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What weird dreams have you had lately or not so lately? Spill the oddness that your brain comes up with while you're dozing off, here. As I started the thread, I'm gonna go first. Here's a dream I had this morning:

I was on a holiday in Spain with my family and a friend of mine (I think I myself was Donald Duck for some reason, but that's irrelevant to the story). We were at the beach and suddenly I had a terrible hurry to go and take a dump. There were these stairs leading to a level with doors to toilets on a big building next to the beach. I walked up there, but noticed that every WC was either occupied or not clearly enough marked for me to see whether it was for men or women. Also every time one freed up, some bastard slipped in there in seconds right past me. Then finally I came to a door that I thought must be a free toilet, but it turned out to be minimarket instead...

There actually was a toilet bowl out in the open right next to the cashier, but I decided not to use it, since that would've been kinda embarrasing. The entrance to the shop was really narrow, but for some reason I squeezed myself in anyway. When I finally got in, a local looking man with a moustache pointed a gun at me and said he was gonna rob me. I of course didn't let him do this, but instead ran and squeezed myself right back out of the shop. Unfortunately there was a black woman dressed like some secret agent with a gun also pointed at me right outside the shop. Before she could say anything, I started running away from her too down the stairs inside the building.

I could hear her, the man with the moustache and other people chasing after me. I started to realize that this wasn't just a simple robbery, it must've been some conspiracy against me, going back at least to the point where nobody would "let" me in a toilet. I also knew that if I wouldn't pick up my pace, they would catch me. I started taking bigger and bigger leaps down the stairs (there were loads of them), but knew that it still wouldn't be enough to get away from those people. That's when it occured to me: "This is a dream, I can do anything I want!"

When I made my next leap down the stairs, I started to flap my arms in a rapid fashion and yes indeed, my feet never touched the ground again, I was flying! I flew out of the building and into the skies of Spain. I could see the whole town beneath me and got higher and higher with the help of airstreams. I did flips in the air and played with a crow that joined me in my journey through the skies. Then the wind started to die out and I was loosing strentgh so I knew I had to land somewhere.

When I reached the ground I immediately woke up. Intrigued by this dream I decided to write it down, but for some reason I couldn't turn on any of the lights in my room. I remembered that we were supposed to have a temporary blackout this morning, so I just walked to open my curtains to let the sunlight in. Then I noticed that there were too many vines outside of the window that it was no use. I started to here a kitten meowing somewhere and instantly knew (as my dreams continuosly feature cats) that I was still dreaming and only then really woke up. :)

We didn't really have a blackout and there really aren't too many vines outside my window to let the sun in, but when I woke I still really had to poop. :lol: This was also the first time I ever lucid dreamed and it was cool as heck. :D
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hehehehe cool.
yeah i've had dreams about needing the toilet, when i actually need the toilet, and recently i had one where i was really, really thirsty, and no amount i drank would quench it, and when i woke up i was indeed really really thirsty, thanks to an incoming hangover...
i also have loads of dreams where i can fly. they're cool :D
i don't normally have lucid dreams where i'm aware i'm dreaming tho.
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I can never remember my dreams....

Although the most memorable one I had recently was one involving an intimate liaison with a friend of mine :shock:

I'd never thought of her like that before, made it a bit awkward when I went out with her and her boyfriend the other night.

Still it was a FANTASTIC dream :D

Normally I dream aboot boring stuff; like milk or buttons.
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i wish i would know that i was dreaming in my dreams.. i would do a lot of stuff different :D

i did use to have some flying dreams a long while ago. strange that the flying in the dream doesn't trigger something like "a human being can't fly, you are dreaming" effect.
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Timbob wrote:strange that the flying in the dream doesn't trigger something like "a human being can't fly, you are dreaming" effect.
In my understanding it almost never does. I actually had made a bit of an effort to be able to lucid dream, which probably made it possible. I read from somewhere that to be able to do it, it's useful to keep a dreamdiary where you instantly write down the dream you just saw when you wake up (mainly just so that you won't forget what you just saw). It was the first night I decided to try it out and actually first saw a normal dream, then woke up, wrote it down very tired and then quickly fell back to sleep to see the dream I told about earlier. I guess the diary thing to keep my brain ready to write down stuff instantly, the sleep being very light (since I had already slept) and the fact that this lucid dreaming stuff had been in my mind for quite awhile combined made it happen.

What originally got me interested in lucid dreaming is actually another kinda interesting sleep related story:

I had just had a really fatty lunch in a pizzeria near my house and was now watching some old Japanese samurai movie in my parents bedroom, when I started to drowse off. Before I actually fell asleep I decided to walk to my own bed to have my nap there. After I had slept a bit I woke up to a really weird feeling. I was completely paralyzed! I couldn't move a muscle and it was even a bit difficult to breathe. Yet I was sure as I ever could be, that I was absolutely, fully awake. Then I started noticing huge, cat-sized spiders crawling on top of me. That was f*cked up, as I still knew for sure I wasn't sleeping. It's a good thing I'm not afraid of spiders and actually started soon thinking that they were kinda cool. Yet when I regained feeling back to my limbs, I just shook the spiders off. Then I walked back to my parents room, continued watching the movie I was watching when I went to sleep in the first place. Then I saw a normal dream and woke up from my own bed in my room again! :shock:

I'm still not exactly sure what happened that day but it sure as heck was weird! I'm almost certain I experienced both sleep paralysis and false awakening back to back. The spiders I must've just hallucinated, but I wonder if I actually at some point (sleep)walked to my parents room and back during this session. :? Anyway, when I read about these two phenomena in wikipedia, I noticed that they're both conditions closely linked to lucid dreaming and that (plus an article in a science magazine that said it wasn't just new-age nonsense) got me so interested in it...
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Kvagga wrote:I had just had a really fatty lunch in a pizzeria near my house and was now watching some old Japanese samurai movie in my parents bedroom, when I started to drowse off. Before I actually fell asleep I decided to walk to my own bed to have my nap there. After I had slept a bit I woke up to a really weird feeling. I was completely paralyzed! I couldn't move a muscle and it was even a bit difficult to breathe. Yet I was sure as I ever could be, that I was absolutely, fully awake. Then I started noticing huge, cat-sized spiders crawling on top of me. That was f*cked up, as I still knew for sure I wasn't sleeping. It's a good thing I'm not afraid of spiders and actually started soon thinking that they were kinda cool. Yet when I regained feeling back to my limbs, I just shook the spiders off. Then I walked back to my parents room, continued watching the movie I was watching when I went to sleep in the first place. Then I saw a normal dream and woke up from my own bed in my room again! :shock:
i've had that a few times - once quite recently while i was away in blackpool for the weekend... sleep paralysis is properly bizarre, because you feel fully conscious but can't move a muscle, yet also the dreaming part of your brain still seems to be going so you do hallucinate things. very freaky :?

*edit* oh yeah and this most recent time, i kept slipping between the sleep paralysis state and normal dreaming. headfuck.
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What I sometimes get is a feling of being awake, but unable to open my eyes. Of course, as soion as I can't open my eyes I start imagining that there is someone in the room.

I also get the running away from people but you can only do it in slow-motion type dream.

I've never dreamt I was shagging a person I know, which is quite a relief really. Who knows WHO might appear...
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I remember years ago, I had a dream I was a heroin addict (?). Wasn't the most pleasant of dreams, but the weird thing was when I woke up I was absolutely wankered...

This feeling lasted at least half an hour after I woke up, I was completely twatted.
Apparently I was talking crap (not an uncommon thing for me to do first thing in the morning) and generally bumping into things and laughing at wallpaper.

The walk to school that morning was a bit of a mission!!

I have no idea what was released inside my head for me to synthesize the feeling of being smacked up (I would like to emphasize the point that I have never dabbled in smack before), but I have never experienced a dream where such strong sensation had been affecting me even after I woke.
I've never dreamt I was shagging a person I know, which is quite a relief really. Who knows WHO might appear...
Thats the thing about dreams, completely random and bizarre.
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davemacfrombath wrote:What I sometimes get is a feling of being awake, but unable to open my eyes.
That reminds me that I sometimes get into a state between sleep and being awake, where the sounds from other folks in my house mix with the happenings in my dream until someone (in real life) says something that doesn't fit the plot of the dream at all and then I wake up.

Also, memly, that heroin stuff sounds pretty nasty. The closest I can think of, off stuff happening in dreams affecting me after I wake up, is when I get one of those love dreams where there's some completely hot chick and we get a relationship going on and then just as things are getting good I wake up. That just makes me pissed off for the rest of the day every time. :P

Oh and hippydave I can imagine what a mindf*ck going back and forth into the paralysis state must be. There must be a sort of "stuck-in-a-horrible-limbo"-feeling going on.

BTW, anyone ever have those falling to your death dreams, where you wake up at the moment you die and the muscles in your body make a big twitch when that happens? I heard they're pretty common actually. I used to have them when I was younger. Fascinating stuff this...
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Kvagga wrote:BTW, anyone ever have those falling to your death dreams, where you wake up at the moment you die and the muscles in your body make a big twitch when that happens? I heard they're pretty common actually. I used to have them when I was younger. Fascinating stuff this...
i don't remember having any actual falling-to-your-death dreams, but i have had a milder version fairly often, where i'm walking along in my dream and i trip over, and again at the moment i'd hit the ground i'd wake up with a big jerk (so to speak, not insulting any of my past bed partners :P )
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i typed a whole story here, then i pushed "preview" and my browser crashed!

in short.

the tripping and falling in a dream and then making weird movements happens a lot here. usually when someone is sleeping next to me, I always sleep lighter then.

i have a lot of waking up with a dead arm. the first time i had that i was scared :shock: I ran to my parents screaming "MY ARM ISN'T WORKING!" when i reached them i could move my fingers already... :D

Last night i dreamed i ate a 10 pound marsh mellow, when i woke up my pillow was gone.

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Timbob wrote:usually when someone is sleeping next to me, I always sleep lighter then.
i read a report recently that men generally sleep better when they're alone in the bed, and women sleep better with someone else.
science telling it like it is.
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hippy dave wrote:
Timbob wrote:usually when someone is sleeping next to me, I always sleep lighter then.
i read a report recently that men generally sleep better when they're alone in the bed, and women sleep better with someone else.
science telling it like it is.
If all women sleep together, the problem is solved. :D
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Timbob wrote:usually when someone is sleeping next to me, I always sleep lighter then.
What about when you're sleeping on three chairs in a room with three other forum members? :D

I have lots of weird dreams - the other day I was back in Canada, riding the bus... only it was never the right bus, and then I was in the station, sitting down on the escalator while going down... I dunno.
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stargurl wrote:
Timbob wrote:usually when someone is sleeping next to me, I always sleep lighter then.
What about when you're sleeping on three chairs in a room with three other forum members? :D
minus and minus equals plus?
and btw i danced my ass off so i was dead tired anyway, slept like a baby :D

woke up like one too.
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