27/07/04
13The dreams are back too
In the first week of my holiday, I noticed a side-effect of my recent work overload. Suddenly, I started having vivid dreams again, which made me realise that they’d had been gone for a while.
While none of them have topped my dream about a colony of underwater helicopters with whale tails instead of rear rotor blades, they’ve still amused me, and I’m glad to have them back again. Here are a couple that I thought might mean something…
Dream 1: I am being flown over to the States for a meeting Doug Bowman. Was suprised to see him hunched over a tiny 10” white iBook. Not quite the fitting with the image I had of him.
Self-diagnosis: I’d like to think that the great and good use a less powerful powerbook than me. (“Hah! Well at least I’ve got 15 inches!”...that sort of thing.)
Dream 2: I’m watching a League of Gentleman style event (Dark and surreal). A man that spends his life dressed only as a white rabbit is driven from his home in a grim English town. His death is faked by the townsfolk, but a month later he returns to find his house turned into a gambling den. Angered, he takes a large shower head from the wall, and drenches everyone in the Great Hall until the house is his again.
Self-diagnosis: I’m worried about people taking over the house, but a job with the Flaming Lips is assured.
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Sage said 1505 days ago:
bq. I’d like to think that the great and good use a less powerful powerbook than me. (“Hah! Well at least I’ve got 15 inches!”...that sort of thing.)Oh, like p**** size? ;-)
I’ve had the same experience… during the school year, I barely have any dreams, but when I’m on vacation, my idle brain finds something to do and decides to construct dreams. Unfortunately, they’re always “bad” dreams… I don’t have cool ones like you. :-(
Last night, for example, I dreamed that there was a huge brush fire on a hill less than a quarter mile from my house that burned in a 32,000-acre brush fire 8 years ago (so, basically, in my dream, it was “coming back” after not burning my house the first time). Yucky, yucky dreams.
Sage said 1505 days ago:
Hey, blockquote doesn’t work! It worked in the preview though… confusedJohan said 1505 days ago:
Hey, i’m drunk too. Angered is a suburb to Gothenburg.Jack said 1504 days ago:
I remember reading somewhere that dreams occur in the final period of your sleep prior to waking. I usually don’t get them because the alarm clock intrudes before my brain can create anything remotely believable.My Dream: I’m always on a cruise ship with friends and fancy-colored cocktails. Nothing eventful ever occurs.
Self-diagnosis: I better get a job and start saving up for that cruise ship. Then I will undergo massive feelings of deja vu.
Jon Hicks said 1504 days ago:
Sage – I’m confused too. Blockquote should work.I want to be somewhere like that Jack!
David House said 1504 days ago:
Actually, you dream every night, but only remember the ones you wake up during.chuck said 1504 days ago:
Dream: I frequently dream that I am back in college and I have just realized that I have a final exam that day and I’ve done no studying and really do not know the material since I have skipped class so much.It sounds pedestrian, but it really invokes pure panic within me. I always wake up, thinking it was real, but then I breathe a sigh of relief when I realize I graduated 8 years ago.
Self-diagnosis: I am still dealing with guilt over skipping class to play NHL Hockey 94 on the Nintendo with my roommate.
Dreams are weird.
David Barrett said 1504 days ago:
My first dream last night involved me flirting with a girl, who seemed to really like the attention I was giving her. She then had to go. Another girl caught my attention, and I started the same thing with her. She really liked that kind of attention too. Then, the first girl came back; presumably because she wanted to spend more time with me.I can’t really remember the rest of the dream in detail, but it involved a friend of the first girl warning me about hurting her feelings, me trying to juggle my interactions with these two women who were sitting either side of me, and I think I started something up with a third girl. All while trying to make sure each girl had the impression that I was really interested in them and them only.
Self diagnosis: Logistics isn’t my forte.
the missis @ work said 1503 days ago:
bath … under bath … under bath … UNDER bath … under BATH …what kind of Richard Burton are you??!?
monkeyinbox said 1503 days ago:
It’s not the size of your laptop that matters, it’s how you use it. :)Or… those with large laptop screens are making up for something else.
Or..damn I wish I had enough extra money to buy a Powerbook with a 17” screen. :(
Jon Hicks said 1503 days ago:
This is great, I’ve enjoyed reading all these!I should explain the 2 dreams my wife refers to above. The first one was when I was talking in my sleep shouting “bath … under bath … under bath … UNDER bath … under BATH …”, which was followed by manical laughter.
The second one was the last 2 seconds of a dream, where I remembered asking someone “what kind of Richard Burton are you??!?”
Dan Warne said 1500 days ago:
I frequently have dreams about drowning and as I have the horrible moment of running out of air and then breathing in the water, knowing I’m about to choke, I realise that although it’s a different consistency, I can actually breathe water.Meaning: I watched that scene in The Abyss where they submerge the rat in the liquid oxygen one too many times…
(I also have dreams about falling off a cliff and then discovering I can fly… weird)
My best friend says his most terrifying dream was of being pursued by a man-eating donkey.
Why on earth anyone’s brain would manifest a terrifying creature as a donkey, I honestly don’t know…
Kev Mears said 1497 days ago:
this is my most recent weird dream carter and me