This post encompasses dreams from Sunday, May 29, 2011 up to Tuesday, June 7, 2011.
As a result of not recording the dreams the day they occurred, most of these dreams will be posted as not much more than the notes i took during the night.
SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2011
(went to bed the night before at 1:50am, not in a good mood but not terrible; felt like a bit of a wasted day)
2:38am
Sleepy...sort of real life...Relationships? How real? Mom and dad judging something.
4:33am
How to build an atomic bomb
7:07am
1. I was living in a place that was a combination of my apartment and my parents' house. Looking out their front windows (which looks out onto the yard and street) and out of one of my bedroom windows (which looks onto the next house) i saw it was raining so much (or possibly flooding so much) that the water on the ground was more than a few feet high. On looking out again, not long after, the water was at the edge of the windowsill. I was running around the house, possibly with other people (family members?), worried and trying to figure out what to do and how to help and how to make sure the water couldn't get into the house. Just as water started seeping in quickly through the bottom of the windowpane i started shoving towels and other cloths (blankets maybe?) around the edge of the window. A somewhat high-anxiety dream. Sky outside overcast and dark lighting in the dream.
2. The setting was a bright afternoon at a lake combined with close to the south side of the Osborne bridge. There were lots of rocky outcrops, and people were jumping off into the lake/Assiniboine River. The event was either a wedding social or some sort of pre-wedding gathering for a couple whose wedding social i attending about a month back. One member of the couple almost fell while hanging out near the edge of a rocky area.
3. (This dream happened just before the next one. According to my notes, its not clear if the dreams blended into one another or were two separate dreams.)
A family member and i are watching a horror movie and there is a scene with lots of spiders. Then there is one huge spider. (typing this dream up right now i recall wooden slat walls and a red-brick fireplace and chimney). Then the spiders are real, and we're no longer watching a movie. The spiders now want to lay their zombie eggs. There is a bright, overcast afternoon sky. Sky is auburn-white.
4. (This may have been the dream i had just before waking up.)
Zombie Apocalypse. The sky is overcast and whitish-grey. Boy and Girl used to be together. She is a zombie. He is not a zombie. He goes somewhere near her house (she may have been a daughter of the millionaires). They talk, but she's ready to eat him. She kisses his hand but then bites his finger--not that hard though, and he frees his hand. Although he had brought a gun along, he then grabs a shovel away from her and uses it to cut off her head. But, she remains "alive"..."partially"... They talk about what they'd do if they were human, and then begin having anal sex.
8:15am
Nothing remembered. (This was the note i made when i woke up.)
10:34am
Nothing recorded.
11:32am
Nothing recorded
MONDAY, MAY 30, 2011
(went to bed the night before at 1:19am. A little sick-ish. Some soreness. Didn't rest enough this weekend. Had a good night laughing and eating with friends.)
8:30am
1. Dreamt about pouring/drizzling soup onto salad.
2. Dreamt about Muppets.
3. I was working with an adult with developmental disabilities that i used to work with in real life. I was talking to one of their family members about working with them. (Then, here are the rest of my notes for the dream, exactly as i wrote them down.) ; taking pills; projectile vomiting then, an insect is born...either kill it (?) or let it live w/ medical help but it will have 2 heads.
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011
(went to bed the night before at 11:30pm. A little sick-ish. Had some good talking this night. Not sure what i want. Don't want to go to work tomorrow because i want to rest, not because of any particular job.)
3:23am
1. (This was the dream before waking up. What i typed here are almost exactly the notes i wrote.)
Break and enter. Keys, no alarm. Looks like grandma and grandpa's basement. Keys... dog barking. Lock door? write note? get out!...wake up
2. A friend comes over to visit me. I'm at mom and dad's house, or is it my place? How old am i? My friend doesn't recognize me, asking, "How do i know you?"
3. Something about mountain climbing? Bright? Snow?
4. I am working at the home of two adults with developmental disabilities i used to support in real life and one other person. The house is one i worked at with the two individuals i know in real life, but it looks different in the dream; it looks like it's from the 1970s. (The first two, in real life, had a third housemate, but in the dream it wasn't clear if the third individual was someone that housemate.) There are at least four other staff in the dream. One staff is super relaxed, but totally aware (at a different house i worked at in real life, there was one staff who was like this). Lots of hot food is in the oven. I want to eat. I ask casually, "Should we put the food out now or later?" Other people say, "Later." The manager walks by (?) talking about one of the individuals needing to go to a meeting at the company's head office. The individual needs a staff to go with them. I say i will go with the other individual (so, i am going with the two individuals i know in real life). The relaxed staff says it is good i am going with both individuals. All three individuals are male (for sure the two i know in real life, very probably the third individual as well), the staff are all male, the manager might be female, and the manager might have been the real life manager at a different house than the two individuals i know from real life.
5:55am (possibly 5:33am or 5:35am or 5:53am...my notes are a bit messy)
1. (This is the dream i had before waking up.)
I got two sappy moving out cards from a family members. One (or both?) said (or gave the impression of saying?), "You can rely on me."
2. Everyone from my grade at my real life high school is in my backyard for a (high school?) graduation party.
3. (The second half of the notes for this dream make no sense to me. I will write them exactly when that part comes...)
I am at my parents' place in their backyard, and there are lots of dogs there. Patches, our family dog who was put down a few years ago comes. Everyone is nervous she will escape in the commons. (The commons? What does that mean? So, that's where my notes start not making sense to me...and here is more, exactly as the notes read.) Johnny Cash shoveled there. Toy called a cat's...trick people into thinking you're sick.
4. Kermit, winter, River Heights.
7:20am
(Typing this dream now i remember the second half fairly well, barely the first part.)
1. The lighting is dark. I'm at my parents' place and a family gathering is going on. In the dream i'm dating somebody who had been eating a lot of curry recently in the dream, but still eats it when it is offered at my parents'. The person i'm dating doesn't like it when i always tell her how i like her or flirt with her. There are also two younger aboriginal sisters, one of whom is very young, a cute kid, who is sitting in a rocking chair. I think the family gathering is a Christmas one. Almost everyone is in the dining room, some people are walking around. Suddenly i'm lying in the living room, and i have a girlfriend or fiancée who is from a part of the world i can't identify (in the dream i wasn't thinking about it, but when i woke up and wrote my notes and now when i try to correctly place ethnic heritage i have no idea) but is somewhere in the Near/Middle East (i think). She reads to me from a book, different books all the time, since i am paralyzed in the hospital (or the living room floor?). She loves me even though i'm paralyzed. "I read something from you today." (I think she said that.) "New or old?" (I think she said that, maybe i did.) Then she said something else which i couldn't remember when i woke up.
2. Parents' basement. Looking for a hanger.
8:30am wake up for the day. Stiff, want to sleep more. Fairly good mood.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2011
(went to bed the night before at 12:50am after jamming with a friend, after seeing the movie "Jane Eyre" at the cinema; in a contemplative mood, not so tired)
6:09am
No notes
7:13am
I am closing the store i work at in real life. Either someone wants to buy, or for some reason i'm looking for a visor, but the store doesn't have one. But in the dream we stocked white and neon yellow costumes in the back for mannequins. The store doesn't seem to have any of the items people want. When i return (after doing...?) a customer had accidentally wiped off the staff white board.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2011
(went to bed the night before at 1:40am; feeling a good feeling; feeling homesick but not for a place)
8:30am (woke up by my alarm for the day)
1. Something about cheaper prices? Getting something on sale. Sunny, summer dream.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2011
(to bed 12:40am, after coming home from a friend's concert and going for a walk down Osborne. Feeling fairly good, confused, uncertain)
7:38am
1. Something about music and the friend i saw perform in real life last night (they were playing? or i was jamming with them?) I'm wearing a green, Walking Time Bomb shirt with holes in it. I'm getting ready to leave someone's house. I pack up a cardboard box and tie it shut. I look for the pants and sweater i wore in real life last night when i went out.
2. I'm on a vacation somewhere, staying in a hotel/cabin/beach house. My room is connected to others, they're not separate cabins. My bathroom has a window that looks out onto a beach. It's later afternoon, still sunny, but about to become the evening. There are palm trees outside. A group of three-four middle-aged women are in the room next door, and somehow see me through an irregularly-placed window in my bathroom where i'm showering. Then, there is a narrator shot of the resort from the side opposite the side facing the beach, pulling away slowly from the resort. The sky is now a bit overcast, it is windy, and maybe about to rain. Palm trees are swaying.
3. I'm traveling in a huge city with gigantic skyscrapers. In the dream it may have been Toronto or Los Angeles or a combination. It's a bright sunny, late afternoon. I think people are coming home from work. Rush hour. Streets packed with cars.
8:30am wake up for the day with my alarm, feeling stiff, and sleepy.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2011
(went to bed around 4am--maybe later or earlier--at a friend's house after going out and then coming back and watching the first two episodes of "30 Rock". A good night. Feeling good.)
Wake up around 10am? Feeling good
1. I'm working at a store on Osborne which is a store like Brave New World (the actual store in Winnipeg, not the book) but sort of combined with the store i actually work at. There are lots of "exotic", "eastern-inspired" clothes hanging all over the store. I see a customer come in, a bigger, heavy-set man, maybe in his 30s, with a backpack. As i start walking towards him from the back of the store to say, "Hi," i see him take a movie from a bin near the front of the store and put it in his back, right pocket. I then think, "I will calmly go and talk to him and not let him know i am aware he's trying to steal and i will get between him and the door." Then, doing the opposite of what i just thought, i holler, "SHOPLIFTER!" He replies, "Oh, sorry, i have to go now," very politely, but with wide eyes, and bolts out of the store as i dash after him. I open the door and point at the run away shoplifter hollering loudly, "SHOPLIFTER! SHOPLIFTER!" and a passing pedestrian tries to grab him but he gets away and runs across the street into another store. The pedestrian apologizes for being unable to stop them and i say it's OK it's not their fault and keep screaming my head off in the doorway to our store, "SHOPLIFTER! MOTHER FUCKING SHOPLIFTER! GOD DAMN SHOPLIFTER!!!" Then i go out with some friends, and when i return to the store i remember i didn't lock it, or turn off the lights, or lock up the till. I am talking with my friends about what are the qualities of a good boss and one of my friend says, '"They'll always remember the Empire." (They may have used some other powerful term like that...Dominion, Kingdom, Castle...In the dream, the Empire is a fancy and expensive restaurant. In the dream, "They'll always remember the Empire," meant, "No matter what a boss does that is bad, they can always make up for it by taking employees to the Empire. People will forgive anything for a night at that place.)
SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2011
(to bed at 1:46am; tired, stiff feet; a bit of an "unknown"--ie. not sure what to do, what's going on--attitude; had fun today; happy to be myself)
8:05am
1. (These are basically my notes, no idea what they mean.) Someone and photos. Zoom in. Not hungry, just not going to bathroom much.
2. (This felt like it was a very significant dream.) I was at a family gathering for my family and someone else's family and we were there as a couple. People from both families were kind to both of us, but with a bit of a gentle nervousness about how to act. Someone from my family asked, "How was that Catholic thing?" and someone from the other person's family asked, "How are you?" in Low German. The same person who talked to me in Low German asked a question about breaking glasses à la a story i was told years ago about someone who was trying to slice a bun and when the knife broke the crust it hit a drinking glass and cleanly sliced off the top of the glass with no broken glass.
3. Dream about going to jail.
4. (My notes suggest this is a different dream than dream 3, but it seems like they could've been the same dream.) I am being interrogated by two men after being imprisoned. There are three other people there, one of whom is on my real life soccer team. We are all being water tortured, and verbally abused, but there is not much if any physical abuse (i know water torture is physical abuse), but the captors are very threatening. I didn't quite understand why i am in jail, but it has to do with two different people i had relationships with in real life. I get out of jail (i don't know how, i think the dream just shifted) and it is nighttime in summer, on either Maryland or Sherbrooke Street and traffic is going both ways (although in real life these streets are one way streets, beside one another). I see a car being driven backwards. I also see a tank. I was arguing with the interrogators.
10:30am wake up with my alarm dream-thinking to myself "This is the perfect time with alarm to wake up" but feeling like i still really needed to sleep.
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2011
(to bed 12:17am; feeling emotionally harder, re: I watched the movie "Appaloosa" before bed; what to do? want day off work)
7:25am
1. I'm at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, walking from the campground parking lot down a path into the campground. In the bushes are lots of old blueberries, raspberries and pieces of honeydew melon that have been thrown there and are rotting. Someone i dated a long time ago is there (suddenly in like a sports locker room with a team in there, but it is still outside at Folk Fest) and they are talking about having a miscarriage with a baby boy, and had been planning to name him. She later talked about it (in the dream) at some public place like Sunday School, or school? soccer?
2. An elderly family member is sitting outside alone, tired. Snow is falling and a sibling of that elderly family member and i are talking about them. It is a bit of a sad dream.
3. Riding a bus to the Forks.
8:30am wake up for the day with alarm; stiff, sore (right side of neck, left foot); want to sleep; tried to recall dreams but they all flew away
TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011
(to bed 1:28am; feeling pretty good; a bit antagonistic; had band practice earlier, then went back to work where i got a haircut; bought a pizza after and walked home and ate pizza while walking; watched an episode of "Buffy" before bed)
7:23am (woke up a bit earlier and rolled around in bed but didn't look at clock)
1. (Don't remember this at all although it was this morning. Here are my notes.) Work? Cake? Getting somewhere on time? Two people (someone from work and their child). Arriving somewhere? House?
2. (This was the dream i had before waking up.) Looking at photos on Facebook. I am looking at someone's photo album that has pictures of a disparate group of people. (Disparate such that in real life i wouldn't see any of them, or very unlikely, and almost none of them know each other--as far as i know.) There are people from the camp i worked at, from both universities i went to, from conferences i attended as a teenager. They are all artists now (in the dream). The pictures are of all of them on the Assiniboine River (or nearby? on a beach?) playing guitar, maybe having a bonfire (?). Something about moving; a house is being gutted, or was gutted, to be one big room. Some of the pictures are summer pictures. Sunny, blue skies.
8:30am wake up with alarm
1. Picking a movie with others to watch out on the lawn at my house. People are leaning towards wanting to watch "Zoolander" but we watched it last time. (Which is actually true, that is the movie we watched last time on the lawn.)
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