International Oneironaut Shared Dreaming Journal

Cay's Dreams

Dream 1
I dreamed that I met Hypatia! Well, to be precise, it was like we had met before, and were discussing that meeting. We were in a comfortable little cabin with red wallpaper and white swirls, with lots of knickknacks, a cuckoo clock, framed embroidery, twinkling chimes, carved wooden animals. She made tea. I can't remember any details of the dialogue or previous meeting. It was weird, though because Hypatia isn't one of the 'active' members and I don't know her description off the top of my head like if she were, but the Hypatia in this dream matched the description in the participant list, skinny, light skin, long brown hair.

Dream 2
It was like something had drawn my dream self to the bridge, which the river had, once again washed out. I sat down and watched the water rushing by for a long time. Eventually I stood up and felt off balance somehow, and did a reality check. After I became lucid the temperature seemed to drop dramatically, and biting winds started up. I pulled a red square of cloth out of my pocket- I was wearing pajamas- and shook it out to an ankle length cloak with a hood. Pleased that that trick had worked according to plan, I hopped over the span of bridge that was missing and turned the corner. Now I was facing the moon- well, moons, there were two. I didn't really know what to do next. Whenever we got lucid, we were supposed to try to share dreams, right? From where I was, I wasn't sure how to go about that; I decided to walk to Azra's house. However, the road took an unexpected turn; confused, I walked up into the sky and found that everything about the terrain had changed. I fell out of the air and woke up.

Dream 3 was thoroughly confusing and involved boggarts, brownies, my mom the witch, and five feet of snow on top of it all.

Cay's Dreams
Uh, rivers. A running theme of rivers. So if anybody else dreamt of rivers...

Dream 1
I was the nurse, or companion to a little girl. I began watching the series Merlin last night and I looked like the girl who plays Guinevere in the dream. Apparently I'd done something bad- chasing the little girl around the house in play, I'd, I don't know, broken something valuable. The (surprisingly young) widowed master of the house called me to the main room. I was, for some reason under the impression that he was going to cut off my leg below the knee, so I propped it up on an ottoman and braced myself. "I don't want your leg," he spat, "I want your life." I stared. "You'll be killed," he mouthed slowly.

My first instinct was to GTFO, so I darted out the open front door, vaulted over the porch, and into the woods. I'd heard the young master draw his pistol, so I sprang haphazardly from cover to cover until I was able to dive into the river. Having heard the cracking of twigs upon the bank, I stayed under as long as possible. Eventually I drifted through a tunnel. At this point my feeble dream mind had forgotten what I was doing, but I was clinging onto a gray teddy bear with button eyes I didn't remember having picked up.

I came out into bright daylight- it had seemed like early morning when I'd left the house- beating down on the translucent brown surface of the river. The water was so smooth and warm that I lost any sense of purpose, but I kept ahold of that teddy bear. I eventually noticed that there was a lot- and I mean a lot- of debris in this river. The current all seemed to direct it to the same place, a little building on stilts just off the distant bank. I got close enough to see that the water was being churned by wheel on the side of the building, and the debris was directed into a tube that hung below it. I hauled myself up onto a little dock with a small canoe tied to it and let myself into the building.

Inside, my eyes had to adjust. The lights overhead glowed softly blue. A crouching figure started at my entry. It was a small girl, with long blonde hair. Her face was hidden by a great pair of goggles, her hands by rubber gloves. She wore a one-piece swimsuit. In front of her, there was a conveyer belt on which were apparently the smallest items saved from the river, potentially valuable. Her job was to seperate the precious objects from the mud, twigs and- I choked a little- the decaying carcasses of small animals.

At this point, I had become male. Middle aged. So I easily intimidated the little girl, and spent a good time coaxing her back out of the corner to talk to me. She explained that her father ran a resort up the river, and her job was to keep the debris out of the view of the patrons of the Riverbend Hotel. The dream fades a bit here.

Then we were at the resort. It was a mammoth blue structure with balconies and people traveling all over the outside along what look like fire escapes. I got some strange looks for following the owner's daughter about. We met her little brother, and went for a swim in the much clearer water there. I found myself far under the surface and ran out of oxygen- then I began breathing in water as naturally as air (which happens often enough in my dreams). That startled me so that I woke up.

Dream 2
I'm going to type this one in less unnecessary detail because it's morning and I'm hungry.

Again, on a river. This building was open-air, like a bunch of picnic shelters stacked on top of each other. There were a few key dream characters- an older man with a white beard and glasses and his wife, and a paranormal investigator, a tan, dark-haired man in his thirties wearing a white coat. The older couple owned the building and were interested in the goings-on. They pretty much thought they could exorcize the place themselves, and were always tromping around ruining the devices the younger man had set up. I was just on vacation with my family, and we'd picked the wrong place to stay.

There was one room upstairs that I can picture clearly, but have no idea what was going on in it. There was a table in the center, with a number of oblong shapes laid out, and wires running from them to the ceiling. There were also cobwebs everywhere, probably the influence of that first episode of Merlin. Anyway, this was the room that, more than any other the investigator didn't want disturbed, but of course they did. After that, he pretty much yelled, "You fools, you've killed them all!" and GTFO'd.

Then we were in this crazy vehicle that looked like the front engine of a train pulling a wagon, and the adults were wasted. Long story short they crashed into the building on the side with that weird room and apparently let loose all these angry spirits and stuff.

It ended with a- cutscene, I guess you'd call it? It started with what looked like the old man, except his eyes were cast over white and a yellow light glowed from just below his sternum. He was talking to...himself? There was a half dozen of the old man, and it looked like his wife and all my family had also been cloned for whatever purpose...they were acting normal, and seemed to have the same memories and personalities as the originals. I don't know.

whiterains dream

very sketchy memory of a long holiday/festival dream last night due to tiredness. mostly spent pottering about randomly going round a mix of shops, partys and things. some of it resembled my old school which had a little surgery/docs set up in one corner. i pushed a trolley and a nurse told me it had a baby in it so i asked where the best place to leave it was. cant really write much else but the holiday location was really similar to how it often is. especially the shops and town. i remember it ended as i was walking through a farm field anad a lady was talking about the veg and the last thing she said was about the sweetcorn. she said all they needed was a bit of rain and the sweetcorn would live up to its name.

holiday theme really common now. last last nights one was spent missing group events and wandering around on my own trying to go snorkeling in this river with a girl i liked. almost another goal made. the river is always partly the same but this time was deeper and more tropical with a little waterfall on it and plunge pools. nearly always in a similar location to other places even if the other places change if that makes any sense

Whiterains dream

pretty interesting long dream last night that brought together quite a few different locations into the same dream. the whole feel of it was like being at some kind of summer camp and it contained parts of my local park, lake and river, and also parts of my old schools and university.

i remember people swimming and diving in the river which was alot deeper than normal. there was also this central pool which was similar to the one i have in about 90% of dreams these days. sometimes it seeme to be a portal, others it just seems like a central focus for the dream and often dreams will end with me heading there for a swim.

the earliest school part i remember is just being in some kind of concert. for some reason i was in charge of the organ although i had no clue what to do. it seemed no one else knew what they were doing either which made it easy to just fuck it off and say something like i dont know what you expected me to do anyway?

after this there was some kind of demonstration/exhibition being put on outside my old village hall/football club. some how i got in trouble for having weed or something and kind of got semi arrested. i sort of talked my way out of it somehow but still remained kind of a fugitive for the rest of the dream.

there were a couple of moments of lucidity but the dream plot was so strong that for the most part i just went along with it. i remember being in a pub and there were lads round who seemed to think i owed them something as if they had helped me to escape the police or something. there was a vague threat of chopping fingers off but i never felt at risk at all in any part of the dream.

this old school assistant mrs carter was there and she was kind of trying to act like she had not grassed on my grass. also there were some football commentators who were like 'well its only a bit of weed i dont really se the big deal'. it was nice to have a dream where basically most people are on your side against the police for once.

the rest of the dream was mostly about going round the school/uni/camp thing looking for girls. i remember going into this toilet cubicle with 2 girls but instantly getting caught because the cubicles were tiny. one of the last things i remember was being back near these same cubicles later and about to go off with one girl when another one says 'why dont you kiss me first' so i do and i think this is where i wake up.

just remembered that i was visualising previous local dream locations before going to sleep so dream incubation has really worked this time. was really great to go between so many variations of real places