Dream Radar (dream research thread)

i dream about being chased usually. or being powerless. i almost always have nightmares when i dream (which is like every other night) or if they arent they become them
my dreams are not attached to reality in the slightest. its hard to say if its the past or the future because nothing i dream about is similar to the reality i live in. theres no framing. theyre vaguely consistent in story i guess? i dunno

an interesting thing about me in particular is that in half of my dreams im a human and in the other half im a pokemon. its very inconsistent

i have never dreamt of a phone. i have a really bad internal compass so the dream places just float around without a real set geography. i just go in a random direction and sometimes ill find a random place ive been before

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i hear @chloe dreams of similar

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i was literally jsut about to post in this thread
i have some dreams written down let me find them

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oh my god some of these are WAY too embarassing what the hell did i dream about in 2021

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honestly ill give you the boring answer of my dreams being esoteric and generally out of touch with reality. That and having poor memory of them makes them near impossible to describe.

There are a few consistencies, such as myself barely being lucid if I am in my own dream and a shock in the dream driving me to awakening shock.

I do remember one very fucking weird dream moment wherein theā€¦ protagonists of the dream (some mario enemy-esque mountain climbers) said ā€œhey, could you give us a lift?ā€ and I woke up, adjusted my position, fell back asleep, and got thanked by them because they were lifted up onto a higher position.

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wait these are supposed to be embarrassing?

Uh

I dreamed about playing minecraft but once again it was unimaginably fucked.

You wanna play minecraft on LUGIA LEVEL 42?

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to my knowledge
the lugia-level determined some thing about worldgen

and I never learned what

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ok i only write down some dreams, and most of them either doxx me or are wayyyyy too embarrassing but i have some i can share




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yw

story is gonna have to make a new thread asking for researchers on how to read this shit

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First one: ā€œHad a dream that Weezer released a song that was a huge Judy and the Dream of Horses ripoff. Same chords and strings, similar vocal style. Horns at same timeā€

Second one:
"Mexico
But actually Mexico is north of California and had Texasā€™ cities but Mexican districts. Went to rwuivnof Houston

Like 3 hours
Last minute
We were in Arizona and had to loop around to go up north so checked out California"

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my last dream i actually remember i was an espeon and i got to watch a sunset from the roof of an apartment on one side of a valley after trekking through the forest for a long time
i was still being chased by something that i dont remember but

I posted these in fol discord one month ago

I dreamt that donald trump treated me to some delicious melon ice cream while discussing politics and i was pretending i agree with him coz i didnt wanna ruin the good vibes i was having from eating that delicious ice cream


I dreamt that andrew tate played minecraft
He was unironically great at building
At at one point his mouse bugged and it kept lmb pressed and he started destroying everything and he got so upset
He made a big mansion with curved lines and trees and lanterns and stuff

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DREAM LOG

The one where my headmates Han and Saiichi won the right to exist
  1. -death game, we were slowly getting picked off one by one by springtrap
    -he was going through the vents
    -i remember the names Han Habiyan (female, white/silver hair) and Alex, also Peko was there, Anon from Shattered Hope was there, and some guy in a kimono with a walking stick he could use as a pole vault was there
    -to get out we had to solve all the riddles. they were on fortune cookie fortunes and the last one was ā€œStarting from J and going to 69, what is the length of the sequence?ā€
    -I was completely fucking useless and Han saved my goddamn ass in the nick of time by being a puzzle god
    -I killed someone with a knife? Not entirely sure I had to, but I did
    -one room had a massive pile of shit in it, it was gross.
    -at the very end, me, habiyan, and alex (who was apparently the group leader, i recall) were trying to find the last riddle, which were hidden in hollow couch cushions. alex got picked off by springtrap before i found the final riddle
    -the survivors were me, han, peko, and kimono guy
    -kimono guy was this overly calm guy
    -we were in a bunker
    -something about total drama?
    -there was some very distinct ending music playing, simple chords set to a beat, after we all escaped
    oh and kimono guy had light brown hair, kind of generic short anime hair w like
    you know, itā€™s That Haircut
    and i think we all had an animal theme or something
The one where me and Saeki attempt to kill everyone by arson

had a dream last night about some death game in a mall
apparently there were supposed to be deaths but no one killed so me saeki and nondescript female character grabbed a bunch of vodka bottles and prepared to molotov everyone
we did not get to
then I went lucid and flew around for a bit and there was something about a truck
and i donā€™t recall anything else because i got woken up by a text
actually it was not in a mall, it was a costco, i remember the doors

The one where I was clearly inspired by this Toyhou.se profile I saw

had a dream involving a lot of things
including a character named EGGMAN (no relation to the sonic character)
blond guy w ponytail with DID and a comically vilainous alter with the power of applying cartoon logic to himself and others
escaped from an unrealistically abusive orphanage at 10 via manifesting his powers (it was pretty much a prison)
unaware of his alternate self, is aware of the blackouts
pretty nice guy otherwise
also something about macaw, hollow knight, and this weird magic western thingy at the end that i canā€™t recall the plot of but there was a war and the main character somehow becomes mayor while being comatose for years (and wakes up just fine and unaffected by said coma)
i even lampshaded how stupid and unrealistic that part was
blond guy w ponytail with DID and a comically vilainous alter with the power of applying cartoon logic to himself and others
also no blond guy did not call himself eggman (his alter did) dream didnā€™t give him a proper name
and the mf showed up for like 10 seconds but i couldnā€™t stop thinking about how much i liked his vibes even in the dream
and had a false waking up moment where i infodumped the dream details so far in this server (and was disappointed just now when i woke up and realized i didnā€™t really do that)
and thatā€™s all i recall
oh! and the villain for the first part was edna mode for some reason
i was the villain for the second, playing the role of macaw (and practicing her character, good on dream me for making the most of it)
tbh i think the alter was a nice guy too, idek why he was a villain

[The one where thereā€™s no long dream summary here it was just the following i wrote down verbatim: Weird ass dream about waking up in the year 11000 and meeting some guy who wanted to assassinate world leaders bc I wasā€¦ working at a supermarket]
[The one where no long dream summary again I just wrote down ā€œhad a dream where i canonized mia as a trans girl, wildā€. no sheā€™s not a trans girl, but it was a good exploration of her as a character and ultimately person]

The one where what the fuck brain

woke up from a dream involving spanner, an amusement park(?), VLDR, a space shuttle, and a countdown sequence (i just barely made it inside the pod before oxygen was cut off everywhere else)
and what do i wake up to but my brain radio playing fucking. kanye west fingers in his ass song
yes spanner is okay donā€™t worry

The one where SQUID GAMES :bangbang::bangbang:

just got rudely woken out of one hell of a dream
some mystical trickster (probably a fae queen) challenges a bunch of people to various and increasingly lethal games
until only one remains
for the prize of. honestly way less money than itā€™s worth lmao
i played a character who went in with her friend
KNOWING I was gonna die bc I accidentally saw the gameā€™s TVTropes page somehow
But thinking I could avert that fate by knowing
Naturally, I got stuck with an impossible task early
My char started taking her frustrations out on the NPCsā€¦
and then pushed off a player.
Who, incidentally, had been a rude bitch
But it made my character think
ā€œIā€™m doomed no matter what if I donā€™t winā€¦ what if I just kill them all?ā€
AND THEN I GOT WOKEN UP BY BULLSHIT >:(

The one where their name was Henrietta

Was talking to a presumably nb person named Henrietta in my dream
We were chatting in the dream about being trans and stuff and they were the adopted kid of my boss who was moving somewhere and I was trying to track them down
They were black w super short hair, tall (like 6 feet), had a binder, hoodie or jacket, and a skirt
which is big gender
and we ended up losing each other in the crowd but i was trying to get my phone number to them before they moved away
(no they didnā€™t look like eva, their skin was much darker)
oh yeah, and their jeans, worn under their skirt, were kinda torn up around the heels
something about them having been adopted to keep them off the streets?
wack
i do remember they were super nice and understanding
the binder had some kind of orangeish graphic on it
(they were showing it to me as a ā€œyeah iā€™m gendered tooā€ kinda thing)
never got their preferred pronouns though xd

[The one where I dreamed: dreamed about a cursed arcade machine that traps classes of kids in a dream world when someone chooses to continue, though grants that kid top tier gaming skills]

The one where I had Murder Mystery (minecraft Hypixel game) brainrot

writing down before i forget
-murder mystery infection mode variant concept
-two decently sized teams
-each team can infect people on the other team and turn them over to their side
-thereā€™s a pause before the ā€œinfectedā€ is properly transferred over (they are frozen during this time period), and they can be saved by a teammate
-game ends when all players are on one team

The one where it was some kinda VLDR and I was playing as Saeki

just woke up from a wack dream started w swords hosting a more traditional VLDR and naturally i played a saeki
i thought i was just running an NPC but then i got a rolecard
i was working with a woman named Phoenix who apparently found me very attractive and she either called me Loki or thought i was Loki? and then somehow we ended up in an Overwatch style game that was like sonic and mario and various mooks for us to beat up
i remember there were targeted debuffs and anyone in the group could choose to get impacted by it to save anyone else from it (a la Limbus Company)
Phoenix apparently also very much had a mostly black/white worldview, anyone who violated the law was usually irredeemable, though she considered Saeki on thin ice because 1) heā€™s nuts and 2) she likes him

The one where Kam'rae

banger dream
two kingdoms at war
eva saeki and i were sent to interrogate one guy
and it was in a sunken castle so we had to get our hands on things to let us breathe underwater
and eva was using that as leverage to get the guy (who was a dwarf) to talk
and then kamā€™rae happened
we discovered that this kingdom had found multiple points of infiltration into our kingdom back home
and meanwhile, kamā€™rae went back to go piss off the Queen of Hell herself
aka, get in a fight and dodge every attack to make them all harm civilians
until queen of hell literally went insane from it
Quoth the Kamā€™rae: ā€œSkill issueā€
I also distinctly remember Kamā€™rae stripping during combat to throw off her enemies

The one where there was a chancellor

Was dreaming about some kind of like
research-tree based game
Got the backstory of this Chancellor type character
An artificial creation made by some old folks from a long lost civilization
Could shift between the main gameā€™s realm and some ā€œEdenā€-like realm
Apparently only could develop the emotions of guilt and one other thing
And narrated how he rose to the top of the social and political ladder by making people judge the quality of things outside of himself rather than the quality of his actual work
And exploiting his realm shifting
I forget a good chunk of the rest but it was pretty neat in the moment

[The one where my dad was still alive and tried to kill the entire family but me and my brother survived because jesus christ]

The one where why am I getting deja vu from posting this specific one???

ok dream shenanigans
was in a VLDR on a boat as villik (xer was playing lorenz so all star game?), we were all cursed to die with evil spirits. poly i think helped me clear mine and then he, me, xer, and one other person managed to escape via rescue arriving. everyone elseā€™s spirits flew off. i remember ade specifically dying at the same time as someone else
then i remember some kind of like. it was supposed to, in the dream, be official post-DRV3 lore? kaede was alive though, and she and the survivors were trying to stop the former danganronpa company, now Assimilation Co., from taking over the world
They were using some kind of black substance to turn people- Kaede got a little bit in her bloodstream and was half-infected, trying to fight it off while going half-crazy
I remember in the dream I somehow had pictures of the WIPs of CGs featuring this
There was also a character in said dream who was actually an artificial hologram made by this company- she was a pop star w dwarfism and she had ā€œā€ā€magicalā€ā€ā€ powers to become chibi. it was all a publicity/popularity stunt ig

The one where Taylor goes crazy and insane (I actually made art of this because it was so visceral, I'll post in in spoiler)

Vaguely remember my dreams last night
Part of it was
I was playing as Taylor and wanted free food
The lady said I could do it if I won a duel
She had me fight her protege
I was over 2/3 of the way to beating them when I touched the grass and apparently that disqualified me, which I didnā€™t know about
At which point Taylor just started laughing crazily and attacked the protege with intent to kill
Good times

the art i drew for this

The one where Daniel comedically hash tag trolled Eva

Man
Wild dream
I remember Eva was torturing people (i think bc he had Lost it)
Daniel was there but managed to keep his composure long enough for someone to escape and bring down the whole operation
He is so cool and based actually
realistically though eva could probably be one of the few people to break danielā€™s composure
since eva is very very good at pinpointing what makes people freak out
and danielā€™s not exactly subtle about his priorities

The one where there's a content warning on this one for bugs

Sheesh that was an awful dream.
I dreamed very fast-acting and small paper-eating bugs infested my room and no one in my family would help me
Thankfully, in real life, I keep my portfolios safely in my dressers

The one where Taylor got bullied again

just went and took an hour nap
had one hell of a dream
it was a VLDR and gabriel/damien were there
but more importantly taylor was
and here he was an angel and also maybe an alcoholic?
anyways he went on a rant so legendary it got into threadpost
and i donā€™t remember what it was about besides maybe had something to do with conspiracy theories and the internet?
there was a song backing it but not one iā€™ve ever heard
and it ended very definitively with him going over to the nearby hill and with a sword or something inscribing ā€œFuck You.ā€ into it
oh and it was in fancy calligraphy too
Also I remember the setting was some kinda eldritch deal?
The ocean was made of ink
And I remember he chucked a painting out the window that was necessary for a puzzle and he pissed off the god it was of
and i donā€™t remember what it was about besides maybe had something to do with conspiracy theories and the internet?
It ended with him essentially rage quitting the internet I think
It was. Something.
Dreams, man

The one where it was a song and this was definitely inspired by Puss And Boots 2 i think it was?

just heard a song in my dreams called A Chance Meeting With Death ([there was a subtitle here I forgot it])
It was about a guy going to a haunted place for whatever reason with his female companion
He meets a pale, black-cloaked, plague-doctor-masked man there who makes several passive aggressive disparaging remarks, with some joke the protagonist makes making the stranger remark ā€œIt wasnā€™t that funnyā€
Then it suddenly escalates from the two taking lyrical jabs at each other to the man revealing himself to be Death and attempting to murder the protagonist with a flamethrower, only to run out of gas and give the protagonist an opening to escape Death also mentions the protagonistā€™s nickname from childhood which was ā€œFirebrandā€ (I believe something about nearly dying in a fire?)
Protagonist flees downstairs, sees the servants and staff of the house dead (this may have been before the Death reveal, I donā€™t recall, but he definitely goes downstairs to flee)
Protagonist goes back upstairs, faces down Death and makes some badass boasts that make Death leave I think? (I had just read the summary of a new movie where this was a plot point so no surprise)
Thereā€™s also a line here where the protag calls Death a slut and Death makes a comment about the word being offensive to some minority group
Protag goes back down to clean the bodies but theyā€™re gone mysteriously
Goes back upstairs, talks to female companions, she talks about the garage also being cursed and making her feel ā€œferalā€ so protag goes to investigate
Bodies are in there, arranged with their fingers posed to form numbers
Protag figures out what order the victims died I think? and then arranges the numbers into a coded message
Itā€™s one last insult to the protagonist in the form of a joke, which I think also tied into the ā€œslutā€ comment
Cue ending line, ā€œIt wasnā€™t that funnyā€¦ā€
Wish I remember the melody of the song
Was a long song, like 5 minutes or longer
Alas, too many hazy details to recreate it
I remember thinking (in like a background-thought semi-lucid way) that it was good musically and the idea was neat but the execution was incoherent and sloppy (because obviously itā€™s a dream creation)
I also remember the woman was buff
And in armor
Thatā€™s all I recall sadly

The one where it was analog horror

dreamed i was watching one of those analog horror series
canā€™t recall everything but it had some details
-simple choose your own adventure paths, multiple routes
-a pride meter known in game (somehow) and if it gets too high the massive monster tracks your ass down and you die
-main monster is building sized and can draw people to follow it
-time loops?
-a long explanation on the necessary (in one route) poison plants being super fragile (1/10 survive a crop, since the rest die or revert to normal) and it had something to do with the early reincarnation of another macguffin-esque npc
-speaking of reincarnation was a known detail at least to main character and his buddies
a lot of the decisions were like
i remember one about ā€œdo we jump out the window or do we go out the door after the npcā€ turns out window was right option but idk what wouldā€™ve happened otherwise

[The one where all I remembered was this quote exactly:
Ailith: Speaking from experience, someone who can drink a gallon of fish oil usually needs to run away from someone really fast.
someone, probably Hal: are you okay
Ailith: no]

The one where it was an alright game concept

Dreamed up a wild matcher fighter game for lack of a better word
ā€œFighterā€ similar to games like Street Fighter and Guilty Gear
ā€œMatcherā€ like those shitty mobile apps
Itā€™s you and the other guy and youā€™re beating the shit out of each other
BUT youā€™re also both matching above you at the same time and when you make combos, you get drop-downs you can catch (or that can land in specific slots you set at round start through a weird Peggle-esque minigame) that give you powerups
Tone of the lore was relatively lighthearted, just a bunch of people in the mood to beat the shit out of each other and win glory and rewards
I remember coming in as a character, blond spiky-haired, higher energy sort of guy, total nobody, running in right before a round, meeting this other dark-haired total nobody guy and going ā€œhey, audience, what if us two total nobodies fought this next roundā€ and it worked and we got in, my character won and he and his opponent became besties about it
There was, I vaguely recall, a huge discussion about game meta with which items to use as your matchers because each one did a different thing and if you were fast enough on top of being quick on your feet at the same time you could rack up some insane combos

[The one where I dreamed I had summonable wings and I stole a fuckoff balloon from a fair and got banned from it worldwide but it was worth it bc I became internet famous and made it my internet brand]

The one where I genuinely considered making a forum game out of this but I have no time or real motivation

Weirdass dream last night
Some kind of board game video game thing
You (the player self insert) wake up in a mysterious village of witches surrounded by fog
You meet a friendly male witch who shows you the ropes of spells and recipes
Only, as it turns out, cannibalism is not only common, but the norm in this village, and he gets murdered and eaten by a witch
Thereā€™s 5 other named witches in the game besides him and you (all I remember namewise is the one named Pink Jix, or maybe her name is just Jix)
Each have their own difficulties in creating spells and potions
Thereā€™s an old dignified kinda guy whose whole deal is logic and reason (and at the end showdown he tried to persuade me to side with him- I did not lmao. get fucked L)
Thereā€™s Jix, the girly bubbly witch
Thereā€™s a standard-affair goth looking female witch who has the most difficult yet powerful spells and potions in the game
Thereā€™s a softie-boy kinda male witch who keeps having it hard in backstory and game (I knew somehow in the dream that he earned a lot of sympathy and adoration from fans as a result)
And I honestly forget the other one (god damn it dream memory loss!) (though this slot may have been filled by either Tutorial Witch (who dies in the beginning of the first round to demonstrate the murder mechanic) or his mysterious alter ego)
And thereā€™s also you who has the ability to essentially JOAT it via co-habitation with a witch to learn their tricks and team up with them (and potentially betraying them if you so wish)
By the end of the story mode demo you find out the mysterious figure whoā€™s been doing things in the background is none other than friendly tutorial witch guy who mysteriously survived and is investigating why the village is unleaveable, and also thereā€™s the plotsecretdrop that the village is actually on Earth because the FBI exist and have some kind of involvement
There may not have been a ā€œlast oneā€ that I canā€™t remember but it feels like there was?
There were also a lot more mechanical elements to the spells/potions/murdering and cannibalizing your enemies/allies but I cannot recall the details in true dream fashion
Honestly would probably be a mid game in the hands of most game studios, itā€™d have to have some kind of wild storywriting to sell me on it
Also I think tutorial guy had Damianā€™s general vibe and voice and sad wet cat guy has Snowā€™s general vibe and voice Logic witch guy had a big like. tailcoat grey hair thin as a rail vibe and was about as stock of that character archetype as you can get
I forget the other appearances

[The one where i had a dream where it was like the sans fight but in an ultrakill like game and in order to be able to hit him you had to pick up 8 objects that each gave you a debuff and then survive long enough to land the shot]

[The one where Iā€™d put the summary here but it was genuinely so fucked up I donā€™t know if itā€™s safe for the forums. Anyways itā€™s the one about Lyal to the people in here who are in my personal server]

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How about your dreams, gremlin? @TodaysStory

i have an entire dream journal dedicated to all of this, if you want.

But basically. You dream every single night, yes, you do. However your memory is fuzzy in the morning because during sleep a part that occupies with rationality shuts down (prefrontal cortex).

Your dreams can be pretty basic, dreaming of walking in a park or going on a balcony to look at people playing on swings or something like that. With the exception that, those that give you the most emotional reaction are those that you remember the most (memory works like that).

My dream last night was literally checking a thread on danganrompa gaming to see if somebody wrote their action correctly :sob:

Though my dream signs keep switching. In middle school I had dreams where my phone would keep ringing and then the teacher would try to take it away from me. Or dreaming about being bullied (when I developed social anxiety at some point). Or regularly dreaming about who DMā€™ed me over Discord.

If I dream about a location thatā€™s not digital, it would me either my hometown or my old apartment house. One of these days I had a vivid dream where I had pure consciousness but I didnā€™t understand if I was dreaming or not because it ā€œlooked realā€. When I tried to reality check, I would keep getting distracted until my consciousness fell to obscurity.

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The more experiences you have in real life, the more varied your dreams will be.

I used to dream alot about wonderland scenarios where I would either be a monarch trying to take down another kingdom (everything would be candy themed and the warriors would be odd shadow creatures), or a water palace thatā€™s shrouded and ghostly.

Though that was a long time ago, I really miss those dreams.

But essentially try to keep a dream journal, because that will make you remember every dream as much as you can.


Dream radar? Looks like it found him

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People who are blind from birth see nothing in dreams. Which is probably not a revolutionary insight.

yes

past more often

consistant

no. no computers either

usually old and rickety

nothing out of the ordinary

havent had a dream that i remember well in a long while though