More of Amelia's Evil Subconscious

[bloodyrosemccoy]

I had the most amazing dream a few nights ago.  I have mentioned that I have dreamed in different languages before, including ASL.  I have mentioned the epic nature of some of my dreams, how some are miniseries, and how my dreams appear to have commercial breaks.

 

I don’t think I’ve mentioned the physical sensations.

 

I remember being told that people dream in black and white. Even as a kid, I thought that was bullshit.  I dream in Glorious Technicolor, Breath-taking Cinemascope, and Stereophonic Sound.  And not only that. I have dreamed pain—probably not very accurate pain, as a bee sting that big in my foot would probably elicit more pain, but still it was there.  I have dreamed textures and the feeling of weightlessness you get in water.

 

But this was the first time I ever experienced goddamn G-force in a dream.

 

It was a roller coaster. It was doing impossible things that involved me falling a lot.  It swung me around and up and down, and it was completely dark.  It was actually rather like being in the giant war machine in The Thief and the Cobbler, except that I felt completely, totally safe, although I was rather uncomfortable. My stomach migrated around as I was swung back and forth and up and down, and my head prickled like blood was rushing to my scalp. And when I lurched to a halt, I was out of breath and unnerved.

 

Makes me wonder if the BFG has been paying calls to my room while I’m asleep.

 

At least it’s entertaining, though.

Comments

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

I've only had physical sensation in dreams a few times; touch, in a series of extremely creepy dreams (one of which involved someone petting my hair and face- no idea who, I couldn't move to see them, and that is by far the creepiest thing EVER) and taste in one (...blood, of course, although from what I believe was supposed to be an undercooked chicken leg).

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

I can believe that people dream in black and white. As a kid, I only dreamed in two senses, sight and sound. I clearly recall being startled as hell as a preteen when my dreams acquired textures, and startled again when they gained scent and taste.

I'd like to ride that roller-coaster, though. It sounds like fun.

[luinmir.livejournal.com]

You've never had G-force dreams before? I used to have falling dreams all the time, and I felt gravity rather acutely in all of them.

Fascinating.

[mile-high-death.livejournal.com]

You are not alone. I too dream in color, different camera shots and background music. I also felt pain and g-forces on random dreams. I’ve also been told that we all dream of ourselves in different personas that there is no one else in our dreams. I have had a LOTR style of cast of characters so I think dream analysts are full of themselves.

[narnian-dreamer.livejournal.com]

I dream in colors, but I don't dream in photographic quality. I dream in moving paintings. If I have a dream where I'm at my aunt's house, it doesn't look like my aunt's house, it looks like a painting of my aunt's house. People in my dreams look like paintings. The colors are too bright and solid, and the lines to soft, even though they are clear. Kind of along the style of Raphael's Madonna and Child paintings.

[viizou.livejournal.com]

My dreams tend to be all over the place. They're always in color. They appeal to all my senses, except my sense of smell (maybe because I breathe through my mouth when I sleep? Nah...). I have also felt pain in my dreams, the causes of said pain ranging from being run through with a sword (that one actually woke me up) to being grabbed by the neck. My dreams often seem to dig up a lot of semi-forgotten knowledge from the back of my brain: my dream-self will often utter phrases in German or Japanese, which my waking-self couldn't put together without a grammar book, or I'll compose an original tune, something I can only do with great difficulty when I'm awake. I'm told I giggle in my sleep on a regular basis.

The format of my dreams depends on what I've been exposed to. Lately, I've been dreaming in video games. A few months ago, I was dreaming in comic panels.

How do your dream's commercial breaks unfold? I'm curious.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Oh, I just realized I never answered your question! The commercial breaks are just little flashes of something irrelevant in the middle of my long epic dreams, and they are not incorporated in the epic in any way. Like, "We interrupt this drive across the Pacific Ocean to bring you the image of giant weasels in a movie theater! Now back to the ocean drive." This would be different from if we drove PAST a weasel-filled movie theater IN the epic dream.

If I play too much Zelda I get video game formatted dreams. And I am willing to bet that a lot of Americans dream in some cinematic form, because of the prevalence of movies. (I wonder what Alfred Hitchcock's dreams were like. He was, like, the king of bizarre camera angles ...)