The Strangest FFR Dream!

[remedy1502]

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I had an FFR dream. It sucks though. I was playing FotBB and all of a sudden I realized I was playing in like the mall. So I'm playing on this laptop in like the food court and I realized that trills are so easy and FC'd FotBB my first try :S

Ya my dream sucks, and too bad I can't FC FotBB for real

[macgravel]

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Many people believe erroneously that humans can record every detail of every moment in their lives. That if you hypnotize someone they can recall every last detail. This is just impractical. Every second hundreds of images are being processed, smells detected, tastes interpreted. So much information would make the brain an unwieldy and unpractical tool.

Jonathan Winson develops the idea that for humans their success is not that they record every last detail but they are very efficient in processing information which is essential for survival.

Animals which are less effective at this tend to process information on the spot. They take sensory information and also the memories that they have and on the spot update their strategies for survival. But this method is time consuming and rather ineffective.

Dreams perform an important function in humans. They help us transfer information from the short term memory to long term memory. This helps us to improve our strategies - we perform better at life. It helps us reflect on what was successful for us and what was not.

Dreams are especially important because this process of sorting information out tends to be done in sleep - its an OFF-LINE process. We store information that is important in short term memory then when we sleep we intensively cram periods of learning into REM sleep. We take information that is relevant to us, information about learning how to perform tasks etc. - then we devise new strategies and this information is then stored in long term memory. Dreams are about our survival strategies

To me this explanation is very valid - for one reason sleep deprivation shows that going without sleep is very harmful. Perhaps this explains that when we are deprived of sleep then we suffer from real confusion. Perhaps the brain is overloaded with short term memories - it continues at the pace it is used to. It continues to collect every last bit of useless information. Yet it is not discarding information? So if this process does not take place - if we do not dream then we are very damaged. WE cannot process information. We become confused and indeed after a time start to hallucinate. Dreams then are essential to process data - that data is not processed at any other time.

One thing Winson mentions is that dreams help us improve our survival strategies. Perhaps that needs a little refinement. Any dream analyzer would tell you that dreams are about emotions, but these are a bit wishy washy and unimportant surely as regards survival.

No - dreams perform not just survival strategies but they help us process information about our emotions, tasks that we have learnt, language, and opinions about everything. Man is not just a strict survival machine . Man is rather a social animal - an animal who speaks, thinks, talks, learns, laughs and feels emotion. Dreams help us reformulate our views on most important matters. They edit out old and unused data and add in new data.

We also need to understand that the brain is not just one brain but two. We have two absolutely perfect but very different computers - the conscious and the unconscious mind. They work in very different ways. The conscious takes data and stores it laterally - it builds up a series of blocks and then comes to an answer. But the unconscious works the other way round - it spots a problem and works out what is the cause. It works backwards - seeing the bigger picture. So dreams integrate old data with new data. They also act as a bridge between the conscious and unconscious minds.

So what exactly does this mean? If we know what dreams do and what functions they perform then we know the type of things that cause dreams. Dreams are stuck in the here and now. They are about processing information and transferring the important bits into long term memory. So a dream maybe about a song we heard which emotionally or intellectually we find very important. Or it maybe about some task we are trying to learn and master. Important emotional issues may also be the subject of dreams. We can also have dreams about conversations or events we have scene. Indeed anything that is important and relevant to our long term memories is likely to feature very strongly in dreams. So the best way to learn what a dream is about is to write down all these little things that have stuck in our memories from the day before: Songs, jokes, conversations, little things that have stuck in your memories, emotional issues, and things we are trying to learn. Most dreams will be about things on that list. Its as simple as that!

Precisely the function that the dreams play in sorting out our memories is open to debate. It is certain that thetawaves emerge at night and help sort out our memories. However, is this process directly connected with REM sleep. Some doubt remains there. Some believe that it is in Non-REM sleep that this process takes place. Memories are transferred back and forth between short between the hippocampus and neo - cortex during sleep and gradually our long term memories are updated to take account of new experiences from the day. Such people state that dreams play no real role in this. They maybe play out such newly formed thoughts in our minds in the form of movies. The actions maybe there to stimulate the brain during inactivity. It may also be connected with neural patterns. Thoughts have to be imprinted on our memories and replaying emotions maybe the brains way of pushing new thoughts to the front of our minds

But I believe that Winson does prove the vital connection between REM sleep and our emotions, our learning, our general survival techniques.

[travman301]

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CT lol...

[pikadill3]

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Eh most of my dreams (the good ones) are about runescape, ddr, or various things I enjoy in rl such as music groups I like (fantasy concerts XD)

In a lot of my dreams, I have this strange feeling that I'm constantly dragged down and unable to run fast at all (I am running, but I'm moving at a very slow rate, slower than walking o.0)

BTW, don't think your dream is that weird. Oddly enough, I've had a nightmare once of me kissing a dude...Honestly, I wanted to kill myself after that -.-

[chunky_cheese]

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I've had a nightmare once of me kissing a dude...Honestly, I wanted to kill myself after that -.-

Sometimes when you are knocked unconscious by drugs such as "Date Rape" drugs, you can remember small bits and pieces.

[pikadill3]

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oh noez...I better hide...O.O

[OMGfat123]

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One day I really will meet Nima and Bmah in Edmonton, I hope they don't bite, I have this image of Nima walking like he is playing DDR and yelling MAX FOREVER!

Whoaa hold up, you guys live in edmonton? man we should totaly have a meet :P

[insanefreddy926]

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I once had a very, very, very odd dream, although it had nothing to do with ffr.

I was in some old fashioned sea ship thing with some of my friends, and, oddly enough, the characters from that cartoon Hey Arnold. So we were sailing to France for no particular reason when a storm came and we crashed onto the shore. Now you kinda need to know the people from Hey Arnold, but the Harold kid (that big fat one) was really hungry. So he goes over to Helga (the one who loves Arnold) and then (this part is really weird) he rips off Helga's butt, and inside is this little compartment thing with an orange in it. So he grabs the orange and eats it. Yes, it was... disturbing. So then my friends and I try to find civilization, and we run into a large line of people. They are waiting to talk to the King of France. We go and talk to the King, but he turns into a bumblebee and flies away. So we walk further and find this town. We call our parents, but they're already taking a vacation together to France, and they're on the plane. Then I wake up.

[verra]

Re: The Strangest FFR Dream!

I once had a very, very, very odd dream, although it had nothing to do with ffr.

I was in some old fashioned sea ship thing with some of my friends, and, oddly enough, the characters from that cartoon Hey Arnold. So we were sailing to France for no particular reason when a storm came and we crashed onto the shore. Now you kinda need to know the people from Hey Arnold, but the Harold kid (that big fat one) was really hungry. So he goes over to Helga (the one who loves Arnold) and then (this part is really weird) he rips off Helga's butt, and inside is this little compartment thing with an orange in it. So he grabs the orange and eats it. Yes, it was... disturbing. So then my friends and I try to find civilization, and we run into a large line of people. They are waiting to talk to the King of France. We go and talk to the King, but he turns into a bumblebee and flies away. So we walk further and find this town. We call our parents, but they're already taking a vacation together to France, and they're on the plane. Then I wake up.

Alright then...

[chidori!]

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i had a dearm where i was playing a masters only song (when i cant get fc an easy song) i fell aseep on the keybored woak up the next morning and the song was still playing. i got off the keybored it said i fpcomboed the song and i ended up wit everyskill token and 12mill cerdits.

[Dr.AAA]

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In my dream I don't know where I was at. It just seemed like it was darkness everywhere. Then nexthing you know I here music in the background. I looked around to where it was coming from but I had no luck. Next thing you I see an arrow coming towards me. I moved out the way. Then more and more arrows start coming down, and I kept dodging them. I had and ideal to just on one. I when an arrow came down, I jumped on it. It dissapeared and I saw numbers floating above my head. So as more came down, I kept just jumping on them and next thing you know it I was mainly walking on arrows! I had millions of points. The music kept playing, it never changed. It just kept going and going and going. That dream was weird but I also had fun. I notice when I woke up. My feet were moving. I don't know if its a FFR dream or a DDR dream but like I said that was a coo dream.

[SinkingHippo]

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I'll tell you what, I love FFR; it's really fun and all but it's not an obsession-- at least for me it isn't. No offense of course, but I don't dream about it.

[jpcduran]

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WOW! lol