victorycountry  +  123215 Tue, 02 Aug 05 01:39 AM Hi, 1. I am looking for a word describing a certain dream. In the dream, you feel awake and your eyes are open but you can neither say anything nor move your body.   2. There is one more word I am looking for and it's also related to dreams. You visit a new place but you feel like this isn't the first visit to the place because the place is very familiar. Then you realise you dreamed of the place before.   My friends and I were talking about such dreams but we didn't know terms related to such dreams a few days ago.   Thanks in advance.     victorycountry Joined on Sat, Oct 16 2004 Full Member 313

	julielai  +  123222 Tue, 02 Aug 05 02:12 AM 2. a feeling of deja vu, maybe? julielai Joined on Sun, Oct 24 2004 Senior Member 3,829 Just another blogger (http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/julie-lai)

	Pyewacket  +  123228 Tue, 02 Aug 05 02:43 AM  Victorycountry wrote: 1. I am looking for a word describing a certain dream. In the dream, you feel awake and your eyes are open but you can neither say anything nor move your body. Well, there's something called "Lucid Dreaming." People who lucid dream are called "Oneironauts." A lucid dream is when you recognize that you are in a dream and that you are dreaming. Sometimes the dream is vividly real. Sometimes you can take control over the dream, too. Is this the kind of dream you are talking about? "Sleepwalking," also called somnambulism, is when you act awake (walk, talk, move furniture, etc.), but you are really asleep, but this doesn't sound like what you are descibing though.  Victorycountry wrote: 2. There is one more word I am looking for and it's also related to dreams. You visit a new place but you feel like this isn't the first visit to the place because the place is very familiar. Then you realise you dreamed of the place before. Yes Julielai is right. This kind of experience is called deja vu.   Pyewacket Joined on Wed, Jul 13 2005 Northern California, USA Junior Member 67 "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." -- Henry Miller

	victorycountry  +  123248 Tue, 02 Aug 05 05:47 AM Hi, Julielai and Pyewaket. Thanks for the replies. As for the first one, I am not too sure, but I don't think it's called "Lucid Dreaming" or "Sleepwalking". Because in the dream, you can't really control over the dream. Besides, you usually don't recognise that you are in a dream. In fact, it's rather like you feel you are not in a dream but you can't move your body or speak. You can only open your eyes and sometimes you can't really breathe well.       victorycountry

	Mister Micawber  +  123292 Tue, 02 Aug 05 09:43 AM Sounds like a kind of nightmare to me, VC. Mister Micawber Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004 Yokohama Veteran Member 30,842 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.'