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| I was recently informed that I fish while sleeping. She says she watches me sharpen hooks, cast, retrieve and do figure 8's, all in my dreams. She says I answer questions as to what I'm doing and why. I'll hold out phantom baits and describe to her how they work. I never recall anything once awake.
She also says I'll sit up and deliver short lectures related to a current job being an Adjunct Professor teaching various graduate business courses. But get this!...when in the teaching mode she says I ALWAYS talk in rhymes.
Too much medication? Not enough medication? Just the right amount of medication?
Strange that I live a fishing life in my sleep that I can never recall while awake.
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Ranger - 12/20/2007 2:11 PM
She also says I'll sit up and deliver short lectures related to a current job being an Adjunct Professor teaching various graduate business courses. But get this!...when in the teaching mode she says I ALWAYS talk in rhymes.
Too much medication? Not enough medication? Just the right amount of medication?
Strange that I live a fishing life in my sleep that I can never recall while awake.
You?
lambeau is undoubtedly more qualified to comment on this, but perhaps this stems from a childhood fascination w/ another professor...Dr. Seuss, perhaps?
Catfish in the hat, anyone?
Enjoy it. Just like life. |
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| Actually, you may suffer from a rare sleep disorder called "REM sleep movement disorder." For most people, their brain shuts off one's ability to move (in fact, paralyzes them) during REM sleep (the stage of sleep when we do most of our dreaming). It does so as a protective function to ensure that people don't act out their dreams and harm themselves. You, however, may not have this mechanism in place and you, like many others, thus act out your dreams. This disorder can be amusing (as when you fish in your sleep), but it can also be dangerous when your dreams are violent in nature. Over 100 people die each year from this disorder, but mostly partners of those with the disorder as they get the brunt of the behavior.
By the way, I'm a professor of psychology. |
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | I once told my girlfriend that I had conversations with her stomach while she was asleep (from the Seinfeld episode). She took it as me saying she was overweight although she wasn't, and not long thereafter she ended the relationship.
Everyone talks about keeping a fish pinned, I have trouble keeping a girlfriend around.
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Location: Lincoln UK | She's making it up just before she has you committed, stash all your gear wityh a friend before she sells it all while you are "away". |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Ranger would never be 'committed'. He can outwit any administrator I've ever met, and is 'crazy' like a fox.
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | All I know is that my wife told me if I set the hook and smack her again I'm sleeping on the couch. |
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| Thats too funny, I was just telling the other guys in our production meeting this morning how I was late for work because I was catching a fifty incher on Green Bay in my dreams. They said that I needed to be committed for not dreaming about women at my age. Suckers didn't understand when I said that I was dreaming about a girl, only she was FAT! Some day they will understand. |
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Location: ne53 | I just wish I set the hooks as much as I do in the boat as I do in my dreams. |
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Location: oswego, il | Hey at least you guys are catching muskies in your dreams. My disturbed mind won't let me. I always end up in the water with them and swim around. I think Muskie matt is going to have the men with white coats show up at my door.  |
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Location: Rhinelander. | Glad I'm not the only one. Several years ago I lost the fish of a lifetime while prefishing the p.m.t.t. on chataqua. Trely a monstor fish it was. I stll wake my wife out of a sound sleep when I set the hooks on that one. She warns me if I give her a black eye while doing this its cost to cost me big time. I waonder if she just not itching for that trip to Hawaii.
MERRY XMAS ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!! pfeiff |
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| ToddM - 12/20/2007 10:50 PM
Hey at least you guys are catching muskies in your dreams. My disturbed mind won't let me.
DITTO!!!!! The only problem is...I lose just as many in my dreams as I do in real life. Ahhh I got it...I need to ANALYZE my hookset! (inside joke) HAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I must set the hook better in my dreams than I do on the water...if I set the hook that hard I would be spending more time in the water than Detloff does. I've fallen out of bed a couple times.
Muskie fishing is a sickness.
Edited by Reelwise 12/20/2007 10:19 PM
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Location: 31 | I confess to setting the hook on fish while asleep too, (many times as a matter of fact)... and it always seems to be directly after missing a jumbo.
One time while I was driving home I bowed-up so hard that I almost smacked my wife (girlfriend then) in the head. She thought I was sleeping, but I was awake and in some kind of trance like state still intensely concentrating on the one that got away...
Happy holidays everyone! |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | setting the hooks in my dreams has sent my knuckles into the headboard countless times. some nights, it's icepack on the knuckles, heating pad on the shoulder. |
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | Hey man....too much stress in your life. Need to lighten the load. I used to be that way. I have been fishing muskies for over 50 years, but I never fish for them in my dreams. I am in Canada, in the boat, but never fishing. Figure that one out. |
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| I didn't expect this thread to get so much attention.
REM disorder, eh? Hmmm......could be, but likely not. I suspect I'm just another mid-life train wreck: job loss > wife of 20+ years leaves me for another woman (and cleans out my retirement money) > 16y/o daughter gets pregnant > etc > etc. Bing bang boom, I sure didn't see any of them coming. I found it hard to manage lots of stuff after all that, hard to get back up off the ground and find direction again. Too many devils to wrestle all at one time. Lots of folks go thru this sort of stuff, that's life.
You know what? I secretly hope that, if there are angels that protect and help people who are struggling, well maybe I'm now in training to be one of them. That would make it all worth the trouble.
In the meantime, I hope to get a 50 in my sleep. But remember the dream. |
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| Hey Ranger,
I've got similar issues at my house; layed off, wife off work, other family issues; yeah I used to dream of 50" ers. Now I dream/think of my financial worries, kickin' myself for not having a good backup plan.
It'll be so good to get our house back in order so I can get back to the "Muskiedreams" !
Hope you get through your rough times , Ranger ; Good Luck to you and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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| Hey, thanks, but it's not so bad, really. I'm thankful for LOTS of stuff, let's see....
First, being born in the good old USA. Family. Healthy kids. Friends. My smart dog. My education. My neighbors on one side (but not on the other). I'm a good shot. Been to Mardi Gras when I was young enough to really appreciate it. 3rd row center for a Dead show. Saw the Who with Kieth Moon. Boated a 30+ pounder fish. I was raised by parents who work to defeat racism and injustice. I fished with my Grandpa Fox, my best buddy, a ZILLION times out of a little green duck boat. Drank beer with Slamr (and others) at Steve and Sue's wedding reception. Saw a double rainbow. Saw a ghost. Saw my twins being born. Went to a couple world series games in St. Louis, and we won. Fished my way (like 1,600 miles round trip?) to the 2006 10,000 Lakes Music Festival in way west MN, visiting buddies along the way and hooking up with PapaJoe at the show.
Last thing - I have a way-cool MuskieFirst Jacket with a Grateful Dead patch on the ass and a few "Master Angler Award" patches on one sleeve. Nobody can be completely down and out if they have a way-cool MuskieFirst jacket.
I'm just fine, riding out the waves and staying off the rocks.
Edited by Ranger 12/21/2007 1:28 PM
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| I "almost fish" in my sleep. Sometimes we're stuck at the launch, sometimes the boat won't start, or my reel won't work. Couple times I went to cast and fell out of the boat, or got a real bad backlash.
I have a lot of dreams about muskie fishing, but as far as I can remember I've never actually finished a cast.
Weird, huh? |
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Location: ne53 | The most memorable fishing dream I had: I was reeling in a bass and right at boat side as the bass was breaking water a giant muskie darts out of nowhere with a huge explosion taking the bass a foot out of water, at that very instance my labrador dog (Heddon) jumped into the bed on top of me. I shot up in bed with a pounding heart. I can only hope this was some sort of prophecy.  |
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| Last night at the Goon a couple years ago, Big Gun was dreaming he was in the boat...but he wasn't fishin' |
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Location: 31 | Pieske hit the nail on the head, too much stress! Back in the early 80's I was dealing with a recent divorce, business worries, and an incurable obsession with an expensive hobby... sound familiar? Things have certainly stabilized since then and it's been 20- 25 years since the last hook setting episode... even though my wife will never let me forget that driving incident.
Anyway, I have some holiday cheer (up) for you guys who are feeling the economic pinch, ect. One thing I've noticed over the years is muskie fishermen are definitely not quitters... they never give up and are a very resourceful lot as a whole. Honestly, if I could only to pick from a random group of people to work on a tough project... I would pick a muskie fisherman every time.
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| I was spooning awhile back and set the hook hard and #*^@ near broke my wifes ribs! O was she pissed!! I couldn't stop laughing, she's like what the hell was that all about im like the SOB creamed my bait why did you have to wake up? Like a h20 dream gone bad but worse!!!
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | Jerry Newman - 12/21/2007 11:06 AM
Honestly, if I could only to pick from a random group of people to work on a tough project... I would pick a muskie fisherman every time.
Happy holidays
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