I just started using the nicotine patch--I know, I know, bad idea...BUT one very cool side effect is vivid dreaming. Last night was my first time sleeping with one, and it was awesome. I highly recommend them! It was a nightmare, of course but so real... Plus, I woke up earlier than I normally do.

Anyway, my friend and I were returning to our apartment, and there was a priest and a random dude looking in our window. We asked them what was up, and they were like, "Looks like your power is out. Can we come in?" We let them in and took them into the bedroom...and I went from being all curious about them to totally insane in a matter of minutes. Like, this priest and this other dude did some kinda mind thing on me that made me crazy or think I was crazy or realize I was crazy. I started noticing all these things that were wrong with our room and was convinced that I had done them. And my roommate was freaked out and we hugged while I cried. It was like the BIG REVEAL in a movie where the main character realizes they're nuts.

And then I paused and was like, "Damn these vivid dreams!" And I ripped my nicotine patch off in the dream. Not in my sleep but in my dream.

Anyway, I rarely get dreams so this is the best! Now share yours...

1/23/2011 12:03:15 AM

Last week I had a dream that Vinny from the Jersey Shore wouldn't let me leave his apartment.

That's all I got for now.

1/23/2011 12:04:58 AM

^LOL!!!!! I wish i had that dream. I love Vinny.

1/23/2011 12:05:32 AM

Yeah he was definitely a sweet talker... with perfectly cut hair

1/23/2011 12:07:24 AM

Whew! You know it.

1/23/2011 12:07:47 AM

1/23/2011 12:12:29 AM

I had this dream where I was the dell dude, then I took a pie and threw it on Gary the Preacher, but the pie was so hot the atrium caught on fire.

Anyway, long story short, I ended up making out with the woman who was married to the gay french dude in the Matrix, until Leonardo Dicaprio and some no-name actors show up and started shooting at me,

then a locomotive ran them over.

Then I woke up.

1/23/2011 12:21:48 AM

I had this crazy dream recently where my car broke down so I walked up to a nearby apartment complex to try to use a phone. I knocked on the door, but for some reason the chick that lived there made me and my friend come in through the window. Then she started really freaking out and looking around her room with crazy eyes. Her roommate was there, and they started crying and hugging. Definitely a tweaker.

Also, she even kept referring to me as Father, but never let me used the darned phone.

1/23/2011 12:22:57 AM

OMG, THAT'S SO FREAKY!

1/23/2011 12:38:07 AM

Quote :

"or realize I was crazy"

this

1/23/2011 12:38:46 AM

a few days ago i had a dream that i was in a bluegrass band with a member of the mexican mafia and we played a christmas concert for my grandmother.

then like 2 nights ago i dreamed that these 2 jewish twins were trying to make me date their younger brother. but he was like 15 and i was like, this is weird? but then i ended up dating matt saracen instead. and was in some kind of support group, i don't know what for.

1/23/2011 2:39:45 PM

I used to be a very vivid dreamer. For one reason or another, since I finished grad school I don't think I can recall a single dream I've had. It's really strange.

What could the reason for that be?

1/23/2011 3:57:05 PM

I, too, no longer recall dreams.

1/23/2011 4:01:42 PM

I once fell asleep with a dip in my mouth and dreamt that two guys were trying to rip my arms off. Nicotine makes dreams too vivid.

1/23/2011 4:06:15 PM

This begs the question


Should people who smoke or dip be allowed in college?

1/23/2011 4:16:12 PM

^^It's crazy!

Last night's dream wasn't as awesome, but I'll tell it anyway. I had two different apartments. One of them had all my stuff in it, and everybody knew that I lived there. The other apartment was a secret apartment that I shared with two other people, and all I had there was a pair of pants.

I was standing in a group conversation, and I pooped my pants. My secret apartment was really close by so I snuck off and changed my pants. Nobody knew that I pooped my pants, except for the two people who lived in my secret apartment. And they were like, "Did you poop your pants?" And I didn't answer them.

The End.

1/23/2011 4:54:11 PM

My mom went on the patch a while back and she said they gave her pretty bad nightmares.

As per the request of the OP I will share one I had the other night. There was a zombie apocalypse and I got a call from my ex girlfriend who lives in Nashville. She says she's scared and wants me to come get her. I get there to find that she's been scratched and only has a limited time before she turns. So I agree to drive us both to the mountains to enjoy our last days together. The other part I remember is driving on the highway packed full of zombies and seeing two of them playing frisbee! I didn't get to the end of the dream where I had planned to drive us off a cliff when she began to turn but I do recall waking up thinking that being a zombie might not be so bad it I could just play frisbee forever without a care....other than the pursuit of brains!

[Edited on January 23, 2011 at 5:09 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2011 4:55:51 PM

That is so romantic!

1/23/2011 4:58:58 PM

My dreaming drug is melatonin.

And also Panadol Night once a month or so (Tylenol in the US).

1/23/2011 5:11:53 PM

^8x ^7x

Whenever my sleep pattern changes, I notice that I have more or less dreams. Generally if I'm getting limited sleep/am more stressed then I don't remember any dreams.

1/25/2011 10:45:41 AM

1/25/2011 12:20:58 PM

i had a dream last night that i was fucking robin wright penn in the ass on top of a hill while a legless gary sinese was trying to crawl to the top and stop me. W T F!?

1/26/2011 3:38:15 PM

1/26/2011 3:40:58 PM

he was clean shaven, post magic legs Gary Sinese. yet without legs

1/27/2011 2:47:44 PM

Did you offer him ice cream?

1/27/2011 2:48:58 PM

it's funny BridgetSPK would post this



[Edited on January 27, 2011 at 2:51 PM. Reason : e]

1/27/2011 2:51:29 PM

I dreamed that I was on a cruise and the ship backed into a building near the port and FLIPPED over. We survived and my phone alarm went off when I was getting ready to find out if we got a free cruise or not.

1/27/2011 2:58:51 PM

I REALLY hate it when people try and tell me about their dreams. People need to recognize that I'm not their personal psychoanalyst.

1/27/2011 3:20:41 PM

I hate listening to other people's dreams, too.

1/28/2011 12:39:56 AM

When I started college in 2007, I had a pretty serious boyfriend. Last night, I dreamed that he was packing to move back to Germany. I was lounging around with his two older sisters and he just up and left. No goodbye to any of us. I remember thinking it was strange and weird.

1/28/2011 12:42:58 AM

the other night i had a dream where i was like in the early stages of dating this girl i see everynow and then around town and had a big crush on in 8th grade (and she's incredibly hot IMO)

anyway. weird parts of the dream that I remember. We were cuddling or whatever and I couldn't straighten my legs. i also couldn't bend my knees when i walked up hill in a dream, but no one else seemed to notice. also re: that hill, at the very top of it I couldn't get traction so i kept slipping, and the girl tied a rope around a gate and gave me the other end to pull myself up. and then when we got to the top of the hill inside the gate the gated area turned into like a train car, had weird wooden blinds which she closed so we could have more privacy. He made me coffee at some point in the dream, but the coffee was clear like water (yet smelled and tasted like coffee).

pretty sure there's some symbolism and a message in there, because my brain/subconscious loves to do that.

1/28/2011 12:54:08 AM

^Whoa, that's kinda cool!! Especially the coffer part!

I've been dreaming a lot but nothing good.

2/2/2011 1:16:35 AM

I had a dream that I was in a Devil's Rejects movie but it was real life. I was in a theater where live killings were going on and I was trying to escape, this giant long haired beastly man came clobbering down the aisle to me. For some reason I had paper towels soaked in gasoline under my armpits. I somehow knew he hated fuel and fire. My mind kept playing over my escape and it changed slightly til I got it right. Finally I escaped to a gas station with three bullet wounds (one in the tip of my finger, wtf?) and hid in a car. I think that was lucid dreaming because I was tired of never escaping.

Fucked me up, I havent seen that movie in well over a yr lol. wtf?

2/2/2011 1:19:53 AM

congrats on trying to quit smoking, that's awesome

2/2/2011 1:20:12 AM

Thank you!

2/2/2011 2:29:47 AM

So, last night...

It started off like an SVU episode...these rich people had a black shiny statue of a person in their foyer, and the detectives were like, "That's not just a statue. There's a body in there." And they tried to break the statue but it wouldn't crack so they took it to Jon Stewart's garage. And he soaked the statue in some solution and ran over it with his car a couple times. And then he carried the limp remains of the statue onto a bus and started peeling the coating off. And once he pulled the coating off, there was a lifeless but pristine baby in his arms, and then it morphed into a living dog, and then it morphed into a kangaroo that hopped off the bus.

And the rich people were like, "Thank you. Now we can continue with our mission." And they were using the kangaroo to like proselytize and get followers and stuff...just using this kangaroo up like crazy. And then the kangaroo morphed into a girl with a British accent from Africa. And she was like super depressed and trying to get euthanized, but this doctor kept saving her so the rich people could use her for their Church. But finally he was like, "Screw it. I ain't saving her." And she died.

Then it flashes to the rich people on a safari in Africa (trying to get another kangaroo ), and they are having dinner with an animal doctor who they are trying to recruit to help secure and care for this new kangaroo that they want to exploit. And they are all having like a very tense conversation about animal rights and stuff.

And then it zooms out and some text comes up on the screen (it's how I dream!), and it says, like, "Based on a Harvard student's short story about interesting dinner table conversation."

[Edited on March 28, 2011 at 8:18 AM. Reason : ]

3/28/2011 8:17:45 AM

I had a dream last night that I hooked up with Cate Blanchett from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (she was Russian and had kinda short straight black hair in the movie). I haven't seen that movie since it first came out in 2008.

3/28/2011 9:42:01 AM

Had a dream this weekend that I was a scientist and we had some major breakthroughs in teleportation. We were ready for our first human test subjects so we used prisoners on deathrow like in that Steven King story The Jaunt because if something went wrong and they died then no one would care. So we put them thru the machine and when they come out the other side, they are in tact minus their genitals, instead they just have a bloody stump. We try for years to determine the problem and correct it, but to no avail.

3/28/2011 9:49:35 AM

last night, my roommate had a night terror and her scream woke me up...instinctively grabbing my bedside bowie knife i leapt out of bed to her resuce

it was funny because the night terror was of a man trying to stab her...so i felt bad barging in with a knife, but we had a laugh--then i scratched her head as she fell back asleep.

3/28/2011 9:57:54 AM

I had a dream that I had cervical cancer and and had to get my lady parts removed. But right before, I found out I was pregnant and had to decide if I wanted to try to keep this baby because ill never be able to have kids or get rid of the cancer asap. Stressful dreams make me wake up in a bad mood.

3/31/2011 11:22:41 AM

^That's terrible, dude. I'm so sorry.

4/12/2011 12:45:56 AM

I regularly dream of twwers

4/12/2011 12:50:19 AM

I definitely had a couple of dreams where Jen randomly appeared in the past 6 months or so

I think I posted that somewhere

4/12/2011 12:51:17 AM

AHA, WTF, guys?

I don't think I can judge since Jon Stewart showed up in one of mine.

4/12/2011 12:52:21 AM

I rarely ever remember my dreams. But usually when I take Nyquil my dreams are very vivid. One of the weirdest dreams I had when on Nyquil was where I was with my family in the kitchen. We were all talking after eating a meal. I was doing dishes and reach over to turn the light on. I accidentally flipped the garbage disposal switch and my hand got caught in there. After probably 30 seconds of panicking I got my hand out...and somehow it was unscathed. And then the same shit happened again. And again my hand came out without a scratch. Everyone thought I was just screwing around...but my hand really hurt and felt like it should have been bleeding. But it never was.

That's all...that dream was just really weird. While on Nyquil, I've had more vivid dreams...but this one was by far the most WTF? dream. I just remember waking up and being like "what the hell was that shit?".

4/12/2011 1:02:04 AM

don't usually remember all the deets, but sometimes i lose teeth in my dreams

4/12/2011 5:27:40 PM

Just had a very vivid dream about an extreme coupon??? Dude saved $1004 and made $6 which the cashier lady actually gave him, I was shocked to see him leave with three carts and $6 dollars. Weird as shit.

5/7/2011 10:05:45 AM

I had a dream last night I was at my wedding and everything was going wrong. I found it all quite amusing, but then realized everyone was mad at me for not taking it seriously. Probably because I kept playing jokes, like standing at the alter when Peter walked down the aisle. I also refused to put on my wedding dress till right before the wedding, so I kept hiding from everyone. People told Peter that I had left and thought he should call it off. Then I woke up.

5/20/2011 12:50:56 PM

So last night I dreamt that I was at the hospital having my baby and Nick Fury came in the room and opened up my stomach. It was metal and had one of those hatches with the wheels on it you turn to open. He reached inside, grabbed my baby by the ankle, said "your baby is dead" and tossed it across the room where it hit the wall, slid down through a basketball hoop and into the trashcan. Then he just left and I woke up crying.

12/15/2013 8:24:06 AM

Oh. I also had a dream about cats in space. That one was pretty cool.

12/15/2013 9:29:53 AM