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Brothers and sisters... I had a dream...

 
  

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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:41 / 07.09.02
Two nights ago, I had a really fucked dream. There was a whole bunch of my mates all living in a big house, including my ex-girlfriend, who's still a very close friend and therefore there's nothing weird or dodgy about her appearing in a dream. No, what made it weird was that she'd taken to keeping emus as pets. Real emus, but they all looked like Emu off the TV (except without being fisted by Rod Hull). And they were running about all over the place being alternately cute and infuriating. And there were about eight or nine of the fuckers.

Someone tell me I'm not the only one who has dreams like that?
 
 
Shortfatdyke
09:53 / 07.09.02
Er..... yes, Stoatie. If it makes you feel better, we'll all pretend we have dreams like that!

I had a very sad one last night, very obvious and symbolic about letting go of the past. I got to drive a nice car at one point though, I think.
 
 
Rear Admiral Floyd
10:54 / 07.09.02
You know what Stoatie...throw in Rod Jane and Freddy from 'Rainbow' and I think that you'd have a pretty good party.

I did recently dream though that I was involved in a sabre fencing duel with Albert Einstein. I guess that could probably be filed under the heading 'strange'...
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
12:06 / 07.09.02
I've had dreams about being back at school which, considering I've also worked at one, lead to some strange situations. Mostly I have travelling dreams. Possibly psychologically disturbing in that quite often I have to go back to where I start because I've forgotten something (what's that all about?) but quite cool when they're happening. Mainly underground/tube type dreams, sometimes just walking around endless LU tunnels, sometimes driving through country villages. But some of the architecture of the more bizarre forms of transport in my dreams was brilliant...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:11 / 07.09.02
...of course there was the time I dreamt I WAS Buffy... and some weird demon had turned all the students in Sunnyvale into rampantly self-righteous ex-smokers...

Sometimes I think I don't get enough sleep. Sometimes I think that's a good thing.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:12 / 07.09.02
Oh yeah, and welcome aboard, RAF... was wondering when you'd finally start posting!
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
14:07 / 07.09.02
Stoatie- At least you were in Sunnydale, I was fighting vampires while at the same time trying to issue books to them at work. Oh boy, therapy here I come...
 
 
Mazarine
21:25 / 07.09.02
I once dreamed that I was Buffy and all the fucking vampires were from Saved By the Bell. It took me like, three tries before Zach would go down. The yellow-haired bitch.

My aunt took to keeping rheas for a while, in real life I mean. I don't think one could call them pets, as they were of a somewhat unpleasant and violent temper.
 
 
Baz Auckland
18:04 / 08.09.02
Last night I was running along a beach in Greece, trying to get back to the Human Sanctuary before these alien robots got us. This girl and I had to pay $2 to get back in too...
 
 
telyn
00:00 / 09.09.02
I have strange convoluted dreams that normally aren't as specific as that. Often I am in places that I've never seen, like a particularly realistic chinese restaurant or a strange hillside. I'm curious as to where these places come from, since I don't recall visiting them.
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:22 / 09.09.02
Last night I dreamt standing on the coast of Nova Scotia and inside a small concave area of the rockface was a L.L.B.V.M (Looks. Like. Blessed. Virgin. Mary.) She was standing and had hands clasped under her belly like a pregnant woman but instead of the stomach was a crucible turned at a 90% angle so the contents faced me. Inside looked like a oily blue substance but it didnt move or run out of the crucicible. There was also a thin sheet of what looked like ice or crystal blocking the entrance to the cave.
Thats it.
 
 
jUne, a sunshiny month
06:29 / 09.09.02
in the friday/sat night, i dreamed of somebody really, really bad put a gun on my head and on my family & friends, and told us to have sex all together.
it was quite realistic and awful as you can guess.
mother, sister, brother, old friends...
i wake up totally fucked up, afraid, sad at its best, and felt nothing but shame, shame, shame.
talin' about nightmares ?
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
10:46 / 09.09.02
Stoatman - I have shared your dream of small cute/annoying animals getting underfoot.

See, I was this architect, and I was building this skyscraper, and all these tiny dinosaurs kept stealing my blueprints while my back was turned and legging it with them. The blueprints were bigger than they were. It was alternately very amusing and very irritating.

Spooky has had them too. Just ask her about 'pointy-nosed dogs' next time we see you.
 
 
DaveBCooper
12:05 / 09.09.02
On Saturday night, I had a flying dream – the usual sort of thing for one of these for me, I do breast-stroke upwards, and smoothly move skywards, it’s really rather exhilarating – but then it turned into me flying horizontally in my flat with Graham Norton flying similarly, only he was naked. And taller and more muscular than he is in reality.
Very odd.

DBC
 
 
rizla mission
14:27 / 09.09.02
Last night I dreamed that I'd bullshited a load of people into thinking I was a top avant garde industrial noise composer.. and then Lydia Lunch phoned me up and said she wanted me to make a record for her to sing over, and so I thought, oh crap, what am I going to do .. and then I discovered that I could make the most brilliant noises by playing records upside down (in this dream world, it seemed records only have one side) and backwards, and so I think i went to a record pressing plant or something and,well..

I'm honestly not quite as completely obsessed with music as my dreams seem to suggest. Sometimes I dream about zombies instead.
 
 
Baz Auckland
18:27 / 17.09.02
My very vivid and strange and fun dream last night included a recurring theme that's always struck me as odd:

During my dream, some friends of mine and I took some new drug that involved one person tracing their finger on a map, while the person on the drug had really intense hallucinations while following their finger.

I have never done hallucinagenic(sp?) drugs. I would like to, but have never gotten around to it yet. Somehow I keep having dreams in which I am on acid, mushrooms and other hallucinagenic drugs. How do I know what it's like to take them? Without any experience of hallunications how can I experience them in the dreams? The dreams have just left me really interested in trying them now and I haven't been able to stop thinking about this dream.
 
 
Magic Mutley
18:59 / 17.09.02
The other night I dreamt I was traveling on a kind of alternative reality London Underground. The tunnels were half full of water and mud, and there was some kind of archeological/forensic dig going on under the tracks. They were digging up human torsos - hundreds of years old - and the driver was doing a running commentary over the intercom.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:04 / 17.09.02
A few years back I had a fucking ace one- (they're all fucked... some are just more amusing than others).
Me and a friend were hiking in some hills, (which isn't really something I tend to go in for much in real life) and we came across the secret stash of some survivalists. Only it was all boxes of breakfast cereal (and some of 'em were huge- guess these fuckers really were stocking up for the Apocalypse).
Anyway, we heard them returning, and in our rush to escape, we ended up knocking over all these boxes of cereal, and being trapped beneath them. We panicked for a while, then I just went "hang on a minute, it's only boxes of cereal, they can't be that fucking heavy" and lo and behold, they weren't.
And we got out of there just in the nick of time.
 
 
Seth
23:06 / 17.09.02
Stoatie: Ask your ex whether they've been ill recently. How are you, health-wise?

Keg: There's a couple of transcripts of dreams in either Man and His Symbols or the Routledge Classics edition of Dreams that are pretty close to the one you mentioned. Can't check them cos they're on loan, but you might want to take a sly peek next time you're in a bookshop.
 
 
Mazarine
23:33 / 17.09.02
I had a dream a couple nights ago that Jack Nicholson had tied me to him, like with rope, and thrown a sheet over me, so I was not unlike the ass-end of the donkey costume, and was making disturbing sadomasochistic insinuations. So I wiggled out of that little trap, and then ran off to the next house over, where I decided my interests would be best served by living in a tree, but I needed clothes, so I just nicked the dress off the corpse of another girl, for whom living in the tree had not worked out so well.

The moment I got out of the house in the dream, though, and out into the air, and saw all the trees, flowers and sunlight... that felt really good.
 
 
rizla mission
13:59 / 18.09.02
I've had a load of really vague Landscape dreams recently - just visions of hillsides and farmland and so on, sometimes with castles and government buildings and rocket silos and stuff on them .. not like in an "Oh my god! I can see inside area 51!" way, more like a combination of missing the countryside and a lifetime of watching/reading cheap science fiction.. it's totally like an early JG Ballard book in my sleeping head at the moment..
 
 
Saveloy
16:02 / 18.09.02
I had the unfortunate experience of wanking myself off in front of Will Self in my dream last night.

Imagine a public toilet with the usual cubicles and urinals on one side and a kitchen on the other, with no walls or even a door to separate the two. The toilet was as dank and grey as you'd expect, the kitchen was barely furnished but brightly lit and warm. Will and I were waiting there for a mutual friend to emerge from one of the cubicles; he (Will) was sat at the head of a wooden table in the centre of the kitchen and I was lying on top of it, on my stomach, under a blanket, with my head sticking out, facing him. There can't have been more than 18 inches between us.

As he sat there, eyes down, fiddling with his cigarettes, I drifted off into a sordid little fantasy which, I'm very sorry to say, concluded with a shameful act of unpleasantness on my part. Amazingly, I was able to conceal this dreadful indulgence from Will by continuing to chat and nod throughout. Shortly afterwards, our friend - a generic "man in lavatory" type with a baggy face - finished his own private business in the toilet and stood at the kitchen/lav border. As I dismounted the table, I realised that, not only was I naked (I used the blanket to cover myself) but that I'd been lying on top of Will's newspaper. As he pushed his chair back and leant forward over the table in mid rise, he couldn't help but notice the paper too, and made to pick it up.

"Here," he said, "there's a big drop of water on it."

To my horror, he poked about in the pearly pool with his pointy finger and held it up to my face.

"Oh, must be a leaky pipe," I said, and hastily wiped it off with the blanket.

Do you think I should send that one in to Reader's Digest?


Rizla Year Zero:

"it's totally like an early JG Ballard book in my sleeping head at the moment.."

...with the countryside adding a touch of John Wyndham, maybe? I've had a lot in a very similar vein (apart from the Will Self one, obviously), most of them involving aircraft in trouble or performing impossible manouvres of some sort. Best one had single seater jet aircraft that you could hire out like pedalos (sp? Those things with rotary padels you get on boating lakes) which spun horizontally on their central axis, like a helicopter blade, as they flew forwards.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:15 / 18.09.02
Exp- yeah, she's been pretty ill recently... I'm waiting on tests (actually I'm still waiting FOR the tests themselves- for different stuff than her, I hasten to add- rather than the results. Damn our crappy NHS!). You're scaring me now!

Saveloy, man... whoah! Will Self? Would it be rude to ask if he'd brought his special pillow?
 
 
Seth
21:29 / 18.09.02
Saveloy: I assume you've read The Quantity Theory of Insanity?

Stoatie: Infestations of irritating animals can often be a representation of illness or percieved illness. Our bodies often give us early warning of that kind of thing.
 
 
rizla mission
15:29 / 19.09.02
I didn't sleep terribly well last night, and as a result of constantly waking up/falling to sleep again, have a series of the craziest dream memories lodged in my head (and now on paper), like about a month's worth in one night.. here goes:

1.I was in the front room of my house, and was looking at this absolutely amazing nintendo joypad. It had this button on it, and when you pressed it it played Flaming Lips songs. And you could open it up, and inside was a selection of neatly folded Transformers ready to be played with. And, for some reason, it had the logo from Blockbusters (old game show, not video shop) imprinted on it. Clearly, this was the best object *ever* and I decided to worship it.

2.I'm a little kid again playing with micro-machines in the street with my pals, having races with them and so forth, when suddenly they turn into weird cartoon dogs and start running amok in people's gardens, and I run around collecting them up and zip them up in a suitcase. They start singing optimistic Disney-type songs and I humour them saying "yep, that's right, everything's gonna be fine" before abandoning them in a park and running off..
(incidentally, one of the micro machines had a miniature scroll attached to the bottom of it containing the testimony of a redneck racing driver who used to own it or something)

3.

Actually, I tell you what, I'll type the rest in tomorrow.. it's quite titanically mad and is taking up about 4 pages of my notebook..
 
 
rizla mission
15:17 / 20.09.02
Ok eat this:

3.Luke Skywalker, Princess Liea, Han Solo and a fucked-up retro robot that looks like a big Chrome car part printer thingy (?) are hiding on a desert outcrop, spying on some villians (don't remember much about them). A big medieval army comes along and attacks the villians with tanks, and during the course of this conflict the Star Wars folk's hding place gets completely destroyed and they're buried under a pile of rumble. Then the army (which has emerged triumphant) realises digs them up and rescues them.
Luke & Leia now have blackened faces, and weren't particularly bothered about being buried because they claim they're immortal. Han on the other hand is rocking back and forth, clutching a big cardboard box and chanting "I'm dead. I'm dead..".
Leia tries to explain her robot to the Barbarian chieften, explaining that it can read minds and has a psychic connection with every other robot in the world, giving it access to a vast pool of knowledge. The robot reads the chieften's thoughts and reveals that he completely doesn't understand, and the closest object to which he can relate the robot is a watermelon(??). So in order to make things easier for everyone, the robot turns itself into a giant loaf of bread and everyone starts eating it.

4.I'm in this cramped basement apartment full of these miserable tortured artist type guys. They tell me that there's one woman who lives there who's having sex with all of them and thus making them all jealous and resentful of each other, and they're feeding their negative emotions into their grotesque art. I remember thinking "I wish these guys would lighten up a bit. If I was in their situation I don't think I'd really give a shit".
One of them is drawing thses really ugly bad phto-realistic pencil drawings of people's faces in pain and..

(here the dream enters it's 'hideous nightmare' section)

5. ..suddenly I'm in a white, clinical room, in which a doctor/torturer (who's never seen clearly) is slowly, methodically dissecting people, but after they've been cut up they seem to remain alive. Oddly, there's no blood, and everyone's fully clothed in rather grand evening wear. He's cutting people's arms off at the shoulder very precisely with a big, long saw .. there's a woman on an operating table whose had her head cut off and it's on the table next to her, rather like one of those pictures of ghosts in the Tower of London..
Somehow I get the impression that these people have agreed to be cut up, not knowing what they were letting themselves in for, maybe thinking that they'd transcend their bodies or get new ones or something..
The doctor's just finished dissecting another woman, and he's holding a CD which may or may not be her soul.. the woman appears to be trapped inside the CD (can't think of a better description) and is banging on it, screaming and trying to get out.. the doctor turns the Cd over and slllooowwwlly reads a name which is imprinted on it - Jacqueline. Then he throws the CD into a raging furnace, and suddenly I realise that the artist in the previous dream fragment is somehow recieving the pain of these people and drawing it..

Then i realise I'm next and the doctor gets out his big saw to cut my arms off. The woman's head on the table screams, and the doctor chuckles and says "thanks for that". I say "No, please, don't cut my arms off" and he says "you're right, I can't, this film's only got a few more minutes left to run". So instead he gets out a stanley knife and slices all my fingers, just below the nail. I ask him why he hasn't pulled my fingernails out with pliers, and he says "hmm.. I never thought of doing that. Luckily for you."

6. And then I realise that what has just transpired was in fact, um, the new Lord of the Rings film, which I've just watched, and I'm sitting in a fast food place outside the cinema with my mum and my brother, eating a giant toasted teacake.
I want to talk about how incredibly bizarre the film was, but they don't seem to bothered and are talking about something else.

The End.

I mean, really, i don't even want to think about what all that might mean..
 
 
Saveloy
15:38 / 23.09.02
I'll say it again Rizla - this (and all your other dreams, all of them) MUST be made into a comic. It should be your job - spend the night dreaming and the daytime turning the latest epic into a comic. Lavishly illustrated in full colour and published daily.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:25 / 23.09.02
the last one sounds nasty, Riz- but the Star Wars one- man, I'm so fucking jealous.

My dreams have been progressively more fucked since I started working nights (guess I must have fucked up some kind of pattern thing)- I've started dreaming about my dead dad, and it's always really cool and makes me wake up feeling happy. On the other hand, I have (not to mention the fucked-up pop culture ones) really scary ones about losing my dog.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
12:05 / 24.09.02
Mine are often weird - don't have time to describe them here in detail, but you know the sort of thing... penguin rustling in Finchley Road, Girl Guides poisoning my father with a pork pie, giant tin-plate dinosaurs which do battle with giant tin-plate men in the Natural History Museum, The Greatest Secondhand Bookshop-cum-Shoe-shop-with-a-bed-for-me-in-the-nook-and-a-black-cat In the World (which was in Salford, which looked remarkably like Muswell Hill), the epic journey with a cat which turned into a fish halfway up a river, and lots of slightly bizarre quest dreams...
 
 
Persephone
12:19 / 24.09.02
I'll say it again Rizla - this (and all your other dreams, all of them) MUST be made into a comic.

It's not just his dreams... Riz, are you aware that you talk in panels? I have something that you said on my drawing board right now --four perfect panels and a little coda, just like that.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
12:27 / 24.09.02
I would say there's some great dreams here, but the scary ones can be horrible experiences. I had a magickal one a couple of nights ago:

A man grabs a young woman off the street and murders her. I've caught a glimpse of him and decide I'm going to apprehend him. I go to the young woman's house, where her family are mourning her. They take me to her room - it's a shrine, left as she left it. Her body is lying on her bed. It looks like little more than her clothes - blue jeans and a white t-shirt; the corpse has turned to mush and the smell of decomposition is strong. They ask me not to tell anyone that they've kept the body. They can't bear to let it go. To comfort them, I hold my hands out and make a holographic image of her murderer appear - so they know I'm onto him and that I have the power to defeat him.

After I leave, I find myself on a dusty road outside a high wall, and I suddenly realise that the murderer also has magic powers and some evil friends. Strange metallic-like weapons are appearing and flying towards me. I use my Helm of Awe tattoo to throw a shield around my body and the missiles are deflected.

Then, it's night time and I'm outside a college with iron railings. Three women are climbing over them, laughing because they have been in there after hours. I'm there because I know the man is there, and he runs out of nearby bushes and grabs one of the women. I get the woman away from him and even though I can feel that he is strong - psychically - I'm boiling over with rage and power and the dream ends with me knowing that I'm going to kill him.
 
 
Bear
12:32 / 24.09.02
SFD the Anime - Coming Soon!
 
 
rizla mission
13:07 / 24.09.02
Sounds like quality story material.

'll say it again Rizla - this (and all your other dreams, all of them) MUST be made into a comic. It should be your job - spend the night dreaming and the daytime turning the latest epic into a comic. Lavishly illustrated in full colour and published daily.

Hmm, yeah, maybe I should.. what's happened in the past is that a dream has planted a really weird scenario or idea into my head, and I've thought about it for a while and developed it and eventually incorporated it into a comic or story.. (those of you who've read my 9-page photocopied comic will know what I'm getting at).

It's not just his dreams... Riz, are you aware that you talk in panels? I have something that you said on my drawing board right now --four perfect panels and a little coda, just like that.

really? Wow, I'm staggered/flattered. Which thing I said was that?
I do generally end up approaching writing in terms of First sentence: First thing happens. Second Sentence: Second thing happens. etc., though I hadn't drawn the comics panel analogy.. hmm..
 
 
Persephone
13:38 / 24.09.02
It was the one where you find the Yes album for 25 p. If the zine ever gets up and running, I want to contribute Barbe cartoons. I'm a vampire for your cartoons --not just Riz, all of yez...

(Not the bad dreams, though. Lord knows I have plenty of those all my own.)
 
 
DaveBCooper
15:15 / 24.09.02
Sorry to sequelize my post so late and risk rotting, but thought I’d share : within days of my dream about him, I saw Graham Norton down at my gym (so he was working on the muscularity thing, obviously having read my post), and it occurred to me I could make my return to the changing room at the same time as his, so I’d see him nekkid, thus fulfilling another element of the dream.

But I didn’t, as I was on a (non-metaphorical) treadmill. And besides, to complete it (and thus enable me to be able to fly, I assume), I’d have to try to get him back to my lounge.

Which would just have been weird.

DBC
 
  

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