Dreams/Nightmares

[Eichhörnchen]

My wife said just now: "Oh, thanks for punching me in the face last night".

She's always bringing home these zombie flicks, and the latest is a mini-series called "The Strain" and, as usual, I got dreaming about the undead. Last night I was in a rundown yard (in the dark) with another guy, trying to revive a friend, when this zombie fella came inching his way in through the gate right by me.

I lunged at him, calling out "Look out!" At this point I apparently smacked my missus right in the chops. I had called out "Look out" as I did it, too, so she got some warning. Being fast asleep, however, she didn't stand much chance

[mako88sb]

Originally Posted by ikalugin

Most of the time I both realise that i am dreaming and have a degree of control over the dream. This leads to me... adventuring in the dreams.

One of my most rememberable "adventures" was:
- I fall asleep.
- I go and say something on the lines of, now lets go on adventure!
- I get issued full plate armour, sword and i get the mission to save a princess from an evill regant.
- I prompty sneak into the castle and offer the princess my rescue services.
- She refuses to be rescued before the regant being defeated.
- I go to defeat the regant, get my sword flaming (monsters regenerate so slashes were not enough), fly around and open the path.
- Some monsters ambush me, drag me into the water pool, flame goes out.
- Princess runs forward instead of stopping to save me.
- I die.
- I come back as a shadow to a ball, regant finds me out and I ask him to set the princess free. He then explains to me that the previous king+queen were horrible tyrants and he actually keeps the princess safe from the masses.
- I wake up in dissapointment.

That's pretty cool about having some kind of control in your dream. I wonder how rare that is? Might be worth looking into. About the dying part. How often does that happen to anyone here? I don't recall ever dying in a dream and I was always kind of under the impression that if you die from something like a fall from very high up in a dream, you'll die in your sleep. Not sure how anyone would ever know but I guess that's a way to explain some unusual deaths while someone is sleeping. Anyway, I found out that's a myth as there are people like you who have experienced the same.