Have you been having weird dreams lately? Don't blame the moon or the ruling planets, or try to work out a secret message your subconscious is trying to send you through the dreams. Not only is it normal, but it's actually expected to have weird dreams. Pretty much everyone has them. In fact, if you looked at our earlier post featuring the most common dreams, you would find that none of them are actually grounded in reason.
Although we can't pinpoint the exact reasons for having really weird dreams, factors like stress, anxiety, medications, types of food we consume, and other things do have an impact. Still, it would be a Sisyphean labor to figure out what those crazy dreams mean and whether they mean anything at all. However, what we can do is take a look at what other people are dreaming about and how weird their dreams get. Interested in figuring out exactly that, a user of the AskReddit community asked fellow Redditors, "What is your weirdest dream/nightmare you've ever had?" Needless to say, loads of people admitted to having rather bizarre adventures while in their sleep.
Below, we've compiled some of the hands-down weirdest dreams people have shared. As always, upvote the dreams that left you perplexed and share in the comments whether you have had any strange dreams lately that you can still recall pretty vividly. And if you did, what was the dream about? Let us know!
#21
"Well, last night I dreamed that the OG Disney characters (Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, etc.) were in a grunge rock band and I was at one of their concerts. It was weird and I have no explanation for it."
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#22
"Once I dreamt an elephant. It kidnapped me and when I ran away he was searching and stalking me, I was terrified but nobody seemed to care. I'm still terrified of elephants or any big animals to this day."
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#23
"My cats putting peanut butter on MY nose and mewling until I licked it off. Was pretty strange."
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#24
"Overslept once because I had a dream that I was in a church and Soulja Boy was being baptized."
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13points
#25
"I was working in a soft pretzel factory, running the pretzels through a sewing machine. Everywhere the dough crossed, I had to stitch an x, outlined by a square, like a luggage or a backpack strap is done."
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#26
"The Joker (from the original Batman cartoons) is hovering outside my window in a lying-down position, looking at me with his trademark smile that’s very creepy. For some reason, his shoes are painted onto his feet."
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#27
"I sometimes have dreams of my parallel universes.
It’s like living a whole 8 hours in my other lives that are still me. Sometimes I don’t have a kid. Sometimes I live in Japan. I live in another house with a different partner but in the same city.
The weirdest one was I was crazy and I hijacked a 747 and crashed it on a highway and escaped and hid behind some little building and I could hear all the cops coming and I remember thinking okay I’m done hanging out in the world now. And I squeezed my eyes and woke up
I also had one where I was an Uber driver and I asked my passengers about 9/11 and they didn’t know what that was. It hadn't happened in that life"
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#28
"Very fuzzy but, one time, I had a dream where George Washington was riding a zebra into my house. Another one was when Broadway moved into the Amazon Jungle and I went to see a play there. The last one was the entire world started to fight in a paper towel war. I have crazy dreams."
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#29
"I dreamt I was a reporter chasing a story on the AIDS virus. I was alone on some deserted boardwalk when a woman suddenly approached me and said 'Here’s your story!' and tried stabbing me with a syringe. We fought and struggled and I woke up punching my wall in a cold sweat."
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#31
"I saw a man die in my dream when I was about 10. It was the way he died that was weird. I remember him laying on his side and puking like he had been poisoned. The puke changed color, texture, and consistency every time he puked. Eventually, he was eaten by parasites from the inside.
When I woke up I asked myself why I would ever dream of something like this and if something was wrong with me. Just happened that one time, though."
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#32
"I only remember a few details about it, but it still makes me smile a bit.
Basically, I was running from the cops for some reason, and I run into my mom. She takes me to this building that an old friend of hers owns, but the building is completely covered in grass like a ghillie suit.
We get inside, and it turns out to be some sort of weed shop owned by none other than Snoop Dogg. So Snoop, my mom, and I sit down for a while and catch up on life cuz apparently he's known her for a couple of decades now. Eventually, I hear sirens and decide to bail after saying my farewells."
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#33
"I have a recurring nightmare where I'm performing CPR on my grandmother after she stops breathing. As I'm doing compressions, her chest caves in and her broken ribs stick out everywhere. I start trying to put her back together."
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#35
"I was part of a task force to takedown a godzilla-sized mosquito without wings in the inner city. This was when I found out that the whole "you wake up when you die" concept was BS, because every time I died I would respawn. It was like groundhog day but instead of learning to manipulate people in small town Pennsylvania, I was getting impaled by a monstrous insect."
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#36
"I had a dream that I was trying to clean the toilet in my apartment, but no matter how hard I scrubbed it stayed filthy.
I woke up legit sweating and anxious and ran to my bathroom to make sure my toilet was clean.
Everything is clean in real life but I think about that dream every time I poop at home."
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#37
"Me and my friend chased by a giant worm on a beach, tried to escape with a sprint out onto the bathing platform. The worm continued the chase, the only escape route left was the water. Jumped in and as soon as my eyes raised above the waterline I saw the worm jumped (?) into the water and landed on a 3rd person who happened to be a kid with Down syndrome. Woke up and have never forgotten that dream."
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#38
"I used to have a recurring nightmare for about 6 years where I was in this endless white room being chased by giant alphabet letters with teeth and eyes. It was horrific."
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#40
"Kanye West seeks my help moving his furniture out of an apartment. Also all the furniture is assembled out of cereal boxes. Cheerios, Froot Loops, Raisin Bran, Chex, etc. I actually had this dream three nights in a row."
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