I’ve had it on my mind to make a topic on this subject. It’s a topic to share any weird/strange, vivid, scary, happy, sad, or whatever types of dreams you’ve had.
Others may offer their thoughts on what your dream may have meant, or their interpretation. Even the person posting could give their interpretation of how it might relate to something in their waking life.
I suppose I could start with a poll…
Do you remember your dreams?
Yes, I almost always remember my dreams
No, I never remember my dreams
I might remember depending on what it was about
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t
I might recall some it after waking up, but I forget later
I often remember my nightmares, but I rarely have them anymore. Now and then I suffer from night terrors. They feel real, obviously they aren’t. Yet the half awake state and seeing and “feeling” something in your bed or on top of you is awful.
My girlfriend also tells me that I talk in my sleep, I think I sleepwalked once. And for some reason I also get touchy. When I sum it up I have a lot of sleep disorders.
I’m in town at this railroad crossing. There is a very low metal roof over the whole area. There are these machines with these metal bars like an oversized rakes going back and forth trying to catch people. I get out of this area/“building” and walk down the street. Up the way, I go into a house… Inside there are a few people, they try to fight me… I then get extremely angry. I start to beat these people up. I’m fighting so much, and feel so angry!
It’s then that I wake up… I’m still lying there with my eyes closed, but now my body is hurting, particularly my stomach as if I’ve done hundreds of sit-ups. I’m hurting so much that I have to tell myself “I’m not mad… I’m not mad… It’s just a dream.”
Thinking about this one I believe I know what brought it on…
That day I was trying to sleep, but 2 or 3 times I woke up thinking I heard my phone ringing in the other room (it’s a VoIP phone). I’d sit up a bit and try to listen for any ringing… Nothing. Nobody even leaving a message. This makes me stay up for either a few minutes or a few hours. Needless to say this gets me a bit irked. It’s usually someone from my work trying to call me to have them help them with something (stupid -to me) on the computer.
So the metal ceiling had to represent me feeling like I couldn’t get away from my duties at work, the rake is like people trying to reach or catch me… And the violent brawl in the house represents my feeling angry at being bothered and not being able to sleep.
Another dream I had about a week ago…
I’m in my grandmother’s house. In the living room is a very large brown-winged cockroach. I see it and am grossed out by it. I get a knife and try to stab it. It runs away behind some furniture, I find it and it runs away again… Until I finally corner it and stab it.
I could only think that this was some residual feeling I’d been having about my left knee. I’ve had arthritis in it since my early teens, and it is (a) knock-knee that makes me feel so self-conscious. I sometimes wish I could (finally) get surgery on it so it’d be straight. The way I feel about my knee is almost how I felt about that roach in my dream.
Craziest dream I had in recent memory is that somehow I was in a recording studio working on some supposedly great idea for a song with Wu-Tang and Nas. I had no idea what the hell I was rapping about, it’s like my voice is on mute, but whatever it was, they seem to love it and was cheering me on. Kept thinking how weird the whole thing was because while I do love Hip-Hop, I have absolutely no aspirations of becoming a rapper. And I’ve had this dream twice. Maybe a sigh that I missed my calling.
The most common dream I’ve had in my life, which I’ve thankfully gone almost 20 years now without, is a nightmare that is some variation of me being stuck in the movie Tremors. I saw that movie when I was 6 years old, and growing up in a desert environment like Arizona, it scared the hell out of me. For years I was afraid to walk outside on the ground if no one else was around. And for a 10 year period, at least once every 3 to 6 months, I’d have a nightmare where I’m trapped on the roof of my house, or my grandparents’ house, or my school, or the slide at the playground, or somewhere I was familiar with while a large worm under the ground was waiting for me to come down so it could eat me. I had to put up with these nightmares until I was around 16 or so and it was so exhausting.
Can’t really remember most other dreams in detail, and oddly enough, in my teenage years despite being horny as hell, I never had a wet dream, despite having dreams that were highly explicit. For a while, considering how much I heard about the subject, I thought something was wrong with me. Well, I was right, but not on this subject of dreams.
I had alot of weird dreams, but I mostly don’t remember them. One I do is back like 5-6 years when I obsessed with Wolfenstein series. I was on mission alongside with paratrooper squad on kill an important Nazi officer residing in castle atop of mountain. We were fighting throught castle until we reached tower. Inside was officer’s wife, with baby in her had. She smiled at us and said: “We just had him baptized. Did you came for celebration?” I said “Yes,” and suddenly, all fighting stopped and everyone went to lunch. Dead soldiers became alive, and joined. What was however weirdest is that as part of celebration, two Czech comedians, Miloslav Ĺ imek a Zuzana BubĂlková attended as guests.
(this is them btw)
Lastest dream I remember is when Ted Cruz confronted Kanye West about his rant on twitter by posting a sick diss track on his profile. Cody from AlternateHistoryHub made video about it, singing it IRL. It was very, very weird, but hillarious.
Had a rather bizarre dream last night, likely due to eating a rather high calorie meal far too late in the evening before going to sleep, that I was at an event of some sort, I guess I’m gonna say it was an E3, or something similar, to hear IOI representatives talk about a new upcoming Hitman game. The dream focuses mainly on them being asked a specific question - which may have come from me in the dream, I can’t remember, but it makes sense considering the question - about why they made the decision to drop the ICA from the story.
The person responding to the question - who, it should be noted, looked exactly like Arthur Edwards with one of those little microphones that attaches to the side of your head and swings around to hover near your mouth - responded by implying that the storyline for the entire series up to this point has all be interconnected by a conspiracy from behind the scenes, even greater than Providence, who were merely a tool of this greater conspiring force, who have been using 47 deliberately all along to reshape the world by eliminating all major power players that have been around, and that the time had finally come for them to make their move against Providence and the ICA as well, and that’s why the events of the WoA trilogy really happened, having been engineered to finally destroy their two greatest obstacles, with the loss of all the other organizations destroyed during those events just being a bonus, and that we would meet this new force in the new game when it released and realize why the status quo of the series had to be changed for these new foes to be seen as the threat they are. But he gave this answer with an exasperated and frustrated tone (classic Edwards), as if we the fans should have been able to see this obvious plot point and he was tired of being asked about it.
An oddly specific answer that makes sense in context, for such a random dream, making me realize what I’m hoping on some level to hear, or perhaps just expecting to hear, when the time comes for a new game. Weird.
I had a dream in which I was playing Berlin. When I’ve knocked out Rolf, and wanted to dial up number, I’ve found out that there was a giant cake on table, next to dial phone. When I’ve approached it, 47 tasted it and Olivia Hall said something about her not expecting it being his favorite flavor. 47 responded it’s not about the flavor, but the ingredients (probably referring to poison you use on cake). But when I’ve approached it, there was an prompt to “Escape” by hiding inside the cake. Also, for some reason, Rolf acted more standoffish towards Montgomery and did not enforce his own disguise when I’ve robbed him of it.
So I work nights. My sleep schedule is out of whack! I’ll get so drowsy when I need to be awake that I can’t do anything unless I take a power-nap. That’s when you take a nap up to around 20 minutes.
But the sleepier you are the faster you might enter the REM/Dream state. Typically, this happens around an hour after going to sleep at your “normal” time or whatever your circadian rhythm is adjusted to.
There have been times when I’ve had to nap but something wakes me up. It’s typically a sound. Like I think someone is at the counter calling out, or something or someone made a noise. So I have to get up and at least check. Never ignore a sound! When these turn out to be nothing I figure they are/were auditory hallucinations.
So earlier, while taking a much needed nap, I did get into a dreamstate. I was walking to the hotel’s kitchen area to find what looked like someone had hung their coat up on a coat rack (that we’ve never had). Most of the lights are out anyway so nothing is very well lit. I hear the oven buzzing. I’m wondering who in the heck came in here and started messing with stuff when it’s not even time to start setting up the breakfast!? In the kitchen I see tall stacks of folded rags around the coffee maker. I then wake-up.
Back to reality. I go into the kitchen… Look around, look in the fridge. Then I go to the serving area…
Then it dawned on me. What if “auditory hallucinations” are just dreams we haven’t entered yet? Like if there were a veil or threshold one could go through. Usually, if something is going on in another room you can usually hear it before you see it. Or maybe this happens when you’re extremely sleepy… Because those are the only times I’ve noticed this ever happens.
Anyway, I found the very idea a bit mind-blowing and felt compelled to bump this topic with my thoughts on it.
In my attempts to keep an active dream diary - I will wake up from a dream, lay there a while and reflect on key events… Maybe even recall an earlier part of the dream, and it might be of a whole different scenario than more towards the end.
The other day I told myself before going to sleep that I’d rather not remember my dream because it would likely be about being in an unfamiliar place (like an apartment and I’ve never lived in an apartment) and it making me feel depressed.
Because it feels like being lost. For at least 3 different days I had dreams of being in someplace that was strange (i.e. not familiar) and I’ve also noticed that I’ve been easily angered. When I noticed this I realized “okay… something isn’t right.”
As far as life goes, I have a number of things I should take care of and have been putting off for too long.
Cleaning out my cluttered house.
Moving into my other house that was left to me after my father passed away.
And that house needs some major repairs. Definitely floor repairs and possibly roof repairs. Not real sure about the plumbing even though I did repair a pipe that had burst. I just don’t know if there are any more.
And there are other aspects of my life that need… improving. But first things first.
Half the problem is figuring out HOW.
Perhaps that’s what being in a strange place is referring to, and becoming easily angered is a manifestation of my confusion in figuring out what to do about my situation.
I caught a video of a channel I’m subscribed to that suggested if/when you wake up in the middle of the night, to go to another spot to sleep. Like your couch, or maybe on a mat on the floor, etc.
I didn’t do that exactly. I just slept on top of my bed without getting into the covers. And I’ve got to say that I had the most vivid dreams I’ve had in a LONG TIME, and I would say I was mostly lucid… maybe not fully, but the very odd or extremely cool sights I saw I was totally down with!
The last part of the 1st dream I had… These very attractive nuns (5 or 6 of them) came out of a wall, dressed in dark brown habits (not black), and they all had the same eye color with gray irises and yellow pupils, like they were reflecting light. I remarked about how cool yet creepy they looked. They stopped in front of me. Then…
I kinda woke up, but kept my eyes closed and relaxed and didn’t move. Then the next dream started up…
In this next dream, at one point, I was on a bus with other people. Way down the road (on a highway), there was this purple/pink bright light with blue lightning bolts sparking around it. I was looking at it and in awe of how cool it looked, and threw my hands up shouting “Yeeeeaaaah!” and so did everyone else on the bus.
I know I had a 3rd dream, but I can’t recall it.
When my alarm finally went off, I didn’t feel very rested, which is kinda the price of having your attention so focused on what’s going on (when the dream is vivid, or you’re lucid) rather than being oblivious as to what’s happening and just going along with it passively.
Needless to say… I’ll definitely try this again!
Most of my dreams are action-packed or suspense themes. It usually involves me fighting against something bigger than myself. I tend to record myself talking about them or write about them. One of the recent ones involves me joining an international intelligence agency and trying to take down some people who want to build an underground shelter made of gold to survive a world-ending event. I also go back in time to explode the gold before they can get it.
Most of the times I am myself and the other “characters” are real-life people or fictional characters, but sometimes I make up people for the dreams and I am someone else. I’ve had entire universes coming out of a single dream.
My dreams are usually kinda lucid, because I can control what I do and sometimes what others do, but I am not always aware it was a dream. More than once I dreamed about a new Hitman level and woke up to try and find it on the PS4.
I get really involved with my dream to the point that I get sad when I wake up because I’ll probably never see the people in the dream again. Extremely rare, but I have revisited dream universes a couple of times! Sometimes the same dream, other times a sequel.
I dreamt that a volcano near my house had become active. So I then had to go on the phone and argue with home insurance if it covered volcanic eruptions.
When I woke up, still a bit confused, I went and Googled to see if there are any active or dormant volcanoes in Scotland. There are not.
I probably got this because in real life there are 2 extinct volcanoes near me, one of them being Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh. Edinburgh Castle is actually built on a volcanic plug.
But it doesn’t make me feel good to know I’m just like Peter Griffin.
In the kitchen I see tall stacks of folded rags around the coffee maker. I then wake-up.
which is kinda the price of having your attention so focused on what’s going on (when the dream is vivid, or you’re lucid) rather than being oblivious as to what’s happening and just going along with it passively.