Odd off topic, but this place is slow lately so amuse me, if you will. Everyone dreams, whether they remember them or not. Some people don't remember any while others, myself included, can remember multiple dreams from each night. Some scientists say every dream is in black and white and we "color" them with our imagination when we wake up, which I call BS. I dont know about others, but for me, dreams can be vague and well, dreamlike, but there are others that stick with me years later, due to their very sense of being real. These dreams happen rarely, but when they do Im stuck with it vividly imprinted in my mind for the next few days, and can recall it to mind years down the road with almost no loss of detail.
I dont know about you guys, but these dreams stick out more to me due to the use of all my senses being incorperated into the dream. Sounds, smells, touch, color, everything is not more vibrant, but as it would be if it were happening for real. Every once in awhile I have a dream so distinct it may take my mind awhile to realize that it didnt really happen, but was a dream.
Oddly enough, lately I have been having more of these types of dreams than average. Usually I would have a "real" dream maybe once every 6 months. Past couple of months I have had three. I'm pretty certain it has to do with a certain lil one and the vast amounts of random horomones racing through my bloodstream, but it's made me think about them more often and wonder if others have as vivid of dreams as I do. Where everything seemed so real, all senses used, that it takes you awhile to distinguish if it was a memory or a dream when you first wake up.
The latest one I had was about being in a glass elevator in a very old run down building. I was meeting a friend on the roof, which was called the 15th floor. I remember watching the concrete walls pass by with yellow painted numbers of each floor descend below me, watching through gritty, uncleaned glass. The dim wattage used in the elevator, the creaking sound as it slowly worked it's way up. The thoughts going through my mind that I probably should have taken the stairs because the building seemed so decrepit, but that 15 stories was too long of a climb. I remember the greasy feeling of the metal bar I held, as if it hadn't been washed in months and the accumulation of others sweat had built up there. The smell of unwashed metal, and stale carpets, a touch of mildew from people trafficking in and out with rainsoaked boots.
Watching the number 14 slowly disappear below me and anticipating getting off the damn elevator where my friend was meeting and finally having the sun hit the elevator as we moved onto the roof. My friend was there, smiley, and she waved. I waved back but just as I thought the elevator would stop to let me off I heard a snap and felt the elevator lurch. A look of horror ppassed on both our faces, me staring out through the gritty window when the elevator plunged. What stuck with me the most out of the entire dream was that ultimately "real" feeling of my stomach dropping. I felt it drop like you do on a roller coaster. Watching the numbers race by me in a yellow blur, I knew I had no chance of surviving a 15 story plunge, and just stood there, not having even enough time to be upset, but knowing that I was dead and it was only a matter of seconds.
It's been a few days since that one, but I can call to mind exactly every single detail of that dream due to all 5 senses being used in it, but mostly it was the feeling of grime on my hands from holding th emetal bar, and the gut wrenching stomach dropping. When I woke up my stomach still felt queasy, as if I had been on a roller coaster a few times more than I should.
Anyone else experience dreams so real you almost have to think for a bit whether it truly happened or was just a dream?