Last Night's Dream: Our Collective Dream Journal

[Bighuey]

I had a strange dream last night. I have two dogs, a small dog who sleeps on the bed and a bigger dog who sleeps on a chair at night. Last night I dreamed the big dog was on the bed with me which he never does and when I woke up he was on the bed. Weird.

[Himmelslicht]

I don't remember my dreams every night but I remember that a couple nights ago I had a disagreement with my husband and I told him: leave me alone!
I thought he would be sad and apologize but he said: okay then.
He packed his bags and left me all alone. I felt so crushed and lonely that I almost woke up in tears. Fortunately he was there by my side after all

[Gannon]

I dreamt last night that ghosts had taken over this massive hardware store and were throwing tools and stuff around. The police cordoned it all off, after some people got hurt from flying implements.

Is that weird or what?

[Skillian]

This morning I had a dream where I was a woman stressing out to help her husband. I thought I was going crazy trying to understand what he was going through so I could help him. He kept contradicting himself and I kept trying to show him how I couldn't understand what he meant or was trying to say because the statements contradict. It goes fuzzy and years later I feel we are doing much better... then he blindsides me. It turns out that he had checked out of the marriage years before.. and was recording me. It turns out that while I was trying to help him... he didn't actually need help... but was purposely trying to confuse me and get me upset... so he could edit those moments together to prove that I was a bad person. To justify him in leaving... and so everyone we love would have his side.

Amazingly though... instead of feeling bitter... I feel free. I no longer hate myself for not being able to help him.

It gets fuzzy and then I am sitting facing this man... who is also sitting and facing me. We both have mirrors in our laps. He holds up his mirror and I see myself. I try to help him see himself too... but I can't... because every time I also hold up my mirror.. so he can see himself... the mirrors block us for doing that and the reflections just reflect each other times infinity. After what is understood in the dream as like hundreds of years.. I finally put my mirror back down.... and in time he also puts his mirror down... and that's when I can finally help him. So I put up my mirror so he can see himself... and he responds by putting up his mirror.

-- 09 Jan 2015, 18:14 --

Disclaimer... I know nothing about interpreting dreams. haha. But I will lend some thoughts.

Bighuey: The only thing I could think is the obvious thing.. which would be that like... maybe the opposite needs to happen or you want the opposite of what things are like right now? I have no idea. haha

Himmel: That sounds like an anxiety dream for sure! I am a worrier I get similar dreams all the time. I think we all have some of the same basic insecurities. What I hate the most about insecurities is that it doesn't matter how much I know that they are unfounded.... they still exist. haha.

Gannon: Woa! I have no idea what that could be about. hahaha.

-- 09 Jan 2015, 18:19 --

OH! I just remembered another random segment of my dream... I have no idea... it might be part of a separate dream. Anyway... basically it was just the image of a dog staring at me. Everything was dark and the dog was straight in front of me at eye level. At first I thought it was my dog (Maddie) looking into my eyes... but then I realized it wasn't. Then I started noticing different physical attributes that reaffirmed that it wasn't my dog. A reddish patch of fuzzy hair on the top of its head. Which was framed making a very boxy shape by its jet black ears... that I could still somehow see even though everything else I could see was black. Its eyes seemed dead.. and it just kept staring and it was really off putting and when I tried to stop looking at it or shake it from my mind I couldn't for a while. I think I woke up from it... but its hard to remember because I either went right back to sleep after... or maybe I didn;t wake up and my dreams just went elsewhere? I don't know.

-- 09 Jan 2015, 18:20 --

*droopy long jet black ears... like a bloodhound or somethings floppy ears.

[zeldas_lullaby]

There's this guy who I grew up with. I'll call him Stu. I had a major crush on him straight through high school, but he was a jerk. He never had eyes for me, that's for sure. But I always had these dreams about him. In my dreams, he was so nice and loving. Of course, I would wake up and immediately think, "That's not the Stu I know."

Flash forward about two decades, and he's married to a mutual classmate, and he's a minister. Every time he's seen me through the years, he's given me a hug. He has two adorable blond children, and he's very devout. (I'm not.) I've had past life dreams about him that have me wondering if we have a closer cosmic connection than he realizes. (That he's married? I'm down with that. He'd never marry me in this lifetime for an abundance of reasons. Plus, I'm no homewrecker.) But anyway, in one dream (and I've had these past life dreams more recently, as an adult), we were hispanic and I had a really big nose and a large build. I think I knew him when I was 18 and he was 12 or 13. He would come to me to complain about his mother, who was verbally abusive and treated him terribly. I cared about him a great deal and was always there for him. As soon as he turned 18, he moved in with me and we became significant others. However, due to his ill treatment growing up, he had a tendency to mistreat me. He was more or less aware of that, and we spent our whole adult lives trying to fix that problem. I assume it never crossed the line into serious spousal abuse, or I would have left. I kind of understood, though.

In the other dream, he and I were 14-year-old colonial settlers here in America. We were crazy in love, and we got married behind our parents' backs. When we told my dad, he had a much more loving response than one would anticipate: he said, "You're too young to live as man and wife. We'll have to relocate the family so that you can live as brother and sister in others' eyes until you're older." And that's what we did. My parents packed up all of my siblings and us and we moved a few states away. Eventually things worked out as we grew older.

Anyway, I honestly can't say that I believe in reincarnation. (OK, I do.) But the hurt he's caused me in this lifetime, not just in a romantic sense (he betrayed me deeply--not romantically--but he still denies it to this day, and so I haven't spoken to him since), is massive. And what it boils down to is that I don't trust him at this point. That's fine, he's married to someone else anyway. But sometimes I wonder: different time, different place... who knows?

[Skillian]

Very interesting! Dreams of having past lives are always incredibly interesting.. but I have no idea what they could mean. haha. I've had some myself... but I'm still not completely sold on them being something true. Mine feel too fanciful. I do believe that reincarnation could possibly be real. I have no idea. I am Christian and that isn't a popular thought among Christians.. but I also think that God could and would do whatever he needs to do. And then our God is the same God that Jews believe in.. and they believe in reincarnation to an extent... so I don;t get why that got thrown out with all the bathwater. haha. I have no idea. As far as beliefs and religion goes... I am still a student and absolutely no authority on the matter. I just find it all so interesting to look into.



AAAAnd I had a whole bunch of dreams last night... but by the time I finished cleaning the kitchen.. and sat down to write it... I lost it. haha. Boooo. Oh wait... I have a bit tingling my mind. No... no its gone.

[zeldas_lullaby]

Thanks for replying! I have many strong Christian beliefs and many spiritual beliefs. I don't know if it's possible to be half-Christian?

I think it's really interesting too!

[Chipewa42014]

I had a dream that I was little again, about six years old. There were these boys riding on horses and they had big swords. They were chasing me through the woods until I got to my house. I ran to my room and hid under my blanket. I was so scared but when I peeked out the window, the boys were riding past my house. That was when I woke up. I have no idea why I had this dream. I don't have a clue what it means either.

[zeldas_lullaby]

Hm... it could have to do with willpower. Have you been having a fun time lately and having a hard time getting serious about something--studies, diet, discipline, etc.?

[Skillian]

I had a really crazy one last night. During it I woke up a lot.. but like kept trying to go back to sleep.

It started where I am at the beach. This beach is at the bottom of a large cliff where there is a staircase that goes up it. Anyway I am in the water and next thing I know I am holding up my niece and nephew and fighting against the tide. I am bellow the water and hoping that they are getting air as I hold them above me. The tide is trying to pull us out.. and I'm marching with my feet digging deep into the sand.. pushing us toward the cliff. These giant waves come several times and I have to fight them continuously as we inch close to the staircase.

We make it. We scurry carefully up the now crumbling staircase.. which has been weakened by the waves we have been fighting. We are trying to get to the top of the cliff before the next wave comes. At the top of the cliff is my brother in law.. the father of my niece and nephew... who is holding my other nephew (his son) who is still a baby. He happened to have gone to get something out of the car... which was at the top of the cliff... when the giant waves had started. Everyone else was gone. All of our family had been washed away... everyone other than us.

The car is parked right up to the edge of the cliff. Facing out to the water. The edge of the cliff looks weak and cracked. My brother-in-law holds down the rear of the car while I try to get in and turn it on.. so that it doesn't go over the cliff. We are able to get the car out.. and all get in and go to complete safety.

Back home my house is destroyed. trees have fallen on it and my animals are gone. So I am guessing in my dream it is the end of the world? Since crazy stuff is happening everywhere all at once? Anyway... we end up at my parent-in-laws house. Which is still in tact. I sleep on the sofa.

Time passes.

One night my brother-in-law invites me to sleep on the bed instead of out on the sofa. We both end up sleeping on the bed. We just kind of hold each other and cry.

Then things get weird. He rolls me onto my back.. like he is about to try to make a move on me... but the dream just kind of skews off. I am stuck in like this half awake state where I am just kind of being held down. Which kind of reflects him on top of me? But at the same time its like I'm just laying on my back alone. My whole body is tingling. I see stars across my eyes. One on each eye. Five pointed stars spinning. Evil faces. Dead faces. Grinning faces... but all kind of in a smokey in and out disappearing and reappearing way. Then like this random cartoon girl making a kicking motion?

I'm not scared or anything. And I feel like I said 'Your prison is small... or something mocking... like mocking the people who where attacking me.. but it was foggy and I only half heard it?

I then see these three shadowy figures standing over me. This is when I realize completely that something is trying to come against me. I wake myself up by saying Praise Jesus.. and continue to pray. I was never scared the entire time. It was just really weird.
And I woke up thinking like... what a bunch of idiots thinking they could go against God.. God is going to win. (I realize I'm not God) Like ohhh you think you got me... sike!

I love analyzing not only dreams but the first thoughts after dreams where the impression that dream left can still be seen. Where for a moment we still think it is real. Ya know?


I am Christian... so I assume the Christian themes within my dream come from that. Everything else... I have no idea what it could mean, hahaha. CRAZY!

Then like I don't know where else or when else but there was also parts of dreams where I was like at this golf course or something? Idk. All I know is there were all of these random crazy golf carts. Like cool Fred Flintstones inspired ones and all of this funny stuff. But then also like this machine for bored women. That you hook up to them with all of these tubes... and I don't exactly know where the tubes go... but they just kind of fill the woman up somehow with this grey mush. And I could hear someone saying that its OK because the baby will still be OK. (as some woman I didn't know was using the machine)



WEIRD! Interpretations incredibly welcome. Have at it!

[zeldas_lullaby]

Wowz. Your dream broke my interpretation machine.

You live in another dimension when you dream, don't you? Kinda like I do. Does it feel like it's your second life? My mom, or my grandmother, or someone was always saying to me, "Don't sleep your life away." And it's like, "But it's another world there."

This could all be wrong, but I'm going to give it a go.

You were emotionally overwhelmed yesterday--maybe a big case of life happening. You're trying to rectify something that you're having a difficult time processing or wrapping your head around. You have some new ideas that you're afraid are going to be destroyed by your emotional state. You're fighting it, though--pushing yourself hard to "deal with it" already. There is the indication that you are very determined, and you're afraid that your resolve is crumbling, but you're not letting that stop you.

Stress took a toll on your body--maybe just some tension, but your body has recovered.

The dream is actually advising you to pay attention to what's going on around you. The clues are in plain sight. It's urging you to be more observant.

If that's all completely wrong, don't be afraid to say so. I have no pride. :geek: I love attempting this stuff, but if I'm off, I'm off. It is fun, though, isn't it???

-- 11 Jan 2015, 19:56 --

So I think last nights dream was totally anxiety related but it was disturbing anyway... I don't remember too much, it seems like I only remember the end.. but I was in this strange house that was kind of set up like a thrift store. It was dark and I vaguely think I had a baby with me but not sure. My mother was there as well only slightly sick (she died three years ago) and I was taking care of her. There was also this little gold and black striped kitten running around. The kitten is what alerted me to what was to come next because she ran to the kitchen window and was acting crazy so I went to look.
As I look out the window I see the ground splitting open and coming towards the house, like this huge trench is being created and there is dirt and stuff flying around it in a cloud.. I start freaking out and I'm grabbing the kitten and yelling at my mom that we have to go, like now. She's sick so she's slow and I grab her up under her arms.. I can feel her weight in the dream as I pick her up and bodily carry her, running out of the house. I have the kitten too.
Once we get outside everything seems okay. We stand there, looking at the house and waiting for the earth to suck it up but it never happens. Somehow we know we can't go back in there so we start this kind of exodus... eventually running into other people.. of course the bridges and the empty beach are in the distance.. When we get to the bridge there is a line and we have to wait, then we have to get in these strange Ferris wheel like gondolas to go over the bridge and it's incredibly scary.. at the top of the bridge we were kind of getting pushed around by the wind and I woke up...

OK, thanks for giving me the green light to tackle your dreams! I'm going to try it. Any feedback is fine. If I'm completely wrong, don't worry about letting me know if you want.

You have a good frame of mind for give-and-take in your relationships. You undervalue yourself in this area, though. You are becoming more self-aware. Your goals are kind of overwhelming you, and in particular, your mind won't shut up. It's restless, agitated, and in conflict. Possibly you're impatient too, and possibly afraid of success.

There's a positive message within this dream that you are reaching your goals. Definitely forward movement with both goals and personal growth.

Remember, if I'm waaaay off, don't be afraid to tell me. I have no pride.

[Skillian]

Sounds like a really plausible interpretation to me. haha. Thanks. So far your interpretations have been really good I think.

And yeah it feels like millions of other lives. haha.. and other worlds. Who knows. haha

[zeldas_lullaby]

Thanks!

[Blackbeez]

Absolutely sounds like a good interpretation and thanks! My dreams are so ominous to me most of the time, I just know that the interpretation must be bad LOL! Thanks for a good one and I am glad that it looks good for reaching my goals. I think I was about to pull it all down around my ears again. I wish that I dreamt more..

[zeldas_lullaby]

You're welcome!! Thanks for the positive feedback. I appreciate it! Looks like my day is off to a good start... :geek:

I dreamed all night that my dad temporarily moved us back to the duplex we used to live in. It was a three-story building, but our half was the basement and first floor. I felt like I had no privacy from our neighbors, and it seemed like a bad part of town. I had thought it would be fun at first, but I wasn't enjoying myself at all.