Hi all,
Are many of your dreams based on your everyday life? Most of mine are, and if I posted some of them in the dream diary section here, I’d have to fill them with tons of little notes about who a certain person is, etc. Reading through some of the people’s diaries in that section, most of them seem not to be like this. What’s your take on it?
Mosr of mine are, but usually with twists (like - I’ve been nabbed by the cops).
Anyways, I usually just say ‘my brother’ or ‘my freind’ etc. Most of the time, the deep background isn’t really needed (n fact, I don’t think I’ve ever had too).
My dreams are usually just strange 
And IRL I’m mostly at home or in school, but I’m almost never at those places in my dream 
So that’s a HUGE dreamsign, but never realise that it’s a dream because of that 
Most of my dreams are based from my college in someway or school and other are just either from my grandma’s place or from shows i watch.
My dreams are mockeries of my life and memories. As if life wasn’t bad enough. I’d say about 70% of my dreams occur at school, home, or around the town.
Dreams that are closer to waking up are more real life related, dreams that I remember that are in the middle of the night are more fantastic in nature. Although I get a mixture of both. I’d say fantastic dreams rule out the realistic dream, or they are very realistic with one thing that’s very crazy in them.
It is said that if we go to sleep without any mind preparations we will most propably dream about things that concern us in real life and so be the surroundings.
Thats why many advice specific hygiene before going to sleep- relaxing and clearing mind of thoughts.Its also the way for clearer dreams,like the clean path for our subcounciousness to talk to us.If there are rocks and other obstacles(our thoughts about problems and everyday troubles) dreams can take a form of short meaningless events with no sense at all cuz they are influenced by our rocking and jumping mind.
take care
I am just starting to recall my dreams, but most of them take place at school or at home. I had two last night that took place at school. I agree with Sureal
Yeah, most of mine are sort of family dreams, or dreams of people I know or knew, in places which I know very well too…
But some of them are really uncommon, like me being lesbian (repeatadly!!! 
), being in war etc. …
Almost all my dreams have nothing to do with anything IRL.
My dreams are dark,scary,and full of emotion.
Thanks for the replies guys.
Makes a lot of sense.
Most of mine are fantastic. And I think this may be why I am prone to LD every time I sleep; Once I realize that the kind of stuff that happens in my dreams (super-heroes, dragons, aliens, magic, sci-fi, etc.) cannot happen, this realization triggers my analytical side and I enter LDing kinda Matrix-style. I suppose this has to do with the fact that I love fantasy and sci-fi (movies and literature), have a firm faith in God and also have a firm grounding in critical thinking. Many of mine tend to be musical as well.
Most of my dreams are in pretty realistic surroundings, but something tends to be wrong, like I’m riding my bicycle in school, or the walls are glass when they normally aren’t. Once I dreamt my school was in a treehouse.
As for the whole explaining who people are thing, most of my dreams do involve people I know, but I just give a general explanation like Sureal said.
I’m guilty of that.
Quite a lot of my dreams are very dull, everyday events etc. I regularly dream of the past as well- my senior school life has a big influence, perhaps because I felt much happier and secure then. I think the best dreams are those when you’re completely detacthed from real memories and thoughts, like one long film that you’re creating.
Mine are like that as well. I almost never have a dull or boring dream. Generally most of the dream is often fairly normal, but they almost always end up with some horrible accident befalling someone, or they end up with me being attacked or chased, or out of the blue a catastrophy will occur and so on.
Does anyone else have similar dreams? Because I was wondering why I have them, I’d say that I am quite a nervous person who worries about things a lot, but I don’t think I am that different to most people, and I certainly haven’t had many traumatic events occur in my life.
For an example last night I dreamed that a girl loved me and took me to her house, then I lost her, and then people started attacking me for no reason and I had to defend myself with a gun. Then in the other dream that I remembered I was having a great time with friends messing about by a beautiful lake, then suddenly a pram with a baby in came flying past and went into the lake, and I had to dive in and rescue the baby. These are very normal dream events for me.
My dreams have either have little direct resemblance to my waking life, or else present a very distorted and changable version of “real life”.
For example, if the scene is suposedly at my ‘real life’ home, the kitchen may resemble a modified version of a childhood home, or a (modified) friend’s kitchen, my Dad’s old workshop, or most likely no kitchen I’ve ever actually ever been in. It will only very rarely be a relatively faithful rendition of some real kitchen in my ‘real’ experience.
Perhaps there’s some connection with my fondness for speculative fiction – I’m quite comfortable ‘unfamiliar’ and even outright ‘speculative’ enviroments.
Oh, god no. Not only do my dreams not resemble real life, they’re about as completely far away from it as you could get! Like Petra-fi, mine are mostly based on magic and fantasy. Often they are set in completely different worlds where I have a whole lot of background memories of living a completely different life with different family and friends, etc. Sometimes I’m even a different age or gender, or it’s set far in the future! Occasionally my real-life parents, friends or a character from a real TV series will make an appearance, but that’s about as close to reality as it gets.
I think my situation is very different to Petra-fi’s, though, in that I don’t have lucid dreams. You’d think I would, considering the nature of them, but I get the feeling it’s actually the unrealistic nature of the dreams itself that’s holding me back from having them. Because I’m just so used to having unusual dreams. I think I’d be more likely to wake up to the fact that something wasn’t right if a dream was closer to reality - but they never are.
You know what, though? As far as writing down all those little descriptive notes about who a person is goes - I should tell you it’s much worse when you have to write down background info about the “rules” of a certain type of magic, the history of an alternate world, the background memories that define whatever character I’m currently being AND their past relationships with other dream characters, and so on. So go ahead - I think you should write down all the little details, it’s not so bad! 
Problem I’ve found with that is that you can begin to fool your own subconscious. That may be why you are not becoming lucid: if your mind becomes so entrenched with the many “details” or self-constructed rules/history, etc. about the fantasy/dream world that you convince yourself it is actually a “reality” while you’re dreaming, your mind is tricked into believing you’re in reality, and thus there is no trigger for lucidity. I’m assuming your recall is good though?
I used to read A LOT of comic books and fantasy novels which I think is one of the main reasons I dream with the content and characters I do… yet I am also very much analytical and tend to cut very clean lines between what is fantasy and what is reality within my mind. -YET I also believe very strongly in Christ and in God. I tend not to form or define (consciously at least) strong ideas or rules of what heaven, hell, miracles, magic, and “alternate realities” are or may be, but my brain’s basis in fantasy/sci-fi literature combined with a creative/wild imaginationtends to bring that about anyways (sometimes to my own chagrin 
since my imagination is often extremely dark and sometimes violent). 
Most of mine are fantastic. I never dream of my work. I often travel in unknown locations, and improbable things happen.
Yes, it’s usually very good. I have trouble with the plot sometimes, though, because although I have the “who, what, when, where” part down well, I occasionally forget “why” or “how”. Generally, though, I write several pages per dream.
What you say makes a lot of sense. Make no mistake, though, I never believe it’s real. I might not actively realise I’m dreaming, but I still know it’s not reality. I don’t think the two things are necessarily mutually exclusive.
I agree with this! I also read so many fantasy novels that it’s hardly surprising I dream of these things. I’m not a religious person, but I definitely see what you mean.
…oh, and yay! Basilus has joined the ranks of us weird fantasy dreamers too, lol.