Dream Thread

[lymond]

Do any of you find that your brain creates and re-uses sets? Sometimes I dream of high school, but it's a weird high school, a mish-mash that appears to be elements of both my elementary and school thrown together.

Yeah, my dreams are often an amalgam of different places and experiences. Like, I'm in high school but it is not my high school. However, I'd say the weirdest dreams are populated vividly by people I've never met or seen, at least consciously.

 

[Angst]

there's some people and places that have only existed in my dreams who i repeatedly meet and visit, and they know they're not real

 

[Gori the Grey]

Most of the backdrops in my dreams are totally unique to that dream. Never seen them before in RL. Never seen them in any previous dream. The structure of the buildings involved often figures very prominently--is itself one of the most significant details of the dream.

No repeat characters, either.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Do any of you find that your brain creates and re-uses sets? Sometimes I dream of high school, but it's a weird high school, a mish-mash that appears to be elements of both my elementary and school thrown together.

Very often. In one of my dreams a bunch of actors are leaving the building where they have been performing and they stop to admire a beautiful snow-capped peak in the distance. This paradoxically was taking place in one of my old schools. Later on in the same dream another group of people are sheltering in a cabin or a hut from an escaped serial killer who wants to take his revenge on them. The cabin was somehow the drawing room at my childhood home.

 

[Gori the Grey]

My best friend from high school and I have decided to file our taxes together. I've supplied him with my numbers, and now we're looking at the document where he has added in his numbers. First, he makes a lot more money than me. Second, it occurs to us that two random people can't just choose to file their taxes together, so now we're scrambling to separate everything back out again, and get them filed separately because today is the deadline.

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

A few weeks ago I had an interesting dream. In my dream the background was all black. I couldn't see anything. But I heard a loud and authoritative voice shout at me. The voice said "Come here!".

We fly soon.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Last night I dreamed that I was visiting a couple of friends who I hadn't seen in years. One of them was someone I went to high school with, irl; the other looked like the actor Daniel Sunjata, who of course I've never met irl. In the dream, they had two teenage kids. Everybody, myself and the whole family, had fallen asleep in their living room watching a movie. I had woken up early and everyone else was still asleep, so I let myself out, to take a walk. It was still dark outside, and cold. I walked up the street for a bit, then turned around to go back and I suddenly realized I wasn't sure which house was theirs. The houses all looked kinda the same, and I hadn't thought to look at the number. As I was walking back, hoping to recognize something, my old friend Daniel Sunjata walked out, so that was a relief. Instead of going back into the house, we walked down to the local Main Street, lined with those 3-4-story red brick buildings you see in a lot of North American small towns. There was a crowd of people gathered in the middle of the road, even though it was before dawn, and there was a bunch of fire trucks with their lights flashing. There were 10 or 12 firefighters just standing around, as if awaiting orders or taking a break. Looking down the street, I could see lots more fire trucks, and beyond them flames were rising into the air, maybe a half-mile away. Somehow I knew there had been a train derailment. The flames were yellow & green, but nobody seemed bothered by that.

After I woke up, I Googled what yellow & green flames might mean.

Barium chloride is an inorganic compound with the formula BaCl2. It is one of the most common water-soluble salts of barium. Like most other water-soluble barium salts, it is a white powder, highly toxic, and imparts a yellow-green coloration to a flame.

In industry, barium chloride is mainly used in the purification of brine solution in caustic chlorine plants and also in the manufacture of heat treatment salts, case hardening of steel.[7] It is also used to make red pigments such as Lithol red and Red Lake C. Its toxicity limits its applicability.

Barium chloride, along with other water-soluble barium salts, is highly toxic.[14] It irritates eyes and skin, causing redness and pain. It damages kidneys. Fatal dose of barium chloride for a human has been reported to be about 0.8-0.9 g. Systemic effects of acute barium chloride toxicity include abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, cardiac arrhythmia, muscular paralysis, and death. The Ba2+ ions compete with the K+ ions, causing the muscle fibers to be electrically unexcitable, thus causing weakness and paralysis of the body.[3] Sodium sulfate and magnesium sulfate are potential antidotes because they form barium sulfate BaSO4, which is relatively non-toxic because of its insolubility in water. Barium chloride is not classified as a human carcinogen.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Had a dream that I was trying to take care of a bunch of baby bunnies in a bedroom, but they kept escaping and running about or falling down and hitting their heads, fortunately they didn't seem to be seriously injured. In the end I tried to contain them in a basket

 

[Kyriakos]

Had a dream that I was trying to take care of a bunch of baby bunnies in a bedroom, but they kept escaping and running about or falling down and hitting their heads, fortunately they didn't seem to be seriously injured. In the end I tried to contain them in a basket

So you created a... basket case?

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

First time I've heard that phrase

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

One of the stranger dreams I''ve had are where some character I don't know has a definite name.

There was one dream in which someone I knew from a seminary many years ago (not my age group, he was older, back then classes weren't arranged according to age) was talking to me and mentioned his wife by name, as if I knew her personally. I didn't. But I do remember the name, and I only knew one person of that name in real life (some distant-ish aunt from my father's side). I don't know whether that was that person's wife's actual name, and if I recall correctly he wasn't actually married at that time, only engaged.

 

[warpus]

2-3 days before my flight home to Canada back from Taiwan, I had a dream that I was sitting on a plane that was taking off to take me back home. The dream seemed to begin when the plane was beginning to take off.

I remember in my dream vaguely thinking something like this: "Ahh yeahhh finally on the plane, we're taking off, this trip is over, that's sad, but now the journey home begins". I had that moment.

But then not too long thereafter: "Wait a second, I never checked in yet! How could I be flying?? Something is wrong here.."

Then I figured out that I was in a dream and woke up. And started wondering if I was actually ready to go home and just in denial about wanting to stay longer. Came to the conclusion that it's more complicated than that, and in some ways I'd like to stay longer, in others it is time to go home.

This whole experience helped transition me into a state that made it easier to travel home, I think. The weird thing is that I did not sleep a ton during the last 2-3 days in Taiwan.. and then had a 30 hour or so journey home, without much sleep. And yet I was perfectly alert and coherent throughout, and didn't really feel tired. That's never happened to me before. I actually even had that clear energy-full state for a couple hours after I arrived, and couldn't fall asleep. When I finally did fall asleep, and subsequently woke up - that's when I started to feel tired.

And my sleep's been messed up since, last night being a somewhat back to normal sleeping night w/ mainly regular sleeping hours! So I'm on the right track in terms of jetlag recovery. Another weird thing is that usually it takes me 3-4 days max to feeling normal. This time it's taking longer.

This reminds me of another dream I had a couple days after I came back. I was still going through incredibly stupid sleeping hours, and waking up a lot.. not really being rested at all during waking hours.. So in this dream I found myself on this lush green island, seemingly influenced by posts I'd seen about my friend's trip to Hong Kong - so far he has been avoiding the city proper and has been hiking in the hills. So it's all green posts with lots of bushes trees and other green landscapes. Either way, in my dream it was somehow clear that I extended my Taiwan stay by one more week.. but that I for whatever reason found myself on this green island, which did not really remind me of any part of Taiwan I visited.. except maybe some of the countryside I saw around Tainan. But not really.

In this dream I remember thinking: "Damn, one more week, that's great.. Now to find something to do!", so I'd pull out my phone and look at the markers nearby I could visit. I did an extensive amount of research and peppered all of Taiwan with these markers that contain cool destinations (for whatever reason). Making it easier to explore on the go and run into cool stuff. But this island had NOTHING. Not even the regular google maps view had any landmarks highlighted. It was just a bunch of streets and homes, it seemed like. How weird! That doesn't seem like Taiwan at all!

I was in that moment for a while, that feeling that I don't have to think about work for another week.. but also partially a "why isn't there anything to do on the island anyway, and why am I staying in a large house, that doesn't seem right either" sort of feeling

 

[Kyriakos]

One of the stranger dreams I''ve had are where some character I don't know has a definite name.

There was one dream in which someone I knew from a seminary many years ago (not my age group, he was older, back then classes weren't arranged according to age) was talking to me and mentioned his wife by name, as if I knew her personally. I didn't. But I do remember the name, and I only knew one person of that name in real life (some distant-ish aunt from my father's side). I don't know whether that was that person's wife's actual name, and if I recall correctly he wasn't actually married at that time, only engaged.

Maybe then the name was mentioned to place some meaning of the dream chronologically? (ie whatever meaning there was, it had to do with the time associated with your distant aunt; eg when you first learned of her or something else tied to that knowledge irl).

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

no idea, she was just a name to me at the time of the dream, I just knew vaguely there was an aunt with that name, it's only recently that I know her definitely

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

 

[Gori the Grey]

I'm in an airport. As I'm leaving one flight, I learn that my connecting flight is delayed, so my layover will be longer than expected. I'm pointed to a corridor that will lead to a nearby mall, where I can try to get a meal, do some shopping, or just pass some time. I go to a first restaurant and somehow conclude that their meal will take too much time. I go to more of a food kiosk, that I think will be quick, but while waiting, I get the feeling I really should be headed back. I do start heading back, but the way back is considerably longer than the original trip into this mall. Moreover, I'm going through different areas than were the case on the way out, including even outdoor areas. Every now and again, I'll move through a space that I remember, or vaguely remember from my outward journey, but with each of the trips through unfamiliar/wrong areas, I feel more and more like I'm not going to make it back in time. In one of the outdoor areas, my way is blocked by a fence. I know the right direction to go, and I know that I have to climb this fence, but this had been no part of my outward route. The return trip even includes largish stretches on the tarmac of the airport.

I'm a little hazy on the ending, but I think I miss my flight.

 

[Kyriakos]

I'm in an airport. As I'm leaving one flight, I learn that my connecting flight is delayed, so my layover will be longer than expected. I'm pointed to a corridor that will lead to a nearby mall, where I can try to get a meal, do some shopping, or just pass some time. I go to a first restaurant and somehow conclude that their meal will take too much time. I go to more of a food kiosk, that I think will be quick, but while waiting, I get the feeling I really should be headed back. I do start heading back, but the way back is considerably longer than the original trip into this mall. Moreover, I'm going through different areas than were the case on the way out, including even outdoor areas. Every now and again, I'll move through a space that I remember, or vaguely remember from my outward journey, but with each of the trips through unfamiliar/wrong areas, I feel more and more like I'm not going to make it back in time. In one of the outdoor areas, my way is blocked by a fence. I know the right direction to go, and I know that I have to climb this fence, but this had been no part of my outward route. The return trip even includes largish stretches on the tarmac of the airport.

I'm a little hazy on the ending, but I think I miss my flight.

Reminds me of a similar dream of mine, where I was always using the bus to get from work to home, but that time I decided to walk part of the way - with the result being that it was an entirely different environment (as if the scenery came with the bus).

 

[Zardnaar]

Crap obe other night. Kittens getting old and he passed away.

Bleah.

 

[Kyriakos]

As an example of how things you see/read the previous day, can end up in your dream, the one last night featured the Heavyside function (which rather unexpectedly is called that simply because it was suggested by someone called Heavyside).

Here it is, graphed by Desmos:

Sadly I forgot what I was using it for - would have been able to tell you if I wrote it down immediately upon waking.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I am a part of Trump's security detail. It's not because I'm Secret Service. For some reason, in this case, it is thought to be strategic to have an average citizen be near him rather than secret service. The event is outside, but we're in a kind of portico space. I'm seated next to him on a bench. My gun, a rifle, is under the bench. In the dream that's all part of the strategy of protecting him, though I can't explain to you why that would be. In the dream, I am more skilled in firearms than I am in real life, so it's at least plausible that I could have been tapped for this duty. In the dream, there's none of the RL distaste I have for Trump. I'm like intellectually aware that he's a president I don't favor, but I have no strong feelings against him. Also in the dream, Trump isn't being his usually obnoxious self in any way. He's just sitting on the bench. We don't converse. The only remarkable aspect of being that near to him is my being able to see clearly that he has a bulletproof vest beneath his suit. The event goes off without an incident, and Trump just disappears from the dream--goes on his way, I guess. Whoever has organized the event for some reason thinks the citizens who have been involved might need some time to process the event, so there's a kind of chapel area where you could spend some time praying or just meditating about what just happened (even though nothing happened). It's kind of heavily expected that everyone involved will (and will want to) do something in this meditation room, so I join the line that is forming. The number of people who had been involved surprises me. I knew in the dream that I hadn't been the only one, but there are thirty or forty people who gather to form this line, and that's more than I had known there were.

Funny to me to have Trump figure in a dream and it's drained of all of my RL feelings about Trump.