Thread: Burned up dreams

Originally Posted by mark

mate remember I once had dream sex with 1 a sandwich and 2 a random plastic device! lol if it were me I probably would have

LOL what sort of sandwich was it?

Walk on the not so wild side

I'm walking with the family along a marked path that goes in a loop like a large running track. Only through the countryside. Now we're heading kind of SW from a point just north of Livingston (don't ask, I just know these things in dreams).

We're heading for another marked route, again the same shape which is on the edge of Livingston. It's starting to rain. I've gone on ahead down a lane and have come to the junction with the path. I'm walking quite fast now and have gone one quarter around the path in an anticlockwise direction. This section goes vaguely uphill. The vegetation has now become very lush, like huge green shrubs. I see a black lizard in the undergrowth. Just its head, before it moves away.

As I walk through this section of the path I see it coming to an end near a housing estate. A signpost marks the path, both where I've come from and where I'm headed. I'm now near the park centre, a shop and information centre building like a cabin. The path continues past it. It's evening and I'm surprised to find that its open so I go in.

Inside it's a small shop selling maps and suchlike. Even mouse mats with maps on them. 3 chavs from the housing estate are in there. I figure because nowhere else is open. I wonder what they're buying and see that they've bought these "top trumps" style cards and figure that everything else in the shop is too sophisticated for them.

Messy hotel room on third floor

I'm eating at a hotel. I see S & N eating too. It's salmon in tin foil which they've cooked themselves.

(probably the following morning...)

I now need to get to work. But as I go past Pret a Manger I see that it's closed and I'm wondering where I'm going to get my breakfast. So I go back to my hotel room on the 3rd floor. Decorators are in the building. I see they've wallpapered over the door.
Anyhow, I go in and it's really messy. I realise I left the door unlocked but everything seems to still be there including my phone.

Fragment

I live in a house under the Forth Bridge. I'm explaining to someone that such houses really do exist.

I'm mainly pleased I had so much material to journal.

The first dream suggests "going round in circles". I'm not really exploring the world outside of a marked path. I quite often find things like exhibition centres in my dreams. Something organised and resourceful about them.

The second dream also has familiar patterns to it. Hotels appear a lot and I've stayed or visited the third floor quite a lot too. Wondering what could be significant about the third floor? I was born on the third of the month, so maybe it's something related to age? Also the messy hotel room. I've been in couple of those lately. I feel a bit messy just now so it's evoking something of my internal messiness.

Papering over the door was odd. Something about minor obctruction?

Walking with a growing girl

I'm walking in the western part of this city with my son and my friend H with her daughter R, a little older than my son. R is pushing a buggy but I'm not sure if it's a toy one or a real one. We're going uphill along a road and R is finding it hard going. She runs back down the way we came, shrieking with enjoyment.

I go back down the hill to fetch her then lead her back up again. We all carry on walking and we turn left into a road I don't recognise. I spot two sports fields or they could be grass tennis courts, each fenced off at the side of the road. The first has bright green grass, the second has dull green grass. I look at the the bright green grass and see that it's overgrown and we talk about it for a while.

I'm still holding R but now she's grown older and taller - young teenage probably (she has small breasts!) - and I have my arm around her. She responds putting her arm around me. I enjoy the feeling of oneness.

We were kicking something along the street together. Something edible presumably although it looked like a stick. Because when we got to our destination - an upstairs cafe - I was about about to pick up the stick when she giggled "No, don't eat that!". I smiled and left the stick on the ground.


A pleasing dream and a pleasing feeling. I'm definitely re-finding my feminine side! But what does the long grass mean. Neglect? What part of me is being neglected? Perhaps it's nothing more complicated than me needing exercise. Or it could be telling me that it's been a long time since I felt this way.

Originally Posted by Burned up

LOL what sort of sandwich was it?

ha ha I believe it was a turkey and stuffing sandwich lol

Originally Posted by Burned up

Walk on the not so wild side

I like the part were the vegetation becomes lush! its sounds very nice

Originally Posted by Burned up

Messy hotel room on third floor

he he definatley a WTF moment when you saw the wall paperred door I imagine lol

Originally Posted by Burned up

Walking with a growing girl

I bet that was a nice dream to see her grown up like that

James Bond type dream

I was either chasing or being chased by a violent underworld type. Anyway, I was both scared of this chap and felt strong against him. We were fighting on the beach. He lunged at me and I managed to do one of those martial arts things where I fall backwards holding him but with my foot in his chest, throw him all the way over my head.

I'm now running along a beach and I pass a beautiful girl. I hid from his field of view so he can't see me running because she's in the way. Also I think her beauty will distract him, which it does.

Now I'm running onto a ship. I'm running up some steps to the top deck when a female accomplice of mine takes something from the sole of my shoe. It's a transmitter ("map chip" in my notes) and I've been tracked by this guy. Also his mother, who was following me on the ship. She is probably late 50s and looks glamorous. I take the transmitter thing and as I am about to throw it overboard I see she's getting all dizzy. With the chip dropped overboard she completely loses it like an automaton with circuit failure in Dr Who or Star Trek.

This dream has many elements of chase and rivalry, with both excitement/power and fear/vulnerability. These are fundamental "objects" we establish in childhood and originate from our earliest experiences of people.

The mother character seems to be more in control than the son. She was on the ship overseeing affairs while he was on the front line as it were. The key seems to be the chip, which undermines this maternal power. The power of a mother to know what her child is doing even when the child is being secretive. Oh how I wish I had found that chip when I was a child!

[QUOTE=mark;760216]ha ha I believe it was a turkey and stuffing sandwich lol

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Haha. Seems kind of appropriate!

George Melly once described how he had sex with a fish.

cool dream man! totally action packed and all!! I thought it was quite funny how you hid behind the girl lol

^^Yea, that was pretty good. And how the woman is a robot or something. All in all, a very movie-inspired dream, I'd say.

More time

I'm feeling pressure (true irl) about getting a uni assignment finished before the deadline. I go to the prof in charge and ask her for an extension. She said that she made it clear that we have to ask for extensions at least one month before the deadline. I said that's fine but I didn't know my father in law was going to die one month ago.

Castle at high tide

I'm in a castle on an island (which could be Lindisfarne but this castle is fictitious). The weather is gloomy. I walk outside and find a sunny patch. This patch is on the stonework above ground. At ground level it's wet because the tide has come in. I'm trying to avoid the wet bits and I don't have shoes on.

Now M has joined me (daughter's b/f) and we're chatting. I judge that the tide has started to recede and I try some manouuvre but end up falling chest-deep in the water. Mainly worried about the contents of my pockets being wet.

I see my wife has taken a different route out of the castle and is walking away with a couple of others on a dry area. Eventually I follow in the same general direction and see that cars are moving between castle and the main part of the island. The tidal part doesn't cut the castle off completely - the road stays dry above sea level around the back of the castle.

An Austrian train

Trying to get to Innsbruck by train from somewhere in the Tirol. This meant walking some distance to a mainline station and catching the train. Then I realised there's a narrow-gague railway to Mayrhofen (true irl) and we could have walked to a station on that line and changed onto the mainline. As I'm on the train I see the junction of the two lines (impossible irl as they're different gagues).

Niece fragment

I approached my 2yo niece, worrying at the same time she'd not feel comfortable and she'd cry. I picked her up and she cried but as I playfully threw her in the air she started lo laugh.

RC fragment

I was looking at a map. I saw a place name didn't make sense - like the letters were more impossible than the spelling in Polish place names. I thought to myself - a-ha! Perhaps if I look again the letters will have switched around. They did. I thought - brill, the RC worked and promptly woke up.

Interesting sense of counting days in the first dream. The one month part probably refers to when my father in law died which was on 6 March. Today is 6 April!

I wish the castle dream had more to it. It was a huge robust structure and I seemed to explore only a small part of it. If i had more time I'd explore the symbolism here: water tends to mean unresolved emotions; castles tend to meas security and defence. So this castle defends against the tide - the unresolved emotions. The fact that I'm outside in the tidal part sounds like I'm in a place where I'm exposing myself to these unresolved emotions. But there's also a way of avoiding them - the road around the back.

The last dream is the first train dream for a while. Don't know what it means.

Originally Posted by Burned up

More time

I hope that things are ok with this mate and I can imagine you have been putting alot of time into your family and taking it away from your studies. I hope things go ok with it all

Originally Posted by Burned up

Castle at high tide

well if the tide is representative of unresolved emotions does that mean then that because you fell into the water you are "up to your neck", so to speak, in these emotions?

Originally Posted by Burned up

An Austrian train

he he looks like you have not escaped the train dreams lol

Where does M (daughter's b/f) fit into the dream? Does it have anything to do with him irl?

Originally Posted by mark

I hope that things are ok with this mate and I can imagine you have been putting alot of time into your family and taking it away from your studies. I hope things go ok with it all

Thanks Mark. It's a bit of a balancing act just now.

Originally Posted by mark

well if the tide is representative of unresolved emotions does that mean then that because you fell into the water you are "up to your neck", so to speak, in these emotions?

Yes, I like how you saw that metaphor which I missed. Continuing that theme, because I had my head above water I wasn't totally immersing myself in the emotions. Kind of outside of my place of safety (the castle) but not totally engulfed by water.[/QUOTE]

Originally Posted by raklet

Where does M (daughter's b/f) fit into the dream? Does it have anything to do with him irl?

Hmmm. Not sure why he suddenly appears. I guess I see his emotional side and his head/heart battles and probably I identify with that. Although irl I stay in my castle, metaphorically,

Originally Posted by mark

he he looks like you have not escaped the train dreams lol

I guess it was only a matter of time before they came back

Bulk medication

I'm needing to take a cocktail of medicines for some kind of condition I have. I think it's a good idea to create one mega-dose rather than take a selection of tablets. So I've filled this huge pipette tube with 2-coloured capsules, white tablets and whatever else and there's some goo in there to bind it all together.

Now I'm emptying the mix into small losenge containers like ice cube trays only smaller. I see the separate tablets and capsules in each hole and the goo which is starting to set. Then I get worried - what happens if there's loads of one type of drug in one dose and none in the next few. Will that be dangerous? There are water purifier tablets in there too. Don't know why. What affect will those have on me?

Uni course in London

I'm going to this short course - perhaps just one afternoon - in London. I've driven down there and managed to find a parking space in the next street. The building is rather old like old unis tend to look.

It's now the end of the session and time to go. The session was taken by my old tutor and I see her before I go. She has shifted the time of the next session from 8pm to 6.35pm and I'm annoyed that I won't be able to make it. I then have the feeling of good things coming to and end as I watch the other students leave the premises. I notice two young women and a young man talking. The women look like my dream woman - medium height, slim, short blond untidy hair. They don't notice me and walk off with this other guy. I look around and realise I have no company.

It's dull outside. I start walking back to my car. Now, where was it? I see an old church across the narrow side street and turn right. I see a nearby townhouse is the hq for "Green Party Radio". Then I remember the car was in the next street. But which way? Eventually I see it before waking up.

This first dream was partly inspired by Dr Who which was about a fat-reducing tablet that in fact caused your fat to turn into an alien baby! Anyway, the critical point of the dream is that I've turned an even dose into an irregular dose with this method and a potentially lethal one too. I'm reminded about life balance again. Perhaps something to do with realising that I need a steady life rather than one where everything is concentrated into small doses.

The second dream reflects my sense of looking to be part of something. My uni course has come to an end and any fantasies I had about forming relationships with anyone on it have also come to an end. Watching two "dream women" walk away summed up how that feels and also reminds me of what really motivates me in life. Not the desire to learn but to do something (learning or anything) with people I like.

Public toilets twosomes

I was in a public toilet with my young son. He said he wasn't sure if he wanted to go to the toilet or have a shower, having spotted a shower at one end. Next thing I knew he was naked and I knew he wasn't going to take no for an answer so looked for a towel.

I was feeling self-conscious about being with a young naked boy. Then I saw two men in the cubicle behind me, one behind the other. My first thought was "Bloody hell, they're doing it in public". . But then I saw that in fact one of them was handicapped and the other was his carer. I also noticed something similar going on elsewhere in the room - again two men although I don't recall what they were up to.

Ummmm...toilet in public

It was a nice sunny day. I was coming down a gentle grassy hill, joining friends who were already sitting at some picnic tables next to a narrow stream. On the other side was a row of shops one of which was a bar also selling food and the others had already got their food from there.

I sat down and realised I needed to do a dump. Deciding to do it there and then (magically through my clothes) the problem remained that I needed to clear it all up. So I got up and grabbed two plastic bags - one was a plain light colour and the other a plain dark colour. With one on each had I gathered up the turds which I noticed were all different shapes and shades of brown. Rather interesting in a depraved sort of way. I just about managed to gather them all between the bags and throw them in the bin at the end of the picnic area.

Now I wanted to look at the shops. I heard someone say "Tirolia is closing down". Three shops down was the one apparently called "Tirolia" and it was a place where children could come and make things and paint things. A tall middle-aged competent-looking woman was in there with a plastic apron tidying things away. She saw me looking in and I felt sad that such a nice place was closing down. I understood that the "Avenue stores" is moving in to where "Tirolia" is vacating from a few doors away.

Rock concert fragment

I've just been to a rock concert on my own - I think it was Nik Turner - and I'm coming out and telling my friend G about how good it was.

Another concert fragment

I'm sure it's not the same dream. Anyway I'm upstairs in a large venue. I've just left my seat for some reason and am in the foyer behind the seats. It's all new and empty. It's made of light varnished wood finish. There's a door at each end to get back to the seats bot for some reason I'm not going back in.

Rearranging PCs

The study has been cleared of old equipment and it's much larger than it appeared before. On the white table (currently with a large monitor in it irl) I've managed to find space for 2 PCs and a new TV! Wondering if my wife would approve and I decide she wouldn't. (She hates PCs).

The toilet dreams are weird. The first seems to be about not worrying what other people think. But maybe all dreams could ultimately be interpreted like that. Wondering what the toilet means. It's a male domain. And for me there seems to be an anxiety/conflict as to what is sexual and what is not. I didn't want my son stripping off because it may invite sexual accusations. And then I do precisely that when I see the two men.

The second dream seems to be in two parts. The first part is much more embarrassing. But never so in dreams. Not sure what bodily waste etc represents in this case. The second part of the dream centres on the children's art shop closing. Seems like I'm tapping in to a closure of my own childhood, and it's replaced with a small supermarket - something more functional and adult in life.

Originally Posted by Burned up

Not sure what bodily waste etc represents in this case.

Are you expelling some time of emotion and by disposing of it shows you have no problem letting it go? The different shapes and colors show that perhaps it was more complex than you had previously thought when it was a part of you and you were not objectively distanced from it?

Originally Posted by raklet

Are you expelling some time of emotion and by disposing of it shows you have no problem letting it go? The different shapes and colors show that perhaps it was more complex than you had previously thought when it was a part of you and you were not objectively distanced from it?

Could be. I generally have the feeling that my body is filled with "poison" and that anything from expelling body waste to having my blood taken is a form of cleansing. Doubtless this feeling is symbolic of something more unconscious/emotional and as you say it could represent a more complex letting go rather than just generic "poison".

Thanks Raklet. Two minds are always better than one.

Haunted house fragment

I was in a haunted house only this was like the "Haunted House" board game - a 3D construction of 4 rooms and a central chimney. When a ball bearing is dropped down the chimney it lands in one of the 4 rooms causing something to happen like a broomstick sweeping down.

Anyway, this was for real and was both scary and fun. Someone had got changed into a bright blue mouse.

Fears and excitements are fundamental ways in which we experience people in the world (or so says WRD Fairbairn!) Children's games are often like this as are their stories. I think this dream was as simple as that.

Originally Posted by Burned up

Thanks Mark. It's a bit of a balancing act just now.

indeed I can imagine mate, Hope all is well though

lol cool dreams, slightly funny! The first toilet dream was mad! especially when you thought the blokes were doing it then realised its ok they are just disabled ha ha

lol that crap in the field dream is mad! lol I wounder to what that could mean lol

Originally Posted by mark

indeed I can imagine mate, Hope all is well though

lol cool dreams, slightly funny! The first toilet dream was mad! especially when you thought the blokes were doing it then realised its ok they are just disabled ha ha

lol that crap in the field dream is mad! lol I wounder to what that could mean lol

I've done that a few times lately in public. Oh well, they're only dreams

Lee ho

I'm sure this dream started elsewhere but anyhow, I'm now at the back of a boat and it's getting dark. It's a motorised boat but I get the impression it's quite basic. Despite that, I want to move the said but I can't get to it from where I'm sitting.

I go through a door into the cabin and immediately see someone I don't recognise. I try to make him into R who organised a sailing trip I was on many years ago but as I was thinking the DC shook his head!

Looking around the cabin I saw others from that social group. They were asleep. G, who is on the heavy side, is in a bed on one side whilst 3 others have crammed into a bed on the other. It'd really very dark. I move past them to what seems like a sliding plywood door, like a hatch only in the far wall of the cabin. I slide it away and there's another, like a second layer behind it. I slide that away too, and there's another. I slide that away and this time I get through. I'm in another cabin. It's dark and someone is asleep in there. I've now lost my enthusiasm for getting to the front of the boat and I give up. And wake up.

Growing fragment

A small hole in a wall between an inside place and the outside world. Outside it's sunny, lush and warm. Full of life somehow. Inside it's dull. Nothing much happening. Sterile.

A plant grows in a pot. It's only surviving, and surviving well, because it's receiving energy from the outside through this small hole.

Relocation fragment

Our Indian office needs a new head because the current one is moving to London. The head of Hong King will move there.

Darkness - this is unexplored or uncertain areas of the unconscious. A boat on water - floating on unresolved emotions. Safest place to be. Need to get to the front - can't bear not knowing where I'm going. All sorts of obstacles. People I knew from 20 years ago. Sleeping. A feeling that this is just me. 3 doors - whatever could that mean? 3 doors that go nowhere useful. Boredom. Don't know what this dream is revealing other than the feeling of boredom and finding things to do to kill the boredom.

The second dream is more refreshing. Like I feel there's a hole formed that's letting goodness through. Interesting analogy as I made a breakthrough in my counselling yesterday and it did indeed feel like a connection to the outside world.