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.

[Naptown Chief]

I had a dream that all of the members of my favorite message board (chiefsplanet.com) had a giant orgy, starring me

[Monticore]

Originally Posted by Naptown Chief

I had a dream that all of the members of my favorite message board (chiefsplanet.com) had a giant orgy, starring me

We can make sure you get an invite next time.

[BoxWine_Stouffers_TubeSock]

Originally Posted by Donger

Anyone else have a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

No but I had a dream where I was Nic Cage and I was snorting blow off of a pornstar's ass. It was pretty cool.

[Strongside]

If I take melatonin I remember EVERYTHING.

[Kidd Lex]

Originally Posted by Donger

Anyone else have a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

I’m afraid those aren’t naked women if they’re throwing their pickles at you.

[Fish]

I had a dream a month or so ago in which my cat hopped on the chair beside me, and did a big normal cat yawn. Except then his head just kept opening up like a Pacman death scene until his head was inside out and he was twitching and dripping all nasty like. It was very clear and graphic in my dream, and I immediately woke up with my heart racing. Don't normally have that disturbing of dreams...

[Why Not?]

Originally Posted by Fish

I had a dream a month or so ago in which my cat hopped on the chair beside me, and did a big normal cat yawn. Except then his head just kept opening up like a Pacman death scene until his head was inside out and he was twitching and dripping all nasty like. It was very clear and graphic in my dream, and I immediately woke up with my heart racing. Don't normally have that disturbing of dreams...

Don’t suppose you had fallen asleep that night while watching John Carpenter’s “The Thing” had you?

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

Don’t suppose you had fallen asleep that night while watching John Carpenter’s “The Thing” had you?

I don't think so, but that's a pretty damn fine description now that you mention it.

[TribalElder]

Have you ever had a dream where someone does something ****ed up to you that pisses you off, then you wake up and hold a grudge in real life

[Pablo]

Like others have said melatonin will make you have some bomb ass dreams. When I'm sick and take some nyquil I typically have nightmares.

[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.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by TribalElder

Have you ever had a dream where someone does something ****ed up to you that pisses you off, then you wake up and hold a grudge in real life

My wife has

[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...

[58-4ever]

Originally Posted by Donger

Anyone else have a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

No, but they throw flesh lights at me.... and tacos.

[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. . . .