[Beriilosal]

I have dreams where I have a girlfriend. They are very nice dreams that make me happy until I wake up. Then I get sad.

[Wheldcobchoto]

I also had an inception dream in a dream recently that was strange. I dreamed that I was being abducted by aliens. There was a bright light and I was lifted from my bed and carried mid-air through the hallway to the window and in my freaking the hell out panic I thought 'the windows have bars! I can't fit through them!' but then that apparently triggered in me that this was a dream. I suddenly woke up in my bed relieved it was a dream but I could not move and was paralyzed. I tried to scream but nothing could come out. It suddenly dawned on me that what I had just thought was a dream might not even be a dream but my experience with the aliens that had just paralyzed me. I could sense movement and light near me and was freaking the hell out. I awoke at some point.

That was a really strange dream for me because my paralyzed state felt awake (especially since I initially knew I had just came out of a dream) but I couldn't move. It was also a very 'experience'-centered dream where my mind went into a panic. Most of my dreams have stories to them and involve violence, survival, self-sacrifice, going on a journey to save women from death, and often betrayal. I have a lot of journeys where I cover significant ground in my dreams.

I never understood how people can have dreams with a singular event or something. My dreams (except for that weird paralysis one) are so involved. They're like movies or video games.

[BinasiDombrs]

This thread is rather timely; I've been wondering about a dream-related topic recently. That is, do people actually dream their "dreams"? If your life-long dream is to become a fireman or the president or what have you, do you literally dream about that? I've never experienced anything like that, but I don't tend to think my experiences are representative of other people's.

Now on to the dreams I do have. They generally fall into (at least one) of three categories:

1) Apocalypse/pending apocalypse dreams. Aliens will be about to land. Some "enemy" will be ready to launch the nukes. That sort of thing. I usually have advance knowledge but am unable to do anything about it. Most of the time the apocalypse will be centered around my parents' house.

2) School dreams. I'll be the age I am now, but still attempting to graduate from high school. I'll generally be very close to graduation and taking make-up courses in order to finally get it done. Sometimes I'm as far back as middle school in the dreams. Sometimes I have graduated but have gone back to high school for some reason that still amounts to me being inadequate. (irl, I do have a high school diploma.)

3) Superhero dreams. I can fly, see into the future, control matter and energy - that sort of thing. Usually I have some primary bad guy I'm facing off against. Usually I have to hide my powers for some reason. These dreams can seem the most real (partly due to me having a life-long "memory" of being able to fly by flapping my arms and moving my legs as if I'm on a bike as long as no one is looking at me), whereas other times I realize these are dreams and it becomes a lucid dream.

Those are the most common themes. Other elements are sprinkled in. I actually do have dreams within dreams much of the time, and sometimes I feel as if I'm trapped in my dreams. Reoccuring dream ideas include me losing control of my car while driving, having my teeth slowly crumble to dust in my mouth, falling forever, and being chased down by monsters (that usually catch and eat me).

[i6mbwwdh]

I had a dream last night where I worked at a McDonalds. I kicked ass but my boss kept thinking I was being insubordinate because I kept telling him how he should do things. He was about to fire me when I woke up.

[dWSOj26H]

Through the miracle of the internet, I recently learned that a "sugared donut" is a description of blowing cocaine up someone else's anus.

That opens up a whole new world of possibilities over what JM was doing in that dream.

[cepAceryTem]

Last night... in one of my dreams, I had to call in for the part time job I had because my car refused to start and I got fired from the job I haven't worked in 2 years.

In my other dream, my father was yelling at me for spending too much money, but I told him my highest statement balance was $948 and I always pay the entire thing.

I get reprimanded a lot in my dreams.

[enrisaabsotte]

I like the dreams where you're having a nightmare only to wake up and discover that you're in another nightmare.

[inchaaruutaa]

Part of my dream last night involved Obama.

Obama was giving a speech and was talking about pastries for some reason and mentioned Krispy Kreme donuts and said something about them being warm; something like "Republicans think they know pastries but I know Krispy Kreme. I like my donuts warm". The crowd went wild and the media loved it saying stuff like Obama just gets it and is in tune with the people cause everyone loves Krispy Kreme. The news even had a segment where they had a surface food thermometer test the temp of a Krispy Kreme donut and sure enough, it was hot. My dream self was raging.

[CevepBiageCefm]

I had to broker a conventional arms reduction between the heads of three sub-Saharan African nations. This involved getting them all to a place where they could all open their huge luggage cases that were full of weapons and throw some of them away. While escorting one through a hotel I was attacked by a maid screaming "Communist subversion!" to attract the American police. I don't remember why, but it actually was something Communist-related (the luggage case was red, or I was talking Socialist ideas, or the president was from a socialist country), so I had to wrestle the hammer she was attacking me with out of her hands to hit her with it.