Couldn't find the dream/nightmare thread...

[Phalanx]

So, after having this fucked up dream last night, I thought I would start another...
You know the deal with these dream threads, just post anything old or new that's stayed with you for some reason or another...

So...after about 20 of those random dream location changes (yknow, you start in a mall then all of a sudden you're in a town, you don't know where the fuck you are, walk into a room, it's a pool, and back outside into a movie theatre that's always playing films that you've never heard of, that make no damn sense and when you sit down to watch it, what's on "film" becomes the dream itself...kinda like that?) It got into an ongoing "plot".
Just something that I remember first that I found kinda weird/funny...*I had to go to my old thai boxing class, which for some reason was located in my current town, and I couldn't find my ankle guards, so I wrapped 'em in toilet paper, and by the time I'd done that HUGE process, the class was over* that there makes sense in most of my dreams.

But, the fucked up bit I'm talking about...I seemed to be part of a group of people, I don't know who I was, or who they were, all I knew is that we had enemies, and we were out to fight 'em. I had what looked like a compound bow, the other folks, one or two had guns (which never got used...dream logic again), the rest were unarmed. It was night. We spotted these guys across the road in front of a service station, and well, I started firing at them...now, I'm "ok" with a bow, but this was crazy, I was loading up two arrows at a time, and actually hitting people with every shot...riiiiight...but thats not the fucked up art, that's yet to come. The last shot I took, was my last two arrows, and they fell short of the mark, they just kinda landed in front of the "bad" people. I was outta arrows, and now on my own. Seemed like everyone with me had pissed off, I actually saw the last one make a bolt for it on a bike.
So, I ran...there was still like 5 people across the road that I'm sure were none too pleased 'bout how I perforated their buddies...haha, and I didn't even know why...so yeah, I ran and ran and ran, then I remembered how I'd seen one of the guys ride away on a bike, and thought that was a pretty good idea.
It was still plenty dark, and I saw a bike coming my way. I'm not sure if there was even anybody after me in the dream, or it had just switched to "objective is now to get a bike, rest of dream irrelevant"...so anyways, this bike was coming at high speed, so, I clotheslined the rider.
Chaos.
There was like thumping sounds, crashing sounds...etc...seems the bike went up against a tree or something, I thought the rider had been thrown. It was dark as fuck and I couldn't see much at all, but I heard some kinda groaning coming from the broken bike (that's right, I broke the bike I wanted to "escape" on = standard dream vehicle luck), and I looked and looked and looked and just couldn't find anything. Then I saw there was a box or something on part of the bike, and when I looked it was a fucking baby carrier thing, with a baby in it. The baby seemed undamaged, so I picked the carrier up and put it to the side, and I knew things were not good...I started looking for the parent. Still couldn't find a thing, but started finding other stuff like some shopping they had, and a wallet....both of which I just took without thinking. Walked just a bit further down the street, still looking...then I saw a severed hand in the gutter...blood lead to the middle of the road, where I saw a helmet with some nasty looking shit in it, what looked like some piles of skin, blood allover the road, bits and peices of innards (it all looked like intestine, nothing else), and just...gore, with two tyre skid marks carrying through it...I knew then that somehow the rider/parent must've been thrown into the path of oncoming traffic. Felt pretty damn bad about it too, but I didn't wanna get caught. I went back to the baby, and took the carrier thing to the nearest house and left it there, I figured the crying would bring 'em out. Then I walked away, all elements of the former dream seemingly forgotten. Somehow it was daylight again, and there I was walking away with the dead persons stolen goods after leaving their orphaned child to the care of strangers.
I woke up then...but yeah, it's one of those dreams that just...when you wake up from it, you don't feel so right.
Of course, I wonder what the fuck is goin' on in my head sometimes...but hey...usually when I dream it's at least interesting, but bad stuff happens so much that I don't even bother using the term "nightmare" personally anymore, just seems like wondering from onr bad situation into another, and fucked up shit happening is business as usual.

So, anything for you folks lately?

[XtRaVa]

My dreams are usually such masterpieces of visual delight and vividly fantastical that I cant remember much about them at all. I think if I could remember them exactly, I could produce some award winning art, stories or movies.

I dont have many nightmares. It's mainly my own fault, I can lucid dream and therefore whenever its "scary" I just change it all until its nice again, or I wake myself up.

If I have a good one and remember it quite well I'll post it ;)

[Phalanx]

Yeah, Ii can usually do the "waking myself up" thing...not sure how, but it seems to work, however it's done.

[XtRaVa]

Yeah its weird. I just realise I'm dreaming, then in the dream open my eyes (even though they are open in the dream...its weird) and that makes my eyes open in real life. I rarely ever awake myself from a dream though, unless I dont like the way its going.

[Phalanx]

Yeah, it's kind've like a panic button, hm?
That's probably why I can't remember how I do it.
Yeah, I seldom wake myself, even from the scary stuff...dreams are too cool
to just waste.

[XtRaVa]

Yeah they are cool...sometimes annoying though, when you wake up and then realise it was a dream. Doh!

Sometimes you're glad you realise it was just a dream though. I'm sure everyones had both those feelings before.

[Phalanx]

Sometimes glad, sometimes I kind've mourn the world I've created "this time around"...yknow, sometimes there's honestly some cool shit goin' on and when you wake up, it's like you think "now even if I fall back to sleep I'm not getting back THERE"...and those characters that you invent for your dream "worlds", sometimes you feel like you've done some good bonding...and they just dissapate when you wake up...I mean I suppose the only reason you feel like you've known these random characters forever, is because they're you all along, but still, sometimes you wish there was a save button...

[XtRaVa]

I know...It's ridiculous some of the stuff you can create, wouldnt have a chance in hell doing the same whilst awake and yet we can do it whilst we sleep.

People are weird in dreams, unless they are people you know, you never see their faces as such. You just sort of "know" they are there but you could never describe what they looked like, even under hypnosis once you've awoken from it.

However I have seen faces in dreams before, that I must have just made-up, but that isnt supposed to happen much as its quite difficult for the brain to do that. Usually if you can actually SEE someones face, you must have seen them before in your life...Possibly just seen them for a second walking down the street, sub-conciously taking note of their face.

I've been freaked out by dreams for the whole deja-vu type thing before. Once I had a dream and I could see a man, I could see what he was wearing as well as his face and remember him in the morning. That day we went to visit relatives in London, a 2 hour drive away and I saw the exact same guy walking on the street as we drove past. Not sure how that happened, but I've always remembered that. :confused:

[Tisha]

Ummm...it's 1, 2, FREDDY's coming for you....but I'm not nitpicking, really.

[XtRaVa]

Err...Michael is my name (its a joke...get it?) It's called making a cool sig. Yours is currently real shit. ;)

[Phalanx]

So...any good/bad dreams lately?
What's some other stuff that's stayed with you?

In short...there's a few....posting their entirety would take too long...
I had one a while back about my dog sinking into quicksand, a day before my family was due to go to the beach...that one was fucked.
Another one, I remember caving somebodys face in...something I had said in the dream had become literal, I guess I was just toying with the "what if" of the situation...hmmm...another was taking a piss in a public restroom, and when I exited, a figure of absolutely no detail (it's like they were blurry) stuck a gun in my face, said "bang" then shot me, at that point I woke up....oh, and a black leopard was one of those recurring things...it used to attack me, then just made appearances here and there.

Do any of you get that, familiar elements of locations of dreams? Or, things that always seem to happen?
Like the yknow, you start in a mall then all of a sudden you're in a town, you don't know where the fuck you are, walk into a room, it's a pool, and back outside into a movie theatre that's always playing films that you've never heard of, that make no damn sense and when you sit down to watch it, what's on "film" becomes the dream itself...kinda like that thing?
Occasionally I go back to my (main) highschool...but things are slightly different, like my mind has filled in the blanks for the stuff I can't quite remember? Other than that, I have a chinatown type place...it's not like the chinatown here, it's more like a giant underground place...really oldskool crappy looking setups, they look like they have really good food there, but I never get to eat it...that's another one of those things that seem to happen a lot...either you buy food, or see it, or have a huge chunk of cash...and somehow you never get to use it? Another one I have is vehicles...say motorcycles...every time there's one in my dream, I either can't start it, or it falls apart. With cars, I can usually get them going, but it always seems like there's a problem with them going too fast, or the brakes not working...
And water, anytime I'm near a large body of water in a dream, if I'm in a boat or not, I always fall in somehow...and it always seems to be miles to anything...ah, and pets/animals - they ALWAYS get lost...it's just weird how your dreams can always be completely different, just elements your brain revisits all the time?
You folks get this at all?

If anyone wants to look 'em up, there's actually some pretty good dream/nightmare threads that have occured in the past, I believe they're all in the general forum somewhere...they make for some interesting reading.

[stubbornforgey]

2 nights in a row .. I have had this re occuring:o dream that em chasing my cat
'of all things'..and as i lean down to pick him up..
he turns into this huge as monster and starts chasing me

[XtRaVa]

I had an excellent dream last night. However I dont think I can really discuss it here ;)

[crabapple]

I will sometimes have dreams involving tiki statues. They are really interesting and weird, usually. They often start with me going about my business and suddenly I look around and notice that people have these tiki statues in front of their houses, or tiki faces have been carved into telephone poles and things...or tikis have been just sort of incorporated as a design motif in some neighrhood. Usually these dreams seem totally real...

[stubbornforgey]

I will sometimes have dreams involving tiki statues. They are really interesting and weird, usually. They often start with me going about my business and suddenly I look around and notice that people have these tiki statues in front of their houses, or tiki faces have been carved into telephone poles and things...or tikis have been just sort of incorporated as a design motif in some neighrhood. Usually these dreams seem totally real...



wow..
those are in abundance up North here in NZ.

have you been dreamin' about NZ my friend ??

[Despare]

I had a dream last night that was very realistic and the reaction I got from an unknown character in my dream disturbed me. I was walking along some type of unfinished building killing random people... I don't remember much from the beginning. All I remember is coming upon this older man with silver hair who was next in line to be killed. I started to strangle him and the smile on his face faded. Before long the man's face was turning a little blue and he started to whimper as tear welled up in his eyes. When he started to cry I let him go and emotions swam across his face. From confusion to relief which was the final expression on his face when I grabbed him by his collar, lifted him up, and then tossed him to his death. Not really a big deal normally... simple little dream. What disturbed me was how vividly I remember his crying and squeaking, how real it all seemed. I can even remember the unusual color his tongue had as he opened his mouth to try and beg me to stop. Anyway, I killed some people, unpacked an electric car from a giant cardboard box, and drove off the top of the building at the end.

[XtRaVa]

lol, weird. Any idea why you were killing random people and can you at all remember his face/recognise the man? Would be good if we had a dream specialist doctor type person, they could try and give us answers as to what our dreams could mean.

[Despare]

lol, weird. Any idea why you were killing random people and can you at all remember his face/recognise the man? Would be good if we had a dream specialist doctor type person, they could try and give us answers as to what our dreams could mean.

There are a couple dabblers who float around...

Nope, just an old man I've never seen before.

[XtRaVa]

Cool, interesting stuff dreams. They say the mind is the second most complicated thing in the universe (that humans know about). Really is quite bizarre/amazing.

[stygianwitch]

Nope, just an old man I've never seen before.

Have you ever had any 'precognition' dreams, you know the type, something you've dreamt about actually happens at some point in the future.... be really spooky if you're walking down the street next week and come face to face with this old man

[XtRaVa]

I've been freaked out by dreams for the whole deja-vu type thing before. Once I had a dream and I could see a man, I could see what he was wearing as well as his face and remember him in the morning. That day we went to visit relatives in London, a 2 hour drive away and I saw the exact same guy walking on the street as we drove past. Not sure how that happened, but I've always remembered that. :confused:

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[Despare]

Have you ever had any 'precognition' dreams, you know the type, something you've dreamt about actually happens at some point in the future.... be really spooky if you're walking down the street next week and come face to face with this old man

I have, but only when I was younger. Hasn't happened in a long time.

[XtRaVa]

Yeah, most of my deja vu's happened when I was young, along with what I posted above.

[Phalanx]

I read somplace that the phenomena of deja vu is your brain fucking up a little...something like certain parts processing information at the wrong speed while the others are as normal? It's usually only temporary and for a short amount of time while your er...?neural pathways? reset/fix/reallign themselves...I wonder though, if that IS the case...could you get something wrong with your brain that would make your whole life like deja vu? That would be almost terrible...

[stubbornforgey]

once i dreamt i was swimming in this lake and almost drowned
3 weeks later ..one of my friends drowned in the exact lake. :eek:

Maybe just a coincidence ..'shrug'

[XtRaVa]

I last year had a dream that my friend asked me to babysit his daughter. Woke up and realised my friend didnt have a daughter.

Week later his girlfriend told him she was pregnant and then a little while after that when they asked to know its gender and it was female.

That was kind of weird, because they werent planning on having kids or ever talking about them or anything and I quite randomly dreamt that. :s

[Phalanx]

Nothing special...but, last night I had a dream that I was on a ship, kind've like an oldskool ship....that started sinking.
First I thought it was in a whirpool or something as it began spinning, but when I hopped off with some people and swam to a nearby island (this damn island was covered in stupid, skinny trees...mangrove type stuff), I saw that it was some kind've creature that had sunk us. It was a pinkish-grey coloured bunch of tentacles...not like a kraken or whatever, there was many more tentacles, and they were smaller and more leech-like. Each one seemed to move independantly, and some started towards our "group", at which point we retreated further into the island. I tried to save a spider, but they got it anyways.
These tentacles would only react when there was movement. I wanted to kill them, so I started tapping my foot on the ground...one came foward and engulfed my foot almost instantly...it looked like the blob...but all the same, I cut it off (oh right, I seemed to have a broadsword) and it started to burn up, no fire or anything, it was as though it just turne to embers. I baited a few more of them in a similar fashion, then slipped over. Thing is, when I got back up, I had another one of those channel-switching type location changes.
I was back in the modern day...myself among some faceless friends. We wanted pizza, and headed over to a pizza place across the road from us. As we approached, even though I could see it beforehand, the front window of the place became covered with newspapers/magazines/posters, the closer I approached, the more there seemed to be. By the time we got there, it looked like an abandoned building. Then there was a tap on the door beside the store, and it opened. Inside was the pizza place, fully operational. Just some dream weirdness there...and, naturally, when I got inside, didn't get to order any pizza, didn't get to eat any pizza, that shitty dream logic, again...in my dreams, events never really occur as they should.
That's all I can remember really.