Does your dream-self have any particular idiosyncrasies?

When I’m making love in dreams, I never get to cum.

Absolutely!!

She always ends up peeing in toilets that have no door or walls or are too small to fit in to. She can never seem to get on trains, planes and buses…although getting better at this one…sometimes I’m already on the train…but never get there…

She tends to always be alone :(

I read this question initially to mean “what would the person you aspire to be, have as particular idosyncrasies…”...which got me thinking…also an interesting question

Me too, Wundy.

I can never climax and get really frustrated in the dream.

I have a lot of “trying to get somewhere” or “trying to get away from something” dreams, and I am always slowed down by invisible molasses or some other indefinable obstacle.

Absolutely terrified of heights (not so much in real life) and I apparently had an attachment to an old house i used to live in, I dream of it often.

These are really interesting, guys. Keep them coming. I don’t assign any particular meaning to dreams, but I still think they’re very fun to think about.

Some of my other ones…
My dream self has major lesbian tendencies. All my sexy dreams are about ladies. I don’t read too deeply into that.
She’s damn near indestructible, too. She’s taken multiple gunshot to the head without dying. The only time I ever remember dying in a dream was last night (which was what got me thinking about dreams today).
Ever since I got interested in birds, they show up in my dreams constantly, almost every night, and always very detailed, enough so for me to ID them. Occasionally I dream up a fictional species.

I think dreams are neat too. I have birds but I’ve never dreamed of them, weird. I did dream the other night, like Friday, that some little people were after me, coming out of the woods…not sure what that was about.

I can’t use phones or drive a car, or deal with any mechanical things at all.

I dreamt once I had wings protuding from my earholes & I was flying & shit.

My dream self gets lost a lot: forgets the way home, the apartment number, the hotel room, the classroom, the bus route. Can’t find the right floor. Loses the car. Good old anxiety dreams in infinite variations.

On the other hand, I have a special flying, or rather, floating technique that has persisted through countless dreams for many years. Even when I know I’m in a dream (which happens often), in the dream I believe I can really do this.

My dream self has a vivid scary imagination that would outdo any horror movie mega star director.

I am never aware of my own body in dreams. Maybe this is common I don’t know.

My dream self still, on occasion, has an ileostomy, despite that it’s been a year since I had mine removed.

My dream self has a knack for ending up in murky or dangerous feeling bodies of water and also for throwing both left and right punches.

It usually takes place in the same non-existent location.

Most dreams recalled can be reconciled by either old memories or something that recently entered into the memory, like a news report or commercial or even a Fluther post.

There are two dream factors that interest me. One is when it is a reoccurring dream of a place that I have never been to. The other is when I know I am a specific person in the dream, but it is not me, and I can view them as a third person.

@wundayatta and @Blackberry It would be interesting to find out if this is common. I, too, have the occasional sexual dream and never made it to climax.
@nebule Do you ever get to pee? I don’t. I just wake up with the urge to…it’s like the body and brain are functioning as one and setting off an internal alarm.
@gailcalled and @Jeruba “Dreams of Frustration” I believe they are called. Indeed they are. I still have the occasional dream of being back in school and not knowing the locker combination, being ill-prepared for test, or showing up in pajamas or a short skirt with no underwear on. The whole dream is spent on attempting to resolve the issue.
@Jeruba I used to have dreams about being able to fly without wings. Unfortunately, they stopped long ago. It hasn’t been crossed off of my personal wish list though.
@Neizvestnaya The being in infested water occasionally crops up in my dreams. While the creatures are fascinating, there is an element of fear and a need to get to safety.

The whole dream thing makes me wonder what causes it. Obviously some are created by what is on our mind and current or past influences. But what about the others? What about the places we have never visited and the people that we don’t know? It’s mysterious.

I have a lot of dreams where I’m trying to escape from a group of men I don’t know.
I don’t know why they are chasing, or where I’m going. A lot of the times I have my siblings with me, and trying to save them too.
In almost all of the chases, I try to get away in a car, and drive (I can’t drive in real life), terrified I’m going to get stopped by the police, but I never do.
So far, the men haven’t been able to catch us.

A lot of my dreams also include me discovering a snake, and trying to get away from it, scared it’s going to bite me.

When I was much younger, I used to get the same dream, repetitively, every night. I was very young, 3 or 4.
It used to be in brown and white (like the old Wizard of Oz movie) and it was quite short.
I used to be standing outside the farm stables with my mum. (The farm existing in real life, I used to go there quite often with my mum)
But in my dream, the stables were pitch black. Almost like a black hole. And from inside came a really scary whistling noise, as if someone were whistling. I was terrified, and suddenly mum wasn’t there anymore. I felt as if the whistling sound was calling me inside, but I was too scared to go in. Then I usually woke up.

@Pied_Pfeffer, I would not describe the emotional content of those dreams as frustration. That’s a different kind of distressed feeling, one that’s more appropriate to trying to accomplish a task and failing. “Anxiety” fits the subjective experience I’m talking about.

@nebule I’ve had several dreams where I ended up peeing in either non-functioning bathrooms or in litter boxes and such. Every time, of course, it’s my brain saying “Wake up before you pee the damn bed!”

@Mariah I dreamed I was still using crutches for a long, long time after I didn’t need them anymore. It’s weird how your brain can get caught in a time loop, isn’t it?

My dream self is far more physically capable than I am. She’s able to climb buildings and jump off high things, kind of like a ninja (but not stealthy). She is constantly misplacing one or more of her children, then spends hours desperately looking for them. She also frequently witnesses one of her kids in terribly dangerous situations, but from just far away enough that she’s powerless to intervene. Having children changed my dreams forever.

@Pied_Pfeffer : My dreams as described above are about anxiety because that is the emotion I feel when I wake up.

I can’t remember having had a frustration dream in yonks.

@augustlan Haha, I have dreams like your child dreams, but with kittens and shit.

@gailcalled, it seems that we both object to having our feelings labeled for us when we feel quite able to articulate them for ourselves.

@Jeruba: Why does that not surprise me?

Because you know exactly how prickly we both are.

…no I probably don’t get to pee because the place is always so horrendous… and yes, it could very well be my subconscious telling me not to do it in bed…I’ve never wet the bed yet! lol x But I do have ‘toilet’ issues in my conscious life as I have IBS and weak bladder syndrome so I imagine it’s all wrapped up into one. Someone once told me that needing to wee in waking life or sleep was a sign of blocked creativity. I don’t know..but it probably fits too….:-)

In the last couple of dreams I have had, (about 3) I was flying or trying to and I was flying in some type of machine or vessel, but when I was flying I positioned my hands in a manner as if I was flying a UH-60 when I wasn’t. I wasn’t flying anything at all, but being in this position made me fly. When I tried to use my mind exclusively (eyes closed and all), I would descend. However, each time I dream this dream, I am advancing—in other words, improving. I don’t know how relevant this is to the questions, but uh… Yeah.

In my dreams I either try to run away from something (but I see it in slow motion), or try to save someone (e.g. I know there’s a killer in the house, and I’m trying to tell my friend to get out before the killer finds her).
Which means that my dream-self is quite brave, but she can’t ever run to save herself (she saves everyone else, though).

@nebule – so interesting, I have IBD and have the same dream about not being able to get privacy on a toilet. One I remember in particular was that I was in a public bathroom stall and the stall walls only came up to about mid-chest. I never need to pee at night so it wasn’t that, for me.

I rarely remember my dreams anymore, but when I do I’m usually being chased by a group of people but then I just think about flying and bingo, I safely fly away from my enemies. My dreams seem to always involve flying or floating in the sky.

I fly too, but lately I just skim along an inch or two above the floor and going down stairs I don’t touch any of the stairs. I just skim down them. In the past, I’ve flown high enough that I’m above islands and even land on them.
I also get distracted and lose the group (usually, my chorale) I’m with, because I didn’t see which way they went or I can’t find the classroom in which I’m supposed to teach.