Dreams

[Jane Doe]

What's the strangest dream anyone has ever had? Do you think they mean something?

Last night, I had such odd dreams blended together into one. Like, I dreampt I posted here and something just popped out of the screen to wave at me. It then turned into me with my two Little Apple Dolls in a dark red brothel and the dolls cursed the people there for me. After that, I was driving on the highway with my "little sister" when we took a wrong turn and ended up on this weird bridge with a water show featuring the V For Vendetta guy because he was out of a job.

I could go on and on about the rest, but I'm a lot more interested in what everyone else dreams about.

[Sheexy]

I had a stupid dream last night.

I went to some restaurant with some people and I didn't really want to eat anything, so I just ordered a normal burrito (it was a Mexican restaurant) and then when I went to pay I had nothing but 60 dollar bills (I thought it was weird in the dream, but still went along with it?) then they told me I was 8 dollars short and I was so mad because they thought I wanted a 68 dollar burrito instead of like, a three dollar one.
They forced me to keep it too, so I just said whatever because for some reason I was rich.

Then I ended up buying the player's guide to Super Smash Bros. Brawl and I was looking through all the secret characters and there were people like Santa, the Three Stooges and some of the Ninja Turtles and Megaman showed up as giant mech costumes your characters could wear. It was really dumb.
I ended up waking up three times during that part and thinking about how stupid it was, but then I would always fall back asleep and the dream would just continue.
So stupid.

I'll post some other dreams later, I've been half asleep the whole day so this one is still fresh on my mind.

[kaze_no_hogosha]

Okay, I have a strange one.

The other night I had a dream that Lara Croft, Mario, Link, Sonic, and Pikachu were going on a space mission to save Samus who had been taken captive by Mother Brain. When they arrived at ship were Samus had been taken captive they ran into a bunch of Metroids. Everyone was taking them down with their special abilities (i.e. Sonic ran into them, Pikachu shocked them, Link threw bombs at them, etc.) Lara Croft though destroyed them in a different fashion rather than shooting them. Lara had the power of Persuasion (like Eden from Season One of Heroes). All she did was tell the Metroids to explode and they did. It was very strange. After a while the group encountered someone that looked like Samus. It turns out the person they encountered was a clone of Samus the Space Pirates created in order to study her. Toward the end of the dream the team confronts Mother Brain. The Samus clone sacrificed herself in order to save the real Samus. After the battle, the team had to rush out of the ship before it self destructed (like at the end of a Metroid game). The team took off and that was the end of the dream.

This dream made me realize I play video games a little too much but whatever. That's the career field I’m going into so I don’t really care.

[Kassidy]

I'm kinda unfortunate in this regard. I mostly don't remember anything about my dreams unless they are nightmares. I generally have recurring themes or elements here and there.
- Vast open spaces that extend as I try to traverse them while being pursued.
- Whenever defending myself, punches feel like I'm trying to punch through water and connect ineffectively.
- My father's funeral.
- Inability to speak
- Seeing things in sepia tones.

I'll see if I manage to remember anything over the next few days.

[Sheexy]

- Whenever defending myself, punches feel like I'm trying to punch through water and connect ineffectively.

Man, whenever I try to do any actions while dreaming it happens exactly like that.
It is so weird.

[Kassidy]

I think our physics engines are screwed up. Overkill on the bullet time.

[Kimiko]

I think that's a normal side effect of being asleep. When dreaming, part of your brain blocks the signals that are sent to your limbs, to keep you from acting out whatever it is you're doing in your dreams. The feedback still works though, so you sort of feel that your limbs aren't doing what you're telling them to. Of course, the dreaming part of your brain goes on trying to make sense of things, so you experience it as moving sluggishly or through water or whatever.

[Danny]

I think that's a normal side effect of being asleep. When dreaming, part of your brain blocks the signals that are sent to your limbs, to keep you from acting out whatever it is you're doing in your dreams. The feedback still works though, so you sort of feel that your limbs aren't doing what you're telling them to. Of course, the dreaming part of your brain goes on trying to make sense of things, so you experience it as moving sluggishly or through water or whatever.

This is true. Also, if you're physically and/or mental tired at night from doing something excessive in the morning, it can also affact your dreams. If your muscles are tired, you can dream of slow and weak movements. If you're thirsty, you might dream that you're in a desert searching for water, etc.

There's also something called a Lucid dream where sleeper's can control their dreams in deep sleep (REM: Rapid eye movement). I've been able to do this ever since I was small. Here's a link if you wish to know more about Lucid dreams: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream

I guess I can say that when I was really small, I used to have lots of dreams of fighting endless opponents or some huge mythical beast. This symbolism behind it seems to have come true for me... I wish it was with endless physical fights rather than with arguements for real though. Now when I can control my dreams, I can see myself in an Imperial capital as a Emperor/Kaiser. Mwahahaha!

Edit: I've also found a site about dream meanings if anyone is interested:
http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/
Just type in a word and click on a letter to get the meaning of some things which you may have seen in your dreams. Personal, I think that you need to discover the meaning to your own dreams. The same thing might mean something different in your dream than someone else's.

For example: Horses in most books mean energy. In my dreams, when ever I had a dream about a horse/s, it usally meant that it was going to rain. Humans, animal, plants and basically all forms of life can feel weather changes in their bodies, but most people are not aware of this. This is way people and animals may react strangely sometimes.

Rainy, dark days usally influence bad moods unlike a sunny day which invokes a good one. This is true even before the different weather sets in. Try thinking weather, if you dream of something strange. Not everything has to have a meaning though. Remember, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." I hope that's at least of some help to anyone. ^_^

[Deques]

Long time ago I had a nightmare with those orange spiky monsters from super mario bros invading the town im living in.

The dream I am most excited about is when I had the ability to fly over a green valley. It was so real that I can still feel how it is to fly. Then in the end of the dream I lost the ability and was so mad that I woke up.
I wish I could dream about this again

[Zidane]

I had a dream where I swear they perfected like shooting commercials into your brain. Now take in mind I never really gave this game much attention or even fallowed it.

So I had a dream where I was that Time Shift scientist. I had all the abilities at my finger tips. There was a soldier firing his gun. So I stopped time walked over and took his gun. When time was going back to normal I hit him with the gun and shot him. Then I had to reverse time to reconstruct a hallway. It was amazing and when I woke up I wanted to by that game. Just purely based on my dream. ^-^;;

[Tsurayu]

Strangest?

I think I was like 4 or 5 and I had this strange dream that I was walking down the hall from my room to the bathroom and on the floor by the lightswitch there was a random pickle on the floor. I stared at it for a few seconds and looked up and the toilet had turned into a hamburger and was chasing me, trying to eat me.

...

And strangely yet, I'm not Vegan because of it. XD

[Duran]

I think our physics engines are screwed up. Overkill on the bullet time.

Or even worse, you dream of being chased, and you run in slow-motion while your persuer is rapidly catching up to you...


As for a weird dream, I had one recently where I dreamt I was Solid Snake and I had to infiltrate a complex that resembled a hotel. Inside they were making some kind of humanoid bioweapons and I had to sabotage and destroy them by cutting off their life support systems before they were activated.

Even worse, I was under a time limit and if I didn't finish quickly, someone would be sent to kill me. Well I got down to the last one of those things when someone was sent. I told them I was almost done and to give me a bit more time, but they tried to kill me then and there, so I spent the better part of that avoiding the assassin guy while trying to complete my mission.

[kaze_no_hogosha]

Is it a bad thing that a lot of us are having video game dreams?

[Jane Doe]

Maybe you guys are just playing it a little too much... Or maybe you guys are thinking about games too much? Or worrying about it too much. Whatever it is, I think there's too much of something.

[Tsurayu]

Maybe you guys are just playing it a little too much... Or maybe you guys are thinking about games too much? Or worrying about it too much. Whatever it is, I think there's too much of something.

Kinda like when I have dreams where I'm commanding an army in Fire Emblem? <.<