:44am


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No, not peeking, not peeking at all!

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