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midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I can't really remember but all I know is that we were on a camping trip and all my friends were there plus a fine boy at my school. All I know is it was pleasant because I got to look at him. I also remember that we went to the restaurant where I work. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | Me and my friends were in track running in our swimming suits. My friends were about my age. We were running during the winter time. When we're at the end of the track we ran into a huge playground with huge slides. After that the teacher gave us junk food to eat. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | The dream was very familiar. I was walking down the road and then the road disappeared and I fell off a cliff. I was the only person and I could never be saved by any one. I felt like someone was watching me but no one was there. The dream was very unpleasant. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I play b-ball. My dream was like real life like. It didn't feel like a dream. It started that me and a friend (I forget which one) went to the grocery store. At the store we got a lot of liquor. We brought it back to school for some reason - to put in our b-ball lockers. It wasn't our real locker room, but in my dream it was. Our coach came in, saw the liquor, and had a lot of counseling with her. She was crying, I was crying. Very weird. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | That day my friend and I met some guys on vacation in the hot tubs. We had to leave then. But in my dream she and I woke up the following morning to one of the guys calling, who said he was going to ski with us. So I told him to make breakfast and he did. But I never let him into my condo. He was just there. The place was familiar. We were 16 and the guys we met were 20, 19, 22. It was pleasing for me. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I remember it starting with me running down the street, the freeway. It was probably traffic hour because there were tons of cars with people in them just kind of sitting there. I was running away from a big red dot. It was the circle on the 7-up can. I remember being really scared, but I also thought it was somewhat funny. I saw people that I knew in those cars, from my parents, to my brothers, to my friends. I remember looking for my ex-boy friend and why he wasn't there. I stopped and hid behind a car and started talking to the person in it. I don't remember who it was. The car was somehow parked in front of the wall, so the circle started climbing the wall. I thought that the chase was all over, but then it slipped and turned around and saw me. I was so scared, but the person in the car kept smiling at me. I started to run really fast and then I woke up. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | It was at school and my boy friend who's 17 was in it and I was too. We were holding hands and walking down the hall and he kept looking at me and smiling. I was happy. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at a party at my friends' house and they all turned into vampires and they all attacked me and made me a vampire. Then the head guy vampire liked me and he made me do this weird test and then I became head vampire and I got to boss everyone around and they told me all the people in my school that were vampires. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was standing at my mailbox in front of my house and I saw my neighbor Cindy walking down the street toward me. For the first time in a while she looked healthy and young (in real life she has cancer) and I looked at her and she was coming right at me and I was very scared. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was working at a Dairy Queen (where my boy friend's ex-girl friend works) and we have never gotten along, but for some reason we made peace and became friends after I beat her up for going out with my boy friend. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | My brother and I were in a big dome that was a court room. It seemed familiar. The dome was huge - 10,000 seats. There were old judges around us, male and middle-aged people. I didn't know them. They were just authority figures to me. The old men were making fun of my brother and me because we were out of place and we were saving seats for these other kids that never came. At the first entrance of the dome was a bar that you had to make communion at in large glasses. At the bar it was just me and this guy I just met. He was old. I was telling him about a dream I had. I said, "Hey buddy, I had this dream last night," and he cut me off and seemed to remind me that dreams are only interesting to the people who have them. I got pretty mad and pretended to push him but said "psych." The guy wasn't mad. He looked disappointed and walked out. He had a tattoo on his hand of a cross - I didn't notice until I had insulted him. I felt bad and tried to apologize. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was dreaming that I was going to Savannah, Georgia, and about to go to see the Olympics with some of my close friends. We all walked in together and ate and it was nice and sunny but not like a normal day. We sat in bleachers that looked like the Metrodome seats. We also were up really high but could still see really well. My friends and I were about to leave when the Olympics finally started and when they did we got up and started to walk down the stairs but they kept on going. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at some mall with some friends (guys and girls). We were walking around. Throughout the whole dream I was in a good mood. The only thing that really happened was one of my friends bought something. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I can only remember part of my dream, but I dreamt that I had two pairs of contacts on and didn't realize it until one of them fell out. I was in school. The people I don't remember, but it was probably my classmates. My feelings were just kind of like "this is really strange." | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | My dream took place at school in the lunch room. Me, my best friend, and the boy my friend liked were sitting at the table and I leaned over her to take his hat and we fell off the table and my friend got mad at me for it. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at a friend's house, there were 15-19 people there, ages 16-21, male and female, all but four friends of mine. There was one black and white dog. I felt fine during the dream. One girl (my best friend) got in a fight with another girl. She beat the other girl up and she (my friend) fell like three times and kept on hitting the other girl. The girl ran away and went home. My friend was like 5'2" and petite and the other girl was like 5'7" and HUGE! | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | Setting: On the floor of my living room in front of my couch. Myself with a man, a big tall man with black hair. I was scared, he was my boy friend, but for some reason I was scared. He held me on the floor and raped me while I was screaming, "Nooo - - - stop!" He was hurting me, and I was crying. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | My dream was set in what appeared to be another planet. The coloring was all brown, except for a few neon lights. This place was not familiar to me in real life, but it seemed to be in my dream. My best friend was in the dream - and she was in search of her meaning in life. She was 16 in my dream, as she is now, and her father encouraged her to find this meaning. The only way she could find her purpose was if her father died. He was aware of this but she was not. He tried numerous times to kill himself in subtle ways - but was never successful. Then he realized the only way to die was if the "mother bird" killed him. This bird was the queen of this place I think. So my friend was told by her dad that he only had 30 minutes left. The minutes were counted on a bomb-like digital clock. When 30 minutes were up, a giant white bird with neon pink streaks appeared and pointed at him and he exploded like a firework. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was an exchange student in Slovakia, visiting someone who had been an exchange student here. The start of the dream was when I had just arrived at their house. Her family was very happy to see me, as well as excited to hear about my life in America. They asked me if I could make them a traditional American dessert to have with dinner, and I agreed, but I needed to go to the store to get some strawberries. The former exchange student, Zelka, said she would drive me to the store, so she took me out to her car which was a jeep like the ones in old WWII movies. The ride was very bumpy and when we got to town, I was very surprised to see how many American stores, etc., were there. It was terrible how much American culture had taken over their country. Then we were taken into this shop where a Chinese man was giving acupuncture lessons. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | My dream is set in a familiar setting, like school or home (either present or past), only it doesn't look the same. I just know that's where I am. There were double spiral staircases that went up to a bridge. The building was made of glass plates. There are people, not really any age, just a mass of men and women, coming and going. Some people I know, but I can't say for sure who they are. I ended up accidentally blowing something up. I felt guilty when I woke up. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was pregnant and my baby was Asian, but the dad was white and so am I. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at my friend's house, and it was nighttime. I was walking around outside trying to find something to drink and I found a bunch of pop machines, but all the pop was cold. I was really scared because it was a bad neighborhood and I was with one other person but I was still scared. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at some sort of school activity, some sort of game, basketball or volleyball. I was walking up to the very top of the bleachers and sat next to my ex-boy friend. He told me about himself and his new girl friend, and I felt happy for him. Then he told me he cheated on her. I was surprised. The bad thing is, he told me he had an affair with another boy from our school, a really big, fat boy. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I had a dream about reliving a day at school. The people I remember in it are my boy friend and his/my friend and a good friend of mine who's a girl. We were at my locker and I was talking to my boy friend and our other two friends. I don't really remember what we were talking about, but it was a pleasant dream and I woke up feeling happy inside. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | Driving past a huge dark very modern building that someone told me was a church. From the outside it was very huge and foreboding. When I went inside after driving by several times it was beautiful and very traditional, like a large cathedral that you would find in Europe. The music was very strong but wonderful to listen to. The temperature of the room was very cold. I don't remember ever seeing this place, but I felt very safe. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | In the dream I found a friend that moved away last year and we got married and then he died. He was the same age as me and we were the only people in the dream. I don't remember where it took place. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was sitting on a chair in my living room, watching TV. A man I had never seen before came in and threw a rock at my TV. It broke and the characters from "Beverly Hills 90210" came out. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | My boy friend and I were at a baseball game (not a familiar place) and for some reason I started beating up a child. The police came and I tried to get away. I was very scared. But I was caught. Then my boy friend told the police his last name and we got to leave and I was very relieved. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was in the middle of a forest on the edge of a river that was rushing very quickly. I was walking along the river skipping and stumbling over rocks, when through the trees, I saw a very small, one-room house. This setting was not familiar to me. The weather wasn't sunny but it wasn't gloomy either. It was just in between. I came to the door of the house and when I opened the door the house was full of sand. I climbed up on top of the sand and I felt strange, like I was trapped or sinking through the sand. In the house I met three girls that I recognized. They were my close friends from the summer ballet camp that I went to the summer before. Soon after that the sand filtered through the house, my friends disappeared, and in the house appeared my giant trampoline and my Uncle Bob, whom I'm very close to. He teases me all the time and is my favorite uncle, but I haven't written to him in a long time. I began to jump on my trampoline and soon everything disappeared and I was left alone in the forest near the river. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | My dream was at my house and a big giant was chasing me and my brother and sister. My brother is 14 and my sister is 10. My dog bit the giant in the butt. My feelings were unpleasant. I was very scared and wherever we would run he would be there, but he got into our house and I shot him with my 30 odd 6. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I dreamt that my parents had died, and that when I went to tell people, nobody cared. Nobody showed up at the funeral or burial either. Just me and my sisters showed up. I was sad, very mad, upset that nobody showed up, or that nobody seemed to care that my parents died. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was walking to the bus stop and I was running late. I saw the bus coming and I tried to run, but I couldn't run. It was like no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't move, all I could go was in slow motion. I remember my neighbors yelling come on, you're gonna miss it, but I couldn't move. I was leaving my house in my neighborhood walking to the bus stop. I was mad that I couldn't move and mad that I missed the bus, because my dad would be on my case. It was unpleasant! | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | It was in the street in the middle of the day, but it was dark. And me and all the people in my grade that I hang out with - boys and girls - were fighting like boxing in the streets. Then we would go back to school. Then the next minute everyone was at my house eating chicken and it kept switching off like that. All the people in it were my friends, 16, 17. The people weren't really talking. The only thing I can recall being said was, "Let's go eat chicken." | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | It was at my friends house in their downstairs party room and in their upstairs rooms as well. I remember four people Becca, Kelly, Paul and me. They are all 16 and we hang out together. Becca and Paul were watching the carebears movie in the party room. They were sitting on a Futon. I was upstairs helping Kelly find clothes and then went and watched the movie as well. I couldn't believe Paul thought carebears was cool. Kelly was no longer in the dream from this point on, just Becca, Paul and me. Becca was telling me to be quiet because she was watching the movie and Paul was talking about how cool the bad guy was. The dream was not unpleasant at all but the dream was not pleasant either. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at my cousin's house (she is a female and she is 14). She was having a birthday party for her little brother turning seven. Our family was there and all the teenagers were downstairs. It was getting hot so I went to the bathroom to wash my face. When I came out my crush was there. He's also 16. We both sat down and talked. I was so happy. He was telling me jokes and I was laughing. I did realize that I was laughing; then I woke up feeling weird. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I went to the library and I saw my friend Dave with another girl. They were just leaving. I thought Dave was mad at me, but he wasn't. We went back inside the library. I felt like I was annoying him. I was jealous of the other girl. They were both older than me and I felt like just a little kid to them. The other girl was very nice, but I didn't really like her. They left. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I'm in our family's station wagon and it started driving down a hill towards a busy street and the brakes don't work and neither does the steering wheel. But just before I hit the busy street I reappeared in my house. I headed toward the kitchen which is down a hallway. As I leave a long dark mink-like animal came out from the other hallway that is perpendicular to the one I was in. I knew it was going to attack me but I also knew I needed to get to the kitchen. The creature leaped at me and bit my stomach and I died. Then I started floating away but I got caught against a clear ceiling sort of thing which kept me from floating away. Then I woke up. I felt odd but not really frightened. Just disturbed and rather puzzled and odd. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at school in gym class and we were playing volleyball. I was playing a very good game. The guy I liked was on my team. We were unstoppable. One of my friends was on my team too, but she wasn't as good as me. I was asking the guy I liked out. Then my friend came by and asked him right before me. I was so mad at her that I punched her and knocked her out. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | The setting began in a hotel like place. We went into our room (me, my sister, dad, stepmom). I walked into the bathroom, dropped my clothes to take a shower. The bathroom continued on and sort of turned into what I thought was the Mall of America except I was naked. Sometime later, I had clothes on and found one of my really good friends. We walked outside into this extremely cold, snowy field. There was this farm house and the farmer was screaming at us. He said, "Watch out for it at the end of the chain!" It was this huge freaky dog thing. To escape it, me and my friend had to jump into a cage. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | It was in a neighborhood on the steps of someone's house. I think I met a friend's father who looked really tall and scary looking and I saw my friend and I said hi. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | My mom called me at home (she was at work) and asked if I want to go visit her at work and we'd have a day together, so I went to where she works and her ex-boyfriend was standing there and she told me she forgot to mention he'd be coming with us. So we went on a picnic in some park and they skipped off into this forest and I went after and every time I found them they'd skip away again, so I was lost in the middle of this forest when I woke up. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was in a house with my boyfriend and my sister walked in with a bunch of people and said, "We're going to a party. Want to come?" so we got up and left, but we never went to a party. We went to Florida and were on that elevator ride and halfway down I woke up. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at my friend Justin's with a bunch of my closest friends, and the girl my fiance is cheating on me with called over there and I answered the phone and she asked for Justin. Then I was like "Justin, telephone." He told her to come over. My group of friends and me waited outside for her. When she got there I jumped out of the bushes and said "Hi, I'm your worst nightmare." I'm the girlfriend of the guy you had sex with! Then we kicked the stuffing out of her and threw her chopped up body parts in the window of Justin's little sister's room! | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at school and this guy that I've had a crush on for about eight years wouldn't talk to me. I was walking down a hall where I see him everyday. I said "hello" to him. He just turned his back and started walking away. I shouted at him down the hall asking, "What happened? What did I do." He just looked at me and said, "I can't." It was really unpleasant because it was when I didn't think he wanted to see or talk to me anymore. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | Me and a bunch of my church friends were at an ice rink (outdoors) except it was pretty melted so we are standing in about two inches of water. All of a sudden lightening struck the rink and a surge of energy (little sparks) started going around the rink and we had to jump over it so we wouldn't get electrocuted. Now I am deathly afraid of electricity so this was kind of a scary dream. Anyway, I was trying to get out so I climbed over the fence, being sure to only touch the metal when the electricity ball was on the other side of the rink. Once I got out, I noticed everyone else had gone out the entrance (opening in fence). Everyone was OK. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | It was in my yard at my house. There were two of my friends and three people I didn't know. We are all about the same age. The people I didn't know faces kept changing what they looked like. Then it switched to my friend in a garden with yellow flowers playing with a dog. It was a pleasant dream then everyone went inside my house. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I had a dream I went to the grocery store and there were all these cute guys around me and as I was walking to the store they were all looking at me and the finest guy ever came up to me and gave me his name, number, and address and his name was Bin--, because I didn't understand what he was trying to tell me and his name, he was mumbling. It felt so weird and funny at the same time. But I liked that feeling. The setting was blurry and the ground was shaking but I was used to it and it was all normal. And when I got inside molesters were coming up to me. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | It was really early in the morning and my house was on snowy mountains. I was driving a conversion van and I went to pick up my two friends, one boy and one girl. I let the boy drive the van. It was really icy and snowy. He drove off the mountain. We were spinning and hitting trees when we finally stopped. We got out and I shrunk the van to where I could carry it up the hill. When we got back on the road, I dropped the boy off at my house and me and the girl went to school. I left school early and went back to my house. The boy was no longer there and I paged him and he called me back. He was at the neighbor's house. So I walked over there in a white t-shirt and pink underwear. When the door opened to let me in, I woke up. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I met an angel at a party. I was really tipsy and he basically came to my rescue, acting as my boyfriend. I had to be home early the next morning. He took me to his house and gave me a comfortable bed. When I woke up I told him I had to be home. He then told me he was an angel sent to help me last night so I didn't get in trouble (get hurt). He then made my car appear in front of the house. When I said goodbye and drove off, the house disappeared. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | It takes place in the future, summer of '98. I was to leave in the middle of July to go spend a year in Germany as an exchange student. Some of my friends, all around the age of 17 or 18, more than half of them were guys. Other half girls of course. We all got together to spend a week together. First stop, Valleyfair on June 21. Then we went to a motel for the night. Left early in the morning on the 22 to drive and do some sightseeing up north. We settled on camping out at International Falls. Next morning we drove into Canada; over the next few days we had gone to Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Niagara Falls, then drove back home. Afterwards we all had been closer than ever. Even the ones who really didn't know each other from the beginning. Once in Germany we constantly wrote. We were all like sibs who didn't fight. Nothing could split us up. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was staying at my grandmother's house for some reason and my grampa told us that later on some business partners of his were coming over and to be sure they don't see you or your face. I laid in my bed and could see across the hallway to an empty bedroom with a green bedspread on the double bed and tan carpeting. I got up to get a drink out of the bathroom and glanced out the window. I heard screeching tires and soon black cars sped in front of the house and stopped by the driveway. I shouted, "They're here!" and went back to my room and hid in my bed, knowing if they saw me, they'd kill me. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | The dream was of my best guy friend and I getting married, each owning the vehicle of our dreams and owning a huge mansion next door to Brad Pitt. I cheated on Jeff with Brad, but Jeff didn't care because he still loved me and was happy I told him about it. Then a giant monkey killed Jeff and Brad and I became a drunken widow. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | It is a repetitive dream I've had since I was small. I'm in my backyard. The way it is set up is there is my house then a small hill leading down to a large area of land. I'm in the large area playing around and my mom comes running out, saying there is a tornado coming. Then all of a sudden a tornado appears. My mom says I have to clean up the backyard before I can come in (there are toys and balls everywhere). I start cleaning up and the tornado hits. I try running up the hill to go inside but I can't make it up the hill. I try to run up the hill but I can't. I like freeze but I'm trying to run. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | The setting seemed familiar at the time, but I guess I didn't really know where I was. I was with my boyfriend who is also 17 and a few other males, all similar in age. I am pretty sure I was the only girl in the dream. I remember my boyfriend was sitting on the floor, and another boy, who was black, was sitting on the couch. I went to sit down and he put his hand palm upon the cushion I was going to sit down on. I could feel his hand on my ass. I felt really uncomfortable because I didn't like him like that and my boyfriend was there. When we left, my boyfriend was driving and he was also drunk and he ran into a parked car, put his car into reverse, and rammed into it again. The last thing I remember is getting into the driver's seat to finish the ride home. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | The setting of my dream was in someone's house. There were some of my friends and some people I had never seen before. They were my age, different genders. My feeling during my dream was unpleasant. I was very angry. I got in a fight with one of my old friends, Rachel, and pushed her down some stairs and then got in my car and left but could not find my way home. Then I ended up in some city. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was flying an airplane around the playground because for some reason there was a war there. After that I somehow started to shoot basketballs off the playground equipment into shoes. The basketballs turned into little black balls in mid-flight so they would fit into the shoes. This was some kind of contest that I won since I was the only person who made it. Then I was in Disney world, but I was being held hostage by weird colored spiders and birds who could talk. I killed them by throwing water on them which made them turn to fuzz balls. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was in school but not the school I go to and we were studying serial killers. One of the serial killers killed over a 100 people in less than a month. This guy had a really gross long beard and wasn't clean at all. I remembered that one day me and one of my friends were in a park and there was a hole in the ground and the serial killer was in the park and he told us to look in the hole. My friend did and there was a bomb in the hole and as my friend was looking in it the bomb went off and she died. I somehow got away before the killer killed me. I was then afraid he was going to come after me, but we then read that he died. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was being chased by giant gorillas in the ___ zoo with my mom and family members. We were visiting the zoo when giant gorillas escaped from their cages and chased us. I ran down a waterfall in an innertube and was lost from my family. I then went back for my house and no one was to be found. The Gorillas were there in my house and the only way I was safe was if I was under the dining room table. I also had a bag of magic dirt that if I threw it on myself I would become whatever I wished to escape from the gorillas. It then ended there with me under the dining room table. I wasn't scared, just stunned at how gorillas got that big and how they learned to speak English. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | First I was at school in the cafeteria at hip-hop union (after school activity) and I was practicing breakdancing and battling the other people that were there (battling is just going back and forth dancing). I don't remember that much after that but then suddenly I was fighting a real battle against the Germans in the time of WWII and I was fighting with the Russians. The battle was on a muddy battlefield that had two huge walls (brick) on either side. Painted on the walls were the most beautiful colored paintings of Hitler. I walked out into the middle of the battlefield and stared at them. Then suddenly someone grabbed me and brought me toward the enemy's side. After that all I remember was walking toward this evil looking man painted all in black, just waiting for me and staring at me. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at home with one of my friends same age as me. She is my best friend. We were watching the rain come down and saw that the streets were flooding so we couldn't go to school. The only other person that appeared in my dream would be my mom wondering why we weren't going to school. We were happy since we couldn't go. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | It was on the street in my neighborhood. I was screaming and yelling because I decided I couldn't take it any more and I was yelling at my mom and my friends. I just ended up on a plane going to Iran. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | Highway 36 right when the freeway going into 280. Yes it was familiar to me. I was driving. I was driving so fast like I was trying to get away from someone. I didn't know who it was that was after me but I would be on the same highway all the time. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at work with my friend that I work with and my car would not start, and the building was locked so I couldn't call for a ride. Then Dale the dishwasher came out and my friend and I asked him for a ride. So we were driving to my house but my house turned into a bar and we stop there and we went to the bar and he left and told us to stay. He came back with his girlfriend that looked really young and she had long orange hair. She went to the bar and ordered a beer. We were sitting in the far side of the bar. And it was dark. Then my ex-boyfriend come into the bar and sat down across from me. Then I and my friend took a drink from the beer and the cops come and gave us a test for drinking. My friend and I come out positive and cops took me to my house. It turned to morning and my mom and dad were home and yelled at me. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was playing a qualifying round of golf when I drove the ball behind a pine tree. I couldn't go around the tree to get to the green, so I pitched it, hopefully up and over the tree, but it hit the tree and came back and hit me in the face. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at home by myself, and I was hearing things. I saw a man appear and he started chasing me. I ran outside and started screaming. Then my sister came and started beating the crap out of this guy. Then he was screaming and all of a sudden he was on fire. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | The setting was not familiar. I was in some sort of sports stadium and it was empty except for myself and some of my friends. I was with my good friend from school. She is 17. I was also with my other friend who is 17. Suddenly the guy I liked appeared sitting with his parents in the stadium. He came over and talked to me and we hit it off. It was great! Now, will it happen in reality? But anyway this dream seemed real. There was no unexplainable things or unusual settings. The dream was good. I hope it comes true. Everything was in color. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was in my school walking down the B-wing hallway, crying. I had just found out that my dad was having an affair (which would never happen). I heard a plane flying in the air, looked out the window, and saw it trying to land. But there were too many cars in the parking lot, so it crashed into the A-wing side of the school. I heard a big boom and lots of screams. Then I saw my Spanish teacher, Mr. Miller, yelling at people to get moving out of the school as fast as possible. The A-wing was in complete flames. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was in Mexico walking around and my feet were all full of mud and I went to wash them off, but they wouldn't get clean. One minute I was washing my feet off, the next I'm sitting in a boat in the middle of the bay without a paddle, trying to get to my new boyfriend, Mike--he's in a boat also. We finally meet. I blink and we are walking along the water and again we are standing in a dirty washroom and I'm trying to wash off again. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at my cabin up north with my mom, dad, brother (22), me (19), and a friend (18). My parents decided they didn't like my friend. So they threw her on the fire and chopped off her head. I'd say my dream was very unpleasant. Then my parents decided to chase me and my brother around the island. Then the scene switched to me being on a bus filled with kids. The bus driver started saying that my brother was arrested for driving his car. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I don't know where it took place but in my dream I think I knew somewhat where I was. There was a friend of mine. We are friends but don't ever do anything outside of school. I was walking by the pool when I saw my friend at the bottom laying face down. I freaked out and it turned out she had died there. She had gotten drunk and was out of control and couldn't swim because of it, so she drowned. No one really did anything about it because they didn't want to touch the dead body. When I woke up I was freaked out. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | It was in school in my second hour class with my teacher. I had a really big test and I had no idea what I was doing. So I turned it in mostly blank. Then he got in my face and started yelling at me and I failed the class and couldn't graduate. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | My dream was at my work. The people who were in my dream were a co-worker, her boyfriend, me, and my boyfriend. My co-worker is 23 and her boyfriend was about the same age. I am 18 and my boyfriend is 20. My dream was about my co-worker's boyfriend cheating on her. He was in California for the navy and she was really sad about it. I tried to cheer her up by asking her if she would like to stay with me for awhile so she doesn't have to go home to him, because he didn't know that she knew, but I really didn't want to be with her because she was making me feel uncomfortable. But she ended up living with me and my boyfriend. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | It was in my house. In my bedroom. I was asleep and then awoke with the rumbling sound. The house was shaking and things were breaking. It was a tornado. I quickly went under my bed because it was in the basement. The house was taken off the foundation and strewn about. My family was in the house. My two brothers, two sisters, mom and dad all died. My bed broke and fell on top of me. Some people found me and took me to a hospital where I saw my older brother, who doesn't live with me and heard the bad news. We went to the funeral home and then I awoke. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | The dream was about how I played soccer. I was playing soccer on the highway. It was really strange. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I had a dream that two cars full with gangsters (guys) were chasing me. I ran and called 911 but the phone didn't work. I was going to jump out of the window of my back house but then two gangsters were out there. A couple of minutes later someone told me (in the dream) that they really like me and they were chasing me because they really only wanted to see me. Then they drove away. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | My dream took place during school, at a place in the hallway where many people meet between classes. There is this girl I know who has been flirting with my boyfriend (in real life), and that day I had gotten very mad at her for that reason. I may have been thinking about it before I fell asleep. But in my dream, Natalie is sitting on the brick bench in that part of the hall right next to my boyfriend. I'm walking up the hall and I see them. She's staring at him and talking and he's sort of flirting back. All of a sudden when I reach them, she kisses him on the cheek. I yelled something at her, and hit her across the face so hard that her head hits the cement wall behind her. My boyfriend is just sitting there with his mouth sort of open, surprised. I tell him to come with me and he goes, "But . . .okay," and reluctantly follows me away, but he's looking back at her. | female | 1998 |
midwest_teens-f | Midwest teenagers (F) | I was at my friend's house in her bedroom trying on prom dresses. She was allowing me to borrow her last year's dress. I took it home to show my mom, but we decided it was way too big. Together we took it to a tailor shop to try and see how much I needed to reduce the size. My friend had told me when I was at her house that I could do whatever I wanted to it. When they told me I'd reduce it by 4 sizes, I worried my friend would be mad I was changing it so much. It ended in the tailor shop with me not sure what to do. | female | 1998 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | I dreamed that a tiger named Shirkan got in the house. We came back and got him out. There was a radio with a microphone and I yelled Shirkan get out of my house. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | Me and Molly were playing in the street in [a vacation state] and her mom was there and we were asking strangers some questions and then a stranger asked us to get in a car. We got in the car, and then he drove us somewhere. I was in a car--mommy's--and he drove us to a house that looked like ours, but with different things. We wanted to get home so we called 911. I was only 4 in the dream. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | I went to someone's house. We were going to a little park. We saw dogs doing tricks, a carousel and some bugs. There was more before this but I can't remember it. I think I saw a bunny too. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | My reading buddy was blind. We were on some rocks and she was on the same rock and she was wearing these glasses and she couldn't see. She said is that you Melissa? And I said, " yeah it's me," and she said "oh." | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | I dreamed my tooth was loose and I hit it on something and I tried to pull it out. All my front teeth except two fell out. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | I was in a restaurant and it was time to go--that's what my mom and dad said--so my chair had wheels, so on accident it started to roll really fast outside the restaurant and there was a big huge porch, really high, and my chair hit part of the fence along the porch and I was in the high sky and I said, "Close your eyes! That's when I woke up. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | I was out on the playground and I found a cricket and I kept it and it had a little baby and then we went on a boat ride, a submarine, and we had animals in it, like it was a veterinarian care center and then the submarine started to shake and I said what's happening. The cricket was inside my lunch pail and then the veterinarian started to collect the medicine because she thought the submarine was going to explode and I helped the animals not to be afraid because the cages were shaking. In a bottle there was a little baby pelican. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | I was in the classroom with the other kids and then two giants stepped into the room and I hugged Mike [a classmate] like so tight and I said to him "I'm scared." | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | I was walking in the park and it was really dark. No one was there and then a big giant appeared with this big giant dog and he said "Who are you?'" and I ran all the way home. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | Nancy was my best friend and we rode our bikes together with our other friends. She crashed into our house so she had to go to the hospital and her mom called 911 and told the address and then they came and I don't know, but some people came over to clean everything up and then a lady said "why don't you come park your bike, but you have to walk like this," and she said I had to walk on the side of the house and then she parked my bike. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | We went on a plane. Then it landed and there were a bunch of poor people not having fun on the plane except us and they wanted to learn about animals (the poor people) and we found some beavers in a pond, so we jumped in attracting their attention so they could see them and they all came over and said "wow" and then they watched them for like and hour and we just started swimming in the pond with the beavers and then we found an otter and I got to keep it. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | We lived in a log home and we were gonna leave to move somewhere. Then E.T. came up. He just stood there. [This was a nightmare. Melissa came running in the middle of the night crying about E.T.] | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | One day I was invited to a party and if you brought a dog you had to put it in a cage in a pen and there were other dogs there. I took my dog [Bonnie] and I put her in the pen but the other dogs were really mean and fierce, so when I got back from the party to get my dog I saw all the other dogs wrestling with her, so I took Bonnie right out of the cage and I shut it closed and all the other dogs were waiting at the gate for their owners. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | One day I was with [our family friend] Lynne [four years older than Melissa] and we went out to the park, just me and Lynne, and we brought Bonnie [Melissa's dog] with us and I let go of Bonnie so she went down the sidewalk and I caught her. Then me and Lynne by ourselves went to the toy store with Bonnie and Lynne found this pretty blue skirt with pink roses on it and I asked Lynne if there was anymore and she said no so I just went to a Barbie section and got a Barbie. Well then we went to the pet store and I bought a dog. When we got home the dog died, but I still had Bonnie so I was lucky that I still had a dog. Then we saw another dog that was a bull dog and he barked and barked at me. I didn't like that at all. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | One day I was on a ship and we were in a storm. We pulled the strings we were on a big ship, you know, very big, but then when we got to the other side of the ocean I got to see my friends. My friend Molly said, "it's a great place here" and my friend Kathy said," there's lots of stores here". | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | I was a dinosaur and a T.Rex came to the place we were living in and all the dinosaurs. So we had to go to a different land but the T.Rex followed us. So when we got there I was running so fast because I was trying to get away from the T.Rex that I left my mom behind. So I went with my friends so I could get help Well they said they lost their Moms too. Well I had some magic so I disappeared because we found the T.Rex and then I said, "You can't see me right?" and the T.Rex said "right" and then we taught him how to be nice, not mean. Then we saw our parents when we got back waiting for us. Well when we saw our Moms we were so happy to see them that we jumped high into the sky that we reached the clouds. When we came back down from the sky we said "Mama, Mama so glad to see you." Then we showed our Moms the T.Rex and when they saw him they were "Aahhrrrr" but we weren't afraid at all and we said "He's nice". | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | I found a whale that was a toy and it was floppy like Jell-O, so on accident I let it go and it broke a lamp. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | I had three walruses and we went somewhere to get across the river to get to the other side where the place was we had to swim. Well there was crocodiles in the river so when we swam across the crocodile ate the mother and the baby. And so all I had was the father and I got bit on the finger and then we went through a tunnel and the crocodiles were chasing after us. Then I said "Hal," and they stopped and I said "get out there on that river and leave people alone." Then me and the walrus got home and I asked the walrus "where's the baby and momma," and he pointed to a direction that was back at that place where the crocodiles was and he said, "the crocodiles ate them". | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | My chest was hurting real, real bad in school so Mrs. Smith [ her teacher] just said " I have something for your chest" I said "what is it, what is it, what is it?". "It's a needle and a safety pin" she said "Needles for sticking the needle where it hurts in your chest. Then putting the safety on the needle". | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | One day I was climbing a tree and then I fell down and then I went to the river and found an egg. I took it home. I put it in a safe place and soon it hatched. And then I said, "what came out of it". It was a baby crocodile. One day I went to [adult babysitter] Rosa's house with the crocodile and I lost the crocodile for a minute and then I found him again. Well I was glad that I didn't lose him but he was very small. I did everything with him and I took him everywhere but then he died. Well I always remembered that little crocodile . Then one day we went fishing. I found him and he was alive and then I went bike riding with him and finally I just remembered I have to keep pets in a cage so I got a cage from the pet store and I put some things in it. And then I took big rocks and I made a bed for him. Then I put some water in it so he could swim. Then I put some food in a bowl. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | One day a lot of dogs came into our backyard and one of the dogs wasn't nice. So one of the little dogs came up to the fence and sniffed his nose, and the big dog bit his little nose, so I took the little dog inside and I put a little bandage on his nose. Then the big dog bit another one on the eye. Then it was night time and three bears came into our front yard. Then I woke up in the middle of the night and saw the bears so I said "Shoo, shoo." | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | One day I was in the store with my friends and then something was gonna happen. So we ran out the door, got back in the car and got back home. Well then my friend Kathy she had little tiny bird eggs like canaries. We all got to keep 3 and I put it in something-a little box-a teeny tiny one and then I put warm water in it. Well I decided not to put them in the big box just to put it in the little box not to put it in two things. Then it was time for me to leave my real home and I took the eggs with me, and then when we got home Rayna came over and we found an orange cat laying in our backyard. Then he started scratching me and then we brought him in the house and we started petting him and playing with him and cuddling him and picking him up. | female | 1998-2000 |
melissa | Melissa: a young girl | One day I went camping and I went to the bookstore and my mom and dad were waiting in the car. When I came back out with my book my mom and dad weren't there. So I went down the streets looking for them. Then police came driving their police cars and they started saying, "homeless child, homeless child," and then I came to the street and I saw my mom but not my dad. She divorced--my mom divorced for another man. Well we got home with the new man and I tore my book apart because I was soooo mad that my mom divorced. | female | 1998-2000 |