Dreams

It's just a thought process. I have weird dreams too. I don't take much from it because I'm creative so naturally my brain comes up with creative things.

>>19407163
well tell me what u dream about

I have dreams every night where I'm being teased and tortured. Why would my brain want to hurt itself? Explain that.

parallel universe

>>19409697
You aren't ruling it, so it is ruling you.
That's your answer.
Visualize lightning striking tormentors in your dreams.

>>19409697
I like to visualize pain in my dreams to make them more real. I like nightmares the most. It's like I'm a true horror movie. I love waking up and realizing it was just a dream.

>>19407163
Dreams are the impressions left on the mind by past actions, called samskaras, surfacing and manifesting

>>19409697
Dreams are your brain reconciling a lot of psychologically jarring things throughout the day. That's not all it is, but it's why you have bad dreams. It's not going to be just rainbows and roses. Bad dreams are necessary to integrate chaotic elements of life into your model of life.
That being said, sometimes it's necessary to be uncomfortable to grow. Some of my weirdest, most tumultuous dreams have been the coolest and have stuck with me.

My favorite dream is about teeth instantly falling off. It's so bizarre and strange and yet such a common dream. I know it's supposed to represent anxiety or insecurity, or something like that.

Lately, I've had very weird dreams. They change between controllable, very detailed dreams. For instance, if I enter a book store, I can literally see every single book title. Every thing is as detailed as reality (whatever that is).

Then, suddenly, the dream turns into an uncontrollable nightmare. The stability turns into instability and panic. Sometimes I partly wake up at this point, and my partner has told me that I sometimes stand in the corner of the room, being completely silent for minutes, before returning to bed.

I am fucking tired of this shit.

>>19410940
Yeah and a lot of cultures associate having that dream with an older male in the family (usually father or grandfather) dying.
I personally have tornado dreams very often. Very fucking scary.

I wish I had more dreams. I barely have them. Last night though, I had a dream that this asian girl from my school was talking to me and she was going insane. It's hard to recall, but she was acting like she was switching between multiple people.

Then a screen or something popped up, and I started seeing extremely violent porn that had shit and blood involved then I woke up.

I wish I had more dreams. Dreams are so fucking awesome honestly. I'm going to write down my dreams tomorrow and try and actively think tonight about dreaming.

>>19407163
Maybe a dream is an answer to a question you don't yet know how to ask.

>>19410945
>controllable, very detailed dreams
>The stability turns into instability and panic.
I think you might be dealing with the fear of omnipotence, anon. Within your dreams you have the power to generate entire worlds. (The generative power may be brief and incomplete, but for that period of time, you do still experience it.) It's a rather overwhelming power to become consciously aware of.

Is there any chance you have PTSD? I've had it since I was four and my dreams are crazy, it got to a point where it was torture. I started smoking weed when I was 15, I heard it takes away the ability to dream, but for me it worsened it. The only way I got the nightmares to calm was giving up caffeine and alcohol, it helps, but my life is being ruined by these nightmares. They're too real, it's like I live a whole life and then wake up, there is no relief when I wake up, I can still feel everything I felt. I even feel physical pain in my nightmares.

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>>19411119
the best thing to do is to start recalling them at a young age. I don't know your age, but I would recommend writing every single dream you have down in the greatest detail you can muster.
Then, think about what it could mean. Think about what the images you see remind you of in real life. Make associations. Think about the dream throughout the day.

>>19411787
Well this is akin to the idea that dreams are your brain reconciling chaotic elements of existence and integrating them into your model of the world. Dreams help to make your interpretation of reality more cohesive. This is what some research seems to indicate, from my understanding.
It isn't that there is necessarily a single problem. It's that life is a bunch of problems, and your brain is constantly trying to organize them and integrate the parts you don't really understand so that you're not constantly a nervous wreck.