What were your dreams last night?

[Okita]

I just woke up from a nap and I had this dream where I'm a cafeteria/buffet setting and this awesome sushi is being served. AWESOME sushi. Problem is I don't have enough to afford as much as I want. I think I'm only allowed like 9 pieces or something. Somehow in the midst of choosing I realize I've taken waaaaay more than 9 so I have to start finding a way to slip the stuff back off my plate or something. But I've taken so many different types so I at least want one of each and I'm trying to differentiate. Each time I do, it seems there's even more sushi on my plate.

Long story short... I'm really hungry and I really want sushi right about now.

[Robin S]

Now if that had been a lucid dream, you could have walked off with all the sushi and no-one would have been able to do anything about it

[BVD]

I had a really odd one last night in which I was a guest in a house that Randall, Jordan, and Davean were renting together. It was in VA, I believe. I broke a mug, and then woke up.

[Col. Mustard]

This was a dream I had a while back.
In the dream I had won enough money on a scratch-off lottery ticket to buy a nice new car. When I woke up I realized that I had overslept for work. I jump out of bed and get ready in record time. I then go outside fully expecting my new car to be there, but I was surprised when my old car was in the driveway. It took me a second or two to register it was just a dream.

[Psychomax]

Last night I dreamed that I went to meet one of the people I know from IRC, and it turned out that he was John Goodman. Then we went on his yacht and ate hamburgers. Then next day I asked him if he was secretly John Goodman, and he said it was never a secret.

And the night before that, I dreamed that I woke up and everyone on my floor was sleeping in my roommate's bed, like 10 people. But that turned out not to be a dream, heh.

[Khonsu]

Vivisection, children who eat off the flesh of the living, and (my favorite) tinkering, steampunk Final Fantasy-esque bat people (less furry than one would first imagine).

Yeah. I'm a freak. I'm terrified I'll be forced to become a (sigh) horror writer to give myself catharsis.

[misskwiz]

Well I just had the most depressing dream I've had in a while.

I can't exactly remember a whole lot of it, and it was a very long dream so here's the tl;dr version;

I ran into someone I am in love with that I haven't seen in a very long time. I didn't talk to her at first but eventually I got the courage to do so, She says she still loves me, etc, happy times, then she goes away for some reason and pretty much disappears, She doesn't come back and I find her brother and use him as a way to reach her, It turns out her parents didn't want her seeing anyone so thats why she has been stuck at home. Later I figure out shes now dead, and she's a ghost, and even once I learn this her parents still wouldn't let their dead daughter see anyone. But I still wanted to be with her.

...

o_O

[parkaboy]

it hasnt been done yet. wow.

"last night i dreamt that somebody loved me."

[ikerous]

I keep having dreams about math/physics and since I'm dreaming I'm obviously not very good at solving the problems. And to make things worse the problems usually don't make any sense to start with. It leads to very restless sleep.

[elminster]

it hasnt been done yet. wow.

"last night i dreamt that somebody loved me."

Actually, I had one of those a while back. Although it's only happened once and I can't even remember her face from the dream. I distinctly remember it being the perfect relationship, i'm not entirely sure how it was, but perfect was the only words I could describe it inside or outside of the dream.

I've had a number of dreams recently that were vivid and plausable enough to wonder if it actually happened. Probability is unlikely though and I think my friend would be a bit worried if I just happened to say "Btw, a few days back, did I throw a pack of corned beef at you? ...just wonder... you know, as you do."

[Vitamin_A]

My dream is a little weird, and somewhat personal, but I'll give you some basics.

Basically, I'm in a lab with some people, and we're concocting some sort of potion (which turns out to be a knockout gas, or something). More stuff happens here, then I'm in an apartment room with same guys, and more people, who look to be more important, and we're waiting for something to happen. About 6-8 people walk into another room that we can view through one-way glass, and one of those people happened to be the girl I liked at the time... Then one of the guys I made the gas with walks in and... well, he sort of executes them all, then turns, and knows where I'm standing on the other side of the glass and looks right at me. Turns out he purposely missed the girl I liked, because he owed me something, or something like that.

Theres more to it, but its really strange and stuff...

[TheKhakinator]

This morning I had a dream I was making out with a girl. Was awesome.

[Maseiken]

This morning I had a dream where I was a girl Making out with The Khakinator.
It wasn't awesome.

[TheKhakinator]

This morning I had a dream where I was a girl Making out with The Khakinator.
It wasn't awesome.

Strangely enough, I got the idea I was not doing well in the dream.

I think it stopped then you started reading a book.

[elminster]

There were 2 parts to the dream, but I can't remember which order they came in:

One part I was walking into a factory with another guy. At first it looked at bit odd, then we went like a walk through the factory sections and i saw them pouring loads of white powder (Over 100 kg in the room) around and thought "I knew it! It's cocaine or mdma!". Then as we were walking along i saw factory workers putting oats in it and wondered how odd it was. A bit further, they were putting in raisins and other bits and eventually we went through some double doors into another section. This time there was pastry on racks that were cooling that obviously meant the white powder was sugar.

Me and this other guy stood there and started talking. He said something like "Look, were a successful business and the only suppliers of fresh pastry in the area and highly acclaimed at that. Here, just try one". He handed me one of the round pastries with a bit of cinnamon and a soft sticky center, still slightly warm and it tasted exceedingly good.
Part way through it, he carries on to say something like "We need your skills, you'd make an excellent manager", but I was unsure what kind of manager he meant and just assumed manager of the company. He went on to talk about why I should be working for them and I replied "Well, I'll give it some thought" while thinking that it's a bit odd to be offered it and I could possibly get a better job else where.
We started walking back out, but just after the double set of doors an old friend from collage came up to me (Funnily enough, he hasn't been in my mind for a couple of years) and greeted me with his usual enthusiastic style. After a bit of talking about things, I kind of felt sorry that friends of mine ended up in a factory job like that, when I'm being offered a manger position. I couldn't help but thinking "I know I'm better at this kind of thing and you probably couldn't do it, but I wish it wasn't this way".
I said my farewells and walked back towards the entrance with this guy that had been along side me. It seemed he was somewhere high up in the company, even though it only seemed a small company that seemed to be expanding from their excellent reputation. As we got to the entrance, we spoke a bit and said good by.

I have a vauge recollection of the other part of the dream. I don't even remember seeing much of it, but it wasn't a visual thing really, just a sense of pure terror on a inhuman level. I would call it the embodiment of terror, as if all but a tiny little fraction of your senses were able to sense anything but terror. I felt as if I was somehow the same person as the one feeling the terror, but at the same time I was in a really detached mental state. The feeling of being only partly linked with this I got was entirely overwhelming and my vision was almost completely black, as if a literal manifestation of terror enveloped everything I knew existed. I think the detached feeling came from knowing that it was impossible to actually fully experience this in real world terms.
The split seconds while waking and consciously thinking of that feeling was like a giant hot poker searing my brain with the knowledge of a terror that I could not comprehend. For once in my life, I'm thankful that I didn't fully experience that, it made the plenty of other dreams I've had involving death* look like a walk in a meadow in a summers breeze.

*Usually quite common they involve violence of some kind, but they don't scare me anymore (A particular one in my mind involved beheading and 30 people, for some reason I was unphased). Nightmare's don't really exist on my scale (Like 0 to 2 times a year, I could call one a nightmare), despite a decent amount of mine being at the same level as the majority of peoples nightmares. I don't usually get to choose how my dreams are constructed, so don't blame me... And I'm far less violent that my dreams would suggest.

My planned 8-9hrs sleep got destroyed after I spent too long around a friends till 1:50; Got a phone call at 2:20 from some drunken friends (Some guy I never heard of was on my mates phone for 1/2 of it) for 20mins; Finally got to sleep around 3:20 and managed to get woken up by an calendar alarm on my mobile for 8am; Back to sleep around 8:15 and up at 10:30.

Ended up getting less than 7hrs... again. Somehow, even though it's not effecting me much atm.

[Hoshi no Kabii]

I could remember this dream as vividly as if it had actually happened this morning. Now, not so much. I woke late so I didn't have time to write it down.

It starts at an amusement park of some sort. I see a roller coaster with two cars, only rolling after the other. The second one was blue. "Hrm, a carnival and an amusement park," I say to myself. Looking in another direction, I see a haunted house.

Stuff I forgot. Alls I remember is a green ghost being involved, however trivially or importantly.

I enter the haunted house again, this time with my father. The path splits in two (again, not sure if the structure of the haunted house was the same as the "first time"). I choose the left path, as opposed to going straight. The path lead me up a few stairs. At the top of the stairs, I tell everyone in my party (whoever was in my party) to be careful of a trap that got me the "first time." Sure enough, at the top of the stairs was a trap. It was some centipede-esque rubber toy on the floor. I went first, and tried dancing around it. Whoops! I accidentally hit it. It enlarges and behaves like a rubber ball.

I forgot the rest.

[Emmaskillz]

I always have really intense visuals in my dreams but I know that I'm dreaming. I can't control the dreams though, I think it's more fun that way, it's unknown.

I had a dream some time ago where I was outside our back door talking to my mum and above us was like the surface of water. We weren't under water because I could still breathe air but it looked like the surface of water from underneath and there were ripples because it was raining on it. It was really beautiful. That's all I really remember from that dream but they're always really strange.

My guy had a dream a couple of years ago that he was driving in his car and there was a log on the road so he pressed the space bar and jumped over it. I thought that was pretty funny.

[Ended]

I had a lucid dream late last night/early this morning, but it was kind of crappy because I was on the verge of waking up. I was standing outside this big metal gate, outside a house or something. It looked kind of ominous so I got myself a sword and had a bit of fun slashing some random vines. I was just about to open the gate when I woke up. Bah.

[Klye]

I was sitting in the back seat of a car, and [girl I like] called me. The following conversation followed:

me - Hello?
her - I love you.
me - What?
her - Basically, I can't live without you.

She hung up, and the dream ended.

[Gelsamel]

I need to have more awesome dreams with nerd chicks D:

[saxything43]

I was in this snowy medieval society and I had to overthrow the current king, because his practices were disliked by the general populace. The only problem was, about four other guys were also trying to overthrow the king, so I had to beat them to it. I had to do this by gaining the king's ring and making sure he was dead. So I stole his ring. And so did the four other guys. So now we have five identical rings. But one of them is the real one, and only that one will let us gain an audience with the king, who of course lives on top of the mountain adjacent to the town. Because there was always a mountain there, and kings always live in shacks atop freezing cold mountains. Anyways, I somehow got the real ring, made it up to the top of the mountain, and had to fight about eight different guys. And by "fight" I mean sidestep and watch them go tumbling off the mountaintop in their attempt to tackle me/spear me/cut my head off. And then I picked up a nearby wooden chair and smashed it on the kings head, which of course killed him. Because a spindly wooden chair is always strong enough to concuss/kill a barbarian king. And then my girlfriend was on top of the mountain, and was sad, because in my dream she was the kings daughter and I was like "but look, I didn't kill the king." And she was like "really? ok." Which was good because I had no idea where I was going with that line of conversation, I had most definitely killed the king. And then I woke up and was very surprised that it was morning already.

Freaking weird, imo.

[Hoshi no Kabii]

It was pretty long, so I'll sum it up quickly.

For school, apparently we had a project due that day wasn't aware of. We had to wright a song about conserving the environment. Luckily, I was going to sing my song last due to where I sat. While everyone else sang their, I thought. It was finally my turn. I stand up and... explain something totally unrelated. I had devised a system for superhero drivers. In the diver's seat, there were loads of buttons that did whichever what. They were all red. There was a copy of each button in the back, all lined up in rows and columns. When a button in the front was pressed, its equal lit up green in the back. For the button to perform the desired action, it would have to be then pressed again from the back. This way, you could not press any buttons accidentally.

[Xiphias]

I rode off into the sunset on a glow in the dark toaster.

...Now what's this about recent dreams? o.O

[Number3Pencils]

A train track goes through my college's campus (in real life). So, I dreamt that slightly outside of campus I jumped onto a slow-moving train, along with several of my friends. Then it got a lot faster, and we realized jumping back off was going to be problematic. Then the train was a bus (you know how stuff changes in dreams). The conductor was up front. Eventually I gathered up the nerve to ask him to let us off: "Excuse me. I know it was bad that we jumped on -" He interrupted, "No, it was good." I guess he was impressed with us. The dream ended around the time the bus rear-ended some other car.

[celandine]

I dreamed a guy wanted to kill me.

He had long curly hair & he beat me up until I could only crawl a little, and then he dragged me onto some soft dirt and I begged him not to bury me until I was dead.

So he said OK and he invited his friends over, mostly girls, and we hung out and talked. I was almost forgetting to be afraid because I was having such a good time. I even got to bury him, playfully, up to his neck in soft mulch, the way you bury someone in sand at the beach.

But then the party was over, the friends went home, and he was going to kill me. So I started walking home (I was in no shape to run) and I even got inside before he did, except that he was already there behind a door with a rifle. At this, I woke myself up.

My dreams tend to be like this. Other memorables: fleeing from a cell of Nazis in Iowa, fleeing from rabid dog-vampires, fleeing from secret police in the steam tunnels beneath mysterious red-lit Chinese restaurants.

[Benny the Bear]

Mine was about my friend breakdancing - and hurting himself.

And, funnily enough in and XKCD fashion, I once dreamed I was being chased by a dinosaur. Although it wasn't a velocraptor.

[Æshættr]

I had a very lengthy/strange one last night. As a bit of backstory, I'm in the pit percussion section (total of seven members in the section) of the marching band at my university. I'll be paraphrasing.

So the dream starts out in a sort of post-apocalyptic slum where I'm living with three or four of the members (in the dream I got the impression that there were four others, but I only ever saw three). The world has been war-torn and crime and disease have been rising, and we've been trying to get to a better city and out of the slums. At some point, something horrible happens to me and I'm hospitalized for a few months.

After getting out, I've found that all of my stuff has been sold and everyone I was living with has moved on to the better city. So in the dream I was a bit angry at this until three of them met with me and explained that they had to sell the stuff to pay for my medical expenses (I immediately felt grateful that my friends made that decision). Anyway, two of them leave on a bus to go back to the better city while I'm expected to make my own way there (I'm not sure why I couldn't have taken the bus with them, but this is a dream.) The third person follows me a bit on a skateboard (he doesn't ride one, but again, it's a dream) and then leaves on a late bus, so I'm alone for the remainder of the trip.

When I finally arrive at the new city (having made the entire trip on foot), I find that it's a walled-off city on a hill. I end up having to break in since I don't have a citizen's passport for that city and I have a run-in with the local authorities. At some point, my friends explain to the authorities that I'm with them and I'll be living with them. From there, it's a standard-issue happy ending. Or at least as happy of an ending as you can have in such a setting.

That's one of the better dreams that I've had in a while.

[Hoags]

I had a dream that I was a prison guard in Ultima Online. For some reason, I imprisoned a dog. Weird.

[Hoshi no Kabii]

I'm pretty sure this doesn't deserve its own thread, so I'll ask here.

Dreaming while awake. Has this ever happened to anyone here before? Can anyone explain it? It was a really simple dream. I just dreamed about two black dice from Dungeon Dice Monsters (it's a video game; I knew so because I could see the symbols on the dice) rolling over and over, never stopping.

No, it wasn't a daydream.

[Pesto]

I only vaguely remember a dream from last night. It involved some type of secret lair/lab with a remote control, and a voluptuous woman wearing a foam bra and latex panties. At some point my arch nemesis broke into my secret lair.

[Robin S]

Hoshi no Kabii: It sounds like you are talking about either a hallucination (which I doubt), a dream whilst asleep (which I suspect), or a daydream (which is possible). I can't think of any alternative explanation, though that doesn't mean that there isn't one.

[Hoshi no Kabii]

Hoshi no Kabii: It sounds like you are talking about either a hallucination (which I doubt), a dream whilst asleep (which I suspect), or a daydream (which is possible). I can't think of any alternative explanation, though that doesn't mean that there isn't one.

I'm severely doubting it was a hallucination; the situation was nowhere near ideal for hallucinating. I also don't believe it was a dream while sleeping, as I was "aware" of my surrounding. Aware as not in participating my surroundings (while having this dream I could do nothing but be still), but being able to hear everything around me. I stopped having the dream because I heard someone calling my name. If this was, indeed, a daydream, it was unlike any daydream I have ever had before- I couldn't control my thoughts.

[Robin S]

It is possible that you only thought you were aware of your surroundings. I've had dreams like that before - I had one yesterday morning, in fact. I was in bed with my girlfriend and suddenly weird stuff started happening. Then it stopped, and there was no sign that anything strange had ever taken place. I concluded that I had imagined (and probably dreamt) the entire sequence of events.

[Hoshi no Kabii]

Entire possible, that is. But if I were actually sleeping, I must have went to sleep for mere seconds then snapped out of it. I was in this "dream state" for no more than 3 minutes.

[ThorFluff]

My dream last night was horribly emo.
I dreamt i was lying in bed, huggin my ex-gf, being really happy. I woke up and found myself hugging my rolled up bed cover, i suddenly felt very lonely

[Moo]

@Hoshi: I often have that experience when I'm somewhere between sleep and waking, such as in the mornings if I've got my alarm on snooze. Reality and dream become kind of intertwined. I'll wake up just enough to notice my room, then get up and for example find my robe; only to THEN wake up and realise I haven't gotten up at all. However everything in the room is exactly as I saw it while dreaming of getting up. Or like yours, more obscure/impossible things set in a real-life situation I recently experienced.

Don't know if that sounds like it could be what you had.

[Dark Ragnarok]

I dreamed about what the storyline would be for Futurama: The Movie. *forgot what it was however ><;" I also dreamt i went to a store to buy some pocky.

[Morphing Ball]

I dreamed about what the storyline would be for Futurama: The Movie. *forgot what it was however ><;" I also dreamt i went to a store to buy some pocky.

There are four upcoming Futurama films as it is. Of course, they're all direct-to-DVD.

[Nightshade]

My dreams have been more and more interesting lately - like, movie script interesting, stuff I didn't think was already in my head...

... I can't remember last night's dreams (at the moment). I'm just bumping this thread.

[Belial]

Have you been depressed lately? Have you been sleeping way more than usual?

Those two things tend to cause long, epic, continuing, movie-like dreams in me...