Thread: Burned up dreams

Digging again

Resonances to previous dreams here.

I was in a garden which was apparently mine. It was small, as often found in older central parts of British cities. I must have looked bored as my wife said "You could clean out Sugar". (Sugar is the guinea pig, btw). I said that cleaning out Sugar wasn't my job (true irl!).

I go over to where some climbing beans are growing. I say to my wife that I'd removed all the snails. But when we look there are some which have crawled up onto the foliage. I pick them off and throw them over the wall into my next door neighbour's garden. Then I get worried because I like the guy and he's a keen gardener and he may have seen me throw the snails into his garden.

Now I'm by a vegetable patch. In one small hole are some carrots that look like they're surplus to requirement from the kitchen and my wife is planting them. Two have their green foliage still attached. I look in an adjacent furrow where I'd already planted some carrots. I see that she's been digging there too and has almost undermined my carrots. I see a very deep trench and the carrots I planted almost but not quite falling into it like they're on a bridge of soil from Indiana Jones or something. For reasons I'm not sure about but were obvious in the dream the carrots showing below the soil reminded me of a woman's body

I looked back at the house and remembered that we had a lower ground floor which we never used and it would make sense to let it out. It has a living area, a bedroom and a kitchen (and probably a bathroom). Just like the one in the last dream here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...609&post673609. I often find this lower floor in dreams.



My uni friend JM is learning to drive a bus. I'm eating a yellow handkerchief and wondering about prsin phims. (can't read the last 2 words).

The lower floor of the house probably refers to the unconscious as does the hole in the ground. That's all I'm doing today.

Originally Posted by Burned up

Digging again
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ha ha well throwing snail into the neighbors plants is one way to ensure you have the better garden ha ha


lol it looks like the relationship between veg and women is back lol isnt it funny how these random objects can be associated with stuff like that.

Originally Posted by mark

lol it looks like the relationship between veg and women is back lol isnt it funny how these random objects can be associated with stuff like that.

Thanks Mark, I'd forgotten that one! It was a parsnip before and now it's carrots.

Lock up your turnips LOL.

Originally Posted by Burned up

Thanks Mark, I'd forgotten that one! It was a parsnip before and now it's carrots.

Lock up your turnips LOL.

Next it will be apple pie.

The Indian Job

I was talking on the phone to a headhunter recruiting for a job in India. He said he'd fly me out to Bangalore and arrange everything for me and I'll meet his client who's looking forward to meeting me.

I didn't really want to go but felt I should as he seemed a nice guy but also very persuasive. I changed the subject a bit and said that the company I currently work for has staff in India.

He said that there is a legal firm called Ewart and Butler also involved with the company.

No such firm exists

hmm interesting it seems kind of like a gangster related thing...well maybe its just the name of the dream I dunno lol

I'm catching up with dreams posted while I was absent.

LOL @ the toilet-in-the-office dream
Now you know the 'awkward toilet dream' too. Welcome to the club

Originally Posted by mark

hmm interesting it seems kind of like a gangster related thing...well maybe its just the name of the dream I dunno lol

Perhaps it was. I was thinking of "The Italian Job" when I wrote the title.

Originally Posted by Sara

I'm catching up with dreams posted while I was absent.

LOL @ the toilet-in-the-office dream
Now you know the 'awkward toilet dream' too. Welcome to the club

Yes I do get toilets-in-odd-places dreams too. Perhaps we should have a who-can-have-the-oddest-toilet-dream competition?

Low budget camping

Cooking beanz in the dark near the tent. It was outside some sort of public block like the toilet block (ha ha). My youngest daughter needed to go back to the tent to get some bogroll and couldn't see very well. Fortunately I had a torch integral to my watch and was able to illuminate her way. As I got closer the reflected light got brighter (like it should do of course, but it was certainly true in this dream). I asked if she wanted a "nappy nap" whatever that meant.

Online bands

Not much of a dream but I was looking at a website. A list of band names were brought up in a drop-down box. The two I saw listed were:

> Graphical Choirboy
> Jeff 20

Quite realistic names I think. The first brings up a complete zero in google. The second less surprisingly is a name used by a number of people on various forums and networking sites.

Fast food

Pizza served on a flat tortilla wrap. Yum.

Interpretation awaiting some decent dreams.

Originally Posted by Burned up

It was outside some sort of public block like the toilet block (ha ha). My youngest daughter needed to go back to the tent to get some bogroll and couldn't see very well.

Well, I'm doing an RC right now at the mention of a toilet and bog-roll! As someone else should have too...

Originally Posted by Burned up

> Graphical Choirboy
> Jeff 20

Quite realistic names I think.

You always dream specific names. I wonder why; you seem to remember them really well too. You are probably good with names IRL.

Sorry your dreams have dried up a bit lately. Seems quite a bit like mine at the moment.

Originally Posted by Burned up

Yes I do get toilets-in-odd-places dreams too. Perhaps we should have a who-can-have-the-oddest-toilet-dream competition?

Hehe, good idea
How do we do that? Start a thread about 'odd toilet dreams'?

Well, I don't really like the odd toilet dreams, but if we RC a lot, they can get us lucid

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Well, I'm doing an RC right now at the mention of a toilet and bog-roll! As someone else should have too...

You always dream specific names. I wonder why; you seem to remember them really well too. You are probably good with names IRL.

Funny. I think I'm pretty bad at remembering names. Or, more accurately, I don't have the confidence to name someone I think I recognise. I'm pretty good with trivia, though, and can remember lots of words.

Originally Posted by raklet

Sorry your dreams have dried up a bit lately. Seems quite a bit like mine at the moment.

Guess so. Or am I getting more fussy? Perhaps it was always like this apart from a short period around the time I found DV?

Originally Posted by Sara

Hehe, good idea
How do we do that? Start a thread about 'odd toilet dreams'?

Well, I don't really like the odd toilet dreams, but if we RC a lot, they can get us lucid

They're unavoidable irl so all we have a few chances each day to RC. Of course I won't dream of one for weeks now.

Better out than in

I have a spot on my neck which I can't really see because of the angle. But somehow I just about bring it to vision. I start squeezing it and slowly this black watery pus like very dark blood comes out. I'm worried about squeezing too much in case I start bleeding properly.

I now look again and I'm squeezing a nipple. But it doesn't look like mine. This one is definitely female

I know where you live

I'm looking at a map of the world and I zoom in on Scotland. It's on the DV website and it shows the location of all members using their post codes.

I see Durham on the map, which is in northern England and wonder why it's there. But then I see it's because the word takes so much map space to print it actually refers to a dot in the right place. (Very anal dream, this).

I see about 30 dots in Scotland concentrated unsurprisingly in the "central belt" where most Scots live. My name is somewhere in the middle of all the others. But I'm not called "Burned up". The name begins with Q and is probably something like "Quant..." which is my job title (my scribble looks like "Qinl". Name recall not so good this time Moonbeam!).

Passage to New Zealand

Going to New Zealand with the family. Perhaps a holiday or to see my aunt. We're deciding to go by ship but I'm worried about the cost and perhaps we should fly back home afterwards. But going by ship has its advantages. I have never seen the Pacific Ocean and I'm looking forward to crossing it (we're going via Panama rather than Suez). Also looking forward to crossing the equator, another first for me.

Mini-dreams

I woke early and attempted to WILD. I can usually get to a state I think of as "visualisation" but this is a semi-conscious state and certainly not REM sleep. The same was true today but each time I kept falling asleep and therefore have lots of fragment-like short dreams and no LD!!! Here's a few which I could be bothered to write down.

- I'm visiting the village I was born in on business. I'm walking along the road where most of the shops were. It's all changed e.g. there's an Indian restaurant (like most of the UK now has!). The road leads into a small public building which is also a cafe, like a church hall. It's a bit gloomy and I don't recognise anyone and I see a door at the back and decide to go out. It has one of those push-type handles like fire exits and I can't get out without making a spectacle of myself. Anyway I'm now in the daylight and wake up.

- With family in John Lewis (UK department store) and in the cafe there. We're talking about a birthday present for my son. My wife mouths to me that we've already got something. "What?" I mouth back. She holds the two sides of the ski jacket she's wearing and mimes pulling it on further, indicating that he's getting a ski jacket himself. Now I notice my wife is wearing two ski jackets, one of which (on top) belongs to a daughter. I'm annoyed because she keeps pillaging the girls' things and sometimes breaks or loses them and my daughter is very attached to this jacket. I ask why she's wearing two and she says she's cold, which I find odd as we're in a department store cafe.

- In John Lewis again! This time with ... ahem .... another woman. I think this is my dream woman. She has a bright face and short fair hair, which is how I usually encounter her. We're testing out this double bed and I'm not sure if we're buying it for ourselves or if it's a professional situation but either way we're enjoying the experience. I feel happy next to her.

(Remark - my wife and I bought our bed in John Lewis many years ago).

Not sure what to interpret from this lot and I'm short of time anyway. The main theme seems to be familiarity. I was actually quite happy in all these dreams even the first. It could be because I had the chance to talk to a friend last night about how I was feeling and more to the point she listened.

The first dream seemed the oddest. And it's similar to one I've had before when I was squeezing some poison from my body through my nipple and it turned out to be a flower which I was destroying. I'm aware that I have this urge to get things out of my body. Conversely I hate things being put in to my body (I'd wouldn't make a successful female !!!). I don't like injections at all not because of the needle but because of what's coming out of it. On the other hand I love having my blood taken. Whatever unconscious process is behind all of that seems to be at work in my dream. But why does it have to be from the breast? Do I think that I've been poisoned when I was nurtured? One day this will make more sense.

Originally Posted by Burned up

The name begins with Q and is probably something like "Quant..." which is my job title (my scribble looks like "Qinl". Name recall not so good this time Moonbeam!)

Well even if you don't always remember them, there seems to be a lot of information like that in your dreams, more so than in mine anyway. You look at a lot of maps, read signs, etc. all the time. I am vaguely aware sometimes that I may have a map or see a sign or something, but I rarely focus on the details of it. It's just something that seems a little different about your dreams than other people's.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Well even if you don't always remember them, there seems to be a lot of information like that in your dreams, more so than in mine anyway. You look at a lot of maps, read signs, etc. all the time. I am vaguely aware sometimes that I may have a map or see a sign or something, but I rarely focus on the details of it. It's just something that seems a little different about your dreams than other people's.

That's useful feedback for me because I guess I'm like that irl too. Thinking about this more analytically, there must be a meaning behind why I do that.

It's a great example of how unconscious process affect both dreams and real life. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Burned up

Better out than in

ha ha I was not expecting that one BU ! lol thats just funny....at first it was not nice then the surpise at the end made me laugh lol

Originally Posted by Burned up

I know where you live

Durham....nice place but its way to quiet.

interesting dream there wounder why Durham was so big?

Originally Posted by Burned up

Passage to New Zealand

I think it would be nice to go via a boat that way, cool dream!

Originally Posted by Burned up

Mini-dreams

well your better then me at that lol

Originally Posted by Burned up

Better out than in

I have a spot on my neck which I can't really see because of the angle. But somehow I just about bring it to vision. I start squeezing it and slowly this black watery pus like very dark blood comes out. I'm worried about squeezing too much in case I start bleeding properly.

Ieuw, that sounds gross!

I know where you live

I'm looking at a map of the world and I zoom in on Scotland. It's on the DV website and it shows the location of all members using their post codes.

Cool idea!
I know a forum that had that feature, very cool to see the spots where everyone lived. But now, the forum is so busy, that the whole Netherlands was covered in 1 big red spot so they removed the map

I see Durham on the map, which is in northern England and wonder why it's there. But then I see it's because the word takes so much map space to print it actually refers to a dot in the right place. (Very anal dream, this).

I don't see why that would be 'anal' but maybe that's just an expression?

The name begins with Q and is probably something like "Quant..." which is my job title (my scribble looks like "Qinl". Name recall not so good this time Moonbeam!).

Ahh, too bad, I'd love to hear your true 'dream name'

The first dream seemed the oddest. And it's similar to one I've had before when I was squeezing some poison from my body through my nipple and it turned out to be a flower which I was destroying. I'm aware that I have this urge to get things out of my body. Conversely I hate things being put in to my body (I'd wouldn't make a successful female !!!).

(hmmm, that would make a good one for DV quotes...)

I don't like injections at all not because of the needle but because of what's coming out of it. On the other hand I love having my blood taken.

That's interesting... you actualy LIKE to have your blood taken?

Whatever unconscious process is behind all of that seems to be at work in my dream. But why does it have to be from the breast? Do I think that I've been poisoned when I was nurtured? One day this will make more sense.

It probably will, too bad we can never truly go back in time and see where all these unconscious feelings come from...

Originally Posted by Sara

I know a forum that had that feature, very cool to see the spots where everyone lived. But now, the forum is so busy, that the whole Netherlands was covered in 1 big red spot so they removed the map

Haha yes that would be a problem.

Originally Posted by Sara

I don't see why that would be 'anal' but maybe that's just an expression?

It's a Freudian term that is now in almost common usage in Britain. Kind of means controlling, in a giving/withholding kind of way. (Refers to an infant's developmental stage when it discovers its anal muscles for the first time during toilet training.)

Originally Posted by Sara

That's interesting... you actualy LIKE to have your blood taken?

LOL yes. It's a kind of purifying experience for me. Like some crap has been taken from me. Also my first experience of giving blood as a donor was lying on this bed with an attractive nurse sitting next to me. Needless to say my blood was gushing out!!! (And I suspect the blood donor service know how to get the blood of young men flowing!)

Originally Posted by Sara

It probably will, too bad we can never truly go back in time and see where all these unconscious feelings come from...

I may take this to my therapist actually.

Originally Posted by mark

ha ha I was not expecting that one BU ! lol thats just funny....at first it was not nice then the surpise at the end made me laugh lol

It was actually quite a pleasant feeling seeing a breast I didn't know I had

Night at the museum

No recall, just notes
A car. Have to rush into the museum before it closes. There's a lifting bridge that prevents passage. I make it in time. The lifting bridge is made of sheets of yellow plastic.

Eat your words

My friend B (who was playing the piano last night irl) was playing with letters like children have to make words. The words were going on a large cake but in a kind of pattern that made it look like musical manuscript. Now the words were edible like they were made of piped icing.

Come back

I'm with a group of young counsellors. We're all around a table about to leave. I see H walking away and really want to be with her. (I like H, she's a student on my course).

Ski village

I'm staying in a hut in a village during ski season. I think we'd just arrived from another village on a kind of 2-centre holiday. In this village chairlifts were heading off in different directions one of which just seemed to be a horizontal ride around the area. There was an oppressive feel about the place and it was dark. (I seem to have written the word "plague" down but don't recall that bit).

You WILL be my friend

Possibly a continuation of the previous dream. I'm now indoors in a sports hall playing football. One person there didn't like me and this was really annoying me. (Same irl. Dunno how anyone couldn't like me!). Eventually I'd had enough and I wrestled with him. Grabbing his arms and pushing him to the floor was easier than I expected (I'm not naturally physical) and I was able to hold him down firmly, perhaps hurting him a bit. He agreed to be my friend and I let him go.

The name Norman Stanley Lamont was being mentioned.

Moving to Dundee

Says it all really. Neighbours Sh and Sc (Sc is the local church minister) are moving to Dundee. (PDP I saw Sh yesterday - she is a friend of my wife's).

Not really a very nice set of dreams. Lots of coping with change and coping with people. But yesterday was an odd day for me, as some research I presented evoked strong feelings I had when I wrote it at the time. I was expecting to dream more of lost female parts of me and perhaps H in my dream was that. Seeing her leave and feeling pained was closest to the kind of feelings I was remembering.

The rest of the dreams were permeated by strange male DCs. Even the plague-type entity seemed to be male if that makes sense. Actually I was thinking about male-ness yesterday and how I really don't much like the idea that we have to be 100% female or 100% male. Maybe that was running through my mind.

Originally Posted by Burned up

(I'm not naturally physical)

As in wimpy? Or as in not aggressive? If it is the former, come live with me on the farm for a summer. You can help change handlines. It will make every muscle in your body solid as a rock!

This popped up,.I didn't ask for it. Who needs help. You have 2 minutes

I saw you were going to tell a dream to your therapist; do you do that very often? What does s/he say about them?

Originally Posted by Burned up

The name Norman Stanley Lamont was being mentioned.

See, there you go again! All three names, too!

Originally Posted by Burned up

Actually I was thinking about male-ness yesterday and how I really don't much like the idea that we have to be 100% female or 100% male. Maybe that was running through my mind.

I don't think we have to be. Maybe it's harder for a man, which is too bad.