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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#276: Jul 28th 2009 at 10:38:29 PM

That's what my dreams are like in general. Sometimes I see through an FPS interface, or it's got cuts like a movie, or it's even in the third-person.

Although I think the cat-decapitation may have been first-person...? No, I distinctly remember watching me [REDACTED].

What is this crap?!

edited 28th Jul '09 10:39:10 PM by Tzetze

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
AFGNCAAP Not axe crazy I swear from Great Underground Empire Since: Jun, 2009
Not axe crazy I swear
#277: Jul 28th 2009 at 10:41:43 PM

I'm somewhat reassured. I play a passive role in all of my dreams, which some people can't relate to.

Some writing.
melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#278: Jul 28th 2009 at 10:53:51 PM

I'm usually an (involuntary) shapeshifter in mine, or I possess other people. I'm rarely ever in the same form for the entire dream.

edited 28th Jul '09 11:02:16 PM by melloncollie

MadeofMeat Since: Jan, 2001
#279: Jul 28th 2009 at 11:00:50 PM

Damn! I was going to link to dreamachine, but Tzetze did it first. I love writing about those babies. Dr. La Gaffe is a huge fan.

Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#280: Jul 29th 2009 at 7:53:27 AM

I had two more dreams involving the forum. The first I remember reading someone's post about a list of anime and manga. They were sorted into categories like 'kid things', 'adult things', 'random things', etc. I remember that Baccono! was on the list. I don't remember anything else about it.

My next dream involving this site had this list or perhaps just a very similar looking one. The categories were the same and Baccono! was on it.

My second dream then quickly evolved into a horror film about a couple. They were laying about happily on bed talking when the husband pulled a picture frame from hammer space. He said he was going to crucify his wife with it, she giggled. He tossed his picture frame away and then tore his skin off to reveal that he was not a human, but a giant alien bug that was now going to eat his wife's brain.

At this point my perspective switched to that of the wife's and I kicked at the giant bug monstrosity. He quickly faded into a streaam of bright light leaving behind only part of his hard bug shell thing. Or so I thought as he was running about my house looking for something to kill me with. I got up from my bed and ran after him. The lights were out during this chase scene and I was capable of Sonic the Hedgehog like super speed and wall running. He was as well and I didn't catch him.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Eriksson Since: Dec, 1969
#281: Aug 5th 2009 at 2:44:49 PM

I had a nightmare tonight about colorful, metallic giant spiders. They were everywhere, and I remember that there was a dark red one that came up to my knee.

Hydrall Since: Jun, 2009
#282: Aug 5th 2009 at 3:35:06 PM

@Erikkson: That sounds like an interesting story about the Chzo Mythos I heard once...

I've had a lot of wierd ones, ranging from commanding an army to being a doctor. The only pattern I've seen is that I always DIE. My subconcious seems to love torturing me in my dreams, psychologically and physically (Y'know, in the dream way.) Does that mean I'm emo? tongue

Also, have any of you had repeating dreams? I've had one where I'm in a big house, like a super-mansion, filled with servants and random people and stuff. They all need my help on something, and if I mess up they die. O_o And it pestered me in my sleep for a week or two.

grin Anyone else have wierd shit like that happen?

Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#283: Aug 5th 2009 at 3:57:02 PM

I had yet another dream that involved this site and Miijhal. I need to get out more.

I had a dream last night where my mom and one of her ex boyfriends got back together. We all(excluding my brother cruelly...) moved to a nice small home in some odd Victorian England esque city. There we joked about fake obscure books and went on a trip to the beach that was oddly reminiscent of that one number from Sweeney Todd.

It was at this point that my dream changed radically. The boyfriend was gone and my mom was no longer the mommy I know and love. She was non-descript blonde woman. I was also no longer me. No, I was now Sweeney Todd's blonde and nameless granddaughter...

The police were uppity about something. This something turned out to be the decrepit Sweeney inventing a deaging syrum that would help him take over the world with his Eldritch Abominations. There is no mention of Sweeney being a barber...he's become a mad scientist. I make an odd refernce to Benjamin Button(which I've never seen) and imagine Sweeney Todd as a small baby.

Me and my new mom go to see what's up and come to a large wall. I look under said wall and see what I will call Doom Land. A group of police ae escaping from Doom Land being chased by a giant golem thing. After they leave the scene me and mommy dearest go into Doom Land by picking up the wall and crawling under it.

In Doom Land mommy disappears. I see a steady stream of fleeing police and decide to go in that direction. There I find a subway station with refugees. Sweeney has taken over whatever Doom Land once was and they are staying here for the time. I converse with a few of them, one of them is a school friend, and watch an invicible group of refugees get run over by the subway a few times. Bored I leave in search of my grandfather.

I next find a sewer area where one of Sweeney's experiments is being kept. I converse with this thing and find that is not very intelligent and has an intense hate of little girls. I jump to escape. I can jump about twenty into the air by the way. Damn being Sweeney's granddaughter has benefits...

Walking about I find a group that is dedicated to destroying my grandfather. I don't like them. Sweeney isn't that cracked...Even if he's murdering people and trying to take over the world. So I leave this area looking for his home. I plan to try and reason with my grandfather.

I find Sweeney's home which is a manor of sorts. It is populated by an evil cow robot that hates me, more refugees(why are they staying in the house of the man who wants them dead?), and members of that group that wants Sweeney dead. I run about the house being chased by the robot trying to outrun my 'aggro'.

I look all about the house and do not find Sweeney. I have one last resort, a spiral staircase that leads upwards. I begin to run up it and some old man grabs me and screams "No you stupid girl! What do you think you're doing!" or something similar. I escape from him and run up the stairs. I burst through the door and scream "Grandfather!" desperately before waking up.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#284: Aug 8th 2009 at 8:30:21 AM

I have had a dream.

In the dream I was on a field trip. Something all men did in our society, I think. My class

 * went to a very large Hall of Justice sort of building in an urban area. Like all urban areas in my dreams, it looked sort of like Portland. We go in - it's all very sanitized, and there are lots of overhanging direction signs and stairways - it's a lot like an airport. Anyway, we go down a few floors and through some side halls, into a pretty big, not absurdly so, staging room. We get some pretty spiffy uniforms. Boy scout tan shirts, girl scout green berets, all very cool. They had logos that had the name of my school next to the NERV leaf. We also got weaponry.

This done we

 * got in an APC. I don't know much about modern military tech, so I think it looked like one from Command And Conquer. I see from the outside: the APC heads into a jungle, nice random scene change there. We go through the jungle to an old house on its edge. At this point I know what we're doing. We're in a Vietnam War simulation, and we have to defend the inhabitants of this house from the Japanese. No, that does not make sense.

There are three of us, and an undefined number of people in the house. I have a machine gun. An old fashioned sort of machine gun that I can't remember where I saw it, but something depicting an older time - to fire I had to pull out a couple things on the side first, it was hard to explain. You know what, it looked like one of those old cameras with a tarp, like the one currently on the Psycho for Hire page (>_>). It was pretty cool. One of my squadmates had a Team Fortress 2-looking flamethrower, and the other apparently had a pistol although I don't remember it.

After twenty minutes there's an alarm and the mission begins, with us in the house. We kill some Japanese soldiers trying to come in from outside for a while. I don't remember that part too well. In any case, at some point I think the house gets gassed. We soldiers don't need respirators of any sort, but the housemates do. But then they start dying mysteriously. As it turns out, the doctor in the house is a traitor, and he's been killing people, so we shoot him on the spot. I seem to remember "using surgery to treat influenza".

By this point all the housemates are dead, so we're just defending the house, I think. We get pushed outside by the Japanese, so that we're just outside the house while an undefined number of them take over inside. After shooting at them after they come out of the front and only entrance for a while, Fridge Logic there, I start camping. Just standing there and opening fire as soon as any come out.

The Japanese know what they're doing, though. They send out a suicide bomber. He walks out, stares at me as I start shooting, pulls on a line and starts running at me calmly counting down in gibberish that's supposed to be Japanese. I panic, running desperately down a hill. I try to jump a modern chain-link fence but mess up, so since he's still coming I run around it. He's faster than me. Next to a tree, he blows up about twenty feet from me. I'm still alive.

I go back up, where my squad's fine. We continue shooting, but no more camping. At some point my gun stops firing so I reload. Then it happens again and reloading is a lot slower. Reloading consists of holding down a sort of switch while some mechanics move on the gun, I don't need to insert ammunition or anything. Then I run out again and can't reload. My gun shoots water now. What? It stops the Japanese, since they fall down and start crying when I shoot them with it, but this seems worthless to me so I trade with my bud with the flamethrower and start burning them.

At the end, we're still outside, but I guess we've killed all the Japanese. We go in, and everybody, housemates and Japanese soldiers alike, is on the floor, soaked and crying. Some vehicles pull up outside. One of them was an 18-wheeler driven by a cliché hick girl missing some teeth. The people inside the house, sobbing and supporting each other, go out and drive off with them. We get back into the APC, feeling accomplished. As we leave, we pass by a corny movie set with non-corny aliens in hazmat suits staring at us.

As we go back into the building to the staging area to get undressed and finish up, Drill Sergeant Nasty yells at me for using the wrong door. Apparently you're supposed to go in through the left and out through the right. I woke up thinking "That's really damn stupid.". The end.

EDIT Oh, and I was looking forward to posting about this in Troper Updates.

edited 8th Aug '09 9:05:07 AM by Tzetze

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
Eriksson Since: Dec, 1969
#285: Aug 8th 2009 at 10:08:33 AM

All I can remember about last night's dream is that it involved some sort of Fox News Channel anime directory that inexplicably had an entry on the Furry Fandom. Said entry, of course, fell prey to Cowboy BeBop at His Computer, and I spent the rest of the dream nerd-raging about it.

...Why yes I do need to get out more.

AceOfScarabs I am now a shiny stone~ from Singapore Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
I am now a shiny stone~
#286: Aug 8th 2009 at 2:38:50 PM

Among my memories of my dreams include the following:

  • An open-air shopping complex made of massive pillars with the shops set into them, all interconnected by a network of walkways and escalators. I dubbed it the Fractally Infinite Shopping Mall of the Mind after I realised that there was a pattern to the shop distribution. I often wind up in this place in my dreams, shopping for random things, and come across all sorts of amazing things I could only dream of encountering in shops in the real world.

  • A setpiece that resembles my home exactly, room-for-room. However, the world outside the setpiece is never a proper location for a 4th-storey HDB flat. Places my dreamscape flat windows open out to include:
    • A bamboo grove clearly in Gensokyo, with youkai rabbits doing chores and fairies playing at danmaku with each other.
    • A town that appears to be an alternate universe, with telltale signs that it isn't the waking world, such as a massive restaurant taking the place of the school outside my parent's window, or streetlamps and roadsigns very unlike the Singaporean standard designs.

  • A plain white room similar to the Construct. Often I wind up in here with a book, which often contains memories thought long-forgotten, or interesting ideas or insights.

  • The most awesome and prophetic dream I had was when I was still in Primary School. I dreamt that I had an Inside-the-Fourth-Wall view of a theme park management game that played like an RTS. Several years later, I would remember that dream when I played Roller Coaster Tycoon for the first time.

  • The most traumatic dream I had was back when I caught a severe case of constipation and had to get suppositry support from a hospital. In the dream, I had mutated into a freak and was being mocked by the rest of my class.

  • Another awesome, if surreal, dream took place around town. I was shopping with my mother and sister in the city, when there were clear dimensional disturbances that separated my sister from us via a shift to a parallel universe. I got caught in a conflict between strange characters, including government agents and Zonder-infected individuals, as I then got separated from my mother. A large amount of sliding took place as I crossed Boundaries that let me slip between the alternate worlds by using lifts, taking the trains, and even just going up (and down) escalators. One most awesome bit of difference was when I slid just as I climbed a staircase in a shopping centre - I saw a buddhist shop with lit incense in the first universe, and nearly tripped over an exhibit of semi-precious crystals from a geology/crystal shop as I cleared the stairs.

  • In another bizzare dream, I'm back in my old Secondary School, helping out with Extracurricular Activities. I'm supposed to bring something to a guy on the third floor of the extension building, but the stairs become impossibly steep whenever I try to climb them, causing me to slide back down.

Oddly enough, I tend to see or hear at least hints of a certain mysterious lady in purple with a parasol in my dreams after I was introduced to the Touhou fandom proper. Has She taken an interest in me?

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
Eriksson Since: Dec, 1969
#287: Aug 8th 2009 at 3:12:23 PM

Oh, that reminds me. I often dream of shopping malls and shopping plazas, for some reason, but until now I've always kinda forgot about those dreams.

wuggles (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#288: Aug 8th 2009 at 8:28:24 PM

Here are some:

  • I was a missionary in Jamaica, and they had just had a hurricane. In the dream, if a tree fell, you just had to push it back up and it would live again. Then there was this lady who looked like she just got back from the 80's who had a giant toilet in her house. In the toilet were 3 dolphins.
  • I was pregnant and huge, and I went to the hospital, and was in labor. But the baby would not come out. Then the doctor told me that I was constipated and to go home and eat some Raisin Bran. My cousin was also constipated with the baby, but she eventually had it.
  • I was in the cartoon Arthur, and I was playing soccer with them. Suddenly the characters Francine and Muffy started beating me up. Then Muffy shoved my face in an ant pile. I woke up and started screaming(I was 5, okay) because I thought there were ants in my pillow.
  • This one was like a TV show. I could not stop eating cookies. I was at my cousin's house, and random other cousins were there. Each of us was eating a sweet thing endlessly. Meanwhile, one cousin was reminiscing about his days as an extra in some show that was a mixture of Scrubs, Friends, and Sex And The City Since it was a TV show type thing, we all got to relive it.
  • My weirdest one was: I was invited to a party by an acquaintance, we'll call her Alice, who is famous for having huge parties. I forgot to RSVP, so I went and asked her if I could come. She said no. Somehow I got up the nerve to go anyway. My friend, who we'll call Claire carpooled with me. When I got there, there were only 11 people there. Natasha didn't notice me, and whenever she saw me she looked through me. When it was over, we all went to some classroom to wait for our parents. My grandma came to pick me up.I felt the strange need to hug her and did. Then I got magically transported to a playground, where I suppose the after-party was. All my friends were 8 years old and there were a bunch of slides. Then this kid who we will call Bob annoyed us. Natasha told him that he could keep annoying us if he survived the slide, which magically appeared in front of him. He had to through a plastic hamburger(?) through a hole and then slide down a slide. My job was to see who came down first, Bob or my Claire. Then this other kid went down a water slide and grew a ponytail. He then proceeded to flaunt his wet ponytail, saying "Look at my nice wet hair. It is so cool." (I used actual names because after a while, "that girl" or "the friend who threw the party" gets annoying after a while)
  • I also remember having a nightmare involving the movie Jumanji.

edited 8th Aug '09 8:55:40 PM by wuggles

Brickman Since: Jan, 2001
#289: Aug 10th 2009 at 9:06:07 AM

I had an interesting one last night. I think the most interesting (and perhaps scary?) part is that I can tell exactly what this dream was really about, and my conscious mind disagrees. Anyways, there was a lot of stuff earlier in the dream that I can’t remember, but in the first part that’s important (and that I remember) my parents want to meet me at a bus stop near… wherever I was before they said that. It was honestly in front of a strip mall, not anywhere I’ve ever lived, but whatever. I obligingly go to meet them. I think it was raining because I remember running between the space between awnings. Anyways, I find them there, and they explain to me why they called me. Apparently, my parents were time travelers. Of the “replace your consciousness at a past time with your consciousness right now” type. In order to make their knowledge of the future useful, however, they made a point of following the path that they had before with only minor deviations to improve something. But honestly that’s just the justification, not the reason they were here today.

They were here today because we all had to leave. For some reason, their time traveler knowledge required or encouraged them, at this point, to leave the city and go spend the next several weeks with some relatives I’d never met or even knew existed, before I believe using the machine again, and they were intent on taking me with them (and no, they did NOT seem to want to bring any of my three sisters). I tried to protest—I pointed out that I’d fail the two classes I’m taking this summer (Note: In reality, I’m not taking classes this summer) and that’d permanently damage my grades, and that I couldn’t just drop everything. My dad then insisted that A: They’d tried and failed to talk me out of signing up for those classes knowing about this, and B: He’d looked at my grades and was sure that I was doing so well that I could still pass even if I stopped attending now (it didn’t occur to me in the dream to point out that you can’t pass unless you pass the final exam, which is most of your grade). Eventually they convinced me to grudgingly join them, and as a bus pulled up to the bus stop, we all got on. On the bus I reflected that as annoyed as I was that they’d intentionally tricked me into not being able to bring my computer (or, well, anything), I could see the logic in the choice since that’d force me to actually interact with my relatives where we were going. I look out the windows and the bus is going over some big hills, and as I watch, it passes the crest and begins going down a very very very very steep one… which shocks me awake. I don’t remember if that was real awake or “awake in the dream”, but if the former the dream was still piggybacking on this one when I fell back asleep. However, the dream starts taking a turn for the completely unrelated here (as in, related to that hill rather than the trip), and while I can remember it for a bit longer it isn’t worth writing down.

Haven Planescape Hijack Since: Jan, 2001
Planescape Hijack
#290: Aug 10th 2009 at 9:11:39 AM

Aondeug:[awesome dream]

This sounded really awesome. Especially that there was randomly an evil robot cow. Though I was kind of expecting yuri in your dreams, giving how much pride you take in your yuri fangirlhood.

Anyway, I had a dream last night that involved someone being able to think infinitely fast, except it wasn't infinitely but rather bounded by factors such as the speed of light and the local atmosphere, and consequently was able to think faster when they wound up on Mars.

There was a lot more, probably, but that's all I remember.

Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku
SandJosieph Since: Dec, 2009
#291: Aug 10th 2009 at 10:24:06 AM

I had a weird dream where the Disney princesses went homicidal. In the end, Princess Aurora went to hell and imagined herself in Snow White's garb, suggesting a sequel may be in order.

Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#292: Aug 10th 2009 at 10:40:53 AM

Oh I do have yuri tainted dreams. It just that I haven't had one in a while and the ones I have had I don't remember well at all. Many of them had my female cousin in them. That I do remember. Strangely sexy dreams about my cousin. If it's not my cousin it's a girl at school I know or someone I don't know.

Last night I dreamt that I was at the mall with a group of friends that I don't know in real life. One I'm sure was a character from some cartoon. We were walking about happily trying to find the arcade because the new super DDR thing came out or something.

Then the zombies attacked. Everyone else who was in the mall previously disappeared as we ran about still trying to enjoy our day at the mall zombies or not. My mom called me and she sounded very angry. She wanted me to meet here somewhere on the other side of the mall.

The zombies though were a nuisance so we had to find a way around the mall from the outside. We got outside and found a large spiral bridge that wrapped around the mall and likely into it at certains points. It was then that our group started to fight. What if the zombies caught on the bridge and cornered us? What would we do then! I woke up picturing this horrible scenario. It wasn't going well for us at all.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
SandJosieph Since: Dec, 2009
#293: Aug 10th 2009 at 10:55:40 AM

Yay! Zombies!

Wait, were these running zombies or shufflers? Because if they were runners, then they would technically be ghouls.

Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#294: Aug 10th 2009 at 10:58:52 AM

They were of the shuffling variety.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Pentadragon Since: Jan, 2001
#296: Aug 11th 2009 at 6:20:52 AM

Last night I dreamt I was heading to a fallout shelter with my parents because of a satellite was going down and power had gone out at my home. After a few days, I was forced to leave the shelter for reasons I cannot remember.

I ended up in this decaying Victorian house with these relatives I had never seen before. The first was an elderly woman with short curly hair and the other was a girl in her late teens with brown waist length hair. They were not very fond of me.

We fortified the house over the course of several days, but suddenly raiders arrived walking around the outside of the garage. The garage door would not shut because there was a Corvette in the way. They saw our feet and tried to open the garage. I knew that a battle was imminent so I began searching through the various toolboxes scattered through the garage for a gun. Unfortunately, the toolboxes had nothing but tools in them.

We were surprised from behind by a green blob who had picked the lock of the house. He was followed by this guy in a red shirt who I assumed was the leader. He began searching for anything of use. I told him there was nothing here and he told me to shut up. The elderly woman spoke up and told him there were glorious things in the front yard like a circus tent.

I led him there and when I saw nothing of the sort, I realized it had been a ruse and beat the man to death with his own arm. After that, I opened up the main menu to see how many points I needed to get into the Goth household. I had more than enough.

I woke up feeling very confused.

AceOfScarabs I am now a shiny stone~ from Singapore Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
I am now a shiny stone~
#297: Aug 11th 2009 at 7:33:31 AM

Anyone else have dreams where halfway through gravity just... stops - you then float out of your dream can crash into bed?

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
TheToonGeekette Since: May, 2009
#298: Aug 11th 2009 at 10:30:11 AM

So, last night, I had a dream where I was playing an old-school first person shooter game on a PC (which is odd, since I don't play those, and all I know about the gameplay, I know from watching Internet video game reviews). The game starred me, Agents Mulder and Scully (which is also odd, since I've only watched one episode of The X Files) and the cast of That Guy With The Glasses (not so odd, since I'm a big fan of the site). There was also a little kid, who at one point in the game, said I needed to use a joystick (knowing full well I don't like using them), and gave me one that barely friggin' worked, all while acting as smug as could be. The enemies in the game were pretty weird - they weren't aliens, zombies, Nazis, or any other typical game villains, but rather creatures like Yetis and machine gun-toting monkeys, all drawn in a cartoony style. There were also a ton of cutscenes, for some reason. One involved Mulder being strangely possessive of a bunch of cinnamon rolls, another involved Chester A. Bum summing up that scene, another involved Ask That Guy and the Nostalgia Critic talking about their strange resemblance to each other, and yet another involved behind-the-scenes footage, which prominently featured a bunch of airline tickets with English and Japanese on them.

Yeah. That's probably the strangest one I've had lately.

EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#299: Aug 16th 2009 at 11:33:40 AM

I dreamt I was back at my old job.

itsmeyouidiot Stone Head of Confusion from Ra Murana Since: Jan, 2001
Stone Head of Confusion
#300: Aug 16th 2009 at 12:45:44 PM

I had a dream where I had the power to bend reality to my will, but I had no idea how powerful I really was. At first, I used my powers mainly for Mundane Utilities, and only in private. Eventually, as I became more comfortable with them, I told my friends about my powers and started to perform some more fantastic feats with them. Eventually, though, I began losing control of my powers and accidently ended up blowing up the moon, causing The End of the World as We Know It and killing most of my friends. Oops.

edited 16th Aug '09 12:51:18 PM by itsmeyouidiot

It would be a lot easier for me if you imagine there's something funny or interesting here.

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