Thread: What's the deepest dream you've had?

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

It wasn't all universal, but I think the deepest moment in one of my dreams was when I dreamed I had just had a baby. My parents were so supportive (in my dream I am pretty sure I was still in highschool) and nonjudgemental, but I hadn't been able to breastfeed the baby yet. It just never seemed to work out. I had just gotten home from the hospital and took the baby back to my room for a nap, and tried to feed it, and boom. My whole universe was in that one moment. It's hard to describe with words how I felt when the baby started suckling for the first time. But it was a very deep moment for me, and when I woke up it actually almost broke my heart that there wasn't a baby in my arms...

Maybe it was hormones, but still.

Haha yea sounds like hormones... I think a man's equivalent would be a sex dream. Sometimes I will masturbate before sleep so I don't have hormones interfering with my dreams... but for guys it doesn't take that long for them to kick in again so some night it might be moot ha... but I'd much rather have an OBE type dream feeling that freedom and love than some hormonal primitive human dream where I angry or horny... but there is no denying that those can feel very powerful too. The comedown from those crazy OBE's can be absolutely brutal though... the hormonal don't seem to do that... at least not in my experience. Those OBE's might actually be chemical based too... fueled by massive amounts of dopamine/seratonin.

That being said, I have never had an OBE dream that I can recall so I don't really know. I have had OBE type moments though where I am on cloud 9 only to crash back down to Earth and into a depression. It's like your body doesn't want you connect with everything... it wants you to be disconnected and focus on those primitive desires. The most intense though from memory was feeling an intense fear from a nightmarish demon like figure that I discovered in a dark room behind a cracked door... it charged me and slashed me i too felt an searing pain like Djaxup for a few moments after I awoke. Not the kind of intense dreams I want... but powerful nonetheless.

The dream I am about to share is not one of my dreams but a dream my wife had years ago when she was a teenager. When she was a child her mother told her that she could fight the monsters in her nightmares and tell them to leave her alone, or end the dream herself if she just closed her eyes and chanted "this is just a dream", like a mantra. This worked quite well for her, she had lots of nightmares and was able to end them if she really wanted to in her childhood. In her teens she had other nightmares and the old strategy would not work. She then altered the dreams, changed the monsters or bad people into something else to make them less frightening. So she was basically using dream control and was having lucid dreams...

She had a bad recurring nightmare about a demon hound chasing her through a dark and old city, she woke up when the hound catched her, sweating and screaming. Then she decided to try and change the situation, remembering the advice her mother gave to her as a child. She turned the wolf into a hare and laughed as it hopped away from her. She woke up with a grin on her face and ran to her mother, still sleeping in bed. She woke her up and told her "mom I was able to win against that hound, I turned it into a hare!" and her mother turned around to her and was furious, angry and yelled at her "DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN" "changing dreams is dangerous" "you will go to hell for that" etc... and she said the look in her mothers face was completely terrorizing. Turns out this was a false awakening and she then woke up for real. She told me that this feeling of fear and terror lasted for the whole day and she was uncertain if she was still dreaming for minutes after this FA. Remember, she had no idea by that time of all the info on this board or anything about LD.

I guess thats why she is still hesitant about that matter.

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