Thread: Twoshadows' Dream Journal

[quote=Twoshadows;457116]But this is the kind of dream I can't share...believe me--it's way better that I don't.
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I have those dreams too.

But I don't remember them if I don't share them with my friends...such a loss...

Yeah...I would think that most people have dreams that they don't feel confortable sharing. Or they at least edit them a little. And I probably could have done that. But now I won't.

I really really want a Lucid Dream tonight. I think I will go to bed really early...and try a WBTB....maybe even a WILD. I want to have my DV party dream. I want to see if I can get all of you there....or at least four or five. It would just be so cool.

Hope I'm invited. Better yet, I hope I remember it too.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Hope I'm invited. Better yet, I hope I remember it too.

Of course you're invited. And anyone is welcome to dream share...if you know how. Wouldn't that be too cool.


Dream:

My last dream of the night was one that went on and on. It was really nice. I was back in Sri Lanka and staying with the same host family. I can't remember all the details but we did so many things in the dream. It seemed I was there for days.

A few details I remember are:

Hugging my host dad and telling him thank you for all that he had done for me in my first visit. I remember calling him "Appachi" and my mom, "Ammi".

I was worried that I didn't pack enough. I had one pair of shorts and two pairs of pants..but no dresses. [IRL -We lived in a rural part of Sri Lanka. I wore dresses every day because it was expected].

My host siblings were still the age they were when I lived there. It felt so good to see them again. I had missed them so much.

We ate a large meal. It didn't seem at all like the real thing. Lots of bread, and no rice or curry. I remember taking a bite of something awful that tasted like old dog food. Even though I spit it out I could taste it in my dream mouth for the next five minutes or more.

There was another exchange student living a few houses away. I wanted to meet him. [IRL I made very good friends with another American exchange student, and we have continued to remain friends. It's always fun to tell people that we met in Sri Lanka. ]


I'm going to find a pic of me in Sri Lanka and post it.

Here's one of me with my family and extended family. (The pic is not that clear because I just took a picture of a picture just now with my camera.)




TS

That's a good dream [aside from the dog flavored food], it's good to have dreams based off of good memories.

And lucky~, I want to be a forgein exchange student too oneday, somewhere.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Here's one of me with my family and extended family.

Its a good thing I read the post before this about your dream. I saw the picture and you wrote with your family and I was like what??? i was so confused!

Looks like everybody wears dresses there!

Pretty site.

Where was that waterfall picture taken?

Originally Posted by Lucidbulbs

That's a good dream [aside from the dog flavored food], it's good to have dreams based off of good memories.

And lucky~, I want to be a forgein exchange student too oneday, somewhere.

Yes, being an exchange student was one of the best most powerful experiences in my life. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything. It made me feel closer to all people everywhere in the world.

You wouldn't believe how personally I took that tsunami that killed all the people in Sri Lanka. I had visited the areas that got hit the hardest. I could see the place clearly in my mind. I could visualize the families, the children...the loss.

Originally Posted by meggyfayephotography

Its a good thing I read the post before this about your dream. I saw the picture and you wrote with your family and I was like what??? i was so confused!

Yeah, I guess I could have made that a little more clear. But I'm glad you got it.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Looks like everybody wears dresses there!

Pretty site.

Yes, dresses everywhere. I played in the paddy fields with my siblings in dresses, went to school in dresses, rode an elephant in a dress, washed an elephant in a river in a dress...you name it I did it in a dress. Actually the word is "frock". We all wore "pretty frocks"....

Originally Posted by The Cusp

Where was that waterfall picture taken?

It was a place near Ratnapura in Sri Lanka. It was a great gemming area. Some of the relatives in the picture gemmed for a living. Before I left that area they gave me a big bag of little stones that they had collected out of the river. I had the best time when I got home picking through it saying, "Wow...here is a ruby....look--a blue sapphire!" It was very cool.

I've got more pictures I can share.

Suddenly I feel very untravelled and have an urge to go to Sri Lanka
Maybe in a dream..

I'm going to Pennsylvania in September... but not nearly as good as Sri Lanka!

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Yes, being an exchange student was one of the best most powerful experiences in my life. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything. It made me feel closer to all people everywhere in the world.

You wouldn't believe how personally I took that tsunami that killed all the people in Sri Lanka. I had visited the areas that got hit the hardest. I could see the place clearly in my mind. I could visualize the families, the children...the loss.

I would feel that way too if I were you, I mean, it feels so much personal once you make the bonds with them, it almost hurts to see that country ache in any way or form... Oh... now I'm starting to feel bad too.

But yeah, the experiences there must have been priceless and on top of that wonderful. It's one thing to visit a country, it's another to be apart of it for an n amount of time.

When I watched that disaster on TV I couldn't help but have tears come to my eyes. And I never knew anyone there. I can only imagine how you feel about it, TS. It was such a terribly sad event.

Originally Posted by Snowy

Suddenly I feel very untravelled and have an urge to go to Sri Lanka
Maybe in a dream..

I love when I dream about Sri Lanka. I dreamed about it all the time when I first got back. But I still have dreams every few months or so. It seems each time I'm saying, "I'm finally getting to come back here. This is so wonderful!!" (Need to remember --dream sign)

It's such a beautiful place to visit. When I filled out my application to be an exchange student, I was able to pick a few choices which they might or might not give you (my sister chose Scotland and they sent her to Brazil). Most of the other people applying were picking places in Europe (France being the top choice). I decided that I really wanted to go to some third world country that was as different from my own life as possible--somewhere that I would be less likely to get to on my own later in life. So I chose Sri Lanka. And they were able to find a family that they thought was a perfect match for me--and they were.

Originally Posted by meggyfayephotography

I'm going to Pennsylvania in September... but not nearly as good as Sri Lanka!

But a lot safer.

I would go back in a heartbeat if I had the money and it were safer. There were terrorist attacts while I was there, too, though. Once we were about to take a trip to see these ancient ruins, but there was a terrorist attack there the day before we went there and several people were killed. I still wanted to go, but my family didn't want to anymore.

Originally Posted by Lucidbulbs

I would feel that way too if I were you, I mean, it feels so much personal once you make the bonds with them, it almost hurts to see that country ache in any way or form... Oh... now I'm starting to feel bad too.

But yeah, the experiences there must have been priceless and on top of that wonderful. It's one thing to visit a country, it's another to be apart of it for an n amount of time.

Yeah, I got to see the country in a way that no tourists could ever see it. We lived in a very rural area where a lot of the people had never seen a white girl before. I was like a celebrity. Talk about weird...but kind of cool.

I got to go to school. I got to see how the family practiced Buddhism. I got to see the domestic helper beat my clothes into a rock when washing them. I got to eat rice and curry and cuttlefish and wild boar. I got to enjoy spending time with my siblings who mostly didn't speak English. We liked to catch lizards and fireflies. And so many other things.

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

When I watched that disaster on TV I couldn't help but have tears come to my eyes. And I never knew anyone there. I can only imagine how you feel about it, TS. It was such a terribly sad event.

I know...It breaks my heart. I don't like to think about it.

I'm totally off topic...but I don't care...

Here's another picture.



TS

Fantastic! I wish I had an elephant.

Can I just tell you how jealous I am of you! I want to be that close to an elephant in the wild! That's so awesome! That would definitely go on the list of best experiences of my life! Haha.

Terrorist attacks? That's scary! I was thinking about studying abroad in Israel (because I'm Jewish and it just seemed right) but I have a penpal over there and he was telling me about the terrorist attacks. He said they weren't as bad as the US made them out to be, but it was still too scary for me!

Originally Posted by The Cusp

Fantastic! I wish I had an elephant.

Me too. It was amazing. That was one thing that I had really looked forward to about going to Sri Lanka...I would get to see elephants up close. I knew a Sri Lankan guy and before I left to go to SL, he taught me some phrases in Sinhala. One first thing I made him teach me was "I want to ride that elephant".....

Originally Posted by meggyfayephotography

Can I just tell you how jealous I am of you! I want to be that close to an elephant in the wild! That's so awesome! That would definitely go on the list of best experiences of my life! Haha.

Terrorist attacks? That's scary! I was thinking about studying abroad in Israel (because I'm Jewish and it just seemed right) but I have a penpal over there and he was telling me about the terrorist attacks. He said they weren't as bad as the US made them out to be, but it was still too scary for me!

Yeah, it would be scary to live somewhere that had terrorist attacks on a regular basis. But if I had to do it again, I would.

Studying in Israel sounds so cool. I know it might be somewhat dangerous...but so cool.....

The elephant in the picture wasn't wild. Most of the elephants on the island were work elephant--owned the same way people own horses here. My exchange student friend's family owned two. My family didn't own any. But I got to see elephants a lot just on the street or in the jungled areas working.

If you can see in the picture, the baby elephant is actually chained up. The two boys in the picture are washing it. I got to help. You can see the coconut husk in my hand that is used to to wash it.

Dreams:

I'm going to write up the last dream of the night first because it is the most vivid, and I don't want to lose it.

It is inspired by real life events. B was a family friend while I was growing up. She was a single lady about the age of my mom. She loved to go camping and hiking. Since she didn't have a family to go camping with she liked to take me camping with her. One of my best hiking trips ever was with B. We went to Mineral King CA and just took off hiking. We would get off trail, get lost, discover new places. It was totally my kind of hiking.

When I was 17, we went to Mammoth CA with her 15 year old nephew and his friend (also a real fun/funny expereince)--and I think that's what really inspired the dream most.


Dream:

I was in a mall or some shopping area. I was passing a McDonalds when I looked in and saw my friend B getting ready to leave. She had a 16 year old nephew with her. I started to talk to her, but she said she needed to run into the restroom real quick.

After she went in the nephew took off. I followed him. I asked, "Shouldn't you wait and tell B where you are going?"

He said, "No--I'm taking off. I want to go home. I want to get back to World of Warcraft."

I followed him to their car in the parking lot. I got in the car with him. I felt I couldn't let him take off and just leave B stranded.

I started talking to him saying things like, "I know how much people can like WOW but surely you can leave that behind for a couple weeks for a trip like this.

I remember he had just got his driver's license and wasn't driving as well as I would have been comfortable with. I put on my seatbelt even though I hadn't planned on going very far with him.

I remember a ambulance coming up behind us, and I repremanded him a little for not pulling over sooner and making the ambulance have to slow down. He told me that ever since he had gotten his license that he practiced using his rear view mirror just so he could be ready for things like this. I decided to not make an issue over it.

I then talked to him again about the fact that he just couldn't leave B behind. She would have to get someone to come pick her up and that it woulld be expensive. And this would hurt her feelings terribly. Plus it was just palin inconsiderate and rude.

He seemed to be listening, but not saying anything.

I then changed the subject a little. I asked what places they had visited so far. He got a little excited and started telling me about this National Monument that they had visited that had old Native American ruins. He then told me how they had gone to Lake powell and went to the dam and had taken --

"A dam tour" I finished.

"Yeah--it was really cool", he finished.

I then asked him where they were now headed. He said "Yellowstone".

"Yellowstone??" I repeated. "You're going to Yellowstone and you would rather play World of Warcraft?? Do you know what I would give to make a trip to Yellowstone right now??"

He started looking a little bad as I talked to him about how fantastically cool Yellowstone was. Finally he turned the car around and headed back to the McDonalds.

I was wondering what we would say as we walked from the parking lot toward the McDolnalds.

B was waiting there for us. She saw us together and gave a frustrated, but friendly smile. She said, "You guys could have told me you were going to go for a walk."

I decided not to day anything about him talking off. I decided that it was up to him if he wanted to say anything.

We then said our goodbyes and I wished them a great trip to Yellowstone.




Dream 2:

A DV Member dream about....Moonbeam!

I don't remember a whole lot about this dream. I was in this house that was infested his spiders and other creepy-crawlies. I didn't have any bug spray but I had a bottle of bleach cleaner that I used to clean things. I figured the bleach would kill things if I sprayed them. Sure enough, it was doing the trick.

As I continued to try to clear the hosue of all these very scary and gross bugs, I looked and saw that Moonbean was there and also helping me kill and clean. I went up to her and said something like, "I'm so glad you're here. Thanks for helping me. This isn't something I really wanted to do alone."



Dream 3:

Actually the first dream of the night--I'm mixing them all up today....

This one had something to do with boats and living on the ocean. I don't remember a lot of details, but I remember a few images, the ocean at night, and setting something (some equipment) wrong.



Dream 4 (fragment):

This one might have actually been part of the nephew dream. But I was in a mall and I ran into my mom and aunt. She noticed that I had with me the purple purse that she had supposedly giving to me for Christmas. She told me that she had bought it at this mall.


Other fragments:

Something about clothes.

Something about a mountain range.

You should write a book about your experience in Sri Lanka.

Hehe, that dream about all the creepy crawlies sounds like my everyday life here :p
I shouldn't complain, when I was in Costa Rica if you went to the sink in the middle of the night sometimes cockroaches would jump out the plugs and start scuttling around. We also had some disconcertingly colourful (and large) spiders in the shower!

Nevermind killing insects, it sounds like you spent half the night talking sense into a teenager - probably more difficult

Wow, sorry I have not posted here for so long. I've just been reading your dreams and the responses without making a contribution of my own.

That's so cool that you were an exchange student, I always wanted to do something like that. Nothing better than seeing the world through programs in school, right?

I'm surprised, I've managed to keep my journal up to date for the last week of dreams (which has been pretty fruitful, actually). I would've had a WILD this morning if I didn't force myself awake, I got that sleep paralysis and I was hearing things that weren't actually there. So close.

Originally Posted by CoLd BlooDed

Wow, sorry I have not posted here for so long. I've just been reading your dreams and the responses without making a contribution of my own.

Thanks for the comments. I've missed them.....

That's so cool that you were an exchange student, I always wanted to do something like that. Nothing better than seeing the world through programs in school, right?

I would say that is the best thing anyone could do. I can't even measure the things I learned by living there. My whole world changed.

I'm surprised, I've managed to keep my journal up to date for the last week of dreams (which has been pretty fruitful, actually). I would've had a WILD this morning if I didn't force myself awake, I got that sleep paralysis and I was hearing things that weren't actually there. So close.

Awesome job, CB!! What kinds of things did you hear?

Did you wake up on purpose because of the sleep paralysis?

I have never had SP yet. But I did have that scary WILD that I made myself wake up from.

Originally Posted by Snowy

Hehe, that dream about all the creepy crawlies sounds like my everyday life here :p
I shouldn't complain, when I was in Costa Rica if you went to the sink in the middle of the night sometimes cockroaches would jump out the plugs and start scuttling around. We also had some disconcertingly colourful (and large) spiders in the shower!

Oh, I'll bet that in Costa Rica you had bugs. How neat that you got to spend time in Costa Rica. That is on my list of places I'd love to go. I'd love to see the wildlife. And I'm sure I would have a great time taking pictures of the bugs there.

You should write a book about your experience in Sri Lanka.

I kept a journal while I was there. Filled a whole book. Right now it is packed in a box. BUt I do have a few journal entries I wrote up in another journal when I came back. I'll share a typical experience.

Sri Lanka journal entry:

"This is really funny. I was sitting outside the house with Shaminda and the twins. We had been playing badmitton or jump rope--I can't rmember which. But I stopped for a little break and was sitting on the wall by the driveway facing uphill.

The kids were still playing, when this young man comes walking down the hill toward us. He suddenly spots me. I don't know if he was trying to impress me , but he got this macho look, trying to look all cool. The way he was walking completely changed. Then when he is about 10 or 15 feet away from me he suddenly slips in the gravel and almost falls.

I couldn't help myself but I started to laugh. The poor guy looked really embarrassed so I had to look the other way so he couldn't see me still laughing.

He passed me and I turned to watch him go down the hill. He turned and looked back at me with an embarrassed smile. When he was gone Shaminda (my 10 year old brother) and I looked at each other and busted up laughing. And the twins joined in.

As a coincidence that same day we passed by him several times walking. I would start to crack up...and so would the man. When we'd passed him, Shaminda and I would look at each other and say "Miniha" ("man" in Sinhala) and then start giggling all over again."


End of journal entry.

Not that that was extremely eventful, but I recorded it to show how my little brother and I interacted. And how we didn't have to speak the same language to communicate and have fun.