The only dream I can remember ever doing something bad in was a recurring set of dreams from when I was quite small. Vietnam was ‘in the living room’ every night, and I would dream, regularly, that I was one of the commanding officers who had to send troops out to die, in scenarios they were just NOT coming back from.
That was shitty, and probably has something to do with my adult attitudes regarding war in general.
Otherwise, nothing comes to mind. My dreams are typically less cohesive than that anyway, however, so…maybe I am blowing up planets and just not remembering.
I have a fair number of times but the most bizarre one was fairly recent. I dreamed I was a serial killer but it only got started when I killed someone accidentally and felt so terrified that I hid the body in the flower bed next to a house under construction. Various people started getting too close to the body so I had to kill and hide them too. It was getting to be this big anxious pain in the ass moving bodies around so that they wouldn’t be found. I woke up just before the jig was up and I felt incredibly relieved. I do not want to be a serial killer, no sir, way too stressful.
I once brutally raped and murdered a woman I went to college with. I’m pretty sure I dismembered her. I was disturbed and fairly upset about it for days. The most disturbing part, for me, was after the murder the dream version of me eventually realized he hadn’t taken any steps to prevent being caught and started to panic. I woke up in a panic about being caught, without any guilt for having violently murdered someone. It wasn’t until I actually woke up that I ever thought about how wrong it is to rape and murder.
For what it’s worth, it’s the only violent dream I recall ever having and I never think violent thoughts awake. It was waaaaay out of character for me.
My friend recently had a dream where she was sleeping on my couch - I told her to move to the other couch, apparently, because I wanted to play on the Xbox, while my girlfriend made her a cup of tea.
When she told us later that day, I told her that it’s her fault that she fell asleep in my seat. So I don’t get guilty, but I apparently get self-righteous My girlfriend is just happy that she’s always the good hostess even in people’s dreams.
My girlfriend is just happy that she’s always the good hostess even in people’s dreams.