Dream I'd like to share...

[Royston]

I had a dream a couple of nights ago that was so awesome and vivid I thought I'd share it with all of you.

 

I dreamt I awoke in my bed, and found the largest of my snails (Sonic) had crawled next to me. It's shell was soft, and the tip of the shell was missing, so I rushed to the bathroom where the light was better to se what was wrong. For some reason I fathomed the snail was symbolic of life evolving from nothing...the spiral of the shell growing larger with the snail appearing as it branched out. As the tip was missing the snail was telling me I had access to alternate realities.

 

I went back to bed, and woke again. I was half asleep and I tried to walk across my bedroom, I suddenly realised I had accessed another reality, and (as I usually do when I lucid dream) I started floating. I went to the door, and my house mate and his girlfriend were talking in the hallway (odd thing is they actually were when I awoke properly) I went past my other housemates bedroom, only to find another mate had moved in.

 

I asked my housemates what was going on, and they explained that an alternate consciousness from another reality (which was me) was in my body, so I could break the laws of the reality I was currently occupying...hence the floating. I went back to my bedroom exhausted at this prospect, and fell asleep. I awoke again (not knowing if I was dreaming or actually awake) and crawled towards my door. I then found another friend had moved in, so I suddenly realised this was another reality. We went to the back garden to talk, and I looked up, and instead of birds, there were giant sea turtles flying around...flocks of them (this was no CGI looking affair) it looked absolutely awesome. I explained we had birds in my reality, and explained what they look like and the variety of birds there were. I once again retired back to my bedroom.

 

I awoke again only to find my bedroom was completely different and I was sharing it with my present housemate, and yet another friend. I was exhausted and tried to tell them that I wasn't actually supposed to be here...they thought I was crazy. I asked them why we were sharing the same room. They told me in this reality there was bedroom tax, so people generally shared bedrooms to limit the cost. I told them about council tax, but they thought I was nuts, so I went back to sleep.

 

I awoke again, and I was once again in my bedroom. I could walk fine this time, so it took me a few minutes to realise I was still dreaming. I went through my door, and I noticed in the distant window that the sleepy quiet road where I live, was replaced with a bleak industrial landscape...spotlights filled the sky, and it was approaching night. A few friends were in the back garden chatting. Barbed wire dressed the grey walls of our concrete yard (gone were the hedgerows, the trees and the lawn) and my friends were cowered in the corner smoking cigarettes.

 

They explained they were illegal, and they were hiding from the black spheres that hovered above which were armed with cameras jutting out in all directions. Suddenly one of the black spheres glided over the garden, and in a few seconds a van pulled up and gunshots were fired...several men in navy blue boiler suits ran into the garden, and dragged myself and my friends away.

 

I came to, in some high security facility. I was in a que, on a long corridor. I suddenly remembered what my housemate and his girlfriend had told me in the first reality. I rose above the crowd and flew down the corridor to a grill, high up on the left side. I prised the grill open and snuck inside. I found myself hovering above a vast room of lockers. Prisoners of the facilty were folding clothes and cleaning their boots. I noticed another window, and flew towards it. I came out into a courtyard, but the fences formed a dome over the whole facility...there was no way out.

 

I noticed a hut attached to a corridor to my right, so I flew quickly down, and entered. I heard somebody behind me, so I whizzed down the corridor and found a door leading to a small room. A janitors uniform was hanging on the inside of the door...I went to put it on. Everything skewed into a point, like a three dimensional spiral, and I awoke. It took me a few seconds to realise I was actually awake.

 

I dream quite a bit, but I've never had a dream that tied in so many aspects of myself, and which followed a narrative, with references to past events in the dream, and even a bit of mild humour thrown in...I didn't want it stop.

[GutZ]

Holy crap!

 

That's weird.

[Royston]

How'd you think I felt...it took me a good hour to shake the atmosphere of the dream off...very intense. Still the best dream I think I've had though, in an intense weird kind of way.

[GutZ]

The most intense dream that I can remember was when I was 6 or 8 (can't remember) and I was shot by my parents to death. I turned into a lion to save my brother who was burnt badly by my school being on fire, then when I got home I laid down my brother and some how rung the door bell, waited, my parents open the door with either a rifle or a small shotgun and killed me. Then I woke up.

 

Weird thing was that both my parents never believed in guns so...

 

My brother is the freakest person to have around when he's sleeping. He'll randomly sit up and look around WHILE asleep in slow motion too so it looks like hes posessed (sp?) and he talks gibberish too.

 

I think your dream is great, even though it's very weird you get to experience multiple views and scenerios and see how you would reacted to them. I think imagination is one of the greatest attributes or characteristic of a cognitive/conscious being. So for me wierder the better.

[Royston]

I think your dream is great, even though it's very weird you get to experience multiple views and scenerios and see how you would reacted to them. I think imagination is one of the greatest attributes or characteristic of a cognitive/conscious being. So for me wierder the better.

 

I think it was such a powerful dream, because A I was actually convinced this was happening due to my initial surroundings when I awoke being very close to reality, and B that it flowed with a tight narrative, and each time I had to work out whether I was actually awake, dreaming, or if something really spooky was going on and I actually was flitting between alternate realitys...different universes where events had taken a slightly different path.

 

It also had a good climax, when I was in the 1984 scenario, the symbolism of the snail became a crescendo at the end as everything warped into a spiral and took me back to where I belong.

 

Thanks for sharing your dream...I had some nightmarish dreams when I was a kid concerning my parents as well. If your brothers head starts spinning around, that's the time to panic

 

I've had a dream along the lines of waking up and falling asleep, and confusing what was reality and waht was a dream before...but it was absolutely horrific, I may post it later, my internet is playing up at the moment.

 

I know dreams have been discussed quite a bit...but if anyone can top mine, please feel free to post.

[YT2095]

I dreamt I ate the worlds biggest Marshmallow the once, only to wake up and find that my pillow was missing!