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[ostensible]

lucid dreaming... means you brought the dream on yourself. and theres some way you know you are dreaming, people use different tricks. but yes, it's like conscious dreeaming.

[Charles H.]

Originally Posted by JON

I've had those types, and they are really weird. You apparently wake up and do all kinds of things, but are really still in bed asleep! The strangest one is where you dream about going to bed and sleeping, but just before you get up!

Jon

those are called false awakenings...they can be unnerving sometimes..usually associated with lucid dreams..

[edge]

well...i'm sure there are some that will agree with the psych approach to dreaming. however, there is more to life than a book can ever tell you. psychology i feel, as much as i appreciate it, i feel, it tries to make solid scientifically or medically proven reasons for everything. that to me is kind of thinking inside a bubble and not accepting there are outside influences that can and will pop a bubble. not everything can be seen or touched. there are greater things out there than just us!

i will step across the line to say that it may be that sometimes psychology is a little afraid to explore and/or accept the unexplained as it just is and a little to contained a thinking.

behavior is one thing...but...can psychology explain dreams with proof to begin with. they cant touch it or prove it physically. so, why do they think they can explain it?

just a thought!

edge

[edge]

when i go to sleep...i never thought about dreaming...after the long hours i put in...i just want to sleep!

the lucids...come when i am weakest....and unprepared. i never understood the first one i had or why. i never consciously thought about it. i wanted sleep!

edge

[angielovesit]

Originally Posted by trinityava

as far as i know,.... everytime i dream, i know for sure that I am dreaming, but let my subconscious ( or is it) take over to see where it goes from there... i do not neccesarily want to control it unless it is a nightmare that i want to get out of.... then I make myself wake up. sometimes though, my dreams feel so real that i carry them with me throughout the day, and if it is a bad dream, i tend to act poorly towards the person the dream was about if it was a negative dream... but always come to the ticker that i need to chill, it WAS only a dream.... for some reason i believe that not all my dreams are memories or subconcious thoughts worries or memories.... but premonitions.... ever since i was young, ive had a "feeling" per say and i know that sounds cheesy, about people just by looking at them or i can instantly tell if someone is full of it.I am easy to pick out shady people. would love to work for the FBI, because i have the ability to "respect innocent before guilty" knowing people are wrongly and justly convicted. THE TRUTH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.
But i know when to speak or to be silent .... people could think im insane with some of the dreams i have had..... im the girl who goes to someones house and knows where everything is already... ive seen it before.... know that i have been there.... but never have........i remember suttle details... like howmuch toothpaste was on the toothbrush... or what pattern the bubbles from thesoap left in the tub or in the sinkwhat the silverware looks like, what kind of soap they use, etc. but can tell them what is in their closet or how their bathroom is decorated before i walk in. spooks me still to this day.... would love to have someone talk to me about this so i may come to terms with my thinking or subconscious.

Everything you said hits right on with me. It kinda made me freak out a little bit. Not so much the last paragraph... but about being able to know a person by looking at them. I've always decided whether or not a person is "good" by being around them for a very short time or even just looking at them once. And I've also found a lot of my dreams to be very foretelling... even if it's very small or silly details that would cause absolutely no gain. It's just kinda unusual. I also can control my dreams... if I want to. Which usually I don't... just like you said... to see where they take me. And if they do get too scary I'll wake myself up. Very seldom do I have a dream in which I'm not aware that I'm dreaming. In my dreams I can always fly... no matter what the situation... I can fly. I'm scared to tell anyone because I know they would secretly think I'm crazy. So, if it makes you feel any less abnormal... I think we share the same "abilities"