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!