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Post by En on Apr 3, 2003 12:02:32 GMT -5
Hm, Willow... I wish I knew who they were or what they are trying to tell us
Puppetlike? When I try to get away from bad guys in dreams, I just get very slow, like I'm trying to run through syrup. *tries to think if s/he has ever gone puppetlike in a dream* I don't think I've ever felt like a puppet. I wonder, are there different kinds of motion a person can experience in a dream, or different kinds of motion hindrance, and does that mean something? Like -- it makes total sense that I should feel like I'm moving through thick liquid when I'm scared; I am a very liquid-based person. I knew how to swim before I could walk, and I get very unhappy when I don't immerse myself in water often enough. So what manner of person are you that in moments of fear in dreams, your terror is enhanced by your body's going puppet-like?
Drego: Good quotes though
Nie: Yet more proof that you and I share an alien metabolism. I get all hibernatory when I sleep too -- quiet, cold, still. Fortunately I have my goofy thin chest wall, so if people worry that I might be dead they can just watch the skin over my sternum to see if my heart is beating
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Apr 3, 2003 21:06:16 GMT -5
Hey, Andy has that too.
I, on the other hand, have a...erm....rather well padded chest, so if it looks like i'm not breathing or something people panic and shake me awake. A bit of a pain really, especially when I'm having a nice dream like that TD is a real place.
Oh hey, I found out that breasts do have muscles in them once. Occasionally, random muscles in my body will go into spasms, it's normally in my arm or leg or sometimes my eyebrows. But this one time it happened in one of my breats while we were at school and we were all meant to be laying still in drama. My breast started moving on it's own like it was jiggling or something. It was awfully embarassing at the time, but now it's just funny and ridiculous.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 4, 2003 5:39:46 GMT -5
Some guys can do that thing with their pecs when they make them pulsate. It's more funny when girls do it though.
I had a really strange dream last night that I got to coach my favourite Aussie Rules Football team. Thing is, I didn't know all the technical stuff that comes with being a high-powered coach so I'd just say stuff like "Woohoo! Good kick" and stuff like that, which really wasn't that useful. And they were playing their match in the backyard of the house I lived in when I was 7, and there were all these white plastic folding chairs in rows on one side, like at a garden wedding. The footy players had to jump around them and climb over them and stuff.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Apr 4, 2003 5:59:21 GMT -5
Someone dreamt of battlecards from Neopets last night. I'm not going to say who it was, but it wasn't me, just someone I know.
I had a dream that my hair kept standing up straight. I kept tryingto smooth it down but it just wouldn't go flat. I tried hair spray, hair gell, eggs, mayonaise, gule, peanut butter and a whole heap of other things but it kept standing up on end. It was weird.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 4, 2003 6:55:28 GMT -5
Dreams about neopets? Someone's been online for too long...
I don't know why, but dreams about hair and teeth and stuff like fingernails and body parts are weird. They make me feel weird, I mean. I used to have dreams that my teeth were falling out into my glass of milk or stuff like that. *shudders*
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Post by En on Apr 4, 2003 16:39:52 GMT -5
I haven't had a disposable-body-part dream in a long time. When I had long hair, I dreamed about that sometimes, and when I tried to quit chomping my fingernails I dreamed about them sometimes, but those episodes were a while ago. But I do dream about losing teeth in fistfights and stuff, or sometimes from scurvy. (Can't tell what sort of books I read growing up, can you?)
Er... yeah. *blushes and decides not to comment on pectoral twitching*
Heh, I love when my dreams are just absurd exaggerations of real life, like Nie's bad hair dream. My subconscious cracks me up too ;D
I often have dreams where I can fly but don't tell anyone. I sort of take longer strides and get a charge out of being able to drift up to the ceiling when nobody is looking, but I keep it absolutely secret, except in emergencies. Like, last night I really didn't want anyone knowing I could fly because I knew if they did, I would be shot. But then I got chased by bad guys and had to either fly over a cliff or get shot anyway
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Post by Calantha on Apr 4, 2003 19:54:46 GMT -5
I had a dream last night, fairly good one, I was in the park...well, in a park, I'm not exactly sure what it was, but I started doing a singing and dance number, but instead of everyone joining in to dance with me, like in the musical dreams that are always used on crappy half an hour specials, no one joined in, and it was quite embarrassing...well, not for the dream me, because the dream me didn't realize I was acting oddly, but the me-me looking in on the dream me was embarrassed for the dream me.
It's sort of creepy seeing yourself in dreams sometimes...like watching yourself...
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Apr 4, 2003 20:55:12 GMT -5
I used to have dreams of secretly being able to fly all the time. That is so weird. Sometimes I would just be able to levitate and then move around at will, and sometimes I would be running and I'd go faster and faster and I'd eventually lift of the ground but I would have to keep my legs running cos otherwise I would fall.
I haven't had a flying dream for a long time. I till don't dream as often as I used to. Remeber there was that period when I just wasn't dreaming at all? That was really really weird.
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Post by En on Apr 6, 2003 16:59:05 GMT -5
What weirds me out is when I switch bodies suddenly in dreams. I change perspectives a lot. Sometimes I'm my boss, or one of my sisters, or even the ubiquitous bad guys, for a few minutes. Very discombobulating.
I have discovered that one of the best ways to make sure I dream and remember it is to make use of my snooze button
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 9, 2003 1:21:42 GMT -5
You know, apparently Dali used to sleep on his couch on his back and place a dinner plate on his chest. He would then hold a spoon or fork or something over the plate so when he was just about to fall asleep, his hand would relax and the spork () would fall on the plate, making a noise and that would make him wake up. Then he'd pick up his sketchbook and draw what it was he saw. That's how he came up with all those surreal images and stuff.
En, about dreaming in other people's bodies, usually that's when you are really close to the person whose body you inhabit and there are particular IRL courses of action that you may want them to take. Either that or you have some method of imposing your subconscious self onto other people? I don't know about the bad guys though.
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Post by En on Apr 10, 2003 8:39:35 GMT -5
Weird. I am definitely not that close to a lot of the people I switch to. Like, I have also switched to total strangers, including the bad guys, right? So I wonder if this is another function of being a fiction writer, that I jump around in the heads of other people, sometimes real ones (for the sake of observing them) and sometimes made-up ones (because I'm in their heads to write from their heads)?
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Apr 10, 2003 8:58:45 GMT -5
Maybe there is something you don't like about what those people are doing En and so you have this urge to make them change what they are doing.
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Post by En on Apr 10, 2003 9:06:35 GMT -5
No, it's not like that. It's like -- have you ever seen the movie "Being John Malkovich"? It's like that. I am in the head of these people, seeing through their eyes, but I am not causing them to do anything. I'm just doing the things that they are doing, more an observer subject to the inevitable actions they must perform.
Like, when I'm in the head of a bad guy, I know that what I am about to do is wrong, but I can't change it at all, as though the body were compelled to do it and I'm just along for the ride.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Apr 10, 2003 9:10:45 GMT -5
Hmmm.....sound like you like seeing things from different perspectives and from the different perspectives of other people. Maybe you'rethe kind of perosn who would love to walk around in someone elses shoes for a day just to see what it's like so you do it in your dreasm, only there you can't always pick who it is.
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Post by Jet Black on Apr 12, 2003 6:16:31 GMT -5
I've been having anime-related dreams of late. Had one of Slam Dunk and one of Saiyuki. Very weird. Unfortunately, I can't remember them.
I had this dream once where I was running along with some girl, all the way along corridors and stuff, and some guys were chasing us. And we flew, too. But we ran mostly..and the ending was that the girl was left with some guy and I was still running, getting away from another guy who wanted to chase me still.
Anyway, I ran down a long corridor and stopped there, a balcony-like thing behind me. That guy came running towards me. I suddenly moved away and that guy fell down the balcony, and I continued running.
Weird. Very weird. ;D
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