I've even *touched* things in mydreams and I know you aren't supposed to be able to do that, either

Really? Huh. Guess my dreams haven't read the rulebook.

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Cindy, I have a good visual memory, but not anything that could be described as eidetic.

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If you read something in a dream, then try to read it again, it will have changed.

I find words no more or less changeable than anything else. It's a dream after all, and incredibly malleable. I've read, died, smelled, touched, loved ... done a million things.

On phone conference right now. Man, it's boring when you're there, worse now.

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Connie, do you dream about the story, or are you actually reading the words in your dreams?

Both. I can see the comic book page, with the panels and word balloons. If I could draw I've got some great material.

And I always dream in color--at least, I perceive and remember it as color, and I remember reading somewhere that we don't dream in color. Of course, it's getting into the whole, "Is it there or do I just think it's there" paradox thing which makes irritable.

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Hell, I've solved physics problems in my dreams. Of course, in the million times that happened, only once was it actually right. Usually they became bizarro-physics at some point. Like, involving a lemon and gluing squirrels to paper. But then, I've also tasted colors which tasted of a texture and a sound (btw, I advise AGAINST this. My head still hurts at the mention) and been in a whole helluva lot of pain...or so I thought. Cause I really wasn't in labor.

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Really? Huh. Guess my dreams haven't read the rulebook.

It's not common to actually register the physical sensation of touch in one's dreams, hence the old saw about pinching yourself to see if you are dreaming. If you can feel the pinch, you must be awake (except, of course that it *is* possible to feel the pinch and still be asleep).

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. I've read, died, smelled, touched, loved ... done a million things.

Time to die now.

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Cindy, I have a good visual memory, but not anything that could be described as eidetic.

Okay. I generally don't, except for the odd bit of text here and there, and its placement. I might know Julia has her pink Sketchers T-shirt on, and that it has a soccer ball on it, but I can't remember detail about it.

Hell, I've solved physics problems in my dreams. Of course, in the million times that happened, only once was it actually right. Usually they became bizarro-physics at some point. Like, involving a lemon and gluing squirrels to paper.

Oh, I've done that. It makes so much sense in the dream, and then you wake up and are convinced you have the answer, until you actually recall the details.

But then, I've also tasted colors which tasted of a texture and a sound (btw, I advise AGAINST this. My head still hurts at the mention)

Flashback?

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that it *is* possible to feel the pinch and still be asleep

Perceptual games, what fun. I generally do know when I'm dreaming, especially when things get odd. What's strange is Hubby will wake me from what he thinks is a nightmare, and it's generally a vivid adventure-type dream. Which goes to show that it's a lot more fun to watch adventures than to participate in adventures. Being chased and having the fate of the world in your hands is not relaxing.

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I had a high fever when it happened, and I think some sensory wires got crossed in a way my brain doesn't accept. So yellow tastes like the sound and feel of chewing a wad of rubber like balloons are made of. And that was me flinching a bit.

The other fried brain one involved a window that was "too big" and it was making me very upset, in the sensory overload manner. I needed to fix it with a safety pin.

I get the same flinch when font gets "too big" (define that? Can't) on a screen. It's like I can't look at it without starting to panic or something. Lightheaded. It's just WRONG.

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