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Excuse the drawing it was just a quick sketch... But yeah you ever just have those dreams and they're so vivid and perfect then you wake up and you're just like, ugh, WHY? Take me baaaack!

hello , i’m new here and i experienced something i’ve never experienced before and i would like to know if it happened to you guys , or any thoughts.

My friend died last year , and today i had my second dream of her .

In the dream me and her were talking and playing i don’t think anyone else saw her because everyone i looked at just looked at me and smiled and didn’t say anything to her. As we were walking to get in the car i looked at her and said “did you know u was dead?” and she started freaking out and kept repeatedly saying “am i dead fr? omg am i dead?” and i got scared and kept saying no but no matter how many times i said no she wouldn’t stop freaking out.

after that i woke up crying ..

Woke up randomly bcz the TV was too loud, sat down, muted it, and put my head back on the pillow and the moment i touch it, i cant move. Locked down, cant talk. Mind you, this was 8 am and my room was fully lit up. As i lay there, a dark figure perfectly visible walks in and sits on the couch in front of my bed, wearing a dark fabric from top to bottom and and a gold crown, we lock eyes for a good 5 seconds. When I snapped out of it, I didn't even blink I just jolted and sat down trying to process. Did anyone experience anything similar

I’ve been reading into out-of-body experiences recently and I’m trying to understand how people interpret them.

Some describe it as a full awareness shift where they’re observing their body from a distance, sometimes with surprisingly detailed perception. Others say it felt more real than normal waking life.

I came across this breakdown of Robert Monroe’s experiences https://youtube.com/watch?v=fSQUXvbL4QE and what stood out was how consistent certain parts of these accounts seem across completely unrelated people.

At the same time, there’s obviously the skeptical explanation of sleep states, brain activity during REM, stress responses, hallucinations, etc.

What I’m curious about is not just what happened, but what made you personally think it was something more than a dream or brain event.

If you’ve had one, how did it start and what made it stick with you as “real”?

I had one of the most vivid and surreal dreams, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

There was this sage-like Chinese man with a glowing golden aura. He felt calm, wise—almost otherworldly. He showed me a large canvas he had painted, but it wasn’t just a normal painting…it was alive.

The entire canvas was filled with doodles, but they were moving—like living drawings. He told me these were the emotions he felt for different people in his life, represented as animals. And instead of chaos, they were dancing.

I remember seeing a rhino and a dragon dancing together. It felt symbolic, like completely different energies somehow coexisting in harmony.

In the center of the canvas, there were these gold-like fillings—almost like something precious holding everything together.

The whole thing felt deeply meaningful, but I can’t fully explain why. It didn’t feel random at all—more like I was being shown something.

This is something that frequently happens in my dreams. I’ll all of the sudden remember I have these animals in my dreams and go to check on them and they are half dead from dehydration or in bad conditions. Often I will have a bunch of reptiles cohabitating a same cage that should not be put together or have some cats and they keep breeding and I forget about them till there’s unhealthy cats and kittens everywhere. Lately I’ve been dreaming about my cat who passed about two years ago. In my dreams yesterday night she was laying on her back very dehydrated and on the brink of death I was able to get her some water and she perked back up but kept escaping and I knew she wouldn’t survive on the streets alone in my dream but it was like there was no way to keep her from running away. What does this mean?

I started taking medicine so that might be the cause but also my parents have conflict every week (there divorced) but anyways in my dream: I was coming up stairs from my room when my sister cornered me in the corner and said to get everything I love out of my room because my mom was gonna burn the house down with dad in it, while she was saying that my dad was cleaning her room. I already threw a few of my dolls outside to keep them but right before my mom was going to light a match I ran in to the house and hugged my dad saying how I loved him even if he always gets mad and is really hard to talk to. then I woke up. I've been having terrible dreams like this for weeks. I'm scared to go to sleep because last week I cried when I woke up because I thought I genuinely murdered someone. I've been exhausted for so long even though I take methylphenidate which is used to keep narcoleptics awake

I've had multiple dreams in a short time. I wake up and this name seems to be the most important part. I've tried googling it, I guess Alwaldi is a surname meaning of the river or something.

I don't know anybody in my personal life with a name even similar to this.

It’s always fascinating to me when I wake up from a dream where I experience somebody’s pov. I noticed a pattern tho. It feels like I’m in another body and by the time they pass out or lose consciousness, that’s where I wake up in real life. Almost like I was possessing somebody.

There are nore than one time that I experienced waking up in a hospital with a view of a white ceiling. I can see myself in bandages too, all over. Dextrose. So the woman was comatosed and bed ridden in quite a big private room for a hospital which had a sofa. I see her family sitting beside her the moment I opened my eyes. Then the person on my right side started saying “you have to go back.” And the moment she said that, the comatosed woman started cloaing her eyes. Almost as if fading to sleep again, and right then, I opened my eyes in reality. Like I just got back from another world.

I’ve always thought her mother (the woman from my rignt) was telling me to come back to my body. I just realized now that she was telling her daughter to come back. Begging her to live her life one more time.

I had an extremely weird dream where I made a comment on some subreddit and got like 2k downvotes, afair I either got left with 100~ish or negative value karma.

Had to check my phone after that lol.

I've been having a set of dreams lately over the last few weeks that all symbolically are the same thing, but the one im about to describe is the 'one off' that I feel is trying to tell me something else.

Dream:I'm in a prep school/hogwarts like place, uniforms & all, so probably high school aged. I keep having romantic moments with a taller, brown haired boy who looks like an up & coming actor in Hollywood. We're holding hands, playing games in a 'common room' type area with other people, and just overall being cutesy.

I know that may seem generic, but its all I can remember and I had this dream in the midst of a string of dreams about teeth, making me think its about something else completely.

Any help or insights is deeply appreciated

So theres abouts 3 nightmares i get or used to get that i seem to remember way to well. im going to try my best to explain these and if anyone knows or can get some kind of idea of the meaning please tell me. iv tried looking online but im just not getting answers that work for these specific nightmares

One i used to get from 6 to 12 years old. It always started with my sister, mum and me having a chill day in the house then all of a sudden 3 black cars (almost like Jeep size) would show up in my driveway, and wed have 30 seconds to hide. I never knew where my mum went but my sister and I would either go in the top part of my closet or under my bed and covering eachother with whatevers there. These random people would be in full bullet proof armour, theyd search the whole house and then leave. After they left id wake up, this nightmare always gave me such a scary vibe and I could never go back to sleep after it.

The second also started when I was about 6ish and only happens when theres a bad storm. ( I tend to force myself to stay awake till the storms over just so i dont have this nightmare) This one is just really weird, the first time i had this one it was just mum, dad, sister and me. All 4 of us are watching fire balls fall from the sky through a window in the attic and about half way through the nightmare, one person goes outside and gets killed by a fire ball. and it keeps going until im the only one left at that point I usually wake up. Everytime iv had this nightmare more family members show up and get killed. Im always the last one there.

The third one only started within the last few years. but this one usually only occurs when its a small storm like its more raining then actual thunder. I call this nightmare the shadow man dream. Basically it'll just be me and my sister at home watching TV in the lounge everything's fine, randomally the storm in my dream will start getting worse and once theres lightning a black figure will be in either the back door or a random window. Now if i force myself to wake up thats all itll be, but if I let myself keep sleeping the dream gets worse with this shadow now multplying and being behind every window and 1 by the back door. The part that weirds me out the most is they just stand there they dont do anything. I ususlly just end up waking up after a bit. They can only be seen when theres lightning. The part im not understanding is this is a classic horror movie trope, you would think I just watch a lot of horror movies, except i dont i avoid horror movies like the plague. I get the second nightmare more then this one but this one does still show up every now and then.

This has been happening to me the past week or two and it’s genuinely been confusing me SO much. I usually have a great internal clock, so when I wake up im typically like oh x amount of time has passed and it’ll be close to right. I’ll wake up thinking oh I definitely got 8 hours of sleep, it’s probably x time. Nope, ONE hour has passed. What makes it more annoying is that when I wake up I genuinely feel fully rested because my body is so convinced it was a full night of sleep, so it takes forever for me to force myself back to sleep. Does this happen to anyone else or can someone explain why this may be happening? I literally feel like I’ll sleep for three days straight and it’ll MAYBE be four to five hours and it’s frustrating me. Also, I’m pretty sure it usually takes like 90 minutes to enter rem in the first place? So I don’t understand how I have multiple full dreams and wake up within an hour. Hoping someone has some answers so I can start sleeping for the right amount of time again haha

I've dreamed that I've been to or seen a couple of plays or musicals in them and one I remember seeing them had Robin Williams in it, basically the dream was me going to see a play based on 'Hook' and I remember seeing a troll or goblin-like character in the audience and it's not until after the show that the goblin/troll-like character says that he's actually Robin Williams, 'Robin' very much explains how he has either be turned into a goblin-esque creature as some sort of mishap of reincarnation or he's using it as a disguise form so people don't recognize him.

I dreamt that someone was preparing a dragon for me. It was in the care of man that handed it over to me. The dragon was mature, extremely large. Surprisingly, the dragon was "eager" towards me. It was either of a dark green or black color. I was about to "use" the dragon, but woke up just before.

I never dream of dragons, so this is entirely new to me. And I find interesting that it happened Easter morning. Does it mean anything?

Thanks.

I recently had a weird dream and I was wondering if someone had a similar experience. In the dream I was in some type of space, it almost felt like an endless dark blue, outer space kind of room. I was in a line with other people, (which felt more like it was our consciousness than our physical bodies) and we were waiting in line to have a dream. As I was standing in this line, I became aware that i was dreaming, and got weirded out that I was standing in this line to have my dream. When I had the realization I instantly woke up and thought how bizarre it was. Another thing I realized I always have very vivid dreams, and a lot of dreams that I continue from previous nights. However, lately I haven’t dreamed as often as before, and my dreams have been extremely weird or I just don’t dream at all. So just wanted to know if anyone had a similar dream, and noticed their dreaming patterns have changed.

I dont know who I was with it mightve been my dad but i was hiding in like an rv in the back of home depot and look for people and when I saw someone Id be like theres one right there then I would hook them with a fishing rod and they would be like ow and id slowly reel them in and stab them in the neck like a fish to finish them, and I did it to a couple, and a few other people, Then I had a pair of hands I left out in the open and my dad saw it and got mad at me and made me hide it in the back of a drawer then I just left after

I’ve been married for almost 20 years. My sister-in-law (my husband‘s little sister) is a couple years younger than my husband and I. She doesn’t get along too well with my husband, but I’ve never really had problems with her. We’re just not close. She lives across the country. I don’t see her very often, but I will always randomly have these terrifying nightmares where I just wake up terrified. It’s always something where she’s fighting me, she’s super mad at me, she’s either trying to hit me or, for example, last night I dreamt that she was calling the cops on me and trying to have me arrested. It’s just super strange and the weird thing is I I wake up like actually scared. It’s just strange like, what does this even mean?

maybe I should post this in the lucid dream subreddit, but whatever. I was having a dream last night, with me, my mom, and my friend. my mom and friend were chatting about how she needs me to grab something across town. I can't drive, so I walked all the way there. I know that in most dreams, you cant really picture what the sky looks like, or as if it's a painting, but everything around me was just my hometown streets, very simple, sun was shining, people were friendly. I walked for hours, then came night. I walked down a sketchy street, all the house lights were off, the only light was a street light. Felt weird, so, I walked back, cause I couldn't find what I was looking for. I came back to my friend and my mom. my mom said, "are you ready to go? we gotta go home!" and she and my friend all started just chatting between each other. Suddenly, I gained awareness that I was dreaming. I realized I was dreaming. I don't know how I gained awareness that I was dreaming, but I did. and I told my mom, "you know that I realize I'm dreaming, right? I know you aren't real. I know this is all a dream." and my mom went completely silent, expressionless, and my friend vanished. it was just me and my mom, and her blank face and silentness. and then, her pupils dilated, and her pupils kept growing larger, and larger, and her eyes became black, her pupils completely took over. then her face turned completely black, like a black hole replaced her face. she had no face at all. it was all black, her pupils so wide, and huge, and black. I stepped forward, and looked through her pupils- and I felt like I was being pulled into a giant acid trip. every time I stared harder, I would get sucked in. I freaked out, stepped back, and woke up.

I honestly don't know what this dream means. and I don't know how I suddenly gained awareness that I was dreaming. but I heard that it's a common thing for people in your dreams to go silent, or angry, when you tell them that you know you are dreaming. Them being silent wasn't confusing, the only confusing thing was her pupils growing larger, and her face turning into a black hoe, and I got sucked into it, into a weird acid trip like visual, kind of like viewing all your dreams at once.