Edit: oh God, huge wall of text below D:
I used to have nightmares almost every night until a few years ago. I don't know why they stopped, but I miss
having them, since I woke up refreshed from them and liked to "weave" them together in order to remember them
(kind of like creating stories). As for the topics, I've never had "normal" nightmares, all had to do
with the supernatural: zombies, vampires, zombie vampires (I'm not joking), zombie skeletons, even zombie worms. This is all because I watched Night of the Living Dead when I was 5 years younger than the little
notice at the beginning said was the recommended age. However, this has also had a positive effect on me, as I became a
horror movie buff! Oh, and I've also dreamed of drowning, being boiled to death, being shot in the head, flying,
swimming, killing others etc.
Writing them down is a good way to not forget them, but I tried it once and gave up because it took away from the
emotional impact of said dreams.
One dream I remember was with me and two random girls in a town (my mind usually creates entire worlds, in high visual detail), during daytime - bright, happy colors, peaceful atmosphere and all that.
I was trying to get them to hurry up in order to escape from a Sadako (The Ring)-type girl (they didn't know about
her and just kept talking and laughing normally). When we got onto a bus and drove away, I had the sensation of being in
a loop (I think I realized it on another level of consciousness, I was in the bus and at the same time
"outside" it, a distant observer). So I broke a window and exited the loop - the getting on the bus and
driving away sequence had been repeating itself up to that point, even though each time it ended it was like the memory
of it was erased. I think the other girls disappeared or went away, but I was feeling really good (mentally) and very
tired (physically), so I leaned against a pole with a big black garbage bag leaned against it. And just a few
centimeters away from touching the garbage bag, I knew it was actually that girl and that she had found me, even though
I thought I had escaped her. At this point I woke up (in real life) like I'd never woken up in my entire life: my
eyes just shot open to the maximum, I was half conscious of the bed below me and my body was practically rigor mortis
rigid. Then I came to and relaxed and went back to sleep (the dream didn't continue).
It's weird because I'm not scared of ghosts, zombies are what usually get me and this girl wasn't one
^^" Who wants to get a kick out of analyzing this? 8d
I don't think I've had recurring settings, but during some dreams I've had a very strong sensation of
deja vu, like I had dreamed them before. Most settings in dreams are city limits, though I once had an awesome (from my
POV) dream where the sky was covered with thick, gray clouds and I was walking on a highway with other highways above
and below it (never intersecting, though), bending in round corners - kind of like the race track sets of toy cars.
There was thick mist everywhere and, when it began raining lightly, I felt very powerful, as if I could control the
storm itself and destroy all the highways with just a swish of my hand, if I wanted to.
angelxxuan is right, I've been wanting to get a hold of a dream interpreting book. Though make sure to stay away
from the bogus "magic dreams" ones, stuff like "if you dream of X, someone will get hurt/married/dead.
