non-lucid

In this dream I wanted to study at Oxford University in England. I was told that I could rent an apartment, but to do that I would need to do all the cooking around 1am. At first I thought this was due to my academic schedule, but no, then I discovered I had misunderstood, and I always could cook, but it was recommended that I do it within 25 hours.

I was shocked by how small a village Oxford was. (Now in waking life I have been to Oxford as a tourist, and it most definitely is not a small village.) In my dream, I could walk from one end of the village to the other easily, and that was good because I was supposed to be a priest at St. John's church which was at the opposite end of the village, and I could walk there. I found out that an important member of the congregation had died, and I wrote to the bishop to enquire whether I could hold a simple funeral service, and was reprimanded in the letter back that for such important people the funeral had to be lavish.

Meanwhile returning to food and cooking, I discovered that there was not a grocery store in Oxford, too small a village for that. So one had to go to the next town over to the store.

In other news, I now was not going to be a priest after all! I was applying for a job as a research assistant. Now luckily this was just a non-lucid dream because few people in waking life ever get a job by explaining that the research of the professor in question does not really interest me, but I can do the job.

Ultimately though I decided that it may be too dangerous to go to Oxford after all, because war was coming. I knew that war was coming because people were arguing more than usual. I thought that maybe I could prevent war from starting in Oxford (how???) but that I was not going to be able to do it nationwide, and thus it might be too dangerous to be there after all. I should go back to the US instead.

Incidentally, this was not my first dream in which I thought war was coming and that thus it would be safer to stay in the US. I appear not to have noticed that I was single without kids and probably significantly younger than in waking life.

So this was supposedly in my dream a work related experiment:

You know the starting point of a car. Give the driver some beans. Require him to travel at a certain speed. Measure when/where the flatulance kicks in.

Note: Car continues to be a dream sign of mine.

Earlier in the night I remembered a fragment:
An exercise machine where you can change the height of where your feet are without changing it?

I remember in my dream thinking about the desirability of inducing recurring dreams, that it would be good for LD initiation, though I realize that some recurring dreams are not desirable.

I had no awareness of this being a dream, plus I did not feel my body. It was just non lucid thinking in a dream.

My husband and I arrived at a Taste of ... (Insert name of town) event. (For those of you unfamiliar with this kind of event: it's a way for restaurants to advertise by selling samples of food in an outdoor street feast. Our church collaborates with the Business Improvement organization of our city in organizing one each year. In the case of our event, the proceeds go to a charitable organization.) We arrived but there was no one there other than a couple retirement-age ladies selling tickets. I said to my husband, the crowds must be just confined to in front of the actual booths. That's how it was last year, too. I hate that the good restaurants have a long line, and if one does not want to stand in line as long, the food of those restaurants is much worse."

In this non lucid dream fragment I was under the impression that I was Dr Who, even though I was famale. I remember running to the bathroom from some people who were either my enemies or authorities of sort or both. I remember locking the door. I peed a very long time. I remember thinking that if they saw how long I peed they would not doubt that I was the Doctor. Of course, Dr Who is known for having two hearts not an unusually large bladder, but in my dream, I did not know that.

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.

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 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).

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.

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.

Big Boys Don't Cry and Sad is Just Cold
I dreamed that my older son had learned that if one is feeling sad what one needs is physical warmth (because sad is actually just cold) and big boys don't cry. There was also something odd about taking off his shoes to get warmer. I corrected this misconception.

Kids Learn Life Lessons From the Homeless
My husband had gotten our two boys into a community service project which involved us dropping the boys off with a community of homeless people, and we would not stay, and there would be no one else just kids and homeless people, and the homeless people were teaching the kids about life. While I was a bit nervous about this, but at least I knew that a homeless woman we know and trust would be with them all the time.

In this fragment I recall some sort of card game about dreaming and there was magic involved. It does not help that I thought I had written this dream down, but apparently had not.