Diving in dreams

[land shark]

When I was a teenager and swam everyday I used to have repeating falling dreams. Just before I would hit it would turn into a diving dream. This continued for several years. I was starting to become worried. Then one nite I was dreaming of falling And in my dream I thought to myself " its ok just before I hit it will become another dive". Instead of slowing down I began to fall even faster! O nooooo I woke to find myself about 3 inches off the floor. Yep I rolled right outta bed. then I laid there in a cold sweat for what seemed like an hour, panting like a dog heheh. I never had the dream again.

 

[naiad]

I used to dream about flying a lot, but not any more. Diving seems to have taken over.

In my dream about a max dry static attempt, I did my usual breath-up. I don't think I've ever packed in my sleep. Maybe soon...

 

[Morg]

I just had a diving dream... it went like this:

I was swimming with another person and they had lost there watch. So I took a good deep breath and went down, I seen it and grabed it only to notice another watch. Well when I came up I had 3 rofl. After that I went down again and look at all this neat stuff and I then thought 'hey I am %100 comfortable right here at the bottom'.

Oh and also, a few nights ago I woke up and for some strange reason I had instantly thought of sleep apnea and holding my breath. Kinda strange because I am not sure I woke up holding my breath but that was the first thing that came to my mind.

 

[naiad]

Also on the topic of sleeping and diving, has anyone fallen asleep during static training? Or dynamic?

Surprisingly I have never done this during dry static. Once I was doing static in the pool and I did at least 3:45, and didn't remember any of it except the first and last few seconds. I gave signals and came up ok.

I also once lost concentration during a dynamic and lay on the bottom of the pool. There wasn't any problem, I just forgot what I was doing.

 

[spaghetti]

Not during apnea. But my buddy once fall asleep on the boat as we were heading to our spearfishing spot very early in he morning. Trouble is tha he was driving the boat, and I know exactly what he was dreamin of: me kicking him!

 

[adolphin]

Hi all ..
I don't know how many hours was there between SanderP thread (this one) and lungfish thread about the same subject, anyway since this thread started earlier and got accordingly larger posts then I think we'll go with it .. right lungsifh ? ..
Diving in dreams .. I had alot of that ! .. I don't remember when did it start, but surely I remember the one I was less than 10 years of age (more than 24 years from now !) .. I was on a fast boat with one of my sisters, I noticed how clear the water in the sea was (crystal clear .. amazing) so I told her : do you see this ? .. she replied: yes, go ahead, .. so I stood at the tip of the stern, and flipped into the water, the feelings was so great, after a while underwater I felt I had to breath, I took a deep breath and it felt great.
I had the same dream many times since then .. the same dream .. till I took my first SCUBA course, I thought I understood what the dream was aiming at .. till I started apnea diving, now this was realy how it felt in the dream .. freediving .. completely free ..

 

[adolphin]

Hey guys and gals .. have you noticed a thread posted by Nicky few years back about diving dreams ?! .. scary ones .. that's cooool .. oh no Nicky not the dream .. the subject .. lol ..
oh .. please don't .. :chatup

 

[naiad]

On the countdown I started packing. I soon woke up to loud laughter. My girlfriend had seen me start packing in my sleep and started laughing out loud. She thinks packing looks funny enough as it is, but apparantely unbearably so when done while sleeping

From all the stuff on this thread, some freedivers must put on a real show when they sleep. Holding their breath, gasping, packing, falling out of bed... rofl

 

[sickbugs]

had one last night, was freediving around the cement plant pier, but it was about 100 feet deep, and the vis was about 300 feet.. i was spending what seemed like eternity down at the bottom, no need to breath, swimming around like a fish, i was also able to move at an amazing speed (about 8-10 feet a second) and i had my speargun, but was allways searching for that right fish to shoot, and big mackerel were all around but none was the one i wanted.

 

[yugyug]

And if someone annoys you in your dreams, straife to the right, hit 3 for shotgun and blast em!!

lol - I recently revisited 'quake' so I know exactly what you mean! and doom/quake dreams can be pretty scary.....

back on topic, I sleepwalk/talk a bit, and other than diving/spearfishing dreams, the most common manifestation of my hobby is sitting up in bed and seeing very big fish swimming around my room. I often wake up my girlfriend, shaking her excitedly saying 'oh my god honey look at the massive grouper in our room!" - she always grumbles something like "babeeeee there's no fish your just dreaming....." and I'm like "really?" - then have a think about it for a moment and wake up.

Believe it or not this has happened about 5 or 6 times. yes its freaky.

 

[MBanks]

I usually dream about being underwater, never the technicail or the practising side of diving, or scuba, I just din myself underwaater, either just exploring or the world is all underwater so it's normal.

Breathing underwater is common in my dreams too, and I usually realise by slowly breathing in whilst I am underwater, and the resistance of the water is greater therefore my breathing is slower, so I can't exert much energy it seems, although I am trying to change this as I practise lucid dreaming. Does anyone else practise lucid dreaming?

Flying dreams used to be common too, havivng to concentrate to lift off and float around, and when my concentration lapsed I would start too fall.

I love dreaming, it's great

 

[perow1]

I do not practice lucid dreaming since it seems to be such an effort to learn, but i tend to experience it sometimes. (often when I think of my dreams a lot in normal life). It often happens when i dream something i recognice (as i posted earlier) like flying or breathing under water. It is a VERY intense feeling i must say and I often wake up just from the over stimulation.

 

[yugyug]

I have a number of lucid dreams, though not that many recently. They increase when I keep a dream journal and write down my dreams as soon as I awake. I've read that this occurs because of the strengthening of the relationship between the conscious 'awake' part of your mind and the dreaming 'sleeping' part of you mind. If you write down you dreams then your conscious mind crates pathways to your dreaming mind and this enables your conscious mind to 'present' itself while dreaming, hence lucidity.

There's a book called, I think, simply "Lucid dreams and how to achieve them". The author, a scientist, developed a machine that monitors your brain wave cycles while sleeping - 'alpha', 'delta', 'REM' etc - when you go into REM the machine, via a little attachment to your finger, gives you a little electric shock. This jolt activates your conscious mind and he writes that with practise it triggers lucid dreaming close to %100. But I think you can achieve the same effect with a mental trigger; for me its usually looking at my hands in dream, and then I follow it up with either flying, swimming or spinning around, something physical. How long I remain lucid depends on how long I can maintain mental connnection with my body.

Anyway its been maybe a year or so since my last proper lucid dream so I'm a bit hazy about all of that ^, and also a while since I read that book so sorry if I've stuffed up the terminology but in any case its fun stuff to muck around with + safe and cheap (unlike some other things! )

 

[yugyug]

perow1 you posted while I was writing my post - and I think there's some similarity in our descriptions. You reminded me also about the feeling of waking while lucid; a few times my lucid mind has thought along the lines "wow, this is amazing, l'm aware that I'm dreaming, so therefore I can make myself wake up ~ !!!! ... and holy sh!t I'm awake and it is a VERY powerful experience, because you are totally 'wide awake' in bed, bright eyed with no 'waking up grogginess' and with complete recall of your lucid dream as if you were awake the whole time.

 

[perow1]

I have tried keeping a drem journal, but it is hard work. In the beginning it is hard to recall and put words on what you experience. Desrcibing the dreams makes it easier, but I must say I just cannot be patient with keeping a dream journal, that is really hard work. It should be done directly when you wake up (in best cases) but if i do that I cannot go back to sleep (if i wake up in the middle of the night) Any tips about this?

I have also heard that if you keep trying to sense if you are dreaming and often focus on one detail (like your hands) and try to change something about them with your mind while awake you tend to fall into this pattern while dreaming. When you actually can change something with your mind your concious self gets aware of that your dreaming and you go lucid. I havent focused alot on this, but it resembles my feeling that i go lucid when i recognise something i KNOW is a dream (like breathing under water or flying)

When i hit the lucid state I tend to hear stuff. Often it is a very intense tone that is exactly like a real noise. Colors and pictures get VERY vivid and bright. It is almost more real than being awake. I know this sounds like something mystic and magic, but I am NOT that kind of person. I just think that there is some connection between the concious and sub concious when you go lucid. That is your cortex tries to interpret its own signals and the result gets VERY intese, aalmost like a hallucination. It is a cool feeling anyway.

Apart from flying and performing very well under water I sometimes get other experiences. Just the other night i dreamt about some religious meeting where some preacher said he would get me into contact with god. After that i heard a very loud niose and saw an extremely bright light (and went luvid). I woke up shortly after. Not beeing a religious person it was very scary at first before i recognized what had happened.

I dream a lot and only a small percentage is lucid. Imagine if one could get in control of more dreams...
....than I might be able to do what some off the best freedivers do. :t

 

[yugyug]

interesting...

When i hit the lucid state I tend to hear stuff.

I don't understand all these people that say you can't hear things, or smell or taste things in dreams.

I hear stuff in my dreams, and taste and smell things as well. Obviously if I am not lucid it lacks a bit of bite but its no less real than anything I 'see' in my dreams.

Actually once I was eating sushi in my dreams and the feeling of ikura (salmon eggs) inside my mouth sent me lucid. I like sushi a lot.

 

[perow1]

Smell or taste is something I have never experienced apart from dreaming that I smell or taste. The REAL sensation however have never got to me in a dream. Maybe it is possible. When Lucid it is often the sound that is a part of what wakes me up.

My latest apnea dream:
Saving a big man from a BO when he tried to impress by swimming under water without the proper knowledge.

 

[perow1]

Nice to dream about a taste you really like by the way. Imagine the terror of dreaming about getting something nasty in your mouth.

 

[yugyug]

well I had a nightmare a few months ago where my teeth fell out and there was a kind of syrupy bloody taste in my mouth, like molasses and rust.... that wasn't pleasant.

I posted that dream on another forum, asking what does it mean symbolically etc and all I got was smart alex replies like "It means you need to go to the dentist!" ha.ha. :vangry :head

 

[tylerz]

I taste, smell, visualize in color as well while dreaming.