Just as the title says, tell me your most recent dream and I will perform a dream analysis of dubious distinction. Trust me I'm an expert.

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[–] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

So I was like chilling in my bedroom and then ex-boss lover is 20 years older than me that I haven't talked to in almost a year Walked in my front door, and then three other people I apparently worked with, one of them with a baby came in and I started juggling trying to talk to all these people, three which I didn't even recognize where I knew them from, one that hasn't talked to me since I kind of blew them off. I proceed to try to clean up my room enough to find spots for them all to chill including getting a chair that was in the wrong corner of the room nice getting, the trash from the depression Piles off the floor and getting the comforter on right. I'm not sure what all happened, but I remember waking up when these big creepy fucking white caterpillar things that were like bigger than tomato worms started dropping down off the ceiling and onto the bed, and then I realized I'd already been rolling around on some of them on the bed, and some of them were like fucking spiders and shit that were really big and there were these big mushy spots of half writhing insects, and still things dropping off the ceiling slow enough just to be disgusting and terrifying at the same time. And I remember the three people I allegedly worked within the dream, the one of which had a baby or something being like okay, It's time to go, and I was thinking they just got here and in between being confused and terrified as fuck.

I woke up and I still haven't been back to bed yet. I just decided to get up, eat some fucking crap ass freezer food, make myself a White Russian and start tackling installing fit girl repacks and their updates on Fedora. Fuck my life and fuck giant white caterpillars.

I do think I remember making a comment in my dream like okay fuck. I'm going to clean my room that's for fucking sure before, right before I woke up.

Like fuck my life man. I guess that was some kind of Halloween dream or some shit but fuck that

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

    Analysis: Your sexual desires are both sophisticated and complex. You suspect it's not the kind of thing you can do on your own. You want to recruit like minded partners <-plural, but you are afraid that true deep satisfaction will ellude you because you fear even your open minded partners will find you too freaky for even them. Your fears are real, so partner selection should be taken with care. Go slow. Have fun. Play safe.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Well thank God. At least it's not about my mother lol

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I never said that. You did. I only do dream analysis, not freudian slips. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The real question is what recent dream I had that I'd be willing to share with strangers on a public forum lol

    Hmm.. well there is this one where I dreamt I was hanging out with a friend at a convention, and they gave me a guitar and asked me to play something, except I haven't played any guitar since I was like.. 11, and so then I almost cried, cause I was nervous

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I dreamt I was back in the city I went to University in. I heard a loud beep then the world froze in place before I woke up

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    I snuck into the campus of my former workplace, a manufacturing facility. I cut down a number of non-native plants growing in the surrounding courtyard. Maintenance discovered what I was doing and notified security. Everyone was okay with removing the plants because they were growing near high voltage lines and causing electrical arcing. There was concern about having to pay me overtime and back wages. While they were discussing what to do, I made a large pile of vegetation and then snuck away.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    Analysis: Work forces you to act against your ethical standards. You know your colleagues feel the same way, but won't publicly back you for fear of reprisals. Rather than lead the charge for change, your subconscience knows the real path is is to start your own enterprise as direct competition. Your ethical standards will ensure your long term success as a competitive advantage, but don't waste time trying to recruit your past colleagues out of familiarity. They are still cowards.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (4 children)

    Impressively close but wrong!

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Again, I am never wrong. My shitty dream analysis is 100% guarenteed to be shit, or your money back. I delivered in spades.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Nope, it's too close to be shit, shine on you crazy diamond.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    Any actual non-shitty elements are purely coincidental and by extension fall outside of the intended reflections the analysis supported. My analysis is correct and completely shitty. In other words, your interpretation of my interpretation was total shit, ipso facto the guarentee has been fulfilled.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    I was on a sailing ship trying to deliver a very important package. For some reason, a wooden tall ship was the only ship that would work for this specific task.

    There was a talking chicken in the crow's nest named Winona who informed me that she got the job because chickens don't get seasick.

    ... and apparently, according to a chicken-keeper on c/NoStupidQuestions, that's actually quite plausible.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago

    You feel adrift, or directionless in life. There are many places you want to go, things you want to do and goals to accomplish. What you don't have is a solid plan to get there. In the absence of said plan, you'll reach out to any idiot for guidance. Not that you'll take the guidance to heart, or even act on it. Just that you'll listen to anything from anyone for inspiration on charting your own course, no matter how shitty the advice or person giving it. You won't judge or push away the people around you, but you will make up your own mind. Anyone can come along with you for the journey, for as long as your paths stay aligned.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    I was in a hotel room doing one of those clone-a-willie kits. Then I noticed that the mold had coloured my hands blue. Then I had a look downstairs, and Petteri jr was blue, too.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago

    Analysis: You are afraid to love yourself. You sometimes feel like you're not worthy, and that acts of self care will alienate you from your circle.

    Understand that you and your circle are all metaphorical smufs. Being blue is normal. Take good care of yourself and of them. Being your natural you, is your best you.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Hatsune Miku wanted a haircut

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (6 children)

    Fucked my whole day up today. I was with a romantic partner, we got accosted at a gas station by two guys one grabbed her and had a gun to her head. I shot him and called her by the wrong name and she started crying and left. I called the cops, then my parents to let them know. Mom's best friend answered the phone and was super cheerful, which is not like her at all. I went in the gas station and bought a pack of cigarettes. Cops never came.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    Analysis: You are aprehensive about some negative and chaotic forces in your life that you can't control. You are worried about what you are capable of if push comes to shove. You don't want to become that person, fearful about what you will think about yourself and what other will think about you.

    You are even more worried if you are forced to become a monster you loath, that others will think nothing of it. If those in your circle can accept a monster who was forced to become something terrible like it was normal, who are these people you've let into your life?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I dreamed my small elderly terrier jumped into a wide stream and sank to the bottom and didn't come up as soon as I expected him to. I jumped in, found him tangled in water weeds at the bottom, and pulled him out. I held him upside down to let water stream out of him. He coughed up a silver-green frog.

    My dog IRL hates water.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    People keep coming into my house. At first, they were coming in to steal things. I would catch them in the act of stealing something, and sometimes I would get back what they were trying to take, and sometimes they would just look at me and walk away, and I was unable to stop them. Other times people would just walk through my house like it was a shortcut to somewhere else, and when I would ask them to stop doing that, they would just look at me like, why would we? Why would we stop doing this? Sometimes people come in and then they leave their children there. And then I'm left, exasperated, trying to figure out what i'm supposed to do with these children they've left behind. Later the children will just disappear.

    I try to stop all of this from happening by checking the doors to make sure they're locked, checking all the windows to make sure they're closed and locked and secure, yet no matter what I do, people just get in. They never have to force their way in. There's no sign of any break-in. They just seem to be able to effortlessly open doors that are locked. They always act like they belong there. They show no sign of being alarmed that I've discovered them. My distress at all this is extreme.

    Another dream I have is reoccurring. I materialize into a large indoor facility, sometimes it's a massively huge mall. Sometimes it's a massively huge library. Sometimes it's some sort of museum. It's always some indoor huge building. I appear there suddenly with no memory of how I got there, and I realize quickly that it is an indoor death march. The building is packed full with people. And we're all required to walk endlessly. If anyone stops to sit down or talks too much they disappear. They either just literally disappear, or they are led away by a group of people, and they are never seen again. We can talk to one another, but it has to be very brief and very quiet. We walk in an endless loop, never stopping, never knowing why we're there and what's going on. I look for doors and windows, but there are none. Every once in a while I'll see a person I know, and we will try to talk to a each other and then be immediately drawn away by two groups of people. Everyone is exhausted and most are openly hostile. Many seem to be unable to form thoughts or ideas.

    I await your shitty, dubious analysis, oh expert of dreams, as you are my only hope.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Two dreams is dangerous. I'll let this one slide because they don't contradict, each other but rather reinforce the same picture.

    Analysis: You are tired of people using you as their mental model during sexual fantasies. Somewhere a couple of many years is making love with above average prowess that suprises even them. it's because one of them, perhaps even both of them, are fantasizing being with you instead. There is someone from work/school who fantasizes about you when they masturbate. There are more than a few who do this. Not all of them are even close or acquaintances. You have subconsciously picked up on actions, behaviours and pheremones from so many people who are aroused by you, but you are frustrated because it never manifests itself in your lovelife. Intimacy is a two way street, and even that complete stranger on the street who casually watched you walk by is going to self pleasure themselves to the thought of you.

    They take, take take and never give. What your subconcious already knows, but your conscious self isn't ready to accept is this. You are unconventionally very attractive. Your puritanical ideas of love and intimacy is making you miss out on your best opportunities for a satisfying life. Somepeople were meant to be "the one" for someone. That's not you. You are at you best when and happiest when you share yourself broadly.

    Whether you want to take up your passion/purpose as a vocation or just as a hobby, the world is a better place when you, and your many admirers are sated in the flesh. Ease up on your prudish ways. Learn to relax. Learn that intimacy can be casual without strings yet be deeply satifying. There isn't enough of you to go around, and you shouldn't even try. Just accept that when you want to get out there, there is an army of wonderful people who have the same idea as you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    O fanciful and wise, Cappuccinocoretto, your reply was much better than what the Ouija board told me. I hope I have not misinterpreted your directives to not take myself so seriously, laugh more, and sleep with more strangers. I will consider them on the advice of my cat therapist.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    They aren't my directives. Your dreams are a window to the truth you already know. Dreams are pre-processing of events with a keen mix of intuition and observation in exquisite detail without the rational and logical filters of reality. They reveal truths if you know how to interpret them.

    I learned to interpret dreams from a now defunct private career college in a strip mall. I took the advanced placement route because I could complete a 4 year degree with majors in Psychology and Sociology with dual concentrations in dream analysis in only 8 weeks part time.

    Unfortunately, I completed the coursework, attended the lectures, wrote the exams and defended my thesis successfully, but right before convocation as valedictorian the Institution was shuttered. Something about student loan fraud and a fledgling sex cult. The Dean of Arts and Science said I'll get my paperwork and credentialing as soon as he is out of prison. He is a nice guy. We keep in touch in spite of the restraining order against contacting former students.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I dreamt about a new roundabout where I thought a roundabout would fix some problems with traffic.

    The roundabout was a temporary test setup which will probably remain a temporary test setup for 10 years.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I went to take a shower and in my shower there was a big sturdy spider web with 4-6 big/adult cockroaches suspended in it. I got a small kitchen knife and stabbed the roaches with it. Once I killed them all I woke up.

    I have had problems with roaches in that shower before. Not an infestation, but they would find their way up through the drain every once in a while. And I'm pretty afraid of them. The small kitchen knife was a little paring/peeling knife that I bought recently.
    I appreciated that there was a spider who was able to catch the roaches, but worried that there were so many of them in the first place.

    Please analyze this. Thank you.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    This is one of the most difficult yet. I'm afraid I might really screw this one up, but I'll try my best.

    Analysis:

    Hypothesis 1 - you might just be processing irrational, but quite common and natural fears of insects. If so, you can take this dream at face value. They are terrifying to you and persistent, so your subconcious is trying to grapple with the inevitability of the next encounter. This may be disapointing to read, but dream analysis has so much connection to strong emotions, that I'd estimate this as 80% most likely. No hidden meaning or subtle imagery leading to insight. Bugs creep you out and this dream is like an immune reaction between the rational harmless nature of them, and the irrational involuntary fearful reaction. It's not entirely unlike PTSD suffering moments of reliving trauma, just at the scale of creepy bugs.

    However, there is a chance I'm misinterpreting this because of all the strong emotions, fear can be one of the trickiest to interpret. Irrational fears are even more difficult, and instinctive irrational fears like phobias, the most difficult to interpret of all. I'd estimate a 20% chance of the following alternative hypothesis. Your description contains subtle clues that open up this small possibility.

    Hypothesis 2:

    Something or someone is confronting you. Not just an obstacle, but the possibility of open conflict. What was once subtle and understated, now risks tearing at the seams. Your opponent, is neither malevolent, nor holding a personal grudge, but you are in their way, and they will boot stomp you if they have to.

    You on the other hand are just doing what you beleive is right and expected of you. You are following the rules and confident in your position. Neither help nor hindrance is intended to your opponent and you see yourself as neutral, but you are blocking them from achieving something important to them.

    An alarm is going off in your head that something bad is going to happen to you if this can't be resolved. You haven't decided what to do about it, but you have options to consider. Capitulate and withdraw your obstruction, but suffer a wound to your integrity. You could keep your obstruction intact and help your opponent overcome your barrier - as close to a win win as you can get, but those around you two may perceive this as collusion. You could stand your ground as is, but you understand you will suffer the other's wrath and make an enemy in the process. Other possibilities exist, like going on the attack, but the one thing you understand is there is no perfect choice. No matter what you do, you will have positive and negative outcomes, but you are grateful you have the choice to pick your poison and choose the lesser of two evils.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    my kid climed on the kitchen shelfs, and the whole kitchen has fallen on the kid. everyone told me i can make a new kid, and i have money for the kitchen.

    i woke up crying.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago

    You need to open a creative outlet. Something like a restaurant or an art studio or a music hall or maybe a band, but you are insecure about it. Unsure if you can make it a success, you have an abnormally large fear of failure, and not because you can't afford to make the gamble, but because you don't want the stigma of being the looser who tried and failed at something so important to you. You realize that not trying at all is the greater failure and certain to happen if you allow yourself to be dominated by your fears. In the end, you realize that your fears are unfounded, and it won't hurt to fail nearly as much as never try at all.

    You'll do it, and be great at it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

    In my dream, I died. My partner, after a short mourning, found another partner. As a ghost, I killed the guy by driving my chef's knife through his chest, up to the handle. The kitchen floor was slippery and the knife not properly placed on the worktop.

    Again, after mourning for some time, my partner finds another person. A shallow, vain, individual but not a bad man. Dropped a hairdrier in the tub as he was having his beauty bath.

    About half a year later, another guy courts my partner. Can't remember why but I made his car have a malfunction over an unguarded railway crossing. The train spread car pieces and carnage over several tens of meters.

    Another time lapse and another guy was living with my partner. A truck hit his car as he was changing a blown tire, after having a break fail down a steep road. The hit crushed the bastard like a grape and sent the car tumbling into a ditch.

    After these four events, my partner is by now a very well off woman. Unfortunately, the last event triggered an investigation by authorities; four violent deaths, under unusual circumstances, where each victim leaves a very generous life insurance, do raise some questions. However, I caused every event being careful to have my partner always away from home and with plenty of proof she had no connection with the untimely deaths of her suitors. In fact, she made a point of warning each and every one those idiots I had promised to watch over her against all harm.

    The fifth fool was one of the investigators assigned to assess the entire ordeal. Again, my partner told him I was around, an overzealous guardian haunting. He would not believe and, eventually, courted my partner. He was a controlling fellow.

    One day, him being alone, I decided to show myself to him. Walked into the living room, sat across him, in my arm chair, and when we made eye contact and he recognized me from a picture in the room, I just said "This is the time I say boo." which made him promptly jump out the window and die by broken neck from the fall.

    I woke up laughing, told my partner the next morning, and after the initial shock and horror reaction, we both had a good laugh.

    P.S. I going to write this into a proper ghost story.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Analysis:

    You subconciously don't feel your partner is right for you, or you for them. You admire them for many natural reasons, and have real affection, but deep down you know there is a fundamental chemistry missing and its no one's fault. Your subconcious is playing through multiple versions of you for them or them for you, that you feel you could reasonably be better for each other. In the end, you understand that people don't change, and it wouldn't be fair to ask that of either. You reject the possibilities of transforming the relationship and conclude it is what it is.

    Its up to you to decide if if you can be be content with things as you are, or if you should try for something else. I can't tell you more than this because you don't know yourself. Your dreams only reflect what you've already understood even if only on a subconcious level. Settle for good, or gamble on great or bust.

    P.s. I would watch your movie.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Hey, thank you for the compliment. I'll remember you when I get to write tge whole story.

    But after your analysis, I'm glad I did not bring up that one involving seasoning and zombies.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (4 children)

    I'm available if you change your mind.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    If you insist. This is a silly one.

    The world has become afflicted with a virus that turns people into potential violent cannibals, that act out in frenzied rage episodes. There are naturally immune people and the afflicted only attack the healthy. Otherwise, the infected can live a regular, enjoyable life, if no contact with immune individuals ever occur.

    There is no cure, only a management protocol, involving a very rigourous treatment schedule, where a serum is injected daily and very painfully. However, it has a mandatory pause, through which the individuals must either be confined or restrained.

    There was a thriving and very healthy industry for the production and installation of at-home restraining apparatus, as in, they sold heavy duty steel chains and bolted six lenghts of it with big shackles on it to a sturdy enough wall for people to strap themselves in or be strapped when the cold turkey hit. DIY solutions usually involved long lenghts of rope and ball gags.

    Couples where one element was immune and the other was not often got as a gift from friends and family those restraining kits.

    Curiously enough, the aflicted, when undergoing an episode would try to season their potential victims with salt and pepper prior to the first bite. And victims could snap their attacker or attackers out of their stupor if they slapped them hard enough.

    I woke up laughing and face palming. I am not a horror fan nor a BDSM enthusiast. I dreamed as if watching a documentary.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Analysis: You have apetites or desires that are relatively unexplored and poorly understood by even you. You fear a journey of exploration will be frowned upon by most, especially your partner. You fear rejection and being ostrasized, and are happy to accomodate what you perceive as a normie's life for the sake of peace. You can be the person you think you need to be.

    But somewhere deep down, the question lingers - Can I explore these apetites or desires? Can I share them with someone special? Who, when and how can this best be safely explored?

    I have no clue what the desire(s) are. It could be anything really. Anything from some freaky kink or fetish, but it could just as easily be a desire to explore a new cuisine, or genre of film or even to pursue a special hobby or alternative lifestyle. I mean desire/apetite in the broadest sense of the word. A craving only hinted at.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    We arrived at some place and we all had backpacks. I wanted to leave my backpack in the car but the people I was with insisted we bring them in with us. We get to like a lobby or something and are informed that no backpacks are allowed, and he offers us a small cubby to put the backpacks in. My friends (I guess? I don't remember who these people were) started arguing that it was too small, and the host kept offering us larger and larger storage spaces, until it was basically a walk-in closet, but my companions were still complaining.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Your life is in transition, and you haven't decided which of many paths before you you want to take. You risk rejecting all paths foreward and could stall. Staying for a short spell isn't always a bad thing, but be careful of losing momentum and growing complacent.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    I literally just woke up from one. I was right outside our house and the neighbour's family were in the process of building a foot bridge to the field behind the house. They had dug up part of the steep hill just next to the house, leveled a small area and placed big rocks in a circle (makeshift seats) with the idea to have tale nights there, possibly with a fire in the middle. While hanging around the works, a friend of the family learns of my intention to grow weed and offers their field, up the hill, adding that his dad should completely okay with it.

    A second later I see a couple I've never met before, europeans, young -strap themselves on a harness tied to a zipline that's connected to somewhere in the ocean. I zipline with them to figure out where they're going : it's a friend of theirs standing on a small, barely emerged rock in the middle of the bay, holding the other end of the zipline. We land on the rock. A girl in a kayak passes nearby, taunts me. I lose balance, fall in the water. My life jacket keeps me face down in the waves. I drown.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You have been wronged by someone close to you. Nothing egregious, but you bare scars and resentment. You are too well mannered to address your greivances, and likely consider direct confrontation, poor taste, and not likely to be accepted by your peers. You think it would be seen as petty of you.

    Your preferred option is to have someone else who was a witness to your wronging, to stand up for you as a disinterested 3rd party, the opening up the door for redress and justice while maintaining your composure. The problem is, no one is standing up for you and you know it. You now understand that your preferred path only leads to nowhere.

    You have a choice to make. Wear your scars in disgrace. Confront your agressor in what will be a pyrrhic victory at best, or seek a third option - anonymous petty revenge. Perhaps a campaign of malicious compliance, I can't tell more specifics because you haven't fully considered all your options.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 child)

    Hey why not, I'll bite.

    I'm walking through the woods next to a creek in a place I used to go as a kid. It's deep in the woods, there's not supposed to be anything around. I come across a porta potty tipped over on its side and half covered by brush. Weird, what the hell is this doing out here? I keep walking and start coming across abandoned digging equipment with badging on it that shows it belongs to the federal government. Everything is overgrown and no one is around, but it shouldn't be here and I'm getting this really bad feeling because it's been years since I was here but none of this stuff was here then and what was the government doing in the woods here, it's just woods? I cross the creek and am walking on the other side, still next to it but up on a hill a little bit, still in the woods. The creek is gentle and shallow, only a few feet deep. I keep walking, and in the middle of the creek is a huge square, about 10 feet by 10 feet, with metal sides that are just high enough to keep the water from going into it. The entire bottom is a grate, and I can see from where I am at that it's designed to raise up and below there's a circular staircase going deep into the ground. Suddenly the bad feeling I have turns into pure terror. This is what the digging equipment was for, but what the hell did they do? Why is there a staircase in the middle of the creek? Where does it go? Why is it in the middle of these woods, where there's not even a road or even a proper path anywhere close, and why not have it next to the creek instead of in the creek where it would flood anytime it rained and the water level rose? Part of me wants to go over and look down the staircase, and the other part of me wants to run away, because even though it looks abandoned, it just feels wrong and I'm so terrified for some reason. The dream ended with me wading through the creek to stand over the grate looking down the staircase as it winded down into the dark. I couldn't see the bottom but I could hear machinery far below.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago

    What you are describing sounds like caissons construction. Support pillars that go into water to support things like bridges or even offshore wind turbines. But that isn't what your dream is about.

    Analysis: You are subconciously aware on some level that something has violated what you consider sacred. You feel violated, angry and anxious over where this may lead. Whoever or whatever has transgressed you with the profane is even more outrage inducing because whatever was gained by the offender(s), is far outweighed by what they too lost. It's senseless, reckless wanton destruction of what you hold most dear.

    You are trying to process a response, but haven't done so yet. Fight, flight, enlist allies? You don't yet know what's possible, let alone optimal.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I think the last one I had, or at least had stuck with me, is a weird one. So, to start, it's completely unrealistic since I know my dad would neved act like he did in the dream... outside of when I was a child and he was either playing with me or trying to calm me down.

    Yeah, so the parts I remember are my room having LED lights around the edge of the ceiling, purple-ish pink. It was soft lighting. Room was arranged how it was back when I had the dream. So, the parts I remember is my dad coming in and rubbing his beard all across my stomach, shirt up, despite me telling him to stop repeatedly. I couldn't stop him.

    Next part I remember is them being in a car, behind my mother who was driving, my oldest brother in passengers seat. We were in a tunnel with that same purple colour lighting it up. We talk about what happened because dream me found it traumatic. I remember the conversation ending with me being told and agreeing that I should talk to my father about what happened, followed by leaving the tunnel and the dream ending.

    Not the craziest dream I've had, but yeah.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    Analysis: Your subconcious is drawing parallels between when your dad would blow raspberries on your belly and you would laugh as a child, vs when you grew too old for that and just hated the scratchy beard and the invasion of personal space. It stopped being funny long ago.

    You dream of a transition because you are at another part of your life that is fundamentally different than the one before, and a major figure in your life, not necessarily your dad, still treats you like the old you, not the current you. You've acknowledged that you have to take control of the situation and get the offending forces in your life to respect who you now are and how you expect to be treated. Could be family, a boss at work. It's not clear who or how, but it is clear you've grown and others haven't kept up.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    I dreamt I was back on a 16 hour crew boat transit in Nigeria, playing D&D with some coworkers, like we did every 5 weeks for crewchange some 15 years ago.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Analysis: You long for the better days of yore, but subconsciously understand that the past is the past, and that even trying to recreate the conditions of your glory years, there is no guarantee that you'll roll a nat20. Let the past die. Forge a new adventure and find glory.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    My family was sitting in a restaurant for some type of event - funeral, wedding, something like that. My son who doesn't speak to us was there at the table, avoiding interaction. I ordered something with a weird modification, like lemon cake without frosting. Son began yelling about my order. We all looked at him for a moment and then began laughing because the thing that brought him out of estrangement was the opportunity to correct someone.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    Analysis: You fear the repression of institutions in general, but more specifically, of society's standards of acceptability and how the impinge your creativity. You know there is a work of significance within you, in art, science or philosophy, but your creativity is cut off before you can iterate on your own work publicly and achieve your goals.

    Your dreams are opening you up to the possibility that you are your own worst critic and that the world is more than ready for your revalation. They need it now more than ever.

    It's time to order the rounds of tequila shots at the wedding, give a heartfelt and slurred speech now that you are too drunk to care and discover that what you had to say, was exactly what everyone had to hear.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (4 children)

    Interesting, but i don't think that's it. I think it's that I'm pissed off and sad that the kid who corrects everyone else can't see what he's doing wrong.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    good thing the tequila will make you not care

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I walked into an office that I have never seen before, but felt that I worked there. Saw many familiar faces, former coworkers from various companies.

    We were being raided by who I would assume was the FBI. Papers are being dug through, people are getting interrogated and subsequently arrested.

    No one interrogated me. No one was touching my desk. Soon, the office was empty: just me. The dream ended with me sitting down at my desk, which matched my real life desk, and unlocking my computer. Pulled up my Notepad++ todo list but I couldn't read the text.

    It was a vivid dream, but not a lucid dream. Just thought, "wtf was all that about?"

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Analysis: You have a subconcious awareness that someone has a crush or unspoken affection for you. For some unknown reason(s), you doubt your instincts, but can't justify the doubt. The admirer is real. The questions are "why the doubt?", and "how to make a connection?"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Subconscious? Man, Ladies Love Cool-Expletivedeleted. LL Cool E.

    There are four women right now I know that I could hit up and would drop everything to lock me in. Not meaning to sound like a braggart, but you cannot read the tone of my voice, and you cannot hear the expression of my face, and you cannot feel my energy without shaking my hand.

    I have a date with a fifth on Wednesday.

    For the record, I am not a slut. I am just a silly flirt who doesn't have an issue getting a date.

    However, text is the worst form of communication. Some dude on here accused me of being sweaty; the conversation was inconsequential to me.

    I'm like the Dude from the Big Lebowski.

    But there is a bartender who was very impressed by the pictures of the camper I am buying and was joking about living with me. Really cute girl, but way too young and I know she currently has a boyfriend. I assume she was just joking around.

    But I will show it to her when I get it in a couple of months. non-sexual I am old enough to be her father.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    The dream starts with me in dire straits, in need of a good chunk of money fast. There's this guy, he seems to be my brother - even though I don't have a brother - and he confidently tells me that if it's money I want, he can hook me up. I follow him through the small town we are in, it's very much like the town from Back to the Future. Past a cop car, right through to the most central part of the town, and it's the middle of the day and people are milling about. We live here, but it's like we don't really know anybody. Right in front of everybody, my brother selects a woman with a particularly wealthy look about her and a not insignificant ring on her finger, and holds her up with a gun, demanding she fork over her ring. When she does, he tosses it to me. We begin to walk away. People start yelling "thief! thief!" and I'm starting to freak the FUCK out, but my brother says to me "relax, don't worry about it. We know something they don't know." At that moment, and in front of an old abandoned-looking storefront painted black and white, he grabs me. A white light begins to envelop me and I feel a sensation of great forward motion. When it stops, abruptly, we are in what looks like a very old house, extremely large, a mansion. The house has wood floors, and ornate wood trim. Sitting very much out of place in this room is the modern, almost art-deco yellow hallway/portal that we emerged from. As I am standing there, dumbfounded, a woman who was one of my office co-workers comes shrieking through the portal. She yells at my brother: "what are you determined to do to Tackyway?" My brother responds "whatever. In a few days, everything will die down. We'll stay here, and when it blows over, we can go back." Looking at me, he says "people's memories are short when you're in Tackyway." It appeared that this was the name given to this place. "Tackyway," as it was referred to, was a gigantic mansion with no obvious exits but the yellow portal. It seemed to go on forever. It had many residents, some who had staked a permanent claim to one of it's apparently endless rooms, others, like us, who just seemed to be refugees. It appeared to have been occupied by a wide variety of people, and these people decorated each room as they saw fit, so from room to room things were painted/decorated radically different to suit the tastes/whims of the people who either occupied them now, or had occupied them in the past. The difference when walking between the rooms could be very jarring because of this, and for this reason the name "Tackyway" felt appropriate, but I wasn't sure if that was the real reason it was called that.

    At this point I started losing the dream (I have a laptop next to my bed to write them as soon as I wake up from them) and I left these notes about what was left in my memory, but as usual they are disjointed and don't make much sense:

    • room with four doors nobody uses but one
    • Aldous family striped door, very old, no one knew what it meant
    • cats freaked out
    • synthesizer collection
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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Hmmmm. Difficult, but not impossible.

    Analysis: You are troubled and conflicted between doing what you know will get you ahead in life, and what you know is right and good everyone in the places you influence through action. You know how the game is played and could naturally excel at it thus gaining your traditional measures of success at the expense of losing your self respect and very soul.

    I can't tell exactly what your dream is saying, but it could be leadership in business or more likely politics. Either way you will be successful, but the ultimate reality of the consequences of your actions and the power it wields, for good or evil, your subconscious hasn't decided. Once it has, you will manufacture whatever justifications you need to consciously rationalize your actions after the fact. Tread carefully. There is much at stake here and it goes beyond the headlines you'll inevitably generate.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I was copying lines into a red composition book from something I had already typed into a computer, I would get about 3 lines down before noticing that I had skipped a couple lines down from where I was copying and had to erase it absolutely perfectly, not sure how I knew but the goal was to replicate the text perfectly so it would appear to have been written that way on the first go.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 days ago

    A memory of something special and cherished is fading away because you didn't relive and remember it enough when it was fresh. You took the moment for granted, and its almost gone. Its too late to reinforce and preserve the memory, because its so faded, you'll just invent a cheap, innacurate copy that loses something important.

    If there is a lesson here, reflect more often on your great moments.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I had a recent dream that I was at a rescue shelter for hot dogs. They took in stray/feral hot dogs and put them up for adoption. Each hot dog even had its own little info page on their website.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    Analysis: You are lonely because too many people close to you are selfish, poor friends. You crave genuine friendship and are building up the courage to meet new people. You won't abandon old relationships, but you will give them the attention they are worth, once you surround yourself with the better people you deserve.

    Bonus: You were also hungry. A light snack before bed isn't always a bad idea.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I haven’t had a dream in 4 years.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago

    You have them every night, you just haven't remembered a dream in 4 years. If you didn't dream you would be dead. As I'm on Lemmy and not a ouija board, I'm going to go with the obvious. Even the absence of remembered dreams says something.

    Analysis: While life is far from perfect, you are just a terribly well adjusted individual. Your conscious and subconscious self get along well, talk frequently, and generally agree on things across all domains. You have an exceptionally well honed intuition of what is and isn't in your control, and while you don't always like what is found, you accept it fully and rationally. You are just a really down to earth, hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is. When real disaster strikes and people panic, you will just deal with what's there, camly and confidently to the best of your abilities.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    all my dreams are nightmares that usually incorporate three of the following:

    • military enlistment
    • zombies
    • brutal killing of family members
    • violent attacks from family members
    • long timespans (once lived in a dream for 80 years)
    • time travel - forward and backward
    • getting arms, legs, and torso ripped off while alive and awake enough to experience the horrors
    • helplessly watching my children die in horrific ways
    • witnessing the apocalypse first hand

    there's probably more, but my brain is blocking them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    I don’t remember most but sometimes I manage to write them down. This was a scary one:

    I was looking through a smart home camera on my phone that was pointing at me sitting in bed*. But soon I noticed this wasn’t actually me in the picture and it wasn’t a live feed, it was a recording.. Who was that?? Then the recording ended and it switch to the actual live feed of me. But someone was lying on the floor next to my bed, only visible in the feed. I jumped up and ran to the camera to get it. I held it closer and realized it was someone I knew back then from school who committed suicide. He started screaming at me and I woke up.

    * no I don’t have any creepy bedroom cameras in real life!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    I see this one clearly.

    As you grow and mature, you realize the vastness in the possibilities of how you act, or react to events in your life. Old you would have considered a relatively limited set of possible options as a response to all of life's situations, big and small alike.

    Equally, as your mind expands to new possibilities within you, you see a broader set of threats and opportunities that the world presents to you trhan you once did.

    The fear you are feeling is because your understanding of your place in the world and the world itself has been growing enourmously as of late. It's a bigger, richer, more dangerous world than you once thought and your dreams are subconciously processing the new possibilities where the stakes, risks and rewards are much higher that you realized.

    You haven't fully come to terms with this. You were comfortable as your old self, but you also realize that there is no going back. The richer more dangerous world was always there, and your being previously unaware of it wasn't any sort of protection. The Fangs and Treasure chests were always there, and you accept this. What you are still dealing with is your self-image or identity. Who do you choose to be that is capable of navigating this more adventurous and perilous journey. You are growing in to your new you, but the process is incomplete and you still have the opportunity to shape yourself into what you want to face the future.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I only remember the bit where Don Rickles overcharged me for an omlette.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Hanging out with my dad, uncle (his brother) and my two dogs pouring whisky.

    None of them are living.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You understand that you have lived up to the standards of your people and are a "good person". When your time comes, you will be remembered fondly as one of the good ones. If there is a heaven, you'll be there sipping whisky. If there isn't, those alive will still believe you are.

    You truly accept yourself, flaws and all.

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