Thread: 1000 Stupid Misconceptions About Dreams

35. "I actually had a dream tonight! Usually I don't" (hate it when this happens)

Originally Posted by Windhover@

26. If you have sex in dream, you will wake up
27. If you laugh out loud or cry tears you will wake up
28. shared dreaming is impossible
29. Dilating time in dream is impossible

#26: It's happened to me and also when other people did it in my dream, Once there was an alarm with flashing red lights going off and I woke up.

I think part of it is because I wanted to wake up; I wanted to because then I'd have a bit more time to not ruin my clothes, And attempt to resist ejaculating (And on many occasions, Fail. Having safeguards against it long before I even fall asleep will make it not happen in the first place.)

But, Some people may not wake if they have such dreams.

#27: It's a bit hard for me to say I did or did not laugh or cry in dreams as none come to mind now in which I did. But I'm not about to say I didn't.

And again, Perhaps it's different for some other people.

#28: I once dreamed I was in a nice building in a cloud and I met two people there who I may have become friends with quickly. Near the end of the dream I was a bit sad because I knew I would wake up and I said something about that to them. I'm not about to say shared dreaming can happen or can not, But I'd like to believe it's possible.

#29: Again, I'd like to believe it's possible and the other day I had a dream I wasn't sure I'd wake from which at the time I didn't think was fun.

Originally Posted by Bobblehat

30 If you have an orgasm in a dream you ejaculate in bed.

That's happened to me, Maybe believing it will happen if I dream it is what causes it. Being determined to wake up when it happened certainly preceded waking when it happened.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

2. "Most dreams are black and white."

There is an explanation for this. According to The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley, people used to dream in black and white because of the television/films from that time. With the arrival of color television and such this changed.
I don't really know if it's true, it obviously could have influenced some people, but who knows... I never had the chance to ask any of my grandparents. Something tells me it's bullshit, anyway.

Originally Posted by 101Volts

Now that I have that out of the road, Perhaps some people don't think that you can smell things or taste things in dreams but I've done both - I've eaten a cupcake/muffin/cookie/ something with refined sugar in it and I tasted it and I've smelled gasoline in dreams.

Yeah, I'm lactose intolerant, so I eat chocolate and ice cream in dreams.

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

8. If you die in your dreams, you die in real life.

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"Challenge accepted"

36. dream control is pagan voodoo magic
(vs, dreams always follow expectation, lucid or not)


--ive also read, re-read the same thing, used electronics and had consistent math. rare, but definitely possible!

It's hard to make a list like this because people are adding their personal unscientific beliefs, like that shared dreaming is possible. (I was thinking of adding 'shared dreaming is possible' as a myth and then read that someone else thinks 'shared dreaming is impossible' is a myth). There's also some redundancy and stuff that could be phrased better. But since this is just for fun, I'll add:

37) Someone can tell you what your dreams mean based solely on their content. (Truth: Although there may be some commonalities and some interpretations may be obvious, it really depends on your own psychology and what the dream means for you, if anything. So many people claim to be 'dream interpreters', but really, the best dream interpreter is the person who had the dream in the first place, since they know themselves best).

Originally Posted by Higat

Interesting thread

4. "If you die in a dream, you wake up."
5. "We only dream once in a while"

I love the number 5. Seriously, the one who said that must be stupid. I get lots of dream at like the same hour.
but here's mine:
38. If you didn’t wake up with a dream in your head, then you didn’t dream that night.

39. I never dream! (I HATE when someone tells me this...)

Originally Posted by Leichen

There is an explanation for this. According to The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley, people used to dream in black and white because of the television/films from that time. With the arrival of color television and such this changed.
I don't really know if it's true, it obviously could have influenced some people, but who knows... I never had the chance to ask any of my grandparents. Something tells me it's bullshit, anyway.

When I was a kid I got really into those black and white shows they used to show on TV. One night after a black and white Dennis the Menace marathon, I dreamed in black and white. Except the Ninja Turtles were there and they were the only things with color.

40. If you dream that you're falling, if you hit the floor, you've died.

41. Dreaming is just to escape reality... it's like drugs...

No matter how many conceptions or misconceptions are listed here, If someone believes in them they might actually apply to them, E.G. the whole "Dreams are mostly black and white" Thing. By posting that I'll have also stopped replying to some things listed here which I don't necessarily agree with.

Perhaps I'd work better in a "Your conceptions about dreams" thread instead of a "Misconceptions about dreams" Thread.

Based on my own experience, these were things I believed when I was a kid:

42. You can bring things from your dreams if you hide them in a proper place and you remember where it was when you wake up. (Lost count how many times I tried to do it)
43. During a lucid, you can tell somebody it's a dream and once you wake up they could remember it. (Lost count how many times I tried to do it)
44. You can wake up other people during a dream. (Lost count how many times I tried to do it)

45. when someone appears in your dreams, it’s because that person misses you.
46. Lucid dreaming will most likely hurt you

Originally Posted by VashtaNerada

46. Lucid dreaming will most likely hurt you

I did hear it interferes with regular sleeping patterns or something to that effect but does it? Recording dreams is fine from what I understand, Though.