Odd Dreams

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Odd Dreams

Odd Dreams

We all have odd dreams, right? Well... mine are twisted odd. Like, some good. Some awful. A few of you guys know what I am talking about because I've told you. But I am curious about dreams: why? Why dream? I mean, they must mean something. From being oddly realistic to future events to twisted sick reality with fantasy, it is odd. So this is to share dreams/nightmares/night terrors/daydreams and discuss them! And if for some reason your dream includes elements that could offend someone (such as politics) just make sure you are kind about it when describing your dream. If someone is offended, apologize. Plain and simple. Because I have a feeling some of you have had politic-based dreams/nightmares. Ha, I know I have. 

So once this posts I'll share a bit of some of my dreams! Wouldn't it be weird if some of us shared the same dream with the same details and everything? Let's just wait and see... 

submitted by Ashlee G., age 16, The Future
(June 27, 2017 - 10:40 am)

I get odd dreams all the time. I never remember them after a day or two, so I keep a dream diary. I will post some later, I have to go to school!

submitted by LilyPad
(June 28, 2017 - 5:32 pm)

Wow, lots of dreams you guys have! I have to finish reading through them all xD

Okay, so here is a rundown of the one that disappeared from the thread (again, Admin, might be a bit too gruesome):
I woke up in the middle of the night to furious knocking at the front door. I answer it to see one of my friends, panicked face. He begs to let me inside (something he'd never do) saying bombs were dropped and they went outside to see what it was and his sister dropped dead to gas. So he had come here in need of help. I let him inside and wake up my mom explaining why he's in the house and what happened. My parents get up and I take charge. My friend explains the bombs were gas bombs from what he could tell. We spent a few minutes talking over specific details and the horror, which I shall not mention here. Then the gas bomb drops outside (they leave no damage, just gas). I shout to my mom to close the kitchen window and the fan. I shout to my dad and friend to check the laundry room and bedrooms for cracks and to seal them. Then I go to the front door. Gas is already pouring in so I can't seal it. So my friend comes back and I shout (again) to tell him to grab the fan from my bedroom and the other bedroom and set them in front of the door, stacked up. Then I tell my dad to get their fan. I place facing right on the left side of the door. Then since we need the kitchen fan to cycle out gas, I tell them to grab a blanket and hang it from the ceiling on the right side of the door. I instantly know the gas is a mercury substance mixed with a lighter, less deadly chemical so it stays low yet stacks ontop of itself. Long story, again, more details I am leaving out about this. Then I arm my parents with I believe... vinegar bombs. Little plastic bags of vinegar. I think it was vinegar. Anyways, I give them that and toss them my airsoft and tell them to wake up the kids and be ready to escape out of the backdoor. There are a ton of details here I will exclude about plans on where to run, what do do about the gas, etc. Get to the good stuff. Okay, so then they rush to the laundry room (our back door is there) with the kids. Then I tell my friend we are about to do something stupid. Well, I said dangerous, but it was stupid. xD And it was to open the front door so I could see if the gas sinks or rises. He turns off the fan for a milisecond as I open the door and see the gas sinks. Then he turns it on right as it starts to escape into the house and it floods outside, creating the ultimate genious cycle (sorry, I loved my skills in this xD) and that is how I figured out it had mercury. Which explained the deaths. So then I decide to go to Russia and do something about it. Stop it. Learn more. Something. I beg my friend to come. My family almost tell me no. Anyways, skipping a ton of discussion here, I leave without anyone. I somehow learn how to drive without ever being at the wheel before, and I am flawless at it (again, I loved my skills in this dream xD). I then towed the car to a neighbor's truck, my friend gave me access to their house (the gas disappears within an hour) and his whole family is dead. I check on my other friend outside of town, and he was super smart and made the same cycle thing I did, so his whole family lived. I beg that kid to come with me, and he refuses. Again, skipping all the discussion because it goes on forever. (Literally, I have every word said). And then I leave. I go over the mountains. Through Seattle. Make a fake ID. Join with some theives to find an underground (in other words, illegal) shipment for refugees. Illegal because it's free. Although that's where it stops. So I am about to find a ship. But the dream lasts for months sometimes, so there will be more detail!
Wow, that was long. Admin, I took out a lot of the gruesome parts, so hopefully this'll work. All the dark stuff was in the discussions and details. Aww I really wanted the dialog, but then I'd have a whole story. xD
submitted by Ashlee G., age 16, The Future
(June 28, 2017 - 11:23 pm)
I remember every single dream since I was a child. So I'll share one (it is way less detailed then the ones I have nowadays) from when I was about nine years old (this brought about my fear of spiders that I still have today):
I was lying in bed, looking up at the ceiling. I placed a hand on the wall to sit up, and millions of spiders started crawling out of the walls. Millions, everywhere. Tiny, black spiders. Then I screamed, and placed my hand on the bed so I could sit up and escape. The bed started spilling millions more spiders. Then the bar of my bed that I touched. And my pillow. The ceiling (low ceiling at the time). Everything. The room became a rolling black storm of billions of spiders. Then I was terrified - what if I touched my arm? What would happen? My clothes? I couldn't move, barely could breathe. They were coming for me. I lay in a room of spiders, pure darkness from it, rigid in fear of touching myself. Somehow, I still do, and my arm becomes millions of spiders. I touch my face in panic, and I am blinded as spiders bury me alive. In my mouth, my eyes, my nose, my ears. Every inch of my body. I become the spiders. I am terrified because if I go to my family I might curse them too. It was like Midas and the golden touch. I screamed, suffocating in spiders. When I finally woke up from the dream, I spent at least a whole week afraid to speak (because in the dream, spiders came out of my mouth when I opened it), touch my arms, scratch myself, give hugs, touch the walls, eat, anything. For at least a whole week. And since then, I've been terrified of spiders.Well, very, very strongly dislike them with a tang of fear, anyways.
Sorry to all those with a phobia of spiders! That was... yeah. Intense.
submitted by Ashlee G., age 16, The Dreamer
(June 28, 2017 - 11:30 pm)

My final dream I'll share is actually a good one for once! I don't know how religious you all are, or how many of you are Christian, or anything like that, so don't be offended. To me, this was the best (and possibly a very important) dream I've had since years:

I was a bit different: this part I wasn't a huge fan of as the dreamer. I had long, wavy galaxy-dyed hair. It looked amazing, but I don't see myself doing that. Anyways, I had that, I had nice new clothes. A new style and I was more confident.
So I walked into FBLA Regionals lunch, which is a big dance party thing. (For those who don't know, FBLA is a national school club for Future Business Leaders of America). I knew a lot of these kids, but they wouldn't recognize me as this. Ohh, and a new thing here: I had learned to dance - good. Not slow dance, but like when people create dance circles and do a dance off between two people? Yeah. That kind of dancing. There has been this one kid I was always so jealous of because he was amazing at this. Well, in the dream I so beat him at everything. This is what I wanted - not for popularity, but to connect to the kids to get their attention.
After a bit of these dance competitions, I went up on the stage and grabbed the mike. People saw me as great, so they were listening. They had no idea I was the same nerdy, brown-haired girl from the last meeting a year prior. I stepped up with confidence and told them a story of what I had done. It was this (in the dream it was much more properly worded):
I was in Spokane when I saw a blind, old, homeless man being beat and robbed by three people. Gang members, or not? No idea. But I saw them being beat. I stepped forward and the men froze in confusion. I placed my hands on the face of the blind man, around his eyes, and close my eyes. I said something about praying that God blessed him, and that with sacrifice good will come more bountiful than before. When I removed my hands, the man's cloudy eyes returned to normal and he could see. I did not heal him - God healed him through me. Two thieves ran off in panic. The remaining one fell to his knees, eyes pleading. He asked me to save him. I said I could not but my Father could. I went on my knees, took his hands, closed my eyes, and said a silent prayer. The thief broke into tears, laying down before him all he has ever done wrong and begging for forgiveness. I knew he had changed. He went off and became a great man. The blind man thanked me. I gave him five dollars, all I had, and he gave it back saying he was blessed and did not need it. I gave it back and said to give it to someone else in more need, and he promised he wood. The now not blind, still homeless man disappeared. Four months later I ran across him again - even with a different look I knew it was him. He thanked me over and over, saying he had a beautiful wife, a child on the way, and received a job a day after I had healed him. He said he now had a house and a happy life and he was spreading the world of God. I told me the blessed will bless all those around them.
I told this story to the group of FBLA kids, as well as another similar story I did about a group of adults. They listened. They were enthralled - even the non religious or non Christian ones. I asked to do a prayer circle, going around and doing one massive prayer request for everyone. Almost every single person joined. Those who didn't afterward asked if I would pray with them individually. Afterward, everyone was so happy they were crying and cheering and hugging.

This was the best dream I've had so far. I told the group that to gather their attention, I had to stand out - hence the dancing and new look. I told them to have adults listen to me, I had to be intelligent. I said wherever the blessed go, others will be blessed and the gift will go on. It was an amazing, beautiful dream.
submitted by Ashlee G., age 16, The Future
(June 28, 2017 - 11:45 pm)

In one dream, I was reading a book with a red cover, and we were driving home from school, and I looked out the window. Later in the school year, I was sitting in the back seat of our car, reading a book with a red cover, and then I looked out the window, and I was like Didn't I have a dream about this? 

In a dream that I had a few night ago, I was running from these two hunters, with a girl that looked strangely like Pippi Longstocking, and for some reason I could shapeshift, and we came to a forest, a forest very much like the Forbidden Forest (from Harry Potter), and we decided to go in. We eventually found a path leading up a mountain, so we walked along it for a while. Back to the hunters. One hunter was a girl with white-blond hair in a braid, wearing all blue, with a bow and arrows. The second hunter was a boy, wearing all gray, and wielding a sword. Anne for some reason, the hunters had a giant dog. So when The Girl Who Looked Strangely Like Pippi Longstocking and I were running up the path, we heard the hunters coming up behind us, so I shapeshifted into a bug while The Pippi Longstocking lookalike  climbed a tree. The hunters spent about an hour looking for us, then gave up. When they were completely gone, we continued up the mountain. When we got to the top, The Pippi Lookalike did some weird dance, and an enormous panda appeared, and we climbed on. The panda took us to a city. The city has many bakeries, so we stepped into one. [You know what? I'm just going to refer to the Pippi Lookalike as Pippi from now on.] Pippi went outside for a minute, and somehow came back in with enough money to buy a birthday cake. We divided the cake,and we parted ways. I had enough cake to last me a few days at the least, but I needed water. After a few days, I had finished the remaining pieces of cake, and I still couldn't find any water. And then, right before I died, I woke up.

Willow says boek. You want a book? 

submitted by Quirker
(June 29, 2017 - 1:58 pm)

I'm going to flip to a random page in my dream journal and type out whatever dream is on that page.

It started with me walking through a market. I was an apprentice to either a woodworker or a blacksmith. The smith had three apprentices and the woodworker only one, so the two made a deal; I would apprentice part-time for both. I think the woodworker sent me and maybe the other apprentice out for some wood, because I/we was/were then entering a forest. It had a path of old crumbling blacktop for a while, and for some reason there was someone lying on it, on their back, pulling pieces up. Rats would occasionally scurry out from the gaps. And that was it.

submitted by Viola?, age Secret, Secret
(July 2, 2017 - 9:34 am)

These are old dreams from my journal 

I dreamed Martian Luther King Jr. came to my house and my neighbors and I listened to him speak. I also did some hiding, swimming,and riding elevators. There was a man in the library tha was climbing the walls of the elevator then being bounced off by the movement, falls and wipes his face (recovers) then does it again. I am hiding in a bush from my friends with my legs over my head. Finally I jumped out at my friends. When I hid I was very strong and won against two big boys who ended up crying. When I see a good swimmer and when I saw that (some girl) was good I jumped right in and she said "whoa". Then she gave me lessons (but I'm already soooo good) even though I didn't need them. I saw parts of Martian Luther King Jr. ( blonde hair, white skin) wearing 1900s clothes ( rock) with Mohawk and gold necklaces. Tapped on it and the real Martian Luther King Jr. asked if I had seen the attachment and I said (answer) yes (kind of) /no. The other people answered NO!

THE END!! 

submitted by Myla S.S., age 9 1/2, Hopewell, NJ
(July 11, 2017 - 7:53 pm)

These are old dreams from my journal 

I dreamed Martian Luther King Jr. came to my house and my neighbors and I listened to him speak. I also did some hiding, swimming,and riding elevators. There was a man in the library tha was climbing the walls of the elevator then being bounced off by the movement, falls and wipes his face (recovers) then does it again. I am hiding in a bush from my friends with my legs over my head. Finally I jumped out at my friends. When I hid I was very strong and won against two big boys who ended up crying. When I see a good swimmer and when I saw that (some girl) was good I jumped right in and she said "whoa". Then she gave me lessons (but I'm already soooo good) even though I didn't need them. I saw parts of Martian Luther King Jr. ( blonde hair, white skin) wearing 1900s clothes ( rock) with Mohawk and gold necklaces. Tapped on it and the real Martian Luther King Jr. asked if I had seen the attachment and I said (answer) yes (kind of) /no. The other people answered NO!

THE END!! 

submitted by Myla S.S., age 9 1/2, Hopewell, NJ
(July 11, 2017 - 7:56 pm)

WARNING: Giant post ahead, discribing entire island world of one of my dreams xD

 

There's a place that I feel like I always used to go when I fall asleep, or at least that's what they told me in my dream.

I had never dreamed that dream before and likely won't again, but I can still remember well what that island looks like, and I know in my heart that it's honestly my island.

The dream put things into my mind, it lived comfortably by telling me that this was an island that I went to in my sleep, that I dreamed from my young childhood, although I never had dreamed that dream once before, like I said earlier. But perhaps by it telling me that, it made itself true, in a way, planting the memories. I wrote a backstory to this dream--all I know is that how I got to my island was that me and the others were shipwrecked.

There were four and a half of these dream characters--one was me, the other was my brother, the rest were made up by my mind. We had been shipwrecked on this island, this crescent-shaped island with a river running behind it that seperated it from the mainland and made it an island.

There were rocky, tidal pools and areas where gray rocks poked out of the water at the left side of the island, beyond the round hill, in the flat area covered in pine and dead (well, waiting to come back after that long waiting-for-Spring-but-still-not-Winter period) trees, that we fished. That was where the half character came in--one of my three G(substitute for last name)cousins from real life, with her short brown hair, who appeared as we were fishing and laughed, helping us fish. If you looked beyond the left side, you could see a bay on the land that was seperated from our's.

Tucked behind the round hill on the barely left-to-middle of the island was the log cabin, made of logs with a strange, bright (not light blue, but bright blue) blue substance between the logs that made it colorful. That was where one of the made up characters lived. We'll get to him later.

There's no beach on the left and right side of the crescent island, but there's sand, a long expansive beach for us in the exact middle curve of the crescent-shaped island. A log cabin, like the log-and-bright blue one, except that there was bright red instead of blue, sat in the middle of the island, the flat where there was no hills but some trees behind there, concealing the river. That was where my brother lived. 

One of the hills ended in a cliff, and that was where the last made-up character was. His color was black and his cabin wouldn't appear until later, where the downed tree that I'm about to tell of was. He stood near a downed, gray tree when I saw him first, although the dream planted memories of him, facts about him in my mind.

My cabin (it's color, oddly enough, although my favorite is light, neon blue, was a pale, pastel yellow, the same color as the blouse that I wore--we all wore the color of our cabin.) was tucked into a dip in that hill, by his, so I had to walk past his every time. Now here's for the two made up characters that the dream provided.

There was the 'blue' boy, whom I never got the name of. He had long (I don't mean long as in long for a boy, I mean long as in it went down past his shoulders), greasy, seperated hair and wore glasses that concealed the color of his eyes (the light hit them so they looked white). He was the smart one, I know. I went inside his cabin once; it was mainly full of intellectual items. He was always the intelligent one, who told us facts on how to survive. He wore a bright blue sweater (Erudite, anyone?).

There was my brother, with his brown hair and red t-shirt, who I'm almost entirely sure, was the 'leader' and the 'strength' one. He enjoyed fishing over at the tidal area, much like my brother enjoys fishing irl. I only remember a blurry glimpse of the inside of his cabin.

Then there was...my love interest? I'm not entirely sure, I think that he liked me and I liked him? His color was black, and he WAS AN EMO. I mean, he was sort of the antisocial one. He never really acted depressed, but he had black hair and a black tee, and was antisocial and sometimes rude. The other two said often that I was the only one who knew how to talk to him, and they didn't like him at all. I never really saw his cabin from the inside, or the outside much, either.

I'll send a drawing soon, but for now that ends my long post XD

No, I don't have vivid dreams--some parts of this dream were extremely weird (a goldfish that we tried to catch while fishing at the river that attacked my finger and sat in a reed by the bank? The boy who's color was black had lived in the downed tree, which was literally just a fallen tree?), so I cut them out. Also, my dreams are extremely blurry, and sometimes black and white, so I had to figure out some of the details. I just know most of these things...because the dream sort of puts memories into my head, gives me instincts so I KNOW these things. It's hard to explain.

Long post over! Sorry Admins! 

submitted by Icy of the Island, age 13inAugust, The Forest
(July 14, 2017 - 9:33 pm)

Last night (or maybe the night before) I had a dream that I don't really remember, but I do remember that I read a book in the dream and I hated the ending because the main character died and it wasn't even plot-serving, it was just they went on an adventure and then at the end they died somewhat peacefully for reasons unrelated to the adventure. I woke up feeling really peeved.

submitted by Viola?, age Secret, Secret
(July 15, 2017 - 12:15 pm)