When I wake up from a dream, sometimes I actually remember some of the gibberish words that seemed perfectly fine while I was dreaming.
If I'm exceptionally fortunate, I remember them long enough to write down.
Here are the ones I have so far:

• amnioty - a magical "activation phrase" for an enchanted sword
• flubbertydubble - a G-rated expletive
• gloitering - loitering with extreme passive aggression
• gremic cryptor - a trap, a building-sized puzzle box that lures you in with riddles and mysteries so that your questing energies may feed a form of energy vampire reminiscent of cenobites

I use something called "gibberish magic" in my dreams from time to time: strings of confidently hurled but completely made-up words that carry great power. "Amnioty" is the only one I have ever still remembered when I wake up.

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Terrible thing I encountered in a dream this morning.
Something bit me in the middle of my back.
I slapped it and it was big. I pulled it around and casually flicked it at the person next to me telling him it was a "blood wasp".
It was a wasp crossed with a mosquito.
Long crooked mosquito-like legs, clear mosquito-wasp hybrid abdomen filled with bright red blood, mosquito proboscis, size of a yellow-jacket with a harder exoskeleton, and a stinger in the back. I can't remember what color its wings were.

Not as bad as the spider-wasps I saw once in a dream as a kid who had frequent nightmares. Those were the size of beach balls.

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Phrase heard in a dream to describe a group of people fervently and seriously navel gazing about important topics in a purely academic sense without any interest in doing anything about the real world consequences or helping those who need it right now: Truly Angelic levels of Gentrufic Arruvation.
It's nonsense but somehow it fits perfectly. There's so much of this going on right now about 45 and 45 ½ (Musk).
I'm tired of all these gentrufic arruvators hemming and hawing about exactly what laws are being broken instead of doing something about the people whose human rights are being violated.

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Here is a story based on a dream I had at the beginning of last month. It's not good enough to try to get published anywhere, so here it is.
It's called

Haunting

and here is an introductory paragraph that doesn't appear in the story itself. You can skip this part if you'd rather go in blind.

A "haunting" isn't what you think it is, not usually.
When someone dies, sure they might leave behind an echo or some part of their soul might have unfinished business. But those energies are weak, barely able to influence the physical world. Dreams? Maybe.
But what most people think of as a haunting doesn't involve a human mind at all.
No, it's normally… something else.
Look, humans can't see X-rays, right?
We can't see infrared or ultraviolet.
There are whole ranges of sounds too high or too low for us to hear.
You seen that movie "The Man with X-Ray Eyes"? At the end of the movie, he sees further and deeper than any man ever has and what he sees terrifies him so much he plucks his eyes out.
It's like that.
There are vistas of reality that are right here, right now, and they are invisible and intangible to us.
Vibrations. Some very bright folks say they vibrate differently and that's why they are right here, but also nowhere, nowhere we have a name for, anyway.
A haunting is often caused by those "vibrations" finding resonance with something in our world.
It's like how a tuning fork can make another tuning fork vibrate or how an opera singer can shatter a glass.
When these different realities resonate, they become a bit more tangible to each other.
So the two sides can interact and what was once impossible is not only possible, but likely.
Floating furniture, walking through walls, weird smells, disembodied voices, cold spots, teleportation, shadow beings, missing time, nightmares, all of it because two incompatible realities are churning into each other.
It can last seconds or years, depending on how badly they get tangled up.
I'm just a cleanup tech. Not that that doesn't take its own set of skills and requirements, but I can't tell you how we find them or track them.

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Do you ever have dreams where you know what's happening is super dumb but the dream keeps pushing it on you like your subconscious is an irascible toddler with "a really funny story" it just has to finish telling?

I had one of those Friday morning.
In my dreams, sometimes I can project elemental powers out of my hands: force lightning, flamethrower, water jets like a Super Soaker, all kinds of stuff.
In this dream, I was in a back yard that was a combination of three different places I'd lived and I wondered if I could call elements.
I pointed my right hand at the back fence and a thin stream of fire shot out and caught the wood on fire. I was like, "oh shit" and used my left hand to send out an equally thin stream of water.
The fire went out briefly but seemed to spread to the lower part of the fence.
I said, "that's not how fire works" but tried using both hands to send even more water.
It caused the fire to turn dark red and sink into the wood which, again, I said, "that isn't how fire and water interact at all."
I was already thinking, "this is dumb."
So I turned away.
As I did, the top part of the fence broke away and floated toward me looking like a thin wooden Thwomp trap.
And again, I was like, "really? what am I, 8 years old?"
So I tried to ignore it.
The Thwomp trap came up behind me and demanded that I face it.
It told me that it wouldn't leave me alone until I did.
I turned back around and it was floating there in the air, looking quite stern and serious.
I asked it, "do I have to mean it?"
And it told me that didn't matter, as long as we had a good fight.
So I shook my head and shrugged, running away from it in faux terror like, "oh no, my elemental powers aren't working right!" while willing little squirts of red fire juice to dribble out.
I saw it in my peripheral vision taking on that red color and changing shape.
It was getting rounder.
I saw a round hole in the back fence and realized it was going to become the fucking Kool-Aid Man. But, I said out loud, "oh no, it's changing into something else--what could it be?" in order to keep the ruse going.
I had enough at this point but felt bad for it.
Clearly it was very proud of this whole shtick and something wanted to see it carried through to the end.
I woke up before the "fight" got underway.

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I often think all my dreams have a deeper meaning, that my subconscious uses them to send me messages.
Recently, I woke up around 5:00 AM and wrote this down from a dream before going back to sleep.

Lo Pan tells Emperor Liu Kang that "the people summon what connects to the ungood with Mortal Kombat."
I was a Captain America who had been brainwashed by evil Dr. Dre.

No deeper meaning found.

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There is often music in my dreams. I was never trained in music. I can't play an instrument. I can't read music. I don't know the terminology.
Since I have no words, no way to frame it or remember, its often the first thing I forget when I wake up.
Sometimes the music is based on real world songs and I try especially hard to remember those.
This morning, I was in the basement of a brothel where they were playing a song over the sound system that sounded like TLC's "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" but the lyrics were "Ain't Too Old for Sex". That's the only line I remember. I wondered who their clientele might be.

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I had a dream I was living in a castle with family and friends. At one point I started to wake up and then fell back to sleep which led me to realize it was a dream.
I started going around warning everybody it was a dream.
Some folks didn't believe me and thought I was joking or playing a game.
I was doing things like levitating giant rocks like Luke Skywalker and saying, "big fucking deal, I can levitate a fucking rock".
I know I force ligthninged the crap out of someone who told me "you'll always be a boy".
But the reason I'm tooting this at all is because of the person who had been like my lifelong nanny or something. She'd known me since birth basically.
She was lamenting loudly. I know she said, "I have a lifetime of memories! What will happen to them?"
And all I could say is, "I don't know."
There was someone else who had a new toy that was like a remote controlled car but was a living thing. They were so excited and showing it off and telling me all about it. I was so taken by their innocent joie de vivre, that I only smiled and nodded and decided not to tell them it was all about to end.

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Had a dream where I was back in my childhood neighborhood only it had roving evil spirits from the national cemetery across the street who used their ability to see into your soul to discover your darkest secrets and use them to construct the sickest burns and cut downs.
That's all they did. Wander around offering devastatingly personalized insults while exchanging ghostly high fives.

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