JoannaB

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.

I dreamed that we sold our house to get a condo instead, that we had wanted another condo all along but just could not find it.

In reality I love our house, and wouldn't move back to a condo if I could help it.

Some man and I don't know who it was, persuaded my mom and me to go on a "hike" which was more like an endurance obstacle course that was extremely risky. It included some slides and stairs which were ok. But finally there was the part that involved moving along the upper age of a steep tall cliff hanging on by the hands mostly without any safety gear. If we fell we could die. I am surprised that we agreed to do it. I am even more surprised that I was not even all that scared - I have fear of heights in waking life. At some point my iPhone fell, but I held on. I successfully made it to an easier path that led to the end. And I realized that we could have taken the easy path all along. But I did not mind. We did it! My iPhone screen was thoroughly shattered and there was liquid there - strangely it still kind of worked but almost impossible to see the contents of the screen. Back at home I asked my husband if I could have a new iPhone, and he said where will you get $15 million dollars from that is how much a new iPhone costs. I said I don't need the newest model, but just the oldest model that is still available in retail with a plan, and he said then of course I can have one. I said, but we will also need to buy a used iPod for our older son, because he was waiting to get my old phone and now he won't because it is too broken.

My mom had some elaborate plan to invite neighbors over, and she set up a pot of hot chocolate at the front gate into our yard and another pot of hot chocolate at our door (in reality our front yard is not even gated). I expressed scepticism over this elaborate plan, wondering what it was about. I thought that the neighbors would likely stumble and fall into the hot chocolate at the gate, and then stumble and fall into the hot chocolate again at the front door. My mom explained that she really just wanted to invite neighbors to bike with our boys. I objected because homework was not done. My older son reminded me that biking or being outside in nice whether is an exception to our rule that homework needs to be done before play, and it is true - I don't know why I objected in the dream. I relented and agreed.

I was driving way too fast out of control of the car. I did manage to slow down eventually and stop, and me and the passanger agreed that they would be driving next. I don't remember who the passanger was.

We went to a store, Baby's R Us. The employee told us the store would be opening and closing in 15 minutes because the store had a computer virus, and the only employee there was hacking into it.

I was told that my task at work was to format academic references correctly.

In this disturbing dream one of my best friend's died. I don't know how. The dream was kind of in the aftermath knowing she was dead, contacting her husband, the shock of it.

I think this is mid dream, but the first thing I remember was being in some cafe with my friends/side kicks, no one I know in real life, and I know I had been ready to give up moments ago, but I remember realizing that if giving up is not an option then the only option left is to win. We then proceeded into enemy territory and started slashing throats until the rest capitulated.

Why did I have this dream? Well, I've been watching a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer lately. Lol. Also been thinking that my self esteem has been low, and wondering how to improve self confidence and assertiveness. Also I have this method of getting out of depression, if I get to a desperate stage, then I say that getting worse is not an option and staying the way I am is not an option, so I go into berserk self improvements mode on all fronts.

In this dream my mother was with me, and we were next to the trash can. There was tension because my husband had thrown away art supplies that could still be used. While I agreed with my mother that it was a waste and I understood they were important to her because she always pushes our kids to take more interest in art, but I also knew I should not overwrite my husband's decision and side with my mother against him. I woke up from this nap before making up my mind what to do.

Dream undoubtedly caused in part by watching a Doctor Who Christmas special.

Christmas with my husband's side of the family at our home but different than current. Re-gifting some presents my husband just received. Not enough stockings but happened to get some as present, but one at least is way too small.

Last night I dreamed I had a new job: reviewing resumes to determine the percentage likelihood that the person was a spy.

I was working for a different boss than in real life and it seemed my boss had recently changed. I still had the same clients though. I was told that I was the subject matter expert who understood the clients. Actually I did not understand them at all, but I knew I had to pretend I did. I forgot that the clients were coming, and was out of the office when they came. Though in reality they are located only about an hour away, in my dream they were staying overnight in a hotel near my work. When I returned to the office, I was told what they needed. Apparently in my dream I was a programmer, which I am not in real life. And I was supposed to write some sort of program of distances from satellites in space (this is not what I actually work on). I had to carefully phrase my questions to get my clients to explain things that I was in the dream already supposed to know but did not have a clue about.

In this dream my younger child was a girl (in reality he is a boy) and got kidnapped and killed. I remember in the dream wondering whether we should have another child not to replace this one but to provide a sibling for my older child again.

The previous night I had a nightmare about some chemical spill from a military base nearby.

I was near some sort of house in a driveway. Looking at bushes that might have been rhododendron bushes or not - I think they were somewhat different. It was quite vivid. Suddenly I realized that it is a dream, and decided to open my eyes, and there I was awake in bed, wondering why I decided to open my eyes - bad idea!

Notes: Why did I realize it was a dream? I had actively tried to have a WILD before this, and while I did not stay aware when entering the dream, I was able to recognize it as a dream. This dream occurred during a mid morning nap while home sick for the second day in a row with lots of napping.