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More Vivid Dreaming During The COVID-19 Pandemic

I'm having similar events, I was watching a program about underground places and had gone into the kitchen, I could still hear the tv sound. The narration was speaking about natural caves when I had the thought Gaping Gill, several seconds later they announced that was the cave.
Later through the evening I was a couple of seconds ahead of the dialogue, not long phrases just a couple of words..
A bit wierd, but quite entertaining. :~)
 
I had a very vivid dream actually regarding FT last night!
I dreamt that a special issue of FT had been created just to cover the Covid-19 stuff.
However, instead of being a nicely put together magazine like the regular issues, this one was like several different 'part-works' with the spines being punched through with a four-hole punch and bound together as one with those little red ribbons, like a legal document.
 
As I mentioned on the 'Which books etc made you a Fortean?' thread, I used to love Peter Underwood's books on ghosts when I was too young for them and they gave me nightmares.

Recently I listened to a YouTube video of Mr Underwood himself reading out some of his stories and, possibly because as a child I believed every word he said, I woke up in the night with ALL those ghosts standing round my bed.
 
Tin said:
Peter Williams who played Much was a neighbour of one of my friends at school. I was invited to a Halloween party at his house and he looked after us kids and cooked us all jacket potatoes in the garden. A really nice guy (the whole family was), btw this was before Robin of Sherwood so it was a shock to see him on tv.
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That doesn't surprise me. It was very well cast, on the whole, that show. The Clannad soundtrack is a total earworm though.
 
i had a vivid dream/nightmare last night. i'd gone back to work at my old job, at a certain well know supermarket. i left irl about 18 months ago, but had been there 20 years. one thing i hated doing, as it wasn't meant to be part of my day to day tasks, was going on the checkout. as well as being massively boring, at the checkout, customers are mostly annoying. and other reasons.

so i'd gone back to work there to 'do my bit' in helping in these lockdown days and was hired to do checkouts. however as well as each till now being inside its own sealed off cubicle the new till computer was completely shit. it kept logging me out, was slow as treacle, and didn't recognise half the barcodes ( so far just like the real tills). they'd also placed the screen above head height and i couldn't read it because my eyesight is shit.

i was getting increasingly frustrated and in the end i threw something at the screen and smashed it before storming off crying, shouting FUCK THIS SHIT FUCK YOU ALL.


it was quite cathartic really.
 
I've been doing a lot of talking in my sleep. I am a light sleeper so as soon as I start talking out loud, I wake up.

In a few cases I woke up because I was asking someone a question and they of course don't respond. :)

It's been happening so often lately that I am becoming annoyed with it.
 
I had a horrible vivid dream today .. I was on the road outside my parents house and had some kind of fall out with two blokes, I'm not violent in real life but I beat bloke A to death for some reason, he was lying on his side with his organs slowly spewing out of his mouth. I walked over to my Mum, bloke B started trying to attack me, I tried to go at him but my Mum was holding me back by my shirt. Grim as fuck.:(
 
Swifty said:
I had a horrible vivid dream today .. I was on the road outside my parents house and had some kind of fall out with two blokes, I'm not violent in real life but I beat bloke A to death for some reason, he was lying on his side with his organs slowly spewing out of his mouth. I walked over to my Mum, bloke B started trying to attack me, I tried to go at him but my Mum was holding me back by my shirt. Grim as fuck.:(
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That's horrible and the feeling from those dreams hang around for a while.
 
My dreams continue vivid, but thankfully fade gradually as the morning goes on.

I am still waking with a gasp, a la Captain Jack on Torchwood, every time he 'un-dies' (I tried writing that without the hyphen, and the thought of Captain Jack's undies made me come over all unnecessary for a moment).
 
Swifty said:
I had a horrible vivid dream today .. I was on the road outside my parents house and had some kind of fall out with two blokes, I'm not violent in real life but I beat bloke A to death for some reason, he was lying on his side with his organs slowly spewing out of his mouth. I walked over to my Mum, bloke B started trying to attack me, I tried to go at him but my Mum was holding me back by my shirt. Grim as fuck.:(
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My worst fever dream couple weeks back was horrible . And grim as feck too! I dreamt I was doing an autopsy (I’m not a dr)... on myself. Ffs. And I did it three times. Each time I had to cut my body open I was a little less newly dead. The third time was repulsive. Not that the first two times were fun. And I kept wondering why I was making such an unorthodox incision.
 
michael59 said:
I've been doing a lot of talking in my sleep. I am a light sleeper so as soon as I start talking out loud, I wake up.

In a few cases I woke up because I was asking someone a question and they of course don't respond. :)

It's been happening so often lately that I am becoming annoyed with it.
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I talk in my sleep too, and usually wake myself up. Apparently the other night I was shouting 'get away from me, go over there'.
 
Sounds like everyone is really stressed out. Swifty and Ghost in the Machine, those are about the most horrifying dreams I've ever heard of or read about.
There was a short period in my life about twenty years ago when I had several dreams in which I was trying to strangle either a large cat or a shadowy person. Full of anxiety but not anywhere near as horrifying.

catseye said:
every time he 'un-dies' (I tried writing that without the hyphen, and the thought of Captain Jack's undies made me come over all unnecessary for a moment).
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:rollingw:
 
Without reading anything here, I had a very vivid dream of my own....

I was a student at a university. There was some kind of virus that made people's heads get red and huge. (In the dream, I had to hear when one guy got some sort of shot in his eye and he screamed, but it was necessary) Anyways, it followed that there was a bio-tech group in the area above (elevator stuff) and we found out that they were working with the aliens and the virus would do horrible things and leave you as a husk. The aliens would then take said husk and suck out some sort of "being-ness" and the people behind this were all, "Well, they won't touch me as long as I can provide them with bodies".

Anyways, then my friend and I hot-footed it out of there to try to figure out what we could do to stop things.

I've never really had a dream related to the Outbreak, but this is as close as I ever hope to get. I've had plenty of nightmares where the aliens are body-snatchers and such, but this was an actual nightmare and it was terrifying.
 
MercuryCrest said:
Without reading anything here, I had a very vivid dream of my own....

I was a student at a university. There was some kind of virus that made people's heads get red and huge. (In the dream, I had to hear when one guy got some sort of shot in his eye and he screamed, but it was necessary) Anyways, it followed that there was a bio-tech group in the area above (elevator stuff) and we found out that they were working with the aliens and the virus would do horrible things and leave you as a husk. The aliens would then take said husk and suck out some sort of "being-ness" and the people behind this were all, "Well, they won't touch me as long as I can provide them with bodies".

Anyways, then my friend and I hot-footed it out of there to try to figure out what we could do to stop things.

I've never really had a dream related to the Outbreak, but this is as close as I ever hope to get. I've had plenty of nightmares where the aliens are body-snatchers and such, but this was an actual nightmare and it was terrifying.
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Hmmm. I've heard some UFO people say that is exactly what the aliens are doing to us...
 
Heisenbear- I have been plagued with deja vu for the last few weeks and random bouts of forgetfulness. I have been attributing it to the general anxiety most of us are experiencing, but it is disconcerting when you are not sure what is real and what is a brain fart.
 
Ghost In The Machine said:
I've been watching Robin of Sherwood compulsively as distraction and also in the hope of one of those dreams but no joy.

ETA: Michael Praed incarnation, I mean. Not Jason Connery, obviously.
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What I do when I want to dream about something I play it in the background. So recently I've put paranormal shows are on and I usually get some paranormal themed dream because of it. I'm sleeping on my own at the moment because of work so it's not bothering anyone. It's a pity there wasn't more spoken stuff in porn.
 
Naughty_Felid said:
What I do when I want to dream about something I play it in the background. So recently I've put paranormal shows are on and I usually get some paranormal themed dream because of it. I'm sleeping on my own at the moment because of work so it's not bothering anyone. It's a pity there wasn't more spoken stuff in porn.
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Yvette Fielding porn would be truly scary. Unlike her show.
 
Last night I dreamed I was snuggling up in bed with a junior member of my work team. Which was disturbing on many many levels, but it was incredibly vivid. I could even see the store security TV! It was also comforting, in an odd way (probably because I'm missing human contact).

I am running a Folklore audible book in the background, fairly sure that there's nothing on that about cuddling your workmates that could have set the dream off...
 
This story has been doing the rounds on Australian t.v news this week. Perhaps there's something to it?

Are We All Having More Dreams In Lockdown?

Many people around the world are reporting that they are having far more dreams in lockdown than what they were having before the COVID-19 outbreak. And with 2.6 billion people are in some kind of lockdown at the moment, you better believe that’s a lot of psychedelic imagining.
Whilst the evidence is ultimately anecdotal, many are also reporting that not only are they remembering more dreams, the dreams are far more vivid. In fact, we asked around our virtual office and almost all of us reported we were having more dreams and they were more detailed than the usually. From the good, to bad, to downright strange.
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https://10daily.com.au/shows/thepro...e-all-having-more-dreams-in-lockdown-20200410
 
Lord Lucan said:
This story has been doing the rounds on Australian t.v news this week. Perhaps there's something to it?

Are We All Having More Dreams In Lockdown?


https://10daily.com.au/shows/thepro...e-all-having-more-dreams-in-lockdown-20200410
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it could also be that our sleep cycles are going far deeper into R.E.M sleep as all the other things we had on that prevented us from getting enough sleep have essentially been cancelled. And when we do wake up, we have time to reflect on what weird little adventures our brain got up to the night before. For many of us, we’re no longer rushing out of bed to get ready and to work on time.
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I wake up at my usual sleep deprived time, realise I don't have to get up, go back to sleep and have vivid memorable dreams. For me it's definitely the ability to 'sleep in'. Plus i think I had a lucid dream the other night, which was cool.
 
Just before I came to this morning, I was dreaming about waking up and not being able to open my eyes. I was having to pry my eyelids open, and then I still couldn't see properly. A helpful voice from someone else told me it was conjunctivitis. I told them I didn't need to see a doctor, it'd be fine, and then I could see again.

Weird.
 
bugmum said:
Just before I came to this morning, I was dreaming about waking up and not being able to open my eyes. I was having to pry my eyelids open, and then I still couldn't see properly. A helpful voice from someone else told me it was conjunctivitis. I told them I didn't need to see a doctor, it'd be fine, and then I could see again.

Weird.
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I often have dreams where I can't open my eyes and have to prise them open or hold my eyelids apart.

I assume it's something to do with being 'frozen' whilst asleep, and the body is maybe trying to open your eyes in real life, can't, and transmits this into your dream. A sort of half way house to sleep paralysis maybe?
 
A tiny paragraph in a magazine I managed to buy before my newsagent shut until further notice :( says that a new study (not cited) has found that when people have frightening dreams "the brain areas responsible for controlling emotions responded to IRL scary situations much more effectively." So it may be having a protective effect on people.

Personally I have been sleeping like a log since being sent home from work and was interested to hear on the radio that a lot of people are apparently sleeping much better now. Obviously this is much less likely to apply to people who have lost their jobs or been furloughed but it is interesting.
 
I seem to be having more dreams that are leaving impressions on me than usual, I don't recall any specifics but all are "anxiety dreams" as it were.
 
Last night I had my first lucid dream in a while. Bear with me because I'm hoping someone here will know what it meant...

I've recently moved house, about 100 yards down the road. My old house has been sold for renovation, is empty and stripped bare inside.

So last night I dreamed I'd lost my big ginger cat. I was worried he'd gone back to his old home, so I walked up to the old house (letting my dog run loose ahead of me, which I wondered about as I did it, she's a reactive terrier and HAS to be on the lead). When I got to the house, the big wooden gates had gone and been replaced by metal ones and I could see lights on inside. I thought someone must have come to do some work on the place. A man approached me, I was just about to apologise to him and explain I was looking for my cat, when my old terrier appeared from inside the house. She's been gone for nearly two years now, so when I saw her, I knew I was dreaming.

At this point I started to look around me. The man standing in front of me was wearing a Rack sweatshirt (it's a local firm) but I didn't recognise him. I told him I was dreaming and he did a kind of 'oh yeah?' nod, not very interested. So I asked him to say something to me that I would remember when I woke up... he was a bit reluctant - he clearly thought I was mad. In the end he said two words. The first was 'aircraft', the second was 'scootage'. Then he told me they were from his time in the army...

I woke up after noting that the roofline to the house had changed, and the location now seemed to be a cul de sac in a suburb (it's really in a very small rural village).

Anyone know what 'scootage' might be? Or if it relates to aircraft? I've no idea why my dreaming mind should throw these words up at me...

But it was nice to see my old terrier again. She looked fit and well, although eventually morphed into looking more like a German Shepherd puppy than her real self.
 
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