Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101

[Tempest Fennac]

I never have x-rated dreams. I don't seem to be having any at all that I can remember lately, though.

[Tragic_Comedian]

Originally Posted by dragonprime

I get a lot of nightmares. Something like 80% of my dreams are unpleasant. The other 20% of my dreams range from the weird to the x rated.

Mine are weird AND x rated.

[Calamity]

I never have x-rated dreams. My dreams are about as interesting as blank piece of paper when I have them too.

[Thufir]

I don't remember having any dreams about x-rated subjects. Usually they're just weird and confusing, or realistic (Which is confusing because it takes me a while to remember they didn't actually happen).

[Cristo Meyers]

My x-rated ones are usually the most unpleasant ones.

I've only had one true nightmare (of the wake up and have to convince yourself that it wasn't real variety) that I can remember, and that was only about a year or two ago.

[Tempest Fennac]

If you don't mind me asking, what happened i that dream, Cristo? I haven't had a dream like that for years.

[Cristo Meyers]

The nightmare? Psh, the nightmare wasn't even original, I don't know why it had such an effect.

Driving, alone, nighttime. Have a near-miss with a train. Screech to a stop, look in the rearview mirror and there was something in the back seat looking back at me that wasn't there before. Then I woke up.

No idea why it scared me so much. The best I can tell, what was looking back from the backseat was the Scissorman sprite from the very first Clock Tower game.

[Dragonprime]

The scariest nightmares are always the ones that seem real. I had one where I was strapped down to a table in a hospital, and they were going to harvest all my organs, using no anesthetic. I was so convinced that it was real, that when I woke up I just started laughing because I was so happy that it wasn't really happening to me.

[Gem Flower]

Nightmares always seem disturbingly real to me...

[randman22222]

Originally Posted by dragonprime

The scariest nightmares are always the ones that seem real. I had one where I was strapped down to a table in a hospital, and they were going to harvest all my organs, using no anesthetic. I was so convinced that it was real, that when I woke up I just started laughing because I was so happy that it wasn't really happening to me.

I know that feeling... Had that a couple weeks ago. The horrid part is that I fell asleep again... And the nightmare resumed.

[Tragic_Comedian]

My worst nightmares were of this guy:

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[bosssmiley]

Dreams? Nightmares? They all feel claustrophobic to me. It's almost like I'm seeing things from underwater, everything's distorted and strangely remote. It's creepy.

[Cristo Meyers]

That's the thing, it didn't seem real at all. It was almost cartoonish. I mean, a sprite from the Super Nintendo era of gaming lurking in the backseat of my car? It's almost laughable. The dream I had last night seemed more real, and it had a talking passcard!

Like I said: either surreal or disturbing. But I'll take surreal any day.

[Dragonprime]

Originally Posted by randman22222

I know that feeling... Had that a couple weeks ago. The horrid part is that I fell asleep again... And the nightmare resumed.

I was lucky enough to wake up when the sun was already up, so I didn't feel like going back to sleep.

[TwoBitWriter]

Well, the startle factor is enough to wake you up.

Worse nightmare I ever had was where I accidentally pushed my sister off a cliff to her death. Then my Dad showed up and started yelling at me about it, I was just crying and yelling "it was an accident." I woke up screaming "It was an accident!"

Only time I ever woke up yelling something. I was probably around 13-14 at the time, so it was around 10 years ago. The remembrance of the dream still gives me chills...

[randman22222]

Originally Posted by TwoBitWriter

Well, the startle factor is enough to wake you up.

Worse nightmare I ever had was where I accidentally pushed my sister off a cliff to her death. Then my Dad showed up and started yelling at me about it, I was just crying and yelling "it was an accident." I woke up screaming "It was an accident!"

Only time I ever woke up yelling something. I was probably around 13-14 at the time, so it was around 10 years ago. The remembrance of the dream still gives me chills...

Yeah... My brother and I were sharing a hotel room once, and just bolted upright in the middle of the night, and screamed,

"BUT I HAVE THE HAMMER!"

He fell right back asleep. Still don't know what that was about.

[Tempest Fennac]

Those dreams sound bad. They all seem real to me (especially since they are often painful).

[Cristo Meyers]

See, I never seem to be the one getting hurt, injured, vivisected, whathaveyou. I'm usually the one doing the hurting.

[Ego Slayer]

Last night I dreamt that one of the three puppies I have right now was standing right on the edge of this apparently endless, black pit. And I was acrophobic, or something (which I'm not). Scared as hell of whatever that hole was...

'Course I know why I dreamt that. Last night I watched something on youtube 'bout some insane-high point/cliff in Norway where you're like... miles up. And said puppy walked out to the road and stood right in the middle of it and wasn't coming when we were trying to call her back.

[Tempest Fennac]

That sounds worrying, ES. I don't usually get hurt in dreams, but it is inevitable when the dreams involve killing zombies or space fighters.

[TwoBitWriter]

Originally Posted by Tempest Fennac

That sounds worrying, ES. I don't usually get hurt in dreams, but it is inevitable when the dreams involve killing zombies or space fighters.

See those dreams are my favorite!

Anyone ever achieved a lucid dreaming state? Where you are aware of the dream and can control it?

I saved the world from a Zombie Apocalypse during one such lucid session..

Another non-lucid dream involved me as a World War II special operative, parachuting into a Nuclear-Zombie infested Hiroshima after the bomb... That was a fun one too...

Edit: Sounds like a cool story idea... I'm taking it if it hasn't already been copywritten...

[Cristo Meyers]

I got control of the dream once, by accident...

...started flying and ran right into the side of the library at my old college

[Ego Slayer]

I'd only recently had a couple violent dreams, all in one week. And I hadn't had any that I could remember since I was 11 or so, until then. The only time I've actually been hurt (not hurt being inevitable like when a guy in full plate and an axe breaks into your house and intends to kill you ) was when I was probably 10-11, when I was shot in the head by some guy. In my backyard. Except it didn't hurt, or bleed... or just felt warm. Was weird.

Ooh, I had a dream with zombies once. I was in a library with friends. And there were zombies. And then something about that I rolled a 20 on my attack roll. Heheh...

[Tempest Fennac]

I enjoy those dreams too (one advantage to the Starfox-like ones is that I get to be a humanoid animal during them. I think I was a hyena in one, but I think I was a fennec fox in another one, which makes sense considering how my username makes me sound like a Starfox character). The only time I had a lucid dream ended after a few seconds when the dream sort of disintigrated for some reason when I realised it was a dream.

[Dragonprime]

I had control over my dream the one time I realized that I was dreaming during a dream. I was falling, and I just thought "this is a dream so I'm not really falling" and I just halted in midair. I've never been able to do anything like that again. I just seem to be unable to realize that what I'm seeing is in my mind when I'm dreaming.

[Cristo Meyers]

I'm honestly kinda afraid of what might happen if I get control of another dream. There are some scary people wandering around my subconscious.

Although, being able to recreate scenes from my book would be pretty cool...

...well, as long as I'm not one of the characters, that is.

[randman22222]

Sometimes I get dreams where I'm playing my guitar, or some other instrument. The weird thing is, when I wake up, and remember my dream, it'll be that my fingers were playing out a song I know, but in my dream, I heard a different one.

[nothingclever]

My dreams are really boring yet kind of weird in that they often come true.
Usually I'll dream of someone telling me something with a certain tone and specific words that I eventually hear in real life.
Like I dream about someone complaining about something and that person ends up saying exactly what I dreamt he/she would eventually.

[Destro_Yersul]

My dreams work like that xkcd strip on dreaming. By the time I make it downstairs I've mostly forgotten them. Really annoys me, because I know that they were somehow amazing. Generally the most I can remember after a few minutes is one or two still images.

I do recall this one where I was wearing striped pants in a field and I could fly, but then the stripes fell off and I couldn't fly anymore. Which sucked cause there were a couple big dogs barking at me about something. But that dream was years ago... I guess my memory is just odd.

[Ego Slayer]

Grr. I was trying to buy something off ebay and there was some crap about having paypal and ebay accounts linked before I was allowed to bid and the stupid thing ended before I was able to link the damn things. GRRRRRR.