Dream experiences you've had

[Simon D. Aelsi]

There was a time I threw a leaf into the air and it floated away... Or when I tried to pick up some bolts and they ran away from me...

 

[Philosophus Vagus]

I have all sorts of weird dreams all the time, a couple nights ago I dreamed I was on this huge hotel balcony with a massive crowd of people, then random people in the crowd started attacking me with knives. Luckily in that dream I had action hero reflexes to go with the action movie like dramatic violence going on and fought, shot and killed like three of said attackers before groggily waking up.

Then there are the weird fantastical dreams like a couple weeks ago where I dreamed my brother and I were having a conversation, and it wasn't odd in the slightest except for the fact that in the dream I was Inyuyasha and he was Greed from the seven deadly sins on netflix. We didn't act like those characters or anything, we just were physically through the entire conversation. Dreams are strange. I hadn't watched Inyuyasha since I was a tween, and didn't really care for the episodes of seven deadly sins that I did watch so I guess the only connection was that they looked similar enough to be siblings what with the white hair and red clothes or something? Not like we did any cool anime stuff either, just sat on the back porch drinking rum & Dr. Pepper like we used to do a lot when we lived as roomates years ago.

And then we have my recurring nightmares, which aren't really recurring in the sense that the dream is the same but that there's always this one guy that shows up in them. The most recent one was a dream where my dog had died (makes sense for it to be on my mind, he is fourteen years old and has been showing his age a lot recently) and I'm digging a hole for his grave by the creek he likes to swim in under the shady tree that he always lays under to dry off afterwards just as I plan to do when it really happens and then I see him staring at me from the other side of the creek. I say him but I don't really know, because he's always just the outline of a person and I can never make out any features, it's more like a person wrapped in a shadow or a 3D shadow I guess (though I've had dreams where he's confronted me as an actual person, that warps into him after I realized it was him in disguise before to) and immediately everything changes, the dream becomes more real somehow.

It's hard to explain but it's like in a normal dream, even when bad stuff happens like the first dream I described I always feel as if I am more or less in control, that even if bad things do happen I can fight or run or whatever I need to do to deal with it until I wake up. These are always different though, when I see my nightmare guy the rest of the dream from then til I awake feels physically real to me, or I guess, more like I'm a part of the dream and he is the dreamer, so if I try to fight him he'll always have the edge, or when I try to run he's always going to be right behind me because he's the focus of the dream and I am just a part of it. Anyway, in this particular dream he mocks my dead dog, says he killed him and next he'll take me and that snaps me out of my stunned fright enough that I pull out my gun and unload on him. Instead of dying or even acting wounded though the thing flies across the creek in an instant straight towards me, and I put the gun to my own temple and pull the trigger to keep him from getting me I guess (which is so out of character as a reaction I'd have but I'm always terrified beyond irrationality when I see him) and wake up panting in a cold sweat, thankfully with my dog sitting up wide awake and looking down at me with a concerned look on his face.

I don't know what's up with those kind of dreams other than they literally terrify me, more than that I've woken up with bloody divots in my skin before from where I'd apparently clawed at myself with my own fingernails to try to wake up from nightmares like that in the past, so I've long ago moved all weapons I own out of my bedroom and even keep my pocket and fillet knives locked in the gun safe out of fear that I might one day get ahold of one of them in the throes of one of those nightmares and seriously maim myself. It' just all so vivid whenever he appears, I could describe dozens of dreams just as vividly as this one from years ago if I wanted to, unlike normal dreams that fade from memory or at the very least get fuzzy and less distinct from the moment I wake up these stay burned into my memory as if I'd actually lived them.

 

[Jordman The Swordman]

I hate to say it, but... If you lived in British Columbia/Canada. The Canadian Mental Health Society would deem you "Mentally Ill". Which means, probably you are Schizophrenic - that means you see or hear visual or audial hallucination.Ten they would prescribe you medications. these medications would dope you out, so that you are less likely to be a harm to the public. I'm Schizophrenic, I hear voices in my head - especially after 6:00PM. On the up side, I have pills they give me, that are guaranteed to make me sleep at night. Just thought you should know...

No, I was talking about real lucid hallucinations.

 

[Philosophus Vagus]

@Jordman The Swordman Are you referring to me? What I described above are only dreams, however real they might sometimes seem to me, granted that I have hurt myself a little once or twice in them but I would think that would be more of a sleep disorder of some kind than a mental illness. Just a recurring nightmare theme that I experience two or three times a year, pretty sure Schizophrenia requires a bit more consistent symptoms not to mention I don't have any actual hallucinations, visual or auditory, just really terrifying dreams.

I haven't gotten diagnosed by proxy of those dreams, but from personal study I believe them to be a mild form of sleep paralysis (watch 'the nightmare' on netflix sometime unless you scare easily. It is a documentary on sleep paralysis and features a myriad of people experiencing night terrors eerily similar to what I describe above, though many of them are convinced that their experiences are paranormal, or alien visitations or something else crazy) but at the end of the night they don't warp my view of reality so I'm not that concerned about them.

Appreciate the concern anyway, just don't think that's what's going on. Didn't mean to come across as mentally unstable, just thought that as far as 'dream experiences' go that was a right interesting one, but just to be clear that kind of crazy is only regulated to when I'm asleep, and even then such nights are few and far between.

 

[Gallia]

I had a lot of dreams that felt a bit real, some very unreal. but it take ages to name everything.