Do doll owners dream of resin?

I dreamed I received a posthumous gift from my grandma. One was a SOOM Idealian and the other one was some kind of MSD. I had the bright dream idea to swap the heads (why?) but then I Lost The Brain. I don’t even want an idealian… I was freaking out when I woke up.

I know it was never going to work but now I’m like, curious…

 

I do often! The most memorable would be when I found a few dolls I somehow managed to forget I had? Can't imagine it happening in real life since I only have 20 dolls and work with them regularly, but it was really exciting in the dream!

 

I've dreamed about my dolls! Usually the dream is about finding a beautiful doll I've always wanted in some unexpected place and feeling very lucky and very happy! Luckily, I've never had any nightmares about stolen dolls or melting dolls or whatever...

 

I've been in the hobby over a decade and I'm very reclusive so, being a big part of my life and having an active dream life too, I've dreamed about bjds numerous times.

I've had this dream too, multiple times. In my case it's usually not dolls I've had before however it usually is actual bjd sculpts I know of (though resin colors may be a bit wacky)
In my dreams like this lately the discovery is at first a happy surprise but quickly accompanied by guilt and sadness and then I have to bother with trying to sell them all and it's really a huge chore the interesting thing is that the dolls I find seem random, ones I am very familiar with from seeing online over the years but usually not anything I am specifically wanting to own.

Other than that one there are a few other themes I've had (repeatedly). Though I don't think I can remember all off the top of my head. I have a recurring theme of going shopping in a huge store packed with dolls. Bjd and other, some ones I recognize and others from my mind's eye I suppose. Sometimes they are like my idea of Mandarake, sometimes it's an estate sale or an antique/thrift place. This will be part of a larger dream with a psychological component (as per the usual). I'm always so thrilled to look at all of them but I never get to buy and or take them with me

Sometimes there is an appearance of one of my actual dolls in my dream, not central, and not something negative. Just as a random detail.
I have a new recurrent nightmare my dolls play a central part in the last several years, since some traumatic events, where I am planning to leave my home behind on very short notice and I'm packing them all and worrying and there is a lot of crushing sadness and anxiety about loss, while worrying about my dolls and getting them out with me.

I lead a colorful and miserable dream life

 

When I dream of my dolls, it's always been one of two scenarios: Either they've come to life and I get to be their actual mother, or I've ordered and received a grail. Sometimes those plot lines combine.

 

I've had two doll dreams that I can remember. In the first one, something awful happened to my collection- I don't know what exactly but they were all broken and scratched up. I woke up really upset, but of course they were all fine in real life.

The other dream, which I've had more than once, is finding dolls for sale in unexpected places, like a craft store or antique shop. Those dreams, like all shopping dreams, make me happy at first, until dream-me realizes this is all fake and gets depressed.

 

I don't have doll dreams often. When I was little I used to have nightmares about Chucky the killer doll because the adults in my life didn't monitor what I watched which lead to nightmares after watching shows I didn't know were rated r. I think i watched that movie when I was maybe between 5 to 8 not sure. I had nightmares every year about that doll. Very graphic gruesome nightmares that haunted my nights. Occasionally, I still get those nightmares, but less frequently.

Since getting into the hobby I sometimes dream about bjds. It's mainly about missing a doll deadline or just random dreams about a bjd behind the scenes of my dreams.

Most of my dreams are nightmares, so maybe I need comforting random things popping up in my dream like my dolls and dogs. Sometimes when it's a really bad nightmare BTS will be in my dream like they are forming a shield against the nightmarish landscape that my brain cooked up. Usually they are singing in my dreams or just standing there in the background when I'm really scared then I feel less scared.


Most of my dreams focus on escaping and needing to save my sister and me from something, abandonment, or my parents/relatives/or their friends putting me through some sort of danger or stress that causes me to cry in my sleep. I usually wake up crying. So usually in my dreams I have a magic bag that i can stuff with anything and it creates a magically safe home that cam protect my sister, my dogs, and me it protects me from dangers and in this space it is timeless. Usually I stuff my dogs in there, my sister, and myself. It has everything we need. Then we stay there forever. That is usually how my dream goes, but if the danger is inescapable and I can't handle it and the bag isn't there then usually a doll or BTS or anything I find comforting pops up somewhere in the background.

The bjds that do appear in my dreams are not the dolls I own, but just a random resin bjd kind of generic looking. I don't always dream in color and i sometimes hear music in my dreams, so the dolls in my dream are sometimes in black and white which kind of adds an eerie effect. I used to wake up humming a random song my brain made up to myself.

From what I recall the bjds in my dreams don't have a smile, but more of a blank look.

 

I don't dream often but I distinctly remember dreaming that I dropped my favorite doll and broke her irreparably. Woke up almost crying.

 

I feel like I've dreamed of my first Super Gem, before I bought him. I do have all my dolls (well okay except for 6 because I ran out of space) facing my bed because I see them as guardians of my dreams and protectors (the door to my room runs parallel to my bed so they would in theory creep out an intruder). I can't remember my doll dreams clearly but I think it's always been a race to acquire them or protect them in my dreams.

 

I have located so many dolls that I forgot I bought! Surely they could try sticking around when I wake up just once.

 

I have time to time dreams about BJD:s. Usually they are dreams where I find many dolls from my closet and I don't even remember that I had a dolls like that. Usually without makeup or clothes. I'm like "Ah yeah, maybe I have to put some of these dolls for sale, as I don't even remember these, so they are not that important to me" or something like that. Other kind is a dream where I have to move many dolls from place a to place b.

 

Yesterday I dreamt of resin eyes. The eyes were very beautiful with a mix of random colors. It looked like all the beautiful parts of the world was inside the eyes. I opened a box of resin eyes the day before maybe that is why. Before I dreamt of resin eyes I was dreaming of my parents which made me upset because before that I was having a nice dream about my sister, my dogs, and me I think we were traveling in my dream which is weird because we dont travel. I think the resin eyes part popped up somewhere afterwards. It really stood out because the eyes were so shiny, sparkly, and very colorful. The eyes looked like jewels.

 

I have never dreamed about dolls as much as about finding a shop that sold outfits that you could at least lay on top of dolls to see if they fit. Kind of like a open air market for BJD. It was fantastic!

 

I've twice dreamed about dolls. The first one was a nightmare, fueled by my fears when I was expecting my first doll (in my dream, my doll melted away because of the summer hot O.o). Since then, I never had another dream until last month, that I dreamed about my current family having a setting where I displayed them, kinda like a diorama. It surely served me as inspiration, as I'm now slowly making progress on building a diorama for them.

 

I once had a dream my house was flooding and I had only minutes to save a few things and get out before the apartment was totally under water (and I lived in a 2nd floor apt. at the time). I totally bypassed everything else to get to my dolls, inflated the emergency life-raft I'd apparently been keeping under the bed, loaded them up, blew the window out MacGyver style with a fire extinguisher and sailed away to safety. I woke up from that one rather disturbed and upset.

A much better dream was one where I was at an "easter" egg hunt where the large plastic eggs either contained a fist full of candy, a random band t-shirt, or if you were lucky, a small doll. I was very lucky in that I came away with 37 eggs; 8 shirts (most of which were too small though), and 5 pukipuki sized dolls. I was VERY disappointed when I woke up.

I've had a few more over the years, but these two were the first to come to mind.

 

I will randomly dream about my dolls, or dolls that I'm really wanting to own. I was really on the fence for buying one doll but then I kept dreaming about them, so I had to get them in the end. I think it's normal to dream about things your passionate about

 

I've only had one BJD dream lol... I feel like I don't dream super often, and when I do - I never really remember the details.

But the one dream I had, I had just bought a house. It was a super old house, and I had a house warming with a few friends. The friends in the dream were people I hadn't talked to in years (weird lol), and they asked me about my attic. Of course, because it's a dream and it's crazy I invite them all up to my attic and there are TONS of doll boxes. Like mysteriously way more than I actually own! My friends remark "Oh my gosh, you have so many dolls!", and in my dream I remember being really confused like... "Wait are all these mine?!". So I start opening boxes to see what's inside, and it was just these crazy limited dolls, fullsets... and it just seems like a never ending sea of brand new dolls. I remember waking up and being like... aw nuts.

 

I finally have an answer for this one

I'm waiting on a pre-order that the artist said would ship this month (but hasn't shipped yet). Last night, I had a dream that I was checking the tags for the doll on instagram and people were posting unboxings of their dolls which had shipped and there just weren't shipping notices for. I got very hopeful that my doll might also be on the way... and then I woke up.

 

More than once I’ve had dreams about finding an old, neglected BJD at a thrift store, antique mall, or yard sale and taking it home with me. I always wake up so disappointed that it’ll probably never happen, haha. Getting a new doll cast just for me is great, but there’s something about a doll with a longer history that I find very appealing.

 

I once dreamed that my doll lucian came to life and he was over 2 meters tall and we started dancing xD
That was really weird but also funny in hindsight.

 

Ah good, I've found the thread again. Two nights ago I had a weirdly specific cameo in my dream that I could share here.
I don't especially remember what the dream was broadly about. Something stressful as always. Anyway, I remember for some reason I was holding my LR seven head (as it looks right now) which in real life, because of the bad weather, was one of the only faceups I got to do so far this year. Anyway I dropped it from standing... about 3.5 ft down and it clattered around on the ground and got all dented and Faceup of course damaged too. I was very sad and inconvenienced about it.

 

I dream about when it'll finally be shipped.

 

Occasionally I’ll have a dream that I’m at a craft store and somehow I run across a wall of what I can only describe as a Build-a-BJD. It’s a mix of heads and bodies and hands and extra parts in every size, color, and sculpt imaginable. In the dreams I usually spend hours trying to figure out what I want. The dream always ends with me deciding, shuffling through a clothes box, and before I can pay for them I wake up.

 

So, I have the weirdest recurring dream, in which I have probably 5-10 blank dolls in 1/8 - 1/6 scale. And in this dream I regularly forget they exist, then discover them in a box again, think they are ugly and regret all my purchases, but am unable to sell them for some reason. It’s like I’m haunted by tinies in these wacked out proportions and weird faces.

But the thing is I LIKE tinies?! Why is my subconscious brain apparently afraid of them?! It cracks me up xD

 

I had dreams about dolls in the past like buying one , opening one one dream years ago was that a store had opened in my town and had bjd dolls and I was in there like wanting to sell a kidney so I can buy everything in it lol , the more recent one was that I left a container of dolls to my moms house and she unknowingly placed it near the radiator and it was on and the dolls melted ughhh very weird dream the funny thing is that I reacted very well in my dream I was so cool with it (which considering the price of the dolls I doubt I would be in real life lol) I told my mom "Huh shit happens don't worry" and she was far more distressed than me so I hugged my mom and comforted her. I admired myself in my dream lol If something bad happens to my collection I hope I'll have the decency to react equally nice.

 

I was at work in the bathroom with Rio and I felt the cleanest place to put him was to balance him on top of the stall divider. Of course, this is a very bad place and he fell and broke off about half his fingers and toes. A former coworker and I spent 30 minutes looking for the broken pieces and I found at least one NS finger but not all of Rio's.

@sel.mgr now THAT sounds like a good dream!!

 

I dream about finding dolls at thrift stores or flea markets, I get so excited but after looking closer they are always severely damaged or undesirable for one reason or another.

 

I once dreamed that I went to a friend's house and asked if I could see one of her dolls. She refused and when I asked her why, she kept dodging the question! Luckily she showed me her doll once I woke up and told her about it. It was pretty funny!

 

Last night I had a dream I had accidentally started modifying/sanding a doll without wearing a mask and resin dust was appearing everywhere. I was so freaked out! I'm too chicken to do some subtractive mods I want to do so that's that I guess

 

My guests requested that I put my 6.5 foot moving and talking doll (Rio, again) away in his box because they felt uncomfortable. We had a very heartfelt goodbye with a long hug. He started growing stubble and turning a grayish tone as I put him away.

 

I dreamed that I received a Volks SD F-59/Saki in Sunlight... except she was MASSIVE. I'm talking Dollmore Trinity-sized. I've never held a Saki nor a Trinity before but the doll was quite lightweight. She also looked identical to a friend's (normal-sized) Saki.

In March I came down with a cold and had some fever dreams. I found some writings from then, and apparently I was feeling like a blog post about Volks dolls that was sandwiched between Java programs. You make sense of that one for me.

 

I dreamed last night last I was leading an army of dolls, armed with kitchen knives, against an evil dictator. They were all naked and unpainted, I don't think they had eyes even, and some were missing heads. They weren't intelligent exactly, more like robots or wild animals—I kept having to shout at bystanders "Don't fight them or they will attack you!"

We won in the end, so all's well that ends well, I guess!

 

I had a dream a few months ago that my dolls had formed their own government and had been recognized by the UN as a soverign state...

 

I've had dreams about dolls many times over the years. Sometimes it's about the stress of waiting on a doll to arrive, or them arriving but something is wrong..I've had a crazy realistic dream where I went up onto a rooftop terrace where all my dolls were living humans gathered at some sort of party. It was so surreal to be able to go talk and interact with them. I'll never forget that dream. I remember I got to hug my first two boys and it was amazing. Doll dreams are always fun.

 

Not usually… but i saw a new doll ad on instagram that would not leave me alone. I kept going back to look at him, He was too cute but i said no more dolls.. then he invaded my dreams for a week until i gave in and ordered him.havent dreamt of him since but mission accomplished i guess? Lol

 

I rarely have dreams about dolls but I've had a couple where my dolls fingers break (big fear). I had another one where I went to a shop and stole a lot of carrying bags... Omg

 

Last night I dreamt that my husband had gotten my dolls all new custom outfits, and had dressed them up while I was asleep to surprise me
The problem was that most of my dolls in that dream were vinyl dolls, and the outfits were black. So while my resins were okay, everyone vinyl got stained by the new clothes
However, while my real Dollfie Dreams were there, I had several other vinyl dolls in the dream. They were very short and stocky old men, wide and muscular all over, with a big belly and big hands and feet, so that the body basically looked cube-like, and they had small heads. They resembled kind of a fantasy dwarf or a buff Santa, about 40-45cms. And my husband had dressed them up shirtless in gothic styled overalls and hats.
He was so apologetic, and asking if the staining could be fixed. But I told him, eh, they look so cute that I don't ever want to take them out of these outfits

 

I've noticed this year that I haven't had any of the dreams I used to have about vast amounts of dolls in general, however I have had several dreams about wandering into a random oddity shop and being very excited to see and choose shoes for my dolls.
This last week I had a very mundane seeming dream (to an outside perspective) where I let somebody borrow Marina because they had asked about the type of body she has. I thought it would be better to let them hold and move her themselves.

 

I had a dream once about ordering a bjd from a company that doesn't exist in real life - the images from that dream are pretty hazy but I remember they were making very big, like 70cm well-built ladies and gents dolls, not in the usual white/normal resin but instead in a substantial range of rose to purplish tans, quite strong colours and that faces were quite realistic.
When I woke up I actually tried to remember if maybe such a company existed some time ago but even though one might think of iplehouse/granado from the description, I was sure in that dream it wasn't any of them...

 

Gosh, just last night I had a nightmare where I was redoing Minka's faceup and for some reason the watercolor pencils I was using were making huuuge dents in her face and I was just making it worse trying to fix it

When I was taking a break from the hobby I often had dreams where I'd find dolls I didn't remember having in the basement/closet/boxes/wherever or going out to flea markets and seeing really damaged dolls for dirt cheap. In one dream I found a Twigling doll just sitting abandoned in a tree? Of course I picked it up and thought to myself that I'm the luckiest person in the world! Was pretty disappointed to wake up empty handed..
My dreams are often pretty weird and illogical, but at the moment they feel so real to me and I never question the dream logic.

 

I had a dream last night that some little accessories I ordered a while ago finally turned up—they're little kitty ears and collars for the dolls I have who are intended to be catboys :3c
So I was hyped about that and then woke up like AW MAN

Also recently had a dream about coming across one of my nearly-impossible-to-find grails in, like . . a grocery store? Except every time I went to grab him SOMETHING would interfere. I kept accidentally knocking shit over in my FEVERED DESPERATION to get him lmfao. So I was standing amongst all these trays of cakes I'd knocked to the floor feeling embarrassed to death, but I needed . . . my boy . . .
It was also one of those dreams where, like, IN the dream I was thinking to myself 'wow, I can't believe I actually found him and it's not just a dream!'

There've been plenty of other ones, too!
My current antidepressant has this really odd well-know side effect of making dreams both EXTREMELY VIVID and much more memorable after waking up. So oh yeah, there've been plenty of other weird ones I still remember well ahaha.

 

Another dream last night: my DearSDs had a tea party on my kitchen table. I wasn't invited.

 

I’m sorry but this particular dream story made me laugh especially hard. I really do hope you find and get that grail someday, considering the fact that clearly you are willing to reenact Heavy Rain’s hilarious failed chase sequence just to get to your boy!!

 

Sometimes I used to a lot when I was first in the bjd hobby. I had an odd recurring dream of owning a specific doll sculpt that I have no desire to own! My mom wins though because she once had a dream that I threw my favorite doll in a hedge

 

I've had a few doll related dreams over the years, can't remember any that weren't the "suddenly finding dolls in my home I didn't remember I had" kind, though. In those dreams at first I'll be excited because hey, "new" dolls, but then I'll usually notice that they are in desperate need of cleaning/restringing/fixing up and end up being so relieved when I wake up and realize I don't have to do all that work. Already have a bit too much to do with the existing ones, which I'm guessing is at least partially why I see these sorts of dreams to begin with.

 

I've only had a couple a very long time ago (5~10 yrs ago) but they were not strictly about resin BJDs but about Dollfie Dreams (when I used to collect them more heavily). One dream was about a head I had already owned and the other was about a full DD that I had preordered.

In the dream about the head, I believe I was holding it and realized that the face-up had been semi-wiped off and looked horrible. Apparently in the dream, I almost cried because, in reality, I had basically just gotten them back from their face-up being redone by an artist. Relief, I'm sure, washed over me when I realized that it had been a dream.

For the other dream, the DD I preordered was based on an anime I didn't watch but I started to watch parts of it as I waited in anticipation for their arrival. I'm pretty sure it was due to that and me, most likely, checking out their photos every now and again that caused me to have them in my dream. In this particular dream, I had been running from something and ended up running into a office area that was filled with people working in cubicles. I ended up hiding in one of the empty cubicles by crawling to get to it (so my pursuer couldn't as easily see me, I assume) and ended up seeing their character looking like they were semi-real/human, yet semi-anime. They ended up dropping something, and I ended up asking their name aloud in kind of disbelief that they were actually real/there. They responded by giving me a silent but sweet approving smile in my direction and then I woke up. Definitely made me that much more excited to get them after that. They are certainly one of the DDs I regret letting go of and maybe one day, will repurchase if I get the chance.

 

My last dream about bjd is on 26 January this year (I have a habit of writing dream's diary)

In my dream, I went to a mysterious doll cafe, where they put many bjd from various companies on display. I even happen to found a doll I once interesting but found out that the company had closed their pre-order of long. And the owner of that cafe did offer sell that doll head in tan skin to me (And yes, only head, she said that she will keep the body )

Well... I accept that offer before woked up... Now I wish the company will re-open pre-ore of this doll soon

I have other weird dream about doll from time to time, one included the journey over the seas (literally, on an old ship) to find a phantom island and beg the craft man there for making me a pair of doll shoes

 

Occasionally I've had dreams that my dolls were in, but they've never been a major part of the dream. Plus they do not move on their own, or anything like that. They're just incidental objects. :-/

Linda S.
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Surprisingly, I don't think I've ever dreamt about my dolls! Maybe I did when I was younger, and I just don't remember? But I haven't recently, in the past 2 years, since returning to the hobby after a long hiatus.

 

Hehe, I just had a doll dream last night!

It wasn't about any doll I owned. Rather, apparently I'd built a collection of YoSD size dolls (I don't collect them) and was looking to sell because I didn't play with them. There were a couple I'd offered to dye with purchase, but couldn't remember what color, and I'd somehow lost my document showing which had been sold and which hadn't. Anyhow, I get in contact with someone near me who bought... some number of dolls? Possibly one of the to-dye ones? And I'm scrambling to get everything together and bring one Pukifee to the meetup, planning to ask what exactly he bought since I lost my document.

Then the world ended and there was an alien invasion, so hey, at least I didn't have to deal with that awkwardness!

 

I haven't dreamed about dolls lately... but I did dream about Den of Angels! It was in the middle of an unrelated dream, I decided to check DoA and saw that I had 9 alerts. I thought to myself "9 alerts?? what is going on??" and then went on with my day

 

If you'll forgive the double post: I've been dreaming a lot about finding/buying crafting materials for my doll(s?).

A few weeks ago I dreamed that I found some lovely chiffon fabric for very cheap. I was so happy! ...until I remembered that fabrics bought in a dream wouldn't be there when I woke up Then last night I dreamed I was at an antique store, where I kept finding little gems and bottles and jewelry boxes which would be great as doll props. I guess in the dream I was planning some sort of witch/sorceress bjd, because I kept saying "this would look so cool as a potion bottle!"

 

Update about my dream last time. I did eventually found someone who willing to sell that sculpt to me, I got her as a full doll though

My latest dream about doll is a little weird again, however... I dreamt about a doll that disguise as a cat.

In my dream I was about to adopt a cat from pet shelter, a grey tabby cat which is very cute among them try to appeal itself to me so I keep him for consideration (Why in the world can I know it's a male cat... is also mysterious) And it's turns out that cat can transform into a male bjd with [no.41] engraved inside his head, and he speak to me in tone of 'well, you picked me by yourself, you have no choice now'

He then turn back to be a tabby cat and I was in the middle of contemplation about wether I can keep a fake cat as pet, or this will against the law ... Before I waked up.

Maybe I will custom a doll with a cat vibe face someday to remind me of this dream. Idk

 

haha this has happened a few times. Usually i'm at an estate sale and there are dolls. its so exciting and then i wake up

 

I feel like many of my doll dreams are nightmares, unfortunately! I have 5 70 cm boys that stand on a bookshelf, so I have a lot of nightmares where they fall... or nightmares where I lose them somewhere... or nightmares where a little kid is playing with them and breaks them... I even once had a dream that I was going on vacation and my doll fell out of the plane. That was shortly after I studied abroad with one of my dolls, so maybe that's why? He never fell out of a plane, though! I rarely remember good dreams, though, I only really remember nightmares. So maybe I do have good doll dreams sometimes!

 

During the wait for my doll I had a dream where I received her but she was not the one I ordered, with a strange faceup, and she was cracked all over. I remember her face was like the shell of a hard boiled egg, with tiny cracks that would yield when you pushed with a finger.
I was heartbroken but when I thought I'd have to ship her back I knew she'd get trashed, and I felt so bad about it I decided to keep her.

 

I often remember my dreams and they have varying levels of lucidity. I recall dreaming that my preorder had arrived and I was most pleased with the resin shade. Then I woke up doll-less...

 

I don't recall most of my dreams that well, but lately I noticed the bits and parts I do remember are about my dolls that randomly show up in them. The funniest one was where I was arguing with my boss that they needed to pay me more so I could afford a doll I considered a grail. Probably not a argument that would work in reality!