Strange dreams

[MandiC76]

I had a weird one a couple of months back. It started out great. I was living by a lake (which is my 2nd choice as to where to live, next to the ocean), and decided to walk the path that runs around the lake. Then it got weird.  I bumped into a man who was walking a not quite full grown lion on a leash.  After talking to him for several minutes, he let me walk the lion back to his house and put him in his crate. (Literally, it looked like a lion-sized dog crate.) As I walked home, I bumped into a friend and her daughter, and told them about walking the lion on a leash. I'm not really one to take much stock in dream meanings, but I had to look it up online.  The lake, the lion, and the leash all had something to do with control . . . . the dream came at a time where I was very much struggling with the lack of control over some things in my life.

[Cardboard Knee]

I recently had a feverish dream whilst ill, having just watched Strictly Come Dancing.
I was haunted by visions of ghostly dancers in long, luminous dresses weaving in and out of existence whilst the opening theme played on repeat.

This eventually somehow segued into me standing in a mobile library I'd spent some time in whilst at work over the summer, which somehow morphed into a large rowing boat. Next thing I knew, I was out in a stormy sea, with two people dressed up in full foul weather gear. One was rowing, the other was behind me, hunched over a bucket. Shortly after that, I came to, wondering what in the heck was going on.

[JonGirl]

This is so strange I just had to find this thread 

Anyway I was sitting front row at the Carole King/James Taylor concert enjoying the show when at the end they actually invited me backstage outside the venue to join them in a game of hockey!!!!!   


What the? We don't even get hockey in Australia!
It was so real it still in my mind and this happened about 3 nights ago. 


moral of the story must be: don't eat pizza at 11pm! 

[Petticoats]

I've had some doozies lately. Night before last was a murder mystery. Last night I was living in a gothic mansion in the 1950s, and David Niven and Charles Boyer came to visit. Even in my dream I was thinking, "Whoa, David Niven and Charles Boyer! Can't wait to post this in my Facebook status!" Then a train derailed nearby, and everyone in the mansion was called upon to help rescue efforts, including a coworker of mine, whose cross-stitch skills were crucial for some reason. (I don't think she does cross stitch in real life.)

[sbtier]

I can't watch animal shows at night or I dream of things like alligators chasing me through my house (I'm in New England, no alligators here).

I dream of helicopter crashes a lot.  I witnessed a fatal helicopter crash about 15 years ago.

[Cellardoor14]

In my strangest dream, I was an African-American man in my 60s who worked for the CIA.  In reality, I am a white woman in my 40s who has never worked for the CIA.

Oh thank goodness I'm not the only person who does that!  I can be myself or be someone completely different in dreams. Sometimes I'm not even present in the dream and the whole thing runs like a movie in front of me.

It's hard to explain dreams to other people like that though... "So there I was a mutant, teenage vampire caught between warring factions, in a post-apocalyptic future where humans are forced to live underground, when*.... "Wait- You were WHAT?"  "Well, obviously it wasn't ME-me."


*Yeah, that was an actual dream.... and I don't even like sci-fi  

[guihong]

This happened last night.   I was a college student at a school I've never seen before (it was called "Berkeley", but I've never been there, or even to the east side of the Bay).  I "watched" myself go to classes that in real life I have no knowledge of.  I had a gf, but I've never seen her before in real life  . 

What's creepy is that I Googled "Berkeley images", and some of the buildings were similar to the dream.

gui

[Solanna Dryden]

I dreamed just last night that I was a bridesmaid in Cameron Diaz's wedding, because I was her best friend. (LOLWHUT?) She was getting married in a church, but only for the backdrop because she wasn't really part of the religion. So my mom was insisting that I had to do my duty as part of the religion and embarass Cameron Diaz during her wedding, and I was all Noooo I can't do that! That's RUDE! And an 8-year-old version of my sister was running around trying to get us to stop fighting by beandipping. (My sister is 17 in real life)
The last thing I said to my mom before I woke up was "You need to visit Etiquettehell.com!"

[Amava]

I can't watch animal shows at night or I dream of things like alligators chasing me through my house (I'm in New England, no alligators here).

And I should stop watching videos of So You Think You Can Dance because a couple of nights ago I dreamt that Nigel Lythgoe was chasing me through the house (j/k) a friend of mine (who is a dancer) was taking part in it! And things didn't work out very well and then we were travelling and it was really weird and confusing.

[PeasNCues]

I had a dream that my late dog (Bourbon) could talk in spanish, curse in french and that he smoked cigarettes.

[Kimblee]

I often have dreams where I'm terrified of heights, but yet when I fall from them I'm not really bothered and just sort of "accept" it.

I also have dreams where I'm trying to go up a flight of stairs, just to find that at some point they become broken in sections, with "jury-rigged" sections to manuver, like bricks placed to climb up, or something made out of string. (Lots of variations on this) And I NEVER want to use these "replacements" but I alwasy end up dong so anyway.

Literally, I can FEEL crippling fear. It hurts! And sometimes I manage to make it to the higher stairs, but usually I fall off. (scary falling, not resigned falling) just to reach out and grapple at the sides of the stairs trying to pull myself back up.

I really wonder what my mind is trying to tell me with THOSE dreams.

[Bijou]

I have 'telephone dreams' where there is always a telephone that I am trying to use, but it doesn't work for some reason that I don't understand.  One time the dial was balanced on marbles and everytime I tried to dial it fell apart (yes, I was alive when there were dial phones, and no other kind).  These dreams have now expanded to include other things that won't work, like trying to open a door but the handle keeps coming off, or trying to pick something up but you can't.  I refer to all of these 'trying to do something that doesn't work dreams' as telephone dreams.  I don't know why I have them.

[Kaora]

I have a million weird dreams.  I always seem to have one on one similar theme, where I am out walking around my hometown (it's small enough, and we have plenty of desert out where I live  ), but something's always changed.  Sometimes, I see an extra road leading back towards my house.  Othertimes, I'll find houses along this road.  Lastly, it might be a subway tunnel too.  Whoo whoo! 

Just the other night, though, I had an interesting pair of dreams.

The first was I trying to whoo Adam Savage.  No, no complaints here.   

He had just gotten off set of a myth gone wrong and tried catching himself on fire.  Everyone seemed awed and revered him for surviving, but seemed to ignore the fact he was traumatized and just wanted to go home and take a break.  I shook all the fangirls off (defending my crush!  ) and we actually started dating.  Aaaah... I wonder what my actual BF would think of that. 

The other I was trying to woo Alton Brown.  I have a thing for wacky celebrities. 

In it, I walked into a restaurant with my real life boyfriend.  Not dating in the dream, for whatever reason.  I had to go to the bathroom, and this might be squicky, so highlight to read:

The bathroom was huge, and it only had two stalls.  In it, it was more like a lounge, only I knew it was supposed to be a bathroom, and full of ladies.  There were toilets in the two stalls, and some outside, and it seemed to have been that everyone took it upon themselves to take a crap ANYWHERE.  What's weirder, some of the crap was like multi-colored balls.  Plus, the two actual stalls had half walls making their back!

Walking out after taking one in such a disgusting place, I saw my BF's mother, and I honestly grew fearful of her and just about ran out the door.

Well, on my way out, I found out that my BF had walked out and gone home.  I started home and I met upon Alton Brown, and we chatted for a while, and he even led me home.  Sweet! 

I tried whooing him while he was teaching me how to cook.  It. was. AWESOME. 

[Dazi]

I had a strange dream the other night. 

I dreamed that my friends now and I were in my fourth grade classroom.  We were the students, but we were still all adults in my dream.  It was just weird.  Also, a few of us got stuck in those old wooden school desk...the teacher (who wasn't my fourth grade teacher) was yelling at us to take our seats.

[Suze]

potty dreams

as in I have to go and can't find one....

or the one I find is SO not right - no stalls - dirty - toilets that you have to stand up to pee in (anybody else remember those? girl urinials?)

and then I wake up to find that I have to GO NOW

I am surprised that I haven't had a childish accedent by now.....