Truly Abstract Dreams

[AstralFlare]

This is something I've faced for a while now. My dreams aren't always extremely lucid in a realistic sense, but my dreams are always extremely vivid and it's almost every night that I'm having some sort of vivid dream with spurts of lucidity. However I've been finding that over time my dreams are becoming more and more abstract, both visually and emotionally, I'm starting to meet far more unusual dream characters and having experiences with them in far more unusual spaces. These dreams are getting so abstract that I'm waking up remembering things like having relationships with a colour and having conversations speaking words to each other through nothing but feelings and emotions. I can't really explain these dreams in much detail, I don't really understand them my self, but when I wake up in the morning the sense of experience I'm left with isn't your typical "oh it was only a dream" feeling. The feeling I'm left with is one that I took part in something very real and had a truly memorable experience with an entity that I've never had before. I know it was a dream and I know it wasn't real in the sense, but the experience was so abstract that I'm left more touched by them than any other dream. Does anyone else have dreams like this? Of colours, geometry and emotions, as opposed to people, places and activities? It's like the simpler the dream is the more powerful the message, it's quite nice, although it can leave you feeling a bit confused in the morning as to what you've actually just dreamt.

[realdealmagic]

I've never heard of people having dreams like that, but it sounds a lot like the hallucinations that people have during REM Atonia as they are falling asleep. Maybe it's manifested itself more into your dreams? I'm not sure, it all sounds very interesting though.

[AstralFlare]

Interesting. It doesn't happen all the time, to be honest I haven't practiced lucid dreaming for a while now so I'm not taking advantage of things like I used to, but sometimes when I have those crazy nights of vivid dreaming I'm findin them, one some occasions, to be very bizarre. For instance, walls tend not to look like typical walls but brightly painted surfaces which radiate all kinds of colours. It's like those dreams where as soon as you turn your head the scene changes and as I move through the dream the only things that really stick out are the colours and just how unreal everything looks. Often in these scenarios I'm with people but they don't even look real, they just look like silhouettes with no real definition. Perhaps it is just a side product of having vivid dreams as opposed to lucid dreams but when I wake up, at least in this one instance, all I could remember was the colours and the emotions, no people, no locations, no activities, nothing, just the colours and the emotions I felt. The colours were both the location and the dream characters, like I'm moving through these brightly coloured rooms with hatch doors and winding stairways, and all the time I'm communicating with something, whether I'm talking to my self I'm not sure, but I'm given feelings of warmth and comfort like a lot of dream characters give me, but it's coming from the walls instead of the people. I really can't explain it! I was kind of hoping more people had dreams like this. It does sound more akin to a hallucination or delusion than a typical dream. Best way I can get meaning from it is that I'm being shown feelings of happiness and content with simplicity and that I don't need all the material possessions around me to make me feel happy. This is actually something I'm tackling in real life at the minute so perhaps it all stems from that, it wouldn't be strange for real life issues to manifest them selves into dream scenarios. Perhaps the room is a path to my spirit guide and I'm being taught how to be happy. I really don't know, great experience though.

[snoop]

I've had dreams like this. I typically have very nonsensical dreams, though usually not as abstract as this. Though I can say I have dreamt of communicating mentally with all I can describe as the color blue, and also of a dream where I had a razor made of light that I cut across the floor. The cut emitted a bright purple light that extended a foot or two from the ground, and out of the cut came only what I can describe as a geometric shape (totally beyond description, I won't even try) that floated into the middle of the dark room I was in. The shape sort of "exploded" but not in a combustible sense, like it overlayed my thoughts and feelings and led to a feeling of extreme connectedness with everything. Along the before pitch black walls the contour of a tree-like root system of purple, red, and orange was overlayed and was alight. It was one of my stranger but more meaningful dreams I've had to date.

[ImBored]

I couldn't help but notice your profile picture. Are you into psychedelic drugs? (sorry if talking about that is against forum rules, I'm not completely familiar with them). I kind of envy you actually, I like those types of experiences. But yeah, that's what out sounds like to me, similar to the effects of some hallucinogenic drugs.

[sea00115699]

I've been having a lot of abstract dreams recently. The background just looks like abstract art, although I usually remain myself.