What's the last weirdest dream you had?

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I dreamt that I joined a "Goth" class at high schoo, presumably where we would learn about Gothic culture and such.

I had two...

First:
I saw a small animal in my house and went over to it. It was a kitten/adolescent cat but I could see it had something around its middle, restricting its growth, like this turtle. I removed the rubber wristband causung it. Under that was a collar, then a rag, then some string. I removed all of them and got down to its matted fur. I don't remember anything after that.

Second:
I must have been dozing - having awoken and drifted to sleep, unusually on my back. While dreaming I dreamt of dreaming. In the dream, I was in a dream. In this inner dream, I realised I was dreaming. I tried to move, but was restricted, and my jaw locked open. I was yelling and couldn't close my mouth. Then I felt I was being shook - the inner dream thought was "I'm dreaming but shouting in my sleep, and someone is trying to wake me. I better stop shouting". But my jaw was locked and I couldn't stop. My dream eyes opened slightly and I saw, blurry through sleepy eyes, that someone was in fact shaking me. I tried really hard to wake myself, and did - though the dreaming dream and the dream. I ejected myself through two levels of dreaming into the waking world. I wasn't screaming, but my jaw hurt.

Gothic or Goth? Slightly different subjects...

I dreamed I was working on the story I'm currently writing. Unfortunately, none of my dream-ideas were any good

I have had two recent dreams that were weird, which is saying something, because my dreams are always weird and vivid and colourful.

In the first, I was a some kind of thrift store that took up three floors. Customers were given boxes to put things they wanted to buy in, and I took a box. I found some stuffies that were similar but not identical to the ones I have, so I got those, as well as some children's books. But when I put the box down to look at some other things, it vanished, along with all the things I chose. I assumed that one of the store staff had thought I didn't want it, so I went to the second floor and got a new box and went around picking out stuffies and books. Then the same thing happened, and then again on the third floor. By then I was so bewildered and upset that I was close to a meltdown, but the dream ended before anything drastic happened.

In the second, I was experiencing the same experiences as character from a manga that I have. He kept falling asleep and waking up, and whenever that happened, something, some small or large thing would change. The most dramatic was when he woke up and there were stacks of manga volumes all over the room. It's said that you can't read in dreams, but that's definitely untrue as I saw what the covers were. The covers had the wrong titles--one was Preludes and Nocturnes, which is the first volume of the Sandman series, and the other was Kimi no Kioku [Memories of You], which is a song from one of my favourite video games, Persona 3/PSP.

I had exactly the same thing; very clearly reading in a dream.

I've always been able to read numbers and letters clearly in my dreams.

Exactly.

If you're taking a school course in "Goth-ic" culture, then you would be studying the great Cathedrals of western Europe built in the Middle Ages, and learning about stained glass windows, and about the physics of flying buttresses, and Gothic arches, and masonry.

If you're taking a school course in "Goth" culture then you would be studying a modern adolescent subculture, and about its trends in music, and fashion (what tattoos to get to fit in at a Marilyn Manson concert).

Putting that "ic" on the end of the word "Goth" changes the whole meaning.

I like both Goth and Gothic.

Where did you hear that people can't read in dreams? I'm just curious because I read in my dreams all the time. In fact, that's my most common way of dreaming. It happens more than plot-based or sensory-based dreaming for me.

I read (imaginary) books, novels, academic papers, poetry, or even WP posts while I'm dreaming. I see the words in print form and read just like in real life. When I wake up I can remember how the passages looked visually as well as remembering the content and transposing it. It's always very well written material. It's not 'weird' or 'nonsensical' like some of my plot-driven dreams.

I can write in my dreams too. I see my hands typing or writing in longhand just like real life. I feel the movement. I'm often aware of my thinking and editing process, rather like lucid dreaming. I write prose, poetry, academics, jokes, WP posts ... In fact I even composed my senior thesis statement while asleep.

I'm curious to know how unusual this is. I mentioned it to my psychologist and my ASD assessor and neither said it was particularly unusual. I wonder if it has to do with my synaesthesia? Do you read and write in dreams while you're working on your novels?

Maybe I should try writing a short story based on the dream I had about the female reverend manipulating me into tricking an innocent girl into being executed as a witch?

This isn't a weird dream but what happens next is weird.

I can't drive. I dreamt I was in the car with my stepdad when he decided to get out of the car. He gets out without stopping the car. The car is going down a hill. I think 'how hard can it be' and get into the driver's seat to stop the car. I press on the brakes. It isn't the brakes but the accelerator, the car is now going really fast and ends up splashing into a river and I wake up before I drown.

Then I wake up in real life and text mum my dream. I text her because I want to know, in case it happens, which one is the brakes, even though I don't intend to learn to drive. I see this as a safety thing, everyone should know where the brakes are on a car and I don't.

She had a similar dream except she can drive. In hers, she was trapped in the back seat with no way to get to the front and that was why she couldn't stop the car. My stepdad gets out of the car when it's going too fast and it crashes then she wakes up before she dies.

It's weird how we both sort of had the same dream.

TUF
I do know how to drive and I've driven for 30 years although I can't now (I had a stroke). All my life I've had dreams like yours. In my dream I'm in the back or passenger seat and realise that I'm alone in the car while it's in motion, usually at a very high speed. I try to steer from the back seat or by reaching over from the passenger seat but I can't reach my legs in order to brake. I don't think I ever crashed in the dream, but it's still upsetting.

My grandmother has a pond in front of her house and I once had a nightmare that my mom was driving on the driveway beside it to come pick me up and her car fell into the pond.

I came to find out that my mom has the same nightmare sometimes. She also has a phobia about swimming on water.

Today I dreamed that I met my best friend from WP. We were so excited that we both cried, and she explained why she's been awol for so long. It wasn't a "weird" dream, but I really wish it had been true. This was my third such dream.

Definitely a "wish-fulfillment" dream.

I have those.

I believe Freud alluded to them.