Mon 13 Oct 2008
Dreams
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I have a friend named Anthony Sass. Anthony is a singer who calls himself the Hilary Duff of gay pop. We met on MySpace a few months ago and only hung out once – but for 5 hours straight. We had lunch in the West Village, stomped all over Thompson Square and eventually ended up in Virgin Megastore’s cafe on Union Square. I learned quite a few things about Anthony that day – he graduated with a degree in PR, moved around a lot before coming to NYC, and shared my obsession with Swedish pop. Still, he was more of an acquaintance – although a very amiable one – and I couldn’t say I knew him all that well.
A few days ago Anthony randomly appeared in my dream. All night we were running around in an old castle, climbing the stairs of white marble, hiding from the guards. A bunch of times we nearly got caught, but Anthony would ’save’ me at the last moment – or I would ’save’ him. Smooth little criminals we were!
The dream haunted me the entire next day – suddenly, it felt like Anthony and I were best friends who’d been through some serious adventures together. Even messaging him on MySpace, I felt like I was talking to someone I knew a lot better than I actually did. The make-believe experience in the dream seemed to have added a few hours to our friendship (on my end, at least), somehow deepening it. I’m sure my brain will readjust eventually and things will get back to normal, but for now, it’s the weirdest feeling, ever. Maybe it’s a sign Anthony and I should hang out again – who knows what sort of adventures we’ll get ourselves into this time!
And then there’s the recurring high school dream. Suddenly am back in Russia and it’s 1998. I am in a classroom in my old high school. My classmates are all the same, like I remember them 10 years ago; they have no idea something’s off. They are all talking about the upcoming test, when what they really should be worried about is how their classmate Xenia ended up back here when she is actually 27 years old and haven’t lived in Russia for years. In the dream, I am scared of being found out but the fear of failing and embarrassing myself at the test is even greater.
Deerlings: Do you have any recurring dreams? Any weird dream experiences?
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October 13th, 2008 at 11:32 am
I have a lot of vivid, disturbing dreams. But one that stands out the most to me is one where I found myself dead in a pile of leaves, with my mouth all stretched out on one side. I proceeded to put myself standing up in a cabinet and went out to eat with friends, where I announced to everyone I was dead. I woke up feeling very frightened, naturally.
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October 13th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I too have disturbing dreams (once I exploded in space) and I often treat people differently without meaning to after they have appeared in my dreams!
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October 13th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I have many recurring dreams, but the one that stands out the most is the one where I’m lying down, talking to people I haven’t seen in years, and I suddenly start choking (I’m eating in my dream!). I always wake up suffocating. I hate it.
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October 13th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
this dream happened a few times when I was very little: I was riding a tricycle backwards off a cliff, naturally I rode off the cliff, but I hung int he air, just peddling wondering why the heck I was there. People were looking over the edge, but didn’t seem to be fretting all that much.
Also there is one where I am trapped in a toy box with a bunch of toys. We are trying to get out. Then the dream ends right after a rag doll started to talk to me. Then it picked up the next night exactly where I left off! Funny huh?
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October 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I have a recurring dream that I had a baby. And the dream is SO realistic.
Then I wake up and realize it was a dream, and I feel so sad because I really felt like I had a baby! And now it’s gone! The feeling stays with me for days. I’ll get to work and think “Oh my god, where did I leave the baby?!”
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October 13th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I have alot of dreams where I wake up and actually think that it happened. And then I get really confused thinking that I actually did all of these things (such as last night i got a free tide on the spot stain remover thing, and I needed one today, but didnt have one as i got it in my dream) That is one of the more practical ones.
I also have dreams where I freak out about not having something done, such as homework
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October 13th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
A lot of my dreams..come true. Back in HS, I had a dream where I was taking a multiple choice exam and that exact same question showed up on my SAT exam. Also, I met a person I once dreamed of.
I had a dream where I was raped by a convict. I followed him down the sewer and a female cop blew his brains out with her handgun. You can imagine how much this freaked me out.
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October 13th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I used to have a recurring dream about falling out of a roller coaster at an amusement park here, always the same one.. I still have that dream sometimes but it’s different coasters.. I also had a dream once that I was shot in the stomach and it hurt SO BAD, and when I woke up I still felt an ache.. I also have dreams where I freak out because I ate a piece of meat(cause I am a vegetarian of not too long yet, around 6 months I believe..) I have a lot of really strange dreams but I am drawing a blank right now on others.. because I’m tired!
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October 13th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I don’t have recurring dreams – I used to have recurring nightmares, but they’ve gone now – but some of my dreams really frustrate me lately… My dreams are very vivid and I can actually feel everything as if it were real, but I can’t necessarily consciously control it, right? Well, I keep meeting hot boys in my dream and I always – ALWAYS – wake up right before they kiss me. Dammit! (In one of the dreams, a boy and I were on a date, and we were having a picnic.. on a sidewalk, in front of a supermarket. Sigh…)
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October 13th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Eerily enough, I’ve had constant nightmares in which I’m being chased by a cloud of ashes and bees made from ashes; this has been happening for a little over a year now, sadly, since the death of my fiance` (he died from heart failure, and yes, he was cremated) :(
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October 13th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
When I was around 5 years old, I would constantly have a recurring dream, like almost every single night. In the dream I was older, about 12 or 13, and my parents had shipped me off to boarding school in Ireland, one night me & a friend snuck out & ended up down on the beach. The beach had a concrete wall along the side, and a little ladder down to the water. The tide started to come in, and my friend jumped up, but my hands kept slipping and I couldn’t make it, the water washed me away & I gave up struggling and thought “This is it, I guess I’ll die now” – Then I would wake up. Prett scary for a 5 year old!! It haunted me all through my childhood- when I started to get closer to that age I was TERRIFIED my parents would send me to boarding school for some reason!
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October 14th, 2008 at 4:32 am
Oh i had one of these dreams a few weeks ago! In my dream, I had been suddenly sent to boarding school, but all my normal school friends were there. And at the boarding school, I was in this guy’s sport class, in where he helped me climb up this rock cliff(?). Well after that, I got to school, and every time I see him now, it’s like I’ve been friends with him for ages, and know him really well! :S Haha. I told this to my boyfriend, and he just thought I was weird haha.
However, with recurring dreams – I’m never sure if they are actually recurring, or if it’s just me thinking they’re recurring :S It’s really strange sometimes!
Ahhhh, dreams are so interesting.
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October 14th, 2008 at 5:31 am
From when I was about 5 to when I was 20 I had a reoccurring nightmare that I was being chased by a big black dog. I would always wake up just as it got to me.
Now I just have really vivid and random dreams. Sometimes I meet people I’ve dreamed of or stuff happens the way I dreamed it months ago. It’s always kind of cool.
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October 14th, 2008 at 5:31 am
PS: You definitely should spend more time with Anthony :)
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October 14th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I keep having reoccurring dreams or nightmares really, where I’m eating something or just speaking and suddenly my teeth begin to fall out. Although sometimes when I think back on the dream I find it funny but while I’m actually dreaming it I freak out and have little panic attacks. My friend also has the same type of dreams, I think it has to do with grinding teeth while sleeping.
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October 14th, 2008 at 11:50 am
I have lots of dreams of zombies attacking. 0_o I haven’t even been watching zombie movies lately, and I have a zombie dream at least once a week. Its been happening for a few months now. I’m just waiting for a zombie to jump out.
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October 14th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Whoa! Loved reading about everyone’s freaky dreams!
♣ Victoria
OMG, I hate zombies. I know people who think they are the coolest things ever, but I disagree. I avoid zombie flicks like the plague because then I won’t sleep for weeks! Haha.
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October 14th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Dreams happen to be be one of my top five favorite things to talk about! I am a chronic lucid dreamer (I almost always know that I’m dreaming) and I love wondering around the world doing whatever I want to in my sleep. But sometimes I wonder if I’m missing out on some special message because if I dont the way the dream is going, I’ll just skip to the next fun thing!
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October 14th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I always have dreams about my teeth being loose or falling out – usually when things are really hectic and stressful in my life. I suppose it’s a sign that I feel like I have no control – but I always hate waking up feeling like they’re really loose or frantically rushing to the mirror to make sure they’re all there!
I also have a dream that I’m in school – usually high school – and I’m searching all over for my classes, but I can never remember how to get to them.
When I was little, I’d have a dream about being in the car with my mom (parents divorced when I was a baby) and I’d be driving, even though I was a kid…and I’d be heading toward a cliff, and the car is speeding out of control and it was up to me to save us. I’d wake up right as the car looked like it was going over the edge. And there was a dream about a train chasing me too…but I don’t remember that one as well.
Boy, sounds like I have issues…hehe!!
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October 14th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
When I was in elementary school, I had this terrifying dream in which I was sent searching for someone important to me by the standard glowing white figure, only I couldn’t find them. I kept returning to the man, claiming hysterically that I couldn’t find them but he just kept insisting that I had to, and I was their only hope.
It turns out it was my old best friend (who had moved some 3 or 4 years before that) lying face down in a bathtub with a moldy sandwich floating next to her, so I pulled the drain to get rid of the sandwich. Then this clown head which I hadn’t noticed before slowly turned around and started laughing at me. I was gripped with dread that he was going to kill me next, and then I woke up.
Also, apparently quite a few of the children I went to school with at the time had the same dream about the clown. Although, they usually had different people in different situations. But it was still the same laughing clown that killed that one person you couldn’t seem to find.
I didn’t sleep for like a week after that, haha.
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