dream meme
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mamajoanBecause I love to talk about my dreams. Gacked from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spike21.
1. Do you have commonly recurring types of dreams? If you do, what are they?
I definitely do. I have "returning to college for the beginning of the semester and unable to find my dorm room / remember my mailbox combination" dreams. I also, less frequently, have "last day of school and realize I forgot to do all my homework" dreams.
I have dreams where I can fly. If I bounce on my feet just right, I float into the air and can control it -- can fly as high as I want or just skim along the ground. I'm always sad when I wake up and realize it wasn't true.
I have dreams where cats and babies are interchangeable. Before I got pregnant, I used to have frequent dreams about being pregnant/being in labor/having just had a baby. I also have dreams where I'm a superhero/spy/vampire-slayer/other sort of hero with a Big Bad to fight and a bunch of friends/sidekicks a la Buffy.
General themes aside, I do have dreams whose plots recur, although I can't describe any of them.
I also have fairly frequent "trying to masturbate but keep getting interrupted" dreams. I've had dreams where I actually have sex (always with a celebrity, I'm embarrassed to admit) but they aren't very frequent.
2. Are you, or have you ever been, a lucid dreamer? (when you're aware in the dream that you're dreaming and are able to exert a measure of control)
Sometimes when I'm having a dream that I've dreamt before, I can recognize it and take it in a different direction. I don't think I've ever done that with a dream that I'm having for the first time.
3. What's your favorite kind of dream?
Ones where I get to have sex? ;) Few and far between, alas. I like most of my dreams, really, because they tend to be so vivid and surreal. I don't like the scary ones so much, of course. I'm still trying to get some catharsis by turning one recent dream into a story -- where I was a teenage boy being abused by his father. In a sci-fi-y way, so that he could hurt me and hurt me but not kill me. Sure makes a girl wonder about her psyche.
4. Do you have any recurring locales in your dreams? What are they like?
I sometimes dream about my apartment but give it new rooms that it doesn't really have. Often one of these rooms will be sort of open-air and turn into a city street. I don't think there's any one nonexistent location that I dream about a lot.
5. Have you ever had a 'breakthrough' dream--one in which you deal with some issue you've been working on for awhile and wake up feeling like you've really made some significant progress?
I don't think so. I can usually recognize the mundane symbology in my dreams -- e.g. I dream about a particular celebrity/food/event/etc. because I was talking about it with someone in RL, or whatever -- but I have trouble deciphering the deeper meanings of my dreams, like what the abused-teenager one is trying to tell me, or why I can so often fly.
6. Have you ever based a creative work on a dream?
Yes. I got the opening of a Xena fanfic from a dream, and the entire plot of another one from another dream (although I never finished the story). And as I said above, I've been thinking of trying to work the abused-teenager dream into a story. Not sure whether I can really do justice to its creepy sinister angst though.
7. Have you ever had a prophetic dream?
I theorize that I dreamt about my grandfather dying while it was happening, because I woke up crying. But I can't remember what the dream was about. Other than that, I don't think so, but some of my late-pregnancy/labor/baby dreams might yet turn out to be prophetic, who knows? :)
Dreams are such strange things. I always feel sorry for people who say they don't remember their dreams, because I get such a kick out of remembering mine and writing down their details and trying to figure out what they mean.
spike21.1. Do you have commonly recurring types of dreams? If you do, what are they?
I definitely do. I have "returning to college for the beginning of the semester and unable to find my dorm room / remember my mailbox combination" dreams. I also, less frequently, have "last day of school and realize I forgot to do all my homework" dreams.
I have dreams where I can fly. If I bounce on my feet just right, I float into the air and can control it -- can fly as high as I want or just skim along the ground. I'm always sad when I wake up and realize it wasn't true.
I have dreams where cats and babies are interchangeable. Before I got pregnant, I used to have frequent dreams about being pregnant/being in labor/having just had a baby. I also have dreams where I'm a superhero/spy/vampire-slayer/other sort of hero with a Big Bad to fight and a bunch of friends/sidekicks a la Buffy.
General themes aside, I do have dreams whose plots recur, although I can't describe any of them.
I also have fairly frequent "trying to masturbate but keep getting interrupted" dreams. I've had dreams where I actually have sex (always with a celebrity, I'm embarrassed to admit) but they aren't very frequent.
2. Are you, or have you ever been, a lucid dreamer? (when you're aware in the dream that you're dreaming and are able to exert a measure of control)
Sometimes when I'm having a dream that I've dreamt before, I can recognize it and take it in a different direction. I don't think I've ever done that with a dream that I'm having for the first time.
3. What's your favorite kind of dream?
Ones where I get to have sex? ;) Few and far between, alas. I like most of my dreams, really, because they tend to be so vivid and surreal. I don't like the scary ones so much, of course. I'm still trying to get some catharsis by turning one recent dream into a story -- where I was a teenage boy being abused by his father. In a sci-fi-y way, so that he could hurt me and hurt me but not kill me. Sure makes a girl wonder about her psyche.
4. Do you have any recurring locales in your dreams? What are they like?
I sometimes dream about my apartment but give it new rooms that it doesn't really have. Often one of these rooms will be sort of open-air and turn into a city street. I don't think there's any one nonexistent location that I dream about a lot.
5. Have you ever had a 'breakthrough' dream--one in which you deal with some issue you've been working on for awhile and wake up feeling like you've really made some significant progress?
I don't think so. I can usually recognize the mundane symbology in my dreams -- e.g. I dream about a particular celebrity/food/event/etc. because I was talking about it with someone in RL, or whatever -- but I have trouble deciphering the deeper meanings of my dreams, like what the abused-teenager one is trying to tell me, or why I can so often fly.
6. Have you ever based a creative work on a dream?
Yes. I got the opening of a Xena fanfic from a dream, and the entire plot of another one from another dream (although I never finished the story). And as I said above, I've been thinking of trying to work the abused-teenager dream into a story. Not sure whether I can really do justice to its creepy sinister angst though.
7. Have you ever had a prophetic dream?
I theorize that I dreamt about my grandfather dying while it was happening, because I woke up crying. But I can't remember what the dream was about. Other than that, I don't think so, but some of my late-pregnancy/labor/baby dreams might yet turn out to be prophetic, who knows? :)
Dreams are such strange things. I always feel sorry for people who say they don't remember their dreams, because I get such a kick out of remembering mine and writing down their details and trying to figure out what they mean.
