Thread: Adventures in Dreamfollowing

shark. I am at a beach, maybe on an island. some people are with me. there is a large slide going into the water and someone convinces me to go down it. I ride a surf board down it into the water. I paddle around a bit instead of coming right back and they start yelling. I look down and see the shadow of a huge shark under the water. I hurry to get back to shore. the shark dives out of the water to the land and grabs several people biting some of them in half. I am horrified and run to higher ground where I sit with my dogs.

office levels. I am at work or somewhere in an office with many levels and platforms. I go to a room with lots of computers but no one is there. there is a sort of catwalk through the center of the room. a small platform is off of this room around a corner. a guy is telling me stuff like it's a good place to come and get away from work. then I am somewhere else maybe like a parking garage. a big black guy comes over and starts telling me about a chicken being loose on the highway that's causing problems. I have a stack of artwork with me. J is there and we head towards our car. the artwork is large and difficult to carry. I get in the back seat and J has the keys and puts them in the ignition through where the front windsheild should be. he turns them the wrong way and the car makes a grinding noise. I turn them the right way and it starts.

getting ready for church. we are at my parents house and my uncle and cousins are there visiting. we are preparing to leave to go to church. I'm going through my drawers to find some clothes to wear. they are all too big or old looking. I'm then driving up and down the driveway several times then we all park on the street. I park too close to the wall and the side door cant open. we get to church, this happens twice. the church is a round building. I've dreamt of round churches before. the first time we are on time, the second time we are late and go to try and find a seat.

japan. J and I and my parents are talking about taking a trip to Japan. It is late in the day so I suggest we go another time, maybe like a 4 day weekend. then we are in Japan, on a sort of boardwalk with long slits on either side of us forming a pier. we look down in the water and see huge bettas swimming around. my dad has a fishing pole and catches one. he pulls it on to the pier it is about 3 feet long and maybe 2 feet around. it is thrashing around gasping and coming after me. I try to stay out of it's way, feeling sorry for it. I ask if they are going to keep it. then it is later, and J and my dad are frying up pieces of the fish in pans. my dad tells me it was a sacred wedding ceremony when someone catches that kind of fish.

I am at work and we are moving cubicles around. I am now sitting near two fun weird guys, K and J. K and I are talking about the comicon and how he will soon have collected lots of fun stuff to decorate his space.

J and I are walking along a street/boardwalk and it seems to be the late 1800s. He says I better walk you home now. It is evening and I think, in this time period it must have been inappropriate for women to be out after dark. We go to a house and stop at the door. It is darker but I can still see light sky through the trees. We are talking about how he may be leaving for china soon. I tell him I love him, wondering if he will return the words. He does immediately. I tell him if he's leaving for china I am coming with him. I turn around and he's disappeared. I start to hear loud music coming from the house, it's 80s music. I walk around the house. Other houses are very close by and the back yard is tiny. I find the window where the music is. I go inside and down a hall with lots of wood doors and trim. I go into a bedroom that is mine. It looks modern I guess it's not the 1800s anymore. I find two large boomboxes, one is dark green and rounded. I try to turn the music down or change it but the controls aren't working right. I remember this happening to someone Ive heard of who's house was haunted. I think of unplugging the stereo but I finally turn it off. Then I realize I'm dreaming. I am walking down the hall. There are lots of white things and furniture. I see J and we do it in a nearby bed. The second time I tell him it's a dream and he doesn't seem to care. The third time a young boy comes in who is the dream I guess is our son. He says hey that's my bed and I tell him he can sleep in our bed in the next room. He goes on and a large wet dog is there too. I tell him to take the dog with him. Then 4 or 5 more big wet dogs come sniffing around and jumping on the bed. They are white and brown like salukis. I tell them all to go lay down and they do.

I had a WILD where I am in the hallway but it is tilted like a fun house and I have trouble moving. then I dream I get to work but forget some cupcakes I was supposed to bring. it is still dark and lots of people are already around. I run down a short flight of stairs to leave and then think, I hope this is a dream so Im not really in this situation. when I went to work for real I didn't forget the cupcakes but I did forget my wallet.

It is snowing when I get up. there is a layer of slush on the ground and I let the dogs in. our house is similar to real life but we have a basement. I bring the dogs to the basement and tell them they need too help me fold laundry. they look like kids who don't want to do they're chores. then a girl I went to school with comes to the door selling male enhancement drugs. I tell her we're not interested. I come back in to the table where some friends are sitting and tell them about it. I'd feel embarrassed to be selling that stuff and if I had to would go as far from where people know me as possible. later I'm with our family and hannah has a box that asks you questions and draws a picture of you based on your answers.

I am in what looks like a school library. At each table is a guy alone serving detention. Kevin G from HS is at one table. I think, I could sit with him, he's less scary than the rest look to be. Some people from work are around and fixing coffee. I tell someone I'm starting to like coffee if it has enough stuff in it. I pick up a coffee cup and start putting sugar in it. I get way too much and it just sort of crystalizes when I pour coffee in. I take it to a nearby kitchen area to dump it out and it seems like ice. I realize the cup I have is the glass coffee pot and feel dumb and guilty for taking all the coffee for myself. I wash it and go to put it back. Then I go outside and kevin is there. It is fall and I'm wearing baggy jeans. We're getting ready to go somewhere.

J and I are at my parents house only it looks more like my aunts old house. It is night time and we're looking for something to eat. I find some stuffed pasta shells with cheese and put them into a dish to heat up. Then my parents arrive with 2 or 3 kids I don't know. My mom is almost taller than me and dressed in purple. She ignores the kids when she sees me, they wait at the table to be fed. One of the kids is like gypsy my dog.

Ahhhh... Detention. Now that brings back memories.

I will not post useless comments in people's dream journals.
I will not post useless comments in people's dream journals.
I will not post useless comments in people's dream journals.
I will not post useless comments in people's dream journals.
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I'll probably get arthritis from all those lines I used to write.

I am at a skating rink with some people from work. It is a party with groups of people acting out parts of a mystery story. Robin Williams is in charge. He skates up behind me and tells me in my ear that I am playing the character of an old cat lady who suspects a dentist. I start expanding on it saying he's stealing peoples teeth as treasure or something but RW tells me not too, just follow the story. Then I'm at a table with J and S and I have a small skeleton. We decide to get pliers and pull out his teeth.

I am outdoors and running towards a church. I am supposed to be in a wedding in 10 minutes. I think, I can be ready by then. L from work is the bride, she is walking ahead of me. I run into the church and go to the basement where I assume will be a room I can change in. the basement is dark and I walk through til I see a light but it is a stairway up to the sanctuary. then I am dressed and sitting in a chair at the front of the church. I'm wearing a red shirt and black skirt. I realize my shirt is on backwards, the tag is sticking out. I go into a nearby supply room and turn it around. then a HS band on stage starts to play wedding music. I run out and see attendants walking down the aisle. now we're all wearing orange dresses. I miss my partner but get in line and sit down again at the front. now it's something from HS musical. I'm telling someone, this is the lame part with the losers at the end, after the popular kids perform at the beginning. a girl nearby comes over and kisses me. male/female couples are separating and making f/f m/m couples. then we all start to leave the building. JL is there talking about his art. a girl near me says he goes regulary to the burning man festival. B from work is there. she is saying that they spent way too much money on this, even having a toy vendor. we get to a car J is driving and she's still saying they didn't even have ice cream. we drive past a flatened police car. I point it out and B says to roll down the window so she can hear what's going on then tells me I didn't roll it down far enough.

I am outside and we're fixing a cake for Ms birthday from work. someone asks who will decorate it and no one says anything, they ask me and I act reluctant but I really wanted to. I pick up chalk and start drawing M in a sports car in the frosting. I don't have anything to look at so it gets kind of wonky. I get it to where I think it looks ok. I go inside to a bedroom and look in the mirror. I'm surprised my hair looks good and longer than I thought.

I am in a room with a bunch of people who are attacking each other with big knives. it's getting really gorey so I try to leave.

I am visiting black apple's house. I feel like I'm talking alot. I tell her I love her house, it's like a little fantasy cottage. we go out to the backyard which is small and fenced with a good sized tree and flowers. there is a stream running past between all the houses and a wooden walkway that leads to each door. I ask how long it is and she doesn't know. I tell her we should walk it tonight. then some other people are there. we find out she's gotten engaged. she has a thick silver band ring with lots of diamonds. then I am getting dressed. I decide I should dress funkier and put on a long patchwork skirt, denim jacket and I wish I had some striped socks. I grab a gaudy gold locket necklace and go into the bathroom to put it on. each time I look in the mirror I look a bit different. C from work comes in and ask how I'm doing very friendly. I don't say much then worry that I sounded rude.

J and I are in costumes, I think I'm a wolf man or something furry. we get herded into a bus. we learn they are going to scan us or something to make toys of us. then we're in a toy store and we see stuffed dolls of ourselves. mine looks like me in a pink polo shirt.

I am riding in the backseat and my parents are in the front driving. I have just woken up. the back is full of blankets and luggage. we are at school and I have to get out. I gather my stuff and my cat jumps out so I put him back in. another girl gets out too, I think she was indian. her cat jumps out but they don't notice. I turn back to make sure they get it. it's wearing lights, like a tracer. they stop the car to get the cat. now I'm in a car driving and I almost run into someone. then I'm riding a bike down a street in cg. my dog gryphon is running along side me. we go through a foresty neighborhood. I stop and look at an eggshell on the ground. then we see several eggs in the grass. gryphon eats some of them and I eat one, it tastes like chocolate. they are for an easter egg hunt. we leave the neighborhood and head to work. I hear my boss in my head talking about having my dog at work and some others were wanting to have a drawing session with him. I think, I might have to get him a visitor sticker.

I am at work, sort of, and we are supposed to be signing big cards. I'm trying to work out a way to write my name uniquely. I'm practicing with a big marker that keeps going out. then several of us are in a living room and I look out the front window. a woman is wandering around wearing what looks like a scuba mask on her head. she comes to the door and J goes to answer it. she and another lady come in and sit with us and start telling us about their paper they publish and the wild stories they've discovered about centaurs and bigfoot and stuff. we alll start thinking she's baloney and we send them away. then we're riding in a car, J from work is driving. he is very relaxed the whole time even though we take a wrong turn and everyone is sort of freaking out. then we drive over a dropoff and cant steer back onto the road. I wake up before we fall.

J and I go to a bar with a table full of people. he is doing something and I keep asking if he did this and this etc, half joking. he gets mad and says shut up, stop being a jerk. I don't say anything else. then the bartender comes over and gives him a psychology brochure and starts talking to him about psych problems and why he acts the way he does. he listens and then he is nice to me again.

I am in a sort of schoolyard with grass. I have a handful of magic seeds from a video game. I toss then down and walk in a circle, as I think of it, a large tree grows up from the ground. then I'm in my parents backyard and I toss some seeds in the garden. I think of asparagus and cactus and they grow up. then I grow a vine with different kinds of berries, strawberries, rasberries, cherries.

I am in a pool at a hotel or something. I go from one pool to a connected one over some stairs. some people are standing on the stairs and I slide down them like a slide. I get out and put on a satiny aqua shirt over my suit and go inside. I am looking for a bathroom and it is kind of a maze inside. there is a black hallway and then some spaces in the walls with bathrooms. I am surprised I find a private one, Ive dreamed this kind of thing before and they're always full or exposed. I come out of the bathroom and realize it's really dirty, I hope the next person doesn't think it was me. I realize my shirt is gone and go back to look for it. then I am in the hotel lobby wearing a mens suit. I am talking to the hostess who has a french accent. she is taking me to eat and explaining the menu. she apparently thinks I'm a rabbi. she suggests some kind of meat then apologizes and says I will have manicotti. S from work is there and says she's going to eat to. I say, we should sit together, but she says no. the lady leads us to a side bar with chairs and we take them off the table to sit there.

I wake up and it has been snowing so I decide to stay home from work. we are in bed in the living room. a baby is in bed with us crawling around. the baby falls off the bed and then it's a little fluffy dog. J is looking at my ipod which can get on the internet. I hope he doesn't delete anything I need. I look and see that I have an order from my shop. one item is called heloise and cost $58. I can't remember what that is so I go to my shop. when I click heloise, a movie starts playing. it has people from the 1800s near a creek and there are giant paper pumpkins nearby. a carriage and some kind of boat go by. B from work is there and keeps guessing what the movie is, she guesses Black Dahlia and something else from totally the wrong time period. then other people from work are there looking for me for a meeting.

The girls are with me and my mom walking towards the garden in the back yard. I am talking about Harry Potter who no one else has read. then we are in a fancy mall, we go to a bookstore. the section we are in is romance novels, it's decorated like victorias secret. my mom wants to buy us some books. I don't find anything and suggest we go to a different level where scifi/fantasy books are. then the dream sort of starts over and we're in the mall again, a big black man who is a security guard stops us going into an expensive store because some of us are wearing jeans. we discuss how silly that is. I wake up, and go back to sleep and I'm in a bookstore again, this time with my parents and J. I see a shelf of children's books written by alexr. one is about frogs and is illustrated by uv. I take a long time but my parents and J are still in the store. I find some tiny felt books on the shelf. they are blank, and the pages are made of tshirt fabric. the kind of stretch out when I turn them. I decide to buy one, they cost 3.97.

J and I are in bed and I 'wake up' to noise outside the window, some guy is driving a motorcycle through our yard. we get up and the guy is breaking in the front door. our house doesn't look right though. he gets in and attacks us, and I stab him with a knife several times. this is the first 'nightmare' Ive had in a long time, I woke up feeling really scared.

I am walking near my HS with two horses on leads. one runs off and I whistle really loud and it comes back. then I am outside a building with a hot air balloon. A from work is getting on to take it somewhere, someone asks if she knows how to fly it and she says no. then I'm inside, sitting at a table to eat. my mom is there and S from work and her mom. her mom is fussing over her, like plucking her eyebrows or something. she sits still looking annoyed. then she's outside the window signaling me to stand up to my mom. then we are sitting next to each other at another table, we are watching 'shaft' on a big tv. I am saying I've never seen it and explain to her about 70s blacksploitation films. there are clowns in the opening of 'shaft.'

I am sitting at a round table with some people from work and others. we are going to be transported to heaven. we are excited, but then we start thinking about how we can never come back. I feel sad to leave J and H is crying. (I just watched Timeline.)

my mom and I are driving up to a restaurant. then we're in separate cars. we pull into a parking lot which is ful all around the sides and a semi is parked in the center very close to other cars. I drive around it and pull into a space, and I gently hit the semi which rolls into a car. the driver comes out so I tell him it was me. he realizes it wasn't really my fault and tries to make it up to me by giving me stuff.

J and me and my parents are walking around a city going to shops. I am sitting in a shop waiting for my mom and a girl comes and sits next to me and talks to me. we go to find food and she stops to get a chocolate milk, now there is an ice cream stand in the shop. then we're walking in a neighborhood, my dad and J are walking our dogs and cockatiel on leashes. then I have one dog, a lady stops us to feed her. then it is dark, and Im holding onto the dogs so they don't run off in the dark.

Oopsie!

Uh, I think you commented on the wrong person.

J and I are getting tattoos. J is getting something on his hand, like a white cross. he acts like it hurts. the guy moves to me to my hand and I tell him I want tiny butterfly wings on my back. he says he really likes that idea. he does the outline then asks what colors I want. I don't know but describe a malachite butterfly, spelling it for him so he can look it up online. then we are at a wedding. I'm supposed to be in it but I don't really know anyone there. there are 25 bridesmaids all wearing black and bright pink. we go into a big gym and I am supposed to be the first one to walk out but I don't know where to go. I ask someone but end up going the wrong way.

I am at work and my mom has come to visit. all the girls are hugging me like Im their best friend. I introduce them to my mom but she wanders off to the bathroom. I think, she is rude. then my grandma and other family come too.

I am at a party at someones house. I am with a bunch of people in the large kitchen. someone has a SD blythe I am looking at. her eyes are small and covered except for tiny holes. I remark that nothing happens when you pull the string. someone opens her shirt to reveal that pictures change on her chest. odd images like people, eyes, etc. then I am at the sink pulling out dishes and utensils and putting them away. L from work comes in with a great looking strawberry layer cake. she shows it to us then pulls off one of the layer which is avacado. she I am surprised she ruined it but she says, some people who I will serve this too are allergic. then she takes it away. I go to follow her and be sure the cake still looks nice. she has left the house (I guess it was her house) to a shed outside. I am looking for a coat and shoes to follow her. I look in three different rooms with shelves full of art and collectibles. she comes up the stairs in one room with peanut butter eggs.

I am outside a big house. I look up at the sky and see a large bird, like an eagle. a small blue bird comes down and runs into me. I pick it up and see that a large spider is stuck to it. I try to pull it off but the bird gets away. then we go inside. it is A from works house and J and I are thinking of buying it. it has huge rooms and very high ceilings. we go through a large bedroom with pillars and a yellow kitchen with an island. then we go upstairs. the stairs are more of a ramp that curves around going upward. it has a wood floor with carvings. rooms come off the ramp. we get to the top and there is a huge room full of shelves of books, mostly childrens books. I look out a window and see two bluebirds on a nest.

my mom and I get in the car to go to a party which is next door. there is no place to park so we drive around the back yard and realize we have a flat tire. we stop and then drive back. now there are no cars there, I say, let's just walk its right next door. so we go into the house and several people are there. it seems to be renees house. a lady is doing dishes at the sink. the tile under her is disinigrating. some people come in to repair the tile floor. they put in a new on that is rich blues, reds and browns in an interesting pattern. some of the largest tiles are raised out of the floor like stones you can sit on. I am telling R I really like the new floor and I'm impressed how fast they put it in.

I'm in my parents driveway. C from work is in the garage crying because she doesn't want to get her ears pierced. me and another girl are trying to telll her she doesn't have to. then we all get in a car, I'm in the back seat with two or three other people. someone hands me a reeses stick. I'm holding a doll and chocolate gets on her face.

J and I walk into a lot where a carnival used to be set up. all the trash is in piles and the ground looks clean. J asks a man when they will be putting up the duplexes. he says he's not sure, would you like to help? J says no and we walk off talking about how it was odd for him to ask that. we walk towards some fields that are covered with snow. some people are standing there talking. I look up and the sky is covered in a layer of clouds, there is a strange pattern in the clouds. I think, it would be cool to fly up above the clouds, and wonder what it would look llike. we walk down a row in the field and I ask what we're looking for. J says frostbite. I notice some of the small plants have dead tips on the leaves and point it out.

I am sitting at a long table with other people. we are getting instructions on how to take apart Blythe doll heads. I am working on one, I unscrew the screws andit comes apart easily. the eye chips are smaller and different shapes.

I am with my parents at a nature park. a lady is pointing out some really tall waterfalls. we go walking on apaved path along the water. my mom takes the wrong way into the water. the path turns directly upwards, it is hard to climb. my dad goes on ahead, I get part way and then slide back down. we go out of the forest and a large flying bug keeps flying around my head. It is round and furry and colorful with little fairy like wings. I catch it and show my mom. it flies away and my dad hits it and steps on it. I am upset he killed it.