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I Illustrate The Bizarre Dreams That I Have (30 New Pics)
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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.
More info: Instagram | aboutlastnight.wtf
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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!
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.
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.
Note: this post originally had 62 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
I have a strange feeling Freud would love this.
I like these, just some were explict. Also, who is Jamie? Other than that, I like these a lot!!
Probably her boyfriend or husband.
Ya
i like how they are just casually explicit, like the artist does not give a f_ck. also, it is nice not to see another p0rn-shaped breasts (those perfectly round ones). some women have tubal-shaped breasts, that is a fact.
A cartoon dingle d**k or floppy tit - a curved line with colour - is explicit? It's hardly classical Greek, but f**k... You aren't half sheltered, are you...
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.
If you record them right away...
Edgar Rops no
Edgar Rops no
papandred haha
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".
I haven't laughed this much in ages 😂😀😂
These made me laugh so much. And it's been a tough day so, thank you for posting!
That was incredible!!! LMAO
PanSloth +
PanSloth easy
A normal day for me!
And I thought I had weird dreams...
This was... interesting... To say the least. I like it though! : )
You might not wanna smoke so much before you go to sleep :)
Oh lawd. I have some effed up dreams too but no talent f9r art.
Wordfloe-Acid-Test +
Sounds like some of the dreams I have had. One dream I was a squirrel.. with a squirrel family.. we'd break into hotel rooms to steal nuts and watch tv. Then, I was out one day..came back..my squirrel family been exterminated. Woke up depressed and stay that way for a couple days.
These were so funny 😆. I love hearing/reading about peoples dreams
Miss_H84 +
I LOVED all the drawings! They were SOOOOOOO good!
Cupcakezzz lol
Cupcakezzz like
Cupcakezzz Good response!
I loved all of them :D Soo funny, I can't stop laughing :D
Was expecting something funny, or at least weird.
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Who cares?
I think you're trying too hard to live up to your name, but failing.
Sorry, it repeated.
As of this moment, 12 people cared enough to upvote this, so I guess that answers your question.
Welp, I was #35
It's 42 now!
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I have a strange feeling Freud would love this.
I like these, just some were explict. Also, who is Jamie? Other than that, I like these a lot!!
Probably her boyfriend or husband.
Ya
i like how they are just casually explicit, like the artist does not give a f_ck. also, it is nice not to see another p0rn-shaped breasts (those perfectly round ones). some women have tubal-shaped breasts, that is a fact.
A cartoon dingle d**k or floppy tit - a curved line with colour - is explicit? It's hardly classical Greek, but f**k... You aren't half sheltered, are you...
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.
If you record them right away...
Edgar Rops no
Edgar Rops no
papandred haha
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".
I haven't laughed this much in ages 😂😀😂
These made me laugh so much. And it's been a tough day so, thank you for posting!
That was incredible!!! LMAO
PanSloth +
PanSloth easy
A normal day for me!
And I thought I had weird dreams...
This was... interesting... To say the least. I like it though! : )
You might not wanna smoke so much before you go to sleep :)
Oh lawd. I have some effed up dreams too but no talent f9r art.
Wordfloe-Acid-Test +
Sounds like some of the dreams I have had. One dream I was a squirrel.. with a squirrel family.. we'd break into hotel rooms to steal nuts and watch tv. Then, I was out one day..came back..my squirrel family been exterminated. Woke up depressed and stay that way for a couple days.
These were so funny 😆. I love hearing/reading about peoples dreams
Miss_H84 +
I LOVED all the drawings! They were SOOOOOOO good!
Cupcakezzz lol
Cupcakezzz like
Cupcakezzz Good response!
I loved all of them :D Soo funny, I can't stop laughing :D
Was expecting something funny, or at least weird.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Who cares?
I think you're trying too hard to live up to your name, but failing.
Sorry, it repeated.
As of this moment, 12 people cared enough to upvote this, so I guess that answers your question.
Welp, I was #35
It's 42 now!
92