12-02-2010, 04:54 PM
(12-02-2010, 04:39 PM)@ndy Wrote: Has anyone ever met fractal people in their dreams? Or seen themselves as a fractal?
I've had a few 'fractal' dreams..... one was an amazing dream were I met what I felt was a guide or a friend - it was certainly a warm, familiar, loving meeting. They weren’t a person though, they were like person head/shoulder shaped and there voice was like a fractal of many voices and there face was also like a moving sea of fractals of other tiny faces. I get the feeling I'm not describing this well at allIt looked amazing!
In another dream I travelled in and out of myself, and I was errrr fractaly too, like all of me was in a single cell the same as the whole of my body and I could move about in and out of this ‘stuff’ inside me.
What you say sounds like a representation of interacting with or being part of a social memory complex.
The only out of the ordinary type of dream I've had was where I'd become lucid by a sort of tying down of my conscious mind to the dream. This has happened several times. It's where I become lucid during a dream, but it's not true and free lucidity. It's like half of my waking mind is there. Every time it's happened, my "higher" waking consciousness comes rocketing into my unsuspecting dream self's head, knocking him to the ground as if he's just become faint. Then, I'm partially awake within the dream, looking out from within my dream self's eyes and struggling to get him on his feet again. At that point, it feels like I'm drunk (physically, not mentally. mentally, the dream self's mind is freed to think just as I would in waking life) There's a huge pressure on the head, trying to keep my waking consciousness in the dream. It's like trying to hold onto a ball that wants to slip out of your hands and fly away. But you're doing it with your head, and it's disorienting you. And yet only part of my waking consciousness will "fit" in my dream self's head without overloading it.
The first time it happened, I pulled myself to my feet with the windowsill and proceeded to look around the bedroom of the cabin my dream self was in. I then thought, "Ok, lucid test one. Time to fly!!" And I did, fly out the window. But I lost lucidity a few seconds after takeoff.
The second time it happened, I don't remember what was going on in the dream before lucidity, except that I was in my house. I gained partial lucidity, pulled myself to my feet, and noticed all the other dream characters had disappeared. "Oh well" I thought. "Now that I'm awake, I don't need to interact with them to have fun anyways." I then went in front of the bathroom mirror and changed myself into a girl just to see what it would feel like. But I had trouble holding the form and went back to my regular self, and lost lucidity.