what's the oldest dream you can remember having?

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thats cool

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Since I live in the midwest, we have a lot of tornado warnings throughout the summer and when I was very little I was petrified of them. I had a dream when I was like 3 or 4 that there was a tornado warning so I ran into the basement and hid under a table. I waited for my family but they weren't coming down the stairs. After a while, I saw my mom run down the stairs and try to get under the table with me but then she got pulled out of the basement because of the wind. Then there were just a bunch of voices saying "You're going to die next" so yeah that was very fun to think about for many many years.

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probably those falling down stairs dreams or in general just falling long distances and suddenly waking up

i would think that would be really common but with things like this you never can know

also when i was a kid i always had these recurring dreams involving me and a certain childhood friend on some docks by the ocean

o yea i used to always be deathly afraid of tornados too (i'd always heard about them but never actually experienced one) and i'd either have dreams about them about to hit from far away or actually hitting and hiding for my life

i've always had dreams like that now and still sometimes i dream like a nuclear apocalypse is about to hit or something

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YO
I did actually have dreams about jumping off my flight of stairs when I was a kid
this is now the oldest dream I can remember

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i still have those kind of dreams now but it's kinda different
like they end up being lucid dreams so i know i'm safe and can do anything but i'm still afraid of actually falling even though nothing will actually happen
somehow the feeling of actually falling scares me the most even though i still know nothing will happen
weirdest part is normally my fear of heights doesn't really kick in so much in most cases but it always does in dreams

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Has anyone else actually "died" in their dreams? Like usually you wake up at the point of impact or whatever but in my case I just stay in the dream for a while afterwards. In the case of falling, getting run over, eaten by an animal, ripped apart by a robot, etc. the places in my body that should be experiencing pain go numb or tingly and when I wake up they remain that way for a bit. I'll also feel like I'm being pulled around sometimes, no actual pain though. I'm guessing that the real world experience of a limb losing blood flow and "falling asleep" guides my dream state to try and explain what is going on.

I've experienced two types of flying in my lucid dreams:

1) Sprinting really fast and then jumping into the air like superman (this only worked the first time and I woke up after I got frustrated after a few failed attempts)

2) Jumping and then leaning backwards so I'm in a semi-sitting position in the air. This isn't really flying but hovering a few inches off the ground. First time I did this I was running down some stairs and then realized I was just floating down them, it was awesome. Other times I've done this and can stay in the air as long as I want to, sort of like a never-ending jump. One time I accelerated almost as if the source of gravity was in front of me rather than in the ground...that was a little weird and I woke up when the speed got out of control.

edit: my lucid dreams suck now because almost immediately after I realize I'm dreaming I'll wake up

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i've never had dreams experiencing an actual death but i've had dreams about after the fact that i'm just witnessing real life from another spacial dimension
i still experience actual pain and shortness of breath and things like that and they just go away as soon as i wake up
as for flying in dreams i have those every now and then and they're always different
sometimes i'm just hovering and can either keep doing it or not
other times i'm about to jump of a cliff or something and can either glide down or fly a bit higher from where i started
or sometimes i can just glide straight up and explore like the feeling you'd get from swimming underwater
the most memorable ones for me are the ones where i'm free falling and suddenly find a way to catch myself and glide somewhere

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my oldest dream was actually my first moment of consciousness. was 3 years old, and i was riding one of those mining carts down a track. then the track suddenly dropped down and my cart started falling down towards a pit of fire. i then jolted awake into the existence i'm currently living in lol

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Yep. A couple times. One time where I felt that same sort of body drag or numbness, also with a side of cold. Another time where I was literally a ghost looking at my own funeral.

Consciously spin around in a circle. Works almost every time. Buys you maybe 10ish seconds.

Counting also helps, but requires focus. Spinning in a circle doesn't.

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Yeah I've had dreams with some odd physics to them, I can relate to running into flight and hovering like Kirby o_o

Only difference is I couldn't suck bad guys to get their power .-.