JoannaB

This dream took place in a combination Bed and Breakfast and Church sort of place.

At first I was in my room in a bed and breakfast with my husband and I think I had just showered and was getting dressed. I think I had my underwear on but no other clothes yet.

Then I heard my mother speaking loudly on the phone outside my room, but I also clearly heard the responses. I thought this was weird and looked out into the hallway, and there was the landlady of the bed and breakfast talking to my mom on the phone, while my mom was on the phone with her in the same hallway around the corner one the same floor. One could clearly hear both of them especially since my mom is hard of hearing and thus talks loudly. I thought this was weird. Why were they not talking in person without phones? But I did not figure that out yet. My mom was saying that the water temperature in her shower was not right. The landlady said to let it run for four minutes and it would adjust.

Then I ducked back into my room because I realized I was still in my underwear only. My husband was saying that we needed to spend most of our day at church. I said that he can do so, but I do not want to because my mom is in town. He said, but you have to, since it is our anniversary and we are going to renew our wedding vows.

That's when our room transformed into the church. I was a bit uncomfortable because I was in my underwear still, but I continued on with it. My mom was there now too, fully dressed - everyone but me was fully dressed. The ceremony was weird because there were readings but we were supposed to read them silently ourselves rather than a reader reading them out loud. There was singing. At some point when I was self-conscious about my underwear issue, a woman who was involved in the celebration brought my husband and me a blanket. I was grateful but still uncomfortable that I had insufficient clothes under the blanket.

That's when I looked and saw that now I had a yellow blouse on. How did that happen? Wait a moment could this be a dream? I raised myself up and tried to levitate. The dream started fading, but I definitely realized that I was dreaming before I woke up, so for a second I was lucid!

My mother could not find some books she had given my boys, so I helped her look. I found one, and my mom wanted is to read it out loud right away just me and her. The book had some hand written notes in it written by my mom, and she wanted me to read those, too.

I remember that instead of my husband in this dream fragment my five year old son was the one loosing hair.

Upon waking up I remembered another fragment, but by now All I remember is that it was also disturbing and tense.

In this dream I had a hysterectomy operation (something I may need to have in reality, not certain yet, but got mentioned by my doctor).

While on the operating table, I died or almost died, and had a near death experience. I knew that to return back to life, i had to find enough will to live, but i was not sure whether I had enough. I did find enough only to "wake up" from the near death to a scene on the operating tabel where I was opened up for the operation, in pain, and the medical staff unaware what had just happened to me.

I woke up from this at 1am quite shake up and could not fall back to sleep without a half melatonin dose. Depression sucks.

I dreamed that through work I got exposed to some radioactive foam and some pathogen as well. My boss was arguing with some scientist colleagues as to how much or how little to tell me, and they were using a foreign language I could not understand. But I got a sense that it had to do with some secret millitary eperiments. I asked, what are the symptoms, and was told not to worry about it because we will get immunized for one and treated for the other, no problem. Then I caughed. My boss said, except you can't caugh, if you caugh three times in front of them, they will read us the riot act. I said that I have a cold and cough because of sinus issues. He said, doesn't matter, just don't caugh. Some kids came in to the room we were in to show us some sea shells. When they left I asked whether the shells could be dangerous. My boss said to not worry the shells are harmless, and even if they are not, the kids can be treated, and they will be fine.

In reality the only thing I get exposed to at work, aside from common respiratory issues through coworkers, usually I get exposed to stress.

This dream was like a movie. I just remember one scene. A bunch of shady character sitting at a table in a restaurant get one of them to play along into honoring those who come in by standing up. Then a cop comes in, and the guy stands up before he notices, and then freezes in shock. His buddies are laughing hard thinking he froze because he accidentally honored a cop, but then it turns out he froze because he recognized him as a former buddy. He then thinks that the explanation must be that he is disguised as a cop, but no the cop explains he actually had to become a cop because he could not have gotten here otherwise. I think he means either to this planet, or this dimension, or parallel universe, anyway something monumental like that.
That's all I remember.

In this dream I had a gynacologists appointment, for which I arrived absurdly early, and was waiting for like hours.

Then the gynacologist came to the waiting room, and said I was in luck, could see me earlier than scheduled. I said, oh good, because I am leaving on vacation right after this.

Then the gynacologist and I hung out for a while, like we were buddies, just chatting.

I don't remember much from my dream during nap time, except that something made out of glass (chandelier maybe?) exploded, and glass rained upon me, and later it happened again - two glass showers in one dream, because clearly one was not enough.

I was in a bathroom I so not recognize upon awakening. I noticed there was poop all over the bathroom - the largest in the bathtub, but also small pieces elsewhere. I was cleaning it up using toilet paper to pick it up and out in toilet. At one point I thought to myself whether this could be a dream, but decided not to reality check because I was too busy cleaning up poop!

Upon waking up told my husband about this near miss opportunity, and how I could have spent my time doing something more pleasant instead of cleaning poop if I had only decided to check. His response was that this is actually a case for lucid dreaming.

Some work study we did which involved some statistics by gender was very popular / in demand, and my boss was asking me to send edited versions of it to people, edited to not include some more secret stuff. Also had to establish which password to use: not our usual one, so they could not access other stuff, and did I accidentally give them my personal password.

We were doing business with some shady character who may have been a spy, meeting in some kind of basement. My boss suggested we may have future common business opportunities, something about creating visas for crossing borders, and I questioned whether those would be official visas and whether this was legal.

Also as part of this dream my boss was not my current boss but a previous female boss. I kept editing an article for her as well, fixing the formatting of the print version.

In this dream I was visiting some fancy rich family and I had my horse with me. I assured them that my horse was potty trained, and enquired whether their stable was equipped with a potty that a horse could use. I had the impression that I wanted to out compete them on the fancier than though front.

I remember my mom and the notion of equitable return on gift

Fragment 1: my husband had a lot of community service projects, and I was trying to find the best way back to church and to figure out whether with his busy schedule I could meet up with my husband this evening.

Fragment 2: Some new laws made writing in English way more complicated, adding accents among other things. Other countries were saying, what's the big deal, we've had that for ages. But to English speakers it was new, would take getting used to, and was still new enough to be ambiguous.

Background info: I used to be so addicted to orchids as a hobby that I acquired too many. Once my interest in the hobby waned, I was left with too many plants, a maintenance burden, and yet a reluctance to let go. My mother gave me another orchid for Christmas and a dear friend also gave me another orchid. So now I have too many plus two new ones.

In my dream I discovered that one of the new orchid plants had vines growing around it that I had not noticed before. The vines were choking it, and then I noticed that they were also embedded inside the orchid plant, so a parasite that could not be removed and would kill the plant. In addition I discovered that there were ugly disgusting white bugs in the box of the orchid. the orchids do not have such boxes in reality, but in the dream there was a cardboard box / case around the orchid plant, and when one pried open the cardboard box, there were those disgusting bugs, and I just knew they would eat the orchids, and then I saw they were everywhere in all my orchids, had spread from the new ones. I would loose all my orchids because of one of the new ones.

I remember when I woke up there was also a memory of another dream, but now it is gone.

I remember running or running away - could have been a chase dream.