Related to the Otherlife movie, which reminded me of some old dreams from perhaps 10 years ago or so.
All of them had a "dungeon master" presence or some kind of a being that had designed the dream and observed my behaviour. The dreams were always designed to keep me preoccupied with something for a specific amount of time (until the alarm, typically). Some examples of what they tried:
Taking my own memories of places, other people and trying to create drama in there. Their representations of the places and people were always off, though.
Taking my memory of a place, and putting something in there that would catch my attention. For example, a piece of electronics or some kind of schematics or something. These guys did not know electronics nor could they draw schematics. They also tried with mystical-looking languages but rushed and also messed up with those.
Suppressing my memories and stuffing me into a cell, smirking to see if I can find my way out.
Replacing my memories with fake ones, confronting me and pointing out that I've done something bad. They then observed the internal conflict, hoping that I would take the bait.
These guys were pretty pissed at me because of how complicated I made their task. At least, that's what their emotions betrayed. They always had to come up with new dreams in order to avoid me waking up because it was their job. One night I woke up with the body still half-asleep and caught someone whispering things to the subconscious mind. Haven't had anything of the sort ever since.
Except for a bit different case, perhaps. Woke in a pretty dark realm with memories replaced. Lived in a wooden building and the townsfolk had figured out I was a witch or something, and came with pitchforks and torches and stuff. Created a chain of portals, each one to as bright a realm as I could imagine. About 30 portals later, I could remember that I had simply gone to bed and fallen asleep.
Has anyone else had similar dreams?
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In a way yes, the only thing I can or could relate to this is when I have nightmares or ragemares. Many times I have had nightmares or dreams of rage that i end up hurting my loved ones or friends. I've awaken to an entity that either was an old hag or a ghost like warped creature eating my dreams. Most of the time I end up waking up and kicking at them in anger. But never had masterminds manipulating my dream for tasks, only hungry ghost who feed off emotions.
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In early childhood, I had very frequent nightmares (witches, ghosts and places falling apart, mainly). Without them, I probably wouldn't have developed as good lucidity and control over dreams.
I've had plenty of dreams with an old hag as well. In some I've gone looking for her, in some I just know she's in the basement and I must not wake her up. She's a part of me that I've been afraid of since early childhood. Although I've been scared of her, I know she doesn't really mean any harm. Should figure out how to sincerely hug her at some point :3.
There have been some kind of monster-looking things as well, feeding off emotions. Though, I became numb to them over the years.
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A stable-minded person will neither hug nor hate the world, he will take things as they come.
well i had a dream i was a woman who was pregnant... and the old hag stabbed me in the stomach. I woke up feeling my stomach hurting so bad and it slowly went away. But its weird being a guy in a pregnant womans body lmao.
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