Your Dreams

[Chimeco]

I had another amazing dream last night. Of course, I don't remember 95% percent of it. What I do remember of the dream was that there was some force of nature that persists in all the forests of the world. Has anyone ever seen the animae Princess Mononoke? It's a little similar to that.
When this "force" wanted to, or maybe it was at a certain time every 10 or so years, it would transform into this huge lumbering thing that traversed the world, doing whatever it did. It had some sort of hole on it that looked like a bug bite, and it was important for some reason (a hole to it's soul or something maybe).

Well anyway, there was a girl and guy accompanying me. There were also words that I would read, and then the dream would progress (wierd but it's a dream). I remember waking up after dreaming it and thinking Wow, whatever I'd read/wrote was just ingenious but it all faded away in the next few minutes.

Anyway, something happened to the guy that was with me, he turned into something dark and shadowy. I remember screaming at the girl to get away, and the guy chasing after her. And then someone telling me that the only thing that could stop him was "the force of a 10 year bite".. Yeah. It all made perfect sense in the dream. I feel awful for forgetting so much of it because I felt it all made such sense.

Anyway, that's my latest crazy dream. My words of course do not do it justice, but I suppose that's the way of dreams.

[Alia]

They say... (and I don't know who 'they' are, so bare with me) that if you eat right before you sleep your dreams are more vivid. Now if it is true or not, I don't know. I won't go to bed on a full stomach, not healthy!
I don't usually forget my dreams, I'm just too embarrassed to tell anyone what they were. The last time I had a strange dream, I was reading a Scifi book and listening to the Creed: Weathered CD... Not a good mix right before bed. Now everytime I hear Creed I think of that weird dream...

[GrownUp]

Originally Posted by Chimeco

I had another amazing dream last night. Of course, I don't remember 95% percent of it. What I do remember of the dream was that there was some force of nature that persists in all the forests of the world. Has anyone ever seen the animae Princess Mononoke? It's a little similar to that.
When this "force" wanted to, or maybe it was at a certain time every 10 or so years, it would transform into this huge lumbering thing that traversed the world, doing whatever it did. It had some sort of hole on it that looked like a bug bite, and it was important for some reason (a hole to it's soul or something maybe).

Well anyway, there was a girl and guy accompanying me. There were also words that I would read, and then the dream would progress (wierd but it's a dream). I remember waking up after dreaming it and thinking Wow, whatever I'd read/wrote was just ingenious but it all faded away in the next few minutes.

Anyway, something happened to the guy that was with me, he turned into something dark and shadowy. I remember screaming at the girl to get away, and the guy chasing after her. And then someone telling me that the only thing that could stop him was "the force of a 10 year bite".. Yeah. It all made perfect sense in the dream. I feel awful for forgetting so much of it because I felt it all made such sense.

Anyway, that's my latest crazy dream. My words of course do not do it justice, but I suppose that's the way of dreams.

A Saga dream. I get those too!

[dwndrgn]

I LOVE when I remember my dreams. Sometimes they may be a bit freaky but it is so much like a movie that it is entertainment in my own head. Sadly, these days my work schedule is so crazy that I haven't been on a regular sleep cycle so I hardly ever remember them. The only one I've had lately is one where I'm in a familiar restaurant (that IRL I don't recall ever visiting) where I know the manager who ends up escorting a patron out who then pulls out a gun...

[MoonLover]

I've had a recurring dream for years and years. Actually, the events aren't recurring, but the location is. I'm in a shopping centre, like a huge mall. Over the years I've learnt to recognize when I'm there and I can 'navigate' my way through the dream. I can decide which shops to visit etc and they're always the same. I've even drawn a map of the centre layout. But this is no realistic shopping centre. Elevators run up the outside of the building, the books in the bookshop lie on the floors, the pet shop is just one gigantic fish tank with sharks in it. The grocer sells brands I've never heard of. Sometimes I spend 'hours' wandering around. I've even watched an entire 'movie' in the cinema. Weird huh?

Karen

[littlemissattitude]

Oh, I nearly always remember by dreams. If I go more than two or three nights without remembering any dreams at all, I start to get worried.

And, let me tell you, my dreams are strange sometimes. I've had dreams that have special effects that rival anything Industrial Light and Magic could come up with. And then there are the recurring dreams. But many of them are not literally recurring in the sense that I dream the same events over again. Instead, they consist of different events that take place in places that I have visited before in my dreams - places that I've never been to and as far as I know do not exist in reality. And in those dreams, I usually always remember what happened in the previous dreams that took place in the same location. I also have alternative versions of the two towns I've lived in the longest that recur in my dreams. It's the same town, but there are different streets, with different businesses, sometimes sandwiched in between the streets that exist in reality.

The other thing is, I very, very rarely have bad dreams. I sometimes have dreams in which unpleasant things happen, but I think I've only had actual nightmares two or three times in my life. One of them was definitely brought on by falling asleep while reading a Clive Barker story - which pretty much figures, I suppose.

And I think this is very unusual - I can still remember dreams I had years ago, from the time I was around five years old or so. Not a lot of them, but more than seems strictly normal to have remembered. And often I will have, without any noticeable provocation, flash memories that will turn out to be memories of dreams rather than memories of things that have happened to me in the real world. How weird is that? I've also had dreams that have come true, and dreamed about people who I only met at some point after the dream.

I've got to edit this to add that I didn't read MoonLover's post closely enough the first time, but really noticed it after I had posted this. Very, very strange. Many of the recurring dreams that I have also take place in shopping malls. They are malls of my own imagination, but unlike MoonLover's, they are regular malls, just not malls I've ever been to.

[rune]

Has anyone had a dream that's come true?

[MoonLover]

I wonder what the significance of the shopping mall is? I've noticed over the years that these dreams seem to increase when I'm 'in a rut' or wanting to get away from a situation, so perhaps the wondrous mall with it's bright lights and endless array of adventures represents the freedom I crave.
I've never remembered having a dream come true, but I have from time to time gone into sort of a 'waking dream' where I know what's going to happen. Once I went into a trance thingy in the middle of a busy street because I'd just seen a helicopter that I knew would crash that day. And it did too.

Karen

[rune]

It's only happened with close family. But I have dreamt when they have been in trouble and the next day found out the dream was real
It's not happened often (thank goodness), and the dreams didnt seem quite the norm. I tended to come out of them very suddenly and quite unnerved.

Just wondered if anyone else had experienced anything similar.

[Hesh]

Sorry if I'm reviving an old thread here, no need to beat a dead horse...

Anyways, I think dreams are great insperations for novels, I've had a few that spawned some cool ideas. My best dream ever(sorry if I'm jacking the thread) was about some ace space pilot, named Jack. He was a ladies man, a bit conceded, but in the dream I was a kid and I knew him somehow. Hired, befriended, I dunno...
I believe he was a bounty or hunter, either that or a mercenary. Anyway, I loved that dream. I always think about the pilot when then ame Jack is mentioned.

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

I've had a couple of good story ideas from dreams too.


I've also had dreams that came true - although I wish they hadn't.

[Tsujigiri]

I wrote an game based on a nightmare that I had a few years back....

& I have also had dreams that come true....and before any major change in my life or life in general I dream of death.

Which isn't fun

[Animaiden]

I had a dream with my two friends in it. I told them about the basic idea, and we went with it. We now have a few small and disconected stories based on my dream.

Usually my dreams are about things that go on during the day. I do something, and it pops up in my dream. I have had reuccuring dreams where I am playing a video game. One minute I'm in playing the game, the next I'm in the game hacking and slashing with my friends. It gives me really cool dreams.

Like Moonlover, I also have reuccuring dreams about a place, but it is supposed to be a city version of my hometown. The buildings, and the placement of, are the same for dream to dream, but the events are always different.

I remember most of my dreams for years afterward, and they are rarely nightmares. Though there was that one where everyone turned into broccoli, and I like broccoli.

[Estelthea]

I've sometimes used setting from dreams in stories or just the general feelings I have when dreaming. And some of my dreams have turned up as dreams that a character has with a bit of added meaning.

I've had shopping centre dreams too where I can walk around and know where I'm going and why I'm going there (although I doubt I could draw any kind of map). It has some very very weird esclators which don't run at the same speed and feel more like being on a rollercoaster, and I don't have an esclator paronoia in real life.

One of my other recuring dreams is that I have a book, or collection of books, that contain the meaning of everything. In the dream I know that it all makes sense but when I wake up I can't remember a thing, I can still see the page and the writing but I just can't read the words. One day maybe!

[kyektulu]

A recurring dream I have is im in my garden (I dont have a garden where I live but I know this garden is mine) Im surrounded by trees and flowers of all kinds. There is a pathway through this wonderfull place made out of broken peices of quartz. I follow the pathway deep into the garden, this takes a long time as the garden is enormous, but I enjoy looking at all the different plants and animals which have taken up residence here.
I reach the end of the path, it stops suddenly even though I can go deeper in2 the garden. It ceases before a area which looks so out of place in the delightfull garden. Here the plants are not lush and green they are dying and rotting. I venture deeper and I see the same all around me except one small plant which is struggling to survive in the lightless place. I kneel before it and cradle it in my hands, I know what to do so I extend my energy to the small plant. It begins to grow my energy feeding it and new leaves fresh and green sprout from the plant. My energy spreads to all the plantlife around me each one bursts into flower and bloom I take much joy in seeing what I have created. I fall when all my energy has been sapped and all the plants in my garden have been nourished back to life, I let myself slip into the realms of the unconcious.
This dream I have had many times and each time it has been exactly the same weird huh?
xxxkyexxx