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I had another very wierd dream. In this dream my whole world is falling apart literally. I am running for my life with my boyfriend. The floor beneath our feet is breaking and crumbling. all the buildings are falling down, cars are being thrown into the ground as the ground turns upward swallowing everything on top and in it's way. there are waves of water trying to drown and swallow us whole. there is no one else running or around us, it is as if we are the only ones in the world. it's like a scene from a movie. I am panting and getting tired more and more as I run farther and farther away from the destruction. me and my boyfriend are holding each others hands as tight as possible, not leting go for anything. a long the way there is a single man who comes to help us. he gives us advice although I do not remember what. it's as if the figure has the only power and is the only one who can help us escape. he introduces himself as a doctor. i do not know if we escape or die because i wake up before the dream ends.
This is another dream that I have all the time....It's halloween and I am out trick or treating about 5 houses down the street from mine. In the distance, I see a funnel cloud forming...I start to run but I feel like I cannot move. I am running in the opposite direction of my house to go save my friends. I tell them to look down the street where we can see the tornado ripping through the trees. We all run to my house where I get my family to get into the basement with everyone. Right before the tornado hits the house, I realize our dog is still upstairs so I run back to get him. As I pick him up, I see the tornado coming right at us. I wake up when the tornado hits the house so I don't exactly know what happens to us.
Ashley,
This is a great example of a dream with a very strong emotional content (e.g., anxiety, fear, confusion). Do you remember when this dream began? What was teh origin? Are there any elements that change over time or do you have this dream during times of stress?
I can't remember too much from this dream, but it is the only one that I've had with at least a little something to it. In the dream I am with a bunch of people around my age. They all look pretty familiar to me, but I can't place exactly who they are. We are walking around a wooded backyard and spraying the plants and tall trees with god knows what from these spray bottles. As we are spraying I trip over a skinny stump and fall to the ground. One of the girls that I am with asks me to sing (I don't know why) and so I sing and we continue on with our spraying. While we are spraying the plants and trees once again, I woke up. This dream was pretty weird.
This week i had a dream that i married Michael Phelps. I met him sitting on a friends couch here at NC and we apparently hit it off and got married the next day. It was a really good dream to have but i think it occured because i saw a show with Michael Phelps on it yesterday and i was watching it on my futon, so i think both those factors contributed to me having this dream but it was a good dream to have cuz Michael Phelps is hot
I had a dream where I was on the beach in Marshfield,MA where my summer house is and I'm 21 just hanging out by a bonfire with a bunch of friends. All of the sudden
someone decides to play some music to liven things up. Then as the night goes on we slowly head home and once I reach my house I wake up from the dream.
In my dream, I was with my stepsister. We were outside and I kept receiving text messages from this guy who I don't actually know. But I seemed to be responding to the messages. In this dream we are at a house and my stepmom is in it and she is cooking and cleaning as she is usually doing when I see her. What was weird was that this house didn't seem familiar to me when I woke up, but in the dream I was fine. Also there were two little kids in our driveway that I seemed to be converating with, but I had no idea who they were. This dream was really odd because it mixed reality with confusion, but also my dad was nowhere to be found. I'm not sure what this means.
In my dream this past week I dreamed I was at a really nice classy Italian restaurant. I was there with my friend Nick and his parents for dinner…Nick and I have been really close friends all through high school, and it wasn’t that weird that we were all out for dinner, because his parents seemed to have a great relationship with Nick and his close friends. Especially the girls since they never had a daughter. Anyways getting back to the dream….the point of this meal was to break some saddening news to them, I just wasn’t sure how to tell them. Just when I was about to tell them the music seemed to get a little slower, and the whole atmosphere of the restaurant just seemed to get dark, like it was anticipating the worst but hoping for the best?! I started to tell them that I had recently joined a branch of the military and I was getting deployed for Iraq. As soon as the words came out of my mouth there facial expressions just dramatically changed. Nick put his arm around me, just to let me know he was there but was just staring in awe at his Mom, kind of speechless. But what killed me was his Dad, I looked across the table and saw his Dad’s face. He was just staring across the restaurant off into space, I lowered my head and just looked into my lap trying to hold back the tears. In the meantime the music had picked up a little and the lights had gotten a little brighter. I was filled with sadness, I just felt so distant even though we were all sitting so close. How could I be getting deployed, why did I ever sign up if everyone I cared about was going to have the same expression, why did I do this to myself? I looked up and made direct eye contact with Nick’s Dad, there was a single tear running down his face, and at that point it made me feel like it was ok to cry and just let everything out. I broke down! He got up from the table came over I stood up and he just held me, the hug seemed to last a lifetime. Nick and his mom still seemed in shock seeing as they were just sitting at the table not saying a single word; it was like everyone except me and his dad were frozen in time. We didn’t end up staying for our meals. As we slowly walked out into the parking Nick and I exchanged a few words but I knew he wouldn’t cry, at least not in front of me. I remember his Mom wishing me luck and crying as she hugged me and then they all left…everyone was gone in the parking lot like they all of a sudden became invisible. Then I woke up…
I had a very weird dream the other night. I dreamt that I was here at Nichols in my dorm and my boyfriend was going to come up and as I was going to go get him to let him in there was a lion in the middle of the way so it was difficult to get to him to let him in so i had to slowy go around him to get by without getting caught. I ended up getting by but i dont know if that meant that I would do anything for him to get to him or it meant that there was going to be trouble like a fight with him or something
Hi Gang!
Great job recording these dreams. I can't wait to read them all.
Dr. D
"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens quotes
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In this dream i am playing football for my old highschool, and i am the quaterback. But my team was playing some team i have never heard of. But my team was losing really bad and then i just woke up.
This dream was really weird and creepy. My grandfather has been sick for a really long time. It was about a week before I had to leave for school and my grandfather passed away. I couldnt make it to move in day and I felt like my life was ruined. It got me off track mentally from school and everything else. I attended the wake and funeral and my family was miserable. When I woke up I thought the dream was really weird and had a weird feeling about it. Only days later my grandfather actually did pass away and I was late for move in day.
Hi "Star5"...
Perhaps a premonition? A dream to tell the future? Or do you think your unconscious was working through emotional issues that your conscious mind was forcing into your unconscious mind? This second suggestion is very Freudian.
Think about the weird feeling you wrote about. How was it "weird?" Emotionally, cognitive?
Dr. D
Nina & Ms.Ksquared...
Your dreams are so vivid, I think I'm haveing dreams about your dreams.
Excellent imagery, emotional tone and overall detail. Perhaps you two can help the rest of us recall more of our own dreams?
Dr. D
I just woke up from a really weird dream. My mother and I were in a hospital waiting to see my grandmother (she passed away 2 years ago) and all of a sudden I was on a stretcher going into surgery for my wisdom teeth. I was fighting off the nurses and doctors and didn’t want to have the surgery. I was really nervous and so scared.
Dr. D,
I first started having this dream the first time I saw the movie "Twister". I became obsessed and petrified of tornadoes. The dream is usually the same and always takes place by my house. The people sometimes change but my dog is always in it too. I'm not sure if this dream is stress related because until this class I never really woke up from a dream wondering why I drempt about something if it wasn't clear right away. These dreams are pretty realistic though which is scary. I always wake up scared and I have trouble falling back asleep. I'll hear an airplane or a big gust of wind and over think it and worry myself haha.
I dreamed that there was an emergency on Nichols campus. The administration ordered all of the students to leave campus and go to a park around the block so that we were safe. The weird part was that everyone who was drunk was on a leash. So we were all at a park and there were hundreds of drunk kids on leashes!!!
It was weird because most of the students were ones that I didnt know, but went to Nichols.
I had this dream the other night which has occurred many times now. It is where I am in a long dark hallway and I seem to try and walk where my feet wont move. In that same time the walls and ceiling begin to come in on me which I begin to panic. In addition I also feel very nervous and as it gets closer to the end I wake up right away. I wonder for the reason of this dream is because I have had a ton of stuff on my mind and have been stressed out lately. I question if that can affect how people think and what an individuals thoughts can be affected by what goes on in their personal life.
I had a dream last night
I've had this dream years ago back when I used to live in NYC. I'm in the subway station with mother and we are walking towards the train. To get to the train, I have to walk down some stairs that are right before the platform. It's really loud as the train enter the station. As I put my feet on the stairs they extend and keep extending making a steep slope. I look over to my mother and she's gone, disappeared from right beside me. franticly I look for her and notice that she one the other side of the station, and about to get on the train going in the opposite direction. knowing that I have to get to her I attempt walking down the steep stairs and fall. I wake up during the never-ending falling.
In this dream I always have the same problem, I am running through the woods except I can never see what i am running from exactly. I have also the same problem by its day time except I cant see well and I feel like this dream occurs when I have had a stressful day or something is on my mind. The creature or whatever it is im running from always lures me to the edge of a cliff and before I can make out what it is I fall from the cliff and as I am falling I suddenly wake up before I hit the ground.
I dreamt much of my family last night, but I have decided to record the following as it was the most recent and therefore remains the most vivid.
I see myself, walking in a dark forest, strikingly similar to what I have always imagined Dante encountering before his own epic journey into the 7 Circles. Oddly (though I suppose nothing should be considered odd in a dream), or more appropriately, not typical, the perspective is third person, high above. I am watching myself from afar, as if from the vantage of a curious bird perched a top a sickly, gnarled tree. The ground is barren, the world desolate, and though I seem to know where I am going by maintaining a course in a single direction, my frequent stops an inspections of my surroundings make it apparent that I am lost. This continues for quite sometime, before a hazy transition, accompanied by light snow, brings my view to ground level. I am then suddenly flooded with myself and my knowing, and I become aware that I was not as lost as I once believed, but rather I was taking my time analyzing the foreign land around me. That unmistakable feeling of intrigue was dominant as I sifted, weaving in and out but still keeping a relatively straight trajectory. But beneath this harmless investigation I recall that I too was also searching for something unknown to me that would only become obvious upon its discovery. I remember trying to read broken, cryptic inscription in the trees, scrawled either long ago and faded with time or with an inadequate tool, as if someone who had came before searched for the same thing and wished to aid (or warn) those who came after. The words, written in capital stick (my own handwriting style) was practically illegible, so much so that I could only make out two of the four or five words, in descending left to right, COME (at the top left beginning) and FUTURE (at the bottom right end). From there I recall looking back to where my previous vantage would have been seated, and was surprised to find in its place a snow white owl (much like one I saw when I younger), whose gaze followed me so closely that it was I who first broke eye contact in order to resume my search. (How beautiful he was though...I had forgotten about him until this dream...perhaps it knew what I was looking for). The snow, still falling, became heavy now, complicating my task, yet my sense of urgency (still priority), remained unchanged. How strange to describe this feeling that was so absolute, comforting as if I’ve always known it to be true since childhood, the feeling precisely opposite of stress, the feeling that I had an eternity.
Creeped out.
This week I dreamed that I lived in the same room I currently live in. I had just moved in, unpacked my belongings and began to settle in. The side of my room which I currently live in is empty because my roommate hadn't moved in yet. A rat runs into the room and I freak out. Once the rat finally stopped running around and I stop freaking out the rat starts talking to me. I find out he is my roommate. The rat is settling in, somehow a fitted sheet appears on his mattress. We keep talking and realize we get along pretty well. The conversation turned to the subject of a trip or a journey I wanted to plan. I remember feeling like the rat helped me work out some details of it. Shortly after that I woke up.
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