I had another Bitcoin SPECULATION dream.

[MatTheCat]

(Yo admin....this is speculation)

I had another Bitcoin dream last night (this morning...Bitcoin makes me nocturnal).

As I was dozing off, I was getting 'ee-aw' donkey sounds in my head, as i dreamt of playing table football and having a great scoring chance, but hesitating in firing the shot away.

My main Bitcoin dream however, was being in a barn full of cattle, that was invaded by a load of Chinese cow-boys. They were hacking the cattle to bits and cutting off bull horns, and then betting against each other with lumps of prime steak. I twigged on that when one of the main cowboys was piling his steak up high, that I knew this was a trick and that I should lay out my strips of bacon low, which I did. As it turned out, I was right and my bacon was saved, except I laid it out so low that I didn't get any steak.

That was my dream.

In the past, my vivid Bitcoin dreams have served me very well in a symbolic sense. It was a Bitcoin to $600 dream that I had, the night after I sold some surplus Silk Road coins on LocalBitcoin when Bitcoin was still at $340, that got me racing for Bitstamp verification etc etc (unfortunately Bitcoin was already at $700 by the time I was in position to play on exchange). It has also been due to dreams of a more spooked out nature that primarily resulted in me avoiding some very nasty bull-traps. In short, I pay more attention to the content/symbolism of my dreams than I do to any of the theories I read or concoct with my conscious mind. What I am trying to work out is whether the symbolism of this dream is a result of past events or events that are yet to come.

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[Holliday]

[MatTheCat]

Yeah, well done.

Except my capability to think outside the box has saved from losing thousands of pounds. I quite freely admit that my stance on Bitcoin is determined primarily by subconscious indicators.

The rational 'justification' TA, evaluation of sentiment etc, always comes afterwards.....and lets face it. I have been 85% right while most of you have been 85% wrong for weeks now.

[paulifa123]

ROTFLMFAO!!!

Matt, have you been partaking of some of your silk road produce again by any chance?  

[MatTheCat]

ROTFLMFAO!!!

Matt, have you been partaking of some of your silk road produce again by any chance?  

Unlike probably most people on here.

I don't ever actually lie about things I have done or not done in Bitcoin, mistakes or successes. I recognise that nearly all of my successful Bitcoin decisions were primarily driven by a subconscious fear or confidence.

Right about now, I really feel that I am at a tipping point in that department, except what bothers me is that I felt this in low $600s and we are now at $700. I recognise that the conscious mind whilst very good at accurate measurements and such, is very limited by only being capable of holding 7-12 factors in consideration at any one time. The subconscious mind on the other hand, is rubbish at accurate measurements preferring to express itself in very vague or even cryptic terms, but is capable of processing millions of factors at any one time.

My dream may mean jack shit to you, but it certainly means something to me....if I could just analyse what the fuck it means and whether it is referring to past or a forewarning of future.

[T.Stuart]

Yeah, well done.

Except my capability to think outside the box has saved from losing thousands of pounds. I quite freely admit that my stance on Bitcoin is determined primarily by subconscious indicators.

The rational 'justification' TA, evaluation of sentiment etc, always comes afterwards.....and lets face it. I have been 85% right while most of you have been 85% wrong for weeks now.

Has that statement been audited correctly? 

[T.Stuart]

Perhaps it means you should get a hamburger. You can buy them with Bitcoins in London.

[chesthing]

I think your dream means you played it safe and missed out on an easy profit. I don't think you needed a dream to tell you that though.

[MatTheCat]

I think your dream means you played it safe and missed out on an easy profit. I don't think you needed a dream to tell you that though.

I still have low treble and even double digit buy-in tranches, when every grain of common sense tells me, that if Bitcoin does indeed go lower than the present $540 support, then there is going to be serious price whiplash action around $380. Whenever Bitcoin has visited this price range, the market has responded with humongous trade volume.

It might be that.......

Or it might as you say, that I have played it safe, so safe that I have precluded myself from any rewards.

[chesthing]

The bad news seems to be sorting itself out, but this bear trend started before any of that came to light anyway. If this is anything like the December crash it will be a slow, unrelenting rise to a grand again. That's probably what will happen, and I will sit it out again and history will again repeat itself - I fucked myself out of a beautiful opportunity again. However, I blame myself for not signing up with a real exchange earlier - who the fuck would jump in with one chance to buy followed by a 4 day wait to get your coins? oh yeah, wagerBTC would - very well played, unless the price tanks before next Thursday...

[MatTheCat]

The bad news seems to be sorting itself out, but this bear trend started before any of that came to light anyway. If this is anything like the December crash it will be a slow, unrelenting rise to a grand again. That's probably what will happen, and I will sit it out again and history will again repeat itself - I fucked myself out of a beautiful opportunity again. However, I blame myself for not signing up with a real exchange earlier - who the fuck would jump in with one chance to buy followed by a 4 day wait to get your coins? oh yeah, wagerBTC would - very well played, unless the price tanks before next Thursday...

This is nothing like the December crashes. The first instance seen a correction from $1160 right down to $540.  The second instance seen a correction from $990 down to $380. These crashes were truly momentus compared with this recent one and came right at the other side of a parabolic bull phase. These recent crashes to $540 are mini-flash crashes in comparison and have come after a weeks long bear trend.

Two very different sorts of events occurring at very different stages of mass market psychology. Not to be confused with one another I wouldn't have thought.

[Undone]

I wish I could only actually know what parts (if any) of these stories are true.

Really do.

[MatTheCat]

I wish I could only actually know what parts (if any) of these stories are true.

Really do.

You can't possibly know if any of it is true, you can only make a judgement call based on what you have seen of my posting history.

Do I strike you as the sort of poster who always 'knew it all along' after every single event, picked up cheap coins from weak hands at the very bottom, and sold them to noob suckers at the top every single time?

Do I only ever acknowledge my successes and never mention any of my sometimes embarrassing momentus failures?

.......and why would I make up such a dream in the first place?  Does stating all that rather quite personal stuff make me out to be 'cool' or 'uncool'? Rational and reliable, or a bit wonky and mad?

Unlike many on here I would presume, I tend not to lie. When I do, then I am generally omitting the truth out of poetic license, as opposed to attempting to project an elevated image of myself.....very often adhering to 100% accuracy of the details doesn't make for readable prose u c.

[Undone]

Fair enough.

I hope you make money doing your thing. And that's sincere.

[MatTheCat]

Yet more Bitcoin dreams tell me....

.....that Bitcoin is going lower...much lower...shockingly lower.

Perhaps this just reflects a personal irrational fear in me and I doubt anyone will take any of this at face value but I will post it here just the same and perhaps by reading it, it will facilitate others to do a double take on any existing Bitcoin conceptions that may be miss-serving them at the time being.

As a result of my 'Chinese Cowboys slicing cows/bulls apart with petrol powered saws....and then gambling rump steaks against each other' dream, I scratched my previous ridiculously low buy-ins and aimed for a much more rational $400 range. I just woke up to a dream of Bitcoin having 'crashed' to significantly below my buy-in and wasn't looking like coming back up to meet it anytime soon. There is no time frame on this dream, but it was of the same sharp shocking flavour as my Bitcoin to $600 on Gox dream back in Nov, which brought me rushing to the Bitcoin table with all my chips in the first place. I had that dream when Bitcoin was $300. It took about 7-9 days for Bitcoin to go through $600 on Gox. If I could have entered Bitcoin immediately (at exchange prices), I would have put 10K in at $300 and pulled the lot at $600 (cos that is what my dream said the price was gonna be). In the end, I couldn't get my chips to the table until Bitcoin was $700. I don't see dreams as accurate forecasts but rather more symbolic subconscious projections.

So here is the primary basis upon which my whole stance on Bitcoin is being built around. Here for posterity which will surely show whether I am wise to listen to such dreams, or a superstitious idiot who is destined to miss out on a lot of profits.

[orpington]

Hard, core.

[Dalmar]

I had a similar bitcoin dream in between the double top of the ATH a few weeks ago. I was standing in a very long queue with Chinese people due to a bank run on a physical 'bitcoin bank' somewhere in China, got into a fight with some of them and eventually I did get my bitcoins out. The next day I immediately sold my entire stash around a 1000. Perhaps my subconscious was telling me in a creative way that China is a communist country and I needed to GTFO. It did save me. However, recently I haven't really had any bitcoin related dreams.

[seleme]

You guys are taking this thing too fucking seriously, lol.

[Bitbuy]

interesting...to say the least  
Do your dreams only apply to BTC, or do they have other practical uses for you? (i'm not talking about wet dreams)

[MatTheCat]

interesting...to say the least  
Do your dreams only apply to BTC, or do they have other practical uses for you? (i'm not talking about wet dreams)

Like everyone else, in my dreams I get my fair share of, symbolic interpretation of life events, insight into things going on around me that I am not overtly aware off, and also predictive dreams......and of course, lots and lots of utter mince that I can't decipher.........and that is if I can even remember them...most of the time, I can't.

So of course, it is not just Bitcoin but the curious thing is that with Bitcoin dreams, I nearly always need to have done or be doing the wrong thing before I get a dream which I consider as insightful. Another example of a clear Bitcoin dream that came good was when Bitcoin was still over $900. I had buy-ins at around $870. I was half sleeping/half awake in a hotel room in Inverness with my gf, and got a 'spooky' Bitcoin dream. I woke up and using my phone, went onto Bitcoinwisdom and checked the price. Bitcoin was still around $900. I went back to my Sunday morning snooze. Again, I got a Bitcoin dream. In my dream, I had seen Bitcoin at $809. I jumped back on my mobile, took down my $870 range buy-in orders (some of which had been filled), and started putting descending tranches in from $850 right down to $810, with the buy order increasing in size the further down in got. I left the hotel, got something to eat, and went and watched Dundee United play Inverness. By the time the football match had ended, Bitcoin had bottomed not at $809, but $826, which meant the bulk of my buy in orders placed at $820 and $810, had not been filled, but I did save myself from taking a complete beating as after I cashed out on the bounce at around $850, Bitcoin has never been so expensive since.

The details weren't accurate, but the 'emotion' or the clear symbology (a much lower price than I had anticipated) of the dream was and in this case, I acted appropriately in taking the dream as an indication to get rid off my way too high buy-ins and replace them with lower ones. I acted inappropriately by assuming $809 was going to be the bottom and clustering the bulk of my buy-ins around this price level.