I suppose this could be explained by conventional medicine... but I'm not so sure.

Every night I dream. But every so often I get a dream that's more than just a little realistic. The other night I had a dream that I was skiing. (One of my favorite things to do) And I was skiing as I normally do (on the hard tracks, biffing occasionally)... and there were several instances where the me in my dream said "ouch... there's gonna be a bruise there tomorrow".
Funny thing was... I was right.
I wake up with bruises in the places I hurt myself in my dreams. Scrapes, cuts, and once a lump on my head. It's odd... really odd. This happens a lot, actually... I don't mind so much being bumped and bruised... but it freaks me out to think what would happen if I dreamed about dying that way. *shudder*

peace

Meredith

Two options, as I see it.

One: you move around in your sleep and bruise yourself, and your subconscious incorporates it into your dreams

Two: you have those dreams with physical remnants.


...then again, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

good Job Z, just make an easy bubble statement, that makes anything anybody else says a continuation of what you said...anyways, I odn't think you have to worry about dieing in your dreams and never waking up, either Zach statement 1 is correct and you'd have to die of non dream reasons to have a real death dream, or Zach statement 2 is right, and well, for that to work, you'd have to actualy have a dream where you died, which is easier said then had (trust I, I know), and then you subconcious would have to force your heart to stop beating, which is so hard wired into the non-changable funtions of you brian, you brian would have to be so convinced that its dead, which sencory input (e.g. just by having the dream creates) tends to negate. I've had many of these Experiances, and while I rerely wake up with bruises, I do often wake up sore where something ouched me in a dream, and in dreams where I should have died, I end up majorly ouched, or totaly unskathed (shuddup, I know I spelled it wrong). I hope that made sence.

thanks guys....
and Drew, I'd never thought of it in the way that having a dream would negate the fact that my brain would have to stop having any activity to think it was dead... iiiiinteresting. :P
peace
Meredith

Originally posted by Stage Monster
Two options, as I see it.

One: you move around in your sleep and bruise yourself, and your subconscious incorporates it into your dreams

Two: you have those dreams with physical remnants.


...then again, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.


I agree..

The body could be manifesting these things I guess...

I have realistic dreams all the time, they don't effect me physically though, more on the mental/emotional side. Some of my dreams are so realistic I wake up sometimes after having them and I can't figure out whether what I just experienced really took place the day before or if it was just a dream. It makes it tough sometimes to just jump out of bed and get on with your day.

I have even tried to bring something out of a lucid dream with me before. I had my hands on something which I squeezed hard and woke myself up, still feeling the object in my hand until I looked down at my hands and saw nothing.

It's pretty amazing what the mind can do in our sleep..:eek: