Topic: These dreams I've been having...

[BLOOD MONKEY]

For the past few weeks, I've been having these strange dreams. I don't know what kind of meaning they have, or if they have a meaning at all. But I do know one thing: They ARE related.

The first one I had: I was going over to this girl's house to hang out with some friends. Everything was completely normal. I get there: I see her, and I look at her, and I'm attracted immediately. Although my tastes say otherwise, she is beautiful to me. She has short, brown, kinda messy looking hair, a small, pointy nose, blue-ish grey eyes, and a round face. Very slender body, and she wears loose clothing. I'm just so attracted to her. And then everything stops. I'm completely conscious, but can't move. And I want to interact with her so bad, so bad I start screaming. The first dream ends.

Second dream: A fair sized timeskip in-between. We're now close friends, I come over to her house sometimes, we go hang out at the movies, the park, etc. Then I come over to her house one night. Since the living room is being used by adults, we go to her room to watch a movie. The movie starts getting scary (vary scary), so she grabs hold of my arm. Slowly, I put my arm around her. The movie ends, and i stat heading home. She stops me before I go out of her room. She grabs me, and looks me in the eyes. She pulls me in, and I move closer. Our lips meet. The dream ends.

Third dream: Another large timeskip. We're both older, and we're going out now. It's been about 4 years since the last dream (altho in reality, 1 day), so we're obviously taller, and our hair is longer, my voice is deeper, etc. Movies seem to be our thing, since we watch one together in both of these dreams. In this one, she is in a different house (same area tho), which seems to be alot more comfy than the older one. It is also right along the coast of Gulf Shores, where we walk together every other weekend. We get in my car, which is a cheap Ford thing, and we start driving. The dream ends.

Fourth dream: About the gap of a year. I moved away for about 11 months. The months were very depressing, as I was not with her. My mom tells me that we're moving back in a couple of weeks. I get extremely excited. I'm finally going to see her again. I blink, and we're there, in our old house too. As soon as we're in the door, I'm out. I drive to her house immediately. I get there, and knock on her door. She answers. I get overexcited, and I run towards her, and hug her. She isn't as welcoming as I thought she'd be. She pushes at me, and looks at me with kind of a sad face. I look deep into her eyes, and collapse at the concrete steps. I start sobbing uncontrollably. The dream ends.

Fifth Dream: I'm in a endless, white hallway. No doors, no bumps; everything is blank. I look one way: Nothing. I look the other: I see her, standing there, naked, but no parts. she urges me towards her. I start moving to her. She runs away from me. I get confused. She looks at me and says: "Help me, Please!" I start sprinting towards her, but she keeps running from me. I know she is not running towards something, but away from me. I start crying, but not much. She starts screaming, as if she is in pain. But she won't stop running from me. Then, she just stops. I stop too. She then turns around, looks at me, and starts walking towards me. The dream ends.


That's all for now, but I'll keep you guys updated on future dreams.

[BLOOD MONKEY]

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[X]

Wow... That's quite involved for a dream. Have you tried to sit down and analyze these dreams? This is something you might want to do. Take the dream apart piece by piece. Analyze everything about it; the girl, the environment, the dates and times, everything. The final dream you've had sounds more segregated and isolated then the other dreams before it. Also how real were these dreams? Because there is a difference between a dream and astral traveling.

[BLOOD MONKEY]

Wow... That's quite involved for a dream. Have you tried to sit down and analyze these dreams? This is something you might want to do. Take the dream apart piece by piece. Analyze everything about it; the girl, the environment, the dates and times, everything. The final dream you've had sounds more segregated and isolated then the other dreams before it. Also how real were these dreams? Because there is a difference between a dream and astral traveling.

They were extremely real... I could feel everything. I remember the way her house smelled, the way the popcorn tasted. Everything. But it was me, for sure, because I looked same is I do now, and she said my name, and talked to me. I've tried analyzing it, but it's hard to. Some people told me that it's sensory deprivation, but I'm not sure.

[X]

Some people told me that it's sensory deprivation, but I'm not sure.

I highly doubt this. To me it sounds more like you went astral traveling. Especially if this dream you had is as real as it was for you. Dreams themselves are ofter skewed, ambiguous, constantly changing and sometimes very chaotic that they don't make sense. But unlike a dream, astral travel feels very real, stable, and follows logical patterns that you can easily recognize. But still try and analyze the elements and see what you can come up with.

[Dracula9]

BLOO YOU'RE GONNA DIE WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS

Also dream analyzation is generally a crock from what I've experienced.

You dream about a giant crab in high heels and a Bon Jovi wig chasing you down the Coney Island pier during a football riot? You have unresolved tensions with your father, have a subconscious fixation on skirting danger because crabs walk sideways and sidling a building ledge is dangerous, and will have financial trouble in the future due to a bad investment of your money in someone or something you thought you really loved. What? No, there's no way that completely random combination of wacky shit is actually just a random combination of wacky shit your brain's sorting out, that crab is a harbinger of your future!

Jesus Christ, I'm all for the potential unknown aspects and abilities of the human mind, but you're a teenager on the cusp of some pretty crazy hormone and mental changes, and you dreamt about an imaginary cute girl you had feelings for in-dream. Where exactly is the mystery?

I also want to note that the ridiculous trend in astral projection and lucid dreaming and whatnot that's been around the last few years is absolutely ludicrous and should not be something to suggest to someone so young. Acute awareness during total body paralysis isn't exactly fun, after all, nor is the likelihood of terrifying imagery, because there is no real typecasting that shit, aside from the shadow people sitting on your chest or otherwise fucking with you.

Why the hell can't a dream just be a jumbled assortment of feelings and thoughts and information? Why does every dream that follows any sort of structure suddenly got to be some new-age omen? By that logic, a weird dream I had when I was like twelve where Raven from Teen Titans and I were together and went on adventures in Hyrule to stop Ganon and a mixmatch of other villains (no I'm not making this up) should be properly analyzed for hidden meanings because it followed a loose plot. Same goes for the extremely odd dream I had last week (spoilered below for your reading pleasure/confusion), and just about any cohesive dream.

Maybe I'm being too much of a skeptic, but on the subject of dream meaning I really am. Hell, I've had a recurring nightmare about a skeleton horse running around in a dead environment, staring at me in silence, and then snapping its skull to scream a noise beyond description at me that wakes me up for about twelve years now. By all the implications in the dream analysis books, I should be dead/in financial or social ruin/severely injured/living in starvation and squalor/other bad thing by now.

But I digress. I can't really outright declare your dreams to be simply that, but given where you are currently in mental development I also can't really buy that it means something more. So, rather than bitch about dream study, I'll post here what I posted in the INC. thread.

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The Joker's at a party. He doesn't have the outfit on, but somehow I knew it was him (this whole bit was from the perspective of if I were him). Huge party in a house in the woods, I think it was a graduation bash for some reason. Next day, one of the kids that was there goes missing. Everybody panics and splits off looking for him, and Joker packs on layers because it's cold outside, duh. Spends all day looking for the kid, nothing. This repeats for several days, with everybody but Joker getting less motivated each day.
Joker does more and longer searches than anyone, and eventually reaches the conclusion that the boy's either run away, got lost in the woods and may or may not have been eaten by a bear, or one of the above and was found by an outside party. Everybody gets mad at him for the bear suggestion and they make him leave. Joker gets really bummed because he was genuinely trying to help.
THIS IS WHERE IT GETS WEIRD, AND IS NOW BEING WATCHED LIKE IT'S A MOVIE
Details are hazy here, a lotta weird crap happened. Another party, Bruce Wayne's house, the same people from the first one are there, plus a lot more. Bruce has some new rich-guy thing to show off or something, and it winds up being an alternate power source of some kind.
It turns out it's power from what I can only describe as the Evil Dead Necronomicon (only serious rather than funny), only in the form of hundreds of little boxes for whatever reason. Joker tries to reason with Bruce (who at this point is alternating between TAS, Bale, and Clooney in different "shots") about what the power is, but he gets laughed at and shooed away.
Bruce keeps yammering on and Joker's sulking in a closet because why not. Turns out that closet is where ALL THOSE LITTLE BOXES ARE KEPT and he gets even more freaked out by the idea.
Bruce reaches the point where he's about to open one and activate it, and Joker, now hysterical, pleads for him not to. He does it anyways and total, absolute chaos ensues. The opening of one box triggers all the others to open in the closet (as well as the even larger amount in the Batcave that is only now shown), and the evil spirits start wrecking crap, going outside and causing pretty much the apocalypse. The ordeal drives Joker crazy and back to his usual self and basically everyone but him and Bruce and some nameless dude die.
The perspective of the dream is now like a horror game, You wake up in a decrepit bathroom as the nameless dude (hereafter called Steve) and bedlam has taken over the world. The mansion is dark and everything's broken, bodies everywhere. As you explore the area, Joker will pop up at random intervals to scare and mess with you, as he's now a demigod apparently because he's an agent of Chaos again.
At certain places, for no apparent reason, you encounter wraith/ghost/zombie/wight/etc. forms of your friends and family (whether they were at the party or not, go figure), and usually they ask for you to kill them to end their suffering. Joker taunts you every time regardless of your choice.
There's like a dozen or two of these instances, and each one gets more and more twisted and disturbing. However, there's an order to it, and if you screw up at all, you "restart" the whole thing and wake back up in the bathroom.
Eventually, perspective shifts to Joker in a room of nothing but screens with a chair in the center (the impression was that it was Batman's surveillance room-thing), with Joker in it. Clooney Bruce flashes on the screens sporadically, calling Joker out and blaming him. Joker explains hatefully that he tried to warn him and that nobody ever listened, how the entire thing is Bruce's fault, and how since the apocalypse drove him to madness when all he really ever tried to do was help and and do the right thing, he should rightfully let all the people who doubted and outcast him suffer. Bruce denies it and the process repeats.
Once Steve kills off all his friends and family again, he's in a huge living room with all-glass walls on one side and sees the outside damage. Total entropy, city as far as he can see is decimated. Hordes of monsters and demons are ravaging what's left. If he stays by the window too long, he'll be spotted, and a demon will suddenly appear outside the window and kill him, and the "game" resets to the bathroom again.
Once all this is done right, Joker shows up in the living room and gives a monologue about how he got tired of trying to help and decided to let the madness in.
(I remember that stuff happened here but exactly what I forget)
You beat Joker some way and he has a moment of clarity, telling you how to fix everything. You do it, and it's basically a restart button on the entire thing. Steve's back at the party, and everything's normal, with only him and Joker and Bruce having memory of it, as evidenced by Bruce's change of interest and Joker giving Steve a knowing look.
AND THEN SOMEHOW IT'S GAME OF THRONES
AND THIS ENTIRE SEQUENCE ACTUALLY FOLLOWS A THREE-ACT STRUCTURE
AND IT'S PRETTY MUCH 300, EXCEPT WITH DAENERYS AS THE SPARTANS AND NAMELESS GUYS AS THE PERSIANS
THEY'RE ALL IN THE SAME GIGANTIC CITY-LIKE STRUCTURE
DANY'S GUYS HAVE TO GET WOOD TO BURN AND GOLD FOR SOME STRANGE REASON BUT HAVE A HARD TIME SINCE NOT-PERSIANS ALREADY GOT MOST OF THE WOOD AND HAVE ALL THE GOLD
LOTS OF NARROW ESCAPES AND LUCKY MANEUVERS PASS
THEY FIND ENOUGH WOOD BUT NOT ENOUGH GOLD
IT'S EXPLAINED THAT THEY BURN THE WOOD AND DANY BREATHES IN THE SMOKE AND TURNS INTO A DRAGON THING, DON'T ASK WHY I DON'T KNOW EITHER
THE GOLD IS TO MAKE HER STRONGER BECAUSE DRAGONS LOVE THAT STUFF
THEY CAN'T GET THE FIRE TO LIGHT RIGHT AND THE NOT-PERSIANS ARE NEARLY UPON THEM
THE RETREAT TO A COURTYARD BELOW THEM AND ARE SURROUNDED
ALL HOPE SEEMS LOST
BUT WAIT, THEY FORGOT TO PUT OUT THEIR FIRE IN THE TOWER THEY WERE IN, AND THIS BIG ARMY HAS A LOT OF TORCHES
THERE IS NOW A MIRACULOUS GUST OF WIND THAT BLOWS RIGHT AT OUR HEROES AND ALL THAT SMOKE GOES RIGHT TO DAENERYS
AT THIS TIME IT IS REVEALED THE NOT-PERSIANS ACTUALLY BROUGHT ALL THEIR GOLD WITH THEM IN WHEELBARROWS PILED A HUNDRED FEET HIGH FOR WHATEVER REASON
PROBABLY TO GLOAT, THE PERSIANS WERE JERKS, THESE GUYS PROBABLY ARE TOO
DANY IS NOW A TOTALLY AWESOME BLACK DRAGON THING
AND THERE'S ALL THIS GOLD RIGHT
NOW SHE'S PLAYING WITH POWER
SHE KILLS ALL THE NOT-PERSIANS AND TURNS BACK TO NORMAL
More stuff happened I can't remember, and then I woke up.

[Gunlord]

Hmm...judging from that first dream, I wonder, Kokushibyo, do you have a crush, or do you want a gf? Such dreams can be evidence of repressed longing.

[BLOOD MONKEY]

Hmm...judging from that first dream, I wonder, Kokushibyo, do you have a crush, or do you want a gf? Such dreams can be evidence of repressed longing.

Not really. I've had a girlfriend and we just recently broke up. But since then, I really haven't wanted one.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Your conscious does not want a GF. Your unconscious craves for one. You are fighting between the 2 halves of yourself.

@D9: Hooray for that insane evil plush mascot pic.

[Dracula9]

It's a perfect answer image. 

But yeah, if you just had a breakup and are dreaming this sorta shit, it's more likely than not your subconscious dealing with it in tandem with hormone fluctuations.

[zangetsu468]

What you've described sounds stereotypical of the beginning>end of a first love.

I actually believe the sequence of these dreams is quite significant. Time becomes irrelevant in a sense and you're skipping to different phases of life with this person which could generally take years in real time. So it's almost like in 5 nights the dreams seem to carry years of relationship experience within themselves.

The aspect of movies is quite poetic here I think. It's showing you that if your (love) life was a movie this is how it would play out. By the end of the last dream it sounds like you've seen a version of your romantic life flash before your eyes. I wonder if the girl/woman is either an embodiment of what you desire internally or whether she's a combination of different attributes/ elements from different lovers you may have had or at least had feeling towards.

You've also mentioned being in a house a few times, which can represent one's own spirituality/ core in the 'dreamscape'. Once you'd moved away during those 11 months, she fell out of love with you or it wasn't the same, which is why you were pushed away. The number 11 is also significant in this sense as it denotes two 1's = 2 separate individuals, no longer as one. You specifically say that you collapse on the concrete steps i.e. outside of the house, which could illustrate that you no longer have permission to enter/occupy that spiritual/internal space with her anymore.

The last dream; completely white with no privates to me sounds like it's purely a spiritual thing. In the 4th dream she pushes you away meaning your separated in the physical sense, the final dream is purely spiritual separation i.e. the final (metaphysical) stage of a bond broken between 2 individuals who have loved one another.

If this series of dreams aren't reflective of your actual life it could be astral as a previous poster stated.