I sure enjoyed the dream conversations that we had when this forum first started up, went back and read them this morning, so it got me to wondering if any body has had any good dreams lately? TRen

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

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I've had a nice one a few times lately. My mind must be working overtime on the subject of Native Americans as I have been studying the Shawnee people who would have populated the area I live in.

I can't tell you much more than I am no longer me but a young Indian woman riding down a beautiful river or stream with the most gorgeous Indian man. It's as though I can remember the sounds, smells, cool breeze, and warm sunlight. I don't know much more than we were happy and I felt much love and admiration for him. That's it!!

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

The only dream that I've been able to remember lately was disturbing rather than good. I'm driving my car along a busy suburban street (2 lanes in each direction) and I'm going a little over the speed limit. A school crossing guard steps out in front of me, I slam on the brakes and am able to stop in time. A large crowd of schoolchildren start crossing the street. The traffic in the lane next to me does not stop, a dark blue Camaro plows into the crowd. It strikes a young African-American girl wearing a pink top and blue slacks, and drags her for several yards before her body is tossed free. Her friends crowd around the body. A brown station wagon and other cars speed through, hitting more children. I sit in my car, horrified. Then I woke up.

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

I have repeating dreams with the same theme: I'm coerced into a lifestyle which I don't like. It's not uncomfortable per se, but my participating in it is not by choice. This sets up a conflict for me to try to remove myself from it and requires a lot of maneuvering on my part to do so. It's almost as intense as any computer game; the plots also get really convoluted and go on and on. I know I could write them into some espionage-type thrillers, if I just weren't so lazy. (Ahem!)

I am able to influence my dreams to a point ( I am aware that I am dreaming and will do plot "tricks" to direct some of it) but I am getting concerned that this theme keeps going on and on. Since I'm relatively happy and at peace with myself (and don't need another five years of analysis, thank you very much) I wonder if I'm really just a spirit stuck in the physical world, and I long for the spiritual one.

Weird...

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

Weird sheepish!!!! I have been having the same type of dreams for several years. I find it very disconcerting since, like you, I am very happy with my life style.

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

Diane, we are often on the same wavelength.....eerie......

What do you suppose we are here for?

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

Denise, That dream is soooo cool, Maybe it's a past life!

Poor Sherri, What a horrifying dream! You poor dear!

Sheepish ," I wonder if I'm really just a spirit stuck in the physical world, and I long for the spiritual one" Of course sheepish, of course you are! Arn't we all, except for me, I'm really a plant.

Sheepish,"What do you soppose we are here for?" Ah, love that question! I think it's all pretty simple for me, I just came here to gather wild flowers, I just had to come see them!

My last dream, I dreamed that I had a little boy but there was something wrong with him, I think it represents my fears , my fears that what I am attempting isn't good enough,that it won't be flawless.

Tren

-- Anonymous, July 06, 2001

Well, lately I seem to be involved in battling in Sherwood Forest with bows and arrows. And I've got puppies on the brain, since my dog died and I saw 5 different and equally adorable puppies on the 4th (a Border terrier, and two Jackdoodles - Jack Russell/Poodles).

So I guess I'll dredge up another oldie but a goodie.

I tend to have adventure dreams, and/or ones that involve escaping (like on the giant motorized potatoes...). This particular one started out as one of those adventure/escape dreams in which I and some other people were exploring a huge cavern, sort of like either Mammoth Cave or Carlsbad Cavern in scale. We were having a hard time finding our way out and getting rather scared about it, but you just KNOW that the dream is going to get worse when you discover that there is an ominously glowing river running through the center of the floor of the cavern, made up of a viscous white-ish blue substance.

I didn't know what that stuff was, but I didn't want to get too close to it either. About that time, I spied a doorway across the river. I was pondering how to get across this stuff when the door opened, and out poured about 20 dwarves, dressed in baseball uniforms. They were hopping mad about something (probably us) and began using their catchers mitts to scoop up the viscous white stuff and begin lobbing it at us!! Horrors!!! I suddenly realize that it's radioactive mashed potatoes!!!! (with or without peas, I'm not sure)

We began running away as fast as we could go, towards a sheer wall that had big ropes hanging down it. I tripped and fell and discovered that the place was also crawling with small kittens, much too small to be without their mother. The dwarves were still lobbing mashed potato bombs at us, so I quickly scooped up the kittens and hung them on my clothing by their claws, and then proceeded to climb up the thick ropes towards the top of the cliff, away from the truculent baseball players. (altho in real life I couldn't do that)

At the top, I discovered that there was a door there as well. I unhooked the kittens and went through the door. I discovered that it opened up into the back of a very fancy opera box in a theatre. There were people sitting in the front of the box, obviously watching some kind of a performance, and there was a huge buffet laid out on tables in between us.

I discovered that the people watching the opera or whatever were George Bush (Senior variety, this was a while ago) and Henry Kissenger and company. I went over to the buffet table and picked up an enormous bowl of chopped salad and carefully carried it over and dumped it onto them (mostly Bush).

Of course that caused the secret service men to jump all over me (they hadn't seen me come in after all) and all hell was breaking loose, and Bush wanted me arrested, but Henry Kissinger said --

"Wait! Wait!"-- he wanted to question me -- "Are you a terrorist?" he asked, "Or are you from Disneyland???"

"Don't be absurd!" I exclaimed. "ALL of America is Disneyland!!!"

Then I woke up.

Feel free to attempt to psychoanalyze THAT one!!!

(and I still haven't brought up the dream about Hell really being a Rennaissance Festival...)

-- Anonymous, July 06, 2001

Julie after a dream like that you need to go back to sleep and rest!! My goodness!.....Kirk

-- Anonymous, July 07, 2001

I wish we could bottle our collective imaginations and use them to run the energy requirements of the world! No need for more oil drilling, it would seem!!!

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2001

Hey, I finally had a good one! Where's Diane? :-(

I dreamed that Mr. S. and I lived in a place where our barn was actually a big old windmill (like in Holland.) We were very happy! We also had two horses, which I even named in my dream...drat! Can't remember their names. They were big (almost draft horse sized) Icelandic pony-looking beasts; bay colored and shaggy. Very friendly, but one of the them was a little trickster sometimes. We rode them and worked them. We also had a white house with (get this) lots of perennials around. It was quite satisfying! The sun shone brigthly outside and I remember seeing Mr. S's very satisfied face as I peered at him from inside the barn!

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

Well, as a menopausal woman just entering my 50's, I don't dare repeat my dreams even to my hubby :-)!!! 'Nuff said!

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

Sheepish, What a beautiful dream ! don't ya wish taht you could frame that one and hang it up on your wall. tren

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Tren, yeah. Maybe I'll start painting again...! yeah, when I have time....!!!

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

I was listening to WPR tonite, Harry Scherer 'News from the Edge of America' and he was reading off an article that I wish I could find written text on.

The gist of it was that Republicans have more nightmares than do Democrats. Someone has actually gone and done a study on this, some dreaming institute in conjunction with some psychiatric folks, and they said that Republican's dreams have a higher percentage of images of violence, aggression, etc. than do Democrats. In conjunction with the psychiatric branch, this was explained as to why they lean to the Right, while Democrats tend to have dreams that work themselves through following their own political beliefs (this is why I want written text). It said that Republican's dreams reflect fears.

If anyone else caught this, or knows where to find text (I tried doing a Google search but wasn't successful), it'd be interesting to read it more fully. At the time I thought that *that* maybe explained the paranoia.

-- Anonymous, July 16, 2001

wow julie, I would like to read that also!!

-- Anonymous, July 16, 2001

Um, I think that's Harry Shearer. He's a comedian or a satirist or a humorist, take your pick. Not saying that it wasn't an ACTUAL study, but given that he is one of the creators of "This is Spinal Tap", you might want to suspend belief until you can track down confirmation.

It does sound really plausible though, doesn't it?

-- Anonymous, July 16, 2001

My ex-husband is a Republican and he had very violent dreams, talked in his sleep, and sleepwalked. One time I woke up in the middle of the night and he had me in a headlock because he was dreaming that he was in a fight with someone.

-- Anonymous, July 16, 2001

My main "re-occuring" dream is probably an anxiety dream. I'm almost always in a public place and really need to go to the bathroom. In my dream, I find the restroom but there is something wrong with every toilet. It is sometimes only one or two stalls, sometimes there are hundreds of them but they are all either broken, stopped up, no seat, no door, etc. I search and search but can not find a working toilet. Of course, I wake up and need to go badly.

Maybe this represents my fear of going out in public or something but I really hate that dream.

My favorite dream is where I'm flying. I'm usually flying over fields and pastures and can see everything perfectly. I can see my mother's house and her gardens. I love that dream. Would willingly trade that one for the bathroom dream anytime.

-- Anonymous, July 16, 2001

Oh yeah, I have that kind of anxiety dreams too where everything goes wrong. Hunh, you'd think I'd get enough of that in day to day living that I didn't have to do reruns at night.

Flying dreams are way cooler. I used to have to run around a room really really fast in order to run up on the walls as I went, and then eventually would fly. Those started when I was a kid. I tried to do the same in real life, but it didn't work (now why is that do you suppose?)....they pretty much faded away as I grew older, until sometime in my late 20's, early 30's type thing, I had the same dream again, running around in circles, trying to achieve lift-off (you wonder what kind of a metaphor that is, right?) and all of a sudden thought "This is too much like work. I'm just going to *FLY* --" and did. That was the best one, because this time I flew out of the room instead of having to be confined in it, going around in circles, and out over the countryside.

THAT was great -- until I flew over a cliff and then my stomach did a real big lurch and drop, and so did I. Fortunately, I wasn't distracted enough to fall and flew on. I thought there was probably some profound lesson in it that I was supposed to learn, but when I woke up, it was time to hit the ground running, like always, and I never did sit down and ponder the significance and/or psychological reasoning of it.

Yeah, that's the same Harry Shearer or whatever, but the part with the Republican nightmares was the section where he reads the odd stories out of the trades, sort of a Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. He also likes the 'real' news stories like this one so he can comment on them (things like wondering who funds this stuff). He reads a lot of newspapers and has been commenting a lot on things happening out there in California, like the rolling blackouts.

I did like his musical based on the life of J. Edgar Hoover.

-- Anonymous, July 16, 2001

Hey Julie...what do they say about the dreams of the Independents??

-- Anonymous, July 17, 2001