Dreams

[D_Marx]

The last time I had a dream this vivid, someone ended up in the hospital with a stroke--of course, I'd dreamed grandpa was dying and grandma was waving around a rifle for some reason. She was fighting though, and that's what makes me scared. Last night I dreamt my grandmother was dead and my grandfather was wasting away. When I told my parents, they freaked and my dad yelled at me for upsetting my mother.

Yesterday I dreamt my father burst into flames and died, but then came back.

I can't tell them. I just needed to get it off my chest because if it came true, then you'll be getting another post sooner or later.

Basically I've been meditating more, and the dreams came back. I don't know if this is a good thing, but dreams are usually calming things which keep me from going nuts during the day. Just sleeping isn't enough. I need to dream. Why can't I dream about flying cows and running away from faceless monsters? [I'd like to see my monster sometime and draw the bastard someday.]

[Mathias]

Some of my dreams come true. They're many visions of inconsequential events. No, they're not flashbacks or deja-vue. I decided to try and change these visions as I slept. I was able to manipulate my dreams by stopping them and replaying them the way I wanted in deep sleep. I couldn't affect the visions that usually came true about six months or more later. One night, my dreams attacked me and wouldn't let me out of a nightmare. The more I struggled the worse they got. I know longer try to control my dreams any longer, because I am assaulted if I do. The dreams have become more creative lately, but they were very hum drum for years. I wake up as if I have been doing all the things in my dreams, sometimes sore and in a damp sweat. I have never slept well since that night so long ago.

[Kelene]

Lately I have been having dreams that I can see and hear dead people, always starting with my maternal grandmother (who is alive and in a nursing home). Everyday I have that dream I dread answering the phone and hearing that she may have died.

I do have a lot of dreams where I am running away from people, usually bad guys in an adventure. And some dreams of falling in love. Most of the faces are blank and then some are my husband. It is just the feeling of falling in love over and over again that I recall in the dreams. I welcome those dreams. They make me remember how much I love my husband.

I don't have too many nightmares anymore, at least not that I remember. The worst dream I had was where some guy wanted to hurt my daughter, who is 2, but somehow ended up killing my son on a sidewalk right beside me. I cried and cried in the dream and finally got justice for the murder of my son. When I woke up I immediately checked on the kids and all was fine. Though I didn't get any more sleep that night cause every time I closed my eyes I saw my son laying in blood. Creepy.


Anyhow, if you have really weird dreams trying writing them down in a journal as soon as you wake up. Later you and reread your dreams and see if any of them make sense to you and your life.

[D_Marx]

It makes sense to write them down--I've been recording a lot of things [tarot readings] and though I want to keep having dreams, I want to be able to not fear them, to not have to manipulate them. It's exhausting to try.

[CabbitGirl]

ive had disturbing dreams, but the creepiest ones are when i fall asleep without know i fell asleep... like the kind of thing you dont figure out until you wake up on the couch.

there was one that involved my little brother locking me in a room with one window on the door (like an insane asylum or something) and then he went and killed my entire family right there before my eyes, then murdered himself.... i woke up crying hysterically >_< somehow a donut box was involved though O_o it like... grew limbs and murdered some girl upon my little brothers will >_> weird.

[gokuDX7]

The dreams one has are trigged by loads of different things. What you eat, how you currently feel, the way you're sleeping, if your sick, what sleep state your in (REM)....etc. You could try assessing your normally sleep habits and try sleeping a different way to try and alter your dreams. I know when I sleep on my arm sideways on a couch to the point of loosing feeling in my arm, I tend to have an out of body experience.

Normally when you "predict" things before they happen it's really got nothing to do with prediction but merely your mind working in over time trying to peace together information about whoever or whatever you're currently thinking about. It's a pretty amazing thing sometimes when your mind can actually peace together the right info. This is why people normally tell you to stop working and take a nap if you can't figure something out. Chances are when you're napping your mind will still be going nuts trying to figure out the solution and when you wake up it just clicks.

[Myk JL]

My good dreams nowadays are usually me playing Legend Of Zelda. But my last dream that I had about Zelda games was weird. I was trying to hit this yellow blob monster with a boomerang as adult link in Jabu's belly. I kept missing & Link then pulls out a hand gun. But as soon as Link pulls out a hand gun so does the blob. I end up shooting and dodging my TV putting a hole & a nasty crack into it. Then I woke up. Maybe I was just thinking about Wii Zapper Zelda game.

Funny thing is I haven't had a bad dream in a long time. They're either awkward or make me realize I'm waking up to a nightmare.

[Mathias]

I dreamed that my father came into my room when I was a kid picked up my wallet and wrestled to keep it away from me. It was interesting, because at that point in my life, my father wouldn't have done that. Six months afterward, that thirty second scene happened word for word, action for action.

Another time, I dreamed that I was working in a mail room sorting letters. At the time of the dream I worked at a cafeteria and nowhere else resembling the work area or job. About a year later I had quit my job and took a temp job. I caught up with my job, so they asked me to help out with other sorting. Shortly after that I relived the scene word for word, action for action.

I could continue with many more, but explain that last one. The exact same workplace that I had never before seen except for in a random dream a year earlier? That's not the subconscious working something out, that's ... something else.

[Ladywriter]

I get stuck with a lot of reoccurring dreams.... -_-;

[Mathias]

Same here, same here. I have this imaginary city that I walk and hang out around half the time.

[Wolflord]

Well, my dreams are kinda strange. I used to suffer from insomnia because I would refuse to sleep because my dreams were better then being awake... Painfully so. Always the same reoccuring dream, and it always evoked the same reaction. It's pretty weird though, because it happened nearly every time I slept (about 4 times a week'ish), for a few years. It's gone away now that being awake is actually better then being asleep.

The thing I've noticed about dreams is that the ones that make sense are generally about thinks we want or things we're scared of. I've also noticed that sometimes it's hard to tell if it's something you want or something you're scared of.

[D_Marx]

Well, nothing strange yet, but possibly one of the weirder ones include the devil. . . making deals, trying to make me stray from the path--I'm kind of a godless heathen anyways, and giving birth to the anti-christ without knowing I had a kid at all. o.O;;; Having an evil businessman's unholy child isn't on my list of accomplishments, but if I bring on the end of the world accidentally, forgive me. ^_^

[Wolflord]

Don't worry, my family plays for the other team too ;) Our neighbours came over once and told us that if we ever felt the need we could come over and pray with them... We weren't sure what to say, and I think we still aren't.

I think my weirdest dream was when I dreamt I was a member of a group of people being exterminated, and one of the people doing the extermination at the same time.

[D_Marx]

The dreams have tamed a bit--must've been the lack of dreaming coming back in violent doses. More fun to have them regularly, I recommend them.

[Crimson King]

Heh my dreams are always freaky. My last two especially.

My last one I had was one of my Aunt, whom I love very much. I had a dream that she killed my mother, and the Police said she probably went to my Grandparents house. So what did I do? I went to go seek revenge. I get to my Grandparents' house, and for some reason, everything is like dark with dim blue lights the only thing giving off light... so I grab a knife off the counter and then grab some glowing thing that looked a lot like a lava lamp (lol). Then I notice the living room door that lead into the hallway was like off the hinges and just standing there... so I creep over to the door and it just falls down and my aunt walks calmy over to me with a syringe and a glowing lava lamp-looking thing in her hands. She looked very pale and had blueish veins in her face, as if she were like a vampire or something. I just became shocked and couldn't move, as if I were paralyzed. So I kinda manage to fall down on the couch, and I try talking to her, but I'm too paralyzed and only make unintelligble sounds. She walks over, sticks the syringe in my arm and as soon as she does that I literally bolted up out of bed and grabbed my M16 lol.

Another dream was one of my Mother, whom I also love. I had a dream that my Mother was possessed by a Devil, and that I was an exorcist trying to get the demon out. And much like the movie, her head was like twisting around and she was puking and what-not just like the movie.

I know it sounds strange, but I also had to say something and get this off my chest. I've been taking my weekly Mefloquine pills, which combat malaria. These pills have certain side effects, such as "depression, anxiety, paranoia, nightmares, insomnia, seizures, peripheral motor-sensory neuropathy." They caused 4 SF guys that had just returned from Afghanistan to go home and kill their wives and then themselves. Like I said, I also needed to get this off my chest. I can't really tell my Mother or Aunt about these dreams, so it's good to say something.