The dream thread

[Genome]

Seriously, how do you all remember your dreams so well?

I know this will sound odd to some people, but I keep a dream journal and record everything I can remember when I wake up.

[ObsequiousNewt]

Seriously, how do you all remember your dreams so well?

I know this will sound odd to some people, but I keep a dream journal and record everything I can remember when I wake up.

I would, but the memory fades too fast. That last one was more than I usually remember. (Except for a slightly strange tune, which I intend to make into a recording titled "Shadows of an Emotion".)

[Astraios]

Seriously, how do you all remember your dreams so well?

Yay for photographic memory.

[ObsequiousNewt]

Seriously, how do you all remember your dreams so well?

Yay for photographic memory.

Does that count in the subconscious?

[Drydic]

Seriously, how do you all remember your dreams so well?

Yay for photographic memory.

Does that count in the subconscious?

People wildly vary in how well they remember their dreams.

[Torco]

I forget like all of my dreams... except for the times in which I remember them, in which case I do with strange clearness.

[ol bofosh]

I often have the feeling that I've dreamt, or I get a fragment but can't remember the rest (the other night I dreamt that one of my cats had a mouse or bird in its mouth).

The narrative is usually fragmented and takes strange turns, which I think is why I don't remember them all.

Example: I go to a shop, when I get there they're serving drinks (because it's now a party, not a shop). Next I turn to a friend, who is now a horse, and we're standing in a field. I mount the horse, go through a toll booth, then I stop and dismount the cat. The dismounted dog then goes off and chases a cat up a wall. I watch the lizard chase the fly up the wall, then I sit down in the café and order an icecream. When my edible violin comes I start playing on it, along with the band that's surrounding me on the stage of a theatre... and so on.

After that I just remember being at some party.

[Izambri]

Usually I remember the dreams I have before I wake up (and that's not uncommon to the rest of humankind, so there's no news here), but there are times that I have dreams in the middle of the night that I remember later, when I wake up in the morning. These dreams are very vivid, and I'm aware, while sleeping, that there are just dreams. When they include horrible or bizarre things I don't feel fear, though; it's like watching a horror movie.

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Last night I dreamed that I went to a show with my family, my sister was performing in it I think. It must have been a competition because we got ballots. I voted for my sister's group before the show started and then I walked off with this group of guys I didn't know. Suddenly we were walking around the building in the parts where there were no people around and for some reason I had my shirt off. They showed me this humongous trash disposal thing that was like a metal box that was open at the top with big spinning blades at the top. We threw some newspapers and stuff in there and then left.
When I got back to my family I found out that I missed the show, but nobody was disappointed or anything. I handed in my ballot and then we left the building. Suddenly my family was gone and I met some of my friends from college. They told me about how they used to have battles with other people and they told me it involved breaking apart trees. They told me to give it a try so I wedged a smaller branch in between two larger ones and broke one of them off. Amazingly, it balanced itself on two stumps that just happened to be nearby but none of them noticed--in fact, they started ignoring me altogether. I got pretty mad about that and I was kind of upset that I messed up a tree for essentially no reason, so I walked off into awakeness.

I know this will sound odd to some people, but I keep a dream journal and record everything I can remember when I wake up.

I do that too. I used to never remember them but keeping a journal seems to help a whole lot :0

[WeepingElf]

I use a clock radio, and often have dreams where at some point music sets in, and when I wake up, I realize that it's the music from the radio.

This morning I had a peculiar variant of this kind of dream. Music sets in, in this case ghastly Schlager music; I wake up and turn off the radio - but the darn thing keeps playing! Then I actually woke up and turned it off.

[Civil War Bugle]

I have had music in dreams, but it is usually unrelated to noises like that. The one I remember most clearly was from a few years ago, where I was driving around what was supposed to be a certain town near Boston, and was listening to what was supposed to be a Percy Grainger symphony which included fast fuguelike variations on the Australian national anthem.

[dhok]

Two of my hallmates, one of whom was inexplicably wearing dental headgear, told me I speak like a character out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and therefore needed a name change.

I have become Jedward Fitzgerald.

[Drydic]

Two of my hallmates, one of whom was inexplicably wearing dental headgear, told me I speak like a character out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and therefore needed a name change.

I have become Jedward Fitzgerald.

Do it, it's an improvement forumwise.

[Astraios]

Seriously, how do you all remember your dreams so well?

Yay for photographic memory.

Does that count in the subconscious?

Well it seems to, as long as I stay still. Dreams slip away if I move about in between waking up and remembering to remember the dream, but if I wake up without moving my body then I can still remember everything perfectly clearly, and then once I've gone over it again awake I can remember it indefinitely even if I move.

[ObsequiousNewt]

I had a dream where something was wrong with a kid's spinal column, so right then and there in the bandroom I decided to perform surgery on him. I unscrewed his shoulder blades, cut off his collarbone, and then took out what I dream-knew was his spinal cord, but looked like a ribcage.

I should probably not become a doctor.

[Thry]

roflmao

dream-knowing is a curious phenomenon... i.e. you know sb is sb without any actual clue; or you know a terrible situation is not nightmarish, but a normal one is... weird.

[ObsequiousNewt]

roflmao

dream-knowing is a curious phenomenon... i.e. you know sb is sb without any actual clue; or you know a terrible situation is not nightmarish, but a normal one is... weird.

I should give Elmin a word for that. How about nenōnimegmmōn-mûwûyāyegm (lit. "dream-know")

[Astraios]

What a boring word. At least give it a separate lexeme.

[Thry]

hypnognosia?

[Astraios]

Nu, a word that's not just dream+know.

[Rhetorica]

I should give Elmin a word for that. How about nenōnimegmmōn-mûwûyāyegm (lit. "dream-know")

Nu, a word that's not just dream+know.

I suggest saudade.

[Izambri]

Viusomni

[Thry]

viu-somni? that makes me think of lucid dreaming.

Nu, a word that's not just dream+know.

why? that's what it means...
let's get rid of daydreaming, malsons, insomnia, somniloquy, and sonambulism too then.

[Izambri]

viu-somni? that makes me think of lucid dreaming.

To me a lucid dreaming is almost inseparable from a dream where I know things previously unknown to me.

But yeah, they're different things, so:

Viusomni = lucid dreaming
Gnosomni = know dreaming

[Astraios]

why? that's what it means...
let's get rid of daydreaming, malsons, insomnia, somniloquy, and sonambulism too then.

Nooo, dumb. In Newt's conlang, obviously. If he's gonna "give Elmin a word for that", then he could at least give it a word, instead of just saying "dream-know".