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Hmm, I had a dream last night where I was in Space Hulk. I was with Mephiston (or back when he had his original name) and he kept shouting at me in Italian, which is odd as I don't understand Italian but knew what he was saying.

Anyway, we had to run from some genestealers (or something) and ended up in something like the mall/train station in L4D, where we met up with the other team members (who were more like the L4D player characters rather than Blood Angels Terminators).

We were about to set up an ambush but then I woke up.

Had a horrible dream in which I was working 50 to 60 hours a week for the most unreasonable, demanding bastard on the face of the planet...oh...wait..
...It wasn't a dream.

@Orlanth, thanks for that, very enlightening.
I used to have the chase dream where i was being chased by a bear (which is odd since this is often how i describe myself )

I dont have that dream anymore, its either weird dreams where the world has gone mad (standard crazy dreams) or the reverse of the Chase dream where im trying to get somewhere to stop it from happening (ie saving someone), never make it in time

O and KC, your dream has thoroughly creeped me out! (theres a door in my room that leads to a cupboard over the stairs. The weird thing? It has a lock....on this side....why do i need to lock THAT door??!!)

Because of various happy-happy fun-fun mental health complications, I often have bad dreams. However mostly they don't affect me.
Perhaps the most recent exception to the rule was one I had a few nights ago. So, I'm standing across an empty room from my bestfriend (who I may or may not have a massive crush on, but that's another story entirely. ), and she's kind of collapsed into a featal position, convulsing like she's sobbing. Obviously my first instinct is to run to her and see what's wrong, but I can only walk at what feels like a snailspace, and I have more voices in my head than usual muttering as I cross the gap. When I reach her, I kneel down and see that she's got lots of cuts on her and is lying in a pool of her own blood. I ask her what's wrong, but she looks up at me and screams. She starts hitting me and teling me to "**** off you monster". This goes on for a few seconds, but it feels like hours, until I look fdown and notice I'm holding a crozius (see, Space marine Chaplain). She stops hitting me and kneels, crying again. Against my will, I stand up, walk around a bit whilst still looking at her before returning and...

Yeah. Not fun.

Revenent Reiko wrote:@Orlanth, thanks for that, very enlightening.
I used to have the chase dream where i was being chased by a bear (which is odd since this is often how i describe myself )

I dont have that dream anymore, its either weird dreams where the world has gone mad (standard crazy dreams) or the reverse of the Chase dream where im trying to get somewhere to stop it from happening (ie saving someone), never make it in time

O and KC, your dream has thoroughly creeped me out! (theres a door in my room that leads to a cupboard over the stairs. The weird thing? It has a lock....on this side....why do i need to lock THAT door??!!)

Ok that door is creepy What a weird place for a lock. Your screwed my friend. But yea, that dream feths my brain every time I have it. Im a grown man, but when I have that dream, I have to scurry to the bathroom and turn the light on for a few minutes to collect myself. HATE IT!!

Haha thanks KC! Its alright, im moving out in a couple weeks (finished uni now) so no more creepy door

Although, to make it worse, the door keeps banging open and closed when theres no wind and no one to open it......
Not surprised you need to take a minute to compose yourself, i would!

Hmm, I had a dream last night where I was in Space Hulk. I was with Mephiston (or back when he had his original name) and he kept shouting at me in Italian, which is odd as I don't understand Italian but knew what he was saying.

Anyway, we had to run from some genestealers (or something) and ended up in something like the mall/train station in L4D, where we met up with the other team members (who were more like the L4D player characters rather than Blood Angels Terminators).

We were about to set up an ambush but then I woke up.

Ah no, I wanna hear how it turned out :(

Ratius wrote:
Ah no, I wanna hear how it turned out :(

So would I, but that's that happens when you wake up. No repeats of it either so the episode isn't likely to get a sequel. :(

Have you ever had a dream where you remember something in that dream from another dream? uhm what Ratty?

Basically I had a dream a while back where I was in a nightclub (dream A) but remembered being in that nightclub before in another dream (B) which was years ago. It was a completely made up nightclub btw so I cant have recalled it from real life. Weird.

Happens all the time, Ratius. In fact, I'd say a good 90% of my dreams take place in what I recognize as the same 'city.' It has a particular school, restaurant, and game store (which recently turned into a castle) which I tend to frequent. As with the game store, the details often change, but I always get the feeling they're the same place.

I often have the same dream multiple times and there are about 10 that I consistenlty have, but one scary one that doesnt come up all the time is where this dark shadow that is a ghostish thing is trying to get me and it only moves as fast as I do, so if i walk it moves at that pace forever and even if i slow down it does not and keeps what was my fastest pace, and so like a genius i got into a plane to get away and then once i got off the plane, the ghost proceeded to rip me apart while i watched from a 3rd person point of view, pretty messed up

Yeah I agree everyone has similar dreams and settings but have you actually remembered a dream within a dream per se?

I had a dream where i was black and someone had swapped my legs for 2 giant thumbs.

Ratius wrote:Yeah I agree everyone has similar dreams and settings but have you actually remembered a dream within a dream per se?

I saw a movie with a similiar concept...but it was a dream, within a dream, within a dream, within a dream...it was called inception, and not i have not had that dream, it would be cool though

I had one recurring dream when I was young. I would be sitting in my living room but everything was distorted to appear giant to me. I knew my folks were there but I could only see their hands hanging over the edge of their armrests above me. Then a trapdoor would open below me and I would fall a long way down to a room (more like a wide hall) with three exits and a stack of old, metal framed beds against the only wall with no exit. I knew there were bad things nearby but I couldn’t see them and I knew they needed darkness to get to me. If I tried to go through any exit, it would go pitch black and I would retreat back to my start point. I would repeat with each exit until they were all dark and then shortly after the room I started out in would black out. I had this enough times that as soon as it would start I would immediately try to grab something to keep from falling down the hole, but it never worked. Then I would just crawl under the stacked beds, curl up and wait for all the exits and eventually my room to go black.

Graveyman wrote:I had one recurring dream when I was young. I would be sitting in my living room but everything was distorted to appear giant to me. I knew my folks were there but I could only see their hands hanging over the edge of their armrests above me. Then a trapdoor would open below me and I would fall a long way down to a room (more like a wide hall) with three exits and a stack of old, metal framed beds against the only wall with no exit. I knew there were bad things nearby but I couldn’t see them and I knew they needed darkness to get to me. If I tried to go through any exit, it would go pitch black and I would retreat back to my start point. I would repeat with each exit until they were all dark and then shortly after the room I started out in would black out. I had this enough times that as soon as it would start I would immediately try to grab something to keep from falling down the hole, but it never worked. Then I would just crawl under the stacked beds, curl up and wait for all the exits and eventually my room to go black.

thats messed up

It’s also the only dream I had when I was a kid that I can remember perfectly. I guess because I had it so many times.

Ratius wrote:Yeah I agree everyone has similar dreams and settings but have you actually remembered a dream within a dream per se?

Yes. Keep going to a place that is supposed to be the old homestead but looks nothing like it really does. Usually ends badly in the basement.

I'm no Freud, but in his book of the analysis of dreams he says that most dreams mean absolutely nothing. Dreams are merely the subconscious projecting images that have been blocked out or forgotten by the conscious mind because they were irrelevant in the waking world.

He said the only dreams that may have a specific meaning are the constant, vivid reoccurring dreams. So maybe you just have some phobia of the supernatural, who knows.

For me, I always have vivid dreams of me driving and losing control of the car and crashing into everything. It's simple really, because I of all the things I do and have done in my life driving is always the most dangerous thing I, and everyone else, will do. That gak's no joke. One stupid little mistake and you're dead. Not only that, but being mangled up in a metal coffin on wheels is a pretty gruesome death.
So that's why I always have dreams of me crashing into gak.

My bad dreams are based events during my childhood...

I wake up crying every night.

FITZZ wrote: Had a horrible dream in which I was working 50 to 60 hours a week for the most unreasonable, demanding bastard on the face of the planet...oh...wait..
...It wasn't a dream.

On this note, I've been dreaming about work lately and sleeping horribly. The hell can I actually do about this? If smoking a bowl every night were an option that would be fine, but it's not realistic. Do I just give in and find another job and hope it doesn't stress me out either? I've done everything I can about specific situations at work that were stressing me out and they've gotten marginally better, but until certain personnel are removed it won't be completely over. I just want to sleep okay and I can't, even when I'm drunk and pass out, and that's never been the case.

I once had a dream where I was chased down the side of Mount Everest by Stormtroopers. (Yes, starwars storm troopers.) Not really a bad dream, but more of "WTF?" when I woke up.

Also once I had a dream where I was on some barren planet in a research station thing, and was being chased around by things that looked like Necromorphs from Dead Space. I pretty much know when I'm dreaming though, so it was more like "This is awesome". Really, I've never had a dream that actually scared me. If something impossible like that is happening, I know it is a dream so I sort of just have fun with it .

NSFW!

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Had a horrible dream in which I was working 50 to 60 hours a week for the most unreasonable, demanding bastard on the face of the planet...oh...wait..
...It wasn't a dream.

On this note, I've been dreaming about work lately and sleeping horribly. The hell can I actually do about this? If smoking a bowl every night were an option that would be fine, but it's not realistic. Do I just give in and find another job and hope it doesn't stress me out either? I've done everything I can about specific situations at work that were stressing me out and they've gotten marginally better, but until certain personnel are removed it won't be completely over. I just want to sleep okay and I can't, even when I'm drunk and pass out, and that's never been the case.

Gah, I hated dreams about work, those were the worst. Specially when youd have them all night and wake up from the alarm just to go into work. I feel for ya man

Another weird dream last night,
I was standing ontop of a skyscrapper , the platform i was standing on was 50cm by 50cm, and was very very windy that i kept almost getting blown off ( i have acrophobia )

I remember asking myself why i wont just lay flat on my tummy and grab to the edges instead of just standing there. Then finally the wind was too strong i was been pushed half sliding off the edge. Then i told myself again geez this isnt going to work, wake up. Then i woke up -_-

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KingCracker wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Had a horrible dream in which I was working 50 to 60 hours a week for the most unreasonable, demanding bastard on the face of the planet...oh...wait..
...It wasn't a dream.

On this note, I've been dreaming about work lately and sleeping horribly. The hell can I actually do about this? If smoking a bowl every night were an option that would be fine, but it's not realistic. Do I just give in and find another job and hope it doesn't stress me out either? I've done everything I can about specific situations at work that were stressing me out and they've gotten marginally better, but until certain personnel are removed it won't be completely over. I just want to sleep okay and I can't, even when I'm drunk and pass out, and that's never been the case.

Gah, I hated dreams about work, those were the worst. Specially when youd have them all night and wake up from the alarm just to go into work. I feel for ya man

Those are the worse, dreaming your at work and waking up realizing you have to get up and go to work...blargh...
It's those mornings I consider just leaping out of the bedroom window...unfortunatlly, the fall would do little more than perhaps knock the wind out of me.

Cannerus...Wish I could tell you it gets better, but if you stay on the same job...it usually doesn't.

FITZZ wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Had a horrible dream in which I was working 50 to 60 hours a week for the most unreasonable, demanding bastard on the face of the planet...oh...wait..
...It wasn't a dream.

On this note, I've been dreaming about work lately and sleeping horribly. The hell can I actually do about this? If smoking a bowl every night were an option that would be fine, but it's not realistic. Do I just give in and find another job and hope it doesn't stress me out either? I've done everything I can about specific situations at work that were stressing me out and they've gotten marginally better, but until certain personnel are removed it won't be completely over. I just want to sleep okay and I can't, even when I'm drunk and pass out, and that's never been the case.

Gah, I hated dreams about work, those were the worst. Specially when youd have them all night and wake up from the alarm just to go into work. I feel for ya man

Those are the worse, dreaming your at work and waking up realizing you have to get up and go to work...blargh...
It's those mornings I consider just leaping out of the bedroom window...unfortunatlly, the fall would do little more than perhaps knock the wind out of me.

Cannerus...Wish I could tell you it gets better, but if you stay on the same job...it usually doesn't.

Have to play the 'one-upmanship game'
The worst is dreaming uve already been to work, then waking up and realising you still have to go.... sucks bozons on a Friday.. i hate that dream...

Revenent Reiko wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Had a horrible dream in which I was working 50 to 60 hours a week for the most unreasonable, demanding bastard on the face of the planet...oh...wait..
...It wasn't a dream.

On this note, I've been dreaming about work lately and sleeping horribly. The hell can I actually do about this? If smoking a bowl every night were an option that would be fine, but it's not realistic. Do I just give in and find another job and hope it doesn't stress me out either? I've done everything I can about specific situations at work that were stressing me out and they've gotten marginally better, but until certain personnel are removed it won't be completely over. I just want to sleep okay and I can't, even when I'm drunk and pass out, and that's never been the case.

Gah, I hated dreams about work, those were the worst. Specially when youd have them all night and wake up from the alarm just to go into work. I feel for ya man

Those are the worse, dreaming your at work and waking up realizing you have to get up and go to work...blargh...
It's those mornings I consider just leaping out of the bedroom window...unfortunatlly, the fall would do little more than perhaps knock the wind out of me.

Cannerus...Wish I could tell you it gets better, but if you stay on the same job...it usually doesn't.

Have to play the 'one-upmanship game'
The worst is dreaming uve already been to work, then waking up and realising you still have to go.... sucks bozons on a Friday.. i hate that dream...

Ok one upsman ey......alright, how bout dreaming your dreaming about being at work, while at work your boss makes you sleep with them to keep your job, you do it, and horrified wake up in the other dream, and go back to wrk. Work a full shift + and then going home falling asleep and waking up in real life, going back to work and your boss actually tries to get you to play hide the snake to keep your job. Ya, that just happened

O Good God KC!
*claps* well played