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[AugustWest]

 If we are caught the pursuant will harm us horribly, in inspeakable ways I can't fathom.  It's a slow, plodding methodical pursuit on the pursuant's part.  

This is very similar to my recurring bad dreams from younger days.  The trappings are different, but the theme is almost identical.

I was usually chased through bland, institutional and anonymous modern buildings by a machine.  It wasn't even a very imposing looking machine, but I dreaded being caught by it.  I was usually with someone I loved -- normally a family member.  Slow but relentless pursuit.  Waking up just as capture was imminent.

I don't seem to have many lucid dreams anymore.  I don't know why.  Maybe I just don't remember them.

[jay-ell]

 For my cohort and I, it's impossible to climb the stairs silently.  In some versions of the dream, the stairs are actually so dilapidated in parts that they fall apart under our weight as we climb, slowing us down all the more

I had this same recurrent nightmare, except that instead of trying to climb the stairs silently, I'm trying to do so quickly, but my feet feel like I'm slogging through wet cement. Also, I'm always alone.

I had this dream on a weekly basis until I was about twelve, when I suddenly realized halfway up the stairs that I was dreaming. I remembered that I always took the door at the end of the hall in previous versions of the dream, so this time I ducked into the door on the right.  I hid under the bed, and the pursuant ran right past me. I never had the dream again.

Spooky.

[side_show]

It's kind of a relief to know AW and JL have had similar dreams in childhood. 

I've had several recurring dreams over a lifetime, but these were the most vivid for sure.

[Carlos del Vaca]

My recurring childhood nightmare:  my brother's room would turn into a cave, and a huge, multi-colored fluorescent worm would crawl out of it and wrap around me like a boa constrictor.

[bluemoon72]

This is very similar to my recurring bad dreams from younger days.  The trappings are different, but the theme is almost identical.

I was usually chased through bland, institutional and anonymous modern buildings by a machine.  It wasn't even a very imposing looking machine, but I dreaded being caught by it.  I was usually with someone I loved -- normally a family member.  Slow but relentless pursuit.  Waking up just as capture was imminent.

I don't seem to have many lucid dreams anymore.  I don't know why.  Maybe I just don't remember them.

Mine was being pursued through a horrifyingly scary haunted house, stumbling into worse and worse terrors, pursued by both a vampire and a wolfman.  I would nearly lose my mind with terror until I would push through a door (pursuers at my heels) and realize it was a...dressing room, light bulb-ringed makeup mirror and all, with the next shift's wolfman putting his makeup on and carefully applying his fake fur.  He would be surprised to see me, note how frightened I was, and lead me by the hand out the side exit door, which led to a McDonald's illuminated by a glorious sunset.  My mom, dad, and sister were there waiting for me, with a cheeseburger.  ()

[jay-ell]

That is oddly heartwarming, Blue.

I also had recurrent nightmares about being smothered/crushed to death in my bed under the slimy belly of a gigantic frog. Specifically, it was a tree frog, and it would use its sucker-toes to get a better grip on the floor and crush me with the weight of its body and the strength of its powerful legs.

To this day, as some of you know, I am terrified of frogs.  Which came first, the nightmares or the frog fear?

[wombat]

You guys either had much better imaginations than me, or have much better memories.

I only remember a dream where cartoon-looking guys broke in through a window, and a dream where intruders pulled at my toes. I did for years afterwards dislike the idea of having my toes touched, but this is much less inconvenient than a fear of frogs because really, how often does anyone touch someone else's toes?

I believe I also had dreams where the Nazis were chasing me, but I remember that only as a fact, I don't have vivid memories of the dreams themselves.

[bluemoon72]

I also had recurrent nightmares about being smothered/crushed to death in my bed under the slimy belly of a gigantic frog. Specifically, it was a tree frog, and it would use its sucker-toes to get a better grip on the floor and crush me with the weight of its body and the strength of its powerful legs.

Ooof.  I like frogs, yet that gave me the creeps.

[Choop]

when i was a kid, this one happened about once a week: i was being chased by some unknown man through some mishmash of my house and webster's, replete with hidden passages. i would jump out the window and instead of my backyard it was an alley in some city. the time i finally hid under my bed, the guy jumped out the window and i never had that dream again.

the similarity is eerie.

[bluemoon72]

when i was a kid, this one happened about once a week: i was being chased by some unknown man through some mishmash of my house and webster's, replete with hidden passages. i would jump out the window and instead of my backyard it was an alley in some city. the time i finally hid under my bed, the guy jumped out the window and i never had that dream again.

the similarity is eerie.

Is this type of dream an American/Western culture rite of early adolescence?  Or are we an odd subset of society?

[AugustWest]

webster's,

The little kid on the TV show with Alex Karras?

[Choop]

yes indeed. webster papadapoulous.

[jay-ell]

...and fell in love.

Then I woke up.

sigh

[littlefallsmets]

Last night, I prevented a man from destroying the sun with an artificial singularity... and then accidentally set it off myself.

The feeling of the atmosphere sheering off the Earth without the sun to keep us steady and suffocating in darkness, it was kind of horrifying.

Woke up with the intense feeling of how utterly fragile the delicate balance that keeps Earth not-completely-barren is.

Not in, like, a "Captain Planet" way but in a "we're one solar flare away" sorta deal.

Had a hard time falling back asleep.

[theinevitable]

1. my mother saw a poster for the band "Japandroids" and talked about how after college she lived in Japandroids, which is north of LA. "Stupid tourists always thought it had something to do with Japan."
2. i watched someone prepare special nachos, where a tiny chicken was boiled alive in the cheese. the horrible noises the chicken made were part of the enjoyment. as the chicken cooked it like, did this weird thing with its beak and kind of split open/folded up... it was very Achewood. I woke up in a cold sweat.
3. i was cast in a musical at my high school, and I fell off the stage right as they took the cast picture. they refused to take a new one.
4. my girlfriend was buying something really expensive, and would not take my advice about where to buy it, and then got really mad when she got ripped off.