It may not be the same with you, but you know how you have a good dream? Just one that was really nice and you want to remember it but can't? I normally have that, but when I have a bad dream, I can remember ALL of it. I, personally, am afraid of dolls, ever since I was little. I thought they wanted to kill me, and I didn't even see chucky at the time. I still have the creepy sense in the back of my head (I own no dolls, neither does my mom) but I have this re-occurring dream of a doll that would cry, do something to get my attention, then talk. It was terrifieing to me, and still is. The latest was only about 30 seconds. I wanted to check if my mom was awake in the dream, so I did, her door was closed, and she was sleeping. So I walked back and saw the doll. Strangely, I broke from the dream after I said "Oh my god!".
Have you ever had an instance where you also KNEW you were in a dream (not the main question)?
Also, (main question) is there an interpretation as to why my BAD dreams are always more vivid?
it's believed dreams are clearer as your about to wake up, when having a nightmare, your usually sweating and that causes you to be right on the line between asleep and awake, another theory is fear takes up a larger center of teh brain that joy does, so that's probly why
it's believed dreams are clearer as your about to wake up, when having a nightmare, your usually sweating and that causes you to be right on the line between asleep and awake, another theory is fear takes up a larger center of teh brain that joy does, so that's probly why
I had never known that, where did you hear this? I was also taking a nap, heh. You didn't answer the question concerning if you ever had a dream where you KNEW you were in a dream though.
I hate nightmares. My worst fear is a zombie disease outbreak (I've watched too many movies). I keep having nightmares about them banging on my bedroom door and it feels like I am awake. Then they come in and I wake up in the same position looking at the door. It makes me feel like the whole thing was real.
The good dreams I have are always easy to forget. When you are almost awake, your brain is aware that you are dreaming and then you can control your dream via thinking. The thing is, whenever I wish for a 360 game or some food in my dream, I wake up straight away then I forget the whole thing.
I don't know if anybody else experiences this but I feel a slight degree of pain when I am attacked or something in my dreams. I can sort of feel people touching me and zombies biting me but when I wake up, everything is gone.
I don't know if anybody else experiences this but I feel a slight degree of pain when I am attacked or something in my dreams. I can sort of feel people touching me and zombies biting me but when I wake up, everything is gone.
I have felt that! You know what I also think? Since the brain can feel pain, is it possible that you can fool yourself into believing a dream is an utter truth? Like the matrix, the brain detects the pain, inflicting it up on itself. So it's like, if you've really felt being stabbed in the had with a needle, is it possible that you could imagine feeling it, and have that feeling happen during a dream?
Dolls creep me out so freaking much!!! Dolls involve in my worst dreams ever that was when i saw CHUCKY creeps me out a lot sometimes i have the same bad dream over and over again i wake up in my room then exit the doll is right there then i run but i run slow like I'm in slow motion! Then i just decide to jump down the stairs from the very top,survive, and see my parents playing cards run there and the doll go's away until i get alone again then i always wake up again this one time i had dreamed of a white dog that looked wolf-like 3 times in a row it was always chasing me to no-end i always escaped but i couldn't help remembering it!
Have you ever noticed that bad dreams end right at the peak? Once, i had a dream where i was falling down a flight of stairs, running away from atilla the hun. And right before I hit the cement, and i mean right before, i woke up.
I dunno, why is they so vivid? They is pretty scary, which are a reason.
Anyways!
I remember all my dreams equally as vivid. Does not matter whether it is good or bad, idyllic or horrific. They just become like normal memories...and fade as time goes by.
(Why are Voidy talking like his grammatically challenged? LOL j/k)
What about..."real" dreams? Well, I don't know if it was real or not, but the visualizations were so convincing!
Ok, so this one time, I was really, really tired, so I laid down on the couch to sleep. Short minutes later, I had this "dream" of me in the back hallway. I slowly moved down the hall, until I was in the family room. I appeared in the middle of the hallway, and I saw myself sleeping on the couch. I didn't stop moving, and I crept closer to myself. I was about 2 feet away from my face, when I got so scared, I screamed, and I woke up. There was a puff of smoke close to my face when I awoke.
Of course, Emma was making stir-fry, and there was lots of steam in the house then, but it didn't look like steam, it looked like smoke, that dissipated after 4 seconds. Scary? Wierd?
Tangential note: it's said that beta-blockers (e.g. propranolol), most commonly used for certain heart conditions, may in fact alter bad memories (i.e. the kind that cause such things as post-traumatic stress-disorder), hence the now somewhat-experimental use of these drugs to treat people who have been severely affected by traumatic experiences. Some are skeptic- how is this drug supposed to block just "bad" memories, given both the subjectivity in the term "bad" and "good" and our lack of understanding of just how it works.
But assuming that it's possible, I reckon (without extensive reading on the subject) that "bad" memories involve a different neural pathway with a different blend of neurotransmitters from "good" memories. After all while they are both "memories" they tend to affect our behaviors in different ways, yes?
Now I've limited the picture quite a lot here so it's oversimplistic; it's not as if I'm saying this is true of all people in the same way, because at least subjectively speaking this is obviously not. But it may be handy to think of it this way to begin with, and it will be up to future observations to verify or refute this hypothesis.
I suppose you could apply a similar thought to dreams though dreams as a reflection of our processes are so poorly understood that I don't dare attempt to do so!
hence the now somewhat-experimental use of these drugs to treat people
...and by this I mean "clinical trial", not "recreational use" hahaha.
From previous page: I've died in my dreams before. That is to say, technically- as by the strictest definition nobody has true experiential knowledge of what actually happens when you 'die'. But I've fallen from great heights, been eaten by spiders, been shot, crushed and drowned in my dreams. In many of these cases this has directly related to real-life events, such as my falling out of bed, or really needing to pee!
Then again in other dreams I've been completely impervious to harm.
So you are saying there are these pills that can suppress the bad memories from a dream? I suppose that is a good thing, for those that suffer from it, but hey. SOME bad dreams are cool, and for some, it's what gives them the jolt of excitement that no thriller movies can deliver, and what starts our morning! =)
Can bad dreams also be affected psychologically? As in things that happened in the past that recollects in a different, but all-the-more similar dream?
But assuming that it's possible, I reckon (without extensive reading on the subject) that "bad" memories involve a different neural pathway with a different blend of neurotransmitters from "good" memories. After all while they are both "memories" they tend to affect our behaviors in different ways, yes?
