Saturday, February 27, 2010

A girl told me that it cost $2001 to use that bathroom.

Dawn Meehan, author of "Because I said so... And Other Tales from a Less-Than-Perfect Parent," had a dream in which she could not find a toilet.
'Don at a Pay Toilet', by Sapphire blue, sapphir3blu3 on Flickr
I dreamt that I needed to pee, but I couldn't find a bathroom anywhere. Everywhere I went, the bathrooms were full and people were waiting to use them. At one point, my friend Julie and I met another mutual friend's mom. For some reason, she was a little old lady (in real life, she is not a little old lady). This sweet, little old lady looked like she should be baking or knitting or sitting in a rocking chair with a shawl about her shoulders regaling the younguns with tales from days of yore. Instead, she sat at a table talking to us and dropping f-bombs that shocked the heck out of me and Julie. She told me it was good I was getting divorced so I could marry Doug. (I have no idea who Doug is in real life.)     ... more

"Because I Said So" is "The Offical Blog of Author and Mom Blogger Dawn Meehan."  The dream goes on for several more paragraphs and has 30 comments so far.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The Pizza Guy is a Vampire

Heather, writing on "Inich ... Like Spinach!!" asks if you have ever had one those kind of dreams that just stay with you AFTER you’ve woken up?
I was walking to my car, trying to get away from someone that night and passed a pizza man and stole his pizza. (the delivery guy was the guy that was behind the registers at Big Lots a few times..we’ve chatted and his nice.)   I told him I was the new delivery person and said I’d deliver it.  But had no intention of doing so.  I only wanted to get away from whomever was following me. ... more
Heather is an Air Force veteran, photography buff, full time working Mom and wife.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

President Bush in a bar doodling on a napkin

A dream about meeting George W. and Dick Cheney (and the dreamer did not get shot in the face):
Last night I dreamt that Bessie and I ran into former President Bush in a bar.  He was drinking a highball and doodling on a napkin.  Bessie asked for his autograph and he gave her the doodled napkin. We then ended up having dinner with Dubya, Barbara Walters, and Dick Cheney.  
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The blogger, Mo, lives in Michigan and blogs about his life (and his dreams) at "It's a Blog Eat Blog World".

Friday, February 19, 2010

'Avatar' Director James Cameron on dreams

The director of 'Avatar', James Cameron, was interviewed by Terry Gross for Fresh Air on Feb. 18 and had interesting things to say about dreams.
A lot of the imagery in "Avatar" comes from dreams that I've had over time. I can remember distinctly having a dream in college of a glowing, bioluminescent forest and getting up and very quickly sketching it with oil pastels, trying to get the colors down, trying to get, you know, what I had imagined in the dream down on paper and feeling this great sense that I hadn't succeeded. It just was this ugly thing. It wasn't what I had seen in the dream.
So, you know, part of I think that's part of what drives a lot of artists is dream imagery and the kind of subconscious associations that happen in dreams.
I know the surrealist artists strongly believed that their mission was to translate to the canvas images they'd had in dreams without any attempt to analyze or mediate them and that that was kind of their ethos, and I kind of adopted a little bit of that when I was making "Avatar." I thought, you know, if I like an image, I'm going to put it in the movie, and Im not going to try to justify it.
So, you know, you see floating mountains in the film. They're never explained. Now, I happened to have, you know, sort of reverse-engineered a scientific explanation of how those mountains float, but every time I tried to shoehorn it into the movie, I just found that it was unnecessary explanation. People would accept that they had been transported to this amazing place where the rules were different, and it was okay for mountains to float. And it turned out that that technical explanation was completely unnecessary. 
The dream curator values blog posts that translate into words images from dreams without any attempt to analyze or mediate them.  

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Trouser Press: Dreams of being with rock stars

"Last night I dreamt of Jane Wiedlin", one thread on a forum at Trouser Press, includes many dreams by rock fans about being with rock stars.
I had a dream that I was tarring a roof with Lux and Ivy from The Cramps. I fell off the roof and onto another version of the same roof ... over and over and over. Until I woke up.  
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Trouser Press, online at TrouserPress.com since 2002, began with the contents of Trouser Press Record Guides, highly opinionated review books of alternative rock.  It includes reviews, a message board, merchandise, and a forum where readers post their dreams.  This one was posted by HollowbodyKay.  There are others. 

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

An Italian drinking tea

Riley LaShea, blogging as "Random Riley", asks "What exactly is the meaning of a dream in which an Italian is drinking tea?"
I was at my Aunt Mary’s house (my real great aunt). But Aunt Mary’s house wasn’t Aunt Mary’s house. Her real house is an old two-story with lots of dark wood and antique fixtures. The dream house was a three-story house with the same dark wood and antique fixtures, but everything was far grander. The entire house just oozed Victorian beauty and charm. ... 
I like this part:
The sunlight shone upon her, giving her an ethereal glow… and making her hair look oh so shiny. She leaned against the counter and sipped her tea, carrying on a conversation with me in both English and Italian, which I amazingly understood.  ... more
Riley LaShea is a writer (which seems clear enough from this sample).  You can learn more at rileylashea.com.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

But I Was Dreaming: Teaching Sculpting Class

But I Was Dreaming: Feb. 7, 2010:
I found myself at a sculpting class, and apparently I was supposed to be the teacher. I was trying my best, but it was frustrating because I don't know anything about sculpting. 
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But I Was Dreaming posts several dreams each day.   This anxiety dream seems very real to me.

Monday, February 8, 2010

But I Was Dreaming: Chaotic Vignettes

But I Was Dreaming: Jan. 7, 2010:
First I was at a mine where the miners had to hold on to a conveyor belt to get home. Someone threw a kitten on the belt to try to get one of the miners to let go, but someone saved it and gave it to me. I named it something ridiculous.
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But I Was Dreaming posts several dreams each day.   This set of chaotic vignettes was published a month ago.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

A simple dream, hoping to change things

Matthew Wilding had a dream, and she was in it, and he was in it with her. 
I was at a house I recognized as my Mother's house from years ago, even though in retrospect it wasn't. It felt like the late 1990s or early 2000s. When I set my bike to the side of the house and went upstairs, I asked my mom what the date was, and she told me it was March 3rd. I then asked the year. "2007."
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Matt Wilding is a Boston-based comedic writer and performer, but this dream is more profound than funny.

Friday, February 5, 2010

robertlanglondon: A horse that charmed the world

robertlanglondon: I had a dream when i was in Paris. 
It last 3 hours and never felt so real.
I had a dream ... about a horse that charmed the world.
This horse could only be communicated through the internet and with this it started seducing everyone.
It managed to do this to my friend and she fell in lust.

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robertlang, 27, is into fashion a runway fashion photographer and writes about his dreams on robertlanglondon.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

But I Was Dreaming: Underwater with a Large Alligator

But I Was Dreaming: February 1, 2010:
I dreamed that I was underwater with a large alligator. We were chest to chest, gently swirling around and around in the water. I knew that at any moment the alligator could kill me and that if I just continued our strange underwater dance, he would remain calm and all would be well. I was keenly aware of the danger, yet felt strangely peaceful.
 But I Was Dreaming posts several dreams each day.  They are anonymous, but with some information about the dreamer, in this case, female, Age 50, USA.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Dream Log: the Dolphin in the Library

The Dragon's Eye View - Dream Log: the Dolphin in the Library
The dream got interesting when the setting shifted slightly. I don't normally dream "in furry", but at some point, the PoV character became an anthropomorphic dolphin named Jan, and the meeting room/convention hall was now underwater -- and had been for a very long time. Kelp was now a significant part of the decor.
Jan was still in contact with the same mad scientist, though, via radio or more esoteric means, and was still on the way to his office/lab/whatever. Now, however, she had to leave the Deeps to go to the surface world -- and the passage had a Guardian.
The guardian was an anthropomorphic white tiger ... more
This dream was selected from athelind.livejournal.com ("Your Obedient Serpent, The Boojum Snark")