[INFJ] I find it so interesting that my dreams tend to be very Se based in the sense that I often feel sensations. I've had many dreams involving rollercoasters & I've also experienced nightmares where I try to scream or shout for help but nothing happens. I also feel like I dream about meanings rather than the objects themselves (I often dream of people, but they have the appearance of someone else, but in the dream I know who that person represents).
Emma Lawson Late to the party on this comment - I’m also an INFJ and this is extremely representative of the types of dreams I have too! Just had a dream last week where I felt the physical sensation of being tossed overboard a ship, and I regularly have dreams about trying to shout for help and not being able to.
I, too, am an INFJ and my dreams often have full sensory perception. I can smell and taste things as well as feel pain. Consequently, my dreams are often quite vivid lest I realize it is a dream and wake up... Or lucid dream which can be fun too. As for content, many dreams are adventurous or fun. ...although dying in a dream is not fun.
Ok reading your post and the replies I think I relate to the NJ style more ;) My dreams are extremely vivid and I often wake with physical symptoms. I do often dream of slides - incredibly long, sophisticated ones often going underground etc. I dream most often about escaping while being chased by menacing things (including people), but I have so much lucid control all the time that I can stop time, create or remove walls, place myself somewhere else, revive after being dead etc. I often have apocalyptic dreams ( most often waking after I'm finally caught by a tsunami), sometimes discovering some universal mystery, sometimes written an amazing song - instrumentation and words, having a very prolonged mindblowing romance & sex, and sometimes just enjoying the freedom of flying, sometimes among STUNNING scenery, while trying to wield the power as its always very buggy lol. I know I tend to have very long back and forth dialogues in my dreams. I had dreams that literally came to pass the next day or two! Annoyingly I've been more and more forgetful of the dreams upon waking the older I get. Sometimes I look forward to my sleeping life more than waking O_o.
Once I dreamt about going on a rollercoaster and finding that I wasn't secured with the belts so I was trying to do not die by trying to be attached to the rollercoaster.And I felt physically everything. An other thing I often dream about is running without actually moving an inch,and I find it so annoying.
This was so interesting. I’m an infp and my dreams often follow overarching consistent plot lines. Sometimes it’ll be multiple plot lines tied into one dream. But there often is this underlying te objective in many of them.
[ENFP] Definitely resonated with Calypso's version of surrealism. I can't recall ever dreaming about reality as is. Reality is always distorted in my dreams. For instance, students from one of my older schools were randomly in a newer school I went to, only my school was only partially constructed and was mixed with aspects of my university, but was mostly an entirely different entity of its own. My Si inferior mind is terrible at recalling most of my dreams but one, in particular, was: I was running away from a vampire and was jumping from building to building which looked much like condos (not somewhere I recall from reality). I kept focusing on the vampire's teeth which resembled that of Willy Wonka's (Johnny Depp version). So obviously I kept asking myself "why those teeth" but also curious about the running. I've had dreams where I was running on a disk again and again and somehow I can still associate sounds and a particular type of feeling with that dream. The feeling is generally when trying to cram before an exam, but not being able to regurgitate or get through most of the content. A lot of insecurities are reflected in our dreams. I once dreamt that an MBTI server was ambushed by vegans because this popular controversial activist kept promoting it and function stacks for growth potential. But it backfires because the place was overwhelmed by people with a shallow understanding and I was incredibly frustrated. Or once as a child I dreamt that my brother was a doll (like Barbie) and his head was pulled off. Was horrifying and distressing for me as a kid. I've also had a dream where a eunuch was present but totally forgot the context.
YappingWarrior OMG reality is always distorted in my dreams too! I’m an INFP! I had a dream once when I was younger that is similar to yours where a loved one of mine was killed in a horrific way (idk if this comes from Ne or Si)! In my dream as a kid, my little sister was run over by a huge bus that came out of nowhere right in front of me! She wasn’t even near the street, we were in my house and the bus came through the wall and hit her! That dream was recurring and haunted me as a kid, and sometimes it wasn’t my little sister who was hit by the bus, it was my mom or dad or someone else close to me! Maybe it came from my Fi because I have always had a fear of losing someone I love from a car accident!
I have exactly the same thing, like I will dream of my high school repeatedly, but every time there is a variation in where the classrooms are, or they might be on a higher floor, and then it will melt into my house. Haha. Or it will be the same place but the details are different.
INTJ here; 99% of the time I don't remember my dreams, and I treat dreams the way a computer treats disk defrag; I'm clearing up hard drive space in my brain and my brain is like "do you wish to save this memory?" I do remember nightmares or extremely awesome dreams, but both are rare. I also get this thing called "exploding head syndrome" where I'll have a dream and it can be a totally normal situation, then suddenly there's this earth shattering rumble or boom like louder than an earthquake and a tornado combined, and I'll wake up with a start from it, but realize it was just a dream and go back to bed.
psychocuda my husband is an INTJ and everytime I asked what he dreamed, he would say he doesnt remember! Haha. But yeah there are those rare moments he shared his odd dreams, like u said it doesn't happen a lot.
Omg I definitely relate to Calypso's description of Ne-Si surrealism.There's never a time when my dreams are like reality.The things might be present in reality,but when they are all mixed together,it's weird,it becomes so surreal.I would dream of amusement parks too,but I can't remember clearly.There was an amusement park with a sea in it.And in the sea,there's a real shark and a whale.Another one is a rollercoaster and u take a ride on a real dragon?And there's this dream where there's a pool,and inside the pool are these gymnastic sponges?And there will be this baby toy.U know the round ball shaped toy where there are holes like triangles and ovals for u to fit those shapes into the holes?Then there will be people inside the toy,and u would have to shake them for them to come out and drop into the pool?It was a very weird dream...
[INFJ] My nightmares tend to attack my inferior Se. The feeling of the rollercoaster drop, as Alex explained, the feeling of bugs crawling on your body, your heart pounding against your chest, and the sensation of trying to talk but being completely paralyzed in the dream. In my last nightmare, I discovered that one of my closest friends had been lying to me to conceal his dark secret. My mouth was closed tightly and it was a battle opening it up to express my anger at him. I woke up that morning saying "You filthy--" and I stopped myself before I finished the sentence with "liar!" The meaning behind that dream was that I naturally have difficulty telling others off but it is still by means necessary to make them better people in the long run. Thank you for sharing your dreams, Alex and Calypso! They were very insightful to better understanding the functions. :)
INFJ here, I would agree on the attack of inferior Se you mentioned. Several times I woke up screaming, it happened sometimes when I am really tired I guess. I hate geckos so much and have had nighmares about them crawling inside my blanket that awake me in shock. Your explanation about finding out someone you trust lied and angers you also has happened several times. I think sometimes we manifest our deepest fear in dreams, and somehow we get so involved and want to speak out the truth or something. I have lucid dreams a lot, and there are places in my dreams that I visited repeatedly. Can't remember the details but the feeling is familiar like a de ja vu. Often my lucid dreams is just me waking up to still be in another dream, and wake up again to still be dreaming, and the setting is just in my room. Whenever I have dreams that inflict heavy or complicated emotions, it can ruin my whole day and the feeling would stick with me until I go to bed again.
I'm confused. I get the rare dream where I'd be physically crying in my dream and I'd wake up with tears in real life. Sometimes, if I end up falling, I wake up in shock like I've just landed on my mattress but is that really Se?
It sounds like you might also have sleep paralysis. As our brain "wakes up" while our body is still paralyzed from sleep, it can be particularly terrifying when we don't understand what's happening and it's common to interpret this as a nightmare. The theme of trying to do something but being somehow unable to (like trying to run but not getting anywhere or trying to dial 911 but your fingers don't work), is also a common theme in dreams though. I think it usually reveals our fears of helplessness or futility.
wubaduckie What you described sounds like a "hypnic jerk." Most people experience that. I've also woken up already crying when I was upset in a dream, though not often.
INTJ here, my dreams are usually about urban landscapes. Nothing ever happens, I just walk around and observe places that look like possible distant future versions of actual places in my city. Some places I've been to in multiple dreams, even years apart. 🤔
I loved this whole video!! It was facinating in not only learning about dreams in relation to type, but it helped me understand the experience of how other types think a lot better. I'm an INFJ, and, like an INTJ, my dreams tend to have cohesive plots that make sense. As a Fe/Ti contrast though, I'm not usually driving the plot or completing a task, but reacting to my surroundings, which usually includes people in some way. And (another thing that occurred to me while I was listening) the combination of my Ni & Ti means I tend to spot internal inconsistences and then realized I'm dreaming a lot. When that happens, I can't do whatever I want or wake up or control my surroundings or anything like that, but I can figure out the dream mechanics and try to, like.... stay ahead of it, kind of. Like, I once had a nightmare where I was being chased by a large, scary man through a school, and I kept trying to hide from him, but when I realized it was a dream I realized that the man was a part of my brain and would know everything I knew, so he would always know where I was hiding, or how to get to me, which meant I had to think fast and move faster. In a lot of dreams, I usually am working with or saving other people who are in danger, but they're spread out and I can't protect everyone at once (super Fe oriented). I'm also very actively thinking in my dreams as well, so I agree that's probably an Ni related thing at least.
Your dreams sound a lot like mine. I'm either NiFe or FeNi (about 50% split). I can sometimes alter things in my dreams, but the Ni "Matrix" is quick to remind me whenever I go too far. It will loop back and restart part of the dream to before I made my choice. If I try to change it too much, the Ni dream voice will argue with me and put me back in my place. I tried reading up tricks to tell if I am dreaming. They don't work. My dreams really don't want me controlling them, so they will do what they can to simulate reality. This includes functional light switches and readable text. Chase dreams: Always running from someone/ some demon and it always knows where I am regardless of where I am or how far I've gotten from it. One time I decided not to run from the demon with glowing eyes and it came out into the light and transformed into a normal looking guy. He got teary, hugged and thanked me for not running away from him that time. He then showed me a picture and asked for me to help him find his friends. I think the demon in that dream symbolizes anger towards being bullied at my high rise. Before that dream I stood up to them and flat out told them how unacceptable and socially inappropriate their behavior was. I guess the Ni was telling me it was thankful I stood up for myself rather than shrinking away and retreating, like I tend to do to avoid conflict. If you can, try thinking about facing whatever it is you're running from. Maybe your dream won't allow it right away, but eventually, hopefully it will give you the chance.
@@bugfolk6323 Seems, like you are fighting Te. Just like me, INTJ, in my dreams I was fighting Fe - people trying to control my behaviour. You are fighting people, who know, what you think (Te). Your dreams are trying to resolve your heroes journey. To win, you have to stop hiding, of fighting, but instead you have to accept Te demon in your life, and help him. TV series Legion follows INFJs heroes journey, with INTJ as villain (from INFJ point of view).
I’m the same as Calypso. A bunch of random items that somehow fit together into a dream that I never even question. Green supposedly often represents Sensing. I wonder if Si is being used to protect her from outside threats/chaos. An oven mitt also seems kind of Si anyway :P (Edit) That and I often fight time management. I’m often behind in doing something. Or things are chaotic and I’m trying to bring order to them.
@@CasualCognition my INTJ mother and me, ENTP, have that kind of dream, so I think that the fear of being late is not related to the functions, or maybe is related to high intuitives (dom or aux) in general
As an INTJ, I agree that my dreams are either realistic or very surreal. In my realistic ones, I'm just at school doing school things, but a surreal one I had involved me not being able to escape park and having to fight off a demon while colors either stopped existing, becoming monochrome in one minute and very colorful in another.
I am an ENFJ and I really fear conflict and try to avoid it. In my nightmares I dream that I argue with someone and wr disagree and yell at each other. I wake up feeling anxious and alarmed.
Also, as an ENFJ most of my dreams are about social situations. It’s mostly me actively talking and engaging with people, or listening to them talk and trying to confort or encourage them. I often dream about groups. Me and a group of friends going in an adventure or me and my high school classmates. The best dream is when I receive appreciation from people. Despite I consider I have big imagination, I very rarely, almost never dream of surreal things. I also dream a lot about things I want to happen in my life - Ni, which is pleasing :)
(INFP) I've felt physical sensations in dreams (few and far between), but they are always tied to strong emotions, and if I have a physical sensation in a dream I wake up, and then feel the physical sensation in real life. But they are always tied to very, very strong emotions. Like once, I had this dream where this guy was being a real jerk and I got upset to the point where I felt I needed to punch him in the face. I was so infuriated, and when I punched him I felt it in the dream and woke up, but it had turned out I sat up in bed and punched the water glass on a table next to my bed. And although that was physical in real life, I've had a few other dreams where I've been overcome with emotions in my dreams and felt a physical sensation that was crucial to the dream in some abstract way, and I've woken up and I'll feel the physical sensation still even if nothing out of the ordinary happened to me in real life. The dreams I do remember well I usually have feelings attached to them, and remember those feelings sort of like watching a scene of a movie that's supposed to be moving. However, I usually experience this weird feeling in my dreams where it's as if my emotions are underwater - I feel them, but they're usually lighter than in reality. I wonder if because Fi is my primary function, if it also grounds me to reality in dreams and might be a cause of why I remember the dreams that I do. And, if it is used to much in a dream, I come back to reality and wake up. Just a few thoughts. I realize this video was posted months ago, but I found it too interesting not to comment now. :)
I don't know if this is an inferior Se thing, but in my dreams the physical environment is never to be trusted: sometimes I can't open doors or windows, or correctly drive a car, or I accidentally break things, other times I have a false perception of the environment (disappearing objects, shapeshifting objects, or even objects that I see differently from other people). I also have somewhat architectural dreams, in which I move inside an environment that I created in my subconscious from scratch, not really existing slightly modified places, literally invented. Also, I have this recurring theme of running away from something. In general, the plot makes a lot more sense than the physical, unreliable environment.
Seem like problems with Se blindspot. Probably INTP, because you mentioned environment, that you created (Ti). You are probably running away from Fe - expectations.
ENTP (99% sure) - This was really interesting. My dreams are like Calypso's, made up of real objects, but in no way a realistic scenario(I just know what's going on in the dream, nothing ever seems out of place); however, the self/character/whatever part of the dream is not functioning on emotion. There is an internal dialogue of thought like what Alex has (It's like normal thought) . That doesn't mean I can't have emotions in the dreams, but they're generally not as present. Like I'll feel them in a very detached way (as though I know it's a dream) and never react based on them. I always act based on thought.
I'm ENTP and I dream also like Calypso and my decision making process is like in real life 🤣 so I'm ENTP in the dream too. I don't pay attention to emotions in general and I decide by logic. But if there are people involved in the dream I talk to them like I would do in real life, with same restrictions sometimes to say things that I know that will make them be too much offended 🤦♀
I'm an INTJ and my dreams are very situational based, usually have an underlying meaning to them that I need to figure out or my emotions are personified and something that I need to overcome. Recently I have had dreams that are in a zombie apocalypse world where I am fighting them off (feelings of lack of control) or I'm the leader of a camp and alone trying to keep the group together to stop anarchy (believing I need to only rely on myself to achieve things) and not allowing others to help me (lack of trust of other people). I think these dreams represent what my real life is like and how I feel on a subconscious level. Other types of dreams I have are where I'm solving puzzles, running away from unseen things, evading objects and closing doors/windows to protect myself from whatever might be out there.
Interesting, I do think MBTI could play in how dreams happen in someone. However, as an ISTP, the way I dream seems nothing like the Ni/Se or Ne/Si dreams and when I do remember my dreams, they are very often concrete and something tangible, not abstract. I actually think Sensors dream in different ways than Intuitives, like an SJ would dream differently from an NP and an SP would dream differently from an NJ.
I'm ENTP I was wondering how sensors dream. Can you tell me some dream? Mine are sometimes very normal and real, but when they are "surreal" are like Calypso's dreams, but my decision making is totally Ti-Fe and my way of thinking is like in real life.
[ENTP] I had a dream fairly recently where I was with some people, we were bowling and then somehow ended up searching for a mansion in the woods. During the search I saw a floating metal cube, I went and grabbed it then was flying above the people I was with as we headed towards the mansion. Then one by one all the people below died, from things like snakes biting them and them turning green and kind of melting. I made it to the mansion alone and it was basically a large-ish wooden shack.
(INTP/ISTP) I usually dream in black&white. I ocassionally have colors like red, green, orange and blue. But overall, theyre like brown/grayscale monochromatic. Its always dark at night or dark places with no lights at all. I dream about familiar place I hate being in and unfamiliar places I find interesting to explore. I really hate being in like my old highschool, away from home (and cant go home), lost in the forest, being in a crowded mall/department store, places with water like waterfall/rivers (afraid of drowning/sinking even tho I love swimming) and on the road with trucks and fast vehicles going by. Theres also abandoned houses/buildings with no people around and collapsing building and houses or uncharted territorties that seems new yet familiar with antiques/old objects I find in museum. Theres also infinite ricefield/river. A really open wide space so I have nowhere to go. My environent have a mind of its own like having earthquakes, rains, tornadoes, shapeshifting/collapsing buildings/floors or teleporting to new scenes/environment when I try to look and walk around Most of my dreams are either from conscious/subconscious fears (bullies from highschool and being back again on hs, experiencing them again in my dreams), afraid being on the road (dying from vehicular crashes), being lost and cant go home/dont know where to go, frustration of cant buy shits I want to have or cant find what Im looking for, trapped in caves/underground house with traps and being around so much people. I dreamed about places that are sometimes have a storyline like Im some sort of movie, mainly action movies with horror. I get followed by unfamiliar things and I keep running away from them or fighting them off. I sometimes get into death games like SAW or kill hordes of people trying to kill me. But I usually just running away from them. I cant control what happens in my dream and I wake up exhausted all the time from doing too much in my dreams to survive. Its almost as if Im gonna die everytime I dream so I really hate having dreams. My dreams is like being in Inception and/or Dr. Strange except Im not the whose controlling it cause the the dystopian ruin nature of my dream environment itself have a mind of its own. Being in unfamiliar place makes me wanna explore yet I feel like I belong there and always has been living there for a long time to feel this sense of familiarity even though its my first time being there. But to familiar places I hate being in, I always try to escape my way out to find my way back home. My dreams sometimes involves death and terror from me and people around me. Sometimes there are things I need to find out whats going in order to get out of the situations. Everything seems fien at first but its goes wrong halfway of my exploration like half the time. Its like playing a hyper-realistic action/horror game where I try to survive all the time and use everything in my disposal inside my dreams. That includes the ability to parkour and jump high places without dying The only good dreams I have are rare to have. But theyre usually involves seeing my favorite people/bands and finally meeting them in person or some kinky sexual dreams esp when theyre with people I found hot. These kind of dreams usually involves only one place without exploration much. Just in a single room or place with them.
As an INTP, I've experienced the inclusion of a lot of unrealistic objects. But it's still something that you can picture being tangible. Like a wave in the shape of a panther, and flying ships. But my dreams feed into my thoughts and create these kind of simulations based on those thoughts. One recurring theme (which includes the giant water cat) is some kind of fear or worry I have. A lot of those dreams consists of me having to solve the problem. And I think they also challenge my thoughts on myself and what I'm trying to accomplish. Which sounds a bit weird.
I really like this one. And the Ni/Se aspects are accurate. I'm thinking that types that share processes regardless of the order of the stack share similar style dreams. Thank you so much for sharing this with everyone. Hoping your future videos go in this direction.
Two more FeNi (or NiFe) type dreams: I had an object in my hand and wandering along a skyway system of buildings to find the person to give the object to. Once I gave the person an object, he thanked me and gave me another object to help another person on their quest. I found that person after searching and following directional signs on the wall. He/ she gave me another object to help the next person. I kept giving people random needed items until I woke up. The metaphor I got from it was that we need to be aware of times when we can be there to help someone in need, no matter how small we think our help may be, we each have something we can give to make life better/ help the next person on their quest. Dream example 2: I planted a garden in a town clear across the state, and had to return to check on what I planted. I got on a bus and it took me towards the town. At some point I had to get off the bus and find the next stop. I waited at the stop wondering what bus was going to come and if it would take me where I needed to go. I got on it trusting it will take me towards my direction. For a while it did and I observed the people on the bus. They were calm/ friendly, but I had a feeling that questioned, "is this the right bus? Am I going the right way?" Again I had to get off the bus, backtrack a little to find the next stop. Along the way the weather turned stormy, and I saw tornados forming and it started pouring rain. I got drenched and feared for my life and safety. But I knew I couldn't turn back. The garden ahead of me needed tending. I wasn't even sure it would still be alive, but I had to have faith that the trip would be worth it. I had to keep going forward, even if that meant having to walk the rest of the way. Waking up I can see this as a metaphor to both my life and the human condition. We have to follow our path and life goals. We may not be certain if it is worth, it, but that's what faith is for. Each bus was itself a label and a step of the process. There was no pain or regrets for taking the "wrong" buses. They were all part of the process of getting to where I need to go. My best dreams are like those where I feel some profound meaning beyond the dream itself.
(INFP/INTP) strangest thing to me, of my dreams, is the suspension of reality--like, i truly do believe, ya know, like, i am a surgeon, in 2037... simple example, but i totally buy it; i only really 'come to' if dream's too scary, then i just make myself wake up (9x out of 10). I had a "dream within a dream" the other night~ it was SO COOL/surreal/i don't know; great experience as Inception is my fave movie!! So: in the dream, i went to sleep & dreamed; then i awoke in the dream & told someone about the dreams i'd had;; THEN i awoke in to REAL life !!! WOW.
INFP: I have dreams within dreams too! And I relate so hard to the suspension of disbelief, like in one dream, my university became a Battle Royale scenario. The school was giving us military weapons to off each other, and no part of dream me thought "hey, this is weird." I was too busy thinking about how to stay alive while killing the least amount of people!
I find it funny that we accept the reality of our dreams while we are in them, and only question them once awake, it shows that we are actively willing to accept whatever reality appears to be, this seems to be our default.
(INTP and interestingly enough I also score near 50/50 on T&F but lean towards T). I also have dreams within dreams. Sometimes 3-leveled dreams within dreams within dreams. I call them "matroska dreams" -- named after those Russian stacking dolls. Likewise, despite how utterly bizzare my dreams are, foreign constructs often feel somehow familiar. Like, I "wake up" (in a dream) in a house totally invented by imagination, but in the dream I feel like "obviously I'm home" like I've lived there my whole life. 😄
An absolutely stellar video! Through your dream descriptions, you really probed at the differences, especially among the two perceiving axes! You both essentially formulated a clinic on the distinctions here which I think could be incredibly useful as a learning tool! Really amazing material done in such a spontaneous way!
Judging by comments in this comment section, our dreams try to resolve our problems, mostly our type-specific hero´s journey. INTJs fight Fe - people trying to control their behavior. Resolution is usually by doing something unpredictable, and confuse "enemies" . But not fighting anyone directly. ENFP tries to take control over chaos in their life. Resolution seems to be creating structure in your life and set goals (creating Ti). INFP fight someone specific (not general chaos, or society. Probably applies to ISFP too), who tries to control their life. Seems, like IFP women fight people, who try to control their sexuality (eunuchs). Resolution seems to be something with Se (INFP), or Ne(ISFP) - go out, and do stuff, so you gather more data to feed your Te - so you know other peoples intentions. INFJs seem to fight Te - demon (who changes faces - that is, what Te people do around Fe), who causes emotional mayhem around you, and who knows, what you think, so you cannot hide from him. Resolution is to stop hiding, of fighting him, and instead help him (If you can't fight them, join them).
My dreams are extremely vivid and I often wake with physical symptoms. I do often dream of slides - incredibly long, sophisticated ones often going underground etc. I dream most often about escaping while being chased by menacing things (including people), but I have so much lucid control all the time that I can stop time, create or remove walls, place myself somewhere else, revive after being dead etc. I often have apocalyptic dreams ( most often waking after I'm finally caught by a tsunami), sometimes discovering some universal mystery, sometimes written an amazing song - instrumentation and words, having a very prolonged mindblowing romance & sex, and sometimes just enjoying the freedom of flying, sometimes among STUNNING scenery, while trying to wield the power as its always very buggy lol. I know I tend to have very long back and forth dialogues in my dreams. I had dreams that literally came to pass the next day or two! Annoyingly I've been more and more forgetful of the dreams upon waking the older I get. Sometimes I look forward to my sleeping life more than waking O_o. Type me!
I've just realised: these explanations could also easily apply to how these types use their functions to create stories...e.g. 'Si seeks symbolic representation of objects, Ne ties these together conceptually' - INFP + INTP's way of making stories?
[potentially INFP] I don't really know how these aspects of my dreams relate to the different functions, so i will just talk about it and you can make your own interpretations ^-^. before i went into a deep depression i was obsessed with dreams and was able to control my 'avatar' as i put it in the dream. I was able to manipulate myself to have certain dreams when i wanted them, i would create an avatar in real life that i saw as my dream avatar. She was like a ninja, she wore all black, ninja like clothes, holding these shuriken like weapons. Of course i didn't always look like that in my dreams, that i could not control. I had control of myself in the dreams and what i did in my dreams, i also usually remembered them. There was one dream, which i was in a building that was the school, but not really, as it was the size of a bathroom. Outside was a field of flowers and in the far distance there was a canyon blocking the horizon, there i could see a heart. I, mesmerized, ran towards the canyon and arrived finally at the king of hearts. Entering into the heart i found myself in another world entirely. It was at the time what i thought was ancient greece, in between two broken pillars in the last remnants of war was a movie, playing the little mermaid. I don't remember if it was the first time i returned to the place or the second, but at that moment a loud voice echoeing throughout the entire world of my dream warned me. 'You may only return 3 times, or you will die.' filled with a desire for my friend to see this wonderful thing i saw i kept trying to bring her dream self into my dream (at the time i believed our dream bodies where connected, though i don't necessarily still believe it in those terms, i do believe it is possible to enter others dreams, or atleast be in the same dream intentionally as different avatars.) on the third fantasy of it i finally dragged her in but there was a war, as this was my fourth time returning. heroes battled in all fronts it was a fight to the death me and my friend tried to help but we foolishly died almost immediately. It was then in real life i truly wanted my friend to see this world too, so using my knowledge on dreams, i used my friends to conduct an experiment. I had them create their avatars in real life drawing out what they where and told them about my dream characters and inquired into theirs, realizing that we would need to know how our dreams are to each other if we were going to successfully enter the same dream, i gave them all my knowledge. Everyday for a week we attempted to enter the same dream, on the first day i had us retrace what we did the day I had the dream, imitating the emotions and actions, as well as thoughts. (In the morning i thought of ariel but then chose not to think of it for the rest of the day knowing this would entice my dreams into that subject) Finding the right root. For a whole week we kept trying, attempting to go to sleep at the same time seeing as that would probably affect the dream, however for some reason it was not working. I realized that my friend was actually going to sleep before me, so that day i imitated what he family would be like to her before she went to sleep choosing to go to sleep earlier. and we each meditated on the same thought before we fell asleep. Me and her shared the same dream, at this point you are probably bored, but i shall continue. I was on a wall, and she was in the mist, i was my avatar, seeking for her in the mist, i had not had as much control over a character as then, it felt as if we where breaking forbidden boundaries, i tried to speak to her as i saw her in the mist but i could not. the forces of the dream dragged me off the wall falling into a neighborhood i could not escape, but i knew it was her. When we went to school the next day, i asked her where i was in the dream, she said i was on a wall and that i fell and i told her she was in the mist and we both confirmed this was true wow, what did any of this have to do with mbti? I feel kinda bad, but not bad enough to delete, maybe you can see a (mbti) pattern here? [Self reflection regarding mbti] There was alot of symbolism to this that i did not mention. XD Our emotions tend to show in our dreams, our minds going on the thing that we had thought of but no longer were. That is where you will most likely see your dreams, or emotions that you are worried about or however your feeling.
Your dream seem to be about developing Te - synchronize your thoughts, so you can speak and cooperate. Though you seem to have Se - Ni. Se - Ni do experiments. Maybe ISFP. And you were fighting Ne blindspot by running through similar situation, but only slightly changed, so you can tell your intentions (Te) exactly. It is interesting, how all Se - Te people (gamma quadra in socionics) seem to live their life by scientific method - running experiments, and observing results.
INTP(I think, at least) I don't usually remember my dreams, but the ones that I do are surreal in a similar way to what Calypso describes. I can think of one where I was trapped in a massive spider web that covered a house, and the house was like a weird combination of the house I grew up in and the one I currently live in. In the dream I used a torch to burn away the spider web and after I got free I watched the fire spread to the house. One thing that seems common to my dreams is someone or something familiar unexpectedly appearing as if out of nowhere. I had this other dream where I was chasing a can of Brisk around a wooden dock area and onto a pirate ship. Eventually I caught it and as I held it in my hand I turned around and my brother was standing there, telling me to not to drink his girlfriend. I legitimately have no explanation for this dream, it was very bizarre.
The video was amazing, I am really enjoying seeing the two of you interact in real life adds a nice energy. It was great to see you guys coming to conclusions on the fly, cool to watch you both make those connections. It would be very intresting to see if there is any common themes between one's type and the construction of their dream world. I have always been fascinated by dreams and hope to hear more from you guys on the topic.
For me: I have a mix of both abstract objects and real objects but they seem to be along the Ni/Se framework. I can be in a perfectly normal place, but then look up at the sky and the clouds may change into abstract shapes. Or I'll look up at the sky and words may be floating across with planes towing them. A few rare dreams I can even read words in them. Sometimes I can interact with characters and talk. No matter how surreal the dream may be or how out of place things are, the dream matrix treats it like reality. If I try to alter the dream beyond what it wants me to see, then the dream will loop back and reset until I do what it wants. Sometimes I can ask questions and the Ni voice talks to me directly. The most recent "Ni" type dream showed me the letters Fe, Ni, Se, Ti and was telling me this is my type. I was arguing with it telling it there was no way I was an extrovert, much less an Fe dominant. It then started showing me a slideshow of memories playing them, showing me times in my life where Fe affected my life. The more I argued with it, the more memories it showed me. The most vivid ones I get to make choices within the dreams framework of reality. My dreams tend to be metaphors to either my life or can be used to help understand the human condition. I've also had "predict the future" type dreams. When they happen the effect is very vivid, like the dream _really_ wants me to pay attention to it and all the details. Real life events that occured in some abstract/ symbolic way: Flooding in Australia after I dreamt of living in there (never had any connection to that place, didn't even think of Australia) Earthquake in Mexico (dreamt that after the Japan Earthquake, didn't occur until years later.) Another one I dreamt a few years ago was one predicting a stock market crash in the US and a collapse of Europe. (the dream presented it like watching a slideshow of events in rapid succession) I am hoping those don't come true.
Wait can you describe what you mean by this? I'm not sure if what your describing is related to SE as much as it is to the human mind/( or if it is something else that is related to sleep cycles irrelevant to functions), there is a point in our sleep cycle that one 'falls asleep' which may be indicated with dreaming you fell off a chair and fell off your bed in real life waking up suddenly. That is actually related to one of the sleep cycles. just wanted to make sure your not referring to that and something else (SE dreams) in order to have a good understanding.
Sounds like a "hypnic jerk," which is when you startle or twitch from the sensation of falling, usually right before the 1st sleep stage. It's caused by the way your muscles relax when you're falling asleep, and often results in falling dreams, especially in children, who tend to have more simple dreams. Hypnic jerks are reportedly experienced by 70% of people, so I think of it more as a "human nature" type thing than a personality-based trait. Although, the incidence of hypnic jerks seems positively correlated with anxiety, irregular sleep, and caffeine consumption, so I would be interested to see some statistics possibly indicating a higher incidence of anxiety or sleep-disruption in certain personality types.
This video might be one of my favourites, so far! It's so interesting to hear about how other types experience dreams. I've had a similar discussion with an ESFJ friend a while ago (not particularly about the functions but about how differently we perceive dreams) and we came to a similar conclusion. I'm an INTJ and I can totally relate to what you have said and most of the Ne-Si points are true for my friend. This is certainly a topic I could listen to for days :)
Infj guy here. My dreams always seem to feel like everything is happening to me and then I end up taking control or acting in a certain way to get a particular outcome. I sometimes realize I’m dreaming. They usually involve other people and emotions. It’s like first person observing everything. There’s no purpose of the dream but somehow it becomes purposeful if that makes sense? My dreams involve people/feelings and how everything will turn out. And I’m definitely more direct in my dreams than I am in real life
I used to think I was Ne-Si even in my dreams, but I think I experience very strong physical sensations in my dreams, hence Se-Ni makes more sense. Like fear and the feeling that I'm going to die causes this burning sensation in my heart. And I had a dream where I killed a wolf and it was very physical and tactile. In another dream I could see a dog chasing me and I had the sensation of floating in the air. This came from a music video i saw from Madonna called Frozen. I also experience vivid mental images while I'm awake, I'm not sure if this relates more to Se or Ni. Very interesting. I love dream analysis.
Hey, infp here. So wierd how the perceiving axes affect dreams. Here are two of my dreams. In one of my dreams I was swimming in a pond with my friend when frogs started to appear, then more and more frogs appeared until there was more frogs than water. In another dream I was a pig being chased by a guy with a moustache that was trying to cut my ear off, then out of now where a warrior princess comes charging dowm the hill, i turn pack into a human, the moustache guy turns into a pig and the warrior princess cuts of his ear. My dreams tend to repeat themselves over and over again, playing slightly differently each time.
My dreams were either romance-related or supernatural in nature. Usually i'll have strange creatures or settings and be an observer in them. Some were apocalyptic, some had to do with outer space. I recall this one particular dream where i was floating in outer space,going around giant planets. I had another where i was looking at the sky as the atmosphere seemed to be disappearing altogether. I had crazy dreams! (INFP)
I’m an INFP and experience dreams in a very similar way to calypso (I hope I spelled your name right!). How the symbolism in my dreams gets played out is wild sometimes. There was this one dream I had after a very very hard break up. I was at the guys funeral in the dream, in somebody’s home. Instead of an open casket, slabs of his flesh were on display on a table or something. It was so strange. I remember looking at them. They were embedded in what looked like rectangular glass plaques. I think there were descriptions in writing but I don’t quite remember. I do remember feeling a horrifying, almost morbid loss in both the dream and reality.
I believed myself to be an infp, but the structure of my dream world seems to be rather Se-Ni. I always remember my dreams. I remember them for months after I have them. My dreams follow a plot line. I can have several (I always remember at least four distinct dreams) but when I wake and write them down, I see that they tie into each other, even if it’s very subtly. The external environment as a whole holds the significance rather than individual objects. Color in particular plays an important role, as well as the atmosphere. They are always emotionally charged and I carry that emotion into the waking world with me the whole day. Things appear in my dreams as they are in life, but they are always altered enough to feel strange. I usually am trying to find something or someone. There’s nearly always an objective. I never usually do though. I’m always behind. Incapable of the task set before me. Ive never once figured out what I’m looking for.
[INTP]My dreams are random and ambiguous, usually my nightmares follow the reoccurring theme of me messing everything up and losing control and that everyone turns on me, but my more unrealistic nightmares are more fictional in the sense that they involve situations or beings that don't exist in the real world. My normal dreams usually involve something that I've been thinking about and have actually been taking action to in the real world, or a situation of past experience. I dream in normal color and experience little or no physical sensory information. Thoughts?
I would argue that we have the potential to have both kinds of dreams of these axes, but yeah I think most of my dreams have real objects abnormally misplaced.
I don’t normally remember my dreams even though I try, but the dream I remember the best is one where I’m outside & look up to see a house floating in the sky, then a car flies and parks next to it & I see an old man dragging a young girl who resembled Dorothy to me. I figured she was kidnapped so I wanted to go save her. I got my boyfriend & his friend to go up with me because suddenly a ladder appeared for me to go up. We got to the door & an old lady appeared. She invited us in & gave us soup, as we were eating it even though I knew we shouldn’t, I noticed tiny pig snouts floating in the soup. I stopped eating & I can’t remember what happened from there.
[INTJ] I have a fun one for you! I feel the need to provide some context for this dream first; when I was younger, my sister and I watched Finding Nemo one too many times and, as such, this resulted in me having a dream about sentient, talking pelicans. SO, for some reason, a mother pelican and her children had moved into my bedroom to seek shelter from a cruel, evil uncle pelican who wanted to take the children away. At one point the evil uncle pelican came to my bedroom window and I told him to go away. He complied, but only after making several ominous threats. Some time passed and as it became night a thunderstorm rolled in. The pelican family and I were huddled together on my bed when a flash of lightning cast a dark shadow of the uncle pelican onto the window. Things went dark and quiet again, just the sound of the rain hitting the glass. Then, just as a second flash of lightning lit up the scene, the evil uncle pelican was crashing through my window and flying straight at my face....it was at this point that I woke up as I was falling out of my bed (I had jumped out of the way of the uncle-pelican in the dream). Awake and on the floor, my heart racing, it took a second for my brain to catch up. When it did, I laughed at myself because I'd just had a nightmare about pelicans....although, from the things you brought up in the video, I wonder now if there may have been some sort of overall Ni martyr-mentality message or lesson to the dream? Very interesting video!
My dreams are also super random dude, in my case things that happen to me (usually something i am still kind of processing) are stitched together in a dream and some crazy plot is made and i can usually decipher pretty easily which part of the plot means what, but there are sometimes these really weird ones that are not easily deciphered.Can anyone inform me why my dreams are like this and perhaps type me?
I saw Calypso definitely had her shadow function Ni going on overdrive with those subjective dream interpretations! INFPs (and perhaps INTPs, if they can see the point) make the most productive/creative dream analysts in this INFJs opinion. It's like their shadow Ni depth is multiplied and extroverted rapidfire by their auxiliary Ne! :D
I'm thinking I'm entj, and I have a lot of nightmares about FI. People become overly selfish and emotional and I can't reason with them using logic. They do terrible things and don't care because they "feel the way they do". I also can't control emotions in my nightmares as well sometimes. Also I spend a lot of time walking around empty shopping mails with a undefined since of dread.
Boby Rob Ooh that’s interesting. I (INFP) sometimes have such nightmares with Te. I get stuck in this situation where everyone (a group of people/an organization) is executing orders but they lack any moral background and are hurting people, and no one seems to see that as a problem. I also fail to find it in me to go to action and voice my thoughts/go to action. Those dreams got less when I got older though. Maybe it has something to do with getting more in balance with your functions.?
This video is 2 years old, but I thought I’d contribute that I rarely remember my dreams, but the ones I do remember are usually about walking somewhere with some Te goal like going to class or delivering an object. Last night I dreamed that I was walking through this futuristic alleyway in which all the buildings were made of this light metal in all these chaotic and industrial shapes. The alleyway wasn’t unpleasant or dystopian, it was actually really nice and I think it was sunset, and somewhat cold. Throughout the dream, I had walked back and forth through they alley several times, probably going to and from class, and the last time, I stopped in this tiny little dive bar that I had noticed every time but never gone in. The bar had magenta mood lights and a glass counter and steel fixtures. Nobody was in there except the bartender. She had short, brightly-colored hair and served me tea. I was romantically interested in her, and so I asked her about her job, her friends, her story, and I just listened to her for what seemed like about an hour. I think I’m an ISFP, so this matches with Alex’s Ni/Se surreal objects coming together in a perfectly reasonable way along with a Te mission and Fi feelings. Writing this out helped me remember just how beautiful the dream was.
I've been typed as several things. ENFP, INFP, INFJ, ESFP, ISFP. The only consistent part is the Feeling part. I feel way more like an Intuitive than a Sensor, but I grew up with Sensor parents so I don't think my Intuitive functions really flourished until I moved out. Anways... I can remember several dreams from when I was young where I've been in some sort of trouble and am hindered in some way. The most common one is that I have no voice. I remember walking through a building with dozens of doors and trying to find a way out. Every room was black. I opened one door and I saw my parents sleeping and I called out to them but suddenly my voice was gone. I remember another dream where I was being kidnapped by that scary old lady that says "BOOOOO! BOOOOO!" from The Princess Bride. She put me in a wheel barrow and wheeled me down the street into a giant tree. My parents were across the street and I was trying to call out to them and again, I had no voice. I've also had dreams where I'm being chased and it feels like it is never ending. Then I've had dreams where I'm playing Survivor (I'm a HUGE fan) and the people are a mix of past players, or my friends, or random people. I can dream that I get to the end and if am about to lose, I subconsciously can manipulate the dream so that I win. I've also had times in my life where I've dreams that I'm study for a test and as much as I feel confident in the answers I keep failing. Or I'm trying to do math and the equations/formulas suddenly make no sense and I can solve the problem. Those kinds of dreams usually happen after I've been dealing with a lot of those real world issues for days on end to the point where they slip into my dreams. I've also had dreams of falling in love with people I do know, or complete strangers. They seem more real and intimate than any relationship I've had with a real person. Does anyone else feel like they can subconsciously manipulate their dreams once they realize they have control?
(INTP but I score higher on F than most INTPs) My dreams are like Calypso's. They are WEIRD. I mean, totally BIZARRE situations. But I've always easily intuitively interpreted the meaning of my dreams because everything seems obviously symbolic and the dream is like one big allegory full of metaphors. For example, I'll dream about visiting someone and opening a door to find they *literally* have skeletons in their closet. Or people hiding behind the shower curtain in their bathroom (secrets they're trying to keep private). I dream about trying to cross a rickety old wooden bridge across an expanse of tumultous ocean waves to get to a ship that looks a 17th century pirate ship (trying to escape my current circumstances amid chaos and fearing I'll get swallowed by the chaos and not make it). I once dreamed I was walking down the sidewalk and peeked over a fence to see my best friend was pacing around talking on the phone at the bottom of an empty swimming pool in some random yard (She was talking to a guy twice her age at the time and I felt she was "digging herself into a hole she couldn't get out of" and "in too deep."). I once dreamed about someone stabbing me in the face. When I told my partner about it, he said, "Do you think the knife was related to the knife we used to cut fruit last night?" I'm like, "No, trust me, my brain isn't that literal. Everything is symbolic." I've only had a small handful of dreams where I *felt* physical sensations, the worst of which shook me to my core. I usually always wake up before I (presumably) die in a dream. But in one dream I experienced my own death -- the physical sensation of dying -- in various horrific ways, over and over and over again. I woke up crying and shaking. It was horrible.
When I was in my 20’s, I always had rollercoaster dreams. I usually did feel the “drop” right before I woke up. I haven’t had a dream since I’ve been in a relationship (I wonder whats that about). My dreams where always Se like, I was in some physical place but I might have some type of “thing” to do OR watching a scene unfold but also apart of the scene in some way. I also have had just really “trippy” like LSD dreams. Just a bunch of weird visuals and things happening that some how made sense in the dream. I never remember the details of my dreams though.
I have a lot of dreams that involve thunderstorms. Many of them also involve flying. In many of my dreams, I use my arms as wings, which doesn't quite make sense. My most vivid dreams didn't involve flying or thunderstorms, but they did involve some weird kind of teleportation. I had a few lucid dreams as well. My most recent vivid dream involved being in a narrow, forested canyon with a building on both sides that I could climb up to reach the top. I started climbing at night on the side one of the buildings until I found a balcony with sketchy people who became hostile. I then, ran back and inside the building, then daytime appeared. I headed to the top of the building from the inside only to find a train station up top. I had to go back inside the building to find a ticket. After finding the ticket, I returned to the train and apparently got teleported to a meadow on a hillside with a forest above it and a cabin in it. It became night and I saw a fire burning the forest above. I had to run and then my dream ended. Not sure what all this meant, but I did know the crazy parkour moves I used in the dream while climbing a building came from Assassin's Creed. I also knew that worrying about the Thomas Fire in California played a role in the fire in my dream. My nightmares, however, almost always involve someone violating my moral values. I end the nightmare quickly by waking up, then go back to sleep hoping for a different dream.
Storm dreams = anxiety and fears. I get them a lot too, especially if my mind is in an active loop trying to problem solve or find connections in my life.
My dreams of Ti, are usually the ones that I'm running away, trying to lose someone in the way, so I start to use logic to choose imaginary alleys or streets, that i never have seen before in my life, but it feels like i do, to follow and to lose the person who's following me.
i'm either an enfp or infp and i relate to what calypso said. most of the memorable dreams that i remember for a few more minutes after waking up has people i love in it in an environment that feels like my old school but isn't like it. omg...
ENFJ here (thanks for the typing help). My most memorable dream was more than a decade ago when I took a 90-minute nap in the evening. It was a very vivid dream. At the beginning, I had like what Alex described, where I saw a bunch of circles appearing and growing in a pool, which I concluded in the dream must be islands emerging from the water. But then, the scene changes, and suddenly jagged rocks are emerging from the ground going high into the sky, and we (me and a bunch of other people, some of whom I know) find ourselves standing on a bridge perched between 2 mountain tops (kinda like in a video game). From this point on, it no longer seems surreal; the scene looks very real. To our right, there are 2 Vikings speaking and singing heroically, and apparently, what we all have to do is get off the mountain back onto the level ground. There is a cave with a stairwell behind the Vikings, but some of us (including me) are afraid to go that way, so we go left instead, where there is this creepy eggheaded man standing. We go down the steps by where he is, and it is a very long journey as we go down several flights of stairs. It has varying scenery, and it's dusk, before we start going deeper into the caves which are dark but lit. I say hi to some people on the way down, but as I get further down I start running across people I know who run into their Doppelgangers, who are climbing the stairs to meet them. When they encounter their Doppelganger, they immediately forget our goal, and seem to have been "taken over" by them, their attention completely commanded by them. I start getting really scared, and then I wake up, and sure enough it is dusk outside. I will never forget this dream!
I'm an ENFJ. Objects in my dreams never symbolise anything. I'll have dreams like sci-fi films. If I'm worried about something, the scenario of the dream tends to symbolise the fear. I was bullied all the way through school, so I tend to have trust issues or think that people are pretending to like me just to be nice, and I had a dream last year that one of my friends was refusing to acknowledge me in a room, but he was talking to everyone else, and as the dream went on, he started groaning in pain, and I was telling everyone there was something wrong, and everyone said I was worried about nothing, and then his mouth got glued shut, and he was writhing around on the floor, groaning in pain, and still I was the only one pointing out that there was something wrong and then it ended. I've recently been having a lot of dreams where I can fly, and I love that feeling. I use it to stop myself from falling from high places in my dreams.
[INFP] My dreams are very Ne/Si like how Calypso explained it, but I do have rare moments of extreme sensation. For example, I once had a dream where Prince Charming and Cinderella were pointing at and making fun of Cruella DeVille (all disney cartoon versions. Also the background/setting wasn't very noticeable, I remember it being very blurred and pink). Cruella was just really mad and I ended up trying to charge at her and punch her but I suddenly woke up, _literally_ jumping out of my bed with my fist in the air. I also tend not to question what is happening around me when I dream, I barely even recognize my thoughts, and if I do notice my thoughts it's usually about how I feel. Recently I had a dream where I was running away from this old dude in this library who Idk if he was really bad or not but I just felt really weirded out by him. (But of course cleaning supplies had to float around me and turn into the size of giants, and the stairs had become this almost impossible slide to climb, so I had difficulty escaping up until I woke up.)
02:42-02:52 It was pretty crazy hearing that because I would experience this exact process up until around 25 years old, but in the past three years, this hasn't happened.
Very interesting I’m not sure of my type (INFP), but in my dreams I saw a lot of people that I know (family and friends) and It’s all about the desire that I have into these relationships (things that don’t work in the real life) or things I’m afraid of who happens, the nature, plants, the rooms, houses, and places are very detailed, and realistic. My feelings and touch are very realistic too and I dream a lot about movies and series that I saw. And also about objects they have no representation and they are just useful, or for the decor or sometimes I want to take them in the real life like clothes or jewelry haha.
So my dreams are exactly like they are described for Ne/Si but remembering my dreams and my thinking within my dreams is exactly Ne/Se 😅 ... i frequently think „I’m probably dreaming right now“
Pink lettuce juice sounds like red cabbage juice which is commonly used as a acid base indicator in a school science project. Skeletons in the pool sounds like Poltergeist.
So I'm in this mall outlet thing in France with some friends. We walk around outside on the side walks and go in to the stores and then around night time they just ditched me. So I call my mom to pick me up, and you know as you do, she drove from Atlanta to France, picked me up, and we drove back home...
Alex's dream of the slides really sounds like lucid dreaming, fascinating! I haven't lucid dreamed that much. Just one time I purposely killed a wolf that tried to eat me, whereas in the past I felt powerless to get killed by it.
almost all my dreams is surrounded by some conflict where me struggling against something(ENTJ), Oh and I die in 70% of the dreams and then I have obtain an omnipotent view of the dream
I wonder if Si dreamers remember dreams better than Se dreamers in the weak function. As an INFJ mine are gone before I can write them down totally. Memory vs. Sensation? Any ideas folks?
One more comment >.< alright, in relation to the philosophical question of 'how do you know what your thinking when its not related to the five senses' due to the fact your dream world is in a way a complex formation of your mind into a world that it interprets in a way, it would be as you've described, intuitive thoughts. You are the author (or your brain?) of this dream world you are in, just as you would right a story and put together connections that a reader would be unable to not being the source of the dream your brain would have already given you all you needed. Showing you an alternate universe that in reality you do know fully in an intuitive way, i am not sure if i make sense xD and its not just intuitive understanding of your dream world, but a more conscious awareness of... i know what it is in my head i just don't know how to describe what i'm thinking xDD ..... hmmm... Ok, to conclude when your dreaming you are more closer to the core of yourself. You are at the raw center of you.
I have dreamed about being in a mall, hearing music that has never been made or produced in real life. Dreamed about being at a symphony that has never been played in reality. Dreamed I got shot in the back left shoulder, waking up and feeling the burn in the exact spot where I was shot in the dream. When I was 10 years old, my family went to the beach for a week for vacation. My grandmother asked me one night before we went on vacation, Have you ever seen a sand dollar? I said no, how do you get them? She told me if I was lucky I would find one in the sand walking the beach. That night I dreamed we were at the beach, I jumped out of the car and ran over the dune to the water. As I came over the dune there were shiny things all along the shore, as I bent over to pick them up it turned out that they were silver dollars. My grandmother came over to me and asked What are you doing? I answered and said Picking up sand dollars.
What does it mean when my dreams almost always take place at my childhood grandmothers house? I haven’t been there in 3 years since my grandfather died.
I remember having a very vivid dream where i was aware that i was dreaming and i was walking trough a garden and i could feel everything, from the wind on my skin to the smell of the flowers and the touch of the plants. That was a very special dream but it only happened once.
I know this is a year late but I had a dream where it was the zombie apocalypse and I was with my friend. We stole a truck and came to a rode that was horizontally split. To the right a huge hoard of zombies to the left a long line of cars with people in them. We took a motorcycle out of the back and cut the line and drove into a building it lead to. The people locked us in. The building was filled with zombies. Anyway eventually my arm was grabbed by a zombie, who was a guy I know. My friend had an axe and cut my arm off instead of killing the zombie. When I lifted my arm up it was a pirate hook. We ended up running outside but chose the wrong door so we were fenced in. When we turned around all the doors were blocked. So I chose to break the pole on the American flag, but folded up the flag and put it down. We distracted the zombies by strapping a zombie to the motorcycle and got away back to the truck. Then I woke up. I have no idea what mbti type I am but that's my best dream example.
I think my FE is represented in dreams by still being aware of other people their feelings. IDK how my NI is represented, I rarely dream about abstract worlds. Most of it is very sensory correct. It's often as if my dreams are more real than my waking life. XD
[INTP] [TI] my dreams are normal as hell. I’m always myself...I always recognize most people and the strangers are faces I’ve seen from costumers at work. Just last week I had a dream someone damaged my car and I was trying to get the hotel people to give me the camera footage... but the hotel was a maze.....that could mean something.
This is a good topic, i just want to ask calypso or other INFP, do you guys experience mixing your imagination and your dreams when your telling it to other person cause sometimes i can’t differentiate my imagination for my dream and also what my actually dream was, lol this is probably because of (Ne) lol
INTJ & INFP Coffee Yeah i kind do that sometimes, filling the gap with my imagination and later on i can’t distinguish which is which lol. Sometimes i think about how it can be connected but as far as i’m concern it is just random stuff which i will associate in a random things as well. I totally relate to you in surrealism in this video, my background and objects in my dreams are realistic but the situation is totally off.
I've had dreams of flying (often) then suddenly it a whole different thing like a ghost or something graps me.... then my real body will feel the sensation then I wake up, my deams are almost always collective and mixed together... and about the objects they are sometimes real and other time there is nothing just (me) and there are also some very vivid dream (which are from past memories or never happend) and somedays i feel like I have done this before feeling and then I think about it's usually from my dreams... (INTP)
Yeah I think my dreams are pretty surreal. Like one time I had a dream that Jessie J was performing a song and it suddenly turned into Beyonce who started singing who let the dogs out on stage and on the last "woof" it turned into Jennifer Lawrence screaming from labour pains as she gives birth to a baby. Then suddenly I'm watching a trailer for the movie of 'mother' and there is a man who puts his hand over his face and tears his face apart. Also once I was at my uncles everyone was acting weird. Then I went into one room and everyone stared at me. I look in the top corner of the room and a chameleon turns his head to face me and then said "Alien".
I'm an INFP with MAJOR lucid dreaming ability and I'm curious if other INFP's are lucid dreamers too. Like I even have the ability to consciously change my dreams if I don't like how they're going, and I can decide if I want to wake up and go to the bathroom or not lol.
I used to be a lot better at it but haven't experienced it as much lately. I've done the whole flying thing and could create objects out of thin air realizing that it's a dream and that I should be able to do whatever I want. Have also been in bad situations in dreams and I close my eyes and teleport to somewhere else that I'm thinking of and I'll be there when I open my eyes. It still took effort and concentration though, weirdly. The first step is definitely recognizing it's a dream and then trying to stay asleep. Although, one dream I recall, I created a huge dragon out of thin air but lost control of the dream and it started chasing me trying to kill me, haha oops. I forgot to mention I'm an INFP, as well.
Yeah it took me several years to realize that other people think their dreams are real while they are dreaming! I think it might go back to what Calypso said about the storylines being so weird. Cause I know those things would never happen in real life. My INTJ sister thinks her dreams are real and she tends to have more realistic dreams.
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO DREAMS WAY DIFFERENT??? I will literally dream about cancer, its just in front of my eyes, but I am not there, its very very large and almost give you an Alice in Wonderland syndrome, not so close, but large making t appear close, like you can reach out and grab it. I also can smell it, the smell of Cancer, i do not know how to describe this smell, wouldn't say rotten, but almost foul? Never smelled that scent before, unless I was not consciously thinking about it, that could be a case. but yes weird stuff. Also read an article stating that you could dream in different dimensions, like 5D and 7D, and that explains a lot, i will see things, and have no idea how to explain it, my continuous brain cant even wrap it around my head, unless i'm dreaming. AM I THE ONLY ONE ON THIS? (INTJ by the way), also have no idea if it changes much, but i score very high and very closely on all cognitive functions BUT Ne, quite low, dont often dream of people
In dreams do you guys see the dream from your own eyes or from the point of view of a viewer like in a movie? In my case it's 96% like a movie ,it's like I'm watching movie of myself from the eyes of another person but i can switch to my own eyes too
My dreams are more like Calypso’s. however, from the body language video, i move more like a judger, i move with intention. These two things are contradictory. How can i dream like Calypso but move like a judger? It doesnt add up.
It'a not an exact science and these are inferences and interpretations. Im Ni dom INTJ, but dream more like the Ne-Si, I almost never have surreal imagery in my dreams, theyre a combination of real world occurences in surreal situations, with some sort of underlining meaning tying the dream together.
My beat friend is ENFP and always dreams random stuff and shapes and all mind of abstract things that doesn't exist. I think that determining those difference based on 2 person is misleading.
It's possible Se or Si. I've also heard of some people having far more realistic (as in tangible) dreams than most people, so it's also possible it's just the way your brain's wired.
Vincent GanVogh, really! I've had one of these dreams that featured a 3 story jail looking set up but it was all bathroom stalls.. Are you ne si or Ni se?
I think there is a point in your day where you really need to use the restroom, but you don't. So you dream is reminding you to do this, and will keep happening if you don't. That or there is probably something important related to this.
I get those too. (I suspect I too use Ni and Se) Usually the absence of them and looking for privacy. I'm guessing the symbolism = feeling vulnerable and needing privacy/ boundaries.
[INFJ] I find it so interesting that my dreams tend to be very Se based in the sense that I often feel sensations. I've had many dreams involving rollercoasters & I've also experienced nightmares where I try to scream or shout for help but nothing happens. I also feel like I dream about meanings rather than the objects themselves (I often dream of people, but they have the appearance of someone else, but in the dream I know who that person represents).
Emma Lawson Late to the party on this comment - I’m also an INFJ and this is extremely representative of the types of dreams I have too! Just had a dream last week where I felt the physical sensation of being tossed overboard a ship, and I regularly have dreams about trying to shout for help and not being able to.
I, too, am an INFJ and my dreams often have full sensory perception. I can smell and taste things as well as feel pain. Consequently, my dreams are often quite vivid lest I realize it is a dream and wake up... Or lucid dream which can be fun too. As for content, many dreams are adventurous or fun. ...although dying in a dream is not fun.
Ok reading your post and the replies I think I relate to the NJ style more ;)
My dreams are extremely vivid and I often wake with physical symptoms. I do often dream of slides - incredibly long, sophisticated ones often going underground etc. I dream most often about escaping while being chased by menacing things (including people), but I have so much lucid control all the time that I can stop time, create or remove walls, place myself somewhere else, revive after being dead etc. I often have apocalyptic dreams ( most often waking after I'm finally caught by a tsunami), sometimes discovering some universal mystery, sometimes written an amazing song - instrumentation and words, having a very prolonged mindblowing romance & sex, and sometimes just enjoying the freedom of flying, sometimes among STUNNING scenery, while trying to wield the power as its always very buggy lol. I know I tend to have very long back and forth dialogues in my dreams. I had dreams that literally came to pass the next day or two! Annoyingly I've been more and more forgetful of the dreams upon waking the older I get.
Sometimes I look forward to my sleeping life more than waking O_o.
Once I dreamt about going on a rollercoaster and finding that I wasn't secured with the belts so I was trying to do not die by trying to be attached to the rollercoaster.And I felt physically everything. An other thing I often dream about is running without actually moving an inch,and I find it so annoying.
INTP, 100% can relate
This was so interesting. I’m an infp and my dreams often follow overarching consistent plot lines. Sometimes it’ll be multiple plot lines tied into one dream. But there often is this underlying te objective in many of them.
"Plot lines" is Se - Ni. Ni associate actions (plot lines), to other actions.
Me, ENTP, and my ENFP friend, we have dreams with quite consistent plot 😅
[ENFP] Definitely resonated with Calypso's version of surrealism. I can't recall ever dreaming about reality as is. Reality is always distorted in my dreams. For instance, students from one of my older schools were randomly in a newer school I went to, only my school was only partially constructed and was mixed with aspects of my university, but was mostly an entirely different entity of its own. My Si inferior mind is terrible at recalling most of my dreams but one, in particular, was: I was running away from a vampire and was jumping from building to building which looked much like condos (not somewhere I recall from reality). I kept focusing on the vampire's teeth which resembled that of Willy Wonka's (Johnny Depp version). So obviously I kept asking myself "why those teeth" but also curious about the running. I've had dreams where I was running on a disk again and again and somehow I can still associate sounds and a particular type of feeling with that dream. The feeling is generally when trying to cram before an exam, but not being able to regurgitate or get through most of the content.
A lot of insecurities are reflected in our dreams. I once dreamt that an MBTI server was ambushed by vegans because this popular controversial activist kept promoting it and function stacks for growth potential. But it backfires because the place was overwhelmed by people with a shallow understanding and I was incredibly frustrated. Or once as a child I dreamt that my brother was a doll (like Barbie) and his head was pulled off. Was horrifying and distressing for me as a kid. I've also had a dream where a eunuch was present but totally forgot the context.
YappingWarrior OMG reality is always distorted in my dreams too! I’m an INFP! I had a dream once when I was younger that is similar to yours where a loved one of mine was killed in a horrific way (idk if this comes from Ne or Si)! In my dream as a kid, my little sister was run over by a huge bus that came out of nowhere right in front of me! She wasn’t even near the street, we were in my house and the bus came through the wall and hit her! That dream was recurring and haunted me as a kid, and sometimes it wasn’t my little sister who was hit by the bus, it was my mom or dad or someone else close to me! Maybe it came from my Fi because I have always had a fear of losing someone I love from a car accident!
YappingWarrior this is the most ENFP thing I have ever read.
I have exactly the same thing, like I will dream of my high school repeatedly, but every time there is a variation in where the classrooms are, or they might be on a higher floor, and then it will melt into my house. Haha. Or it will be the same place but the details are different.
I'm an enfp, ironically my Inferior Si is very good at recalling my dreams.
INTJ here; 99% of the time I don't remember my dreams, and I treat dreams the way a computer treats disk defrag; I'm clearing up hard drive space in my brain and my brain is like "do you wish to save this memory?" I do remember nightmares or extremely awesome dreams, but both are rare. I also get this thing called "exploding head syndrome" where I'll have a dream and it can be a totally normal situation, then suddenly there's this earth shattering rumble or boom like louder than an earthquake and a tornado combined, and I'll wake up with a start from it, but realize it was just a dream and go back to bed.
psychocuda my husband is an INTJ and everytime I asked what he dreamed, he would say he doesnt remember! Haha. But yeah there are those rare moments he shared his odd dreams, like u said it doesn't happen a lot.
Omg I definitely relate to Calypso's description of Ne-Si surrealism.There's never a time when my dreams are like reality.The things might be present in reality,but when they are all mixed together,it's weird,it becomes so surreal.I would dream of amusement parks too,but I can't remember clearly.There was an amusement park with a sea in it.And in the sea,there's a real shark and a whale.Another one is a rollercoaster and u take a ride on a real dragon?And there's this dream where there's a pool,and inside the pool are these gymnastic sponges?And there will be this baby toy.U know the round ball shaped toy where there are holes like triangles and ovals for u to fit those shapes into the holes?Then there will be people inside the toy,and u would have to shake them for them to come out and drop into the pool?It was a very weird dream...
[INFJ] My nightmares tend to attack my inferior Se. The feeling of the rollercoaster drop, as Alex explained, the feeling of bugs crawling on your body, your heart pounding against your chest, and the sensation of trying to talk but being completely paralyzed in the dream. In my last nightmare, I discovered that one of my closest friends had been lying to me to conceal his dark secret. My mouth was closed tightly and it was a battle opening it up to express my anger at him. I woke up that morning saying "You filthy--" and I stopped myself before I finished the sentence with "liar!"
The meaning behind that dream was that I naturally have difficulty telling others off but it is still by means necessary to make them better people in the long run.
Thank you for sharing your dreams, Alex and Calypso! They were very insightful to better understanding the functions. :)
INFJ here, I would agree on the attack of inferior Se you mentioned. Several times I woke up screaming, it happened sometimes when I am really tired I guess. I hate geckos so much and have had nighmares about them crawling inside my blanket that awake me in shock.
Your explanation about finding out someone you trust lied and angers you also has happened several times. I think sometimes we manifest our deepest fear in dreams, and somehow we get so involved and want to speak out the truth or something.
I have lucid dreams a lot, and there are places in my dreams that I visited repeatedly. Can't remember the details but the feeling is familiar like a de ja vu.
Often my lucid dreams is just me waking up to still be in another dream, and wake up again to still be dreaming, and the setting is just in my room. Whenever I have dreams that inflict heavy or complicated emotions, it can ruin my whole day and the feeling would stick with me until I go to bed again.
I'm confused. I get the rare dream where I'd be physically crying in my dream and I'd wake up with tears in real life. Sometimes, if I end up falling, I wake up in shock like I've just landed on my mattress but is that really Se?
It sounds like you might also have sleep paralysis. As our brain "wakes up" while our body is still paralyzed from sleep, it can be particularly terrifying when we don't understand what's happening and it's common to interpret this as a nightmare.
The theme of trying to do something but being somehow unable to (like trying to run but not getting anywhere or trying to dial 911 but your fingers don't work), is also a common theme in dreams though. I think it usually reveals our fears of helplessness or futility.
wubaduckie What you described sounds like a "hypnic jerk." Most people experience that.
I've also woken up already crying when I was upset in a dream, though not often.
OMG! I'm INFJ and this is exactly what happens to me too!
INTJ here, my dreams are usually about urban landscapes. Nothing ever happens, I just walk around and observe places that look like possible distant future versions of actual places in my city. Some places I've been to in multiple dreams, even years apart. 🤔
I loved this whole video!! It was facinating in not only learning about dreams in relation to type, but it helped me understand the experience of how other types think a lot better. I'm an INFJ, and, like an INTJ, my dreams tend to have cohesive plots that make sense. As a Fe/Ti contrast though, I'm not usually driving the plot or completing a task, but reacting to my surroundings, which usually includes people in some way. And (another thing that occurred to me while I was listening) the combination of my Ni & Ti means I tend to spot internal inconsistences and then realized I'm dreaming a lot. When that happens, I can't do whatever I want or wake up or control my surroundings or anything like that, but I can figure out the dream mechanics and try to, like.... stay ahead of it, kind of. Like, I once had a nightmare where I was being chased by a large, scary man through a school, and I kept trying to hide from him, but when I realized it was a dream I realized that the man was a part of my brain and would know everything I knew, so he would always know where I was hiding, or how to get to me, which meant I had to think fast and move faster. In a lot of dreams, I usually am working with or saving other people who are in danger, but they're spread out and I can't protect everyone at once (super Fe oriented). I'm also very actively thinking in my dreams as well, so I agree that's probably an Ni related thing at least.
Your dreams sound a lot like mine. I'm either NiFe or FeNi (about 50% split). I can sometimes alter things in my dreams, but the Ni "Matrix" is quick to remind me whenever I go too far. It will loop back and restart part of the dream to before I made my choice. If I try to change it too much, the Ni dream voice will argue with me and put me back in my place.
I tried reading up tricks to tell if I am dreaming. They don't work. My dreams really don't want me controlling them, so they will do what they can to simulate reality. This includes functional light switches and readable text.
Chase dreams: Always running from someone/ some demon and it always knows where I am regardless of where I am or how far I've gotten from it. One time I decided not to run from the demon with glowing eyes and it came out into the light and transformed into a normal looking guy. He got teary, hugged and thanked me for not running away from him that time. He then showed me a picture and asked for me to help him find his friends.
I think the demon in that dream symbolizes anger towards being bullied at my high rise. Before that dream I stood up to them and flat out told them how unacceptable and socially inappropriate their behavior was. I guess the Ni was telling me it was thankful I stood up for myself rather than shrinking away and retreating, like I tend to do to avoid conflict.
If you can, try thinking about facing whatever it is you're running from. Maybe your dream won't allow it right away, but eventually, hopefully it will give you the chance.
@@bugfolk6323 Seems, like you are fighting Te. Just like me, INTJ, in my dreams I was fighting Fe - people trying to control my behaviour. You are fighting people, who know, what you think (Te). Your dreams are trying to resolve your heroes journey. To win, you have to stop hiding, of fighting, but instead you have to accept Te demon in your life, and help him.
TV series Legion follows INFJs heroes journey, with INTJ as villain (from INFJ point of view).
I’m the same as Calypso. A bunch of random items that somehow fit together into a dream that I never even question.
Green supposedly often represents Sensing. I wonder if Si is being used to protect her from outside threats/chaos. An oven mitt also seems kind of Si anyway :P
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That and I often fight time management. I’m often behind in doing something. Or things are chaotic and I’m trying to bring order to them.
INFP: Yes! Some of my dreams involve racing to avoid missing a flight, train, exam and so on.
INTJ & INFP Coffee Would like running away from something casing you or trying to be quick to escape something also count?
@@CasualCognition reminds me of the hare in alice in wonderland who is always running late for his meetings. Could signify tertiary Si.
@@CasualCognition my INTJ mother and me, ENTP, have that kind of dream, so I think that the fear of being late is not related to the functions, or maybe is related to high intuitives (dom or aux) in general
As an INTJ, I agree that my dreams are either realistic or very surreal. In my realistic ones, I'm just at school doing school things, but a surreal one I had involved me not being able to escape park and having to fight off a demon while colors either stopped existing, becoming monochrome in one minute and very colorful in another.
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I am an ENFJ and I really fear conflict and try to avoid it. In my nightmares I dream that I argue with someone and wr disagree and yell at each other. I wake up feeling anxious and alarmed.
Also, as an ENFJ most of my dreams are about social situations. It’s mostly me actively talking and engaging with people, or listening to them talk and trying to confort or encourage them. I often dream about groups. Me and a group of friends going in an adventure or me and my high school classmates. The best dream is when I receive appreciation from people. Despite I consider I have big imagination, I very rarely, almost never dream of surreal things. I also dream a lot about things I want to happen in my life - Ni, which is pleasing :)
(INFP) I've felt physical sensations in dreams (few and far between), but they are always tied to strong emotions, and if I have a physical sensation in a dream I wake up, and then feel the physical sensation in real life. But they are always tied to very, very strong emotions. Like once, I had this dream where this guy was being a real jerk and I got upset to the point where I felt I needed to punch him in the face. I was so infuriated, and when I punched him I felt it in the dream and woke up, but it had turned out I sat up in bed and punched the water glass on a table next to my bed. And although that was physical in real life, I've had a few other dreams where I've been overcome with emotions in my dreams and felt a physical sensation that was crucial to the dream in some abstract way, and I've woken up and I'll feel the physical sensation still even if nothing out of the ordinary happened to me in real life.
The dreams I do remember well I usually have feelings attached to them, and remember those feelings sort of like watching a scene of a movie that's supposed to be moving. However, I usually experience this weird feeling in my dreams where it's as if my emotions are underwater - I feel them, but they're usually lighter than in reality. I wonder if because Fi is my primary function, if it also grounds me to reality in dreams and might be a cause of why I remember the dreams that I do. And, if it is used to much in a dream, I come back to reality and wake up.
Just a few thoughts. I realize this video was posted months ago, but I found it too interesting not to comment now. :)
i've not watched the video yet and i have to say: what an interesting subject choice! That's why i really like video's/channels like this.
I don't know if this is an inferior Se thing, but in my dreams the physical environment is never to be trusted: sometimes I can't open doors or windows, or correctly drive a car, or I accidentally break things, other times I have a false perception of the environment (disappearing objects, shapeshifting objects, or even objects that I see differently from other people). I also have somewhat architectural dreams, in which I move inside an environment that I created in my subconscious from scratch, not really existing slightly modified places, literally invented.
Also, I have this recurring theme of running away from something. In general, the plot makes a lot more sense than the physical, unreliable environment.
Seem like problems with Se blindspot. Probably INTP, because you mentioned environment, that you created (Ti). You are probably running away from Fe - expectations.
ENTP (99% sure) - This was really interesting. My dreams are like Calypso's, made up of real objects, but in no way a realistic scenario(I just know what's going on in the dream, nothing ever seems out of place); however, the self/character/whatever part of the dream is not functioning on emotion. There is an internal dialogue of thought like what Alex has (It's like normal thought) . That doesn't mean I can't have emotions in the dreams, but they're generally not as present. Like I'll feel them in a very detached way (as though I know it's a dream) and never react based on them. I always act based on thought.
I'm ENTP and I dream also like Calypso and my decision making process is like in real life 🤣 so I'm ENTP in the dream too. I don't pay attention to emotions in general and I decide by logic. But if there are people involved in the dream I talk to them like I would do in real life, with same restrictions sometimes to say things that I know that will make them be too much offended 🤦♀
I'm an INTJ and my dreams are very situational based, usually have an underlying meaning to them that I need to figure out or my emotions are personified and something that I need to overcome. Recently I have had dreams that are in a zombie apocalypse world where I am fighting them off (feelings of lack of control) or I'm the leader of a camp and alone trying to keep the group together to stop anarchy (believing I need to only rely on myself to achieve things) and not allowing others to help me (lack of trust of other people). I think these dreams represent what my real life is like and how I feel on a subconscious level.
Other types of dreams I have are where I'm solving puzzles, running away from unseen things, evading objects and closing doors/windows to protect myself from whatever might be out there.
Interesting, I do think MBTI could play in how dreams happen in someone. However, as an ISTP, the way I dream seems nothing like the Ni/Se or Ne/Si dreams and when I do remember my dreams, they are very often concrete and something tangible, not abstract. I actually think Sensors dream in different ways than Intuitives, like an SJ would dream differently from an NP and an SP would dream differently from an NJ.
I'm ENTP I was wondering how sensors dream. Can you tell me some dream?
Mine are sometimes very normal and real, but when they are "surreal" are like Calypso's dreams, but my decision making is totally Ti-Fe and my way of thinking is like in real life.
[ENTP] I had a dream fairly recently where I was with some people, we were bowling and then somehow ended up searching for a mansion in the woods. During the search I saw a floating metal cube, I went and grabbed it then was flying above the people I was with as we headed towards the mansion. Then one by one all the people below died, from things like snakes biting them and them turning green and kind of melting. I made it to the mansion alone and it was basically a large-ish wooden shack.
(INTP/ISTP) I usually dream in black&white. I ocassionally have colors like red, green, orange and blue. But overall, theyre like brown/grayscale monochromatic. Its always dark at night or dark places with no lights at all.
I dream about familiar place I hate being in and unfamiliar places I find interesting to explore. I really hate being in like my old highschool, away from home (and cant go home), lost in the forest, being in a crowded mall/department store, places with water like waterfall/rivers (afraid of drowning/sinking even tho I love swimming) and on the road with trucks and fast vehicles going by.
Theres also abandoned houses/buildings with no people around and collapsing building and houses or uncharted territorties that seems new yet familiar with antiques/old objects I find in museum.
Theres also infinite ricefield/river. A really open wide space so I have nowhere to go. My environent have a mind of its own like having earthquakes, rains, tornadoes, shapeshifting/collapsing buildings/floors or teleporting to new scenes/environment when I try to look and walk around
Most of my dreams are either from conscious/subconscious fears (bullies from highschool and being back again on hs, experiencing them again in my dreams), afraid being on the road (dying from vehicular crashes), being lost and cant go home/dont know where to go, frustration of cant buy shits I want to have or cant find what Im looking for, trapped in caves/underground house with traps and being around so much people.
I dreamed about places that are sometimes have a storyline like Im some sort of movie, mainly action movies with horror. I get followed by unfamiliar things and I keep running away from them or fighting them off. I sometimes get into death games like SAW or kill hordes of people trying to kill me. But I usually just running away from them. I cant control what happens in my dream and I wake up exhausted all the time from doing too much in my dreams to survive. Its almost as if Im gonna die everytime I dream so I really hate having dreams.
My dreams is like being in Inception and/or Dr. Strange except Im not the whose controlling it cause the the dystopian ruin nature of my dream environment itself have a mind of its own. Being in unfamiliar place makes me wanna explore yet I feel like I belong there and always has been living there for a long time to feel this sense of familiarity even though its my first time being there. But to familiar places I hate being in, I always try to escape my way out to find my way back home. My dreams sometimes involves death and terror from me and people around me. Sometimes there are things I need to find out whats going in order to get out of the situations. Everything seems fien at first but its goes wrong halfway of my exploration like half the time. Its like playing a hyper-realistic action/horror game where I try to survive all the time and use everything in my disposal inside my dreams. That includes the ability to parkour and jump high places without dying
The only good dreams I have are rare to have. But theyre usually involves seeing my favorite people/bands and finally meeting them in person or some kinky sexual dreams esp when theyre with people I found hot. These kind of dreams usually involves only one place without exploration much. Just in a single room or place with them.
As an INTP, I've experienced the inclusion of a lot of unrealistic objects. But it's still something that you can picture being tangible. Like a wave in the shape of a panther, and flying ships. But my dreams feed into my thoughts and create these kind of simulations based on those thoughts. One recurring theme (which includes the giant water cat) is some kind of fear or worry I have. A lot of those dreams consists of me having to solve the problem. And I think they also challenge my thoughts on myself and what I'm trying to accomplish. Which sounds a bit weird.
Sounds like the description of introverted intuitive dreams... sure you're not an NTJ?
I really like this one. And the Ni/Se aspects are accurate. I'm thinking that types that share processes regardless of the order of the stack share similar style dreams. Thank you so much for sharing this with everyone. Hoping your future videos go in this direction.
Two more FeNi (or NiFe) type dreams: I had an object in my hand and wandering along a skyway system of buildings to find the person to give the object to. Once I gave the person an object, he thanked me and gave me another object to help another person on their quest. I found that person after searching and following directional signs on the wall. He/ she gave me another object to help the next person. I kept giving people random needed items until I woke up. The metaphor I got from it was that we need to be aware of times when we can be there to help someone in need, no matter how small we think our help may be, we each have something we can give to make life better/ help the next person on their quest.
Dream example 2: I planted a garden in a town clear across the state, and had to return to check on what I planted. I got on a bus and it took me towards the town. At some point I had to get off the bus and find the next stop. I waited at the stop wondering what bus was going to come and if it would take me where I needed to go. I got on it trusting it will take me towards my direction. For a while it did and I observed the people on the bus. They were calm/ friendly, but I had a feeling that questioned, "is this the right bus? Am I going the right way?" Again I had to get off the bus, backtrack a little to find the next stop. Along the way the weather turned stormy, and I saw tornados forming and it started pouring rain. I got drenched and feared for my life and safety. But I knew I couldn't turn back. The garden ahead of me needed tending. I wasn't even sure it would still be alive, but I had to have faith that the trip would be worth it. I had to keep going forward, even if that meant having to walk the rest of the way.
Waking up I can see this as a metaphor to both my life and the human condition. We have to follow our path and life goals. We may not be certain if it is worth, it, but that's what faith is for. Each bus was itself a label and a step of the process. There was no pain or regrets for taking the "wrong" buses. They were all part of the process of getting to where I need to go.
My best dreams are like those where I feel some profound meaning beyond the dream itself.
(INFP/INTP) strangest thing to me, of my dreams, is the suspension of reality--like, i truly do believe, ya know, like, i am a surgeon, in 2037... simple example, but i totally buy it; i only really 'come to' if dream's too scary, then i just make myself wake up (9x out of 10). I had a "dream within a dream" the other night~ it was SO COOL/surreal/i don't know; great experience as Inception is my fave movie!! So: in the dream, i went to sleep & dreamed; then i awoke in the dream & told someone about the dreams i'd had;; THEN i awoke in to REAL life !!! WOW.
INFP: I have dreams within dreams too! And I relate so hard to the suspension of disbelief, like in one dream, my university became a Battle Royale scenario. The school was giving us military weapons to off each other, and no part of dream me thought "hey, this is weird." I was too busy thinking about how to stay alive while killing the least amount of people!
exactly!
I find it funny that we accept the reality of our dreams while we are in them, and only question them once awake, it shows that we are actively willing to accept whatever reality appears to be, this seems to be our default.
yeah i know; i luv that. I think it has to do w/us creating our own reality, period. ...
(INTP and interestingly enough I also score near 50/50 on T&F but lean towards T). I also have dreams within dreams. Sometimes 3-leveled dreams within dreams within dreams. I call them "matroska dreams" -- named after those Russian stacking dolls. Likewise, despite how utterly bizzare my dreams are, foreign constructs often feel somehow familiar. Like, I "wake up" (in a dream) in a house totally invented by imagination, but in the dream I feel like "obviously I'm home" like I've lived there my whole life. 😄
An absolutely stellar video! Through your dream descriptions, you really probed at the differences, especially among the two perceiving axes! You both essentially formulated a clinic on the distinctions here which I think could be incredibly useful as a learning tool! Really amazing material done in such a spontaneous way!
Judging by comments in this comment section, our dreams try to resolve our problems, mostly our type-specific hero´s journey. INTJs fight Fe - people trying to control their behavior. Resolution is usually by doing something unpredictable, and confuse "enemies" . But not fighting anyone directly. ENFP tries to take control over chaos in their life. Resolution seems to be creating structure in your life and set goals (creating Ti). INFP fight someone specific (not general chaos, or society. Probably applies to ISFP too), who tries to control their life. Seems, like IFP women fight people, who try to control their sexuality (eunuchs). Resolution seems to be something with Se (INFP), or Ne(ISFP) - go out, and do stuff, so you gather more data to feed your Te - so you know other peoples intentions. INFJs seem to fight Te - demon (who changes faces - that is, what Te people do around Fe), who causes emotional mayhem around you, and who knows, what you think, so you cannot hide from him. Resolution is to stop hiding, of fighting him, and instead help him (If you can't fight them, join them).
My dreams are extremely vivid and I often wake with physical symptoms. I do often dream of slides - incredibly long, sophisticated ones often going underground etc. I dream most often about escaping while being chased by menacing things (including people), but I have so much lucid control all the time that I can stop time, create or remove walls, place myself somewhere else, revive after being dead etc. I often have apocalyptic dreams ( most often waking after I'm finally caught by a tsunami), sometimes discovering some universal mystery, sometimes written an amazing song - instrumentation and words, having a very prolonged mindblowing romance & sex, and sometimes just enjoying the freedom of flying, sometimes among STUNNING scenery, while trying to wield the power as its always very buggy lol. I know I tend to have very long back and forth dialogues in my dreams. I had dreams that literally came to pass the next day or two! Annoyingly I've been more and more forgetful of the dreams upon waking the older I get.
Sometimes I look forward to my sleeping life more than waking O_o.
Type me!
I've just realised: these explanations could also easily apply to how these types use their functions to create stories...e.g. 'Si seeks symbolic representation of objects, Ne ties these together conceptually' - INFP + INTP's way of making stories?
[potentially INFP] I don't really know how these aspects of my dreams relate to the different functions, so i will just talk about it and you can make your own interpretations ^-^. before i went into a deep depression i was obsessed with dreams and was able to control my 'avatar' as i put it in the dream. I was able to manipulate myself to have certain dreams when i wanted them, i would create an avatar in real life that i saw as my dream avatar. She was like a ninja, she wore all black, ninja like clothes, holding these shuriken like weapons. Of course i didn't always look like that in my dreams, that i could not control. I had control of myself in the dreams and what i did in my dreams, i also usually remembered them.
There was one dream, which i was in a building that was the school, but not really, as it was the size of a bathroom. Outside was a field of flowers and in the far distance there was a canyon blocking the horizon, there i could see a heart. I, mesmerized, ran towards the canyon and arrived finally at the king of hearts. Entering into the heart i found myself in another world entirely. It was at the time what i thought was ancient greece, in between two broken pillars in the last remnants of war was a movie, playing the little mermaid. I don't remember if it was the first time i returned to the place or the second, but at that moment a loud voice echoeing throughout the entire world of my dream warned me. 'You may only return 3 times, or you will die.' filled with a desire for my friend to see this wonderful thing i saw i kept trying to bring her dream self into my dream (at the time i believed our dream bodies where connected, though i don't necessarily still believe it in those terms, i do believe it is possible to enter others dreams, or atleast be in the same dream intentionally as different avatars.)
on the third fantasy of it i finally dragged her in but there was a war, as this was my fourth time returning. heroes battled in all fronts it was a fight to the death me and my friend tried to help but we foolishly died almost immediately.
It was then in real life i truly wanted my friend to see this world too, so using my knowledge on dreams, i used my friends to conduct an experiment. I had them create their avatars in real life drawing out what they where and told them about my dream characters and inquired into theirs, realizing that we would need to know how our dreams are to each other if we were going to successfully enter the same dream, i gave them all my knowledge.
Everyday for a week we attempted to enter the same dream, on the first day i had us retrace what we did the day I had the dream, imitating the emotions and actions, as well as thoughts. (In the morning i thought of ariel but then chose not to think of it for the rest of the day knowing this would entice my dreams into that subject) Finding the right root. For a whole week we kept trying, attempting to go to sleep at the same time seeing as that would probably affect the dream, however for some reason it was not working.
I realized that my friend was actually going to sleep before me, so that day i imitated what he family would be like to her before she went to sleep choosing to go to sleep earlier. and we each meditated on the same thought before we fell asleep.
Me and her shared the same dream, at this point you are probably bored, but i shall continue. I was on a wall, and she was in the mist, i was my avatar, seeking for her in the mist, i had not had as much control over a character as then, it felt as if we where breaking forbidden boundaries, i tried to speak to her as i saw her in the mist but i could not. the forces of the dream dragged me off the wall falling into a neighborhood i could not escape, but i knew it was her.
When we went to school the next day, i asked her where i was in the dream, she said i was on a wall and that i fell and i told her she was in the mist and we both confirmed this was true
wow, what did any of this have to do with mbti? I feel kinda bad, but not bad enough to delete, maybe you can see a (mbti) pattern here?
[Self reflection regarding mbti]
There was alot of symbolism to this that i did not mention. XD
Our emotions tend to show in our dreams, our minds going on the thing that we had thought of but no longer were. That is where you will most likely see your dreams, or emotions that you are worried about or however your feeling.
Wow, that's so interesting! Were you two able to do that again? And what other symbolism did you not mention?
Your dream seem to be about developing Te - synchronize your thoughts, so you can speak and cooperate. Though you seem to have Se - Ni. Se - Ni do experiments. Maybe ISFP. And you were fighting Ne blindspot by running through similar situation, but only slightly changed, so you can tell your intentions (Te) exactly. It is interesting, how all Se - Te people (gamma quadra in socionics) seem to live their life by scientific method - running experiments, and observing results.
INTP(I think, at least)
I don't usually remember my dreams, but the ones that I do are surreal in a similar way to what Calypso describes. I can think of one where I was trapped in a massive spider web that covered a house, and the house was like a weird combination of the house I grew up in and the one I currently live in. In the dream I used a torch to burn away the spider web and after I got free I watched the fire spread to the house. One thing that seems common to my dreams is someone or something familiar unexpectedly appearing as if out of nowhere. I had this other dream where I was chasing a can of Brisk around a wooden dock area and onto a pirate ship. Eventually I caught it and as I held it in my hand I turned around and my brother was standing there, telling me to not to drink his girlfriend. I legitimately have no explanation for this dream, it was very bizarre.
The video was amazing, I am really enjoying seeing the two of you interact in real life adds a nice energy. It was great to see you guys coming to conclusions on the fly, cool to watch you both make those connections. It would be very intresting to see if there is any common themes between one's type and the construction of their dream world. I have always been fascinated by dreams and hope to hear more from you guys on the topic.
For me: I have a mix of both abstract objects and real objects but they seem to be along the Ni/Se framework. I can be in a perfectly normal place, but then look up at the sky and the clouds may change into abstract shapes. Or I'll look up at the sky and words may be floating across with planes towing them. A few rare dreams I can even read words in them. Sometimes I can interact with characters and talk. No matter how surreal the dream may be or how out of place things are, the dream matrix treats it like reality. If I try to alter the dream beyond what it wants me to see, then the dream will loop back and reset until I do what it wants. Sometimes I can ask questions and the Ni voice talks to me directly. The most recent "Ni" type dream showed me the letters Fe, Ni, Se, Ti and was telling me this is my type. I was arguing with it telling it there was no way I was an extrovert, much less an Fe dominant. It then started showing me a slideshow of memories playing them, showing me times in my life where Fe affected my life. The more I argued with it, the more memories it showed me.
The most vivid ones I get to make choices within the dreams framework of reality. My dreams tend to be metaphors to either my life or can be used to help understand the human condition.
I've also had "predict the future" type dreams. When they happen the effect is very vivid, like the dream _really_ wants me to pay attention to it and all the details. Real life events that occured in some abstract/ symbolic way: Flooding in Australia after I dreamt of living in there (never had any connection to that place, didn't even think of Australia) Earthquake in Mexico (dreamt that after the Japan Earthquake, didn't occur until years later.) Another one I dreamt a few years ago was one predicting a stock market crash in the US and a collapse of Europe. (the dream presented it like watching a slideshow of events in rapid succession) I am hoping those don't come true.
Yeah the SE "Rollercoaster" type drop is something i've experienced in many dreams. It's very uncomfortable at points.
I experience the "rollercoaster-like drop" very frequently in dreams also. Scary.
Wait can you describe what you mean by this? I'm not sure if what your describing is related to SE as much as it is to the human mind/( or if it is something else that is related to sleep cycles irrelevant to functions), there is a point in our sleep cycle that one 'falls asleep' which may be indicated with dreaming you fell off a chair and fell off your bed in real life waking up suddenly. That is actually related to one of the sleep cycles. just wanted to make sure your not referring to that and something else (SE dreams) in order to have a good understanding.
Sounds like a "hypnic jerk," which is when you startle or twitch from the sensation of falling, usually right before the 1st sleep stage. It's caused by the way your muscles relax when you're falling asleep, and often results in falling dreams, especially in children, who tend to have more simple dreams. Hypnic jerks are reportedly experienced by 70% of people, so I think of it more as a "human nature" type thing than a personality-based trait. Although, the incidence of hypnic jerks seems positively correlated with anxiety, irregular sleep, and caffeine consumption, so I would be interested to see some statistics possibly indicating a higher incidence of anxiety or sleep-disruption in certain personality types.
@@heatherbryant4197 What an interesting comment!!! I second hearing that research if someone has it.
This video might be one of my favourites, so far!
It's so interesting to hear about how other types experience dreams.
I've had a similar discussion with an ESFJ friend a while ago (not particularly about the functions but about how differently we perceive dreams) and we came to a similar conclusion. I'm an INTJ and I can totally relate to what you have said and most of the Ne-Si points are true for my friend.
This is certainly a topic I could listen to for days :)
Infj guy here. My dreams always seem to feel like everything is happening to me and then I end up taking control or acting in a certain way to get a particular outcome. I sometimes realize I’m dreaming. They usually involve other people and emotions. It’s like first person observing everything. There’s no purpose of the dream but somehow it becomes purposeful if that makes sense? My dreams involve people/feelings and how everything will turn out. And I’m definitely more direct in my dreams than I am in real life
I used to think I was Ne-Si even in my dreams, but I think I experience very strong physical sensations in my dreams, hence Se-Ni makes more sense. Like fear and the feeling that I'm going to die causes this burning sensation in my heart. And I had a dream where I killed a wolf and it was very physical and tactile. In another dream I could see a dog chasing me and I had the sensation of floating in the air. This came from a music video i saw from Madonna called Frozen. I also experience vivid mental images while I'm awake, I'm not sure if this relates more to Se or Ni. Very interesting.
I love dream analysis.
Hey, infp here. So wierd how the perceiving axes affect dreams. Here are two of my dreams. In one of my dreams I was swimming in a pond with my friend when frogs started to appear, then more and more frogs appeared until there was more frogs than water. In another dream I was a pig being chased by a guy with a moustache that was trying to cut my ear off, then out of now where a warrior princess comes charging dowm the hill, i turn pack into a human, the moustache guy turns into a pig and the warrior princess cuts of his ear. My dreams tend to repeat themselves over and over again, playing slightly differently each time.
My dreams were either romance-related or supernatural in nature. Usually i'll have strange creatures or settings and be an observer in them. Some were apocalyptic, some had to do with outer space. I recall this one particular dream where i was floating in outer space,going around giant planets. I had another where i was looking at the sky as the atmosphere seemed to be disappearing altogether. I had crazy dreams! (INFP)
I’m an INFP and experience dreams in a very similar way to calypso (I hope I spelled your name right!). How the symbolism in my dreams gets played out is wild sometimes. There was this one dream I had after a very very hard break up. I was at the guys funeral in the dream, in somebody’s home. Instead of an open casket, slabs of his flesh were on display on a table or something. It was so strange. I remember looking at them. They were embedded in what looked like rectangular glass plaques. I think there were descriptions in writing but I don’t quite remember. I do remember feeling a horrifying, almost morbid loss in both the dream and reality.
I believed myself to be an infp, but the structure of my dream world seems to be rather Se-Ni. I always remember my dreams. I remember them for months after I have them. My dreams follow a plot line. I can have several (I always remember at least four distinct dreams) but when I wake and write them down, I see that they tie into each other, even if it’s very subtly. The external environment as a whole holds the significance rather than individual objects. Color in particular plays an important role, as well as the atmosphere. They are always emotionally charged and I carry that emotion into the waking world with me the whole day. Things appear in my dreams as they are in life, but they are always altered enough to feel strange. I usually am trying to find something or someone. There’s nearly always an objective. I never usually do though. I’m always behind. Incapable of the task set before me. Ive never once figured out what I’m looking for.
[INTP]My dreams are random and ambiguous, usually my nightmares follow the reoccurring theme of me messing everything up and losing control and that everyone turns on me, but my more unrealistic nightmares are more fictional in the sense that they involve situations or beings that don't exist in the real world. My normal dreams usually involve something that I've been thinking about and have actually been taking action to in the real world, or a situation of past experience. I dream in normal color and experience little or no physical sensory information. Thoughts?
This is so fascinating - please make more of these videos :)
I would argue that we have the potential to have both kinds of dreams of these axes, but yeah I think most of my dreams have real objects abnormally misplaced.
Agreed I get sensory dreams rarely b it infp so maybe that's to be expected
I don’t normally remember my dreams even though I try, but the dream I remember the best is one where I’m outside & look up to see a house floating in the sky, then a car flies and parks next to it & I see an old man dragging a young girl who resembled Dorothy to me. I figured she was kidnapped so I wanted to go save her. I got my boyfriend & his friend to go up with me because suddenly a ladder appeared for me to go up. We got to the door & an old lady appeared. She invited us in & gave us soup, as we were eating it even though I knew we shouldn’t, I noticed tiny pig snouts floating in the soup. I stopped eating & I can’t remember what happened from there.
[INTJ] I have a fun one for you! I feel the need to provide some context for this dream first; when I was younger, my sister and I watched Finding Nemo one too many times and, as such, this resulted in me having a dream about sentient, talking pelicans. SO, for some reason, a mother pelican and her children had moved into my bedroom to seek shelter from a cruel, evil uncle pelican who wanted to take the children away. At one point the evil uncle pelican came to my bedroom window and I told him to go away. He complied, but only after making several ominous threats. Some time passed and as it became night a thunderstorm rolled in. The pelican family and I were huddled together on my bed when a flash of lightning cast a dark shadow of the uncle pelican onto the window. Things went dark and quiet again, just the sound of the rain hitting the glass. Then, just as a second flash of lightning lit up the scene, the evil uncle pelican was crashing through my window and flying straight at my face....it was at this point that I woke up as I was falling out of my bed (I had jumped out of the way of the uncle-pelican in the dream). Awake and on the floor, my heart racing, it took a second for my brain to catch up. When it did, I laughed at myself because I'd just had a nightmare about pelicans....although, from the things you brought up in the video, I wonder now if there may have been some sort of overall Ni martyr-mentality message or lesson to the dream? Very interesting video!
Whenever I tell people my dreams they end up bursting out in laughter because my dreams are so random and sound nonsensical to everyone else.
My dreams are also super random dude, in my case things that happen to me (usually something i am still kind of processing) are stitched together in a dream and some crazy plot is made and i can usually decipher pretty easily which part of the plot means what, but there are sometimes these really weird ones that are not easily deciphered.Can anyone inform me why my dreams are like this and perhaps type me?
I saw Calypso definitely had her shadow function Ni going on overdrive with those subjective dream interpretations! INFPs (and perhaps INTPs, if they can see the point) make the most productive/creative dream analysts in this INFJs opinion. It's like their shadow Ni depth is multiplied and extroverted rapidfire by their auxiliary Ne! :D
I'm thinking I'm entj, and I have a lot of nightmares about FI. People become overly selfish and emotional and I can't reason with them using logic. They do terrible things and don't care because they "feel the way they do". I also can't control emotions in my nightmares as well sometimes. Also I spend a lot of time walking around empty shopping mails with a undefined since of dread.
INFP: So interesting! Especially since I and a few other INFPs seem to be having Te objective based dreams.
Boby Rob Ooh that’s interesting. I (INFP) sometimes have such nightmares with Te. I get stuck in this situation where everyone (a group of people/an organization) is executing orders but they lack any moral background and are hurting people, and no one seems to see that as a problem. I also fail to find it in me to go to action and voice my thoughts/go to action. Those dreams got less when I got older though. Maybe it has something to do with getting more in balance with your functions.?
This video is 2 years old, but I thought I’d contribute that I rarely remember my dreams, but the ones I do remember are usually about walking somewhere with some Te goal like going to class or delivering an object. Last night I dreamed that I was walking through this futuristic alleyway in which all the buildings were made of this light metal in all these chaotic and industrial shapes. The alleyway wasn’t unpleasant or dystopian, it was actually really nice and I think it was sunset, and somewhat cold. Throughout the dream, I had walked back and forth through they alley several times, probably going to and from class, and the last time, I stopped in this tiny little dive bar that I had noticed every time but never gone in. The bar had magenta mood lights and a glass counter and steel fixtures. Nobody was in there except the bartender. She had short, brightly-colored hair and served me tea. I was romantically interested in her, and so I asked her about her job, her friends, her story, and I just listened to her for what seemed like about an hour. I think I’m an ISFP, so this matches with Alex’s Ni/Se surreal objects coming together in a perfectly reasonable way along with a Te mission and Fi feelings. Writing this out helped me remember just how beautiful the dream was.
I've been typed as several things. ENFP, INFP, INFJ, ESFP, ISFP. The only consistent part is the Feeling part. I feel way more like an Intuitive than a Sensor, but I grew up with Sensor parents so I don't think my Intuitive functions really flourished until I moved out. Anways...
I can remember several dreams from when I was young where I've been in some sort of trouble and am hindered in some way. The most common one is that I have no voice. I remember walking through a building with dozens of doors and trying to find a way out. Every room was black. I opened one door and I saw my parents sleeping and I called out to them but suddenly my voice was gone.
I remember another dream where I was being kidnapped by that scary old lady that says "BOOOOO! BOOOOO!" from The Princess Bride. She put me in a wheel barrow and wheeled me down the street into a giant tree. My parents were across the street and I was trying to call out to them and again, I had no voice.
I've also had dreams where I'm being chased and it feels like it is never ending.
Then I've had dreams where I'm playing Survivor (I'm a HUGE fan) and the people are a mix of past players, or my friends, or random people. I can dream that I get to the end and if am about to lose, I subconsciously can manipulate the dream so that I win.
I've also had times in my life where I've dreams that I'm study for a test and as much as I feel confident in the answers I keep failing. Or I'm trying to do math and the equations/formulas suddenly make no sense and I can solve the problem. Those kinds of dreams usually happen after I've been dealing with a lot of those real world issues for days on end to the point where they slip into my dreams.
I've also had dreams of falling in love with people I do know, or complete strangers. They seem more real and intimate than any relationship I've had with a real person.
Does anyone else feel like they can subconsciously manipulate their dreams once they realize they have control?
(INTP but I score higher on F than most INTPs) My dreams are like Calypso's. They are WEIRD. I mean, totally BIZARRE situations. But I've always easily intuitively interpreted the meaning of my dreams because everything seems obviously symbolic and the dream is like one big allegory full of metaphors. For example, I'll dream about visiting someone and opening a door to find they *literally* have skeletons in their closet. Or people hiding behind the shower curtain in their bathroom (secrets they're trying to keep private). I dream about trying to cross a rickety old wooden bridge across an expanse of tumultous ocean waves to get to a ship that looks a 17th century pirate ship (trying to escape my current circumstances amid chaos and fearing I'll get swallowed by the chaos and not make it). I once dreamed I was walking down the sidewalk and peeked over a fence to see my best friend was pacing around talking on the phone at the bottom of an empty swimming pool in some random yard (She was talking to a guy twice her age at the time and I felt she was "digging herself into a hole she couldn't get out of" and "in too deep.").
I once dreamed about someone stabbing me in the face. When I told my partner about it, he said, "Do you think the knife was related to the knife we used to cut fruit last night?" I'm like, "No, trust me, my brain isn't that literal. Everything is symbolic."
I've only had a small handful of dreams where I *felt* physical sensations, the worst of which shook me to my core. I usually always wake up before I (presumably) die in a dream. But in one dream I experienced my own death -- the physical sensation of dying -- in various horrific ways, over and over and over again. I woke up crying and shaking. It was horrible.
Jung talks a lot about the inferior function in dreams, that would be cool to talk about!
this was such an interesting video! wish you made another one
When I was in my 20’s, I always had rollercoaster dreams. I usually did feel the “drop” right before I woke up. I haven’t had a dream since I’ve been in a relationship (I wonder whats that about). My dreams where always Se like, I was in some physical place but I might have some type of “thing” to do OR watching a scene unfold but also apart of the scene in some way. I also have had just really “trippy” like LSD dreams. Just a bunch of weird visuals and things happening that some how made sense in the dream. I never remember the details of my dreams though.
I have a lot of dreams that involve thunderstorms. Many of them also involve flying. In many of my dreams, I use my arms as wings, which doesn't quite make sense. My most vivid dreams didn't involve flying or thunderstorms, but they did involve some weird kind of teleportation. I had a few lucid dreams as well.
My most recent vivid dream involved being in a narrow, forested canyon with a building on both sides that I could climb up to reach the top. I started climbing at night on the side one of the buildings until I found a balcony with sketchy people who became hostile. I then, ran back and inside the building, then daytime appeared. I headed to the top of the building from the inside only to find a train station up top. I had to go back inside the building to find a ticket. After finding the ticket, I returned to the train and apparently got teleported to a meadow on a hillside with a forest above it and a cabin in it. It became night and I saw a fire burning the forest above. I had to run and then my dream ended. Not sure what all this meant, but I did know the crazy parkour moves I used in the dream while climbing a building came from Assassin's Creed. I also knew that worrying about the Thomas Fire in California played a role in the fire in my dream.
My nightmares, however, almost always involve someone violating my moral values. I end the nightmare quickly by waking up, then go back to sleep hoping for a different dream.
Storm dreams = anxiety and fears. I get them a lot too, especially if my mind is in an active loop trying to problem solve or find connections in my life.
My dreams of Ti, are usually the ones that I'm running away, trying to lose someone in the way, so I start to use logic to choose imaginary alleys or streets, that i never have seen before in my life, but it feels like i do, to follow and to lose the person who's following me.
i'm either an enfp or infp and i relate to what calypso said. most of the memorable dreams that i remember for a few more minutes after waking up has people i love in it in an environment that feels like my old school but isn't like it. omg...
ENFJ here (thanks for the typing help). My most memorable dream was more than a decade ago when I took a 90-minute nap in the evening. It was a very vivid dream. At the beginning, I had like what Alex described, where I saw a bunch of circles appearing and growing in a pool, which I concluded in the dream must be islands emerging from the water. But then, the scene changes, and suddenly jagged rocks are emerging from the ground going high into the sky, and we (me and a bunch of other people, some of whom I know) find ourselves standing on a bridge perched between 2 mountain tops (kinda like in a video game). From this point on, it no longer seems surreal; the scene looks very real. To our right, there are 2 Vikings speaking and singing heroically, and apparently, what we all have to do is get off the mountain back onto the level ground. There is a cave with a stairwell behind the Vikings, but some of us (including me) are afraid to go that way, so we go left instead, where there is this creepy eggheaded man standing. We go down the steps by where he is, and it is a very long journey as we go down several flights of stairs. It has varying scenery, and it's dusk, before we start going deeper into the caves which are dark but lit. I say hi to some people on the way down, but as I get further down I start running across people I know who run into their Doppelgangers, who are climbing the stairs to meet them. When they encounter their Doppelganger, they immediately forget our goal, and seem to have been "taken over" by them, their attention completely commanded by them. I start getting really scared, and then I wake up, and sure enough it is dusk outside. I will never forget this dream!
I'm an ENFJ. Objects in my dreams never symbolise anything. I'll have dreams like sci-fi films. If I'm worried about something, the scenario of the dream tends to symbolise the fear. I was bullied all the way through school, so I tend to have trust issues or think that people are pretending to like me just to be nice, and I had a dream last year that one of my friends was refusing to acknowledge me in a room, but he was talking to everyone else, and as the dream went on, he started groaning in pain, and I was telling everyone there was something wrong, and everyone said I was worried about nothing, and then his mouth got glued shut, and he was writhing around on the floor, groaning in pain, and still I was the only one pointing out that there was something wrong and then it ended. I've recently been having a lot of dreams where I can fly, and I love that feeling. I use it to stop myself from falling from high places in my dreams.
[INFP] My dreams are very Ne/Si like how Calypso explained it, but I do have rare moments of extreme sensation. For example, I once had a dream where Prince Charming and Cinderella were pointing at and making fun of Cruella DeVille (all disney cartoon versions. Also the background/setting wasn't very noticeable, I remember it being very blurred and pink). Cruella was just really mad and I ended up trying to charge at her and punch her but I suddenly woke up, _literally_ jumping out of my bed with my fist in the air.
I also tend not to question what is happening around me when I dream, I barely even recognize my thoughts, and if I do notice my thoughts it's usually about how I feel. Recently I had a dream where I was running away from this old dude in this library who Idk if he was really bad or not but I just felt really weirded out by him. (But of course cleaning supplies had to float around me and turn into the size of giants, and the stairs had become this almost impossible slide to climb, so I had difficulty escaping up until I woke up.)
02:42-02:52 It was pretty crazy hearing that because I would experience this exact process up until around 25 years old, but in the past three years, this hasn't happened.
Very interesting I’m not sure of my type (INFP), but in my dreams I saw a lot of people that I know (family and friends) and It’s all about the desire that I have into these relationships (things that don’t work in the real life) or things I’m afraid of who happens, the nature, plants, the rooms, houses, and places are very detailed, and realistic. My feelings and touch are very realistic too and I dream a lot about movies and series that I saw. And also about objects they have no representation and they are just useful, or for the decor or sometimes I want to take them in the real life like clothes or jewelry haha.
So my dreams are exactly like they are described for Ne/Si but remembering my dreams and my thinking within my dreams is exactly Ne/Se 😅 ... i frequently think „I’m probably dreaming right now“
You two have very typical hair styles for your types:)
Pink lettuce juice sounds like red cabbage juice which is commonly used as a acid base indicator in a school science project. Skeletons in the pool sounds like Poltergeist.
So I'm in this mall outlet thing in France with some friends. We walk around outside on the side walks and go in to the stores and then around night time they just ditched me. So I call my mom to pick me up, and you know as you do, she drove from Atlanta to France, picked me up, and we drove back home...
Alex's dream of the slides really sounds like lucid dreaming, fascinating! I haven't lucid dreamed that much. Just one time I purposely killed a wolf that tried to eat me, whereas in the past I felt powerless to get killed by it.
almost all my dreams is surrounded by some conflict where me struggling against something(ENTJ), Oh and I die in 70% of the dreams and then I have obtain an omnipotent view of the dream
I wonder if Si dreamers remember dreams better than Se dreamers in the weak function. As an INFJ mine are gone before I can write them down totally. Memory vs. Sensation? Any ideas folks?
One more comment >.< alright, in relation to the philosophical question of 'how do you know what your thinking when its not related to the five senses' due to the fact your dream world is in a way a complex formation of your mind into a world that it interprets in a way, it would be as you've described, intuitive thoughts. You are the author (or your brain?) of this dream world you are in, just as you would right a story and put together connections that a reader would be unable to not being the source of the dream your brain would have already given you all you needed. Showing you an alternate universe that in reality you do know fully in an intuitive way, i am not sure if i make sense xD
and its not just intuitive understanding of your dream world, but a more conscious awareness of... i know what it is in my head i just don't know how to describe what i'm thinking xDD ..... hmmm...
Ok, to conclude when your dreaming you are more closer to the core of yourself. You are at the raw center of you.
I have dreamed about being in a mall, hearing music that has never been made or produced in real life. Dreamed about being at a symphony that has never been played in reality. Dreamed I got shot in the back left shoulder, waking up and feeling the burn in the exact spot where I was shot in the dream. When I was 10 years old, my family went to the beach for a week for vacation. My grandmother asked me one night before we went on vacation, Have you ever seen a sand dollar? I said no, how do you get them? She told me if I was lucky I would find one in the sand walking the beach. That night I dreamed we were at the beach, I jumped out of the car and ran over the dune to the water. As I came over the dune there were shiny things all along the shore, as I bent over to pick them up it turned out that they were silver dollars. My grandmother came over to me and asked What are you doing? I answered and said Picking up sand dollars.
What does it mean when my dreams almost always take place at my childhood grandmothers house? I haven’t been there in 3 years since my grandfather died.
my physical sensations dont go into the dreamworld (INTP)
I remember having a very vivid dream where i was aware that i was dreaming and i was walking trough a garden and i could feel everything, from the wind on my skin to the smell of the flowers and the touch of the plants. That was a very special dream but it only happened once.
I'm an INFP and my dreams are 99% surrealism.
I know this is a year late but I had a dream where it was the zombie apocalypse and I was with my friend. We stole a truck and came to a rode that was horizontally split. To the right a huge hoard of zombies to the left a long line of cars with people in them. We took a motorcycle out of the back and cut the line and drove into a building it lead to. The people locked us in. The building was filled with zombies. Anyway eventually my arm was grabbed by a zombie, who was a guy I know. My friend had an axe and cut my arm off instead of killing the zombie. When I lifted my arm up it was a pirate hook. We ended up running outside but chose the wrong door so we were fenced in. When we turned around all the doors were blocked. So I chose to break the pole on the American flag, but folded up the flag and put it down. We distracted the zombies by strapping a zombie to the motorcycle and got away back to the truck. Then I woke up. I have no idea what mbti type I am but that's my best dream example.
I think my FE is represented in dreams by still being aware of other people their feelings. IDK how my NI is represented, I rarely dream about abstract worlds. Most of it is very sensory correct. It's often as if my dreams are more real than my waking life. XD
[INTP] [TI] my dreams are normal as hell. I’m always myself...I always recognize most people and the strangers are faces I’ve seen from costumers at work. Just last week I had a dream someone damaged my car and I was trying to get the hotel people to give me the camera footage... but the hotel was a maze.....that could mean something.
Wow i love dreams and analysis you should do one for each type. Im ENFP (not INFP like I thought earlier)
This is a good topic, i just want to ask calypso or other INFP, do you guys experience mixing your imagination and your dreams when your telling it to other person cause sometimes i can’t differentiate my imagination for my dream and also what my actually dream was, lol this is probably because of (Ne) lol
INFP: Yes I frequently can't tell if my imagination is filling in the gaps of missing memories.
INTJ & INFP Coffee Yeah i kind do that sometimes, filling the gap with my imagination and later on i can’t distinguish which is which lol. Sometimes i think about how it can be connected but as far as i’m concern it is just random stuff which i will associate in a random things as well.
I totally relate to you in surrealism in this video, my background and objects in my dreams are realistic but the situation is totally off.
I've had dreams of flying (often) then suddenly it a whole different thing like a ghost or something graps me....
then my real body will feel the sensation then I wake up,
my deams are almost always collective and mixed together...
and about the objects they are sometimes real and other time there is nothing just (me) and there are also some very vivid dream (which are from past memories or never happend) and somedays i feel like I have done this before feeling and then I think about it's usually from my dreams... (INTP)
Yeah I think my dreams are pretty surreal. Like one time I had a dream that Jessie J was performing a song and it suddenly turned into Beyonce who started singing who let the dogs out on stage and on the last "woof" it turned into Jennifer Lawrence screaming from labour pains as she gives birth to a baby. Then suddenly I'm watching a trailer for the movie of 'mother' and there is a man who puts his hand over his face and tears his face apart.
Also once I was at my uncles everyone was acting weird. Then I went into one room and everyone stared at me. I look in the top corner of the room and a chameleon turns his head to face me and then said "Alien".
I'm so confused. Heelp. I'm InFj and I have both. I have dreams where the objects are real, but in other dreams, there are creatures that don't exist.
Objects = Se
Creatures = Te prp
I'm an INFP with MAJOR lucid dreaming ability and I'm curious if other INFP's are lucid dreamers too. Like I even have the ability to consciously change my dreams if I don't like how they're going, and I can decide if I want to wake up and go to the bathroom or not lol.
INFP yep I can lucid dream effortlessly and was always surprised when people said they "learned how" haha
I used to be a lot better at it but haven't experienced it as much lately. I've done the whole flying thing and could create objects out of thin air realizing that it's a dream and that I should be able to do whatever I want. Have also been in bad situations in dreams and I close my eyes and teleport to somewhere else that I'm thinking of and I'll be there when I open my eyes. It still took effort and concentration though, weirdly. The first step is definitely recognizing it's a dream and then trying to stay asleep. Although, one dream I recall, I created a huge dragon out of thin air but lost control of the dream and it started chasing me trying to kill me, haha oops. I forgot to mention I'm an INFP, as well.
Yeah it took me several years to realize that other people think their dreams are real while they are dreaming! I think it might go back to what Calypso said about the storylines being so weird. Cause I know those things would never happen in real life. My INTJ sister thinks her dreams are real and she tends to have more realistic dreams.
" the ability to consciously change my dreams "
That is what Lucid dreaming IS!;D
Where do I find the image used in the thumbnail of this video?
I had a dream where my bedroom in my house had opened up to an amusement park ride...
'Bathhouse' Spirited Away?
INTJ: Ahh love that movie! But no, sadly it wasn't a Spirited Away dream
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO DREAMS WAY DIFFERENT??? I will literally dream about cancer, its just in front of my eyes, but I am not there, its very very large and almost give you an Alice in Wonderland syndrome, not so close, but large making t appear close, like you can reach out and grab it. I also can smell it, the smell of Cancer, i do not know how to describe this smell, wouldn't say rotten, but almost foul? Never smelled that scent before, unless I was not consciously thinking about it, that could be a case. but yes weird stuff. Also read an article stating that you could dream in different dimensions, like 5D and 7D, and that explains a lot, i will see things, and have no idea how to explain it, my continuous brain cant even wrap it around my head, unless i'm dreaming. AM I THE ONLY ONE ON THIS?
(INTJ by the way), also have no idea if it changes much, but i score very high and very closely on all cognitive functions BUT Ne, quite low, dont often dream of people
In dreams do you guys see the dream from your own eyes or from the point of view of a viewer like in a movie? In my case it's 96% like a movie ,it's like I'm watching movie of myself from the eyes of another person but i can switch to my own eyes too
You could probably use this in typing people
My dreams are more like Calypso’s. however, from the body language video, i move more like a judger, i move with intention. These two things are contradictory. How can i dream like Calypso but move like a judger? It doesnt add up.
INFP: Judgers can be on the Si-Ne axis.
It'a not an exact science and these are inferences and interpretations. Im Ni dom INTJ, but dream more like the Ne-Si, I almost never have surreal imagery in my dreams, theyre a combination of real world occurences in surreal situations, with some sort of underlining meaning tying the dream together.
My beat friend is ENFP and always dreams random stuff and shapes and all mind of abstract things that doesn't exist. I think that determining those difference based on 2 person is misleading.
My five senses are working properly/ perfectly in the dream world. So what am I?
It's possible Se or Si. I've also heard of some people having far more realistic (as in tangible) dreams than most people, so it's also possible it's just the way your brain's wired.
I have no idea whats going on
So I thought I was an infp but maybe not now?
Wonder what a recurring dream of bathroom stalls means? Is that Ni se?
adrienne bartlett i have these too.
Vincent GanVogh, really! I've had one of these dreams that featured a 3 story jail looking set up but it was all bathroom stalls.. Are you ne si or Ni se?
I think there is a point in your day where you really need to use the restroom, but you don't. So you dream is reminding you to do this, and will keep happening if you don't. That or there is probably something important related to this.
I get those too. (I suspect I too use Ni and Se) Usually the absence of them and looking for privacy. I'm guessing the symbolism = feeling vulnerable and needing privacy/ boundaries.