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Topic: Do you Dream in Color? In Stereo?
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David Stambaugh
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posted 07-31-2003 04:23 PM
1. Do you dream in color or black and white? Usually in color.
2. Do you dream "as you" or from a 3rd person perspective, watching yourself? As me.
3. Do you hear sound in your dreams? Is it directional? Yes to hearing sound. Now, off the top of my pointy head, the only times I can recall where there was directionality was when I was dreaming about movie theaters! Yes, I confess, I occasionally dream about movie theaters. If the dream includes a film actually running, then the sound is present and it's directional.
4. Can you feel physical contact of any sort in your dreams? Rare, but it does happen.
5. Are you ever aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming? Yes! Every once in a while I'll have a really intense dream that lasts a long time, at least a few hours. I will be semi-conscious part of that time, and know I'm in that state, and the dream continues. If it's an unpleasant dream, I will wake myself up, walk around, then go back to sleep, hoping that the dream doesn't continue, but sometimes it does. Isn't that called lucid dreaming?
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Tim Reed
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posted 07-31-2003 04:31 PM
Yes, to color, internal point of view, and sound. Can't tell you about directionality, though, never noticed. I have always had the capability to control my dreams and what I do in them, ever since I was about 7. Used to fly a lot, too, just because it was fun.
However, as I've aged, I've had more of a tendency to just let them go on their own and see where they take me. I can always change them or bring them to an end if they go somewhere I don't like, or if I want to start all over again fresh.
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Mike Blakesley
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posted 07-31-2003 06:08 PM
I usually dream in DTS unless the disks don't show up.
The worst part is listening to the stupid "DreamTunes" music before the dream actually starts.
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Seriously, I dream in color and 'as myself.' What's funny is, I don't usually dream about people who are close to me like my wife, parents, or siblings, but rather people I've just met or used to know a long time ago. I would say about 75% of the time I don't remember what I dreamed about, so the preceding is probably all wrong.
I remember the night after we finished automating the projection booth at the Roxy, January 20, 1980. That night I dreamed that I drove down the street and saw fire coming out the booth windows. There was no other traffic or any other people around, no fire trucks or anything. It was just burning up. That was a weird dream.
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Evans A Criswell
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posted 07-31-2003 10:18 PM
Dreams are a very interesting subject, since I've had some very strange experiences with them. I'll take the questions as Joe asked them.
1. Do you dream in color or black and white?
In color. I believe I've had some black and white dreams, but they're extremely rare.
2. Do you dream "as you" or from a 3rd person perspective, watching yourself?
"As me". Other types of dreams (where I see myself from another person's perspective) are very rare.
3. Do you hear sound in your dreams? Is it directional?
The sound in my dreams is usually exactly the same as if I were in the situation in real life.
4. Can you feel physical contact of any sort in your dreams?
Yes. When I come in contact with objects or people in my dreams, they feel as if I'd come into contact with them in real life.
5. Are you ever aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming?
Yes, It often happens. My brain has become very good at detecting when I'm in a dream. Typically, something out of the ordinary triggers the thought, and after that, I can start controlling the dream (usually by stopping it).
A good example of this was a few nights ago. I dreamed I was looking out the window at 2:00 AM and it was daylight with the sun shining. This is quite a neat, pleasant experience that has happened before in dreams. My brain immediately realizes "it's a dream" and the dream was over within a minute.
The strangest thing happened about a year ago. I had a "dream within a dream". I woke up from a dream and even realized the first dream was ending when I woke up. Soon after waking up, I realized something was amiss and soon woke up from that dream. It's the first and only time I ever remember that happening.
Someone mentioned having dreams that take place at a certain location, but the location in the dream is actually another location. Many of my dreams take place in the house I grew up in, with that house being mine, or my parents'. I moved from that house in 1988, and my parents moved from it in late 1999 to a different house, but the dreams still often take place in the old house. The same happens with buildings and workplaces. Different locations from my life end up in the same dream, adjacent to each other, even within the same building.
When I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade, I had a dream that was a full-length color animated (2D cartoon) movie. That's extremely rare, and I can remember almost nothing about it. There have only been a couple other occasions that I've dreamed in animation. It's rare.
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Rick Long
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posted 08-01-2003 11:04 PM
Don Sneed said:
Wow what a cool questions....I can relate to all that have answer, never thought about it that deep, but cool to relate to everyone....been cooler to have been stone and read these.. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Yup, that's true Don, trust me.
Cool as it is, however, I should like to add one more question. Joe said I could. Well no he didn't really, but he might have. Anyways before he sees this, I'd better ask my question.
6. After waking up from a dream, do you ever examine the recent events and experiences of your life that relate to this dream / in other words, why did your brain decide to dream this?
It has been said that the body really doesn't need sleep. Perhaps the part of the brain that receives the pain of working all day doesn't want to realize this and is telling the body to sleep.
Is it possible that the rest of the brain however, in order to keep from going insane during 8 hours of non-incoming visual and audio activity, coupled with bodily inactivity, makes up its own senarios?
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