Mydera

I took a nap since my daughter had me up several hours earlier than usual this morning, and managed to dream then as well. I dreamed of a mall trip, and I'm pretty sure that was because I had just talked about a mall dream to another DV member in a message before I went to nap. The dream starts out with my best friend and her husband, my husband, my two kids, and I all somehow squeezed into a truck. Not a tiny truck, but a larger one, at least as big as a ford 250 if not bigger. My BFF says she wants to go to the mall, and her husband says he'll drive us there if my husband and I will give him directions. We tell him that we will, and to just keep going straight because he's already going the right way. We come to a stop light, and he turns right. We ask him what he's doing, and he says he's trying to figure out where to go since we're not telling him. We tell him he was going the right way and he needs to turn back around. He turns around and this time when we tell him to go straight he takes a left and we make him turn around again. We finally arrive with no troubles after that. We get out of the truck and go into the mall. As we step through the doors, we hear a woman scream. We all stop and then see a security guard running towards us. They ask us if anyone has come through there, and we tell them no. There's a woman still screaming, but this time in anger and she's saying, "I know that little punk went this way, they're just covering for her! Don't ya'll lie to me now, where is she? She stole something from me!" We shake our heads and insist we didn't see anyone, and the security guard lets us go without any more questions. But then I heard a noise, like someone shushing someone else and someone whispering, "Hide!" I look to my left and there's this strange decorative cabinet there, and I think the sounds came from there. So I motion to my bff to watch the cabinet while I walk back to the security guard and tell him someone's hiding in it. He nods and tells us he'll check it out as soon as we walk away so if there's trouble we won't get caught in it. As soon as we're about ten feet away, I hear loud knocking and the guard saying, "I know your in there now come out before I have to drag you out!" and then there's shuffling and the sound of a fight as we quickly turn the corner to get away before the kids see it. My best friend and my husband are pushing our kids in stroller, and I'm walking next to my husband and my bff's husband is walking next to her. When we are around the corner I can tell the mall looks much different than usual. There are two sets of elevators and not just one. There are a lot more people than usual. There's also this golden brown lighting in the whole place. Like the lights are behind golden fixtures, and instead of drywall all the walls are finished wood paneling. It's really beautiful, but I hate crowds so I'm instantly uncomfortable. We start to walk to the right and walk by some people who's hair attracts my attention. There are several of them and their hair is black and forest green, and they have it styled in spiky hair styles, but the styles are different for each of them. I went through a blue hair phase a couple years ago, and a red hair stage last year, so I'm wondering how they get their hair to look so freshly dyed as crazy colors fade fast, and they start sneering at me like they're pissed and I realize staring isn't nice. Then a male friend of mine bumps into us. He says hey, nice to see you kind of pleasantries, then asks if we know where the bathroom is. I do, and I offer to show him where it is. He thanks me, and I leave my group to show him to the bathroom. When we get to the bathrooms, they are really different, there is a whole lobby like area in front of them, complete with a fancy flavored coffee machine. My friend goes into the bathroom, and I see the coffee machine but no register. I walk over to it, where there's a man already getting coffee. I ask him if the coffee is free as I grab a cup. He doesn't say anything, so I start to pour some coffee into my cup and a voice from behind the coffee machine says, "No, it costs." and I realize there's a register hidden behind the coffee machine. I say, "Oh sorry!" and set my cup down and run off as fast as I can because my money is in my bag with my husband and kids. I end up in front of the escalator and think about going downstairs to find my family, when I find myself thinking I need to look for K while I'm here. I turn back around to go look for K instead of my family, when I run into the friend who was in the bathroom. He's also running out of the lobby, and he says they tried to make him cashier in the lobby, I ask why thinking maybe they were going to make him work off the coffee I set down instead of paying for, and he says "Because the cashier took his stinky shoes off and put them in the bathroom. Now it smells to bad to go in. I complained, and told them I'd do a better job." I am relieved and tell him that he needed a job, he should take it. Then I tell him I'm looking for someone, and he says he'll help. He walks beside me for a bit as I just wander around and then go down the escalator. He doesn't follow me downstairs, and I'm wandering around some more, then realize that my shirt is getting shorter... like I'm practically popping out shorter. I freak out and run to the downstairs bathroom and call my BFF. I tel' her I was looking for K while I was away from the group for a while, but then my shirt started shrinking and I really need her to buy me a bigger shirt so I can come out of the bathroom! She arrived pretty quickly, and gives me a shirt and talks and laughs at me as I am changing shirts. Then we walk out of the bathroom and in the bathroom lobby is our husbands and my kids. That's when I woke up!

I'm awake several hours before usual because my little girl had nightmares as well last night and just couldn't get back to sleep. As a result, I only have two dreams to share right now, and the first one is merely a fragment.

All I can remember of the first dream is an outdoor maze. It's made from stone just taller than my head, and it's outside in some sort of garden. There's broken stone and grass creeping up all around it. Also, the colors in the dream were really bright and cartoony. Thinking back, it's very similar to the garden walls when you go through in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to meet Princess Zelda in terms of colors. There's also a girls face that was in my mind when I woke. She's not someone I recall ever seeing before. She had chin length blond hair, and was smiling with her face tilted to the side like anime/video game characters ofte do, and that's all I can remember.

The Second Dream: My second dream is more of the type I usually have, where everything seems super realistic, but I'm not aware I'm dreaming and there are all kinds of fantastical things happening. It starts out I'm in a local historical town with my best friend Ambies who in reality lives several states away. The town is small, only about 5 blocks, and the buildings are all about 2-4 stories high made of brick back in the early 1900's late 1800's. There's an courthouse in the center of town that now serves as a museum of the towns history. The lighting and colors in this dream are very creepy, like the Legend of Sleepy Hollow movie with Johnny Depp in it. Ambies is walking, but I am on this big zero turn lawn mower that makes a ridiculous amount of noise and vibrates like crazy. We turn left around the corner of the court house, and I see a man in a suit with a grey bird perched on his finger posing for a picture. The photographer is my step dad, and he's using an old looking tin box type camera. The bird flies up off the mans finger, and hoovers at the mans hat until the man lifts his finger higher and the bird perches again. I can hear the man and my step dad talking about the picture, just typical "Almost finished" and "this bird and I go way back" type comments. I stop the lawn mower to avoid scaring the bird, and tell Ambies, "That's Brad, lets go talk to him when he's done talking to that man." When they are done talking, the man tips his hat before turning around and walking off. My step dad bends down and picks up a bag off the ground before turning around and walking off himself, in the opposite direction. I start up the lawn mower and starts to follow him. I call out to him, he turns and looks at me, then keeps walking as though he doesn't know me. I stop the lawn mower and tell my best friend that it's weird he didn't recognize me. She says that it's been almost a year since I've seen him, he probably didn't recognize me because of my hair cut. I nod and tell her she's probably right, and we follow him around another left corner. I catch up to him, and yell his name again. He turns around and looks at me again, and says, "Oh hey! I didn't recognize you with your hair so short!" Then he turns into my biological dad. He says he is taking pictures to test out this neat old antique camera he found and asks me if I'd like to have my picture taken. I say sure, as long as I don't have to hold still for long because holding still is pretty much impossible for me. He laughs and says, "Yeah, you've never been able to hold still, ever since you were a kid, all you do is run run run and get into trouble like a little monkey!" we all three laugh, then he says he will take my picture in a moment, but he needs to use the bathroom first. He asks if we need to as well, and we say yeah. He leads up to the right this time across the street and where the bank is is normal life, there's a big bath room building. All I see is a ladies room, I don't see a men's room, and my dad walks into the ladies room. I kind of freak out internally thinking he's not supposed to be in here! Then I wonder if it'll make Ambies uncomfortable that if she has to pee my dad will be in a stall nearby. Then I realize Ambies isn't there anymore. I hear a flush, and my dad disappears into the first stall just as a lady walks out of one of the stalls towards the back. The lady is one of my aunts. She says, "Hey! I didn't think I'd meet you here! What are you up to?" My dad hisses from his stall, "Don't tell her I'm here!" and apparently I'm the only one who hears, so I try to lamely make something up and tell her I am just walking around looking at the scenery. She nods, and then changes the subject to the baby clothes I recently gave her daughter (my cousin) for her little girl since my own daughter has outgrown them. She tells me how lovely they were, and that they had so much fun going through the bag and looking at them and how cute her grand daughter is going to look wearing them. Then she tells me she has to get going and tells me to have fun, I thank her, say I will, and bye! Then As she leaves, there's a flush and my dad steps out of the stall. We start hearing a lot of noise outside. It's really loud, like a roaring sound, so we rush out to see what's going on. We don't see my aunt, but what we do see is crazy strong wind, big black clouds in the sky, pouring rain and the streets are flooded up to my knees. Also, the buildings have changed, they've stretched three times their height and become real "big city" type buildings. The courthouse is the tallest building of all, and strongly resembles a real building in a city about a hour from where I am. There's nothing behind this row of buildings though, no other buildings or trees or anything, just black clouds and grey sky as far as I can see. Then a boat is coming in from the Distance. A fairly large tug boat looking boat. The bottom of the boat is black and rubbery looking, and it is blown into the building that was once the courthouse. All at once the wind blows even stronger and literally lifts the boat up, scraping it along the back side of the building until it reaches the top. It teeters at the top, upside down for a moment, then there's a loud moaning sound as it starts flipping again and falls towards us in front of the building. I duck ad dive forwards, and the boat crashes behind me before somehow being carried away by this water that's only knee deep. I sigh in relief and tell my dad that was crazy! he nods, but then says, "Watch out!" and points to the building. This time there's another boat, but it's HUGE, like cruise liner sized, and it's blown against all of the buildings. The wind keeps blowing it, and the water surges beneath it, slowly pushing it up the back sides of the buildings, until it too reaches the top. I think for sure we are screwed, there's no way we can dodge a boat that big and as heavy as it must be it'll probably land closer to the buildings than the tug boat that just barely missed us. There are several creaking sounds, and the tops of the buildings begin to collapse, then the wind blows extra hard and miraculously blows the boat over us so close that if I hadn't been ducking in fear I could have reached up and touched it. The water splashes behind us, and I see myself in third person for a moment and notice my hair is shoulder length again (in real life it's not even past my ears) then I'm back inside myself and standing up. I'm shaking, but before I can be relieved again, I look up at the buildings, and they are blowing to pieces. Beams and windows and panels of some kind are raining down around us, I'm leaning left and right and forwards and backwards, avoiding the debris like Neo from the matrix, only no where near as calm and confident. As the last of the buildings collapse, my phone starts ringing. I think it odd that my phone is ringing, with all the crazy things going on, a ringing phone seems too normal and every day. I answer the phone, and it's my grandmother. She asks if I'm alright, and I say yeah, we're in the storm, but somehow we aren't hurt yet. She tells me that the whole town I'm in is being evacuated and that I should come to her house about 20 minutes away by car to seek shelter. I thank her, but tell her I'm going to find shelter closer to where I am because I don't have a car and I don't want to be out in the open during this insane storm. She tells me that she understands, and to just be careful. I tell her I will and hang up the phone. I turn to my dad to tell him we need to find shelter, and that's when I was woken up by my daughter screaming in her bed because she had a nightmare with a "Vewry vewry scarddy monster"

I just found this site yesterday, and spent several hours on it because I've found answers I've been searching nearly a year for. I didn't figure I'd dream last night as I went to bed very, very late, but instead I managed to have more dreams than usual! So many, that I'm having a hard time remembering the earlier ones! I had to make a list of keywords to follow to remind me of the dreams. None of them are lucid b/c I struggle w/ achieving lucidity. They're also oddly mundane for me, my usual dreams contain lots of crazy happenings.

First dream: The first dream was pretty much my brain rehashing the time I spent on this time. I found myself on the forum "Beyond Dreaming" and I'm seeing a post that says "looking for a real dreamer I met last night. 12345" and for some reason in the dream I think that's me they're looking for, even though I've never had a confirmed shared dream, I only think I've shared a dream with someone before.

Second dream: I'm in what looks like a two story book store or library. The second floor is more like a balcony on the left side of the room, with a gradually curving staircase that follows around the right side of the room. There's a lady behind a counter stackes high with books. I'm talking to her about books, and realize that she's my high School Drama teacher. I can't remember what we were talking about because it was so early in the night, but she points to the stairs and I go up them. At the top of the stairs there are several windows with flowing curtains, and a big wooden bed made of logs with crisp white sheets. In the bed sits an Aunt of mine who lives across the country that I've never met offline before. In real life she has cancer, so I think that is why I see her in the bed. She's talking to me about me coming in through the window, and I think she's angry about it. I feel guilty and tell her I'm sorry I won't do it again, then I scamper off down the stairs and out the front door of the store. There's an SUV outside, and my husband and two kids are in it. I climb in the passengers seat, and we start driving away. The sun is setting, but it's not really dark yet, just twilight. I'm watching the scenery fly past me, and I notice this beautiful fountain/sculpture in a front yard that is simply breath taking. It seems to be made of Glass. The glass is sort of clear, except it's covered in thousands of hand sized frosted spots. It's about six feet high, and looks like several circles, half circles, and crescents artfully arranged with no apparent rhyme or reason. Theres water flowing from a medium sized circle on top, down into a half circle that seems to make a bowl about four feet lower. I think it's beautiful, and turn to watch it even as the car passes it, until the other scenery I'm driving past blocks my view. Then I notice several other structures resembling that one in various other yards. I point them out, and my husband agrees they're "nice". Then he turns the SUV around. I don't ask why, but the sun has disappeared over the trees now and it is very dark. After a hundred feet or so of driving, the closest glass sculpture lights up, not just one color, but each different circle or part circle has it's own color. It's truly spectacular to me. When we drive past the first sculpture I had noticed I see that the ball is Blue, and the part circle forming a bowl is pink, and the water that flows between the two takes on the pink and blue colors as a gradiant, making purple in the middle where they meet. My husband pulls the SUV into a parking lot a bit farther down the road, and I get out with my little boy. I realize we're at gamestop when we go inside the building. My little boy wants to play xbox, so we start playing the demo unit. a lot of time passes, though I can't remember what game we were playing. A clerk comes up to me, and I notice he'd a coworker from a job I had when I was pregnant with my boy several years ago. He tells me that we've played long enough and we need to leave now. I go back out to the SUV and wake up.

Third dream: I'm in a circle turn around like you see at the end of a dead end street. It's not the same circle turn around that we live on now, but it does remind me of a neighborhood I grew up in. My husband is cleaning out his work van, and I'm watching and talking to him to keep him company. We're talking about buying a new house, and my husband and I seem to think we finally have the money to buy a nice, newer home that wasn't built 75 years ago. Then a grey or tan truck pulls up. My husband is inside the van, so I turn around to ask the man in the truck if I can help him. He tells me he needs to talk to the cable guy who drives the van because he hit a deer and that deer bounced back and hit the mans truck. My Husband comes out of the van ans acts like he knows the guy and they're friendly to one another. But I'm angry because I think that if he hit a deer in his van and it did damage to someone elses vehicle her could lose his job. Without his job I think our opportunity to buy a new house has just flown away. I look to my left and the SUV from the previous dream is there. I open the door and my kids are in the back seat in their car seats, so I climb in with them. I realize the car is on b/c the ac and radio are on. I go to reach forwards to turn it off, but instead the SUV starts moving forwards. I struggle to climb into the front seat b/c we're getting close to the main road really fast and i need to stop the car before it runs out into traffic. I wake up before the car reaches the main road.

Fourth dream: I'm in our Silver Camaro, but it looks NICE. The paints not peeling or anything, it's just the way it was when I drove it in high school. I pull into a store that was also built during my high school days. It is a hardware store, gas station, and grocery store all combined. I'm a country girl, and this was the closest store for about a 20 minute drive for Groceries gas and hardware, so I know it pretty well. When I get inside the store in the dream though, it's HUGE, much bigger than in reality. I can see that I've walked in the hardware side because I see lawn mowers, rakes and leaf blowers to my left. I didn't look right. Instead I walk down the center of the store until I see a display with a television screen with lots of flashing. I go to see what that's all about, because it's out of place to see a tv display in a little locally owned store. The display is for an adult novelty item, and I quickly become both embarrassed and curious, but a guy I went to school with walks up at that time and starts pulling me back to the entrance. I follow him without complaint, even though he was someone I only recognize, and never actually talked to much in school. He takes me out the door, but then says "never mind" and drags me back inside the store. This time, there are a few benches on display to the left as well, and a couple of people are sitting on one. I notice straight ahead my mother and her best friend are walking towards the hardware section we are in, and the guy dragging me around rushes me over to a bench behind the one with people already on it. When we are seated and sufficiently hidden from my mother, I can hear her talking very loudly, saying that since I am not around anywhere she wants to tell her best friend something about me. But then I get angry that she's trying to talk behind my back and I jump up from my seat and yell at her. "Don't talk about me! If you want to talk about me, give me back the car and stained glass I lent you!" (In reality, she is borrowing one of our cars, and I'm not happy about it. She is borrowing the Camaro I'm driving in the dream. I don't have any stained glass though) She gets angry and yells something back at me about how she gave me that car when I was a teenager, and it's her right to borrow it. I counter that my grandmother paid for the car and gave it to her before she gave it to me, so she couldn't hold that over me as it was given to her and she didn't earn it. I say that we (my husband and I) are the ones who fixed it up after she ruined it, and I don't want her ruining it again. Then I wake up. The end of this dream VERY much reflects how I feel in real life about her guilt tripping me into letting her borrow my car.