I know this is a wild long shot.
I remember a book from when I was a small child. I rented it every chance I got from the library. I thought it was “little bear has a sick day” but it has NOTHING to do with the little bear series. I only remember the cover - light pastel pink, a bear on the cover in his bed. It struck a cord and I feel I need to find this book simply to make sure i didn’t imagine it.
I recently posted about a dream I had at 3 or 4 that I remember in-depth. But I can remember a nightmare I had when I was very young, my best guess 2 or just turned 3 (1991/1992). I know that because I was still in a crib and not the big-girl bed I got when I was 3. My mom had Star Trek TNG playing allllllll the time. And yes, I'm a Trekkie to this day. But I remember looking up over the bars of my crib and seeing a Klingon (not Worf) standing in standard Klingon gear, holding a Bat'leth, staring at me in my crib. I started crying and heard my mom coming toward me. The Klingon looked up and then just vanished. I remember her coming in and holding me and helping me get back to sleep. I genuinely don't know if this was a sleep paralysis situation, a lucid dream, or what. But I can remember it to this day. I've also watched all of TNG and DS9 multiple times, and I have never recognized the Klingon in any of them.
Anyway, that's my earliest dream I vividly remember. What are some of yours?
So, I stumbled across this community a few weeks ago, and was mind blown to know there are others who see the same places in their dreams. I had no idea what I’d been dreaming was shared amongst others. I’ve been so excited ever since.
I think it was about a week ago I posted that I finally had been lucid during a trip to MW, and was static, because no one seemed to notice that I knew where I was.
But ever since that dream, I haven’t been back. I’ve been trying, meditating before sleep and going through my routine to either lucid dream or astral project, and…nothing.
Has anyone else experienced a “lock-out” of sorts? I was dreaming nearly every day of either the mall or the airport or some other aspect of MW, for years. Now, nothing.
Hello! I genuinely hope this is the right place for this, so please let me know if it’s not!
My husband and I have a 2 year old lab/golden retriever. She is 100% my soul dog and is the center of my world aside from my husband. We’ve talked about getting another dog so she isn’t lonely and has a friend. An opportunity came up for us to adopt an 11yo black lab who needed a rehome.
We did a meet and greet, the black lab isn’t super interested in other dogs, so they didn’t not get along, they are just kind of indifferent to each other. I’ve been trying to shower both with love, and the black lab has definitely taken a love toward my husband, while my golden girl is still my shadow dog.
It’s only been two days but my golden girl is being incredibly sad and clingy now. She’s currently sprawled across my lap and sleeping, which she never ever does.
Any advice on how to manage this? This is uncharted territory for me, I’ve never introduced a new dog into a household before. I have several friends and family who have and the dogs seem to go in like nothing changed, but my girl is definitely not acting herself. Any advice would be most welcomed!
A bit of context here so it makes more sense. Right after I graduated high school, I dated a man that was 6 1/2 years older than me. We had known each other about a year. Bonus, he was my interim youth pastor. We immediately jumped into marriage conversation and had a wedding date planned, etc. We were never officially engaged but we may as well have been. It was pretty common in my hometown to graduate high school, find a good spouse, get married by 20 and kids by 22, so while that all sounds odd to me now, 20 years ago it wasn’t.
In the end, he lost interest but never told me, found someone else and took them on a date, then broke up with me. For years, I thought I was resentful of the cheating, but after therapy and many years, that’s not what bothers me about him. He was very verbally and emotionally manipulative. The very clear message being “if you don’t meet my standards for looks, weight, conduct, etc, I’ll stop loving you.” For an 18yo, hearing that from the person you love not only makes you desperate to continue to “please”, but it also sets a precedence for every relationship after.
Leading into my marriage with my amazing husband now (we got married in our 30s, when we knew it was time and we were the right match for each other) I went through a LOT of therapy to try to fix the mindset I had developed. I couldn’t let my husband have to deal with the scars of a manipulator, when I know he loves me pretty unconditionally and loves me for me, not for how I make him look/feel. It was hard, but I got better. Up until therapy, I had dreams about ex a LOT. After therapy, they basically disappeared, and I had a new sense of peace.
Fast forward to a year after I get married, my parents who live in my hometown still, decide to start attending his church (he’s a full ass pastor now). I told them I was incredibly uncomfortable with it and asked them to reconsider, but they insisted it was the only church for them (there are over 400 churches in my hometown…). On a visit home last year, I showed them the letter I had written to ex and they came up with every justification in the book, the message being “it’s been almost 20 years, get over it.” My parents have never protected me in these situations, but that is a whole other story that has nothing to do with dreams. They have been attending his church for nearly a year now, and it hurts. I took every step possible to make myself unfindable to this man and get him as far away from my life as possible, and they have chosen to place themselves right into it.
Here’s my dilemma. Ever since they started attending, I dream about him almost every night. Very vivid dreams. Nothing romantic, usually he’s a background character or a main character, but I’m talking to him like I would a customer in my store or a person just at a party. In my dream the history isn’t there, but I do always feel a sort of hesitation being around him. Sometimes his wife is there, as well as my husband, but more often than not they aren’t, and it’s just me and him. I’m never lucid, so I cant just wake myself up or reassure myself it’s just a dream. Instead, I wake up almost in a panic or incredibly uneasy.
I know it’s psychological, and it’s because I feel threatened by his presence in my life. I’ve already put my parents at arms length because of this. I’m in therapy again and working through it all, again. But I’m desperate to make these dreams stop. I can’t keep waking up like this, and I can’t keep having dreams like this. Is there a way to make them stop? Without being lucid, I don’t know what to do. Is there something I can do in my waking body to bring my dream body peace? Please help.
I've been part of this community for about two weeks, when I discovered that what I had been dreaming for years was in others' dreams as well. Thank you community for making me aware!
I often have MallWorld dreams. I never saw it all as connected before, until I started reading posts on here and was able to come up with a map of sorts in my head. My MallWorld (except the mall itself) is often a remap of my hometown. I'm always on a quest for In-N-Out, always in a loop around the town or in the mall in the center of the town. Our mall was also in the middle of town, but is a small mall. The mall in my dreams is always huge, seemingly endless, and once I'm inside, I can't get out. There is always a secret room I'm trying to find once I'm inside. It's been inside a department store before, another time it was in a backroom of the hot dog place, it's also been at the top of a tower before.
Last night, I was wondering around the mall, I think trying to get back to work (my work is not in a mall). I was carrying on a conversation with a friend and said I needed to go to the bathroom. I went toward the bathroom and as soon as I entered, I realized it. In the middle were just rows of toilets, no stalls, and people occupying all of them. Some of them reading, some on their phones. Along the walls were stalls but all were out of order. Per usual for me, the bathroom wasn't dingy or gross, it was very well kept, well lit, very porcelain white and beige. I saw there was a waiting line, and turned around to leave, but then something...changed. I realized what I was seeing wasn't natural, so I went back in. As soon as I saw all the people just sitting on toilets like it was no big deal I said "This isn't real, this is a dream". No one reacted, but when I tried waking myself up, suddenly everyone in the mall seemed to know me and want to talk. It's like they were trying to keep me there. I honestly don't remember anything past that, other than waking up IRL and knowing I had been right.
Just wanted to share. I really appreciate that it's now becoming lucid. I've lucid dreamed a lot in the past, but never in my Mall World. I always have just wandered along and never became aware of the dream until I had already woken up.
I preordered the pack before it came out, and as it does, life happened, and I haven't been playing. The Bridgerton event came out, and I got an email, and I really wanted to jump back in for it! I did all the updates, repaired the game, all the things. Opened my save file and went to open R&L, and the world is greyed out and says the content isn't downloaded yet. I double checked, and it was listed as "owned" in my library. I uninstalled and reinstalled that pack, repaired all the files again, and it still won't load. I even started a new save just to check, and it also didn't work.
I wrote on the Sims 4 forum, where someone said to check in-game if it was activated. I checked just now and it is not, it lists as "deactivated". I have no idea what this means, or how to reactivate it. It's fully paid for, has been since I think the first day of pre-orders. How on earth do I fix this?
Edit 1: I just realized I never said - I do not use any mods or CC. Just the game and, shamefully, most of the packs.
So, this is something that has stuck with me. I was raised in a super conservative, dogmatically religious household. My mom didn't let me watch Sesame Street for her own reasons, but because it was the early 90s, everyone knew Sesame Street characters, so I still knew who they were.
I was about 3-4 years old, and had a nightmare about Big Bird. IRL, my parents had an old couch from the 70s that had separate cushions, that crazy floral print, and was comfortable, stylish but still old. In the dream, my cousin and I were sitting on a cushion each. We weren't pinned down or tied down or anything else, but we couldn't move. And we were TERRIFIED. I didn't know of what, but my mom and my uncle were sitting there not helping us, but also not really doing anything. Just kind of "NPC Mode" sitting there in the living room. Then my dad comes rushing down the stairs saying "he's coming, he's coming!" and sitting down next to my mom in the same setting. My cousin and I begin absolutely shrieking because we are so scared. And down comes the stairs...Big Bird? As a kid, i couldn't even see Big Bird without going into fight-or-flight, as an adult I still get a little panicky flutter when I see Big Bird. What could this mean, especially since I've remembered the entire dream over the years?
Hi all. I'm curious about leatherworking (my mom did it before I was born) but have never started myself. For now, though, I am looking for ideas and came here for assistance.
My husband and I are celebrating our 3 year anniversary this year, and the last two years have been incredibly straining and difficult. There were times I wasn't sure we were going to make it to three years. All is good now, and we are happier than ever. The theme for 3-year wedding anniversaries are leather gifts. Here is where I need input and some ideas.
Since it is leather-themed, and I believe leather is virtually unbreakable by strain or wear and tear, I'd definitely like to go with that theme. What I would really like to do is get a leather ring or something that both of us can use that symbolizes infinity (like a ring). But what I'm finding is that any "ring" leather items have a seam. I really want a single piece that isn't connected together, but just connected, if that makes sense. I can't seem to find any information anywhere, so I came here, as anyone here already has more knowledge than I do. Thank you in advance, and apologies if this is not where this post belongs.