Thread: What do you mean if it seems strange?!

Originally Posted by Philosopher8659

Your question does not make any sense.

Meaning is what one intends a certain action to entail.

Highly structured and coherent dreams are, after all, a sign of advanced intelligence. I will grant that it is strange, only because it is rare.

What I'm asking is if you're supposed to question if something seems strange in your dream, but I have dreams that are really out there and have never thought anything was odd about them when I was in them, how am I to go about starting to question when asleep if something seems weird?

I guess I'll just have to take the suggestions here and make it a habit in my waking life and wait for it to transfer to my dreams.

Originally Posted by Haerodiel

What I'm asking is if you're supposed to question if something seems strange in your dream, but I have dreams that are really out there and have never thought anything was odd about them when I was in them, how am I to go about starting to question when asleep if something seems weird?

I guess I'll just have to take the suggestions here and make it a habit in my waking life and wait for it to transfer to my dreams.

I don't think there has ever been a dream that one could not question because dreams do not correspond with reality.

I remember when I was exploring the Lucid Dreamstate and I actually had a full blown fit in the dream because of certain lack of reality correspondence. One fails to realize that the aim is to modify behavior, not to be realistic. Behavior is reinforced or it is diminished by the content. However, as I said, as your dreams are highly structured, it is because of your depth of intelligence.

There are great battles to fight in life, with strange creatures--the strangeness is not in how they appear but how their mind works. And there really are wizards, not in the sense of magic, but in the magic of their mind.

Originally Posted by Philosopher8659

I don't think there has ever been a dream that one could not question because dreams do not correspond with reality.

I remember when I was exploring the Lucid Dreamstate and I actually had a full blown fit in the dream because of certain lack of reality correspondence. One fails to realize that the aim is to modify behavior, not to be realistic. Behavior is reinforced or it is diminished by the content. However, as I said, as your dreams are highly structured, it is because of your depth of intelligence.

There are great battles to fight in life, with strange creatures--the strangeness is not in how they appear but how their mind works. And there really are wizards, not in the sense of magic, but in the magic of their mind.

I've just read so many places to question reality when something seems out of the ordinary, and read stories on here where people did just that. I was just asking how to make it occur to myself to question what is happening. Force of habit seems to be the general answer.

Where did you learn, by the way, that complex and structured dreams correspond to intelligence? I'm interested. Google is no help. (No matter how many time I get told I'm smart, I never feel like I am. )