Debate/Discourse Demands Dream Discussion

Red Gear

Yay alliteration.

Taken from Wikipedia:
"Dreams are the images, thoughts and feelings experienced while asleep, particularly strongly associated with rapid eye movement sleep. The contents and biological purposes of dreams are not fully understood, though they have been a topic of speculation and interest throughout recorded history."

"Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes.
REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20-25% of total sleep, lasting about 90-120 minutes. During a normal night of sleep, humans usually experience about 4 or 5 periods of REM sleep; they are quite short at the beginning of the night and longer toward the end. Most people tend to wake for a short time at the end of a REM phase. The relative amount of REM sleep varies considerably with age. A newborn baby spends more than 80% of total sleep time in REM. During REM, the summed activity of the brain's neurons is quite similar to that during waking hours; for this reason, the phenomenon is often called paradoxical sleep. This means that there are no dominating brain waves during REM sleep. REM sleep is physiologically different from the other phases of sleep, which are collectively referred to as non-REM sleep. Most of our vividly recalled dreams occur during REM sleep.

The Wikipedia Link to dreams as well as REM sleep if you want to read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_eye_movement_sleep

So yeah, dreams are pretty kooky. In this thread we will share some of our dreams. Feel free to discuss your dreams or dreams you have heard of other people having. Analyzing and interpreting each other's dreams is heavily encouraged as well.

Wonder_Hippie

I had a dream the other night. I was Michael Madsen's character in Resevoir Dogs, and Freud was tied to the chair instead of some innocent cop. And I didn't get shot to death.

Tastyfish

Don't usually dream and I'm usually aware when I'm doing it (though not completely in control), tends to be in the mornings now rather than as I go to sleep, presumably as my brain is sort of waking up and finding that someone has had some kind of crazy party in there and starts picking through the mess. Apparently a bit unusual but not all that uncommon.

That said, I've had a couple of wierd ones, generally because they didn't fit the 'oh no I'm on a bus with my classmates and they're all riding lettace whilst being naked' sort of wierd dreams. Possibly the strangest was waking up and realising my gloves were on the bedside table, then wondering for a few minutes why they were there, trying to remember when I had last used them or if Mum had put them there for a reason before waking up with a start and realising it was all a horrifically mundane dream.

Slightly odder was a series of recurring nightmares I had around 11-14ish years old. Nothing happened at all, but I could feel a geometric patten whilst being slightly awake - as if you were running your hands along some sort of Donkey Kongesque maze covered in some soft smooth fabric. Moving along a row feeling something hard an cold but seperated from your touch by a thin soft barrier before dropping down through a gap and continuing onwards whilst feeling a feeling of utter dread and terror constantly building up without any climax. Never came for more than a couple of nights in a row but came on and off for a good couple of years and then stopped, but it still makes me shiver just thinking of it even now.

moniker

I never remember what I dream about. It's kinda nice, actually. Like the time never existed and my clocks are all liars.

Randall_Flagg

I had two dreams about my father after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him in town somewheres and he give me some money and I think I lost it. But the second one it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night. Goin through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and he kept on goin. Never said nothin. He just rode on past and he had this blanket wrapped around him and he had his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.

Satan.

I haven't remembered in a dream in years. I couldn't tell you when my last dream was. Kinda sucks sometimes.

SanderJK

I tend to only remember dreams if i'm woken very near to it (either by noises from outside or the dream itself), or if I fall asleep clothed/when it's very hot/if I have a fever. The latter are almost always not so great, very disjointed.

It's a shame really, I dream some awesome stuff apparently. One I will never forget is how the earth is overrun by zombies who can only live in the dark, so we run (succesfully) away from sunset, and find out that you can destroy them with a song. We first try to get the song from some radio station, fail, and then decided to sing it really loud.

Qliphoth

I recently watched an incredible movie that is largely about dreaming called waking life. It has some unbelievable awesome ideas in it and others that I find ridiculous, but it really makes you think.

It inspired me to attempt lucid dreaming which is the process of your dreams becoming much more like reality and gaining awareness in your dreams that you are actually dreaming.

I first succeeded in this on saturday in which i was dreaming about the apocalypse or something similar and i decided to go for a swim in the ocean, then someone yelled out to me that if i did i would drown, i yelled back that it doesn't matter because i was dreaming. I then realised that i was in control of my dream self and could essentially do whatever i want. It was an amazing experience and really made me aware of the infinite possibilities that both your dreams and life hold.

Lindsay Lohan

I have a dream where my eyes both fall out - not attached by nerves or anything, just two eyes in my hands almost like glass eyes. I try frantically to shove them back into my head, but they keep falling out. Finally, they both deflate in my hands like punctured beach balls and I wake up.

I had have it as a recurring dream for at least 5 years.

Variable

I'v3e had some good dreams lately but a standout one...

I ran into a local chinese food place with a bunch of other people including someone who was, I think, my uncle, at least in the beginning. we were staring outside because a monster (cloverfield inspired in my mind but I never saw the thing) was rampaging through our town. then we somehow checked everyone for whether or not they were infected/infested (again cloverfield influenced) and I saw that EVERYONE was. I ran out of the place with the person from before and asked if he had a gun. he handed me a revolver when he was hit from the inside with whatever had infested us all. I asked him if it hurt and he said yes so I shot myself in the head.

this woke me up in the dream. I opened my eyes and was in my tv room but there was a shelf on top of the tv that we don't have. more importantly, in the dream, I noticed there was a cable modem and router there, and that's what gave it away to me that this wasn't really my house (we just got a service installed with the modem/router in a combo unit). I asked my dad what was up and he said we were home, but in florida (I live in jersey). It was very very bizarre.

Tamin

Had a rather vivid dream last night, actually.

Fucked if I can transcribe it coherently, though.

Some high points -
Was in a national park kind of area, and I pointed to a bench, calling it (jokingly), "Aslan's How", to which the girl with me became confused and started calling a nearby cave entrance a "How'.

A Chess Set bit that was broken in half; I found the first one fairly early on, and then the second a bit later. I then plugged them, in sequence, into a device which caused sand to fall out and 'create' the chess pieces. Or something. Also, this caused a deep sense of foreboding, like I really shouldn't have done that.

Going along with the cave part, it was off-shore (and we were in a place that was supposed to be cold), but as soon as I fell in, I realized it was quite warm. Then there was a family there, and much running about. The rest is images, and feelings.

--- I feel quite confident Indiana Jones: KOTCS inspired more than a little, though Caspian helped a little, and the national park feels like this one in DC, that I can't remember the name of.

JebusUD

What if there is nothing to analyze? Some scientists think it could just be random brain firings. I think the analysis is unverifiable. There is a dream show on the radio(I forget what station) where people call in and have their dreams interpreted. But often times the answers are so vauge that they could apply to anyone.
Example: "I dreamed about being sucked up in a tornado!" "That means somthing is stressing you out in your life. You feel like you are caught up in somthing you can't get out of."

Fagadaba

When I was having doubts about a relationship(was going to go 2 years while living apart, seeing each other 2-3 times a years, a couple days at once), I frequently had dreams about things I feared. We would be hanging out with her friends and she'd act really immature or really "lol am weird and loud and random and crazy" and I'd be sad sad sad. These days I dream that she's taken me back and the same shite happens. I wake up feeling I've falling in love all over again and realize we're not together anymore and never will be etc.

Some funs things to try before sleeping:
Desalterate yourself. You'll be dreaming of swimming in cold water with ice forteresses and mermaid sex. You can put a fresh glass of water next to your bed and imagine yourself taking it, refreshing you. It could easily lead to lucid dreaming, which is awesome.

Whenever I lucid dream I end up smoking pot while the dreaming stuff is still happening, then I wake up buzzed.

An-D

Started off, I was like...a surveyor I guess for some colony on a new planet. The sky was really purple and it gave the ground this weird ethereally-blue color. All around this little colony, there are these giant, black alien things with huge tubes sticking into the ground. None of us know what they are or who they belong to, so we kind of just leave them alone. The idea is there that they're sucking up some resource from the ground (kind of like oil, but we don't use oil anymore...so we didn't care). I'm riding this motorcycle hovercraft thing around one, and suddenly a wind picks up.

The top part of these black alien things is like sheet metal, so they start shaking in the wind and making this thundery percussion sound. Wind is odd to me on the planet, because its never happened before. All of a sudden the tubes on this black thing (there were four on each side...it was kind of triangle side, but only two sides had the tubes) start to move and the thing lifts up and starts to move around. Underneath it (now that the bottom is lifted up) is this nozzle thing...and I distinctly remembering that it reminded me of a mouth.

I head back to the colony to tell them whats happening and a bunch of the black things are converging on the colony, one of them is already in the middle of the settlement. The nozzle thing on the bottom is shooting out this like...energy beam thats just killing people that try to fight it. Occasionally, the tubes are aimmed at people and water is shot to knock people out. This is what happens to me when I get down there. I see like Mark, he gets blasted by water and than water hits me.

Later on, I wake up...back on earth, I guess and I'm in this circularly village center and everyone is separated pretty much at random and these guys wearing black sci-fi-ish armor are putting people into buildings.

I'm in a building with some people that I seemed to know in the dream, but can't remember now. Its like a table, some chairs and thats it in the building (edit in: I vaguely remember a typewriter being some some minor importance in this 'scene').

Every house is assigned a guard, and ours is pretty nice. Kind of looks italian (tan skin, slicked-back, black hair *edit in* Now that I think about it, he kind of looked like Jango Fett from the new Star Wars movies). He explains that his planet (forget what it was called) has invaded and is in the process of securing a hold on the planet (Earth). All mass communications have been ceased, its impossible to communicate with anyone without having them there to physically talk to.

I asked him why and he said he was just doing his job. His battalion, and 102 others (I remember he said that 103 battalions had been sent. 103 seemed to be a very significant number to me). He hoped the transition would be relatively quiet and bloodless. And sex was illegal and punishable during this 'transition' time...they were worried about newborns being raised to form a resistance or something like that.

Anyone that did something against a guards orders was hit by...I want to say it was called an agony stick...which was like an expendable baton but if they touched the tip to you, your entire body hurt. It felt like you were on fire and being electrocuted at the same time.

I got hit (by the agony stick) twice. If I was too slow in moving or following a command or something, I'd get prodded in the spine. We were planning (in my 'house') to overthrow the guard and try to get everyone else in the village-prison to help, one house at a time. I remember someone telling me that Tiffany was in a nearby house and I wanted to know if she knew where anyone else was, so we were going to her place first.

I felt kind of bad jumping our nice guard in the house, but we didn't want to be prisoners anymore...it was war. Someone takes the guard's agony stick and we move on.

Its at this point that my dream starts becoming really fragmented (about time for me to be waking up).

During the next fight, there were apparently a lot more guards around than we originally had thought/see and I get hit hard and go down.

It was probably the most realistic dream I've had in a long, long time. I mean, getting hit with the agony sticks was actually *really* painful. I wish I had written details faster (there were more friend cameos than just Mark and Tiffany...pretty sure anyway) and the dream itself was a lot more detailed than this fragmented recollection here.

Hope that was enjoyable for you. Below is a picture I "painted" of the black pyramid things:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a74/royalpred/n44105604_31516059_7212.jpg

Savant

I've had some freaky up nightmares over the years, but I probably couldn't do them justice trying to describe them.

I often have telekinesis in my dreams, which was disappointing to me for awhile when I woke up and didn't have it anymore. The same with flying but to a lesser extent. And it's sort of weird that the flying feels semi plausible in that falling back down is a bit gut wrenching.

Evil Multifarious

i think dreams are bullshit, and most dream analysis requires and evinces the same level of analytic skill and clumsy slapping together of obvious symbols as a poor undergrad English paper written by a student who writes too much and reads too little.

Church

I'm having a recurring dream that I can never quite remember the details of. All I can ever hang on to in the morning is that it involves this girl I'm in love with, and my legs being hacked off at the knee with a hatchet.

Evil Multifarious

Church wrote: »

I'm having a recurring dream that I can never quite remember the details of. All I can ever hang on to in the morning is that it involves this girl I'm in love with, and my legs being hacked off at the knee with a hatchet.

you want to have sex with your mother.

next.

Kagera

I had a whopper of a depressing dream recently.

It involved some dream woman who made me so happy that it literally felt perfect.

Then it turned out the dream woman was just a dream, and nothing had happened. And apparently no woman wanted me and I had no friends and I was completely alone.

And then I woke up.

I hate when I have such emotionally exhausting dreams. I'm actually feeling these emotions and reacting to things that aren't happening, it sucks.

Raiden333

Most of of my dreams that I remember involve me looking for something or someone in a large hotel or dormitory type building.

The other half, that feel a little more ominous, I'm always trying to get to this abandoned house/cabin/lodge on the other side of a valley from wherever the dream begins. The appearance of the valley and the structure on the other side change every time I have a variation of this dream, but the general essence is the same. I don't know why I feel drawn to that place, and I always get distracted by something halfway through the valley and I've never made it across.

There's only one dream completely unrelated to these two themes that I remember. This dream is really, really fucking creepy and (kind of) long, so I'm going to spoiler tag it.

The first thing I remembered of it was that I was wandering through an abandoned homestead or farm or something, it seemed like nobody had been there for awhile. I explored for awhile feeling uneasiness but being unable to turn back because I'm not capable of lucid dreaming, and I went into the big house in the middle of the homestead. For some reason I eventually explored the basement, and found a video camera there. I looked into the viewfinder and pressed play to watch whatever was last taped, and saw a video taken from the exact position I was standing of of papers and debris blowing around the basement by a light wind. This obviously creeps me out, so I lower the camera to see papers and debris blowing around in the exact same pattern I saw on the video camera.

Then I woke up.

Loren Michael

I don't remember most of my dreams, but most of the happy ones amount to something akin to a Hayao Miyazaki movie and most of the nasty ones amount to a David Lynch movie.

electricitylikesme

I have a recurring nightmare whenever I'm in a relationship it seems about cheating on whoever I'm dating.

I also have another recurring nightmare where I get a girl pregnant and then spend all this time trying to figure out how to cover it up. This one happens pretty much whenever though.

Kagera

The only recurring nightmare I had was not really a nightmare but that shit where you feel like you're awake but paralyzed and like it's getting hard to breath and there's some sort of pressure on your chest which at some point I was convinced was a demon trying to possess me.

Then I bought a dream catcher and never had that problem again.

No I DON'T think the dream catcher did anything, it's just how it happened for some reason.

Most of my dreams are individual stories like this one time I had a dream that I was talking to Bush Sr. and Clinton about the environment while Bush Sr. was working on a garden.

Then it shifted to me on a boat with a naked Jessica Alba and Rosario Dawson but instead of it getting sexy I just taught them how to fish.

Then there was the time I had a dream that a monster that looked like Rambo without any bones so he was really a blob was hiding in the basement of a house trying to kill people.

electricitylikesme

Kagera wrote: »

Then it shifted to me on a boat with a naked Jessica Alba and Rosario Dawson but instead of it getting sexy I just taught them how to fish.

You son of a bitch.

hellobuddy

Best dream ever:

Im at work and all of a sudden everyone around me is a zombie. Now this is quite a normal dream for me so far, as I often dream zombie dreams and highly enjoy them, but instead of bringing out the ol boomstick this time, I just stand up and walk outside. Somehow I know that im the last person in the entire world that isnt a zombie and that there is no point fighting them. They are oldschool zombies ofcourse and move very slowly so I just start walking. I walk out of Stockholm, heading east, into finland and then russia. As I walk, more and more zombies start following me as I pass them by. I travel the world on foot, seeing all the magical wonders nature has to offer, with a sea of zombies behind me. Im in arizona and the camera(of course there is a camera) shoots my feet walking in the desert, moves up to my face with the setting sun right behind my head, im tired and sweaty but very much at peace. I know that nothing ties me down, no job, no apartment, no people and im like the happiest I have ever been. The camera moves up further and exposes the massive amount of zombies now walking behind me in the red desert, having followed me on my epic journey across the globe. I find myself up in alaska, walking further and further until I reach the end of the continent. I stand on the highest point of a massive rock wall looking down at the crushing waves of an icey sea. Zombies still following. I take one last look at the sun and gets filled with a perfect feeling of completion. I have done all that I can, seen everything there is to be seen and I feel free. I let myself fall into the sea and then I wake up.


I felt like such a hippie when I woke up. But it was awesome.

Kagera

electricitylikesme wrote: »

Kagera wrote: »

Then it shifted to me on a boat with a naked Jessica Alba and Rosario Dawson but instead of it getting sexy I just taught them how to fish.

You son of a bitch.

The funny thing is I haven't seen Sin City since it was in theaters and yet, two actresses from that movie pop up in my dream, with Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr.

hellobuddy wrote: »

ZOMBIES!

This happens to me too but it's not a mystery as I'm a zombie movie fanatic.

For the longest time they were scary to me but now it's more fun than anything.

shutz

JebusUD wrote: »

What if there is nothing to analyze? Some scientists think it could just be random brain firings. I think the analysis is unverifiable. There is a dream show on the radio(I forget what station) where people call in and have their dreams interpreted. But often times the answers are so vauge that they could apply to anyone.
Example: "I dreamed about being sucked up in a tornado!" "That means somthing is stressing you out in your life. You feel like you are caught up in somthing you can't get out of."

Maybe there's nothing to analyze, but dreams are NOT just random neurons firing.

About 7 years ago, I had a job as a QA tester for a PC game developer / publisher. I was testing this particular turn-based strategy game, and I was stuck at a certain level, I couldn't win a particular battle and I kept reloading a save from right before that battle. After almost a whole day of trying to get past that point, I went home.

That night, I got sick enough that I got a fever. I eventually went to sleep, with that particular game puzzle running over and over in my mind. In my fevered dreams, I came up with a solution, and beat the scenario that was giving me trouble in real life.

Right after dreaming that I beat that part of the game, I woke up in a cold sweat. Most of my fever had broken. I'd be fit enough to go back to work the following morning. (Bummer, no sick day for me!)

So, the following day, I get to work, fire up the game, and use the solution I'd dreamed up, and lo, I won the fight that was giving me trouble.

---

Another thing I've found is, when I wake up in the morning after remembering some of my dreams, I tend to feel more refreshed, and in particular, I find I'm more easily creative. Dreaming seems to "recharge" my creative batteries.

It's a pity I rarely dream on weeknights (due to the fact that I rarely get more than 5 hours' sleep) but I try to make it up during the weekend, by sleeping between 10 and 12 hours for two nights. I usually dream, then.

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

Yes, intuition can surface during dreams, however that is parts of your brain still running and has nothing to do with the usually random generation of dream environments by your sleeping brain. For real people.

Loren Michael

It came to me in a dream.

And I forgot it in another dream!

Rhan9

Probably the greatest dream I've ever had was one where in the middle of the dream I became fully conscious of what was happening, but I was still dreaming. It was an extremely bizarre experience, and the dream changed in relation to what I was thinking about. I really wish I'd get another of those, it was such a weird experience. It took me some 30 seconds or so after waking up to realize that the dream had ended, and I was awake.

Tamin

I once dreamed about a Metroid crossword puzzle. So when I woke up, I downloaded a crossword puzzle creator and made one.

Wonder_Hippie

JebusUD wrote: »

What if there is nothing to analyze? Some scientists think it could just be random brain firings. I think the analysis is unverifiable. There is a dream show on the radio(I forget what station) where people call in and have their dreams interpreted. But often times the answers are so vauge that they could apply to anyone.
Example: "I dreamed about being sucked up in a tornado!" "That means somthing is stressing you out in your life. You feel like you are caught up in somthing you can't get out of."

Ayup. There doesn't seem to be anything very special or revealing about dreams.

Amphetamine

I remember my dreams all the time. Usually about the end of the world or zombie apocalypses or something like that.

One of the worst I've had though were me slowly cutting off my dick with a scissors (I have no idea why). I woke up and grabbed onto the guy like I found him for the first time.

I recall having one when I was twelve or so about my family getting murdered while I slept and when I woke up my entire house was filled with skulls and there was some guy with a butcher's knife standing over my mom's corpse hacking away.

When I was young I used to have dreams about things I couldn't see chasing me through places I knew like my church or house. I vividly recall most of those. I used to not go back to sleep after that or my mom would come in and wake me up cause I was screaming in my sleep.

More recently I've dreamt about performing songs I wrote, except now I'm actually playing them correctly in the dream. I also tend to dream about fantasy worlds a lot like Middle Earth and the WH40k universe for some reason.

I've had one or two lucid dreams but they never last long enough that I can do anything cool aside from fly around for awhile.

iamtheaznman

Behold, the scariest dream I ever had:

I dreamt that I was waking up. I first started blinking my eyes to get adjusted to the light, and then I tried to move my hands to wipe the sand out of my eye, but I couldn't move them. I looked down at myself and realized that I was quite old and in a hospital bed and room, all alone, with multiple machines attached to me. It then hit me hard that what I thought was my real life, all 16 years of it at that time, was a dream that I had while in this hospital bed. I wanted to cry but couldn't. I looked around and tried to shout for someone so I could talk to them, but no voice emenated from my mouth. I started to notice a beeping noise that got slower and slower in frequency, I looked for the source and it turned out that it is my heart monitor. I looked at it as it slowly flat lined.

Then I woke up in a cold sweat (in real life). It was one of the most vivid dreams I had ever had, and the feeling of dispair resonated with me for a long while after.

an_alt

I used to never remember my dreams, but since I started taking Champix/Chantix I've been having multiple vivid dreams nearly every night. The sleep doesn't count for much, but I'm really enjoying it.

The best feeling I had was a dream where there was a college football team having summer practices around where I lived and I walked on just to have some fun. I remembered doing lots of specific drills over and over and attending lots of practices. I got invited to join the team if I'd go back to school for a masters, was having long discussions with friends and family about giving up my career to play and the whole nine yards. It wasn't even movie length - it seemed like it was a real life that I had been in for months. After I woke up it took me several minutes to clue in that it wasn't real.

My personal favourite thing about hearing people talk about dreams is that they read a book on dream interpretation and it totally works. I'm completely shocked that reading certain dreams mean certain things might result in having those particular things show up in future dreams.

langfor6

I have four recurring themes in my dreams/nightmares:

I'm driving a car and have no control over it.

My teeth are falling out.

I went on a massive drug binge and have a surprise drug test.

I'm about to take finals in college and I haven't gone to class or studied all semester.

These mean something, I'm sure of it.

Tach

I've been doing something weird for a little while.

Mostly, I can't remember my dreams- occassionally I do. But what happens is this: When my alarm goes off in the morning, my brain starts imagining severely wierd scenarios regarding the alarm, and it's function in waking me up.

Last time, it involved the time frame of when the alarm started and when I actually had to get up. As I hit snooze (multiple times, per usual) the time to get up got closer- but not as in the normal way. The time I had to get up was actually travelling backwards in time to meet up with when the alarm was going off. They would meet in the middle, and I would get up.

This morning, it was strange as well. I was reliving the past, starting about 5 years ago. As each alarm came on, I hit snooze, and time would go forward again. I knew eventually I would have to get up, and that these little trips back had nothing to do with that- but still, I wasn't able to because I wasn't home in 2008 yet.

Kagera

I have dreams where I forget a college class I was taking and haven't went to in weeks which leads me to freaking out.

Savant

Tach wrote: »

I've been doing something weird for a little while.

Mostly, I can't remember my dreams- occassionally I do. But what happens is this: When my alarm goes off in the morning, my brain starts imagining severely wierd scenarios regarding the alarm, and it's function in waking me up.

Last time, it involved the time frame of when the alarm started and when I actually had to get up. As I hit snooze (multiple times, per usual) the time to get up got closer- but not as in the normal way. The time I had to get up was actually travelling backwards in time to meet up with when the alarm was going off. They would meet in the middle, and I would get up.

This morning, it was strange as well. I was reliving the past, starting about 5 years ago. As each alarm came on, I hit snooze, and time would go forward again. I knew eventually I would have to get up, and that these little trips back had nothing to do with that- but still, I wasn't able to because I wasn't home in 2008 yet.

I have something similar happen occasionally. I'll half wake up for some reason (like a noise or something), and in my stupor of going in and out of sleep I'll believe in strange rules that govern my alarm or when I should wake up.

saint2e

I almost never remember dreams, except if they are beyond weird.

For example, one time I dreamed that I was given superpowered eyes. Eyes that could see far distances, infared, x-ray, etc. This was a gift given to me by some random dude who was teaching me the basics of using this super eyes.

So I catch myself in the mirror, and suddenly I have bug eyes, like... Spider-Man's mask eyes. I start freakin' out because now I'm a freak of nature. The guy who's teaching me stuff calmly explains that my eyes aren't used to being used so often and they need food to revert back to the "normal state".

So I go to eat some potato chips that are on the table in front of where I'm sitting. The guy says, "No, you misunderstand. Your eyes have to eat." Confused, he then continues, "Put a potato chip up to your eye". I do so and all of a sudden I can't see out of the one eye I'm holding the chip in front of. Out of my other eye I see little hands extend out from the eye, take the chip from my hand, pull the chip towards it, and suddenly I hear crunching noises and feel the vibrations from my eye eating this chip.

It was almost as if my eye turned into a mouth and ate the chip. After the crunching died down, my vision in the eye returned.

That's when I woke up with the hugest WTF I've ever had in my life.

Crimson King

My dream are often bizarre fantasy stories that I seem be telling myself, but also playing the lead role in. Like, I'll be fighting the Turtle People with Blue Magic on the Castle of Sand. It really feels like they're fragments of my life in a parallel universe - at least, that's what I like to thing, being the escapist nerd that I am. Often I'll remember them and use them in short stories. There's a book I fully intend to write one day that's based on a dream I once had.