Dreams
My dreams are becomming increasingly bizzare. I am concerned I am beggining to lose my mind!!
If I have around 6 hours sleep which is often the case when I have work I tend not to dream at all. Come the weekend when I have a good 10-12 hours sleep I always have really weird dreams. Recently I have been having a recurring dream that I am on an aeroplane and the pilot has had a heart attack (for some reason there wasn't a co-pilot
) To cut a long story short it comes down to me to land this plane. As I'm no more a pilot than I am an astronaut I end up crashing it in a field by where I used to live. Most of the passengers die but I end up being rescued by my former neighbours! I also have another dream which visits me quite frequently. I am in an old Castle alone and cannot find a way out and spend the entire dream wondering around looking for an exit getting increasingly flustered and stressed as I cannot find one. These dreams, as crazy as they sound, are always so vivid and realistic and also very detailed. Some might describe the 2 examples I just gave as nightmares and not dreams but as they are that bizzare they aren't really unsettling and unpleasant so I class them as dreams. Maybe I just have an over active imagination?
I've read up on some dream interpretations on the internet but believe the answers many websites give leave you asking more questions than the dream itself. Heres an example of an interpretation for a dream invovling flight:
To dream of flight, signifies disgrace and unpleasant views of the absent.
For a young woman to dream of flight, indicates that she has not kept her character above her approach, and her lover will throw her aside.
Maybe that was wrote by the riddler off batman? It certainly doesn't answer any of my questions! (and I'm glad I'm not a young woman dreaming of flight)
I think my dream about the aeroplane is proably down to me hating flying. I have flew loads of times but I always get quite drunk before I get onto the plane. Last year I went to Corfu and can't even remember getting onto the plane on the outward flight! How I even got on was a mystery!
Anyone else have similar experiences with recurring dreams? If so what are they and why do you think you have yours?................
professorhat:Believe me, those dreams sound quite normal to me. I recently watched through seasons 1-5 of Lost and I think it affected me. I recently had a dream I went into a grocers shop with Sayid (character from Lost). I needed to get some tuna for my friend so I placed the entire tuna steak in my mouth (it was pretty big) and chomped on it a while before deciding it wasn't good enough and spat it back into the packaging. When I rounded the corner, the shop keeper was forcing Sayid to inhale carrots.
And that's not particularly unusual for me...
I think rather too much cheese is being eaten before bedtime...
I have had very similar recurring flight dreams to you Daveee.
For me, the flight dream always starts as a normal flight and all is well. The drema will take me peacefully through takeoff, drinks, the usual routines. Then at some point I will "sense" something is wrong, and from there the dream unravels into a bizarre emergency landing - always. Whether its landing on a motorway, or a beach... anywhere but a runway basically. Never me landing the plane - that's part of the dream - the fact that I'm not in control of the outcome. I nver do get to find out if we land safely - always looks like we will, but I always wake up before the final conclusion.
I'm sure the dream interpreters could talk about this being about "control", but I think it's simply the fact that before 9/11 I used to absolutely adore flying (as a kid, air-pockets and turbulence were the fun bit of a long-haul flight!), and now it just scares the... out of me (I think I spent too much time thinking just how awful being on those planes must have been).
margetti:but I think it's simply the fact that before 9/11 I used to absolutely adore flying (as a kid, air-pockets and turbulence were the fun bit of a long-haul flight!), and now it just scares the... out of me (I think I spent too much time thinking just how awful being on those planes must have been).
Yeah 9/11 was probbaly a factor for me to. That and Nat Geos Air Crash Investigation. By far the worse one of those I seen was when a Russian pilot had his kids in the cockpit and one was playing at flying the plane and he disengaged the auto-pilot. Neither the pilot or co-pilot realised until it was too late and everyone died. Oh and the time a US naval vessel shot down a jet full of civilians because of mistaken identity (and dare I say an itchy trigger finger?)
I eat lorry loads of cheese, and I think it's an old wives tale......JohnDuncan:I think rather too much cheese is being eaten before bedtime...
The recurring theme of my dreams seems to be having loose teeth, or having teeth fall out.
FrankHarveyHiFi:I eat lorry loads of cheese, and I think it's an old wives tale......JohnDuncan:I think rather too much cheese is being eaten before bedtime...
The recurring theme of my dreams seems to be having loose teeth, or having teeth fall out.
I get that one, too - classic stress dream apparently 
....... or perhaps it could all just be due to an 'over-active imagination', in which case you might want to consider making movies? 
Daveee's Tales?
ValianTX:....... or perhaps it could all just be due to an 'over-active imagination', in which case you might want to consider making movies?
Daveee's Tales?
Films based on my dreams? I don't want to get sectioned!
Daveee:Films based on my dreams?
I've always wondered, if only you could record your dreams... I went to an exhibition of sorts about dreams a while back - fascinating stuff - people have indeed tried to find ways to record dreams, but alas without success.
I'm pretty sure I read that Paul McCartney (or was it Lennon) penned some of their songs after waking from dreams on whatever it was they then wrote about...
When I wake up, I always get the feeling that my dreams have finished too early and I want to go back to them. Sometimes I may wake up in the middle of the night and then go back to sleep again but can never get back into the same dream, the closest I get tends to have a rather tenuous and abstract link with the first.
I look forward to the Nth generation of the SonySky Total Dream Recall Station in future years which will be able to capture, replay, edit our dreams. It will coincide with the growth of a new part of the entertainment industry which delivers other people's dreams into our homes via broadcasting technology made by SEGA (Dreamcast, obviously) and created using the professional dreaming tallents of "The Dreamers". Cheese-agra tablets from Cathedral City will help to optimise the dream viewing experience and will come in different strengths, dark yellow ones being the stongest.
Will this really happen, or am I only dreaming .....?
Ah, just seen your post after I posted mine Margetti.... great minds think alike ! Dream recording IS the future 
I never really get dreams about flying (but I do now dislike flying thanks to Air Crash Investigation too - for me the worst one was when the two planes hit each other in mid air, and the air traffic controller responsible for the planes got killed by the father of one of the victims), but I do have really vivid dreams too nonetheless.Daveee:
margetti:but I think it's simply the fact that before 9/11 I used to absolutely adore flying (as a kid, air-pockets and turbulence were the fun bit of a long-haul flight!), and now it just scares the... out of me (I think I spent too much time thinking just how awful being on those planes must have been).
Yeah 9/11 was probbaly a factor for me to. That and Nat Geos Air Crash Investigation. By far the worse one of those I seen was when a Russian pilot had his kids in the cockpit and one was playing at flying the plane and he disengaged the auto-pilot. Neither the pilot or co-pilot realised until it was too late and everyone died. Oh and the time a US naval vessel shot down a jet full of civilians because of mistaken identity (and dare I say an itchy trigger finger?)
The wierdest one for me was when I dreamt I was on a bus from Glasgow to Aberdeen, and was sitting beside Ronaldo (the proper one, not the Portuguese t*t), and Roberto Carlos and Ryan Giggs were sitting behind me. I got chatting to Ronaldo and we found out we were half brothers. We then got to Aberdeen and started throwing a football to each other. I found this wierd as Ronaldo is a great footballer - why weren't we kicking it to each other?
I don't think there's any explanation for that - I'm just messed up in the head!
FrankHarveyHiFi:I eat lorry loads of cheese, and I think it's an old wives tale......
JohnDuncan:I think rather too much cheese is being eaten before bedtime...
Thogh of course, Heart made a song about it...
"Cheese Dreams go on when close my eyes... Every second of the night, I live another life..."
mikegtar:Ah, just seen your post after I posted mine Margetti.... great minds think alike ! Dream recording IS the future
Spooky...
Believe me, those dreams sound quite normal to me. I recently watched through seasons 1-5 of Lost and I think it affected me. I recently had a dream I went into a grocers shop with Sayid (character from Lost). I needed to get some tuna for my friend so I placed the entire tuna steak in my mouth (it was pretty big) and chomped on it a while before deciding it wasn't good enough and spat it back into the packaging. When I rounded the corner, the shop keeper was forcing Sayid to inhale carrots.
And that's not particularly unusual for me...