Lame Dreams

Each and every night I have nightmares. Horrifying, terrifying, wake-up-covered-in-cold-sweat nightmares. I could live without that. I would trade the nightmares for lame dreams if I could.

I just have totally random dreams. Ones where zombie chickens attack the production company I was working for or where my best friend fights off a giant pink alligator.

In my teens, I was in charge of dropping the bank deposits for my boss. It was always exceptionally nerve racking, especially since he'd only let me drive to the down town bank with his brand new and quite large car.  The following nights I would have nightmares about thousands of dollars fluttering out the window of his car as I would crash into a mailbox or something. Yeah fortunately I've become secure enough that jobs no longer show up in my dreams.

I'm a programmer. I've had times where I'm stuck on a project and I'll dream a really neat and elegant solution to the problem. I'll type it all out, and it will work awesomely. Then I wake up and can't remember what it actually was. *sigh* Sometimes I think my brain hates me.

I went on Prozac a few years ago, and for the first month I got very little decent sleep because I was having INSANE dreams. Not all of them were scary (like the one where bookshelves fell over and crushed all my friends) but they were all so vivid that I woke up exhausted.

Last night I dreamt there was a moth in my hair and when I tried to kill it, it wouldn't die. Ick.

Dan, I'm really not liking your picture with the lady popping out of your mouth on your throat thingy. It grosses me out and gives me bad dreams!

Lamest dream ever was the one where I was late for work. I woke up every hour, all night long in a cold sweat thinking it was 8:30. My shift started at 8:00, I was on time but exhausted. I had that same dream at least 8 times that night! Truly lame.

Even lame dreams have messages. Martha Beck has a great list of questions that help the dreamer interpret all the symbols in their dream. Sometimes dog poop is just dog poop. But sometimes, it's a symbol for something else - like having to be the responsible parent and picking up after someone else even when you would like to be doing something else. I recently helped my BF decipher his dream symbols - it was a fascinating look into his psyche. Dig a little deeper, you might be surprised what your subconscious is telling you.

lame dreams do indeed suck. and im with u on the dog poop, i have two weiner dogs that point blank refuse to poop outisde or pee in the winter , its so frustrating, i once had a dream about waking the kids up for school.....thats lame!!! lol

I think I have dreams that are worse than lame; my dreams are always stressful. Just last night, I spent several 'dream hours' trying to teach a class under every stressful condition possible - the middle of a cafeteria, music on the radio blaring, random people coming in and out, the owner of the cafeteria reminding me every couple of minutes how many minutes I had left to be in there, several other classes setting up around my class, and oh yeah, I couldn't find the place to begin with and time was running out before I had to be there. I woke up this morning needing a nap.

That's pretty much me nearly every night. It's a treat to have a cool dream with a plot. It's rare though.

I have recurring dreams about watching airplanes crash. They're never the same, and they include private planes, jetliners, Air Force C-17s--you name it, I've seen it crash. I have a terrible feeling that someday I will see a plane crash--so I never watch planes. Funny thing is, I love to fly! But I could sure do without these every 3-4 months dreams.
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I used to have a Tetris dream. Just shapes falling into places, with the Tetris music and everything. It was so boring I couldn't wait to wake up!
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I never remember what I dream. Maybe once or twice a year is all. By the way, creepy picture of the mouth on your neck with a lady climbing out!!!

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Here's a tip for the dog poop thing ... dig out a section of the snow by the door. We have a 15 lb min pin, the only way he'll do his thing is if he has a place to go.

When I was married (a loveless marriage I might add) I'd dream about some handsome man walking up to me, grabbing me so romantically and as soon as he was about to kiss me, I'd say, "oh I can't, I'm married." I couldn't even cheat in my dreams. I'd wake up so pissed! ha ha

Well now that I've been divorced for a year, I've gotten to have a few of those in real life. Yeah to me! :)

Haha. Maybe your dream got mixed up with B.B.'s. I could see him getting satisfaction out of you having to clean up his poop continuously.
I hate lame dreams too. I also hate scary dreams. I am most happy when I dream completely off-the-wall and entertaining scenarios.
Not necessarily lame, but one of the most annoying recurring dreams I have is having to pee, but the stall is only like two feet tall and doesn't hide me, or it is just plain out in the open and I try to go before anyone sees me. And I am never fast enough. So stupid!
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Dude! You need to relax. You're subconscience can't let go of the work-a-day world, so you just keep on working in your sleep. Try reading a book before you go to sleep, something completely recreational. Don't go to sleep fretting over work or whatever, or you will all night.

Believe me, I know. Been there, done that---okay, do that. Replacing the day in your mind with something else in really helps.
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I started a new job -- this was many years ago when newspaper layout was done on paper not on computers. I dreamed I was drawing layouts and erasing them. The whole dream was erasing, erasing, erasing. Obviously some kind of anxiety dream for me. You have a gold mine here, Dan. People love to talk about their dreams!
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And then there are those dreams you just don't want to leave behind and they tug at the edge of your memory and sometimes your heart and the sweetest feeling lingers and even though you try to hang onto you it slips away.

6 years ago something truely horrible happened to me: I took Ambien and suffered something called Ambien psychosis. It's a side effect that you hear on the commercials "some people experience eating or driving while taking this medication..."
Well, I had a sex dream, that .... wasn't a dream. And it almost broke up my marriage. It was the single worst thing that has ever happened in my entire life. I was SURE it was a dream, until it wasn't.

Of course, I will NEVER take another sleep med in my life, no matter how many times doctors tell me that others will not affect me that way - I won't take a chance. But out of that, my brain now seems TERRIFIED to do anything that it would not do while I'm awake.
Basically, for the last 6 years now, EVERY SINGLE DREAM has just been an extenuation of my regular day, because God forbid that what I think is a dream, what I'm just *sure* is a dream, isn't a dream.
I wonder if it will ever go back? It's been 6 years since I've had any 'dreamlike dream'. I miss them. But not enough to chance that horror again.

Most of my dreams are stress dreams. Not enjoyable in the least. Last night, for example, I dreamt that I had lice. (This came from a conversation I had with my sister about how her foster child brought lice home from day care.) I was pretty happy when I woke up and realized it was just a dream! Ah, sweet relief!

I have nights where I just keep changing disgusting poopy diapers over and over and over again.
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I don't usually have lame dreams....I have very strange ones usually. I've only had one or two mundane ones. My dreams usually are pretty positive but just weird. But lately as I've been having emotionally tough times, the dreams have been a bit creepy. Last time I dreamed that I was looking outside and it was snowing heavily and there was a bus that people were being taken off of. One person was dead and frozen, and then I didn't want to look out the window anymore. So I turned away, but then some BYU athlete start coming into my kitchen, and the back door opened and my dad was bringing the dead frozen body inside, and two little blond girls that I never saw their faces and didn't know, were crying. I didn't know who the frozen woman was, I know I didn't know her-so it was weird that my dad was bringing her in. That was really creepy and strange.

dreams about work! I just want to leave work at work when I go home and sleep....dreaming about it doesn't relax me lol

My husband used to call boring dreams "mitten factory dreams"-like you're touring a mitten factory and have to spend six hours watching them put on the thumbs. I often dream workdays at my old job-and am grateful when I wake up that I don't work there anymore. Or I dream of endlessly searching through a building, college campus, hospital, whatever looking for somewhere that I'm supposed to be doing something that I can't quite remember. Yuck!

I've had some very vivid imaginative dreams with movie-like plots.. and Ive had some that were just pointless and annoying.. I hate the ones where you dream you got up and started your day.. then you wake up and realize you haven't gone through the first couple hours of your morning yet after all. The other day I was really tired and laid down for a nap a little before lunch. Hubby woke me up and asked if Id go to burger king for him.. I was half asleep, said I would but drifted back off.... Then dreamed I got up drove to burger king ordered, and woke up as I was coming back home. lol

If I start dreaming about ordinary life, then I change my schedule around and do somethinging different. I find my "normal" life dreams mean I'm bored or over worked and I need a break of some sort. Often leaving a chore and going out with a friend is enough, but sometimes I require an actual vacation away from the house and my routine.

My dreams always (and I mean ALWAYS) consist of horror and fear. Most of them are me running from someone chasing me, with my two kids in tow. I'll find a hiding place and frantically try to keep them quiet, but they're 3 and 19 months so it's a difficult task.

My dreams of late though have been crazy things like us being stuck on a dinosaur island and somehow my husband and I leave our oldest behind and I have to swim back through carnivore infested waters to get to him and return us both safely to the boat alive or my youngest catching a dreadful disease and I have to watch it slowly eat him alive.

Yeah fun times! Luckily I don't dream often because I always wake up sick to my stomach.

I sometimes wish my dreams were boring. I dream very detailed and often tragic dreams. I wake up exhausted b/c they take alot out of me! Some mornings I wake up feeling like I'd been watching movies all night. There are some nice dreams too...once in a while, but again very detailed and emotional. It's been like that all my life so I guess it's not changing.

In some dreams, animals represent habits, and your home represents your counsciousness. It sounds like you have a habit of soiling your thoughts.
True story: When my husband and I were still together, our dogs refused to use their training pads. Once my husband moved out, their aim improved. On days when I was feeling particularly exstatic about life, their aim was dead center. I think the animals pick up the energy you are projecting with your thoughts.

I could do without the stress dreams of trying desperately to get my husband's visa. Or where I'm stuck in customs in the US.
97% of my dreams are very cool, though, where I have incredible adventures. The other night, I dreamed that I was a zombie hunter. And I was GOOD! :)
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There is an episode of Sopranos where Tony has a fever/flu and starts having these tripped out dreams. The dreams they show in that sequence are about as close to the type of dreams I have. Rarely are they real places or situations. They are never linear. The places I dream about do repeat themselves (Lots of houses with large secret rooms and areas... could be all the tiny houses I lived in growing up?) My dreams jump around, or since the brain is so inclined, could possibly be a bunch of thoughts together, and my conscious mind can only process it as a series of events.

Generally, they all tend to be pretty intense, but I hazard to delve too deep, like my inner child, my Subconscious gets all the space she needs and never gets judged.

I might add that as a lifelong insomniac, sleep is usually my ungettable get, so probably much of my desire to 'not rock the boat' about what happens when I sleep probably comes from that.

I wish I COULD dream. I have terrible insomnia and a wacky schedule and maybe sleep 2 hours at a time if I'm lucky. If I dream I never remember them!
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I've had some lame dreams as well...including those where I find it hard to distinguish between the dream and reality. Of course, something always seems to happen to eventually clue me in like a bus being driven by one of my 5th graders, animals talking to me, or riding on the back of a whale through the sky.

Yeah...enough said.

Oh, and can I just be the first to say how disturbingly awesome your picture is?

Thanks.

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I don't mind the lame dreams, it's those dreams that clearly have some secret message from my subconsious that I dislike. They leave me thinking all day..."why was I parading around a crowded auditorium carrying someones child and showing him off to an audience full of 10 000 clones of my grandmother?" That's one I'd love to fiqure out!
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I am a Mother of four...I don't have "time" to dream ;)
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I do have very frustrating dreams all of the time. It drives me nuts. But your picture today is going to give me nightmares! Weird!

It's very funny that you should post about dreams when I had a very weird one the night before last. I have an English bulldog that stole my heart the minute he came to our home. So...in my dream.....I let Tank outside to use the bathroom. He doesn't run very fast in reality but in my dream he took off like a lightening bolt. He ran straight into a very large hole (not there in reality) in the backyard. I ran over to the hole and realized I couldn't reach him. The hole was probably 10 feet down and levelled out. There was another hole that fell ever deeper into the sewer drain. That's where Tank ended up. I don't know how his fat butt got into the second, smaller hole...but he did. I ran into the house screaming for my boyfriend to come and help me get him out. I had to wake my boyfriend who works alot. I felt bad for that also, but my main concern was getting Tank out of the sewer drain. My boyfriend wasn't moving fast enough for me and as I was running back out the door to find a way to save my dog....I woke up. I don't understand this dream. I know that I don't want to have another one like it. My dog is a huge part of my family and I love him dearly. Too weird, huh?

Lamest dream as of late for me........ daily life was going on as usual, but I'm walking around chewing on 2 inch nails and rocks. Everyone in the dream thinks I'm ignoring them because I'm not talking.... hello... can't they see I have a mouth full of nails and rocks? Too weird!

That's a crazy picture, by the way!
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When I'm overwhelmed at work I dream of work - and I hate that! It's like I never left.

I had a fantastic dream a couple of nights ago!

Walking down a dark byre, which was filled with animals - mostly farm animals. For some reason I was told to chose any animal I wanted, to which I chose the most biggest bull I had ever seen in my life - HUGE big ring through its nose! I walked him out, or should I say - he pulled me out of the shed and we were straight in to a show ring. Now, I'm no farmer, I've only shown a wee calf before in my youth, but this bull was STUNNING! The people watching were all 'oooooh and aaaaaah' at my beautiful bull! We won that class, moving on to the 'Champion' class.

Then the phone rang.

4.42am.

Salesman from overseas.

I hung up, trying to get back to sleep quickly to carry on the dream.

I never did find out if I won.

Damn salesman. :-(

I really hate lame dreams. Especially the ones like you mention, that involve poop. Because instead of just changing a diaper, I'm dreaming that the kid has taken off her poopy diaper and smeared it all over the wall, down the carpet in the hallway, and the dog is behind her licking it up. Yuck. And then I wake up and realize that I do indeed have to change a poopy diaper.

I once had a dream that I think would make a great sci-fi movie plot. It was intense and I woke up feeling anxious, but I still remember it. I need to write it down, make screenplay, and send it to someone famous. I won't give the plot away, seeing as how I might make an appearance on the Sci-Fi channel someday, but here are a few tidbits to interest you:
1. Super intelligent cloned teenagers
2. Government taking over the world
3. War ensues
4. Super intelligent cloned teenagers discover the plan and stop evil Government.

Sci-Fi genius, right?

sometimes, i have dreams of being back in my hospital room in the cancer ward. nothing serious will be happening, i'll just be sitting there in bed and sometimes a nurse will come in and check my vitals and ask me how much i went pee that day. it gets really scary when it just keeps going and going, like i'm going to be there forever, which is how i felt at the time. like i was never going to get better and would have to live in the hospital for my remaining days. or if i have the dream where my son and fiance are there to visit me but for some reason the nurses won't let me see them or let them come in my room.

i guess it doesn't seem like a big deal, but i always wake up sad and kind of lonely. that feeling sticks with me all day sometimes, which is lame. i could definitely do without that!

I have had some brilliant dreams lately..the last one was very thriller-esque and involved me escaping in and out of various hotels in the company of an old school friend I often dream about (we stopped being friends, I on't know why and it makes me sad). But my lamest one that I remember happened on a night I was away with 3 friends. We arrived at the campsite, set up our tents and went to the nearest pub to eat and drink. then we walked back to the campsite having a pretty mundane conversation about our jourmey up there. And then I dreamt the whole walk back from the pub with identical mundane conversation all over again!

Mundane/lame dreams are FINE by me! Up until about 2 years ago, most of my dreams were either EXTREMELY strange, terrifying, or a mixture of the two...I'm talking running for my life and those of my children, bad things in my apartment behind closed doors, monsters, weather events that wipe out the population, things of that nature. They were a lot like participating in slightly disjointed movies, never quite being sure how the plot got to this point. Then (roughly) two years ago I dreamed about a necklace my grandmother had given me the Yule prior; in the dream, I put the necklace on and all the freaky stuff stopped. When I woke up, I dug it out of my jewelry box and decided to give it a go, haha. Since then, my dreams are so much more calm. I've hung out with with favorite band, I've cooked strange but wonderful new recipes (that I can never remember upon waking, of course), I've even sat on the lawn of my parents house, which was in the middle of a lake, and watched 4 huge full moons rise simultaneously. That one was stunning, it's really a shame I can't photograph some of the things I've seen in my dreams.

I want to know how many people will admit to dreaming that they are going pee !!!

And how many of them actually wake up before they pee the bed !!!
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