Dream of the Day

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The earthquake dream, with buildings toppling, usually with me in one.

[DrewC]

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The earthquake dream, with buildings toppling, usually with me in one.

Yeah, I also have that one once in a while too.

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@DrewC

Does anyone else have recurring dreams?

My recurring dream is some variation of not being able to complete my engineering degree. Running around campus lost during finals week, not completing a class needed for graduation, skipping too many classes for a particular course and the prof is getting ready to fail me, etc. I can’t remember the different variations, but I always wake up relieved that I finished that degree years ago. I went back to school to get the degree and it took everything I had to complete it.

[yyy]

What did you feel was “raining down on you” this past summer? Was it really so dangerous as missiles?

[yyy]

@DrewC

Does anyone else have recurring dreams? At least a couple times a month I dream that I’ve forgotten to teach a class the whole semester and now I’m in serious trouble with my school. A variation is that I’m back at uni and have forgotten to attend a class the whole semester, but as I’ve gotten older the teaching version has become much more common.

Oh, absolutely! The school dream in adulthood is one of the most common among species who both dream and go to school. The number of times I’ve freaked out, waking up thinking “what time does the warp express to Rigel IV leave and where did I put my notes on the history of the quantum defraculation industry?!” because I think I have an exam the same day…

The usual diagnosis is “you feel there’s an important lesson you’re somehow not learning” or “you’re worried about not ‘making the grade’” or something along those lines.

If you’re the teacher, then it may mean you feel like you’re failing as a parent.

[yyy]

@volv1992

Being delighted at the birth of my first child and then waking up before I can see it (I don’t have kids, the waking up part is a bit brutal)

Sounds like your biological clock is trying to bop you on the head!

[yyy]

@volv1992

A friend and I were on the lower deck of a ship, with screaming passengers running around us due to the 007 character Jaws chasing us slowly with murderous intent. The two of us were shouting to the other passengers to get behind us as we deployed a flamethrower on our predator. His Jaws-self was vaporised, aside from his brain, which continued on its slow path towards inflicting pain. The floating brain then noticed another entity in the room, some jellyfish-like spirit which had a harmless soul but actually had control of a devastating weapon which was one of its organs. The brain drifted over towards the entity and fused with its jelly-like substance, taking control of its weapon.

I awoke at this point, exclaiming to my sleeping neighbours “God help us all!”

That’s a very interesting one. You probably know Jaws from one or both of his big screen appearances in the 70’s, but you may know him from other contexts too. Your brain may also be conflating him with the famous shark (particularly since you’re thinking of another sea creature here).

So the analysis depends on which iteration(s) of the character you know, which one(s) you were thinking about most reccently for whatever reason, and how the jellyfish image got mixed in, among other things. (That part actually brings Robocop 2 to mind – if you’ve seen it, you’ll know which scene I mean…)

If you only know the big screen Jaws, (spoiler of the ending of Moonraker) consider this before you abandon all hope: in the end he switches sides and helps Bond defeat the supervillain, saving humanity. Why? Because Bond helped him realize that the supervillain was basically a Nazi who was going to kill both him and his very different looking girlfriend as soon as he had no further need for their services, i.e. there was no room in the madman’s world for their individuality. So my best guess is, you and your friend are being chased not so much by a person as by the uniqueness of someone, and your instinct is to fight it if you can’t escape it, but if you try to destroy it it will turn on you and perhaps destroy you, when instead you could harness its power to help yourself and others.

[volv1992]

@yyy

(That part actually brings Robocop 2 to mind – if you’ve seen it, you’ll know which scene I mean…)

Cain’s scene? Challenging wank, that one, but yes, the premise of the entity was similar.

Yes, with several months of hindsight, one could represent the entity as a certain restlessness, an unfulfilled purpose at the time which was heading to consume me.

Since then, it has taken over and I’ve moved house and changed careers again (probably to my detriment, ultimately) so for now the jellyfish Cain wank brain entity is appeased and I’m at peace until I start having the other dream again about having a baby with some fucking narcissist from my past.

[yyy]

Oh boy. Best of luck then!