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DavidW

I had a dream where I kept making sandwiches.  I would teach a class and then go into a kitchen and make a sandwich.  I would go for a walk... and you know... and they kept pilling up.  This huge mountain of sandwiches extending from the floor to the ceiling.

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: DavidW on April 14, 2021, 05:45:52 AM
I had a dream where I kept making sandwiches.  I would teach a class and then go into a kitchen and make a sandwich.  I would go for a walk... and you know... and they kept pilling up.  This huge mountain of sandwiches extending from the floor to the ceiling.

You went to bed hungry?  ;D

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

vandermolen

Quote from: Brian on March 31, 2021, 06:19:31 PM
I just had a dream that I was assigned to interview George Szell - who was still alive - about his passionate love for watching TV. I was super intimidated to meet the great man, so I felt pressure to come up with really interesting, meaningful questions, not just "what's your favorite show?" But the time for the interview was coming and there was no paper, so I grabbed a magazine and started writing questions in the margins. The questions I remember writing are:

- What was the first TV set you ever owned?
- You had a reputation in your Cleveland years as a difficult boss and disciplinarian. Do you think your love of TV has made you more relaxed?
Hilarious!
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

Quote from: greg on April 13, 2021, 06:20:09 PM
I was in a car with Vladamir Putin and was supposed to drive him somewhere, but he ended up driving and drove completely crazy, zooming through the city at full speed recklessly. Needless to say, I was a bit annoyed.
Sounds like a nightmare!
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

DavidW

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on April 14, 2021, 06:02:25 AM
You went to bed hungry?  ;D

Sarge

Funny enough no and I didn't eat them in my dream either!

greg

Another animal-filled dream... can't think of a single dream from years ago filled with animals (though insect dreams were very common), but over the last year there have been so many.

Struggling to remember the animals in the first half, but at the end there was a whale sticking out of the water, looking at me and wanting to be my friend, so I was totally cool with that and felt some sort of bonding with the whale.

Seems this is the general theme of the meaning of whales in a dream, multiple sources saying the same (btw did not watch any video of whales recently)
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Whales are associated with compassion and solitude, and knowledge of both life and death.  They are also associated with unbridled creativity.  The exhalation through the blowhole symbolizes the freeing of one's own creative energies.
But in general, it depends on how the whale is presented, a beached whale can be an omen.
Since the dream was very positive, then it's all a positive, I guess.
The unbridled creativity- was working on music all day yesterday, coming up with some crazy sounding jazz-like piano stuff, so... yeah....


Quote from: DavidW on April 14, 2021, 05:45:52 AM
I had a dream where I kept making sandwiches.  I would teach a class and then go into a kitchen and make a sandwich.  I would go for a walk... and you know... and they kept pilling up.  This huge mountain of sandwiches extending from the floor to the ceiling.
Seems like the sandwiches are symbolic of grading papers, maybe.


Quote from: vandermolen on April 14, 2021, 06:38:48 AM
Sounds like a nightmare!
Lol, yeah.
Part of it is maybe a bit of maybe some morbid curiosity about the guy- always struck me, by his mannerisms and physical appearance, as the opposite of what he is. He just looks like a really weak and timid person IMO. But also kind of crazy/fearless.
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greg

There is also a theme of the last two dreams...

a blue whale and Vladimir Putin. They both represent extreme amounts of power. And I was trying to have a sort of friendly, I don't know what to call it, but "conversation" or something (even if not in words), some sort of understanding with them.

Also considering the common dreams I have with celebrities (at least four or five dreams where I was alone with Elon Musk, just hanging out), it feels like all of this could be grouped into the same thing.

There is the concept of subtypes in the enneagram, that I'm suspecting can translate into dreams.
self-preservation = SP
sexual/one-on-one = SX
social = SO

I score very high on SP and SX, and low on SO. Most of my dreams are either alone or with exactly one person, can't even remember any dreams of being in a group.

SX is a very intense bonding that can be done through either a thing or a person, probably having that type of orientation while (mostly) lacking it in real life explains the abundance of that type of dream.
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greg

From October:

Quote from: greg on October 20, 2020, 06:20:30 AM
Dreamed of owning a killer whale, petting its smooth blubber and trying to understand how those weird eyes worked.

Those animals seem to be really positive dream signs.



From 2008:
Quote from: greg on April 25, 2008, 02:09:12 PM
Also, the idea of being in the middle of the ocean and seeing a blue whale is probably the scariest thought ever.
Though in this dream it was out of water and friendly...
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greg

So I dreamed about a cricket and then dreamed about looking up what the dream meaning of a cricket is.

This is so weird, of all things to have this being so accurate:

QuoteCricket Dream Symbol – Dreaming of crickets are a sign of good luck. They indicate that all you work for is coming to fruition. Achieving all dreams are possible at this time. You have done the hard work and it is about to pay off.

QuoteTo see cricket in a dream
If you see cricket in a dream, it means that you will soon have a celebration.

Considering only in the last two days have I realized that I'm just about done with my project that I've been working on for a year and a half (often for 10 hours a day), and it's something that I've wanted to do for 20 years now. It's the most applicable dream meaning that I could have at the moment. Really weird.

I wonder how these websites get their info about dream interpretation (they are all similar), if this has been passed on multiple generations or what, and if there's some connection with the collective unconscious.



second dream: having a reunion with my third grade class (though mistakenly in my dream i referred to it as second grade). Everyone was grown up and we were sitting there in that same portable classroom lol
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steve ridgway

Quote from: greg on June 25, 2021, 07:01:50 AM
second dream: having a reunion with my third grade class (though mistakenly in my dream i referred to it as second grade). Everyone was grown up and we were sitting there in that same portable classroom lol

Dougal tells Ted about the school reunion that he attended:

Father Ted: Anyway Dougal... you were saying... about the school reunion.
Father Dougal: Ah yeah, I didn't recognise anyone. And you know something?! They all became firemen. I was the only one there that wasn't a fireman.
Father Ted: Dougal... you didn't go to a fire station by mistake, did you?
Father Dougal: Ah!



greg

Quote from: steve ridgway on June 25, 2021, 08:07:00 AM
Dougal tells Ted about the school reunion that he attended:
???
Sounds like either a dream scenario or dementia...  :P
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steve ridgway

Quote from: greg on June 25, 2021, 02:38:52 PM
???
Sounds like either a dream scenario or dementia...  :P

Father Ted was a comedy series about three Irish Catholic priests the church relocated to a remote island to keep them out of the way. Ted had embezzled church funds, Dougal was incredibly stupid and Jack was an alcoholic, but they were all portrayed with a certain charming innocence. 0:)

greg

#672
Dreamed of being in childhood home during Christmas, but with someone that I can't even say who it was.

There was a small-ish black snake crawling around on the ground, which was causing some anxiety. But it was a totally chill snake, like it didn't even notice I was there, it just slithered around, minding its own business.
(maybe it was a libertarian snake or something LOL  :P )

The person I was with said, "Oh, there's another one, actually. It's no big deal, when I was a kid, we used to play this game. It involves putting a bunch of snakes on a clothesbasket and throwing them up high! It was raining snakes!" I thought that was crazy.

I didn't come into any contact with it (didn't tread on it) and it was all good.

Looking up the dream meanings (i'm joking about the libertarian reference, definitely no relation to that) and it's fun reading.

Tbh I just think it means I'm forgetting something really important/potentially harmful at the moment, seems that feeling may have transferred into the dream.



edit:
https://angelnumber.org/black-snake-in-dream/
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What if these black snakes don't attack me and are just there? Dreaming of snakes that do nothing to you has totally different meanings than the previous ones. In this case, your dream may be unpleasant but not scary, the snakes do not want to attack you and you may even approach them voluntarily:

Dreaming of black snakes that do nothing to you, that simply show themselves, often symbolizes a wrong decision that you have made and that you cannot remedy. It frustrates you to have made a mistake and it scares you of failure, but you must Eptar that mistakes in life are constant and that in no case will these failures be decisive. Relax, you can still learn and approach problems from another perspective.
This totally could be pointing to something that I suspect, specifically the "oh, not one, but two!"
Lol if it is, that would be so funny. Hard to say, but it totally feels like it.
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greg

Movie idea:

One day, some guy starts to get constant bad omens from dreams or real life sources, but instead he gains extremely good luck during his life right after that.

However, the thought of the omens linger and cause lots of anxiety, killing his enjoyment about the good stuff he is getting. Eventually, he dies at an old age after an extremely fortunate life.

Turns out, the omens themselves were the misfortune.

:P
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John Copeland

So.  Yesterday I decided to have a wee snooze listening to Paul Hindemith.
It was only 20 minutes or so.
Hindemith then came into a short vivid dream.
I was sitting indoors with a wall behind me when Hindemith appears above me, looking over the top of the wall at me!  He is asking me for a cigarette.  I refuse because I don't like the look of him and think he's an old kind of bum type.  But Hindemith is not too happy with my refusal, I see his face get angry, and he disappears behind the wall again.  I worry about this and go to (escape) at some nearby stairs.  At the side of the stairs is a dead human who appears to have been taken apart, the dead human is in a little bundle, it's open eyed head, hands, feet, etc, all brushed into a little corner at the top of the stairs, with the brush leaning beside.  I am horrified because I'm sure Paul Hindemith has done this. Paul Hindemith then  appears at the bottom of the stairs, white shirted, sleeves rolled up, looking rather menacing and coming upstairs to get me.  I run back into the room and thankfully...I woke up.
I will never snooze to Hindemith's music again!

greg

Quote from: John Copeland on November 02, 2021, 07:32:13 PM
So.  Yesterday I decided to have a wee snooze listening to Paul Hindemith.
It was only 20 minutes or so.
Hindemith then came into a short vivid dream.
I was sitting indoors with a wall behind me when Hindemith appears above me, looking over the top of the wall at me!  He is asking me for a cigarette.  I refuse because I don't like the look of him and think he's an old kind of bum type.  But Hindemith is not too happy with my refusal, I see his face get angry, and he disappears behind the wall again.  I worry about this and go to (escape) at some nearby stairs.  At the side of the stairs is a dead human who appears to have been taken apart, the dead human is in a little bundle, it's open eyed head, hands, feet, etc, all brushed into a little corner at the top of the stairs, with the brush leaning beside.  I am horrified because I'm sure Paul Hindemith has done this. Paul Hindemith then  appears at the bottom of the stairs, white shirted, sleeves rolled up, looking rather menacing and coming upstairs to get me.  I run back into the room and thankfully...I woke up.
I will never snooze to Hindemith's music again!
So I never looked at photos of him until now. No wonder your dream portrayed him as a possible serial killer.  :D

I sssssssssseeeee youuuu, John, you can't escape  ;)

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LKB

I can only recall one rather intense nightmare from decades ago...

It is dark and quiet. I am constricted within one end of a tunnel underground, with no room to move except for being able to turn my head.

After some time passes, l become aware of another presence within the tunnel. When l finally turn my head to look, I see a dimly lit cavity which forms the other end of the tunnel. Within this cavity is a creature about the size of a German shepherd, with eight eyes and eight legs. As l perceive it, l am suddenly certain that it won't be long until it begins to make its way towards me.


Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen...

greg

At least four dreams last nights. Watched "Oats Studios" on Netflix before bed, wondering if the weird short stories influenced this or what.

#1- Unremarkable, just back at a previous job thinking about an old friend

#2- was standing on a small concrete path in the middle of a massive pool with a water level that was almost as high as where I was standing. An orca came up, and although I tried to avoid it, I got caught standing on it and it tried to drag me under the water but I woke up. Seems like anything involving water like this is like the worst type of nightmare. Usually nightmares are thrilling and sort of fun, but if it involves drowning, I'm not a water person- so NOPE.  :-X

#3- Viewing various scenes of small insects eating each other, very gruesome and gross

#4- Going up an elevator, it was being controlled by someone in charge at the top, some "commander" (instead of us pressing a button), but apparently they were new at their job or bad at it, and they moved the elevator in the wrong direction. It flipped, so we all fell over sideways, and then they brought it up even though we asked to go down a floor. The commander seemed apathetic but slightly annoyed at doing a bad job.
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Irons

I have a problem which has been lurking in the background all my life. Unfortunately my son has inherited it too. Bad dreams that have resulted in visits to A&E in the middle of the night. Last year I crashed from the bed to floor to discover I had dislocated a finger which was poking out at 45 degrees in the wrong direction. Last night, actually this morning, I rolled from bed to floor in the process bashing my forehead on the bedside cabinet and injuring my foot on a radiator.
There is a funny episode when camping many years ago for Le Mans 24 hour race. My mate recounts the story many times. We are in a field packed with tents and in the middle of the night it is deathly quiet with just the sound of the racing cars in the far distance. I am told, as I didn't wake up, that I let out a deathly scream. Apparently torches were switched on, tent flaps opened and bleary-eyed campers stumbled out shouting "what the f--- is that!" and the same in German.  :-[
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

Pohjolas Daughter

Quote from: greg on January 18, 2022, 09:39:14 AM
At least four dreams last nights. Watched "Oats Studios" on Netflix before bed, wondering if the weird short stories influenced this or what.

#1- Unremarkable, just back at a previous job thinking about an old friend

#2- was standing on a small concrete path in the middle of a massive pool with a water level that was almost as high as where I was standing. An orca came up, and although I tried to avoid it, I got caught standing on it and it tried to drag me under the water but I woke up. Seems like anything involving water like this is like the worst type of nightmare. Usually nightmares are thrilling and sort of fun, but if it involves drowning, I'm not a water person- so NOPE.  :-X

#3- Viewing various scenes of small insects eating each other, very gruesome and gross

#4- Going up an elevator, it was being controlled by someone in charge at the top, some "commander" (instead of us pressing a button), but apparently they were new at their job or bad at it, and they moved the elevator in the wrong direction. It flipped, so we all fell over sideways, and then they brought it up even though we asked to go down a floor. The commander seemed apathetic but slightly annoyed at doing a bad job.
Interesting that you can remember four dreams and so well the next day!  Do you often wake up during the night and/or are feeling tired the next day Greg?

Quote from: Irons on January 20, 2022, 08:15:46 AM
I have a problem which has been lurking in the background all my life. Unfortunately my son has inherited it too. Bad dreams that have resulted in visits to A&E in the middle of the night. Last year I crashed from the bed to floor to discover I had dislocated a finger which was poking out at 45 degrees in the wrong direction. Last night, actually this morning, I rolled from bed to floor in the process bashing my forehead on the bedside cabinet and injuring my foot on a radiator.
There is a funny episode when camping many years ago for Le Mans 24 hour race. My mate recounts the story many times. We are in a field packed with tents and in the middle of the night it is deathly quiet with just the sound of the racing cars in the far distance. I am told, as I didn't wake up, that I let out a deathly scream. Apparently torches were switched on, tent flaps opened and bleary-eyed campers stumbled out shouting "what the f--- is that!" and the same in German.  :-[
Oh, no!  Perhaps 1) consult a sleep specialist? and or 2) shift from a conventional bed to a futon on the floor (or very low to the ground) and don't have any furniture right next to your bed?  Or at least on your side of the bed? Or install some padding on your bedside cabinet?  Don't know what to suggest about the radiator?  Move bed??  Or perhaps some sort of hypnosis might help with your flailing/movements?

Has anyone else here had the experience of whilst dreaming a bad dream, knowing that you were dreaming and being able to force yourself to wake up?

PD
Pohjolas Daughter