BS: Haunting Dreams

Subject: BS: Haunting Dreams
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Oct 22 - 02:40 PM

Have you, on occasion, had a dream that lingered awhile after you awoke? Me, I tend to have vivid dreams but most of them dissipate promptly. At other times, however, the world that I/my brain/my psyche had created is so real that I keep trying to figure it out in real time.

That was the case this morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Haunting Dreams
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Oct 22 - 03:21 PM

Usually, my haunting dreams are about the job I left 22 years ago. I wake up thinking I have a whole briefcase full of work that's long past due.
Sure am glad I retired. I hated so many aspects of that job.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Haunting Dreams
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Oct 22 - 04:13 PM

lol Yes, I have often dreamt that I agreed to help in a restaurant and then realized that not only did I not know the menu but I didn't know the way to the kitchen. They kept moving it.

In my latest dream - this morning- I met several homeless women in a town unfamiliar to me. Long story- it ended when they were in my car and on an impulse I drove us to MY (?) house. I led the way upstairs where things were somewhat jumbled, as though someone had left hurriedly and I told them I hadn't lived there for a long time. Leaving them there looking around, I went downstairs where I had noticed some squatters- a young woman and at least two men. Things there were in a mess- mattress on the floor, things piled everywhere, that kind of thing- but I focused on the smell. I told the woman: No smoking in the house! I told her that it's my house and I can make the rules and she sneered at me. I reached down and squeezed the tip of her nose, knowing full well that she could charge me with battery.
Returning back upstairs, one of the women informed me that they were STAYING. I made no objection and announced that I'd write a note they could put on the wall telling the world that they were permitted to live there.
I awoke, wondering how this was going to work out, knowing that the women might bring in many other friends from town and I would have no control over the situation.
There was lots more - long dream- but that was what stayed with me: How was this going to work out?

Subject: RE: BS: Haunting Dreams
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Oct 22 - 04:58 PM

The most annoying dreams are the ones in which I get into a hopeless Kafkaesque bureaucratic tangle. I wake myself up, go for a wee, get back into bed and tell myself that the next hour will be serene.

Subject: RE: BS: Haunting Dreams
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Oct 22 - 12:01 AM

I hear ya. But Steve, what am I going to do with all those indigent women? It appears that they all have good hearts so I just know they are going to offer a home to other destitutes....

Subject: RE: BS: Haunting Dreams
From: Senoufou
Date: 30 Oct 22 - 03:38 AM

I often have what I call 'Struggle Dreams', always involving sorting out a problem,searching frantically for something,or making some ghastly mistake and having to backtrack to rectify it. They don't exactly 'haunt' me, but I wake up a bit tired, as if I've done a night's work, not rested. I sometimes wonder if it's due to my long teaching career, which involved sorting out no end of 'stuff' during a school day.

Subject: RE: BS: Haunting Dreams
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Oct 22 - 04:53 AM

I often have conflict dreams where I struggle like that, Senoufou. And I often have dreams where I am being petty, dreams where I have flashes of anger- like when I squeezed that young woman's nose. I swear I have never done that in real life, never even thought of such a thing!

Another thing that bemuses me: I often create people that I have never known. For instance, in last night's dream, those four women, as solid and distinctive and with their own personalities as they were, not one of them reminded me of anyone I have ever known.

The same is true of the animals that I create. In last night's dream there was a young, small, brown dog, probably a Chihuahua mix, that was happily jumping and running around. At one point I said, Does one of you have this dog? And the woman, the most assertive one of them, the one who announced to me that they were going to stay in the house, was the one who had brought the pup.