h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I think everybody had a dream like wanting to run (escape?) and just not able to be fast. Kinda underwater feeling.

Hmmm...true. I never had that exact dream, but I used to dream of being chased a lot.

I think that everyone has a drea about fearing what they don't fear in the slightest.

Really? Wow...of all the kinds of dreams I've heard of that everybody is supposed to have, I've never heard of that one. But if that's true, it would explain a lot.

Or perhaps in the abscence of any great concern, your brain just does a bit of a, "What if?". What if the rain were froot loops? What if there were a type of miniature tornado (called a 'mushroom' tornado) that was actually quite pleasant to experience? What if you went to school and all the things that you hadn't bothered to think about were VITALLY important? That kind of gear.

Hey, yeah. Maybe that's it.

I had this crazy dream last night that _really_ could've been a "what if." I got bitten by a snake and had to call 911, and when I got through there was a menu instead of a live person. Something like, "If this is a matter of life and death, press 1. If this is pretty urgent but not that urgent, press 2...." Then there was another menu after that, and then another, and then when I finally got ahold of a person, she couldn't tell where I was calling from and I wasn't sure of the address either since it wasn't my house. The weird thing is, when I finally remembered the address, it was my ex-boyfriend's, even though he wasn't in the dream. Well, okay, that's not the weird part, but still....

Having people you know in your dreams is often weird, but the other day I had a really weird dream all about my Granddad, but he wasn't in it at all. It was set in his house - and it was EXACTLY his house, even though that house is long gone. I was just going round his house, and all the time my granddad was nearby, but he never actually appeared in the dream, and that's very weird.

I actually have dreams like that a lot. My grandmother's house used to be the setting for a lot of my dreams, which she was hardly ever in.

That was the first dream of that type I'd had, but as I wrote earlier, I don't often have dreams.
Most of my dreams I have involve me being about 8 years old, though. I'm never an adult, always a child. I once dreamt a poem - and that was spooky. I thought it was quite cool, but everyone else says it's childish, and I hadn't concentrated when I wrote it. But what do they expect?? I was asleep!

My best friend once dreamed a beautiful poem that she couldn't remember when she woke up--very depressing, and also kind of surprising given the way she usually remembers her dreams. She once dreamed that she and I were given a huge amount of money for a shopping spree, and when she woke up she remembered every single thing she'd bought and a lot of what I'd bought.

I often have dreams like that, but I also have circular dreams where the same things happen over and over in the same dream, but without any gaps between, just an endless circle.
Or, if the dream ends, if I don't wake up I'll often dream the same dream again.

Both "Yesterday" and "Yellow Submarine" were thought of in dreams.

Really? Nifty.

I never seem to have the same dream twice in one night, although I do have recurring ones. But often I don't remember them at all until I've had them several times.

Yes, I get that, or at least the nagging feeling that I've had the dream before, and that's spooky... But Deja Vu is REALLY freaky, in when you dream of a future event that comes true....

I'm not sure I've ever had one of those, at least not so far. I have had a couple of dreams where I found something that I'd lost in real life, and when I woke up and looked where I found it in the dream, there it was.

I dreamt a painting, and painted it when I woke up. It's an egg, in the middle of a field, with a red frame suspended mid-air framing the egg. I look at it every now and then but still don't have the foggiest what it means. Probably nothing

Sounds a little like Magritte. Maybe you were channeling him?

I used to work at a grocery store, and I had a dream a few days before I quit that I was at work, and we were all mad at each other and fighting with swords. My friend Gavin's girlfriend worked there, and I killed her with my sword, so Gavin got mad and started fighting me, and I stabbed him and he turned into a bleeding can of tuna. Then I took up smoking Marlboro Light 100s because I was so stressed out.


Now I work in a kitchen, and one of the things I do is bread shrimp. One night I had a dream about breaded shrimp who were really big and talking to me. They were a family, and the grandfather had gotten cooked, and I had to save them from the deep fryer. I was putting them on a cart to get them away when I woke up.

Yikes. I've never had a sword fight dream, but one guy who was mooning over me dreamed that he was dueling with my b/f. That was kind of weird for me to hear about.

That's very weird - I seem to avoid having dreams about people I know - I don't know why.
I have, though, dreamt about the Daleks, R2D2 & C-3PO and other Star Wars characters, 2 dreams about Star Trek - one about New Adventures of Superman (which I never watched anyway!?!?) and one really cool, gothic Batman one.
Does this mean subconsciously I'm more interested in fantasy than real life?

Might explain why we hang out here so much...