Dreams/Nightmares

mako88sb · 02-22-16, 01:16 AM

I don't know if this is been done here before but thought it might be interesting/entertaining to hear about the strangest or most memorable dream/nightmare you had. I've had some doozies over the years but most of them I forget pretty quickly. Here's the one I had a couple nights ago:

First off, I'm Canadian but my dream started off with me being a sailor on board an aircraft carrier somewhere in the Caribbean. I'm much too old to be changing careers so don't ask me why. No idea of which carrier but definitely American. So far not a bad dream but I'm sure a bit of a nightmare for the USN. Things deteriorated pretty quickly when the lady captain of our ship who vaguely resembled Captain Janeway happened to notice a food container had been tossed overboard. Nobody would admit to being the culprit so she decided on randomly picking 15 of us to be abandoned on a deserted island and of course I was one of those selected. Hmm! A bit harsh even for a dream. In pretty short order the 15 of us were dropped off with pretty well nothing but the shirts on our backs. One of the stranded also happened to be a pregnant ensign.

Some of the dream is already a bit fuzzy but I do remember asking the captain that if can make it to the US border somehow, will I be allowed to walk back to Canada? She rather rudely told me NO!! She then told the rest of us that they would never be allowed back home. Something I thought really odd was that I was worrying a lot about my teeth and wondering how long they would last without regular dental care. I've always had great teeth with minimal problems so why I'm worrying about this in a dream is a bit weird. I also remember flipping out a bit about how somebody could condemn 15 people to a fate like this over a bloody food container. Strangely, everybody else including the pregnant ensign just seemed to be accepting all of this and were giving me funny looks as if to say, "shut up and quit with the whining".

So, at some point during this dream, I decide to head over to the north side of the Island thinking I might be able to see more islands that might be close enough to swim to. Everybody else seems peachy-keen about just staying put so I'm off on my own. I soon find following the beach around to the other side is a no-go because of high cliffs and have to climb up some pretty rugged terrain. This climb seems to have been the longest lasting part of my dream and I remember coming up against impassable terrain a couple times and having to backtrack a fair bit. Finally reached the top and sure enough there's a island off in the distance. Close enough though, that I can see what looks like a resort area.

This is when I really get to feeling distraught about my situation. How can I swim that far? Is there sharks around? I have no money or passport. Will I ever see my wife and kids again? I woke up around this time but it took awhile before my groggy mind was able to figure out I had been dreaming. Wow! What a relief. None of it happened! I'm sure everybody has had that feeling before. My wife was sleeping soundly or I would of told her about it. I rolled over and was asleep in minutes.

This is when something very unusual for me happened. I resumed my dream. I had a friend who did this quite often, especially when he was younger. This was the 3rd time for me that I can remember. I didn't resume were I had ended up at the top of the hill. I had skipped over the swimming across and fighting off sharks part and was now in the resort area. Not much to the rest of this as I woke up again soon after. All I can recall is trying to find somebody I thought looked friendly enough and might be willing to help.

I found a site that might be able to help me analyse my dream. Just not sure if I should bother. Has anybody here ever taken the time to figure out what their dream is about? Anyway, if anybody else has one to share, go for it.

Eichhörnchen · 02-22-16, 05:32 AM

My wife often gets up and says she had a brilliant/scary/bizarre dream. I pretend I didn't hear because I've learned not to ask her what happened: she will describe every last flaming detail. Just like you did

Seriously, though, when I was a kid I dreamed my Uncle John turned into a griffon, and then another one had an Egyptian mummy's head on a wall (like a hunting trophy) which started coming to life during a thunderstorm.

Maybe I eat too much cheese.

You ought to ask Catfish, he has them while he's awake... here's a selection:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=443

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=6931

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=6908

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=6672

Aktungbby · 02-22-16, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

Seriously, though, when I was a kid... I and then another one had an head on a wall... (like a hunting trophy).... which started coming to life during a thunderstorm.

Maybe I eat too much cheese.

Jimbuna · 02-22-16, 11:48 AM

I often experience dreams but usually have trouble making sense of them when I wake up

mako88sb · 02-22-16, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

My wife often gets up and says she had a brilliant/scary/bizarre dream. I pretend I didn't hear because I've learned not to ask her what happened: she will describe every last flaming detail. Just like you did

Oops! Not a good sign. That's twice in a month that somebody said I sound like their wife.

Sorry if it was too much detail but like I said, I usually forget my dreams pretty quickly. I think I will see about what kind of meaning might be behind this one. Must admit I've been thinking about it a lot. We have a young lady who's a lead-hand in our department who I think is getting fast tracked by somebody in upper management. Wouldn't be one bit surprised if she becomes our boss someday and maybe my dream is a warning about what it will be like to work for her. Does, your wife get paranoid sometimes? lol

Eichhörnchen · 02-22-16, 04:05 PM

I can remember a dream if I make an effort to go over it as soon as I wake up, otherwise I usually forget all about it.

If my wife has a nightmare I like to wake her up and ask her all about it, because the scary ones I do like to hear about. She doesn't like me doing this at all, however, because she doesn't want to be thinking about it all the next day.

GoldenRivet · 02-22-16, 04:18 PM

Funny, my mom and I were just discussing this subject the other day. I have very memorable and detailed dreams. Sometimes i have several different dreams that are completely unrelated

Last night i dreamed I was a police officer in plain clothes on the sidelines of the superbowl as part of security. One team was losing very badly going into the half, one of the players, a half back, came onto the sideline and in frustration with the coaching play calls, punched the coach in the face and latched onto him. I tried to break the two men up but this NFL player was much stronger than I. He began strangling the coach and beating him badly, so i had to pull my firearm. By then the player realized the seriousness of the situation and complied with my instructions to lay face down on the ground. within seconds, uniformed officers were leading him away. I holstered my pistol and noticed that in the altercation my badge (which clips to the belt) had fallen onto the ground, i retrieved it and clipped it back on and sat on a nearby bench in disbelief over having to almost shoot a famous NFL football player on national television. I then realized that one of the teams was a college team, and the other team was an NFL team. I remember thinking "well, thats not a fair match up in the super bowl" then i remember thinking "This is my gun... but I'm not a cop, why am i thinking i'm a cop?" then i woke up to take a piss

I also dreamed that i was an astronaut, part of a crew of half a dozen others, there was a problem with the spacecraft and it was venting atmosphere and several automated systems had failed. Myself and another astronaut were tasked with donning suits and going EVA to manually attach a docking collar to the international space station so the craft could be evacuated. We tried and tried for what seemed like an eternity to mate the two together but i could not get the ISS docking collar (which was like a massive flexible tube) to form an air tight seal with the spacecraft hatch. I was quickly coming to the realization that the docking collar tube on the ISS - while similar to the hatch of the spacecraft - was not an exact match and it was quickly becoming evident that it would be impossible to get the two to connect. I remember the crew aboard both the ISS and the spacecraft watching out of small windows, their voices asking for updates on the progress with almost annoying frequency. the last question was ", we are running out of O2 in here, How much longer do you think you need to get these things connected?" i looked at my wrist at a small screen, my O2 was also running low and i checked the estimated EVA time remaining at current O2 levels, i transmitted to the crew "In 14 minutes I'll be a corpse drifting into space if that answers your &#%$ question!" after a few seconds of silence i said "Guys... we need a plan B here. these docking collars are two different designs, this isnt going to work." and i woke up

Commander Wallace · 02-22-16, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by mako88sb

I don't know if this is been done here before but thought it might be interesting/entertaining to hear about the strangest or most memorable dream/nightmare you had. I've had some doozies over the years but most of them I forget pretty quickly. Here's the one I had a couple nights ago:

It's so amazing. I had the very same dream the other night too. The only difference is when I was in the water, I heard the theme songs from jaws playing right before I saw jaws coming at me. The shark was followed closely by Roy Schieder screaming, " we're going to need a bigger boat .

Seriously, Some dreams seem so real it can take a minute or 2 waking up before one realizes it was just a dream.

Jimbuna · 02-22-16, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

Seriously, Some dreams seem so real it can take a minute or 2 waking up before one realizes it was just a dream.

Precisely

Eichhörnchen · 02-23-16, 04:22 AM

The other night I dreamed I was eating a giant marshmallow...

Catfish · 02-23-16, 05:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

... Maybe I eat too much cheese.
You ought to ask Catfish, he has them while he's awake... here's a selection:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=443
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=6931
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=6908
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=6672

None of my dreams come close to what you dream i dream

STEED · 02-23-16, 08:38 AM

I have noticed I now sleep all the way though nightmares and not wake up suddenly. One strange one I'm in a lift and no not plunging downwards instead going up at high speed though the roof all the way to the sky!

What is that all about?

U505995 · 02-23-16, 09:15 AM

I had a dream where me and my dad worked for Jason Vorhees (that guy with the hockey mask) on a farm. We would drive to work in the cramped cab of an Allis Chalmers tractor to my grandma's house which was now strangely owned by Jason. Then we would plant corn while Jason watched from the side of the field rather creepily.

Catfish · 02-23-16, 09:37 AM

When i was very young i was afraid of nightmare dreams, however at one point in my sleep it was like reading a book. A dream came to an end, and i somehow knew it, and was presented with an old-looking book. Turning the page ended the last dream, and on the new page there was the picture of a ghost or some creepy stuff. If i turned the page a very bad dream started right away. But if i decided to close the book at that point, i instantly woke up.
This lasted for several years, and took away my fear of nightmare dreams, since i had somehow found a trick to control it.

fumo30 · 02-23-16, 11:04 AM

I have repeadetly seen dreams in which I'm looking at some kind of a blue map with squares and numbers in them. I also hear diesel engines running background???
Usually in these dreams I can hear someone saying in german like... "wir sind beschädigt".

I never figured out what an earth could cause such strange and scary dreaming.

Any ideas?

02-22-16, 01:16 AM	#1
mako88sb XO Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Calgary, Canada Posts: 423 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Dreams/Nightmares I don't know if this is been done here before but thought it might be interesting/entertaining to hear about the strangest or most memorable dream/nightmare you had. I've had some doozies over the years but most of them I forget pretty quickly. Here's the one I had a couple nights ago: First off, I'm Canadian but my dream started off with me being a sailor on board an aircraft carrier somewhere in the Caribbean. I'm much too old to be changing careers so don't ask me why. No idea of which carrier but definitely American. So far not a bad dream but I'm sure a bit of a nightmare for the USN. Things deteriorated pretty quickly when the lady captain of our ship who vaguely resembled Captain Janeway happened to notice a food container had been tossed overboard. Nobody would admit to being the culprit so she decided on randomly picking 15 of us to be abandoned on a deserted island and of course I was one of those selected. Hmm! A bit harsh even for a dream. In pretty short order the 15 of us were dropped off with pretty well nothing but the shirts on our backs. One of the stranded also happened to be a pregnant ensign. Some of the dream is already a bit fuzzy but I do remember asking the captain that if can make it to the US border somehow, will I be allowed to walk back to Canada? She rather rudely told me NO!! She then told the rest of us that they would never be allowed back home. Something I thought really odd was that I was worrying a lot about my teeth and wondering how long they would last without regular dental care. I've always had great teeth with minimal problems so why I'm worrying about this in a dream is a bit weird. I also remember flipping out a bit about how somebody could condemn 15 people to a fate like this over a bloody food container. Strangely, everybody else including the pregnant ensign just seemed to be accepting all of this and were giving me funny looks as if to say, "shut up and quit with the whining". So, at some point during this dream, I decide to head over to the north side of the Island thinking I might be able to see more islands that might be close enough to swim to. Everybody else seems peachy-keen about just staying put so I'm off on my own. I soon find following the beach around to the other side is a no-go because of high cliffs and have to climb up some pretty rugged terrain. This climb seems to have been the longest lasting part of my dream and I remember coming up against impassable terrain a couple times and having to backtrack a fair bit. Finally reached the top and sure enough there's a island off in the distance. Close enough though, that I can see what looks like a resort area. This is when I really get to feeling distraught about my situation. How can I swim that far? Is there sharks around? I have no money or passport. Will I ever see my wife and kids again? I woke up around this time but it took awhile before my groggy mind was able to figure out I had been dreaming. Wow! What a relief. None of it happened! I'm sure everybody has had that feeling before. My wife was sleeping soundly or I would of told her about it. I rolled over and was asleep in minutes. This is when something very unusual for me happened. I resumed my dream. I had a friend who did this quite often, especially when he was younger. This was the 3rd time for me that I can remember. I didn't resume were I had ended up at the top of the hill. I had skipped over the swimming across and fighting off sharks part and was now in the resort area. Not much to the rest of this as I woke up again soon after. All I can recall is trying to find somebody I thought looked friendly enough and might be willing to help. I found a site that might be able to help me analyse my dream. Just not sure if I should bother. Has anybody here ever taken the time to figure out what their dream is about? Anyway, if anybody else has one to share, go for it.

02-22-16, 05:32 AM	#2
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,370 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	My wife often gets up and says she had a brilliant/scary/bizarre dream. I pretend I didn't hear because I've learned not to ask her what happened: she will describe every last flaming detail. Just like you did Seriously, though, when I was a kid I dreamed my Uncle John turned into a griffon, and then another one had an Egyptian mummy's head on a wall (like a hunting trophy) which started coming to life during a thunderstorm. Maybe I eat too much cheese. You ought to ask Catfish, he has them while he's awake... here's a selection: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=443 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=6931 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=6908 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=6672 __________________ Last edited by Eichhörnchen; 02-22-16 at 08:17 AM.

02-22-16, 11:48 AM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I often experience dreams but usually have trouble making sense of them when I wake up __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

02-22-16, 04:05 PM	#6
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,370 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I can remember a dream if I make an effort to go over it as soon as I wake up, otherwise I usually forget all about it. If my wife has a nightmare I like to wake her up and ask her all about it, because the scary ones I do like to hear about. She doesn't like me doing this at all, however, because she doesn't want to be thinking about it all the next day. __________________

02-22-16, 04:18 PM	#7
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	Funny, my mom and I were just discussing this subject the other day. I have very memorable and detailed dreams. Sometimes i have several different dreams that are completely unrelated Last night i dreamed I was a police officer in plain clothes on the sidelines of the superbowl as part of security. One team was losing very badly going into the half, one of the players, a half back, came onto the sideline and in frustration with the coaching play calls, punched the coach in the face and latched onto him. I tried to break the two men up but this NFL player was much stronger than I. He began strangling the coach and beating him badly, so i had to pull my firearm. By then the player realized the seriousness of the situation and complied with my instructions to lay face down on the ground. within seconds, uniformed officers were leading him away. I holstered my pistol and noticed that in the altercation my badge (which clips to the belt) had fallen onto the ground, i retrieved it and clipped it back on and sat on a nearby bench in disbelief over having to almost shoot a famous NFL football player on national television. I then realized that one of the teams was a college team, and the other team was an NFL team. I remember thinking "well, thats not a fair match up in the super bowl" then i remember thinking "This is my gun... but I'm not a cop, why am i thinking i'm a cop?" then i woke up to take a piss I also dreamed that i was an astronaut, part of a crew of half a dozen others, there was a problem with the spacecraft and it was venting atmosphere and several automated systems had failed. Myself and another astronaut were tasked with donning suits and going EVA to manually attach a docking collar to the international space station so the craft could be evacuated. We tried and tried for what seemed like an eternity to mate the two together but i could not get the ISS docking collar (which was like a massive flexible tube) to form an air tight seal with the spacecraft hatch. I was quickly coming to the realization that the docking collar tube on the ISS - while similar to the hatch of the spacecraft - was not an exact match and it was quickly becoming evident that it would be impossible to get the two to connect. I remember the crew aboard both the ISS and the spacecraft watching out of small windows, their voices asking for updates on the progress with almost annoying frequency. the last question was ", we are running out of O2 in here, How much longer do you think you need to get these things connected?" i looked at my wrist at a small screen, my O2 was also running low and i checked the estimated EVA time remaining at current O2 levels, i transmitted to the crew "In 14 minutes I'll be a corpse drifting into space if that answers your &#%$ question!" after a few seconds of silence i said "Guys... we need a plan B here. these docking collars are two different designs, this isnt going to work." and i woke up __________________

02-23-16, 04:22 AM	#10
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,370 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	The other night I dreamed I was eating a giant marshmallow... __________________

02-23-16, 08:38 AM	#12
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	I have noticed I now sleep all the way though nightmares and not wake up suddenly. One strange one I'm in a lift and no not plunging downwards instead going up at high speed though the roof all the way to the sky! What is that all about? __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

02-23-16, 09:15 AM	#13
U505995 Planesman Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Wisconsin, the best state in the union. Posts: 191 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I had a dream where me and my dad worked for Jason Vorhees (that guy with the hockey mask) on a farm. We would drive to work in the cramped cab of an Allis Chalmers tractor to my grandma's house which was now strangely owned by Jason. Then we would plant corn while Jason watched from the side of the field rather creepily.

02-23-16, 09:37 AM	#14
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	When i was very young i was afraid of nightmare dreams, however at one point in my sleep it was like reading a book. A dream came to an end, and i somehow knew it, and was presented with an old-looking book. Turning the page ended the last dream, and on the new page there was the picture of a ghost or some creepy stuff. If i turned the page a very bad dream started right away. But if i decided to close the book at that point, i instantly woke up. This lasted for several years, and took away my fear of nightmare dreams, since i had somehow found a trick to control it. __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

02-23-16, 11:04 AM	#15
fumo30 Grey Wolf Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 872 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	I have repeadetly seen dreams in which I'm looking at some kind of a blue map with squares and numbers in them. I also hear diesel engines running background??? Usually in these dreams I can hear someone saying in german like... "wir sind beschädigt". I never figured out what an earth could cause such strange and scary dreaming. Any ideas?