The Dreaming Mind: Waking the Mysteries of Sleep

I was paralyzed in a car accident when I was 17. I'm 35 now and still to this day I still walk in my dreams.

calculus was a nightmare at school until i figured it out in a dream. When I woke up and looked at my homework I discovered I could solve all the problems. that was 40 yrs ago and I've never forgotten that moment.

My dreams are so realistic that I wake up exhausted from them.

My dreams are more exciting than my real life!!

i remember loads of dreams ive had from being a child to now and ive always felt that some of my dreams are like windows into parallel universes. Its like im always myself in my dreams but in a completely different universe or reality.

I'm convinced the dream realm is a place. The scenery, settings, and locations in my dreams have been consistent, since I was a child.

I really love that this content about neuroscience, sleep, consciousness and psychedelics is discussed by a multitude of experts in their field in such an interesting format for free. I hope this keeps going and we can ever further enlighten ourselfs about ourselfs. A big thanks for that.

I have always been fascinated by dreams, perception and consciousness. I kept a dream journal nightly for 7 years. By the end of that time, i would remember 4-6 dreams most nights, and the detail of my dreams had pared down and become very direct and explicit. Several of my findings from this personal experiment shocked me, and frightened me, so much so i then spent quite some years trying to forget my dreaming!. One finding i will share, is that fully 1-2/3rds of those dreams turned out to be explicitly precognitive. Now that i am an elder person, i am preparing to record my dreams for the rest of my life. Its too much interesting time to just disregard. It makes zero sense that such an energy intensive and consciousness comprehensive activity would have no reason for existance.

Psychedelic help alot and they're like a cheat sheet to life, but you could also experience the same things. Psychedelic amp tf out whilst being sober, mediation and astral projection are key.

One thing that always fascinated me about dreams was certain geometries inside the dream. Relating to Brian's renovated building dream, I often dream of huge buildings or landscapes also, with crazy geometry. Unique shapes that make perfect sense in the dream. But when I wake up my brain can't make sense of the shapes I saw. I can REMEMBER the dream in its entirety. But when I try to focus on the intricacies like specific shapes, my conscious brain can't picture or make sense of it.

I unintentionally taught myself lucid dreaming. I have been using ASMR as a sleep aid since I was 11 back in 2007. I love the videos that say “tisk””tisk””tisk”, etc. I lay down in bed, turn on the video and instantly go to sleep and the video will continue to play. It’s still playing when I hit REM and the words will bring me into a lucid dream.

I write and more than once I’ve been inspired in my dream, once I wrote a fabulous poem and another I worked out my response in a philosophical essay. I lucid dream fairly often and both times I knew I was dreaming and I told myself “I must remember this when I wake up I must remember this when I wake up” but unfortunately was never totally successful. After the dream about the essay I wrote some ideas down but it just frustrated me because I knew it wasn’t quite it - my rational brain had clicked in. The poem came to me while camping in the badlands and I sadly did not have a notebook beside me but I know for a fact it was the most beautiful poem I have ever written.

Shared a dream with a roommate once. I dream almost every night, he almost never does. Still remember the dream and him asking me in the middle of the dream if it was a dream and I told him yeah. We woke up half hour or so later had a chat about it. Such a crazy thing

I meet people often who say they don't have dreams, or more accurately they don't remember them. A lot of these people don't even care!!! For some reason, this makes me sad. I would become unhappy if I stopped dreaming, and would certainly care. For me my dreams are like a friend, or like a huge part of me that no one has access to. A private world for me to learn about myself within, and look back on while I'm awake. This makes me feel like the ones who do not dream, are missing out on something major.

My conversations with people in my dreams feel more real and heartfelt then my shallow conversations in real life

I have unique experience with lucid dreams, I learnt how to drive a car in my dreams, years later, I drove with no instructions or any help from anyone and it was so profound feeling about my ability.

I’ve had prolific dreams without knowing it. When my dreams in New Orleans were intense enough to share with my best friend, I did in order to basically let them out and loosen them from my strong hold. After several shares, life moved forward. When I had waking visions those were shared as well or my friends noticed my dream drawing on my cocktail table. Many, many years passed and those vivid dreams came to fruition without my noticing or realizing until my friend called to check up on me. After hearing what took place, he stated that my dreams and visions are prolific. All at once all of what I shared made perfect sense. I had those profound dreams and visions to prepare me as well as my friends emotionally and mentally for ours and my future. It truly hit home when I unpacked my belongings from storage and I looked at my drawings. If my long past friend would not have reached out to me I might would not have made that connection. Same goes for if I would not have shared my dreams and visions. ETA🌹

My recurring dreams: 1. I’m missing math classes over and over again. The final exam is approaching and I continue missing the classes. (Last math class I took was 17 years ago) 2. I forget where I park my car (own one) motorcycle (don’t own one) in my hometown city. I cannot find them. 3. I’m in an elevator in a high rise building or a high rise mall type of building. I don’t know where I’m going. But I continue to take elevators up. 4. I’m traveling on an airplane. Inside seating design of the planes are always different than usual. I sometimes miss the flight, or hurry to make the flight. If I make it, I usually sit alone.

As I got older, my sleepwalking turned into lucid dreaming, although I didn’t know that’s what they were called. The first lucid dream involved a drowning dream. I was not able to reach the surface of the water and then told myself this is just a dream, so just breathe in the water, so I did. Now a lot of dreams involve telling myself something to overcome a PROBLEM. Other lucid dreams I have had: the falling dream… involved telling myself I can bounce when I hit the ground so I did; I bounced when I hit like a bouncy ball all over the place. Hahaha! I have also had dreams so vivid and horrible that they would give Stephen King nightmares. Although I used to sleepwalk nightly I don’t have lucid dreams nightly. Lucid dreams usually occur on average once a month.

I often Lucid dream, and most often during listening to Science podcasts like this one. I go to sleep listening to podcasts every night because I have tinitus and the podcast helps. I find I am listening to the podcast in my dream, looking at Brian and watching his lips move. I then ask Brian a question, but he never listens just keeps on talking. At this point I realise that I am dreaming. I find it interesting that his lips move and are in sync with what he is saying. This makes me believe that there is a time delay between what I am listening to and the lucid dream that enables the two to be in sync. Once I dreamed I was playing drums to a jazz big band. I played perfectly to all the saxophone, trombone and trumpet arrangements. Then I realise I was composing the complete big band arrangement in my imagination. I could hear all of the instruments in the band playing.