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I had a dream last night where I saw that a huge tree was growing THROUGH the very walls of my house, particularly my bedroom. The wallpaper was ripped through, the trunk was protruding through the walls, half the tree was in my room. Could see it clear as day, the huge trunk and even the texture. It didn't scare me but I was dumbfounded and curious. I went to tell my dad and then came back to see that, where the tree had grown in my room, there was a portal of sorts which had opened which was sucking the tree back in slowly. The portal was like a proper open gateway which looked very aesthetic and ethereal, similar to in space movies. Again, I wasn't scared, just very dumbfounded.
The dream changed imagery then and I was still in my house, this time pure black night time, and for some reason had a Necronomicon in my hand. I knew that the book is hard to get rid of and at that point I was fearful but not scared out of my mind still, so I tried throwing it away and two black cats appeared - one small and innocent looking, one very deformed and demonic looking with broken black wings that could fly. I tried throwing the book out and it came back, as suspected. Then I don't know what happened but I managed to throw the book in some already existing pile of trash and it didn't come back then, and the deformed winged cat disappeared and so did the little black one. I also faintly remember seeing a movie within my dream which was horror themed and the main character was being chased by some dark spirit and was in this eerie dark place, and she couldn't run away from it cuz it kept following and then in the movie some people or maybe friends came to help her and together somehow they were able to break away from the spirit. It was a theme that communicated how the spirit left when multiple people came and tried to make it go away, as opposed to the girl herself who it was attached to.
This was a very vivid dream and my body felt unrested after waking from it. I've been having recurring dreams of fighting negative entities in my house or even other places, and chasing them away, those sorts of themes. I did not wake up scared from any of these,but I'd always wake up unrested and wondering.
Any interpretations - spiritual, emotional, psychological, medical, are welcome. Thanks in advance everyone!
I’m F(24), It’s 5am right now, UK time, and I’ve just woken up from a crazy dream I just had which is quite traumatising.
I was at Alton towers, going onto the smiler ride but I brought my bag with me on the ride even though you can’t bring items on rides due to you might lose them. So, me in my dream was trying to push it in where i was safely behind the bars of the ride.
Then the ride took off, after the loop-de-loop, the ride suspiciously broke and somehow im on a beach and my seat on the ride has a disconnected to the others and it surprisingly turns into the motorbike flying about until it stops onto the beach.
I get off the ride and the guy who was working the ride came up to me talking about how the ride wasn’t supposed to do that and then he started flirting with me.
I look around the beach and I can’t see my family until I turn around & there is a massive tidal wave coming and the wave in the dream looks like an old fashion painting. The guy that was flirting with me says “oh no” and I generally start running and the water of the tsunami catches up to me, I can’t swim so im finding a floaty and then I wake up.
Sooo, does any of you dream experts can explain what this means?
A couple reoccurring dream themes I have are not being able to lock doors fast enough, not being able to dial 911 (American emergency service number), and more recently being shot.
The locking door dreams are usually always at my grandparents house who have many doors to outside and I can’t lock them all in time before the “bad person” gets in. I have also had quite a few dreams recently where I ended up getting shot somehow. Last week I even had a dream that combined all three of these themes. If anyone can help me out here with trying to figure out why these ideas reoccur so often please throw any theories!
Was on a cruise ship I think. Son starts being sick. Am told he's dying. The dream then goes on for a few dream days and he's just in bed getting weaker and weaker and we're watching his favourite TV shows. In the dream I'm just feeling a lot of love and trying to enjoy the time with him.
At some point it switches to my mom who is dying. We're suddenly in a house. Some sort of note appears from a doctor who said it doesn't matter how healthy you tried to live, diseases are mostly hard coded. Mom is angry. She feels a burst of strength and tries to pull my grandmother's hair off. I intervene and then she turns to face me. She is so angry. She steps towards me looking furious and then I wake up before she gets to me.
End of dream
Ps. English isn't my first language so bare with me.
As the title said, I really do hate my dream. At first it was about a mannequin with a soul of a dragon that was trapped inside it and it's co-dragon disguised as a human escaping a human institute, it was normal at first but then my second dream happened. It was about a deep tank with a shark inside it, my mission was to cross the tank without falling or being eaten by the shark; I have thalassophobia. After that dream, this is where the real nightmares occurs... It starts of as a cool game of searching for keys around the world, but this time i have companions, idk them. We are a total of 6 people, a young boy, a handsome guy, a beautiful girl, an office worker, a person with disability (i think it was down syndrome) and ofc me. we 6 explored the world searching for keys in certain places, like in a game we were teleported each stages. at the end of our journey it that place raining and we had to share umbrellas with each other (this part isn't really important, i just find it adorable) anyways we found a key in a barrel and another portal opened, it led us to a factory with no products to produce, idk what it really does (this part is important), so we entered the portal and a person who's obese dressed in a workers outfit (factory worker) greeted us and thanking us for completing the game, and he just sent us all home like nothing happened. until a few days (i think, ik in my head it's just seconds) i heard a news that one of my companions the person with disability was k1lled by a k1ller, she was tortured to d3ath by reasons unknown because of that we and my other companions met up again to pay respect to our friend and so the nightmare begins...
As we met again, me and my companions, a person was missing, it was the handsome guy. we asked each other what happened to the guy, until a portal opened, confused we entered inside thinking that maybe he was inside too. it was the same place, the factory with no products. we wondered inside calling out his name (idk his name, i just know that i really am screaming his name), the factory worker wasn't around either... until a light shines at the ceiling and a music meant to play during a ballerina performance played, as we looked up; we saw him... he was in a ballerina pose, like he was leaping for a twirl. his body was bl0ddy, his inner thigh was r1pped as if it was f0rced to spl1t, his head was hang1ng as a machine rotated him as if he was dancing. we stood in shock as we witnessed what happened, we couldn't move, we couldn't make any noise.. until he appeared, the worker, he was smilling at us, his eyes were shining like a galaxy full of stars. right at that moment we already knew, we should run and never look him in the eyes, but i saw them.. i saw his eyes, i am the next victim...
In this part, idrk if what happened but I'm back in my house chilling with my family like nothing happened I was confused bcuz a sec ago i was in the factory looking in his eyes, until a door bell interrupted my thoughts; as i looked in the window, there i saw him looking at me with a smile on his face and muttered, "found you" my whole body shivered, i couldn't move, i couldn't look away either. it was my sister calling out for me that made me jolt out, she was about to see who was making me so stiff. i jumped at her and told her never look, but she pitied him (he was disguised as a begger) i told her, "no, please! he isn't a begger! trust me! trust me!" but she made fun of me for being mean and scared. As she was about to look at him, i shoved her away, i grabbed a pen and run as fast as i can towards the k1ller to bl1nd him and pin him down, continously stabbing him out of frustration and fear but he disappeared... it was his clone to pin my location.. sec later, my phone notified me of an online ad. it was my torture, he'll tw1st my ankl3s and force me to dance to an indian song where i have to slightly crouch to perform the song. that's where i knew, i need to wake up. i hate everything about this dream.
2 things I’ll try make it quick…
I’m 24 and throughout my life I’ve noticed 2 things that happen every once in awhile when I’m dreaming.
I’ll be in a certain spot in a dream, like a house or a certain part of a house or a mall even, and these places don’t exist in real life or if they do there’s something different that makes them stand out. But after months or years I’ll be having a separate dream but somehow end up in those same spots doing different things. The story of the dream is different but the place stays exactly the same.
A real noise in the world wakes you up from your dream… my example is I was dreaming that I was somewhere and a bomb was about to go off and I remember the timer going down on it, and right when the timer hit zero and it exploded, a real world noise, if I remember it was someone slamming a door, woke me up. It’s like how does that make sense because it happens often but it’s such a stretch of a coincidence. When you know a loud noise in your dream is about to happen and right when it does something real makes a loud sound that usually wakes me up. Not sure if I explained this one well but lemme know if any of you guys have the same thing happen? Peace
The dream made me (19m) realise how much I've taken my parents (59m, 58f) for granted.
The family bond has never been great in my family and I've always maintained a distance from dad. I respect my parents but never really had bonding moments with them.
In the dream when I was spending the last moments with him, he was giving his passwords and other credentials to ensure smooth transition for the important documents and stuff... Just very much like him.
At one point I cried from frustration in the dream because there I was spending the last moments with him and I couldn't express in any ways how much I appreciated him. I somehow towards the end mustered to say, "Dad I love you very much." He just casually hugged me.
When he passed away in the dream, the world felt so empty...
When I woke up, everything is as usual in the family. Parents are there. Everything is cold between us...
I know very well how real that dream is and how it can actually take place in the future. Feeling sad.
So this morning where I pretty much was done with my main sleep (5:45am) , had major heartburn so I got up and took some tums, tried to go back to sleep, I tossed and turned for around 30 mins and then fell into a kind of twilight state where I had the most lucid dreams, with tactile sensation—- where I could control what I see at some points according to the narrative, everything was very fast with multiple dreams, but in one I got shot/cut with weapons, another I had intercourse with a long lost ex, feeling pain and pleasure like I’ve never experienced from a dream. It felt organized by me, in a sense. I’ve always had trouble sleeping on tums but hell, if you manage it, could be worth a shot. Just thought I’d share. First post btw, hoping to have more of these adventures
I was in a Mr Beast video and the challenges were set in the air on blue platforms, looked like fall guys. One of the challenges was to make a cupcake or something. I look away from my cupcake, look back, and the sprinkles turn into pills. I realized that I messed up big time, and was sure to end up failing. But there was a break in between the challenge (for some reason). Then Moist Critical showed up and said he was doing a documentary on how Mr Beast sucks (the dream was after the drama) and asked if I wanted to put in my input. Tuco Salamanca was also there for some reason. I agreed, and he led me to a room where he was on an elevated chair (not floating, just really long legs) Also I saw my reflection and it turned out I was Seth Rogan now. Like I wasn’t for the whole dream, but at that point I was Seth Rogan.
I'll be truthful about a dream I had about Alec Celik from r/DisventureCamp in early August 2024.
In that dream, I dreamed that Caillou Anderson (from r/caillou ) went to Alec Celik's residence and shrunk him as revenge on Fiorella Ricci, Alec's adoptive daughter and classmate of Caillou. Unlike Fiore's feud with Gwen (DramaRama version), Fiore is not the aggressor between herself and Caillou. Connor Blake, Alec's friend and uncle figure to Fiore, enters the room and sees Fiore angry and Alec now very tiny. Alec (now tiny) is standing on the coffee table telling Connor and Fiore what Caillou had done. Because Connor is the only adult in the house, he now has to drive himself, Fiore, Caillou, and a shrunken Alec (who is in Fiore's palm) over to the Anderson place. Connor angrily tells Boris (the dad) and Doris (the mom) about what Fiore's classmate and nemesis Caillou had done. Boris is angry about this. Boris grows Alec back to normal and he, Fiore, and Connor head back home. Caillou gets grounded.
had a dream near the end of last year where a guy (maybe myself he was wearing a mask) telling me not to go on vacation
my parents want to go to out of the country for a few weeks with me but I am unsure if should since having this dream. im wondering if it was a warning maybe something bad happens and it wants me to avoid
or maybe I miss a opportunity here if I leave I don't know what to do we are leaving soon and I need to make a decision
right I know this may make me sound strange but please bare with me also I'm dyslexic so please if it doesn't make sense just read between the lines
I've always had a lot of dreams ever since I was a little kid (im 16(I made this account so I could hopefully help this issue)) they've not always been bad but when they were they used to terrify me as a child
I've been getting them again for thr past year now and it's gotten a lot worse to the point I've now been kind of waking up and not able to open my eyes but I can sense my surroundings and its now getting a bit scary.
Certain dreams keep replaying over and over again but getting more violent each time. One is based upon the walking dead series my mum watches but she hasn't played infront of me in months and everytime I have this dream it seems to get worse and worse in how gruesome and violent it is and its starting to get to me a little bit
I've just started my A levels so I know it could be a type of stress but I've had really bad nightmares and the progression for years. I've slept walked, slept talked, everything you name it.
I just need any help or anything for it cause its getting to the point where I'm calling my boyfriend at 2 almost 3 am sometimes in tears because I'm so scared (i don't get scared by many things so I'm not just a sensitive person)
Thank you for anything genuinely cause I'm starting to lose my mind but if this isn't really helpful I can add more as time goes on but I've had that zombie dream about twice in the past month now and my body is starting to feel the consequences thankyouuuu
Hi all. I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I was wondering if someone might have some insight that could help me.
I (23f) moved out of my parent's house five years ago. However, I still visit fairly frequently, because I live in a nearby city (I'm a grad student); we have a good relationship. My older brother (25m) still lives there.
This is where the whole thing comes from. Since I've moved out, my parents have kept a specific room designated for me to sleep over. But it isn't the same one that I had as a kid; I switched with my brother when i moved out, because I had had the bigger room, and it made sense for him to get the bigger one since he was there all the time. Now whenever I sleep over there I have nightmares; almost every night, without fail.
The character of them isn't always the same, and doesn't always have anything to do with the room itself. I had a dream once, for instance, where there was a double of my brother who had lost his face, and was chasing me and my real brother around the house. But I always wake up with this ominous feeling that there is a presence in the room, watching me, with malicious intent. Like I was a child again.
I find it weird because, since I had a good childhood, I would figure that my parents' house would be a place of mental safety for me. But when I go back to my apartment, even though I'm surrounded by strangers there, I tend to sleep much more soundly.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had this experience? Is there just something about being in your childhood home that is subconsciously frightening? Or could there be something else here? I don't know.
I was at my parents house in my bedroom watching the backyard. It was pouring during the day almost flood like. I spotted Grey Wolves outside but had no interaction with them. It became nighttime. The rain stopped and the night sky was clear. I went out back and spotted a white wolf stalking me so I ran up on the deck where two more white wolves approached me. They appeared to be friendly with blue eyes. I fed them salmon by throwing it off the deck and into the yard because I was still uneasy in their presence. Then out of nowhere there was a cloud of glowing orange dust in the night sky that appeared and then shot off in the distance out of sight. It was in the shape of a starfish. After that I noticed two moons, one white and one orange and heard my dad say that the planets are aligned and as I looked up I could see larger cloudier constellations forming in a line.
When I woke up I was feeling at peace and had zero anxiety. It was almost like a reset button was hit. I’m trying to make sense or interpret what this dream means but have not seen anything similar to it online especially in regards to feeding the wolves and the orange celestial things happening in the sky. And before you ask, no, this was not a trip, this was just one of many crazy dreams I have but have never woken up from one feeling the way I did which is why I wrote it down.
In my dreams I adopted a white persian cat that is covered in warts…and he is really affectionate
I'm having a hard time staying asleep so switching in and out of consciousness. I dreamt i was talking to some 'demons' about the room being infested and they say "okay, lets play a game then. Wake up right now" and i open my eyes, see a bunch of weird face patterns on my walls, check my phone and i see the clock go back 1 hour in real time (4:33 to 3). Then...i actually wake up again to check my phone...3:37. I totally forgot about standard time. Well now i lie awake, afraid of walls 😔
My sister told me she had a dream that there was a tornado that dropped from the sky, then as the sky started to clear she saw a red line go across the sky and thought “oh the rapture is happening” as soon as she said that she said it appeared like she was in a holding place in the sky waiting to go to heaven. She then said she saw a few church members there and then she said I walked up to her and said “why didn’t you tell me the rapture was coming?” She was like “I didn’t know” and then she woke up…what are your interpretation of this? Thank you 🙏
So my first dream about dying I died in a airport because of a bread that was poisoned and fainted and died
the second I had a choice to live in a dimension where all my desires came true and I jumped of a building
(I am not suicidal or want to die if you are please ask for help therapy and family are there)
I was in some random building, looked down and saw this frog moving like this. (I know my animation skills are peak) Then I woke up.
I know dreams are supposed to have some sort of meaning, but uh, I'm just not sure bout this one 😂
I had a dream, I dreamt about a friend I haven’t spoken to in months! And when I woke up to check my phone, I saw his texts. Does this mean something? Is my subconscious hinting something?
So I had a dream the other night where I was driving around with a few friends and we were looking for a hiking trail. We got a little lost and it ended up getting dark so we went back to our airbnb. Part of the way through driving back to the airbnb I must’ve “fallen asleep” in the car and had another (more lucid) dream. In this dream I was on top of a building with a different friend and trying to get down by sliding down a light post. My friend jumped onto the light post with me still on it and it started bending all the way down to the ground and flinging around like it was made of rubber. I let go of the light post right above the ground and my friend got flung into the distance.
This is when I “woke up” in the airbnb and was weirded out because I didn’t remember walking from the car at all. At this point I think this is real life since I just “woke up” from a dream. It’s very ordinary, my friend is playing backgammon, I snooped through a box I found in the corner and there were a bunch of Pokémon cards lol and we were just hanging out.
Then I finally actually woke up. I was rather confused and realized I just had a dream within a dream. This was my first time ever experiencing something like this, the human brain is crazy.
I constantly have dreams of my teeth falling out. It’s mostly normal dreams but when i bite down my teeth hurt like they are loose and sometimes i have to rip them out or they will fall out. I dont know if its just because i have a big fear of loose teeth like when i was a kid i wouldn’t pull my teeth out because i was so scared but its really been bothering me. It feels like multiple times a week i will have these dreams and it rlly disturbs me because i do have such a big fear of it.
Dreamt I tried to have sex with my girlfriend while she slept and she woke up and screamed at me in the dream. Never dreamt of anything like this before and never had a fantasy of something like this. Of course would never do anything without her consent and the dream made me feel terrible and ashamed. She wasn’t as creeped out by it as I thought when I told her but just wonder wtf that dream was.
i remember my dreams each night, and i am lucky enough to have naturally vivid dreams. i have several reoccurring dreams that i can remember context about, even if i dreamt the last segment months ago. it’s entirely subconscious but it makes me excited to go to sleep at night. does anyone else experience this? one of my reoccurring dreams has been in the works for atleast two years, where i start out in “this realm,” head through the garden bushes to a portal to “another realm” and start on my dream as if it is my daily life. i typically visit some friends at a house down the road from the portal, or i go to a lakehouse on the property, or i go for a run through the thicket. like it’s insanely realistic and when i recall this dream, it’s more like a memory of what i did last week than a dream, if that makes any sense?
i’ve also had reoccurring dreams of being in a very loving and long term relationship with someone i don’t know, always the same person. it’s very hard to wake up sometimes during this dream because i enjoy it too much, and i typically go back to sleep when i wake up to jump right back in.
i am fully conscious in every single dream i experience. i have another one where it’s set in an apocalyptic world and i frequently go to the city on my bicycle to gather supplies and talk to my friend on a hand held radio as i navigate the streets. i stop at this one bunker, sometimes it is flooded or has a monster i have to fight off, sometimes im with one or two other people i recognize in my dream world, and sometimes im in the same city exploring other ruins and don’t stop at the bunker at all.
does anyone else get this? it feels like i have a bunch of different complex worlds in my head and i can set my intention before i sleep to end up in whichever world i want.
For context I’m studying calculus, last night in one of my dreams within the dream I figured out the solution to a question I had about a concept the day before. It seemed really weird to me because the following day I reviewed it and it was right. Is this normal? This has never happened to me before.
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Hi everyone, I'm new to this subreddit, mostly because I can't share anything fun or shake off a level of jealousy toward all of you!
See, I have a certain level of aphantasia. It's hard for me to visualize forms or keep them "visible" for long. It's ironic since I'm a working illustrator. Recently I explained to my friends how I don't "see" my dreams, I sort of... feel them. I follow the notion of the narrative and the "idea" of where I am or what I see, it's almost like walking around with a mesh in front of your eyes and mind. I can tell that there's someone I know in my dreams or that this particular dream is reoccurring cause I feel that it's the same place as I've been to before. Because of that, it's hard for me to remember dreams and I've never had a lucid dream. Has anyone had a similar experience?
I don't remember much about the dream but this bit stuck out to me. I was with my childhood friend (who in retrospect is kind of an ass irl) at a now replaced McDonalds. it had one of those monopoly prize things except with angry birds branding. we took turns opening ours. he got a free hash brown and then i got one with no markings but an blue outline of either red or Terrance. I showed it to him and he was confused/intrigued. he said he was keeping it so I said fine and snatched one out of his pile. I scratched it off(?) and got an opera gx ad