tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3658799123575045908.post604831708212941933..comments2020-11-11T00:11:20.565-07:00Comments on Nobody Reads This Blog: Fever Dreams and Other States of BeingEddie Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07653651673354167341noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3658799123575045908.post-65546368729460577652011-03-14T21:11:51.293-06:002011-03-14T21:11:51.293-06:00I haven't had a serious fever since I was a ki...I haven't had a serious fever since I was a kid, but I still remember the vividness of the hallucinations. I wouldn't say dreams even - I was awake, and talking to a parent, and I would also be experiencing the room around me being crumpled like paper, or seeing myself in a vast room divided into boxes by vertical planks of wood, and my bed in one of the boxes far from the door where I could just make out my dad. When he talked to me, it sounded distant, and there was an echo.Douglas Underhillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02215736448645573566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3658799123575045908.post-35033199600102258402011-03-14T21:09:43.579-06:002011-03-14T21:09:43.579-06:00My dreams are not normally vivid. I actually real...My dreams are not normally vivid. I actually realized that I don't really smell or taste in my dreams. I might mentally acknowledge a taste or smell, but I don't actually experience it - case in point, I had a shark-related ocean-dream last night, but no taste of salt or smell of brine that I remember.<br /><br />My dreams are very tactile - weight and surfaces all seem plausible, in the dream at least. Faces tend to be indistinct - when I look at them, they are often amalgams of faces of people I know.<br /><br />For a long time my most common dreams were nightmares - for years I would have nightmares or nothing almost all the time. I associate that with depression and sleep deprivation, and I'm glad it is no longer the case that they are the norm.Douglas Underhillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02215736448645573566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3658799123575045908.post-5332866801813075052011-03-13T18:50:45.923-06:002011-03-13T18:50:45.923-06:00My dreams aren't generally as vivid as yours, ...My dreams aren't generally as vivid as yours, but I dream every night. My dreams do have color and sound, mostly dark and washed out palette, but they can be vivid. The ones that seem to be the most vivid are the ones I have when I wake up and fall back asleep for while. <br /><br />Frequently my dreams are mundane processing of daily life. However, lots of time there is some suspenseful, action film storyline where I'm being hunted or pursued or helping someone escape from "the bad guys". Other times they are like bizarre, sci-fi films. The thing I find odd is that neither kind is a genre of film or literature that I am a big fan of in real life. I'm sure there's all kind of interpretation you can read into them there. :)<br /><br />It's interesting to see how different people dream, isn't it?Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16370896781779729677noreply@blogger.com