BS: last night I had the strangest dream..

Subject: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: annamill
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 09:21 AM

I woke up this morning to the alarm and immediately turned over and clicked it off and went back to sleep.

I dreamed I was sitting at my computer on Mudcat, of course. There I saw a personel message for me. So, I clicked on it. It said 'Get the hell outta bed'!!

I woke up laughing and woke up Honey. He asked what's so damn funny at 6:30 in the morning. I told him the story and he made several remarks on my sanity.

I had to post this here because I had to tell someone and who else would understand how funny this was.

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 09:35 AM

Hmmm. I dreamt someone took the box of tissues off my desk at work. I wasn't sure about it until I got here and it was in place. Good thing. I can be very territorial.

Help - last week I saw a strange "news" story on TV about a man who cloned a rabbit using DNA from a phosphorescent algae. The bunny glows under ultra violet light. Supposedly, he took it to France for a scientific conference and it was confiscated as a potential danger to the French ecosystem. (???) The man refused to show the animal live but had photos and a website. Now, here is my problem. No one else saw the story and my family thinks I dreamed it. I tend to have very vivid dreams and get them confused with reality but I am MUCH BETTER NOW. Has someone else seen this story. Does anyone have the website address? My therapist and I will be very grateful.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 09:46 AM

Wish I had, Sinsull. Sorry but I can dig the vividness of the dream. It happens to me too but there is always a clue in the dream that it just ain't so (At least in mine)But I have had a dream where I got up to check to insure the coffee pot was off and it was so vivid that i actually had to get up and check the coffee pot. You're more normal than you think. And Annamill that is a funny story! Kindest reguards, Neil

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: jeffp
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 09:55 AM

There was an article on the fluorescent rabbit on the abcnews.com website a few days ago. Very strange. You might try a search on their Science section. Or possibly Technology. Good luck.

jeffp

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 09:59 AM

Annamill<
Did you get up or continue to play on the Mudcat? Thanks for the opportunity to air my dream. Bless you Jeff. I am not alone. If I find the website, I will pass it on to Aine. Has to be a Challenge there.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Giac
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 10:07 AM

I saw the story, too, sinsull. Maybe the French were afraid the creature would escape, mingle with locals and create a race of glow bunnies. I envisioned future times when hound dogs would be out at night with little blacklight headlamps, pursuing leaping green glows across the fields.

Funny dream, annamill. I've dreamed about Mudcat threads looked for them when I got up, then realized they only existed in my warped subconscious.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 10:08 AM

http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/dailynews/rabbit000918.html

There is a green bunny! There is a green bunny!

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 11:09 AM

I've had realistic dreams too that then I can't figure out if they're real or dreams... but nothing so funny as dreaming that someone was telling me to get out of bed! But back when I was really depressed (I was being treated), I used to dream a dream, then wake up, start going about my day - then the alarm would go off and I'd really wake up, having heretofore only dreamt that I'd awakened. My therapist said it was a classic example of dissociation, which is this great defense mechanism so that the bad things that are really happening aren't really happening to you. So I started checking in my dreams (oops, typoed creams, ha ha), and once actually had something so strange going on that I decided I must be dreaming, so I pinched myself, and when I didn't feel the pinch I knew I was really dreaming... just like in the books! It was really funny at the time. I laughed so hard I woke myself up...

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: annamill
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 11:23 AM

..I once dreamed I was a butterfly dreaming he was a man.. now I don't know if I'm a man dreaming I am a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I am a man!!

When I gave up smoking, I used to dream I was sitting on my couch having a cigarette. Enjoyed it too!! Then I would realize in my dream that I was not suppose to be smoking and would put it out.

Funny how we talk to ourselves as if we're a different person. .. and sometimes we lie!!

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 11:33 AM

Once when I tried to give up smoking and was using nicotine patches I had succession of nightmares. the most vivid one involved barbie dolls with wings which were flying all around me, making wasp sounds. I was dressed in a ballerina costume with a huge python round my neck. The barbies wanted me to fly away with them, but the snake persuaded me to stay in a tree with it.
I discarded the patches and lit up
Patrish

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Bagpuss
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 11:36 AM

People had me convinced that I had dreamed up a kids tv programme I used to watch. Nobody else I met could ever remember it and I started to believe I had made it up in my head - even though I could even remember the theme tune.

Luckily I found a mention of it on the web, so I know it is real now.

Bagpuss

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Max
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 11:54 AM

annamill, you stumbled upon a new feature of the Mudcat. I've been working on it for years for myself really. I wasn't sure I had finished the Dream Browser with Alarm Clock Feature yet, but I guess I have. Everyone can throw your alarm clocks away.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Kim C
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 12:09 PM

Ohmagawd, I saw the green bunny!!!!!!

I once dreamed, for a very split second, that I was holding a flintlock rifle and I shot a red-coated soldier at nearly pointblank range. At least that's all of it that I remember.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 12:20 PM

I sometimes keep dream diaries - a book by my bedside to record my dreams whenever I wake up. That's when they are most vivid. It is interesting to see recurring themes. One theme is scarves and shawls. Another is frustrated travel. No green bunnies, though.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 12:42 PM

That's a funny story, annamill- Big Bro Max has done well!

I don't use an alarm clock but like you, one morning I went back to bed. I dreamed that I was in a theatre and an old scraggly man (Father Time? Hmmmm)came to the aisle seat where I was seated and looked at me. I moved my knees aside to let him pass in front of me but he just stood there, and I said, Oh, you want me to get up? And woke up.

Like you others, I have vivid dreams and I often look forward to the night's offerings!

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: annamill
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 12:46 PM

OH NO MAX!!

You know, I once read somewhere that whatever man can conceive, he can do! What a frightening thought!

How do we set it??

Patrish, you still smokin'?

Gotta go see this green bunny. What next? Neon zebras?

Cheez!!

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 01:00 PM

I dreamed about HER again lastnight...as it should be.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: annamill
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 01:07 PM

Saw the bunny! I wish I coul be alive long enough to see where this goes. Blast! This is the first thing I've seen the human race do that's worth hanging around for, just to see the outcome. It's gonna be interesting. Much more than computers. Someone told me they've learned how to use a gene that allows you to grow new teeth. Imagine! (poor dentists though)

Oh well! Pretty wild!

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: sophocleese
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 01:47 PM

I like the story annamill. This morning I woke up with the alarm and turned it off instead of using the 'snooze' button. Sad to say I cannot remember what I dreamed.

I also keep a small record of unusual or recurring dreams. While depressed I dreamt often of a mile high cliff with a city beside it. The towers of the city rose up in front of the cliff but there was no bridge to connect them to the country at the top of the cliff. I would end up driving around trying to muster up the courage to make the jump that everybody else was making to get from one side to the other. I've never made the leap yet.

As a teenager I had a marvelously erotic dream. I woke up feeling, well, wonderful and relaxed. However the only images I could remember from the dream were Charlton Heston and ostriches. I'm not sure whether I should be glad or sad that I've never had that dream again.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Bert
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 02:14 PM

Where do you get that gene for new teeth Annmill? Oh, and while you're at it, do they have one for playing the guitar, I need one of those too.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 02:26 PM

Sophocleese,
You're just toying with Mbo, right? Charleton Heston and ostriches? Erotic? Not emus, ostriches? And just where was he sticking his head?

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: GUEST,nightdrifter
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 02:47 PM

sophocleese, I think you might pay more attention to your dreams as they are giving you great guidance. A mile high cliff is a great obstacle to be overcome, but the city beside it with the high towers offer a much greater state of conciousness if you put the great effort into letting go of whatever it is that is causing your depression. You want to make the jump and cross over like everyone else but haven't gotten up the courage to do so yet, -- we all love to hang on to our misery but as soon as we let go, the 'bridge' appears and we can go on to greater heights with a much greater state of conciousness and understanding. Driving around in the car trying to make up your mind is the meandering way you allow you thoughts to go on and on without any constructive purpose. When you become aware that you are dwelling on a depressing thought, change it. Say a prayer for someone you know who is ill or having problems. Or, pray for the kids in St. Jude's or any other childrens hospital. It is only by helping others that we can help ourselves,-- I know, I've been there too. Lots of love and luck

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: annamill
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 05:21 PM

sophocleese, that's exactly what I did too. My mind was sending me a warning message because subcons...ly(sp?) I knew what I had done and I didn't want me to oversleep.

L., A.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: annamill
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 05:22 PM

Oh Sorry, Bert Dear! I don't remember where or who told me about the teeth gene, but I do remember it's not now, but in the future. Has to be ok'd by 'the powers that be' you know.

L.,A.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: guinnesschik
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 05:32 PM

I too have had dreams very similar to all mentioned. Mostly when I was having a bad life, except for the alarm clock dream, which seems to be your subconscious (where's my dictionary?) way of letting you know it's time to get up. Old habits die hard, so we satisfy 'em with a sneak of a ciggie in dreamland.

I get really frustrated, 'cause I write beautiful songs in my sleep. I also walk around nekkid, but nobody seems to notice it. (Thank goodness!)

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 05:40 PM

I CAN'T STAND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I been reading this all day and the number of cracks on everything from the original title to each post are now in the hundreds......But I'm trying not to be as nasty and smart-ass as before and I'm stifling myself so I don't make a rude............AH TA' HELL WITH IT!!!.........just one, OK?.................

So Meebo, did you change underwear after your dream?

.......Ahhh.......I feel much better now myself.....sorta' like Meebo after the dream...............sorry, that was two wasn't it............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 05:53 PM

For years I've had a series of dreams that often incorporate one of two central themes: Army dreams and underground dreams.

I don't know how many times I've been drafted. In the dreams I think the highest number of times I'd been in the army before was three. Generally I had a hard time getting people to recognize the seniority that should give me.

It's amazing how many of my dreams have an underground, cave, tunnel--what have you--major component.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 10:04 PM

Spaw, not that kind of dream you pig!

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: CamiSu
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 11:13 PM

I had a childhood friend, went to her house a lot, I could tell you just how her house looked the driveway and everything. Trouble was she was a dream. The strange thing was that for the most part i didn't think about her, and my everyday life in grade school wasa basically friendless thing so you'd think I'd have noticed. I was in HS before I thought of her conciously and put together that she didn't exist...

On another track, the mister, before he met me, went into a herpetology lab with his girlfriend. While all the snakes were slithering around, someone commented on the nightmares that were sure to come out of this class. He didn't think much of it but a few nights later snakes intruded into his dreams. He woke and tried to go back to sleep. but they returned. Finally he got up to pee and then went back to snakeless sleep. It took a few tries for him to figure out that the snakes were telling him to go pee...

Green bunnies! What will they think of next?

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: rangeroger
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 11:57 PM

I have really vivid and sometimes complicated dreams that I enjoy completely.I don't try to analyze them or find hidden meanings or truth in them, I just enjoy them as night time entertainment.

When I quite smoking, I had a dream where I bought a brand new pack of cigarettes,light one up, and after taking the first hit,it tasted so bad I threw the entire pack away.Never had a single craving for one after that.

rr

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 09:09 AM

yEAH, rr. i LOVE MY DREAMWORLD. pURE ENTERTAINMENT.
mR. sPAW, WHY WOULD YOU OF ALL PEOPLE ASSUME THAT mBO WEARS UNDERWEAR?
aND bERT, WOULD YOU SETTLE FOR GLOW IN THE DARK GREEN TEETH? WE CAN MANAGE THAT FOR YOU.
Damn etc.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 09:44 AM

Sorry Sins....That was presumptious of me. Meebo, can you clear this up for us? I personally just don't see you as a "wild and free" kinda' guy, but I could be wrong.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 10:20 AM

I'm packed in like sardines.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Wavestar
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 12:12 PM

Oh, the images. Not sure I needed that, Mbo. And my father is 'the mister'? How terribly perplexing. Familiar things from new perspectives.

I have very vivid dreams as well - I was relating one to my friends last night wherein I discovered the island where the faeries took the stolen child in Yeat's poem... It was lovely, and I woke up feeling terribly literary.

-Jessica

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: GUEST,Nightdrifter
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 01:54 PM

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 03:49 PM

Mbo! You left Spaw speechless! Who would have believed it could be done? Congratulations!
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 04:09 PM

Well, the last nightmare I had in my life was when I was about 11 or 12. We had a cat. In the dream, and I did something to irritate the cat, and it assumed its true shape - that of an alien with crystal electric fur. It chased me around the yard, yowling and sparking, until I jumped up on the gas (for cooking) tank outside and woke up. Yes, I was heavily into The Outer Limits at the time, and yes, there was a cat yowling after I woke up. Maybe later I'll tell you about the earlier one with a dinosaur in my front yard...

Like I said, I don't have nightmares. I have dreams that bore me until I wake up.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 04:48 PM

Well Sins, I'm not exactly speechless....just generally worn out with "Mr. Whitey-Tighty." After his little tirade on the "Tough One Catters" thread, I now fully realize that no one has ever had it as tough as he does. There isn't a spare moment or thought to be had as he marches forward into the great rat race. None of us ever did anything or had to work to attain anything and if we should have taken a step off the path to actually experience reality and life, we are lowly slackards. I see my true place now thanks to his wisdom and experience.

(read: screw it.....its his life and I'm glad it was never mine!)

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 05:09 PM

CamiSu, I think the dream about snakes was hiding the real bladder discomfort input, helping him keep asleep, as I understand dream research.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 05:15 PM

AAAHHH Spaw. It's not like you to give up so easily. Bad day? If I promise to tell you about one of my dreams and give you permission to embarrass the hell out of me with your interpretation, will you smile? And give Matthew another chance? Not that he needs one or cares but just to make nice around here. OK?

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 05:29 PM

Ah, I can never say no to you Sins......and you don't even have to tell me a dream.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 07:22 PM

Wow, love the new nickname. And I wasn't insulting ANYONES work ethic. I'm just stating a fact that exists HERE at ECU School of Art. AND I'm waiting for a certain SOMEONE, and I'll be DAMNED if I'll be caught screwing around behind her back.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 07:27 PM

Ya' gotta' help me here Sins...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 07:52 PM

I'll try. I believe the critical question is "Is she also waiting for Mbo?" Or better yet, "Is she even aware that Mbo is waiting for her?" Before you take offense at this Mbo, I have to confess that I just found out that the man I was "waiting for" was keeping his options open. My option, as you gentlemen (and trust me this is not the first word that comes to mind to describe the opposite sex today) say in football, was dropped. You are too young to know that this is the ONE woman in the world for you. You are being unfair to yourself. And if that isn't enough to make you reconsider your options, you are being unfair to her.
I am not suggesting you run out and get laid or even date formally. I am suggesting that you allow yourself to meet other people. If SHE is in fact The One, I am happy for you. If you find yourself attracted to someone else, give it some thought.

Lecture over. You would be perfectly justified in telling me and the "cat's rear foot" to mind our own business. You are legally and morally an adult and I respect that. Just want you to be happy even now, especially now.
For the record, I do know of several "first loves" who met at 16, married at 18, had babies at 19 and live happily ever after. Your choice.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 07:58 PM

Sorry Sins. Geez, I wish polygamy was legal!(:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Ely
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 08:25 PM

I dream weird stuff all the time, especially if I'm over-tired, but these two really stand out (and yes, I often dream about death, but I've never killed anybody so I don't worry about it). Warning, this is gonna be long.

I once dreamt that I was asleep and dreaming, and in the dream I was visited by a man who had lived in the area during the Civil War (American, that is, 1861-1865). He was trying to tell me something about his seven-year-old son who had died, but I couldn't understand. THe next night, he visited me again and conveyed to me that I was to look for a painting. I found the painting buried in my yard. It was long, maybe 12 inches tall by 30 inches long--like the shape of one of those large group portraits they take of high school classes and army divisions--and painted in black and brown watercolor or ink. The setting was in a clearing in the woods, looking out through he woods towards the nearby farms. On the right was a house that was still standing in my time (1999, in this case). In the middle was a church with a tall steeple, which was gone. On the left was the man's farm, which was also gone (he had been poor and the buildings were in disrepair). In the front and center of the painting was an open grave and the silhouette of the man holding his son's stiffened body, wrapped in a blanket. The painting, in effect, showed me the location of the grave so I could put up a marker and keep his memory alive. The dream was so vivid that, if I had the talent, I could still reproduce the painting from memory. Gave me chills.

I had the second dream last week after getting 3 hours of sleep total over two nights (like I said, I dream even stranger things when sleep-deprived). It involved the ghost of a woman named Judith who had been tortured and killed--I'm not sure why, but I got the impression she was a Joan of Arc kind of figure. Anyway, the torture involved closing her left foot in a metal boot with spikes on the inside. The ghost was dressed in neoclassical robes (like a winged Victory), a knight's helmet with a face mask, and the boot. It wasn't such a weird dream by my standards until I got so deeply into sleep that, when she decided to climb into bed next to me and smother me, I could FEEL the covers lift, the mattress depress, and the pressure on my chest. I kept expecting to feel the cold metal boot against my legs and forced myself to wake up before it happened. I was amazed at how aware I was while it was happening, which made it creepier.

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 09:03 PM

Ely,
Do you record your dreams or just remember? I tend to forget details if I don't write it all down at once. It doesn't seem possible that these don't mean something. Bits and pieces of your day wrapped up in a story. Or just a good movie?

Spaw, a line from the "Quiet Man" just jumped into my head: "Two women in the house and (in despair) one of them a red head..." thank you for the kind thought.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 09:08 PM

I've dreamt about something that was lost and that I either have it again or never lost it. Specifically, sometimes I know that it was lost and is found and other times I know it was never lost. It could be a CD, one bone out of a set (that sucked worse than losing both), money or whatever. I have and enjoy full use of it in my dream and then I wake and believe that I still have it. (I always know it had been lost at this point.) ANd then I realize that it's still lost and I experience that intial loss all over again.
worst was a dream about having tea with my mom a couple weeks after her death. I really believed that she had just been away(She worked on the road a lot). When I woke, I can't say I felt the loss all over again because I hadn't gotten over it yet, but it was fresh again.
I sometimes relive my day but with different results in a dream. Sometimes, a day that had gone well turns awry in my dream and I have the great relief of waking up to find that everything had gone the way that it had and not the way I dreamed it.

I really oughta have a run-on dream for this thread, but I've been off-line for a couple days and I'm outta practice. I'll try later if Spaw doesn't beat me to it. (He's got it in him when he puts his mind to it)

Slán,
Rich

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 10:20 PM

Ely, have you heard of the ancient concept of incubi and succubi? I had one "experience" in a hotel that was scary. (And I was alone!)Where's that Unexplained thread when we need it!

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: last night I had the strangest dream..
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 10:25 PM

You mean a evil spirit tried to...ahem...sexually assault you? That is scary stuff alright. Gives me the goosebumps.