I usually don’t remember my dreams, but there was a particularly disturbing one a few weeks ago that I thought was interesting. I was trapped in an arranged marriage to a foreign singer I didn’t like. The singer doesn’t exist in real life, but in the dream was a rich and famous celebrity who was madly in love with me. The singer and both our families expected us to one day have kids and raise them. My family kept telling me how hard it was to get a rich and beautiful singer as a partner, and how lucky I was to be married to a celebrity. The singer’s many fans were deathly envious of me and wouldn’t let me say anything negative about the marriage or their idol. The few times I did, I got dozens of anonymous hate messages telling me to kill myself.
Our families went shopping together for our new house, a house both families would jointly pay for, where we would live together as a couple. The whole dream was characterized by inescapable dread.
I’m not trapped in an arranged marriage in real life, but I’ve been reading about arranged marriages in the early 20th century, so that must have been a factor.
Two years ago, I had a similar nightmare I wrote down. I was at home, but it kept turning into another home, a house on a snow-covered hill with bare black trees at the bottom. The trees were black and brambly, and against the blue-gray sky they somehow evoked a sense of pure horror. There was one big tree on the left side of the path you walked up to reach the house, and a brambly thicket to the right, black thorny undergrowth so thick that nobody could ever walk through it. In the dream, I went to various other places trying to escape, like the grocery store, but every place I stayed in gradually transformed into that house on the snow-covered hill.
Has anyone else here had vivid, interesting, or disturbing dreams? What are your best or worst ones?
I had a recurring nightmare for over a decade, and got sick of it so I turned it into an IF game.
More recently, in the past year, I’ve been suffering recurring nightmares about an ongoing personal matter. However, the person it involves apparently reads the forum anonymously, so I won’t explain any specifics.
If you know, you know.
What’s more interesting is I used to also have frequent nightmares about the deep ocean, but lately the deep ocean has become a sort of home for me in my dreams, instead.
I Am Prey, right? I haven’t played it yet, but it looks cool.
It’s funny how different dreams can be. A lot of my nightmares that would be horrifying in real life are oddly calming to think about when I wake up. One dream I had involved being eaten alive by underwater maggots, but it might have been a video game within the dream, so my primary reactions were resignation and thinking about how this dungeon was too hard and our adventuring party would never get past it.
Edit: I dream about personal stuff too, but won’t share it since it’s hard to do that without revealing too much about yourself. Don’t feel like you have to do it.
I will say that I sometimes dream about someone I knew who passed away. It’s jarring to wake up from those dreams. Here’s an example edited from a hastily written note a few years back:
I dreamed that (name) and I were in school together, again. A different school with long, sterile grey hallways, windowless corridors underground, florescent lights, and ugly green lockers. The city had a dark, misty, dismal atmosphere. Seemed to be perpetual twilight. For some reason, we were also detectives on the side and went around solving mysteries. (name) helped me find a dead body in a curious location: there was a section of the city covered with a metal mesh or grille, like the cage of a large aviary you’d use to keep the birds in, grid-shaped and curving extremely high above us, against the grey sky. There were lights hanging from the grille. They weren’t on, but they were shaped like large flat bowls with the curvature pointing up, a kind of u-shape. Hanging from the ceiling on poles, or wires. I knew the corpse was below the deactivated lights, but for some reason had extreme difficulty spotting it until (name) pointed out the exact location to me. (name)'s parents were also in the dream, and they didn’t like when we spent time together.
well, I’ll follow this thread with a warning: I have the Gift of Joseph. (that is, what I dream sometimes actually happens…)
ex. April 1992 I dreamed of an US black policemen arguing with someone about the habeas corpus… and the next day (taking in account the timezone) the Rodney King riot started.
Can’t recall any specific dreams worth mentioning, but I think it worth noting I usually still have a working eye in my dreams even 13 years after going blind.
I’ve dreamed on very rare occasions of things that seemed to occur afterwards in real life, but I’m not a spiritually-minded person, so I chalk it up to coincidence. It hasn’t happened for many years now, which is good, because I’d be horrified if my destiny was to get eaten alive by underwater maggots.
I haven’t played either of those games, actually, though I’ve heard a lot about Half-Life. I have no idea what inspired the underwater maggot dream. I know I wrote it up in full, so I might paste the entry here when I get the chance.
I’ve always had vivid and strange dreams and nightmares. Perhaps oddly, for most of my life I’ve enjoyed my nightmares like I would any decent horror movie. I have quite a few recurring dreams as well: not the same dream exactly, more like sequels with the same twisted settings or circumstances. There’s one with the town I was born in and surrounding area that doesn’t match reality, but is consistent from dream to dream. It’s very strange to think about on waking, but neat. There are places I’ve visited so many times in my dreams that I almost swear I must’ve been there in reality, when I know that no such place exists.
