I'd never been a concept before either. A friend of mine was a bit jealous when she heard - she said: "Wow, you dream in allegories! I don't even manage simple irony!"

And about two weeks ago, I dreamt I was in this youth hostel with Brad Pitt and George Clooney. It was quite sweet - George helped Brad write a love letter to Angelina Jolie...

I had a board-based dream last night--

I was doing sales calls (at night for some reason), but in a new city that I was unfamiliar with and I kept circling this one run-down area, trying to find this spa that I was supposed to call on. I stop into a gas station to get directions and realize that the salon is in a strip mall across the way that is totally vacant of businesses excet for the salon. I walk in and discover that it is a huge spa and that in the back, where the owner has her office, there's a "backstage" area where a bunch of people are getting ready for a camping trip. And it slowly dawns on me that these people are all my board-brothers and sisters. I decide to ditch work and join them. I start snapping pictures of folks with my cell phone-- Clover for some reason is dressed in a nurse's uniform. Dweller keeps doing these odd poses--just before I wake up I snap a pic of him doing a handstand on the top of this water fountain and think "I can't wait to post this!"

I did not like this one:

There is some action on a bus, selling shirts, which I do not remember clearly, but then there was a new moon in the sky. The 'seas' were the shape of the continents of the Earth. It turns out to be aliens, who are flogging pictures of places on Earth - actual size - to us.

Next thing I'm in their ship, in hydroponics. I hide from them with my eyes closed, but only in a corner, so they come straight over and take me by the shoulder and say I am going to dig holes for them.

They walk behind me, so I don't see them for ages, but then I look around and they are actually cartoon monkies. They are killing off old Disney characters in some stables. Aladdin is there with a cow, and I realise I will have to dig their graves. I don't seem too upset about this (but then our copy of Aladdin never played properly). When they shoot the cow it is the loudest noise I've ever heard and it wakes me up.


It's not a great one, but I hardly ever have proper dreams, so after I got over being quite upset about the cow I was quite excited!

That does not sound like a pleasant dream to have, Dom.

I think I'm spending way too much time playing computer games - a few nights ago, I was in this chalet & went up into the kitchen, but I had to go up it using the controls & having the field of vision of Half-Life 2. People were making fondue & my character said: "Oh no, they didn't put in any spices!" I woke up after I failed to grab the salt with my "E" button.

And when I watch telly, I keep wanting to wave around the remote control to see what's behind the camera...

i had a dream last night that had a zombie infestation occur in downtown London while i was at work. everyone who was at work (which was about 6 or 7 of us).

so we stay holed in the pub for a bit, arm ourselves with broom handles that are sharpened, knives from the kitchen, that sort of thing. anyway, it becomes too desperate, so we fight our way to the river (which isn't that far) and steal one of the tour boats to try and get away from the zombies.

but it doesn't move that fast and for some reason the zombies almost always keep rising from the water and getting on board. so we ditch the boat and head towards a mall. there, its very well sealed off but has turned into kind of a...factioned warzone...but luckily we find a stash of money and can set ourselves up comfortably for a bit until the zombies come again and we have to run away.

i think my brain just compiled every zombie movie location that i have seen in movies and made a dream out of it...pub, mall, london...very odd...

i had a dream on fiday nighht that i was drowning people in pasta and sauce, lots of different kinds, like spaggetti, rattatouile, penne etc etc. an in baths swimming pools, etc.

very odd, and it wasnt anyone i knew.

does the spaghetti come with meatballs, 'cos I'm up for that.

funnily enough one did have meatballs....

ah well - if one of those people had ginger hair then that prolly me!

nope no ginger hair that i recal but it was red sauce so it may well have been you, and i just couldnt tell.

I dreamt that I was in a race to find the Holy Grail - I was in a group of "the good guys" and "the bad guys" actually beat us to the place, but couldn't break through this sort of electronic safe that held the grail.

it was like a touch screen trivia game type thing and they couldn't get any of the questions right, although they were hogging th machine so my group couldn't even try to answer the questions.

so, even though I knew it would stop our chances (the "good guys") to have the grail - when everyone else was asleep I snuck in and rearranged the machine so that it only showed children's television programs.

I dreamed that Cho (the WV mass murderer) came to my shop which was in a tree house. He looked very strung out. I told him that eating breakfast would keep him full for the whole day. Suddenly a goldfinch flew into the shop. Cho reached up and pet the bird. I said "thats amazing! You must have a way with animals".

There was this one pretty disturbing part of my dream last night. Hawaii (where I'm from) had been cut off from the rest of the world, there were no ships or planes to bring in any supplies (almost everything is imported) and people had started eating each other for lack of food. The city was in utter chaos with gun fights and bombs going off everywhere, pretty apocalyptic. I was with a group who were trying to get up into the forests in the mountains to hide and survive off the vegetation and wild pigs until help arrived, but we kept on getting attacked. At one point we were walking along Waikiki beach which was littered with rubble and eaten bodies when the leader signaled for us to freeze, gesturing towards the sand beneath our feet. Suddenly, several bloody cannibals popped out of the sand and began stabbing and slashing us. One grabbed my leg and was about to get me with his knife but I sliced his neck open with my hack saw, stabbing another through the eye with a chisel (we had raided a hardware store apparently) but not before he put a deep gash in my calf. When we got to a safe-looking spot in an abandoned house, there was a spontaneous orgy (no idea why) and in the middle of the orgy, more attackers busted in through the windows and started killing everyone mid-fuck. A guy cut the girl I was with in half with a machete, covering me in her blood and guts, and then somehow I grabbed him by the neck, bit his face and part of his skull off, bit the exposed brain out of his skull, then bit the rest of his head off. One of our group apparently found a Vulcan mini-gun lying around and mowed down the rest of the cannibals a la watering a garden. All of a sudden it jump-cut years into the future and I was teaching a college class and was married to a librarian there, then I woke up.

so i had this dream where i went back to where i used to live for a visit (in Canada). it was winter and i was wearing a bright pink snowsuit (and i despise pink, so i was in a bad mood). i was also walking around with a sword and two other weapons. no one seemed to comment.

anyway, after randomly wandering i met some people from my high school and we started walking back to my house (which was a long way off, like driving off, i have no idea why we were walking in the snow, at night). anyway, i asked if there was a pub on the way. there was! so we stopped in the pub which went on a long time, the bar just five different sections to it. anyway, suddenly Yepa is there to point out someone, but he gets all surely and walks off and doesn't serve us. no one speaks english (they were all croatian) and i couldn't understand what bitters they had. so in an exasperated voice i ordered a bagel and a guinness.

what does it all mean? if i go home, will i have to speak to surely people who only serve me guinness?

I've had 2 dreams of rocket ships in the past week.

Dream The One:

I'm at a friend's house, in her back yard, at night when she gasps and points at the sky. I turn around and see this huge crescent moon. It's so large and hanging so low, I can see details in it that I normally never see. It looks like there are two distinct sections joined in the middle edges. My friend asks me if I know what type of moon that is. I'm looking at the two pieces and say it must be a Gemini moon. We're looking at each other when we say this, and when we turn back, the two sections have even further sharpened into focus, and we see what looks to be the outline of a mother and child. Just then, there's a huge falling star -- not the kind that blinks and is gone, nor the fiery kind hell-bent on destroying the earth, but something long and silver quietly and swiftly and steadily falling down the sky.

We realize it's not a falling star. It's a space shuttle. Not as in aliens, but as in NASA. I've dreamed about this ship, in a different place, before. It's huge and outlined on the horizon so big, that it makes me think now that I'm really not on Earth -- the planet's horizon is so small, it doesn't make sense how the ship could be so big against it. But there it is, huge in the sky when it falls down.

My friend and I go walking to the space shuttle when we see the astronaut standing up from the ground. He's not the typical astronaut in the big white fluffy suit. He's a guy with kinda greasy stringy hair in a jet pack. He doesn't look injured. He keeps saying over and over again that he's gotta get down to the Cape. [Cape Canaveral]. He's adjusting and flicking something on his jet pack, and then he starts running down the side of the road. It's like he's trying to get momentum. Meanwhile, he's hitting buttons on the jet pack and taking these little leaps, and I can't help myself. It's the funniest thing I've ever seen, so I'm just laughing at the poor astronaut.

It finally becomes clear that his jet pack is broken, so he comes up to me and my friend and asks if we can drive him to the Cape. I'm still laughing, and say I'll drive him (it's only an hour away). As we're getting into the car, I'm telling my friend I'll be back later tonight, and then I wake up.

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Dream The Two:

The space shuttle was launching from the west coast of Florida, somewhere near Tampa. I'm supposed to be on board. The interior is rather odd, and nothing I would have expected to find in a space ship. All glass and light blue surfaces. No chairs or electronics or buttons. A couple of potted palms. A group of us is getting ready to go, and we all go into these rooms partitioned off by glass walls and glass doors. I spy a small footstool lying on the ground, and I stow it into a potted palm, thinking it might fly off and hurt someone. Something happens, though. I'm no longer on the ship, but outside on a large wooden dock overlooking a marsh with a group of friends. Now we're looking at the sky, waiting for the shuttle launch. I'm not entirely sure why I'm no longer on the shuttle. We see something glint in the distance, and we all let out a cheer. Except as the glint gets closer, we see it's not a shuttle -- it's some fighter jets and helicopters. We look at each other confused.

Then a friend of mine, Amy, whom I haven't seen since first grade (she's an adult now, and I instantly recognize her), comes up to us, and she's clutching her stomach. "Did you hear?" she asks. We all look at her confused. "The shuttle exploded." This doesn't make sense to me. How? Why wasn't I on it? How did it explode? Then more helicopters are flying over, and it hits me. It really did explode.

Amy's still doubled over, clutching her stomach, so I try to walk her over to my car so we can find her a doctor. She doesn't look well.

And that's it.

I dreamt that DMark was the president of Khazakstan and a bunch of us boardies were basically his lackies. but we sent him to the US to promote our country. Meanwhile, I was a very dodgey minister of war and the interior and made people I didn't like disappear.

There was some other very dodgey stuff going on too but we all kept DMark in the dark because he was all enthusiastic about being president.

Okay, this was awful, but I'm just going to spit it out and get it out of my system.

I dreamed I was moving. And I couldn't take Barta with me. So I was standing on the side of the road, holding her, and gave her away to the first person that drove by. And I'm walking back to the house, and everything starts going into slow-motion. Every step is slow and heavy. And I reach the bedroom, and with the last few steps I realize what I just did and that I won't be able to get her back. And I fall on the bed and start screaming. And I woke up hearing that scream.

That is a horribly bad dream and rates a really big hug.

It really was no fun. Just when I think I'm okay again and back to normal, I have dreams like that.

Danke for the Really Big Hug. It's appreciated.

I dreamed that my hermit crab was actually a fish, and that these aquatic brussel sprouts had grown in the tank. I thought "hmm, the water must have been contaminated". But these brussel sprouts were really evil looking, with light green tendrils.

Then I was at the Renfest and I went to the Sleep Cave which was actually a cave with a bar in it on the first floor. There were 3 or 4 lower floors to the cave. I went to the 1st sub floor and there were fishtanks set in the cave walls. It was cool. As I wound my way down to the next floor there were pools of rose colored liquid bubbling on the ground. This creeped me out so I went back to the surface.

Then I went back to my room and saw that in addition to the brussel sprouts there were hundreds of fish in the tank, and they were all attacking each other. I realized I let the problem go too long without correcting it. I pulled out a large fish that was being attacked and he was too bit up to save. I put my head in my hands to cry, but when I looked again someone had sorted it all out, and there were three fish tanks and all of the fish were sorted according to tempermant.