Strange childhood dreams

[Kuikorosu]

You know, there was something I never really understood about my childhood. As a kid, I used to have dreams about being sucked into turned off televisions or monitor screens and (presumably) something horrible would happen afterwards (but I usually woke after being sucked in). I mean, some of them were just plain messed up, and would probably scare the shit out of me even today if I had them.

I mean, I'd be standing in my living room, then suddenly I'd start losing my footing, and start being pulled towards the television. I'd grab onto the corner of a wall, and hold on for dear life as the gravitational pull grew stronger. I'd lose my grip, grab onto something else (like a couch) and keep holding on. I'd eventually lose, though, get sucked into the blackness of the turned off TV, and hear a chorus of screams, and wake up.

I guess my question is...is there some sort of meaning to these dreams?

<P ID="signature"><hr>
http://wavefist.photojunkie.net/what.png</P>

[MooglyGuy]

> I guess my question is...is there some sort of meaning to
> these dreams?

Yeah, it means you watch too fucking much television. <img src=smilies/thumb.gif>

<P ID="signature">http://www.zophar.net/Files/mooglish.png
"Kupo, motherfucker!! DO YOU SPEAK IT!?"</P>

[Octocrook]

> I guess my question is...is there some sort of meaning to
> these dreams?

Sure, if you want there to be, PSYCHO! Lol, I think that while Moogle might have been facetious, maybe it was that you were watching too muvh TV.

My childhood nightmares mostly consisted of getting shot in gunfights, or stuff like riding on a bike along the side of a cliff and falling off. I've had some pretty fucked up nightmares though in my teens, like one where I "wake up" during the night, and am about to go back to sleep, and I see my door open slowly and then nothing for like 10 seconds, then the fucking grimp reaper rushes in and slices my belly open with his scythe, and for some reason, 3 SECONDS after that rather than immediately, I wake up. It would be like not waking up in a falling dream until a few seconds after you hit the ground.

<P ID="signature"><center><img src=http://www.crooky.us/ad5.jpg>

New songs and updates at Soundclick (http://www.crooky.us>Crooky.us</a>)</center></P>

[GeminiMan]

Obviously, you weren't watching enough TV. Your television got pissed off at you and started transmitting bad dreams into your subconcious as a way of getting back at you for neglecting it.

<P ID="signature">http://www.xanga.com/gemini999http://www.vgmp3.com/images/sigs/geminimanx.gif</A></P>

[Swan3983]

> I guess my question is...is there some sort of meaning to
> these dreams?

I think the meaning behind it is that maybe you're supposed to take your TV apart and then rebuild it into a gravitational pull device that can suck anything it is pointed at into a complete realm of blackness...

<P ID="signature"><image src=http://imageshack.us/files/swan.gif>

"Fight on MegaMan, for everlasting peace!"</P>

[JadussD]

> I guess my question is...is there some sort of meaning to
> these dreams?

not likely, they sound like night terrors. i had them when i was younger. apparently they were caused by non-convulsive seizures, for me, but there are other causes. i believe they do not occur during REM sleep like other dreams, and the "sudden onset of unbelievable amounts of evil" feeling has to do with dreaming while being fairly close to awake, when your body isn't temporarily paralyzed like it is when you're fast asleep. the evil comes in when your body starts shutting things down, and you're conscious on it on some level because you're dreaming. for me, suddenly all lights wherever i was in the dream would dim then fade out completely, and i'd be left in almost complete darkness, with a feeling of fear that is unsurpassed by any fear i've ever felt, and i'd invariably be drawn to something that wanted to do me immense amounts of harm (the basement, which in my mind was occupied by a man named pete who looked like ronald reagan, cried blood, and burned children in a giant decrepit-looking light fixture, the moon, the corner of my room, which somehow had the ability to tickle me, and then beat me...)

anyways, they were REALLY frightening.

<P ID="signature"><HR>
<CENTER>http://members.aol.com/jadussvii/ea.jpg</center></P>

[WhyteKnight]

> wanted to do me immense amounts of harm (the basement

The basement seems to be a pretty common one. I had it too. Specifically, the boiler room, because the changing temperatures would make some of our copper plumbing knock around and that freaked me the fuck out. Another one like this was falling down the stairs and landing on a big circular saw blade.


> anyways, they were REALLY frightening.
>
I also had a series of really bizarre creepy ass dreams that I'm sure were REM sleep dreams. There were several dreams that involved being followed around by a mobile human skull that had eyeballs and horns or antlers of some sort. It seemed like a benevolent sort of walking horned human skull thingy, It just followed me everywhere I went. At one point I remember being stuck in the bottom of a huge pit with it and somehow using it to climb out. Very strange dreams. The part I wonder most about is how much of it I actually remember and how much my mind made up to compensate for the parts I've forgotten about it. Thats about the most vivid dream scenario I can recall though.

<P ID="signature"><center><a href=http://faith.rydia.net/>http://www.girls-tacos.com/whyteknight/button_raven2.jpg</a></center></P>

[SpaceTiger]

Whenever I have a bad dream, I get my stuffed kookaburra. It looks something like this:

http://www.stuffedark.com/images/kokabura.jpg

He serves the dual purpose of making the bad dreams going away and satisfying my twisted bird fetish.

To answer your question, I don't think there's anything wrong with you. However, I put in that first part so that you could judge my credibility on issues of sanity. Your call, bud.
<P ID="signature">http://qonos.princeton.edu/nbond/tiger5.gif</p>

[Kuikorosu]

> I think the meaning behind it is that maybe you're supposed
> to take your TV apart and then rebuild it into a
> gravitational pull device that can suck anything it is
> pointed at into a complete realm of blackness...

I shit you not, that post made me shudder. <img src=smilies/errrr.gif>

<P ID="signature"><hr>
http://wavefist.photojunkie.net/what.png</P>

[Swan3983]

> I shit you not, that post made me shudder.

Oops... sorry...

<P ID="signature"><image src=http://imageshack.us/files/swan.gif>

"Fight on MegaMan, for everlasting peace!"</P>

[MooglyGuy]

That skull description reminded me of this one dream that I seem to have from time to time about technology, and it started about ten years ago. See, until recently my mother's never really been all that tech-savvy, and when our 386SX-16 naturally developed a bad sector on its hard drive, she blamed me, and I remember her screaming and yelling and going on about how it was like her right arm and stuff. Anyway, apparently the computer being "broken" and the yelling stressed me out so much that that night I had a dream that I was using the computer and trying to fix it, but I just kept making it worse. I then pushed the power switch that was supposed to turn it off, but it just stayed turned on. Then when I pulled the plug, this skull appeared on the screen and started laughing at me. I still remember the look of it like ten years later, so it was one pretty fucking frightening dream. ><img src=smilies/errrr.gif>

Since then, whenever I get stressed out about something regarding my computer, or any computer, or really any sort of tech device, I always seem to dream that something's going wrong with it, and when I try to turn it off, it won't turn off, and eventually it keeps getting so bad that I have to run away, or something. <img src=smilies/erm.gif>

[icenine0]

I'm of the opinion that a dream means absolutely nothing, unless it contains an image that requires no interpretation (e.g. I dreamt about the big math test tomorrow, so I must be worried about the big math test!)

There's just so much shtuff floating around in everyone's head that can be mashed together 50,000 different ways during sleep. I wouldn't take any particular wacky combination seriously.

<P ID="signature">The more often you fail, the sweeter the taste of success!</p>

[Lillymon]

> I'm of the opinion that a dream means absolutely nothing,
> unless it contains an image that requires no interpretation
> (e.g. I dreamt about the big math test tomorrow, so I must
> be worried about the big math test!)

Yeah, similar to when I dreamed that my monitor was screwing up. Just so happens that it was doing that (randomly blanking out) so I bought a new monitor for ?£35. Best monitor I've ever had.

<P ID="signature"><marquee direction=left scrollamount=8><img src=http://home.graffiti.net/lillymon:graffiti.net/images/keletav.gif></marquee>
!luos ruoy tae lliw stelek ehT</P>

[The 9th Sage]

> As a kid, I used to have dreams about
> being sucked into turned off televisions or monitor screens
> and (presumably) something horrible would happen afterwards
> (but I usually woke after being sucked in). I mean, some of
> them were just plain messed up, and would probably scare the
> shit out of me even today if I had them.

You know...I had things kind of like this when I was little too. It was mostly just this feeling of being sucked into something, or extreme falling...I don't know why, or why it scared me so bad.

These days, I mostly have strange dreams. Like I had a dream awhile back where I was a vampire that lived in a castle up in the clouds. Wouldn't that be suicide for a Vamp? Apparently not me when I'm a vampire. :P

<P ID="signature"></P>

[shawn]

> I'm of the opinion that a dream means absolutely nothing,
> unless it contains an image that requires no interpretation
> (e.g. I dreamt about the big math test tomorrow, so I must
> be worried about the big math test!)

I've found one type of dream does mean something to me that is not straight forward. If I have a dream where I'm naked or I am looking for the rest of my clothes it usually indicated to me I had lied about something to myself for a long time and that the nakedness and embarassment was all those lies falling apart in my face. I used to try to make myself look better than I actually was to other and in my own mind. Since I've stopped doing that and faced myself and life honestly I have not had those dreams since. This was my own interpretation of those dream and I believe it could be a valid one since it was my own subconscious mind creating them I should have the knowledge to realize their meaning. <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>

<P ID="signature">Well there's one thing that makes the world at least tolerable.
Well maybe toterable as Bozo the fucken clown nailed to a white wall is tolerable.
-Quote from The Ranting Gryphon-
</P>

[icenine0]

Well, that's the trouble with dreams: like horoscopes, they can be interpreted in any number of ways.

For example, scientifically speaking, I'm sure there's at least one other important event or problem in your life that roughly coincided with the cessation of those you described.

<P ID="signature">The more often you fail, the sweeter the taste of success!</P>

[SpaceTiger]

Yeah, I've heard psychologists say that a person's interpretation of the dream means more than the dream itself. I think dream analysis is just another case of the horoscope effect.

<P ID="signature">http://qonos.princeton.edu/nbond/tiger5.gif</P>