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

Marie5656

Marie5656

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I have had many goofy dreams over the years. I believe it when people say it is our subconscious trying to work things out from out waking life. I have had many with similar themes. In some, I will be somewhere and when I go to leave, I find myself wandering the parking lot unable to find my car. Or if I find it, it is blocked in, and I cannot get it out.

During these dreams I try to call for help, but either the cell I have is not mine, or I cannot remember, or enter in the numbers I want to call.
Sometimes the car dream involves me being in an accident with it, or it is in the shop and they cannot or will not fix it.

I have had others, which I will share in future replies here.
 

Ohhhhh I think I'm the queen of vivid dreams...not a night goes past without one...

Most of the disturbing ones centre around me acting irresponsibly to those I love.. for example many, many dreams of my adult daughter who in my dreams is usually a child of around 3 years old... and me accidentally leaving her somewhere or forgetting to feed her for days, and then waking up in a sweat thinking she's dead or dying because of my lack of care.

I have no pets of my own but I do have 7 granfurkids who are the love of my life after my DD... and they adore me back. One of the dogs is a miniature black labradoodle (Stan) who is an absolute darling...

Last night, I dreamed that I found an identical jet black ''stan'' along with a tiny doppelgänger puppy left inside my kitchen door..they were just sat there looking at me not moving and looking a little lost and fearful ... I vaguely wondered where they'd come from, and then thought no more of it thinking somehow they must have got in my house and they would leave again..( I didn't pet them or feed them as I would have done in real life) a few days goes past and I go into the kitchen again to find the dogs still there, in the same place , and I went into a mad panic, thinking that the dogs now will be dying, because they'd been there for days and I hadn't fed them or watered them at all, and knew they were going to die because I'd starved them to death... and I woke up in a panic!!
 
Yes, yes, yes. Vivid, oddball, Cecil de Mille cast of thousands epics. Burning buildings, earthquakes, volcanoes, aliens, you name it, I'm right in the middle. Sometimes it's something like finding a baby on the subway (two nights ago) and trying to decide whether to keep it or not.

Most of the time when I wake up, I am so relieved that it was just a dream.

Lately, I've been dreaming a lot of being back working in an office. Things are constantly going wrong and I can't handle them. Then I wake up and ahhhhhh, it was just a dream....I'm retired....
 

Do you take Beta blockers? I do and I discovered that certain types cause vivid, sometimes scary dreams. Of course you're not usually told this. One GP told me that 'dreams wouldn't hurt me', but another GP said, "No problem, I'll change them".
 
I have two dreams that I often have. Someone is chasing me, I don't know who, and somehow I am just able to say out of the persons reach. It seems like the chase goes on for hours but I'm sure it is only a short period of time. The other dream is that I can't remember the combination to my locker in high school. That must have been a fear of mine back then but I don't remember it ever happening. Both of these dreams at times have caused me to wake up with my heart pounding. Funny thing about the locker dream is that my Mom said she had exactly the same one.
 
I've had some very vivid dreams since I quit smoking with Chantix.

One thing that I cannot understand about my dreams are the people that I've never met yet they seem so real in my dreams. I must have seen them on television or in real life and just filed the images away without realizing it.
 
Vivid and oddball for me too. I dream a lot, always have and in brilliant color, the good ones are great, nightmares are intense but luckily I have few of those. The dreams I love the most are when I'm flying by my own power over cities or countryside, prefer the countryside ones for sure.

The ones that stick in my head since I'm an animal lover are one where a cat I was petting had a paisley design on its fur, and another one of a lilac colored Chow Chow dog. I also have a lot of dreams where I'm lost and asking directions, or walking endless through a strange city. Dialing the phone or yelling for help is always very hard to do in my dreams. Lots of dreams looking for a restroom too, only to find it filthy or out in public, etc.

I've dreamed of riding in my bed on the highway late for work, that was a wild ride. The nightmare I remember most is walking alone in the dark down the middle of the street with cars parked by the curbs on either side of me. As I was walking and afraid, corpses started sitting up one by one in the cars and looking over at me. I walked faster and faster and was very scared in that dream. My husband sometimes would watch a scary movie on the TV while I was going off to sleep, so I think that had a lot to do with it.
 
I note that I have had the most vivid dreams when on medications, like antihistamines. Often my dreams relate to my own personal work or life experiences. Early in my career of work with people with disabilities, I worked in group homes. My last job was as a personal community assistant to a woman who lived in a privately own home with two friends, all with disabilities, all with their own staff. I find sometimes I dream I am still working at some sort of home with several folks, and staff. But a part of me is feeling I should not be there, or have never been there before that day. Odd things will happen, like I am late for work, or show up when I should not be working. Now that I am ending my first year of retirement, I kind of hope the work dreams end.
 
I dream about my x all the time. He is deceased. I have dreams I am trying to help him, to save him but it's really hard. I also dream about many things, jumping from huge cliffs and swimming very deep seas which I would be afraid of in real life.
 
SeaBreeze said:
. I also have a lot of dreams where I'm lost and asking directions, or walking endless through a strange city. Dialing the phone or yelling for help is always very hard to do in my dreams. Lots of dreams looking for a restroom too, only to find it filthy or out in public, etc.

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​WOW, SeaBreeze, I have often had very similar dreams. Wandering, or driving through a strange, or sometimes vaguely familiar, city. Also the dirty bathroom dreams. YUCK. I also have bathroom dreams where I need to "go" and cannot find an unoccupied bathroom, or doors are very small and I cannot get in..OR, they are in a public area. I often cannot dial the phone either. Usually the phone in my hand is not my own, or I just cannot enter in the number.
 
Marie5656 said:
​WOW, SeaBreeze, I have often had very similar dreams. Wandering, or driving through a strange, or sometimes vaguely familiar, city. Also the dirty bathroom dreams. YUCK. I also have bathroom dreams where I need to "go" and cannot find an unoccupied bathroom, or doors are very small and I cannot get in..OR, they are in a public area. I often cannot dial the phone either. Usually the phone in my hand is not my own, or I just cannot enter in the number.
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And when I wake up Marie, I usually have to go to the bathroom in real life. :playful: One thing about the public bathroom dreams, nobody else in the dream seems to notice or care, so that's a plus!

Sometimes if I'm trying to yell for help, I make a noise in my sleep and my husband wakes me up and asks me if I'm okay. Just last week, probably from a show I was watching on TV, I had a dream that this man was coming toward me with a big hypodermic needed filled with yellow liquid. In the dream I knew that I could not let him inject me or I would die or be unconscious and he could do whatever he wanted with me. So, in the dream he was right on me and I was holding back his arm and putting my arm across his neck saying, 'no, this isn't gonna happen!', that's when my hubby woke me up.

Funny thing, one night he was having a nightmare that some creature was going after him and trying to grab him from below. When I heard his panicked breathing and noises, I touched him on the lower back to wake him up. He freaked out because he said when I touched him he felt it in the dream like the creature made contact. :eek:
 
I too have occasionally experienced many of the dreams mentioned above which has been an interesting read. Thank you all. You have good memories.

I avoid very spicy foods for dinner like mexican poblano peppers (i.e. don't order Chilies Rellenos at a Mexican restaurant for dinner). I have to protect my brain by avoiding disturbing images like in violent movies, and tv (I just close my eyes immediately (especially when they warn you first on the news) and hit the mute button if need be or change channels of course, because it sticks like velcro to my mind.

I like to try to surround myself with positive people whenever I can and avoid toxic ones and "energy vampires". I've hit the "Hide Posts Like These" button on Facebook sometimes. I don't even go to FB much anymore. And I look for inspirational and upbeat writings and music to read and listen to.

I search for things that make me smile. I read once that if you don't feel like smiling then MAKE yourself smile because using those muscles create endorphins that make us naturally feel happy. Make sure no one's watching you cuz your smile might look a little fake, lol.

And finally, before I close my eyes, I pray and ask God to wash clean my brain of anything disturbing that has implanted itself there without welcome so that I can have sweet dreams. I have this memorized for my life's goal, a bit of an ongoing effort...Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
 
If I take the supplement Melatonin for sleep, my dreams become more intense, sometimes that's good, sometimes not so much. I don't use it that often because of that, my husband takes 1mg sublingual nightly for sleep with good results.
 
I'm almost always quiet during my nightmares, but the Spousal Equivalent has "night terrors" and sounds like he's being slaughtered until I get him awake. One of these days the neighbors are going to call the cops.

I do talk in my sleep a lot. Here's a classic example (I've cleaned up the language) of what I did the very first time I spent the night with him: He said I suddenly sat up in bed and yelled, "G-DAMMIT, _________ THAT ****ING COW IS ON FIRE AGAIN!!!" OK, I'm really not sure why the cow was on fire the first time and I'm definitely not sure why it would catch fire again, but there it was.....burning merrily away. It's a wonder he let me back into the bedroom again.

One night, he said I carried on a long conversation in what he said sure sounded a lot like fluent Russian. Mind you, outside of a few phrases, I speak no Russian at all.
 
Wow Jujube, the night terrors must be scary for both of you! Interesting that you talk that much in your sleep, and in another language too.
 
I've always had great dreams, sometimes so funny or outrageous I wake myself laughing.

My favorites are the flying dreams I've had all my life, as long as I can remember anyway. I soar like a giant bird over all kinds of lands and things that are wonderful to see. The only problem with the flying dreams is that I tend to be a little tired when I wake up, either from physical exertion or too much sensory input.
 
The flying dreams I have had. The lost and wandering I have had. The man that I catch up to and is transparent I have had. There seems to be a pattern.
I think you can hurt yourself in a dream state.
This one. I am in a dark basement room in Mexico. Why Mexico I don't know. I have never been there. But there is an open door way farther ahead with steps. I have a flashlight. I shine the flashlight and the floor is covered in snakes but they scurry out of the way as I make my way to the steps. Just when I get to the steps a huge Cobra pops up. I grab him behind the head and fling him across the room. A loud crash wakes me up. I had fallen asleep with the t.v. remote in my hand and it had hit the wall. Luckily it did not hit the TV set.
 
I also have some lucid dreams, dreams where you know in the dream that you are dreaming. If it's a bad dream it can be comforting and help you to wake from it.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I also have some lucid dreams, dreams where you know in the dream that you are dreaming. If it's a bad dream it can be comforting and help you to wake from it.
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I have also had that. I know I'm in a dream and trying to wake up and can't.

The brain sure is a strange animal. I'm wondering what dreams are all about. Clearing the cache?
 
Camper6 said:
I have also had that. I know I'm in a dream and trying to wake up and can't.

The brain sure is a strange animal. I'm wondering what dreams are all about. Clearing the cache?
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I have pondered that, myself. I like your thought. Or the one about our brain just trying to help us work through stuff. Who knows. Our it is just our brain just saying "While I have your attention, here is a little personalized TV show you probably will not remember in the morning"
 
My dreams ore usually vivid. In many of them I'm in an office building at the elevators and sometimes people I actually knew are standing with me. Other dreams involve me being in a car with my mother driving and we're hurrying because I don't want to be late. This is strange because mom was an excellent driver and very punctual.
 

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