Thread: is your brain able to create complex narrative structures/ stories

Yeah me too and I'm always amazed with how my mind can create such cool plots and scenes. I still remember this dream I had when I was 8 years old, I was in Neverland, the one from the movie "HOOK". It was sooo real and so fun and the very next night I continued the same dream! After that I tried for several nights to get it back but I never did.... now my goal is to get lucid and find that dream again

Originally Posted by dreamingofdreaming

Yeah me too and I'm always amazed with how my mind can create such cool plots and scenes. I still remember this dream I had when I was 8 years old, I was in Neverland, the one from the movie "HOOK". It was sooo real and so fun and the very next night I continued the same dream! After that I tried for several nights to get it back but I never did.... now my goal is to get lucid and find that dream again

Ever fall in love with a dream character? You know that expression 'the girl of my dreams'... Well, I've fell in love with many fictitious women in my dreams and I've woke up trying to get back into the dream. Sometimes for nights I would think about her before sleeping, but it never panned out. Not to sound gay, but a remember twice when I was a little younger (maybe even like 6-7 years ago, so still mature) that I woke up really upset enough to tear up when I realized that the girl I had so much in common with was not real.

A tidbit about me. I am not into drugs and whatnot, but a compound I became addicted to on the West Coast took me down and I stopped it before it got too bad. I was hooked on methamphetamine for 3 months. I moved back to the East Coast and admitted myself into a nice rehab clinic over here in Jersey. I had the weirdest sleep and the weirdest dreams ever when I would fall asleep. My brain was so depleted for the longest time, when I would doze off in the waking life, I would have dreams. My norepinephrine, dopamine, and seratonin were pretty much null and I had come off of Cymbalta cold turkey (the most painful thing I've ever went through in my life). I would have about 12-15 memorable dreams per night.

Havn't fallen in love but defenitly in lust and yes the realization that it was just a dream can really crush a kid

As for the drug thing.... that's crazy. I'm glad you made it through, in the past I've taken the more organic substances such as mushrooms and the dreams I have after I've come off the shrooms and have gone to sleep are very wild! I'm interested if other people have had dreams like that with the influence with drugs.

Originally Posted by dreamingofdreaming

Havn't fallen in love but defenitly in lust and yes the realization that it was just a dream can really crush a kid

As for the drug thing.... that's crazy. I'm glad you made it through, in the past I've taken the more organic substances such as mushrooms and the dreams I have after I've come off the shrooms and have gone to sleep are very wild! I'm interested if other people have had dreams like that with the influence with drugs.

It crushed me and I was 18 years old

Do I ever!! When I was about 12 years old I wrote a story that was about 120 pages long and based on a series of repeating dreams. When I was 14 I wrote another long story and again at 17 and 20 (there abouts).
I no longer write (except for occasional poems) but I still have epic dreams on a regular basis.
When I was a teen I LOVED playing Mario at my friends house. I actually dreamed about new versions of the game that actually came into existence. I was somewhat psychic back then, but in all honesty I think it was actually a perception of the games likely evolution. That happened on three occasions and I was amazed each time lol.

As for love... yes. I was in love with my "dream guide" (Jeff Tassin) as a young teen. And throughout my early teenaged years I dreamed I gave birth to triplets and I fell so deeply in love with them that I lost my sanity somewhat for awhile. I dreamed of them throughout the years back then and I watched them grow into young children. It's odd now... I don't even remember their names any more.

I was a very strange teenager!

I've had such an intense dream life ALL my life that I've often felt certain that I have a sleep disorder (like a mild case of narcolepsy)- because that's one of the symptoms. I had a sleep study done and I'll learn the results on Feb. 10. But now I'm certain I'm such an incredible dreamer because I'm almost always sleep deprived lol. When I do fall asleep it comes quickly and hard.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

Do I ever!! When I was about 12 years old I wrote a story that was about 120 pages long and based on a series of repeating dreams. When I was 14 I wrote another long story and again at 17 and 20 (there abouts).
I no longer write (except for occasional poems) but I still have epic dreams on a regular basis.
When I was a teen I LOVED playing Mario at my friends house. I actually dreamed about new versions of the game that actually came into existence. I was somewhat psychic back then, but in all honesty I think it was actually a perception of the games likely evolution. That happened on three occasions and I was amazed each time lol.

As for love... yes. I was in love with my "dream guide" (Jeff Tassin) as a young teen. And throughout my early teenaged years I dreamed I gave birth to triplets and I fell so deeply in love with them that I lost my sanity somewhat for awhile. I dreamed of them throughout the years back then and I watched them grow into young children. It's odd now... I don't even remember their names any more.

I was a very strange teenager!

I've had such an intense dream life ALL my life that I've often felt certain that I have a sleep disorder (like a mild case of narcolepsy)- because that's one of the symptoms. I had a sleep study done and I'll learn the results on Feb. 10. But now I'm certain I'm such an incredible dreamer because I'm almost always sleep deprived lol. When I do fall asleep it comes quickly and hard.

That's pretty crazy! I mean... that's cool though about your dream life, etc. I have felt sometimes that I'd rather just be asleep all the time and not deal with reality. Then I realized I was atypically depressed ;( At one point in my life, I would sleep 18-20 hours a day and have non-stop dreams. I would never hit the restorative sleep phases. I was like this for about 2 months.

That's pretty intense as far as the 'having kids' is concerned. I've never heard of that before.

Yes, that happens when I try to change aspects of my life just to see how they'd be. Basically my whole world is changed by me doing that, so it's an alternate reality of how I think my life would be. I'm usually pretty surprised at how I'm even able to come up with some of the things that happen, and how the dialouge of others seem so exact. The amazing things our imaginations can do.