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Most Common Dreams by Country
« on: November 11, 2023, 08:28:08 AM »
They supposedly got this via Google search statistics, but it sure seems weird to me with all the "teeth falling out" dreams. I notice this was done in the UK, and everybody makes fun of British teeth, and all the "teeth falling out" countries seem to have a historical connection to Britain.  :laugh:

Anyways, I don't believe I've ever had a "teeth falling out" dream. If I were to psychoanalyze myself, and I don't know if this might be common with gunowners, but I think my most frequent (I'm assuming from the graphic that they're looking at unpleasant dreams vs pleasant or neutral) dreams involve me needing to use a gun, but I can't. Usually either no matter how hard I press, I can't pull the trigger all the way back, or the gun just doesn't work. Probably my second most frequent is something bad happening to me in the water - either sucked underwater, or some ginormous wave engulfs me (and then I wake up). I'm assuming that whatever they mean, the scenario is connected to all the time I have spent on and under the water in my life.

Sorry the image is so ginormous - anything smaller is too hard to see.

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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2023, 09:56:44 AM »
Last night I had a dream about red dump trucks.
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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2023, 10:03:20 AM »
Teeth falling out........right  ;/
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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2023, 10:19:01 AM »
All of America del Sud.
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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2023, 10:31:19 AM »
Never dreamt about teeth falling out.

Permission to laugh at the following is granted in advance:

I've noticed and experimentally documented that something in my favorite (Hormel) pepperoni slices makes me dream --or maybe just makes me remember them if I wolf down five or six slices before bedtime.  (I rarely dream in the first place --or maybe I just forget them, without the pepperoni)

All quite pleasant except for one dreaming about getting lost in a big city and one where I could not find a bathroom.  (Woke up from those two, no problem.)

A couple of years ago I mentioned that eating carrots gave me the hiccups and it turned out that someone's wife also had that problem.  So it wasn't unique at all.

So.  Hormel pepperoni eaters?

   

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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2023, 11:10:10 AM »


All quite pleasant except for one dreaming about getting lost in a big city

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Getting lost is by far my most common dream
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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2023, 12:08:11 PM »
So Ghana and Nigeria are only 2 with sex dreams?  That seems implausible.

Stairs?  Peacocks?  This can't be serious.
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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2023, 12:11:15 PM »
So Ghana and Nigeria are only 2 with sex dreams?  That seems implausible.

Stairs?  Peacocks?  This can't be serious.

Their teeth already fell out so....
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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2023, 12:24:32 PM »
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2023, 01:15:38 PM »
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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2023, 10:58:57 PM »
Maybe that U.S. dream is because people are finally realizing that "American Power" has become a toothless old man.
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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2023, 12:24:56 AM »
It's not toothless. It's brainless.

It's like a dog being trained on treats.  Doesn't need to think.

Feel free to play with that analogy.

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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2023, 02:17:38 AM »
I very seldom remember my dreams. If I do remember them they fade quickly. When I was taking a statin (rosuvastatin) I was having very vivid dreams and then the only ones I remembered for any length of time was where I was stabbed, shot, parachute didn't open, you know, the ones where I died. I only took that stuff for a couple of weeks, I was dreaming vividly and waking up every night.

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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2023, 09:36:29 AM »
For me, the worst dream is always that I’m on an escalator in subway and I can’t stay on it - I’m gradually sliding down...

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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2023, 11:36:34 AM »
Weird one last night. 
I'm riding in the back seat, Daughter#1 driving, wife shotgun. We're riding along some vaguely familiar lakeside road.
She takes a curve too fast, against my protestations, and puts the car into the bay.
"Roll down the windows before we sink" says I.
Kid instead hits the throttle and keeps the car on a plane. She cruises across the bay, up onto someone's lawn or boat ramp or driveaway.
"Drag the brakes, they're probably wet" says I
Kid instead hits the throttle and down the road we go.
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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2023, 11:39:39 AM »
Weird one last night. 
I'm riding in the back seat, Daughter#1 driving, wife shotgun. We're riding along some vaguely familiar lakeside road.
She takes a curve too fast, against my protestations, and puts the car into the bay.
"Roll down the windows before we sink" says I.
Kid instead hits the throttle and keeps the car on a plane. She cruises across the bay, up onto someone's lawn or boat ramp or driveaway.
"Drag the brakes, they're probably wet" says I
Kid instead hits the throttle and down the road we go.

But did anyone's teeth fall out?
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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2023, 11:46:23 AM »
My dreams are like lost episodes of my favorite TeeVee shows.
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Re: Most Common Dreams by Country
« Reply #17 on: November 19, 2023, 07:40:36 AM »
A lot of my dreams are automotive - driving somewhere on a road with no speed limit, going somewhere and the road is closed, there's a BIG pothole to get around, I somehow drove into a bad - really bad - neighborhood, etc.

Teeth falling out? Nope.
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