This One Is Easy To Interpret - jen.

Mom, Dad, Lydia, Rowan and I are driving Molly to her first day of high school in Oakland. We aren't sure which school or where it is, so we just drive around until we find one. We drop her off and tell her to go inside and ask if it is the right school. We plan to wait at the curb, but then realize it is a 'No Parking' zone. We circle the block intending to come right back for her. The block turns out to be huge, with tons of kids walking the sidewalks. We notice there are several schools all in the same area. Molly is nowhere to be found when we finally get back to our starting point. We all get out and start asking people if they've seen her. Since she is new and no one knows her the only thing we can say is, "Have you seen a girl in a big, red coat?" No one seems to have seen her. We never find her.

Here Comes Trouble

We were swimming, vacationing perhaps. Lots of kids in the pool, women gossiping, men being manly. There was food, beer, sun. Collin was big, maybe 4 or 5. He was skinny as a rail, swimming like a fish, yelling and screaming and laughing. Splashing all the girls, running around like a total terror.

(am I seeing the future?)

Gordon Ramsay Loves Me

From the moment he saw me board the train, he was smitten. His heart skipped a beat as I took the seat next to him.

He started a conversation with me and when he discovered I was on my way to my job as a sous chef, he knew our destinies were entwined.

He begged me to quit my job immediately and come to work for him. I laughed charmingly and refused. When my stop came, I got off the train despite his pleading.

A final look back changed my mind in an instant. This passionate man wanted me much too much for me to refuse him. I got back on the train and fell into his arms.

The other women at his restaurant didn't like me one bit. They were jealous of his obvious favoritism. But I soon won them over with my wit and friendliness. They came to love me just as much as Gordon, and I was the pet of the restaurant.

Gordon was so impressed with my skills as a sous chef, that he arranged for me to work assisting a challenger on Iron Chef. Our appearance caused such an uproar, though that the show couldn't complete taping. We were forced to run from the studio, hand in hand.

Later, Gordon insisted in taking me to my high school reunion. We made a sensational entrance and were the most popular couple at the party. We watched the alumni potato sack race, then went to the dance in the gym. Gordon couldn't take his eyes off of me. We slow danced every dance. He held me up off the ground and stared deeply into my eyes the entire time.

Wedding Bells

Here is a funny one, however it was incredibly stressful when I was actually having the dream.

So Matt and I wanted to get married but we had some specific number of people that we couldn't go over. I believe the number was 27 people. We kept talking about who could come and I was stressed because in the dream Matt and myself weren't even able to invite all our family. We also couldn't invite any friends haha.

The cool part was we were going to Sedona to have the wedding and I saw the set-up which was pretty cute. It was in the back of this hotel with fountains and grass and the red mountains.

I told Matt about the dream and he laughed. I think he underestimated the stressfulness. :p

I had a dream!!

So I had this dream that I was having tons of people at my house (but it wasn't my house) and there was no toilet paper cause it had fallen into the shower that had disgusting green stuff coming out of the drain...the kids kept tearing stuff apart while I was trying to get ready for something...not sure what...and Joann Renard kept telling me that Matt needed to go back to college and get his degree so that he could help me out instead of doing his current job, I kept telling her that he needed to keep his job cause it was a great one and that he wasn't going to go back to DeVry cause they were a rip off. Is this a dream or a nightmare???

33 Stories

Had a nightmare. I was climbing the steps inside a huge circular tower. There was a rope tied around my waist and the other end was tied to one of my girls ( I don't know which one). Somehow the rope came undone and the child dropped...landing miraculously 33 stories below but unharmed. I was hysterical for the rest of the dream, crying, wailing, telling everyone that I had dropped my daughter 33 stories.

Hablar en Sueños - Rowan

My talented three year old speaks Spanish in her sleep!

Last night she kept repeating, "Mariposa, mariposa" (butterfly)

When she woke up, she thought it was really funny!

Sleep, What's That? - jen.

The things I have done since 4:30 this morning when I woke up & could not get back to sleep.

1. Steamed the kitchen floor.
2. Emailed my friend Sandy.
3. Cried about Proposition 8.
4. Watched an entire Ben Folds Five reunion concert online.
5. Ate a bowl of cereal.
6. Browsed my high school on MySpace.
7. Emailed a high school friend I have not spoken to in 15 years.
8. Cleaned the kitchen counters & table.
9. Loaded and ran the diswasher.
10. Pruned a plant.
11. Wrote this blog.

It is now 7:26am.

Sleep = dreams! (Susie)

I am finding that without sleep I have nothing to write on this blog....so I will tell you about a nightmare that I had quite a bit when we first moved into our current house!
There used to be a mailbox on the corner next to Aunt Fannies (which is the fish restaurant now) It was actually a drop box for the mailman, and you couldn't put mail into it... Anyway...my dream was that I was chained to it and couldn't get away when I was being chased by a lion or tiger...I would have this dream quite often...I rememer waking up quite terrified after this dream!!! That is my contribution!!!!

Surprise- Melissa

Big surprise...last night (in my five minutes of sleep) I dreamed about slumber parties full of zillions of little girls!

Fast Times at Bathroom High - jen.

I have been sent back to high school. It is overcrowded, dismal and dirty. Beds have been set up in the bathrooms because there are no desks or classrooms left for all the students. Of course, I am in one of these bath/classrooms and I have to go. After I relieve myself on the jagged edge of a seatless toilet, I climb into a bed and pull the covers up.

Just then a former "client" of mine walks in. She climbs into bed with me.

Let me step out of my dream for a moment to tell you about this woman. She has been in the mental health care system for decades. I would guess she is nearing 60 years of age. She is always disheveled and talks very quietly so you have to get close to her to hear anything. If she calls you a dirty, stinking whore, you know she likes you. If she does not like you, she will spread stories of how you beat and mistreat her. She yells loudly in the halls at anyone and everyone. She was always one of my favorite people to spend time with. Actually, she was a favorite of many people in the facility.

Back to the dream.

She climbs into bed with me and yells randomly at the other people in the bathroom. We talk a bit, with our heads close together, then she leaves. When she is gone, I begin yelling at the people around me without reason. I don't realize what I am doing until one of them says, "You sound just like her!"

I yell back, " I have had two husbands, three children and I am pregnant with the fourth! I can yell at whoever I want to!"

End of dream.

Jumbled Dreams- Melissa

I have been having all sorts of weird jumbled dreams:

In one I had to go back to work for AB (I think Mike and I were divorced) and ended up as an assistant in Eureka. All these guys from high school kept coming in to tell me they had always been in love with me. (Yuck)

In another I was at M trying to sell a gift card and the computer would not work. It kept freezing up. I was so stressed about it I just started giving the woman bags full of stuff so she would not be mad.

Also had one where Katie, Tricia and I were getting ready to go somewhere. We were at Tricia's house and she had a closet as big as my bedroom. She would not let me use her razor to shave my legs and I was really mad at her. She just would not share! (this is pretty funny, I have never known Tricia to be selfish about anything)

Had one with Anita, she was sobbing, upset about something someone had said to her...never did figure out what it was.

All I remember dreaming about last night was an art project I was trying to prep for. It was a pirate ship with waves in the back ground and the kids made their own designs on the sails. We also made a bunch of gold coins in a treasure box. The coins had their different spelling words on them and I made the kids chant how to spell each word.

The funny thing however is that Matt had a conversation with me when I was sleeping. He tells me it went something like this:

Me: Matt, I like your phone.

Matt: Oh, yeah? Well you can borrow it anytime you like.

Me: Don't be silly. It's old.

Matt: What does my phone look like?

Me: It's antique.

I guess I also told him it was brass, and had things on it. I don't remember telling him this! Haha

Me - Pregnant???? Susie

I dreamed this morning that I was very tired and the reason was that I was pregnant...
I did wake up tired but NOT pregnant!!! Just too much exersize if that is possible!!!

Shoeless and Stealing Horses

The beginning of my dream is quite hazy. My real memory of it begins here...

Most of the family is there. Me and my kids, Mom & Dad, Melissa & her kids, Grandma Judy & Grandpa Floyd. We all pile into Mom's SUV to drive 1/2 a block to the Mexican restaurant. As we get out, I realize that Melissa, Grandma and I have forgotten to wear shoes. We decide not to say anything, hoping no one will notice.

The restaurant is packed. As we walk through the restaurant and to the covered patio in back, we wait for our shoelessness to be discovered by another customer or waitress. Once we reach our booth next to a window (patio with windows and booths?) , we feel safe.

The dream gets a bit fuzzy here. The next thing I remember is....

I look out the window and see dark-skinned men herding ponies, horses and bison through a marshy stream. The banks of the stream are lush and green. The animals don't seem to be enjoying their wade through the chest-deep water. The men are throwing large rocks at them to keep them there. I run out the back door of the restaurant and begin yelling at the men. They seem afraid of me and hide behind some dilapidated barns.

While they are gone, I grab a pony around the neck and drag it out of the water. I do this a few more times until all the animals seem to understand it is okay to come out.

I start running. I lead the animals through the barns. But the men have not actually run away in fear. They have been digging huge pits to trap the horses, ponies & bison! I try to guide them around the pits.........

The dream goes fuzzy again. I don't remember any more.

The second part of the dream is easy for me to figure out. I have been greatly disturbed by all the Proposition 2 propoganda. I hate seeing the commercials on television and getting the chain emails that depict abused and mistreated animals. Of course, I will vote yes on this one, I just wish there were some way to make people aware of the problem without being inundated by the horrific images.

The first part of my dream is totally unclear to me. Every single part of it is out of character for my family. We don't drive 1/2 a block. We wouldn't eat in that restaurant even if it were still in business. We wear shoes in public places.

This is what Dreammoods.com has to say. What do you think?

Shoes
In general, shoes represent your approach to life. It suggests that you are well-grounded or that you are down to earth. It also represents your convictions about your beliefs. If you are changing your shoes, then it refers to your changing roles. You are taking a new approach to life. If your forget your shoes, then it suggests that you are leaving restraints behind you. You are refusing to conform to some idea or attitude.
To see old and worn shoes in your dream, signifies that through diligence and hard work, you will find success. It may also mean that you have come to grips with accepting who you are.
To see new shoes in your dream, suggests that you are overconfident in your success. Alternatively you may be on a life path that is unfamiliar to you.
To dream that you are wearing inappropriate shoes for the activity at hand, denotes that your progress and path in life will be laborious and ill-prepared. It may also indicate that you are heading in the wrong direction and need to reevaluate your goals.
To dream that you are not wearing any shoes, signifies that you have a lack of confidence in yourself and low self-assurance. You may be dealing with issues concerning your self-identity. Thus if you dream that you lose your shoes, then it suggests that you may be searching for your identity and finding/exploring who you are.
To see baby shoes in your dream, symbolizes purity, innocence, vulnerability, tenderness and the desire for love. If you are planning to have or already have a baby, then it suggests that the baby will or has grounded you. After all, with a baby to tend to, you find yourself rooted at home most of the time and not being able to go out as much.

Bathing in Public-Melissa

I had a dream the other night that I needed to take a bath at Mom and Dad's house...for some reason the tub was in the den, right in front of the window. Of course there was no shade and my kids kept coming into the room. Every time I would get everyone out more people would come in.

Obviously this dream means that I have a total lack of privacy in my life!

Dream Meanings - Susie

I have always been interested when I see an article or tv show that talks about interpreting dreams! I think that it really is just a guess and kinda like fortune telling but has been kinda fun to pretend to be able to interpret!!! Sometimes Les will tell me his dream and I will tell him what I think it means!!! He thinks I might be right sometimes too!!! The other night I had a dream that I was being attacked by bats...then I was in a buffet restaurant and this lady (who is my best and worst customer) was the hostess and she was sitting down and handing out dishes over peoples heads and just being rude...I was alone and this person was trying to find a table for 1 when I told her I would just sit with anyone cause I was used to sitting with people I didn't know and eating....I remember eating a little bbq rib like they have at Lims...unfortunately I woke up before I got to sit down and eat....I could come up with many meanings of this dream!!! Especially the bats and the rude customer! But anyway what do you think about interpreting dreams?

Sleepwalking - jen.

Usually when I sleepwalk, I don't know about it until someone clues me in the next morning, and it doesn't happen more than a few times a year. Lately something is different. I woke up in the midst of sleepwalking twice in one week.

The first time was while visiting my parents. I vaguely remember waking up and wanting to turn the t.v. off. I walked over to it and put my hand into the attached VCR. I jabbed it around in there for a few minutes before realizing this would not turn it off. After going downstairs to pee, I woke up a bit and remembered how to use the remote that had been sitting on the table next to my head the whole time.

A few days later, I got out of bed and auto-piloted to the girls' bathroom. I knew that, for some reason, I couldn't use the bathroom in my room. Sitting there, I woke up completely and couldn't quite figure out why I was there. There was no reason for me to use their bathroom instead of my own.

Maybe this new pattern is due to being pregnant and sleeping more during the day. Maybe, if I am lucky, my sleepwalking is getting more under control. I definately prefer waking on my own to hearing those embarrassing stories in the morning!

Happy Dreams - jen.

I've had the dream again. He holds me tight in his arms. He loves me passionately and I know he would die without me. I am the air he breathes and his heart as it beats.

He has many faces. Most often, he is my 8th/9th grade boyfriend. Sometimes he is just the guy from the television commercial I saw before I fell asleep. It really doesn't matter who he is. He makes me feel as if I am the only human being on earth who matters.

Sigh...and then I wake up.

Happy Dream - Melissa

Last night I dreamed that I was taking Riley to school, in a car that looked suspiciously like our old blue Pontiac. When we arrived at the school the teacher came out to talk to me. She had heard we had recently moved to a new house close to school and wanted to come see it(of course this was not my actual house or Ry's school). She drove(my car) for some reason and we got lost on the way. She came into the house and sat on the couch, I went into the kitchen to get her some coffee, and Cass was there! She was cooking. I brought her to meet the teacher who's name was Lohgair (she looked and acted like Mary the crazy mail lady from M). I could not say her name correctly, but Cass made us feel at home. Matt was in the dream too, he was a little boy, wearing a white and grey shirt. I have a seen a picture of him somewhere in that shirt. Chubby cheeks, crew cut hair.

Seeing Cass in a dream made me so happy, I actually got up when my alarm woke me this morning so I would remember it all!

Gotta Go, Gotta Go, Gotta Go Right Now! - jen

I am plagued by dreams of disgusting bathrooms. I roam from bathroom stall to bathroom stall searching endlessly for the cleanest spot. Sometimes the only available place to go is a toilet perched on a rock in public view. Often there are stalls with no doors. Sometimes the accomodations are shared. The worst are the dirty, overflowing toilets I find when I need to go desperately. Filled to the brim with toilet paper and poo, they are completely unusable.

When I do find a spot to relieve myself, I usually end up wetting my legs or shoes with pee because I am unskilled in using the hover method. Then, of course, there are no paper towels or the sink doesn't work.

I usually awake to find I really do need to pee. If I went in my dream, there is always a moment of panic before I realize I didn't go in the bed. I suppose these dreams are remnants of the anxiety I felt as a childhood bedwetter. The memories and embarassement still roam free in my brain when it should be sleeping peacefully.

Obsessions...Susie

Many nights I obsess about stuff and that makes me so that I can't get a solid sleep. I will think about something so much that if I do go to sleep I will wake up every hour or so and try to solve the problem...many times there is no solution so it is a big waste of a night!
Things I obsess over: (not in any order)
1. Most recently pants size...
2. Grandkids and something that needs to be taken care of in their lives!
3. Financial stuff
4. Lost things
5. Things that need to be done.
6. Things that I should have gotten done
7. Things I don't want to do.
7. Mistakes that I made
8. Concern about my Kids
9. Concern about Les
10. Concern about others in the Family
11. Concern about my friends
12. Feeling like I am not doing enough
13. Feeling like I am doing too much
14. Worry about our little Daisy and the cats
15. Wondering if I have forgotten something for this list!...
As you can see there is a lot of stuff to obsess about and I would bet that you can come up with other things too! What is weird about this is I don't really obsess so much in the daylight! If you put logical thought to most of these things there isn't anything to obsess about...but try to tell me this in the middle of the night!!!

Dreaming Work-Melissa

Last night I dreamed that I worked at AB again. I went in and didn't know anyone, told them I was the manager and got to work. YUCK! That is a nightmare. I 'woke up' from that dream (only I was not really awake, it was a dream with in a dream) and decided to go talk to the current real life manager of AB. I told her I had been dreaming about the store so she decided to show me how much everything had changed since I left there. Very strange.

I fought the bed and the bed won...Susie

I am not a good sleeper...I know that this is a surprise to everyone! If I ever had one night that was one of uninterrupted sleep I would maybe think I had died! I became a confirmed insomniac in the 80's after my brother Mark died and we were having major financial difficulties. I slept only about 3 hour max for about 3 years...it was not a happy time. I would have rather slept so that I could have escaped the yucky stuff but it just wouldn't happen. I got to the point where I dreaded night and even trying to sleep. It got to be a horrible pattern and so I would just avoid going to sleep until I was so exhausted there was no choice except to pass out. It was like a nightmare that was never going to end. I have been in a bad pattern again. Not as bad as the original time but, it seems that I have to get up at least 2 times every night if not more. My legs ache, my mind won't turn off, and I really hate just laying there tossing and turning. So I get up and wander around or lay on the couch and watch tv...I sometimes would like to forget that it is night and just start the day...I am taking several things to try and increase my serotonin, Vitamin D, 5-htp, and Homocystiene, I will give it a month to see if it helps...I get tired of taking pills if they don't seem to make a difference. I have thought about going to a sleep clinic, but I don't really snore....oh well I guess I will just always have a nocturnal part of my life! I am kinda used to it by now!

Sleep Talking - Rowan

Rowan is a naturally happy child. She is almost always happy and every person she meets is her best friend. Everything excites her. She is loud, vibrant and outgoing.

Rowan talks in her sleep a lot for a barely 3 year old. She talks very clearly and in full sentences. She usually does not remember the dreams she was having in the morning. Actually, she makes up her dreams based on whatever Lydia says she dreamed.

The first time I heard her talk in her sleep, she sat straight up in bed and yelled, "Daddy, I am not a baby! I am not a baby!" She then laid down and went back to sleep.

The second time, she was repeating, "Mommy don't do that. Don't do that to me." She seemed distressed, so I shook her to wake her up. I told her what she was saying and asked if she remembered the dream. She said, "You were putting big ants on me." Then she laughed and smiled and everything was forgotten.

This morning, she kept saying, "Rolly polies, rolly polies, rolly polies......"

I sure wish I could get into that little head and see what makes her talk so much. It looks like she will carry on the family legacy...

baby dreams! - Susie

Okay so I have now had 2 dreams about the baby that is on the way!
In the first one the baby was a boy and was so large that when he was put into a stroller it couldn't hold him and it kept tipping over...he was at least the size of a 5 year old and very fat!

In the 2nd dream the baby was a girl and Jen was going to go to San Francisco and the baby girl needed a coat...I was very worried about the baby not having a coat....
So I guess if you are going by my dreams it is either going to be a girl or a boy, very fat and will have no coat!!! Of course if it is twins it might be a boy and a girl, and both will be fat and need a coat!!!
I might be having prediction dreams!

Vague Memories - Melissa

I have been trying to remember my first dreams/nightmares. Nothing is very clear. I do remember that I used to have floating/flying dreams a lot when I was younger. I always started by jumping into the air, then it was like I was weightless. I was always excited but also scared because I knew I would have to land. It seems like the landscapes were strange, indescribably odd, like nothing ever seen before.

More recently I had a scary dream in which an octopus was trying to grab my legs and I woke up kicking wildly. Mike slept right through it!

Nightmare memories... - Susie

The first nightmare that I remember wasn't really the dream part...my mom had always said "you can come and wake me up if you are scared in the night" so one night when I was about 8 or 9 I had a bad dream and woke up and went to my mom's room. Unfortunately, my mom was having a nightmare at the same time and screamed "Look out behind you" just as I came in her door. We had this contraption that was called a Mangle sitting in the hallway and it was piled with stuff so in the dark it looked scarry and so I screamed, ran back to my bedroom and got under the covers and cried myself back to sleep...I wonder what we had eatten that night or if we had watched something disturbing on tv!!!
I don't remember ever going into my mom's room for comfort after a nightmare ever again!!!

First Nightmares - Jen

The Count & William Katt

I still vividly remember two nightmares I had in childhood. The earliest was quite simple. The Count from Sesame Street is walking up the stairs to my bedroom as I lay helplessly in bed. His cape is partially obscuring his face and he seems much more sinister than he ever did on television. I awoke before he got to the top of the stairs.

The second was much more involved and understandably frightening. William Katt from the "Greatest American Hero" television show is chasing me through the grocery store wearing nothing but a red vest. At the end of his penis is a lobster claw. He chased me for what seemed like forever, but never caught me.

I must have had these dreams when I was quite young. Five or six for the Count, maybe 10 or 12 for William Katt. I can still see them in my mind. I wonder if I will ever forget?