Out of Pod Experience

Wow, that's intense! I have had dreams that I still remember from many years ago, but I kept telling myself they are not real.

Sometimes I wish they were real. Like flying through space in my wolf, which would be awesome to do, but I have to live with the sad fact that it isn't real.

Back in the old days, I was one of /x/s dedicated dream interpreters on 4chan.
If a dream is recurring, it often holds a certain significance for one's life and we were often able to get quite a lot of information out of those dreams.
But the problem is, interpreting a dream would require very much very personal information (there is no universal meaning for most dream symbols- it is important what the dreamer himself associates with those elements), so whilst the whole thing was running smoothly on an anonymous image board with very satisfactory results, for anonymity's sake it wouldn't work on this forum.
But if a dream really bothers you and you are willing to answer quite a lot of very personal questions in the process, you could just make a throwaway forum alt for this sole purpose and I will try my best to help.

I barely dream, ever. I know this means that I don't recall my dreams, but that's the case, I dream less than once a month. That's good because when I dream, I am quite tired the next morning, as if I hadn't slept well.

Most of my dreams are aware -I am aware that I'm dreaming, that it's early morning, and I can stop them at will, like a movie. Can't control them, though. Sometimes I can see my room through the dream itself. Usually dream in color and people in my dreams speak without words. I barely dream with persons and usually are strangers. There's a "recurrent" stranger in my dreams, but that's just because it's been to four of them over 20 years.

My most recurrent theme are impossible scapes; streets that lead into buildings, rooms that lead to rooms, often geometrically incoherent and quite convoluted.

I never have erotic dreams, nor horror dreams, nor adventure dreams, nor any other "themed" dreams. Once I had a nightmare, but was very short and incoherent and I was having a high fever at that time. Also once I failed to stop a dream and that was very disturbing, not because of the dream, but because it didn't obeyed me and kept going on albeit my eyes were open and i rolled on the bed (that's how I "turn off" my dreams, usually).

My dreams are variously erotic, real life, family based (I don't have a very big family) and very much related to flying.

I don't read much into them but I generally enjoy them very much. Again - I am not asking for detail on your dreams but just how you experience them.

Interesting topic, but very hard to answer without being to personal. However, i will do my best.

I dream a lot, as in more or less every single night. If i don't dream its almost a bit...confusing.
Many of the dreams i will remember for a short amount of time, or vague details, luckily most i do forget within a few hours unless i actually "think" about it.

Luckily because i normally have nightmares, and pretty bad ones. Its not uncommon that i wake up with bruises and scrapes on my body (especially my legs for some reason) and the size and placement indicates that i grab my self in my sleep (can outline bruises with my finger tips). Some i will wake up and feel just..sick. As in i feel a very strong need to throw up because the images/emotions are simply to strong, and i have woken up and felt very angry towards others if they happened to be a part of the dreams.

I havent been able to find any "remedy" for the nightmares, they seem to come almost no matter what i do, but it does not really affect my life all that much beyond the fact that i dread going to sleep at night and i feel like i need more sleep then other people.
I used to talk a lot in my sleep as well, and occasional sleep walking but at least the sleep walking seemed to have gone away once i reached adulthood. The talking in my sleep part seems to come and go.

But its been like this since as far back as i can remember, and there are still nightmares that i remember i had as a kid that still makes me go "What on earth was that all about?"

However sometimes i do have dreams that are more like..fever dreams really. I know that its not real, and i can manipulate it to some extent. Like having a dream and suddenly being almost woken up completely by a cat jumping into bed, keeping the memories of the dream in my mind and going back to sleep and basically keep going were i left off. Very hard to describe and its very very rare i can do that. I don't have any control over the dream it self tho, just this..vague awareness that if i was awake i would have done something differently then what i do in the dream, or noting that something looks different then its supposed to (like,that mall is not at that location! or, there should be houses along this road as an example).

But well, interesting topic. Hope this was the kind of response you were aiming for

Man, that deo part just made me laugh out loud. You really hate that bastid, don't you?

My favorite sleepwalking tale is of a friend who had an habit to go sleep at the bathtub. One night, he turned on the faucet (probably just stumbled on it) and had a very frightening and very wet wake up...

It's like living with a very strange person but I wouldn't mind if I made some breakfast for myself before I woke up. Just not a pool of melted armpit deodorant.

i have stupid dreams.

anything from dinosaurs chasing me. driving my car around while a blanket, with a life of its own tries to blind me or cut off my air or i'm like super cool secret spy chick with night vision sniper rifle and my mission is to kill gerbils. they rarely make any sense. i sometimes have painful ones revolving around my childhood home. but they aren't always bad. sometimes they are bittersweet.

but often i can make no sense of my dreams. i just had one last night where i was at a park and a hispanic guy was trying desperately to show me a tattoo. and i just didn't want to see it. "look tattoo!" and i was all like 'no, thank you." "LOOK AT TATTOO!" i say, "please go away." and he did...but he just went to another bench and he stared at me very sullenly and i woke up feeling bad. lol

I have always pictured you more like this :p

Funny. I just imagined you like that after having a mental breakdown at the dinner with your inlaws