dreams

[thefanciestpigeon]

i've asked about the internet in dreams before, but now i'm getting more general with it. I am obsessed with dreams. they are possibly the biggest source of inspo for my art, sometimes they feel more real to me than real life! I have awful nightmares most nights, and I think that is part of why I'm so into writing horror. i've tried to keep a dream journal, but i'm bad at having the energy to consistently write in it :/

but I love trying to guess what parts of my life caused a dream to happen.

gender shows up a lot in my dreams for some reason, often in the form of meeting a pre-transition version of myself. so do my fears about other people, about embarrassment and feeling excluded. and the things I'm passionate about, of course show up a lot. and my friends, and also needing to run away from some sort of monster but finding that for some reason running is super hard, like i'm on a planet with really strong gravity. and weirdly, nuclear war. i have a lot of dreams about nuclear war. i'm also somewhat of a natural lucid dreamer, though aside from using it to rescue me from nightmares, I don't find it super interesting a lot of the time. i'm more interested in what my subconcious comes up with on my own. I wish I had a camera that could record my dreams...   

my grandmother claims she has prophetic dreams, I grew up with my father constantly telling me his dreams every morning. I am working on a set of little novellas about dreams being a very real alternate universe people go to when they sleep.

what are your dreams like? do you lucid dream? do you keep some sort of record of your dreams? I wanna hear!

[Nikodile]

I don't remember my dreams as much anymore unfortunately, not sure what happened... Kinda stopped in my 20s.

However, I do have a recurring dream that's been happening since I was a child, I had it as recently as like a year or two ago. It involves me lost in a forest. As I wander around, I spot Chucky the Doll kidnapping my mother - I chase him down to try and rescue her. I come across an abandoned, decrepit farm shed (one of those giant wooden ones that they store commercial equipment in) that he escaped into. Enter the building, he's on the top rafters saying something along the lines of "If you want your mom back, you're going to have to count the amount of cars in this shed" - cue hundreds of cars, parked or driving around this suddenly massive wooden shed. I start counting how many are in there, but I end up waking up every time before I finish.

[Yek]

I don't remember my dreams as much anymore unfortunately, not sure what happened... Kinda stopped in my 20s.

However, I do have a recurring dream that's been happening since I was a child, I had it as recently as like a year or two ago. It involves me lost in a forest. As I wander around, I spot Chucky the Doll kidnapping my mother - I chase him down to try and rescue her. I come across an abandoned, decrepit farm shed (one of those giant wooden ones that they store commercial equipment in) that he escaped into. Enter the building, he's on the top rafters saying something along the lines of "If you want your mom back, you're going to have to count the amount of cars in this shed" - cue hundreds of cars, parked or driving around this suddenly massive wooden shed. I start counting how many are in there, but I end up waking up every time before I finish.

try doing a dream journal if you want to remember more dreams
i had to do one for an assignment in my psychology class and i was remembering like 1-3 dreams a night
just every morning when you wake up write down as much as you can remember
also a consistent sleep schedule helps you remember dreams too

[Memory]

heehe, i think this is probably interesting~

https://cynderthekitsune.nekoweb.org/blogs/dream
i had a dream last night, and then continued it into a daydream to finish it, just a few minutes ago :P

i think it was really cute..

[WhiteFelineWonder]

There's a lot of dreams of mine that have some reoccurring themes. One of the more noticeable themes I find in my dreams sometimes is bad luck happening to a church. They... get pretty disturbing sometimes. A buncha dreams that I've documented end up being really violent one way or another.

This one dream of mine called Green Spongebob had you waiting for a green version of Spongebob to appear on TV by turning the TV on, going to channel number 25, and then stand in a circle formation around a red X. You had to not break the formation or you'd be cut short, to put it lightly.

Not all my dreams have very grim endings, though. One that's more light-hearted would be this one where I dreamt of a sequel to Paper Mario TTYD, where you play as Luigi & Daisy, and there was a segment where you had to stay hidden from some guy as Peach like it was Metal Gear Solid as you gather keys on a ship.

Sometimes I might have a dream that debuts a new OC, like one I had two years ago in mid-February that introduced Lavie, who's a lavender bunny that's been injected with something called dream sap, and she watches the dreams of people.

Dreams are all over the place with me. Some good, some disturbing, and in rare cases, making me wake up before the sun can even rise.

I have plenty of dreams documented on my site in the Dreamscape Journal area and in the dream section of it.

[Corrupted Unicorn]

My dreams are... peculiar.

For those who don't feel like diving into my dream diary here's the highlights:

- Recurring, consistent places that will appear at least twice in different dreams. Places include party supplies stores, parking lots, shopping centers and, the strangest & most disturbing to me, aquariums or petstores with tanks filled with animals that, while arguably aquatic, don't belong there 
- Creepier versions of games I play (Pokémon, Earthbound, the Binding of Isaac...) that often have alt paths with spooky secrets
- Recurring nightmares about losing or accidentally harming pet animals.
- Ominous dinosaur statues/animatronics.
- My OCs always act in-character when they show up in my dreams.

[IndigoGolem]

I wish I had a camera that could record my dreams...

I don't think anyone's invented a camera for recording dreams yet, but people at the Lucid Scribe Database has done some work on TCMP (trans-consciousness messaging protocol) by learning to blink in morse code while asleep. (https://lsdbase.org/2012/05/11/hello-dream-world/)

I've kept a dream journal since January of 2024. As far as i know i've never had the normal dreams of flight or giving a presentation at school with no pants. The closest that come to mind now are one in which i made a pair of wings out of plywood (they didn't work well) and one in which i was in a school and a staircase collapsed on top of me, trapping me as i was trying to leave the building, and none of the students seemed to care.

Sometimes i'm vaguely aware that i'm asleep but i don't think i lucid dream.

[red-night]

I had kind of a doozy of a dream a couple nights ago, the details are kinda fuzzy now but I'll do my best

The story went something like this:

• There was a theme park thing in orbit around earth, and in order to get there you had to take a giant space elevator
• The theme park was otherwise pretty generic, like if Knott's Berry Farm was on a big satellite thingamabob
• The park was being run by a sentient AI which on the day I got there went rogue and locked down the park while hijacking the remote missile systems on earth to destroy the major cities
• There were also zombies for some reason???? Idk either
• I snuck my way through the zombies and park defense systems to get to the AI core at the center of the park
• Had like an ethical debate with the AI?? Managed to shut it down but it was too late and New York had been blown off the face of the map by US missile systems

The dream ended there, and I woke up and immediately wrote it down. I might like write something with it ?? Idk why my subconscious cooked with that dream, all my other ones have been like "dancing with a crocodile named Mr. Zebra" and stuff

[littlelum]

The only pattern in my dreams is that they often involve people I know. They are also usually very, very weird, and the overall plot tends to be incoherent. Every once in a blue moon I dream up a meme. For these reasons, I have a section on my site logging dreams I have.

[MrsMoe]

My dreams aren't as strange as I'd honestly like them to be, but I have noticed a lot of reoccurring scenarios. The most common one is probably being back in school and being with my old friends again. They usually result in me doing something super cringe and embarrassing  (like showing up in my pajamas or brining a stuffed animal) and they're turned off by the person I've become.....which could mean anything   

Other than that, I frequently have dreams about being in a large store, usually either a convenience or thrift store, and just raiding whatever I want off the shelves. I have no idea why, but I'm guessing the thrift store ones are rooted in nostalgia for the city I used to live in. I'm always getting huge mountains of candy and snacks in the convenience store dreams, and apparently treats in your dreams often comes from a desperate desire for joy and pleasure if your life. Oof. 

Third most common involves me being in a random location that I somehow recognize as my neighborhood....except it's NOT my neighborhood. It's always a town or area that's much bigger, prettier and fuller, and I'm just sort of wandering around. There was one dream that was really interesting, where my area was like a typical suburbs, but the sun was setting as blue hour and the whole environment felt hazy and dreamy (literally like a dreamcore image). And for some reason the gravity worked like it does on the moon??? Like, where you can jump really high and then slowly glide back down, so I went around jumping and floating around everywhere. It was incredibly peaceful, I enjoyed it a lot.

I'm really surprised that I don't experience that many nightmares, considering how much horror I consume and how I suffer from anxiety, but other than the school centered ones, they usually allow me to indulge myself or explore beautiful places. I'd like to believe it's because my brain might want me to take a break from all the stress my conscious mind gives me, and I take some comfort in that.

[SadOldMan]

I’ve been recording my dreams since the summer I turned 18 (I’m 45 this year). At first I wrote them down by hand in notebooks, then on blogs (both solo and collective), and now simply in LibreOffice. I also store them on Blogger as shown in the screenshot, but that archive isn’t public. I’ve reread my notes constantly since ’98, so I have a very clear memory of my dreams going back almost thirty years.

Over time, my dreams have become memories just as vivid and accessible as the memories of my waking life — I was about to write “my real life,” but my dreams are also my real life; they’re simply a part of my existence that’s entirely internal, without material or objective presence. Yet their influence on my life as a whole is immense. There are dreams I feel nostalgic for, as if they were memories of actual events, and I’m happy to revisit them from time to time.

Throughout the years I’ve been able to identify recurring themes, situations, and characters, and some dreams — even when separated by several years — clearly belong to the same “cycle.” I’ve come to understand certain things about myself, and identified fears, blocks, and feelings of guilt that my mind completely censors during the day and that I would never have recognized otherwise. In short, this is one of the most important activities of my life; ultimately far more important than keeping a journal of my daily life and thoughts.

[GlitchyZorua]

This is a chaotic dream I had earlier this weak.

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Spoiler

Oh god. OK this is a chaotic dream I had.

So apparently, I was in this discord voice channel, in an alt account, I was muted. and... it started off as an argument. Eventually, the entire argument devolved into a fucking microphone war. People were joining in, and screaming in their microphone, blasting megaphones and loud fucking music, people turning on their camera, and doing stupid shit in their webcam, like throwing their microphone in their toilet, and oh my god it was chaotic. As this was happening, as a joke, the moderators renamed the channel to "Screaming room".

It was worth mentioning that I was muted while this shit show was happening. I was also on an alt account because i didnt want anyone to recognize who was i am.

Eventually, I decided to leave the VC, but right before I did this, discord had to shut the server down temporarily due a... "temporary outage", i think we all know why that... happened.

And then my dad woke me up

What the fuck was that dream 😭

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[musicobsessed107]

Most of my dreams are bizarre in some way or another. If I had a camera that could somehow record my dreams, I'd probably be a big and successful film producer by now.

I had a dream about a week ago that was surprisingly one of my most "normal" dreams where I found myself attending a concert with a bunch of other adults who were feeling nostalgic about their childhoods to see The Doodlebops.

Most of my dreams involve me walking around outside and being in a place that looks oddly familiar to the places I've been to in real life, except the buildings are shapeshifted into something that's slightly different from how they actually are in the waking world (such as my apartment building suddenly having 3 floors instead of 2, or in a more recent dream of mine, a row of 4 CVS stores in my old neighborhood all lined up next to each other, with each one to the left getting smaller than the ones right of them until you get to the 4th one which isn't even an actual CVS store, but rather some weird tower that serves as some sort of hospital/nursing home/hotel all at once but still has the sign outside of it and all), I visit some room that's completely gone and replaced by some other room when I try to revisit the room I just left and the actual places themselves shapeshift into something else whilst I'm in the middle of the exact same dream, or the occasional school related dream where all sorts of weird shit can happen.