Necronic
Staff member
I realize that telling someone the specifics about a dream can be stupid, because they don't translate into words well, but I have been having some incredibly powerful dreams recently and I just have to get it out, and I was curious if other people have powerful dreams that affect their waking life.
Dreams have always been a major part of my life. Almost every night I have dreams that are strong enough to mess me up when I wake up. Usually I get over it in 30 minutes. The movie Science of Sleep hit me in a difficult way because I understood what the dude in that movie was going through, if only to a degree. Sometimes I forget which is the reality, but usually not for long. Inception kicked my butt too by the way.
Almost all of my dreams could be considered nightmares by most people, but I’m used to them so those are just normal to me. To be honest I kind of revel in their messed up nature. I do have worse ones, dreams that really are god awful terrifying. I haven’t had one in a while, but they usually have some guro-esque quality to them, where I am entranced and yet sickened at the same time. The bad part is that when I wake up from them I force myself to go back to sleep.
The worst, however, are the ones most people would think of as normal/good dreams. I had one two nights ago. It wasn’t entirely normal, since there was a serial killer murdering my friends, but…to me that’s normal. The normal normal part was a romantic aspect of it, where I was protecting a woman I apparently loved dearly from this murderer. I think we got him.
She was at one point my ex, which bothers me because that’s the second time this week I have dreamed about her, and I have never dreamed about her before (including the 3 years we were together). However, for the parts of the dream I really remember she had a different look. Basically all my ex’s rolled into one. There was one scene in particular where we laid together on a bed, and a warmth rolled all over me.
What kills me is that when I woke up I felt a sense of loss like I haven’t felt in a long time. The only other times I have had it are, you guessed it, from dreams. One was from a dream where I had a sister (I don’t have a sister). This was 15 years ago and I can still remember her face, and it still makes me sad.
To be honest I am looking for that girl in my dream right now. I know she exists in some form or another, and I have to get that feeling back.
Dreams are maddening for that. They show you a piece of reality that you don’t have, and in some cases a reality you can’t have. It’s almost like your mind is taunting you, calling you out for your failures or mocking your inability to have what you want.
I also had my first dream in a long time where I died. I was getting on some plane leaving a country that had raised it’s threat level for some reason. There was a mild nervousness to the crowd, but the stewardesses were doing a good job calming us down. They were taking our drink orders as we taxi’d into position to take off. Then, for some reason this airplane had a big front window we could all see out of, we see a massive explosion maybe a ½ to ¾ mile down the airport. The pilot floored it, flying towards it to try and bank and get away from it, everyone was screaming but I could only sit and watch as the explosion bloomed, and I knew that the shockwave was going to hit us and kill us. I felt it, then I woke up. Felt freaking great, but it was weird because I knew what my mind went through when I was going to die.
So, question is, what dreams have you had that really stick in your gullet, in a good way or a bad way?
Dreams have always been a major part of my life. Almost every night I have dreams that are strong enough to mess me up when I wake up. Usually I get over it in 30 minutes. The movie Science of Sleep hit me in a difficult way because I understood what the dude in that movie was going through, if only to a degree. Sometimes I forget which is the reality, but usually not for long. Inception kicked my butt too by the way.
Almost all of my dreams could be considered nightmares by most people, but I’m used to them so those are just normal to me. To be honest I kind of revel in their messed up nature. I do have worse ones, dreams that really are god awful terrifying. I haven’t had one in a while, but they usually have some guro-esque quality to them, where I am entranced and yet sickened at the same time. The bad part is that when I wake up from them I force myself to go back to sleep.
The worst, however, are the ones most people would think of as normal/good dreams. I had one two nights ago. It wasn’t entirely normal, since there was a serial killer murdering my friends, but…to me that’s normal. The normal normal part was a romantic aspect of it, where I was protecting a woman I apparently loved dearly from this murderer. I think we got him.
She was at one point my ex, which bothers me because that’s the second time this week I have dreamed about her, and I have never dreamed about her before (including the 3 years we were together). However, for the parts of the dream I really remember she had a different look. Basically all my ex’s rolled into one. There was one scene in particular where we laid together on a bed, and a warmth rolled all over me.
What kills me is that when I woke up I felt a sense of loss like I haven’t felt in a long time. The only other times I have had it are, you guessed it, from dreams. One was from a dream where I had a sister (I don’t have a sister). This was 15 years ago and I can still remember her face, and it still makes me sad.
To be honest I am looking for that girl in my dream right now. I know she exists in some form or another, and I have to get that feeling back.
Dreams are maddening for that. They show you a piece of reality that you don’t have, and in some cases a reality you can’t have. It’s almost like your mind is taunting you, calling you out for your failures or mocking your inability to have what you want.
I also had my first dream in a long time where I died. I was getting on some plane leaving a country that had raised it’s threat level for some reason. There was a mild nervousness to the crowd, but the stewardesses were doing a good job calming us down. They were taking our drink orders as we taxi’d into position to take off. Then, for some reason this airplane had a big front window we could all see out of, we see a massive explosion maybe a ½ to ¾ mile down the airport. The pilot floored it, flying towards it to try and bank and get away from it, everyone was screaming but I could only sit and watch as the explosion bloomed, and I knew that the shockwave was going to hit us and kill us. I felt it, then I woke up. Felt freaking great, but it was weird because I knew what my mind went through when I was going to die.
So, question is, what dreams have you had that really stick in your gullet, in a good way or a bad way?
