Just from another angle, I have never seen my partner walking but I often have dreams where she does.
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Do You Have A Wheelchair When You Dream?
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, Sep 01 2008 12:03 PM
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Posted 16 October 2011 - 04:00 AM
When I dream I think about running or jogging which is funny because I hate them both. I could see if I was dreaming about other sports so it is really strange.
I know I will always have a seat:)
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Posted 29 October 2011 - 03:05 PM
I've been trying to answer the question about why paralyzed people are not being used to map the motor cortex. The usual subject has to learn to move in the mind without moving the body. I begin to suspect that the paralyzed person's motor cortex becomes unreliable. I can't find the research.
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Posted 29 October 2011 - 07:24 PM
This is such a fascinating question. It is one that I have struggled to explain and understand myself for years. I have dreams in which I have no wheelchair, but there is this dark, foreboding, unnamed, un-formed problem that is always just out of my periphery vision; just out of my grasp of understanding.
If you can follow this description (picture it in your head), in my dreams I am always at the front and bottom of the picture in my head. When I move, these movements are always compromised somehow, as if my subconscious is acknowledging my disability on some level, but I don't see or understand the manner in which these movements are compromised (there is never a wheelchair). It's like the issue of my body and it's disability is going on just below the picture (or screen) of my dream.
If you can follow this description (picture it in your head), in my dreams I am always at the front and bottom of the picture in my head. When I move, these movements are always compromised somehow, as if my subconscious is acknowledging my disability on some level, but I don't see or understand the manner in which these movements are compromised (there is never a wheelchair). It's like the issue of my body and it's disability is going on just below the picture (or screen) of my dream.
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Posted 18 November 2011 - 06:42 PM
I'm not in a chair when I dream.
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Posted 30 December 2011 - 09:53 AM
A trophy guy, on 30 December 2011 - 03:12 AM, said:
Has anyone ever answered "yes" to the OP's question? I'm curious but I don't think so.
According to the chart at the top of this thread, 6 of the 141 voters, voted YES.
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Posted 30 December 2011 - 10:24 AM
I once had a dream where I was on the dance floor dancing to "hungry like the wolf" by Duran Duran. Truth is, I hate that band. I don't know why I was dancing to it, but for some reason I seem to enjoy it and was very good at dancing to it. lol
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Posted 30 December 2011 - 05:28 PM
I had my first chair dream the other night, 3.6 years out.
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 08:21 PM
KarenFerguson, on 06 October 2008 - 03:57 AM, said:
It's weird, in my dreams I'm usually just kind of "floating" around. I really just kind of move places and don't quite know how I get from point A to B. And yeah, the chair is rarely there as well.
Same with me.
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 09:12 PM
Guido is often walking in my dreams, but there'll be a moment when I have to explain to someone that he can't do something, or he needs something because he is in a wheelchair really, and then I look at him walking and confuse myself.
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