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What are your dreams like?

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what are your dreams like? as in, do you have any frequent symbols or in your dreams? do you have any recurring dreams or recurring locations in your dreams? are your dreams more abstract, more grounded/down to earth, or somewhere in the middle? how often do you remember your dreams in detail? none of these questions are exhaustive, feel free to discuss anything you think is interesting about your dreams.

this is not a thread for dream journaling, refer to the Communal Dream Journal thread for that! this is for discussing dreams in a broader sense, not detailing out the dream you had last night.


i'll start: my dreams are super wacky in general and i might add some more things to this thread later but the main thing on my mind right now that inspired me to make this thread was just how often i inhabit bodies that aren't mine in my dreams. i've never met anyone else who becomes someone else in their dreams not just sometimes but actually the vast majority of the time. the people/things i become vary a lot, but the three main categories are characters from media i am attached to, angels with the ability to fly/huge wings (not me with wings but other people entirely), and completely nonhuman, quadruped bodies, both real and fictional, such as cats or various types of pokemon. my dreams can get really vivid about this -- i will look in the mirror and see the character/angel/animal i am reflected back at me, and my brain tries to simulate what having nonhuman limbs or bodies would be like when i'm having dreams about that. so i wonder if anyone else has this experience lol. i often wonder if it's some weird extension of my DID that impacts my dreams honestly
 
Okay, so... I don't know how to say it right but my POVs in all the dreams I remember having lately feel like this feeling of being First POV blurring into Third and that for all the things I can recall, what form I took or look like generally look like is the only one I cannot seem to have an image of. Like if you tried to recall a memory of something and you have a mostly clear image of everything but every time you saw your hands you get a weird error placeholder as if the assets failed to load in a video game. That aside, the scenery in my dreams is like "It's a completely normal desert/forest/ocean trek... and the sky has a black hole in place where the sun is, almost everyone is multicolored silhouettes, and there is occasionally narration in a language that is completely cryptic nonsense slipping in and out mid sentences. As for the POV thing, it feels like I'm entirely an observer of someone else's actions every time. If it helps, I am very much not in tune with my body and have what I could call a "fractured sense of self" but idk how much of that influences what I experienced.
 
I've always had rather zany and unusual dreams personally, typically spiraling into insanity by the end of them, been that way as long as i can remember. It was to the point that my family used to joke wondering if there was something in my bedroom walls. For whatever reason my dreams are always in third person, and kind of flat like a cartoon? Although even when i'm awake i struggle to visualize things in a three dimensional space. I've actually lucid dreamt without meaning too a couple times, where i realized i was dreaming while still being asleep, but ive never done anything cool with it because each and every time my sleeping self went "eh this dream is funny i wanna see where it takes me" and didn't bother to change anything.
 
Dragonbunsu said:
what form I took or look like generally look like is the only one I cannot seem to have an image of. Like if you tried to recall a memory of something and you have a mostly clear image of everything but every time you saw your hands you get a weird error placeholder as if the assets failed to load in a video game
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i think this is relatively common actually? don't quote me on that. but i've heard a lot about people ie. looking down at their hands during a dream and something isn't right about them and sometimes it can even trigger people to wake up because it makes them realize they're dreaming all of a sudden. wonder how common that actually is.

WholesomeCryptid said:
For whatever reason my dreams are always in third person, and kind of flat like a cartoon?
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that's so fascinating to be honest. i have dreams that definitely have "art styles" that are not real but i don't think any of my dreams are particularly flat; even if anime characters look like anime characters in my dream, the environment is usually much more 3D than a 2D illustration
 
cats and dogs appear in like 90% of my dreams. when i say this, i do not mean they both exist in the same dream, i mean i would dream and somehow i would be owning a cat or a dog and it would be the most normal thing for me in the world (like, my brain wouldn't question it??). sometimes when i see a dog or a cat in my dreams and it's in my care i sort of have a panic attack because i have a disconnect between the real world and my dream world and i go like "since WHEN do i have a cat/dog??" and go into pet caretaker mode.

the strangest thing about all of this? i haven't owned a pet in probably 16ish years, so it's not like i'm dreaming about pets beacuse i own one, because i don't.

i've been trying to decipher what this all means for the longest, and i've even goolged it a fair bit, but there's several interpretations and i'm just not sure what the right interpretation is for me.
 
terashards said:
i think this is relatively common actually? don't quote me on that. but i've heard a lot about people ie. looking down at their hands during a dream and something isn't right about them and sometimes it can even trigger people to wake up because it makes them realize they're dreaming all of a sudden. wonder how common that actually is.
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Well, thing is I remember never realizing that I looked down and never even see the hands, let alone anything else. At best, its like static or some censor preventing me from seeing my form. It's like if you move around the first camera in a game (think SV where you're trying to take a selfie with the rotom phone and if too close to your mons, they vanish). I mean it like a "some filter really doesn't want me to see who I am at all times". Even in cases where a mirror or reflection would be present, its just visual static. I generally assumed it was bc of gender dysphoria in retrospect bc nobody else in my family has that happen to them.
 
Occasionally I have dreams about people who aren't present in my life anymore, but it's as though they never left, or it's a chance encounter that I know won't occur. We'll meet up in places that aren't there anymore, talk on sites that closed long ago. Like time paused in place, even though there's clearly things that make it apparent these dreams take place in recent times. They don't occur that often, I don't even remember my dreams most the time, but these ones stick in my memories for a long time whenever they happen.

On a more light-hearted note, I get lots of dreams of impulse-spending on things like trinkets ... I want money ... I want money ... (cry) Besides that, I get these random dreams where I'm not even there. It's just scenarios with random fictional characters. But the characters aren't even from any pre-existing franchise or even my own original ones. It's just straight from my brain. I guess that's kind of a type of original character, though...? Also a lot of dreams about the end of the world. They're nothing dramatic it's just kind of like oh ... this'll affect the trout population.
 
typically my dreams are pretty forgettable and i don't remember them upon waking up, but recently i've been having extremely vivid and weirdly violent and dark dreams lately? also i've heard that if you try to read anything in a dream, it'll just be jumbled up letters, but i feel like i've been able to read clearly in my dreams. weird.
 
i have extremely vivid dreams, and i remember them a lot of the time too. i've had a few recurring dreams over the years too, and those always stick in my head. my dreams range from weird and zany to pretty dark and messed up. when i have a dream in the latter category, i usually wake up feeling pretty heavy and struggle to get myself going for the day. since my dreams are so vivid, i feel like it just sticks with me for longer than it has any right to. another weird thing when it comes to dreaming for me has to do with the fact that i have DID. sometimes, we switch in our sleep, or an alter who isn't currently in control of the body will end up dreaming through the body anyway. and i have a weirdly high amount of self-awareness of when this happens. like during the dream i'll be like "oh, this is [x alter]" even if i don't process that it's a dream. it's a very bizarre experience. as a whole though my dreams are freakishly detailed and vivid, and when i tell people about them, they always say that they have no idea how my dreams are that vivid. and to be honest? i have no idea either
 
Dreams... a lot of my friends have really vivid (if not disturbing) dreams, but I tend to forget mine more often than not. I'll go through periods of remembering them, though, and they tend to mostly be one or two things. Either:

-Dreams about my family, which usually revolve around being mistreated in some way and waking up pissed as hell
-Dreams about extreme emotions aimed at certain people, mainly love and hate, which tend to either leave me daydreaming to a problematic degree, or ruin my day right from the start. Occasionally, those dreams will be good ones, and they'll leave me feeling good... but having BPD, experiencing powerful emotions like these tends to derail me more than I'd like.

...maybe it's a good thing I don't remember my dreams much, lmao
 
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