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[Doug]

In all my dreams I am walking and was wondering how every one dreams.

I mean sometimes my neck was still broken and my chair is in the dream but I never use it. I walk or run and on a personal note I have some of the best sex ever.

[dave420atya]

Sometimes I do more than just walk I do incredible acrobatics . I can do more than before my sci and when I wake up my legs are all sweaty.In the dreams I always was paralized like the day before the dream is occuring. I will do a double back flip then say something like " oh yea , I was paralized yesterday but today I'm ok." I've been dancing at a club and danced like never before in my dreams. I'm my dreams every thing is always ok . I've never had a nightmare or bad dream. I usually can't remember most of the dreams and forget as soon as I wake up. My dreams are usually quite strange and kinda pointless , but I enjoy them. After all it's all in my head and it is my head after all , so I think I have some control of them.

Edited by dave420atya, 26 November 2007 - 01:34 AM.

[Illinois Boy]

Sadly, I don't dream or I don't remember them....... The ones I sometimes remember are weirder than the Twillight Zone......... I think my old lady's slipping me Acid at night......

Jim

Edited by Illinois Boy, 25 November 2007 - 06:31 PM.

[Lucydog]

Usually Im watching the proceedings in the dream so I dont actually see myself. If i do then Im not in a chair, but I will be sitting doing something instead. like I could be sitting on the beach, or swimming, or sitting at the piano. I never see myself actually walk which is maybe a way of saying that my brain is sort of used to the idea these days.

[kewlcatkez]

quite often I will have a dream where I am pushing an empty chair! Sometimes I try and get into shops etc and the chair won't fit through so I wont go in in my dream because I can't...even though I am just pushing my chair!

Then I have times where I am walking in the dream and I fall over..usually a person with me in the dream will help me and I will exclaim that I am OK! and that I just need my wheelchair.

another dream I have is one which I can't find my chair..In this dream I wander through rooms or streets or sometimes the sea and try and find my chair. The odd thing is I am unsure of whether I am in another chair looking for mine b/c its in the first person and hazy.

One night when I was an inpatient at the hospital I had a very vivid dream whereby I was in my chair and someone had welded the locks/brakes so I couldn't move and no matter what I did I couldn't get them off and everyone in my dream was oblivious to my protests and cries!

I have of course had normal everyday dreams where I am talking or doing stuff and most of the time I am using a chair, sometimes its hard to tell and occasionally I am running and my legs turn to lead and then I am stuck!...but I had that dream ( the lead legs one) pre wheelchair..so not sure it means anything..

K

[WilliamCraig]

I walk in my dreams too.

[Texaswheelz]

Yep lots of dreams where i have a chair, but never where i am in a chair.

[Ches]

Im glad Im not the only one having the strange dreams.

I had a dream, just last night, I knew I was paralyzed and I was sitting on the edge of my bed and I was like "Ok Im gonna do it. I might fall, But Im gonna try" then I slowly got my left leg going and before too long I was walking through my room.. it was supposed to be that moment I walk again. I guess.

I have dreams that Im out with others, and Im trying to walk.. completely aware that Im paralyzed but I seem to have this compromise.. where I can walk for half the dream and be paralyzed the other half. I tell everyone around me that "Im paralyzed but only sometimes. It comes and goes"

Wouldnt that be nice..

There is always a wheelchair in my dreams..

Kinda changing the subject here, but I have dreams that I can pee all the time too. Its like my big thing. Once I can walk I usually try to go use a restroom in my dreams.. and I always pee. Im just waiting for the day when I wake up in a big puddle following one of those dreams!

[KarenFerguson]

I've been disabled all my life, so in my dreams I'm usually neither walking or in my chair. Most of the time I'm just kind of "floating" around and getting place to place with out actually remembering how I got there. Kind of freaky. Occasionally, I will have a dream that I'm in my wheelchair - usually those dreams are kind of boring - if dreams can be boring.

[Texaswheelz]

Ches, on Nov 25 2007, 10:01 PM, said:

Kinda changing the subject here, but I have dreams that I can pee all the time too. Its like my big thing. Once I can walk I usually try to go use a restroom in my dreams.. and I always pee. Im just waiting for the day when I wake up in a big puddle following one of those dreams!

Yea i also get those quite a bit, then i'll be peeing in my dream and feeling that great relief from empting the bladder and then i'll remember i'm dreaming and hope to gold that i'm not really peeing and then i wake up, every single time i pee in a dream i wake up.

[ryan08/06/88]

I'm nearly always walking...

And mid dream I tend to remember I can't walk and I develop a limp or my legs hurt or I walk pushing my chair infront of me.

One time I was walkign aroudn then I got to soem stairs and was liek oh...must be a sloped bit somewhere...then for the rest of the dream i was sort of in a chair.

Oh and I dreamed I was playing football for my old team the other night...(soccer to you americans ) but my claf muscles were in agoyn the whole time which was kinda mad...

Oh and I too have ahd some great sex in my dreams...mostly with girls I havent seen since well before my accident!

[zeta]

I keep having the same dream over and over. I'm at a baseball game (I hate baseball) in the middle of the row and in the middle of the stands. I'm in my chair and I ask my husband how did I get here. He is just as confused as me and doesnt know. when the game ends everyone starts filing out I ask my husband how am I going to get out of here. He says just stand up so I do and I pick up my chair and when I get to the parking lot I put it down and push myself to our car. The whole time I'm walking I notice that there is no feeling in my legs and stumble alot. Man I really don't like that dream.

[LilCube]

I just had a dream the other day where I mentioned this elsewhere...

Speaking of dreams, is it odd that in 14years post accident I’ve never had a dream where I was wheelchair bound? I walk in every dream that I’m in. Sometimes I have a limp, or need a cane, but never a wheelchair. Just thought that was odd.

[rkzenrage]

Sometimes I walk, sometimes I cannot, every one is different.
Sometimes I start out walking then stop being able to.

[Imight]

yes.

and sometimes I dream that I've recovered, stumble a few steps, then jump with joy that I can walk. I start calling everyone up in excitement...... seems so real......

then I wake up, and slip into brief depression.

[paradude23]

I've been disabled for 2 years due to a car accident. I have walking dreams all the time strange ones too. Like running in a plowed field barefooted.Don't ask why I have these dreams but I do enjoy them. They remind me of better times

[gustifer]

I have had dreams from one extent to another. The first few years I would dream sometimes walking, and others in my chair, but that's not the weird part. I remember 4 distinct dreams in particular. I had one where I was walking fine and was in conflict with another guy who had a gun. First one I remember running away then feeling one shot in the back then two more, one in each leg that spun me around, then another in my chest. I felt the pain and burn from each one in my body. Then he walked up and pointed right at my face and shot. Next thing I knew I was floated over my body thinking "This is it?!?"

The next one I was in my wheelchair on the roof of some building. Somehow I got to close to the edge and fell over. I grabbed the edge with my one good arm, let my chair fall below, and held on as long as I could. Finally lost grip and man, that feeling of falling backwards knowing what was to come just gave me a shock in my chest. Next, there I was floating up again looking down on myself. (I can vividly remember seeing my body all mangled up).

Then there was one where I was cruising along a river bank with my dad that had about a 10 foot drop at it's edge. I wanted to smoke a cig so I let him take control of my joystick so we could keep going. Ended up getting to close to the edge and next thing I knew I was head first in about 4 feet of water with my wheelchair on top of me holding me down. I can remember feeling that burn when I sucked water into my lungs after I couldn't hold my breath any longer. There again I was floating up looking down watching my dad trying to pull my chair over.

The last one I was in my chair again, but this time I could use my body. It would be a struggle to get up out of my chair and walking was awkward cause my legs would always feel numb beneath me but I was at least able. Then I remember seeing this huge tornado coming and I just rolled outside to see it (I still don't know why). I struggled out of my chair and worked my way to this big tree and grabbed on for dear life. Next thing I knew I was sucked up into the air and things started battering my body everywhere. Finally something big hit me and then next thing I was above the clouds looking down through the eye of the twister.

Weird schizzit, huh? I used to wake up in the dark and not know where I was or if I was even alive. Lately, I can remember a lot of just boring dreams and most of the time in my chair but still able to move. It's always that same struggle to get up and walk with numb legs though. My right arm never seems to work right in any of my dreams. Boy, I must of really messed that one up. Sometimes I even wake up yelling at stuff and wake up the rest of the house.

I know I'm going on n on but I get a lot of weird dreams. I dream that I can float, or fly, IN my wheelchair even (sometimes not) but it's always hard to control fine movements in the air and dodging telephone poles, lol. Really, I'd get just high enough that I'd have to dodge wires n poles.

Ok, I'm done. I just have a lot of weird, vivid, color dreams that I often wonder about. They say you dream in black and white, but that's bull. I see color, A lot.

Next....

[carole338]

I have been paralized since Feb. 07, so I am pretty new to it. All my dreams I am usually running. I am never in my chair. The environment changes but my legs are always in motion. When I wake up my legs are actually tired.

[buffie]

I also never have dreams involving my chair. I may have a limp or be struggling to walk, but always walking. It is depressing sometimes when you wake up and reality kicks in.

[Ches]

Gus, you got some weird things going on there, you hyperactive ass!
You should look into the meaning to some of those more significant dreams. You might find it pretty interesting. Dream Dictionarys are pretty fun to look up random items in, but getting down to the deep and personal symbolic meanings for those crazy dreams can bring you lots of awareness to whats really going on. You'd be surprised.

If you believe in those kinda things...

I'm sure someone here is ready to tell me dreams have no meaning.. go ahead.

[ryan08/06/88]

OF course they do

Some of mine are pretty random haha. I think the smae dream to 2 people may not mean the same thing necessarily though.

According to freud dreams are a way of dealing with things we repress inot our subconscious mind as we don't want to deal with them in the conscious mind!

It's all quite fascinating!

[nomis]

A little game I like to play when I have a vivid dream is to do a role play with each of the features in the dream.
I don't actually act it out but run a conversation in my head.

If I dream of entering a room and sit in a armchair when I notice a head pass by the window: I'll ask questions of the room about who/what it is etc and then I'll be the room talking back the answers. The same with the chair. Then a conversation of the passing head which was only a fleeting glimpse. Who are you? What do you want. I switch to pretending I'm the head and give answers.

Sometimes it gives me insight. Other times I get nothing. Just a fun game that sometimes gives the dream more meaning.

[gustifer]

Ches, on Nov 29 2007, 03:37 PM, said:

Gus, you got some weird things going on there, you hyperactive ass!
You should look into the meaning to some of those more significant dreams. You might find it pretty interesting. Dream Dictionarys are pretty fun to look up random items in, but getting down to the deep and personal symbolic meanings for those crazy dreams can bring you lots of awareness to whats really going on. You'd be surprised.

If you believe in those kinda things...

I'm sure someone here is ready to tell me dreams have no meaning.. go ahead.

oh, i've had many vivid dreams since childhood and often wondered of their meaning, if any at all. i kind of grew up the scientific/skeptical type. i even had a dream of me being in a chair when i was like 13. it felt so real that it always stuck in my head. then 1 day about 2 years after my accident, total dejavu when i was suddenly in the exact place with the exact people that were in the dream. i was in total since and have looked into dreams and their meanings lots since. my step dad does Reiki healing which at 1st was pretty unsure of but went ahead with it as open as i could. the mind is a strange place. as skeptical as i may be, some pretty strange and wondrous things have happened to me since exploring it. i dont know. i could go on but thats sure to turn into a whole new discussion with, im sure, many rebuttals. i would like to know what you know and think about all that and anyone else who explores the mind and their dreams. anyways....
Gus

[hockeydahc]

Last night I replayed the movie Die Hard as my dream, and I was in the Bruce Willis role. Only it wasn't at an office building it was all throughout my late Grandfather's house. All the same, bullets were flying, I was running and jumping and diving out of the way. I was kicking butt. at one point it went off topic and I was in the driveway with a water pistol filled with acid. I squirted an innocent hostage toddler as well as a crazy psycho woman in the face with it. don't worry. teh baby was uneffected and the psycho woman melted like teh wicked witch. she still came after me...head (now with vampire teeth) and a bunch of gooey slop, so I found a board with a nail in it. splat! I win, and immedietly wake up. Why I was aroused, I'm not so sure.
Explain that one Doctor Phil!!

[Somebody]

6 months after sci I was still dreaming I was ab'd
Then at 6 mos I dreamed I was in my wheelchair.
I realized I'd accepted my diisability.

Now I never dream. Nada
Why is that? I'd like to dream something.
It's been years.

[Eric]

1 and a half years post injury and I have yet to have a dream with my chair. But I struggle in the beginning of most dreams to move my hands and every other part that is paralyzed, then my rather entertaining dreams run wild! I used to wake up from my very realistic dreams and get depressed that I was still paralyzed. Now, since I've been able to control most of my dreams beginning in my early 20's, I wake up feeling like I just watched a really good movie or actually had the experience in real life. I always look foreward to sleep!!

[Abdifatah28]

I'm always walking in my dreams.I go to night clubs I dance have sex and fun.I love my dreams!!!

[nomis]

Reading these posts I'm getting jealous that lots of people are getting far more dream sex than me. The best sex I ever had, pre or post SCI, was in a dream. It was so real it took me some time after I awoke to realise it was a dream. I still felt utterly satisfied.

Now if I can conjure those feelings up in a dream why not....

[Cheshire]

I'm weird. I don't dream, except for maybe a handful of times a year.