Sparky the Flying Wonder Pig and Other Dreams I Have Had
Feb 17th 2008
Karen HawkinsWhen Goddesses Fall To Earth
Last night I dreamed I was riding Sparky The Flying Wonder Pig when he dropped me in the middle of the street while we were waiting for a light to change. It was hot and the road was dirty and I was left wishing I’d just ridden my faithful old red Jeep instead.
I know, I know — why was a flying pig waiting for a light to change? Good question. But that’s how dreams work, though. They’re odd and obscure and full of disassociated items like flying pigs and red lights. The few dreams I remember never seem to have any real meaning, at least not to me.
Although when I was 12, I dreamed that I tripped while walking up the front sidewalk of my house and my toe bled and bled and bled — I woke up very frightened. Three days later, I fell in my kitchen and cut that same foot. It bled and bled and bled and I ended up with over 40 stitches and spent most of the summer on crutches.
Paranormal occurrence? Strange coincidence? I dunno.
What do you guys think? What was your last dream? Have you ever had a dream that came true? And do you think I should avoid flying pigs just in case?
77 Comments »
evlqn on 18 Feb 2008 at 1:26 am #
I dunno but for myself I would stay away from porchine aviators. What kind of beverages do they serve anyway?
Many years ago I had a recurring dream where I was riding with my mom and two brothers across an overpass. I was riding shotgun, my younger brother behind me and my older brother behind mom. Mom went over the guardrail and we landed on the train tracks below. One day I told my borthers that I really hated that overpass and they admitted they hated it also. it turns out we were all having the same dream. We stopped riding in that seating order and we all stopped having the dream. To this day we have never ridden in a car with that seating configuration again.
I can’t say I have ever had a dream come true but I have had dreams clarify issues for me, does that count?
Caryn on 18 Feb 2008 at 1:38 am #
I have strange dreams, very vivid ones. My favorites, though, are the ones where I dream I’m flying. I can relive those for days.
Karen Rose on 18 Feb 2008 at 8:06 am #
Oh, Karen, what a CUTE flying pig! He looks like he has a secret to tell. I’ve never had a dream come true, although I’ve had some strange ones. The last dream I remember was that someone I knew was changing jobs. She’d called and left me a voicemail telling me this. I was surprised - even in the dream it didn’t make sense, so in the dream I called her, thinking, “This is a dream.” In the dream she said, “Yep, I changed jobs.” I thought, “No way, this is a dream. If it were real, she would have sent me an email.” So in the dream I checked my email and sure enough, there was an email announcing the change. I still knew I was dreaming and woke up.
Of course there had been no emails or voicemails and my friend chuckled when I told her the tale. Of course she wouldn’t have made that job change! I don’t have scary dreams, contrary to what you all might think. I just dream goofy things.
Or perhaps I don’t remember the scary stuff and it comes out in my books. Bwahaha.
Kim on 18 Feb 2008 at 8:14 am #
Karen–what in the world did you eat last night?!?!
I’ve had dreams come true before. Its really freaky. Usually if I dream about someone dying, within a few days someone (not the person I dreamed about) will die.
I’ve dreamed about problems before and figured out a solution/saw what I was doing wrong. That’s always helpful, huh?
The last dream I had that I remember was a couple days ago and someone set me on fire. The worst part was that I woke up to take care of the dogs and when I went back to sleep I went right back in the dream. Now if I could have only done that when I dreamt about George Clooney! *g*
Maggie Robinson on 18 Feb 2008 at 8:58 am #
Last night I dreamt my computer got a pop-up virus and everything I clicked on made it worse! I’m sure this is because I’m revising and sure everything will conk out in the middle (just like my mind is conking out!). So it was with great trepidation I turned the computer on today. So far, so good. Ah, now I’ve doomed myself. *g*
Gannon on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:05 am #
I can’t remember any of my latest dreams, but I do remember a particularly prophetic one. About two years ago my dh left on a deployment which was supposed to last for six months. He’d been gone for almost two months, and I had a dream that his boss called me and told me they would be gone for a year. The next day, my husband called and told me that they would indeed be extending and would not be home for a year!
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:05 am #
ev, I’ve never heard of anyone changing something in real life to keep a dream from happening. That’s a great concept. Hmmm. Makes me wish I wrote paranormals!
Caryn, I ALWAYS have flying dreams, too! I looove to fly. One day, I’d like to get my license and do it for real.
Karen Rose, I rarely have scary dreams, either. It’s all flying pigs and magic carpets for me. I’m glad your scary stuff comes out in your books, though! THOSE keep me awake at night but in a delicious way!
Kim, last night before bed I had lasagna with Italian sausage. Think the pig was bent on vengeance? Ha!
Maggie! That’s a horrid nightmare! Email your work to yourself at the end of every day. I have a special email that just holds my work and I can access it from any computer at any time. A computer friend suggested this and it keeps me from worrying too much about viruses and such.
SnikyWhite on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:08 am #
My last dream was obscure and didn’t make any sense at all. It involved people who aren’t in my life anymore and also Mitt Romney. I figure I will leave it in the “dreams that don’t make any sense” category and just move on.
A few years back, I had this really random dream that I was pregnant. I was running around town, with my friend Amy and my (now ex) husband Justin. They took me to the hospital where I gave birth, but I didn’t pass the other stuff and I was frantically trying to get someone to listen to me. Finally I stood in the middle of the waiting room and screamed I HAVEN’T PASSED THE PLACENTA, and people paid attention. After that all ended they wheeled me to the glass where you can see the babies and I saw my little girl. In my dream her name was Grace Elizabeth. I found out a month later that I was pregnant.
Fast forward 6 years and tonight I will be making cupcakes for my daughter’s class in honor of her birthday. And yes, her name is Grace Elizabeth…
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:08 am #
Gannon, that’s SPOOKY! I never dream true things — well, except for the toe stubbing one and even that’s sort of ‘almost but not quite’ while your dream is the real McCoy. Very cool.
I once had a really vivid dream of a man jumping out of a window and landing on the sidewalk in front of me, my sister and my mother. I was about 10 and I mentioned it to my mother and she blinked and said, “That really happened. I was hoping you just didn’t remember it.” Wow!
Freedom Writer on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:09 am #
Last night I dreamt that I was trying to get away from my step mother (I’ve never had a step mother, and never will since my dad passed away 18 years ago.) Not very exciting, but in the past I did have a dream in which my brother died and I found out on the news. I then went to his funeral to confront my mom and ask her why she didn’t tell me, and she told me that I was just over reacting. The good news is that when I awoke, my brother was not really dead.
I have also had recurring dreams. One is that I go up to a 3 story house, and look up at the third floor, and shutter because something truly evil lives up there, but I am not afraid of the rest of the house, just the third floor. Another recurring dream is that I am in my house and go into rooms that are part of the house, but I had forgotten they were there, and had not been inside them for a long time, but they are really nice rooms. A third one has to do with college and exam time. It’s not a pleasant dream.
Freedom Writer on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:11 am #
Oh yes, and I have had dreams about Johnny Depp, Adrian Paul and David Reifsteck (a high school classmate)
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:11 am #
Sniky, it’s tough in a dream when you’re trying to tell people things and they don’t listen. I have a friend who has all of these dreams all based around that one thing — no one can hear her. That would drive me CRAZY!
Freedom, I hate dreams where people die. I always wake up with ‘residual emotion’ and it’s just tough to handle!
SnikyWhite on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:12 am #
Oh and the people who were running around town with me, happened to be the two people in the delivery room at my daughter’s birth…
SnikyWhite on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:14 am #
Karen - I have those a lot. I wake up sometimes freaked out and out of breath because I’ve been trying to speak but the words won’t come. I don’t know exactly what it means, but I tend to be a person who stifles for a while before i say anything and apparently that translates in dream world too.
Freedom Writer on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:18 am #
Karen, I too have had those dreams where no one listens to me or they can’t hear me and I end up screaming so loud that my voice disappears. This however does not carry over to my waking life to the oft time chagrin of my DH and kids. *g*
Gannon on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:19 am #
Oh, I just remembered another bizarre dream that I had a couple of years ago. I dreamed that I was getting a tattoo of a fairy on the small of my back. I swear I could feel it, which of course is really strange since I have no tattoos and wouldn’t know what it would feel like to get one!
Freedom Writer on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:21 am #
Sniky, I’ve dreamt about my pregnancies before they were known to me and I even predicted the sex of my last child before he was conceived. The start of my period is also something that I have predicted in dreams.
ladydawgfan on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:51 am #
The worst ones are the ones where you dream that you are buck nekkid in the middle of a crowd of people, like in school or in the mall or somewhere people know you. I have had this one several times and I always wake up tangled in the covers.
Another I hate is the one where I am falling. I love roller coasters, but this one dream is the absolute worst.
BTW, I read this posting last night before I went to bed. I was wondering if Karen ate anchovy pizza or something odd along those lines before going to bed!!!
doglady on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:53 am #
Karen, should you encounter a flying pig I hope you have a video camera. You could make a fortune! I have had lots of those deja vu type dreams - wake up and few days later it actually happens. These days my dreams include FROS guy and a hayloft!
FreshEChelle on 18 Feb 2008 at 10:15 am #
It’s so disappointing when your having a really, I mean really, good dream and you wake up ‘coz you have to pee. No matter how hard you try, it’s not a DVD, you can’t just pause and start the dream again.
I often dream that I’m driving a car from the backseat. I can reach the wheel but the seat makes it impossible to reach the brakes and of course the car is out of control. Recently, I had a dream in which all my dead pets were alive and my first dog was able to talk. It was a suprisingly happy dream, not the usual tear inducing kind.
KariE on 18 Feb 2008 at 10:30 am #
My “bad dream” is reccuring. It’s when I am doing something in my dream and my alarm goes off. I stop what I am doing I hit the alarm button and nothing happens. The alarm is still blaring. So I unplug the alarm and it still continues to blare. Just when I am about to freak out in my dream, I wake up. I HATE when that happens. This whole scene is even worse when the alarm is on the radio mode. I start freaking out because I can’t find the source of the music.
This happen to anyone else?
Claudia Dain on 18 Feb 2008 at 10:32 am #
I always dream vividly, every single night. I used to have a recurring dream when I was a kid, something about a dragon. I can’t remember much of it anymore, but I remember that I used to dream this exact same dragon dream at least once a month. It got to the point where I’d think in my dream, “oh, this dream again,” and tried to think of it as a visiting friend. It sort of worked! It was one of those dreams that starts out innocently and turns very scary.
I took a dream analysis class while in college and found it fascinating! Our dreams are so important and they tell us so much—if we could only understand the language.
SnikyWhite on 18 Feb 2008 at 10:35 am #
Kari - Yes, I’ve had that one too. Makes me mad and usually results in me throwing my alarm once I do wake up. There is a chip in the plastic on the bottom left of my alarm from one such encounter.
Freedom - Now there is some serious notification! I thought tracking it on a calendar would come in handy, but I would like to sign up for the dream notification. Inevitably, I get mine just about the time I’m out of pads AND money. Dreaming in advance might help me budget a little better
Fresh - If only we could invent a type of pause so we could go back to the same dream. I had this one where I was REALLY digging my dream, I wake up and go to the bathroom, intent on going right back to my dream, I curl up, start focusing on the last thought I remember and ended up dreaming about The Black Eyed Peas. Seriously, I was driving them around and Andre was NOT being nice, though Big Boi was trying to ease my worries and hit on me. I was so cranky when I woke up.
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2008 at 10:43 am #
Kari, yup! I’ve had that one, too. I keep turning the alarm off and it keeps coming on.
I’ve also had a dream where I incorporated the alarm sound into the dream and then didn’t wake up. Once I was dreaming I was on a ship and the alarm became a life boat drill alarm. I just snoozed right on through it and woke up when my kids came into the room, wondering why the alarm was still blaring and I hadn’t gotten them up for school.
And heck YES I’d like to pause some of my dreams! i don’t remember many, so the few I do remember, I don’t want to end.
Claudia, I wonder if dreams ALL have meanings or just some of them. I mean, what could my flying pig dream have meant? It seems very random to me.
KariE on 18 Feb 2008 at 10:59 am #
KarenH-That’s exactly what happens to me!! I incorporate the stupid alarm or song into the dream. Makes for some interesting dreams though.
Lisa H on 18 Feb 2008 at 11:08 am #
Karen H - do not avoid any flying pigs you may meet, they are worth a baconload of cash…
I have never had a dream come true, although I dreamed a couple months ago a certain man named Johnny came to pick me up for a date…right at my house. My husband was letting me go and everything. Johnny and I just stood there looking at each other, the sparks were a flyin’ and then he started rubbing my deriere. It really felt good…I woke up seconds later to find my husband doing the rubbing…I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go back into my dream or not… a dilemma of epic perportions!
True Story!
Lisa H on 18 Feb 2008 at 11:09 am #
doglady - are you still thinking about that FRO’s guy? Yeah that one. So am I!
FreshEChelle on 18 Feb 2008 at 11:15 am #
Kari, I once tried setting my alarm to a classical station. Turns out it just makes great background music to your dreams. Never actually woke up.
Mia Rose on 18 Feb 2008 at 11:30 am #
Karen when I get home tonight I’ll have to look up ‘flying pigs’ in my dream encyclopedia and see what interesting tidbit it might represent.
Sadly, I usually can only remember odd bits and pieces of dreams and it’s never very clear. My dreams are like acid trip revists (even though I’ve never even done acid) and NEVER make sense and are full of odd, random things. It drives me crazy when I’m trying to repeat them! It’s like telling a story with no storyline, just really wierd scenes.
The only dream I have that’s close to a reaccuring dream would be of being chased. I always dream I’m being chased by something (person, monster, rabid animal, a tree after I saw evil dead…) that wants to do me bodily harm so I really hope it never comes true and I have to run for my life. That would suck. Oh, and I’m always running for so long I get tired and slow down, but wake up before I’m caught. Obviously I need more exercise, just in case.
Sabrina Jeffries on 18 Feb 2008 at 11:31 am #
My dreams never come true, which is really sad, since I recently dreamed that I was dating Hugh Grant.
On the other hand, it might be a good thing that my dreams are never prescient since last night I dreamed I had a little girl–this is NOT a dream I want to come true. I have enough to handle with the grown man-child! Whom I love dearly, but still….
I do think dreams mean something, maybe not always, but more often than you think. My husband is VERY good at analyzing dreams and often elicits the explanation from me with careful questioning. He’ll say something like, “Could you be concerned about…” and a light will go off, and I’ll say, “Yes! That’s it!” He knows me so well.
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2008 at 11:33 am #
Sniky, WOW! You need a dream journal so you can write down those dreams of yours. So detailed! I always dream in generalities. Nothing really specific. I’m envious!
Lisa H, LOL! Do did you tell your husband about ‘the other guy’? That’s too funny! And was this “Johnny’ also known as”Mr. Depp?” Just wondering!
Doglady’s still in the hayloft from the Christmas FROS. Who needs a dream?
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2008 at 11:44 am #
Gannon, I missed your tattoo dream. OW! I’m surprised it didn’t wake you up!!!
Mia, the old chase dream. I’ve had that one, though not very often.
Anyone have the falling-and-wake-up-as-you-hit dream? That seems to be pretty common, too.
Sabrina, Hugh is adorable and just gets cuter as he ages. He’s going to be a charming little old man one day and probably just as successful in his movies!
colinfirthfan on 18 Feb 2008 at 11:56 am #
When I was about 8 years old my Mom was out of town and I woke up crying because I dreamt that she had died. Thankfully it was a dream.
A few months ago I woke up crying again. This time I dreamt that my husband had an affair. I woke my husband up to tell him. He, of course, thought it was quite funny and that I NUTS. I just had this awful feeling that wouldn’t go away for hours - even though I knew it was a dream!!
I also had a recurring dream in which I was 10 or 11 and I was being chased by a German Shepard. I ran down a hill and fell into the lake and drowned!! The strange part was I dreamt this a couple of tiems when I was 10 or 11 and then once more a few years back when I was in my late 20’s.
When I was 15 my neighbours German Shepard did chew my shoulder and arm out but there were no hills or lake anywhere close by.
SnikyWhite on 18 Feb 2008 at 11:57 am #
Karen H- That black eyed pea one got weirder, believe it or not and ended with me getting a check for $14.10 from one of my good friends who just happened to show up in the back seat as we drove around. The really weird ones I do write down, try to analyze or to see if eventually something might come of it. I don’t think I’m nostradomus, but some of my dreams have kind of hinted at things that were going to happen, so if they are detailed like that one, or the one where I gave birth, i pay attention. Other times, they just end up being the hot wings from the night before, but with the flying pig, I’m guessing you know what I mean there
LOL
evlqn on 18 Feb 2008 at 12:06 pm #
I remember another recurring dream I used to have years ago. I was in a grove of trees in the winter. I could see my booted feet walking in the frozen ground and I could hear the crunching snow. I couls see the edge of a scarlet coat that came near my knees. Suddenly I heard the crack of gunshot and then I feel a pain in my head and I fall into the snow. I would wake up and find i had rolled off the bed and was hiding behind the bed. About 20 years ago a pyschic told me that I was actually experiencing a past life and I had been a British soldier in the American Revolution. Again the dream stopped after that. My only complaint is why couldn’t I have been an officer, they live longer!
Snik I always knew what the sex of my children was.
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2008 at 12:23 pm #
colinfirthfan, I HATE waking up crying! But men never seem to get those.
I’ve dreamed that one of my kids have died and that KILLS me and I always wake up crying. I never have prescient dreams, so I’m safe saying it’s just me worrying while I sleep. Mother’s do that.
Snicky, yeah, I know what you mean about the hot wings. That’s exactly what happened!
You guys have such VIVID dreams! I feel like a slacker, me and my wonder pig.
SnikyWhite on 18 Feb 2008 at 12:28 pm #
LOL Karen…here I was jealous that Wonder Pig had not yet made it to my dreams.
Lisa H on 18 Feb 2008 at 1:03 pm #
Karen H - of course it was Mr. Depp!
Lisa H on 18 Feb 2008 at 1:04 pm #
Oh and no, I didn’t tell my husband, he is getting tired of my imaginary love affair with Johnny Depp!
JackieToo on 18 Feb 2008 at 1:38 pm #
Karen - You don’t live in Cincinnati, do you? ‘Cause they do have flying pigs there, ya know.
Claudia - Is it true that women dream in color but men dream in black and white?
Claudia Dain on 18 Feb 2008 at 1:50 pm #
The way I remember it, everyone dreams in black and white, it’s how we remember it that tells the tale since color or lack thereof is symbolic to the meaning of the dream. I’ve had dreams where everything was in black and white (or shades of gray), but one thing was vivid red.
Also, from memory (that class was ages ago and I’m sure they’ve made strides in understanding dreams since then) everyone dreams every night, at least three and up to five or even more.
The first dreams of the night are forgettable, the reviewing of the day, the venting of what we had to deal with. The later dreams are deeper, problem solving, heavy in symbolism and metaphor as the subconscious is trying to communicate to the conscious mind what the entire mind is wrestling with. These are the dreams that, for me, are only understood if I speak in the language of the dream. I have to assign words to the images, in other words. It’s as I’m describing the dream that I understand what it means.
Claudia Dain on 18 Feb 2008 at 1:52 pm #
Oh, meant to add that symbols are highly personal, which is why it’s tough for someone who doesn’t know you very well to interpret your dreams for you. There was a huge line of thought that specific symbols were global and common to all humans; that idea was waning when I took this class.
Lisa H on 18 Feb 2008 at 2:08 pm #
I used to have a lot of dreams of someone holding my arms behind my back, stopping me from doing whatever it was I was trying to do. My psychology professor told me she thought it meant I felt as if I was being held back, and after she said that, I realized she was right, I was feeling like that… Once I realized this, and re-assured myself that I was in control of my life, I stopped having those dreams.
FreshEChelle on 18 Feb 2008 at 2:58 pm #
My mother dreamed that her deceased father was pulling her into his grave. Her scream woke up the entire household. She has yet to read a Karen Rose book so who knows how she got thinking such twisted thoughts.
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2008 at 3:25 pm #
ev, that’s a TERRIFIC beginning for a book or a movie! You had me on the edge of my seat!
Jackie, I had NO idea there were flying pigs in Ohio! ‘Splain the flying pigs in Cin, please!
Claudia, that’s so fascinating! I wish I’d had your dream interpretation class in college. All I got to take were Natural Science, Political Theory, and Econ 1 and 2.
It wasn’t pretty.
Fresh, if your m-i-l is already dreaming like that, you might want to go ahead and give her a Karen Rose book. Might let her vent some of that wild and blood-lusting imagination while she’s awake so she can sleep better.
Freedom Writer on 18 Feb 2008 at 3:31 pm #
I don’t ever remember waking up from a dream crying, but I have had funny dreams that started me laughing, and I laughed so loud it woke me up.
One night shortly after my father died, I was at my mother’s house and I was sleeping. In my dream I heard footsteps coming down the hall. It scared the bejeezes out of me until I realized that it was my dad, and I immediately felt calm and at peace.
Also, I have had dreams where hot men are making passes at me and just when things are getting fun my conscious mind interrupts the dream to remind me that I am married and I turn them down. Can you say frustrating?
SnikyWhite on 18 Feb 2008 at 3:36 pm #
Freedom - my sub conscious apparently has no problem with lusty dreams. Of course now that I’m single it doesn’t matter, but while I was in a relationship, I had a dream about The Blue Wiggle. (you know the kids program The Wiggles? yeah that one) So I was getting all jiggy with the Blue Wiggle and apparently this made the Yellow Wiggle Jealous and I woke up and was like…um. Yeah. I felt like a pervert to the 1000th power…not to mention, they aren’t all that attractive, and so now when my daughter watches The Wiggles…I leave the room, feeling just a little dirty.
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2008 at 4:03 pm #
Freedom, you poor thing! Turn that Internal Editor off when you sleep! It’s the only real ‘free time’ a married woman can have!
Sniky,I had just cleaned my computer and your post made me spew diet soda all over the keyboard. Thank you (and Mr. Blue Wiggle) for the laugh!
Nicole Jordan on 18 Feb 2008 at 4:05 pm #
What a vivid mind you have, Karen. Flying pigs, indeed, lol. That’s no doubt what makes your books such great fun.
JackieToo, are you in Cinci? I love it there.
And the rest of you ladies put me to shame in the dream dept. I can’t claim anything that intriguing!
SnikyWhite on 18 Feb 2008 at 4:23 pm #
LOL mission accomplished. I figure, having a dream that out there is one that must be shared, and if you didn’t laugh at me, I would worry about you. I mean seriously. The Blue Wiggle of all things! My kingdom for a pirate!
TheNightPoet on 18 Feb 2008 at 4:33 pm #
I’m drawing a blank on a recent dream I’ve had. I know I have had one, but I can’t think of it. As for a dream that came true….I had a dream one night that I got a speeding ticket and the next morning on my way to class, I got one!
As for Sparky the Flying Pig, maybe you should avoid him in the future. But if he does reappear in a dream and decides to drop you, land on your feet and smirk up at him so he’ll know he doesn’t have the power over you to decide if you’ll land on your feet or flat on your face. If he reappears and won’t let you off of him, but insists on stopping at the darn red light again, “drive” him so he will know you are in control and he’s not. LOL I just realized that I was interpreting your dream as one of the guy being in control. lol Who would have thought? lol
Andrea
TheNightPoet on 18 Feb 2008 at 4:36 pm #
P.S. Thank you Karen H. for my autographed books from the contest on the forum a few weeks ago! I received them last Wednesday and hadn’t had a chance to get on here and thank you for them.
I can’t wait to start reading them, but I have to finish another book I had already started. I also have to wait for my homework to not pile up on me. I’ll read them though. You can guarentee that. 
Thank you again!
colinfirthfan on 18 Feb 2008 at 4:41 pm #
When I was pregnant I had “HOT” dreams. Whew!! Of course I woke up and the only think running through my brain was - Blech! Blech ! Blech!
I felt like a complete perv.
I think I dream in color. I can still remember the lake I drowned in had leaves and pink water lillies. I was wearing a skirt that was black with white flowers on it. The hill was green (or maybe I added the color later when I remembered the dream?)
I don’t often remember my dreams. Sometimes they are funny and I try adn remember them to tell my DH when he wakes up.
My DH talks in his sleep. He’ll ask my questions and I’ll start giggling and try to pry into his dreams which will wake him up!!
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2008 at 5:10 pm #
Sniky, I needed that laugh, too. Thanks!
NightPoet, I’m so glad you won! I hope you enjoy the series. I’ve had a GREAT time writing it.
As for your idea to ‘control the pig,’ I’ll do just that. I’ll even go to bed with a spatula and show it to him if he gives me any Flyin’ Pit ‘Tude.
And oh colinfirthfan, how I WISH my DH sleep talked! That would be COOL. Even if he didn’t tell me things, I’d pretend he did. Tee hee!
Freedom Writer on 18 Feb 2008 at 5:34 pm #
Sniky you make that Wiggles program sound interesting. I don’t ever remember feeling that way about Barney.
Karen H. I have been getting better at silencing that particular internal editor of mine. Have I told you about my Adrian dream. (blush, blush)
Freedom Writer on 18 Feb 2008 at 5:35 pm #
Yes I know Sabrina, Adrian is all yours. Except when he’s with me.
MoabReader on 18 Feb 2008 at 5:35 pm #
I dream most often about 2 things that I hate most: shopping and confrontation. In my dreams I’m usually shopping for antiques – which I love, or clothes – hate, hate, hate. And since I can’t have a confrontation when I’m conscious, I have them in my dreams. I’m getting a zillions times better with the conflict thing though. I don’t care so much about pleasing other people (phew!). And I’m getting better at the shopping thing too! I will try on anything – and NOT feel bad when it doesn’t fit!
evlqn on 18 Feb 2008 at 5:58 pm #
Karen, go for it ! I will never do anything about them, except remember them. I am a dream walker, I seem to dream about people and places I have never met or been. If they were of times past I might think it was a past life stopping by to say howdy. But they are contemporary. Okay, it’s official I am one strange broad!
Mia Rose on 18 Feb 2008 at 6:46 pm #
Damn, Zolar’s Encyclopedia of Dreams doesn’t cover flying pigs (it does cover flying fish however, go figure) BUT… it does say :
PIG(s) = Will Have Good Earnings (having read TCAH, I’ll simply say DUH)
and
of FLYING (in general) = Congenial Work and Good News.
Sounds pretty lucky to me Karen, why don’t you send the flying pig my way…
JSL on 18 Feb 2008 at 6:53 pm #
I’ve had dreams where *parts* of the came true, or were eerily close to what actually ended up happening. Also, that pig reminds me *so* much of the book “Pigs don’t Fly (But Dragons Do…)”
Suzanne Enoch on 18 Feb 2008 at 6:56 pm #
I once dreamed that Karen Hawkins and I were rooming together on the 11th floor of a hotel and the fire alarm went off and we had to go down the stairs to the ground floor and as soon as we got there they called off the alarm.
Oh, wait. That really happened. *g*
Aspen on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:22 pm #
I had a dream last week that Paula Abdoul (Sp?) and Simon were my parents. Needless to say it left me very confused. I think it was lack of sleep and watching too much American Idol that brought it on. I usually only watch the auditions. They make me “Evil Laugh.” Pod people…Mahahhha
krystal on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:45 pm #
For a about two weeks straight, I was having dreams that my teeth were falling out. In some of the dreams, they would just fall out whole while in other dreams they would just crumble out of my mouth. Every time that I woke up I would be in a panic and I had to check my teeth to make sure that they were all still there.
Also, I refuse to sleep on a couch because every time I do, I always always always end up being chased by Godzilla. (The really cheesy original Godzilla, not the newer one from Matthew Broderick’s movie which might be considered at least a little scary.)
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2008 at 10:47 pm #
Freedom, I’d ask you to tell us about the Adrian dream but ah, it sounds as if this might not be the proper forum for it! You GO, girlfriend!
Moab, I LOVE antiques, so I’m with you there. But I do love shoes and yet in all of my dreams, I can’t remember a one where I was shopping for either, darn it! Clothes shopping is another thing, though once I find a brand that works, I try ALL of their stuff and they usually works for me.
Mia, thanks SO MUCH for the read! Good earnings and Good News . . . WOOHOO!!! Now that the flying pig has graced my dreams, I’ll send him your way. WITH bells!
JSL, I haven’t heard of that book. Ah, yet another to add to the Must Get List. Was it good? What was it about? And which of your dreams really partly come true? Good ones, I hope!
Suzie, that happened along with a 20 minute conversation that included “GET YOUR COMPUTER!” and “Oh, you look fine in that shirt. I don’t think you need to change first.”
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2008 at 10:51 pm #
Aspen . . . I think Ic an interpret that dream . . . let’s see . . . you 1) need more sleep and 2) need to sloooowly step back from the television! LOL! How FUNNY to think of Simon and Paula as parents. Talk about needing counseling! That would do it!
Kyrstal, we need to get Mia to tell us what teeth dreams mean. I have no clue how to interpret that one. As for the cute Godzilla, maybe you feel a little exposed out there on the couch, but not a whole lot? I don’t know, but that sounds plausible. It’s funny that you don’t have that dream anywhere else!
krystal on 19 Feb 2008 at 12:04 am #
All I can say is that I’m glad that neither of those dreams have come true!
Audrey on 19 Feb 2008 at 12:48 am #
My husband woke me up one night by grunting loudly. Okay, that sounds bad but hear me out! So I watched him for a minute and he was sound asleep, tensing up like he was being hit. He was in judo at the time and I figured that he was dreaming about a match. Before I could wake him up, he punched himself in the face. Just popped himself one but good. So of course he wakes up and there I am sitting beside him wide awake. I’m still not sure if he believed me that it wasn’t me that hit him!
I used to have a recurring dream that an axe murderer was after me. Every time I was really stressed out, I’d have this dream. I think it was because of a movie I saw as a kid with a woman with a jangly bracelet who killed her parents with an axe. Anyway, I had this dream until one time the murderer’s face was revealed to me and it was my sister (who I adore and get along with really well actually). I never had the dream again.
cail on 19 Feb 2008 at 8:30 am #
wow, i missed such a fun discussion on my day off! That seems to keep happening…
I used to have a reoccuring dream that involved me being in a mouse village and it was on fire. i had to save the mice. recent i realized that it was similar to a scene in An American Tail.
I dream in color, usually its reliving past events (usually negative) or wishful thinking, like future careers that are unlikely to occur, or other such things.
Karen Hawkins on 19 Feb 2008 at 9:10 am #
krystal, no kidding! I’m always glad my dreams don’t come true — most of them, anyway. They are Too Weird although a flying pig sounds a bit fun, except being left in the road.
Audrey — BWHAHAHAHAHA! I can just see you sitting there as he wakes up and starts to look accusingly at you! Although . . . if i WANTED to smack someone and DIDN’T want them to know about — hmmmmm. Interesting idea! Btw, the thing about your sister — wow. That had to really freak you out.
Cail, I wonder why some scientists think we don’t dream in color? I mean, how do THEY know? I think I dream in color, too. I like your mouse dream and I’m glad you were the hero mouse like Fivel. Was that his name? I can’t remember for sure.
Man, you guys have had some incredibly interesting dreams!
JackieToo on 19 Feb 2008 at 9:18 am #
Karen - The Flying Pig is Cincy’s unofficial symbol/mascot. They’re everywhere! There’s even one in the concourse at the airport. Cincinnati used to be a major pig market and evidently they are proud of their porky past.
Nicole - I am currently living in TN but I spent six-ish years as a nanny in Ohio. “My” kids and I had a blast! It is a great place and I have many fond memories.
Claudia - Thanks for the info. I know that I dream every night but I can usually only remember wisps and flashes.
Cookiedough/Kathy on 19 Feb 2008 at 9:55 am #
my pc was down because of power flickers yesterday. missed this topic!
I’ve had night terrors since I was a kid.
the lastest dream was about my brother getting stuck in a cave. I know I triggered it myself because my new cat Sweetums during cold or stormy days like to burrow in my couch blanket. I called it her cave all day a few days ago. that night I dreamt of my winter camping cave loving brother getting stuck in one.
I tune in to Dirty jobs last night to see Mike Rowe get stuck in one too. spooky!
Karen Hawkins on 19 Feb 2008 at 11:41 am #
JackieToo, where in TN do you live? I used to live there. I actually grew up in East TN near Kingsport. I’ve been through the Cincy airport, but I’m always rushing through trying to make my connecting flight so I’ve missed the flying pigs. I’ve got to see those!
Cookiedough, I’ve heard of night terrors — I’m so sorry! That must be difficult for you. That’s weird about Mike Rose getting stuck in one at the same time you had your dream, too. But . . . isn’t that the BEST show? He’s so cute, too. They say he used to sing opera
TheNightPoet on 20 Feb 2008 at 1:45 am #
Audrey that is hilarious about your husband punching himself in his sleep! ROFLMAO Poor guy.
I still can’t think of a recent dream that I’ve had, but after reading about some of the goddesses having recurring dreams, it made me think of a recurring dream I had when I was a kid. I used to have a recurring dream where I was running from a monster (never really saw it in the dream, but I knew it was a monster chasing after me) and as I was running from it, I would come to the end of a cliff. At the cliff’s edge I knew I had to either jump or be captured by the monster, so I jumped. Everytime I had this dream, when I would jump, I would actually feel myself falling in my dream and then I would plop down onto my bed (as if I had actually been falling)and wake up.
Andrea
TheNightPoet on 20 Feb 2008 at 1:52 am #
P.S. That’s right Karen! You show that darn ol’ Sparky whose boss! lol No Flying’ Pit ‘Tudes! haha That pig won’t know what hit him. lol No pun intended. haha I just wonder what your husband will say when you come to bed with a spatula. haha I can just picture the confused look on his face when you tell him it will help you keep that silly ol’ Sparky the Flying Pig in line. lol
JackieToo on 20 Feb 2008 at 2:11 am #
Karen - I live close (relatively speaking) to Memphis. Always nice to “meet” a fellow Tennessean.
And the next time you’re in Cincy, do take time to check out the pigs, grab a Gold Star coney, and some ice cream at Graeters. You won’t regret it!
Okay, now I’m gonna have to go visit.
Karen Hawkins on 20 Feb 2008 at 9:34 am #
Andrea, it’s VERY important to keep your flying pigs in line. Trust me on this. Heh!!!
Btw, I’ve had a falling dream like you mention, though not so much info on the front part. I’m just falling, falling and then plop! (as you say — and that’s great way to state it!) I wake up in bed. VERY disturbing.
Oh Jackie, I looooove Memphis! Beale Street here I come! You know, it’s funny but I grew up closer to Virgina, Kentucky, North Carolina (all within 20 miles), Georgia, West Virginia, and Alabama than to Memphis.
The next time I fly through Cincy, I’m going to hope I get delayed overnight so I can do the sights! You had me at ‘ice cream.’
TheNightPoet on 20 Feb 2008 at 5:44 pm #
Karen, I agree with you on the fact that flying pigs need to be kept in line. If we didn’t keep them in line, they would take over, wouldn’t they? haha
As for the falling dream, I agree it is very disturbing when you wake up in bed by plopping down onto it. When I used to have that dream, I remember I would be disoriented and wonder how I ended up plopping in my bed. It felt so real and vivid that it would take me a minute to get my bearings and realize it was only a dream. I haven’t had that dream in a long time and I hope I don’t have it again.
Andrea