In your dreams

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  • I had somebody anxiously waiting for me to appraise their fake watermelon for its artistic merits.
  • cgichardcgichard Shipmate
    edited March 18
    I woke with a start as a mug of hot liquid spilled over onto my bed. It proved to be merely an early warning that my hot-water-bottle would spring a leak the following night.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    cgichard wrote: »
    I woke with a start as a mug of hot liquid spilled over onto my bed. It proved to be merely an early warning that my hot-water-bottle would spring a leak the following night.

    Pre-cognitive dreams - usually at that level of triviality - are something I've noticed. That and similar waking instances have led me to conclude that we exist in time not on an edge, but in a circle.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    The leak was something you could reasonably foresee, and so it may have been on your mind. That would qualify it as an eventuality rather than a premonition.

    I am the secretary of our choral group's Board of Directors. I dreamed that years ago a newspaper reporter had written an article predicting certain future activities the chorus would engage in. Those activities did indeed come to pass, and I was accused of plagiarizing the reporter's article when I wrote the minutes of Board meetings.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    I saw a young woman on the bus dressed in consciously retro 50s style, including a distinctive elastic belt with a metal clasp. I dreamt I was a child again, playing with just such a belt belonging to my mother.

    Perfectly explicable sequence - see something out of the ordinary, stir memories, have dream. Except the dream came first and I saw the young woman the following morning.

  • MooMoo Kerygmania Host
    I had somebody anxiously waiting for me to appraise their fake watermelon for its artistic merits.

    That's great!

  • :smiley: This morning it was somebody's very very bouncy baby I was minding for some reason, while my brother's parents-in-law attempted to teach me to chant without vowels.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Dreamed last night that the gentleman in the next apartment woke me with a very loud telephone conversation that I heard through the wall. Upon awaking from the dream, I realized that no such conversation was taking place. I went back to sleep and the dream resumed, this time with a woman on the phone. I awoke again, only to realize again that it was just a dream -- no conversation was taking place.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    What fragments of sleep came my way last night (I have gardening-wrecked shoulder muscles at the moment) were taken up with a horror film in which the world was being overrun by tiny malevolent frogs - which morphed into equally ill natured ants.
  • Fawkes CatFawkes Cat Shipmate
    Firenze wrote: »
    I saw a young woman on the bus dressed in consciously retro 50s style, including a distinctive elastic belt with a metal clasp. I dreamt I was a child again, playing with just such a belt belonging to my mother.

    Perfectly explicable sequence - see something out of the ordinary, stir memories, have dream. Except the dream came first and I saw the young woman the following morning.
    Firenze wrote: »
    What fragments of sleep came my way last night (I have gardening-wrecked shoulder muscles at the moment) were taken up with a horror film in which the world was being overrun by tiny malevolent frogs - which morphed into equally ill natured ants.

    Just as a matter of interest, are you able to distinguish your 'predictive' dreams from the others?
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Fawkes Cat wrote: »
    Firenze wrote: »
    I saw a young woman on the bus dressed in consciously retro 50s style, including a distinctive elastic belt with a metal clasp. I dreamt I was a child again, playing with just such a belt belonging to my mother.

    Perfectly explicable sequence - see something out of the ordinary, stir memories, have dream. Except the dream came first and I saw the young woman the following morning.
    Firenze wrote: »
    What fragments of sleep came my way last night (I have gardening-wrecked shoulder muscles at the moment) were taken up with a horror film in which the world was being overrun by tiny malevolent frogs - which morphed into equally ill natured ants.

    Just as a matter of interest, are you able to distinguish your 'predictive' dreams from the others?

    No, because I only know they're predictive when the thing comes to pass. They are only ever personal because, as I've tried to explain, they are part of my ordinary consciousness. Except unconscious because of the waking assumption that we can only know what appears as previous to a certain point in time.

    Anyway, I wouldn't worry about the frog ants.
  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    Firenze wrote: »
    cgichard wrote: »
    I woke with a start as a mug of hot liquid spilled over onto my bed. It proved to be merely an early warning that my hot-water-bottle would spring a leak the following night.

    Pre-cognitive dreams - usually at that level of triviality - are something I've noticed. That and similar waking instances have led me to conclude that we exist in time not on an edge, but in a circle.

    @Firenze I agree with that idea of an alinear curve or circle of time, in part because I sometimes find myself continuing with a certain dream just as I fall asleep, as if my dreaming life is on a revolving or spiralling continuum. And remembered fragments are occasionally prescient.

    In the late '90s when I was new to the Internet, I came across an intriguing article with a title that was a play on Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, raising the possibility that if thousands of dreamers were to record their dreams online, we might find the same dreams duplicated and coming up all around the world. I can't find it on the Wayback Machine and if anyone knows the piece (Do Dreaming Sheep Dream The Same Dream? or something like that) I'm talking about, I'd be delighted.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    I know there are a lot of common dream motifs - we've had them on this thread eg new rooms in one's house - but I've never come across the idea of the duplicate dream.

    I'm not sure, even if one could collect a set with thematic similarities, what you would conclude from that. Dream imagery is so very metaphorical.
  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    Agreed @Firenze , 'duplicate' would be unprovable -- I was thinking of similarities in Covid-related dream imagery and wondering about that old idea of the hypercollective online.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    Many times, my daughter and I, or my mother and I would have the same dream on the same night. They seem to happen from the point of view of the dreamer!

    One memorable dream was when I had my bright yellow car, and D-U had a nicer, but older, silver one. In her dream, she was angry with me because I was making her sell her car to get an ugly olive green car. In my dream, it was stormy and rainy, and I was very sad because I was selling my car, which was parked in the only sunny spot in a drenched, muddy field, and I was getting an ugly, olive green car. I remember looking at my pretty yellow car sitting in the sun and just wishing I could keep it.

  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    I'm developing a Dream Theme. Last night was the second one in which I was supposed to prepare food for a crowd of strangers. To this end I had to go and find a supermarket and buy food - but again I was in an unfamiliar city.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    Back story: my potting compost has mushroom spores in. It grows multitudinous mushrooms when I'm trying to grow other things in it.

    So last night I dreamed that mushrooms were growing out of my arm. Removing them was quite painful.
  • Ethne AlbaEthne Alba Shipmate
    My current dreams centre around Running Out Of Ground to plant trillions of seedlings 🌱into.

    Waking up tired out
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    I had a nightmare last night - it was like a horror film. I probably have one nightmare a year so I very much hope that was it. I won’t repeat it here as I’m working hard on forgetting it!

    :confounded:
  • Ethne AlbaEthne Alba Shipmate
    I was woken up this morning by a dream involving a friend very appropriately shouting at me.

    In these lockdown days I am still shocked at being up n dressed before 9am
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