BlameThePixel!

Are you full of shit?

No, I just wanted to slip a quick joke in.

Nope, Full of pillow.

lol
slipped another joke in there...
i thought it was funny anyway

I now understand how I got 3 votes for "Most laughed with" last BTP awards.

Speaking of BTP Awards. Where are the results? Everytime psymon keeps track of things we never hear anything about it until like 5 months later (like the map pack)

Hey, I'm just waiting for more entrys. I've only got 5 so far, and when compaired to last year's numbers, it's tiny. Everything around here suffer the same problem (Like the Whose line compo). I'm waiting for Pope's phoenix to rise up.

Ahem. Topic... As for that dying in dreams part.

I've been burned alive by an explosion (an actually went to heaven)
I've drowned.
and I've randomly hit the ceiling too hard by floating up.

Ahem. Topic... As for that dying in dreams part. I've been burned alive by an explosion (an actually went to heaven) I've drowned. and I've randomly hit the ceiling too hard by floating up.
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I've died a few times, Either being killed by tanks or falling through my staircase.

Post in the topic about it to revive it..or PM people about it

Were you not playing prince of persia? Thats the only game I can remember that peoples heads get cut off on a ship.

Anyway, I recently read up on some guys theory on dreams and why they happen. Its the only theory that seems to fit with everything. I will try and explain a bit of it and kudos to everyone who knows it already:

Dreaming happens in the REM stage of sleep. This is when your brain is fully working, you stir in your sleep alot, your eyes flicker, and the brain is working hard to sort everything out that happened between the last time you slept and this time. Dreams are actually always to do with something that happened before you went to sleep but they usually show up in a metaphorical sense to what actually happened. For example, and its not such a good one but i'm tired and I cant think, Glenn said he dreamed of falling off a building. Maybe the day before he just fell over...or when he said he was burned up by a volcanic eruption he may have just spilt something hot over himself or it even couldve just been some liquid that was thrown over him.
Anyway, whatever it was that triggers this dream triggered an emotion that was never properly finished. EG, and this is the simplest form, you never actually found out what you were scared of, or what the outcome is. What the brain is doing is trying to finish off the emotion so that you can carry on the next day all refreshed and ready. Thats all I can remember right now, most of it was pretty complicated and it had a bit of psycology that I never understood....

Anyway, if anyone can tell me how lucid dreaming can fit into that theory please do so


A Tommy Cooper joke, non? That was the first time I heard that joke anyway.

I don't believe most of that. It is true that you often dream about things that have happened in the day before, but to say that's always the case can't be right.
Also, I'm pretty sure dreams have been proven to occure in NREM (non-rem). There are certain people who can go straight into a lucid dream without going to sleep for hours, waking up and going back to sleep, and it's pretty rare to go straight into REM, unless you have been deprived of sleep, or were asleep, woke up after a few hours, and went back to sleep again.

The guy who thought up this theory kept a dream diary and wrote down every dream he ever had. Apparently, ever dream he had ever had was in some way connected top something that had happened a day before. It might not be obviously connected like my example but its really the emotion the brain is after.
Anyway, how else would you explain why people have dreams?


You may be correct there. I think the important thing is that you dream when your brain isnt totally resting, i.e. a heavy sleep.

well I've kept a dream diary myself for a fair few months. You can indirectly relate anything to anything if you look hard enough.
And lucid dreaming doesn't fit into this theory, because you can do what you want.

I think lucid dreaming involves only free thinking and imagination whilst your in a dreaming state. Nothing special.

I agree actually lol..