Went to bed at 3:45am. Feeling tired, mildly restless in my mind, a feeling of longing, sore right knee. Kind of a positive mood.
8:18am
(these dreams are mostly in order, i think)
1. It was nighttime, summertime. The setting was a rural area, possibly a farm, or a small, industrial area. There were some small warehouses or big garages. Long, rectangular-shaped buildings with nothing really inside. I was facing off against or interacting with someone who was, or who was dressed like Darth Vader. He wasn't quite as imposing as the real (or regular?) Darth Vader. It wasn't clear to me if he was playing a game or was serious, but he made as if to fight me. He and i both had lightsabers and i was inside one of the big garages, with only one entrance/exit, and he was stalking around outside the building. I don't for certain recall the colour of our lightsabers, but i'm pretty sure he had a red one and i'm mostly sure i had a blue one. The colours may have changed from red to blue, but i forget. He seemed a bit crazy, and it was somewhat scary, but not fully. Then either he left and someone else came, or Vader morphed into another character who wanted to fight. This next person was an "indie rocker" type of fellow and had a long weapon that looked like an elaborate tv antenna and/or weather vane with dangly pieces of jewelry on the end. We "battled" a bit.
The next three dreams all had the same outdoor, overcast afternoon lighting.
2. Afternoon of an overcast. Lots of light, but diffused through the clouds. I was at a friend's birthday party in the Exchange District downtown with artsy people i know and other people i know loosely. We were all given various accoutrements and expected to dress up in funky costumes. We also were given various hose-type things, and then went swimming in a huge lake (couldn't see the far shore), and the hose things were to be used as snorkels. Then there was a friend from high school i haven't seen for a few years swimming too. Before or after getting in the water, i had written a note about making out with the birthday person, but the note was a lie, and i was worried someone would see it before i had a chance to destroy it.
This dream then continued into the next one unbroken.
3. On returning from the swimming expedition, people are getting ready to go home. We are leaving from the Exchange, people all getting on their bikes. I was with a group that was riding down to go over the bridge down Henderson, but then i took a side street over to a street that doesn't actually exist, and may actually have been a duplicate of street we were on, or a street that just connected back to the same one. I was saying goodbye to everybody, and there was also someone from soccer there.
This dream also then continued into the next one unbroken.
4. I was still in the same area downtown, but i was now in an office/commercial building that was also maybe a house. It was very tall for a house (if it was a house), made of red brick, with lots of turrets and chimneys and corners and dormer windows sticking out everywhere. I somehow was inside on one of the top floors and climbing out of one of the windows (i think i went from being on a bike to being up top climbing out of the window). Someone from our band was watching me from inside, or at least was inside, maybe didn't see me, or was down on the ground below, or all three positions. In the dream i first had the impression of weightlessness i do in flying or soaring/leaping dreams and thought i could jump all around outside the building up high without fear of being pulled down to the ground by gravity. That feeling was quickly replaced by the realization that normal gravity was still effective. I was in the middle of jumping from one tower or corner to another when i quickly needed to grab hold of something. The towers, instead of being solid brick, had become very high stacks of books, holding onto which only made them clatter to the ground. The person from our band was making what in the dream was called an EBPT (which i think was basically an EP but with a weird acronym) with songs from their or our previous band's project, and was transferring the tracks to a USB stick (or some other data-storing device). This EBPT would have 17 songs. I was trying hard not to fall down and get hurt or worse. The stacks of books sometimes had other things stacked. For instance, one stack i tried to hold onto had makeup and a jar of patchouli i wear and those things fell to the ground when i tried to hold onto that stack.
10:19am
1. Towards the western end of Portage Avenue, it was wintertime, started in the afternoon, but quickly became night. I was either lost or homeless. I crossed towards a mall, or a restaurant, or gas station diner or some conglomeration of buildings. I went into the place and there was a restaurant and video arcade. I walked around the arcade games with some coins in my pocket thinking i should play something. There were maybe 5-10 other people playing different games. I don't think i knew any of them. Some games were missing screens or just couldn't be played. Specifically, i went to a driving game to play, but there were two consoles, and both had the screen and steering wheel missing. I walked over to the restaurant area to sit down. There was a feeling like i was being sized up or didn't belong or was being judged about something. When i went to the restaurant area some or one of the other patrons was a wrestler and we were introduced (may have been Randy "Macho Man" Savage or someone modeled after him). The people around the counter/bar in the restaurant were all men. Friendly and very "manly" men. A family member is there. Someone looks at my arms when i lean on the counter and says i am very muscley and then corrects what they meant and says, "Rock hard, sinewy." There is dim lighting in the place.
2. I am at a small family gathering, just immediate family, at my parents'. It's a bright summer's day, late afternoon, green trees, green grass. My mom gave me a platter of hors d'oeuvre to take outside and eat, which i did. I went and sat among the trees/bushes in the garden, and looked at the house while eating. Although in real life i'm vegetarian, in the dream i ate some shrimp that was on the platter, and i don't think i gave any notice to the fact that it was meat. During the gathering, most/everyone was worried about another family member who was not doing well and was at the gathering. The sick family member had drawn on their face a picture of a man and woman and an accident (or, a man and woman in an accident). I am reminded to save them 5 pieces of shrimp. People aren't sure what to do. I go inside to see other people who are sitting at the dining room table and when they see my face they giggle/smile because apparently the sick family member also drew on my face, but i am calm about it, or i know or let them do it.
3. Either this was another dream or it was the image given to me at the point when someone said what the sick family member drew on their face. It was a dream, or an image about an accident on the highway in summertime very close to, or just beneath an overpass. A semi trailer and cab were wrecked up.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
May 27, 2011 at 9:13am
Went to bed at 12:53pm in a pretty good mood and fairly tired.
6:25am (awoke thinking it was just before 8:30am)
In this dream i was staying at my friends' house or they were staying at mine or we shared a house (most likely it was the first one, i think). Before going to bed in real life i was hanging out with these friends. I was staying in the room next to theirs. One of them couldn't sleep because, i was in bed, apparently in my sleep, making animal noises. When he came into my room (to see if i was OK or to get me to stop making weird noises) he found out that in my sleep i was chewing on Tupperware containers. The bedroom i was in had a bedspread that matched the walls. But the walls were newly painted and the sun had discoloured the older bedspread. (The pattern on the bedspread and walls was almost the same as my real life bedspread.) The room was red, yellow and blue, but muted colours (in real life my friends recently bought a house with brightly painted colours). The dream, while in it, was pretty happy, kind of amusing.
7:48am
I was at some kind of concert with electronic and/or experimental artists. Andrew Bird was performing. In real life i saw him last year at the Folk Festival.
Woke up for the day with my alarm at 8:30am. Had not slept enough. Feel pretty good, though.
6:25am (awoke thinking it was just before 8:30am)
In this dream i was staying at my friends' house or they were staying at mine or we shared a house (most likely it was the first one, i think). Before going to bed in real life i was hanging out with these friends. I was staying in the room next to theirs. One of them couldn't sleep because, i was in bed, apparently in my sleep, making animal noises. When he came into my room (to see if i was OK or to get me to stop making weird noises) he found out that in my sleep i was chewing on Tupperware containers. The bedroom i was in had a bedspread that matched the walls. But the walls were newly painted and the sun had discoloured the older bedspread. (The pattern on the bedspread and walls was almost the same as my real life bedspread.) The room was red, yellow and blue, but muted colours (in real life my friends recently bought a house with brightly painted colours). The dream, while in it, was pretty happy, kind of amusing.
7:48am
I was at some kind of concert with electronic and/or experimental artists. Andrew Bird was performing. In real life i saw him last year at the Folk Festival.
Woke up for the day with my alarm at 8:30am. Had not slept enough. Feel pretty good, though.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
May 26, 2011 at 9:10am
Went to at 1:15am after hanging out with a friend for a few hours. Had some good talking. Felt a little stiff going to bed. Slightly restless in my mind, but fell asleep in probably less than ten minutes.
7:56am
1. I was working at the Giant Tiger which is across the street from the store i work at in real life. In the dream, the layout of the Giant Tiger was a little different. I was working at the checkout and couldn't figure out which side of the counter to stand behind. I was reaching far across the counter to help customers. There something about not having change in the till. The dream wasn't that interesting, in terms of how it felt, maybe a little bit of a concerned or very mildly anxious feeling. Bright lighting in the store.
2. Something wanting to rent a van, but one required an ugly haircut to do so. The style was similar to the Beatles' mop-top haircut, but flatter, more like a Lego person's hair, straight down.
3. I was in my high school (or in a building where people from my high school were doing band practice). I was looking for someone or something, or trying to hide from people. I came into the room where the band was practicing and pretended like i was looking for someone, but didn't poke my head past the door far enough to see more than a few people. The band teacher (who in real life high school was the choir conductor) glanced at me and i tried to pretend like it was normal i was there and then i ducked out.
8:30am woke up for the day. Feeling pretty good, but wanted to sleep more.
7:56am
1. I was working at the Giant Tiger which is across the street from the store i work at in real life. In the dream, the layout of the Giant Tiger was a little different. I was working at the checkout and couldn't figure out which side of the counter to stand behind. I was reaching far across the counter to help customers. There something about not having change in the till. The dream wasn't that interesting, in terms of how it felt, maybe a little bit of a concerned or very mildly anxious feeling. Bright lighting in the store.
2. Something wanting to rent a van, but one required an ugly haircut to do so. The style was similar to the Beatles' mop-top haircut, but flatter, more like a Lego person's hair, straight down.
3. I was in my high school (or in a building where people from my high school were doing band practice). I was looking for someone or something, or trying to hide from people. I came into the room where the band was practicing and pretended like i was looking for someone, but didn't poke my head past the door far enough to see more than a few people. The band teacher (who in real life high school was the choir conductor) glanced at me and i tried to pretend like it was normal i was there and then i ducked out.
8:30am woke up for the day. Feeling pretty good, but wanted to sleep more.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
May 24, 2011 at 9:05am
I will also put down my mood (or a crude approximation of it) when i went to bed and when i got up at the beginning and ending of the report.
Went to bed around 12:15pm in a good mood. Fell asleep probably around 12:30pm.
5:17am
I was visiting a mentor and friend (or possibly a friend of my mentor, the dream wasn't clear) at their house. The place had low lighting but was a pleasant feeling hanging out. We may have been discussing books and/or teaching.
2. This dream was recollected more as a feeling of a story than the story itself. I may have been traveling, possibly on a road trip. I might have been asked to explain myself (as in "who i am") to others.
3. While on a trip somewhere, my traveling companion(s?) and myself stopped at a place to find lodging. Possibly it was our intended destination, possibly was any port in a storm. There was a storm outside. We were out in the country, it was summertime, lots of green trees. There was a barn or something like it. Most of the building were a darker, rich red colour. Lots of wood in the houses. An old-cabin-like feel indoors, cozy, with a fire in the fireplace and candles. Lots of homemade blankets were being used. One of my traveling companions was thrashing about in their sleep--up and down thrashing, not side to side, almost screaming, but not quite, as if possessed. I tried to help them calm down by walking over and calmly chatting and they suddenly relaxed. They responded smiling, "I thought you went away," or possibly, "I thought you packed up and left." I gave them a hug and kiss but then took one of the blankets they were using. I either took it to dry out because it was soaked with rain that was leaking in the roof, or i took it to give to someone else who didn't have any blankets, or, whose blankets were all soaked from rain leaking in through the roof. There were children sleeping, but one child couldn't sleep and someone was reading to them from the Bible. Some people were in damp clothes because of the rain. One my family members was also there sleeping.
8:14am
I was playing hockey. Bright lights, very clear. One team was in red uniforms and the other was in blue uniforms. I can't remember which colour i was but in the dream i did know. The goals against our side were increasing. There was a big pile up of players in front of the opposing team's net, and the other team appeared to be getting cocky and left their net wide open and one of our players scored a goal. This was exciting, but not clearly within the rules (if i recall the dream correctly), since we had just scored and the puck had not been brought back to centre ice for a face off. But, the goal counted. Then, either our top or one of our best players, or our coach, or both, showed up. His part in the dream was played by Tom Cochrane. He was a little embarrassed for arriving late, but was mostly nonchalant as he did his skates up on the bench. We were playing not NHL level, nor even necessarily in a high league. We were in a fairly small, community hockey rink. As we skated back to centre ice after the goal i realized i was on the wrong side of the face off and quickly got back into position.
When i used to play hockey in real life, i played left defense, and in the dream i was first on the right side when we scored a goal on their team (i may have been defense) and then when marking up at centre i was on the left side, but possibly as a forward.
Woke up for the day at 8:14am. Feeling like i could definitely sleep more, but in a good mood mostly.
Went to bed around 12:15pm in a good mood. Fell asleep probably around 12:30pm.
5:17am
I was visiting a mentor and friend (or possibly a friend of my mentor, the dream wasn't clear) at their house. The place had low lighting but was a pleasant feeling hanging out. We may have been discussing books and/or teaching.
2. This dream was recollected more as a feeling of a story than the story itself. I may have been traveling, possibly on a road trip. I might have been asked to explain myself (as in "who i am") to others.
3. While on a trip somewhere, my traveling companion(s?) and myself stopped at a place to find lodging. Possibly it was our intended destination, possibly was any port in a storm. There was a storm outside. We were out in the country, it was summertime, lots of green trees. There was a barn or something like it. Most of the building were a darker, rich red colour. Lots of wood in the houses. An old-cabin-like feel indoors, cozy, with a fire in the fireplace and candles. Lots of homemade blankets were being used. One of my traveling companions was thrashing about in their sleep--up and down thrashing, not side to side, almost screaming, but not quite, as if possessed. I tried to help them calm down by walking over and calmly chatting and they suddenly relaxed. They responded smiling, "I thought you went away," or possibly, "I thought you packed up and left." I gave them a hug and kiss but then took one of the blankets they were using. I either took it to dry out because it was soaked with rain that was leaking in the roof, or i took it to give to someone else who didn't have any blankets, or, whose blankets were all soaked from rain leaking in through the roof. There were children sleeping, but one child couldn't sleep and someone was reading to them from the Bible. Some people were in damp clothes because of the rain. One my family members was also there sleeping.
8:14am
I was playing hockey. Bright lights, very clear. One team was in red uniforms and the other was in blue uniforms. I can't remember which colour i was but in the dream i did know. The goals against our side were increasing. There was a big pile up of players in front of the opposing team's net, and the other team appeared to be getting cocky and left their net wide open and one of our players scored a goal. This was exciting, but not clearly within the rules (if i recall the dream correctly), since we had just scored and the puck had not been brought back to centre ice for a face off. But, the goal counted. Then, either our top or one of our best players, or our coach, or both, showed up. His part in the dream was played by Tom Cochrane. He was a little embarrassed for arriving late, but was mostly nonchalant as he did his skates up on the bench. We were playing not NHL level, nor even necessarily in a high league. We were in a fairly small, community hockey rink. As we skated back to centre ice after the goal i realized i was on the wrong side of the face off and quickly got back into position.
When i used to play hockey in real life, i played left defense, and in the dream i was first on the right side when we scored a goal on their team (i may have been defense) and then when marking up at centre i was on the left side, but possibly as a forward.
Woke up for the day at 8:14am. Feeling like i could definitely sleep more, but in a good mood mostly.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
May 24, 2011 at 9:07am
Had a frightening feeling while sleeping last night. I slept soundly for the most part, but was restless in my dreams. I felt like i was being stalked. Like something bad was about to happen. I believe this sense was engendered by watching "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" before going to bed. I went to bed a few minutes after midnight.
2:13am
1. Someone and i were in their new attic apartment. Everywhere clothes were hanging from the ceiling, from wall lamps, from doorknobs. Not strewn about, but on hangers. It was like the apartment was a closet. The lighting was muted by colourful. We hadn't seen each other for a while and they said to me, "I am graduating right away," which in the dream meant, "I'm busy but i guess you wouldn't know." But, i did know and said so, and they liked that. There was a slightly ominous feeling coming from below in the house. Maybe...maybe not...
2. Possibly one or two other dreams?
3. Something about someone coming to take revenge on me in the future.
4. This was the dream i had before waking up. There was a sexy costume contest taking place on a stage that was like the stage of my elementary school, and the gymnasium was instead a large pool with the shallow end by the stage. I might have been taking part in the contest, or else it was just after the judging and was hanging out with friends (people from work?) on the stage and other people telling us to come into the water (they were in the shallow end, splashing around). One friend looked somewhat older, darker, and more leathery than in real life. I had promised to allow people to undress me, but had really meant to be undressed by someone who was too far away (too far onstage or too far in the pool? maybe in the deep end?).
Woke up on hearing what sounded like a "thwack" close to my head, but outside my bedroom (outside the house). Woke up with a scary, ominous feeling.
7:55am
1. Something about being on a subway, and the train was running on time. (In the afternoon yesterday, i watched the newer version of "The Taking of Pelham 123.," which takes place in the subways of New York City.)
2. A friend i met from couchsurfing.com was demonstrating various ways a woman in a skirt can sit on the floor in ways that would be considered "appropriate" while some other person was trying to sleep resting against her back, or feet. May have been at a party? A kind of relaxed afternoon party?
3. Some other dream about a big house?
4. I was in the Bay (i think the one downtown). I was specifically trying to find a pair of pants, underwear and a shirt. All the pants i kept finding were too big. The last pair i picked up were black denim with pleather sections where the seams on the sides were, they were on a straight, black hanger. They had a pinned-on tag with a size that was too big, and the tag inside the pants had another size, but also, they were too big. The lighting was bright, flourescent mall lighting. A fairly busy day with lots of shoppers.
2:13am
1. Someone and i were in their new attic apartment. Everywhere clothes were hanging from the ceiling, from wall lamps, from doorknobs. Not strewn about, but on hangers. It was like the apartment was a closet. The lighting was muted by colourful. We hadn't seen each other for a while and they said to me, "I am graduating right away," which in the dream meant, "I'm busy but i guess you wouldn't know." But, i did know and said so, and they liked that. There was a slightly ominous feeling coming from below in the house. Maybe...maybe not...
2. Possibly one or two other dreams?
3. Something about someone coming to take revenge on me in the future.
4. This was the dream i had before waking up. There was a sexy costume contest taking place on a stage that was like the stage of my elementary school, and the gymnasium was instead a large pool with the shallow end by the stage. I might have been taking part in the contest, or else it was just after the judging and was hanging out with friends (people from work?) on the stage and other people telling us to come into the water (they were in the shallow end, splashing around). One friend looked somewhat older, darker, and more leathery than in real life. I had promised to allow people to undress me, but had really meant to be undressed by someone who was too far away (too far onstage or too far in the pool? maybe in the deep end?).
Woke up on hearing what sounded like a "thwack" close to my head, but outside my bedroom (outside the house). Woke up with a scary, ominous feeling.
7:55am
1. Something about being on a subway, and the train was running on time. (In the afternoon yesterday, i watched the newer version of "The Taking of Pelham 123.," which takes place in the subways of New York City.)
2. A friend i met from couchsurfing.com was demonstrating various ways a woman in a skirt can sit on the floor in ways that would be considered "appropriate" while some other person was trying to sleep resting against her back, or feet. May have been at a party? A kind of relaxed afternoon party?
3. Some other dream about a big house?
4. I was in the Bay (i think the one downtown). I was specifically trying to find a pair of pants, underwear and a shirt. All the pants i kept finding were too big. The last pair i picked up were black denim with pleather sections where the seams on the sides were, they were on a straight, black hanger. They had a pinned-on tag with a size that was too big, and the tag inside the pants had another size, but also, they were too big. The lighting was bright, flourescent mall lighting. A fairly busy day with lots of shoppers.
Monday, May 23, 2011
May 23, 2011 at 10:40am
So, i woke up once last night. Around 6:30am. Then i woke up for the day around 10:30am. Both times i didn't recall any dreams i had, and i assumed the report this morning would be bare, just a comment that i recollected nada. However, i got up and set out to locate music by a band i was introduced to last night--Dead Skeletons--and while searching for them, i came across various genres of metal bands. Listening to a couple clips of these other bands reminded me of a dream i had! I don't remember when the dream happened...i think between falling back asleep around around 6:30am and 10:30am.
I was in a bit of a darkened, public building with people from high school. We were in a room like a cafeteria, or some kind of long, sparse hallway. Walls were painted whitish, with maybe some grey highlights. Specifically, there were two guys from high school who have an interest in metal music, and we were discussing various bands. We got onto the subject of Metallica, and at first, all or some of us were saying how great Metallica was. Then, we were listening to them, but not on a stereo, not through headphones...it was as though we were listening to their music in our heads. Not by thinking about it, but just "tapping into" their music, as if we could go online using our brains. While evaluating what we were listening to, we took out certain layers of the tracks to get a feel for the other parts. We realized that taking away Kirk Hammett's solos showed the music to be very simple, and badly played, rhythm guitar parts. Some or all of us were kind of surprised and listening more to the rhythm guitar, it began to sound worse, was out of tune and out of time. (In real life, i have no particular beef with Metallica. I generally like all kinds of music everywhere.) Lighting in the dream was a low, a bit dark.
I was in a bit of a darkened, public building with people from high school. We were in a room like a cafeteria, or some kind of long, sparse hallway. Walls were painted whitish, with maybe some grey highlights. Specifically, there were two guys from high school who have an interest in metal music, and we were discussing various bands. We got onto the subject of Metallica, and at first, all or some of us were saying how great Metallica was. Then, we were listening to them, but not on a stereo, not through headphones...it was as though we were listening to their music in our heads. Not by thinking about it, but just "tapping into" their music, as if we could go online using our brains. While evaluating what we were listening to, we took out certain layers of the tracks to get a feel for the other parts. We realized that taking away Kirk Hammett's solos showed the music to be very simple, and badly played, rhythm guitar parts. Some or all of us were kind of surprised and listening more to the rhythm guitar, it began to sound worse, was out of tune and out of time. (In real life, i have no particular beef with Metallica. I generally like all kinds of music everywhere.) Lighting in the dream was a low, a bit dark.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
May 22, 2011 at noon
Finally caught up with my dream reports! Here is the dream report for the dreams from last night (Friday night/Saturday morning). I have never taken so many notes. Also, this morning was the first time i started writing down the time on my clock when i woke up and recorded the dream.
6:30am
1. This dream was a bit dark and foreboding. I was a knight. I made a solemn oath saying, "In the name of all that is holy..." (my dream note says that the oath may have had a second part: "In the name of all that is holy and quicksand"). While putting on my armour i became some kind of hero. I had gloves, chain mail, a helmet.
There was something being rated...(my notes aren't clear: "Some kind of rating.")
I was going out to find someone, to bring them back from some kind of captivity. It was a dark night, with driving wind and rain, and thunder and lightning. I had no horse, but i could run swiftly and it almost felt like i was being propelled or flying with some unusual strength beyond my control. There was also a wolf, which may have been an enemy or a spirit guide.
(This dream nearly parallels an animated version of Dante's "Inferno" that i watched before going to bed.)
2. A friend had finished a music album and we were sharing information about our music with each other. We had helped each other out with recording and given suggestions for production values.
7:40am
1. I was hiding in a hay cart, traveling with or hiding from other knights. I was either a knight myself or some kind of vagabond child. These other knights were marching out somewhere, but we were still in the city (an old, medieval city in the middle ages). A bit of an anxious mood.
2. I was a police officer of some kind, but not in uniform, possibly undercover. I was stepping out of a building (a library? some public building) onto the deck of the building looked out onto a rolling, hilly area. It was a bright, sunny day, with lots of green grass and leafy green trees (one big tree on the other side of the deck, beside a flowing stream). People were playing in the park, and it was a happy day. I need to capture two criminals without upsetting all the people. One was a woman and one was a man. I realized i had come outside alone and needed backup and couldn't get both criminals at once. I still tried to and drew my gun and began reading them their rights. The woman glanced at me startled, but then thought i wasn't talking to her and looked away and then i focused only on the guy, thinking, "She's going to get away because i rushed out here without being prepared." The guy was very cooperative, but a bit bitter about being captured and shook his head and would say things like, "I have a family. A son. He'll never understand that i'm a criminal." He also said, "Everyone will be surprised. At Easter, my son never got to hunt for eggs." I put handcuffs on him and asked, Do you know why you're being arrested?" He answered, "Yes, for _____" (but when i woke up i couldn't remember what it was for). Then he asked me, "What about you?" (As in, "And what are you guilty of?") I responded, "Oh, we're all guilty of something." (Or, instead of "something" i may have said "lots of things.") I led him inside to what was now a police station, but it was more like a regular office building. Once inside i realized he had taken the handcuffs off and handed them to me. I thought, "Oh no, i put cuffs on him with a safety latch...or else i just didn't close them tight enough." But he didn't try to run. But i had the feeling that something was wrong and he was going to escape or something bad would happen. I put him in one room, but it had openable doors to get out and he wasn't cuffed. I still had no help, and i didn't know how i could get him into a secure place where he couldn't run away.
8:53am
1. Looking into a hotel or a building on the Reeperbahn where people were having sex, suddenly i was in the room. I was participating in a threesome but there was only two of us. (I know that doesn't make sense.) This dream then turns into another dream. I was being told by my partner (business partner? police partner? i don't recall, but my notes say, my "partner" but it wasn't a romantic partner) as they were following me, that i need to get checked for something medically. I tell them i'll go, but i continue to not go. They explain to me, or i am aware, that i have "3 chances in 24 hours" (possibly meaning every 8 hours?). Then there were some other mathematical fractions of 24 hours.
2. Something about our real life band's jam space.
3. Notes say, "other dream..."
4. Something about being outside at night and walking away from either my parents' house or our band's jam space. Maybe this was the same as #2 above. A fairly warm, summer night, but almost entirely black sky.
6:30am
1. This dream was a bit dark and foreboding. I was a knight. I made a solemn oath saying, "In the name of all that is holy..." (my dream note says that the oath may have had a second part: "In the name of all that is holy and quicksand"). While putting on my armour i became some kind of hero. I had gloves, chain mail, a helmet.
There was something being rated...(my notes aren't clear: "Some kind of rating.")
I was going out to find someone, to bring them back from some kind of captivity. It was a dark night, with driving wind and rain, and thunder and lightning. I had no horse, but i could run swiftly and it almost felt like i was being propelled or flying with some unusual strength beyond my control. There was also a wolf, which may have been an enemy or a spirit guide.
(This dream nearly parallels an animated version of Dante's "Inferno" that i watched before going to bed.)
2. A friend had finished a music album and we were sharing information about our music with each other. We had helped each other out with recording and given suggestions for production values.
7:40am
1. I was hiding in a hay cart, traveling with or hiding from other knights. I was either a knight myself or some kind of vagabond child. These other knights were marching out somewhere, but we were still in the city (an old, medieval city in the middle ages). A bit of an anxious mood.
2. I was a police officer of some kind, but not in uniform, possibly undercover. I was stepping out of a building (a library? some public building) onto the deck of the building looked out onto a rolling, hilly area. It was a bright, sunny day, with lots of green grass and leafy green trees (one big tree on the other side of the deck, beside a flowing stream). People were playing in the park, and it was a happy day. I need to capture two criminals without upsetting all the people. One was a woman and one was a man. I realized i had come outside alone and needed backup and couldn't get both criminals at once. I still tried to and drew my gun and began reading them their rights. The woman glanced at me startled, but then thought i wasn't talking to her and looked away and then i focused only on the guy, thinking, "She's going to get away because i rushed out here without being prepared." The guy was very cooperative, but a bit bitter about being captured and shook his head and would say things like, "I have a family. A son. He'll never understand that i'm a criminal." He also said, "Everyone will be surprised. At Easter, my son never got to hunt for eggs." I put handcuffs on him and asked, Do you know why you're being arrested?" He answered, "Yes, for _____" (but when i woke up i couldn't remember what it was for). Then he asked me, "What about you?" (As in, "And what are you guilty of?") I responded, "Oh, we're all guilty of something." (Or, instead of "something" i may have said "lots of things.") I led him inside to what was now a police station, but it was more like a regular office building. Once inside i realized he had taken the handcuffs off and handed them to me. I thought, "Oh no, i put cuffs on him with a safety latch...or else i just didn't close them tight enough." But he didn't try to run. But i had the feeling that something was wrong and he was going to escape or something bad would happen. I put him in one room, but it had openable doors to get out and he wasn't cuffed. I still had no help, and i didn't know how i could get him into a secure place where he couldn't run away.
8:53am
1. Looking into a hotel or a building on the Reeperbahn where people were having sex, suddenly i was in the room. I was participating in a threesome but there was only two of us. (I know that doesn't make sense.) This dream then turns into another dream. I was being told by my partner (business partner? police partner? i don't recall, but my notes say, my "partner" but it wasn't a romantic partner) as they were following me, that i need to get checked for something medically. I tell them i'll go, but i continue to not go. They explain to me, or i am aware, that i have "3 chances in 24 hours" (possibly meaning every 8 hours?). Then there were some other mathematical fractions of 24 hours.
2. Something about our real life band's jam space.
3. Notes say, "other dream..."
4. Something about being outside at night and walking away from either my parents' house or our band's jam space. Maybe this was the same as #2 above. A fairly warm, summer night, but almost entirely black sky.
May 22, 2011 at 11:30am
Here's the dream report that was meant for Friday morning (May 20):
These dreams may not be in the order i had them...
1. I think my experience of this dream was a combination of it being related to me by the person who was actually there, watching the events like one removed, and actually being the main character. One of the people in the building where i live in real life was mountain climbing. While on a trip, they were encouraged to check out this particular area that was a gigantic sheer wall of ice. While climbing, they found an ice cave and went in and set up a bit of a camp. While setting up, it suddenly got very cold, and then they said, "I felt like i'd been drinking wine," and they began to feel like they were floating. An avalanche was happening around the cave. They then heard a voice chanting, "[You] will sleep the deep, deep sleep..." The last dream note i don't quite understand, but i think the main character began looking through their bags in order to keep from going crazy, in order to have something to focus on.
2. The dream started with me arriving in a busy grocery store or mall with all the stores open. I was going up to a certain shop which i think was Shoppers Drug Mart, but it was closed when i got there (and suddenly there was no one around? i forget). As i started making my way out of the supermarket i got an eerie feeling. Two female bank tellers saw me, and then they were grocery cashiers. The grocery store was now full. Everyone was staring at me. I realized they were all zombies, although everyone looked normal. I understood that if i did the wrong thing, they'd all realize i wasn't a zombie and attack me and eat me. I started cautiously trying to vacate the premises. Then some of them pointed out to me that i was also a zombie. My left eye was hanging out of its socket, halfway down my face. My right eye was gone, though (this seemed appropriate in the dream since in real life my right eye has been giving me a bit of trouble, and in the dream i knew my right eye couldn't be working).
3. A sex dream with lots of airbrushed people. People having sex in an Escalade and in strangely-shaped pools with little windows in the pool where people would expose their body parts. The pools looked partially like puzzles with lots of odd markings (instructions? like medical instructions?) all over the place. A grotesque and exciting feeling. Lots of sparkling blue lights, mist, and blackness around the pool. The part in the Escalade was bland colours, beiges, greys, browns.
4. At a big school assembly, i was teacher or a student or both...or first i was a student and then became a teacher. Lights were a little dim, not that i couldn't see clearly, but it was a little difficult, maybe? I was counting a family member's money for them (they handed me their wallet). I was a new teacher. My family member wouldn't sit beside me (it wouldn't be cool). There was a kindergarten girl doing a presentation on autism. (Then there's a note i made that now i don't understand: "bathroom same bed"...i think it means in the dream i was actually in my bed during the presentation, the bathroom part i'm not sure about). While watching the presentation one of the kids (?) kissed my shoulder (i don't think it was amorous, more like innocent affection). There was some thinking or talking about what it's like living with children with disabilities. Then i was in a room in a basement with a caregiver. (The note for that last sentence i don't quite understand or remember that part of the dream.)
5. I was at the electronic music festival Shambhala, but also at a women's festival in a South American city with a friend. There were women's sports events, women's dance courses, and a history something (my note isn't clear what). The last note for the dream is, "locations, times, prices."
These dreams may not be in the order i had them...
1. I think my experience of this dream was a combination of it being related to me by the person who was actually there, watching the events like one removed, and actually being the main character. One of the people in the building where i live in real life was mountain climbing. While on a trip, they were encouraged to check out this particular area that was a gigantic sheer wall of ice. While climbing, they found an ice cave and went in and set up a bit of a camp. While setting up, it suddenly got very cold, and then they said, "I felt like i'd been drinking wine," and they began to feel like they were floating. An avalanche was happening around the cave. They then heard a voice chanting, "[You] will sleep the deep, deep sleep..." The last dream note i don't quite understand, but i think the main character began looking through their bags in order to keep from going crazy, in order to have something to focus on.
2. The dream started with me arriving in a busy grocery store or mall with all the stores open. I was going up to a certain shop which i think was Shoppers Drug Mart, but it was closed when i got there (and suddenly there was no one around? i forget). As i started making my way out of the supermarket i got an eerie feeling. Two female bank tellers saw me, and then they were grocery cashiers. The grocery store was now full. Everyone was staring at me. I realized they were all zombies, although everyone looked normal. I understood that if i did the wrong thing, they'd all realize i wasn't a zombie and attack me and eat me. I started cautiously trying to vacate the premises. Then some of them pointed out to me that i was also a zombie. My left eye was hanging out of its socket, halfway down my face. My right eye was gone, though (this seemed appropriate in the dream since in real life my right eye has been giving me a bit of trouble, and in the dream i knew my right eye couldn't be working).
3. A sex dream with lots of airbrushed people. People having sex in an Escalade and in strangely-shaped pools with little windows in the pool where people would expose their body parts. The pools looked partially like puzzles with lots of odd markings (instructions? like medical instructions?) all over the place. A grotesque and exciting feeling. Lots of sparkling blue lights, mist, and blackness around the pool. The part in the Escalade was bland colours, beiges, greys, browns.
4. At a big school assembly, i was teacher or a student or both...or first i was a student and then became a teacher. Lights were a little dim, not that i couldn't see clearly, but it was a little difficult, maybe? I was counting a family member's money for them (they handed me their wallet). I was a new teacher. My family member wouldn't sit beside me (it wouldn't be cool). There was a kindergarten girl doing a presentation on autism. (Then there's a note i made that now i don't understand: "bathroom same bed"...i think it means in the dream i was actually in my bed during the presentation, the bathroom part i'm not sure about). While watching the presentation one of the kids (?) kissed my shoulder (i don't think it was amorous, more like innocent affection). There was some thinking or talking about what it's like living with children with disabilities. Then i was in a room in a basement with a caregiver. (The note for that last sentence i don't quite understand or remember that part of the dream.)
5. I was at the electronic music festival Shambhala, but also at a women's festival in a South American city with a friend. There were women's sports events, women's dance courses, and a history something (my note isn't clear what). The last note for the dream is, "locations, times, prices."
Saturday, May 21, 2011
May 21, 2011 at 10:32pm
Dream report intended that was meant for Thursday morning, May 19:
1. Rules for dating
2. I was in a scene reminiscent of, or actually in "Star Wars" when they're flying down that gorge in the Death Star and need to fire into that small area in order to blow it up. The mood was tense and dangerous. I was either flying or shooting from some kind of spaceship while the machine was piloted down this gorge, but in my dream it was a tunnel. Lots of straight lines, squares, grids, and the colour grey. While flying towards the target, or once reaching it, it became apparent that on the other side of the windscreen of the ship i was in, was a huge computer screen. I wasn't actually flying anymore, but had the illusion of flying as the computer screen simulated flight. I still need to fire at the screen (but maybe the firing was part of a video game showing on the screen?) but it was simulated firing, sort of. After hitting the target the ship i was in still need to fly awake quickly because the Death Star was about to blow up.
3. (My notes for this one are messy.) Something about an elderly version of myself and an elderly version of someone else i know laying in bed together. (The part about being in bed together is surrounded by incomprehensible words, so it may only be that someone was in bed, not clear who was.)
4. I was traveling around the streets of some city like Calcutta in a dilapidated neighbourhood. Ahead of me was a bus with an ad for "helping the poor/needy." In the ad was the picture of a girl walking with or riding a goat. I noticed that between me and the bus was a girl walking with or riding a goat. It was late afternoon, turning into the evening. At first the streets were bustling and full of people, but i think they quickly emptied out. I'm not sure, but i think i was on vacation in this place with someone else. Maybe i was a street urchin, with a bunch of others, but i'm not sure. Someone asked me about finding a place to stay, or i asked my traveling companion, or my fellow homeless vagabonds. We knew it was going to get cold and we realized we "should have gotten off the bus earlier", especially since it was such a long ride (maybe that's because it would've taken so long to get back?). We realized something about our situation was dangerous. My notes say, "But only cuz need to live."
1. Rules for dating
2. I was in a scene reminiscent of, or actually in "Star Wars" when they're flying down that gorge in the Death Star and need to fire into that small area in order to blow it up. The mood was tense and dangerous. I was either flying or shooting from some kind of spaceship while the machine was piloted down this gorge, but in my dream it was a tunnel. Lots of straight lines, squares, grids, and the colour grey. While flying towards the target, or once reaching it, it became apparent that on the other side of the windscreen of the ship i was in, was a huge computer screen. I wasn't actually flying anymore, but had the illusion of flying as the computer screen simulated flight. I still need to fire at the screen (but maybe the firing was part of a video game showing on the screen?) but it was simulated firing, sort of. After hitting the target the ship i was in still need to fly awake quickly because the Death Star was about to blow up.
3. (My notes for this one are messy.) Something about an elderly version of myself and an elderly version of someone else i know laying in bed together. (The part about being in bed together is surrounded by incomprehensible words, so it may only be that someone was in bed, not clear who was.)
4. I was traveling around the streets of some city like Calcutta in a dilapidated neighbourhood. Ahead of me was a bus with an ad for "helping the poor/needy." In the ad was the picture of a girl walking with or riding a goat. I noticed that between me and the bus was a girl walking with or riding a goat. It was late afternoon, turning into the evening. At first the streets were bustling and full of people, but i think they quickly emptied out. I'm not sure, but i think i was on vacation in this place with someone else. Maybe i was a street urchin, with a bunch of others, but i'm not sure. Someone asked me about finding a place to stay, or i asked my traveling companion, or my fellow homeless vagabonds. We knew it was going to get cold and we realized we "should have gotten off the bus earlier", especially since it was such a long ride (maybe that's because it would've taken so long to get back?). We realized something about our situation was dangerous. My notes say, "But only cuz need to live."
May 21, 2011 at 10:18pm
Here's the dream report i meant to do Wednesday morning (May 18):
1. Something about someone taking advantage of someone else (maybe i was the one being taken advantage of?).
2. Me taking pills. (In my notes i can't tell if the first word is "me" or "we" or something else...)
1. Something about someone taking advantage of someone else (maybe i was the one being taken advantage of?).
2. Me taking pills. (In my notes i can't tell if the first word is "me" or "we" or something else...)
May 18, 2011 at 1:17am
Time for the dream report that i meant to do this morning!
and when i say "this morning" i mean Tuesday morning...
1. A friend from high school and his dad (or maybe just him?) owned a wooden warehouse and traveled around the city doing work (odd jobs?) for people. The warehouse had an inviting feel inside, with lots of sunlight coming through the slats of wood.
2. (Couldn't fully make out the notes i made for this one.) The dream was a long commercial about trusting people. As the commercial went on, the actors became more and more professional.
and when i say "this morning" i mean Tuesday morning...
1. A friend from high school and his dad (or maybe just him?) owned a wooden warehouse and traveled around the city doing work (odd jobs?) for people. The warehouse had an inviting feel inside, with lots of sunlight coming through the slats of wood.
2. (Couldn't fully make out the notes i made for this one.) The dream was a long commercial about trusting people. As the commercial went on, the actors became more and more professional.
May 17, 2011 at 12:37am
Time for the dream report from the previous two nights (and then i'll go to sleep, wake up, and do tonight's dream report...an interesting way to bookend my dream time, by doing dream summaries):
(Saturday night/Sunday morning only one dream recorded):
1. I had invited a friend over (as far as i recall, it was to my regular, real life apartment) who brought their partner over and i tried to figure out whether they were together or not. My niece was also over and was trying really hard to open all the blinds in the apartment but the pull chords were really long. It was a sunny afternoon in the dream.
(Sunday night/Monday morning):
1. Someone i didn't know but who i saw in real life at the fundraiser where our band played the previous night (Saturday night/Sunday morning) who had been very colourful at the fundraiser was, in my dream, in all greys, beiges, and browns (real life hair was short and straight, dream hair was long and mousey) and was building a house or working on a farm and came inside (i don't know where it was) to explain the work they were doing. A bit darker indoors.
2. I was playing soccer.
3. (I think this was the most interesting dream in this series) Skies were overcast and greyish blue. The setting was out in an open, semi-barren, slightly hilly and rocky plain, but still with a fair amount of grass. There was also a wall (or i was indoors?) with a door in it, which i was behind. There were other people too, specifically, i think, the Tragically Hip and some other people (possibly other bands). There was some military aesthetic to the clothing we wore, but nothing specific or required (not uniforms, at least i don't recall us wearing uniforms). The Tragically Hip were celebrating either their newest album or "being together for 20 years" (although in real life they've been together longer). And they were celebrating (and i was involved in the activity)...by...get this...THROWING DE-PINNED GRENADES through the open doorway into the field. We knew there were people in the field and we would yell, things like, "Get out of the way, here comes a grenade!" And it was like they were having trouble moving, like they were in slow motion but the grenades were in normal time. But, no one was injured, despite all the explosions. A sort of festive, but worried mood.
4. The only note i wrote down for this dream was, "Church basement?"
5. Location and mood and them and plot unrecorded and unremembered. Someone from soccer was in the dream and someone kept asking them (or they kept asking me or someone was asking someone), "How are you?" repeatedly.
(Saturday night/Sunday morning only one dream recorded):
1. I had invited a friend over (as far as i recall, it was to my regular, real life apartment) who brought their partner over and i tried to figure out whether they were together or not. My niece was also over and was trying really hard to open all the blinds in the apartment but the pull chords were really long. It was a sunny afternoon in the dream.
(Sunday night/Monday morning):
1. Someone i didn't know but who i saw in real life at the fundraiser where our band played the previous night (Saturday night/Sunday morning) who had been very colourful at the fundraiser was, in my dream, in all greys, beiges, and browns (real life hair was short and straight, dream hair was long and mousey) and was building a house or working on a farm and came inside (i don't know where it was) to explain the work they were doing. A bit darker indoors.
2. I was playing soccer.
3. (I think this was the most interesting dream in this series) Skies were overcast and greyish blue. The setting was out in an open, semi-barren, slightly hilly and rocky plain, but still with a fair amount of grass. There was also a wall (or i was indoors?) with a door in it, which i was behind. There were other people too, specifically, i think, the Tragically Hip and some other people (possibly other bands). There was some military aesthetic to the clothing we wore, but nothing specific or required (not uniforms, at least i don't recall us wearing uniforms). The Tragically Hip were celebrating either their newest album or "being together for 20 years" (although in real life they've been together longer). And they were celebrating (and i was involved in the activity)...by...get this...THROWING DE-PINNED GRENADES through the open doorway into the field. We knew there were people in the field and we would yell, things like, "Get out of the way, here comes a grenade!" And it was like they were having trouble moving, like they were in slow motion but the grenades were in normal time. But, no one was injured, despite all the explosions. A sort of festive, but worried mood.
4. The only note i wrote down for this dream was, "Church basement?"
5. Location and mood and them and plot unrecorded and unremembered. Someone from soccer was in the dream and someone kept asking them (or they kept asking me or someone was asking someone), "How are you?" repeatedly.
May 14, 2011 at 4:02pm
(there may have been an earlier dream before dream 1, about being lost or exploring old buildings or wandering barren, overgrown fields that used to be industrial areas)
1. I was living in a new place, and it was furnished with a lot of (or maybe, only with) objects left by the previous inhabitants. The new place was an apartment in a house. It was mid-afternoon, with lots of sun coming in from outside, no lights on inside. I was rooting through a wall unit cabinet and boxes in the living room trying to decide what books and movies to keep and which to get rid of. A number of friends were assisting with the endeavour. In the dream, there were numerous titles that i specifically looked at, but now i remember very few. Specifically, i recall seasons of "Battlestar Galactica" (which i've never seen) and the movie "The Secret of Nimh" (which i own) being considered for keeping or tossing. On person was ready to toss "BG" and someone else insisted it be kept.
2. I was working on some kind of Mexican dance on my porch, but my house was not my actual house (not my real life house), although it was close to a park. I think in the dream i was in Toronto, possibly living on Bloor Street. Book Club (almost everyone) was coming over and for some reason i think i was practicing the dance for them. I was listening to some particularly new Mexican CD i recently acquired in the dream. It was early evening in summertime. Lots of green trees.
3. Two friends (who in real life i think would never do this) had recently bought an item which is also sold at the store i work at (in real life) and came to my "new" house (i think the same one as in dream 1 but the level of my floor had changed) to show me their purchase. We then compared it to the one i had at my store. Again, an afternoon, sunny dream.
1. I was living in a new place, and it was furnished with a lot of (or maybe, only with) objects left by the previous inhabitants. The new place was an apartment in a house. It was mid-afternoon, with lots of sun coming in from outside, no lights on inside. I was rooting through a wall unit cabinet and boxes in the living room trying to decide what books and movies to keep and which to get rid of. A number of friends were assisting with the endeavour. In the dream, there were numerous titles that i specifically looked at, but now i remember very few. Specifically, i recall seasons of "Battlestar Galactica" (which i've never seen) and the movie "The Secret of Nimh" (which i own) being considered for keeping or tossing. On person was ready to toss "BG" and someone else insisted it be kept.
2. I was working on some kind of Mexican dance on my porch, but my house was not my actual house (not my real life house), although it was close to a park. I think in the dream i was in Toronto, possibly living on Bloor Street. Book Club (almost everyone) was coming over and for some reason i think i was practicing the dance for them. I was listening to some particularly new Mexican CD i recently acquired in the dream. It was early evening in summertime. Lots of green trees.
3. Two friends (who in real life i think would never do this) had recently bought an item which is also sold at the store i work at (in real life) and came to my "new" house (i think the same one as in dream 1 but the level of my floor had changed) to show me their purchase. We then compared it to the one i had at my store. Again, an afternoon, sunny dream.
May 13, 2011 at 9:08am
I didn't take notes when i woke up at night and i had some pretty boring dreams...
1. I was still working with adults with developmental disabilities but we could both understand each other better. It was a happy dream and involved a red balloon bouncing around at some point. The dream dealt specifically with communication.
2. I was at work. It was a regular day at work. I don't remember anything noteworthy, except that i was at work.
3. I was on Facebook. Again, nothing noteworthy. (That was my dream? Come on subconscious! Turn down the suck, turn up the awesome!)
1. I was still working with adults with developmental disabilities but we could both understand each other better. It was a happy dream and involved a red balloon bouncing around at some point. The dream dealt specifically with communication.
2. I was at work. It was a regular day at work. I don't remember anything noteworthy, except that i was at work.
3. I was on Facebook. Again, nothing noteworthy. (That was my dream? Come on subconscious! Turn down the suck, turn up the awesome!)
May 11, 2011 at 9:24am
I don't know how in order these are except i know the last one in the list was the last one i had before waking up...
1. In the University of Winnipeg (but it looked different). Daytime, lots of sunshine, summer. Sometimes my vision or was a little dark and i couldn't see everything entirely clearly. A supposedly evangelical preacher (who in the dream was a guy from a local band who is not an evangelical preacher) was coming to Winnipeg (maybe he was coming to the University of Winnipeg to give a talk?) and i was talking to someone from the U of W Atheist Students Association and we were discussing what it meant for this guy to be coming. The person in the group said it was stupid because the preacher would be telling people they were going to Hell. I asked, "What if he means intellectual Hell?" Then someone from the store i work at showed up (i guess just to say hi or check up on the conversation?) but they had slightly darker skin than usual and were wearing very casual clothes. They wanted to stick around for the conversation but had to get back to schoolwork.
2. Wintertime, daytime, lots of blowing snow. Lots of traffic. Staying in a small town overnight (missed the last bussed back to Winnipeg?) Apparently it was going to be more expensive to stay at the this one hotel (motel? hostel?) than i originally expected. The clerk then asked if i was comfortable paying the "extra fee"? Apparently, i could refuse to pay it and it would be OK; i think it was like a processing fee. Some walking around outside in the snow trying to catch a bus. Met an acquaintance near the end of the dream (i kind of forget what happened at the end).
3. Daytime, outside on a clear-sky day, in the middle of the street (no cars) playing some kind of wrestling game.
4. Again, in a place like the U of W. Slightly darker inside. Was a Buffy-type dream (like an episode of "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer") and there was a demon a bunch of us were searching for (demon was more of an imp) who was hiding in shoes (i think?) that were ALL OVER THE PLACE. Lots and lots of shoes everywhere. (If i recall correctly, in the dream i was under the impression that these shoes were left there during summer, like people forgot to take them home after fall/winter classes.)
5. I was in a play being performed at the Prairie Theatre Exchange (i think that's where it was). It was a "Casablanca"-era play, i think. There was a woman on stage with a cigarette (it was a fake one that had an electric light in it that when you cupped your hands around it it would appear there was a flame as you "lit" the end; i don't think there was any smoke, though), an off-white/beige/grey trench coat and maybe a wide-brimmed hat. She was waiting for someone, or was deep in thought. Then i came onstage (i was some sort of Humphrey Bogart-type character). I asked her if she had a light, or she gave me her cigarette or somehow i ended up with a fake cigarette. Then we walked around the stage waiting for something (a plane was coming? one of us had to leave? something big was about to happen? a war?) and i had my arm around the other character, but in a slightly awkward way (i think, maybe not).
1. In the University of Winnipeg (but it looked different). Daytime, lots of sunshine, summer. Sometimes my vision or was a little dark and i couldn't see everything entirely clearly. A supposedly evangelical preacher (who in the dream was a guy from a local band who is not an evangelical preacher) was coming to Winnipeg (maybe he was coming to the University of Winnipeg to give a talk?) and i was talking to someone from the U of W Atheist Students Association and we were discussing what it meant for this guy to be coming. The person in the group said it was stupid because the preacher would be telling people they were going to Hell. I asked, "What if he means intellectual Hell?" Then someone from the store i work at showed up (i guess just to say hi or check up on the conversation?) but they had slightly darker skin than usual and were wearing very casual clothes. They wanted to stick around for the conversation but had to get back to schoolwork.
2. Wintertime, daytime, lots of blowing snow. Lots of traffic. Staying in a small town overnight (missed the last bussed back to Winnipeg?) Apparently it was going to be more expensive to stay at the this one hotel (motel? hostel?) than i originally expected. The clerk then asked if i was comfortable paying the "extra fee"? Apparently, i could refuse to pay it and it would be OK; i think it was like a processing fee. Some walking around outside in the snow trying to catch a bus. Met an acquaintance near the end of the dream (i kind of forget what happened at the end).
3. Daytime, outside on a clear-sky day, in the middle of the street (no cars) playing some kind of wrestling game.
4. Again, in a place like the U of W. Slightly darker inside. Was a Buffy-type dream (like an episode of "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer") and there was a demon a bunch of us were searching for (demon was more of an imp) who was hiding in shoes (i think?) that were ALL OVER THE PLACE. Lots and lots of shoes everywhere. (If i recall correctly, in the dream i was under the impression that these shoes were left there during summer, like people forgot to take them home after fall/winter classes.)
5. I was in a play being performed at the Prairie Theatre Exchange (i think that's where it was). It was a "Casablanca"-era play, i think. There was a woman on stage with a cigarette (it was a fake one that had an electric light in it that when you cupped your hands around it it would appear there was a flame as you "lit" the end; i don't think there was any smoke, though), an off-white/beige/grey trench coat and maybe a wide-brimmed hat. She was waiting for someone, or was deep in thought. Then i came onstage (i was some sort of Humphrey Bogart-type character). I asked her if she had a light, or she gave me her cigarette or somehow i ended up with a fake cigarette. Then we walked around the stage waiting for something (a plane was coming? one of us had to leave? something big was about to happen? a war?) and i had my arm around the other character, but in a slightly awkward way (i think, maybe not).
May 10, 2011 at 9:32am
1. (The opening of this dream was fascinating to me in the dream and a little bit now still even after i'm awake.) I suddenly gained consciousness (in the dream) and came to in a place where i didn't know what was going on or where i was. I was either in a big meeting room or on a train, or a combination. Outside was kind of white-blue (possibly like winter?) with lots of trees. Everyone inside was happy. It reminded me a bit of working at camp, but no campers, but it wasn't working at camp. I was trying to figure out if i had blacked out from doing drugs but then thought, "I've never been in this situation before, why would it have happened now? That doesn't make sense...And yet, why don't i remember how i got here?" I somehow was then in the same location, but different, more like a bedroom (my own bed?) but still on the train, and also outside in my parents' neighbourhood where i grew up. I was talking to a friend from high school about working, since they were just fired. They were saying how people i used to play in a band with (who, in the dream were insurance agents, or real estate agents or something) had to travel around (into the USA? or maybe Quebec...or small towns...i forget...maybe all three!) and when they travelled they would falsify their accommodation needs and take up more beds than needed and put poorer people out of sleeping well because the poorer people were giving up their beds. They (friend from high school) said they would have to become a dentist if they couldn't find a job and then said, "Maybe knowing you can help." I asked, "How?" and i don't remember if i got a response. Then they took me on an underground art tour of Winnipeg. We started going down underground and first showed me a small painting (two feet by two feet, approximately) and either said to me or i just thought, "You need to know German to understand this." The painting kind of reminds me (now, when i try to recall it) of something by Monet.
2. In an indoor market...sort of like a Turkish or Middle Eastern bazaar (i think...even though i've never been to one) discussing with a guy i had just met who was Palestinian...i think...i could be wrong. We were talking about where we were from and where we were living in Winnipeg. (This bazaar was apparently in Winnipeg.) Either he didn't understand me or didn't want to tell me. He kept changing his story/stories as well. We kept walking in circles around this island of shops in this one area of the bazaar, and we kept passing a small restaurant and i was trying to figure out what ethnicity the food represented but i couldn't figure out the words on the sign. We were trying to explain to each other about community. He seemed worried or suspicious of me until i told him i lived in Wolseley then he kind of opened up a bit and we talked about Wolseley.
3. I saw my basement was flooding, quite a few feet of water already and i went to go fix a pipe (where the water was pouring out of it? but when i got down there the pipe wasn't pouring water...). The water was already coming up the stairs (it was my basement, but it looked different) so, instead of getting wet (i was wearing rainboots, though) i hung off this ladder suspended near the bottom of the steps to reach the pipe. I pulled off the pipe from its connection (or it was already off?) and shook out/pulled out some garbage in the end of the pipe i was holding. Then, with a screwdriver, i poked holes through the end of the pipe and then thought, "Crap! Why'd i do that? Now when i hook the pipe back up the water will pour out the holes." Then i started hooking the pipe back up and the ladder creaked, and broke a bit and slipped down and i splashed part-way into the water. I climbed slowly up onto the stairs (which now were a combination of stairs/ladder/chain-link fencing) trying to not get wet, but i still got wet (but didn't feel wet). Then i looked back at the basement and the water was gone. As if it had never been flooded. And i was very confused and tried to figure out where the water went or if it had been there to begin with.
2. In an indoor market...sort of like a Turkish or Middle Eastern bazaar (i think...even though i've never been to one) discussing with a guy i had just met who was Palestinian...i think...i could be wrong. We were talking about where we were from and where we were living in Winnipeg. (This bazaar was apparently in Winnipeg.) Either he didn't understand me or didn't want to tell me. He kept changing his story/stories as well. We kept walking in circles around this island of shops in this one area of the bazaar, and we kept passing a small restaurant and i was trying to figure out what ethnicity the food represented but i couldn't figure out the words on the sign. We were trying to explain to each other about community. He seemed worried or suspicious of me until i told him i lived in Wolseley then he kind of opened up a bit and we talked about Wolseley.
3. I saw my basement was flooding, quite a few feet of water already and i went to go fix a pipe (where the water was pouring out of it? but when i got down there the pipe wasn't pouring water...). The water was already coming up the stairs (it was my basement, but it looked different) so, instead of getting wet (i was wearing rainboots, though) i hung off this ladder suspended near the bottom of the steps to reach the pipe. I pulled off the pipe from its connection (or it was already off?) and shook out/pulled out some garbage in the end of the pipe i was holding. Then, with a screwdriver, i poked holes through the end of the pipe and then thought, "Crap! Why'd i do that? Now when i hook the pipe back up the water will pour out the holes." Then i started hooking the pipe back up and the ladder creaked, and broke a bit and slipped down and i splashed part-way into the water. I climbed slowly up onto the stairs (which now were a combination of stairs/ladder/chain-link fencing) trying to not get wet, but i still got wet (but didn't feel wet). Then i looked back at the basement and the water was gone. As if it had never been flooded. And i was very confused and tried to figure out where the water went or if it had been there to begin with.
May 9, 2011 at 7:35pm
Here's the dream report that i didn't do this morning:
1. A dream about camping with two friends from high school. A fairly rainy day, early evening. One person couldn't make it or was lost but that meant there was more room in the tent.
2. A dream about being in a gigantic mall (vast distance between floor and ceiling--sometimes the ornamentation was ornate, other times plain) that i was trying to exit or needed to walk through. The shops were all closed (i think it was morning and hadn't opened yet...or maybe it was just after hours in the evening...i forget) and there some kind of Mother's Day event in which a spa-like place was giving spa-like treatment for a bunch of mothers. The colours for the event were white and pink and all the participants were wearing white housecoats. For some reason i had to walk by this event and i put on a housecoat to blend in. I don't remember if i was noticed as an impostor mom and chased or if i wasn't noticed and was able to pass through. In any case, as i was walking by, the steps were these raised, cylindrical platforms that might have had some gaps between them (imagine one of the 1960s tv shows where a musical group is playing and each person is on a different platform...kind of like those) and when i was at the top of these "stairs" i looked out over the mall and it was like a cathedral...but multiplied by hundreds of times. It was still a mall, with mall-like atmosphere, but cavernous, sort of, like some cathedrals. A kind of quiet, but only slightly eerily quiet dream. Lots of white, everywhere. Bland, kind of, like malls.
3. A dream about being in a school (i think it was a high school?) with a few people i knew getting ready to go to an assembly or concert in the gymnasium. While waiting we were trying to make phone calls (i think?) and for some reason we couldn't use the payphones properly and then we started looking through the phones somehow (not just the change dispenser...maybe we were just looking on top) and found lots of change (lots? well, maybe five dollars in coins). Some people from work were hanging out around the payphones as well as Greg Macpherson. It was a bustling, happy dream.
1. A dream about camping with two friends from high school. A fairly rainy day, early evening. One person couldn't make it or was lost but that meant there was more room in the tent.
2. A dream about being in a gigantic mall (vast distance between floor and ceiling--sometimes the ornamentation was ornate, other times plain) that i was trying to exit or needed to walk through. The shops were all closed (i think it was morning and hadn't opened yet...or maybe it was just after hours in the evening...i forget) and there some kind of Mother's Day event in which a spa-like place was giving spa-like treatment for a bunch of mothers. The colours for the event were white and pink and all the participants were wearing white housecoats. For some reason i had to walk by this event and i put on a housecoat to blend in. I don't remember if i was noticed as an impostor mom and chased or if i wasn't noticed and was able to pass through. In any case, as i was walking by, the steps were these raised, cylindrical platforms that might have had some gaps between them (imagine one of the 1960s tv shows where a musical group is playing and each person is on a different platform...kind of like those) and when i was at the top of these "stairs" i looked out over the mall and it was like a cathedral...but multiplied by hundreds of times. It was still a mall, with mall-like atmosphere, but cavernous, sort of, like some cathedrals. A kind of quiet, but only slightly eerily quiet dream. Lots of white, everywhere. Bland, kind of, like malls.
3. A dream about being in a school (i think it was a high school?) with a few people i knew getting ready to go to an assembly or concert in the gymnasium. While waiting we were trying to make phone calls (i think?) and for some reason we couldn't use the payphones properly and then we started looking through the phones somehow (not just the change dispenser...maybe we were just looking on top) and found lots of change (lots? well, maybe five dollars in coins). Some people from work were hanging out around the payphones as well as Greg Macpherson. It was a bustling, happy dream.
May 8, 2011 at 9:04am
Two dreams i recall from last night:
1. Swimming in a huge lake (possibly a sea?) under a somewhat cloudy sky and in greyish-brown waters with thousands of people, and there were many balloons. Some of the balloons had lost a lot of their air. The people were playing with the balloons, batting them about or holding them underwater and then letting them get sucked out of the water by buoyancy and pop up into the air. While i was trying to do just that, i realized i was being followed by people i knew, i one of them in a wheelchair being pushed by another. The feet rests of the wheelchair were being pushed into me from behind in a joking way as i was mostly underwater trying to get the balloon to pop up out of the water. I was walking around and they followed me. They thought i knew what they were doing and thought it was a game but then i pretended to someone else i didn't even realize there was a person in a chair being pushed into me. It was a mostly happy dream.
2. On Main Street near the Safeway and Extra Foods (although in my dream the east and west sides of the street were flipped around...this might not make sense, but so were north and south; that probably seems like nothing was flipped, but trust me, they were) i was at a bus stop changing my clothes or putting on clothes...or maybe just putting on a necklace. Then i somehow noticed in a mirror (i was suddenly inside for a few seconds in a house, in a bedroom i think, a house with dark wood and a kind of antique feel) that the necklace i put on was a silver chain with a massive silver heart (only a little smaller than a basketball) as a pendant hanging on my chest. Then as i became aware of my entire outfit i realized i was dressed in a skirt, a blouse and i can't remember if i was wearing shoes, or what kind they were if i was. I was dressed femininely, and for some reason was wearing this dark blue-green tuque i have. I saw beside me on the bus bench a pair of jeans i haven't worn in approximately a year or so and i was thinking i should get out of the feminine clothes and into my regular clothes when a guy passing by crossing the street seriously commented on how attractive i was and i kind of ignored him and kind of laughed and kind of tried to figure out how i was going to change in such a public area. At first i thought he was attracted because he thought i was a woman, then i realized he was attracted because i was a man in feminine clothing. Then he started coming back and i thought that i really wanted to change into my regular clothes.
1. Swimming in a huge lake (possibly a sea?) under a somewhat cloudy sky and in greyish-brown waters with thousands of people, and there were many balloons. Some of the balloons had lost a lot of their air. The people were playing with the balloons, batting them about or holding them underwater and then letting them get sucked out of the water by buoyancy and pop up into the air. While i was trying to do just that, i realized i was being followed by people i knew, i one of them in a wheelchair being pushed by another. The feet rests of the wheelchair were being pushed into me from behind in a joking way as i was mostly underwater trying to get the balloon to pop up out of the water. I was walking around and they followed me. They thought i knew what they were doing and thought it was a game but then i pretended to someone else i didn't even realize there was a person in a chair being pushed into me. It was a mostly happy dream.
2. On Main Street near the Safeway and Extra Foods (although in my dream the east and west sides of the street were flipped around...this might not make sense, but so were north and south; that probably seems like nothing was flipped, but trust me, they were) i was at a bus stop changing my clothes or putting on clothes...or maybe just putting on a necklace. Then i somehow noticed in a mirror (i was suddenly inside for a few seconds in a house, in a bedroom i think, a house with dark wood and a kind of antique feel) that the necklace i put on was a silver chain with a massive silver heart (only a little smaller than a basketball) as a pendant hanging on my chest. Then as i became aware of my entire outfit i realized i was dressed in a skirt, a blouse and i can't remember if i was wearing shoes, or what kind they were if i was. I was dressed femininely, and for some reason was wearing this dark blue-green tuque i have. I saw beside me on the bus bench a pair of jeans i haven't worn in approximately a year or so and i was thinking i should get out of the feminine clothes and into my regular clothes when a guy passing by crossing the street seriously commented on how attractive i was and i kind of ignored him and kind of laughed and kind of tried to figure out how i was going to change in such a public area. At first i thought he was attracted because he thought i was a woman, then i realized he was attracted because i was a man in feminine clothing. Then he started coming back and i thought that i really wanted to change into my regular clothes.
May 7, 2011 at 3:33pm
I had this dream last night where i continuously found old, available video cameras. At first, i found a few at a garage sale (in the dream it was afternoon); one had wood paneling. Apparently there was a part from a sewing kit (i think that's what it was) that fit with the video camera, but didn't fit quite right, some kind of tilted stand. I didn't buy any there. Later (nighttime in dreamtime), while walking in a back alley i found video cameras put out with people's garbage and recycling, and i decided to take one or two of those. For some reason though, i felt the need to attempt to remain out of sight but was very anxious of being seen through the back windows of houses and then made a mad dash over hedges and fences and through front yards with the cameras.
May 6, 2011 at 9:28am
Had this dream that AC/DC was onstage and they couldn't remember how to play "Dirty Deeds" so i jumped up on stage to show them and totally messed it up and ended playing a really bad version of "Smoke on the Water."
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