Dreams that Negatively Affect Your Life, No Matter how Silly.

**Loaf** · 07-02-2011 12:36 PM

Ever had a dream that scared you or caused a philosophical thought, making you constantly think of the dream in the day? Or dreamed of something that suddenly seemed to sort of "fit" into place with something that happened in reality and you start to get creeped out.

Well, I have this weird story to share (weird in the sense I am freaking mad).

We bought an old piano and I'm really attached to it. Its a Waldberg brand and I can't find any information about it online, nor can other owners of Waldberg pianos (note: not Waldberg Berlin). We do know its about 80 years old though. I've always been curious of its history but I'll never know.

I sometimes would joke about a "ghost" being attached to the piano. Just because its old, nothing more. Sometimes I'd picture a past owner sitting at it hitting the keys, not in a creepy way but almost in a comforting kind of way... an old piano with many players and many who cared for it, you can almost feel the joy and emotion that many of its players have left behind, as if the wood casing silently echo's a thousand performances. I often wonder how the piano made it so far; while there is no way to tell, my best efforts at research indicate the piano could be from London in England or Germany somewhere. I'd really like to trace its routes and how it got to the other side of the world, but its probably impossible... maybe during the war? Maybe by someone in modern times who was moving countries? Its fun to ponder.

Last night I had this dream that the piano was in a very old time, perhaps after the Victorian era. My piano was there in an older room, and a very well dressed and groomed man in a black suit sat at the piano. I saw the back of the upright piano, I couldn't see the mans face after he sat down. He began to play until suddenly... a bang. I don't know what happened, but it felt like there was a shockwave (or at least a damn loud sound that sent vibrations around). His head flew forward and smacked the bass keys, his skull shattered, red blood spewing out over the piano, standing out so vividly against whiteness of the keys, staining them. I walked over, like I was a ghost and not there, just watching. It was so horribly eerie and scary. The dream then went all silly, my family appeared and it was modern day and my mother started dismantling the piano haha. But for a moment there it was a sinister dream.

I let my imagination run wild after I wake up. For a while I started thinking "What if there is something 'spiritual' bonded to the piano that has revealed the darkness of the past by influencing my dreams?". Someone playing their last song knowing death was coming? Of course, I don't seriously believe that... but, dreams like that niggle away at me in the day, and even though I know its just my subconscious taking advantage of my thoughts for the purpose of a scathing nightmare, every time I walk past the piano I stare at the bass keys, which coincidentally one of the keys has a crack in them... from the impact of a skull?

Wondering if anyone else has ever had a dream thought affect their waking life, regardless how silly and outrageously wild the dream matter is... because its not the first time a bizarre idea from a dream has eaten away at me, even though it goes against all logic.

I'm like one of those people that saw Jaws then got scared of bathtubs haha.

**Solarflare** · 07-02-2011 02:30 PM

I've had 5. 4 of them are pretty much the same dreams.

A long time ago i had a large fear of death. So I had a dream (pretty outrageous dream that now i find funny

) where i was at a party. And there was ice cream and i got the ice cream and now i was trying to find a spoon. (3rd person dream btw) Soon my 3rd person vision went black and it said 12 years later. I found the spoon and then i dont remember the rest until like 2 minutes later, where everyone i knew was older and wrinkly. Then something happened again and it said 12 years later. And then i was outside with old people and then my Grade 5 (i was in gr 5 when this dream happened) french teacher rode a hoverboard and she was a robot. Her face was to creepy to describe. I woke up tramatized for some reason

The next dream wasn't sad or depressing in any way, It was weird. It took place in 4 dreams that happened in the same night. My mother was pregnant and soon we had a baby. This DC (the baby) felt different from all the dream characters i have ever had ever. He, i cant explain it, had like an aura coming from him. So soon I became the baby and i was walking, and then i became myself. I had to feed the baby and do stuff like that to him. In the next 3 dreams i was trying to find the baby the entire dream. I woke up very puzzled. The baby felt important, had an aura and was just..... there, like real life. Its very hard to explain so sorry

nice thread btw.

**tommo** · 07-02-2011 02:48 PM

Pic of piano?

**Loaf** · 07-02-2011 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by tommo

Pic of piano?

Its not one of those ornate ones. Its more simplistic with a dark redwoody body, which is what I love... its simple enough to still work in a modern house. <3

**Caretaker** · 07-02-2011 11:42 PM

I'd say a dream that makes me think about it and affects me throughout the day isn't scary rather than depressed. There was this girl I had a huge crush on in school and I never had the balls to man up and ask her out. The dream is usually me hanging out with her and laughing but I always wake up before we kiss. It hurts because I heard that after I dropped out, she got depressed and killed herself. When I have a dream about her, my heart aches all day.

**Loaf** · 07-03-2011 12:45 AM

:c

**Shaelyn** · 07-03-2011 01:17 AM

I have recently began to have nightmares, every night, of an apocalyptic theme. They are all very different but very vivid. Ever since I started having these dreams anytime there is a storm or something of the sort I have a panic attack. I know it is irrational to think that the world is going to end because of a thunderstorm but it seems no matter how often I reassure myself of this I can't seem to rid my mind of the lingering fear. When I say panic attacks I mean horrible ones. Sometimes I pass out and almost always I am left traumatized and physically sick. I have never before had a strong fear of death but recently it has began to consume my thoughts.

Talk about silly, eh.

**PinkCrimson** · 07-03-2011 12:44 PM

Nice topic. I think I have couples of them, but I can't recall(I forget most of my dreams in 3 days). Maybe I'll post later when I remember. But I sometime cannot distinguish between reality and dreams, for instance I remember someone had told me something, but I don't know whether it's true or it was just my dream...

**Keitorin** · 07-04-2011 04:38 AM

Mine aren't so dramatic, they're kind of trivial. I get a bit disturbed when I can't remember if some trivial thing happened in a dream or in real life. For instance, I dreamed once that I asked if my mom had put some pop in the fridge for me. She doesn't remember that, so I assume it was a dream. I get over it because they're not really important things and sometimes I can confirm if they were real, but it's still disturbing for a bit.

**Loaf** · 07-04-2011 05:42 AM

I'm enjoying these stories from people. MOAR.

**PinkCrimson** · 07-04-2011 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Keitorin

Mine aren't so dramatic, they're kind of trivial. I get a bit disturbed when I can't remember if some trivial thing happened in a dream or in real life. For instance, I dreamed once that I asked if my mom had put some pop in the fridge for me. She doesn't remember that, so I assume it was a dream. I get over it because they're not really important things and sometimes I can confirm if they were real, but it's still disturbing for a bit.

That's exactly what happens to me! It is disturbing and silly. The thing concerns me is that even I forget about the dream, it still affects me, so dreams actually AFFECT people when they are not conscious(your subconscious harming yourself??)...I wonder if dreams can harm people.

**Loaf** · 07-04-2011 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by PinkCrimson

I wonder if dreams can harm people.

Mentally I would say yes. I've known of people who have had really disgusting, disturbing, or horrific dreams that they can't stop thinking about which grate on them and really upset them. I've seen a few topics here of people wanting to know how to forget hellish dreams because they are badly affecting them. I've had a few that have made me feel physically sick and I've had trouble getting rid of them from my mind...