Dreaming

[thesummerqueen]

You have to share a dream, Oro!

[orogenicman]

You have to share a dream, Oro!

Well, I have one that is very strange but also very funny, in a way. It really demonstrates lucid dreams, which are different from ordinary dreams. Most people don't know this but when you are dreaming, your body becomes essentially paralyzed. I'm sure a lot of you have had dreams where you were very frightened and wanted to cry out and was frozen in fear. That is because when you dream, you lose most voluntary control over your body.

Okay, back to my dream. Let me set this up a little. I was doing some environmental remediation work in Owensboro, Kentucky about 20 years ago with a co-worker, and we were staying in a nearby hotel, sharing the room to save money. Unfortunately, my co-worker, a rather large dude, was the loudest snorer I've ever met before or since. I have always been a light sleeper to begin with, so staying in this room with this guy was friggin awful. I ended up getting a room to myself the next day.

Anyway, that night, I tossed and turned, and occasionally woke the guy up to get him to roll over in his bed, but even that didn't help. I lay there for hours with a pillow over my head, when I suddenly heard a noise (dreaming of course, and not realizing that I had fallen asleep), and looked down at my feet to see this little squirrel that was wearing those tiny wire-framed glasses. The glasses made him look oriental, which was weird. I tried to kick him off but I couldn't move my feet, which caused me to start to panic. The damned thing then crawled up and sat on my chest, and smiled while pivoting his head back and forth and waving a finger at me. At that point I tried to scream but of course could not. I finally came fully awake and yelled, which startled my co-worker so badly that he almost fell out of bed.

Yeah, I know, weird. Probably even stranger is that most of my most vivid dreams have always involved animals; but it is probably because I've raised a lot of different animals (but never a squirrel) and been around them most of my life.

[popeyespappy]

Alright, I’ve got a couple of things that aren’t X rated. Please don’t misconstrue this first one to think that I am advocating anything supernatural because I’m not. It is something that I’ve not been able to explain though. When I was a child I had a dream that involved a precognition or maybe a déjà vu moment. I’m not sure what to call it.

The details are sketchy now because this was more than 40 years ago. However it made quite an impression on me because it is something I’ve remembered ever since. Anyway, I had dream one morning involving multiple butterflies on my arm. Latter on that day it actually happened. The unusual thing is that the particulars of the event were exact down to the smallest detail. Colors, movement, even where I was and the background image was exactly the same as those I recalled from earlier.

I realize that this was probably some kind of after the fact imposition of what was happening in real time onto my memory of something I experienced earlier. However if other people have the same kind of experience I can certainly see how they could explain it as a vision of the future.

[thesummerqueen]

My ex and I noticed "deja vu" feelings in dreams as well. He explained it as "I guess my mind is putting it in my memory, and while it's doing it, it thinks what's going in is already there, like an echo." The closest I came to a psychic dream was

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Oro - so instead of the "night hag" you had...the squirrel?

[Cinjin]

All through my childhood I had the same recurring dream.

The setting of the dream was at night in the small school I attended. I was down the hall from my mom who was working at a desk which was illuminated by the only light that was turned on in the school. For whatever reason I was on my belly on the floor and when I go to stand up my legs are held fast and I struggle to move. When I look down at my feet there is a wicked looking clown with sharp teeth and and orange hair slowly climbing up my calves snarling quietly. I try to yell out to my mom, but my voice doesn't work. It was a terrifying dream that I had for years and it always ended at that point. (by the way I had never seen Steven King's movie IT until my late teens.)

When I was about 14 I finally told my mom about the nightmare I'd been having all my life. She told me that when I was very young (about 4 yrs or so) a clown surprised me coming out of an amusement park cave and scared the living shit out of me. Once I was informed of this. I never had the dream again. I guess once my conscious mind understood the meaning behind the sub-conscious mind there was no longer a need for the dream at all.


It was truly terrifying though.

visual aide:

[searchingforanswers]

Thanks cinjin for passing your terrible nightmares to me.

[Napoléon]

I have one really weird dream which I remember, and I've had several similar versions of the same dream.

Basically for some reason I'm at an ice rink skating, but the thing is, i'm on stilts. Next thing I'm walking out of the ice rink and down the road, however still on stilts. As I walk further up the road it feels as though the road becomes stretched, and even though I can see the end of the road (kinda like a New York junction with loads of traffic lights), the road seems to get further and further stretched. Until eventually I'm somehow transported to a forest (random I don't know how I get there). In the forest I seem to be in the middle of some game, where people are running round throwing frisbees at each other. The thing is the frisbees are deadly and they kill you when they hit. So obviously it's quite a panic running around trying to avoid them. This goes on for a while until eventually my vision goes white, I see some woman appear (can't ever make out her face) and she says 'well done' in a spooky almost robotic voice. Then I wake up.

Lol, no I'm not shitting anyone, that's genuinely my weirdest dream. Sometimes only certain parts are in my dream, like I only remember being on the ice rink on stilts, other times I'm just playing the game in the forest. Occasionally it all gets thrown together and when I wake up from this crazy dream, I'm sitting in my bed for ten minutes trying to think about what the fuck was going on.

[popeyespappy]

A couple of years ago I had a dream that I was super fucking Bill Gates like rich. I was probably grinning like the Cheshire Cat in anticipation of another day in the lap of luxury when I opened my eyes. I was quite disappointed when I realized that I hadn’t woken up in the owner’s suite of my Mega Yacht somewhere in the Aegean.