What did you dream from your surroundings?

I'm new so maybe there has been a post of this before, but I didn't see one.

We all know we can incorporate sounds from the outside into our dreams. (raining, etc)

What I wonder, is what kind of crazy dreams you've had from noise from your surroundings.

1. The earliest I remember I was about 10. I was going to go on a fishing trip with my friend and his father that day. My mother was trying to wake me up at 6 in the morning. I was dreaming, I don't remember of what, just the last part. Ninjas had grabbed my foot and they were trying to shut it in the crack of a door(That little inch where the hinges hold it). I pulled it back and to safety, but then cowboys were trying to do it to me! (And at this point my mother yelled "stop it, you have to get up to go on your trip. I need to put your sock on!")

2. I was asleep on the couch and my mother started vacuuming. In my dream I was vacuuming, until she bumped the couch and I was woken up.

3. I Was at a party and I didn't like the music, so I reached up to turn down the volume. But I really did reach up and turn, but all I turned was a corner of the blanket which woke me up to my annoying alarm clock! :shock:

I've had many dreams like this; the strangest of which occurred during hypnogogia. I imagined a man holding a vase above his head. He brought the vase down hard on a rock and it smashed. The 'smash' turned out to be a clink of a pipe in my wall (i was jolted into waking reality). The weirdest part about this is how my brain predicted the clink and created a scene leading up to the sound. Very bizarre!

torakrubik wrote: The weirdest part about this is how my brain predicted the clink and created a scene leading up to the sound. Very bizarre!

This i've wondered myself, as in the vacuuming one I was already holding the vacuum when I heard it turn on. The only thing I can think, is that as soon as you hear the sound your brain clicks over and comes up with something, before you actually register that you heard it. Making it seem as though it was already happening.

One night a storm was going on and I was dreaming a giant was standing over my house, then he dumped a bucket of water on our house which awoke me. I HUGE downpour had just started.

That's a decent theory actually, otherwise i'd assume that, as we often dream of things that have happened in waking reality, we can equally experience things in waking reality after we have dreamed them (i.e. precognitive dreams). This would explain how the dream 'knows' a certain sound is going to occur in waking reality.

That makes sense as well. Perhaps as in my dream of vacuuming I heard the vacuum being pulled out, or heard someone say vacuum(it just didn't register in my dream) so I started dreaming I was vacuuming.

Or in yours with the pipe, perhaps there is a subtle noise before the clang, or pressure or something else that being awake you may not notice, but on another level of consciousness you register it. (such as barometer drops. I'm sure we all feel it, but some people are more aware of it)

Yes, I'm sure it can all be explained scientifically, however the science in question here is simply new and unfamiliar.

When I sleep on my arm, my dreams are sometimes affected. I remember this dream where I had to lug this huge suitcase around with 1 arm, it just got heavier and heavier and it was because I was sleeping on my arm

I know of a similar affect called the stopped clock, something like that ;), efect. When you dart your eyes left to right you don't see the blur between the two solid images, what your brain does is wait untill your eyes stop moving then replace the whole memory of the blur with the current image... I'm not sure if you got what I said cause I'm not the best at explaining, but they call it the stopped clock effect because if you look over at a clock with seconds, the first second always seems longer. /Maybe in the dream you heard the pipe so your brain tried to make up an explination for it, so it rewrote your memory with the man with the vase? By the way the text after the / is just my personal idea, so don't pretend It's true!

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I found the place where I got teh info: (delete the new lines, some wierd stuff happens if I simply paste the link) http://m.youtube.com/#/watch? desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3F v%3DnNBTLbw1_2Q%26list%3DPL 2E209754A7759E31%26index%3D1 4%26feature%3Dplpp_video&index= 14&list=PL2E209754A7759E31&featu re=plpp_video&v=nNBTLbw1_2Q&gl=GB

James wrote: I know of a similar affect called the stopped clock, something like that ;), efect. When you dart your eyes left to right you don't see the blur between the two solid images, what your brain does is wait untill your eyes stop moving then replace the whole memory of the blur with the current image...

I am familiar with this effect; although i hadn't linked it with my experience before! Thanks for the reminder :D

Yes it happens pretty often..our brains are amazing things and it makes you wonder if waking reality does overlap with the dream reality or not...maybe our brains do it to lessen the shock or transition from dream reality to waking up if you have to wake up suddenly. The most common one is where someone is trying to wake you up and it registers in the dream world before you actually wake up..i don't know any good terminologies for these things but yeah. The first and funniest one i remember is:

1.Workmen drilling outside my window trying to fix a problem with the phone cables and** in my ears it **sounded like Tupac singing in high and low notes :mrgreen: ..the higher the noise of the drill the higher his note and the lower the sound of the drill the lower his note..it of course stopped when i woke up and i realized they were still working.

2. I saw a guy in my dream coming up the stairs and shouting out my home address. Of course it was peculiar so it made me wake up..and i looked out the window and saw him walking to the car about to leave..that was pretty cool and he shouted the home address again and i accepted the package :P

3. I was practising waking sleep paralysis and couldn't sleep for ages, but i fell asleep somehow at some point for a short time in the early morning and i was observing the clouds going past the moon (looked like very early dawn) in the reddish brown sky and next minute i was looking at the earth and one side was light and wondering how long it would take for the other side to become light as well..i took something from the fridge (which was positioned where the boiler is) and started wondering why i was in the kitchen when I was supposed to be sleeping upstairs ..** :) .i was about to become lucid then i saw my mum walk past the kitchen and say something..she woke me up from my dream when she opened the door to say she was going to work**. Lol. These are the main ones i remember! It seems my brain intepreted the surroundings in a cool different way...weird though.

I always forget what i dreamed.