Thread: Burned up dreams

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Yea, I think it did change mine for a while--but then I think they went back to normal. Actually only when I realized people were actually reading them did they get inhibited for a while. So maybe yours will go back to normal too.

That's interesting and believable. I look forward to some fun dreams then...

Originally Posted by Burned up

Since DJing my dreams have got more serious and frankly more boring.

Sounds like you need to fall of the wagon and try the lucid high once in a while. Inject some fun back into your dream life!

Originally Posted by raklet

Sounds like you need to fall of the wagon and try the lucid high once in a while. Inject some fun back into your dream life!

So everyone here tells me and from what I read it sounds like fun. I feel kind of impotent in this place and not LDing.

Shades of orange

I'm back at uni and with my friends S, N and R. We've gone to an event of some sort and R and me are sitting near the back whilst N and S are near the front. We see N and S leave out of the door bottom-right and I get annoyed that they're off to do something without us.

So we follow them and now we're walking through Canary Wharf, past the tower itself and through a door (either into the tower or another building).

I find a machine dispensing orange juice and suddenly feel thirsty (PDP - had some OJ before bed I saw left out in the kitchen). I take a plastic cup and press the button. Water comes out, slightly cloudy as if the juice has been made from concentrate that hasn't been mixed well. The cup fills and is overflowing and I realise I should have used a large cup. So I look up and see not cups but jugs (PDP - put away washed gravy jug on top shelf before bed). One of those will do. I quickly put the jug under what's left of the drink emerging from the pipe just in time to see a thick orange goo comeing out. Must be the un-mixed concentrate. Oh well, I have some wek OJ and some strong OJ so together I have what I wanted.

Now R has gone and I realise that although others are about, I'm basically alone without friends. Then I think - hey, I'm always saying I don't have time to myself so why don't I just go to my room and enjoy the peace. I'm juggling with this need company / need time to myself conflict as I wake up.

Well the first scene was almost straight from memory as irl at uni, S and N often split away from R and me to play snooker and I was left thinking if my company was really so boring. I think this feeling had some PDP too, as I was driving past a wildlife reserve yesterday and noticed a board advertising an exhibition by a painter I met on holiday many years ago. I debated whether to go in or not and decided that my need to be remembered by him (assuming he was there) was not as strong as my need to avoid making any more acquaintaces just now. So I didn't. I think this evoked some of the feelings I got when I knew S and N only this time I feel like the splitter! The dream ended with much the same conflicts playing on my mind.

The OJ scene was like something from a Chaplin movie. Frustrating but also in a funny way I knew it would turn out OK. Like my belief that just because something doesn't happen right away, it will develop in time and I'll get what I want. I have an amazing faith about that which probably sustains me. It also means I avoid considering what it's like to not have what I want!

Another interpretation with the OJ may be that I've moved from a weak to a strong position in terms of my needs for others. That said, I don't feel secure whan I'm away from home and I look for someone to be with. But that's another dream...

Originally Posted by Burned up

So everyone here tells me and from what I read it sounds like fun. I feel kind of impotent in this place and not LDing.

Don't feel bad. If you haven't noticed, I've not had any LDs lately either. Makes me feel much the same.

Originally Posted by raklet

Don't feel bad. If you haven't noticed, I've not had any LDs lately either. Makes me feel much the same.

Cheers Raklet. It's more like there's this secret everyone is in on and I'm not

Originally Posted by Burned up

So everyone here tells me and from what I read it sounds like fun. I feel kind of impotent in this place and not LDing.

ah dont worry about it, lucidity isnt the be all and end all of this. Personally I am just as interested in finding the meaning of dreams as I am in lucidity, and mate there aint no one better here for that type of thing

Originally Posted by Burned up

Shades of orange

I'm juggling with this need company / need time to myself conflict as I wake up.

ha I know that one to well!

Originally Posted by mark

ah dont worry about it, lucidity isnt the be all and end all of this.

A woman I fancied whilst still young and inexperienced said that to me about sex once.

Originally Posted by mark

Personally I am just as interested in finding the meaning of dreams as I am in lucidity, and mate there aint no one better here for that type of thing

Thanks. It's true that I like to stick to the things I've got a handle on.

Piecing together fragments of a holiday dream

No real recall on this - just going from my mid-sleep scribbles

It's summer and I'm on holiday. It's hot and sunny and there's a swimming pool. Someone is evil. People are jumping in and out of the water. JF from church is there. We managed to get through the ordeal. Youngest daughter thanks me.

Weird school reunion

I'm in a team playing American Football in a sports hall. We don't have the gear on but I know by the sort of ball which is in play! I'm pretty clueless and when the ball is loose in front of me I know I should run for it, but I just freeze. I really don't want to be there and get involved/injured. The game ends and people drift away.

I'm mow see I'm back at school for some sort of reuinion. It's the end of the year. I'm one of the last to leave the sports hall and I see someone I know, M, from current times and someone else, L, who I used to like at school. L is leaving with her friend and I'm wondering whether to go after her. I decide not to, despite knowing I won't see her again.

As it's the end of the year, I make my way towards the main hall for the final assembly. No-one else of my age is about and I'm wondering whether they're already there or whether they've gone home or ... what? I'm waling along a corridor and I see in one room uniformed children at their desks, motionless and quiet. Like there's something wrong with them.

I carry on and catch up with my old geography teacher who looks 30 years older. He says something about the children and I realise he thinks I'm a parent of someone there. I say "You taught me geography 30 years ago" but he doesn't remember me.

I'm now approaching the main hall and am going in a side door which I don't think exists irl. I can't see anyone from my age there but I see a couple of other teachers, older than I remember. I ask whether I should be there or not and they mumble some kind of answer as if to say I can if I want and perhaps I should go to the balcony.

I wasn't happy with that so I went away to get my bike and left.

No real comments about the first dream as I don't have enough info.

The second dream had a running theme through it - people didn't care if I was there or not. L didn't care, Mr T didn't remember me and the teachers didn't care if I was in the assembly or not. Like I was wandering around invisible.

Also during the American Football game, I didn't feel I was putting effort into the team as I didn't run for the ball. (I don't know the rules so perhaps I'm not meant to pick up loose balls, but in the dream that's what I wanted to do). Why did I freeze? It was a real conflict - like if I went for the ball I'd be the centre of attention and I didn't want that. Rather ironic given the rest of the dream.

So this dream is about how I want to be noticed but won't do anything about it. The inner meanings echo this. The various DCs were disinterested and that's pretty much how I behaved myself.

Originally Posted by Burned up

I'm in a team playing American Football in a sports hall. We don't have the gear on but I know by the sort of ball which is in play! I'm pretty clueless and when the ball is loose in front of me I know I should run for it, but I just freeze. I really don't want to be there and get involved/injured.

When you are faced with a situation in which you are not knowledgeable and supremely confident, you tend to avoid it out of fear or embarrassment. You know you should engage the situation for learning and growth, but you don't want to be the center of attention in case of failure.

Originally Posted by Burned up

A woman I fancied whilst still young and inexperienced said that to me about sex once.

ha ha ha well of all the responses I would never have expected that!

Originally Posted by Burned up

Piecing together fragments of a holiday dream

shame you cant remember this one, it seems like it could have been a good dream.

Originally Posted by Burned up

Weird school reunion

hmmm sounds like one of those dreams which leaves you feeling sad ha ha I dont blame you for not wanting to get involved with the american football....its not a good game lol

Originally Posted by raklet

When you are faced with a situation in which you are not knowledgeable and supremely confident, you tend to avoid it out of fear or embarrassment. You know you should engage the situation for learning and growth, but you don't want to be the center of attention in case of failure.

Yes, I'll go with that. The feeling was a bit like "shall I stick my head above the parapet or not" and I chose not. I suppose I've never really been physically competitive.



But in some recent dreams I've been scoring winning goals etc.

Hmmm....mixed messages.

Originally Posted by mark

hmmm sounds like one of those dreams which leaves you feeling sad ha ha I dont blame you for not wanting to get involved with the american football....its not a good game lol

I know nowt about it really except that it takes 10 hours to play and there are 100 players in a team.

Originally Posted by Burned up

I'm pretty clueless and when the ball is loose in front of me I know I should run for it, but I just freeze. I really don't want to be there and get involved/injured.

Sounds like the story of my life in school gym class.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Sounds like the story of my life in school gym class.

Hmmmm, yes, I was never very physically minded either.

Thumping heart (a non-visual dream)

I heard a noise which sounded like a sigh or a whimper. It could have come from my wife or it could have been in a dream. Anyway I got the feeling a bit like waking suddenly, kind of "wtf is going on". But I was still dreaming. Then some kind of inner conflict kicked in and I was worrying about whether I should do anything about the noise, am I going to be misunderstood, will I get drawn in to the other person's world? (Paranoia). My heart started beating faster and harder. And harder. And harder. Now I could feel each heartbeat pounding in my chest as if my attention was focused on the heart muscles themselves. It was almost painful and potentially (so it felt) life-threatening. I woke feeling kind of

Another residential course and another potential lover

I'm away on a residential course again! I've just come out of the main door and am meeting a woman I've become fond of. I've been a bit shy about our tryst for fear of being too forthright as she seems to be a quiet sort of person. We're going for a walk in the woods although clearly I want much more from the relationship.

(and that was all folks).

Quite a lot of fragments now follow:

- I was wearing a suit or other smart clothes but noticed I was wearing green socks. Wondering whether that would be OK or not.

- Took a clean t short out of the drawer and noticed a crumbly white layer flake off. I realised it was what happened to a semen stain having gone through the wash

- I was looking at a woman's genitals and saw an organ I hadn't noticed before. It looked like a large keel of a boat and was where the clitoris should be. That's odd, I thought. I thought I knew what one of those looked like. (And where it was!).

- At work I was in a dilemma about being assumed to be doing the wrong kind of work. I'd done little or nothing in the way of investments and all my time by way of stock market indices. (True IRL actually).

- I saw a hedgehog crossing a road. It became very large with a long nose, more like a porcupine, but brown.

- I was feeling sad because we have only one sea monkey left in the container (true IRL). Then I noticed that there were lots of microscopic babies ready to grow into the next batch of sea monkeys.

[RL note - I checked the container earlier and at first couldn't see any babies. With just one sea monkey left there will now be no chance of keeping the colony going. Then I noticed one briefly. Not believing what I saw, I looked again and with patience, saw there were a handful more moving across my field of vision.]

The palpitating heart was worrying. I've been noting my heart doing this irl lately but not to this extent. I'm trying to relax my chest muscles too, which exacerbate the pain. All my life I've had a tight chest which I have linked to somatised emotional issues. I don't think this dream had a lot of meaning to it other than amplifying what I was feeling anyway.

The second dream seems plausible too. The residential course seems to represent a place where I can express myself in different ways than normal. It also bring me into contact with others. In this case, it seems I'm feeling more withdrawn from my feminine side than in recent times. I feel a bit sad about this, and perhaps that's why my dreams have lacked female company lately.

Not sure how to interpret the fragments. Disfigured women and hedgehogs? If anyone wants to chip in here feel free ....

I'm glad your sea monkey colony is still viable. I remember really wanting those when I was a kid.

Maybe you should set up a sea-monkey web-cam! For me, cuz I didn't get to have them. Thanks!

(As you can see, I have no idea what your dreams might mean. I can only do the really obvious ones with big cigars and stuff like that.)

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

I'm glad your sea monkey colony is still viable. I remember really wanting those when I was a kid.

Maybe you should set up a sea-monkey web-cam! For me, cuz I didn't get to have them. Thanks!

I looked into webcams once for the frogs in my garden pond but it seemed too expensive. Sad to hear you didn't get to keep sea monkeys. As pets go they're about the least hassle.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

(As you can see, I have no idea what your dreams might mean. I can only do the really obvious ones with big cigars and stuff like that.)

The hedgehog's nose perhaps?

Meanings not required - Always delighted to see you posing in my DJ, Moonbeam

Indecypherable fragment

"A dream where I know more than youw£ww^"

Four men on a bike trip

Not sure how the dream started but I was in a village possibly on holiday and needed to go back to where we were staying to fetch something. I was on a bicycle but it was powered so more like a moped. And the roads were rough - more like washed-out tracks.

I took a gently rising route along this main track and had to turn right onto a steeper, smaller track going further up the hill. At this point I messed up my gear change and came to almost a halt, lacking power. 4 men on similar machines to mine got ratty as they had to get past me (loads of space, but, hey...) and I could hear angry shouting from them. The two at the front went by and I could see they were unusually short with fat baby-like faced, yet weathered-looking showing they were in fact adults. They ignored me but seemed a bit smug. The third person was an older grey haired man, overweight but not unusually so for his age. The last person was a little younger than me and probably looked the smartest of the 4 but not someone I would trust. He was the one shouting the obscenities.

Four men in a boat

Not sure if this dream follows the last, but some of the DCs were similar. Again, I was on holiday. Some of us were hiring a boat on a river (possibly in France) and we'd just set off. Most people were sleeping in the main cabin area but someone was driving at the front, who looked like the angry DC in the last dream. I was aware he was taking the bends in the river, passing other boats as he was doing so. Then there was a long straight section and he throttled the boat, narrowly missing a chap fishing in the middle of the river in his waders. Must have drenched the guy.

I was getting angry at the DC driver now telling him to slow down, not because it was dangerous but because he was well over the 4mph speed limit. He just laughed with excited abandon. Then there was a bend in the river and my view was now from above. The boat did not take the corner and ended up in a field at the river bend.

Now we're getting out of the boat. The old man (DC from the previous dream?) was dead and I had blood on my hand - dark thick and red - from shifting him. Part of the boat had broken off too - the metal section with the ladder and railings.

We got the boat back in the water and 2 of us were trying to slot the broken section back in place. It wouldn't quite fit and the DC with me was trying to force it in. "No, you have to be gentle" I say. And we gently moved the metalwork away and, treating it as if it were a young child, gently put in back in place, where it stayed!!!

Now there was a baby in a backpack attached to the metalwork which seemed to be my nephew as my sister in law was flapping about him, making sure he was safe etc.

Fragment

My friend M and some biscuit tins.

Written in stone

I was looking at an analysis report we produce at work, which has lines of data grouped in country order. It has a certain pattern to it with which I'm familiar.

Now I was looking at alignments of standing stones like those at Carnac. They were in the same pattern as the market report. G from work was also there as were some cows wandering around. "There's something a bit smelly round here" he says. "Yes, there is for the cows" I reply.



Too much for the time I have to interpret any of this.

I'll stick to dreams 2 and 3. Sounds like the same DCs were present although I'm not sure if I woke between them or not. Interesting that there were 4 of them - a number that usually appears in scary dreams of mine. The DC shouting from his bike and driving the boat was a bit of a chav and is presumably part of my "shadow" as he behaves in ways I loathe (attracting attention etc). The old chap seemed to have an expendable quality about him. I don't often dream of older people and just sitting here feels like there's something challenging about that. Like I'm afraid of growing old or something.

The repair of the boat was interesting for me. Somehow I identified the forceful handling of the metal with the handling of a child. Then a child appears. Odd.

you have had great recall latley mate.

Those fragments the other day were cool lol I laughed at the one with the woman ha ha

Good dreams last bight to, The first one I laughed at because I totally understand the random words we write when half asleep. I like the one with the standing stone, it must have been interesting sight

Originally Posted by mark

you have had great recall latley mate.

Those fragments the other day were cool lol I laughed at the one with the woman ha ha

Oh, that one. Yes it was just a fragment really. But not one easily forgotten. Yes, recall going well just now.

Originally Posted by mark

Good dreams last bight to, The first one I laughed at because I totally understand the random words we write when half asleep. I like the one with the standing stone, it must have been interesting sight

A bit weird. Not like the pic. More like a 3d architect's drawing with some grass etc superimposed. Perhaps more like a computer game.

At first I thought that was a really old graveyard and the tombstones were worn down. Is that what those are, or something else?

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

At first I thought that was a really old graveyard and the tombstones were worn down. Is that what those are, or something else?

No they're neolithic alignments of stones each about 8' high. Probably 3000 years old or so (lots on Google). Some say there are mystic qualities to the alignments, others that they guide UFOs, others that they're astronomical. Basically no-one knows. In the UK we have Stonehenge which is a stone circle with similar interest from alternative theorists.

House with secrets

I'm in a house which I think I've inherited or somehow have possession of. Wherever I go I find out something new about it. Secret doors, secret stairs etc. I'm with some people I know (an eclectic mix including H from church and J from a few years ago) and we're going downstairs and I say "Let's take the lift". I press the light switch across a room and lift doors open from no-where.

Another short flight of steps (just 3 I think) has a carpet that moved through the runners meaning the person behind can trip up someone on the steps by pulling on the carpet.

Then I'm going down a staircase that I discovered. An old man like a butler is there too. Like he knows all these secrets but doesn't see them as important. We have a conversation about another person who works at the house who has left and how he thinks everyone loves him but they don't.

Set meal

I'm with wife and son and friend B. We're stopping for lunch and my wife wants to go to this hotel. I'm resisting because I know it will be expensive. Anyway we sit at this table outside. B looks happy. They talk about a "Burns cup" which is a speciality food of this place. I see that it costs £16 per person, meaning £64 for all of us. Oh dear. Then I see how the cutlery is arranged in front of me. Kind of clock-style around the plate with a blue napkin. There's a label on each knife/fork/spoon in blue stating the cost of the course they are used for. I decide not to have the sweet to keep the cost down!

This old house

I'm in the town on the south coast where my grandparents used to live. I'm in their old bungalow and it's my job to sell it. But someone else is there too. I spend a lot of time in the toilet trying to pee into this old wooden fixture but it's too high for me and the outcome is rather messy.

The old house is interesting and exiting. Finding out secrets like I'm finding out about different parts of me. But what about the butler character? Like he's important somehow. Like he knows all about me and it's not a novelty. Like there's a wise old part of me that's constant whilst the conscious part of me goes this way and that.

The set meal sounds like another of my diagramatic dreams (see "gender non-specific") where I'm rationalising something into symbols and numbers. I do this irl too!

I sometimes dream of my grandparents' old home. I liked it as a child. It has happy memories for me. I didn't feel bad about having to let it go, though. I wouldn't want it to be my home. Just my memory.

Selleray and Slatterey

Afternoon nap

Two fictional prog rock musicians, one from the past one more recent. I was thinking of their music and was about to compose a song in tribute to the two of them.

No idea where those names came from.