Do you fly in your dreams?Are your dreams in vivid color?Maybe you do not dream at all.I have a very active dream world.I have found the older I get that my dreams do not have the bright color that they used to have.I am afraid of heights so alot of times I would find myself falling off of a high building and never reaching the ground.
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Dreams
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Jethro Bodine
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Not like a bird, but like how a basketball player 'flies' in for the basket. I used to be pretty athletic, so I know how the control that one can have when running and jumping has a sensation of extended flight about it. In my dreams I can keep myself suspended for a length of time like that.
I used to do a lot of stargazing and I would have dreams of being out at night under the stars and the 'darkness' was a deep blue, not black like night, and the stars would glow with brightness and not just be specks of light. This brightness would be a striking contrast with the blue.
Years ago in a Humanilties college book I saw a painting of a star lit night that came really close to capturing what I saw in my dreams. I don't have the book anymore and I have not been able to find that painting anywhere.
Never reaching the ground? That's a good thing, right?
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I read that you never reach the ground and splat on the ground dead.Have you ever noticed that you can not feel your feet touch the ground in your dreams?
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They say dreams are necessary for good mental health. And I think it's true. Sometimes a good, satisfying dream can bring a real feeling of peace and well-being. In fact, I had one of those this morning. I have a recurring dream about life when me and my wife lived in a mobile home in upper Michigan in the first couple of years we were married. It was a good time in life.
Dreams serve the purpose of wish fulfillment. Even though they don't actually do that, they leave us with the satisfied feeling that our wishes were somehow lived out. I've come to understand it as God's mechanism for us to help us deal with the frustrations and unfulfilled desires of this life. They sure work that way for me.
Dreams serve the purpose of wish fulfillment. Even though they don't actually do that, they leave us with the satisfied feeling that our wishes were somehow lived out. I've come to understand it as God's mechanism for us to help us deal with the frustrations and unfulfilled desires of this life. They sure work that way for me.
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Yes,God creates dreams for some reason.They have a purpose.
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I'm thinking of the passage in the Bible where the prophet speaks of having a dream that was pleasant to him. A dream and vision of the Israelites being back in their homeland again, I think it was. Can't remember where it is. It reminds me of how I also experience pleasure and comfort from dreams.
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Except if it is a nightmare.I have had plenty of those.
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Never had dreams about falling. Sometimes I have a short falling sensation while falling asleep that'd wake me up again immediately, but it's not nightmare-ish.
But flying, yes. It's really easy, just jump off the ground and don't fall. In some dreams about flying I have to practice it for a while, other dreams I can do it perfectly right away.
Actually I did dream about falling to my death once. Just when I hit the ground the dream stopped and I saw a white noise kind of signal, like when you pulled the antenna cable of an old fashioned antenna TV.
But when I was younger I often had scary dreams about being pregnant. :shock Nowadays I'd be happy to have kids so pregnancy isn't a topic for nightmares any more.
I have repeatedly dreamt of killing someone and then spent the rest of the dream being scared of getting caught.
Also I often dream about the end of the world. My brains comes up with various crazy ideas how the world could end. Then my mind follows the despereate and doomed to fail struggle of the last survivors. Sometimes I'm one of them, sometimes I only watch it as if it was a movie. Sometimes I switch between observer and participant position. Those dreams never involve my own death, they usually end when at that point (or put me into an observer role instead).
And the symptoms of my mental illness haunt my dreams, of course.
Sometimes my night mares end in a state of sleep paralysis that is really crazy. My brain is awake enough to realise where I am, but not awake enough to function normally, it's really crazy and terrifying, but also very enjoyable.
Any attempt at moving my body or calling for help would not only fail, but result in my body and brain exploding (or at least feel as if they would). That was scary when I was a kid, but ever since I learned how that it's a natural phenomenon many people have at some point I do really enjoy it when it happens.
But flying, yes. It's really easy, just jump off the ground and don't fall. In some dreams about flying I have to practice it for a while, other dreams I can do it perfectly right away.
Actually I did dream about falling to my death once. Just when I hit the ground the dream stopped and I saw a white noise kind of signal, like when you pulled the antenna cable of an old fashioned antenna TV.
But when I was younger I often had scary dreams about being pregnant. :shock Nowadays I'd be happy to have kids so pregnancy isn't a topic for nightmares any more.
I have repeatedly dreamt of killing someone and then spent the rest of the dream being scared of getting caught.
Also I often dream about the end of the world. My brains comes up with various crazy ideas how the world could end. Then my mind follows the despereate and doomed to fail struggle of the last survivors. Sometimes I'm one of them, sometimes I only watch it as if it was a movie. Sometimes I switch between observer and participant position. Those dreams never involve my own death, they usually end when at that point (or put me into an observer role instead).
And the symptoms of my mental illness haunt my dreams, of course.
Sometimes my night mares end in a state of sleep paralysis that is really crazy. My brain is awake enough to realise where I am, but not awake enough to function normally, it's really crazy and terrifying, but also very enjoyable.
Any attempt at moving my body or calling for help would not only fail, but result in my body and brain exploding (or at least feel as if they would). That was scary when I was a kid, but ever since I learned how that it's a natural phenomenon many people have at some point I do really enjoy it when it happens.
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Found it:
"23 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “When I bring them back from captivity, the people in the land of Judah and in its towns will once again use these words: ‘The Lord bless you, you prosperous city, you sacred mountain.’ 24 People will live together in Judah and all its towns—farmers and those who move about with their flocks. 25 I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.”
26 At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant to me." (Jeremiah 31:23-26 NASB)
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Haven't had that one yet.
That is a common dream, I think. I mean common to mankind, not common as in 'happens a lot to the same person."
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Being in your underwear in a public place is a common one, too.
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Yes,I have had that one before or totally with nothing on at all.
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Supposedly it signifies some kind of shame that you have (justified, or not) concerning the people and circumstances in the dream where you are not properly clothed.
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Hmmm.....interesting.Once I had a dream that I was not clothed and I wrapped saran wrap around myself.....Duh.......
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It means you're ashamed that you are too transparent around people.
(The first dream interpretation is free. I get 50 bucks a pop after that.)
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Ok put it on my card.You do not care if it is maxed out do you?
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In your dreams.