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- From: mcovingt@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
- Newsgroups: alt.dreams
- Subject: Some Comments/Questions
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 07:11:02 GMT
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- Hello. I just started reading this group and thought I'd make a few
- comments/questions.
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- (1) Sometimes I will wake from a dream and be paralysed. I had
- assumed this was due to whatever it is that makes me not actually
- act out stuff while having REM sleep, just hasn't worn off yet. I
- recall being quite frightened by this as a kid though... often it
- would happen when I woke up from already terrifying dreams.
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- (2) Sometimes I have dreams where for some reason in the dream I
- cannot keep my eyes open. I will need them open, and can open them
- with effort, but in the dream it is more comfortable for them to be
- closed and then I can't see anything. Does anyone know what causes
- this? I wonder if it is me noticing that my eyes are closed in 'real
- life'?
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- (3) Languages in dreams.... I am bilingual (Japanese and English)
- and I dream in both languages, often mixed together. In my dreams,
- there will be people who I know in real life only speak English,
- speaking Japanese (or the other way round). If there are other
- bilingual dreamers out there... does this happen with your dreams
- too, or do you tend to stick to one language for one dream? Do people
- speak the 'correct' language in your dreams?
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- (4) Reading in dreams.... I have found that often I will be reading
- signs, etc. in my dreams. I have noticed that I see mostly signs
- written in Chinese characters in my dreams as opposed to things
- written in English. I had seen somewhere that people who can read
- Chinese characters often will dream of reading more than those who
- don't simply because characters are a 'sight reading' sort of
- pattern recognition as opposed to phonics. Anyone else heard of
- this? Unfortunately I never seem to remember to look at the signs
- twice to see if they change. ^_^
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- (5) About the 'tetris dreams'.... I think that if you are doing
- something for long periods of time it will just carry over into your
- dreams. I often will spend all day studying for some test and then
- end up studying even in my DREAMS the night before. This is a peeve.
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- (6) The lucid dreaming threads are quite fascinating. I have only
- had a few lucid dreams which seemed to occur spontaneously (I can't
- think "I want to have a lucid dream" and then have one). I do recall
- several dreams per night, and like to write them down in a notebook.
- I find them to be a good source of plots and characters for writing.
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- Maiko Covington mcovingt@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
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