Newgrounds, we all feel differently about dreams, don't we? You know when I took writing classes my teachers would criticize my writing saying that I needed to speak more matter of factly, I had to convince the reader I knew what I was talking about, and somehow force my opinion on them. I prefer asking, telling is for people who think they know, and for those people only.
Are dreams prophetic? Are dreams significant, are ALL dreams interpretable? Are they just a tired mind replaying the events of the day and the hopes of tomorrow in strange incomplete ways? This is a thread to:
A.) Share strange dreams you've had, and what you think, if anything, they mean.
B.) To discuss dreams in general, and the significance or insignificance
C.) To just make dick jokes as is newgrounds preference, I legitimately appreciate actual expression, if you're funny, you're funny, if I had my way this site would be much more free for expression it's a shame it's not.
I'll start:
Childhood: In my youth I had typical children dreams, or so I think. Being chased, falling and waking up from the sensation, I think childhood dreams are mostly training manuals for the worst case scenario, maybe I'm just dark. I had alot of dreams where I couldnt make noise. One dream a man chases me up a tree, a man apparently trusted by my family and youll see why in a second, and he starts climbing to get me, my father appears from around the bend and sees us two, and assumes we're just playing or something, I go to yell out to him and no words come and he leaves.
Teenage Years: I took sociology in highschool, and they say the brain goes through what they call pruning, where parts of the brain and memories and pathways therein are stripped in lieu of more useful things, men have 3 of these in their life, the first being the late teens. I was also a heavy drug user and an alcoholic, I still am really, so it could have been both these factors that lead to these dreams:
- Dream 1: In a tell tale heart style, in this dream I live in a truck ( I grew up very poor compared to most of you and this isn't really a stretch to begin with ) think of this truck like a blazer, a pickup truck but covered. In this truck I have a cooler in which I have placed a body of someone I killed, one of those chest coolers, I don't know who, faceless body. Every night, once a night the lid slams open and wakes me up. every night I chain it down in new elaborate ways yet it persists. This is a typical human dream with a darker twist, a fire you cant put out.
- Dream 2: This one makes no sense but still haunts me in a way, and is very hard to describe and make you understand. A bit of explanation, sometimes I shake in my sleep, I'm not sure why, and sometimes it wakes me. When I was younger this just started happening and I think these dreams were my minds interpretation. One night I go to sleep, the room im in is an attic, and there is a hallway thing, hard to describe, I should draw it. anyways its a closet, so I put my bed in it, to give me more room. The only light is on a switch on the other side of the room. So I fall asleep one night, doors shut, pitch black, Im awoken by shaking. I look at the end of my bed, the only way out, and theres a little girl starring at me in the darkness, expressionless, shes pushing up and down on the bed shaking me, then shes motionless. I slide to the end of the bed and stare at her a second, and slowly motion to get up and she steps asside to let me, I walk acrossed the room, turn on the light and of course shes gone. I then sat in a chair quietly and made a drink, and smoked a cigarette trying to either figure it out or wait for her to come back?
I then started having dreams involving this girl, and it gets weirder. In one dream my girlfriend comes to me and says " the little girl just died, and shes under the door waiting for you." and I said, what do you mean under the door? like in the crack? I look at a painting on the wall in the dream, of a ship, and the sails and ocean move and I go to speak and cant, a reoccurring theme.
Adulthood: Same sort of dreams, much more complex. Had a dream not long ago, that only the water was safe after sundown. If you werent on water, you died. I stole a piece of fence in a park with a little pond because it was getting dark and I couldnt make it to the ocean, and slept in the dream on this floating fence, half in the water. I woke up and went in the city, and in the dream I did mushrooms, and swear i tripped while asleep, maybe its one of those flashbacks they talk about. I stole a ship so I'd be safe and that night in a storm the ship went down and I woke up
Had another dream just the other night I'm on an island in a graveyard and a hooker asks me to spend time with her, and i refuse and the people shes with pull out guns to rob me and I run off. I find a camper with flat tires and broken windows, inside theres a body, and I hide as the people pass. I find the whole island is dead, and when i make my way back to the bridge i walked acrossed its broken out and the tide is too strong to swim.
Tell us some weird dreams newgrounds, we do so enjoy dreams, dont we?
