Mims

The life of Mims
2004-08-06 13:45:08 (UTC)

Dreamage

I guess I have a fair amount to talk about, but at the
same time, not really. Lots of things I will write about,
put it that way, but not things which are neccesairily of
any interest to anyone but me.

I'll start by talking about yet another wierd but
incredibly detailed and vivid dream that I had last
night...I can remember it clearly not only because I
called Phil and described it to him almost as soon as I
woke up, but just because it was so crystal clear, that
even when I woke up I could lapse straight back into it. I
know that reading about other people's dreams is actually
quite boring (after all, it's your subconcious, who else
is going to be interested in that but you and your
psychiatrist?) but dreams often do have the power to
astound me. Don't you ever wake up thinking 'where did
that come from?' They might be easy to dismiss, because
yes, it's your brain going on a bit of a trip every night,
but that still means you have to have all these wierd
tangents of though stored away in your head that somehow
you connect up to each other. Everything that you dream
has to in some way relate to your own imagination, or
thoughts that have crossed your mind at somepoint, or you
wouldn't be able to dream them in the first place. I think
the best example to illustrate that is to say 'think of a
colour that doesn't exist.' You can't. It's impossible,
because your mind cannot possibly produce something it
hasn't encountered...I think it's the same kind of thing
with dreams. You rummage through your thoughts and come
accross things that you might not even be aware you have
thought of, but you have to have thought of it at some
point, or you wouldn't be able to produce it in your
sleep. Does that make sense?

Now before I begin talking about my dream, might I say
that I usually don't hold a lot of truck with dream
interpretation, but I thought I would look things up on
the internet relating to it, seeing as it was so
particularly vivid, so, the * additions are what I could
find:

So, I had a dream last night that I was in a supermarket
full of Raptors (Jurrassic Park stylee) that I was trying
to escape from (naturallY) so I ran outside into this dark
car park....

*If you are being chased, maybe you are running away from
or trying to escape those things that are frightening and
unpleasant (possibly your own habits and negative
behaviors).* Or maybe I am just terrified of being trapped
in Tesco's forevermore. Like my Dad, British supermarkets
give me the creeps.

.... I ran and ran and ran until I took off and I was
flying, much to my own surprise because I expected to fall
as I took off, but I didn't. I was quite good at flying.

*Dreaming that you are flying means a sense of freedom
where you had initially felt restricted and limited.*
Well. That's nice.

When I looked around, I realised that I was flying with
superman (cool!)

*Dreaming that you are a superhero indicates your above-
average talents, ideas, and abilities you may not realized
you possessed.* Well, sorry to break it, but I dont think
that I was Superman...we were just flying together, kinda
chilling. Maybe that means that someone else I know has
some hidden power. Like being able to bend spoons or
something...

It transpired that me and good old superman were flying
off to a swimming pool in order to stop a giant octopus
who was for some reason flailing around in there and
causing general havoc.

*You may say, "Who dreams of an octopus?" (Me: Er thanks.
I do) But people do, and a friend of mine did so just the
other night. If the dream make you happy, it implies that
you may be involved in many different activities or
adventures. If there is a negative emotional reaction to
the dream, it suggests that unhealthy attachments and
entanglements are present in daily life.* I take it sonce
this evil Octopus was getting down to some carnage and
chaos causing, that would make it negative. Spookily
accurate, because there is something that this weekend I
am going to have to get myself untangled from. Meh.

I tried to kill this Octopus by throwing a straw at it,
which actually went into its head, but no luck. The damn
thing lived on. At that point, something grabbed me from
the water (I should mention, not the Octopus. For some
reason he was sitting on the side of the swimming pool,
generally flailing about a lot) and pulled me uder the
water. I could see pretty clearly...which was nice. I
think that there were two people underneath me, pulling me
in. One was dressed in orange, and one was dressed in
blue. One was standing on the otherones shoulders. What
can I say? It was a deep pool...

*Dreaming that you are underwater, suggests that you are
feeling overcome with emotions and are in need of greater
control in your life. You may be in over your head
regarding some situation. Dreaming that you are breathing
underwater, represents a retreat back into the womb. You
want to return to a state where you were dependent and
free from responsibilities. Perhaps you are feeling
helpless, unable to fulfill your own needs and caring for
yourself. Alternatively, you may be submerged in your
emotions.* So really, I could either want to be a baby, or
I am being a baby. Couldn't find anything about people in
orange and blue though....

Anyway, I was forced to call for help from superman
underwater by the massive Octopus (I remember this very
clearly. The Octopus said 'What do you say now Miriam?'
And I yelled 'Somebody help me!' Considering Superman was
around, I thought it was a pretty safe bet) and I had to
do so from under water, by yelling through a massive
tubular device that reached the top.

* Dreaming that you are calling or signaling for help,
suggests that you are feeling lost, overwhelmed, and/or
inadequate.* Great.

However, yelling for help just so happened to be the
secret code signal that would bring the Octopuses crony,
genghis khan rolling along to the resuce, so he showed up,
all beardy and menacing, and I really thought at that
point, me and old superman were done for (unsuprisingly, I
couldn't find any special mention for genghis khan in a
dream dictionary.) Now, at this point, something really
wierd happened. Either I went back underwater again, and
when I came up everything had changed, or, I willed (as I
sometimes am able to do) for everything to change, and it
did. Because, the situation then changed from us both
about to die, to me being in a kind of darkened place with
superman, and he had made this massive candlelit dinner
for the both of us, and acted like he didn't know what I
was talking about when I asked him about octo boy and Mr
Khan.

*Dreaming that you are Seeing or eating dinner with others
means your acceptance or others, your interpersonal
relationships, and how you behave in your social life. It
is a time to reflect and share past experiences. It also
suggests that you see everyone as an equal.* Even superman?

Well, anyway. That dream might have continued on, but what
I can next remember is walking over planks, very high up
over the sea, attatched to a cliff face. And I know that
Harry Potter was involved. I think I was doing some sort
of challenge against him. It was tricky. Bit gutted I
couldnt find an interpretation for 'balancing on a plank.'
The scene switched at some point to a competition where
the aim was to shoot over a cereal box at close range
using a water pistol, but someone had sabotaged mine so
that it was on this useless diffuse spray. I righted it
back again, but I got disqulified. Poop. There was this
blond girl there who I was convinced had done it, and not
only that, but that she had stolen my glasses, my coat,
and er...something else. We had a massive cat fight, and I
was determined to kill her...that is, until someone came
up and made us make it up. In the dream though, that girl
was very evil, and picked on me for no good reason. Hmmph.
I decided to leave, and went back to my school, which
consisited of hunderds of escalators everywhere, criss
crossing, on different floors...just everywhere. I always
dream about escalators.

*Seeing an escalator in your dream indicates movement
between various levels of consciousness. If you are moving
up in the escalator, then it suggests that you are
addressing and confronting emotional issues. You are
moving through your spiritual journey with great progress
and ease. If you are going down the escalator, then it
implies repression and descent back into your unconscious.
It may be indication of a setback.* In this one, I was
going up. So yay.

I went up an escalator, and when I got to the top onto
this floor, Ondrej was coming up one on the other side,
and he gave me a piggy back to my room, where I found my
coat, but not my glasses. My own personal interpretation
of this would say that Ondrej is on my mind, and I have to
sort things out between us, and also that I really have
lost my glasses. Gutted.

Well, there we are.

I am going back to college at some point this weekend...I
think tomorrow. I really have to set things straight with
Ondrej....he has this wierd idea that I am his soulmate or
something, when he doesn't know me as well as he thinks,
and worse, he isn't interested in getting to know me. His
problem is that he is infatuated with the idea of having a
girlfriend, but not actually with me at all. I think he
will be quite upset, but there isn't really as far as I
can see that much to get upset about. We had what, 5 days
of a semi relationship? It isn't really time to be getting
emotional over it yet.
Sigh.
Having said that, I don't want to upset him. I like him a
lot, and always have, but now I realise more as a friend
than anything. Coming back here has made me realise that
when I am really interested in someone, I know
instantly...I just know. I don't have that with Ondrej. I
have a semi-confused 'it's a possibility' feeling. That
isn't good. I should *know.*

First driving lesson yesterday with father dear. He isn't
a bad teacher, but it isn't much fun. I'd prefer to lean
to drive with one of my friends - learning to drive with
Karolis would be completely hysterical, but then again, I
suppose that negates the point of learning to drive. I
should be taking it, ahem, seriously..

Long entry. All that dream crap I guess. At least I will
remember it now.

Love M




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