A few years ago I started getting into the subject of lucid dreaming and dream recollection. Previously I had been smoking alot of herbs throughout the day and before bed in the evenings. I noticed that when I didn't smoke as much, especially before bed, I would have crystal clear and vivid dreams and I could recall them in the morning. However, if I had smoked in the evening, i would remember NOTHING at all. Almost as if I had not dreamt anything. I began the practice of telling myself every night before I went to bed that I was going to remember my dreams and that the first thing I was going to do when I woke up was replay them over and over in my head. Over a couple of months of this practice, along with a drastic reduction in smoking my precious herbs, I began having very vivid dreams every single night. And most importantly, I was remembering them!

I started keeping a journal for a while but my dream recollection devoloped so strongly that I eventually decided it wasn't even necessary. The dreams where always extremely vivid and abundantly strange, but never violent/scary or negative in any way. I would usually have a good laugh in the AM as I started piecing together my own interpretation to these dreams. I was elated by the fact that I was finally dreaming again.

Then... out of the blue... about 2 years ago.... I started having continuous, insane, violent, apocalyptic/alien take over dreams. This has been happening 3-4 nights out of every week for almost 2 years straight. Before I go on, I would like to say that the dreams aren't really causing me any issues or anything but I'm really starting to wonder why after a lifetime of generally good dream experiences that all of the sudden I begin this never ending spree of seemingly prophetic, and quite horrifying dream patterns.
For example:

1. Flaming Mechanical Alien Cylon robots falling from the sky, hitting the ground running, and vaporizing hundreds of people directly in front of me as I run for cover. Followed by miniature alien probes searching all of the earthscape to locate any survivors and relay the information to there leaders for instant extermination.

2. Giant mechanical beings that use energy to throw absurdly huge items such as entire SEMI trucks into crowds of people, crushing them in front of me as again i run for cover and remain on the run from the probes.

3. UFO's raining down from the sky and reprogramming human minds to make them into slaves for there own purposes. Fleeing from these aliens to avoid there mental probing(and potentially anal... lol)

4. Living in a post apocalyptic landscape where a band of survivors and myself find ourself in an enclosed area(giant cage) with genetically engineered alien zombies. Being studied by the aliens to see how we react/survive in this area. Detailed experimentation on human nature and its will to survive. I will find myself escaping the enclosed area several times only to have actual HUMANS return me to the aliens to be placed back into the enclosed area.

5. Watching the sun split into 3 suns on the horizon, unleashing a heatwave across the earth, scorching my body and instantly killing me, accepting my death, then floating up into space where I see that Aliens have caused this cataclysmic event. Experiencing my soul floating in space, looking down upon a black n' crispy earth, and a liquid sun.

6. Floating on a peice of styrofoam through galaxies with an emaciated meatwad/fry/shake from the aquateen hunger force on a mission to mine dinosaur fossils on the moon. LOL. (just through that one in there to lighten things up a bit, but it was a real dream)

I guess you get my point. These are just a few of the dream patterns that I seem to have repeatedly. The circumstances are always slightly different, but the patterns are the same. Alien Apocalypse or some sort of galactic event causing mass extinction followed by weird experimentation and/or being in some sort of survival mode with anywhere from 1 to hundreds of other survivors.

Does anyone else experiences dreams of this nature on such a frequent and hyper vivid manner? Any thoughts on interpretation?

I get many post apocalyptic dreams. I don't think its anything special it's probably influenced by all the video games/movies/books you read. I find that dreams may just be simulations to prepare you for your stressful reality. If you have such lucid dreams... you should know that you are in control. I always go ape shit on everything when I know I'm dreaming. I get super powers and destroy the whole alien race etc... they are extremely epic. I've been in battlefields by myself destroying hordes of them using my Godly powers and strength.

My lucidity ends with the realization that i'm dreaming. I will realize that i'm dreaming, but have no control over the circumstances of the dream. I have not been able to overcome that obstacle.

However I did have a dream a week ago where i had a giant machine gun and there was this Giant Mech sorta thing coming around the corner of this building. I was looking through a window, through the building, and out the window on the other side, and could see it coming. I just kept thinking "oh sh!t, i know this is a dream, but i hope i know how to use this thing".

As far as reading... i have done some reading on the idea of past alien visitors to this planet but nothing much deeper than that. I haven't owned a video game system since the PS2 came out. I guess I can think of some underlying reasons why i would have these dreams but i've pretty much felt the same way about these subjects for 7-10 years and the dreams have only started over the past two. The thing that geeks me out is that its like every other night. Maybe i'm unconsciously dwelling on something. Or maybe there is another totally unrelated issue underlying this problem. Just looking for feedback

Thanks for the response, River

That's just a tricky reflex to develop: wait a minute, this is a dream! That means I can fly and stuff...

My dreams tend to be confusing and stressful. Whatever baffling thing I'm dreaming about, just feels so damned important at the time. Then there's that thrilling moment that I've almost got it figured out... Then I wake up. That's the pattern. Not very rewarding. My solution: weed before bed. Works every time, and I think I gain more from that nightly moment of reflection than I do from my incomprehensible dreamscape.

weed before bed = no recollection of any dreams for me

You'd think it would be the opposite but it isn't!

I had a dream the other night that i was in some crazy occult meeting, on accident...lol.

Once I realized where I was I tried to escape and had 30 weird ass hellraiser-esque freakazoids chasing me around town. I had to take them down one by one. I also remember attaching blades to my feet and jumping off of a platform onto the leader of the cult during the final battle. I used my ninja footblade to slice him entirely in half. The only problem was that he replicated and became two super dark lords of nightmarish proportions.

what a strange dream