I just woke up from a dream where surreal versions of the Looney Tunes characters were trying to give me cryptic clues to something as they were legally barred from appearing as themselves or speaking openly.

Yup. One was lovely and I think of it fondly today. The other was a nightmare which still haunts me today. The last was just really cool. So I guess net positive.

Back when I meditated like half an hour daily and purposefully did lots of stuff to make my dreams more vivid I had TONS of these and I have many of them saved in a dream diary.

A dream I think about a lot was a continuation dream of sorts. I'm in school and I remember all the lore from this school that doesnt really exist, except at one point the dream becomes a lucid dream. When this happens all the dream people notice I know I'm in a dream and they go "fuck it, lets drop the act and just chill" and they start talking to me about other dreams they've been in and "characters" they've "played" in them and how they like performing in the school setting and stuff like that. Waking up from that shit felt SO crazy to me.

I used to have a recurring nightmare where I was being hunted by something that was basically the liquid terminator, taking the form of loved ones to come and kill me. I always knew it wasn't my family member or friend, because something about the situation always gave it away, but I could never let it know that I knew, and always had to find excuses to keep a bit of distance or get near the exit without letting on.

Constantly. Something about my brain and shit had given me very vivid dreams for as long as I can remeber. It has its ups and down sides. The best is when I get to hug a dead relative the worst is the brutal death of me and loved ones.

The most annoying are when I dream about mundane tasks like taking my meds or feeding a pet. I think wake up and then have to figure out if I actually did those things or not.

You get used to it though. However it does present the weird phenomenon of feeling older then I am. Or at least adds to it. Its almost like I'm awake more then everyone which means time is much slower.

i have not had a dream that made me feel weird that is a continuation of another dream, but i had a dream where i was able to transition

when i woke up i cried

When I was around 10 -12, I had this recurring dream about a girl that lived next to my house. Just across the stream that runs behind my house, maybe two soccer fields distance.

I used to go play with her every night in my dreams for years. Maybe not every night, but very regularly. We did all kinds of fun things, explore the neigbourhood, hide and seek, build a hut, just normal kid stuff.

Things is, there is no stream behind my house, only a dried up ditch. Also there's a couple other houses close by, but not in that direction. I never knew this girl in real life. But that was fine. It was probably just a kid's imagination who wanted a close friend like that.

But, a couple years later I met my wife. She looks the spitting image of that girl, only a bit older. Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me after two decades, but I do explicitly remember first time seeing her thinking "she looks like that girl from my dreams".

When I was between 7 and 11 I had a dream that involved the flayed head of someone I knew at school landing on my lap and for a few days remember feeling odd about it.

I've had lucid dreams as long as I can remember and yeah sometimes they really stick. I tend to have good control over my dreams too and so when I get into one and I can't control it I feel very helpless. Historically I've also been able to wake myself up from dreams when I lose control but the last couple of years my brain has caught on. Sometimes now when I wake up I actually end up in another dream that mimics how I wake up from dreams then it'll warp back into whatever I was trying to wake up from. It's turned into an arms race where I'll go through my wake up procedures multiple times and honestly some days I'm uncertain if I've actually woken up or not.

The dreams that have fucked me up the most is what I call sequel dreams. Randomly I get a dream that is a continuation of a dream I had years ago and I barely remember it.

All these different people in your dreams are not strangers at all. It is all parts of you. Think of it like different facettes of your personality.

I've found that my most immersive dreams have me feeling as though I woke up in the dream without waking up in real life. Maybe that's when the implausible dream scenarios end and real-life types of events start happening. There's been a couple times I wake up missing the people I knew from those dreams.

Yeah, since becoming a Dad I've had extremely vivid and horrific dreams of bad things happening which stick with me for weeks. I also have sleep paralysis but I'm pretty used to the hallucinations now.

What fucks me up lately is my own behavior in dreams. I get super pissed off for things that would be slightly annoying in real life. E.g. in the last dream some uncle of my wife who doesn't actually exist wanted me to unpack and connect a new washing machine (which IRL is a bit of a problem because I have back issues with herniated discs). Also IRL this would be a bit stressful because it's in our basement and there's not a lot of room and the water valves are not great etc. Anyways this (the uncle demanding me to do things and not thinking about my back) got me super butthurt and in my dream, I punched doors and shouted something and then ran to the bedroom and cried when I heard the rest of the family which for some reason where all in the house say things like "what's up with [my name]?"

I've had a few similar dreams recently and I hate them.

I rarely have good dreams but I'm more used to dreams where I lose important shit, forget important things, get lost or where escalators kill me. I even prefer the body horror dreams where my or some loved ones teeth fall out.

Lucid dreaming. There's people that can regularly do it through practice, and then can eventually control things in their dream.