There were a couple months in High School where I regularly kept a dream journal.  I had it under my bed and as soon as I had a dream, I would note the date and start writing in as much detail as possible, sometimes drawing maps and floor plans.  I would pretty much do this from the time I woke up to about halfway through my first class.  I noticed that I started dreaming more frequently, regularly, and vividly than before, but for whatever reason I stopped the habit and now I pretty much only have a good dream once or twice a week.  It was almost daily when I kept the journal.

I've had a lot of dreams; some of which have kind of terrifying implications.  For instance, and I don't want to get into too much detail, but at one point during High School I had a dream that I was going on a shooting spree.  Yep.  Straight up murdering people; mostly people that I saw at school on a regular basis, and not even people I didn't like.  I still have no idea what spurred it, and I would never do anything like that in reality.  I guess my brain was just not in a good mood that night, or something.  It's the only time I've ever had a dream where I was just slaughtering people with no cause or basis.

Likewise, I've had a few dreams where I brought airsoft guns to school, handed them out, and everyone just started going at it.  Those were fun.  Most of the dreams I had of or at school were either terrifying in some way (either like mentioned above, or of the "go to school naked", or "forget your locker combo" variety), or some goofy parody of usual school shit, and rarely in between.  Weird how that shit works.

I've also noticed that the games I play tend to influence my dreams.  Like when I got DayZ a few months after it first came out (the mod, not the standalone game) I played the shit out of it.  I literally started dreaming that I was playing it.  Not that it was real life, but that I was playing it.  Like what the fuck brain?  Why not go all the way?  The same thing has happened with other games.  Garry's Mod, Project Reality, Stalker; sometimes where the game is real, and sometimes where I'm just playing it, and sometimes it switches from one to the other.  And then when I played Amnesia a lot and downloaded custom stories out the ass...  Crazy-ass nightmares were pretty prevalent during that time.

But if my dreams aren't about games, they're usually just kind of random.  There's not really a common thread to them, with one exception.  A lot of dreams that I have where I'm either running from something, or trying to defend myself from something, I'll find that I'm either not running as fast as I should, or having trouble fighting back.  Like, if I have a gun or something, at least half of the time I almost can't pull the trigger without using both hands, even though I'm a seasoned shooter in real life.

Sorry, I'm probably rambling a bit.  I feel like it's kinda hard for me to talk about dreams without just vomiting out some of the most noteworthy dreams I've had with little to no organization of my thoughts.  However, on the topic of dream journals, would you have a problem with me using this thread as one?