Death and Dreams (501 hits)
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Submitted by Jon Ghost (View user info) at 2004-01-22 01:33:42 EST
This post --> http://www.ubersite.com/m/23575 about the scary dream, prompted me to write this.
Although i dont believe dreams actually "mean" anything, i do find the realities we create in our dreams to be fascinating and often i find myself wanting to exist in my somewhat illogical and somtimes chaotic dream realities rather than suffer the mundane predictablities of my concious reality.
Of the more vivid dreams i have experienced the ones that stick with me most are those where i have died. Not for example, when you have those dreams of falling off a cliff and being suddenly jerked back into conciousness before you hit the ground, but actually hitting the ground. The examples that come to mind at present are where i have swallowed a suicide pill(not because i was depressed or anything but due to bizarre reasons, read - illogical/chaotic dream realities), got stabbed/shot or where there was some cataclysmic explosion which signified the end of the world.
In these dreams i am aware of the point where i lose "conciousness" and it is the moments just after this when i wake up in the real world that i find the most interesting if not scary. This is basically because for the first few moments of my awakening id think that i was regaining conciousness into some sort of afterlife and it was only when i realised that i was just lying in my bed that it all sank in, "it was just a dream". The first few times i had these dreams of my own mortality i must admit i was quite shaken, the fear of awakening into a complete unknown was quite pronounced, but as these dreams continued to occur later on, the inevitable realisation that it was just a dream became somewhat of an anticlimax. My general feeling was that waking up back into my normal life was kind of a downer when id experienced something as extreme as my own death, and the possibility of finally finding out what happens to your soul/conciousness/whatever after you die was, for me anyway, quite enticing. I guess its partly because i dont believe in any of the conventinal ideas of the afterlife, being agnostic i dont really even believe in an afterlife at all so at the end of these dreams id be more curious about where id find myself as the "nothing" i expect is kinda hard to conceptualise.
I no longer fear death but am more concerned about the pain i may experience preceding it which i think is quite a common sentiment. I didnt experience any pain in these dreams and i never seemed to be sad or distressed about knowing the fact that i am actually dying, it was more a feeling of curiosity and anticipation to what will happen after. People tend to think i have a morbid fascination with death but doesnt everybody think about these things at some point in their lives?
I certainly dont contemplate killing myself for real, but i feel the ability to explore this kind of experience in the world of dreams to be quite special, whether they be horrific nightmares or wildest sexual fantasies, literally anything is possible.
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Submitted by Thanatos (user info) at 2004-03-04 01:09:18 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
If you had a brain, would you use it?
wateva
Apparently not.
Submitted by dakingisdead (user info) at 2004-01-22 01:58:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
What the .....
seems that today is dreams day
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