Dreams

[Assassin in Burgundy he/him]

I dreamed I was a Mistborn.

And I accidentally got myself sucked into a jet engine. 

Then I woke up. 

It was sad. 

[Kaymyth she/her]

6 minutes ago, Assassin in Burgundy said:

I dreamed I was a Mistborn.

And I accidentally got myself sucked into a jet engine. 

Then I woke up. 

It was sad. 

Oh, the curse of airplanes being made of aluminum alloy.  (You can't steelpush off of 'em.)

[Orlion Blight he/him]

And the Mist Cloaks (aka caps) don't help, either!

[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

Thursday night( Thursday here in Austin, Texas anyway) I had a nightmare that woke me up at two A.M.

Spoiler

To start the whole thing off, I wake up to the sound of my mother screaming and what sounded like a blade piercing flesh. Then my mom screamed again and the blade piercing flesh sound came again, cutting off my moms scream and changing it to a slowly quieting gurgle. Next, I heard footsteps outside my bedroom door( I was crouching in a corner of my room at this point) and a man holding a bloodied knife ('somehow' I knew he had killed both my mom and dad and that it was their blood) in his left hand came through my door. He was dressed entirely in purple and was smiling cruelly. I 'somehow' knew he would go after my younger brothers after he killed me and I frantically tried to think of any way I could incapacitate him, until he took a step towards me. I immediately lunged at him, ducking my head so he would miss my head when he slashed at me. I knocked him over and we scrambled for the knife I'd knocked out of his hands. I got it first and began stabbing him in the chest, his blood spurting from the wounds and covering my body horror-movie style. Eventually, his body stopped twitching and I just sat there on his chest in the puddle of blood, sobbing.(one of my greatest fears IRL is actually hurting other people, so...) the next Hong I knew, dream logic style, the haunted robots from FNAF were trying to kill my brothers. I heard my youngest brother scream in terror and I scrambled for the door. Before I could turn the handle, though, golden Freddy appeared behind me freezing me in place. I couldn't move no matter how hard I strained, and the terrified screams coming from my brothers bedroom made fresh tears streak down my face. I was gripping the doorknob so tightly I could easily see my veins standing out, even in the dark. Then the puppet appeared in the room and touched my tears. He comforted me then grabbed all the animatronics and made them leave. I ran so quickly that my dream froze for a moment to try and catch up. When I reached my brothers room, all I saw was chunks of bone and organs covering the walls and floor; blood was spattered everywhere. I fell to my knees, tears still streaming down my face though I couldn't feel anything except disbelief at this point. I don't know how long I kneeled there, but eventually the slenderman family showed up. I made a half-hearted attempt to stab one of them with the knife, but they easily restrained me. Then they are my soul and I actually woke up. ( It was 2:10, and there were real tears streaked across my face.)

Can anyone help me feel any better about this? Is there any positive aspect at all? Anyone? 

Edited December 12, 2016 by ShadowLord_Lith

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

1 minute ago, ShadowLord_Lith said:

Thursday night( Thursday here in Austin, Texas anyway) I had a nightmare that woke me up at two A.M.

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To start the whole thing off, I wake up to the sound of my mother screaming and what sounded like a blade piercing flesh. Then my mom screamed again and the blade piercing flesh sound came again, cutting off my moms scream and changing it to a slowly quieting gurgle. Next, I heard footsteps outside my bedroom door( I was crouching in a corner of my room at this point) and a man holding a bloodied knife ('somehow' I knew he had killed both my mom and dad and that it was their blood) in his left hand came through my door. He was dressed entirely in purple and was smiling cruelly. I 'somehow' knew he would go after my younger brothers after he killed me and I frantically tried to think of any way I could incapacitate him, until he took a step towards me. I immediately lunged at him, ducking my head so he would miss my head when he slashed at me. I knocked him over and we scrambled for the knife I'd knocked out of his hands. I got it first and began stabbing him in the chest, his blood spurting from the wounds and covering my body horror-movie style. Eventually, his body stopped twitching and I just sat there on his chest in the puddle of blood, sobbing.(one of my greatest fears IRL is actually hurting other people, so...) the next Hong I knew, dream logic style, the haunted robots from FNAF were trying to kill my brothers. I heard my youngest brother scream in terror and I scrambled for the door. Before I could turn the handle, though, golden Freddy appeared behind me freezing me in place. I couldn't move no matter how hard I strained, and the terrified screams coming from my brothers bedroom made fresh tears streak down my face. I was gripping the doorknob so tightly I could easily see my veins standing out, even in the dark. Then the puppet appeared in the room and touched my tears. He comforted me then grabbed all the animatronics and made them leave. I ran so quickly that my dream froze for a moment to try and catch up. When I reached my brothers room, all I saw was chunks of bone and organs covering the walls and floor; blood was spattered everywhere. I fell to my knees, tears still streaming down my face though I couldn't feel anything except disbelief at this point. I don't know how long I kneeled there, but eventually the slenderman family showed up. I made a half-hearted attempt to stab one of them with the knife, but they easily restrained me. Then they are my soul and I actually woke up. ( It was 2:10, and there were real tears streaked across my face.)

Can anyone help me feel any better about this? Is there any positive aspect at all? Anyone?

It sounds to me like you're not only afraid of hurting other people, but of losing your family and/or being helpless when it comes to aiding them. Judging by the intensity of the dream, it also sounds like these fears have been percolating at the back of your mind for a while, or maybe they've migrated to the front. If I had to guess at a cause, I'd say it's all the recent terror attacks around the world that have gotten your subconscious wondering, What if that happens to me? To my family? What am I going to do? Whatever the case, this dream means that your brain is trying to work through those incredibly strong fears in a way that you can begin to make sense of them. 

Don't ask me why it chooses life-or-death situations and nightmarish imagery to work through those fears. Seems like politely asking you if you want to talk about them would be the way to go, but anyways….

It might help if you can allay some of these fears IRL. Identify precisely what you are afraid of, when it comes to your family being hurt, and then address it with them. Can you verify some sort of disaster-preparedness plan with your family? Ensure that they have a plan and that everyone knows to stick to it? If they don't have a plan, ask if you can come up with one together. Tell them that you're scared, and you want to make sure that if the worst happens, everyone is going to be okay. They'll understand. 

Once you have a plan, I think that will help with this sort of dream. You need to prove to your brain that you have a plan and that your family will be okay in case of disaster. 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

On 12/12/2016 at 9:21 AM, ShadowLord_Lith said:

Thursday night( Thursday here in Austin, Texas anyway) I had a nightmare that woke me up at two A.M.

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To start the whole thing off, I wake up to the sound of my mother screaming and what sounded like a blade piercing flesh. Then my mom screamed again and the blade piercing flesh sound came again, cutting off my moms scream and changing it to a slowly quieting gurgle. Next, I heard footsteps outside my bedroom door( I was crouching in a corner of my room at this point) and a man holding a bloodied knife ('somehow' I knew he had killed both my mom and dad and that it was their blood) in his left hand came through my door. He was dressed entirely in purple and was smiling cruelly. I 'somehow' knew he would go after my younger brothers after he killed me and I frantically tried to think of any way I could incapacitate him, until he took a step towards me. I immediately lunged at him, ducking my head so he would miss my head when he slashed at me. I knocked him over and we scrambled for the knife I'd knocked out of his hands. I got it first and began stabbing him in the chest, his blood spurting from the wounds and covering my body horror-movie style. Eventually, his body stopped twitching and I just sat there on his chest in the puddle of blood, sobbing.(one of my greatest fears IRL is actually hurting other people, so...) the next Hong I knew, dream logic style, the haunted robots from FNAF were trying to kill my brothers. I heard my youngest brother scream in terror and I scrambled for the door. Before I could turn the handle, though, golden Freddy appeared behind me freezing me in place. I couldn't move no matter how hard I strained, and the terrified screams coming from my brothers bedroom made fresh tears streak down my face. I was gripping the doorknob so tightly I could easily see my veins standing out, even in the dark. Then the puppet appeared in the room and touched my tears. He comforted me then grabbed all the animatronics and made them leave. I ran so quickly that my dream froze for a moment to try and catch up. When I reached my brothers room, all I saw was chunks of bone and organs covering the walls and floor; blood was spattered everywhere. I fell to my knees, tears still streaming down my face though I couldn't feel anything except disbelief at this point. I don't know how long I kneeled there, but eventually the slenderman family showed up. I made a half-hearted attempt to stab one of them with the knife, but they easily restrained me. Then they are my soul and I actually woke up. ( It was 2:10, and there were real tears streaked across my face.)

Can anyone help me feel any better about this? Is there any positive aspect at all? Anyone? 

Bruh. You've just been playing too much FNAF, or reading too much of it's lore

Cos y'know that purple guy?

He killed his family too.

If you have played FNAF4, you will know that the little brother could, in fact be the protagonist of that one, who dies at the end btw.

Actually you know what? That probably did not help you :/

[Oversleep]

I had a dream that i was in some kind of arcade game like Pacman. Then the perspective shifted to first person and I was running with someone from xenomorphs (Alien) and each time I tried to kill one with coins it turned out I threw them a little offside and my Steelpushing made the coins miss. Each time.

Then I broke out through the border (like border of the screen) and I have gotten out to the street near my old school and then I was woken up. First thought: "Man, that was weird".

I blame playing too much Bastion.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

I dreamt I got banned from this site last night

The terror was unbeknownst to man 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I dreamed I was married. Not about the wedding or anything else, just some holiday (Valentine's, I think? could've also been Christmas; the dream was a little vague on the details) where I got a card wishing us a happy anniversary. I don't remember being happy about it, though I wasn't unhappy. I just didn't want to be married to him. But I didn't want to get a divorce, because my parents and his mom were both really happy about us being together, and he didn't seem unhappy about it, either. 

Ironically enough, the guy I was married to is actually married IRL. He's one of my brother's friends, and his mom shipped me and him when we were teenagers, though we never dated. 

[Quiver he/him]

I had a dream about buying a copy of Suicide Squad season 2.

...Yeah, season 2. As in, in my dream, the Suicide Squad was a TV series. In fact, it was a really good TV series, which was completely unlike anything else out there, had a lot of critical acclaim. Despite season 1's plot being basically a rehash of that terrible movie.

(Season 2, I believe, was being set up to take place at Arkham.)

I don't even know what is going on.

[Zathoth]

1 hour ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I dreamed I was married. Not about the wedding or anything else, just some holiday (Valentine's, I think? could've also been Christmas; the dream was a little vague on the details) where I got a card wishing us a happy anniversary. I don't remember being happy about it, though I wasn't unhappy. I just didn't want to be married to him. But I didn't want to get a divorce, because my parents and his mom were both really happy about us being together, and he didn't seem unhappy about it, either. 

Ironically enough, the guy I was married to is actually married IRL. He's one of my brother's friends, and his mom shipped me and him when we were teenagers, though we never dated. 

*Summons Freud couch*

This dream is obviously caused by the inner Twimom.

 

I had a pretty interesting dream. I was a ghost or something trying to make my way through a giant mansion full of puzzles and secret passageways. When I got to the top and looked out over the frozen garden the dream changed and I lived in this giant, strange mansion. I was running around exploring it with my cats, then I found a third cat and all was well in the world.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

4 minutes ago, Zathoth said:

*Summons Freud couch*

This dream is obviously caused by the inner Twimom.

It's entirely possible. I am going to visit soon, and I'm trying to come up with a polite way to say "None of your storming business" if and when I'm asked why I've been here eight months and still haven't found a church. 

5 minutes ago, Zathoth said:

I had a pretty interesting dream. I was a ghost or something trying to make my way through a giant mansion full of puzzles and secret passageways. When I got to the top and looked out over the frozen garden the dream changed and I lived in this giant, strange mansion. I was running around exploring it with my cats, then I found a third cat and all was well in the world.

The more cats, the merrier.  

[Jedal he/him]

I had this really freaky dream once, when I was around seven years old. (It's long so going in a spoiler box)

Spoiler

One night, when I was sleeping, I was having a perfectly natural dream. Suddenly, it dissolved into race. A race through the forest. I was sprinting through a forest of shadows and darkness, running from a beast I could not see. My view switched to third person and I saw that the forest was in fact a massive bridge, and that what was chasing me was a horse made entirely from blackness. Its eyes gleamed red like flame as it chased me, until the bridge disappeared and I woke. Walking outside, I went to school where I found that the Autobots and Decepticons were in war over a shard of painted glass within my school. Transforming me into a robot, I went to war against the Decepticons, and managed to grab the glass. Staring into the glass, I saw that it was painted in the image of a skull composed of slivers of different metals jammed together. Staring into the glass, I fell through, and felt myself become human again. However, I was evil. I have no idea how I knew it, but I felt as though I were full of blackness and evil inside. Beginning to grin and laugh, I woke up. For real, this time.

Yeah just in case you are a skeptic, this is a real dream, and I have no idea what to make of it.

[Quiver he/him]

I think Roshar has given me nightmares.

So, last night, I had a dream that there was a...thing in my house. It kind of looked like a lobster, albeit it a little bigger; it wasn't giant sized or anything, but it was big enough. If was covered in the slime that you see on slugs and snails, and when it moved, you could see the muscles and ligaments between it's chitin.

And, movement? It could scuttle, but it also ran - with enough force that it pinned someone against a wall when they tried to catch it in a box.

And it sounded like a dog.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

You know how graduates say they still have nightmares about unfinished homework and exams they didn't study for years later? Yeah. It's totally true. 

I dreamed that Hillary Clinton did something newsworthy; I don't remember what, but it was big enough to make one of my past profs decide to give her class an assignment on it. The hitch? It was a class I'd already passed, and the semester had ended at the beginning of December. As of my dream, it was already Christmas Day. Undeterred, the prof sent out the assignment via email, informing all of her students that if we did not have our essays on Hillary Clinton turned into the online dropbox (which, the semester having ended some weeks back, should have been closed) by January 5, then we would fail her class. 

Long story short, I didn't want to do the assignment on Christmas, but Twimom said I had to. I….don't know why I didn't kick up a fuss in my dream, since even in my dream, I'd been living on my own and in a different state for some time, but I wound up frantically and reluctantly typing out an essay in the basement of a family friend, with whom we were spending the holiday. At some point, Twimom asked me why I was so upset, so I texted her You made me write an essay on Christmas, to which I received no reply. 

[Kaymyth she/her]

Dreamed last night that I was back in college band.  And for some reason we were getting ready to start on a piece that started with the jazz number "Take Five" that then segued into "Axel F".  And I was stuck on my oboe, but really, really wanted to play my saxophone for it.  But I couldn't, because reasons?

Then I also dreamed that I was on The Walking Dead, helping folks deal with the Saviors.  And they captured Carol, but for some reason left her with me, and there were some other folks there, and I was scheming on how to get everybody with me to the Kingdom safely.  And then I got covered with tiny red bugs and had to shove myself into a water sluice to wash them off.  And then the bugs were dead, but I still had to scrape them off my skin and honestly the bugs were way more disturbing than the murderous people I was scheming against.

Takeaway from this:  "Take Five" would be pretty awesome to steampunk up and throw in some electronic beats.

[Hemalurgic Headshot he/him]

Last night, I dreamed I went to the signing of Oathbringer in Zagreb, asked Brandon two questions, and actually got my theory confirmed, but I can't remember what my theory was! Then I drove him to Zaxby's, but there was a traffic accident on a one-lane road, so the car flipped over it and we still got to Zaxby's. One of the strangest dreams I've had in awhile.

[Sunbird she/her]

@Hemalurgic_Headshot Zagreb and Zaxby's seems like a weird combination... do they have Zaxby's in Zagreb? Do you even live near Zagreb?

[Hemalurgic Headshot he/him]

5 minutes ago, Sunbird said:

@Hemalurgic_Headshot Zagreb and Zaxby's seems like a weird combination... do they have Zaxby's in Zagreb? Do you even live near Zagreb?

I have no idea. I blame Zagreb from my AP Human Geography class, because I knew that I was somewhere in Europe, and Zagreb fit in. Then Zaxby's came out of nowhere.

Edited February 28, 2017 by Hemalurgic_Headshot

[Sunbird she/her]

@Hemalurgic_Headshot hahaha. I only know where Zagreb is because it's the headquarters of my brother's LDS mission. XD

[A Budgie she/her]

This morning I was wandering around this specific building at my school on stilts. Then, I heard a voice and knew it was my choir teacher, and then she turned round a corner. I sat down in a chair, and there was a blue artwork/painting-thing on the ceiling.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

I don't dream anymore  It's either sleep, wake up. Or nightmares.

[Delightful]

On 5 January 2017 at 4:27 PM, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

You know how graduates say they still have nightmares about unfinished homework and exams they didn't study for years later? Yeah. It's totally true. 

I dreamed that Hillary Clinton did something newsworthy; I don't remember what, but it was big enough to make one of my past profs decide to give her class an assignment on it. The hitch? It was a class I'd already passed, and the semester had ended at the beginning of December. As of my dream, it was already Christmas Day. Undeterred, the prof sent out the assignment via email, informing all of her students that if we did not have our essays on Hillary Clinton turned into the online dropbox (which, the semester having ended some weeks back, should have been closed) by January 5, then we would fail her class. 

Long story short, I didn't want to do the assignment on Christmas, but Twimom said I had to. I….don't know why I didn't kick up a fuss in my dream, since even in my dream, I'd been living on my own and in a different state for some time, but I wound up frantically and reluctantly typing out an essay in the basement of a family friend, with whom we were spending the holiday. At some point, Twimom asked me why I was so upset, so I texted her You made me write an essay on Christmas, to which I received no reply. 

I dream that I didn't finish my end of school exams and had to repeat the last year. Sometimes I'm aware that this isn't/shouldnt be true, sometimes I'm just confused as to why I'm doing it all again. 

[Kaymyth she/her]

More Walking Dead dreams last night. But hey, no little red bugs crawling all over me! I'll take zombie fighting over that any day.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Guess what, I finally got to sleep last night (57 hours NEW RECORD)/

and I dreamed!!!

And I can't what the dream entailed, but it left me feeling absolutely wonderful and happy. I need more moments like that!