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Waking Life aka The Dream Thread

During a shot nap I dreamed that I was browsing through a bazaar somewhere desert-ish and sunny.. each stand had strange figurines crafted from gemstones, marble and rare metals. I wondered how to pay for them until I noticed a sack in my hand (made from the same material as a rice bag) full of smaller figurines, which the individuals in each stand accepted for their wares.

This continued for a bit until I noticed a little weasel-looking critter by my feet. It seemed to be a mesh of animals with distorted anatomy and morphing features. I examined its face until something persuaded me to say "Oh so this is a dream."

At that point it felt that I was being engulfed in some sort of haze of vibrations and hoisted up or something to that effect. I did fully realize that I was dreaming and that the bazaar, the animal and all the people there were fabricated. I guess I was overwhelmed and seriously freaked out- I immediately woke up and jumped out of bed.
 
last night I had a dream I've never had before in 22 years:

I was wandering around in some inner city after dark, by myself. I decided, "this is a good place to have a gun for self protection," so I instantly had a pistol in my pocket. Sorry, but this next part just happened (I'm not racist!!): a black guy walked up to me and put a gun to my head. He told me to hand over everything I had, which was just the gun (no wallet, nothing). I handed it over, reluctantly...

I sort of followed this guy up an embankment, and a different black guy comes up and says he's gonna kill us both. Somehow I had another pistol, and shot the guy right in the head. He dropped dead. I ran into this house that appeared in the middle of the freeway, and there were kids running around in packs inside. I hid behind the door because I knew the other black guy was going to come in and try to kill me, so as the door swung open I started firing. I must have shot him 8 or 10 times, but I don't think he died.

After this, I sort of warped back to some strange version of my home, and I was talking my little brother. Somehow, he had witnessed everything that happened, and I talked gravely to him about the possibility of me spending my entire life in prison if they ever found out that I was the one who killed the man. My dream switched from my perspective to that of some Dick Tracey like detective, who was obviously going to find me the next day. The next night, I walked out to my garage, which was a self-storage unit, and a black car pulled up. Two detectives got out of the car, and before I knew it, there was the body of the guy I had killed, but he was dressed in a pimp's suit and had dreadlocks. They magically carried him out of the car and put him on what looked like a morgue slab that I had in MY GARAGE. They pressured me to admit I killed him, but I narrowly eluded them...

After that, I cannot remember the outcome...
WTF?!
 
just before I woke up I had a dream that I feel like I've had many times before. I am wondering through this old house that is like a maze. The doors are often barred off, or built like jail cells. I think the house is haunted, but not sure. I am always trying to make it to the last room of the house, retrieve something, and exit as fast as possible. The last room has a unique appearance, but upon waking, I cannot remember it. I think it was Terence McKenna that compared dreams to a DMT trip: it's the most vivid intense real experience, then you can't even recall what it was 5 minutes later.

Anyway, I retrieved this object, then was nearly out of the house instantly. Somehow, I was being chased by an animated body that had Heath Ledger's Joker head on it. He was right behind me, but we both got caught by this light ray that held us up in the air. I somehow escaped, and then I woke up...
 
someone give this a shot, i used to have this recurring dream whenever i would go to a concert when i was younger. i would be in a stadium of some sort, and my mom and dad were the king and queen of all of the people in the stadium. and in the center of the stadium is something i can only describe as an inky, black, mass. and it was considered the biggest thing ever made, and for some reason i associate a number in the millions with this thing, not a number in itself but just the words "a number in the millions." anyways, i get an indescribably negative vibe from the black mass, and whenever i focus on it i feel (another) thing i can only describe as an internal sonic boom, it completely wrecks my ego and consciousness. i also think i remember people in hovercrafts flying into the black mass, and pinprick feelings coming from the mass.

its a very vague, disturbing dream and whenever i would get it i would wake up in a sweat feeling like alot of time had passed when it was only a minute or so since i had turned off the lights to sleep. i wasnt scared when i would wake though, i would just feel really weird. probably just really tired..
 
Every night after a dentist appointment, i have these terrifying dreams that are pretty much night terrors because they are the most terrified i've ever felt and because i cant go back to sleep afterwards. Sometimes it is more intense than others but it is always terrifying.
 
A dream i'll never forget.

This was and still is one of the most truly horrifying experience's of my life, i get goosebumps just thinking about it.

About 1 month ago i had a dream about Hell, i dreamt that i was in some sort of institute.. a type of building that was somehow connected to a sports stadium, and within this institute you were given whatever you desired.. rooms with expensive furniture, wide screen TV's.. women or men at your request, and i began to question within this dream "Hell isnt so bad? I dont know what all the fuss is about'.. i dont remember if it was exactly as i made this realization or a little while after, but i began to notice significant change's within the environment.

This 'peaceful hell' started to become overcrowded.. the institute could no longer facilitate the amount of people congregating within its walls.. people began urinating and excreting feces in all area's of the building, arguments and violence erupted.. i was witnessing the essential breakdown of a society.

This was the climatic point of my dream, and caused me to wake up rather quickly, as a result of this i believed i entered sleep paralysis.. my body felt like it was been pushed down by something.. i looked up at my ceiling to see it glowing white.. and then looked down at my body to see it covered in pure darkness (at the time i assumed to resemble heaven and hell). And then the most disturbing, horrifying experience that still sends chills down my spine.. i began to hear a song play within my head with some guy singing.. and within a few seconds the mans voice was replaced with a very deep dark disturbing demonic voice.

I was so terrified i couldn't even breath and started to hyperventilate. I ended up forcing myself out of the paralysis.. at the time i didn't realize what i was experiencing was sleep paralysis.. i knew of it and read into a bit.. but having seen The Entity a few months before hand really put me into a fearful mind state.

I am an Atheist, so i found it odd i was dreaming about Hell in particular.. which may be why my interpretation of Hell was not of the traditional sense of fire and brimstone.. but of a collective society descending into chaos.
 
Last night I had a dream that I was in what I believe to be Hawaii with city areas resembling where I currently live, in albany NY. My friend of 13 years lived there at one point and I went a couple of times to see him. We were walking down to the beach together (my friend that lived there) and we were looking off into the ocean when a tidal wave started to form. We started running back into town and running down the right side of the street which looked like where I currently live, passing by a church on the left side of the street. When we got to the end of the road, at the other side of the street was a manilla colored 3 story building that looked a little beat up. I thought I would have been able to break down the door for shelter, but it was already open. We were going up the stairs when we finally reached the top where there was no door to the roof. we walked down one flight and started examining the rooms and In on of the rooms, a girl was sitting on a bed looking at us. I checked another room and there was a woman in what I believe a rocking chair, looking out a very dirty window. Then the dream ended.
 
i had my first lucid dream yesterday.

i was in "my room" and there was a pit full of insects and snakes. well someone visited my room and it was more like a prison cell, so i try and escape and keep running opening doors and after awhile i escape. outside i get into an empty car that had the keys in the ignition, this is when i become awake in my dream ... it was a great feeling. so i start the car and i see others on the road passing by but don't notice anyone driving, i think to myself these are other peoples dreams and were all like at an intersection of another reality. when im dreaming i forget how to drive a car because once i pull out on the road its like i have a hard time steering and going at a constant speed. i think im going to crash into another car but i don't im just zooming down the road i can feel im about to lose control of the car and i end up crashing /end dream
 
I didn't sleep much last night, but I did have a strange nightmare. I'm not going to describe it in detail right now, but I'll give the important details.

I had some kind of psychic powers. I knew that a tornado over 2 miles wide was going to hit this town in 3 days. I was trying to tell the people to get the fuck out of there, but it seemed like I was really high and I couldn't figure out how to convey the message. I'm pretty sure I was some kind of alien. The people chased me down and dragged me to this small shed where they tied me up and stuck hooks through my flesh and left me hanging from the ceiling to die. I was struggling in vain to get free. I had the knowledge that this was how I died in my past life in another universe. I could feel my life slipping away as I hung from the hooks. It was terrifying. I was being nice enough to help the mother fuckers and they repaid me by killing me.

I had another dream about a week ago that was much stranger. I am going to write that one down later today. I took some notes after it happened because it was so bizarre. I don't have time to write it out right now.
 
I had a rather unusual dream last night, confronting, inspiring.. possibly opening my eyes to a MAJOR issue within my present life as it stands.

I'm not too good at remembering dreams.. there's never a real 'start' or 'end' with me.. but more or less a middle ground that i can elaborate on.

The dream had to do with my relationship to my parents.

The dream initially took place within my parents house, and it started out with my mother and i having an argument about religion, in real life i dont believe shes religious.. shes never mentioned it ever or 'god' but in the dream she was religious and started to tell me how much im going to goto hell because i dont love her or my dad, i continued to argue my point of why i dont believe in religion of any kind (I explained in detail why i think this to her, but i wont go into that here). The major realization i had in this part of the dream is her telling me 'i dont love them' which i think has some truth to it.

The next part of the dream had to do with my father. I was in a friends house with him (somehow this friends house became his house) And he was angry at me for not spending more time with him.. he took me for a driving lesson (i dunno why i've had my license for 3.5years now) and as we were both in the car he complained about how much he doesn't like my views on the world,religion, music,politics,society.. because i have an open mind. And i brought up the topic of how much he doesn't like black people, and why and that he's not as perfect as he believes himself to be. (this part of the dream is hazy, because it was more complex, but ill try remember what i can) i then was going over to my other friends place 3 house's away.. but i felt i couldn't because i would upset him, instead of just going i stayed there for dinner.. but afterwards i took my car and drove over. He became quite mad at me.. gave me food and told me not to come back ever.

In both parts of the dream i battled with my parents in trying to understand why i cant love them, or find it very hard to because they are so strongly against my own views, that i exist as a totally different person to them.

This was probably the single most important dream i've ever had, most of my dreams are more or less random segments of my own real life issues, or social interactions.. piece's that dont really paint a picture. But this one hit the nail on the head with my relationship with my parents and put it into perspective through dreaming.

That's my brief interpretation of it.. or at least what i believe the message to be.
 
Can someone here please help me interpret my nightmare of last night. I have tried dream dictionaries, but i want further investigation. here it is:

I logged on to myspace IM like i do in waking like. I talked to my best friend, to find out that she was in a new relationship with my former lover. I spied on them and watched them do sexual things, feeling deep jealousy.

I ran away to a house, just to get away from it all. it was kind of a shack-like house. I was sneaking around, making sure the homeowners never knew i was there. I found peace in a deserted guest room.

At some point while i was in the house, i met a HUGE spider. probably bigger than my hand. It had all sorts of flattering, colorful designs on it, and had very long, vibrant blue legs. I panicked. Then it jumped. It was a jumping spider! It had jumped very far, I don't know where it went. I looked to my right, and saw a web filled with living night crawlers and fuzzy worms. I screamed and ran out of the house.

I reached my vehicle, desperately trying to get in, to run away from the spider. A man doing lawn work saw me and knew i had been in the house. I woke up.

I'm sure the dream was trying to tell me something about the feeling i have towards my ex. What are they?
 
well, what do you normally associate with spiders? what kind of house were you in? Any connection to childhood experiencs can be helpful here.

first of all, this dream represents a "wish" probly to have control of your previous or a new lover. but sex is definatley an element in this dream
 
i had a dream about time travel and was really weird.
ok so in my dream i somehow go into this room with toilet
cubicles going down a long row of about 5 of them. at the
end there was a place for showers worst thing is this was
for the public. i saw this guy but cant remember what he
was talking about i could remember a few words clearly but
most of the time it was just murmuring.

so i went into the toilet anyways and when i finished the guy
i was talking to crashed into it with a Ferrari. i quickly jumped on
to the bonnet (somehow) when he crashed inside. i shouted
what the hell to the guy and he said you hit me on the back of
the head didnt you. i said what the hell are you talking about.
for some reason there was a guy behind him and he started
running so we chased after the guy outside into this city i was
in and he just dissapeared. after this we somehow went back in
time and i was back to the begging of the dream again.

heres the weird thing. when we went back in time we knew that we
went back in time but for some reason, it was like we didn't now
what was to come, we only had a feeling of what was to
come. like we had no recollection what so ever.

so this happened three times and on the third time i
wanted to change something to see what happens
in the future so when i entered i must of made an
entrance tpo cause a bit of attention i cant remember. i
went to the guy and he said oh yer sorry about the giant
ants. there they were giant fucking ants. he said something
along the lines of "yer its the steam isnt it" mind fuck or
what then the same thing happened but i ended up running
onto this train that sent me to the moon. i coul go on about
this for ages but i think ive written enough
 
Process said:
Can someone here please help me interpret my nightmare of last night. I have tried dream dictionaries, but i want further investigation. here it is:

I logged on to myspace IM like i do in waking like. I talked to my best friend, to find out that she was in a new relationship with my former lover. I spied on them and watched them do sexual things, feeling deep jealousy.

I ran away to a house, just to get away from it all. it was kind of a shack-like house. I was sneaking around, making sure the homeowners never knew i was there. I found peace in a deserted guest room.

At some point while i was in the house, i met a HUGE spider. probably bigger than my hand. It had all sorts of flattering, colorful designs on it, and had very long, vibrant blue legs. I panicked. Then it jumped. It was a jumping spider! It had jumped very far, I don't know where it went. I looked to my right, and saw a web filled with living night crawlers and fuzzy worms. I screamed and ran out of the house.

I reached my vehicle, desperately trying to get in, to run away from the spider. A man doing lawn work saw me and knew i had been in the house. I woke up.

I'm sure the dream was trying to tell me something about the feeling i have towards my ex. What are they?
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Hey Process. It sounds like you have a close relationship with dream state, but you are allowing fear to control it and your waking life.

The Spider, a word in which I relate in metaphysics as the Enemy, more commonly known as Fear. I have seen this spider many times and all he wants to do is fuck with you.

You never properly concluded how you feel about your previous relationship, and because of this, you are allowing fear to control your life.

Once you get a grasp on your feelings and conclusions about not only how you feel, but what you are going to do with those feelings, then the Spider can't fuck with you anymore. He will lose all power.


What you did was consider one of your worst possible scenarios (best friend hookin up with your ex), and you did not know HOW to feel about that. The spider thrives on this unknown feeling of fear you have.

Now that you have at least considered it, half of the work is done. The other half is overcoming this feeling by coming to a conclusion; namely, LET IT GO and ACCEPT it.

Let your ex go. Let your friend go. Thats not to say you won't see them again, or hang with your bud, but you need ACCEPTANCE to move on. Accept that the possibility is there and your worst fears might come true. Then what? Are you always going to let the spider control you, or are you going to choose a wiser path?


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Maybe someone can shed some light on this re-occurring dream, usually i dont remember my dreams well enough for me to be curious about them.

But this dream has occurred 4 times in the past week, same dream.. but i cant make sense of it, though i have an idea of sorts.

In this dream i always appear to be with an orange/ginger cat, except i'm unable to make the distinction in the dream that it is infact a cat.. visually i view it as a cat, but i understand it to be identical/equal to myself (like another person, or maybe im also a cat in the dream..?) Anyway, i always find myself strangely enough kissing this cat like a lover and treating it as i would a person.. it also acts in the sense of a human, but is still visually a 'cat'.

Now the strangest part of this dream is the two roommates i live with own 2 cats.. 1 male grey and white one, and 1 female orange/ginger cat. In the dream i dont view the ginger cat to be the same one as my roommates have, just the visual representation.

My theory on this is, i was with a girl 3 months ago for a few weeks.. before she left for Europe for 6 months.. at first i missed her alot.. but has since then faded alot, so im thinking maybe the dreams are in relation to that, maybe not. But they keep on re-occurring so i figure there must be something i need to understand from this..
 
I had this intensely personal dream last night. It may be the most vivid dream I've ever had, and I was drunk. I usually don't dream when I've been drinking.

I was at some unidentified house with my family. My mother, brother, and grandmother were there, as well as my good friend from school that lives where I live now. I was leaving to go somewhere (as I have been lately... leaving my family behind after graduating college). My brother started crying- something I can't stand to see in real life. He's the most important person in the world to me. Anyway, I prodded him to see why he was crying. He initially wouldn't tell what he was crying about, but then he took me into another room. He said something along the lines of: "Remember when dad left and cut up his credit cards and went to that gas station?" This must have been some reference to divorce or problems between my mother and he. I said, "sure," and he continued on. He told me that somebody saw him in Los Angeles with another woman when he said he was going to the gas station- aka he was cheating on my mom. I was shocked, and I think I tried to console him, but I was livid. My friend from school instantly appeared and started talking to me. He didn't say anything of substance. Then I can't remember what happened...

The weirdest thing is, my parents have never had any problems. They've been married since they were 19-21, and they are now ~50. I'm close with them, and they never even talked of divorce.

Aren't your dreams constructed through memories floating around in your brain? How could this dream come to fruition?

Maybe it was just the alcohol...
 
Recently, as I'm falling asleep, I'll have these half-dreams where I feel like I've stumbled into some sort of celestial meeting of gods or some form of spiritual entities. The thing thats odd about these dreams is not the events that occur in them, but the constant feeling of them being a completely real event that I've stumbled into on my way to a fully fledged dream. Has anyone else experienced something like this?
 
straycatphizzle said:
Recently, as I'm falling asleep, I'll have these half-dreams where I feel like I've stumbled into some sort of celestial meeting of gods or some form of spiritual entities. The thing thats odd about these dreams is not the events that occur in them, but the constant feeling of them being a completely real event that I've stumbled into on my way to a fully fledged dream. Has anyone else experienced something like this?
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sounds like lucid dreaming...
 
I'm still trying to figure out how to look at a digital clock or find a light switch in my dreams. lol
 
JahRed24x said:
I'm still trying to figure out how to look at a digital clock or find a light switch in my dreams. lol
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Haha yeah, when i was really into lucid dreaming i was training my mind to take note of 'triggering' events during the day.. so that i could see them when sleeping.

The method which worked for me was counting my fingers.. the only time i had this work was when i briefly woke but was still in a state of dreaming.. i went to count the fingers on my hand.. i saw 6 fingers, at first my mind didn't acknowledge that this was unusual, but i knew it wasn't right.

So i counted them again and as soon as i made the association that i had 6 fingers i felt an incredible rush of fear,confusion and physical tingling throughout my body.. and began to enter sleep paralysis, auditory hallucinations and light distortion.

I have to say it's pretty intense seeing 6 fingers as clear as day on your hand =D
 
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