I literally just finished a chat with my husband about the dreams we each had last night before hopping on to read this. I've definitely noticed an uptick in vivid dreams myself. They were...
I literally just finished a chat with my husband about the dreams we each had last night before hopping on to read this.
I've definitely noticed an uptick in vivid dreams myself. They were particularly bad around a month ago when the coronavirus situation was really ramping up. Interesting to read that this is a widespread and related phenomenon.
Anyone have any really good/interesting ones to share? I have trouble remembering most of mine (as I imagine most of us do), but my one from last night involved getting an email that included a resignation letter from my favorite coworker, in which she notified all of us that she was leaving to open a distance dance school and teach dance classes via Zoom.
Dreamed about robbing an in-wall safe from a museum? (the exterior looked kind of like the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles) with another person (no one I know). We were in the safe room with...
Dreamed about robbing an in-wall safe from a museum? (the exterior looked kind of like the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles) with another person (no one I know). We were in the safe room with an employee under false pretenses until it was time to move, much to the horror of the employee. My partner used something to cut into the wall and around the safe and was able to remove the entire safe from the wall and put it in a burlap sack and we made our escape. Got as far as the parking lot before a museum usher? caught up with us kind of. I think we were already driving around the parking lot by then, but this usher was running alongside the car. Or I wasn't in the car, yet .. dunno. Gets fuzzy. But I did feel bad for this fellow, and I wanted to give him a wad of cash even though for some reason in my mind doing so would slow us down and allow the actual authorities to catch us. Well, I tried anyway but the usher refused. I decided to just take a wad of cash for myself and strike out on my own, leaving the remainder with my partner. So, on foot I started to head toward the end of the parking lot (outside of the parking lot, everything was water. weird, huh). The usher was walking beside me and let me know that once I left the parking lot I'd be in the clear as they'd have no way of tracking me after. Something about how the money's made...like its fibers. Doesn't make sense, but y'know dream logic. I got pretty close to the edge of the parking lot with that single fat wad of cash in my pocket before I decided to go back and check on my partner, who was now parked in the parking lot. The car was a truck and there were people hanging in the truck bed along with the sack of money. I figured I'd grab one more stack and then take off. As I approached the edge of the larking lot again I took out the second wad that I had grabbed and looked at it. It was fake money, like you might get in a board game, with some kind of Roman statue's face as it's picture. I remember it being a burnt orange color, too. When I checked on the initial wad it was no longer a was but like a $10 bill and a couple of ones. That's about where the dream ended. Don't know if I made it past the parking lot.
When I woke up this morning, I had a strangely detailed memory of the dream I was having. I haven't really been dreaming that vividly lately so I have no clue if I'm part of the trend here, but...
When I woke up this morning, I had a strangely detailed memory of the dream I was having. I haven't really been dreaming that vividly lately so I have no clue if I'm part of the trend here, but regardless...I immediately told my friends about it before it slipped away. Here it is in its misspelled stream-of-consciousness glory:
had a really really real and detailed dream that I was at disneyworld with my family lol
one of those dreams where you wake up and it's like
well I guess I have to take a while separating that from reality that sucks
at one point I was getting a tour from Lindsay Ellis
It was mostly really nice but there were a few weirdly bad parts like
My parents picked up mickey ears when they entered and got mad when they found out I didn't so
I had to go to this center where they like disinfect old Mickey ears and pass them out
I took them and like
the plastic was really old and grimy and black and my brain focused on that for a long time like LOOK HOW GROSS THESE ARE
at one point my dad told me to get food and the way that worked was
there was this block constantly being circled by buses
and you'd have to get on a bus
and take a big tray of food and brinf it bacj
but I didn't know which buses were which so I kept getting on the wrong ones
and I kept finding like
people just cooking food, not the stuff I was supposed to take
and I got really stressed out like
oh no!!! dad is waiting for his food I need to get it also where am I wahf does a pork chop look like can I take this when is it done
and it was really stressful
also the whole place was more like a museum
there weren't really rides or shows or anything
Mostly just stuff on walla
There was a nature part
Where you go through and there's like weird looking animals just running around doing their thing
At one point there were these small alligators
one bit my dad's leg
as we were dealing with that I read a sign that says that
they can't take anything near as strong as their bite
and they appeared to be fighting each other a lot
so me and my daf
as he was being bit
were like
okay how does that work are they just constantly dying from each others bites that doesnt make sense
at one point my pants were covered in ketchup and mustard
and there was like this crew of workers who were constantly looking over you and if you raised your ears or something they would come help
and
they kept giving me band aids for small cuts on my hands and stuff and I was like thank you but can you please give me napkins I am covered in ketchup and mustard and they said they didn't have any
it was also really stressful because there was so much stuff to carry
At one point was just carrying a bunch of wood plus these like
...idk I guess they were gogurts
branded for an old show like
all in the family I think
Idk why this was at Disney
and
someone taught me this special technique
that
thinking about it just means like
putting it in a bag
but in the dream it was like a special property of the all in the family gogurts
and it could only be done like that because it was an old brand and you covered up the logos so it protected the brand integrity
and then we found out that like there was a whole separate area for Europeans
who didn't have the gogurt bags
and there was a bunch of art and videos about how they're dumb but also it make them smell better
the Europeans thought we were smelly for using the bags but we knew they were dumb for not using them
and it was like this big tradition you were indoctrinated into
when I woke up I was just
looking up
"anime disneyworld"
Because I saw some tezuka things on the walls and I was like oooh are there more
I thought this was quite an interesting read. It's not something I've experienced personally, but my girlfriend has told me about a lot of particularly strange dreams/nightmares she's had in the...
I thought this was quite an interesting read. It's not something I've experienced personally, but my girlfriend has told me about a lot of particularly strange dreams/nightmares she's had in the past few weeks, when normally she doesn't tend to remember her dreams. It's fascinating to see that there's a physiological cause.
Huh. I recently started having loads of dreams, multiple per night. I never had dreams since I was young, or at least I couldn't remember that I even had a dream after waking up. However now, in...
Huh. I recently started having loads of dreams, multiple per night. I never had dreams since I was young, or at least I couldn't remember that I even had a dream after waking up.
However now, in the past week or two, I've started dreaming, mostly about my crush, almost every night. Sometimes I even remember multiple dreams from one night. This never happened before.
Same here, although I'm a regular dreamer (even pretty good with lucid dreams). I was already obsessed with her before the confinement though, but it seems to amplify it to some new levels, which...
However now, in the past week or two, I've started dreaming, mostly about my crush, almost every night.
Same here, although I'm a regular dreamer (even pretty good with lucid dreams). I was already obsessed with her before the confinement though, but it seems to amplify it to some new levels, which is quite painful. I'm indulging into it at times, because there's something sweet in the feeling, but I have to watch out to keep my sanity.
I kind of have sine waves of dreams. For a day or two I'm absolutely alright and I don't even think about it. But then, it just hits and I keep having dreams about her for few days all the time....
I kind of have sine waves of dreams. For a day or two I'm absolutely alright and I don't even think about it. But then, it just hits and I keep having dreams about her for few days all the time. I'm torn apart between enjoying it and just... It makes me think about her much more than I would like to at times, sometimes I just can't get away from it. Still not sure if I enjoy it or not.
Did you ever try keeping something like a dream diary? My friend told me once that he started writing his dreams because of some class when he was studying psychology and that he started having/remembering much more dreams than before.
I haven't had too many dreams about her, maybe one or two per week, but I'm basically thinking about her all day long, can't really work properly or do much else some days, just watch out the...
I haven't had too many dreams about her, maybe one or two per week, but I'm basically thinking about her all day long, can't really work properly or do much else some days, just watch out the window, daydream and sigh. It's quite pathetic :)
I indeed did wrote my dreams for some times, started when I was a teenager. I think it did improved my dream recall. Some mornings, I also take some time to catch and remember my dreams before they vanish. I stopped writing them because I don't think it has much value ; for me dreams are mostly a feeling, and I can't capture that on paper, after a while it just becomes a silly story without much content. I also try to get more lucid dreams sometimes (doing reality checks) but I never had that much success (a little bit, but not really worth it).
This is interesting. I was thinking that my dreams haven't really been different lately, and then I realized I've been dreaming about my first girlfriend a lot lately. I also typically have many...
This is interesting. I was thinking that my dreams haven't really been different lately, and then I realized I've been dreaming about my first girlfriend a lot lately. I also typically have many vivid dreams.
It's particularly strange because my job has an odd schedule and I am already acclimated to not knowing what day it is and not sleeping on a normal schedule. The pandemic feels weird to me somehow, but it all seems due to the psychological aspect and not because my environment changed much.
I take medication that causes, as a fun side effect vivid dreams and nightmares as well as some risks for hallucinations. Corona, isnt helping though so nightmares are a daily thing for me. I tend...
I take medication that causes, as a fun side effect vivid dreams and nightmares as well as some risks for hallucinations. Corona, isnt helping though so nightmares are a daily thing for me.
I tend to remember most of them too, or snippets, and mostly they are overly complex especially if I sleep during the day. Things like "hands pouring coloured sand on a hardwood floor and hooves drawing complex pattern in the sand, scratching the wood underneath" are popping up.
No its ... citalopram. So far beyond absurd dreams, being thirsty all of the time (seriously ALL of the time, liquid just doesn't stay in, I can drink water until I vomit but I am still thirsty)...
No its ... citalopram. So far beyond absurd dreams, being thirsty all of the time (seriously ALL of the time, liquid just doesn't stay in, I can drink water until I vomit but I am still thirsty) and some audio hallucinations when I started taking it I've gotten few and low sideeffects (knock on wood)
I literally just finished a chat with my husband about the dreams we each had last night before hopping on to read this.
I've definitely noticed an uptick in vivid dreams myself. They were particularly bad around a month ago when the coronavirus situation was really ramping up. Interesting to read that this is a widespread and related phenomenon.
Anyone have any really good/interesting ones to share? I have trouble remembering most of mine (as I imagine most of us do), but my one from last night involved getting an email that included a resignation letter from my favorite coworker, in which she notified all of us that she was leaving to open a distance dance school and teach dance classes via Zoom.
Dreamed about robbing an in-wall safe from a museum? (the exterior looked kind of like the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles) with another person (no one I know). We were in the safe room with an employee under false pretenses until it was time to move, much to the horror of the employee. My partner used something to cut into the wall and around the safe and was able to remove the entire safe from the wall and put it in a burlap sack and we made our escape. Got as far as the parking lot before a museum usher? caught up with us kind of. I think we were already driving around the parking lot by then, but this usher was running alongside the car. Or I wasn't in the car, yet .. dunno. Gets fuzzy. But I did feel bad for this fellow, and I wanted to give him a wad of cash even though for some reason in my mind doing so would slow us down and allow the actual authorities to catch us. Well, I tried anyway but the usher refused. I decided to just take a wad of cash for myself and strike out on my own, leaving the remainder with my partner. So, on foot I started to head toward the end of the parking lot (outside of the parking lot, everything was water. weird, huh). The usher was walking beside me and let me know that once I left the parking lot I'd be in the clear as they'd have no way of tracking me after. Something about how the money's made...like its fibers. Doesn't make sense, but y'know dream logic. I got pretty close to the edge of the parking lot with that single fat wad of cash in my pocket before I decided to go back and check on my partner, who was now parked in the parking lot. The car was a truck and there were people hanging in the truck bed along with the sack of money. I figured I'd grab one more stack and then take off. As I approached the edge of the larking lot again I took out the second wad that I had grabbed and looked at it. It was fake money, like you might get in a board game, with some kind of Roman statue's face as it's picture. I remember it being a burnt orange color, too. When I checked on the initial wad it was no longer a was but like a $10 bill and a couple of ones. That's about where the dream ended. Don't know if I made it past the parking lot.
When I woke up this morning, I had a strangely detailed memory of the dream I was having. I haven't really been dreaming that vividly lately so I have no clue if I'm part of the trend here, but regardless...I immediately told my friends about it before it slipped away. Here it is in its misspelled stream-of-consciousness glory:
I thought this was quite an interesting read. It's not something I've experienced personally, but my girlfriend has told me about a lot of particularly strange dreams/nightmares she's had in the past few weeks, when normally she doesn't tend to remember her dreams. It's fascinating to see that there's a physiological cause.
Huh. I recently started having loads of dreams, multiple per night. I never had dreams since I was young, or at least I couldn't remember that I even had a dream after waking up.
However now, in the past week or two, I've started dreaming, mostly about my crush, almost every night. Sometimes I even remember multiple dreams from one night. This never happened before.
Interesting read, thanks for sharing.
Same here, although I'm a regular dreamer (even pretty good with lucid dreams). I was already obsessed with her before the confinement though, but it seems to amplify it to some new levels, which is quite painful. I'm indulging into it at times, because there's something sweet in the feeling, but I have to watch out to keep my sanity.
I kind of have sine waves of dreams. For a day or two I'm absolutely alright and I don't even think about it. But then, it just hits and I keep having dreams about her for few days all the time. I'm torn apart between enjoying it and just... It makes me think about her much more than I would like to at times, sometimes I just can't get away from it. Still not sure if I enjoy it or not.
Did you ever try keeping something like a dream diary? My friend told me once that he started writing his dreams because of some class when he was studying psychology and that he started having/remembering much more dreams than before.
I haven't had too many dreams about her, maybe one or two per week, but I'm basically thinking about her all day long, can't really work properly or do much else some days, just watch out the window, daydream and sigh. It's quite pathetic :)
I indeed did wrote my dreams for some times, started when I was a teenager. I think it did improved my dream recall. Some mornings, I also take some time to catch and remember my dreams before they vanish. I stopped writing them because I don't think it has much value ; for me dreams are mostly a feeling, and I can't capture that on paper, after a while it just becomes a silly story without much content. I also try to get more lucid dreams sometimes (doing reality checks) but I never had that much success (a little bit, but not really worth it).
This is interesting. I was thinking that my dreams haven't really been different lately, and then I realized I've been dreaming about my first girlfriend a lot lately. I also typically have many vivid dreams.
It's particularly strange because my job has an odd schedule and I am already acclimated to not knowing what day it is and not sleeping on a normal schedule. The pandemic feels weird to me somehow, but it all seems due to the psychological aspect and not because my environment changed much.
It might be coincidental too, dreams always comes and go for me, I never managed to really find something that clearly correlates with it.
5G gives you nightmares!
I take medication that causes, as a fun side effect vivid dreams and nightmares as well as some risks for hallucinations. Corona, isnt helping though so nightmares are a daily thing for me.
I tend to remember most of them too, or snippets, and mostly they are overly complex especially if I sleep during the day. Things like "hands pouring coloured sand on a hardwood floor and hooves drawing complex pattern in the sand, scratching the wood underneath" are popping up.
No its ... citalopram. So far beyond absurd dreams, being thirsty all of the time (seriously ALL of the time, liquid just doesn't stay in, I can drink water until I vomit but I am still thirsty) and some audio hallucinations when I started taking it I've gotten few and low sideeffects (knock on wood)
I can't remember the last dream I had. :-(