Unofficial Dream Thread
We all have them, even if we don't remember them.
Some of us remember them more than others, some of us are inspired or draw creative ideas from our dreams. Some of us have had strange dreams or reoccurring, some may be nightmares and some may pleasant. I've been a lucid dreamer for as long as I can remember and my dreams have always been vivid, long and memorable. I've also always had the ability to resume the same dream, should I fall back to sleep immediately.
As someone who is interested in neuro-science and psychology, I find dreams to be deeply fascinated. I also carried a dream book with me when I recently moved to Literally Nowhere, Massachusetts, so if anyone wants me to try and explain a dream for them, I'd love to give it a shot.
What about you guys? Have any wacky, interesting or freaky dreams lately? Any reoccuring dreams that you might find downright strange? How about a dream that you've had inspiration because of? Feel free to share!
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Well, there was some sort of plague that started killing people - I tried to escape by taking a train from Korea to Argentina (don't ask me who that works out). Apparently it was driven by Jimmy Dore who ended up running over two refugees. So eventually we were in Argentina in a refugee camp, where I ended up talking to and started dating a blind girl I met at the coffee maker. Then I joined the miliita designated to protect the refugee camp and went through basic training. I forget the rest, but it ended when the American army came - but of course they were wearing colonial era uniforms and flags and carrying Civil War era rifles.
Needless to say it was a reeeeeeally weird dream...
Btw, where in Massachusetts? Are you in Metrowest? If that's too personal you don't have to answer.
I had a dream that Iron Maiden was playing a concert right in front of my house, unfortunately, it was just after the concert started my alarm started going off.
That dream sounds really strange. I once had a dream where two friends and I crossed over the borders of North and South Korea in "dream form" (or astral projection form) because I wanted to show-off. We went to the wrong country and well. . didn't end pretty and I woke up.
And no, it's not too personal.
The answer is that I literally do not know. I'm fairly close to Boston, but for the most part, it's very rural. I just arrived on Sunday and I am living with my aunt and uncle for the meantime (unsure if it will be a long term solution or not).
In my dream, Iron Man was getting saucy with Captain America, and Squidward was spanking my brother's ass. I did not like it, so I threw bottles at them.
Then they transformed into giant, slavering beasts and ripped my limbs apart. And I woke up.
I once had a dream I was tied to a Railroad track and Thomas the Train was going to run me over.
Terrifying
Dude, okay, I just woke up from the weirdest and most surreal dream.
I'm guessing this takes place in some Nazi-like state of a country or something, because for some reason, owning animals (or at least a lot of them) was considered vastly illegal. Anyway, I had just let our family cats out because apparently people do that and it was like a really, really nice spring day out.
We had the windows open and we were cooking bacon or something that had a meat-y smell. As I was letting the cats back in, I noticed striped and differently colored cats that didn't belong to my family. Followed by dogs. For some weird reason, we were led to believe that these cats and dogs were to be persecuted and taken away by the police that were doing their rounds.
For some reason as to god knows why, we had a yellow school bus (the number was 40) and a lot of family and friends were present. We loaded dogs and cats onto the bus and as soon as the song "Closing Time" by Semisonic played lowly in the background.
As soon as the police came around, I panicked that their sirens would cause the dogs to bark and give us away. As I had that thought, my Mom yelled, "Okay everyone, closing time!" And everyone jumped to the windows to close them suddenly while the exact chorus played:
"I know who I want to take me home, I know who I want to take me home."
Everyone sat down and we were driving into the sunset of god knows where when I laugh out, "Oh goddammit, I feel like such a Stan right now," and my cousin laughed too and then I woke up.
tl;dr: animal activism and Semisonic makes an okay duo.
I once had a dream that had people from here in it, I can't really remember it right now.
What a terrible end to one of the world's greatest dreams. =(
I had a dream that went all like WOOSH and then all like SWOOSH and BOOSH and it was really awesome
I know, after I woke up, I literally said, "Goddammit," I hate it when the alarm clock wakes you up at the best part.
lol wth
Well last night I had a really stupid/weird dream that for some unexplained reason I was drinking excessive amounts of Pepsi and so were my mum and brother... It made my teeth feel all horrible and plaque-y as I barely ever drink fizzy drinks in real life. Have no idea what the hell that was supposed to mean, maybe I'm being too healthy?
I had the first legitimate nightmare I'd had for years a couple of months ago, and it stuck in my mind because it was so terrifying. Basically I was in what I guess must've been a swimming pool changing room or something (the floor and walls were all tiled and there was a row of cubicles along each wall and a walk-way in the middle), I was wearing nothing but a towel wrapped around me so I guess I must've just been for a shower because I wasn't wearing anything underneath. As I came in through the door I noticed that it was completely empty and silent, but somehow I knew for certain that there was someone in there and that they were hiding and planning to sneak up on me, and of course I got very anxious. I couldn't see anyone though so I made my way to a cubicle and started towel-drying my hair when I heard a noise of someone moving, but because it was quite echo-y in there I couldn't tell where it was coming from.
The noises didn't stop and I went full panic-mode and started running from cubicle to cubicle across the room (though I guess that wasn't the best idea in the world, I had no idea if I was running toward or away from whoever was there), at some point my towel fell off and I was... ahem...exposed. Eventually I stopped in one of the cubicles right at the end of the row, which didn't have another cubicle opposite it but a full-length mirror instead. I could see myself through the open door of my cubicle, and then above me I saw an awfully skinny women with long blonde hair looking down at me from the shelf above the cubicle. I was scared out of my mind but without turning around I reached up and poked her (again, not sure why) and she snapped and started to bear down on me, snarling and her eyes and teeth grew huge and her fingernails suddenly grew like claws. At this point I just lost it and I ran as fast as I could out of the changing room door with her right behind me, chasing me, at which point I woke up.
Yeah that was fun. I'm kind of curious as to what that sort of dream might mean though, any thoughts anyone?
I have no idea.
Wow, interesting. Dreams are quite wierd.
And it always does.
Okay, here's my list of dreams that I can remember:
Dream 1: I dreamt that I was in a drawing and I was looking at a drawing of wolf.
Dream 2: I dreamt this dream when I was young. I was in a cave and, when I looked up, I saw some aliens (that, in the dream, I had the feeling they were my parents).
Dream 3: 2 warewolfs were talking about someone murdering another warewolf.
Dream 4: I was trying to escape from a nuclear explosion by closing a door in time. Everytime I fail to close the door in time, I repeated my dream until finally closing the door in time.
Dreams are crazy.
I have the fuzziest memory when I wake up, like I can almost remember what I was dreaming about, but not quite. It makes me sad. Maybe I should write it down as soon as I wake up.
Last night, for some reason, I was fighting two dragons in a dark cellar and they only wanted to lick my face, but for some reason I didn't want them to. The farther I pushed them away, the more they started to whine like my dog does. It made me feel sad for them, but I kept pushing them away from me.
I don't get it.
I've been having some strange semi-lucid ones lately.
-- I was attacked by an axe wielding old lady. I disarmed her and slit her throat with the axe. Crazy shit
-- I tried to break my Papap out of an abusive nursing home/mental facility only to be imprisoned myself. I choked out my guard and snuck out, but left gramps behind for some incomprehensible reason.
And last night...
My sister was at a talent show, doing a piano duet with Lil' Wayne (!!!). I was (justifiably) concerned that Weezy might try to get in her pants. XD
Oh my, oh my my my
Annnd of course that's the bit you'd focus on. Thanks for your input, Rabbit :P
I kno right I'm useful. Hey I read what came after that too, gotta give me kudos for that :P
sigh
Fair nuff.
See, I focused on more than one bit ^_-
I am and was sick when I had this dream last night...
I was in class when the military (More like federal agents accompanied by soldiers) came in and took me to a quarantine site where there were 5 others. Time passed because most of it was me living with these people and socializing with them. Then one day the federal agents came by again and said they couldn't find a cure. They then starting shooting us and I died.
I've died in dreams too. It's odd seeing your body laying on the ground from an overhead perspective.
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I didn't even see my body, I was just shot and I woke up.
I've had dreams like that too.
I've actually had dreams where I've died and then I just spectate my body. Since I don't know how long dreams take in real time, I sometimes might literally just be staring at myself dead for 8 hours. Kinda odd, but it's happened a dozen times that I can remember.
When I was in high school, I remember having a dream where I walked into the cafeteria and sat down with my friends to eat. The only problem was, that I only had a towel around me and I was really wet, like I had just gotten out of a shower.
I remember being really self-aware during that dream. Specifically, nobody else was naked with only a towel yet I was.
Another one I had very recently was just insane. It reminded me of Resident Evil almost, and I remember that I had to protect this older woman inside a clothing store. These little lizard creatures jumped through the windows, but the rest get's kind of hazy. I then remember being in a shopping mall with Elvis, an old man and a woman with tattoos all over her body.
Then, like magic, I was in a jeep driving across the desert with the woman and Elvis. I stopped at an old RV because Elvis said he needed to go inside, so we went. Tattoo woman just went fucking crazy for no reason however. She began chasing after us, which then Elvis disappeared and I was in a field, where these people in hoods came running out from the woods around me.
I still have no idea what the fuck was happening.
A few weeks ago I had a dream that I was back in highschool. My whole graduating class was in the auditorium, and the principle was flipping out like she normally did, but this time it was different. She was telling us that if we didn't participate in the disco dancing tournament that we would be expelled and fail all of our classes. I didn't want to disco dance so I was packing my bag to leave, knowing I'd get expelled, but then people behind me told me that they would go dance with me. It was Sam and Dean Winchester from Supernatural, and obviously they didn't go to my highschool. Anyways, Me, Sam, and Dean were in the middle of the floor disco dancing to cheesy 70's disco music. There was a disco ball and everything. It was really dumb, and I must have been laughing in my sleep, because I woke up giggling with a big smile.
I had a dream last night that was pretty strange.
The setting was a local mall. For some reason, I was pretending to be some foreign man named Amir and was trying to buy cooking utensils in order to impress someone I was interested in by cooking their favorite meal (well, for one, I'm not interested in anyone and two, I'm a girl, but, anyway). I was with my family and we were eating pizza and tater tots at some weird "pizza cafe" that had a set-up like it was meant to be outside, but was inside.
We were talking and eating when suddenly, Young Volcanoes by Fall Out Boy suddenly starts playing and people start clapping. The singing gets louder and everyone in the mall center is dancing, singing and clapping. Apparently, Fall Out Boy was there along with Brendon Urie (singer of Panic! At The Disco) and while everyone was flash-mobbing, I had like a two sentence conversation with Brendon Urie.
Man, I really want to know what gives me such strange dreams like this, I swear.
On Friday night, David Letterman (who is retiring soon) ran a tribute video to musician Paul Shaffer (who has also been a on the show a long time). The background track was a disco song titled "It's Raining Men", written by Shaffer in 1979. My wife and I just looked at each other and giggled as that played. Fortunately, it didn't influence any of my dreams that night, or if it did, I don't remember them.
I really don't get my dreams or my friends there so fucking weird.
I had one once where I was in a bus full of old people driving past the grand canyon and we went over it on a bridge like the one in shrek and we fell in...wtf was that?!
Also one of my friends had a dream where she also fell of a cliff and didn't break her I pod...?
Can someone please explain?
i remember i had a dream where my childhood friends and i were all bats and we met up on a swing set after dark. You could tell who was who because everyone still had their human head on their bat body. It was pretty damn weird. And after a while of us talking I decided to take off on my own and fly around town. I saw a guy on his porch getting drunk so I flew by to freak him out. After a few passes he ran inside and turned on the light so i dipped and I'm pretty sure I was heading back to the swing set after but then I got woken up. I really wish I could control my dreams. Flying was so much damn fun.
There's a dream I haven't told anyone except for my close friends due to how embarrassed I am of the subject matter. It's not that I'm afraid to be bullied, it's just so....well, read on.
My dream started off with me and my parents talking about this house down the road, and how weird stuff was happening in it. We thought it was haunted, so we called a Ghost Buster(Yes, the Ghost Busters you're thinking of....except she was a girl.) It was late at night and mom asked me to go over to that house and ask the Ghost Buster Lady if she found anything. I walked over and through the door. She was making a sandwich and I asked her if she found anything. She got mid sentence and suddenly said "WHY IS THAT TOY MOVING?!?!?" I turned around and to my absolute terror, there he was. Motherfuckin' Barney the Purple Dinosaur.Naturally, I freaked the fuck out and started whooping his ass and ran away. It was raining. I just flat out booked it and out in the distance I heard the Ghost Buster Lady scream.
I woke up. I was back in my bed. I thought about how that was the most weird ass dream I ever had. I looked down at the foot of my be-AND OH DEAR GOD, BARNEY WAS AT THE END OF MY BED! I hardcore jumped back up against the wall and started screaming "NO! NO! NOOOOOOOO!" I then woke up(for realsies this time.) I was shaking and immediately started looking all around the bed.
To this day, this stands as both the weirdest dream I've ever had and by far the most terrifying.
I'm actually glad I remembered that dream, because it was just so ridiculous.
I had a dream recently where I had a wobbly tooth I was worried it would fall out, eventually it did but I was relieved because I realised after it was just a baby tooth and I reassured myself another one would grow in its place, just then I noticed a little blue thing attached to the tooth I dropped it in water and it transformed into a angler fish. Trippy As Fuck
I had a dream sort of like. Emphasis on the "sort of."
I was eating gram crackers, and one of them broke off into the milk. When it floated back up to the top, it was a Moon Pie. I was self-aware in the dream so I was just like "What the fuck?"