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Title: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: dsanchez on January 11, 2021, 10:23:39
I went to Dubai. I was waiting in the airport queue on arrivals and then jumped straight pass migrations. Then I was stopped cause they said Peruvian passports don't have 90-days visa free for entering UAE. I told them I read there was an agreement between Peru-UAE for us to have free entry without visa. They told me indeed that happened, but there was a journalist in Peru who made fun of Arabs and Mohammed so they decided to stop the discussions on the visa waiver.

Somehow, however, I managed to enter Dubai. It was a strange place. Kids (aged 10-15) had strange games. There was this group of kids (about 10 of them) that bullied one kid: he had to rest on the floor (face up) while each of them passed over him throwing in the face all sorts of stuff, can't remember what. Odd.
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on January 11, 2021, 11:05:59
I dreamed about a gig being prepared - apparently I was supposed to play drums (huh?), so I walked behind the stage and looked at the drum set-up (which looked okay) and I wondered how I was going to make it through the gig without any practice... I thought "I'll just follow the songs".  :lol:
Then it seemed like some people wanted to buy merch already, but no-one was there, so I went looking for band members, who had disappeared into thin air.  :1f636:
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: SueC on January 11, 2021, 13:56:07
The last dream I remember happened a couple of nights ago.  For some reason Brett and I were in some alternative universe, and had gone to Sydney to work, and were staying in this weird apartment which was very industrial.  And then I was panicking, thinking, "Oh no, I should be in Western Australia, we have an unfinished strawbale house there and surely there's animals to look after!"  And in my mind's eye I saw the house, and it was not the house we actually have in real life (I never dream about our real house).

This is a recurring theme - that we're somewhere else and then one or both of us remember that we've got this unfinished house somewhere in Western Australia, which urgently requires our attention.  Sometimes there's the added panic of unattended animals; sometimes there aren't any animals because we accidentally started building on a suburban block, before remembering that we actually need to build in a rural area so we can accommodate our animals.  Sometimes we've got two half-finished houses which are exact replicas of each other, but in different locations, and I think, "Why did we make that mistake?"  And sometimes, we've nearly finished our house, before we realise it's in the wrong spot and we're going to have to sell it, and begin all over again...

When I wake up from a dream like this, I usually remember all the other unfinished-house dreams all over again, including the architectural details and locations of the various unfinished houses.  It's a strange thing that they are always different.  (Brett says I should draw up the plans of all these different houses and sell them.  :lol:)

We spent five years building our house; finished in 2016. Funny I should be having anxiety dreams about that after actually finishing - I didn't have dreams like this while we were building.  Perhaps that's because I was too exhausted.

Immediately after I woke up this morning, realising it was just a dream, I was ecstatic that I was in fact in the right place, and in a finished house!  :)
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on March 02, 2021, 16:45:48
Last night I dreamed about some old friends from school. The night before, it was wilder: I was out with someone with a dog, but I noticed I'd forgotten my keys in his apartment, so I went back (how I got in without keys, I have no idea), so I went searching through drawers... later when I wanted to leave I had trouble finding the right switch to turn off the lights.
One night before, it was stranger: I met some friends in a restaurant (or whatever) and Axl Rose was sitting there with them, knowing he can be difficult, I asked if it was okay for me to sit with them, he just nodded his "okay".  :cool *

* The last one was probably triggered by me reading this news report:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/scooby-doo-axl-rose-cameo-interview-1132969/
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: SueC on March 02, 2021, 23:55:55
Brett says he had a really mad dream the other night but has now completely forgotten what it was, as he predicted at the time he would...

This happens to me too, but then sometimes I will dream a "sequel" to the forgotten dream, and when I wake up, I will remember both the dream I just had, and the forgotten dream before that!

Brett wants to know if anyone here has read The Sandman.

Quote from: Ulrich on March 02, 2021, 16:45:48... later when I wanted to leave I had trouble finding the right switch to turn off the lights.

Typical anxiety dream, and reminds me of this recurring anxiety dream I used to have:  Trying to phone someone, on a phone with a rotary dial (that's how it used to be, kiddies! :P), and I kept getting the number wrong by not going back far enough on the dial at least once in the sequence.  I knew exactly what to do but I simply couldn't do it.

Brett says the classic anxiety dream is being naked in public, which he's had a few times and after a while of being properly anxious about it, in the dream he says, "The hell with it, I'm naked in public, that's just how it is, I'm not bothered anymore," and just goes about his business.

I've had variations of that dream as well; most notably one about being at a music concert and really having to go to the toilet, when suddenly a toilet appears magically in the middle of the crowd, but sans cubicle.  I don't wonder how etc, I'm just grateful because I'm really busting so I make use of it, and then, and only when I'm sitting on the thing, I suddenly become acutely aware of being in public with my pants down, and on a toilet.  I kind of freeze, and then become aware of this linear-programming problem:  The longer I sit on this toilet, the greater the chance that people will notice - but in order to get off the toilet, I'm going to "flash" in the process of pulling my pants back up.  (The obvious solution to that one is to put a bag over your head, not that this ever occurs to me when I'm having that dream, which thankfully I've not had in over a decade!)
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on March 03, 2021, 13:20:36
Quote from: SueC on March 02, 2021, 23:55:55Typical anxiety dream

To me, that's always been a dream in which I try to run (away), but my feet won't do it...
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: SueC on April 20, 2021, 01:22:57
Shorty before waking up I dreamt that the trees in our garden were being ripped down by a storm - splintering at the bases of their trunks.  At first it was the small Red-Flowering Gums around the front of the house (but they were in different places in the bed in my dream), and just as I was waking up, a larger tree near the water tank crashed into a heap.

Brett also had a weird dream, way too weird for me to report.  He's typing this:

I dreamt that I was in Spain.
I've never been to Spain and I gather it's sunny (probably a misconception) and the buildings are white (again, probably a misconception). But that's not what it was like in my head.
I arrived on a bus. It seemed like a very tall bus - there were a lot of stairs to get from where the driver sat to the street level. The other passengers were saying "Thank you" (I assume) in Spanish (I assume) and I felt bad that I couldn't say the same thing (not being able to speak Spanish). I said "thank you" in English just in case.
I found that Spain was gloomy, and consisted of a series of parallel zig-zagging narrow alleys lined with shops. The architecture was very much like an old bank or post office - quite a lot of polished granite. But very narrow. There were distorted and distressed faces set into the stonework at odd places (including a large one set over a drain at the end of an alley leading to the street. I was trying to photograph it when I woke up, but I get ahead of myself).
I went into a bookshop (because, of course I went into a bookshop). Very cramped, very tall bookcases. Couldn't find a Spanish/English conversion dictionary. All the books were odd - the covers looked like photographs of book covers that had been printed onto real books. They were all slighly blurry and putting on my glasses didn't make them less blurry so I concluded it was an artefact of the printing process.
I was looking for a title I recognised. I found The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham. I was looking for something I recognised so maybe I could start to learn a little Spanish. Inside the printing was very bad (I'm sure books in the real Spain are beautifully printed) - the registration was off so text was cut off the edge of the paper, some pages the print was enlarged and blotched with black ink.
I was afraid that someone would ask me a question in Spanish, and I would have to say back, "Sorry, no speaka Espanzola" which is probably (or quite definitely) not how you say, "Sorry I don't speak Spanish" in Spanish.
The narrow, zig-zaggy alleys connected, so you could walk from one to the other.
I worried about getting hay-fever medication, and wondered if I should mime sneezing, and then worried that I'd wind up with cold and flu medication instead.
I also passed a glass-fronted shop with tall shelves, partitioned like printer's trays, each containing the head of a shop dummy. They mostly seemed similar - white, sharp cheekbones, black hair.
I thought I might stay in Spain for a while and maybe try to find a job. What sort of job could I get if I didn't speak Spanish? An easy one. I thought that an easy job where you didn't have to speak the language probably wasn't highly correlated with being able to get paid enough to live.
The alarm clock when off when I was at the end of the alley, trying to photograph a gargoyle face.

I dare say it was all some kind of vague anxiety dream.

What does it all mean?

(I would like to apologise to the Spanish People - I'm sure Spain is a jolly nice place and quite unlike that which my lunatic subconscious presented to me. Nobody should be making (or cancelling) travel plans based on my recollections and experiences of a place that I suspect doesn't really exist except in my head.)


PS from Sue:  When Brett was relating some of this to me before he wrote it down, he said that the weather was gloomy but Spain was surely sunny.  I mentioned that this would depend on whether it is summer or winter.  He countered that it would depend on the personality of the person visiting.  :lol:
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on May 31, 2021, 11:52:23
Strange dream about shopping: I was in some kind of shop, buying some spread cheese, 2 guys from the shop tried to explain to me that this is not a good package and they had lots of problems storing it. My reply was: "well I don't know much about storage...".
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: MeltingMan on June 01, 2021, 11:13:08
In my dream I was the inspector and my assistant C. Kebekus (!). Crime scene: an abandoned industrial area at night. First, I interviewed the main suspect, a Russian aristocrat. Then an investigator was beaten to death with an antique chair. Two brain surgeons, the sons of the prime suspect, flee. During the day there was a short briefing with Carolin. Her boots were dirty. It must have rained. Finally we had an arrest. 😴
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: SueC on June 01, 2021, 14:20:51
Quote from: MeltingMan on June 01, 2021, 11:13:08Then an investigator was beaten to death with an antique chair. Two brain surgeons, the sons of the prime suspect, flee.

Wow, what an action-packed dream with interesting details!   :smth023  Mine aren't like that. I like the antique chair detail. Was it damaged in the process, or was it a really good chair?

We're forgetting our dreams within five minutes of waking up, at the moment! So nothing exciting to report. Your antique chair for bludgeoning the victim did remind me a little of a Roald Dahl short story for adults, in which a wife whose husband had just explained to her that he was leaving her for his secretary bludgeoned him to death with a frozen leg of lamb, which she then cooked, popped off to the greengrocer's for vegetables to go-with for her alibi, then rang the police when she got home explaining she'd found her husband murdered - and then she served up the lamb roast to the police later...
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: MeltingMan on June 02, 2021, 10:37:38
Quote from: SueC on June 01, 2021, 14:20:51Wow, what an action-packed dream with interesting details!   :smth023  Mine aren't like that. I like the antique chair detail. Was it damaged in the process, or was it a really good chair?

I can't say any more. I can still see him sneaking through an art deco revolving door with hat, coat and pistol in hand. Then he is hit - in the face, bloodshot in his right eye, and then the scene ends. It's true, we forget most dreams when we wake up.
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on June 02, 2021, 12:05:05
Quote from: MeltingMan on June 02, 2021, 10:37:38It's true, we forget most dreams when we wake up.

Indeed, otherwise I'd be posting more in this topic! Plus my dreams are often confused and incoherent, thus difficult to describe.
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: word_on_a_wing on June 03, 2021, 14:57:36
Yes my memory of dreams tend to fade away within minutes of waking...such a shame, as I find them so awe inspiring, not just the content, but just the process itself (That we actually dream!)

I'm amazed by ones where I believe the narrative in the dream is reality, and then awake, and it's like a Matrix moment...what is actually real?  Or ones where the dream bleeds into waking (e.g someone calling my phone, just as the alarm goes off. Or once I dreamt someone turned to me in a dream and intensely sang "Friday" (to the tune of Friday I'm in Love) just as my alarm went off, and it was indeed Friday!).
I've had quite a few about death, these have been some of the strongest ones, staying with me ... it tends to be an abrupt event (getting shot, or something exploding and killing me) and then there's a dissolving of a scene into another scene. At first it seems like the surroundings in the first scene are reality then it dissolves and changes and it's like I realise "oh yeah, this is really reality!".  The first scene that seemed like waking reality was actually the dream!  In one I thought it really happened, and was 100% convinced I died, and then was so surprised when I woke up.
But by waking up, does that mean I'm really still asleep??

...and then there's lucid dreaming, wow. It hasn't happened in a while, but there was a period (when spending lots of time meditating) where it was happening a bit. I would either fly, or I find an edge where the ground disappears and with a deep sense of trust I would step off (which felt very scary) and end up floating in space, feeling quite blissful and at peace. With no ground under my feet and not hanging onto anything. Very profound... gosh dreams are amazing.

...and I should put a disclaimer that if anyone is experiencing suicidal ideation, please don't get any ideas from this post... My sanity is debatable!!
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: SueC on June 04, 2021, 03:07:03
Quote from: MeltingMan on June 02, 2021, 10:37:38I can still see him sneaking through an art deco revolving door with hat, coat and pistol in hand. Then he is hit - in the face, bloodshot in his right eye, and then the scene ends.

Excellent.  :smth023

Where can I order a dream like this?  :yum:


Quote from: word_on_a_wing on June 03, 2021, 14:57:36Yes my memory of dreams tend to fade away within minutes of waking...such a shame, as I find them so awe inspiring, not just the content, but just the process itself (That we actually dream!)

In hardware terms, there's some similarity to a "disk defrag" overnight - to allow your brain to store things efficiently, to work out what to keep and what to throw away etc, and also an extra layer of processing in there, as well as "movies" with a degree of randomness that are fandangled together from prior experience and extrapolation into all sorts of directions.

If people aren't allowed to dream - if you keep interrupting them in a sleep lab whenever their brains are in dream pattern - they become shuddering wrecks in no time... we need not just to sleep, but also to dream; and other mammals also dream - as anyone who's ever owned a dog will know.  :)

If you don't want to forget your dreams, you can keep dream journals - and see them as a sort of "cloud storage" which allows your "PC" to continue to function well without excessive clutter!  :smth023

From a functional perspective, the process of dreaming is more important than remembering your dreams - like all memories, the ones considered peripheral can be pruned, or encoded in a form that you don't normally retrieve again until something triggers it (ever had a dream, and then realised you've been to the same place before in your dreams?).


Quote from: word_on_a_wing on June 03, 2021, 14:57:36In one I thought it really happened, and was 100% convinced I died, and then was so surprised when I woke up.

Sometimes they are super-real until you wake up - and sometimes you can actually tell you're dreaming when you're dreaming, typically when you're in the process of waking up. Brett then often has the capacity to change the tone and the ending of his dream when he doesn't like where it's going. I generally don't - so I'll just wake up and go, "It was only a dream, it's OK, it was only a dream!" - which sometimes is a bit difficult, because the emotional centres of the brain can't be reasoned with very well...so you'll know there's not a hungry lion in the room with you, but your body is still in fight/flight mode...which takes a while to dissipate (and I believe can be assisted in its dissipation by an early morning run, but I'm not inclined to leave my warm haven at the crack of dawn before I've even had breakfast).


Quote from: word_on_a_wing on June 03, 2021, 14:57:36But by waking up, does that mean I'm really still asleep??

The philosopher Berkeley really warmed to this and proposed we might not be physical entities in a physical universe at all, but specks of consciousness being projected onto an in-common dream that makes us think we are physical entities in a physical universe. For an all-round consistent in-common dream like this you'd need a projectionist, but that wasn't a problem for Berkeley, since he was religious. He was playing with this idea well before Matrix or Avatar were ever written, and before computers were invented.


Quote from: word_on_a_wing on June 03, 2021, 14:57:36...and then there's lucid dreaming, wow. It hasn't happened in a while, but there was a period (when spending lots of time meditating) where it was happening a bit. I would either fly, or I find an edge where the ground disappears and with a deep sense of trust I would step off (which felt very scary) and end up floating in space, feeling quite blissful and at peace. With no ground under my feet and not hanging onto anything. Very profound...

I had a very similar experience once, while getting acupuncture! I used to go get acupuncture during peak times of vocational or personal stress, and found it really helpful because there's nothing like having needles stuck into you to force you to relax!  :evil:  (...for those who've not had acupuncture, if you don't set your muscles to "floppy" while the acupuncturist is sticking the needles in, it hurts - and if you suddenly tense up on the table when you have a couple dozen fine needles sticking out of you, it's going to be incredibly unpleasant, so you just don't do it, you stay perfectly still and relaxed... and some people can do this without getting needles stuck into them, just by tensing and relaxing their muscles and focusing on their breathing, and I'm finally beginning to get that technique, which is also more economical and allows you to buy more CDs... :-D)

This was one time in my 30s when I turned up to acupuncture super-stressed and also bright-red outraged because of something that had happened. Normally getting acupuncture would just float me off into a pleasant la-la-land, but this time, when all the needles were in and I closed my eyes, I had a highly realistic experience of physically floating off the table, with my feet slightly above my head even though I was lying perfectly level. It was like my feet were "leading" as I was approaching the ceiling and then just floating around up there, sort of like in Mary Poppins if you remember that scene. I could keep floating weightlessly around the room as long as I kept my eyes closed! It was hugely relaxing and great fun, and at one point I was chatting to the acupuncturist about it from my position near the ceiling, asking if that was a common experience, and she laughed and said, "You must have really needed the acupuncture today!"   :cool

The brain does all sorts of amazing things - you might like to read Oliver Sacks' Hallucinations if you haven't already! Incredible stories in there, for instance, accounts of Charles Bonnet syndrome which produces super-intricate visual hallucinations in blind people. Ever had a visual migraine? And what colours and shapes do you see when you're lying on your back in the grass with your eyes closed and the sun shining through your lids? And have you ever had that dream where you wake up hitting the ground after falling from a height?

Certain situations make different brain regions that don't usually talk to each other much during "normal operations" permeable to each other, and then interesting things can happen. This happens between sleep and waking, can happen during meditation or times of high stress or sensory deprivation or anoxia or hypnosis or weird things going on in your biochemistry, including on-purpose ingestion of psychoactive substances, such as the late Dr Sacks documents in his book. Reading it I began to wonder if people had been putting psychedelic mushrooms in my breakfast, because I seem to have that kind of brain...


Quote from: word_on_a_wing on June 03, 2021, 14:57:36My sanity is debatable!!

We could start a club!  :winking_tongue  Everyone's sanity is debatable! Some people's more than others, bwahahaha!   :lol:  :angel

I like the definition of sanity as "the extent to which we can cope with the insanity of those around us"...  :beaming-face
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: SueC on June 28, 2021, 00:47:00
We've been having weird dreams the last two nights. Last night Brett dreamt he had accidentally driven to Perth to get some batteries or something ridiculous, which you can actually get locally or online. He then realised Perth was in lockdown and he'd not be allowed back home. (This exact type of lockdown has happened a couple of months ago and we're starting another one like that now as the Delta strain got out in Sydney and someone with the Delta strain got into Perth having initially tested negative - I don't know why they weren't instantly quarantining travellers from NSW coming into WA when the Delta strain got out there; it's been shown again and again that people testing negative can go on to test positive, just like with HIV - because there's a development period...less than 5% of the population here is fully vaccinated and less than 25% have had their first shot... and of course the current vaccines may not be effective against some of the new strains developing now...)

I dreamt that I'd ordered some special baking premix from overseas - similar to the bread premixes I actually use (to mix with stoneground flours at a proportion that results in bread that's not a brick). This one was special because it was oatmeal-based and had special microbial cultures in it that gave you a sourdough fermentation, if you made a dough from it and left it to mature, etc. You could then keep your sourdough starter going in the usual way.

So there were ten packets of this and for some reason I thought I had to use them up, and was frantically baking these big apple strudels made with this dough. Usually you'd make (German) apple strudels with a paper-thin pasta dough, but these were made like (German) apple pockets, with a microbially raised dough (for standard apple pockets, you just use yeast, which is a unicellular fungus, but this special mix had a variety of species including bacteria, as in sourdough).

All this was happening in someone else's kitchen, with strange equipment. There were these rectangular tray things with bamboo covers over the top and I was frustrated when I was trying to clean them because the opening in the cover for accessing the tray beneath was really narrow. Then I worked out that if you closed that access hatch you could slide the whole bamboo cover out of the way from the side. I never worked out why these things had bamboo covers. There was also another contraption with a cover like that which harboured gas burners underneath and I realised when looking through the cupboard that one of the gas burners was still going on low. That horrified me because of the bamboo cover and the possibility of starting a fire, and I turned it off.

Someone else was working with me at this point and she was rolling some pastry out, and laughing about the earthworms in it - and I had a look, and she'd rolled out two earthworms that were in the pastry till they were flat. Poor earthworms - and I wasn't going to eat that, it didn't look very appetising.

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I then realised the earthworms came from the premix and read the booklet that came with the product. It said that they indeed had worms in their premix but not to worry, they only ate the premix so it was all perfectly clean, and that they were special worms adapted to this diet who therefore had a super gut flora for digesting the premix, and that this was the basis for the microbial mix featured in this type of sourdough. However, please sift out the worms and return them to some premix or other flour to do their work, and don't actually include them into your dough and bake them.

My awake assessment is that the microbiology part is actually plausible - but earthworm-type worms couldn't live in the dry premix (mealworms can). Also it's true it would be a clean process, just as happens when you put culinary snails in bran for a while before eating them to purge them - and even earthworms get this treatment, for those who use them in their snacks, and don't laugh, this was a thing in the 90s and our local Department of Agriculture was even putting out information sheets on how to grow and purge earthworms, and recipes for using them...

More info on that here: http://www.eattheweeds.com/cooking-with-earthworms-2/
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on June 30, 2021, 10:41:44
Strangely I dreamed about meeting a few people I "only" know through the internet (so far)... for one person I tried to make his seat more "comfortable" (and that was the word I used in my dream, because he's from UK). The other person is German (and the two don't know each other) and I never really met her (but saw her at a concert once, before "befriending" on FB)...
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: SueC on June 30, 2021, 13:10:08
It's amazing how rarely people I know personally or am pen-pals with feature in my dreams - also I don't often dream about anyone famous, either historical or contemporary. It seems my dreams are mostly peopled with imaginary characters and the only "real" person who appears in them with any regularity is my husband.

Brett says he can't remember ever dreaming about anyone historical or otherwise famous, but he does remember that he dreamt about Cybermen once (which would be a big thing for him as a total Dr Who geek and as someone who writes recreational essays on Cybermen on Gallifrey Base). Apparently Cybermen were located in a giant warehouse under the floor of a house. He says to mention they were the models from The Tomb of the Cybermen circa 1966/67.

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Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: SueC on July 19, 2021, 03:11:16
One from Brett:

I dreamed I was in a bookshop, the kind that's elegantly appointed, but quite dark.

I spotted two Doctor Who books. It's been probably more than 25 years since I actively searched for Doctor Who novels in bookshops, but in my dreams I still do, and tend to find novelisations of stories that never existed.

In this case, it was an omnibus of "The Highlanders" and, strangely enough, "Vanity Fair" (a book I've never read). It had a light cover with a sort of painted sunset over a pond. No Doctor Who livery or branding at all. An odd decision of the publisher, but I daresay it made sense to someone at the time.

The other was another omnibus, which included about 5 stories - the only two I remember was "Mark of the Rani", and "Time and the Rani". Maybe "The Sea Devils" as well. I remember thinking there seemed to be no thematic connection, other than the final two stories there.

At the back of the shop was a comics section, the kind at waist height and you flick through them one after t'other, rather than on a bookcase. Someone was putting in more, and there was some good stuff there.

It was a work colleague from years ago, Hugo -- trombonist, son of a preacher I believe, and lately a UX designer. He was putting comics in the rack, his own, so I vaguely gather this was a 2nd-hand bookshop. I told him that the owner would pay him for these. He wasn't bothered. But he had a wheelbarrow that he had samples of non-alcoholic grape juice in, and I felt I should therefore make an effort and said I'd sample one.

It tasted of lemon. Indeed, there were a lot of lemon pips and lemon fibre bits.

I don't recall anything else of substance in that dream...



Where do I get on that channel??? In my own dreams I never find myself in cosy bookshops leafing through titles. I vaguely had a dream last night in which I was having to play detective, but it was surreal and disconnected and I opted on waking up not to rehearse the dream so I'd not remember it (waste of disk space).  :P 
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on July 19, 2021, 10:49:14
Quote from: SueC on July 19, 2021, 03:11:16It tasted of lemon. Indeed, there were a lot of lemon pips and lemon fibre bits.

I don't recall anything else of substance in that dream...

Wasn't the pips & fibre enough substance?  :winking_tongue
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: SueC on August 19, 2021, 23:31:51
Here's something unusual and lovely from a dream, something that doesn't exist in the real world.

In the dream Brett and I were walking along the banks of a wide river with internal stream channels and islands. This wasn't Australia but I'm not sure where, perhaps Middle Earth.

Sometimes the bank was impassable and we had to drop down to the river bed itself and do a bit of wading along the sides to continue. This was in clear, slow-moving water. Then we'd be able to climb back up the bank and continue along it.

After a while we saw these unusual curtains of water spaced all along the river. I can't call them walls because even though they went up from the waterline and between 2-5 metres into the air, they weren't solid like walls. They were 10cm thick at most in their widest places and membrane-thin in other places, and the tops of these curtains branched into these beautiful flow shapes - tapered points with droplets, wavelike curves, like something from an illustration in a fairytale book.

The water in the curtains didn't move; it was frozen, but not into ice, although in a way it resembled ice sculptures; it was a transparent gel and it just hung there with its sculpted edges moving very gently in the breeze, and it was defying the ordinary laws of physics just by existing.

These curtains were breathtakingly beautiful and completely mesmerising; I ran my fingertips along an edge gently and it felt like a flexible glass to touch, but within a few seconds of being touched the curtain edge began to flow and the shapes began to change, and slowly, the top of the curtain began to curve downwards and the whole structure commenced a slow-motion surrender to gravity, and where it bent and flowed into the water, it became ordinary water.

I didn't touch another of these curtains after that; I didn't want them to disappear - so as we walked along and passed by other examples of this fantastical phenomenon, I just looked from close range.

It was like being in some kind of enchanted fairytale-land. 🖤
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on February 26, 2022, 09:52:27
In two consecutive nights, I dreamed about persons I hadn't seen in a loooong time... first was a girl I had a crush on back in my school days, in this dream when I met her she said she lived abroad with her son.
The next was about "old" friends I haven't met in many years and lost touch with, wonder why they did appear in my dreams right now?  :1f636:
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Lollo on July 10, 2022, 20:35:34
I keep dreaming various dreams about Keith Richards from Rolling Stones,just casual dreaming nothing special.
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on July 11, 2022, 13:18:24
Quote from: Lollo on July 10, 2022, 20:35:34I keep dreaming various dreams about Keith Richards...

That alone is special.  ;)

Welcome to the forum, btw.  :cool
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Lollo on July 11, 2022, 15:14:52
 :D  :D

Thanks
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on August 31, 2022, 10:00:29
After being woken up by thunder, I fell asleep again and had a strange, confused dream.
I was in a town I did not know, I went to an Italian restaurant to ask for the way, the guy there gave me a coin (don't know what for, maybe for a phone booth). Still looking for the right way, I walked on through the town... got back to my car to see one door was open and thieves had gone through my bag and everything...  :1f635:
Later I was back at the building with the restaurant (I wanted to return to eat a pizza, to say thanks for the coin), then I was at a computer looking at photos from an old graveyard, some kid told me where to find it...
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on November 28, 2022, 11:14:40
Been feeling ill again... some weird fever dreams early in the mornings, most I can't remember, but this one: I was at a "Louis XIV" style palace with huge gardens and trying to fly through it with a big grey sail or something...
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on January 10, 2023, 09:49:56
When you start dreaming about "Saul", it is time to watch less of "Better Call Saul", I guess. (In my dream, he tried to tell me something vaguely, I said "Saul, get to the point"...)

Another dream I had was about a former friend, I was hesitant about seeing him again - in the dream I met him by accident in a crowd which was moving towards an unknown direction (?), anyway, he had a girl with him and kindly said to her "look, Regina, this is my old mate Uli". (Thus, in the dream, I was glad he was friendly.)
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on February 28, 2023, 15:43:20
Early yesterday I dreamed about a bus ride, which took me along a castle (the remarkable tower looked familiar to me). Next I was at some friends' house, although it was early morning one of the brothers was already in the kitchen preparing food (well he's a cook...), I did not need to ring the doorbell because I saw him at the open window and he saw me. Then I was inside the house (which looked different than what I remembered) with the brothers and we talked.
Next thing I remember is stepping outside the house onto the road and a guy on a bicycle nearly rode me over. I thought I heard someone talking to me, but then noticed it was just the guy on the bike talking into his phone...
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on July 23, 2023, 18:44:21
I had a strange dream which felt a bit like I was a spy in in a movie... plus there was this woman who looked pretty strange & wasted (which was probably an echo from a film I'd watched the night before).
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on October 30, 2023, 11:08:47
Had a dream about going to a wedding. At first we seemed to be at the house of the couple (before going to another place), I was offered a drink and walked around looking for people I would know... somehow realising I was wearing the wrong clothes for a wedding.  :1f62e:
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on November 21, 2023, 18:46:36
Another strange one: I dreamed I was in New York with my dad... we wanted to go to a concert I think, but I saw dark clouds in the sky, so we went to the hotel to get other clothes... I tried to find my father again, then I saw he'd taken another exit (why I went out there too, I don't know)...
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: nerdiee on November 21, 2023, 19:08:38
I like to discuss dreams, so I'll tell you mine... I remember it quite poorly, in fragments, but I remember that I dreamed that at night a crowd of Buddhists was walking along the highway near my house,they walked in a line of four people and carried a large flag on which was something is written in hieroglyphs...it looks like it was a procession in honor of some festival and this crowd of people shouted some words, but there was no music

then I found myself on a bus and listening to massive attack,I was driving under a bridge and everything around was gray and I enthusiastically commenting on one of the songs that was playing in my headphones(I think this song was "Risingson",it's incredibly cool)... and sudenlly music switched to radiohead and sun was starting shining,quite a pleasant moment, I immediately felt so happy..but uhhh this moment confused me, because if I dream about music, which makes me happy, then I dream about the cure! radiohead shamelessly entered to my dream and took the place of the cure,terrible!
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on November 22, 2023, 10:09:52
Quote from: nerdiee on November 21, 2023, 19:08:38I remember it quite poorly, in fragments

That's the same for me, above mentioned one had more "scenes", but I could not remember well enough.


Quote from: nerdiee on November 21, 2023, 19:08:38radiohead shamelessly entered to my dream and took the place of the cure,terrible!

A nightmare indeed.  ;)
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: Ulrich on December 13, 2023, 10:08:36
Had a series of "unconnected" dreams, in one someone was out to kill me (a sniper or something) and I had to hide. In another, I bought strangely coloured cheese from someone. In the last one, I went to a concert with various people, but they didn't have the seats ready in the concert hall... I showed my ticket and they brought in some chairs... I thought "last time this band had lots more people in". I was looking for my friend Robbie who's a roadie, but couldn't see him.
Title: Re: What (non-Cure) dream you had yesterday?
Post by: MeltingMan on December 17, 2023, 09:21:12
I had a strange dream this morning. At first I saw a face very clearly in front of me - that of Laura Osswald. Fortunately, I remembered Alexandra Neldel, her fellow actress in Verliebt in Berlin. Otherwise I would not have been called the name afterwards. Really strange, because it is so long ago and was obviously buried in the subconscious. After that I was in a spa landscape with a bike and white suit. I felt like Dr. Aschenbach in Death in Venice. And ... the dream was over.  :1f634: