CF's dream diary

[CFTraveler]

So I dreamed that both families (mine and his, living and dead) were on a cruise, and we were trying to figure out logistics to go out to dinner. I wanted my son to go with my sister in law and his cousins to dinner, so that they somehow wouldn't miss dinner, and there were so many of us that we didn't know how to arrange for 'us' to go out and make sure the bases were covered.
When I woke up, my husband told me that he was dreaming our son was in a football team and we were all trying to figure out dinner arrangements, because his family was visiting and wanted to go with us. We then, in his version, were trying to figure out the logistics of going out to dinner in both groups.

Even though it wasn't 'officially' a shared dream, it had many similar components- in both there were two groups, one of them being his family, and in mine instead of the football team it was my side of the family.

Interesting correlation.

[CFTraveler]

Yet another Disneyworld-abandonment dream. I'm getting too many of those.

[CFTraveler]

I was driving in my car when I stopped at an office to get some paperwork or something. I had just woken up and threw on some old clothes. When I got there, the man in the office gave me some papers to fill out and started interviewing me for a job. I wasn't expecting this but I took the interview, thinking I wouldn't be hired because I looked like a bum, hence not ready. I then left the office and started heading "home" to tell my mom what just had happened, it was so strange. When I walked into what I thought was home, (not my present home, and not the house I grew up in) it was a large stadium-like arena, like a cross between a stadium and a church, with a lectern in the middle. There was someone in the center giving a lesson. In one side of the room I see my grandmother (my dad's mom) and I go see her. She might have been surrounded by her sisters or one of her nieces (an aunt who is still alive, but old- she came by 2 years ago to visit and I found her very old). I hugged my grandmother and asked about my grandfather. I could visualize him in my mind's eye (of the dream me) but I couldn't see him. I thought she said he was dead. (?) I didn't see my dad but didn't ask because I see him all the time. Just not there. Then across the arena, in the opposite side of the stadium, I could see my mother, sitting there watching the 'show'. She had no conscious awareness of my presence, so I went to her. I then hugged her and started telling her of my weird morning (the interview) but she was more interested in the 'show' than in what I was telling her. I then woke up later on, and can't remember what else I dreamt after I woke up and fell asleep shortly again.

[CFTraveler]

Long one.
I was dreaming I was in some other planet that wasn't earth. It was nighttime or it was dark. We were working in some type of water environment, on the surface. There were small platforms in which we could walk 'on' the water, and there were areas of some danger that we were supposed to stay away from. I believe at some point I was in the water (dark) but was safe. We then were supposed to go around a landmass to get to another sector we were supposed to work in. I suggested we go through the water, since we were already in it, but the man in charge showed me the scene in which there were many dangerous-looking rocks and heavy surf. I realized it wasn't safe, because the waves could hurl us against the rocks. So we resolved to go to the surface and then get to where we were supposed to go to.
At some point I found myself in a space suit, in a space ship, getting ready to take off. As my surroundings shook, I knew this was the most dangerous part of the voyage, as anything could happen. I could barely moved in my suit and was surrounded by 'pod', and surrounded by 'ship'. But I had a view of the space outside, which helped with the claustrophobia. As the 'rocket' started going up, I started to panic, and could feel a great deal of breeze around my body, and began to think there was a rip in my suit and would die horribly. I talked with someone in some kind of a link, and was reassured that everyone else could feel the breeze because it was the ventilation system in the suit. I calmed down somewhat, but still was nervous. A while later (and after a brief wake up moment) I was in some sort of a space station. We had arrived from the previous dream scene and now were in a medium-sized room, floating with about three or four different people. A man with a beard and a woman with very short hair are in my memory, (the ones I interacted with, but there were others there). The man with the beard seemed to have some authority and was instructing us on what our jobs were, and then suggested that when our duties were over we'd like to try having sex at zero-G, *wink wink* but not officially, of course. After that I went to talk to the woman with the short hair, and I woke up soon after.
It was a long, continuous dream. I don't know how long it lasted in real time but I woke up at least twice during it, and went back to sleep back to it until the morning.

[CFTraveler]

I was at a wedding. No one I know in RL. The bride was crying and the groom wanted to go home. He kept saying he didn't 'get it'. I approached her, and asked her leading questions as she looked like she needed to talk, as she didn't want to go home at all, and stay in the party. (She wasn't happy, though). She told me her new husband was supposed to enlist/be hired but didn't pass his entrance examination, and had been rejected. He was angry and embarrassed, she was crying and didn't want to go home. I woke up before saying anything to them. (I was woken up)but I was getting ready to tell her that others have started with less and ended up happily ever after.

[eyeoneblack]

I'm inclined to classify the wedding an AP. Doesn't have anything to do with you other than your advise may be welcome, needed and heeded. Classic AP in my mind. Eh???

[CFTraveler]

Two parter. The first part is the classic (now classic for me) amusement park that goes wrong scenario, but with a twist. Doubles. My son falls from an amusement park ride, I hold on to him, he somehow duplicates himself and one double falls while the other one stays with me. When we get to the bottom we meet the doppelganger who was not injured, and I then plan to take both twins home, wondering how that's going to work.
Then I wake up with a terrible cough, it's my husband's time to get up. I get up for a bit, and go to bed again, and have a hard time going to sleep, but eventually I do.
Now I'm sitting in front of a very picturesque cafe, something that could be in Italy, or St. Augustine (the historical part). We are sitting there having coffee, when other young people sit in the table with us. They are goth-y looking, and start inviting us to go to a club with them. At some point we're walking to the club, and we end up separated from the group (the guy that was walking with and talking to) me tells me he's going to show me something. He then tells me he is a vampire (and so is his crew) and transforms himself- grows fangs right in front of my eyes. I am convinced. I act as I'm not afraid, more like fascinated, but realize that my friend is in danger. For some reason I don't think I'm in danger, as if somewhere in the back of my mind I know how to defend myself if I need to. I then try to get my friend's attention to tell her to go somewhere else. At some point there is a junction with the previous dream, as if we were walking past the area where the previous dream happened in. Then we're back in the original table (with the vampires) waiting to get into this club. I know that if we go there we might not get out again, and start plotting how to get my friend and escape (once again, I'm not afraid for myself, but for my friend, and it's why I'm still there). I wake up before I can resolve the situation and save my friend.

[CFTraveler]

I had a series of dreams with recurring themes- my grandmother's house as a museum, as some other type of place (hotel, etc.) which brought me to a memory of when I was younger and helped my grandmother clean rooms in the guest (beach) house when she used to rent rooms for tourists in the winter months. It was a happy time for me, weekends at the beach helping out my favoritest person in the world. I miss her smiling face. Lately I've been having the same kind of dream that is so recurrent I don't even write it down any more.

[eyeoneblack]

As to your 'pleasant scenes with you grandmother', I can only think that you may wonder whether you will be so fondly remembered by a grandchild. I often wonder about my legacy in my grandson's eyes. He knows me well. He told his mother I can be a jerk (referring to a comment I made that questioned the nature of some of his 'illnesses'). There seems to be a general consensus on my jerkiness.. But he loves me, and given a choice he prefers my company when there is an option. I stray, that has nothing to do with you.

Anyway....

[CFTraveler]

I think so too- maybe a retrieval.