The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread
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@Karla said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Please tell me why I dream about snakes all the time. And much of the time it is me accidentally harming the snake in some manner.
I'm guessing that that would be because
I do have a snake and like snakes.
Only natural to be a bit concerned about harming animals you like. And snakes are not very robust.
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@flabdablet said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Only natural to be a bit concerned about harming animals you like. And snakes are not very robust.
I've had cats most of my life. I have a dog. Never had dreams about them. I guess they are more robust than the snake.
I think while pregnant I only had one dream about the baby and I occasionally have them now. Not with the same frequency of snakes.
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@Karla said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I guess they are more robust than the snake.
Yep. Roll an office chair over your cat's tail and it will screech and flee. Roll it over your snake and it's buryin' time.
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@flabdablet said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@Karla said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I guess they are more robust than the snake.
Yep. Roll an office chair over your cat's tail and it will screech and flee. Roll it over your snake and it's buryin' time.
If the snake got around the neck it could definitely kill a small enough animal or human. So the snake is probably the most dangerous of the animals and small humans in my house.
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@Karla Dangerous, sure. Just not very robust.
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@Karla Probably when you're worried about a delicate situation going badly -- like, for example, hurting your baby, but aso probably delicate social or work situations. Your brain will take into account situations you've been in when trying to craft a shape for what's bothering you. I'm guessing you've handled more snakes than babies before you got pregnant?
After a while, certain forms become your default for that type of situation, even if it's no longer relevant to anything. Like dreams about high school.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@Karla Probably when you're worried about a delicate situation going badly -- like, for example, hurting your baby,
I tend to imagine myself falling down stairs all the time..and of course that is worse when I am carrying my daughter.
but aso probably delicate social or work situations. Your brain will take into account situations you've been in when trying to craft a shape for what's bothering you.
Maybe--next time I'll try and think about what it may be related too.
I'm guessing you've handled more snakes than babies before you got pregnant?
Definitely in the short term, as we got the snake maybe 2 years before I got pregnant.
Also, .
I have also caught snakes in the wild and never any babies.
After a while, certain forms become your default for that type of situation, even if it's no longer relevant to anything. Like dreams about high school.
Makes sense.
That probably explains why I still have a lot of dreams that I am fighting to escape something/someone or cannot effectively lock out danger from my home (fairly dysfunctional family).
Thank you.
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@Karla You're welcome :D
I still have dreams where driving just doesn't work, despite having my license for almost six years now
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
dreams about high school.
Those are called nightmares.
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I'd been reading a review of the Veggie Tales version of A Little Princess before bed, so guess what story I dreamed! Or at least, so my brain informed me while I was dreaming.
In reality, the story bore very little similarities to the original tale. I was supposed to be Sara. I was part of a program that felt like the international students club at the uni I attended for my masters', but we were all young; I was the oldest, as a teenager. We were doing a day trip to Disney World, and I was remarking how silly it was, since it was a 5 hour drive there, then we'd spend a few hours, and drive back. We squished into a donkey cart with our bags and I fell asleep on the way down there.
We must have hit traffic because it was late by the time we arrived. I hung out with a little girl named Lottie, and we stopped by a palace to see the Prince of China on our way in. He offered some sweets, which Lottie and I enjoyed. Then we got to the park. It was so late, I didn't bother with the rides, but instead went right for the gift shop, figuring I'd get more enjoyment out of a souvenir than one or two rides. But most of the shops were closing or already shut for the night.
I stopped by a bookstore, but even on the clearance rack, everything was more expensive than the bookstores at home. Finally we found one guy who claimed he wasn't closing yet, but really was holding the store open for us to buy toys. I thanked him on behalf of the younger kids, and we hung out trying things.
Then, an alarm went off. One of the program coordinators rushed in and said we all needed to leave, RIGHT NOW. We broke into a run. I was falling behind, so I lifted both feet off the ground and grabbed Lottie's shoulders, letting her tug me along at her speed (her legs were shorter but she was still faster than I was). We were running along this long bridge, and there was a storm kicking the waves up high enough that she was running through a few inches of water despite the open railings.
Someone screamed "Look out!" and I barely grabbed Lottie in time before she went careening off the edge of the bridge where it had broken in the middle. Worse, a huge wave broke over us, raising the water level up to my chin. I wrapped my arms around her and hooked my foot under the railing, tilting my head back to gasp at the air. The water rose over my head, but I could still breathe (which I rationalized as my nose being in a bubble of air). I was worried Lottie couldn't, so I lifted her up higher to get her head clear.
We managed to hang on until the water subsided enough to let us back off into the park again. Now the problem was the Chinese government wouldn't let us leave. They were looking for their missing princess, the prince we'd hung out with's older sister, and they were keeping all the blonde girls and anyone who they thought might dye their hair just in case. We were shoved into a barn with some older, meaner girls, and we were worried we'd never get to go home.
Only, surprise twist ending, I wasn't the missing princess -- Lottie was! And once she was reinstated as royalty, she let everyone go home, because she was so nice.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I hung out with a little girl named Lottie
What about Ermengarde and Becky?
A Little Princess was one of my favourite books as a child and I actually still have it and still read it occasionally.
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@flabdablet said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Yep. Roll an office chair over your cat's tail and it will screech and flee. Roll it over your snake and it's buryin' time.
Well, it probably does partly depend on whether you roll it over the snake's actual tail or not...
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@CarrieVS Apparently the Veggie Tales version dispensed with Lottie, only having Becky and Ermengarde, so my dream decided to rectify that by only having Lottie instead.
(With maybe a side helping of "you should have kids by now, here, have a childish figure and you play her substitute-mama from the book")
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Last night my dream involved my mother being a fleshcrafter and using me for all kinds of awful, painful experiments.
But also, I had a cool hat. It somehow was reversible with three sides, so it could be straw, purple, or green, and also could be configured via some trick of folding into three shapes: a beanie, a sunhat with a brim, and a beanie-with-ballcap-brim. I was complaining that the last configuration looked stupid, but other than that I loved the hat, it was awesome even if it hurt my head how the heck it was constructed. If I did the fold wrong, I ended up with a mess of fabric instead of a hat and had to undo what I did. But otherwise, it was a cool hat!
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@Yamikuronue It does sound like a cool hat. I'd have it in purple all the time myself
The other bit though, I'm not even remotely qualified to try and interpret that.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I'd have it in purple
a purple helmet?
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My dream involved one of my flatmates offering to do something that would result in the part of my bedroom ceiling above my bed falling in (we have two floors and her room is above mine). Or something; I wasn't entirely clear on what was going to happen and why, but it was clearly sensible and desirable. My part was to get myself and any valuables that might be damaged out of the way once I'd finished sleeping.
Then I was woken up by something banging on the floor above. I supposed that she was starting and hurried to get everything out of the way, a little annoyed that she hadn't waited for me to say something. I'm not sure whether the noise was real or dreamed but I did really wake up, in that just-woken state where the dream memories are still vivid and all the dream logic still makes sense for a few seconds or minutes.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I'd have it in purple
a purple helmet?
If I ever manage to achieve my ultimate dream of being a
I will have a purple helmet, as it'll match the purple race suit I'll be wearing.
Also to mess with English-speaking commentators :D
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I will have a purple helmet, as it'll match the purple
race suit
Aw.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I'm usually pretty good at dream interpretation, but I try not to be pushy :)
Despite the title, I'm totally open to interpretation. Although I can't imagine any other one than "your brain is reading garbage from freed memory and trying to interpret it as data".
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@Maciejasjmj Well part of your dream explained itself to you:
@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Dream-me thought it was a very insightful social commentary on how all activities are good as long as they don't harm others, and how what goes around comes around, and something like that.
But the other part:
@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Today I dreamed I was near a bank I once worked at, and got approached by a college friend.
I'm going to guess work is stressing you out a bit, particularly by being unfulfilling? It's probably been a while since you did something that you felt was worth the time it took to do, and you're frustrated a bit?
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
other than that I loved the hat, it was awesome even if it hurt my head how the heck it was constructed.
The hat, or your head?
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@anotherusername The hat. Hutszes my brainz.
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@Yamikuronue well, you did say that your mom was a fleshcrafter, though.
Actually I'm not sure what that means and I don't want to google it.
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@anotherusername Casting spells using flesh and blood as ingredients. Usually making like, flesh golems and shit. I dunno what she was up to in the dream.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I'm going to guess work is stressing you out a bit, particularly by being unfulfilling? It's probably been a while since you did something that you felt was worth the time it took to do, and you're frustrated a bit?
We are on WTDWTF. Thought that was kind of an entry requirement.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@Yamikuronue said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I'm going to guess work is stressing you out a bit, particularly by being unfulfilling? It's probably been a while since you did something that you felt was worth the time it took to do, and you're frustrated a bit?
We are on WTDWTF. Thought that was kind of an entry requirement.
I thought the requirement was that you work in IT? Then again, IT jobs are generally stressful by nature.
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I couldn't sleep, which isn't that unusual. I was just laying in bed, trying and failing to sleep, and occasionally just pacing the apartment. The whole time thinking how badly tomorrow is going to suck because I didn't get enough sleep.
Then tomorrow came, and as I remembered the night I realized the apartment I was pacing wasn't mine. I was only dreaming that I couldn't sleep.
Brain, you are really weird.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@Yamikuronue said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I'm usually pretty good at dream interpretation, but I try not to be pushy :)
Despite the title, I'm totally open to interpretation. Although I can't imagine any other one than "your brain is reading garbage from freed memory and trying to interpret it as data".
No, that's an explanation behind, not an interpretation. :D
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I'm some kinda Link wannabe exploring a library. I come across a section of books apparently written by my Changeling mentor,spanning a few centuries. It makes me think I should respect him a bit more. One of the books is found and I leave the library.
Approaching the stronghold, which is about the size of a playground clubhouse, I dodge the slow fire from a turret of sorts and enter the small building. It's apparently a teleporter to other worlds.
(unrecoverable) including killing people, at the end of the mission I return. (unrecoverable) and the stronghold is repairing itself each time, becoming more difficult to enter every time I return, but I manage ok.
I realize the I'm slowly being taken over by another entity, but only because outside promoting to reflect on my decisions. I cannot stop, all this effort would be wasted.
Eventually I've reached a room in the stronghold where all those I've killed are happily engaging in a party in my honor.I wake up before I can find out why.
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Facebook reminded me of this gem from last year:
Woke up in the middle of the night and it all made sense, like a lightbulb going off: of course I can't sleep! I'm actually a tree! Spent a few minutes rearranging my roots, poked my snoring husband, went back to sleep. I was sure this happened five or six times but my fitbit says once.
This morning I decided not to take another painkiller before driving, juuuust in case(I'm so glad that a) I'm off opiates and b) my husband has a CPAP now)
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I dreamed that I was sitting next to a girl and she deliberately touched my arm with hers, and it was the best thing ever.
Yes, I'm very lonely.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
I dreamed that I was sitting next to a girl and she deliberately touched my arm with hers, and it was the best thing ever.
Yes, I'm very lonely.
OMG she touched your arm? That means you have to marry her now!
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As usual, only vague, fragmented memories. Driving down a street, rearranging the letters that identify the make and model of the car in front of me while driving, adding letters to form a new word, but the letters are interspersed with the existing letters. For some reason, I am unable to finish arranging them to form the desired words in the proper order. I have no idea why this is a thing that I was attempting to do, nor how I was manipulating the letters while both cars were moving.
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I dreamed Molly was a turtle and jumped into a pool and I freaked out about her drowning but then remembered turtles were amphibious so it's okay.
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@Lorne-Kates Just wait until she grows up to become a crime-fighting superhero!
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
then remembered turtles were amphibious so it's okay.
Tiny children are amphibious as well. Hurl her in before it wears off, and you'll have a swimmer for life.
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@flabdablet said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Tiny children are amphibious as well. Hurl her in before it wears off, and you'll have a swimmer for life.
Look through that article and count how many different times it specifically warns readers that this is not the case...
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@masonwheeler Pffft. Facts are a to persuading Lorne it's OK to drown his child.
Also, this is 2017. Sometimes we can disagree with the facts.
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@masonwheeler said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@flabdablet said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Tiny children are amphibious as well. Hurl her in before it wears off, and you'll have a swimmer for life.
Look through that article and count how many different times it specifically warns readers that this is not the case...
My grandparents had a cottage at a lake. My parents told me I they would throw me in and I would swim back up.
We dunked our daughter her first summer. She didn't love it, she didn't hate it.
She loves the water now, both the beach and the pool.
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@flabdablet said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Sometimes we can disagree with the facts.
Alternative amphibious.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Alternative amphibious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uYBV3Wq-r0
"I'm not a neo-Nazi," shouted the big wide-mouthed frog. "In fact, they kind of hate me."
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Last segment of today's dream apparently involved a proof of concept involving Super Mario 64. Apparently it is impossible to get the metal cap star and remain above the platforms above the river. To prove this wrong, the runner (who wasn't me) first went into the river and grabbed a box from Mario Party. Apparently they get bigger over time as you hold them, so he runs through an exit hole that ports him to what appears to be a Banjo Kazooie level! And just as the box he's holding is about to pop (apparently they explode after holding them too long, greedy players!) he uses it instead to clone an ant, which he takes back to the hazy maze cave and releases it into the water. He then proceeds to acquire all ten red coins, uses the cloned ant to bounce up the the platforms, and Tada it's done.
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Not mine, but my girlfriend's dream (or one bit she remembered): 5 or 6 people were walking in a file, which was very neat because it was an std::vector. The last one was our dog, which made my girlfriend very happy because the dog was a reference, not a pointer.
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@remi said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Not mine, but my girlfriend's dream (or one bit she remembered): 5 or 6 people were walking in a file, which was very neat because it was an std::vector. The last one was our dog, which made my girlfriend very happy because the dog was a reference, not a pointer.
I sure hope all that was properly
Dispose()
d of when she woke up!
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@anotherusername said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@Yamikuronue said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@mott555 Oh god yeah, stairs and ledges with no railings and sheer drops to your death are common in my dreamscapes. I keep like, slipping off, grabbing the ledge, being stuck, freaking out, then being back on top of them again, no problem, until it repeats itself two steps later.
Ooh, and there's stairs where when I go up they're so steep I end up going up them on all fours and then stay on all fours the rest of the dream because I can "run faster" on all fours.
Dreamscapes need better testers, apparently...
Shit, have I been doing the private beta wrong? All our testers seem to be taking the path on the left and they're finding plenty of bugs.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@remi said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
Not mine, but my girlfriend's dream (or one bit she remembered): 5 or 6 people were walking in a file, which was very neat because it was an std::vector. The last one was our dog, which made my girlfriend very happy because the dog was a reference, not a pointer.
I sure hope all that was properly
Dispose()
d of when she woke up!We'd love to teach our dog to do her own garbage collection... Maybe we should give her some Java, it's supposed to be easier?
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@remi said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
the dog was a reference, not a pointer.
Reference isn't a breed I'm familiar with.
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@remi said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
We'd love to teach our dog to do her own garbage collection
...just as long as she doesn't lick your face right afterwards.
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@flabdablet said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
@remi said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread:
We'd love to teach our dog to do her own garbage collection
...just as long as she doesn't lick your face right afterwards.
Hem. Yeah, let me correct what I said:
We'd love to teach our dog to do her own garbage collection in a bag.She already does the other way...