General Chat / Superstition and beliefs

well this is more like a past experience and me asking what you think about the subject of dreams and them coming true.

I dreamt around a year ago that me and my dad were driving around in the car (no where particular, you know what dreams are like or what you remember of them) when we stopped at the lights, a person approached the car and banged on the window. He immediately pulled out a gun and shot me in the chest (yes it was very gory for a dream) i died in the dream but my dad survived and i cant explain it but i seemed like i was watching him even though i was dead in my dream. Then when i woke up in the morning I had a burning sensation in my chest (prolly heart burn/indigestion or something) but i could remember the dream very well unlike ussually where its very hazey (or you cant remember anything).

Now a year down the line my parents have split up and my dad is moving out to a really shit flat in a bad area of town. I went to see his flat yesturday to pick up a hoover )as the place is a real mess) and as I entered the court/parking place with my dad in the car i had a flash back of that dream (it was scary) but ive not told anyone else about this.

Ive always been told that if you tell your dreams then they dont come true and being superstitious thats what im hoping will happen.
Do any of you think that these events mean any thing or have you ever experienced anything like this before?

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When I was a kid, I think when I was in year three or something, I had the same dream three times in the space of around 6 months, that really freaked me out. It was about this ghost which was like me and followed me around the house and said weird things (freaky when your a wee kid), damn just thinking about it now is kinda freakin me out, its like a dream which is haunting me for my whole life.

Iv also had this other dream three times through out my life, but that was with a space of like a year/two years between each one.

Oh yea, and over the last two/three nights some really freaky shit has been happening to me. Like where I would dream about something and then wake up and it or something along the lines of it happpening. Like the other night I dreamt I was on holiday and there was dinosaurs everywhere, I was woken up by the phne ringing and it was my cousin tellin me he was coming round. When he got here he brought Jurassic (X-box) park with him. And a few nights ago I dreamt about TTD and being on it for some weird reason - and the train didnt make it over the top, and then later that day I was in a chat with BchillerR and others about the underground collabo and they started talking about how the cable on TTD snapped. Weird. Jesus man all these freaky dreams Im having.

I know what ur talking about rrp, but mine came true.
When I was 4, I had a nightmare that I dropped something on my hand and my hand completely was gone. Even at 4 i would be supprized to see what that looked like.

Well, the next day I went bowling and my mom went up to the lane. the ball flew out of her hand. and and slammed into my finger completly distroying it! I think it about fell off. The bench was all bloody and I was in alot of pain. I remember my mom screeming and running away, leaving me. I got scared and cried 10x louder and then my mom and my dad run over and grabbed me, and took me to the hospital. but now i have a ruined finger. i cant move it at all, and it has no joints, and no bone in the front.

strange huh?

My dreams are usually ridiculously surreal and come in super-technicolour, therefore, they never come true. Pity, as I'd like to see tye-dyed bunny rabbits talk to me in real life.

When I was little I would always have that dream were you fall of a cliff and wake up just before you hit the bottom. Some people say if you hit the bottom you actually die in real life. Scary.

I would also have this dream where this like mmumy thing would chase me around, and I would hide in laundry for some reason.

I once had this dream where I was running, I idn't know why, but I couldn't stop. When I woke up I was out of breath, sweating, anbd dehydrated. I got out of bed and my legs hurt. It was hard to fall asleep after that.

I also had a dream that I was in a bathroom, and I heard screaming kids, but couldn't see them. Then I saw a woman that was all wet. The next day I heard about the woman who drowned her kids. I never told anyone about that.

Creepy,
Hevydevy

One time I had a dream I was a secret agent type guy, and I dropped my gun, then when I picked it up and looked up at the guy he shot me point blank in the head, and it all went black. That was crazy.

Wait...I did have a deja vu once. When I was little I'd have a recurring dream that robots made of junkyard parts had taken over the world and turned the entire world's food supply to noodles. That was the storyline to "Pa Rappa the Rappa 2", was it not? Well, without the junkyard robots. And my dream had no rapping puppies.

How cute, the meanies dream about warm fuzzies in their sleep. I'm adding that to the record book

...Seriously, it interesting and releaving to see you guys-in perticular-having dreams like this. I'm just glad your dreams are repeats of the Murder by Numbers movie...

I don't step on cracks, its just a thing I do, I'm not afraid of them, my feet just never hit them, I think its subconcious(sp?)

I don't remember having a dream come true.
I wish my dreams came true. I have nice dreams.

It's odd, I maybe have a dream once a month. Other people dream every night. I guess I'm wierd, I just don't dream much but when I do.. I have a dream worth dreaming.

Oh and Andrew, why do you care about your mom's back anyway?

My dreams are often paranoid. I've never had a dream that wasn't filled with paranoia. Every last one. Many of them also involve strange sensations, smells, and the like which could never happen in real life, and are scary as fuck. In the end it just adds extra layers to the paranoia.

I also fly in them, a lot. Although it isn't some grand majestic "Superman" kind of thing, or fun whimsical flight that one might expect in dreams, but rather a sort of rushed, violent and last-ditched effort to get out of whatever situation is making me so paranoid.

Usually, I either wind up in a new situation which makes me paranoid, wake up, or end up back where I started. Having all three occur is not uncommon, either.

However, I've since discovered something cool: music. Now I bug my mother all night as I listen to music, as I go to sleep. And if she ever turns it off, I wake up, and tell her to turn it back on!

This actually allows me to drift off into a calm, relaxing sleep with any "dream" being just physical representations of thoughts, and they come and go just as quickly as thoughts.

Usually I don't remember them, unless I'm having Deja-Vu. Which happens a lot, but not enough to really be interesting.

my belief is that dreams predict the future...

i one dream, i met 3 really good friends (all girls i've known except one) one was my ex-girlfriend Alex, the other my best friend girl (until i moved away to Mn) Roshni, and someone who i kept calling Angie who was from Utah, i could tell who they were by voice, and body shape but not by face... it was so odd in the dream because as time went on, one by one each were missing, i was only able to say goodbye to Roshni and Angie, At the end of the dream, i was in a terminal of an airport (i don't know where but ok) next thing i know, i hug Angie and she goes off to the U of Utah, where most of her family lives.

as coincedental it may seem, i've talked to all three last weekend, my ex e-mail'd me, Roshni called via letter (to let me know its her b-day), and Angie i met at work, who'se living with her mother due to her parents seperation, and she's from Utah...

its the only superstition i hold, since only a few dreams, give me that feeling like the one i just posted.

p.s. what HevvyDevy said is true aswell, about hearing things (maybe sometimes seeing things) before they happen. I'm afraid to say my worst nightmare's are when i'm in a room by myself, lights on or off, but hearing screams will almost make me go insane, and i do'nt mean scream for fun, or TO scare me, i mean screams of pain.

dude...
i used to have this dream when i was around 6 that i was in a haunted house like ride thing like that disneyland ride, except it runs along a toprail. Well, anyway, I consistently had this dream where if i made a wrong turn, something bad would happen and i'd wake up screaming (which is odd, cuz the death is always accompanied by return to zork ending music). It starts in a room, exits the door, turns right, and ahead is a open wall leading outside into the air. If i look left down the passage to the left before exiting, I end up being sucked down the hall, into a fan and chopped to pieces. If I kept going however, I'd end up flying towards a swamp of some sort with a shack. If i pass by, it's fine, but if i look inside, i get sucked into the shack and knives and saws stab and cut me to death. If i keep going i'll end up at the front door of the haunted house, if i look at the front door, i get sucked in and mauled by monster waiting at the foot of some stairs...

I really don't remember much passed that, I was lucky if I ever made it that far.
I wonder what it was trying to tell me...

I also used to have this dream when i was about 4 that monster's under my bed actually had a sewer like heiracrhy and constantly lived in fear of one another and lost their physical bodies when there was light. This somehow explained the piles of clothes that were on the ground when a light went on (in the dream). The one good monster tries to warn me about the bad one, and then i see a scene where a girl in a red-lighted sewerway is being brutally devoured by a monster (who for some reason had lockes). After that, I always turned the light on, and the ghost would dissappear...
the rest is too hazy to recall.

I have deja-vu alot... for some reason. I'll remember talking to this person i just met in a dream, or remember having the same train of thought while observing landscape in the same fashion as something i dreamed. I dreamed once that i started a novel, and then 3 years later, I did, and I realized as I finished the first chapter that it was the exact same idea that i dreamed of.

Lots of other dreams are a lil hazy... one where I am playing an incredibly weird ruleset of 4 corners, so complicated it was like politics or something, like, mind reading was required to play (of which i had since it was a dream). Another dream I had when I was 3 was the wizard of OZ head. I fell asleep looking at the doorknob on my closet, and when i fell asleep the knob took the form of the OZ guy's head. And then it grew closer and closer screaming first softly, then deafeningly, then i woke up and threw up on a half done puzzle... from the top bunk ^^;

Some reocurring nightmares I had were the multiple head scene from return to OZ when i was 5(I couldn't even sleep with lights on, I was so scared of that scene). Event horizon, reliving that part where the gal sees here son, goes for him, and then falls to a gruesome death. When I was four, I had reoccuring nightmares of Jaws swimming into my room (in full stereo). I fixed the problem strangely, by going into my brother's bedroom and sleeping there. I dreamt I saw the shark go into my room from my brother's room... that was... odd, but I guess it worked.

When i was about 13, I dreamt alot about having really deep discussions with the chesire cat from alice in wonderland on the topic of the nature of existence. I also dreamt about eating oysters, that screamed as i bit into them. And the walrus laughed with me, and then we killed the other guy, and salted and peppered his corpse...

I had a reocurring dream about Beetlejuice when i was 11, where I'd ponder the ramifications of how the sand world worked, and what kind of place the afterlife was in that movie. I remember arguing with the case lady about it, and then dancing calipso.

As you can see, not all dreams predict the future though

edit: i just remembered that i also had a one time dream of choking and nearly dying on a anti-depressant pill.
After a week, i remembered it and couldn't help laughing at the irony.

I dreamt I was taking part in a competition to bounce a tennis ball around the world...I can't imagine what it meant *puzzled*

One of the dreams I remember most vividly was very peculiar:

I was in some sort of crevasse in the countryside, with three sheer rock walls and one more sloping. First, I tried to climb up the sloping side but loads of bicycles fell down, knocking me back to the bottom. Then I found myself about halfway up the crevasse on a kind of outcrop and I could see this half man/half tiger on the other side with a bow and arrow. Then I was back at the bottom and I went into a cavern in the side of the crevasse. There were lots of different machines in it, and I think there was some sort of creature following me around the cavern and then I woke up.

Apart from that my dreams are generally pleasant and involve being able to float around wherever I am in the dream as if I was swimming in the air.

Superstitions? Well, there's the subconscious things like not walking under ladders if I can help it but that's more of a safety issue than a superstition.

I don't walk on manhole covers or drain covers. That's probably the closest thing to 'superstition'.

Let's change topic!

Anyone ever had a lucid dream? I have them very rarely, usually by total accident...trying to have one is a pain in the ass.

lucid... is easily understood or clear.
lucid dreams... *looks it up on google*
(note: when in doubt, google)

*returns*
ah, dreams where you know you're dreaming.
I have a few of those every now and then, usually involves alot of flying.
I've never had one on purpose, how do you do that?

I used to have the work dream when I was a waiter...in the dream you are the only one working and the customers keep coming and coming completely overwhelming you. This is a very common dream in the industry. Anyways, I used to have this dream so often that I was able to recognize it as a dream when it happened. Being that I knew I was dreaming I got to the point where I would just sit down and have a beer and not worry about the 100's of unserved customers.

The other dream I frequently have is where you are lying in bed unable to move. This used to totally freak me out...but again I have it so often that now I realize it's just a dream and don't worry about not moving thus fading back into sleep or some other dream. I must admit it is a neat feeling to be in a dream and realize your just playing a part and can do whatever you like.

As for dreams and deja vu....I don't buy it. I think of the thousands upon thousands of dreams and life experiences you have, there are bound to be coincidences. Just my personal thought. RRP, sorry to here about your Dad's new home. The shot in the chest dream was probably a result of your heartburn and not the other way around. I dreamt recently that I had some sort of large scary insect repeatly biting my arm only to wake up to my cat picking at my arm with her claws cuz she wanted to be fed. Strange how reality can creep into your dreams and what your mind will do with the unidentified stimulus.

I often dream of falling, and wake up from it as I 'smash' against the bed. It's weird.

Damn, my dreams suck.

My best one was when I met Joe Sakic. That was a cool dream. Another one was with a talking pencil. That was...umm, weird. My coolest one was when I was in a van with the Flanders (I kid you not) and we crashed into a house. Since then, I never went to church in a van.

Like ToonTowner said, lucid dreams are great because of the awareness you're dreaming, and you can do whatever the hell you want. Basically, in a lucid dream, it's like bending the rules of The Matrix. Fun as all hell. There are techniques to master lucid dreaming, but these techniques take practice and there still isn't nesicarily a guarantee you'll have a lucid dream.