Crazy Dreams

[Andrew Ryan]

I once had a dream where I was running down a hill being chased by bees all while trying to (unsuccessfully) have sex with a Hispanic chick. And then Jesus showed up.

[One]

Am I the only one who has a Dream City?
Apparently, re-visiting the same city in almost every dream is fairly common.

I don't have a Dream City, but I do have a Dream Department Store (that hasn't showed up in a while).
Weird things go down in the store. One of its defining characteristics is the rack of gigantic stuffed animals displayed from the ceiling.

[Shydragon]

Am I the only one who has a Dream City?
Apparently, re-visiting the same city in almost every dream is fairly common.

I have a dream mountain. It's pretty cool, theres a forest near the base and a river flowing from the top. Also happy mask guy lives there for some reason.

[ameiniasLackluster]

Last night I dreamed I was in a large hallow tower with stairs circling up the sides. I started at the bottom, but a lady with white hair grabbed my hand and we started floating upwards. As we did, men in brightly colored business suits began flinging themselves at me from the stairs, trying to pull me down. A couple managed to grab my ankles and one even got a firm grip on my legs, but I managed to kick them all off. When we finally reached the top of the tower we phased through the ceiling and landed in a field of purple cornstalks. The woman with white hair then kissed my forehead, pointed southwards, and disappeared. Looking over my shoulder to where she pointed, I saw a grey city in the distance. I started walking there, but I woke up before I arrived.

And that was one of my more normal dreams :T

[AnatidaeCollector]

I have a dream shopping mall and a bunch of dream mountains in/around my dream city. Like, randomly, next to one of the freeways near the river, there's a giant frosty mountain. Why? Not a clue. It also can apparently snow in the shopping mall.
The arcade in the city is pretty beast. I haven't been there in ages, though. It's been at least a year... I really need to spend more time downtown. The stripper-esque stores uptown are getting kind of scary at this point. O_o
I also decided to try and one-up NYC so I have like, a dozen multicolored Statues of Liberty all around the harbor.

[Daniel990]

Wait, dream cities? Never heard of that before.

[Andrew Ryan]

I have a dream shopping mall and a bunch of dream mountains in/around my dream city. Like, randomly, next to one of the freeways near the river, there's a giant frosty mountain. Why? Not a clue. It also can apparently snow in the shopping mall.
The arcade in the city is pretty beast. I haven't been there in ages, though. It's been at least a year... I really need to spend more time downtown. The stripper-esque stores uptown are getting kind of scary at this point. O_o
I also decided to try and one-up NYC so I have like, a dozen multicolored Statues of Liberty all around the harbor.

I would so take a vacation there if that city was real. It sounds like San-Francisco except more awesome.

[AnatidaeCollector]

@Dan: Kind of like Prospit and Derse, you know, your dreamself goes there every night when you fall asleep, with very few exceptions. Like, every dream I've had in the past few years has taken place either in this city and the areas surrounding it or on this dream planet, with my location being marked relative to the city. Once I went to a neighboring planet/its moon, though. The moon is a giant candy store. Peachy rings galooooooore! Then I floated back down to Earth and chilled out at a diner on the outskirts of town.
It's really a lot like alt!Manhattan. The skyscrapers are cooler, though. And apparently Superman lives there! I've been to his office building! I have maps drawn up of the city, and have attempted to sketch scenes from it, but my limited knowledge of architecture and civil engineering tends to get the best of my drawing skills. Everything in my city is laid out as a visual representation of some aspect of my mind. Like, the closer to the alt!Grandma's House you get, the more important something is. The deeper you go underground, the deeper you go into my subconscious (there's quite a nice variety of subways and even underground malls and streets, actually). Red train goes to the future, blue train goes to the past, green train only shows you the nice parts of the world, and the orchid and violet trains are only taken in urgent times. The yellow train is for normal transportation. And we don't talk about the brown train, lol. And locations in this city are consistent- the market is always in the same location, and I know how to get to the good bakery from there, and then can take a train to visit the cathedrals and arcades and stuff. It's all fun, except for the nightmares, lol.

And I wish I could vacation there, too. I loved flyingfloating around it. The university in the city was one of my favorite spots, simply because of its classic architecture and incredibly cool, modern trains. My current dreamself incarnation can't fly, as far as I know. But I'm about to pass onto a new version of my dreamself, and something tells me she'll have flying skills...

[Andanism]

I didn't expect this thread to have this many replies when I came back D:
It's a nice surprise.

Anyways, I don't have dream cities, but almost every dream I have, takes place in a somewhat altered version of my town. Like, it's my town and I know it is, but the alleyways are curved on the top instead of square like they actually are, and the roads are brick work instead of cement. It's weird, but most of them take place in this setting. It's very Victorian style in appearance.

[tayjay101]

This is probably really stupid but it's a dream I can remember VERY vividly and it's a bit.. out there.

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Once, when I was a bit younger, around Christmas, I had a dream about this seal. I was in a zoo where all the animals were smiley and happy. One animal stood out a bunch in particular. It was a Christmas Seal. He was pure white and made of jello. His eyes glowed bright yellow and he constantly clapped his flippers. So, in the dream, I poked at the Christmas Seal's cage, and he made a pathetic look on his face and for some reason, I opened his cage. Then I went home and realized that all the addresses on my street were different but no one but me noticed. Then suddenly everything was made out of gingerbread, and the seal came into view, taunting me. He would wait right outside my school, just waiting. Then he would frolick with a mean glow in his eyes as he transformed everything around him. The trees became giant blood colored candy canes that loomed over me, the adults became gingerbread men, the gingerbread men getting their heads eaten off. Suddenly it was just us children and the Christmas Seals, who had developed the power to multiply in number. We were all armed with machine guns and we formed an army. We began sneaking up on the Christmas Seals and trying to kill them. But before we could do anything, children began getting torn apart limb by limb. Suddenly I was the only normal, sane person in the world. Suddenly I saw yellow and purple flashing in my eyes and the view changed to third person, and I saw myself as an ice sculpture, covered in garland for eternity. The Christmas seals then jumped into an inflatable little kid swimming pool filled with melted white chocolate, forgetting all about us, taking over the world.

I was about eight or nine years old.

To this day, I have a strong hatred of seals.

[~ATH]

I recently had a dream where I could save-state life. It was fucking amazing, I could manipulate the shit out of real life. It was also helpful in predicting the future as well. So, I could set a save-state right before the lottery numbers were announced, I could remember those numbers, reload my previous state, and input those numbers. Millions of dollars!

I also had another dream where I was essentially an undercover agent for the police, and I had the power of "Permission," essentially I could literally go wherever the fuck I wanted to, and have literally nothing be locked for me. It was so cool, I remember when I just walked in a mall at night and started making slushies. Then some baddies ran in and I ran away from them and ended up at a penthouse party. I actually blended in and had fun at the party.

I guess I like dreaming about interesting superpowers?

Oh like this time where I could manipulate the sky, but not the time. So, I could have it suddenly be a dark and stormy night. But it would still be 3:00 PM and everybody would act like it was still daytime. Useless power, but still kinda cool when you think about it, I suppose.

[Bamoehn]

I recently had a dream where I could save-state life. It was fucking amazing, I could manipulate the shit out of real life. It was also helpful in predicting the future as well. So, I could set a save-state right before the lottery numbers were announced, I could remember those numbers, reload my previous state, and input those numbers. Millions of dollars!

I also had another dream where I was essentially an undercover agent for the police, and I had the power of "Permission," essentially I could literally go wherever the fuck I wanted to, and have literally nothing be locked for me. It was so cool, I remember when I just walked in a mall at night and started making slushies. Then some baddies ran in and I ran away from them and ended up at a penthouse party. I actually blended in and had fun at the party.

I guess I like dreaming about interesting superpowers?

Oh like this time where I could manipulate the sky, but not the time. So, I could have it suddenly be a dark and stormy night. But it would still be 3:00 PM and everybody would act like it was still daytime. Useless power, but still kinda cool when you think about it, I suppose.

I'd steal your dreams if I could

[Andanism]

This is probably really stupid but it's a dream I can remember VERY vividly and it's a bit.. out there.

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Once, when I was a bit younger, around Christmas, I had a dream about this seal. I was in a zoo where all the animals were smiley and happy. One animal stood out a bunch in particular. It was a Christmas Seal. He was pure white and made of jello. His eyes glowed bright yellow and he constantly clapped his flippers. So, in the dream, I poked at the Christmas Seal's cage, and he made a pathetic look on his face and for some reason, I opened his cage. Then I went home and realized that all the addresses on my street were different but no one but me noticed. Then suddenly everything was made out of gingerbread, and the seal came into view, taunting me. He would wait right outside my school, just waiting. Then he would frolick with a mean glow in his eyes as he transformed everything around him. The trees became giant blood colored candy canes that loomed over me, the adults became gingerbread men, the gingerbread men getting their heads eaten off. Suddenly it was just us children and the Christmas Seals, who had developed the power to multiply in number. We were all armed with machine guns and we formed an army. We began sneaking up on the Christmas Seals and trying to kill them. But before we could do anything, children began getting torn apart limb by limb. Suddenly I was the only normal, sane person in the world. Suddenly I saw yellow and purple flashing in my eyes and the view changed to third person, and I saw myself as an ice sculpture, covered in garland for eternity. The Christmas seals then jumped into an inflatable little kid swimming pool filled with melted white chocolate, forgetting all about us, taking over the world.

I was about eight or nine years old.

To this day, I have a strong hatred of seals.

I had a somewhat similar dream when I was younger -I think I may have been around 6 or 7- but everything was made out of play-dough and instead of seals it was dogs and cats.
I don't remember much from it now because I'm almost 22 so it was a long time ago, I just remember opening the play-dough cages and all of a sudden these dogs and cats were chasing me and I was the only one who thought anything was strange and I was scared shitless.
It's really starting to fade though, so that's all I remember of it, but I'm surprised I've remembered it this long.

[Eonart]

So who wants to discuss lucid dreams?

As for a contribution, I went to a hotel that had a very odd structure and could probably fall any minute. I went up to the reception and asked where the toilet was. The guy said it was outside and when I went outside, the toilet was literally in plain sight for everyone to see, next to some kiddie pool. I didn't do my business, and picked up the boot that was inside the kiddie pool and went back inside the hotel. It became night time instantly for some reason and a man greeted me telling me that it was his boot I found. He told me to look for the other but I went to my hotel room before that.

When I came out, everything became birds-eye view and the turrets from Bastion spawned around me. Needless to say I ran like hell. Then I bumped into the Heavy from TF2 and triggered a Fallout style conversation. I don't remember the conversation but I woke up right after.

crazy stuff man

[Hanky Panky]

Am I the only one who has a Dream City?
Apparently, re-visiting the same city in almost every dream is fairly common.

I don't know whether I dream in the same city or my cityscapes are all incredibly similar.

[basicParadox]

I rarely remember my dreams to say the least, and I had a /really/ vivid one last night, more vivid than I've had in a long time.

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Starting off the dream, I was in a car ride with some of my family members (mom, sister, and grandma) to a little out-there ice cream parlor. And the road we were on was pretty much...impossibly steep to drive on without being dangerous/deadly. Partway along the road, our car breaks down and it happens to go back to normal enough that we can pull over and apparently get the car fixed, because the next thing I recall is pulling into the parlor.

So we walkk inside and it's a pretty decently made place, big, lots of tables and a counter you can pick ice creams from et cetera. Even a cabinet with a bunch of plates with little neat designs on them. So I go over, grab some random Tavros plate a kid asks if he can have that one, so I hand it over to him and just take another. Not sure what, but yeah. So I get my stuff and go to turn around so I can go get my ice cream..

Annd there's some girl standing a short distance away, short brown hair but I can't see her face, andd she's holding a butcher knife. So after a short talk, she pretty much flat out says she's gonna kill me. So I start talking to her and trying to figure out what's up and why she wants to kill me, and the conversation pretty much gets nowhere..

So I walk over and keep talking, and she just stabs me in the ribs with the knife, and that's where I woke up.

[TheBertRam]

Had a dream last night that I had a baby fawn as a pet, but through the course of the dream it just turned into a big dog. It was just so vivid.

[Andanism]

Last night I had a dream that I was holding a baby in a strange living room -I'd never seen it before.
It was kind of odd, but I was just sitting on a chair, holding this little baby and it was all calm and sweet and quiet.
And there really isn't anything significant about that alone.
BUT. This gets strange.
At about 10am my aunt texted me and asked if I wanted to come over and meet the new baby tonight.
So yeah, I love babies and I haven't seen my new cousin yet so I got all excited because of course I was going to see that new baby. So they came to pick me up and we walked into my grandmother's house (where I've never been, I only met my dad's side of the family back in March) and...it ended up being the exact same image from my dream.
Pretty effing crazy.

I also learned that my grandmother is a freakin' crazy driver.

[Archaeopteryx]

Am I the only one who has a Dream City?
Apparently, re-visiting the same city in almost every dream is fairly common.

I don't have a "city", but I do have a set of recurring areas that show up semi-frequently. They tend to be natural environments, though, probably cos I live in a suburb.

I haven't dreamed a lot recently, because the more tired I am the less I remember my dreams, which is saddening because most of my dreams are pretty cool. At least, I think so.

[Twentisix]

You guys are lucky. The last time I remembered my dreams was when I was a little kid.

Any advice?

[Digital Hellhound]

You guys are lucky. The last time I remembered my dreams was when I was a little kid.

Any advice?

Don't put up any alarms etc., just sleep as long as your body wants you to. That usually helps me. Find a secluded cabin in the middle of the wilderness if there's still too much noise.

[Twentisix]

You guys are lucky. The last time I remembered my dreams was when I was a little kid.

Any advice?

Don't put up any alarms etc., just sleep as long as your body wants you to. That usually helps me. Find a secluded cabin in the middle of the wilderness if there's still too much noise.

Well, actually, I can remember remembering dreaming a lot more when I went to a wilderness camp. I just thought it was some kind of fluke.

Maybe I can just simulate an outdoor environment; leave the window a tiny crack open, play a wilderness sound fx cd on loop while I sleep.

Then I'll tell you guys what I dream about.

[Andanism]

You guys are lucky. The last time I remembered my dreams was when I was a little kid.

Any advice?

Okay. This is going to sound ridiculous, but I swear it works for me.
When I was a bit younger, I never remembered my dreams, so my mom told me to put a small mirror (like a make-up mirror or something) under my pillow when I went to sleep.
Like I said, it sounds ridiculous, but it does work for me. It's an old folklore thing, and there's all sorts of different rumours, like you'll see the person you'll marry in the mirror and crap like that. Ignore that stuff.
I think more or less, it's just some sort of subconscious mind fuckery.
But yeah, when I sleep with the mirror under my pillow, I do remember more of my dreams.

[Andanism]

Okay, so this wasn't me that had this dream, but a friend of mine on tumblr had a dream that I wrote up a longass rant about orange socks and how I hated them simply because I felt like it hurts Davesprite's feelings. Like orange socks equals stepping on poor Davesprite! This rant got like thousands of notes and half the fandom there agreed and suddenly wearing orange socks was banned.
So anyways, apparently people started turning in their orange socks to me and they got pizza in return and I started bleaching half the socks white, and dying the other half black so we had dersite/prospitian "battlefield socks" when I returned them.

God, I love her.
Now excuse me while I got write up a rant about orange socks.

[Twentisix]

Well, It has come to my attention that most things that work to make you remember your dreams are placebos, so I figured I could will myself to remember my dreams pretty easily then.

I went to bed making sure it was clear that I wanted to remember what I was doing. At first It didn't really work, but after a few tries it happened.

I dreamed that I had to design and sell a product. I made some kind of stretchy kid's toy thing. For some reason, I had to put it directly onto the shelves of this airport/K-mart (It was a hybrid of both places in almost every way). So I went there, and I did it, and I got a bunch of money so I decided to go to a fast food place to eat (which I never do). I also brought a friend along who I picked up from the airport.

I went into this huge car, but then I realized I was nervous about driving so I jumped out of the window and controlled it telepathically, just kind of floating along by the side of it. We screeched into a parking spot like an action film star. When we actually got there, it was this ratty strip mall that was closed even though it was the middle of the day. We saw somebody going into the fast food place, so we considered following that person, but decided against it. Then the car's radio started playing, but it was actually the actual radio being played downstairs, so I woke up.

I don't know what it could mean, but I am very happy now.