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I had a dream..(help!)
Ooooh, is that house one common?I have that one too. It's always so great to find all that extra space, like a huge kitchen that is all decked out in nice kitchenware.
The only problem with that one is waking up and realizing all that excitement was for naught.
I also often have dreams that involve very weird stairs...sometimes escalators, but usually stairs. Grass covered, see-through, maze like, or stairs that kinda look like this ^^^^^^^, where the steps are at the wrong angle and you have to be careful not to break your ankle.
I love house dreams... mine are always these giant elegant maze-like old victorian houses, with attic upon attic and all kinds of cool stuff in trunks. The houses always had an air of nostalgia, comfort and a bit of darkness but not too creepy (normally). I would wake up wishing I could find that house and feeling sad that it was only a dream.I was told a long time ago that houses either represent your Mother (nuturing, safety of the womb) or yourself. It seems that dreaming of finding all kinds of new rooms might be finding new or old/hidden parts of yourself that you're now uncovering. Very cool. :)
Everything in the dream is considered to be representative of yourself - places, people, things, ideas, sensory triggers, etc. Supposedly... but only YOU can truly determine what the symbolism is. Otherwise, coming from someone else or some book - it's mostly speculation.
But I can never figure out my own dreams as much as someone else can, I can't see the forest through the trees.And yes, I firmly believe that everything in a dream is a part of yourself.
Okay, so what you're suggesting is that someone else can listen to your dream, try to understand it, relay what they get back to you, and then ultimately you can confirm if it's accurate for you or not... still basically what I said. :)
Heidi - yes. :)Bun - it's not so much intellectual analysis, so much as coming to an understanding of a mystery somewhere deep in your heart.
I like to think of the dreams as the truth that we NEED to know about our current situations and what's relevant to the present. Sometimes the truth's just so hard to take and making sense of it can be like putting a puzzle back together. It can be frustrating or it can be fun, depends on how you take in the information and the process.
I also believe there are what we like to call 'Yoo-hoo' dreams, where your subconscious is really trying to tell you something important about yourself, your life and your current experiences. These sometimes manifest as precognitive or simply deep insight. My Mom's ancestory through the women has had these kind forever, and I find it happens to me occassionally, and now my daughter as well. It always makes me so curious what is really happening when we have these kinds of dreams - where you know things that you just have no way of (consciously) knowing.
I would love to know why I actually can hold full conversations with people when I'm asleep (I haven't done it since I was around college-age)... and they don't even realize I'm sleeping. And I don't remember any of it when I wake up.
It's kind of disorienting! Like, I would feel like I missed out on some minute part of my life. OMG, Bun... I thought I was a weirdo for doing that! And you do it, too... I hope this doesn't seem like a weird response, but I'm really glad you do it, too... so I'm not the only person I know who does it.
OMG, me too!!! Bun, I'm sure I still do it, except I don't have anyone reporting it back to me and haven't in years. I once punched my mother when she was trying to wake me/engage me in conversation to make sure I was up. I was in high school at the time. She was mad and yelled at me after I did it (naturally)... and I didn't even realize I did it. I truly didn't know why she was mad at me and I'm sure I cried from frustration/not knowing what was going on. Now, she stands across the room from me to wake me. And I STILL feel horrible that I did that to her. I've never raised a finger to my mother and never would (consciously).
I've always wanted to get sleep tested... because sometimes I think I could file for FMLA for all the times I'm running late to get to work in the morning. I think I've got some weirdo sleep condition. And I know it's not anxiety. I'm not stressed out really about anything. Not really... And I don't snore, so I don't think I have sleep apnea. I set FIVE alarms, stagger the times... AND the alarm tones... and sometimes I'll still sleep through all of them. TawNub, I'm SO happy to know that someone else shares my NOT-a-morning-personness with me, like we could be twinkies or separated at birth... or something.
in my dream tonight i was in a country with a totalitarian regime. i didn't live there, but i was visiting, no idea why. a group of people had kidnapped me, but when i started talking to them i realized they were not the bad guys. they just wanted me to sign a petition at the city hall so they could eat their national food again, which was five eggs and bacon, fried. i escaped and signed their petition, but my kidnappers were angry i escaped and followed me. when i woke up i was hungry.
i woke up twice last night right after seeing an official list of nobel literature candidates. i remember i was shocked, but don't know why, or who was on the list.
So my friend Emily was in my dream last night. I had the world's HUGEST crush on her brother while we were growing up... through oh, about college. Anyway, she's an artist in real like. I dreamed last night that she changed her medium for artistic expression to hair. And I went to her to get my next hair cut. So when I sat in the chair, I told Em, "Choppy? LOTS of layers? FUN! Have fun! I don't care." but she weren't happy with my directions because they were too vague. So she went to work on someone else while I sat in the chair and thought, "There's really not much more I can give." And then it dawned on me that I had NO idea how much she'd charge for my haircut, and I started thinking about outrageous prices - $200, $500, $1200! And I knew I made the right decision because I just didn't care how much it'd be. I KNEW I wanted to have Emily haircut art. I started to look around the room and saw so many people who ...were wearing one of her cuts. And I knew that she'd have a gallery showing soon... in which all of her haircut-ees would stand as exhibit of her creativity and imagination. So when she came back to my chair, I said, "I totally trust you. Just... have fun! Okay?" And she startedto go for my hair with her scissors, and I was totally excited.
And then I woke up. :)
a very interesting character appeared in one of my dreams. he was sort of a friend i think, but a little creepy. he also always wore rubber boots. when he took off his boots i saw he had goat's legs with blood on them as if he had just walked through a fresh pile of dead people.
i dreamt i had three panda bears as pets. they were super cute and friendly.
janine wrote: "a very interesting character appeared in one of my dreams. he was sort of a friend i think, but a little creepy. he also always wore rubber boots. when he took off his boots i saw he had goat's leg..."A little creepy?
that was before he took his boots off.
I dreamed that I was out with some friends I hadn't seen in a VERY long time... and we kept having to stop so I could go to the bathroom. My bladder practically stayed full. I think on some level I knew it was real... and I woke up and went to the bathroom. I'm SO glad I didn't wet my bed. That would've been awful.
I haven't had that sort of dream since I was in elementary school
the only thing i remember about last night's dream is this sentence: "i'm such an arkle, putting my straw hat on instead of my soy hat for the orrio dances" then i woke up, because i had to pee and walked into a door, because i didn't want to turn the lights on. no visible bruising. i'm sorry i missed the orrio dances, that would have been interesting.
"i'm such an arkle, putting my straw hat on instead of my soy hat for the orrio dances" I have absolutely no idea what this means, but it might be my favorite sentence I've heard in a long time.
i was in a labyrinth and someone had sent an assassin to kill me. i saw the assassin use a lego model of the labyrinth to look for good places to kill and bury me. i escaped by crawling through the labyrinth, on hands and knees. then i was with friends and we found a lot of diamonds. to keep another group of people, who were clearly evil, from discovering we had diamonds we made spicy sausages and put the diamonds in them. then we stole pearls from the other group and put them in pancake batter and made pancakes which we decorated with the diamond sausages. then a member of the other group came into our house and saw the sausages and wanted to taste one of them. we gave him a piece and he ate it, but he didn't realize there were diamonds in them. he also didn't see the pearls in the pancakes.
What a delicious dream. Diamonds, pearls, and pancakes, oh my!Here's an excellent column by one of my favorite writers, Dick Cavett, about dreams:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...
Dick Cavett: The Windows of the Soul Need Cleaning
Published: May 14, 2010
Another attempt to make sense of one's dreams, and Nureyev's and Olivier's as well.
i liked the schopenhauer quote'a dream is a short-lasting psychosis, and a psychosis is a long-lasting dream'
whether it's true or not, though it certainly feels true.
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Larry, I love the Cavett piece. Thanks! "I'm wearing my street shoes!"
last night i was atacked by a spider. it was just a normal sized, normal looking spider a friend of me had gotten and i had promised to release the spider outside. i was holding the spider by a string of its web that was still atached to the spider. but then the spider started swinging in my direction. at first i thought it was just the wind, but the spider was doing it on purpose and had evil eyes. it became very frightening. then someone else had to rescue me from the spider.i'm normally not afraid of spiders. i don't like them, but we can co-exist if need be.
i had a dream where i was in a house with friends and there was a killer outside. the killer had been there for weeks, trying to kill us. we called the killer the tgif-killer, because every friday s/he would leave a clue to their identity. then a woman was arrested on a landfill because she dumped garbage bags with what looked like dead bodies in them, but they were just very good imitations. we thought the woman was the tgif-killer and that it was save to go out of the house again. someone said the woman on the landfill was probably not the tgif-killer, but a friend/copycat of the tgif-killer, but we didn't listen to that. a day later, in the woods, we stumbled upon the mutilated bodies of five women. it was the work of the tgif-killer and she was arrested soon after. i also found a baby panda amongst the bodies. the panda was traumatized, because the tgif-killer had beaten it and i decided to take care of it.
You have a lot of violence in your dreams janine, but glad you helped the panda.
Barb wrote: "creepy"i was actually more scared in the dream with the spider, and cried in another dream that wasn't creepy or scary at all.
Janine, the level of detail you remember is extraordinary.
still remembering what the murdered women looked like and knowing that there's probably a serial killer somewhere who does that to real women is not so extraordinary. i'm glad i still have that cute baby panda to think about.
i dreamt i killed two people. i just slit their throats, it was very easy and they were gone really fast. i did it so i could steal a book from them. of course the book was covered in blood from the killings and i had to wrap it in some sheets to carry it (it was a very big book), but then someone stole it from me. he didn't kill me though.
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who cares about jousting (naked or not) when there's a new olympic sport combining skiing and setting death traps for your opponents? and i'm the fist olympic champion.
janine wrote: " and i'm the fist olympic champion."
Seriously I've got nothing I can say to this.
Seriously I've got nothing I can say to this.
Jim "In dreams we enter a world entirely our own" wrote: "janine wrote: " and i'm the fist olympic champion."Seriously I've got nothing I can say to this."
i know!!! i'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO perfect for this game!!!!!!!!
i was a traveling journalist. with a couple of friends who were anthropologists i traveled the world and visited small villages. sometimes we would come across the works of a serial killer who liked to visit the same kind of villages we did. the serial killer was my ex (not irl). one day we drove through a village and i saw a woman faint on the road. we stopped and i ran to her to check her pulse. it was racing. she also had a scratch on her eyelid. her pulse was racing faster and faster until i thought she might explode, but her heart just stopped.
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Was Ted Danson there, Lobstergirl? I've been having all kinds of intense dreams/nightmares lately. My therapist says nightmares are part of your mind/body trying to heal you. I guess that's progress, then.
Lobstergirl wrote: "I dreamed I saw a black limo go by. I could see Bill Clinton's head of white hair in the back so I knew it was the Clintons arriving for Chelsea's wedding reception. Which was in a school. I wal..."that made me smile.
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Sandalwood Tree (other topics)The Interpretation of Dreams (other topics)
Let the Great World Spin (other topics)
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I've only had the losing the teeth dream once or twice, and this was about 2 years ago, because I woke up thinking Holy shit, I've finally had the teeth dream! Usually mine are the anxious variety, catching the train to get to the plane with many hassles, or the lovely one of being in a house that is mine and I keep finding new rooms.
I really want to start keeping a dream journal again, so my memories of them won't be so fleeting.