The dreams have started

[stuartbert two hats]

10 hours ago, Quark said:

OK, so it just me that has completely incoherent dreams that never bear any relation to a real world situation?

Or are we back to the "time to kill again" business?

You mean all your dreams or your Glastonbury ones? Or are you saying that your dreams are so incoherent that you couldn't possibly have one about Glastonbury, or anything else for that matter?

[Quark]

39 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

You mean all your dreams or your Glastonbury ones? Or are you saying that your dreams are so incoherent that you couldn't possibly have one about Glastonbury, or anything else for that matter?

Sometimes real things feature. Other times nothing recognisable. Certainly nowhere near as coherent as the Glastonbury dreams described herein.

They're about stuff, but I could very rarely tell you a story from them.

[stuartbert two hats]

Just now, Quark said:

Sometimes real things feature. Other times nothing recognisable. Certainly nowhere near as coherent as the Glastonbury dreams described herein.

They're about stuff, but I could very rarely tell you a story from them.

You have a weak brain my Ferengi friend. My dreams are often vivid, with detailed plots, albeit not terribly compelling ones. I tend to start forgetting them almost as soon as I wake, but they do often hang together. I'm often some kind of superhero, or just at Glastonbury trying to get off my face.

Have you ever had that dream where you wake up in the dream but you're really still dreaming? Then wake again and tell someone you had a dream that you woke in the dream then as soon as you walk through the floor you realise it's a dream and wake again?

Or the other one where you're running really fast and then you realise your feet aren't you touching the ground and you're actually flying?

[DropBeat]

2 hours ago, Stokesy10 said:

If you think that's vivid wait till the dreams you have when you get back home :/ I've had a nuclear bomb land on Glasto, dropped by secret jets which can go transparent. Melted everyone to the floor and sky was dark red. Horrible! I was on the hill by the sign, it was basically real, I could literally smell the grass and see every detail until this jet came over. Slowly woke up but couldn't move a muscle as I was stuck to my bed. Sleep deprivation and hitting very, very hard for 5 days takes its toll. I find the bizarre dreams pretty fascinating!

Haha, yes the post-glasto dreams are intense!

[stuartbert two hats]

2 hours ago, Stokesy10 said:

If you think that's vivid wait till the dreams you have when you get back home :/ I've had a nuclear bomb land on Glasto, dropped by secret jets which can go transparent. Melted everyone to the floor and sky was dark red. Horrible! I was on the hill by the sign, it was basically real, I could literally smell the grass and see every detail until this jet came over. Slowly woke up but couldn't move a muscle as I was stuck to my bed. Sleep deprivation and hitting very, very hard for 5 days takes its toll. I find the bizarre dreams pretty fascinating!

In 2007, I hallucinated the sound of drums sound checking from my post-Glastonbury bed. I was not asleep at the time.

Edited November 10, 2016 by stuartbert two hats

[Stokesy10]

31 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

In 2007, I hallucinated the sound of drums sound checking from my post-Glastonbury bed. I was not asleep at the time.

Brilliant!

I woke up (so I thought) next to the Mrs, she woke up and looked at me shocked asking "what's wrong?", then her face slowly expanded MASSIVELY, like a balloon being blown up, then it popped and made the loudest noise ever. This woke me up and again, completely stuck to the bed. Started really freaking me out that I could only strain out a slight noise and not move a muscle. Loads of the people I was with at Glasto had exactly the same. Sleep paralysis ayit. Tis a loff though.

Edited November 10, 2016 by Stokesy10

[Stokesy10]

40 minutes ago, Quark said:

Sometimes real things feature. Other times nothing recognisable. Certainly nowhere near as coherent as the Glastonbury dreams described herein.

They're about stuff, but I could very rarely tell you a story from them.

I have this often mate. They're either the most bizarre thing you'll ever hear (once dreamt that I was a porcelain head from birth and saw my life in the 3rd person. My mom put me in the sea at the end and I swam off like in a tadpole motion - this is 10% of this dream. My mates get me to tell the whole story every now and then. It wasn't normal), or they're even weirder to the extent where I couldn't even begin to tell you what I am or what's happening. Waking up in dreams and realising it's a dream so I can manipilate it happens often too. Great stuff!

[Waapster]

On 21 October 2016 at 1:37 PM, gmb1992 said:

Had my first one last night, same dream as usual - with it being the end of the Sunday night and it's all over. 

Then I wake up and for a split second believe it's true

Ha! Lucky. I can be up, out of bed for a few minutes still sorting the truth from the dream.

[Quark]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

You have a weak brain my Ferengi friend. My dreams are often vivid, with detailed plots, albeit not terribly compelling ones. I tend to start forgetting them almost as soon as I wake, but they do often hang together. I'm often some kind of superhero, or just at Glastonbury trying to get off my face.

Have you ever had that dream where you wake up in the dream but you're really still dreaming? Then wake again and tell someone you had a dream that you woke in the dream then as soon as you walk through the floor you realise it's a dream and wake again?

Or the other one where you're running really fast and then you realise your feet aren't you touching the ground and you're actually flying?

I fear I have explained this poorly. Some dreams have plots, others just seem to be snapshots. The whole flying thing happens. And I tend to go through phases of having apocalypse dreams; they're always fun.

It's more that they never relate to something recognisable like Glastonbury.

[Guest]

Don't know how much people know about this, but the science behind dreams is incredibly interesting. You process the days emotions and events during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, in which they are passed into your memory through dreaming. REM sleep is the 'deepest' form of sleep, although the level of activity in the brain is almost indistinguishable from that of being awake. Why some dreams are so abstract is because the brain doesn't necessarily process events and emotions in chronological order, leaving the dreamer to attempt to connect the dots when they wake.

Most people probably get little to no REM sleep at glasto and so their brains won't have properly processed everything that has happened over the 5 days. Once they get your first proper sleep after the festival, its no wonder that their dreams are often incredibly vivid and/or abstract. If you also consider how those emotions and events at glasto are often already distorted due to drink/drugs, then the brain has a lot to process.

My first two post-glasto dreams are dreams I cannot forget.

[Cornelius_Fudge]

9 hours ago, kingbadger said:

Had a dream the other night that me and my group were all at Radiohead. But it wasn't at the Pyramid but somewhere like Croissant Neuf, one of the smaller tents. Then they came out, did Reach by S Club 7 including Thom Yorke dancing, then just walked off stage to rapturous applause, and everyone went home.

Only 7 or so months to go.....

I reckon they could pull that off and still claim it was for artistic merit

[JacquelineS]

My Glastonbury dream goes something like this. The sun is shining and the music takes your soul somewhere out of this world. The sun does shine occasionally at Glasto right? 

Edited November 11, 2016 by JacquelineS

[Stokesy10]

7 hours ago, alien said:

Don't know how much people know about this, but the science behind dreams is incredibly interesting. You process the days emotions and events during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, in which they are passed into your memory through dreaming. REM sleep is the 'deepest' form of sleep, although the level of activity in the brain is almost indistinguishable from that of being awake. Why some dreams are so abstract is because the brain doesn't necessarily process events and emotions in chronological order, leaving the dreamer to attempt to connect the dots when they wake.

Most people probably get little to no REM sleep at glasto and so their brains won't have properly processed everything that has happened over the 5 days. Once they get your first proper sleep after the festival, its no wonder that their dreams are often incredibly vivid and/or abstract. If you also consider how those emotions and events at glasto are often already distorted due to drink/drugs, then the brain has a lot to process.

My first two post-glasto dreams are dreams I cannot forget.

Thanks for this, I find them absolutely fascinating! I've had dreams so messed up they've played on my mind for a long time, but it's more intrigue than worry or fear. The ones where I realise I'm in a dream are astonishing, and the more I thought about it in the day, the more vivid the realisation becomes when it happens in the next dream, if that makes sense. It's like I've splashed water on my face in the dream and fully woken up. I had one where I started to re-design the surroundings in the dream just by looking at objects/buildings and manipulating them. Crazy shit.

[Guest]

21 hours ago, alien said:

Don't know how much people know about this, but the science behind dreams is incredibly interesting. You process the days emotions and events during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, in which they are passed into your memory through dreaming. REM sleep is the 'deepest' form of sleep, although the level of activity in the brain is almost indistinguishable from that of being awake. Why some dreams are so abstract is because the brain doesn't necessarily process events and emotions in chronological order, leaving the dreamer to attempt to connect the dots when they wake.

Most people probably get little to no REM sleep at glasto and so their brains won't have properly processed everything that has happened over the 5 days. Once they get your first proper sleep after the festival, its no wonder that their dreams are often incredibly vivid and/or abstract. If you also consider how those emotions and events at glasto are often already distorted due to drink/drugs, then the brain has a lot to process.

My first two post-glasto dreams are dreams I cannot forget.

So if REM headline then my dreams on the bus home will no longer be something along the lines of Tove Janson's Moomins mixed with Magical Mystery Tour mixed with The League Of Gentlemen?

[the wonderwhy]

21 hours ago, alien said:

Don't know how much people know about this, but the science behind dreams is incredibly interesting. You process the days emotions and events during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, in which they are passed into your memory through dreaming. REM sleep is the 'deepest' form of sleep, although the level of activity in the brain is almost indistinguishable from that of being awake. Why some dreams are so abstract is because the brain doesn't necessarily process events and emotions in chronological order, leaving the dreamer to attempt to connect the dots when they wake.

Most people probably get little to no REM sleep at glasto and so their brains won't have properly processed everything that has happened over the 5 days. Once they get your first proper sleep after the festival, its no wonder that their dreams are often incredibly vivid and/or abstract. If you also consider how those emotions and events at glasto are often already distorted due to drink/drugs, then the brain has a lot to process.

My first two post-glasto dreams are dreams I cannot forget.

Is there anyway to control what (or who) you dream about? 

[Guest]

17 hours ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

So if REM headline then my dreams on the bus home will no longer be something along the lines of Tove Janson's Moomins mixed with Magical Mystery Tour mixed with The League Of Gentlemen?

I don't even know how to imagine that combination

17 hours ago, MattDavies__ said:

Is there anyway to control what (or who) you dream about? 

I've lucid dreamed before where I can control what happens in my dreams, similar to what @Stokesy10 has described. 

But as far as actually getting to that stage, I have no idea. Every time I lucid dream it seems to be by accident.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, alien said:

I don't even know how to imagine that combination

Lucky you

[ivan]

Another one last night.

Weather conditions meant that Glasto had warned festival goers not to travel and that the Friday was being pulled.

So we stopped at home in Yorkshire  , only to find out on Friday afternoon that the organisers had to decided weather was OK enough for the festival to proceed.

We were then in the quandary of whether it was worth travelling down or not ?

[Bisque]

I don't think I've ever had a Glastonbury dream. No dream could be better than the real thing I suppose.

 

Now i have had Glastonbury ticket day nightmares.

[Aragorn]

Had a great Glasto dream last night, someone who works with me was part of the setup so I persuaded her to let me in on the Tuesday, this was a few months before Glasto

In the meantime I walked around the site there was stuff going on for someones birthday party, I was telling this person at work what was where on site as we walked around and said look at my arms - the hairs were standing up on end lol.  Now whether I was coming too or not I remember taking photos thinking I'll post these on efests lol, we all love pre fest site pics  

Then I woke up, ultra excited this morning ha ha !  10th year this year, gona be massive 

[Curlygirl]

I love Glasto dreams. They always put me in the best mood for the entire day. 

[slash's hat]

Dreamt last night about Barry Gibb doing the legend slot. For some reason I was watching it on TV and was saying "how is this happening? I've got a ticket"! Geri halliwell and Mel b came out as backing singers and introduced the legend that is Barry Gibb. He comes on, teeth a shining, and launches in to Leonard Cohen's you want it darker! Cameraman pans to the crowd where Mr Eavis is laughing his head off.

[elgatonegrofabricwardrobe]

My dream last night involved me holding 4 small eggs, preparing to make a double portion of scrambled eggs. I looked down at my hands and realised that one of the eggs was infact my penis. Left it after that as 3 eggs simply wouldn't have satisfied 2 hungry people. 6 weeks today.

Edited May 10, 2017 by elgatonegrofabricwardrobe

[MetaKate]

Love this thread. People's brains are so weird. I usually have quite vivid dreams (very deep sleeper) which are sometimes quite fucked up. 

Most of my dreams for glasto have been packing dreams or ones where I show up and have forgotten my ticket only to realize I've forgotten everything. 

I also had a vivid "climbing the fence" dream after reading the epic twix saga. In my dream I went for my candy bar only to find I packed a pineapple and alcohol. I proceeded to try to rip the full pineapple open with my hands. Guards discovered me and I had a nice chat with them where I was trying to convince them I was supposed to be there. Dream ended and never quite made it to glasto. I feel like this is a wildly accurate representation of what would happen if I attempted to sneak in. 

[cammie81]

A simple but horrible dream last night where I kept getting wasted really early then going to my bed and missing everything while all of my friends (many of who don't actually go) were having a great time. At one point it dawned on me that I had missed Radiohead which was horrible but then it changed (as dreams often do) so that I hadn't yet missed them so decided to get my act together.