goes by the name veron (english) or wanting (chinese). a definitive leo born august 1, 1984. a solo traveler. loves cats, coffee, sensual music, yummy food and technology. when she's not at her job as an IS developer for the government, she's likely to be out dining, or visiting an interesting art gallery or event.
do you dream a lot?
i do. i never fail to dream every single night regardless of the lack of sleep or how tired i am. dreams, they are here whether you like it or not. they haunt your sleep like midnight shadows dancing upon the bedroom walls. they are gone by the morning, leaving you with the realisation that you haven’t really slept much.
sometimes you try so hard to not remember something. it may be an unpleasant memory, an old lover, or regrets from the past. you bury yourself in work. you have fun with your friends. but at night, the very thing you are trying to forget creeps right back into your mind in the form of dreams. how paradoxical and frustrating!
dreams, even the nice ones, can be a curse. dreams of rainbows and all things nice are taken away by the first sunlight. nightmares and dreams of death continue to haunt even when they have ended. they may haunt for days, sometimes even weeks.
dreams. have you ever had dreams so vivid you don’t know if they are for real? i dream mostly of events that are perfectly possible in real life. frequently i wonder if these events have already occurred, or a shard of forgotten memories, or just what my nightly ghostly visitors bring.
remember the bungy jumps i took in bali six weeks ago? last night i dreamed that i had to jump off a 30 foot tall wall with literally no strings attached. i can’t remember what it was for. in the dream there were several times i had to do that but each time i never did. i can’t help but wonder: what if i did jump? would i die in my dream? would i never wake up?
i don’t know if dreams affect people as much as they affect me. but seriously, dreaming deprives me of my sleep. sometimes even having seemingly enough hours of sleep doesn’t make me feel rested.
the strange thing is that at times, certain events that happen give me a sense of déj
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yeah, i do.and i heard that to reduce possibilities of having dreams, before u r going to sleep, try not to do brain stimulating activities. Instead relax ur mind before sleep. That will bring abt a dreamless night. Not easy to do that everynight. but u can try. Hope it can help u! View all comments by tinkerman
i don’t think i dream every night. perhaps i do, just that i don’t realise?
strangly, i always have much impression on those dreams on my really tired nights. no idea why. i don’t really have much recalls on those dreams now, but i always have this weird experience: i’m almost asleep but i felt as though i’m going to fall anytime and when i move my legs a little, i woke up in fright and felt as though i was really falling.
i had never expereienced the sense of deja vu, i think it would be really creepy. Anyway, hopefully you’ll have less of those awful dreams and more and the sweet and nicer ones. :) View all comments by Lain
I don’t remember my dreams everynight, but I always get the feeling that I have dreamt something. Usually they’re about medium length dreams, mostly in a real life setting with dreamly things happening, like my surroundings suddenly changing, but me continuing like nothing happened, or object shifting, people changing to someone else.
I’ve had tons of dreams where even though the setting was out of place, it still felt real and likely. I dreamt the world was ending, the clouds were swirling and while sitting in the car with my family, we watched a nuclear bomb drop, and I felt the rush and burning of it just before I woke up. I dreamt I watched a girl about my age with some kind of mental problems be put to death by injection. I dreamt once that I was kidnapped and my face deformed so horribly that I couldn’t function in society, so they kept me hostage to test on. In that dream, also, my fiance kept appearing infront of me in a casket at random times.
I have absolutely no idea what those dreams meant, but they had me completely fooled into thinking they were real and scared the daylights out of me, and those were the nights I didn’t get much sleep.
But I have tons of good dreams, too. Meeting long lost friends, future-esque dreams. I have dreams that seem normal at first and then days later, I get such a rush of deja vu. And sometimes it’s like you said; I might not have been there before, but somehow I managed to dream about it in advance.
I always thought it was completely normal for dreams to be so random or get so vivid. I reckon, like with everything else, different people handle them differently. View all comments by Mandy
hmm brain stimulating… does watching tv or reading count as brain stimulating activities tinkerman? these tend to be the last things i do before i go to sleep. such nightly habits are hard to kill. View all comments by Veron
I don’t know if everyone dreams every night, although I do recall reading from somewhere that this is so, just that most of us don’t remember the dreams we’ve had.
Lain, as for the legs moving and waking up in fright thingy, I think I have similar experiences too. Sometimes when I’m dozing off, my leg jerks for no reason and I awake with a start. After that I become wide awake, as though I just had a short nap!
The feeling of déjà vu does seem quite eerie but as the occurrences become more frequent, I get used to it. A few people have mentioned they experience the same thing too, so I’m relieved I’m not the only one!
I like to think that it’s our subconscious mind playing tricks with us. Apparently only 3% of the human brain functions are known. Who knows what the rest of it does?
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Wow Mandy, when I read what you wrote, it felt like you were penning down my thoughts exactly!
I perfectly understand the aftermath feeling of having those nasty dreams, especially the one with your fiance in a casket. I have dreams where people close to me died, the most vivid one involving my mom. I still remember that dream ’til this day… every detail of it, of how I woke up in sweat and how freaked out I was. All I could do was pray that it wouldn’t come true!
Sucks isn’t it, when we have such dreams and absolutely no control over them.
There are all sorts of dream interpretation websites and books around, with so-called experts trying to decipher what each and every element of our dreams represents. I don’t really bother with what they say. Dreams are so personal, there wouldn’t be a universal chart that can tell us what they mean.
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It depends on u .. if u r just reading leisurely instead of readin deep into the plot.. i guess it shldnt be too stimulating for ur brain. But these differ from each individual. Also, some said that if u r too tensed before sleep, a jog ard the estate or some workouts can help to calm the stressed up mind. Try that! I tried that before, and had a nice sleep thru out the night. Maybe the workouts made the body tired and thus on will enjoy the sleep. View all comments by
Heya! First time browsing your blog! Like what I read here. :)
You are not alone! I do get very heavy dreams as well, and at times, I wake up more tired than when I went to bed. I will feel like I just went to war!
Worse part is, after a bad dream, you worry that it may come true cos some of your dreams did happen in life some time later. Deja vu. Creepy… :( View all comments by red satin
Oh yeah, I use to try looking up the meanings on sites and in books. Nothing really ever made sense. There are way too many unique details, and the small things that could mean a lot to you are never included.
My most terrifying dream was actually a simplistic one. I’d be dreaming something completely normal, and suddenly everything would fade to white. I was then staring at a white wall, just waiting. From the right a large pile of wooden furniture, most of it being a living room set we had when I was little, would slide in into the middle of my view. And then this retro brown/tan/white bouncy ball would appear on the left of the pile, just bouncing. Then it’d disappear and come back on the right side of the pile. It’d switch like that a few times, left to right to left again, before appearing directly above the pile and just before it’d hit the top piece of furniture, I’d wake up in a sweat and scared as hell.
Absolutely no idea why this dream is so terrifying, or why it kept coming back. Glad it’s stopped now though. Maybe whatever it represented I subconciously resolved, or perhaps it was a premonition of an event that finally passed. View all comments by Mandy
Hey tinkerman, you are right. I find that after a good run I sleep much more easily than usual. But it sure takes discipline to do that every evening! View all comments by Veron
Hi red satin, welcome to the club! Looks like we have another heavy dreamer around.
I can totally identify with how you feel after a night of heavy dreams. It sure feels like we had just finished a workout or fought “a war” like you said, rather than a good night’s sleep! Haha… View all comments by Veron
Mandy, that dream sounds very disturbing and haunting! From the way you remember it so vividly right down to the very detail of the ball, it must have bothered you for quite a bit. Well I’m glad you are not dreaming about that anymore.
I think you are right. Whatever dream we have would possibly represent certain things/aspects of our lives. It is perhaps the way our subconsciousness is telling us to fix whatever problem there is. Once these matters get resolved, we stop having such dreams too. View all comments by Veron
For the last 2 weeks I have been dreaming about airports, and that I am about to fly but always wake up before I do. What does this mean???? View all comments by Marthie
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