I'VE SPENT FAR TOO LONG SLEEPING the last couple of nights and had some horrible dreams.
On Tuesday night I was at my childhood home. People were poking round the house - househunting - because it was on sale. I had a secret key and so furtively slipping it in the lock I sneaked upstairs. Because I was so badly constipated I had to use the loo, which was suddenly en-suite to my parents' old bedroom. All straining to get this done then - wahey! - out pops a dead BABY! It was lying in the toilet water dead-eyed, like an old doll. At this moment the house hunters came into the room. "I've just had a baby!" I exclaimed. "Let's see!" they demanded but I'd already flushed the toilet... then I had to run away because everyone was after me on an alleged murder charge...
Wednesday night I lay down around 7pm because I was so exhausted. Sleep overtook me so powerfully I did not rise until 9am - 14 hours! I dreamt I was addicted to drugs abroad and a fat police inspector kept coming in threatening to search the place. I could never find anywhere good enough to hide my stash. So in the end I found myself on the run throughout a suddenly British countryside although the dream had commenced in South East Asia ... nearly got caught several times then flew upstairs over a grocery shop ... and suddenly all was forgiven and the dream ended ...
Now I feel really unfit and unhealthy and my life is a mess and I'm sinking in the morass. I could do with going to bed again but have an appointment and so can't... I can't cope with this ...
... oh, and I'm not dreaming any more ...
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Video of the day:
Jammi Jammi ~ A German person's parrots (gorgeous ones at that...)
Does anyone know what the one on freezeframe and the blue one just like it are called? They are beautiful birds. Just a bit bigger than lovebirds... (far as I can see...)
I can see why you find those little robos so cute and they are fast, they must run on nervous energy or something.
ReplyDeleteAll this sleeping and nightmare dreams, I'm starting to think your landlord is pumping gas through the floorboards or something.
... you had me laughing over your comment - mix-up-my-toes-es .... very witty *!*
;->...
ReplyDeleteI'm not a fan of dreaming. When I have really detailed, energetic dreams i always wake feeling so exhuasted.
ReplyDeleteYou can cope, (Bother, I've got baked bean juice on my keyboard!) Gleds, and you will.
ReplyDeleteBattle on. The bad dreams distributors must have been (and now my keyboard is all sticky) out in force last night: I had a really weird dream too. Quite disturbing and involved having to run away and try to hide.
Steph: I woke feeling exhausted, too
ReplyDeleteLiz: get those bloody baked beans off your keyboard they will cause havoc!
We probably got sprinkled with stardust from the same Judderman's pot ..(!!)..
Note to self: Olivia Goldsmith, author First Wives Club, died of plastic surgery complications.
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http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_9852/
I LOVE how you've cleaned the blog of too many videos and just have one featured on top! Really great.
ReplyDeleteI too had an odd dream, almost funny. I was calling my friend in Germany and I could hear his phone ringing and he wasn't picking it up and his ring tone was the starting music of a Eurovision broadcast!
its been awhile since i've stopped by! Haven't been around much on blog world recently. Have no time it seems.
ReplyDeleteThose are some crazy dreams u have going there! It is weird how things in life translate into dreams
Hi Gleds, Thanks for continuing to drop by even though I'm rather lax at blogvisiting/commenting myself at the moment :o( Loved your sociological thought that money DOES grow on trees :o) Strange dreams you've been having...try googling for some Dream Interpretation sites...maybe your dreams are trying to send you a message. I dreamt that all the college students were dressed up as Nazis..obviously all the 1930's German "stuff" we're learning in History is playing on my mind!
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Yes, Nicole: I too got bored of ceaseless "waiting to load" Lionel Richie tunes, etc... (ooo I've not posted up Lionel Richie - what a thought (!!))
ReplyDeleteNaomi: Where have you been? Have you stopped eating swines? I keep miniswines as pets: that is cannibalism!
As for dreams: yes I know the prison themes translate into addiction: as for the rest of it; I'm not sure...
Ruth: yes money definitely DOES start with the value of food (which grows on trees) ... what else could it be based on...
I will have a look at those dream sites a bit later...
but ME giving birth to a dead doll? What on EARTH does that mean~?!?
You should tell the trees thing to the sociology lecturer and see how intellectual they think I am... as that is my pet economic theory (haha!)
ReplyDeleteMy sleeping best was 22 hours.
ReplyDeleteOrdinarily I am a big interpreter of dreams, amateur style. But this one is beyond my means! None-the-less, dreams, I believe, are key pieces of information. I have read that we do not have nightmares we cannot handle and that\ when we do they are generally couched between less nightmarish ones so as not to overload the psyche. Is this of any comfort? Probably not. But I do wish you well.
ReplyDeleteWhy wont you allow me to help you brother?
ReplyDeleteRopinator: how did you manage that? Had you just come back from a long journey? Or been somewhere? Or been ill? 22 hours=longLONG time!
ReplyDeleteIan: how CAN you help me?
I was talking about this in the drugs clinic today - about how, on television, in newspapers people talk about addicts "getting help" - but the only real help you can get is from yourself, to yourself, help yourself. Other people can provide rooms and baths and meals on schedule but there's little else they can do for you....
Though I do appreciate the offer.
Wayward: what about the baby dream?
ReplyDeleteThe "on drugs abroad" dream to me quite literally represents my fear of going away clean and getting addicted again in an unsafe South-East Asian country...
The giving birth to a dead baby (totally unexpectedly I only thought I was constipated) then being chased for murder when innocently having flushed it... that represents being falsely accused, or the trumped-up charges and the consequences of being persecuted for "mistakes" you quite innocently did wrong... sorry I can't be more specific than that...
Hey Glads,
ReplyDeletedive out of that morass!
There is wonderful life just for you!
:)
Linds has very vivid dreams and tells me about them. I feel very left out because I rarely dream at all. I worry in my sleep...seriously, I wake up worrying. It's an immediate thing.
ReplyDeleteI'd much rather dream, although the bizarre dreams that you and Linds describe have me rethinking that.
oh, and Linds just bought two dream interpretation books today after school. I'll look yours up when she's finished with them.
ReplyDeleteCalista: actually I'm thinking of doing a little straining to break free as of TOMORROW ;->...
ReplyDeleteDebs: well the constipation dream came true already... I think the dreams partly involve unintended consequences causing trouble... eg the crime of "murder" by flushing the child that I had assumed was dead, it wasn't my intention to harm anyone... the drugs in SE Asia I only ever would go there if I thought I could stay well and truly CLEAN...
Love Pet shop boys!!!
ReplyDeleteThere was a time a few years ago when I thought they were really outdated or not with it... I just think I had disappeared up my own arse though, to be honest...
ReplyDeleteThey've done a LOT of good tunes... and not vanished either...
It's difficult for me to think of dreams as being literal in their messages—too much that does not make sense.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the dead baby represents heroin because it is in you and it is death for you. Sorry to be so blunt that way but this is not something you do not know and I am a crass American after all! And it does not have to be the death of your body but the death of all that you might otherwise be. I mean it is no secret as to your highly evolved intelligence. drugs have to have had a hampering effect on your self expression (I may be projecting here because this is very much how i feel about my own addiction issues) The constipation might be representative of the difficulty in ridding yourself of your addiction.
Possibly the dead baby in your parents loo might also represent the you that died when addiction took hold. the law in SE Asia or anywhere in the East for that matter, is very cut and dry in terms of using illicit drugs. if one were to correlate good and bad (as in good for you, bad for you—not a moral judgment) to lawful and unlawful, the SE Asia aspect of your dream makes more sense to me.
None of these are pleasant thoughts but then they are not literal translations. Some experts (a debatable term) say dreams are our inner self trying to make sense of our temporal existence, hence the zany symbolism. After all, we dream in images and not words, making translation a bit more theoretical.
I did look up some stuff on the Web of which there is plenty and it is ALL fascinating. There are exercises in how to remember your dreams as well as how to dream lucidly—that is to have less surreal dreams to interpret. One site went as far as to say "Having Nightmares? Lucky you!" meaning that nightmares can be especially telling and very helpful in that way. It's all in a Google search for dream interpretation.
Best, WS
I'm a bit confused about the dream... I thought the "crime" of flushing the baby was more important than the baby itself... maybe i was wrong and maybe it does represent my habit after all a baby is something one nurtures just like an addiction...
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