Wait for Sleep
Last night I finally went for the Iron Maiden concert. I didn’t enjoy it that much actually: for some reason, the audience was made to sit on chairs (there were chairs!) and the crowd was quite unenthusiastic — no one was singing and only a few of them picked up after I started …
When I got back home (I suppose it must’ve been quite late), I was somewhat unsettled to find my elder [cousin] brother messing around on my computer (how did he know the password?!). Apparently, he was trying to copy Office 2007 from my portable hard drive to his. I suppose he needed it on his computer back home.
Do you often dream when you’re asleep? Are your dreams very vivid and detailed, or do they have a prevailing sense of unreality so that you know that you’re dreaming? Do you dream in colour? When I was small(er), I though everyone did, but it turns out that some people dream in black and white. Do you think that dreams are fairly random, or that they are portents of fate?
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I was gonna do a dream post! My dreams are so much cooler than your dreams. Night before last, my college teacher told me she does the salsa. How cool is THAT?
Last night, there was another Indian guy in BBT besides Raj, and he could speak proper English :P
And there was some other weird confusing stuff about aloo-mattar :)
Which Iron Maiden concert?
I dream in monochrome. And when things get too absurd I realise I'm dreaming. And dreams betterbe random.
CHAIRS? In a Rock concert? In an Iron Maiden concert? No! You can't do that! No wonder the crowd was so enthusiastic. And no wonder them bands don't usually come to North India and prefer places like Bangalore and Mumbai. I'm sure people are crazier out there.
Uh, these are the times when I thank God for not giving me a sibling. I just can't tolerate anybody touching my computer and fiddling through the folders. :/
I dream in Technicolor and Dolby Digital Sound. And usually my dreams are pretty crazy. Once they had my Maths tuition teacher cloning himself in front of the entire class and then doing gymnastics on the benches. The other time it had my mother and my class 8th Science teacher blowing each other up with Rocket Launchers. And then there was this one time when I woke everybody up after shouting, "Maine chori nahi ki, koi bachaooooo!!" after I saw a dream where I had the police dragging me to the jail, etc. People say they forget what they dreamt about when they wake up. I remember, mostly.
@nidhi: What? In black and white? Are you sure? Damn, that's really rare.
@ish: Well, I'm not entirely sure where exactly the concert was :)
Oh yeah, me too! It's so annoying!
Wowow, your dreams are something awesome :) Do you ever have good dreams? As in, those that are entirely happy? I don't think I ever do - there's always something marring them. I don't think I've ever woken up shouting from my dream though. I usually remember my dreams when I wake up; but I try not to.
I generally wake up in non-REM, so I don't remember my dreams. But sometimes I do lucid dream, which is a ridiculous amount of fun!
Hmm, I thinks dreams hold some relevance to daily life.. but certainly not messengers of fate. Say you're craving apple pie, you might just end up dreaming about it. Or, if you had a bit of an embarrassing moment that day, maybe you'll have a highly embellished version of it as a dream.
Lucid dream? Wow, I don't think I've ever managed to do that! Does it just happen automatically?
Yup, same thoughts here. But tell me something (@everyone) let's say you're due to take a flight to some place tomorrow. Tonight, you dream about a/your plane crashing. Will you still take the flight? :)
It quite rarely happens of its own accord, but this one time I made a routine so I could lucid dream... yeah, I was bored. I think I'll do it again sometime.
As for your second question, yes I'd take the flight. It's similar to dreaming about failing in a test, only at a larger scale. It says nothing of the actual flight, just scares the crap out of you.
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Lol routine? What kind?
And yes, but failing a test is (to some extent :D) in one's own hands, whereas if the flight was going to spontaneously explode, you probably couldn't have done anything to prevent that :P
Does monochrome equal black and white? Coz I meant that my dreams occur in varying shades of a single color like yellow or pink or green.
And about the flight question, I would take it. Because the dream is just a reflection of a fear I might have at the back of my mind. Nothing to do with reality.
Okay, it doesn't - I just assumed naa, but that seems to be even more rare. :P
was there an iron maiden concert in delhi?
god i still live in the renaissance period =(
This is what I did, http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
It's quite ludicrous actually. But if you have nothing better to do, try it out.
Probability of failing a test is much greater than an airplane crashing. So if I were to start considering my dreams to be prophetic I'd start with the tests, to ease myself into believing the non absurdity of it. Maybe fail on purpose. And then move onto fucking up the plane. :P
@shayeri: Okay, I feel stupid now. It was a dream, for heaven's sake!
Sometimes, concerts in japan gave people sitting on chairs! You were in japan:)
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