Dreaming While Having A High Fever. Weird!!

[Wyatt Burp]

This is hard to explain but I'll give it a shot. When I was a kid there were times when I was sick had super high fevers. One time they took me to the hospital and put me in a tub of ice. The weird part came when I slept. My dreams in this condition put me on a flat plain. Like near the edge of a giant kitchen table. Around me would be massive objects of various geometric shapes. Height and widith were sort of normal but depth was wrong. Very wrong. I would see a small round object (meaning like a chewing tabacco can in shape but in simple building block form) in the distant on this "plain" and knew it was rolling at me But it got to me way to fast based on the distance and was all of a sudden right next to me and as tall as a three story building. And everything I see seems to be in peripheral vision. These dreams were scary and exiting at the same time as I was very tiny with these giant shapes all around me.
I know this sounds nuts but has anyone had dreams while having a really high fever? So high that it causes delusions even when awake? While awake in this condition and watching TV I'd see aliens in the show I'm watching. Like a boat going down the amazon with a normal crew but one guy was an alien and nobody else on the boat noticed or it was considered normal.
There's something on the Science Channel about the new dimmension or something involving hidden but significant geometric shapes in everything that provoked some new theories about life and physics. That's what brought back these memories. And yes. They really do let me own guns in spite of this.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

You want dreams??? Take Two teaspoons of the codine cough syrup instead of one

 

[Bullseye 2620]

Wyatt,

Actually, Sigmund Freud, who was neurologist before he became a psychoanalyst, had the best explanation, I feel, for these phenomena. The unconscious mind (what a lot of people call the subconscious) is active all the time, but we're not aware of its operation because the ego acts to censor these "weird" thoughts from our awareness.

The "censor" checks out when we sleep, and so, we become aware of our dreams. But, in waking life, other things can disable the censor as well -- such as drugs, or a high fever, or severe emotional stress.

As to the meaning of the content, that is for you to discover. There is no cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all set of rules about what symbols in dreams or waking hallucinations mean. These are probably particular to the individual, although there are recurring themes that people report. However, if I see a snake and you see a snake they may mean different things. It depends on context and the individual.

The two best books on understanding your dreams and similar phenomena are Freud's On Dreams, an abbreviated version of his technical The Interpretation of Dreams, meant for civilians. This book is more than 100 years old and still has a lot to offer. Another really good book is Jerry Taylor's Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill. Both are available in paper on Amazon for cheap.

PM me if you want to discuss.


Bullseye

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Bullseye. My neighbor who I don't along with suffers from paranoid Schiz. and has been forced into mental hospitals a few times. Plus he has three distinct personalities that can change right before your eyes. He spray painted on my house and I decked him but realized I hit the wrong guy. But he's on medication now and is "better". Is his condition a matter of disabled "censors" while awake? Do you think his medication re-installs his censors?

 

[Bullseye 2620]

Well, no, antipsychotic medication reduces the so-called "positive symptoms" of schizophrenia, the hallucinations and delusions. Most are also sedating at least to some extent. We can explain about a third in the variability of the occurrence of schizophrenia due to genetics -- the rest is probably due to family, emotional, and environmental factors.

The problem with medication and schizophrenia is this: this is a terrible disease, and if you or I had it, we'd do anything to be cured. So, the patient takes the meds and the symptoms improve. He starts to feel much less "crazy." But then, he tells himself, "I'm cured. I don't need this medicine any more" (which is a reminder every time he takes it that he really is very ill). And so you get a relapse, followed by another hospitalization, and the cycle often continues. With each cycle the patient deteriorates. Not a good situation. If you notice a deterioration in your neighbor's behavior, I would report it to someone responsible.

To go back to your question, there are different theories of what causes schizophrenia, but as I said, though important, genetic factors only explain about a third of the variation we see in the one percent of the population worldwide that has this disorder. Think of it this way -- some people come into the world at greater risk to develop this problem, but it is only expressed when those vulnerabilities are aggravated by family and other factors. People that have the genetic predisposition but do not develop the full-blown disorder may show some features, but at a sub-clinical (diagnosable) level, e.g., suspiciousness versus full-blown paranoia, relative social isolation, and so forth.


Bullseye

 

[feralmerril]

Almost daily it seems my wife and I can almost read each others mind. It usualy go`s like this: I might be driveing down the road for awhile, neither of us saying a word. I will be thinking of something and start to tell her about it and she says she was thinking about the same thing and was just about to say it! This happens at least two or three times a week!

 

[cp1969]

I've had the really weird dreams when I was running a fever, too. It was a long time ago but I still haven't forgotten them. I also had a "vivid" dream within the last year. It took me back to about age 11 and there were things in it that existed at the time which I haven't thought about since I was 11, such as the placement and condition of an old galvanized stock tank in a field. Also, the parking arrangement of vehicles that my parents had at the time. This dream was as if I'd gone back in time.

Almost daily it seems my wife and I can almost read each others mind. It usualy go`s like this: I might be driveing down the road for awhile, neither of us saying a word. I will be thinking of something and start to tell her about it and she says she was thinking about the same thing and was just about to say it! This happens at least two or three times a week!

I've had this happen, too, but I always attributed it to the idea that the longer a couple is married, they end up sharing one brain instead of having one of their own.

 

[feralmerril]

When I was a small boy I fell out of the haymow in a large barn, probley 12 feet on my head. It crushed my skull. I still remember a out of body experiance. I vividly still remember watching people lifting me up and hollering and putting me in the back of a car and takeing me to the hospital! All like I was watching from about 8 feet off and up!

 

[G.T. Smith]

A few times when I was a kid, and had a fever, I would dream about big round discs that were not staying round, but rolled around and elongating. Sometimes they were flat on the bottom and thin at the top.
<y wife of 32 years and I do the same thing that feralmerril spoke of all the time. Plus, sometimes while taking a road trip, we may drive for a hundred miles not saying a thing, then both start talking at the same time. We always laugh at that.
Merry Christmas younzes',
gordon

 

[ColdBlueSteel]

I was allowed this unique experience a few times when I was young. First I used to get severe inner ear infections, and those resulted in a few 104+ temp fevers. Then I had scarlet? fever around 12 or 13 yrs old, and saw all kinds of strangeness. Audio was bizarre as well, like bubbling. Then a deep sleep comes, I think because they system is so taxed and bam crazy dreams.

I was pretty freaked out early but after a couple I kinda learned to "go with the flow". The ice baths were no fun.

The lyrics of PF's comfortably numb remind me of this. "when I was a child, I had a fever" "my hands felt just like two baloons"

 

[Frank237]

Forget the name of the anti malaria drug I took years back...Loraquim? Loraquil?

Anyway...talk about WEIRD dreams!! Theres a few the visions of which have stuck with me to this day they were THAT strange. The deep subconcious is a very strange place.

FN in MT

 

[dmar]

Any chance your parents put some LSD in your Corn Flakes...? But seriously, I can relate, as I had a couple of similar fever-induced occurrences when I was a child.

One is still pretty vivid in my mind; I was being chased by a gigantic (I mean, real, real big) red Big Bird (yes, from Sesame Street fame...), and I escaped him by jumping off a dock, next to Old Ironsides, into Boston harbor. Very freaky. Another time during a fit of fever, I remember rubbing my thumb and index finger together, and it was like there was a huge rubber ball between them. Hard to explain, but it still makes me a little queasy when I think about it...

 

[Rule 303]

Wyatt,
when I was a kid and was sick and had a high fever
I had some really exciting dreams. Usually had to do
with being in the military in some foriegn, exotic land.

I now sucribe to the "A drink a day keeps the shrink away" Society.

Rule 303

 

[TACC1]

For weird stuff, try sleep deprivation and over-the-road driving.
I think it's the sub-conscious trying to make sense out of various
stimuli. Kind of cool/scary while it's happening. Not advised for
continuous usage, as it might be detrimental to your health.
TACC1

 

[DeadAye]

I've had this happen, too, but I always attributed it to the idea that the longer a couple is married, they end up sharing one brain instead of having one of their own.

My wife and I too --- We refer to it as Brains of a feather flock together

I used Chantix for a few weeks to stop smoking a year and a half ago. It worked - But, as warned on the MSDS, it created weird very vivid dreams. Still having the weird very vivid dreams almost every night. I hope they don't go away.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

dmar. I ate Lucky Charms.
Cold Blue Steel, I went with the flow, too. The dreams mentioned, where I was like in a Salvador Dali painting with those shapes was scary like I said but I didn't feel in real danger.
G.T. Smith. You have to elaborate the thing about shapes. The fact that someone here mentions shapes, too is pretty interesting. And to see this stuff in the dream it's best to look away a little and use peripheral vision to see it.
Also. Once during this fever thing I was sleeping in a top bunk, my brother in the lower. But the kind where the bottom bunk slid out and the top one was just a little higher than a standard bed. i woke up with a fever and saw a 4 ft. tall grey "martian", that's what I called them back then, standing against the wall to my left by the window. another was by the bedroom door. They were grey with features I couldn't make out. I sensed they wanted to intimidate me but didn't look at me. Then they both started sliding slowly up the walls in unison. I freaked and fell on my brother who got all mad, then they were gone. They had small pointed ears unlike the abduction folks discription of aliens. There wasn't any fun about that one.

 

[Onomea]

Wyatt, one time I was on the S&W forum and lookin' at some nice gun pictuires when suddenly I saw a dinosaur with the top half of a woman growing out of its snout! Talk about freaky!

Be careful out there!

 

[ladder13]

Psychiatrists are about as nutty as they come.

The 2 I know.

 

[jkc]

lesiergic acid diethylamide?