I suppose (instead of telling her directly or just not saying anything at all) you could just tell everyone else via a blog post on your company's site. That way, when she finds out from a friend of a friend of a friend, it won't be creepy at all!

Good choice!

Edit: Yes this has happened to me frequently; random people showing up in dreams. I dare not approach the person about it for fear that either they or my beloved wife would get the wrong idea.

No, there isn't an easy way to say it.

I had a dream recently where my brother-in-law helped me shave my gigantic (think large cat) handle bar mustache.

I tried telling him; I got a weird look and a flat "Um, weird."

jdgiotta wrote:I had a dream recently where my brother-in-law helped me shave my gigantic (think large cat)...

Get ready with that censor button, woot-staff!

...handle bar mustache.

OK, that's all. Move along, people; nothing to see here.

I always just tell 'em I had a sex dream about 'em and they were quite good in it. You can't go wrong that way... Let me know how it works out for you. :-)

I had and ex tell me they watched me in my sleep... harmless right?!?

Next thing I know he's telling me he's been talking to me in my sleep and I'm telling him some other person’s name... (I have no recollection of this... I was sleeping)

So he gets mad because I was dreaming of someone else and not him...

Not sure if this relates, but it creeped me out. Who talks to people when there sleeping?!?

LuckySenior wrote:Not sure if this relates, but it creeped me out. Who talks to people when there sleeping?!?

I do, my little bro used to sleep talk when we shared a room growing up. Sleep talkers will often respond if you talk back to them. It's fun to try and guess where they are in their dreams and what's going on.

watching people sleep is a bit creepy though.

There is no non-creepy way. Just embrace the creeper-ness of it! Do the CREEP!

bsmith1 wrote:I suppose (instead of telling her directly or just not saying anything at all) you could just tell everyone else via a blog post on your company's site. That way, when she finds out from a friend of a friend of a friend, it won't be creepy at all!

I'm pretty confident we have zero friends of friends in common.

mjpowers0903 wrote:There is no non-creepy way. Just embrace the creeper-ness of it! Do the CREEP!

*Like*

Anyway...

I've found if you just say it very casually and go straight into the dream it helps. Like, "I had this dream where you were eating ramen, and I was really hungry but you wouldn't give me any." It's a bit less creepy.

mjpowers0903 wrote:There is no non-creepy way. Just embrace the creeper-ness of it! Do the CREEP!

http://youtu.be/tLPZmPaHme0

I did this the other day. Except I dreamed about a guy AND his brother. No idea what the dream was, just that they were in it. And I told him. Yeah, still haven't heard back. Eh, it was always awkward talking to him anyways. Did ask how he was doing....

thatheard wrote:I do, my little bro used to sleep talk when we shared a room growing up. Sleep talkers will often respond if you talk back to them. It's fun to try and guess where they are in their dreams and what's going on.

watching people sleep is a bit creepy though.

your right... watching IS CREEPY!

I've done this with a guy that works in the same office as me, but moves in ENTIRELY different circles then I do.

All of a sudden, he changed where he sits and I never see him now.

Gee, I wonder why...

It wasn't a sex dream! I just saw him drive by in his cool monster-truck Jeep. But, yeah, creepy. Dammit. I wanted a ride in that Jeep, too.

LuckySenior wrote:I had and ex tell me they watched me in my sleep... harmless right?!?


Not sure if this relates, but it creeped me out. Who talks to people when there sleeping?!?

Was he an "ex" when he did this? That would really raise the creep-meter.

definitely tell her....happened to me and I told her 'bout my dream and that I had not imagined her for the natural Chewbacca look. She adamantly denied, after which we stepped into one of the conference rooms for her to prove it. Just then the boss walks in and I wake up at my desk - it was a dream! I look up and who comes walking by, you guessed it. I pull her into my cube and tell her about the weird dreams I just had. She goes running to HR with me chasing up the stairwell. She stops outside the door in the stairwell and says she will not report me if I expose myself right there in the stairwell. Just as I drop my pants, we both look down and BAM!! I wake up in the middle of a conference. She is across the room from me. She looks seductively at me and crosses her legs. NICE!!! a Sharon Stone shot. WHAM! I wake up in the break room. She walks in....am I still dreaming? Do I tell her?

There really isn't a non-creepy way to say 'guess who showed up in my dreams last night?..It was YOU 8D'(I can tell you from a female perspective that I'd definitely look at them a little differently if a guy came up and told me anything along these lines). If you're not good friends with that person, I highly advise against it: some manifestations of your subconscious are best left mysterious and known only to yourself >.>

When you woke up was Leonardo de Caprio next to you and where was your totem?

You are obviously still in love with Tasha.

http://youtu.be/BYowQ05AgqM

tgentry wrote:Listening to people describe "this crazy dream" they had is akin to watching paint dry (no offense wootbot). Maybe I'm just a selfish person. Maybe I've been groomed through television, books, and movies to only enjoy stories with a beginning, middle, and end. You know, a story arc. I've come to believe that the only person in the world that is interested in the dream a person had, no matter how outlandish, creative, or emotional, is the person who had it. Is it just me?

Ditto.

Totally creepy to mention this if they are not a close, and I mean close friend. A better question, which is creepier? Telling your girl/friend (or which ever way you swing) that they were in your dream and it involved sex? OR...Telling your friend they were in your dream and met a horrific death?

You can't tell me you've never had a dream involving one of these where you wake up disappointed, or the latter where you wake up sweating (well I suppose you could wake up sweating after the first one as well...freak)

First of all: Why is there a link to this blog for dealdump.com's deal of the day?

And secondly: You don't HAVE to tell her. Seriously, the world isn't going to end if she never finds out you had a dream with her in it. I occasionally have dreams about my friends and even old acquaintances, but I rarely tell them unless it was a funny dream. Whatever goes on in your head (including, but not limited to, your dreams) is strictly your business.

bsmith1 wrote:

Oh great, now she KNOWS!

tgentry wrote: I've come to believe that the only person in the world that is interested in the dream a person had, no matter how outlandish, creative, or emotional, is the person who had it. Is it just me?

(To sum up, no don't tell her)

I've heard some pretty interesting dreams from other people.

You all have other people in your sex dreams? I'm always by myself in my sex dreams. Is that weird?

Rule #1: If you see the dream subject the next day, they can be told about the dream without becoming overly creepy.

Rule #2: Going out of your way to talk about the dream or remembering for more than 2 weeks, is very creepy.

Rule #3: "I had a dream about you." is a very different sentence than "You were in one of my dreams last night." Avoid "about" at all costs.

About two years ago, I had a dream about one of my acquaintances on twitter; I dreamt that he bought me a vodka tonic. I had never chatted with this person at all, much less met him in person. I decided to tell him about the dream because... well, why not? I mean, I'm just some random creepy girl on the internet. What's he going to do? Block me on twitter? I was amused by the fact that I was so nerdy that my dreams revolved around people I'd never met in person, so I decided to tell him about it. Long story short, we have been living together for the past 10 months and have a fabulous life together. And we would have probably never met if I hadn't told him about that silly dream.

However, there's a big caveat here. I'm a girl, and when a girl says she had a dream about you, you don't automatically think that she dreamt about sexy-sexy time with you. (You might hope that she dreamt it, but you wouldn't necessarily expect it. And if she did dream that, it seems more flattering coming from a girl instead of creepsville coming from a guy. Uh, well, I guess that does depend on whether you find the girl attractive or not.) What I'm trying to say is that saying "I had a dream about you" has very different connotations depending on your gender and orientation. It did turn out swimmingly well in my situation, but I imagine that if a random guy on twitter had told me he had had a dream about me, I'd probably never go out for cocktails with him.... quite unlike what happened when I told my now-boyfriend I had a dream about him.

One of my classmates (that I don't know very well) decided to tell me about how I had killed myself in their dream.....very very creepy.

Why do people have these urges to tell others about their dreams?

Whenever someone begins a conversation with, "I had this weird dream last night..." my mind immediately switches their voice to the sound of Charlie Brown adults as my eyes glaze and I consider what I am going to cook for dinner.

humongous wrote:definitely tell her....happened to me and I told her 'bout my dream and that I had not imagined her for the natural Chewbacca look. She adamantly denied, after which we stepped into one of the conference rooms for her to prove it. Just then the boss walks in and I wake up at my desk - it was a dream! I look up and who comes walking by, you guessed it. I pull her into my cube and tell her about the weird dreams I just had. She goes running to HR with me chasing up the stairwell. She stops outside the door in the stairwell and says she will not report me if I expose myself right there in the stairwell. Just as I drop my pants, we both look down and BAM!! I wake up in the middle of a conference. She is across the room from me. She looks seductively at me and crosses her legs. NICE!!! a Sharon Stone shot. WHAM! I wake up in the break room. She walks in....am I still dreaming? Do I tell her?

... Why... Why... Why am I reminded of the Old Spice commercials?!

For what it's worth...

I've told pen pals, friends, acquaintances that I had a dream, and they were in it. Usually, they want to know what it was about.

If a co-worker were to tell me I was in a dream they had, I would be flattered and amused if I work directly with them. If it happened to be someone outside of my department, it would DEFINATELY depend on my rapport with them. If we don't have a rapport, then there would be cause to avoid at all costs.

If an internet acquaintance were to tell me they had a dream and I was in it, I'd want to know what it was about. Because such things amuse me.

If a facebook acquaintance I hadn't talked to in years told me they had a dream about me, I'd be concerned. If they told me I was in their dream, I'd be interested. But I wouldn't reach out and tell THEM they were in MY dream. Y'know? (Specifically old high school crushes. I know better than to tempt fate.)

Alternately, you could casually post it as a "note" and tag them on the "note" - if they read it they read it, if they don't, then no harm/no foul.

Why do people have this overwhelming desire to share their dreams? I don't get it. People don't (typically) share their day-dreams, so why their night-dreams? Dreams are almost always weird and by sharing the dream, everyone (who isn't bored out of their mind as you try to explain the weirdness of the dream) is weirded out that you would share it.

Look, we all have weird dreams. Weird people do, normal people do, even famous people do. But only weird people share their weird dreams.

Don't share it with her. In fact, don't share it with anyone.

Speaking of sharing dreams...I'm of the mind that if I am friendly enough with the person I share the dream, if not I don't. There one was only one time I broke this rule---I had a terrifying dream about a former High School classmate of mine (she and I were friendly but not friends in school) and when I woke up I was legitimately panicked. I cannot remember what happened in the dream now, only that I had such a strong urge to make sure she was ok. So I FB'd her asking if everything was ok and explained I'd had a horrible feeling she was in trouble.

She never said anything back to me (which made me sad and feel silly) and it was akward as hell a year later when we saw each other at a local camp.

I guess the point of this story is not to say anything to Tasha and if anyone ever shares a dream he/she had about you be nice in your response!

Just don't do it man! I promise you'll regret it if you do.

Wow. the only thing creepier than calling her on the phone or posting on her wall would be to write about it on the woot blog where everyone but her now knows about the dream she was in.

ROFL!!!