I just had a pretty creepy dream (Warning: Very Graphic)

Falloutjr

Banned
So this is what happened. Me and a friend were talking to this guy, I don't know who he was, but he was from Panama. We meet up somewhere, think it was a local coffee shop, and he pulls out a gun wrapped up in a towel, and kidnaps my friend. In a reckless bout, I decide I'm going to just up and go to Panama and save her myself. So I'm going for days, and I walk into a store, I think it was a Giant Eagle. I walk around for a bit, and for some reason the store employees speak French. After a while, they get suspicious of me and they search me to make sure I'm not a shoplifter. They search me and I haven't stolen anything. So I tell them my story of why I'm there, and I start breaking out into tears because I miss my friend so much, and this kid, he is an honor student at his school, he gives me this paper he wrote for school about inspiration. That cheered me up a bit, and I leave. As I'm walking, I see a group of thuggish looking kids. For some reason, I start running, and they chase me. They're faster than me, but I do everything I can to elude them. This goes on for a while until a police cruiser stops up. They have pull out their guns and have us get down on our hands and knees and tell us to stop running, but they don't search us or do anything. Naturally, after they leave, they start chasing me again. I try to chase the police car for safety, but it's gone.

All of a sudden, three dogs start chasing up, and they attack the boys behind me, and start eating them. At this point, there's only me and another boy left, and two dogs. Me and him are doing everything we can to be faster than the other, and leave the other behind as dog food. I get a pretty good grip of the guy, and I knock him down, and one of the dogs starts to eat him. The other dog keeps chasing me. He lunges at me, but I manage to get a pretty good grasp of him. He asks me if I am going to shoot him. I tell him, "No, I don't have a gun, I'm going to break your neck." For some reason, his neck was very hard to break, I was twisting his head very hard, but finally managed to.

As I looked up, I saw I had come to a house. It was a very large, expensive house. I climb up to one of the windows and climb in very quietly and sneak in. I hurried through a few rooms, but I didn't take anything. I tiptoe through the rest of the house. I see the front door is open, but I don't stop to think what that could mean at all, I just run out the front door. The owner of the house is on the front porch, and is furious at the sight of me running out of his house. He grabs a machine gun, and starts to shoot at me (by this time, I'm pretty far away, but he's still shooting close). After that, he manages to catch me somehow. He and a couple henchmen tied me to a log and carried me out to a swamp. The homeowner smokes a cigar as he walks with his henchmen, and says to me, "You should be ashamed to die such a sad way." But in this swamp are VERY large bees. They are camoflauged, essentially fly silently, and have large speak like stingers. The first henchmen in front, walks right into one of these stingers, and it goes straight through his head like a hook. The second henchmen tries to move to carry me by himself, but he walks into one of the hooks as well, and it also goes straight through his head. The homeowner also walks into one of these hooks, and I manage to untie myself and escape.

As I leave, a small, orange poisonous frog walks with me, and tells me he can secrete any poison there is. After a minute or so, another frog, a green frog walks behind me. I don't know why, but this frog scared me. We're approaching the house, and I climb up the stairs, and the frog moves a little faster. I open the door and go inside, and the frog tries to follow me inside, but I close the door on him. He's still struggling to get inside, but I close the door even harder. The door shuts on his head, and his brain just explodes everywhere; blood and brain matter everywhere. All I can manage to say is "Ugh, he got blood all over my clothes." I walk out the door, and the dream ends, I wake up.

I'm no psychologist, but that doesn't seem like a normal dream. I seem to have had more dreams like that over the last year or so, and it seems peculiar. I just wanted to see what you all thought of this. Thank you.
 

dParis

Hall of Fame
Be thankful that you have such vivid and creative dreams. You should have felt well-rested this morning when you woke up. At least mentally well-rested. Go out and do something great today.
 

Fugazi

Professional
As a psychologist, I'd like to comment on few things here. First, your dream seemed pretty intense, but not abnormal. Dreams are supposed to be that way once in a while. Some themes seem important, especially loss, since it's the starting point of your dream (death of someone close? a break-up maybe? a big disappointment?). Somehow it shifts from feelings of loss/pain/sadness to more aggressive contents: Danger situations (possibly the result of your projected, unacknowledged anger). I see another movement in which these threats are taken care of in violent ways (the bees, the dogs, etc., which may also represent aggressive parts of you, but this time as allies).

This is just my impression (it's pretty speculative at point), but to me your dream is about pain/grieving leading to more aggressive/paranoid feelings (I'm not using the term "paranoid" in a pathological sense here, but rather as a normal tendency in dreams, perhaps reflecting anger). You somehow emerge safely from all this, which suggests that your initial loss was tough, but that you survived/will survive it.

Like I said, this is speculative (usually, dream interpretation is much more interactive), but hope it helps!
 

Sentinel

Bionic Poster
wow, very interesting. amazed that you can remember such a long dream with such clarity.

Are you afraid of losing this friend of yours. Do you often dream of losing her, or searching for her.
 
I just had a pretty creepy dream

So this is what happened. Me and a friend were talking to this guy, I don't know who he was, but he was from Panama. We meet up somewhere, think it was a local coffee shop, and he pulls out ......n. That cheered me up bit, and I leave. As I'm walking, I see a group of thuggish looking kids. For some reason, I start running, and they chase me. They're faster than me, but I do everything I can to elude them. This goes on for a while .........after they leave, they start chasing me again. I try to chase the police car for safety, but it's gone....and they attack the boys behind me, and start eating them...............im. He asks me if I am going to shoot him. I tell him, "No, I don't have a gun, I'm going to break your neck." For some reason, his neck was very hard to break, I was twisting his head...

. Thank you.
My suggestions? (Rent) watch Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's 2002 film "Man Without a Past"

... similar thematic overtones.

But I digress:
"I just had a pretty creepy dream"???

Unless it was 'wet' it doesn't count.

;-)
 
Wow, that is one detailed and vivid dream. You recall so many minute details. My suggestion is that if you have these types of "vivid" dreams very often, I would see a Doctor. This is especially if you are feeling fatigued, even after sleeping. Dreams tend to occur in the "REM" stage of sleep (deepest stage, rapid eye movement), so it's possible that your sleep is being interrupted right when you need it the most. A completed REM stage of sleep is most critical for recovery. All of us tend to have dreams every night, but the difference is that we never recall them, so they are not labelled "dreams". It's just that we went through the REM stage, and we were in deep sleep as well, so it's never recalled. Yet, when you're REM stage is often gets interrupted, guess what? You "suddenly" start knowing your vivid dreams all too well. So, it would be important to see of there is a pattern of recalling vivid dreams, as it could be indicative of a sleeping problem, such as sleep apnea.
 

aceX

Hall of Fame
Probably means your room got too hot during the night and/or you had too many blankets.
 

aceX

Hall of Fame
Wow, that is one detailed and vivid dream. You recall so many minute details. My suggestion is that if you have these types of "vivid" dreams very often, I would see a Doctor. This is especially if you are feeling fatigued, even after sleeping. Dreams tend to occur in the "REM" stage of sleep (deepest stage, rapid eye movement), so it's possible that your sleep is being interrupted right when you need it the most. A completed REM stage of sleep is most critical for recovery. All of us tend to have dreams every night, but the difference is that we never recall them, so they are not labelled "dreams". It's just that we went through the REM stage, and we were in deep sleep as well, so it's never recalled. Yet, when you're REM stage is often gets interrupted, guess what? You "suddenly" start knowing your vivid dreams all too well. So, it would be important to see of there is a pattern of recalling vivid dreams, as it could be indicative of a sleeping problem, such as sleep apnea.

No, no, no. REM sleep is not the deepest stage of sleep. During your deepest sleep you don't have dreams.
 
No, no, no. REM sleep is not the deepest stage of sleep. During your deepest sleep you don't have dreams.

You are correct, I was wrong in my last post. Deepest sleep typically occurs just before the REM stage, or 5th stage. Nevertheless, recalling vivid dreams may in fact be a sign of sleep apnea, since it could indicate that one is not going through all the necessary "cycles of sleep". Stages 3-4, just before the REM stage, do tend to be the "deepest" stages of sleep. People do have their dreams in the "REM stage". Though it's not the very deepest stage of sleep, you still need to complete the REM stage for proper and restful sleep, so a pattern of recalling vivid dreams could signal a sleep disorder. If it's very rare, that's a different story.

See: http://www.sleepdisorderchannel.com/stages/index.shtml

Stage 5, REM
REM sleep is distinguishable from NREM sleep by changes in physiological states, including its characteristic rapid eye movements. However, polysomnograms show wave patterns in REM to be similar to Stage 1 sleep. In normal sleep (in people without disorders of sleep-wake patterns or REM behavior disorder), heart rate and respiration speed up and become erratic, while the face, fingers, and legs may twitch. Intense dreaming occurs during REM sleep as a result of heightened cerebral activity, but paralysis occurs simultaneously in the major voluntary muscle groups, including the submental muscles (muscles of the chin and neck).

Because REM is a mixture of encephalic (brain) states of excitement and muscular immobility, it is sometimes called paradoxical sleep. It is generally thought that REM-associated muscle paralysis is meant to keep the body from acting out the dreams that occur during this intensely cerebral stage. The first period of REM typically lasts 10 minutes, with each recurring REM stage lengthening, and the final one lasting an hour.
 
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Falloutjr

Banned
Well, I posted it immediately after I woke up just because I found it to be such an unusual dream, though it's not an uncommon thing for me to have a weird dream with what I now see to be a very well convoluted message. I would say Fugazi hit the nail on the head with that assessment, though I won't bore you by going further. He's still no Sigmund Freud, though :D j/k lol
 

Kam2010

Rookie
I reckon you would stop having that dream or any of that sort when Nadal wins the US Open :)

Seriously tell me if I am wrong, did the dog say are you going to shoot me... you said no I am going to break your neck lol

woof woof
 

Falloutjr

Banned
I reckon you would stop having that dream or any of that sort when Nadal wins the US Open :)

Seriously tell me if I am wrong, did the dog say are you going to shoot me... you said no I am going to break your neck lol

woof woof

Yes, the dog asked me if I was going to shoot him, I told him "No, I don't have a gun, I am going to break your neck" and proceeded to do so.
 

ollinger

G.O.A.T.
"Deep sleep" is a meaningless term related to the resemblance of the EEG pattern of REM sleep to a waking alpha rhythm, about 8-13 cycles per second. So REM sleep originally was called "paradoxical sleep" because the similarity to a waking EEG made people think it was the more "shallow" sleep. One is in fact more likely to be active during so called "deep sleep," which for example is when sleepwalking usually occurs.
 

Jaewonnie

Professional
Its ok. Once I had a dream where I got shot in the face a couple times. I felt the pain....that "pinch urself in a dream" saying is bogus. :(
Either that or my brain is smart enough to emulate pain in a non-realistic situation :shock:
 
D

decades

Guest
I'm a world renowned Dream Interpretation therapist with years and years of experience looking at the craziest dreams. And all I can say is this one has me stumped.
 

Rippy

Hall of Fame
I had a weird dream a couple of nights ago.

Ended with a monster creeping up behind me, and slashing open my back...

Scary stuff. :)
 

Falloutjr

Banned
I'm a world renowned Dream Interpretation therapist with years and years of experience looking at the craziest dreams. And all I can say is this one has me stumped.

Believe me, I've had stranger dreams than this; this was just one I felt compelled to post just because of the gruesome nature of the events that occurred. I've never envisioned things so violent before. It was weird to say the least.
 

VGP

Legend
I like your dream.

Wait until you dream about your kids falling out of trees onto the pavement and exploding, or babies being mutilated, or having freaky sex with some sort of half-human, or finding yourself kidnapped and riding in a truck through a sea of purple mist with red balls, or finding yourself in the middle of a firefight impotently armed only with a machine gun that shoots white plastic pellets that only travel thee miles per hour, or seeing faceless people walking your way down a corridor of light only to find yourself standing nude feeling an overwhelming sense of dread.
 

Sentinel

Bionic Poster
I like your dream.

Wait until you dream about your kids falling out of trees onto the pavement and exploding, or babies being mutilated, or having freaky sex with some sort of half-human, or finding yourself kidnapped and riding in a truck through a sea of purple mist with red balls, or finding yourself in the middle of a firefight impotently armed only with a machine gun that shoots white plastic pellets that only travel thee miles per hour, or seeing faceless people walking your way down a corridor of light only to find yourself standing nude feeling an overwhelming sense of dread.
now that sure is creepy ! :D
 

spacediver

Hall of Fame
very cool dream. Thanks for sharing. I make it a habit of writing down my more crazy dreams. Key is to go over them in your head carefully once you wake up, and write it down soon after.

btw, did this dream occur in daylight, night, or both?
 

ProgressoR

Hall of Fame
I specialise in interpreting dreams. From what you have mentioned so far, I would venture that you ate a toasted cheese sandwich within 85-94 minutes of sleeping. This has a 76% chance of accounting for your particular dream.

However please do not take this conclusion as definitive, as I would require an in depth interview in person with you to confirm my thoughts.

Frankly I am too busy to do that.
 
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