From: melissa@radio.wkar.msu.edu (Melissa Ingells)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Inclusions
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:59:05 GMT
Organization: Broadcasting Services, Michigan State University
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In article <1igiptINNj09@access.usask.ca> idg39@jester.usask.ca (Inez Gowsell) writes:
>From: idg39@jester.usask.ca (Inez Gowsell)
>Subject: Re: Inclusions
>Date: 7 Jan 1993 06:32:29 GMT
>Maiko Covington (ee52fbc@sdcc15.ucsd.edu) wrote:
>: > KM> I am interested in hearing what people have included in dreams.  I
>: > KM> imagine
>: > KM> that these would all have to be audio, or perhaps olfactory.
>  I DIDN'T SEE THE ORIGINAL POSTING ON THIS.  however, i have dreamed of 
taste (nightmare of someone pouring salt in my mouth) and have dreamed of 
the smell of burnt flesh (how lovely) which as far as i know i've never 
truly smelled and have no desire to test my hypothesis.  also have dreamed 
unpleasantly of biting into an eggshell with my front teeth.  as far as can 
remember , all senses involved at one point or another throughout my dreams.

scuse the interruption--i'm still not sure if i'm using this right.

msi



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>: 
>: On a (perhaps) related subject: What happens when you have to use
>: the bathroom in the middle of the night? I find that I will
>: incorporate this need into the dream. So, I get all sorts of dreams
>: about needing to use the bathroom badly, and either (a) there are no
>: bathrooms to be found for miles around, (b) there are some but they
>: cannot be used for some reason (dirty, or broken, whatever), or (c)
>: I do use the bathroom in my dream, but because I don't in RL, it
>: still feels that I have to use the bathroom so I will tend to wake
>: up. Maybe this is incorporating physical things.
>
>I know *exactly* what you mean! I have dreams like that -- well, I won't
>say regularly, but often enough!  It took awhile to figure out the 
>connection, but I realize what they mean now.  I tried explaining it to
>a friend one time, who didn't seem to believe me :( .
>
>Not only are the bathrooms in bad shape, but they are usually located in 
>some obscure ATTIC of a run-down house.  Don't ask me why.  It could be
>an incorporation of my other recurring dreams.  Which are....
>
>I call them anxiety dreams.  Whenever I am unduly stressed by school work,
>and don't understand what is going on, I get dreams where I am constantly
>climbing, but no matter how high I go, I never get anywhere.  Usually in
>these dreams, I start out by climbing a rope and end up climbing thread.
>
>Other recurring themes are elevators which don't stop level with the floor,
>or that go every direction BUT straight up and down.  Quite bizarre.
>
>The most frightening dream -- in terms of the events that followed -- was
>an anxiety dream involving staircases.  I came out of a door and there
>were white staircases coming from several doors, but you couldn't get from
>the one you were on to any others.  This was fine, typical anxiety dream.
>About three weeks later I went to a movie with a friend and went out the 
>exit -- Had always gone out the front before.  There were white staircases
>from each of the theatres!!!  You could not get to any other staircase from
>where you were.
>
>If I had been alone, I might have had a breakdown.  It was pretty unnerving.
>
>--
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>| Inez Gowsell                      | Gazing at people            |
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