Do you have vivid dreams, or oddball ones? Please share

I gave up trying to understand my dreams long ago. The subject matter jumps from one thing to another. It could be a few hours after I have woken up when I will have a flash of one of the dreams. Then it disappears. Today's flash of someone discussing buying gold and telling me my idea was no good but I knew it was a better idea than his. End of dream. I have thought of logging my dreams but it would prove nothing. We all know dogs dream also.
 
Is anyone else puzzled by who shows up in their dreams, the Queen has never put in an appearance in one of mine, at least yet. But now that someone has planted the idea, …..
I have often found myself, test probes in hand, trying to figure out what was wrong with various electronic systems that I dealt with during my early years in the Navy. I loved working on electronic systems and apparently don't want to let it go. Still, it strikes me as odd. Overall, my dreams are enjoyable. I actually resent being woken up after a surgery, because I am usually in the middle of a good dream that I would like to finish.
My wife has this oddity of speaking in an unknown language during some of her dreams. It is really weird to listen to, but she doesn't find them troubling.
 

Pecos said:
Is anyone else puzzled by who shows up in their dreams, the Queen has never put in an appearance in one of mine, at least yet. But now that someone has planted the idea, …..
I have often found myself, test probes in hand, trying to figure out what was wrong with various electronic systems that I dealt with during my early years in the Navy. I loved working on electronic systems and apparently don't want to let it go. Still, it strikes me as odd. Overall, my dreams are enjoyable. I actually resent being woken up after a surgery, because I am usually in the middle of a good dream that I would like to finish.
My wife has this oddity of speaking in an unknown language during some of her dreams. It is really weird to listen to, but she doesn't find them troubling.
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I have only been but out for 2 or 3 surgeries, I don't recall ever dreaming during them!!
 
The weirdest one I've had in the last few years was about reincarnation, and I dreamed within the dream. In the real-time dream, I was in a relationship ...very much in love... with a man that I feared unreasonably. Within that dream, I dreamed of us in different historical periods. I kept 'waking' from those 'dreams in the dreams' parts of the real-time dream knowing we had encountered each other and he'd killed my baby in each of those past time lines. In the real-time dream, it finally resolved that this time he wouldn't ...that I was pregnant by him and he would love this baby. I woke for real with such a sense of peace.

No clue what all that means since I've never wanted children. The man and the baby represent something ...creativity, maybe? vulnerability? ...some loss that I feel for never having met someone I loved enough/shared the same goals to marry and commit for life?
 
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Ken N Tx said:
Retired over 11 years and still dream of work....I consider them nightmares!!!
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Ugggh. I hate those. I don't dream about the happy work times, but bad bosses or work environments and feel stuck in the dreams. I don't dream about past good jobs or my current one that I really like.
 
AnnieA said:
Ugggh. I hate those. I don't dream about the happy work times, but bad bosses or work environments and feel stuck in the dreams. I don't dream about past good jobs or my current one that I really like.
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Ditto...I only dream of my last job that I worked at for 18 years..
 
Pecos said:
Is anyone else puzzled by who shows up in their dreams, the Queen has never put in an appearance in one of mine, at least yet. But now that someone has planted the idea, …..
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Me too. Well, if you dream about the Queen, sorry. LOL. I do wonder why I dream of some celebrities. I mean, I have favorite celebs, but I never go gaga over them, like a teenager or anything. They are just celebs I enjoy watching.
I always wonder why I dream of people I do not get along with in real life. Cannot understand that.
 
Marie5656 said:
Ok , will someone PLEASE tell me why my subconscious seems to be suddenly obsessed with Queen Elizabeth? I have had no fewer than 3 dreams with her in them in the past 3 weeks. And I live in the U.S..
Weird thing is, she is not at the palace or somewhere normal (for her). It could be we are at the grocery store together, or riding in a car or in a restaurant. And no one but me seems to know she is the queen. What the heck.
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She's going through a tough patch these days. Maybe your subconscious knows she needs a friend!
 
My dreams are usually sad. If they're not sad, they're just about my old job. When I first started taking anti-depressants they had crazy- off the wall images, but those have settled down. I liked those better.

I've read that many images are symbols of things or people whose meaning is only for the dreamer.

Then there's that old theory; the Child, The Adult and the Parent within you.
 
Marie5656 said:
@Sassycakes Odd dreams. I wonder what they are trying to tell you. I am especially interested in the fact that you do not know the kids. I am sure they represent something, but what?
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I'm happy that I don't know who the children are,because it would be more frightening if I knew who they were and in danger. You are probably right that they might represent something else.I never thought of that.My husband thinks because of all the incidents with guns in schools ,movies etc. That I am probably worried about something like that happening to children I'm in contact with at an event like that and that I would want to protect the children from harm.
 
RadishRose said:
That's an idea, but it occured to me it's Marie going through a rough patch and subconsciously, needs a mother.
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Good point. You may have something there. But, I do have insight into my recently extra vivid dreams. I was out of Melatonin for a while, and grabbed some at Walmart the other day. Did not really look beyond the fact they were the gummy kind.
Normally I buy the 3 or 5 mg and take 1 or 2. The dreams are odd, but not bad. After I started taking 2 of the new batch..WOW, all kinds of oddball stuff, making shopping with the Queen seem tame. I looked at the bottle of Melatonin and it was 10 mg!! So I was taking 20 a night rather than less than 10. YIKES.
So, I now take 1 every time, and not every night. Will remember to look at bottle better next time.
 
Marie5656 said:
Good point. You may have something there. But, I do have insight into my recently extra vivid dreams. I was out of Melatonin for a while, and grabbed some at Walmart the other day. Did not really look beyond the fact they were the gummy kind.
Normally I buy the 3 or 5 mg and take 1 or 2. The dreams are odd, but not bad. After I started taking 2 of the new batch..WOW, all kinds of oddball stuff, making shopping with the Queen seem tame. I looked at the bottle of Melatonin and it was 10 mg!! So I was taking 20 a night rather than less than 10. YIKES.
So, I now take 1 every time, and not every night. Will remember to look at bottle better next time.
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I take 3 mg. of melatonin. I found the 5 and 10 mg. to be too strong for me and had odd dreams a lot at that time, too.
 
Resurrecting this thread to mention these dreams, that I have had often, but for some reason, much more often in recent weeks. In the dreams it seems my mailbox is filled to the brim with mail of all sorts. It seems to just be coming and coming, like more mail than my box can realistically hold.
Most is often addressed to me, but some seems to be addressed to others. Not just other names, but other addresses, different people, different cities. People and places I have no connection to. Odd.
Less frequesntly, I find I am getting an abundance of packages, all of things I do not remember ordering, or expecting to get. Just dozzens of packages and large envelopes. It is like Christmas.
What are these telling me? I have no clue. Also have no clue why I am having them with such frequency.
 
A long time ago, I had dreams in which I didn't know my class schedule and couldn't find my classroom, and on and on. Later, that sort of morphed into being late for work, or not being able to find my car. Hubs says his dreams are similar, except he's in an airport and running late for his plane. Mostly now I just have nonsensical dreams. They seems quite vivid when I wake, but they fade rapidly and I can barely remember them in an hour or two.
 
Marie5656 said:
Most is often addressed to me, but some seems to be addressed to others. Not just other names, but other addresses, different people, different cities. People and places I have no connection to. Odd.
Less frequesntly, I find I am getting an abundance of packages, all of things I do not remember ordering, or expecting to get. Just dozzens of packages and large envelopes. It is like Christmas.
What are these telling me? I have no clue. Also have no clue why I am having them with such frequency.
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Marie
Well, as Johnny Carson holds the envelope to his forehead:
"What this means is that you are going to win the lottery and go hog-wild with Internet shopping. It also means that lots of people are going to try to sell you something or ask you for money."

Just kidding! I get recurring dreams fairly often and never did find much real world insight in them.
 

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