Your weirdest dreams and their meanings

[paranoidpatty]

What was your weirdest dream and what do you think it means?  I had a dream where I was buying a giant bagel, I mean GIANT, about 2 feet tall.  Do you think I was just hungry before I went to bed or is that dream telling me I eat too much bread?  Because I do ...LOL

[Cherie762]

I dream of being lost in a big school cant find my way to class.dont know who my teachers are...think this is my inner conflct wanting to go back to college to get RN degree instead of cena..but Im leary/worried about it..for the record right now there is no way economys too bad i need to heal fast from latest srg. and get back to work.

[Lonelymom]

I had a dream this weekend that wont leave my mind. I dreamt my ex boyfriend and I were at a beach talking about why we didn't work out. I was explaining to him that I have to give my marriage another shot and how happy it has made my children.

He repeatedly told me in the dream that I was only doing it for the kids and would never be happy.  And he was reminding me of how happy he made me and how happy I was with myself when I was with him.

Now I can't get that dream out of my head!! What could it mean??

[kayakka]

I once had a dream that my ex (partner at the time) was sleeping with a friend. I discovered shortly thereafter this was real. I think my subconscious was dealing with what my conscious mind refused to accept

[MJIthewriter]

Another recent dream I had was being a child stranded out in a wilderness. It was all snow covered and beautiful.  But it was cold and I was alone.  Somewhere out of nowhere a huge dark grey wolf appeared. It let me snuggle with it. I could feel the dense soft fur.  When I woke up (in the dream) the wolf was gone. I was trying to look for the wolf later in the dream, but never found it. In the dream I concluded the wolf was some kind of spirit sent to protect me in that wilderness.  I soon woke up, thought about the dream.  Later that evening I wrote it down.  I don't know the meaning.

It reminds me of an earlier dream I had of being in a wilderness leading a pack of wolves, sometimes riding on one of them. I looked up and saw huge snow covered mountains like a painting. It was beautiful.

I've had dreams where I'm an animal rather than a human. So far I think I’ve been a horse, dragon, pig, phoenix, eagle, and various insects and other animals I’ve forgotten.
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Flying dream: One of the most awesome ones was when I realized I had forgotten how to fly. I felt sad thinking back over the memories I had of flying.  Then I saw a building and there were children flying. I felt sad once again whishing that I could fly.

I found myself inside the building. There was an old man in front of me and he was teaching me how to fly again.  He showed me how to hold my arms out and how to soar.

Some weeks later I had another dream of flying. This time I was teaching other people how to fly.  For some reason when I think about those dreams it brings tears in my eyes. There has to be some meaning there that I haven't figured out.

[Mjthewritermom]

I have lots of tornado dreams too.  In the past 3 mos. I had one week where there was a series of storms coming.  Years ago, I read about lucid dreaming and looked through various books that had meanings for the symbols.  It was interesting.

I have had the teeth falling out many years ago.  I have had space invaders coming (they were like giant transformers searching and destroying in the cities with me and others fleeing), water overflowing, floods.  Lots of my dreams seemed like I was the observer.

At this point I am trying not to read more into them, but there are some I make note of to write down.  I do believe they can be warnings of things to come or maybe to stop something, start something, etc.  So, I don't totally brush them off.  

At one point in my life, I journaled the dreams for months.  I finally stopped and now am glad because it takes time to read through them and try to figure them out.  I have had plenty of bizzare and frightening ones.  I had sleep paralysis and the unfortunate awareness of being caught between states.  

Some dreams were beautiful and I would liked to have lingered longer.  I haven't had a flying one in quite awhile, but they were fun because it was so real like.

I watched Awakenings and was moved.  I liked the poem, Panther, by Marie Rainer Rilke.  Perhaps it symbolized a struggle I felt that to live in this world was like being in a cage and that there were moments of lucidity----it felt painful.  

I think when I watched Gladiator, I felt the "awfulness" of being human with its limitations.  With people flocking to see blood spilled with victors and victims.  I realized I wanted no part of it.  The dream world can be a world of magic & enchantment...one of possibilities.

C. S. Lewis wrote in one of the Narnia series of a prince held in bonds who said not to let him go no matter how much he pleaded because he was under a spell.  I thought again about those moments of lucidity that come & go.

So much to discover, time keeps rushing on.

:-()

[MJIthewriter]

I've had a number of weird dreams and some of them follow a plot line like a story.  One from this week was I was walking along with a group of people through some kind of wilderness trying to get home (wherever that is?). At some point the group decided we should try going a different way, which is to take some kind of airway or fly through some kind of passage through the sky or something.  I felt uneasy; because I wasn't sure it was the safest way to go. I thought I saw T-storms forming off in a distance.  Anyways I decided to go along with the group.  We started floating. Sure enough I'd look off to either side of me and I'd see tornados off in a distance spinning.  I felt afraid, but at the same time somehow knew as long as we all stayed in our path we were protected. I felt uneasy, but I felt safe at the same time.

Meaning? I don't know. I tend to think of storms as symbolic to struggles, challenges, and tests in my life. Tornados seem to be the most feared because they can leave a lot of destruction in their wake.  When I'm willing to face the storm and not be afraid, or not let it frighten me, then it's like facing problems in my life or at least feeling secure that as long as I stay on the path, I am safe from harm, or at least emotionally secure.  But then again I don't know. I have lots of interesting dreams that I could possibly share. This just happened to be a recent one.

[ILADVOCATE]

Well for me dreams are a "balancing act" between dopamine levels. One could read more on this in the famed book by Oliver Sacks "Awakenings" that describes Parkinsonianism. Its identical to that. The dreams I have during what they are identifying as tardive psychosis are dissociative and disturbing and not fit to detail here (usually trapped in a coffin and worse) but when I take a medication that brings up dopamine the dreams are wildly out of kilter. Some of those are really oddball. In one I was with Cartman from South Park. As most of you who have watched the show know he is pretty obnoxious lol. He was in Spain with the annual "running of the bulls". The difference was the bulls were headless, other animals too and it got more and more terrifying until I woke up. I felt I was under attack in the dream but in dreams (for everyone, not just people whose disabilities cause abnormal dreams) the different characteristics of the person are split into parts. So it was not just me under attack, in being antagonistic towards people on a debating site I was acting aggressive and authoritarian like Cartman and like the bulls had "lost my head". I thought about it and approached the people in a more polite and judicious manner with good results so in understanding it, it had a real world consequences that were positive.

[Trialanderror]

I had a dream of me landing a large passenger airplane on a highway once. It was during a time I was a little overwhelmed with work responsibilities.

Another time I had a vivid dream of me floating in mid-air along a coast line with beautiful houses at night. Their windows were lit and I wanted to be inside but the night got darker and I realized I had no home. Turned out later I had an ectopic pregnancy.

One night I read the newspaper and while I was dozing off, I focused on a picture that showed homeless people sleeping on dirt roads in the slums of Mumbai after traffic had subsided. The next morning my dad called and casually told me about his dream in which his bed had been pushed out into the road of his town and he woke up freezing.

We need our dreams to get in touch with important thoughts and developments that get disrupted during the day. That`s what beauty sleep is all about.

[TrudieC]

I frequently dream my teeth are falling out and I have read that that means my life is out of control.  I used to have the "I can fly" dream but haven't for quite a few years.  Lately I dream that I have had to move back in with my parents (I'm a 46 year old married woman) and am single and am constantly searching for a new apartment or place to live so I can escape from them.  I don't know what that means!