Thread: What is the very first dream you can remember having?

My first dream had the Big bird from Sesame Street in it, playing in circus. That is all i remember

I was about 6-8 years old and I remember dreaming about dragons flying over my house and I panicked and tried to hide under my bed. No idea if that was the earliest dream I can recall but it was defiantly one of the earliest.

I was eaten by a giant green Godzilla-like monster. I ended up inside its red stomach.

I was 5 and being chased by a snow monster.

I feel like there was another thread a long time ago I posted this in, but I can't find it to c/p from, so... typing from scratch it is! My first dream was when I was 3, and yet I remember it more clearly than some dreams I had this week.

I'm at this giant swimming pool, in this room where the background looks exactly like this old Macintosh game I used to play called "Factory". The dream starts in 3rd person, where I'm at the top of a red, 20-story-tall pendulum-like structure. There's a hinge in the middle where it pivots, and the top where I stand is shaped like a fist. The entire structure swings forward, sending me falling into the pool. I come up for air, and the dream switches to first person. I hear my name calling from my left, and I turn to see my dad standing at the bottom of a large plastic slide, stretching out his arm to help me up. I swim over to grab it and wake up.

1. I was 4 or 5, going to preschool. In this recurring dream, I was chased in the preschool dorm (just cots in a huge hall we all took naps on). I opened the window, jumped out and flew away. Had this same dream at least 6 times.

2. Little older. Playing outside in neighborhood streets with my friends. It's night time and some unseen dark entity chases us in the streets. I imagine it as very tall and skinny. Feeling of certain doom, like "this is the end". Also recurring at least 10 times.

3. Flying, recurring dozens of times. Age 6. I jump on a school fence and jump again in the air. Start flapping my arms fast until I feel air under my hands getting more and more dense. It gets so thick that I can actually push off of it and fly clumsily low to the ground.

Love my dreams. Can I haze more?

I was about 3 and I was watching my two thumbs while hearing my aunt talking.

The only early dreams of mine that I remember are unfortunately recurring nightmares from when I was 3 to 5 years old, including:

1. I was alone on a sidewalk at night, and the cars were literally just solid colors. I would hear a loud, scary, low-pitched noise, and then see a red towtruck flying in the sky towards me.
2. I was sitting on the couch, and all of a sudden the top stair in my house's staircase would come after me like a monster.
3. I was at home and would find my mother, only it was an evil clone of her, and there were several of those clones.

In the months and years following these nightmares, I actually used to realize I was dreaming many times, but the fact that I had so many nightmares made these realizations only make me afraid that it could turn into a nightmare. I did not know about lucid dreaming until I randomly found a website about it when I was around 13 or so, a few years after these nightmares were gone.

Interesting question! It's a hard one for me to answer personally because my memory doesn't index things that way. Also, the further back I try to remember, the more blurry the distinction between reality and fantasy seems to become, so I have fragments of memories that feel they could either be dreams or just some sort of poorly-remembered distortion of an actual waking-life event.

So, here are a few random memories that I think might have been dreams that probably occurred anywhere between ages 2 and 6:

- Standing in what looked like the living room of some unfamiliar house. Maybe I was feeling lost, but I can't remember anything for sure. (I wonder if it could have actually been the house my parents say we lived in until I was two, which I have no real memory of.)

- Standing at the corner of a street at night, all alone. It seemed to be a residential street, except for some reason there was a large, tall, brightly lit commercial sign in front of me.

- Crawling in the dining room floor (maybe as a toddler) in the house I spent the majority of my childhood in. All along the wall, the floor was covered with pieces of candy in fascinating shapes and colors!

- Some kind of machine in the living room that blew huge soap bubbles in the shapes of numbers (might have been inspired by my fascination with numbers and calculators plus possibly shows like Sesame Street, etc.)

I think I was 5 or 6.

I was inside a mansion filled with people. Some living angel statues teased me, and I shot them with the bow and arrow I had gotten the Christmas before. That's about all I can remember.

The first I can remember, I was probably around 8. I was in a car driven by a weird viking looking fat guy, in the night. We ended up crashing in a cavern where flowers were turning into snakes. It was pretty regular. It wasn't very scary, but quite weird and disapointing.

I was riding my red bicycle on an orange evening with friends who I don't remember, but know were the greatest friends that ever existed.

Originally Posted by Witchtheworld

I was about 3 and I was watching my two thumbs while hearing my aunt talking.

This may be a totally wired question, but were your thumbs doing anything? (Just asking as I used to have visions as a baby and one of them was thumbs )

I remember lots! I had a dream recently were I had recall of 1000's and 1000's of dreams.... all in my head at once, it was cool!



1) My Recurring nightmares from about 4+ were me on train tracks, the setting would change but I'd be trapped on tracks either in a tunnel or embankment, I'd 'feel' the vibrations of a train coming but not know what track or direction. I'd always pick the track next to the train and be sucked towards it as it crashed past me.

2) I always used to run on my arms in dreams like a dog.

3) A vivid dream from age 7ish (I recall this as I just re'integrated this bit of me) I was at my Aunty's house when having the dream. In the dream I'm sitting on the disk of a flat earth tree (think disk world) I'm at the edge, the disk looking down into space the disk and tree is wobbling like a spinning top I start to roll about and then I fall off. I drop for ages and ages then eventually land at the bottom of a metal slide.

4) I also remember 3 visions that would happen when awake too and from a very early age. One was a wire, like cheese wire being pulled tighter and tighter till it snapped. Another a blue and white bowl of something like porridge, It starts of being stirred slowly and it gets faster and faster till the porridge splats out of the bowl. Another is off 2 thumbs one would get closer while the other moved away and then they would stop... it was wiredly slow and deliberate.