JoannaB

Dear mind of mine,
I would like you to stop doing that!
This is the second time this week that I recalled a dream fragment, but you caused me to not write it down, and now all I recall is that there was a fragment.

That's pretty much what I recall: it was about dreams, seeking, and being upside down.

In my dream, discovered some sort of suspicious button on my skin on my lower belly that would require me to go to the hospital and get it operated. My husband called 911, but our of some reason chose not to get an ambulance. We did not have a car in my dream. We tried to get to a bus, but failed out of some reason. Turned out we lived in either too small a town to hail a cab, or the cabs were too busy to stop. At some point my husband could no longer keep walking with me, and the dream did not explain why. As I continued walking, a young man started bothering me, "Where are you going?" He first asked. me "To the hospital." Him: "I bet you are like a hypochondriac, and there is nothing wrong with you." Me: "Well if you must know, we discovered, I have some growth here, and it will need to be removed." Him: "Why did you not call 911?" me "My husband did but decided not to get an ambulance out of some reason. him: "Cheap bastard." Then the young man attacked me. It was a tickle attack. He was tickling me so hard, I could not go on. My phone rang. It was my husband. Me: "Help. I am being attacked." Him with concern in his voice "Where are you?" That's when the dream started to fade, though I remember thinking I should call 911.

This might have been a kidnapper dream, or anyway bad guy(s). I don't think I was myself, and I don't think my kids were in it or anyone else I know. I remember an ominous moving structure up on a high rise. It looked kind of like melted plastic, a bit like a huge chain, with large enough holes to put a person in or a body. And it mad moving up and down. I had the impression the bad guy was about to put someone in it. And I wondered whether the melted plastic used to be people.

In this dream my 4-year old son was without his pants in the kitchen, and he pooped. This reminds me of a potty training method I read about but never implemented. Anyway my son of course is already past this age.

I know I recalled two other fragments upon waking up, and even stabilized them by not moving, but now they are gone.

I think this is a fragment recall from earlier in the night that I remembered and forgot before. I only recalled that I was supposed to review all contingencies / factors / options, and there were thousands of them. Out of some reason my mind insists this had something to do with the Treyvon Martin case.

Do I have a headache because of this dream? Lol

I have a sense that this dream was much longer than I remember.

I had a new job.

I remember struggling to recall people's names. I had already been at this job long enough that I should have remembered. At one point I was sitting between two guys, and one of them had my husband's name, and the other's name was Vince. My husband has a common first name so I was not surprised by that. I commented to the guy in the dream that this is my husband's name also, and that it is a good name.

Part of this dream I was supposed to have some sort of appointment with the company therapist. I think it was a prerequisite for starting a new project. A requirement for this appointment was to fring some stew from home, and it would be analysed to see what it reflects about me. I brought too much stew, and I brought it in an open long transparent plastic pouch which was an unwieldy mess. The therapist's receptionist told me it was too much. I said I did not know how much to bring. She kept just a tiny bit. I remember telling her to use or toss the rest that I did not want to take it back.

That's all I recall. I woke up around 3:28 with a major headache. Will go to get pain killer and warm milk now, and plan to try to go back to sleep.

I dreamed about work, but it was a totally different team. My team lead from two jobs ago (whom I liked a lot) was there, and in my dream she had her own company, whereas the rest of us where contracters for another company. At some point she made an offer that anyone who wanted in the team could join her company, and I seriously considered this switch.

I remember this was a long dream, but I only remember some of it.

I was setting up a large game, outdoors in a city square. The pieces were kind of like red plastic bowling pins, only it was not for bowling, there were a lot more of them, and they had to be precisely spaced out at certain distances on the edge of the busy city square. And there were so many of them, and I was overwhelmed. Plus it did not help that I was unclear on the rules of the game and thus not sure on whether I was setting up correctly. Finally, I decided to give up, but I had set up so many of those plastic pegs already that I needed to collect again.

I asked my mom to help me with the cleanup, and she did some, but mostly it was me. During setup also found some red peppers made out of plastic, and wondered where they had come from, but I collected them because they looked to be part of the set.

I realized I was late for work. I gave my mom some instructions about delivering kids to classes. Then I realized my purse was missing. We started searching. Finally I realized that I had it with me all along in the bag with the game pieces (a huge plastic bag).

Despite being a DILD this was also a WBTB because I got up around 3:30 am and made myself a warm milk with honey, and thought about dreams, and intended to lucid dream.

At the start of this dream, I was outside with my mother. The area was not at all like my home's surroundings - lots more grassy open spaces for one, but in my dream I did not notice. All of a sudden I needed to pee bad. I ran for my home (or what my dream mind considered my home). When I got there, I realized that I forgot my purse somewhere outside, but luckily my door was open. As I was stepping inside the house, someone was after me, so i closed and locked the door. but they tried to get in, and then i realized it was my mother, so I opened the door for her. I said: "I forgot my purse somewhere close to the bushes, but now I really got to pee!" My mother said "So you forgot your purse," as if it were not a big deal, "so go pee."

I went into the bathroom, and saw that the toilet was not where it usually is. My first thought was to try to rationalize it, maybe the toilet is broken. But then it hit me: it's a dream! As I turned to what used to be my mother, (s)he transformed into a strange man, and there was another strange man there now. But I knew it was a dream, and I did not care. In fact I out of some reason sat on the lap of one of the two men on the floor in the hallway in front of the bathroom, and I grinned, and he grinned back. I knew he was not real.

I exited the bathroom and hallway area. The home now was our current home: same layout and look. I remembered that I had to stabilize my dream, so then I looked at my hands. They started shaking, but then stabilized. I don't remember any more how the first man disappeared, but I do remember looking at the other guy (this was not the guy whose lap I had sat in, but the other one), and thinking "why are you still here? I don't need you." So I stared at him, and he faded slowly out of existence, until there was just a transparent shape, and then completely gone.

I remembered that I was supposed to have dream goals. I couldn't clearly remember then, but I remembered that some were specific to the dream competition, and I remembered that had just ended. So I decided to go with the tried and true generic goal: flying. I exited the house by the door, but then started flying.

At first I had trouble and was flying upside down and did not see things well. But then my flight stabilized, and I was at a height that was close to roof tops. I was flying through what seemed to be a little European style town, very different from where my home really is. The buildings were all somewhat unique looking, but not artificially so - it fit the European small town look.

Then while still dreaming, I heard and became aware of my husband shifting in bed next to me. I knew I was about to wake up. I looked around at the houses in flight a bit more, but then I did wake up.

Something about vision(s).

I went to a job interview. It was going to take place in a crowded conference room. I did not go in yet, but waited in a chair outside. When the boss in charge (who was male) came, both of us walked into the crowded conference room at once, making an entrance. While everyone was still settling, the man to my left started asking me questions about breastfeeding versus formula. One of his questions was like "will you be more likely to run out of milk or formula during a feeding?" And my response was "You do not understand. You give the baby as much food during a feeding as will satisfy the baby, no matter which food it is. And once you are done, you hope the baby is satisfied enough to not devour you." While I was just talking to the one man, when I stopped, I saw that everyone was listening. I said to them that while they may think this is too personal, but it is important for this job that we can be honest. So next everyone was asked how many cigarettes they have ever smoked, and I said none. But there was a counter that increased and every time I denied it, it increased more as if to suggest I was lying. And I got angry and exploded that it was the truth, and that this job would only work if there is trust.

Note: in reality I did in fact breast feed my kids, and it is true that I never smoked.

Ok, this one I do not even know whether or not it is a memory of a dream or a daydream or what:

I have a sense of going down (or possibly up) stairs in a staircase holding on to a railing and there was energy in the railing.

This came to me as a vague shadow of a memory of a possible dream during daytime. Since I had no dream recall at night, I shall assume this is a dream memory late after the fact.

My younger son and I were going on a field trip to a synagogue. And I was preparing a bagged lunch for us.

My younger son in school was given the kind of rules that amounted to children should be seen not heard. Among others he was told that when everyone sings if he is under a certain age he is not supposed to sing. He was breaking or challenging these rules but in a respectful way. I was proud of him. His teacher did seem open to changing these rules recognizing his potential. Toward the end she was giving some sort of speech playing along with bringing attention to my son. This was in what looked like church. Actually the dream was a bit blurry on whether this was school or church, a bit like both.

playing Superhero Card Game with Aliens
Playing weird card game with aliens as players and superhero cards. Had to correct the aliens on the value of earth superheroes (they had underestimated them by far). So once we corrected the value of our superheroes, some superhero that had before been completely beaten by the alien superhero in the card game, now won easily.

Theft or Gift
My older son saw that the daughter of the proprietor of a store was pining for a magazine. So he reached into the cash register and used money from there to "pay" for the magazine, which he gave to this girl. Then we talked about whether this is stealing: it was not his money, but he did not take the magazine, the girl is the daughter of the store owner, and my son ment well. I said that he would need to return the magazine to where it was because it was not bought with his money, and this he could not decide what happened with it.

Meeting a DV member and family face to face
I dreamed about meeting a member of DreamViews face to face. I do not know who she was, which user name, but she was a young woman. She had a very weird large family whom I got to meet too because we met at her home. I brought my sons with me. We sat on her porch, but then moved inside. I had a sense of interacting with various weird family members. I had brought my son's school photos with me, and one of the women in her family wanted to see them, but I could not find the actual photos in the lavish gift bundle that I had gotten with the photos. At some point in the dream the young woman I was meeting pointed out to me that my eyeglasses cleaner had fallen out of my purse, broken, and now the liquid was spreading over the hardwood floor. I felt bed about that. As my sons and I were leaving one of her older female relatives kept insisting on kissing my younger son repeatedly - I was annoyed about that. My younger son who is in reality four seemed much younger than he is, and I was carrying him out of some reason. The other DV member and I said that we looked forward to interacting on DV.

Religion Test
Some men talking to me and my family about religion. One of them said that he would want to test my faith by asking questions to see whether I believe them. The first question was actually two questions combined, something like "Do you believe in one God who is separate from all creation?" And I said that while I believe in one God, but he is deeply interconnected with his creation as the Holy Spirit. The man did not like this answer - he wanted faith on his definitions.