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

Just read through all the responses again. It is interesting that among us, a group of people who , in real life, do not know each other, have some similar themes in our dreams. Be it flying, driving, lost somewhere, or whatever. Wonder if it means any thing. I do not recall having such dreams when I was younger.

Or am I reading too much into it?
 
I think certain symbols like flying or afraid to be late are so commonplace that many of us actually do use the same symbols. But details vary, I would think.
 

Marie5656 said:
Just read through all the responses again. It is interesting that among us, a group of people who , in real life, do not know each other, have some similar themes in our dreams. Be it flying, driving, lost somewhere, or whatever. Wonder if it means any thing. I do not recall having such dreams when I was younger.

Or am I reading too much into it?
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How high are you when you are flying. I'm only a foot off the ground and upright. Like a hover board.
 
I mostly dream of being lost. It is a different place ever time. One time it was New York City. It was dark and the buildings were tall and all lit up and I could not find my way home. Once It was in my high school and I could not find my class room. That is just two of them but it has been happening for years.
 
Lynk said:
I mostly dream of being lost. It is a different place ever time. One time it was New York City. It was dark and the buildings were tall and all lit up and I could not find my way home. Once It was in my high school and I could not find my class room. That is just two of them but it has been happening for years.
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I am often "lost" in a public building like a hotel, or at an airport.
 
Both vivid and oddball. Nearly all of my dreams have my late husband, in a "bit part." He's always present, but sort of as a shadow. He never says anything. Often, I am rushing to catch a train or a plane, and he's running along beside me.

Last night's dream was a doozy. My granddaughter is getting married next month (in real life), and I dreamed that I was standing on line waiting to walk down the aisle, along with the rest of the family, but somehow the wedding just couldn't begin, because there was some minor problem with the electrical connection. They needed to replace a cable. One of the electricians was saying, "Some old guy in the next room says to use this kind of cable," and he held up the kind of electrical cable you would buy at Home Depot. I said, "Oh, I know who the old guy is!" And everyone in the family agreed, it was my husband (who somehow wasn't on line with the rest of us), because he was an engineer and liked tinkering with stuff like that.

Don't know how it turned out, I woke up before the wedding actually began. I hope the real thing runs smoother than that! ;)
 
I have odd and scary dreams a lot. In the last 3 nights I dreamt I was cutting clothes up and making posters out of the scrapes of material. Then the next night I dreamt I was cutting cardboard up and making crowns out of them, Then last night I dreamt of my older brother who passed away 2 yrs ago. We were in a room and there were all little kids around us. My brother couldn't see me and he was hollering at the kids and saying they were being punished and he started tying them up. I kept yelling stop,stop,stop but he never heard me. I can't wait to see what I dream tonight.
 
Did you ever dream you were falling, and wake up abruptly by jerking in the bed to catch yourself? I haven't had that in awhile, more when I was younger.

If you could have each and every dream recorded and played for you back on the TV the next day, would you do that or not....and why?
 
SeaBreeze said:
Did you ever dream you were falling, and wake up abruptly by jerking in the bed to catch yourself? I haven't had that in awhile, more when I was younger.

If you could have each and every dream recorded and played for you back on the TV the next day, would you do that or not....and why?
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Yes and I ended up on the floor. I was very young then.

I have read that if you have a repeating scary dream that if you write it out by hand and give it a happy ending that you won't have that particular dream anymore.
 
I occasionally have vivid dreams.
When I was in grade school, I had the same one many times. The playground of my grade school had a ramp of about 3' rise/drop at one corner for handicap access. In the dream, I was being pushed in a wagon by a couple boys and when they pushed me down the ramp, the ramp was 10-20' long and there was a pit at the bottom and I couldn't turn to avoid it because the stairs are on one side and a fence is on the other. Sometimes I woke up just before going into the pit, other times I was falling in the pit.
Now, I can sometimes realize I'm dreaming, while still dreaming. I've had a few 'bad' dreams where I've said to myself "Oh, I'm just dreaming this". I either 'watch' the dream like it's a TV show or exit the dream and go onto the next one.
One time, I had a GREAT dream. I was doing things I love, and said 'Man, my life is Great!'. That's when I realized I was dreaming. I somehow chose to watch the dream in rewind, and go past the start of the dream, to see how I got to the great life. It was all so clear. Each step preparing & positioning me for the next (or previous in rewind). Then when I was about to get to the last/first step, the key to it all... I never wanted to go back to sleep and resume a dream so bad.
Well, maybe the boyhood dream of being in a cabin with a lady sheriff...
 
So, last night was a new one for me. I was out with some people I knew and one of them wanted to stop somewhere. Seemed to be a small museum of some sort. I was not interested, and went to sit down in a "sitting room", took off my shoes and just sat back to rest. When it was time to go, I went to get my shoes, and could not find them. Suddenly the room seemed filled with a pile of shoes, all along one wall. None of them were mine. Went through other rooms and there were shoes everwhere.
Odd.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Did you ever dream you were falling, and wake up abruptly by jerking in the bed to catch yourself? I haven't had that in awhile, more when I was younger.

If you could have each and every dream recorded and played for you back on the TV the next day, would you do that or not....and why?
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Yes, it has happened to me. Most recently in the last couple of weeks. I have also fallen out of be a couple of times. As for watching my dreams on a TV , would be interesting to do. Bet they would make no sense, even to me.
 
Marie5656 said:
So, last night was a new one for me. I was out with some people I knew and one of them wanted to stop somewhere. Seemed to be a small museum of some sort. I was not interested, and went to sit down in a "sitting room", took off my shoes and just sat back to rest. When it was time to go, I went to get my shoes, and could not find them. Suddenly the room seemed filled with a pile of shoes, all along one wall. None of them were mine. Went through other rooms and there were shoes everwhere.
Odd.
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That is odd Marie! Sounds like one of those frustrating dreams for sure! :eek:
 
I've had coyotes on my mind lately, they come around our back fence and I always fear they might jump into our yard and harm my dog, although they haven't done that in the past 30 years...there are just a lot of them and they come right up to the fence.

So a few nights ago, early morning, last dream before I woke up....I looked out my back window and a coyote was jumping fast and high over our fence into our yard, and my dog was out there. I ran out there grabbing a broom to chase it away and was yelling at it. It chased my dog onto the porch and I held the door open so the dog could go inside.

The coyote was on my porch, then distracted by the barbeque grill for a moment, it looked like a clean beautiful big well groomed brown and white Husky dog, but it was a coyote. I shook the broom at its head and it didn't faze him. I ran back into the house telling my husband I need my pepper spray.....just then I woke up.
 
Marie5656 said:
I have had many goofy dreams over the years.
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'Marie5656' I think most peoples dreams are in one form or the other oddball.
Lately I have been alternating between dreams of me running various printing presses and driving off-road in some really weird places.
What get me more is the, at times, intensity of the color in my dreams, because I hear some people dream in black and white.
 
I had one last night.
I was telling my friend that there's nothing on the other side when we die just a black void.

He said 'you have to have the password'.
I said 'where do you get the password'.

He said 'you just have to listen'
 
Since taking a beta blocker I usually have a few vivid dreams every night. Usually about old jobs or being back in college. They often wake me up and I try to memorize what I was dreaming, but I've forgotten them by morning.
 
SeaBreeze said:
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.
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I've been taking a 1mg sublingual Melatonin (Source Naturals) at night for around a week now, and this morning right before I woke up, I had one of these really neat dreams again, they are few and far between, but I love having them. Melatonin always makes my dreams even more vivid and colorful, and intensifies them whether good or bad.

I was in some kind of a store with my husband, almost like a post office with envelopes, boxes, etc. around. On the floor they had to young kittens roaming around and playing, both were very cute, but kind of dirty. I had the idea that they may have been available for adoption.

Looking at them closer, one had a design on it's coat of a very faded red flannel shirt. The pattern had small squarish shapes of flannel, in a very muted tone. It was amazing, and of course I was soon on the floor holding the cat face to face on my chest talking baby talk to it. I overheard the lady in the store calling her Spice. In my head I told myself I would keep that name if I took her.

My husband was sitting in a chair wearing a red flannel shirt, we both wear flannel shirts at times in cool weather or when camping, but neither of us like red, so they are all more natural blue, gray or green colors. Anyhoo, I said to him, look at this kittens fur, it's like a flannel shirt pattern! He agreed that it really looked nice. I put it down on a small table there, and it bent it's back knees in such an adorable, not normal way, and laid there on it stomach. I was still delighted to look at it, although I knew we didn't want any more pets at the time.

I started telling my husband that I would ask the lady's permission to take a picture of it, that's when I woke up for the day. Hubby enjoyed hearing about my dream, he's an animal lover too, but never had any dreams as cool as mine. :)
 
I have many interesting (to me) or entertaining dreams. I keep a dream journal.

My most recent dream:

I was an advisor or some type of personal assistant for President Trump. He was very concerned that he looked too fat during press conferences. I asked him to remove his suit jacket. It was obvious his shirt was WAY too big and the extra material was making his suit jacket puff out; but the collar and sleeve length were correct. So I told him he need to hire a tailor to alter his shirts. He seemed pleased with my answer; but he did not smile. That is all I remembered by the time I woke up.
I have wacky dreams almost every night.
 
The other night I had a dream that centered around a very tragic day for us all..9/11. I dreamt I was in NYC on that day, and no one knew I was there. I was about to board a plane to fly home, and then all flights were cancelled. It seems I tried for hours to find a way home, and to contact someone that I was safe.

Not sure why I had this dream NOW..but a sad back story is involved (true story). One of the passengers on one of the planes that hit the towers had the same name as me...well, at the time I was not yet married and she had my maiden name . In the following week I got many calls and emails from people checking on me. Odd.
 
Over the years I have had many strange dreams. I also have many dreams of loved ones that have passed. Oddly many of those dreams came true. In one my Dad who had passed away told me to tell my niece that she was getting a baby boy. He said to tell her he said 313. He knew when he passed my niece couldn't get pregnant. In the dream he was with an Uncle of mine who had also passed away. When I told my niece she said that she would look for a fertility specialist in her area. The next day she was in a local store and the girl that worked there told my niece she was pregnant, and had to put the baby up for adoption. Well my niece said she would adopt the baby. After that everything fell in place. My niece adopted a little boy. The adoption became final on my Uncle that was in the dreams birthday and of course the courtroom was 313. I can't understand why I keep having those types of dreams.
 
I mentioned before that if me or my husband is having a nightmare and are making a noise like we're calling for help, we'll nudge each other to wake up from the bad dream. Well, last night I was sleeping, and I heard a loud eerie, soulful howl. Since we have coyotes behind our back fence, I immediately thought one or more were near.

Once I lifted my head and listened, the howl was still going, very long...and I realized it was inside my house. Now, my dog is not a howler, never has been, but he was sleeping in the bathroom next to our bedroom and was obviously having a dream that caused him to howl like that.

Next thing I know, my husband wakes up and touches my back, gently nudging me, and he mumbled (half asleep) that it was okay or something like that. He was immediately out like a light again, and I just laid in bed smiling to myself about what just happened.

In the morning I asked him if he knew the dog had howled around 2 o'clock last night when he nudged me. He said no, he thought I was having a nightmare and calling for help so he tried to wake me up. We both laughed about it. :p
 
Marie5656 said:
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.
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I have that "lost car" dream quite frequently. Either I can't find the car or I know where it is but I can't get to it, or I find "my car" but it isn't the right car or some such, or that the parking lot is closing and I don't have enough money to spring my car and it's getting dark. Or I dream that I'm driving along and the brakes are out.

I also frequently dream that my (long dead) dogs have gotten out and I can't find them or some variation on that.

Both those dreams leave me quite upset when I wake up.

I used to dream a lot that I was being chased by Nazis (other people have monsters, I have Nazis). Those were the kind of dreams where I'd wake up terrified and in a cold sweat. I haven't had one of those in quite a while -- knock on wood.
 

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