Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
References: <Bxrtyv.EtG@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:48:06 GMT
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In article <Bxrtyv.EtG@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> swansont@sage.cc.purdue writes:
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> Lately I've been have some dreams of being underwater. Every time this happens I get the feeling I'm going to drown. However, when I feel that my lungs are going to burst from the lack of oxygen, I take a breath and everything is okay. For some reason I have the ability to breath underwater. If anyone has any idea what this could mean then drop me a line through e-mail or post it on the news. Thanks in advance.
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> swansont@sage.cc.purdue
> swansotj@feserve
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I don't know what it means, but I used to get it a lot. It is a really
good lucid dream trigger! (When you find yourself breathing underwater,
you will know that you're dreaming...) When I started using it as a
lucidity trigger, it stopped happening as often. :(
There is one theory that I formulated on why it might happen for me.
There is a hereditary (apparently) condition in my family where (we)
occasionally stop breathing for short periods of time in sleep.
It has never led to a death, so I think it's harmless (but scares the
heck out of new spouses, etc., when your sweetheart next to you in bed
suddenly stops breathing...) :) I think that there is some cause for the
temporary breathing cessation, and the underwater dreams are the
subconscious' way of interpreting it... But, on the other hand, it may
be that the hereditary trait is the underwater dreams and that is the