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 Sep 29 2006, 3:41 am
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Is it normal to have strange dreams whilst having a 102 degree fever?
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Sep 29 2006, 3:44 am
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Yorae
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Please define your strange dream.
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I once had a dream and was apparently partially acting it out in reality, and since others were around it was very embaressing when I woke up. I had a fever at the time, but I didn't believe that to be the cause of the behavior.
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Maybe you were like half-half and your imagination had taken over no idea why you would move your arms though.
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Strange dreams can happen anytime and i'd say happen more than you know, chances are you just dont remeber them. I find that i remember dreams more if i wake up aprubtly rather than if i wake up naturally as its still fresh in my mind.
Strangest dream i've had is dying in a dream and not waking up, it really tripped me out | |
Well...yeah.
I was helping my freind run away from his house(again), since his parents abuse him by calling him worthless and idiot and such, making him do everything, while his 230 lbs 14 year old sister gets to sit around all day, and bosses her mom around, not go to school, etc etc... ANYWAYS For some reason, this is where it got strange. My dream got mixed up with the fight scene between Asuka and the twentieth angels in the movie, The End of Evangelion, and us having a very, very close view(We were about 2 in a half miles away from the gigantic things). We could feel the wind from the attacks, earthquakes when they stepped, sound, everything. Asukas' Eva ran out of power and landed on my freinds house, the Angels toar her Eva to shreads, took off into the sky with the Evas entrails hanging from thier mouths, and then threw their sticky things into the Eva, killing it and Asuka. Then I woke up and was like....what a strange dream. And I had a huge addrenilin(spelling?) rush. The End | |
Though this is only tangentially related to your question, I guess this is a decent enough place to bring one of my recent thoughts up...
A big question in biology/psychology is the cause of dreams... No one's really certain what creates them, or why they even exist... Some think they're the byproduct of our inner, subconscious thoughts and feelings, and others just think they're random mental "noise" that we perceive as coherent events... And there are lots of other theories, I'm sure, probably even including the one I'm about to explain... My belief is that our memory (at least short-term memory) operates very much like the RAM in our computers, and not like a hard drive (for instance) A hard drive (or other "permanent" media) works differently from RAM... That type of data storage relies on actual, physical alteration to the material that makes up the media (a hard drive is written magnetically, which moves the particles in the disk into a specific "permanent" alignment; a CD is etched with a laser, which carves bumpy grooves into the metal of the CD, etc) All "permanent" storage has to be done this way... A physical change has to be made to the object that's storing the data... As I said, though, RAM doesn't work like that... RAM requires a constant electrical charge to keep the data stored... It also requires periodic refreshes to keep the data "clean" and current (RAM "leaks") This means that the data being used in the RAM isn't just stuck in there, and left to sit like it is in permanent media... It is constantly flowing, and has to be kept "moving" and renewed... Well, I believe this is how our memories work... Each piece of data we store in our head must be kept charged; flowing around actively... Of course, this probably only applies to short-term memory... Long-term memory might actually come from a physical alteration to our brain matter... Neural pathways may actually be forged into specific patterns for permanent data storage... However, until this can be accomplished, I think the incoming data has to be treated as RAM... As does any thought/idea we're currently working with (consciously thinking)... Again, exactly how a computer handles things... Getting to the point (finally!), I believe that dreams are a byproduct of this data flow... All of the information in our heads that is in the "RAM" state must be kept charged and moving, even when we sleep... Nothing really different happens to it while we're sleeping, it's just moving around like it does all day long... The difference, I suspect, is simply that when we're awake/alert/aware, we can ignore (or even control) the "noise"... And in fact, we might simply be droawning it out with our conscious thoughts... It's there, somewhere in the background... But when we go to sleep, our consciousness loses that control and prominence... These pieces of "RAM" data are then able to take the spotlight... This also seems to explain why dream activity is only recorded during certain periods of sleep (REM)... I don't think it's the "dream" that is being recorded (as, again, I think the "stuff that dreams are made of" is constantly present and on-going 24/7), I think the activity witnessed comes from our recognition of the "RAM" data flow, which can only happen when our consciousness is above a certain level... Which, in turn, is why most dreams don't make any sense... For one, they're likely just a jumble of all of these little bits of data floating around, and two, our consciousness isn't fully aware and capable of making sense of it all at that half-awake level... And in fact, the stuff we remember from our dreams is likely just a product of our brain trying to make sense of the jumble of info... Anyways, I could go on, but I've rambled enough (and will probably be shot down by some one-liner...lol) | |
I have a similar problem Lodu:
If I'm suffering from sleep deprivation and I fall asleep and then woken an hour to two hours later, I'll walk around in real life but still be perceiving things in a dream-like state. Once I was sleeping next to my car in the garden (had been bunking off school and hadn't slept for a day) and I woke up. The fairies told me that because the way helicopter blades rotate, walking into my house (occupied by my dad who thought I was at school) would mean I could sleep more. So I pretty much found myself busted as he took me into the car, drove me down to school and had me and him talk to one of my teachers. | |
"When we are young
Wandering the face of the Earth Wondering what our dreams might be worth Learning that we're only immortal For a limited time" -RUSH 'Dreamline' (from the album 'Roll The Bones') ----------------- "Some are born to move the world To live their fantasies But most of us just dream about The things we'd like to be Sadder still to watch it die Than never to have known it For you, the blind who once could see The bell tolls for thee..." -RUSH 'Losing It' (from the album 'Signals') | |
Oh, yes. I have a very strange, recurring dream every time I'm sick. It's so strange, I can't even describe it with words. Really. I've tried. It's otherworldly. It's the only dream I ever remember exactly, but it's also the only one I have never been able to successfully relate.
So yeah, don't be surprised if a fever makes your dreams strange. --Vito | |
It's very normal to have stranger dreams while running a fever, your brain is pumping some pretty interesting chemicals, sometimes even causing hallucinations. Half of the dreams you have during a violent fever actually occur while you're partially awake.
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I think I've had something like that recently, but I didn't have a fever. I kept waking in and out of my sleep trying to think what I was dreaming about, and if I thought enough on one thing I actually started dreaming about it. I was concious to know what I was thinking about, I'm still baffled on how I started to dream about it too. :-/
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"I come home in the morning light,
My mother says "When you gonna live your life right?" Oh, mother, dear, We're not the fortunate ones, And girls, They wanna have fu-un. Oh, girls, Just wanna have fun." -Cyndi Lauper 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' | |
That happens to me all the time in math class!
Im sitting there, still aware of everything, yet I'm dreaming...I can't explain it...It's like I am asleep...but I'm not :\ | |
A couple years ago I had around a 103 degree fever, I just finished watching a superhero movie and thought to myself I could move a bandana that I saw. I started focussing on it really hard and then I fainted, I woke up and it was moved. Dun dun dun.
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Seriously?
Wow...I thought I knew what it was, but I didn't... Is it normal for someone who daydreams in a class to be able to repeat and do everything that was just talked about? | |
Possibly, if your brain is very, very good at mutli-tasking. When I day dream, I have no idea what is going on around me because I am so focused on it. If you know what is being talked about in class while day dreaming, then you have a gift my friend.
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The worst kinds of 'dreams' are the ones where you dream you're laying there awake trying to get to sleep, while you're actually sleeping you trick your brain into thinking you didn't, you'll wake up exhausted, as if you didn't sleep at all. Normally happens after a particularly tiring day when your brain just won't kick off.
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