Can someone tell me what is happening when I think I am awake, but I can't move anything or say anything. And how do I treat this?
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posted by angelaas525
on Mar 22, 2011 -
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Married white female seeks a good night's rest without dreams of having intimate relations with a close male friend. Can you help?
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posted by anonymous
on Mar 21, 2011 -
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I'd like to learn about the history of what people have thought about dreams and dreaming, particularly in Western culture in the broad period between medieval times and Freud. What books or other resources discuss this in a serious, thorough fashion?
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posted by rivenwanderer
on Jan 5, 2010 -
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First world problems, analysis paralysis, and personal actualization: Book's similar to Peter Block's
The Answer to How Is Yes? I haven't even read this book, actually. But, I probably will. Clarification inside.
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posted by zeek321
on Dec 20, 2008 -
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Whenever I dream, stairwells, elevators, and large buildings with multiple levels always figure prominently. There'd be nothing strange about this except a) my daily life does not involve stairwells, large buildings, or elevators in any way, and b) they're in absolutely every dream I have -- no exceptions. This has been going on for at least a year, possibly longer. What could be possibly be causing this?
posted by coizero
on May 23, 2008 -
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Inspired by
this question: are there good message boards or discussion groups out there on the web for talking about dreams and creativity? I'm not interested in dream interpretation, nor in lucid dreaming per se except as it might apply to using dreaming as a resource for waking creative projects.
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posted by moonmilk
on Feb 22, 2008 -
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On occasion, I have dreams in which I write a story within a dream, and by the end I complete a bona fide epic novel, which, to my dream mind is the best book ever written (naturally, 5 minutes after awakening every detail of the “book” vanishes from my mind). Have any famous (or not so famous) writers ever written or talked about this phenomenon, of writing books within dreams? And does this mean that I have a novel or two in me waiting to get out, or is it something more mundane?
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posted by zardoz
on Oct 9, 2007 -
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do dream sequences set in slow motion (as in horrific-but-un-stoppable-accidents) pre-date the use of slow motion photography? specifically, are there pre-film literary references to dream events taking place in slow motion? (yes, a question similar to
this one, but i'm interested in slow motion in the dream-scape here).
posted by garfy3
on Jan 8, 2007 -
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Would anyone read a blog (if I wrote one) about my nightly dreams, or would that suck for everyone but me?
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posted by nintendo
on Aug 16, 2006 -
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This has puzzled me for a long time. People who've been blind since birth - how can they dream images? Do they? Without a visual history for reference, how can it happen?
posted by davebush
on Jan 31, 2005 -
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