Dreams
I have woken up laughing several times or woke myself up by talking. I don't always remember what I was dreaming. More often, I wake up when a dream becomes particularly upsetting. This is common, I know.
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I have a feeling that this might have had something to do with stress, seeing that this often happened when I studied for mid-term and final exams, as well as when I was under the pressure of reading a dozen books within a short time.
So... Understanding that a number of sleep problems stem from stress, have you been stressed out recently?
I once had a dream. See, we were all in this doughnut, and there was this giant snake in a vest and then...I woke up.
I went to the Penny Arcade Expo even though I'm not really a fan of PA, and wouldn't really want to go to an expo anyway, so I guess I left. Then I organised chickens around a game board for some reason (okay really can't remember this bit so I'll just have to trust past me on this point).
I proceeded to pull my car out of a briefcase but lost my shoes and therefore couldn't drive. Then my bag stolen by a dude in a Volkswagen.
And some trees had tentacles and one of the tentacles kidnapped this girl who I apparently had been with the whole time.
That was a few months ago, for some reason lately my dreams are a bit more mundane. Like trying to get to the games news page on teletext, but I keep pressing the wrong buttons on the remote. And other pretty dull stuff.
Wish someone'd hurry up and make a dream VCR or something.
I've had that happen to me before.It's totally embarrasing.
Have you ever dreamed that you woke up from your dream? Some December morning when I was about 4-years-old, I dreamed that my mom woke me up and asked if I wanted to go sledding. Then I really woke up and woke her up to ask if she woke me up.
I know something interesting actually happened, but I can't for the life of me think what. I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a parallel universe, or something similar though.
One recurring theme in my dreams is playing a game, or watching a TV programme, and then actually being in it. It always seems to be a very subtle segue though, there's no specific point where I'm suddenly in the game/programme.
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I was standing at the top of some stairs - located up in the sky.
Wasn't anything to see at the bottom of the stairs.
So I just leaped out from the first step and flew off.... it was awesom to actually feel myself flying
There's one dream that I've had variations of repeatedly for years: I'm in a mostly barren mall that has never resembled any mall I've ever seen, but it doesn't look overly strange either. It's just large and underpopulated.
The stores themselves are what is peculiar. One is a gaming store, like GameStop, but in some of the dreams it is jam-packed with merchandise, much of it very rare. In others, it's almost empty. And the store is almost always located on the top floor of the mall, which alternates between two floors high and three floors high.
Next to that store is a bookstore. For some reason, I've never been inside it, but I can see odd magazines lining the front display. They are full of crime scene photos and medical documents, each gorier than the last.
Surrounding these are nondescript stores that I never focus on. At one end of the top floor is a tiny, inexplicably misplaced theater that I've only seen from a distance.
The bottom floor is just as weird. There's a variety store of sorts, which has an enormous prop gumball machine in the window, and an assortment of gewgaws and clothes within. When one of my mall dreams has a "plot", it usually takes place there.
Then there's the arcade. It never stays in the same place twice, and it's contents are always dramatically different. Old games, new games, fictional games, even racing games that use Styrofoam cups as steering wheels.
Finally, there's the most surreal part: the video store. They seem to only carry two types of movies: Classic 80's horror franchises, and gore videos. (Faces of Death type films, minus the fake. Snuff, to be exact.) The walls are covered in red tinsel, and the snuff films are constantly playing on the displays.
I have no idea why I have these dreams repeatedly. Obviously, the stores represent some of my interests: Movies, games, books, and the taboo. But the purpose still eludes me.
That happens to me a lot, too. Though I'm usually the cause of his death. I don't even not like him...
Oh, NOW I get it!!!!!You had to mention it, though.I haven't seen that movie for a while, I think BEFORE he got arrested for (for both of you who don't know, you might not want to)