Kenapa, setelah lama tak ada artikel baru di Kejut, sekarang malah ngomongin mimpi? Sebetulnya sih, penulis sudah punya banyak artikel yang setengah jadi, tapi apa boleh buat, para penulis sedang kuliah tahun terakhir, terlalu banyak tugas menumpuk, akibatnya output Kejut berkurang.

Why, after having a long time without any new articles on Kejut, now we are talking about dreams? Actually, the writer had a lot of articles that is halfway done, but nothing can be done knowing that the writers are now at the last year of the university study, too many tasks are waiting, and the result is the reduction of Kejut's output.

Pengantar

Aku baru saja menyelesaikan proyek 1 bulan: mencatat mimpi setiap bangun pagi setiap hari!

Ini dilakukan berdasarkan teori yang dikatakan orang2: Kalau anda berkata "Tadi malam aku ga mimpi!" sebetulnya yang dimaksud adalah "Saya lupa tadi malam mimpi apa!" Cerita selanjutnya di bawah...

Introduction

I just now finished a 1-month long project: writing down my dreams (at night) every time I wake up every day!

This is done based on a theory that was said by people: If you say "I didn't dream last night!" actually what you mean is "I forget what my dream last night was!" And we continue this story later...

Jenis mimpi

Setelah bertahun2 meneliti (sambilan), inilah mimpi-mimpi.

1. Mimpi biasa

   Nah ini mah ya biasa aja, yang paling sering timbul, jelek ataupun bagus. Biasanya muncul hal-hal yang terakhir dipikir sebelom tidur. - Pasti semua orang pernah...

2. Mimpi Jatoh!

   Baru sekitar 1-2 menit tidur, muncul hal yang NGERI dan ngagetin! bikin bangun tiba-tiba disertai gerakan refleks tubuh! GA enak rasanya tapi sebentar juga beres lah! tidur aja lagi (kadang2 disertai "gempa" susulan). - Hampir semua orang pernah, walaupun ga gitu umum

3. Mimpi tanpa tidur

   Agak susah dijelasin nih, tapi pernahkah Anda tidak tidur, tapi ga bisa lupain suatu hal, mau dipaksain segimana pun juga. Bisa ilang juga sih, tapi harus bisa keluar kamar dan ngerjain kegiatan lain (nah ini susah sekali dilakukan soalnya pikiran udah penuh hal-hal tadi). Akibatnya hampir sepanjang malam ga tidur. Ciri-ciri pas bangun, mata gampang dibuka tapi cape (kalo normalnya kan mata seger lagi tapi susah dibuka). - langka

4. Mimpi di dalam mimpi!

   Nah ini GAWATnya, SUSAH SEKALI BANGUN dan CAPE. Gini ceritanya. Misalnya anda mimpi[1] liburan ke suatu tempat. Lalu setelah cape bermain2 di tempat liburan itu, anda tidur. Nah di dalam tidur itu ada mimpi[2] lagi! Lalu ketika tersadar dari mimpi[2], anda masih ada di mimpi[1] sebelumnya. Lalu berulang seperti itu terus. Pikiran anda tetap merasa ingin bangun, tapi keinginan bangun itu udah terpenuhi pada "bangun dari mimpi[2]". jadi GAWAT. - langka sekali

Kinds of dream

After examining for years (part-time), these are kinds of dream.

1. Normal dream

   Well this is the normal dream, the most frequently appearing dream, both bad and good dreams. Usually the things you think before sleeping is the one that appears. - I'm sure everyone had this kind of dreams...

2. Falling Dream! ANNOY

   Just slept for 1-2 minutes, suddenly there comes a TERRIFYING thing and surprising! Makes us wake up very suddenly with a body reflex motions! Feel very BAD but in a moment it becomes normal lah! Just go back to sleep (sometimes a following "earthquake" happens). - Nearly everybody had this, although it's not very common

3. Dreaming without sleeping AWFUL

   This is quite hard to explain, but have you ever been not sleeping, but cannot forget a thing, how ever you force you mind to forget it. It can be diappear eventually, but you need to go outside the room and do something else (which is very hard to do because our mind is full of the thing mentioned). The result is nearly all the night you cannot sleep. How you know that: when you wake up, the eyes are easy to open but both eyes are tired (in case of normal: the eyes are fresh again but hard to open). - rare

4. Dream-in-a-dream! VERY AWFUL

   The AWFUL thing is, VERY HARD TO WAKE UP and TIRED. This is how it happens: Let's say that you have a dream[1] of going to a vacation to some place. Then, after you are satisfied enjoying the place of vacation, you sleep. Inside that sleep, you have another dream[2]! Then when you become conscious, actually you are conscious from that dream[2], and you will still have the previous dream[1]. And it will goes on and on. Your mind will think that you want to wake up, but that thought has been fulfilled by the wake up from dream[2] and you wake up to go to dream[1]. So it is AWFUL. - very rare

Asal mula misi catat

Nah, sekitar Juli 2006, aku baru pengen coba, betul ga sih, tiap tidur sebetulnya ku mimpi? ("Apa memang benar bahwa seorang yang bilang ga mimpi, sebetulnya cuma lupa mimpi dan bukan ga mimpi?") Jadi, mulai hari ini, tiap malem kuniatkan untuk ingetin mimpi pas bangun pagi. Berbagai cara sebelum berhasil dengan baik:

Pasang beker jam 5 pagi, tapi waktu bangun langsung tidur lagi. Nah pas tidur kedua kalinya, entah kenapa, biasanya mimpinya lebih heboh, lebih jelas, lebih inget. Jadi pas bangun, jangan dulu beranjak dari kasur, tapi inget2 mimpi dulu. Sampe "Oh iya mimpiku tadi adalah ..." baru beranjak dari kasur.

Masih kurang jelas, dan kadang ga yakin beneran mimpi ga sih tadi? Jadi siapkan hp (ponsel) deket tempat tidur, pasang beker jam 740, dan kalo beker bunyi, sesegera mungkin ambil hp, ketik sms isi mimpi ke adhi, lalu bobo lagi kalo masih pengen bobo.

Setelah seminggu dicoba, ternyata memang tiap hari mimpi! Padahal sebelom itu ku ga merasa setiap hari mimpi... mungkin hanya beberapa hari sekali.

Background of writing down mission

Well, only until around July 2006 that I wanted to try to prove, whether everytime I sleep I dream. ("Is it correct that every person that says that he didn't have a dream, actually he only forgets what the dream was instead of not having any dream?" So, starting today, every night I make a plead to memorize my dream when I woke up on the morning. The methods applied before it succedded:

Set an alarm at 5 am, but when I wake up immediately I sleep again. Well after I sleep the second time, somehow, usually the dream is more surprising, clearer, and can be better remembered. So just when waking up, don't immediately get up from your bed, but remember your dream. Until "Oh yeah, my dream was ..." then you can get up from your bed.

Still unclear, and sometimes I'm not sure whether I had a dream just now? So I prepared a mobile phone near my bed, I set the alarm at 7.40 am, and when the alarm rings, as soon as possible I take the phone, send an sms containing the contents of the dream to adhi, and then I sleep again if I still want to sleep.

After one week passes, I found out that every day I had a dream! Although before that I didn't think that I had a dream every day... maybe only once every a few days.

Misi catat

2 bulan berlalu, persoalan dengan mimpi sudah kulupakan, bangun seperti biasa dan tak mengingat2 mimpi lagi.

Namun pada suatu hari 15 Sep 2006, tiba2 aku ingin mencoba benar2 mencatat mimpi. Dengan alasan jendela selalu dibuka tiap malem, jadi kalau pagi, matahari pun masuk lewat jendela, kamarku jadi cukup terang untuk menulis, maka kusiapkan pinsil dan buku catatan 50 cm dari tempat ku tidur. Pas bangun langsung kutulis mimpiku.

Walau tak terlalu panjang -- juga dengan tulisan yang hampir ga kebaca karena masih setengah sadar -- ku berhasil membuktikan bahwa setiap hari selama 30 hari tidur malam aku mimpi! Catatan itu dari 16 Sep 2006 sampai 15 Okt 2006. Dan uniknya, dalam satu hari bisa beberapa mimpi - biasanya 2. Dan yang terbanyak: 7.

Sayangnya, ada 1 hari, 7 Oktober, yang ku ga inget mimpi apa, tapi ku tau ku mimpi. Sebelum itu pun, pernah pas bangun ingat tadi mimpi, tapi lupa mimpi apa, tapi untung beberapa puluh menit setelah bangun tiba2 ingat mimpinya apa. Dan kebetulan, 17 Okt 2006 -- sudah bukan saatnya mencatat mimpi -- aku ingat bahwa aku mimpi sangat besar dan panjang, tapi lupa apa.

Writing down mission

2 months has passed, I has been forgetting things about dreams, I wake up as usual and I don't memorize dreams anymore.

Nonetheless one day, 15 Sep 2006, suddenly I wanted to seriously write down my dreams. With the reason of having my windows open every night (so at the morning sunlight penerates the window and my room becomes quite bright for writing), so I prepared a pencil and a notebook 50 cm from the place I sleep. When I wake up immediately I write my dream.

Although it's not so long -- also with a writing that's almost unreadable because I am still half-conscious -- I succeeded to prove that I dream everyday in 30 days of sleeping every night! The note was ftom 16 Sep 2006 to 15 Oct 2006. And the interesting thing is, that in one day I can have several dreams - usually 2. And the most number of dreams is 7.

Unfortunately, there is one day, 7 October, where I didn't remember what the dream was, but I knew that I had a dream. Also before that, in one time I remember that I had a dream, but forgot what was the dream, but fortunately some tens of minutes later after waking up suddenly I remember what the dream was. And coincidencely, on 17 Oct 2006 -- which is not in the interval of noting down of dreams -- I remembered that I had a super big and long dream, but I forgot what that was.

Penyebab lupa

Ternyata, dari 3 kejadian "lupa isi mimpi tapi ingat bahwa aku bermimpi", ketiganya disebabkan hal yang sama: bangun, berusaha mengingat2 mimpi dan siap mencatat, tapi sebelum tubuhku benar2 beranjak untuk mencatat, malah ketiduran lagi (beberapa puluh menit), dan pas bangun udah lupa mimpi apa.

Nasehat bagi yang ingin mencoba mencatat mimpi (demi hal2 di bawah): jangan malas mencatat mimpi sesegera mungkin setelah bangun!

Reason of forgetting

I found out that, from those 3 events of "forgot the contents of the dream but remember having a dream", all three were caused by a same thing: waking up, trying to remember the dream and becoming ready to write down, but before my body is really ready to move to write it down, I fell asleep again (for several tens of minutes), and when I wake up I have already forgotten what the dream was.

An advice for those wanting to try to write down their dreams (for the reasons below): don't be lazy to write down your dream as soon as possible after you wake up!

Contoh mimpi yang tercatat

Ini beberapa cuplikan dari catatan mimpiku selama 30 hari itu:

Mimpi ga jelas: Bersama-sama memperjuangkan sesuatu yang kotak2. Sesuatu yang terkumpul bisa dibelah dan dibatasi.

Mimpi yang sangat mirip kenyataan: Coba ikut topcoder development. Tapi udah sampe bikin testcase ternyata bikin males jadi batal

Mimpi benar2 ga mutu: Nyocokin jam di komputer dengan jam lain

Mimpi bagaikan jaman dulu: Nulis jurnal di setip (penghapus) (berbagai macam tulisan kutulis di atas setip dengan bolpen). Tapi lama2 tulisan itu pudar dan terkikis. Jadi bertekad ga mau tulis jurnal di penghapus lagi.

Mimpi terbang (wuih): Terbang (tanpa pake apa2). Tapi saat itu malam dan hampir hitam semua. (jadi percuma bisa terbang)

Mimpi ga jelas lagi: Liatin mobil2 yang lewat, liat 2 angka terakhir nomer mobil, kalau ikut pola tertentu masuk tim kita, sebaliknya tim lawan. Akun OCBC (bank) diblok karena terlalu banyak transfer dari internet. Cet sama staf yang ternyata orang indo tapi tetap ga bisa dibuka akunnya.

Mimpi bermain: Di aula, salah satu dindingnya terbuat dari kaca. Bikin lubang di dinding itu dengan ukuran tapi ga lebih dari . Di lantai aula bertebaran USB stick . Nah USB stick itu kalo dilempar, bagian merah harus nancep di lubang itu, tapi bagian kuning ga boleh ikutan masuk karena akan terlempar ke luar aula.

Some notable dreams

These are pieces of dreams that I experienced during that 30 days:

A don't-know-what dream: Together with people striving something that looks like squares. Something that has been gathered can be split and bordered.

A very near-real dream: Trying to participate in topcoder development. But when I reach the phase of making testcases I realize that it is very boring so I cancel my participation.

A very not quality dream: Setting my computer's clock to match another clock

A dream that like old-days: Writing a diary on my rubber eraser (I write a lot over a rubber eraser with a ballpoint. But eventually the writing fades and become eroded. So I decided not to write my diary on a rubber eraser anymore.

A flying dream (wow!): Flying (without using anything). But that time is at night and almost everything are black (so being able to fly is no use)

Another don't-know-what dream: Looking passing through cars, looking at the last 2 digits of the plate number, if it matches some pattern it is considered as our ally, else our enemy. My OCBC bank account is blocked because there are too many internet transfers. I chatted with the staff which turned out to be an Indonesian but still the account is blocked.

A playing dream: In a hall, one of the wall is made from glass. Made a hole in that wall this size but no larger than . On the floor there are USB sticks scattered. Well, when the USB sticks are thrown, the red part must stick to the hole, but the yellow part may not enter that hole because it will be thrown out of the hall.

Kesimpulan

Jadi.. apa yah? ...

"Ayo.. ayo.. kalian juga coba catat mimpi!"

Buat apa?

• Anda akan menyadari... ternyata mimpi Anda, yang mungkin kurang Anda perhatikan, sering kali sangat menarik!
• Satu bulan setelah Anda mencatat, bacalah catatan, Anda tak akan mengira pernah bermimpi seheboh itu.
• Semakin lama anda mencatat, mimpi akan semakin aneh, hebat, menarik, tak disangka, dan imajinatif!
• Dan kalau mau tujuan utama: "Lucid Dream" alias "Mimpi Jelas" yang sudah cukup banyak dibahas. Kendalikan mimpi, sadari bahwa lagi mimpi, lakukan hal2 yang tak bisa di dunia nyata, dapatkan inspirasi baru, gunakan otak selama waktu tidur untuk hal2 yang mengagumkan! Lihat wikipedia ini (bahasa Inggris) untuk keterangan lebih lanjut!

Oke, sampelah kita di akhir artikel. Gimana dengan pengalaman Anda dengan mimpi? Ada mimpi yang tak terlupakan? Ada cara2 mendapat mimpi? Ada ide2 atau saran mendapat mimpi? Atau tanggapan atas artikel ini yang sangat diterima dengan tangan dibuka ^^ Ayo tulis di kolom komentar di bawah!

Conclusions

So.. what do you think? ...

"Come on.. come on.. you too, try to note down your dreams!"

For what?

• You will realize... that your dreams, which you may not pay attention to them very much, is usually turn out to be very interesting!
• After a month noting down your dreams, read your notes, you will not believe that you had such fascinating dreams.
• The longer you note down, the dreams will become more weird, superb, interesting, unexpected, and imaginative!
• And if you want a final target: "Lucid Dream", that has been discussed quite often. Control your dreams, be conscious that you are dreaming, get a new inspiration, do things that can't be done in real world, use your brain during sleep time for amazing things! Look at this wikipedia entry for more information!

OK, now we reach the end of the article. How about your experience with dreams? Is there any dream that you never forget of? Is there methods to get dreams? Any ideas or suggestions to get dreams? Or any response to this article that are very welcomed with open arms ^^ Please write at the comment form below!