On my mind

The number of times that my employers of the past four years are in my dreams is interesting to me. Where random celebrities come from I can't explain - but at least my employers are my friends. I couldn't even name the last Jack Black movie I've seen!

Aug 20 2013

This dream seemed to go on for a very long time, but a lot of it was conversations and interactions between all of the different characters. Unfortunately much of that sort of thing is lost in the fog of the morning waking up. The dream is set in two places. A huge conference with dignitaries from all over the world and a strange loft group living space that you could only gain access to through a series of vertical chutes. (Those inside could also deny you access by preventing the hidden doors from opening).

The conference centered around three characters, a visiting dignitary from somewhere, a USA dignitary (the hosting country) and the USA dignitary's aide (who was part of the loft group). The visitor was a gentleman, but was wearing a mauve coloured knit outfit that looked like a dress. The aide complimented him on his attire. After shaking hands and parting, the USA dignitary was pleased but chided his aide for bringing up the dress ("You shouldn't have commented on it") as he was afraid it was cultural attire and he might have been insulted. He took it back later when he saw the dignitary happily embrace his aide recognizing him as a friendly face and a supportive ally.  (The aide throughout the span of the gathering would wear a formal grey suit when on duty, and more feminine attire when off duty).

The "loft" was a cozy, beautiful space with retro furnishing and decor. There were multiple floors, lots of common areas and spacious living quarters tucked throughout. Mostly transgendered, genderqueer and transvestites lived there, and randomly Jack Black was living there too. (Perhaps he was only living there temporarily while making a film, he was good friends with some of the long-term residents.) It seemed some people lived there permanently and others were there part time.

Other than the obvious, I really don't know where my brain came up with this whole idea. 

Today on Alternate Reality...

Sometimes my dreams include people who I haven't seen in a long time, and I don't know where or why my mind has pulled them to the fore. Other elements are clearly inspired by things happening in my life or from books or movies I recently watched. This dream has incorporated both.

August 15 2013

Ryan (from high school) is killed in an accident - gruesomely he is decapitated. The dream starts out terribly sad. I don't even hear about it until after his funeral, which I find on Facebook. It is a tragic story as he is leaving behind a fiance and many friends who mourn him. I am very upset in the dream. Astoundingly they have decided to try a new technology on him and they bring him back to life.  When I get a chance to see him, the plot has thickened, and we are in the midst of some kind of turmoil. However I do have a moment to embrace him, I'm so glad he is alive and whole. 

We are part of a group of people that is looking into the "factory" where he was ostensibly healed. There are rumours that the technology is being abused. We manage to sneak inside but have to hide in production cells when workers come by. By the time we manage to get out of them we are coated in a strange clear thick slime. We realize that the other cells are full of clones. The clones (men and women) are being mass produced to work as labourers and worse (as servants for the rich). This is not traditional cloning and the people come out as adults - some even seem to retain memory of who they were.

Imagined Traditions & Places

Jan 10 2011
 
Matthew and some of my friends (we are younger) are reenacting the
ascention of a new ruler to the land. (This takes place in so called
parallel place, it is at my parents house, but not quite the same as
things are in reality)..
 
I was playing the role of the New leader, both myself and the others in
the ceremony are dressed in special garb. Tara and Matthew are
Questioners, who will ask the new ruler 10 questions.
 
The scene has the Questioner standing before the new ruler, the ruler
kneels before them. If the new ruler responds well, they switch places.
The Ruler now standing and Questioner kneeling before him or her. This
ceremony represents the Rulers dedication to the people, their duty to
serve the people.
 
 

Jan 11/2011
 
Alternative Mall: store with outfits which you would treat (like boiled
wool) to get the finished product. (mock Star Trek outfit). Mom, Dad &
Matt.

Bits and Bolts

Sometimes what I recall of dreams is fragmented or is missing the beginning (or end, or middle piece) of what happened. I know there was more because it's just there, on the very edge of my subconscious. Sometimes I get so frustrated with this I just don't bother to record it. Others, the bits that I have left an interesting impression, or contained something or some person (or the setting) fascinates me enough to write it down regardless..

Dream Aug 9 2013

Andrew is working at an exit station at the internment/prison facility. He is wearing a white T-shirt. I don't remember why people were imprisoned, but some of us were given jobs to do. I think I had a job too somewhere. A large flux of people had just been released or given time to leave for a particular holiday. (It was like christmas, but I don't think there was winter, at least no snow) I had two ferrets, one was all white like Nibs (the sleek one) and the other was more like a standard ferret (I think he was Dexter in ferret form). The area that Andrew was in was mostly metallic grey and he operated the exit, mechanical doors etc opened at his control. He would stand at the control booth which had a glass cornered window reinforced with the metal. I think the facility was below ground because the exit led to a ramp that went upwards. Outside of the room was a large foyer and hallway that was metal but all white. I remember asking Andrew for a favour standing in a small back room with the ferrets. I think I wanted to leave early, he was a bit uncertain, but I think he let me go.

At some point I met up with my family and my Dad (he was wearing a long black coat) couldn't believe my Mom had bought all of these giant, slender, tall decorative candles. (I was disappointed they were not beeswax). Of course it was all quite surreal, but everyone seemed to be in a good mood in preparation for our little family celebration. (Jordan and Lara were distinctly there in the dream).


Feb 06 2011

Replicated some of the City Council and their partners.
I was talking with a couple of the wives and saying we needed a way to differentiate between duplicates. Yay.

In the Future...

February 4, 2011

Main character: The Guide (Robo cop's partner, Blond, short hair)

(Recognizable characters: Lara, Sierra others…?)

Future: Earth (as we know it) is no longer. However through hundreds of years of work and allowing the earth time to purify itself the planet is slowly getting closer to the possibility of recolonization.

The dream takes place on a giant space station. Several adults have been reconstituted from their DNA, and their memories restored. Unfortunately most people are from an era when the planet was livable, and space technology (and many other technologies) were limited.

The guide's job is to take the new people on a tour and explain the situation. Over a period of time the adults are evaluated to see if they would thrive in this new environment. Most can not, and so they are allowed to sleep and be returned to DNA form where they will have no memory of what happened. (Later on many of them will be "cloned" and allowed to grow up in the new environment. One that already has a stable population of adults and normal age distribution).

In one large room the guide shows us their experiments on finding healthy plant communities that they slowly add more species to from the same geographical location on former earth. This will make the reseeding process easier and prevent mistakes like putting rats or possums in new zealand. Once the planet has been reseeded and animals  have had a chance to have several generations people (adults reconstituted with memories) would slowly start to recolonize in different locations using techniques similar to permaculture. 

Disturbance

Aug 30 2010

This dream was both frightening and vivid. The places in it were very clear, though I haven't been to any of them in real life.

Will Farrel and two of his friends were out on / by the water, there was an accident and one of them fell in. In the water a creature (or creatures) had appeared and all that could be seen was frothing water and blood. Will and his other friend were freaked out by this.

In the dream people were getting sort of crazy or possessed, but you couldn't always tell if they were or not, until they did something extremely out of the ordinary. When Will F. became crazy later in the dream (I think his friend protested to no avail, but refused to go with him) he wanted to go back to the water. He brought his nephew with him, and with life-jacket and all put him into the dangerous water. The boy died but Will either on purpose or by accident ended up with the same fate.

Matthew, Jordan and I got the craziness too, we seemed all happy and goofy. I think we were following orders from some leader, but it was all like a big game. Sometimes we pretended we were robots. (There might have been real robots as well)

When I somehow got released, the boys left me. I remember being desperate to stop them because they were going to lead a “death” (and possibly suicide) from the top of a bright, white shelved, crowded, fun and very tall store. I remember being with another freed guy sitting at a red table on the bottom floor of this store. We stopped the boys but they got away, all happy and reproving.

Later I was sleeping in a large open dorm with another girl. It was grey (dim) and clean but untidy, like lots of people had been using it. We woke up hearing someone trying to get in, so we got in touch with the guy from before. We knew they couldn't get in that way but we were scared. The guy stayed on the phone with us. We wondered if the back way was secured well enough, really only people who were part of our group should know about how to get in there. That was when he said, “Why do you think I've kept you on the phone?”

And my dream ended as we realized he was one of them now.