some animals make clear shagging motions when asleep I wonder what there thinking.

Ernie – chimps and other apes are well known to enjoy a bit of "self pleasure" Its not a long leap of imagination to assume they are thinking abut sex when doing so.

And how does that fit in with the claim that it's part of the "normal procreational drive" in other creatures ?

It is also well known that chimps and other apes can learn to smoke cigarettes, but that provides a very weak argument that smoking is a normal enjoyment for other creatures 😕

My friend (honestly…) told me about a dream he once had where he was humping a couch while Ray (from X-Factor or Pop Idol…) was engaged in a porn scene in the middle of the room!

Any psychologists on here? What does it all mean?

Not a psycholologist but…

Well its fairly well accepted that dreams relate to your frame of mind while sleeping (how your brain makes sense of the noise is by the context of the way you're mind is working I suppose) – i.e. if you're stressed about exams your brain often makes up a scene involving exams or failure etc and when you wake you read into it what you can – it's safer and more sensible to just assume it was a very odd dream. You dont think all kids are evil because they dream of ghosts or something under the bed, you tell them it was a nightmare and they go back to sleep.

Or you could assume you're just a nutter about to go postal. Your call.

All my dreams recently seem to involve my ex. Argh. It really doesnt help. Sadly they arent even pornographic.

nickc that's an awesome dream with the kinda mad leaps and surreality that I enjoy. My favourite dream ever involved a trip round Europe paid for by a pink horse. My mad aunt kept turning to get me out of scrapes. It was going on holiday for a week.

dreams are brilliant. So obscure sometimes and at others it's so clear what they're telling you.

I used to get lots of dreams about being presented with an infinate number of things to count, in a finite space of time. That's pretty simple to understand.

I used to get lots of falling dreams too, again, doesn't take a genius to work out what's going on there.

Then one dream that sticks in my mind is being chased by a man eating giraffe round my old school, figure that one out.