Still, you wouldn't be the first person in the TrekBBS who has appeared in my dreams. (That honour goes to Holdfast.)
I worry that this pre-title sequence is relevant.
The Interpretation of Dreams Thread™!
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I worry that this pre-title sequence is relevant.
Is it weird that I'm blushing regarding to a dream you had?Now the latest dream was interesting. I was in a hostel way up in the mountains, with a group of like-minded young people, where everyone was given tasks to do, and activities to participate in during the afternoons. I recall one activity was hiking up in the mountains, and I recognised many of the fellow participants as members of the TrekBBS. In particular I bumped into Emher and thestrangequark (based on their real-life appearance photos here) hiking together, hand in hand.
While I was looking at the other young people, and looking at the bland featureless hostel, I wondered to myself, "Wouldn't it be fun if all of a sudden a zombie apocalypse broke out right here?"This didn't materialise, however, although in my mind I still believed it did. Eventually evening and night fell, and the last thing I recall in the dream was wandering around the hostel at night, lights out, entering the kitchen and rummaging around the cupboards and shelves. I bumped into several of the other occupants (including the aforementioned people), who were in their nightwear, wondering why I was up all night, and looking puzzled. At this moment I was convinced there was a zombie apocalypse going on, but I couldn't really prove it. That's when this dream then ended.
(I suppose this could be my first attempt at lucid dreaming, except that it utterly failed to get off the ground.)
I dunno, maybe it's because I consider hands to be something very intimate. Or maybe I should just consider it sad that you're having more fun dreams about me then I have myself One thing though, I don't really have nightwear. I have a bathrobe around here somewhere but I rarely use it.
As for my own dreaming, as I said, it's not very exciting. As of late I've had...let's classify then as uneasy dreams. Not pure nightmares, but definitely a restlessness to them. Probably because I'm not feeling to well, is stressed and under a lot of pressure right now. Well for quite a while now.
Re: The Interpretation of Dreams Thread™!
Well, actually you were offering fashion advice, if I recall correctly.
If I've learned anything about my dreams by now, especially with respect to the various people I meet in them, I'm sure that they aren't prophetic. Well, at least not to me anyway.
Still, it could be worse, like that episode of LOST where one character dreamed that he was another character....
Still, you wouldn't be the first person in the TrekBBS who has appeared in my dreams. (That honour goes to Holdfast.
I worry that this pre-title sequence is relevant.
Well, actually you were offering fashion advice, if I recall correctly.
Is it weird that I'm blushing regarding to a dream you had?
If I've learned anything about my dreams by now, especially with respect to the various people I meet in them, I'm sure that they aren't prophetic. Well, at least not to me anyway.
Still, it could be worse, like that episode of LOST where one character dreamed that he was another character....
Re: The Interpretation of Dreams Thread™!
Two more interesting dreams this time - and this time the common themes were fantasy settings and myself floating above the action and seeing everything, with no control over where I could go or what I could see. In that respect, they were like dreaming about seeing films or documentaries.
The first occurred on Friday night, and involved me visiting an ancient Roman city located by a sea port with grand hills and outdoor steps producing exquisite views. I then imagined myself viewing the whole city from above as if I was flying around the place, seeing it come to life, and as I watched everything, I heard a narrator talking about one of the Emperors - it might have been Caesar Augustus, the first Emperor - and all his accomplishments and in particular his many sexual conquests, and as the narrator continued to talk, Augustus himself appeared in the dream, looking out from one of the scenic viewpoints of the city with presumably his woman by his side, then make a rather clever comment and walking off.
The second dream happened last night, and was very vivid indeed. In this dream again I was an observer watching things happen, and it was set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (I presumed) and a raging space battle was going on. It was very much a Star Wars setting, with starfighters of different designs flying all over the place, and astromech droids crawling all over a large space station that needed to be destroyed. I remember the scenes changing constantly, and I kept on watching the main protagonist, a female soldier with long blonde hair, trying to see the fall of the Empire through her constant struggles. During various scenes, she would shoot her way out of trouble, perform acts of sabotage, and all the while keep track of a list of doctrines by the Empire written on a blackboard, but forever changing, a la "Animal Farm". One particularly memorable scene involved her performing a spacewalk on the Death Star in which she had to first locate and capture an astromech droid (R2 unit) through a sniper rifle, then with the droid traverse a precarious walkway across a large open space, towards her target (a reactor that neded shutting down), all the time avoiding the busy traffic of starfighters flying past and shooting their enemies in anger. Eventually she completed her task and escaped by climbing on top of her R2 unit, which had suddenly sprouted handlebars, and jetting away to safety. The last scene in the dream involved her returning to her usual work in an unassuming office building, to find that the Empire's slogans had changed one last time, again "Animal Farm" style, but that the Empire itself had collapsed, and the dream ended with myself floating above the protagonists and watching them as she, her friends and colleagues, left the building out towards a large park in the autumn, sliding down muddy paths towards the streets, with the music of James Taylor in the background.
Unfortunately for those looking for some meaning into my dreams, no-one from the TrekBBS was involved in either of them.
Two more interesting dreams this time - and this time the common themes were fantasy settings and myself floating above the action and seeing everything, with no control over where I could go or what I could see. In that respect, they were like dreaming about seeing films or documentaries.
The first occurred on Friday night, and involved me visiting an ancient Roman city located by a sea port with grand hills and outdoor steps producing exquisite views. I then imagined myself viewing the whole city from above as if I was flying around the place, seeing it come to life, and as I watched everything, I heard a narrator talking about one of the Emperors - it might have been Caesar Augustus, the first Emperor - and all his accomplishments and in particular his many sexual conquests, and as the narrator continued to talk, Augustus himself appeared in the dream, looking out from one of the scenic viewpoints of the city with presumably his woman by his side, then make a rather clever comment and walking off.
The second dream happened last night, and was very vivid indeed. In this dream again I was an observer watching things happen, and it was set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (I presumed) and a raging space battle was going on. It was very much a Star Wars setting, with starfighters of different designs flying all over the place, and astromech droids crawling all over a large space station that needed to be destroyed. I remember the scenes changing constantly, and I kept on watching the main protagonist, a female soldier with long blonde hair, trying to see the fall of the Empire through her constant struggles. During various scenes, she would shoot her way out of trouble, perform acts of sabotage, and all the while keep track of a list of doctrines by the Empire written on a blackboard, but forever changing, a la "Animal Farm". One particularly memorable scene involved her performing a spacewalk on the Death Star in which she had to first locate and capture an astromech droid (R2 unit) through a sniper rifle, then with the droid traverse a precarious walkway across a large open space, towards her target (a reactor that neded shutting down), all the time avoiding the busy traffic of starfighters flying past and shooting their enemies in anger. Eventually she completed her task and escaped by climbing on top of her R2 unit, which had suddenly sprouted handlebars, and jetting away to safety. The last scene in the dream involved her returning to her usual work in an unassuming office building, to find that the Empire's slogans had changed one last time, again "Animal Farm" style, but that the Empire itself had collapsed, and the dream ended with myself floating above the protagonists and watching them as she, her friends and colleagues, left the building out towards a large park in the autumn, sliding down muddy paths towards the streets, with the music of James Taylor in the background.
Unfortunately for those looking for some meaning into my dreams, no-one from the TrekBBS was involved in either of them.
I just had the strangest dream. I was in town with my mom and the weather suddenly went crazy. I'm talking rain and mini tornados. The mountain turnd volcanic and started spewing lava monsters. So my mom and me hurried to my siblings school to find them. At the school I kept getting lost. We couldnt get home cause of the monsters so we stopped by the police cars that were trying to figure out what was going on. Two of the cops quiz me on random stuff and if I get answers right I get a key to something. I was about to talk to the final quiz cop when something happened and they drove off.
We went to the nearby supermarket to get some food cause we were getting hungry. At the shop there was hardly any food. We were busy eating in the car when I woke up.
Pretty weird huh
We went to the nearby supermarket to get some food cause we were getting hungry. At the shop there was hardly any food. We were busy eating in the car when I woke up.
Pretty weird huh
Re: The Interpretation of Dreams Thread!
Funny that you mention that. I have had dreams every night now for the last 5 nights, and on the last two nights I have woken up from them to find that I had been asleep for only a few hours.
I can't remember what last night's dream was about, but in the night before, I dreamed that I was walking between cities, among hilly countryside, following a guy walking around a neighbourhood along a set path. I recognised the guy as being our very own Flukie, who then took me aside to show me the lay of the land and the nearby cities which I recognised as being of central England. The rest of the dream involved me walking down a street with my old best friend and another woman, slightly older than me, past and into a building site for a block of flats that was nearly finished, while it started to rain. My friend got himself trapped behind a door without a handle, twice, although I was able to free him each time.
Funny that you mention that. I have had dreams every night now for the last 5 nights, and on the last two nights I have woken up from them to find that I had been asleep for only a few hours.
I can't remember what last night's dream was about, but in the night before, I dreamed that I was walking between cities, among hilly countryside, following a guy walking around a neighbourhood along a set path. I recognised the guy as being our very own Flukie, who then took me aside to show me the lay of the land and the nearby cities which I recognised as being of central England. The rest of the dream involved me walking down a street with my old best friend and another woman, slightly older than me, past and into a building site for a block of flats that was nearly finished, while it started to rain. My friend got himself trapped behind a door without a handle, twice, although I was able to free him each time.
Being a college kid, I had a dream that Leonard Nimoy was my professor. He was so awesome, I don't remember what the subject was. I was trying not to geek out too much, but I ended up annoying him. He was still pretty nice.
Now for a Quinto dream!
I have chronic insomnia, so I don't have dreams very often.
Now for a Quinto dream!
I have chronic insomnia, so I don't have dreams very often.
Last night I had the strangest dream. I sailed away to China, in a little rowboat to find ya, and you said you had to get your laundry clean. Didn't want no one to hold you - what does that mean? 
I had this strange dream. In it my son was elected Governor of Tasmania which is odd because Governors aren't elected in Australia - they are selected by Parliament.
Anyway, because my son isn't married I was asked to move into Government House to perform the functions that the Governor's wife usually does. I was very excited and packed up all my things and my son and I went over to Government House (which is a huge building).
First we were given a tour. We were shown the huge kitchen, the ballroom, the rooms that the Queen slept in when she came for a visit etc. All these rooms were elegant and beautiful. Then we were taken to our private apartment. I was shocked to find out that it was a dingy, little two bedroom apartment in the basement that was far worse than the Housing Department house I live in. The carpet smelt and the paint was flaking. I started to cry because I was so disappointed. Then I woke up.
Anyway, because my son isn't married I was asked to move into Government House to perform the functions that the Governor's wife usually does. I was very excited and packed up all my things and my son and I went over to Government House (which is a huge building).
First we were given a tour. We were shown the huge kitchen, the ballroom, the rooms that the Queen slept in when she came for a visit etc. All these rooms were elegant and beautiful. Then we were taken to our private apartment. I was shocked to find out that it was a dingy, little two bedroom apartment in the basement that was far worse than the Housing Department house I live in. The carpet smelt and the paint was flaking. I started to cry because I was so disappointed. Then I woke up.
O.k. I had one hell of a messed up dream last night and I have to write it down. Take what you will from it. Note, that Big Love's fourth season begins this weekend.
The dream:
So I'm 5 months pregnant. There is a woman who controls what I wear - it's like a religous law that I have to wear white socks - and it turns out she is the first wife, and I am the second. The husband is not a part of the family unit at the house we are in. There are other family members in the house, mainly the older children of the first wife.
Well, I, feeling constricted in the rules I have to obey, secretly go to school for an extra learning course, and have an affair with my professor. He wants me to leave the family I am a part of - I would be first and only wife for him - but I say I can't because of the upcoming birth of my child.
One day, I am dressing myself as the first wife dictates, this professor comes to the house and pulls out a semi-automatic and shoots everyone in the house to 'free' me. He takes me from the carnage and makes me his wife - thus controlling me in a different fashion as the first wife did. I am still not happy.
I wake up then and think WTF?
Oh, I'll add that the 'five months pregnant' thing probably came from the episode of Little House on the Prairie I watched yesterday when Laura is 5 months pregnant and trying to save her orchard from dying during a drought
The dream:
So I'm 5 months pregnant. There is a woman who controls what I wear - it's like a religous law that I have to wear white socks - and it turns out she is the first wife, and I am the second. The husband is not a part of the family unit at the house we are in. There are other family members in the house, mainly the older children of the first wife.
Well, I, feeling constricted in the rules I have to obey, secretly go to school for an extra learning course, and have an affair with my professor. He wants me to leave the family I am a part of - I would be first and only wife for him - but I say I can't because of the upcoming birth of my child.
One day, I am dressing myself as the first wife dictates, this professor comes to the house and pulls out a semi-automatic and shoots everyone in the house to 'free' me. He takes me from the carnage and makes me his wife - thus controlling me in a different fashion as the first wife did. I am still not happy.
I wake up then and think WTF?
Oh, I'll add that the 'five months pregnant' thing probably came from the episode of Little House on the Prairie I watched yesterday when Laura is 5 months pregnant and trying to save her orchard from dying during a drought
Re: The Interpretation of Dreams Thread™!
I'm glad someone revived this thread, because I've had a strange pair of dreams recently.
One dream I had a while back involved me going on a journey (I think I was with another colleague) on mountain bicycles, travelling from work to home (it seemed). The dream was all about the journey: I didn't recall elements of the start and the destination, but it involved myself following a bike track down from work (which went downhill on a road). At one point, the route veered off to the left and into vast red desert sands with a deep purple sky and a setting sun, with tall soft dunes, at which point the journey sped up with myself cycling up and down the shifting sands, unaware of the potentially clifflike drops on the other side of the dunes. I recalled that my colleague was far ahead, enjoying himself.
Eventually the scenery changed to grass and some hills and a small river nearby (bizarrely with the sun high in the cloudy sky) and the route home continued along a well-beaten pathway, leading up to an electrified fence which I remember traversing by passing my bike underneath first, then crouching underneath afterwards, and avoiding being electrocuted. I did notice afterwards that there was a gate to the right which I could have used in the first place.
The path then entered urban territory in what appeared to be a very Mediterranean setting with villas and sandy buildings and tight straight alleyways, all sloping downhill. During this point there were moments when the road stopped into vertical drops which required myself to actually get off the bike and climb down (sometimes the drop would be about 5-7 feet) and sometimes there was rainwater dripping along the gutters. Later on this particular road, there was a lot of traffic, with cars and the occasional truck backing out of side streets. Eventually I arrived at my home, which was at the bottom of this cycle path, and the dream ended as soon as I arrived outside.
The second dream, which I had last night, was exactly the same as the first - down to the precise detail - except that I was travelling the other way, from home to work, with all the aforementioned landmarks and hazards occurring in the exact reverse order.
I'm glad someone revived this thread, because I've had a strange pair of dreams recently.
One dream I had a while back involved me going on a journey (I think I was with another colleague) on mountain bicycles, travelling from work to home (it seemed). The dream was all about the journey: I didn't recall elements of the start and the destination, but it involved myself following a bike track down from work (which went downhill on a road). At one point, the route veered off to the left and into vast red desert sands with a deep purple sky and a setting sun, with tall soft dunes, at which point the journey sped up with myself cycling up and down the shifting sands, unaware of the potentially clifflike drops on the other side of the dunes. I recalled that my colleague was far ahead, enjoying himself.
Eventually the scenery changed to grass and some hills and a small river nearby (bizarrely with the sun high in the cloudy sky) and the route home continued along a well-beaten pathway, leading up to an electrified fence which I remember traversing by passing my bike underneath first, then crouching underneath afterwards, and avoiding being electrocuted. I did notice afterwards that there was a gate to the right which I could have used in the first place.
The path then entered urban territory in what appeared to be a very Mediterranean setting with villas and sandy buildings and tight straight alleyways, all sloping downhill. During this point there were moments when the road stopped into vertical drops which required myself to actually get off the bike and climb down (sometimes the drop would be about 5-7 feet) and sometimes there was rainwater dripping along the gutters. Later on this particular road, there was a lot of traffic, with cars and the occasional truck backing out of side streets. Eventually I arrived at my home, which was at the bottom of this cycle path, and the dream ended as soon as I arrived outside.
The second dream, which I had last night, was exactly the same as the first - down to the precise detail - except that I was travelling the other way, from home to work, with all the aforementioned landmarks and hazards occurring in the exact reverse order.
I think the question on everyone's lips is, was there a time at which both of your selves were at exactly the same location in your journeys? And if so, did you say hello when you passed yourself by?
The bicycle represents freedom, but also vulnerability, as there are many risks and obstacles you encounter: The ravines, the 7 foot drops, the electric fence, the shifting sands. The gate is interesting: You failed to see and use it, and that made a situation ten times harder than it really was.
Sometimes, an obstacle isn't always an obstacle, even though we see it as one. Sometimes problems we encounter in life are simpler than they seem, but we don't always know what we're supposed to be looking for. We don't always feel confident with things we're unfamiliar with.
Perhaps the dream is a metaphor for wanting to make changes in your life, but you're seeing the path of "freedom" as being fraught with obstacles and risks, and you don't feel confident with that.
The dream is doing two things for you emotionally:
(1) reminding you of your desire for a change of scenery,
(2) allowing you to experience risk and obstacles and non-obstacles in a controlled setting, that is helping you to build up confidence for how to negotiate new scenery.
The bicycle represents freedom, but also vulnerability, as there are many risks and obstacles you encounter: The ravines, the 7 foot drops, the electric fence, the shifting sands. The gate is interesting: You failed to see and use it, and that made a situation ten times harder than it really was.
Sometimes, an obstacle isn't always an obstacle, even though we see it as one. Sometimes problems we encounter in life are simpler than they seem, but we don't always know what we're supposed to be looking for. We don't always feel confident with things we're unfamiliar with.
Perhaps the dream is a metaphor for wanting to make changes in your life, but you're seeing the path of "freedom" as being fraught with obstacles and risks, and you don't feel confident with that.
The dream is doing two things for you emotionally:
(1) reminding you of your desire for a change of scenery,
(2) allowing you to experience risk and obstacles and non-obstacles in a controlled setting, that is helping you to build up confidence for how to negotiate new scenery.
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I had a dream last night involving an angelic figure who kept reappearing and telling me things that were going to happen in the future (this next decade). It was more unsettled sleep than I normally have as I kept half waking up, and the dream seemed to drag on in dribs and drabs all night long.
Interestingly, the gist of the events were spoken to me, but I had a strong feeling of the applicable year for each.
Interestingly, the gist of the events were spoken to me, but I had a strong feeling of the applicable year for each.
I had this dream last night.
I was in a cinema watching a fantasy movie that I had been looking forward to seeing. My best friedn was sitting besides me. We had looked at about 15 minutes of the movie, and were really enjoying it, when we heard a hammering sound. I looked to the right of me and, in the dark, I saw that a carpenter was building some a bookshelf in the aisle. Then he started to use his drill.
My friend and I moved to the other side of the theatre hoping to get away from the sound. However the carpenter picked up his bookshelf and followed us. He put the bookshelf over the seats in front of us and continued to hammer. My friend asked him to move but he ignored her.
We couldn't get out of our row because he was blocking it. So we had to climb over the seats to get out. We went outside to the ticketbox and asked for a refund. The lady refused to refund our tickets because she wouldn't believe that there was a carpenter in the theatre. My friend yelled at her but she walked away. We went home in an angry mood.
I would love it if someone could tell what the carpenter represented.
I was in a cinema watching a fantasy movie that I had been looking forward to seeing. My best friedn was sitting besides me. We had looked at about 15 minutes of the movie, and were really enjoying it, when we heard a hammering sound. I looked to the right of me and, in the dark, I saw that a carpenter was building some a bookshelf in the aisle. Then he started to use his drill.
My friend and I moved to the other side of the theatre hoping to get away from the sound. However the carpenter picked up his bookshelf and followed us. He put the bookshelf over the seats in front of us and continued to hammer. My friend asked him to move but he ignored her.
We couldn't get out of our row because he was blocking it. So we had to climb over the seats to get out. We went outside to the ticketbox and asked for a refund. The lady refused to refund our tickets because she wouldn't believe that there was a carpenter in the theatre. My friend yelled at her but she walked away. We went home in an angry mood.
I would love it if someone could tell what the carpenter represented.
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The carpenter is simply a manifestation of nuisance. The following you across the theatre is deliberate, which makes it a dream about harrassment or bullying. And importantly that the person(s) in authority won't accept it is happening.
And the basic theme here is that the person doesn't get dealt with, and you resort to walking away from the situation, which is perhaps what the carpenter wanted to make you do?
Perhaps somebody in your life is causing you grief? Perhaps you feel unable to talk about it because you fear (as the dream shows) talking won't do any good, and people won't take you seriously.
And the basic theme here is that the person doesn't get dealt with, and you resort to walking away from the situation, which is perhaps what the carpenter wanted to make you do?
Perhaps somebody in your life is causing you grief? Perhaps you feel unable to talk about it because you fear (as the dream shows) talking won't do any good, and people won't take you seriously.
Re: The Interpretation of Dreams Thread™!
Funnily enough, not this time. Maybe it'll happen tonight.
Work getting in the way of having fun. If you are between the ages of 17 and 21, then you are adjusting to a change in priorities. If you have been working for years, and you sneak fun during work (liking posting at TrekBBS), then perhaps you feel guilty about it.
I go with Hillman on dreams, letting the dreamer determine the meaning of the symbols. The "guidebook" approach that some Jungians espouse is based on the premise of a collective unconcious mind. But each individual has his own connotations for symbols. For some a rabbit is speed, for others it is food. So, what does the carpenter mean? As you can see from my statement about your dream, I feel guilty about posting here during work hours, hence I interpret your dream that way.
Can you remember the name of the movie? Were there other people in the theatre? Did he ever make eye contact? What color were the seats? This is the sort of question that can bring you back to your state of mind while you were dreaming.
... not sure this was much help...
I go with Hillman on dreams, letting the dreamer determine the meaning of the symbols. The "guidebook" approach that some Jungians espouse is based on the premise of a collective unconcious mind. But each individual has his own connotations for symbols. For some a rabbit is speed, for others it is food. So, what does the carpenter mean? As you can see from my statement about your dream, I feel guilty about posting here during work hours, hence I interpret your dream that way.
Can you remember the name of the movie? Were there other people in the theatre? Did he ever make eye contact? What color were the seats? This is the sort of question that can bring you back to your state of mind while you were dreaming.
... not sure this was much help...
I can't remember the name of the movie but I know it had a G rating so it was a family movie. There were a few other people in the theatre and they seemed annoyed too but we were the first to leave though I did see a man and a woman come out of the movie after we had asked for our refund.
The seats were red but that is because that is the colour they are in the cinema I go to.
I am 51 years old and retired because of ill health.
I think I do tend to walk away from problems though there isn't anything occurring at the moment.
However my sister who lives in Adelaide is coming to visit at the end of the month. I am alright with individual members of my family on their own but when two or more of them get together (when I am on my own) they tend to be critical of me, it is as if they feed off each other.
The seats were red but that is because that is the colour they are in the cinema I go to.
I am 51 years old and retired because of ill health.
I think I do tend to walk away from problems though there isn't anything occurring at the moment.
However my sister who lives in Adelaide is coming to visit at the end of the month. I am alright with individual members of my family on their own but when two or more of them get together (when I am on my own) they tend to be critical of me, it is as if they feed off each other.
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