dreams

[KYYX4ever]

Despite my little joke up above, I actually totally get into dreams and symbols and all that. I have long been fascinated by dreams. I tend to have long, pleasant, [i]epic[/i]--style dreams that I look at more as stories than anything else. I rarely have nightmares--can't even recall the last time I had one--but do have plenty of anxiety-type dreams. I remember colors, sounds, sights, people, etc., and used to write them all down, years ago. I love all that stuff.
Did you know that:
1. sleeping in a warm/ hot room will increase your dreams' vividness, as does wearing socks, mittens, or hats to bed.
2. Most people usually dream up to 4 times a night; or more specifically, go thru 3-4 dream cycles a night.
3. You are more apt to recall a dream if you were woken up during one, which explains why we have that sense of being yanked out a dream when our alarm clock goes off.
4. not much explanation as to why some people always recall their dreams yet others hardly ever remember theirs--and why some just remember snippets here and there.
5. as unique as we and our dreams all are, it is astounding how frequently common situations/themes pop up in ALL our dreams--failing exams, car/driving dreams, falling, flying, water, friends, fights, etc. Who has NOT had a flying or falling dream at some point in their lives ?[?]

just my 2 c. Fascinated student of the dreamworld am I.

[Frayo]

I study them...because mine are very intricate and strange...This is a typical entry from my dream journal.

I had this puzzle dream a few times a year or so ago.

Its am AMAZING place...filled with switches, gears, castles...and its so intricate and so complicated. The metal figures and the giant metal doors had the most amazing artowrk on them. Anyway, last I left this palce I was making levels by killing these random beasts in this huge feild.

In the center of this land there sat a huge feild. It contained a forest of red trees to the north and a series of hills to the east. The views looking over the south were amazing...for we were on top of a great plateau. The grass just sloped dramatically...but there were stairs built into it. The view was so cool. Anyway- I had been lost looking for the Iron key...to get into this huge metal door towards the northwest.

I couldnt find it....but in looking all over the lands, I found a hidden entrance. Puzzles here were so complicated, they put Hexan II to shame...as big of an orgasm Hexan II was...those puzzles were freaking CRAZY!.

It was weird...there would be tiny switches in the trees. There would be rocks that were triggers and strange ornaments in stone walls that led to places. There would be signs that you had to rotate...and it all was just crazy figuring all this stuff out.

Anyway, I find this door to the northeast behind the red forest and it leads to a metal subchamber. It looks to be somewhere behind the northwestern door in some respect. The area is lit and has a warm red ambience to it. The walls are of a deep blue iron filled with lines and ornamentations. Figures fighting are etched so intricately into these walls. The floors are of stainless steel and are warm to the touch. At the edges of the floors, red light from the magma underneath them crept up through these weird trenches.

It was very warm here.....so warm.
I walked around...and the winding corrdior led downstairs....and down an immense hallway before going deep underground. I ran into a commons. It was a large room with a bronze statue of some sort of half draon half man creature with a big sword raising it towards the ceiling. His other thand was pointing to a corner between two corridors of the massive intersection.
The walls here were not as detailed..and appeared to be more grey than blue.

I walked to the other hallways...they all led to plain square rooms. They had plenty of iron gadgets and gizmos in them.....
Iron gadgets?

I searched through them more carefully...sure enough....buried in the maze of trinkets, gears, weapons, and used torture devices (those kinda creeped me out...but since nobody was there to use them on me....I guess I was safe)...was the iron key.
I jammed it in my leather pocket...and made it to the main room. I proceeded down the hallway I came from...only to find that the door had shut....trapping me in this little nest of rooms.

I made my way around...looking for hidden switches. I tore apart the small rooms looking for some secret lever to pull. I went to see if the devices would fit in the holes of the walls...but they didnt.

I then went around...i saw the statue and starting trying to move it...or find some secret lever or something on it....thats when I noticed the free hand....it was pointing to a corner.
I went over to the corner-- and there was a tiny hole in in the wall there. I put a shard of metal in it. It clicked suddenly and wall swung upwards. There was a room behind there!
However...there was something about it...that seemed wrong.

I stepped on this concrete plate in the middle....and I shot upwards....
It was a small concrete plate...and it was barely bigger than I was standing...and it shot upward through an equally sized hole in the ceiling. I wasnt all the way on the plate...and I was gutted.
I saw myself from above after hearing a loud crunch.

There was blood everywhere..The pillar (it wasnt a plate) had stopped below the ceiling and there was blood running down it. The gap contained my arm and my legs stuck out from underneath it...quaking. As soon as the dripping blood reached the floor there was a voice-
"You're not going to die until you meet me"
And I woke up on the floor near the statue.


I went back into the room.....and stood centered on the plate...and shot upwards. I could feel the air blowing past me as the pillar shot upwards....it went so freaking fast. I then found myself above the giant wall to the west.
I was at the top...but in a cage....the cage....was a maze on top of this massive rooftop.
I couldnt see anything. The holes in the cage were too small..and the maze was so large...that I couldnt tell where any of it went. It all looked the same. This was harder than a maze with walls...because I couldnt make any sence of where I was.

Also to add to this-
Random points in the maze....transported me back to the large room.
I had to go up on that pillar a lot...but I sitll had to be very careful every time.

I found my way to the end of the maze after what seemed like hours and hours.
I was on top of this platform.....of course...it was a big metal grid hanging over an impossibly long drop. I was on top of the other side....of the entire world. I could see down.....and the cliffs just went down....for forever. The abyss was enourmous, but about 3000 feet away was another metal platform just like this one.

The bottom...just couldnt be seen.

At the center of this metal grid was a big lever. So I decided to pull it.
It clicked...and of course nothing happened...and I knew I had to go back to the big iron door.

And I found it open...but I still had to use my key...on the metal gate that was behind it.

The area bahind it looked just like the area I was in before...rolling hills...wtih some walls and random structures. I knew another journey was there.....until I finalyl hit the swtich to engage the bridge...to cross the abyss.

*BEEPING*

"fuck you alarm...I was on a sweet ass quest before you woke my ass up"
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[Mechi]

If I had such a brain load like Frayo has, I'd jump off a building. [:p]

My brain schemes are much more simple luckily.

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[Frayo]

This one here was pretty nuts: (Night before last)


Last Night I dreamed......



It all started with the piano to The Beatles - Baby You Can Drive My Car...Paul McCartney always used to say that the EQ was off balance for the piano track.
It is...but it makes the song so much more charming and old-skool sounding.

I was playing it on a silver piano.
And I had to go to work today. Today was March 11, 2007.

For some reason...it was dark...all day long. From dusk to dawn it was dark....it was only light in one place...the kitchen.

I was in my office...only it wasnt my office. It was the same wooden paneling..only the wooden paneling was all over the place...it was a dark colored wood and it was everywhere. Tiny CRT televisions were everywhere....Just little TVs in random places in every little obscure nook and cranny. The office had this dark ambience to it..and the TVs were bright...but they didnt put out that much light. Krystal was there.....

She was looking through some papers and asking me..."Jon, you need to find the new Student Coordinator, because Im graduating." (This is true in reality. I need to find someone to train to be the other office worker with me....this spring. I need someone cool...and someone pretty dang awesome..and a most excellent worker)

So the search was on....in the maze that was "Welbourne" hall. Welbourne looked like a machine factory. It was all weird looking. There was wood paneling all over the walls and machines were crawling all over the floors and ceilings.
Down in the basement, there was the sub shop (like reality). Working there, there was a girl. And she was asking about the job. I was just walking...wandering around...and she just came up to me and asked me about the job.
"Ok, I'll interview you."
The next scene in the dream was like something out of a videodrome. What I saw through my eyes was poor VHS quality. The screens were like the trailer to the movie video drome..and there were strange lines of light running in square patters on the walls. They were just kind of moving and pulsing...as through water were underneath them moving them around. Her eyes were bright blue and her hair was long and brown. She was kind of pale... She sat on a brown chair at one side of the room. The interviewer sat on the other side. I was in the middle up against the wall. The entire time she just stared at me. There were questions...and everything that was said was fast-forward VHS style...and then all of the sudden....audio came back with like a popping sound and then a few seconds of silence stood there. A voice then said..it was a deep vocoder sound from an 80s sci-fi movie that said "You Got The Job."

I tried talking to her...but everything she said came out in distorted audio.

So I decided to train her...later...for the place was empty now.
She sat near the door in front of one of the larger videodrome screens...I got up and went to the kitchen.
It was bright and had an ambient yellow light in it. Everything in it was chrome and extremely shiny. A few friends form FS were there...working...and everyone was confused. It was not the cafeteria kitchen! But the kitchen from the cafeteria at the MMO complex from another dream!

[MMO Complex Description]

Part VII of XXI

One of my most gory deaths in a dream occured in the MMO complex. The MMO complex was a factory complex that was a self contained corporation and manufacturing center. The cafeteria was thei huge open space in white..and had lots of flourescent lights. Brutalist stripes of orange ran along the walls and there were lots of people in multiple lines. At the end..it was like the Golden Corral...only more open and with a lot more machines. Lots of food prep machinery was exposed in this area...but people really didnt care. They just wanted to eat.
The place wasnt shiny...it was kind of dirty and dingy. It was pure white with white lighting and those huge orange stripes....but it all was so dingy...as if it were the 90s...and this place was built in the 70s.

The kitchen was really really shiny though...and the walls...were glass doors to small imbedded freezers and coolers. It was a design made to make searching for things easier than the walk in concept.

[END description]

It was the only lighted area...and people were having trouble moving things around. So basically I kicked a bunch of stuff out of the way..because these guys were basically complaining and not really trying to move stuff out of the way. Thats when I just moved everything out of the way...

"Wow..that was so hard." I said sarcastically
They looked at me "Did you do that?"
"Yah."
"Well..thanks. I didnt know."
"Aighty"

Then I left and she was standing outside the automatic door. It was no use to ask her for her name, for I couldnt hear the audio track from her person.

Basically people were wired via audio and video in this dream.
My channel devoted to her was crosswired. Her audio out was plugged into my video in on someone elses channel. Her video out was plugged into her video in on her channel on me.
So instead of seeing someone I was supposed to see..I could only hear them...
Meaning when she talked...it came in as a distorted mess. This was caused by an audio signal not being compatable with a video signal. It would just make white noise appear when she talked.

For the record. The other person she was crosswired with was Mike Andrews...this crazy guy whos in the second part of my dream. Mikes audio out was plugged in correctly, but his video out was plugged into the girls video in on my channel.
This means that I could hear Mike, but I couldnt see him. And when he spoke, I couldnt see her.
(But I never saw her when I saw Mike)

Anyway- so shes talking to me..and Im getting lines of static. Anyway I ask to sit else where. There is this room...from the 80s. She sat on this hideous brown couch..and this neon red light was coming in through the blinds in the slats. Occaisionally an object would pass by. Casting shadows in the room (which was dark as all get out).
Sitting to her left was a medium-sized television from the 80s, playing some commodore animation like the Videodrome trailer. I try to find out whats going on....but I cant hear her. I stand up and she stands up too.
The lights suddenly turn on. The blinds turn into a panel of black glass...and I can finally see the brown walls and carpet of the room. I look at her...and she throws her arms around me and just kisses me for the longest time.

I slid my hands up her tight striped shirt and up her sides...

And then I see nothing but black...and a big blue blinking E.
E..... was followed by the words..and the voice from Tron saying...
END OF LINE.

I squint really hard and I wake up on my floor...Its the middle of the day. Im on my blue carpet and its cold because all the blinds are left open. Im in my house from a dream I wrote about in my LJ a year or so ago...the house that I abandoned then.

Only...this time it was furnished.
"Ryan!"
"Ryan Get up off the floor!"

So I stood up and looked around. It was the same house, only it had my 'belongings' in it.

I wish that I could remember..I seem to have not the same furniture...but the same random posessions in my dreams. One of which is this funky metal sculpture that I've never seen anywhere in reality. It was on my dresser.
I walked out into my hallway...which was also blue. There were a few rooms there.
THERE-
There was my living room.
The living room I had in yet another dream fro 2004...that was also LJed...
I remember dreaming about throwing up and groping my dreammate of 15 years, Kyra..in that same living room. I stood there...but Mike was still yelling at me.
"Im over here!"
"Where?"
I looked in the doorway across form my bedroom...it was the stairs to my unfinished basement.
I looked around. I remember Mike was doing some construction...no- he was TRYING to sell me construction...I didnt want to pay any more money to this place..so I decided to hide from him...thinking he was outside...but he was here-
HE WAS INVISIBLE! HIS VIDEO OUT HAD BECOME DISCONNECTED FROM MY VIDEO IN ON HIS CHANNEL!!!

This led to confusion....I saw the room start getting darker and darker.
"Its about to storm.."
"I want to see it." I felt compelled to see the storm. I saw the wind blowing the trees around in my sideyard through the living room's bay window
I had to see it.
"I want to see it. Im going outside.."
"You cant."
"What? Why not?"
"Because, Ryan, you're about to wake up."

And there goes the alarm.


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