what does my dream mean?

i dreamt i left watermelons out in the kitchen and they rotted and thousands of fruit flies came and ate them. what does my dream mean?

Your mother, she shuns intimacy.

Your father, he shuns intimacy.

Your firstborn son, he will have a cleft palate and will never, never grow wisdom teeth.

THANK YOU ANNA!!!!!

i sink you may be experiencing zee early signs of zee syphilis. you see, zee vatermelon repreezents your brane. please consult a medical professional for zee appropriate testing.

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i dreamt i had the same accent as sarah palin

What does it mean if I have a recuring dream about beating up my sister's ex? He did a 5 month jail term for spousal abuse lol, but should I be the one behind bars? If you knew me you'd never call me a violent person, but that's how these things work, if I had mad anger issues I'd prolly be the last to know. Any advice here?

yes you should be the one behind bars

i was in a hotel the other day and there was a bottle of water in the room and it had a tag on it that said like "you will be charged $5 if you drink this water" so i dreamt that i was trying to figure out how to drink the water and refill the bottle and make it look like it was never opened. i tried a lot of different ways.

i did that at a hotel once. it's not that hard. i was able to get it so that the bottom plastic ring was pressed up against the cap. it looked like it was sealed, but if you twisted the cap off, it was obvious that the seal had been previously broken.

is it weird knowing that my life experience was your dream come true?

you two are gonna kiss.

<3

i dreamt i was a really good ice skater (i suck at ice skating irl)

i dreamt i heard a noise in my kitchen cabinet and i opened it and there was a rat eating my onions! i grabbed it with my hand and held it underwater until it stopped squirming. what does my dream mean?

this reminds me of an actual dream in a freud book but i can't remember it

a dream i was lost in a familiar nieghborhood then ended up at my grandmothers house but scared to go

a dream i bought two jackets (one purple, one green) and each one came with a dog! i had a black dog and a white dog.

i dream a mudslide inundated my work but we didn't die. what does my dream mean

i dream i had to live at my parents and they moved to this huge 10 bedroom house but it was ugly and they gave my sisters the better bedrooms even though they didn't live there and the room i got had stains on the carpet. what does my draem mean.

oh it could mean anything really but probably that your going to die?

the other night I dreamed I had babby but did not know how to care for babby and babby did not do very well because I forgot to change and feed it and then I left it somewhere by accident. :-( It was scary and sad. what could dream mean aside from that I will one day be horrible mother?

i am not the person to ask about horrible mothers...

Tehresa,

Do your parents hoard back issues of Reader's Digest? I need the October, 2007 issue with Martina McBride on the cover. I'm starting to think it's an ultra-rare limited edition, so at this point I'm just asking everyone I know to keep their eyes peeled. I won't give up while there's hope, godd*mnit!(lol)

As always, I'm a huge fan of your work.

~Anna

this reminds me of an actual dream in a freud book but i can't remember it

― horrible (harbl), Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:00 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i remember it now and it's the RAT MAN dream (duh) except in that dream the rats bit the guy in the ass because he was stuck to a bucket full of rats. that is not my dream but i have a lot of dreams about killing or mutilating rats and mice. i tink it's kinda ridicalous

i bought that book but i forgot to read it what does that mean?

i rarely remember my dreams what does it mean?

oh i used to know the answer to that one

does that mean anything? that i don't now?

i dunno i remember a few per week. they are very vivid! i'm always tired and a v heavy sleeper so that could be it.

oh the rat man was not really a dream just an obsession this guy had with rats and torture

it seems like the only vivid dreams i ever have (or remember having) are bad dreams. but i have gotten to the point now where in such dreams, i can recognize that i am dreaming, and i can then wake myself up. i wish i could fuck around in my dreams once i realize that i am dreaming, but i never seem to remember to do that.

otm

cept last time i couldn't wake myself up and overslept!

i can control a dream for 5-10 seconds once i realize i'm in it

it's thrilling. i wish i could make it last longer

my lucid dreams are always about work and i can't stop the madness!!!

it actually requires a lot of effort, to wake myself up once i realize i'm dreaming. it feels like it's straining my brain.

unnecessary comma

you better not do it, then (commas or self-waking)

self wanking

jergins how much control do you have in your dreams? can you basically do anything you want and make anything happen that you want?

movement mostly. and i can conjure people or actions
just for seconds though

(all w/in the current dream situation)

teach me!

what happens after a few seconds? why aren't you able to maintain?

Do I have a special power or was it a coincidence?

earthquakes always wake you up?

i can control my dreams if i am very tired and falling asleep

i also have sleep paralysis sometimes, like last time it happened i thought someone was shaking my bed, getting into my bed, and breathing on my neck and i couldn't turn around and prove that it wasn't happening. i didn't panic though because i knew it was not possible and it had happened before.

oh yeah the other day i dreamt that an irl friend i have not seen in a few months lived on the 6th floor of an apt building and i kept breaking into his apt during the day and stealing books from him, reading them, and returning them secretly on another day. it was weird, i could have just asked to borrow his books.

I dreamt that I met Raoul Wallenberg in a mental hospital, but he was minimally conscious and apparently dying of radiation poisoning(?). He wore a threadbare grey sportcoat with a Star of David on the breast; his nurse said he hadn't changed his clothes in sixty years because his skin was extremely sensitive to sunlight. I took two cellphone photos of Raoul and promptly left because my press pass only allowed me to stay there for 15 minutes. On the way out, a guard made me delete one of the photos, claiming it "violated the great man's dignity." He didn't notice the other one.

I dreamt that I was dating a woman, and went back to her apartment for the first time. It turned out that she had a dog, which I didn't know about. IRL I'm allergic to dogs. Anyway, during the dream this dog, which was a bulldog to start with, transmogrified into a bear cub. That may sound cute, but I knew in the dream that the moment this woman's back was turned, this dog/bear was going to try and bite my face off. And that's not all. It hadn't been neutered, at least not properly, and it kept treading on it's scrotum until it was this huge flap of skin that the dog/bear kept tripping over. I decided that I couldn't possibly date this woman, so I told her that I was dumping her, on the basis of her ownership of this psychotic chimera. Then I trapped the beast by shutting it's scrotum flap in a door, in order to ensure my escape.

great dream!

Also in the dream, immediately before I dumped the woman (who is completely fictitious), we had sex. So I'm dumping her as I'm putting my clothes back on. And at the same time, about six of her friends walk into the apartment and hear me dumping her while I'm buttoning up my shirt, and the woman herself looks so pissed off. I mean, take the most pissed off looking picture of Ariane, and it was worse than that.

i had a dream i had a 4-yr old and my babby's daddy wanted nothing to do with her, it was a very hard dream

i had a dream about being in a locker room (?) and there were lots of tiny baby rats running around so i went to buy some traps for them and put them in the locker room. why do i have so many dreams about rats and mice?

Then I trapped the beast by shutting it's scrotum flap in a door, in order to ensure my escape.

GOOD THINKING!!

my halal dream

i dreamt i was sitting in class and staring out the window when i saw people gathering around across the street in front of a convenience store. a guy was leading a cattle. there were a few african guys and they were going to have what i thought of in my dream as a muslim cattle slaughtering ceremony. one guy held the lead and another guy sliced the cattle's head off with a machete. a third guy then stabbed a sword into the headless cattle's neck. everyone in my class ran outside and was like TIME FOR BARBECUE YAY and the african guys were like oh no sorry, the barbecue will be tomorrow. please come back then.

i think i got the idea for this dream from the movie "workingman's death" because there was one part of it that showed guys in nigeria slaughtering cattle. it didn't happen the same way though, and there was no ceremony.

how dood you know?

because in the dream i was actually thinking "wow this is just like workingman's death!" i saw that like 4 years ago though.

why are they inned the buckets jusd like they should be

i dreamt i was trying to call my friend, whose real name is michael jackson, but i kept hitting the wrong number from my contacts list and this girl answered and i was like "hi is this michael jackson?" and she got angry and i was like "oh you must think i'm pranking you but i am looking for someone whose name is michael jackson, i must have the wrong number" so i called again and got her again and she was still mad and i was like "i just want to talk to michael jackson!" and she hung up on me and i never got to talk to him.

ha lol

it means your are lesbionic

your are

j/k it doesn't mean that

i don't understand how that means i'm lesbionic, lingbert. please explain.

oh PHEW xp

but what does it mean? i'm going to see michael jackson today so i'll see what he thinks

michael jackson seemed unimpressed by this dream

unlike all of you, here, on the internet

exam-time dreams are here

the horrible lucid kind?

yeah my trial practice final is not til next week (we have to do a trial on a fake contract claim) and i dreamt i showed up at the courthouse just to watch my friends do theirs and the judge was like "i think you should do yours now instead" and i didn't have the right book with me (the one i had looked exactly the same but was missing all the depositions) and i hadn't prepared any of my arguments or examinations and forgot all the evidence rules so i went running around downtown trying to find someone who had the book and to find people to act as witnesses and jurors. the judge also laughed at me because i was wearing street clothes instead of lawyer clothes. and i yelled at him and said "i can't believe you're making me do this today! YOUR HONOR!" i was so glad to hear my alarm go off because it made me go "oh good that wasn't real." lol.

did Lingbert and harbl ever kiss?

it was predicted...

linglips

no

she kissed me upside the cranium with an aluminum baseball bat

i never kissed lingbert, what u heard was rumor and innuendo

i haven't been having any dreams at all lately what is happeninggggggggg

take one kava kava for best lucky dreams

I dreamt I was driving home from work, and as I pulled up to my house I saw that someone had constructed a big ass concrete speed bump at the base of my driveway. I hopped out of the car and started picking away at the obstacle with a hammer and chisel. A bunch of rotten, putrid fish fillets were embedded in the concrete, and I piled them up on the driveway as I worked. Once I finished the job, I chucked the fish into my neighbor's pool.

I have not been never famous thus this I make l' intelligence of liitle me!

cool dream, jergins f_rankle

i dreamt i had jury duty (i have never had jury duty) and i was going through the voir dire and the judge was asking me all this stuff like are you able to be impartial, are you able to apply the law fairly and i kept giving these really aggressive NO responses because i just wanted to get out of it

i dreamed i moved back to new england. when i saw my new room i knew it was where i was supposed to be...sunlight across the covers of the bed. what does it mean?

To dream of sunshine, indicates that you are experiencing some sort of emotional or situational breakthrough. You are headed on the right track.

To see your bed in your dream, represents you intimate self and discovery of your sexuality.

great news!!

Were your bedsheets (1) bunched up in moist, cozy, labial folds or (2) rolled up, sleeping bag style, into a firm, thick, pliable cylinder? I'm not trying to get freudian on you, but these little details fascinate me.

I'm not trying to get freudian on you

suggest ban from ask dr freud

Hello nice websit

I have had this dream where while an excellent star I watches the mrs. who does not know that me transport the purchase bags but d' other part I become a man of the goat before dell' shipment of ltter to a friend i ask you today what makes this average?

This as my dream!!!

f_rankle, were the purchase bags (1) bunched up in moist, cozy, labial folds or (2) rolled up, sleeping bag style, into a firm, thick, pliable cylinder?

Hello nice f_rankle

i had man of the goat dream every night for years, started drinking a bottle of orangina every night before prayers, never had man of the goat dream again

congrat

awwwwww, thanks!

i dreamt i was being scolded at length by a coffee shop employee for drinking coffee without any milk in it. he had an indian accent. what does my dream mean?

you racist

i dreamed that i was showing off my apparently signed and illustrated copy of jesus lizard - down to someone, but i can't remember who. i don't even care about the album and never think about it in real life. what does that meen

a dream represents a fulfilled wish

five bux says david yow signed it with his dick

it looks to be signed by david yow and mac mcneilly. one of them drew a cloud coming out of the ass of the dog, and in the cloud it says "RALSTON PURINA"

you probably have a shiny coat and healthy teeth.

you are on fire

a dream that i moved into a crazy house with hidden stairways and tiny rooms and stuff and i was looking out this huge window and saw someone robbing the house next door and i was thinking "great job! rob that house!" but i wanted to make sure that i didn't get seen in the window because i didn't want the guy to think i had snitched on him if he got caught. in this dream i was also a firm believer in stop snitchin, and i was also the only adult in the house. the rest of its residents were teenaged males of various races and ethnicities and i was trying to teach them not to snitch. what does it mean?

omar thankig you.

yeah maybe it was omar. this dream was so absurd and weirdly beautiful but also wrong, i don't know what to think! the house was more stories tall than a normal house and very old and the stairways sort of crisscrossed the house and had little rooms off to the side of them. also i think it had vines twisting through it.

To dream that you are walking up a flight of stairs, indicates that you are achieving a higher level of understanding. However, because of the layout, the stairways represent your tumultuous feelings, ones that make it difficult for you to reconcile leaving your old, lower consciousness behind. this is seen in the staircases' crossing and conflicting with each other. you don't know how to proceed. i recommend having a dream like jergins' and choosing a sunlit stairway. then you will be on the right path.

<3 u tehresa

aw

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/alingbert/DSCN1378.jpg

s.o. outlined the teeth

also the dog was given zorro sunglasses

I enjoy to read your dream. Thank you. I have dreammed I have seen 4 four arms. Expert it says to me the meanings. Thank you :)

I Have four arms..

http://uk.geocities.com/arrowfan4life/Bandcap41.jpg

http://www.collectiondx.com/gallery2/gallery/d/35777-3/P5108632.jpg

He's got six arms so lol francisco f_rankle pwnd

Thank you youn :)) The arms chuggle as i walk fast.Dream is very fun!!

a dream i was borrowing clothes from my mom (haha wtf) and i tried all of them on and nothing fit and i was really frustrated and crying

this represents an internal struggle. you are trying to fit into some picture of what your life should be that is inappropriate. you may also have unresolved oedipal issues.

you should probably kill your mother, too. just to be safe.

Was fkying in a sky!!!!

This why it as is love to dream! He can does anything :)))))))

last night i dreamt that i saw a norfolk island pine growing out of a crack in the sidewalk. i got excited until i realized that it was just a palm tree. what does that mean.

a brilliant career in magic awaits you!

To see lush green trees in your dream, symbolizes new hopes, growth, desires, knowledge, and life. Because the tree changed from one kind to another, it means that you think you desire one thing, but unconsciously desire something else, or that what you think you desire is not at all what you think it is. What is your impression of the two different types of tree?

i really like norfolk island pines. they look bizarre and fake. also, they are related to monkey puzzles.

the palm was some kind of fan palm, and i find fan palms to be one of the least interesting trees around. i guess it depends on the context, maybe. like if i'm out in a desert area and see large groups of really tall palms, that can look cool. but in general, i feel like an ornamental palm tree in someone's yard is the boringest shit.

Perhaps you are trying to see a norfolk pine in someone or something that is really a palm. or, you think you desire a the elaborate craziness of the moneky-like norfolk pine, when you secretly desire the banal comfort of a simple pine.

norfolk island pines aren't even actual pines! and palms technically aren't even trees! this dream has so many layers of complexity i'm glad i have astute people like you around tehresa.

but that is a good question: who is my norfolk island pine

who is my fan palm disguised as a norfolk island pine

who is my Washingtonia robusta(filifera?) disguised as a Araucaria heterophylla

are you my fan palm in disguise? (Seattle)

last night i dreamt i bought my stepdad a Milwaukee Brewers cap. what does my dream mean?

palm trees are ugly

lingbert what is the best tree

you think you desire a the elaborate craziness of the moneky-like norfolk pine, when you secretly desire the banal comfort of a simple pine

should say "the comfort of a simple PALM" not pine. i hope my errant sentence has not thrown you for a loop. i am quite dissatisfied that i've surely damaged my credibility through careless typographical errors. nevertheless i hope your craigslist replies are as titillating as the ones i receive!

Often our typos reveal more about our mental states than what we actually intend to say. Perhaps, Tehresa, you are "pining" for a long-lost friend, lover, or relative. Do you have a hard time letting go?

jergins,

your dream means that you have unrealized sexual desires for these fine ladies:

http://www.mts.net/%7Elmauthe1/Lori/l%26spicwork.jpg

unrealized

hayyyyy

it's the curl of the l

http://www.peterson-handwriting.com/animCrsvCap/L%20CrsvCapAn.gif

nice

love them curves

harbl the best tree.....it depends. 2 favorite trees in my neighborhood:
1) it's either a plane tree or a sycamore/plane tree hybrid. i don't know. but the trunk it looks like it had started to melt but then hardened again.
2) there's the century old oak in the park near me that overlooks elliott bay and the elliott bay grain terminal. the grain terminal makes this constant noise which makes it really relaxing to sit under the oak tree, which has a solid presence on its own anyway

others:

big fan of monkey puzzle trees in general.

the wollemi pine (which isn't actually a pine and is in the same family as the monkey puzzle) which looks cool anyway, but was known only from the fossil record until someone found a small stand of them growing in australia. this is the bark:
http://www.wollemipine.com/images/photos_large/Bark-detail--WP-15-14.jpg

there's a tree i can't remember the name of that "walks" over a long period of time. it is on stilt-like roots, and some grow outward while others, if i remember correctly, eventually die off so that the tree gradually changes its location.

i really like weeping sequoias. they are the goofiest looking things. like cousin it trees or something. regular sequoias are generally very straight with very uniform crowns, but weeping sequoias look like a fuck up. they're shaggy and grow and curve in funny angles.

big fan of the kalaloch cedar over on the olympic peninsula. it's like 1,000 years old, probably more, can't remember. really gnarly and strange looking.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/2626561293_e6218a32db.jpg?v=0 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/133934869_0bb15706cf.jpg?v=0
http://www.thomasbdunklin.com/albums/OlympicForests/Big_Cedar_butress_tbd.jpghttp://www.thomasbdunklin.com/albums/OlympicForests/Kalaloch_cedar_tbd.jpg

oh the wollemi pine was discovered in 1994

you have good taste in trees, lingbert.

this is my favorite tree
http://b6.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01160/67/43/1160643476_l.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/67498213_c601cddd5e.jpg%3Fv%3D0
harbl, you may have seen this tree irl before!

also i like these
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/477638623_dbee824fcd.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/230/477638627_21a9dcb747.jpg

and the japanese red lace maple which i can't find a good picture of (but once i saw one with awesome red/plum leaves and green stalks - it was a youngin).

there is something very striking about the second cherry tree photo, tehresa.

birchbark/paperbark cherry trees have crazy bark, especially on younger trees or branches. it's very shiny and smooth and feels like plastic. eg the one on the left in this pic: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/images/prse2122.jpg

harbl what is the best tree iyo

tehresa i can't see your unavailable photo but is that from highland park? it had some great trees and statues

lingbery i can't name species like you but i like a lot of different types of trees. my neighborhood has a lot of flowering trees: apples, cherries, magnolia etc. but i also like huge mega-tall pine trees. i am having trouble thinking of which is the best tree. maybe it will come to me in a dream and dr. freud will sort it out.

yes, harbl it was from highland!
i miss living walking distance from that park (but really nothing else about rochester)

there is something very striking about the second cherry tree photo, tehresa.

lol it has been favorited by 4 strangers! i am not sure i get it... it seems washed out?

caitlin here is the other picture
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/67498213_c601cddd5e.jpg i made image link wrong - it is not my pic though (but the others are!!!)

the cherries are from brooklyn botanic garden though

ts: sakura matsuri v. lilac festival!

wow that is a pretty picture. the memories! i was always in awe of the f. douglass statue too :(((((((((

i used to have dreams of going to live under that tree. it had quite a nice canopy!

i had a dream that i was still in the question & answer section of my presentation last night and i answered all the questions with better information/the way i should have. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

i had a dream i was attending some kind of charm school but i was too unrefined for them and they kept trying to teach me lessons like causing me to miss the bus to charm school because i was running to catch it and the driver drove away on purpose. i finally cracked and went on a lengthy bitch rant about how their school was so antiquated and perpetuated harmful stereotypes and how i didn't care if i missed their bus. i keep having these dreams where i yell at people and i'm a very eloquent, persuasive speaker. NOT like real life lol

i dreamed i was walking down the street and overheard a gruesome murder inside an apartment building but i couldn't figure out which one and then i was hiding in the subway and later heard it was the worst domestic dispute/murder in many years. what/? it was unsettling!

are you my fan palm in disguise? (Seattle)

― Lingbert, Monday, December 15, 2008 9:07 PM (4 days ago)

zero responses ;_;

;_;

i dreamy my sister's roommate was lil wayne . what does my dream mean?

i dreamt i was invited to a gay club night named JERKS. what does my dream mean?

i dreamt i met tehresa at the airport and she kept making fun of me. what does my dream mean?

This means I will probably attempt to be clever and snarky but you will be so superior you will fly by me with your wit.

dr. freud,
do i remember more of my dreams when i'm sick?

i almost wish i could get a fever just so i could have some interesting dreams. not having any work to do means i'm not tired and i don't dream and my life is not worth living w/o dreamzzzzz

I dreamt that I was trying to go to Malawi, but I wasn't sure if i was even at the right airport.

i once dreamt about trying to go to rwanda but in my dream i was calling it "rwanda and burundi" because i had been looking at a really old atlas which had them both as the same belgian colony. weird how that stuff comes through in your dreams.

a dream my teeth were rotting, corroding even. cavities all over the place and stuff being poked into them and hurting me. not like a normal teeth dream where they are falling out, this was just rapid decay faster than i could do anything about it ugh

this sounds like a case for dr. benjamin button.

i dreamt anderson cooper was selling merch and after a show he was trying to get my email address but only if it was aol. what does my dream mean?

we should hang out at the time warner center, obv!

c u at columbus circle

this is fucked up but i must have been mega tired and i slept 11 hours: i dreamt i was going to school but my school was in some semi-abandoned old brick building and you could climb into the attic from the building next door so i did, and there was a guy in there that i apparently knew and he was smoking w33d so i had some. in the dream i didn't get hi but it might be hard for a dream to show that. then i went downstairs into class and there was an announcement over a PA like "the worst school shooting ever is happening and everyone is going to die" (i don't remember the exact words but it was very hyperbolic and panicked like that) so we all went into the basement which i was thinking was the most obvious place to hide. it looked a lot like my parents' basement and i knew the best hiding place was behind some insulation under the stairs. we could hear gunshots over a walkie talkie. while i was hiding i remembered i had smoked a joint in the attic and part of it remained up there and i was afraid that when the building was searched after the shooting they would find it and test it for dna and i would be arrested. then i woke up and wondered for a few seconds whether it was real! scary dream.

what does my dream mean?

i had a dream that lil sis was dealing drugs and doing drugs and i had to go search her room and i found this stash of coke that was all hard still and hadn't been broken up so it was shaped like pieces of chalk but with flat sides instead of round and they were pointed at the end so they looked like writing utensils or maybe bullets i'm not sure. anyway, it was a very dramatic "i'm not doing drugs" scene and she was sort of wearing goth makeup which is lol bc she is such a hippyish free spirit most of the time and also everything was dark but the drugs were in a red bag. almost like white and red for the red cross. then i had to call the cops on her and also try to keep her from running away before they came. then i think the cops came and they didn't believe me.

i had a dream that i went to take the bar exam and we had to hand over our library cards to get into the exam and the guy would check our library records to make sure we had good character. he almost didn't let me in because he said some of the books i had taken out were "too political." i asked out of curiosity what kind of books would justify not allowing someone to take the bar exam and he said "lesbian fiction." good thing i haven't taken out any lesbian fiction!

i then had a dream i was renting an apartment that i really really liked but i wasn't sure i could afford it. i stepped outside to look at mountains from the back yard and i saw a mouse running toward the house. i had a cat and the cat chased it down and sunk its teeth into the mouse's neck. blood was spurting out. then another mouse came and the cat caught that one too. the cat ripped apart the second mouse and started to eat it. the mouse had whole frogs and other animals inside its stomach, like a snake would. why do i have so many dreams about killing mice?

i had a dream that i went to take the bar

I had a pedicure. The toenail polish was so heavy I could barely walk out of the shop. Was too embarrassed to ask for my money back.

three dreams:

a dream i had gone to nyc for nye (lol i would never do such a thing) with my brother, and we were flying home out of PHL. even though that is a weird place to fly out of from nyc, obviously, and if i went to nyc w/ my brother i would probably just drive "home" to my parents' house or take metro north so already that doesn't make sense. anyway we were at the airport and we hadn't packed our suitcases yet. it was like a scavenger hunt through the airport. our flight was leaving very soon but we had to find our luggage AND our clothes, then pack, check the bags, and get on the plane. so we were running around and he was faster than me. i eventually found my clothes in a locker room (locker rooms are a recurring theme in my dreams just like mice and rats), stuffed them into my suitcase, and ran ran ran to "gate 40." we couldn't find the gate because the gates were not in any logical order so when we got there the plane had already left and we were just standing there like "now what do we do?" when i woke up. i felt like i was panting when i woke up, from the exhilarating run through PHL. oh also in the dream PHL looked like a fancy hotel inside but i know irl it's like the shittiest large airport.

a dream some anti-abortion protesters were on my street holding huge signs and a lot of them were on my porch even though i repeatedly told them to get off the porch and that they were not welcome. i was yelling at them: GET THE FUCK OFF MY PORCH CREEPS. then they decided to go to my gay next door neighbors' house and knock and i was like, "yeah those people aren't going to listen to you, they're gay. don't even bother," but the protesters didn't seem to get it, they were stupid and just looked at me quizzically and came back on my porch. so annoying.

the other dream i can't really remember except it involved a young up-and-coming politician who looked exactly like maxine waters lol wheretf does this shit come from?

dear dream diary,

my dreams have been really fragmented lately. i can't remember seem to remember them. wtf?

a dream i was on vacation with my parents in some U.S. city. this city had a large foreign population, so there were lots of different restaurants, and we wanted to eat. we were at some food court that looked a lot like a food court i have been to in montreal a long time ago. we decided to eat at a moroccan place (i think it was moroccan but actually i can't remember now). i wanted to try every kind of food. but it was not like real moroccan food! they had some really bizarre things on the menu. i really wanted to eat squid, so i ordered some, but the squid was supposed to be alive. also they warned they could sting you if you didn't eat them right, like jellyfish. also the squid looked more like leeches, and they were squirming. so it was basically a styrofoam cup of live leeches in broth, and i slurped them up. with gusto.

what does my dream mean?

To dream that you are traveling represents the path toward your life goals. It also parallels your daily routine and the way you progress.

To dream that you are eating squid indicates that you are feeling self-conscious and worry about how others perceive you. You may be finding it easier to isolate yourself instead of risking judgment from others.

To see or be bitten by leeches in your dream refers to something in your life that is draining the energy and vigor out of you.

this is a very symbolic dream! by eating the leeches, perhaps it means that whatever is draining the energy and vigor from you (school? stress? sandbox woes?) is also making you feel self-conscious or isolated. this is normal for someone coming to the end of their studies and preparing to embark on a new phase of her life. my own spin would be that eating the leeches is a way of addressing or trying to conquer your feelings, but i'm not sure if that is on point or not. alternately, eating could represent being consumed by these things. even though you are the one doing the consuming, you are filling yourself up with these vigor-draining little suckers. maria callas once ate a parasite in order to lose weight and further her career. perhaps your unconscious believes that by consuming these things, you will somehow become harder, better, faster, and/or stronger.

but i don't need to lose weight!

maybe you need to gain weight!

milk carton to milk jug in no time

i need a bigger butt

wonder what freud had to say about asses

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ugh ew no

now that i think about it they only looked like leeches. i don't remember them having leech-like mouths though. they might have just been slimy black worms.

i think it doesn't matter if they were leeches or worms, the fact that you thought they were leeches initially is significant.

what if they were just pieces of rubber in the shape of worms?

well rubber worms will certainly be harder to digest. maybe your problems are tougher than you think!

may i suggest colon blow

"Vibrant"
"Charming"
"Funny"

Ugly Betty star America Ferrera and her golden retriever Buddy make a fetching pair while playing ball at a San Diego beach.
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― America & Buddy, Monday, November 10, 2008 7:10 AM (2 months ago)

real women have dogs

a dream my dad was playing some kind of dead pool game (but it wasn't a dead pool) and he predicted the death of a famous french woman whose name i can't remember. it was a name that looks normal in english but isn't pronounced like it looks. like francoise hardy but it wasn't her. anyway i was shocked and kept telling people of my dad's amazing skills.

I dreamt I was in an unfamiliar kitchen, cooking a pot of curry for a Christmas party. A few guests were milling about the room, including my sister, my grandfather, and A PONY -- brown, about shoulder height, just kinda standing in front of a cabinet grooming himself. At some point I left the curry to simmer, and I decided to head upstairs for a moment of rest. I took a few steps, and suddenly the pony lunged at me and managed to pin me beneath his two left legs. From a hunched-over standing position, I tried to wrench myself free, but the pony growled like a grumpy cat and wouldn't budge an inch. I called for help, but apparently all the guests had gone upstairs. As I struggled more, the pony started to literally unravel. What I thought was skin and fur and muscle was really just brown rope cleverly wound into the shape of a pony. The more I tugged at it, the more it unraveled, revealing a simple frame of dowels at its core. At last I was free, but the pony wasn't done with me yet. He started chasing me around the kitchen, and he didn't seem bothered by the long coils of rope that trailed behind him as he ran. Seconds later I made it to the kitchen door, and I hurried upstairs to tell my story to a roomful of very amused guests.

In an earlier dream last night, Hillary Clinton hugged me.

i am a very amused guest!

last night i dreamt that i was applying to law school all over again, and i decided i'd apply to yale. my personal statement was about dinosaurs. instead of just rejecting me, the reader of the statement marked it up and sent it back to me. at the end of it, he/she wrote in red pencil, "i don't know why you would choose to write about dinosaurs. what a boring topic."

Pshhh, as if interning for Jim Sokolove is a more interesting achievement than riding around the world on the back of a pterodactyl.

My Hillary Clinton dream was law related, actually. Hil was the defendant in a civil case (something to do with logging??). When she won the case, she went around hugging every single person in the courtroom audience. By the time she got to me, it seemed like she was just going through the motions, and it wasn't a very warm or passionate hug :-(

(my dreams are rarely this amusing)

haha hillary clinton cannot give warm or passionate hugs!

here's hoping my next dream proves you wrong

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what does that dreamboat mean

i'm asking YOU

Quick, what font is "He, he" written in? This is kinda important

He, he sunset fade serif bold

i had a dream that a girl i went to college w/ who was also from vermont was driving up and i looked out the window and she had a pet pig (a really big one) who had an injured foot. it was wrapped. she was driving her saab but he was walking on a leash (don't know how this was possible). i really don't like her. what does this mean?

in the past few months, i've been entertaining the idea of having a pet pig. but then i think they would be expensive to feed. i wonder what i would call it.

i would really really like to have a pet pig. they are one of my favorite animals. i like living in cities and wouldn't not live in one but i'm way interested in farm animals. like maybe i could get some hens someday.

i wonder what i would call it.

― Lingbert, Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:14 PM

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I had this dream where for some reason I got into trouble with the police. After a long chase involving the subway system of a fictitious city, they caught up with me at the flop house where I was renting a room. Actually I knew it was a dream while it was happening, because the police were so polite. Anyway, they decide to issue me with a tag, but instead of the standard ankle collar, it was a white T-shirt with a radio aerial sticking up out of the right shoulder. Also it had a picture of the Queen Mother on it, with "

this is the queen mum

i had a dream that a girl i went to college w/ who was also from vermont was driving up and i looked out the window and she had a pet pig (a really big one) who had an injured foot. it was wrapped. she was driving her saab but he was walking on a leash (don't know how this was possible). i really don't like her. what does this mean?

The pig represents the primal, untamed aspects of the girl's personality. Does she indulge in her own base desires at the expense of other people's feelings? Does she get herself into messy, difficult situations out of habit, and does she tend to forget her manners? At any rate, you dislike her because of her "piglike" qualities.

The fact that the pig has an injured foot and a leash suggests that you'd like those qualities to be crippled, to be tethered -- to lose their power, basically. The girl isn't a total bithc, and something about her is worth saving as long as she can reign in her unpleasant tendencies from time to time. The bandage/wrapping shows that you don't mean the girl any ill will. You don't want her to suffer; you just want her to become a bit more likeable so that you can return her goodwill. Of course, you can't expect her to become a perfect person overnight. In some ways the pig will always walk alongside the Saab, so to speak, and you might have to accept that. The girl may actually represent yourself or someone close to you, but that's for you to decide.

[/bs from a dopey non-doctor]

(do people still drive Saabs in 2009? I have no idea...)

i don't know it was the car from college! i haven't seen or talked to her in years.
unregistered, you are v v insightful, btw.

awww, thanks!

please Dr. Freud, can you help me dream about this SAAB tonight:

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ich versuche für dich

my gay neighbor drives a saab in '09. his bf drives a bug.

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is this your friend? kinda clowny looking imo

no, that's not her. the pig was also much bigger, and had blackish hair. maybe it was a boar?

last week i dreamt i was visiting a friend and we walked into this "upscale" "gated community" (i don't think he lived there, we just went there and weren't allowed to be there) and it was infested with huge mutant hamsters, they were bigger than rats. so many rodent dreams!

are you sure they were not guinea pigs, in keeping with our theme for the day?

i think it means that ppl who are so elitist and guarded w/ their precious crap are really monstrous and awful.

no they were definitely hamsters and way bigger than guinea pigs. they also had huge sharp teeth and claws like rats

dr. freud,

i dreamed that i was talking on the phone with a boy (romantingly) and then there was smoke coming from under my bed, i had to hang up to attend to the smoke. i saw there was a shirt under there that was on fire! it took me a bunch of tries to put out the little flame.

i had another dream that i was hiking in a volcanic crater (one to which i have been before) but it only looked like the right place when i looked in a certain direction. everywhere else it looked like the desert, with lots of sand dunes that was someone was daring me to race down. then there was lots of running and people putting me in a car on some kind of thermal (cool) padding and saying something about bees. apparently we'd been attacked and i'd been stung a million times but i didn't know that, and i couldn't feel it. i ended up somehow back home or in a hospital and people kept coming to check on me but i didn't really have a clue what was going on/had happened.

what do my dreams mean?
(i have some guesses re: the first)

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where is unregistered at a time like this?

he's in line trying to register

i just checked; he wasn't there.

I'm not very good at being summoned, am I? True to my name, I spent the last 24 hours in jail for refusing to send in my draft card.

Since I can't come up with anything non-obvious to say about your first dream, tehresa, I'll leave it for textbook writers to quibble over.

As for the second, I think it's significant that you didn't feel the bee stings or even know about the attack until after people had rushed to your rescue. Maybe you're afraid if you ever run into serious problems ("bees") with work/boyz/drugz/money/whatever, you'll lack the perspective or clarity of mind to realize what a deep hole you've gotten yourself into... leaving your friends and relatives to bail you out, apply thermal padding to your soul, and guide you through convalescence until you're ready to get back on your feet. As independent as you are now, you feel as though you might not be able to identify or cope with certain hard-to-predict dilemmas without outside help. It's not necessarily a bad thing to require that kind of support, but I think being dependent and being a burden on others is a very common fear (it is to me at least).

The crater literally represents that "deep hole" I mentioned, with the volcanic part standing for an unseen danger that lies dormant for long stretches of time before coming to a head in a explosive event that catches you off guard if you're not keeping a close watch. The desert stands for the monotony and seeming endlessness of a certain stage of your life (which ties in to the dormant/explosive cycle), and the foot race stands for the pressure to prove your worth in the midst off all that tedium. The fact that you got assailed by bees, not lava, is a sign that hardships aren't always predictable or logically tied to your surroundings. These factors might be linked together in your mind as a likely cause of the problems described in the last paragraph. If you identify potential threats early and try to break out of the tedium and pressures of daily life, you'll have a much more pleasant hike.

(Freud, of course, would have something dirrty to say about the symbolism of a tall, hard volcano that spurts warm liquid out a narrow opening. But this isn't "ask Doctor Freud," so you may as well ignore the old cigar-smoking coot)

^tl;dr, naturally

wow.

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-ok I was posting something when unregistered must have posted, I guess we both want a dream analysis-

I remember that I went to a mall and there was nothing good there. when I came out my car was gone. my family and I contacted the police. I looked through all the cars that might have been moved by a crane that had been moving cars around at a lot nearby. still not there. the police end up giving me a different car that I didn't like (this was all under the assumption that my car wasn't stolen). I hate the new car and want to sue the police. but my folks insist I keep this car and I shouldn't complain about it. I think their reaction is odd.

One part of the dream a police man made fun of me for being weird. I could also hover across the ground at fast speeds (nothing new really - I can always do this in my dreams).

One part of the dream I heard someone's voice and thought it was Edith Massey (and I thought it would be cool to meet her), but when I asked the lady if she was Edith, the woman turned around and it definitely wasn't her.

does anyone else feel like big birding that one for lorax? I'll get around to it if not, but playing Dr. Fraud is exhausting, guyz...

yeah, I just posted my dream for the hell of it, I would say anyone can bigbird it - freud smarts or not.
but my recurring dream is that I can always fly or hover short distances, no one thinks its anything special

An easy analysis would be like that episode of Full House where Stephanie dreams that she is flying around in an astronaut suit and no one is paying attention to her. I am a middle child, but I don't seek attention, I'm more likely to avoid it. In my dreams I don't care so much that nobody thinks it's cool that I can fly. I do care some. The weird thing is that I can never fly forever or really really high.

I guess the idea is that you have an impressive, uncommon skill, but you don't use it in a showboating way because you don't have much of an audience to try it out on. If people were constantly egging you on — in dreams or irl — I'm sure you'd end up flying a mile high and doing all sorts of parlor tricks in exchange for applause. But instead you just use your gift of flight (or whatever) in an understated, purely functional manner, going about life as if there's nothing remarkable about it, really. There's a certain dignity in using a special gift with restraint, but of course there's also the sense that you're not living up to your full potential, not being duly appreciated, etc.

(uh, change "I'm sure you'd end up flying a mile high" to "I'm sure if you were like most people, you'd end up flying a mile high..." I'm assuming more about your character than I should there)

i like that idea

i had a dream that i was at the gym and doing the rowing machine but it wasn't working right and i could not feel the burn in my abs or anywhere really, it was kind of annoying. what does my dream mean?

ur doin it wrong

lol

haven't been having my usual dreams lately wtf :(

maybe you are giving them to me! i haven't had dreams in a long time, but the last few weeks have been ripe!

i had another nutsy dream last night but i can't share it.

I dreamt I was a teenager again. I was camping out with four or five other kids in a green canvas tent pitched over a wooden platform, like the ones I always stayed in at Boy Scout camp. We were getting ready to leave: rolling up our sleeping bags, gathering our clothes, etc.

Having done my part, I exited the tent. Just outside the door was a pile of human brains ― maybe a few dozen of them in all. Apparently my fellow campers and I had removed our brains for the duration of the trip, allowing them to freeze and accumulate frost on the snowy winter ground. As I didn't want to return home brainless, I rooted through the pile until I came upon the prettiest, healthiest brain of the lot.

I was just about to walk away with it when it occurred to me that I'd probably be better off with my own brain, even if it wasn't necessarily the best-looking one there. I returned to the brain pile and started searching for it, but one of the kids approached me and said something like, "Hurry up, Your personality will be the same no matter which one you take." I ignored him, and a moment later I found my own brain.

I took the lump of flesh to a tiny cabin maybe ten feet away from the tent. Inside the cabin were a washer and dryer. I tossed my brain in the dryer and left it in for a few seconds; when it came out it, it was warm to the touch and completely thawed. I wanted to put it back in my head right then and there, but I realized this would be difficult. At the posterior end of the brain were two pink, fingerlike projections that looked like twin brain stems. In my dream they were called "medullas." In order to put the brain in place, I would have to line up the medullas just right, and I knew this would require expert assistance.

...so I traipsed across the campsite until I came to a spacious two-room cabin, reserved for the scout leaders. Inside I found H3len Culv3r, the mother of my childhood best friend, fumbling with some pipes and plumbing equipment laid out on the living room floor. I asked her to help me with my brain, but she blew me off and said it wasn't important.

A minute later I repeated my plea, and she relented. She took me to the other room ― the kitchen ― and pulled off the top of my skull with her bare hands. With great care she guided my brain into my gaping cranium; I felt it with my fingers to make sure the medullas were properly aligned. I gave her a thumbs up, she replaced my skull, and that was the end of it.

I must be really wierd, Doctor Feurd.

With great care she guided my brain into my gaping cranium

ok, this is practically erotica. um, lol!

yeah i think you know what this dream means

really though? I have no unconscious carnal feelings whatsoever toward Mrs. H3len Culv3r, no sirree.

To dream of your brain, suggests that you are under severe intellectual stress. It may also symbolize your problem-solving abilities and that you need to put those abilities to use. Alternatively, it may imply that your ideas are not receiving enough attention and validation. You are concerned that your knowledge and teachings are not be transmitted clearly.

sez the dream moods dictionary. well that settles it!

how do you know if they're unconscious? also i thought it said "the mother of my child" at first lol

i dunno though i'm no good at this, i just ask what the dreams mean xpost

yeah any time i mention a dream to my mom she says "go to dreammoods.com it will tell you what your dreams mean"

i am often under severe intellectual stress but i have never dreamt of my own brain

well my feelings were unconscious until last night. but now if I happen to run into H3len and her husband H3nry (unlikely), there'll be loads and loads of awkwardness/excuses/poss. invitations to swingers' balls. DO NOT WANT.

I hardly ever share my draems with my mom or anyone else, because they're either way too personal for comfort or way too long and convoluted not to bore any sane person to tears. but I'm not above unloading a few of them on the internet, apparently ;)

warm apple cider is, in my experience, an infallible cure for severe intellectual stress

gross imo

alright then replace "warm apple cider" with "a hug from a big dog"

i don't have a big or small dog or cat :-\

query: was there rum in the warm apple cider?

i just hugged a big dog but she was a little damp bc of the snow

it was awkward

hope it doesn't give me strange dreams!!!!

i want my dreamz back :(((((((((((

i didn't have any last night, so sorry, maybe it isn't me.

tbh, tehresa, I've never known the simple joy of rum & cider. but the most comforting thing in the world would be, I think, a pair of big, huggable St. Bernards: one bearing a keg of cider, the other a keg of rum (cider dog wouldn't take offense if you turned his nose up at his wares). They'd make house calls at all hours of the night, donning raincoats and parkas whenever needed. Will someone plz make this happen?

also I don't think I stole anyone's dreams last night, but I did manage to fall asleep with my music on & wake up, mildly terrified, in the middle of a VERY SCARY Look Blue Go Purple song. can I have some nice dreams tonight, dr feud?

dr feud has no control over your dreams, he just interprets them

yeah, duh.
it's funny you should mention st. bernards, though, because that is exactly the kind of big dog i hugged!

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the Archangel Raphael is apparently the patron saint against nightmares, but somehow that doesn't comfort me much

i had a dream i webmailed someone about something

oh weird i wonder if i should check my webmail address in case you unconsciously emaield me in your sleep?

nope, not me.

must have really been dreaming then.............

i had dreams this morning but i mostly forgot them
in one i was about to get on the bus but it kept moving forward very slowly so i couldn't get on. i was walking alongside it. the driver was playing a practical joke on me.

what a jerk!
i think it means you are searching for something you can't quite grasp. OR, you don't feel like you will ever really be "in".

:-\

I dreamt that I was in the middle of a clearing in the woods a few miles from my house. I was standing in the middle of a small, circular patch of snow, & I was convinced that I'd just stumbled upon THE SOUTH POLE. This really excited me, and I walked around looking for a signpost or cairn that would prove I was in the right place. At one side of the clearing, I came to the edge of a ≈50 foot high, vertical cliff which formed one bank of a dried up river. I looked down & to my horror discovered a girl and a boy, seemingly dead, lying on their stomachs on the stony bottom of the river bank. They looked like they'd just walked (or uh, fallen) out of a Little House on The Prairie episode. The girl, maybe 8, had on a white-dotted red dress and bonnet; the boy, maybe 5, had on a white, ruffled shirt and brown knickers. I didn't know what to do, so I tossed a handful of snow on each of them and shouted, hoping they were alive. To my relief, they rose to their feet, stretched, and yawned. Without acknowledging me, they started to climb up the cliff, which was buffeted with a crude log wall. When they reached the top, they ran off without thanking me and disappeared into the surrounding woods.

fyi, a kid in my 7th grade class fell to his death at the bottom of a 40-foot cliff during summer vacation, and I had a couple of cliff-related nightmares soon after. I'm not sure if last night's dream has anything to do with that

why am I being such a downer today? here's some Lisa Frank to brighten the mood:

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ok, this was a weird one. I have lots of weird dreams and I always remember them.

I wake up and look in the bathroom mirror. I notice that my hair has thinned so much that I thought I was just about to go bald. (fear of going bald probably). But then in my dream, I realized what happened may have been partially self-mutilation I had done while sleeping. I think I had shaved off lines of hair around my head. Then to make matters worse, I realized that I had stabbed myself while sleeping, several times. my upper torso and part of my face looked like a pencil holder. that's when the blood started dripping out. I layed on my back as if to keep from losing too much blood. I tried to yell for help but I was sort of muffled by the blood in my mouth.

I wont explain part 2 of my dream because it was an entirely different long winded scenario.

When I remembered my dream, I thought it was kinda cool actually, and I never experience any real fear in my dreams anymore so having 100s of pencil sized stab wounds wasn't really a big deal. discuss?

are you a pencil pusher at your job? pencil stabbing could represent something about your job, or maybe school.

I'm not feelin too too blessed with critical thought tonight, but I'll do my best, Cap'n.

As you point out, you may be afraid of going bald and getting old. But you're also afraid your lifestyle and conscious choices are taxing your body and mind far more than Father Time ever could. You don't (I hope) mutilate yourself in waking life as you do in your dreams, but you're worried that you might be headed toward some sort of physical or mental breakdown. The self-induced baldness suggests that your lifestyle is speeding up the aging process. The cause of and solution to this decline are at least partially within your own hands, since stabbing, unlike male pattern baldness, is a voluntary act. Your attempt to slow the bleeding shows your desire to heal yourself and put your life back together in the face of a cataclysmic setback. Your inability to yell, on the other hand, shows that you feel hesitant or unable to summon other people to your side when you get into trouble.

The fact that you have to look in the mirror to notice your wounds shows that you tend not to recognize your problems until you think very deeply and try to look at yourself roughly as others see you. On a day-to-day basis, it might not seem like anything's wrong, which is why those rare moments of high-level self-analysis are so crucial to your well-being. The mirror might also stand for a person in your life who can help you with that analysis. And like harbl said, the pencil might point to school or work as the sources of your self-destruction. It could also stand for your creative pursuits. Do you go on mescaline binges, starve yourself, get into a ton of barfights, and drive recklessly in the name of your art? Are you a beat poet?

I dreamt I was standing outside my front door with some random middle-aged guy who kept bragging to me about how brilliant his infant son was. His kid had just started reading Nate the Great books at the age of 10 months, and this made me a little jealous because I didn't start reading them until I was at least 6 (years). I wanted the guy to leave me alone, but he just kept talking my ear off like we were old pals.

i think you are afraid you are dumb.

societypigeons

today a middle aged guy talked my ear off but i was at the bus stop and he was not talking about his infant son. it was similar to a dream but i was fully awake

sounds more like a nightmare to me!

what does it mean if I'm dumber than little babby but smart enough to avoid bus stops as much as possible? does that even out somehow?

yes

well thank god

yeah thank yhwh but not like i'm gonna walk home from work

I guess I'm just lucky (or unlucky) enough to live in a dull small town where it wouldn't make sense to go places by bus even if you wanted to.

it's ok unregistered

okay,txs=)

just remembered that I'll probably be a middle-aged man someday. FUCK

end it now

gross

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ok I think I can do this, guys

woah wrong board!

this thread goes so far from what does my dream mean sometimes :-\

soooooooorry, I let my Id run wild for a second there. freud would understand, wouldn't he?

(no)

it is a mystery

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kinda disappointed in u

I probably should've gotten more than 5 hours of sleep last night, opps :-/

[resume dreamspeak]

ugh i dreamt i was pragnent and didn't realize until it was too late to legally get an abortion for convenience purposes, also i didn't know who the father was but the guy i thought it was had died. stressful dream.

something new is coming into your life, and you don't know what or who, but you are fighting it or afraid of it. whatever is coming into your life shares some quality with or is in some way represented by the dude and you were trying to avoid that by making him dead.

^otm'ing this

oh no :(
well i think if he were alive he'd be going schwwwww i am not the father

unregistered, I appreciate you trying to analyze my dream - some of it might be right, that's the most anyone can expect from peer reviews on dreams - which may mean little to nothing at all at some parts but rather are reflections of something we saw that day on tv or felt for the first time that week. but yeah, I appreciate your analysis, and next time I'm here I'll try to write one myself.

np, Lorax, and I'm glad I could (maybe) be of some help. I don't think anyone here is a doctor or a psych major or even a yahoo top answerer, so this board basically amounts a harmless, nonscientific parlor game (much like this and this -- whaddayaknow). but at least it gets people to shares what's been bothering them in a format that's a lot less tedious than a regular dream log. it'd be 1000X more entertaining, of course, if I wasn't the only unregistered user allowed to post here. we can dream.

harbl the father of your dream child sounds like a child-support-dodging deadbeat, and I'd advise you to seek a good attorney asap. also, congrats!

i actually am a doctor

a doctor AND a lawyer!
the boys must be lining up! no wonder you don't know who the father is!

i'm* a JURIS doctor

*in 2 months lol

oh yeah lol duh

i'm going to be a mistress* in 2 months

*of fine arts

i dreamt i was visiting my friend in waterford, ct. he doesn't live there and i have never been there irl (i have been to new london for a short time but that's it). anyway somehow he was adopted by this family in waterford, which is weird because he is like 28 or something. i think they adopted him so he could be a us citizen because he's from iran. the family also adopted the tiniest baby, which fit into his hand and he claimed it was born addicted to heroin. i wanted to go running while i was there but i was afraid of getting lost. so i just tried to run along a river and i kept getting stuck in all these brambles. i had to leave the river when i got to a weird train station where a moving sidewalk began. unfortunately it moved very very slowly, and in the opposite direction i was trying to fun. so it was like the world's hugest backwards treadmill and i got very tired and people were laughing at me.

i also had a separate dream that i was accumulating all of my most treasured belongings by a park bench. i wanted to go home but it was 3 am and i had missed the last bus, so i decided i'd just sleep there.

by trying to fun i mean trying to run duh

i am always trying to fun

I dreamt I was typing up some urgent, important document that had to be delivered into official hands by the end of the hour. I started freaking out because I had no idea how to type the section sign (§), and I couldn't bring myself to print out the thing without getting the typography perfect. as the deadline passed, I was still rifling through the character map looking for the right symbol, and I was also near tears iirc.

(in waking life I would've just googled "section sign" and c&p'd the first helpful result. fuck memorizing a keyboard shortcut)

what a boring dream

i think it means that you should be afraid of hurricanes

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This whole dream took place at evening or night. You don't have to analyze it. I'm posting it so I wont forget it, and it was cool.

I dreamt that I was driving with my family to visit people a long distance away. I remember driving and reading Bernstein Bears at the same time. But the Bernstein Bears had aged so much (like Better For Worse comics) that I was only reading it because of the insanity of seeing sister bear and mother bear act out grandma bear and great grandma bear. It was also very sad.

We get to the place. We come in and act nice to the family (who apparently are rich and have a huge mansion that is several floors tall). somehow the goody goody mom of that family gets upset at little things we do (my mom specifically, but I'm more or less ignored). i kinda remember playing a dumb chasing game with her kid who lives there (we took elevators up and down multiple floors, it was a boring game). At one point during our stay with this elegant family the tv was on and there was news that some random ass politician had died. The ever so perfect mother gets really sad. My mom says in dressed up terms that it isn't such a bad loss. I blatantly say I don't care at all. The goody goody family who were already very critical with my family were probably really upset with me now so I volunteered to go sleep in the car.

the goody goody mom caught me caught me sitting on a gargoyle outside their house with their child who couldn't fly (I could of course - my dreams 101). the mom made the kid come in through the window while i passive aggressively grunted. i was sure she hated me

her eldest son comes home some time later.. apparently I know this guy and we hit it off. he tells me about a place nearby where I can stay. before I go, I have a confrontation with the goody goody mom. i was floating around outside her house and had accidentally let my legs dangle and knock down her daughter's favorite barbie from something. she looks up and sees me and grabs me and pulls me down (i must not have been flying high enough at the time). she's angry with me. I decided I was going to show her what it was like to fly. I use telekinetic powers to pick her up and the eldest son, and fly them through every cool scenario that I could imagine. We get to the top of a gigantic cliff, and I show them that free falling is just as fun as flying. (apparently I must think I'm invincible at the time because I never stopped once to think that free falling from a giant icy cliff without a parachute is dangerous - anyways I must always instinctively know on some level that I'm dreaming and I cant get hurt). Anyways, I fall down, flip around, and let the air (and gravity) carry me down. It's still very dark outside. Eventually I can see the bottom of the cliff - icy water with strong currents coming from waterfalls on glaciers. I have a moment of fear when I fall in the huge dark icy slipstream of a glacial lake. Fortunately the water is not cold to me and after being pushed around by some currents I was able to get out. There is a bunch of tourists looking down on the scene like Niagara Falls (but they are closer to sea level). I am concerned about what happened to goody goody mom and the eldest son. Apparently they hadn't survived the fall. The same fall that I must have instinctively known I would survive because somewhere in the back of my mind I knew there was no danger for me (my dreams 101). Anyways they died and I was like uh-oh

But the Bernstein Bears had aged so much (like Better For Worse comics)

suggest ban from the human race

i wont defend my slang name for that comic because its only natural to simplify names

oh no, I couldn't care less about the name butchering. I was just balking at the idea that the stories of Farley giving his life to save April, Lawrence coming out of the closet, etc. are somehow staler and less powerful than they were on the day they were printed. hogwash, I say, hogwash!

(fwiw, as the '90s wore on and the strip slipped past its prime, I was reduced to checking out old FBOFW books from the library to escape the twee banality of the new stuff. I am no stan of Lynn Johnston, Jim Davis, Mort Walker, Johnny Hart)

back on topic, your dream seems like it must be hilarious in your own mind even though the death bit at the end is likely to horrify most people you tell it to. I'm still pretty lol about a dream I had a few years ago in which I screwed up at the controls of a roller coaster, causing it to collapse and kill about a dozen people. but I try not to describe it to people as the coolest thing ever, for fear of outing myself as a psychopath or something. it's strange that so many gory, violent dreams strike me as more amusing than nightmarish upon waking, but maybe that's just a defense mechanism against the pointless terror I'd otherwise experience every time I recalled a bad dream. I assume most people are like this, but I really don't know.

no i had a dream about 4-5 years ago that i stabbed someone to death and i have never been able to lol about it

it means you're not a psychopath.

I've never dreamt of (deliberately) killing someone, but it must be pretty upsetting even if you try to explain it away as "you're really trying to kill a part of yourself, after all," or somesuch

it was my sister, and blood was everywhere and i was trying to clean it up then my mom came home. i took me a few minutes to convince myself it wasn't real when i woke up. ugh worst dream ever. like we don't get along at all but i don't really want to kill her.

clearly you have some sisterly resentment going on, but you don't need me to tell you that.

can i get a cliff's notes of lorax's dream?

lol mabe if you killed her in your dream it would allow you to start over and get along irl!

if you killed her irl, maybe those pesky nightmares wouldn't bother you anymore?

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lol read that as 'perky nightmares' and was a little o_O?

I think I had one of those last night!

I was diagnosed with cancer, the doctor gave me 6 months to live, and I just chilled out and drank a glass of orange juice. this is how I would like to die, I've decided.

i would probably pick bourbon over orange juice, but kudos for taking death in stride!

i did kill her in my dream though, and we still don't get along irl!

Do you think that if you killed her IRL, you'd get along in yr dreams?

i don't think i care that much about getting along irl or in dreams tbh. i'm not a very good family member.

harbl are you middle, youngest, or oldest?

I have had plenty of dreams of stabbing or choking people. I don't remember anyone actually dying because of it, tho.

oldest/best

So this isn't exactly regicide.

More like a mercy killing.

ok so basically you resent yr sister bc she took attn away from you. done. next dream, pls!

also you have an excess of yellow bile

(kudos accepted xxxxxxxxxxp)

i'm kind of insulted by that interpretation. my parents don't like her either.

i mean maybe they do but i can't explain it

man y'all cold.

REDRUM - REDRUM - REDRUM

last night I dreamt that I was driving and no matter how hard I pressed the breaks the car kept moving slowly.. I swerved out of the way of one bum walking down the middle of the street but ran over parts of another bum laying in the street

I have way too many dreams that I remember

i think instead of dreams now i wake up with terrible songs in my head like such as "under the bridge" ugh. and i mysteriously know all the words even though i never listen to that song except maybe if it's playing on the radio in stores. what does it mean?

you spend too much time in stores, and there's a recession going on, for god's sake

the chorus to "John Wayne Is Big Leggy" has been stuck in my head for days, but that's not a terrible song, I don't think.

what kind of store plays "Under the Bridge"?

like stores that play shitty 90s radio stations?

also the other day it was a eurythmics song and my brain was singing "here comes the rain again falling on my head like a memory." lol :(

just realizing now that I have more tolerance for shitty '80s music than I do for equally shitty '90s music. that Eurythmics song = ♥ for me, probably because I wasn't sentient back when it was an overplayed hit

last night I dreamt that I came home from a hike in the woods, went to bed, and woke up covered in ticks from head to toe. overnight they'd managed to burrow deep within my skin, and they appeared as faint black marks all over my body. when I tried to grab one of the ticks with a pair of tweezers, it darted across my arm without surfacing. I went after a few more of them, but the same thing happened again and again. finally I gave up and headed to the doctor's office. on the way there, a few of the ticks jumped off my body onto the crowded street. I chased them with a pocket knife and cut them into little pieces, because I didn't want them to infect other people. the dream ended soon after I got to the doctor's office. the doctor had already begun working on me, and he seemed like he knew what he was doing.

i dunno unregistered it reminds me of my mouse dreams

good lord, do you dream about mice burrowing deep within your skin?

no i dream about killing them with knives

oh, uh

neat!

things harbl dreams about stabbing:

1. mice
2. her sister
3. ???

the internet

i probably stabbed something else in a dream or irl but i forgot about it

i told my psychiatrist about an embarrassing dream I had. I was in a bathroom where the stall doors were short, so everyone could see eachothers' face while they took a crap. and it was a co-ed bathroom of my peers. I ended up crapping so much that I couldn't stop crapping. I think I ran into the stall next to me and overflew that toilet as well until finally the dream ended in an embarrassing mess.

I told my psychiatrist that bathroom dreams are usually signs that you are seeking relief in your everyday life from stress or whatever (freud would say sexual satisfaction lol). she asked me how I could have fixed the situation in my dream. I said, "I probably could of not crapped so much". But then she reminded me of the stall walls and came up with an idea that maybe i just need to put walls between me and people and block out their mean words - which would go along with my social anxiety.

thoughts? :p

After the appointment I went home and took a nap. During my nap, I dreamt that I was in a locker room walking to the urinals... umm message me if you want more. for $2.99 a month I can keep you up to date on every single dirty bathroom dream I have!

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I hate to say it, Cap'n, but I think you need to be toilet trained.

(yup, I know I'm ignoring the past 70 years of psychiatry. but this ain't Ask Dr. Maslow or Ask Dr. Piaget, so what am I supposed to do?)

mods: plzzzzzz to change the title of this board to Ask Dr. Maslow, post-haste.

NO

fair 'nuff

I dreamt that I was walking down a sidewalk in some generic city. three (college?) girls were walking about a quarter of a block ahead of me, all of them sporting fancy, expensive-looking dresses and elaborate hairdos.

pretty soon they stopped in a parking lot and just stood there. I joined up with them and started to chat. they were French & were also v v obnoxious: they couldn't stop talking about how wonderful and pricey their clothes and jewellery were. I couldn't stand them.

at the far end of the parking lot was a ladies' clothing store. I led the girls toward it, hoping to ditch them as soon as they got inside. the store was closed (it was very early in the morning), but when I knocked on the door, a kindly old lady answered it.

at that moment, the girls transformed into life-sized wax dummies. apparently they assumed dummy form whenever they were in the presence of people other than me. the shopkeeper got really excited because she thought I was delivering a shipment of brand new mannequins. I helped her carry the dummies inside, and together we stood them up beside the dress displays. pleased to have gotten rid of those nasty girls, I left the store and went about my business.

when I came back later that day (via time warp), the dummies were still in place, and the store was teeming with customers. I hung the dummies on tall clothing racks so that their feet were suspended a few feet above the floor, knowing that they'd be furious and disoriented when they turned back into humans.

misogynist!

showroom dumieess

huh, I thought I was more of a classist than a misogynist. dunno!

also I hate French ppl

me too!

french people are a lot like americans. some are stupid and mean. others are very warm and nice and hospitable.

on the whole, i can't really hate on the french.

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unregistered.......lately, ughhhhhhhhhh

lately? I've always been pretty ughhhhhhhhhh, I thought.

see i told you he's OBD

it's ok unregistered

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh bears repeating, I'd say

btw u can't sb me

LOL

I'm deeply sorry for directing hate speech at tehresa and threatening to suggest ban France.

in the admin menu there's a funny thing. here's part of it:

Ban Pattern

This is a sophisticated banning mechanism. Please be aware of what you are doing with it, as it gives you the ability to ban a range of users....If you don't know how to use regular expressions (Java regular expressions, which differ from Perl 5), then turn back now! You could wind up banning a country!

haw

i dreamt i was like crazy obsessive about the part in my hair cuz it was goin all over

it means that your life feels like a "bad hair day" and it is out of your control to fix it no matter how much you wanted to.
as you life as a broad term here. it could be just you or it could be you and everything you deal with day to day.

guys i have a recurring theme in my dreams related to my teeth. a lot of times (in my dreams) a tooth will fall out, but last night i dreamed that i fell and chipped one of my front teeth. what does this mean?

i would like to know as well, in my teeth dreams they all fall out and I spit them out one at a time.
i think it means that you feel like you don't have control over your own life.

last night i dreamed that i fell and chipped one of my front teeth. what does this mean?

of all your teeth, your front teeth are of course the ones that are most visible to the people around you. a chipped front tooth, then, might indicate that you're anxious about the way other people perceive and judge you. you fear that you have a glaringly obvious personality flaw, or maybe you've suffered a sudden and serious blow to your reputation. either way, you consider yourself incapable of hiding or rectifying the problem on your own. the only way to repair a chipped tooth is to see a dentist, so maybe you need to work out your issues with a skilled mentor, whether it be a friend or a counselor or a swami or what have you.

i dreamt i was like crazy obsessive about the part in my hair cuz it was goin all over

the whole point of parting your hair is to divide it into two orderly, distinct sections (duh). so trying and failing to keep your hair parted is a sign that you have trouble keeping all the pieces of your life in their proper places. maybe you strive to keep your personal life and working life separate from each other, and you're freaking out because they're starting to overlap in unpleasant ways. you feel overwhelmed because you're playing two (or more) different roles at once, and it can be hard to stay in character day in and day out. your life is too neat, too structured, too compartmentalized, and it's perfectly healthy for things to get a little mussed up from time to time.

also, lots and lots of hairspray.

rong

hurts 2 b rong

Dreamed last night about a spinoff of The Wire that centered around a female sniper. She was an expert sniper but unfortunately she was also a werewolf, a male werewolf in fact, and when she began to change he/she would be much less effective because he/she would start to sympathize with the hunted party.

damn unreg ty

i had some seriously disturbing dreams last night.

for a while i dreamed about lying on a bed studying musical scores and listening to them but the bed was like, in our press office and my coworker was at his normal desk/computer working away and my other coworker was in and out and we were discussing dates in the future when our boss would be out of town and who would cover what.

then i had another dream.
i was with my entire extended family at some kind of resort. my uncle had died i think? i kept going out on the balcony. i also went swimming a lot. then my cousin, who had just had a baby but was pregnant again, showed up with her husband. she was holding her baby and they were walking on the balcony but it was really steep. i asked if i could help but she said no. then she mentioned something about getting her period tomorrow and it turned out there had been a car accident in which she lost the second baby (very graphically). it was very sad and i felt really bad but she seemed ok? then i was in the kitchen preparing plates of food for my family to eat. they were all seated around a giant table eating charcuterie type stuff, but we were running out so i didn't eat anything. then we decided to go swimming but there was a debate about going to the pool versus the beach. i said beach because it was free, whereas you had to pay like $20 for the pool. my mother wanted to charge me a $5.95 shipping and handling fee for my towel, which i thought was ridiculous because i had packed and brought the towel myself in my own suitcase. i suddenly realized that both of my uncles had died in the course of a few months, and it was really alarming. while we were on the way to the beach in my mother's car that was missing all the window glass, i got a call from my brother-in-law, who was very distraught because my cousin was flaking out on him over some kind of phone meeting they had scheduled with a consultant. i tried to explain to him that my cousin, who was in another car, is mentally retarded and he did not really get the idea of having this appointment, but my brother-in-law was just really upset and teary about how this was going to lose a lot of money for him. i tried to tell him he was being ridiculous and that he could not blame my cousin, and that i would try to have my cousin call him once we reached the beach but that it did not mean he would even comprehend why he was calling. we got to the beach and i told my cousin to call my brother-in-law and he seemed excited (because he loves my brother-in-law) but i don't think he had a clue what the call was about. then i woke up.

what do my dreams mean???

gah i did not understand that long one at all. i mean i couldn't read it. it was too long. also it was about babies and i don't like stories about babies, please try again with a different dream

lol

i don't understand it either :(

I dreamt that I was headed to a party. As soon as I walked in the party room, someone tossed me a red sweatshirt, probably because I didn't look "hip" enough in my yellow long-sleeved shirt and jeans. I slipped it on, and the only way I could think of to express my gratitude was by shouting, "Hey, I look like McDonald's!"* and folding the end of one of my sleeves into the shape of a McD's arch. no one thought I was funny iirc.

*cuz of the red & yellow shirts, get it?

i get it.

unregistered on his way to a party
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i dreamt i had made a lot of brownies and was giving them to people, but every time i gave one away i also ate one. i probably ate 10-12 brownies. i was thinking "oh man this is so bad for me why am i doing this" but i couldn't not do it. what does my dream mean?

I dreamt that I was doing the "light show" for a Lily Allen concert. Very old fashioned "oil on an overhead projector" setup. Keith Allen was there, laughing at me for being so amateur. I said "OK then watch this", and switched on both bulbs in the OHP, which both immediately blew out. I turn around and KA is laughing at me.

Brian Lehrer was having a segment in which listeners picked their favorite song and said why. The bumper music on the way out was a kinda awesome remix of Around the Way Girl that appeared to have been made w/ LL's participation (implying it was Brian's pick? I wondered why). I did pretty good production work on that one.

harbl i think it means you have trouble relinquishing control

possibly........................

tehresa, it means you fear that you're too ambitious for your own good. you seek to impress people with dazzling displays of prowess, but you suspect that you'll burn out at any moment because you're not skilled enough to do the job properly.

I dreamt that I walked out of a bookstore and onto an early 20th century city street, complete with stone pavement, streetcar tracks, rows of swanky brownstones, et cetera. a group of ≈10 people were gathered up the road, and I recognized them as my neighbors. as I neared them, they told me there was a terrible blizzard coming. they said Mrs. _____ (she had a name, but I forget it) was out driving somewhere in her steam car, and they were afraid she'd get stranded in the storm and freeze to death. some guy with a mustache and bowler hat pulled me aside and said we had a neighborly duty to make sure Mrs. _____ was alright. I just wanted to go home and sit by the fire, but I agreed to help him out. we fast walked down a bunch of streets and alleyways searching for Mrs. _____. the steam car was nowhere to be found.

at some point we walked under a bridge and onto a sandy strip of land between two sets of train tracks. we followed the tracks for what seemed like many miles. finally we climbed up a small hill and found a dinky little steam car idling on the sandy ground and puffing out steam like crazy. Mrs. _____ was messing around under the hood, and she didn't seem to notice us. the dream kinda peters out at this point, but I don't think Mrs. _____ needed our help.

waht does this mean?

you are nervous baout something, but it's all gonna work out ok. you won't let yourself believe that, though, so you're dreaming about fake emergency situations that aren't really emergencies.

i dreamed about eating a lot of cereal last night what does my dream mean?

i dunno but that just reminded me i was gonna eat cereal just now and i forgot

you might think i woke up after that dream and had cereal for breakfast, but i didn't.

what kind of cereal was it? kashi good friends?

honeycomb?

i believe there were several kinds of cereal including mini wheats (i don't think they were frosted) and something flaky. also weird that i ate them with milk because i always use soy milk!

i am eating kashi autumn wheat with soymilk maybe the meaning of this dream will come to me soon

I dreamt about meeting Bjork and asking her "when you eat a puffin, do you keep the beak as a souvenir?"

i dreamt my grocery store was being changed into a super-version of itself, like a huge suburban version (now it is just "neighborhood" size or something) and it was so confusing and i was lost. there was no produce at all out yet. i got very confused in the cereal area too. cereal dreams.

cereal be confusing!

you are nervous baout something, but it's all gonna work out ok. you won't let yourself believe that, though, so you're dreaming about fake emergency situations that aren't really emergencies.

oh, this is sagelike — thanks!

are these the same people who tell you their boring dreams in grest detail? cuz i think that might be even worse and more tedious.

― scott seward, Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:22 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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I dreamt I went to the supermarket and was surprised to see bottles of pomegranate juice, which had been illegal until recently because of its hallucinogenic properties. they had plain pom juice and pom-cherry blend (which really exists — I had no idea), and after much thought I settled for a bottle of the pure stuff. I felt a little guilty when I went through the checkout line, like I was getting away with buying drugs or something.

(tbh I think I was confusing pomegranate juice with absinthe for some strange reason)

I dreamt I was taking a riverside stroll with Abe Vigoda by my side. Abe had a weird, fist-sized liver spot on his right cheek. He was my friend. At the sandy river's edge, hordes of people were eating lunch and enjoying the mild springtime weather. As Abe and I walked farther and farther downstream, stray people would emerge from the crowd and offer Abe bits of their lunches, which he politely accepted. He soon had more food than he knew what to do with, so gave a lot of it to me. I appreciated Abe's generosity but was secretly jealous that people worshiped him and ignored me just because he was a celebrity and I wasn't.

other than that, I've been having the usual ho-hum dreams about failed exams and dying grandparents/pets.

i dreamed i was looking at an apt and the carpet was dirty so i was steam cleaning it and it wouldn't get clean, it was just pushing dirt around. then i went to the next room and it was like this huge house with secret doors and beautiful hardwood flooring and wood trim and colorfully painted walls. but then i realized i was in the wrong apartment, and this was like 3 connected apartments, but i couldn't figure out which was the right one and where one ended and the other began or which door was for which apartment.

what does my dream mean?

it means you can whistle through your teeth in 3 different octaves at the same time.

also i couldn't lock the doors is that significant

I have recurring dreams that I'm in school and it's the end of the semester when I suddenly realize that I am registered for a class that I either never attended or was supposed to drop but didn't and so will therefore fail. What does it mean?

I should probably note that I actually did this as an undergrad and did fail the class. But why am I dreaming about this 10 years later and what can it mean now?

To dream that you are in school, signifies feelings of inadequacy and childhood insecurities that have never been resolved. It may relate to anxieties about your performance and abilities. If you are still in school and dream about school, then it will naturally serve as a backdrop to your dream world.

Alternatively, a dream that takes place in school may be a metaphor for the lessons that you are learning from your waking life. You may be going through a "spiritual learning" experience.

it means you have trouble deciding whether to escape or confront certain responsibilities. for whatever reason, you want to have your cake and eat it too. on the one hand, you want to be held responsible for your work (i.e. you signed up for the class & didn't bother to drop it), but on the other hand you don't want to be responsible for it (because you don't show up for class). thus you're left in an uncomfortable middle ground where you lack both the freedom that comes from escaping an obligation (i.e. dropping the class asap) and the sense of accomplishment that comes from facing it head-on (i.e. showing up and doing your work). in the end, you have no choice but to be held accountable for whatever task you've committed yourself to (i.e. fail the class) no matter how hard you've been trying to force it out of your mind.

this kind of dilemma tends to play out a lot in relationships. for instance, you might have a friend you don't get along with very well. you're too afraid to come out and say, "I don't want to be friends anymore," but you're too angry to work out your differences and stay in contact with the person. but inevitably that friend-not-friend will come back to you and be like, "What's going on? Are we still bros?" and suddenly you'll have to deal with a boatload of unpleasant feelings and memories.

the solution, predictably enough, is to decide whether you want to break off or stick with an obligation/friendship/whatever, and to act upon that decision with as much conviction as you can muster. taking sides is often less painful then trying to have the best of both worlds, even though it might not seem that way immediately.

(as usual, dreammoods.com is more eloquent and more insighful than I can ever hope to be :-/)

i had a dream that i went to a football game and it was "playoffs" like instead of bcs this was like a semi-final game and the game i went to was ohio university (that's weird but it was ohio but not osu because the colors were green) vs. texas. also the stadium was a new design where the field is vertical, like the entire stadium is tipped sideways. my seats were supposed to be on the side where your stomach would be facing the ground. i was really scared. i don't think i ever made it to the game. what does it mean?

i dreamed that i was driving around what looked 90% like my parents' town (where i grew up), and i at one point saw someone i know but not from that town. they were driving a different car than usual, and somehow i ended up behind them for a long time, but then they were behind me, and it was this weird constantly following each other thing but never quite connecting or acknowledging each other and i felt somehow guilty. and then i looked and saw that their glasses were on my dash and i was confused as to how they were driving. then i got on the highway. they were behind me. in front of me was a truck that had cheese puffs flying out the back! but a sign that said 'do not eat!'. from the left side, regular ones were flying out (like cheetos), from the right, it was snowing cheese balls. they came into the ventilation system of my car and got chopped up so it was like cheesy flaky corn raining everywhere. then i got off the highway and drove down a major road but i have no memory of anything happening next. maybe i woke up?

I have been having weird dreams lately that feel more "real" and more vivid than ever. To the point that when I wake up they feel like memories. The weird part is they seem to continue on from the night before, eg last week I dreamt after a club I was in I went to a party in somebody's house, the only hitch being it was in a small French village that felt vaguely familiar, possibly from a family holiday as a child. Was seriously weird and felt like I was in this dream for hours. When I woke up I had dreamt so much that I was like "thank god that was all a dream, all those complicated and weird events".

Might need to sharpen my lifestyle up a bit.

I dreamt I went to a chop shop in some guy's garage because I couldn't afford the (legal) market price of $1000 to get one of my car's wheels replaced. instead of handing me a stolen wheel, the guy insulted me by saying I had "porpoise cheeks." I have no idea what he meant by that, but I was extremely offended and nearly in tears. I stormed out of the shop without getting what I came for.

maybe I really do have porpoise cheeks http://files.ganawap.com/samp/ca/1790.gif

I dreamt that I was explaining my guitar pedals to Stephen fry, who was in full on "popular beat combo tweed jacket" mode and asking me dumb questions like "what is a cable? I don't understand, what does it actually do?", and I'm all like "FFS man! you have two dozen computers, of course you know what an f-ing cable is!"

i dreamt i received a postcard from someone because i hadn't been emailing and they were wondering what was wrong and if i hated them

that's crazy i have considered doing that but not really to see if they hated me just to say hi because i am going someplace cool and sending postcards but it's true they haven't been emailing.
maybe i invaded yr dreams.

http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/SFW11214/BookJacketImages/dreaminvader.jpg

I dreamt that I snuck into America's Stonehenge by cutting through someone's backyard and hiking through the woods for a bit. I thought I could just blend into the crowd, but there weren't any tourists around, and a group of park rangers (?) spotted me right away. they seemed friendly, and they didn't even care that I was trespassing. I noticed that all the stone structures were covered with big blue tarps. when I asked one of the rangers why, he said some teenagers had sprayed them with graffiti overnight, and the area would be closed until they got it cleaned up. I followed the rangers to the museum, where we watched a bogus video about how America's Stonehenge was the oldest man-made structure in North America & had spiritual powers or something. I dunno what happened after that.

I had RIDICULOUS dreams last night.

1) I dreamt I got a chinchilla and had to light-proof my office (which I was staying in for some reason) because the chinchilla was nocturnal. So I'm light-proofing the joint and all of a sudden chinchilla is no longer a chinchilla but has somehow turned into this dude http://www.youtube.com/user/edarem who is still nocturnal and in need of a dark room. WTF.

2) I am working for The Gza on trying to cover up some murder. He comes over to my house and we're totally BFFs. I lend him a sleeping bag to use in some way as part of this whole cover up thing. Later the same day I go out to lunch and score an awesome handbag while shopping with my friend Dean Wareham who then tries to kiss me. Dean and I go back to my place to meet up with The Gza again. Then I woke up.

I did not drink, do any type of drugs or eat a lot of cheese last night. W.T.F.?

whoa does cheese give you weird dreams? i kinda cut down on my cheese intake recently maybe that's why i have no dreams anymore. except a couple nights ago i had one of those dreams integrated into reality. i can't remember the dream but i woke up thinking someone was being beaten outside my building but it was just a drunk girl laughing and stomping in high heels.

I think it's an English old wives tale but some people seem to swear by it. I'm just trying to think of any poss reasons for my cracked out night in dreamland.

Those dreams that are integrated into reality are always so disorientating.

i dreamt that i asked minda to borrow her bus pass and she said no. what does my dream mean

whoa does cheese give you weird dreams?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-362101/Sweet-dreams-cheese.html

a very scientific study. but i've made the correlation, myself. i think it's the mold, maybe?

All I know about dreams and food is what I learned from the Cosby show and that is that meatball subs induce dreams of male pregnancy.

In my dream I caught an arrow with my hand and was quite proud of myself. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN

also, catching an arrow was really unexpected since, I wasn't even paying attention when it happened

i had a dream that i was a seamstress and got to stitch up this really hot bass-baritone's costume and was very <3 about it.
then i also dreamed that i was at some kind of step aerobics class that turned into working opening night and this time i was staying at the house and overseeing some people that were helping out in the lobby including a girl who was working opening night as community service for what she said was 'just a misdemeanor' and something that was 'kind of fun to have on your record.' there was some horrible bathroom issue and the lines were really long and it was really gross and not up to met standards at all and i couldn't find a place to change into the proper attire. it was stressful.
what does my dream mean?

dreams about blankets what do they mean

i think you are feeling trapped or smothered or suffocated

or maybe just cold.

a dream my dad was going to take me out for a burger but i took hours and hours painting my face as the world passed me by and then he got mad at me and said we weren't going. good, i didn't want a burger anyway.

LIES
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND MEMORIAL THREAD

i had a weird dream but now i forgot it what does that mean

not a lie--i get these spontaneous burger cravings that die down as soon as i realize last time i ate a burger was 6 or 7 years ago and i couldn't finish it because i don't like burgers :(

when i started eating red meat again like 2 years ago i realized i really like burgers.

I dreamt I was getting ready to build a life-size nativity scene. I was stumped because I wanted it to be as accurate as possible, but I wasn't sure if an authentic Jewish stable would be big enough to house a camel. to solve the matter, I went to the library and got ahold of a documentary on camels. according to the docu, the biggest camel of all time was 20 feet tall. but it had been dead for many, many years, and all that was left of it was a grainy b&w photo.

the second biggest camel of all time was 18-feet tall. the camera cut to a scraggly Midwestern farmer with an air of Joe Dirt about him; in the background was a house-sided camel with a ladder propped against its flank. the farmer explained that he had smuggled the camel from India when it was just a baby. at the time it was small enough to fit in the palm of his hand, and he had no idea it would grow any bigger.

but farmer dude obviously didn't give a shit about the camel. he admitted that he only agreed to appear in the film because he had a rare respiratory disease, and he wanted me, the viewer, to mail him a donation to cover the cost of treatment. I felt bad for him and copied down his address when it flashed across the screen. but I was annoyed because I still didn't have the answer to my question.

dumb dream imho.

i dreamt i was flying in the air above a highway with a bunch of other people and this
http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2008-06/eddie-murphy-head.jpg
was driving on the road in front of us. we flew under several overpasses and i was doing the breast stroke, swimming in the air. after we got through the overpasses we flew higher and i looked to my left and a young tony danza was flying next to me.

Sounds like a dream I could have had. omg.

i have been having dreams again since graduating. i also dreamt two nights ago that i was way unprepared for bar exam (could become reality ;_;) and got to the multistate essay and had no idea what to write. as i was sleeping a car drove by playing "i shot the sheriff" and it got into my dream so i was writing the lyrics to it in the essay. reggae fail

i dreamt i was planning to make a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

i also dreamt cat caught a mouse and i grabbed it by the tail and threw it out the window

dreamt about buying a house and redoing all the rooms to suit my childless purposes

dreamt about L0uis J@gger living in between the walls in my house Anne Frank style. He wouldn't be quiet, even when the Nazis were searching. alarming.

I dreamt my sister's fiancé was an Aryan Brotherhood heavy who shot a 4-year-old black boy to death in a movie theater. I read about it in a New Yorker article.

wow that's a cool dream. does he look like this?
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/curtis-1.jpg

EXACTLY like that, except he's more like 76 inches tall iirc. my sister has a thing for tall skinheads, I guess.

haha, does he have "FUN" tattooed on his chin? he doesn't look like a fun guy if you ask me.

i think i know what it means but it's not very nice

:(

irl this morning my sister's fiancé attended a sermon on abortion at the church where he & my sister are getting married. and last night he left two cases of hot dogs outside after a barbecue last night, spoiling them. further evidence of his white supremacy, no doubt.

clearly some kind of freudian jealousy going on here.

am I jealous of my sister or her fiancé? either way, ewwwwww yuck.

lets say it's not quite oedipal (bc it's your sister not yr moms -what is that called?) jealousy of fiance for being with sister. his leaving the hot dogs out to spoil is symbolic of how his manhood will spoil your sister.

wait, the spoiled hot dog incident actually happened a couple nights ago(hence the irl)! are my oedipal/incestuous urges so strong that they're starting to influence real world events around me? are the boundaries between my dreams and my waking life collapsing along with my sanity?

I'm scared.

it does not have to necessarily be incestuous. you are just scared of losing your sister. it happens when people get married. you are more apt to notice the hot dog thing because of these feelings.

you have to stop the wedding! it's the only way

i concur.

I have to stop the wedding! it's the only way

I really only notice the hot dog incident because my mom keeps complaining about the 3 packs of hot dogs she doesn't know what to do with. uh, I guess that's open to analysis as well :-/

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/133203964_ba9f86e180.jpg

tell her to throw them away.

hot dogs don't go bad, they already are bad

no these were different

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/2807884945_7017132407.jpg?v=1220017378

^would eat

i just
don't really like hot dogs
even if they are fancy

dreamt i was playing basketball but the court was shaped more like it was roller derby or something and this super tall girl with bleached blond hair was annoying me, not sure if she was on my team or not but i pushed her off the court and told her "why don't you move to berlin?" wtf does my dream mean?

that you are a rotter.

NAZIS-ARYAN BROTHERHOOD-MOVING TO BERLIN

clearly the ILX hivemind is moving to another level

yeah i think i actually did think she was a nazi; i might have said "go back to berlin"

i dreamt i was trying to call my friend, whose real name is michael jackson, but i kept hitting the wrong number from my contacts list and this girl answered and i was like "hi is this michael jackson?" and she got angry and i was like "oh you must think i'm pranking you but i am looking for someone whose name is michael jackson, i must have the wrong number" so i called again and got her again and she was still mad and i was like "i just want to talk to michael jackson!" and she hung up on me and i never got to talk to him.

― bear of the teddy (harbl), Saturday, November 22, 2008 8:47 AM (7 months ago)

now i'll really never get to talk to him

harbl is this your friend?
http://www.boldspark.com/files/mj-homer.jpg

I dreamt I had a job at an amusement park. one of the rides consisted of a huge above ground pool filled with tiny boats that looked exactly like bumper cars. the guests were free to putter around in the boats as they pleased, but they weren't allowed to ram into each other. it was my duty to swim around the pool and push the boats out of the way whenever they appeared to be on a collision course.

after my shift ended, I walked to a brick tower at the opposite end of the park. inside the tower was an art gallery; I decided to tour it. where you'd expect to find paintings, a bunch of flat-screen TVs (or maybe computer monitors?) were mounted on the walls. each screen displayed a well-known masterpiece — the Mona Lisa is the only one I remember. the tour guide kept gushing about how clear & realistic the images were, but I felt cheated because I didn't get to see the actual works.

when my tour group reached the top floor of the tower, the guide knocked on an old-looking door. Ben Franklin answered it, and he invited us into the living room of his bachelor pad. it looked more like an antique furniture store than a living space. the room was cluttered with more 18th century armchairs, couches, desks, carpets, and cabinets than one man could possibly need.

Ben seemed pretty embarrassed by it all. he apologized that all the upholstery was so faded and worn. he said it would be pointless to buy new furniture because he was an old man & he'd probably die before he got a change to enjoy it. this struck me as the dumbest thing I'd ever heard. I wanted to interrupt him and say something like, "what are you, retarded? you're 300 years old, and if you're not dead yet, then you're never gonna die. buy something already." but I kept my mouth shut as Ben proudly pointed out the newest piece of furniture in the whole place: a spankin' new easy chair from the 1840s. what a dummie!

(oops, that should say "chance to enjoy it" fwiw)

i've had this strange recurring theme in my dreams over the past year or so. i'm driving my car, sometimes drunk (though i never drive drunk in real life) and i inevitably crash the car. the weird part is that right before my car crashes, i tell myself that this is just a dream and everything's going to be okay if i hit the guardrail or a cop car or whatever it is i'm crashing into. i always wake up right after, super relieved that it was just a dream.

i don't have any sort of anxiety while driving in real life; i drive all the time when i'm home and i've been in one minor accident and gotten one speeding ticket in my life. my inspection is currently four months past due, though.

hmm. that reminds me (not in an obvious way at all) of dreams i used to get a lot where i was nearly blind. i would be shopping or something and my vision would be extremely fuzzy, and while i was sleeping i felt like i had pieces of cotton in my eyes. i don't know why it reminded me of that. recurring dreams! also the huge relief upon waking up because they were scarier than bad nightmares in some ways

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you should train yourself to lucid dream, so you can mentally seize control of the dream and whisk yourself away to a peaceful highway made of cotton candy and marshmallows. I can't guarantee that this works.

y'all have it easy though. all of my recurring dreams have been pretty innocuous as far as dreams go. there's one where I visit this rickety duct-tape-and-plywood haunted house that's set up right in the middle of a Wal Mart parking lot. it's a 'nice' haunted house & I'm always pleasantly surprised that I don't run into any ghosts or goblins while I'm inside. recurring nightmares would suck.

had a crepey dream that i was always hanging out with my friend's landlord. the friend in the dream was not anyone i know, just some girl. her landlord was a short 40-year-old kind of awkward guy. i kept going to his apartment because he had a tv and i wanted to watch it. so we became friends+, but in public if i would see him i would be really mean to him so no one would suspect anything was going on. it was weird. what dose it mean

if i have recurring dreams about someone i haven't spoken to in a long time, do you think it means that i am somehow telepathically tuned into what is happening in their life? because i wonder.

what does it mean?

dreams are like paper

they tear so easily

what does it means when dream tears tell me

answer to your first question is YES there is a connection to them now-

The other night I had a dream that my teeth were falling out followed by one in which I was stuck in a plummeting elevator. What does it all mean?

if connected is there a way to send messages?

i want to learn dream powers

remember when lingbert got into the idea that i could control events in my dreams and how in the hell can i do that? that was funny

my dreams did 9/11

how in the hell did you do that, avuenjo?
(also i don't remember!)

i dreamt about babbies and abandonment/avoidance (but not abandoning babbies) what does it mean?

i don't know. was that it? more details plz. i had to learn about "save abandonment of a newborn" just in case it was on the bar. i lolled reading that section.

the father of the babby was married to someone else but helping out but then after babby was born he disappeared and then there was another person that was not babby's father that was avoiding me (but the baby wasn't anywhere around at this time, i just assumed he was avoiding me bc of babby). also my crazy aunt wouldn't leave me alone about the babby and i just wanted some one-on-one.

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa209/SwissCheeseLyts/adopted.jpg

hmmm, this reminds me of something

i had a dream i had a 4-yr old and my babby's daddy wanted nothing to do with her, it was a very hard dream

― horrible (harbl), Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:34 AM (9 months ago)

wow. it was hard. i woke up very confused and scared.

but the babby was v v pretty and i lovvved her tons even though all the mens were so mean.

also before i went to the hospital to have babby i remember having a really hard time packing the suitcase to take with me. is that significant?

Let's see... Babby = some creative pursuit or professional output of which you are very fond. Could be an actual thing or just an idea, but it's something that you are totally into, even if it is maybe not the top item on your priority list right now. People who should be supportive of your output/idea are failing you, which is maybe why you have not been focusing on this output/idea as much as you would like. The crazy aunt is part of your brain telling you to COME ON AND GET MOVING ON THIS IDEA/OUTPUT, but you feel like you need to think about it some more, thus needing one on one time.

what was in the suitcase?

Oh yeah, the suitcases - that probably represents the material or mundane things that you feel like you need to accomplish to get where you want to be with your awesome idea/output, but these small things are, as small things are often wont to do, piling up in a way that is frustrating your progress.

yeah and the fact that you were struggling to pack them up and that you had to take them with you means they are encumbrances you are dragging around and can't get rid of no matter how much they are slowing you down

i was just putting clothes in the suitcase does that mean i can get a new wardrobe now?

Oooo maybe your clothes are holding you back, so yes. You can get a new wardrobe. It's the only way to make the dream babby happy.

I dreamt one of my favorite authors, dr. seuss, was friend's with hitler according to weird autobiographical book I was reading about him.

Also one of my common dream themes appeared again. This time I could do backflips by running up a wall. No one was impressed. (this might have a similar meaning to when stephanie tanner dreamt she was an astronaut and nobody cared but I don't really see myself trying to impress people in my life... maybe a girl if there was one in my life... or maybe a boss if I had an interview coming up)

Also I dreamt that I got lost on a school trip

What does any of this mean?

you are trying to impress your self, but even your self doesn't care. you need to do some self esteem exercises. then a boss or a girl might notice you.

you got lost on the school trip because you fear no one likes you, no one cares -- common thread!

you dreamt about hitler because you are a nazi. gross.

ok really you dreamt about seuss and hitler because you wish you'd had more control over your childhood, so that you didn't turn out this way (you know the way that makes no one care, even your self).

sorry :(

your first dream is funny considering the anti-Hitler bent of Dr. Seuss's political cartoons and the well-known theme of Yertle the Turtle. if you can't trust an anti-fascist like Seuss to stay away from Hitler's good graces, then maybe you're secretly suspicious of anyone who claims on principle to oppose corruption. you're worried that all your heroes will themselves as phonies, leaving you with no-one to turn to for guidance. you are deeply cynical, like all of us on Ask Dr. Fraud.

(er, that should say "all your heroes will expose themselves as phonies...")

more than half of those responses sound right :)

I vaguely remember a dream in the past week where I had made a poll on ILX and had the date set wrong so there ended up only being a couple people voting. I think this has been my second ILX dream. I'm not sure of the first but I might of had a dream while I was banned.

I think you don't realize how significant ILX is until it's gone.

man, you still worried about people noticing/caring! stop being so self critical and start having a better dream!

I had a dream involving this guy I know IRL who looks like Steve Buscemi, and first we were playing music at a radio station, and then something horrible happened and I was visiting him in the hospital.

i dreamt my sister told me to quit before i got fired. what does it mean

it means you should give me your job.

I keep dreaming that I'm on a plane and something goes wrong mid-flight. In every one of these plane dreams we have to make an emergency landing. Everything turns out OK but it's really scary right up until the very end. WHAT DOES DREAM MEAN?

I had a plane dream last night ... that I was the chaplain on the plane, but something happened to the pilot, and I was the most qualified to take over. I was terrified about having to be responsible for the lives of all the people on the plane.

Sounds scary.

I had another malfunctioning plane dream last night. This is getting ridiculous.

do you think it might have something to do with looking for a job/career prospects?

Mine? Yeah, it could. I have a lot going on right now so I think it's probably pretty transparent tbh. I don't usually think that dreams mean anything at all - just the brain getting rid of junk but it's weird that I keep having them. It is kind of like when I used to have recurring sex dreams about David Bowie although not nearly as enjoyable.

Yeah, I'd guess if it was recurring there's some real issue you're dealing with ... most of the time I don't remember mine, and I generally subscribe to the junk-processing theory ... I figure when I actually remember one of my dreams, it is somehow significant.

i dreamed about my trainer being a dental hygienist and he didn't give me a chance to warn him that if you floss too hard around that crown, the gums will bleed (i should really get this checked out) so then i had blood in my mouth and then my ankle was swollen and he bandaged my foot but not how you're supposed to bandage a swollen ankle. then i went with my sister to try to do some networking thing but it was epic fail so we were watching some kind of ren fair parade and ran into a girl in the parade who was a friend of a friend who knew my name (she looked famliar, but i didn't know hers). then we were sitting at a table and i was mad at my sister for messing up my networking attempt, and the trainer showed up again and went inside and got us all shots of jack. then someone was passing a bowl of multicolored corn chips around the table but there was a baby in it. she really wanted to get out but when i reached i could not grasp her and the bowl just kept getting passed around.

lunesta. wow. what does my dream mean?

had a dream about being in a bar where they only had one kind of beer and it cost $10.75 so i just sat there. someone there asked me what my occupation was and i told them i wrote things. i hate writing irl what does it mean

maybe you are worried about getting into a situation where your options are limited, and none of them are appealing - could be job related. On the other hand, maybe you have to visit an airport and fly somewhere where $10.75 beer is a distinct possibility.

Harbl, it sounds like you and dr. fraud have a lot in common.

i went back to bed for 3 hours this morning and i dreamt i was with some type of school or sports group and we stopped at a camp that had bunk beds. i got into a bed i thought was empty but after sleeping for a couple hours i realized someone else was in it. his head was at my feet. i apologized a lot and found another bed. while we were at the camp there was a competition on tv that was like the olympics but it had more freak show type of things like tallest person, etc. someone commented that everyone who wins was from idaho and i said "that's because they're all bored mormons" and some people laughed but others went o_O. then a really old guy told me he was selling the house that all the beds were in and i had to find a buyer. it was a big responsibility. the house was very big. it was in md by the water and half of it was on stilts. if no one wanted the house, i think i was supposed to keep it

dreamt i went boating with cankles, what does this mean

a row boat? life is but a dream

are you doe-eyed? you are probably going to drown.

lol harbs

tza unless i'm missing something, whiney was the drowner?

you're not missing anything.
just riffin'.

I dreamt I was thrown in a big glass-walled jail cell with about a dozen cellmates therein. every hour the warden came around and gave each of us a candy bar, so we spent all our waking hours crouching on the floor and eating in silence. after 10 years (in dream time) they set me free. there was a money-changing counter in the jailhouse lobby, and I went up to it with a big bag of foreign gold coins. the clerk sorted through them and gave me a check for a billion dollars.

i dreamt i was banned from ire >:(

i can make that dream a reality.

been livin that dream for months now iirc

well, i just made sure it would stick, in case it was wearing off or something.

i still have no idea what this one means
I had a dream involving this guy I know IRL who looks like Steve Buscemi, and first we were playing music at a radio station, and then something horrible happened and I was visiting him in the hospital.

^^ The guy isn't anyone I'm particularly close to or someone I've ever been attracted to ... I'm pretty good friends with his current gf and his ex.

well, i just made sure it would stick, in case it was wearing off or something.

― tehresa, Saturday, September 5, 2009 3:01 PM (4 minutes ago)

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i have dreams about irl people i'm not attracted to too, pretty normal i think

no one decoded my trainer/dentist/ankle/babby/networking dream.

yeah, but I don't know what the hospital thing was about ... it was obviously a "something bad is gonna happen if I'm not careful" fear, but I have no idea what the fear is.

i have no bloomin idea about yr dream teh, i'm no good at this

xp tza: perhaps it has to do with trying to go about doing what you want with your life (symbolized by the babby), and the problems you're having getting into the arts admin circle in a new city, while trying to do what you're "supposed" to do - networking, following the standard path proscribed by professionals (symbolized by the trainer)?

had a dream w/ multiple threads that are hard to separate
- wanted eggplant parmesan so bad (still do lol) but could not find a recipe. was making it from memory but kept getting distracted. my sister had purposely left some plastic disc (like the top to a coffee cup or other container) inside a frying pan and had turned the gas on all the way up. like she did it for a reason, twice. i was like "melting plastic! are you trying to give me cancer!" then i realized that while i was removing the plastic thing she had dumped water into my flour so i couldn't dredge the eggplants and had to buy ALL the ingredients again. then i completely forgot the recipe and was going everywhere looking for stuff like corn, carrots, stuff that doesn't belong.
- some bodybuilders were around for a competition or something? one was my friend (not an irl friend, just in the dream) and he kissed me and i was grossed out by him
- there was another contest, like an engineering contest, where my friend (irl) and i were trying to make something out of different scraps of yarn. it was really frustrating because we were doing it in a really disorganized way.
- more stuff i can't remember

haha, I skipped a line and read that as "he kissed me and i was grossed out by him because we were doing it in a really disorganized way." I knew exactly what you meant, too! but I really don't know anymore...

I had a dream some scruffy stoner dude gave me a free sample of an herb that acted as a feline on/off switch. when I held it in front of my cat's face, she sniffed it once and fell asleep, sniffed it twice and woke up, sniffed it thrice and fell asleep again, et cetera. she seemed pretty irritated by it all.

you desire a place in life with more power than you currently have, but you hold back on striving for more because you worry you may not be the benevolent ruler you hope to be, and instead a big jerk who treats his subjects like pawns.

thanks, tehresa; that's interesting. I tend in my waking life to consider myself not bossy/assertive enough for my own good, but maybe I need to rethink that in light of my dreemz. to tyrannize a cat is to tyrannize a tyrant (cuz cats are really bossy!), so maybe I'm constantly trying to one-up the most stubborn authority figures in my life. I am the big jerk who belittles bigger jerks. intersting.

i think we are making a real breakthrough here!

:)

you are a life-changer!

dreamt i was playing doubles w/ my brother against venus&serena. i don't even like tennis irl! we were losing very badly but thought we could still win. wherever we were playing had a vietnamese restaurant that also had pizza and subs, and there was a van driving by that had a few live chimpanzees in the back seat. at the end of the dream i was holding up the game because i had to go to the bathroom. that's when i woke up and i really did have to go to the bathroom!

^distillation of recent ilx threads

dreamt i was going to school for another year and had lost my schedule so i just walked into a classroom and one of my law school professors that i had 3 times was there, but the class he was teaching was real variables II. i already took that class in undergrad but it was like i couldn't leave, i had to just take it again. some people from high school were there. it was like a mixture of all types of school i've ever been to. wtf does it mean?

you're approaching a point in your life when you must make a clean break with all past identities. this upsets you because to distance yourself from your past is to surrender a big chunk of your youth. therefore you desire a reunion: not just a high school reunion or a college reunion, but a grand, mystical event (either in your mind or irl) where you get to say farewell to all your old friends and old memories — both pleasant and unpleasant — so that you'll finally have enough closure to step into the FUTURE.

(should say all your past identities)

wait though, it might be even more abstract than that. maybe you feel the need to say goodbye to old character traits (sloth, gluttony, wrath, greed), but before you do that, you'd like to indulge in them one last time in a single, unforgettable weekend of sin and bacchanalia. try it you'll like it.

it could also just reflect your fear of uncertainty about what the future holds (still job hunting, waiting to hear about bar, etc) - you unconscious is drawn to the familiar.

i dreamt about a hurricane that was hitting upstate new york (that wasn't really ny) and then moving south but i don't remember the rest.

i had another dream a few days ago where i was at the beach and i thought this guy brought a tiger with him to the beach but it turned out to be a lady w/ really long nails. then i saw machu picchu and decided to go for a drive there. it was misty and i hiked a little on huayna picchu, and took some pictures with my cell phone of cloudy, grey machu picchu and then drove down the spiraling roads (which were not at all like the road from aquas calientes to machu picchu and then i lost my phone and couldn't show my sister the pictures.

i dreamt i had gone to the bank to cash some checks and i got back weird denominations like $374.81 and $1101. i was at a mexican grocery store trying to deposit them or use them and everyone was confused.

i dreamed about having a job interview to be a researcher for national geographic focusing on arts and crafts of the areas they were writing stories about. but it was a job in my parents' town that would last for a year and then i was back at school with a bunch of assholes trying to do a presentation about the benefits of social media marketing in the arts and they were being so rude and not letting me speak and i kicked one person out of the class. after that i decided hey maybe i should just go home and take the job w/ the well-known publication even if it meant living at home for a year. ugh.

i dreamt about getting an apartment. i had looked at it and paid the security deposit but when i was about to move in i realized it was all wrong. it had a red/orange/yellow pukey shag carpet throughout, and instead of just one kitchen with a sink and a stove there were kitchens all over. like you would go into one and the next room would also be a kitchen, etc. each one either had multiple tiny sinks or several stoves. some of the stoves were facing the wrong direction. i was annoyed because the ones that were usable were electric and the gas ones wouldn't work. i refused to move in and the property manager wrote me a long letter describing how disappointed she was. she listed all the benefits of living there, including that it was near a few bank branches and some doctors lived in the building. but the building was also dirty with garbage in front. i explained to her that i already had a better apartment and i would never live there, especially with the messed up kitchens. i lost my security deposit but i didn't have to pay rent for the day i moved in, which was a huge relief.

People who say that other people's dreams aren't interesting are assholes. They're like little stories.

I was annoyed that I had such a good idea when I was dreaming this morning, and I couldn't remember it when I woke up to figure out if it was really a good idea, or just dream-good. In my dream, I think I was about to type the idea out on a computer in a garage in a place where apparently I or my family or friend or acquaintance lived.

why not clutch a laptop in your arms as you're falling asleep? at the very worst, you'll wake up to a word document filled with typographically wacky ee cummings shit, and at best you'll've dreamtyped a list of yummy snack foods you haven't eaten or even thought about in years. either way, you win.

I ('m white btw) dreamt that an unknown black guy came up to me in a hallway, shook my hand vigorously, and said something like, "I never imagined in a million years that a black guy like me would shake hands with a white guy like you." overcome with the gravity of the moment, I replied, unironically, "This sure is a...moment." my new friend gave me a knowing nod, and we went our separate ways.

it seemed perfectly normal and heartwarming at the time, but wtf?

is this you?
http://static.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/joe-wilson-picture.jpg

yes, tehresa, I am the clasped, non-racist hands in the upper right-hand corner of the shot. pleased to meet you. shake?

I dreamt that I bought a flawless ear of corn from a farm stand. after taking it home and cooking it, I noticed that about 80% of the kernels were crushed, dessicated, and totally inedible. disappointed but hungry nonetheless, I nibbled away at the few kernels that were still palatable, but it wasn't a very satisfying snack.

dirty ol' Freud would probably trace my dream to a fear of infertility (low kernel count = low sperm count? eww), but fuck him.

in part of a dream i can't really remember i told someone i didn't trust a cop to do some task and the person was like "WHAT? YOU DON'T LIKE COPS?" and got all in my face about it. jerk.

i dreamt my brother was visiting and his car got towed and we lost our phones so we couldnt find out where it was so we went to 100 impound lots asking for it, it was really stressful

you are searching for your place in life.

it can not be found with the assistance of modern technology. you must search within your self.

what about the cops thing, what does that mean? i'm tired of being challenged?

i think it means you are unamerkan.

I had a dream the other night that I needed a liver transplant but while I was waiting for it I kept having to take my current liver (which was green, btw) out of my body to like clean it and get infusions of some sort. Then I befriended another transplant candidate but he got really sick and I had to save him. It was all very scary.

I dreamt that I auditioned for American Idol. Instead of performing live in front of the judges, I handed Simon Cowell a demo cassette. I told the judges to to delay listening to it until I was out of earshot, as I was too shy to take their criticism firsthand. True to form, Simon just laughed and made fun of my teeth. He insinuated that I never flossed and that my plaque and tartar buildup was severe enough to disgust any audience in the world. I went ballistic, calling his remarks "shallow" and "totally inappropriate" and demanding that he judge me on the strength of my music alone, because the music was all that mattered, man. Simon continued to play the poopyhead, but Sharon Osbourne seemed sympathetic to my plight.

america decides

dreamt:

• i was writing a paper about appropriating things from foreign cultures, but i was using wikipedia and blogs for research
• i met a boy, stayed at his house, then the next day he said "you should be in my wedding!" so i was in his wedding (he was not wearing wedding-wear but an ugly periwinkle blue acrylic sweater). he got married and then he told me "i wish i'd married you instead." it was a great relief.
• i hung out in his wife's dorm room at the university of virginia but the university of virginia was in ohio or indiana in the dream.

you are thinking baout relationships but not ready for one yet.

*sigh*

i dreamed about playing piano.

last night as i was falling asleep i was thinking about walking and was lucid dreaming that someone threw an empty cardboard box at my head, and i found myself ducking quickly in my bed. in real life. it was weird.

i dreamt about getting a 2 on the ap physics exam. it was a huge disaster and the end of my academic life.

ap physics? are you still in high school or it was just some weird dream where you took the ap physics exam?

i took it umm 7-8 years ago lol.

it's bc you are about to hear about the bar, right?

yes! i even knew that in my dream that was why. my dreams have been really meta lately, like they make me panic but at the same time i know they're dreams about something.

yeah. i haven't had any real panicky dreams but just normal every day things happening and i know i'm dreaming and there's not really a lot at stake.