Dreams, yo.

[dlphg9]

Here are a few thoughts I have on dreams.

Dreams are weird mother****ers.

I think when someone tells you a dream they make up over half of the dream they are telling you. Whenever I awaken with a vivid dream fresh in my head I only can remember bits and pieces of that dream, but when another person or my baby mama (please ****ing shoot me) tells me about a dream the amount of detail is exponentially higher than what I've ever remembered. Has anyone else noticed this?

My last thing, does anyone have dreams from your childhood that you can still remember even today or have something you remember when you were a kid and can't remember if it was a dream or if it happened?

I have 1 dream that sticks out from when I was pretty young <10. I was walking down a road with trees on both sides swaying and one grabbed me, the next thing I could remember was all my family there with missing limbs and a tree holding a chainsaw and telling me that he was cutting my legs off.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

I had a repetitive dream around age 10 of a phone booth in a cloudy sky with me looking down outside of it with me falling out of the bottom when Superman suddenly appears in the sky and saves me —then I wake up. I never hit the ground.

Have you considered revisiting this dream in real life. Say, going to the top of a very large building and hurling yourself off it?

I'm positive Superman will suddenly appear. Do report back.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by 58-4ever

Recurring childhood nightmare: Freddy Kruger. That mo-fo scared the SHIZ outta me.

Late Teens Nightmare: The infamous waiting tables / bartending "in the weeds" dilemma. I JUST CAN'T CATCH UP

Current late 30s Nightmare: I'm getting chased... all the time...

I had a dream when I was like 7 or 8 that a moose came into my bedroom and trampled me to death in the middle of the night. I could see his antlers and hooves silhouetted against the wall in the bright moonlight and he repeatedly raised up and hooved me to death.

[CarlosCarson27]

nap dreams in the middle of the day, are usually weirder than the night time dreams

[seclark]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

On occasion, I have some pretty vivid dreams. But details fade within moments.
To the point I've sometimes wondered whether, when you're talking about genius level creative people, they might have something that lets them recall their dreams just a little bit longer than others.
It hasn't happened often, and as I said the details regressed so quickly that I can't assess the merit of it, but I remember dreaming something where I knew I was dreaming, but I was also thinking 'if I can remember this, it would be an epic story.'
Other times, I've known I was dreaming something that I realized was important [a problem I was dealing with, or an emotion that was roiling me IRL] and woke with a drive to remember so I could learn something from whatever my unconscious was processing. But it invariably fails to survive so much as getting out of bed, let alone time to get up, get some coffee and think it over soberly.
Ironically, the broad strokes of last night's dream actually stuck with me, although the details reliably fell away. But even now I recall that as I going along I thought was triaging all these emergency injuries for some big tragedy, but somewhere along the line in my dream it occurred to me that I was actually only doing tons and tons of sutures. And I went into a funk, even still in the dream, that even though I was objectively 'helping' I was only doing things any idiot could do. So I trudged along from patient to patient, closing up cuts with a little needle and thread. Make of that what you will. . . .

The ****, dude?
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