Dream Journal - 11/29/04

Over the Thanksgiving holidays, I slept in Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings and a bit later than normal on Sunday morning. As a result, I woke up in the middle of dreams (plus remembered others on waking in the middle of the night) almost each morning.

Unfortunately I didn't write them down, but there are a couple of moments I do remember:

I was outside my house (my current house! A first!) and we were trying to catch a stray dog and take him home with us. I remember getting close and finally picking the dog up - he was tame and nonresistant. He was grey and fairly large, and I had to wrap my arms around his middle to lift him. I took him inside the house.

The day before, my daughter had been chasing a grey stray cat around the front yard.

Another Disney dream. We were leaving the last park we were to visit on our trip, but still had one major show/ride to see. We were walking through a building complex, and the entrance to the show was on the right. We had to have a special ticket, and someone had given us a green "pass" to give to the box office, where we would be given a ticket. Through some doors ahead led to a long downward set of ramps, each leading to a green or blue ticket area. As I walked down the ramp, the ticket area had two large green balls on each side, about the size of bowling balls, which were used to show what color it was. There was a similar blue area to the left. I assume there were other colors around, but I don't think I saw any specifically. I made it to the booth, exchanged my "pass" for one of the green balls - it was not very heavy, but was hard like a bowling ball and about 2/3 the size. I was directed to exit through a door to the left, and back up a flight of stairs to the show entrance.

I went back up, handed them the ball at the entrance and went inside. The interior room was set up cabaret-style, and was much smaller than I anticipated. There was a stage with a curtain in front ahead of me. My son was sitting at one of the tables, so I joined him. I remember expressing my disappointment in the size of the theatre, compared to the hype for this "great show". Then my daughter woke me up :(

I would've liked to have seen the show, anyway...

Dream Journal - 11/20/04

I sense a pattern emerging that is very interesting. Aliens.

Very short dream, that I remember. I had stepped outside of my parents' house (where I grew up) and looked up in the sky. It was a cloudy evening, and the sky looked threatening - there was a sense of foreboding.

Then I saw them - the ships coming out of the clouds. There had been UFO sightings recently, and the news reports had described what they looked like. Most "rational" people had denied their existence, and cast the eyewitnesses as crazy.

But there they were - two of them, round like two plates stacked together top rim to top rim (i.e. they bulged in the middle). They were twinkling with lights and appeared to hover together over my house.

I had a secret thrill at seeing the alien crafts, but the feeling quickly turned to fear and dread.

That's all I recall. Once again, my kids busted in and woke me up. Why can't a dad get a decent, long, dream-filled Saturday morning sleep? :)

This dream, coupled with yesterday's, the ALF thing, and the dream from several weeks ago about the aliens attacking the building I was in, seems to denote a pattern that I'm not certain of its meaning. In all the dreams, the aliens seemed to represent different things.

Another interesting pattern, and a lack of pattern that I just discovered, is that I dream often about my parents' house, which as I said before is the house where I grew up. I'm assuming it's a place I feel comfortable at (which it is) and I conjure it up as a defense mechanism against whatever my subconscious is throwing at me.

What's more interesting is the fact that I don't dream about my house now, where I live with my wife and kids. I need to look back over all my entries, but I don't recall having a dream since I started this journal that took place here at home. Does that mean I feel safer and more secure back at my parents' than here? Something I'm going to have to explore...

Dream Journal - 11/19/04

I dreamed I was part of an expedition to another planet. I wasn't a pilot, but apparently a mission specialist or maybe colonist of some kind.

Our ship landed on what I believe was Mars, but it may have been some other alien world. As we all got off the ship to explore, I notice that the ground is red and dusty, and there seems to be no life. The "real" astronauts move ahead, and signal they've found something. The rest of us (there were several, and all in regular clothes - no spacesuits) hurry up to see.

There on the ground is a large, low circular platform and as we all crowd around and begin taking pictures, we see four humanoid figures lying on the platform, heads to the center and feet out to the four compass points. They appear to be in cold sleep.

Soon one of them rises and begins to speak to us.

I don't recall what they said. Fast forward to:

Several of us are underground, and the aliens have given us rooms. They've allowed us to change clothes. I put on some kind of thick, heavy black ceremonial looking robe, but one of them comes in and tells me, no - that's for later. Just put on something nice of your own for right now. I recall I brought some shirts and ties with me, and, as they suddenly appear in my suitcase in front of me, I begin to put them on.

There are others of my group in the room with me - I think I recognize them as people I know in Real Life, but I can't recall who they were. I have no qualms about changing in front of them.

Even though the aliens seem friendly and accomodating, I've had too much experience watching sci-fi movies and shows to trust them. If feel a vague sense of unease, though others tell me I'm fooling myself.

The Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man" comes to mind.

Dream Journal - 11/15/04

I dreamed my son was on television, on either the Johnny Carson Show or the Jay Leno Show. Actually, I didn't know he was on until they introduced Robin Williams - who came out, sat down in the chair and proceeded to do some funny schtick with my son who turned out to be sitting next to him.

For some reason, my son seemed to be about 5 or 6 in the dream, a couple years younger than he is now.

I remember my wife and I watching the TV, and going crazy after seeing my son laughing it up with Robin Williams

Dream Journal - 11/05/04

Two brief excerpts. I woke after them, but was unable to write them down - my pen was gone. Ah well - details lost to the ether...

I was working in a library. Actually, I believe I was helping convert an old room or an old building into a library. All I recall is that the room was full of wooden bookshelves, and I and lots of people were putting books on the shelves, and helping people find what they wanted.

Later, I recall standing with some people at the bottom of what might have been a well, or an excavation of some kind. Someone pointed behind me, I turned around and saw a giant tractor-trailer rig that had crashed over the side of the well and rested vertically at the bottom, against the wall.

Several of us were then up at the top, and together we all pulled (yes, pulled) the semi up and out of the pit. As we dragged it out and down the street that ran nearby, we saw there were other cars attached to the front by ropes so we were also pulling up a bunch of other things besides the rig. Eventually we got them all out, but the truck fell over on its side and crumpled.

Dream Journal - 11/02/04

I was sitting at a table in a restaurant with several other people.

ALF was standing (?) at the table, and said, "You guys are the nicest humans I've ever met - this week! HAH!", and walked off.



I need to stop eating cats before bed....