I just wanna say, since Love Honk and Bitch House are still blowing up my notifications, that I rarely remember my dreams. I post about almost every one I remember, and I think it's been like five since I became active here.
I was about 19 years old when I remembered my first dream. It was about a very biblical apocalypse, and seeing as I'd never experienced a dream before, it scared the life out of me. I pretty much locked myself in my room for two days, I was so freaked out.
Then there was a period where I started lucid dreaming, and remembering dreams almost every night. At first I didn't really know I was lucid dreaming, I didn't know what that was, but I knew that I had the power to "rewind" a dream if I didn't like how it was going.
This happened for maybe six months to a year, until I started testing the limits of what I could do. I had a dream where I had to deliver pizzas to a wedding (dream logic, I know) and there was a gun fight at the pizza place. So I hunker down behind the salad bar, where there's a second version of me, the dream me. We briefly talk, and then I decide to test my lucid dreaming. I stand up, and don't immediately get shot, which alarms dream me. I dismiss their concerns by explaining that it's a dream, and summon a huge stack of pizzas right next to me, bypassing the need to get in a gun fight.
So dream me gets all huffy, and says, "If you're not going to take this seriously, then you can just wake up RIGHT NOW."
And I did. To this day I have never had another lucid dream. I don't know what that means.
I had a dream about a movie, where these two brothers lived in East Germany and their mom fell into a coma, and then when she woke up the Berlin Wall had fallen and the USSR had collapsed, but they had to pretend, for her sake, that nothing happened.
There's this scene where a Coca-Cola blimp comes floating into view and the brothers (one is played by Will Farrell, I don't know the other) have to try and hide this giant 100-foot blimp hovering outside their mom's window or else she'll get suspicious.
If this sounds familiar, I found out a few weeks later that it's almost the exact plot of a German film, Goodbye Lenin! only Will Farrell had nothing to do with it whatsoever. I don't know how I could have possibly seen or heard about this very serious foreign film and then remade it in my head as a screwball comedy.
I do recommend the real film though. It's a fascinating take on life during that time period from a perspective I know very little about, and American schools do not teach you about objectively.
