The famous surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel had once said, if a life were offered to him where he could sleep 90% of the time and stay awake for only 10% of the time, he would take it without hesitation provided he could dream. Tonight i had a dream. I dreamt i was an airline pilot and that i had my parents booked on one of my flights, so we went to the airport together. However, my father insults me in front of other passengers saying i am good for nothing. There is no cockpit and i am expected to fly using a jukebox on a library hall wall. The flight gets cancelled because of bad weather, an approaching tornado. While making our way out, me and my parents get separated in the rush and I, thinking my parents must’ve taken a cab home, board one myself. I get home and find a voice message from my mom saying they’re still at the airport. As i come to the end of a long line of rooms, i notice a stranger sleeping in our backyard. When he sees me, he advances and i retreat. I try locking one of the doors but he has long arms that he uses to unlock the door. We start fighting. I scream and cry for help. He douses me from a bottle of fuel and sets me on fire. I fall asleep, finally comfortable in my own pyre.
So that was my dream. Tell me about yours?
That was a wild ride
I (once) dreamt I was leading a big protest for work from home and other rights at a big company. I didn’t know I had such a big mouth and could speak so eloquently.
I dreamt I was being tested by an African tribe whether they would let me be a member or not. I remember a big battle with spears and arrows. I don’t remember much else.
That sounds more like a nightmare
Yes, even though the images are intense, i wasnt particularly committed to any of them. Thats why i classed it as a dream. @Rainstorm
It is said that you cannot dream something you never experienced but I have dreamt I died several times. I then find myself in an afterlife.
I don’t usually remember my dreams. You have a good memory. Maybe you should start a dream journal?
My memory is usually awful. And the other times i had tried to pencil in a journal i had failed. But this time, the only difference was i typed on my phone right after the dream had occurred. And maybe since i wrote it all with the intention of posting it here, i managed a coherent story. @Jinx
Wow! That’s a crazy dream! I can never remember mine
I’ve never heard that before. I wonder where that idea comes from.
…Of electric sheep?
Sometimes.
I put together a booklet of forty dreams on Amazon.com and called it “Dream Stories.”
Without my CPAP I don’t dream. Never get to REM.
Varies. Some periods.
Not now. Sometimes I wonder if I even sleep enough at the moment, to dream.
I have really intellectual and vivid dreams which tell a storyline. I’ve had the same dreams many years apart and I remember them because of Déjà vu. I have pleasant dreams and I wake up thinking ‘that was a good dream’ but can’t remember them often. I do love to sleep.
I had another dream. Many years back, in a fit of psychosis, i had destroyed a ton of my writings including those related to my dreams. So i dreamt yesterday that i was visiting a new city and was on the cusp of eating some street food that came wrapped in a piece of paper. When i unwrapped, i found my own handwriting from all those years back, describing a dream in vivid detail. And i remember thinking about the odds of what had just happenned.
I have been reading valis by Philip k dick
Nice, how is it so far? Would you recommend?
I’ve wanted to read that for a while
Most of my dreams are mildly pleasant. A few are mildly bad. I like dreaming, but I don’t know if I would want to spend 90% of my time doing it.