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I had a peculiar dream today. I was learning Russian (or took classes in Russian) online, my only teacher, who I saw and talked to on video call, was a fat old bearded man (think Slavoj Zizek), he spoke to me in Russian and from my perspective it looked like he was teaching from an abandoned run-down Russian school. After my class ended I went outside and it was very cold, the ground was entirely made up of dry dirt with no grass on it. Beyond my reach I could see the ground moving, like it was alive or something. A family member came up and told me to go back to studying Russian or whatevs, then I woke up.
Is this a warning that in the future apocalypse we will be dominated by Russians, and that I better start learning Russian to prepare?
 
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Sometimes I write down my dreams, I had a particularly weird 'horror-themed' one the other day:

A black-haired girl of Asian descent sat on a couch beside a man. At the time, I could not notice anything out of the ordinary, until I saw the massive hole in the back of her skull. Terrible dark hands emerged from this hole, grabbing at the outer edges; something dark and blobby began to crawl out of her head-hole.

I asked the man if this was normal -- "Oh, it's alright, don't worry about it," he said.

The girl stared at me, with surprise and empathy. "It's fine, don't worry. It's meant to be like this, I will be OK."

As soon as this thing broke free, it gave chase to the girl. She fled and screamed for help, but the person sitting on the couch remained perfectly still. The girl kept running until she reached her place and slammed the door shut. Inside, she found the person; he apologized and asked for forgiveness. She cried, assenting with her head, and cuddled up to him in a fetal position. Both of them sat on the couch, and an overall warm aura emanated from the room.

The camera panned out, making the room look like a cube with five walls and a broken 'roof' floating in an endless void. There, in the darkness, crooked all around the cube was the creature, staring inside from the broken roof.
 

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I had a pretty disturbing dream today. I don't remember a lot of the details, but I do remember the last part which disturbed me the most.

There are between 9 and 12 people who decide to enter on an abandoned white building near the coast for fun. When they enter, all of the doors close, and some kind of weird clown tells them to run for their lives. They think it's just a game and don't take it seriously, until the clown brutally kills one of them with a crowbar (there wasn't a lot of gore, but you could realize what was happening). After that, it was like some kind of montage, where you saw the guys get dragged, stopped, and finally killed, all while they screamed really loud.

After that it just gets pitch black for some minutes, before someone appears, which is the only survivor, who has the most psychopathic Kubrick stare I have ever seen, and is covered by sweat and blood. He looks at the screen, laughs, and says something about "never push someone too far" and "you will pay for this", before giving such an intense stare that it felt like it had penetrated my soul. That stare alone made me wake up.
 
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I had a pretty disturbing dream today. I don't remember a lot of the details, but I do remember the last part which disturbed me the most.

There are between 9 and 12 people who decide to enter on an abandoned white building near the coast for fun. When they enter, all of the doors close, and some kind of weird clown tells them to run for their lives. They think it's just a game and don't take it seriously, until the clown brutally kills one of them with a crowbar (there wasn't a lot of gore, but you could realize what was happening). After that, it was like some kind of montage, where you saw the guys get dragged, stopped, and finally killed, all while they screamed really loud.

After that it just gets pitch black for some minutes, before someone appears, which is the only survivor, who has the most psychopathic Kubrick stare I have ever seen, and is covered by sweat and blood. He looks at the screen, laughs, and says something about "never push someone too far" and "you will pay for this", before giving such an intense stare that it felt like it had penetrated my soul. That stare alone made me wake up.
I had a similar dream to this one years ago, down to the details of a group of 9 to 12 people go into an abandoned building and get killed by a clown. Difference is that I was one of the people. Crazy stuff man.
 
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...really conjuring up the /emotion/ of it. This dream must have had a unique emotional or inner quality (around the sternum and navel) to it. Like how 7am in the morning feels with a long hanging sun and slight fog on dewy fields.
These emotions that you speak of, emotions that are very specific and out of the ordinary, are a subject that has been on my mind for as long as I can remember. If I could give another example, it would be the feeling of Christmas when I was a kid, or the feeling of wandering the dark streets in Halloween while collecting candy. They are not basic emotions like pain, arousal, sexual gratification, general happiness, or anxiety, (which are felt universally in nearly the same way) they have a context that is inseparable from the emotions themselves. They are so peculiar, that it's a mystery as to why we don't have a name for them, or why they aren't discussed more often.
 
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I remember one where I was locked in my living room with a PDA of some sorts with the text in big letters "ROOM WILL EXPLODE IN" with a countdown, I couldn't scream, also maybe this was a lucid dream (like an accidental lucid dream) but i don't remember, anyways the timer ran out but nothing happened, and then I woke up.

What an anti-climactic ending.
 
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This was one of the most intense and vivid dreams I've had in a very long time
I got involved in some funky little touhou spell card battle and I was in the receiving end of it
The spell? You just fucking die brother, instantly killed by forces we are not equipped to comprehend the second a magic bullet touches you
I witnessed my own death and rebirth as a baby, legit my own birth with my name on my ass, I witnessed every major event in my life that led to that moment, an entire lifetime worth of random improbable things and decisions that spiraled out into a mandala of possibilities
Just to eventually get back to the exact moment in time I was in that fight, greeted by some smug face
It was only 7 IRL hours but it felt like a lifetime
 

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Sometimes I write down my dreams, I had a particularly weird 'horror-themed' one the other day:

A black-haired girl of Asian descent sat on a couch beside a man. At the time, I could not notice anything out of the ordinary, until I saw the massive hole in the back of her skull. Terrible dark hands emerged from this hole, grabbing at the outer edges; something dark and blobby began to crawl out of her head-hole.

I asked the man if this was normal -- "Oh, it's alright, don't worry about it," he said.

The girl stared at me, with surprise and empathy. "It's fine, don't worry. It's meant to be like this, I will be OK."

As soon as this thing broke free, it gave chase to the girl. She fled and screamed for help, but the person sitting on the couch remained perfectly still. The girl kept running until she reached her place and slammed the door shut. Inside, she found the person; he apologized and asked for forgiveness. She cried, assenting with her head, and cuddled up to him in a fetal position. Both of them sat on the couch, and an overall warm aura emanated from the room.

The camera panned out, making the room look like a cube with five walls and a broken 'roof' floating in an endless void. There, in the darkness, crooked all around the cube was the creature, staring inside from the broken roof.
A cube with 5 walls???
 

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One of the stranger dreams I had that I remember vividly:

I was at the bottom of a tall lighthouse, surrounded by my family all saying goodbye to me. I climbed the ladder, up the lighthouse, and when I got to the top I stared at a large canyon with a gap covered by a gigantic boulder. I giant came in and pushed the stone out of the way prompting a red ocean to flood the world. I knew I was the only person on earth and everyone, including my family had died. I felt strangely content. I've been leading a pretty isolated life and I felt like the dream was a way of conveying my isolation to me, how divorced I am from the rest of the world and how content I am with it. I don't think it's a good thing though, I just felt like it was a really emblematic dream even though it was abstract. (I love my family btw don't get it twisted)
 
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I had dream that I was very sad and scared because it looked like whole earth? Was displaced with Mars. Every building was on its original place, but no one but me could see it. And when I got to my flat and building, only place that look like earth was from our kitchen and parents room. Until idk I went outside and that place was still Mars, until it wasn't? I asked people, ajd they noticed nothing wrong, idk iirc they showed je Polaroid photo they just took, and it looked normal, (usual) on Earth, not like my Mars...
I started to sob and perked up and down on my bad to look if we are in Mars still, and we still were. I got angry and started to cry like crazy. Idk if it turned back to normal in the dream as I was crying still, but when I woke up, i was scared because until right now (as i write) i thought the dream was reality. Woke up teared up. Lol. Idk tho if it was really Mars, or just Earth after catastrophe/corrosion. Red sand, iron/blood smell iirc, ... Interesting, I could breathe, but it was hard because of the shock...
 
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I had dream that I was very sad and scared because it looked like whole earth? Was displaced with Mars. Every building was on its original place, but no one but me could see it. And when I got to my flat and building, only place that look like earth was from our kitchen and parents room. Until idk I went outside and that place was still Mars, until it wasn't? I asked people, ajd they noticed nothing wrong, idk iirc they showed je Polaroid photo they just took, and it looked normal, (usual) on Earth, not like my Mars...
I started to sob and perked up and down on my bad to look if we are in Mars still, and we still were. I got angry and started to cry like crazy. Idk if it turned back to normal in the dream as I was crying still, but when I woke up, i was scared because until right now (as i write) i thought the dream was reality. Woke up teared up. Lol. Idk tho if it was really Mars, or just Earth after catastrophe/corrosion. Red sand, iron/blood smell iirc, ... Interesting, I could breathe, but it was hard because of the shock...
Doesn't sound like a fun time. At a guess, it sounds like its thematically related to a belief that things are going 'wrong' (or that people can't see what's 'really happening') and the dreamer is the only one who can see it, but has no strength to change it. Also, the idea of the world only appearing 'right' from the kitchen and parents' room, could it be that those are the places or people around whom you feel most comfortable, or whom give you the most optimism or happiness?

I have absolutely no credentials whatsoever, just taking a shot in the dark out of curiosity.
 
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Nightmare:

This dream was very coherent for dream standards. The only part that I can't somehow fit into the timeline is the following:
I was climbing on what seemed like a physically implausible construction of pipelines. They were floating over an open body of water at nonsensical angles but the body itself was square, like an isometric video game map very limited in space and around that was just a grey void.
The pipes were of varied thickness and age, some were new with a new coat of yellow paint, some old and rusty. One of them had a leak and was spilling thick, gooey black oil into the water below and I was tasked with fixing it. I had no tools or climbing gear and quickly most of the pipes were slippery from all the oil spilling everywhere. Eventually I slipped and fell down into the water that already had an oil carpet ontop and I remember panicking trying to climb up the slippery pipes, being completely covered in the oil.


The actual nightmare was the following: It centered around some deranged dude who vaguely resembled the protag from hatred in appearance, the hair a little shorter.
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He had a twitter account and would frequently upload videos of himself there. Always in black and white and usually of disturbing or nonsensical nature. You always saw him sitting behind a desk and he would play instruments that only made noise or see him scream into the camera. The videos were of low, VHS like quality. Over time, he became obsessed with body mods. Piercings, tattoos and implants - to a degree it disfigured his face
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Kind of like this but less colourful. The final step of his transformation was to replace his eyes with two tumour like bulges that completely covered his eye sockets. Naturally, his account garnered attention and he became essentially a lolcow for kiwifarms type people that would harass and bully him for his appearance and choices. I don't know HOW but somehow I was involved in this and some of his bullies doxxed me and sent this guy after me.
I wasn't living at home but I was for some reason just guest at a family's home I have never seen before., a mother and three children. It was apparent that I am a stranger to them and merely a guest. The house was extremely narrow, wedged between two regular sized houses:
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It had many stories too but the staircase alone usually ate half of a room's space.

The deformed dude uploaded videos targeting me specifically, saying he'd go out to hunt me. I remember being outside and being afraid that he would lurk around the corner because it was known that he was mentally unstable and he would kill me.
Then a sort of time skip happens and we're now oberserving the dude's past, before all the body mods and when he was a little younger:

He is living with his parents but the dad is abusive, beating him and his mother. We spend one night from his perspective, he's laying in his bed at night, the room barely visible in ambient moonlight as he hears his dad raping his mom in the room above, thumping and cries shake the bed he's laying in.
Suddenly I am part of the household and the mother tells me that she has cancer and needs to lay in a bed. Because of dream logic, I am now tasked with replacing a bed in a tiny guest room with another, equally sized one.
I protest and say:"I don't want to change the matresses because this is the bed my mom died in" (Info: My actual mom died of cancer). Yet I am forced to finish my task and I beginn disassembling the bed. While pulling out the heavy matress and flipping it over, I see a person shaped stain on the bottom that perfectly resembles my mother's silhouette. I start crying miserably and leave the room, finally waking up.
This legitimately scares me. It COULD be describing Trump (the awful guy in the second dream, I mean), but... at the same time, if taken with a different context, it feels like it could apply to me. I don't mean any trouble, I just can't help but wonder why my interest in dreams has somehow always led back to "escapism bad because bratty behavior bad" (as something forced on to me by others, not as something that feels true) when I've always aimed for not hurting others (admittedly, unless it's clear as day that they're guilty and got away with what they did, but I try my best and I don't hate people based on assumptions just because I'm angry) and - as bad as that sounds - I understand I caused a lot of frustration online over the last 8 years, fortunately none of that should matter here and I won't trouble you with details. My point is, I am who I am, but I know my past well enough that - hypothetically - I could take it as an accusation, but I won't. I haven't read enough of this thread to see if the discussions here ever got into less credible/more spiritual takes on what dreams are, but even if I can't prove it and it only applied to my own future, I want you to know that I believe the unconscious mind is... unquantified, I guess. Though I might believe a few weird things about dreams, I don't believe the past was better (VHS?), or that cyberaugmentation or brain uploading or even just techno-consumerism is the solution to our ills, but I am (I hope) self-aware enough to realize when someone else can't tell the difference, that's not a good thing for me to do.

Please don't hate me, if you have ever encountered me before. Most of what I did was like if someone drugged you with hard drugs 24/7 for 7 years (long story, better to pretend it never happened) but getting past the trauma has not been easy and becoming a lolcow has always been my biggest fear. I don't really care much about public opinion, but I basically have nowhere to go but online and if that were to happen...

All I can say is, despite that, I know someone who was a lolcow and I stuck up for them in spite of my fear of becoming some sort of pariah. It was the right decision, and I won't say who, only that the person is trying not to be a problem anymore. As for myself, I am just glad I stayed under the radar.

If you don't know what I'm saying, most of this is just me venting, but I will provide something I found online that (while not my story) was similar enough that I have been trying to keep closer records of my dreams ever since, and I wish I could share my own but they're very personal and most people would assume I'm some sort of egomaniac if I posted them here.

tl;dr: Your dream scares me because I fear what it implies when I don't feel like I'm different enough from someone I consider detestably selfish enough to qualify as the desk man for there to be a consensus that I'm not a monster. It scares me because I don't want my actions to indiscriminately hurt people, or for my actions to hurt innocent people, or for hurting people to be my only or primary goal in life, but people in certain corners of the internet (and not just the popular sites) did get hurt and now I'm here. I'm trying as hard as I can, and it's either not enough or people expect too much. I don't want to be alone, but it wasn't my fault and nobody believes me even when I literally have a family member try to handle it on my behalf and present evidence that - if the situation weren't a case of a traumatic freight train of bad luck - would be too unlikely to be worth believing. I can't say why without an even longer non-sequitor wall-o-text and revealing personal info, but this really is heavily related to the contents of my dreams.

For now, have this guy's videos about lucid dreams he claims he had: https://www.youtube.com/@CompleteMeYT/videos ( Alternative: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/F2MKx26mlCGy/ I'm not sure how to provide not-youtube of the entire series in any reasonable amount of time, unfortunately. )
 
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Man, I need to take note of what I eat before bed. I had a series of strange dreams; the first one I was back stateside showing my husband places and going around in the early morning. Then the second, I was trying to find this MST3K-esque show I apparently used to watch and after some searching found its entire run on some random website and was entirely delighted. It was called Faces of Evil or something like that and apparently I just dreamt the whole thing up because it doesn't exist. Weird stuff.
 
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Man, I need to take note of what I eat before bed. I had a series of strange dreams; the first one I was back stateside showing my husband places and going around in the early morning. Then the second, I was trying to find this MST3K-esque show I apparently used to watch and after some searching found its entire run on some random website and was entirely delighted. It was called Faces of Evil or something like that and apparently I just dreamt the whole thing up because it doesn't exist. Weird stuff.
I had some weird dreams tonight too - wishing I wrote them down now, I usually try to write down my dreams immediately after I wake up before I forget them, but this time it slipped my mind... too late now I guess.

But for the sake of the thread, here's an interesting dream I had some months ago which I did write down that I've been thinking about a lot recently

I dreamt that I was a red-headed girl on a tiny makeshift sailboat sailing the sea in the middle of a storm. After a long struggle, just barely keeping the boat from capsizing, she makes it in relief to a port city, and finding a small abandoned field (and beach) by the water, with skyscrapers looming over her, she parks her boat and sets up camp there. Later she goes out to a city road lining the docks, looking to buy supplies, and all of a sudden the crowd moves off the road to each side, and stands still, bowing their heads or making other gestures of respect. The girl goes off to the side too, following the crowd, but is confused because at first she doesn't see anything. Then she looks harder (trying to use some kind of spiritual sixth sense, I suppose), and sees what the people see - a group of very important and sacred-looking high elf nobles, escorted by high elf warriors dressed in shimmering gold-colored armor. They walk, and the most important members of the group ride in a carriage drawn by magic. Within the carriage is a high elf girl about the redhead girl's age. She sees the redhead girl and is interested, but her father gives her a look and she resists jumping out to meet her. Later, however, while the redhead is working on her makeshift home in the grassy, sandy lot where she parked her boat, separated from the skyscrapers and the road by a small cliff, the high elf girl comes to visit her, saying that she's a princess and hopes to make friends. Redhead girl is happy, and the high elf princess promises to visit often so long as they remain friends. After this the dream ends.
 
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I had some weird dreams tonight too - wishing I wrote them down now, I usually try to write down my dreams immediately after I wake up before I forget them, but this time it slipped my mind... too late now I guess.
This also happened to me this night. I know I had 3-4 weird dreams, but even though I remember they happened, I can't remember them.
It really sucks how fast it happens, and how thoroughly the details are scrubbed from your mind if you let it go. When that happens, I try to concentrate and find any random thread, any detail from the dream that can help me recall the rest, but nothing comes to mind. It's like it has disappeared completely. But I've had times where, many many hours later, a small detail makes me recall the dream or a part of it, so it's clearly still there, somewhere.
 
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This also happened to me this night. I know I had 3-4 weird dreams, but even though I remember they happened, I can't remember them.
It really sucks how fast it happens, and how thoroughly the details are scrubbed from your mind if you let it go. When that happens, I try to concentrate and find any random thread, any detail from the dream that can help me recall the rest, but nothing comes to mind. It's like it has disappeared completely. But I've had times where, many many hours later, a small detail makes me recall the dream or a part of it, so it's clearly still there, somewhere.
I've been having strange dreams the last few nights, some very trippy.
Can't identify any particular planetary aspect to be the cause of this, perhaps the moon being in sextile to the sun and jupiter, but I don't think that's it.
They tend to be more religiously oriented for me, that is probably due to my own interests but I don't know.
I'll share the one I had last night that was quite strange.

Basically I was in the middle of a normal dream, chatting with people, can't remember much of the dream previous, but I think it was a very average dream. When suddenly it was like a gap formed in the space of the dream, and a hand took me to what felt like outiside of the universe of the dream.
I don't think I can convey the sensation of it well, but it was completely outside everything. It felt like a space outside normal space, there was nothing but me. No colors, no black no white no grey, no up nor down, no right or left, it didn't feel like there was anything but myself.
And because there was nothing but myself it was like my own boundaries started to diffuminate, since I was everything that was in that universe I as a distinct entity seemed to cease to be an important distinction.
Can not tell how much time happened before it since there was nothing outside to contrast time with.
When this diffumination happened it felt like the body became infitine, and from this body everything arose, mountains, animals, plants, people, oceans, the sky. And everything was I and at the same time the distinction of I was completely unimportant as I was everything.

Then I woke up. It felt strange, almost like a fever dream. Spent a while stretching and staring at the ceiling. I don't think I can convey what it actually felt like.
 
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