Anxieties, Deepest Fears, and Recurring Nightmares Thread

I have one recurring nightmare, or used to have one. I usually got it when I had a fever.

It began with a tactile impression, the feeling of my cheek on cold macadam street. The stones in cement type street. I could feel the stones in my face, lying on the ground.

Then the camera pulls back and I'm looking down at myself, on this immense black featureless plain. Kind of like a plain of tar. (I know that's not the same as macadam but IT'S A DREAM, SEE?)

The camera keeps pulling up, and I get smaller and smaller.

Then features begin appearing on this immense flat black plain -- grey ones. Simple geometric shapes like boxes, disks, and truncated pyramids.

And the camera keeps going up, and I keep getting smaller. I'm basically an atom on this gigantic black and gray circuitboard.

Usually at this point I would wake up.

That might not sound very scary but it was eerie. Uncanny, maybe is the right word. Strange how I kept having this same damn dream every time I had a fever.

It's been a while since I had it -- 35 years -- but I always remember it. I must have had it ten times.

Posted by: Ace at 08:45 PM

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1 St

Posted by: CSMBigBird at August 24, 2016 08:46 PM (xInes)

2 Foist!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 08:46 PM (wCEn4)

3 Falling...

That's the one for me.

From great heights

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2016 08:46 PM (ptqRm)

4 I have a dream about a snake, like a wheel.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at August 24, 2016 08:46 PM (xInes)

5 Posted by: CSMBigBird at August 24, 2016 08:46 PM (xInes)

Curses, foiled again!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 08:47 PM (wCEn4)

6 i don't have falling nightmares but I have wonderful flying dreams.

the nightmarish part comes when i realize it's just a dream and i really can't fly. that's a terrible, terrible moment.

Posted by: ace at August 24, 2016 08:48 PM (dciA+)

7 That's creepy!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2016 08:48 PM (NOIQH)

8 I never dream, or if I do, I never remember anything. Not sure what that says about my psyche.

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 08:49 PM (wCEn4)

9 The ones where I fly are great, but the ones where I'm falling are not.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2016 08:49 PM (NOIQH)

10 So, ace flunked Geometry in 6th grade?

Posted by: HotFlash! at August 24, 2016 08:49 PM (v9gSJ)

11 I had to be put on antipsychotics when I was a child because I would wake up screaming. I don't remember the worst of the nightmares, but I do remember the weirdest dreams.

My next door neighbor drove a big rig and I used to dream of being chased down, The Hitcher style. It never caught me but the sense of dread was awful.

I also dreamed of flying, a lot. Those were the best dreams.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 24, 2016 08:49 PM (SEXy3)

12 My nightmare is a world without distilled spirits and Depends. Sober and striking mud is no way to go through life.

Posted by: Hillary 2016! at August 24, 2016 08:50 PM (7zkP4)

13
My deepest fear: The very thought of my own internal organs.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 08:50 PM (CHT/Y)

14 My nightmare is falling out of a plane with no parachute. Sorta like what this country going through right now.

Posted by: dantesed at August 24, 2016 08:50 PM (88xKn)

15

Getting ripped to shreds bit by bit by monsters... tear off a strip and eat it, repeat.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 24, 2016 08:51 PM (qul7b)

16 The web has become Room 101 without the ratmask.

Posted by: oh,k,tnx,bye at August 24, 2016 08:51 PM (CX88n)

17 "i don't have falling nightmares but I have wonderful flying dreams. "

I have never had a dream where I had the ability to fly.

But everything from going off a ski jump, to falling off a bridge, to numerous other situations where I am falling for a considerable amount to time.

And.. I do dream in color.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2016 08:51 PM (ptqRm)

18
Since I got willowed in the last thread.....

OT:

Two hawt chicks playing Metallica's "One" on harp.

2 Girls 1 Harp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhOhGhq0e54

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 24, 2016 08:51 PM (LuZz8)

19 My deepest fear: The very thought of my own internal organs.

****

Losing my mind and saying horrid, wretched, twisted things or losing my mind and being dependent upon others for my care.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 24, 2016 08:52 PM (SEXy3)

20
Tyrannosaurus Rexes were roaming the neighborhood hunting me.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Drooper at August 24, 2016 08:52 PM (5o5ek)

21
I also kinda fear knives. I hate hate hate being cut.

I hate opening up my skin with a sharp blade.

Because it doesn't really hurt but the havoc it wreaks disturbs me at a deep mental level.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 08:52 PM (CHT/Y)

22 I say Rosebud, drop a globe and force people to watch two hours of Orson. True nightmare.

Posted by: Charles Foster Kane at August 24, 2016 08:53 PM (7zkP4)

23 Eating a giant marshmallow. Waking up to find pillow gone.

Posted by: Race Bannon at August 24, 2016 08:53 PM (K3F/8)

24 4 I have a dream about a snake, like a wheel.
Posted by: CSMBigBird at August 24, 2016 08:46 PM (xInes)

Like an ouroboros?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 08:53 PM (0mRoj)

25 I never dream, or if I do, I never remember anything. Not sure what that says about my psyche.

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 08:49 PM (wCEn4)

actually very healthy, normal dream cycle, you should not remember anything

Posted by: runner at August 24, 2016 08:53 PM (YJSRY)

26
My nightmare is falling out of a plane with no parachute.
Posted by: dantesed

Car going off the road into a long slow arching flight thru the air to an inevitable death.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 24, 2016 08:53 PM (kdS6q)

27 >>I had to be put on antipsychotics when I was a child because I would
wake up screaming. I don't remember the worst of the nightmares, but I
do remember the weirdest dreams.

Was it night terrors?
Thought I read that night terrors happen during a different stage of sleep than dreams/nightmares - when you're paralyzed. I've had terrors where I swear I'm half awake and someone has entered the house and is walking toward the bed, standing over us - and I can't move, can't scream. Wake up sort of silent screaming/hyperventilating. Hate it.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2016 08:53 PM (NOIQH)

28 I was shot three times while working as a police officer. Whenever there's a school shooting, I get nightmares back to the shooting 40 years ago. And my shooting had nothing to do with schools. weird...

Posted by: macleod at August 24, 2016 08:53 PM (FSHgk)

29 I've experienced sleep paralysis a couple times. Many years ago. Nothing I've ever experienced, sleeping or awake, has terrified me as much.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 08:54 PM (Pz4pT)

30 Going to hell.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 08:54 PM (0mRoj)

31 exams...wake up in cold sweat

Posted by: runner at August 24, 2016 08:54 PM (YJSRY)

32 Aliens.

What if they're real and really do want to probe me?

*shiver*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 08:54 PM (Vj7cS)

33

Only one I remember in utter detail from when I was a kid, maybe 6-7, horrible evil evil little dwarf, like Satan's garden gnome red hat and all filled the with dynamite, ran wires to the moon and used a push handle detonator to blow us all straight to hell.

Only had it once, but remember it perfectly.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 24, 2016 08:54 PM (qul7b)

34
Another one: I was taken to the doctor, except they were actually mechanics. Mean-looking guys with shaved heads, big muscles, mean smiles, and t-shirts because they really sweated when they "examined" you. What they did was, they took you apart like a car.

I had that one several times.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Drooper at August 24, 2016 08:54 PM (5o5ek)

35 lately, I have these horrible dreams where I know that I am dreaming but can't wake up. It's really awful bc even in my dream, I'm screaming but I can't bc my voice won't work.

I have insomnia but the only thing that makes it tolerable is that I can have lucid dreams in short naps 15-30 minutes during the day.

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 08:55 PM (6IPEM)

36 18
Since I got willowed in the last thread.....

OT:

Two hawt chicks playing Metallica's "One" on harp.

2 Girls 1 Harp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhOhGhq0e54

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 24, 2016 08:51 PM (LuZz

I get a distinct scandi vibe from them.

Posted by: buzzion at August 24, 2016 08:55 PM (z/Ubi)

37 ACE--- Google John Mack (Harvard psychiatrist) and read his books on alien abduction. Pay attention to the 'crossing dimensions' parts.

Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at August 24, 2016 08:55 PM (7ypAR)

38 Posted by: runner at August 24, 2016 08:53 PM (YJSRY)

Thanks for your analysis, I think I'll go with that one!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 08:56 PM (wCEn4)

39 Recent "nightmare," whilst in Phoenix, as I was drifting off to sleep I would have sworn a scorpion was crawling on me.

The speed with which I jumped out of bed was probably not good, if it HAD been a scorpion.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 08:56 PM (Pz4pT)

40 Ace also--look at John Macks 'repressed memories' parts in the books.

Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at August 24, 2016 08:56 PM (7ypAR)

41 "i don't have falling nightmares but I have wonderful flying dreams. "

That's the dream I think I have the most. I'm fairly afraid of heights so they be related.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 08:57 PM (Vj7cS)

42 Mine is pretty simple - variations on a theme - and I am not making this up ...

... there's the one where I have the dude stopped, and I'm squeezing the damn trigger as hard as I can, and it won't budge ...

... I've got the one where I'm trying to get the wife and kids out of the fire/storm/zombie attack (I shit you not) and they just won't fucking listen and scatter like cats ...

... I've also got the one - more lately - where I'm somehow back around college but I know I don't need these damn classes yet everyone is going to classes and chics are talking to me but I remember I'm married and damn where are the kids ...

Don't have to be Freud to figure that shit out, now do ya' ?

I'm guessing my MoMee Invites just ticked down a peg ...

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 08:57 PM (fiGNd)

43 You're a Replicant, Ace. This is the proof.

Posted by: J. Wilde at August 24, 2016 08:57 PM (FGJNr)

44 Exams. And I had been cutting class and didn't know it was exam day.

Or, I'm sitting in class and realize I have nothing on.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 24, 2016 08:57 PM (3myMJ)

45 I've experienced sleep paralysis a couple times. Many years ago. Nothing I've ever experienced, sleeping or awake, has terrified me as much.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 08:54 PM (Pz4pT)
******
What's sleep paralysis? That sounds like what I been having lately with my nightmares

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 08:57 PM (6IPEM)

46

"You came on my pillow... arrrgghhjjjsskl!!!!!"

Posted by: John Denver, Being Strangled... at August 24, 2016 08:57 PM (qul7b)

47 Thanks for your analysis, I think I'll go with that one!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 08:56 PM (wCEn4)

You bet !

Posted by: dr. runner at August 24, 2016 08:57 PM (YJSRY)

48 It wasn't a particularly bad dream as they go but last night I dreamt I was in a car wreck. In the dream, I was driving my actual car and I had a head on collision with some other car I really never saw. Car got all smashed up but I woke up as it was happening so not too bad.

Didn't give it much of a thought until I was driving into Providence this morning and saw a Jeep all banged up from having a rear end collision with a good sized sedan.

I thought that was kind of an odd coincidence until I got to Providence, parked and walked across Kennedy Plaza to get to my appointment. Hit the Plaza just in time to see the body of a woman who was literally run over by a bus lying dead in the street. Cops hadn't even had time to cover the body and block off the site. Not something I fear I can unsee.

I just as soon not dream about auto wrecks again tonight.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2016 08:57 PM (/tuJf)

49 I dream I wake with my hand between two pillows.

Posted by: Planes, Trains & Automobiles at August 24, 2016 08:57 PM (7zkP4)

50 A spider dropping down in front of my face while I'm driving. It's happened a couple of times. I'm lucky I didn't hit a telephone pole.

Now I keep the windows closed at all times when I'm not in the car, so spiders can't get in.

Posted by: rickl at August 24, 2016 08:58 PM (sdi6R)

51
But enough about me.

ace, your dream reminds me of that song in Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, about how small and insignificant we are. The stars, the galaxies, the universe, the eternity, like that camera pulling away and revealing you to be an irrelevant, infinitesimally small particle among immutable forces and laws, objects and spaces of incomprehensible scale.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Drooper at August 24, 2016 08:58 PM (5o5ek)

52 Sound like you were "getting small".

Posted by: Steve Martin at August 24, 2016 08:58 PM (BO/km)

53 Yeah, one of those that remembers dreams (good or bad) about 3 times a year, if that. So cannot play in this sandbox.

So worst nightmares are the awake kind. Lots of those, fortunately avoiding most (not all) of them, so far. Mostly.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 24, 2016 08:58 PM (QDnY+)

54 I've been having recurring dreams lately where I'm either an adult at a family gathering or I'm a kid in one of my old classrooms, someone (teacher, student, relative) will say some stupid LIV crap, then I start calmly explaining things. But as they stare at me with blank, cattle-like eyes my frustration and volume increase until I'm hoarse and screaming "what's so hard about this?"
That's when I wake up, usually in a foul mood.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 24, 2016 08:58 PM (xhqXI)

55 A snail, on a straight razor.

Posted by: Col. Kurtz at August 24, 2016 08:58 PM (cOwly)

56 "What if they're real and really do want to probe me? "

What if they are real, and they don't want to probe you?

Like "Nah, after Hope Solo, we're good, but thanks".

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2016 08:59 PM (ptqRm)

57 Car going off the road into a long slow arching flight thru the air to an inevitable death.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 24, 2016 08:53 PM (kdS6q)

****

I have had that one, but actually powered through to a nonsensical but safe landing. Oddly, I used to have them much more, before I became a private pilot.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 24, 2016 08:59 PM (YLidQ)

58 Deepest Fear AND recurring nightmare:

Being trapped in a hot, airless claustrophobic space that just gets hotter, more airless and more claustrophobic the more I struggle to escape.

Eventually it closes in so tight around me that I suffocate to death and die or overheating simultaneously.

Really, really horrible.

The setting and specifics vary from dream to dream, but the general sensation is the same each time.

Sometimes I find it hard to fall asleep because I fear I will have that nightmare.

Waking up is the greatest relief imaginable.

Deepest fear: Somehow falling into a coma or other permanent unconscious state in which I am alive and having that nightmare but UNABLE to wake up from it.

I really can't even think about the topic, it's so horrible to me.

Posted by: zombie at August 24, 2016 08:59 PM (jBuUi)

59
Back to me. I've had TONS of sleep paralysis experiences. Very awful and scary.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Drooper at August 24, 2016 08:59 PM (5o5ek)

60 Ace, that sounds similar to a recurring bad dream I used to get when I was sick (fever) when I was a kid (and a few times as an adult).

In my dream I would feel with my palm the surface of a scratchy fake wool blanket we had (it was green) and I would be in the bed, and feel very small, as if the blanket stretched out endlessly before me.

For some reason that was a terrible dream.

(Tangentially, in real life we once cut a little hole in that blanket as a "window" coz we were pretending it was a tent. Mom was not amused)

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 08:59 PM (Om16U)

61 What's sleep paralysis? That sounds like what I been having lately with my nightmares
Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 08:57 PM (6IPEM)

While either waking up or falling asleep (hence, not deep sleep), the sensation of being awake, and unable to move, speak, scream or anything.

Generally wears off fairly quickly.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:00 PM (Pz4pT)

62 Exams. And I had been cutting class and didn't know it was exam day.

Or, I'm sitting in class and realize I have nothing on.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 24, 2016 08:57 PM (3myMJ)

or, like you go in and all ready to take the final and people are walking out and they tell you that the final just wrapped up....wait, that really did happen

Posted by: dr. runner at August 24, 2016 09:00 PM (YJSRY)

63 My deepest fear? No family, no friends, utterly alone in life.

Feels sometimes like I'm on my way there.

I can deal with any kind of dying. It's living with nobody in my camp I can't face.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 24, 2016 09:00 PM (vyqqu)

64 die or overheating = die OF overheating

Posted by: zombie at August 24, 2016 09:00 PM (jBuUi)

65 The only non-vampire in the world.

Posted by: moviegique at August 24, 2016 09:00 PM (CcUfv)

66
I've killed a lot of people in my dreams. No sex ever, tho.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:00 PM (CHT/Y)

67 Hey I just learned from the horde. I've always feared I would be paralyzed by fear in any kind of scary emergency because when I have nightmares I can't even speak. Relieved to know its a sleep related thing and I *might* be able to react in a real situation.

Posted by: Palerider at August 24, 2016 09:00 PM (dkExz)

68 "what's so hard about this?"

Or as I call it ... the kid's homework.

Explains why we don't home school.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:00 PM (fiGNd)

69 Can't sleep. Clowns will eat me.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 24, 2016 09:00 PM (noWW6)

70 My worst dream experiences lately aren't nightmares. I dream good things - that I'm popular, or that a beautiful girl loves me unconditionally, or other things that are a wonderfully unlike my real life. Then I wake up and feel absolutely miserable, and feel a sense of greater loss and isolation.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:00 PM (0mRoj)

71 Which, I guess, is the plot of "I Am Legend".

I'm not usually well-situated, however. I'm fleeing the mob. (Inevitably, I have the power of flight, somehow, though it is compromised.)

Posted by: moviegique at August 24, 2016 09:01 PM (CcUfv)

72 In my recurring nightmare, I make a sex tape with Margaret Cho, we leak it online - and not a single pageview!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 24, 2016 09:01 PM (PL2OL)

73 Last one left in a federal-type building at night. Marble everywhere, old brass grating elevators. 3rd floor.
At first, lots of people everywhere, but I'm trying to get a drink at a water fountain that lets everyone else drink but me. When I finally get a drink and look up, everyone is gone. I'm trapped.

Posted by: Lurking at August 24, 2016 09:01 PM (PNWMg)

74 I'm a sraight, white, Christian-values single male.
I am, apparently, a walking nightmare.

Posted by: Steve Doocy at August 24, 2016 09:01 PM (Ezbfl)

75 About 3-4 times a year I dream my teeth are in the process of falling out. I can just pull them out with no effort. Horrible. I'm sure the root of this is my childhood dentist (my sisters and I referred to him as "Killer Bruce").

Posted by: Brad at August 24, 2016 09:01 PM (MpnLF)

76 Anxieties - too many to list here, but two stand out:

Catheters and IVs. Whenever I go to the hospital to visit someone, I try to position myself so the entry point of the IV drip is not in my field of view. I'm getting better about this. The funny thing is that none of the blood and guts (even my own) weird me out - but those catheters - ick!

And butterflies. (Used to be bees and wasps; they don't bother me any more.)

Posted by: FireHorse at August 24, 2016 09:01 PM (EUDLj)

77 dream I wake with my hand between two pillows.
Posted by: Planes, Trains & Automobiles at August 24, 2016 08:57 PM (7zkP4)

I now what you mean, pal.

Posted by: Justin Verlander at August 24, 2016 09:01 PM (89T5c)

78
I have this one where I am taken prisoner along with others and we are put in those morgue stainless steel freezers but its not cold, we are just stuck in there and you can't move and its dark and you don't know if they are ever going to open it. You can feel the sides of the box, but you can't move and you just lay there wondering in the dark.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 24, 2016 09:02 PM (ODxAs)

79 Ace is the CPU powering my smartphone. Ewok inside. Too bad he's discovered the truth.

Posted by: Mad Scientist at August 24, 2016 09:02 PM (+wjl1)

80 I once dreamed I could fly, but not very well.

Posted by: weew at August 24, 2016 09:02 PM (6EH85)

81 Heh...the Chief Ewok, mighty Hobo-Hunter,the Dread of the Trigglypuff, the Scourge of Leftopia, the Sorrow of New York, has an existential pavement/TRON nightmare.

Dark is the world, but nothing so dark as the mind of man.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 24, 2016 09:02 PM (lutOX)

82

I'm leaving on a nocturnal emission.

Posted by: Biggles Flies Undone at August 24, 2016 09:02 PM (qul7b)

83 My worst nightmare is looking down during a BJ and see Hillary looking up.
*shivers*

Posted by: Bill Clinton at August 24, 2016 09:02 PM (c7vUv)

84 One that is disturbing, but not scary per se, pointing a loaded weapon at someone who deserves to die (it varies, some are military situations, others armed intruders, etc), and being unable to squeeze the trigger.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:03 PM (Pz4pT)

85 I have recurring dream elements in which I am away from home and must get back but things keep getting in my way. Perhaps I left my keys in my hotel and can't find my room or the road becomes increasingly bad until it becomes impassable etc. Another recurring theme is that I return to a place I was very happy, often the town of Chambery, France where I was a student lo these many years ago, but the place is now on a cliff face or surrounded by cliffs and I think, "No wonder I couldn't find it."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 24, 2016 09:03 PM (Nwg0u)

86 My recurring nightmare is being hunted.

When I was young I often dreamt of being hunted by a giant penguin.

No idea where that came from.

Posted by: Collidj Freshman at August 24, 2016 09:03 PM (EZebt)

87 "A spider dropping down in front of my face while I'm driving. It's happened a couple of times. I'm lucky I didn't hit a telephone pole. "

I used to have a little fuzzy black spider than lived in my pickup. Harmless thing but sometimes he'd run across the dash or repel down from the ceiling while I was driving. So long as he stayed out of my hair I didn't care.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:03 PM (Vj7cS)

88 I have this dream about moving. Multiple trips and then when I think I'm done I have to go back for more. It's always a long way. I wake up and go " wow I'm glad I'm not really moving".

Posted by: freaked at August 24, 2016 09:03 PM (BO/km)

89 75 About 3-4 times a year I dream my teeth are in the process of falling out. I can just pull them out with no effort. Horrible. I'm sure the root of this is my childhood dentist (my sisters and I referred to him as "Killer Bruce").
Posted by: Brad at August 24, 2016 09:01 PM (MpnLF)

Very common, I think.

I also get those - dream my teeth fell out, then dream I woke up and my teeth have really fallen out.
When I do actually wake up I am quite shaken. Ugh.

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:04 PM (Om16U)

90 Off idiot sock

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2016 09:04 PM (EZebt)

91 Doofus sock fail.

Posted by: Chi at August 24, 2016 09:04 PM (Ezbfl)

92 My biggest nightmare is showing up to class completely unprepared. And naked.

Posted by: chemjeff at August 24, 2016 09:04 PM (uAvJJ)

93 Wow, Trey Gowdy on "Megyn/Megan/Mygrfnd/howevershespellsit", now sporting a beard. I swear he's a chameleon, never seen him with the same facial/head hair twice!

Posted by: Oedipus at August 24, 2016 09:04 PM (CXLVd)

94 Sleep paralysis sucks big time. When I have it I feel half-awake and aware but can't move a muscle.

Seems like I will myself to break through and move. But it's been a long time since I had it happen, so I might not remember correctly.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 24, 2016 09:04 PM (3myMJ)

95 Powerlessness is another. Lots of forms, guns that have no effect, flames that won't burn...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 24, 2016 09:04 PM (vyqqu)

96 When I was much younger I had a recurring nightmare of watching a plane crash and not being able to do anything about it. Always a different setting and different plane, but it always crashed.

About 20 years ago I did see a small single engine plane crash for real. Waiting for a red light and the thing came down in a field just off the drivers side of the car, nose straight into the ground. I've never had the dream since.

Posted by: moon over vermont at August 24, 2016 09:04 PM (a95sX)

97 I once dreamed I could fly, but not very well.
Posted by: weew at August 24, 2016 09:02 PM (6EH85)

I wish it was a dream!

Posted by: JohnJohn at August 24, 2016 09:04 PM (89T5c)

98 I have a recurring theme dream--the issue is always the same, but the locale varies. It involves me searching for someone (usually one of my kids) and it's always in a dangerous area. I end up begging for assistance from people who seem helpful at first but inevitably turn out to be sadistic bad guys. I have never found the person I am looking for, and I always have some strange physical ailment or phenomenon happening to me during my quest which, for some unknown reason, I feel I must keep hidden from my bad Samaritans.

Last one involved me looking for my Airman son, who I believed to be AWOL in North Korea. And for some reason, every time I coughed, I'd bring up a small fish. Yes, I said fish, and they were about the size of an egg. I'd quickly scoop them out of my mouth and slip them into my pocket so no one would know.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 24, 2016 09:05 PM (LhDi1)

99 63 My deepest fear? No family, no friends, utterly alone in life.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 24, 2016 09:00 PM (vyqqu)

Welcome to my world. Eh, it's not that bad. It helps to be a recluse and a misanthrope, of course.

Then there are the imaginary friends in gray boxes.

Posted by: rickl at August 24, 2016 09:05 PM (sdi6R)

100 Was it night terrors?
Thought I read that night terrors happen during a different stage of sleep than dreams/nightmares - when you're paralyzed. I've had terrors where I swear I'm half awake and someone has entered the house and is walking toward the bed, standing over us - and I can't move, can't scream. Wake up sort of silent screaming/hyperventilating. Hate it

***

Sometimes paralysis but at other times I'd wake up in another room screaming. It would scare the hell out of my grandparents.

And, I've had dreams within dreams and think I'm awake but the "awake" is also a nightmare.

It's very rare I have a nightmare now.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 24, 2016 09:05 PM (SEXy3)

101 Have you heard of lucid dreaming? Some people take it waaaaaay to seriously but it can be fun.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 24, 2016 09:05 PM (Nwg0u)

102 85 I have recurring dream elements in which I am away from home and must get back but things keep getting in my way.

--

I think this is supposed to be your subconscious dealing with obstacles blocking your goals, or general feeling of frustration.

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:05 PM (Om16U)

103 The dream sounds more DSOTM than Comfortably Numb. I'd like to watch ace's dream while listening to Any Colour You Like.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 24, 2016 09:05 PM (+wjl1)

104

Nocturnal Myoclonic Jerks...

Posted by: Seratonin & Dopamine Hate You at August 24, 2016 09:06 PM (qul7b)

105 Here's some nightmare material:

'Lena Dunham and co-starJemima Kirke strip down to their lacy sheer smalls for new lingerie campaign'

Posted by: freaked at August 24, 2016 09:06 PM (BO/km)

106 The one fever dream I remember having every time I was really sick was that a big letter "S" was chasing me. There was a particular feel to the dream that I'll never forget. It was terrifying. These things are so hard to describe. Is difficult to put in words. Anyway, it always ended with one of my parents sitting beside me telling me to wake up from my nightmare.

Posted by: Tuna at August 24, 2016 09:06 PM (JSovD)

107 >>Sometimes paralysis but at other times I'd wake up in another room screaming. It would scare the hell out of my grandparents.

Yikes!
Glad it's stopped.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2016 09:06 PM (NOIQH)

108 "No family, no friends, utterly alone in life."

I wish some of my family didn't exist.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:06 PM (Vj7cS)

109 Horrible dream: I'm famous and people won't leave me alone. Even in the shitter.

A little mood music: https://youtu.be/aibey8mwJF4 (sfw)

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 24, 2016 09:06 PM (T/cxb)

110 102 85 I have recurring dream elements in which I am away from home and must get back but things keep getting in my way.

--

I think this is supposed to be your subconscious dealing with obstacles blocking your goals, or general feeling of frustration.
Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:05 PM (Om16U)

Interesting. I have this same dream. Different iterations but the same theme.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:06 PM (0mRoj)

111 I've had the dreams where I'm naked. Usually it's school or some sort of work and I know I'm naked but I don't care and try to just keep pushing on with what I'm doing. It always leaves me weired out when I wake up.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 24, 2016 09:06 PM (FYrz1)

112 Sleep paralysis sucks big time. When I have it I feel half-awake and aware but can't move a muscle.

Seems like I will myself to break through and move. But it's been a long time since I had it happen, so I might not remember correctly.
Posted by: Meremortal at August 24, 2016 09:04 PM (3myMJ)

The first time it happened, I was mortified with terror, and it just... wore off. The second time, I guess I did like you did, willed myself to "break through," and did, and I don't recall how many times it happened after that, maybe a couple times, and it was sort of no big deal by then.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:07 PM (Pz4pT)

113 In my worst nightmare, Secretary Clinton has an "accident" and a brown spot forms on the back of her Mao dress and it gets bigger and bigger and I grab a cloth and try to wipe it off and it starts spewing out more and more and I get a bucket and another one but it starts coming out faster and faster and it's up to my knees and then my chin and then - Allah takes me to paradise and grants me 72 virgins!

Posted by: Huma at August 24, 2016 09:07 PM (PL2OL)

114
I will never ever have internal surgery. I don't care if I die. Just can't do it.

Nobody is cutting me open and flirking with my organs. Never.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:07 PM (CHT/Y)

115 Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 24, 2016 09:04 PM (vyqqu)

... legs that won't run, arms that can't punch, etc. For me the struggle to move my legs or arms in my dream slowly becomes a conscious struggle to to so, and I kick myself awake.

Posted by: weew at August 24, 2016 09:07 PM (6EH85)

116 Not a nightmare, but it fits the anxiety portion: I pretty consistently have a dream that I've been skipping class, knowing I have to go back for a project or final or something. I haven't taken a class in seven years.

Posted by: Cantankerous at August 24, 2016 09:07 PM (jOSqt)

117 'Welcome to my world. Eh, it's not that bad. It helps to be a recluse and a misanthrope, of course.

Then there are the imaginary friends in gray boxes.'

+ 1 Million.

Here is literally my only non-work social interaction...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 24, 2016 09:07 PM (qul7b)

118 I had a dream were there was widespread rioting and civil unrest an BLM people come to my farm and try to take all my horses from me... to eat. It has become a ghastly fear of mine. However ridiculous you think it is, it's a worse fear than my rational dread of getting thrown and paralyzed and there's nobody at the farm, and nobody due back for hours.

Posted by: Gushka can has kitties what plays fetch at August 24, 2016 09:07 PM (WznBH)

119 This in a weird way sounds like the recurring nightmare...really the only one...I can remember clearly. I'm 45 now, but at around 12 I was on a Florida vacation staying at my grandparent's on a hide-a-bed.

I would fall asleep and wake up feeling sick, covered in sweat. Over the week I literally got sick from being unable to get a night's sleep. I'd finally fall back to sleep, and it would come again, every night and multiple times.

The dream was simple. It "felt" like a lifetime in days, and consisted of me doing all I could with this giant rock to move it to some pre-determined location. I struggled and pushed and pulled and tried levers and ropes and barely budged it until one glorious moment when it was finally in place.

Then, like you said, the "camera pulled back" and I see myself as a speck standing next to a massive stone puzzle piece, and a huge pile of giant stone puzzle pieces off to the side. Along with a terrifying realization that I just begun my life's purpose of moving these pieces AND completing the puzzle. After it took an entire human life to move one piece.

And I'd wake up. My parents and grandparents didn't know what to say or do. Always put it down to a combination of being in a strange place plus puberty kicking in. That and a realization of how small we are.

Bleh, horrible memory.

Posted by: MostlyRight at August 24, 2016 09:07 PM (2T0Va)

120 I wish some of my family didn't exist.

Just stop talking to them. Worked for me.

Then again - I'm the asshole that dreams of triggers that don't break and kids that scatter like cats.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:07 PM (fiGNd)

121 89
Very common, I think.

I also get those - dream my teeth fell out, then dream I woke up and my teeth have really fallen out.
When I do actually wake up I am quite shaken. Ugh.

Oh God. I've never had the double header version. Yikes!

Posted by: Brad at August 24, 2016 09:08 PM (MpnLF)

122 I do not believe you. Beethoven wAs the only thing we listened to.
Donkey!!!!!

Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 24, 2016 09:08 PM (P5esK)

123 "Then there are the imaginary friends in gray boxes."

Imaginary?

I comment
Therefore, I am.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2016 09:08 PM (ptqRm)

124 Funny thing about the "back in school" bit, about every fifth time it hits I retain enough awareness to say, "Hold on! I graduated ages ago!"

I actually bitched out my own subconscious for that dream while I was in it once.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 24, 2016 09:08 PM (vyqqu)

125 I used to have nightmares about snakes a lot and every spring nightmares about tornadoes heading for our house.

But the weirdest nightmares happened when we lived in a really small Nebraska town that had terrible phone service. It would randomly go out in parts of town - sometimes all over town. I used to dream that something horrible happened to one of the kids or my husband. I would try to call for an ambulance but either the phone didn't work or I couldn't remember the number (pre 911).

These went on for a few years until one day my car caught on fire as I was at a stoplight in downtown. I ran into one of the stores to call the fire department and - as God is my witness - I couldn't get the phone to work. And no one working there had time to show me how their strange phone worked and when I finally got a dial tone, I swear I couldn't remember the number. One of the other customers started running in and out with cups of water to pour on my engine. A firetruck finally showed up but to this day, I don't know who got ahold of them. Maybe they saw the smoke.

Never had the dream again. Ever.

Posted by: NavyMom at August 24, 2016 09:08 PM (Oelm8)

126 Have you heard of lucid dreaming? Some people take it waaaaaay to seriously but it can be fun

***

It was how I learned to escape the nightmares.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 24, 2016 09:08 PM (SEXy3)

127 I haven't had a nightmare since I was 8 years old and first realized that the lava men can't look up.

I still have chase dreams and the like but I know I can win since every monster has a weakness.

But on the subject of dreams, what's your super power? Mrs928 can fly. I can breath underwater.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at August 24, 2016 09:09 PM (rwI+c)

128 Have you heard of lucid dreaming? Some people take it waaaaaay to seriously but it can be fun.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 24, 2016 09:05 PM (Nwg0u)
*******
Yup! I can do that. It's very cool. It's a great way to decompress except that sometimes you lose the ability to direct the dream and it goes off the rails. Then it's not so fun

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 09:09 PM (6IPEM)

129
And it's a good thing I was born a male. Because I would never let anything into my vagina...if'n I had one...on account of being a female.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:09 PM (CHT/Y)

130 My biggest nightmare is having pics of my taint plastered all over the interwebz.

Posted by: Hope's Rolo at August 24, 2016 09:10 PM (Tyii7)

131 Luckily, all the recurring bad dreams of my childhood no longer visit.

Unluckily, Hillary Clinton is real.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at August 24, 2016 09:10 PM (oQQwD)

132 Ace, when I was a child, I had a similar kind of recurring dream very much like the one that you describe, and it had a similar "eerie" feeling that was very intense, but midway between elation and misery.

It started with me on a flat sandy plain and I I find myself running, slowly at first, along the sand toward a horizontal waist-high bar in the distance. My goal is to reach the bar and fling myself upon it at full speed and then spin around several times before launching myself through a small metal door, which as I apporach I see is the door to a furnace or incinerator. For some reason, the notion of being instantly endered into ashes is my desperately sought-after goal, but as I approach the bar, the sand slows my feet down more and more. I usually wake up before even reaching the bar, feeling frustrated, but a few times I was able to reach the bar and start spinning, which was exhilirating. Only a couple times did I stay asleep long enough the launch myself toward the metal door, which was the bst feeling of all -- even though to an outside obsevrer this must look like a metaphor for dying.

I had this dream almost every night was I was a very young child. Almost never, now, though.

Posted by: zombie at August 24, 2016 09:10 PM (jBuUi)

133 >>Losing my mind and saying horrid, wretched, twisted things or losing my mind and being dependent upon others for my care.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse

Oh, that's not as bad as it sounds. I just call it Wednesday, or Tuesday or one of those other days I forget.

Posted by: Hillary at August 24, 2016 09:10 PM (c7vUv)

134 How about having dreams and months later you're in a situation almost exactly like your dream. You freeze for a moment knowing this is some eerie shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2016 09:10 PM (89T5c)

135 According to my mother, when I was very young and had a fever from the measles the tiger wouldn't let me get to the waterhole. Supposedly, this was before I knew tigers existed.

Posted by: davidt at August 24, 2016 09:10 PM (cOwly)

136 "Not a nightmare, but it fits the anxiety portion: I pretty consistently have a dream that I've been skipping class, knowing I have to go back for a project or final or something. I haven't taken a class in seven years."

OMG..That is so similar to a dream I have. So weird. The human brain is a strange and wondrous thing.

Posted by: Tuna at August 24, 2016 09:10 PM (JSovD)

137 I think one of the coolest things is when you are dreaming and then realize it's a dream!

You can do anything you want. You can bend the dream like Inception.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at August 24, 2016 09:10 PM (rwI+c)

138

I have nightmares about her dad, raping me...

Posted by: Drop Dead Fred at August 24, 2016 09:10 PM (qul7b)

139 116
Not a nightmare, but it fits the anxiety portion: I pretty consistently have a dream that I've been skipping class,

Me too. Always a college English class. For some reason I just never went to it, and felt weirder and weirder about showing up all of a sudden.

I never did anything like that so I don't know where it comes from.

Worse, I used to dream about someone trying to get in the window. I know were that comes from - first my brother, shining a flashlight up his face and scaring me from out the window when I was 3 or 4, then mom's BF showing up and telling me to open the screen and let him in because mom was mad at him.

Amazing I didn't go lez.

Posted by: Jeanne del norte blanco muy grande at August 24, 2016 09:10 PM (uDgZ/)

140 I have some control of my dreams which is nice. Not nice? I also feel pain, heat, and cold in them.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 24, 2016 09:10 PM (hVdx9)

141
You girls who let things go in your vaginas? Yeah, you crazy. Why would you do that?? That's just plum crazy letting men stick things in their like that.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:11 PM (CHT/Y)

142 Ace is the ghost in the machine.

Think about it.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at August 24, 2016 09:11 PM (S6Pax)

143
Used to get the ones where I was flying, but it was because I had blown up like a balloon, especially my skull. I could FEEL my skull expanding. Had that one almost weekly when I was younger, but not for at least 10-15 years.

The latest one that I get about once or twice a month is that I'm back in the Army after 25 years. The dream is rather vague as to whether I volunteered or I was drafted. As you can imagine, I'm struggling with it. Not the fact that now I'm a lazy corpulent old fart in an extremely physical job. I'm actually doing okay there. The biggest problem I'm having is that I only have ONE uniform, a worn-out set of my old BDUs (they actually fit, which proves that this is a totally unrealistic dream), but BDUs are no longer authorized, everyone's wearing the newer ACUs or MultiCam uniforms.

So I'm scrambling to get into a proper uniform for morning formation. And for some reason, I can never find time to go buy new uniforms.

THAT'S scary.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 24, 2016 09:11 PM (LuZz8)

144 116 Not a nightmare, but it fits the anxiety portion: I pretty consistently have a dream that I've been skipping class, knowing I have to go back for a project or final or something. I haven't taken a class in seven years.
Posted by: Cantankerous at August 24, 2016 09:07 PM (jOSqt)

Also a common dream. I have that dream every once in a while, but I don't have any anxiety about it. I think I'm somewhat aware in the back of my head that it's a dream. I also have a recurring dream where I go back to college - although there's no actual resemblance to where I actually went to college - after years and years. I still have my dorm room key and all my stuff is still there.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:11 PM (0mRoj)

145 I mentioned a while back another theme I've seen recently...I'm somewhere that should be quite familiar to me, but it bears no resemblance to the actual place as I know it in the waking world.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 24, 2016 09:11 PM (vyqqu)

146 It was how I learned to escape the nightmares.

I can think of how that would be useful too. If you know what I mean.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:11 PM (fiGNd)

147 Trick to get out of nightmares that worked for me. I look at my hands.

Seems to snap me out of it every time.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 24, 2016 09:11 PM (lutOX)

148 the nightmarish part comes when i realize it's just a dream and i really can't fly. that's a terrible, terrible moment.

Posted by: ace

Haven't had this one in a while, but more than once I've had a dream that I was driving, swerved my car, and went flying out the door, higher and higher. And my realization wasn't that it was a dream, but rather that I was ultimately going to fall.

Posted by: Cantankerous at August 24, 2016 09:11 PM (jOSqt)

149 The dream of being naked in a public place is apparently very common. I rarely remember my dreams, and don't recall having it.

There was a movie whose name escapes me from the 80s about some women in Australia that featured a scene where one of the women dreamed about being naked in church. She was hella hawt.

Posted by: rickl at August 24, 2016 09:11 PM (sdi6R)

150 That Hillary bitch scares the fuck out of me!

Posted by: Freddie Krueger at August 24, 2016 09:11 PM (89T5c)

151
btw, you want vivid dreams?

take l-dopa before bed (on an empty stomach)

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:12 PM (CHT/Y)

152 Worst I have had was being half awake and hallucinating that there are intruders in the room. I'm surprised the other tenants didn't check in because of the shouting. More gereically, bad dreams consist of being late, or being around insect vermin: centipedes and millipedes.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 24, 2016 09:12 PM (+wjl1)

153 >>How about having dreams and months later you're in a situation almost
exactly like your dream. You freeze for a moment knowing this is some
eerie shit.

Yep.
Or when you have a dream you've had before and you realize it - you know it's a dream and you know how it ends.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2016 09:12 PM (NOIQH)

154 And I'll just say it, because I am certain I am NOT the only one here:

Gay dreams. Yep. I've had 'em.

You know how they say everybody is somewhere on the spectrum, from 0% to 100% gay? That's me, at the 0 end. But yes, in dreams, I've had sexual encounters with men. I don't believe there's any particular reason, just the subconscious mind being its typical, pointless stupid self.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:12 PM (Pz4pT)

155 Childhood nightmare: I'm in a waiting room in a very large, busy bureaucratic type office. The waiting room has a window into the office part, which is a massive, sprawling cube farm. I see my parents through the window (they are in the back/office) speaking very seriously with a very serious looking stranger.

I'm scared, and I see a door next to the window. I go over and open the door to try and go to them. The cube farm is still there, and as busy as ever, but my parents are not there.

Back to the window, I can see them. I knock, pound on the window but they can't hear me. Back to the door, not there. Back and forth. Back and forth.

Recurring nightmare.

I was adopted.

Posted by: Benedick at August 24, 2016 09:12 PM (Shfg8)

156 I suspect there's a genetic component to dreams, because my whole family has very vivid, memorable dreams. Mom especially dreamed in full color and wasn't shy about telling her stories of the wolf in a purple snowsuit, cows falling through the ice on the pond, and so on. My brother claims he has clairvoyant dreams, which is weird because he's not the kind of person who goes around predicting the future.

I only have to deal with scary dreams. I've dreamed of falling, elevators that go shooting out the top of the building, car accidents, shooting at attackers who don't die, and being in a terrorist attack. And that someone was chopping off my horses' heads with an axe. Luckily, not all in the same night. They get worse the more I read the news, which is a wonderful incentive to stay away from the constant barrage of bad stuff being peddled by 'journalists'.

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at August 24, 2016 09:12 PM (26lkV)

157 My childhood sweetheart had a sister. Very pretty, smart and talented. She had a recurring nightmare that she saw her own grave headstone and then saw little by little that there were bodies and graves everywhere she looked. The whole world seemed to be dead. She'd wake up screaming.
She died very young I heard.

Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at August 24, 2016 09:13 PM (NHtMs)

158 The back in school thing - my recurring bad dream abut that is that I have an exam but I have no idea what classroom its in.
But now that I'm old I can tell my dream I already graduated, so shut up.

Realizing you are dreaming is pretty fun.

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:13 PM (Om16U)

159 I graduated from high school 27 years ago, but I still have dreams where I'm at school naked and I can't remember my locker combination or my class schedule.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:13 PM (gdnq1)

160 "I would never let anything into my vagina...if'n I had one...on account of being a female."

You said it brother.

One time and I was done with that.

Posted by: Hillary C. at August 24, 2016 09:13 PM (Vj7cS)

161 Why does Ace not sleep during the Tuning, as do the others?

Posted by: Mr. Book at August 24, 2016 09:13 PM (lutOX)

162 How about having dreams and months later you're in a situation almost exactly like your dream. You freeze for a moment knowing this is some eerie shit.

Quit playing with time machines and this will stop.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 24, 2016 09:13 PM (T/cxb)

163 Ace, stop listening to Pink Floyd and come join me aboard the Dream Weaver train

Posted by: Gary Wright at August 24, 2016 09:14 PM (+wjl1)

164 take l-dopa before bed (on an empty stomach)

Chantix does it for me. The cinematography is breathtaking. And since I'm working up a quit smoking this week with it, the cool dreams should start tonight or tomorrow.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at August 24, 2016 09:14 PM (rwI+c)

165 I used to have lots of scarifying recurrent dreams. The funny thing is, I can't remember any of them. When I'm "in" the dream I know it's a recurring dream, but for some reason the dream doesn't recur to me when I'm awake.

Posted by: Caliban at August 24, 2016 09:14 PM (3GFMN)

166 My sense is that we don't think enough about how we collectively yet unwittingly force our subconscious selves to be running late partially clothed.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 24, 2016 09:14 PM (mNS8n)

167 Lizzy-
Yep.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2016 09:15 PM (89T5c)

168 I mentioned a while back another theme I've seen recently...I'm somewhere that should be quite familiar to me, but it bears no resemblance to the actual place as I know it in the waking world.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 24, 2016 09:11 PM (vyqqu)

I know that one. I am picturing a specific country road, with a creek nearby, right now. It does not exist, as far as I know, in the real world, but the image in my head right now, from a dream I had, probably at least 10 years ago, is as vivid as any real place I've been.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:15 PM (Pz4pT)

169 I will still have dreams in which I'm lying in bed about to doze off and suddenly realize I'm not wearing my retainer. I will really wake up and start to get out of bed to get it before remembering I haven't had a retainer for over 15 years.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 24, 2016 09:15 PM (xhqXI)

170 I wake up screaming back in that tiger cage in 'Nam before my fifth attempt at escape suceeded

I have more

Posted by: Brian Williams at August 24, 2016 09:15 PM (WyN+U)

171 The dream was simple. It "felt" like a lifetime in days, and consisted
of me doing all I could with this giant rock to move it to some
pre-determined location.""

I hate that dream.

Posted by: Sisyphus at August 24, 2016 09:15 PM (CDowr)

172
yeah, Chantix works on the same neurotransmitters that release dopamine

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:15 PM (CHT/Y)

173
I hate those sleep jerks.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 24, 2016 09:15 PM (ODxAs)

174 How about having dreams and months later you're in a situation almost exactly like your dream. You freeze for a moment knowing this is some eerie shit.

I've had that happen quite a few times. Freaks me out.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 24, 2016 09:16 PM (FYrz1)

175 "My biggest nightmare is having pics of my taint plastered all over the interwebz. "

Too late.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:16 PM (Vj7cS)

176 I've been out of college for 38 years but if I am under stress (job or family) I still have the final exam dream. There's a class I've been skipping and I know there is a test scheduled soon but I'm not sure when and I need to go to be sure I don't miss it.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at August 24, 2016 09:16 PM (Wb3WB)

177

I have a dream where Huma has eaten my pessary and wake up screaming.

And it's gone...

Posted by: Hitlery at August 24, 2016 09:16 PM (qul7b)

178 Was it the same cat?

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at August 24, 2016 09:16 PM (rwI+c)

179 You will produce another imprint of the Ewok's memories, yes?

Posted by: Mr.Hand at August 24, 2016 09:16 PM (lutOX)

180 How about having dreams and months later you're in a situation almost
exactly like your dream. You freeze for a moment knowing this is some
eerie shit.

Yep.
Or when you have a dream you've had before and you realize it - you know it's a dream and you know how it ends.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2016 09:12 PM (NOIQH)

*****

I have heard speculation that this kind of thing is a very low level epileptic seizure. The you miss an occasional millisecond of your brain recording everything, and as such, you get the been here and done this feeling.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 24, 2016 09:16 PM (YLidQ)

181 I used to have sleep paralysis a lot, not so much anymore. You could probably do a whole thread on that phenomenon.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:16 PM (gdnq1)

182 I was adopted.
Posted by: Benedick at August 24, 2016 09:12 PM (Shfg

So possibly a memory.

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:16 PM (Om16U)

183 I've had running dreams where it seems like no matter how hard I try I can't run any faster than really slow. Like I have no strength.

A long time ago I used to have dreams where I could fly by just concentrating. The more I concentrated the higher I could go. It was very vivid and seemed real. I haven't had those dreams in many years though.

Posted by: freaked at August 24, 2016 09:17 PM (BO/km)

184 Gay dreams. Yep. I've had 'em.
******
Lol! That was brave of you to admit.
Just curious, in the gay dreams, are the encounters happy ones or ones where you resist? You don't have to answer that. I have had lesbo dreams too if that makes you feel better.

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 09:17 PM (6IPEM)

185 Yep. Or when you have a dream you've had before and you realize it - you know it's a dream and you know how it ends.

I've had brief moments - instants - where I've had what you could only describe as precognition.

Thinking of shit I knew was coming, maybe ? Doubt I'm the only one.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:17 PM (fiGNd)

186 I hate that dream.
Posted by: Sisyphus at August 24, 2016 09:15 PM (CDowr)

What are you fussing about, sissy?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:17 PM (Pz4pT)

187 "yeah, Chantix works on the same neurotransmitters that release dopamine"

A friend used it to quit smoking but dreamed several times during use that they were being chased around their yard by a giant chicken. Just as vivid and real as reality they said.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:18 PM (Vj7cS)

188 All of this is highly suggestive of alien anal probes.

Posted by: Weasel at August 24, 2016 09:18 PM (Sfs6o)

189 Pink Floyd doesn't meet our diversity requirements. Please put something up by Hootie and the Blowfish, or the Spice Girls instead.

Posted by: Chief Diversity Officer at August 24, 2016 09:19 PM (+wjl1)

190 The closest thing I have to a nightmare now is what I think of as circular dreams. You are having some issue and you keep coming back to it, seemingly a hundred times.

All I know to do is wake myself up, because I almost always know it's a dream when this is occurring because it's just so annoying.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at August 24, 2016 09:19 PM (rwI+c)

191 I had a very high fever when I was a kid about 12 years old. My parents put me in their bedroom for some reason to sleep. I remember having a dream about my father being dead on top of our house on the roof . I had to get to him. Next thing I know I'm in our front yard for real with my parents and neighbors around me . I had gotten out of the bed, opened the window and crawled out to the front yard screaming for my dad. The creepy thing is that the window I opened had been painted shut and stuck for years.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 24, 2016 09:19 PM (MNgU2)

192 Don't do the brown acid!

Posted by: Woodstock annoncer at August 24, 2016 09:19 PM (F1iXz)

193 >>I have heard speculation that this kind of thing is a very low level epileptic seizure.

Uh, that's bad....

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2016 09:20 PM (NOIQH)

194 [I have had lesbo dreams too if that makes you feel better.

Go on ..

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at August 24, 2016 09:20 PM (rwI+c)

195

I have this dream over and over that Sally Kohand is strap on raping me. Then I cum. And wake up wet...

Posted by: Lena at August 24, 2016 09:20 PM (qul7b)

196 You don't have to answer that. I have had lesbo dreams too if that makes you feel better.
Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 09:17 PM (6IPEM

Please elaborate......

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2016 09:20 PM (89T5c)

197 One of my kids had night terrors. Scared the crap out of me the first time.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 24, 2016 09:20 PM (LhDi1)

198 My wet dreams always end right before I stick it in. It sucks.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:20 PM (gdnq1)

199 My nightmare? This fcking election

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 24, 2016 09:20 PM (F1iXz)

200 I wish some of my family didn't exist.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:06 PM (Vj7cS)

I just moved away from them. Way far. Easy peasy.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 24, 2016 09:20 PM (heN73)

201 A couple years after my dad died he appeared in a dream ."you're still my son." I woke up , not sure if it was a promise, reassurance , or a charge.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at August 24, 2016 09:21 PM (Wb3WB)

202 My childhood nightmares were pretty bad. I had a frequently recurring one with a dark, evil presence that would stand over me as I slept. It was humanish in form, but its face was entirely in shadow. It was utterly terrifying. I would try to scream for help, but no words would come out. My chest would feel like a heavy weight on it. I would continue to struggle to call out. Eventually I could scream and then I'd wake up.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:21 PM (0mRoj)

203 Is it mere coincidence that we have a thread about nightmares immeditely following a discussion about nude Leslie Jones taking it in the backside?

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 24, 2016 09:21 PM (+wjl1)

204 OK so now I've read all the comments. Great stuff. Glad to be here.

Posted by: Caliban at August 24, 2016 09:21 PM (3GFMN)

205 Sleep paralysis and falling, I have those often, especially when napping at odd hours.

The worst is the dream where I am spitting out teeth. I have had that one only a few but very vivid times and it freaks me the right the fuck out.

Posted by: Goldilocks at August 24, 2016 09:21 PM (t2s7h)

206 True story. I had a recurring dream for years about sliding down a smooth granite face of a mountain, clawing, trying to hang on and I would inevitably slide off the mountain into the open air below. Then I would wake up. A few years ago a friend of mine convinced me to do some mountain climbing on a 14er out in CO. We got to the summit after some scary spots. The worst part was at one point you had to hang on to a granite face and "butt slide" to a ledge that was 4 ft wide with 13K of air after that. It wasn't a long distance, maybe only 3 or 4 feet of sliding. It was just like my dream! I hung there for what seemed like an hour. (it wasn't) my buddy reminded me that I couldn't stay up there forever and I finally I swallowed my fear and went and was fine. I've done 8 other 14ers since and have never had the dream again.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 24, 2016 09:21 PM (8dC42)

207 I have had lesbo dreams too if that makes you feel better.

Do tell?

Posted by: Pantsless Lurker at August 24, 2016 09:21 PM (Tyii7)

208 Lol! That was brave of you to admit.
Just curious, in the gay dreams, are the encounters happy ones or ones where you resist? You don't have to answer that. I have had lesbo dreams too if that makes you feel better.
Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 09:17 PM (6IPEM)

Well first of all, I think I am required to ask you to describe said lesbian dreams. Slowly.

And second, when I have had encounters with men, they are not pleasant, but also not forced. Which I guess is sorta the point: doing something I have no business doing, and while I'm doing it experiencing regret/shame or whatever.

There's no narrative involved, like dialogue, with a story leading up to it. As far as I can recall, it's just, I'm there. And it's happening, and I know while it is, it's not right.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:21 PM (Pz4pT)

209 My wet dreams always end right before I stick it in. It sucks.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:20 PM (gdnq1)

Sumbitch me too. Pisses me off to no end. Can't even get any in a dream.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 24, 2016 09:21 PM (heN73)

210 "A spider dropping down in front of my face while I'm driving."

I've had a bee in the car a few times. Not in dreams. For real. Some people absolutely flip out over this, and crash, or stop so quickly it causes someone else to crash.

I'll often try to drive back to where I think it got in the car, and gently shoo it out there. A bee taken too far from its home hive is done for. I like bees. They do useful things.

I did hear a loud buzzing at one point and that turned out to be not a bee, but rather an infuriated hornet in the car with me. Suffice it to say that it did not receive a courtesy drive home.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (noWW6)

211 The traditional belief from my old country is that pigging out at dinner can cause sleep paralysis.

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (Om16U)

212 " I have had lesbo dreams too if that makes you feel better. "

Go on.......

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (Vj7cS)

213

I dream about Fine Thread Bung Nuts

Posted by: The Barrel at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (qul7b)

214 Melatonin - disturbing dreams. I'm one of the 20%

Posted by: Lurking at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (PNWMg)

215 You don't have to answer that. I have had lesbo dreams too if that makes you feel better.

It sure as hell makes me feel better.

Hoping to dream about it. May pop some Chantix. I don't even smoke.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (fiGNd)

216 I have had lesbo dreams too if that makes you feel better.
Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 09:17 PM (6IPEM)

Well I'm certainly wide awake now. Please continue.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (heN73)

217 Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:21 PM (0mRoj)

omg Insomniac

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (Om16U)

218
You guys realize that you're all giving each other nightmares tonight, right?

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (CHT/Y)

219 "Go on .."

What Grump said

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2016 09:23 PM (ptqRm)

220 Oh, ace, lack of carbs will also give you more than bad breath. Bad dreams

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 24, 2016 09:23 PM (F1iXz)

221 hill has the hots fer me oh no!

Posted by: Billy at August 24, 2016 09:23 PM (aO+7k)

222 I have heard speculation that this kind of thing is a very low level epileptic seizure. The you miss an occasional millisecond of your brain recording everything, and as such, you get the been here and done this feeling.

Deja Vu, maybe. Precog dreams are on another level.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 24, 2016 09:23 PM (T/cxb)

223 The workings of a nondescript lump of gray matter are simply amazing.

Posted by: Tuna at August 24, 2016 09:23 PM (JSovD)

224 Dreaming - my medications (including the aforementioned Provigil, a generic version of which I use, and the l-dopa, which I also take) warp my mind something fierce, comes sleep-time.

You learn to live with it, in spite of its being rather like what I imagine psychosis, punctuated by moments of lucidity, must be like.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 24, 2016 09:23 PM (lutOX)

225 And off to the ditch we go.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 24, 2016 09:24 PM (heN73)

226 I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving.

Posted by: Walter E. Kurtz at August 24, 2016 09:24 PM (rwI+c)

227 182
I was adopted.

Posted by: Benedick at August 24, 2016 09:12 PM (Shfg

So possibly a memory.

No. Not a memory. I was adopted at birth. I always knew I was adopted (by loving adoptive parents) and despite their amazing and successful efforts to make me a fully loved family member, the concept of it clearly gnawed at my subconscious . . . that parents can offload their kids, I guess.

Posted by: Benedick at August 24, 2016 09:24 PM (Shfg8)

228 "I just moved away from them. Way far. Easy peasy."

One of these days, when the current family situation has passed, I've already resolved to find a little place ( a few acres) and put an RV trailer on it. I'm not going to tell any of them where it is or have them visit.

A hideaway. Some peace and sanity.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:24 PM (Vj7cS)

229
I hate fucking chimps in my dreams, also.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:24 PM (CHT/Y)

230 Has anyone else had sleep paralysis? I had it only once about 10 years ago and if you didn't know about it beforehand it's the scariest thing ever. You are actually wake up but can't move. I think this is something that causes people to believe they've been abducted or visited by aliens. Freaky Deaky.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 24, 2016 09:24 PM (MNgU2)

231 Pink Floyd doesn't meet our diversity requirements.
Please put something up by Hootie and the Blowfish, or the Spice Girls
instead.

Posted by: Chief Diversity Officer at August 24, 2016 09:19 PM (+wjl1)

Or Slayer!

Posted by: Guy who says listen to Slayer! at August 24, 2016 09:24 PM (cmE8J)

232 218
You guys realize that you're all giving each other nightmares tonight, right?
Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (CHT/Y)

Nah, going for the gay/lez dreams.

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:24 PM (Om16U)

233 I have heard speculation that this kind of thing is a very low level epileptic seizure. The you miss an occasional millisecond of your brain recording everything, and as such, you get the been here and done this feeling.

Deja Vu, maybe. Precog dreams are on another level.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 24, 2016 09:23 PM (T/cxb)

****

The theory is that the tiny seizures are what cause the Deja Vu feeling.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 24, 2016 09:25 PM (YLidQ)

234
Forget the dreams -- what do y'all FEAR??

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:25 PM (CHT/Y)

235 You guys realize that you're all giving each other nightmares tonight, right?

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (CHT/Y)

*rubs hands together and laughs evilly*Now that I've scared the bejeezus out of all of you, I'm going to read some Pat McManus stories and laugh myself to sleep. Sweet dreams, Hordelings!

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at August 24, 2016 09:25 PM (26lkV)

236 I've had nights where the sleep paralysis was so bad that I didn't even want to go back to sleep because I knew it was going to happen again.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:25 PM (gdnq1)

237 Posted by: Benedick at August 24, 2016 09:24 PM (Shfg

Ah, got it.

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:25 PM (Om16U)

238 187
A friend used it to quit smoking but dreamed several times during use that they were being chased around their yard by a giant chicken. Just as vivid and real as reality they said.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:18 PM (Vj7cS)

A doctor suggested Chantix to me once, but I had read about the side effects and I was like, "No way. I'll take my chances with lung cancer."

Posted by: rickl at August 24, 2016 09:25 PM (sdi6R)

239 You haven't nightmared till you've dreamed about millions of exotically colored spiders and bugs biting you. The tingling when you wake is just a leftover feeling.

Posted by: Corona at August 24, 2016 09:25 PM (ragzU)

240 229

I hate fucking chimps in my dreams, also.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:24 PM (CHT/Y)
Yeah, you wake up and your dick smells like shit.

Posted by: Barney at August 24, 2016 09:25 PM (F1iXz)

241 well speaking of dreams, I am going to hit the hay early, haven't slept well past couple of nights

good night all

Posted by: chemjeff at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (uAvJJ)

242 How about having dreams and months later you're in a situation almost

exactly like your dream. You freeze for a moment knowing this is some

eerie shit.

Had that since I was a kid. I barely bat an eye any longer.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (vyqqu)

243

The content of the dreams matters MUCH less than how that content makes you feel according to my counselor.

Posted by: In Vino Veritas at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (qul7b)

244 One of these days, when the current family situation has passed, I've already resolved to find a little place ( a few acres) and put an RV trailer on it.

I'm moving next to L'Elle. Just want to talk about her dreams.

I'll make waffles !!!

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (fiGNd)

245
I was at a party and started talking to a real hot girl. I wake up and I'm pissed off i didn't get her number. Fall back asleep. End up at the same party talking to the same girl again. Wake up much more pissed. Still didn't get her number.
also,not so much flying, but hovering.
I'm out of town staying at a hotel. Head start walking around. Realize I'm getting lost and have no idea how to get back the hotel.

Posted by: eye-tie at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (AQE2L)

246 The theory is that the tiny seizures are what cause the Deja Vu feeling.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 24, 2016 09:25 PM (YLidQ)

I prefer the glitch in the Matrix theory

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (Om16U)

247 217 Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:21 PM (0mRoj)

omg Insomniac
Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (Om16U)

Scared the absolute hell out of me. I started having that dream when I was about nine or ten.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (0mRoj)

248 That's what I get for not reading all the comments first.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (MNgU2)

249
My chest would feel like a heavy weight on it. I
would continue to struggle to call out. Eventually I could scream and
then I'd wake up.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:21 PM (0mRoj)

And when you woke up, the cat was laying on the bed next to you, with a satisfied look on his face......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (LuZz8)

250 At least you people dream

Posted by: Patrick Henry at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (lszt0)

251 234

Forget the dreams -- what do y'all FEAR??

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:25 PM (CHT/Y)

Hillary appointing the fifth justice

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (F1iXz)

252 You guys realize that you're all giving each other nightmares tonight, right?

Go on ..

Posted by: Freddy Krueger at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (rwI+c)

253 Well, if you guys are giving up the gay and lesbian dream secrets, this is a snoozer.

As many of you know, I am a prostate cancer survivor, with a radical prostatectomy.

One of the side effects is less bladder control then one would wish.

Not often, but occasionally, I'll be taking a leak, and suddenly realize "Theres no tinkling noise"

That's when I absolutely realize, while in my dream, that it's time to wake up...right now.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (ptqRm)

254
Other than fearing my own internal organs, I fear Time.

Seriously, I hate Time. I hate hate hate the idea I'm getting old. I hate how old I am. I hate birthdays. I hate Time passing.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (CHT/Y)

255 One of these days, when the current family situation has passed, I've already resolved to find a little place ( a few acres) and put an RV trailer on it. I'm not going to tell any of them where it is or have them visit.

A hideaway. Some peace and sanity.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:24 PM (Vj7cS)

****
Already got one. Daughter does not even know about it. It is awesome.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (YLidQ)

256
Go on ..

Posted by: Freddy Krueger

Nicely done.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (CHT/Y)

257 Wanna talk about some truly weird gay-type sex dreams?

About ten years ago I knew this guy who was one of those "confess everything" people who just blabbed everything he felt and thought, no matter how embarrassing.

Previously, to all and sundry, he confessed that he had an Oedipus complex and was only attracted to women who looked exactly like his mother, who was his sexual ideal.

Then he later confessed to everyone that he did not-so-innocent gay sex games with his cousins when he was eleven years old.

And then came the big Dream Confession. Ready for this?

He said he had a constantly recurring dream in which he had a two-foot long thin penis growing out of his belly button -- in other words, an umbilical cord that ended in a penis-head -- which would get erect and go effortlessly into his mouth. He would then proceed to perform fellatio on his own umbilical penis until he ejaculated into his mouth, which he would swallow because it was mother's milk.

This, for him, was the opposite of a nightmare. He wanted to sleep all the time just so he could have this dream.

Calling Dr. Freud, Dr. Jung, Dr. Freud.

Posted by: zombie at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (jBuUi)

258 250
At least you people dream

Posted by: Patrick Henry at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (lszt0)

Yeah, our dream is getting taken away by some orange haired guy

Posted by: Wetback kids at August 24, 2016 09:28 PM (F1iXz)

259 A couple of the Pink Floyds were quite the pretty things when they were young weren't they?

Posted by: Tuna at August 24, 2016 09:28 PM (JSovD)

260 >>One of my kids had night terrors. Scared the crap out of me the first time.

That is the worst!

My son had nightmares when he was a toddler where he would wake up screaming/crying, be inconsolable for a long while after.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2016 09:28 PM (NOIQH)

261 218
You guys realize that you're all giving each other nightmares tonight, right?
Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:22 PM (CHT/Y)

Eh. Like I said earlier, I don't have nightmares so much anymore, rather the bitter disappointment of waking up from dreams of a much better life.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:28 PM (0mRoj)

262 I quit smoking 16 years ago. I will still have dreams that I'm smoking. Feeling is an odd combination of "this is great" and "why are you doing this again dumbass?"

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:28 PM (gdnq1)

263 I remember when I was little, maybe about 8, I dreamed my dad lost his legs. He was sitting at the kitchen table and I looked under and his legs were gone.

The next morning at the table I looked and his legs were there. Freaked me out.

Posted by: freaked at August 24, 2016 09:28 PM (BO/km)

264 Someone has probably mentioned this one, because I don't believe it's uncommon, but my recurring dream is that I am being chased by a man with a knife or gun - and I can't run. There's a shelter right across the street, but it's like my legs are made of concrete. I try getting across the street, I stumble, the lunatic is right there....and then I wake up.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 09:29 PM (P8951)

265 I had a dream. Greedy scammers fucked it up. Fuckers.

Posted by: MLK at August 24, 2016 09:29 PM (cOwly)

266 Seriously, I hate Time. I hate hate hate the idea I'm getting old. I hate how old I am. I hate birthdays. I hate Time passing.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (CHT/Y)

Why?
Your other choice?

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 24, 2016 09:29 PM (F1iXz)

267 Isn't sleep paralysis normal ?

So you don't harm yourself during lucid dreams ?

Posted by: JT at August 24, 2016 09:29 PM (nrEax)

268 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (ptqRm)

Oh, I get a dream where I have to go to a bathroom but there is no clean bathroom to be found and that's when I wake up coz I really have to go to the bathroom.

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:29 PM (Om16U)

269 Well first of all, I think I am required to ask you to describe said lesbian dreams. Slowly.
*****
Fair enough, BurtTC. I have known a lot of lesbians since I was 15. The dreams are always about actual people from real life except in the dreams, I know that the lesbian is Kristin but she looks physically like someone else who is just a made up person that I don't know. The dreams are always them trying to convince me to try stuff. I'm not going into detail but I allow them to do "stuff" to me, but I don't reciprocate. And then I am relieved by the end of the dream to know that I'm not a secret lesbian.

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 09:29 PM (6IPEM)

270 And when you woke up, the cat was laying on the bed next to you, with a satisfied look on his face......
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (LuZz

We didn't have a cat. I just had the feeling of being haunted by an honest-to-God demon.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:29 PM (0mRoj)

271 257 = I could live the rest of my life not knowing shit that's this weird. and i have logged a lot of flight time at that altitude.

Posted by: vivi at August 24, 2016 09:29 PM (11H2y)

272
Deja Vu, maybe. Precog dreams are on another level.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 24, 2016 09:23 PM (T/cxb)

Precog dreams are pretty commonplace in my family ( uh, we get 'visits' by deceased relatives, too.) but I had one particular boyfriend and for whatever reason while we were together my premonitions were unusually frequent, so much so that I used to give him advice about his business deals.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at August 24, 2016 09:30 PM (oQQwD)

273 When I was seven or eight I dreamed my father and I were driving in the car when Japanese Zeros began to strafe us. I crawled in the back and hid on the floor behind the front bench seat. Scared me to death. Damned Japs. Shoulda nuked 'em more.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 24, 2016 09:30 PM (Nwg0u)

274 I think the whole theme of this thread is that we are all still seeking the approval of our fathers.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:30 PM (gdnq1)

275 Lately, dreams about the dead ex. Setting is one particular home. Mostly unpleasant, but now and then one of hope. All frustratingly hopeless.

Posted by: Lurking at August 24, 2016 09:30 PM (PNWMg)

276
Another common theme was that the dream would end in a loud, screeching noise. A police siren, a screaming woman etc. But the sound would go on, and on.....

Then I'd wake up to the sound of my alarm clock.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 24, 2016 09:30 PM (LuZz8)

277 My fever dream has me standing at the seashore watching the waves roll in.
They slowly start getting larger and larger until they are unrealistically large. I'm stuck in the sand. Way out passed the breakers you can just start to see an absolutely monumental wave start to build, enormous.
It builds and builds and builds until it's about to overwhelm me and everything around me. I can't even move. Before it breaks over me, I wake up.

Posted by: BuckIV at August 24, 2016 09:30 PM (CLfqv)

278 One of these days, when the current family situation has passed, I've already resolved to find a little place ( a few acres) and put an RV trailer on it. I'm not going to tell any of them where it is or have them visit.

A hideaway. Some peace and sanity.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:24 PM (Vj7cS)

Awesome.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 24, 2016 09:30 PM (heN73)

279
Why?
Your other choice?

Yeah, that's the point -- my days are numbered, as they say. It's all leading to The End, and it's coming fast.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:30 PM (CHT/Y)

280 Trick to get out of nightmares that worked for me. I look at my hands.

Seems to snap me out of it every time.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 24, 2016 09:11 PM (lutOX)

Been years since I read it, but I seem to remember that Carlos Castaneda (The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge) wrote that the sorcerer said you had power in your dreams if you could see your hands and then use them in the dream!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 09:31 PM (wCEn4)

281 OK ... feeling much better about my "The Trigger Won't Pull" dreams.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:31 PM (fiGNd)

282 The workings of a nondescript lump of gray matter are simply amazing.
Posted by: Tuna at August 24, 2016 09:23 PM (JSovD)

A very important point, well stated.

Lest anyone go seeking to find deeper meaning in dreams, PLEASE try to remember, your conscious brain and its contents are only in charge during those 16 or so hours you are awake, while the freakazoid subconscious is up and running the other 8 (or whatever).

And yet, it is NOT necessary to give that part of the brain ANY amount of leverage over the conscious part. Your subconscious MIGHT be trying to tell you something, but it's not necessarily important. What you think while awake is infinitely more important. Why? It just is.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:31 PM (Pz4pT)

283 274 I think the whole theme of this thread is that we are all still seeking the approval of our fathers.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:30 PM (gdnq1)

I just had a lot of shitty things going on when I was a kid. Now I'm just isolated and miserable.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:31 PM (0mRoj)

284 Why does my VJ smell like dog food?

Posted by: The c*nt with the rat dog at August 24, 2016 09:31 PM (F1iXz)

285 "Already got one. Daughter does not even know about it. It is awesome."

I'm sure it is. Gloriously awesome.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:31 PM (Vj7cS)

286 I have severe OCD.....I think I'll stay out of this thread for the sake of my sanity.

Posted by: lowtech redneck at August 24, 2016 09:32 PM (egK2C)

287 >>A doctor suggested Chantix to me once, but I had read about the side
effects and I was like, "No way. I'll take my chances with lung
cancer."

There's also a medicine to prevent malaria - think it's Larium - that gives you freaky, super-vivid dreams. Worked with a guy who dreamt he was on fire while taking Larium. Scared the sh#t out of him

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2016 09:32 PM (NOIQH)

288 [pi]you had power in your dreams if you could see your hands and then use them in the dream!

Oh oh Dream Fapper ...

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 24, 2016 09:32 PM (rwI+c)

289 How bout the dream of holding something valuable in your clenched fist.

And as you begin to wake up, you hold on tight to that object in your dream, hoping to bring it into the waking world with you.

Then I wake up with a tightly clenched, empty fist.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2016 09:32 PM (ptqRm)

290 format fail.

I suck at this.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 24, 2016 09:32 PM (rwI+c)

291 Had this nightmare twice, after our second and third children were born: the car I'm driving, with all the kids inside, goes off the road into a lake.

I have to decide who to try to save.

Curiously, I did not have this after our fourth kid, but she had neonate health problems, so I had something real to worry about.

Posted by: Sal at August 24, 2016 09:32 PM (MRX6w)

292 "Now that I've scared the bejeezus out of all of you, I'm going to read some Pat McManus stories and laugh myself to sleep."

Listen here. That McManus kid? He has a vivid imagination. Don't listen to a thing he has to say.

Posted by: Rancid Crabtree at August 24, 2016 09:33 PM (noWW6)

293
I just had the feeling of being haunted by an honest-to-God demon.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:29 PM (0mRoj)

So you DO understand what it's like to live with a cat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 24, 2016 09:33 PM (LuZz8)

294 What's weird is that first few minutes when you start to dream, but your conscious mind is still working, so you are aware you're dreaming.

Posted by: josephistan at August 24, 2016 09:33 PM (7qAYi)

295 Posted by: zombie at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (jBuUi)
*****
Well, that tops me and BurtTC. I feel much better now.
Thanks zombie!

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 09:33 PM (6IPEM)

296 Not often, but occasionally, I'll be taking a leak, and suddenly realize "Theres no tinkling noise"

That's when I absolutely realize, while in my dream, that it's time to wake up...right now.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (ptqRm)

Ah yes. The "Pee Dream."
That sucker will snap me out of sleep so damn fast I almost levitate on the bed.

Posted by: Sixkiller...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 09:33 PM (y0er3)

297 Precog dreams are pretty commonplace in my family ( uh, we get 'visits' by deceased relatives, too.) but I had one particular boyfriend and for whatever reason while we were together my premonitions were unusually frequent, so much so that I used to give him advice about his business deals.

If you ever dream the lottery numbers, go buy a ticket when you wake up.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 24, 2016 09:33 PM (T/cxb)

298 There is nothing much worse than a middle aged woman that thinks she can interpret your dreams and you are force to listen to her horse shit.

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 24, 2016 09:33 PM (F1iXz)

299 Gee. The thing that amazes me is that you all are in your dreams. I dream stories about other people. Example: a basketball player, Ram Mallaby, is in rehab for coke, and meets a former child piano prodigy, Elizabeth van der Lynn, in the same facility for killing her father when she was a teenager. Names, spellings, whole thing.

Yes, I wrote a ms about it.

All my stories start in dreams. Names, plot lines. I've rarely been in them. One exception: a cancer dream, when I was in chemo.

Posted by: Wenda (sic) at August 24, 2016 09:33 PM (pZEKq)

300 So you DO understand what it's like to live with a cat.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 24, 2016 09:33 PM (LuZz

Heh.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:33 PM (0mRoj)

301 Nightmares that wake me up: first -- losing control of a car and sailing off at a curve. Second -- Dreams if choking on gum in bed. (Similarly, dreams of trying to chew a huge mouthful of steak or some other food, but without success. I start to dig it out with my fingers, but the volume is apparently infinite. Begin to choke).

Scary dreams that I stay in involve houses where I once lived. But they have secret passages that require gymnastic moves to access, and annexes that impossibly exceed the structure's footprint, and some malevolent presence that is always just moments from manifesting.

Posted by: A Wish Called Fonda at August 24, 2016 09:33 PM (ORylZ)

302
My nightmare is that I wake up in a movie theater strapped into the chair with my eyes held open Alex the Droog style. And they play Southside with You over and over and over again. I had another nightmare about an America hating commie sodomite becoming president but that happened while fully awake

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 24, 2016 09:33 PM (auHtY)

303 I dont have nightmares per se but sometimes in my dreams i get the well known "running as hard as you can and not really getting anywhere" thing.

And I also have good dreams where its the opposite, every step i take goes for 20-30 yards at a time. that is fun. mostly when i get this sensation its in the form of me moving through a Central Park style location or a ocean beach somewhere.

Seems pretty obvious to interpret what both the slow/quicksand'y and long stride sensations indicate.

also if I am having a bad dream where things start to go South on me for any reason, I can usually say to myself in the dream "this is a dream wake the fuck up" & shake myself awake.

Posted by: md at August 24, 2016 09:34 PM (uKJIC)

304 Zombie, you know strange people.

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:34 PM (Om16U)

305 OK ... feeling much better about my "The Trigger Won't Pull" dreams.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:31 PM (fiGNd)

I have a "similar" nightmare.

Posted by: Billy Jeff at August 24, 2016 09:34 PM (cmE8J)

306 I suck at this.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 24, 2016 09:32 PM (rwI+c)

Call me

Posted by: Barney at August 24, 2016 09:34 PM (F1iXz)

307 OK ... feeling much better about my "The Trigger Won't Pull" dreams.

Must ... resist ... obvious ... joke ...

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 24, 2016 09:34 PM (rwI+c)

308 And yet, it is NOT necessary to give that part of the brain ANY amount of leverage over the conscious part. Your subconscious MIGHT be trying to tell you something, but it's not necessarily important. What you think while awake is infinitely more important. Why? It just is.

Bullshit Burt. Maybe not for you.

But I think L'Elle needs to explore these dreams further.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:35 PM (fiGNd)

309 Nuclear war. Had really vivid ones, regularly, as a kid in the early 80s. I get them very rarely now but still get them - now it's a question of getting across the city to my kids, getting them out, I can die tomorrow but I need them to make it.

A variant as I entered middle age: I'm going to die tonight. I'm not being murdered or executed, I haven't been terminally ill and I'm not thinking of suicide. I'm simply out of time all of a sudden.

Not much in the way of subtext for either, really.

Posted by: JPS at August 24, 2016 09:35 PM (9ziuC)

310 I once had a nightmare that some giant warm insect was crawling up my leg. It was kitteh. Luckily I didn't hurt it when I kicked.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 24, 2016 09:35 PM (+wjl1)

311 Already got one. Daughter does not even know about it. It is awesome.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (YLidQ)

Interesting I've been thinking along those lines myself but don't have the scratch to bring it off! I don't need much so it should be doable.

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 09:35 PM (wCEn4)

312 How about the pterodactyl dream? Anybody ever have that one?

No kidding I dreamed I was at band camp (I really did go to band camp) and while we were practicing on the field there were pterodactyls circling overhead.
I'm not making this up. I really had that dream.

Posted by: freaked at August 24, 2016 09:35 PM (BO/km)

313 >>Been years since I read it, but I seem to remember that Carlos Castaneda (The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge)

Carlos did a lot of peyote. A lot.

Peyote will make you do some weird dreaming.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2016 09:36 PM (/tuJf)

314 Already got one. Daughter does not even know about it. It is awesome.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (YLidQ)

Wow.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 24, 2016 09:36 PM (heN73)

315 I quit smoking 16 years ago. I will still have dreams that I'm smoking. Feeling is an odd combination of "this is great" and "why are you doing this again dumbass?"
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:28 PM (gdnq1)

I gave up tobacco and alcohol years ago, and still have the dreams. In the dream, I will generally be trying to hide it from others, and feeling ashamed. Waking up, it takes a moment or two to remember I didn't actually do it.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:36 PM (Pz4pT)

316 One of my cool dreams that I really think meant something was me being chased by demons . It was a terrifying chase when I was finally surrounded. The feeling of terror filled me to the bones . As they kept coming closer , suddenly I started floating above them with the most euphoric feeling I've ever had or ever had since. I ended up looking down on them feeling safe and knowing I will never have to worry about evil being able to get me because he protects me.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 24, 2016 09:36 PM (MNgU2)

317 There is a workout supplement called ZMA, designed to promote strength, endurance, recovery and growth.

It consists of Zinc, Magnesium, and B6. One of the 'side effects' is vivid dreaming. And we're talking fantastic, out-of-this-world, holy shit, Batman dreams.

Love that stuff.

Posted by: Sixkiller...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 09:36 PM (y0er3)

318 "There's also a medicine to prevent malaria - think it's Larium - that gives you freaky, super-vivid dreams."

AKA mefloquine.

There was a very sad article I had read about an officer in the British military who was dosed with the stuff pursuant to his duties overseas in a malarial zone. It wrecked his life.

http://tinyurl.com/zytmov6

Posted by: torquewrench at August 24, 2016 09:36 PM (noWW6)

319 But I think L'Elle needs to explore these dreams further.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:35 PM (fiGNd)

It would be for her own good of course, and quite therapeutic if she shared them!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 09:36 PM (wCEn4)

320
Ever do this when you were kids:

You stand in a doorway, arms straight down, palms facing in, then you extend your arms until your slightly bent wrists are against the sides of the door jam with a moderate pressure. Hold your arms like that for about a minute and then let go.

And then your arms float up automatically!

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:37 PM (CHT/Y)

321 Scared the absolute hell out of me. I started having that dream when I was about nine or ten.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (0mRoj)

Do you still get it?

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:37 PM (Om16U)

322 Oh, I get a dream where I have to go to a bathroom but there is no clean bathroom to be found and that's when I wake up coz I really have to go to the bathroom.
Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:29 PM
******
That's funny. I have that one too all the time!

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 09:37 PM (6IPEM)

323 Must ... resist ... obvious ... joke ...

Ha !!! Well played.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:37 PM (fiGNd)

324 That's funny. I have that one too all the time!

I'm a guy. All the world's my toilet.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 24, 2016 09:38 PM (rwI+c)

325
There is a workout supplement called ZMA, designed to promote strength, endurance, recovery and growth.

ZMA is an excellent supplement, especially for men. Also helps release some free testosterone.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:38 PM (CHT/Y)

326 "There is a workout supplement called ZMA, designed to promote strength, endurance, recovery and growth."

If I recall correctly, ZMA was cooked up by the very same lab guy who was covertly supplying Barry Bonds with anabolic steroids. As cover for action. To explain the sudden odd improvement in BB's physique and scoring.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 24, 2016 09:38 PM (noWW6)

327 321 Scared the absolute hell out of me. I started having that dream when I was about nine or ten.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:26 PM (0mRoj)

Do you still get it?
Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:37 PM (Om16U)

Fortunately I don't. It's just an unpleasant memory.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:39 PM (0mRoj)

328 "He said he had a constantly recurring dream in which he had a two-foot long thin penis growing out of his belly button -- in other words, an umbilical cord that ended in a penis-head -- which would get erect and go effortlessly into his mouth. He would then proceed to perform fellatio on his own umbilical penis until he ejaculated into his mouth, which he would swallow because it was mother's milk. "

*stares*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:39 PM (Vj7cS)

329 Interesting I've been thinking along those lines myself but don't have the scratch to bring it off! I don't need much so it should be doable.
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 09:35 PM (wCEn4)

****

I bought 6 RV lots about 10 years ago, and rented them out. One came long term vacant about a year ago, and I spent 10k on a gently used 30'trailer. Instant hideaway. Came with a fully stocked (plates, silverware, etc) kitchen and everything.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 24, 2016 09:39 PM (YLidQ)

330 Bullshit Burt. Maybe not for you.

But I think L'Elle needs to explore these dreams further.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:35 PM (fiGNd)

Ok fine. But just her.

And seriously, I'm not saying don't look for meaning in your dreams. What I am saying is, don't obsess over it, and don't go seeking someone else's interpretations of what is going on in YOUR head, because you probably already can figure it out yourself. And again, you don't HAVE to let it affect your waking self.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:39 PM (Pz4pT)

331 I'm far from home. I can't find all my stuff and it doesn't fit my bag when I do. I'm late for my flight and will never make it but I find a trucking company where the people know me. They assign me a truck and I get ready to drive home but then remember I let my CDL lapse. What to do. Sometimes I am in a dorm or hostel.

Don't get me started on bathroom issues.

Time after time.

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2016 09:40 PM (yOqwj)

332 I don't have nightmares much, but I did have some occasionally where I screwed up in some way. It would always be a relief when I woke up and realized I hadn't done something stupid that caused my dog to get lost forever, had a car accident, or whatever.

I also used to have really good dreams that were like exciting tv shows. They would be action type dreams where I was running away from the bad guys, and being successful. It was interesting that they weren't scary. Lately I have dreams that aren't very memorable. I mainly forget them almost as soon as I wake up.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 24, 2016 09:40 PM (+lVUW)

333 If I recall correctly, ZMA was cooked up by the very same lab guy who was covertly supplying Barry Bonds with anabolic steroids. As cover for action. To explain the sudden odd improvement in BB's physique and scoring.

Slow down for a minute ... I'd like to hear more about this ZMA.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:40 PM (fiGNd)

334 I have had some crazy nightmares that would make pretty good scary movies, except I was in them and they felt real. The worst was when I worked in an office, and nobody knew the CEO was a serial killer, and one day he just went on a rampage in the office. Scary shit to dream of hiding under a desk pushed against an office door listening to him rant and rave and shoot and people screaming. Ew.

Best dreams are when I see my late husband. Not long after he passed, I dreamt he was standing right by the bed, and when I got up he took my face in his hands, looked me in the eyes and said, "It's going to be better than you ever imagined." Another time I dreamt we moved into a new house and it was all white. floors, ceilings, walls, furniture, appliances...and we were finishing fixing it up. I love those dreams.

Posted by: vivi at August 24, 2016 09:40 PM (11H2y)

335 Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 24, 2016 09:39 PM (YLidQ)

Excellent planning on your part, congrats!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 09:41 PM (wCEn4)

336 ' Scary dreams that I stay in involve houses where I once lived. But they have secret passages that require gymnastic moves to access, and annexes that impossibly exceed the structure's footprint'

I had dreams like that where I discover some previously unknown passage or room in a house.

Posted by: freaked at August 24, 2016 09:41 PM (BO/km)

337
You're right -- SNAC trademarked ZMZ.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:41 PM (CHT/Y)

338 I have what I call "frustration" dreams rather than nightmares. I'm trying desperately to accomplish something or to get somewhere and keep screwing up and having to repeat the attempt over and over again. Those types of dreams seems to go on forever.

Or I'm due to go onstage and can't remember my lines or even what play I'm in. Backstage I'm trying to read and memorize the script hurriedly but can't make out the words or even figure out which lines are mine. I wake up with my heart pounding and then relief as I realize it was a dream.

Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 24, 2016 09:41 PM (LQLeS)

339 The thing about dreams is that they do not obey logic. You can be terrified of something that, in the real world, you would not find frightening at all, because the dream-world creates its own rules, and you're pretty much helpless against them. You have to obey them all.

I've got a dream blog that I update regularly. Sometimes I go back and re-read them, and while they are always strange, and I think "I don't remember that" there's a part of me that says, "Yes, yes you do."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 24, 2016 09:42 PM (AroJD)

340 "I once had a nightmare that some giant warm insect was crawling up my leg. It was kitteh."

I overnighted at some friends' place when I was unfit to drive.

The guest bed was too short. My feet stuck out at the bottom.

Their cat looked at the wriggling toes and promptly attacked.

While I was in deep REM sleep. Suddenly: claws and teeth. For realz.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 24, 2016 09:42 PM (noWW6)

341 Not really a nightmare, but I always seem to be in some huge house with lots of little passageways that seem to lead nowhere, all the while I'm trying to get back to a specific room. I can get close, but then I'm down a another rabbit warren to wind up in a room I was in before, but it was different somehow. I could never get back to where I wanted to go.
And the occasional dream where I'm nekkid around a whole bunch of people and I can't figure out how that happened. Mostly embarrassed.
Oh, and one other. I'm in a bowling alley with multiple levels, and sometimes the lanes are in a trailer, or it's raining or snowing on the approaches when I'm trying to bowl.

Posted by: Old Blue at August 24, 2016 09:42 PM (9iR5/)

342 I never had "flying dreams," but I did have something closely related, which I'll call "air-swimming dreams."

It would start with me falling out of an airplane or off a building, and be plummeting toward the earth, and as I fell I would twist and contort my body in such a way that just before I was about to hit the ground I could save myself by gyrating like a cat that has been dropped upside down and always manages to land on its feet, except in my case I was able to stop the fall about three feet off the ground, and just sort of bob there suspended. It was a great feeling to have conquered the "falling feeling," but it was immediately followed by an odd kind of sleep paralysis in which I was floating three feet off the ground but couldn't go anywhere or move. Eventually I would be able to wriggle myself free from my invisible bonds and start "swimming" awkwardly through the air, oonching along just a few inches at a time, but even so it did give the elation feeling of "flying," tinged with frustration.

Posted by: zombie at August 24, 2016 09:43 PM (jBuUi)

343 One of the strangest dreams I ever had was an extremely erotic (like XXXXX) about an attorney I then worked with. I thought he was nice to work with but I wasn't attracted to him (he was married). Nor did we ever socialize - our interaction was completely professional. So I woke up thinking "Oh, wow!" and then followed by "what the hell? Dan???"

After that dream, every time I saw him I blushed - and stupidly enough, felt both embarrassed and guilty, because I had slept with a married man! Except I hadn't.

Jeez, if only I had had that dream about Mel Gibson.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 09:43 PM (P8951)

344 I also used to have dreams as a kid about getting into an elevator or a room or some enclosed space with my family. My family would disappear as well as any way of getting out of where I was. I knew that everyone was gone and everything outside was gone.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:43 PM (0mRoj)

345 Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 24, 2016 09:42 PM (AroJD)

I must say, your nic seems appropriate for a dreamer!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 09:43 PM (wCEn4)

346
Be afraid of Metamucil. It can be the stuff of nightmares. There's a warning on the stuff about it being a choking hazard with some people if it's not properly mixed with water.

Well, guess what, my father nearly choked himself on the stuff tonight -- he only half-assed mixed up. And scared my mother to death.

When they get old, the esophagus doesn't work as well as it used to -- that's happened a lot with elderly I've heard of. But I don't know, my mother said he just tried to swallow a big slug of the stuff.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 09:43 PM (DW+jj)

347 I have this dream where Home Depot delivers all the damn material I ordered for this fucking deck. On time. As promised.

Sure ... just a dream ...

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:44 PM (fiGNd)

348 Sorry to be a complete wonk about Bob Dylan, but this is one of the best music videos I've ever seen. And the song is relevant to the topic at hand as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqGUBP3Cx0

Posted by: rickl at August 24, 2016 09:44 PM (sdi6R)

349 I used to have two.

One involved getting hanged from the bunkbeds; the other involved getting chased through some caves.

I finally got past the second one by turning the tables on my pursuers.

Posted by: DavidD at August 24, 2016 09:44 PM (xbnMZ)

350 Precog dreams are pretty commonplace in my family (
uh, we get 'visits' by deceased relatives, too.)

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at August 24, 2016 09:30 PM (oQQwD)

About 18 months after my father passed, I had a dream in which he and I were doing dishes/cleaning up after supper; this was a routine any time I was home visiting. In the dream we were having a run-of-the-mill discussion about something when he abruptly turned to me and said, "Son, you need to get your heart checked out." A year later, I had my heart attack.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 24, 2016 09:44 PM (GUBah)

351 #336 Finding unexpected rooms or passages in a house is a common dream.

My dream rooms are always disused and in need of repair or cleaning for some reason. Often I'll discover several bathrooms that I didn't know existed.

Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 24, 2016 09:44 PM (LQLeS)

352 A hideaway. Some peace and sanity.

"wait til Otis sees us !"

All kidding aside, I hope it all settles down and works out for ya.

Posted by: JT at August 24, 2016 09:44 PM (nrEax)

353 336 ' Scary dreams that I stay in involve houses where I once lived. But they have secret passages that require gymnastic moves to access, and annexes that impossibly exceed the structure's footprint'

I had dreams like that where I discover some previously unknown passage or room in a house.

Posted by: freaked

I love dreams about weird mansions/houses where shrinking to access different rooms through smaller doors revealed areas you've partially dreamed before.

Posted by: Corona at August 24, 2016 09:45 PM (ragzU)

354 I've had several super-hilarious dreams, where I would wake up with sore sides from laughing so hard in my sleep. I would try to remember what was so funny and not be able to recall any details, just that something was funny.

Finally, one time I was able to recall a funny dream I had. The events were not objectively humorous, just dream-weird, but when I tried to tell the dream to my family, I couldn't help laughing so hard I cried.

It still cracks me up.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (xVuS6)

355 #346 Metamucil comes in capsule form now. That's what I take.

Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (LQLeS)

356 This isn't really a nightmare, but I've had this dream where I got on a plane and all the crew and passengers were smoking and they were pissed that I wouldn't light up.

Posted by: profligatewaste at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (+yY4e)

357 I -- uh, a friend of mine has had dreams of autofellatio. He wonders what that means. Is it gay?

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (DW+jj)

358 Here you go ScoggDogg:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/hhcpjb6

Posted by: Sixkiller...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (y0er3)

359 Sleep paralysis is such an odd state. You know you're half awake, you're aware of your surroundings, but you can't get fully awake.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (+wjl1)

360 Yes! Stones against my face, my skin- and my skin as thin as tissue is my recurring fever dream. That and a feeling I used to call "feeling big", but it is more like what you describe, the feeling of size and space and changing perspective in a way that makes no sense.

Posted by: MayBee at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (v2BrT)

361 And it's a good thing I was born a male. Because I would never let anything into my vagina...if'n I had one...on account of being a female.
Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:09 PM (CHT/Y)

How about the exit part, the baby? Then there's the C-section way too. I did the whole shebang. No biggie.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (ozZau)

362 Wasps and hornets. Out at the deer lease about this time of year we have to check all the blinds for wasps. And our trailers. And everything around camp. It's amazing how fast wasps can reproduce. One guy killed a pile of wasps bigger than a tire in the wall of his trailer.

I imagine getting swarmed, falling off a blind and snapping my spine, then the hogs find me...

Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (fn3+8)

363 There is only one time in my life where I had to ask myself if it was real life or a dream. One morning I got out of bed, went to my computer and fired up Drudge. I sat there half awake looking at the headline "Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize." Honestly, I sat their asking myself if I was actually awake yet.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (gdnq1)

364 Insomniac, I still have those dreams like you did when you were a kid. I think they're true though. I talked to a priest once about them bc they were so troubling, and he wasn't very reassuring. He read passages from the Bible where angels appeared in the form of dreams and said that the bad angels have that ability too.

Now, I sound crazy.

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 09:47 PM (6IPEM)

365 351 #336 Finding unexpected rooms or passages in a house is a common dream.

--

It's supposed to mean something like discovering new talents or dimensions to your life, or something like that.

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:47 PM (Om16U)

366 Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:36 PM (Pz4pT)

Friends of mine in AA who have been sober for a very long time tell me they still have "drunk dreams" occasionally and when they wake up it takes a little while before they realize it was only a dream.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 09:47 PM (P8951)

367 >>"Son, you need to get your heart checked out." A year later, I had my heart attack.

Whoa.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2016 09:47 PM (NOIQH)

368 I -- uh, a friend of mine has had dreams of autofellatio. He wonders what that means. Is it gay?
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (DW+jj)

I too have a... friend, who has had those. I think it just means he wishes he was hung like Ron Jeremy.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:47 PM (Pz4pT)

369 I never thought I was afraid of snakes. They never bothered me. I even liked touching them.

However.

I was walking on this pile of rocks. I think they were maybe some industrial bricks or something, just poured in a big pile. I forget. Totally a mess, lots of odd angles, lots of holes going into the rock-pile.

So I'm walking up this hill of rocks and suddenly not one but about six snakes -- not big, but big enough -- shoot their heads up out of the rockholes simultaneously and hiss and spit and snapped at me.

And at that moment I felt the primordial fear of snakes that I thought I didn't have.

I got the hell out of there and have never said "I'm not afraid of snakes" again.

Posted by: ace at August 24, 2016 09:48 PM (dciA+)

370 361
And it's a good thing I was born a male. Because I would never let
anything into my vagina...if'n I had one...on account of being a female.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:09 PM (CHT/Y)

Hmmm. Assuming my sex drive remained the same, if I were female, I'd probably be a complete slut.

Posted by: Sixkiller...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 09:48 PM (y0er3)

371 I -- uh, a friend of mine has had dreams of autofellatio. He wonders what that means. Is it gay?

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (DW+jj)

As long as you say "no homo", it's ok.

Posted by: Jordan Kaplan at August 24, 2016 09:48 PM (cmE8J)

372 "I have this dream where Home Depot delivers all the damn material I ordered for this fucking deck. On time. As promised. "

*snort*

Didn't get that work order. Lumber got delayed. Julio called in sick today so we couldn't get anybody out. One of the new interns forgot to place that order.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:48 PM (Vj7cS)

373 12 My nightmare is a world without distilled spirits and Depends. Sober and striking mud is no way to go through life.
Posted by: Hillary 2016! at August 24, 2016 08:50 PM (7zkP4)

Did they get your Provigil dose optimized for the big speech tomorrow night?

Posted by: Bernette at August 24, 2016 09:48 PM (ru2SK)

374 268
I get a dream where I have to go to a bathroom but there is no clean bathroom to be found
Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:29 PM (Om16U)

You dreamed you were in my house? That's pretty f'ed up.

Posted by: rickl at August 24, 2016 09:49 PM (sdi6R)

375 I have a recurring nightmare that I have a recurring nightmare.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 24, 2016 09:49 PM (vP09u)

376 354 I've had several super-hilarious dreams, where I would wake up with sore sides from laughing so hard in my sleep. I would try to remember what was so funny and not be able to recall any details, just that something was funny.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2016 09:46 PM (xVuS6)

I have those too! Better than dreaming some loon is after me and I can't run.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 09:49 PM (P8951)

377 OK this is a freaky thing that really happened. Several years back I was on some serious pain meds around the clock for a week or so after surgery. A few days in, I started remembering stuff - really super detailed things - from when I was about 2 or 3 years old. Things like a spool of fencing wire in the back yard and an oddly shaped heating vent in the hallway outside my room. Lots and lots of stuff like that. All things my mother and father were able to confirm.

Posted by: Weasel at August 24, 2016 09:49 PM (Sfs6o)

378 Tornados. Usually I have a child with me, one of mine or two. I see the tornado, or more than one, sometimes they are colors like "yellow tonadoes" coming and I have to get out of the car and run with the children to some sort of ditch. As they get closer and closer and I find that the ditches are not deep and need to find another, I wake up. The dreams aren't at all the same except for the tonadoes/ditch part.

Also nuclear war, I see mushroom clouds in the distance instead of tornadoes. Or the driving into a large body of water one. I hate bridges when some truck gets in front of me and I can't see the end of the road ending on land, because I've been having the "driving into deep water" dream since I was a child.

Posted by: dagny at August 24, 2016 09:49 PM (eSQgj)

379 >>How about the exit part, the baby? Then there's the C-section way too. I did the whole shebang. No biggie.

Told my husband not to EVER tell me what he saw re: C-section.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2016 09:49 PM (NOIQH)

380 About 18 months after my father passed, I had a dream in which he and I were doing dishes/cleaning up after supper; this was a routine any time I was home visiting. In the dream we were having a run-of-the-mill discussion about something when he abruptly turned to me and said, "Son, you need to get your heart checked out." A year later, I had my heart attack.
Posted by: Country Singer at August 24, 2016 09:44 PM (GUBah)

Even from the Other Side, your dad is still loving you and watching out for you.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at August 24, 2016 09:49 PM (oQQwD)

381
Ever dream you were trying to run up a hill of beans?

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:49 PM (CHT/Y)

382 Tornadoes. duh

Posted by: dagny at August 24, 2016 09:49 PM (eSQgj)

383 Bathrooms, forgeddaboutit. Who hasn't dreamed about the worlds' biggest communal toilet, or the septic system that needed to be fixed through 30 feet deep of tunneling past complex sewer pipes. And the ultimate overflow toilet nightmare. Actually, it's almost comical in the dream itself.

Posted by: Corona at August 24, 2016 09:50 PM (ragzU)

384 I was out hiking in the back country of northern Minnesota. I woke up in the middle of the night after the most horrid dream I have ever had. I won't get into details but it involved some horrible things about my wife and kids. It was fckn horrid! I woke up sweating profusely even though it was cold out. I had a bit of bourbon to try and calm me down. I knew it was a dream but it was so fckn bad that I packed up and started hiking at first light to get to a ridge so I could get cell and call home to make sure everyone was o.k. They were of course but my wife was like WTF? You never call because you never have reception. I couldn't even tell her it was because of the dream.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 24, 2016 09:50 PM (8dC42)

385 Oh, and I think Ace's dream means he's afraid of intimacy AND worried about impotence.

Posted by: dagny at August 24, 2016 09:50 PM (eSQgj)

386 ok going to bed now

heres hoping for a fun dream

Posted by: @votermom at August 24, 2016 09:50 PM (Om16U)

387 We have rattlesnakes everywhere too. Those I don't mind. At least they eat rodents. If they're not near camp or under a blind I generally leave them alone. Unless it's a really good sized one worth cleaning and frying. Last one I found under the trailer I just dragged out with a rake and decapitated with a shovel. I'm more worried about them for the dog's sake than my own.

Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at August 24, 2016 09:50 PM (fn3+8)

388 My recurring nightmare is the Clintons refusal to leave power. This dream just refuses to go away, much like the Clintons themselves.

Posted by: MTF at August 24, 2016 09:50 PM (/m8T6)

389 #366 I quite smoking about three years ago but I still have dreams in which I'm smoking and in the dream a feeling of guilt and disappointment washes over me.

Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 24, 2016 09:51 PM (LQLeS)

390 Tornado dreams are Intense. They Follow you. Of course you'll wake up.

Posted by: Corona at August 24, 2016 09:51 PM (ragzU)

391 I swear this is true. I was in Vegas at Ceasers in 1991 . After a full day I finally went to bed around 3am. I then had the most vivid dream about red19 on the roulette wheel. I woke up and it was 5:30 am. I don't know what made me do it but I got up, dressed and went down to the casino and put a $25 chip on red 19. Hand on a bible, I hit on red 19 on that first spin.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 24, 2016 09:51 PM (MNgU2)

392 369 I never thought I was afraid of snakes. They never bothered me. I even liked touching them.

However.

I was walking on this pile of rocks. I think they were maybe some industrial bricks or something, just poured in a big pile. I forget. Totally a mess, lots of odd angles, lots of holes going into the rock-pile.

So I'm walking up this hill of rocks and suddenly not one but about six snakes -- not big, but big enough -- shoot their heads up out of the rockholes simultaneously and hiss and spit and snapped at me.

And at that moment I felt the primordial fear of snakes that I thought I didn't have.

I got the hell out of there and have never said "I'm not afraid of snakes" again.
Posted by: ace at August

Skip the peyote before the next hike. Shrooms are OK. Free pro tip for ya.

Posted by: Bernette at August 24, 2016 09:51 PM (ru2SK)

393 " I did the whole shebang. No biggie."

I had a guy describe the C-Section process that he witnessed his wife go through one time. Oof.

Open up the stomach and just start un-raveling intestines and this and that.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:52 PM (Vj7cS)

394 Other than politics, my recurring nightmare is falling from very high up into what seems like a bottomless chasm.

Posted by: MTF at August 24, 2016 09:52 PM (/m8T6)

395 My recurring nightmare is the Clintons refusal to leave power. This dream just refuses to go away, much like the Clintons themselves.

They'll die off soon enough.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2016 09:52 PM (19RKp)

396 364 Insomniac, I still have those dreams like you did when you were a kid. I think they're true though. I talked to a priest once about them bc they were so troubling, and he wasn't very reassuring. He read passages from the Bible where angels appeared in the form of dreams and said that the bad angels have that ability too.

Now, I sound crazy.
Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 09:47 PM (6IPEM)

I don't know that you sound crazy. I don't know if I ascribe actual supernatural significance to the dreams I had. I had an extremely unhappy and stressful childhood so I think a lot of my dreams were just the outworkings of that. I think dark things in our lives can manifest themselves in our subconscious minds as we dream.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:52 PM (0mRoj)

397 I got the hell out of there and have never said "I'm not afraid of snakes" again.

I was replacing the deck belt on my mower, pulled the level to raise the deck up, and layed down to get started pulling the belt ...

... black snake under the deck. Just kind of turned it's head and looked at me.

I covered the one acre yard from the farthest corner in about four steps. Might have squealed like a bitch.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:52 PM (fiGNd)

398 Already got one. Daughter does not even know about it. It is awesome.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 24, 2016 09:27 PM (YLidQ)

Interesting I've been thinking along those lines myself but don't
have the scratch to bring it off! I don't need much so it should be
doable.

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 24, 2016 09:35 PM (wCEn4)

I got a pre-constructed wooden storage shed, looks like a small house (complete with front porch, steel 9-pane windowed entry door, and three windows) delivered to the "deer camp". Cost $5500. I've got it insulated now, and about to add solar to it.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 24, 2016 09:52 PM (GUBah)

399
You know those dreams where you're engaged in some furious activity, trying to make progress but nothing works, or it seems like your running in place or there's always just ONE more task to do? I used to get those too, and I suspect that's why I'm a fan of film noir. Most Noir has that same quality, as one of the icons of French Noir, Jean Pierre Melville observed, it's the "uphill road to failure".

Another example is the 80s nuclear apocalypse film "Miracle Mile". The whole film plays out EXACTLY like one of those dreams. Freaky.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 24, 2016 09:53 PM (LuZz8)

400
Open up the stomach and just start un-raveling intestines and this and that.

This is exactly the kind of talk and thoughts I hate and fear!!

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 09:53 PM (CHT/Y)

401 I used to dream about my teeth falling out. For years had the dream that it was time to graduate only to find there was a class I never attended. Also have recurring nightmares about being "in the weeds" while waiting tables. I also have clear dreams where I fight with my mother like I can't in real life. Oddest recurring theme is being in a situation where people are being killed but I always escape.

Have long thought that deja vu is from dreams.

Posted by: Beth M at August 24, 2016 09:54 PM (kiy9d)

402 Votermom, I have that bathroom dream as well. Usually I wake up and find that I need to go in real life.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2016 09:54 PM (xVuS6)

403 When they get old, the esophagus doesn't work as well as it used to
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Mrs. Old Blue (she's 74) sometimes aspirates the liquid she's drinking. It scares the crap out of me because there is nothing I can do. She chokes and can't breathe. You can't do the Heimlich maneuver on that.

Posted by: Old Blue at August 24, 2016 09:54 PM (9iR5/)

404 "I also get those - dream my teeth fell out, then dream I woke up and my teeth have really fallen out."

VERY rarely have I had multilevel versions.

Last one: I had a nightmare. Bad one. Violent and realistic. Woke up, sweating and shaking. In a strange room. Oh! A hotel. I'm on the road. I remember now. In Paris. Pull back the drapes to see the sun just over the city skyline. Eiffel Tower nearby. Okay, I can relax and dress.

Went downstairs and met up with friends. Over breakfast and coffee at a Parisian cafe I began to relate the previous night's vivid nightmare to them. They all commiserated and related their own kooky dream stories.

Then very weird shit began to happen just down the street.

At that point I woke up for real.

So that's two levels. Never been further down than that. Thank goodness for small favors.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 24, 2016 09:54 PM (noWW6)

405 378 Tornados.
Posted by: dagny at August 24, 2016 09:49 PM (eSQgj)

I live in the Northeast and I've never seen a tornado in person, but once I dreamed that I was looking at the Philadelphia skyline from a distance and could see three tornadoes.

Posted by: rickl at August 24, 2016 09:54 PM (sdi6R)

406 I used to have a recurring nightmare of getting a call shortly before finals reminding me of a final in a class I wasn't aware I'd signed up to take, or where there were never any classes.

Then it actually happened and the dreams stopped.

Posted by: MTF at August 24, 2016 09:54 PM (/m8T6)

407 My most frequent dreams involve stuff not working or forgetting things at a very bad time.

No ammunition in my weapon when I need it. Discovering the I left all my tackle at home after a three hour drive to Lake Erie (these start in late winter when I'm really anxious to go walleye fishing), running out of gas, I'm sure morons get the picture. More frustration than terror.

The terrifying ones usually involve accidentally swalling some thing. I think this comes from have a partial as a kid and a bite splint as an adult.

Posted by: Cooldawg at August 24, 2016 09:54 PM (DwZvw)

408 Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at August 24, 2016 09:50 PM (fn3+

While at the gym this morning, received a text from Mrs Six, "The Judge made a house call." The Judge is loaded with .410 shot shells. She killed a 4 ft rat snake she found in one our ducks' nests eating a fresh duck egg.

Snake was #21 on the hit parade for this calendar year.

Posted by: Sixkiller...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 09:54 PM (y0er3)

409 I've dreamt of meeting my twin sister, who died when we were 13 hours old. That's not a nightmare. It's always very nice. We hug and kiss and chat and say "Oh, how I've missed you."

I like having those dreams.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 09:54 PM (P8951)

410 When I dream it involves playing baseball and all of my friends I grrew up with my whole life up to age 20 are in it.
Sometimes I get laid in my dreams. They are all very real.

I'm grumpy if I do not dream when I sleep. And disappointed.

When I wake up from sleeping is when the nightmare begins everyday. I won't stop like the mail.

Posted by: The Death Rattle of Western Civilization at August 24, 2016 09:54 PM (PQMST)

411 Even from the Other Side, your dad is still loving you and watching out for you.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at August 24, 2016 09:49 PM (oQQwD)

No doubt. It's a little strange realizing that even though he's no longer on this plane, I still need to listen to his advice.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 24, 2016 09:55 PM (GUBah)

412 Hey boy. That dream means you're ghey. Heh.

Posted by: Dr Phil at August 24, 2016 09:55 PM (1/dEZ)

413 62
Exams. And I had been cutting class and didn't know it was exam day.

Themes always include that it's exam day and I'd forgotten to go to that class the entire semester and don't even know where it meets. It's always one that I can't bs, like French or some technical crap.

Posted by: dagny at August 24, 2016 09:55 PM (eSQgj)

414 My reccurring nightmare involves an invasion. over the years i've been invaded by everything from east germans to aliens, including cartoon nazis dropping sharks from zeppelins.

i can't afford to believe dreams mean anything

Posted by: Anachronda at August 24, 2016 09:56 PM (027eb)

415 I've also had the dream about teeth falling out several times. Only thing I can thing of is that they are about life changes are maturing. Your teeth fall out when you are young and again when you are old.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:56 PM (gdnq1)

416 i used to have recurring dreams where my truck would either go off a pier or a cliff. when it would go off a pier i would always get out and i could feel the cold water as i swam to the surface, then i'd wake up. when it was the cliff dream, my truck would soar downward, really slow and when it hit the earth, it was always soft like a pillow and then i'd wake up.

Posted by: concrete girl at August 24, 2016 09:56 PM (++qYP)

417 Anyone else ever dream they're on a city street with other pedestrians and a low-flying UFO is spotted? That's one of my recurring nightmares.

Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 24, 2016 09:56 PM (LQLeS)

418 @395.
======================

We can all pray.

Posted by: MTF at August 24, 2016 09:56 PM (/m8T6)

419 >>>What I am saying is, don't obsess over it, and don't go seeking someone else's interpretations of what is going on in YOUR head, because you probably already can figure it out yourself.

exactly. accept yourself for who you are and embrace your polymorphous, protean sexuality.

Posted by: ace at August 24, 2016 09:57 PM (dciA+)

420 I don't really remember my nightmares...I just wake up with a very strong feeling of horror or dread. They're pretty rare.

There is one, though, that only occured once. In it, I'm trying to tell people of some impending catastrophe. But the people who I try to warn in my dream won't listen. Some don't even have ears.

Cut to post catastrophe...every building destroyed as far as I can see. The sky is on fire. I'm the only one left...until one body arises from the rubble, then another, and another...until there's an innumerable see of the dead screaming at me "It's your fault! You didn't warn us!"

I tell them I DID try, but again, they're not listening. I run, then stumble. They catch up to me, everything goes dark and I wake up.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 24, 2016 09:57 PM (7TaEk)

421 I don't know that you sound crazy. I don't know if I ascribe actual supernatural significance to the dreams I had. I had an extremely unhappy and stressful childhood so I think a lot of my dreams were just the outworkings of that. I think dark things in our lives can manifest themselves in our subconscious minds as we dream.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 09:52 PM (0mRoj)

This is precisely why I would recommend not giving power to one's dreams. Your experiences are what they are, your memories, for better or worse, are as vivid or as faded as they are.

Allowing the subconscious brain to invade one's waking hours is often not just pointless, but harmful. It is, more often than not, NOT necessary to find meaning in the horror that the subconscious brain can conjure. Unless you are currently experiencing horrible things in your life, let the dreams go. Leave them where they are.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 09:58 PM (Pz4pT)

422 exactly. accept yourself for who you are and embrace your polymorphous, protean sexuality.

Except for you Burt. Deny that shit until the cows come home.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 09:58 PM (fiGNd)

423 338 I have what I call "frustration" dreams rather than nightmares. I'm trying desperately to accomplish something or to get somewhere and keep screwing up and having to repeat the attempt over and over again. Those types of dreams seems to go on forever.
...

Me too, plus the standard "nekkid in public" dreams, and the ones where I'm halfway through a school semester and all of sudden remember a class I'm enrolled in but never attended.

Yawn.

The recurring school dreams I like are the ones where my dorm room is a penthouse on top of the university's main office tower.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 09:58 PM (ozZau)

424 Carry over from last thread re;
gun wish - an M1 Garand built to accept 20 rd BAR Magazines
instead of 8 rd en bloc clips.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2016 09:58 PM (19RKp)

425 I don't know that I've actually ever had a recurring dream. I've had recurring "themes" though.

Like dreams where I am talking to/looking at a person and in my mind I know who that person is, but the actual face of that person is different altogether.

Also, the old one from college (even though I'm years removed from college) where I show up to realize that there's a huge exam I didn't know about or I need to get to my classroom but just can't seem to get there.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 24, 2016 09:58 PM (oAY8z)

426 This is an interesting thread, Ace. It's weird that so many of us have the same dreams. Or, maybe not. We all probably share a lot of the same character traits, interests, and opinions so it follows.

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 09:58 PM (6IPEM)

427 What the fuck?

Is it something I did?

Posted by: Burt's Dad at August 24, 2016 09:58 PM (dciA+)

428 Another one I have a few times a year. I'm on a week long fishing trip and it's the last day and I still haven't caught one fish. I think this is my version of a nightmare.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:58 PM (gdnq1)

429 I usually don't have pleasant dreams but when I do it almost always entails me running.. I don't meaning running like a runner in a marathon.. more like leaps and bounds running.. like Superman running slow mo but giant leaps. it's actually kind of fun!

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 24, 2016 09:59 PM (CNHr1)

430 I have had some crazy nightmares that would make pretty good scary movies

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I had a dream where I was fleeing from werewolves or vampires or something. I ran to some country dance hall or something filled with country people dancing. I was so happy that I was safe then I fell and from the floor I could see that all the girls had embroidered their skirts with Swastikas.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 24, 2016 09:59 PM (Nwg0u)

431 "I got a pre-constructed wooden storage shed, looks like a small house (complete with front porch, steel 9-pane windowed entry door, and three windows) delivered to the "deer camp". Cost $5500. I've got it insulated now, and about to add solar to it."

Sweet! I've looked a lot at those little pre-fabbed cottages. Kinda swayed back toward RV so that it can moved.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:59 PM (Vj7cS)

432 Had one wet dream in my life. Involved a rather large Asian woman. That's all I have to say about that.

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2016 09:59 PM (yOqwj)

433 409 I've dreamt of meeting my twin sister, who died when we were 13 hours old. That's not a nightmare. It's always very nice. We hug and kiss and chat and say "Oh, how I've missed you."

I like having those dreams.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 09:54 PM (P8951)

Wow. That is nice.

Posted by: rickl at August 24, 2016 10:00 PM (sdi6R)

434 Also have recurring nightmares about being "in the weeds" while waiting tables
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Had a dream one time when I was bartending. There was this cute but empty headed waitress named Cindy, and she would come up to the waitress station and order two Colorado Bulldogs. It was Happy Hour and two for one drinks, so I had to make four. Every time I hit it with soda, it turned pink and I had to throw it away and start over. But then Cindy's twin came up and put in an order for two Colorado Bulldogs, and now I was up to eight. As soon as I hit them with soda, they all turned pink and I had to start over. Pretty soon, there was this endless line of Cindy, all with an order for two Colorado Bulldogs. I woke up in a cold sweat.

Posted by: Old Blue at August 24, 2016 10:00 PM (9iR5/)

435 I also used to have "a big bug in the bed" dream. I'd wake up in some other part of the house because I had left the bed to avoid the bug. Then I realized that my vision was too bad to see a bug in the bed, regardless of size and the dreams stopped. They didn't even come back post Lazik.

Posted by: dagny at August 24, 2016 10:00 PM (eSQgj)

436 My recurring nightmare from the time I was about 10 was that a strange woman standing at the foot of my bed was watching me sleep. In my dream, I would "wake up" and she would really be there....sort of a two part dream. Very creepy and drove me to my parents' room many a night.

Posted by: cricket at August 24, 2016 10:01 PM (ohUEV)

437 Just read about the Leslie Jones web hack.

Pretty sure there will be nightmares tonight!

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 24, 2016 10:01 PM (7TaEk)

438 "gun wish - an M1 Garand built to accept 20 rd BAR Magazines "

And that's the way John Garand designed it............but the Army was like "we've got millions of '03" stripper clips stored up from 20 years ago, eff you."

Alas.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 10:01 PM (Vj7cS)

439 >>This is an interesting thread, Ace. It's weird that so many of us have the same dreams. Or, maybe not. We all probably share a lot of the same character traits, interests, and opinions so it follows.

i think most human beings have the same six or eight most common dreams in common.

my high school horror dream usually isn't me naked (though i've had that) or unprepared for a test i didn't know was scheduled for today (though I've had that).

My variation of it is always that they tell me I missed a Phys. Ed. credit in 10th grade, which I had inadvertently been given credit for, and now I've lost my hs diploma and my college as well and I'll have to go back to 10th grade and CLIMB THAT FUCKING ROPE FATBOY

Posted by: ace at August 24, 2016 10:01 PM (dciA+)

440 Oh, and once my mother called from heaven. This was in the days of landlines and I was entirely unsurprised to hear her voice.

I said, "Mom, how do you like it there?"

She said, "It's OK but they don't give you any money."

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 10:01 PM (P8951)

441 Carry over from last thread re;
gun wish - an M1 Garand built to accept 20 rd BAR Magazines
instead of 8 rd en bloc clips.

Posted by: rickb223
****

BM59-ish?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 24, 2016 10:01 PM (hVdx9)

442 Years ago I had a dream of an alien invasion. I was in middle school at the time, and I was running through the halls of my school, only when I raced into one of the classrooms, I was in my grandparent's bedroom where my grandfather lay dying in his bed. I rushed outside and found myself on the school playground. There were three red clay statues in the middle: myself, my friend Andrew, and a girl Lisa that I had a crush on. The statues came to life and started dancing, and then a hole in the air opened up and I watched a caravan crossing the desert and realized that they were survivors and that I was leading them.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 24, 2016 10:01 PM (FYrz1)

443 Sweet! I've looked a lot at those little pre-fabbed cottages. Kinda swayed back toward RV so that it can moved.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:59 PM (Vj7cS)

Hard to beat wheels on your house. You can summer in the southern Rockies and winter in the Rio Grande Valley down around Mercedes.

Posted by: Sixkiller...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 10:01 PM (y0er3)

444 #423 Speaking of school dreams, one of my recurrings is wandering the halls of my high school and not knowing what class I'm supposed to go to next. And can't find the school office to ask them what my schedule is, just keep wandering the halls and peering into classrooms.

Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 24, 2016 10:01 PM (LQLeS)

445 I actually had the "old hag" dream a few months ago -- first time in my life that I can remember. It was exactly as I've heard it described, an old woman gets on top of you and cuts off your breath. It was the damndest thing.

That is some "theme" that somehow runs in the human male psyche somehow. Something common, but I have no idea what it really means, if anything.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 10:02 PM (DW+jj)

446 " Had one wet dream in my life. Involved a rather large Asian woman. That's all I have to say about that."

Hello, sailor.

Posted by: Margaret Cho at August 24, 2016 10:02 PM (Vj7cS)

447 These vill all take some time. Please roll something and settle in while I analyze...

Posted by: Ziggy "Freud" Marley at August 24, 2016 10:02 PM (/m8T6)

448
My variation of it is always that they tell me I missed a Phys. Ed. credit in 10th grade, which I had inadvertently been given credit for, and now I've lost my hs diploma and my college as well and I'll have to go back to 10th grade and CLIMB THAT FUCKING ROPE FATBOY

This would make a great movie for Kevin James and Adam Sandler!

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 10:02 PM (CHT/Y)

449 I've been a very vivid dreamer, in color, all my life. It's like going to the movies every night. And I remember them quite well.

One of the best? The library dream in which I'm in a lovely old city library. But all the books are made up. All of them, from the children's books to the reference section.
And I simultaneously feel as if they are familiar and know theyonly exist in the dream.

Posted by: Sal at August 24, 2016 10:03 PM (MRX6w)

450 embrace your polymorphous, protean sexuality.
Posted by: ace at August 24, 2016 09:57 PM (dciA+)

Must I?

Embrace it, that is? Can't I pour gravy on it and call the dog over?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 10:03 PM (Pz4pT)

451 Had one wet dream in my life. Involved a rather large Asian woman. That's all I have to say about that.

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2016 09:59 PM (yOqwj)

It was Margaret Cho, wasn't it?

Posted by: Country Singer at August 24, 2016 10:03 PM (GUBah)

452 409
Donna, I can relate. My twin brother was stillborn. Sometimes I dream we're just sitting on the couch, talking about life.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 24, 2016 10:03 PM (7TaEk)

453 I have a cousin that says he can never remember having a dream. It's weird.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 10:04 PM (gdnq1)

454 My one and only wet dream involved sexual penetration with a female while simultaneously thinking I was going pee.

sorry, that's creepy I know. Certainly I was creeped out.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 24, 2016 10:04 PM (oAY8z)

455 My dreams are extremely vivid and very realistic...which is sometimes good (with a woman)...sometimes bad...having to stab someone trying to kill me.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 24, 2016 10:04 PM (hVdx9)

456 >>> My recurring nightmare is the Clintons refusal to leave power. This dream just refuses to go away, much like the Clintons themselves.
Posted by: MTF

Maybe Barack Obama is merely dreaming about being president, and we all got sucked into his dream.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 24, 2016 10:05 PM (+wjl1)

457 Wondering if Ace has ever taken Chantix. I've heard that it can cause incredibly vivid and unusually bizarre dreams...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 24, 2016 10:05 PM (kP16F)

458 'The library dream in which I'm in a lovely old city library. But all the books are made up. All of them, from the children's books to the reference section.
And I simultaneously feel as if they are familiar and know theyonly exist in the dream. '

I've dreamed I was reading a book and then woke up and wished I could remember what it was because it was so
good.

Posted by: freaked at August 24, 2016 10:06 PM (BO/km)

459 Most of my dreams are happy but fucking weird. I wake up and think, WTF was that about? The ones that piss me off are the really ahem "good" ones that I never get to seem to uhm, finish and then I try and fall back asleep quick. Damn.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 24, 2016 10:06 PM (8dC42)

460 Listening to Gov't Mule with Marc Ford play "Cortez the Killer" again... man, what a good tune.

Posted by: MTF at August 24, 2016 10:06 PM (/m8T6)

461 I have a distinct very early childhood memory of a toy, a kind of dog/clown hybrid that was maybe three feet tall and on wheels. The memory is of it being in the garage of the first house I can remember. (I was an infant and toddler in two houses before that but have no memories I can say were from those places, so I assume anything I recall was from the house on Galsworthy in Thousand Oaks.) I remember this toy but nobody else in the family does.

The other memory of this toy was of a nightmare. The room I was in faced the backyard and on moonlit nights the oak trees made for all kind of silhouettes to play on the imagination. In the nightmare I'm look out the wind and the now animate and evil clown-dog pops up. I'm startled awake and left shivering for quite some time before I calm enough to sleep again.

Did I invent the memory of the toy to in turn put it in the nightmare? I have no idea. I had to have seen something somewhere that initiated the sequence.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 24, 2016 10:06 PM (IdCqF)

462 Years ago I had a dream of an alien invasion. I was in middle school at
the time, and I was running through the halls of my school, only when I
raced into one of the classrooms, I was in my grandparent's bedroom
where my grandfather lay dying in his bed. I rushed outside and found
myself on the school playground. There were three red clay statues in
the middle: myself, my friend Andrew, and a girl Lisa that I had a crush
on. The statues came to life and started dancing, and then a hole in
the air opened up and I watched a caravan crossing the desert and
realized that they were survivors and that I was leading them.

Medley dreams. I hate those. I feel like I wasted REM sleep when that happens.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 24, 2016 10:06 PM (vyqqu)

463 my high school horror dream usually isn't me naked (though i've had that) or unprepared for a test i didn't know was scheduled for today (though I've had that).

My variation of it is always that they tell me I missed a Phys. Ed. credit in 10th grade, which I had inadvertently been given credit for, and now I've lost my hs diploma and my college as well and I'll have to go back to 10th grade and CLIMB THAT FUCKING ROPE FATBOY
Posted by: ace at August 24, 2016 10:01 PM (dciA+)

Mine is reaching the end of a semester, realizing I was not attending one particular class the whole time, and knowing there was nothing I could do to make it up.

Usually it's a religion class. I went to a Catholic school. So, you know, mandatory.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 10:06 PM (Pz4pT)

464 It was Margaret Cho, wasn't it?

Bitch, please.

Posted by: Brian Dennehy at August 24, 2016 10:07 PM (fiGNd)

465 Boo! C'mere big boy....NOW!!!!!!

Posted by: Leslie Jones Cooter at August 24, 2016 10:07 PM (8dC42)

466 I've had a dream where I was flying a plane but knowing I didn't really know how to fly and that eventually I was going to have to land. In the dream I found myself trying to remember all the things I've read and seen about landing. When I finally woke I was kind of happy with how I stayed calm in the dream.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 24, 2016 10:07 PM (MNgU2)

467 Outside of dreams,

I hate hate hate heights.

My biggest fear is public humiliation.

I've had several friends over the years cut off contact suddenly without warning. I'm always nervous now that the friends I have will do the same thing to me.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 24, 2016 10:07 PM (FYrz1)

468 My dreams always seem very realistic, and the bad ones wake me up. Does that happen to everyone?

Posted by: MTF at August 24, 2016 10:07 PM (/m8T6)

469 Dreams remind us that reality is all in your head. What you dream and perceive is just stuff floating around in your head.

Posted by: freaked at August 24, 2016 10:07 PM (BO/km)

470 "You can summer in the southern Rockies and winter in the Rio Grande Valley down around Mercedes."

RV trailer can be a total pain in the ass, but, flexibility. Now I'm just talking a smaller one. 20-tongue pull.

Posted by: Margaret Cho at August 24, 2016 10:07 PM (Vj7cS)

471
"Middle School" didn't exist yet when I was in school. I missed it by 3 years. I went to Junior High School.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 10:08 PM (CHT/Y)

472 Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 24, 2016 10:07 PM (FYrz1)

Oh yeah, heights scare me shitless.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:08 PM (0mRoj)

473 MTF at August 24, 2016 10:06 PM

from the With A Little Help From Our Friends CD? That version is fucking great, but the best track on that CD is Sad And Deep As You.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 10:08 PM (gdnq1)

474 The night he was killed, I thought I had dreamt that John Lennon had been murdered.

It was doubly traumatizing to wake up that morning and learn it actually happened.

I didn't figure out until the next day or two that my clock radio was set to radio and I must have heard the morning news while I was sleeping.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2016 10:08 PM (EZebt)

475 Most common dream-type for me involves reading and writing.

The reading dreams are the weirdest - I'm puzzling through some strange book with tangled syntax and odd vocabulary.

Writing dreams - same sort of thing. I have had dreams, too, where I'm texting and being texted. When I wake, I have to check my phone to be sure.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 24, 2016 10:08 PM (lutOX)

476 I can't get over the fact that you are all in your dreams and I am so rarely in mine. I don't know what to make of it. Wonder what will happen tonight.

Posted by: Wenda (sic) at August 24, 2016 10:08 PM (pZEKq)

477 Ben Had @ 123 (Corsicana meet from previous thread)
Dang. October 22nd of this year, the Eromero family unit will be somewhere in the neighborhood of Yellowstone. First trip together in probably 6 years.

Posted by: Eromero at August 24, 2016 10:08 PM (zLDYs)

478 I live in the Northeast and I've never seen a tornado in person, but once I dreamed that I was looking at the Philadelphia skyline from a distance and could see three tornadoes.
Posted by: rickl at August 24, 2016 09:54 PM

Three Tornadoes? We're being attacked by Britain?

Posted by: josephistan at August 24, 2016 10:09 PM (7qAYi)

479 Does everyone dream in color?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 24, 2016 10:09 PM (MNgU2)

480 The dogs and I were out hiking in Devil's Canyon this morning when we came across a large snake. It wasn't a rattler, it was about four feet long, very skinny, and dark gray in color. We let it go its way and it let us go our way. The dogs were snooping along behind so I saw it first as it was slowly slithering across the trail. It may have then chosen to stop mid trail and hide in plain sight as a tree limb or weed or something. The dogs just came up and stepped across it. I don't think they knew it was an animal. When we came back a few minutes later, it was long gone.

I looked up snakes of Colorado on the web and I think it was a striped whip snake which is harmless and feeds on rattlesnakes among other things.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 24, 2016 10:09 PM (cL6a9)

481 Wondering if Ace has ever taken Chantix.

With any luck, I'm going to. Just got to figure out how to convince a doctor that I want to quit smoking.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 24, 2016 10:09 PM (fiGNd)

482 Anyone create music in their dreams? I do sometimes.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 24, 2016 10:09 PM (hVdx9)

483 I seldom remember dreaming. I think that what the mind invents to entertain itself while the body rests is probably not important.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at August 24, 2016 10:09 PM (d/9qZ)

484
"Middle School" is an invention by the Progressives to fuck up our kids even more.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 10:09 PM (CHT/Y)

485
Maybe Barack Obama is merely dreaming about being president, and we all got sucked into his dream.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 24, 2016 10:05 PM (+wjl1

A dream to some. A nightmare to others!

Posted by: Merlin at August 24, 2016 10:09 PM (cmE8J)

486 My recurring nightmare for years was a plane, usually passenger jet, occasional helicopter, would be falling out of the sky coming towards me. Even after it would hit the ground I would be running from it. I remember going to the movies to see The Fugitive with Harrison Ford, the scene where the derailed train was heading towards him as he ran away scared the shit out of me. That scene was identical to this nightmare.

Posted by: JROD at August 24, 2016 10:09 PM (wnwJC)

487 4 prop planes facing straight down yet not moving over me. Then later 9/11 happened.

Posted by: Corona at August 24, 2016 10:10 PM (ragzU)

488 I've had the "naked in public" dream every once in a while as far back as I can remember. I'm out somewhere, doing something, and then I realize I'm buck naked. Oh, shit. Try to sneak off, hide, cover up with something, but nothing is to be found.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 10:10 PM (DW+jj)

489 I've never been afraid of being naked so I wouldn't have that dream.

When I was pregnant I'd dream that I wasn't married and I would be asking my husband (who wasn't) to get married and he'd decline. Also he'd wonder why I'd think he'd want to marry me, and he had stuff on the side. I be screaming, but we've been together for X years, I had no idea. etc. Then I'd wake up mad at him. Of course, not only were we married, but married twice, once in one church and then again in the Catholic church ten years later. Still pisses me off though that he wouldn't marry me in those dreams.

Posted by: dagny at August 24, 2016 10:10 PM (eSQgj)

490 I'm not sure what my deepest fear is. Public speaking and death don't frighten me. The notion of eternal damnation scares me. I'm also afraid of never being loved and of being nobody.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:10 PM (0mRoj)

491 >>>457
Wondering if Ace has ever taken Chantix. I've heard that it can cause incredibly vivid and unusually bizarre dreams...<<<
.

The patch did it for me. Haven't smoked in ten years but still think about get some patches...

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2016 10:11 PM (yOqwj)

492 To the best of my recollection, I've never had a wet dream. I've had plenty of dreams that were headed in that direction but something, most often an attention demanding bladder, always interrupts and causes me to wake before I can get stimulated enough for the wet part.

One of the worst dreams I ever had was kind of the opposite of a wet dream. Rather than just erotic feeling, I felt genuinely in love with the woman in the dream in a way I've never experienced in real life. When I woke up I was so bummed I felt nearly suicidal.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 24, 2016 10:11 PM (IdCqF)

493 I'm like Indiana Jones with snakes man. I hate those fckn things! Fortunately not many in MN, there's some rattlers down in the southern bluff country but too cold where I live other than gardner snakes which even though I know they're harmless still creep me the fuck out. Seen others hiking out west but ish!

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 24, 2016 10:11 PM (8dC42)

494 Sock off.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 10:11 PM (Vj7cS)

495 RV trailer can be a total pain in the ass, but, flexibility. Now I'm just talking a smaller one. 20-tongue pull.

Bumper pulls are a complete PITA. But either gooseneck or fifth wheel make for a sweet tow...provided you're pulling with at least a 2500.

Posted by: Sixkiller...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 10:11 PM (y0er3)

496 2 themes have recurred occasionally for 35+ years.

The place I'm currently in is haunted. There is never a visual presence or poltergeist like behavior, just a creeping sense of horror. Lovecraftian. Blair witch unseen horror stuff.

The second which I've never figured out, is that somehow my maternal grandfathers remains are in a grave or tomb or some such somewhere in the dream, and often I feel a need to investigate it. Again there is a creeping sense of dread. Doesn't make any sense as he was dear to me. Quiet thoughtful aspie like me but a nice guy. Buried in Fort Snelling. Korean vet. I've always felt bad about it.

Posted by: esch at August 24, 2016 10:12 PM (m75mf)

497 Speaking of precog dreams, I've had a few of those, too...putting the first $5 into a nylon camo wallet I had which was earned from mowing lawns springs to mind. Evidently, it runs in the family. One of my ancestors documented one that he had in 1856 (it's on page 11):

http://tinyurl.com/hcphfg5

Posted by: Country Singer at August 24, 2016 10:12 PM (GUBah)

498 I've never had a dream of falling, but I do periodically dream that I'm tripping down stairs. Always wakes me up. Very disorienting because I'm lying down, so I couldn't be in a position to trip.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 24, 2016 10:12 PM (+wjl1)

499 Anyone create music in their dreams? I do sometimes.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 24, 2016 10:09 PM (hVdx9)

Yep, and poetry that I really believe would be great, if I could remember to write it down.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 10:12 PM (Pz4pT)

500 "Sweet! I've looked a lot at those little pre-fabbed cottages. Kinda swayed back toward RV so that it can moved."

I occasionally start doodling sketches of a self-contained mini cabin built out of a short shipping container. Not pretty, but ultra-durable. The containers themselves are ridiculously inexpensive if you buy at the right time.

It won't move under its own power, but you can call a transport company to have them show up and take it where you want it next. Downside: the vehicle required to relocate it may not be able to go very far off road.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 24, 2016 10:12 PM (noWW6)

501 474 The night he was killed, I thought I had dreamt that John Lennon had been murdered.

It was doubly traumatizing to wake up that morning and learn it actually happened.

I didn't figure out until the next day or two that my clock radio was set to radio and I must have heard the morning news while I was sleeping.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2016 10:08 PM (EZebt)

My mom said once that she had dreamed about the Pearl Harbor attack before it happened. I wonder if it was something similar in her case. Maybe she heard the report on the radio when she was half-asleep.

Posted by: rickl at August 24, 2016 10:12 PM (sdi6R)

502 BM59-ish?
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale

Who makes it? Commercially available?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2016 10:12 PM (19RKp)

503 My fever dream was time travel. Step into the time travel machine, sometimes a box or a vehicle or even a newly discovered power. Activate it to go back in time. Realize that if I am a second back in time, I'm occupying the same space as I was a second ago, which is impossible. So now I am stuck vibrating between an ever-decreasing two points in time. Wake up feeling like I'm vibrating.

Must have had it ten times when I was younger.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 24, 2016 10:12 PM (z/ZsK)

504 My deepest fear is not living up to my father. He was a doctor. Beloved by all. Saved a lot of lives by his medical knowledge but also all the philanthropic work he did. I grew up idolizing the man. Many nights it would be just him and me on the floor of my room tinkering with my toy train set, reading adventure stories, I loved him more than any kid ever loved his dad I guess.

We lived in a big house on the outskirts of a major metropolitan city. One Friday afternoon after school I pestered my mom and him to take me to a new movie I was dying to see. He had just got off a 14 hour shift at the hospital and I know all he wanted was to have dinner and go to bed. But I wouldn't let it drop, and being the wonderful father he was, he eventually gave in.

My father, my mom, and I went to the city that night and had a lovely dinner, after which we caught the 9:15 show of the movie I had to see. Leaving the theater at a few minutes till midnight I remember looking up at the night sky at all the brilliant stars and wondering if there was any kid on any planet out in the vastness of space who had it as good as I did.

"Hey man, can you spare a buck?"

The voice was gruff and shook me out of my reverie. A man was standing in front of us, his eyes fixed on the ground, his hands in the pockets of his tattered jacket.

"Sure." My father put on a reassuring smile but I could sense a hesitancy in his manner, an uneasiness in his eyes. He took out his wallet and the man in front of us eyed it nervously.

"Give me all of it. Fucking now." I was staring up at the man, one of his hands was out his pockets and he was holding a gun, waving it between my father and mother. I wanted to do something, to run, top fight, anything, but I just stupid there frozen in fear. Fear of that little black eyeball that was now starting at me.

"And the bitch's pearls. Or I'll shoot the kid."

I'll never know if it was this man's vulgarity towards my mother or the fact that he was pointing the gun at me
which spurred my father to action. He leapt at the man's gun hand. I shut my eyes tight but I heard a loud pop that shook the hollows of my ears. Then I heard my mother scream. Another loud pop and I heard footsteps running away. When I could no longer hear the footsteps I opened my eyes and the horror that lay before me I will never forget.

My childhood ended that night I lost my parents. And in a small way I've devoted my own life to making sure that no one, not one innocent person has to suffer as I did. I've had successes. I've had a few failures. But I've done my best to keep that promise. But some nights, when I get home from my work, and I look down at my bruised, worm out hands, I fear that no matter what I do, I well never be the man that my father was...

Posted by: Anon in Gotham at August 24, 2016 10:13 PM (Rtyzj)

505 Ditto on the heights. Can't even watch people stand on tall stuff in movies.

Posted by: Sal at August 24, 2016 10:13 PM (MRX6w)

506 I dream in color, but not always. Most of my *ahem* good dreams seem to be in color, except for one particular one which was in, of all things, a sepia tone.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 24, 2016 10:13 PM (7TaEk)

507 Middle School = 6, 7, & 8

Jr High = 7 & 8

yes?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 24, 2016 10:13 PM (oAY8z)

508 my high school horror dream usually isn't me naked (though i've had that) or unprepared for a test i didn't know was scheduled for today (though I've had that).

My variation of it is always that they tell me I missed a Phys. Ed. credit in 10th grade, which I had inadvertently been given credit for, and now I've lost my hs diploma and my college as well and I'll have to go back to 10th grade and CLIMB THAT FUCKING ROPE FATBOY
Posted by: ace

I have a variation of that dream (not about Phys Ed., but about different classes), but in my case the dream is actually a recurring memory because IT REALLY HAPPENED to me!

I learned about two weeks after after the start of my last semester in twelfth grade that a math class I had taken way back in 10th grade which I THOUGHT had satisfied the math requirement for graduation in fact did NOT satisfy the requirement, and I still had to take one more math class to graduate. But it was already two weeks into my final semester! I was gonna have to go back for another year - - 13th grade! Yikes!!!!

I went to the trig teacher and begged him to let me into his class and he at first refused but I literally cried and sat down in the hallway outside his office and eventually he relented.

I took the trig class, but the not-so-funny conclusion is that I ALMOST failed it, and squeaked by with a C- because of a last-minute "save" on the final (which is a whole nother story unto itself.)

Ever since then I have had nightmares about not having fulfilled a school requirement, often (like your dreams) one that I had missed long long before.

Posted by: zombie at August 24, 2016 10:13 PM (jBuUi)

509 Incidentally I just got back from Florence Foster Jenkins. In many ways it is the story of Obama.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 24, 2016 10:13 PM (z/ZsK)

510 Anyone create music in their dreams? I do sometimes.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 24, 2016 10:09 PM (hVdx9)

I have these occasional dreams where I'm playing these awesome riffs, but when I wake up I can't remember them.

Posted by: M3tal H3ad at August 24, 2016 10:14 PM (cmE8J)

511 RV trailer can be a total pain in the ass, but, flexibility. Now I'm just talking a smaller one. 20-tongue pull.

Bumper
pulls are a complete PITA. But either gooseneck or fifth wheel make for
a sweet tow...provided you're pulling with at least a 2500.

Posted by: Sixkiller...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 10:11 PM (y0er3)

I spent six years working in RV service departments, there's a reason I don't own one.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 24, 2016 10:14 PM (GUBah)

512 Used to have flying dreams.

Kind of liked those.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 24, 2016 10:14 PM (vP09u)

513 I had a guy describe the C-Section process that he witnessed his wife go through one time. Oof.

Open up the stomach and just start un-raveling intestines and this and that.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:52 PM (Vj7cS)

Eww, I didn't know it was that gross.

Now I'm probably going to have a nightmare about it.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 10:14 PM (ozZau)

514 Last night I dreamt that I was embracing my protean polymorphous sexuality whilst sandwiched between two young "bisexual" gingers both named "Stella"...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 24, 2016 10:15 PM (kP16F)

515 Had Quite a few dreams about my parents/ aunts/ and uncles passing away. Some horrible like cancer and some somewhat peaceful.

They are very depressing and fill me with regret because they're all well into their 70's, and I don't get to see any of them enough. Always hard to say goodbye.

Posted by: Cooldawg at August 24, 2016 10:15 PM (DwZvw)

516 These dream interpretationist people say the naked in public dream (which is a quite common one) is really about having your true self exposed.

I wouldn't give two cents for most of this dream psychology stuff, myself.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 10:15 PM (DW+jj)

517 Posted by: Anon in Gotham at August 24, 2016 10:13 PM (Rtyzj)

You're George Clooney!

Posted by: Sixkiller...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 10:15 PM (y0er3)

518
Jr High = 7 & 8

Jr High was 7,8,9.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 10:15 PM (CHT/Y)

519 Years ago I was involved with a once in a lifetime type of woman. Well, it went sideways, but it wasn't my fault. It was like she disappeared suddenly. Never saw her again.
For years after I would dream about meeting her by coincidence and she was pissed at me and wouldn't even talk to me. Those dreams were like a knife to the heart.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 24, 2016 10:15 PM (hVdx9)

520 I had a guy describe the C-Section process that he witnessed his wife go through one time. Oof.

Open up the stomach and just start un-raveling intestines and this and that.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 09:52 PM (Vj7cS)

I saw one performed on one of those "real operation" tv shows some years ago. That was nasty.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2016 10:16 PM (zc3Db)

521 A dream that was actually good. (I know, right?) Walking up a curved pathway, surrounded by evergreens I came upon a gray 2 story house. The front door window was in color. It looked as warm as a Christmas morning inside. I opened the door and it felt the same as I did when I became born again in '79. It's quite the high. (Then I woke up...dammit.)

Posted by: Corona at August 24, 2016 10:16 PM (ragzU)

522 I'm back in college, I have an exam, I'm late, and I can't find the building or room. Have it all the time. College was a very stressful event for me.

Oh, and I haven't had a solid shit in about 7.5 years. Obama's reign has been one long waking nightmare for me.

Great thread. Some of you guys are pretty freaky.

Posted by: Pastafarian at August 24, 2016 10:16 PM (sgHEm)

523 My dream is about the folks who pondering shipping folks off to do time working the IRS customer service line actually getting to do a day of job shadowing to see what it is really like. Then I remember the number on my cage/cubicle and how lonely it has been lately while the calls have gotten weirder. Must be wishful thinking...

Posted by: Smelly Kat at August 24, 2016 10:16 PM (4Dtjq)

524 named "Stella"...
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 24, 2016 10:15 PM (kP16F)

Nonsense, there are no gingers named Stella. It's mathematically impossible.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 10:16 PM (Pz4pT)

525 Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 24, 2016 10:13 PM (oAY8z)

My Jr High was 7th , 8th and 9th.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 24, 2016 10:16 PM (MNgU2)

526 Dreams can ruin ratings.

Posted by: Who Shot JR.? at August 24, 2016 10:17 PM (7zkP4)

527 Then there is the one where I realize the problem I am trying to work out is not real but a dream and I spend the whole nite xing out ecxel worksheets. Pain in the ass.

Haven't had that one since I retired.

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2016 10:17 PM (yOqwj)

528 Jr High = 7 & 8

Jr High was 7,8,9.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 10:15 PM (CHT/Y)

7 + 8 is middle school. Junior High went the way of the dinosaurs around me. I was the last Junior high class before they folded our 9th grade (the first in our district) into the high school

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2016 10:18 PM (zc3Db)

529 Yeah I bought into the whole Lucid dreaming stuff while it was the rage. Did a bunch of flying. Was pretty sweet. Sour note for me was trying to do certain things in the dream (ahem) would excite me so much I'd wake up. So eventually I gave up.

Yes, apparently I am the guy who could screw up a wet dream.

Posted by: esch at August 24, 2016 10:18 PM (m75mf)

530 Dream, or not?

And forgive us our debts.

Posted by: as we forgive those who tresspass against us at August 24, 2016 10:18 PM (DgkvK)

531 Posted by: Corona at August 24, 2016 10:16 PM (ragzU)

I know that feeling. It's reassuring.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 24, 2016 10:18 PM (MNgU2)

532 I spent six years working in RV service departments, there's a reason I don't own one.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 24, 2016 10:14 PM (GUBah)

Hahaha
My BiL just bought his 3d or 4th RV, this one is a 31 footer with slideouts everywhere. He doesn't understand why Mrs Six and I prefer to rent a cabin when we go traveling.

Posted by: Sixkiller...TEXIT at August 24, 2016 10:18 PM (y0er3)

533
Used to be:

Elementary: K-6
Jr High: 7-9
H.S.: 10-12

Now it's
Elementary: K-5
Middle: 6-8
H.S.: 9-12

The Progressives wanted to put younger kids in high school so they'd get fucked up and stupid easily.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 10:18 PM (CHT/Y)

534 The main themes that run through my bad dreams are my teeth falling out or crumbling.

Also I have difficulty running or operating vehicles in some of them.

Another thing is I go up and down stairs.

I've only had probably 4 nightmares in my life but I've had many bad dreams.

Posted by: Kreplach at August 24, 2016 10:18 PM (+lv+r)

535 Who makes it? Commercially available?

Posted by: rickb223
****

The BM 59 is a Garand modified to take M-14 magazines. The Italians were the originators.
Now you can buy parts kits (there are a few BM59 only parts) and buy a modified receiver or have a Garand receiver machined.
Check out Garand Guy

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 24, 2016 10:18 PM (hVdx9)

536 I have to say this has been cathartic.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:18 PM (0mRoj)

537 "Bumper pulls are a complete PITA. But either gooseneck or fifth wheel make for a sweet tow...provided you're pulling with at least a 2500."

That's it. I won't be pulling around with 3/4 or 1 ton. Gotta keep it smaller and lighter. If I was doing serious RV'ing that is darn sure the way I'd go. But, m ove it here, move it there, occasasionally.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 10:19 PM (Vj7cS)

538 Mine was 6th through 8th grade and it was called a middle school.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 10:19 PM (gdnq1)

539 I have a bit of recurring nightmare or dream that I only remember in bits and pieces, but I am in a large tube with water swirling around like a whirlpool, and I am going neither up nor down, but am stuck to the side of the tube with water swirling about me, or maybe I am moving with it, I don't know. I don't know what the dream means, but I have had it a number of times.

Posted by: todd at August 24, 2016 10:19 PM (0tW2s)

540
What's sad and unfair is that woman only have 77% of the dreams men have.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 10:19 PM (CHT/Y)

541 >> both named "Stella"

There's a newcomer, an "actress" in some of those educational videos my friend watches named "Stella Cox". She's a Brit. And "pendulous" is another adjective one would use. She's got talent.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 10:19 PM (DW+jj)

542 Anyone create music in their dreams? I do sometimes.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 24, 2016 10:09 PM (hVdx9)

I have these occasional dreams where I'm playing these awesome riffs, but when I wake up I can't remember them.

Posted by: M3tal H3ad
****

Sometimes it's me playing the guitar and SOMETIMES I can remember it for a little bit after I wake up.
Other times it's like I'm listening to the radio or someone else play, but it's music that exists only in my cavernous head.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 24, 2016 10:20 PM (hVdx9)

543 Whatever happened to the good old phobias, like standing naked in front of an audience?

Posted by: navybrat at August 24, 2016 10:20 PM (w7KSn)

544 >>>My variation of it is always that they tell me I missed a Phys. Ed. credit in 10th grade, which I had inadvertently been given credit for, and now I've lost my hs diploma and my college as well and I'll have to go back to 10th grade and CLIMB THAT FUCKING ROPE FATBOY

sounds like a variation of a seinfeld episode.

Posted by: concrete girl at August 24, 2016 10:20 PM (++qYP)

545 "Step into the time travel machine, sometimes a box"

Always a box for us!

Posted by: Calvin and Hobbes at August 24, 2016 10:21 PM (noWW6)

546 middle school is 6 7 8 in my district. I know because my daughter will be starting there next year

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 24, 2016 10:21 PM (oAY8z)

547 Anyone create music in their dreams? I do sometimes.

-
Composer Giuseppe Tartini claimed that his most famous piece, The Devil's Trill Sonata, was dictated to him by the Devil in a dream.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 24, 2016 10:21 PM (Nwg0u)

548 I'll interpret your dreams in exchange for not being thrown in a fire.

Posted by: Daniel at August 24, 2016 10:21 PM (MNgU2)

549 It would take the prophet Daniel to unravel some of threats presented here.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at August 24, 2016 10:22 PM (d/9qZ)

550 "What's sad and unfair is that woman only have 77% of the dreams men have."

That's because they choose motherhood.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 10:22 PM (gdnq1)

551 Posted by: ace at August 24, 2016 10:01 PM (dciA+)

Yeah, I've had the "you have to go back to high school because you really didn't graduate" nightmare several times.

I'm the age I am now and all my classmates are still 16. It was an all girl Catholic school so I'm feeling ridiculous wearing a plaid jumper and knee socks and saddle shoes at my age. Most of my classmates are as vapid and bitchy as they were and my friends don't want to hang around with me because, hey,who's this old lady? I'm sitting alone in the cafeteria by myself eating a baloney sandwich.

It's not a good dream.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 10:22 PM (P8951)

552 I have occasionally had very literal dreams where I worked on problems from my job and actually resolved them.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:22 PM (0mRoj)

553 Ok I used to have a weird dream, scary, and like ace's in a kind of greyscale look. I'm somewhere, in a room, maybe my bedroom. And the objects in the room keep getting bigger or I keep getting smaller or both. And the objects are scarily looming and almost sort of pressing down on me. A disembodied feeling. Creepy.

Also - to the nevertrumpers: quit boring everyone.

Posted by: Grandmalcaesar at August 24, 2016 10:22 PM (yrDg5)

554 "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin" appears all over the walls in the halls of power in Washington.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 10:22 PM (DW+jj)

555 Dreams dammit. I did not write threats.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at August 24, 2016 10:23 PM (d/9qZ)

556 There's a newcomer, an "actress" in some of those educational videos my friend watches named "Stella Cox". She's a Brit. And "pendulous" is another adjective one would use. She's got talent.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 10:19 PM (DW+jj)

She looks British. Really now, she's charming and all, but there's just something wrong with British women. I can't fully explain it.

Like a chromosome that's slightly off center.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 10:23 PM (Pz4pT)

557 "I spent six years working in RV service departments, there's a reason I don't own one."

Understand that totally. Ideal set-up is a Super Duty with a fifth wheel. Drag that sonny-gun all over North America. Price a Super Duty............50-60K and not even the dressy ones. Then the trailer.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 10:23 PM (Vj7cS)

558 "I spent six years working in RV service departments, there's a reason I don't own one."

Last guy I talked to designed and built his own RV basically from the bare frame of the vehicle on up. He was very happy.

A ton of money and time, but done right, and rock solid reliable.

I got the impression that he had learned a bunch of lessons the hard way with prefab RV designs before he decided he wanted to strike out on his own.

Posted by: Calvin and Hobbes at August 24, 2016 10:24 PM (noWW6)

559 The teeth falling out dreams really sound disturbing. Is that something you worry about as you get older? I'm worried I'll have that dream tonight.

Also, I don't think other cultures have the same dreams as us. Like the snake and insect nightmares that so many of us have, a lot of cultures have no fear of killing anything least of all spiders and mice

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 10:24 PM (6IPEM)

560 Posted by: Grandmalcaesar at August 24, 2016 10:22 PM (yrDg5)

By chance was Alice in Wonderland one of your favorite books?

Posted by: Daniel at August 24, 2016 10:24 PM (MNgU2)

561 My recurring dream is of me walking through lush green grass in moonlight on a slope near the ocean toward a small concrete structure about the size of an old London phone booth. As I approach, my mind races, light leaking out from the building joints intensifies, and finally something happens in the real world to wake me up. A door mysteriously slams. A car skids on the street outside.

They don't want me near that concrete structure.

Posted by: Rokshox at August 24, 2016 10:24 PM (AwR8w)

562 Always a box for us!

Yeah, my time travel dreams started before I read Calvin & Hobbes. Might have been after seeing The Time Machine.

I still remember the first time I had it, waking up in my bedroom shaking.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 24, 2016 10:25 PM (z/ZsK)

563 You remember my song Dream Weaver. Some heard it as Dream Weevil. Ear worm either way.

Posted by: Gary Wright at August 24, 2016 10:25 PM (7zkP4)

564 Me, dirty talk in a posh Brit accent is one of the sexiest things there is. That's just me, of course.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 10:25 PM (DW+jj)

565 Worst Nightmare....

A Predator huntin me & a SAS team in my hometown...

Eerily vivid and Years before I met any Hereford fellows..

Terror, simply Terror.

What a mind is capable of.....boggles.

A good nights is worth its weight sometimes.

Posted by: Hillbillyking at August 24, 2016 10:25 PM (zYOhH)

566 "I have to say this has been cathartic."

You suck

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 10:25 PM (Vj7cS)

567 >>>I'll interpret your dreams in exchange for not being thrown in a fire.
Posted by: Daniel

I'll take care of that. All you do is babble on and on.

Posted by: Joseph at August 24, 2016 10:25 PM (+wjl1)

568 There was an Indian (dot not feather) mathematician who had dreams where he came up with the most incredible mathematics. Claimed that the equations were revealed to him by a Hindu God. And they are still trying to decipher some of the stuff he came up with.
Srinivasa Ramanujan was his name.

Posted by: Old Blue at August 24, 2016 10:25 PM (9iR5/)

569 I concur on the teeth falling out one. Had that one dozens of times. Never bothers me once I wake up though.

Posted by: esch at August 24, 2016 10:26 PM (m75mf)

570
dirty talk in a posh Brit accent

Kelly Lebrock, Weird Science

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 24, 2016 10:26 PM (CHT/Y)

571 Whatever happened to the good old phobias, like standing naked in front of an audience?

Posted by: navybrat at August 24, 2016 10:20 PM (w7KSn)

When the leftists make sport of shitting in public those old nightmares of being naked in front of a crowd seem downright quaint.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2016 10:26 PM (zc3Db)

572 When I was a hotel doorman, on the night-shift, I'd have these dreams of being at work, and having fallen asleep, which was about the only thing that could get you fired.

I sit bolt-upright in bed, terrified, and then realize it was only a dream, and then REALLY freak out because maybe I'd overslept and missed my shift.

Other dreams invovled my being at work and observing something so bizarre that I knew I HAD to be dreaming, and therefore asleep, and therefore, had overslept.

Yeah....I had some anxiety in those days......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 24, 2016 10:26 PM (lutOX)

573 Ooooh, Dreeeeam Weevil
I believe you can eat
Straight through my braaaaaainnnnn

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 24, 2016 10:26 PM (7TaEk)

574 "Yeah, I've had the 'you have to go back to high school because you really didn't graduate' nightmare several times."

Someone said to me that they had to bail on watching the _Strangers With Candy_ series because it was inducing too many of that sort of nightmare for them.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 24, 2016 10:26 PM (noWW6)

575 566 "I have to say this has been cathartic."

You suck

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 10:25 PM (Vj7cS)

I've learned to accept it.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:26 PM (0mRoj)

576 I even had a dream where it was revealed that I was naked at a typical picnic lunch table, there were many tables, and some a-hole was trying to embarrass me by pointing out I was nekkid, and I was like, "So what"? And those near me felt the same way I did. (They were clothed.) I totally blew off the guys' insult. I laughed and so did those near me.

(I don't make it a habit of picnicking nekkid.) (Just so ya know!)

Posted by: Corona at August 24, 2016 10:26 PM (ragzU)

577 Shoot. Way late to the game. But, my most recurrent anxiety-based dream is me, returning to the Army, but either out of uniform in some way (beard, outdated uniform, and/or ill-fitting uniform), or incomplete orders (where I am to be billeted, who is my first sergeant, why did I miss morning formation). Sometimes it's very specific, based in Aschaffenburg, but nothing is the same.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 24, 2016 10:27 PM (om6Aw)

578 Dreamed I was an Eskimo...

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at August 24, 2016 10:27 PM (BO/km)

579 *peeks in and shakes head*

Nah, no way am I spelunking through all this detrius and morass of neurosis and half-digested roast beef sammiches.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 24, 2016 10:27 PM (NKXpn)

580 571 Whatever happened to the good old phobias, like standing naked in front of an audience?

Posted by: navybrat at August 24, 2016 10:20 PM (w7KSn)

For Lena Dunham and Madonna that's called "Tuesday."

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 10:27 PM (P8951)

581 Half of the people can be part right all of the time
Some of the people can be all right part of the time
But all of the people can't be all right all of the time
I think Abraham Lincoln said that

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours"
I said that

Posted by: Bob Dylan at August 24, 2016 10:28 PM (sdi6R)

582 Hmmm. Never thought about that Alice in Wonderland connection. But how obvious. And I had a weird Disney kids book version. Like for six year old kids. It had odd illustrations that really stuck with me. That must be it. Funny!

Posted by: Grandmalcaesar at August 24, 2016 10:28 PM (yrDg5)

583 "I've learned to accept it."

You better cheer up.

I can send you porn links.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 10:28 PM (Vj7cS)

584 I used to have a dream as a kid that I would not be able to breathe (or talk) until my older brother found this old book and closed it.

I have sleep apnea these days. I'm wondering if I had it as a kid, as well.

Posted by: Who? at August 24, 2016 10:28 PM (4Boke)

585 I don't dream of my teeth falling out, but I have dreamt of being able to bend my teeth with my tongue.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 24, 2016 10:29 PM (+wjl1)

586 579 *peeks in and shakes head*

Nah, no way am I spelunking through all this detrius and morass of neurosis and half-digested roast beef sammiches.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 24, 2016 10:27 PM (NKXpn)

You forgot the blot of mustard and bit of underdone potato.

Oh, and you have no anxieties or neuroses? Not buying it.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:29 PM (0mRoj)

587 "...plaid jumper and knee socks and saddle shoes..."

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 10:22 PM (P8951)

And......?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 24, 2016 10:29 PM (eCH5Y)

588 I think the whole theme of this thread is that we are all still seeking the approval of our fathers.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 24, 2016 09:30 PM (gdnq1)

I could give two shits what my father thinks about me.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 24, 2016 10:30 PM (heN73)

589 The creepiest dream I ever had is so creepy I would never put its details on the internet, but it involved me doing something really horrific to someone I knew. In the dream, I didn't want to do it, but it was as though the thing I was doing was happening and I couldn't stop or let go. When I woke, I felt ... sickened and horrified.

Posted by: V the K at August 24, 2016 10:30 PM (jn7FC)

590 Have any of you had a dream where you die in it? I always wake up right before it happens. I do have dreams about other people dying. Those are the sad ones. They are never about people that I wouldn't mind being dead. Always people I love.

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 10:30 PM (6IPEM)

591 I also had a solid month of normal dreams being invaded by Walkers, which was terrifying, but simultaneously awesome.

I sometimes wonder if it was because I had been binge-watching The Walking Dead.

Eh, maybe.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 24, 2016 10:30 PM (om6Aw)

592 I have recurring dreams of explosions in the sky. It could be a plane or helicopter crashing or some massive airship exploding or being hit by missiles. It would take someone with Freudian insights to tell me what these dreams mean.

Posted by: cm9000 at August 24, 2016 10:31 PM (Y/5qL)

593 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 24, 2016 10:29 PM (eCH5Y)

White blouse with peter pan collar.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 10:31 PM (P8951)

594 Insomniac, nyah! I am an android cat-girl. Whatever quirks I have, of which are legion, I can blame on my human programmers. So nyah!!

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 24, 2016 10:31 PM (NKXpn)

595 "Nah, no way am I spelunking through all this detrius and morass of neurosis and half-digested roast beef sammiches. "

Okay.

Part of that was English.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 10:31 PM (Vj7cS)

596 Another childhood nightmare that has stuck with me over the decades involved mannequins. I may have been influence by some old horror flick like Bucket of Blood but mannequins freaked me out.

The dream has much weirdness going on. First, the playground is flooded. So deeply that kids are perched on the upper portions of equipment like the jungle gym to stay out of the water. You had to avoid contact with the water because a terrible thing would happen: you'd turn into a mannequin.

Despite this, kids were fishing. Every once in a while kid holding a fish pole would turn into a mannequin and pitch forward into the water. It made no sense whatsofreakingever but it scared the crap out of me.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 24, 2016 10:31 PM (IdCqF)

597 Teeth falling out dream - had it, many times.

Oddly, I felt a weird sort of relief every, almost as if it were some sort of renewal, like a serpent shedding his skin.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 24, 2016 10:31 PM (lutOX)

598 I
got the impression that he had learned a bunch of lessons the hard way
with prefab RV designs before he decided he wanted to strike out on his
own.

Posted by: Calvin and Hobbes at August 24, 2016 10:24 PM (noWW6)

Really, it's the best way to go. The industry is slipshod at best.

Example:

Me: Hey, a customer wants an additional AC installed on their camper. That model is supposed to be prewired, but we can't locate the wiring.

RV Factory Engineering Dept: It's there in the ceiling.

Me: Can you send me a wiring schematic for that model?

RV Factory Engineering Dept: We don't have any wiring schematics. We just tell the guys out on the production line where everything is supposed to go, and they wire them up whatever way is easiest.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 24, 2016 10:31 PM (GUBah)

599 583 "I've learned to accept it."

You better cheer up.

I can send you porn links.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 10:28 PM (Vj7cS)

Heh. I appreciate the spirit of the offer, but that's quite all right.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:31 PM (0mRoj)

600 OK, serious now.

I'm in a car. I look at the rear view mirror. My hazel irises melt and run down my cheeks leaving my eyes totally white. I then slide down a hole in the sand. It is a warm and pleasant place.

Take that one Freud!

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2016 10:32 PM (yOqwj)

601 As an aside..

How in the every livin fuck can anyone KNOW what a dog dreams?

EVERY concept is pure conjecture...literally. There's simply no way to know.

Having said that....I'd bet my life that they really have dreams....But, about what...well....

The obvious demonstrates the unknown time and time again.

Hope the Horde oh Plenty is Well

Posted by: Hillbillyking at August 24, 2016 10:32 PM (zYOhH)

602 Ramanujan was something else, all right.

As for special relativity, a quote from dreaminterpretation-dictionary.com :
"Einstein stated that his theory was inspired by a dream whereby he was hurtling down a mountainside. He speed faster and faster upon which he looked to the sky and saw the stars were altered in appearance as he approached the speed of light."

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 24, 2016 10:32 PM (6FqZa)

603 594 Insomniac, nyah! I am an android cat-girl. Whatever quirks I have, of which are legion, I can blame on my human programmers. So nyah!!
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 24, 2016 10:31 PM (NKXpn)

Thpppppt!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:33 PM (0mRoj)

604 I haven't had the dream where I am trying to find the classroom where my final exam is for a class I blew off all semester for a couple of years. Thanks to you guys, probably have it tonight.

Posted by: Bernette at August 24, 2016 10:33 PM (ru2SK)

605
Ace missed his calling as a surface scientist, from the sound of things

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 24, 2016 10:33 PM (BK3ZS)

606 Literalest dreams are similarly opposite: I'm pissing like agarden hose, everywhere and continuously and mortifyingly. I wake up. I have to piss. The other, I'm drinking glass after glass of water, but I'm half aware this is dreamwater and wont slake my thirst. I wake up. cottonmouth.

Forlornest dreams are the most recurring and involve the same two people alternately: my dad and a childhood friend with whom I had a falling out 20 years ago. My Dad is always coming back from beyond the grave to encourage or warn me, but he is never the hale man I want to remember but old and bald from chemo, the way he left and would not wish to be remembered, either. My friend and I are doing something fun, but I am intent on setting things straight, apologizing for everything, ingratiating myself, but nothing gets us back to where we were, and we part with even deeper mistrust.

I also have the awesome music dream and hilarious comedian dream, but i can never remember the jokes, and the music was actually some lame Enya crap.

Posted by: A Wish Called Fonda at August 24, 2016 10:33 PM (ORylZ)

607 590 Have any of you had a dream where you die in it?
Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 10:30 PM (6IPEM)

No only where I'm about to die - either murdered by crazy man or else I've had dreams of driving off a bridge or falling off a roof.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 10:33 PM (P8951)

608 600 OK, serious now.

I'm in a car. I look at the rear view mirror. My hazel irises melt and run down my cheeks leaving my eyes totally white. I then slide down a hole in the sand. It is a warm and pleasant place.

Take that one Freud!
Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2016 10:32 PM (yOqwj)

They told you not to take the brown acid.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:33 PM (0mRoj)

609 "Srinivasa Ramanujan was his name."

There was a prominent British mathematician who had some Ramanujan stories that illustrate the guy's intensely mathematical mental world.

He commented to Ramanujan upon disembarking a taxicab about the license number, 1729, and how boring it was from the standpoint of number theory.

Ramanujan said instantly, "Not at all. It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."

(I recalled the anecdote but had to look up the number itself. Also, I thought that it had been Whitehead telling the story, but it was G.H. Hardy.)

Posted by: torquewrench at August 24, 2016 10:33 PM (noWW6)

610 Ricardo needs to read his Dickens methinks.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 24, 2016 10:34 PM (NKXpn)

611 Srinivasa Ramanujan was his name.

Posted by: Old Blue at August 24, 2016 10:25 PM (9iR5/)

Hardy - one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century - claimed that his freatest contribution to math was his discovery of Ramanujan.

Hardy also wrote a great book - A Mathematician's Apology - which was essentially him apologizing for mathematicians being so much smarter than everyone else. Pretty awesome stuff.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2016 10:34 PM (zc3Db)

612 I sometimes have dreams where the part I'm seeing is fairly mundane, but in my mind there's a panic and something along the lines of the Psycho-shower-scene music playing as well.

Deep down I know it's a dream , which is almost always the case

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 24, 2016 10:34 PM (oAY8z)

613 Posted by: V the K at August 24, 2016 10:30 PM (jn7FC)

I've had dreams where I've killed an unknown person where it legally would be considered murder though I had not intended it to be murder. I covered it up and dreaded being found out . Even after waking I had a feeling of dread.

Posted by: Daniel at August 24, 2016 10:34 PM (MNgU2)

614 Have any of you had a dream where you die in it?

I've had dreams of being raptured, where I'm lifting into the sky and seeing all my sinner friends on the ground below looking up at me.

Posted by: V the K at August 24, 2016 10:34 PM (jn7FC)

615 L, Elle. I don't dream much about my own death, but I often dream of my grandparents, especially my paternal grandpa.

I always feel sad the next morning, but I also wonder if it's them telling me that everything will be all right, in the end.

Speaking to me from heaven, perhaps.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 24, 2016 10:34 PM (om6Aw)

616 444 #423 Speaking of school dreams, one of my recurrings is wandering the halls of my high school and not knowing what class I'm supposed to go to next. And can't find the school office to ask them what my schedule is, just keep wandering the halls and peering into classrooms.

Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 24, 2016 10:01 PM (LQLeS)

I hate HATE those gol-darned stupid rassin-frassin$%#@ school dreams. The kind that ends with:

"But I haven't been to class ALL QUARTER!"

or

"But I have NO IDEA where my class is"

or

"The final exam was YESTERDAY!"

or

"What did I do with MY CLOTHES?"

Oh NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 24, 2016 10:36 PM (GXgiy)

617 Hilllbillyking you are so right. Pure conjecture and therefore embarrassing nonsense

Posted by: Grandmalcaesar at August 24, 2016 10:36 PM (yrDg5)

618 609 "Srinivasa Ramanujan was his name."

He's got it!
Yeah baby he's got it!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:36 PM (0mRoj)

619 When I was a kid I had a topsy-turvy doll my great-grandmother made for me. I used to dream it would chase me around the house trying to kill me. The brunette side was evil and the blonde side was good. I blame watching Trilogy of Terror for that one. I also had recurring tornado dreams when I was stressed out. I've had the teeth falling out dream too.

Posted by: no good deed at August 24, 2016 10:36 PM (9nt94)

620 My worst nightmare: I dreamed I was a cat and clawed my way through an entire roll of toilet paper.

Posted by: Sheryl Crow at August 24, 2016 10:36 PM (+wjl1)

621 "Heh. I appreciate the spirit of the offer, but that's quite all right."

It's no effort. We're all sitting around here with each other, doing dumb shit................and like a camp fire with a few drinks.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 10:36 PM (Vj7cS)

622 Most of my nightmares are about something terrible happening to my kids.
I do have one recurring dream of walking through an empty apartmen and when I get to the living room there are two big windows that are open and the filmy curtains are blowing in the wind. I have this feeling of loneliness and dread.

Posted by: Gem at August 24, 2016 10:37 PM (uaHyk)

623 Well, I had to get up at 4:30 this morning, and I'll have to get up at 4:30 tomorrow morning - sweet dreams, horde.

Just watch I'll have a really weird one tonight.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 10:37 PM (P8951)

624 I've had dreams where I've killed an unknown person where it legally would be considered murder though I had not intended it to be murder. I covered it up and dreaded being found out . Even after waking I had a feeling of dread.
Posted by: Daniel at August 24, 2016 10:34 PM (MNgU2)

Yep, I've murdered in a dream, sometimes long before, and some unfortunate piece of evidence is about to be revealed, and I am desperately trying to think of how I can avoid it pointing to me.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 10:37 PM (Pz4pT)

625 I've had dreams of being raptured, where I'm lifting into the sky and seeing all my sinner friends on the ground below looking up at me.
Posted by: V the K at August 24, 2016 10:34 PM (jn7FC)
*******
Now, that is a dream I wouldn't mind having. With my luck, I'll be one of the sinners on the ground looking up.

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 10:37 PM (6IPEM)

626 Have an LSD resurgence during REM. Yeah, they're pretty fucked up & colorful. (If you don't wake up, but you most likely will.) A TV with a white hot screen and screaming like hell.

Posted by: Corona at August 24, 2016 10:37 PM (ragzU)

627 Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 10:33 PM (P8951)
I have the falling dreams. Driving off a cliff. I also have nightmares where a bad person is after me and my legs don't work, or the gun has no bullets, my cauliflower knife isn't where I keep it. I call these anxiety dreams.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 24, 2016 10:38 PM (x4Ocx)

628 How freeing it would be to just go full Lena Dunham at the next restaurant...

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 24, 2016 10:38 PM (jO7js)

629
Sleep paralysis is such an odd state. You know you're half awake, you're aware of your surroundings, but you can't get fully awake.

This happens to me from time to time. I liken it to being in the dream within a dream experiences referred to in Inception. I think I'm awake, I know I'm awake, but I am not and I can't move.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 24, 2016 10:38 PM (BK3ZS)

630 >> Kelly Lebrock, Weird Science

I'm thinking Iomogen Llyod-Weber. Her accent.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 10:38 PM (DW+jj)

631 L' Elle, you'll do fine.

Posted by: Corona at August 24, 2016 10:39 PM (ragzU)

632 I have nightmares in which I give stupid people dumb advice, and they follow it.

Posted by: Colin Powell at August 24, 2016 10:39 PM (+wjl1)

633 "Ricardo needs to read his Dickens methinks. "

Hey, I'm straight. Take that Dickens talk and put it in the dumpster.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 10:39 PM (Vj7cS)

634 "I sit bolt-upright in bed, terrified, and then realize it was only a
dream, and then REALLY freak out because maybe I'd overslept and missed
my shift."

Pretravel.

Everything will be in total readiness to go to the airport in the dim early morning hours to check in for an international flight.

I'll go through everything twice, set an alarm, set a backup alarm, set a third backup alarm, tell myself that the cabbie will ring the doorbell if I'm not up in time, and I'll still have a couple of sheet-clutching nightmares about oversleeping and having the jet leave without me.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 24, 2016 10:39 PM (noWW6)

635 "I also have nightmares where a bad person is after me and my legs don't work,"

oh, yeah - that's my most common nightmare. Legs are like cement or rubber and I can't get to safety.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 10:40 PM (P8951)

636 Dreams are a unique brain language. For instance a appearance of a piano mightmean undone practice to one person or memories of a certain bar or grandmothers house to another.

Posted by: Shiggz at August 24, 2016 10:40 PM (e7vCJ)

637 Oh NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 24, 2016 10:36 PM (GXgiy)

Yeah, to me, it's like I want to say "really, subconscious? That's it? You have NOTHING more interesting to give me?"

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 10:41 PM (Pz4pT)

638 >> Kelly Lebrock, Weird Science

I'm thinking Iomogen Llyod-Weber. Her accent.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 24, 2016 10:38 PM (DW+jj)

You're both wrong:

Elizabeth Hurley

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2016 10:41 PM (zc3Db)

639 Has anyone else heard the urban myth that if you are having a falling dream and you hit the ground in your dream you will die in real life.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 24, 2016 10:41 PM (x4Ocx)

640 When I dream of my grown sons, they are small children, but have their grown-up personas. It's very weird.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 24, 2016 10:41 PM (om6Aw)

641 "Srinivasa Ramanujan"

That is a two-bit name.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 24, 2016 10:41 PM (Vj7cS)

642 522 I'm back in college, I have an exam, I'm late, and I can't find the building or room. Have it all the time. College was a very stressful event for me.

Oh, and I haven't had a solid shit in about 7.5 years. Obama's reign has been one long waking nightmare for me.

Great thread. Some of you guys are pretty freaky.
Posted by: Pastafarian at August 24, 2016 10:16 PM (sgHEm)

You should have that second part checked out.

Posted by: Bernette at August 24, 2016 10:41 PM (ru2SK)

643 As far as crazy goes, no other mathematician could hold a candle to me.

Posted by: Kurt Godel at August 24, 2016 10:41 PM (DW+jj)

644 Have any of you had a dream where you die in it? I
always wake up right before it happens. I do have dreams about other
people dying. Those are the sad ones. They are never about people that
I wouldn't mind being dead. Always people I love.

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 10:30 PM (6IPEM)

I always wake up in dreams I am about to die in too. I have dreams where I am accused of murder and in a Kafka like way evidence is presented against me even though I know I am innocent.

Posted by: cm9000 at August 24, 2016 10:41 PM (Y/5qL)

645 Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. whitely brandishing ampersands at August 24, 2016 10:40 PM (P8951)
That's my most common nightmare too.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 24, 2016 10:42 PM (x4Ocx)

646 Has anyone else heard the urban myth that if you are having a falling dream and you hit the ground in your dream you will die in real life.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 24, 2016 10:41 PM (x4Ocx)

How would anyone know that?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2016 10:42 PM (zc3Db)

647 Posted by: torquewrench at August 24, 2016 10:39 PM (noWW6)
***
Yeah....

I'm not the man they think I am at home.
Oh no, I'm a rocket man
Burning his fuse out up there alone.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 24, 2016 10:42 PM (lutOX)

648 Had a dream whose facts persisted after waking two weeks ago. Dreamed I had parked my van on the lawn. Remembered that it's against city rules. Woke up, tried to tell myself to remember I needed to move the van in the morning for about a minute (or at least it felt like it) before deciding that I won't remember unless I write it down.

Picked up the pen and remembered that I sold the van about twenty years ago.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 24, 2016 10:42 PM (z/ZsK)

649 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 24, 2016 10:38 PM (BK3ZS)

Actually I think you are awake it's just that your body's defense against injuring yourself while asleep is this paralysis and that sometimes you wake while still in that defense state.

Posted by: Daniel at August 24, 2016 10:42 PM (MNgU2)

650 Speaking to me from heaven, perhaps.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 24, 2016 10:34 PM
*******
Awwww, Pug, that's a very sweet take on a sad dream. I wish I had the ability to do that.

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 10:43 PM (6IPEM)

651 Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 24, 2016 10:42 PM (z/ZsK)

That's funny.

Posted by: Daniel at August 24, 2016 10:43 PM (MNgU2)

652 Shaaaaaarooooon! I've just dreamt that the children had been turned into the Osmonds!

Posted by: Zettai "Ozzie" Ryoiki at August 24, 2016 10:43 PM (kP16F)

653 472 Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 24, 2016 10:07 PM (FYrz1)

Oh yeah, heights scare me shitless.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:08 PM (0mRoj)

I am so petrified of heights that I can't even look up at something that is very tall. I can't stand to watch people up high or climbing things. I'm that bad.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 24, 2016 10:43 PM (CFc5L)

654 Does anyone ever have the dream of the guy in the red and black sweater and the knife fingers? Or is that just me?

Posted by: V the K at August 24, 2016 10:44 PM (jn7FC)

655 Dreams are a unique brain language. For instance a appearance of a piano mightmean undone practice to one person or memories of a certain bar or grandmothers house to another.
Posted by: Shiggz at August 24, 2016 10:40 PM (e7vCJ)

Yeah, like dreams of walking into a cigar shop, and there's a guy carrying a cane, and a rolled up newspaper, and snakes crawling all over the floor. And Ron Jeremy.

Could mean just about anything.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2016 10:45 PM (Pz4pT)

656 Speaking to me from heaven, perhaps.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 24, 2016 10:34 PM
*******
Awwww, Pug, that's a very sweet take on a sad dream. I wish I had the ability to do that.
Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 10:43 PM (6IPEM)

I have a weirdly vivid dreamscape in general, but those dreams always stand out. I will think about them all day long.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 24, 2016 10:45 PM (om6Aw)

657 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2016 10:42 PM (zc3Db)
These are things little girls talk about at slumber parties. We didn't try to figure out how anyone would know that. We also used to play light as a feather stiff as a board and Bloody Mary.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 24, 2016 10:46 PM (x4Ocx)

658 *scooches away from V the K and makes a pot of coffee*

Posted by: no good deed at August 24, 2016 10:46 PM (9nt94)

659 Oh, 1 dream that I have a tough time figgering out.

1) My Nemesis. Yeah, it's exactly what you think.

I've had 2 dreams involving this guy trying to kill me. Always an urban setting. Lots of stairs and elevators and hallways. Must be Tomb Raider leftovers. I've had other Nemesis type dreams, but these stand out. They're intense.

Posted by: Corona at August 24, 2016 10:46 PM (ragzU)

660 Posted by: V the K at August 24, 2016 10:44 PM (jn7FC)
I wouldn't fall asleep if I were you.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 24, 2016 10:47 PM (x4Ocx)

661 I don't have nightmares. I have nightbears.

Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at August 24, 2016 10:47 PM (+wjl1)

662 Worst dream was staring out of the window of Reedville Elementary watching the radioactive particles (they were trailing smoke, ergo radioactive) rain down outside.
1962 was a really bad year. Everybody would panic when the siren would start at Reedville VFD.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 24, 2016 10:47 PM (FtrY1)

663 I always wake up in dreams I am about to die in too. I have dreams where I am accused of murder and in a Kafka like way evidence is presented against me even though I know I am innocent.
Posted by: cm9000 at August 24, 2016 10:41 PM (Y/5qL)
*******
If you haven't read all the comments, that is a recurring dream for a lot of people here. I don't really get all the weird I Missed My Final Exam!!! dreams except that you're a bunch of nerds.

And, thanks, Corona.

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 10:47 PM (6IPEM)

664 {{{moron horde}}}

My dreams are about my long gone mother visiting and being lost in HS and not being able to find my locker. Or missing a final in kollige. Haven't have a falling one in a long time.

Posted by: Infidel at August 24, 2016 10:49 PM (oFysi)

665
Oh yeah, heights scare me shitless.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:08 PM (0mRoj)

I am so petrified of heights that I can't even look up at something that is very tall. I can't stand to watch people up high or climbing things. I'm that bad.
Posted by: washrivergal at August 24, 2016 10:43 PM (CFc5L)

Oh yes. Real fears. I fear heights. I love flying, but the thought of climbing a ladder to the roof of my house is terrifying, and as I get older and less certain of my physical ability to, you know, not fall off a ladder, becomes less certain, I am less able to just scamper up a ladder.

But I have taken the elevator to the top of the Space Needle in Seattle, so there's that. It might be more of an ucsecured ladder thing than anything else.

Oh, and rapelling. Fuck that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 24, 2016 10:49 PM (om6Aw)

666 Frustration dreams -- been there. used to have the running-in-quicksand dream a lot, and the cant-get-out-the-driveway dream. The havent-been-to-class-all-semester dream is really just me remembering college while I'm asleep. My current frustration dream involves golf: I'm playing on this ridiculously unfair course where the fairways are bordered by oaks so close together that they touch, so you cant hit a shot in the air, or the entire hole is a dense forest, and/or the greens are kitchen tables, so the only way to hole out is to chip it in, or you have to tee off from inside a house thru a tiny window across the room. The worst of these is the one where the first tee box is concrete, and I'm trying to find a crack to put the tee in, and when I finally do it's in a spot where i cant draw the club back without hitting a tree limb, so i look for another crack. This seems to go on for hours, and I NEVER get to swing at the damn ball.

Posted by: A Wish Called Fonda at August 24, 2016 10:51 PM (ORylZ)

667 These are things little girls talk about at slumber parties. We didn't try to figure out how anyone would know that.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 24, 2016 10:46 PM (x4Ocx)

It's not just little girls. I heard the same story (if you die in a dream then you die in real life) when I was a kid. I used to laugh at it and ask people how that, if it were true, could ever be known? There are few of those same types of things that people pass around without realizing that they are impossible to ever determine, if they even were true - and impossible to refute since it's just one person's word about a totally private experience.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2016 10:53 PM (zc3Db)

668 If you haven't read all the comments, that is a recurring dream for a lot of people here.

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 10:47 PM (6IPEM)

I didn't know that was common. Makes me feel a little less crazy.

Posted by: cm9000 at August 24, 2016 10:55 PM (Y/5qL)

669 Oh yes. Real fears. I fear heights. I love flying, but the thought of climbing a ladder to the roof of my house is terrifying, and as I get older and less certain of my physical ability to, you know, not fall off a ladder, becomes less certain, I am less able to just scamper up a ladder.

But I have taken the elevator to the top of the Space Needle in Seattle, so there's that. It might be more of an ucsecured ladder thing than anything else.

Oh, and rapelling. Fuck that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 24, 2016 10:49 PM (om6Aw)

Won't go up on the space-needle. Period. Last week my son had me laughing at myself when he saw that I wouldn't go up above the second rung of a ladder to put tape up on a gutter so we could paint. He pointed out how I was using 2-inch strips of masking tape at a time. It was hilarious when I scoped myself out on that one.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 24, 2016 10:55 PM (CFc5L)

670 No scary, but this is a dream that has stuck with me for nearly 20 years.

The set-up is at the time of this dream, money was tight. Additionally, this dream occurred around the time the boxing movie "Play it to the Bone" with Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas was in theaters.

So that's the setup: he's what happened in the dream...

Woody Harrelson, Antonio Banderas and I are driving across the American southwest when we all decide to pull over for snacks. We pull over to a fairly elaborate road stop and I head to an ATM for cash. I ask for $20, but the machine spits out $2000.

At the time, this was a LOT of money for me and I desperately tried to deposit the money back into my bank account to no avail. That's when Woody Harrelson steps in and says, "Hey, I'll watch your money for you!"

Antonio Banderas then speaks up and says that giving my money to Woody Harrelson is a bad decision. For whatever reason, I decide to trust Woody and give him the cash.

So I'm wandering around the truck stop, pick up my snacks and soda and head for checkout. I run into Antonio Banderas on the way out and he's all like, "I warned you."

Antonio Banderas and I go out to the parking lot and there's Woody Harrelson standing next to the car with horse and a six foot chicken.

That's right, Woody Harrelson blew my life saving on horse and a six foot chicken.

I. Am. PISSED. I trusted Woody Harrelson and he betrayed me. I charge him with the intent of BEATING him like a pi�ata.

I began to wake-up but not before Woody Harrelson says something that has haunted me for years since then.

"Okay, I know the horse was over the top! But dude IT'S A SIX FOOT TALL CHICKEN!"

This was one of the few times I woke up angry. I mean, I'm fucking ready to punch someone.

For years afterward, whenever I saw Woody Harrelson i wanted to fucking punch him right in the g'damned mouth.

-The End-

Posted by: hack at August 24, 2016 10:55 PM (BaRoZ)

671 472
Oh yeah, heights scare me shitless.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:08 PM (0mRoj)

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrN6PzhiyWo

Note the sections that have already crumbled.

Posted by: rickl at August 24, 2016 10:55 PM (sdi6R)

672 Had another dream, very weird, a few times:

Rain-slick streets shine black under streetlamps. A few lights in windows. all the buildings are three-storey, brick, with slate roofs.

It's raining, cool but not unbearable, and I can see, over the rise of a hill, what looks like the glow of a brightly-lit city or town on the other side, and I'm filled with this urge to get over there - I know I have to get there.

But I have to get off the streets. For some reason, I know it's not safe walking around in the open, so I have to try to make my way through the houses and buildings - they're all connected, somehow, and it is possible, but I have to move fast. I'm storming through people's houses, kitchens, bedrooms, hallways.

The other one, I'm cold and wet and have to ford a river under artillery and small arms fire - I have no idea why I have this dream. The far river bank is high, too high to scale. I smell wet wool and horses and mud. I'm cold and terrified. I make it to the other bank, somehow, and then I hear a high whine in my ears, and suddenly I feel very warm and comfortable, and I lie down in the mud and sleep.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 24, 2016 10:55 PM (lutOX)

673 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2016 10:53 PM (zc3Db)
I never thought to be the contrarian. As an adult, yeah how would anyone know that's why they died.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 24, 2016 10:57 PM (x4Ocx)

674
Odd dreams

o I am in grad school and learn that I won't get my Ph.D. because I actually did not earn my B.S. degree for having failed to take an English class (I used to have this one time and again about fifteen years ago).

o I am staying in a house similar to the frat house where I lived during my first year in grad school but it has an entire extra (third) floor which is accessed only with difficulty, is huge and is falling apart -- it is creepy and I can't figure out why I am up there.

o This isn't a dream, but we have two places -- one in Wilmington and one in Sussex County. There have been numerous times when I have awakened in the middle of the night, groggily looked around the darkened room with dimly lit areas that mark the location of windows and convinced myself that I am in the other house instead of the one in which I actually am.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 24, 2016 10:57 PM (BK3ZS)

675 In another version of that river-crossing dream, I make it across and fight my way into a small town. there's a church or something there, and I make my way up a spiral staircase on the outside to a high tower. Big wooden door, bound in iron, and when I force it open, inside I see - to my utter shock - my angel, with a group of children behind her. She;s relieved it's me, and I'm utterly dumbstruck, because somehow I know there's no way she's supposed to be within a thousand miles of this place. I sit down on the floor, then sort of curl up and sleep.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 24, 2016 10:58 PM (lutOX)

676 671 472
Oh yeah, heights scare me shitless.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:08 PM (0mRoj)

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrN6PzhiyWo

Note the sections that have already crumbled.
Posted by: rickl at August 24, 2016 10:55 PM (sdi6R)

Nope. Nope nope nope. Taking the nope train to Fuckthatville.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2016 10:59 PM (0mRoj)

677 Ont up.

Posted by: Hanoverfist at August 24, 2016 11:00 PM (TnxsG)

678 I used to surf back in the day. I was OK.
My nightmare is of a wave. A big, beautiful wave.
I can't decide to go for it, but I am a little late.
The wave grows and grows, and me, I am just along for the ride.
It breaks.
I wake up.

Posted by: navybrat at August 24, 2016 11:02 PM (w7KSn)

679 Wow, we're nearly up to 700 comments and we have stayed on subject. There is hope for us yet.

Posted by: L, Elle at August 24, 2016 11:02 PM (6IPEM)

680 Posted by: CaliGirl at August 24, 2016 10:57 PM (x4Ocx)

BTW, if you noticed, that particular kids' tale made its way into the first Matrix movie (and was one of the foundations of that mangling of a great story).

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 24, 2016 11:02 PM (zc3Db)

681 I also had the dammit-I'm-smoking-again dream for nearly a year after I quit, and I totally get the emotional resonance others have felt who have had it. By way of comparison, I have also dreamed that I killed someone, and the sense of guilt, the finality of how big you've just fucked up, in both dreams is the same.

Posted by: A Wish Called Fonda at August 24, 2016 11:07 PM (ORylZ)

682 Endorians an their dreams.....

Empires were built on less.

Posted by: Gary Busey's Cocaine Nostalgia at August 24, 2016 11:08 PM (zYOhH)

683 I don't have nightmares. I have nightbears.

Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at August 24, 2016 10:47 PM (+wjl1)

Come to me, my love, my honey and your turd box will be mine all night long.

Posted by: a bear at August 24, 2016 11:21 PM (GXgiy)

684 I loved the dream where I had an argument with my mother in an urban setting. (We were suburbans.) We were inside a massively huge glass and steel aviary. I guess I won the argument and all the glass shattered and fell down to make a point. It was YUGE.

Posted by: Corona at August 24, 2016 11:24 PM (ragzU)

685 Well now that I've read the comments, I see that Insomniac and L'Elle have had similar "sinister hovering stranger" dreams. Glad I'm not the only one terrified. Best dreams have been the two I've had in the three years since my Mom passed away where she plans an elaborate surprise birthday party for me (I literally woke up weeping tears of joy) and one where I felt like I woke up in the middle of the night and went up to some imaginary 3rd floor library in my house to find her sitting by a cozy fire and telling me she had some books recommendations to help me with the trials of raising teenagers.

Posted by: cricket at August 24, 2016 11:44 PM (ohUEV)

686 BurtTC
Haha thanks for the laugh

Posted by: Shiggz at August 24, 2016 11:46 PM (lFxRi)

687 When my waking days are a post obama election hillary vs trump id's the choice and gope turned against us
And all i can do irant about where we went wrong on an anonymous message bored... Well lets just say nightmares are a welcome distraction.

Posted by: Shiggz at August 24, 2016 11:51 PM (lFxRi)

688 Being out of ammo

Posted by: The guy with the hair at August 25, 2016 12:07 AM (KWnVn)

689 @688 the guy with the hair.

I have happy dreams now that involve Free shipping on crates of ammo and scoring military surplus firearms at ungodly low prices.

It wasn't always that way. I used to have this recurring dream in my teens concerning a vampire. Not the suave eastern european tuxedo wearing kind. It was the bald, bat eared, long clawed nosferatu type. Every night he would creep closer in the dream. Outside the house the first night, inside the second, coming up the stairs the 3rd night, at my bedroom door , then hovering at the bedside. The final night it bit me, I woke up screaming and never had that dream since.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 25, 2016 12:17 AM (cCxiu)

690 I had a dream with a roll of credits at the end. I can't remember if my name was in the credits but seems it was.

Posted by: goodluckduck at August 25, 2016 12:18 AM (iD/ez)

691 689
Have a buddy who has that on hard drive.
Watch it every Halloween as we are preparing the home brew for the coming festivities.

Seems to add to the ambience.

Posted by: The guy with the hair at August 25, 2016 12:30 AM (KWnVn)

692 Yep sum great and ugly crap stored in our brains

Posted by: Shiggz at August 25, 2016 12:38 AM (G7wcY)

693 My nightmare is that my wife and my girlfriend meet.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at August 25, 2016 12:54 AM (Hm4tY)

694
I had a recurring dream when I was married that my wife would leave me. It happened off and on for seventeen years. I mentioned it to her and her response was that it was silly.

"Where would I go?", she asked. Not exactly the most reassuring answer.

On a February night she blindsided me and told me she wanted a divorce. Within about six weeks I packed up my stuff and left my house and family.

Interesting how dreams can release legitimate fears of things over which you know you have no control.

Posted by: Levin at August 25, 2016 01:30 AM (iZGeA)

695 Wow. I have had the same dream, a bit different in the details but the same theme. Slowly becoming smaller and smaller until the inability to perceive those tiny distances becomes unbearable and terrifying. I haven't had it in 20 years. More of a teenage thing but I'll never forget it.

Posted by: Atom dream at August 25, 2016 02:09 AM (1ygdM)

696 Sad to have missed this post. Had some work today. The temptation to post is too great, and I pray not to blow up the blog...

But enough about me.

ace, your dream reminds me of that song in Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, about how small and insignificant we are. The stars, the galaxies, the universe, the eternity, like that camera pulling away and revealing you to be an irrelevant, infinitesimally small particle among immutable forces and l

aws, objects and spaces of incomprehensible scale.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Drooper at August 24, 2016 08:58 PM (5o5ek)

As a child, when I had a fever, yeah. Similar to your description, Ace. My sense was one of riding along within a stacked series of sine waves or ocean waves, like a grain of sand within...floating. Mesmerizing, while being both comforting and disturbing all at the same time.

Never talked about it with anyone, let alone imagined anyone else may have experienced anything similar. There's something comforting in that. Cool post. Thank you!

Posted by: EyeTest at August 25, 2016 02:22 AM (5x9My)

697 I've had my fair share of nightmares.

Getting overwhelmed by zombies or spiders is sure to get me waking up.
I still remember my most bizarre dream turned nightmare:

I'm climbing onto a roof via a ladder, I get to the top and there's an army of toddlers and Robocop's there. One of the toddlers throw a teddy bear at me. And I begin falling, but I end up soaring into the air. I start to run really fast, for no reason, but upside down and I see a gigant steel bridge. I collide with it and the dream's over.

Oddly enough the most frightning dream was simply this:

In the dream, I woke up and apparentely I had overslept and missed an important college exam. In the dream I begin to sob and panick. I woke up screaming so loudly and sweating that morning that I startled my parents.

College was an interestingly stressing point in my life.

Posted by: CC at August 25, 2016 03:27 AM (G0zje)

698 I used to have two. The first was as if looking down into a tornado. Black, but I could see the swirl. And I would drop and there would be no end. I eventually became the swirl. Dreamed that many times.

The other was of falling. Falling off cliffs, out of trees, from airplanes, you name it. It also was part of the above. Only, in these, sometimes I hit bottom. I don't know if you can die... yes, you can die in dreams. Or I did. Just not when falling, even when hitting. At least that never killed me, just woke me. Anyway... for this group, I learned to fly. I had already figured out the above, so don't know if flying would have helped in those nightmares.

Posted by: Doom at August 25, 2016 03:50 AM (4JtYT)

699 I sleep with my hands under my pillow, and often they fall asleep and get pins-and-needles: if this happens as I dream they turn into dry, shriveled, almost numb claws that resemble the Skeksies' hands from The Dark Crystal.

Sometimes I dream I'm in a fabulous historic building, hunting ghosts. There will be some evidence proving the place is indeed haunted, and when I turn to my companion to say "see? I told you so!" the air is sucked out of the place and the ghost creates a noise that swells and fills my head like no noise imaginable. I wake up trying to scream.

Worse than the not-being-able-to-run-dreams, I have these dreams where I'm tilted at a 45-degree angle. Everybody else stands normally, but I'm tilted. There's nothing I can do to orient myself straight, or to focus my eyes, or even speak without a leaden tongue getting in the way. I can't really walk, bc the tilt is so disorienting that I can't move.

The weirdest recurring dreams are about bathrooms. I'm in a house with many large and unusual bathrooms-- with large sunken tubs, or his and hers showers, or three tubs and two toilets in one room; passages from one bathroom to another.. Like an Escher painting of bathrooms. I don't use them for bathing or anything, I'm just touring through. I have no idea what that dream is telling me.

Posted by: Go to bed, mom at August 25, 2016 04:16 AM (UI5zK)

700 I had a dream for seven and a half-years that we elected a Communist terrorist-sympathizer president, and he did everything he could to turn this country into a third-world hell-hole, swirling the drain.

Still haven't woken up.

But I hope to on Jan. 20th.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 25, 2016 06:51 AM (Ndje9)

701 Teeth falling out dream? Check.

Need to run away but can't? Yep.

Childhood nightmare #1: Being held prisoner by a witch in her attic. Look up thru skylight and see lightning outside in the shape of a skull and crossbones, which is somehow terrifying.

Childhood nightmare #2: Am I my parents bedroom. Look out the window and see a helicopter land in the backyard. Soldiers with guns get out and are looking for us to kill us. Lying on the floor below the window, pressed against the wall as tightly as possible, trying to be as still and quiet as possible, so they won't notice me.

Posted by: Mamma B at August 25, 2016 07:02 AM (8Eujs)

702 My nightmares are always about needing desperately to shoot something but for some reason the guns never work. The bullets are duds or just poot out with no force at all.

Posted by: major major major major at August 25, 2016 07:30 AM (rhjqd)

703 My reoccurring nightmare is the "radio station studio that doesn't work" -- I am trying to pull a shift at a radio station where ... can't find the music library to make up a play-list, there are gaps in the banks of cd/record/tape players, the control board is all out of order and none of the switches/controls are connected ... and it's two minutes to air-time and I can't figure it all out in time ...
This nightmare pops up every couple of months or so, usually when I am stressing about something.

Posted by: Sgt. Mom at August 25, 2016 09:50 AM (xnmPy)

704 Life is but a dream `specially tha sexy ones

Posted by: saf at August 25, 2016 10:27 AM (+zN6H)

705 Before my qualifying exams for my medical specialty, I had a recurring nightmare a few times a week - and even for years after the exam.

I was taking a course in University for easy credits - some BS Sociology thing or something - but never went to any of the classes. When I finally showed up, it turned out I had missed multiple exams. When I went to the registrar to drop out, it turned out I was too late so I would get an F. I would always wake up anxious and sweating. Not fun.

Posted by: Lurker primus at August 25, 2016 10:39 AM (B3qs7)

706 Some background: I played basketball in college at a small NAIA school.

I have a recurring dream in the middle of August. I dream that I haven't been working out like I should have and I am getting ready to go to college and I am terrified that the first pre-season practice is just going to be hell.

Has happened every year for 15 years now.

Posted by: mullingthingsover at August 25, 2016 10:59 AM (CmpB+)

707 I had quite a few recurring dreams/night terrors:

teeth falling out
the test I was clueless about
legs like lead or stuck in tar when you need to run away

Flying. Flying is the best. Still have those occasionally.

One of the worst...

Background: When I was very young, the toilet at my aunt's house sometimes backed up and overflowed. They still had an old outhouse and I preferred to go out there; was less scared of falling into the cesspit than I was of the indoor commode that might run over.

In the recurring nightmare, I would be in a bathroom and the toilet was overflowing. But the door was locked and there was no escape. The toilet kept barfing out water and the room was filling up, all the way to the ceiling.

In the dream, I never drowned. If the room had a window, sometimes it would break and send me shooting outside along with all the bathroom accessories. Otherwise, I always woke up just before drowning.

Posted by: EyeTest at August 25, 2016 12:07 PM (5x9My)

708 Huh...I would have thought that Trump was haunting your dreams.

Posted by: DFCtomm at August 25, 2016 12:26 PM (YCHV2)

709 My most memorable recurring dreams always involved airplanes. One of my best friends in high school went on to become an A-6 Navigator; tragically, he died in a training accident. It affected me a great deal, and for many a long time after that I would find myself viewing the cockpit from a spot behind the pilot and navigator, who sit side by side. (I had never been close to an A-6, but I always knew exactly what the cockpit would look like - I've checked with photos later, and yeah, the dream was right) Then I would try to warn the pilot about the downdraft he was about to run into, and that his altitude was way too low - but I was like a ghost, and no one could hear me. The ghost in the machine, that was me. We'd hit the downburst and pancake into the desert floor almost instantly, which is when I would snap awake in a sweat. At least I know that they never really knew what hit them.

It's not true what they say happens if you die in your dreams - I've died too many times to count, and when it happens you just wake up drenched in sweat with your heart pounding and a ringing in your ears.

At least so far.

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