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Originally Posted by mgburg
Someone once stated that dreams are the things your mind displays for you to get rid of. Sorta' like a cleaning of the gray matter.
As for my dreams...the one that seems to come around every few years is one that I find myself running...for no particular reason and as I'm running, each stride seems to get longer and longer until, at one point, I'm almost "gliding" an unbelievable distance...like 500 feet or more between steps...then I'm taking steps/strides that have me looking down from great heights. I feel a little fear, but with each step almost being "airy" and "light" (no pain), I find myself stepping even more "lightly" and stretching out even more so to see if I can go farther/faster than I'm going now.
Then, for whatever reason, I say to myself something along the lines of "You really aren't doing this" and I wake up, just as the alarm is going off.
When I get up and start moving about, I do feel refreshed...as if I had a good sleep.
Strange...  |
Not really so strange. You usually awaken when into issues the mind cannot deal with that occur in my opinion. On the otherhand. You may be a person for example that has some form of subconcious selection ability or are into a shallow dream. This indicated perhaps by your considered opinion of being able to wake up when you choose. Rather than when the mind allows no other choice.
I too agree that dreaming does not seem to reduce the resting factor on the body in general as well. When young some people if not all can select their dreams subject. I have no awareness if dream interpretation is real or just basically of no importance at all.
As you get older in my experience remembering a dreams contents become less common. Although at the same time. You usually probably dream just as much.
The above is just my opinions on dreams as they have impacted me over my lifetime. I always woke up at the time of any death of myself for example. I just assume that as flexiable as our brains and imaginations are my mind refused to go into that area.
If anyone has ever remembered staying in a dream state once they died in it I would like to know.