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You might think that its just me making things up, or im being paranoia or some sort but hear me out and decide on your own accord.

Hi, can someone explain/interpret this dream for me, woke up sweating. had this dream multiple times some scenarios are different but the same "faceless smile" and the word "well done".

The Dream first was about my lil brother and I driving, He sat at the back seat passenger, we talk couple of second, and I feel really dreadful that he is not my brother, my instict was screaming at me, so I turned around and grab his throat and asked him "where is my brother and who are you", He then transformed to Adult man wearing pure white tuxedo (or some sort) and with a Faceless Smile (like my grabbing his throat as hard as i can seem have no effect). He Just utter a word "WELL DONE" and I woke up sweating andon flight or fight mode.

Couple of weeks later, Had a Dream in my apartment, this time its my mother who visit me and trying to woke me up in my bed, I open my eyes and she was standing next to the toilet door, but then I got the same GUT WRENCHING feeling again, and realise I`ve lock the door properly and did not recall my mother coming in, so I went downstair and saw the Lock and chain properly engage and tight, then went back upstairs in my bedroom, push her on my door with my elbow on her neck, and said "Who are you, how did you get in?" and She transformed with the same outfit as the first one and with a Faceless Smile with Unnerving feeling I have when I saw it, and said the word again "WELL DONE".

Did I saw the Devil in my dreams? and I`m scared that I did sign something and just forgotten, I tried to do good but as you know Sin is a hard thing to deal with.

should I ask my catholic Chancery about this?

Man that would be really awful. Basically your college would give you some artificial stamp to put on your résumé with a contact card and companies could reach them to verify you're subscribed.

Okay I know this is really cringey but for as long as I can remember, I’ve had these dreams where I see random moments in the future, I dont remember these dreams until the exact moment occurs. The timelines vary but I usually experience the moment irl months to years after, or atleast I think. And a few years ago, I had one of those dreams. Idk if it was a nightmare, but it stuck with me. basically it was late at night and I went to a nail salon with my grandmother and mother. There was a man and a woman and it seemed like they were breaking up. The man, enrage, pulls out a gun and starts shooting around and I get shot and the dream ends. im a big over thinker and this dream has really scared me. It was different from usual nightmares, I didn’t jolt awake or anything. I could just be overthinking and it’s likely that very few ppl will see this but atleast I was able to get it off my chest. Thank you.

it wasnt even a long one, I slept, saw the scoreline, and woke up

Last night was the second night in a row that I've dreamed of fire.

The other night, I had a dream that my husband, kids, and I were driving home. As we were pulling into the neighborhood, it seemed like every single house was on fire, even if it was a smaller fire like a garbage pail. AND IT WAS EVERY. SINGLE. HOUSE.

Then, last night as soon as I started dozing off, I saw flames. It woke me up, and I wasn't able to go back to bed for some time.

What could it mean?

I have very vivid dreams. Sometimes they’re so vivid I think about them for days or I still feel what I was feeling in my dream when I wake up, So having a dream this vivid isn’t unusual for me.

Last night I met the love of my life and he died. I can’t remember his face so I don’t think I’ve met this person before. I won’t add specifics but what I do remember is he lived next door and I fell in love. We were in a kind of fantasy world with dragons and whatnot and there were three guys in his house. Although all of them were handsome he stood out.

I can’t remember how he died but I remember feeling such vivid sorrow and emptiness. Mourning my soulmate.
I still feel sad and I crave his touch. I felt as if a part of me was gone. I don’t feel it so intensely now that I’m awake.
Then I was at a club watching my dream through a show crying and drinking.

dreams are weird but my emotions are so vivid and real.
I definitely think I should enter the dating space, maybe that’s why I had this dream. I’ll definitely be thinking about this dream for a while.

Thoughts?

so i work at subway and sometimes i have normal dreams about work where i'm cleaning the restaurant or making sandwiches or something

but in this dream i'm behind the sandwich bar and a guy came into the store, very clearly on drugs

he just asks for a foot long piece of white bread. i asked if he wanted anything on it and he said "nah, just cut that in half and toast it"

as im cutting it in half he says "actually can you put this on it?" and hands me a whole ass stick of butter. he's like "can you put that on my sandwich but microwave it just a little until the butter is softened but not melted". he wanted the entire stick on there.

i go to heat it up in the microwave and he instructed me to heat it up in 5 second increments to make sure the butter was softened just enough but not too melted for him. this goes on for a few minutes until he says it's good enough.

then when i hand it to him he looks so ecstatic to receive this horrible saturated fat riddled "sandwich". actually could you even call that a sandwich?... anyway. the end

I am czech illustrator and next year I am finishing my bachelor. For my final project I decided to explore something we all experience: dreams. I want to gather as many dreams from as many individuals as I can. I want to write and illustrate whole book on this theme, so if you want to support young artist you can share your dream with me (I know many of you already shared some dreams here, but I do not want to use it without a permission). Maybe there is a dream from your childhood you will never forget? Maybe you visit the same place in your dreams again and again. Do you experience lucid dreaming? Do current events influence your dreams? 

Anything goes, I will appreciate every answer! If you are interested in my work you can find me on instagram, my handle is anna_tvori

Thank you:)

I have seen MANY people talk about how their dreams look as if they were just seeing them with their normal life point of view and as clear and as normal feeling, but my dream just feel as if... Your just thinking if a past event. Do you know when you're trying to imagine something, you see it, but it's not really clear or as people say just as if you are looking at it with your eyes, that's how I see my dreams!

Do you guys feel like you have free will when you are dreaming?

Like as in, when you are dreaming, you feel like your actions and choices in your dreams are things that you would/did actually do or choose when in whatever dream situation you're in.

Im wondering because,

I've always felt like I've always had a good consistent amount of control of myself in my dreams. Even though I have never really had control of the dream environment itself nor really been lucid while dreaming, because when I become aware I am dreaming, I force myself to wake up.

When dreaming, it just feels like instead of thinking about things, I just do the first thing that comes to my mind immediately. Like scary thing= run/fight. So while my thought process isnt exactly like how it is IRL, I still feel like all of my dream actions are 'mine'.

But whenever I talk to someone about their dreams, they seem to describe it as if they were forced to do the things in their dreams. Like they have no control.

So i was wondering about that

For context, i’m 19 and I’m also Hindu so that will make sense later..

The dream was set in some place where I and my family were there for some wedding/celebration? Not sure what it was but it was a gathering and there were lots of relatives and family friends and what not.

A guy at that venue was supposedly interested in me and asked to sneak out so we could go hang out. However I kindly rejected him saying if we both left then my parents would know I snuck out.

Now supposedly my ex was also in town in the same area.. and for some reason we were planning on meeting? So I was busy talking to the people around me when I heard someone yelling out for me from outside. No one else could hear it but me but I knew it was my ex’s voice. He kept calling out really loudly to me.
So I went outside and found him sitting in a chair close by with his laptop open. I asked him to come inside to the event and get some food as I was concerned if he had eaten.

Now he says no and refuses sternly no matter how much I try to convince him to come inside and then he goes ‘Meet me at Paatal Lok at 2 pm’
(Note: Paatal Lok means underworld in Hindu symbolism) I found that weird and explained to him how I said no to another guy who asked me to go out so I wouldn’t be able to go out to meet him either.

Now he gets irritated at the mention of another guy and shuts down the laptop and goes ‘well yeah you’re married now so why would u come to see me’

Now that was weird because I don’t think I was married in the dream but I didn’t correct him and just pleaded him to come inside to eat and that no one would care or notice him but he just disappears?

Now I call out to him frantically but no use. So I text his friend asking him to convince him to come inside..

I go back to everyone else but I realize my dad had heard someone calling out to me and wonders where I had gone. He questions me why it took so long to get back and I just lie saying that I had gone to meet a friend and give them something..

It was such a weird and random dream? Why Paatal Lok specifically? Any interpretation to help understand?

I had a quite scary dream yesterday that I think is related to another dream I had a while ago. Last night, I had a dream I was in an ride share sitting in the backseat on the right side. It was night time and I was heading back home on lakeshore drive in Chicago where i currently live. Me and the driver saw bright headlights come towards us and then the car flipped over about four or five times. Me and the driver ended up dying in the dream. I then saw my mom find out and she was crying. I believe the dream also said my body was mangled up bad I had to get cremated.

The reason I think this death dream is related to something else is because a few days earlier, I had dreamed of this creature wearing a black cloak. I'm not sure if it was exactly, maybe it was a woman but it was this creature in a black cloak and it frightened me so bad i could barely go back to sleep that night.

I hope this isn't a premonition of some sort and won't mean I'll actually die in a car crash

This happened about a year ago, but it left me feeling very uneasy so I've decided to share it now

I'll preface this by saying I've had many nightmares, lucid dreams, I've reached deep meditative states and I've taken substances before - this does not compare to any of those experiences.

It happened while I was asleep, but it did not feel like a dream.

I was lucid, but I wasn't me, I wasn't anyone. I couldn't remember anything of this world, no semblance of reality or anything beyond what this space I existed in was. Which was weird, given how it felt like my mind was awake.

It was dark, but it was nothing. I wasn't scared, it felt peaceful like a warm hug and I was just sinking deeper down into it.

I had this pulling sensation towards the bottom and a feeling that it would be okay if I just let go. I felt there was another presence, who was asking if I was sure I wanted to. I realised at the last second I wasn't, and I thought to myself that I'm not ready to leave yet. Even though I couldn't remember who I was, where I was leaving, or literally anything.

Then I woke up, wide awake and pretty terrified wondering what the fuck just happened.

I genuinely felt like I would've died had I given in to the sensation. I think perhaps I had sleep apnea, or it's related to my ongoing cardiac issues (nothing serious, supposedly).

So yeah, I think I almost died in my sleep. Has anyone experienced anything similar?

I dreamt the other night that I was walking in the snow and I started to get hungry and there was a pizza hut up the street so i went inside and as I walked to the back to order, there was a black seat floating in the air in my way so i walked through it and when i did, I found myself in the chair and my legs had disappeared and i was no longer myself (a woman) but a man.

And the seat floated, like my mind could drive it but I had issues as I didn't understand how to make it go until I did and then it wasn't a thought to go here or there. It was like I had to access the man's knowledge and when I did I slowly forgot about who I was to begin with.

So I ordered a pizza and as I was eating, there was a group of people at a large table talking about a dog race that was coming up. Until that point I thought I was alone, but outside tied to a post was the biggest dog I'd ever seen. As tall as a horse and wider still, he looked like a muppet he was so big and he was a good boy! He was my companion. So I asked about the race

I was told to go to the home of the coordinator so my dog came with me to the home, I in my floating wheel-less wheelchair, and my giant fluffy dog. It was just a few minutes away and all the while I talked to the dog named Bijou and discussed the race and what fun it would be and it was like he could understand me.

I was allowed to compete but I needed a sled so a gentleman loaned me an antique that belonged to his father, I think it was oak, but im unsure. It was beautiful with snowflake carvings and dogs also. So it was me and Bijou against several teams of dogs. Their sleds were all newer models, sleek and black and covered in runes that weren't runes it was a language I could not read.

We won the race and as we were celebrated, I woke up back in my body, with legs, and a longing for a sweet huge fluffy dog and some pizza that wasn't exactly pizza.

I believe I swapped bodies with someone somewhere on another planet. Because when I woke up I felt like I was being pulled back into my body and there were roiling clouds in my vision as I woke. Like coming through a wormhole or portal or something. Anyways. Have a great day everyone!

I (23F) have been experiencing odd dreams since I was a child. I've been talking about them with my therapist lately and she thinks that I'm having nightmares, but I'm not so sure.

Yes, my dreams are really weird, and I'm fairly certain that if anyone else were having them, they would absolutely be nightmares. However, it just feels . . . normal to me? I dream, nightly, of various themes, including but not limited to: being chased, being hunted, having to hide or run, my animals dying/being hunted, falling, dying, possession, betrayal, the apocalypse (lots of those), and various dreams that remind me of horror video games (sometimes stealth missions where I am the only human alive on a spaceship full of monsters) or whatever. I don't really consume a lot of horror content (have hated it until VERY recently), so there is very little inspiring content I could have consumed.

Yes, sure, often while I am in the dreams, I do experience the emotions appropriate for the setting and situation, but it usually feels like a story. In fact, I can usually figure out that I'm dreaming. Not enough for me to do lucid dreaming, as I actively avoid that, but enough for me to acknowledge that it's a dream and would make for an interesting story, and then I sink right back in and watch it play out.

Sometimes I'm myself, sometimes I'm a character, sometimes I'm both. I know that while I am IN the dream I find it distressing, but it RARELY wakes me up.

Which is kind of the reason I don't think they are nightmares. It could be my autism rigid thinking in what I believe nightmares are based on classification, but I do not experience any of the waking symptoms.

I don't often wake up because of my distress (maybe once a week or so? More if I forgot to take my anxiety meds? But really not that much in the grand scheme of things when my brain is pumping out 3-9 dreams per night), I don't scream or kick or jerk around in my sleep, nor do I sleepwalk or anything like that (have roommates to confirm). On rare occasions, I'll wake up anxious, but if I play my cards right I can get that under control in a matter of hours, and I don't often link it to my dreams but something I was already upset about before sleep.

Yes, I have insomnia, but I'm 90% sure it is related to other health issues as I have also recently been sleeping a ton during the day (thinking thyroid, but not the point), and I also suspect that whatever health problem that is is the reason I've never felt rested after sleep.

I have been experiencing this as far back as I can remember, but to give a number, maybe 5 or so? 6? And, yes, I have childhood trauma. However, my dreams have never felt that bad to me, and since I don't have a lot of the waking symptoms I never classified them as real nightmares, and eventually I stopped classifying them as bad dreams, too. They've just become normal. My therapist thinks that my brain just stopped having a strong reaction over time cause of fatigue from experiencing it every night.

[Edit: I do remember most if not all of my dreams, with details lingering for hours or even days, or longer. I still remember some dreams I've had from years in the past, if that's helpful at all]

All this to ask: has anyone experienced this before, are they nightmares and I'm just dumb, and is this something worth trying to pursue medical help or a diagnosis of some kind over?

Sometimes I find myself returning to a place that doesn't exist, yet it feels more familiar than anywhere I have ever been or anyone I have ever met.

I imagine myself completely enclosed within a huge, womb like sac, filled with a warm orange-red fluid. It is neither too hot or too cold, just perfectly comforting for me. I am completely naked, not out of vulnerability, but because there is nothing to hide or defend, or to worry about. My physical body is completely healthy, my hair and nails fully grown out, and I have curled myself up like a child, my eyes closed and simply me floating in absolute stillness and tranquil.

Around this cocoon of mine is a towering maternal figure. Her skin is pale, almost white. She has long whitish brown hair flowing endlessly around her. She wraps both of her arms around the womb, holding it close to herself, as if protecting the most precious piece of this universe. She never speaks. Her embrace alone is enough.

I don't long to be a baby again, I simply want to disappear to a place where I am protected from everything, I don't have to worry about anyone or anything at all, and at least one loving person never has any expectations from me. I wish for the unconditional warmth and safety.

There is another place in mind which I often visit.

I find myself submerged within an endless deep red ocean. At first the watch is bright, rich red, just like blood. But as I descend, it slowly deepens into much darker shades of maroon until it keeps fading to darkness.

I never struggle against it, I never try swimming and saving myself. I let it happen, I let myself sink more and more. The distant surface of the ocean keeps getting farther away.

If I tried to scream, no sound would accompany me. It's totally silent, no screams, no sounds, and no voices. Yet it's not terrifying, it's rather peaceful. It's a kind of silence that never asks me for anything and never has a demand.

High above the waters, an enormous whale glides over the ocean effortlessly. It is unimaginably huge compared to me. It notices me, but never threatens me or rescues me. It's existence fills me wish a overwhelming sense of nothingness and absoluteness.

Against something so ancient and intense, I turn to nothingness.

Weirdly comforting.

There's this girl that I went to school with years ago and to this day i dream about her. It's been over a decade and I just can't get her off my mind no matter what I do. During the day, I'm able to distract myself but whenever I sleep, she's the only thing I dream about consistently

She's really successful and doing well in life and I'm not. I suspect that has something to do with it. But I also feel like we're really similar in what we want to do in life. I'm in the same field as her but less successful. I occasionally look her up on Instagram to see how much better she's doing than me (unhealthy and toxic, I know) and I'm constantly comparing myself to her.

I want to stop all of it, the dreaming, the comparison, the social media stalking, but I don't know how. I'm so tired of her occupying my mind all the time. Even when I don't look her up on Instagram, I still have dreams of how much better her life is than mine. Is there a deeper meaning to any of this or is this just my brain's way of experiencing jealousy? Has this happened to anyone else here? How did you stop?