windhund116

Ever have an odd dream?

Today, I had to drive down to get blood drawn for MD visit next week. Last night I had this crazy dream.

I go to the lab. There are 500 ppl waiting and only 5 chairs. Wait hours, get to the poke room and the lab tech says, "I can't do this, you have on an old pair of Fruit & Looms."

I get home and my wife says, "I told you to put on new underwear!" Thing is, it's not my wife. She's a mix of some person I knew at work 15 years ago and a girl I dated in HS.
And I don't wear Fruit & Loom underwear.

Thanks, for letting me ventilate.

robb

I do but don’t always remember them. Seems like a lot of times if I eat certain foods late at night before bed I have weird dreams. Have a few recurring ones, one involves me going through a neighborhood trying to get home presumably,cutting through yards. Another involves me riding on snowmobile trails but not in Vt some were in areas in the city I grew up in that doesn’t have trails and others in area I have never been. I used to have a dream that I was alone in the house that I grew up in and someone was trying to break in but haven’t had that one in awhile. Someone interpreted that to me as my subconscious being worried about my parents living alone there and me not being able to protect them.

boltonblue

you mean like showing up for a meeting at a company I worked for 35 years ago wearing nothing but rollerblades, weird?

for some odd reason roller blades are a recurring theme in some of my dreams. I don't actually ever recall using them.
But I frequently dream about wearing them at work.

zeroptzero

I tend to have some re-occurring dreams that are odd, and that I always remember.

The one dream I had all the time was when I was younger and always when I had a bad flu or fever. I would be a very tiny tiny flower sitting at the bottom of a valley, I would be looking up towards a mountain and there would be a huge round boulder barreling towards me down the mountain. Being a small flower I could not move out of the way. It always scared the crap out of me, and I would wake just before the rock crushed me.

The other dream would be that I was late for a university exam, and I would miss the exam entirely or I would get there very late in a manner that I could not finish it enough to pass. I would wake up in a panic thinking that I failed a university course and I could not graduate. Then I come to my senses and I remember that I did graduate university so I have a great sense of relief. lol. Very odd.

Vadster

That would be all of them. Latest one (yesterday's nap) found me at the office on a rainy evening. I couldn't figure out how to close my kindle and everyone thought it had been hacked as a result so we were like in some kind of panic induced schit storm as a result. My office also happened to be in an old hospital that was infested with zombies... fun times.

fact: We do use kindles at work. My office was in an old hospital until December of 2021.

boltonblue

and of curse there are those dreams which can't be published in a family friendly forum.

cosmomiller

Try practicing "lucid" dreaming. Essentially you are aware you are dreaming and with practice, you can change, modify and actively do anything you want to in your dream state. It may takes months or years to become proficient but it can be done.

The first "step" is to be aware enough to ask yourself, while dreaming, to see if you see color. Ask yourself if the traffic lights black and white or red, yellow, green for example. Build upon that. Try moving things around or interact with things in a deliberate way.

I started this in college and over the decades became rather good at it. Going to sleep became a vacation of sorts. For me there was an intersection of the supernatural in my lucid dreams that I was (am) clearly aware of. There are certain limits (tough to describe) however. Gentle but firm.

You can also address "reality issues" or ponder problems you have and see if you can resolve them in lucid dreaming. I have surprised myself at times. I have found misplaced items in dreams and once awake, discovered them in the location revealed in the dreams.

Vadster

I hardly ever have those.

boltonblue

Some folks take melatonin to help them sleep.
I found it to have an almost hallucinogenic effect while dreaming.

fltsfshr

I take extended release Ambien. I keep getting lost in the Key West Mountains.