Let's talk about dreams.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Dreams interest me. They seem to interest a lot of people; I'd guess that's why all ancient cultures tack on some kind of significance to them. Anyway, what have been some reoccuring dreams/nightmares you've had?

For me, one of the most frequent ones is drowning. Usually it's me sinking deeper and deeper into the ocean, watching the last rays of light disappear from view until everything is darkness. I also get the classic falling dreams every now and then.

A good part of the year I live in isolation from a large part of the outside world, and that's when the dreams are the most intense, so much so that I can clearly remember lines of dialogue that characters "spoke" to me in my dreams. One nightmare I had was so terrifying that I snapped awake to find myself crawling out of my own window. I don't even remember what that one was about, though.

[Dimentio]

Three days ago, I dreamt that I had assigned to a summer course on the local University. The summer course was about taking a rocket launcher and shooting black helicopters approaching over the campus with armed soldiers in some sort of cyberpunk uniforms. The helicopters fell down over the rooftops but disappeared in blazes of fire without hurting the university.

Then the Illuminati-like guy from "The Librarian"-movies came to me and gave me a book where every letter was turned wrong.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Three days ago, I dreamt that I had assigned to a summer course on the local University. The summer course was about taking a rocket launcher and shooting black helicopters approaching over the campus with armed soldiers in some sort of cyberpunk uniforms. The helicopters fell down over the rooftops but disappeared in blazes of fire without hurting the university.

Then the Illuminati-like guy from "The Librarian"-movies came to me and gave me a book where every letter was turned wrong.

it's obviously related someway to the zeitgeist movement

[praxis1966]

I have one constantly, usually just before I get up, that I wake up and go about my morning business. You know, shit, shower, shave and all that. Before long, I realize I'm still asleep and I do it over and over again. Usually, after about the second or third time, I'm aware that I'm asleep and can't wake up or move. Basically, I'm conscious and trapped for what seems like forever and then I finally wake up, alot of times screaming.

What do you make of that one, eh?

[gorillafuck]

I remember dreams very, very infrequently.

Usually it's just my everyday life but certain aspects won't make much sense, like people I know will be acting very out of character (though I won't realize it until I woke up, obviously). I can't think of any examples because I don't even remember any dreams I've had right now, I just remember my reactions to them upon waking up.

[DecDoom]

I had a bizarre dream the other night. I was walking down some residential street next to a forest, and I stopped in front of a normal looking one-story house. I heard some gibberish drifting from the house, but it sounded deliberate, like some kind of incantation. It went on for a while, stopped, and then someone inside the house started screaming. An older woman emerged from the house, still screaming, and she sprinted off into the woods. I bring myself to move away from the house, but instead of entering the forest, I hid behind a large rock on the edge. I looked back at the house, and there was an old man standing in the front doorway, and every time I looked back, he was staring out of a different window. I start to leave, and I realize I'm being followed. I turn around, and the old man is standing behind me, and I got a clear look at him. He was covered in scars and had something like a tumor over his eye, and I kind of felt bad for him, but I told him to go away. Instead of leaving, he rapidly began to age backwards until he became a fetus, but when I stopped yelling he would age 70 years in one second.

I can't remember what happened after that point.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I had a bizarre dream the other night. I was walking down some residential street next to a forest, and I stopped in front of a normal looking one-story house. I heard some gibberish drifting from the house, but it sounded deliberate, like some kind of incantation. It went on for a while, stopped, and then someone inside the house started screaming. An older woman emerged from the house, still screaming, and she sprinted off into the woods. I bring myself to move away from the house, but instead of entering the forest, I hid behind a large rock on the edge. I looked back at the house, and there was an old man standing in the front doorway, and every time I looked back, he was staring out of a different window. I start to leave, and I realize I'm being followed. I turn around, and the old man is standing behind me, and I got a clear look at him. He was covered in scars and had something like a tumor over his eye, and I kind of felt bad for him, but I told him to go away. Instead of leaving, he rapidly began to age backwards until he became a fetus, but when I stopped yelling he would age 70 years in one second.

I can't remember what happened after that point.

That's an awesome dream.

[leftace53]

As I said in another thread, last night I dreamt of an ostrich invading my house, the ostrich had arms which which it opened doors. It was more scared of me than I was of it, so I guess it didn't really "invade" my house, it was sorta trapped there.

Generally I dream of being in an elaborate place (think castles) with another person (generally a person of sexual interest), and I'm always running around looking for someone else, frantically turning corners to find noone, getting frustrated etc... I always wake up before I find the person I'm looking for.

I've had a few other wierd dreams, but I figure I'll share them along the course of the thread.

[Broletariat]

I consistently dream of being offered a choice between eternally eating chocolate or strawberry poptarts, keep in mind I fucking HATE strawberry poptarts. I can see myself in the dream thinking about the choice and I'm like you fucking dipshit pick chocolate. But the "me" that is given the choice thinks it's a trap and picks strawberry, pisses me off every time. I spend the rest of the dream miserable and I wake up angry at myself.

I also consistently dream of being eaten by a giant strawberry poptart. I then have to eat my way out of the poptart which, hating strawberry poptarts, is utterly disgusting.

[leftace53]

I consistently dream of being offered a choice between eternally eating chocolate or strawberry poptarts, keep in mind I fucking HATE strawberry poptarts. I can see myself in the dream thinking about the choice and I'm like you fucking dipshit pick chocolate. But the "me" that is given the choice thinks it's a trap and picks strawberry, pisses me off every time. I spend the rest of the dream miserable and I wake up angry at myself.

I also consistently dream of being eaten by a giant strawberry poptart. I then have to eat my way out of the poptart which, hating strawberry poptarts, is utterly disgusting.

Poptarts are just cardboard with sugar on top.

[#FF0000]

I have the worst goddamn nightmares. They aren't really scary as much as they're just fucking dreadful.

One I still remember is one where I was walking down some desert highway with another guy. He says "Yeah, I could probably survive another blast without shelter if I had to". Then there's a flash of light in the distance, and I look back at the guy I was walking with and he's just being obliterated by this atomic blast. It isn't gory or anything and he's not screaming but he's just sort of dissolving in front of me and then I'm alone.

Then there's this other one where I'm in this overgrown town that looks vaguely like a street in my area. All the houses on the street look neglected, but not really abandoned. Sky is blue, trees are green, as is the grass sprouting up in the cracks in the road. I walk around the town and whenever I get near a house, I get a pins-and-needles feeling all over and start to feel warm. I hear this wild clicking sound going crazy and some intense bass-heavy sound, and my vision cuts to static like a T.V. would, and I'm just filled with a sense of dread.

I had another dream in that town. This time I walked up the road. It came to a hill, which I walked to the top of, and found a big cemetary there just in the middle of the street, stretching out like 50 feet around. I walk a little further and just past some small mausoleums or whatever, there's just a massive goddamn whole in the earth, like one of the gigantic sinkholes you see in the news that swallow up entire office buildings, except this one looks even more unnatural. I get the pins-and-needles feeling and all that again, and I catch a glimpse of a man in a suit standing off in the distance in a clearing, looking hella unnatural with some fucked up proportions, looking way wider and much taller than a person actually should be.

Didn't have another dream like that yet. I remember waking up feeling really sad and stressed.

[al8]

My dreams consistently feature social awkwardness and displacement. This one time everybody around me in my daily interaction were really pornstars. Pornstars I've seen seen before, doing it for money. But they all went about their day as if it was nothing - as if they weren't pornstars. I didn't know if I was supposed to tell a joke, get horny, complement them for their previous sexual athletics or what! No matter what I would do I'd come off as the lowliest person.

[CountryKid]

Weird fucking dream this one time.


I just crawled around naked outside under this blanket. I'd like lay there in a busy intersection and just wank under the cover hoping noone would see. After I bit, I'd crawl around to another busy area.

[Niccolò Rossi]

I've been having alot of dreams lately. My dreams are always very uncomfortable and unpleasant. They are kinda great fun in a way too.

The last one I had involved learning we had overnight adopted 3 stray cats, 2 of which were identical to one I own already.

I then proceeded to put a tray of half a dozen pork chops in the grill and a tray of some 2 dozen miniature steaks in the oven. Not realising the grill was on at the time, the pork chops burnt and ruined at which point I proceeded to throw myself into a hysterical fit, rolling on the floor, crying, screaming. Then when I checked the steaks they had somehow been transported to the grill and turned into massive raw chicken breasts.

At about this point my hot neighbour came through the front door looking for her brother, but instead looking as she did years ago when she was went to primary school, chubby.

Not nearly as interesting as some of the dreams the rest of you have.

Nic.

[Nolan]

I had a dream recently where prisoners were being hanged in public and I was a spectator or something, I couldn't tell. I don't know what for or who exactly they were. The weird thing about it though is that I wasn't sure whether I was just watching in the crowd or I was to be hanged later, and there was this extreme butterfly feeling in my stomach, the kind you get before your track and field event or graduation. The dream content shifted after that (I was oblivious to the change of setting while in my dream. Isn't that weird? Does that happen to anyone else?) and I was driving with my ex and we were lost. I still had that nervousness.

[MarxSchmarx]

You know what sucks ass? I dream in computer code some times. Even the night fails to bring respite from my job.

Does anyone else do things like this? I had a friend who studied linguistics, he said that some times he would dream grammar trees and equations, at the time I pitied the fool but here I am trying to figure out how to break a for loop as I dream.

And people say I can be a boring conversationalist.

[mollymae]

For the past couple years, I occasionally have recurring dreams about animals dying. Every few months or so I get a really emotional dream about any sort of animal dying, and in my dream I'm just hysterically upset about it...

I have one constantly, usually just before I get up, that I wake up and go about my morning business. You know, shit, shower, shave and all that. Before long, I realize I'm still asleep and I do it over and over again. Usually, after about the second or third time, I'm aware that I'm asleep and can't wake up or move. Basically, I'm conscious and trapped for what seems like forever and then I finally wake up, alot of times screaming.

What do you make of that one, eh?

You just blew my fucking mind

[Chambered Word]

I have the worst goddamn nightmares. They aren't really scary as much as they're just fucking dreadful.

One I still remember is one where I was walking down some desert highway with another guy. He says "Yeah, I could probably survive another blast without shelter if I had to". Then there's a flash of light in the distance, and I look back at the guy I was walking with and he's just being obliterated by this atomic blast. It isn't gory or anything and he's not screaming but he's just sort of dissolving in front of me and then I'm alone.

Then there's this other one where I'm in this overgrown town that looks vaguely like a street in my area. All the houses on the street look neglected, but not really abandoned. Sky is blue, trees are green, as is the grass sprouting up in the cracks in the road. I walk around the town and whenever I get near a house, I get a pins-and-needles feeling all over and start to feel warm. I hear this wild clicking sound going crazy and some intense bass-heavy sound, and my vision cuts to static like a T.V. would, and I'm just filled with a sense of dread.

I had another dream in that town. This time I walked up the road. It came to a hill, which I walked to the top of, and found a big cemetary there just in the middle of the street, stretching out like 50 feet around. I walk a little further and just past some small mausoleums or whatever, there's just a massive goddamn whole in the earth, like one of the gigantic sinkholes you see in the news that swallow up entire office buildings, except this one looks even more unnatural. I get the pins-and-needles feeling and all that again, and I catch a glimpse of a man in a suit standing off in the distance in a clearing, looking hella unnatural with some fucked up proportions, looking way wider and much taller than a person actually should be.

Didn't have another dream like that yet. I remember waking up feeling really sad and stressed.

Surreal...

I love this thread. Will contribute if I have any interesting dreams.

[Tyrlop]

good thread, always loved dreams and I never had nightmare since I was 8, so many good dreams i had but they are always short, or really long so i can't remember the beginning.
We should sticky this.

[Angry Young Man]

Three days ago, I dreamt that I had assigned to a summer course on the local University. The summer course was about taking a rocket launcher and shooting black helicopters approaching over the campus with armed soldiers in some sort of cyberpunk uniforms. The helicopters fell down over the rooftops but disappeared in blazes of fire without hurting the university.

Then the Illuminati-like guy from "The Librarian"-movies came to me and gave me a book where every letter was turned wrong.

Do you get David Lynch to write your dreams?

Ooh, also, cheese can cause nightmares, but pretty piss-weak ones. I was in a relaxed, dimly lit dark green room and I start getting bothered by a wasp.

Now compare that to the worst nightmare I can remember. I hear a voice say 'David Hume', then there's two 18th Century men talking about the price of scientific advance, and next we have some dingey black-and-steel lab where a dead nine-year-old boy is chained to a stone bed covered in blood and shit. Then the perspective moves to where I become the living twin brother, and then zoning out, I, in my actual form, am looking through the window like a melancholy Madonna.