What have you been dreaming about lately?

[Menolly]

I was wondering why I saw you sign off messenger around 6:30 am my time. I didn't realise you were on...

[[Syl]]

I had my third lucid dream in less than two months the other night. Chantix (I fell off the wagon a while back) and melatonin seem to increase the rate of occurrence. The first one seemed to be all about color. Everything was so vivid. For someone who isn't even sure his normal dreams have more than vague images, much less color at all, this is kind of huge. The second one was brief and was more about control (I was consciously changing the colors and patterns on a picture I was looking at). This last one, which I remember most clearly, obviously, I was wandering through a large house, almost like a tower, going through rooms and up stairs. This one was more about detail. At one point, I stopped to look at the spines of some books on a shelf. I don't recall reading any titles, but I do remember the texture of the binding and the tooling and inlays. It's too bad most of the furniture and the walls were a very plain, ugly white. Ah, to go back a little bit, I actually ended up there by following this guy. He was like a shaman, if you can imagine Jonathan Davis from Korn as a shaman. We were walking with these women, and I guess he wanted to be alone with them, so he diverted me into this house/tower that just seemed to go on forever. Once I realized that, I realized I was dreaming, and... I guess I got bored looking around after a while, so I just opened up a window into the 'real' world on the shaman guy. He didn't seem surprised about it, just kind of laughed. I climbed down through this window, and I think we just sat and talked for a bit before I woke up.

Next time, I think I'd like to explore the scope of the world a bit more.

And Jenn:

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

[aliantha]

Jenn, your dream-sister sounds like a gigantic doink. Thank the gods there *is* such a thing as "chosen family". (Yeah, I know, it was just a dream. Still.)

[Cameraman Jenn]

I know, she was horrible. I think that it was emotional overload with Seafest and Julie's wedding back to back. I also find it difficult that my blood family is so distant and estranged. I'm pretty sure it was brought on by Mike's family telling me how much they loved me and how happy they were that I am now a part of their lives and I feel like my own family would never even talk if I didn't initiate it. I also welcomed Mike into my chosen family during my toast at their wedding and later his Mom was telling me that my toast was amazing and she loved that her family was now my chosen family and that I was now her daughter. It was definitely overload. That and the fact that my blood family was like, "Oh that's nice, your best friend got married, no, don't bother sending pictures, we don't need to see." It's like all my family has these insular pockets around them and they let me in the flap occasionally but only if I insist. I guess that's why I live in SF with my chosen family and NOT my blood family.

[Seareach]

I dreamed last night (well, this morning really) about lobotomies. I wasn't being lobotomized (which I guess is a good thing) but I think, if I remember correctly, I was lobotomizing others...or they were being lobotomized in front of me. I woke up all sweaty and thinking "um...yeah...ok".

[CovenantJr]

The night of my house-moving I didn't sleep at all. My right shoulder ached viciously, and frequently sent stabs of pain along my arm, all the way to the wrist. I also got a dehydration headache, because it was the hottest day so far this year.

Anyway, the point is, I lacked dreams.

Then, last night, I had one. I dreamed I was marrying a vague acquaintance from Bangor. And I don't mean I dreamed I was engaged; I actually dreamed the entire day of the wedding. It was long and strange.

I have no idea where that one came from.

[Cameraman Jenn]

I woke from a bad dream. I dreamed I was fleeing horseback on Firecracker. Firecracker is an actual horse that I have ridden in real life. She belongs to a childhood friend. Anyway I dreamed I was being pursued and then I was caught by the Dothraki only they looked alot like I imagine Theon Greyjoy to look and Reek and oddly Jorah Mormont (thanks GRRM) and they pulled me off my horse by the hair and forced me to ride back piggybacked on the back of one of their horses and even though they were supposed to be Dothraki in my head, suddenly the guy I was riding behind had waist long hair unbound and it kept flicking in my eyes. Then they stopped at camp and debated all these horrible fates for me and then decided to throw me in the "living" barn. I wasn't sure what that meant until we got there and it was a barn teeming with gypsy moths. I mean full of em. Literally one big full bim of teeming crawling writhing gypsy moths. So they threw me in through the hayloft and I could feel my body weight squishing and popping them on my way down and feel the squirts of them on my skin and I was determined not to open my mouth and scream because they were all over my face, literally drowning in gypsy moths writhing against me, and then I could not hold it in any more and I had to scream and they got in my mouth and I woke up.

[danlo]

That's bizarre. Last night I dreamed I was Iron Man, however I had not mastered all my suit's gadgets. I was living in New Jersey and had to respond to an emergency in Manhattan. Since I couldn't figure out how to fly, yet, I had invented a very fast vehicle called the doohickey with impulsers on every side-it about as big as a golf cart, zipped off walls nicely but was a little too bouncy on railroad tracks and very scary next to semis.

The traffic got congested so I took an empty off ramp into one of the funkiest neighborhoods in the city. While I was looking at a sign that seemed very familiar, about 12 stories up on a dilapidated building the doohickey struck a trash can causing my suit to jet me 10 stories up and through the wall of said building. I was knocked out and when I came to I was naked and a bunch of thugs were looking at pieces of my armor trying to figure out how things worked I said, "You idiots, nothing really works unless the whole suit is put together." So I knocked all 6 of them out, reclaimed the armor, but couldn't find the legs or the helmet.

I searched up 2 stories where I finally came to a very dusty workshop and saw the sign out the window which said TAD, and then my father spun around in a chair from a workbench with a Dr's mirror strapped on his head a jeweler's microscope in his eye and said the legs are in the other room. The sign made sense now that those were my Dad's initials. In the other room, on a bed, I found two pairs of costume pants one was blue and red and the other gold and red. Perhaps sensing I was confused, my Dad yelled, "We deflated them, but they'll work once you but them on." So, for some reason, I tried on the blue red ones and nothing happened. Then my Dad said, "Oh those belonged to this conceited alien and they only work if you have superpowers, which you don't."

"Belonged?" I said, "So you guys killed Superman?!", to which he replied, "Yeah he was easy, you think too much...so we may just toy with you for awhile...", I freaked and slapped on the gold and red pants and found a switch for the flying mechanism and since I barely new how to power the mechanism I found myself at about 20 mph smashing off the walls and running down the hall and down the stairs to where I smashed through the building. I spent the rest of the dream running and flying and missing the hole, didn't have enough power to create my own, and awoke with a headache.

[Cameraman Jenn]

That's a bizarre dream. Red and gold pants? That would make you GAY in SF. Now my world is really messed up. Danlo is a red and gold sporting cowboy and Cail is a yogurt downing metrosexual. I need to go back to bed. I was up at four. The upside is I talked to Aliantha on the phone. But I didn't actually get back to sleep until about eight am.

[High Lord Tolkien]

Ok, here's my latest.

I'm looking down upon a winding rolling (rapids) river.
It curves away from me from from left to right.
In the middle is a rock formation with holes in it.
To my right is Avatar and we're talking about the revolution that we're involved in.
I ask him if they have rivers like this in SA.
Just then we're at ground level to the river and several men come in against the stream on these little boats that look like Red Rider snow sleds made of rock with inflatable pontoon sides.
I say out loud that that was crazy because one bump against the shore and the rock part of the sled would kill them.
It doesn't happen.
As I'm watching it starts to rain and then the shore by the river becomes an underground cavern.
Avatar and I go up a rocky path to the street up above.
It's Boston around 1775.
And I'm Ben Franklin, or everyone thinks I'm him but I remember who I am from present day.
I'm wearing a long black trench coat which is good in the rain and is close enough to what the locals were used to seeing.
I make my way to a pub and get roughed up a little by some British guys looking for a fight.
I want a beer but remember that I don't have any present day money.
Someone buys me one anyway.
Then I'm in a room with some scientific equipment in it.
I'm asked to help solve a mystery.
Some kind of bullet killed someone and the man in the room is trying to reproduce the event with a miniature gun and some metal devices.
I find that I'm about to sneeze due to the cold and the rain and take some tissue paper (Kleenex) out of my pocket to blow my nose.
Someone makes note of the finery of the "handkerchief", I worry that I'll be discovered but cover myself by saying "It's from France"
The people in the room just nod knowingly and someone says "they make fine things in France"
Then I woke up.

[lurch]

Last nite I actually dreamed that my alarm clock went off and woke me up. The clock displayed 3:55a.m...then I really woke up and it was 10:34 pm. My first dream of the nite and I dream its next morning..wtf?

[Wyldewode]

I dreamed about babies last night. They were strange babies, though. There was some kind of military action against the mothers and fathers of these strange babies. . . and also the babies themselves. They are born weighing about 2-3 lbs, and look like human babies covered in fine fur (the fur eventually falls off when they are children). The babies of this species spend a great deal of time sleeping in a coma-like state (in my dream I knew that this was because of their greater brain development required a longer gestation period. . . only the last few months of gestation occur outside the womb). Anyhow, the babies must be fed a special solution that is secreted by the mothers. . . it is predigested and passes straight through the stomach of the baby and into the bloodstream.

So my friends and I knew that these babies were being hunted down for extinction. Our government had been overthrown in a coup, and the new president was adamant that these babies (and their parents) were a danger to our future. He believed that letting even one live would mean our race would wiped from the earth. Of course my friends and I didn't agree, and tried to shelter these babies. In the end my friends and the babies were all in a bunker, and the military had chased us to the deepest part of the bunker, and was ready to break down the door. I knew that my friends and I were as good as dead, along with the 15 or so babies that we were sheltering. When the door was broken down I woke up.

[Cameraman Jenn]

I dreamed I was in a glass bottomed boat and the waves were huge and we were nearly capsized by each wave and surrounded by poisonous sea snakes. I woke up at four and had to pee really bad and felt very unsettled. It's now five after five and I am going to try to go back to sleep. urgh.

[AjK]

Man, I wish I had cool/creative dreams like some of you folks. I don't know what I was dreaming but 2 nights ago I jerked my head and shoulder in my sleep and ended up pulling a muscle. As if I didn't feel old enough already. It has been a long journey from sports injuries to dream injuries. Sigh...

[Cameraman Jenn]

Apparently my weird dream wake up time has fixed itself in my system. I didn't have any weird dreams but I still woke up and have been unable to go back to sleep. Ugh

[lucimay]

last night i dreamed that i was at a family reunion in san francisco.

nevermind that everyone there was not related to me. they were family
all the same. syl was there, as was sorus, and kaehln (our wow friend who i've never even met), damelon was there, creator, creator's sister,
seareach and seasis with respective childrens who were running around like the little kids run around in wow (you know, the ones at the orphanages and at lakeshire and in lower city), aliantha and magicmaker were there, and cail and esmer were drinking beers together!! (yeah i swear!!) and plissken was there and bizarrely i'm pretty sure there was a band playing and drew was on drums and i think it was Sunbaneglasses on guitar and singing. also of note, my "old aunts" were meryl streep and lily tomlin.
all were having a great time when a gi-normous dragon attacked the city.
we watched through long floor-to-ceiling windows as he took out the top of a building with a breath of fire and a swipe of his claw.
we all ran for cover, everyone scattering ever which a way.
i think it was kaehln that helped me look for raymond. not the real raymond kitty who lives in my closet but my world of warcraft combat cat raymond!! suddenly i was doning Stalker's Chain armor and sharpening my crystal glowing sword.
somebody yelled "we need kysen! where's kysen?!"
then syl hollered at creator to "HEAL!!"
and Stormblaze (sorus) came roaring up the hall with Helena at her side!!!
then somebody said "we need to go down!! it's in the dungeon!!!"
so we all headed for the stairs and started running down the stairs...many many flights. we were pretty high up.
then the stairs went underwater like in towering inferno or posidon adventure or...Blackfathom Deep!! and i was cowering because i kept thinking my armor is gonna drown me
and kaehln said "no no there's air bubbles!! i swear!!"
and creator put a buff on me and told me to jump he'd be right behind me
and then we swam and swam and just when my was sure my lungs were going to burst we came out into the dungeon and sure enough, it was Blackfathom Deep.
and kysen was standing there with meryl streep and lily tomlin who were, yes...all decked out in matching Stalker Chain Mail!!!
and then i started laughing and woke myself up laughing!!

[Auleliel]

That sounds like a great dream, Lucimay. I enjoyed reading it. Seems like you're really into WoW.

[danlo]

I dreamed I was in San Francisco trying to sell my Envoy. It was parked facing downhill across from a big beautiful building that was sagging in the middle. I saw two men looking at the building and asked them if they knew anything about it. One guy said he was the owner and that the building has lost it's main support so it was about to be demolished. I suddenly figured out how to rectify the problem so I asked him how much he wanted for it and he said, "A buck, but I'd probably refund the poor bastard 5."

So I paid him the buck and used a series of I-beams and hydraulics to put the building back together. I sold six condos and made over 3 million dollars. Then Tam flew into town as was pissed I hadn't sold my car.

BTW Jenn Ironman Halloween costumes are of cheap material, like bad PJs, and are gold with red boots---little kids wear them. They turned back into manly armor when I put them on-why does everything have to be about sex with you!?

[Cameraman Jenn]

I had a dream that Lucimay was playing entirely too much World of Warcraft and she cancelled our laundry date in order to go on a quest and then she started dreaming regularly about WOW and then started to lose the line between reality and WOW.... oh wait.... that was real...

Danlo, it doesn't matter if it's a known superhero costume or not, wear it in SF and you will be thought of as GAY GAY GAY!!!! Now when are you gonna make those millions....

[Sorus]

@ Luci's post.

Gods, I needed that.

BFD, though..

Was I wandering in circles muttering about not being able to find the exits?