BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Jul 11 - 07:12 PM

I dreamed that scientists had discovered that "knuckle prints" are unique and can be used to identify people just like fingerprints, and therefore police were going around collecting knuckle prints from people. Some people, especially teenagers, were making fun of the idea of knuckle prints, and were holding protests in which they walked around on their knuckles like apes. They held competitions in knuckle-walking. I tried it myself and got rather good at it, and had fun.

(In real life, I think it would hurt like hell.)

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Helen
Date: 07 Jul 11 - 05:04 PM

BillD,

I used to dream about one particular house, for over 30 years, since I left high school. I never knew which house it was, because it didn't match any house I had been in, although parts of it were similar to houses I had seen. I wrote this for the 100 word challenge thread last year.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat challenge: 100 word story exactly
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 09:28 PM

All right, here it is. A true story, and the reason why I've been absent from Mudcat for over a year - knocking our old weatherboard house down and getting a new one built.


Dream house
-----------

I've had dreams about a house for thirty years. I go through dusty rooms which aren't used very much, parallel to the main rooms. The room at the top of the stairs is stacked with furniture, with things everywhere.

I've never recognised the house.

Morning. I walk downstairs in our newly built house. I look through into the formal dining and lounge rooms, the rooms we don't use very much. They are full of dusty timber waiting to be laid on the floors downstairs. The room at the top of the stairs is piled with downstairs furniture and stuff.

Revelation!



Also, I often have the toilet dreams, pretty much exactly as you say, especially about the privacy problem. It's never because I need to wake up and go to the loo. It's more about trying to find a clean, usable, private toilet and getting frustrated in the search.


Ebbie,

Sometimes when I can't work out what the dream is trying to tell me, I sit somewhere quiet and try to re-live the dream, and let it resolve into an outcome. Often I will see why I was dreaming that story and get the connections with what is happening in my life.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Jul 11 - 09:09 PM

Sure, sometimes a toilet is just a toilet, and sometimes a car is just a car...but I know darned well that in my own dreams troubles with driving a car relate directly to troubles I am having in managing my journey through life...and I don't mean my journey by car. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jul 11 - 09:06 PM

The first dream sounds like a straight forward "should I saty or should I go" dream. Where there is water there is food...unless the growing season is too short.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Jul 11 - 11:46 AM

"the "vehicle" symbolizes your journey through life."

Probably true sometimes; but I was once plagued with recurring dreams about driving a car that was so badly worn out and rusted that I was always nervous on the road with it. Then a dealer gave me a hundred bucks tradein for my car before really looking at it, and concluded that he had allowed too much. No more of that dream. Much the same as "sometimes a toilet is just a toilet".

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Penny S.
Date: 06 Jul 11 - 07:43 AM

There are several landscapes - I seem to have left one behind at my old flat. The current one involves a number of quarries with interesting geology (I've been on a lot of field trips), a road with buses, somethng like the old Volks Railway at Brighton, only going underwater (there's a bank advert with something like this on) and a bridge not unlike Ebbie's (sometimes a weir instead). Also a small island or peninsular with a holiday town. Not all places visited in each dream.


Volk's Railway before the beach built up.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 05:33 PM

That's really interesting, Penny. Sounds like you are writing your own virtual reality program in dreamland, and you can go back to it on future occasions just like starting up a computer game and playing it again. Each time you play it, you get to try out an old scene in a new way.

Our actual lives may be a bit like that too.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Penny S.
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 05:26 PM

Sometimes a toilet is simply a toilet...

One thing that happens in mine is that I build up over a time a landscape in which the dreams occur, and it is re-used. Often it calls itself by the name of somewhere real, but it does not accurately match the reality. I found at one time that the dream landscpe had replaced the real in my mind, since I had not visited the real for some time. When I did, the difference was a surprise. The dream version was actually better than the reality, now mucked up by the Channel Tunnel workings.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 04:49 PM

I have toilet-related dreams fairly often now. I've searched and searched through buildings of all sorts trying to find a toilet, including finding what appeared to be bathrooms with the toilets missing. After awhile I give up and just pee in the corner of some room, not happy about it but figuring I don't have any choice. Then I finally wake up, with my bladder feeling like it's about to bust, and go to the john.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 03:23 PM

Yeah, I've had that one too. Again, I think it means you want to stop doing something...or stop getting into some situation...but no matter how hard you try, you can't completely stop.

I've also had dreams where I was in school or university, final exams were coming, and I knew I wasn't ready to pass the tests, because I hadn't done all my homework or studying and I hadn't prepared properly. That's a pretty unpleasant feeling.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 02:44 PM

I haven't had it in some time but in the past I frequently dreamt that the brakes on a car actually worked but I never could get the car to come to a full stop, even when I practically stood on the brake.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 01:46 PM

That's good stuff, Bill, and they are common images in "frustration dreams".

Here's my take on it. ;-)

The part about the defective toilets means simply that you're having a lot of trouble disposing of your "crap"! (grin) That would be your mental and emotional crap, I figure.

Then the vehicles that fail or get lost...(I sometimes have dreams about vehicles I'm driving and I can't control them properly...the brakes don't work or the steering doesn't work right)...

Well, the "vehicle" symbolizes your journey through life. If the vehicle fails, it means you're "stuck". If the brakes don't work, it means you're sliding into situations and don't know how to stop yourself. If the steering doesn't work, it means you've lost your sense of direction or control. If you can't find a place to park, it means you can't find a desired place of rest and stability. And so on...

That's just my interpretation, though. You might have a different one.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Penny S.
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 01:14 PM

I'd forgotten about toilet dreams. You wouldn't believe the lengths my brain goes to to invent a new one - like the old school hovel acroos the playground, from which all the fittings have been ripped out. since the purpose of these dreams is ALWAYS to get me to wake up and go to the real one, producing a usable one might be disastrous...

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 01:04 PM

I have 'categories' of dreams.... many of them expressing frustration about coping with life, I guess.
One common one is weird houses...usually someone else's. I am visiting there, or temporarily living there and finding them in states of disrepair...especially regarding toilets. There will be toilets that are only semi-private.... sometimes two in one room, and neither one clean or working properly. The dream often involves trying to find a usable one while coping with 'other people' and odd doors... and random events that interfere.

   Another category is vehicles that fail.. or get lost in strange parking lots. I have spent many a night driving around trying to get a good parking place, only to have to park WAY out 'there' and having to look for my car.
   Connected to this is frustrating road trips in unfamiliar place, where I drive complex routes as I try to get somewhere important. They can be in a city... rural areas... or just going in circles and never arriving.

I do have one interesting 'trick' about dreams. I cannot remember details of many older dreams, but I somehow take 'snapshots' of them- and if I close my eyes and concentrate, I can riffle thru dozens of snapshots... like cards in a deck. There are patterns I can repeat, or sometimes, like digging into a pile of old snapshots, I can find a 'group' that I hadn't looked at in ages! I often use this instead of counting sheep to go to sleep at night.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Penny S.
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 12:48 PM

Wasn't entirely clear about the sleepwalking one - I'd actually walked round the bed as if it were the one at my parnets', having got out on the left.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Penny S.
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 12:45 PM

Jon, that paralysed dream is a classic - I've had it once, and thought "how interesting, this is that incubus thing people report"!

I also produced a version of one I'd read about Jung analyising, in which a woman woke to find a group of hooded figures standing round her bed. he thought it meant she should stop intellectualising and studying so much. Or that is the impression I got, and got rather angry about. The odd thing about this was extra to the Jungian plagiarism. I had just driven from my parents's home, where I slept in a bed where I was on the left of a double, with the door in the same wall as the bedhead, on the right. I was in my own bed, a wide single, where I usually got in and out on the right, and the door was across the room in the right hand wall.
In the dream, I believed I woke up in the bed in my parents' house, surrounded by the hooded figures, told them to clear off, got out of bed and went around it to go to the door. Part the way there, I found my self waking up as I fell, and recovered without hitting the floor, after tripping over the suitcase on the floor.
This is the only occasion for which I have any evidence of sleepwalking - I've never been caught at it at anyone else's house.
On another occasion, I was on a course in an old school building. there was a corridor between my bedroom and the loo, and part way along the corridor was a fire door. The corridor was very creaky. I woke, wanting to go to the loo, and started off down the corridor, floating just above the floor so as not to disturb other sleepers. It was only when I reached the fire door, and realised that without my feet on the floor I would not be able to open it, that part of my brain kicked in with "hang about, floating?" and made me wake properly. I walked carefully down the edge of the corridor where the boards didn't creak!

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 11:14 AM

LOL!!! Look, if you can't love yourself, who the heck can you love? Peace must be made at home before it can be made abroad.

Or was that "a broad"? Yikes! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 11:02 AM

Is it just me, or does that sound like Little Hawk has a deep-seated desire to go screw himself?

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 10:49 AM

Your method sounds good to me, autolycus.

Regarding the Cher dream...yes, I would think that Cher in the dream represents the female aspect of my own personality. I would interpret it on this basis: that I have a happy and good working "marriage" with my female side, and it's a side of me that carries the kind of strong positive qualities I was seeing in her in the dream.

I believe that all human souls are equally male and female, although you don't see that showing so much in the embodied human and the outer personality. The female aspect is hidden in most men, as is the male aspect in most women. (though there are a few individuals where it's not that much hidden, and you can see it easily) We get incarnated, of course, in either a male or a female physical body, from which point our parents and our whole society get busy indoctrinating us to believe that we are either exclusively "a boy" or exclusively "a girl", as if that was all there was to it. But it's not.

There's a good deal of fear of the other gender that results from society's cultural stereotyping...so you have little boys who go through that stage where they think girls are "creepy" and girls who are terrified that they might have male characteristics (like excessive body hair)...and so on. ;-) Then they hit puberty, and their hunger to reunite with the hidden half of them that they've pushed under, plus their natural biological drives, cause deep attractions to people of the other gender. So we form romantic relationships, get married, have more children.

Biologically, that's fine. It keeps the race going. But I think what everyone's really looking for is to re-integrate all the inner aspects of themselves into a harmonious and balanced One self that unites their masculine and feminine qualities.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: autolycus
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 03:51 AM

As a sometime Gestalt therapist, I work with the dreams of clients, inter alia.

I don't analyse the dream. The meaning of the dream is to be discovered by the dreamer, the only one who can know.

That's one assumption I make. Another is that every item in the dream, both animate and inanimate, is some part of the dreamer.

Something happened for me when I explored a dream of mine, and at one point I "became" a book I dreamed of called "A History of Lithuania" [where one of my grandfather's was born.]

The way we proceed is for the client to recount the dream but in the present tense.

Next I might ask the client what they were feeling when they woke up.

Then I'd ask them what part of the dream they're interested in and explore the item. That might lead to doing the same with other items in the dream.

Periodically I might ask if what the client is saying has resonances for them in their life currently.

By these and other means, stuff of benefit to the client may well happen.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 03:24 AM

Hmmmm. Does that make Winona your daughter? :)

(I do understand your fixation, though. I was a lot like that regarding Waylon Jennings in the early years. Whoo ee!)

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 11:40 PM

There's just about nothing that can equal Winona Ryder in the 1990s as far as I'm concerned... ;-) She has amazing eyes and facial geometry. She and Cher were in one movie together (Mermaids), and I really like it. Winona played Cher's teenage daughter.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 06:53 PM

Ah, but she is no Winona, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 06:02 PM

Oh, and what was she like? An impressive personality! Very smart, amusing, a great conversationalist, well-organized, self-confident, informal, direct, and fun to be around.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 05:45 PM

I had a dream once where I was married to Cher. It was interesting...of course when you're in a dream you just accept the situation for whatever reason (as long as it's pleasant) and you don't question its reality, so that's how it was. The dream encompassed about 3 days of various fairly mundane events such as, meeting with some people in the music business and discussing business-related stuff, going out to dinner, having dinner at home, getting together with friends, etc. It was a relaxed but fairly busy time, we were getting along well, and it all felt totally natural, except that the surroundings at home were a good deal more luxurious than I am accustomed to! ;-)

Yeah, I know what you're probably wondering....ha!

So, did we ----------????

Nope, sorry! Not that I remember, but we seemed to have a happy enough marriage and a good rapport. Pretty neat dream. I finally got to see how "the other half" lives. ;-D

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Helen
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 04:04 PM

Hi Ebbie,

Are you trying to achieve something, solve a problem, reach a life goal, but it seems that everything you try to do gets blocked, even by small obstacles, and when you try to work around each obstacle, something else crops up? And are there people around you who are belittling your goal, or who cannot see (or do not care) why the goal is important to you, and who are certainly not offering any assistance to you, and are laughing at your emotional pain/conflict? The word "discomfiture" is a word which belittles your terror, and your need to get across the bridge.

I'm only asking these questions because I have been hit by similar types of dreams over the last 18 months as I've struggled to achieve a major change in a situation where a group of people have been "throwing their weight around" and have no ethical qualms about it.

I would get stuck in dreams like that and had to fight to get myself to wake up.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 03:59 AM

I forgot to write "I do NOT mean to pry, etc." Thanks for reading it that way, anyway.:-)

I'll think on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 11:50 PM

"Do you have some momentous milestone or something coming up? Anything you are puzzling over or being indecisive about? I mean to interpret or pry, but it does conjure up some ideas.:-)" kat

At first - when Little Hawk suggested the idea - I thought that I had an idea of what I might be thinking of - and then I realized I don't. :) I recently (in the last month) came to terms with a fairly upsetting possibility but I resolved it to my satisfaction so I can't say that it's still hanging out there.

Any ideas? I would love to hear them. I recognize Janie's stipulation of one's own being in each character/development of one's dream but at the moment I am more interested in looking at it in the whole.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: LadyJean
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 11:23 PM

The best dream I ever had, I was the heroine of a Hitchcock movie. I had all kinds of daring escapes and chases, but I always knew I'd get away, because it was a Hitchcock movie, and I was the heroine. (I'm a Hitchcock fan.)

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 10:58 AM

One other:

Woke up from a very vivid dream this morning. I was headed north on 7th, out in the country, stopped just in front of the first house Mom and Dad rented when we moved here in the 1960's. There was some debris on the road which I stopped to clear. As I began picking things up, I found several long crystals, most of them intact. There were also some old magazines, I think. Anyway, I followed a trail of stuff to the garage of hte house on the opposite corner, the northwest corner, the stone house. Falling out of the door and inside the door was a broken box with old letters AND old comic books, Illustrated Classics, plus more stones and some kind of medals(?). I hurriedly grabbed it all and left. It seemed curious no one was about or accosted me for rummaging through their stuff.

Later, I took the box to Mom and Dad's old house to meet a friend there to show her the stones. I had been thinking of her and the need to show her as soon as I'd picked them up. when I took them out to show her, they were not crystals anymore. They were vials of water some with silver flecks, others with gold flecks. I was shocked they were water, but Jan wasn't. She said, "Oh, for the money" or something like that. I looked againa nd thought she meant they were full of gold and silver dust, suspended in the water and the wealth of it was meant for us. Then I woke up!

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 10:54 AM

Here's one of mine from 5 August 2010:

Just had the most enchanting dream. I was reading in the bedroom when I became drowsing about 4p, so put my book aside, turned onto my side and got comfortable with the cats, Kipling and Trystan, on either side of me. I was lying on a bed in my dream when I realised a tall, lean, very attractive man was standing by my bed, which was in a larger room, with another bed lined up with it at the foot. Both beds were comfy, very large and full of comforters, etc. I was in some kind of building which belonged to Roger and I and was very old, made of stone with thick walls, filtered sunlight through vine-surrounded windows, and a cool, comforting aura.

The man (healer?), whom I intuitively knew was safe, had some kind of essential oil and some cards, reading cards perhaps; both were for healing or a reading of my energies, I think. I knew my sisters had brought him when they came "down" from Wyoming, but we were NOT in Colorado!:-) I drifted in and out of a languorous state of conscientious whilst he made some arcane movements with his hands and the cards. I do not recall any odour from the oil, so do not know if it was really oil or perhaps water of some sort.

At one point one of my sisters climbed up the far side of the second bed, then behind me, so she was on the opposite side from the man as I was on my side facing him. She gave me a few light, soothing caresses on my back, then left, after placing a beautiful, large sunflower on the end of the bed. When I arose, after the man was gone, I do not remember him leaving, I discovered the flower, but there were untold numbers of the tiniest red bugs, spiders maybe, crawling off of it and marching across and down the bed, in formation, much like small armies, all in ordered rows. Unlike my usual self, they didn't bother me, except that I did not want to let them go on like that, esp. on our bed, so I went looking for some kind of bug spray or something to get them off the bed.

I found myself in a dimly lit, stone-walled room with a set-in country wash basin with a set of cupboards above and below. I looked for something for the bugs under the sink to no avail. Finally found a large white towel which I ran some water over and, in a few minutes, would return to the bedroom, lay it down over the bugs and gather them up in it, to be removed, permanently. I don't think they were really that important (meaning-wise), just something to tidy up, so I don't think it is of any significance as to whether I actually smothered them, or just gathered them to take them outside and shake them off the cloth. (Which I don't remember doing, this is all surmised after wetting the cloth.)

What was really important, it feels, besides the man, was this was yet another room which we had not discovered in the manor or whatever it was where we lived. I am always thrilled at the thought of living somewhere with rooms yet to be found, filled with ancient and interesting things. This room had an old-fashioned, wood-framed screen door to the left of the sink, as one faced the sink. It was blocked and I remember thinking, we'll have to open that up. It looked out on a small, brick-paved patio with small wire tables and chairs with a greenish, dark patina of age sitting among plants, flowers and other green things which had pushed up between the bricks and which, along with trees, surrounded the very inviting, very private patio. The left side of the patio had a covered walkway fronting other rooms with French doors. It was very dim and intriguing with vines twining up and over the roof of the walkway.
As I turned from the door, to my left, to then turn again to my left to go out the doorway leading into the room, I almost lost my breath on discovering yet another treasure: there stood a gorgeous old high-boy with ornate outlines at the top with the front faced with brilliant cobalt blue glass inlay with also some green and yellow glass. In the centre, in large numerals was the number "317" I think. I remember thinking it was significant and I may have thought it was a former address of somewhere important, but can't really say. I was absolutely enchanted by it and so excited about finding it, and the room, that I called for Roger, to show him. I don't recall who it was, maybe one of my sisters, or maybe an employee, but someone told me he was busy cooking (for the guests) and I let it go at that. I had the impression we served luncheons or somesuch to guests, but no sense of it being an inn for overnighters. At, or near that point, I truly awoke and, as I sat down to chronicle this dream, my sisters rang me up! I shall let this percolate in my subconscious to see what elements of the dream may mean something, or if it was just a great, relaxing, deep sleep with some fun. It *feels* as though I have had a healing, but I do not want to make that claim just yet and I don't even know what it is supposed to have healed, if so. Perhaps time will tell, yeah or nay. Regardless, it was a wonderful dream which left me with a wonderful, relaxed feeling. Perhaps it has the germs for a new novel or, at the least, a story.

Afterthoughts: 317 may be St. Patrick's Day – my dad and I always called each other on that day. Or, numerologically, 3+1=4+7=11=1+1=2, so I'll have to check my references to see what that signifies. Or, maybe it's just a combination of two of my favourite numbers!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Janie
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 01:05 AM

The dreamer is the person who is best able to interpret the dream, Ebbie.

Rule of thumb with dreams is that all people or personalities in a remembered dream represent some aspect of the dreamer.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: LadyJean
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 11:54 PM

When I was a kid, I had a book on art for children, that included a print of DaVinci's St. George and the Dragon. I dreamt that that dragon was chasing me all over a hotel lobby.

These days I have nightmares about car trouble, having owned a series of dysfunctional cars. The latest had smoke coming out of my rear tires. I always have to wake up and shake myself and tell myself it didn't happen, after one of those dreams.

Now, years ago, I dreamed my car had stopped on a hillside. The next day, I swear, I was on that hillside, in my stopped car, looking at the map to see which fork in the road I should take.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 11:43 PM

Micca, you know my take on what you've written about that dream. You, my darling, are one of England's best kept secrets...Poet Extraordinaire. You fair take my breath away!

frogprince, I LOVE the second one..how beautiful!

olddude..LOL!

Ebbie, most interesting and full of such conflicts. Do you have some momentous milestone or something coming up? Anything you are puzzling over or being indecisive about? I mean to interpret or pry, but it does conjure up some ideas.:-)

I have a couple I may dredge up and post. I think I wrote a couple of them down. Will go look for them.

Great thread!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 09:40 PM

I don't usually have scary dreams, I have anger/frustration nightmares.

But more often, I have recurring dream settings. One was was a place, I could be in kind of any dream and come around a corner and (dreaming) think Ah, that's where the place I always dream about is... I don't run into that place any more. I have a lot of dreams set in airports and hotels, from growing up traveling, and I have one house that I have a lot of dreams in, made up of the three biggest houses I've lived in, and in which I sometimes discover a whole ROOM I didn't know about.

And I used to fairly often have prescient dreams about trivial things. Those are now much rarer. And the important things never got dreams before them.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 02:21 PM

Make time, Micca- that dream sounds, well, night-marish.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Micca
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 01:59 PM

There was an absolutely scary one I had a few years ago, I was travelling from Boston towards Washington DC on the Acela Express during my annual visit for the Getaway , it was a bad time in my life and I was having quite a rough time. I fell asleep and I had a dream, In the dream I was in exactly the same place ,on the train and the Guy sitting opposite was there also working on his laptop as he had been when I dozed off. In the dream after a short while he offered me a chance to use his laptop on Wi-Fi to do my e-mails and stuff so I called up the Mudcat and read my own Obituary!!! It said I had stuck my head out of the train window and been decapitated by a trackside gantry!!! Then I woke up, and stayed away from windows for the rest of the trip.
If I have time later I will write up the dream (also about dying)that left me gasping for breath and is easily the scariest dream I have EVER had about the Angel of Death in the white lacy dress that may become a song!!

"No time to say goodbye No hugs or kisses
Only empty spaces left for those that grieve
Just the piercing frozen glance that never misses
Reminding us that life is like a leaf
It's once spring sap is dried and in the darkness
It is falls to ground in winters dark caress
And in that beige light room her bright eyed starkness
The Angel of Death in a white lacy Dress"

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 01:42 PM

going to the dentist, having a root canal, two caps, two filling and a cleaning all in one day , then getting the bill ... OH wait, that was real not a dream

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 01:40 PM

Surrounded by clowns,a monkey playing an organ grinder with Glen Beck reciting gansta rap music.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 01:35 PM

another is Rosie O'Donnell a thong bikini and a swimming pool of lime green jell-o

ruined my sex life for a month it did

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 01:28 PM

Sitting next to Spaw, he was eating a burrito

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 01:25 PM

"I really did have that dream where I "woke up" (still in the dream), and then later I woke up for real."

Tell me about it; not long ago I dreamt thru an extended series of false "awakenings"; I would wake up, then realize I was still just dreamming, then repeat, repeat, repeat, I think at least half a dozen times. It never became a really frightening nightmare, but it got to feeling weird.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 11:57 AM

Hey! I'm serious, Ebbie. I really did have that dream where I "woke up" (still in the dream), and then later I woke up for real.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 11:47 AM

piffle, the lot of ya.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 11:30 AM

I had a dream in which I woke up from a disturbing dream. Presently I woke up again (for real) and discovered that I'd had a dream within a dream.

Either that or...I'm still asleep now and still dreaming... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 10:08 AM

I had this dream that I was reading a Mudcat thread about having a dream...

I am clearly beyond conventional medical help!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: kendall
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 08:07 AM

My first nightmare happened when I was about 6. I dreamed I was in a sinking ship, and I ran yelling through the house, "Come on boys, she's going under,"

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 03:05 PM

I like the second one too, Frogprince. The first one qualifies as a classic- and creative - nightmare- and I donwanit.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 02:53 PM

Hollywood WANTS that script, frogprince! ;-D (the first one, I mean) I like the second one.

Subject: RE: BS: Terrifying Dreams/Dreams of Note
From: frogprince
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 02:49 PM

Ebbie, that one was truly epic.
I've had my share of totally weird ones, but two stand out from all the rest. One was just about 50 years ago, with a series of scenes connected by a plot line in which some kind of disease that caused cannibalism appeared and spread rapidly. A real fun dream. I'm not sure which scene was more delightful, the one where the congregation at a child's funeral gathered around the body and started devouring it, or the next-to last scene with a few of us barreling through city streets at night in a city bus, the streets full of the crazed, some of whom were tearing each other apart while others tried to upset the bus and clawed at the windows with bloody fingers. Finally woke up sweat-soaked and a little sick.

The other dream was a short scene, way at the other end of the spectrum, approx 30 years ago. I was along the shore of a little creek at night, watching countless fireflies. That much was an absolutely realistic replay of a beautiful actual experience a few years before. Then a large, shimmering "soap" bubble appeared, floated down close to me, and popped. As it burst, quite naturally with a little moist sprinkle, a voice said "We love you".

Never had a really bad nightmare again.