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post #1 of 28
Thread Starter 
Apologies if I missed a dream thread when searching, but I had to share this or at least get it out because it was just so weird...


It's daylight and I find myself in a downtown looking area. The streets are lined with Cafes and overpriced shops below rows of mirrored glass windows reflecting blue blobs with white halos. The foot traffic is a mix of business men and women on cell phones or juggling coffees and briefcases and students with backpacks slung over a shoulder or loitering on benches. The number of students increases the closer I get to the street corner as I suddenly am standing in a small park. There are now moms, nannies, and kids of all ages milling about.

I stand at the corner watching the crowd. I turn my head to the left and see a guy who resembles the love child of Starburns from Community without the stars and Otto the bus driver from Simpsons, dressed in white painters clothes. On the street, there is a commotion and an ambulance, like the kind on Emergency! but colored like a creamsicle, loses control and swerves into the park. Everyone but Starburns, who has his back turned, head down, and is listening headphones, gets out of the way. As I watch the ambulance close the distance, things change to bullet time. The ambulance is now upon Otto-Burns but at the last minute he sees people running toward him to get him out of the way and dogdges.

I am one of these rescuers. When I see that he is out of harm's way, I find the ambulance is about to run me down. I jump backwards like some wushu warrior but am struck by the bumper. I fall to the ground and immediately reach toward my left foot to quell the burning sensation, but my foot has been cut in half. Oddly there is little blood. People rush to my aid and I talk over them instructing them to call 911, to elevate my stump, and to inform them that I can feel myself going into shock. There is no panic. My speech starts to slur. While this is happening, a random woman wraps me in a blanket and cradles me. I see someone waving something over their head and say "I found his toes." Another voice says "Get it on ice."

I have the sensation of being enveloped by the green grass of the park which is now fuzzy but which has taken on a more vivid verdant visage. I then blackout but am still aware of the warmth.


I feel like there was more to the dream, but 7 hours later that's all I remember.

I can see some of the night's events before going to bed manifesting in my dream. For example, I watched my recording of Community right before bed which explains Starburns and the slurred speech. And it may have been Britta as T-Rex cradling me which could explain the bright green. As for the rest, I'm at a loss.
post #2 of 28
Obi, thanks so much for starting this thread! I always have bizarre dreams, often intricately plotted ones. I'd thought about blogging them in the past but felt that might be odd. Now this thread gives me an excuse to share. I am about to take a nap for several hours (feeling worn out physically and emotionally) and will be sure to report back on any strange happenings in the land of nod
post #3 of 28
Quit giving her excuses, people.
post #4 of 28
I totally thought you were going to end with some "Then I woke up to find..." horror story.
post #5 of 28
I think I woke up from a dream involving Christina Hendricks this morning. But that's literally all I can remember...
post #6 of 28
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Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post
Obi, thanks so much for starting this thread! I always have bizarre dreams, often intricately plotted ones. I'd thought about blogging them in the past but felt that might be odd. Now this thread gives me an excuse to share. I am about to take a nap for several hours (feeling worn out physically and emotionally) and will be sure to report back on any strange happenings in the land of nod
A lot of periods in that paragraph, Kate.
post #7 of 28
Thread Starter 
Nope, no surprises. Just weirded out and thought the Chewer Community would like to disect and try their hand at pyschoanalysis. I don't usually have such graphic dreams.
post #8 of 28
OK I had two dreams, punctuated by a brief period of wakeful ness between the two. In the first one, the produce aisle of STOP AND SHOP had been filled up with bleachers and chairs, and President Obama was going to deliver the SOTU. I was sitting far away back by the salad bar (which was still set up), and talking with people who were WH staffers about how excited I was and how I'd met him before ETC. I got the feeling I annoyed those people. Then people in the seating area I was in left for some reason (I think the SOTU had been delayed) so I used the opportunity to scooch up and get A better seat (Obama was going to talk from a raised platform way back by sea foods). I found some old friends of mine from HS and sat with them, but the bleachers sort of had a hump,
A raised section and my new seat faced back towards the salad bar so I'd have to twist around and crane my neck when it came time for the POTUS to talk. I tried to take a photo to demonstrate how close I was now sitting to impress people with later, but whenever I tried to take the shot the camera would zoom in

Then I woke up

Other dream: it was night time in some big land of fields, and I was getting off a bus to some sort of royal conclave in the middle ages. The king was there but he was elderly and laying in a hay pile, and Phillip Seymore Hoffman was talking to a large crowd of serfs.

Some time later...


I am spying on PSH and the queen from a thatched roof building overlooking a stable, and Hoffman is talking to the king who is lying on the ground. Hoffman somehow kills the king, and I toss/drop a giant broad sword at him which happens to nearly sever his head. I am pleased with my aim, but know the queen will now want to kill me so I start running/hovering away over the hills. Soon though I realize she is really fast and will catch me, so I stop in this stairwell and a guy gives me a beautiful brown horse to ride away on out of his backpack

Then I woke up
post #9 of 28
Okey doke, I am about to go to sleep (once I brush my teeth ETC), and I will post up any noteworthy dreams once I get to work (if I remember any, that is)
post #10 of 28
Weirdest recent one was where I was talking to someone, then I realized that my teeth were growing on the outside of my face.

I asked the person for a pair of pliers, so that I could pull them out. I only stopped after getting a handful of them off my face, then I headbutted the person.

I sat there for a moment, as I begin to return to my face with the pliers. That carried on for what seemed like a minute.

Then I woke up.
post #11 of 28
OK, I had two dreams that I remember last night, but as I sit here typing them out I can only recall a few basic details


DREAM ONE: I came home to discover that I'd been moved out of my house and into a big tent complex, with a promise that plywood would be affixed to the walls of the tent in due course (the "tent" was like a wood frame with canvass stapled to the outside). I demanded to know why, and it turns out that my dad's landlords were pissed about a message I'd left on someones machine that consisted entirely of the audio track of some film (I'd set the phone down next to the TV or something?)

DREAM TWO: I was in my mom's house which was full of tropical gardens and water pools, and I was freaking out because this was Alexandria Egypt circa the events of the film AGORA, and the collected knowledge of humanity was about to be destroyed by rampaging Christians. I wanted to try to save the Library and get my mom and sister to help me hide scrolls, but my sister was complaining about something (I don't remember what, just that it was inane in comparison with my concern) and sucking up all my mom's attention as I tried with increasing hysteria to communicate the scale of coming disaster

Then I woke up

PS Obi, that's an interesting dream but I'm of the opinion that not all dreams have special meaning. Sure, some undoubtedly do, but I think some are just tales our brains tell in the middle of the night to stave off boredom
post #12 of 28
I was traveling to my uncle's in Atlanta with my family. My brother had, for some reason, gotten a shitload of headgehogs, some just bigger than my fist, some really small. There were so many, and I had to put them all in a bag so they wouldn't roll around everywhere.
When they got tense, their plasticky 'quills' hardened up and some were puff out into geometric arrangements.

When we get there, I take them out to comfort them and separate the males from the females and take care of them. I go into this really spacious room with sister. It has white walls, white carpeting, and wood/wicker furniture. As I'm working, a spider lowers down from a strand of thread....and it turns out to be a Black Widow!

And I manage to smash it before it can hurt me, but then several Black Widows suddenly come down from other strands. I distinctly remember there being about seven. So I'm rolling and ducking out of the way, and my sister and I are trying to kill them.

So, so weird.
post #13 of 28
I love reading these! Thanks for sharing guys. I agree with Kate in that I feel that some dreams may have a meaning, in the mind's way of working through tough everyday decisions through a dreamscape....but other dreams are more or less of patchwork gobblygook...the brain acting like a hard drive, moving, organizing, blending, deleting all sorts of memory files.

I actually keep a dream journal of sorts. I have posted some of my dreams at my LJ. I make it a point to only include details which I am sure of having dreamt.

Here is one of my more coherent dreams:

A Day in the Life - "A warm, lazy summer afternoon. I, along with a dozen or so other strangers, lay scattered in a group, on the far end of a shopping center parking lot in a rundown part of some anonymous town. As we lounge on the warm pavement, spared somewhat by the overcast sky above us, our attention is directed to the man standing before us, preaching some new age religion.

I'm in the very back of the makeshift congregation, my legs covered in faded denim and stretched out in front of me. I'm reclining, somewhat, with the small of my back resting uncomfortably against an aged parking curb that is speckled with a few remaining spots of chipped yellow paint. My arms are extended straight out behind me, elbows locked, with my palms planted flat on the asphalt, securing my position.

While the man continues his sermon, I glance over to my right and see my girlfriend staring in the direction of the speaker with great intent, but not seeming very affected by what is actually being spoken. I am only here because she likes me being here with her. I sense that she is only here because she feels an obligation to be.

As the sermon starts drawing to a final act, a pair of men with pistols approach the back of the group and tell several of the members, including my girlfriend, to hand over their money. With the robbers standing tall over them, my girlfriend and a nearby couple comply, rather nonchalantly, and hand over what little money they have. Our pavement preacher never flinches through any of this, nor does the rest of the group: It's par for the course to have an interruption of this nature around these parts. The gunmen aren't even wearing disguises and appear to be rather bored by the whole affair, going through the motions. The robbery feels as routine as a collection plate being passed around. The humor of that tithing analogy is not lost on me, as I worry less about our safety and more about when we can finally make our way home.

Later in the day, well after the sermon has ended, and with sunlight dwindling away, I'm sitting in the front passenger seat of my girlfriend's car, as we make our way home through the town traffic. I look over at my girlfriend with admiring eyes. She is a petite brunette, with conservative glasses and short hair. She is dressed casually and more for comfort than ego. She has a reserved appearance, perhaps befitting the stereotype of the mousy librarian to more jaded eyes, but she also exudes a sense of loyalty and optimism that attracts me to no end.

The car is a figurative tank, very much with a body style and bulk that resembles a classic Oldsmobile. She has had it for a long time, well before knowing me, and it is showing its age. That this small woman owns such a huge vehicle is a cute passing punchline that only serves to endear her that much more to me. In the backseat of the car is her brother, a young kid, around ten years old, wearing a red baseball cap. His head is made of solid wood, so his expression, that of comfortable indifference, is a constant. The area where his nose would normally be has been shaven down into a small, somewhat smooth, vertical crater, with the hint of tiny wood shavings still clinging to the edges of the gouged section. As the car rumbles along, not a word is said, nor needs to be: We are all comfortable just being together and sharing the day.

Home at last. We exit the car and enter what appears to be a giant dining hall, accented by an arching ceiling that seems to go several stories high. The room is full of long tables, covered with sheets of white storage plastic. There are books and piles of paper scattered about the room. As we settle in, my girlfriend starts up an old stereo and soft music fills the surroundings.

End of dream."

"A Day in the Life"
post #14 of 28
Should have posted about this last night when I woke up from my nap, because now the salient details have slipped through my mental sieve like so much sand

Anyway, I had an epic dream last evening that had a cast of recurring characters, an huge scope, and emotionally harrowing content

I remember that I was the daughter of some professor who I think may have been Donald Sutherland in a beard, I'm not sure. I was in some big city that was under threat by some kind of evil force. The fear was that the force (It was a specific being, I think, but I honestly can't remember more) was going wipe out the human race, and people were desperately scrambling for ways to combat this overwhelming presence

At one point I was roaming the streets delivering rousing oratory telling people not to give in or give up hope. I remember somehow having a lucid moment where I realized I was dreaming and had no script to read my remarks off of and I had to wing it, but I was able to craft some nifty turns of phrase and I remember being pleased as punch with my cleverness

Also, apparently there had been an attempted vaccine (or something) in the early days of the siege by this force, but efforts had been abandoned when it didn't work and no real scientific research was being done on a way to defeat it. People had almost given up hope

I was trying to get people to understand the imperative for more research, since we currently had no chemical that could successfully bond with the forces blood, so even if we somehow came up with a vaccine (or whatever), we'd have no way to administer it unless we laid the groundwork with research ahead of time

Those last details I only remember because I wrote them down on my iPod
post #15 of 28
This one's a doozy:

I'm walking out of some kind of building, I think it's a school. I'm carrying two large duffel bags and walking towards my car. But as I get closer, I feel something pushing me away from the car, and I end up just walking in place. I keep pushing and pushing and finally manage to get close to the car, whereupon my bags and the rear of the car all start shaking violently, and a demonic roar comes from the car. I ask, "What do you want?" and it replies, "YOUR SOUL!"

Yeah, this is going well.

I fling the bags at it, and the scene suddenly shifts to a motel room, with the car having turned into a mattress. It continues with its threats, and I rush over to the desk and pull out a Gideon's Bible. I flip to John 3:16 and read it aloud, then throw the book on the bed, at which point the mattress begins screaming. Then I find a pen and stab the mattress with it, releasing this black ichor that runs out all over the floor. I know I can't leave the stuff there, so I grab some paper towels and begin sopping it up. Somehow, one sheet is enough to get all of it up, but the stain coalesces into a face, not unlike the cover of the Book of the Dead from Army of Darkness. The face again starts howling threats, but this time I simply tear the paper towel into pieces and the stain vanishes.

So yeah, that was fun.
post #16 of 28
Dickson that was hell of a dream.

I used to have two very weird recurring dreams. The first, I mentiod in the Favorate Muppet's thread, which involved Miss Piggy crawling up my bed only she had human eyes.

The second always used to freak me out. I am lying on a hospital bed talking to a doctor about how there was a nuclear holocaust coming and it was all my fault. The doctor, would reassure me and tell me it was just a dream. But then the POV would shift away from me and pan out like a camea,then I would be able to see that the Doctor had his hand behind his back and it was all twisted and mutated (presumably from the fallout). The camera would then reveal I was in an obervation room and behind a mirror all the doctors were mutated. I was the only one who wasn't.
post #17 of 28
I had a dream that Gary Oldman was staying at my house in some sort of bed and breakfast capacity, and he was really cool and polite and humored all my movie questions. I was still embarrassed by my dad though who was saying typically ill informed things about the entertainment industry and making off color jokes

There was a lot more to that dream but it's slipped away since I first opened my eyes this morning

Pretty sure this dream was inspired by the fact I was playing COD:BO till 2 AM
post #18 of 28
Thread Starter 
This one woke me up today around 4 am:

I'm in India. I find myself in slum. I enter a building and it turns out to be a voting site. Everyone inside wears fear on their faces, trying not to be noticed. There is a commotion outside. I hear shouts not to go see what's going on, but I do. Local law enforcement has lined up the villagers along the wall of the voting building. They are armed with machine guns and have used them to eliminate all but 2 men in the line. They see me exit and line me up as well. I freak out, I feel tears welling in my eyes. The first man is shot in the head. I fall to my knees trying to gather my senses. The man in line next to me glances down at me, grins and winks at me, as he slips a gun out of its hiding place in his belt. He catches a few of the police officers by surprise but there are too many of them and eventually he is gunned down, his body ripped to shreds by machine gun fire. They then turn to me and I wake up.

After shaking that one off, I fell back asleep and apparently it was time for the sequel, for I now found myself driving in a military jeep, running down these police officer/soldiers in an escape attempt. Each contact was like a combination of Robocop and Rambo: sloppy, squishy, explosions of chunky red matter all over the place.

No clue what might have influenced these dreams as the only thing I watched before bed was Chuck and Walking Dead (and there wasn't much gore in that episode).
post #19 of 28
I had the weirdest experience this morning. It was kind of like sleep paralysis. I was dreaming that I was with my dad and we were going through this hallway that reminded me of the ramp when you get off of an airplane. There was a coffee shop at the end of the hall where it opened up and there were a lot of people there. I heard a little boy saying “Daddy! Daddy!” and it was so loud it woke me up and I actually thought I was hearing a little kid outside my house because the neighbors have small children. And then I felt a hand on my head and another one stroking my arm (I was sleeping on my side) like my mom had come into my room to wake me up. I tried to say hello a few times, but my voice wouldn’t work. And then I was completely awake. I wasn’t scared or anything, just kind of pissed off because I was finally asleep after the rain woke me up at 3:15 and now I was awake again. I can totally see how people could think they’re being haunted or visited by aliens or whatever when they wake up in the middle of the night.
post #20 of 28
My fucked up recurring dream is basically a minute-by-minute instance of reliving the eighteen hours it took my little brother to die in the ICU at UCSF. On the one hand, it's the basis of much of my anger and self-destructive behavior. On the other, my anger and inability to sleep are what make me committed to and fucking awesome at my job.
post #21 of 28
CUCH, you're back!!!!
post #22 of 28
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CUCH, you're back!!!!
I was helping run the Sestak for Senate race in PA. I'm on break for Thanksgiving, then I'll go back to the mayoral race in Chicago.
post #23 of 28
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain View Post
I was helping run the Sestak for Senate race in PA. I'm on break for Thanksgiving, then I'll go back to the mayoral race in Chicago.
Well, I hope you get some well-deserved rest. You've been missed. I have proof!
post #24 of 28
Last night I sat down to watch Lars von Trier's Antichrist for the first time, having missed it in theaters. I've been battling the flu, so about 25-30min in, I hit pause and decided to hop in bed and rest my eyes for a bit, but I ended up falling asleep. What's interesting is that I finished the film...in my sleep. I dreamt up the rest of the film from the point I left off at when I was awake.

I wish I could remember the details, but an aspect of the dream perhaps revealed some subconscious knowledge that I knew I was dreaming. In the dream, there was a special feature on the DVD that stated that the version I was watching was an alternate version, and that I could not watch the "true" version until I had completed said alternate.

I actually created an alternate version of Antichrist, effectively from beginning to end, in my head, and when I awoke, I was really disappointed that I couldn't remember anything about it. I'm brilliant, so I'm sure it was awesome.

That said, when I woke up around 1:30am, I resumed watching the real Antichrist, and enjoyed it quite a bit.
post #25 of 28


This happened a few weeks ago but I have not gotten around to writing about it till just now

Long story short? I had a lucid dream! I use to have them all the time, but they've been rare lately. However, two days after I saw INCEPTION I was very sleep deprived and had been awake for more than 36 hours. When I lay down to take a nap, almost immediately I felt myself just floating away to sleep. Usually it takes a few minutes, and I don't remember the process of going to sleep. My thoughts start to ramble and then lose focus, and then I sleep I guess

This time? I kept thinking. I was thinking about various things when all of a sudden I realized I was walking down a street and my first reaction was "Holy smoke, I'm already asleep and in a dream! That was fast". I was amazed that I was now in this dream world, and though I was no doubt laying in bed, the reality in which I found myself was utterly convincing. I saw a revolving door on a building about 10 feet away, and explored the boundaries of the dream world. Usually if I am lucid dreaming, it means that I am right on the edge of waking up and the attempt to consciously control my movements or the dream world can result in waking up

This time though I plodded over to the door, and could feel my tired feet (it felt like I'd been walking all day, which must have been my body translating my very real exhaustion to the dream world) and could feel the impact of each step travel up my weary legs as I trod across the cobblestone. I was thinking how incredible it was that I knew I was dreaming but still was in this artificial world that my mind was creating and perceiving simultaneously

I tried to start to conjure things in my dream (which I have had some success with in the distant past), but that proved too much for the delicate balance I found myself in and I snapped awake

I have had a few experiences like this in the past, but it is rarer and rarer these days. I still have plenty of vivid, outlandish dreams, but they are rarely lucid. I wonder if having recently seen INCEPTION made the idea of dreaming something that was on my mind and therefore easier to recognize when I found myself in the dream world
post #26 of 28
Thread Starter 
Last night (this morning? I dreamed that Gillian Jacobs and Alison Brie or rather their characters from Community were consoling me on some huge devestating loss I had just suffered. The odd thing is I don't know what the loss was but it had Britta in tears and Annie silent. I must be going through Community withdrawal but that doesn't explain the sense of doom and gloom.
post #27 of 28
Last night I dreamt that I went to a restaurant in a nearby suburb, only to come out after eating to find that my car had been stolen. For some reason, I didn't call home or the police, but went out looking for it. My dream actually jumped to the next morning, and I called my wife (though I'm divorced in real life) to tell her what happened. I went back to the restaurant to see if I had merely overlooked my car. Nothing. And again, I inexplicably was walking around instead of calling friends for a ride or the police to report the crime (those thoughts even occurred to me, fleetingly, in the dream).

In walking, I was in a spot along the road in the suburb where there were a number of vacant/ruined lots. Maybe a half or three quarters mile between occupied homes and businesses. Two men come walking toward me, one on each side of the street. One is dressed in an old fashioned coat with vest and tie and round glasses; I don't remember the other. My fear barometer was going off because of the way Glasses was looking at me - with a distinct predatory gleam in his eyes, and I was reminded that I carried no weapons and have no martial arts knowledge or training. I tried walking quickly away, but they turned course and followed me - the one with glasses smiling and laughing frighteningly. As they came at me from two different directions, I remember feeling very frightened and sure that they were going to kill me.

Glasses suddenly took of his hair...which was a wig, to reveal pure white hair and his skin suddenly paled. Albino! I knew he intended to kill me.

And then I woke, catching my breath.
post #28 of 28

Last night I dreamt that I was back in my old house as a kid with my two brothers except there were three Muppets living with us as living,breathing beings. A Female muppet kept trying to get frisky with me and my siblings. It got to a point where we were running away from the female muppet into the bathroom and my brother shut the muppets head in the door and killing it. There then followed a montage of muppets the world over stopping their dayjobs (?!?!) and turning on humans and violently attacking them.

 

I woke up and there was kermit the frog standing over me and he said "Inception bitch" ( no I made that last part up but the rest of the dream is real)

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