Venting Tired of these dreams interruptions

[Arb]

My dreams lately goes like this.. Normal dream things for 90% of it, then at some point one small action leads me to finding people who hurt me, or stumbling across a community I want nothing to do with.

I'm tired of waking up remined of these people, I want to only dream of liminal worlds where its only random people my brain made or just me going through the motions of the dream.

I want them to stop showing up, I want the trauma to stop being retriggered everywhere. I'm exhausted.

Why can't I escape this

 

[Forever Sleep]

I get this too. People and fears from my past materialising in a dream. Even stupid stuff like, I'm back in a retail environment but, I can't seem to do the most simple stuff. But, it's reminders of childhood stuff that's the most upsetting. It can stay with me most of the next day.

I'm with you on the liminal spaces. Although to be honest, my dreams of them tend to be kind of disturbing too! Have you heard of the game: Pools



I want to try it some day.

 

[Arb]

I get this too. People and fears from my past materialising in a dream. Even stupid stuff like, I'm back in a retail environment but, I can't seem to do the most simple stuff. But, it's reminders of childhood stuff that's the most upsetting. It can stay with me most of the next day.

I'm with you on the liminal spaces. Although to be honest, my dreams of them tend to be kind of disturbing too! Have you heard of the game: Pools



I want to try it some day.

I've heard of it and wanna try it too, I love exploring liminal spaces in games, especially in vr.. Waiting for the stream frame to come out to get an even better liminal exploration experience.

The disturbing ambiance is what I really love, the fact you're alone in these familiar repeating spaces.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I've heard of it and wanna try it too, I love exploring liminal spaces in games, especially in vr.. Waiting for the stream frame to come out to get an even better liminal exploration experience.

The disturbing ambiance is what I really love, the fact you're alone in these familiar repeating spaces.

It must be even more awesome in VR.

I have had pool dreams similar though- have you? Like quite small tiled rooms in massive buildings filled with pools. They were interesting dreams.

 

[Arb]

It must be even more awesome in VR.

I have had pool dreams similar though- have you? Like quite small tiled rooms in massive buildings filled with pools. They were interesting dreams.

I've never seen the poolrooms in my dreams or any of the well known backrooms, but the environments i find myself in often feel liminal, they transition from one regular area to another completely unrelated, I could be in a regular building and once I cross a door I'm in the middle of inhabited mountains

 

[Forever Sleep]

I've never seen the poolrooms in my dreams or any of the well known backrooms, but the environments i find myself in often feel liminal, they transition from one regular area to another completely unrelated, I could be in a regular building and once I cross a door I'm in the middle of inhabited mountains

I wish we could record our dreams and play them back. The nice ones anyway. I dreamt of the most incredible architecture the other night. Nothing exactly original. Sort of like charming town houses in a courtyard but, the detail was amazing. On the inside, they were like courtyards too- seeing people working on all the levels with a cafe at the bottom. A bit like a detailed dolls house. Then, I weirdly put two detectives I'd been watching on TV there. It's so weird how we piece stuff together. I'm not even sure if I was one of the detectives or whether I was just watching them sitting down to eat. Pretty bizarre.

I'm guessing I must have dreamt about pool rooms after seeing examples but then, I'm not really sure. But then- my brain rarely depicts a place accurately. It's more like it borrows from a bunch of places, puts them together and tells me it's where I used to live or study. People too- sometimes they don't look like themselves but, I know it's them somehow. My brain is more faithful with places I've lived in- probably because it remembers them better but- it's weird- right?

I once dreamt of the most enormous big wheel- the size of the ones they have in cities- like The London Eye. Except, it was more traditional fairground type and, in the middle of a desert. I find that interesting though. Not that it was original of course but- I've definitely not seen that exact thing. How did my brain know what to do?

I'm always amazed we can create these spaces in our heads, inhabit them with NPCs and then live in them! And- as you say- we then jump from place to place. My daydreams aren't as powerful as that. I have to really concentrate to imagine things and I'm not sure I really 'see' them the way I do in dreams. It's incredible that it's unconscious or semiconscious or whatever and, effortless.

Funny though- when you consider we should probably be resting while asleep but then, our brains are up to all sorts. I suppose there are the varying stages of sleep though. Time is so bizarre too- isn't it? You can dream for 5 minutes and feel like you've been there for hours.

Sorry for rattling on. Dreams fascinate me. Do you have flying dreams? I haven't had one for a while but, I do have them from time to time. A mixture of being amazing and terrifying- I usually start to fall at some point when it occurs to me I can't fly. They say you die if you hit the ground but, I'm not sure I believe that. But then, I do usually slow down and float nearing the ground so- I don't know.

My brain does this weird thing of scaring the shit out of me with all sorts of threat and suspense before providing some sort of solution. My dreams are like high suspense thriller films with an anticlimatic, dull ending.