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Q: Are Your Dreams at Night Set in China?
This just struck me today, that I don't recall ever having a dream at night where I was in China. After nearly nine years of living here full-time i'd have thought I would but nope, last night I was back in London and.......somewhere in Cornwall I think, getting into trouble with my brother, and for some reason Nicholas Cage was there and he was a crackhead. But they're always set back west.
What about you? You ever dream you're in China?
i too have the nicholas cage smoking crack dreams. but, a majority of my dreams are set in classrooms here in china. i rarely dream about america. when i do dream about home, it has a chinese twist to it... and i wake up sweating and crying...
Paulberger:
Yea.... My dreams.... That's when I smoke the crack in class... It would be crazy to do it for real...
I dont dream . Period. Its the strangest thing. It feels like i sleep for 5 minutes. Go to sleep, then blackness, then instantly wake up feeling good to go. Its been that way since I was a kid.
And yes, know it alls, i know everyone dreams and i just dont remember, you dont need to look wise, everyone has heard that a million times.
icnif77:
Everybody dreams! Some just don't remember it.
I read about an experiment with mice. As soon as mice would fall asleep, they woke it up, and again... I can't remember how long it was the experiment, but mice eventually died. With food and water in excess.
mike695ca:
what the hell does that even mean? did he die from lack of sleep? or did he die from food and water in excess?
skunkman:
Dude, you can't remember? There must be a lot of things you are trying to suppress...let's talk about your childhood, shall we? hahaha...
It happens sometimes...no matter how I try to remember what I dreamt about, it just doesn't come...I know I dreamt something, but it seems it wants to stay somewhere in the twilight zone...perhaps to haunt me in the future...
icnif77:
@mike: 'Mice could sleep only on the top of the slide. When its muscles would relax (in sound sleep, before the 'dream's beginning'), mice would slide toward the water. When in water, mice would run back to the top of the slide, and fall asleep again...and again....Conclusion was, mice died because of the lack of dreams. It could sleep, eat and drink as much as it was necessary for survival, but it wasn't able to dream. I can't find web link on that study anymore. Some '15Y ago' thingy.
Study concluded, that everybody dreams, some remember, some don't. On the misspelling matter: 'eChina has automatic (not very good!) 'spell checker/IP tracer'. Machine (Safari) will change text to the closest word, before you finish typing. Look at the screen, while you're typing, you'll see it. Proof read your text, before 'enter'.
mike695ca:
ahhh i see, i got your meaning now. still, the study doesnt make sense, if he fell into the water everytime he fell asleep, then how do we now it wasnt the lack of sleep that killed it and not the lack of dreams?
icnif77:
Mouse had enough of sleep! Dreams occur close to the end of the sound sleep, so when mice was in that state, it would slide to the water, and woke up. No dreams! Then, it would get back to dry top, and fall asleep again. Repeat!
mike695ca:
ehhhhh i dont know. how can they rig it to fall into the water when in sound sleep, but not when regular sleep? and 15 years ago no less. ill google it
icnif77:
edit>Mouse must 'hold' its position on the dry part of the slide. In sound sleep, muscles are completely relaxed, so 'mouse slides'! It's all 'pre rigged'!
Think about the 'human on the slide', instead of mice.
icnif77:
I was reading tread from the bottom up again. You want to say 'drop it'?
How's my 'Oz twang'?
tsonj:
Did they die because of lack of REM sleep or from the shock of falling into the water every time they fell asleep? Sounds like this experiment needs a do over 
.
icnif77:
@tson: 'Dicky' has fresh findings on 'dream depravation' and 'water dipping' from the famous 'Guantanamo Research Institute'. However, 'study' will probably remain out of the public eye for another 10Y (if ever?). Maybe Snowden has it…Let me ask him about….lol
10 years 15 weeks ago
Actually last night I dreamt I was in Decathalon (A sports store) buying stuff, this was followed by a meeting in the car park with Xi Jinping, I have no idea why he as in Dongguan.
mike695ca:
dude.. why does anyone go to Dongguan??? for hookers! and you met him in a car........ YOU HAD A DREAM WHERE YOU BLEW THE PRESIDENT IN A CAR!!!!! how much did you get??
hiddenjelly:
Firstly, I live in Dongguan and the hookers are far and few between these days, secondly if you read my comment I never said in a car, just in the car park (perhaps your American so you do not understand the concept car park, it means "parking lot").
Dumbass!
mike695ca:
dude i was giving you credit, i thought you would at least use the cover of a car before blowing our dear leader, but if you wanna do it right out in the open, all the power to ya!
mArtiAn:
Don't take any notice Mr Jelly, this guy mike seems to be fond of insulting people. Probably doesn't even realize he's doing it.
mike695ca:
oh come on marty, thats not an insult! just an observation, some people arent so good at a little light hearted ribbing, socially akward i guess, look up, it was just insinuated that i was diddled as a child, i didnt get mad. i just failed at a witty comeback then ignored it.
icnif77:
I am not reading any comment here as an 'attack'. I'm having a laugh.
Furthermore, I want to add:
'Mr. Jelly, show us your jacket, please! Any visible stains? If 'yes', you might help us impeach the president.
icnif77:
Associated Press: 'Where's Mr. Jelly?'
''eChina'/GOP Dream(s) Team": 'Mr. Jelly will remain in seclusion (meiyou 'conclusion'..LOL), till 'preserving of the evidence' isn't complete! Lab on 'red alert!'?
Nope. I rarely see palm trees and hear honking in my dreams. Not really sure what the h... is going on in my dreams. There is a lot of sax and violins though.
Sometimes I dream I'm a Kung Fu guy falling from the sky...or I'm flying over hills, valleys, and mountains...
Speaking of dreams, are yours coloured or in black and white?
Paulberger:
my dreams are in color... i read somewhere once that if you dream in black and white its because something in your brain is linking up correctly when you sleep. im no scientist and those weren't the exact words obviously, but thats about all i can remember. google it.
Nessquick:
no bro, I had many flying dreams. nice flight, view and all, than than, falling. before " hard landing" i always woke up
Dreams are important links to our subconscious. If you can interpret them correctly, you have valuable signposts to follow for life direction / happiness.
It's my New Year's Resolution actually. Pay attention and strive to remember my nightly dreams.
mArtiAn:
So what am I supposed to make of dreaming that Nicholas Cage was a crackhead?
mike695ca:
thats simple, it means your gay, or have a mommy complex. The sucking if the crack pipe signifies your urge to put penis or moms tit in your mouth. Thanks freud! Im notna professional, it just seems every dream means gay or mom.
mike695ca:
To that i surely cant deny my man, but you gotta admit, if you talk about a dream, yhose two topics are gonna come up haha
mArtiAn:
Well if you're going to make unwarranted accusations to not one but two men (old Mr Jelly being number two) of having wishes to perform oral sex on men, you've gotta expect 1. to piss them off a bit, seeing as it is that you're a stranger to this site, and 2. that one of them; me, is going to point out that if practising armchair psychology is your thing, you really have to admit that your obsession with gobbling gents is actually far more suggestive of latent homosexuality on your own part.
Having said that though you do in fact seem to be alright, and not just some f***ing troll, so, yeh, go blow yourself and cheerio for now.
mike695ca:
haha i thank you for your seal of approval! and good day to you my friend! PS, i have no witty retort to the attack on my sexuality so i choose to ignore it. Back to my closet!
royceH:
Good luck with that, Jan. Sounds as useful as any other NY resolution I've heard of.
Heaven forbid you should dream that all Martians and Guongdongers are sexually repressed reprobates!
Sometimes , a few of them, was in china, sometimes talk in chinese, but mostly not. manytimes I am stuck on airport or in a plane heading out but have some troubles ... this are my dreams here 
Dream per Wiki:
'Scientists believe that all mammals dream, but whether this is true of other animals, such as birds or reptiles, is uncertain.'[2]
ok,,, I'm probably gonna win the 'weird' award, but someone has to...
other night I dreamt that I was stuck in North Korea and was engaged in an escape attempt,,, I was like walking/jumping/flying around/over some sort of wall that defined the border,,, looked something like the old Berlin Wall,,, well, my dream fast-forwarded to where I was in some bunker complex hanging out with Fatty Kim III,,, he kept saying to me that I was his best friend and the only one he could talk to, the only one he could trust... cuz he was a westerner at heart or something was his point and that those around him were different than him... that is they were full Asian and would never accept the little Swiss boy... well,, I thought it was a weird-ass dream anyway...
tsonj:
Did you watch 007 before you went to bed? You know...the one with Halle Berry
!
philbravery:
Nah , i think he was watching a interview with Dennis Rodman
diverdude1:
exactly. I had been following the news story of Rodman's latest trip to DPRK.
skunkman:
...or maybe you "felt" Kim's uncle trying to escape from the starving dogs!
I had a dream that I was in China and Shenzhen bought Hong Kong and I was so happy because no more lining up haha. Now that is a dream.
canuck888:
Are you referring to the huge lines at the Shenzhen/Hong Kong borders?
If you are, then get the eChannel frequent visitors card and you are will avoid the long lines.......I also found that the lines at the Lok Ma Chau border to be much shorter plus it has a much newer border building than at the Louhu border
My dreams are usually positive and include people/things from my past.
I've been in China for almost 4 years and don't recall dreaming about anything here, despite having cut quite a few capers.
I usually have dreams about China when I'm in the U.S., and dreams about murica while in China. Unfortunately for the denizens of my dreamworlds, all dreams usually end with me going on a psychotic killing spree and ending as many guilty lives as possible.
Can't ever recall a China dream while I was in China, though.... that's so weird.
skunkman:
haha...that's what you get when you call yourself the "Hulk."
"Dr. McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
JanShanghai:
Hulk, dreams about killing sprees suggest that you feel a sense of frustration and powerlessness, and these bubble to the surface while visiting your subconscious at night.
You sound like a happy fellow. ? But we all have a dark side...
I don't remember my dreams, but I often wake up and think that I am some place different. Some times I wake up thinking I am in my parents house. I wake up in China thinking I am in my house. When I wake up at home I often wake up thinking that I am in China., I go back to sleep then.
Great question 
I dream mostly of strange rehashed versions of familiar places back in France. The interiors are as "frugal" as they can be here, however. Last time, I was light enough to catch the wind and fly a few meters above a grassfield next to my parents home. There was an old tree from an other place in the field. And some riverbed that would be more at it place in a mountain. It took some balancing to use the wind to move in the direction I wanted, using my whole body as a sail. In the riverbed, the wind was stronger, I could fly faster. It was *GREAT*.
mArtiAn:
Yup, nothing like a flying dream, is there? I don't manage quite as gracefully as you do, I have to jump off a high building and flap my arms.
