For the last week I've had an odd recurring dream, where my hair grows really fast and I have to cut it every day otherwise I'll trip over it. Also, in this dream I have a baby girl who smiles all the time and I keep forgetting where she is and I panic.

Have you had any odd dreams lately? Please share...

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2000

Answers

I had a dream where I was Bill Cosby looking for the bathroom in a warehouse-style supermarket. And no, I don't do drugs.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2000

My strangest... I was in love with Fred Flintstone (and, in the dream he was still a cartoon, not human) but we had a big fight over furniture - his stone couch versus my soft one. Not sure WHERE that came from...

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2000

Marisa, that is classic. :) I haven't had any particularly strange ones lately, but I have recurring dreams about water and flooding and tidal waves and things like that. The odd thing is that although those things would be fearful in real life, in my dreams they never are.

Oh, wait, I did have a weird dream last night - I dreamed I had a talking ferret. But that's not truly odd; I've just been reading too much of the Sluggy comic. :)

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2000

I love hearing about other people's crazy dreams!

You guys are getting this one before it gets to my dream journal: I dreamed that my boyfriend and I were walking around at an outdoor political rally and Rush Limbaugh was giving a televised rant about something or another. To prove some point, he reached over and grabbed my boyfriend's long hair as we walked by and cut it off with scissors. I freaked and grabbed my pepper spray and maced Rush Limbaugh, and his body guards rushed me and I maced them too, screaming for help the whole time. In my dream I was panicked because all I knew was that someone was attacking my boyfriend and I had to protect him.

No analyzing this one, I think it was just a wonderful fantasy about macing Rush Limbaugh.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2000

Here's a not-so-odd dream but I sure had an odd reaction to it...I was still half asleep this morning when my husband, Nathan, said to me "I had a dream that you cheated on me." I mumbled "With who?" He responded "Some guy name Rick". To which I replied, "Not possible. I only like guys with names from the Old Testament"

I then fell back asleep and forgot the whole thing. My husband reminded me of our conversation and now I've spent all day trying to figure out what the hell I was thinking when I said that.

As for odd dreams I've been having lately, I think anyone here would be hard pressed to beat the one I've been having lately about having hot, steamy, trashy sex with AL GORE!!!

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2000

When I feel out of control, I have elevator dreams where I'm in this screwy elevator that is tilted or something and I can't get out of it. I have a particular phobia and sometimes I dream that they are in a piece of cake I bite into, or stuffed full in a freezer. I quess just to let me know I'm feeling scared. When I moved across the country to basically start a new life , I dreamed I tried to see my old psychiatrist, but they were "remodelling" and I couldn't get to his office. I can usually decipher my dreams and they directly relate to what is on my conscious mind. After being in an abusive relationship for years, I kept dreaming that someone was chasing me to try to hurt me, well duh, that's easy. The neat part was that after several years, one night I stopped, turned around and told them to leave me alone. The nightmares stopped after that, uh, unless I happen to let myself become vunerable to some weirdo. I'd love to learn how to have lucid dreams, then I'd direct myself to have confidence building, hilariously fun dreams every night.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2000

I had a dream I was staying in a small town in Portugal and was on my way to the cafe when I saw Jude Law. And I said "Oh my god, you're Jude Law" and he said "No I'm not" in a Southern accent and I kept spazzing out asking for his autograph etc. until he ran away. Then I was so embarassed I ran back to my hotel and stayed there for the rest of my vacation.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2000

KathleenC...I'd like to point out that two of the regulars on this board are named James and Paul...and my birth name is Michael. I just thought you'd laugh when you realized that. You gotta watch those guys with Biblical names...they can get to ya'.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2000

Well that explains why I keep coming back here. It's all you guys with those great biblical names!

So here's my question...how come Albert (is that even a biblical name?) Gore keeps sneaking into my dreams? Is that not the single most embarassing person to be having sex dreams about? It's getting so that I blush when I see him on tv. I mean, yes, I voted for the man but I really prefer to think of him fully clothed!

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2000

Kathleen, it has to be a dream, because I don't think anyone has ever, nor ever will again, use the words "hot, steamy, trashy sex " and "Al Gore" positively together in a sentence. :-)

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2000

Your dream posts are cracking me up. My crazinest dream (or one of them) was years ago. I dreamt that Michael Landon (of TV's "Little House on the Praire" and Highway to Heaven") and I were being chased by "bad guys". They caught up to us and started kicking our asses with this crazy new-style martial arts in which you toss one person against another in very stylized ways, causing them a lot of physical harm. (this does not exist BTW) So anyway in my dream this form of martial art was called "Husker Du". I don't know what the dream means but it's pretty funny.

I had a summer once in which I was having crazy dreams every single night. In every dream I was inventing products. Mostly toys. Those were great dreams. I wish I could obtain that level of creativity again.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2000

My favourite dreams are when I'm flying. I can go over the city and through houses, watching everything from a height and flowing around all over the place. Like swimming without any resistance. Those are such exhilarating dreams. Have you ever woken yourself up, laughing at a joke that was so hilarious in the dream but when you think about it in reality it's really dumb or makes absolutely no sense whatsoever? My husband does that all the time- he also has conversations with me in his sleep. Really abstract and much fun.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2000

Kathleen, I've had the Al Gore dream, 'cept it was when I was awake and lucid. Sick, isn't it?

The other night I had a dream that I got Radiohead tickets for Christmas, and got to go backstage and meet Thom. You have no idea how pissed off I was when I woke up and realised it was a dream. Grrr.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2000

Hey is Nathan a biblical name? I'm really out of touch with that book.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2000

Yup, Nathan is. It's my Dad's name too. (My whole family has Biblical names except for my mother).

Last night I had a dream I've had before, in which I have a baby that is freakishly smart. He'll start walking and talking at three days old. Last night it was cool, because he was cute like a baby but really interesting to talk to.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2000

Nathan is biblical, and it's my boyfriend's name, too. I love that I am the only person who calls him Nathan-everyone else calls him Nate (which he dislikes) but only *I* call him Nathan.

And saying "Nathan" feels really good. I like Ns.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2000

scrnwrt...my mother named all of her children out of the Bible, also. I'm the only one named after an angel...which is as clear an example of the triumph of Hope over Experience as you can find.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2000

A few weeks ago I had a dream that Mighty Big TV became a morning t.v. talk show, hosted by Wing Chun and Sars, and each writer had to go on the show at some point and host a cooking segment.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2000

If you guys like strange dreams, check out www.slowwave.com, a cartoon strip about real dreams that people submit to the cartoonist.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2000

I used to have this recurring dream, actually nightmare is a more oppropriate discription.

It always starts out with me walking around in the living room or the dining room of this house that I lived in as a child.(the dreams started happening while I lived there) Everything is normal and I am looking for something or doing some mundane task. Then for some reason I MUST go upstairs.(where my bedroom used to be) As I start up the stairs the color drains from the scene, the farther up, the more black and white the dream becomes. Also as I climb the stairs the entire house ages, and looks like it could fall apart at any moment. Light is coming thru the walls between cracks in the boards and roof too. When I reach the landing before the last 2 steps and a left turn into the room I start hearing wailing and moaning like several people in pain. I really want to go back down the stairs but I cannot turn around or back up. I feel that I must go to the window at the far end of the room (my room) which runs the entire length of the house front to back. It's dark, but I can make out shapes which after my eyes adjust are people laying on cots along both walls one after another. As I walk past them I notice that they look like they have been blown up by a bomb or something. Sorta like you might expect in the triage for a MASH unit. All mangled and moaning, and reaching out for me, trying to grab me, falling out of their cots and crawling after me on thier bloody stumps.

On screen it isn't so bad but in the dream it's ghastly, terrifying, horrible, and ALL TOO REAL....

I never do get to the window at the far end before one of THEM gets ahold of my arm or leg and I wake up screaming.

Shortly after I married my wife I had the nightmare and the caring, loving, unknowing ,sweet thing that she is. She grabbed my arm and tried to shake me awake because I was mumbling and crying in my sleep. Needless to say.... When she grabbed my arm to shake is just when one of THEM grabbed me. I woke up in the dark still in the nightmare and something had ahold of my arm jerking on it....

I bailed out of bed backwards kicking and convulsing, she thought I was having a heart attack or something and bailed out right on top of me to see if I was alright.

Now the thing jerking on my arm is on my chest. As I wake up I realize that she is screaming WAKE UP!!!! ARE YOU ALRIGHT!!!!!! I was freaked out the rest of the night. She cried the rest of the night cause I said some rather unkind things at her.

The next day I calmly explained that you DO NOT wake me up out of a dream no matter how bad it seems. She agreed.

I have suffered from several different recurring nightmares most of my life.

Ahhh sleep, perchance to dream....... coffee anyone?????

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2000

еdë §téè£-Did you ever figure out the meaning of that dream or where it is coming from? Any bad experiences in that house? Seems like that's one dream you'd want to get rid of.

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

Yeah, do you know the history of the house you grew up in? Some people (not sure if I'm one of them or not) believe that spirits can influence dreams. And if you can somehow appease the spirits they'll leave you alone.

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

I had this dream last week where I was sitting in a movie theater (which was a combination of a long-gone dollar movie theater in my hometown and Oklahoma City's AMC 24) watching an animated film about a world where demons had taken over and everything became dark and Gothic, and then there was this animated hero standing on a cliff looking at the darkness. Then I looked around me in the theater and realized that it was full of women and they all looked alike, sort of generically and determinedly beautiful with the same noses and hair color, sitting with their look-alike children. I realized that this was because they were all part demon, because demons had come into the world and fathered demon children and killed all the regular men, and I was looking at the second-generation result of this. I was different somehow, but they didn't seem to know it, even though I didn't look like them. Then I met up with the son of one of the head demons, and he looked like a young Mel Gibson with medium-length hair (I looked, inexplicably, like Nicole Kidman, about which I was very pleased in the dream). But he wasn't really the son of the demon. Or maybe he was, but anyway, he was half human, and if he had a child with me, it would be a real human child (I don't know if said child was supposed to save the world or something or just if it was like "wow, that'd be cool!"). So I wound up running away from my job where I worked as a high-paid secretary for a demon (they looked exactly like regular people, BTW), and I ran through underbrush and eventually found an abandoned bus where the Young Mel Gibson Lookalike was waiting for me, and we proceeded to have wild, guilt-free sex on the olive-green seats of the bus. In the middle of it all, I fed him some ice cream out of one of those little paper cups you put ketchup in when you're at a fast food restaurant. I woke up shortly thereafter.

Did I mention I was very pleased to have the body of Nicole Kidman?

Any interpretations are welcome, because this is far from my usual anxiety dreams.

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

i had a nite mare about jamesy the prevert!! ewwwww! in my dream he was waring a sun dress and he was rilly hairey!!!! eww! his face loooked licked that dead looking guy inthe rolling stones!! it was scary!!!!!

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

Vicki,

I have no idea at all what triggered the begining of that dream. There were no bad experiances in the house that I can recall.

Alison,

There is no real history to the house. It's just your average older subdivision along the river that runs thru town. Nothung special at all about it.

The only really weird/creepy thing that ever happened there was when my 2 year old sister answered the phone and talked to our Grandmother.... a week after the funeral. But this was long after the dreams started so no connection there.

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2000

My almost 8 year old was really pissed at me this morning for waking her up. She was having a great dream about the Wizard of Oz, I think she was Dorothy. I'm glad she was dreaming about the happy parts.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2000

I tend to have mundane dreams. Like last night I had a dream that I was reviewing a client's financial records. Booooorrring. My husband, on the other hand, keeps me entertained with his dreams. They are like one act plays and often quite funny. He carries on conversations and some of the dreams last a long time. However, he is prone to nightmares when he's under stress. I can relate to еdë §téè£'s wife. My hubby once had a dream that he was being chased by lions in Africa and I woke up to him thrashing and making really scary noises. I grabbed his arm and in the dream a lion caught him by the arm. He was terrified and tried to shake the lion off. I was yelling "wake up" and he was screaming and trying to get away from me. Unfortunately, my dad was visiting at the time and he came running out of his room yelling "what the hell is going on around here?" Ummm, it's just a dream Dad......After that, Dad always thought my hubby was really wierd. Another time he had a dream that he was back in the Navy (he's been out since the end of the Vietnam war) and that his ship was on fire and he could feel the heat burning his feet, but he had to warn every one else, so he was running around the room yelling at the top of his lungs "ABANDON SHIP, ABANDON SHIP". Again, we had overnight visitors. The next morning my friend met me in the hallway and whispered "abandon ship????" We still laugh about that one. I undertand еdë §téè£ telling his wife not to wake him up, but, in my case our bedroom was at the top of a staircase and had a deck outside. I was afraid he would topple down the stairs or jump off the deck. We have since moved to the downstairs bedroom.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2000

the other night I dreamt that my friend Stasia and I were making out. This is someone I've been best friends with since we met in 1977 (5th grade), and she is happily married with a 2-year-old son. I'm not attracted to her secretly or anything, so I'm not sure what spurred the dream, but the coolest thing is that I know that when I tell her about it, she'll howl with laughter, like I did, and she won't be all weirded-out or anything. It's so great to have friends, and friendships, like that.

I dream frequently that I am about to be murdered or executed. For mulitple reasons I won't go into, this doesn't tend to upset me all that greatly, in my dreams, which is comforting. In last night's dream, this guy was planning to blow my head off (after raping me, isn't that a nice detail :-( ) in the entryway of a church, in front of all my loved ones-- family and friends alike. In the dream, I just focussed as hard as I could on staying fearless, praying to the Universe to keep me unafraid in each moment, until the last moment came. My alarm woke me before any of the violence happened; lots of times I don't wake up until after I've actually experienced death.

Par for the course, for me.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2000

Uh...which of the Rolling Stones DOESN'T look like the walking dead? You have to narrow it down better than that.

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2000

I have really cruel dreams about my boyfriend cheating on me, with people I know. He is so not that kind of guy, but in my dreams he's fooled around with several of my close friends, girls I used to go to school with, people I know from work, and one or two people I absolutely cannot stand. I feel bad because I can't help but be really really pist off at him until after my 3rd cup of coffee when I remember it was ONLY a dream.

Does anybody else here get mad at people for stuff that happened in their dreams?

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2000

All the time. It used to drive my ex crazy- I wouldn't speak to him for the entire morning sometimes, I was so mad at him for what he had done in my dream.

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2000

Take that a step further - not only being pissed at people for what they did in your dreams... but what about having some weird sexual dream (wherein I was dressed like Julie Newmar as the CAT WOMAN) about someone you would NEVER EVER be with and then facing them the next morning at work in front of the copier? ... ...

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2000

Just last night I dreamed that I was in a T.V. commercial for RADAR DETECTORS. I was so mad because not only did I not get to be in the car showing the "proper and legal use" of a radar detector, I didn't even get to drive the "bad guys" car. I had to be a passenger. I was at least in the front seat.

The setup was on I-40 near the North Little Rock turn off. Cameras were setting overhead on the overpasses and in the bushes to the sides of the road. The "legal" drivers were in front of the line of cars and doing the posted speed limit. We then come racing past all the other cars just as everybodys detectors go beep beeep beeeeeep. Thats when the "kindly Police Officers" catch up to us and order us to pull to the side of the road. Then they tell us that just because we have a detector that doesn't give us the right to disobey the LAW.

The whole time all this is going on I am trying to duck my head so I will not be seen on camera (remember I'm mad about being a bad guy). Our car even had a sign on the back that said "Professional drivers on a closed track. Do not try this at home!"

This dream was preceeded by one about outer space and another one about someone trying to take a speed boat UP a waterfall into Lake Cumberland. I probably could have gotten there in time to keep him from drowning but I had to go down river past him to put gas in my boat first.

Maybe I shouldn't drink eggnog after midnight??? At least it's better than the nightmares that are the norm for me.

-- Anonymous, December 10, 2000

I dreamt I went shopping in my maidenform bra....

-- Anonymous, December 27, 2000

once I had a dream that I was in the post office, buying stamps. The lady at the counter gave me the stamps and they were red with no lettering or anything on them. For some reason I found this hilarious and woke myself up laughing.

-- Anonymous, December 29, 2000

Many years ago, I had a dream that I had died, and gone to heaven. But it wasn't heaven as it's depicted in the movies, it was very much like Six Flags, even to the point of having the overhead trolley ride and roller coasters. And my cat was there waiting for me, and some guy, too. I think I remember the guy from my freshman year of college, but it was not someone I really knew, just someone you keep bumping into in those big lecture classes.

I woke up from that dream, and I felt pure joy. Not mixed with relief, or excitement, or anything but just unadulterated happiness.

Funny thing is, I don't even enjoy amusement parks all that much, I don't like crowds (there weren't any in this dream, though), and I'm too chicken to go on a lot of the rides.

-- Anonymous, December 29, 2000

Last night I had a dream that Tomato Nation had it's own office at the Paramus Park Mall in NJ. When you went in, there was a big t.v. and lots of couches. Sars was very happy to see me and my mother, whom I was shopping with at the mall. I was Sars's first visitor to her new office and she was very happy to see me and meet my mother.

-- Anonymous, December 29, 2000

Nicole, it's not that far fetched. She's only about half an hour from there with no traffic. It would be a reverse commute!

Two nights ago I dreamed I was engaged to someone other than my fiance. The ring was this ugly ass gold thing with a pink stone. I kept thinking how much better the real ring was.

-- Anonymous, December 29, 2000

First I had a dream that I was going on a mini-vacation with Mariah Carrey--oh joy.

Then I had a dream that Gwen wrote a book about her life, only she wrote it back in 1995.

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2001

I have always had vivid dreams but this one last week left me scared. I'm in a house that is not my current home but is a bit nicer having a somewhat bitchy conversation with my husband who has again made me feel stupid. I'm thinking "We really need to consider counseling or this relationship is in the gutter". Anyway, in the dream, I'm also watching my friend's young children a well as my own and I notice her two- year old girl has somehow went down to the basement to play. I go there, pick her up and tell her she can't be there alone. As I walk pass the couch, I see my brother's bloody tattooed arm and the grisly result of a self inflicted gun shot to his head with the 22 on the floor. I run up the stairs clutching the child while screaming. My husband looks at me as if I'm insane and goes down stairs. He returns only to tell me to "get it together" for the sake of the kids. Meanwhile, my son wants to see the action down stairs and I hold him back because I didn't want him to see his uncle that way. My spouse calls 911 then bitches about how my brother got into the house as well as having a firearm and what a mess this will be to clean. I'm still screaming as I woke up. I still shudder...

Weird Reality: My brother has had a history of mental illness and I tried to call him after I had this dream. After several attempts over two days, I called a relative before I went to his home. She informed me that he had been admitted to a mental health facility a day earlier for suicidal tendancies. He has been there for the past two weeks and at least I know he is safe from himself. He is a dear soul and hope he finds peace. The timing of this nightmare is way too strange. My husband is often an asshole in my dreams - any ideas why?

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2001