Thread: 1000 Stupid Misconceptions About Dreams

Interesting thread

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

6. Dreams are always happy (The follow your dreams sort of thing)

I've been waiting to say that.

7. It's impossible to realize that you're dreaming.
8. If you die in your dreams, you die in real life.

9 Dreams only last a couple of seconds but we perceive them to be longer

10.Dreams don’t mean anything

11. some people don't dream

12. You only dreams you recall are the only ones you ever have. (In reality, you dream as long as you sleep every night, its a matter of if we can remember it)

13. Dreams are unimportant, and thus a waste of time.

14. Everyone you see in a dream is someone you've once seen in real life.

15. “Dreams only occur during the stage of REM sleep”
16. "Lucid Dreaming Is A New Age Concept"
17. "Only Gifted People Can Have Lucid Dreams"

18. lucid dreaming is symptom of mental abnormality.

Originally Posted by GrannyPigms

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GrannyPigms, That's the same thing (White Saturn) I saw in a dream over a month ago except it was close to my house instead. It was of comparable size to my eyes, Too.

Anyway, On to the topic at hand.

Before I begin I'll say that dreaming might be different for everyone. 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.

20: Electronics don't work in dream
21: If one closes dream eyes, one wakes up

22. You cannot read in dreams.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

22. You cannot read in dreams.

23: You can't count in dreams

24. If you say your name in a dream, you will wake up.

Originally Posted by Checker666

21: If one closes dream eyes, one wakes up

I realize this isn't the case with everyone but this one actually holds true for me. The inability to feel pain in dreams also holds true for me personally.

25. If you see a stranger in a dream, it's actually you.
Don't even remember where I heard this one, I think a few people have told me before.

Originally Posted by snoop

I realize this isn't the case with everyone but this one actually holds true for me. The inability to feel pain in dreams also holds true for me personally.

25. If you see a stranger in a dream, it's actually you.
Don't even remember where I heard this one, I think a few people have told me before.

I also blinked my eyes while in a lucid dream and I woke up. Some of the things listed in this thread might apply to some people but not to others. Maybe just believing one can or can't has to do with it?

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

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

Originally Posted by Bobblehat

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

That isn't necessarily false. It happened quite a few times for me.

Originally Posted by Bobblehat

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

erm, that actually happens for me

Oh.We need another 30 then!

Sheesh, apparently my dreams are orgasm-deprived!

30. Interpreting dreams is impossible.
31. Interpreting dreams is as simple as linking objects or scenarios to known definitions.