What do you usually dream about?

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tfinch2

Lifer
Feb 3, 2004
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I had a dream last night that I was living at home again, and a guy in a cow costume was trying to rob the house.

I find that I dream more if I sleep with the television on, so I tend to leave it on.
 

illusion88

Lifer
Oct 2, 2001
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I've been dreaming about popping my car tires. Weird. Probably a premonition.

EDIT: When I am working as a ski instructor, I dream about ski instructing. My GF at the time told me I would wake her up mumbling about kids not being in line or specific runs on the mountain.
 

angminas

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Dec 17, 2006
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Once in a while I dream that I'm back waiting tables, and people keep coming in, and nothing goes right, etc...you know the kind. But I really hate when I dream that the alarm is going off, because that snaps me right out of sleep, and it's hard to get back > <.
 

Sadaiyappan

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Nov 29, 2007
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I think I mumble about one person and someone else with the same name thinks I am mumbling about them.
 

Sadaiyappan

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Nov 29, 2007
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I sometimes remember what I mumbled about the next day. And.. If someone makes some comment to someone else as I'm walking by or if I see something on TV that interests me then I will mumble about that too.
 

Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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There is no actual concrete evidence that people actually dream as much as you think. I do dream from time to time but am aware and recall my dreams. Most nights I don't dream.
I was under the impression that it's almost the other way around, in that dreams occur every night, but you simply don't always remember them.
 

KaOTiK

Lifer
Feb 5, 2001
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I was under the impression that it's almost the other way around, in that dreams occur every night, but you simply don't always remember them.

I remember reading up and being told by a few doctors that we dream nearly all the time but we are lucky to even remember a small fraction of them when we wake up.
 

Schadenfroh

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Mar 8, 2003
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All of it is weird ass crazy shit, about 1/3 of that is horror, wake up screaming sometimes, especially if I fall asleep in certain positions after eating heavy food prior to bed.

I envy you guys who have beautiful ladies in your dreams, if they are in mine, they usually end up being supernatural killers.
 

HamburgerBoy

Lifer
Apr 12, 2004
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Am I the only one that hates dreaming about women? I'll vaguely remember short scenes of an awesome dream that mixes Deus Ex, Hogan's Heroes, and Pokemon into one singular event of awesome, and then clearly remember myself with some porn lady. Damn the temptress, destroying my childish innocence.
 

Scotteq

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Apr 10, 2008
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I never remember my dreams, except on rare occasions.

(Un?)strangely, when I do remember them there's often an answer to something I've been stressing over.
 

FDF12389

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Sep 8, 2005
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I never remember my dreams, except on rare occasions.

(Un?)strangely, when I do remember them there's often an answer to something I've been stressing over.

This^

It's really weird, the only times I remember my dreams they are always in relation very specific problems that are stressing me out.
 

Joseph F

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Jul 12, 2010
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I usually only have nightmares. I once had a recurring one about my sister trying to kill me and it was so vivid that when I woke up I thought it was real and still happening.

Here's how it went down:
The dream starts with my parents going to bed and my sister and I are sitting out in my living room. I start to drink a lot of alcohol (don't remember exactly what it was) and once I am totally hammered I fall to my knees and my sister tries to convince me that I am completely worthless and tries to convince me to kill myself, I refuse and she picks up a large kitchen knife and starts running at me with it. I then run to my room and I can hear my parents screaming. That's when the dream ends and the first time it happened I freaked the fuck out as everything in my room was exactly like it was in the dream (as in, the tv was on the same channel and other various details were the same) so I grabbed my gun and opened my door to find nothing out of the ordinary, but I still didn't get whether it was real or not for another 15 minutes or so.

I remember waking up to a nightmare this morning but the details are hard to remember. What I do remember is that there was a fuckin' ghost entering my body and it felt very cold.
 

Kadarin

Lifer
Nov 23, 2001
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The other night I had a great dream... I was at my parents' place, where we were being attacked/invaded by the British army. The 18th century one, redcoats and all... I was firing a cannon back at them, but they somehow managed to win the battle. And after all that, the British commander sat down with us in the living room and had tea with us, and it was all civil. Weird!
 

dank69

Lifer
Oct 6, 2009
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You know when you go to the gas station and the front pump is open and the others are occupied so you have to drive around the cars and back in to the open pump? My last dream was that except I was 'driving' a giant oil tanker ship. I think the next time I put down ant poison I should wear a mask. :hmm:
 

poopaskoopa

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Sep 12, 2000
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I usually come close to dying but never die. Or maybe I die in these dreams but my dream never shows me what happens after I die and maybe I don't have a deep belief in any afterlife stuff.

One time I was able to jump up above the clouds but not fly, so as I was coming down towards the ground I was thinking uh-oh and I don't remember what happened after that.
 

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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gorilla chasing me, and I just can't seem to get my feet under me.
 

Wyndru

Diamond Member
Apr 9, 2009
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I often dream that I've missed a lot of school (college) and I'm missing a ton of materials at the end of the semester and I'm going to fail a course or 2. I've been out of school for 10 years now, but I frequently have this dream.
 

Sadaiyappan

Golden Member
Nov 29, 2007
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People make passive aggressive statements about people who like me then I end up repeating them back when I am asleep.
 

Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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I usually only have...a recurring one about my sister...

Here's how it went down:
The dream starts with my parents going to bed and my sister and I are...totally hammered. I fall to my knees and my sister...starts...screaming. That's when...I...fuck...everything...

I remember waking up...fuckin'...my body and it felt very cold.
Suspicious ellipses.
 

Bibble

Golden Member
Feb 20, 2006
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Most of the dreams I remember are stressful. For example, I'll be back in high school and I didn't do an assignment or something of that nature. I'll begin waking up and think "Oh man, it was just a dream I don't have any assignment." Five seconds later I realize that I haven't been in high school in half a decade.

Every once in a while I'll dream of making out with some random girl.
 

PeeluckyDuckee

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Feb 21, 2001
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I maynot be able to recall the details of my dreams but i know when i've had a dream, and sometimes know when i am in that dreaam state and can control myself in the dream.
 

TheSpy007

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May 29, 2003
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I often dream that I've missed a lot of school (college) and I'm missing a ton of materials at the end of the semester and I'm going to fail a course or 2. I've been out of school for 10 years now, but I frequently have this dream.

I have the exact same dreams. Mine starts when i am enrolled in a class and forget to attend all semester so i receive an incomplete. Then i am unable to graduate. Its horrible, and i graduated 3 years ago.
 

Mr. Pedantic

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Feb 14, 2010
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I often dream that I've missed a lot of school (college) and I'm missing a ton of materials at the end of the semester and I'm going to fail a course or 2. I've been out of school for 10 years now, but I frequently have this dream.
That's not a dream for me. I have an exam tomorrow and just realized this morning, as I was going through past exam papers, that I have forgotten about a third of the lectures in the course. Plus, I had the whole week as study leave, but I just couldn't concentrate and my parents kept finding things for me to do, so I haven't really studied much for the other two thirds that I remembered I should be studying. I should be okay, I theoretically need only 30&#37; to pass the course overall, but damn I want better than to scrape a C-