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...

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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
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Well last night my wife was talking about batteries in her sleep. Usually has no interest in them whatsoever. The human mind is a strange commodity.

I am frequently "underclothed" in my dreams and usually running from someone. Very slowly.........
Lately I have been dreaming about deceased people. Over about a year and a half (March 2009-Nov 2010) I lost the 3 most influential men in my life. My Dad, Uncle and a sort of surrogate dad for whom I worked for years and who was there (in his own, odd way) when I needed an adult male around. My dreams often include one of them usually in a normal situation with no odd happenings.
Immediately upon waking I can recall my dreams in vivid detail but as the day progresses the memory usually fades to the point that I barely can recall anything.

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1983 M-B 240D-Gone too.
1976 M-B 300D-Departed.

"Good" is the worst enemy of "Great".

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.

Maybe this is all a dream.

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Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

I thought everyone has these dreams..............


For years I keep have having a recurring dream of discovering an old run down building that I forgot I own.
And the water has always been running...for years..... and has a very leaky roof.

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It has never occurred to me that this was possible when young but not possible as we age. I used to routinely select my dreams when young. I like the shoot em up/thriller type dreams that involved bank robberies or something.

I haven't tried selecting a dream in years. Maybe I will and see if I can still do it. It could be that as our subconscious minds become packed with so much data over the years, that there is too much in the library that the subconscious needs to use so conscious selection becomes impossible.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Repedative simular dreams may be a complex sort of comfort zone for an individual perhaps. I have had a few in the past that repeated randomly as well for some time. Eventually they probably dissapear. They usually are a mind puzzle with no workable solution perhaps?

My absolute non terror based worse dream was working like a slave in it. I cannot remember now but I thought I even woke up tired from it.

Anyways there was no repeat episode of that particular format occuring again that I am aware of. No loss there either.

First difficult dream I remember very well. I had asked my grandmother perhaps at about the age of three. What the pressure cooker she was using did and the function of the pressure valve was.

That night the cooker exploded in the same room I was in. I had to wait in the dream for the pressure to build first of course. The pressure relief valve had been disabled. Knowing all along what the outcome of this was to be.

She also had a cat that had scratched someone at about the same time frame. So that particular night the cat became a serious risk as it tore everyone up with no escape possible from it in the dream.

Berfore I was totally cognizant of clocks and time I watched the second hand rotate away hour after hour. Somehow I knew that once around with one hand was an hour. My mind seemingly transposed the second hand for the minute hand.

So portions of early seemingly traumatic dreams seem to be retained to some extent. Or buried in the subconcious perhaps. I guess I have seen time fly so to speak as even at that age I had anxiety feelings at the time I was immersed in it with the fast clock.

I imagine many members remember the expression sweet dreams from parents. Some things are pretty universal.

One last thought on dreams. Generally since they feel simular to being awake or at least of no discernable differance. When us guys where really young why sex was not a constant dream obsession. It certainly was a obsession when awake at times. I am not aware of whatever blocking metholigy the brain uses in this area to have prevented that. Or was it in the subconcious very deep and what was driving the waking issues?

I did interview an individual once that had experienced a brain injury. He claimed it was basically porn issues like a movie going on in his brain 24/7. Sleeping or awake the movie ran. . All his waking functions shared the issue at the same time. He stated he was very tired of them but unable to stop them. Yet he still managed to work with this major impediment. He had mastered thinking of more things than one at the same time I suspected. Actually it to me was quite suprising if he was telling the truth insanity was not evident. If not it shows the ability of some people to cope with what to others may be impossible situations.

True nymphomania for example may result from deficiency or overactive issues in this region of the brain. Or other sexual based excesses.

When I was a kid I used to sleepwalk. when i was about 8 or 9 one night I got up and walked out the back door. My dad heard me and followed me outside. I walked around the side of the house and up the hill. he had heard it was traumatic to wake up a sleepwalker so followed me for a while eventually guiding me back in the house.

I continued to sleepwalk well into my teens.

Now I just wake up but this morning the Mrs said I shouted in my sleep, waking her up, then apologizing. I had no memory of it.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Only once did I tend to do something equivelant to sleepwalking. As I woke up I found myself on the verge of urinating beside the bed while standing up. I did not remember either waking up or getting out of the bed.

Normally and always if there is a need to urinate during the night I just wake up and go to a bathroom. Since we sleep in several different bedrooms the first order of business is to make sure I know what one we are in before finding out by crashing into something in the dark. Orientation is hard if it is dark enough. I could turn a bedside lamp on but light wakes the wife up.. She follows the same protocal if she feels the need as well.

Then there is always the dog sleeping equidistant from the bedroom doors in whatever hallway is between the bedroom and the washroom to navigate over. He gravitates from a happy go lucky family pet during the balance of the day. To a serious family protection unit at night. It is an automatic thing with him that we never taught him.

I would never want to be a stranger that the dog did not recognise in the dark while we were asleep. I am not sure how he identifies us when it is totally dark. Being on the recieving end of what he could dish out would be horrific. He is large, heavy, and has a set of teeth that scare people when he barks. Yet during the daytime he would not hurt anyone.

Alcohol was not involved during my getting up while asleep issue. Drug use by society was in it's infancy then except heroin perhaps. So it was not a factor either. Strange that type of thing only happened once to my knowledge.

This area of discussion reminds me of that old joke. The guy was complaining that everytime he opened the bathroom door at night the light came on. His wife just told him you have got to stop urinating in the fridge.

Perhaps a result of the dream discussion going on right now. Unless it is a common occurance with you. Just do not wake up calling another womans name. That gets few to no brownie points. It may get a few questions though.

I was a sleepwalker too as a kid. Once I was staying in my friend's house. At breakfast I said I had a weird dream, that I had walked into his parent's room and turned on the light, then turned it off and walked out again. His mom said I did. I had slept walked into his parent's bedroom and I briefly awoke when I turned on the light and I was so shocked when both his parents sat bolt upright that I immediately turned off the light. When I did I went right back to sleep. His mother followed me as I walked back into his bedroom, got into bed and continued sleeping.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

This morning I had a dream I ran into Hillary Clinton at some random place. She looked at this trailer which had a Harley style fender which wrapped down the sides a bit and said that she and Bill had a harley on order in tan. I said I liked that color.

In my head I was thinking where could she and Bill ride it without trouble?

I suppose if they both had on full face helmets they could ride around anonomously.

Neither of them look like they'd be very comfortable on a bike.....perhaps a trike.

Then I woke up and vowed to come and tell you all about it.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Would have been a nice story if it ended after the eleventh word. Provided not to much damage to the vehicle.

Wishing death or serious injury to HC is not humor.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.