Dreams are the place where we're truly allowed to be free, to let ourselves experience what our conscious mind restricts. Sometimes, we enter into that state of "lucid dreaming," where you're aware of the dreamstate playground you're on, thus allowing you to control it freely. Suddenly, nothing is off-limits, and what people turn out when they know they can't be punished is very revealing.
Reddit user, u/RennerOe, wanted to go deep inside your dreams when they asked:
Lucid dreamers of Reddit, what was the most f-cked up thing you've done in a lucid dream?
Hit That Restart Button!
Ended up driving a car off a cliff. As I was falling, I thought, "well sh-t" and rewound the dream to before I got in the car. Tried to make a few different choices, but ended up driving off the cliff again.
Guess it was fate.
Another Chance For A Best Friend
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I often have these dreams where my dog Snoopy is there. However, he passed away 4 years and in my dream I will recognize this and say to myself, "Wait, Snoopy died, how is this possible?"
Then somehow, I can't really explain it that well, but me wanting so bad for him to be alive again overwhelms the logical part of my mind and I rationalize that he actually didn't die and it was a miracle. I then have a great time and am able to enjoy playing with my best friend again and having him come along on my adventures.
The f-cked up part about this is how much it f-cks with me when I wake up and have to come to the sad realization that he is gone again. Like I enjoy being able to see him again in dreams, but it can be really emotionally overwhelming too.
The "Snappening"
When someone in the dream tried to convince me I wasn't actually dreaming, I said "oh yeah watch this"and snapped my fingers. Everything went black and I recreated reality itself. I don't know what happened next but whatever happened was wild enough for me to awake with my heart pounding.
They Call This "Rubixing"
Every single dream I have is a lucid dream, I've made some sh-t happen to make my dreams less scary/more interesting.
The most f-cked up thing I've done was folded the guy who was chasing me I to a human cube so he couldn't move and just left him in the street, in cube form.
Same Scenarios. Same Mistakes.
I have reoccurring dreams. So, I often dream the same scenarios. There are dreams about not being able to find a bathroom, about a bridge falling apart, and about falling into water with big fish. Often times the dream starts out and I realize it is whichever reoccurring dream and I can feel my dream self be like... crap. This again.
One time I was dreaming and we were all at this giant aquarium and somehow got special access to walk at the top of all these giant aquariums. I was initially excited "special access!" And then as I'm walking around these giant "pools" of water in my dream I was like... oh man... let me guess, this is the shark or whale tank and I'm going to trip and fall right in, aren't I?
So I refused to move causing everyone in my dream to get mad because I wasn't doing the right thing. And in my dream I was really glum and said something like "let's get this over then" and just fell right into the water. I didn't splash or try to swim and on cue the stupid giant fish of whatever kind came up and started bumping me and because it was a dream I could just bob there glaring at dreamland getting bumped by big things underwater and contemplating why this was such an big fear of mine.
Then I woke up.
A Crime Punishable By Chokeslam
I wrestled a tornado. And won.
How? Why?
It was trying to steal our eggs. So I grabbed it by the tail and slammed it to the ground.
Mistah J. Thinks That's Hilarious
Had a lucid dream where I was being dragged on the floor by two goons. The joker from dark knight shows up and stabs me. I've never been stabbed before but I felt it. The knife went through my chest and then I woke up.
A Missed Opportunity
I dont know if its f-cked up but if I start lucid dreaming I always try making it sexy. I always wake up though before it gets sexy and its sad.
I used to do this when I was younger. "Oh yeah this is a dream!". But as soon as a good scenario is set up, it ended.
Then you try SO hard to fall back asleep to continue that dream... and it never works :(
Did You Remember To Jiggle The Handle?
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Flushed myself down a toilet. Popped up in the ocean.
That's hilarious it made me giggle, but did get flushed down realistically in a terrifying way or you didnt feel you body compress and it was like a roller coaster?
It was like, I knew it was a portal. I had to trust that I would fit. So I actually had to jump in and dive, but I had to hold my breath and tense up like right before you cough. So I did. And it felt like I was compressed and I did go fast like I roller coaster. The only really scary part was there were two toilets and I had to make sure I made the right choice, one lead to the ocean and was not a sewage pipe, the other was. I was chasing my brother who was a seabird. So. I did make it to the ocean. That roller coaster analogy was spot on. I had this dream years ago before finding Nemo came out. So That wasn't in my subconscious. Crazy.
I can't definitively say I've come face to face with the spirits. But I have had some unsettling feelings in the dark. Shadows are just shadows sometimes, but who can be sure.
I hear it...
Nbc Wings GIF by HULUGiphy"I was helping my dad clean my grandma's house after she passed and I went in and was trying to find a song in my phone and before I could I heard a cough plain as day come from down the hallway where her room was. She died of lung and throat cancer it was pretty crazy."
Running Past...
"When I was 5 I remember getting home from my grandpa's birthday party. For context my mom was pregnant with my brother at the time, so my parents had already bought his crib. I woke up in the middle of the night to find a women in a white dress and long black hair standing over my brother's crib. I managed to wake up my dad so he could take me to the bathroom. When I got back it was still there. It was only until morning when it disappeared. Every now and then I see a glance of what I assume is that thing running past the backyard."
The Cat
"My best friend and his wife had moved to a new apartment. I came over to visit a few times, and each time I'd see the motion of a cat in my peripheral vision. Not the image of a cat, but a sense of how a cat moves. Anyway, one day I finally cracked some joke about the ghost cat in the place and his wife was instantly saying "See! See! I told you we had a ghost cat!"
"excuse me"
"I worked graveyard shift in a dementia ward for 4 years and it was anything but quiet. I was working with a nurse one night when we both heard a resident say "excuse me." We looked around and no-one was there. I checked on the resident in question and she was fast asleep in her own room. Many of us also experienced someone whistling in the ward late at night and one nurse even managed to catch a video of it happening. It was unnerving to say the least."
Clueless
Skeleton GIFGiphy"I once saw someone short walk by me in my house. They walked into the laundry room which only has one way in. I walked into it behind them and they where gone. I thought it was my little brother but I went to his room and he was asleep. I still have no clue what that was."
- ImBolio
Now was everyone here positive they were sober? Just asking. Those are certainly spooky moments. I'd like some video footage please. Continue...
Reflections
ghost library GIFGiphy"I was up at 3am when I was maybe 7 or 8. I looked out the window and saw a woman in a white dress run across my yard. I could see through her. She was transparent like the reflections on the window."
"you alright?"
"So, my work place is haunted. I was having a really crap day, and as a cleaner, it's normal that me and my co worker will be the only ones left at night. So I was standing on the second floor, leaning on the banister for the stair case, when I heard this male voice say in my ear "you alright?" Clear as day. I turned around so fast and nobody was there and it scared the hell out of me."
- Rex-the-
Watching Me
"I remember as a young kid I usually use to sit in my bed and watch tv with my room door open while the adjacent guest bedroom next to mine would always have the door shut. I always remember seeing that door fully open and close by itself multiple times a day very slowly and gently. Never really bothered me much now that I think about it… but there were other creepier experiences I had in the same house that made me feel uncomfortable like I was being watched."
Betsy
"I went to the Betsy Ross House as a really little kid in the early 90s. Normal house but I was confused why the tour guide never talked about the woman on the chair crying at the edge of the bed in Betsy Ross's bedroom. So I asked about it. No one else saw the woman at the edge of the bed. I figured it was just a wax museum since there was a wax statue of a man in uniform rolling bullets in the basement."
"Years later, I was looking at haunted Philadelphia tours to go on with a friend and the Betsy Ross House was on it. I was like "woah! I was there!" and looked into it some more. Turns out there is a woman at the end of the bed crying and a uniformed man in the basement that people have reported seeing. There is no way that 8 year old me would have known about either of these things."
hello kitty...
hello kitty lol GIF by Animation Domination High-DefGiphy"I had this hello kitty Balloon In my bed room, it had a string and weight on it. So it was late, I had the lights on just Sitting on my bed. The Balloon turns, faces my door, slowly floats into my hallway and turns and floats into my sister's room. To this day I am scared of balloons."
They are among us and they like Hello Kitty. I'm probably rattling the paranormal cages and they'll come for me next, but I'm ready. I feel like this thread has prepared me.
Boo!
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