There is a place in my head that I will retreat to. A cliff over looking a sea. When I’m having a bad day, the sea is stormy, when I’m having a good day, the sea is calm.
The swimming pool thing I can really relate to. I do that in real life to an extent. I’ll get a small scuba tank and sit at the bottom of a pool sometimes and just sit there, enjoying the quiet and feeling.
Sometimes the water is beautiful and tranquil and sometimes it is nightmarish. I’ve never heard of it having to do with emotion, I’m gonna pay more attention to it now, thanks.
My kid sis came across some odd little thing that Carl Jung used Tarot cards as a way to get patients to open up about their life. So, if Carl Jung did it. (If Carl Jung jumped off a bridge does that mean you would too?) 
She began studying this a bit and she has a few decks and learned a bit about this. The pentacles or coins are money concerns, the wands are air and deal with creativity, the swords are more about justice and conflict and the cups that are always pictured with water are the emotional concerns.
makes you wonder what its like to be a fish i think lol x
i had a dream i was a pirate onboard an old pirate ship once but i was sailing through these old narrow streets the water was getting faster and the boat too then something catastrophic happened i think there was another ship and we hit each other and were all swept overboard i cant remember the meening but it was an interesting dream,
the latest dream was people were trying to kill me, shoot me, poison me, and i was praying but that just made them more mean but my prayers were helping me i think.
my dreams are like flashes of memory like old familiar streets and some new stuff
woven into a new memory i guess.
i dont remember a lot of my dreams, but a dream once gave me a very positive vibe, thats the one that makes me sleep some more and want too dream on.
yet i also have dreams that wake me up with guilt, remorse, etc
odd stuff these dreams, i do however dream in colour
I love tarot cards. There’s nothing bad about them. It’s just flipping cards over and trying to discern and interpret how the symbolism affects a person. For instance, the death card is more about letting go of the old than a literal death. It’s a good way to boost creativity in writing, and it also helps you notice patterns. I just got done reading a book about empowerment in writing, and ways to motivate yourself to write and increase intelligence.
I feel a lot more creative when I pay attention to my dreams. It takes willpower and focused visualization to have lucid dreams and not to have nightmares. But the medication also helps with nightmares, which is kind of odd. Abilify does have anti-depressant effects and it has made my dreams more happy and beautiful. Or it takes away the fear/paranoia so I can tap into their potential.
I’ve had a few repeating dreams though. I keep visiting a bridge being built, and I swear I’ve crossed this bridge a few times after it was fully constructed, before I had to swim across the river to get to the island with the city on it that resembles a futuristic NYC. Sometimes I get the feeling these are actual places in time.
I can’t wait for my epic dream on New Years Eve. If I sleep through New Years I always have epic dreams, I think it’s because of the high energy of people around the world celebrating. It is like a collective energy that radiates and causes me to have awesome dreams.
I’ve had a recurring dream since six years old where my parents are driving down a road and arrive at a fork where they are greeted by a man who ends up eating my brother and I alive. My most common dream is of falling, but never toward the same thing (water, cement, abyss). My last dream was about a guy riding a roller coaster through space and talking like a Doctor Souse book. Or my brother and I get on a bus with all my old friends and suddenly I panic and can’t stay on the bus, then he questions me about it and I can’t come up with an excuse for my actions.
I dream of a person that night, like an old school classmate for example. Then the very next day I see that person in real life. I’m like how can this be connected to anything? Is God telling me to do something take action?
i dont know, how it works.
it could be that you wanted something, and it appeared.
pansdisease,
me too. always a nightmare and when I wake up I remember it is just a dream but later on I wonder if it was a true occurrence. reality confusion, really.
they make me feel like a real ‘basket case’.
judy
I still dream, but the meds affect my state of conciousness. When I wake up I feel drugged + am not aware enough to recall my dreams. Sometimes they are there right under the surface but I can’t get to them.
I also have a dream map. One example that is interesting is I used to live one the east side (about three or four years ago) and I had dreams that I lived in this apartment. I’ve had many dreams there both good and bad. The other night I was wandering around inside that map and recognized places and remembered hey, I used to live over here and I walked there and lo and behold I walked into my complex. I had the thought of weird I thought I dreamed this but it really exists! I have such lucid dreams that a lot of times I can control them. I’ve also had other prophetic dreams. I could write forever about dreams. Sometimes I don’t like getting out of bed because of them. Blah blah blah the end
For now…
Btw that apartment I reffered to was a dream apartment in my dream map from that part of the city I lived in. It was that part of town I lived in my waking life but my dream city was similar to it. I think it was because I had dreams there when I lived there and still visit it in my sleep. That is confusing but I have think it would take forever to explain. I have certain maps in my dreams and I visit them a lot. I’m sure we all do. I think they can represent times of our past life in relation to our present.
i had a great dream this morning 
basically i found this ipad on the way to a shop at lunch from college and i put it in my bag and took it home
i thought it might be broken so i showed it to my sister and my little nephew seemed to know what to do, so he pressed a few buttons and reset it, then there was something wrong with the battery as the indicator was a bit strange so he thought he could charge it through his phone so he plug the phone in to it and it started to smoke and it melted the face of his phone.
so i think i might be secretly wanting an ipad and i didnt know about it, deep down in my unconscious mind lol.
I sometimes become aware I am in the dream more often than not.
It usually happens when there is people in the dream. I will be doing something then all of a sudden I see the people and they just stare at me.
Then they say “he knows”
Meaning I know I’m in the dream. Then they say quick the dream maker is coming to wake you , come with us
Then I will end up in some other room , I’ve even sat at chairs with them then I looked at the chairs and turned them into bar stools and raised them up.
Then I ask questions like what should I do and they say. Whatever you want. Then one time I asked who are you and he said "wrong question. And then I woke up . Havnt had a dream like that in a long time.
I don’t dream. At least it is only a very rare occurrence where I wake up remembering a dream. I don’t think I usually sleep long enough at any particular time to fully enter REM sleep.
My dreams have been changing. They used to be random images that I could not figure out. Now they try to present themselves like predictions.
Right now it seems some of my old fears are coming into my dreams and I’ve been waking up very upset with a situation.
Has anyone had a dream that made them mad and when you wake up, your mad at the person in the dream? That has been happening to me. It’s not helpful.
Me, too…
I have dreams where I fly, but I have a micx of everything. It does get annoying when I don’t fly in my dreams, but some of them are really cool, soem really weird, and some just downright scary.