JoannaB

Running a checksum in a database that represents some aspect of life does not produce same result as expected, but someone points out that maybe expectations were wrong.

Another fragment: got a new iPad, won it somehow. My mother in law was in this dream too. I think maybe she won it, and gave it to me. Oh, and I remembered telling my boys that this new iPad does not have all the games yet on it, except for a few which grandma downloaded.

My father, my sister and I were in our van. (Woa, since when do i have a sister? In the dream my sister and I were grown up but younger than now. I did not really see the sister in the van, but she got mentioned and I just knew she was there.)

Some bandits stopped us, and suggested that my father fight them in an alley, and if he looses the bandits get to rape my sister and me, and if he wins we may go. I thought this was a very bad idea and expressed my concern to my dad. He said "Do not worry, as long as there are only the three bandits, I will win." (?!) My father left the van and started walking toward bandits in the alley. I locked all car doors from the inside. I dialed on my phone "POLICE". A woman answered but I hung up. (?!) I heard a fourth bandit open the trunk (the van had a trunk like a car), and start looking through it. So there were four bandits at least, we had no chance.

And here is where it gets tricky: there are three endings. I think I kind of thought of all three, and saw all three versions?
Ending 1: I saw the bandit number four approach our car to break the window with a huge metal ship anchor, and there was no time for me to do anything.
Ending 2: I called 911 (this time remembered it was 911, and not POLICE).
Ending 3: I jumped into the driver's seat, started the car, and even started driving, knowing I was leaving my father behind, but no choice.

The dream was quite vivid up until ending 1. And I think at that point my mind rebelled that it was not satisfied with that ending, so it flashed the two alternative endings in front of me, as the dream was fading away. Honestly I am not sure whether I was fully asleep for endings 2 and 3 though or whether I was already on my way to waking up.

Fragment: eating the junk eel's head (that's all I recall - no clue what it means.)

In this fragment I remember my son was under the misimpression that a restaurant we were going to was giving away free iPads.

Note: In waking life my iPad has been missing for a week. I am 95% sure it is somewhere at home just can't find it. It is out of power so cannot locate it from other device.

This dream involved ad issue that stuff needed to be updated in a database from a handheld and from computer and one could not have a server. This had something to do with a medical institute, and one of the patients came up to me while I was taking a break and wanted to know whether she could leave now. I explained that I was an IT person and could not decide that. Interestingly she spoke to me in Polish. While she spoke to me I was lounging in a chair on the patio.

So while napping I did stuff as a dream guide that was wrong. I don't remember what I did wrong but it was a few things and all of them involved gab somehow. At least one of them involved gab deleting a message I wrote. And then gab sent me a long PM about my "unhelpful behavior", and I woke up thinking that this was something I needed to fix in waking life because I like gab so much, and don't want her to think poorly of me. It almost felt like I had woken myself up on purpose because I wanted to fix these issues in waking life. But I do not remember for sure whether I really did do that - that would imply a tiny bit of awareness waking myself up like that after all.

Not long after waking up, I realized that all those issues with gab happened in my dream, that there is nothing to fix in waking life, at least nothing I know of. I tried to go back to sleep but could not, so I went into DV. I must admit that when I saw that I had a notification, I got a bit nervous. I opened it almost expecting it to be a PM from gab about my "unhelpful behavior". It was a notification about a Like.

Edit: I thought about why I had this dream. I think part of it is because in the forum where I belonged to before DreamViews I would get into trouble with moderators and part of my subconscious still expects that. However, more importantly I like to half-joke that gab is my muse - I had my first successful WILD due to gab when I first joined DV, and I still associate gab with WILD success. Today during the nap I was trying to WILD but I think I was too tired and just fell asleep unaware. But I dreamed of gab as a result.

Fragment: I think I was a young teen or college aged male, possibly an older version of my older son (not sure though). There was some school or college event that I was supposed to do something for together with two of my friends who happened to be girls but not girlfriends (one of the friends was an older version of a girl who is my son's best friend in waking life). However, I worried that I had not coordinated with my friends well enough.

Fragment: I have doubts whether I am good enough and my boss reassures me that I am.

Fragment: Something about a man going cross country skiing or hiking in the snow, and deciding to take off winter clothes because he knew that it was worth it in winter clothes, but needed to figure out whether it was worth it dressed in a t-shirt. He discovered it was not worth it.

Fragment: Something about in a school there being a staff shortage and they were not sure they could replace someone who had left. I was looking in an auditorium or some place for a place to sit, and found one, but was told I would have to sit on a bench facing students because I was not one. I think in this dream I may have been the middle aged woman I am in waking life.

Fragment: Something about summer students as interns, their tasks, changing them. Needed to get permissions, and justify it.

WBTB Attempt failed - but remembered two dreams from the two last hours of sleep after WBTB attempt

Home Search Next Door to a School

We were home searching again (doing that a lot in dreams lately). Again the house we saw was supposedly one we had viewed in a prior house search (did not really look familiar though).

The house was next door to a school. The school had a playground. We asked the home's owner about the school. It was an elementary school. She claimed it was a public school but I was doubtful, so I asked something like "So if we live here, this is the school our kids would go to?" And she answered "You have to keep in mind that your kids will soon outgrow elementary school and not go here." My older son is now in second grade and my younger is not yet old enough to start school, but in the dream I agreed "Yes, they will soon outgrow it." How big is the school? Oh, only right classes, she said. I asked her whether I remembered correctly from the previous time we had seen the house that she had a kid too. She said she did not. I felt embarrassed that I did not remember that.

Just like in previous house searching dreams, I notice upon waking up that we did not look inside the house. The focus is on what is next to it.

Golf Carts and Lost Younger Son

My husband and I were in gold carts chasing some sort of fast train going fast in golf carts.

Suddenly I noticed: where are our kids? We had been with our kids before. I confronted my husband. It turned out he let our seven and four year olds drive their own cart, but it was a slower one, so that was ok. I insisted we backtrack and find them.

We find the cart and my seven year old is driving it and doing just fine, but my four year old is missing. I continue searching for him frantically on foot.

My step father and my mother pull up in a car and want to know if I want to get in. I decline. As he is closing the door, my stepfather drops a pair of sunglasses. He asks my help in picking up those glasses, and also all other pairs of glasses - there are a lot of glasses around the car on the ground. I start picking up glasses.

My mother reminds me that I should be looking for my son. And comments on, see how willing to help my husband is (sarcastically). I feel guilty that I let myself be distracted.

I keep searching, but we do not find my son before I wake up.

fragment: I remember reprimanding someone for saying it is incorrect to say it is a dream when we are awake.

Venus mantrap dream: This dream was kind of like a story. It involved someone trapped inside a Venus mantrap. A boy or possibly a young fantasy creature figured it out through some poem or vision he had while in class. He notified the authorities, and there was a fighting scene, with some creatures trying to stop the rescue. But the person was rescued from the Venus mantrap. I may be wrong, but I have the sense that I started trying to get a handle on recall of this while still asleep.

WBTB attempt failed - trouble falling back asleep

HH: I was not asleep yet, and actually had trouble falling asleep, but had a wonderful hypnagogic hallucination: very vividly I saw a woman with a clipboard in her hand. She looked like maybe someone from a doctor's office. And I heard her ask me "What are you doing here?" In response I thought at her "Trying to fall asleep"

Male teenager is all I recall - noone I know. Woke up with a headache.

My husband and I were house hunting, and there was this house which we according to the dream had seen before at a previous occasion. At first we could not see it because of a doctor's appointment of mine, but the next day we came, and there was another family there looking at the house and the hostess was the owner of the house and her family.

The house had a small bay in front of it, and in the middle of the bay was the Washington Monument sticking out of the water. There were stairs coming down into the bay. A group of dolphins performed a show for us in the bay. And there may also have been penguins or other performers.

My husband and I walked off after this show, without looking at the inside of this house. I was trying to tell my husband that for a house like this we should be willing to spend more than for our previous home, and I tried to put a dollar value on how much more in mortgage payments per month, but I could not figure it out. I also remember being worried that we had not completed a credit check yet, like before we bought our current home, but I thought that we had time after all because we could place the offer and could produce the credit check if the owner decided to sell to us.

We met the other family who had viewed the house, and they were not interested in it, and they assumed that we were not either since we had walked off without actually looking at the house.

So we walked back. We appologized to the owner for giving her mixed messages, and said we hoped it was not too late to look at the house now.

I went to this weird job interview. I got the interview because months ago a former coworker had apparently told me they were looking, and then i was not looking, but now i was (in my dream), so i contacted them again. when i arrived there was some confusion and I had to wait for someone to see me, but then a man came. The office was weird: Instead of sitting at desks people sat at tables with small groups of other people doing different stuff. I remember thinking that those chairs would not be as comfortable as desk chairs.

At one table people were verifying the consecutiveness of page numbers in a bible. My supervisor who was interviewing me noticed that the page number that one of them was on was much lower than his count. The man insisted that it was nonetheless correct. I pointed out that it could be if the preface had 37 pages that were counted with Roman numerals. I was trying to impress that I could subtract like that.

At another table I don't know what they were doing but part of it involved petting dogs. I asked whether one could pet cats instead.

I finally asked what they actually did here, and was told that they did whatever their clients requested, and that people just figured out how best to accomplish it. I remember I was very impressed out of some reason. I wanted to know whether this was the company headquarters, and was told that no, that was in Vegas, but they were thinking of relocating to San Francisco or Detroit.

It seemed they were interested in hiring me. I said that I had had a raise at my current job though since the time I told them how much money I made, would this be an issue. They said no, that they actually would pay me even more.

Then I somehow lost my supervisor / guide. I wandered the hallways trying to find him. Some company hallways were weird like there were spas and locker rooms etc there. I found someone who recognized me and knew who I was looking for, and he tried to help me. He took me downstairs and there was this fancy Middle eastern restaurant there. But we could not find the supervisor.

I finally gave up and left. Then I found out that I now would not get the job because I had not staid and waited. I wanted to know how long he had expected me to wait. Was I supposed to stay around and wait even after everyone else left for the end of the day? It was weird that I asked that, since I really had not waited long at all.

I dreamed that my father, my stepmother, and I were moving out of a house. For some reason there was a rush and my stepmother especially was hurrying us along, and we were going to leave most of our stuff behind for good.

I was worried that we were leaving my fathers guitar, many of my toys (though I was a grown up), but most of all my socks: it appeared my stepmother was actively trying to prevent me from taking any of my socks, and out of some reason I felt very deeply the need to take them.

We were almost ready to go. I managed to persuaded father that we come in one more time to get more of the stuff, and so I could get some of my socks, and he agreed, against my stepmother's wishes. The socks out of some reason were in a large chest in the basement.

As we passed the yard, a huge owl landed, and he said "They love eachother very much" (At least I think that was it - what the owl said is the part of my dream recall I am least sure about). I said to my father: Did you hear that? What this owl said? He had heard it, but he insisted that the owl must have learned to parrot the phrase without understanding the meaning. I agreed.

I did get some of my socks. Though most of my stuff did stay behind.

Fragment 1: I seemed to be reviewing a bit of Downton Abbey TV series in my sleep, specifically the bit about how the assistant cook is jealous of the new kitchen maid because of the romantic interest of the footman.

Fragment 2: this dream was third person kind of like watching TV too. There was a war veteran who used to be into college basketball, and now he wanted to go back to college to play more ball, and would he be any good again?

I recall that there was a sex scandal in this dream. Alas that is all I recall! Oh and I think I was not involved in it but rather third person.

I strongly suspect watching the TV show Downton Abbey had something to do with this dream.

In this dream some young woman was making pants out of yarn. A very tall young man was trying them on, and she was tying some loose threads into bows. She asked me whether they were done. I pointed out that if he pulled them up they were way too short, but if he pulled them down they were way too low. The young man demonstrated this. This should have been obvious to anyone without asking. The pants did not look like man's pants, though in general they did not look good even for a woman, but I did not say that.

Another fragment may have been about baby shower preparations?