Dream 045 – family, injuries, over-reacting

This one was short, but it had some resemblance to plot.

*start of dream*

I am outdoors with many family members, young and old. Everyone is running around having a nice time, but we’re also falling down a lot. There are many scrapes and bruises that need minor first aid.

I fall and skin a large section of skin off my left shin. The scraped section was bright red, but not bleeding. Still, it’s sore and I apply a large bandage to protect it.

While I’m taking care of my leg, I see that one of my younger nephews takes a huge fall. He must have hurt himself, but he shrugs it off. Then my sister goes over to him and starts yelling at him about something he said earlier. My sister is in tears because her feelings were hurt and my nephew just stands there and listens to her tirade. Another family member comes to stand next to me as we watch and we start commenting to each other about how this little kid can so easily brush off a terrible fall, but a grown adult can’t shrug off something said by a young child.

*end of dream*

Dream 044 (mini-dream) – a vacation, a website, cake

I think I need to re-evaluate my caffeine strategy. Over the past couple of months, I found that upping my caffeine during the day made my dreams more vivid. Now, I think it’s having the opposite effect. I’ve been back from vacation for about a week and my dreams are sub-standard. I’m having mini-dreams at best, which breaks my little dreaming heart.

*start of dream*

I’m standing in a bedroom with a friend. Her belongings are scattered across a bed. She’s packing for a vacation of some sort. She hadn’t told me that she was going away and I try to hide my disappointment because I was hoping to invite her to something (can’t remember what). I know she needs this get-away, so I tell her that I hope she gets a lot of rest while she’s gone.

I then turn my attention to helping someone build a website. He’s picked a strange format of leading with text and putting pictures at the end. I tell him that’s like baking a cake and once it has been eaten, you announce “Hey! I have icing too!”

*end of dream*

Dream 043 (mini-dream) - Impostor!

I’m back! I was away on vacation. Yes I had some dreams. No, I didn’t write them down. Sorry, but it was a vacation from everything.

So now I’m back and all I have to show for it is a strange mini-dream.

*start of dream*

I’m standing in the kitchen in my mom’s house. My mom’s putting things away in the cupboard. Then my mom walks into the kitchen. (Huh?) Okay, it’s my mom again or is it a copy of my mom? I know one is real and one is an impostor. My gut tells me which one is my real mom. I wasn’t able to decide what to do about the impostor before I woke up.

*end of dream*

Dream 042 – a dream within a dream – numbers, a friend, water plants

This one was interesting to say the least.

*start of dream*

I’m sitting with a friend who I see fairly often. He’s telling me that on Wednesday he’ll be paid $20. He keeps on repeating the numbers 4, 5 and 20.

I wake up (within the dream) and realize that I was dreaming. I was sleeping on a bed in my Mom’s house. A friend who I haven’t seen in a couple of years is sitting at the foot of the bed. She tells me that she was downstairs visiting with some other friends and decided to come up and see me. She gives me a hug.

Then I notice that people are arriving to the house. I go halfway down the stairs to watch the front door. My Dad walks in, followed by one of my nephews. My Dad looks straight at me and smiles widely before walking on through to the kitchen and out of sight.

I go back up the stairs to the bathroom, where my Mom is running water in the sink. I tell her that either I am dreaming or that something has happened. (This is because I know my Dad can’t really be there.) My Mom tells me that this is not a dream. I open the medicine cabinet and pull out one of many pill bottles. I try to read the label, but it’s in gibberish. I tell my Mom that this must be a dream because I can’t read the bottle. She responds that it’s in Italian.

As I start to wake up, I see a patch on green water plants floating on the surface of some water. It’s raining.

*end of dream*

Dream 041 – Dodge Shadow, no brakes, hoarding

I'm not sure where this one came from. I was as puzzled when I woke up as I was during the dream

*start of dream*

I’m standing just outside of a building near my mom’s house. I’m waiting for a ride. My sister and her husband pull up in my Mom’s old white Dodge Shadow. I immediately ask her where she got the car and she tells me that she kept it after Mom got rid of it. But then I asked her whether she was supposed to use it as a trade-in. Yes, she responds, but she couldn’t bear getting rid of it so she’s been parking it in a lane way a couple of blocks away from her house so Mom wouldn’t know.

Next she informs me that I’ll need to drive, but I should be warned that the brakes are really bad (or non-existent). I’m really not comfortable with this plan and tell her that the car shouldn’t be on the road. She agrees with me and says that’s why she left her kids at home.

My brother-in-law starts giving me a hard time about me not wanting to drive and he goes off on a rant about world politics and history. I start ranting back at him that it’s insane that not only is this the same car I used to do my driving tests when I was a teenager, but that my sister is a pack-rat and he’s letting her hoarding flow out into the neighborhood.

*end of dream*

Dream 040 – a restaurant, a blue bird, A.F.

This dream didn’t have much plot, but it was vivid for the décor.

*start of dream*

I’m in a fancy restaurant. It’s moderately busy. I’m sitting towards the middle of the restaurant with a man that I don’t know. I look up and notice that the farther you look up, the more the ceiling transitions into a canopy of trees. The trees are decorated with little white lights, and it’s very beautiful.

I notice a large tropical bird sitting in a tree above us. It’s blue in colour and has long feathers extending off its tail. Just by looking at the bird, I know that it’s lost and the bird’s owner goes by the initials “A.F.” It had flown out the window from its owner’s place across the street, and came to make a new home in the trees of the restaurant.

The man reachs up and extends his hand towards the bird. The large bird morphs into a little blue bird about the size of the chickadee, perches itself on the man’s fingers and begins chirping.

*end of dream*

Dream 039 – classroom, presentation, office

This one didn’t make a lot of sense even as I was having it.

*start of dream*

I’m in a high school classroom of about 10 or 15 people. There’s a teacher at the front of the room asking that we turn our attention to a guest lecturer. The guest lecturer then begins to tell us about her business and all the services that it offers. I’m bored. I have no use for these service (don’t remember what they were).

The presenter tries to make her pitch more interactive, so she starts asking the students questions about what she’s saying. I’m not paying attention, so when a question is asked to me, I ask the presenter to repeat the question. The teacher gets mad and yells at me for not listening. I tell the teacher that I have no need in any of these services. I also remind the teacher I’ve already graduated from high school, so there is no reason for me being here. I ask the teacher to be excused, but the teacher refuses. I then tell the teacher that I’ll send myself to the office.

I walk though a series of hallways and eventually find the office. I approach the counter, but the dream ends before I can speak with anyone.

*end of dream*