dream influences

[Lisastar]

Hi everyone,

Last night I was running a test to see how external influences can effect the outcome of a dream. All I did was run an electric heater that blew on me all night as I slept (at a safe distance of course) so this hot air was constantly blowing on me all night long. Most of my dreams ended up not having anything to do with the electric heater until early this morning. I had a dream about being in my mom's basement and it was very hot down there. I opened all the windows and was still hot. So I went upstairs into the kitchen and there was a thermastat on the wall and it said the temp was 200 degrees. My mom came over into the kitchen and her face was really red and hot sweaty. So then I got the idea of going back downstairs and looked behind the stair case. There was a wood stove there but it was half melted and red hot. Wood stoves do not melt like this so it was REALLY hot. Then I woke up and was hot myself because of the air from the electric heater. Anyway it is amazing that your unconscious will warn you if something is different abour your surroundings. I didn't realize how important it is to really pay attention to your dreams.

Oh, this happened another time when for some reason my toe on my foot really really hurt I still have no idea why my toe hurt so much. But it manifested in my dream not just one time but my whole dream was focused around my toe hurting. And same with the hot air blowing on me. It was a main theme through my whole dream.

[~¤LilacSky¤~]

thats interesting, I have always beleived we are aware of whats going on around us while we sleep, our body's are amazing, becuase they communicate to us and the mind is there to interpret it, just the human body is so neat, I must say.
It just shows you how well the human body is developed.Amazeing.
Well ya know its like when our body is needing certain nutrients, so we end up craving those things, and when we are sick our body lets us know, mostly through dreams, if we are not aware of the sickness that is, so it is important to pay attention to the messages we recieve in dreams, they are there to help us only...

[Lady_Butterfly]

So true! I'm sure our bodies tell us when we are in need in something whether awake or dreaming. I recall having dreams where I was dying of thirst, and I could actually feel my dry throat in my dream. I would find a faucet and would down several glasses of water in my dream. It would always seem like I was just getting thirstier and thirstier, and I would be forced to wake up. Sure enough I was so damn thirsty when I woke up that I'd drink a full glass of water and go back to bed!

[~¤LilacSky¤~]

lol!, Yep I had that same experience with the water, the same go's for having to go to the bathroom the body lets ya know, its just fascinationg.

[megmac]

I've had that in a dream before Lilacsky. In my dream I really needed to pee and I would go to the toilet but as soon as I came out of the toilet I would need to go again. When I eventually woke up I was busting for the loo!

Also once I was having a dream about a police car but when I woke up, what I thought was the siren was actually my alarm clock.

Megan xx