Anemone's Dreams

[Anemone]

I've kept a dream journal for a couple of years now but I think that it will be interesting to keep one here too for feedback, encouragement, and general comments. Most of my friends have told me that my dreams are epic, and they're often very, very weird. I'm going to first post a dream that I actually had on the 12th, which was yesterday. This is coming directly from my other journal on the computer, although I may add some clarifications and such so that the dreams can easily be followed. November 12, 2006 Last night/this morning I had a dream that my mom dropped me off at the library. I was wandering around for quite some time, through all the aisles and everything, looking for something interesting to read. I couldn't really find anything. The library was set up differently, but I'd been there many times before in other dreams. I wandered for a long time it seemed, it started getting dark. My mom was waiting out in the car for me, but that didn't seem to matter. I ran into someone I used to know from daycare when I was little, his name was Justin. He was always interested in crystals and rocks and such, and told me that the library had some. I wandered over and saw that the library indeed had a huge collection of crystals for sale. I started looking at them, and they were all so pretty. I started to realize, however, that most of them were fake. Some felt rubbery, or when scratched they felt like plastic. I was confused by this, but realized this must be why the prices were so cheap. I was looking for some Malachite among some green stones, but couldn't tell what was real and what was not. I picked up some Amethysts and realized they were fake so put them back. I went to look at these dome-like crystals, kind of a hollowed out half globe of a crystal. At first when I had walked by earlier they looked genuine and were wrapped in plastic. Then I saw they were actually pieces of plastic in styrofoam containers. Finally I left, remembering that my mom was out in the car. The dream was actually pretty normal considering some of the other dreams I've had. After I woke up I laughed a little bit about it, because it was oddly relevant to a few events over the past week. The next post will be today's collection of dreams.

[Anemone]

Here are today's dreams. Oddly enough, this is the most dreams that I've remembered from one night in quite some time. I credit most of this to my, (Although annoying at the time&#33, persistent cat and dog. My littlest dog sat outside my door whining for about 4 hours this morning, which woke me at intervals between dreams. My cat was also scratching outside my window, which kept waking me up as well. (I ignored him mainly because he could have come in the back door, since it was open, but alas, he is a lazy cat lol.) November 13, 20006 Around 7am (Short hair woman, silver hand gun, shooting eachother, mother, father, grandfather alive, 4 shots at father missed, Grandfather began taking stuff out of the house when woman left, hiding, priest, mother/father got help, called audrey, everyone back, audrey, lover blamed? lies!, dogs love audrey, woman comes back.) ^ ^ || (Keywords to remember the dream, I often do this when the dream is particularly long so that I won't forget each tidbit as I try to recount exact details.) The woman was short, not really stocky but not small build either. She had short, spiked, almost silver hair. I didn't know her. The car she was driving was an old jeep model, or maybe a bronco? I'm unsure about exact car model. The day outside was dreary, dark, overcast almost. She had a small, silver handgun. (I know nothing of guns, no idea what it could have been). There were several people in the room with her. It was like my family room, only it seemed compressed into a long corridor almost and the furniture was gone or out of my line of vision. The colors were mostly gray except for clothing, and the gun was a really bright metallic silver. (I remember getting a really close up look at it, like it was very signifigant.) The people were lined up, sort of huddled together near the corner at one end of the room while the spiked haired woman stood near the fireplace. It was as though I was up near the ceiling looking direcly down at the family members. (I believe it was 2 aunts and an uncle, grandfather, mother, father. None of them actual family members.) It was as though I wasn't really there, but I was to be included in the dream later. I watched as she(spike) handed the gun to one of them, and told them to shoot another. The man shot the woman, then he handed the gun to the other woman, who shot him. She then handed the gun to the grandfather, who shot her. The three of them were lying dead on the floor now. The grandfather then turned to shoot the father, (his son), and shot 4 times. He missed every single time. (Oddly enough, I don't remember ever seeing any blood at all in this dream and the gun mysteriously disappeared after the shootings.) At this point, for some reason, the spike-haired woman left the house. I believe she left and was going to return. The mother and the father left the house to go find someone who could help. Everything was very calm, there was no feeling of stress, no feeling of remorse. The grandfather began packing things away, they looked like stuffed animals, into his truck to take away. I have no idea why. I was still at the house. A priest was coming by, my father's priest.(It was made very specific to me that this was my "Father's priest" not the family priest.) I knew that the priest was going to say the Last Rites over the dead family members, I knew he thought my father was dead too. I knew he was going to think that I had done the killing. I tried to hide in my bedroom but he found me and took me out into the main room. I told him that I was sorry I hadn't been out to greet him, I had to walk my cat. (That should have been a definite "You're dreaming!" trigger. lol) (I remember sometime around/after the priest arrived I was watching the grandfather. I was standing in the middle of the street with two boys younger than me, cousins maybe. He was trying to get away but he crashed into a wall on a scooter or something with a little basket on it that had stuffed animals in it. We watched him stumble and sort of panic, then try to get away. Again dreary sky, very little color except the colors of clothing. The place looked sort of like the cul-de-sac I live on, only with a mixture of other dream locations I recognized. The boys and I didn't speak but we did share a knowing sort of glance.) Sometime after this took place and the priest was gone, the mother and father returned with the police, or some officials. Again nobody seemed to pay me much attention. I walked away and went to call my cousin Audrey. (She's been dead since 1997 of cancer). The grandfather came back and everyone seemed to realize now how serious the situation was. Everyone was wondering what to do. The bodies were covered by white sheets. They were just lying there on the floor still near the sliding glass door. It had no curtains up and it was daylight, but it seemed like very little light was coming through into the room. There were some officially uniformed people wandering about, pushing the sheets around, making it look like they were doing something. As my cousin was on her way, the family was arguing about who had done this. Was it a scorned lover? Who was cheating? They started accusing either the mother or father of having an affair, but I knew it wasn't true. I told them I had called Audrey, they all looked at me like "What?! Why did you call her?" (She was basically the family peace-maker while she was alive. We were pretty close.) Audrey arrived, she looked different than I remembered, older.(She was in her 50's when she died, maybe almost 60.) She was getting something out of the trunk of her car before she came inside. I remember that my dogs got really excited as she came up to the door. The spike-haired woman came back sometime before Audrey's arrival, but I can't recall what happened to her. Around 9am I was at K-Mart with my mom. They were having some sort of sale, or something. She was walking around with this big piece of paper. We were going to draw a butterfly. I remember we were looking at all the clothing around us to see if we could find something that would be a good model. All the clothes had dragonfly and butterfly designs on them. Some were really pretty and I kept pointing them out, but as usual my mom didn't like them very much. Finally she decided on something she liked and sat down to start drawing. What she was drawing made sense at first...and then it began to look nothing like a butterfly. It looked some some sort of deformed caterpillar, or something. I began to tell her that she wasn't drawing the butterfly the right way. There was something wrong with the right side, the wing, she had drawn some weird circle or whatever there. She started yelling at me and got angry that I was criticizing her drawing, and she told me to leave. I said fine, and stormed out of the store. I realized I had forgotten my purse. I went back inside and walked all over trying to find it. I looked in the bathroom, behind some counters, until finally I saw it sitting near the customer service desk. I went to get it and a couple of guys who worked there, (I think), had been watching me. One of them came up to be, African American, about my height, medium-large build, nice smile, attractive. He asked me to go with him to the school dance, which didn't seem unsual to me. I said yes, and he was happy, and then I left. Instead of exiting to what normally would be the K-Mart parking lot, I came out in a place that resembled the mall exit. I walked across this huge parking lot and saw two girls I used to know from school. Jessica and Amber were sitting on this grassy hill, eating lunch. They were eating some kind of fast food, Carl's Jr. or something I think. We started talking about something, and somehow we got on the subject of prison. We were walking away, down the hill towards the sidewalk and the street and Amber said something about solitary confinement. Jessica asked what that was, and I started explaining while Amber drew a diagram in the dirt nearby. Amber said that she knew this because her mother was a cop. (Irl her mother was a nurse.) At that point I woke up. Around 9am I was in a car with my brother, he wants to buy me Carl's Jr. for lunch but I say that I'm not hungry and no thanks. He's taking me home, I think. I don't know where we're coming from. It's daytime, we're driving down a country road, two lanes. There's dirt and grass and some fields I can see out my window. Around 11am I got up out of bed and walked into my mom's room. She was home early. I asked her why she was home and she said that Richard(her boss) had sent her home early and she was now on vacation.(She got home this afternoon and really is on vacation now.) I looked out her window and it was dreary, cloudy, barely any sun. My dog was laying on the floor while the other dog was on the bed. She asked me why I hadn't picked any roses like she asked me to. I responded but don't remember what I said. I walked into the ktichen and looked out the window, which seemed bigger than usual. I had a good view of our entire front yard, including the rose bushes, and the street. I saw that it was really windy outside, so windy it was almost blowing the rose bushes completely over. I specifically saw the pink rose bush swaying back and forth, back and forth. I woke up sometime after this. The first dream's theme is not unusual, I generally dream of people being injured, although usually I'm the one who is getting hurt. The others dreams are typical as well, I often dream of people from my past. There were several times in the first few dreams that I knew it was a dream, but didn't really get anymore than a feeling about it.

[Anemone]

All right! Lots of dreams today and I made a little progress I think. November 14, 2006 1st 6:56am Track competition, on street, tall friend encouraging me, grabbing object, practice run indoors arena, very small, very navy blue, stopwatch, forgot to stop it, i got 2nd or 3rd, qualified! switch to game mode, on wrong character, standing there confused, another race around a blanket, I won, weird teacher This dream starts out clear and becomes jumbled towards the end as I was woken up. We were standing outside in the middle of this intersection(recognized as RL intersection) and we were doing some activity to improve our racing/running abilities. It was the middle of the night, but a couple times cars went by and we had to stop. It was my turn to go so I ran across the street while my friend cheered me on(DC) and I ran towards the gas station to grab an object and run back. Not sure how this turned out as I was warped into an arena. It was very small...for an arena. Everything including our clothes seemed to be navy blue, or dark. I was going to run a short race against two other classmates, or people I knew, around this small circular track. The coach was very encouraging to me, like he wanted me specifically to win. So we get around and I feel I've done a good job and qualified and realize that I haven't stopped my own stopwatch for him to take the time. I panic, but everything is okay, he gives me a time just behind the person before me. Somewhere along here it gets fuzzy. Eventually I'm running a race against two people but we're on a plush surface on a brown blanket. I race them around it and I win. So I switched into Lolan around this time, and was slightly confused by this transformation. (I play FFXI, online, so I actually switched into a character mode here, but not my own, a friend's, which was bizarre.) I woke up and looked at the clock. 2nd So I'm sitting in this house with my mom. It's like it's been converted into a restaurant. We're sitting at this dining room table in a small kitchen/dining area. We were looking at this little menu thing, each of us had one, but they both said different things. I sat there wondering what I was going to order because nothing really sounded good. My mom was having the same dilemma. We eventually realized that the menus were half complete and asked for new ones. My mom went away and then came back with like 30 little menus, each one had different foods to choose from. I remember before I woke up she showed me one that when opened was like a popup book of crab shells. 3rd Had a dream that there were these three bumps on my right arm, I pushed on them and this goo started coming out. I went down to my knees in my room looking at this like "What the hell?" and then as the goo finished coming out it left these big gaping holes in my arms. Woke up, or dream ended. Nap Dreams I was sitting in the school gym watching this band get ready for a concert. It was dark inside and night outside. We had no lights on for some reason. These guys were really good on the guitar but the band leader or one of the organizers thought they could do better. They decided they weren't going to put up with that type of treatment and started storming off angry, to argue. Two girls had been watching, I knew them both(DC) and they had guitars too. Everyone was kind of bummed out that the band was arguing so these two girls went over and one sat in this chair while me and the other went and sat on the edge of the stage on the other side of the room. I was watching her tune her guitar, which was oddly stringed. It was black and had different color neon, elastic strings.(Pink, blue, green, orange, yellow,etc) It was really round too, odd shaped. I told her that my boyfriend has played guitar for about 10 years.(He really has) She was kind of impressed. She started to play a Blondie song,(No idea which) and couldn't quite hit the notes. Then the other girl started playing another song and did a great job. The girl I'm with started grabbing all of the strings on her guitar and stretched them to one side, I asked what she was doing and she said "I'm going to play around my own fingers." I was slightly at a loss about this. The second girl's song was really uplifting, about working together and being friends. These lights, neon-concert like lights, started flashing softly and it was like she was playing this to get the band back together. Everyone was feeling empowered and happy about the song. Somewhere along in here, Billy Ray Cyrus(Wtf? >_>) was singing halfway through, something about prejudice and hating the girl I was with in the past, but now since everyone was getting along and banding together he'd take it back and be nice to her. She got up and started walking out of the room, feeling discouraged, right as BRC reached his high point in the song and slid to his knees rocking out on the guitar in this beam of light. After that I think I woke up, I don't remember anything else. I had a false awakening after this, which was actually *really* awesome. So I got up out of bed thinking "What a cool dream!" and did a hand reality check a couple times, all was normal. and started to get dressed or change clothes, and as I looked towards my closet I saw that there was this weird floating shadow thing. It kind of had the shape of a hood near the top. I stepped back and stared at my hands literally 6 times as a reality check. They looked normal. I went to turn the light on, but I don't think it worked. It was unusually dark in the room. Again with reality checks...still no waking up! I think I got frustrated at this point, wondering why the RC was normal but I was sitting here staring at this weird shadow thing. I fell back onto my bed and closed my eyes, hoping I was seeing things, and decided that I would try to manipulate this and see if it really was a dream. So I pictured myself spinning and ending up at my grandmother's(I don't even know why there, we don't get along well.) but it was more like I was just picturing it in my head than really being there, so I knew I must not be dreaming. Then I really woke up. Everytime I've woken up today from sleeping, this morning and during nap, I'd check my hands and try to push them through the wall or just check and see that I had normal hands. I think two times I even checked my clock to make sure the digital numbers were the same, and they were. Everytime I knew I was awake, really awake, and all looked normal in my room and everything. Then I'd turn over and write down what dream stuff I could remember. At least I've made progress to do reality checks in dreams. Kinda cool that it worked so quickly! Very happy even though I didn't go lucid. ^o^/

[Anemone]

November 15, 2006 Table, girl, mother, phone, Martin, Beer, Forum, Illness--I can't remember this one and it's vexing me! lol Hopefully it'll come back to me. I was woken from this one by my alarm clock, so I think it messed up my memory about it. 1. My dad came over and I was getting ready to pack and go over and stay with him or something. The house seemed really dark and weird. We picked my brother up and we started driving, it was overall a very weird feeling while we were driving. It was dark outside, and it just seemd eerie. 2. I was doing Besieged (game thing) and it was totally different looking than it normally is. I met two new people while talking about it on a forum. They were soo nice. I was sitting chatting with one when he asked how old I was. I asked how old he was and he said he was in his 30's. I told him how old I was and he and the other guy decided they didn't want to be friends because I was too young. (I have a couple people on FFXI as friends, in my linkshell, that are around that age.) 3. Dad again. We were in the car driving down the street my grandmother's house is on. My brother got out there and me and my dad drove down a bit more to my Aunt C's house. Joey was in the front yard, which was overgrown. When he saw us he ran inside after giving us this dirty look. My dad just shook his and we went inside. Near the garage we saw Grandpa J(He's been dead since 2003) and talked with him for a bit. Then we went inside and R was in there fixing the floor, but it didn't look entirely like the actual house. I was feeling really uncomfortable, but I sat down in this awkward chair nearby and waited for my dad to get done doing whatever we were doing here. Eventually a bunch of family came over and we were all sitting at this table getting ready to eat chocolate cake and I said that I couldn't eat it and everyone was like "You can't?" "Why not?" "That's ridiculous, of course you can!" I was just like "No, thanks" and they kept talking about it. Then they started talking about the Soldier's in Iraq. Talking about a stress disorder and how it could affect them, etc. Talking about how they could go crazy, or some other stuff like that. 4. I was taking a shower and when I got out the floor was a bit wet. The grout between the tiles began to wash away when I picked up a towel. I panicked and tried to fix it but made a big mess. Slept a bit restlessly and with my alarm going off I think I forgot quite a bit of detail from these.

[Anemone]

November 16, 2006 1. I was in the kitchen with my mom and she was asking my brother and I if we wanted KFC. I think that we did eventually get some, but I can't remember for sure. I was working on some sort of school project, a collage or something. I didn't really like my first try so I started over again on another piece of drawing paper. I was doing word associations. There was this piece of paper from school that had different pictures and words on it and I was drawing/writing down words that I thought of as a result. I'm not entirely sure what the point of doing this was, the dream got fuzzy after that. 2. I was sitting in a room, it was an open room and it looked like the walls were made of gray stone, kind of like a castle. We were sitting there and writing on a pad of paper with questions on it. It was asking about the pets that we had been raising. Some of the questions I wasn't sure how to answer to I looked at his answers and copied them down. It was sort of an evaluation, not a test, so I didn't feel bad for copying. I opened this box a little later that was sort of rectangular. It had some little squares inside taking up space and then these two fake little mice. It seemed almost like my workbook I was writing in was attached to this, because I started to pull it away and heard it tear, so I stopped. I remember taking the boxes inside apart and pulling them off, leaving only the little mice. 3. On a forum (I visit serveral, so I'm not sure which) I got a PM from someone saying they had read some of my posts and wanted to be friends. No idea what else happened, that's all I remember. Sleep was erratic last night. I woke up several times and got up and went back to sleep, but didn't sleep well.

[Anemone]

I was lazy yesterday and didn't write down my dreams so here's yesterday's and today's dreams. November 17, 2006 Julia, depressed, wondering why. Nobody knows. Dim office. I was standing in this pool of water, it was very large with cliffs rising up on either side of it. I was standing with my back to these rapids and these little waterfalls. The water was incredibly clear with white foam near the rapids and waterfalls. I was facing my dad who was talking to me. We were holding a conversation about something. I keep almost getting pulled away by the current and he keeps having to grab me and keep me from flying over the rapids and drowning. We were talking about owning property and how it used to be much cheaper. My cousin, "B" was at the top of the rapids/waterfall thing near the tops of the Cliffs. We were all standing there and he was going to get married. It seemed like we were rushing about trying to get organized but I don't know why we were in such a hurry. The scenery was very beautiful, very clear. There were mountains and cliffs and lots of really bright green grass. The sky was a really clear blue, like it was a spring day. I can't ever remember feeling cold, or wet despite being in waist high water and pulled under several times. November 18, 2006 Had a sort of frightening dream last night. My house was really dim and dark and some things were rearranged and not like they are in real life. I remember we had gone out to dinner or something and then come back home and made some tea. We turned the burner on the stove off after we were done, but it kept coming back on of it's own accord. We were puzzled by this. The atmosphere seemed really really weird. I remember standing in the kitchen with my mom and then all of a sudden this shadow thing appeared. We were both scared and I remember wanting to scream but couldn't. I woke myself up at this point. Have had dreams like this before but not recently that I remember. I seriously need to start writing down better keywords, or just write down the dream when I wake up from it. I keep forgetting what my keywords mean. lol

[Anemone]

November 19, 2006 1. This seemed almost like I was reading this out of book rather than dreaming it. I was in another world, or a parallel universe but I was able to move between our world and the other. The creatures in the other looked almost like Faeries, or something similar. Most of them were kind and generous and they threw big parties and invited everyone. Then there were the bad ones who seemed to want the main character dead for some reason. While on the other side at a party I remember watching two people, or faeries, competing. They were on these platforms above the ground and there were two ropes or wires, every thin, drawn across. The goal was to see who could ride across the ropes/wires on a horse the fastest. There was one guy who was the grand champion, he could get across faster than you could see. It was odd watching these horses race across the rope/wire. When I returned with the main guy to our world we were walking along the fence in this backyard, probably mine, when we saw these creepy faces etched into some of the boards. These were set up there for his girlfriend to see and scare her. We knew we had to cover them with black spraypaint asap and we did so. We stood back and looked at our handywork and hoped that his grandfather wouldn't notice what we had done. We knew things were getting very dangerous, but what could we do? 2. I was in a town or on a school field trip and I remember standing in this little shop and going outside into the snow to talk to someone. I don't know if this was related to either of the other two dreams or not. 3. I was in a house investigating a haunting with a group of other people. There was a woman who lived there in her late 20's maybe. I talked to her for a bit and then we started wandering around as it got dark. The woman who lived there was sleeping upstairs when she heard or saw something and called us up to see if we could catch it. We got up there and she looked really scared, but we didn't see anything. November 20, 2006 1. I was sitting in a classroom doing the work and wondering why I was there. I knew that I also did homeschooling, so why was I in a classroom doing twice as much work as I needed to? I was feeling stressed out. I have dreams like this often. 2. A philosophic dream of sorts, I'm not sure how else to describe it. A, D, and R from elementary school were here with me. I haven't seen them in over 7 years. They were all grown up and it seemed like we were buddies. We did lots of things together and were really close and had good times. We were sitting in my backyard and R was standing by the shed near the patio and telling us that we should all stay friends for a long time because we needed eachother, the world was a tough place and we could only do it together. He said some other "wise" sounding things and then he told us all that he loved us and felt really close to us and hoped we felt the same. Around this time I kept flipping between past moments and present times. I'd flip back to an actual good day back in elementary school and the good times we had, and then back to a present happy moment. Very bizarre...I don't even really like these people. I always dream about them, a constant reminder of my hellish school years. November 21, 2006 1. Dad was under suspicion at work or school or something. Mrs. A came to talk about what was going on, she seemd very unhappy with him and the situation. It seemed like maybe he was cheating or something, or was scamming the school. I remember standing outside in front of a house with a shady tree and wondering what was going on and why she was at my house. 2. Carolynn's house. I was there for some reason, or at least with everyone else. I remember being in the car but I don't remember what we were doing or why. She was talking about school to me and I was talking about how things were going and so on. 3. A man, a woman, and their infant child are driving down the street. The child suddenly dies. The man and woman are devastated, but a girl nearby witnesses what actually happened. An older man, always preaching about manners and being kind to one another is charged with the crime. He is arrested. The girl knows that the father is really responsible but there's little she can do. I forget the middle details of this dream. Towards the end the father is arrested and the mother is in shock. 4. I was standing and thinking about flying because I had just watched someone else do it. I was on a platform that looked like it opened up into a cloudy, blue sky. I thought to myself "Flying is a dream concept, I must be dreaming!" I look at my hands and see that instead of hands, I'm looking at the ocean. My hands are still hand-shaped, but only dark and light swirling blue water that I know is the ocean. I tell myself "I'm dreaming!" but can't get lucid. 5. Driving or walking down a deserted road and seeing these horses in what looked like empty ponding basins. False awakening about writing down my dreams. Specifically remember writing down the flying dream. Haven't been sleeping well~ Hopefully better recall will come back to me. @.@

[Anemone]

Two days of dreams coming up. I'm doing reality checks but as often as I should. Couldn't remember anything from the 23rd--still not sleeping well. Nove mber 22, 2006 1. A guy was sitting in a car with a woman and two other people. They stopped at a clothing store where the woman bought all kinds of expensive clothing. The guy bought a grey suit outfit for another woman, a friend of his. They returned to the car and he said nothing about buying the clothing but knew that the woman with him would disapprove. The four of them began to talk about designer clothing and how uncomfortable it was. They pulled up in front of what looked to be a castle. The other woman, the friend whom he had bought clothing for, was painting something. There was a man in a cape in the painting with a scenic backdrop. She was only painting in black and red. At one point all the colors began to merge on her palette and in these containers she had it in. It was getting harder for her to paint because she could not really get to the black and red colors since green and yellow and blue and other colors were mixing with it. Not only were the colors mixing they were becoming somewhat solid. She was having the peel clumps off of her brush and set it aside. The existing horizon in the painting was a sort of dull blue-grey and she painted over that with black and red paint that was mixed together once some of the colors were sorted out again. 2. Sitting in a half circle shaped room with my aunt, father, mother and someone else. The room was very dim and there was a sort of couch built into the wall, almost like a bench with a blue cushion on it. My aunt was sitting in front of a large window which let in very dim lighting. There was general conversation then we talked about dreams. I told my aunt about my dream recall and she said she rarely remembered her dreams. I was going to mention lucid dreaming but I was called away from the room to retrieve something for my mom. When I came back the conversation had changed. 3. We pulled into our driveway and saw Jeremy, Danielle's husband there with another woman. Apparently he and Danielle had broken up. I glanced over to the side, left of me, and saw Danielle standing about 3 houses down staring in our direction, looking angry. The two were here to take my dog, Prowler. I was arguing with my mom for most of the dream about not letting them take her. I didn't understand why they wanted her and why we were giving her away. My mom never did give me a good reason. November 24, 2006 I dreamed that my dad, brother, and I were all visiting this really rich man. He was the richest man in the world. He had this huuuuge house, beautiful rooms, a beautiful pool, fountains, the house was just beautiful. He had a strict routine that he followed everyday. He worked out twice a day for 2 hours, everyday. He was a big man. Tall, very muscular, not incredibly attractive. I thought that he had very odd looking hair. It was very thick and kind of curly. There was just so much of it, and it was very short. So we were staying there for a while I guess. He set up routines for all of us to follow. We were going to exercise, go hiking, play games, relax, see movies, do all kinds of things that were scheduled for us. One evening I was taking a shower. The bathroom was pretty big. It was really long with a circular shower with a clear shower curtain at one end near the counters and sinks. There was also a bathtub in one section. I was taking a shower and I glanced over at the door and there was someone peeking through this little hole in the door at me. I was very embarrassed and upset that someone would do this. I found out after that it was the man himself! I was so angry. I don't know how long we'd been staying there but apparently he was attracted to me. He wanted to marry me. I didn't want to marry him at all. I wanted to leave but I was forced to marry him anyway. My brother and dad had left I believe.

[Anemone]

November 26, 2006 I was at a family party or something, I was one of the first to arrive. I was feeling really self conscious as more people arrived because of my outfit. I was wearing a very pretty red dress, something I wouldn't normally wear. I kept feeling like it was too short and I was getting really super nervous and uncomfortable. I felt like everyone was staring at me and judging me. As more people arrived I could hear them talking about the dress, saying it was too short, how embarrassing, I can't believe she'd wear that, etc. I ended up leaving very quickly, feeling totally uneasy and unhappy. My dream recall had totally died. @.@ Hopefully after my semester in school is done I'll be less stressed out and able to concentrate more on this!

[Anemone]

November 27, 2006 1. It started off with something about a replacement baby sitter because the original could not come. The house seemed really dark and it was night outside. A new babysitter came, it was a guy and he was pretty cool. I'm in a group with 3 other people. Two guys and a younger girl. We're wandering about and at first we're in town and able to find our way around. I don't exactly know why we were wandering. At one point we called the babysitter to ask if he could give us directions and he did. Somehow we ended up even more lost. We were in a house with this family and we were wandering around trying to find some clues so that we could find our direction home. We were looking for something that had to do with the number 2 and we should take a left from there. We found a number 4, a number 1, number 3, and 24, but no 2. I saw these antique things that I knew my mom would love. They had price tags on them but they were pretty cheap for antiques but at the moment I couldn't get them because I was lost. Finally we just used the number 24 and took a left, but ended up somewhere we didn't know. We were walking down a street and there were these guys playing basketball. Somehow we had entered a bad neighborhood upon leaving the house because these guys were obviously in a gang. They came over to us even though we tried to avoid them and they joined our group. We had a sort of confrontation because one of them was being mean to the little girl. I finally just tried to hit him with my purse but missed a few times. He was kind of pissed. (He looked like Malfoy from HP lol) So I leaned into him and said "I may not know how to fight, but I'll sure as hell try if you do anything like that again. So don't fuck with me!" Two of my group had to pull me away from him before I started beating on him harder. We continued walking and I was standing near one of my groupmates. We turned a corner and saw lots of hills and very little population. I think I said "Oh no! We're in Pittsburgh now, we'll surely die!" We kept walking, unsure of where to go. The groupmate I was walking near said something about being lost, being a leader, or something like that, and although a few minutes ago I had been a bit overly emotional and I felt we were going to die wandering like this, I said "I know, it's exciting isn't it!?" with a huge grin and a sudden feeling of elation. 2. There was this huge house that I guess we were moving into. It was a really nice house. "B" and Shirley were there for some reason, I think to help with a few minor repairs. As I wandered I asked if the furniture and window coverings were ours, the realtor said the window coverings were but not the furniture, that the current residents would be taking those with them. I remember green curtains, blue curtains, a bright dining area and a huuuge dining room table. So I wandered through the house and was watching "B" for a bit when I noticed that there was a vent where the ceiling had been opened and the insulation was falling out. I was worried about this, it reminded me of our house when the ceilings had fallen in. He said it would be fixed and not to worry about it. There was something kind of going on because I was sitting with "B" and my aunt in a bedroom and she was saying something about having to go to work tomorrow and not being able to look after me or something. Vaguely I remember a girl, very young, who was training for something, We went to watch her and she obviously had not had enough training because she almost fell off her horse on the track. 3. It was like in the game. We had got new monsters or a new update or something. Everyone was super excited. The new monsters looked like weird aliens and they were pretty intimidating. I was with a group of people, maybe the same one from the earlier dream. (I can't remember which came first. They may all have been one dream.) We were wandering around and we were planning on going a certain direction because the area we were in was too dangerous. We were going to cross a bridge that I had crossed just earlier, but the end was totally cut off. So they waded through the water and tried to avoid leeches while I walked across and then jumped to the shore on the other side across the water. They shook their heads at me and I just laughed and then we continued on our way. We got to this patio area where we killed some flying thing, and that's all I remember. 4. I had missed the first two days of school and so had to get caught up in the class. The teacher was one from elementary school, but I can't recall her name at the moment. I basically ended up being partners with the person sitting next to me although I had wanted to be with Angela. I got the assignment from him and found there was a ton of paperwork I had to do. Filling out forms, introducing myself, etc. Dream signs: Family members Anyone from public school Anything from the game Odd dialogue

[Anemone]

November 28, 2006 1. Most notable~ I was in a room, it looked like mine, maybe. I may have been laying down but the details are sort of fuzzy. I did a reality check, checking my hands. They were blurry and distorted, really thin and bent near the tops. I knew I was dreaming. I said "I must be dreaming." I was trying to convince myself I was dreaming, trying to get lucid, but it seemed really hard. And then all of a sudden I heard this really loud noise...or something. I think it was a deep voice that said something, or screamed, I remember the letter "r", like "TRRRRRRRRR' or "HRRRRRRRRRR" but I can't remember much else. This startled me awake. I think I was really close to becoming lucid but I didn't quite make it. I woke up on my back, which is unusual because I don't usually sleep on my back. There was something that triggered me to think of going lucid, it was some words. It was like before I saw my bedroom, I saw this white wall or a piece of paper with words on it. I remember saying to myself "If I see this "phrase"(can't remember what) again, I must be dreaming." I'm unsure if the two are related or not. 2. A dream about goblins. Me and a few other people were in a dungeon type area, it looked slightly familiar, I've seen it in other dreams. We were looking for goblins that dropped something, but we couldn't find any that were high enough level. Suddenly one of the people, one of the girls, she said that they were under this ledge, like a hidden room. She said "You have to believe you can fit through the wall otherwise you can't." So I slid through, it felt thick and suffocating for a few seconds and then we were through. We saw the goblins and we knew that we were in over our heads. They were VERY high level, much higher than us. We tried to turn and get out again but they saw and attacked us. We ran away, a couple people died. Me and another person kept running. We couldn't switch areas so the goblins kept following us. There was a lot of running, back above ground, through yards, through a house, and all around until we found a place we could change areas. We did so, but the goblins followed us. We knew we were doomed to die at this point. We stood there waiting to die, and then something happened, but I can't remember after that.

[Anemone]

December 1, 2006 My mom had given me a new car. For some reason I went back to my old school just to see what was going on. Lots of kids I used to know were there too. I talked to a few teachers, and then I left. I got into my car and I was getting ready to leave when I backed out and I heard this screaming. There was another car backing out and blocking my way too. Someone was shouting about a kid having been hit, but I didn't know if I had or if the other person had done it. I pulled out and left, sort of panicky, and drove around for a bit. When I got home I didn't say anything about what had happened, and nobody had said anything to me either, so I was convinced I had done nothing wrong and it was the other person's fault.

[Anemone]

December 3, 2006 1. I was at a school, walking. It was a huge school. I think it was either a high school or a junior high school. Anyway I had walked there to see Angela because she went there instead of to the school I went to. So I was walking around a bit until I found her and then we were walking to her next class or something and chatting. One of the teachers realized that I didn't go to the school and told me to leave. So as I was heading out I realized that there was this teacher and the principle in these two ditches, and on the other side of the fence was this board suspeneded over this huge pit. I went over to the teacher's side to leave because it was closer to the direction I wanted to walk in. She told me that I had to go the principal's side though, and walk over the entire pit. I was like...ok. So I went over there and did it. I don't actually remember walking over it, since I was kind of in third person at the time. 2. I was in a motel room or somewhere. I was on an assignment and there was a man there with me. He was older than me, although I don't know how old I was in the dream. He was probably in his early 20's. I was in another country, or something. The hotel room was dark but it was set up nicely and it wasn't some cheap motel somewhere. I was talking to the guy about what was going on. We were going to have to split up now, I guess he was my guide or something in that area. I wanted to keep in touch with him, we had become pretty close. I gave him an address he could write me at that my letters would go to, and he gave me his, which was somewhere in Florida. Things get fuzzy after that, but I remember someone coming in to inspect the room, and then me leaving. December 4, 2006 I was with a group of girls at one of their houses, we were having this sleepover thing. I was talking to the girl's dad whose house we were staying at. Everything seemed pretty normal. I woke up later than everyone else and they had all gone off to do something and I sat reading for a while, but I was okay with that. So I talked with her dad for a while and then I got dressed and ready to meet up with the other girls. I met with them in the room we had stayed in and we were all talking about stuff. I guess they had found some paintings, or some paintings were there, and her dad was showing them to us. He said that they were all inspired by the devil. This intrigued me as I don't really believe in the existance of the devil. So I sat listening and he turned one painting over of some trees and showed how they shaped 666 like this. I think I asked where he'd got the paintings and he said that he had come in contact with the devil himself. He told us this story about when he was a kid there was this man who always visited his family, (I saw the image of a big, open room with lots of light and this really long table and a man dressed in a suit with dark hair and eyes when he said this), and then he disappeared, and he saw the man years later in some run down village, or something. I just remember seeing this dark, dirty, run down type village or area of a city. There was more to this story, as it was more compelling, but I don't remember.

[Anemone]

December 9, 2006 I was at school with a girl, Angela, maybe, and some guy. I didn't go to this school but I was there with them because Angela wanted to show me something. So we wandered around campus and at one point we were walking through this crowd of kids and I lost Angela, but kept following the guy. We eventually met up with Angela again in the cafeteria and she was upset, thinking that I had snuck off with her boyfriend, who apparently was this guy we were with. I was surprised she would think that. Was at Carolynn's house, talking with her about some stuff. My dad was there too but he left. She started asking about some psychic stuff, and I was explaining some of the terms like clairaudience, clairvoyance, etc. She was pretty interested. Later that day I was talking with her son, who also seemed interested. He asked if I had any psychic abilities, and I said no, I didn't, but I was an empath. We were walking around outside what looked to be the street near the junior high across from the library. It was dark and for some reason the sprinklers were on and we had to walk through them. It was night and pretty dark outside, there weren't many streetlights around. Side Notes: I've been dreaming a lot about school, people I knew, and my family. I think this is due in part to almost being done with school, so it's been on my mind; the fact that Christmas is coming up and I'll have to deal with my family soon. I haven't been sleeping well at all and I'm not sure why. It could be because of school. I didn't sleep at all yesterday, I couldn't get to sleep. This is pretty bad for dream recall as I was exhausted last night and finally got some sleep but barely remembered anything from my dreams.

[Anemone]

December 11, 2006 December 11, 2006 1. In a very desolate looking area. Everything was very gray, white, dead looking. It reminded me of ash. I was with 3 other people in a group and a tour guide. One of the males was a medium. As we went into the area a weird little creature started following me, I'm not sure why. I was annoyed that it was doing so, but I wasn't scared of it. I eventually dropped down this cliff and lost it. The rest of them caught up with me and we started walking towards this undergound cavern entrance. I think it had been a town or a home at one point but was now deserted. As we neared this hole the guide told us that we needed to use this entrance although there were others. He said that (insert female name here) old armoire was the easiest way to get access to the rest of the caverns. The place was pretty demolished inside, broken wood and debris all over the place. It was sort of dark. As we walked the guide picked up this necklace, gold with a locket or some heart shaped pendant on it. He said "They got the priceless necklace." I think he was referring to thieves, or something. The necklace was very dilapidated, broken links and torn up a bit. As we headed towards the armoire to enter the rest of this place our medium began to have contact with a male and possibly a female. The male wanted to know "What level is she?" (referring to me.) The medium told our guide, "Level 3." or something like that. It was either 3 or 4. Apparently the spirit was worried that I wasn't ready. A female in our group became protective and said something about how I was with her, and that protected me automatically. She kept trying to defend me, our medium said to be quiet because she was annoying the male spirit. Woke up after that feeling a little creeped out. 2. Swimming in the water of this pool. It was pretty small-ish, round, with this island/median in the middle. I was swimming with this little whale, I'm not sure if she was just a baby or if that was as big as she would get. She was probably about the size of two large dogs put together. She was a dark gray in color, with a couple white-ish marks on her head. We were really close, we played for a while and then I sat on this small diving board near the edge of the pool. Soon a male cousin, unrelated by blood, a son of one of my parent's friends, came over and he talked to me for a bit then went and looked at the fence. I thought about how I really loved him..he was really just a friend of the family but we had been raised as cousins I guess. He and some other "cousins" were going to take down part of the fence and fix it. I remember that as he collapsed a section of the fence he broke more board supports than he intended to and messed it up more. 5 posts total, he shattered the first two, when only the last 3 had problems to begin with. I went over to the fence and another female "cousin" was there. We argued or something, then both collapsed face down in the middle of their work area. They said they couldn't work now, and left. I went back to sitting on the diving board. I was wearing these black shorts with a band name in red over the back, one of the "counsins" commented on this. Woke up shortly after. All DCs, no people I know irl. 3. At some forest, campground place. I was leaving. I saw all these family members of a former teahcer, Mrs. Dehn, and they were all of the cousins and non-blood people from the previous dream. They were heading to find something, or hunt, but there were so many of them hunting would have been effecient. 4. Staying at a hotel, but we had no keys for some reason. It was me, my parents, and my brother. Giving up on the hotel we drove off. We drove through this desert like landscape, very blue sky. We ended up at this little shot, kind of like a thrift shop, it looked like a house converted into a shop. They had all kinds of shoes from sizes 8-12, which was odd because around size 10-12 there are never any cute shoes. These shoes were old and used looking. My mom headed to the restroom and brother and dad wandered off somewhere. The shop was run by some creepy men with odd accents. I realized I wanted to leave. I knew I'd have to do it casually. I looked at some jackets and talked to this girl, or something. I saw my brother in another room but couldn't get his attention. Finally I got out and headed back to the car where my mom was. She had snuck out of the bathroom through a back door. Now we had to wait for my dad and brother, we were worried.

[Anemone]

December 13, 2006 1. It was like the holocaust or something. I was taken to this building with other people and separated to be kept there. I stayed with this elderly woman and helped her to cope and take care of herself. There was a man who was going to come and help me near the end of the war. I knew this was going to happen because these events happened several times. It was almost like I had a prophetic dream in the dream and I knew who was going to come help me. This time I knew, and the older woman she was dying, and I was trying to get her to hold on until the very end so that we could be rescued together. I don't remember many details from this dream, which is too bad because it's very interesting. 2. I was in my aunt and uncle's kitchen doing dishes. I was there to clean their house and everything. I made sandwiches, cleaned the kitchen, talked a bit with them. That's about it. 3. I was walking through this hallway and I had left another room with more people in it. I had been shown in there but didn't want to stay with them because they were a family and I didn't belong. I knew I needed to open the door this room where this older woman was staying alone. When I did she got upset, yelled, and slammed it. Can't remember anything after that. December 19, 2006 I was at my grandmother's house for Christmas. Everyone was coming, including Shirley's family. The cousins and everyone were there, and then I turned to look over my right shoulder, or something, and saw my dead Grandfather, Shirley's father. I wasn't very surprised to see him there. We were watching tv and he was sitting on the couch, and every now and then when nobody but me was looking, he'd take the remote and change to a sports channel. Everyone was so confused. I told them that he was there, and they believed me, but couldn't see him. The night progressed and he kept coming and going. We were at Shirley's house, only it wasn't her rl house. He appeared again, and I told her. She desperately wanted to see him, but I didn't know how to help her. I guess she didn't believe enough in it to let it happen. He was almost always there for me, I could always see him. Everytime I'd look over my right shoulder, he'd be nearby. It was a nice feeling, but I felt bad that Shirley couldn't see him. 2. Walking with this group of people. We were going somewhere that we usually drove to. The roads were very narrow, and I liked walking better because in a car it was kind of scary on the narrow roads. We had a middle-aged man as our group leader. We kept walking until we came to this meadow area with a house. We were going to stay there for a while. Skip some stuff I can't remember...and suddenly there's this werewolf there. Our group leader could turn into a cat, and another man was a bird or something. They were trying to remind the werewolf who he was, and where he was, so he wouldn't attack us. They sat talking for quite some time. Everyone else was outside, in the yard. It was night, dusk kind of.

[ExoByte]

I can't believe no one's responded yet! Lots of writing You have some very interesting dreams, and you explain them in detail! Very interesting Journal, I havn't read everything, but I like what I have

[Anemone]

I can't believe no one's responded yet! Lots of writing You have some very interesting dreams, and you explain them in detail! Very interesting Journal, I havn't read everything, but I like what I have [/b] Oh, well thank you very much I haven't kept it up as much as I should lately, holidays have thrown me off! Thank you for commenting. ^o^/

[Anemone]

December 22, 2006 It was night when I left the little house. He was staying behind. I went to my grandmother's house and walked past these two kids on the way. They were talking about someone, doing something. They said, "Isn't this funny?" I walked past them and went and took a knife and began to cut my grandmother's lawn. I cut around all the edges, like I was going to pick it up and remove it. That's exactly what I was going to do. I was a little paranoid, wondering if anyone would see me doing this. Nobody did. I got up after cutting, deciding to come back later to retrieve the grass. I walked back down the street, past the two kids and more kids doing something in a motor home. I basically ignored them. It was pretty dark, I was reluctant to walk up the street again, but I saw that it was lighted better further ahead. I continued walking and went back to the little house. I went inside, and he was waiting. Where had I been? Was I okay? I seemed depressed, lately. I didn't really say anything to him in response, I wandered around the house, evading him. He finally caught back up to me, and asked what I was doing. I was getting ready to leave again. He followed me out of the house. He kept asking me what was wrong, why was I acting this way? I said some things in response but I can't remember them now. He was going to walk me home, I was a bit surprised, he didn't get why. I said I guess it was nice, having him walk me home, it made me feel safer. He was kind of a tough guy, leather jacket, jeans, boots, dark hair, olive complexion. Very good looking. I was surprised he'd be so concerned about my well-being. I was wearing jeans, a gray long sleeved shirt, and I had my purse with me throughout the entire dream. The house was on a street across from the elementary school behind my rl house but there was also this industrial looking building, I'd seen them there before in another dream a while back, as I turned the corner it turned into the street leading up to my grandmother's. December 23, 2006 Nap Dream~ I was with the Dodd family. They were all grown up, the boys. We were going on some sort of trip, or something. I felt a little uneasy at first, out of place. I hardly knew the family as it was, and they had invited me on this important trip, so I felt a bit awkward. We were at this very large, very nice hotel. I was staying with the boys in this cafeteria type area while their parents were getting the room arrangements. I gave them money to buy some food, we all ordered a hamburger. When their parents came to get us we headed towards this very large escalator. It was enormous, and looked like solid gold. The hotel was huge too, many, many floors and expensive looking furniture and decorations. We made it to the room and I was chatting with their mother. Normally she's very solemn, kind of strict, but she was being very friendly and nice about everything. I hadn't seen her smile so much, ever. We sat around in the room for a bit and then we were going to go out somewhere to do something, I can't remember what exactly. As we were leaving I had to run back upstairs to grab some stuff for my purse. I remember the stairs squeaked a lot, or made echo-hollow type sounds as I went up and down them. The hotel "room" was more like an apartment. It had two floors, several bedrooms, and 2-3 bathrooms. So we went out and did whatever it was we went out to do. I was standing in this parking lot, or park, and I needed to use the restroom really bad. I went into this public bathroom, which was very dark when I opened the door. I was somewhat uneasy, I wasn't sure if someone was hanging around or not. I turned the light on really fast and looked around but couldn't see anyone. I looked in one stall and it was kind of dirty, so I went to another, and it was covered in rusty stains, which I took to be blood. I high-tailed it out of there as fast as I could! We headed back to the hotel and the parents were watching a movie after we got settled in. I wanted to take a shower, but the bathrooms in our room were occupied by the boys. I headed down this corridor to this public type bathroom within the hotel, and started getting ready for a shower. I was sitting waiting for the water to get hot when I looked up and saw the before solid door, now totally see through glass. I was halfway undressed, and there was this woman standing on the other side wanting to use the restroom. She was staring at me. I quickly dressed and left without my shower, feeling exposed and a bit puzzled about the see-through glass door. Sometime during the little excursion we had I was looking through my money. Before I had left home I had been given some money by my mom and I had like $600 with me. They were in bills marked with 123..as in each was $123. I noticed this oddity, but it never really registered with me to get lucid.

[Anemone]

December 24, 2006 It was some competition to make something fly. Katie won and everyone was really surprised, they thought that it would be impossible to make the object fly. There was, of course, a catch to winning though. She had to finish some mission, 8-3 or something like that. She didn't have this completed and she was kind of worried. We were walking along this road in the field where the competition was held. The grass was all yellow and it was a dead, winter looking, area. I told her that it was no problem to complete the mission, that I could solo it for her with little effort. We were standing in this room in this house. There was this doll that I needed to kill. At first nothing was really happening in the room. I expected the doll to attack us as we walked in, but it didn't move. I kicked the head around the room a bit, wondering why nothing was happening. I stepped on it, kicked it, and hit it around. I laughed a little, why wasn't it attacking? Then suddenly the real doll attacked. I wasn't ready, but began fighting anyway. I had to search around in my bag for some spell tools, and other stuff that I didn't have ready. As I was doing this, the doll cut deep into the inside of my right thigh. It hurt. I finally killed the doll and then its minions began casting all these spells, I went to attack them, but then this light appeared from the sky and they went into it all peaceful like. We were standing in some woodland area. Katie was leading even though she didn't have a map. We were getting lost and I was kind of nervous because I didn't want to be attacked by anything. Finally, I told her just to use her warp scroll, which I had shown her how to get in the beginning of our little excursion.

[Anemone]

December 28, 2006 I was at a water theme park or something. They had lots of marine animals there. Seals, orca, and dolphins were all in the area I was in. It was kind of like a big water trough with pools around the edges. I was swimming near and with some dolphins when the Orca came down one of the troughs, having escaped their little pool. Everyone kind of panicked, the Orca were a bit less friendly than the dolphins were. Everyone moved a couple troughs upward, staying near the dolphins, and two girls asked the trainers if it was okay to touch the Orca. The trainer said it was usually okay, but to be careful. So the trainers started going this way and that to get them gathered back together. Eventually they decided just to clean out their tank area since they weren't in there. So I stayed with the dolphins while this was being done. More happened but I don't remember exactly what.

[Scar]

you must have a lot of time to type all your dreams!!!! wow!!! I didn't bother reading. too much

[Anemone]

December 29, 2006 1. In a room of a shop with several older ladies. One feels so cold that we're surprised she's even alive. We send her home because her temperature is so low and her skin is so pale. 2. At my house with a group of people my brother knows, they're watching a movie. The people are different all of a sudden, dream characters instead of rl people. My little dog, Humble, needs a bath so I go and get some warm water to pour over him. Even though I know it wasn't that hot, it scalds him and he's burned badly on his sides. He runs under the bed. I eventually coax him back out and for a second he looks black and furry like my cat, then he's back to normal. I get him to drink some cold water and then pour it over him, which he loves and immediately heals his burns. I tell my brother's friends, they've changed back now, they're mean for laughing at the poor dog. 3. Doing a puzzle and then the pieces go missing. I find them outside wet and buried under dead leaves and grass.

[Anemone]

January 1, 2007 Lots of dreams last night but I can't remember them in any detail whatsoever. 1. Something about working on an art project for a friend, it turned out badly. 2. Something about marrying someone who would make my uncle my father-in-law, but the person I married wasn't related to us. (wtf?) 3. Building a green tent in a yard with my in-dream husband, it rained. (Possibly related to the above marriage dream.) 4. Something about monsters, repeated sequence of being chased by a wolf or wolf like creatures into a green tent. Other sheep-monster things regenerating and becoming stronger.

[odds]

Tents aren't bad once you get comfortable-- I have a friend that lives up in Santa Barbara with her husband and their newborn child in a tent! Talk about environmentally-friendly. Your dolphin dreams are indescribably sensuous and beautiful. The words flow so well, and the imagery is so vivid! More, please!