Dreams.

[Tiarnán]

Just a thread to share strange ones, talk about recurring ones etc. I think it could be fun if people use it as a kind of semi-dream diary where we could write down stuff that we've dreamed about and then pop back some time later and think, "Wow, I'd completely forgotten that ever happened". I love it when you've almost completely removed a dream from your head, only for one part of it to just strike your thoughts one day some time later. Then you can work out the rest, piece by piece.

Just to start things off, has anyone ever had this dream, or a similar one? I used to get it all the time when I was really young. I'd be at the top of the stairs, and I'd either jump or fall down, but wouldn't hurt myself. I'd kind of just float/glide to the bottom, before waking up when I should be hitting the ground. My brothers and sister had the exact same dream when they were younger, so I was wondering if it's something loads of people have or if it's just our staircase or whatever.

[Astrozombie]

I've had a few weird ones lately. The other night I dreamt I was a secret agent at a peace conference in China, then a giant shoot out broke out and I jumped in a pond, swimming down a tunnel. Then one of those giant ugly scary fishes with teeth that only exist in like the abyss in the ocean tried to bite me, but I shot it.

And then last night I dreamt Earth was under attack by aliens and I was in some remote town in a forest. Then someone showed me some old news paper article about how there was a UFO that crashed somewhere in the forest, but it was lost. And then after that I saw a bunch of lights going off in the corner of the forest (I was on a hill or something). My friend and I then ran towars the lights and found an old abandoned cabin, we went inside and ran up the stairs and it was a replica of my room, except there were these strange symbols on the wall, so I started tearing down parts of the walls, which opened to another door, which lead into this giant spaceship.

It was really dark inside, but the lights went on and it was like I was in some ship in Star Wars. Then I had to start collecting people to save them, along with supplies. It starts to get kinda blurry from there, but the last thing I remember is being in the control room, there were three levels to the ship, and the bottom level was an amusment park with a bunch of roller coasters.

They were pretty vivid. The recurring one I often get is pretty cliche`, just me finiding myself at school in my underwear.

[Tiarnán]

I never get massive, epic, movie-like dreams like that.

Last night's/this morning's I can't remember too well, but the first one involved me going to some really warm country (I think it might have been somewhere in America, actually) with people I know, and randomly meeting up with this girls from Dublin I met when I was in Cape Town two Summers back.

I remember the second one being this weird Come Dine With Me-setup with Andrew Lloyd Webber hosting a day-long dinner party, which was weird. He made us dress up in strange costumes and put on accent, but I can't remember which mine was. One woman was supposed to be a slutty Egyptian though; I remember that.

[Burke]

I’m usually horrible at remembering dreams. Like, I’ll know that I had one but I’ll lose all recollection of it right after.

One that I always remember though is one where me and my friends were trapped in the shopping centre I used to work in. The army and stuff was outside trying to get us. I have no idea why they were coming after us. It was basically like Dawn Of The Dead except we weren’t zombies. I can’t remember how it ended.

And I remember a little of one I had a week or so ago. I was on a boat and I guess it sank and I remember swimming in the ocean for ages and ages with helicopters and stuff flying overhead. That's all I can remember, lol.

[Tarry]

Between the ages of three and four, I had the same recurring nightmare most nights. I was trapped in a big haunted house and I couldn't get out. I don't really remember much other than walking around trying to find the door and things kept jumping out on me. There was like a ghost of Sonic the Hedgehog a few times that gave me advice on how to get out, but it was never any use. Eventually I stopped having the nightmare, I must have grown out of it. I remember revisiting it when I was eight and I finally escaped, I haven't had the nightmare since.

Another recurring nightmare is one where a younger member of my family is taken by a stranger when they're in my care. I'm still scared to go back to sleep after I wake up from one of those, they're the scariest and most realistic.

I had a nightmare/dream a couple of weeks ago in which I was fighting off a zombie apocalypse. It seemed to be a fun dream at first but it ended with everyone exchanging looks of disbelief as we notice one of the survivors with us has been bitten.

I'm quite good at remembering dreams and nightmares but these are the best/worst recent and recurring dreams and nightmares.

[Brandon]

I've only had one reoccurring dream that I can think of atm. It's basically me in this dank, bare room with an overhead light shining over me and all of these moths and beetles and shit are flying around me because of the light. And then there's this couch in the room that I keep hearing noises come from, so I go and flip the couch over and then an onslaught of roaches, centipedes, spiders, ants, and everything imaginable just floods the room. It's so disgusting and every time I wake up from it I swear I can feel things crawling on me.

[Mutant Couch]

I recently had a dream where this guy I've been into for several years now came with me to spend Christmas with my family. We were still both in the just friends area. I don't remember all the details, but at one point we opened up the closet door, but it was a bedroom instead. My uncle, his girlfriend, his ex-girlfriend, and someone that looked a lot like Melissa McCarthy were engaging in things I don't ever want to see again in a dream or otherwise. Then at some point I was headed to bed and when I pulled back the blanket the guy I brought was in bed with one of my cousins.

I've been having a lot of dreams about bringing guys around my family lately. It's probably because the GIBS popped the question that I've been dreading and asked what I was doing for Christmas. I'm pretty sure the dreams are just warning me not to bring him to meet them.

[Astrozombie]

Dec 9, 2011 16:06:59 GMT -5 Tarry said:

I had a nightmare/dream a couple of weeks ago in which I was fighting off a zombie apocalypse. It seemed to be a fun dream at first but it ended with everyone exchanging looks of disbelief as we notice one of the survivors with us has been bitten.

I had a dream like this last night. Except rather than killing zombies, it was more of me trying to survive. I was in a giant group and we'd finally found an isolated neighborhood, but we had no supplies and my brother and I were the ones chosen to go into the city to get some. Then another giant pack of people found our neighborhood and were trying to kill my family for our belongings. I found myself trying to protect my parents and nephew. Of course things got worse when zombies broke into our isolated paradise and everything was just pure chaos after that. It was all too vivid, granted I had finished up watching the Walking Dead season 2 prior to sleeping, so that may have had something to do with it.

[Brandon]

I had this dream last night that I was at the zoo and this weird rat/crab hybrid with antennas got out and charged it at me. But it was okay, I punted it.

[Tiarnán]

WTF, I remember the dinner party bit barely, but a slutty Egyptian???

I need to start recording these right away. Coming back and reading is great.

[Brandon]

The other day I dreamed about making popcorn, and when I woke up, it was National Popcorn Day.

[Tiarnán]

I can't remember any of them properly cause I kept waking up and having new ones, but in one I was in love with Blaine from Glee and was jealous of his fraternal relationship with Kurt (they were brothers). There was one part that involved them slow-dancing in the street in the snow while I sat on a wall and watched.

In another I was skiing with some guy (I don't think it was Blaine again, but it could've been) in Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan or one of those places, and I was the confident skier and was leading him while he moaned. It wasn't completely random, because in the Wicked book I'm reading Elphaba is in the mountains in Winter right now, and I watched a documentary about the Stans a few weeks ago.

And then in the only other one I remember I got my exam results and they were good but I wanted them to be better, and I was annoyed and jealous when my friend down the street managed to come top in everything.

[Brandon]

I had a dream that I was sexting Johnny Curtis, but his grammar was horrid and it took him way too long to text back, so I lost interest.

[Brandon]

Feb 5, 2012 15:32:34 GMT -5 Brandon said:

I had a dream that I was sexting Johnny Curtis, but his grammar was horrid and it took him way too long to text back, so I lost interest.

This is apparently my new dream theme, because last night I dreamed that I was BBM'ing Maryse in French.

[Tarry]

Last night I had the first dream/nightmare I've remembered in weeks. I was on a cruise ship, and there was a young couple that were in the middle of an argument. The man started to get really aggressive, and he grabbed hold of his girlfriend, like he was going to seriously hurt her. Being the gentleman that I am, I stepped in to save the damsel in distress. However, I ended up getting beaten within an inch of my life for my efforts. I woke up before he finished the job, I thought I was in hospital at first. It felt so real. It was fucking terrifying.