End-Of-The-World Windy

My sister and I are at my dad's house. We are either outside or looking out, and it is incredibly windy. We're talking end-of-the-world windy. I somehow manage to get myself in and shut the door. My sister is inside. It's dark in the house and we are using flashlights. We look around everywhere (my dad's house is apparently humongous, because we are searching many, many non-existent rooms) for our families. I find my daughter's backpack and pack some essential items. I also find one of our cats and I hold onto him while we keep looking around for anyone. We get to what looks like an unfinished basement. The ground is still dirt, the walls concrete/brick. We find a family sleeping on different beds spread about the room. We wake them up and tell them what is going on. They start gathering things. We look outside of this door that walks up from the basement - it's very dark outside (it was dark in the beginning), and at first it looks calm again, but when I start to head up the stairs, I can feel the wind is still too strong to survive walking around out there. We wait it out a bit. I looked around the basement some more and find this door that opens out to this hill with a short (3 ft?) wall next to it. I start noticing water creeping over to us from over the wall/down the hill to us. (This is a really small hill -- the wall is maybe ten feet away from the door. I notice the wind has stopped, and I yell to everyone that water is coming. In my head I know that this is probably a tidal wave of some sort that is headed towards us. I run out and my sister follows. Water is starting to come into the house and is very tall. The parents of the family come out next and RIGHT before I wake up, I wonder why the hell the parents didn't have their children go first or with them. I didn't see the kids come out.


*Maybe this dream is a piece of my previous dream about the moon falling to Earth? lol

Doormat

Dreamt Devin and I were living in an apartment and next door to us was my sister, mother and aunt. Somehow my family couldn't afford to live on their own so my sister forced Devin and I to move in with them. Being the doormat in real life that I am, I started moving our things into their apartment. I remember the apartment building was very retro looking - '70s. Orange shag carpet, dull floral sofas.. I was the only one that seemed to be moving things around and everyone else was just going about their thing. At one point I noticed my dog was near a closet in a bedroom, so I went over to the closet to pick him up. Suddenly my sister lets out this blood-curdling scream that there was a skunk near us. I looked over to the right of me, just against the wall outside of the closet was this creepy-looking (DID NOT LOOK LIKE A SKUNK, MORE LIKE A HUGE, DEMONIC, BROWN WEASEL) skunk. My dog started off towards him, but I snagged him up before he had a chance to get the skunk to spray..

Other things happened, but how long it's been since I've written down in a journal.. I just can't remember as well anymore.

Moving 

• To dream that you or someone is moving in or out of a place signifies your desire or need for change. It may also mean an end to a situation or relationship; you are moving on. Alternatively, it indicates your determination and issues regarding dependence/independence.
• To dream that you are helping someone move indicates that you are afraid of change. You are not quite ready to confront some new situation by yourself. Alternatively, to help someone move implies acceptance of some new change, even though you may not agree with it.

Skunk 

• To see a skunk in your dream suggests that you are driving people away or turning them off. Alternatively, the dream indicates that your suppressed anger is on the verge of exploding. You are not expressing your true feelings even though you do not agree with a decision.

Sandbox.

Devin, his mom, a random old family/childhood friend, and my sister and I were going to take my daughter Scarlet to the beach. We were trying to fit everything (including one of those green, plastic turtle sandboxes) into a small car. Weren't sure if we could fit everything. I think we were at my dad's house/childhood home.

Car

• To see a parked car in your dream suggests that you need to turn your efforts and energies elsewhere. You may be needlessly spending your energy in a fruitless endeavor. Alternatively, a parked car may symbolize your need to stop and enjoy life.

Sandbox

• To see or play in a sandbox in your dream suggests that you are taking a situation too seriously. You need to lighten up and enjoy the experience. Alternatively, the dream refers to your childish or juvenile behavior.

..So, I need to stop being so serious and enjoy my life?

* Scarlet did not remember her dream last night, although did complain that her toys she thought next to her were missing.

An old dream from last year..

Found a draft from last summer that I remember typing on my phone while camping one morning.

Dreamt me and Devin and Scarlet and a big group of people were being chased. We had another baby, named Ruby. We packed essentials. Scarlet had a small toy, she was a little older. Ruby had a bigger stuffed animal. We were found on an island I think. Dream all jumbled. We walked up to a couple houses that were in a wooded area of the island. We asked for help, but the guy there just told us to come in. I was a little hesitant but we needed shelter and food. All of us, probably 15-20 people, came in. His house was a mansion on the inside. He led us upstairs and we found rooms. At some point I remember running. I think we found out that the man was bad. I was looking for our essential things we packed. I found them inside a bench that also worked as a storage area. I grabbed as much as possible and ran with my family. At some point the bag of essentials wasn't in my hands and there were two bags on the side of a street. (The bad man's hallway turned into an alleyway of some sort).

Okay, I wrote this last summer and completely forgot what else happened right after that, but I DO remember bad guys chasing us from the alley and soon enough the alley turning into a river/waterfall. I remember holding onto one of the girls and Devin holding onto the other. I vaguely remember the toy Scarlet had being significant in the dream. Like it had gone missing and then found (or maybe when we jumped off the waterfall, the toy fell out of her hands and was gone forever. I don't know.) I swam with Scarlet (or Ruby, whichever daughter I was holding) to an island and waited/started my search for Devin, the other daughter, and the rest of the gang.

Miss You Terribly.

Dreamt people were dying. I was outside by my parents' garage with Devin. He turns to me and tells me he thinks he's dying, too. He slowly falls to the ground and lays down. I lay next to him. We're right in front of the garage door and I hold his hands and watch him as he slowly dies. I tell him that I only ever loved him and maybe one other (WHY I mentioned another, I don't know. I guess I'm a bitch in my dreams..), and that I'll miss him terribly.

Then I'm in my parents' kitchen. It seems like a few hours had passed, although it feels like Devin's funeral is taking place or something. I'm with a few people talking and we're all in somber moods. I look out the kitchen window and see the garage. I look at where Devin was and there was nothing there except a bunch of hats. I think to myself that I really need to go outside and try to find out what hat Devin wore, because I want to keep it for myself. As a memory of him.

I also had a small dream in which I was at Wal-Mart and I passed this heavy, bulky thing with a balloon tied to it and I accidentally bumped into the thing. Instead of the thing falling over, it started floating up. I quickly grabbed it and tried to find ways to keep it from floating without getting anyone's attention.

A Weirdass Dream.

Dreamt I was at this campsite. I had a bad case of the runs... I go to the bathroom and when I feel a little better, I exit the bathroom and I'm in this basement with my sister Sarah. We're kind of half-packing to leave, but also planning to stay there that night. She's being her usual irritating bitch-self, so I have to suffer through that as well. I wanted to go to bed, but she wanted to watch Golden Girls. I changed the channel to Dead Zone and she yelled "PUT GOLDEN GIRLS BACK ON!" Then I grabbed pillows to try to get her to realize I was tired and wanted sleep. I also told her that I get to sleep in the bigger couch because I'm taller (barely, but still). Then she tells me that she sleeps with 12 pillows, so I only get one pillow and I give her the rest to make up for it. (Strangely, in real life I have a pillow case that holds two pillows. In my dream, I acknowledged this and took note.) Then, on a sunny afternoon, lol, Devin and I are walking up to these bathrooms at the campground and as soon as I get into it, I sit down and go potty again (the runs, I tell ya). Somehow our astral plane meshes with another and I'm sitting on the toilet in this campground bathroom but also sitting on a bus at the same time. (Devin was in the stall next to me and is sitting beside me on bus). These two guys turn their heads and start talking to us. They tell us that we all played poker once and that even though I didn't know how to play I beat them in one hand. All the while, I'm thinking in my head, "Oh my god, can they see me with my pants down??" I wasn't sure if I was also going to the bathroom on the bus. LOL.. Yikes. Anyways, then this guy that was the son of my old boss gets on the bus with something wrapped in a blanket. He and his "wife" supposedly had a baby real recently. When he brings the baby over for Devin and I to see, he shows us this teeny tiny kitten. That's when, in my head, I think "Oh yeah, his wife is that human cat." Apparently the kitten was a premie, ha ha. God this is a weirdass dream. Anyways, he tells us that he's hoping that when the kitten gets older it might learn to talk. Devin and I both hold the "baby's" paw and he tells us he appreciates that we are even accepting the poor thing, because everyone else he knows thinks it's the product of bestiality. (In the dream I imagined the mom was a woman, just with cat-like features.) I felt bad, because I would have held the kittens hand more, but I was afraid that because it was a newborn it was too fragile, so I was kind of pissed that Devin acted so nurturing compared to me. I kind of glared at him a few times while we coo'd at the baby.

Two Bratty Sisters.

I'm in my grandpa's house, in his kitchen, and there are a bunch of garage sale items out. Two little bratty sisters are hogging this bag of stuffed animals I want to go through (because there is an adorable blue elephant wearing a navy suit that I badly want, but the asshole parents are thinking about buying the whole bag of items), so I walk past them and look around for something else. Then I see this weird contraption that acts like a swing. It has this foot-pajama fabric attached to it with The Beatles all over it. It plays Beatles songs. It seats two kids. I like it. Devin's mom asks me if it's possible I could take apart the fabric and make it a sweater or something. I tell her it's possible. Then I turn around and those bratty sisters are in my damn Beatles swing.

Go, Greyhound. Go.

Dreamt I was in this computer room or maybe just a bedroom with a computer in it. There were collages on the walls. A woman is also in the room and she digs me. She disappears and an Indian woman appears in her place. We're in love for some reason and she tells me she has to go. This is where the republicans come into play. They are trying to kidnap her (because we're both women, dating). I give her a hug and hate myself to see her have to leave. I lean in to kiss her cheek but instead I whisper to her that I'll meet her somewhere. Maybe the republicans were listening in? I don't know. She disappears and I get on computer. But then Sara Quin appears in the room and she wants to take a picture with me. As the camera lens gets nearer, I notice how filthy it is, so I try to clean it off as best as I could. Then everything disappears and I'm living in the house I grew up in. I'm with Devin and we're waiting for my dad to pick us up to take us to Minnesota. He doesn't show up at the right time, so I call my mom and ask her where he is. Then I start packing and put my stuffed animal Robot and Macbook in a backpack and wait some more. Then I'm outside and I notice this huge greyhound parked outside. Instead of letting us on, Dad gets off and the greyhound leaves. Then I woke up.

It's A Truck, It's A Raft, It's A Sled..

Dreamt I was in this truck with this guy that looked slightly like Devin and also two women, one that looked a lot like Kate Hudson and the other that looked like the woman Mel from the movie Inception. We kept listening to this CB radio trying to know where these bad people were that we were hiding from. Then the truck switched to a raft in a river (that occasionally changed settings and the raft would be in this hallway, but still we couldn't get out of the raft (kind of like when you were little and you pretended the floor was lava..)). The guy we were with fell asleep and I started kissing the Kate Hudson look-a-like. Then we cuddled and she put her hand down my pants. Suddenly the raft disappears. I'm only with the guy now and we're trying to find Kate, but now she looks like Tegan Quin (or at least this is who I'm looking for now). I'm walking down this hallway and see her on the other side of the room. I start running towards her (and eventually lose the guy because he's slow as molasses) but stop because my shoes are uncomfortable. I see these comfy-looking shoes on this table and start changing shoes. When I get one shoe on, I notice that the pair I was wearing this whole time are so adorable and that I want to keep them even after I wake up from this dream (at this point the dream became lucid). So I take the new shoe off and put the old one back on. Then I notice Tegan is gone from across the room so I turn back to the hallway we were all in and start walking that way to find her. I start walking past this door and this guy that looks like the artist Bob Ross (only with slicked-back hair, not poofy hair) grabs me and drags me into this real quiet library. Everyone is silent, though heavily attentive, while I shuffle in after Bob Ross. Then he takes me to these desks in the back of the library room and there are very important people sitting down with papers in front of them. They look up at me like they expected me to come. They also look evil. I tell them that I've lost someone and I can't find them, start walking away with my hand on my forehead, trying to act calm. Then I start running. Bob Ross follows, but he's a nice guy. We both go outside and he shows me this sled and gets in, tells me he'll try to find her in it. My mind goes all fuzzy and instead of seeing my own point of view, I see the Kate-but-now-Tegan in front of a bunch of paparazzi. She takes a few photos for them and then she walks into this opera theater, my vision keeps following her until she walks into the area where the stage is. Then I see "myself" (I don't look at all like myself, though. I look like Emily Browning (Ghost Ship, The Uninvited) wearing this weird dress. It's this pink and yellow feathery gown. I sit down on this red velvet circular chair. Then this girl sits down next to me and she looks like Lacey Chabert. She holds my hand, puts her head on my shoulder.. Tries her best to comfort me. She asks me if I want to go dancing and suddenly the room turns into a psychedelic pink, green, and orange glittery room. It looks the set of Flip Wilson's show. I realize now that I'm dreaming and try to open my eyes to wake myself up from the corny dream. The first time I blink, I see wallpaper of some sort, then I woke up on the second blink.

9/10/10 - At Sea.. In A Clawfoot Tub.

Dreamt I was mixing a bowl of something together and my aunt Erin was nearby and (she's allergic to pretty much everything) inhaled the fumes and fell/fainted. I ended up trying to give her CPR.


Then I was on this game show with three others.

Then I'm in this clawfoot tub with a see-through curtain, but the tub was floating in the ocean. It was dark out, and all I could see was the moon, and the bright white porcelain tub. It was raining, so I pulled the curtain tight and even though you'd think with the top of the tub not being protected, I strangely didn't get wet at all. The tub just kept rocking back and forth with the waves, and I wanted land. At some point I even made a snoring noise in my dream for some reason, which obviously must mean I was snoring in my waking life and having that affect my dream life. Finally, I open the curtain after the rain stops, and I'm on land. The same three people from the game show are on the land with me, and we walk down these steps of this hill and I see a piano sheet book on the ground that belonged to my grandma's in real life. I picked it up, knowing that I had this before I was in the ocean on the tub.


Bathtubs

• To see or be in a bathtub in your dream, suggests a need for self-renewal and escape from everyday problems. You need to rid yourself of the burdens that you have been carrying.

Sea

• To dream that you are lost at sea, suggests that you are drifting around in life without any direction. You are feeling overwhelmed by emotions.

4/24/02 - Nicknacks.

Forgot my last dream, here's an old one on my dad's birthday, too. I was just thinking about this dream a few days ago..


4/24/02


"I had the second worst dream ever. It started out with me and Heather in a church. Heather saw these nicknacks and picked one up, and was telling me it looked dumb. I kind of agreed, thinking it was pretty silly. We walked out of the church and came to my parent's garage, the door was open. There was a picnic table with a plate of hamburgers laid atop it. I remember seeing this girl I knew and I "wished" her to become a hamburger because I hated her. So she turned into one and was on the plate with the rest of them. Another guy I knew that I grew up with came up and was about to grab 'her', but I stopped him. Anyways, somehow I got into a really dark auditorium, and these teenagers were telling me to turn a light on. I do, but it's a small light, though sufficient. A teacher comes up on stage and he looks like my dad. The teacher started yelling at me, and at first I thought it was because I turned the light on, then I thought it was because I turned someone into a hamburger.. He tells me it's because another boy I grew up with, Brandon, was in an accident, and that the accident had alcohol involved.. And that somehow I was at fault. They did tests to see if I was involved as well. but I magically get teleported in front of this clothes line by the pond. I'm walking on a road with people walking towards me. I remember seeing all these people really dressed elegant-like. One old classmate was wearing this ugly blue dress, and another was wearing a prettier dark pink dress with the sleeves flared out and tied to the rest of the dress. I passed a few people who criticized me for my religion. I also heard someone say "Hi, Alyssa!" and they had passed me and was in a crowd of people, so I had to jump up to find it was my best friend from elementary school.. I go to walk again in the same direction as before, with everyone else walking the opposite way (towards me) and I see my mom. I try to catch up to her but my feet started to act like lead. Like they were anchors or something. So I tried to run and it got worse. I got even slower. So I tried to push myself from anything nearby and pull myself closer with other objects.. It worked, but it was a long process. Mom starts to leave but stops behind this building. I go into the building and it's this big building with little houses inside. I can see windows and doors, etc, inside the building. I look into one of the windows and I see this old man laying in a coffin. I somehow expected to see the girl I turned into a hamburger in a coffin as well, which is morbid, but she must have been still alive or something.. I go back to the church I was in at first and I notice this child with a scarred face is following me. I turn around to find mom but I notice the nicknack I saw in the beginning. I started crying really hard when I picked it up to look at it. I realized then that this nicknack belonged to the old man that died. I felt horrible for making fun of his nicknack when he had just died, and I had known nothing about him. I was also crying because I felt bad for what I did to that girl that turned into the hamburger. "

Hamburger

• To see or eat a hamburger in your dream, suggests that you are lacking some emotional, intellectual, or physical component in order to feel whole again. You may be feeling unsatisfied with some situation or relationship. It is also symbolic of your experiences and how you need to learn from them. Look at the big picture.

Dress

• To see or wear a dress in your dream, represents a feminine outlook or feminine perspective on a situation. You are freely expressing your femininity. If you are a man and dream that you are wearing a dress, suggests that others are questioning your sexuality. Or that you are feeling sexually insecure.

• Blue

• Blue represents truth, wisdom, heaven, eternity, devotion, tranquility, loyalty and openness.

• Fuchsia

• The color fuchsia represents mediation and your connection to your spirituality. You are letting go of old attitudes and welcoming a new change. This color is also associated with emotional stability.

Legs

• If your legs are weak, then you may be feeling emotionally vulnerable.

Coffin

• To see a body in a coffin in your dream, signifies that you are going through a period of depression. You may feel confined, restricted and that you are lacking personal freedom. There may be a dead or decaying situation or issue in your life that you need to address. It is time to end this situation or relationship.

7/25/10 - Riding Bikes and Feeling Guilty.

I'm in Mather, WI (where my mother grew up). I am riding bike with this group of people. A lot of kids in my elementary class that lived near Mather are riding bike with me. There are only about five or six of us riding bike. Anyways, we're all in a line. I'm second, behind this guy that seems to be in command. He tells us to stop and I stop perfectly behind him, with maybe three feet between us, but the others behind stop harshly, hitting me from the back and colliding into each other. The weather looks really bad, too. The clouds are low and heavy, like a tornado will jut out at any time. I think to myself how lucky I am to live in Oakdale, where no tornados ever appear.


Then I'm in Sportsman's Bar, where my sister Sarah works. I have a bunch of things with me (is this an interpretation as me having "too much baggage"? I notice I'm always carrying so much stuff that are too much at times..). Devin has to work in the morning, so I start grabbing my things to head out the door, but my sister gets mad at me for leaving.



--- In reality, the night before, I was at my mother's (my sister lives with her, and their apartment is above the bar), and I was leaving to go home since Devin worked that morning. We were heading out of the parking lot when Sarah stopped us and tried to chat a bit, but we were in a hurry to leave so I had to cut her short (hehe, no pun intended - she's a shorty). I remember getting into the car and thinking "She's probably pissed at me for leaving without saying much to her.." I felt awful, but I knew Devin wanted to go home. Anyways, maybe that part was just my guilty subconscious.

7/7/10 - I Blame Anna For The Green Day Appearance.

In my dream last night, I dreamt that I woke up and had to grab all my belongings that I had on me at the time. It wasn't much, I must have been staying over at someone else's house. I had my purse, my blanket, my cd player, my books, cds and movies. Devin and his sister Cherish were there, and we all had to pack our things into her car and drive off somewhere. When we got out onto the road, I noticed we were driving from the town I grew up in, Warrens, and was headed down towards where my old house is. We passed houses and pretty soon the houses started to look like they were falling apart. Some houses looked like a dinosaur had eaten the second story right off. Some looked like they had burned up and were scorched. I asked the two why the houses looked the way they did and one of them said, "Didn't you hear? A tornado came through and destroyed everything!" I started bawling and at the time in my dream I must have thought that my parents and my sister were living in the old house, because I was worried something happened to them. I asked if we could check on the house and they said it was fine, so we kept driving down the road. At about half a mile away, the road started to get flooded out, so I jumped out of the car and ran for the house, but with all the houses being unrecognizable, I couldn't tell where I was. I got to this farm house and was confused, and thought that that was the house I had lived in.. We climbed into the muddy house and it turned into this big, dirty, run-down building. Cherish disappeared, and my sister took her place in the dream, and then the band Green Day showed up and they were all helping me find my old house, too. At one point, we were in this tunnel and found this manhole on the ground and we were thinking about going down the steps and trying to find the house down there, but one of the guys from Green Day decided to turn a valve on the wall, and water started issuing forth and down below into the manhole. I cried, thinking my parents were down there and getting drowned. Someone yelled that the building was going to blow up, so I went back to the lobby of the building and all my belongings that I had grabbed in the beginning were sitting on this table, so I picked up as much as I could and carried it out the building. I went back in and Sarah was there trying to grab her own things, and handed me this red bra that was wrapped up in a headphone cord. She told me she wanted to keep them, but couldn't carry that and everything else she was trying to hold on to. So I grabbed them, threw them in my purse, and all these things that reminded me of mom and dad fell out. (For mom, they were movies (one being Zodiac that I know she likes so much; and for dad I had crossword puzzles that he (in real life) tears out of the newspapers he buys so that I have something to do at home) I knew I had to keep those things, so I took forever trying to fit everything back into my purse. Finally, after getting everything right as fast as I possibly could, Sarah and I booked it out the building, but before I even got to the doors, I woke up.

For anyone who might be wondering why Green Day made an appearance in my dream, I blame Anna. She was talking about them (very briefly) at one point the night before.




Flood

• To dream that you are in a flood, represents your need to release some sexual desires. If the flood is raging, then it represents emotional issues and tensions. Your repressed emotions are overwhelming you. Consider where the flood is for clues as to where in your waking life is causing you stress and tension. Alternatively, the dream indicates that you are overwhelming others with your demands and strong opinion. Still another interpretation could be your desire to wipe everything clean and make a fresh new start.

House

• To see an old, run-down house in your dream, represents your old beliefs, attitudes and how you used to think or feel. A situation in your current life may be bringing about those same old attitudes and feelings. Alternatively, the old house may symbolize your need to update you mode of thinking. To dream that your house is damaged, indicates your waking concerns about the condition of your house.
  

Possessions

• To see your possessions in your dream, symbolize your identity or self-worth. Consider the significance of each item for additional clues to the meaning of your dream. Metaphorically, the dream may mean that you are being "possessive". You need to learn to let go.