JoannaB

I was working with my coworker R on data issue. We had received instructions from our partner organization which assumed a certain data structure in a table, but I had added a field without telling anyone because in one record a person had a four part name and so first name, middle name, and last name was not enough. I made a mistake of doing this without consulting anyone or even letting anyone know. I told my coworker now, but he had already contacted our partner organization to let them know that the data structure was incorrect. I started working on correcting it, and the effort seemed much than would actually be needed for this. I decided to put fourth part of the name in the comment field, and to delete the extra field after all.

I forgot this dream upon waking up first but then drifted back to sleep. Woke up and did not remember any new dreams but remembered this dream from earlier in the night.

I was at church. There was going to be some sort of children's ceremony, possibly a baptism. I was waiting with a stroller. The child in the stroller at some point said "Terrific". I was amazed, since this child did not look old enough to use such a word. It turned out that the child was five, though she did not look it, but I still thought she was terrific. I called her mom over to tell her how amazed I was by her daughter, only to discover that the mother paid only attention to her son, and ignored her daughter! The woman who plaid the mom in the dream in reality is a church member, but she has no son, has two daughters, who are both older already, and luckily does not ignore either one.

I have a suspicion I remembered another dream upon waking up but did not immediately write it down, and forgot!

Fragment 1: treatment of cat as a reflection of good person, women evaluated based on this

Fragment 2: I was looking for a new home, using a map to identify attractive neighborhoods

Fragment 1. Car broke down 5 times in a row. Going hiking with woman from mechanics. Though used three different mechanics. One of the mechanics seemed to be located where my kids summer camp is (which is funny because there is not enough room for cars there for kid pickup and drop off, let alone for a car garage).

Fragment 2: something about snake venom

Fragment 3: Setting up bank account but inadvertently sharing answers to security questions with too many people by handing the paperwork that had all the answers to one person after another.

Received a request for a report for examining some sort of malfunction.

Fragment 1: My dad insisted that I visit him now this upcoming weekend. The prices of flight and hotel were exorbitant, but I thought he must have a reason for insisting. The hotel was actually a nightclub owned by my boyfriend in my dream.

Fragment 2: a lot of kittens and a few other small animals had gotten in through a window into a basement. I called my husband to come. We had to figure out what to do with them and how to prevent more from coming in.

A long dream:

The servers were failing and everyone was told to do backups of all their work, especially recent work, because the servers were about to crash.

I was a journalist and rather famous in my dream, known under a pen name only though. I worked in a small town which may have been Bloomington, Indiana.

There was an important crisis going on, and it was not the servers failing, but I don't know what it was. I had to spread word of it in person because of the failing servers. So I had to reveal my pen name which would open doors for me.

I got to a farm house or anyway a remote house. And there found myself ambushed against a fence by a skunk. I tried to move as little as possible to not cause the skunk to spray. Though I started out facing the skunk I was then facing the house, and I felt the skunk nibbling on me from the back.

A woman came out of the house. I explained who I was. She explained that the skunk was a pet, one of several.

Dream: I was masturbating in a public place in a cafe. Two cops had engaged a man to cleanup some under a table, and they told me to help cleanup. I started to, but then I noticed some dirt and flies were getting into an open wound I had in one of my palms, so I stopped and cleaned my wound, and told the cops that I could not do this. I may have gotten a phone call from my doctor to tell me that with my wound I cannot clean up. After the cleanup effort was over and the man was gone. I asked one of the cops to help me masturbate, and he at first said he cannot do it during work, and I said it would be doing me a service.

Upon waking up I remembered another dream, but now I forgot! I will get up now and stay awake a bit and do a WBTB. Fail

Fragment: My older son noticed a spark behind the aquarium. I went around and confirmed an electrical problem there. I did not know what to do other than turn it off.

Edit: Just remembered the fragment I forgot from earlier tonight! I was in a very dirty basement. There were various creatures there. Definitely bats, but I don't know what the white ball shaped creatures were - there were lots of them and fairly disturbing.

Fragment 1: a new cafeteria at work opened and had weird arrangements where one would be assigned a seat next to someone specific and told a bit about them. One time I was going to this cafeteria with a man who in my dream was my father but in reality a stranger, and I wanted to know if we could sit next to eachother. Luckily their system had provisions for such requests.

Fragment 2: a new government resulted in lots of job offers, and I was offered a job in my dream which I accepted without even an interview or meeting with them. I was telling my client about this, and he recognized the name of the government person I would be working for, her first name was Elizabeth, but he said she is informal, so you may call her Liz.

I tried WBTB again, this time earlier, no success

Fragment: this dream took place in an earlier era but I don't know when. There was a prostitute, and she offered her services for free to another woman, who refused. That's all I recall. Though I kind of think there may have been something about family there too.

Full dream:

I was walking down a road with this man who was homeless, and he took on odd jobs such as washing floors at restaurants. He was telling me about this restaurant that he washed the floor for, that he just required that they provide him a mop, which they did. We walked to a restaurant, and the person at the door recognized me, and asked, so are you going to come and pick up those cakes tonight? I said yes. The homeless guy wanted to know whether this is something one can get paid for, picking up cakes. I said that I do not know what this was for, but that he could ask my husband (whom he knew, so I used first name in referring to him).

We passed the restaurant and behind it there was an enclosure with lots of dogs and cats including lots of kittens. The enclosure had a ridiculously low fence, and the kittens kept jumping over it, and I kept putting them back in. The restaurant person came and said that he had heard cats were territorial, and that that may be why they did not want to stay with the other cats. I said that's not it: they are not fighting or upset, they are just curious what's on the other side of the fence, and it is too low. I suggested he distract them with some food, which he kept in a wooden cabinet located in this backyard.

Fragment: there was going to be a work related conference, and new Russian employee was to go but my boss asked who else I would recommend go. I said B because he is good with politics and there would likely be political aspects of this conference so he could handle those best. Also I was going to leave a note for my boss on a piece of paper on his desk that some event was cancelled. (Note to self: too many work related dreams lately - I am not being paid for this!) Edit: I remember when my boss asked whom to send to the conference I was thinking that I don't want it to be me.

I tried WBTB after this but could not fall back to sleep. Thinking too much about work.

I tried a WBTB around 3am. It failed.

But I remember two fragments after it:

(1) my boss was back and enlisting an ally to speak to the enemy team. But when the ally started to talk, the other team left the room. I tried to speak up and say "is this how partizan this project is, that you will not even listen to a dissenting view" but when I tried to talk I had no voice.

(2) I was in a hallway of my dorm dressed only in a towel, trying to get back to my room. First attempt I went into another dorm room instead accidentally. The door was different somehow and there was a large bookcase there. Then I found that my door was blocked by someone's stuff, and I demanded that they move it. They said why don't you move it yourself. I said because I need to hold up this towel which is all I am wearing.

Kids needed to be dropped off somewhere before there was a grown up there to watch them, so kids had to hide to not get perents in trouble. I am unclear whether this was my kids or whether I was one of the kids.

Kids have grown ups presents. Someone got a perfume. Someone got an anti aging facial cream (this was for my grandma RIP but then changed to for my mom).

I was running for some sort of office. For some reason I had access to my main opponent'so office, I think the implication was we used to work together before and I still had access. So I went in and left a chocolate on her desk along with the card "May the best person win." And I was hoping she would assume the chocolate was poisoned (it was not), and that she would have a negative reaction blown out of proportion. Then later in the campaign she dismissed the importance of music, whereas I learned the lyrics of a popular song by heart in order to sing it along with my constituents publically to show how in tune I was with them.

I have not been following the election campaign in the U.S. closely, and yet this dream I think is in part inspired by it going on.