Dreams

[Alejandra]

I have woken up laughing several times or woke myself up by talking. I don't always remember what I was dreaming. More often, I wake up when a dream becomes particularly upsetting. This is common, I know.

[lightblade84]

That's happened to me before, but not lately. Back when I was in college, there were several times where I would happen to wake myself up in the middle of a sleep-talking conversation with a roommate (Conversations, so I am told, involved the "third chapter of water" and "something about zero gravity"). There were also times where I would have a funny dream, and I would wake up laughing.

I have a feeling that this might have had something to do with stress, seeing that this often happened when I studied for mid-term and final exams, as well as when I was under the pressure of reading a dozen books within a short time.

So... Understanding that a number of sleep problems stem from stress, have you been stressed out recently?

[someguyfromazoo]

What is the topic of this thread? Psychoanalyzing? Dreams we've had?
I once had a dream. See, we were all in this doughnut, and there was this giant snake in a vest and then...I woke up.

[Badwolf]

Highlights of one of my dreams from a while back (I'd actually forgotten about this, hooray for logging these things!):

I went to the Penny Arcade Expo even though I'm not really a fan of PA, and wouldn't really want to go to an expo anyway, so I guess I left. Then I organised chickens around a game board for some reason (okay really can't remember this bit so I'll just have to trust past me on this point).
I proceeded to pull my car out of a briefcase but lost my shoes and therefore couldn't drive. Then my bag stolen by a dude in a Volkswagen.
And some trees had tentacles and one of the tentacles kidnapped this girl who I apparently had been with the whole time.


That was a few months ago, for some reason lately my dreams are a bit more mundane. Like trying to get to the games news page on teletext, but I keep pressing the wrong buttons on the remote. And other pretty dull stuff.
Wish someone'd hurry up and make a dream VCR or something.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

I hate it when you dream that something really awesome is happening and then you wake up.This especially sucks when it's a week day.

[Badwolf]

I hate it when you don't realise something was a dream, and you go through half of the day believing it actually happened right up until you mention it and everyone stares blankly /:

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Originally Posted by Badwolf

I hate it when you don't realise something was a dream, and you go through half of the day believing it actually happened right up until you mention it and everyone stares blankly /:

I've had that happen to me before.It's totally embarrasing.

[16_BIT_MARIO1]

My own subconscious was loud enough to wake me up a few days ago. I was having some type of dream, then everything went black. Then I heard my dad screaming my name (which was part of the dream), and I woke up. Seconds later, my alarm clock went off.
Have you ever dreamed that you woke up from your dream? Some December morning when I was about 4-years-old, I dreamed that my mom woke me up and asked if I wanted to go sledding. Then I really woke up and woke her up to ask if she woke me up.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

I just remembered, last night I had a dream that I was talking about a dream, but I didn't know what the dream I supposidly had was about when I woke up.I'm not kidding.(Although I have been sick for the past few days, so that might be causing these weird dreams.)

[Badwolf]

I just remembered a weird dream I had a while back, it's very vague, but I remember being on a steampunkish monorail. The sky was purple, and there was black water a few hundred feet below, and a few mountains dotted around.
I know something interesting actually happened, but I can't for the life of me think what. I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a parallel universe, or something similar though.

One recurring theme in my dreams is playing a game, or watching a TV programme, and then actually being in it. It always seems to be a very subtle segue though, there's no specific point where I'm suddenly in the game/programme.

[someguyfromazoo]

I remember, the day after watching Nightmare Before Christmas ( was that that the name of it? I remember it was Halloween related, with the Skeleton guy who was allegedly "King of the Pumpkin Patch"), that I was being carried around in my pajamas in my room by clay-mation bats while unconscious.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Originally Posted by someguyfromazoo

I remember, the day after watching Nightmare Before Christmas ( was that that the name of it? I remember it was Halloween related, with the Skeleton guy who was allegedly "King of the Pumpkin Patch"), that I was being carried around in my pajamas in my room by clay-mation bats while unconscious.

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[Shauntron]

The other night I had a dream I was in some Colosseum, fighting for sport. My opponent was some sort of lion with a polygonal human face. I defeated the creature by luring it onto one end of a giant seesaw, jumping on the other end from above, and launching the thing into a pit of fire. When I woke up, I was like "thanks for that, brain."

[t_a_o]

When I was younger, I had a dream that kept coming back for about amonth or so.
I was standing at the top of some stairs - located up in the sky.
Wasn't anything to see at the bottom of the stairs.
So I just leaped out from the first step and flew off.... it was awesom to actually feel myself flying

[ShaggE]

Where do I begin? I'll not describe my nightmares, as they are rather... disturbing, but here's one of my best-remembered dreams (that is sometimes also disturbing, but less so).

There's one dream that I've had variations of repeatedly for years: I'm in a mostly barren mall that has never resembled any mall I've ever seen, but it doesn't look overly strange either. It's just large and underpopulated.
The stores themselves are what is peculiar. One is a gaming store, like GameStop, but in some of the dreams it is jam-packed with merchandise, much of it very rare. In others, it's almost empty. And the store is almost always located on the top floor of the mall, which alternates between two floors high and three floors high.
Next to that store is a bookstore. For some reason, I've never been inside it, but I can see odd magazines lining the front display. They are full of crime scene photos and medical documents, each gorier than the last.
Surrounding these are nondescript stores that I never focus on. At one end of the top floor is a tiny, inexplicably misplaced theater that I've only seen from a distance.

The bottom floor is just as weird. There's a variety store of sorts, which has an enormous prop gumball machine in the window, and an assortment of gewgaws and clothes within. When one of my mall dreams has a "plot", it usually takes place there.

Then there's the arcade. It never stays in the same place twice, and it's contents are always dramatically different. Old games, new games, fictional games, even racing games that use Styrofoam cups as steering wheels.

Finally, there's the most surreal part: the video store. They seem to only carry two types of movies: Classic 80's horror franchises, and gore videos. (Faces of Death type films, minus the fake. Snuff, to be exact.) The walls are covered in red tinsel, and the snuff films are constantly playing on the displays.

I have no idea why I have these dreams repeatedly. Obviously, the stores represent some of my interests: Movies, games, books, and the taboo. But the purpose still eludes me.

[16_BIT_MARIO1]

Is there anything in common with the days you had that dream? Like, did you eat a lot of junk food, or go to bed really late or anything?

[ShaggE]

I really couldn't say. My sleep schedule fluctuates wildly, as do my eating habits, so if either were abnormal on those nights, it wouldn't stand out in my mind.

[vyperspit]

Some of the dreams I had involved bad things happening to my dad. A long time ago, I had this dream in which dad was having his bodily fluids sucked out by a strange creature that looked like a skinless chiwahuwa(excuse the misspelling) with the head of a leech. In the last few days, my dreams had giant tornadoes that only sucked up my father instead of me. I think I have daddy issues.

[16_BIT_MARIO1]

Usually, if I have waaay too much mint chocolate chip ice cream, my dreams could be recorded and sold as movies. I should seriously do that. I would be a millionaire!

Originally Posted by vyperspit

Some of the dreams I had involved bad things happening to my dad. A long time ago, I had this dream in which dad was having his bodily fluids sucked out by a strange creature that looked like a skinless chiwahuwa(excuse the misspelling) with the head of a leech. In the last few days, my dreams had giant tornadoes that only sucked up my father instead of me. I think I have daddy issues.

That happens to me a lot, too. Though I'm usually the cause of his death. I don't even not like him...

[someguyfromazoo]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Pee-Wee Herman's Big Adventure reference I made earlier...