Dreams

[Bodhitree]

Last night I dreamt I was in a world where lots of people have superpowers. It was like one big party. Although I don’t remember much of the dream I woke up in a clear, positive mood, which to me usually means that I’ve had a good nights rest which has cleared away the cobwebs of the day to day. 

[Bodhitree]

I had a dream which was stretched out over several periods of sleeping, with some moments of wakefulness in between. It was a dream in which I was staying in a large house with several other people, some of whom were musicians. There was actual music being played in this dream, which is unusual for me. Anyway here I was sitting in an alcove separated from a large central space by a cloth hanging, and there was music in the central hall, when someone comes down from above and asks people whether “they can keep it down”. 

There were other segments in this house, which was large and kind of organically built with several wings. It reminded me of Rudolf Steiner’s school building the Goetheanum, with similar angles and decorations.

www.goetheanum.org

[zozo]

This morning I was dreaming that I was downstairs with my husband, but it was more like my old house with a through lounge, and was telling him that if i didn't have to work I would be at home cleaning. That I was going to clean and clean and have a lovely home instead of the grotty mess I'm in. He was protesting that he does do cleaning and I just wanted to laugh in his face, but I was trying not to start an argument over it, while making a point.
Then I was in the kitchen wearing just a pair of shorts and he answered the door to someone, which meant I had to kind of lean right into where I have my baking stuff and saucepans so that the people at the door didn't see me barely clothed. But he let them in because they had to wait for someone else in a car, and they went into the lounge which is where my drawers with clothes were. So I was a bit annoyed, made do by wrapping a tea towel around my chest and went in to get a top. I was going through my drawers thinking someone had messed them all up, they had been nicely organised, and I couldn't decide what top to wear. I really couldn't decide, I was worried whether I'd look nice, and was getting frustrated until I thought "you're wearing a tea towel, just choose anything it doesn't matter!"
Then I went upstairs into a bedroom that looked over the back garden, one of my kids was in there as well as a person I made a wedding cake for once. I saw a bird fly down and land on some railing around a deck in my small enclosed garden and it was a large bird of prey. So I called my daughter to look quickly, and we pulled the net curtain back to get a clear look before it flew off.
And she said, "It's a goose".
And it was!
It was a large goose wearing a deerstalker and smart tartan, I think a waistcoat in navy. It jumped down onto the lawn, and I could see my husband through a downstairs window and was flapping my arms about to get his attention so he would look at this large smartly dressed goose.
It walked forward a few steps then stretched it's wings and shook it's feathers. As it shook, the tartan disappeared and it became bright white.
Then I woke up

[zozo]

When I was dozing this morning I dreamt that my dad phoned and said "I wanted to say I love you, you know". And it was like his voice was clear as anything in my ear.
It's the first time I've heard my dad say he loves me.
I wondered if maybe he was dying

[Bodhitree]

Sometimes dreams contain things we need to hear, even if they aren’t said in the waking world...

[zozo]

I had so many last night it's hard to untangle them, they included: eating half a large chocolate cake, followed by an invite to eat at a couple's - I think they were Chinese? all I could think was I've already eaten all that cake, I'm such a pig.
I jumped down some stairs, which went a bit wrong and I banged my elbow. I had to stand at the bottom and keep my arm still while I worked out if it was broken, it did swell up and was red.
When leaving work at some kind of offices somebody was injured by a man who was back flipping out of work. I said it wasn't the first time and I'd make sure I complained to the man who ran the sports club (which I did, it seemed like tennis though rather than gymnastics).
I was in high street, it was dark and emergency train gates had to come down, some army men had to run over and pull out these telescopic gates from a short orange bit. Two strange looking trains went by and we were all allowed to cross.
That's all I remember really.

[Bodhitree]

I had a dream that I owned an Indian restaurant that I know and sometimes go to. It was a very satisfying feeling, to be financially secure. I was sitting inside the Indian Palace doing accounts during the day, there were no customers. It’s quite a gaudy place, with statues and decorations everywhere. 

[snowstorm]

Nov 23, 2017 7:25:57 GMT Bodhitree said:

I had a dream that I owned an Indian restaurant that I know and sometimes go to.

I will put in an order for some dream Indian food...

[Bodhitree]

Haha, thank you!

Last night I had a dream where I was developing a computer game with a team. There were some office politics going on about control of the databases and so I went to the team leader to sort it out, I was in charge of the programming team.

Then there was another dream in which I was actually inside a game and searching for a sword. It was a cave with planked walkways and various obstacles to overcome, chasms and things. In the end I avoided the guards and got the sword!

And another dream in which I was in charge of a sinking ship, we were way out at sea in a big ocean liner and I was an officer of some type. I had given final instructions to the crew in the engine room and then I lit a red flare and popped it into my hat, which was supposedly the signal that they were allowed to finish their tasks and then desert their posts. I got out on deck and most of the ship was already under water, only a tiny bit was still sticking out, there were other people there. So I climbed. Then just as the last part was going under I made a big jump and was going to land in the water when I grabbed hold of the mast of another ship. When I climbed down onto its deck I noticed all sorts of refugees, and nobody knew what they were doing, the helmsman was sailing the ship in circles...

So all in all a busy night with lots of dreaming.

[snowstorm]

I find the level of recall of the dreams mentioned in this thread amazing.

There are also the recurring themes of adventure/work/technology in your dreams, kerome. Must mean something?

Bit of a contrast to a Thai Forest Monk

[zozo]

The main dream last night was that I had two snakes inside my body. I can't remember now how they got there, I was responsible though, and I think they were in my womb. I could feel them squirming about, and i was bearing down trying to birth them out but it wasn't working. I thought about birth and that in labour your cervix dilates to let the baby out, but I wasn't in labor so the snakes would be trapped. No matter how much I pushed I was getting nowhere and was getting worried about having to get help.

[Bodhitree]

Nov 24, 2017 18:21:37 GMT snowstorm said:

I find the level of recall of the dreams mentioned in this thread amazing.

There are also the recurring themes of adventure/work/technology in your dreams, kerome. Must mean something?

Bit of a contrast to a Thai Forest Monk

Thanks, I’ve noticed that since I’ve been keeping a record of my dreams that my recall has become a lot clearer. I used to always think I dreamt no more than a few times a year, because those were instances where I had clear memories, so I’m surprised I turn out to dream very regularly. I actually have strong visual recall of images from the dreams, so my memories actually contain a lot more detail than I’m putting down here. 

Yes, I’ve noticed the themes. My dreaming self for a few years has been dreaming about work situations and adventures, I’m not quite sure why except that I’ve been out of work and anxious over that, and the adventures hark back to computer games and board games I’ve played since I was a teen. But not the last few years, so again, maybe my dreams are compensating for a lack of something in my day to day life?

[snowstorm]

It's interesting that you can remember even more detail than you write about. The dream pictures must be very vivid.
If I have a concern it can pop up in a dream but it's unusual for me to remember exactly what happened unless it's a repetitive dream, have had some of those.

[Bodhitree]

It’s been a while since i recorded a dream... last night I dreamt that I was confronted by an evil spirit in the form of a set of bone remains of a human body on a stick, and that I was grinding it down in a kind of giant mortar and pestle. It was a dream with an unusual amount of conflict in it, a bit like the previous night’s dream, where a cloud of blackness, also a manifestation of evil, was being absorbed by a thin metal strand that came from the earth.

It’s funny because on another site I have been writing about whether it makes sense to have good and evil as part of one’s worldview... that it kind of came with religion and took on a life of its own but that in fact they are both hollow shells, a projection of something that doesn’t exist, evil being partially a shock reaction at anger or malice or animalistic danger and good being related to love and family and caring community. It doesn’t help to typify things as good and evil, it prevents you from clearly seeing what they are. 

[zozo]

Interesting dream Kerome

Last night I had a long dream about someone I miss and loved.