Sorry if this is the wrong place, I figured I wouldn't get much out of headshrinkers because I understand many psychologists dismiss dreams as random firing of nuerons to store information you had taken in during the day. I also read that in indigenous shamanism is thought of as a talent or tool and is a skill that can be cultivated and that dreams can be used for prohpetic or healing purposes. I'm not really looking for an interpretation as much as an explanation of some sorts, because the dream caused a 'fusion' of dream reality and my physical reality and I had an out of body experience before I woke up...

It started and I was waiting in line for food at my school, I quickly realized I was dreaming and, while I forget the action, most likely did something socially devient to cause a mob of angry people to chase after me. I remember running and thinking 'it's a dream, you make the rules in this world, run faster', and I began to run faster. After that I tried to fly, I jumped high in the air but fell to the ground, I knew I was dreaming but the pain felt so real and the mob was drawing closer, I pushed myself as hard as I could to wake up.

I woke up in the small matresses they have at my dorm and automatically something was off because I knew I had slept on the couch. There was a dresser to my right from my house and both the bed and dresser were in the backyard of my house. I can't even explain this state. I was saying 'holy shit whats going on' etc. but I still had an awareness of actual reality...I wasn't sure if I was sleepwalking /talking or hallucinating and I quited myself because I didn't want to wake up my roommates. Every aspect of the dream environment felt real, I started walking around similar to a blind person feeling for objects because I wasn't sure if walking around in this 'dream' would cause me to bang into something in my room. I couldn't make sense of anything, but my memory was somewhat intact because I was home a week ago and remembered I had one cigarette left stored in my dresser at home. I went to get it and when I pulled it out of the box it snapped in half (this is a reocurring theme in my dreams), at that point I became frustrated and shortly after I saw myself sleeping from a 3rd person perspective, the 'camera' slowly panned out and all of a sudden I was fully conscious in my dorm.

Does anyone else have experiences or anything similar? Waking up into a secondary dream state, it's happened before but this was the most powerful it has ever been. I'm very curious as to how I could have been so aware of what my reality was yet so trapped in the illusion of the dream at the same time, I can't even describe the state of mind that scenario put me in.

1) You will piss off a bunch of people (mob) perhaps family/friends
2) Stop smoking

In response to your sentence about random firing neurons is false. It may be what gets the dream started, but being aware of your dreams, and being able to control them to an extent, takes away the randomness.

Now, meaning is always up for debate, I tend to think dreams have very broad meaning.

For instance, my dreams include a friend or someone I know, I will more likely see them soon. It is very possible that it is a subconscious decision.

Now, in similarity, in your dream, your subconscious decision, or intuition is telling you, "you need to stop".


As a vivid dreamer, I no longer have random dreams anymore. I for some reason just have deja vue instances, every day about 1-3 instances a day. Kinda pointless :p

In general, dreams that are prophetic or are particularly meaninglful are 1) unusually vivid and/or 2) recurring.

The things I dream about the most:
1) Turtles
2) Lakes (fish, more turtles, reptiles, trees, moss, etc)
3) Nuclear Bomb
4) Childhood neighborhood in a twisted, bizarre way that always seems the same in my dreams.

Anyone know what those mean?