What dreams have you been having and how do you interpret them?

I don't interpret dreams as I don't think they have any greater meaning or point toward anything (except my work stress dreams, which are entirely self inflicted because they come when I know I've been procrastinating about something that I should have done and won't take long to do, I just don't want to do it).

That said, latest dream I can recall:

Anyone ever get "heavy legs" dreams? Usually mine take the form of me needing to run away from something threatening and I can't. I feel like I'm trudging through sludge, or in the dream I try to pull myself along the ground with my arms, which also doesn't work.

Anyway, I had an interesting variation on the dream recently. I was in a similar threatening situation, but instead of needing to run, I needed to make a phone call. Instead of my legs being heavy, it was that my hands and the phone didn't work. The dream was a cavalcade of errors -- some mine, and some the phone's. I'd clumsily tap the wrong app, then it would crash on load, then I'd try to close it and it wouldn't, then I'd drop the phone, then I'd pick it back up but it would be upside down, etc. No matter what I did I couldn't actually get to the dialer app, or my contacts.

Don't know what to do with it in terms of interpretation (my experience has been that every dream I ever have is just an additional manifestation of my anxiety -- I never have good dreams), but I thought it was interesting.

Speaking of the topic, I'd recommend trying dream journaling in general - that is, you really need to groggily jot down what happens in dreams right when you wake up. Speed is of the essence, since the memories drain pretty quickly.

At least for me, reading it causes "memories" and like sensations? associated with the dream to come back, which is a pretty interesting feeling. It reminds me of a weed high.

One that I jotted down recently was a dream where I was riding a bicycle and being chased by a demon. But that is really pretty misleading - it was more like temple run vibes, not a nightmare or anything. Unfortunately I've forgotten most of the terrain.

Best nightmare: I was looking at myself in the mirror. An evil face appeared behind my reflection. There was no one behind me. In the mirror, the evil effigy slit my throat, and my reflection's head flopped around and deflated like a balloon. Not sure how to interpret this tbh, other than maybe I was suffering from sleep apnea which woke me up....

Most frustrating dream: I was shooting a hand gun, but the bullets simply plopped to the ground at my feet. I ended up going to a shooting range and firing a hand gun for the very first time. A more traditional interpretation is that I was feeling ineffective? Either way, shooting a hand gun for the first time was exhilarating.

Interpreting my own dreams by myself generally feeds previous apprehensions, neurotic fixations, etc. So I generally avoid it, and most of my dreams are really just random and inconsequential anyway.

However, some dreams kinda come with their own translation and are quite amusing.

I recently dreamed that I had sex with an old friend of mine. The sex itself was not depicted, I just suddenly knew it had happened. For a "sex dream", the whole thing was oddly devoid of eroticism. We are both male and heterosexual. Upon waking up, I didn't experience any shame, apprehension, or negative feelings from the dream.

I feel no desire whatsoever to have sex with my friend, but it's been an year since we've met, I probably miss him, and my emotionally stunted brain couldn't think of a way to express affection other than sex.

So yeah, I interpreted that dream.

I occasionally get these dreams that are controlled via some sort of system. It could be me speaking into a mic, pulling levers, ordering people around, whatever. The problem is I never understand how it works and come back to half consciousness trying to figure out. The last occurrence was me using a thing with levers and wheels controlling people like it was The Sims, sorta. This is the most recent dream I can actually remember, because I often know I dreamed, but details fade quick.

I think it's some metaphor for not being in control or something, but IDK. They show up when I'm dealing with long-term low-grade stress.

Similarly, during College Algebra class (pre-calc?. but that's what my college called it), I had dreams about unsolveable problems. The rules I knew just didn't apply, but it was more algebra than trig or calculus. It also had that weird quality people describe where signs/text don't appear right in some dreams and floated like this gif on the page I think it was one of the first "unmanageable system" dreams I had, and they started as an adult.

I've had fun dreams in the past, but I don't tend to dream much if at all in the past decade, or at least, I don't remember them.

I'm one of those people with the opinion that dreams don't actually mean anything. They're random neurons firing that have associations with one another causing you to think scenarios that you've experienced or have thought about are happening in various mish mashed ways. The human brain is so ridiculously complex that drawing any conclusions of their underlying meaning is absolutely impossible with our current level of understanding. The only rare exception I can think of are particularly intense, recurring, emotionally painful dreams, which can be indicative of some sort of trauma or subconscious issue.

I guess they can be fun to talk about, but I put dream interpretation firmly in the same boat as tarot or astrology.