Man you guys have some very interesting dreams. I usually don’t remember or have any good dreams so lucid dreams sound cool but the risk of sleep paralysis just doesn’t seem worth it
I think there are methods to become lucid other than ways that will risk sleep paralysis.
I’m no good at achieving lucidity, though. It’s only ever happened to me once (my Mom said I got a free trip to Japan and I somehow knew there was no way that could be real, so I realized I was dreaming).
This is irrelevant but I really feel like i had a dream that involved Kyousuke in it at some point. Like, Kyousuke was trying to convince me to play baseball or something. I’m not sure, and it’s frustrating me that I can’t remember 
Edit: Kyousuke was actually trying to convince me to start a soccer team with him.
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I dreamt a long while back that I was in this bizarre athletics team and Kyousuke was a team member. He was such a bro, too. He saved my place in the end-game parade around the stadium. :3
EDIT - 9/16: I remember going to a small convenience store to buy chocolate. I gave the cashier ten dollars ahead of time and went to go check out the chocolate. Halfway through grabbing as much chocolate as I could purchase, I changed my mind and decided I wanted my money back. I moved back to the cashier’s cash register, where I discovered that the cashier had left. I stealthily opened the register and looked for the ten dollar bills. All the bills were marked with people’s names, so I just looked for my own bill before closing the register and leaving. Not a very exciting dream, I admit. 
This may have been hypnopompic hallucinations. They seem to accompany Sleep Paralysis often. More on that below.
I’ve only had it once, and yup, it was on one night I was reading Saya’s Song. You know when something says “Some viewers might find this disturbing. Discretion is advised”? Well, put me into that category with that VN.
So just before waking up, I think I had sleep paralysis, and yeah, I saw some shadowy figure appearing in my sight and it was terrifying, but just as it was coming, suddenly I would wake up again, like if I had fallen asleep again or everything was just a dream. It happened various times in a row, so maybe it was a dream inside a dream inside a dream, but I would wake up in the same position always, and feel a presence there. In the last iteration, I was able to keep awake but unable to move for a while, and even after waking up I had a disgusting sensation in my body.
TLDR: Saya no Uta may give you nightmares, but for me it was sleep paralisys + hallucinations.
That’s a popular theory but I don’t think it’s the case. I clearly remember waking up one day after dreaming of seeing a trailer of Harry Potter and the Prince Half Blood and saying “Harry potter and a prince? No way”. Then a lot of time after that, the Deja Vu moment happened.
I’m always skeptical about supernatural things but some Coppenhagen Interpretation thing is happening here.
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Oh, boy. Last night’s dream was a very exciting one. Probably the best I’ve had in years. :3
I remember wandering around a large exotic shopping mall in the middle of a large city, and I discovered a food court. I ordered something there, and watched other people talk. I keep coming back to this same food court, where eventually fights break out. I got roped into a weird steampunk adventure, which ended with blowing up a building and teleporting to a beautiful meadow surrounding the beach near the Gulf of Mexico. The weather was cloudy and cool, and I sat down with my friends, thinking to myself where I would go from here.
The second part took place during a war in the parking lot of my local Wal-Mart. I fought a hard battle, hiding in bunkers and throwing explosives which totaled cars, tanks and people (including little children, unfortunately). I was aiding the migration of a town of midget outcasts to settle in a new town, something the neighboring villages were not happy about. Near the end of the battle I was forced to retreat with a few survivors, including my mother. We hid in a gas station owned by one of the girls in our group, and as we relaxed, my mom asked everyone if they wanted to go out for pizza. In another room, I confessed to the girl, and all her relatives approved of our marriage. I remember seeing a beautiful small-scale ceramic mansion given to the girl as a wedding present, along with several learning tools our future child. I spent a great deal of time planning about the amount of furniture we would have in our house, all the while smiling and tearing up at the same time. My mom looked proud of me, giving me some advice while some beautiful piano music was playing.
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When I first read your post I read it as “erotic” Kappa.
Anyways I have had literally one of the weirdest yet coolest dreams lately, and what Im about to tell you is what I told some ppl on discord.
So basically I was in a dream, full of cats… Yep it was a cat world, but not a casual one okay?
Everyone I ever knew, friends, family… whoever, turned into a cat. The cats could speak and some of them had some things representing their mood or character. For example on of my friends, that is pretty gentleman-ish, was a cat with a black suit and a top hat driking a cup of tea… yeah. And there were A LOT … friends/cats like that. Almost everyone I have ever known. But I only remember a few of those. (A cat with a big scarf looking into the sky being badass, yet thinking about pervy stuff etc.)
The reason why I remember this dream so specifically was, that I had a homework for my subject - psychology of art. And the proffesor wanted us to draw our dreams. So if I manage to get back the picture ill update the post with my drawing xD.
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I have one dream that I can remember is The Alien occupied some area of my house, It was a strange dream.
First, You can imagine that Aliens that I saw in my dream is similar to the game named Alien: Isolation. Alright let’s start about my dream, it’s start at after I got up, (looks like I have entered to my dream world, I can feel it.) I felt hungry (normally) so I have tried find some foods that kept in my kitchen room to eat but the surprises event was happened that when I entered Kitchen room, there are 3 aliens in my kitchen room! and after I saw it, I have tried to escape but strange when I’m trying to escape it’s not pursue me. So I have tried to see it again. After I opened the door, they saw me already but they’re not attacking me. and when I tried to go inside the kitchen room they are preparing to attack me. So I can thought it out why, because they found many foods in kitchen and I knew that they don’t know who owned these foods and they will not get away from that area until the food is running out. I’ve not idea how to deal with it. So I decided to let them occupied my kitchen room (because it’s a good way to avoid getting hurt) and after I closed the kitchen room, I woke from my dream.
Is it strange? Yeah, I have no idea about them where are they come from? At least, it was not my nightmare.
So I finally kinda remembered my dream and it was quite bizzare. So first it started with me as myself and I was like supposedly watching a game of starcraft 2. I heard somehow that Husky from HuskyStarcraft made a deal or something with the players where the win condition of the game would be something really weird like kill your self but still win? I have no fucking clue. The game wasn’t even starcraft but like a mix of starcraft, LoL, smash bros, and 100% orange juice. Anyways in the second part of my dream I became one of the characters in game. I vaguely remember shit getting mixed up. I remember being in my bed at the same time as being in the bottom left corner of summoner rift at the same time as being in the bottom left of an orange juice map at the same time as being lucario in smash at the same time as not actually playing starcraft at all. And then I guess I was Raynor or something and then the opponent was probably kerrigan. I was trying to prevent my opponent from going home. Oh yeah I guess baseball got mixed into this shit too. I was trying to prevent my opponent from going home which was the bottom left corner. She went to the top left corner and I kinda gave chase but the she used a card. Somehow she exploded but then got back to home and won. And then the third phase of the dream started. I was walking around the town as myself and then hella people were watching the game on their phones and stuff like an esport broadcast on tv. Everyone was confused as fuck but I was laughing cuz I was the only one who knew the win condition was different than normal. And then I ended up getting food at a buffet and then my dream ended.
So while on muscle relaxers and a sizable dose of melatonin, me trying to sleep yesterday led to some very annoying brain games. Sort of a funky daydreaming weird thing here, a bit different.
I’m currently playing through FFXIII, this is important.
So, for many years now I get this horrible pain in my chest and shoulders for no real known reason, most likely a nerve issue- But anyways, the pain makes it hard to sleep because, well, breathing is very painful. Leaves me more gasping for air in between dealing with ouchies instead of breathing. So, in this, I was kind of wavering in and out of being awake and aware and in this endless hypnagogic state where my mind started to… This is hard to explain- Without me willingly doing this, gave the pain a visualization in my mind. Like, it applied the pain to something else…? Like uh, I forgot what it’s called, but like the idea in hypnosis or therapy where a person visualizes stress into a substance that they then dissipate, and it dissipates with that. Like say a draining body of water or something, where the water is the pain/stress.
Anyways- Instead of just dealing with the reality of the pain until I got used to it, there was this uncontrollable envisioning of the pain as class in my very own crystarium. My brain attributed the pain as an evolution, and as I watched this continue to level up, the pain became less and less prevalent and more a partner to my self. More, harmony, as it grew. My character when in this class had to deal with recoil, or the pain, however was very effective in all other areas. The pain was like a balance to the class, and as it leveled up not only did I physically feel less pain and fell deeper into sleep, but the chuuni vision of RPG me also received less recoil while maintaining great capabilities.
I guess what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? It was a trip and also annoying because I was aware of what my mind was doing, as well as the fact that it was so heavily influenced by what I’ve been doing. I could purposefully force myself to not let it go on, but the instant I stopped focusing on it it went right back to continuing this weird autonomic journey. There were a lot more parts to it that I don’t recall- Nonexistent dialogue made up to explain the process by faceless characters in my own nonexistent party that all more or less left it at ‘this role is necessary to getting better’.
I’m weird.
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Dreaming about a game is something weird in itself. Other people (non-gamers) who have never played seriously say it’s only a game so they have never had the experience of dreaming by the rules of a fictional world. Which is awesome. You can feel special.
I remember playing through the story of Carl in BlazBlue Calamity Trigger, and then falling asleep and dreaming about the characters and their ordeal (not gonna say spoilers), but that dream was possibly what got me engaged in the story of the game.
So what games have you been in in your dreams? Have you ever dreamt about a game that wasn’t story driven (like VNs or RPGs)? I haven’t (that I can remember).
I usually don’t remember too many of my dreams, but I did have one between my first and second alarms this morning that, for whatever reason, actually stuck vividly in my mind
Scenario: Large hall/chamber of some sort… Dark walls (maybe stone? Maybe some other matte dark material?). The only two people I can recall being actually present are Saber from F/Z / F/SN and an Assassin-class Gilgamesh? The color of the other person was gold, although I don’t recall a face/name ever being mentioned.
The point in the dream I actually remember is that Saber is going through some form of a ceremony in which she is asked to come up a set of stairs, and into a different room… The one requirement being that she leave Excaliber below in the original room. I recall the main focal point being Saber’s separation from her weapon, and a mental struggle ensuing within her. She eventually decides to sheath it, and leave it standing on end at the base of the stairs. As she ascends the stairs, from the opposite wall a Gate of Babylon-like structure opens within the wall, and a gold-clad assassin class servant emerges.
This was sadly the moment that asleep Gnashes decided to turn into awake Gnashes, which is probably why I actually remember some details of the dream. It’s likely due to my recent binge run through F/Z that I had the dream, but oh well…
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I’m not even sure how I remember this much but I do. This dream is two parts so far, the first being like 3 weeks ago and the second was last night. Anyways here we go with part one.
So I’m definitely not myself in this dream. idk who I am but I’m some kid in a fictional academy with really smart people or something. But anyways I’m walking around in my school and then zombie apocalypse breaks out inside the school. Now these zombies don’t look like zombies but the signs are that they walk slower and then when they get close they just charge you. So I saw some people get rekt by zombies and then I ran… somewhere… and fought something… Occasionally I would be outside of my dream body and basically watching a different scene. So I was watching some little kid who would later help me out. Notably the kid knew some form of martial arts and had a guard dog with him. Then I went back to myself and fought stuff again and ran and stuff and then I woke up.
Remember part 1 was a few weeks ago so I don’t remember too much. Then moving on to part 2.
So I was fighting some crazy fks that probably weren’t even human, one I don’t even know if they were even zombie. But anyways I found and used a cane as a weapon which worked pretty well for a while cuz it had longer range and blunt force trauma would kill. So at this point I had two of my irl friends in my dream helping me. And they helped me fight. Also notably this iteration of zombie could talk and stuff. So a few times someone would tell me to attack on the count of three and then try to backstab me but I dodged every time. And then I fought some crazy masochist lady who was neither human nor zombie. She was strong and knocked my cane out but somehow I was able to keep her on the wall. So I ended up grabbing a fork and then stabbing her but it basically had no effect. Then I used the fork to stab her in the… and that worked…? kinda… I don’t really know at all. And then she basically surrendered due to turning on reasons so I left that sh*t. Hence why crazy masochist was used to describe her. But anyways I ran out and then realized I didn’t have my op cane so I ran back in but it was just gone and then the quarantine walls closed. So now we were stuck inside and zombies still around so we ran into this staircase area behind a closed door and ran up the stairs. I ran up last and then they were just gone. I heard like a squad of little kids training and I think they were basically raising an army of whatever they had to fight and later break out. So I ran upstairs but my friends disappeared and then my scene shifted again to the kid with the dog who would later meet me. He was going down the stairs. My scene then again cut and I woke up.
So maybe eventually I’ll have a part 3 for this dream. I’m still suprised how much I remember from the first part since it was so long ago. It’s really weird.
Had a dream I woke up in a place, kinda like Best Buy, but everything they had was anime related. Tried finding the things I love, which were Key, and then I found the Rewrite VN CD copy, translated in English for sale. Then i grabbed it and went to purchase it but no one was there. Then the alarm came on and I woke up to reality. It was such a depressing dream.
When I was a kid I had this recurring dream where I was trapped in a city with a permanent sunset, there was a girl I loved and she had said she’d meet me under the bridge but I’d keep waiting for her and she wouldn’t show up. Sometimes I’d walk the streets looking for her but most of the time I’d wait under the bridge.
I honestly think it’s because I loved Kanon so much. The town in Kanon has an almost perma-sunset too.
That sounds so scary o.o waiting under a bridge during sunset, for a girl who never comes. But then if you mention Kanon, it feels less scary, ya know ? Cause the sun set in Kanon is really something where you can consider and call smoothing, and calm.
Yeah it was actually a nightmare. In the dream I know that I will wait for her for all of eternity, and I feel that this is all I’ve ever done. I was always really upset when I woke up. It sounds more like the illusionary world in Clannad, but that anime hadn’t been made yet.
I only mention Kanon in retrospect, the sunset in my dream was sinister, but I think Kanon 2006 is probably the source of that visual being in my mind.
I’ve had shopping haul dreams too! They’re the best… and then they’re the worst :komue:
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That would make a great story if you dwelled into your dreams a bit more. Well, if you ever had that dream again. Though waiting for someone for eternity when they won’t come, is actually something scarier than it sounds like. It’s actually a depressing story if you ask me.
Make sure to tell me who that “person” is if you ever have that dream again 
I would like to know how your dream story ends 
It sounds very interesting.
And yeah, Shopping dreams are very depressing 
We have false hope of getting something that probably we’ll never get in real life.
Yeah it does sound like it’d make a good novel. The girl doesn’t exist and isn’t based on anyone I know, she’s just a shadowy figure. I’m gay in real life, so it’s weird to be in love with a girl in a dream. I think the whole thing is just a metaphor for a feeling of rejection that everyone experiences.
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Those dreams are the worst… When you dream about getting something cool like a new PC or anything. You wake up, look around the room and realize that it isn’t there… Makes me sad everytime
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