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Old 06-24-2004, 06:24 AM
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Nightmares ... ?

I don't understand it ... I'll watch horror films and read horror novels like they were candy, and hardly ever get a shiver. Then I'll have some dumb-assed nightmare, like I had last night, and be totally creeped out for a couple of hours. And it WAS a stupid nightmare: not worth going into much detail. I was a character in a survival-horror video game, being chased by zombies. And it wasn't even a GOOD video game! The graphics were like old NES technology. But here's a cool nightmare I had once (which typifies my usual dreams):

I'm renting a home in a neglected neighborhood. The houses, including my own, are VERY shabby ... walls crumbling, no glass left in the windows, weeds growing up through the floor. The house next to mine has been abandoned for a long time, but I notice new people moving in one day. However, my new neighbors are members of some violent cult (I know this because of the clothes they are wearing ... pure white suits and black shoes. Doesn't sound like a real cult, but it my dream it was common knowledge.) I'm spying on them through one of my windows as they move in, and notice that they have a body stuffed in with their stuff.

I run from the house to get a friend of mine to show him the new fucked up neighbors; but when we return, the new neighbors are nowhere to be found. We decide to investigate the house.

The neighbors' front porch has been decorated with all sorts of ceremonial crap -- dead birds hanging by their feet, animal skulls laid out in a pattern, symbols drawn on the walls. The front door is locked, so we decide to go around back.

The backyard is littered with trash. Old car parts, used tires, rusted metal poles and wire among other things. At the edge of the yard begins a vast cornfield that borders us on all sides. In the middle of the yard sits a picnic table covered with piles of food.

As we investigate, the back door bangs open and a HUGE guy storms out, coming straight for us ... Fast. My friend and I know that if we run, we'll get caught. So, we decide to stand our ground. We run to the picnic table and begin throwing the food at the guy. Our efforts are in vain, for he merely catches everything we throw in his mouth and eats it. My friend is about to give up when we throw the last piece of food, until I ball up a napkin and hurl it at the guy. Again, he catches it in his mouth, but this time he chokes on it and dies.

As my friend and I are about to celebrate, ANOTHER guy comes out the back door. This time, my friend tries to coax me into running into the cornfield. I tell him calmly to step back, then I whip out my pee-pee and wield it like a firehose (which is actually an appropriate simile for what is coming next). As the guy closes in, a violent stream of flames shoots from the end of my johnson, and englufs him. He falls, dead.

That's all I remember of that one. It was creepy at the time, but now I just tell it for a laugh.
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Old 06-24-2004, 07:04 AM
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That sounds like the majority of my dreams as well. I have learned to control my dreams/nightmares to do crazy things like peeing out fire (never done that one exactly...). I can do things like fly at will, kill monsters by the mere thought, become a human torch, etc. A very recurring them in my dreams are monsters, specifically zombies. I had nightmares SO MUCH when growing up that my mind responded by teaching me how to control these situations.
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Old 06-24-2004, 07:08 AM
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That sounds like the majority of my dreams as well. I have learned to control my dreams/nightmares to do crazy things like peeing out fire (never done that one exactly...). I can do things like fly at will, kill monsters by the mere thought, become a human torch, etc. A very recurring them in my dreams are monsters, specifically zombies. I had nightmares SO MUCH when growing up that my mind responded by teaching me how to control these situations.
I've heard of people having this ability, and it seems to be pretty common. Some of the kids's shows my daughter watches actually say: "If you're having a bad dream, just remember ... it's your dream. You can do whatever you want." I've never been able to control my dreams any farther than recognizing it is a dream and waking out of it. But whether or not I recognize it as a dream is out of my control.
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Old 06-24-2004, 07:16 AM
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I have some pretty fucked up dreams myself sometimes, nothing really worth telling, but they always make me think WTF when I wake up, trying to contemplate WTF just happened in my head....
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Old 06-24-2004, 07:19 AM
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I have two tuypes of nightmares, both of which (ironically) correspond to my favorite horror flicks:

The Alien Movies
And Romero's zombie movies.

I have had multiple dreams involving being trapped in a ship inhabbited by the alien. Once i was being pursued through the town i livee din in Germany growing up, with a dusturbing amount of real detail.


The walking dead dreams have always been the worst, though. They are usually so involved and detailed, i am unaware that i am dreaming. They are very similar to Lovecraft's dream chronicles, where the main characters actually live another life in their sleep.
I wake up from them feeling like they are precognitive, and i am usually afraid to look out the window for fear of seeing an army of corpses milling abbout.


A slightly different one i had once:

In the dream, i came home to find my girlfreind (now fiance) having a threesome with 2 other guys. We had been going out for about 3 months at the time, but with us, we were VERY attached by that time. it didnt last long, but in the dream she was like "Its no big deal, get over it....Jesus...." I woke up EXTREMELY upset, and when i rolled over to touch her and reassure myself, she was not there.

I think that is the only time i have panicked in the last 10 years. I got up immediately and started looking around for her (at 3 in the morning), and she was on the couch. I woke her up, and she said tshe thought she was crowding me, so she went out to the couch so i could sleep better.

I told her about the dream. It bothered the hell out of me. Needless to say, she came back to bed.

The upside was, i learned that night that i really was in love with her... :)
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Old 06-24-2004, 07:29 AM
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I wake up from them feeling like they are precognitive, and i am usually afraid to look out the window for fear of seeing an army of corpses milling abbout.
Yes! This is how I felt last night. I woke up from my zombie video game dream and went to pee. In the bathroom, the shower curtain was partly closed, and I just KNEW there was a fuckin' zombie standing back there just waiting for me to be in an unadvantageous position. I actually looked behind the curtain before I went to the bathroom.

Nothing there, though.
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Old 06-24-2004, 07:33 AM
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If you havent yet, check out the link in my sig that says “Godammit, Marc. Special People always walk funny”.

That story is a pretty good window into what my dreams are like.


Yes, this is also a thinly veiled attempt to get someone to read more of my stuff, but the content is still valid.
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I know the feeling of precognition. Some of my dreams actually are precognitive, like a dream that I had the night before 9/11 happened.

I was in an airport, with a trash bag full of pop cans (odd..). All I could think about was "I hope they don't think I'm a terrorist". I then boarded the plane, and was about to hijack it when I woke up. This was at approximately 7:30 eastern time, just before the first plane hit. Scary fucking shit.

Also, you have to be careful about these feelings of precognition. They can be very false. I have come very close to the point of insanity because of these types of dreams. When you question what's real every waking second of your life, it really, really fucks with your head.
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I always assume they are just dreams. Luckily, i havent ever had one that actually predicted ANYTHING.
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If you havent yet, check out the link in my sig that says “Godammit, Marc. Special People always walk funny”.

That story is a pretty good window into what my dreams are like.


Yes, this is also a thinly veiled attempt to get someone to read more of my stuff, but the content is still valid.
On that same note, check out my beliefs on dreaming here.
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