The dream that qualifies as my weirdest ever I will summarize because the dream itself felt like a long-ish novella. In this dream deceit loomed large, and my own tendency toward gullibility really was exposed as well.
In this dream, a local Vocational Rehabilitation had decided that they would help me go on and finish a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology at a university in another part of the state. In order to save a bunch of money on housing, they had found “a really lovely landlady with a basement apartment” who would deeply discount the rent if I would agree to tend her stoker-fed coal furnace.
The dream itself took place one night in the middle of the coldest winter ever recorded in that part of the state. At night the apartment got cold enough that food left out on the counter would freeze solid during the night. I survived by burrowing in under a beautiful quilt and three electric blankets. The warmth radiating out from the bed attracted other critters, including ten over sized rats, two of whom burrowed under the covers & used my arm for a pillow.
The dream ended abruptly (as in one second I was in the midst of this super lucid dream, the next I was wide awake) when a nasty, vile taste erupted in my mouth in the dream. Oddly, that taste stayed with me even while wide awake, and even today, over 21 years later, merely thinking about that dream’s ending raises a mild feeling of nausea.