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[anzki4]

Here's something wierd.  I almost never remember my dreams.  I typically have some vague, abstract residual notion that fades a couple minutes after waking up.  Often I don't even get that.  Actually remembering anything specific is really rare.

Not remembering your dreams weird, huh? I can remember few from my childhood and one "recent" ( = at least half a year ago) dream, but other than that, nothing. And I thought this was normal 

Related to dreaming and (maybe) strange behavior, when I was child and I more often remembered my dreams, I was developing a systems how to wake up on nightmares[1]. Most simple one I found was that when you die in the dream, it ends. Problem was that the thought of letting -insert something horrible here- kill you, was terrifying[2].
 
[1] Most of the dreams I remember are lucid dreams.

[2] (Note: I was still in elementary school when I saw this dream.) Actually I have one funny dream relating to this. I was in school ( my elementary school ) and a huge bear was circling it, trapping everyone inside. I tried to run from door to door, but the bear always followed. Then on one door I saw one of my classmates staring outside. I said to him: "Hey! Let's run to that bear so that it can kill us and this dream ends." He agreed and started running towards the bear which killed him. However at this point I was too scared to let the bear kill me, so I just went back in school. (Later on the dream somehow ended by me getting coffee from the schools kitchen and offering it to the bear. This coffee melted trough the bears stomach and it died  )

[Cthulhu]

I figured out, my weird aversion I mentioned before is always to certain faces.  Certain faces make me mad and I'm not sure why.  I just feel irritated and angry when I see them.

Spoiler: Example, Nunu's Face (click to show/hide)

Oddly, it doesn't make me as angry as it used to, it was mainly when I thought that thing on his face was a beard.

Spoiler: Poppy (click to show/hide)

Battle Regalia Poppy doesn't do it.  I think it might have to do with her cheeks.

One I don't have a picture for is the Prince of Persia, specifically when he drinks from a magic fountain.  He's enveloped in magic energy, there's generic mysterious-lady-whisperin' in the background, and then it suddenly zooms in on his face, which is completely expressionless and his eyes are going blue.  At that point I rage, for absolutely no reason other than that his face makes me really mad.

[applesauce machine]

Does obsessively talking to yourself when you're embarassed count? I do that all the time whenever I remember saying or doing something insanely stupid. I'll be apologizing to thin air even. That, combined with a tendency to say whatever is on my mind at the moment tends to make for a bad duo.

Good old bay12 forum. It's amazing, the threads that get up here.

I don't apologize to the air, but I do do that other thing, though I do it when something actually happens as opposed to remembering it.
I try to think stuff rather than say it out loud so I don't draw attention to myself since it usually always happens in a social situation, but if I slip, it always comes out as a quiet, harsh whisper. The "whatever is on my mind" changes into "whatever the first arbitrary words my mind can come up with". The phrase that my mind comes up with is always something stupid and once I realize what it is thatI'm thinking over and over to myself, I think to myself that that was a stupid thing to repeat why would I even think that I mean really. All of this takes place within a 15 second time span, and every second is uncomfortable.

[Nikov]

After a failed dermatologist appointment to remove a wart on a finger, I took matters into my own hands. I no longer have wart on my finger. Instead I have a scar and a heightened notion of anatomy. Protip, you've got to dig to the roots, which are little sesame seed-shaped bits of flesh with a single dark blot in them. Pull those out and they won't grow back. Pretty generally, I'm comfortable with inflicting pain on my self so long as I deem it nessicary for the rest of my body.

[ToonyMan]

Make sure to cut your leg off when your thigh gets infected.

[Trapezohedron]

Scratching myself when something gets itchy. But I scratch myself not caring about my complexion, so I have a ton of scars. 

[Karnewarrior]

Any time I get pumped my whole body turns beet red.

[RedKing]

Any time I get pumped my whole body turns beet red.

Use a lower PSI on the pump.

[Interus]

Not remembering dreams isn't weird.  It is a bit strange that you can't even remember them immediately after you wake up, but I'm good at remembering dreams and I can still usually only remember the last part of it as soon as I wake up.  Then I have to run through what happened in my mind, usually two or three times.  That way, even though I forget the dream(and I will) I can still remember what I thought happened.  Nightmares are different, I think they trigger the fear center or something, and you have a harder time forgetting fear.

As for doors, I don't really care.  I shut my door for privacy, but leaving it open doesn't bother me.  Actually, closed doors bother me more because they occasionally terrify me outright.  Especially late at night if I have to leave my room for some reason and I think everybody else is asleep.  I start getting the feeling that there's a monster just on the other side of the door waiting for me, and it's either going to attack or disappear as soon as I open the door.  I suppose this could just be related to not being able to see an area though, because I've gotten the same fear when the door is open with the monster being down the hall and around the corner instead.  Or while showering when I close my eyes, where it's in the same freaking room, and I could die if I open my eyes at the wrong moment.  I think that last one is probably the strangest thing to me.

[Julius Clonkus]

I always feel weird when someone else decides to clean my room when I'm away. It's just like something disturbed the natural order in my room and the feeling is best described as someone breathing down my neck in a creepy stalker-ish way. It's irritating and I'm usually angry as hell until order is restored (this takes about, uh, two days).
I don't actually have anything I could be afraid of people stumbling upon (is this a strange thing by itself?). It's just the fact that someone entered my room while I am absent that bothers me close to the point of breaking into a screaming-and-kicking rage.

Also, doors. They either have to be open all the way or closed, though I prefer them to be closed.

On the subject of dreams, I'm happy I don't remember most of them, since I recently came to the conclusion that my subconscious hates me and deliberately makes them terrifying, just to mess with me.

[SalmonGod]

Lastnight I remembered some of a dream involving this forum.  The Progessive Rage Thread had somehow decided to start compiling a list of sexual fetishes and categorizing them as abusive or non-abusive.  It turned out I had a massive list of them that I was personally interested in.  I don't remember how people reacted to this.  I do remember that none of them made any sense at all.  A couple involved ladders and porcupines somehow.

I question my wisdom in sharing this, but I find it too humorous to resist.

The important question is are you actually interested in any of these?

Nope.  Just random dream stuff.

Not remembering your dreams weird, huh?

I don't think that is very weird.  Maybe a little.  I thought that specific dream was weird, and the fact that I don't usually remember them at all only compounds the weirdness of remembering that one.

I have never, ever had a lucid dream.  I'm quite envious of people who have them, and I don't know that I've ever met someone else who has never had one.

*cutting*

I've always thought this was about boredom...

There are people who are actually suicidal, depressed, or out of control, and do it to hurt themselves or for something to focus on.

But then there's the whole "emo" thing.  I get really pissed off about the sort of attention this gets.  Everyone accuses them of being so fake and dying for attention and being so whiny when they're usually kids who don't actually have any problems in their lives... and I think that's exactly the problem.  I think middle class kids today are growing up in an excessively sterile and controlled world.  They live in an existential crisis of stale white noise.  They're just desperate to make their lives interesting.  They behave histrionic because they're compensating for the reality that their lives are incredibly dull.

Nightmares are different, I think they trigger the fear center or something, and you have a harder time forgetting fear.

I've only had three nightmares in my life.

As for doors, I don't really care.  I shut my door for privacy, but leaving it open doesn't bother me.  Actually, closed doors bother me more because they occasionally terrify me outright.  Especially late at night if I have to leave my room for some reason and I think everybody else is asleep.  I start getting the feeling that there's a monster just on the other side of the door waiting for me, and it's either going to attack or disappear as soon as I open the door.  I suppose this could just be related to not being able to see an area though, because I've gotten the same fear when the door is open with the monster being down the hall and around the corner instead.  Or while showering when I close my eyes, where it's in the same freaking room, and I could die if I open my eyes at the wrong moment.  I think that last one is probably the strangest thing to me.

I get sort of the opposite fear about doors.  When I'm in a room alone and the door is open, I often imagine the door slamming shut and trapping me in with something.  If the door is already closed, it sort of prevents that thought from occurring. 

I've never really been afraid of "monsters", as in big scary looking creatures that will rip me apart.  While Paranormal Activity wasn't terribly frightening to me, it does a great job of depicting the sort of thing that my imagination will begin to dwell on if I allow it.  That scene in the sequel where the girl is sleeping on the couch with the tv on and darkness begins to engulf the room, until she wakes up and it instantly disappears... that's exactly my style of paranoia.

I've also had a mild fear of facing one direction or closing my eyes in the shower for too long... ever since I saw Ju-On...

[counting]

About dreams, does anyone have that kind of sequel dreams? And you remember in your dream that part of the worlds and surroundings and even characters in it already happened in one of the previous dream. And the continuation of the previous one always lead to some more weird stuff, like I don't like the sequel so I "re-dreamed" the previous one and changed them like going back in time (I feels perfectly logical in dreams). And the sequel of the sequel dreams will be more complex and sometimes you remembered that there are more than 1 version of the same situation (a dream dejavu)

[Gamerlord]

Couple of times.

[ToonyMan]

Oh that's right.  I had a dream last night where Aqizzar and I talked about crappy fantasy films, weird.

Crappy fictional fantasy films.

[Interus]

Was that scene in the second Paranormal Activity because I don't remember it in the first one.  And on that note, my particular paranoia is actually pretty similar to the idea of a malicious invisible entity.  I think it might actually be kinda strange that I don't care about doors being open or closed.  Closed doors scare me slightly more, but I think another part of it is  just that it's often too quiet, and despite being really shy, I hate the idea of being completely alone too.  I'm gonna have to look up Ju-on at some point now too.

Oh, sequel dreams are really common for me.  It's a bit weird, because I can't tell if it's actually a sequel or not.  I know enough about dreams for it to really throw me off.  Because in the dream, I'll actually realize "Oh, this goes with that other dream I had" without realizing I'm in a dream.  This will come with remembering how the other dream went.  And when I wake up, I can no longer tell if the other dream was one I had a long time ago(there's quite a few that I have vague memories of because I often go through the trouble of at least sort of locking them  in), one that I had immediately before the sequel dream, or one that I simply dreamed I had.  Though I suppose that would count as still having the other dream, given that I have vivid memory of it, at least in the dream.  I'm not sure it counts as a sequel if it happens in the middle of it.

Slightly related, I've had at least one where I died and started over repeatedly.