What's the weirdest dream you ever had?

Well i do not bother remembering my dreams anymore, but i used to and i wrote down a number of quite impressive ones.

This is copy/pasted from an old OP by me related exactly to a dream i saw:

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It has been some time since i had a nightmare, but this one seemed to be particularly important.

-The actual nightmare-

I do not recall the beginning, and very few parts of the middle of the dream. But i remember quite vividly its end, and a crucial part before it.
In the end there was a trial of a serial killer. The police were certain they had caught the right person, and there seemed to be no question of his guilt. In fact they were so certain that at the scene of the arrest many of the policemen pressed their pistols onto the head of the alleged serial killer, fighting their urge to just give an end to his life there and then. Immediately before that he had tried to escape, by climbing onto a barb-wire fence, but the whole attempt seemed to be pointless, he seemed to have been attempting to commit suicide, if anything.

The trial was very tense. Relatives and friends of the victims paraded in front of the accused man, in a manner that it is not common practice in modern societies. They were allowed to show pictures of the ones killed, and almost press them to the accused person's face. The accused person was allowed, in turn, to carry a toy- gun and wave it in alarm towards those people to signal that he cannot take it anymore, at which point the lawyers or other aids would come to remove the crowd from in front of him.

Of course i was that man accused of several murders. At this point i was trying to exit the dream without reaching the inevitable end- being executed or lynched it seemed would have been the outcome of the trial. But still i was not entirely one with the accused person. I was on the one hand him, but on the other hand merely an observer, like a writer of his story. This became very evident in one scene:

At some point some of the lawyers were favorable towards allowing the accused person to speak about his life, in an attempt to gain sympathy that he so desperately needed with the crowd. But this was not communicated to him. Or rather the lawyers, mixed with some relatives of the dead, came to him and started saying vaguely that he can choose a new line of defense, but then when he asked what he should do, a relative of one killed came forward and proposed that he should lie about everything. This immediately made the accused very irritated. After the crowd left him he stood up and went towards the lawyers to shout to them that they were nobodies and equal to nothing. It was clear that he was now of the view that the court wanted him to lie, mocking him about his rights to speak the truth about his life.
Finally his irritation led to him capturing one of the lawyers- or a relative of someone killed- and tried to cut through her neck with a sharp object. This attempt finally ended with him being executed in front of the crowd.

Now that was the end of the dream, and a scene before that end (the capture of the accused). The only other scene i remember in detail was one of the murders. In it a very small, almost embryonic child, was caught and thrown down from the balcony. This was done both due to hostility towards that child, and the sense that it amounted to nothing, and also so as to frighten the child's brothers, who were witnesses to the scene. The killer was of their age too, an elementary schooler.

-Attempts at an explanation-

Some elements of the dream seem to lead towards a certain explanation of it. Mostly that the final victim was an embryo of some sorts. In psychology there is argued- and documented- that very young, pre-school children, can come to imagine killing their unborn siblings, when their mother is pregnant.
Another possible explanation of the embyonic being is that it was at least in part a reference to a kitten i had once killed at that age, although i dont remember that episode almost at all. But if i did kill it then it is certain that i caused it to fall down from the balcony. Naturally the balcony, and also the room of the accused, were my own, in my old house.

Anyway i could write more, but already this post has become huge... I would be interested in reading what you make of the nightmare
 
I dreamed I was walking in a local park and happened across an outdoor Chinese buffet. All the people from Gilligan's Island were there, and the Professor invited me to grab a plate and have some food. The smell of the sweet & sour chicken balls was wonderful! But just as I was about to take a bite, I woke up. :(
 
The weirdest dream I ever had was only a year or so ago.

It wasn't weird in the fantastic sense, but it featured me as a child playing with two friends who were siblings. During the dream, one of them died (I think the brother). He didn't die in front of me, and it wasn't a monster or anything superstitious that killed him. I simply dreamt about the death and what happened afterwards.

It was weird in the sense that it caused a deep depression in me when I woke up. I was so sad, in fact, that I went to my parents and asked if I had lost a childhood friend when I was young, and had somehow forgotten about it -- I assumed that the only reason I could have woken up feeling so sad was that the dream was a subconscious memory of my childhood.

To this day I don't understand what happened -- I'm fairly certain none of my childhood friends died at a young age, but still, that dream really, really depressed me for reasons I still don't know.
 
Dreadnought said:
The weirdest dream I ever had was only a year or so ago.

It wasn't weird in the fantastic sense, but it featured me as a child playing with two friends who were siblings. During the dream, one of them died (I think the brother). He didn't die in front of me, and it wasn't a monster or anything superstitious that killed him. I simply dreamt about the death and what happened afterwards.

It was weird in the sense that it caused a deep depression in me when I woke up. I was so sad, in fact, that I went to my parents and asked if I had lost a childhood friend when I was young, and had somehow forgotten about it -- I assumed that the only reason I could have woken up feeling so sad was that the dream was a subconscious memory of my childhood.

To this day I don't understand what happened -- I'm fairly certain none of my childhood friends died at a young age, but still, that dream really, really depressed me for reasons I still don't know.
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You were correct in asking your parents if it was a hypermnesia (unusual re-appearance of a very old memory. Even Freud in his Hermeneutic of Dreams mentions this as a possible source of some dreams.

However that is not all it could be. Maybe the siblings were symbolic. Maybe they were your friends, maybe you projected your own attributes on them (as many children do) or maybe they are indeed part of you from the start, by which i mean you had a split which then died away (the one sibling got destroyed).

It also reminds me a bit of the popular image of the person on whose shoulders there exist on one side an angel and on another a devil. But of course one can only speculate about a dream's meaning if they do not have access to the dreamer and his own personal and individual system of metaphoric and allegoric reasoning.
 
Kyriakos said:
You were correct in asking your parents if it was a hypermnesia (unusual re-appearance of a very old memory. Even Freud in his Hermeneutic of Dreams mentions this as a possible source of some dreams.

However that is not all it could be. Maybe the siblings were symbolic. Maybe they were your friends, maybe you projected your own attributes on them (as many children do) or maybe they are indeed part of you from the start, by which i mean you had a split which then died away (the one sibling got destroyed).

It also reminds me a bit of the popular image of the person on whose shoulders there exist on one side an angel and on another a devil. But of course one can only speculate about a dream's meaning if they do not have access to the dreamer and his own personal and individual system of metaphoric and allegoric reasoning.
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I appreciate your analysis. I'm truly wondering what it was, because it was certainly not like any other dream I've ever, ever had before.
 
I haven't had any particularly weird dreams that I can remember. Most of my dreams of late have been realistic enough to get me down when I wake up and realise they weren't real.
 
I once dreamed that a pizza delivery guy come to my house riding an ostrich. Initially I asked why he was riding an ostrich, but he seemed to think this was normal. Eventually I realized he wasn't wearing any clothes and was using a pizza box as some sort of saddle. I then got angry and shut the door.
 
So I'm hiking around these rolling mountains, when I reach the peak and find a city below me, so I jumped onto a sky scraper, but the latch to the stairs was locked and I realized I had a fear of heights. I eventually got it open, then got a ride on a hover car and raced around the streets of cyberpunk Chicago with Obama, we sped through a restaurant where apparently this was allowed and dropped acid.
I was at some sort of crayon-esque museum with an old friend climbing a tall stair case to get inside (we were inside, but merely in the lobby) when I realized I wanted nothing to do with that and ran outside where I was ambushed by some Old West bandits and fought them off as best I could, then took off through the forest, beating away the men that would appear on the other side of the branches and avoiding their straw guns, something I did end up getting. Imagine a LAW but... as a straw. Any way, while running I was being pursued by a high speed train, and upon reaching a town I realized it was conducted by Hillary Clinton. I escaped across a bridge through this bombed out town to a tower with a large elevator with seats, that rotated, like a rolex, and then watched a movie.
ok? My dreams often are based of some sort of representation of where I live, but are vastly different-although more awesome-but I can't really explain that well here. Don't know whats with Democrats appearing in them.
 
I dreamt of a tree that was hypnotiising and luring people inside to be slowly digested. It had a really weird atmosphere around it, reminds me of the salad finger cartoons.
 
I've had a number of bizarre dreams. But here are the ones I best remember:

-- A few thousand wild turkeys running down a one-way street the wrong way.
-- A giant 6-foot cat wearing a frilly dress chasing me down to attack me.
-- I got shot in the leg (oddly no pain), fell in a ditch full of muddy water, went into a grocery store and put on a tin-foil hat.
-- Riding a large dog like a horse.
-- One of my online friends (who's like 13 or 14 and posts on my forum) was a former lover of an older musician who I was also chatting with and he told me this. But they were lovers in like 1982 or something.
 
civver_764 said:
I've had dreams so weird I can't even describe them in words.
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This.

When I was younger (I don't remember when) I dreamed I was on a boat my uncle, who wasn't really my uncle (This isn't the weird part, though he doesn't own a boat) and the boat got attacked by crocidiles. I prayed and asked Jesus to save me, saying I would give him my entire life if he did. I woke up:p

I had a lot of dreams about fires when I was younger.

Random dreams that seemingly rambled on and on. In fact, lately I've been feeling like I've actually been dreaming while awake and trying to fall back asleep...
 
Domination3000 said:
Random dreams that seemingly rambled on and on. In fact, lately I've been feeling like I've actually been dreaming while awake and trying to fall back asleep...
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I'm not sure if its what you're talking about but look up false awakening. It happens in some of my dreams quite a bit. Actually the funniest part is one time I had a false awakening and in my dream I worked on my site a bit. And then I woke up for-real and I was confused "Oh crap!!! Where did all my work go???" and I thought there had been a server glitch. But a while later I realized it was a dream.

Sleep paralysis can be terrifying unless you know what it is. Even if you do it's still freaky.
 
Well, in my particular case that I remember (Today) I was actually awake, and fully "Aware" of my surroundings (It looked like my room and whatever) but I was having random thoughts in my head that I had zero control over, and made no more sense than gibberish.

I was definitely awake. I was probably awake and asleep at the same time.

What's sleep paralysis?
 
It's where you suddenly wake up from the stage of sleep where you dream (I think it's RAM or something) and you're unable to move. Because in that stage you're unable to move so you don't accidentally fall out of bed or something. In fact I think I read somewhere that if it doesnt work properly that's why sleepwalking sometimes happens. But I'd need to look it up again.

Yeah I've had those "uncontrollable" "gibberish thoughts" before. It seems to happen to me alot when I get sick.

EDIT: Huh, I was looking it up and I found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_sex
 
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