The Dream Thread

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I know there was another one around here somewhere... but I'll be buggered if I can find it. So I'm starting a new one.

I had a really interesting dream a couple nights ago. I was somewhere in Africa, in the middle of a vast desert. (I don't think it was the Sahara... it seemed more Egyptian to me.) There was this temple in the desert, and I was apparently its keeper. Inside the temple was a huge machine. perhaps 6 stories high. It looked like a giant clockwork contraption. If you ever saw The Princess Bride, the life-sucking machine, imagine a machine that looked like that, only immensely bigger. And not all wood, mostly brass and steel.

Anyway, the machine apparently kept time. It wasn't a clock... it was somehow a guardian of time itself. And I was the guardian of the machine. I believe I had some underling guards with me, and a "pet" - a small (cat-sized) six-legged sentient creature that looked half-ape, half horse, that called itself "Troop." I got the feeling it called itself that because it was part of a larger army. Perhaps an advanced scout that came to the temple to check it out, and decided to stay. I also got the feeling that it was capable of shape-shifting into a much larger animal if it needed to.

People came to the temple to try to decipher the future. And some came to try to change the past. You could manipulate the pulleys, cogs, etc. to create small changes in the timestream. But doing so was, of course, risky. I recall the main story involved some queen who came with a small army to try to manipulate the timestream so that her and her people would be considered gods to the surrounding tribes, so they could subjugate them, and Troop and I had to find a way to hold them off.

Finally, I recall making some manipulation to the time stream to try to stop her, and ended up waking up in my bed, with the voice of Troop in my head telling me that although I had succeeded, I had been replaced as guardian for doing so, and that from now on, my long service as a Time Guardian would all seem like just a dream to me...

isnt the sahara in egypt? i thought it was. the gobi desert is in china so that cant be it

Sounds like it would make a decent book if you ever get round to writing in.

My dream last night, what I remember of it: My Tonkinese cat was in it, but he was a little kitten. My cat and I were at the park by my house, and he had a weird skin disease that made fractal shaped growths on his side. Then I took him home to let him heal from the disease and I put him in my bedroom, where he turned into a little yellow gecko-like lizard that ran all round the walls and would come when I called it. There were two fish tanks in my bedroom which I don't have in IRL, and one had goldfish and guppies and the other had big tiger barbs that had lost their stripes because, according to the logic of the dream, I hadn't been feeding them the right food. I had to fix the air pumps on the tanks because they were this brand that was endorsed by Metallica and expired at a certain date, unless you paid for an upgrade. So I was gerryrigging them so they'd keep working past the expiration date. While I was doing this, the lizard was swimming around in the goldfish tank trying to catch the fish. I reached in and pulled out the lizard and then he turned into a bright yellow and green chameleon that was about the length of my index finger. I walked out of my bedroom to where my computer was, carrying the chameleon on my finger, and my mom was sitting at my computer trrying to email his sister who in IRL had died a few months ago. I showed the chameleon to my mom, who was very impressed with how brightly colored it was. Then as I turned away from my mom, the lizard disappeared and my whole house changed into another house. I seemed to have forgotten about the lizard and I went to the back room to play guitar. When I got there, my guitar was all different - it was a five string, with a triangular soundhole and hawaiian designs on the neck and headstock. One of my other cats was in the room and was meowing loudly and pawing at the walls as I played. I looked up at the wall my cat was pawing and there were all these strange, fat little bugs crawling across it. One of the bugs fell down and my cat ate it. I don't remember what happened after that.

The Sahara is goes all across the northern part Africa from morocco (west) to Egypt (east)

I started a thread about this recent dream I had because it has now thrown me into an existential crisis.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... ic&t=33439

The other night I had a dream that I was still in school and our class was going to do a play about Romeo and Juliet... Except the people portraying Romeo and Juliet had to wear Shrek and Fiona costumes, and all the supporting cast had to wear Pokemon costumes.

All of my dreams these days seem to involve my crappy job as a kitchen porter. I've worked there so long, it's become a part of my subconscious!

My dreams usually involve going back to school, going to the mall, or ditching school to go to the mall. The weird part is, the places I see in my dreams never look even remotely like they do in reality, but they feel so familiar.

Ok, how wierd is it that the only dreams that I seem to remember are the ones that I wake up in the middle of?

A couple of nights ago I dreamt my husband and I were staying with a family of alcoholic sex maniacs.

I sometimes have dreams where I am at a school/college, and I have lots of work to catch up on.

Last night I had a horrible dream. I had to give a speeach somewhere, I was running down some stairs in a place I didn't recognise and then I went into a room and found out I got 43% on my exam. George Bush was also in it but I don't remember why.

I rarely have dreams, although I have had some this week.

I had a dream that I was a weird Final Fantasy game character, first it started out in a museum, being attacked by a Giant Bull head, and then in space, flying towards an asteroid that my ship had just put a huge hole in.. I did an EVA walk onto the asteroid, and the bull head appeared again, with a load of aliens. I defeated them, and then that is all I remember of that.

I had a great dream last night. It was almost a scene-for-scene replay of Field of Dreams, except...

What if Ray Kinsella got the wrong message in the cornfield? And tore up his field to put in a NASCAR Motor Speedway, in the hopes that Dale Earnhart would come back and race one last race?

"People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been NASCAR. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But NASCAR has marked the time."

How intriguing....

I wonder about other kinds of dreams.
How many of you dream "recap dreams";
you know, going over the evevnts of the
day in our heads in the middle of the night?
Also, I wonder if some of you experience nightmares
after we've gone without dream sleep for several
nights in a row?
More positively, what about less unpleasant dreams?