dream thread

[f50fan]

It only lasted like 5 minutes because I woke myself up from being so excited to be able to finally lucid dream.

The most common lucid dream killer. Always gets me.

[mago_san_2d_god]

sufu meet-up in our lucid dreams? who is down

[cmirsky]

I was practicing dream recall and waking myself up during REM every night for around 3 months, doing reality checks/whatnot. Finally got to the point where I can fall asleep consciously into a dream state. It was really awesome for a month or two--but then it started becoming painfully obvious in my dreams that I was creating the world around me and everything that was happening. I started to get bored trying to think up new things to try.

Currently taking a break, trying not to dream at all. Maybe I'll get back into it in a few months.

BTW: For anyone really interested in getting into or perfecting lucid dreaming, check out the book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge. Everything you ever need to know about lucid dreaming techniques.

[fruitbrute]

Tonight i had some fucking inception style shit going on in my dream. Namely,i noticed there was someweird,dreamlike shit going on (like the same exact thing happening twice,or a gigantic wave on a river defying gravity), so i did the usual 'is this real life' routine, examining my hands closely, counting my fingers and so forth. Thing is, I decided I wasn't dreaming and shrugged all the weirdness off. It freaked me out a little when i remembered the dream.

[tac0tron]

How the fuck do I lucid dream? I've had normal dreams for years now. I don't care if I get a huge ass nightmare I just want something exciting to happen in a dream.

[f50fan]

Easy way to start is to write down dreams you've had / have. Tells your brain that remembering / being aware of dreams is important.

I just wrote down dreams I remember having, reoccurring dreams, and dreams I started having. After I started writing them down I started dreaming every night and actually started remembering my dreams. I also started doing those reality checks like finger into hand and clock changes.

Then I lucid dreamed a couple of times.

Apparently like mid/late morning is the prime time for it to happen like 10am ish?

[goodfella]

smoke dmt. then try to lucid dream. it's like cheating

[playdisonlyatnight]

@tacotron

if anyone wants to get lucid, make yourself wake up at 5am and stay up for 45-60 min, then go back to sleep, then try to 'wake up' while youre dreaming

once you've realized youre dreaming (by doing reality checks if u gotta), do a bunch of cool ass shit and explore your mind. if you feel like youre about to wake up out of the dream, rub your hands together or spin around. never fails to keep you in the dream.

[cmirsky]

smoke dmt. then try to lucid dream. it's like cheating

DMT never had any effect on my dreams.

Best way to "cheat" at lucid dreaming, is to take a Xanax mid-day, half an hour before taking a nap. Works every single time for me. I've read of others having just as much success.

There's also a supplement called Galantamind (you can find it on Amazon), that is supposed to work really well if you wake yourself up during REM, take it, then go back to sleep. Never did much for me, but others rave about it.

Still...the best way and most reliable way to lucid dream is to practice as many others above have mentioned.

[gettoasty]

For the longest time ever since my intro to psychology back in highschool, learning about the different stages of sleep pattern and dreaming state, and then mandated to keep a journal to better remember what we dreamt about, logging your dreams have always fascinated me.

To that, I give you this! So let's share

I just woke up from a dream where I was sitting in a cafeteria and I bit Drake's finger off because he was talking shit. It's going to be a good day.

When we were together, my ex and I always talked about going skydiving. I had a dream we took a trip to Vegas to rekindle our relationship. We had plans for casinos, shows, and skydiving. As we took off in our plane for skydiving, I was so happy to finally do something I've always wanted to do, especially with the girl I'm (still to this day) in love with. As we ascended, I felt the situation growing too perfect, and something was going to go down. Our engines failed due to a electrical problem, and we began freefall. For some reason, the doors were electronically locked, so we couldn't just jump. Instead, we sat in our chairs, we held hand for the first time since we broke up, and crashed into the Earth, killing us.

I woke up with my heart pounding and this feeling of emptiness. My first reaction was to text her, ask if she was okay, then realized I was just dreaming. =/

I'm not over this girl, and this dream got me thinking its possibly a sign, our relationship was a crash and burn.

Hopeless day followed.

Last night I dreamt that I held up a liquor store and stole a bunch of Xanax and as i left the cops roll up and i parkoured the fuck outta there running and jumping through a bunch of shit. I ran through a parking lot and this valet guy tried to stop me so i punched him in the face and knocked him out and kept running. I wind up in a building and i see this hot older asian lady in a pink slutty dress and stop and say to her "look baby, I'm going to jail for a long time soon and i just want to know a woman's touch one last time" we start making out furiously and then i fuck her right in the hallway. I get up to start running and she turns into this giant crab woman but her torso was still in tact so i fucked her one more time as a crab/lady. I finish and run down a hallway and out of a window and then i woke up.

Sometimes i dream of being a normal person.

lol i use to have those crazy good dreams

one time i was running away from dudes and turned into a velicoraptor. ended up runnig so fast, i was airwalking and gliding away from them.

but then felt a cold feeling hit my back (imagine a friend dropping icecube down your shirt), this is the feeling i thought of being shot by a gun.

then i wake up right after, thankful to be alive

Edited January 25, 2012 by gettoasty

[Nov Spur]

I just woke up from a dream where I was sitting in a cafeteria and I bit Drake's finger off because he was talking shit. It's going to be a good day.

IIRC there already was a dream interpretation thread, but Robin Williams is a hero so I think this one should replace it.

[Quiver]

Mate recently explained in very vague terms what lucid dreaming is. Skimmed a website for a few minutes where it talked about some inception like totem concept to check whether you're in reality or a dream i.e. checking your watch or reading some calendar entry on your phone. All sounds kinda wack but the idea as I understand it is to be able to control your actions when dreaming. One of the first steps apparently is to write down a dream as soon as you have it and pick out recurring patterns and themes. The last two I had were of getting bright blue tattoos around my mouth and up to my eyebrows of many tiny cartoon characters by the gf, and the other was having a pulse measurement that was like 120bpm, which made me heaps annoyed cos I knew it should be much much lower.

Anyway, this shit will be old to some of u but whatever, I find it fascinating. It'll be like maximizing your life experiences through added 'productivity' while sleeping.

[julzkind]

i havent remembered any recently, but my coworker had a dream involving me which i thought was weird.

he said we were riding the subway on the way to a dentist and he was freaking out so i told him "here, take these drugs" and handed him 2 pills. he said he was super fucked and instead of the dentist went to his therapist who he thought knew how fucked up he was.

i dunno. im not pushing him to do drugs tho! =/

[factorization]

I used to have this recurring nightmare as child: my dad and I would be building a hot-air balloon, except there would be no color or sound whatsoever (like in "the artist" I guess). at some point, I would drop something like a hammer, and it would fall in slow-motion while this tortured look of surprise and grief would slowly creep across my dad's face. then, everything would blow up and I'd be awake.

haven't had that one in awhile though!

Edited September 13, 2012 by factorization

[Mieke]

I once had a dream wherein the world ended and I was... shopping for jeans.

[lmk1995]

I don't remember much, but all I know is that honey boo boo was in it. fuck that.

[Scais]

i had a dream last night where i had a pet squirrel monkey. Me and this monkey were the best of friends and I was trying to feed it a bannana. I've spent the better half of my morning looking up squirrell monkeys....

[OkayOkay]

I usually hate / get annoyed at sharing dreams or listening to other's, but this one was super random.

Dreamed I was evaluated and issued a personal report by Rand, like on my quality as a human being, and I got scored super low...like barely a C, which I felt horrible about. Then as I read the report I noticed they had blatantly lied or made things up, like that I had brought a handgun into a Philadelphia train station...but I told them I'd never been to Philly. Or that I was a dangerous boat driver, but I'd never driven a boat... Woke up knowing it was a dream, but still like "WHY DIDN'T I SCORE HIGHER?!?!" :/

[dismalfuture]

I have pretty weird dreams, pretty much all the time. Took a nap this afternoon when I got home from my meetings and when I hit dream mode I dreamt that I was in a green Ford Contour being driven by jeepster on this massively elevated expressway (like almost out of the atmosphere elevated, and was riding with a ton of NYC sufuers in this car - Jason Bourne and willy cheesesteak, Spaghetti, and merry burger were all inside this car with me in the backseat, didn't see who was in the front seat. I admitted to them that I had never been to Brooklyn before but somehow we were in Brooklyn.

We pulled up to this place that was kinda American institutional and mid-century looking, and once inside there was another huge revolving door made of plexiglass and about 20 foot deep, but it was shaped like this: )( and the edges sealed against the walls as it revolved. I was alone for some reason and then started walking through this revolving door, and a crazy dude jumped out at me. He had a big loop on his head that resembled a a long strip of paper taped to itself, or kinda like that Dyson fan. I was in another cell of the revolving door and we were separated and I kept walking, I think he got picked out by security or something. Once I had done about 320 degrees in the revolving door I got to another room and a black woman said to me 'we never let people in here, but because of the crazy dude, I will let you in' and then I went to a room that had a ping pong table and looked like a suburban house, and met up with everyone again.

merry burger kept wanting to get a huge bucket of chicken wings delivered for our impromptu party and I was complicit with this idea. All of us went out to a CVS or something to buy generic brand soda, might've been Shasta or something. I think they were like, 3L bottles.

Later I'm in an opera theater and I see the crazy guy with the big loop on his head sitting a few rows in front of me, and about 5 ft away there is an evil looking guy with a couple women near him, though I detect he is a big elderly gay guy. I watch the two bad guys interact and realize they are huge enemies, and the big guy goes over and smashes the loop-headed guy in the head with two fists, but he realizes the loop-headed guy disappeared and left a box with a 2D print of himself. In the end the big guy just smashes this cardboard box and somehow when his hands come up he has a hold of the loop-headed guy's battered iPhone 3GS.

then I woke up. I think the CVS trip was a recurring location I normally go to in my dreams, there is a drivethrough ATM in that same location too. I usually have nightmares about flying, either planes crashing, or being trapped in an empty airport, since I fly a lot. Might've had a brief airplane sketch in my dream today but I can't remember. The NY thing was probably because I have been watching the Batman trilogy too much lately, in my dream Long Island was just a middle island and we were actually driving to another island over on the other side further away from Manhattan.

[haploid]

last night i had a dream that i was gettin an a+ bj from some imaginary shorty and i looked down at my feet and had the "UR" underground resistance logo on my socks. i stopped the bj to point it out i think.

[kH0yA Sw@Gp0o]

one of the stranger dreams i've had in recent memory was extremely vivid; starts with faceless people daring me to go into the ruins of a house as it's supposed to be haunted or something. dream cuts and suddenly i'm staring into the corner of a dark room, wondering why only that corner's full of graffiti and weird symbols plus the usual "abandon hope all ye who enter here" sort of tropes. despite all the writing warning to stay away from the corner i snicker and walk over anyway.

suddenly i'm standing on a dirt road and it's sunset. road stretches out to nothing and there's lots of tall, dense grass to my right and left for what looks like an indefinite distance. really weird, kind of disconcerting.
after what seems like a lot of walking i come across a man walking towards me; brandishing a cane, wearing a tailcoat and top hat-- even has a monocle. strong dandy vibes, really. i ask him where i am and he answers "ah, you'll know soon enough", then smiles after. he walks past me and when i look back i notice his back is... open. i see exposed musculature and spine, but for some reason i'm totally unfazed and walk on.
eventually i see more and more people, everyone is for the most part normal but there's little things that just... don't count. there was a guy with a hole blown out where his eye used to be, more exposed internals, some people have really long limbs, others just... hint at being human. there's no consistent sense of dress but everyone seems to know everyone, and everyone is polite.

despite all the walking it's still sunset.
suddenly i come across what looks exactly like my house. i go inside and up to my room (would be better if i explained room layout but that'll stretch this even further); it's too big for the house. there's a giant staircase in the middle of it that leads down and into... darkness. it's a wide staircase, too. well-lit except for past the last step. really strange sense of foreboding just from looking at it so i don't go any closer. before sleeping i notice a weird rock-like growth coming out from the back of my right hand.
for what seems like weeks i make friends, go to a lot of cafes, do a lot of walking/travelling, and even work somewhere i think.
one day i'm standing near the first step, watching the staircase with apprehension. some guy with an exposed heart walks into my room, says hello, and then trips and suddenly falls down the staircase. he starts screaming, asking me to help him out and i just stand there and watch.
suddenly i see a girl appear on the ceiling, directly above the last step. there's a fair drop down from the ceiling to the last step, and she stares at me for a while.
she's got dry, orange hair; every single hair seems to be a different length from the other and she's got crazy split ends-- almost bristle like really, and her eyes are rolling around really quickly in their sockets. she's also wearing a tattered black and white pinstripe dress with a double-breasted closure (????) and her limbs are broken, as if someone twisted her knees and elbows 180 degrees.
she's clinging to the corner of the ceiling... imagine someone on all fours, but flip the body 180. that's *kind of* what it looked like.
then she looks at me again, eyes still rolling
suddenly her eyes roll back until they're nothing but white
and then suddenly she's got buttons stitched on behind her eyes and they take the place of whatever was there. i notice she's got giant sewing needles in her hands; proceeds to drop down onto the still screaming guy and alternate between mauling him and stitching giant buttons onto him.
i wonder why he just lay there screaming when he could have climbed back up in the interim before she dropped down on him.

for a while i think nothing of it and give the staircase a wide berth. lapse into a routine and take to calling this place "the land of the eternal sunset" but the dream flies by at this point.
one day i'm standing near the first step again, orange light streaming in through the windows. 
i look at my hands and notice i'm now completely covered in this weird rock-like substance. i find a mirror and notice i don't look anything like i used to; i'm literally just covered over with rock, somewhat volcanic looking; calling to mind imagery of golems, that sort of thing.
i ask myself how i was even eating and such considering how much my physiology's changed. 
as i'm walking back into my room i trip on a giant sewing needle and fall down the staircase; find myself lying on the last step looking up at the ceiling and the girl appears again, with thick stitches in her cheeks this time. her eyes are still rolling around and for some reason i feel as if there's nothing i can do anymore.
she drops down on top of me and stops with her face inches from mine; eyes still rolling, eventually passing the whites and stopping when the buttons pop out. 
she smiles and says "welcome to hell."

then i wake up.

Edited July 17, 2013 by gndmshtlrd

[wood 666]

i've had night terrors and all kinds of weird flying dreams in endless blue freefall with the tickles in my tummy and imaginary clitoris~~~ 

 

edit: and some other stuff

Edited July 24, 2013 by wood 666

[Breadspace]

I was watching some program about a man who was tricked by Jews to invest all his money in Yen. He went to Japan in order to use the money, but he didn't know any Japanese. He went up to a ticket booth looking thing or something and started saying Japanese words everyone knows like "kawaii" and Japanese brand names with "Waaaaa" at the end. I praised myself that I was able to get the cultural nuances of the Japanese language down by using "waaa." I wrote "I" because some time during that whole thing, the guy who was tricked by the Jews became me. Then my mom was burning her nose hairs with a lighter. There was a Japanese restaurant employee talking to his angry boss in a kitchen or storage area in the back of a restaurant. The boss heard it something coming from the bathroom which was connected to the room the 2 Japs were in. I was in the bathroom drunk and burning my nose hairs with a lighter. Something led to me being put into a job as a cook. I didn't know what to do so I just randomly started putting shit together. One dish I made was a success. The second dish I started making was a lit cigarette surrounded by rice with a 1/3 of a banana smacked on top of it so it stuck out upwards. I poured a bottle of strawberry milk (http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/02/83/00/00/0002830000323_500X500.jpg but with a more obnoxious cow caricature) which had the viscosity of melted ice cream on the dish. Then I ripped open another cigarette and caused all the insides to fall out. My mom said "You ruined the dish!" but I told her the cigarette was already put in it and this is a different cigarette.

 

Then I was back in high school. I was in my economics class, and we were sitting outside of the school library. It was also reminiscent of my French class somehow. I don't know how that works, but that's the feeling I got. I was wearing a beanie with a pompom on it, and a few girls kept pulling on the pompom and snickering. One ripped the pompom off, which caused me to get extremely angry. I reattached it crudely then attacked her. I grabbed her face with both my hands and squeezed it like in that one movie, kneed her several times, then punched her. No one seemed to care that I flipped out over something so stupid. Then I lost my backpack. I started thinking someone stole it and hid it from me because of what I did to the girl. I decided I'd just rebuild my backpack and restore the contents of it. "That'll show them," I thought. Then I walked into the library to see why we weren't going in, and there was a banquet for retarded students. There was a buffet with Chinese food on the library counters and picnic tables on the upper area. The lower area was where the retarded students were. Sitting on the picnic table was my friend Asg, and two other guys I knew. They were drinking root beer. I talked to my friend and asked him to get me some root beer or ginger ale/tonic water/club soda something similar to that. It was hazy in the dream and the lines between root beer and tonic water/ginger ale/club soda were blurred in the dream reality. He said okay, but I had a doubt that he would do it. I told him I'd be outside and waiting for the drink. When outside, I remembered that I had no friends in the class anymore. I didn't want to sit alone because that would be embarrassing, so I sat in a group of people I didn't really know on a bench. They started berating me so I ignored them. I was looking at something that looked like a sci-fi communicator or something. It was sized similarly to an iPhone, but not as wide and thicker. So I guess nothing like an iPhone. It looked like what ancient technology would look like in a piece of sci-fi media set in the far far future where their ancient would still be millennia ahead of where we are right now.

 

I never got the drink.

 

[dhaddict 82]

Had a weird one early this morning about being back in high school. It was the first day and Keith Richards was my new calc teacher. Instead of teaching he showed the class pics of his summer vacation and the tiny crabs he saw on the beach.

[Breadspace]

I dug up 2 tickets to the Nobel Peace Prize in Animal Crossing. I called my friends but none of them wanted to go so I looked for a stuffed toy to take with me. When I got there it was like a boxing stadium or whatever it's called. There were banners with cartoon alligators on the walls for some reason. There were 6 people in the ring and what they had to do was stand there and go the longest without retaliating to attacks. 6 men walked in the ring and started attacking the nominees. One by one they retaliated to the attacks and were disqualified. The last guy was a middle aged dude with parted chestnut hair and a brown suit. I remember I was disappointed at the outcome.

 

I also remember the phrase "You've got a friend in Kleenex" was in it somewhere

[Double Pegasus]

 The last guy was a middle aged dude with parted chestnut hair and a brown suit. I remember I was disappointed at the outcome.

 

I also remember the phrase "You've got a friend in Kleenex" was in it somewhere

this is extremely David Lynch

[samsikle]

i took a short nap earlier and had the gnarliest experience where i had paralysis while in my dream. i was in my apartment but it was dim and run down and i was on the phone with my parents who were saying they were going to come over because it seemed like i needed help or something was wrong, but i couldn't move or speak to ask what was going on. then i managed to wake myself up. o____o kind of creepy.

[whitney]

the other night I am pretty sure I was dreaming but it felt really real

was sick and kind of out of it, coughing, getting up to spit out mucus, up on meds and all of a sudden I hear a noise

I kinda struggle to look up, lying in my bed, it's dark, I see the moon shining through the window, but I'm thinking wtf..

I hear my sister, whose in La, go shhhh, it's just me, go back to sleep..she needed something of mine and was going through my desk.

I'm scared at this point cos I feel like, that's a ghost, but she's not dead?

maybe I'm dreaming..I fall back and throw the covers over my head

but that sound..the shuffling of feet and papers rustling..keeps me up..i lift my head and my sister sees me and she does a hand motion like go back to sleep..

seriously freaked out at this point because I'm thinking i gotta be dreaming but it feels so real, under my cover, in the dark of my room..and I keep hearing the noise she's making

got to the point where I just kept chanting to myself it can't be real it can't be real it can't be real (to block out the noise she was making which was keeping me up)

eventually I must have dozed off and it was morning, light shining through

still called my sister though just to make sure everything is Ok

Edited February 7, 2014 by whitney

[Schoon]

^similar dream situation happened to me, but way more frightening.

 

One night during my first semester of college I was having trouble sleeping, kept up thinking about shit even though I was so physically exhausted.  I just wanted to sleep but it wouldn't come.  All of a sudden I hear this jarring, droning sound all around me and my eyes snap open.  at the edge of my bed I see this blue-and-white, large ghostly figure of a half-skeletal woman in a billowing wedding dress, veil and all.  She's standing perfectly still, except her head follows me while she slowly floats around the side of the bed towards me.  I start freaking the fuck out because it feels so real, but I couldn't move any part of my body except my head, couldn't close my eyes, and couldn't make a sound.  The droning gets louder as she draws closer, and I try desperately to scream for help but I can only manage a few terrified mumbles and flail my head back and forth.  She finally reaches me and raises her hand to me, and I freeze.  

 

The second she touches my chest the world cuts out and fades back in like when you turn a tv off and on quickly, and she's gone.  I hid under my covers for the rest of the night and hoped that my roommate didn't hear my frightened mumbles. 

Edited February 7, 2014 by Schoon

[Nebulae]

damn this one time I dreamed i walked into this one class's final w/out studying & freaked out

woke up.  It was a month after the semester had ended