Chiomara

It really helps to keep a notepad by your bed. I find that if I consistently write down even a tiny bit of what I remember the second (before checking phone or anything-- while you're still in that half-asleep state) I wake up, my dream recall will increase more and more with each passing week. However, I rarely ever actually do that, so what I remember-- what I write in this thread is really only about 20% of the original dream. I do however still get flashes of dreams I had 10-20 years ago.

Ooh speaking of which, I meant to ask what everyone's worst nightmares have been about. I figure might as well ask here rather than making a separate thread. (Mine involved a bunch of people chanting "The eye of Saturn! The eye of Saturn!" while spinning me on a metal wheel on a tower facing a red and black storming sky, but I'll save the details for another post)

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since ive started posting in this thread, ive had some nightmares i could remember in great detail but sometimes the decent weird dreams i only remember it a little bit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ im going to try and stay up for 30 mins or so in the middle of the night and type what i remember


that seems like a nice way to do it, i have a blue notebook that i could use
im curious if i can remember tonights dream. if i take a melatonin pill, i bet my dream would be vivid

Mondo Bungle

My favorite nightmares include

- Being the last pure human on a toxin ravaged planet making shelter in an old library until the council of mutants in charge of everything locate me to euthanize me and rid the world of any trace of what once was

- Running from various seen or unseen forces that generally toy with me since they can maintain a straight path through any medium and I'm usually faced with a lot of impossibly steep inclines

- Lying in bed with a canine demon on top of me that I'm unsure whether or not it is actually aware of my presence, as it simply looks directly beyond my face and never pays me any mind. That might not sound scary but it's pretty much the scariest

- Escaping from a multidimensional supernova (so it's like a supernova in space, but can tear through the boundaries of different dimensions so I myself must weave in and out of strange and unfamiliar worlds to outrun it). Some highlights of landscape include a sea dotted with islands made out of pure amethyst and flowing rivers of fluorescent vapors, and the inner sanctum of an omniscient hermit within a star.

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Those are all excellent, mondo. I'll post mine later.

Maybe so! B-complex vitamins can help too, if you have any of those laying around.

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Mondo Bungle

Oneirology is one of the few things i'm really knowledgable about. That'll get me somewhere in life right

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Surely. It could help you interpret Lynch movies at the very least, maybe.


Hm ok here's some of my more memorable nightmares:

-I was in some area with many partly-dilapidated buildings that were spaced far apart. Overgrown grass and chain link fences in between. Above, the sky was greenish grey-- it was very quiet, much like it is before a tornado in the south. Suddenly there were little black dogs scurrying around everywhere, yapping and barking. I don't remember the next part. I remember suddenly being on the roof of a very, very high tower. I am strapped to a metal wheel, facing the sky (which is dark red and black and bubbling). I'm surrounded by a circle of people wearing black hooded cloaks. They are spinning the wheel very, very fast-- so fast it's painful-- while chanting "The eye of Saturn! The eye of Saturn!" it felt so very real, and seemed to last forever, otherwise I wouldn't consider it a nightmare necessarily. I had this one several years ago.

-I've had countless alien apocalypse dreams, as well as dreams of the government staging an alien apocalypse (using holograms as well as advanced military weaponry and devices which could evoke specific emotional states-- or kill them, even-- among large groups of people) in order to implement a brutal police state and/or remove large groups of people from the planet to experiment on/sterilize/whatever. These are always nightmares because they feel so incredibly real physically.

In one, there was something odd going on in west or south Texas. Large areas (empty areas, even) were suddenly off limits. If you stepped past one of the invisible boundaries-- and if you kept walking-- you'd hear an excruciating high-pitched sound and begin bleeding out of your eyes, nose and ears. (These events coincided with some solar event that was causing problems on earth) In the regular towns, though, things were the same aside from a shadowy military presence; most were dressed in civilian clothes but they'd vanish into thin air, and if you were able to sense them in their invisible state, they'd become angry and attack you. I was the only one who could see them. I continued following them and investigating and eventually found that they were gathering all of the women and children into this building and forcibly sterilizing them and experimenting on them with the intent to eventually kill them. I somehow managed to free all of them, but I was killed as a result.

In another, I was walking around in some school, when suddenly these men in yellow suits began barreling down the hall. This had happened once before, so we all got on our knees facing the wall with our heads down. They grabbed some of us and took us to various places; ultimately we ended up in a small ship (floating above earth, not very far from the moon). Within the ship was what seemed to be a school or training program, at first. Me and several others. We weren't informed about anything. The instructors seemed civil and not outwardly cruel at first, but with each passing day they'd manipulate us more, and force us to participate in psychological games that always ended in being physically tortured. The others were swiftly becoming brainwashed and accepting this, but I did not. I behaved, though, and earned the privilege of being allowed outside the next time we were briefly stationed on the ground again. I escaped as soon as I could.

I also sometimes have weird MK-Ultra type dreams..? Those are the worst, actually. In one, I was somewhere in Illinois. A small suburb. Lots of small, slightly rundown white houses. I felt pulled to a specific location, and I kept drifting in and out of consciousness. I found myself in a lab of sorts. I don't remember everything anymore, but there were two scientists or doctors in white lab coats standing by an indoor swimming pool. Me and some others were being forced to swim (while answering the same series of questions over and over) until we began to drown from exhaustion. At the last moment they'd resuscitate us, and then repeat the process a few more times. After that, they'd put us through some other form of torture until we were sufficiently broken. My memory became extremely fragmented. Again I found myself walking through that same neighborhood with all the little white houses. I was rattled and terrified, and I didn't know who I was or what happened. I kept seeing coins on the ground. Each time I saw one, I felt a jolt (and briefly remembered that the doctors had embedded various triggers in us to cause us to perform a certain action or go in a certain direction). I knew where to go now, and ended up inside of a small, empty, well-decorated house. When I looked in one of the bedrooms, I felt this wave of terror and nausea-- there was a yellow wall and pink wall that joined in the corner, with a unicorn painted in the center. These colors and that image was another trigger they programmed in me. Upon seeing it, I walked swiftly to a tiny room in the house right past the kitchen. I shut the door, and pressed a button that was on the wall. A gas began filling the room. I called my mom on my cell phone and told her "I'm sorry, I will be dead when you get this, I'm sorry.." and I died. I've had similar dreams that took place in Colorado and Hawaii.

-This one is the strangest, I think. I was in a darkened grocery store. All of a sudden, my stalker's head popped out of one of the shelves. I ran away and he called out, "Don't worry, it's not REALLY me. I want to show you something." I walked back. "Do you remember when you died?" I asked, "By the river, against the tree?" and he said, "No, the other time. The poison gas attack." And he showed me. This is probably the most vivid dream I ever had. I was suddenly a child standing in a kitchen. A small kitchen in a small house. Open windows without glass. It was sunny, and my mother was cooking happily. Then suddenly something felt very off. There were odd noises outside, and chaos, and I started laughing hysterically-- I felt very strange, not joyful-- and then felt pain and terror, my eyes burning, and then nothing. I was hovering above my dead body and trapped in this void for a while. That's all I remember. OK, that's enough for now.

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One time I passed through a tube that didn't just kill me, but actually somehow made it so that I never even existed at all

It was wild

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Last night I dreamed I was a naked waiter. I'd started a new job waiting tables, and for some reason I was naked. I was self-conscious about my small wee-wee, but no one else thought it strange that I alone was naked in the restaurant. What was weird to one customer was the severed finger in his food. "I'll go get the manager," I said and trotted my naked ass back to the kitchen.

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grindy

Both my favourite nightmares involve creepy little girls. Damn horror movie tropes.

1.
I'm exiting our mall towards the car park with my dad when we suddenly get pushed aside. Our anger subsides when we see that the culprits are an old couple who can barely walk. In fact they collapse after doing a few more steps.

We look around and see that chaos and violence is everywhere. People are shouting at and fighting each other, cars are randomly crashing into other cars...

We decide to get to our car as fast as we can and get the hell out of there.
We see a lone little girl standing around and offer her to come with us since the situation is dangerous as hell. While looking for our car my dad and me get separated and I'm wandering around with that girl in some weird abandoned part of the car park. I try to cheer her up by asking her questions about herself.

She has a weird accent I can't quite put my finger on. Her elusive answers make me realize that she got separated from her family quite some time, possibly months ago and I'm unable to find out what she did and where she has been all the time since then..
While we walk around there the fillings in my teeth get loose and I spit them out one by one.

Finally we see my dad standing by the car some distance away. I grab the girl and get ready to run towards him. Just this instance some guy who is walking by near us freezes and stares at the girl's face in utter horror. The expression of fear on his face gets worse and worse and finally he starts to vomit. I hold her with her face pointing away from me, so I don't see it. I get totally scared as well and turn her around to see her face. While doing this I immediately realize that it's a bad idea and as her face becomes visible a black wave of terror and darkness floods everything from behind and I wake up.

2.
I'm at my dad's and my uncle from the Ukraine is visiting. I help him unpack and see a weird object in his suitcase. I look closer and realize that it's a dried, shriveled, hairless platypus. My uncle tells me he got it in his travels.
Later there's a big family dinner and some friends have come over as well.

After everyone has eaten people gather around my uncle who shows them the platypus. He puts some water on it and it comes alive. A friend of my dad takes it into his hands and it stings him with its venomous spike. The guy starts screaming in a totally pained and anguished way. My dad takes the platypus from his hands, also gets stung and starts screaming as well. Everybody is panicking now, shouting, running around. Exept for my little sister who just sits there with a weird smile on her face.
Then I suddenly realize I don't have a sister and wake up.

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grindy

Dreamt all night about Gorguts concerts.
Woke up and checked their tour schedule.
They were playing not that far from here yesterday.

Coincidence?

Yes.

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