Is it normal to have bizarre dreams that make no sense?

When I say that some of my dreams make no sense, that's the understatement of the century. Some of my dreams I don't even know how to find the words to describe, they're so freakin weird. I have read on websites that the cognitive thinking and reasoning parts of your brain are shut off during sleep, but the memory parts and the parts of your brain that you simply experience with are still active. That is why I believe some dreams I have had a mixture of memories, experiencing life, but in some kind of alternate universe like in a different dimension, and that's not even all that makes them weird, I don't know, I can't even explain them. It's like in the dream you see a tree, but it's not a tree as we know a tree, and it's the same thing with everything else around in the dream in every inch of space be it a house, plane, food, etc., everything someone says, what people (but they're not people as we know em) are doing and what I'm doing and saying. But it almost seems while it's happening that's the norm of how it is, but it's also at same time so weird in how it seems. Is this normal? And also, my dreams have gotten even stranger in last few years than they were before that, except when I was a little kid, I had very bizarre dreams then too. Who else has gotten these kinds of bizarre dreams that have gotten even more so than before, just curious.

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  • Maryalice

    That sounds extremely honest tbh. In fact how i perceive it is that dreams would be really boring if they were like real life or normal. Itd be like we still have to be in real life even when we are sleeping which would be horrible. The fact that dreams are weird or seem like tgeir frim abother world is what makes them wonderful/interesting i guess.

    Either ways dreams are always weird. I cant remember having one single normal dream ever.

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  • DaniMartini

    Write your dreams. You've taken the first step by posting here. Now keep a journal by your bed and write about your dreams as soon as you have them.

    I know I sound like a stickler who doesn't know what he's talking about. But my dreams seemed weird to me too until I started writing them down. Honestly, nothing you described, nor any of the things your responders mentioned, seem weird to me.

    You'll eventually notice patterns. Here are some of mine.

    I'm always losing things. It seemed weird at first because one second I'd have something in my hand and then the next second it'd be gone. It didn't get dropped. It didn't get taken away. It didn't even dematerialize or vanish into thin air. I just didn't have it. It would've seemed completely normal per suspense of disbelief in dream states except for the fact that I remembered logically having the item in my possession just a second before.

    Noticing this pattern helped me start remembering more and more dreams. (Believe it or not but you actually have more dreams per night than you think.) Everybody forgets most of their dreams the second another dream starts or they forget them the moment they wake up.

    Another pattern I noticed was things changing magically. Like I'd be at a fast food drive thru craving value meal number 3. Then I'd glance at value meals six through ten. When I tried to look back to order what I was craving, it was gone. When I woke up I knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that value meal 3 had changed! That is why I couldn't find whatever it was I was craving in the dream.

    Seemingly random and weird dreams like being at a basketball camp where everyone has musical instruments and I become a brain without a body under the bleachers at a football game have meaning I wouldn't have realized had I not written them down. For example, I miss playing in band in high school. I wish I could've played basketball for my school. And I subconsciously felt inferior around football players.

    My dreams probably don't sound that weird to you. Nor do yours sound weird to me. These are probably the most normal dreams I've had. I get spirits and magical kin with nonhuman logic in my dreams all the time. But I don't remember them as much especially since I've stopped writing my dreams. People forget weird dreams, period.

    If you start writing your dreams you'll notice patterns. I promise. Recurring people, similar events, deja vu, you name it. At the very least you'll simply remember more dreams that give context to the weird ones.

    I don't know what your dreams mean because I don't know your life. And you only shared the dreams that seemed the strangest to you. But I promise you they're not that weird. And like I said if you remember more dreams you'll notice patterns that give meaning to even your weird dreams.

    If you want to feel retarded and not know what your dreams mean simply keep going to sleep. If you want to understand instead then do as I say and write all your dreams. When you first realize that you're forgetting dreams simply write down that you had a dream and forgot it. And don't just record your dreams but also note thoughts and feelings about them. At first, it's ok to simply write how weird it seemed. Frequently read what you wrote to see if you have new insights.

    Happy dreaming!

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    • Algum

      Hey DaniMartini, thanks for your comment. I first wanted to say that I have not described all of my dreams yet in my other comments, not even close, I was only giving a basic rundown of what I dream about. There are alot more details to share, if I want to really give detailed descriptions of many of the different dreams I've had, I'll be able to write a book.

      Your idea of writing my dreams down is a good idea though, I may just do that. Some of the dreams I've had are so fascinating, I don't want to forget them.
      Also, when it comes to how weird some of my dreams are, they may not sound as weird when I'm describing them, but the feeling I get when experiencing some of them brings a pretty strong, fascinating feeling, and they really often make no sense in a way where it seems much weirder when experiencing them verses telling about them. All the things I said before about trees that aren't quite trees, cats that aren't quite cats, you can really only describe it so much in words. Really, some of it feels extremely bizarre while happening.
      And fascinating, which I like.

      I've also gotten like what you said about carrying something, then it disappearing a second later without explanation. I've gotten that. And I've gotten plenty of times with seeing something and it then disappearing or taking on another form a second later but with part of my understanding of it still being the same thing, it's hard to describe. Sometimes the first image would be something very weird, sometimes something hideous, but then sometimes something beautiful beyond imagination. I'll give you one example of a dream where I saw like this beautiful princess, like nothing I've seen before, like ethereal, and this amazing feeling that went with it for a few seconds. Then she just disappears and I can't find her or make out the same image or feeling that went with it again. Then these other images appear where part of my awareness was saying it was her again, but simultaniously I was seeing that it was not, it was nothing the same or as beautiful, and it was even some frog creature for a moment where I also was made to believe it was her again, but also seeing it obviously wasn't, if this makes much sense, it's hard to explain. Things in many dreams I've had have a way of changing shape and form and me not being able to retrieve the first image again. I've dreamt other examples of this with seeing a cat I once had again, seeing my late grandpa again, seeing some weird hissing wolf creature in the woods (with different looking trees around), weird looking babies floating on their backs down some indoor river (but they're not quite babies), some weird singing duck from another dimension, and all of this, the wolf, babies, duck, etc. appearing very detailed and graphic. Other dreams have included mountains, all of it, the ground and the mountains all floating up in the sky with restaurants around and people singing (the singing in the atmosphere all around the mountains, and music, some of it sort of classical opera singing, but then also styles of music I've never heard before), another dream I had was millions of different sized and colored telephone booths grouped together where each size and color grouped together was like a different advancement, or acheivement of something (I know this doesn't make sense, but that's the point of this whole topic), the list goes on and on. And again many of these things continuing to either dissapear or change form with part of my awareness being told it's still the same thing where the rest of my awareness sees how it isn't.
      I have also dreamed of seeing creatures that are anything but beautiful, some pretty freaky looking monster creatures, shaped in ways that no monster movie has ever been able to come up with, them looking very detailed and vivid. Them also changing form around and/or disappearing like in the other types of dreams.
      There are still alot from my dreams still untold, like I said, I have enough for a book.

      As I mentioned before, I've read on some websites that the reason why alot of dreams can be so weird is because while you're sleeping, the part of your brain that controls cognitive thinking and reasoning is shut off, while the parts of your brain that experience and feel are very active. Either way, it's all very interesting and I want to keep experiencing these kind of dreams.

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      • DaniMartini

        These dreams remind me of some more strange ones.

        Dreams where the room you are in, or to be more descriptive though it might sound vague, yes, the sole platform you inhabit, or rather, the space you occupy, that is all that exists. And this seems normal in the dream! The outside curtains where nothingness is, the nothing around you is draped around your surroundings. Surroundings so unnatural and magical that they don't surround you all around you. They are inside of you and yet somehow outside of you. What are we in our dreams?!

        Dreams where time is inconsequential. Meaning time is not ticking away. Not because of a pause but because you don't know if it's moving forward or backward. You exist as more than just an ever-progressing moment in the time continuum.

        In the space continuum, you are everything or you are nothing.

        I've had dreams where I am not a person, nor even a place, no, not even a thing. I am the dream itself. Am I someone else dreaming? Or am I more than one person having the same dream? No, I'm just someone or something having visions while typing everything as if to capture a story. But I'm not actually typing or anything like that. It feels like I'm following all the characters of a universe and shadowing oft visited places and somehow typing everything with the mind's typewriter. When I wake up I know I wasn't typing. What the heck was I doing?

        Hope this helps you in the path of verbalizing your dreams.

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        • Algum

          That's an interesting thought about time losing its meaning, and I have read other things about that to where the idea of it may not be as entirely impossible as many people have always thought. But I'm still sure that most of the reasons for some dreams being so weird and not making sense is because of the part of your brain that controls cognitive thinking and reasoning being shut off while sleeping, while the part of your brain that simply feels and experiences is staying active.
          There are definitely many unnatural, magical, surreal dreams that I have. I'm not sure about the nothingness being outside of my view part with me though, I always feel in my dreams that there could continue to be endless surreal worlds and demensions beyond the particular one I'm currently in at that point of the dream. But I cannot see anything besides what's right there at the time though. It all feels like escapism to a whole another place, another world, another life. I almost feel blessed that I've gotten the ability to have dreams more strong like this from how my dreams used to be. The only other time of my life besides the past few years when I had these kind of dreams was when I was a little kid like under around 8 or so. Dreams that are so strange, bizarre, and yet feeling so vivid and real at the same time

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  • rayb12

    This doesn't even sound close to my level of "weirdness" but yeah I have all the things you describe always.

    Also lucidity (ability to control) and also knowledge of what I can and can't do, things materializing to varying degrees of "existence", some sections that are completely normal, or cohesive plots that bring in elements from before, really deeply beautiful imagery music, lots of information being relevant and known that never manifested itself, and yeah things being different things, this I even get falling asleep letting my mind relax. I start thinking about something, then it becomes represented but the metaphor is like a physical object and then there become four or eight other things that all are the one thing and they change in harmony. I also have unappetizing food in every single dream. Some beautiful big expansive sections, and can actually view things with extreme clarity, but when I don't control usually it is more like you describe many many many parts many representations most is completely unable to be articulated as it is as if feelings and motives and me and objects are all the same thing and not ones that exist in the real world.

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    • Algum

      My dreams are alot like the last thing you said about not being able to articulate the many representations, except feelings, motives, objects are not all the same thing, but they are all definitely things out of the real world. But some of the food I've run across is appetizing, and it being food not in this world. Nothing in my dreams is anything of this world, but it temporarily seems a combination of how it maybe should be yet there is never a moment in the dreams that fail to amaze me. I will wake up and still be thinking "Oh! My! God!" from how much my dreams amaze me. Like I said, the whole thing is like an alternate demension, except not everything is nessesarily polar opposites from this world, but they are different. I also get deeply beautiful imagery music, and music and sounds I've never heard before in real life. But for me, I am not able to fully control my dreams, I can control my actions a little bit, but not really what is going on around me.

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      • rayb12

        When I was a kid mine would get much scarier but there was a place I could go to drop out of them.
        I'm too lazy to control dreams usually, but it wouldn't surprise me if you can if you try.
        You have to make deals but I pretty much have full control where if I relax enough to stay asleep I can focus most anything into something vivid to interact.
        Its better though, the actual uncontrived dream anyways.
        Also when I start remembering any dream I will then remember disparate pieces from many many other dreams. And if I begin to write one down so many details come back to me I forgot that I had even forgotten.
        The food in mine is sometimes good but for 8 years there has been gross food at some point in every dream.
        The stories are so captivating and fascinate me on so many levels.
        I wish that in our lives they develop tech that can display visualizations, especially in VR, even just that would feel nice to share.
        But so much would be lost since the feelings are abstract from the 'visuals' which honestly encompass a lot more than just visual like in real life

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