The Dream Thread

[blueheart]

cause i felt like it

So as the title says, this thread is about dreams, your dreams. You know, the ones where you got to sleep and are dragged out of in the morning. Not the kind about what you want to do with your life.

What dreams have you had lately? What ones have you had in the past? Any ones that have stuck with for awhile? And do you dream*remember them* often? What was your latest one? It could be anything.

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I dreamed a few days ago, that I was in the world after death. It was parallel to ours. It had the same areas and buildings ours had. Except they looked empty and clean, like a new house before someone moves in. The people who died and lived in that "world" couldn't age also. They remained the age they died in.

I met a man who had been dead for awhile. He looked middle aged. He was looking at a house. He said it was the one he lived in with his wife an kids, it was the replica house. He was started tearing up, saying his missed his family and that it would be a long time before he saw them. And when he did, they would be older than him, and would be different people.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

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I dreamed a few days ago, that I was in the world after death. It was parallel to ours. It had the same areas and buildings ours had. Except they looked empty and clean, like a new house before someone moves in. The people who died and lived in that "world" couldn't age also. They remained the age they died in.

I met a man who had been dead for awhile. He looked middle aged. He was looking at a house. He said it was the one he lived in with his wife an kids, it was the replica house. He was started tearing up, saying his missed his family and that it would be a long time before he saw them. And when he did, they would be older than him, and would be different people.

Sounds kinda like that book called Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. It's a beautiful book, so if you ever happen across it or need something to read you should definitely pick it up. I want to read it again right now, actually.

 

[Hamster Lord]

Had two the other night. Somewhat scared/confused me. So I went to bed around 7PM and then woke up at 2. In between then, this dream happened.

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My dad and I were driving on the hallway and then suddenly traffic stopped so these five little black kids could cross the highway. Heard a lot of racist statements from the people in the other cars. Anyway, they crossed, and then somehow my friends Alix and Evan and me were on an island and then there was some blond girl I didn't know. The color of the dream got really weird here. Everything was black, except the moon was shining brightly and everyone looked as if it was daytime, or light was shining on them. Anyway, were walking along the island and then for no reason this blond girl starts to hold my hand. Eventually we reach a bridge that splits and goes up so boats can go in between. Anyway, we get there and the bridge comes down. My friend Evan says, "It's not that far ahead, come on!" I only hear this, and then I look up, there's a hole in the bridge, and he's gone. I assumed he crossed. Anyway, the blond girl is now gone. So we begin to cross and then the water somehow raises and starts to go fast to the left, so I fall off the bridge. My friend Alix somehow gets across but I'm still in the water. But suddenly the current changes, but instead of me just violently slamming into the bridge, I go in a sort of arc and then hit the bridge. So I get to the island, and now the light from the moon works, but everything is still pitch black. So Alix and I are there, Evan is gone, and then we start to hear giant gusts of wind coming through. So out of absolutely fucking nowhere, my friend Andrew appears and tells us we need to get to higher ground and then runs back up. The wind gets louder, the bridge is completely swallowed by the water, I look across to the other island and the five black kids from before are there, just staring.

Then I woke up and tried to go back to sleep which worked at about 3AM.

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So recently we got some neighbors and we don't like them. Anyway, in the dream, they get evicted from their house because of a rat infection. We live in a row home though, so my room is exactly where it would be in the other house. So I go into the house to see how bad the infection was and there is rat poop absolutely everywhere. Anyway, I go up the stairs and into where my room would be in the house. What do I see? Exactly where my shelf is, and the exact same shelf, all my movies are there. All of them. And in the exact same condition.

So then I woke up and went to school.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

I had a dream a plane crashed on this busy street where my neighborhood is. And even though it was completely impossible to ignore a giant airbus crashing into the ground, nobody would believe me when i said it had crashed. (the street is big enough to serve as a mini runway btw, and LAX just right there for me so i always see the planes landing so i think it is a subconscious fear of mine)

I have two other dreams, but I'm too lazy to get them off my phone.

 

[Mite]

I never dream much anymore. Well according to my sister (the expert that she is) everybody dreams when they sleep, but I just never remember my dreams. Sometimes I feel like I'm missing out, but otherwise I don't really care.

The most common type I used to have were those dreams where you feel like you're falling.

 

[Ophan]

I remember we had a thread like this before some years back. Think it was on Lucid dreaming or something like that :/

 

[Taylor]

I had a dream the other day where my girlfriend and I owned this weird little pseudo-condo type place. And we had this big dog (I don't like big dogs), but I actually liked this one a lot. I guess he was super important to dream me. So I left the house to go do something and I placed some toddler kid from the block in charge of watching my dog and then I came home and the dog was gone and I was like "wow kid you're a piece of shit." and then I ran out the back door to find the dog, who ran into some woods (the backdoor of my house led to a culdesac which led to some woods). i chased the dog into the woods and then i woke up.

idk if dream me will ever find his dog. ):

 

[Chill]

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I was captured by strange people wearing black trenchcoats as I was sleeping. When I woke up they told me that I had to assasinate several people, and because all my dreams are retarded I agreed without a second thought. After killing about twenty-three people the trenchcoat guys made me wear a trenchcoat like theirs, and capture a kid.

After getting all the way to a very familiar house that I couldn't place my fingure on at the time and getting in this boys room,I noticed the kid I was about to take from his bed was me. All darkness then went everywhere and the other trenchcoated people that were with me were killed by the darkness, then just before I died I woke up.

Yeah all my dreams are retarded.

 

[IceBlueWings]

I don't quite remember my dream last night, but I had a dream which I actually wanted to use for NaNoWriMo last year but I never was able to do it.

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I was living in a rather nice apartment, which must be really expensive, overlooking two parts of a city--one was a beautiful, bright city bustling with people, while just a few streets away was another part of a city which was dark, secretive, and had few people scurrying about.

It was night when I entered the dark part of the city with two other companions. One of my companions was a beautiful woman who always (for some reason) wore a trenchcoat, and her eyes were always closed. Despite that, she could see clearly, and was aware of everything around her. The other companion is a man, who looks Caucasian, and he dresses in prim and proper clothes (like a cotton vest over a dress shirt). We all head to a crime scene in the darker area of the city, where a robbery occurred.

While we stood there looking at the scene, a woman comes towards me and hands me a paper. On it wrote some information, though I only remember that it had to do with prostitutes being killed by someone. So I head to investigate the matter with my other two companions, but we go back home because we haven't got enough information.

At home, I suddenly know that my two companions are from another planet, and my female companion is actually gender-less but she took on the appearance of a woman on Earth. When I ask her why she wouldn't open her eyes, she tells me it's because something terrible would happen if she did.

The other male companion is from a different planet, and on his planet he is also male. His real appearance is that of a blue flame shaped as a human, and he actually carries a mask of his face (I mean, the mask he carries is just the exact same face he has), for reasons I do not know as well.

I forgot what happened in between the dream, but towards the end I realize I have fallen for my female companion. Something happens (which I forgot again) and that female companion dies. I cry for her and the world is in flames. She opens her eyes for that final time, and I see a pair of clear azure eyes, but I felt terribly weak all of a sudden. Then I wake up.

If only I remember it clearer.

 

[Mistearea]

I remember we had a thread like this before some years back. Think it was on Lucid dreaming or something like that :/

Yea, it was people posting their dreams because if you do that with all of your dreams, it's supposed to lead to you learning how to Lucid Dream.

As for one that I had last night, I really only remember the end of it. I had been arguing with my middle sister over something stupid, so I just gave up and told her that I was going to bed. As I closed my eyes she said, "Why do you always run?" or something like that. I just know that it had the word "run" and she was asking in a tone that made it seem like she cared. Anyways, I closed my eyes and felt my body drift into sleep only to wake up in the not-dream.

 

[CaptainMarvelQ8]

i daydream alot,i wonder if it affects my memory of real dreams.(as in it mixes them together or whatever)
For me in order to remember a dream i have to write it out as soon as i wake up,so i find it surprising how you guys are recalling them with great detail.

 

[scubasteve]

Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.[1] The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, as well as a subject of philosophical and religious interest, throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology.

Dreams mainly occur in the rapid-eye movement (REM) stage of sleep—when brain activity is high and resembles that of being awake. REM sleep is revealed by continuous movements of the eyes during sleep. At times, dreams may occur during other stages of sleep. However, these dreams tend to be much less vivid or memorable. Dreams can last for a few seconds, or as long as twenty minutes. People are more likely to remember the dream if they are awakened during the REM phase.

Dreams have been seen as a connection to the unconscious. They range from normal and ordinary to overly surreal and bizarre. Dreams can have varying natures, such as frightening, exciting, magical, melancholic, adventurous, or sexual. The events in dreams are generally outside the control of the dreamer, with the exception of lucid dreaming, where the dreamer is self-aware. Dreams can at times make a creative thought occur to the person or give a sense of inspiration.[2]

Opinions about the meaning of dreams have varied and shifted through time and culture. Dream interpretations date back to 5000-4000 BC. The earliest recorded dreams were acquired from materials dating back approximately 5000 years, in Mesopotamia, where they were documented on clay tablets.[3] In the Greek and Roman periods, the people believed that dreams were direct messages from the gods, or from the dead and that they predicted the future. Some cultures practiced dream incubation with the intention of cultivating dreams that are prophetic.[4]

The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, who developed the discipline of psychoanalysis, wrote extensively about dream theories and interpretations. He explained dreams as manifestations of our deepest desires and anxieties, often relating to repressed childhood memories or obsessions. In The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud developed a psychological technique to interpret dreams and devised a series of guidelines to understand the symbols and motifs that appear in our dreams.

 

[Pinwheel]

I have some acid-trip kinda dreams that never really tend to make any sense, but here I go I guess.

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I don't remember many specifics by it, but I guess the bridge near my house (it's literally like 30 feet long, it's just to get over a tiny creek) was flooded over, so for some reason I was there, water rushing and alot of rocks and stuff. I was trying to get some body out of there, dunno why though, given it was completely gray and I assumed it was dead. Saw some guy I knew a few years back to the right of me, told him hello and started walking towards my house, dropping the body back into the water.

Get back up my drive and the gray body is just staring right at me, yellow in one eye red in the other(can't really remember which) just staring my ass down. Yeah, this is when I started panicing. He just looked at me and said "Why didn't you help me?", and I did the dumbest thing possible and answered "Looks like you helped yourself anyways, why do you care?"

After that big old derp, the clouds like instantly started getting darker and the sun just flat out disappeared. Him still staring at me, I literally just out of nowhere threw a rock at his ass. But thanks to this being a dream and whatnot, said magically appearing rock that I didn't even pick up shot right back at me and blew off my left arm. The guy started walking towards me, and I looked over the hill (my driveway is on said hill, you can easily see the bridge from before from it) and the river is going full force just flooding everything, but it's dead quiet aside from some weird ass sounds the guy was making.

You know that feeling in dreams where something you absolutely fear is occuring and you just want to run? Like that scary room as a kid you tried to run away from in your dreams, but it just pulled you into it further or you couldn't move, your legs moved but you stayed in place? Yeah, I had that moment. I panicked, and he started getting closer to me, and now he was smiling like crazy. Then my dad and brother are literally just standing like 15 feet away in the grass just watching like it's TV. Started screaming for them to help, my dad told me "Yeah, I can't. Tough luck." Thanks for that, by the way, dream Dad.

As he's about 3 feet away from me, using my magical shit-just-appears-in-my-hands powers, I got a big ol butcher's knife. Not the stereotypical one, anybody here who's butchered would know what I'm talking about. The like foot and a half long ones that look like kitchen knives on steroids. And of course, I did the absolutely most idiotic thing I could do. Instead of stabbing this guy and getting the hell out of there, I did the opposite. Stabbed myself. In the chest. To explain why, typically in dreams I commit suicide if something like those situations where you can't move or get away from physically happens to occur. And yeah, it's really helpful, because you'll wake up in about 4 seconds give or take.

So yeah, pretty trippy shit tends to occur in my dreams.

 

[MangaCrazy101]

Sounds kinda like that book called Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. It's a beautiful book, so if you ever happen across it or need something to read you should definitely pick it up. I want to read it again right now, actually.

Agreed awesome book and I need to buy it.
I used to be able to remember my dreams really well but as of recently I haven't been able to.
I could wake up one morning go to school, work and whatever and then go to bed and continue with the same dream from that morning if I wanted to know the outcome.
I could control my dreams, I swear to god ifI wanted something to happen it would. :S

I wish I could do that again but now because of all my school work that is just piling up and work being so busy- I guess I'm just too exhausted.

 

[MegaWallflower]

I hardly ever remember my dreams, but there are two that have stuck with me since I was a child.

In the first, I am in a cartoon-like world, inhabited by human-sized spiders and insects, who, like most cartoon animals, can talk. My best friend was one of the spiders, but her father didn't approve of our friendship because he wanted to eat me. She protected me from being eaten, but she was always sad because her dad never seemed to acknowledge her much. One day, when I went to visit her, her dad was there but not her. After a short, mostly one sided battle that left my body in piece the way I used to believe could happen to caterpillars, my friend came and bravely stood up to her father, calling him out on all of this.

He finally listened to her and agreed, and he even let her climb around on "the big web" like she always wanted. I was talking to my sister about how it was good everything turned out well(all in one piece again, which I didn't even really notice), but she says we should jump into the hole back home out of this cartoon world. I told her that my friend was here for me, so we were plenty safe, but she went ahead and left. Then my friend's dad promptly started walking towards me, obviously about to eat me, but my friend was having too much fun on her "big web" to even notice. Then I woke up, crying.


The second was when me and some friends dared my sister to go the hospital and pretend to be sick. They checked her on the huge magical machine that tells you if people are sick(I was really young at the time, so I just imagine a hospital was like this in dreamland), but it said she wasn't and they all decided it must be broken. The gave my sister treatments, medications, etc., which made her actually sick and closer and closer to death in there. Then I woke up crying even more.

 

[inasuma]

I actually keep a dream journal. Here's an old memorable one.

(this one is kind of funny because I'm actually playing Shadow of the Colossus right now lmao)
1. "This dream involved interplanetary (although it was likely inter-system/galactic) travel. I was joined by a few individuals who have been unrecognizable since waking up. We took some sort of space traveling elevator type ship to a post-apocalyptic alien world. There, we discovered a great monster/colossus which likely caused problems to said planet. We saw it, and made efforts to subdue the creature. I cannot remember exactly if we saved them all, or much of what happened after we saw the beast."

And this second one happened very recently, and it was really memorable. It took place in my martial arts dojo. Generally, during a belt test, the instructors ask us what a certain moral value means to us or how we execute it in our every day lives (aka bullshit rofl). Basically my question was "how do you have trust and brotherhood among friends?" to which I responded (still surprised I remembered this, forgot almost everything immediately after finishing):

"To me, this is the most important virtue present on the list. I don’t have any stories of how I personally am able to help my friends and family, but the bonds of men and women are always necessary. As humans, we thrive off of the life of others, for we are all symbiotic organisms. To have a lack of trust in one another is ultimately cancerous, making this virtue not only self-evident in execution, but also in principle. We wouldn't be anywhere without our social links (lol p4 reference) and loved ones."

I will probably express a version of the above during my actual test. I'm so prepared, bitches dont even know. I have a ton more but these are some good ones. I have pages and pages of these in a word document. lol

 

[megatron532]

There used to be an extremely similar thread to this, but it was about nightmares specifically. I usually don't recall my dreams, but the other night I dreamt I was in a web series similar in format to Marble Hornets. I was in an abandoned house out in the woods near my old house, being chased by The Rake or Slenderman. Don't recall any details.

 

[J'adore]

I actually keep a dream journal. Here's an old memorable one.

Aha so do I!

Most of the dreams I keep having and have kept on having in the past couple of years have been Donnie Darko related, one way or another.

My most recent dream, although DD related, was not entirely the most interesting. It involved me meeting Jake Gyllanhaal but in the form of his Donnie Darko character and us having a little chat about how we share so much in common and discussing the emotional problems we face. It was quite strange and I felt like I was actually talking to him in real life. I was woken by the sound of a massive crash which in the dream was a jet engine, just like in the movie but in real life, my flatmates were banging on my door to wake me up for University.

Strange, but I love dreaming about Donnie.

 

[MarluxiaNo11]

I dreamt that I had a fight with a life styled version of Marluxia, it was pretty epic seen as I had my own keyblade which I must have had a design stored away in my self-conscious mind. It was pretty damn cool and one of the best dreams I've had this year so far.

I dream a lot.

 

[Shawty]

I dreamt that I was on vacation, when I arrived I took the first cab to the beach, and suddenly I realised I forgot my suitcase. It looked so real