Odd dream remembered

The night before last i had a bunch of short, weird dreams but didn't remember any 'til now. One just came back to me. It was one of those dreams where you're not fully asleep but not awake. A kind of sleep paralysis but not quite. Normally any thing that occurs in the space is very scary but what happened was i heard my mom come in my room. I was kind of worried and annoyed all at the same time because i was sleeping really well and she woke me. She felt her way to my bed in the dark but when she laid down next to me it was my sister Audree (who, with her husband, is visiting this week). My sister went right to sleep and after wondering what was wrong, so did i.

One of the other dreams is right on the edge of my memory. Maybe it'll work it's way back in to my consciousness.

Paper Crocodiles

Last night i dreamed i was in a ?nature park filming crocodiles. The 'host' was some guy (didn't recognize him) and he was standing on the shore beside a calm blue lake talking to the camera. I was either the camera lens or the person behind the camera. I couldn't see the camera so i'm thinking i was actually the "camera eye" or something. Anyways, there were a whole bunch of tiny little crocodiles basking in the sunlight on the shore not far from where he was standing. He was talking about the giant crocodile that was in the lake and how he was going to lure it in by feeding it one of the smaller crocodiles. I could see the silhouette of the giant in the water as he said it. Next, he took one of the small crocodiles that was wrapped in some kind of netting? and tossed it in the water. The giant was so big that it just swallowed the poor little one.

Then, the camera eye is focused on some greenery in a ditch by a pond. There's supposed to be a big crocodile there. The crocodile starts coming towards the camera from the ditch and i'm afraid but then the focus zooms back and i realize that the camera man is well away from the ditch. Still, the crocodile is running towards us and we can get away. When the crocodile gets to the camera, it's only the head and it's made out of ? reeds and leaves and mud. The End

The night before i had several little dreams and it seemed important to remember them at the time but now i don't remember any of them. I think Scott was in one but now i'm not sure. I really need to keep paper and pencil next to my bed so i can write down keywords.

dream of home

Location: Trails End Road, Manassas VA

Scott has bought the Faust’s house (next door to my parents house) and he’s fixing it up, tearing out walls and reconfiguring the rooms. I indicate i want to live there too so i buy the house with him. In the room that was Angie and Debbie’s bedroom he has removed the walls and put up ornate movable walls with crown molding along the top. He has put wallpaper on the walls behind the movable walls and along the top i can see where the old wall was. Apparently the wallpaper was like Velcro and Scott just put up a bigger sheet to fix the place where the flaw was. It's a goldish colored wallpaper with some kind of pattern that might be pineapples,

Upstairs in the attic (the actual house is a one storey craft-type home) it’s open on the sides to the elements and there’s a nice cool breeze blowing through. It’s dark up there and i notice that there’s a lot of plants. Most of them are African Violets and since they do well in very low light i figure we’ll keep the attic as it is. I’m thinking that maybe i’ll live up there but realize the elements will possibly ruin my furniture.

Cut scene to my parents house and my furniture.

It’s a complete set of the Pulaski furniture (in reality i have the Victorian style dresser with a big over mirror). There’s some kind of large cabinet/desk piece, a china cabinet, and a ?wardrobe? The sun is shining on the wood and it’s gleaming beautifully – warm and golden looking (my piece is actually darker than it appeared in the dream). So again, i think where would the furniture fit because the pieces are too big to fit any where other than the attic. I go back over to the Faust house and Scott has just received a kit for a giant building of some kind. It might be a v-ball court. He’s putting it together in the front yard and i ask him if he had the septic system checked first because it had failed before. (True – the yard smelled like shit after a heavy rain while i lived there. I heard, after i moved away, that finally the entire system failed and the entire yard became a cesspool.) Scott wasn’t sure and was going to take care of it. I also pointed out that he needed to take care not to hurt the big oak in the middle of the yard. (Also true. It’s most likely gone by now.)


Cut scene back to the attic and the violets.

It’s so cool and nice up in the attic that i decide i really want to live up there and take my chances of ruining my furniture. As i’m picking off the wilted flowers of many of the violets a big ‘tree truck’ pulls up to the house. I go down and Scott’s already talking to the man. He’s delivering a very strange kind of tree that he cut down from the back yard. It’s very twisty and gnarled and, even though it’s still got green needles on it it’s obviously dead. I don’t understand why Scott wants a dead tree but when the man plants it at the edge of the front yard i realize that, with time, it will become a kind of totem.

jumper

In the dream, i'm in the Va house in my bedroom. I need to get ready to go ?to work. I look through my closet of clothes and find an outfit to wear. After i put it on i realize that the pants are sheer and my entire backside from my butt down might as well just be bare. Even if i put on underwear it wouldn't look good so i go back to the closet to find something else. I decide i want to wear a dress but nothing seems appropriate until i find a corduroy jumper. It's got a kind of garden design on it - little pots, little watering cans. I look for some tights to wear with it but can only find black. In the back of the drawer i find some stockings that are not quite sheer but have the same pattern as the jumper and i put them on. I feel totally spiffy in my cute outfit.

Old growth, new growth

In the dream, i am working at the job i've been at for the last 20+ years. The environment is possibly the first facility. I think that because plants seem to be the theme of the dream and i had many plants in my space in that first building. I loved my job then. Anyways... i've been away for quite a while and realize i haven't watered my plants in forever. (This is a fairly common theme in my dreams - at least four or five times a year. Usually though the plants are in my home environment.) As i begin to water my garden of plants i see that mostly the plants have thrived in spite of the neglect and i'm pleased. One plant, i think it's a type of palm? seems like it's doing well. As i'm looking at it an avocado pit that i'd planted sprouts in front of my eyes! I actually hear it "sproing!" out of the pit. There's another avocado pit but it's rotten and not going to grow so i lift it out of the pot. I notice that the palm is actually so overgrown that the nice part i'm seeing is the newer part and the older part has become too heavy and is actually a burden to the plant so i decide to cut off the overgrown heavy part so the new growth can become healthier and stronger. I have some sort of cutting tool - it seems like a wire cutter or something along those lines. I begin cutting and hacking through the old growth. It's VERY thick and i begin to feel sick in my stomach because it reminds me of cutting through a human arm. The stem even seems to have a bone in it. After i've removed the big part of the plant i see that the avocado sprout is wilting from too much water so i pour out excess water from that pot into some other pots that contain plants.

Just some bits and pieces

It's war time. Men in those army green uniforms. We're in a transport plane taking the wounded prisoners somewhere. The General tells me to get them oxygen right away BUT if i don't get to them in time, put them in the shrink-wrap and when we get to our destination they can be revived without suffering brain damage. There's about nine or so 'bodies' but i only get to maybe three in time. The others are technically "dead" so i put them in the shrink wrap as instructed. I'm worried that the medical technicians won't realize what they need to do when we get to our destination so just before we land i use a red marker to write "HELP" and "NEED OXYGEN" and draws arrows to the mouths on all of the bodies.

I'm in Pacifica in the apartment where i lived. Debbie is there at first but she leaves. Then it's the apartment i live in in dreams sometimes. I want to leave but i'm afraid i won't be able to find my way back. I go out into the hallways and it's like i'm in a really nice motel. The walkway is brick tile sort of like in the foyer of the house i live in now. When i get to the 'lobby' it's lush with greenery - trees and plants. Very nice. I realize this isn't the apartment i go to in dreams after all and i don't know where i am.

A Bollywood Soap Opera?

In the dream, i am only an observer. It's like watching a movie more than dreaming. All the characters are Indian and it appears to take place in a hospital-type place or maybe a prison. A sort of Bollywood soap opera? The bit i recall is that the wards/prisoners are either escaping or have been freed by an outside force. A woman is getting her things together to leave when a man who has also been in captivity rapes her. The scene cuts to the room next to that one and in it, the woman's husband is prostrate on a bed/table and he is dead. The scene cuts back to the rape and the woman is on a gynecological table and the man is standing in front of her raping her. Both are fully dressed in ornate Indian dress. The man isn't even paying attention to what he's doing to the woman. He's watching a television mounted on the wall that's showing the bombing of a city.

Ick.

Yoko, Christina, and the shoes

I'm in a discount store like a Big Lots or Tuesday Morning. Actually, i seem to recall entering the store through an underground mall (the mall i go to sometimes in dreams?) so there's an earlier part of the dream that hasn't come back to my waking mind yet.

Anyways, in Big Lots i find a pair of shoes i really like and they're my size. I put them on and they feel good. As i'm testing them out i enter an aisle full of music boxes and i'm surprised to see Yoko Ono standing by some empty shelves. She looks wonderful in avant-garde dress, healthy, smiling... I take the shoes off and leave that aisle and go back to the aisle where i left my shoes. I decide i want to go back and say hello to Yoko but when i go back she's having and animated conversation with Christina Aguilera. Christina is dressed sort of 'punk goth' and some of here teeth are darkened out. She's still beautiful though and i'm fascinated to see these two ladies chatting in the empty aisle. They leave and i'm about to follow them when i realize i can't find the shoes i want. A sales lady appears and asks me where i left them. I explained that i'd taken them off and left them by Yoko. I'm kind of upset and walk frantically up and down the adjacent aisles wondering what could have happened to them. The sales lady comments that she likes the shoes i'm wearing and when i look down i see that i'm already wearing the shoes i was looking for.

I suppose the dreams message is i can stop seeking for the things i already have (shoes) and look for something more exotic and interesting (Yoko & Christina).

Steve who?

In the first dream, i don't recall anything other than i woke myself up by speaking aloud the name 'Steve' in a normal conversational tone. ? No idea.

In the next dream, i'm in the house i grew up in VA. Audree is getting ready to move into a new house and is "experimenting" with paint and counter tops in the bathroom we shared in the basement. When i go in to the bathroom (and before i know that she's been redecorating) i notice the walls are very dark with holographic kind of golden leaves inside. It's very beautiful and i'm mesmerized by the scenes that appear if i tilt my head this way and that. Deep forested beauty. Then i back up to look at the entire scene and it's not very nice. It's a picture of another room. It's not bad really, it's just not anything you'd expect to see in a bathroom. It's like being in a bathroom inside a dining room. It makes the room look a lot bigger though. The counter top she put in the room is much too big and i can't get to the shower unless i climb on top to get over it.

In the context of my horoscope yesterday, the second dream is interesting to me. Up close my friend is beautiful and interesting and multi-faceted but from a distance (the public view) he's very ordinary and almost, personality-wise, downright unattractive. I wish i could remember the first dream. I don't know if i was talking to 'Steve' or was answering a question and 'Steve' was the answer.

Frog Prince or Chameleon?

In the dream i'm following a boy/young man through a forest like in a fairy tale. As we cross an open area i see a pretty green frog. It's about the size of a 'possum and i tell it to come along with us. So it's kind of hopping along as we continue walking deeper into the growth. Then i see ANOTHER large green frog and it also joins our little group. It picks up a stick in it's mouth like a dog playing fetch and i'm greatly amused and amazed by this. The stick is actually a small branch and pretty large for a frog to be carrying. Both of the frogs are a very nice summer-grass green color with spots on their backs that look like rubies. Very pretty.

We continue deeper into the forest and come to another small clearing. There's a very beautiful emerald green frog sitting on a stump. As i look more closely though i see it has brilliant shiny eyes and the head is shaped wrong for a frog. Plus it has a tail curled behind it and i realize it's a large green chameleon (but i can't think of the word 'chameleon' in the dream, but it's on the tip of my tongue) and not a frog at all. I wonder if this is, in fact, the Frog Prince of legend and that it hasn't ever been a frog at all but a chameleon the entire time.

One of my astrology tips for today is: "Start relying on your recent dreams for insight -- these odd images hold valuable clues about what's been going on with a certain friend." Interesting dream, in that context.