The Dream Thread • Page 5

yeah i get a lot of nightmares but most of the time they're very realistic and dull things like being fired, coming out to my parents, losing my housing, haha

 

Last night I dreamed that I was at a Prince show and he was bringing people up on stage to dance and sing choir-like backing vocals on the last song of his set before the encore. The men and the women were given corresponding outfits: men had these street/hip-looking onesies and women had jeans and awesome leather jackets. Everything was color coordinated by group of people. I ended up onstage and wasn't wearing what everyone else was, but nobody cared. I got to sing and dance during a song and it was amazing.

My group had to leave the stage for some reason (likely the encore was about to happen) but I ended up taking lead of the group to show them back to the stage. We then had a Spinal Tap-esque moment where we couldn't find the stage and everyone ended up flying (yes, flying) through this huge beautiful garden to get to the stage. Prince, the man himself, saw us when we reached the door and hurried us to where everyone else was. We came back out onstage and performed "Purple Rain". My friend Prentice, who is a huge Prince fan, was in the group next to me and yelled out a compliment to Prince after the song ended (something like "Yeah man your just killing it tonight!") and Prince turned and gave some short snappy answer like "Trust me, I know", but he had a big smile on his face. The show ended with "Let's Go Crazy", and everything was just a huge awesome party with confetti and all. Around the end of LGC is when I woke up.

Usually I never remember dreams but this one was so vivid and real. Left me with a huge smile.

 

I had a dream I played in the NFL as a cornerback.

I was okay. Wasn't best in press coverage but was great at jumping routes and getting picks. Had to have safety help. Good speed so I got a couple pick sixes but couldn't break tackles easily. Got injured in my 12th game against the Colts. It was a concussion and Hilton was definitely aiming to injure me. The league didn't care. Fire Goodell.

 

I feel like I've been having reoccurring dreams. Always too tired to write it down and when I actually wake up I don't remember it >:(

 

I was out drinking with Anthony Bourdain and it was just as badass as I imagined imagining it could be.

 

I had a dream that I went to North Carolina with some friends and stayed at this house that seemed VERY familiar. I remember being like "I think i've been here before. There's this badass pizza place down the street called Mystic pizza." The whole dream became us trying to track down the "mystic pizza". I don't know if we ever found it, but it sounded delicious

Holy shit, i just googled it and it's a real place in Charlotte NC! Hahah, i've definitely never been to it either.

I think i just saw the future.

 

I thought it was ironic that it was called "mystic" and you guys couldn't find it haha.

You have to go there now.

 

If it sucks, i'm gonna be so disappointed.

 

I dreamt that my celeb crush on Mindy Kaling came true

 

I had a dream that I turned off my alarm in my sleep and was late for work and called my manager to say I was gonna be late for him to tell me I don't work until later and the schedule got messed up because the Internet site/app was having issues (or something like that) and the time it said on the app was wrong

 

Had I dream I went to in n out with this random guy I met, it was like a food court in n out. For whatever reason he asked if he was able to buy a big can of their special sauce. I guess we were able to and we both paid for it. It wasn't ready yet so we came back later (they have him a cold one and said to come back for a new one). Then we went on this train ride thing to pass the time. He decided to not go back for his can of sauce but I paid for mine so I went back. The employees started giving me trouble. They said even though I paid for (and it's on my receipt) it I can't have it because they're not allowed to give it out or something. I said to them to look at the cameras because a friend and I came in earlier and ordered and they gave him one. I asked for their manager/supervisor whomever was there and it was this prissy blonde chick (look really young) and she was even giving me trouble! (Assumed she was a super not the manager) then my phone went off and I woke up

 

Lat night I had a dream that someone was at the foot of my bed like clawing/scraping rapidly at my blankets, but not pulling them off. I was under the blanket and I sleep in the fetal position so they didn't grab me and I couldn't see them. I could only hear their nails scraping against the blankets and then after they did that a while they slowly started pulling them down off me. It was one of those dumb dreams where you're doing something so mundane that it feels real and I couldn't move so that sucked.

 

I had a dream that some celebrity came in my mouth and his jizz tasted like, and had a similar texture to, chocolate cake. Like it was all soft and fluffy and shit. It was kind of amazing.

 

Who was the celeb?

 

I sadly don't remember.

Didn't even get his name, I'm such a whore.

 

If you figure it out, let me know. I need to have this dream.

 

Thought I was back in AZ last night and had to drive home to NC by midnight tonight to sign in back on leave (which is impossible to do so, as it's a 31 hour drive). Literally woke myself up when I thought it was 4AM in my dream and got halfway out of bed when I realized I was home.

 

I have this recurring theme/plot in a lot of my dreams where I'm in a public place trying to find a bathroom to use but they're all super clogged/out of order/their doors won't lock. Usually the only usable one I find has a super short door so people can see my face and try to talk to me while I'm clearly trying to poop in peace. I had one last night and I always feel weirdly stressed when I wake up.

 

That sounds super terrifying Nightmares like that are the absolute worst, I think I've only had like two in my whole lifetime that were like that.

 

Had a dream the other night that I moved to Canada for a job and a day after, Trump started sending all of us Canadians to internment camps.

 

I dreamt I smashed my phone and as a result, I couldn't listen to music in my car.

 

Ok, so my experience with dreaming for most of my adult life has been very odd. For one, I only remember a dream about once every few months. The vast majority of mornings I wake up with absolutely zero recollection of what I dreamed the night before.

Whats weird is that when I do remember a dream, its one of three recurring dreams that I've been having for years. One of the dreams is lucid, while the other two are not.

The first, and the rarest, is a non-lucid recurring nightmare from my childhood. It starts with myself and a childhood friend in the house I grew up in. As we walk down one of the halls, these fuzzy dinner-plate sized things start randomly appearing on the walls and floor, and they behave like small landmines if you touch them... as in, they blow off whatever part of your body touches one. They slowly accumulate around the house making it harder to maneuver around them. I always lose a foot, and my friend loses a hand and a foot. As we try to escape the house to avoid the mines, a bigfoot-type creature with wolverine claws starts trying to get into the house. It blocks our escape from the front/back doors and forces us to flee into the basement/garage. We get into one of the cars and start to back it out of the garage as we see the bigfoot coming down the steps. Suddenly, he disappears and we stop the car and start looking around for him. Out of nowhere I feel sudden pain around the bicep of my left arm. When I turn to look, the bigfoot is right outside of my car door pushing one of his long claws through the door and he is scratching up my arm. I always wake up at this point, usually shaking and still having a sensation of pain on my left arm. My girlfriend says she can always tell when I have this dream because I literally jump awake, grab my left arm as if in pain, and then pat around on my arms and legs making sure they're all still there.

The next recurring dream didn't start until right after I graduated college. This dream is also non-lucid. It starts with my ex-girlfriend from college and me walking down the streets of Washington DC (we never went to DC together, which is odd) and visiting shops, cafes, etc on a sunny beautiful day. As we progress, I note that none of the servers at the cafes or people in the shops seem to notice or pay attention to me. I surmise that I am dead and confront my ex about it. She confirms my suspicion and tells me that she's the only person that can see or talk to me. Shortly after this she tells me that its time for her to go, and as she gets up to walk away I see several of our friends sitting at a table nearby. She stops to speak to them and they start crying, and I beg her to give them a message from me but she refuses saying they won't understand. They all leave and I start walking around again. After awhile of walking around more shops/parks with what feels like crippling sadness, I see my parents across the street from me. I run over to them and to my surprise they can see and hear me. They both start bawling and I do too, with them constantly repeating how much they miss me. I always wake up during this part, usually to a soaking wet pillow and tears still steaming down my face.

The last recurring dream is the most recent to develop, and is lucid. I am fully aware that it is a dream and I can change things within it as I please. Instead of being a repeating storyline that always plays out the same like my other recurring dreams, these dreams only share a common and ever-expanding landscape, nothing else. The first dream in this series took place in and around an arena-style building that served as a movie theater. A few months later, I had a dream where I was at an outdoor shopping area and in the background I could see the movie theater complex from the previous dream. Then the next dream I was having dinner with friends in a restaurant, and outside of the restaurant was a concourse area/entrance to the shopping center from the previous dream, and although I couldn't see it at the time, I was aware that the movie theater complex was nearby as well. I've dreamed about this area several other times and I am aware of other buildings in the landscape, and I can now envision a map of it while I'm dreaming. However, the only time a new structure or location gets added is if the dream actually starts out in a new location and I come to realize the spatial relationship later in the dream. If the dream starts in one of the buildings I'm already aware of, then no new buildings/areas get added in that dream session.

 

Damn, that middle one sounds bizarre.

 

Yeah, both it and the first one usually leave me fucked for the rest of the day when it happens. And I've been having the first one for at least 25+ years and the second for ~10 years.

 

I had a dream that I opened at work and got there early before anyone else for whatever reason. Then some randoms walk in and go to the back where I am, one of them has a gun. I stay quiet and just walk away trying to leave the building. I forgot what happens but the dude didn't let me leave so I was stuck in a "lockdown" hiding with other people. I guess he didn't care about having phones out because I dialed 9 1 1 and let them track my location and they showed up and I don't remember what happened after that