Skeleton Crew / Transform Dreams

Skeleton Crew (last Wednesday)

Mars - visit, watch mix of people and biomech skeletons walking and carrying things from a mine and around to a waiting ship.

Transform (last night)

Room with people. Can change but not add objects. Fire escape stairs and ageing woman. Walking away and then find room in front again (twisted dimension)

Interpretations - short of staff at work, worked to the bone

Flooded cars and splifftastic

Dreams last Thursday evening.

First one - In Barry or somewhere similar and start walking along wide long road. Motorcycle stops and I jump on. Fast for moments and them he stops as ahead there are cars planted in the road and under a couple of feet of water. Drivers are weary, starving and begging. I start to walk to one but my companion stops me. We head on down the pavement.

Later I'm at a police station and infor the cops about the flooding. Also I warn them to stop short of the flooded area.

Meanings: flooding in UK. Article in following days paper

Second one - I'm at a house party are roll up a spliff. I remember smoking it and getting stoned but also worried about not having any. Then a group of us are watching a film on TV where people are coming up and touching each other. Instantly the person touched vapourises from head down in gue leaving nothing behind. Some just lose all their flash leaving a cartoon-like burned skeleton outline. The scene becomes large and takes in my full attention.

Cuboid tennis and laser direction

Over the last few nights I have slept with a light on. When I used a light in the bedroom it caused me to wake up frequently and give eye strain. With one on in the corridor I have found that I sleep better and it gives me bright colours in my dreams - usually bright blue or red.

For example, I had a science fiction dream where someone was suspended in a room with visually stunning bright red optial fibre cables emanating out from their body to the walls or linked to a machine that was out of sight. The person looked like a puppet and was being held or controlled by the lines and may have had energy extracted from them.

If I sleep in total darkness I tend to have a nightmare or wake up confused. Also I have noticed that my snoring has woken me up less in the last couple of weeks - I believe that may be stress related.

Cuboid Dream (11 Aug at about 2am)

I am with a friend at night walking through a marketplace. I think of an interesting game that involves an approximately 10 foot by 10 foot cube and 2 or 4 players that are using wireless controllers. They direct beams of bright blue light across the surface, capturing and directing them through the cube to each other. I want to have a go so we walk down to an enclosed area.

In the enclosed area are 4 people playing this game. They all look oriental and they appear to be very skillful perfoming squah-like moves. I notice also that the cube is rotating in another dimension each time the light hits a wall such that instead of rotating around a third axis in normal 3 dimensional space it updates the face through a fourth dimension (possibly time). Also, the light beams are at the edge of visual motion detection but are slowed down light (if a real source is used rather than a simulation). Without warning the people look over and leave the area and we move closer.

I also remember later on being in the future and shown a scene of people walking in a large city centre crowd. The view is 45 degrees overhead and it freezes. Then someone says that they are using a technology that I have forgotten but does not exist yet. I believe it relates to a quantum level communication/invisible device with a strange but surreally familiar name.

Interpretation - Lots of future stuff maybe related to my interest in science fiction and the latest Big Brother task. When I woke up I thought the game had potential as a computer game in VR using a more advanced version of the Wii controller.

Run around the toilets

This is a dream that a had a few days ago. It is one of a sequence of dreams about going to a club and talking to people/dancing. Some have the theme of being empty or full of people and many are of searching.

I am on the street in a city centre and go into a pub. At some point I am chased by police (or at least security) and run out, turn left and bomb it down the street. They are several metres behind me. Then I see an entrance to my left and run into it knowing that the police may follow and will know where I am going. It is another bar or club. I head straight into the toilets. I think it was the Ladies toilets. The toilets are linked in a maze or labyrinth and am soon in the male section. It looks more like a sports locker corridor but I feel saf for now. My pursuers would have trouble finding their way though the toilets.

Interpretation: Getting away from one thing and heading to another whilst attempting to lose the baggage. This could refer to my new job (escaping unemployment) or getting away from Lesley.

A Girl Called Smell

I am in a party and see a group of people standing a few feet in front of me. It is sometime in the evening. I see a cute plump goth girl with hair dyed red with some black. She is dressed in black and about 5 foot six with a well proportioned figure. I approach her and remember kissing passionately and doing other things I believe in front of everyone. She tells me her name is smell. Then a group of us - 2 girls and 2 guys head off to go to another party. I remember that I need to pack some stuff and put some boots on. I have trouble with tying the laces and they dissappear. I try to carry 3 large bags of luggage but only manage one.

Then I run around the centre of what looks like London Euston looking for them. I find them entering the station gates and then realise that I need to get the rest of the luggage. I turn back and look at the screens. It is now 3am and I am frightened that they have headed off and that my adandoned luggage has caused a security alert. I try to find a direct route but find each door in a corridor containing identical upwards staircases. I chose one and run. Then I'm outside the station and run across a pedestrianised area to find the luggage. This is when the dream ends.

Interpretations: Desire for friends, a partner and acceptance. My luggage gets bigger and heavier the more I dwell and think about it. This could be a metaphor for my life and not letting things go / leaving them behind (Lesley/over analysing things). I need to use my intuition more and not let the smallest of things stop me from getting to my goals. The name smell is from a film I watched a few weeks back.

Strange Happenings

I am travelling around several worlds in different ways. I remember waking up inside a large spaceship or cavern. Looking ahead I see my body laid in front - I think I was wearing a white top. I get up and approach the exit. Outside there is a blank vista like a desert. I walk a hundred metres or so away from here and look back. All I see is a large lenticular shape from a side profile with a small exit.

Then I find myself travelling with at least one companion down a series of underground tunnels and passages. This leads to an opening where I see a group of London underground style barriers and several dozen people behind them. They look over and the barriers open to let us in. There is a security guard behind us. I only move forward when he relaxes. Once I pass through the guard walks past and everyone appears friendly.

Interpretations: After an intense weekend of Harry Potter, paranoia, Lesley's vist and Dean's birthday I had to sleep a few hours more than normal. I believe that the dream and previous forgotten dreams earlier in the night reflect a transistion or rebirth from my unemployment and depressed phase to one of working and socialising. Things are coming my way but I need to work for them.

Chinese Dream and Various bits

During a lot of the last week I have had several bouts of interrupted sleep. These are full of fragments of dreams and uncomfortable body positions / snoring waking me up.

I remember a dream where I was on holiday accompanied by a young Chinese guy. We walked about streets and shopping centres. I cannot remember where we were but it was definately not in the UK. Also, he seemed to vanish a few minutes before the dream ended.

Last night I dreamed that I was back at work at Ordnance Survey. I was shown around the place and was surprised at how much it has changed - a lot more open plan than I remember. Then I am in a shared house talking to some people before realising that I am late for a meeting. Its 10pm but by the time a grab my things it may have been 10:30pm. Then I look left and see the clock saying 11:30pm. This appears to be a reflection through a picture in my Mum's livingroom in Barry. I look at my watch and it says 10:30pm.

Interpetations

Ordnance Survey indicates desire to get back to work and preferably work that is stimulating. Confusion over time appears to be an issue either with my sleeping or trying to find the time to do all the things that I need to do. Maybe I need to do on holiday too.

Call Centre Drawing / Swimming Dream

I'm in a training room for a new job at a call centre. There are several candidates around a large table in front of computer terminals. I sit down at the far end near the trainer. Someone opposite me is talking and the trainer asks him to leave. I assume that he is sacked on the spot.

Then we are given an exercise to draw a stick figure of the person to the left. We get up to get some paper and a pencil. All the pencils appear to be gone so I pick up what looks like a stick of charcoal. I sit down and have a brief look left. Then I start drawing. Instead of a stick figure I draw a rough outline of a person. Then I realise my mistake and start drawing a sketch of an upside down cat. It appears complete almost as quickly as I start. I look at it and feel good that I have drawn the cat so well. Yet is it not what was asked for.

Earlier on I was walking through a building to work. In front of me is a swimming pool wedged right up to the entrance and exit points. I jump in and swim over to the other side. On another occasion I somehow manage to cross without having to swim at all.

Interpretations - seeking work, bad memories of strict call centres, tendencies to be distracted and do more than or different to what is asked for. Also I feel that I need to exercise more.

Art Gallery mayhem

I arrive at an art gallery and believe it is near to the Interactive Arts degree show. I have dropped out of the course but at the same time have something to show. I cannot be bothered looking for a reserved space because I cannot be bothered to look. There are other students/artists putting finishing off work. I stop by a display and start putting up small stickers in a random pattern around a corner of one of the displays. I look left and can hear and intuitively see that the display to my left is based on 2001 the film with astronauts and spacecraft.

I have a square cut from A4 size paper and open it out to see a pattern drawn around the corners creating sections of a flattened mobius strip. However two of the curves are the wrong way around. Maybe its this that is creating the illusion of an extra twist. This I begin to place at the edge of the space display. I know that I'm using someone else's space and interfering with their artwork but go ahead with this anyway.

I also remember a dream where I have an argument with my Mum (forgotten the content). She walks out of the room. I apologise quietly and then next time I see her I see that she does not look like the Mum I remember. She is younger, with thicker hair and more forgiving.

Interpretations - I'm trying to overcome laziness. I am trying to get noticed (the art) and am using methods that are too sneaky for real life. This indicates that I need to get myself out there and may need to use methods that may upset other people or delight them. Things may not work smoothly but this dream indicates the requirement for effort and creativity.

Bath Shower woman dream

I am having a shower in a flat or house. I can hear other people at a distance. I turn the shower on and then look over only to find a beautiful naked woman sharing the shower with me. We are both standing up. She has a latin complexion and is very curvy and tall. During the dream her hair changes from long to short (almost crew cut) and when I look away she dissapears only to reappear again. I think I'm going insane. We shower each other and then I hear a shout. She vanishes for a final time.

Then I see there are two sets of taps at each end of the bath and two shower tubes attached squirting water at high pressure onto the inside floor of the bath. I try to turn one off only to put it on full. The water level immediately flows above the overflow and I hear a shout outside. Fiddling with the shower hoses I turn one off only to find the other very hot. Lifting my feet from the bath basin I manage to avoid the hot hose and turn the other taps off.

Dealing with hot water - situation with money and jobs. I feel great when I wake up.

Captain Jack Dreams

I had a series of dreams last night where I was either the character Captain Jack (from Doctor Who / Torchwood) are close to him. On most occasions I was running with him or doing things in dangerous situations. I woke up several times with little sleep between 6 and 8am and felt refreshed and unbeatable (the last occasion about 11am). There was one dream I found interesting:

I am following Captain Jack into a dark room, possibly an empty nightclub. Then I see him become trapped in a web of long thin strands truncating at a vanishing point or singularity in the middle of the room. The web appears from nowhere and only covers the quadrant we are in. I run towards him but the closer I get the tighter the web gets until I am also trapped. The threads are like steel yet are white and thin. They are very tight and are thicker over my face and upper body. Also there is this smell coming from the threads like electricity. It is unpleasant and energy sapping.

I also remember Freddy Kruger appearing as a small puppet doing little in an earlier dream.

Dual Perspectives

This is part of a dream that I had about a week ago.

I'm indoors watching a virtual projection of someone performing a stunt from 2 small platforms (like diving boards) that are set at impossible angles and indeterminate distance from each other. The scene is too small so I zoom in and in the process become the person performing the stunt. This is occuring outdoors above a tall building whilst my body is inside and sat down.

By concentrating I slow down time and performing the twisting stunt as if in slow motion. At several points divided into fractions of a second my viewpoint switches from participant to observer and I get the feeling that I'm driving two bodies (people) simultaneously. Yet I can also detect the shifts of perception of parallel processing as discrete but very small moments of time.

Eventually I direct the jumping stunt from point 1 to point 2 in space and relax in my chair. I am aware that other people are present too.

Tennant and red sunrise

I am sharing a hotel suite with David Tennant. Also, see a sunrise with light showing luminous red spheres on wall. Intensely brilliant and beutiful. Reach for camera but find battery low and light fades.

Also, I'm packing my bag in Barry. Borrow art and photocopy / see two sheets that I have forgotten so put them back in bag. Linear cafeteria area and sit to eat - then realise bag gone - stolen. Seek manager but end up in union with plastic wall in way. See manager inside. Open door and realise it is ents manager and whole room folds out losing its roof. Now day rather than night and walk around - eating area now outside.

Dreams 30/3/07 & 31/3/07

30/03/07 - Dimensional Shift Mushroom Trip

I am in a room with a group of other people at a party. Someone offers me some mexican mushrooms. I take them quickly without seeing the mushrooms themselves. Immediately the room expands and pulses with energy and things shift. Colours become more vivid, especially blues and reds and objects gain a shifting almost Picasso-esque quality.

Then everything changes and a new scene pops in. This is of a natural environment where I am walking through a forest at night. Points of light shed brilliant and bright colours and as I roam around I feel a sense of peace and tranquility. There is no time and my consciousness is embedded in eternity. All around me the trees and lights pulse with energy as I walk and it feels like a real and very potent trip.

Then I wake up, turn over and go back to sleep. I attempt to return to the dream. However, when I think that I am back there a bright red blazing neon African style icon of a man or deity fills my vision and my dream is terminated.

Meanings: Getting out of reality/exploring dimensions. Later on I call someone whom I have not been able to contact for a while and am invited to a party next weekend.

31/03/07 - Ageing Perspective Shift

I am in a building and feel that I am getting old. Physically, I age faster and ask a scientist (or shaman) if there is any way of stopping this. He gives me a couple of balls of gloopy gel and tells me to wait until I am about to die to beome younger. Then I realise that I am a woman and get older very fast. I ask what I would be like he tells me I would look like the moment he handed the gel to me. Oh no I think I don't want to be a 60 year old woman with short greying hair. Also, I could keep doing this. Then I feel that I do not want to become another Lumic (and my brain in Cyber body showing immortality momentarity enters my mind).

Its time and cupping the gel in my hands he leads me through a kind of theatre and I follow across pews of chairs. There are people there and one shouts and tries to stop me. It is hard keeping the gel in my hands. Trying to run with a frail body I ignore this and find that we need to descend a steep spiralling staircase to darkness. After stepping down one step we enter a hallway and with the last of my energy I lurch forward and touch a bright blue energy light in front of me. I feel 100 and as soon as my gel touched the light I die. I wake up.

Then I go back to sleep and find myself detaching from a male body like the one I had originally in the dream. This is on a spaceship. My consciousness moves away to a screen and I see in horror as everything is burned by radiation and cannot bear to look back. I run around the room (now large like a hall) avoiding the screen. I know the man, now given a name like a creature, is alive but grossly disfigured. The show ends and a preview of the next show is on. I realise that I am female again and end up in a bedroom like mine at my Mum's in Barry.

Meanings: Triggered by Star Trek : Metamorphosis (about Cochrane and The Companion) that I watched just before going to bed. Also Lazarus experiment (new Doctor Who). Interesting how my mind shifted between male, female and without body.

Ageing and strange sex

I'm with group of people in a room all ageing rapidly and I decide to leave and force my body to become younger. Then I wonder around complex hoping to not find skeletons.

Now I'm with group in some sort of orgy. A woman's head becomes shaven with enlarged cranium and I see profile of penis as she bends down beneath me.

Floating Chair Dream

I am with a group of people in a lengthy process of transfer within a building. This may be an airport or at a museum. After going up or down an elevator for a seeming eternity, I am second out following a woman. We enter a very large room at the right (over 50 foot long and 30 wide) and I see the lady sit in a chair which then moves forward by itself. I sit in the second chair and belts strap me down. It moves forward and sideways then up a little. It propels me slowly around a loop in the room and raises 3-4 feet off the ground.

When the hovering chair takes me near the window it turns and something cuts through the wall in two places. I turn to look and there is a fine incision straight through the brick wall. There is no cracking or structural damage. The chair then takes me to the door at the end (top right of room). I look back and the other people are only just entering the room. I realise that we have a long time to wait before we can proceed further.

Interpretation

Taking things to easy - transport without effort and nothing done. Cuts in wall show how little achieved and the whole process slow and methodical with no result in sight (just like my job hunting).

Queen wasp and sex in the toilet

I am in a very large boardroom that is in a poor state of repair with gaps and cracks in the walls. There is a large (at least 10 by 5 metre table) in the centre. Various people are sat abound it. I am standing up and hear a buzzing sound. I look over to the window and see a massive wasp (with amber markings) enter through a large gap sitting directly on top of the window. It is at least double the normal size and bigger than a bumble bee. Oh no it is a queen wasp looking for a nest. Someone gets up and soes it away and opens the window to push it out. It gets angry and tries to get in through the window gap. Buzzing loudly it drunkenly enters and then shoots at the group around the table. I run for the door as people start to get up.

Then I'm inside a call centre and look around the desks. I am sat at one side and look over to my manager - a very pretty tall woman with a young plump face and curved nose. She is very tall and quite slim but with a good figure. Her hair is long and fair and reminds me of a call centre manager I used to fancy. She gets up and heads for the door to go to the loo. I decide to follow her out and walk out of the room.

I stand outside the toilets and find her sighing as if having sex. However, when I enter the toilet I find it empty and realise that the Ladies is downstairs. I run down and bust in. There is no floor. I realise this is a dream and see her on the toilet several feet below and to my right. I walk in the air and down towards her.

Then the scene jumps to her leaving the building after work (I run out and she has gone). Finally, I witness her having sex laying on top of someone (maybe on the floor in the office). All I can see is her legs and hips. With pants on she makes a thrusting motion with her hips and is groaning in ecstacy.

Comments: triggered by assessment yesterday, the woman looks like someone I worked with before, I felt turned on during and after the dream but frustrated that the lucidity dissappeared as soon as my sexual urge took over. This caused the jumping of the dream.

Dreamquakes and False Awakenings

I went to bed to get a couple of hours of kip in the evening. During this time I woke up several times and some of these times I woke up in other dreams rather tha in my bed at home. I remember a silver and gold bracelet with little blubs around it and belonging to a friend. Later I fished this out of a toilet in a house but the bracelet appeared to be a slimy stinking skin like that of a snake or lizard. I spent a few minutes analysing this before placing it into the bin.

Then I am inside my place but it is not anywhere that I have lived before. There are two rooms and I can hear the TV on in the more spacious livingroom when I sit in the bedroom. I look above my bed and see a crowd of fractal posters half hanging from the walls around my bed. I am annoyed at this disarray and rip off the left most one before it falls on top of me. I screw it up and place in the bin in the corridor.

Next I am at my Mum's place (too early for Easter I recall) and realise that the TV is an old brown 1950s cabinet without any features but the 14 inch screen at the centre is in colour. I ask her about this and she says it that her usual TV has gone. This reminds me of several devices of my own that have broken or are nearly breaking.

Now I am in a friend's place but there are stands of coathangers and unopened boxes all over the L-shaped flat. We sit on a sofa but I cannot get comfortable with all this stuff hanging around me. The I wake up very tired and rubbing my eyes I run into the livingroom. I am stunned because everything except the TV (which is on) has been stolen and the large window is wide open. This is the same flat that I was taking the poster down earlier. Then I wake up for real!

Comments: I left TV on in lounge in my flat, worry about finances and not able to pay rent, fear of moving or/and sorting out and having to sell things, TV at Mum's like one seen in Doctor Who, dream stitching and nesting like portals or dimensions in reality punched through by my mind (What the Bleep do we Know?!) BTW I left TV on in my flat.

Bleak locations

I remember living in a different place and there was a large, very bare and bleak reception area to the block of flats. There was one old style dial-phone by one pillar and nothing except a staircase to the rear. The whole pace was about 20 foot by 15 foot in size, felt cold and unsettling in that it would have been easy for drug addicts to take residence there. I believe my place was upstairs although it looked like nothing I had seen before.

Interpretation: Current situation with debt, undefined direction, jobless, depressed

Weird Sensations and Crawling Skin

Last night straight after dropping off to sleep (at 1:30am) and having a brief fragmentary dream, I woke up on my left side with bodily spasms (like my body was afraid but not my mind). This was about 2am. Then I felt my hair and my face prickle and crawl and like nothing I have felt before (and somewhat like how I would imagine shapeshifting to feel like). Assuming it to be lice or mites I switched the pillows. It continued and my senses became very aware of the wind and rain outside thinking it could be somehow alien like invasion of the body snatchers (I was thinking about aliens before I went to sleep). Then I got up and turned the light on. There was nothing on the bed and the sensations stopped. I stayed up for a few minutes before returning to bed without having any further problems.

Although I have had a few occasions in the last few months where I have woken up and had trouble sleeping it is only the third time that I woke up feeling like I was infested with bugs and the first with the facial skin crawl. Last evening (Saturday) I did watch Star Trek Undiscovered country with a shapeshifting alien and was thinking about falling in love with an alien. Also, in the past on several occasions I have felt that some entity or entities was trying to poke into my mind within a dream (or at least making the dream very uncomfortable).

In the last couple of weeks I have had several dreams including one involving Lesley, another on the recurring theme of missing exams and another getting erotic with a very tall young woman that I met in the dream.