[ertertwert]

When I dream it seems like my consciousness enters a "pool" of sorts and presents images/information needed to overcome a future obstacle. There was one time I dreamed some event and the next day I was reliving it. But in the dream I did something that ultimately resulted in regret so I consciously chose to do the opposite and was happy with the outcome. These types of dreams are rare, or perhaps I only remember them rarely.

[Vivid Melody]

Aww, I thought I had an original thing going here. I guess the search function on this site is used differently than what I'm used to. I searched all the tenses of dream and none of those topics ever came up so I thought I was in the clear. As I said, I never wanted or meant to make a redundant thread so I'll let this one die out now. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. Thanks again, MiriUchiha, for humoring me.

There's nothing to apologize for. You didn't waste anyone's time :)

[cosmia]

@MiriUchiha: Ohh, thank you very much for finding that for me, it looks really interesting! I'm also a little relieved because the basic ideas for our post are noticeably different. I made this thread as a repository for our dreams, sort of a dream library if you will. Whereas teabiscits made hers to find out if INFJs have vivid and premonitory dreams. So thank you for finding me a good thread to look through and for making me feel better about making this new one!

I love the idea of a "dream library"!! I do agree your post differs from the other dream threads I've seen because this has the ability to be more ongoing instead of a discussion, which can also obviously be ongoing but sometimes conclusions are reached and ladeda. But anyways I would be really interested in other INFJs using this thread to document and talk about their recent dreams, or the dreams that have most affected them. If I have an interesting one tonight, I'll be back in the morning to share. (Though I have been having very vague, floaty feeling-based dreams lately, so maybe not... it's hard to describe feelings, especially dreamfeelings.)

[beast in peace]

Well I had a dream sometime after I started working at Olive Garden with this blonde girl who I know from school...lets call her Heidi. In the dream I went to Heidi's house to see her and her family I guess, and all I remember from the rest of the dream was that I was scared of her because she wanted to stab and kill me. At the end she stabbed me in the back at the base of the spine and I think she was wearing the Olive Garden uniform is that's at all important.

At school Heidi and I never talked, but I knew who she was, and to be honest I've always thought there was something off about her.
It's been a month now since I've known her and a) she used to be in a physically abusive intimate relationship [I knew this beforehand from school, she doesnt know that I know] b)she just got a Colombian girl deprted because the Colombiana keyed her car and wouldnt pay the $6000. c) Her father is the district attorney so you dont fuck with HEIDE...EVER!!
She really likes me so Im not worried at work but outside of work I would be silently suspicious of her.

[AlphaX]

Since it looks like some people are okay with keeping this thread going, I'll post the most interesting of the two dreams that I remember having last night. If this thread becomes popular, I may be posting dreams nearly every day as I almost always remember them. Be forewarned, I'll probably go into much more detail than necessary because if I skip anything, it'll throw me off track.

My dad and I were in a high end restaurant that was very dimly lit, almost as if by one or two candles at each table but I don't remember seeing candles specifically. I remember that I had a 20oz bottle of Dr.Pepper with me and I was trying to hide it from the staff because I felt like it would be perceived as rude to take a bottle of soda in there with me, so I hid it under my light jacket that I had on and put it on the floor between my legs when I sat down. We were seated at a really small, 2 person table towards one corner of the room but not in the corner. The scope of this dream was rather narrow and I don't really remember much about the restaurant other than the lighting and the size of the table that we were at.

I don't remember us ordering any drinks but I remember us suddenly having drinks. Mine was an amazingly good tea which I described to my dad when I later told him about this dream as "looking like a beautiful sunset" which seems like kind of an odd way to describe a glass of tea. I really do remember how it tasted in the dream. My dad had some sort of alcoholic beverage that he asked me to taste so I remember the taste of that as well. I described it to him as being kind of like an alcoholic version of sprite but with a taste-able amount of alcohol and he interpreted that as a Whiskey Sour which he told me is his favorite drink although he hasn't had one in forever. He has never told me that before and I myself have never had one so I found that interesting. I even described the kind of glass that it's usually served in correctly although I can't really remember how I described it now. I think it was kind of like a rather large, cylindrical shot glass.

I remember the head chef coming out and making small talk with us, asking us how our day was and just generally being friendly. I remember the chef asking us to switch tables and move over to the other side of the room, to a 4 person table and I found that weird because we were fine there and there were only two of us so we didn't need a bigger table. So we moved, he went back to the back, and my dad and I talked a little more, about the drinks and about that chef.

The chef came back just a few minutes later and made an odd request, or maybe I should call it more of a dare. He pointed to a group of three kids who we were now perfectly positioned for us to see who were playing with some toys on the ground about three or four tables away from us, to my right. He then said "Do you see those unopened boxes behind those kids?" I said "Yeah." Then he said "I bet you won't go over there, open one of those boxes of toys, which are mine, and just start playing with them along with those kids." I gave him a very puzzled look and he just went back to the back with a smile on his face. My dad then said "What a weird request! You would never do something like that!" I thought for a second and said "You're right, I wouldn't. I'm gonna do it!"

Then I just got up, walked over there, and opened the box like it was mine. I remember the box being kind of hard to open and I ended up having to tear it open almost like you would a present on Christmas. When I opened it, I realized that there was nothing in there but instead of just acting like I knew that was going to happen and calmly walking back to my table, I grabbed the torn up pieces of the box and starting throwing them up into the air and yelling nonsensical things like "Alright!" and "Whoo!" Which seemed to make the kids happy so they joined me. After only a few seconds of that, I walked back over to the table and sat down across from my dad. That was the end of it.

Pretty weird dream huh? If anyone wants to try to interpret that or if anyone has any comments, I'd love to hear it. As I said, I probably went into more detail than necessary but had I not done that, it probably wouldn't have made as much sense.

EDIT: Wow! I didn't realize I made a wall of text that huge! I may try to edit that down but I'm not even sure where to begin. If you read through that whole thing, you're a trooper. I admire anyone who's willing to sit through all that. Thanks if you do and I'll see if there's anything I can do about it. EDIT 2: I just cut it up into paragraphs now to hopefully make it easier to read but I'm finding it hard to take anything out.

[Vivid Melody]

Last night I had a weird dream. It's starting to fade now so I don't think I can fully describe it, but it was pretty dark/morbid which is uncommon for me.

[Quail]

I'm curious whether any fellow INFJ's have recommendations of books or websites (or other resources) for dream interpretation? Are there any that particularly resonate with you?

I've recently been through a significant time of transition in my waking life and find that my dreams reflect that. I have a lot of dreams about trains, expressways, elevators and walking. None of my dreams cause anxiety, if anything I find that I wake up feeling more "sorted out" as a result.

I also think I may have had my first prophetic dream, in which there were three distinct items associated with specific people. In the past seven months, two of those three items (ping-pong and a ring) have appeared in my waking life with the people who were present in the dream. Now I'm waiting with curiosity to see whether the third item manifests.

I've never had such a specific dream before. In the past, I have dreamed about specific places only to find myself in them months or years later. This has always seemed like a novelty to me, or a subtle reassurance that I'm in the "right" place.

[atoaster]

I wish I could contribute properly to this thread, I'm pretty jealous of all of your dream descriptions. Dreams and the sleeping mind are so interesting to me. I tend to forget every single dream I have and it's infuriating. Sometimes I can't remember having had one for weeks, although I must have because we all dream nightly. The dreams I do remember I can only describe as extremely realistic with a very strange and almost unnoticeable, eerie twist...like slightly sour milk. It's pretty sickening sometimes. I often dream of strangers I saw in passing that same day or even a few days before. And I most definitely have the typical INFJ prophetic experience in dreams--I often end up relating any 'deja vu' I experience or suspicions to dreams I've had.

[Quail]

Dreams and the sleeping mind are so interesting to me. I tend to forget every single dream I have and it's infuriating. Sometimes I can't remember having had one for weeks, although I must have because we all dream nightly.

I didn't start remembering my dreams until I started keeping a dream journal. Even with the aid of the journal, if I don't write it down immediately upon waking it's likely to fade. What I think is interesting is that sometimes I only need to remember one aspect or symbol in a dream for them all to come flooding back. I'm not a "morning person" so it's been tough setting aside precious morning time to write down all the elements of my dream, but now it comes more easily!

[treeghost]

A dream that I can't really get out of my mind:
I have this *person* in my life, we'll call him X, that I saw on a daily basis. Nothing heavy, just passed by each other a lot and acknowledged each other. I had a eerie dream about my house being attacked by people wanting to murder us and the one scene I vividly remember involved him. I didn't see his face but you know how you have a clear image sometimes of the person you're talking to on the phone? That's what happened in the dream. And so I asked him where he was and why wasn't he home with us. His voice sounded really dejected as he answered, "I'm at my ex-girlfriend's house." The tone of his voice just stuck with me when I woke up.
Then that night, I randomly passed by him outside and he was on the phone with that oh-so-familiar tone of voice that it took me aback but I didn't want to bother him. I messaged him a few minutes later and told him about my dream. I was trying to dissect it: it sounded as if he didn't really want to there at his ex's house, that it was just something he felt compelled to do or something or that he knew he should've been at home helping us preserve our lives. I concluded that it sounded as if he were 'stuck in between two things'. I said that to him with an exclamation mark because that's exactly what it seemed like. He replied back to me, "Wow, you must be a psychic. I am SO stuck in between two things right now."

Well fast forward a few days and a situation so tragic befalls on him and the people around him. We discovered that he had fallen in love with someone whom he shouldn't have (or maybe not shouldn't have, but best if his emotions had not done the things they did) and I heard from the girl's mom that he had repeatedly snuck over her house at night even when the girl had told him not to. He told me later that his feelings were so overwhelming that his emotions caused him to do things he would never do, like not thinking things through and acting impulsively, crossing the line in certain areas basically. It was a strain between our family and his love for this girl.

I don't know. What I wrote sounds kind of vague but it was such an intense thing when it all happened. Do you guys believe that even though you don't talk to certain people in depth, when you encounter their presence day after day, you intuitively pick up some vibe from them? I think I picked up the emotions he carried deep within him and it manifested in my subconscious somehow. There are other dreams I've had that seemingly picked things up but none that I really focused on and analyzed. It's crazy how much more there is to this situation, his, mine, ours but that would be excessive details.