Dreams

[Ice]

Anyone have any crazy ones lately?

I've been taking melatonin to help me sleep and my body has been releasing a lot of "chemicals" since I quit my favorite habit. Let me tell you, I feel like I'm taking acid before I go to sleep because I'm dreaming some insane stuff. For example:

1) Fought vampire, slept my friend's girlfriend (she was a vampire then turned normal) (would never do this in real life) and rode a roller coast hanging on my hands.

2) Walked through a desert, found an underground path, fought a huge snake, found a lot of liquor, and made it to an airport?

3) Went to my deceased grandparents house who passed away in 96 when I was only a little boy, and spoke to my grandfather. I then dug through their basement and found old pictures of my grandfather/grandmother. That one almost made me cry when I woke up.

I guarantee you all I'll have another crazy one tonight, and I'll update you.

[Megas Methuselah]

... WOW. That's some crazy stuff, mane, though the first one is funny; cheating with a vampire girl, haha. You haven't been caught up in that whole moonlight fad, have you?

I occasionally have dreams about my days back in elementary school or early high school, doing things I regret not doing. I miss my carefree days.

[A Very Super Market]

Wasn't there something about cheese causing bad dreams in the news?

Anyways, I've been having weird, dreamless nights lately. Or maybe I simply odn't remember them. Given the fact that I have never been able to satisfactorily explain one to any existing person, I'd say that I simply forget them. The most striking one since the start of November involved several elephants. That is the only detail I recall.

[Raz]

Lay off the opium melatonin...

Jokes...


But in any case, I suspect that this thread will turn into a sleep paralysis thread.

Not too long ago, a close friend of mine was quite distressed when she went to bed only to wake up to a man crouching beside her. Obviously she was scared because she didn't know if he wanted to rob her, kill her, rape her or what not. She sat up very alarmed and (as she described to me) he leaned forward and whispered to her "What are you doing? You're not supposed to be awake." That just did it for her and she screamed and thrashed at the figure only to find out that he wasn't real at all. Her hands went straight through the figure as he sort of fell apart. She likened this to watching paper burn and then fall to pieces, as I remember.
Needless to say, she didn't get any more sleep and was entirely distraught because of the whole incident. Is was quite sad as she wasn't herself at all for a number of days.

Wasn't there something about cheese causing bad dreams in the news?

Oh, and I don't know about causing bad dreams in particular, but, IIRC, cheese is supposed to contain tryptophan, which creates more vivid dreams, especially if consumed before sleeping.

[Azathoth]

Wasn't there something about cheese causing bad dreams in the news?

Anyways, I've been having weird, dreamless nights lately. Or maybe I simply odn't remember them. Given the fact that I have never been able to satisfactorily explain one to any existing person, I'd say that I simply forget them. The most striking one since the start of November involved several elephants. That is the only detail I recall.

There are just so many books with this as a major plot point that I cant even remember any specific examples.

[seireikhaan]

Hmm. Haven't had anything truly weird in a while. Last really odd one was the one I had where I was getting this girl's # and was rudely interrupted by zombie Armageddon.

[naut]

But in any case, I suspect that this thread will turn into a sleep paralysis thread.

AH! I hate that. I get that semi-often, quite a disturbing feeling/sensation.

[pevergreen]

Mine usually involve me, a pretty lady and rejection.

I can't even pick up in my dreams!

[Ironside]

They can be quite fun when they're weird.

Recently had a dream where I did not sleep with that hot, lovable, nude girl that her "father" brought me together with. And I really liked that girl as well. Then again the main dreamstory was to kill her "father", which succeeded somehow. There were something unnatural with the "father" and I was part of a mission to kill him.

Then the next night I played card with cheating type 2 ghosts (some type 3 ghosts where also playing but they didn't cheat), which was the main point of me playing. Those cheating ghost were cheaters by adding cards on my hand, but they were so lousy thet they added more cards than existed in the deck.

I don't know what these different types of ghosts where about, but those type 2 ghosts looked like people I was searching for. And those people where in turn related to the previous story that I don't remember.

Then we have the badass dream a while back where I killed a movie Alien alien with a fork (that got ruined) and was annoyed because I was sloppy enough to be attacked with only a fork as defense. The fork was punched through the limbs and then I ripped them off and then did the same thing with the head.

[Samurai Waki]

I had the weirdest dream on Thanksgiving Night.

I was side by side with a Scimitar Wielding Jesus, fighting through a horde of Macedonian Soldiers. Then for whatever reason, we decided to hang out at my Cousin's house. My Cousin then decided we should go get something to eat, so we went a dingy Fried Chicken Stall, that also happened to double as a Psychiatrist's office. The Psychiatrist promptly offered to sell me some tea, which I refused to buy because it was quite obviously of inferior quality, to which she told me "You have passed the test" So I was hired on as a Tea Ninja...


...and that's when I woke up and promptly explained the Craziness to my wife who gave a look something akin to this:

[Fragony]

Oh you have no idea, I get crazy dreams alright. Funny part is that it's cool. I have dreams in tremendous detail, no idea where it comes from but it are fully realized places, a cruiseship for example, never been on one. Turned out it wasn't a cruiseship but a floating skyscraper but hey.

[KukriKhan]

It's getting late, about a half-hour 'til sundown. I'm trying to read addresses on envelopes and find houses in an unfamiliar neighborhood. And I can't find where I left my truck. I wander into a large open area - sometimes a park, sometimes a mall or large meeting hall. I'm hopelessly lost at this point. Lotsa people milling around, most of whom I don't know. Some person from my past shows up and we talk. Then I'm either naked, or in my underwear, and trying to be nonchalant about it. Sometimes the other person notices, usually not.

That's it. Same dream, different characters, 3-4 times per week. It's gotten to where when I realize I'm seeing the "sundown" scene, I say "Well, here we go again!".

[Ice]

Vampires again...

This one was very intense. I was at an old abandoned castle with a view people, and we hunting normal bats during the day who seemed to be unaffected by sunlight. We ventured into the castle, and all hell broke lose. We started to get picked off one by one, and when night fell I was trying to evade them with one other person. I don't remember how it ended, but it wasn't bad.

I also had a dream where my dad rented a school bus for a family trip, and left all my belongings back home. Furthermore, we stopped at this random house and I play hide and go seek with this little boy.
That one was a bit boring.

I wish I was making this stuff up.

[Ja'chyra]

I've been dreaing a lot about, shall we say, old friends lately. Glad I don't talk in my sleep.

[Strike For The South]

I've been dreaing a lot about, shall we say, old friends lately. Glad I don't talk in my sleep.

Me and you both, for me it's been a mix of old and (hopefully) soon to be.

Whcih is werid because I usually dream about food and they have nothing to do with reality which might means these dreams mean something

[Ja'chyra]

Me and you both, for me it's been a mix of old and (hopefully) soon to be.

Whcih is werid because I usually dream about food and they have nothing to do with reality which might means these dreams mean something

Ah but you're at that age my friend so it is normal, I'm getting past all of that.

[Hosakawa Tito]

I don't usually remember my dreams, but my wife claims I talk in my sleep quite a bit. Fortunately most of what I say is unintelligible...

[Beirut]

I don't usually remember my dreams, but my wife claims I talk in my sleep quite a bit. Fortunately most of what I say is unintelligible...

... and therefore inadmissable in a court of law. Good for you, brother!


Had a very odd dream last night. Was in a bar with a buddy, in walks a rich Italian guy who tells the bartender to give us two shots on his bill. The waiter pours, tells us the shots are $75 each usually, so we figure we're pretty lucky. My buddy downs his, I down mine a few seconds later, then the bartender pulls out a pole with a bucket on the end, puts in front of my buddy and he blows his guts out into the bucket. Then the bucket is put in front of me but I manage not to lose it. Turns out the shots were vomit. I woke up right after and was pretty close to losing it for a minute or two. Gross indeed, and I have no idea why I would have had that dream.

Makes me feel ill just thinking about it. Urp...

The good part is my dreams are seldom boring, and I remember lots of them.

[Hosakawa Tito]

... and therefore inadmissable in a court of law. Good for you, brother!


Had a very odd dream last night. Was in a bar with a buddy, in walks a rich Italian guy who tells the bartender to give us two shots on his bill. The waiter pours, tells us the shots are $75 each usually, so we figure we're pretty lucky. My buddy downs his, I down mine a few seconds later, then the bartender pulls out a pole with a bucket on the end, puts in front of my buddy and he blows his guts out into the bucket. Then the bucket is put in front of me but I manage not to lose it. Turns out the shots were vomit. I woke up right after and was pretty close to losing it for a minute or two. Gross indeed, and I have no idea why I would have had that dream.

Makes me feel ill just thinking about it. Urp...

The good part is my dreams are seldom boring, and I remember lots of them.

Oh my! That's one dream I wouldn't want to recall. was it chunky?

[Viking]

I dreamt something this morning about eastern infantry from RTW, horse ants and a public swimming pool; though it's quite a while since I've seen either of these things.

[Reverend Joe]

Not too long ago, a close friend of mine was quite distressed when she went to bed only to wake up to a man crouching beside her. Obviously she was scared because she didn't know if he wanted to rob her, kill her, rape her or what not. She sat up very alarmed and (as she described to me) he leaned forward and whispered to her "What are you doing? You're not supposed to be awake." That just did it for her and she screamed and thrashed at the figure only to find out that he wasn't real at all. Her hands went straight through the figure as he sort of fell apart. She likened this to watching paper burn and then fall to pieces, as I remember.
Needless to say, she didn't get any more sleep and was entirely distraught because of the whole incident. Is was quite sad as she wasn't herself at all for a number of days.

Wow. I've had a few hallucination incidents right after waking up, but nothing that scary.

Recently I awoke to find a dog standing beside my bed. Not a scary dog, either; it looked like a typical scrappy dog, standing on its hind legs as if it was trying to be friendly. For a moment I stared dumbly at it -- and then I went into a sort of primate-defending-the-home mode. Not so much fear as an instinctual reaction against an intruder. Following this monkey-like train of thought, I proceeded to throw my sheets over the dog and started pummeling it with my fists, all the while shouting at everyone else in the house -- not words, mind you, just a primal scream to wake everyone up and help me defeat the intruder.

Then my roommate started shouting from the other end of the house, "DUDE! ARE YOU OKAY?!" And I remembered English. No joke. The primate references weren't random -- I had gone into a pre-human state of mind.

Anyhow, after regaining my sanity, I pulled my sheets off the dog, only to find that I had been hitting my chair which, being covered with several cheap denim coats, looked like a dog's silhouette from viewed from my specific angle. The weird part was that when I woke up my mind filled in all the other details, including fur and a face, and the dog was moving. Needless to say this was all slightly embarrassing to explain, especially since my one roommate thought I was being murdered.

The next night, something even weirder happened: I woke up to see a huge figure standing in my room with glowing yellow eyes slowly scanning the room. Now that was scary -- the whole time I was just praying he wouldn't see me. Thankfully, after about 30 seconds the figure slipped down behind my chair and disappeared, and I realized it had been a crazy hallucination. Also, I didn't scream, thank god; I can't imagine what my roommates would have thought if, the night after I woke up and attacked an invisible dog, I woke up screaming again and starting yelling, "HELP! THE DEVIL IS IN MY ROOM!"

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

A few weeks ago I dreamed of my old love. I met her in a kind of school (it was a school love, obviously) that wasn't really school. The next moment we were at her place where there was a black girl. I learned that my friend had a boyfriend, but he was not at home this evening. Then suddenly the girl had pyjamas on and my friend a negligé. We were watching television, I looked at my watch and said "hey, it's only half past eight," but my friend responded that it had been a long day and she wanted to go to bed.

Suddenly it was obvious she was highly pregnant. She hugged me and went to bed. I looked at the other girl and followed my friend to the bedroom, where she suddenly wore a violet top and was slim again (but still pregnant). I layed myself next to her, we hugged and talked, it was very nice (no we did not have sex :p). I suddenly feared her boyfriend might come back but then I thought "screw him I don't care". That was the point were I woke up again. I must say this was the best dream I had in ages and I felt happy throughout the whole day.

Opposed to this, a usual dream of mine is that I'm in the cellar of my or my grandparents' house where there is a hidden tunnel. The tunnel is so narrow that I can barely pass it. It's dark and extremely dirty and I have to go through it usually three times per dream. Not because someone forces me, but because I feel the need although I hate it. It leaves me claustrophobic every time.

A bit annoying is that since a few years I often wake up at night and, while not being completely awake, being convinced that there are spiders or, lately, poisenous bugs in my bed. It usually takes a few seconds and switching on the light until I realize that I was dreaming again.

The scariest thing to me is that sometimes, when I want to fall asleep, my body does, but my mind not! I can't move then, can't see, and breathing feels very difficult. I collect all my will power to give my body a jolt to shake the stasis off. It takes 2 to 6 attempts to get awake again. I have the feeling that I'd die from suffocation when I would try to fall asleep again.

[Major Robert Dump]

Melatonin gives a lot of people bad dreams. I get it over the counter, but I heard there is some prescription versions, in which case the dreams must be WOW!

I like having bad/weird dreams by the way. Makes them fun and interesting, which helps keep me asleep. Otherwise I don't dream and any little noise wakes me up.

Melatonin or being hot (i.e. too many blankets) gives me bad dreams. I need to try them both at the same time.

[CCRunner]

Last night was the first time in a long time I can even remotely remember a dream I had... lets just say it involved a business meeting, rice krispie treats, and the Empire State Building

[Sevis]

Major Robert Dump, as far as I understand, the only thing that changes is the dosage. I've had some awesome dreams since I started taking it, but I find that increasing the quantity generally doesn't make them better - at least, whenever I overdose, I end up not having dreams at all :( Neither has it caused hallucinations, but that's probably a good thing (and they only start after 3.0 mg, which I've only reached once).

[Ice]

So apparently I became rich and moved to Mexico City last night?

Alright, Melatonin does help me sleep, but these dreams are getting a bit ridiculous; it might be time to lay off.

[Fragony]

Another one for the record, I played my music too loudly so my late father switched of my playstation 3, not the proper way. So it would only make sense that I decided to climb the Mount Everest, where I met two budhist monks who were eating soup. Only then did I realize I am afraid of heights and I didn't dare moving, I could see the roof of my house but these damn heights. Funny thing is that I knew it was just a dream.

[naut]

Had a rather intense one.

I was sitting in the middle of an old style university, with the playing fields infront of me. There were lots of people, like an open day or something, with people and families visiting, etc. I was talking to a friend I haven't seen since primary school and family with young kids. When in the distance the sky turned red over the city. Then the whole sky went red and cloudy. And text started to appear on the sky in red. It said something to the effect of the world is ending. And then a huge Devil face slowly appeared across the sky and started grinning evilly, and more text appeared and scrolled across the sky. Then images of torture and disease and dead bodies filled the sky. And then the massive devil spoke, saying we must all eat Mars bars or other affiliated products or face judgement and eternal damnation. Then I realised it was an advertising campaign... Somehow they'd developed a way to project massive adverts across the sky --- but only myself had realised this.

[Beirut]

I always have odd dreams, and most are fun, but had one last night that was a bit... uncomfortable.

Can't remember exactly, but it was a poem or a song about a couple who were torturing and killing dogs. During the poem or song, I'm getting sunset views of a couple walking down the beach hand in hand along with extreme close ups of someone holding a dogs head underwater until it drowns.

And again, I have no idea where that came from.

[Raz]

I always have odd dreams, and most are fun, but had one last night that was a bit... uncomfortable.

Can't remember exactly, but it was a poem or a song about a couple who were torturing and killing dogs. During the poem or song, I'm getting sunset views of a couple walking down the beach hand in hand along with extreme close ups of someone holding a dogs head underwater until it drowns.

And again, I have no idea where that came from.

Were you watching Corner Gas? I believe dog-river got it's name that way...