Weird Dreams/Nightmares

[saskuoch]

So I have lots of weird dreams and nightmares, and I suspect many of you do, too. I think they're kinda funny to share. Here's my first one:

This has been a recurring nightmare since I took sophomore organic chemistry. I'm in some sort of molecule land, where all of these molecules are bigger than I am. They are all line representations- where lines represent bonds, carbon is assumed to be at any unlabeled point, and the other atoms are represented by their chemical symbols (O, I, P, S, etc.) where they occur in the molecule. Line representations aren't what real molecules look like, but whatever. So I know I'm supposed to be doing a synthesis and showing the mechanism with these molecules, but I'm not even sure what synthesis I'm supposed to be doing because I'm fixated on a heterocycle in front of me. (A heterocycle is a ring shaped molecule with two or more types of atoms as ring members.) One of the atoms in a ring is iodine. Iodine can only bind to one other atom, and in order to be a member of a ring, it has to be bound to two atoms, one on each side of it. So the whole time I'm sitting there freaking out because all the chemical principles I know are being violated, and then I wake up in a cold sweat.

And yes, I know I'm a winner.

[lapietra]

Oh! It took me a minute or two, but then I realized I could actually relate...
When I was in college, my love for cooking got around, and I eventually began to cater musical recitals regularly and then larger functions for the college... (but don't tell anyone... I didn't have a license! :eek: and I worked out of my apartment :eek: :eek: AND I had CATS!!!!:eek: :eek: :eek: Don't worry... no one ever got sick... I was *very* careful... and I don't do it anymore - not for money). So the receptions got bigger and bigger... I started doing a regular lunch for the Wednesday Music at Noon recitals; once I did meals for a three-day conference of 150 people or so, and another time a reception for the German institute; a couple of major political folks were having some kind of debate. Did I mention I worked ALONE?!? (And I wonder where all my energy has gone...) I would begin a few days before the event, do the shopping, begin preparation, often stay up the night before so everything would be fresh and tasty... and sometimes still preparing hors d'oeuvres right up until (and sometimes after!) people had begun to stream into the reception area.
ANYWAY, one of the reasons I had to quit (beside the fact that it was *totally* illegal under the circumstances and that I had other plans for my career) was that I started having these horrible recurring ordeal dreams... me, one-half hour before the performance was over, frantically searching the deli section of Trader Joe's for ready-made salads & hors d'oeuvres... then KNOWING people were coming into the reception area, that it was TOO LATE!!! and I was LETTING THE PERFORMERS DOWN!!! and they had already PAID ME!!! AUGGHHHHHH!!! What a relief to wake up and realize it was a dream... even more so than dreams of monsters when I was a kid.
Dreams are funny things. You totally lose your perspective on reality and what's really important... of course, then I worked for some entertainment companies and found out that that *is* reality for some people.

[Juicy]

Every so often I will have a dream about my teeth...

The dream is never the same, but in every one my teeth are all messed up. Sometimes my teeth are just really crooked. Sometimes they get all loose and bloody and start falling out.

I had a particularly disturbing teeth dream last night.
In my dream I had dentures. I pulled them out and looked at them. The teeth were disgusting... all yellowish with rotting black spots.

Does this mean I need to go to the dentist? Are my teeth a symbol for something that is going on in my life?

[Reg Barkley]

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[AllegroNg]

Juicyyyyy! My teeth fall out all of the tiiiiiiime!

Oh, and how frustrating that can be! Especially after all of those years with braces.

And I love how I'd just be wandering around and all the sudden I have a handful of teeth. Not so tasty, BTW.

Apperently, such dreams are a reflection of vainity/concern for apperance. <Checks hair>

-Angie

[PHPGoddess]

OK, I remember from psychology way back when that teeth in a dream represent your consience or your relationships. There were different interpretations for the different things that happen to your teeth. But one of them was that you are lying about something to somebody (including yourself) and you are afraid of discovery and are trying to hide it. Don't remember if that was the falling out, the cracked, or the bleeding. HMMMMM

[lapietra]

I used to have tooth dreams, too... but nothing as horrific as yours, Juicy... and I haven't had one in awhile so I must have resolved whatever was going on...
I would have dreams where I would discover one of my teeth, always in the lower front, was loose. Typical of me, I would wiggle it and wiggle it and then it would come out. These dreams were so real... I would spend the rest of my dream trying to figure out what I was going to do about it...
I know... lightweight. :D Not that I wish to have any dreams that threaten to send me to an asylum...

[Large Marge]

I have plane crash dreams.

Vivid, technicolor plane crash dreams.

I have them about once every two months.

I'm never the pilot, though; I'm always an observer on the ground.

In the last one, I was standing on the street I grew up on, and a huge 747 clearly wasn't going to make it to the airport runway (2 miles from my house, incidentally).

The plane got lower, and lower, and lower, and, in apparent slow-motion, proceded to crash land on my tiny little street.

As the plane descended, the wings were sheered off and a stream of jet fuel and flames shot out the back, as though it were really happening.

About 20 feet above the ground, just before impact, it zoomed right past me, about 100 feet away. I could see all the terrified faces of the passengers. They even had their little oxygen masks on in the dream.

I could even feel the heat from the flames.

What the hell does all that mean?

[Gatsby]

Last night I dreamed that I was at my sister's apartment, helping her sort purple-only laundry.

In the dream, Widespread Panic was on MTV, singing "Brimful of Asha on a 45" (most CERTAINLY NOT one of their songs) and I was singing along in the most beautiful singing voice (most CERTAINLY NOT mine).

????

[Gatsby]

I also often have dying-dreams.

The mode of death is always different, and largely irrelevant in the dream. It's the moment of death that I always remember.

Always the same: a huge moment of awareness, then regret, then awareness, and then largest big, physically warm feeling washing over my body.

[Large Marge]

I also often have dying-dreams.

The mode of death is always different, and largely irrelevant in the dream. It's the moment of death that I always remember.

Always the same: a huge moment of awareness, then regret, then awareness, and then largest big, physically warm feeling washing over my body.


Are you sure that's not urine? :D

I have never had a dream in which I died. In your dream, do you actually die, or do you just come right up to the edge of it?

And, do those dreams wake you up?

[Gatsby]

Not really sure about the dying or almost-dying - in the dreams, that seems almost the same.

As far as waking up, no. I'm a solid sleeper, it takes a LOT to wake me. The dreams I remember happen when I've woken in the morning.

[Aphrodite]

For the past three months I have been having those dreams where at some point you are trying to get away from something and can't.
In the first of three I was about to be killed, I was standing by the screen door and could yell for help. I tried and nothing came out. I tried and tried. It was like I had laryngitis. Finally I could hear it as a raspy whisper. I took a deep breath and yelled help so loud I woke myself up. But I DID IT.
Then I had another and had to run. I couldn't move. I concentrated on my legs, and woke up kicking out.
The last one was last week. I yelled again.
It is like I am overcoming something big that has held me back. These dreams leave me feeling very empowered.

[chuckie egg]

I had the most horrible nightmares last night. I can't even bring myself to type them out.

[xfox]

This has been a recurring nightmare since I took sophomore organic chemistry. I'm in some sort of molecule land, where all of these molecules are bigger than I am. They are all line representations- where lines represent bonds, carbon is assumed to be at any unlabeled point, and the other atoms are represented by their chemical symbols (O, I, P, S, etc.) where they occur in the molecule. Line representations aren't what real molecules look like, but whatever. So I know I'm supposed to be doing a synthesis and showing the mechanism with these molecules, but I'm not even sure what synthesis I'm supposed to be doing because I'm fixated on a heterocycle in front of me. (A heterocycle is a ring shaped molecule with two or more types of atoms as ring members.) One of the atoms in a ring is iodine. Iodine can only bind to one other atom, and in order to be a member of a ring, it has to be bound to two atoms, one on each side of it. So the whole time I'm sitting there freaking out because all the chemical principles I know are being violated, and then I wake up in a cold sweat.

And yes, I know I'm a winner.

Sask - You are a brilliant young student who clearly understands your subject. You enlightened my understanding of organic chemisty ten-fold, but I must be careful, because a little bit of knowledge is dangerous.

IMO your dream is that you are in a world of chemicals/organisms like a beaker on a stirring machine. Bonding is what all young people naturally do. They are in a sea of themselves looking over their scene and trying for connections at the highest level of adequacy possible in the best of worlds. The abstract nature of your dream is facinating. My work has to do with chemical sterilization of microorganisms for medical devices, but I do not have a college level education. So you can imagine that your nice and simple explaination of how chemicals behave is interesting. Not so different from macro organisms, really.

I also am totally amazed and impressed with lapietra's past endeavors! No wonder she is so well liked! Food is love in my book, even if I don't live to eat.

My dreams vary from moderately to very frustrating mundane situations. I have dreamed I was able to fly (like Superman) a few times and woke up reluctantly to a dream this morning of sailing on a large America's Cup class boat with my boss's handsome son...dare I, or anybody else try interperting that???

[agentsmith]

i used to have this recurring dream, and its the only one that i have remembered in detail for a long time.

this guy is running around killing people, the people seem to be bad to me but they might be policemen or ninjas or a combination of the two. i think we're in a basement or parking garage. im running behind him, and i want him to stop running so badly. finally he turns and sees me, although maybe he knew i was there all along, and he waves at me and smiles. i wave back and im so happy he stopped running. and while he waves to me, someone shoots him and he dies while i stand there watching and waving.

i used to have that one a lot and it scares me because maybe it means something.

two nights ago i had one where i was going to die, and i think it was ancient times. someone was going to marry my girlfriend because i was dying, she lived in a tree. (i was a man in the dream) they were going to burn my house down, they were just waiting for me to kick the bucket. i think i kept trying to make someone realize i was hurting and they all didnt care. i was running through a forest, and then it turned into a mall.

[zero]

agnes agnes that made me sad to think of you having two such tragic dreams going round in your wee head and i hope they never come again - try a milky drink at bedtime

safe

-=zero

[agentsmith]

i dont only have bad dreams. i kind of remember one i really liked that i had once.

i was running from these yakuza/mcdonalds employees but i ran slow and one caught me in a doorway i think and shot me in my back and the bullets went out the front of my chest and the blood splattered out in these beautiful slow motion arcs. but it didnt hurt, it was more of a "oh shit" feeling, and then i ran some more.

[zero]

that's a beautiful one agnes especially the slo-mo bit so now i'll not have weird dreams/nightmares about you having weird dreams/nightmares, thanks

[agentsmith]

hehe yep. thats good.

[madasacutsnake]

Last night I dreamt that I was in the Arctic or Antarctic or somewhere with lots of frozen wasteland anyway. My friend told me that they often go swimming as the water is warmer than the air temperature. I decided to try it and surprisingly the water was cosy warm. I was worried about pulling myself out back onto the ice as it looked pretty cold but the locals had cunningly placed some plastic at the edge of the ice to protect bare bottoms. Great, I thought, and started to pull myself out only to have the plastic slip on top of me. I fell back into the water, with the plastic still on top of me, then underneath the ice. Then I woke up.

[Large Marge]

Last night I dreamt that I was in the Arctic or Antarctic or somewhere with lots of frozen wasteland anyway. My friend told me that they often go swimming as the water is warmer than the air temperature. I decided to try it and surprisingly the water was cosy warm. I was worried about pulling myself out back onto the ice as it looked pretty cold but the locals had cunningly placed some plastic at the edge of the ice to protect bare bottoms. Great, I thought, and started to pull myself out only to have the plastic slip on top of me. I fell back into the water, with the plastic still on top of me, then underneath the ice. Then I woke up.

Just out of curiosity, was it cold in your bedroom when you woke up?

[trisherina]

(checks swimming in polar waters off list of things to do while skiing with snake)

[madasacutsnake]

Just out of curiosity, was it cold in your bedroom when you woke up?


No, it's hot here at the moment.
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It was on the list?

[Large Marge]

No, it's hot here at the moment.


No, what I was getting to was: Perhaps the cold temperature in your bedroom caused you to have that dream ... ?

[madasacutsnake]

And I'm getting at the fact that it's summer here. So, um, no.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

hmmmmm... did you wake up on the floor under your broken waterbed?

[Large Marge]

And I'm getting at the fact that it's summer here. So, um, no.


Yes, I am an idiot.

I misread your first post.

*Marge looks at the floor and slowly slithers from the room.*

[agentsmith]

i wish i could slither. the best verb, in my opinion.

[trisherina]

Yes, I am an idiot.

I misread your first post.

*Marge looks at the floor and slowly slithers from the room.*

See, now, Marge, and she was being polite; imagine.

[Large Marge]

See, now, Marge, and she was being polite; imagine.

Why, is she usually rude?

;)

[trisherina]

Not usually.

[madasacutsnake]

hmmmmm... did you wake up on the floor under your broken waterbed?

No. I woke up as per usual underneath a gorgeous fireman.

Waterbeds always make me think of the time our waterbed broke and we were going to a fancy dress party. It was a "P" party and I had the best costume ever; a charred toga and ash coated face - a Pompeiian, get it?! We missed the party and I am still pissed about that 15 years later.

[madasacutsnake]

Figures:

Ice

To see ice in your dream, suggests that you are lacking a flow of ideas and thoughts. You are not seeing in progress in your life. Alternatively, you may be feeling emotionally paralyzed or rigid. You need to let your feelings be known.

To dream that you are walking on ice, indicates that you are standing on shaky or instable ground. You are taking risks that you shouldn't be taking. Fear and caution are also implied.

To dream that you fall through ice, suggests that your emotions are threatening to come crashing through.

[red]

HAH! I had a dream the other night with PFP in it, sorta. SOmething happened and I needed to get the word out. I thought, OH! I'll call PFP, she knows everyone!