XPost: alt.dreams   
   From: ninthcommandment@yahoo.ca   
      
   I used to enjoy my dreams years ago and always enchanced them by   
   drinking diet sodas or eating pepperoni and such as a snack.   
      
   I hate and abhor nightmares. I just awoke from one where three women   
   kept rifling through my wallet.   
      
      
   On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:56:21 +0300, Kaycee  wrote:   
      
   >Stacey Whaley wrote:   
   >> For my own curiosity, how many of you would actually consider yourselves   
   >> addicted to dreaming?  I'm thinking there is a high possibility of this   
   >> happening, especially when sometimes our dreams can be so much more exciting   
   >> than the real world.   
   >>   
   >> Do any of you take naps not only to get caught up on missed sleep, but   
   >> specifically to make yourself dream?   
   >   
   >Sometimes, yes. I do admit being somewhat addicted to dreaming, but on   
   >the other hand, I just seem to really require a lot of sleep (when   
   >"free-running", I seem to settle for 12 hours).   
   >   
   >>   
   >> This might be found somewhere in someone's FAQs, but I'd like to ask to get   
   >> more personal answers (as well as take the lazy route).  Do any of you eat   
   >> or drink anything before going to sleep that you've noticed has helped in   
   >> the culmination of dreams?  Any vitamins or pills?   
   >   
   >I don't take any myself. But at least make sure you're not short on   
   >B-type vitamins, they're essential for neuronal functions. Sometimes   
   >caffeine can help, or at least produce weird effects.   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >> What emotional state do you feel is most productive to the creation of   
   >> dreams?  To clarify, have you found that when you're depressed, happy,   
   >> angry, or others, that you've had more vivid and easier-to-remember dreams?   
   >   
   >I'm not sure, but at least stress and anxiety don't help at all.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Two more questions.  Does anyone enjoy nightmares?  Do your nightmares cause   
   >> you to sweat in the middle of the night, even when you're very cold?   
   >   
   >I don't often have the wake up screaming -type of nightmares, my worst   
   >kind of dreams are these really, really long and repetitive drags   
   >through nondescript, gray scenery with somehow unpleasant characters   
   >present. Often there is a task I need to perform in the dream many times   
   >over, and somehow it never succeeds. I guess these dreams are just pure   
   >anxiety.   
   >   
   >   
   >Cheers, KC   
      
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