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Post by Rue on Apr 5, 2004 18:46:45 GMT -5
Hm, I never noticed myself dreaming about my dead pets often, but whenever I do I don't really think it strange. I know I've had a few dreams of Willow since she died, and when our other pets died, I was usually so young it didn't affect me.
Most of the time I have dreams about people I know, rather than ones I have known, so I usually think having a dream about someone I haven't seen for a year is stranger than a dream about my dog who died about a year ago.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 23, 2004 1:58:15 GMT -5
I had this weird apocalyptic dream the other night where I was at a school like Hogwarts, but it was my high school IRL and we had this big conspiracy thing and for some reason, I was the only one that knew about it.
There was one bit when we were in the dining hall and I started some sort of student rebellion against the "cool group" of students at school, and then in the next bit I remember of my dream I wanted to go upstairs (because it was a boarding school) and all these kids kept saying I wasn't allowed to because they had closed off that section of the school under the authority of a particularly bitchy teacher (who, IRL is the most Umbridge-like educator I've ever had the misfortune of meeting).
Anyway, then after that, we had like, some sort of school assembly type thingy and it was in an old 1860's style layout with long benches for the students and stuff like that. And I was walking from the front of the room to the back row and I got the sense that people sort of were backing away from me and letting me pass. I sat on the end of the back row and the Umbridge-teacher came in and said that class was dismissed so that we could find good shelter spots before the bombs started falling () so then everyone was runninig and screaming hysterically and then for some reason I was at the movies lining up to see a film, because a lot of people were wanting to see stuff they haven't seen yet before they died. I had the impression it was more of a World War 3 scenario than the apocalypse, and I was going to see a movie as well but then I thought, "what the hell am I doing?" and then I found Leon who was in a wheelchair and I offered to go on a date with him so he wouldn't have died single or something. Then I think that weirded me out and I woke up.
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Post by En on Apr 23, 2004 20:02:41 GMT -5
Sounds to me like you're feeling like your sense of purpose is at odds to what most-of-the-people in some-part-of-your-life are doing.
What did you think about the panic sequence, right after the Umbridge-teacher announced that the bombs were going to start falling? Specifically, what did you feel about her/what she said, or about the students panicking like that, or did you have a reaction to that?
When you asked Leon out at the end, what were you thinking about? I'm most curious whether you had any mental comparison, in the dream, between what you were doing with the end of the world and what the kids at the cinema were doing...? If not, that's cool too, I just wonder.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 24, 2004 0:47:30 GMT -5
I don't know... well I remember that I asked Leon out at the end because I had the impression he'd never been on a date and I wanted to make sure that he didn't have to die without having been on a date or something. Sort of like a sympathy thing but I seriously didn't mind, because I liked hanging out with him.
Oh, another detail is that Umbridge-teacher looked directly at me when she said the bombs were going to start falling, and when everyone got up and started running/screaming/etc. I think that the reason she looked at me had something to do with why part of the school was sealed off, like she was part of some evil plot that was happening there and I was about to uncover it. Anyway, with the bombs comment, I was pretty calm about it, not because I particularly cared whether or not the bombs were going to fall or where I was going to hide or anything, but yeah, there was a feeling of "meh" .
But another thing I forgot to mention was that the 1860's schoolhouse had a back door (like, right behind where I saw sitting) and when we left I was walking out of that, and there was like, a garden behind it (where people were running/screaming/trying to hide in the shed etc.) and then I walked through the garden in my relative sense of calm, half-expecting WW2 warplanes to start flying over, before I made it to the cinema.
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Post by En on Apr 24, 2004 11:26:12 GMT -5
*nods* I'm going with the theory that you're in some kind of community -- a group of friends, an institution, national or world politics, maybe a combination of these -- the leaders of which you're finding yourself ideologically up against in some way, and you're feeling like you're trying to do what it is in your power to do, but you're feeling cut off or undermined by the power structure in this community.
And yet, you're also not feeling connected to the majority of the people in it. Not in a hostile or even disapproving way -- just that your priorities are different, and you know it. Perhaps you're feeling a maturity gap -- again, not in a disapproving way, just feeling that it's there. That would seem to be implied by your description of the reactions in the assembly room, the gardens, the cinema....
I'm just extrapolating, though. It could just be that you watched 28 days or something
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 26, 2004 6:24:07 GMT -5
Well, I DID watch "28 Days Later" about 2 weeks before that dream with a bunch of people and Leon was one of them...
Hmmm, I don't know if I actually have any intentions to not connect or anything, but I do think I have a tendency to be rather unconventional...
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Post by En on Apr 27, 2004 11:33:52 GMT -5
*snorts* Well, there you go then.
Seriously though... maybe you're just feeling the unconventionality, and your unconscious mind is working on how you feel about that.
...I mean, I had one last night that was super-complicated, but basically boiled down to lots of images of things getting complicated, right? I think it's my brain trying to work out how I want to deal with the proliferation of ideas I've had lately. Sometimes dreams are directly symbolic, and sometimes they're speculative, and sometimes they're just lots of variations on a theme while your brain crunches data. Your description felt like the third category. But, it's your head
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Post by Natz on Apr 29, 2004 4:30:31 GMT -5
I had this odd nightmare where i dreamt that someone was sawing a hole through my window and i woke up screaming which i have never done before. And there was this old man coming to take me away. Then i woke up again and then when i finally fell back to sleep i dreamt that i was going to move house and go back to my old uni.
Any ideas?
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Post by En on Apr 29, 2004 11:41:52 GMT -5
Could be a lot of things, Natz -- do you feel like someone or something is disrupting your sense of having a Natz-place in the world? Usually, when I dream about people breaking into my house/room/office, it's because I feel like something or someone is threatening to change my life, in a way I don't want to change.
The fact that you then dreamt about going back to your old uni -- maybe that means you're worried about your choices about uni. We're all scared of change, deep down; some of us just hide it better than others. Maybe you're scared that you made a wrong decision, or that the change in your life is more than you can handle.
Or, maybe you were just watching a Bugs Bunny cartoon ...Kidding
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Post by Natz on Apr 29, 2004 11:55:49 GMT -5
Does the welsh news have anything to with it do you think? It was scary the other day i was watching songs of praise in welsh and could understand some words. I usually can't Then i dreamt that an old man grabbed my but while i was crossing a road What do you think it means? Well actually i feel like that my family are pressuring me into things recently. I turned down a suggestion to stay on at a job i hate instead of going to uni.
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Post by priscilla on Apr 29, 2004 20:08:55 GMT -5
;D Hello Koneko, you may have accidentally downloadd some small programs known as diallers. They are unrecognised by virus programs because they are not harmful, just a nuisance. You need to download a free program called ad-aware.com www.ad-aware.com, this will pick up the diallers and remove them. Diallers dont harm your computer but they do slow down the connection as they are fighting to dial different pages to the ones you are currently using ;D Hope this will help with your problem.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 29, 2004 22:44:11 GMT -5
(Thanks Priscilla. I've moved your post to the Tech. Support page. )
Hmmm, Natz, did you know the old man? What did he look like? Did he say anything to you? I have this thing with old men and crossing roads, so I'm probably not the best person to talk to about this.
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Post by Natz on Apr 30, 2004 6:17:35 GMT -5
No i didn't know the old man.
I was just walking across the road and someone said to be careful and then he grabbed me.
Weird.
What kind of thing Koneko?
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 30, 2004 9:08:46 GMT -5
When I was 7 years old, I was with my mum and sister and we were crossing a road when this old guy was also crossing the road and ran across a traffic island and into the path of an oncoming truck.
So yeah, the whole old man/roads thing just freaks me out.
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Post by Natz on Apr 30, 2004 10:34:17 GMT -5
That must have been scary for you Koneko.
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