Your weirdest dreams?

[ZeldaQueen]

Sounds like a variant of the actor's nightmare. I've had quite a few dreams where I'm late for a performance, I'm not in costume, my hair and make-up aren't done, I can't find my shoes, and my cue is in ten seconds. And the musical isn't the one we rehearsed.

[Kitsa]

I had a dream that was like watching 2 different tv shows.

The first was about some woman who was trapped in her house in a snowstorm. She fell off a couch or something and broke her arm, and somehow that led to a pulmonary embolism, and she got her window pried open. I'm not sure if she stuck her arms out into the snow and that did something, or if she climbed out the window, because I saw both. But they were calling her a hero for whatever it was she did. It kind of looked like one of those re-enactment shows.

The second was about some woman in Regency England who was a bit of a raving bitch. The show described how she would take things away from people and destroy them because she thought they were too attached to them. At one point, she was fighting another woman over a book. The other woman left the room, and the book was lying on the floor. The bitchy woman stepped on it, used it to skate across the parquet floor to the door, and flung it out into the snow. Later in the "show", they said she became a nun, which with that kind of personality was probably the only available career path.

[ZeldaQueen]

My dream last night started out with me looking through some sort of old store which had huge piles of stuff lying around. I was looking for a Dawn Doll I heard was there, but I couldn't find it (and anyway I had no idea what it looked like). I found what I thought was a Barbie doll wig which I considered buying, until I found out that it was just a reguarl Barbie doll with the face ripped off. The store owner then started to offer me a lot of minitures for my doll house which I loved, except that I owned some, didn't need some, and the rest didn't match the style of the house.

Then there was some thing were I was watching a movie but somehow in it at the same time. I was in a contest were you needed a guy to dance across my elementary school baseball field with you. At the last minute, the younger brother of a girl named Meg joined me. He mentioned that he used to have a crush on me, but grew out of it. Cue a weird flashback, in which he was at a daycare center were a ewe had recently had babies and the daycare lady was showing the children how the babies nursed.

Then, an old lady on a motorcycle (with a DVD player on the back) shows up to get the little brother. Somehow, he's Harry Potter and he's being called off to his next adventure. I'm angry (and no longer in the movie) because the obvious sequel they're setting up for is not a book JKR wrote and is just being made to get more money (it would be in between COS and POA). I go home and tell my parents about it.

Most of the dream after that is some weird Little Mermaid thing. Ariel has done some sort of a transformation and I and her two friends keep having to hide her from the bad guys coming after her.

[stevetothepast]

you dream a lot.

[ZeldaQueen]

Originally Posted by stevetothepast

you dream a lot.

That's because people remember what they dream just before they wake up. On days when I get up at seven or eight for class, I tend to fall back to sleep for fifteen to thirty minutes before getting up letting me remember what I dream better.

[Chojin]

i had a dream a few hours ago that Randy Orton and I were discussing fitness and generally bro'ing the fuck out. Some other fan tried to talk to him and we just sorta avoided him.

then orton tried to tell me that it'd take me 20 years to be as fit as him.

oh, you <3

[liquidstatik]

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[ZeldaQueen]

Finally remembered my dream from last night.

I was in a place that was supposed to be my high school cafeteria, except that it was outside with picnic benches and food vendors and seemed to be overlooking some body of water. There were also a lot of people there who obviously weren't students. Most of the people sitting at my table were elderly people and they kept making rude comments about people who were within earshot. First they said something about Lori Baxtor (from Big Wolf on Campus). I glanced at her and she had some look between being embarassed and shrugging it off.

I went to one of the vendors and got a huge amount of fried and breaded chicken. I took it back to the table and began to mix it into some sort of stew in a bowl of marinara sauce. As I was doing this, the elderly people started talking - again in audible whispers - about how weird I was to eat my chicken that way and couldn't I eat it like a normal person? I gave them a look to let them know that yes, I could hear them and they got sort of embarassed and shut up.

I then remember that I was updating my GaiaOnline Aquarium which had several fancy items and fish in it. I set in a rather large fish that I just bought, then I put in a smaller fish. The smaller fish disappeared literally seconds after I put it in and I was annoyed (the fish cost real money). Suddenly, I realized that the large fish I put in - which looked totally noncarnivorous - had eatten the smaller fish. Not only that, but it then - before my eyes - proceeded to eat every other fish in the Aquarium as well as many of the items before I could get it out. There were trace amounts of cartoonish blood in the water and I was horrified that Gaia would make such a fish.

[LordSappington]

I'm doing a small experiment for my Psychology class on the effects of sleep deprivation. I'm talking with my girlfriend to help me stay up for a while, and I'm somehow combining two different subjects in mid-sentence ('Yeah, that guy was a dick I got the whole set for $17') and just randomly speaking gibberish ('I dunno how goldfish greand piano').
This is kinda funny.

[LordSappington]

Hahahaha whoops; fail.

[Fathom Zero]

fail indeed.

[ZeldaQueen]

I learned about those experiments in my high school psychology class. You actually start hallucinating after some time passes. Ironcially, we learned about it the week we had prom - which went from about ten o'clock until five in the morning.

Oh lord, last night I dreamt that a number of female cartoon characters ate a rare type of egg and all got pregnant. The cartoon characters my dream focused on? The Powerpuff Girls. Yes, they got pregnant also. Ugh...

[Colonel Flagg]

I had one this weekend about going to a yard sale, and the lady running it says she has some great kids clothing behind what looked like an outdoor window. I opened the window and inside was a closet with some clothes and an ugly baby doll. On a second look, I see the "baby doll" is alive, barely. I pick it up, turn around and tell the lady I'm calling social services on her ass. She apparently has another 5 or 6 kids, and she is all like "oh he's OK, there's no need to do that" at which point I woke up.

Probably has something to do with my being a foster parent.

[executioneer]

how much sleep dep are we talking here ls

[LordSappington]

Originally Posted by executioneer

how much sleep dep are we talking here ls

As long as I can hold out without flipping out or anything.
And it's been three days now, and I've gotten to the hallucinations. They started off as weird shadows in the corner of my eye, and just things looking like they just moved a little, and now I'm thinking I'll see one of my friends in my house, and probably the worst one has been when I thought a parked truck was going to hit me at school, and freaked out.

[ZeldaQueen]

Three days? I get the shadows thing if I stay up past midnight.

And just wait. First hand accounts have reported hallucinations like seeing a wall open up to reveal a forest and a jacket being covered with furry worms.

There's actually a chapter dedicated to such an experiment in the book Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizzare Experiments

[Kitsa]

Last night I fell asleep with some pessimistic news show on and I had awful nightmares about some sort of post-apocalyptic world where we were boarding ships to escape and had to leave our pets behind. It was a terrible dream. I'm never falling asleep with that shit going on the TV again.

[LordSappington]

I love that book!
I'm kinda looking forward to that, actually.
I've had to retype this post so many times....

[ZeldaQueen]

Woot. Well, I wish you luck.

And take joy, at least there's no sign that sleep deprevation in humans causes any kind of damage.

[LordSappington]

You've obviously never read the Russian Sleep Experiment.
http://rip747.wordpress.com/2009/08/...tory-ive-read/

[captain516]

Oh wow.

[Kitsa]

My grandmother has this really steep staircase that leads to her basement. I broke my tailbone on it once as a kid because I thought it would be safer to sit-scoot down it than walk down it. Anyway, her house is also something of a Winchester House phenomenon, and she's always replacing stairways and walkways with steep ramps and stuff (there is a stairway that leads to nowhere, just like the picture in that link).

So I think that's where last night's dream came from.

I was supposed to go to her basement to get something, which I don't like doing anyway because I stay away from the stairs. I opened the door and immediately lost my balance and had to grab the doorframe to steady myself (I'm told I made a yelping noise in my sleep). I looked down and the staircase had been replaced with a ridiculously steep ramp, steeper than most playground slides. The entire nightmare consisted of being slightly off-balance and trying to keep from falling down this ramp.

I must really have some psychological thing with stairs, ramps and balance because lately they've made up a good 80% of my nightmares.

[LordSappington]

Well, my experiment ended in a terrifying ordeal after five days. I was lurching to my third period class, and began hallucinating that I was in some woods, alone. when one of the 'tree's ran into me, I knew I needed to go to sleep before things got worse.

[ZeldaQueen]

Originally Posted by LordSappington

Well, my experiment ended in a terrifying ordeal after five days. I was lurching to my third period class, and began hallucinating that I was in some woods, alone. when one of the 'tree's ran into me, I knew I needed to go to sleep before things got worse.

You were still going to school during this? And you lasted five days? My hat's off to you.

I fell asleep in the Commuter Student Lounge recently and had some weird half-way dreams. I say "half-way" because I could hear the other commuters talking and running around so what they said was incorporated in my dreams. For example, at one point I dreamt that I was awake but pretending to be asleep and sensed that everyone in the lounge was staring expectantly at me. Also I dreamt that there was a huge display of Saris Christmas Chocolate for sale. It ended with me looking at some really weird display of artwork on the lounge walls, which was supposed to somehow depict the in-show racism the cast of Seseme Street put up with (the puppet cast, not the human part). Somehow, the idea of the show was supposed to show racial tolerance through different colored people living together. The art display also noted that the puppet cast of the Muppets got much less racist complaints for some reason. I then woke up and was informed that I talked in my sleep.

[ZeldaQueen]

I just had this really sad, really freaky dream about the end of the world.

The sun had suddenly gotten a lot bigger and closer to the Earth. And not over a period of time. In the dream, I was just walking down the street when I heard a "bang" and suddenly the sky was all dark red and the sun was huge and red itself.

The government/military/whomever would take care of something like this began planning a shield to protect the planet. While this was being taken care of however, everyone was ordered to evacuate their homes and move into this huge protected hotel. Most of my dream was the packing. I began to look for suitcases and some woman I vaguely knew gave me some from her shop for free. This was going on a lot. Since everything was closing down/ending all of the shops were being looted or giving away everything for free. It didn't matter. I went through all of my stuff to figure out what to take with me. Since food and clothes would be provided, I wanted to get stuff that had a lot of memories and value. I then remembered that my brother wouldn't be able to get his stuff (for some reason, I hadn't seen my family this entire time) so I went into his room and found all of these medieval figurines (dragons, knights, trolls, the like) that he kept on his dresser and put as many as I could get into a brown paper bag to bring for him.

Then I was in the hotel room with my family. I wandered around, feeling somewhat claustrophobic and lonely. I went to go into the corridor but got the feeling I wasn't allowed to. I went to bed but woke up long before the night was over. I realized that we were all spending four years in this hotel room and I was feeling jumpy and horrid after one day. Thankfully I woke up not long after.