Do you remember your dreams? If so what was the best dream you ever had?

[thegreenyogi]

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I remember a bunch of them although most of them are quite surreal and bizarre.

One of my favorites involved being in a post-apocalyptic earth where aliens had taken over. The aliens moved very slowly like zombies but one of the main things that made them so dangerous is that they were completely immune to conventional weaponry with their thick hides and technology. Bullets would bounce off of them, with explosives they'd just walk out of the fire unscathed, it was just extremely difficult to hurt them.

My wife and I were part of a resistance group and among the last human survivors remaining. We had to eat beef jerky all the time to survive but we didn't mind since we love beef jerky, although my wife really missed sweets so I ended up trying to find some on our raids for supplies and occasionally found some here and there.

In the process, I was working on researching and developing a new prototype weapon that I thought could defeat the aliens. It looked like a handgun and I made it black with red stripes and a logo of Raijin (thunder god) since I thought that looked rad [*].

[*] I used to have a Raijin lighter when I was younger like this:

My former Raijin lighter.

[*] I ended up giving it to a very nice elderly woman in exchange for a ticket ride back home after I ended up getting pickpocketed. She kept insisting on buying me a ticket home so I gave her that lighter in exchange.

Anyway, I designed a very similar logo to my former lighter on my prototype gun and it was ready to test after months of working on it. So I went outside and wanted to test it on one of the zombie aliens, but then my wife said she wanted to shoot it.

Wife: "Let me! Let me!"
Me: "No, it's dangerous and I developed the gun. I should test it and you should stand back."
Wife: "But I want to shoot it! Don't you love me? [pouty face]"
Me: [Sigh] Okay, but be very careful with it! It packs a real punch!
Wife: "Yay!"

Then she completely missed and blew up our truck.

Me: "Okay, that's enough! I should shoot it now!"
Wife: "No, let me try again!"
Me: "[Sigh] Okay, but aim carefully! Don't shoot until you're sure."
Wife: "Okay! [Shoots the gun immediately]"

After that she missed and blew up our power supply station! We needed that energy for our fortified defenses!

Me: "OMG! Get back inside! We have to defend our base!"

Then the aliens started pouring into our base and we were at our last wits. Yet my prototype gun actually worked to kill them (I used it and shot it now).

Wife: "Can I shoot the aliens too?"
Me: "Not now!"
Wife: "Pretty please? Don't you love me? I'm your wife!"
Me: "[Sigh] Okay, but make each shot count!

After that my wife missed and blew up the entrance into our base, causing it to collapse and trapping us inside with the aliens.

Wife: "Whoops!"
Me: "Oh geez, we're dead now."
Wife: "Sorry about that."
Me: "It's okay. I really loved our life together!"
Wife: "Me too! I especially liked the cookies you got for me."

Then we died.

[thegreenyogi]

WOW!! this was an awesome dream!! Sounds like something out of a extraterrestrial video game experience!! I love the engraving deseign on your lighter. Thank you for sharing as always!

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Cheers! I used to play a bunch of video games growing up and was also a former video game developer. That's probably a big source of the wacky fantasy and sci-fi settings in my dreams was video games as well as a love of sci-fi films and fantasy films.

My wife also had a funny dream almost at the same time. Oddly we had a lot of dreams about each other early into marriage and would tell each other as soon as we woke up.

With her dream, she was lost in a cornfield and she was looking for me.



Then she found a clearing with a barn and entered the barn. Inside the barn was a man with no legs. As soon as he saw her, he started farting and levitating off the ground with the sheer power of his farts like "Pzzzssshtttttt!" Then he started flying in my wife's direction with a steady stream of flatulence and she run the opposite way into the cornfield screaming as he flew after her.

Finally she found me in the open pathway in the middle of the cornfield and asked me to help her. Then, apparently I asked her what's wrong and she said a man with no legs is chasing her and pointed backwards. As she did that, the man with no legs flying from his farts emerged and then I walked up to him and we bro-hugged. Me: "Long time no see! How's life?" Him: "Great! [...]"

Apparently we started getting in a very friendly conversation and my wife was shocked and asked, "Wait, you two know each other?" Us: "Yes, we're best friends!" Then I started dancing like Lord of the Rings and he was flying around me in circles.

I thought that was a really funny dream when she told me, although for her it was a nightmare. She woke up sweating and panicking. 😅

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

* Like Lord of the Dance, sorry!

[thegreenyogi]

😄😄That's so sweet and really funny!!

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Do you have any of your own? I wondering if maybe you'd have some ones that are really out there in common with me since we seem to have that shared emotional sensitivity and love of swimming and tidal waves.

I have a lot of dreams about water as we shared before although most of them are very surreal and difficult to articulate. Most of my dreams are memorable but they don't always present themselves neatly into a chronological story, often skipping all over the place in time and space. It's usually only the ones I have about people that kind of fit the structure of a story without seemingly like just a random slew of moments loosely connected together.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

[*] [I'm] wondering if maybe you'd have some ones that are really out there [...]
[*] [...] without [seeming] like just a random slew of moments loosely connected together

I'm making a lot of mistakes in my writing today. Sorry about that! I wish this site had an edit feature.

[thegreenyogi]

Gosh!!! I have so many and what's amazing about it is that I remember them all when I wake up. They're not always pleasant dreams and I guess that's common with everyone. In my case I use my dreams as a form of inspiration because I am also a writer in my free time and many details of my dreams give me something I can use to create.

Once I dreamt that I was walking up on the edge of a cliff and the sea below looked apparently calm although I knew that it was brewing. All of a sudden the tide began to rise and it wasn't in the form of a wave but it rose like one big mass of water. I panicked and began to run along the cliff desperate to escape. Just as the water was about to envelope me hole I caught site of a hole in the cliff and threw myself inside. It was a cave with candles lit everywhere and I found myself staring at the flame exhausted and relieved I was safe. The next day I began writing my first novel. This was 5 months ago and its still ongoing.

I tend to dream water when something specific is about to happen in my life. Very different to yours.

No worries. I understand what you're trying to say regardless of the errors.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

That's some epic imagery! I especially like the cave and candles. The way I'm picturing it still being able to see the violent water outside while also having the comfort of the warmth and light of the candles.

I'm more visually-oriented than verbal and into drawing and painting, but dreams tend to be a lot of the inspiration for my doodles and sketches. Yet a problem I always discover in the process of trying to draw what I dreamt is that I lack the memory or experience of many visual details. They seemed so vivid when I was dreaming but when I sit down to try to draw it, I realize massive gaps in visual details like the exact shape of a woman's hands even if I found them pretty in the dream.

The majority of my dreams are unpleasant in terms of how they sound but they're not unpleasant to me for some reason. For example, I die all the time in my dreams and often violently, yet it's more interesting than unpleasant to me since I didn't actually die. I also have a tendency to "soul-transport" a lot in my dreams where I jump between people, sometimes even becoming women, although usually men. Typically when I die I wake up in the dream (not in reality) as a new person in a new body.

[thegreenyogi]

That's very interesting. When it comes to my own dreams I am very aware that my level of remembrance depends a lot on what I do before falling asleep. If I look at a screen before bed I dream but I can't remember them. If instead I just read or write ( and I read paper books and write by hand) I remember every single detail.

When you speak of dying all the time in your dreams psychology seems to think that means you're ending a cycle to begin another in your everyday life or it can be interpreted as you having continuous epiphanies in your life.

Your sketching habit of your dreams is very intriguing. Whether they're pleasant or unpleasant That's how you process whatever is happening in your life. Its a bit like the poem and it's poet. Nobody understands the true meaning or interpretation of his words except for the poet himself so anybody else's interpretation or view point is practically irrelevant.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I might need to refrain from looking at screens before bed in that case! I have noticed I am having a lot less dreams since the pandemic started. I thought it was because I was staying more indoors becoming more of a homebody but it might also be because I'm on the computer much more and looking at a screen before bed.

I was thinking on the dying thing, it might just be as simple as playing too many video games as a kid in my case. 😅 Especially with the video games in the 80s like Super Mario Bros, they often gave us multiple lives and continues and I'd die over and over in those video games. So my dreams might have taken on a similar shape where death isn't the end of the dream; we just get another life and continue.

I suspect most of my dreams lack any kind of deep meaning. They're just too weird. 😁

[TheSpaceGnome]

I remember some of them, but only bits and pieces of each dream in most cases.
Most of my dreams are nightmares, I can't remember the last good dream.

[Nikki1989]

Nope, very rarely do I remember, but they are not the kind of dreams anyone would want to remember.

[NathanDavis]

I do remember around 6000 of them... wrote around half of them

but I could not pick the best...

[leahzrc]

the one where the world ended and I flew up in the sky and saw a sun circling the sun

[justabuddy]

Rarely.. I do wake up hard sometimes so I know I had an interesting one. But I can never remember the details.

[LavLavLuv]

I do, mostly the funny ones

[eagle1951]

try not too