The other night I was dreaming that I was on a cruise ship. A huge cruise ship. I had no idea of where it was going or why I was on it but I was there. A while into the dream I found myself trying to run up stairs away from something but there was a huge pull on my body and I couldn't move very fast and started getting nervous that I was about to be caught by what ever or who ever was chasing me. Then I thought to myself "this is silly, I'm dreaming. I can just fly where I want to go." As soon as I started lifting off of the ground I heard some voice telling me not to go but I started flying anyway.

This is where it gets really strange. I was flying horizontally and straight towards what was perceived as the interior wall of this cruise ship and I flew right through it. Beyond the wall was nothing but blackness and more red walls. I kept flying through them until I got trough about 9 or ten of them. Everything went blank and I woke up in another dream. I was in this enclosed area in mexico that had a giant swimming pool in the middle. Inside of the swimming pool swimming around were these giant almost mutant crocodiles. They looked like they were millions of years old and had been forgotten about. There was also this small mexican boy there with me. Somehow he called over one of these monsters and the monster went vertical with it's head sticking out of the water and the small boy (maybe 7 years old) stood on the tip of it's nose like it was a circus act or something. I was pretty afraid these monsters were going to try and eat me so I was baffled that this kid had the courage to stand on top of one of them. After about 10 seconds, the kid jumped off and hit this big white button. A big horizontal circle came out of the ground and fish started coming out of it and the monsters began eating the fish. The kid looked at me and said something when when he jumped down but before he hit the button and I can't remember what he said but he seemed very depressed on the inside. After he hit the button and the monsters began eating the fish I woke up.

I interpreted this dream as a message to me that monsters (evil aliens trying to feed off of our powerful natural energy) would rather wait for a giant surge of food (our collective energy) than to feed off us as individuals. Maybe I'm just a paranoid schizophrenic but it seemed very real. Like it wasn't a dream anymore but I was in a different reality.

How do some of you interpret this dream of mine? If I described it in a way that made sense.

I often have flying dreams of similar natures.

As for the other content, I don't know enough to interpret because dreams have such personalized content.

I once had a dream I could fly through walls. Should be the ultimate freedom but I was stuck in a small room. When ever I flew through a wall the same room was always on the other side. If I flew through the ceiling I came up through the floor in the same room.

We can be prisoners of your own mind no matter how free we think we are. I was dealing a lot with life and myself at the moment.

Can you think about anything in past two days that may have seeded the ship, crocs, fish, mexican boy etc... tv shows, something someone said, something you read or saw that may have been the source. If I think about most of my dreams and I dream a lot, I can often (maybe a third) pinpoint where the schema came from. Honestly, and this is MHO, I wouldn't read too much into it, I've been very intimate with my dreams for a longg time, have kept dream journals and have practiced lucid dreaming for about six years and to me what is most telling and insightful about dreams is how I reacted to the dream scenarios, what I acted like, felt like and what emotions I was feeling rather than the symbolic content. To me trying to interpret dream content usually ends up just being a reflection of the critical mind anyway.

As for the vividness, or realness of it, that usually seems to tie into how lucid you are in a dream, from oblivious all the way to as real, if not more than the waking world. We all experience different levels of lucidity and sometimes full blown naturally occuring lucid dreams and end up not remembering them at all, my guess is that because you woke up directly out of the dream and it was emotionally charged, that you were in a more lucid state, so your recollection and vivid impressions stuck with you. Plus, it was a cool dream, even with it's darker undertones

Have you ever had a true lucid dream? Bein fully aware and conscious in a dream is as real of an alternate reality as the physical one you are in now, one inside your mind, but non the less and alternate reality for sure.

Maybe instead of thinking about what the gators, fish and boy meant, think about how you felt and what your thoughts about are, are they fears? Insecurities? Emphatic? Cold, distant and impartial? How did you feel towards the boys depressive state? Remember, dreams all from you and are you.. not messages from evil beings.. trust me on this one if I would try and put meanings to all my dreams, I would definitely be schizo by now.. cuz there's some crazy stuff in that noggin of mine

Sweet dreams....

Thanks for the replies

I've never really thought about dreams from the perspective that oneironaut put forth that it possible to interpret yourself by evaluating how I acted in the dream.

In this swimming pool place I was nervous because these crocodile things were present in the water but they could also flop themselves out of the water and meander around on land (not very efficiently) but I was never really terrified. And I think this came from having another human around that was acting comfortably around these crocodile type beings.


And about me having a "true lucid dream", I don't think I ever really have had one. No matter how real my dreams seem at times, I always am aware (whether it is being fully aware at all times or just slightly realizing it is a dream for a small portion of it) that I am dreaming.

Ive been recalling my nightly dreams for the last 8 years and lucid dreaming and OBEs were always my goal..
In one dream .. I have driven into mountains at night parked and walked down a trail got lost and later in this dream woke up ..[still in the dream].. on a high peak [still in dream] i was in a hollowed out stone eagles nest erosion in the rock.. high on a mountain top..[
I wondered [still in the non lucid dream] how did I get here?.[did an eagle take me here?I thouht]?
Then [as morning sun was comming up]..I climbed down and found a walking trail and found my way back to where i parked my car ..
At the mountain cafe where i parked..i asked where was my car?
The dream carector answered..its parked in storage lot behind cafe you can get it in an hour..
I said ok [still not lucid in this beautyfully detailed and life life dream]..then walked 50 feet towards a sound I heard..
When I stoped at a cliff ..then I looked down into a rageing mountain river...
Just then [critical awareness kicked in and I knew I was dreaming!..[lucidity starts!]

Knowing I was safe in a dream ..I steped off the high cliff above the raging river and fell halfway down ..but the free fall stoped in mid air.. and i began flying superman style!
I flew and flew ..folowling the path of the rageing river laughing all the way!
Flying fast..I continued folowing the river for many miles.. folowing the sharp winding turns..
I sudenly flew off the rivers course and streaked towards a very high group of mountains and with a burst of high speed then soared over the peaks with a speed that brought tears of joy to my eyes!
All the awesome flying caused an excitement that woke me out the the dream and found myself ion bed...

I had the dream above..5 years ago and remember it like it hapened this morning!

In other awesome lucid.. and non lucid dreams.. I have done things like ...[walking through walls many times] .
.often when pushing through glass the glass would stretch first then give way ...

I once was at the bottom floor of a tall sky scraper and lucid flew upwards superman style tearing through all 55 floors of concrete wood and glass till i tore through the top 55th floor and roof soaring high into the sky!

In another dream [lucid] i slowly ripped the ceiling out of a huge building till i got through the roof exposing a bright sunny day with blue sky and white clouds!

In other dreams..[I have fallen asleep within the dream]..[then dreamed within the dream].. then woke [ within the dream]..and told a [dream carector] that i had fallen asleep and had a dream?..

Just this morning I had a dream and ..[while in the dream] was looking for a beautyfull town i had been to in the past.. where anything was posible and life there was like a never ending carnivile of fun..

In this dream i was in a huge dream city... and was looking for this town i remembered and trying to find the right road asking every dream carector i saw for directions!

Still looking for this town .. walking for miles in this giant city of dreams.. i was directed to walk over this huge draw bridge over a body of water to find the right path...

I started up one side and the bridge got very steep and i sensed danger ahead and then ran across two lanes of trafic to the other side of the slowly raising draw bridge..
On other side i continued upward but the walkway was moving downward like an esculater and getting extreemly steep and get to the top was very hard and scary..

I then moved to the earth on side of bridge and slowly climbed downwards till i met a couple of freindly teens and asked them how i could get to the road i needed to find this town..and they told me another way so i headed off in another direction in this huge city of towering giant buildings..
I just had to find the road to this beauityfull town!.. i remembered so well!
Whell after walking for more miles in the dream city looking downwards from a hill i was on i saw the road i needed to be on to get to this town i remembered!
As I started in the direction ..i sudenly woke up in bed !..from this [awesomly vivid].. but non lucid dream..that almost became lucid but i missed the dream cue..
after waking up from dream in bed ..thinking about this town that i knew ive been to in the past ..I sudenly realized something...[this town i was searching for].. .[while in my dream this morning].. was a memory of another dream I had years ago!!!
anyth is posible in a dream!

[one lesson.. from part of this dream was....

Still looking for this town .. walking for miles in this giant city of dreams.. i was directed to walk over this huge draw bridge over a body of water to find the right path...

[to get to the other side of that bridge it takes courage!]

two nights ago in one of the dreams i had i was sitting on a beach with some shaman masters or something. they were creating little clouds with their minds and breath right in front of their mouths and teaching me how to do it. then we'd blow them off over the ocean, sort of like puffing out smoke O's only they would morph into very beautiful shapes and objects in alignment with our thoughts

it was funny then that later in the day, after waking up, i randomly watched one of the lord of the rings movies where they do the same dam thing with the pipe smoke. sync

Those are some crazy dreams universecannon. I can't really remember what I say the other people in my dreams or what they say to me but I can usually remember what happened. I think I need to focus more when I'm in my dreams but lately (after the op dream) I haven't really been fully aware in my dreams and can't remember much. The only thing I can do is continue to move into the future regardless if I can remember my dreams or not haha.