Somewhere Over The Rainbow

I'm driving down a hill, I have a coffee in one hand, I start to lose control of the car because my one hand is occupied, but I won't put the coffee down for some reason. I swerve all over the road and bump into cars and drive on the sidewalk, but I'm watching myself do this from the top of the hill as I'm doing it. After I get out of the car, someone says "well that's not really an example of good driving, is it?" I was hoping nobody would notice what happened.

I remembered so much more less than an hour ago...

I'm walking into a mall with my girlfriends,we see a bunch of stores that we're excited to shop at. One gf wants to go to one store, but me and another girlfriend want to go in the opposite direction.

We walk into a store that has thousands of boxes of shoes on sale...Nike, Adidas..all the popular brands. The shoes are all white,they range from $11 to $39. I try on a really ugly pair of crock-type runners. They are pink and purple.

We walk into a huge church-like building, there are columns all around and there is some sort of meeting going on. There is mention of something vegan at some point.

I think one of my cats was part of my dreams last night, but I can't remember what happened....

My old boss (my boyfriend's current boss), was my boss in my dream, and told me that they were getting their employees to explore their true passions. She was going to tell my boyfriend on Monday that he is allowed to by a record. She wants me to go home and watch movies and she'll ask for my critique on some stuff tomorrow.

Not much success with recall last night, just some random small details here and there...

In a shuttle with a coworker, some other people, going to start a new job....

Coming back from work, I point out a secret shortcut of some kind to my coworker (fence with missing legs at the bottom), and get excited to tell him that I know of another shortcut in the city somewhere.

All of this seems to take place on some sort of floating land, on clouds or something...

Getting dropped off at home, home looks like some sort of palace or really fancy hotel, white and gold...

....I'm flooded with images of beautiful oceans and clouds and sunlight and dream scenes. I've been collecting "dream" art all day long. ALL DAY. I can't help but see something gorgeous/strange/wonderful every time I close my eyes. Good night....

I'm in a department store with my mom. I think there's a bike. There's no wall on one side of the store, and I stand at the edge of the floor and look down to the floor below. I think maybe I jump.

I'm walking down the sidewalk and I see a car, maybe a cop car, speeding around the neighbourhood. Then I see a guy come around the corner, I think he has a dog and he's wearing a military type jacket. His face is weathered and angry. I cross the street and rush to get out of his path. I'm pretty sure he's the reason I saw the cop car a second ago and if he sees me, he'll take me as his hostage. He might have a weapon, a machete maybe. (Reading the news before bed, read about a machete attack).

I got to see my mom, but she tells me she's busy or has plans, or made plans even though I went out of my way to come see her. I get really mad at her and start yelling at her and crying and calling her names. She sits down and laughs it off. She doesn't look like my mom. She has long, dark, wavy hair and a thinner face.

For a brief second, I'm watching a slideshow of the art that I look at in real life before I go to bed. Except the slideshow looks more like huge squares of images floating in front of me, not really coming from a particular source.

Thought I would post a couple of things in an attempt to get lucid tonight, or at least have some really vivid dreams and great recall. Took some B6 again and drank some peppermint tea, so I'm excited to get to sleep!

It occurred to me about an hour ago that the dream I had last night that took place in some mansion, may have been a result of some of the art that I was looking at last night, which is exactly what I was hoping for. Here are a couple of the images....







I'm really loving George Grie's work, and am DYING to have a dream where I'm in this second scene. This piece just blows me away. I've made it my desktop at home, at work, it's part of my slideshow of art that I'm now looking at before bed....it's just amazing. So I'm happy to be able to connect something I dreamt about last night with these images. Hopefully something is sinking in.

I also wanted to make note of a really beautiful dream I had months/years ago...can't even remember when. I probably even wrote about it on this site when I dreamt it. Nothing specific happened in the dream, it was just the way it looked. I remember seeing beautiful scenery, mountains, lush,tall, green grass....and the colours were so brilliant...and the sun is my favourite part. The sun was shining down on this whole scene and it was just this phenomenal, golden, juicy brilliance scattered across everything I was seeing. It was the most calming and at the same time, uplifting thing I'd ever experienced in a dream. My dreams are usually dark, panicked, tense....but I remember being ecstatic when I woke up and thinking about the dream for soooo long after, days and days.....

so, sweet dreams to me...

Taking a trip somewhere with a group of people. We were supposed to be going somewhere, but then decided to go to Hawaii instead. (This is probably a result of the fact that I'm going to Mexico with my boyfriend's family in March, but originally we were to supposed to go to Cuba).

I have an image of a gf in my dream that I don't talk to at all anymore. I can't quite remember what she was doing. I think I walk away from her...we're in a ground level basement suite....I can see floor to ceiling windows, but they're also sliding doors. I think there's a garden outside. I see hula hoops littered all around inside. Some are colourful, they are all sparkly and beautiful and huge. (A gf of mine has some hoops in her living room). I see a pair of white, huge, sparkly hoops and get really excited. I feel like there's a point here where I kind of realize something dream-like about this situation, and that is part of my excitement. I don't achieve lucidity.

I find a cat that looks like one of my cats (although now that I think about it, the found cat and my cat, in my dream, looked like a combination of the two cats I have in real life). I'm really excited to get them together because I think they would instantly love each other. I keep trying to get them into the bathroom at the same time so that they have a small space to be in and can get to the know each other easily. One of them, can't remember which one, turns into a white rat a couple of times, upon meeting the other. One time, the rat bites the top of the cat's head. I can see the pained expression on the cat's face.

One of my coworkers is telling me about new procedures at work, and I'm irritated and say something like "how am I supposed to know that??" and he replies telling me there was a meeting at 10am and if I got to work earlier I would know what was going on. I see another coworker making a face, agreeing with my other coworker. He's wearing a dark grey shirt. I say something rude to him as he walks away. I walk away with a female coworker and try to justify to her why I come in so late. "You know, I stay later to make up for coming in later. It just works better for me. I put in my time, just like everyone else." She understands and reassures me that I'm doing nothing wrong.

All of this is taking place on the Hawaii trip. It also taking place in a huge, mansion-like place that I think we are staying at.

I ask someone at this mansion if I can use the internet. She says "they're over there." I walk towards some tables. There are blankets all around this room and the tables. I get a feeling that I'm in the 80's and she must not really understand what the internet is if that is her response. The internet is not a "they." I go over to some small device sitting on a table and wonder how I'm supposed to get the internet on this. I think the girl is foolish. Then I look over and see two computers sitting across the table, and realize that these are the "they" she was referring to. I try to grab one of the monitors and move it towards me, but it falls on its side and the legs on the bottom of the monitor get stuck on something.

Theme: I've dreamt about something work related every night that I've remembered my dreams so far. I think it's safe to say that work is a recurring theme in my dreams. Unfortunately.

I woke up this morning and remembered my dreams, and now, two hours later, I've almost completely forgotten.

I have a slight memory of a baby in my dreams. I think I was making a really big deal about how cute a baby was.

I think my dream also involved work again, because I'm pretty sure when I woke up I thought, "oh, that's the third night in a row I've dreamt about something work related. But for the life of me I can't remember a single thing about my dream last night having to do with work. I feel like some free writing could help trigger a memory:

My dream, work, coworkers, I dreamt about my mean coworker the other night, and my director and executive director and now last night I dreamt about.............work? coworkers? something that happened at work. Being mad at work? Work has been so boring lately. So frustrating. I'd rather be doing a million other things than working....work, work.....I woke up and thought, oh yeah! I dreamt about...................................

Blah! >: (

Edit - just read an email from a gf of mine and that made me think she was in my dream last night. Can't remember anything though, but I feel like there's something....

Walking down a street near my home with my boyfriend, we run into my Director and Executive Director. They know my boyfriend because he used to work with me, so we stop to say hi, and he goes to kiss my Director on the hand, but does something awkward, and ends up kissing a spot up high on her arm instead. We laugh and laugh and laugh at him.

I'm in the ocean somewhere, trapped on a piece of a boat or something. I think there's been an explosion. I think my boyfriend is in the water also, trying to "fix" things.

I have an image of being on land, and of some sort of curved wall. Maybe it's part of a bigger structure. I can't really see anything else beyond this curve.

Barely remembered a thing from last night except...

My coworker didn't like me because I looked like a celebrity. I can't remember the celebrity, but I remember looking at a picture of the celebrity and thinking, "Ohhh, I look like her! That's why she doesn't like me!" I think the celebrity was wearing some kind of sexy leather outfit in the picture and posing provocatively. It was like a pic for a Maxim magazine shoot or something.

I know that this is a result of a coworker who, in real life, I believe doesn't like me. I've had suggestions from other coworkers that she may feel threatened by me personally, so I'm sure that's where this dream stemmed from.