Weird Dreams Thread

[Womble of Wimbledon]

I dreamt an entire day in eight hours, apparently. It was a completely normal day, maybe slightly worse than average. But none of it was real. At all.

Freaked me the fuck out. I spent a substantial amount of time reading, texting people I loved, etc. Normal shit. But it was just not real. And I woke up at 7am... after having fallen asleep at 11. I dreamt like 16 hours worth of awake time in half that.

I don't know, I've been really fucking paranoid all day due to this shit. No idea if this happens to other people. I hope it doesn't. I hope this post is real. I hope you're all real. Lol.

I have had this happen multiple times, where I dream about a completely mundane day from start to finish then wake up and think, well that was a waste of time.

Never freaked me out, just made me think I have really boring dreams.

 

[Pagan Min]

Last week I had a nightmare where I was lying on my couch watching something on TV, when all of a sudden I fell THROUGH my couch into a black void. As I'm falling, suddenly I'm completely wrapped up in some sort of invisible membrane, completely restraining my movement. (I can't stand being restrained in any way, so as you can imagine this wasn't my idea of a good time.)

This was the only time I've ever woken up to the sound of my own screaming.

 

[AnOminous]

Some of my most terrifying dreams involved falling into the sky.

I also remember dreams where I was in normal life but simultaneously aware that I was also in interstellar space and the stars were looking at me with utter hatred, and this would go on for eternity.

If you have dark dreams to the point of actually suffering from them, I recommend lucid dreaming. Just being able to realize you're in a dream and turn it off instantly makes nightmares a thing of the past.

ETA: I never even considered looking this up, because I thought it was so weird nobody else could have ever thought of it. There's actually a name for this phobia: casadastraphobia (fear of falling into the sky). I also used to have a fear of mirrors, spectrophobia, where I was terrified I'd turn into a monster in the mirror and absolutely avoided mirrors, especially after a nightmare.

 

[mrfresh]

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I don't dream very much or at least I don't remember them but the ones I do are pretty much always nightmares, falling FROM the sky Is a very common one as is looking in the mirror and seeing someone else or looking out a window and seeing someone looking back at me

One of the last dreams I had was of me waking up in the middle of the night and seeing some type of light outside my window I looked outside and was immediately grabbed from behind by someone hiding in my bedroom.

 

[AnOminous]

I don't dream very much or at least I don't remember them but the ones I do are pretty much always nightmares, falling FROM the sky Is a very common one as is looking in the mirror and seeing someone else or looking out a window and seeing someone looking back at me

Oh yeah, I forgot that one. I was afraid of second story windows and if I left the curtains open, I was afraid to go close them and would turn away from them. I know exactly where this came from, too. It was from a scene in Salem's Lot.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

I had a dream where I was in a bus that was driving along a deserted highway, it looked like central asia judging by how some of the other passengers looked like, and the fact that the surroundings also looked like a desertic place. Eventually nighttime came around, and the only lights there were the stars and the bus' headlights, there were no street lights along the road. After a few hours I fell asleep, and an old man approached me and woke me up. When I looked throught the windows once again the whole scenery now had some sort of red tint, and there was nobody else in the bus aside from the old man and the bus driver. The driver announced that we would soon reach our last stop, and after that I started to see some lights in the horizon. As we got nearer I thought that it looked like a medium-sized town, but the buildings were all very european, and made out of red brick. The lights in the town made it so that instead of a red tint everything now looked bluish. I started to think that I had to find a place to stay for the night as it was quite cold, and then I woke up

 

[scathefire]

I just dreamt that US dollar bills were suddenly drastically redesigned and that Barack Obama replaced Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill. What do I make of this? Was it revenge for Trump canceling Harriet Tubman being on the $20 bill?

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Some of my most terrifying dreams involved falling into the sky.

I haven't had this happen for a long time but I used to have occasional dreams where I'd wake up with a free-falling sensation and my body tensing up to brace for the eventual impact. Weirdest feeling.
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I recently had a weird dream with three disjointed parts to it that blended together into one:

A relative called to say she was in the hospital for an unspecified reason. I'm really not sure why she called, if she just wanted someone to talk to or if she wanted someone to look up whatever she was in for to tell her the prognosis.

Abruptly, the scene changes and I'm now in the White House trying to fix President Trump's stereo system. I have a question to ask before I install the replacement part, but he's gone and some unfamiliar older guy is sitting down watching me work. As I'm finishing the job, I find myself curious what the president watches or listens to in his free time.

One last time, the scene changes again and I'm watching TV. I have no idea if the footage is live or a rebroadcast featuring a local sportsball team scrimmaging another team during the off-season. All of a sudden, I notice three players starting a fight with each other with coaches and officials frantically trying to break it up before it turns into an all-out brawl. Meanwhile, I'm wondering why this wasn't edited out if it was a rebroadcast.

 

[GeekUSA]

I had a dream an alligator ate a man who was taking it on a date in the same restaurant as me, and he had to stitch himself with fishing line after the date ended. After that I was running away from zombies and climbing buildings like I was in Dying Light.

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

I've noticed a lot of my dreams tend to involve flying in some way; recent one I had involved gliding/flying from build to build in this really big city. Not sure why, but it's weirdly nice.

 

[NoBueno]

I don't typically dream (or remember them anyway). But the last few days have been odd. I attempted to sleep, a cloudy grey mist entered my mind, flashes of eyes like this in greyscale

Then I heard whispering voices, I wasn't quite asleep yet so I opened my eyes, the whispers were coming from the fan above me, I remember this from some time ago, so I just close my eyes and attempt to relax, and hear the voices return to the fanblades turning
Then advertisments flash in my mind like a company is streaming products to sell me in my sleep, looking similar to this with a logo and scrolling bar at the bottom

I decide to get up for a bit and figure its not time to sleep yet, a bit later I attempt to sleep again now I'm dreaming, I'm at a massive party at night

I'm on some massive estate in the middle of nowhere, theres hundreds of people partying, raised wooden flooring, multiple mini pools/hot hubs with people drinking and talking. I see my mother near the bar area dancing, I walk towards her and she runs for it. I get to the back of the bar and discover shes gone through a secret door. I go through and there seems to be an entire back area, the people there are looking at me strangely, they look uncanny. A door leads outside and I see my mother running towards the woods. Suddenly armed clowns appear from everywhere and one kills her. I become enraged and run towards that particular clown, the other clowns panic and fire on me but the bullets have no effect, I start to get closer to him, then I wake up

 

[Overly Serious]

Do people think it's weird to have dreams where you yourself are not in them? This came up in conversation once with a friend and he thought it was very strange that I had such dreams. To the extent he thought it suggested something psychologically wrong with me. I don't see anything unusual in not being in your dreams.

 

[Retarded Weeb]

Do people think it's weird to have dreams where you yourself are not in them? This came up in conversation once with a friend and he thought it was very strange that I had such dreams. To the extent he thought it suggested something psychologically wrong with me. I don't see anything unusual in not being in your dreams.

Funny, I was thinking of asking something similar when I saw this thread. I have dreams wear I myself aren't a character in them fairly often. I would say the vast majority of my dreams as a kid were like that, but less so as I got older. I think any dream that I was in as a kid was always in third-person. In more recent years, I would say my dreams are split between ones that I'm in (often switching between first- and third-person views), dreams where I myself aren't technically in it but I'm experiencing things through the role of a self-insert (like if you write a story and main character isn't literally you but it's basically you but cooler), and dreams that I'm not in at all. And sometimes even these can blend together, I've had dreams where I'm starring in, "writing", and "watching" the dream all at once.

And is it common for people's dreams to have a coherent chronological narrative? My dreams often skip around chronologically, I know when things happen in relation to other events but sometimes it's before stuff that I already saw. I often see and know the "ending" to my dream long before I arrive at that ending. Sometimes events will also repeat or I'll arrive at the ending to a dream but still be asleep so my dream will repeat with variations.

 

[umseriously]

I had a dream once where I was eating some fine steak with fruits and veggies while everyone else was literally eating shit and were dressed like pigs. Odd stuff that.

 

[Overly Serious]

Funny, I was thinking of asking something similar when I saw this thread. I have dreams wear I myself aren't a character in them fairly often. I would say the vast majority of my dreams as a kid were like that, but less so as I got older. I think any dream that I was in as a kid was always in third-person. In more recent years, I would say my dreams are split between ones that I'm in (often switching between first- and third-person views), dreams where I myself aren't technically in it but I'm experiencing things through the role of a self-insert (like if you write a story and main character isn't literally you but it's basically you but cooler), and dreams that I'm not in at all. And sometimes even these can blend together, I've had dreams where I'm starring in, "writing", and "watching" the dream all at once.

It's strange that it should become less common as you got older rather than more. Not for any empirical reason or to do with you specifically but young children are very egotistical and have a more limited capacity to see things from others' points of view due to less developed empathy. One would guess that if anything kids would be more inclined to see everything from their point of view in a dream as well. Good to know this isn't a sign of being some psychopath or something though. (Unless you are a psychopath).

And is it common for people's dreams to have a coherent chronological narrative? My dreams often skip around chronologically, I know when things happen in relation to other events but sometimes it's before stuff that I already saw. I often see and know the "ending" to my dream long before I arrive at that ending. Sometimes events will also repeat or I'll arrive at the ending to a dream but still be asleep so my dream will repeat with variations.

I think sometimes dreams have consistent elements within them and that as they reoccur in the same dream it might get jumbled up around in time. I suspect that's less the case of a dream having a timeline that you jump around in than dreams not really having a timeline. Mostly.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I dreamt last night that back in the 60's, the FBI decided that The Beatles were "too annoying" and plotted to end Beatlemania in America. Charles Manson was a fake persona set up by the FBI and the murders/calls for race war were an elaborate ruse to make Beatles fans look bad. Looking back on this while awake, this dream has a lot of potential for a sequel where Lennon's murder was initiated by the FBI.

 

[Quall of Duty]

Had a dream that had me wake up laughing at it. I was at a restaurant with my friends, and they were ordering pizza up at the bar counter. In the meantime, I'm watching a guy right next to us line up a pool shot into what looked like a 3x3 foot beyblade arena built into the end of the counter. I don't even have the time to watch this guy get his goofy high angle shot off when the bar tender pulls out giant tin discs from the oven behind him, wrenches them open with his bare hands and just starts handing out pizza slices. At this point I'm just confused and perturbed, wondering about the bizarre tuna can pizza, like where it came from, if the guy cut himself while pulling it open, or if it's even hot. All of my investment in the dream illusion gets blown the fuck up by looking up at the TV and seeing the news channel going to commercials with the first ad being a plane pulling a banner written "Rodney Dray is a stupid nigger! KKK!", and then I go from being in this weird restaurant with my friends casually and unquestioningly eating can pizza to giggling with my eyes closed.

 

[Kid Named Rocket]

I had a dream that was about me being at some relatively small party (like 15-20 people) in a large apartment around 10 stories up, with several small balconies. This was at night, and the lights in some of the rooms were off, so it was really dark in them. Anyway, there was a TV, and I was watching the news when I saw that some kind of black sludge began emerging all around the world and absorbing people; apparently it was some kind of sentient super-organism that stretched all across the globe. As I sat there and watched the broadcast, a guy standing on one of the balconies by himself was snatched off by the sludge. I then went to another balcony, but quickly had to retreat when the sludge tried to get me too – it rapidly formed these really long string-like feelers that lashed out and snatched onto the balcony floor, before pulling away once they found nothing. I went back to the main group, who weren't really concerned even though the black substance had already taken several people. The survivors apparently figured out that you're vulnerable when you're in a dark area, which is why balconies were dangerous, because they weren't well-lit at all (the only source of light was the glow from the other rooms, where the lights were turned on). Anyway, everyone just kinda kept on partying.
The dream skipped ahead in time several times, during which I saw how the black sludge gradually killed off humanity – there was a shot of several ruined high-rise buildings under a cloudy stormy sky, then I saw a car fleeing from an oncoming wave of black sludge down a major city street in broad daylight (even though this stuff was supposed to hate light... maybe it was only the glow from the electric lamps?)

 

[MS-09 DOM]

Short one:

I recently quit my gross weed habit, so dreams are back. They are fragmented still, but it's a nice thing

All I remember today, sitting at a bench, viewing some sort of event. All of a sudden Iggy Pop appears behind me, grabbing my shoulder, saying "hey little buddy"

Then I wake. I woke up like a nightmare so Iggy Pop must be my weed demon

 

[Lady Bizness]

I have had a very complicated month involving work, traveling, and travelling for work. The amount of planning and packing has really tested my cognitive abilities which aren't that great to begin with. It doesn't help when I have incredibly detailed dreams where I'm packing certain things or looking at train station times and maps. First and foremost it creates a problem where I think I've already done something and so forget to do it in real life too, but it's also incredibly disappointing when you start feeling accomplished and then something fucking weird happens, like the mushroom from Troll starts singing in your hotel room, and you realize, fuck, this is a dream, I have accomplished nothing and on top of that I haven't really rested either.