Finally decided to get to the bottom of this thing that has been

>>18980815
How was the dream? Evidently that's important

>>18980827
It was a short dream, altough I feel as everytime I woke up I couldnt remember it whole. Like there was more, but I cant recall what happened.
Anyway, I am flying above something strange.. like a huge machine. Lets say it looks like a huge clock mechanism. While I fly I hear a lot of people talking loudly, altough I never understood them. Then theres nothing and the final part is the strangest. As i said i hadnt had the dream for over 15 years but I remember every part. Last part I walk out of some kind of a building, like the one where airplanes are parket (hangar?, sory for my bad english) and there is only 1 thing ahead of me. A old wooden bench and a cliff behind it. Then I sit on it and pull the feathers of a flower. And thats all there is and thats the part when I wake up.

Again sorry for my english and all the typos.

For some it might seem as a nightmare, but I never looked at it that way. I was never scared, but the feeling I got.. thats what's bothering me.

>>18980875
I'll just summarize that first.
>Flying above clock-like structure
>Loud Synaptic? speech.
>Walk into an hangar and there a bench and a cliff

Hm....
I think that the ominous feeling is your subcounscious mind wanting you to jump that cliff in the dream.

>>18980886
>>18980886
I dont think so. I never had a urge to jump, neither had I ever looked down the cliff. The only reason why I know its a cliff is that the ground seemed to end there.
The scene is just weird, like something from movie The ring. But no, I wouldt commit suicide.

>>18980909
A cliff in a dream rarely means death.
I think you should take a look at the cliff, I don't know why but looks like the key on this.

>>18980916
Maybe I should but who knows when that dream will happen again, maybe in the next 15 years, maybe never.. Im curious what triggers the dream and why it was happening much more frequently when I was younger.
Forgot to mention (i forget some things, its been a while). While I am dreaming I have no control where I am going, but the path is always the same. Also the last part about the flowers only happened the last time I dreamt about that. Is it possible that the dream is slowly adding new things? Like everytime I get that dream a new piece is added?

YES. Old fag here. This. Motherfucker. Stumbled upon a thread similar to this that FUCKED me up on le Reddit last year. I had similar dreams. Sensory fuck ups as the result of overheating when you sleep. Your about what, 18? 20 max? It's a puberty thing. ONLY young boys, about 8 percent, get similar symptoms to varying degrees. I had it really bad, it scared the shit out of my parents. They had no idea wtf was going on. Fast forward ten years from my last episode, stumble upon a WAY more in depth recollection of this person's reoccurring childhood dreams which were, I kid you not, 1:1 in similarity to the ones I had growing up. Being tiny as shit I'm a factory, amongst gears moving parts and loud thranging noises. Numbers on my walls, other random shit. Being trapped in a maze of cubicles in the jungle. Scary shit. I can explain and sauce the thread if anybody's still here. Much love

>>18980986
Yes, yes it is.
I really urge you to try to take control and at least look at the cliff.

>>18980991
What caught my eye was that "feeling". That unexplainable terror you feel the second your mind happens to stumble upon the memories of your last "episode". Trying to fight it, and hating it. A weird mix of sleep paralysis and being light headed. Unmisfuckingstakable.

>>18980991
I am 21 atm. Yes. Thats the thing, moving parts much too big for my size, all moving and the noise comming from them exactly what I remember. Please provide the link. I will probably not go to sleep for a while. And i need to know why its happening.
Whats was with the numbers? Did you write them while sleepwalking? Or did you see them?

>>18980993
I dont want to go into that dream again, but if I somehow get into it I will look

Are you kidding anons?

I used to have this dream when I was a kid and I had fever: I'm very small and seeing some kind of machine with huge hears and moving parts. Then I see a tiny white flower, and the flower is picked by a huge hand. Then I see a giant white/light gray balloon, as big as a zeppelin, and I have this sinking feeling of dread that I'm responsible for this and soon everyone will find out and I have to do something quickly.

As I've said, I often had this dream when I had fever as a kid. It gradually stopped happening though, around the age of 7-8. Nevertheless, years later I was casually talking with my father about dreams in general, and I mentioned him this recurring dream I had as a kid. To my and his astonishment, he recalled the same themes in his own dreams he had when he was sick as a kid. The same giant balloon/sphere, the fear of being found out, feeling very tiny, etc.

Fast-forward many years. I'm 26, and recently I was prescribed an SNRI medication for anxiety/depression, and I started having a very similar feeling before falling asleep. As I'm trying to fall asleep with my eyes closed, I slowly begin to feel my body parts being out of proportion. E.g. I feel my hands and head growing huge. And I get the same feeling of dread as I used to have in my dreams. Sometimes it gets unbearable, but it disappears when I open my eyes, so I'm not too concerned about it, and I gor used to it basically. It gradually occured less and less as I've grown accustomed to the medication, but it still happens around once a month.

>>18981102
OP here.
I am really surprised I am not the only one with this dream. The most fascinating this is that we are all having the same dream. WTF.
There needs to be a name of "the dream" and some reason behind it and why it happens.

>>18981102
I'm back guys, scoured Reddit and the post was deleted. After coming across many other threads similar to this and seeing unrelated posters having similar reaction to the ones above my conclusion is that by now are human brains have a simulated various aspects of the worlds around us with various correlating senses. For example when your brain overheats while you are dreaming which is what happens normally however in this situation our brains overheat a little more than usual and for being children are sensory perceptions start to wake out and our dreams. However the reasoning behind as to why this occurs to a very small percentage of boys in general is a mystery to me and also a mystery to scientists I've been looking for more information on Wikipedia but I cannot find it at the moment. I have no idea if it is hereditary how it because my parents had no idea what the fuck I was going through when it would happen for many years

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>>18981224
I'm doing voice to text while driving in the rain on a iPhone 4S

>>18981224
The meaning behind that dream is one of the things I want an answer to before I die. Call me crazy but I am fascinated by things like that.
Even though I did not get an answer I am happy I found out I am not the only one with "The dream". Maybe one day we will get an answer of what it means and why are we dreaming about it. Anyway, I am leaving this thread for now as I need to get some sleep. Ty everyone contributing to this thread and good night.

OP

>>18980875
>>18981102
Ok, you niggers are legit scaring me. When I was about 5 (maybe even younger) I had a very similar recurring dream.

>be in a huge dark cave
>in front of me stands a huge machine, big as a building
>my father is there
>he is the inventor of this machine
>he either tells me or I already know that the machine is unfinished, but when it's completed, it will bring the end of the world
>I don't want to, but I know I have to help him finish the machine
>terrible feeling of dread
>next thing I know I'm outside the case, in the middle of a street
>I recognize the street, it's where we used to live
>it's not dark, but rather foggy
>there is no one around, everything is completely silent
>I approach a bench
>some cartoon-like anthropomorphic mouse character is sitting on it
>next to him lies something that looks like a LEGO block
>I know that this is one of the machine pieces I need to gather and bring back to my father to end the world
>I pick it up
>dream ends

I swear to God, I really did have this dream. It scared the fuck out of me, to the point where I kept the dream a secret from my parents. I always used to share my dreams with them, especially the scary ones, but I felt somewhat "guilty" for having this dream and didn't want to share it with anyone. I almost felt as if I was a bad person for having this dream.
What the fuck is going on guys?

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1wzad0/eli5_what_is_that_feeling_when_the_room_suddenly/?st=j2feks55&sh=1cfa243f

I found this on reddit. Many posts refer to something called "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome".

>>18981267
Well this thread got interesting.

All you guys who had the same dream. I havent but, i know the sinking feeling. I know it really well. Thats the feeling of sleep paralysis. Your sleep is so shallow you can feel your body yet its paralyzed. Its to stop you acting out your dreams and sleep walking.

Im not bursting a bubble here, but i know how to trigger it manually, and it also provides a very good chance of going lucid. Maybe you can use my technique to enter the dream consciously and get some answers because i for one am at the edge of my seat and will be scouring now:

Lie on your back. Be very comfortable. As comfortable as possible because the next part is difficult.

Keep your brain active, perhaps even dwell on this dream. But you must lie perfectly still, dont move a muscle, fight through every itch, and every twitch.

15-20 minutes and you will suddenly feel a wave starting at your head or feet, it will wash over you quickly, and you will be paralyzed (that sinking feeling). You may at this point hallucinate, your dream state is extremely active now and yet youre awake.

Thats when you try to enter the dream. As your fully aware self.

I hope one of you, or OP even is still having them.

>>18981290
I should add that I've been dealing with anxiety and depression as well, but I don't really blame the dream for it or whatever. I kinda used to when I was younger, feeling as if there was some connection, but I don't know.


Also, I want to ask OP and the other guy having a similar dream, do you guys suffer from any kind of neurological illness? Because I do, and I was wondering if we have that in common too, especially since depression and anxiety are common symptoms of it.

>>18981337
Oldfag still checking in. Scope the Reddit link. Most are 1:1 similarities to ones I've had. Very scary at first but now it's a very peaceful notion knowing I'm not alone. Very quickly: in fourth grade I had a virus where all of my major joints froze up over time, like accelerated arthritis. During this point I had these dreams almost every day. Didn't go to school, couldn't go to school, and I stayed inside and played video games for a month until it went away. After this, most of the terrors I've had gradually subsided. Any others with a similar experience to this degree? I'm quite sure I have had it worse then others .... My parents would record the terrors on a VHS Camera , and they still have the tapes. It came to that point. Specialists had no clue wtf was my issue. Especially with the joint paralysis. Took me all over socal to no avail

>>18981347
I have panic disorder since the age of 16. It started with a bad marijuana experience, and expanded through years to generalized anxiety, hypochondria, depression, etc. ATM it's controlled via SNRI medicine, which I'm afraid to stop taking b/c symptoms may come back.

>>18981389
Most of all I feel fantastic knowing I can somewhat educate others on this. Sending all my info on it to my parents for the first time In a GM and they're shitting bricks. Show your loved ones

>>18981347
Not for me. Old fag here I should add I smoke a quad (7g) of marijuana a day right now. Have been smoking everyday since 16, and I have no psych issues besides general run of the mill anxiety, etc

>>18981394
>I have panic disorder since the age of 16. It started with a bad marijuana experience, and expanded through years to generalized anxiety, hypochondria, depression

Dude... DUDE. This is MY experience on a 1:1 scale. The bad trip at the age of 16, the panic attack, the depression, the anxiety. What the fuck?

I don't know what SNRI meds are, but I myself started taking light antidepressants about a year ago. Both my anxiety and depression are much better now, thankfully, but still.
The neurological disease I mentioned earlier is multiple sclerosis, which I was diagnosed with about three or four years ago. I'm 24 now.

>>18981426
Wow, MS sounds bad. What were your symptoms?

By the way SNRI is just another type of antidepressant, like SSRIs. SNRIs act on both on norepinephrine and serotonin, while SSRIs only on serotonin. I took SSRIs in the past too, and both helped me with depression and anxiety, it's was my psychiatrist's recommendation to try something else after I relapsed when tapered down my previous meds.

>>18981454
Ah I see. I don't really know much about the different types of meds or how they act.

As far as my symptoms go, I thankfully have not experienced any paralysis, blindness, severe pain or severe disability.
The worst I've had was diplopia (double-vision) which lasted about 2-3 weeks. Other than that I've experienced a numbness of limbs for about 2 weeks, and I often experience tremors, vertigo, some lack of focus, and of course anxiety and depression. The latter two I probably already had before I was diagnosed though, the MS just amplified them.

>>18981337
OP here.I might try this, thanks

>>18981347
I do not have any illness, or at least as far as I know. I might have depression I dont know.
I will try to find out as much as I can about this dream and I'll make a new post in a week or so. Being I am not the onl one made this much more interesting.

>>18981337
>>18983125
You guys can also influence the speed of that method with a simple task. Before you try to relax and not move for 15-20mins, start from your feet up and tense your muscle groups one by one for like 3-5seconds each, from your feet up to your neck muscles. With that method you should be able to enter the dream in 5-10min instead of 15-20mins (sorry for bad english)

>>18981337
Fuck sleep paralysis. I'm 31 and have had sleep paralysis at least 500+ times (basically once a week at least). I've gotten used it, to the point where 90% it's a disruptor of sleep at worst and the other 10% learned that it's pretty much a portal into a lucid dream. One prerequisite seems to be sleeping on your back. I tend to dream of family members/friends/roommates standing by my bed or knocking on the door of my room, as opposed to witches or demons on my chest, but that weird shit happens occasionally. Over time, you can exert more control over your dreams. I don't believe in most of this /x/ shit, but I do know for a fact that your brain can fire off random neurons to make you feel that way. Sleep paralysis is a common example, and it's easily overcome with experience.

Damn guys. Newfag here, scarily similar experiences with minor differences.

Anxiety, depression and OCD tendencies run in the family (dads side) along with behaviors towards weed and alcohol.

Have talked to my dad about weird dreams when sick with a bad fever. We both experience a weird distortion of patterns and noises... not quite a machine but similar. Very hard to describe, but think dead-leg style feeling that shifts and distorts and instead of being one body part, it is "the dream" itself. An overall feeling of discomfort that something isn't right... not dread but that something in real life is off. Again, very hard to describe, and happens to us both with a very bad fever.

On a side note, another re-occurring dream i used to have as a kid was walking through a desert between different "boxes" of dream scenarios. Almost like I was walking a path between different dreams and choosing which one I wanted to enter that night. Weird stuff.

I used to smoke a lot of weed, but have since cut back and been having much more intense, memorable dreams.

I'm sure everyone's had this happen, but I occasionally have dreams that are so real I briefly think events have happened in real life, then think to myself "wait, that was just a dream."

Have tried to lucid dream before, been close rarely and have never truly gotten there.

>>18981294
Sorry for the late responce, had a lot of school work to do and ofc I went to sleep.
After briefly checking the comments I can say its somehow different feeling as I experienced. I never felt as the room is closing in or anything simmilar. The feeling is hard to explain (as it can be seen from other people who experienced it before). Its like explaining a blind person how a color yellow looks like.
As I said before, I will do some research on this dream and make a new thread in a few days. Maybe I (and we) get more answers.

>>18983536
I am one of the other guys with the similar dreams.

Sometimes, when I am in bed, and for whatever reason I am thinking of someone, I often can not pinpoint their characteristics (especially their face) while thinking about them. It is like their face distorts and either narrows (becomes long vertically) or widens (horizontally). This happens even if I know that person and how they look like very well. It is a conscious thought, it's definitely not a dream and I'm not sleeping when that happens.
Do you experience something similar?