From: kwi@postman.hsn.no (KLAUS WILLIAM WIK)
Subject: Several dream topics.
Organization: Nordland College
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:38:40 GMT

	I'm a proffessional sleeper, who has a few questions and stories 
about dreams.
		Dreaming and places
	We have a cabin, or lodge in the mountains.Away from city life but 
in an area restricted to cabins, so there are peole around (2 to 30 squ mile)
Now it seems that I dream 'more', longer and more vivid there than anny 
other place.The colors are brigher and the sounds are clearer.All together 
more like reality or more real than reality. The questions is if the 
precense of other people may affect your dreams in a negative way, and if 
the presence of 'untouched' nature affect your dreams in a positive way?
But then again, as I have the most realistic, and often most pleasant 
dreams there, I allso have some really horrible dreams at this cabin.
Theres a pattern in both the really nice and the really horrid dreams.
The nice dreams are fex. the feeling of meeting some old friends or really 
radiant nice persons.Sometimes the feeling of having sex is close, if the 
one you meet is someone that feel familiar. But then again, the times I've 
had bad dreams up there, the feeling of an evil presence is very close.Like 
it's in the room or very near.Is this in relation with the closeness with 
nature?
		Flying and swimming/drowning and breathing
	I have noticed someone talking about the feeling of swimming and 
the fear of drowning.That have never beed a problem.The first time I 
thought I was going to drown, I had to breathe.Taking in what ought to be 
water, I noticed I actually could breath the water.Later on I've never been 
afraid of drowning in my sleep;I know I'm able to breath the wate.
When it comes to flying, that happens most of the times I'm aware of me 
being in a dream(Lucid dreams or what ever).It feels like I have a jet 
engine in my (pardon) ass or fixed at my lower back. And I allways have to 
adjust the angle between ground and direction of flight to either gain 
speed or to gain height.Sometimes I have this 'normal' glideflight, but 
still theres a will-power that lifts me, now from all over my body, not a 
fixed point.
		Dreaming, foresight or Deja Vu?
	The feeling of have been a place before, is called deja vu.
You actually know this place, and the feeling of the famiiarity of the 
place or the moment is immense.The last time I had such a thing was a week 
ago.Then I was talking to a girl-friend(not girlfriend) of mine and 
suddenly I recognized the weather the words and the absolute scenery.
I suddenly remembered a dream, where the total picture was the same as how 
my eyes were seeing the street and the houses.But then I suddenly 
remembered that in the dream I couldn't recognize this person at my side. 
Like I didn't know her then. But now i got this feeling of 'ah so thats who 
it was'. 
	This feeling of remembering a dream, made me think. Do we actually 
dream what is to be at certant time? Or is deja vu a chemical trick from 
the memory cells in the brain, that makes an instant matc in the 'now' and 
the memory? Or is it clearvoyance?
Does anybody know the answer?

In the end, dreaming is the dayly vacation of the brain. But what controlls 
where the train of thought takes us? Reminds me of 'Runnaway Train'
 
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