This Troper once had a dream where... '''My mom was pregnant'''. The dream started normally with my parents and aunt picking me up from the local arcade/family fun center so we could to the Victoria's Secret at the nearby mall to shop for underwear. Then, the scene changes from a Friday or Saturday afternoon to a Saturday or Sunday morning in Bishop, California, and we're driving through town, when my mom's water breaks and we had to get to a hospital, which looked strangely like the hospital in my hometown. Anyway, as my mom is giving birth and stuff, my aunt decides to go off and watch it while my dad and I wait in the waiting room. Since we were going to wait for hours, I pull out my laptop and begin playing a {{Pokemon}} emulator on my computer. Shortly after I began playing Pokémon, I woke up. When I told my mom the dream, she was quite shocked, as she doesn't want another child.

I once had a dream where Everyone was told that a nuke was going to go off very soon, so my family and I all got in the car and drove to the hall at my school where there were a bunch of other people waiting aswell. When the nukes were supposedly about to hit I decided to stay inside, because I didn't believe it would happen, while everyone else went outside to watch the nuke hit. There were about five other people inside, one of them decided to write some sort of apology letter when all of a sudden there was a big rush of dust and light and everything went dark. I assumed I had died, when it turned out that what had happened was the shock of the dream had woken me, and I just hadn't opened my eyes. I had about ten good seconds of thinking I was dead before I realised I could open my eyes and see my bedroom. It was a little bitt unnerving to say the least.

One day, my school was considering having a snow day, but they weren't too sure and informed us that they'd let us know later at night. While waiting for this, I fell asleep and had a dream where the principal announced that there was no snow day. The dream continued on with me going to spanish class, history class, psychical education, and English before I woke up. I was extremely confused, seeing as nothing strange happened at all. It took me a while to sort out what had just happened before I realized the whole thing was just a dream.

I had a dream about doing IT with a RealLiveWoman only to wake up with the sheets all sticky. What does this mean?! Plz help.

My friend, it simply means that you're a normal, healthy young man. You experienced what is clinically called "nocturnal emission." Go online and look it up, lest you run the risk of getting wrong information from questionable sources.

No! Do not listen to their lies my friend. It is your soul trying to escape from your body. The only way to reclaim it is to ingest it! Do so now, lest you become a shadow of what you once were!

I constantly have dreams that I'm late for class, or that I failed a test, or I got a report card back with all failing classes... then after quite a bit of panicking, I remember that I've already graduated. I also have a strange reoccurring dream every three years or so-- I'm walking, then lift my legs up under me, hold my ankles, and hover down the same direction I'd been walking. I always completely forget about these dreams until I have them again. No idea what they mean, not sure I want to know.

I have a bit of a problem with dreaming. Often times, even when I just wake up, I thought that I "didn't dream". Then I go about my day and occasionally reference an event or action to someone as if it really happen, only to find out that I dreamed it. This got particularly awkward when this troper started puberty...

Same for this troper. One particulary weird example was when she dreamt about failing her maths exam, thought it was real, told it to her mother and got house arrest, only to find out that it was a dream when she got the real test back with an A. There was also a time when she dreamt that she reads the next chapter of One Piece and Ace gets back to life, and well... gets disappointed.

When I sleep, I feel that my eyes are still open and I'm just watching my room. Eventually I "lose focus" and wake up in the morning (I assume I'm slipping into REM sleep). Am I really going to school? I've recently expressed a wish to go to sleep forever but, I hope this isn't it.

I once had a dream that I was in the park. We were all enjoying sandwiches and our time together. Thats when TheDeadliestMushroom appeared on the other side of the city. Thus began my dream of surviving the nuclear holocaust. We took shelter in the basement of a nearby building, and waited there. After about a week, we ran out of food and had to leave the shelter in the basement. We came out to find the whole city in ruins. The grass in the park burned down, and the lake near the park became a swamp. Trying to get water and fish, a crazy raiding party came up, stabbed both my parents, and threw them in the lake to drown. They grabbed me too, stabbed me, and threw me in as well. Moment I would have hit the water, my body suddenly jerks in bed and I wake up. I was traumatized for weeks.

I once had a dream that took place in either the north or south pole. (Have you seen that short with the whales swimming at night and the kid whale gets separated from their mom in Fantasia? That was pretty much the setting) for some reason, me and a group of faceless people were jumping into these holes in the ice that were kinda like tube water slides. I remember that the water was pleasantly cool and I was looking at my face (Still in the tube current, but now I'm laying on my back in the water and my face is partially out of the water, like I surfaced or something) and I was smiling slightly with my eyes closed and feeling completely peaceful and at one with myself. The next face I see is Captain Jack Sparrow from POTC, for some reason (Same expression as me). I reach the end of the current, get onto the ice, look at the northern lights for a bit and the whales that are there, and then help some of the others get onto the ice as well. I wake up, and the feeling of complete peace and oneness stays for a second or two, and then disappears. I end up crying because of how nice it felt, and because of how sad I was that the feeling was gone.

One night, I had an incredibly epic, totally awesome dream which would have made a great movie probably. It was definately long enough, and it had character development and everything. Unfortunately, he has completely forgotten everything except for the beginning, the conclusion, and a random image from the middle involving a shadow dragon thing coiled around a tower.

Zombie invasion dreams. I've had two, and the first was HORRIBLY disturbing. It started out as a kinda ''{{Left 4 Dead}}'' thing, where I and another group of people were being lead to be executed by firing squad. Sometime later all hell breaks loose and it's basically JESUS CHRIST ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE. Anyway, I go hide in a house and watch as a mob of zombies tear a guy apart, I must have become lucid at that point because the death looked B-movie-ish. And then I woke up.

I once had a very strong fear of zombies (started when he read the Zombie Survival Guide) which once manifested itself in a truely horrifying nightmare. There was a full Zombie Apocalypse, his dad was killed, there was a giant hole in his house where the zombies could get through, and it ended with commiting suicide through overdose. It was terrible.

Are you both secretly me?

@/AnthonyMercer was doing his chemistry homework. I remembered back to my chemistry lesson that day, when our teacher had explained that the test for hydrogen gas was to put the test tube in your mouth... it wasn't until then that I realised I must have fallen asleep during the chemistry lesson...

I would hope so.

I had many such dreams, two of which are awesome. The first was a sort of MortalKombat sort of thing, but instead of the regular characters, we had characters from the DC Universe, ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, the Warner siblings from {{Animaniacs}}, the bots from MysteryScienceTheater3000, {{Peanuts}}, CalvinandHobbes, and a few characters that I made up myself. They had less gory fatalities, because I'm a tad sqeamish, but just as awesome. For example, Wakko hammered his opponent into the ground with his mallet, Linkara did his "I AM A MAN!" punch, TheNostalgiaChick pulled a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, and many more awesome stuff. I woke up wanting a video game of it.

The second one I can barely remember. It involved a catfight between Fifi La Fume and Minerva Mink. Yakko and Wakko and I watched. I woke up panting because it was hot, and mildly freaked out because 1: I am not a furry, and 2: it involved darn weird BDSM elements that I was totally freaked out was. The hot outweighed the freaky however.

@/DarkInsanity13 has had times when, after being woken up by her mother or father, has gotten up and sat down at the breakfast table with everyone sitting down and waiting for breakfast...only to be confused when her mother suddenly shouts at her that her breakfast is ready, and realize that she had fallen asleep after being asked what she wanted for breakfast. Her brother, on the other hand, has gone through entire ''days'' with experiences like these.

That's nothing! I have gone through an entire ''year'' in one night! He still has no idea how that happened.

What's J.R. really like?

I'll beat ALL of you- I once dreamt that I did my homework. Then I woke up and realized that I had to do it all over again.

@/{{Joysweeper}} has had ''so'' many of these... In the latest one, she had a venomous and extremely cranky snake which was kept in a box that she had to carry with her all the time, lest it escape. She remembers repeatedly wishing she didn't have the snake, and trying to sell it or give it away to people she knows in real life, and everyone refused. When she woke up, there was definitely a moment of "OhCrap, where's the box?!"

I once had the same thing. In the dream, my rat was on my shoulder at 6 Flags, but kept jumping off to attack penguins. When I woke up, I worried that either she wasn't on my shoulder, or I had rolled over her in the night. She was in her cage, like normal.

I recalls hearing from somewhere that you can't actually feel physical sensation in dreams, only hear or see. This made it all the more vivid when I dreamed that I was seated next to one of my good friends (who I happened to have a crush on), with one arm around her shoulders. We leaned our heads in , resting our cheeks on one another's, and the corners of our mouths touched. There was a momentary pause, then we turned and kissed. I could feel all of it - the dream was so vivid, it all could have been happening. Then I woke up, still feeling the warm softness of her cheek on mine.

Sounds like a fanfiction I read once.

I had that once too... only I woke up feeling empty and lonely.

Same with @/{{evilpenguin556}}, except its rarely a friend of his. It's usually just a faceless mystery girl, but one he feels like he's known all his life... It's kind of embarrassing, really.

Seriously, are you guys me? I considers waking up from these a particularly nasty DownerEnding.

@/MmmKay has hugged Scott Tracy at least twice.

I had been staying up late all term, playing around online, and then falling asleep during her first period English class in grade nine. So she wasn't surprised to suddenly wake up and find herself in her seat, in class. What ''was'' startling was waking up again...still in her pajamas, still in bed. The OhCrap moment came when she realized that no, she hadn't woken up 'just in time' for school. (No, there were no lessons learned about staying up too late.)

What the...?

I have suffered from this one a lot recently. Out of the dreams I remember each week, most of them involve me hooking up with her again. I spend the rest of the dream being happy...until morning comes and reality reminds she's still gone.

I have woken up when sleeping with other people, and said random phrases that could have been lifted from Pinky of PinkyAndTheBrain. Such jewels include "Who am I, where am I, and why am I covered in feathers?" Only God knows what I was thinking or dreaming.

Just so long as it didn't include the phrase No, Ken, don't do that to Barbie...it's so very, very wrong.."

You didn't by any chance eat a popsicle before bed, did you?

I have very ''vivid'' dreams, and nightmares, for that matter. On the good side, I once did dream that my beloved, departed father returned to encourage me. On the bad side, I once dreamed that I had my fingers bitten off by vicious Dobermans (seriously, I believe I could feel it)--and woke up with my hand brushing a stuffed animal. Screaming ensued.

@/SpectrumFizz has very similar dreams, equally as vivid, regarding her late father and rather nasty black dogs trying to maul her. However, the latter is probably due to an unfortunate encounter with a huge black dog in her younger years. The adults present at the time said that it was only being friendly. Her mother and herself knew otherwise and she still haven't overcome her fear of dogs. But, I am going off-topic... She once had a very unique dream involving a realistic-feeling brick wall, a huge glass jar of maple syrup, a dressing gown and the Tasmanian Devil. The next morning, she wakes up feeling like a {{CloudCuckooLander}}.

I can't really brush nightmares off with, "It was only a dream", as ussually when I wake up, it's still night.

Worst dream ever: the subject of my unrequited love finally subverts that trope and falls in love with me. Imagine my grief when I realize that this was, in fact, only just a dream.

I had the same experience. In fact, when I woke up, I tried to go back to sleep in hopes that I wouldn't have to face it not being real.

Similar dream here, but the fact that she did subvert the trope tipped me off that I was dreaming. Not sure what that says about my self-esteem...

A variant: due to mess-ups on my part, I haven't talked to the former holder of the above title (and former good friend) for over a year. I woke up one morning and was going about my normal routine, feeling pleased and content that we'd made up, for about ten minues- you guys can see where this is going, yes?

I had one where this girl I had a crush on came to my bedroom door with only weird clouds covering her naughty bits and we began walking around our school (which somehow ended up outside my room). We then began walking up a mountain trail with cherry blossom petals on it. Suddenly I fell off the side and was hanging on to the edge trying to pull myself up. I told her to go on ahead and I'd catch up as she set off again (then a old couple walked past). When I finally got to the top (thanks to the magic of fast forwarding) I started to look for her, but couldn't find her. As I looked my mom began dragging me away telling me to get up. I finally woke up and began trying in vain to get back to the dream. To make it weirder, the girl moved away not long after that.

I have woken up, eaten breakfast, brushed her teeth, gotten dressed, and made her way out the door when she was again woken up by her sister and realized it was simply a dream and that she had to do it all over again. These types of dreams were increasingly frequent during her first year of high school.

As a more depressing variant, I once had a dream where her best friend had died. In the dream, her mother told her the news nonchalantly and continued about her business while I broke down sobbing. When she woke, she had tears in her eyes and quite possibly the worst sadness she had ever felt in her life. When she got to school that day, she hugged her friend quite a lot.

@/MinusZero will, many times on Thursday/Friday nights have dreams where a perfectly normal day pass in the dream, I go to sleep in my dream, have another dream (normally odd), and wake up in real life, thinking it's Saturday. Only to realize I almost missed all of my classes. Sometimes, however, that dream will go on in waaaaaay to many cycles, and I wake up in a WhatYearIsThis moment.

@/RatOfSteel has had a periodically recurring dream wherein he's in high school (at his proper high-school age, not all grown up as he is now), and taking time during the lunch hour to play ''Magic: the Gathering'' with his friends. He found the anachronistic nature of it rather odd, being that he graduated from high school in 1990, three years before Wizards of the Coast would set the gaming world on fire by releasing the first edition of the now-iconic card game. In fact, after the first two or three times this dream happened, said oddness tipped him off during the card games that he was dreaming. (Unfortunately, such knowledge didn't enable him to gain the insanely good luck possessed by the main characters of {{Yu-Gi-Oh}}.)

I have a bad habit of dreaming that he finds large amounts of money slowly but surely. He always checks his pockets when he wakes up. Sadly, they're always empty.

With this sad economy, that may turn out to be a recurring dream for a lot of tropers....

Same with I, but it's lego pieces in the boxes. He doesn't bother checking, but damn they are good pieces.

I even dreamed of being in a toy store with around twenty sets I hope to exist with incredible realistic and detailed boxart. I should really get a life...

I was going on a trip once but had just lost his headphones. He dreamt that he had left them in his trouser pockets. The dream even looked like it was my subconcious telling him where they where - It was carefully pointed out etc etc. In the morning he jumped up, opened his suitcase, pulled out all the neatly folded clothing into a pile and found that the pockets where empty. He then had to repack what had taken an hour in ten minutes before breakfast.

@/{{Brontozaurus}} has recurring dreams of acquiring something he really wants, only to wake up and realize that it was AllJustADream. He's even realised this in the middle of a dream.

I have many, many levitating dreams. Each has the realization 'Man, this time it is for real and all those other times were just a dream'. Never is the realization that maybe this time it is a dream as well. Also are the dreams where I find good books and try to buy them then awaken...

I never seems to realize that six months have passed with no memory of the time until he has been awake for at least ten minutes.

@/{{JET73L}} has had times where he wakes up, and it's the previous morning. At least a couple of times, a week and a half was lost after waking up.The odd thing is, occasionally, unlikely things happen after waking that had already happened in the dream. For the Played For Drama version of the trope, he's occasionally been sick after realizing people he knew, even loved in dreams were now as good as dead and could only be brought back if my (highly disagreeable) subconscious allowed it.

I have seen turtles talk, the sun colliding with the moon, aliens eating her dogs, and her best friends stabbing each other to death all in the same dream.

I occasionally have dreams where she's a fictional character. As often as not, one of the opposite gender. You think it's bad looking for money you get in your dreams, or boxes with snakes in them... try a moment of panic where you're frantically wondering why you feel like you're missing something... Sweet mother of Freud.

I have had many vivid dreams since childhood. He can still remember one dream when he was 6. He dreamt that after sucking his thumb, he ''bit'' it in half and then multiple strands of live hairs came out. Inverted in another, where he dreamt he used the toilet... and in fact pissed in his bed. His most fondest dream however, was one he had during the summer of 2008. He dreamt he was an unwilling civilian in the middle of the war who was mistaken to be a soldier. Fireballs and modern weapons littered the place, and he could feel every bit of the action. Getting to the point, I got shot by a sniper rifle in the chest, felt the pain, and woke up in the dream. Then he woke up in real life. And could feel the pain in the chest for half an hour later.

Please tell me you made a novel out of the last one...

I remembers a similar experience she had within the past few months. She can't remember what exactly happened in the dream up until a certain point, where she finds herself in a local mall parking lot at night, and this guy (apparently a nemesis of hers, or something) comes out from behind a car and shoots her in the shoulder. While the dream continued for a while longer (where she goes into some semi-conscious state and it feels like she's been shot in the chest instead), she woke up to the same feeling and it still comes back when she thinks about it.

Mine friend once told her that she doesn't have dreams, only nightmares, and once she had a nightmare that her inner self was strangling her. She woke up to find she was actually strangling herself in her sleep and she had a massive ring of bruises.

This troper finished his first playthough of ''Condemned: Criminal Origins'' right after the mall chapter. He later had a nightmare that he only remembers as flashes of those mannequins from the chapter, accompanied by plenty of screeching on string instruments. He maintains a fear of mannequins to this day.

I actually frequently subverts this trope. Sometimes, what she dreams about will happen, word for word, the very next day. In one dream she was taking notes in art class from a transparency. The next morning, she was taking those exact same notes. And the transparency was copied ''that day''.

Am I your OppositeSexClone or something?

No I am

This lurker came here after finding nothing relevant under either Dreaming of Things to Come or Dreaming the Truth. It seems we are not the only ones with such creepy experiences. (But mine have never come true less than a week later. Sometimes years. Which is scary, since I have had one nightmare so bad I cannot speak of it further.)

Similiar situation from above here. Our class planned a boring and stupid trip. It was two weeks long and I got in the same room as several retards from my class. I planned on playing sick, that I wouldn´t have to come with them, but some random dream I had sowed me a nice scene where we all hang out. The trip went as I originally thought and the dreamed scene took place but only lasted for a few minutes. It was like the Jarheads trailer with grenades and explosions turning out to be fireworks. Stupid self tricked me.

@/{{NightmareBear}} sometimes has multiple dreams about worlds in some of her dreams. Some of these are totally awesome (such as when she dreams about hanging out in a secret base with every single one of her invented characters and saving the world multiple times, as well as being invited to a teaparty with the Forsaken, as well as some Trollocs and Myrddraals from the Wheel of Time series, and she's always extremely disappointed when she wakes up to find that it was AllJustADream). Many of them are not. One example is when she had a dream that she was being forced to play a hellish, creepily designed game with terrible controls and enemies that come back to life within 20 seconds of their gruesome deaths. The catch? Every time she died in the game, one person she loved and cared about would be eaten alive by piranha, squished by a giant flyswatter or suffocated by piles of wriggling, demonic rubber ducks, among other things. Believe me, they are all far worse than they sound. Eventually, she managed to think of herself and her remaining loved ones far away from danger, and so it happened. This was not enough, though. She went and recruited every single person capable of kicking butt from every single game, movie, book and TV show that she knew of, among other things, to go back and dish out some payback on the jerk who had done all this, apparently countless times. A titanic battle ensues, with I and her army kicking some major nose. The following day, she hugged every single person she knew that she came into contact with. Her mother was very confused when later the troper couldn't stop crying after being asked to squish a spider.

I once had a dream in which her unrequited love liked her back, and they were dating, then they went to a dance, then they broke up, all within this one dream. The next day, she went into school, then nearly started crying when she saw him because she thought the dream had bee real. Very creepy, because he was spot on in character in that dream.

I just recently had a dream involving unlocking an extra 5 characters in Super Smash Bros Brawl, including some of his favorites that didn't quite make it, only to realize that it was all just a dream the next morning. Que the Big No.

I repeatedly dreamed of being elected school captain during the holidays before the actual announcement. In RealLife, he lost.

@/{{RobMandeville}} has sleep apnea, and hadn't remembered any dreams in months. When he finally got treated (by sleeping with a Darth Vader mask, clinically known as a CPAP), the first few weeks he had dreams that were so realistic that he actually had to check his memories with his family.

I experienced an extremely realistic dream that involved fleeing a carnival, watching the aliens invade, observing the universe ending in the sky over her house while having tea with Reala, then finally wandering through an empty but rather mundane house with friends, before concocting an escape plan by charming a fairy in the garden and attempting to escape through a replica of her patio. The attempt failed at 2:15 on the clock, the troper met Morpheus, and became some sort of unwilling run-of-the-mill subordinate. And also male. To this day, the time 2:15 is still slightly unnerving.

I occasionally subverts the trope. Once, he was screaming so loud in his dream he stopped breathing suddenly enough to hurt his chest, and was glad to have woken up- then he realized that he had screamed so loud in his sleep that he hurt his chest badly enough to stop breathing.

I recall one hot midnight dream (temperature, not sexiness), where some fellows from "Fear Factor" came to our house and said that they would give our family a million dollars if the children (us) would be dipped to the neck in sardines for five minutes. And pulped, shredded, oily sardines mixed with rancid tomato sauce, too. First, my older brother went. Nothing happened. Then my younger brother. Nothing happened. I went in. I then quickly got out. The moment I got out, I FELT leeches coming out of sores in my skin, and I just nonchalantly pulled them out while saying; "I need a shower." I screamed, and jumped out of bed. And it was in the AFTERNOON.

I occasionally has extremely vivid dreams, but one in particular sticks out in her mind. The dream was her day-to-day life, except that she had injured her hand severely some time ago and was held back by the injury, although she kept pushing forward. When she woke up, her hand felt kind of limp, and she didn't realize that it was a dream until she asked her mom about it and was told that it hadn't happened.

I rudely awoke fully believing he'd missed the entire last half of the semester, panicked and dreading what could be done about it before realizing ''I wasn't even enrolled in classes!''

I had an epic dream in which he was a HeroicMime in some sort of action film or video game. Despite having no voice, he had no need to scream; in fact, he thought of the idea of being a silent protagonist to be BadAss. Then he woke up. :(

I had a dream that the word "punk" was a Shakespearean word that originally meant "slut". I told many punk people that the word originally meant "slut" until she realized that it was a dream.

That's awesome. I hereby declare it to be true.

In Real Life the word "punk" was a Shakespearean word for a prostitute. I know that Shakespeare used it at least twice, in ''Measure for Measure'', and in ''Merry Wives of Windsor.''

I once had a dream, extremely vivid and feeling extremely real, in which the first scene was her and the person she currently had a crush on hanging out, apparently dating, and joking around about how she was too young to marry. Unfortunately, It Got Worse, when moments later a prophecy was revealed in which she had to marry her sister's fiance or the world would explode. In tiny pieces. On the way to the chapel, they passed the crush from the first scene (also the fiance's best friend OHLORD), who just smiled sadly and said "Well, you grew up fast." She woke up sobbing, and wasn't able to talk about it without tearing up for a couple of weeks.

I had a dream involving a damsel in distress, an old ninja-woman, and Makuta from the Bionicle series. Suffice to say, it was weird, but he got to make out with the damsel in distress, so it's all good. His brother has freakier dreams than him, though - he's dreamt about exploring a tropical island with an elf and a bug-collecting pirate, going to a dinosaur safari park, and a bizarre mix of Winnie The Pooh, Monty Python and WORLD WAR ONE. Make sense of that if you can.

Didn't happen to this troper, but to someone she used to know. This person, a girl, dreamt that her best friend was sleeping over, only for the two of them to wake up in the middle of the night because the air was so stifling in her room. They opened the door but it was still too stuffy, so they opened the window, but it was STILL too stuffy, so they went out on a meadow next to her house, but it got even stuffier in the air. She felt that she couldn't breath and passed out in the dream, only for her to wake up to find that she was face-down to the pillow and was being suffocated.

I once dreamed that she was a member of the Straw Hat crew from One Piece, and they ended up at a Spring-ish island that was a Marine base. The island was kind of made up by ponds and lakes with water slides all over the place. I was apparently a Devil Fruit user (she could duplicate herself), and accidentally got away from the crew, was captured by marines, got away from them, fell into one of the lakes, was saved by Nami on her waver and watched Luffy kick some ass. Needless to say, I was very disappointed but happy when she woke up.

I once dreamed that she watched a giant spider crawl towards her arm, being this close to her hand. Then her mom wakes her up by tickling her arm. Cue horrified screams and wild trashing.

I have had several vivid dreams over her lifetime. A few that stick out include: dreaming of the ability to fly Mew-style (as in the Pokemon), having a tongue piercing that still felt real the next morning, and several dreams of going through a normal closing-the-store sequence at work.

I cursed herself for dreaming about Neutral Milk Hotel's next album. ''Sigh''. On the other side, she dreamed of TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'', cursed herself again for its not being true (this was before it was announced), and then checked his Next 8 Nostalgia Critics...

@/{{Alice2}} dreamed that CampLazlo was UnCancelled. She was puzzling over whether that was a good idea or not, when a commercial for the new season came on. The whole "summer camp" theme was getting old, so the new season was set in Autumn. CampLazlo...in School! Everyone shared classes in an American school, even though Lazlo's from Brazil and Raj is from India. There was no mention of the camp setting, so Lumpus and Slinkman were completely dropped. Edward and Lazlo were in the same grade. Pothole was the principal. The show's title no longer made sense! The horror! THE HORROR!! ...Then I woke up. See TroperTales: TroperTales/CatapultNightmare.

I finally won the Academy Award for Best Director for his well-paced, well-acted science-fiction film that finally got the Academy and critics to respect science-fiction and take it out the SciFiGhetto. Looking resplendent in his Boss tux, he got up to stage and shook hands with StevenSpielberg himself and even got a kiss from Charlize Theron before commencing with his acceptance speech. He'd thanked GOD and his mother, his cast, and was about to thank the studio when he........tragically woke up to realize that the preceding was simply his hopes and dreams. Emphasis on 'dreams'. He literally almost wept, but alas, he had to go to work pushing pencils and filing papers.

I have a lot of vivid dreams, ranging from "batshit insane" to "believable". He's partied with Michael Jackson, saved the world while riding on the head of a gigantic dragon carved out of solid ice, fought a never-ending battle against a horde of cosplaying ninja zombie koalas, Shoryuken'd a fat guy for swiping the last potato chip, killed Death and usurped his power and tried to outsmart the eagle-headed version of Two-Face in a long series of false awakenings.

Sir or Madam, I want to read anything you write.

...Do you happen to be related to Dr. McNinja?

I've had a dream before where I was in a Kingdom Hearts setting. I had been playing with Sora, Rikku, Tidus and Wakka at this beach-type town where there was to be a festival thing the day after the dream. Unfortunately, I was playing with them and I knocked Rikku back into a sword stand and decapitated him. Yeah... that was unpleasant. I thought it was real, even after I woke up.

You're not the only one insistent on the crazy dreams being real. I still wish I had gotten sucked into that awesome alternate book six/seven Harry Potter verse with Arabian Ninjas commanded by Mozenrath. And that the cast of Heroes was with me. Or at least that I worked at Barnes and Noble.

I was woken up this morning (March 19th, 2009) when he had a dream where his(my?) mother was screaming "* Name* , WAKE UP!" so naturally I got up, got dressed and walked out into the hallway, and realized everyone was asleep...

I have had vivid dreams where he became the evil tyrant of the world, was assassinated, and spent most of the dream bleeding to death in a really comfortable bed. The first thing I thought when waking up and realizing it was a dream, was how disappointingly uncomfortable his own bed was, and annoyance that now he wouldn't find out what happened after dying in the dream.

I had a dream where her house burnt down with her inside it and died, as a ghost she watched her parents and family cry about her dying outside her burntdown house, then she woke up. Another involved her mother and her walking home from a park scavenger hunt, and down in a parking lot type area was a huge stage with speakers and stuff and an audience, and on stage was MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, her mother started screaming her head off about them, the troper waved at Gerard, he gave her a symphathy wave back, then they went to the concert and then snuck backstage, just as the band was getting backstage, all her past and persent classmates rushed into the small room and sang Happy Birthday to her, she tried to find the MCR guys, but the room so crowded that she was basicaly stuck, she woke up and said "That was weird."

@/{{Cherry}} once had a dream she was Shizu from ''RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'', and it was, ah...the first night on the job, so to speak. It was quite vivid, and not at all cliched. The guy seemed genuinely concerned about the fact that this was her/my first time, and that he was a complete stranger ("Hey, if I was your boyfriend, and I was picking you up or somethin', how'd you want me to do it?"). Then things started getting a little odd, as, for one, it didn't hurt, and since both Shizu and I were expecting it to (we were the same but separate somehow. Dreams get that way), it probably should have. Second, the guy's penis ''felt'' much smaller than it ''looked'' (and generally, the sense of touch tends to exaggerate things without sight to help it), and it was ''cold''. I woke up just as Shizu/I was asking, "Um, shouldn't you be using a condom?" The guy replied, "Oh, yeah." I remember thinking but not thinking (Shizu was thinking?), "As if he ''really'' forgot..." I woke up feeling ''very'' weirded-out. (And, in accordance with the trope, "Why am I American?" Weird how of all questions ''that'' was the one that popped into my head...) Prolly how Shizu felt after the event in question, too... I think I might be trying ''too'' hard to understand some of these characters... *sweatdrop*

Like some others above, I have had the experience of thinking he's getting up, only to find that this getting up was all just a dream. And he has a theory that it's a trick his brain was playing on him in order to get a few extra minutes of sleep. Think of it: The part of the brain that wants to wake up is being fooled, and the part of the brain that wants to sleep is getting what it wants. Why shouldn't this be a deliberate deception on the sleeping brain's part? It's a great trick, a real XanatosGambit.

Alright we've all done this. Walking along, just a normal day. *trips* Wakes up in bed at 3 in the morning. GOD DAMMIT!!

This troper has had ones of these so vivid and with a long enough time before waking that she is still figuring out which is which. She has been wrong ''both'' ways.

Want to talk about this, too freaky for friends. The first 80% of one of my dreams involved me ducking around a school, appearently trying not to be caught by teachers (though they did nothing if they saw me). The school was an odd amalgam of my high school's design and my elementary school's floorplan. Anyway...Classes let out and I'm surrounded by various people from my high school. Some boy demonstrates putting a clear bag over his head for some reason, to show off, I suppose, and various people copy him. It's only when we are approaching the lunchroom does one girl who left the bag on too long gasps into the plastic twice and falls backwards. This is a girl from my junior high that I remember, but couldn't tell you the name of; we were barely acquaintance. I rush down to her, take the bag off, she's suddenly topless (I have an odd fetish for this kind of thing, but was not turned on in the least) try to check her breathing/pulse, can't feel much (dream, after all), put my mouth to hers to try rescue breathing. She vomits into my mouth a little bit, I taste it(! In a dream!), and continue rescue breathing until I realize it's hopeless and give up. I pound the ground in anger and frustration (And feel it a little bit!) and only manage to convince myself it's a dream when I can't remember waking up that morning. It's the only dream that has ever unsettled me, to the point where I looked up the correct method for artificial respiration the next day.

I have very vivid dreams every night, and one involved a crush (who lived 200 miles away at the time) come up to her at her school cafeteria and criticize her for her somewhat slutty dancing at a recent school dance. She was so shocked that he was there, she couldn't help but to be nice to him anyway. She was extremely disappointed when he wasn't in school that day.

I sometimes has very realistic dreams... until they take a turn for the weird. What's worse is when I realize it's all a dream and ''can't wake up.'' I eventually do, usually during something important.

I will occasionally have dreams that he's still in school and has an assignment due that day but hasn't done it. When he wakes up, it will take a few seconds for him to realize that there was no assignment and he's been out of school for the past few years.

Mine had two notable ones: one in which some rather fun times happened with someone I'd liked for a while. We ended up going back up to her room, and just as we got there, I woke up (in said room) and realized it was AllJustADream. Sad times. The other was the one in which I started something from work that requires someone to be with it whenever it's running, then walked away to go grab some lunch. I realized what I'd done and sprinted back, found my boss staring at the controls, and had to explain what happened. When I went into work the next day, I kept expecting someone to reference my big mistake.

Griffin once had a dream that involved her uncle (who was a rabbit) and her dad (who was a hamster) dying in construction accidents. To be more precise, she was sitting in her emo hole (don't ask) when the construction workers decided to pour in some concrete. Her uncle dragged her out but got buried, with only his ears sticking out. And she was sitting in another emo hole being emo about causing his death when the construction workers decided to drop a piece of the foundation on it. Her dad dragged her out but got trapped underneath. The foreman was sympathetic but refused to let her get him out of there. The rest of the dream descended into surreality, until it came to a bit where she was at school. She then realized it was a dream when she saw that her backpack had changed. The ironic bit is that she started pinching herself, but still thought the first part with her uncle and dad dying was real. Then she woke up in her own bed.

I am a master of odd, yet vivid dreams. Despite this, sometimes I am aware I am dreaming and got to wake up by willpower. I used two of them as an ispiration for two books and another was elaborate enough to have ''credits'' at the end (the executive producer was, apparently, "Billy Hopkins").

Saw Jessica Alba in lingerie, accompany Jessica on a conference, eventually and losing her to a random guy);

Fought the Ogdru Jahad, a common thief, HumanAliens with teleporting powers, ''Satan'' and Tinkerbell Tipton.

Being trapped in an Ebay-like digital world, lectured a robot about love (The answer? "It's [[AllLoveisUnrequited Something horrible. Better not to feel it]]), met Death and his twin brother.

@/{{Lurkerbunny}} tends to have very vivid and lucid dreams (particularly after eating blue cheese... I don't know how it works either). I'm often disappointed when many dreams turn out to be, well, just dreams. Usually ones where I'm doing... things... with somebody. A certain somebody. DREAM ABOUT BOFFING [[RobinWilliams ROBIN WILLIAMS, OKAY?]]

me about Alyson Hannigan. Strange because I am not such a fanboy of her.

@/{{Seungmina}} once got out of bed and looked out of the window to see all the planets huge and beautiful, like a picture. I realized later it was just a dream, but it felt so real, I don't want to believe that it wasn't true.

I have had so many of these that it isn't funny; these are the 4 that I remember the most:

#1: This was back in my "I love Naruto!" days, when there was a long wait for the next episode (something having to do with "Month of Miyazaki" or some stuff) and I was getting impatient. Then, one night, I had a dream where Naruto went and stole Sasuke and Sakura's weapons...while sleepwalking; it wound up being the inspiration for a rather random--yet ''very'' popular--Naruto parody fanfiction series. Sadly, I don't have it anymore...T.T

#2:This was when I was in 8th grade and I dreamt that I was back in third grade, waiting for seconds on pizza in the lunchroom. Suddenly, the lunch lady yells, "Seconds!" and I was about to go inside when a bunch of gigantic fourth graders ran over me and''flattened me like a pizza''.

#3:''Sarah Palin'' comes to my high school to host her new game show, involving people riding on giant balls over logs in a gigantic pool. Note that my school does ''not'' have ''any'' pool, so the sudden appearance of one should of tipped me off (hell, the fact that ''Sarah Palin'' was at my ''school'' should've tipped me off), but I was too caught up in cheering on my friends...who got run over by the opposing team. I told my mom about this dream the next night, only for her to give me her characteristic "What is ''wrong'' with you?" look.

#4: My mom, aunt, and I go to shoprite; all of my sudden, my dad's there, which is weird because he lives ''ten states away from where I live''. We decide to go on a walk together, and he tells me to look out for signs that he's been nearby each day. I was about to ask him what did he mean, but then my mom wakes me up. This is by far the most normal AllJustADream experience I've had in my life.

This happens to @/TromboneChild ''all the freaking time''. I either wake up really frightened or really disappointed that it was a dream. I can think of three different examples:

1.) About a year ago, I had a dream that I was working with Torchwood Three and we were investigating an opera house (but there was no Phantom there). I kept trying to pursue Captain Jack Harkness the whole time while everyone else was trying to solve the case (I think I did get Jack to kiss me eventually). We were still hanging around when the crowd showed up for that night's show; the crowd included all of my relatives and quite a few celebrities/TV stars that I like. I know I ran up to Zachary Quinto and jumped up and hugged him, and then I did the same to Jared Padalecki. When I was hugging Jared (and he was essentially holding me because I'm a foot shorter than him), my cousin Kevin walked by and went, "HA-HA!" Then I woke up feeling disappointed that I didn't actually meet Zach, Jared, and Captain Jack.

2.) Very recently, I dreamed that I was with some random people that my subconscious created for me, and then their eyes turned black, signifying that they were possessed by demons from ''{{Supernatural}}''. I tried to get away from them, but they just kept showing up. Then my little sister was there, and I tried to protect her from the demons, but then ''her'' eyes turned black. I woke up feeling very frightened and disturbed.

3.) Also recently, I dreamed that it was Christmas time and this psycho 4-year-old was in the news for killing his parents and his baby brother, but it turned out that the baby had secretly survived, so a Shirtless Nathan Fillion and I raised the baby. Nathan and I even shared a bed at one point. I woke up feeling confused.

I have a recurring dream where, due to falling out of a car when he was little, he dreams that he was hit, and went into a coma. In his dreams, we wakes up from the coma, and finds that everything he'd ever done was just a dream. I is terrified of that being true, and every time he wakes up from that he has to convince himself it was All Just A Dream

I used this once as a plot device in an RPG session. The story begins with the characters having to fight a group of very powerful bad guys and getting killed one by one, setting up a bit of foreshadowing. The players were of course GenreSavvy and picked up that it was a dream right away.

That sounds eerily like a Blades of Exile scenario I played once. Can't remember the name.

I have probably some dreams that delve into pure insanity, such as Homer Simpson walking out of a UFO, Naruto becoming fat for no apparent reason, I come to school with my blanket, saved the world from a giant bomb, and you know what's scarier? The environments NEVER EVER MAKE SENSE IN MY DREAMS! Yet I eat them up, believing they're real.

And my sister had a dream that she saw a Pirate Zombie Robot}} Vampire Werewolf and Mummy Combo, a Vamerummy.

I saw a Spiral War, in sepia or gold, exposions and other things were everywhere, but then, the Lagann came (sorry, no Gurren), and revealed the pilot, it wasn't Simon or anyone ''from'' GurrenLagann, it was ''Finn'', ''the KidHero of WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', the fight looked like it was gonna be ''awesome'', but then it switched to another segment, based off {{TMNT}}, that felt... Depressing.

I just had an odd dream in which I was going to school, and everyone over 25 was trying to incarcerate me or something, because everyone and their mother had guns, and were pointing them at me, or each other, or both. They even fired them occasionally, but everyone had super ATeamFiring skills. I ran out of the school and jumped into the passenger seat of some stranger's car so they wouldn't find me. Then, after riding a while, I met up with an old friend of mine, and we followed this river until we got to a big wooden dam, which, if we broke through, would send us downstream to my hometown and I would be safe. Analyze that, I dare you.

Have you ever been in school when, suddenly, the dead rise from their graves, and it becomes obvious that, thanks to the Pull}} magic powers that you apparently have now for some reason, you are the only one who can save everyone? No, it hasn't happened to Zila}} me either.

Had a dream a few years ago where I met a stranger that I was in love with. At some point (and it wasn't a lucid dream), I said, "I know this is a dream and we won't meet in the real world. We don't have long. Please don't go." Woke up shortly, at something of a loss.

I had an extremely sad dream were his father had died without him saying goodbye.

I and a group of friends (Friends A-D) were hanging out at this industrial compound. Now, there was this pit, right? Big pit. Really, really, deep pit. Long way down. Filled with water at the bottom. On the other side of the pit, we see a guy in a speedo jump in. He survives. On a whim, Friend A (sort of the leader among us) leaps in as well. Everyone else does, until it is just me and Friend D. I beg him not to go down, because the idea is just too stupid. He promises not to, and jokingly bear hugs me and leans over the edge slightly. And then he trips. So we're soaring down the chasm, right? We hit the bottom. My limbs go numb, I can't move. When I regain movement of my arms, I start to strangle Friend D. And then I woke up.

Very recently, I had a {{Terminator}} dream, set not long after Judgment Day, where I and about two dozen survivors hid out in a warehouse similar to the one near my childhood home. Highlights include impaling and pinning a Terminator against a wall using a forklift, blowing a way a swarm of rat-sized machines with a .45, and bailing the entire horde of survivors into an obviously jury-rigged VTOL craft near the end of the dream. The last thing I dreamed was somebody calling me "Kyle Reese". Fun.

You tried to kill him with a forklift?

I just recently finished her final examinations for the tenth grade. The night before her last one, she dreamt she wrote the test, had a few days pass, and went to get her report card (all A's), just to wake up and realize she has to write her last one. Much angry grumbling ensued.

This guy thinks he may have played too much Sonic. Why? Recently, he had a dream where he was staying with Jet, who looked human (how he could become human, this guy doesn't know). After Jet had offended the guy somehow, he punched him, revealing his true form, and Jet punched him back, ''turning him into his own fan-character''. The guy can't get that dream, even today.

I JUST had the strangest series of dreams, resulting in sort of a subversion. I had dream including a group of my friends, my cousin, and several unknowns in a dark version of my town where everyone was being turned into {{The Renfield}}, only to supposedly wake up and find my cousin in my room (which was in the EXACT state it was in before I had fallen asleep, down to the clothes I was wearing) telling me that it wasn't just a dream, and that I had been sucked into a fight against the enslavement of humanity through dreams experienced by the aforementioned people. Only to find out that it HAD been a dream. I spent like an hour afterwards trying to back to sleep just to see if I could finish watching the story.

I once had a very bizarre dream. Basically, she (11 at the time) woke up as a five-year old, and realized that the past six years of her life had been a long, elaborate dream. Then she figured out that that was a dream, woke up as an adult, went through about the same thing, -then- finally woke up for real. Whoa!

I have always had very vivid dreams, whether they're realistic or not. One dream involved her realizing she was dreaming and she thought she had died in the real world. Another incident involved said troper fall asleep with her iPod on, and the music influenced what happened in that dream. This lead to the best and the worst dream I have ever had, changing from the end of the world to having a manga character as her boyfriend to fighting along side Zero, Klonoa and Syaoran to getting tortured and killed. She was both glad and disappointed when she woke up from that one.

I have had some odd ones. So far, there have been a couple where a certain poison sticker almost made an appearance. One had Manny and JT, while the other had Simon Cowell. Yet another just had him listening to a tune that started with some kids yelling out the phrase "Yippee! Our favourite dirty childhood hero!"

I once dreamed that she and her boyfriend were walking home from school together and he got hit by a car and got so messed up that he couldn't have possibly survived it if it would have happened in real life. Not helped by the fact that he was not at school the next day. I didn't even realize it was a dream until he was back the next day. I told him about it a few weeks after the fact, laughs were had... but the mental images are still as vivid ans they were in the dream, and HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

@/SkarmoryThePG has in the past dreamt of buying and browsing through the newest issue of his gaming magazine of choice. Also had dreams involving a longtime crush of his reciprocating. Bah.

I have had dreams in the past where he is back in high school, or hanging out with various characters from anime that he likes (most notably, one dream had Goku take me on a tour of a local school, and Phibrizzo showing up to attack us/chase us around). More often than not, I wake up feeling annoyed and either pondering what could've been or wondering if it would make decent fanfiction material.

I once dreamt she was at a friend's house watching {{Futurama}}. It took her over six months (and looking through said friend's box sets) to realize that the episode she dreamt she saw did not actually exist.

I had this one were I spend the entirety trying to finish a report for english only to wake up right when the report was almost done in the dream.

As of writing this, I just woke up from a dream wherein he was watching an episode of FamilyGuy that had the same plot as Dreamcatcher, with Brian as Jonesy. Being very literate, Brian had read the book and was aware of the fact he was living it, so he quickly sheltered himself from the alien in the same fashion as Jonesy had. Sadly, I woke up shortly there after. It was building up to be a good episode...

mine father once woke up about 45 minutes late for work all freaked out because he dreamed he'd woken up, gone downstairs fixed his lunch, eaten his breakfast and gone to work early, also this happened to I tons of times when she thought she'd come from school, just after before waking up with one of her older family member arguing about if they should put an ice cube on her neck or not.

This one time, I opened the fridge and noted that there was a case of Pepsi cans in there. Later, I opened the fridge again and there was no trace of the Pepsi cans. Sadly, the first sentence was a dream... The Pepsi was a lie. :(

Is more memorable vivid dreams: Stressing about High school finals, only to wake up and realise I'm over 30 and haven't been high school for over a decade; Buying a great book and waking up to find I not only don't have it but it doesn't exist (and I can't remember it to write it down); Telling people exactly what I think of them without fear or favour and waking up sdomewhat relieved it was just a dream; and my personal least favorite the Groundhog Day dream 'Wake up, have breakfast, have shower, get dressed, go to work ... Wake up and realise it was just a dream, have breakfast, have shower, get dressed, go to work ... Wake up and realise it was just a dream, have breakfast, have shower, get dressed, go to work ... Wake up, slap/pinch yourself to ensure your really awake, have breakfast, have shower, get dressed, go to work ... Wake up, etc ... repeat until pretty much insane trying to find a way to convince yourself that this time it's real only to discover once you have that it isn't and when you finally do wake up for real you spend the whole day waiting for it to repeat again.

Mine mother always had an extremely unfortunate habit of waking her up in the middle of the best parts of her dreams. For example, in kindergarten she had a dream in which the teacher turned the room into a ginormous indoor playground with a ton of children's museum-esque attractions. I got a ball to roll down the chute, but the school bully took it from her, so she whent back to get another one, but accidentally picked up a magic ball that made a giant parachute come off of a table that was actually a giant tub full of bubble juice (don't question it), so the guy sitting in the tub gave her a bubble wand. Then Peter Pan came out of the tub full of bubbles and they started playing a game, but suddenly the pirates came out of the loft in the neighboring class room (yes, we were somehow still in school) and started chasing her. Peter Pan started fighting them with his knife, so I decided to escape by running up the slide (and how this was supposed to work out, she has no idea) when a pirate grabbed her ankle, so she screamed and Peter came to rescue her... and then her mom shook her awake. Just when it was getting good. (No, I did not think it was scary, she thought it was freaking ''awesome''.) Another time she learned to fly, but her mom woke her up and she could remember how exactly she did it.

One time, I had a dream where she was a guy. In a ''{{Clannad}}''esque scenario, s/he met and fell in love with a sickly girl who s/he later got married to (the wedding – especially the kiss – was extremely vivid), but then the girl died in childbirth and I was left alone and broken. She woke up incredibly confused. What the ''hell'' was that supposed to mean...?!

@/SteelKomodo just happened to have a really awesome dream one night, where he was dropped from an airship and started flying around in a huge city, pulling off crazy kung-fu kicks and knocking out bad guys such as Doctor Octopus and Darth Vader. Suddenly, Mario characters show up on a glittery rainbow, and we band together to take out ''Mechagodzilla''. Someone please help him translate that one.

I often used to get up and get ready for school, only to suddenly awake in his bed with his mother yelling at him that he's going to be late.

I once went through six years in one night as they slept for eighteen hours. It was Star Wars themed. many things happened in the dream, and it ended with I being betrayed by his brother and his love interest being horribly killed. Unfortunately the relationship between I and his brother has been oddly strained for the three months since the dream ended.

I had a girlfriend that was incredible. Because life is a bitch sometimes, she left I and moved to another country. That was 3 years ago. Now he is with another girl, and things are going incredible well. The last weeks, though, I had a couple of weird dreams. In them, the ex is with him all the time, doing all the things they couldn't do when they were together, and when he wakes up, he feels incredible happy because they had another opportunity, and sad because that was a dream.

I have had a number of weird dreams including several episodes of NCIS and a doulbe-parter of House. Not dreams where I was in those shows. Dreams where I was watching them. They were good episodes too. Perodically during marathons I wonder if I'll get to see them before I remember ''they never happened''.

Recently, I had a dream that the main characters from ''TheBigBangTheory'' had formed an alternative rock band and were singing about friendship. For some odd reason, once they were finished, Barney the Dinosaur walks up from the audience and punches Sheldon in the face. To be fair, I've always suspected that the ''RobotChicken'' version was accurate when Barney wasn't around kids.

I feels a fanart or fanfiction, one of the two, coming on. Thanks!

I once overdosed on cocaine and had a seizure during which I dreamed that I had a wonderful happy life and everything I wanted. Then, as I lay in my coffin at my funeral, an old drug-using friend of mine appeared and started shouting my name and telling me to get up. I regained consciousness, but was temporarily paralysed from my head to my toes. I'll just leave the story at that.

I ocasionally have falling dreams, but I don't wake up when I hit the ground- I'll hit it from several hundred stories up, then casually get up, dust myself off, then calmly walk away. Then I wake up. Turns a nightmare into freaking awesome, and I'm actually fairly disappointed when I wake up.

I had a sad one a few months ago, shortly after a good friend of her brother's had died in real life. In the dream, I went back in time and prevented him from dying, and the whole time I was thinking that my brother wouldn't be sad anymore because I could tell him that his friend was alive. Then I woke up.

On a lighter note, I also recently had my first, but very brief, lucid dreaming experience, in which I was able to tell a woman that she was just a dream. However, I was foiled when the woman looked straight at me and responded with "Are you sure?"

I had a dream before WoW:BC was released that there were 4 new races and i was playing beta with this hunched over character. until today I thought that the other races were just removed for no reason and found out that it was some weird thought/dream.

I had a very strange dream. Myself and this girl I never met ended up getting Death Notes and staqrted using them to wipe out humanity. I remember people suffocating in a Department Store and her and me trying to find out the names and faces of a college class. We got pretty close to our goal.

@/MmmKay woke up to hear the computer say (in a CreepyMonotone) "SoylentGreen, this... condition... is ''PEOPLE!!!''" over and over again in the middle of the night. She eventually turned on the monitor to find that somebody opened Windows Media Player with the sound loop, and she turned it off. Her wallpaper was an old DOS readout. The printer was making weird noises so she hit it; it stopped. She thought "I'm going to keep this computer on, but I'm putting on some calm music." But before she could do so, she noticed that even though the sky was dark, the time read ''9:28 AM'', and almost promptly woke up in her bed at 4:00-ish.

I just had this dream (a very short one) in which I was watching a movie that was about an AlternateHistory world in which all of television was incredibly violent. The first scene was a mock "coming up next" preview, followed by a scene from ''{{Seinfeld}}'' in which Jerry walks into a room and gets electrocuted by a panel on the floor. Cue laugh track. Cue waking up rather disturbed. (Especially since I don't even watch Seinfeld.) Though it would be an interesting movie. (There probably is already one like that.)

Ever have a boring dream? Where nothing out of the ordinary happened. You just went to work, came home, chilled out, edited this wiki, played games, etc. And then you wake up and go wtf? It's happened to me on multiple occasions. Dreams are supposed to be interesting. Meh, better than nightmares I suppose.

I once dreamed that it was morning and time to get ready for school. She woke up to find herself in the shower, the hot water having woken her up, cursed herself for sleepwalking and then went to check the clock to find that it was only 11:00 pm. And then she remembered that there was no school the next day anyway, it was Friday.

@/K2Misfit's dreams usually boil down to either WTF, sexy or BOTH ranging from the FreudWasRight snake vertically slithering down the bedroom wall while I'm paralyzed in fear (odd, since I actually like snakes) while my mother casually watched to making out with Janet Jackson circa 1994, but the one dream that had me waking up '''pissed off''' involved a stoner girl I used to go to school/worked with being played by pornstar Caroline Pierce driving up to my house crying about being alone and apparently a successful businesswoman when in reality, she's essentially homeless/living in a trailer park, not even having a driving permit, an elementary school-age daughter despite being younger than 25, more or less involved with a stoner and having enough issues to be a memorable guest on Jerry Springer.

I had a strange dreams about TVTropes It starts off with Alan and Charlie Harper from TwoandahalfMen, MorganFreeman, and Chris Rock running through a temple. They end up on some ship, Freeman and Rock get killed, and Charlie and Alan are captured and sent to this CampGay fat guy who turns them into black and white cats and puts fake wings on them to fly. Then it shifts to this bus rolling away and goes back into my house. It's showing the adventure Charlie and Alan are having on the television while my dad is on his computer typing and saying "Aren't you going to be late for school?". I say "Mom's going to drive me, the bus passed by." and it turns out ''I was making a page for the exact movie on the television''.

That's not even the STRANGEST one I had. The other one involved some blond guy in a leather jacket fighting some Mooks who were opressing a village. The Denis Leary shows up dressed as Doctor Octopus from Spiderman, and the blond guy transforms into Spiderman via '''a SailorMoon transformation'''. Denis Leary then turns into this worm and tries to destroy the world with a wormhole (no pun intended). Spiderman then flies '''like Superman''' into the worm hole and '''destroys him with a Kamehameha Blast'''. The guy then turns back into the blond guy, and falls back to earth and lands safely. He snaps his fingers and a red Kawasaki motorcycle rides up to him. He gets on and the villagers come to thank him. An old man asks his daughter if he wants to stay, then he proceeds to say "Nope." and ''rides off into the sunset''.

@/PentiumMMX2 has this happen once. In the dream, I got a Gamecube for Christmas with Super Smash Bros. Melee (Which I had literally been begging my parents to get me for about a year), and had an intense match in multiplayer going against my sister; she was Zelda, I was the Ice Climbers. It felt so good...and then I woke up and realized it was all just a dream, which was quite annoying.

Me again. I had one happen the night before the launch of Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver that was rather freaky and felt a little too real for comfort. In it, I was dreaming of going to get my copy of Pokémon [=SoulSilver=], when I woke up, only to notice many things where missing; my PC was gone, as well as my DS, my Xbox 360, and my rabbit. Looking out the window, I noticed my car was also missing as well. In a rush, I go into the living room, trying to figure out what the hell was going on, when I happen to glance at the calender and noticed that today's date was March 14, ''2000''; not only did I have to do school all over again being a kid once more, but the original versions of Pokémon Gold & Silver where not due out for another 7 months, and to top things off, there had not been a new episode of Series/DoctorWho since the 1996 made-for-TV movie. I woke up for real shortly after, with everything in order.

You should HEAR mine friend's dreams! In them, I is always indestructible or otherwise superpowered. In one dream, he was destroying alien spaceships, and in another, he carried his friend while deflecting bullets with his hands!

my dreams are rarely vivid enough to spark this reaction, except three:

The first, I was a dog, and apparently to end the world all the dogs in the world had to gather out in the middle of the ocean. If we failed, then the earth would start over again, only animals would remember the Thousands of reincarnations of said universe. I woke up confused, and wanted to make a novel out of it.

The second, I was a five-year-old Naruto who still had his dad...but the weird thing was, I still had the mind of my normal, intelligent, fifteen-year-old self...it was very strange, and I woke up wishing that it had continued.

There was a nightmare where I was on the run from a phsyco murderer guy, and he just so happened to want all of me but my skin. Cue me, hiding in a closet, watching Mike Rowe, my hero, skinning his said phsyco-murderer's victims while cracking jokes and chuckling. He was about to find me when I woke up. I was scared sh* tless the next morning, and couldn't talk about it for a week afterward.

In Mine dreams, he has been to a military camp set in a water park, amusement park, circus, and Saturn's rings. Don't ask.

I have a lot of crazy dreams, but the one that gave him this reaction went as follows: He and his little sister were playing a Wii game where the objective was to push Principal Skinner from the Simpsons out of a window. Then Principal Skinner turned up at our house to borrow some sugar, so naturally we pushed him out of a window. He was paralysed from the fall and started oozing this thin brown liquid all over our garden. Cue massive amounts of MyGodWhatHaveIDone. I was trying to admit to my father that I had just crippled an innocent cartoon character when I woke up, realised it was a dream, and laughed myself hoarse with relief. Possibly the worst part would have been having to admit that JackThompson had a point about videogames.

I, the day before a Physics test, dreamt about a Physics class. When he woke up, he instantly thought "no! bring me back to the class! I can't miss it!".

I (Flareth) had two odd dreams recently

The first one was that Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles were someplace that was like my school to do a show. I met them afterwards, talked to them (I was pretty nervous in dream as well) and hugged them.

The second dream was that someone from a forum I frequent was thinking to change one of their character's ages so they could pair them with onemy character. In the roleplay in real life, the characters are close to the same age.

I have has a few of these:

I remember this one from when I was a teenager, I was looking out the window of my bedroom and I could see a guy below me, in the yard. He was pointing a gun at me (rifle, I think). I managed to duck down right as he shot--I can remember hearing the gunshot plain as if it were real--and I heard him say "Shit! I missed!" I woke up in a cold sweat.

A lucid dream I had--my first one, actually. I was in French class and turned around to ask the person behind me a question, when it suddenly occurred to me that I did not have French class, and in fact, wasn't even in highschool anymore (although I was taking a couple of college classes). I realised I was dreaming and proceeded to float around for a while (always fun), then did a bunch of other things that I can't remember but that you could only do in dreams. I do remember throwing a glass bottle at my archenemy, or rather, a random person whom I'd deemed my archenemy. It traveled slowly, as if I'd thrown it underwater. When I woke up I was elated for ''days''.

Another lucid dream I just remembered--I don't remember how I figured out I was dreaming, but I decided after I did that I wanted to go into outer space. So I did and the Earth looked like a tiny orange (yes, orange) marble. Or perhaps it was Mars, or another planet in another solar system altogether.

Also my favorite thing to do in lucid dreams (although I rarely have them anymore) is to go up in the air as high as I possibly can and then just ''drop''. SO fun. No parachute needed, I can slow down whenever I want to. This is probably the closest I can get to actually being able to skydive.

I am very jealous of all you lucid dreamers. The only lucid dream I had was me walking down a hallway which was on a balcony for some reason (my bet is that my school has similar hallways) with one or two people when suddenly I realized I was dreaming. The world then proceeded to fade/float away from me and spin for whatever reason, then when it all went white I woke up.

If you have another lucid dream and it begins to fade, try spinning around, grabbing on to things, touching your tongue to the roof of your mouth, and rubbing your hands. These techniques are supposed to help, though I've never been lucid enough to try them myself. Another method that I read about is to yell: "INCREASE LUCIDITY!", but apparently not many people are willing to do that.

I have lucid dreams almost every night. Trust me, spinning really does work.

I had a dream where I was a werewolf. I woke up half asleep and still thought I was a werewolf. At first I was scared but then I got power hungry. Secends later I came to my senses and realized it was just a dream. Stupid reality.

After a long day of exploring and fighting mud monsters, I find myself in a hot muggy swamp directly beneath a glacier-like area complete with ice bridge. I walk across the bridge, and come across a brightly lit lodge surrounded by thin wodden walls. Entering the lodge, I discover that its filled with my laughing mercenary buddies (though I only know them in this dream). Food is being served at a buffet, so I take my place at the back of the line. As I go through the selection, I find that all the meat has been taken by the guys in front of me, so I have to settle for the oddly-coloured veggies. I scoop up the last of the mashed potatoes, to the cheering of my pals. Then I take a hunk of cheese and sit down. Looking at my meal, observing how all of it looked much larger on the buffet table, I am suddenly transported to a warm bed, a voice telling me to wake up...

I wishes Freud didn't invade her head so often while sleeping. So far, she's had dreams where she's being threatened by Ursula, married her dog in Las Vegas, had sex with Billie Joe Armstrong in a furniture shop's closing down sale after a concert, and had three children. The last few incidents have also had side effects such as conversations with EllenPage and dull pain across my stomach typical of C-sections.

@/{{LoneCentrist}} from California had a dream he and his family were on vacation in Tokyo. He woke up before he got a chance to leave the hotel room to check out the city. He got up, went to the kitchen, pored a bowl of cereal, and sat down to eat, then slowly looked around the room and realized the Tokyo vacation was just a dream. "Son of a bitch..."

I have had numerous lucid dreams, and I've even been getting better at controlling them lately. Studying self-hypnosis and dream "physics" (can't think of a better term) helps. But more closely related to the trope in question is one dream in particular I've had. My family was going on a vacation at a ''really'' nice hotel somewhere, filled up with glass partitions and all kinds of crystalwork. It was an awesome place and I remember waking up and thinking, "Damn it, why couldn't I have slept a little longer?" Although there was that other dream where I had to pull a Phoenix Wright in a resort built over a canal, defending some guy who'd been wrongly accused....

Agagaga! @/{{Ryumaru}} again, having just had the most awesome dream ever and the most depressing because it wasn't real. I dreamed that [=NeoToonami=] was on the air and it was airing it's GurrenLagann commercial, followed by the first episode. My whole family saw it, meaning I was going to get the whole frakking series on DVR, and then I heard my littlest brother say, "What the heck?" I assumed that it was about the Gainax Opening, so I woke up to explain it... and then realized I'd been dreaming. My heart immediately sank. DAMN IT!

I have had a bunch of dreams where she swore that they seemed real. In any dream where I seem to be able to feel the surroundings, like cold air, or someone touching my arm, I can almost believe it to be real... until I wake up.

You would be surprised at how convincing shaving ones head and buying an industrial sized barrel of toothpaste in New Zealand is until you wake up.

Here's the scoop. It is one week before the day of Mine wedding. He is as happy as can be, he's marrying his high school sweetheart(Henceforth, 'Alice'), he has a job he's extremely happy with, and he has the best friends ever(Henceforth, Bob and Charlotte). Something is bothering him, though. Something at the back of his mind. He doesn't quite know what. He decides to just sleep it off, chalking it up to stress. After all, it's a week before the wedding. He goes to sleep, and dreams of the life he had with Alice, Bob, and Charlotte. Re-living these memories, I realizes something: He doesn't want to spend the rest of his life with Alice, he wants to spend it with Charlotte. He wakes up, tells Bob his predicament and proceeds to panic. How is Alice going to react? She'll be devastated! But it would be worse to lie to her, so much worse. After I and Bob discuss what the hell they're going to do, I up for real, and is slightly melancholy for the rest of the day. Everything was a dream, the wedding, the friends, the job, you name it. However, the dream itself was too damn vivid to NOT have any emotional attachment. In reality, [[{{LordArkea}} Troper doesn't have a girlfriend, and is definitely not going to be getting married any time soon, and is currently a student without a job. He has some pretty kickass friends, though.]]

I have had this for both disappointment and GREAT RELIEF.

Relief: Six years old. Dreaming that all the houses of your family are in a circle. Nobody is there. Nobody. I cried in the dream, and when i woke up. Also i've had several dreams about zombies, vampires, anything i cant really stop.

Disappointment: Getting married to my love, becoming a magical superhero, and ive had three dreams over 5 years of being able to float above the ground. They were awesome.

Also some were pure awesome. The moon broke off. Alien spiders arrived. I became a super hero. Hells yeah.

I have had some truly bizarre instances where he's lived ''the lives of completely different people'' in his dreams. Seriously. So far, he's been a mute seven-year-old African-American boy living alone in a California desert strewn with red petals, a pregnant woman, and an unidentified man killed in TheVietnamWar(still not sure if he was an American, a Viet Cong, or a civilian). He has no idea what they mean or even if they mean anything, and it doesn't help that they invariably end with a GainaxEnding every time.

I've had a few very unnerving flashbacks to my Army days, more than five years after getting out. (These aren't combat flashbacks; I was never near combat.) The most vividly detailed was as follows: In the dream, I was stationed somewhere that amounted to a military university, and part of a vast crowd of soldier-students trying to get into one of the buildings where classes were held. Abruptly, a number of unpleasant facts became clear to me.

First, I was likely to be late getting to the classroom because of having to struggle through such a swarm of humanity. Second, I couldn't remember the number of the classroom, which meant I wasn't even sure of going in the right direction. Third, I'd been handed the textbook for the class just the night before and told the lesson would cover the first however many pages -- but then other duties that kept me up past midnight prevented me from even glancing at those pages, much less studying them.

Fourth, I'd forgotten to bring the textbook with me. Fifth and worst, I suddenly realized that '''''I''''' was supposed to be the instructor.

Oddly enough, I didn't wake up screaming. In fact, I didn't wake up at that horrifying point at all. Instead, the dream lasted long enough for me to return to the barracks at a dead run (slowing only to salute three generals along the way) to retrieve the textbook I was going to be teaching from. I'd just opened up my locker to get the text when I woke up.

Well, at least I wasn't going to class nude.

Once I had a dream about being chased by a criminal riding a huge dog (Looked like a Labrador), then getting arrested by the police who thought *I* was that criminal. My final wish before I was executed was to go to Epcot park, where I was about to ride the 'Horizons' attraction, and then I woke up before I even got in line. My first thought after that was, "Pitty that ride is defunct now, otherwise I could have ridden it."

I had a dream once where I accidentally killed my dog. I woke up with a start and opened the door to see that she was laying by my door and was quite alive.

I once had a dream that there was a murder at my local ice rink, and that only I could solve it. And all the bleachers had been replaced with beds and the friends from FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends were in the beds. Oh and TomSelleck was there, but everybody called him Tom Sawyer. I did eventually solve the murder, though. The coach did it.

Mine dreams are generally just bizarre lumps of random memories pieced together in mish-mash sequences ten times weirder and more surreal than either of Lewis Carroll's works combined. As such, he rarely makes any effort to remember his dreams. However, he recently had a dream that made complete sense in context even though it was mostly disjointed narration, which when combined with the sleep-deprived stupor he was in shortly after waking up from his nap led to a brief questioning of whether or not ''reality as we know it'' is really one big dream. I'm still not completely convinced that I do, in fact, live in the real world.

I tends to have dreams about celebrities who are just hanging out, as though it's totally normal. Like some actor will be having coffee at the local Starbucks, and we talk as though that's what we always do. And it's never the same celebrity. It's a little unsettling.

{{HSZMV}} has had a few:

A dream where I was being chased by a witch with Purple Dinosaur Hair that turned you to stone if you touched (or something bad along those lines. Basically, Purple Dinosaur Hair = Very bad magic powers), who drove an SUV (I first described it as a truck, because I didn't know what an SUV was when I first had the dream at age five.). This became a recurring nightmare for me, and was so terrorfying, that after I woke up from it one time, I went back to sleep and dreamed I build obstacles around my house ALA Home Alone to stop her from getting to me. One such obstacle was a mote.

One where I was {{Superman}} and was fighting the Joker who had somehow gained tornado powers.

Nancy Pelosi visited my school after a terrorist attack, to calm nerves and preach some extremely liberal politics (don't know what, but come on, it's Pelosi. It has to be extremely libral). Me and a friend loudly booed her, and she proceeded to debate with us well after the debate as we walked back to the dorm, and informed me that the car dealership right outside the dorm building was an excellent place to get my car repaired. It was at this point I realized it was a dream, based on the fact that the part of the school the dealership sat on was really a tennis court.

Steven Colbert ran my school's debt collection agency and wouldn't let me move into campus housing because I owed six dollars.

I started it all by Tempting Fate:WONDERING IF HE COULD REALLY HAVE A NIGHTMARE ANYMORE. That very night, I dreamt that I returned to my house to find a note from JAMES EARL RAY saying he was going to come to my house on Wednesday and kill me! Police cars came to surround my house and I simply sat in my room, pondering and pleading over whether or not I would truly die. Trying to enjoy my life a bit more, I headed outside to the backyard only to see James Earl Ray HIMSELF sitting a tree with a long brown trenchcoat, a grinning smile, and a AK-47. Screaming at my brother to get inside, we both find the door is locked and my dad frantically tries to unlock it from the other end!... After waking up, I didn't know if it was real or not. Obviously, the facts in my head were very twisted(my dream had told me that James Earl Ray captured Martin Luther King Jr. and tortured him for months), but I spent the rest of the morning avoiding dark places, speaking to no one, and sighing relief when I found my history book and confirmed that James Earl Ray was, in fact, dead.

Didn't help my best friend moved to a different school that day without telling anyone, so... Yeah....

I (hnng) remembers teachers often telling the class explicitly ''not'' to use this ending during story-writing-based lessons in primary school.

I've never lost a human I was really close to, thankfully, but this happened to I both when my favorite hamster Bagel died (the night after it happened) and when his cat of 12 years Mittens died (about 2 months after his death).

This also happens in the reverse way. (you dream that a family member has died when they really haven't) I once had a dream where i get the news that my grandmother has died, in the form of a bombshell. the shock of it woke me up.

I had a bizarre variation: I suddenly found myself lying on the steps of some random house, when suddenly this one guy that looked like this actor in a movie I had seen years ago screamed "I'M NOT DEAD!" I had no clue whatsoever who the heck he was. I also experienced being in a first-person shooter in that dream.

I experiences this often in regards to actually waking up. After two or three attempts at waking up turn out to be just a dream, I tends to lose grip on reality until he tries reading something to make sure he's actually awake. Habitually checking for being able to read has cut short many a dream.

The same thing happens to me. In fact, it happened to me last night maybe three or four times in a row at least. I just use the old "pinch the arm" technique. (You can't *quite* feel the pain if you're dreaming although you do feel *something* like it. A little practice at distinguishing between the two in your dream-addled state may be in order.) Funny thing is, about the third or fourth time I tried it after "waking up(?)" last night, I found that my arm was actually missing. I yelled, "Oh come on!"

Sounds like your body was telling you that you ''needed'' more sleep. Or mabye you're crazy?

I recalls a dream at the age of 3 or 4 of having a toy snow-cone machine, then waking up and wondering where it was. The confusion was probably due to (a) the age factor, and (b) the dream ending with me going to sleep in the same bed where I woke up in real life.

I, from time to time will have certain academic-centered dreams, namely a dream that I have registered for a class but NEVER ATTENDED IT, thus earning a nice fat "F" on my transcript. and when I wake up it still takes me Several minutes to realize that I'm kosher, or i would dream that i have a major assignment due in the morning, even though I Graduated 3 years previous.

@/StarePris is always consistently, without exception one quite different form in dreams instead of being his real life self. Instead of a grown man I am a little girl that looks like Iris from Sakura Wars. That said however; I must say I did enjoy my time traveling with the ninth doctor or that time I had a teaparty with Anthy and Utena. I wouldn't trade my life, either in reality or dreamself for anything.

When I was just a teeny girl, I had a realistic dream that we had gotten a phone call that my great uncle had died. I woke up crying. cue to a few months later, the exact same thing happens. In ''real life''.Damn straight I was freaked out.

I have a unique case that my most lucid, realistic, dreams are all about arguments or debates on scientific or philosophical subjects. Oddly this has become very useful since I now have a number of well constructed arguments for the existence of aliens, the viability of time travel, an explanation of the predestination paradox and can recite all of the songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I probably had the Most Triumphant Example of dreams that make you think "Oh, thank god that didn't happen" when you wake up. So in my dream, I'm in my house and I look out the window and I see two large white dots in the dusk sky. I think it's strange, so I turn on the televison to see if there's anything on the news about it. On the news channel, the anchorman says "And those white dots in the sky are asteroids on a collison course for Earth, and we are all going to die." Cue to me frantically running around the house crying, and then waking up feeling soooooo happy that it never happened.

An inverted case from I.

*rolling on the floor of his classroom* "WHY ISN'T THIS A DREAM?"

I had a dream recently where one of my friends (who is about three years older than I am) was a hobo and I had a twin sister in another friend of mine who was about the same age as me. The Hobo Friend was the focus of my dream and ended up, in chronological order, 'getting rid' of a bus driver (I don't know if she killed him or just locked him in the bathroom), stole a bus full of twins, drove everyone to Finland on the freeway, and fought bears in police uniforms with their own rifles. It was probably the most epic dream I have ever had, ever. By the end of it my Twin Friend ended up summoning Starscream and I morphed into this weird yellow bat-thing with shark teeth.

I got so sick of a recurring nightmare that I decided to research this lucid dreaming thing everyone's raving about. I found a lot of very interesting information... then I woke up. My subconscious hates me.

I had a dream that her dog that she had had almost all her childhood who had recently been put down came back. She remembers her walking into the kitchen with her happy face on waiting for a dog biscut. I was overjoyed that I could see my dog again, utill I realized that she was never coming back and the dream is not real. Needless to say, I woke up crying.

I have had quite a few of these. Just read some of the ones she can remember below.

When she was younger, she had a nightmare with a recurring waking. Each time she'd wake up a different monster would be there to make sure she woke up again. The scariest of them all was when her mother came into comfort her. They hugged only to have the troper suddenly treated to an overhead third-person-view of the knife her mother was hiding behind her back. The next time she woke up in reality and drenched in sweat.

One of her very real dreams ended with her driving towards her hometown with a friend. Coming to the top of a hill, another car swerved into her lane. She had to go into the ditch to avoid the car. When she noticed the ditch was much rougher than it should have been. After pulling back onto the road, and glancing over, she saw, much to her horror, that the side of the road was covered in bleached, human skulls. Her friend screamed, drawing her eyes back to the road. Slamming on her breaks to avoid crashing into a chain link fence crossing the road. Signs read things like "Quarantined by U.S.A.F." Slowly it dawned on her that everything on the other siisde of the fence were charred remains. The nightmare finally ended with a man, or woman, running towards the fence, still on fire, with skin melting off their body.

An even more recent example had her waking up in her room. She could not move. Not her arms, not her head. She could not even twitch a finger. Something was wrong, and it was getting wronger. Something or someone was in the room. She could not see or hear it, but it was there alright. She was completely, fully awake, and she could not even make a sound to wake her father to come help her, to let him know she couldn't move. She could barely even breatth. And then it gort worse. She was being sucked into her bed! Glancing around for anything all that can help hshe finally noticed the vulture sitting on top of her door, staring at her in a menacing manner. The moment it registered that a clay mation animal could not possibly be sitting on her door, the horrors of Sleep Paralysis released her.

I have had a couple dreams where I woke up extremely disappointed they weren't real. The lastest was just this morning, wherein I found an amazing animated web series in the style of ''GunnerkriggCourt'' (it wasn't actually about GC, but it was definately the same artist, with a dash of ''DresdenCodak'' for flavor). The plot was one of those "awesome - piled-upon - awesome" affairs, with ninjas, aliens, superheroes, etc. with amazing characterization and animation. Unfortunately each "episode" ends on a cliffhanger and you have to answer trivia questions about the plot before getting the next one, and I only just found the series. I was on the verge of getting the next episode when I started waking up, mentally swearing the whole time as I realized it was just a dream.

I had a similar dream involing an entire TV Channel I flipped to and watched this high quality anime show about kids piloting giant robots in a war torn land, then I woke up and turned on the TV and rembered the imaganry channels number and let out a sigh of disappointment when I found out it was just a dream.

@/{{StongRadd}} has constant daydreams involving humans being turned into non humans.

@/{{Queenofspoons}} occasionally has lucid and sereal dreams, normally when she sleeps in, here is some of her favorites:

One that started out as a realistic dream about getting punished to go to school on a saturday that deteiorated into a dream about a very evil stereotypical looking teacher, at one point she tried to wake up in the dream and she could'nt, cue to horror.

A very weird dream about being a boy that was half bird (feathers on his head and Arms and a beak for a nose) who was also a wizard and was on a mission with his two other wizard friends (a girl and an annoying boy) in New York city, they enter this fancy Art-deco building and the bird-boy accidently breaks a giant glass sphere that releases millions of white cranes and a riptide of powdery snow that causes NY city to have a horrible snow storm, the Bird-boy gets banished to a small one-room school house and is taught who to be good by a very mean lady, then she woke up, (the troper plans to turn this one into a story).

Ive actually had dreams about not being able to sleep at night.

One of my most saddest examples is a dream about a family moving across the street from my house, this house in reality is rundown and abandoned, my father in the dream hated this new family and said I shouldn't talk to their kids, but I was staring at their son, a lovely body with pale skin and lovely black matted hair and think otherwise, he sneeks up to my window when dad isnt in the room, and I get busted helping him inside my house, then he scramed, and I woke up, excited to tell her friend that she has a boyfriend, but then remembred it was all a dream...

I have the weirdest dreams: often I'm reading a book, very engrossing, the story makes total sense, I pinch the page to keep reading... and simultaneously realize I'm holding thin air and wake up. And of course, I completely forget what I was reading...

Mine dreams range from the ridiculously mundane to the bizarre and disturbing. Once she dreamed she borrowed her friend's iPod. It concluded with her returning the iPod. Freakin' great. Another involved her battling a pink lion and dumping it's carcass in a laundry basket. A more recent one started out with her failing her driving test, not that weird. But then she arrived home, crying, and took a shower to calm down. There was a purple black blotch on her chest, which she poked in curiousity and out fell a weird, stumpy, vein-covered, flesh-coloured tentacle thing. Then she woke up. She even checked if it was still there in the morning. :'D

mine Pokemon obsession came back to get her when she dreamed that she was playing this one pokemon game that she ''could not stop playing.'' It suddenly fast-forwarded to a few days later to have my dream self collapse and pass out from having not eaten, drank, or slept the entire time, then subsequently wake up in bed. When she awoke, she forgot what the game was (she suspects it was Pokemon Puzzle Challenge, but she was playing it on a DS) but found both her hands under the pillow in the position they would be in when holding a DS.

I had a dream where I finally unlocked the doors to Solla Sollew, they slowly opened and I saw a beautiful bright light...then my mom woke me up for school.

I recently had a dream that we went to the store and got a Super NES along with some games. Even though I already had a bunch of the games on the Virtual Console, I was excited, partly because it meant I'd have my own Super Game Boy. After I woke up I started thinking about what I was going to play on it and then I realized that never actually happened...

I once had a dream when i was a kid that I became a superhero trainee, and got rocket boots (but no weapons, I wasn't responsible enough) and so I practiced using them, but then I crashed in the lawn of a super villain, the villain sees me and sends some Mooks after me, So now I start running and used the rocket boots a bit, passed by someone who gave me advice on using them (as i was running!) So suddenly I was good at using the rocket boots. After that I landed and tripped and lost a rocket boot, but I kept running and almost as if I had forgotten I lost a rocket boot I jumped up to use the rocket boot but realized that the rocket boots wouldn't work when you are wearing only one (because of safety reasons) I somehow landed on an oddly springy dead sapling and continued to run through the field of cat tail plants I was going to fly over, lost the second rocket boot and continued running met up with some friends and we all continued to a playground were it was raining really hard, the playground was apparently in the territory of another villain who was there and had a spider mecha, after some terror piled up on the fact that since I lost the rocket boots the villains could find them and reverse engineer them to get high tech rocket boots, and that would mean that I would get in big trouble with the superhero agency I got the rocket boots from, I woke up and thought that that was an awesome dream but a little weird too...

Ever have that dream where you wake up and look at the clock, and you're late to/have completely missed whatever it was you were supposed to do that day, only to really wake up and find out that you haven't missed anything besides the overnight newscast? I have it ''all the goddamned motherfucking '''time''' '', except that in my dream I'll wake up multiple times, in quick succession, and whenever I have it and do wake up for real, it's always hours ''before'' I was supposed to get up. It's really annoying; at this point, I'd rather have an hours-long nightmare packed with all of my personal HighOctaneNightmareFuel (clowns, cockroaches, spiders, total isolation, locked-in syndrome, and possums) than the "OHSHITIWOKEUPANDMISSEDIT... No, wait, I didn't. And it's the ass-crack of pre-dawn. ''Fuck.''" dream.

This troper has dreams that make no sense at all. sometimes I go from watching a movie to being the main character. I don't get sucked in, I don't say "What the heck just happened, I just carry on and don't notice until I wake up.

This troper once had a dream where he woke up, went to the bathroom, looked in the mirror, and discovered that he had become black (note that this troper is white). All I could say was "whoh, I'm black!" And then I woke up.

This troper has had a variety of dreams.One when I was a kid involved anti-gravity sandwiches and the Sears Tower.Another involved me taking over the school.Another involved me shrinking down into a woman's vagina and having sex with her clitoris.Common themes of my dreams include realising I'm in a dream,using that as an excuse to mess around,and taking a dump in public

This troper once had a dream where she went on a ridiculously bloody massacre with Ask That Guy who was dressed in Critic's clothes. Good times.

This Troper is pretty good about figuring out when he's dreaming. ''{{Inception}}'' just made it even easier, to the point of using some of the terminology (I'm getting fond of describing escaping from my dreams as a "kick"). There was one notable recent exception. I had a dream that my Motorcycle was stolen. The whole "day" filing the police report, trying to get a ride home, talking to my friends about it, and the dream ended with a call that someone totaled my bike. Then I woke up, and realized I'd just been a victim to this trope.

Someone else can decide if it's an inversion, defied, or lampshaded story: my most "normal" dream is the one where your teeth fall out in quick succession. Mine are usually spit out or kind of drooled out. It's supposed to symbolize the feeling of loss of control, which is oddly appropriate and not for an apathetic like me. Regardless, it's my most common dream. It's so common, in fact, that just the other night when I was having one, I ''consciously realized it was just that damned tooth dream''. My dream-self then proceeded to pinch my dream-cheek, and suddenly all my teeth were back in. Yeah, that's right: '''I managed to control a dream about lack of control.'''

If the teeth falling out dream means lack of control, what does it mean when ''you're the one pulling your own teeth out with your bare hands''?

('''Warning: not exactly the most pleasant thing to read at night if you are prone to PostHistoricalTrauma.''') This troper had a very odd and somewhat disturbing dream once. I was a military officer (or military-like officer, I don't really know), wearing a cool uniform. I entered a dark place with a balcony with view to the floor below. The lights were turned on. I could see the floor 50 meters below, or, more appropriately, I couldn't: there was a huge pile of pale, naked, shaved-head corpses, all facing down so I wouldn't see their faces. The pile almost reached the balcony. Worst part? In my insane dream logic, I knew the body count was around ''40 thousand'', and ''I knew I had them killed, '''willingly''', through my orders''. I looked further away, and I saw MORE bodies, but with the difference that I knew some people under them were somehow '''alive'''. I heard a siren, and I knew I should leave the room, as the incinerators would be turned on to get rid of the corpses. I was about to leave when I shared my viewpoint with a little girl down there. The young officer saw a girl with firm life in her eyes, despite being about to die incinerated, and the little girl saw a harsh-eyed young officer about to delete the proof of his crimes. I woke up when my first viewpoint character left the room. Let me just say it wasn't the worst dream I've ever had, considering I plot world domination and plan to carry it out, I believe some people aren't worthy of living in the same world as me (thus deserving elimination or banishment) AND I felt I had the power to do that in my dream... I could only shake off the perspective of "Oh my, I was responsible for killing ''so many'' people in this dream... What if I '''actually were responsible in real life?'''" when I convinced myself it was only a dream, AllJustADream. The bad feeling that came with the perspective, though, didn't disappear until the present day.

I have many, many weird dreams, but the one that still sticks out is where, for a few moments (or was it?) everything ceased to exist except for me. ''Everything''. Even weirder, I remember running upstairs to my parents room in some weird mix of delirium and hysteria bawling my eyes out, but I'm still not entirely sure if that happened or was part of the same dream.

I was sleeping in art class (sue me D:), then the bell rang, and I woke up, put my stuff up and left. Then I ACTUALLY woke up, put my stuff up, and left for real. Weirdest feeling ever.

Just had a dream that was generally quite weird, but the last few minutes (or were they seconds...) were sane enough - I don't remember all of it, but it involved a new chapter of one of my favourite manga finally being out. Woke up feeling disappointed because it was really unlikely...then went online and found that we got FOUR new chapters today.

A few months after giving birth to my son, I had a nightmare (B) within a nightmare (A). The B nightmare was that my infant son was choking and I was trying to help him breathe. I woke up into nightmare A, in which I was ''choking my infant son'' while some mind-rapey music and sirens were playing as background noise. I didn't get back to sleep that night.

Recently I had a dream about my computer crashing and everything on it getting deleted. I was very upset in the dream and slightly wet eyed (but relieved) when I woke up and saw my computer was still there in one piece (yes, this troper has strange priorities).

This troper once had an extremely detailed dream of himself committing suicide by hanging, using a noose glued (?) to the kitchen door (he can still pick out the exact spot on the real door where the noose was). While he was fixing the rope around his neck and beginning to cry, the other door opened and his dad came in, sat down on the sofa next to where I was and began reading a newspaper ''after'' taking a good look at what I was doing. I stared at him for a minute, crying harder than I ever have in real life, and finally asked him "Are you not going to fucking stop me?" He glanced over the magazine and started laughing as if I had told a good joke. He just said "Sure that rope will never hold you anyway." I sank to my knees, still crying, and what do ya know, the rope snapped. I've never been sure what to make of that dream but I felt really uncomfortable around my dad for a while afterwards.

This troper seems to be incapable of lucid dreaming because whatever happens in her dream she instantly recognizes it as reality. She has woken up completely sure that she has school in an hour, that she has forgotten her bag on a train, that one of her friends are dead, that half her teeth has fallen out, that she's blind on one eye, that she has a living, talking doll as her best friend, that her mom and she once went to a inflatable amusement park, that they visited that place ''again'' and that she is ten yers old again. The last is almost the worst. Imagine waking up with a post-pubescent body that's way, ''way'' to big for you.

I have weird dreams sometimes, a few of mine have been the sort that I wake up and get out of bed, and do everything I normally would in the morning, then wake up, do it again and then realise that its just another dream. Sometimes things in the dream would change, like one dream I am going to school, and the next its a weekend and Im going to a friends house, or going to the shop. Sometimes things happen that make me realise it is a dream, like going to the toilet and finding out that the bathroom door actually leads to a strange room, or finding things are different, like the classroom is a lot bigger and made of gold with glass tables and is also a shop, or walking into somewhere different, like on my way somewhere I find that I am now on the set of a MyChemicalRomance music video (last time it was welcome to the black parade), or that my friend has a clone...weird stuff.

One of my other weird ones involve when I was about 7, my mum woke me up to say that it was nearly time for school, but I obviously fell back to sleep as I cloned myself and decided to go back to sleep as my clone would just go to school for me.

There are a few things in my life that I am not sure whether I dreamed, like going onto my forum and finding a friend from real life had joined, and we had a conversation on there. When I woke up he had joined, but the posts we made in the chat room on there were gone. Then theres one where I went shopping and bought a tshirt that I just cant seem to find now, so I think it is a dream.

I have a lot of dreams where I'm just doing what I normally do everyday, I sometimes figure out that it's a dream just before I wake up. The only other dreams I remember having lately is several dreams which involve supernatural beings showing up the local shopping mall for some reason...

This troper has had several such experiences. The most memorable was a dream she had in which a company had engineered a devastating pandemic and then began giving out the cure with a side of mind control after the political, social, and economic systems apart. She then found due a fault in her 'cure' she was one of very few capable of taking the company down. This resulted in assaination attempts, chase scenes, conspiracies and teaming up with a group with in the company/government planning to take it down from the inside. It was epic, and quite disappointing to be living my ordinary life when I woke up.

Other such experiences include going through day-to-day life and a recent dream where she was raped, and got pregnant. The first thing she did upon waking up was check to see if she was really pregnant, thankfully, she wasn't.

Oh... endlessness has a few of those.

One night, he was studying some differential equations when his graphing calculator (an HP 50G) suddenly crashed and gave an error message, requiring a full reset. OK, resetted it, nothing of value was lost, but later he dreamt of the same calculator repeatedly crashing.

Often, computer crashes/errors/glitches happen on his dreams. Many a time he has dreamt of a hard drive crashing, or something deleting partitions on his hard drive, or sudden failures of network infrastructure...

This troper recently dreamed that she was on the BAU team on ''CriminalMinds'', and she was trying to catch a serial killer who drugged his victims and left them to drown in huge vats of congealing Jell-O in a warehouse. She did get to work with Everybody's Favorite, but his hair was still long and he was wearing it in pigtails.

Sometimes I have dreams involving my childhood best friend. In most of them, we bump with each other on the street, or she transfers into my school. I always wake up sad after those dreams, since she moved to another state 5 years ago and it's pretty unlikely we'll ever contact again.

This troper had a weird dream once, when he was 13 or 14 years old. It took place in my school's gymnasium, only there was a Call of Duty 4-like battle in it. My colleagues were dressed like soldiers. It was all blurry and confusing, like most of my dreams, but one thing was very different. By the end of it, I saw a friend/crush of mine getting killed by another guy, but he didn't look like a student. I simply freaked out, tackled the guy down and pulled a knife. I felt the guy's blood gush in my face. I felt the knife pierce his flesh, just like you would feel if stabbing a meat on the kitchen. The dream ended soon after, but I was sweating cold. Then some years later, I had another dream like that, much more graphic, where I fought a guerrila-dressed thug on a school where my mom works. I picked up a Machete and stabbed the guy over and over again, including on the crotch.

This Troper had a dream that Scribblenauts was based off of a Disney Movie that never aired, yet was known enough to get a TV Tropes page. In it, Maxwell time traveled into the 24th and one half century or something. Also, he got Ret Goned near the end, yet was still able to used his Rewriting Reality powers in the real world. Yep, Maxwell is that Badass.

This Troper just had a dream last night that a building collapsed and a bunch of his friends went to rebuild it, anyways one of his friends hooked him up with a girl despite the fact that he was kinda asexual so he was a little upset...anyways, when he met her on steps inside another building...he froze, she was a long haired brunette, liked wearing blue dresses, had green eyes, a little shorter than me and was very very kind...so we hung out a bunch of times and i actually started to like her(me liking someone is like totally impossible:O) so we actually started to date and i had so much fun! i actually loved her and i really enjoyed how i was able to be her boyfriend, i was ecstatic, i was euphoric, i was....(dare i say it) HAPPY!!! ...that is...until i accidentally eavesdropped on a conversation she was having on a friend on the phone...talking about how she was just playing and using me just to break me even harder in the end:/ she got off the phone and walked over to wherever i was, she told me that tommorrow we were going to go shoe shopping...but i told her that i had something else to do and i just...ran off crying....the details are vague but if i remember correctly she jumped off her porch using a chair which her maid then threw into the street for letting her get hurt, i think she went into a concussion or something, when she got better she confronted me the day after the building had been repaired and knew i knew she was a fake so she asked to make up for it with snack food...i politely declined her offer..and soon after...i just left town...heartbroken...never to be remembered..again.......and then i woke up...:'( even in my dreams....noone ever loved me for real...

This troper has a friend in MIT who occasionally dreams about getting psets done, but she wakes up and they're still unanswered with x hours left until they're due (closest she's done that is like 3 hours, I think?). Also, this troper herself dreams of things that she's seen on Food Porn Daily, as well as coffee.

This troper had a rather...strange dream last night. He dreamed that Gozaburo Kaiba had subdued and bound Archie Andrews' father on a rooftop in the middle of a rainy night...before challenging Ash Ketchum to a Pokemon battle. It was all set to be a major CrowningMomentOfAwesome...and then I woke up.

This troper doesn't dream very much, but he did have one dream that felt like lasted for a week. When he woke up he had to spend the next hour trying to figure out what happened and what day it was. He also had a dream where his cousin died and it took him 2 days to realize the whole thing was a dream.

I once had a dream where half way through I realized it was a dream and I spent the rest of the dream trying to convince the person I was with it was all a dream

After watching the PhantomoftheOpera before bed, I had a dream in which the phantom turned into Gerard Way of MyChemicalRomance and things went down in that peacock bed. Fast forward about eight months and I'm climbing trees in the back yard with my brother. Fast forward again, and my six year old son is asking me why he has three daddies and only one mommy (because daddy is gay and both he and mommy re-married) Also, at the time of this dream, I was thirteen years old. It took me a few minutes to figure out that none of this had actually happened.

This troper had a dream that her ideal guy fell for her, held hands, had the akward, "I think I love you" moment, everything. Then she woke up. She was not pleased with this, to the point of tears.

D'awww.

When I was In secondary School I had a dream that after one teacher did something really kind for us students , the vice-principle walked into our lunch hall and told us if we wanted to live throught the day we would have to kill another student . Me and my two friends walked out into the school parking lot and I told them we should team up , but was promptly told off by a teacher from my Primary School that "There would be no cheating". Walking into the main school building and seeing a awesome/terrifying giant fight scene involving students of all ages. I walked up to a classmate of mine who was being strangled from Behind by a guy i didnt like. I grabbed the guy by the hood and pulled him violently back. He fell back to the ground and busted his head , dieing instantly.My classmate thanked me , and I told him since I had helped him , he shouldnt attack me and then I walked away. It then jumped to me strangling a guy I didnt know and then walking off to the vice-principle and telling him I had done my bit. I woke up and spent a minute thinking it had really happened. I dont dream much , but when I do , there very weird like this and convincing.

This troper remembers not long before the time of writing he had a very convincing dream where he is nonetheless in some sort of reality that he had first arrived in another universe, which seemed more like a late 1950s-early 1960s version of ours which had some modern hairstyles by comparison, and where he was put to work by a movie director CorruptCorporateExecutive alongside a bunch of celebrity types with suspiciously familiar names. In the universe of that dream I noticed everything was kept at a 1950s pop culture stasis minus a lot of the subversion, and began having hallucinations where I heard the song Schism by Tool, when I began to notice that the dream's setting was in some kind of CrapsaccharineWorld where a coup led by J Edgar Hoover had taken over the United States in history, starting with a quiet coup but leading to a world where a mix of banality and brutality was used to keep their government powerful where Hollywood was now a government branch, and that there was an underground who believed that universe was somehow altered or 'wrong' and that it wasn't how the real world was supposed to go. Surprisingly, that self-proclaimed awakened underground were very large and entrenched, but the Hooverists, led by a PresidentEvil was very unhappy with such to the point ''where government hit squads began'' ''actively killing these people as if they were terrorists'' though they did not do anything but ''because of reports they had supernatural powers as well''...

I went to sleep one sunday night, I was in 8th grade, woke up late that monday, and rushed to school with no breakfast, or my usual hour of morning video game playing. None of my friends went to school that day, I had tons of homework assigned to me, and I was pretty sure I failed a test. I got off the bus and walked home, just really glad to be done with it all, and looking forward to some actual food and perhaps a bit of video game playing before getting to work on my mountain of homework. I pull out my keys and unlock the door to my house...Then I woke up, apparently having slept in, and rushed to school, with it being monday morning still! The weirdest thing was that the day went almost EXACTLY like the dream, except I was in a much worse mood during the real monday because I had already gone through it all.

I've had quite a few dreams where I become a zombie hunter during the apocalypse. I'm always so disappointed when I wake up! For example, I was dreaming that I was in a flashy hotel, and when I went to the bathroom, three zombies who all looked suspiciously like Tobi from Naruto started attacking. I then pulled a machine gun from a sink and started killing them. Somehow along the way I picked up a baseball bat, two hairstylists, and a wife. We all carried on killing Zombie-Tobi's and saved everyone in the hotel and I was hailed as queen (for reasons unexplained). I was so disappointed when I woke up and realised it was AllJustADream!

This troper is often disappointed by his sad lack of dream recall and the usually boring or very unclear nature of the few dreams I do recall. However, I've had a few good ones:

Last year, I had a dream involving myself, a bunch of my friends, and this random girl from school who I wasn't friends with and hardly ever talked to (although, admittedly, she was extremely attractive). Anyway, we were all on the roof of a tall building, and we needed to get down, but for some reason, the only way of doing so was to climb down the walls AssassinsCreed style. My friends were all saying things like "You go first." "No way, I don't wanna die! You go first!" The girl, who, it should be noted, is actually pretty nerdy and not the least bit ActionGirl-like, just rolls her eyes, says "You guys are such ''babies''!" and proceeds to start climbing down like it's no big deal. Everyone stares at the edge where she climbed down, stunned. Then I think, "Well, if she can do it, so can I," and start climbing down. It's surprisingly easy. I end up in the middle of a clothes rack in a department store. Then I woke up.

I had this one in junior high. We were playing King of the Hill in gym class, but with real dirt-and-grass hills inside the gym. My team lost, so we were told our families weren't allowed to eat for a week. I was devastated, and ran away from school. On the way home, I met a bum selling kittens, who gave me money to secretly feed my family. (In hindsight, that's rather ironic.) I started crying, I was so grateful. Then we were suddenly in an underwater version of my living room; I was SpiderMan, he was Venom, and we were fighting. He had a device on my wrist that was addling my brain, so I was losing miserably. Then the device's battery died, and I staged a comeback. The end.

More recently, I had a dream where I was in a race to ice-skate across the country. Everyone was on this frozen-over highway that had in previous years proved to be the best way of completing the race. However, this year, the ice was thin and full of holes, making it more crunchy-ice-walking than ice-skating. We collectively decided to take a rest, so we stopped. One guy decided to snowboard on a nearby hill, but had an accident and somehow got decapitated. Shocked, I picked up his head, not believing what I was seeing until the head fell out of the helmet. I looked at my mom, who was completely calm (in real life, she's very emotional, worries a lot, and loves animals and old people). Convinced that she hadn't seen or didn't understand, I held out the head and said, "Look! ''He's decapitated!''" She responded, "I know. Stop making such a big deal out of it." Everyone was freaked out by her reaction, and we all continued on to get away from her, leaving her with the corpse.

I recently had a dream where I wrote in my school textbook and ripped some pages out of it in the middle of class. The kids around me were going to tell the teacher, and I felt immense guilt and fear. The teacher took my book and said I had to pay for it. Then I woke up. Everything felt so real that it was almost scary.

This Troper has a few dreams that she remembers to this day, and all of them are weird.

"My Dad is Miyamoto". She dreamt that her dad and her took a blood test, and it came out false. So, we looked all around, searching for the father, and came across ShigeruMiyamoto, who, as a blood test determines, ''was'' my real dad and we have an awkward car drive, then I wake up a bit disappointed.

"Were-Vamp-Superman Banana". The beginning of the dream was like a Point-And-Click AdventureGame, but then it turns to a first person view of a camera struggling, and it's Superman turning into a Werewolf-Vampire. He runs into a building and complains about it in a German Accent, and it turns out that he turns into a Werewolf-Vampire every time he sees a stolen banana. It pans over to a kid overhearing this, stealing a banana. I wake up, checking if there's any missing LSD tablets.

"The Review". I'm reading a review of an anime on a computer, with screenshots and everything. The light on the computer is really blurry, so the words were hard to make out, but then it stopped being blurry, and I read the sentence, "the animation is as you could expect from Gonzo. Gonzo. Gonzo." 'Gonzo' keeps repeating in my head by the legion, and then it suddenly stops when I wake up in a cold sweat.

I have had a few really odd dreams in the past. One of these dreams involved me and my husband at what seemed to be a Pokemon theme park. We walked around for a while and then I got separated from my love. I ended up at some construction entrance and was scratching my head when I saw a huge Pikachu bulldozer. Yes, I kid you not. The bulldozer came after me at top speed and I ran away, into some random building that had popped up. As I was cowering in the building, a black haired girl came up to me and said something about how she is spreading this incredibly lethal sickness so EVERYONE WILL DIE. She proceeded to vomit a thick white foam on me, flecked with blood. It hurt, surprisingly. I woke up right after that.

Another dream I had started out at my old high school (I was going to high school at the time)to find some odd...parade going on. After this was over, I walked to the gym to find...a whitewater river gushing with full force out of the gym's bleachers. Did I find this weird? Of course not. I even walked up to a guy who DID NOT go to my school and asked him if our SUNDAY SCHOOL teacher (who did not work at this high school) said it was ok to ride the river. Then all of the sudden the river dissapeared and in its place was a wheelchair ramp. A guy I knew from my freshman year was going up it on crutches, then suddenly sat down. He took his leg off. No, not a prosthetic. His real leg. Just pops it off. Then some blonde preppy girl walks up and asks sweetly, "Can I help you put this back on?" She then proceeds to try and put the leg back on but is failing. Not because the leg is simply unattached...oh no. The ends of the legs have gone from a bloody mess to round, smooth, and shiny. She was trying to bash the two rounded parts together to no avail. For a long time, I hard time telling people the last part of the dream without giggiling insanely.

I typically have rather avant-garde, anachronistic, inexplicable dreams. In a rather anachronistic dream, this troper inexplicably had found four Game Boy Advances on a ditch in playable condition. The old 2001 ones, not the SP models. The only problem, they bear other peoples' names. And I was at least a hundred miles away from them, as I was near an auto-body shop (which had 70s era muscle cars). Why? I don't know. I decided not to give a damn. It was all a dream.

Another dream: me and a friend were in a city in China, circa 20 years in the future (paradoxically at our ages at the time), and in eternal night. Every light was an LED and everywhere seemed like Times Square. Don't ask why. Everything about the place seemed weird to me, and every entrance had a guard speaking borderline understandable Chinese. All they said that I could understand was either 走吧。 or 停吧。 I understood and my friend didn't. We entered into a railroad station (which only seemed to do high-speed). Don't ask me where we intended to go and why. While my friend, being my friend and doing his old stunts (like we would in class) got arrested along with me, we got taken away, missing the train. That's where the dream cuts off.

Yet another dream. We were in November (that was also when I had the dream) and after pleading for a snow day the winter months swing by during that dream. Reality sets in when I woke up and it is still November.

I once had a dream, where we were in the middle of a Zombie holocaust, and me and a group of my friends were hiding under an abandoned skatepark with another group of strangers. But then one of them decided to go out for a cigarette, leading the zombies to our location. We were all swiftly torn apart.

I always have lucid dreams. This may be due to the sheer amount of video games I play. Sometimes, I have a dream based in real life, but I gain video game-like abilities. There was one where I was being bullied in school, but then I started mimicking this glitch. There was another one where I helped the Queen (can't remember exactly what it was), and she gave me £300. Then there are dreams that are just pure MindFuck, even screwing with my memory.

This morning (06/24/2011) Edgy had a dream that he was fired from his job.

This troper REALLY hates those dreams where he receives the item he desires (like a 3DS). Why do they have to end? :(

God, PhantomDusclops92 makes WEIRD dreams. The last one was about a children book where two detective mice are investigating about some cattle theft. At a point it's revealed that one of the cows is a female mouse in disguise. She removes her disguise, then [[{{Squick}} she pulls off sausages from her vagina and stabs it, because "cow blood can give birth defects" and so it would be sterilized. ]] in a book for ''children''.

Congratulations tvtropes, as you are the first to here this depressing one. My friend's mother had recently died, and I dreamed she came back, though, for some reason, no one made a big deal about it. When This troper woke up, he felt empty.