Last nights dream..
Now I supose you know by now I have at least about two to four dreams every night! This is typical of me, but sadly I don't always write it all down.. the last time I got into a binge about writing all of my dreams down, or at least the lion's share of them, was about two years ago.. or actually previously to that, because it was about two years ago when I really kind of stopped keeping up with it.. sadly, I wanted to have a few different bloggs and such to keep up with my many many dreams.. and I my very very first web site was actually a home made "blogg" but more like a dream journal with artwork starting in 1998...
I wrote down so many dreams and they were over the course of about only two weeks, and then because of a computer cleaning (it wasn't my computer) My easy Html program without having to understand a stich of html was sort of uninstalled.. so there went those updates until I reinstalled the program and redid everything.. but it was too late, things changed.. it was via this page I met HIM.. this wonderful strange person I fell in love with:
I dreamt of him last night; I dreamt that we were going to meet up with a friend which was a pen pal at about the same time we met, but then became a friend to both of us.. we were supposed to meet up with him in London, but due to the flooding in and around the Birhmingham area, he was unable to travel out to see us.
So in the dream my husband and I were making plans to meet up with E. and he was staying someplace and I was really happy to see him, and it seemed that for some reason he knew about my youtube account and was very interested in me bringing my guitar to where we were meeting up. Later on I am suposed to do something, and so I take the train by myself all the way to where my husband is, and I thought about it, and felt slightly anxious about it, but at the same time, really good to be out traveling on my own and thought, it will be good to meet up with him again.. and while I was on the train, I took out my off white fender strat and started playing while I was on the train.. and it felt really ok.. that I could do it..
So picture this, me on a moving train, watching the landscape go by on a public space, no one was complaining about my playing and people were just doing as they do, some were watching some were not, and I was enjoying myself and happy that I was going to meet up with my husband and friend.. nice dream.
I wrote down so many dreams and they were over the course of about only two weeks, and then because of a computer cleaning (it wasn't my computer) My easy Html program without having to understand a stich of html was sort of uninstalled.. so there went those updates until I reinstalled the program and redid everything.. but it was too late, things changed.. it was via this page I met HIM.. this wonderful strange person I fell in love with:
I dreamt of him last night; I dreamt that we were going to meet up with a friend which was a pen pal at about the same time we met, but then became a friend to both of us.. we were supposed to meet up with him in London, but due to the flooding in and around the Birhmingham area, he was unable to travel out to see us.
So in the dream my husband and I were making plans to meet up with E. and he was staying someplace and I was really happy to see him, and it seemed that for some reason he knew about my youtube account and was very interested in me bringing my guitar to where we were meeting up. Later on I am suposed to do something, and so I take the train by myself all the way to where my husband is, and I thought about it, and felt slightly anxious about it, but at the same time, really good to be out traveling on my own and thought, it will be good to meet up with him again.. and while I was on the train, I took out my off white fender strat and started playing while I was on the train.. and it felt really ok.. that I could do it..
So picture this, me on a moving train, watching the landscape go by on a public space, no one was complaining about my playing and people were just doing as they do, some were watching some were not, and I was enjoying myself and happy that I was going to meet up with my husband and friend.. nice dream.
posted by AstroSphinx | 8:33 pm
4 Comments:
Two to four dreams a night standard? Man, I have two to four dreams a month if I am lucky. Is there a technique you apply or do you think you are just naturally proficient? I mean, I know that I am dreaming, I feel it happening, but even what I think I'm going to remember, I don't on waking. I think I'm missing out, it's like a third of my life and the most surreal third at that. And I refuse to eat rarebit.
Once I start talking about my dreaming life and how much I remember it opens a topic.. especially when I have to wonder that myself; Am I doing anything different? Am I just prone to dreaming more, so I can remember more, I think it maybe...
When I first got the chance to borrow a video camera from school quite a number of years ago, it was one with the timelaps feature; it would take one second of every minute, and reduce a whole nights sleep to a matter of minutes... to visually see. I did this because I had a sleep walking problem, so I thought if I filmed it I could catch myself SLEEPWALKING... but I caught myself doing something remarkably different. I only knew one thing about REM sleep.. (the dream state supposedly) and that was it was supposed to be in cycles starting about two hours into sleep at night.
Well this one thing which was different was that I found it was only several moments after finally getting to sleep; oh it takes a long time for me to sit there with my eyes open waiting.. (I even put the clock right beside the shot to keep real control of when everything happened).. it was directly after the last song I remembered listening to, I was asleep.. and as I was asleep I was in REM directly.
I did this experiement a few times to figure out what was going on, and asked a few friends who had a background in medicine and biology about this...and they told me, it could be the sign of sleep deprivation to go directly into REM sleep.
Ok, so I had to look some things up, and I didn't find any information on that idea; but one thing I did find doing my research was that we don't usually REM the entire night.. no, even new born babies don't do that...
there is something different about me. I still have to do research on that, and I will as soon as I get the chance to borrow a camera which has that timelaps feature... but I have another idea.
I think maybe because the body is paralysed in the REM stage for the most part, that this was my defense mechinism against sleep walking.... and sleep terrors.. since no one has reported for a number of years that I've been sleep walking, I have to say that my body has found the solution via dreams.
Something someone posted on the topic of the hormone released by the pineal gland "DMT" said that we release it when we dream..
ok then they go on to say when the scientists have done experiements with this drug DMT the more you have, the less you recall.. maybe, if this is a logical hypothisis, everyone else who can't remember their dreams releases more DMT than people who can remember their dreams.
Its just a thought, and may not even be valid since it was the first time I even heard of anything dealing with DMT and dreaming.. before that, the only thing I knew was that we adults release human growth hormone in our deep sleep cycles..
I have a friend who on occasion suffers from Sleep Paralysis, which seems a persistence of the paralyzing effects of REM sleep, and includes, beyond not being able to move, hypnagogic hallucinations. I asked him about the quality of his dreams and he said that he dreams vividly and frequently. Sleep walking must be a terribly frightening thing to have to deal with. I can't help but think that there's a relationship between these sleep "disorders" and the prevalent, lucid dreams. The latter seems the compensation for the former if you think about the world working in that way. Gifts and curses, they're the same thing a lot of the time, aren't they?
Cheers Astro
Gifts and curses are very often considered one in the same.. the same thing which sets one appart, can also be the most vunerable area of your life.. take for example "Van Gogh" or "Dali"....accept that you are not going to be "normal" and you just have won half of the battle.. I suppose.
The sleepwalking was only scarey when I lived on my own and woke up with all the lights on, doors open.. because I had been running around the entire apartment doing things I didn't even know I did..when all I was trying to do was stop sleeping with the lights on.. but that in itself is a long story.
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