Full Of It #216 - Inception

I am a very heavy dreamer and mine are almost always prophetic or stress related. I usually jot them down and go over them with my therapist (they couldn’t care less but it’s MY SESSION). I really connect with your point about the immense sadness when waking from a happy dream. On the flip side there is the incredible relief when waking from a nightmare! I love that we still don’t know why we dream! Brains are truly wild and mysterious machines :) Been having a rough go of it lately and am always buoyed with laughter when I tune into the pod. Thanks for sticking with us darlin’ ❤️

Big Witch Energy

Hello there!! In my job as a crisis worker I get requests to interpret dreams more often than I thought I would. It breaks my heart hearing how people who had a dream of such violence feeling like they had to do it in the waking world. In my dreams, literally all of them I have perfect sight! I can see colors, read print, all the sighted people things! It’s bizarre to dream because I haven’t seen any color since 1990 I haven’t been able to read regular print without extreme magnification since 2008. So when you say your mom had told you that dreams or some thing that stuck in the back of your mind I can totally believe it because I’m holding onto that part of me, even though it was a 13-year-old when I started going blind, that could see colors or just pick up and read a book. Hell, I even drive in some of my dreams! Just between us girls, I have driven in real life to… Lol. But I consider those good to me, even if for the time I have them and wake up to VIP. The most frightening and realistic dream I’ve ever had though happened when I was a kid. I had this recurring nightmare of walking down the street with my mom and she fell into a lake that was covered with ice. I tried and tried in my dream but I couldn’t get her out of the freezing water. As an eight-year-old kid of course in my waking world I clung to my mom all the time like a shadow. But I still kept having this dream every night. It was about three weeks and I was standing with my mom in the kitchen at our aunts house and she fell to the floor it ended up being she had a massive aneurysm. She survived that and the surgery. But the scary thing to me was when she fell she was putting an ice cube tray full of water into the freezer. Sometimes listening to or taking things away from your dreams can be good❤️

Karen Shupp

Your perspective and interpretation on how you only have bad dreams is spot on for me. it’s not as if every dream I have is a nightmare, but rarely does anything happen to me in a dream that is better than what is currently happening in my life. I so often feel burdened by dreams and feel that they make me more tired the next day. I wish I could just turn my brain off lol. Great pod as usual darling!

Love inception! Very funny story about it- I watched it at an end of term thing in school, but got dragged out halfway through cuz someone had accused me of being a witch. Got interviewed by the principal and everything, it was an absolute farce. Never got to see the ending! The joys of the northern irish education system. With regards to dreams, I agree that I've never had a "good" dream. Even if they aren't nightmares, there's always a sort of tension or dread underscoring them? I also struggle a lot with being a very light sleeper, and occasionally get stuck in that sort of half-awake, half-asleep state, which leads to me getting trapped in dream-like loops as I try to work through scenarios while being semi-conscious? Don't know if that makes sense, but TL;DR dreams are absolute shitters. Thankfully I often just sort of wake up in the morning without remembering anything. Love the pod!

Molua

Hi doll! First time commenting on the pod. Loved the episode… I’m fascinated by dreams, not about meanings but more about why we dream. I made a film about sleep related disorders and they are all so interesting and mysterious. I don’t remember having good dreams, ever, but I do wake up on occasion smiling or actually laughing out loud. I now seem to be aware that I’m dreaming when they are in any way distressing. I just start to go “Wake up! Wake up!” Is that really strange??

Daniela Menezes

So speaking of dreams it’s so strange but I’m constantly having these dreams were I’m convinced that there’s either a spider on my pillow and I grab it so I know it’s in my hand and I can feel it but I’m fully awake and then I’m sat up in bed sorta panicking because spiders are disgusting but then a few minutes later my mind is clear and I know that it wasn’t real but for those few minutes I’m 100% convinced that it’s happening and it’s really there, so there’s the spider one and then I’m always seeing people standing in my room and it’s as if I haven’t been to sleep for long but I see someone standing near my bed and I do the same thing so I sit up in bed panicking then a few minutes pass by and I’m completely fine, I hate it 🤣

Paul housbey Art

Love the pod lymp, as usual… I completely agree with your conflict on happy dreams, as bad as it sounds I regularly have dreams about my life with my ex - it didn’t end well but what’s done is done and personally my mind has the ability to block out the toxicity of the past (unfortunately mostly from my end). I’ll often wake up semi-conscious out of a dream at around 6 in the morning and feel as though i can somewhat control the narrative in my head until I get up - so while I enjoy that part of my dreams I do hate to wake up to the reality that it was just a narrative created in my head and you just have to wake up and get on with reality. That’s why i feel there is no such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ dreams because when you wake up from them it is absolutely nothing compared to whatever comes your way during the rest of your day, like a roller coaster, you enjoy it, wished you could constantly enjoy that thrill, but you get off and continue as normal

i had a lovely dream a while back that brooke lynn hytes was my boyfriend, which is funny bc i’m a lesbian, but i remember waking up thinking “wow he was a really great partner.” a great start to my day tbh.

Molly Walters

Dreams are sketchy though, aren't they :/ It's kinda disturbing that your brain deletes the memories of them after a day or so. Weewoo conspiracy theories

hepandeerus 2

The thing that stresses me out about dreams is that they are sometimes no longer than a few seconds in the real world but feel like they can go on for hours

tommy

I don’t not expect to get a sympathy gut punch when you started talking about struggling with authenticity with some of your writing. I’ve been writing short stories mainly in the fantasy genre because I’ve always been a magic and wizards kid. And every story idea I get in my head I just think, “isn’t this just a rip off of this thing,” or “aren’t I just copying the book I just read but made it more gay”. What’s the point of me writing something if there’s always a million other stories or sketches like it? It’s good to be conscious of that so you’re not just pumping out uninspired copycats but a way I’ve found to get around that struggle is to remind myself that yes you’re making a sketch or story for other people to watch or read, but you’re also making it for yourself, so you can laugh a bit at your own jokes, amuse yourself, and enjoy it. Maybe I’m biased as one of MANY patrons that literally pay just to consume and reverberate your jokes and bits, but for every furniture video or parody there’s always been the authentic Novympia spin that we show up for.

Juan Miguel Pascual

My dreams always filter out what I’m going through in life. Except that time I was on chantix, vivid dreams where I was killing people, I’ll never do chantix again. But I dream all night pretty much every night. I don’t remember them for the most part but the ones I do remember are usually someone that has passed visiting me which is nice. Love you Lymp 🥰🥰🥰

Lorna Hale