When people talk about having dreams, I fail to relate. By this I mean that they talk about fantastical things happening to them. Things like flying, or the earth being destroyed or something beyond unrealistic. Personally, my dreams are quite nearly the opposite. My dreams are basically memories being replayed or even edited. I do not necessarily dream lucidly, no, I can only react in those memories, as I would in real life. Now that might sound rather dull, but I assure you that it is much more exciting than any lucid dream I have ever heard described. When I say my dreams are edited I mean that it has fragments of memories folded, mixed, and smashed together to make something amazing. For example, one of my favorite dreams to date is the one where me, my girlfriend (<PERSON>), and four others I know are in a skyscraper trying to fight off a horde of zombies. Now that may sound crazy unreal, but it was too real. I have this weird thing where I can feel everything that is happening to me in dream. But the reason for this is due to the fact that everything I feel I have felt at some point in my life. Other times the dreams are nightmares beyond comprehension. There have been times where I start out in the dream as me laying on a beach holding my girl and having a romantic moment (NOT SEXUAL!!!) and I feel knives entering my entire body. People that lucid dream told me to just wake myself up, but you cannot wake up from a memory! At any rate, that is how I have dreams. If anyone reads this (but that I highly doubt) ask me more about my dreams if it interests you. I would also like to know if anyone else out there shares this kind of dreaming. I am also on facebook as <PERSON>.
Place withheld · 2011-12-01 · from the DREAMVIEWS archive
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