Why can't you continue a dream from a previous night?

[tjdee]

Last night I had a dream about Akshaye Khanna (an Indian actor who's cute, but no SRK), except his name was Ashfahgway and he was my boyfriend. I hit the snooze button three times to get back to the dream, it didn't work.

Is there some kind of trick?

[Heidi]

1. I do that sometimes . . .

but I don't think I have any conscious control over it. It just happens once in a while. :shrug:

[tjdee]

11. And it's always the good dreams...

Akshaye was a better kisser than I would have thought, before yesterday! :evilgrin:

[ahem]

2. Get a good book on lucid dreaming and you can dream about whatever

you want. I recommend Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen Laberge. It works.

[tjdee]

8. OOHHH....

When I woke up, I was like Akshaye, but not Shah Rukh? That's just not right!

I've not heard of lucid dreaming....cool. Thanks for the suggestion.

[jobycom]

3. No, that was one of the flaws in the current design

I hear the next human prototype will allow dream continuation, as well as pause, replay, fast forward, and never-wake-again.

Intelligent Design has its advantages.

[tjdee]

9. Aw man, I'm an older model?

That's not cool. :(

Will I be able to trade myself in?

[Spinzonner]

4. Your subscription expired

[tjdee]

12. Well, that's just great.

I didn't even get anything in the mail.
:(

[bluestateguy]

5. I know how to stop a bad dream and come back to

I've done it before. If a scene just seems to outrageous to be true I'm able to stop, recollect and end a nightmare in the making.

[tjdee]

10. That, I can do--but only with really bad ones.

When I see it going down that route, I make a "safe" choice. But that's only if I feel things are going *way* downhill. Regular embarrassing/menacing dreams I still have to deal with.

[Floogeldy]

6. I can do that.

:)

[tjdee]

13. Show off!

Did you learn to do it, or were you born with the gift?

[punpirate]

7. You might be thankful for the lack of that...

... talent. About thirty years ago, for about a three-week period, I had the same dream every night, picking up where the last night's dream left off. Got to be quite maddening after a while. Three weeks' worth of dreaming someone was following me in an open air bazaar in Madagascar.

[tjdee]

14. Wow.

Did you ever have a long term dream like that again?

Open air bazaar, cool. Madagascar, cool. Being followed, not cool.

[punpirate]

18. Nope...

... just that one stretch. Very colorful; I remember all the stalls having brightly-colored fabrics rippling with the wind, bolts of bright cloth, etc., but a virtually continuous feeling of dread. I remember, in dream after dream, seeing what appeared to be the same Italian shoes below the bottom edges of the stalls, the person always a few yards behind me and never revealing himself.

Never had any resolution. The dreams just stopped.

[XemaSab]

15. 2 days ago

my mom woke me up in the middle of a dream about whatsisname. :(

[tjdee]

16. Aww man!

That stinks....because the dream is just sooo nice. Plus, you're sleeping. Which is nice too.

It was horrible, just hearing that beep beep beep. Akshaye, come back!!

[JI7]

17. i hate it when i forget what i dreamed about

i remember it just as i wake up but sometimes a few seconds/minute later i totally forget what it was about.

i seem to remember the bad ones more.

[AlienGirl]

19. It takes practice to be able to do that

I learned lucid dreaming a long time ago, and eventually abandoned the practice because (weird as it sounds) I didn't like feeling so in control of my pleasant dreams. (It never did make the nightmares go away, either.)

I can still continue a pleasant dream if I want to, though, or set myself up to have a dream on a theme I particularly like (generally, the theme is "I can have any animal I want, I have plenty of money and here's a pet store full of unusual animals." My second favorite theme is, "I have found a rat the color of an Irish setter and am now going to establish this color as a breed.").

Tucker

[TimeChaser]

20. I've done it sometimes.

Sometimes I'm conciously awake, then I lay back down and return to my dream (it usually isn't a seamless return, but the basic idea is the same). Sometimes I wake up and turn off the alarm clock and get back to bed without stopping dreaming. I usually never remember waking up in cases like that.