Echt - A Dream Journal + Interpretation

I've always been interested in dreams and my mysterious subconscious. I will be posting every dream that I have no matter how odd or disturbing it is. I have an idea of how I will be doing this.

Before I post the actual dream I will post any background information about me or my family that will help everyone get an image of what I was dreaming and make it easier to understand for anyone who is reading along.

Then post the dream in its entirety in plain text. I will post my commentary/thoughts in red. At the end I will put down my interpretation and what I think the dream means in bold and any other thoughts. This isn't just a dream journal but part journal also. I plan on adding video/voice entries later once I get into the habit of recording my dreams. I'm also an aspiring film maker so if I dream something reasonable to film I may even try to recreate it. Anyways, enough talk let the journal begin.

Statistics

Numbers
Dreams Logged: 2
Nightmares Logged: 0
Lucid Dreams: 0
Goals Completed: 0

Character Stats
Times Appeared in Dream
Danny: 2
Brian: 1
Jennifer: 1
Susan: 1
Mr. Witte: 1
Mr. Touzinsky: 1
Mrs. Hoffman: 1

Dream Characters
Donna (Passive Aggresive Enemy)
Sean (Punk Kid)
Tracy (Passive Aggresive Enemy)

Settings
My House: 1
Saint Louis, Missouri: 1
Piedmont, Missouri: 1
Elementary School: 1
Walmart: 1

Time of Day
Day: 1
Night: 1

These statistics are here to help me find any patterns about my dreams. I want to know where my dreams mostly take place, and when they take place. I want to know how many times a character appears or dream character. Every stat is important for me developing an idea about my dreaming self and subconscious and I believe keeping track of any and all statistics are key to figuring out a piece of me that I have never known about before. This entire thing is a learning experience.

Questions
I wonder if Dream Characters can appear in more than one dream? I don't think that has ever happened to me, even though I seem to have a lot of re-occurring dreams.

July 14th, Saturday

Walmart Road Rage

Setting: The Country
Characters: Susan(Mother), Danny (younger brother), Mr. Witte (teacher), Mr. Touzinsky (teacher).
Half? Dream Characters: Donna, Sean
Time of Day: Afternoon

It was a sunny afternoon in Piedmont, Missouri. Susan and I were driving down a desolate road in the country. We were headed to an unspecified destination. The trees were a vibrant color, much like a bloom effect seen in video games. I was sitting in the passengers seat of our van talking to my mother about something. As we were driving someone we knew passed us in a car. They honked at us and we pulled over with them so we could chat. A morbidly obese woman stepped out of their small car with her child who could have not been older than nine.

Both of these characters seemed to be loosely based off of two friends of my family. Donna who is a friendly individual and Sean who is an annoying kid. Sean isn't Donna's kid though.

I stepped out of the car. I was not happy to see them. I thought off what they did to upset me but nothing turned up. My mother however was happy to see them. She began making small talk with "Donna" and "Sean". I talked to Sean for a short amount of time. I asked him about school and he responded with something offensive. This stopped the conversation between my mother and Donna. I gave the kid a dirty look and thats when things started to go downhill.

My mother and I got into a fight with Donna and her kid Sean. A verbal fight. The fight couldn't have lasted more than five minutes. Whatever words were exchanged it clearly upset everyone. Donna and Sean jumped in their car and drove off. I was in a rage. I commanded my mother to follow them. She jumped into a Ford Tauras.

I have to start implementing reality checks into my daily life. This should have had alarms ringing. Our van is not a transformer, it can't morph into other cars. We do however own both a Ford and a van, so both cars were familiar.

She turned on the car engine and began to drive off. I was not yet in the car so I did what any sane man would do. I jumped onto the roof of the car and held on as she attempted to catch up to Donna's car. I however was not experiencing fear but adrenaline and rage. After a short car chase we ended up in a Walmart parking lot. The parking lot was very serene, there were barely any cars. There wasn't anything but a Walmart and an endless stream of trees behind it. We parked our car in a U-Haul truck and jumped out. I ran over to the entrance/exit to smash the windows on Donna's car. As I approached the automatic entrance/exit doors I saw a man rolling a shopping cart filled with computer games. I noticed a few of the titles, Civilization 4, and Medieval Total War. I was going to ask about Donnas car but decided not to.

I have no idea why I saw what games the man had or any other of those small details. I'm wondering if my subconscious is telling me to go buy Civilization 4? Too bad I don't have the money for it. :D

I heard a few people talking about a fat woman who raced inside of the store and her whack parking job. I turned around only to see her car crammed into a cart line. Her car was in between two carts, completely crushed to about the size of a shopping cart. The windows were completely shattered and the car had changed from a red color to fuchsia.

I believe shopping cart line is the correct term. I think I've spent too much time at Walmart in my real life. Once again I kick myself for not starting reality checks.

My rage did not disappear. I was still furious at Donna and her rude son. I told everyone standing around the mashed up car that I had plans to break her windows anyways. I decided it would be smart to pick up a shopping cart over my head and make a striking motion with it to her car.

Sometimes I feel like an idiot. Even in my dreams.

I set down the car and looked at my mother. Her face was expressionless. We didn't exchange any words we both silently decided that since we were at Walmart we might as well go in and buy some stuff.

Hours pass in seconds and my brother Danny is there. I ask him if he wants to go see a movie. He agrees and chooses a horrible comedy movie. We make our way to the Walmart movie theater. An hour passes in seconds again and we are outside of theater looking at hiking gear. I did not remember anything about the movie. I only remembered it was a piece of shit.

As Danny and I were looking at hiking equipment my mother showed up. We all looked at a sleeping bag together. Then Mr. Touzinsky, a decent science teacher I had last year in High School showed up. He walked passed us and I said hello. We made small talk for a few moments then Susan stole the conversation away from me and began talking to him. After he left she told me he had been rude to her. I shrugged it off. With in moments Mr. Witte, my current English teacher passed by us. He had a solemn look on his face which was out of character for him. He is always cracking jokes. I decide not to bother and just not my head.

Time passes again in seconds and Danny and I are playing a game of Ski Ball in the Walmart arcade.

I'm very curious as to why I don't know what happened in between. It just makes the whole dream more strange. Another note to self, when in the hell did Walmart get a movie theatre AND an arcade?

I am looking for a dollar bill to feed into the Ski Ball table when Donna and Sean see me and approach. Danny seems to know what has happened between us and steps aside. I laugh under my breath knowing that she will be going outside soon and finding out about her car that was crushed by two industrial Walmart shopping carts. Donna makes a snobby comment to me and I just let it roll off. She and her son seem to have their eye on a sleeping bag I was looking at. My mother appears from behind talks to them like nothing ever happened. At this point I have had enough time in Walmart. I tell Susan it is time to go, both she and Danny agree.

We leave the store. As soon as we get outside I run over to our car which is no longer parked in a U-Haul truck but in a normal parking spot. I do this in a hurry worried that Donna will be behind us and ask if she can get a ride from us. Knowing my mother she would help a person in need. I decided that we could skip that inconvenience and just leave. Susan and I entered the car, Danny seems to have fallen off of the face of the Earth again. I don't pay any mind to it. We drive away.

After Thoughts / Other Thoughts

After waking up from this dream I couldn't remember it for the life of me. I was pissed that I didn't have a dream at all, and then it all came flooding back. In a near state of panic I reached for my dream notebook and scribbled it all down in the dark. I've decided to invest in a small lamp next to my bed so I don't have to decipher my writing later in the day. After writing my dream down I promptly fell back to sleep (12:00PM... Yes PM). I had a short and insignificant dream about Children of the Corn or something? I decided not to log it when I woke up because I would only be able to write a sentence about it. I will from now log all dreams no matter how insignificant they are. I was being lazy and didn't want to write it down. I only had two notebook pages of this Walmart dream but as I wrote it down in this post many of my forgotten details easily came back to me. I also have a feeling I can easily explain everything in the dream.

Interpretation
The Setting: I vacation in Piedmont, Missouri. In fact I'm going on vacation there in a few weeks. I always have awesome dreams there so it should be interesting.

Walmart: I went to Walmart less than a week ago to return my defective TV. Also the only big store in Piedmont is Walmart so that makes sense.

Random Teacher Appearances: I found out what classes I have this semester a few days ago. This easily explains the teacher appearances. I do not have Mr. Touzinsky this year but his room is right next door to Mr. Witte so that makes sense.

Donna & Sean: Sean was an annoying kid in real life. I can't blame him he has a weird mental condition and other factors in his life. He isn't 9 anymore, he is 14. I've seen him six months ago. Donna looked like a Donna I know in real life but she isn't mean or rude at all. I think Donna's personality was mirror of Sean's.

Hiking Gear: I've been reading A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson before I go to bed. There is lots of hiking in that book and I've been inspired to go on a hike this vacation.

Movie Theater in Walmart: I just went to see Hancock and Wanted last Friday so that probably explains the movie theater factor.

Arcade in Walmart: Arcades are usually apart of the movie theaters so I'll let this one slide.

Anger: Sometimes I'm an angry person even though I would never throw a shopping cart through someones car window. Or would I? No I wouldn't. I first thought that this may have been a little lucid but then I remembered looking for any cops before I was going to break the car windows.

U-Haul Parking: One of my best friends moved away yesterday. Probably some relation to that.

Goals

• Have a Lucid Dream
• Start Practicing Reality Checks
• Blow Shit Up In My Dreams
• Have a Nightmare and Succesfully Defeat It
• Remember 2 Dreams In One Night

This was a long first entry but I wanted to be very thorough not only did I think this might make it more entertaining to people reading it but I think it will prove to be more valuable to me when I come back a year from now or a month from now and study a pattern in my dreams. That being said, whoo for completing my first entry.:boogie:

Nice recall there. I'm very impressed by how many details you get down.

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Originally Posted by apachama

Nice recall there. I'm very impressed by how many details you get down.

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Thanks. I pay great attention to detail when I'm awake so I guess it is natural for me when I'm asleep as well. Also when I'm writing down my dream in the morning I may only remember a small segment, but then as I near the end of the segment I remember two or three parts that come next until I'm done with the dream no longer remember the dream.

July 14th, Sunday

The Concert: A Night of Annoyance

Setting(s): Saint Louis, Missouri, A club venue, elementary school parking lot, my house.
Characters: Brian (Best Friend), Jen (Friend), Danny (Younger Brother), Mrs. Hoffman (Teacher), Nicole (Girl at School).
Dream Characters: Tracy
Time of Day: Sunset - Night

I was sitting in my living room on my couch watching King of the Hill. I was waiting for my friend Brian to pick me up for a My Chemical Romance concert. I wondered why we were going, neither of us are fans of the band. I didn't mind going though, I didn't have to pay for it. I opened up my cellphone to see if he had left any messages. He didn't. I was concerned that we would miss the concert if he was not on the way to pick me up. I slumped back into the couch when my dog started barking at the door. I assumed Brian was at the door. I opened the door only to find Brian standing outside next to Jennifer.

I was surprised Jen was coming and Brian's girlfriend was not. I didn't bother asking any questions. I greeted them and stepped outside. I was excited to get into the car, I had burnt a new CD to listen to on the way to the car. Brian seemed solemn and Jennifer seemed excited about it.

I don't remember what happened next, I assume we got to the club and got in. I don't remember the car. I wonder if I even dreamed about it or my brain got lazy and skipped to the good parts.

The club was dark and small. I doubt that the club could hold over 60 people yet there were nearly 80 or so people crowded around the stage. I was sitting at a long table close to the front of the stage which was only three feet off the ground. The music wasn't My Chemical Romance at all but some band I had never heard before. Brian and Jennifer weren't at my table, they were across the room close to the stage. I don't know why we got separated. I sighed, disappointed that I wasn't over there with them. I didn't attempt to walk over to them as there was quite a large crowd in between us. I was feeling anxious as to why they weren't hanging out with me. I quickly forgot about that when a middle aged woman started a conversation with me. She had a medium build and was about twenty pounds overweight. I didn't like the vibe I got from her, though I continued talking to her. Her hair was turning gray, I noticed this detail but tried not looking at her hair and focused on her words.

She did not give me her name, but when I was writing down this dream the name Tracy popped into my head, so I will call her Tracy.

She was talking about kids and the society they were being brought up in. I wasn't very interested in her view points and quickly became bored. Somehow we started talking about me. I bullshitted about being a straight A student, and bullshitted about many other aspects of my life and world views. I didn't feel like getting into an argument with her. Her views were clearly the opposite of mine and if I wasn't in such a depressed mood I probably would have punched her in her throat.

For some reason my behavior in my dreams never mirror my behavior in life. Part of me must know it is a dream because I usually break, punch, and kill people in my dreams. No harm no foul right? I'm very curious as to finding out more about my dream behavior. I will have to take more notes on it.

She eventually came to the conclusion that I was a great kid. She had a snobby atmosphere around her. She asked if I would like to participate in a Straight A+ Student Program of some sorts. I politely declined and she seemed to take some offense to it. I came to the conclusion that she was a board member or the creator, she acted as if it was the end all be all. We stopped talking for awhile, I was relieved. I ate some food at the table and stood up to see where my friends were. They were still standing in the same spot having a good time. I was regretting coming to this concert and sat back down. I would have had more fun at my house listening to music I like.

Hours passed in a matter of seconds. The club was nearly cleared out. There were maybe fifteen people crowded around the stage. Brian and Jennifer were standing in the same spot. I was glad I didn't have to wade through a crowd to get to them. I stood up and walked over to them. I asked if they were having a good time and they nodded. Then Dead! by My Chemical Romance started playing. I was happy that there would be some music that I am familiar with. Only ten seconds into the song the crowd, all fifteen of them, were booing. I didn't boo, I just watched. There was a good ten seconds of booing before the band continued to play. Instead of questing why they were booing I just looked at Brian. We both busted out laughing. After we were both wiping the tears from our eyes Brian said we were leaving. I nodded in agreement and walked over to my table to grab my stuff.

At the table I had left my Ipod, cellphone, wallet, and cash all over the table. I crossed each item off of my mental checklist when I had grabbed all of my stuff I walked back to where Brian and Jen had been standing. They were gone.

Surprisingly all of my money was there. Strangely, now that I think of it I don't have a slight clue who else was sitting at the table. I really wish I had remembered some faces but all I could remember was Tracy. Atleast I didn't drop my Ipod in water like in a few of my other dreams, I mean nightmares.

Next thing I knew I was outside of the building. It was dark outside. and in the parking lot were a line of school buses. Loads of people were filing onto the buses. I was annoyed that Brian and Jennifer hadn't waited for me. I looked in the school bus windows, trying to spot Brian and Jennifer. They were no where to be found and the buses had filled quickly. I was left alone with a small group of other people. I watched the buses depart and then moved to the group of other people. I saw my brother Danny and approached him. He saw me too and blurted out, "Whats up nigga?".

I immediately through him a devilish look as a group of black girls from my school were standing right behind him. I was embarrassed and frustrated with my younger brothers mouth. Nicole approached us and asked him if he used that word all of the time. A simple NO would be the perfect answer so I answered for him, afraid that his answer would be something equally embarrassing and offensive. Nicole then told me that that word didn't bother her and just walked back to her group of friends. I was relieved but also aware that she was being very out of character. She is responsible for multiple rants about white people at school. Just to make sure, I told Danny that I was going to punch him in the face when we got home. I made sure to say it loud enough so that Nicole could hear me.

My brother Danny does in use that "term" a lot to describe me and his friends. He isn't racist or anything he has just adopted it into his language. Even though I haven't and I listen to more Rap than he does. :oops:

Danny silently walked past me and I turned around to see Mrs. Hoffman standing six feet behind me. It had been the first time I turned around since I had "teleported" outside. I was standing outside of my elementary school. I drew a breath of relief, we could easily walk home from here. The distance from the elementary school to my house is about 1/12th of a mile. I ignored Mrs. Hoffman and began to walk past her when she stopped me.

Mrs. Hoffman is a librarian at my high school. I'm not sure why she was at my elementary school.

She asked me where I was going. I told her that the walk home was short. At first she wasn't going to let me go but I eventually convinced her. She asked us to call her when we got home to let her know we made it safely. I could literally see my house from where I was standing so I just nodded even though I had no intention to call her. I began the short trek home down the gravel path. Danny was no where to be found. I didn't care, I just assumed he went ahead of me. The breeze was cool and I was enjoying it. I was finally able to relax after a night of bullshit, well I was almost able to laugh.

Tracy came bounding down the path towards me. I was growing more than annoyed with her but I held any negative remarks back. She began talking to me about her A+ Student Program. I politely declined once again and she grew defensive. I had a feeling I was no longer her friend and that she was observing me. She followed as I walked through my back yard and then through my backdoor. I was happy that I was finally home but that only lasted for a moment. Tracy stepped through the back door into the kitchen right behind me. She continued talking and I pulled out left over Chinese food from the previous night. I warmed it up and began devouring its goodness. Once again that only lasted for a moment.

Tracy asked me what I was eating. I replied, "Chinese.". She nodded and then commented about it not being very healthy. I agreed with her and told her that I normally eat healthy. She tried to inspect what was inside of the food pantry but for some reason the refrigerator was in front of it. I felt that I was becoming a target of some kind of investigation. She started asking me more questions about my life at home and how I like it here. I had the feeling that she was going to try and take me away from my family. She asked about my Dad and I explained that he worked late hours. Each question made me more defensive. I was trying to think of a way to get rid of Tracy.

Then I woke up. Thank God, :bowdown:

After Thoughts / Other Thoughts
I was woken up by my cell phone ringing and no matter how annoyed I was I answered it. It was my friend Brian. As weird as that may be I figured he would be calling me, we were going to go biking later that night. As soon as I hung up the cellphone I took my dream notebook into the living room and began writing down the dream. My last dream only took up a page and a half. This one took up three pages and I was quite surprised at that fact.

As far as the actual dream goes I had a feeling that if it lasted much longer I would have literally kicked Tracy out of my house. At first I didn't think this dream was worth recording but I'm damn glad that I did because it turned out to be pretty interesting for me at least. It also turned out to be pretty long. Hopefully tonight I will have 2 dreams and record both of them.

Also I'm going to try doing a reality check everytime I walk through a door. I only did it twice today, hopefully tommorow will be a huge improvement.

Interpretation
My Chemical Romance: I listened to one of their CD's earlier that day. I wasn't a huge fan before listening to their CD and I'm still not but they have a few OK tracks.

Concert: I went to a Rush concert last month, it was my first concert and I've been aching to go to a second concert.

Brian: He is one of my best friends so I can't say I'm surprised he is in my dream.

Jen: She is a pretty good friend and I think she is a MCR fan, that might explain a lot.

Tracy: I watched an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer last night before I went to bed. It revolved around an obnoxious person with authority. I think Tracy adopted this personality.

All My Stuff Lying on the Table: When I come home and walk into my room I drop my cellphone, wallet, loose cash, watch, and ipod onto my desk. When I leave I grab all of those things it is a habit.

Danny's Foul Mouth in Public: He has dropped some embarrassing words before in public, luckily nobody around has heard them. I could say this is one of my current fears so I'm not surprised this came appeared in my dream.

Chinese Food: We had left overs in the fridge and had plans to eat it when I woke up. Guess I was hungry and couldn't wait that long.

Elementary School: I'm still lost to why I still have dreams about this school. I dream about this school all of the time. I wish I knew an exact number, at least I'm logging my dreams so I will be able to find a pattern and maybe determine while I'm spending so much time in here.

Friends Ditching Me: I used to have a lot of social anxiety and I still have a little bit once in a while. One of my fears would be getting ditched.

Nicole: Girl from my highschool, probably the one person that would raise the most fuss over my brother saying something wrong. I see why my subconscious picked her, she is the female Jesse Jackson. :P

Mrs. Hoffman: I have two book reports I have to turn into her by the end of the summer.

Goals

• Have a Lucid Dream
• Start Practicing Reality Checks
• Blow Shit Up In My Dreams
• Have a Nightmare and Successfully Defeat It
• Remember 2 Dreams In One Night
• *NEW* Solve My Elementary School Pattern
• *NEW* Log 50 Dreams
• *NEW*Experiment With Listening to Music Before Going to Bed
• *NEW*Practice 10 Reality Checks Per Day For 1 Week

This is another long entry. I'm going to update my original post with extensive statistics about my dreams so I can discover the patterns I have in my dreams. Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow (Technically Today).

EDIT: Edited for grammar. I have a question, are there any rules to what we can and cannot post? Like offensive language? I don't really want to censor my dreams but I will if there are rules on the website about it.

Double Edit:

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Originally Posted by Rules

Keep it clean.
Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.

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Should I be censoring any bad language out of these dream posts?