do your dreams run in the family?

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Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever had the same dream as someone else?

My sister had a very vivid dream about a house that she was living in. When she described it, we knew it was the house we lived in when we lived in Michigan. She was two. For her, the house now lives in a dream.

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000

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My grandfather died when I was 12, and my brother was 9. Grampa was 74, and really thin. I can remeber hugging him as a kid, and his body was hard, kinda lean. No squishy bits on my Grampa.

Two days after he died, I had a really cool dream where there were all these people around that I didn't know. Grampa was talking to me, telling me that he had to go away. I only vaguely remember that part, but I do remember the hug. Usually in dreams, I don't really feel anything, but I really felt this hug. He was hard and lean, just like in real life, and he even smelled like Grampa did when he was alive.

When I woke up that morning, I told my mother about the dream, and she told me it was probably Grampa's way of saying goodbye. Twenty minutes later my brother came downstairs crying, and saying that he had a dream where Grampa hugged him and told him goodbye.

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000


I have to say- I've had a sex dream about Everlast. Everlast. The very picture of the white thug boys I endured during high school. I like me some indie rockers. What's my subconscious saying?

Family never has the same dreams...nor do my friends and I.

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000


My mom dreams frightening dreams like Pamie does, but I tend to have more fantastic dreams. I guess because I read so many comic books when I was a kid....

I remember my older brother telling me about this dream he had with vampires in Victorian England or something, when I was like 13 or so... well last year I had the same dream, or at least a similar one... I just remembered this now, actually. Creepy.

(Not as creepy as - in the same week - having a sex dream about Mike Jasper and David Schwimmer. And FYI, I'd rather do Jasper than Schwimmer.)

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000


Thank God I don't know what goes on in my parents dreams. There are some things I just don't want to know!!!!

As for me, I keep having this dream that I'm driving a Jeep and I drive off the side of a cliff, into the Grand Canyon or something (then I jerk awake). I don't want to drive off a cliff.

I shall refrain from purchasing a Jeep.

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000


I had such an enormous crush on this friend of mine from high school that every time we'd get together and go dancing or something, I'd come home and have dreams of kissing her, etc. Every time. It started freaking me out after a point.

However, there is an up side to this phenomenon. For example, I just saw No Doubt in concert this week, and it was one of the most phenomenal shows I've ever been to. I'm hoping Gwen will find her way into my dreams soon. Very soon. Like, tonight. =)

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000


Look, if I started talking about dreams, I would be here for an hour typing the story of my dad's famous dream about riding a bus with Joe Paterno and taking a shower at the Greyhound station.

What I'm here to do for you right now is give you a tip that will save you from your foot-stink induced anguish. I got two words for you, baby, "DRYER SHEETS."

Every night, put some Bounce sheets in your clogs. (Not "Pounce," Taylor! Back off!) Your toes will twinkle all day, and in your next dream starring the freaky guy, you'll get it on with no wo

-- Anonymous, July 15, 2000


I have a recurring dream where the basic theme is I'm back in school, it's near the end of a semester and I suddenly realize that there's a class that I've forgotten to go to since the beginning of the semester. I'm now all in a panic because I'm going to fail this class if I don't pull off a miracle and pass the final even though I've missed most of the semester. The weird thing is, I don't think I ever had the dream while I was actually IN school, but I've had it several times since I graduated about 5 years ago. Another weird thing is that this is one of the rare few dreams I actually remember after I wake up. The REALLY weird part, getting back to the topic, is that my father, brother, and cousin have all had the same dream. Not EXACTLY the same, but the basic theme was the same. Now that kind of left me wondering if we're just a weird family or if it's one of those common dreams that everyone has, like being naked in public.

-- Anonymous, July 15, 2000

Adam-

I've had pretty much the same dream, particularly during the mercifully-about-to-end graduate school era. It's always some class that I forgot I signed up for until finals roll around, and I'm never sure where the exam is supposed to be, or what the paper topic is. It always takes me a couple of minutes in the morning to reorient myself and figure out that I'm not, in fact, that disorganized.

-- Anonymous, July 15, 2000


I have had that school dream, too. I still have it occasionally. I sometimes wake up feeling all sad and losery thinking "If I had just been more responsible...I could have been a college graduate..."

Then I slowly come to and realize that I did graduate. Once, though, I had to go and look at my diploma to really convince myse

-- Anonymous, July 15, 2000


i have that flying dream, where it's like doing the breast stroke in the air. like i'll jump, then kick my legs and i'll go further up, then kick my legs again and further up and so forth. last night i dreamed that i was being chased by a lion that mauled me, but in the end, only took off two of my fingers. and i think it's possible that if you don't sleep for a long enough period of time, it doesn't matter if you're awake or not, becuase basically, you're always sleeping. i wake up these days, and that's it. i'm up. no use laying around. whatever happened to the days when we were lovers, bed? i'd let you hold me for as long as you wanted. i'd tell my employers to fuck off just so i could be with you. but something's happened, hasn't it bed? we've lost that chemistry and i think you've started seeing someone else. you bitch! i loved you and look at what you do to me!!!! i hope you end up in a stinky dumpster in an alley somewhere.

just kidding. no, i'm just kidding. you know i love you bed. i wouldn't put you in any stinky alley. it was a joke. you know. ha, ha? yeah, yeah, i know it wasn't funny. can we talk about this tomorrow? i'm sleepy.

-- Anonymous, July 15, 2000



Weird, I often have those dreams about being short a class or missing an exam so I don't graduate, I also feel bad about not finishing till fully awake and realize I graduated ten years ago. I usually have incredibly vivid and realistic dreams, one of my weirdo new age friends says I am probably channelling rather than dreaming. Any way I also sort of steal dreams from other peoples pillows (I now usually take my own pillow everywhere as not everyones dreams are pleasent) Onec while staying at my older sisters house ,I slept in her youg sons bed with his pillow. We just finished talking about her kids and she was going on about how her son has no interest girls or sex yet, just sports. Well I had the most wonderfull dreams all that night involving very sexy cartoon girls with tails and cat ears, big round eyes and breasts. It was not till about a month later that I saw the same kind of beings in an anime magazine. I tend to think her son was having some thoughts about girls and sex.

-- Anonymous, July 15, 2000

My weird dreams are usually sexual. They usually start off with me tryng to find someone desprately, and then not finding them. Suddenly I'll just see them and get into a passionate sexual encounter. The weird thing is: I've had this dream several times, exactly the same, but the person changes. It makes me a little weiry. The people have ranged from teachers, to friends, to friends of the family, male or female . . . pretty much anyone (not that I'm thinking about, nut just randomly).

Another weird thing is, when I was younger it was lightening outside and I woke from a storm and looked out the window frightened. I started to cry and my mother came in and I told her I saw a lady in the window. A few minutes later she recieved a call saying my grandmother had passed away and her last words were that she'd wanted to see me. I on't understand why. I had never met her, and I was her second grandchild after my brother . . . it might have just been a coinscidence, because after that i always cried about seeing "people" in my window and am frightened til this day of looking out an open window at night.

-- Anonymous, July 15, 2000


i have a recurring dream from my previous life about my death. i die in a 'plane crash, and it's horribly vivid, i can feel the flames and the sensation of falling and i can hear people screaming and i'm trying to hold on to anything and i can't and i'm being slammed into the seat and.. and.. and.. i know it's from my past life because in the dream i'm black, and in life i'm an awful pasty post-canadian white.

-- Anonymous, July 16, 2000

I have this horrible dream that everyone types in bold face. OH WAIT. =)

I have actually had the failing-a-class nightmare, and I do mean nightmare. It usually entails a class within my major, and it's always on a campus I don't recognize. I remember that I went to the first few classes, skipped every one since then, and now I feel horribly guilty about showing up for the last few days because everyone's going to see through me and I'm going to be That Guy who never showed and is now trying to "fix" it at the last minute and who's also writing a big run-on sentence. Can you tell I was an English major?

And like y'all, I've graduated already, but it doesn't stop the dreams. Make them go away!

-- Anonymous, July 16, 2000

School dreams: I had some version of the same dream every year, the night before the day before the first day of school, from grade school through my second stint in college.

In the dream, it's the first day of school (or of the semester). I arrive at school late - so late, in fact, that it's nighttime and I've missed the whole day. I'm in deep doodoo for this and am never sure whether I'll be allowed to stay in school.

In college (parts 1 and 2), the dream took on an additional element. Not only do I miss the first day, but I'm also running through unfamiliar buildings unsure of where I should be. Every person I meet asks me if I've done some all-important bureaucratic task yet, but no one will tell me what it is I'm supposed to do. I'm panicked and clueless and in danger of being kicked out of school because I haven't followed the proper procedure. And there are also usually huge holes in the floor, which I must avoid falling through.

Little wonder it took me 17 years to finish college. I wonder if I'll have the same dream when I finally find a job.

-- Anonymous, July 17, 2000



I like this topic. Pam, you mentioned that you and your dad have the same flying dreams, but you've never talked to him about this. I just talked to my dad about dreams for the first time the other day. Are dreams hereditary? Possibly, but what I belive IS hereditary is the way our subconscious minds work.

I have been a skateboarder since the age of 14. I'm 23 now. I'm not as fast with my feet as I used to be, I'll blame that on beer, but I was pretty good back in my prime. At one time I was sponsored by a skate shop, and even skated in contests. However, anytime where I dream that I'm skating, I just fly the board everywhere and end up on my ass everytime. I'm all, "Watch this trick," and before I even attempt it, I loose my ballence and fall... hard. I Get up saying "No, no , I really can skate, watch,"...crash.

So I talk to my dad about this. "Does this mean that I have a fear of performance, or maybe that I'm afraid that I'll screw up in front of people and they will laugh at me?"

He says, "No that's not it at all. I have the same dreams about playing the piano (which he does very well) where I can't hit the right keys, or I'll be playing my trumpet (dito) and I can't even squeeze out one note."

Weird, huh? You dream about flying, because you can not fly, and never will be able to do. However, something that you can do very well in real life, never turns out that way in your dreams. You always end up screwing up. Actor's, how many times have you had the dream where forget all your lines, forget the play that you are doing, and just end up ruining the entire production? I talked to my dad about these types of dreams and he gave a beautiful explanation.

He says, Dreams are there to make possible what is impossible. Why dream about something you know you can do? Where is the challenge? You know you can do it, your subconscious knows you can do it, and it gives you confidence to not be afraid to do it. But, when you are dreaming, you don't need this confidence. You don't need this ego boost. It's just you, who are you trying to impress? Your brain is giving you a taste of what it would be like not to have these talents, so that when you wake up, you don't take them for granted. It makes you think about what you are really capable of doing. He said some other shit too, but I wasn't really listening.

I just thought it was weird that my dad and I have the same types of dreams. We have the same genes, so why not wear the same P.J.'s as well?

-- Anonymous, July 17, 2000


I watched the Dave Clark Five film "Having a Wild Weekend" last night. So, of course, Dave "Steve" Clark, "Saturnine good looks [and] well built" had 'kidnapped me' and we were chasing ourselves frantically around London, etc., and we were all in black and white. MEAT FOR GO!!

Totally bizarre.

It's possible that my mom has had this same dream, as the movie was made 35 years ago. But I don't know for sure.

-- Anonymous, July 17, 2000


It's not that unusual to have recurring dreams about missing class or something like that, apparently. My dad said that he still has them from time to time, and he's been out of school for nearly 25 years. he also read somewhere that lots of people get them, because going to classes in college is different from high school - you generally don't have the same schedule every day and sometimes you wake up not knowing what day it is. That said, I'm still in school and I get those dreams. Mostly it's about papers that I forgot to do, and I get to class, suddenly realizing that today a huge paper was due, or I have a test that I didn't study for. These dreams always tend to come when I *do* have something do in about a week. They're good in a way, because it's like my subconscious is giving me a kick in the head to remind me that I have something due.

When I was younger, I also had this recurring dream that I was lost in New York City. What I had to do was go to this place, specficially for lost children so they could find their parents. But everytime I got there, the lady that was in charge was actually killing kids by putting them on an assembly line type thing and then chopping them to bits. I was the only one who realized this and I had to escape (because I was a kid and they wouldn't let me go). Finally, when I *did* escape, I ran to a payphone and called my parents. (Why didn't I think about that before I almost got killed?!) I haven't had that dream in awhile and I have no idea where it came from. Dreams are so fuckin' weird, man.

-- Anonymous, July 17, 2000

A friend of mine and I both got our first (and only) tattoos this weekend, and went home and both dreamed that instead of the modest ones we had actually received (a gecko for me, a rose for her), that we had gone home, gone to bed, an woken up (hungover... THAT part was true, at least) with these huge, ornate tattoos covering MUCH more of our bodies than we intended. Kind of interesting that we had the same kind of dream...

-- Anonymous, July 17, 2000

Last night I dreamt I was a carrot.

-- Anonymous, July 17, 2000

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