[JoeProBono]

IN DREAMS

[wastedyears]

So if I dream that Democrats are no longer in charge, would that make it so when I wake up?

[JoeProBono]

Memories Are Made Of This

[Lockbar]

I dream, therefore I am. (pretty deep, eh?)

[Lockbar]

I like the Blue Velvet version better.

[EGPWS]

Napping after learning something new could help you commit it to memory - as long as you dream, scientists say. They found people who dream about a new task perform it better on waking than those who do not sleep or do not dream.

Timothy Leary is that you?

[anymouse]

If you are going to dream, dream big. ;

I was once, I was strolling one very hot, summer's day
When I thought I'd lay myself down to rest
In a big field of tall grass.
I lay there in the sun
And felt it caressing my face
As I fell asleep
And dreamed.
I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie
And that I was the star of the movie.
This really blew my mind,
The fact that me,
An overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome,
Should be the star of a Hollywood movie.
Hmm, but there I was.
I was taken to a place,
The hall of the mountain king.
I stood high upon a mountain top,
Naked to the world,
In front of every kind of girl.
There was long ones, tall ones, short ones, brown ones,
Black ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones.
Out of the middle
Came a lady.
She whispered in my ear
Something crazy.
She said,

"Spill the wine, take that pearl.
Spill the wine, take that pearl.
Spill the wine, take that pearl.
Spill the wine, take that pearl."


I could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back
As she disappeared,
But soon she returned.
In her hand was a bottle of wine,
In the other, a glass.
She poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass
And raised it to her lips
And, just before she drank it,
She said,


"Take the wine, take that girl.
Spill the wine, take that pearl.
Spill the wine, take that pearl.
Spill the wine, take that pearl."


Take that pearl, yeah.
It's on girl, all you gotta do is spill that wine, spill that wine.
Let me feel, let me feel fine, yeah, yeah.
Spill the wine, spill the wine, spill the wine, spill the wine, spill the wine, spill the wine, spill the wine,
take that pearl.

[HungarianGypsy]

When I was learning to drive I dreamed I was driving up a mountain road in reverse. It was easy to drive in reverse after.

[GOP Poet]

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[Ellendra]

Lost count of the number of times the solution to some problem has presented itself while I was dreaming. Sometimes I can even remember them after waking up!

Conversely, sometimes I’ll have nightmares of a situation and not know what to do. I’ve found that if I can figure out what course of action to take in that situation, the nightmare stops and doesn’t come back. Like driving down the highway and the brakes go out, things like that.

[rosettasister]

This thread is a bit dated, but maybe someone will see this.

Swimming in the River of Dreams

http://blessedistruth.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/swimming-in-the-river-of-dreams/

[Billthedrill]

Great. Just great. So, if I should ever have a need to, say, levitate nekkid through flak over Ploesti with two flaming alligators clinging to my ankles, why, I'd be able to do it much easier now that I've dreamed it.

I gotta swear off the burritos for a midnight snack.

[Just another Joe]

I think this is probably correct.
Back in the day, when I was young and in Navy ‘A’ school, there was a Missile Command video game in the lobby of the barracks.
I played that sucker in every spare moment I had. But I got to a point that I couldn’t go past a certain score.
I played it so much I started dreaming about playing it.
A couple of days after I started dream playing I shot past the prior high score and was Missile Command champ ever after.
So I think that it is correct that dreaming can help you learn.