Anyone else have a interesting dream lately?

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sat May 24, 2008 8:34 pm

This is my interesting dream. I found myself in a mental hospital only it looked like a cheesy funeral home with plastic potted plants. I told them that I was a social worker and wasn't supposed to be there. That didn't work. Then they told me that it was 1963. I knew that it was 2008 but I was smart enough to not tell them that. But I also knew there was a big difference in mental health from 1963 to 2008 so I had to get out of that place. I convinced them to let me prove my identity. So the staff and I drove all the way back to Pennsylvania and I had to figure out where my Mom was going to be in 1963 and get her to vouch for me without having her freak out that I was a middle aged man rather than a little baby. We didn't find her but I did get to see my hometown in 1963 and we stopped by the restaurant where my Mom was a waitress way before 1963. We had the daily special. They had the best mashed potatoes and gravy. Mom always said to order the daily special. Then I woke up. Whew.

Don't bother analyzing this or I'll start telling you more dreams to mess with you.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sat May 24, 2008 9:35 pm

Just the routine dream, most every night,
of working in the donut factory punching holes
in donuts.

Yeah, I know what it means, of course.
You would think my unconscious might
come up with something more subtle
for a change.

Sometimes I dream I'm
an engineer driving a train into a tunnel.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sat May 24, 2008 11:03 pm

Interesting. I used to have a repetitive dream about a giant train. It would rise up off its tracks and hunt me. Never could figure out why.

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Sun May 25, 2008 5:02 am

When I was younger I used to dream I was a sowing machine ,but as I have got older I now dream I'm one of those nodding donkey things.

RORY

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sun May 25, 2008 6:05 am

My dream is like Jim Stone's, except I had to put a cigar into each doughnut hole. And the doughnuts were hairy!
But I seemed to enjoy the work.

Whatever could it mean?

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Sun May 25, 2008 6:34 am

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

RORY

raindog1970 · Post by **raindog1970** » Sun May 25, 2008 9:41 am

One night last week just before bedtime, I received an e-mail from Mick Woodruff.
He wrote to tell me that he recently met Joanie Madden after a CTL show, and he also sent a photo of himself standing with her.
With that imagery fresh in my mind, I went to bed and dreamed that I also met Joanie, and she introduced me to her husband, John Madden (yes, THAT John Madden)!

But I wonder if you could even call that an 'interesting dream'... I'm sure Joanie would call it a nightmare!

Post by **Dale** » Sun May 25, 2008 10:47 am

One of the most fascinating things to me about dreams is the decay in dream recall. We probably don't have any memory of most of our dreams. We hang on to memories of a small number. Many people, including myself, wake up remembering dreams and have that memory decay rapidly--usually in minutes or an hour or two. Just night before last I had a long and complicated dream. I got up and I was drinking coffee, I said, I need to remember this one. Can't remember today anything about it. Of course, if you write it down, you've got it. Also, if you keep rehearsing and going over it in your head, you're more likely to remember it.

But, it's hard to think of any other kind of memory that has that kind of decay curve, when there's a story or narrative to it.

BillChin · Post by **BillChin** » Sun May 25, 2008 12:51 pm

Dale wrote:
But, it's hard to think of any other kind of memory that has that kind of decay curve, when there's a story or narrative to it.

For most folks, musical memory decays fast. If a person hears a melody line, they can often hold it in their mind for a few minutes. If it isn't recorded in some fashion quickly, it disappears into the ether.

I had a dream last night. I remember the part of stepping through the portal into an alternate reality/dream/wake state. Kind of a spooky yet overall a pleasant dream. If I had written the notes as soon as I woke up, it would be in more detail. For some years, I did write down the dreams, but this year, I am doing less of the journaling and such and living more in the moment.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sun May 25, 2008 1:02 pm

Once upon a time I was a student at a creative writing class. They advised us to keep a dream-diary: a notebook in which we would write down our dreams, the morning after we experienced them.
It was an excellent exercise in learning speed and accuracy in getting the details down. I still have the notebook that I kept. The first two pages are a couple of vague sentences each. The last are detailed and concise.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sun May 25, 2008 2:39 pm

rorybbellows wrote:Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

RORY

Not this time!

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Sun May 25, 2008 4:54 pm

jim stone wrote:
rorybbellows wrote:Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

RORY
Not this time!

If you take into account the dream includes hairy doughnuts ,I think even Mr Freud would have to agree with you.

Some people believe that certain foods eaten before going to bed can make you dream more .

RORY

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sun May 25, 2008 6:50 pm

Dale wrote:... Of course, if you write it down, you've got it. Also, if you keep rehearsing and going over it in your head, you're more likely to remember it.

Scary...

It gets a lot better when I rehearse it a few times.

It's only when I go to write it down I remember my problem...

Slan,
D.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Sun May 25, 2008 7:00 pm

Last night I woke up several times during the night, and each time I reviewed what I had been dreaming about. In the past I have kept a dream journal, and the contents are interesting and amusing to reread years later. Last night the last dream sequence before waking in the morining found me and my wife wandering around a large building, trying to find an exit. We kept going into different rooms only to find that they didn't lead to the outside. One path did lead to the outside both it was an upstairs balcony. The walls were stone, and it looked like an old castle. There was no sense of panic just some frustration in not being able to find a way out. Finally I popped my head through the ceiling tile, and I saw that the room above was a restaurant and that there were many people sitting at tables enjoying their meals. I'm not sure how we managed it, but soon we were able to pop up into the restaurant and sit ourselves at a table. Before I was able to take the first bite of what appeared to be delicious food, I woke up.

jw wren · Post by **jw wren** » Mon May 26, 2008 4:46 am

In my dream Mr T and I are sleeping at my parent's place - they are not at home - when I hear movement in the kitchen: probably a rat. So I get up and walk heavily towards the kitchen, hoping to scare it. I turn on the light to find a new born puppy on the chopping board. I struggle to know what to do with it - toss it outside or protect it? I decide it needs a warm cloth and box to sleep in and am looking for the cloth when I awake.

In his sleep, Mr T hears me walking heavily and complains that I'm interupting his music practice. He's on his way out of the music room to find out what I'm doing when he wakes up.

The question is... who was actually walking heavily given that we were both asleep???