Fishies and Hamsters, Dreamed 2-28-10

Last night I had a ton of dreams! I supposed it was my body's way of rewarding me for letting it sleep for about 11 hrs, which might I add was fantastic! These dreams were all particularly vivid and long, there are a few that I remember quiet well (most recent) and I few I remember bits and pieces of...

The really crazy one I only remember bits and pieces of... so here they are:
It involved me getting through some crazy obstacle courses. I also dreamed that a mother of a young child became very mad at me for being a bad influence on her child. I think it had to do with a book I was reading. She wouldn't let me explain myself and I was in some sort of trouble as a result. I was in a classroom and people were being really weird towards me. I had fallen into a trance and told someone that the girl was swept away and was put with a good family. When I came out of the trance the person I had talked to repeated what I said. I was relieved that the girl was safe.
There was so much more to this one but it eludes me...
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I was in the building where I keep an office. I had a small plastic fish tank on my desk. I got a larger one and wanted to transfer all the fish into that one. I ended up spilling most of the water all of the floor in the middle of the hallway by the mail room. I was trying to pour a little of the water from the small tank into the big tank so the fish wouldn't die from the transition. There was only enough water left to barely cover the two fish in the small tank. One was pink and the other white and they were very round and cartoony looking.

There was also a hamster cage on my desk that needed to be cleaned very badly. I was throwing pretzels into the cage which woke up the hamsters that were hiding in their bedding.

I saw my research advisor in the hall and he asked me if I was pulling an all-nighter, saying that he remembered the days when he did that as a student.

This dream does not in any way resemble how I treat my non dream pets. My guinea pig is happy and spoiled beyond belief. :P

New Species, Dreamed 2-22-10

This morning I could only remember bits and pieces of my dreams. I had a sweet super hero dream but like the sleep craving college student I am I opted to go back to sleep rather then write it down so I forgot most of it.

Anyway... In the New Species dream I was driving by a corral with a wooden fence. The animal on the other side of the fence was ridiculous looking. It had the body proportions of a corgi dog but it was the size and roughly shape of a horse. Where the head should have been was a hump in the neck with huge white cow horns jutting out. Tied to the cow horns were two purple broom bottoms. The neck continued a few feet farther past the horns to the actual head with another pair of giant white cow horns.

To sum things up:
(Corgi x horse) + (2 x cow horns) + (2 x broom bottoms) = My dream species

Scary Dreams, Dreamed ??-??-??

I don't consider many of my dreams to be 'scary dreams'. My dreams are usually pretty goofy, at least I think so. There are two scary dreams that have stuck with me for years that I would like to share.

1) I was sitting in my dad's computer room in the basement of our house with the door open. There was a mannequin standing outside of the door. All of a sudden the mannequin just disappeared. I was then laying in my bed with my eyes open (the same way I was actually laying in bed with the exception of the open eyes). The mannequin reappeared right next to my bed.

I was sufficiently freaked out enough to wake up and check that there was no such mannequin in my room. I haven't been able to trust one since...

2) I can't remember the details of the dream but what I do remember was that the world was overrun by maggots. You couldn't actually see any unless you opened something, for example, the hood of a car. When it was open you could see them all up in the car's business being gross. There was also this feeling that they were inside of the people too.

It was pretty disgusting. I'm not a fan of bugs so this dream freaked me out pretty badly.

Judgment Day, Dreamed 11-19-09

I was driving around in my car while looking at my phone. My phone displayed a screen with two text boxes (like when you log into your email) prompting me to type in my name and phone number. After typing in my information it said that it was Judgment Day and turned itself off. I could not get the phone to turn back on. I began to sob and started apologizing to God for not believing in him. I asked if judgment was coming soon and the clouds reformed to spell "Yes." I asked when it would happen and I was informed it would happen within the day.

I was now walking along a steep sidewalk when I met three Asian guys. We started talking about the impending end of the world and decided to go get pizza. We met four other people in the pizza parlor and continued to discuss the upcoming events. Someone mentioned that you knew the end was near when you were directed to do something. At some point everyone at the table started making out with each other. There was a very unattractive boy next to me and I told him I didn't want to make out since I was still faithful to my boyfriend.

We had to escape from the restaurant when a girl construction worker came in with burnt skin telling us to go through the underground tunnels to avoid the burst water pipe. When we got into the tunnels we found a dead construction worker and took him with us. We brought him to the next set of construction workers underground.

I was now in a parking lot with people saying their goodbyes. I recognized a friend of mine hugging someone in a limo. I met up with a co worker of mine and she asked me to be her second in command. While driving around we asked a man to join us but he said we would never be able to drive since the road was filled with abandoned traffic. We started walking and decided we needed to find motorcycles.

We ended up in an abandoned school and were either trying to get somewhere or were looking for other people. In the rooms people were frozen in odd positions. There was a sign blocking off the hallway because of a 'laundry accident.' We went around it by going into the basement and coming up on the other side. On the other side of the blocked off hallway frozen people were stacked in the hallway covered in some brown substance (mud and/or paint?). We found a few survivors but they were acting strange. They had a loofa and walkie-talkies. I think we ended up taking one of them with us. That person took one of the walkie-talkies.

You Know, Like a Baby Bottle... Dreamed 2-21-10

(This one makes even less sense then usual since when I wrote it this morning I was 3/4 asleep)

I was trying to explain a concept to someone by comparing it to how the milk disappears in those toy baby bottles when you turn them upside down. I found one to show him what I was talking about. Even while holding the bottle in his hands he still refused to believe me. (I'm not sure if he didn't believe me that these bottles existed or about the thing I was trying to explain to him.)

Fancy Resort, Dreamed 11-19-09

I was invited to a dinner with my family by a wealthy woman in a fancy restaurant. My mom was eating raw hamburger meat because it was expensive and therefore alright to eat. The 4 of us would take turns leaving the table and wander off somewhere in the restaurant. The restaurant/table was in the lobby of a hotel or resort.

(This was a separate dream but I think it was at the same place) I was at a swimming pool with turtles in it. I went to take a picture but my brother scared it away by trying to grab it. The turtle ran away faster then any turtle has the right to.

Pantera, Dreamed 12-1-09

I was aware of some people wandering around in the woods somewhere behind my house. Somehow a scary bald man had gotten into my house and was chasing around a 3 legged dog with a needle in his hand. He wanted to inject something into the puppy to kill it. There was a lot of running and screaming as myself and someone else tried to get the needle away from him and convince him it was a bad idea. While all this was happening my parents were in the house. Mom was also trying to get the needle away from him. He accidentally injected himself with the needle.

We were all sitting in the living room trying to talk to him and calm him down, letting him know that things were going to be alright. I thought my mother had called 911 but she actually hadn't. My dad yelled at her to call. We started asking the man questions. He said his name was Pantera and he was right handed.

He had a flashback to sitting in a restaurant with his brother, his brother's girlfriend and his parents. The brother and his girlfriend were talking about going to college in Wisconsin. The general feeling was that Pantera was a nerd and was constantly ignored by girls. He had another flashback to being with his father while his father was painted as an animal in a very public place as to embarrass Pantera. I was at the table, sometimes observing what was going on, sometimes participating. At some point Pantera and I had a silly sword fight dressed as people from a movie. When the actually people from that movie showed up we gave them the swords and left. We walked through a set of double doors to talk. We were still in the restaurant but it somehow felt different.

Coming In For a Landing, 12-6-09

A bunch of people and I were waiting for the aliens to land. We were trying to pick up transmissions to help find them. Every time a ship was in visible range in the sky you couldn't look directly at it or your vision would blur or you just couldn't see. There were also 2 suspected aliens in disguise hanging around but they wouldn't reveal themselves. In my back yard there was a monkey in the pool (the same pool mentioned in "Fish in the Pool") and an owl. I had a very strong feeling that the monkey and owl were the aliens.

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You may notice that there is often an alien theme to my dreams. (If not it will become apparent in the future) For as long as I can remember I've been fascinated with the idea of extraterrestrial life. It manifests itself in my dreams more then any other topic.

Renovation in the neighborhood? Dreamed 2-19-10

(Some background: I live on a no outlet road on the side of a mountain. The houses towards the end of the road on the left side are situated so that they have a gorgeous view of the valley. Behind the houses on the right are just woods, lots and lots of woods.)

I was walking up the road with my dad and brother. On the left about a quarter of the way to the end was a store that was just built to look like an old power plant. I asked my dad what customer base they were looking for since we live in the middle of nowhere and likely the only people that would visit are the people who live on our road. About half way up the road on the right side they replaced trails with some sort of epic water flume ride. There was a stream with rocks lining both side and it went deep into the woods and up the side of another mountain. I decided I wanted to wander back there and check it out sometime.

At the end of the road there was a lot of digging and construction. In front of the last house on the right there were rockets (like in the rocket garden at Kennedy Space Center). In front of the last house on the left was a group of smaller rockets. The road was lined in chain link fences. Near the cliff between the last house on the left and the one before that was a giant paper mache head. It was a woman with pink lipstick. Men were lining up at the road to take pictures pretending to kiss her. The were perspective pictures where it would look like she was actually there since it was so large and so far away. (This physically doesn't work in this situation but hey... it's a dream) Admission was being charged to go and stand near the edge of the cliff to look down a the valley. I didn't want to pay the $6.75, especially since I'd already seen it.

My dad, brother and I walked by down the road towards our house. In front of the house right next to us there was a kiddie pool with a tiger sleeping in it. The tiger got up and began to follow us. My dad told us to run and we ran in the house and tried to call 911. None of the phones we used would let us call. While we were in the house my dad threw aside the black wrist brace he was wearing, grabbed the tiger and punched it in it's face. The garage door was still open when we were in the house and another tiger walked in after us. I punched it and threw it out. We closed the garage door on the tiger. After beating up the tiger my dad came back in the house relatively unscathed.

Stitches, Dreamed 2-2-10

I realized that I had a scar (it looked like a flesh zipper) going all the way up my back where I used to have laces. I then discovered there were even fresher scars with the stitches still intact (still the zipper scars) going all the way up my stomach and onto my face on both sides. I decided that it was time to remove them and started cutting them away. Something kept interrupting me but I don’t remember what it was.

Fish In the Pool, Dreamed 2-2-10

(Some background: There used to be a 4 foot deep above ground pool in our backyard at my parents house that was removed several years ago. Also my brother hates eating fish.)

I yelled for my brother to come into the backyard. All of a sudden we realized that there was a bunch of fish in our pool (from a rainstorm?). The fish all jumped out and my brother caught the 4 or 5 foot long sword fish for my mother to cook for dinner. I caught one of the fish, some sort of manta ray looking thing and put it back into the pool. Along the outside of the pool there was an assortment of dead fish propped up around the side of the bottom. They were in ascending order by length. I remember seeing sharks, squid, rays and crustacean in addition to other fish. There were also a bunch of little plastic guns. I wandered around the house trying to find pH sticks to test the pool and figure out why the fish in the pool were still alive.

NYC, 2-17-10

I was wandering around NYC (but it didn’t actually look like the city). I went into a bar, it was really crappy and two old guys were the band. They weren’t actually playing music, just talking to the bartender about tips. The bartender told them which bars had the best tip jars. The group of people that I was with decided they wanted to take a cab so we all went outside. Four of them jumped into a purple jeep cab and left the other four of us behind. When we realized that the cab fare for the rest of us would be $330 we decided to walk. trying to picture the map in my mind. It was like in a video game when you change screens, I would switch to the map to see what road we needed to take. I couldn’t remember what road we needed after I stopped thinking about the map. We ended up going to a candy store and then the beach. It was really windy at the beach. In front of my friends and me was an elderly couple walking with my dad. He was telling them how the beach reminded him of a funeral today. He said that he once dug a hole in the sand near the empty end of the beach and laid in it watching the sand blow across the top of the hole.

On Stage, Under Stage? Dreamed 12-30-09

I was backstage at my high school’s auditorium. A group of people were supposed to perform Christmas carols. They walked on stage haphazardly even though we were supposed to go on in order. When it was my turn to go on stage I waited too long before stepping out. The risers we were supposed to be standing on were not filled correctly, no one was organized or standing near each other. I opened a trap door in the stage and pulled someone out of the hole in the floor. When they got out they threw up all over me. I went to the locker room to shower and though that this was the second time someone had thrown up on me that day. There were a lot of other people in the locker room with me while I was showering. In the hallway there was a door labeled “The Cave.” I wasn’t sure if it was supposed to be part of a play or it was real. People were going into “The Cave” to fight a giant worm monster and exiting from the trap door on stage.

Sharks! Dreamed 12-11-09

I was on a tour of Europe (but I don't know specifically where), when I remember I had to meet the other graduate students in my research group. I ended up driving in from a difference entrance then the rest of them. I drove through a big arch, thinking that I was in Scranton, PA (nowhere near Europe). I walked into the shark place (museum or aquarium?). Somehow I had to use the strange convoluted entrance that involved crawling through ducts in the ceiling. I ended up dangling from a rope in the ceiling right about the shark pool. The sharks were jumping and snapping in the water. Someone threw in a steak and they all went after it. I began sliding and fell into the pool. Freaking out, I scrambled out of the pool without getting eaten. It was time to go get something to eat; my colleagues sent me to my car. I had to leave by myself the same way I came in.


Sharks part 2

I entered another, smaller room (by the conventional entrance on the ground level) with my boyfriend. It had multiple swimming pools and lots of people around. I was still really shaken up from what had happened before. There were people in the pool with sharks, the people were being very still and then started thrashing around. My boyfriend jumped into the pool and then climbed out while I was panicking on the side. The other pool in the room had more gentle sea creatures in it. People were throwing mackerel to the creatures but they wouldn’t eat the fish. The fish just got stuck to the faces of the creatures so that their heads were completely covered.

Meatballs in heaven, Dreamed 1-5-10

I couldn’t remember the first part of the dream just a vague recollection that it had something to do with syncing Christmas lights with music. I was in my parents’ backyard when I died. I felt myself rise and disintegrate, it was a strange sensation. I ended up in heaven (I think) with another person who had also just died. There was a being/angel/person there with a metal grate forcing some sort of sauce or ground meat through it. They made me try to force the meat stuff through the grate. I was then allowed to return to earth. Someone was making meatballs. After returning to earth I described to someone my experiences saying that it had been like a dream.

Aliens like Guinea pigs, Dreamed 2-17-10

When I woke up this morning fresh from one of my dreams I decided I had to start blogging my dreams. Don't ask why... I just had the need to. I'm going to try to update when I remember my dreams in addition to typing up my dream journals and the crazy dreams that have just stuck with me over the years. If for some reason anyone is actually reading this... enjoy!

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(Some background: I have a very large window, on the 2nd floor, in the wall next to my bed with vertical blinds. The blinds open from the side on the foot of the bed. I also have a guinea pig whose cage I can see from my bed.)

The blinds were open about a foot on the wrong side (near the headboard) and pressed up against the window was a strange slightly glowy blue hand, it freaked me out. It was the hand of an alien. The aliens then took my guinea pig. I knew they were going to do it and that they would occasionally bring him back once in a while (so I could visit, perhaps). Another alien in a ship was hovering outside of my window, I couldn’t see it but I knew it was there. The alien would read my mind and sometimes talk to me telepathically. At some point the same hand came back and was pressed up against the same part of the window but with two fingers up, like the ‘rock on’ symbol. At some point I noticed that the Asian actor who played Sulu in the new Star Trek movie was sitting on my bed too. One of his limbs suddenly fell off and we panicked.