Out of curiosity, does this happen to anyone else?
In your dreams do you find that half of the time it is really hard to run (feels as if your trying to run through waist deep sludge), hard to see because everything goes very blurry and loses it's clarity, and it's hard to be heard.. Like you could stand in a room and be screaming your face off but nobody would pay any attention.
Also, does this mean anything? :?
Re: Out of curiosity, does this happen to anyone else?
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Originally posted by dollsteak
In your dreams do you find that half of the time it is really hard to run (feels as if your trying to run through waist deep sludge), hard to see because everything goes very blurry and loses it's clarity, and it's hard to be heard.. Like you could stand in a room and be screaming your face off but nobody would pay any attention.
Also, does this mean anything? :?
Yes, but what may be happening may be entirely counter-intuitive. What may be happening is that your sense of time resolution has drastically increased in speed, so that it seems that things have slowed down. Just as in Slo-Mo Photography, the 'trick' is to shoot many more frames per second.
The way to verify this is, when things bog down, look around. If EVERYTHING has slowed down, then this means that your SENSE of time has changed -- that you are now able to see much more detail as everything is unfolding so much slower. It is actually a very good advantage. Martial Artists study for decades to be able to do this very thing at will. The reason they can do so many thing so quickly and with such precision is because they are experiencing Time as unfolding much more slowly then it does for us. What seems like only a few seconds to us, rolls by like minutes for them.
So, the next time you have such a dream. Look around.
But usually such SlowDowns are brought on by adrenaline... some stress.
For young adults there is a common enough dream motif -- running from Death. You see, for young people, there is the question of Mortality. Young People have not often reflected upon their Mortality. That is why young soldiers make the best soldiers -- they don't think they can be killed, or they just never thought about it.
So dreams of Running from Death occur for those mature enough to finally be thinking of issues of their own mortality.
Here the advice on that -- whatever it is, let it kill you, but stay in the Dream. If you can stay dead in a dream for about 20 seconds without waking up, then you will come back alive. This is VERY Important. When one come back from the Dead in a Dream, it is a signal that one has attained to Spiritual Immortality, at least in the Dream Realms. It is one of those "Today you are a Man" kind of Passage Moments.