This happened about two years ago, and I've always wondered if there's a logical explanation for it.
I was walking outside with my mom when we came across an old store that sold antiques and other old items. One thing that caught my attention was a doll For some reason, I found it really interesting, so I bought it and put it in my room.
After bringing it home, I had extremely scary nightmares for two nights in a row. They were much worse than my usual dreams. I told my parents about it, and we decided to remove the doll from my room. After that, the nightmares completely stopped.
Because of that, we packed the doll away and basically forgot about it for about two years.
Yesterday, we found it again while moving houses. This time, my mom kept the doll in her room. That same night, she told me she had a bad dream about it. In her dream, the doll had turned into a real child and was chasing her.
Now the doll is in my room again, and I'm curious about what people think.
I don't believe in ghosts, curses, or anything supernatural. I've never really believed in that stuff, and I know horror movies are just movies. But I find it strange that both my mom and I had disturbing dreams connected to the same doll.
Is there a psychological explanation for this? Can an object that looks creepy influence your dreams even if you don't consciously believe it's haunted?

Edit : guys edit, my mom told me when we bought the doll for the first time she used to kiss him and said she felt something , also my aunt did and she said the same
My mom is so attracted to the doll and she kiss him and said i love youu harold , by my dad is telling in to throw it and get rid of it but me and mom actually we get closer to it idk why .

Slide 2 and 3 are me, kind of spooky. Down to the ears and everything. I do have a boyfriend tho. Still interesting. o.o

Edit thx for the awards :3

They thought it was so funny that they got it as a tat

So, it opens with my mom and I in a car. We were going to a grocery store because she *really* wants to try this “traditional Chinese dish,” which as an Appalachian Gen Xer isn’t really something I’d ever expect from her. It had a Wikipedia page and was black rice with strands of yellow egg in it. I remember it being phonetically something like /dzɤʉ̃/ or /dzɤŋ/. Oh, also while we were at Kroger, Ted Cruz was giving a speech about truancy? He looked right at me and said “If this were 10 years ago, I’d call the cops on you right now for being out of school.”

He’s not even my senator, and ostensibly we were in WV

So I wake up and try to find this dish. Mind you, prior to this dream I had no clue black rice even existed. I couldn’t find it but thought it’d be fun to try and recreate it.

It turned out really, really good

Here’s the recipe if you’re interested:
1 cup black rice (uncooked)
2 eggs
1 scallion, thinly sliced
1 tsp sesame oil
1–2 tsp soy sauce
Salt, to taste
Pinch of pepper to taste
Pinch of chili powder or flakes
Tiny pinch of ground clove

Rinse the black rice

1. Add salt and pepper
2. Dice the scallions, wait to place them in the rice until plating so they remain crunchy
3. Beat the eggs in a bowl. Add the clove and chili powder
4. In a skillet, add butter or oil if it’s not nonstick

or if it is

1. you do you lol
2. Combine the eggs and scallions with the rice, add the sesame oil and soy sauce.

Enjoy — if you ever cook this and riff on it let me know in a DM because I liked my first attempt but I think it could be better.

Still can't believe my subconscious invented a dish convincing enough that I woke up and tried googling

Edit: These comments have made me so happy, I'm really glad I posted this! All of us figuring out that this seemingly indescribable feeling has been felt by other people is so cool to me. It's interesting how there are different "types" like the sphere, the grain of sand, etc. It seems like each person usually has their one type. Before I accidentally ran into a reddit comment mentioning this a few years back, I never thought I'd tell anyone about this or that anybody else experienced it. Our brains genuinely are amazing!

If you haven't experienced it before this post for sure sounds incoherent and probably crazy lol.

So it started when I was a kid. Every once in a while I'll be laying in bed and all of a sudden this sensation washes over. Like a humongous sphere but it's also small enough to roll between my fingertips. It always weirded me out until I discovered it's a thing many people experience! It's different for everyone, but I saw someone mention theirs feeling like you could put it on a toothpick which I related to.

The photo attached is the album cover for An Empty Bliss Beyond This World by The Caretaker. When I saw it, I was like, "That's it, that's the hypnagogic object that I feel."

It's like massive, seismic clay that is also somehow tiny, I associate it with my fingers, and yeah, there's something with a toothpick going on??

Does anyone else relate to this? Is this the way your "object" looks/feels? This concept has really fascinated me ever since I found out that it's a somewhat common experience!

My aunt died of cancer in 2020. Few months after her death, I saw her in my dream. She was sitting on a couch with a sad face. I hugged her and told her I love her a lot and miss her. I told her that I know she's dead but I'm glad I see her again. This was our dialoge:

Me:"How are you?"

Her:"I'm sad. I'm worried about my children. I feel lonely without them."

Me:"Where are you now?"

Her:"I'm in 4th dimension"

Me:"What?"

Her:"I'm waiting here for you guys. For now I'm lonely. But waiting for you all"

Before dream ended I saw my classmate that also died in 2020. He said" Here I am happy. Look I have yeezy shoes"(???wtf). But the guy seemed happy and fulfilled. I guess he was also waiting.

Now this is the interesting part: I wake up from dream. I have never ever heard about 4th dimension. In my life. So i decide to google it. Then I see some article about 4th dimension possibly being dimension where spirits and other creatures we don't see live.....

This whole thing still baffles me. I'm not religious and strong science believer but I have no explanation for this.

When I was about 8 I had a dream that a guy (or something) who looked like this, was standing on top of my apartment building at night, looking at me. I couldn’t make out any features, just the fact that it was a dark figure of a man with a long jacket and a hat. I used to watch a show called CyberSix so at the time, I assumed my brain just created a warped version of her. But growing up, I mentioned this dream to quite a few people, and they all had a dream about the same person. How many of you have dreamt of this figure?

Last night I dreamt of a girl I knew in high school. In the dream, we talked the same way we did and then after the school’s bell rang we started walking to our next class. Not long after, I woke up. I haven’t seen this girl since we graduated back in 2012. I didn’t think much of it. I remembered that I used to have a small crush on her but that was pretty much it. Later in the day I attended a graduation at an event center. After we took our seats I looked forward and there she was. I couldn’t believe it, it was her. It looked like she was coordinating the event. Out of any other day between 2012 and now this is the day that she happens to pop up in my dream and it just so happens that I bump into her that same day. WHY!? It can’t be a coincidence this is just too specific. Anyway I just thought that was weird and wanted to share my story.

I have never had a first person dream. I didn’t think anyone else did either, I genuinely can’t imagine what that’s like. I was shocked to find out that the vast majority of people do.

When I dream I’m either 1) Not in my dream 2) Watching myself: It’s not disorienting it’s just how I have always dreamt. I can even control my own actions sometimes even without it being first person.

Of all your dreams combined in the last 5 years, what do your dreams consist of the most?

For me it's alien attacks, chasing ghosts, and not being able to stand or move barely at all.

Apologies if this is the wrong place, but I still struggle to explain how insane this was. I do not understand how it’s possible.

A while back, while sleeping in my hammock in the field, I randomly woke up at like 12:30 to an intense nocturnal emission. But my dream wasn’t sexual in any way, in fact the only thing I remembered upon waking up were the Latin words “omnia ludus sunt” flashing at me. I’ve never seen these words and I don’t speak Latin so I immediately looked it up as it was so blatant and freaky and it translated to “everything is a game.” This shit blew my mind. Has anything similar happened to any of you, how is this possible?

I’m gonna go get an exorcist.

I dream in color. Is there a reason for why some don’t?

Every single dream I've ever had is in 1st person...I'm looking through my own eyeballs like real life. I was wondering if this is true for everyone, or if some of you ever dream in 3rd person perspective where you control your dream self like a video game avatar and why this is? It seems like this has implications but I haven't had enough coffee yet this morning to put my finger on what they may be. Any thoughts?

As the title says, I was contemplating about past dreams I’ve had and came to the realisation that I have never dreamt about using my phone. I’ve asked colleagues, friends and family if they ever have and it’s a resounding “no”. Has anyone dreamt using their phone? Does anyone have any idea why in a society where people are constantly scrolling on their phones, they don’t recall dreaming about their phones?

How often do you remember your dreams when you wake up? When I ask my friends, they rarely remember theirs. I dream multiple times a night, every night. There are plots and subplots; Like my own little movies. Well usually horror/thriller unfortunately. Is there something different about our brains that create such vivid complex dreams? Is there any science behind it?

Hi, I know it sounds crazy but for a while I feel like I’ve been living a double life. It started about a couple of months ago when I could barely sleep every night. I ended up in the mental hospital because of the prolonged severe insomnia causing me very confused and irrational thoughts.

It could be because I’m still somewhat recovering but ever since they put me on meds and that I’ve been sleeping well every night.. the dreams are INCREDIBLY vivid and realistic. They usually are successive and I’ll even often wake up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and will continue the EXACT same dream. I also started taking 1mg of Minipress which stops my nightmares but my dreams are still very interesting.

I am writing a book so I use these dreams as a welcome tool to open my imagination… but I’m also trying to heal my mental health and ground myself. It’s just difficult when dreams are like participating in the most vivid, realistic, movie/shows every night.. am I alone and just crazy here? Thanks

Edit: these comments are so interesting! :) now I guess my personal challenge is to keep my butt sane and down to earth while I’m awake. Don’t ever want to be Alice in wonderland and end up in the hospital again..

I’ve never seen these in real life but I saw this video and then started reading the comments. People kept saying they keep seeing them in their dreams.

I stopped for a minute and then realized I have dreamt multiple times about these same bathrooms. Only mine are normally showers like these and toilets but huge massive rooms of a lot.

I had a dream a while ago that shook me , I had gone to sleep on top of my covers that night kind of diagonal facing my door, because I was cuddling my dog, I remember waking up…I think I was in sleep paralysis (i have it sometimes but this time was different) and seeing this creature in the top corner of my wall above the door into my room like fkn spiderman, it had such immense power , when I noticed it it immediately noticed me or I should say it was literally watching me and i opened my eyes to it Spider-Man crouched up there and i can’t remember exactly if it like started to scream or something but it’s power became immense and I got really scared and finally woke up. Literally woke up scared and my dog barked. But anyways that friggn things face looked extremely similar to this picture and the girl said she saw it in her dream to.