What dreams and asperations have you held onto?

Are you living them?

If not, are you still actively working toward them?

or

Did you give them up?

if so why so?

I'll play.

I always wanted to have a quant little coffee -slash- bookshop somewhere with a small town feel.

I gave up my little dream because I turned out to be pretty good at what I do now, and I enjoy being pretty good at what I do more than taking that big of a risk. And also because Barns and Noble took my idea and super sized it into an entity impossible to compete with. Lol!

I've never been one to try to read into my dreams.
Up until recently I always believed that dreams were just my brain defragmenting, My brain catergorizing the stimuli it experienced and putting it in fundamental and searchable blocks for memory.

But recently, The nicoderm has me dreaming more vividly and to a higher degree. Dreams that stick with me a bit longer after waking. Giving me time to actually look at what I was dreaming. Patterns have emerged that make me think I am experiencing alternate dimensions instead of familiar groupings of memories.

Having memories of things that I know I have never experienced or fantasized. Dreams in such detail and familiarity that I can't dismiss it as defragmenting.

I know technical things I should not understand.
I have feelings that I never had in life.
I get sensations that are impossible for me (Menstrating pains?)
Speaking of pain, I am now aware of pain in my dreams that is different pain I have in life.
Until recently I never felt pain or ill in my dreams (that I can remember).
I have been female in my dreams and it felt normal to me in the dream.
I have experienced missing limbs, heightened senses and dulled senses.
I have breathed water, been eaten, hunted prey and divided myself.

If I am sensing alternate dimensions I am sensing more than just human dimensions.

Now the crazy stuff my mind comes up with leads me to believe that there is a fundamental presence in all dimensions that is me. I am always me even when I can't recognize myself I know I am me. Its the only stable part of all the dimensions I seem to experience. The one constant.
Like I already stated, when I die in a dream, I NEVER have that dimension again. Because the constant is no longer available in that dimension.
Everything else can change but I remain until I die then poof its gone forever.

What truly gets me is that I see things in my dreams that never existed. From mundane things to extremely complicated. Yet I get the sense that I know these things and understand how they work?

I also have a series of dreams where I am in my life, the people I know are there but the environment is changed ever so slightly. Different color skies, different terrain, weird stuff.

I've experienced a life where there is no money, no working and no sickness. Then I have also experienced deaths in many ways, shapes and methods. I always wake up when I die. Like that was the end of my participation in that Universe and I can no longer 'sense' that dimension.

Sometimes I feel like a crazy person when I awake from a dream because it is so real and so strange that no sane person would consider the details to be possible. I awake and my reality solidifies and the dream fades. I have noticed that there is a lag between the dream and my reality. I have tried to 'look' there but I can't get a hold of it. Its as if my brain forces me into my reality.

I have worked as a mechanic on space ships in an orbiting station.
I have dangled my feet off a cliff so high that the planet falls away into space.
I have floated a foot from the ground just like everyone else, moving by sheer thought.
I have repaired devices so small that my instruments were atoms.
I existed in a world where electricity was not needed, everything was powered by atomic forces.

I've existed in an underwater realm.
I've floated helpless in space.
I've been stranded on an island.
I've existed outside the perception of others in my dream but had influence over matter.

There are things that I have NEVER experienced.
Surviving in the vacuum of space.
Being smaller than an atom or even a molecule.
Killing people - I have never been forced to kill any person in my dreams.
I have killed creatures tho and that is messy.

In trying to understand mortality and what it means to die. I believe I have been mistaken in thinking that when you die you cease and your energy gets reabsorbed into the energy of the Universe. This morning I awoke with the sudden feeling that when you die, part of you gets transferred to the dimensions next to this one. The ones that have the most similar patterns as this reality. Part of this me does get reabsorbed into the Universe but part of this me will exist in other dimensions as well. This me will not know or detect the change. The other me in all the other dimensions also will not detect this me.

Some Universes exist at different speeds of time. Some have different molecular bonding. Some have different decay rates. Some no longer exist while some are just now starting to form. There is an unidentifiable number of Universes where I exist in one form or another. Some are extremely similar to this one and some are at the opposite end of similarity. Plus, there are many in between.

Just the other night I was in a turbine room at an air purification facility. The turbines stopped and I felt a great urgency to get them restarted because of danger. Sure enough in thru the now open and static turbines a group of lionesses ran in. I remember smelling them and feeling pain when I was attacked. Just as she put her mouth around my neck and I felt pain I awoke. I knew, at that moment, that particular me had died. I also know that I will never dream of that me ever again.

I should probably write a book...

Wow, Tom4Uhere! You sure dream alot!

In my dreams I just fly over my neighborhood, forget to wear clothes to work, live under the sea or run from a killer through an impossibility long corridor.

I was really fishing for more attainable dreams like climbing Mt. Everest. Lol!

I dream of a time when I never again need to use an alarm clock.

I never gave up my dreams, I am living in part, and looking forward to the others.

Great question. Some dreams never materialized, such as pitching for the Detroit Tigers. At 10 I had learned to dream, but lacked the motivation or knowledge to formulate a plan. Today, I get to help college athletes learn how to take a dream, formulate a plan, and bring it into reality. I never dreamed of being a track coach, but honestly, this is a bit better than any of the dreams I had as a young man.

I know.. reading the other answers, this lacks something.. laughs.. I'll work on improving my memory of old dreams.. :)

Being good at what you do and enjoying it is a dream come true! Of course starting a "starbucks and noble" chain would have been pretty cool..

Not yet sleeping so I am not yet dreaming :p kidding

I wanna own a house and have a business (tutorial center, apartment or fruit farm) :) hoping to have that 5-10 years from now... I am still helping my parents while saving money too for my future :D

How could that possibly lack a thing? Ending up with something better than a dream is the tops!

It’s hard to leave something you like when so many dislike their own work. Besides my little shop dream could always morph into a retirement bisiness. You never know.

Keep it up and you’ll see it happen.

Oh...Duh

I have a lot of ideas that could be called dreams...

Being a mechanic I always dreamed of owning a salvage yard.
Not just cars but everything.
I had a very intensive a detailed business plan at one time.
It was similar to a franchise or facility chain to be opened across the nation.

I also had a business plan to open automotive hobby shops as a franchise or chain of shops.
It would have 6 bays, a parts room, a tool rental room, car lifts and truck racks, a paint booth and all the equipment and tools to work on cars. It even involved hiring mechanics to advise members how to work on their cars.

Another franchise I was thinking of is a bar/grill w/theater.
Instead of stadium seating and dark theater, the bar would play the movies on big screen TVs and patrons could buy or bring their own headphones to plug in at the tables. There would be 3 or 4 stadium theaters where patrons could go to watch the movies in standard and 3d modes. The door fee would cover all the movies, so patrons could watch multiple movies while partying.

I always wanted to be a physicist. Preferably a theoretical physicist. Working with nanotechnology.

I've always wanted to fly a jet fighter too.

That’s so much better than a dream. That young lady is a plan leading to a goal. Even better it begins with something bigger than yourself “I am still helping my parents “. Not sure exactly what that means but generosity of time and resources is life’s best investment.

Wouldn’t it be fun to tell people, “theoretically I’m a physicist”?

Agreed. I tell students the real value in a university education is the ability to choose a career your passionate about. Too often they throw that away to pursue a better salary.
That sounds like a very pleasant way to spend retirement

Thank you

I had a dream I saw this topic in another thread on the site...

I dream of unconditional love. To love and be loved unconditionally.