I dream a dream! What did you dream last night?

Gramaisc

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Last night I had a dream that @Glam opened a tearoom in Nottingham and I went to visit!

It was lovely!
Have you really not been before?

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staffordjas

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I was dreaming me and hubby were walking along the road thumping each other on the head as hard as we could in anger.

Luckily sons message (in real life)saying he'd got back from work safe woke me up before we killed each other in my dream ..

Had to have a quick check when I woke up that hubbys head wasn't a battered pulp on the pillow in case I had been acting my dream out in my sleep :lol:
 

Gramaisc

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I was dreaming me and hubby were walking along the road thumping each other on the head as hard as we could in anger.

Luckily sons message (in real life)saying he'd got back from work safe woke me up before we killed each other in my dream ..

Had to have a quick check when I woke up that hubbys head wasn't a battered pulp on the pillow in case I had been acting my dream out in my sleep :lol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicidal_sleepwalking
 

BobClay

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I remember reading a quote from Stephen Hawking who after giving a physics lecture was asked about all this quantum nonsense with regard to ‘alternative realities.’
His reply was: “What do you think dreams are ?”
Not an easy question to answer.
 

Carole

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A little while ago my husband woke up and throughout the morning was dreadfully cross with me, which was most unusual

After some gentle probing it transpired that he’d had a dream whereby I’d been “ utterly vile”

I did try and insert some logic into the conversation but he was having none of it.

I ended up apologising profusely, for something I hadn’t even done, and promising never to do it again.
 

staffordjas

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A little while ago my husband woke up and throughout the morning was dreadfully cross with me, which was most unusual

After some gentle probing it transpired that he’d had a dream whereby I’d been “ utterly vile”

I did try and insert some logic into the conversation but he was having none of it.

I ended up apologising profusely, for something I hadn’t even done, and promising never to do it again.
My husband commented once that he often wakes up angry with me because of dreams including me being vile to him.
 

Trumpet

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A little while ago my husband woke up and throughout the morning was dreadfully cross with me, which was most unusual

After some gentle probing it transpired that he’d had a dream whereby I’d been “ utterly vile”

I did try and insert some logic into the conversation but he was having none of it.

I ended up apologising profusely, for something I hadn’t even done, and promising never to do it again.
Quite right too.
 

Trumpet

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I recently dreamt that I was in a sheepskin lined shower cubicle and thick white foam was coming out of the shower head.
 

BobClay

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I'm constantly fascinated by dreams, how they come about and where does some of the stuff come from ? Also, it would seem the memories of dreams are stored in some kind of RAM rather than permanent storage, because even the most vivid slip out of memory within a short time. But do they ever feel real at the time ? :lorks:
 

Gramaisc

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I'm very rarely aware of any dreams, my sleep is just darkness and silence. There have been a dozen or so occasions when I've been aware of 'seeing' something whilst asleep. Only three have been worth remembering.

In 1979/80 I borrowed a book about Tutankhamen and an LP of Kraftwerk's Autobahn from the library. I had a grandstand seat for the whole funeral procession, whilst both sides of the LP were played in full. This was the only one where the scene was definitely played out in full colour.

In 1975, towards the final collapse of South Vietnam, the USAF was airlifting children with US fathers from Saigon, in the belief that they might have a hard time afterwards, if they stayed. I woke up one morning with a 'knowledge' that one of the planes had crashed, a genuine 'belief' that it was true. About half an hour later, I heard confirmation on the news. It's possible that I went to sleep and had left the bedside radio on, but it was off when I checked later, though I can switch things off in my sleep - alarm clocks, usually.

In the mid-1980s, I had a black and white 'film' of two old ladies who lived on opposite sides of my road, and were often seen scuttling across to each other's houses. They were in a darkened, smoke-filled room, having an intricate discussion, for about half an hour, about a raid they were planning on the Midland Bank in Market Square. They had detailed plans on the table between them, which I can remember in general - I have often wondered how accurate they were, but asking a bank to see plans of their vault is probably not a good idea...

I can't even remember what the other few ones have been about.

I think what is going on is that your brain is defragging whilst things are quiet and, depending upon how things are connected, you might get 'leakage' or 'interference' to zones that you are aware of, to some extent. Your brain is up to loads of stuff that it doesn't really see the need need to inform 'you' about most of the time...
 

BobClay

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Brain sorting has been a theory about dreaming for some time and while it makes a degree of sense, especially for dreams wherein you recognize places and events you've directly experienced. But I feel there's more to it than that. I dream every night, mostly fairly mundane but now and again utter off the wall 'where the hell did that come from ?' episodes. More real than real sounds corny, but that's how it seems. My Old Man used to say that some dreams 'are better than going to the pictures.' So I can't buy the 'defragging' metaphor for those. Defragging isn't creative.

I'm not saying something mystical here, or predictive, that makes no sense to me. But there's something more going on I'm sure of that. Maybe 'Monsters from the ID' or some quantum neural process.

Professor Penrose is of the opinion that the phenomena of consciousness is based on quantum level processes. Hence, in his opinion, AI might never become sentient. Machines can't dream. And in quantum processes, anything goes, literally … anything!

Well 'never' is a big and dangerous word in science. Maybe is a better word.
 

Gramaisc

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Most of what's going on in your head is none of your (conscious) business, unless it decides it needs to inform you. "Sleeping on it" and "mulling things over", whilst not really doing much about it, then suddenly realising the solution, are just ways of allowing the backroom processes to churn things over until there's something to talk to you about. The conscious bit that we deal with is just the user interface,

I'm not that bothered by it, but then it doesn't talk to me much, certainly whilst I'm asleep - there's people out there with night terrors and all sorts of really weird stuff.
 

Trumpet

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I often recognise people or places in dreams that have featured in earlier dreams but not in my real life. Almost like a parallel 'other' dream life.
 
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