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"A good dream to start the day..."

...is hardly what I would call it.

Today has been one really depressing day for me. Without going into great deal about the whole day in this topic, I want to tell you all about this rather unusual dream I had. It is so unusual for me to even remember what happened for a moment in a dream, let alone remember a large portion of it.


I'm not sure how it started, but I know I was walking through what I associated with a local park (not the playground style park, more of a garden style). I recognised every part of it and my mind called it by the name of a park just 1/4 mile away from my home.

It was night time, and I seperated from Albinoman (note: My friend, not the character from the stories.) I headed for a stream and as I got there I could see a kid, aged around ten, with a gunshot wound to his upper right chest near his shoulder. He was floating down the stream on his back with his eyes open looking directly upwards with a scared look on his face. I didn't recognise his face.

I called for help as I pulled him out of the water and Albinoman came (after a short while). My instinct reaction was to help him so I took him to some kind of shelter and found a coat for him to keep him warm. Someone else (who I didn't even see in the dream - just knew it happened) called for an ambulance and then things seemed to change in the dream.

The boy wasn't in any pain, though the wound was still present. Suddenly the lights went off and windows smashed with single gun shots. I remember ducking and running to get the boy to safety, as if the boy was important for some reason. I remember running passed a bare wooden table with a matching chair and it seemed significant. Then the next thing I remember was being awake.

Anyone have any idea why this dream has been playing on my mind all day?

There are things I passionately want. Not like the want for a bar of chocolate, but real want.

I'd like to be able to change to get them, but know that unless a miracle happens, I can't.

I still want to be the same person though. I want to be the same but to have the changes needed to get what I want.

I probably do set up my own barriers, even if I don't realise it half of the time, so that analogy (is that the right word? I'm trying to sound clever :D) also seems accurate and relevant.

I remember something - a new dream I had a few weeks ago.
All I remember was that there was this girl, called Marlena (and I remember, because that's a pretty stupid name).

And she was perfect in every way.
Not perfect in a naughty way (it wasn't one of those dreams) but perfect as in perfect for me.

I remembered it for the next few days - her name kept popping into my head, and a grinned everytime it did. And I kept walking around College, listening out for the name.

Weird.

Also - there's this common theme in a lot of my dreams.
And I'm running. But I'm running really slowly (not walking, running slowly).
Now I'm a pretty decent sprinter, and I'm always thinking this in the dream. But it's like I can't remember how to run fast, or I just can't do it - but I'm running slowly, and there's a need to run quickly.

In the end I get annoyed, and stop running, and think about it - because I know I can go fast. Then I start up again, and I'm sprinting properly - and it feels really good. But very quickly, I forget, and I'm slowed right down again - like running through mud or something, but there's nothing there.

I suppose this is to do with me wanting to get somewhere quickly, but I can't - I have to take the slower route. Probably to do with my career.

You know the more your dreams involve sex the more sexually frustrated you are? Tell me, do you have a girlfriend? Boyfriend...he/shefriend?

I can usually tell when I'm dreaming, which means lots of Neo style slow motion, the ability to re-wind time and the knowledge that I can do anything I want, absolutely anything.

For some reason last night the prospect of my dad giving helicoptor lessons on Wednesday afternoons to my old school friends didn't seem too strange... Even the fit blonde from my school handing out Bounties didn't make me twig...

But the dream involved boobs, instantly making it one of my better dreams.

Edgy wrote:
> Probably didn't need you to quote all that mind :D
Well i did because i didnt come up wth much that i could repeat, and i'm sure there are some parts of what he has said i don't agree with.
>
> I was thinking whilst in work today that maybe the boy in my dream
> represented myself in some way.
Only you can know that, although the table would suggest otherwise.
>
> I often wonder how others percieve me and consider myself as a whole
> alien to me. I don't know what I look like. Sure, I can look in
> mirrors and see a reflection, but that isn't the same.
Maybe the problem is that you know what you want, and you want to be different, i find that when i look in the mirror it's because i'm looking for something i want that isnt there at the moment.
It's the point when you question yourself and who you are and what you want.
> But that's just a theory relating to insecurity.
We are at our most insecure when we want a change in our life.

Whenever there is a child that means a lot to you in a dream 90% of the time it represents a certain aspect of you that is trying to get noticed but you are ignoring. Is there anything in your life right now that you really want to do? or say? or anythign that you feel you can't do/say due to personal reasons? Not necessarily rules but barriers you have put up yourself. This child probably represents that. The fact it is wounded means it may be something you have said before/done before or at least tried but it failed. Your sub concious however is telling you that this is a time to acknowledge this desire and act upon it. Hope that helps Edgy:)

Probably didn't need you to quote all that mind :D

I was thinking whilst in work today that maybe the boy in my dream represented myself in some way.

I often wonder how others percieve me and consider myself as a whole alien to me. I don't know what I look like. Sure, I can look in mirrors and see a reflection, but that isn't the same.

But that's just a theory relating to insecurity.

Cub!st wrote:
> Right me an Flockhart have been discussing this dream on MSN and we
> think we have worked it all out. Hurrah! So here is a step by step
> readthrough of it.
Flockhart's bit
> The fact it is set in a football stadium despite us both hating
> football shows that I have preconcieved ideas about something in my
> life that I am yet to experience in full just like I hate football
> but haven't even watched a game the full way through.
Cubist's bit
> The other 2 guys in the dream were very attractive and the fact that
> they were "scoring" all the time in front of my nose with X
> there shows I doubt X's loyalty.
> The fact I was sitting with X shows that I want to be with X but the
> fact I wasn't up there playing the game begins to show that I have an
> inferiority complex. This is underlined by the fact that the other
> two guys were scoring all their goals with fancy acrobatic moves
> which I could not do. This is the biggest sign I have an inferiority
> complex. It is finally underlined by the fact that they were both
> more attractive than me.
>
> Basically. I don't think I'm good enough for X. This can also be seen
> when they come running back to see us but now I recall they were
> mainly smiling and talking to X and I was just there joining in.
> Nothing special just me, there having a laugh. I was certainly not
> portrayed in that dream as anything but a friend.
>
> I also remembered some things while talking to Flockhart which I
> thought may be important. I remember us all going there in a car. The
> car was a slightly darker than sky blue colour and since I was
> sitting in the front passenger seat and X was driving I thought that
> represented a sort of calm before the storm as those 2 guys were in
> the back seats like animals waiting to pounce. The colours of their
> football strips were horizontal stripes, white and orange and I think
> since Orange is quite vibrant colour, not easy on the eyes I thought
> that shows that I percieve them as some kind of threat. Especially
> since throughout my dream they are portrayed as practically perfect
> partners for X and they are always doing all this impressive stuff
> and then running up to smile and have a laugh about it with X.

Cubist had it pretty much worked out before i had said anything, although most of the stuff i said i can't repeat and can't be included.

I did, Christina. I just don't use it often.

I still think you should assign a name, even if it is a fake name, to X.

Believe me, its easier to percieve 'X' as a person, than as an "insert any name here"