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Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
If I could completely shut off dreaming, I would.
I have always had far more bad dreams than good/neutral ones.
Even some of my neutral dreams turn bad in a way, where I walk around seemingly for hours (even if it's not really hours) looking for something or someone I can't find.
Good dreams are very rare for me. I had one last week. The dream jumped around to a bunch of different scenes, but all of them were fun. In one of them, I was a player on the Lakers.
I actually have fewer bad dreams now than I used to.
I never have sex in my dreams. Something always stops it from happening.
I have a lot of dreams like that as well - the wandering and looking kind.
And simlarly, whenever something sexual arises, it never actually ends up happening (all the way) in the dream. Except for this one time - I actualluy had a real orgasm in a dream once, and then I woke up and realized I had had it in real life as well. But there was no intercourse - I believe that one was oral sex. Still, at least I "got some" in a dream
once.
One thing I have noted about my dreams; if I'm about to wake up (perhaps coming out of REM too fast for whatever reason), in whatever dream I am in at that moment, I suddenly can't walk - it's like my legs go dead under me. This makes me wonder if there isn't something to the dream theory that our dreams are an alter reality that we live in while sleeping, just as valid as the reality we know while awake. (That would explain why when stuck in that in-between stage between realities, I cannot navigate the dream environment - it's like the essence of me is being torn out of that other place.)
I've read that some have theorized that our dreams are the true reality, and our waking perceptions are the dreams.