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Last night I had several dreams, for once... I didn't sleep well.
Guess who appeared in one of those dreams? Yes...HIM. This time he wasn't protagonist at least, he was just one among the other people. But now that I think about it, he had nothing to do with them... The others were my best friends and ex-schoolmates... he was there cos in the dream he lived near one of these friends of mine.
A guy I work with passed away last summer a couple months afterwards I had a dream I was at work. I was about to go down the stairs when the dead guy appeared at the bottom and started walking up the stairs. In the dream I freaked out and I told him : "What are you doing here your suppossed to be dead" He didn't say anything but just kept walking up the stairs so I told him he needed to leave and at that point I think I woke myself up.
Ok, last night I had a dream that I was in a restaurant and my Mom bought this lottery ticket thing to spin this wheel and she won 400,000$.
In the past weeks I had lots of dreams...and most of them didn't involve that guy!!! But last night I did dream of him...and maybe the previous night too... I don't remember anything else.
The weirdest dream I've had lately was about a serial killer... I don't remember much about this either, but I know I wasn't in the dream but I kinda felt the emotions of the killer, like the urge of hiding... It was like I was watching a film, and I remember thinking in the dream that I didnt want the dream to end cos really it would have been like missing the end of the film... Though I think it had a sort of end.
Last week I had a dream I went into work and all the offices were smaller and stuff was missing and there were rumors going around that we were downsizing.
Last night I dreamt that I came into work and my boss fired me and he got all choked up while doing it.
Oh, I hate those bad at-work dreams, it feels like you haven't slept at all.
I once dreamed that I fell asleep at work, and someone came in and cleared all the shelves. It was eerie because the wall behind the shelves is a mirror so when I lifted my head, all I saw was myself staring back. I looked annoyed the way my boss would. Maybe that happened because I'm always checking my teeth in that mirror after lunch.
I keep a dream book beside my bed. The book was a gift from my daughter many years ago. In it I write down whatever I remember about my dreams, and I do this as soon as I wake up. Sometimes the penmanship suffers at these early hours, "but it don't have to be pretty to be important".
Sooooo....I rarely glance at the dreams I've written down in the past. I rarely look back at life, as I believe life is in front of me, and everything else is history and inviolate. But I recently checked to see what my dreams have been about and discovered an unsettling feature or theme. I think I am still in love with someone from my past. I mean, I feel 'that' when I am awake, but I ignore it and blame it on a masochistic tendency that seems to be part of my makeup. The relationship was a 'nightmare' ( if you'll excuse the term), and I actually HAVE nightmares where I wake up angry, really agitated and cannot go back to sleep, all connected to this person. This has been happening for almost 5 years.The funny thing about dreams though, is that the subconscious spins out tendrils of energy as we sleep, and a small part of our minds weaves these into some coherent patterns we may later be able to identify through sheer willingness to believe, a process somewhat like seeing familiar shapes in a simple cumulus cloud.
Actually, one of my psyche professors claims dreams (like deju' vue') are just intermittent discharges, misfires of the brain with no connection to anything else, just chemicals on a rampage. Oh well, humans seem to need to assign strength/wisdom to some ethereal powers influencing life.........
hmmm...i wonder what that could be.....
i always have dreams in which friends of mine, who have never met yet, show up and seem to already know eachother. Then, still in my dream, i start wondering how it is possible that they've met since they are in different countries(not that that isn't possible), so i seem to analyze my dreams while dreaming them. does anybody else have that too, or is it just me again...
I dreamt of that guy again last night... :eek:
mm...Koa, does he dream about you too...?
"I rarely glance at the dreams I've written down in the past. I rarely look back at life, as I believe life is in front of me, and everything else is history and inviolate.
-badad -
i was just wondering baddad... if you really don't care about dreams because they're "history" then why do you even bother writing about them in the morning?? why can't you just go on and forget these dreams and live your life the way you want to?? just wondering...
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Originally Posted by bbq13
but my dreams do not influence my waking life. Also, the fact that I dream about my past is the point I find strange, is the point I was trying to make, because it is my past I waste no time on. The dreams themselves represent an interesting point of study only.
Recording dreams started as a way to indulge my daughter but has now become a sort of ritual, a cleansing of the sleepy spirit. Also, the act of writing keeps me focused, reminds me of what I'm trying to accomplish with my own art, namely getting some of my own works published. And the machine that drives a writer is fairly simple: you write what you know; therefore I'm driven to know as much about as many aspects of life as possible. I've made it a point to explore life from as many angles as possible. Examining my dreams is but a mote caught in the sunbeam of exploration.
How can I know? I havent heard of him for 2 months and he wouldn't tell me anyway... I'm 100% sure he doesnt anyway, remember my love poem about it? And once he even stated (on my request :blush:) that he has no particular opinion of me, so I guess he's bothered about me as much as he is about a grain (?) of dust on a shelf of a library he's never been to. But I've stopped wasting my precious time on him, at least when I'm awake :DQuote:
Originally Posted by amuse
Here's a dream genre I've never had before,... adventurous! I dreamed that I was following that Wayans guy from Who's Line?, and I was wanting to ask him a question about spray painting my car a different color because I didn't want the sun to heat it up anymore. A woman who looked kind of like my doctor, was also following him and when he wouldn't pay attention to her, she stabbed him in the heart with a pencil and he died! A friend of mine from church was there too, and his role seemed to be just as a witness. The doctor ran off, and I followed her playing "agent" and somehow got hold of her gun that was sticking out of the top of her skirt. Though I was holding it at her, she was real haughty and threatening, and out of fear I fired but there were no bullets the first two times. The third time I shot her in the heart. I kept worrying about being a convict, and had to keep reminding myself about my witness.
Weird! Normally, I have less bizzare dreams, like riding a sled being pulled by a St. Bernard that's wearing a Robin Hood cap with a giant feather that keeps tickling my nose. ;)
I had a dream where I had a giant tattoo on my back. It was a sort of a heraldic eagle (with a very long,snake-like neck)
And then it started whispering. And talking. And heaven knows what would have happened if I hadn't woken up.
Weird dream, Last night I had a dream that I was looking in a mirror and my face was all bruised and bloddied, but I wasn't worried because it wasn't going to leave scars or anything but what had me concerned is that my left eye was bigger than the right eye and it didn't move if I tried to look in another direction, and the pupil was red.
Another weird dream. First i was outside with a group of people near a warehouse district somewhere and something was going on and people were yelling at me to call 911, but I didn't think the event (whatever it was) warranted a 911 call, but I did it anyways. Next thing I remember, I was in my kitchen and a bird with an orange breast came and sat on my window sill on the inside of the house, I decided to catch it and let it out but it started flying around and I couldn't catch it.
well, this dream that i had a two nights ago was VERY odd because i generally don't have dreams like these, but i dreamt of my ex boyfriend and this girl he likes...and how..random is that.. and the funny thing is, i dont know her yeah, so its like "uhh how'd you get in my dreams?!" hehe uh yeah..ranndom
I was dreaming this one time that i was in a classroom and the teacher was askign something and i literally rose my hand (while i was asleep) and started answering the question. A few years later, i was sleep talking and my sister woke me up to tell me, and then a few minutes later, i was awake, telling her about the time that i was raising my hand in my sleep. The next day, she goes around telling everyone i was still sleeptalking after i told her i was awake... but i *was* awake i tell you when i told her!!! leave it to siblings huh... hehe
I managed to find the best way to get dreams, i remember most of them for about five minutes or so... but I set my alarm for like an hour or so before i get up, i have several alarms each set half an hour apart. After each alarm goes off i turn it off, go back to sleep and have five or six dreams. I read somewhere that looking out of a window when you first wake up will make you forget your dream.
I have deja vu dreams, I swear Ill be sitting somewhere an dbe like, hey i ve been here before when I was younger and there was something happening the next day I would dream about that event and most of the time it came true. One such dream was when I heard soemthing about my freind. SHe was playing soccor and she hit soemone so hard in the chest by acciden that she coughed up blood. That night I dreamt that i did that to her and divided the whole school having everybody hate me except my brother and two of my close freinds. The next day, she accused me of trying to drown her from a life saving course (i did not, i assure you try to drown her) and (i think the poeple upstairs are playing absketball its really annoying) we were no longer freinds after that.
Last night I had a dream that I was in a large house with a group of people. We were going around checking all the rooms to see if there were any people in the house, but we had to be careful of the zombies, if you ran into a zombie you had to kept moving and they wouldn't bother you. If you stood still they could "get" you. Once a room was checked a sheet of paper was placed on the door molding with red tape.
Later I was in a "beachy" type bar (old wood, grass tiki hut type stuff) and I was playing simon says.
I'm beginning to wonder if I should stop posting my dreams. I fear all my pshycosis are manifested in these dreams although I couldn't tell you what they are.
Last night I had a wierd dream that I was in a really really old house and i kep wakin gup next to a dead guy (i think he was my husband in the dream, not married in reality) but my evil ??? step mother wouldn't let me out of my room for her protection. Then I was on the street of an industrialized city a hundred years ago chasing after the ghost of the dead guy to figure out why he was haunting me. He said that that evil stepmother killed him and was poisoning me slowly... and then me and my freinds confronted her, freinds included a boy, guy, man (not sure) and a talking cat.
I woke up to my roomates alarm clock at that point. When I went back to sleep I finished the dream sort of...
We were running away through the hills and my step mother was chasing after us well not her but three of her goons and they said they would let us go if we gave up the talking cat but we wouldn't because the talking cat was either my cat Kushi, or Kushi on the forum... anyway at that point I realized i was dreaming and then it ceased to be a dream but became a story....
All my dreams would make really great novels if I just write them....
sounds like a past life dream. but that's just my take.
papayahed, re: the 911 dream and birds, that's interesting...often in dreams, cultured have interpreted them to mean death. nice that you were there to call for help. :)
has anyone ever had a guy with a popsicle stick beard in their dreams. I just woke up from this one and he really freaked me out... nicely combed longish white or really really pale hair and the a mustach/beard made of popsicle stick that looked like polished bones sticking about in every possible direction...
Jester - your dream may signify that subconsiously you wish to change an aspect of yourself that is aggressive and overtly competitive
Yeah my freinds would have to say i am aggressive, competive, yeah that too.... hmmm maybe i do want to change, but where'd you get that from?
a birdy told me you were the epitome of of aggressiveness and competiveness hehe...;) :angel:
A birdy never told you that, I did, and ooooh... epitome is a big word for you...
Jester - that was a joke - pls. don't take me seriously. Forgive me, I couldn't help it. I was going to try and come out with some surreal stuff but my subconscious began to frighten me! I don't know enough about you to accurately understand your dreams, even if I were an expert.
I actually have a friend who wrote a book on dream interpretation but I haven't read it, as I privately dismissed it as a load of bunk. He moved to Nigeria a few months ago (he is 1/2 Nigerian) and recently sent me an email about his experiences that was so well written and funny and interesting, I regret not reading the dream book. I must remember to ask him to get me one.
i think most of it is messed up too. Too me my dream simply means that I dislike popsickle sticks coming out of a guys face.... I actually turn ahve my dreams into stories that never ever get completed....
Got you going didn't I!
Seriously though - the dream is probably just an amalgamation of things that are on your mind, some could be important to you or they could be trivial: I honestly once dreamt very vividly about something because I was trying not to think about it before I went to sleep.
I don't think I'll get away with much more dream interpretation here now anyway!
The most strange and absurd dream that I have heard is where two big ferries were beating each other with pillows in a dock.
Can anyone beat that? :banana:
How about me (female) becomeing a man and an alligator walking up the trail and being both at the same time... its very interesting to play both the hunted and the hunter at the same time
I, too, have always loved the subject of dreams, and their interpretation. Apart from my occasional "lucid" dreams, I once had a dream, not long after reading Dante's Divine Comedy, that I climbed the mountain of Purgatory through the seven stages in perfect order; atop the mountain waited my personal "Beatrice." I ended up writing a very long poem about it with a few exaggerated details. Weird, huh?
This weekend I had a dream that i was in front of my neighbors house reading his newpaper. He came out to see what I was doing, and at that point my knees were achy so I started doing stretches in front of him and my knees felt better. He invited me in his house and it kinda looked like a tabernacle and there were Nazi's (full uniforms) there and a couple people from work.
I saw a movie earlier that day that had Nazi's in it, so I think that's where they came from.
i had a dream last night where I was trying to teach all these children how to read and it was the end of the world and older ones didn't know how to read and i was talking to the librarian trying to put together the education system. See it was the end of the world and i had married te ruler making me the unofficial ruler of the world. Thats jsut stuff you ahd to know to understand this......
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Here's one for ya. Anyone here seen the movie "Gremlins?" Well, I spent most of last night being chased by the little buggers. My girlfriend and I were trapped in Koerner Library (Main UBC Library) and racing around trying to avoid those things. Needless to say, a long, sweaty and unpleasant night. Worst of all, I woke up with the Gremlins theme music stuck in my head. Gremlins Theme (Fast Forward to about :50 secs in)
This February I'm planning on running in a 5K, I'm currently training to decrease my time for this race. Last night I dreamed that I was talking to some unknown, unfaced person and this person was telling me that only around 5 people are gonna show up for the race and that nobody likes doing this particular race.
Gremlins, what a great comedy, and the sequel was even better. :lol: