Thread: Burned up dreams

Originally Posted by Burned up

Are you trying to get me feeling old? Well, in some ways it was before my time too but when I came across it as a teen I just thought...WOW.

Ohh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that way!

I didn't even try this one. But unreachable - suggests you're not ready yet perhaps? (for whatever the hill represents)

Hmm, it was not a very important fragment, but when I think of it, I might have an idea what the 'hill' stands for. Something I want to reach, but takes a lot of effort... (and the 'weather is bad' there, lol)

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Strange to think there are people who haven't heard Stairway to Heaven. Sara, listen to it about 100 times straight so you can begin to get caught up.

Uh oh, I listened to it twice today. 100 times? People playing it all day long?? That goes beyond my imagination...

Originally Posted by Sara

Uh oh, I listened to it twice today. 100 times? People playing it all day long?? That goes beyond my imagination...

That's the trouble with young people today...

Originally Posted by Burned up

That's the trouble with young people today...

@MB 8 times and counting...

... still not bored though

... wondering how long it takes before the magic kicks in

Where did you retrieve those dreams from the summer? Found back an old notebook with dreams?

The one about the guitar is a funny story
I didn't know fretless guitars existed. (ohhh, sure, there is a LOT that young people don't know )

Originally Posted by Burned up

That's the trouble with young people today...

Just don't have the stick-to-itiveness that we had

Originally Posted by Sara

@MB 8 times and counting...

... still not bored though

... wondering how long it takes before the magic kicks in

Good job! Keep going! Soon you will be LZ too!

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Good job! Keep going! Soon you will be LZ too!

Ehmmm this morning I listened to it exactly 3 hrs 44 minutes (that makes 28 times )
First came a point where I thought 'hmmm, maybe those people were right', but in the end I went and just HAD to switch to U2 for a while.

So, I tried and I actually like it, but not 1 song for a full day
*downloading 2 albums now *

Originally Posted by Sara

@MB 8 times and counting...

... still not bored though

... wondering how long it takes before the magic kicks in

What? Some kind of immunity perhaps? Impossible.

Originally Posted by Sara

@Where did you retrieve those dreams from the summer? Found back an old notebook with dreams?

The one about the guitar is a funny story
I didn't know fretless guitars existed. (ohhh, sure, there is a LOT that young people don't know )

I was writing dreams down long before I came here. But it was rather sporadic. Sometimes I'd be keen other times not.

Yes, I believe fretless guitars, bass guitars anyway, exist. Well, this one did.

(Thinks) Do bands today have bass guitars? Do they have guitars at all? Sara - take a look at an old rock band. The bass guitar is the one with the longer neck and 4 strings usually played by a depressed looking person who didn't get the lead guitar job.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Just don't have the stick-to-itiveness that we had

Blame technology. My recording is on a 12 inch disc of black plastic. Sara's is probably a click on itunes!

Originally Posted by Sara

Ehmmm this morning I listened to it exactly 3 hrs 44 minutes (that makes 28 times )
First came a point where I thought 'hmmm, maybe those people were right', but in the end I went and just HAD to switch to U2 for a while.

So, I tried and I actually like it, but not 1 song for a full day
*downloading 2 albums now *

U2 aren't that much younger!

Petrified forest in Fort William

I'm in Fort William. Or near it. It doesn't look like Fort William though, but that's where my dreammaker says it is, so, hey. We've just finished walking up one side of a valley and I can see the saddle point ahead and to the right and a higher ridge further right on the other side of the valley. I felt I'd walked that before and it looked typical of a valley in the English Lake District for example.

So we decide not to walk around the horseshoe but to go left to Ben Nevis (my dream geography is crap) which means going up a kind of road which rises slowly. I feel like I'm looking up the Royal Mile in Edinburgh although it is not built-up. The town of Fort William is at the top. On the right is a "interpretive centre" showing exhibitions about rock formation etc. There are seats each side like a mini-stadium looking back down the valley. Beyond the centre the road is blocked by some road works. A large building project is underway. After a short wait, the building works kind of open out and the girders lift first in front of us then progressively further away to form a long covered passageway. It looks like something from Harry Potter and Indiana Jones bundled together. We drive (hmmm - where did that car come from?) through this tunnel. It's like being in a gold mine. Out at the other and and we walk into a newly completed building, possibly part of the same structure.

In the entrance room, it's bleak glass and concrete. There are two lifts ahead and an large glass door to the right. I'm now just with my son and we go through the glass door. It leads into a courtyard of some sort and the only way through is to pick our way across stepping stones, holding a rope. It's all part of the interpretive centre, seemingly. Looking back at the building there's a display (possibly real?) of a petrified forest. All these logs encased in red-brown lava giving the impression of a polished bas-relief. I explain to my son about volcanoes and lava. As I look closer at the "petrified forest" I see there is more to it. I see old bones and human heads or skulls in the relief.

We're now getting to the end of the rope walk and had to let two people past heading the opposite direction. Mother and daughter seemingly. We try and get out of the courtyard at the end of the rope walk but this means getting up a high awkward step and I'm losing enthusiasm for this route. I think back to the point of all this and how we're trying to get to Fort William. I think back to the 2 lifts and think that's a better way to get higher up and perhaps they lead to a path or road that gets us further.

Probably the most detailed dream I've had for a week.

It's not the first time Fort William has been in my dream. It's a small town but is the largest town for miles in the west of Scotland. Ben Nevis dominates the skyline. I'm wanting to get higher. The whole journey was going up up up.

I often come across these interpretive centres in my dreams. Perhaps they represent me trying to make meaning? Certainly I was compelled to explain about lava and petrification to my son. Funny, I do get drawn to these places irl although I'm nearly always disappointed. Like they don't tell me what I really need to know. The old trees and people trapped in the lava wasn't spooky but it was eye-catching. What was that telling me? That I have some kind of ancient memory?

The tunnel opening up was really dramatic. Like one second it was a jumble of girders and the next it animates itself into a tunnel. I felt I was going into a different world. "Rebirth" comes to mind at this stage. Well, at least I know it's not a memory of my own birth as I was born by section!

Anxiety

I would normally have an anxious dream, but I know this has been playing on my mind. I dreamed that I was being placed in a situation where I had to reveal everything about me, like I was totally vulnerable. Staff from my uni course (that I'm doing now, part time) were there.

Smelly feet

This was actually from yesterday. Just a fragment where I was sitting on the loo and looking at one of my feet because I could smell a fungal infection. On a big toe I saw a small dark patch so I put cream on it.

One line fragment

"I am a man is about to die"

Not even a fragment of a DVer

I know I dreamed of Sara but recall has toally failed me (honest).

The anxiety is current although it doesn't seem so major irl. Basically revolves around my choice of MSc research which involves a lot of personal stuff. Now I know who my supervisor will be it seems very real and I'm now wondering whether I should pick something less personal.

The smelly feet doesn't seem to be especially meaningful.

The one-line fragment sounds scary and it did seem to be a concern when I woke up but no emotion lingers.

Sorry Sara - wish there was something to this dream I could share with you