Extremely realistic vivid dreams?

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Anyone ever had these. The past 2 nights i have had the most realistic dreams of my life. The first one was so realistic i thought i was awake. It took place in school and all my friends had their exact same voice, same style of movement, same style of facial expressions, same type of emotions...im talking about 100% replicas here. Im not going to ramble through what the dreams were about because that would take to much time. Anyway, the first dream soon became a bad one, i became extremely scared and frightened. It feelt as if everyone was a demon and darkness closed in on me as i paniced, then i woke up.

The second dream (i just had it) was way more pleasant. I fell asleep around 6PM yesterday, and i woke up 8AM today(rare). As the other dream, it was extremely realistic. This time it took place in my house, and a really hot girl from school was here together with me and one of my best buddies. For some reason, the dream turned into a sex dream. I wont go into detail, but it was just amazing. The feeling of touch, heat, breathing, sound, everything was just like real life. When i wake up i feel like i would do ANYTHING to go back to the dream and stay there forever. There was a feeling of love in the dream too, like i was connected with everyone and there was extreme euphoria of wellbeing. And no, i was not high or influenced by ANY substance at all.


Just thought id share, and please tell me there are some of you out there who has experianced this too!
 
inb4 Ennui's lucid dreaming experiences and how-to
 
My most realistic dreams are not vivid at all.

EDIT: Doh, I meant to say my most realistic dreams are not lucid at all, which is what I thought he said.
 
Raziaar said:
My most realistic dreams are not vivid at all.
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When im talking about vivid i mean the background and surroundings. Which are mostly just overflow of bright light. Everything else, sound, touch, emotions, were real and vivid in the sense of extreme realism.
 
Yes
Such as my many falling dreams...
Might sound weird cause most hate those but i love them
So....exhilarating
heh heh heh
 
Ravioli said:
When im talking about vivid i mean the background and surroundings. Which are mostly just overflow of bright light. Everything else, sound, touch, emotions, were real.
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DOH. LOL For some reason I mistook vivid for... **** what's that word... where you can control them.

God dammit I can't remember them. Women of Ninja Warrior has my head for a loop. Argh.

EDIT: LUCID! YES LUCID
 
I've had dreams like that except they were much more boring by comparison.

But the most exciting one I had a year ago, I had the complete sensation of flying. I don't mean like weightlessness I mean feeling the air whip past me, being able to direct myself and feel my stomach lurch when I moved.

It was... amazing.
 
I had one recently that wasn't realy too realistic, but for some reason I mistook it for reality. Even though the people weren't recognisable, it was just the feeling and dialogue... Anyway, a few hours after waking up I realised that it was a dream and that kind of creeped me out... I would probably have realised that earlier, but I didn't realy give it any thought, like you don't just doubt the reality of something that actually happened, do you?
 
All my dreams are super vivid, only most of them are surreal and awesome.

I had sleep paralysis for some reason the other day, and it was ****ING METAL.
 
Sleep paralysis means Satan is sitting on your chest trying to turn you atheist in your sleep.
 
Well, I mean what was funny is that traditionally you are supposed to imagine an evil dark figure who is standing over you, something horrible on your chest, perhaps a scary old woman or a shape in a black cloak and hood. But what I encountered, lying there quite unable to move my body, only twitch a vague limb, was far more mundane. The presence which I felt in my room was that of a nonspecific friend, a girl, I think. The fear I felt was mild embarassment that she was walking around in my room, rooting through my things, and I was unable to stop her or even simply assert myself socially - I felt vaguely I needed to perform a kind of territorial action, like, this is my room, I shouldn't just be lying here weakly. I guess also I felt she might find something embarassing. It was a funny old unconscious thing. This other person intruding into my realm of sleep and dreams, which is mine for strange thoughts and fancies, and private. So it was more a social fear than anything actually very scary, which must be why I found the experience interesting and merely unnerving, rather than totally terrifying.
 
Dreams are just your brain running simulations using your recent memories so that you know how to react to future situations involving the events that you've experienced on that day. Recent memories appear more often because the recent past is the most influential on the near future. For example, if you've been playing a certain video game a lot recently, you will tend to have dreams about that, because your sub conscious is predicting that in the future you will have more experiences with that video game but in slightly different ways. That is why dreams can sometimes seem cognizant, your brain extrapolated into the future, and predicted a situation very similar to one you actually experienced, so you have a feeling like you've been there before, and you have a subconscious expectation of the result of your actions, and thus you are more prepared for that situation.

A lot of the time the details of a dream are very general because the details aren't relevant to the simulation or your instinctual reaction to that situation. When dreams are very detailed, it can mean that your higher level conscious mind is needed in the simulation to plan your reaction, and it is demanding more sensory input to predict higher level reactions.

Memory of your dreams is recorded by your brain reorganizing it's lower levels of conscious reactions according to the results, rather than logging the details of the events for your higher consciousness to use, because details of simulated events aren't useful, unlike the details of actually experienced events. That is why your memories of dreams usually don't stick around. When they do, it means that your higher consciousness was still engrossed in the situation when you woke up, carrying it in your short term memory, and that gets logged into long term memory along with your other experiences that morning.
 
It's pretty bad at it then. 99% of those simulations never actually happen :p
 
Eejit said:
It's pretty bad at it then. 99% of those simulations never actually happen :p
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You wouldn't realize it because most of the results are used by your sub conscious to give you those gut feelings. And in most cases they are so general and vague in details, that you can apply some aspect of the simulation to future events.
 
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Nevermind. Pfft. :p Something happened and my post didn't go all the way through. Too long, didn't re-type.
 
My brain likes travelling to the surreal when it's thinking about future events. One particular scenario was when there was problems with a group of girls (girls + problems = go figure) that were my friends, and the dream I had was pretty nice (I have it written down somewhere too) but it was utter shite in terms of realism.

And then I once had a dream when there was a lot of family problems going on that I still remember vividly to this day because it was just really weird. I was downstairs in our hallway (very well done in my dream), and my mum was behind me and this guy came in the front door with a gun, and I tried to stop him but he shot me in the stomach. Suddenly the area I got shot in went all warm, and there was no pain (I think it was more shock) and I collapsed, and then this wave of cold just blew over me. It surprisingly wasn't scary, and I didn't wake up in a sweat or anything.

Oh, and Dan, no wonder I've had no sex dreams ever. Apparently my brain doesn't think I'll be getting any for a while.
 
I always have luicd dreams, I'm always having it, and then I usually trip over something, which causes me to 'trip' in my bed (as in my legs and body move as if i tripped..... lying down)

And sometimes when something is thrown at me, I raise my arms in my bed, preety weird sensation
 
Wow a limo? That's luxurious... Best I've gotten was a hippy van with a built in aquarium.
 
I had a dream where I was having sex. I woke up, and my hands were sticky.
 
i'd like to experience sleep paralysis. it sounds scary.
 
Seppo said:
i'd like to experience sleep paralysis. it sounds scary.
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I have induced this deliberately in an awake state and it's not very pleasant.

My brother had it once from waking and described being completely paralyzed, unable to even breath (at least not consciously), talk or anything all of a sudden he felt a 'gushing feeling' through his neck and through various parts of his body (a massive release of cortisol etc) which quickly restored control.

This was what he got for staying up for 62 hours at a lan day then sleeping.

Normally your body wakes your body then the mind in a certain order using cortisol etc that prevents shock from waking.

An alarm clock is actually a very unhealthy thing, it's better to wake naturally.
 
Ravioli said:
Anyone ever had these. The past 2 nights i have had the most realistic dreams of my life. The first one was so realistic i thought i was awake. It took place in school and all my friends had their exact same voice, same style of movement, same style of facial expressions, same type of emotions...im talking about 100% replicas here. Im not going to ramble through what the dreams were about because that would take to much time. Anyway, the first dream soon became a bad one, i became extremely scared and frightened. It feelt as if everyone was a demon and darkness closed in on me as i paniced, then i woke up.

The second dream (i just had it) was way more pleasant. I fell asleep around 6PM yesterday, and i woke up 8AM today(rare). As the other dream, it was extremely realistic. This time it took place in my house, and a really hot girl from school was here together with me and one of my best buddies. For some reason, the dream turned into a sex dream. I wont go into detail, but it was just amazing. The feeling of touch, heat, breathing, sound, everything was just like real life. When i wake up i feel like i would do ANYTHING to go back to the dream and stay there forever. There was a feeling of love in the dream too, like i was connected with everyone and there was extreme euphoria of wellbeing. And no, i was not high or influenced by ANY substance at all.


Just thought id share, and please tell me there are some of you out there who has experianced this too!
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Yes, of course! There are many different things you can do to increase the vividness and realism of your dreams.

You see, your brain is making vague sense of random visual stimulation and filling them in with memories and simulated sensory data. The best way to increase realism is to trick your brain into thinking the entire thing is coherent and meaningful.

The best way to make your dreams coherent and meaningful is to become lucid. All you must do to become lucid is to recognize that you are dreaming. I'd love to go into detail on how to do this, but that will have to be saved for another thread.

Anyway, after you've become lucid, to keep the dream from becoming too vauge, you must take positive action to focus your brain on a coherent pattern. To do this, you must find something recognizable, study it closely, and let your brain fill in the details. A very accessible way to do this is to look at the palms of your hand. Once you've realized that you are dreaming, immediately look at the palms of your hands. Look very closely at them. Your brain will fill them in with amazing detail, because you've had a lot of experience with what your hands look like.

Once things have cleared up a bit, look up, and observe the world. The new detail your brain has created by simulating the palms of your hands will be transferred onto the world around you. Things will appear impossibly, hyper-realistically detailed. Everything you look at will be sharp, have clearly defined colors, and amazing detail. One of the most fascinating things to do in a dream, in my opinion, is to look at something very small, like a blade of grass, and note the amazing detail that your brain can conjure up.

People are more difficult to simulate. You must clearly define the people. If you see someone in your dream, assign them a name. "That's chuck", you'll say, and make sure you keep that blob of a person assigned to a name. If you keep telling yourself that this dream character is a specific person, he will become that person, in vivid detail. Sometimes though, your unconscious motives will fill in the people and details. Its important not to get too carried away and forget that you are dreaming, or else your dream will become vague again.
 
Terminator said:
I dream of electric sheep.
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There's hope for you yet


Anyway the most vivid dream I ever had was about skydiving, and I went through all this training, went to all these random locations, went up in the plane, and I don't actually remember anything after that.
 
Oh shit, it's snowing in my extremely realistic vivid dream about the end of Texas.
 
Eejit said:
Sleep paralysis means Satan is sitting on your chest trying to turn you atheist in your sleep.
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Ha! Too bad Satan! Beat you to it!

I think last month I had one of those insane dreams where your mom wakes you up from sleep, IN YOUR DREAM, then you go about the day, with weird random crap going on, like most dreams, then my mom woke me up, IN MY DREAM AGAIN! after that, I woke up... with drool all over my pillow. It was weird.
 
All my dreams might as well be dictated by a toddler for all the detail and sense they have.
 
What does that say about the level of competence your subconscious intellect has? teehee
 
i get the most vivid dreams ever if i've been on drugs the night before
 
I had this really terrible dream a few nights ago. Just for background: there's this building that I have to go to all the time for my classes, and I hate it.

Anyways, I dreamt that I was in class in this building, and we were getting exams returned. Then I got out of class and stopped at the computer lab to punch holes in this giant stack of papers, but when I was finished they wouldn't even fit in my binders, so I ended up with two giant binders. And then I got really irritated by the people in there, because I swear, there's a group of people who are always in there, and whenever I go in there, the guys are always taking up computer space playing Tetris when other people actually have work to do there, and the girls are always talking about what whores they are. I kid you not. They are pretty disgusting. So I left the building but was so irritated that I woke myself up.

And then, I went and did it in real life.
 
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I too enjoy the falling dreams... normally because the setting is something taken outa an acid trip, and its reeeeaaaalllllllyyy ssssllllooooowwww.
 
i had a dream a couple days ago.
You don't need to know the premise of the dream(needless to say it involved three Foo Fighters concerts in as many days, a Jack Thompson-esque figure, and several dozen bus rides), but the impressive thing about it is that, in my dream, i walked through pretty much every street in my hole in the sky through which thing can fly. Every single one of these streets were as exactly as i see them in real life. The houses, the graffiti...hell, every single tree was in it's rightful place.

Anyway, to sum it all up, I have an incredebly acute memory.
 
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