Your last dream

[PluMGMK]

Oh wow, that sounds intense! I know there's a tendency to connect things when you're on the edge of sleep (it sometimes leads me to unexpected insights) but that clearly went a long way past that. Was there sleep paralysis involved in that experience, or were you able to move the whole time (even before turning on your lamp)?

[Giant Chicken]

A couple days ago I had a dream where I was going on a rollercoaster, but it broke off the track. Instead of crashing however, it just kept on going. I eventually ended up on a track field, where I would go in circles until I woke up. A very weird, but enjoyable dream.

[PuzPot1390]

Was there sleep paralysis involved in that experience, or were you able to move the whole time (even before turning on your lamp)?

No, no sleep paralysis. Fortunately, I don't think I've ever experienced that particular condition.

I was wide awake and able to get out of my bed with no issues, but that just made the whole scenario all the stranger. You know the slight delirium you have for a few seconds when you wake up from a strange dream and your brain doesn't yet realise none of it was real? Well, it was essentially that, but I couldn't shake it for a good fifteen minutes despite knowing I was awake and moving about.

[DaveRattlehead]

I don't get nightmares very often, but I had one about a week ago. It was one of the strangest experiences I've ever had as it was more exhausting than it was scary.

The dream was mostly nonsense as they tend to be, but it ended with me suddenly having the horrible realisation that there was a stranger crawling around in the loft of my house. I was just sitting when I suddenly saw various random objects flashing before me, and the dream version of myself seemed to believe that they were all connected. This culminated in the conclusion that there was an intruder upstairs. Think of how detective shows have the main character realise who the killer is after all the evidence flashes before them in their mind, lots of bright lights and booming sound effects accompanying it, and that's the sort of thing I was experiencing.

I woke up right after in a cold sweat, but it didn't end there. Unlike most dreams where I wake up and come to my senses after a few seconds, I was delirious after this particular nightmare. I knew I was awake, but I couldn't stop my brain from continuing to try and connect seemingly random images in my mind, just like I was doing in the dream. I was thinking about how 'the spoon connected to the church alter, which in turn connected to the Rubik's Cube and the box of baby teeth etc', and I just couldn't get my mind to calm down. I lay there for a good fifteen minutes, even putting my bedside lamp on to see if that would make me come to my senses. I don't really remember how it stopped as I later woke up after falling back asleep feeling completely normal.

It wasn't particuarly scary, but it was certainly bizarre.

That's a very interesting and specific dream, and it could perfectly be related to some complex thoughts/experiences in your life nowadays. The delirium upon waking up could be a reflection of the brain's transitional state between sleep and wakefulness (maybe you woke up too fast and intensely?). This is called sleep inertia.

[Dumbo TV]

Ughhhhhhhh, I always have dreams like that

once I dreamed that I had managed to get a collector's figurine of Conker, and another time, a lot of Rabbids games on Wii U, and another time funko pop Venom, it was so boring when I wake up

[Greengoop]

I wish it was possible to dream forever. I’d have no responsibility, feel no pain and just live in the illusion of happiness

[ItzalDrake]

I have decided to start a dream diary recently where I note all the dreams I have every night and it is pretty fun so in future I can read it and remember the dreams I had

This morning I noted a weird dream I had last night, I was with a friend and we both had a copy of the same book, this book looked old but the content wasn't that old.
For example it had some pages about some anime, videogames and animated movies and the most particular thing about this book was that the pages of the book weren't numbered correctly.
My friend wanted to show me a thing in particular shown in this book and told me to go to a page with a particular number, but as the pages weren't numbered correctly and the numbers were a bit random I couldn't find it

It's said that dreams have meanings, I wonder what is the meaning of this dream

[Greengoop]

Sounds maybe like not being able to find something meant you were feeling stress and anxiety

Anyway, I don’t really believe that dreams have meanings. Just a recollection of things you saw/heard/thought in the day

[PluMGMK]

I wish it was possible to dream forever. I’d have no responsibility, feel no pain and just live in the illusion of happiness

Isn't that what the robots in the Matrix tried for the first iteration? It didn't work out too well

I have decided to start a dream diary recently where I note all the dreams I have every night and it is pretty fun so in future I can read it and remember the dreams I had

Good idea! I think this can lead to a kind of positive feedback loop where you remember more and more interesting details, right?

[Hunchman801]

I'm not sure how, but last night in my dreams I ended up in jail and it got messy with the other inmates. I can't quite remember how it ended but I think we eventually made peace over some deal related to the prison canteen... yeah, don't ask me why, none of that made any sense to begin with.

[PluMGMK]

Yesterday morning after the power was restored I went back to sleep and had a dream inspired by the first post in the best scams thread. I hadn't done anything that I'd want to keep from anyone, I think it was more that I was afraid of my bank details getting compromised somehow

[Greengoop]

I had a dream about a new (fully animated) Zelda movie that had something to do with KFC as well?

[Adsolution]

Just woke up from another nightmare

I was back in high school, my friend who took her life in front of me was there again, we were on a field trip with the class to a mall. I'm holding her hand, we're on the secone floor, and for the brief moment I let go to check something, I look up and she's running ahead of the class and climbing over the railing. I scream NO after her, and she jumps over, I'm stunned, and I hear a thud and the sound of ribs cracking. I stagger over to and curl up by a pillar in, shaking, head spinning, trying to process, I snap together and run down to the first floor where I see the paramedics there and she's already in a body bag, and I'm crying and screaming hysterically while they're trying to hold me back. I get brought back to the rest of the class, they're trying to keep us together while we're waiting at the train station to go back home, I'm pacing trying to keep my head together, I get this rush of anger and say fuck it and run back to the mall to be alone. I'm wondering aimlessly until I find a bar where one of my favourite bands are playing, and I sit in the corner and drink myself stupid until I have no idea what's going on and can't figure out how to pay

Then I wake up, my pillow is soaked, and it's like oh... all that pain, I'm not even allowed to cry or feel bad because it was a dream. Another one. This is like the second or third one this week. Please can it stop, I can't take it sometimes. I'm terrified of sleeping. This day was supposed to be exciting

Fucking beasts who cou do this to someone, your echoing laughs like it's funny, you only got one of us, haaaaha, at least I'm alive

edit: Sorry about that, I feel a bit little better now...

[Hunchman801]

Now that's dark! I kinda understand why you smoke not to dream.

[Adsolution]

Thanks... and yeah. It's frustrating, because I've had to figure out how to cope with a lot of things that have happened to me or people I know, and I think I've done really well. It doesn't matter how much effort I've put in when sleep rolls around though, I'm defenseless and have no control over my mind there.

I'll just spam out a few more

Two days before that I had a dream there was an apocalyptic meteor shower, each impact creating a nuclear-sized explosion. I woke up to a shockwave hitting my place and the windows smashing, then every few minutes there was another explosion somewhere, followed by another shockwave. I picked a moment to run upstairs and see if my friend and her husband who were staying with us last year were okay, and the place had completely collapsed on them. I ran back downstairs and huddled with my boyfriend in bed as more shockwaves kept blasting us. I got onto the floor between my bed and the wall and was trying to get him to come with me, but he was frozen in fear, until one happened very nearby and completely destroyed our room, completely mangling him, while I'm lying on the floor badly injured but alive.

Just a day before that, I dreamt one of my best high school friends and I were hunting, we were having a lot of fun. I was jokingly playing with the safety on my rifle, and accidentally blasted him in the chest, and he lay there dying, heaving and spattering, while I jump over him going "no no no no no no-"

Maybe two weeks ago, I dreamt I was on a ferry with a bunch of people from the Discord community for some reason, and it was taken over by armed terrorists/robbers, and we were being forced to split up, with men being tortured, and women being raped. Afterwards, we were herded down to the engine rooms where we were going to be executed by being thrown into turbines. We actually managed to overpower two of them and make a break for it, but while we were escaping down a narrow scaffold, one of them (a member I care about a lot in the community) who was right behind me slipped and fell like 40 feet to their death at the base of the hull.

A few days before that, I dreamt I was wandering through downtown, which I know well, but it seemed totally unfamiliar. Everyone seemed to be whispering and looking at me. I went up to someone who had their back turned to ask if he knew where we were, but right as I started speaking his daughter looked at me and shushed me. I try and head somewhere I know is usually safe, but I notice people following me, so I run and head inside a building I knew, but it lead somewhere completely different. It was some large family home. I ran upstairs and into a bedroom and locked the door, but noticed one of their sons was there playing with toys. I asked him if I could hide there and he said sure. The grandma walked by and asked the boy if anyone was there, and he said no, but she saw through his lie. I ran away as she screamed for them, and I got cornered and brought down to the basement by the grandfather, who said I'd be his new favourite toy. I had to strip naked at gunpoint, and he put this daredevil rainbow feather suit that hid nothing on me. He left, then told me to head into the garden in 30 minutes. There was nowhere else to go, but I didn't come out after, so he came in to get me and bring me outside. The entire family was having a picnic (the children, parents, grandparents), and I was the show. I was strapped to a motorcycle motorcycle with a weight on the back, and they said my goal was to see if I could drive up a truck loading ramp without flipping backwards. It forced me to go to full speed, and I flipped back and broke my back and legs. Then while I'm lying there paralyzed and not able to breathe, the grandfather had "fun" with me, and when I passed out from a lack of oxygen I woke up.

There are countless more, but I'll stop there for now.
I want to get a proper PTSD diagnosis because it's legitimately affecting my wellbeing, I struggle to function in the morning sometimes and I don't know what to do about it, but I don't want that to screw me over in any potential work opportunities too if they won't hire me because of it, but at the same time I understand. Some people never seem to understand and accuse me of being lazy or not giving a shit, when that couldn't be further from the truth, I care about every single thing I do, so I could at least have that to get them off by back.

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Anyway, on a way lighter note, I actually had a really fun dream last night, yay! It was a full new Pixar (""Pixar"") movie that was surprisingly cohesive from beginning to end, as opposed to how disjunct dreams usually are. I remember every scene from it:

It was about an old homeless American man who was a new reporter long ago who just accidentally caused what looked like a series of terrorist attacks, resulting in a bunch of cars crashing and exploding in this dramatic way. Most of the movie is him trying to escape the law because he knows he'd be doomed. Like one scene where he was driving his broken car through a parking lot trying to avoid them by acting really casual. It broke down, and he had to hotwire a new car using this weird nonsense method that involved cutting the powered steering, making it really hard to drive, but he did. He had to stop before long because they had set up roadblocks around every street, so he walked into a homeless shelter with his head turned away and blended in, getting different clothes, even dressing up as an old lady as a disguise in one goofy scene.

Eventually he sees there seems to be no way out... but he realises at heart that he's a squirrel and he sees he can escape to the ocean between some buildings heading to the beach. He makes a break for it and makes it to the ocean and dives in - he's never touched water before and is in awe of everything - he gets surprise attacked by a beaver, but a frog saves him just in time. He makes it to the ocean jungle and gets really good at swinging around vines. He's never felt like he had this much energy in old age, he's even putting his frog friends to shame. With his new love of swinging on vines, he goes to some huge cliffs across the country, but accidentally swings on one that uproots and causes a landslide, making a massive destructive sinkhole and causing a bunch of cars to dramatically crash and blow into pieces again. He realises he'll never truly be free and that no matter what he does, even if he's a squirrel now, destruction follows, and the law will be after him looking to imprison him for life.

He sneaks onto a USSR ship heading to a now run down Russia, but gets caught by them. To his surprise, they welcome him with open arms for defecting to their country, and they feed him this delicious meal of waffles, coffee and biscuits, and he's shaking and crying because he's never eaten something this delicious in his decades of being homeless.

He tells them his story, and they take him to their own crazy Russian mountain he can explode and watch collapse (something he always did by accident before that would cause all the wreckages) and just enjoy it as a form of therapy, and they're all cheering as he hits the detonator.

However, suddenly it seems these Russians were working for America, and this was all a setup

The final scene of the movie cuts to some of the Russians sledding down a mountain, it seems with him trapped in there, but they lose the sled and they start laughing. Then as the camera pans by the sledding slope, you see him doing a news report with a huge grin on his face, commentating on their shenanigans. (it wasn't a setup, they were just joking)

The credits sequence had the text scrolling up the side while the background would show sequential clips of real world video footage, each one focusing on a different car part that went flying after an explosion crash, showing the version in the movie it was based on. After the credits it faded to a logo of the movie, and it was a bunch of cars parked under the ocean to form the shape of letters.

[Dumbo TV]

I just dreamed that friends of mine were ghost hunters, that they ate crystallized ice cream, that my heart was going to explode, of animatronics in my house, of pirate cops, Bugs Bunny as a politician and that I had to spend my permit

[Dumbo TV]

I just dreamed that I lived in a big mobile home, that I had a great job, that everyone laughed at my jokes and thought I was cool, but it was weird, we were eating something that was... called viandouille, it was rice with meat sauce, and there were giant cats.

[PierreLP]

Last night's dream was a wild one. I found myself standing outside, looking up at the sky when suddenly, dead bodies started falling from above. It was unsettling, to say the least.
This dream's interpretation, which I've read on dreamsdemystified.blog, could mean that I'm feeling overwhelmed or out of control in real life. It's interesting because lately, work has been a bit of a pressure place. Deadlines, meetings, projects. Everything seems to be piling up, much like those bodies in my dream. Maybe my subconscious is trying to tell me something about how I'm handling stress or feeling like things are spiraling out of control.

[Elite Piranha]

I had a dream about a new difficulty mode in Resident Evil 4. When selected, the area where the chainsaw sisters appear, spawns three instead of two and they don't back down when using the shotgun. Also, the U-3 boss fight is very different, the creature is several times bigger, screams louder and chases you in the hillside of a mountain.

[Hunchman801]

I had a dream about a new difficulty mode in Resident Evil 4. When selected, the area where the chainsaw sisters appear, spawns three instead of two and they don't back down when using the shotgun. Also, the U-3 boss fight is very different, the creature is several times bigger, screams louder and chases you in the hillside of a mountain.

Isn't professional difficulty hard enough like this?