I have had extremely vivid dreams ever since I was a child, and it turned into a serious sleep disorder as an adult. Vivid dreams combined with night terrors and PTSD-induced nightmares made for an exhausting mix, to say the least, and every single day, I would dread going to sleep, thinking "what is going to happen tonight?" Some nights, I couldn’t fall asleep at all.
But there was also another, very different side to these dreams. My brain would go to hilarious places in my mind I didn’t even know existed. I would wake up every morning and tell my boyfriend about the funny and absurd parts, and one day he suggested I drew them and started an Instagram account.
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I thought no one would care, but I knew it would be a fun project anyway, not to mention an endless source of drawing ideas. I started drawing my weird dreams and posting them on Instagram five months ago, and little did I know that I'd hit a very strange and unexpected nerve on the internet. So many could surprisingly relate to many of the dreams, but had been too embarrassed to ever say them out loud! Who would have thought that at night, we are all just out there simultaneously driving from the back seats of our cars or pooping in public?
After all, I had been in a bit of a creative funk for a while and now it has even turned into a book!
COPS: this is 911 how may i help you? GIRL: *sniff* there is a murderer in my house that is trying to kill me! what should i do? COPS: call us back later. you sound stresed.
A very unexpected "side effect" to this project has been that I am no longer nearly as scared of going to bed at night. Getting the funny parts down on paper really makes it hard for me to take even my bad dreams seriously anymore. What used to be the biggest negative in my life has turned into one of the biggest positives, and actually bringing some joy to other people’s days.
Someone should have Trixie Mattel (aka Tracey Martel, aka Tallulah Marachino, aka Taxfree Motel) make up on.
I’m a graphic designer and illustrator, and in my job, I always have to make sure everything looks "pretty" and neat. So I decided to do something different with this project and went back to the naive and whimsical style I had as a kid. Remember when we were kids and we were drawing and painting out of pure joy and didn’t care if we drew outside the lines or who saw it (except maybe our mom)? That’s what it’s like to do this drawing project. And that’s why I am going to keep on doing it for a very long time.
Check out more of my dreams on Bored Panda here.
I agree but it shouldn't be like that though! Armpit hair is natural for men AND women.
Load More Replies...-YES I WILL DO THIS!!! Yet, I can't grow Hair under my Armpits TvT, ig imma have to suffer these men now-
I had a dream once where I was getting kidnapped. I offered the kidnapper some oreos and he let me go.
In one of my dreams it took a LOT of effort but I would turn into a dragon and fly. It was so hard for me to concentrate that hard while asleep.
Ha. I don’t need to dream to be a dragon! I am a water dragon. (Perfectly capable of flying, despite mostly living underwater)
Load More Replies...I had the same dream except it was “if I held a piece of paper to my face, I would time travel
Those are some.... you know what? Nevermind! Ne...ver...mind.
They say dreams come from constant thoughts and then you fall asleep so ....
It is much more mundane. Can be books, TV,, passing conversations - anything your brain can latch on to.
Load More Replies...Omg, my dad told me the other day about exactly this situation in his dream, only he killed the guy and was scared after that.
I heard of a Dubliner years back, who'd start huge finger-gun shootout scenes on the streets, involving large numbers of people, just by pointing a big key at any random person and saying "Bang-bang!"
-*Grabs My Little brother and Puts around my Neck* Aight! Let's go to chruch!!! UwU-
Because it's a weird dream. That's why it's a post about weird dreams.
Load More Replies...If only the keyboard were standard for all communications...
Load More Replies...I totally understand. And people tend to leave you alone and not ask you to do anything when you've been gone 2 years.
I feel her, I do have plenty of dreams with crappy phones I can't use, it's horrible
Of course it did! Houseflies are very in. -Esme Squalor
Load More Replies...Then sell spiders to eat the flies then sell lizards to eat the spiders then sell birds to eat the lizards and then and then
makes me think of the old lady who swallowed a fly (song)
Load More Replies...Well, actually. There is a species of fly that's mass produced in a billion dollar industry for animal feed and fertilizer. They've researched houseflies for this too. I'm such a nerd😢. As you were.
Murder by Calzone would make an interesting read.
Load More Replies...Lmao this is funny ... The police like '' you better eat that ''
In anywhere this would be something to be overreacted at.
Load More Replies...A friend and I were writing a script and used to come up with crazy ways of potentially committing murder (i.e: "Hmm, could you kill somebody with a feather duster?") so being arrested for bringing calzones make total sense :D
Perfectly frugal decision, though might be either very wet or very cold.
Maybe you were a bird in a former life. ;)
Load More Replies...I'd risk death too. UPS is going to leave it wherever it's most visible from the street for would-be thieves, like 7' from your front door.
“THAT’S MY T.V IN THERE! I’D RATHER DIE THEN MISS THE NEW T.V!“ My friends reply, “but you won’t be able to watch tv if you don’t run... YOU’LL BE DEAD!
You're dream was trying to tell you something very deep about our society.
I'm concerned for your well being and how your friends are taking it.
I have a recurring dream...in which I am constantly looking for a private toilet, with no success. Dreams are weird.
This is very common. It means you actually have to poop and your body is waking up to prepare you to actually stand up and do the business.
Load More Replies...I had a dream where there was a huge tornado that’s as going to destroy everything and I needed an ice pack to save the world so in the dream I went to my mom’s jewelry box and got the ice pack and started driving straight towards the tornado and then realize I had actually robbed my mom in real life
Why don't you have opaque windows or at leasst window blinds in ur bathroom???! eeeeee uwu T^T
And are ur neighbors pervs and stalkers even in real life?
Load More Replies...Omg i want one every time I go on vacation to a hot place I will need that
Also if you need to take ancient-style photos.
Load More Replies...80F would be bad enough, but what happens at 80C? Spontaneous combustion?
It's weird that you say 80F is bad because that is lower than the average temperature where I live.
Load More Replies...she's in her underwear because 80 degrees celsius is 176 degrees Fahrenheit. ITS HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!! and she has a blow dryer
So, Walmart (probably) had an inexplicable yet convenient overstock and decided to quit ordering everything else???
Most things in this picture look very floppy 😏 Of course I mean the legs and arms and tail
you got alot of nekkie stories... i do too- I was told it means you are approaching new territory that you are nervous about or you are running from something... which in this dream, you are literally running from something lol
you know what, that actually happened to me once... I was at the grocery store.. and then... well nevermind
They're coming for you, but listen, your life could depend on this. Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck.
I quoted the "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" in my math class once. :D
Load More Replies...Well good luck when u teleport into the middle of a wall of another object or into a mountain or into the Earth.
This would be a very funny and interesting picture if there were no context.
its funny- all you had to do was draw an orange circle and we immediately know its trump... lol
You.....you....y-you.......y—......YOU.....Th-tho—...........t........y—......THOSE WERE MY FAVORITE BALLONSSSSSSSSSSS
Sensible course of action for the both of you (being sarcastic on the government's part).
Coz everyone secretly wants to outgrow their bondages of clothes
Load More Replies...My guess is a course designed to prepare you for magical time-'bending gift delivery involving a sleigh pulled by supernatural reindeer.
Load More Replies...The people reading the bible and trying not to make eye contact, haha.
Yea I had a dream where I played in Hamilton and didn’t know ANY of my lines
My mom recently had a dream where she and Eddie Izzard were in a play she wrote called "Choices", and couldn't remember any of her lines. She actually had to check her Google Drive to make sure she didn't really write a play called "Choices" afterwards.
You must be really mature then, if you take everything you see so seriously🙂.
Load More Replies...There are little Whinehouse, Pink Floyd, and Spice Girls thingies at the bottom. Don't judge because I don't know what those are, be happy because I know the artists... Please.
Wait wait wait I thought Poundland was a dump BUT ITS A FRICKING STORE?!?!?
I suppose Solange was uninterested or they really wanted you.
Oh god at first I thought that the friends on the left side of the car had three eyes
I like these, just some were explict. Also, who is Jamie? Other than that, I like these a lot!!
the chance to remember details, I absolutely forget all my dreams ... good laugh anyway 👍
Nah, I often remember them myself - some just do. I guess one reason is that during the part of my sleep where I dream, I sleep very lightly, so sometimes a disturbance wakes me up with the dream is still bright and clear in my memory. But even then, I'd usually struggle to describe them to anyone... My dreams make about as much sense as the ones posted here - but with a longer story line AND the plot is not even consistent but sort of seamlessly morphs into a completely different one! (I know this because sometimes I wake up right during such a "morphing" and am e.g. able to remember that I was trying on a wedding dress that then was a skirt and top that then was the clothes I wore back when I was 15, and then I was in a different building doing something completely different...) Even though I usually can see a lot of the scenes of my dream clearly before my eyes, there's too many weird conclusions and story changes to put the fragments back together when applying normal day logic.
Load More Replies...I'm surprised at the number of perplexed comments. Don't these people have weird dreams?
I guess those comments are from the kind of people who don't remember their dreams. Everyone else who does knows that there's no point to asking "why" because it always makes sense when you're dreaming and you don't notice the gigantic plot holes and weird conclusions until you wake up and go "WHAT".
Load More Replies...This was... interesting... To say the least. I like it though! : )
I like these, just some were explict. Also, who is Jamie? Other than that, I like these a lot!!
the chance to remember details, I absolutely forget all my dreams ... good laugh anyway 👍
Nah, I often remember them myself - some just do. I guess one reason is that during the part of my sleep where I dream, I sleep very lightly, so sometimes a disturbance wakes me up with the dream is still bright and clear in my memory. But even then, I'd usually struggle to describe them to anyone... My dreams make about as much sense as the ones posted here - but with a longer story line AND the plot is not even consistent but sort of seamlessly morphs into a completely different one! (I know this because sometimes I wake up right during such a "morphing" and am e.g. able to remember that I was trying on a wedding dress that then was a skirt and top that then was the clothes I wore back when I was 15, and then I was in a different building doing something completely different...) Even though I usually can see a lot of the scenes of my dream clearly before my eyes, there's too many weird conclusions and story changes to put the fragments back together when applying normal day logic.
Load More Replies...I'm surprised at the number of perplexed comments. Don't these people have weird dreams?
I guess those comments are from the kind of people who don't remember their dreams. Everyone else who does knows that there's no point to asking "why" because it always makes sense when you're dreaming and you don't notice the gigantic plot holes and weird conclusions until you wake up and go "WHAT".
Load More Replies...This was... interesting... To say the least. I like it though! : )
