People who have anime dreams make me sad. :(

What wrong for the Op having Anime dreams? I dreamt me and David Boreanez from Buffy, Angel and Bones were fighting Predator.

>>112124

...S?

>>112135

Working sketch - repost.

I had an anime dream once. In it, I made out with Tsukasa from Lucky Star.

In the morning, I was like WTF? I don't even particularly like Tsukasa, so combined with the "you're watching anime too fucking much" message, it was actually kind of fail...

I once had an anime dream in which Saionji and Touga from Revolutionary Girl Utena were sexy naked snake people. TMI?

One of these years, when the sum of my bank accounts is more than my credit card balance, I'm going to commission the Bonkura Skydiving Team picture.

Bonkuras Bikini Death Squad

I blame no-one for their dreams. You don't have control over them, and they don't have control over you, and they don't mean your gay.

Perhaps I've said too much.

Agreed.

Well, except in the case of >>112149, who obviously either
spent way too much time trolling snapesnogger, or
is snapesnogger.

>>112163

Gayest dream I've had was everyone coming out of the closet to me... and then they lit some of themselves on fire...

In some dreams my brother does something to annoy me, something childish like going in my room and putting all the DVDs back to front so their spines are at the back of the shelf or the bottom, and turning the light on and off alot. I usually beat him to a bloody pulp... One time my hands were bloody for real, apparently I was punching the wall.

Oh yeah, so... azumanga dreams...

I might watch the New Years Dreams episode tonight

I actually have dreamed of Kagura before--I don't think we actually "did anything," but IIRC I ran into her in a store and she was buying leopard-print panties, which any sane person would appreciate.

Later in this same dream though I had sex with Adam Sandler, so that's where the appreciation of this memory ends.

>>112149

Sounds FABULOUS.

>>112163
Dreams do influence your thought, I fucked my teach in a dream and thought about it for a week. My subconscious is a part of me, so technically I do have control over them; and I think the fact I had said dream and got hard from it definitely does mean something about me. In fact, if I dream about anything, it's always because I've been thinking about it for a long, long time.

So in conclusion, fuck you.

>>112170
Dreams are like the defragmentation of your mind. It is your mind sorting through information it has recently processed, somewhat sporadically, combined with the active, though subconscious, part of the mind.

In other words, dreams don't really mean anything. They're not a gateway into your inner soul. It's not a sign of your true desires. It's nothing so poetic. It'd be neat if it were, but it's not. It's just your brain essentially scanning itself briefly.
Picture unrelated, but cute.

>>112170
Chiyo Jerusalem, hehe.

I rarely remember my dreams when I wake up.
Probably my brain telling me": "You don't wanna know."

Speaking of dreams, has anyone ever experimented with lucid dreaming

I've been doing so for more than a year and have only experienced it three times; none of those times are anything worth discussing

I advise against lucid dreaming.

The human condition forces us to consciously be in control of our surroundings. This can be forceful, stressful, sometimes to breaking tension. The dream state of unconsciousness is a relief. A state of complete surrender of control. In this relief we can briefly and solely experience best that which is ourselves. The greatest self discovery comes not from active, but passive self examination.

Good examples: Yesterday by the Beatles - Little Martha by Duane Alman both melodies came to the artists in dreams.

>>112210
I can lucid dream quite well if I put enough energy into it. When I was a teenager I had lucid dreams all the time. Not so much anymore.

The key is to think of lucid dreaming every chance you get, and do reality checks regularly throughout your day. That way once you start dreaming, if you perform a reality check (which is now part of your daily routine) and it fails, you'll realize you're dreaming and be able to do whatever you want.

My sister and I lucid dream every so often, though she also actively experimented with inducing them when we were younger (using the reality checks mentioned above), and managed to get near-full control once or twice.

Usually all I can do is predict or slightly sway the course of a dream; I've never gotten full control, since I generally can't violate any ground rules the dream has without starting to wake up. By the same token, though, I can take advantage of any fun laws. So, for example, if the dream "allows" flying, I can do so -- but if there are conditions, like I have to take a running start, or it has to be done in a certain area, then I can't just take off standing from anywhere.

I've found good lucid dreams can be incredibly restful and relaxing, but bad ones can be headache-inducing, especially if I've been trying to wake up from them. And there've been a couple unsettling ones where I only realize upon waking up just how much I had let my id run amok despite (or because of) the added self-awareness.

In conclusion, is Osaka a butterfly dreaming it is a Japanese high school girl? Or is she merely with a Chiyo-chichi dreaming that he is a bird?

>>112236

Nice Zhuangzi reference.

Anyways, I don't believe I've ever had a lucid dream experience, but my sister says that she has them almost all the time. I don't really have anything more to say about the subject except I'm sure most of the people here have seen Waking Life.

>>112235
That's the thing

The first time I had a lucid dream was six months after I committed myself to prioritize having one

This may be just me but any time I try to use the regular MILD technique my attention span is my worst enemy and always throws me off-course in no more than 60 seconds

I would think that that is my only obstacle to easily inducing lucid dreams but so far I've found no solace for not being able to focus on this intention for any length of time

I had a dream I had sex with Maimimi from FLCL.......best dream ever

>>112190
one theory of many != absolute fact.

I had another anime dream a couple of nights ago. I can't really remember the details, but it was apparently an episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, guest starring Anita King from R.O.D the Tv. Sparks flew, to say the least, but little Haruhi didn't stand a chance against The King. Also, there were fat and sweaty Haruhi fanboys there, discussing the finer details of the episode in question, such as the use of sound effects.

...I wish I was making this up.

>>112284

All right, I have to admit that's a pretty good dream.

>>112284

Haven't we all?

>>112314
A buddy of mine wrote about a dream of a protracted adventure with the Battletoads and Lee Brothers from Double Dragon to defeat Haruhi and her entire cult

And I helped

I have a transcript if you want to see it for god knows what reason other than that the protagonist of that adventure used an Osaka machete in the final battle

>>112124
/r/ pic of Tomo as Sae. She'd look HOT in that outfit!