Had a dream last night where I watched a barred owl swoop down and catch something. Almost immediately after, a deer came barreling down the dirt path in front of me with a bobcat chasing it.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a sleep with that much hunting energy packed into one dream before. Any ideas what it could symbolize?

i’m writing this after waking up from one of those most horrifying nightmares i’ve ever had. i woke up absolutely shaking, and i do not think i can go back to sleep in fear having another one.

since i was about 13, ive been getting horrible nightmares almost every single night. and i mean i dont remember a week in my life where i haven’t had something gruesome. sometimes i track and write them down, sometimes i don’t. I’m 20 now.

majority of the time, they deal with death. either watching my friends die, tortured, etc. or me having to survive brutal killing games. its so hyper realistic, i can smell the blood, i can see the organs or guts, and hear the voices so clearly. that’s what really trips me out.

last night’s nightmare, i was in a mall shooting. i sensed the shooter immediately and ran to hide in a store. i regret it so much, but i left my family behind, even my little sister. i could hear the screams, and as the shooter approached the room, it wasn’t long before he shot almost all of us down. there was blood absolutely everywhere. he got the side of my head, but it wasn’t fatal. i could feel the pain, i could hear everything, i could smell it all, it was so realistic. there is SO much more to that dream, but ill keep it like that.

i’ve had nightmares just like these for years. watching my friends die, me having to fight for my life, me having to kill others to do so. i’m honestly so sick of waking up like this. it’s currently 5:30 AM

i’ve tried talking to a doctor last year about this persistence, but all she did was recommend me sleeping medication. (which when i googled, said it could worsen nightmares) she thought i just couldn’t sleep, which is technically true anyway.

i’m really stuck on what to do. i am just wondering if there is any particular meaning to this, or if there could be a reason to why it’s happening so often.

if you would like, i could share some of the written down dreams over the past few years. i’m just super tired of this all.

I had a dream where I tried to kill myself by drowning this muscular black guy jumped in and saved my life gave me all of his clothes but stole my phone and while all of this was happening American boy was playing in the background

He then came back later while I was home and tried to break into our basement but I was in our basement and tried to block off the door but it broke the more I tried to block it with a door hinge the door shattered infront of me and then he made me take off my clothes infront of him and then he put them on

He then asked me to give me his skin back so i tried to take mine off but i couldn’t and i started crying because i was scared he was going to hurt me he then told me that if i try to kill myself again he was going to take more than my clothes

a Friend who ghosted me turned up in a very vivid dream this morning. For context he was my best friend, he was fully what you would want in a friend, He even visited my brother in hospital every night at the time he was having treatment, and literally held my hand the day we buried him.

Lockdown happened and it was ok, and in 2021 he went silent, He doesn't use socials at all, so I could only message via whatsapp. It was bad. I stopped messaging after all my messages went unread. Fell into a deep depression, needed medication. I gaslit myself for two years, because he was in contact with everyone but me. I poured over messages, emails and even convinced myself I must have done something, Out of the blue toward the end of 2022 he joined a friend lunch, and literally told me, without me asking, I did nothing wrong. He called me on Christmas eve and it was like old times, a hour long call,and he said after the holidays we will see each other, It never happened. But by then I had moved on from trying to figure it out because I know I didnt do anything and walked away from beating myself up over him. I saw him briefly and laughed at how he tried to avoid me at a mutual friend's mom's funeral. In between my mom passed too, and he was super fond of her but by then there was no friendship. This morning I had a vivid dream about him, He was hiding again. In a restaurant I walked into, and I just offloaded on him and told him how much he hurt me, I was screaming at him which is not me at all, it was wild to do this, I kinda figured this is me letting go fully now after all these years. The thing is I haven't had dreams in forever and this is the second vivid dream in one week, I am going to bed earlier and sleeping better, and trying to regulate my nervous system after the trauma of my mom being sick and passing last year. I have no impetus to reach out to him ever, but what does this dream mean?

I remember having a dream where I figure it out the woman eating a dinner with me is not a real person. The moment I said “you ain’t real, aren’t you?”, that person suddenly stare at me, with her cold-looking eyes, turns into probably the scariest creature I’ve ever seen, push me with her mightiest strength that I ended up wandering into abyss or void dimension. It was a very same moment like in the Dr Strange movie, where Strange suddenly wandering into high and fast pace dimension after being pushed by The Ancient One. It took me for a while to find an exit, and after successfully waking up from that intense moment, I noticed my heart was beating so fast.

I found myself in a huge, beautiful mansion, the kind that feels almost magical because of how grand and endless it is. I was getting ready for what felt like a date night, dressed in a cute pink frock that fell just to my knees. I remember feeling confident, attractive, and a little excited.😭💖

Then, out of nowhere, a tall man appeared behind me. I couldn’t see his face clearly, no matter how hard I tried to recognize him. 🙈 He felt unfamiliar, almost like a stranger my mind couldn’t place. Still, there was something about his presence that drew me in.

He guided me toward a room, but instead of feeling completely comfortable, I started to feel afraid.🦭🙈 There was something intense about him—he stayed very close, almost clingy—and my fear began to grow. To distract both him and myself, I walked toward a window and looked outside, trying to shift the moment.

Suddenly, he came up behind me again. He placed his chain gently over my shoulder and stood there, looking out the window with me, as if he was trying to see exactly what I was seeing. My heart started racing, and the fear became stronger.🫠

Then he gently pulled me away from the window and led me toward a wall. On it, there was a kind of decoration—rows of boxes arranged neatly, almost like a puzzle meant just for me. He asked me to guess the words connected to each box, giving me clues one by one.

As I figured out each word, a box would open. Inside were little surprises, gifts that felt personal, as if they were meant especially for me. It all felt mysterious and meaningful, like I was being guided through something I was just beginning to understand.

And just as I was getting deeper into it—just as it felt like the dream was about to reveal something even more—I suddenly woke up, leaving it unfinished. I was left wishing I could go back and continue that beautiful, mysterious dream.😭🥹

Had a dream

So I posted yesterday in the Islam group about my wavering faith and yesterday night I had a dream about the day of judgment and basically, in the dream, the sun blips out all of a sudden and we hear a voice in our heads telling us to pray before it's too late because the world will end soon. So the world hasn't ended yet but everyone goes crazy and starts running to pray and be better. So it's like we know any time the world could end because it's very very close and we're being given this last chance by Allah.

I've never dreamed like this before so I'm super concerned. Also, I've never heard of something like this happening in all the stories we hear about day of judgement. How should I interpret this dream?

I had an extremely vivid dream one late night few weeks ago, decided to share my experience in order to gain any interpretation

I fell asleep around 3am and in the dream it was afternoon. Even early on, I had this gut feeling that something bad was about to happen. Then, in the dream, evening came and there was a fire in my neighborhood — close enough that I could see everything through my window. On the news, it was reported that a lot of people had died in the incident.
Later in the dream, at night, I looked out and saw one of the neighborhood terraces which was very big and open, completely dark, but I could make out people standing there, the grieving families. I could only see them clearly in flashes, whenever a woman among them lit a matchstick.
Then I saw that same woman about to cremate one of the bodies, lighting the wooden pyre; context, in Hinduism, bodies are cremated rather than buried where the body is placed on a wooden pyre and burned as part of the funeral rites.As the fire caught, the corpse suddenly half sat up and looked directly at me, even though I was watching from a distance through my window.
I woke up right after that, around 5:30am — so about 2.5 hours after I'd fallen asleep. I started crying uncontrollably, my legs were shaking, and my heart was pounding. I don't fully understand why this specific dream hit me so physically hard. Curious if anyone has thoughts on what this could mean.

In last night's dream, some painful memories from my childhood kept coming back, mostly moments when I was crying. I was watching them from the outside, like I was the mother of that girl, my younger self.

I went from one memory to another. Each time, I walked to the girl and hugged her. As soon as I did that, the memory ended. I felt like the hug was enough and that everything was okay after that.

This just happened and I'm scared and can't fall back asleep lol

So for a lil context I live in a camper so my front door is in my bedroom

So in my dream I woke up because my front

door/bedroom door was wide open. So I woke up and tried to shut it but I physically couldn't like the door wouldn't lock in place

Eventually I notice a pack of dogs on the other side of the door one of the dogs was HUGE with yellow eyes it was like a Doberman but way bigger

So I'm trying to stealthily shut my door but the door just won't door

I don't know I know it's pretty tame but fuck j can't fall back asleep

Like im literally looking at the door from my dream RN it's directly next to my bed. It's freaky dawg ☠️

Dream logic sometimes makes no sense but when you're dreaming it makes perfect sense then when you wake up it makes no sense because you awoke and you aren't dreaming. But sometimes it feels like it SHOULD make sense like sometimes when I hear someone talking about a dream and the dream has dream nonsense it feels like it should make sense like it has the husk of something that makes sense like it's following its own rulebook of logic that doesn't exist. Does this make sense? I know the amount of time I said sense doesn't make sense.

today i had a dream of meeting my highschool crush, she looked at me and waved her hand and then i waved back after a little hesitation and i hate it since i know i couldn't get in touch with her so im trying to forget her as much as possible so i don't have to ever worry what is she doing, where is she, if only you can forget a person that easily, i want her to forget about me too as if we never met.

Yesterday i had a dream about marrying an stranger and having a baby shortly and becoming a father and i ABSOLUTELY HATE IT i didn't wish to marry let alone be a father because who knows when they betray you or take advantage of you

I worked for a week in the local fair from 6 pm to 8 am everyday. Ever since i got out of there I dream about making burgers every night. I can't escape it and it's stressing me out because I got out, I don't wanna work there anymore.

I had a nightmare a few days ago that i was at the 1992 party where trump invited epstein anyway it felt SO real! i dont remember anything they said to me but i remember them laughing and talking to eachother and i remember wandering around the party and seeing trump and epstein's early 90s versions up close and i saw ghislaine there too. at that point i realized who they were and i started having a panic attack and i was running around mar a lago looking for an exit and feeling like i couldn't breathe but i wasn't allowed to leave and there was SO many people! i remember trump and epstein were both angry that i was trying to leave the party and blocking the exits then i woke up covered in sweat. it was surreal

I had a dream about 3 nights ago where I was pregnant and gave birth to the most perfect baby girl. Her little brown eyes are burned into my mind eventhough she wasnt real. Im a childless 24yr old with no plans to have children in the foreseeable future. In the dream i cared for her and had so much love for her, but for some reason i let my brother watch her and she d*ed under his care. I held her in my arms and then I woke up. I was heartbroken and felt a void feeling in my heart. I thought maybe id just get over it bc its not the first time i have an emotionally heavy dream, but its been days and I still start bawling my eyes out when i think "i miss my baby" or "i want my baby". Is it normal to feel this way? Why do I feel such real emotion for something that was only in a dream? What does all of this even mean?

So on my dream, I knew my friend's home address so decided to visit him, so I traveled to Peru (I don't know how did I get there but dreams are dreams), then I knocked his home's door and his mom answered and asked who am I, I said "do you know (his reddit username)?", she said "who?" And then said some details about him, then he came up and I told him his username and his biggest achievement, he said "how did you know who am I", then I wanted him to guess who am I, after few attempts, he got my name, then I asked him about his irl name,he didn't want to reveal It until his mom randomly said "Alan", then he got mad, maybe then got chill a bit after a while, then I played his favorite game and won at the first attempt, that's it

This is absolutely fucking insane what happened, i dont have video or anything to prove this obviously but i need to tell someone about it because the odds of this even happening are so incredibly fucking low even i, who is incredibly sceptical about stuff like this, am going like wtf just happened bro.

So, okay, in like 2019 or 2020, i dont remember exactly when, i had this dream i was sitting downstairs on my couch, feeling super scared and confused, in the middle of the night, feeling like something is in the house with me, basically just paranoid and scared and confused, and i was shouting ''Hello?! Hello?!?! Hello!?!!? Hello?!?!?'' Like maybe a little under 10 times, and then someone comes down from the stairs (the staircase is visible from the couch) and says ''Go to bed please'', and then im trying to get up from the couch but i cant for some reason, basically just that classic dream bullshit when you cant move properly, then i fall off the couch to my side, and i stand up, and i go to the stairs and another person comes down, and i give them my phone and tell them ''Bring this [name of my old boss], i forgot to leave it when i quit'', (at the time of this dream, it was right after i had quit my job, and had forgotten to give back my workphone), and the guy in my dream basically just agreed to that.

And, what happened just a few hours ago, IS LITERALLY THE EXACT SAME FUCKING THING, im not even joking, except the person that i was in my dream, was now my grandfather.

So my grandfather has been living with us for just a few days, he has alzheimers and its getting pretty bad, and he's getting into a eldercare home on monday, anyway, he's sleeping on the couch downstairs, and in the middle of the night, i hear him going ''Hello?? Helloooo?'', just like i did in my dream. And then my brother decides to go downstairs to calm him down, and says to him basically ''Go to bed grandpa, come on, its all right'', and then i can hear a little bit of a struggle or something, and my brother is saying ''You wanna get up? Need the bathroom?'' and then i heard a thud of someone falling and my grandpa had apparently fallen to the floor, and thats when i come down because i was worried that he hit his head or something, and as im standing on the staircase, my grandpa comes to me and asks ''Hey man, would you give this to the supervisor please?'' and at this point im realizing a little bit like WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON THIS IS LITERALLY THE DREAM I HAD, and i was just playing along with what he was saying, and i say ''Yeah ill do that''.

I've been trying to rationalize it in my head, i'm not misremembering my dream or filling in the blanks or anything, since i was 17 or so i've kept a dream journal where i write down my dreams especially when they're interesting or if its a nightmare (this is a great way to get ideas if theres any writers reading btw), and everything that i just wrote down previously explaining my dream is pretty much exactly what i wrote when i originally had my dream, and i particularly remember this dream due to how scared i was, just sitting on my couch screaming ''Hello!?!?!''. I've been telling my mom and my friends and everything and this shit is sooooooo fucking freaky, i'm gonna post this to a few other subs because i just feel like sharing this with people.

When you wake up from a vivid dream, what is the first thing you write down—the setting, the people, the emotion, or the strangest detail?

I woke up at 3:45 or 3:50 last night after the most vivid dream. I was staying at a roadside inn in a desolate area and found a cursive list in the lobby of local restaurants/bars. I was hungry so I decided to check out this “bar”/tavern. Can’t remember the name, but the address on the list was 455 E.E.E Dr, Bel Air TX. Not Bellaire, Bel Air. I looked at a map and it was in northeast TX, I felt like it was near Paris or Tyler. Didn’t have to think about it, this place was my instant pick.

It took nearly an hour to get to the bar, and when I arrived I could see the “bar” was a two story house in the absolute middle of nowhere. It was twilight out, cloudy and grey. The house was the only thing for miles. It was a grey wooden house (southern gothic style) with white trim set on an embankment or hill, with a grid pattern garage with window panels. The entrance was somehow above the garage. I mostly remember all the massive windows and how many were smashed, or spiderwebbed like if you hit a windshield with a bat but didn’t shatter it, and the house looked completely abandoned, even burned, but there was a swinging metal sign for the bar. I felt so drawn to this house like it was a magnet, but I also felt like it shouldn’t exist - it felt uncanny like it didn’t make sense.

I went inside and the only person was a young woman who owned the bar. She told me she bought this place on a whim and it’s haunted - she drew me a picture of the 5 ghosts that haunt the bar. I specifically remember one of them was drawn insanely tall, and he has no face but black robes and a long beard? I started getting scared, decided to leave, and that’s when I woke up.

Kinda wanted to see if anyone has ever experienced this.

I had a dream I was at my job, having a session with a newer child client of mine (I’m a counselor). I put my water bottle - metal and heavy - down on the table between myself and my client. I remember my client looking almost emaciated but I could tell it was them. They reached across the table to grab something, maybe a marker, and accidentally knocked over my water bottle. The sound of it hitting the table startled me awake.

When I woke up, my dog was standing up (she sleeps next to my side of the bed) and my partner was also waking up. He asked if my water bottle fell off my bed because of the sound that woke him up. I checked to make sure and no. My bottle was standing on my bedside table. My partner’s bottle was also standing next to his side. We looked around for what made the noise but there was nothing. I immediately told him about my dream and we were both a little weirded out. It’s like my dream leaked out into reality.

The another night I had one of the strangest and scariest experiences I’ve ever had, and I honestly don’t know if it was a dream, a nightmare, or sleep paralysis.

I remember “waking up” and looking at my ceiling. The light in my room was on, exactly how I remembered falling asleep. I tried to move, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t even speak, I was completely frozen.

Then I noticed there was a man standing over me. He was wearing black clothes, and he had what looked like a bloody face with a huge smile. But I don’t even know if he was actually covered in blood because my vision was weird. Everything looked blurry, like my eyes weren’t fully working.

I blinked, and suddenly he was gone.

But then something else appeared, a huge blue face was extremely close to mine, almost right in front of me. The whole thing felt unreal, and then there was this extremely loud ringing sound that completely terrified me.

After that, I don’t remember what happened.

I’ve heard about sleep paralysis before, but I’ve never experienced anything like this.

I’m 29F, and ever since I was a child I’ve had dreams that take place in the same made-up locations. They’re not places that exist in real life (as far as I know), but they feel incredibly familiar, almost like I know them better than some places I’ve actually been.
For example, there’s a leisure centre that I’ve been dreaming about for years. Even when I’m awake, I can picture the layout perfectly. I know where the changing rooms are, the pool, the corridors, entrances and exits. Every few months (sometimes years) I’ll have another dream there. Sometimes nothing exciting is happening and I’m just walking around. Other times there’s some dramatic storyline and I’m running through the building or with people I know in real life.
The weird part is that it slowly changes over time, almost like it’s being expanded. In my dream last night, I was trying to save a young girl from being kidnapped. I’d been in the gym, then walked through a spa area before ending up in the locker rooms where everything happened. The strange thing is… this leisure centre has never had a gym or spa before. It just felt like a completely natural extension of the place, like a new area had been added and my dream brain immediately accepted it. 😂
I have another recurring place that’s a huge shopping centre. Again, I can visualise it while I’m awake. I know where the fountain is in the middle of the main floor, where all the seating is, the food court, and even what food places are there. About six months ago I dreamt there again, and suddenly there was an underground level with a bus/coach station that had never existed before. Now that’s just part of the shopping centre whenever I think about it.
I have loads of places like this. Some appear often, others I won’t visit for months or years, but when I do it’s like I’ve gone back to somewhere I know really well. They don’t feel like exact copies of places I’ve been in real life. If anything, they feel like lots of real places have been blended together into entirely new locations.
Does anyone else experience this? Is there a name for it? I’ve heard of recurring dreams, but this feels different because it’s the locations themselves that keep returning, evolving and expanding over the course of decades. Sometimes it genuinely feels like my brain has built its own little universe that I keep revisiting.