The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread
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I was in some sort of large department store. Looking for the restroom, I found one that said MEN but had the word scratched out. I was about to go in when a woman walked out of it. OK, that's the wrong one. The door opposite it had a word I couldn't read written on it. I stepped inside and found what looked like someone's living room, with clutter everywhere.
I looked around and saw that the living room opened onto a whole new wing of the store, with a playplace there where parents watched their frolicking kids, and some area with signs promoting some sort of travel system. I went to talk with them about it, and got the impression that this was a shared area that all the stores of this franchise in the world opened onto.
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Last night, I dreamt that there was an Annabelle type of doll approaching me while I'm in the back garden. I tried to went back the house and slam close the patio door, but found the doll can directly step through the glass and came in.
Then here's the funny part. Somehow the doll seems to be lack of power. Although it tries to bite me, or use the knife to stab me, after I took away the knife and then use my hand to press on it's head to stop it from coming too close, for every few seconds it would stop moving, and then trying to bite me again.
Then I talked with it a bit (I forgot what we talked). Whenever I start talking, it will stop moving and kind of listening to what I said, and as soon as I stop speaking, it will move again.
Somehow near the end of the dream, I tricked it to walk pass the patio door of back garden. Then it tried to come back and blocked by the glass. After a few try to enter the house without success, it went away through the rear end door of the garden.
That's when I woke up.
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@cheong So, just stay talking to the bastards from the mainland, and you'll stay safe.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@cheong So, just stay talking to the bastards from the mainland, and you'll stay safe.
It's not like they can't do multiple things at the same time.
Even when last week China rumors to have signed peace treaty with India to give up all the "the border land with dispute" and move the border back to area that China have actual control, there are also rumor that China is actively recruiting soldiers to the border to prepare fight with India. (And the latter part is considered to be the reason that India agrees to have military exercise with US near the disputed border.
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@BernieTheBernie Btw, to make the doll listen to you requires you to have longer arm and greater power than the doll itself. If I were not able to take the knife from the doll and stop it from attacking myself, this can be a horror dream.
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I dreamed that Tony Stark was an ancient being, a mystical intellect reincarnated time and again to bring brilliant (if somewhat unstable) new ideas into the world, and Steve Rogers was the Avatar of Time, born to stop Tony from screwing things up too badly and destroying civilization. And I was a friend of both of them who got caught in the middle of their conflict.
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Last night, I dreamt that I was trying to ride folding bikes for the first time on street with my mum and dad in UK. (Both of them had passed away, and had never been in UK)
In the beginning I found the pedals of my bike hard to turn, but after shifting the body weight on another side, it can spin with ease.
We visited an unnamed town there the accessories worn by people like scarf are made with multiple steel wires outlining the shape and stripes instead of fabrics. However their clothing on body was still made with fabrics. It makes me wonder whether it hurts them by wearing that.
I woke up by the time we were about to continue the journey,
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So I was at the spacepoart with a bunch of fellow postgrads going on placements to other worlds. Sounds flash and all, but really it's no different to hanging out at an airport. We've reached the gate and our destinations are being confirmed. I and one other put up our hands for "Inferno". "Good, apparently there's some moon that needs blowing up or something." A couple more places are mentioned, and then there's the inevitable delay. One of us is missing. So we end up waiting around.
I'm sitting on this wooden bench and I lean right back until I'm lying on it staring at the ceiling. Someone else is beside me doing the same. This departure lounge turns out to have trees and birds (mainly sparrows) and there's even a hint of cloud up there; unfortunately the ceiling itself is the sort of grey concrete you'd see in a multistorey carpark. The person beside me comments on how high the ceiling is and I point out it's either not that high after all or those sprinklers and smoke detectors and other doodads are much bigger than standard issue.
I was starting to doze off when two men approach us, both dressed in black jeans, black gloves, black polo-necks, probably got black balaclavas stuffed in their pockets, too. One of them looks like Matthew McConaughey with a severe beer gut. Matthew states that we will tell them where the helicopters are. I vaguely wave them off in the right direction, mentioning "I think there's a sign saying 'Helicopters'" and they leave, muttering something about getting better guides.
I may have dozed off after all because I was then treated to an historical flashback. I think it was of one of the two black-dressed guys. Two boys, who lived next door to each other. They were never named but I'll call them William and Wiremu. Billy and Wiri had built box racers that they were going to take to the streets. Uh, maybe not proper box racers because they were pedal-powered; both Billy and Wiri were going to have their mothers in the back providing the power. I think they started out as box racers before the boys realised there wasn't enough downhill in their neighbourhood, so they stretched them out and put in another seat for the motor.
Out into the street they go, whee. They get to the end and turn into another one. I recognise some of the streets they drive through — they're from where I grew up — but in reality they don't fit together that way.
But residential streets aren't enough for Billy and Wiri. They keep going, onto arterial roads, dual carriageways, and into the countryside. Somehow it's not until they're out of town that they encounter a car coming the other way. Both kids swerve in different directions. Billy has more road to work with and manages to stay in control. Wiri however goes off the shoulder, loses control, rolls his racer and wraps it around a fence. And that's how he lost his mother.
For no particular reason I'm suddently infiltrating a cult. I was in an ordinary meeting room; could have been a small school hall, or church, or anything really it was so anonymous. It was pretty crowded, we were more or less scrunched together in the room, and it must have been a cold evening because we were all dressed for the weather; there was a lot of wool and no-one was really visible, so it was easy for me to blend in.
Someone at the front of the room started talking about the new arrangement the cult was making with some other power. They could have been talking about a pact with the devil, raising the Great Old Ones, or a social media influencer agency, or a new janitorial service, their talk was so bland and generic and absent of any specifics. Nothing had been done, everything was about to be done. Ye Gods it was mind-numbing. I had to pay attention in case the speaker actually said anything actionable (if they said anything at all) but they never did.
There was singing. A lot of awkward shuffling around while the cultists tried to get out our hymnals while being squashed up against everyone else; I wasn't supposed to be there and didn't have one. So during the singing I just kept my head down pretending to look at something no-one else was able to see in the crush and mumbled something that seemed to match the tune.
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@Watson said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
mumbled something that seemed to match the tune.
🎵 "watermelon watermelon watermelon..."
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I was going to sleep, and wife came to bedroom, and I literally heard "oh hi sorry" in my dream and then heard it IRL out loud. Back to back. Same tone, same voice, same sound.
I don't know if it's the result of delay in perception, or what.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I was in some sort of large department store. Looking for the restroom, I found one that said MEN but had the word scratched out. I was about to go in when a woman walked out of it. OK, that's the wrong one. The door opposite it had a word I couldn't read written on it. I stepped inside and found what looked like someone's living room, with clutter everywhere.
I looked around and saw that the living room opened onto a whole new wing of the store, with a playplace there where parents watched their frolicking kids, and some area with signs promoting some sort of travel system. I went to talk with them about it, and got the impression that this was a shared area that all the stores of this franchise in the world opened onto.
When I'm dreaming that I can't find a bathroom, I'll wake up to realize that I need to pee IRL.
My dreams were just a representation of my frustration that I can't pee when needing to pee.
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@xaade Hey! Don't interpret my dreams!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@xaade Hey! Don't interpret my dreams!
I didn't. I interpreted my own.
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@Watson said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
their talk was so bland and generic and absent of any specifics. Nothing had been done, everything was about to be done. Ye Gods it was mind-numbing. I had to pay attention in case the speaker actually said anything actionable (if they said anything at all) but they never did.
It's a pity there's that "no interpreting dreams" thing in this thread.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@Watson said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
their talk was so bland and generic and absent of any specifics. Nothing had been done, everything was about to be done. Ye Gods it was mind-numbing. I had to pay attention in case the speaker actually said anything actionable (if they said anything at all) but they never did.
It's a pity there's that "no interpreting dreams" thing in this thread.
There isn't a rule that you can't quote-reply to the Dreams thread.
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@xaade said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@xaade Hey! Don't interpret my dreams!
I didn't. I interpreted my own.That's even more of a "my" than "theirs", literally. You even admit this. Stop it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@Watson said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
their talk was so bland and generic and absent of any specifics. Nothing had been done, everything was about to be done. Ye Gods it was mind-numbing. I had to pay attention in case the speaker actually said anything actionable (if they said anything at all) but they never did.
It's a pity there's that "no interpreting dreams" thing in this thread.
There isn't a rule that you can't quote-reply to the Dreams thread.
I'll allow this as this appears to be an observation, vs an interpretation, at first glance. And I dare glance no further, lest all this be just a dream within a dream in which I end up breaking thread rules.
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Last night I dreamt that I was teaching a class on how to use PhotoShop to make namecards in a computing lab, just like what I occasionally did 20 years ago. (There were people organizing introductory IT classes at computing laboratories in PolyU for elderlies from time to time, and they usually recruit students on the spot as assistants. I happened to spend lots of time in the lab so have had a few chances to earn the money)
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Gf had one of those dreams where stuff happened which treaded on the line between realistic and implausible.
According to her I was there too, and when she said "I can't believe this is happening, I must be dreaming" I answered "no, I'm seeing it too".
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I had another of those dreams where I'm in school and at risk of not graduating. Usually it's because I absolutely cannot remember where and when my classes are so I've missed a ton of them. This time it was that I had a major assignment and I just ran out of time to actually do it. Because I was busy with current living responsibilities (multiple jobs, filing taxes, etc). In the dream I told my mom, "oh well, I already have my college degree so who cares if I don't graduate high school" and she said "but you know they're going to find a way to hold it against you."
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Another those "possibly other's dream" day.
Last night, I dreamt that I'm a CS girl working from home for a property agent. The place is a studio type housing that is sky-blue in theme.
I'm calling someone at the property agent to transfer call to a tenant that needs to be contacted in Cantonese. (Probably the company won't give the phone number directly to WFH employees or something like that)
When connected to the customer, I first do a greeting to the customer, then thanks the contact point at the company for assistance. However, before I actually get into the call content, I woke.
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@cheong so not only this girl is doing customer service from home but is still so bored that others have to step in and experience the qualia, laziness I call this, oy.
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The terminal station is a half-ring, gray metal with endless detail, extending perhaps 100 feet above and below the route, with the habitable part a box perhaps 30 feet on a side, extending the other direction from the middle.
There are no stars to the right. This is the only mass this far out. The station has not yet responded. It would take some time to get back without them.
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Wow, this one had alot going on.
My cat, who has been gone several years now, was dying. My mom was meeting with some doctors to pitch a new medical device. I was going to talk to them about the cat but I had to eat a pizza while I waited for the pitch meeting to be over. When the meeting was over, somebody broke in and stole all the stuff my mom bought for the startup company (mostly tech stuff like smartphones and the like). They were even on TV selling it, except all the equipment was rebranded as a different company and they were going to run away with the money. Until an A-Team helicopter (think an extra boxy helicopter with a red stripe) flew in and chased off the thieve's trucks. But it was a small remote control helicopter controlled by Murdock and BA. Murdock was smug about chasing off the bad guys and BA just glowered at him. Then I woke up.
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@Zenith said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Then I woke up.
Darn, and just when things were starting to make money!
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Yet another those "possibly other's dream" day, although this one is pretty relevant to software development work, I think.
In this dream, I'm an old carpenter that was recruited to a project-based position, to supervise 2 other metalworkers to create components for a prototype product.
In the kick-off meeting that was organized by the boss, together with the customer, PM, and the designer of the product, I looked at the schedule and found that probably they're expecting me to also make the parts, and that's not what I agreed when they recruited me. I only have very limited metalwork experience, and that's usually about filing the parts a little to make it fit when assembling.
So, in the first project meeting, where the PM, designer, those 2 metalworkers and I were going through the specifications on the parts list (which is something of about 5 pages document, having perspective view of all the required parts, their dimensions and materials expected detailed out, I started by saying "Before we get into the details, I just want to confirm one thing. I'm supposed to only check the parts produced, right? And there's going to be a new metalworker being hired to our team, right?"
The PM looks very uneasy when hearing this. And that's when I was woke by the alarm clock..
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@cheong Come on, it's not so hard.
And now setup those Node.js plugin for WordPress in our Azure cloud. That's your job.
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All reruns again. Even the one about watching reruns.
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@cheong said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Before we get into the details, I just want to confirm one thing. I'm supposed to only check the parts produced, right? And there's going to be a new metalworker being hired to our team, right?
Surprisingly, no technical manager has ever said this.
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Successful in-atmosphere test success, ready for high earth orbit validation. Testing success. Unknown anomaly, primary power failure, locomotion failure, crash imminent. Survived, status heavily damaged, augmentation AI offline. Mission support team rescue success. Mission briefing conclusion: sabotage. Primary objective generated: repair AI module for further investigation. Infield analysis indicates poisoned biogenerator. Unstable environment caused damage, must repair at facility. Team joined by civilian paired with military class robotic war dog. Approached by identified commander. Knowledge check error: this person was reported on a mission in inner space, launched three days prior. War dog detained. Investigation indicates foul play. Primary objective maintained, obtained transit to repair facility. At facility, diagnostics determine damage to resonant capacitor caused cascade failure down through power chain. Can be prepared. Summoned the bored tech for the repair. Success, and reintegration also successful. Obtained transit back to operations base. An inconsistency is detected: this train car is not properly attached to its forward members. Investigation reveals hoodwink. Attack eminent, preparing to defend. Hostiles eliminated.
Dream abort from external stimulus: little bitch request to open door, style 3, level 1.
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Last night I dreamt reading a book in library again, and this time with something I didn't remember reading.
The last thing that I remember reading in the book was about growth hormone in plants. It said there are two kinds of growth hormone in plants. One is secreted when the stem sensed too much weight is exerted on it. The growth of tips and leaves will be suspended by this hormone, instead the stem part of the plant will grow wider. As the thickness of the plant increased to handle the weight, the level of this hormone will be reduced, and the plant can grow higher again.
For the second one, if the plant has grown too tall and its root is unable to support the tree, the root will suspend the grow of other parts of the plant, and the root will start growing deeper and stronger. Just like the stem one the hormone level will reduce when the tension exerted on individual root branch is reduced.
They're researching on using artificially made version of the first hormone to allow the industry to create much bigger wood plunks.
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@cheong Without revealed interpretation or further warning, I apologize on behalf of the universe that you have had this dream.
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The was a dream 2 night ago.
I dreamt that I've moved into a 1 room apartment somewhere in UK (not recognized anything similar to the place). And then received call that my mom (who had passed away), my brother (who said he will not leave Hong Kong) and sister (who is still deciding whether she'll go to UK or other countries) all moved to UK and rented a 3-room house. And want me to visit them.
When I go there, they've unpacked everything already. They invited me to stay with them, so I stayed there for the first night. Then on the second day, I decided to leave, saying that I've paid the rent for my home already, and all bills are included there. Since they rented house of course they'll have to pay the bills. Adding one more person to live there will considerably increase the bills to be paid.
Then I headed outside. It rains cats and dogs. Although I bought my umbrella with me, I still got wet and cold. And I can't see road ahead.
That's when I woke up.
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@cheong said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
It rains cats and dogs.
Since this was a dream, it's not 100% clear whether that's metaphorical or literal.
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@Zecc said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@cheong said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
It rains cats and dogs.
Since this was a dream, it's not 100% clear whether that's metaphorical or literal.
It was just heavy rain. If it really rains cats and dogs then it would be quite a view. :P
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Was able to get a full six hours of sleep last night, so I had at least three sequences! Sadly, the only thing recovered was a particular is electronic instrument in the shape of an attack boomerang, which was intended to be played reminiscent of a reverse violin harmonica. It was capable of vocoding, autotune, and modular synthesis. The smaller wing had buttons meant to activate functions/notes,and the larger one had a dual strip of contact resistive sensor strips for more tone controls.
Kinda want to sketch it and see if someone wants to build one.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
reverse violin harmonica
Dream logic is fun, innit?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Kinda want to sketch it and see if someone wants to build one.
Even if someone did, it would stop working as soon as you tried to play it.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Kinda want to sketch it and see if someone wants to build one.
Even if someone did, it would stop working as soon as you tried to play it.
hrm...
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Lately, I've had, about 6 months or so apart, dreams where I wake up and for 5 mins or so I feel extreme feelings of the world isn't real. Kinda like the wife in Inception.
It goes away after a bit, but I couldn't imagine living with it all the time.
I literally feel as panicked and fearful as I imagine that wife felt. Like I'm trapped in a box I can't escape.
It usually coincides with a dream I feel I can't leave for a long period of time and become aware I'm dreaming.
First time it happened, I assumed I was in a coma. Then I finally woke up, and completely SHTF. I couldn't even feel my own body.
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@xaade don't worry. It's just a dream.
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I dreamed I was beta testing a new smartwatch. Except unlike most watches, this one didn't have any sort of wrist band. It was held against my wrist by some semi-sharp-ish pins, not quite sharp enough to break the skin, that would pinch against the skin and hold it there.
The version number for the smartwatch's software was an exceptionally complicated mathematical formula, with polynomials, fractions, and multiple levels of parentheses. I was too
to evaluate the whole thing, so I just checked and saw that the other version available was a different complicated formula than the one on my watch, figured it was probably newer, and started downloading it. And then I woke up.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
some semi-sharp-ish pins, not quite sharp enough to break the skin, that would pinch against the skin and hold it there.
Identified. Awaiting sync signal for activation.
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@Tsaukpaetra 8 legs: what a cute arachnophil design.
Though more like a harvestman than a spider, but cute anyway.
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@BernieTheBernie I can't tell which two aren't legs.
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@Zecc One off by an off by one error...
Well, let's say 2 of them are pedipalps which often look like legs anyway.
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Interdimensional travel was accomplished through stickers, but you couldn't travel to move than one sequentially without returning to your home dimension because exposing the sticker irrevocably collapsed the Schrodinger signature of the next sticker and thus permanently associated it with the current dimension.
So close!
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Last night I dreamt having dinner with my family members. My grandparents, my parents, my siblings, my cousins, etc.
It's just like the usual dinner at the winter solstice, when all members from the same family living nearby will have dinner together at the senior member's home.
In the beginning of the dream I do not realize some of the members are already deceased, until we start placing chopsticks and I see some of the chopsticks are red. (In Chinese tradition, chopsticks, plates and cups that are in tones of red are for the deceased and is used to hold oblations when worshiping the ancestors), then I bursted into tear, no matter in dream or in real.
Now think about it, the dinning table in the dream was also placed to where we place oblations when worshiping the ancestors, and I didn't realize this in the dream.
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@cheong said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I didn't realize this in the dream.
This is the standard.
