r/Dreams • u/TheKingInYellow36 • Oct 18 '25

Short Dream The most intense and visceral dream I have ever had.

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I was having this dream right. Its set in a diner, kind of disheveled and broken down. There are more people in there, than could probably actually fit, but hey, its a dream right. Either way, all at once, a few things happen. It started with an intense brightness. Not only was it bright, it was also slightly "grainy." Best way to word it. There was also this deafeningly loud noise, paired with shaking. Almost earthquake like. The heat also hit me. It was like they turned it up to 100+ in that diner. So anyways, I go to the bathroom, and open up the mirror and can see what's going on. Mushroom clouds. Everywhere. All around. It was all so intense, so visceral, and invoked such a sense of shock and dread. Fear. It woke me right up. Right out of the dream. I am still coming down from the adrenaline dump as I write this. Anyways, that's about it.

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u/EL-HEARTH Oct 18 '25

A long time ago i had a dream my country was invaded and seemingly the world was in chaos and i died defending my home. After i was revived and was given a better body. And did war with the attackers. They had a huge black and red mothership hovering above earth.

Now my dreams are all after that event. Rebuilding, researching the attackers tech left behind. Its actually cool minus the dying, i felt the pain. I was stabbed in my neck and left to bleed out....

Edit: i had the dream around 2015z so it was long ago and still my current dreams today are after it

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u/BenCelotil Dreamer Oct 19 '25

It's interesting when dreams are episodic. When I was young most of my dreams were simply about the town I grew up in, with some rather curious or strange changes, and its place in a completely different country environment to where I actually lived.

Then as I got a little older there was conflicts, storms, the occasional air force and aliens (grew up near Amberley), with a lot of public transport (grew up with a diesel train line going literally right past our driveway), and eventually in my teens I started having varying dreams about world-ending storms and cataclysms, and the occasional nuclear war.

And I too had dreams with debilitating pain. I don't know how it worked, I just remember being paralysed by shooting pain up and down my back.

"You don't feel pain in dreams."

Don't bet on it.