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02 Jul 2012, 9:06 am

i dont



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02 Jul 2012, 9:09 am

Nope.



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02 Jul 2012, 9:52 am

Yes, but I do in real life also.

I have the problem of making too much eye-contract, rather than not enough.



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02 Jul 2012, 9:54 am

I don't even see faces in dreams.

I see people but I normally never look at their face. If I do, it's just fleeting. Never the eyes, though.



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02 Jul 2012, 10:03 am

I'd never thought about it before but no I don't, I dream about people but I rarely see their faces and I've never made eye contact in a dream.


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02 Jul 2012, 10:13 am

Most of my dreams are non-pictorial. The very few which are "visual" dreams are so scattered I wouldn't begin to know, but they often don't involve other people at all, and if they do, it's not close-contact and I don't interact with them. They are basically scenery.

I believe this is because of the way my brain works; I cannot form pictures in my mind at all. I'm not really sure what it would be like to do so. (Is it like picture-in-picture, or overlayed images, or completely separate?)



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02 Jul 2012, 10:16 am

In my dreams, the focus is usually on locations, rather than people.

They look similar to the way they are in reality, yet there is always some difference - could be very subtle or quite obvious. For example, in one of my dreams, the building I live in had a few extra floors, and they were filled with some strange machinery - looking more like an industrial facility than a residential building.

And in one other dreams, there was a great lake in the schoolyard. Pretty deep too (I fell into it and sank to the bottom).



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02 Jul 2012, 10:18 am

do you make eye contact in your dreams?

Yes.


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02 Jul 2012, 10:28 am

Monkeybuttorama wrote:
Most of my dreams are non-pictorial. The very few which are "visual" dreams are so scattered I wouldn't begin to know, but they often don't involve other people at all, and if they do, it's not close-contact and I don't interact with them. They are basically scenery.

I believe this is because of the way my brain works; I cannot form pictures in my mind at all. I'm not really sure what it would be like to do so. (Is it like picture-in-picture, or overlayed images, or completely separate?)


My dreams are nearly always cinematic, I think in video (audio included) mostly. My partner thinks entirely in words, and can't form any pictures at all, which I find very interesting.



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02 Jul 2012, 10:48 am

FalsettoTesla wrote:
Monkeybuttorama wrote:
Most of my dreams are non-pictorial. The very few which are "visual" dreams are so scattered I wouldn't begin to know, but they often don't involve other people at all, and if they do, it's not close-contact and I don't interact with them. They are basically scenery.

I believe this is because of the way my brain works; I cannot form pictures in my mind at all. I'm not really sure what it would be like to do so. (Is it like picture-in-picture, or overlayed images, or completely separate?)


My dreams are nearly always cinematic, I think in video (audio included) mostly. My partner thinks entirely in words, and can't form any pictures at all, which I find very interesting.


That sounds very... overwhelming to me.. How do you process the video-type thoughts? I mean I realize that's like asking a bird how it grows feathers, but I find it quite strange.. do you "see" faces in detail or just vague detail? Also, does he also have issues with identifying people/places/get dejavous frequently?



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02 Jul 2012, 10:54 am

Monkeybuttorama wrote:
FalsettoTesla wrote:
Monkeybuttorama wrote:
Most of my dreams are non-pictorial. The very few which are "visual" dreams are so scattered I wouldn't begin to know, but they often don't involve other people at all, and if they do, it's not close-contact and I don't interact with them. They are basically scenery.

I believe this is because of the way my brain works; I cannot form pictures in my mind at all. I'm not really sure what it would be like to do so. (Is it like picture-in-picture, or overlayed images, or completely separate?)


My dreams are nearly always cinematic, I think in video (audio included) mostly. My partner thinks entirely in words, and can't form any pictures at all, which I find very interesting.


That sounds very... overwhelming to me.. How do you process the video-type thoughts? I mean I realize that's like asking a bird how it grows feathers, but I find it quite strange.. do you "see" faces in detail or just vague detail? Also, does he also have issues with identifying people/places/get dejavous frequently?


It leads me spacing out a lot. I 'see' them in detail.

His sense of direction is dire, and he doesn't remember people's faces/objects well at all. I don't know if he gets déjà vu a lot. I get it a lot.



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02 Jul 2012, 11:08 am

I hear people in my dreams but never see them.



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02 Jul 2012, 11:23 am

I have no idea.

My dreams are visual, like movies. I've got a movie memory. I don't see a picture of something, I can see a moving image If I stick my mind to it and i'm not distracted.



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02 Jul 2012, 11:53 am

Sometimes I do. It kind of depends if it's a deja-vu type of dream or not, usually. In the majority of the deja-vu ones I don't make any eye contact, but in normal dreams, I often do make eye contact.



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02 Jul 2012, 12:25 pm

I don't. The people in my dreams usually don't have faces. The communication is all verbal - like in an audiobook. Sometimes there is a narrator, but not in the nightmares.


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02 Jul 2012, 12:28 pm

My dreams are visual, and people have faces.. but the strange thing is that whenever I appear, I always look like the 11-year-old version of myself...