I Like Dreamin’… Sometimes
Dec 4th 2007
Nicole JordanGoddess Grins
So a friend called me the other day wanting to know if I was all right. She’d just had a bad dream where I sustained a mortal injury while breaking up a fight between two neighborhood boys. The incident was real – I actually did break up a dangerous fight several months ago, which admittedly scared the devil out of me at the time! But thankfully my demise was just a figment of her nightmare.
But then the very next day I read an article that said some scientists believe dreams can actually foretell the future. So now do I have to worry whether my friend’s nightmare about me is gonna come true????
I’ve had bad dreams like that before, haven’t you? Where you or someone close to you meets an untimely end?
My own dreams tend to fall into three categories…. Good, Bad, and just plain Weird. I have a lot of weird ones that don’t make a lick of sense. I would just as soon not have 
those bad or weird kinds, but I don’t seem to have any control over what I dream.
I have another good friend, however, who really does try to control what she dreams. She’s big into analyzing and interpreting her dreams. She makes herself wake up several times each night and then jots down on paper everything she remembers. And then she spends countless hours trying to figure out what they all meant.
We all dream for several periods of REM sleep during the night, even though we often don’t remember most of them. Supposedly dreams are our subconscious at work, our way of making sense of our world. They make us better able to cope with problems. My dh believes that if he goes to sleep thinking about a work problem, he’ll wake up smarter. And a lot of the time he’s right – he’s actually solved his problem.
I like those kinds of good, helpful dreams. But what I want to know is, how do the Bad and Weird kind help solve anything? And do our dreams really mean anything?
Are you a big dreamer? What’s the weirdest dream you remember? Do you think your dreams are trying to tell you something?
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47 Responses to “I Like Dreamin’… Sometimes”
Aspen on 04 Dec 2007 at 12:37 am #
This is so wierd. I have been thinking about dreams lately. My friend Zoran is from Serbia and I asked him if he spoke english in his dreams. He said it depended if he was here or there and where the person he spoke to was from.
If the whole dreams come true thing is real. Me and Collin Firth will be getting hitched sometime in June. You are all invited of course!
evlqn on 04 Dec 2007 at 4:05 am #
I do what we call dreamwalking, for want of a better name. I have dreams about people and places I have never been nor seen before. The one I remember the most vividly is about a military officer who had led her men on a disasterous mission. Her commanding officer was trying to get her to cover it up. She called him Sandy and he seemed like a personal friend. We have a pyschic friend who says that they are probably memories of souls passing through. I always wanted to have my own personal hookup to the cable of the wierd, not! I rarely remember my garden variety dreams.
Karen Rose on 04 Dec 2007 at 7:06 am #
Nicole, I’ve had some doozy dreams that have been so very real. I used to have really scary dreams, but not so much anymore. Maybe it’s because I let my imagination go to town killing off poor folks in my books and my imagination is too tuckered to spin any more bad dreams
Or maybe I just don’t remember them.
My weirdest dream was one when I was a kid and dreamt I was a member of the Partridge Family - on rollerskates. I was skating with them at the place where in real life all the neighborhood kids would go to skate. But there was a vampire after us. I didn’t sleep for days after that - and I didn’t even get kissed by Keith Partridge in the dream. Bummer, dude.
Cookiedough on 04 Dec 2007 at 8:06 am #
I don’t have nice dreams. I suffer from night terrors. Have all my life.
Just the other day I woke up crying and telling myself I wanted to go home.
My neighbour once thought I was being attacked since I was yelling “get off me”
The weirdest dream I had was when my father died. We had all converged on the house to help our mom. I slept on the floor beside a sister who was on the couch. I kept dreaming of dad and that he wasn’t happy where he was. Everytime I rolled over, I would swear and say I can’t get comfortable, but I heard dad’s voice saying the words. When I got up the next day, my sister told me she heard dad’s voice coming out of my mouth saying I was uncomfortable and being really mad about it. Hence the swearing.
spooky!
Patty L. on 04 Dec 2007 at 8:12 am #
I have had dreams that my parents have passed and have had to wake up to call them just to reassure myself that they were okay. I have also had dreams about people and places that I have never been. Ironically, I’ve seen pictures of places and recognized them immediately. I don’t know how to explain it, but I think it’s past lives coming back. LOL
DebMarlowe on 04 Dec 2007 at 8:35 am #
Hi Nicole!
Do you remember where you read that article? I would love to read it!
I know some writers say they dream the solutions to plot problems. Karen, it’s so interesting that your dreams changed when you gave your imagination another outlet. I have several very vivid dream memories from when I was a kid, too, including my first real nightmare.
I used to walk in my sleep when I was little. When I was learning to type, I typed in my sleep.
I have a lot of weird dreams. The really goofy ones I tell to Sabrina, who is a whiz at telling me what they mean!
SuzyQ on 04 Dec 2007 at 8:36 am #
I remember a lot of my dreams and some of them have come true. I once dreamed I had a baby and sure enough, I turned out to be pregnant. The weirdest dream I have ever had was a UFO came to the house I grew up in and tried to take me on their ship. I ran out of the house and down the street with the aliens chasing me. I was finally able to get away from them by flying away. Aliens can’t fly without their ship, at least not in my dream.
cail on 04 Dec 2007 at 8:38 am #
when i was younger my brother used to periodically get really annoyed with me over things that i had done. only issue was i hadn’t actually done them, he had dreamed them.
i often remember my dreams. some are good, some not so good. they rarely come true.
Ellen on 04 Dec 2007 at 8:44 am #
Does anybody else have dream “continuation?” I can’t tell you how many times at night I will wake up and realize that I have been dreaming. But somehow, when I go back to sleep, I pick up where I left off.
I have very specific plots for specific emotions. For instance, when I am particularly stressed out, I will inevitably dream about being in school again.
I did have three dreams about loved ones passing and woke up to find out they did. But I’m not sure it counts because all three were ill at the time. However, in my dreams, there is no doubt that we are saying goodbye. The interesting thing about those dreams is that we are always so happy in them…no sadness at all. Just like you were saying goodbye to a friend right before they went on an incredible vacation.
Lisa H on 04 Dec 2007 at 9:15 am #
My most vivid dreams occured when I was pregnant (all three times) In those dreams I dreamed of holding a girl or boy (it differed regularly) Sometimes I dreamed of forgetting to feed the baby or not keeping up on their laundry (maybe I was worried I wouldn’t be a good mother)
The best dream I had recently was (this really is true) Johnny Depp coming to pick me up for a date. I came down the stairs and he was waiting in the foyer…as I neared him he put his arm around me and started rubbing my lower back. I really could feel his hand on my skin, but then I woke up to find my husband was rubbing my back. I have never dreamed of Johnny again, but boy I wish I could!
Keri Ford on 04 Dec 2007 at 9:16 am #
Cookiedough, I did a paper in college on night terrors. you forever have my sympathy. That’s some scary stuff.
Ellen, yes, my dreams can continue, but I have to think about the dream as I’m falling back asleep so I can pick back up. Works the same if I’m thinking about a story I’m writing (or reading for that matter), then I’ll dream about it.
Weirdest dream ever was probably ten or twelve years ago when I still lived at home and in jr. high. I dreamt my house had burnt down to the ground. My family and I got out alive and before I woke up we were all outside staring at the ashes. Now that doesn’t sound wierd at all, but it was the holidays, so next day at grandma’s house, I’m re-telling my dream and grandma and cousin look at me with their eyes wide and mouths open. They’d BOTH had the SAME dream on the SAME night.
Keri Ford on 04 Dec 2007 at 9:17 am #
forgot to mention…no it didn’t come true, but I’ve always wondered every few months (seriously, for the past 10 or so years) if I’m going to wake up in the middle of the night with my house on fire.
Gannon on 04 Dec 2007 at 9:47 am #
Ellen, I’ve had those continuation dreams quite often. Pretty cool, but only if it’s a good dream.
I often dream about people I’ve never seen, but in my dreams they are my friends. Weird. Someone said that we may “astral project” while we are sleeping, so maybe we know these people on another plane. I’m not sure about that, but it sounds cool.
My grandmother used to have dreams where terrible things happened to people, and they often came true. I used to tell her not to share with me if she had a dream about me. I had no desire to know about my potential demise!
I do dream periodically about my MIL. She passed away almost 2 years ago, and I miss her terribly. In my dreams, we talk and it’s like she never left. Maybe it’s her way of letting me know she’s still here, watching over us.
Karen Hawkins on 04 Dec 2007 at 10:20 am #
I don’t remember my dreams. I do, however, wake up with full thoughts in my head — scenes I need to write at that very moment, or a mental list of things I need to do. But I rarely ever remember my dreams.
I feel sort of cheated by this — I never got to dream about Johnny Depp rubbing my back, dagnabbit! Or if I did, I don’t remember, which is worse!
Nicole Jordan on 04 Dec 2007 at 10:38 am #
DebM, the article I read was in Parade magazine… the supplement in the Sunday newspapers a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t keep it or I would send it to you!
I just thought it a strange coincidence that I should get that so soon after my friend called me about her dream. And I would love to know how Sabrina manages to be such a fount of wisdom!
Nicole Jordan on 04 Dec 2007 at 10:42 am #
I definitely would love to dream about Colin Firth and Johnny D. CookieD, you have my most profound sympathies. I can’t even imagine how terrifying that would be.
Some of these other stories are lovely, though. I think Evlqn is on to something. Maybe we don’t remember our garden variety dreams because there’s nothing special about them. But we do remember the bad ones and some of the wierd ones because of the emotional impact?
doglady on 04 Dec 2007 at 10:43 am #
I have been having some sweet dreams about Raffiello these past few nights. Thanks, Karen H! My favorite dreams are about my DH. I definitely believe they are his way of telling me he is always with me even though he has been gone 14 years. The dreams are very ordinary - we walk, we talk, we sit around the house and discuss perfectly mundane things (he tells me to check the oil in the car a lot so I now it’s him. I can never remember to do that!) Those are sweet dreams. I have been dreaming about the village and the house we lived in while we were in England quite a bit. It must because I am doing research for my next novel. My mother is the scary one when it comes to dreams. She was born a twin and when they were six months old, her sister Lois died. Mom says Lois comes to her in dreams and it always happens just before something bad happens. In the dreams Lois is a young woman and they are on the sharecropper farm where my Mom grew up. She says they are milking cows or picking cotton
Nicole Jordan on 04 Dec 2007 at 10:48 am #
SuzyQ, I love your alien story! Take that, Spock!
KarenR, I don’t doubt at all that turning your nightmares into story elements makes your own dreams more pleasant. Cause you’re in control, and bad stuff can be very good if it adds to your books.
KarenH, I’m just the same way! I’ll wake up dreaming about scenes and characters in the book I’m writing. I love it when that happens! Sometimes I’ll lie in bed for an extra half hour trying to milk the dream for all it’s worth. I’ve come up with some really good stuff that way.
doglady on 04 Dec 2007 at 10:49 am #
or tobacco. Then Lois just looks at her and says “You need to see about - - - ” She’ll say the name and then disappear. This happened before each of their brothers died, before their sister died and before my father died. It even happened the night Roger and I totaled our car. We ended up upside down in a ditch and walked away. It was the middle of the night and the phone rang just as we walked in the door from the accident. I told Mom we had an accident and she said “I know. Lois told me.” Scares the crap out of me! My mother is FBI (full-blooded Indian) so she is a big believer in dreams. Nicole, stay away from those fights! You have books to write!! Consider it a service to the people I work with as without the books of Goddesses like you there would BE a fight in the bakery every day! Never a good thing when women have access to big knives and a large walk-in freezer!
Kim on 04 Dec 2007 at 10:58 am #
This is creepy! I just dreamed last night that my mom died. As soon as I woke up I called her. Sadly, this is something I’ve always dreamed about since I was little. I hate them.
When I was young I used to have a dream where I would wake up scared to death, gasping for air and completely terrorized. All I could remember was pitch black.
Ellen–I’ve done the dream continuation. Very cool.
I also used to be able to direct my dreams, make myself think of something as I fell asleep. That’s really cool!
One time I dreamed about a problem I was having at work. The next day I tried the solution I dreamed of and it worked!
The nicest dream I’ve had recently involved George Clooney, me and a fridge. *swoon*
claudia dain on 04 Dec 2007 at 11:03 am #
My youngest child suffered from night terrors. Yikes, talk about stressful! It was so horrible trying to wake him up, to get him to understand that it wasn’t real, that he was okay. The only thing that would work was to get him to move, to get out of bed, to do something. Going to the bathroom usually did the trick!
Even today, as a grown man, he has vivid dreams and tells us about them in detail every time we see him. His dreams are very much a part of his life and always have been. He’s also the deepest sleeper I’ve ever come across and loves to sleep, will conk off in minutes if conditions are right. I’ve always wondered if his love of sleep is connected to his vivid dreams. He really loves his dreams now, now that the terror stage has passed.
I usually remember my dreams and love to dissect them. I’m also one who can go to sleep and problem solve. Most of my day’s writing comes from that shadow zone as I’m surfacing from sleep in the morning. Snoozing as work! That’s me!
Mia Rose on 04 Dec 2007 at 11:27 am #
My mom has dreams that come true all the time, I love it. She’s figured out pregnancies, deaths…It’s really crazy. I hardly *ever* remember my dreams, I’m so jealous of people who do, but I fully believe they can come true and mean things. Sometimes I’ll wake up and remember either small bits and pieces or just wake up with a feeling or emotion, but I hardly ever remember details. For some reason, I always end up getting chased in my dreams! I have had the dreams though where someone I know has done something mean to me in my dreams and I wake up mad at them. It’s really wierd.
I bought a dream encylcopedia not too long ago, and since I never remember my own dreams, I usually use it on other people… but it’s usually right on.
Julia London on 04 Dec 2007 at 11:51 am #
Wow, people — I thought I had some pretty bizarre dreams! But I’ve never had one that came even close to foretelling the future, or night terrors (poor Cookiedough!) or murder, mayhem, or fire. I have wierd, funny dreams. Fantasy-like.
Two dreams stand out. When I was a little girl, I vividly remember the dream where Big Tex was chasing me. He was a forty foot cowboy at a local restaurant.
Second was the night I played in the finals of the US Open tennis tournament. But I had a frying pan as a racket, and my skirt was so short that I was afraid to bend down and go for the ball. My opponent was Jacquie D’Alessandro, and she had a cute tennis outfit and a real tennis racket. This was several years ago — Jacquie is a friend, but I have never played tennis with her or anything like that. I think it must have been a little career angst slipping in there, LOL.
And then I dreamed Rachel got hold of my dogs…no, wait. That’s just a fear.
Nicole Jordan on 04 Dec 2007 at 12:15 pm #
Wow, Dogl, that is some story about your mom and your car accident! And yes, I would love to stay away from fights, lol.
>>>would BE a fight in the bakery every day! Never a good thing when women have access to big knives and a large walk-in freezer!
ROFL!
Kim, that is so cool about being able to *direct* your dreams! How in the world to you do that?
>>>I bought a dream encylcopedia not too long ago, and since I never remember my own dreams, I usually use it on other people… but it’s usually right on.
Ok, Mia, you’ve gotta tell us the title and author! That sounds very intersesting!
Nicole Jordan on 04 Dec 2007 at 12:19 pm #
>>>Most of my day’s writing comes from that shadow zone as I’m surfacing from sleep in the morning. Snoozing as work! That’s me!
LOL, Claudia! I can’t sleep during the day, but I’ll frequently take a pad a pencil to a quiet room and lie down on the couch and let myself daydream — imagining a scene in my mind. Works wonders for creativity and dialogue!
And I’m really sorry about your son. I wonder if writing down his dreams would help reduce the vividness and severity? Or maybe he should check out Mia’s dream encyclopedia.
Julia, I can just see you in the US Open with a frying pan! I bet you would win. And I’ll bet you and Jacquie have great times together, she’s such a fun person.
Mia Rose on 04 Dec 2007 at 12:32 pm #
Nicole I had to look it up on Amazon since I’m not at home… but I found it, AND they just came out with a new revised copy!
> Zolar’s Encycopedia and Dictionary of Dreams:
In this fascinating encyclopedia, Zolar, the world-renowned astrologer and leading authority on the dream world, offers interpretations for more than 20,000 dreams —
I wish I had it with me to look up some of these dreams!
Julia, a frying pan?? The mental picture of that alone is priceless.
Mia Rose on 04 Dec 2007 at 12:37 pm #
Sorry, it’s me again! I was looking at the revised Dream Dictionary page and there’s a neat introduction that Zolar wrote on it so I wanted to share…
http://www.amazon.com/Zolars-Encyclopedia-Dictionary-Dreams-Revised/dp/0743222636/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196789066&sr=1-1
Nicole Jordan on 04 Dec 2007 at 1:36 pm #
Thanks for the link, Mia! That is VERY interesting. I’ll bet this encyclopedia is the book my friend has.
And I also wish you had it in front of you. Then maybe you could tell us what Julia’s frying pan and doglady’s farm dreams mean, lol. And I would love to know about Kim’s encounter with George in a fridge.
Julie on 04 Dec 2007 at 1:37 pm #
I tend to have really weird dreams. I write them down when I remember them. I also have some recurring dreams (even as far back as when I was little).
When I was 10 each night for a month I had a dream that a different person in my family died. The dreams stopped the night my grandfather passed away. A couple of months later I had a dream that he was across the street talking to me, telling me that everything would be ok. I didn’t tell my mom about those dreams for several years…she was upset that I didn’t tell her about them at the time.
After that, I would tell someone about a bad dream I had in the hopes that if I told someone it wouldn’t come true. On the other hand, if it was a really good dream, I wouldn’t tell anyone so that it would come true. Now I use my dreams to entertain my friends.
claudia dain on 04 Dec 2007 at 1:43 pm #
FYI, my son got control of his night terrors by learning how to direct his dreams. We encouraged him to remind himself, while in the middle of a terror, that he was dreaming and that he could make anything he wanted happen. It helped a lot and he doesn’t have night terrors anymore, but just vivid dreams that he enjoys because he knows that he’s ultimately in control.
Kim on 04 Dec 2007 at 2:04 pm #
“Kim, that is so cool about being able to *direct* your dreams! How in the world to you do that?”
Its really fairly simple. When you lay down to go to sleep just relax, clear your mind of the day to day stresses and focus on what you really want to dream about. A single thought, one person, one event. Keep it simple and focused. That was also how I used to be able to continue my dreams.
Oh, George and I weren’t in the fridge. We were up against the fridge *g* I was very svelte and knew all the right words to say. He just stood there and adored me. LOL And that’s all I have to say about that (To steal a line from Forrest Gumps line.)
Julia–Jacquie D is SO much fun. You know I even got to hold Allie this year:D I love that purse!
Mia–I used to have that exact Dream Encyclopedia. Its really cool, Nicole.
Nicole Jordan on 04 Dec 2007 at 3:02 pm #
>>>Oh, George and I weren’t in the fridge. We were up against the fridge *g* I was very svelte and knew all the right words to say. He just stood there and adored me. LOL And that’s all I have to say about that (To steal a line from Forrest Gumps line.)
That’s sounds like a great dream, Kim! And I’m glad you were outside. I’m really cold-natured, so I was having a hard time picturing how freezing even with GeorgeC could be fun *Grin*.
>>>Now I use my dreams to entertain my friends.
Julie, we would love to hear about some of your most entertaining dreams!
Nicole Jordan on 04 Dec 2007 at 3:02 pm #
And Claudia, that is so cool about your son learning to be in control of his dreams. I’m a control freak so I understand! Did you rely on any special help to learn how? People or books?
claudia dain on 04 Dec 2007 at 3:19 pm #
Nope, Nicole, DH and I figured it out all by ourselves. I don’t know how, unless it’s that special logic parents get about their kids the moment they spring into our lives. Knowing someone from Minute One really is a leg up in understanding them. Everyone knows about Mom Magic, right?
Sabrina Jeffries on 04 Dec 2007 at 3:32 pm #
Being able to control events in your dreams is called “lucid dreaming.” I sometimes have lucid dreaming, but almost never about anything important. Usually, they’re what I call my “adventure” dreams, and I can control the action, the plot, the characters, etc.
If the dream is about my life, though, I almost never can control it. Those are the ones like Julia’s, where she’s playing tennis with Jacquie (yeah, Julia, definitely career angst). Actually, I’m not as good at dream interpretation as my husband. The minute I recount a dream to him, he can tell me exactly what it means, and the minute he says what it means, I realize he’s right. It’s kind of spooky, because he’s not always that intuitive, but he sure does understand ME.
A couple of times in my life I’ve had truly significant, life-changing dreams that made me realize things about myself and helped me cope with a situation.
Sabrina Jeffries on 04 Dec 2007 at 3:33 pm #
Unfortunately, I almost NEVER have dreams about having sex with cute guys. Sigh. I also never dream about my own books. I dream plenty about other people’s stories–books or movies that grab me. But not my own. Which is annoying.
But I CAN make serious headway on a story if I think about it while I’m going off to sleep or as I’m waking up. That’s why I keep a pen and pad by my bed.
Karen Hawkins on 04 Dec 2007 at 3:47 pm #
You know, I don’t think I dream about my books or lists of things to do. I think I *think* in my sleep and then wake myself up because I need to write it down. There’s no fantasy or anything going on. Just me, planning things.
I really like the George against the fridge dream though. Fortunately for me, though I don’t dream at night (or don’t remember them), I dream a LOT during the day while awake.
I may dream about George and the fridge for a few moments now . . . mmmmmm!
Karen Rose on 04 Dec 2007 at 4:01 pm #
When I was in college I once fell asleep face down in my textbook, trying to work a really hard calculus problem. In the dream a disembodied hand was writing on a chalkboard - the answer to the problem - and it was RIGHT!
I loved that dream and wanted to have it again, but it never happened a second time. I’d forgotten about that.
Strangely, I was unafraid of the disembodied hand. It held chalk
Kerri on 04 Dec 2007 at 4:21 pm #
When I was a kid, I had recurring dreams about HR Puffenstuff - yes, the dreams were just as strange as the show, talking magical flute and all.
When I am stressed, I also dream about school. Usually, I get to school and discover I have no shoes on. THE HORROR! I don’t know why this is so bad in my dream - maybe being at school totally naked is too scary even for my subconscious. I also dream that I am in college, last day of finals, and I realize that I have forgotten to go to one of my classes all semester and now have to take the final. That one is probably the result of cramming four years of college into three!
While pregnant, I dreamed frequently that I was having a bear. I remember being really worried about how it was going to come out, what with all those claws and teeth and all!
Kim on 04 Dec 2007 at 5:08 pm #
“I may dream about George and the fridge for a few moments now . . . mmmmmm!”
Hey, Hey, HEY! Just make sure I’m not there *G*
Kay on 04 Dec 2007 at 5:15 pm #
Both of my kids had night terrors, too. OMG, I am so glad that stage is over. It lasted for over a year for each of them.
I have very vivid dreams and usually remember most of them. My Dh says he dreams, but he usually forgets almost everything as soon as he wakes up. When he does remember something, it is VERY strange.
Nicole Jordan on 04 Dec 2007 at 5:23 pm #
>>>While pregnant, I dreamed frequently that I was having a bear. I remember being really worried about how it was going to come out, what with all those claws and teeth and all!
ROFL, Kerri! Good thing that didn’t come to pass. My dh has the “naked at school” dream, too.
Boy, that would have been great, KarenR — dreams solving my calculous problems.
I don’t know much about night terrors, Kay, except that a friend’s young son suffers from them. And she gets up in the middle of the night and takes him out to see her horses. Just putting him on the back of one calms him immediately. I’ll bet you’re relieved to have it over with.
KariE on 04 Dec 2007 at 8:38 pm #
Big dreamer?-Yes
Although I don’t recall my weirdest dream, I do remember when I was little I often dreampt about having to go the bathroom. I think it was when I was potty training or something because I remember waking up then running to the bathroom. In the morning I would rave to my mom on how I woke up to go potty. (I really hope it was then otherwise this would be really embarassing)
I totally believe they are telling me something. There are too many little things that became reality, to consider coincidence.
Froggie on 04 Dec 2007 at 10:57 pm #
My family and I were comparing dreams one night at dinner. My husband rarely remembers his, and it always sounds as if the kids make theirs up as they go along. Mine are always weird for some reason. I sometimes wake up crying, my pillow wet with tears, or I’ll have dreams that scare the sh*t out of me, or I’ll have that old stand-by of going to school unprepared for a test… Mind you, I haven’t been in school in 20 some odd years - it doesn’t matter, I’ll still feel anxious.
The weirdest dream I’ve ever had was one where the kids and I were riding our bikes down a long steep hill, in farm country. We were going by a field filled with dairy cows. That’s not unusual, you might think, except all the cows we saw were doing hand-stands… It ended tragically though (the dream I mean) because at the bottom of the hill was a crossroad and having been distracted by the ‘Cirque du Cow’ exhibition, my eldest son got hit by a car and died. Yes my pillow was wet when I woke up!
Nicole Jordan on 04 Dec 2007 at 11:20 pm #
Yikes, Froggie, I was laughing aobut the cows until I got to the end of your story. I would cry, too.
And I’ll be a lot of us have the test dream and the potty training dream. Maybe it’s just a natural part of growing up?
darkshire007 on 06 Dec 2007 at 11:08 pm #
I am a dreamer; I’m also an oddity. I can remember all my dreams. I have had the same dream the last two nights so I hope that my dreams are not a premonition! For some reason I’ve dreamt I’ve had an object impaled in my eye. The strangest dream I ever had was cleaning my house and bending over to pick up something out of the carpet. When I stand back up, it’s like Alice in Wonderland; the room is superhuge (even the carpet is like a forest) and I’m really small.
TheNightPoet on 07 Dec 2007 at 1:14 am #
There are many weird dreams I’ve had over the years. If I remember them, I usually try to write them down. I can’t think of any specific one at the moment…oh wait, yes I can. lol There was one dream I had a few years go about one of my friend’s boyfriends. I dreamt that he had a thing for me and in the dream he tried to kiss me. I declined him in the dream and told him he was dating my friend. Then the dream ended there. What was weird was after I had it, I felt weird around my friend, almost like I was hiding something from her. I did eventually tell her about the dream, but a long time after that and in a way that wouldn’t upset her. (she gets jealous easily) I guess in a way the dream was telling me that the two of them wouldn’t say together, but I don’t think he ever cheated on her. I don’t know that for sure. Oh well.
There’s another dream I had where I got a speeding ticket and the next morning on my way to class, I got one! Weird huh?
Andrea