Dreams

[Generally Contrary]

Okay, what do dreams mean?  I'm not talking predictions, but what they say about your mental state.

Last night I dreamt I was shouting at my housemate, but halfway through my rant and rave I found my bellows were whistling out of my mouth - I had developed some sort of lisp.  When I calmed down, I found I had lost one of my canine teeth, and it happened to be in my hand.  It had broken off halfway down, and the piece in my hand was full of holes.  When I realised this I got a terrible pain through the rest of my teeth, as if all of a sudden another tooth was squeezing up from my jaw.  There not being enough space, I could feel and hear my teeth cracking and braking.  It actually hurt.

And then, like all good Terror Tales or Future Shocks, I woke up.  And my teeth were fine.  They are fine.  What does this mean?

It means I'm mental, doesn't it ;)

[VampiraJen]

apparently dreaming about loosing teeth is a sign of stress, i never had it (i try to remain stress free) but a friend of mine dremt this close to exam time.


can you tell me what a recent judge dredd dream means?  It goes a little something like this:

JD was in a corridor that had four big bulky maching moving up and down, like sentries.  if he moved they'd see him and he didn't want to be seem (in enemy territories i guess).  The reason is sketchy, but JD looses all his cloths (but still has his helmet) and has a big cloak wrapped around him.  There is a noise and the machines shut down.  JD puts his cloths back on (they were drapped over one of the machines) just in time for another judge to come into the room, his name is also dredd, but there's something not quite right, there seems to be something kind of sneaky and suspisious  about him.  the scene shifts to a living room and ajoinging kitched.  dredd#2 is making lunch.  a group of people enter the room and JD talkes to some of them about his concers about dredd#2.  JD sees dredd#2 looking in his direction, raises his voice and says, "...so anyway, there i was, right, machines everywhere, and judge dredd here comes to the rescue and saves the day..."  dredd#2 is unconvinced, but goes back to making lunch (a cheese burger).  he sits down, about to eat it when two more people arrive - johnny alpha and durham red.  they looked exactly the was ezquerra would draw them.  it ended there.

am i a nutter or what?

[Queen Firey-Bou]

okay guys, firstly, dreams Rock.
secondly although there are many many books etc on the market who will tell yu 'what' your dreams mean, this is bunk, because an individuals dreaming, associations & symbolical interpreations are theirs & theirs only. There are however lots of tricks can be learn to remember dreams more clearly & to interpret them yourself & to be more objective about it. Often talking to a friend about it can bring meaning & clarity, but beware anyone who says, ooo giant fish represent your fear of spiders, cos its bollox.

having said that, i think it was socraties who said that teeth in dreams represented relatives & friends, two front teeth are parents, next two siblings & so on ?
The teeth dreams are pretty commmon, maybe its loss, worries, fears of losing important stuff or control in ones life?

my worst tooth dream was being in a viet con concentration camp & being forced to each sandwiches ( white bread shudder ) with green old dead peoples teeth in. yaaaaaaa-shudder.

dreaming about dredd, symbolises a healthy diet of comix.

[Trout]

All of the above is evidence of mental illness.

Please report to your nearest euthanasium immediately.

Fear not, fellow boarders! Your mighty fish-king will protect you from these loons.

- Trout

[VampiraJen]

okay guys, firstly, dreams Rock

indeed they do, i keep a written record of dreams that i can remember, i guess to to re-enforce the idea that i am a nutter


...but beware anyone who says, ooo giant fish represent your fear of spiders, cos its bollox

it must be, i've never had any dreams about giant fish.  I think that dream where i lay in my bed paralysed as a spider lowered itself down from the ceiling represented my fear of spiders :(


dreaming about dredd, symbolises a healthy diet of comix.

Yah!!!

[Megadeth]

The last dream i remember having really freaked me out it's a simple one but it really affected me.

I'm in a city centre with a few other people and we're just running around enjoying ourselves for ages and then i just stop and realise we've lost someone. I do a quick head count and realise i've lost Johnny Cash and then i just broke down on the pavement before waking up.

My reasoning for this dream is that i've only just got in to JC's music after his death and the idea that it took death to make me notice something this goos really depressed me.

[Queen Firey-Bou]

well i frequently dream about living in derelict ruins & the thread of homelessness looming over me, or living in my old house, with water pouring down the walls & trying to hide the fact that we're living there, cos its due to be demolished.

this is 3 bloody years after the real house was demolished. Obviously never really felt settled since then. thursday night i dreampt about the old landlord of the old house, who was killed in accident the week they demolished it, real grandfather clock stuff. It freaked me out to still dream of being a tenant of his & subject to the nutters whim, so long after his actual death. I also dreampt of this skitz old lady who bugs me, i had accidently killed her dog ARgHH ! the horror ! Imagine my fright when she turns up at my door today. Aieeeeeee ! leave me aloneeee !

clearly this represents me being pissed of by crazy people & being made homeless.

[Capt.Zeep]

I quite often dream about all my teeth falling out, as well as having mouthfuls of chewing gum that I can't get rid of.

It usually seems to mean I'm too hot.  As in too many covers on the bed or whatever.

I'm generally fairly wary about people ascribing meanings to dreams as 99 times out of 100 they seem to be the most random old bollocks imaginable.

However, Carlos Castaneda has some quite interesting things to say about lucid dreaming, i.e. waking up into your dream and controlling what you do with it.

[Queen Firey-Bou]

so zeep, what do you make of the castenada being a hoax or not stuff ?   i lost track several books ago, but there was definately a lot of valid traditional 'shaman' time philospohie going on. I'm just about at the bit in "the last medicine men " benedict Allens book, where he does peyote with some mexican shaman dudes, so the castenada questions will no doubt emerge again.

[Floyd-the-k]

my three favourite explanations of dreams are:

- they are your brain`s way of sorting out what to remember from what not to remember during the day. There`s no proof for this but it fits with the illogical and jumbled nature of many dreams
- they happen when you need a pee and are waking up
- they mean you`ve been thinking about something a lot. Sometimes. I would guess you`ve had problems with your housemate or have shoutted at someone recently.

fortunately you have a conscious mind, so you don`t need to worry about what your dreams mean.

[Mr D]

Oh god. Don't get me into dreams. I have the most inexplicable dreams. Gorillas, whales, regularly visit the same 'imaginary' places...

Strange stuff.

I miss my dreams!

[JayzusB.Christ]

'as well as having mouthfuls of chewing gum that I can't get rid of. '

I've had that one a few times too. Mind you, i was working in a bronze foundry at the time, and had a permanent congested throat, partly thanks to the manager's 'ah, asbestos just gets a bad press' attitude. I've had the loose teeth one a good few times, and recently, when I was very run-down and didn't feel the best, dreamed I had an artificial leg. Sometimes, psychanalysis is just not really necessary.

[Matt Timson]

I often dream about having one leg shorter than the other, which is really frustrating and whenever I dream about being at home- it's always the house that I lived in from the age of seven until I was sixteen.  As I've spent less than a third of my life there, I can only assume that this is because the most important years of my life (psychologically speaking) were spent there.

Not too long ago I dreamt about being at home and it was the house that I live in now.  I remember waking up afterwards and thinking, "well *that* was weird".

I once had this brilliant Robbie Williams dream in that we were buddies, even though we'd literally just met, and he kept getting us in all sorts of trouble.  Obviously , I worried about getting in too much trouble- but he'd just dismiss my worries wit a quick "don't worry about it- I'm Robbie Williams"- like that was the answer to everything.  I don't even want to know what that means*.






*No, Wils- it doesn't mean I'm gay...

[VampiraJen]

i HATE the dizzy dreams, when i'm trying to get to somewhere, but i go all lightheaded and the room goes all weird and everything is further away from me than it should be, and my legs stretch out further than the should and i feel like i'm falling backwards.  it is extreamly difficult to navigate up stairs in dizzy dreams.


i heard that dreams are centered around what you do during the 12 hours prior to falling asleep.

[Queen Firey-Bou]

well way i see it is , its electrical pulses fireing along synapses, during the day loads have thinking has happened on many levels, & during the night this shifts down deeper into other layers, the pulses are firing up & down other nuerons, neurons of association or memory.. i disagree floyd ! the layers of subconsious mind are a wonderful amazing untapped resource, vital on every level & utterly intergrated with our so called consious thinking, which lets face it , during our waking hours our head is having several umpteen layers of thinking pulseing around all the time anyway, its all important, wether its doing that arithmatic about the shopping, respoding to a pretty face at the bus stop, or worrying about past mistakes, this is how minds work, a myriad of complexity.