Dreams

[Bodhitree]

I had a long dream last night, it was about me mixing with various races which were conquering continents, leftover armies from a great disaster, shamanistic communications with animals, a king who was also an incarnation of death, kingly guards who could astral project, submarines, an underwater race with a kind of giant shark as pets... it was very epic. I don't remember much of the story but it was a rollercoaster, really impressive dream. 

It was all visually impressive too, like having my own private cinematographer doing dreams. It's all starting to evaporate in the morning but I can still visualise a few snippets, it was movie quality. 

[Bodhitree]

My dream last night was on a smaller scale, there was an inn and I was with a kind of wizardly father figure. He and I were in a large room, it was all in wood and plaster and old-style wooden furniture, it felt a bit medieval and the light sources were all candles and hearths, it appeared to be night. It was quite emotional, and on coming out of the dream I went through a series of half waking states where I was trying to find the truth of the dream, I was tossing and turning. 

Funny that i seem to remember dreams every two or three days

[snowstorm]

Have you watched any wizard movies lately?

[Bodhitree]

Sept 30, 2017 11:55:04 GMT snowstorm said:

Have you watched any wizard movies lately?

No but I've been familiar with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings from a pretty young age, it may well come from there. Or from a long acquaintance with Dungeons and Dragons where I always liked to play Wizard or Druid characters. It's obviously pretty deep in the psyche somewhere, but then I have to say my epic dreams also include all sorts of stuff. Although seeing a wizard as a father figure was a new one for me, I will say that. 

I talked to my mother about the dreams - she's a fairly down-to-earth but quite sharp lady, my mum - and her opinion was, "it's all clouds". So no more meaning than the interpretation that you give to what you see in the clouds in the sky. 

[Bodhitree]

I had some strong dreams this night. It started with a dream about watching tv, me and my mum and two rather sinister people I didn't know, a woman and a man. This woman wanted my mum to watch tv, and as she watched, a triangular patch of her face disappeared and instead become all fuzzy and grey, like out of focus.

Then there was a long dream about going to see an international football match, it was me and my mum and stepfather, we arrived by car and it was a funky terrain on multiple levels, the grass on the football fields was still being cut as we were looking for where the match was going to be played, I think it was in England. Eventually we found it and there was a refreshments shack alongside the field and a lot of other people.  

Then there was a third dream where I was in a strange house which was supposed to be mine, it was partially underwater and I was catching a lizard. First I had him chase a ball through some cloth until he swam around my body and I could grasp him, and then I put him in the bathtub from where he could be collected by the animal rescue people. 

Somewhere in there there was also a section about awakening. Somebody said, a trustworthy deep voice, "for this too is but a dream..." and another voice, more naive said, "he gave me a key". And then there was a feeling of changed alertness and a sensation of seeing, and a more sibilant, less well-meaning voice said something, and it all went dark. And there was something about a golden elixir. 

[Bodhitree]

I dreamt about being on a big space liner. I was an honoured guest because I was very smart, and there were a number of others like me on the liner, going to various places. I met some of them. One was working as a member of the staff, despite being very smart, and I invited him down to the planet which was my destination. As we got into the small two-person shuttle, I saw that at the back of the shuttle there was a mirror with in front of it two big stacks of baguettes, and I made a joke about liking a sandwich on the way down. 

[Bodhitree]

After a few nights of poor sleep and no dreams I had a lengthy dream last night. This one was about tidying up a dead man’s property, who owned a large library and this was kind of a treasure hunt, looking for things that were worth something. It was a large fairly modern space with stacks of shelves in sort of a 1980’s style, and I was looking for first editions. 

[Bodhitree]

So I had a dream in which my dad and me were on the road together. He was driving a car but the funny thing was these were all flying saucer-shaped cars... some were double saucers, one mounted on top of another. I remember getting a glance of the map, I think we were in Russia somewhere. 

[Bodhitree]

Last night I had a dream in which I was going to become a member of some sort of order dressed all in black, and I was running late for the big initiation ceremony. A lady had come to collect me, I think we were on board some sort of space station. 

[snowstorm]

Lots of space dreams, kerome, I don't think the truth is out there though...

[Bodhitree]

You’re right I’m not sure what it means... maybe that I’m in a phase of my life that is a bit disconnected from reality. Beautiful but a fantasy backed by a certain measure of technology and logic. It is all architecturally very nice though. Sort of Star Wars without the aliens. Whether the truth is out there - I think if you’re looking for truth in dreams you are on shaky ground regardless.

I had another dream a few hours ago, this one was of a very spacious and grand hotel with a big bookstore in the lobby, just the kind of place I like to visit to browse and have coffee in. I mostly remember that and being in the elevators, although I know there was more to the story.

[Bodhitree]

I had a dream last night the last part of which was about making soup... it’s prosaic but I enjoyed it, even though I was being quite neurotic. The early part was different but I don’t recall it.


I notice that if I sleep with a lorazepam I almost never remember any dreams. But for the rest my dream life seems to be quite rich and varied, though focused more on architecture and places rather than people. Perhaps that’s part of my character, I always have trouble remembering names of people.

[Bodhitree]

Another dream in which I was in Poland - somehow I knew it was there - I was at a train station with two friends boarding a train for the center of the capital city, we were already at some staging station just outside. There was lots of concrete and the trains were full of people, but there was almost nobody on the platforms. 

[Bodhitree]

This night I dreamt of Nazi’s. It was a dinner party out in the open air on the grounds of a castle, with some Nazi bigwig in uniform examining and puffing on some big cigars, and talking loudly about how expensive his cigars were. He said he was waiting to remortgage until after the invasion... it all looked quite 1940’s.

[snowstorm]

At least you weren't a Nazi yourself