What dream or nightmare sticks with you still to this day?

[Lexa]

I have always been fascinated with dreams and symbols. I started a dream journal so I could figure out why I would have such jarring and bizarre dreams that made no sense. I wanted to make sense of them so I started picking out symbols, objects, colors, places and people to assist me in dissecting my subconscious. Some dreams I cant forget, and some have helped me get to know myself and my emotions more deeply.

I can tell you that I always have dreams where there is a school or school related activities happening. It could be a University, Elementary school or even just a bus! I looked up "school" in various dream dictionaries. I personally like this old site that seems to be half broken, but still works http://www.dreammoods.com/ (it says Not Secure) to define it.

SCHOOL-To dream that you are in school signifies feelings of inadequacy and childhood insecurities that have never been resolved. It may relate to anxieties about your performance and abilities. If you are still in school and dream about school, then the dream may just be a reflection of your daily life and has no special significance.
{This is some of the information on the site, I didn't want to post too much (sorry for all the reading)}

Is there a dream that stays with you? Are you curious as to why you had that dream or maybe why you keep having the same dream?? If you would like to share a dream or an experience you had with that dream I am very interested!

[Tanidreams]

Oh my gosh I thought I was the only one who did this! My comic and novel series are based from dreams I've actually had

I once had a dream where I had a pack of rubber stoppers. If you write a command on them and stick them to someone, then they will do what you ordered them to do! The dream ended where I got someone in trouble because of the command, but before I could save the person, I woke up.

I otherwise have A LOT of dreams about being back in high school and being in an ocean full of sharks. A little fun fact though, sometimes dreams are trying to prepare you in case you face the scenario in real life.

[cherrystark]

I still have this dream that my old college flame just appears out of the blue in whatever dream storyline that's going on and just lingers. He's still all nice and friendly as he normally is but won't tell me why he's there or how he feels about me. I have a few ideas of what the dreams mean but it still frustrates me when he appears.

[SleepingPoppy]

I had a reoccuring dream as a child of an imaginary island village where at a certain time of the evening, all children had to be inside. In the dream, a boy and a girl are caught outside and have to hide in some kind of big baskets/containers.

The reason for the hiding is that GIANT CRABS come up from the ocean and mill about. And for whatever reason they don't bother adults, but they will use their pinchers to cut children's feet off at the ankle if they catch them!

And that's really all that happens. The kids just hide while the crabs bop around. No idea why it was a re-occurring, and don't think it meant much!

Another funny one where I could actually trace it to daily life- I watched a video about a board game, where the space ships in the game were called raptors. Then had a nightmare about dinosaurs! Thankfully, like crabs, dinos don't scare me, so it was not an intense nightmare. Mostly funny by the time I woke up.

I've had more intense nightmares, but I like these for being so funny when you actually think about them. XD

[RL4]

One dream that I had when I was younger that has stuck with me was where I watched an old woman fall out of the window while in her chair. Horrified, I ran to the window and looked down to see that she had survived due to the fact that her bones were made out of balloons.

Still have no idea what this dream meant or why I had it, but it's one of my most vivid!

[PaulDevers]

Know this one easy. BTW, IS GROSS
I was walking around on a derelict highway at night with a flashlight before stepping on something crunchy and soft. Looked down, and it was a dead crow. Before I knew it, the entre street and the pull-off beside it was filled with the things, and the whole night had dissolved into dawn instead of night. They were everywhere and no matter where I went I couldn't escape. Then I woke up.
I keep a dream journal of about... 98 entries right now whenever I get a good/memorable dream, or any dream with a plot. (I use it as a backlog whenever I need ideas for a story/plot) I have not written this one down, because it's not really either of these, just kind of disturbing.
Never really had a nightmare on the same caliber yet.

[AmandaJ-art]

There are two that still stick with me.

One when I was really young:
Just walking in my backyard. A wild boar runs out of the bushes and starts chasing me. My grandfather is a hunter and has a stuffed wild boar head hung up. I was always scared of that. That was probably the cause of the dream.

One In my early teens:
I was walking outside. I see a bear and it starts chasing me. I run in an old car and there are no doors. The bear jumps at me. I wake up. That dream scared me pretty bad.

[Lexa]

Awesome. I mean disturbing for sure! This reminds me of a scene I just saw on the Midnight Sky movie that just came out on Netflix. Dreams are great inspiration.

[Lexa]

I just saw this fella in my yard this morning. He (or she) couldn't tell, it is a wild type of pig here in AZ. It's a Javelina, they are cute but still very aggressive if need be. I like to pretend they are nice and want to hang out with me, ( I don't lol) when really they are just looking for food.
P.s. we just replaced a door and tossed the one aside for a day and now it is blocking his path hahah.

[Lexa]

Awesome! I'll have to check out your series! I'll hunt it down lol.
Here is mine if you're interested;

Dream Daze | Tapas

Also, sorry for the single replies. I'll try to get better at consolidating.

[Tanidreams]

Thank you so much I subbed to your series love your color schemes by the way!)

Here is the novel that was based off my "rubber stopper" dream, you currently can't find it on my page because the first chapter is set to launch this Friday (yes on New Years haha)

The Kid in Control | Tapas

[TheGentleArtist]

I had meta dreams

One was in my school dorm where I was kinda aware, so I left my room and saw my closet doors in half circles; I opened one door up and it showed an exact copy of it underneath. I closed the door because I was not dealing with it, especially being told "He won't let you see." I then hear knocks at the front door and went to it to be greeted, who I assume my friends, by some college girls asking if I was going to a party. I woke up after.

Another dream where I was some adventurer getting materials and while walking, the ground beneath me collapsed and I fell into a cave where a Minecraft Witch comes out of the shadows towards me; then it goes cinematic where it is actually a human witch who goes on saying "I have seen past the meta and know who you are! You brought the will of God to it's best and brought the fight over to this world!" All the while, it pans out to see my silhouette as I sit there on a rock crying.

I have more dreams that I remember, but these two stuck out more.

[Lexa]

@Tanidreams Thank you! Looking forward to the release!

@TheGreatArtisan Seeing doors in your dreams has so many potential significances I love connecting the dots to real life. Your dreams seem mysteriously cool and have important cryptic messages. You MUST be a gamer too huh? Mine are just like "deal with your emotional crap girl"haha

[TheGentleArtist]

Well, casual gamer XD. I like the cryptic dreams since they don't happen often for me; only weird dreams that may or may not have connections to anything.

I'm still curious about what I'm not allowed to see though.

[SpavVy]

I will often have dreams that I'm my current age (I'm 27) and back in high school against my will, in one of these dreams, the staff even burned my diploma right in front of me.

This one will require a trigger warning due to an IRL kidnapping attempt.
My friend and I were nearly abducted about three years ago in a mall parking lot at night. We were chased by some nutjob in a sketchy looking white car and we just barely got away. Sometimes if I go to bed while I'm stressed out this nightmare will pop up where I'm being chased by a car with the headlights nearly blinding me along with the sound of screeching tires. Pretty sure this event left me with some kind of PTSD.

[Lexa]

Oh my! I'm so glad you got away geesh! That would for sure be some PTSD. Someone told me once that pulling out your phone and recording the offender in a situation could deter them, but then again, it could backfire and make it worse! I never think to pull out my phone in the heat of the moment situations..I just focus on getting away so I don't blame you! Stay safe out there @SpavVy

[SpavVy]

Yeah grabbing your phone to hit record can be difficult in those situations especially when your body is in fight or flight mode. I know a bit of the most common crimes in my city so I think I have a good idea as to what their intentions were, and while this event was traumatic and cursed me with nightmares I did learn a valuable lesson from this ordeal. The nightmares suck but I feel some of them are meant to help prepare us for scary situations that may happen in the future.

[DokiDokiTsuna]

I don't really like dreaming anymore...my imagination has always been really vivid and trippy, which is cool when I'm having a good dream, but when I have a bad dream (which is most of the time...) it's 10x worse.
It's like I don't have the luxury of seeing dreams as 'fake'; the sensory experiences, emotional labor and stress are all real and I have to deal with them the same way I'd have to if they resulted from events that actually happened.

For example, all throughout my college years I had a lot of dreams about dying in car accidents...some way or another I'd always get the car going too fast and plow into something before I could stop (I'd always have passengers with me, too...yay).

It's weird because I actually don't have any anxiety about driving IRL...or at least I didn't before I started having these dreams multiple times a year. It's like something in my brain is convinced that I don't know how to drive and that I'm gonna kill myself, no matter how confident I feel in my conscious mind. It's starting to get to me... >_<

And of course, there are all the really sick, depraved gory dreams I have...one of which I recorded here on the forum. ^^ Those are a little easier to get over after the fact, since they're so over-the-top...but I still need a minute after I wake up from one. It bugs me that those are so common when I have no interest in gore in real life...again, there's just something in my brain...

[ble]

I often dream that I'm back in either my school or institute, and I'm about to fail a class/exam, and if I fail I have to repeat the whole year/semester again.

I was lucky that didn't happen in real life, but.....I was always very close to failing and repeating.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

It think I have, but I am gonna tell only one.
Some of my dreams are extremely vivid and lucid, they are easily memorized.
Long post ahead!

The dream.

At that moment I was lonely, in a place where I should be not. There are fellow new students and roommates I could befriend, yet they all felt distant and unfamiliar. I was in the world of strangers who have nothing in common with me. If only they could approach me first. The isolation was so sore I said to myself: Whoever wants to be my friend, I will accept it.

I dreamed of a purple sky brighter than any night in reality. Outside the silent building and enjoyed the night air was fresh. There was the swing below the water apple tree I often sat on and play with. It was illuminated by a single warm light from a park lamp. I rushed to it and played with it. Swung higher, higher looking up to the sky, until I noticed an apparition sitting on the top tree branches.

The being was in long white nightgown. Her long black hair dropped to the branches below. She had a pallor skin, eye with concentric pattern on the scleras, and an unnerving grin once our faces met. In a voice of a normal human female, she said: "Would you be my friend."

I blanked, I did not even have a clue on who and what she is.

"But, didn't you say 'Whoever wants to be my friend, I will accept it'?"

At that moment I felt like freezing from the inside. This was a dream, right? Wake up, because I did not want to answer this! I was wary of what capable of doing whether if I befriend her or not; she could be hiding something more sinister. I somehow thought at that moment that she might be real, because that was how it felt.

"Uh, yes. . . Maybe?"

I scurried away inside the building afterwards. As soon as I stepped inside the building, I woke up.

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One year later and I have underwent several improvements in my social situations. We were having a leisure time with some roommates which one told us about her plans on moving school and how she felt about her classmates. She felt hated, ostracized, and lonely. She even thought of accepting just anyone wanting to be her friend.

I immediately thought of that dream because of what she said. I told her the entirety of it in front of her and some others. It was like another storytelling session, some regarded it as freaky but it was dismissed as a mere highly-realistic nightmare.

The next day I met that person when we lined up for breakfast. I asked about something I forget. She told me: "Don't go telling people again about that damned dream, she —the thing in your dream— came to me and asked the same thing."

I tried to inquire more on it, yet she refused. Nobody else I told was having the dream. In the hindsight, the water apple tree is thought and said to have a strong presence of supernatural entity.