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| #1 :: August 3rd, 2012 @ 7:48 PM | |
 monieis a Mirage    719 Posts 542 Achievements  
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     I've gotten pretty good at interpreting my own dreams lately, but naturally they follow a small handful of recognizable themes xD I wanted to hear other people's and mull them over, if that's at all interesting to you. Feel free to include your own working interpretations as well.
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| #2 :: August 3rd, 2012 @ 8:23 PM | |
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  Alright, here we go. I had this dream last night, I was so irritated it actually woke me up at about 4 in the morning. So, I come into this restaurant and sat down. Right after I came in, many other children showed up too, between the ages of 4-12. There were no parents. The waitress then proceeds to take all their orders, and get all their food. I looked over at this boy at another table, and he was poking a spoon through his toast. I had thought it was so disgusting. At that point I was annoyed and tugged at the waitress. I should of got my food first, since I was the first there, and I really only wanted some eggs, since all the other kids had elaborate meals. And she told me the kids had special propriety since they had money, but I money too. I think I was sitting there for an hour. Well soon this waitress comes out with some mini muffins I could eat in the mean time, but the kids sitting by me snatched them up before I could. Then I woke up. I really, really irritated and impatient throughout the whole dream, but hey, it was unfair. It's always been a pet peeve of mine when people don't abide by the line rule. What do you make of this?@monie Last Edit by:
Hound 8/03/12 - 8:24:12 pm
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| #3 :: August 3rd, 2012 @ 8:52 PM | |
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@Hound 1. Well, first of all any dream that wakes you up feeling bad at 4am is big, so whatever you eventually decide it means, those issues are significant right now. 2. The primary emotion of this dream is a sense of injustice. Not only were you there first, you were asking for so much less than the other patrons. I think the you-both-have-money aspect of the dream is your brain trying to be analytical--where is this disparity coming from? But even in subconscious dream state you can't come up with a good reason--you all have an equal right to be served, and you were first. 3. The other patrons seem really immature from your description. Not only are they young, they're gross, spoiled, and have bad manners. Meanwhile, you are following rules and acting in a more mature way than the "children" in this "restaurant", which should get you good treatment! Except instead, the "waitress" has forgotten you for louder patrons. 4. You're being treated wrongly--social manners and rules (like first come first serve, or just table manners) are just getting thrown out. This comes more from a group/soclal situation than one particular individual. 5. Throughout this entire experience, you're still trying to follow rules. You appeal to the waitress, and also try to be content with your mini muffins--but the waitress doesn't fix the situation and the kids steal said muffins. 6. You're quieter than these other patrons in many ways. Your demands are smaller and quieter; you're just sitting there for an hour; you appeal to the waitress but don't get into many large external confrontations. Even as you get upset, it's more internal than an external scene. Interpretation... I think in some aspect of your life you're feeling ignored and treated unjustly relative to a group... you're growing upset but they don't notice. You feel that you are more mature and less greedy than others. You want other people to metaphorically quiet down and wait their turn, and you feel that because they won't, your current environment is unruly, which upsets you. You hope outside/authority figures will help right the situation, but it also seems like they aren't fully involved. You're really irritated by general immaturity and unruliness around you. Anyway--not sure how accurate I was, but I hope I was close enough to help  as you interpret it yourself I'd ask1. what/who do the children remind me of? and 2. what situations in my life make me feel frustrated and ignored? Last Edit by:
monie 8/03/12 - 8:56:43 pm
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| #4 :: August 3rd, 2012 @ 9:02 PM | |
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Most of my dreams are exceptionally violent, full of bloodshed, absolutely depressing, featuring me or me in someone else's body, and usually I or the person I am in the dream ends up sobbing, suffering a loss somehow. I really don't think I can go into detail on most of my dreams; they're all pretty awful. XD;
Um, I can give you one that isn't too bad though! I remember one in which I was a spy. Initially, I was me, and I'd somehow found my way onto a secret base disguised as an abandoned oil rig in the ocean. I think I was meant to gather data, but hesitated upon leaving because I wanted to take the boss head on and tell him what he was doing was wrong. I can't remember what that was, though. Anyway, from then on my identity was warped. One second I was me, the next I was someone else. I was still the same spy, but I went from looking like me to some guy in his mid-twenties, and back again. When I decided I had to leave, I was confronted by someone who knew I'd infiltrated the place. He was a close friend, but he said he couldn't let me leave. He pointed his gun at me and shot. He got my side or thigh, I think, and I fell into the ocean, sinking as I tried to swim. I can't remember anything else. ;u;' But usually most of my dreams involve me being a spy/missionary/soldier, or some other sort of person trying to bring justice to the world. Usually failing. Seems like a relatively straightforward theme, I suppose... I've always wanted to be a superhero. c;
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| #5 :: August 3rd, 2012 @ 10:04 PM | |
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@monie That is actually accurate, it kind of scary. It's a long story, but hit the nail on the head. I understand it all now. Thank you. I was wondering, do people only dream in REMs sleep? I'm a big dreamer. Want to try your hand at some other dreams?
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| #6 :: August 4th, 2012 @ 10:56 PM | |
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@Hound Oh cool! Haha interpreting someone else's dreams is a lot harder xD I'm glad I could help. And yep, I'm definitely game to try more!People used to think so but there's another dream state... I think it's nREM for non-REM. (Pinging @Gosangoku; this part's relevant to your dream.) REM is the deepest sleep state, where you're paralyzed, while nREM is the opposite point of the sleep cycle, when you're closest to awake, and it turns out we not only dream at both extremes but have different types of dreams. nREM dreams deal more with processing information you already have. A lot of times these are boring/everyday ones, short snippets, or memories, and your brain will try to process and link information. I read some cool studies showing that people will actually get better at a task (especially one you're just learning) overnight if you have nREM dreams about it. These dreams tend to be calm and positive. There's a correlation between depression and lack of nREM dreams. REM dreams are more future/possibility oriented; feel real, are sensory and vivid; and cause more negative emotions, largely fear and anger. Your brain will throw what-if situations at you and you get to practice problem solving. (When you think about it, even though nightmares suck, there's an evolutionary advantage to fighting wolves in your dreams a few times before you have to in real life.) Whether you successfully solve a REM-dream problem or not is obviously significant Gosangoku: haha don't worry, it's hard to freak me out I get the idea though. Well, your dreams definitely fit the REM category, and they're extreme.Do you have anxiety in waking life? Your brain seems to feel the need to prepare you for violence, confrontation, betrayal... in addition, I noticed your dream didn't seem to revolve around a specific problem so much as everything that could possibly go wrong in confusing sequence. And, a lot of people would wake up after getting shot, but you turned it into another problem: an injury, then drowning. You weren't shocked by the idea so much as trying to prepare yourself for disaster and more disaster. Also, there's other interpretations, but dreaming about yourself from a distance (such as watching your own actions or being another person) could indicate depression--you're dissociated from yourself/events. Also, how dull/vivid would you say your senses are in waking life? These are also young person dreams 1. You're trying to change the world for the better, but as an individual (like a spy) operating in hostile territory, as opposed to a more authority/group role 2. There's lots of possibilities. The sequence/situation, including your own identity, switches around a lot. 3. You usually fail/don't have control. 4. Even though there's lots of violence, there's optimism. You're a cool, actiony figure (spy, soldier), so you feel you have the intrinsic ability to get things done, even if the situation turns on you. Interpretation So you see both lots of possibilities and obstacles and are trying to figure out how to successfully navigate the world. I'd also give the anxiety question some thought--plus, have your dreams always kind of been this way, or was there a certain point when they became violent and sad? Last Edit by:
monie 8/04/12 - 10:57:52 pm
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| #7 :: August 5th, 2012 @ 9:59 AM | |
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Wow, you're amazing. XD This is really enlightening.
I have Generalised Anxiety Disorder and Severe Depression, so I suppose that adds up to your suggestions. I've mentioned dreams to my theattacker before, but she never really paid much attention to them even though I've been curious ever since I was a kid. Speaking of which, these sorts of dreams didn't begin when I was diagnosed with depression or anything, they've been happening for as long as I can remember. I know you're supposed to forget about 90% of your dream within ten minutes of waking up, but I remember one dream I had as a kid really vividly, which was another gore-filled one about loss. Not fun. XD; In real life, my senses are quite dull, I think... I don't know, it's odd. Usually it seems as if I'm watching everyone else through a window or on a screen and I can't interact properly, and sometimes I sort of drift into daydreams and can't hear anything. Thankfully, my daydreams are usually pretty awesome! c: Thank you for this, it was honestly really interesting and helpful. If you don't mind, I might give you some more dreams sometime?
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| #8 :: August 5th, 2012 @ 10:43 AM | |
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@Gosangoku Thank you! ^^ Not being a doctor I didn't want to give you an internet diagnosis, lol, but I was thinking along those lines. I asked the time question because I was wondering if it was more PTSD-like or a general mood thing. I have some similar issues and I'll sometimes have a period of violent, sad dreams that don't seem to hold together very well. For example I remember one where I shot a pregnant woman; I wasn't me and didn't want her harmed, but I was in some man's body and shot her. I dove into a tank, and then the man was swimming away (I was watching from a distance now) and there were sharks everywhere. The whole time I felt sad and horrified but also kind of detached. Or I'll wake up just really, really sad. haha it's always relieving when I get back to calmer dreams. I asked the senses question because of the detachment theme. I'm thinking you don't have a lot of sensory info on your mind, so your dreams are more about ideas/danger and you're not very tied to your own body. If in waking life "I'm watching everyone else through a window or on a screen and I can't interact properly" it makes sense for dream you to feel similarly out of touch. Yeah, you're completely welcome to! I can try focus more on the specific dream too if you want. Btw, please ping me in the future, I usually don't check boards otherwise. You can smail too if you don't want to post something.Last Edit by:
monie 8/05/12 - 10:45:27 am
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| #9 :: August 5th, 2012 @ 2:13 PM | |
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 @monie i had this dream a while ago and i have no idea what it means, so i'll try my best to list out everything that i remember from it i guess i was in some sort of video game and it was inside a house that looked really playful and childish, with like, nursery decorations everywhere around the house & a playground built in somewhere. at first, i was alone and i was running from something or someone else that i was literally scared to death of. i kept running around in the same circle, not knowing where to go, and when i finally killed whatever was chasing me, another one popped up along with some guy that wanted to help me. we kept running around and killing them until they stopped popping up, then we heard a key enter the door and i freaked out because the parents were home and they were going to kill me (i wasn't babysitting, i kept thinking that they would think i was going to rob them?) so i ran to some dining room with a large bed in it and me and the guy hid behind the bed. soon enough, the parents went to sleep and we ran out the door, waking them up, and we continued running from them until we lost them, then the guy disappeared and i shot myself.tumblr -- cw shop
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| #10 :: August 5th, 2012 @ 7:33 PM | |
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@samisasa There's a strong need for a partner/caretaker figure in this dream. First of all the environment is very childish--I mean you're actually in a nursery!--so your emotional state sounds like the part of you that's more childish; scared; inexperienced; and in need of a protector. Most of the dangers and solutions also feel a little Disney (don't misunderstand my tone; Disney is scary as crap  ), like hiding behind a bed together.When the guy is there, that's the most positive part of the dream. You have a partner. There's still lots of danger, but the tone goes from being "scared to death" and "chased" to "running around killing them until they stopped." Then, although you're worried about the parents, you escape. Finally, once your protector disappears, you kill yourself. It's pretty interesting that, in a dream revolving around a protector, the home is scary/not yours and the parents are threatening. That, and the fact that the guy disappeared in the end, suggests you feel an absence of a partner/protector figure, and that hurts and frightens you. Also, you worry that the parents will think you're robbing them (which you weren't) and your subconscious response, instead of feeling you can explain the misunderstanding, is being scared that they'll kill you. That's poignant because it'd be irrational in waking life: for some reason, you felt you'd be wrongly blamed and/or that you'd be unable to communicate successfully before getting attacked. This might partly explain why the guy--an individual on your team, who understood the situation without you convincing him--was so important and comforting to you. I suspect in waking life you're better with a few close individuals than with crowds/aquaintances. This was probably a REM dream, in which people often try out solutions to problems. (You might find the first half of post 6 interesting... I find the framework for REM vs nREM dreams really helpful, especially when a sequence of scary or infuriating things happen.) This was you scared, and your brain playing with threats and solutions. You take care of yourself at first, but then the guy shows up and helps you. Things improve, then slowly you lose everything--you lose the parents, you leave the house behind (and it sounded to me like you didn't run to anywhere specific, just away), and the helper has disappeared. You're alone and lost. This has all been a scary dream and you feel you'd rather shoot yourself than keep solving problems without anyone to help you. Interpretation: You'd really like to have somebody on your side. Also maybe you'd feel more up to facing challenges in your life if you had someone to lean on more. btw, was it the parents' house throughout the dream? If not, who might it belong to/what might it represent? While interpreting it yourself: 1. Did the guy represent someone you know, or an idea/figure? 2. Who or what did the parents represent? 3. Where did this fear that the parents would be so hostile to you come from? Last Edit by:
monie 8/06/12 - 9:40:13 am
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| #11 :: August 5th, 2012 @ 11:24 PM | |
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| #12 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 10:26 AM | |
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@justsarcastic omg, that sounds like a terrible nightmare actually o_o Well it sounds like a lot of this dream relates to real-life events, so I don't want to steer you wrong: understand my guesses are just ideas for you to use, and you should analyze it yourself 1. I think you feel like there's something wrong with you. First of all you have this monster/human/dog--notice that even though you're terrified of it, the monster is injured: "unnatural, deformed. Almost like whatever it was had been hit by a car"; when it moves it "limps" and is "hunched over"; it's running away from you both and "wailing", which is a noise more of pain/sadness than a big scary threat. I believe the monster represents sickness/injury (maybe not physical). Second of all, you find your younger self badly injured. Third of all, this monster causes you both to "worry about someone" and eventually leads you to yourself. 2. The scene with your younger self is also interesting--you didn't say where exactly the wound was. Blood was "running out of her mouth", which suggests internal wounds (even if the causes were initially external). The places where you most noticed the blood relate to shame/outward apperance, not the injury itself: your face and hair relate closely to identity (especially the social kind that others can see), while your mouth and hands are used to express yourself and interact with the world. There are lots of phrases ("caught red handed", "out damned spot") suggesting past actions/guilt leave a mark specifically on one's hands. But if you found an injured person in a rational, waking mindset, you would probably look for the wound first and pay more attention to blood in physically dangerous areas like neck, chest, stomach, pooling on the ground. 3. And I got the sense you were either worried your best friend would discover it (what's "wrong" with you); or you wanted to figure out exactly what is wrong and, as your best friend, he's someone you turned to mentally for that. He sees the monster first; the monster approaches him and they both stare at each other for 30 seconds; when he finds your injured younger self, instead of helping her (a more rational initial reaction), he "shak[es] her, trying to get her to talk". Hope that helps
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| #13 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 10:53 AM | |
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art by Naughty Snowfairy  @monieI had a weird one last night, and I'm still groggy so mulling it over myself isn't accomplishing much  In my dream, I was forced to move back in with two old housemates of mine, Anna and Laura. (We had a falling out IRL. Anna, my then best friend, felt jealous that I was spending too much time with my boyfriend. Instead of talking to me about it, she treated me horribly for the remainder of our eight-month living situation. She also convinced Laura that I had done some awful-sounding things that I hadn't done. Their combined efforts produced an incredibly depressed and terrified me  )Back to the dream again. There were two guys living there as well, boys I used to know from school years and years ago. I remember trying to talk to one of them about borrowing some of his food for supper, but he waved me off and went back to the shared area where everyone was watching a movie together. After fixing myself some food, I went in and sat down on a couch, and we all just sat there awkwardly with a movie playing. For some reason, my parents were in charge of the living arrangements; I kept begging them to let me live with my boyfriend again. I didn't understand why they were separating us after two years of cohabitation. Finally, they conceded and let him visit me, and after seeing my tearful reaction to him having to leave, they magically created an adjoining bedroom for him next to mine. So yeah, that was the dream. Bwuh?
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| #14 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 12:50 PM | |
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 I've have a lot of weird dreams, but there was one I had a few years ago that just seems so very strange to me. It actually sounds funny. x: I don't know if this would have anything to do with it, but I was in a relationship with this guy at the time, and he wasn't so good to me. He had cheated on me a few times, but I tried to make up excuses in my mind and not acknowledge that it had happened. In my (extremely weird/silly dream), I was holding an ice cream cone, and inside that cone was a bird without feathers. All the feathers were completely missing. And I felt a strong connection to this poor bird. Almost like I was holding myself up (no, I wasn't going to eat it). When my then boyfriend at the time grabbed the cone with the bird inside out of my hand and smashed it. The cone was broken, and the bird just lay there unable to fly away without feathers. I went to school that morning and talked to my art teacher about it. We came to the conclusion that maybe that bird was representing me. It represented my vulnerability and my innocence, and that this boyfriend had taken that from me in a way. And since the bird was vulnerable (naked/had no feathers) it (meaning me) stayed with my boyfriend despite what he put me through. Do you think that sounds about right? How would you interpret it? |
| #15 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 1:56 PM | |
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| #16 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 1:58 PM | |
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Sorry! I don't know why I forget to ping people so much... you n u;; Here's last night's dream. They'd finally made a Deadpool movie and I was going to see it with my cousin. I remember complaining that Marvel were using the same actors for things, since for some reason they'd cast Tobey Maguire as Wade Wilson. :U Anyway, that's irrelevant. We started watching the movie but it didn't follow the comics at all. It started with Wade Wilson (Deadpool) in some sort of medieval village, being hung off the edge of a cliff, and there were two nuns behind him muttering in another language. Then I wasn't watching the movie anymore; I was Wade, hanging above the drop. Then I was falling and everything went black. That was it. I had sporadic short dreams last night since I kept waking up every couple of hours for some reason. s:
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| #17 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 3:39 PM | |
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@Linens I'm sorry that happened. Gossip sucks :/ That was a situation where two of your friends and turned on you and in the dream you were left out again, with the guy refusing to lend you food and then leaving to join the group. Food is nourishing, necessary, and eating is social, so in effect he was denying you help and nourishment (not necessarily physical), and excluding you from the group. You then went to the "shared area", but everyone was leaving you out. So it made sense for you to really want to live with your boyfriend instead, and to be really upset when he left and you were stuck with these friends. And it makes sense for your parents to care you're crying! The fact that they magically created an adjoining bedroom shows irl you feel like the problems on your mind can be solved, especially if you can convince people close to you to help (the right people, as opposed to not-sharing-food boy.)Interpreting this is sort of chicken and egg. Umm I mean for example: 1. You're feeling left out, misunderstood, or betrayed, so you dreamed about that previous situation, except there was a larger group doing it and a new reason you couldn't leave. 2. irl you feel like your parents and/or others aren't thrilled about the relationship, so you dreamed about a previous situation when people wanted to keep you guys apart. You feel ganged up on and confused by the behavior. 3. These friends/bad event happened to be on your mind. You went back to that apartment mentally, and then all sorts of people started turning on you--it could be a leftover fear of betrayal/ostracism from that experience. The positive thing is you realized your parents, at least, would fix things if they saw you that upset, and you had them and your bf on your side by the end. So it depends what's going on irl. With the first two possibilities, has anything happened recently w/ friends or parents that might've brought the dream up? @mania I bet you guys were right. The bird was really vulnerable and you felt connected to it; he cheated on you multiple times, so even when you were already vulnerable but trying to hold up yourself and your hope, he came along and smashed everything again. In addition to the vulnerability of not having feathers, those are used to fly; that reinforces the not-leaving-him idea, and I think showed you were unhappy and beaten down as well. The birdie sounds cute. I hope it has feathers now - I'll reply to the rest of you guys in a bit. gonna have lunch and quest a bit ^^
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| #18 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 4:17 PM | |
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@monie OK, this one was pretty disturbing. I have no idea why I had it (although I did watch a very silly horror movie before bed...)
My apartment, which in the dream is very large, is haunted by the Devil himself. He's a big red dragon-like creature who comes down from the wall and scares my cat. My cat's eyes go huge and he looks sooo scared, and I'm furious that the Devil is bugging my baby! I take the cat into his box and carry him to the vet, because the Devil said he could be saved if his blood type is right and he can make a donation; thus his life could have some meaning. "He troubles the desert so with his existence," he says, and I realize it's a climate change thing. At the vet's, some blood is taken, but I have to give it to the nurse so she can put it under the microscope. The line is very long and I can't really figure it out, so I just cut in line (nobody complains). The nurse says, rather coldly, that the blood is the wrong type; "He doesn't have the right ingredients in it". I feel dejected and crushed, but not totally hopeless. Back home, I look at a notebook that shows the areas of my house (somewhat similar to the Subeta map!) and I realize something. Some of the red demons are angels in disguise; God hasn't left my house after all, the angels are just disguised so they can hide from the Devil. An angel smiles at me from the picture. I wake up feeling anxious and scared still.
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| #19 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 4:47 PM | |
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I have super weird dreams a lot and most of them have creepy undertones. One dream was that my friend Ruth was in the shower with some guy named Kevin and she was washing her elbows while they just stood facing each other. She was wearing a shirt made out of human ears. Kevin spit on the shower floor and it landed on Ruth and they just stared at it for a while. Then they got out of the shower, and she was bouncing along on a mermaid tail. He was a centaur, with his torso human and the rest a horse. He kept kicking stuff while they're still in the bathroom. Then the shower water turned brown and rusty and she said "I have to get my pimp to pay the water bill." They go outside and you can see that their 'house' was just the small bathroom. On the outside the bathroom house looks like a hovel. There's tumbleweeds and dead grass for miles, and a tumbleweed hits Ruth in the face and she starts gushing blood from everywhere. Kevin says "That's a doozy!" The blood stops and then a train appears and pulls up in front of them. Kevin picks up Ruth and throws her into the train compartment (she couldn't get on because of her mermaid tail), and then goes on the train as well. Apparently they're going to his grandmother's house, and the train goes off into the west. That's it The second one is I'm in a huge old Victorian-type abandoned house and I'm walking down a corridor with lots of closed doors. The house is slightly crumbling and dark and smells like mould and musty stuff. I open each door in the hallway and all of them are completely white and pristine bathrooms with clawfoot tubs in the middle. The tubs are all filled with red liquid, kind of like diluted blood. I close each door and keep walking until I get to the very last door. I open it and go inside, closing the door after me. This bathtub is filled with white liquid, like milk. I step into it (clothed) and lay in the bathtub. It's fine until I feel something under me that I didn't feel before, and I pull out what looks like a small bone with some flesh still hanging off it. I get out of the bathtub calmly and reach around in the bathtub's liquid to grab the pieces of bones floating around and one by one I clean them of flesh with a towel, then place them neatly next to me. There is one small window high up in the bathroom and it's all sort of glowy white, you can't see what's outside. All of a sudden the bathroom sorts of twists/shifts and it's abandoned and run down like the rest of the house and there's a few rats running around and a girl dressed in grey sitting against the wall. The bathtub is overflowing blood all over the floor and the bones I cleaned turn into white rats and they gnaw at the girl while I watch them. Sort of dark xD
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| #20 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 5:21 PM | |
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@justsarcastic Do you mean your illness is literally terminal, or that it's unlikely you'll live very late? That's is all a lot to deal with and I'm not surprised you have nightmares often. Since they're causing you to lose sleep, I think being in bed with him in the dream wasn't just closeness, it shows his support--it was sort of like having him around with you during one of the scariest times of your day. You're torn between wanting that comfort and not wanting him to have to be scared by the "monster" too. Since the issue is medical and internal you probably didn't give the wound a specific spot, just blood everywhere. But yeah the fact that it's mostly hair, mouth, and hands I think comes from the preoccupation with hiding it from people. Even if you don't want your friends to worry, you can find a support group (online or in person) with people who are going through similar things, and they might be easier to tell. I think it would really, really be worth it to find people you can talk to--1. this dream shows it's a real source of stress even if you're "used to dealing" (and you mentioned that, although you have nightmares a lot, this one was much worse), and 2. even this one friend is having some positive effect on eating, etc. And I think having more people to lean on would help you stay close to your friend as well--he sounds like a great/smart/understanding guy who's trying, but assuming he's under 25 as well, he doesn't know what to do either. Getting outside help would take some pressure off, getting outside advice would relieve both of you, and it sounds like anything good for you would make him happy. Edit: @Gosangoku No worries ^^At least this is a relatively positive dream! Do you ever have lucid dreams btw?Well, Maguire sucked as spiderman imo, I consider that a nightmarish turn >> Either way, your positive dream got worse and worse as time went by. I don't know a lot about Marvel comics, but I'm assuming this follows the usual you-as-superhero-in-danger theme. And do Wade Wilson / Deadpool have any traits that might be significant right now, or do you think it/your cousin were just on your mind? a few interpretations on the short snippet thing: 1. I'm wondering if this was an nREM dream that turned bad? It seems more positive, is everyday, and follows the pattern of associating different, short things. In that case you might have woken up every few hours because you did start to go into nREM sleep, but woke up before completing the cycle. 2. Maybe you're semi-self-aware of your dreams because you posted here yesterday and that kept waking you up xD Personally I can only lucid dream for a few minutes before waking up. 3. You kept waking up because that's what falling nightmares do :s lol. How long do your nightmares usually go before you wake up? Last Edit by:
monie 8/06/12 - 5:41:22 pm
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| #21 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 6:35 PM | |
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| #22 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 7:02 PM | |
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art by Choco  @monieThanks; it was a horrible experience, so having a nightmare reliving even a part of it was... unpleasant. I'm not sure why my parents were a part of my dream. They've been nothing but supportive of my relationship. I also don't have a very large circle of friends, so it's hard to feel ganged up on... There really isn't anyone to gang up on me I don't know.
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| #23 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 7:05 PM | |
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@linens Yeah, the ending part of the dream seemed to be really positive/supportive. In that case, it was probably just relieving unpleasantness, but with the happy ending included c: uhh, I can totally relate. Long story. Edit: sorry I'm taking so long getting to people. Brain is kind of dead. But I'll get there :3Last Edit by:
monie 8/06/12 - 7:06:38 pm
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| #24 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 7:11 PM | |
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| #25 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 7:12 PM | |
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 i have one from awhile ago that still is just plain weird. i was looking up at the sky, a ufo thing in flames burned the house down in front of me and i walk up to see what it was, there's like a large thing that humans lay in, like a ufo coffin and it was a devil cape, and a note that says, its almost time to go. that's it. 
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| #26 :: August 6th, 2012 @ 7:34 PM | |
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@deniselle Huhh this is an interesting dream. I like the ending. OK pretty much all the danger seems vaguely group/political xD -Your devil is some kind of bad commie xD like your cat can live if he contributes to the collective. -climate change is your cat's fault. -the line (crowds of people, social order) is long and confusing. So you just kind of cut, and it's not organized enough for people to notice or complain. -the nurse does the authority figure part of her job but not the doctoring part. She examines your cat's blood (his essence, his vulnerability) impersonally and closely, and then just as coldly dismisses him. I think you went to bed in a post-horror movie mood, and because it was too silly for you to have an animal-terror inducing nightmare, you dreamt about something that scares you slightly less: the state of the world. (Lol.) Ultimately you're optimistic and the dream ended on a hopeful note even though you felt anxious. PS your apartment/house probably represents your life in this context. Last Edit by:
monie 8/06/12 - 7:34:54 pm
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| #27 :: August 7th, 2012 @ 3:44 AM | |
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@monie Actually, the way you describe it, it could be more about social justice Tumblrs that I've been reading lately... Feelings of anxiety about not contributing enough, life being too complex to really grasp, etc. That's interesting.
I was in the hospital as a kid, and have a certain trauma about fed up nurses who weren't too kind. I think that might also have played a part in the dream. All in all, quite fascinating. Thank you!
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| #28 :: August 7th, 2012 @ 1:20 PM | |
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@monie
Ok, my dream from two nights ago was fairly... interesting. Um, my age fluctuated a lot throughout the dream, as does the location. Sometimes it feels like I'm India, sometimes America. Anyway, I'm going to summer camp in a large hotel. I'm young enough that the music playing in the hotel, which in the dream I knew was from Spongebob, appeals to me. The hotel is very tall, tall enough to be a skyscraper, and the camp is on a large (I want to say blue/purple) sphere that is perched precariously on the top. Reaching the sphere is difficult for me, because you have to go to the back of the hotel where the elevators that go to the roof are through a series of hallways that are long, brightly lit, isolated, and brightly lit. The elevators themselves are dark and seem like the cables could give out any minute. Once you get to the last floor, you have to take a staircase up to the roof, then enter the sphere through a door. There is also a ladder you can climb. It goes from the last floor, through a hole in the ceiling, to a small opening in the side of the sphere, halfway to the top. No one ever uses it because the ladder isn't bolted down; it just rests against the sphere. Inside, the sphere is larger than it looks like from the outside. I can barely see the edge from the middle of the sphere, partially because of the size, and partially because the sphere is so poorly lit. There are no partitions that seperate "rooms." It's cold and dank like a cave, and everyone huddles together against the walls of the sphere. I don't remember much about my classes. It's general anxiety about the start of school, I guess, because my teachers pass back tests I don't remember taking, and keep informing me that I've forgotten to turn in assignments for my Chemistry class. All the classes are either too easy or too hard. For the most part, though, there are no classes. The children are left to their own devices. I meet a new friend, who's my age- young, around 8-ish? We notice weird things about the place, like the fact that children disappear and come back... different. So we do a little exploring through the floors of the hotel, especially the hallways and alleys that have no rooms. Just closets and other weird rooms. There are several close calls where we bump into people. We don't discover anything, but there's the childish excitement of having a mystery. One day, class has ended. My parents still haven't come to pick me up, but nearly everyone else has left. A friend of mine (who I knew RL) and her sister (another girl I know RL, but they're not sisters outside of my dream) are about to leave. I get into an argument with my friend's sister. They leave, and I'm all alone. Bored, I decide to go downstairs to the lobby. I use the elevator, but then it stops on a floor I've never been on. I leave the elevator, and then I'm being chased by someone through the hotel. We run through hallways and closets and staircases until finally, I'm at the ground floor. It seems like I'm trapped in a secret passage- I can hear the chatter of people in the lobby, but they can't see or hear me. It's dark. There's a door, but it's locked on the outside. The people who've been chasing me, a man and a women have me and my partner (the boy who became my friend, he somehow reappeared) cornered. I'm tired and scared. I'm injected by some sort of substance, as is my partner. The man and women interrogate us, and tell us that whatever we've been injected with is going to kill us by stopping all muscle function. They have the antidote, and they'll give it to us if we tell them what we know. We refuse to tell them anything. I feel tired and drowsy and slip to the floor. But then, I find the strength to lunge at the duo in an attempt to steal the antidote. In the tussle that ensues, everyone ends up injected with the poison. Now we're all going to die. It seems like the end, when there's a sudden, insistent rapping at the door. It's my grandma and she's yelling for me! I scrabble to wrest open the door, she shoves it open, and I'm saved! My friend and our assailants have disappeared though. I'm about to leave when I see them sitting at a dinner table in a room adjacent to the lobby. I recognize my friend, but his features are different and he speaks very mechanically and properly. I scream at the lady, asking what she's done to him. They both deny my claims that he's changed. My parents are at the door. I run to them, speaking frantically about everything that has happened. Unfortunately, they're too busy watching Curiosity land on Mars on their iPad. I defiantly claim that if they won't help, then I'll find out what's going on and stop it. Then I woke up.    
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| #29 :: August 7th, 2012 @ 3:55 PM | |
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Thank you for your thoughts on my strange dream. ♥ And yes, the bird has -most- of its feathers back, I'd say. But even though it's been over for some years, I still have some healing to do. Thankfully I'm with someone a million times better now. c:I have another strange one I'll have to share later. |
| #30 :: August 7th, 2012 @ 5:57 PM | |
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@deniselle Ohh that totally makes sense. Definitely interesting. You're welcome! ^^ @mania Sure thing! ^^ Cool, I'm curious. Take care @piano My interpretation of your dreams is that you're super creative. kidding
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| #31 :: August 7th, 2012 @ 6:44 PM | |
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 @monie I have really weird dreams sometimes. And lately my dreams have been pretty long. This one is confusing because it involves a dream inside of a dream but my dream-self didn't think it was a dream? Okay. So. To be honest, I think that you might need some background knowledge with the games Ocarina of Time and Super Smash Bros Brawl to get my dream... Anyways, here is what happened. My dream started out in Kokiri forest with Link. I was by his side the entire time, and we basically went through the entire plot of Ocarina of Time. In my dream I watched all of it, and basically Link and I just fought side by side. In the end when Zelda got out the ocarina to send Link and I back 7 years, in my dream I woke up in my classroom in high school. So it was a dream inside of a dream? (I don't recognize what room I was in... It was just some random classroom I guess.) But I thought that is all what actually happened, and Zelda sending me back 7 years sent me to my normal life and it wasn't just a dream. Then I suddenly appeared in an ice skating rink, and I met someone who worked there and they said they were my babysitter when I was a child. Apparently she then said something that reminded me of something Zelda said before she sent me back in time/back to my normal life, and it made me start crying. So I walked out of the ice rink and I walked into a hall in my high school, still crying. My best friend asked me what was wrong, and I lied saying that a fanfic made me cry. I then walked into the Jr High School (the schools are connected) and I walked into a room in the middle of the hall that had two beds in it and looked like a motel room. The room had large windows on one wall so I could watch the jr high wall. I sat on one of the beds and continued to cry. A couple people from my school that I don't know walked into the room and just chilled around. I guess it was basically a room to go when skipping class? Then my closest sister came inside (she goes to college.) and everyone in the room started fighting like a real life Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Then the smash orb (or whatever ti is called xD) came in and my sister punched it to get the super smash. She said to me "Stephanie (me), since you are my sister, I am going to do this to you. I am going to summon Mikayla so you can confront her and defend yourself like you never got to." Mikayla is a girl in the jr high, who I used to be friends with for about a year until about 4 months ago but because of a bunch of drama (too lazy to type the story XD) started hating me without good reason saying I "stole her boyfriend" (we broken up a couple weeks ago however..) and she never gave me time to say my side of the story or anything, because she'd message me on different accounts and then block me before I got the chance to say anything. Anyways, my sister turned into a huge octopus and with one of the suction cups on her arms, she summoned a girl. But the girl turned out to not be Mikayla, but just some random person in my school that I'd never talked to. My sister then turned back to normal and I said it was the wrong person and she said "Oh well." We all basically sat around for a couple minutes. I started to get nervous for a bit because the jr high's dismissal bell was going to ring soon and I'd have to see Mikayla and her friends walk around. The bell rung, and then I woke up. O_O Sorry if it's confusing. XD I think the only part that confuses me is the top half with the whole Zelda thing because I don't know how to find it tie in with something in my life. Last Edit by:
Popicle 8/07/12 - 7:03:10 pm
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| #32 :: August 8th, 2012 @ 2:15 PM | |
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@Yes This dream shows you're in a transitionary period: you say you think school anxiety caused some of it, you're in a hotel (temporary living space), and your age fluctuates but it sounds like you're young throughout. So I think you feel young irl and are thinking about how you're going to "grow up". The fact that the school is on top of the hotel suggests that school is central to this transitionary era. (Which it is for most people age 13 to 22 xD) I think you're right about anxiety about school coming up. I think that anxiety extends past immediate things like this year's classes and onto change/growing up on a bigger and general scale. Kids leave and come back "different" (I thought this was the weirdest part!) When your friend eventually disappears at the end, he comes back speaking "very mechanically and properly" and his features have changed. So you're worried about losing your identity and people you know changing. You also get into an argument with another girl in the class. I got the sense you're really individualistic from this dream because a lot of the danger is forced conformity and "proper" behavior. There's also some defiance toward authority figures. The bad guys try to force you to talk by making you helpless (stopping all muscle function) but you manage to fight them. The only real "good" adult in this dream is your grandma. Your parents aren't bad guys but they kind of forget about you, leaving you to figure out your social/school/etc problems by yourself. Interpretation Like you said, anxiety about school coming up, but this includes the social aspects and the sense that big changes are occurring/upcoming. Whacha think? I like your new HA btw. What's the hair?
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| #33 :: August 8th, 2012 @ 2:32 PM | |
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@monie Mine are always either about tornadoes (I think that's the ptsd) or erotic times with the fiance. But I had one that woke me up, feeling awful, in a guilty way about a week ago. I was chillin in my grandma's house, waiting for my fiance to come over and take me somewhere when this woman in a black, leather full body suit pulled up in a pick-up truck. She had a boy (21-ish?) tied up in the back. Next thing I knew, she was in my house, and was telling me to have sex with the boy. I said no. So she pulled out two daggers and two swords. "Either eff him or he dies," she said. I didn't want him to die..as far as I knew, he was innocent. I took a dagger, and sword, and took the boy away from her sight, and into a bedroom. I came back out 5-10 minutes later, with my weapons, and saw her sitting with her legs crossed on my old canopy bed. I lept towards her, and stabbed and stabbed and stabbed, and got all excited cause I'd gotten rid of her (something tells me, I've dealt with her before, maybe she was the cause in the other dreams where I've been attackd?). I slung my head back, to get the hair out of my face and looked down at her - but it wasn't her I'd killed, it was the boy. She'd set up some illusion and made me kill the boy. And that's when I woke up feeling horrible, I thought I'd actually killed someone. --There would be more detail, but I made sure I incorporated would stood out most in the dream. Also, this is the first dream I've ever had..where I actually killed somebody. It was scary.
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| #34 :: August 8th, 2012 @ 4:44 PM | |
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@monie
Your gave me a lot to think about, thanks! I'm entering my senior year of high school, and I'm very worried about getting into a college that will be a good fit for me as well as the future afterwards. This is the end of an era in a lot of ways, and I'm excited about the independence but anxious too. And of course, I'll be leaving a lot of my friends in the process. :< About the individualism part- one of my biggest fears is I'll end up trapped in a monotonous, unfulfilling, 8-to-5 desk job. I don't want to be one in a horde of cubicle workers. Thank you! The hair is called "Shard of Evening Sky."
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| #35 :: August 9th, 2012 @ 1:53 PM | |
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@Landie It's common for people who've been sexually assaulted to have recurring nightmares about it, so if your ptsd comes from that kind of thing (?), you appear to have personified attack. The leather suit, swords, and her actions all seem to add up to sexual violence and force. Whatever the specific cause though, I think she obviously relates to trauma, symbolizing power, ill-intentions, and situations that are out of your control. There's a serious lack of control in the dream, and your enemy is larger than life. Your attacker and the person you're forced to have sex with are different people (in fact, since the boy is tied up and threatened, she's in effect raping both of you) and you said you thought in the dream all the other nightmares had been her fault. So sexual assault, instead of one person attacking you, is closer to a force of nature--she somehow caused every incident. She has a lot of power in your dreams: she makes it inside your house too suddenly for you to stop it or know how it happened, pushes you around with lethal force, and changes everything to her advantage pretty much magically. I'm wondering if she personifies PTSD better than the danger itself. You say this is the first dream where you've killed somebody. I think you got angry and decided to fight back; except there's this helplessness where the anger turns inwards and you can't use it to fight the enemy. Instead, you wound up hurting the victim, a boy you described as "innocent". I think this shows that your anger, without an outlet/the right target, is an almost self-destructive force. The important thing is that nightmares are a normal part of PTSD and nothing to feel guilty about. And the more PTSD is treated, the more control victims gain in their dreams. Hopefully you'll mentally cut your enemies down to size in time as well. Even though you weren't completely successful and woke up feeling bad, the fact that you tried to defend yourself and got as far as stabbing this threatening figure are probably good signs. - PS just realized I skipped two people. Sorry, I'll get back to you guys soon
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| #36 :: August 9th, 2012 @ 2:46 PM | |
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@monie I have dreams a lot where my boyfriend will cheat on me, or be with another girl right in front of me. I've actually woken up in the middle of the night ready to cry because they feel so real. I can't really explain them in detail because I can't remember most of them, only the fact that he's with someone else. I feel like this has something to do with my trust issues, but I'd love to hear your interpretation of them. EDIT: I'm sorry by the way if this isn't enough information. If you have any questions about things you need to know in order to interpret them, I'll try my best to answer them.  Last Edit by:
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| #37 :: August 9th, 2012 @ 3:14 PM | |
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@Worry Hmm well you say you have trust issues. Have you been cheated on before, and if so, by him or someone else? The point of nightmares a lot of times is to let you confront your fears where nothing bad will actually happen, so it could mean nothing more than you're really scared he'll cheat on you, and that you feel sort of helpless--if he does cheat, you don't know what you'd do. Do you remember what kinds of reactions you have in these dreams, or do you just wake up quickly and cry? The second possibility is that someone is making you feel neglected or jealous, but they aren't literally cheating. For example, if someone's boyfriend cancelled a date to watch a football game, she might dream that he cheated on her with a cheerleader. Your boyfriend might be with other girls right in front of you because he's made you feel disrespected; or because irl when you see him interact with other girls it makes you worry, and you later dream that you're watching them have a sexual interaction. So it depends a lot on your waking life. Do you have any rational reasons to be upset with him?
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| #38 :: August 9th, 2012 @ 3:20 PM | |
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@monie Omg, this sounds dead on. No, I haven't been cheated on before. But we did breakup a few months back, for 2 months, and during that period he was texting other girls, and I know one of them kissed him. The stuff that happened when we were apart is always in the back of my mind, and I occasionally find myself thinking about it, so maybe that's why. I honestly do not remember what kinds of reactions I have in the dreams. And ever since we broke up, I do worry about other girls. Only because I know how many started talking to him when we were apart. I don't have any rational reasons to be upset with him though! |
| #39 :: August 9th, 2012 @ 4:36 PM | |
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@Worry If it's "always in the back of your mind", you're gonna dream about it. I also think they show you're hurt by what he did when you were apart--he didn't technically cheat on you, but that doesn't mean you liked it. That might explain why in some dreams it's not so much you catching him as he's blatantly with some other girl in front of you.When people dream about a problem without solving it, they feel more overwhelmed by it, and vice-versa. If he does cheat you should just dump him. ;P Any chance you guys talked about it when you got back together? As long as he's honest, and behaves when he's supposed to, I wouldn't let the dreams scare you too much. I believe a lot of this is actually hurt feelings about stuff that already happened, and that's turning into worry.
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| #40 :: August 9th, 2012 @ 4:41 PM | |
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i had a dream i had to go into hiding and my entire family had to alter our appearances so we wouldn't be found so we all took "asian" pills to turn us japanese and i underwent a horrible were-wolf like transformation and when i looked in the mirror i looked exactly the same but i was wearing heavy eyeshadow |
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