Are any of your dreams more than 'just dreams'??

[FlyersFan]

A question to the folks with the intrusive dreams, are they lucid or near it?  If so, do you remember anything that was aware of you, like the lady on the plan that saw FlyersFan or perhaps something else?

The only time I am able to control my dreams is when I am eating or drinking in them.   9/10 of the time, in the dream, I am able to say 'this is a dream' and spit out the food in the dream and wake up.  

And I really think that I was sitting on that plane when it went down, and that the lady saw me as a ghost on that plane and knew I was a spirit (or a ghost or person in spirit form or whatever).  She was scared to death that she was about to die, but then froze when she saw me and knew that I wasn't supposed to be there and that I wasn't entirely human at that point.   I could feel what she felt, while at the same time I kept my separate identity and own feelings.  Can't describe it any other way.

And since there really was a plane crash that night .. I do think I was transported to that plane for some reason.   And her last thoughts were about me .. the ghost .. sitting in the aisle seat as she crashed and died.

[Sirius]

Intense, pretty wild ride  

[Maxmars]

A question to the folks with the intrusive dreams, are they lucid or near it?  If so, do you remember anything that was aware of you, like the lady on the plan that saw FlyersFan or perhaps something else?

Oh man "intrusive" seems to be doing a kindness to some dreams I have endured... much more like "oppressive"... so much so, that I often fear 'going back to sleep" after waking from them... because I sure as hell "I don't want to continue THAT odyssey."  Sometimes I do go back to sleep and end up right the hell back where I was... like the dream had been on freakin' "pause"...  And it's not that they are overly distressing in what I see and hear, it just the complexity of them... as if there was so much for me to remember that I was actively evaluating my navigation through the dream... but that was just in my head, there was no 'test' in the dream... 

The only lucid dreams I have are when I can suddenly fly... it's like I immediately 'wake' to the idea that this is a dream (and super cool) and I begin to actively control my movements... while they are great and enjoyable.. they are all too few, and I never know when the ability will manifest itself... I can't ever seem to 'set out' to have a lucid dream and have one.

Perhaps I'm on my way to some bizarre psychosis... stay tuned... this should be interesting. 

[Sirius]

Next time take stock of the surroundings and who or what is there with you instead of flying around like a crazy person

[sahgwa]

Has anyone here ever kept a dream journal?

Because I was wondering if the deja vous feeling of "oh i had a dream about this!" was maybe some kind of retconn fill-in-the-blanks thing?

How would you know?

Perhaps that is why dreams slip away so easily, to leave a convenient blank to fill in.

Also, the thing with all the weird hats.

I keep a dream journal. Generally very brief, a few keywords to jog the memory, unless I have more time.
It really does help you to recall them at will upon waking. You are training you subconscious that hey, this is important to me, don't let it slip by until I record it. 
Similarly 'they' say, we all go OBE/ astral project when we sleep, the difference is, some people consciously remember it.

[Orionthehunter]

I’ve had many weird dreams.  Some dreams where I explored as if in the astral plane or like a ghost.  In one of those dreams with me simply exploring or invading someone’s house I was spotted.  The woman screamed a horrific scream very worthy of the best thriller scream.  She saw me in my ghostly form and was afraid.  Caused me to suddenly wake up.  I decided after that not to set out to explore peoples homes in my dreams.  I had no bad intentions.  I was just exploring and thought it was just a dream.

Other times I have had so many lucid dreams that my more normal dreams I often have super powers because it seems normal.  All my dreams are not always on Earth but with different alien species.  I’m kind of glad I found this thread because I have been experiencing strange sensations the last few weeks as if I am still spiritually connected to a female.   I don’t remember very much about the female or even if she was a human female.  However this constant connection is starting to drive me crazy.   Makes me wonder what in the world is going on.  I suddenly remembered my dream with her got interrupted.  It was a pleasant dream and I can’t remember hardly anything about her.

Some of my dreams have been far weirder.  I’ve even dreamed I’ve invaded other people and creatures bodies to understand what they are thinking.  I didn’t think I did that on purpose but in my dreams, I haven’t always been the nicest guy around.  Sometimes I am an alien combat commander and it starts out with me here on Earth under cover until my team needs me.  I think that may have started as a daydream when I was bored.

One day I dreamed I woke up and went to work and accidentally started a fire.  When I really woke up and went to work I found out they were trying to figure out how a fire started in an area I dreamed I did it.   I accidentally told someone about my weird fire dream a little bit before they told me about a real fire.  Fortunately I didn’t say too much or they would have been alarmed. 

The more I hear some people claiming astral travel, etc is possible, the more I think it might not be a good idea to invade other peoples homes uninvited  or their bodies and minds with me thinking it’s only a dream and I can do whatever I want to do.  I once was inside the body and mind of a murderer unknown to me ahead of time and it was like I had a mind merge and the sickening evil thoughts I picked up on were truly evil.

My dream travels into other planes of existence were weird.  I dreamed I was in combat with terrific monstrous strange creatures on occasion.  I’ve had so many combat dreams it’s like I was a soldier in many past lives.  Shooting, killing, combat, jumping into solders combat situations has been nothing unusual in my dreams.  Usually I feel like I’m in my own body in combat situations. What is strange about all that is that I was never in the military at least in this life.  I had a strong urge all my life to not join the military and stay away from any combat in the jungle.  Combat dreams in the jungle are more like nightmares.   I’ve never set foot in the jungle in this life.  If you don’t believe in past lives then maybe I saw a lot of jungle combat scenes on tv when I was a little baby and just don’t remember.

[Orionthehunter]

I will add at one time I dreamed of seeing a grim reaper or death.  I dreamed that this figure doesn’t like to be talked about.  I was a candidate apparently in my dream to also be a grim reaper as punishment for telling others about these paranormal beings.  I believe this series of dreams came about from reading about Death as a character in a fantasy book.  In my dreams I was the only one who could see Death.  Death didn’t like me pointing to him or her.  It’s possible in my dreams I was seeing a grim reaper in different forms.  It has been years since I had any dreams about grim reapers so that is good in my opinion.  I don’t really enjoy dreaming about paranormal entities nor interacting with them.

Some of those weird dreams may have come from me playing D&D with my brother when I was younger.   We deviated from the rules and had characters that traveled into the astral plane.  It all started because my brother took a cursed sword and the sword belonged to some undead skeleton creatures from an astral plane but our characters were so powerful my brother wanted to go fight them instead of waiting to be ambushed all the time.  Our characters also dealt with a crashed alien spaceship in one adventure within either the D&D game or some offshoot of it and several creatures and a few active carnivorous  plants.  That could have generated a few dreams but my brother probably had those dreams.  I was the DM and I thought it was secretly amusing to have an army of undead Skeleton creatures attack to attempt to take back the cursed sword.

[Maxmars]

Has anyone ever died in their dream?

This has happened to me on more than one occasion.

I dreamt that I was way up on some high cliff, it was a grassy terrain, so it wasn't like the Grand Canyon or anything... but it was way up.  I remember falling (not jumping) though I can't remember why or how.  I fell and hit the ground... I sensed a huge jolt as I landed.  But instead of going into blackness, I kind of swept out of my body and floated upwards gently, and as I looked around there was a gathering crowd of smiling people... aunts, uncles, people who I couldn't recognize but they all seemed to know me as they were all coming close, greeting me and saying "Welcome."

Then I woke up.  I distinctly remember having been told by my friends (I was very young) that if you die in your dreams you die in real life...  the first thing I thought was,
"I'm sure glad that was bullshit.

Any one else?

[Ray1990]

Has anyone ever died in their dream?

Plenty of times, I'm fairly sure dying in a dream doesn't equal actual death.

Sometimes I'll just wake up and others I'll have a 3D view of the site of death. Once or twice I've just been stuck in place which was actually really peaceful, I'm reminded of a particular dream where I died, was buried and just watched the seasons pass as I floated above a grave looking down.

When it comes to dreams being more than dreams I've had a few experiences that were interesting which has me wondering if 'loud' emotions can be replayed. There's a few I've had that eerily matched irl events. Personal memories can definitely be replayed although the accuracy is probably off if you manage to be actually dreaming as well.

There seems to be a difference between lucid dreaming and full autonomy in a dream, the latter is full awareness and in my experience means you'll be awake in about 90 seconds if you don't go back to roleplaying. I've always wondered if it's the excitement or that the brain just can't maintain consciousness within a dream. Maybe you can't be two people at once so to speak...

If I'm having a dream about 6 year old me and realise it then start thinking like an adult then I'm basically acting out of character, I always wake up whilst doing that. The roleplay part of dreaming seems to be important.

[FlyersFan]

Has anyone ever died in their dream?

I have dreamed I died ... but I wake up upon death and don't dream about the afterlife.

I had dreams when a child that I was a child playing in a playground.  My dream mother (not real life mother) had 1940s style dress on and so did her friends.  They were talking at the side of the playground.  Air raid sirens went off and I looked to my mother but she said to keep playing because nothing ever happened.   Then the playground blew up.   I don't know if that was a dream, or if it was a memory from maybe me dying in an air raid during WWII in England or Germany or something.  

And I've dreamed that I have been shot.   This has happened a few times.  I don't feel the pain, but I feel the bullets enter and I jump in the bed when they hit.   Then I wake up.

I dream about how I die and the death but I instantly wake up and don't dream of the afterlife.