Dreams
I've always been interested in sharing and hearing about other people's dreams. So here are some of the dreams that I've had and I feel comfortable sharing. I've been writing down my dreams for many years now, so this is heavily backlogged. Letters represent names of people I know.
?-?-07?
I suppose I should start with the first dream I can remember. I don't remember too many dreams from before I started writing them down but for some reason this one has stuck with me. I think I was seven at the time if I had to guess.
I was in a cavern that I think was made of crystal. Everything was light and pastel. I was with my dad and a girl around my age. We were in a large chamber then we went through this narrow passage into another smaller chamber. This chamber had a small pond and had a 'beach' made entirely of seashells. Me and the girl were admiring the shells for awhile, then my dad swam us to the other side of the pond. It was cooler on that side. I think there might have been another passage further into the cave, however the dream ended soon after.
7-10-16
I was flying around a Breath of the Wild landscape (this was before the game came out, so how I imagined it to be). I flew over a forest then by a river. I ended up in this area with several waterfalls forming a semi-circle. When I flew near them I closed by eyes. The sound of the waterfalls got louder and louder until it was overwhelming and I woke up. Other than the ending it was a pleasant dream though.
7-16-16
There was a war going on. I was a new recruit stationed at an underwater facility, deep in an underwater trench. Built into the side of the trench was a huge metal door. Our one job was to make sure the door was never opened.
A few days after that I woke up to sirens blaring because the door was opening. Everyone got into a submarine started going towards the surface. As we were going away I looked back to see what was being sealed. I saw a large, glowing green whale slowly coming out of the darkness. One of the people explained that it was a physical embodiment of the war, that it emits deadly radiation and feeds on cancer. Another guy started getting all philosophical and said (exact quote) "People cry at the sight of it in the distance because they know that they will have a slow, painful death, if they're given the mercy of death at all. The saddest man in the universe is actually a woman, floating out in the cool void of space. His spirit doing the same, repulsed by the sight of his own body."
11-21-17
The devil took over my elementary school. He just looked like some guy in a suit. It was pretty chill actually. We were all in the gym, with the devil sitting on one side and all the students on the other side. We were all just sort of sitting around on our phones. Occasionally the devil would disintegrate someone with electricity. When that happened a red stamp would appear on their phone that said "IN HELL". This went on for several days.
One day me and four other people decide to try and fight the devil. We all ended up getting zapped. Hell was exactly the same thing except everyone had "IN HELL" stamped on our phones. Also the devil was playing jazz music on spotify. H was trying to convince the devil to let us choose a different music station for one day out of the week. (Context: This is entirely in character for H.)
2-4-18
Me and V were in this plaza that seemed to stretch on forever. The sky was white and everything was monochrome. There was a bunch of people around us as well.
2-7-18
I was in school and went to the bathroom, but the bathroom was weirdly huge and labyrinthine. Some of the stalls had doors too low so you could just see into them. Other stalls didn't have doors at all. I though I had found I somewhat private area with just a toliet, sink, and urinal, but when I turned the corner it was just connected to more bathroom. I eventually was like "fuck it" and went to the bathroom there anyways. Then, I decided to see where the bathroom would take me. I thought it would eventually loop back on itself. Instead, when I found an exit I ended up in [SHOPPING CENTER], but a security guard pushed me back because I exited into the casino. When I found another exit I ended up at the zoo. I got lost in the zoo for a little bit. I eventually found my way back to the bathroom and decided to find my way back to school. I thought I had found the exit but instead I just walked in on a group of three guys who had found the one private stall.
5-5-20
I was debating Joe Biden. The debate topic was "Is Homestuck bad".
7-12-20
There was this Artemis Fowl type of kid (not actually Artemis but that's what I'm gonna call him). He was riding on a bike when all of a sudden the entire world went completely black. He soon noticed a small point of light in front of him. As he move towards it it seemed to keep a set distance away from him. He rode towards it and it seemed to be leading him somewhere. After a while of this the light grew bigger until it opened into a portal which Artemis went through. The portal lead to a beach where is was lightly raining. Artemis was standing just at the shore and was holding a book in one hand and one end of a rope in the other. In front of him, standing in the water, was an identical version of himself, holding an identical book and the other end of the rope. The rope lifted off the ground and began to spiral. The two Artemises pulled on it. It continued to spiral more and more, creating more and more rope as well until it was like a tornado of rope between them. The books appeared to be the ones creating the rope.
Artemis thinks "This is stupid. What's even going on? This is impossible" and in that moment his side of the rope breaks. The spiral collapses and they were both thrown back. The rope, the books, and the other Artemis were are thrown into the sea. When the first Artemis got up they were gone, but he did see one of the books floating in the water a ways out. He ran into the water but just before he could reach the book a wave rolled over it and it seemed to disappear.
Artemis would spent the next several years returning to that beach attempting to look for any other the items used in that sequence.
4-13-21
There was a global apocalypse caused by a rocket exploding in the atmosphere. For some reason the ocean was the only safe place to be. I kept changing POVs so I was reliving the beginning of this apocalypse as different people. I started as myself. Me and a friend were running towards the ocean. It started out light hearted and we figured we would be fine once we reached the ocean but when we got there the shallows were clogged with corpses of sea creatures.
Then I was young businesswoman. I don't remember much of anything from this part of the dream.
Skipping ahead a bit, I was a college aged sports-bro hanging out with his friends. They didn't live anywhere near the ocean so they knew it would be hopeless. Instead they drove around town collecting sports supplies so they could play there favorite sports together one last time.
For the part that I remember the most of, and the part the fucked me up the most, I was a Brazilian(?) teenager who was in school at the time it started. I quickly got out of the school and ran to the ocean. For some reason I had this device with me that would should me all the living things around me as orange dots, sort of like radar. All I could do was stand in the shallows and watch as the dots disappeared. I walked along the shore, waist deep in the water for a while. I would see one or two dots in the forest sometimes, likely animals. Eventually I reached an area that used to be a major city but was now abandoned and I could see couple dots. I decided to go on land for a little bit to try and find those people, but as soon as I got into the city I panicked and locked myself in an electronics store. I settled down with a computer. Somehow the internet was still up but it was like a ghost town. I got the feeling that I was the only one on the entire internet. I ended up watching Minecraft youtube videos, just to feel happy one last time. I began wondering if this video might be the last signal humans ever send. I thought about an alien species picking up this signal. Even though I knew it was unlikely for them to pick up an internet signal I still thought about it. I wondered what they would think, what would they learn? I ended up with a feeling of contentment, knowing that the last message humans would send is something that brought joy.
6-3-21
Me and V were at the beach and I was explaining to them about a paper I had recently read (in the dream). It was about a hypothetical language spoken by hypothetical creatures that only have two states. The language would have to be binary in nature. It also did not have a word order because all elements were said at the same time. The author created a conlang that humans could speak based on these principle (though you would have to pretend that all words are said simultaneously). Apparently the paper then went on to talk about different examples of binary alternating stating with various shape, some of which resulted in forward motion (whatever that means).
9-26-21
I was cooking but the burner would not turn off. I would turn it to off but there would still be a moderate flame, so I would turn it on and try again but each time the flames would grow larger and larger. Eventually the surrounding metal got so hot it was glowing white.
?-?-21
A strange flying dream. I was walking in the valley with my family when I discovered that I could lift one leg then quickly lift the other leg like I was stepping up to basically float in place. It wasn't like how flying is normally like in dreams, but it felt very natural and not out of place at all. It took effort to keep myself in the air, like I was keeping tension in all the muscles in my body in order to keep myself frozen in the air. I could move foward if I focused but I couldn't change altitute, so I was always less than a foot above the ground.
It is difficult to express just how natural this felt. This made perfect logical sense to me, that I was stepping into the air then using my strength to freeze in place and hold myself there. It felt like a perfectly logical extention of other simple physical feats.
12-2-21
I was reading this weird sci-fi book in English class. It was about a group of people that could get sustencance through performing violent acts. There was one particular tribe that did not eat food at all and survived only on voilence and they were trying to forcibly spread their ways to the other tribes. At one point the main character (who was just a normal human, I think an anthropologist) gave some monolouge about how sad it is that these people cannot appreciate that joys of food. Plants are seen as worthless and animals are seen purely as something they can be violent towards. There was a funny line about cock (rooster) in there. It wasn't a very good book.
2-27-22
I was a girl who was on vacation with her family at a cabin in what seemed like the Pacific Northwest. In the same area there was a group of (I assume Native America) people. Most of what I remember about the dream was about the culture of that group. Aspects of the culture I remember are:
2-28-22 (?)
There was a predator that could only see prey if they had brain activity over a certain threshold. The best way to avoid it is to be sleep. It looked like a centaur but all white and glossy, like the default material in Blender (or perhaps a bit glossier). It lives in the same forest as a race of bird people. The bird people have dream/sleep based premonitions of when the creature will come near.
4-2-22
I got on this weird bus with a bunch of other people. There was no back, you just jumped in, and there were no seats you just sat on the floor. I got off by what I believe was a liquor store. There was a basketball court in the back of the building which was a hang out place for some child gangs. I chilled there all day.
In the evening a fight broke out and I decided it was a good time to leave. I stole a skateboard and started to leave. There were two other guys close to my age who saw me. I was scared at first but they took a liking to me and we walked home together. They taught me how to actually ride the skateboard I stole. They also tried giving me life advice, like how I should just do things and not care if I get hurt. They also showed me how to use nunchuck type things and we ended up just doing nunchuck tricks in front of a 7/11 for a little bit.
By now it was dark but we decided to take a detour to this really good hill to ride down. We went to this really beautiful street that I had never heard of before. It was a pretty upper class neighborhood. The street was built on a quite steep hill. It had a nice wide street, colorful square houses, and was lined with beech trees. There was also a canal running parallel to the street even though that made no sense spacially. We walked to the top of the street, which was a dead end. Even though it was night before it was day at the top of the street. Unfortunately the dream ended before we could ride down.
5-5-22
Discord added a "feature" where it would randomly invite people you "might like" you servers. It would also make it look like you where the one to invite them including sending a welcome message from your account.
5-6-22
There was a sort of computer data storage thing that was like a loaf of bread. It was a blue, squishy, rectanglular block about the dimensions of a loaf of bread. Computers had a square hole that you would slide the loaf in and out of. You could isolate certain files by slicing it.
9-3-22
I was walking and overheard someone talking about the plot of a play. In the story people do not age and are technically immortal. However, they have a list of things they are predestined to do in life and once they do all of them they die. The play also featured exclusively Sonic characters.
9-8-22
I believe this was one long dream, as I didn't wake up. But I don't remember how these parts are connected, so it's more like two seperate dreams.
Dream 1: Me, F, and M were in this wide hallway lined with doors. There were a bunch of other people in the hallway too. We were all naked but this was normal. I think everyone in the hallway was in a Majora's Mask style timeloop and walking through the hallway was how the cycle resets.
All the doors were different looking, I believe there was one for each person in the timeloop. If you opened the door there was a white void and a person asking if you wanted to "meet at the crossroads or return", but we weren't suppose to meet at the crossroads until we were out of the timeloop. Instead we would walk to the end of the hall. There were several doorman looking guys in front of a metal door with a push bar. They would let you go back to the 'real world'.
Dream 2: I was at this canal with really tall concrete sides with my mom and my brother. I managed to climb up the side to the walkway thing at the top of the wall, but now I was stuck up there because I couldn't climb down and definitely wasn't going to jump.
There was a strange man who lived in a concrete room at the top of the wall. He had black hair, but I don't remember anything more specific about his appearance. He came out singing Metallica. He seemed to have the ability to jump and fling himself all over the place like some sort of mountain goat. I wanted to ask him for help getting down but I was sort of scared of him. I stood nervously on the walkway a few meters away. He didn't acknowledge me, even though he could definitely see me.
I eventually go talk to him. He was nice but definitely had a trickster personality. I became more interested in befriending him then getting down from the canal. He showed me how he flings himself around then we went inside his 'house'. He was an abstract artist and also a divorce lawyer. He made several autobiographical pieces about cases he's work on.
9-18-22
There was a species of space whales that lived around black hole. The species was highly endangered and there was only one pod of whales left. There was a space ship that was about to fall into the black hole around which the whales lived. The captain self destructed the ship, killing everyone on board because that was preferable to suffering the experience of falling into a black hole (something about seeing the entire remaining history of the entire universe all at once). The last of the black hole whales were killed in the explosion.
However, the last of the whales curses the captain with immortality, though still aging. The captain is the one narrating the dream.
Many thousands of years later, one of the whale corpses that was blasted away lands on a rocky shore on an inhabitable planet. The captain describes the corpse of this unbelievably ancient whale. Although I never saw the captain (only heard her narration), as she described the whale, it was clear to me that it is also reflective of her own appearance.
11-23-22
All life on Earth had died except for large (like six feet long), intelligent, single celled bacteria. I was a bacteria girl in school. We were learning about human civilization (there might have been the implication that humans evolved into the bacteria people) however the history was super inaccurate. We watched a video about the Native Americans invading Europe.
11-26-22
I was playing a zombie game but it was more focused on social interaction/making alliances/figuring out who's infected/social espionage.
12-11-22
When walking home from school I stumbled upon a Goncharov themed art gallery/ice cream shop. I joined there little crew and helped move in some sculptures. The woman in change asked me how smart I was (which I believe was code for if I knew Goncharov was fake, but I mostly I was confused by it). We then started watching Goncharov (or at least, a movie she was passing off as Goncharov).
One of the first scenes involved someone cutting off mats in the hair of an old violin bow (?) by running a razor down it. This is then compared to a woman cutting her hair in the same manner. During the scene there was violin music playing, there was a constant vamp that went something like this:
The melody reminded me of Sidon's theme from BotW.
2-14-23
I was in Chinese class. We had class in this really long lecture hall type room that was downward sloping. For an assignment we had to draw our dream husband/wife or something like that. I didn't know what to draw so I drew the Earth's terminator.
Later I was in English class. We were reading aloud this weird avant garde formatted scifi story. For some reason my book was formatted different from everyone else's and was missing some lines. I remember at one point a character said something and then there was just music notation instead of dialogue.
3-28-23
Had several dreams that I only remember small pieces of, like being in a library and being asked how much time I spend with my siblings.
At one point it felt like I was having a dream within a dream. The meta-dream was about a musical, it was a fourth-wall-breaky musical about transgender people. When I woke up (still in the first dream in the library) I tried to write down the lyrics to one of the songs. The only line I remembered was "The people alive will watch you grow old."
I remember my handwriting was a lot sloppier and far more cursive than my normal handwriting. It also took me quite a while to write and I was focusing on each letter far more than I would IRL. I remember being especially fascinated by the loopy shapes of the L and W in a "this isn't my handwriting" sort of way.
10-15(?)-23
Two dreams. In the first dream I was in school trying to go to the bathroom before lunch. The first bathroom I tried was very busy so I went to another one nearby. Just outside I met these three guys who asked if I wanted to join their podcast (where the gimmick is that they record it inside public bathrooms). The podcast was called 'A and B and B and C'. Inside the actual bathroom, it was super big and fancy with nice tile on all surfaces.
In the second dream it was the first day of a math class. The problem we were doing was supposed to be a simple review but I didn't get it at all. Thankfully the guy next to me was cool and good at math. We joked around and he helped me with the problem. The last thing I remember was thinking "why the fuck is the Planck constant here" before waking up.
11-22-23
Two fucked up shower dreams. In the first one I was showering except there were crocodiles outside the bathroom door. I kept hearing them do deep rumbling calls. Sometimes the calls were really close and so loud I had to cover my ears. The dream ended when a crocodile stuck it's nose under the door and lifted up to break a hole in the door and I was just looking directly at it. In the shower.
In the second dream I was trying to shower in a super busy changing room. All the private stalls were taken so I had to try and find somewhere at least a little private. I eventually found the only other semi-private showers, but it was the most fucked up design possible. The showers were five feet deep and one foot wide. The entrance (which is on the one foot side), is a narrow double door made of hard plastic. The other three walls were just a shower curtain. There were many of these showers lined up in the room. I didn't realize until I was already in the shower the door was short enough that people could easily look over it.
For some reason fucked up and labyrinthine bathrooms are a recurring theme in my dreams.
7-7-24
Me, my mom, and my brother were walking in a park and came across this huge valley. There was a small staircase going down. I went down but my mom and brother stayed.
It started out as an outdoor wooden staircase, but occasionally it went into the cliffside and it was like a concrete hallway and staircase. At some point I stopped to see how close to the bottom I was and I could barely see the bottom. There was also way more people on the staircase than I expected.
It some point we all started going down this spiral staircase in this concrete bunker looking area. Eventually we came to a line. Everyone has stopped on the staircase because up ahead there was a man asking for IDs and then spraying people down with a fire extinguisher, I assumed for decontamination reasons.
After I got decontaminated I saw that the line split. About half were going through a door and then going through a flat hallway. The other half were continuing down a staircase before turning a corner.
Everyone else seemed to know what they were doing so I called out to the nearest person like "What's going on? Why are we spliting?" and he said "Not everyone plays multiplayer" and I was like "WHICH WAY?!" but he didn't respond.
12-6-24
Me and my mom in a doctor who episode. There were these creatures that had weeping angel like properties but weren't weeping angels. We discovered they were living in tunnels on the moon.
1-15-25
There was a group of maybe 50 people living in what seemed like two buses or train cars put together. The two cars were seperated by a glass door. Most people lived in the back car, the important people lived in the front car. The front car also had a second floor that was being renovated for so people could live there. No one could go outside because of the cold, and more importantly, the evil creatures.
One day, the important people were also upstairs working on the renovation. Everyone else was in the back car and were armed with guns in case of creatures. During this I saw a girl come downstairs into the front car, walk out the front door on the car, walk around the front of the bus, then jump through the window into the back car. I seemed to be the only person who witnessed this so before she jumped in I told everyone not to shoot.
We put a tarp over the broken window, but people were getting restless because now the cold and the creatures could come in. I told everyone to stay calm and went to find the leader. The leader was a middle aged woman (the oldest of the group). I found her in the attic and told her want happened and said the back car was getting restless.
Dream gets fuzzy here. I got the impression that she scolded me, and I realized that the girl has actually been taken and replaced by a creature as soon as she stepped outside. I realized she must have been taken in the brief moment she was hidden from view as she walked behind the wall of the bus.
6-6-25
It was more like a half-dream. For context: I had just installed linux for the first time two days ago.
I kept drifting in and out of sleep having these linux stress scerarios. Something about me trying to mass edit files, but some of them wouldn't edit because of something to do with them being made in windows. So I had to find/install some thing-that-lets-you-edit-files-that-won't-edit-because-of-something-do-to-with-windows package.
I kept waking up and being like "that's so stupid, that would never happen" but then drifting back to sleep and being like "but what if it did O_O"