/yume/ - Dreams

i get gory dreams too. im a kid again and people are tearing my teeth out with pliers and punching me in the gut so hard i vomit

>>2667
What is worry with your mind?

Fairly often yes, although almost all of them are accidents. Nonetheless I have seen some truly graphic shit because i have really vivid dreams.

>>2667
Nothing gory specifically, but I have had recurring dreams of being shot in a school shooting for the past ~6 years now. I left high school in 2018.
It always occurs in weird structures. I could draw/map all of them if I really thought about it - all based on places I've spent a considerable amount of time in in my life, but only maybe their core structure and essence are similar. If it isn't a school shooting, it usually /is/ something really gory or psychologically horrifying, but I never remember anything clearly after the first 30 seconds of waking up. I'm going to keep an eye on this thread and might keep my own dream journal.

>>2652
Blank dreams as in? If you mean having no dreams, that's completely natural.

Maybe you're waking up during deep sleep rather than REM, generally if we remember any of the nights dreams it's only the one we just woke up from. Maybe you are waking in REM and just forgetting anyway, that would make sense because dreams being on your mind after a conversation makes you more likely to remember. Next time you wake up with even a little bit of dream memory make a note of it, keeping a 夢日記 trains you to remember and sometimes when you just remember a little bit you get a lot more coming back by thinking about it. Forgetting dreams isn't like the normal kind of forgetting, it's an intrinsic response like a reflex, so starting to remember one gives you the rest for free.

>>2677
Very few people actually don't dream, but a lot of people don't remember them and that's natural.

when i was a kid, i had the wackiest fucking dreams, and still do. one which sticks out, was me and my dad had to go to a store for a keyboard for his jeep, and the store was super nice, it had a waterfall in the lobby. when an employee helped us, we passed a pool with a tight rope over it, and bart and homer were on it. every time bart took a step, he farted, then he said butt. homer was furious, and pushed him in and dived in after. then the pool turned black, and then i woke up. thats just one of hundreds of wacky dreams that come from my twisted mind.

Had one as a child where I had to cross a large jungle while avoiding murderous invisible ankylosauruses. I don't think I made it.

A lot of weird shit happens in my dreams (e.g. me punching the back of a partially emerged whale in the middle of the ocean) but one of the weirder ones would be this:

Me and 2 friends walk into someone's flat. I have this feeling that it's a game and that I've done this before. In the kitchen we see an old lady and stat beating her up. At one point my friends hold her and I try to slit her throat with a knife, but this image is so vivid that seeing a small amount of blood makes me sick and I don't slice it open completely.
I again, think to myself, what a great, realistic and vivid game this is that it even made me feel nausea.
Later we're all outside the building. The lady is lying on the ground covered in curtains or some shit. My friends act as if she's dead, but I know she's still alive, because I didn't fully cut her throat. The lady slowly gets up, approaches one of my friends and flings him ~10m. She then transforms into some kind of monster, resembling a deer or elk, but it looks like it's made of stone. The monster proceeds to uproot trees and throw them at us, I pick up one of the trees and start hitting the monster with it. The monster later has a few more transformations, all of which resemble irl animals made of stone.

Before the battle ends I wake up feeling tired as shit as if I had actually just fought someone.

i once dreamed i rode a weird rickety steel roller coaster that sent me careening down into the depths of the earth. the ride eventually reached a massive cave populated by a series of industrial, brutalist concrete high-rises. at the end of the track the ride crashed directly into this huge, shiny black boulder. the whole ride was built as if it wasn't designed with looping back around in mind, and i was the only one riding.

Once I had a lucid dream. The actual contents of the dream aren't very exciting but I woke up during the lucid dream after I become too excited (it was like my second lucid dream.) Then I quickly closed my eyes again and started concentrating on the scene from the dream. I got back into the lucid dream. But I could also hear sounds from "real life" (however, the sounds were a little distorted and sounded as if they are coming from a great distance) Then, as I lifted my hand in the lucid dream, I hit my face in the real life. After that I woke up. TL;DR I was in between a lucid dream and being wake.

I don't usually dream much, but I usually have to have a clear mind, a cold room and i only require like 5 hours of sleep to dream

I sleep best in my bed.
Not in a concrete parking garage…

If I'm camping in a tent, I hardly ever have dreams

my dreams depend on time- if i fall asleep at a reasonable hour, i usually never have any dreams, and if i do, they're always very hazy. if i fall asleep at, like, 3:00 AM, i'm guaranteed to dream about something strange, and it always immediately leaves my head as soon as i wake up. there's a sweet spot where, at a certain hour, the locations of my dreams begin to recur, forming a sort of dream-world. these dreams are usually incredibly vivid. the human mind is fascinating!

>>2614
>>2626
I have noticed that the best way to have a dream (or even lucid dreams or OBEs) is to go to sleep and set an alarm after about ~3-4 hours. I think the reason why this works is that it's harder to remember your dreams if you are too tired but you still need to be somewhat tired. I have also heard that meditating regularly can increase the amount of dreams you remember.

False awakenings are pretty normal. I find myself fooled by them more often than I'd like to admit, even when I wake up in an unfamiliar room or even outside. It's funny how you try to justify the most insane scenarios in dreams, they must give you false memories somehow.

>>2656
i remember now! the dream cuts to a view of the freighter and a city, all of which explodes. the girl swims to a deck from where the freighter once was. the look on her face was a mixture of loneliness and catharsis. she slumps up against a wall, and some kind of powder (gunpowder?) slowly falls from the sky as she leans harder into the wall. cut to black, dream ends. it was surreal! i've had it in the back of my mind for a while, what do you think could it mean?

note- the scenarios on the right side of the map were put there because they are all incredibly vivid. they're stories my sleeping mind creates, they're a part of me.

map v2

That's really cool! When you re-visit an area, do you experience it as being pretty much, or even exactly, the same area as last time or is it more a strong sense of it being close or similar to the previous one?

>>2664
most areas are more or less consistent in scale and structure, while some are pretty much ever-changing. an example would be the warped highschool- sometimes the building has up to five floors, sometimes it has a massive basement complete with a boiler, sometimes the classrooms and hallways are cartoonishly long, sometimes the library spans multiple rooms, sometimes the library is the size of a toolshed, etc.

>>2345
>Or maybe one that was fragmented and you kept going back to after waking up?
Definitely had one of these, but I don't remember anything of it.

Not really, but I had this one time where I was in sort of a boss fight and every time I died, I'd get booted out of the dream due to the sudden fear of dying (because it felt real)
Luckily, though, I was sleeping in such a position that the sun wasn't shining in my eyes, so I could force myself back and retry the exact same battle but with more knowledge

Feel like I had one the other night but I can't fucking remember anything about it other than feeling like I had been asleep for like a week when I finally got up.

Not in that kind of way. I had a couple of dreams that are "cut" to seem like they are taking place through multiple days if you know what i mean. It might be the fact that you can have multiple dreams in one night and they maybe blend into eachother at the end?
Definetely something i can relate to with my own dream experiences.

I have definitely had dreams that would resume from another dream from the previous night. I don't think have a single dream that feels like it lasts for longer than the time that has passed in real life is possible, at least not technically. It has already been proven empirically that dream time roughly equals real time because our eye movements in dreams are in sync to actual eye movement. All of that extra time are probably just false memories the mind has cooked up. Having false memories of having done something is no different than having actually done it, as far as the mind is concerned.

Yeah, there are a few locations that don't exist IRL but I have seen repeatedly in dreams.

>>2639
Same, I haven't visited it for years, but I've always had a persistent dreamworld. It had complex stores, arcades, bridges, even bus lines, all of it was always persistent, always the same. I even had routes inside the giant mall to check the interesting stores and shelves…magazines, toys, videogames…stopping by some food shops or even having dinner there…

The city is pretty big, it had shady neighborhoods, open areas, river, bridge, amusement parks…

The most insane thing is that it had metro and rail stations, and you could take the train to go to some close mountain area, with at least 3 persistent villages, with farms and shit, rivers, ruins and old roads in the woods by the mountains. It's ridiculous how big and consistent it is.

YOU'RE GOING TO THE DREAM WORLD WHEN YOU DIE

Thanks lain