Thread: Hello, I'm new here and looking for some insight on my dreams....

How did it fail? You weren't able to breathe? I wonder if you might have had some momentary blockage and that's what sparked the thought to do an RC?

Pretty good analogy with smells - smell and hearing are passive, so the sensations are going to get through even while dreaming. And while it's true your dreaming mind can overlay them with dream smells or dream sounds, it can't block them, can it? If there's a radio or TV on while I'm asleep then I hear it in my dreams, though I might not be able to really understand what's being said or what it really means. I remember once sleeping over at a friend's with the radio on and while hearing an Oxy-10 commercial (remember the guy with the really deep voice? Or before your time maybe?) I wove it into the dream. Even though he was talking about zits and breakouts I dreamed he was an administrator sitting behind a desk telling me about a spy network I had to break, and then I was climbing in the rafters over the audience at a theater where a play was going on, still hearing the guy talk! And I mean, the words he was saying had nothing to do with spys, but my ind interpreted them that way - weird!

I suspect it's the same with breathing - I don't think you can dream of holding your breath unless you actually are, or maybe you can sort of dream of doing it while having a weird overlay of feeling yourself breathe at the same time (that would be pretty freaky!)

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I'm diggin' my new sig pic (It's from the stopmotion film I'm working on now) but that avatar has got to go. My photography skillz have improved drastically since I took that one (a Buster Keaton puppet I made years ago). Time for something new!

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

How did it fail? You weren't able to breathe? I wonder if you might have had some momentary blockage and that's what sparked the thought to do an RC?

Pretty good analogy with smells - smell and hearing are passive, so the sensations are going to get through even while dreaming. And while it's true your dreaming mind can overlay them with dream smells or dream sounds, it can't block them, can it? If there's a radio or TV on while I'm asleep then I hear it in my dreams, though I might not be able to really understand what's being said or what it really means. I remember once sleeping over at a friend's with the radio on and while hearing an Oxy-10 commercial (remember the guy with the really deep voice? Or before your time maybe?) I wove it into the dream. Even though he was talking about zits and breakouts I dreamed he was an administrator sitting behind a desk telling me about a spy network I had to break, and then I was climbing in the rafters over the audience at a theater where a play was going on, still hearing the guy talk! And I mean, the words he was saying had nothing to do with spys, but my ind interpreted them that way - weird!

I suspect it's the same with breathing - I don't think you can dream of holding your breath unless you actually are, or maybe you can sort of dream of doing it while having a weird overlay of feeling yourself breathe at the same time (that would be pretty freaky!)

Actually, I became suspicious that I was dreaming after I realized my parents were saying very strange things to me (I can't remember what it was now). I think I asked them if I was dreaming and they said no, and then I did the RC. I wasn't able to breath through it, just like as if I'd been awake, and I was like "Hey what the hell, this is supposed to work right now!"

Hehe, that reminds me of a time I smoked salvia. I was at a friend's apartment and I took my hit while he had Transformers 2 playing. I was staring at the wall and the whole apartment was replaced by half sky and half this orange walkway that slowly came into focus. I (though I don't think it was really me) was with my friend (and I don't think it was him, either) walking around a zoo, and all the dialogue and sounds from the movie were being interpreted by my mind to be the conversation we were having about the animals we were seeing. Strange stuff! After about five or ten minutes everything collapsed back into the apartment and I was so confused; I sat up and looked my friend dead in the eye, and he was watching me quite intently, and I said "Wait...... are we not at the zoo!?" And he started cracking up lol. But just like when you wake up from a dream like that, I could immediately recognize the actual sound that I'd been hearing while I was hallucinating.

Also, I don't think I'm familiar with that commercial.

I'm inclined to think that it's possible to dream of not breathing, but maybe not incredibly likely. I only say this because I know for a fact that it's possible to lose the sensation of breathing without actually doing it while you're on hallucinogens. I would imagine that an intense or dissociative enough dream would have the potential for it too, because I do think that the hallucinations of the dream world can become powerful enough to replace those kinds of sensations. Maybe that's just wishful thinking, though.

I'm diggin' my new sig pic (It's from the stopmotion film I'm working on now) but that avatar has got to go. My photography skillz have improved drastically since I took that one (a Buster Keaton puppet I made years ago). Time for something new!

It's going to take me some time to get used to the idea of you having a new avatar lol. But the sig pic is pretty sweet.

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

I did the RC. I wasn't able to breath through it, just like as if I'd been awake, and I was like "Hey what the hell, this is supposed to work right now!"

See, that right there - makes me wonder if you didn't deliberately close off a nasal sphincter (heh heh... I said Nasal Sphincter! )

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

See, that right there - makes me wonder if you didn't deliberately close off a nasal sphincter (heh heh... I said Nasal Sphincter! )

Classy. I suppose it's possible lol. But it does make me suspicious when it comes to actually trying to breath then... because that should've happened to, and I can close my nasal sphincter all I want but it still opens up involuntarily when I try to inhale.