Really odd dream last night

[happyninja42]

So, I have strange dreams, like, really surreal ones when I remember them.

But this one, while not surreal, had an odd feature to it that I don't ever remember having before.

In the dream....I was sleepy. I distinctly remember being in a situation, and my dream-self was dozing off, and I could feel the slip of consciousness like IRL, and thinking "man I really wish I could just lay down and get some sleep" in the dream.

Which I thought was some really strange, nesting doll Inception stuff. Not really mind blowing I know, but I thought it interesting.

Any of you have strange elements to your dreams? Either strange like my example, or other things that made you go "...huh...well that's peculiar, even for a dream" ?

 

[Evil Moo]

I recall a couple of strange dreams that stood out for different reasons.

The first was unusual because I was experiencing it from the perspective of 2 people at once. One of the people was me, the other was an attractive, blond female standing nearby, looking at me. I only knew that the me in the dream was me via instinct, because visually I appeared as an indistinct, shadowy figure to the other person.

The other was only strange in relation to something I heard someone say while talking about dreams and lucid dreaming. They said that you can't read in dreams and that this is a way to tell if you are dreaming, so you can train yourself to try to read something to help initiate lucid dreams. Well I had a dream in which I read a book. Admittedly it wasn't really like normal reading, I could only properly focus on one word at a time, but it was definitely still reading. Not that that really mattered with regard to figuring out if I was dreaming or not, given that I was sitting on a giant leaf while being hunted by angels for being in possession of a secret version of the Bible that was given to me by a witch that has appeared in several of my dreams...

 

[Sonmi]

Well, recurring elements in my nightmares include the loss of teeth, the loss of an eye, and being attacked by dogs.

I've had those dreams for as long as I can remember, and they still make me uncomfortable.

 

[SupahEwok]

I had a dream once where I was in a Fire Emblem game, only all the characters were from Naruto.

I don't fucking know.

 

[Saelune]

Not really, but I dream literally every time I sleep. Ive considered starting a Dream Journal though, for the hell of it. But well, thats gonna be alot of writing.

 

[happyninja42]

Not really, but I dream literally every time I sleep. Ive considered starting a Dream Journal though, for the hell of it. But well, thats gonna be alot of writing.

I used to do a dream journal, and it was very interesting what I wrote down. A few very telling personal insights boiled up from some of the dreams I had.

I would suggest giving it a try if you are curious about it. I didn't continue it for more than about 3 months or so? But it was an interesting introspective exercise.

 

[Baffle]

Well, recurring elements in my nightmares include the loss of teeth, the loss of an eye, and being attacked by dogs.

I get the teeth one frequently. And being late for exams. Or having to go to an exam but having not been to classes all year.

Last night (dream) I had to get a train, but I was in bed and I knew I'd probably miss it (it was coming up to six in the evening, I shouldn't have been in bed). I checked my ticket and it said I'd paid ?70 for it. Really unhappy, but still couldn't be bothered to get out of bed to get the train. To be honest, it reminded me of when I first met Mrs B2, when I was much more relaxed about serious things like missing the train.

 

[Ogoid]

Weird, surreal dreams I get on a regular basis. One odd thing I noticed about them, though, it's that it's not at all rare for me not to be directly involved in what's going on. My nightmares, in particular, usually involve me watching (either being in front of a TV, or nowhere at all in the scene) some incredibly disturbing stuff - often very messed-up, bizarre dream versions of actual movies, games or visual media in general that scared/unsettled me IRL.

Also, few years ago I started reading up on lucid dreaming, and tried (with some success, actually) to induce them, but I found that very often, as soon as I realized I was dreaming I would "wake up" in the dream - as though my mind was trying to get me to drop it and simply go with the dream narrative. I remember at least one occasion in which I went through the whole process of "waking up", looking around me and going "nope, still dreaming" three or more times. I woke up (for real) feeling really tired, too.

 

[happyninja42]

Weird, surreal dreams I get on a regular basis. One odd thing I noticed about them, though, it's that it's not at all rare for me not to be directly involved in what's going on. My nightmares, in particular, usually involve me watching (either being in front of a TV, or nowhere at all in the scene) some incredibly disturbing stuff - often very messed-up, bizarre dream versions of actual movies, games or visual media in general that scared/unsettled me IRL.

Also, few years ago I started reading up on lucid dreaming, and tried (with some success, actually) to induce them, but I found that very often, as soon as I realized I was dreaming I would "wake up" in the dream - as though my mind was trying to get me to drop it and simply go with the dream narrative. I remember at least one occasion in which I went through the whole process of "waking up", looking around me and going "nope, still dreaming" three or more times. I woke up (for real) feeling really tired, too.

That would make sense I think, if the act of Lucid dreaming interrupts REM sleep, by actively engaging your conscious mind on some level. Makes sense to me that this would lower the quality of restful sleep you would get.

 

[Glongpre]

I don't think I have ever had a lucid dream, but there were many times where I could feel sensations as if I were awake. These have included intercourse and urination. And yes, there was an obvious outcome when I awoke, which is usually right after said event.

It is a pretty cool and interesting thing to happen to you, though in my case, a little messy, haha.

It feels like it is happening in reality, but it is just your imagination. Really tells you a lot about the power of your mind!

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

A couple of nights ago I had a dream where I specifically remember saying to myself "I don't even know what this dream is about anymore".

It was a really strange dream. I wish I could remember some of the rest of it.

 

[Saltyk]

Back when I was a teen, I worked at McDonald's for a year. (incidentally, everyone should work in fast food or a restaurant at some point to have some empathy for the employees)

Well, one Saturday I had to go in to work at 6AM, which was my usual time. But I had a dream right before I got up. I was at work, in the drive thru, taking orders. But here's where it gets weird. I was trying to get done with my work so I could wake up and get ready for work.

Needless to say that I was exhausted all day.

 

[Paragon Fury]

I'm pretty sure everyone can guess, but in my dreams (that I remember usually) people tend to have the realistic versions of anime/video game physiques. Which means they range from this:

Spoiler

And then usually jump straight to this end of the spectrum, without a whole lot in between.

Spoiler

You're either "Meh" and Generic or a Supermodel (or a child) in my brain apparently - there is no in between.

 

[Nuuu]

I guess I've been watching too much subbed anime: I remember having a dream a couple months ago where I was in a Japanese school and had to get by with whatever two non-English words I could muster. It was surprisingly more stressful than it was nightmarish.

I don't remember the context, but at some point this week I've had a dream where I described my second grade teacher as:
"An old aging woman with greying, frizzy red hair that looks like she belongs in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket".

Dreams are weird.

 

[Saelune]

I will say, I never seem to have trouble with nightmares. Even "scary dreams" never seem to phase me really, but I just appreciate waking up and realizing it was a dream. (While positive dreams bum me out for being dreams).

 

[Frezzato]

I have to stay up tonight so I can sleep during the day and be rested for a night shift. This is straight after working a 12-hour day shift, so I know I'm going to be dead tired when I finally let myself collapse in about 7 hours. This exhaustion almost always results in super intense and vivid dreams, and I love them, especially the nightmares. Sometimes I'm so tired I can't wake up despite being terrified, effectively trapping me in my sleep.

I've died several times in my dreams. It was mostly by getting shot. One time I could feel a bullet passing sideways through my neck and there was the rattling of my neck and spine as I started to involuntarily swallow blood. Then just darkness for a while.

Another nightmare, which thankfully only happened once, involved me being kidnapped by a man who locked me in a solid box with a grated lid. Inside the box I was further trapped in a burlap sack. He slowly filled the box with water to the top, forcing me to jam my face against the inside of the lid to keep from drowning.

It should be no surprise that I'm constantly on the hunt for quality horror movies. So far, nothing has scared me more than my nightmares.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Whenever I'm dreaming, I kinda just go with the flow of it.
Not because I'm aware and thinking "screw it" but because whatever physical, societal, and cultural "rules" are set-up for the dream world are just the rules for me, like I've known them the whole time.

The most recent dream and can remember is a good example of this.

I forgot what led to it (something *did* happen, I just can't remember) and I had deep lacerations on my torso and face, the kind that would bleed you out maybe in an hour in real life. They didn't hurt all that bad, kinda just stung somewhat and I wasn't worried about bleeding out because I wasn't losing that much blood, they were really more like indentations or something than cuts but I figured I should really get this taken care of.

Thing was I was in a city I didn't recognize and didn't know where the nearest hospital was. Now in the real world, I live near Seattle and work there and I honestly wouldn't know which way to start walkin' if I got injured there. The most logical thing to me would be to haul myself into any building and tell them to call an ambulance or call one myself on my cell phone; that didn't cross my mind once in the dream. The rules of the dream-psyche told me I needed to find help on foot. Don't even ask strangers for help (which were surprisingly sparse in the dream) who would very visibly see that you have very bad injuries and be willing to help you, nope, you're on your own.

To wrap it up, I didn't get them fixed by the time I woke up but along the way, Cassidy from Preacher offered to sew up my wounds. I let him start but didn't let him finish, but not because he's a vampire or because he has no medical training.

Spoiler: Dr. Cassidy

Maybe not the best guy to help out.

Like I said, dream-rules, anyway, he honestly wanted to help but it was around the time he was trying to sew up my face while resting his other arm on my very-not-okay torso (which did hurt, by the way, not the worst pain I've ever felt but it was kinda bad) that I was like "Yeah, you're not doin' this.

 

[Padwolf]

I used to have a recurring dream where the countryside I lived in turned into my own personal Silent Hill. I have to say it was very spot on for silent hill, had my own personal demons in there, my own personal torments from the past, the whole nine yards of it. While it was absolutely terrifying, and while it brought up a lot of stuff and made me have problems sleeping, it was a damn good Silent Hill.