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What Dreams May Come…
I wouldn't say I've been doing too many LFR; however last night I had a nightmare that the world was taken over by these multi-colored globules that mysteriously traveled in 3s. What was the most terrifying is I was not with my family. I was traveling with a doctor who had a strange tendancy to go off road down grassy lanes and onto dirt roads. Yes. Yes, that makes perfect sense. Let's take this non off road vehicle - off road - when we're fleeing for our lives from giant jelly creatures that devour everything in sight. For anyone who has ever read or seen a horror movie, you know that one of the unwritten rules is NEVER stop a perfectly good vehicle and leave it. Period. Well, my traveling companion (the doctor) heard a baby crying and just could not ignore it. Hey - you and I know that's the oldest trick in the book to get someone to stop and leave a perfectly good vehicle behind. I'm fairly certain the Zombie Survival Guide would apply in this case and I should have left his ass behind and kept driving. I really, really wish I had. Instead, I was the dutiful (pfft) dream Jamie and got out of the car to follow the sounds of the crying baby.
We came upon an encampment of other survivalist and yet some how they had houses and I think - but I'm not 100% - there was a Starbucks. So that answers the age-old question of what would really survive a global annilation - and that would be cockroaches and Starbucks.
Now this is where it gets a little hazy. We did find the house with the crying baby and once the family discovered my companion was a doctor we were immediately offered shelter. Then some young girls thought it was a stellar idea to go to Starbucks for coffee because let's face it - if you're gonna die why not go down with a cup of coffee in your hands. For whatever reason, my motherly instincts (which I try to leave behind in any nightmare) decided to kick in and I went with them. When we arrived we went into this weird faze where the "evil" survivalists wanted to take advantage of the situation by being very, very, very evil indeed. This was actually the scariest part of my dream. One of the young girls that had accompanied us went missing. However it wasn't from one of the globules that we could see for miles and miles surrounding us - she was taken by one of the evil survivalist. At some point in all of this, the entire camp could see a horse being attacked by the globules, so someone shot it to put it out of its misery.
Then I woke up.
A few things of note of what I'm going through right now. My son just moved out this week and rather than deal with it I've been ignoring it. My daughter works at Starbucks and some mornings needs to be at work at 4:30am so guess who gets to drive her. Ed ususally does because he's a morning person, but he's been very sick this week so I'm filling in. I just thought it was interesting how some of these things played into my nightmare.
So - what have you been dreaming about this week? And do you think dreams have a deeper meaning other than our brain working through the mess that's in there?
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February 5th, 2012 - 13:38
I seem to only dream after I’ve had a few drinks before bed, or that may be the only time I remember them. Sadly, I can’t remember the last time I’ve had a sober dream.
February 5th, 2012 - 17:06
This is deep… I’m wondering if we can relate this to PvE or PvP in Warcraft… Each would have a totally different meaning.
February 5th, 2012 - 23:02
I will have to say Freud was onto something with his dream theories, he was the main person who claimed our dreams were from our subconscious. The way our mind works is we store ALL information in it, and then we make pathways to that information along “neural pathways”. the more a pathway is traveled the easier it is to remember things. However, when we dream our brain is basically traveling any pathway it wants and selecting different memories at random and putting them together, hence the globules from WoW, the driving from your mornings, and starbucks from where your daughter works. We all dream every night pretty much, if you don’t it means you don’t get REM sleep and you start hallucinating after about 72 hours with no REM. if our REM cycles are not interupted we don’t remember our dreams, the only time we do remember our dreams is when we leave our REM cycle quickly and either wake totally up or drop down to stage 1 sleep (of 4 stages), that is why you always remember waking up to your dream to your alarm. Your drunken dreams you remember are because you don’t get restful sleep while intoxicated therefore you turn more and drop from your sleep cycle more and therefore you remember those dreams.
Sorry, I know you probably didn’t actually want to get into all of this, but the main point of all of this is YES, we CAN relate this to PvE or PvP in Warcraft and they WOULD be different.
February 6th, 2012 - 12:32
Jamie I dont know the exact answer or what I believe regarding taking a dream and converting meaning of it to reality. I do agree with Mr. Nater that dreams are most likely based off memories of some kind rather than future events. I dont remember dreams often. Only one I ever remember (same one multiple times), I am with my family (dad, mom, and sister) and they get on the elevator and I am walking to get on it; right before I get there the elevator drops with my family in it. I wake up from an immediate falling feeling. Only dream I ever remember it seems.
Britta has been saying though that I have been waking her up lately by hitting my bed and cursing lol. Even to the extent of dropping F bombs amongst other colorful words. No idea what I am dreaming about. I could surmise that it maybe me dreaming about playing PVP, but no idea what I am actually dreaming about. lol
February 6th, 2012 - 19:10
PvP does this to me. League of Legends was particularly bad. I get so riled up that it transfers to my dreams. If I have been PvPing a lot, I will lay down to relax and get that full body jerk several times as I’m trying to drift off to sleep and then have scary, violent, and angry dreams all night. I had a couple this weekend that I can’t remember, but from which I woke with that pervasive sense of anxiety that stays with you all day. I also read the first two books of the Hunger Games this weekend. I guess it was a nad idea to read those books, stay home in my pajamas being anti-social, and PvP.
I rarely remember my dreams in general, although I do have one or two recurring dreams that, like yours involve running, survival and imminent threat. The best ending is where I am chased up a hill, and run to the end of a cliff where the Bad Guys think they have me. But NO! I outsmart them and shoot kites out of my fingers and fly down the cliff like a hang glider. Score one for finger kites.
February 7th, 2012 - 18:51
All of these replys are very interesting! I dream frequently and have horrible nightmares and often remember them in vivid detail. Ed says that is because I am easily awakened by them, so I must not be getting much of that elusive REM sleep.
Erm – is that a dancing rhino I see wearing a pink tutu and blue eye shadow? Whaa– huh?
All I can say is – for those of you sleeping blissfully unawakened for hours – you must not have any cats. ;p