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When I was a teenager I used to write my dreams in a notebook. I still have it. Pretty amusing to read through that sometimes.
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OK, I have to share one bizarre dream I had when I was in grade school, around the time of Jurassic Park. I remember it so vividly because of how bizarre it was.
I remember shopping at an indoor mall that had a cubed shape. There were two stories with the shops lining three of the walls on both stories. The fourth wall was made entirely of glass.
It went from day to night when I was in the mall. All of a sudden, a huge T-Rex busted through the glass wall and started eating people. He then started chasing me so I ran down a wood-paneled staircase where I ran into a Japanese chef from Sakkyo at the mall food court.
The chef then turned himself big so he could fight the T-Rex with karate and two butcher knives. He eventually won and the T-Rex surrendered by offering him marshmallows. The T-Rex then walked away.
End of dream. I've never forgotten it. Going on nearly 20 years now.
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OK... here goes. Each month, I have several extremely vivid dreams- the kind you can recall hours after you've been awake. Most involve My Parents (both deceased), and all end in frustration when I wake up. In these (extremely vivid and hyper-realistic) dreams, we're doing something seemingly mundane.... having a family picnic, getting ready for a 2-week family vacation, etc. The circumstances are always different, but the dynamic of the dream is always the same: I'm immersed in the moment, but part of me knows that they're dead- and have moved on. That same part of me is desperate to ask them about The Deep Questions Of Life... but they only "play their roles" in the dream's setting, as if they were "Stepford Characters." If I ask them something about the dream's setting ("Where should I set up the grill for the barbecue?"), and I get a direct answer. If I ask the about metaphysical things, they continue to play their roles as if they didn't hear me.  Frustrating in the extreme. I mean, on one hand, it's just like being with them IRL, the dreams are so vivid, and hyper-real. On the other hand, I always wake up from these dreams feeling somehow- cheated. I was sooooo close to connecting with them, but always just missing out on some new wisdom they could give me, to help me take my next few steps. ___ The nightmares I have are all job-related: 1. Traffic jams/unforseen circumstances that keep me from getting to my next performance (I've actually crawled across car tops and RUN to get to the next venue on time... just to find all the doors to the place locked... as II hear the sounds of my colleagues playing the first piece on the concert) 2. Auditioning for a major job (NY Phil, etc)... thenwalking onstage with an instrument I know nothing about. 3. Playing a solo in front of my colleagues... and suddenly realizing that I'm naked- and my cello is made of glass... ______________________________________ When I was in my childhood/teenaged years, I used to have "prophetic dreams"... dreams that would- in detail depict events that would happen within the next 2-5 days. Everyday things, like conversations at lunch in the HS cafeteria, 45 seconds of driving to work after school with the radio on (the exact time/place/tune on the radio would "line up" in accordance to my dreams...) It became so regular a feature in my life that I became adept at seeing the scene's "set-up"... and would try to change things as they happened- just to see what changes I might make: Change what I might say in the cafeteria conversation. Change how I might react to some school hallway interaction. Change my driving route to the local store- just because "I'd seen this before".... In EVERY case, the changes I made to those 'prophetic scenarios' led to chaotic experiences that I can still remember to this day- some 40 years hence. I stopped having those dreams in my early 30's.... but I still wonder what I was supposed to get from them when they were coming at me on almost a nightly basis, from when I was 6 until I was out of college. Wow. Weird.
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Interesting thread. Unfortunately, I don't remember my dreams. Ever. I'm certain that I do, in fact, dream because I'll wake up with a sense that something has occurred. However, I couldn't tell you what. Definitely frustrating at times. 
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When I was in my childhood/teenaged years, I used to have "prophetic dreams"... dreams that would- in detail depict events that would happen within the next 2-5 days. Everyday things, like conversations at lunch in the HS cafeteria, 45 seconds of driving to work after school with the radio on (the exact time/place/tune on the radio would "line up" in accordance to my dreams...)
It became so regular a feature in my life that I became adept at seeing the scene's "set-up"... and would try to change things as they happened- just to see what changes I might make:
Change what I might say in the cafeteria conversation.
Change how I might react to some school hallway interaction.
Change my driving route to the local store- just because "I'd seen this before"....
In EVERY case, the changes I made to those 'prophetic scenarios' led to chaotic experiences that I can still remember to this day- some 40 years hence.
I stopped having those dreams in my early 30's.... but I still wonder what I was supposed to get from them when they were coming at me on almost a nightly basis, from when I was 6 until I was out of college.
Wow.
Weird.
Might be weird, but I still have dreams like that. Just a plain old dream.......until you're living it a day or week later. Then it's "holy cow, I've seen this before!"
I've even been able to tell my wife what was going to happen before it happens - be it in a conversation, or who we're going to see, etc.
And no joke, just 2 days ago I started writing an e-mail that I felt needed to be sent. And as I was typing, I stopped, re-read what I had so far - and it hit me....."do not send this." (in my dream, it had caused problems - and in real life whey I was typing it - I remembered my dream and exactly how it caused problems. I didn't send it.)
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When I was in my childhood/teenaged years, I used to have "prophetic dreams"... dreams that would- in detail depict events that would happen within the next 2-5 days. Everyday things, like conversations at lunch in the HS cafeteria, 45 seconds of driving to work after school with the radio on (the exact time/place/tune on the radio would "line up" in accordance to my dreams...)
It became so regular a feature in my life that I became adept at seeing the scene's "set-up"... and would try to change things as they happened- just to see what changes I might make:
Change what I might say in the cafeteria conversation.
Change how I might react to some school hallway interaction.
Change my driving route to the local store- just because "I'd seen this before"....
In EVERY case, the changes I made to those 'prophetic scenarios' led to chaotic experiences that I can still remember to this day- some 40 years hence.
I stopped having those dreams in my early 30's.... but I still wonder what I was supposed to get from them when they were coming at me on almost a nightly basis, from when I was 6 until I was out of college.
Wow.
Weird.
Might be weird, but I still have dreams like that. Just a plain old dream.......until you're living it a day or week later. Then it's "holy cow, I've seen this before!"
I've even been able to tell my wife what was going to happen before it happens - be it in a conversation, or who we're going to see, etc.
And no joke, just 2 days ago I started writing an e-mail that I felt needed to be sent. And as I was typing, I stopped, re-read what I had so far - and it hit me....."do not send this." (in my dream, it had caused problems - and in real life whey I was typing it - I remembered my dream and exactly how it caused problems. I didn't send it.)
Yes you did and I got it, Boy are you ever in trouble now 
Those are the weird dreams,, you dream something and it comes to pass IRL.
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Oh, I have had several of those. Usually deaths.
My most vivid was when I was in school. Up late studying. After finshing I tuned in Tom Snyder....some of you remember that.....Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. It came on at 1AM or something close....after Carson. This must have been 1974? Close enough.
I cracked a few beers and got groggy.....then I saw a old HS freind, Rich, standing in my apartment, just asking how I was doing. I hadn't seen him in maybe 3-4 years, but we were good friends with many shared experiences. It's like we had a short conversation. The thing I remember most was him telling he he appreciated me being his friend. It seemed odd....at least back then, but I told him I appreciated his friendship and it was great to see him again. Then it was over, but it seemed like a good minute or two we talked.
A few days later, maybe a week, a good friend of mine called to tell me Rich was killed in a motorcycle accident on the night or night before I "talked" to him. I can't remember the nights for sure.
This isn't a campfire story....It's true
Here is another, and I have several more....this wasn't a dream, but anyway.....I was out in the street playing catch with my son Chris. We liked to play catch as often as we could. I knew my Father was near death, but as we played catch on this warm June evening.....calm like most June evenings in Tennessee....hot and sticky really, this big gust of cool wind, really refreshing, came through out of nowhere. I mean a big gust and much cooler....I even commented to my son about the cool wind as I was looking up to watch the trees shake and take in the cool breeze....then it was gone. It lasted maybe 10 seconds. A good while....It really caught our attention. A few seconds later....maybe 30-40, my wife came out on the deck and told me my Mom was on the phone crying....I am about to cry now to be honest...I don't like thinking about my Mama crying..I knew that was Dad passing though to pay his last visit, and he had.
Again, I swear on my Mothers grave and honor that is true.
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well for one thing. I used to wonder why I couldnt walk or run in dreams, like I was stuck in mud, but somewhere along the line I half awoke during enough dreams to feel myself shake and began to realize
The reason I cant run in dreams is because my physical body is lying down and my physical legs are kicking against the bed which isn't giving.
Another thing is, I rarely look at anyone in a dream, mostly I just know they are there like you would if you were in a room with someone and they are standing beside you but you're not looking at them you just know they are there.
I dream of the craziest most elaborate interiors of buildings sometimes. They are really something of note. Stairways inside of closets, or doors that come out of the third step in a stairway. Extremely extravagant homes in terms of numbers of rooms.
Oh, does anyone else dream of bathrooms? A bathroom as big as a gymnasium, with a pool in the middle, you can smell the bleachy indoor hotel pool smell,.. you're in a public bathroom with hallways and at the end of each hall is a bathroom door,and you hope to secure the privacy of a bathroom, and always get the absolute best one, but then decide to move to another one for some worry that it is better.
Once there, it is always time to take a shower, but first, you must secure the towells, and there are suddenly many towell like items or clothes, like you had too many groceries to put away, so it will delay your shower. There is never enough time to shower before you wake up.
Sometimes in a dream something will happen, and then my mind will have to give a meaning to it. Like I will go from one place to another, and my mind will insert that I must have taken a car, I've caught onto that before.
I often have a nightmare where at the top floor of a building im in, (a house) is someone who I knew who has died, or at least their coffin, and its in a room and the entrance to the room is the same and the thing I can't look at is on the one side and I dread going into that room and I wake up before I look at that side of the room. But in spite of my dread, I have to go to that room,
One time, it was in an enomous Church like/ theatre like/ giant cathedral like, building with massive theatres underneath and side halls to that theatre where we could meet anyone sitting in the audience or waiting in the hallways, and go run through the middle dual staircase of 19th century luxury .. balcony entrance to a long hall of plush carpeted several dozen huge rooms along that hall that you just don't have time to explore, then flying almost through the cahthedral like part, that's almost more like a huge barn, where you are assisting a caretaker with showing him the doors and catwalks he must use because he can't fly, to secure the locking of the structure. And it's all cool, and then, I'm back in that house, with the 3+ floors, and the rooms, and the top floor, the dreaded room, with that coffin, that I can't look at.
One time I was in a house, that was a split, if you went up all 3 stairways at the top you could go through the wall and go out the other houses front door. And if you did, it was like you changed time, or reality. Outside of that house was a sunny day.
Did you ever dream that you were walking beside someone and they DIDN'T hate you?
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Wow that was deep. Thanks for sharing. I wish I could remember my dreams that well.
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I always like hearing about things that occur like that. That's real awesome, man (awesome that they communicated to you, not that they passed). I always have hopes of hearing from my niece who passed in '07 at the age of 7. Sometimes I worry that I dream about her, but that I forget in the haze of waking up.
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I took a nap earlier, and had a dream that the *puke* Ravens had won a 2nd straight Super Bowl. I can actually remember the announcers fawning all over the damn Ravens, but can't remember who they beat. It was so damned real that I actually felt physically ill, until I realized that it hadn't actually happened.
All I know is that if the Ravens make the Super Bowl next year, I am going to bet money on them. If I lose, then I lose some money. If they won, then at least I have some winnings to get me over feeling sick to my stomach.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
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