[Cr33pin]

So a few days ago I experienced a interesting phenomenon.

I was having a very pleasant dream where I was introduced to and hitting it off very well with a beautiful blonde girl. There was great chemistry between us an I was ecstatic at the possibilities this girl represented for a long term lover. There was no sex in the dream just innocent physical contact. At the end of the dream we were going swimming an the blonde undressed to her bikini an I just recall her waist was super small and her hips and ass were super thick an then I awoke. It was daylight and I got up to start the day and during my morning routine I realized I was insanely happy... I don't recall a day in recent memory where my mood was so high. My mood throughout the whole day was reminiscent of times in the past when I dabbled mdma. The next two days after that my mood was normal, nothing carried over. It was only that one day following the dream that I reaped the benefits of the dream.

So what was the correlation between my dream and my mood? Whilst I was sleeping did my brain dump some extra serotonin that made my dream a happy one and I would have been in that elevated mood when I woke up regardless of my dream? Or did waking up in that euphoric state from the dream I was having carry over into a super exaggerated joyous mood that lasted the whole day?

I have tried to google some more information on this as I would love to be able to harness a fraction of that feeling again if possible... however most google results seem to dwell on the opposite of my happiness and focus on how negative dreams can lead to negative feelings. That makes sense, as sometimes when you abruptly awake from a bad dream you wake up scared and pissed or whatever.

Just to clarify this was not just a average "happy mood" that I experienced this day and its not like I'm not in a happy mood everyday.... this feeling was way more intense then any elevated mood I have experienced without the help of brain altering chemicals.

[The Lizard of Oz]

Cr33pin, when you have a beautiful dream like you had that morning, it can have a strong effect on your mood and your sense of life because it offers a realized vision of life's possibilities, of how the world can be when everything is right. That sense of possibility is something that waxes and wanes in any life, even a happy one -- our hopes always alternate with disappointments, this is part of the rhythm that life is made of. But sometimes we can be vouchsafed a vision, created by our own mind in a dream or gifted us by great art, and this sense and knowledge of life's possibilities is recaptured all at once and we are ecstatically overwhelmed by and given over to it -- until, in time, the effect grows faint and life's natural rhythm resumes as it must.

And of course there is no vision of paradise that draws close to a man's mind like that of a beautiful girl swimming in a pool or body of water, and coming out, perhaps with a smile, towards us. It's why the Phoebe Cates pool scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High is so famous and one of the greatest of all film scenes, the beautiful dream rendered and made permanent:

You should not seek to hold on to the vision or call it back to life; let it linger in the air for a long day, and then fade. But some other time, when that sense of possibility grows too remote -- when one is indeed deluded and under the sway of a bad dream that tells us that these possibilities are foreclosed and perhaps were never more than a lie to begin with -- the truth of that vision will appear before you and remind you of what you had forgotten.

[RIslander]

Sorry to hear you didn't get the bang.

[Cr33pin]

(08-05-2017 12:52 PM)RIslander Wrote:  

Sorry to hear you didn't get the bang.

I'm ok with it... I was happy just to be holding hands and hugging

Is this beta?

[Nascimento]

(08-05-2017 12:57 PM)Cr33pin Wrote:  

(08-05-2017 12:52 PM)RIslander Wrote:  

Sorry to hear you didn't get the bang.

I'm ok with it... I was happy just to be holding hands and hugging

Is this beta?

Not cool man, you know I do this all the time.

[Cr33pin]

(08-05-2017 01:02 PM)Nascimento Wrote:  

(08-05-2017 12:57 PM)Cr33pin Wrote:  

(08-05-2017 12:52 PM)RIslander Wrote:  

Sorry to hear you didn't get the bang.

I'm ok with it... I was happy just to be holding hands and hugging

Is this beta?

Not cool man, you know I do this all the time.

Dont worry... you are the most alpha beta I have ever met

[Gorgiass]

Don't have an answer on the technical questions, but if you want to explore it further you could look into lucid dreaming. Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter associated with memory and recall and boosting levels in your brain will make remembering dreams easier and the dreams more vivid, if you don't usually remember them. Some foods like salmon are high in the precursor choline, or you can buy the powder. Other people throw in something that inhibits breakdown like Galantamine. There are several techniques people use to get into a lucid state while dreaming, well covered elsewhere on the web.

[Synezthetic]

In the immediate aftermath of waking up from a dream, ironically, the good ones seem to make me feel bad and vice-versa. I have had a few similar dreams, always involving pretty girls that I had just met and didn't know previously, hitting it off well with me with the clear notion that more could happen. However, when I woke up and realized that it was just a dream and that girl doesn't really exist, I got pissed and disappointed. By contrast, whenever I wake up from a bad dream, I'm instantly happy and relieved that the events that occurred weren't real.

I do agree though with what Lizard said - it's possible there's a subconscious effect in the more medium term. Visualization of success is proven to be an effective precursor to actual success, and so, if you're visualizing yourself with a pretty girl, it's possible you'd see an uptick in your confidence as you believe more strongly that this can happen.

[Leonard D Neubache]

You should get a recording of some pleasant, generic female blah-blah spoken by a woman you'd hold to have similar qualities to the one in your dream. Perhaps go for a language you don't know in order not to be influenced by the words themselves.

Put some headphones on while you sleep and see if the sound gets you back to that same place.

Just a thought.

[Veloce]

I had a dream like this recently too. It was a vivid dream that I was banging one of my exes sisters that I've always had a crush on.

You know you sometimes have dreams where you're in a fight, but you can't quite land that punch...your arm moves like it's underwater.

Or sometimes you're trying to run to chase someone or something, but again, it's like you're underwater.

Or sex dreams where you're right about to get what you want, the girl starts pulling her shirt up and right as she gets to her tits you wake up.

This dream was none of those. It was pure bliss, my hands holding her torso while I banged the everloving shit out of her, both of us just ecstatic to finally be fucking each other. A moment of burning mutual desire, finally realized.

It was so vivid that when I woke up my first impulse was to call her up and tell her about it. But as the reality of waking life started to creep into my brain I realized this would be pointless and would lead nowhere. In "real life" I've never had any reason to believe this girl has any attraction to me at all, and she seems completely smitten with her frail and petite boyfriend.

But that feeling stuck with me for the next several days, much like what you describe. It was a profound feeling of desire satisfied, of finally getting what you want, that secret thing that you hold onto and never expect to happen, and then it finally does.

Like LOZ said, such events in life can be rare, but goddamn do they make life worth living.

[The Beast1]

One time I had a dream where I told Tiffany Trump that what her and her family were doing were great things, she shouldn't be ashamed or scared, and thanked her for her time.

As I walked away, I heard her say, "thank you" and then I woke up.

Sometimes, I like to think that in our dreams we can meet people we'd never have any contact with and tell them a short message or live out an impossible fantasy. Sounds like you had something similar!

[Delta]

I've experienced something similar a handful of times, having an oddly vivid dream about finally getting close with a crush, and feeling an indescribable lovesickness the following day. The only way I can attempt to convey the feeling is a massive hormone dump, like the dream flooded my system with every last chemical responsible for creating romantic attachment. Interestingly, no other type of dream ever noticeably affects me the following day.

At this moment, I feel like I'm no longer susceptible to feelings like what I describe above. The more I've internalized game concepts, the more I feel like a cold, calculating psychopath when it comes to dating... which, as depressing as it sounds, is ultimately for the best, as women are repulsed by hormone-addled loverboys like what I used to often be.

[Tex]

Cr33pin, what did you do before the dream that might've caused it? I'm interested in trying to induce these kinds of things if that's possible.

I've had these kinds of dreams but almost every time they changed how I viewed a particular girl I actually knew (like Veloce's dream).

For some reason it seems that these kinds of impactful dreams are oriented around a girl and give a borderline supernatural mood elevation. Maybe it comes from the lifestyle of having killed off beta feelings. Maybe there's a natural level of infatuation that people live with, and when you live a lifestyle that kills those fleeting infatuations they express themselves in huge bursts like wet dreams?

[kbell]

If you sell your xbox you will get more of these dreams.

[Hypno]

Lizard makes a good point to emphasize that its the possibilities in the dream that are what have you in a positive mood.

College football coach Willie Taggart is famous for telling people "To have a nice day, if you want to." He phrases it that way to emphasize that whether you have a nice day is mostly your choice. Bad stuff happens to everyone, you can't control that, but you can control your attitude and how you react to bad stuff.

If you are shopping for a car, say a jeep, you will suddenly notice every jeep on the road. Similarly if you look for positive possibilities, you will go through the day finding them.

As for dreams, I think the key is to get quality sleep. Supposedly DHEA will improve your dreams, but I have not had that experience.

[Ski pro]

I had a similar experience that my dog could talk to me and we had a conversation.

That was such a good dream and a great feeling the next day.

[debeguiled]

I once dreamed I was running behind a guy who looked like me and he slipped and fell on a wet grass hill and I laughed at him.

Later that day I was walking down a wet grass hill and slipped and fell.

I am posting it here so you can laugh at me.

[RIslander]

Last night I had a dream that a hamburger was eating ME!

[heavy]

I've had a dream I was just strokin' in basketball, was unconscious.

Played really well that night at open gym.

[General Stalin]

New revolutionary game move: Dream close.



Funny you mention this though. I had something sort of similar happen a few years ago but it wasn't from a dream and it happened while I was completely conscious.

I remember I was driving to work in the morning and towards the end of my drive to work, out of completely nowhere I just had this intense rush of happiness and I was in a crazy good mood. No explanation as to why, but I remember thinking I wish I could just always feel like that for the rest of my life. Everything felt great, I was insanely positive, looking forward to anything and everything, and not worried about anything that had been previously stressing me out. It was like out of absolutely nowhere a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders and I was just so pumped to be alive and shit.

I thin it lasted the rest of the day but it did not carry over into the next day after I woke up.

[ShotgunUppercuts]

Im not gonna go into detail .

So im doing the nofap hulabaloo.today right before i woke up i had a sexual vision that went left field and gave out a "reciept " because of what i saw.

I got up and was questioning myself got the first four hours of the morning.

It was wild man.

[Tex]

I like how this thread went from discussing a particular phenomenon to “tHiS ONe tImE I drEAmEd i wAS a haMbUrGEr!”

[eradicator]

It’s funny. I just had a dream or nightmare, where I was at a benefit dinner for Hillary Clinton. My sister and mother were there and afterwards Hillary hands me the bill for 700$. I was like “aT least it wasn’t for more. But why why am I even here, what the fuck”

[Tex]

One time I had a dream I was Suits

[RIslander]

(02-15-2018 01:24 AM)eradicator Wrote:  

It’s funny. I just had a dream or nightmare, where I was at a benefit dinner for Hillary Clinton. My sister and mother were there and afterwards Hillary hands me the bill for 700$. I was like “aT least it wasn’t for more. But why why am I even here, what the fuck”

That's the shittiest dream I've ever heard of.