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[vandermolen]

There are lots of changes going on at the school where I work. Our conditions of work are being changed for the worse etc.

I had a nighmare which involved being given my new teaching timetable which included "compulsory ballroom dancing" for all the teachers at the end of the day 

[greg]

I had a nighmare which involved being given my new teaching timetable which included "compulsory ballroom dancing" for all the teachers at the end of the day 

[Kullervo]

My last dream involved me getting a high-paid job to document the indigenous birds that live in the wetlands around here (which involved me driving around in a boat and having various people swim up and ask me what I was doing, and then I would explain ).

Later, (maybe this was another dream entirely) I was in some sort of school (it looked like a very old building — unfinished wooden floors, knotted wooden walls — so no school I've ever been to) and was starting the first day of a poetry class. The teacher was telling us that we would have to give a lecture on a certain poem, but was due RIGHT THEN. I was panicking and trying to think of poems I knew well enough to talk about extensively. I think I had decided on one of the Songs of Innocence before I woke up. 

[greg]

Two dreams last night:

1. I went to bed in a closet the mall. When I woke up, I talked with some girl at a table NEAR the food court, but the conversation was pretty boring.....

2. This dream was awesome, but very distorted, logically- although, both of these dreams make sense given the fact that I was sleeping off some type of mild fever. I was in a school field trip, much like the ones years ago, where I went to see an orchestra play twice. This time, though, I was actually in the orchestra, and we were assigned to play contemporary percussion pieces. In front of me, they gave an example- about 7 or so performers were lined up, and they all had drums in their laps. They hit the drums from right to left in rapid successions of 16th notes, which were really an incredible sight! 
One of the pieces we were assigned to play was something by Lindberg which I had never heard before, so I got excited.
Lots of distortion after that...... but in the end, I was with my friends, just like in 3rd grade, attending the concert. But this time, they had something on by Strauss (Richard). It said it was the Alpine Symphony in the program, but it obviously wasn't. It was a piece that was extremely long and got very boring at time- in other words, impressions of stuff like Also Sprach Zarathustra, or something similar.  The part that was boring was in 3/4 time, kinda like a quite waltz?

[greg]

Realized I was dreaming last night, making another lucid dream. What triggered the realization was that I was looking at an old stereo I used to have which broke down. I had a CD inside, and no matter how hard I tried, it wouldn't go from track one to two, and so forth. It kept on going to random numbers, skipping tracks and all. Then I realized that this was almost like the light switch scenario people use to trigger lucid dreams- try turning on a light switch while you're dreaming- it doesn't work. Or try looking at your watch, and see how distorted it is. It won't be the same time twice!

So, I though that Must do some more research...... eventually, I want to lucid dream and then go to the piano and see what comes out! 

[drogulus]

     I had another weird dream a couple of nights ago. In this one I'm in an apartment in a part of town that doesn't exist (this seems to recur now and then). For some reason the neighborhood is run down but the apartment is really nice inside. It's very mysterious how this place can exist but it does somehow. Then the dream suddenly shifts to one of the typical alien invasion dreams where some guy is running down the street (the street just outside the magic apartment) yelling something like "they're here!" and then some kind of light or a meteor or comet is heading right towards me and then a flash and I wake up. Sometimes when this happens I want to get back and see what happens next, but this time I was just happy to get away from whatever it was. 

[greg]

I had another weird dream a couple of nights ago. In this one I'm in an apartment in a part of town that doesn't exist (this seems to recur now and then)

I'm pretty sure I've had places that "don't exist" come to mind in dreams before.... (although i couldn't say specifically at the moment)
If they feel real, it could be a place you can't remember, like when you were little- and even likelier a place from a movie.

[Kullervo]

Last night I dreamt I was living in some giant old two-story house with rotted floors and beds with the springs coming out of the mattress. The house was in a sort of desert area, but the odd thing was that there was a row of houses just like the one I was in on both sides of me. Someone told me that there was some kind of giant thing (robot, monster, I don't know) that was destroying all the towns and was heading for us, so we waited until it showed up off the horizon. All the houses then launched a sort of Stinger missile at the robot/monster thing and presumably killed it, but I never found out because I woke up.

[mn dave]

Last night I dreamt I was living in some giant old two-story house with rotted floors and beds with the springs coming out of the mattress. The house was in a sort of desert area, but the odd thing was that there was a row of houses just like the one I was in on both sides of me. Someone told me that there was some kind of giant thing (robot, monster, I don't know) that was destroying all the towns and was heading for us, so we waited until it showed up off the horizon. All the houses then launched a sort of Stinger missile at the robot/monster thing and presumably killed it, but I never found out because I woke up.

I'm stealing that.

Just kidding.

[greg]

Last night I dreamt I was living in some giant old two-story house with rotted floors and beds with the springs coming out of the mattress. The house was in a sort of desert area, but the odd thing was that there was a row of houses just like the one I was in on both sides of me. Someone told me that there was some kind of giant thing (robot, monster, I don't know) that was destroying all the towns and was heading for us, so we waited until it showed up off the horizon. All the houses then launched a sort of Stinger missile at the robot/monster thing and presumably killed it, but I never found out because I woke up.

Sounds anime-ish.

[greg]

I think I discovered an excellent technique to help get lucid dreams. I was reading about it a lot last night, so I finally decided to start a dream journal again. I didn't even realized I used the technique until I woke up and thought about what I read.

I woke up for a few minutes and then though that I was actually recording my previous dream in my dream journal. However, I realized I wasn't, so....... i guess I must be dreaming. Then the lucid dream started.

It didn't feel like I was actually asleep again, but I was. Most lucid dreams occur between 4 and 8-ish, so it just isn't heavy sleep- which explains this. So, I'll try to set my alarm clock 2 hours early, and fall back asleep while imagining something specific, like writing in a dream journal.

The thing about lucid dreaming is, it's like thinking except much more clear. You can shut your eyes and imagine you're flying, but clarity will be awful. Also, there's still a good amount of randomness going on, which I suppose might be needed to sustain your sleeping state. How did I end up in a city?! Oh well, it looked cool.... 

[greg]

I had too many dreams to count- and all of them were epic and fascinating. 3 I can remember...

1- I was at the mall with my friends, and there was this place in a corner where there is supposed to be a wall, but instead there is an opening to another room, which is covered by blue canvas. You're not supposed to go through there, but we decided to sneak in. It was supposedly a
pathway to a theme park of some kind, maybe a water theme park. I suspected we'd be caught, and forced to pay, but no. We landed in some pool with a big structure in the middle, that I suppose was the pathway we went through.

2- This was one hyperactive, yet extremely thoughtful and maybe profound dream. It's hard to remember the details, but I can remember some images- and the logic behind it was very complex. It involved a lot of running (and possibly flying- had an amazing dream where i flew all over the place, even under water not long ago). I had to run back and forth between what looked like a place in a video game, the stars in space, and a place I used to live. It's really hard to remember any details, but it was incredible- and the complexity is probably the reason for that. It wasn't just some dream with a message- it was like playing a game which engaged your whole mind, and ended with an ascent to the stars.

3- I made up, for some reason, a dream of me playing Final Fantasy 13, which hasn't even been released yet. I imagined there being 3 characters in the party- 2 from 10-2 (Yuna and Paine), and one new character which I obviously invented myself- he almost looked like a wrestler. That's about all I could say for that dream.



Either way, it was refreshing, since it felt like there was nothing new to discover in the whole world until those dreams.

[drogulus]

    Last night a plane crashed in my dream, right down the street. Then the fire it started was approaching the house so the dream was called off due to the emergency. 

    This must have been related to that plane crash near Buffalo. When I got up that day I heard about the crash 6 mi. out from the Buffalo airport. That was where my GF grew up, and where her sister lives today. So I started to Google news to find out where. It should be close to Clarence since the planes fly over there. Finally I found something that said the crash was in Clarence Center. The sister lives in the next town, and the plane crashed about a mile and a half from their old family homestead.

[greg]

This must have been related to that plane crash near Buffalo

Sounds likely, doesn't it!

The night before last night, I had just finished watching Close Encounters. My dream picked up where the movie left off- I was in a spaceship, and we were trying to coexist with the aliens peacefully. However, in something that looked like a fish tank, there was an alien and a T-Rex, and they were about to get married. The next day, the offspring of those two were another T-Rex and alien, and they were also about to get married. However, since T-Rexes are violent, we had to kill it. The only way to do that was to get it down on a stretcher and cut open its chest and stick my arm in it. It was disgusting- my whole arm was covered with what felt like a pool of blood. Then I woke up.

[greg]

A few nights ago, a rather disappointing dream. I got this theory book written by Stockhausen in the mail, and it had the wildest looking charts. It even had a section with a completely new system of music notation that looked like a bunch of hexagons representing notes, and all together it looked like a flat beehive shape. Waking up, I realized I never got it, and was sad.

[greg]

A few nights ago, a very entertaining dream. It's under the category of an "epic" dream because of clarity and length, yet the scenario is completely different from a normal epic dream. I was lucky because I only had this dream because I forgot to set my alarm clock and was supposed to wake up an hour earlier. It was worth being late for this one. 

I was at a concert where a string quartet was playing through the complete cycle of Shostakovich string quartets. They get up to 7 (which was really 11, but I subconsciously get those numbers mixed up because of the 7/11 gas station), when the one of the violinists, who leads from the beginning of the string quartet- you know, that opening- sees, or more like, I see, the tip of her bow at the bottom of my metal chair leg, and it's stuck. Somehow, she's able to bow, although slightly agitated.

At the end of one of the movements (in my dream I considered it the finale, but I'd have to go back and check, because I don't think it is), there's this passage where the cello and one of the other instruments plays a two-note repeating motif that gets louder, faster, more intense, and the violinist whose bow is stuck under my chair is supposed to finish it off. She can't because now the whole string is broken, so we laugh about it.

Then, some old guy sitting in the middle of the audience gets up and protests the music (i was sitting on the far right). He says, "This music is not sexually aesthetic!" Then some guy walks in from behind all of us and we all turn our heads to look. I can't remember now what he says, but I think he explains the music or something.

[Frumaster]

I wonder why dreams are so easy to forget.  Does anyone else have this problem.  Right when I wake up, I could describe it to you in every way that language will allow (and more), but in no time my memory of it is completely gone.  I had some really cool dream last night, but now I couldn't even tell you remotely what it was about!

[greg]

I wonder why dreams are so easy to forget.  Does anyone else have this problem.  Right when I wake up, I could describe it to you in every way that language will allow (and more), but in no time my memory of it is completely gone.  I had some really cool dream last night, but now I couldn't even tell you remotely what it was about!

Man, that is a really good question, and there's different opinions. There might be a simple answer, but it's a question I haven't actually investigated enough myself to say. 

Some say that the information is "not important to us" or some other theories that I can't remember at the moment, but I think of it like this- watch a 1-5 minute video, maybe something of youtube- the most random video, with the most random content. Watch it without paying too much attention to it, and then do a bunch of other things in a way to completely rid your mind of it. If you try to recall what you watched, it'll be vague, and content is easily forgotten. I think it might be vaguely similar to that- there's probably a better example someone can think of than this spontaneous one.

btw, if I didn't remind myself several times each day for two days straight of the "sexually unaesthetic"  music of Shostakovich, I'd probably have forgotten almost all of it. 

[Renfield]

btw, if I didn't remind myself several times each day for two days straight of the "sexually unaesthetic"  music of Shostakovich, I'd probably have forgotten almost all of it. 

That's a big part of it.

Why are we all 'bad with names'? Lack of rehearsal, if you've only heard the other person introduce themselves once at the beginning of the conversation, and not used his name since. Memory is strongly about 'cognitive acclimation' to new information, and though the level of my cognitive neuroscientific knowledge isn't quite up to where it should have been, I can still make an educated guess, in that our forgetting of dreams is very likely to be connected to biological processes of recording memories for the long term that might not be 'on' while dreaming.

Think of it like your dream is running on the RAM, and then unless you "Save as...", it gets wiped upon reboot.

(And that's when my Cognitive Neuroscience Prof. walks in and decomposes my molecules magnetically(!?) with an MRI scanner. )

[greg]

I like the comparison you give with computers- it really is similar.