Your most wonderful imagination ever

[Loren Booda]

Dreams, daydreams, visualizations, imagery, insights, epiphanies, shared observations, other worlds and more.

 

[berkeman]

Dreams, daydreams, visualizations, imagery, insights, epiphanies, shared observations, other worlds and more.

What is yours?

 

[KingNothing]

I have some of the most messed up, but amazingly creative dreams. Not trying to brag either. Some of the local art students actually come to me and ask about my dreams for inspiration in their artwork. Too bad I'm only a creative genius when I'm asleep.

 

[Loren Booda]

Around 7th grade and before pot smoking, I discovered Surrealism. This period of my life followed an interest in spatial reasoning and a visit to an M.C. Escher exhibition (where one could buy an original print for around $100!)

I especially studied painters using subtle metaphors, like Magritte's "The Empire of Lights." I could close my eyes and picture my own surreal landscapes, with such elements as Roman architecture. The geometric view was as much a feeling as it was a fulfillment of order and beauty.

Bright sun now lights my dreams of hope and warmth, but I am especially fortunate when nighttime takes me back to the surreal mood.

 

[berkeman]

Lucid dreams are a real treat for me. Wonderful fun. Rare, and I actively pursue them, because they are such wonderful fun.

 

[fillipeano]

Oversoul: the universal mind or spirit that animates, motivates, and is the unifying principle of all living things

 

[Lichdar]

Human colonization of outer space.

 

[Darken-Sol]

i want to rid myself of ego so i can expierience the collective consciousness.

 

[PhDorBust]

Do you think a lion has ever seen an octopus? Could it be possible that these two species have absolutely no knowledge of the others existence?

 

[Insanity]

Do you think a lion has ever seen an octopus? Could it be possible that these two species have absolutely no knowledge of the others existence?

What of polar bears and elephants?

 

[Loren Booda]

Do you think a lion has ever seen an octopus? Could it be possible that these two species have absolutely no knowledge of the others existence?

Ontology recapitulates phylogeny.

 

[SamirS]

When I realized how the scientific method, skepticism and critical thinking intellecutally lifted me above so many of my fellow humans, and shortly after that, when I started with physics, how the vastness of the universe and our place humbled me as a human by so much more.

When certain activity at certain serotonergic receptors showed me God and I realized that he is exactly that - a product of a human brain, and how unnecessary he feels to me (which made me an agnostic atheist).

When thoughts like this: "Matter flows from place to place
And momentarily comes together to be you
Some people find that thought disturbing
I find the reality thrilling" (Dawkins, taken from Symphony of Science)

fill my eyes with tears because the implications touch something deep within me, and I feel the slightest glimpse of hope to grasp at least a very small part of the universe, and the certainity to be a part of this wonderful place.

When I realize certain mathematical concepts, my mind is blown and I'm completely withdrawn for days because thinking about it makes it even hard to swallow because of the huge ball in my throat.

 

[drizzle]

Mine was a dream I had 2 years back, I was skating bare foot on a small pond of water, there was a very high water fall next to it, and the pond was very deep it seems too dark almost black, but the water was clear and cold. There was a blue fish close to the surface and I was fishing it with my toe, I kept lifting it up then let it back to the water a number of times, it was weird but fun...

 

[Xitami]

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[Loren Booda]

Mine was a dream I had 2 years back, I was skating bare foot on a small pond of water, there was a very high water fall next to it, and the pond was very deep it seems too dark almost black, but the water was clear and cold. There was a blue fish close to the surface and I was fishing it with my toe, I kept lifting it up then let it back to the water a number of times, it was weird but fun...

If only all of us could remember such surreal dreams! Beautiful!

 

[mugaliens]

Some dreams are more vivid than real life.

 

[nucleargirl]

I used to have a wonderful dreamland! So basically, it is a land made of food! like the grass, clouds, everything is delicious! (like how a sheep might feel) and all in rainbow colours! and there are small white fluffy ball-like creatures that jump that are friendly pets and can be stroked! soooo nice! and sunny always!

yeah.. but I haven't dreamt/visualised this place for ages now.

 

[Loren Booda]

How about hypnagogic imagery, occurring during the transition from wakefulness to sleep? Now I rarely catch myself in that illusory state -- I believe it is called lucid dreaming, as someone mentioned before.

I used to have the experience more often as a child, when I was emerging from a nightmare. During my nightmare I was able to force myself awake, having been chased by what seemed a mini black hole. I would white-out as I was returning to consciousness. Sometimes I believed to have awakened, only to find the monster still seizing my neck.

I stopped having nightmares around 27 years ago, when I gave up street drugs.