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WHY DON'T WE DREAM WE ARE DISABLED?

I had an accident when I was a child, which left me in a wheelchair. I am now an adult married with kids.
I can count on one hand the amount of times I'm "disabled" in my dreams.!! Why is that do you think? Im always "walking" around with ease getting on with my life or what ever random scenario I dream! I have spoken to other people in wheelchairs who say the same thing!!! Id be interested to hear what your experiences are.
I can count on one hand the amount of times I'm "disabled" in my dreams.!! Why is that do you think? Im always "walking" around with ease getting on with my life or what ever random scenario I dream! I have spoken to other people in wheelchairs who say the same thing!!! Id be interested to hear what your experiences are.
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An obscure but interesting question. Perhaps you would need to ask some sort of dream analyser expert for the definitive answer.
Maybe in our dreams we are in the perfect world and therefore don’t think in the subconscious mind of disabilitities? But then why do we have nightmares or dreams were something goes repetitively wrong? Don’t know.
Maybe contact someone like Paul McKenna as does a lot on hypnosis and dreams.
CR
I do hope you will feel able to share more with all your knowledge and experiance it will be interesting to learn more
CR
Dreams and nightmares are presumed to be the brains way of coping with situations in real life at a subconscious level. Personally I have extensive experience of both but mostly nightmares as I have been suffering one or other every night for more than a decade and a half and sometimes more than 1 per day. Doctors are too ready to blame them on strong medication but I have had to put up with them for longer than any regular medication strong or not. I do however know for a fact that the strong medication has 2 effects on them. One is to make them last longer both physically and subjectively. The second is that once the medication rose above a certain strength it suppressed a lot of my memories of them, I only knew I had had them due to the state I was in on awakening. I do remember some though.
In 2016 I went into a coma after becoming unconscious for some hours. Initially in the coma I could not breath unaided so, for a short period, I died. There was no out of body experience or any other sort of experience. Everything just went black. Nor, when in a coma, is there a continuing dream throughout. That is just a program producers inspiration to make a good story for TV or for book writers to do the same in print. I know this because firstly I am used to them being extremely long in subjective terms. Most people have very short dreams or nightmares lasting subjective minutes or occasionally hours. Mine last subjective days or, very infrequently, weeks of subjective time. When I was brought out of the coma it took 3 attempts and each time I had a memorable dream. When they explained what happened and how I reacted during each attempt all of the 3 related to the 3 attempts. None were in any way religious but then I am not a religious person so wouldn't expect them to be. I do distinctly remember long periods of darkness so dark I couldn't see. Nor could I feel or sense anything.
Like you @B1nkyb00 I was not disabled in any of these or any other dream I can remember but then the people in them and at the ages I dreamed them to be I would have been healthy at that point in my history. Ofc this would not explain your situation but then it is my belief that we would not, except perhaps very occasionally, dream of ourselves as disabled but would incorporate the projected healthy viewpoint constantly shown us as how we are supposed to be.
It is true that we don't always dream we are a complete person and hence the flying or falling or being unable to run away scenarios. We do dream in both B&W and also in colour. Personally I find the colour ones to be both longer and more frightening. I am sure some will disagree with me, some always do, lol! I must admit though that I suspect the brain always tries to put a nice twist into dreams to make them pleasurable and hides things that would make nightmares even more scary than they are. After all, if it is a purposeful process there is little point the brain conjuring up a situation that you would want to forget.
Unfortunately dreaming is a subjective experience and is most likely related to our belief systems. Consequently everyone has a different perspective and content, making it difficult to cross-reference with others accurately.
TK
@Topkitten Thank you for sharing. There is much in your post and I would like to hear your scientific theory when you are ready. We are all on a journey for want of a better way to express it, some people are further along than others. Some people haven't started yet and don't know that they are going on one.
One of the limitations is trying to express and explain in words, things that are only understood outside the common use of language. For a long time only what could be seen and touched was belived. Historically many people have tried to take on the task of starting the journey for others, only to be ridiuculed and their efforts subverted by "science " and greed or turned into a "belief system".
@Binkyboo sorry for disrupting your thread.
If any one want to carry on this discussion maybe we ought to take it to its own thread
CR
Pat
I have done my best. We must all respect othe points of view even if they are greatly oppsing our own
CR
Please respect other people points of view, this is a wide and varied subject.
This is no place for confrontation but sharing experiance and knowledge even if at odds with your own. Only by sharing can we learn and understand a little more
Thanks
CR
Read more at https://community.scope.org.uk/discussion/38729/who-are-we-and-why-are-we-here#DirIFEUEyEQW3KBA.99