It's Out Of This World!

It's been a long time since I've posted.  It's not because I haven't still been having vivid dreams, or that I didn't want to write them down.  It's just that with school going on, I've just not had the time to come and type up a post before I forgot them.  Even today's post was one I wrote what I had time to write on a piece of paper at the beginning of the school day, and as you can see, I'm just now getting around to posting about it.  So it'll probably not have all the details I could have included first thing this morning, but I still want to talk about it!

So, the dream, or the part I remember the clearest, started at the house I grew up in.  I was looking outside and saw some kind of spacecraft/military plane going across the sky.  And then I saw it slowly lower down to in front of the old school that was down the street from my  house.  I went outside with my camera, and for some reason I went and sat in my car to watch it.  I was taking pictures, but then I saw military soldiers coming out of the ship, and I figured I'd better put my camera away, so I set it down, but also make sure to hide my cell phone really well so that even if they took my camera, I could still take pictures/videotape what I was seeing.  They were taking people out of the house next to the school into the ship.  I have no idea why.  After a certain amount of people got on the ship, the military guys started going back on. About this time one of the soldiers saw me, and came and took my camera. They searched for a cell phone, but didn't find where I'd hidden it.  So they went back to the ship and it took off.  Of course once they were back on the ship, I got my cell phone out and filmed it.

The next part of the dream I was meeting an old college friend at a restaurant.  And then my college roommate showed up kind of unexpectedly to hang out with us, and she had a baby with her.  Now, she has kids, but none are babies anymore.  Anyway, I went to show them my video, and then my old roommate said everyone already knew, and pointed over to the TV where they were showing footage of the spaceship.  Then her baby/toddler kind of ran away from the booth and she went to chase him.  The guy, let's call him Brian (names changed for my own sake), hadn't really been talking that much, and so at this point he said he had to leave, and he got up and went away before I had a chance to really talk to him.  I was really upset because he was the reason I'd gone to the restaurant, and then didn't get to talk to him or really hang out with him.

I am guessing the spaceship part of the dream came from the audiobook I'm listening to right now, Invaded.  Not sure why I was back in my old neighborhood.  I'm not sure exactly why the restaurant scene was there.  Probably because I may have felt like I didn't get much of a chance to talk to my friend last time I saw them.  Not sure about my roommate, or the baby.  Oh yeah, now I think I know why the baby was there, probably something to do with going to see a sneak preview of the movie How to be Single the other night.  The older sister in the movie, single of course, decided to have a baby on her own.  Something I had thought I might do at one point, at least until I had the surgery two years ago that made that something that couldn't ever happen.

That's all I remember.  I wish so much there was a way to record dreams and watch them back later.

Home Sweet Home

I've had some vivid dreams lately, but haven't been able to get to a computer before I can't really remember them anymore. Well, last night's were very vivid.  I even took a minute to type one into my phone notes before I went back to sleep, and then I had more vivid dreams that I will remember and write int his post about.

My dream started at a store, pretty sure it was the Kohl's store nearest where I live.  They were having a good sale on Bobs, like buy one get one free or something like that.  First I found a pair that was really neat colors and grabbed it. Then I saw a pair that looked like the old fashioned saddle shoes and I just knew I had to have those also.  I was carrying both boxes when the store decided to close and shooed us out, not making me put down the shoe boxes I had.  So I took them home, to the house I grew up in.  She was getting ready to take all the dogs she had outside.  For some reason she had like 8 dogs, and she was bringing them outside and then putting them on the leash.  There were mostly dachshunds, but then there were one or two bigger dogs in the group.  There were people walking down the street, and of course that meant some of the dogs had to bark, making it harder to get the dogs on their leashes and to do what they were supposed to do.

Once back inside, my mom went to get ready for work like she sometimes did in the old house, in her master bathroom.  I went and started getting ready in the hall bathroom.  Then my mom and stepdad went to work.  Leaving me home to take care of their dogs and my two dogs.  The front door of that house is right by the staircase to go down to the basement.  And so when the dogs needed to go out again later, a bunch were downstairs and the ones upstairs, the bigger ones, were jumping over the railing and landing on the steps to get around to get first in line to go outside.  My dogs, little bitty dachshunds, were trying to do the jump as well.  Dora tried and got stuck, but on the side where the living room was so that she didn't fall down the stairs and get hurt.  I was only able to get about four of the dogs on leashes and then when I went to go outside, the other dogs not on leashes kind of pushed through the door with us and I couldn't get them to stop.  Another parade of people came down the street and I was able to find most of the dogs.  But one dog, the smallest one, probably my Dora, I didn't find until I saw her in a cart riding with a little handicapped boy who didn't want to give her up. But I got her back by going up and taking her.

Next I remember being back in the house.  We were in the back living room and watching tv, along with a big picture window open to see the stars outside.  Now we never had a picture window in the back, so not sure where that came from. And the window was up at the top of the wall, so you could only see up into the stars and not into the yard behind the house.  It was like you could see the Milky Way, it was so pretty. I kept asking my mom what it was, if it was the Milky Way and she got a little irritated with me for asking her so many questions. Then all of a sudden it was really light outside like it was day.  I went through the house trying to look out the back windows to figure out what was going on.  I got to my parents' bedroom and looked out and saw it was someone with a spotlight that was shining it on our house, and kind of doing signals with it because all of a sudden a line of people came out from the yard to the side of ours and started running toward our house.  I tried to get my stepdad's attention, and he was sitting on the toilet in the master bathroom.  I couldn't really see him, just a dark shadow in the dark bathroom.  So then I went to get my mom's attention. She was out in the laundry room which had a door to the back yard.  She looked out the little diamond shaped window in the door and pushed it shut, but acted like she couldn't see anything out there.  So I told her she needed to lock it.  And she did.  Then when we looked out, it was like all the people had stopped when they got to these big tents and were eating food.  That's where the first dream stopped because I woke up.

When I went back to sleep, I had gone to a party somewhere with a bunch of work friends from the middle school I used to teach at.  They were doing some kind of food samples.  Next thing I know my mom is doing one of those parties at the house I grew up in.  And there's someone's little kid there.  It's not my niece, because it is an older kid.  But I get stuck watching them.  And I have to keep them away from the rest of the party which is out on the back deck I guess.  I see my mom come through the house and go with a cousin of mine to go back out.  I ask her when someone is coming to watch the kid so I can go to the party before it starts. And she tells me the party has already started, and no one is going to come watch the kid, I have to watch her. Then I get really upset that I am being excluded from the party when it was my idea to have it.  And that's about all I remember from that.

My own analysis goes like this.  I think the dealing with all the dogs comes from both dealing with her two dogs when I've gone over to let them out and they're not cooperative.  As well as from dealing with my two dogs who are not always cooperative, and that happens usually when there are neighbors outside to see the dogs making feel stupid.  I think the jumping over the railing thing came from when I ordered pizza last night and one of my dogs jumps high enough his little head shows up over the baby gate that I have to keep them in the living room.  He jumps pretty high, he's pretty little.  I'm guessing the work people showed up in my dream because I got on Facebook last night and saw a bunch of them went to the Royals' game last night, although separate, not as a group.

Weird, vivid dreams. 

Wild and Crazy!

So I've been having trouble remembering my dreams enough lately to blog. But last night's were extremely vivid and extremely crazy, so I'm going to try to get them down now.  As always I can't remember every little bit, and there are in between parts that kind of blur out, but I will tell about the big scenes that I remember.

I remember living with my mom and stepdad, as an adult, in a house that is often a part of my dreams.  It is a weird house, and I know that in some dreams certain parts of it have been haunted.  But not last night.  Anyway, it was in the evening, and one of my college boyfriends had stopped by, let's just call him by his nickname at the time, Beavis.  And he and I were hanging out, in my bedroom.  Well, let's just say that he was there wanting the same kind of thing we mostly did in college.  And so we were talking, and then the next moment he was laying on my bed, undressed and expecting e to come over.  But my door was partially open, and of course, my stepdad was still up and about the house.  Even when I shut the door, I knew that at any time my stepdad might come open it.  So I told Beavis that he should get dressed and we'd have to wait until my stepdad went to bed.  I went on down to the kitchen area where for some reason dinner was being made and everyone was getting ready to eat.  Beavis came down holding my jeans and a shirt and told me they would need to be washed.

For some reason there was a dog, or maybe it was a cat, which would be weird for me to be trying to let a cat stay in the house since I am allergic to them.  But I was trying to convince my stepdad to let the cat stay as well.

Now, it was storming, and we were in a room that is new to my dreams.  It had lots of tall windows and you could see the lightning flashing outside and the trees waving around in the high winds.  Now for some reason I now had my own house right next door, right outside the windows we were looking at, where the tall trees were.  And I heard a crack and I  yelled for everyone to move as one of those trees came crashing down on top of my parents' house.  We all heard it hit and ducked, but it didn't really come through the roof or anything.

My guess at interpreting is that I've been doing some daydreaming about guys lately, and that is probably where the college boyfriend stuff came through.  I've not been daydreaming about him, just meeting a guy, and so I'm guessing he was a familiar face to stick in for my subconscious.  I used to daydream about guys all the time, but lately I realized most of the time I have old cat (dachshund) lady dreams, of a house that would have a fenced yard for my dogs.  I decided maybe I needed to start daydreaming/dreaming about guys and maybe that would bring one into my life?  Who knows.  I'm guessing the storm part of the dream was because it seems like it has been raining constantly lately. The tree falling probably had to do with all the things that have been damaging my car and then having to have my stepdad fix them for me when he can.

Bits and Pieces

I remember a little bit from last night's dream.  I know that parts of it are from things that happened this weekend, and other parts are what you'd call recurring themes/events from other dreams.

So, what I remember is being home, in the house where I lived most of my life, until my mom and stepdad moved when I was in college.  Of course the rooms inside the house are never quite the same as they really were.  But we were sitting and watching tv, again, not with the same setup as there was in real life.  It was me and two guys and I think a friend or a sister, can't remember.  One of the guys was someone either that I liked, or he liked me, or we both liked each other.  But he was kind of staying a little away from me, as if not sure whether it was okay in my house to be up close with me, or else as if he didn't know if I liked him.  At one point he came up behind me and put his hands on my hips and stood pressed up behind me as we all stood around a table and talked.  Then I left the room and went outside and started cleaning a truck that was sitting in the driveway.  And he came out, and that's about all I remember.

So...  still not sure why all of a sudden I'm not remembering as much from my dreams as I have been.  It's like my brain is saying, no!  You can't enjoy the dreams and write them down.  It's just weird. It's kind of like I have the dreams, then they're dissipating like the smoke in the gif below.