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John Byrne
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One of my smaller frustrations is that I don't have flying dreams. I once had a bobbing dream, bouncing against the ceiling like an untethered balloon, but no actual flying.
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Lars Sandmark
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Maybe a half dozen times or so through my life I have had VIVID flying dreams. It felt so real (and natural) in the dream that I can recall the sensation prompt, or physical trigger, necessary to levitate.
Hard to describe, but it feels like it should be as easy as sending the impulse signal down your arm to scratch your nose, for example. The fact that I cannot activate flight while awake is what I imagine a crippled person must feel when trying desperately to send the signal to a limb to move(!).
Every time upon waking I feel so damn joyful I could cry. And then feel sad for the day because I realize I can't fly after all.
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Peter, I would love to have Superman powers in a dream. Cool Beans!
Rebecca, Uggh! Zanti! They've been burned into my head for forty years! I would wake up in a cold sweat if one of those showed up in a "dream".
I had a recurring dream for years of me doing a Hulk leap. May have been initiated from those old cartoons that had him leaping on the opening credits. The leap would have me about 300ft up, the problem came on the decent. Once I started down it would jolt me awake.
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John Byrne
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(Something about typing "no actual flying" made a small ping in my brain. Now I know what is was: evocative of a line in JABBERWOCKY. "Flyin' 'ogfish? I saw a glidin' 'ogfish once, but not flyin'. Not actually flyin'!")
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Thomas Woods
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I've had many flying dreams, dreams where I crashed
through walls, lifted cars, and other things. I never
could figure out how to do energy blasts, even though I
have tried many times.
I think I had only one dream of Colossus lifting a large
bolder out of a farm field back in Russia.
Other supernatural dreams tended to be characters
created in my head.
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Thomas Woods
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A little trick you should try next time you realize you
are in a dream: if you can't make what you want
materialize in front of you, find a door and tell
yourself it is on the other side of that door.
If you are not sure if you are in a dream, but think you
may be, pull out some money and start counting it. If
you are dreaming, the numbers will change.
Edited by Thomas Woods on 02 August 2018 at 10:26pm
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Mason Meomartini
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This is a really good question. I think that creative people with very active imaginations probably have less dreams they remember because they're burning up that energy daydreaming while they're working or thinking about their projects. They probably don't need to dream so much at night as most people. Their brains are using up or expressing that energy during the day.
It might work that way for fans too. Rebecca, that might be why you noticed that as you fed your imagination with lots of fantasy fiction, you had less dreams based on fantasy than people who don't get so deeply into that type of stuff.
Edited by Mason Meomartini on 03 August 2018 at 5:37pm
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Rebecca Jansen
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In the sense of creating, I've often had dreams that when I wake up I think 'this would make a great story or song lyric', but then usually while I try to write something down it turns out to be too incomplete, so I end up with all these notes from impressions of situations and characters to partial story foundations and chorus hooks. Years later some of it might fit in somewhere, but often without my looking at a pile of scribbled down notes at all. So dreams can be a bit of a fool's gold to some creative types I think. :^)
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John Byrne
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Had an X-Men dream last night! No doubt inspired by this thread and the recent imaginary X-Job.
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With costumes this time?
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I just remembered, I have had dreams where I am reading
a comic that doesn't exist, as well as seen toys at the
store that don't exist after I wake up.
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John Byrne
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One of my recurring dreams finds me in a toy store full of all kinds of amazing stuff. Frustrating!
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