I remember a knight in armor outside my bedroom door at night. In the backyard, I’d look down from my window and see an American Indian with a feather solemnly standing staring at our house. After my father died, he would visit me in my dreams. I remember asking him oncewho is outside my bedroom door and outside the window? He told me they are there just to protect you, but if they make you nervous, I can ask them to go away. I said they don’t make me nervous, but it is something I think about every night. He said maybe it’s best they take a few steps away. I didn’t think much about it when I woke up. As the days went by, I realized they weren’t there anymore. And now I miss them. Not so much the knight because he would just stand there facing the door, opening the door, I would expect to see him. The Indian I do miss. He would stand solemnly by the pool wrapped in a blanket looking up at my second story window. I don’t know why this never occurred to me before, I’ve been looking at old Christmas photos and noticed my little boy pajamas. One with armored knights and another pair, my favorite, with feathered Indians. The visitations stopped when I quit wearing pj’s.
Love how your unconscious has given you the gift of validating your healing and hard work. Thanks for sharing this dream. I have a micro memoir about a recurring dream in my WIP. You'll have to let me know if your eyes glaze over...lol!
Nah, I know it's considered a no-no so I think it's great that you're bringing it up. Not everything is black and white. Like "never use adverbs." I mean, yeah, lazy adverbs are worth omitting but if they serve the narrative, like a pithy dream, then, why not?
HI I have been awakened by my dreams during the night after doing my homework as I try to insure what I am writing about is the correct time, place related to my bf. Trying to put in place past events...to write authentically!" writing in dream.
I've had many recurring dreams, some obvious Freudian digging deeper into my subconcious (exploring underground rooms) or looking for a higher purpose (driving a bridge road straight up into the sky, aware of keeping my foot on the gas so I don't "backslide"). What I'm most interested in are the alternate paths in those dreams - the exit right before the bridge to the sky, for example. What if I turned off there? I've been dabbling in the attempt at lucid dreaming. So far, the farthest I've gotten is a) sleep paralysis which is fucking terrifying and b) awareness that I'm dreaming, and the ability to make some choices, but not all.
This is a true story . After talking about dreams yesterday , I DID remember my dream last night and YOU were in it . So guess subconsciously followed writing assignment to pay attention 🤪 AND we were in same room talking about my not accessing computer properly and you were nice but I felt embarrassed I couldn't do it . SO THAT is my recurrent dream .. feeling embarrassed or lesser that I should have done better . ( BUT you were understanding and also said you took care of it so thanks ) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dreams aren't logical because this seems to be about not being a great student and I just read your homework assignment for this week and it's gorgeous. It made me cry.
That's what I mean about following your assignment on my dream . Think I love this class and memoir and you so much because it's all about sharing cringeworthy flaws and no one judges . And it's soul filling . And so funny that we SPOKE same day about dreams and finding meaning and that's exactly what happened !! So deeper meaning is feeling accepted and " seen and heard " I think . In dream , also funny since I was embarrassed also I didn't electronically pay for class properly and .. wait for it .. you said you took care of it . HA!!!!!!!! So I didn't mind you hacked into my account . Even dreams with meaning are funny sometimes
I tend not to remember the specifics of my dreams—more themes than specifics—but last night's is still somewhat visible because I'm just up. I was cleaning a room in the house where I grew up—organizing, dusting—because people were coming over. In fact, they were already filtering into the dream. I then had to get somewhere, and it was a long trudge to the train station. But when I got there, I'd left my wallet at home. My search for something is common, and it could have played in my dream theater last night because of the piece I'm working on. I'm tightening up various passages, but I'm not quite sure I have nailed my "dig deeper." It's better than v1, but my Muse is not yet satisfied.
I keep having recurrent dreams of my teeth falling out. The last time I had this dream, five teeth fell out of my mouth and I carried them in my hand frantically telling the dentist to screw them back in. LOL!
As an adult, I very seldom have dreams that contain any sort of narrative elements or even visual elements. They're mostly impressions or sensations, and they don't generally feature real people, places, or things from my life. One of my therapists had the theory that my dreams were like that because I spend so much time consciously trying to work out my problems that my subconscious doesn't have enough material. When I was a kid, though, I had recurring nightmares about nuclear annihilation.
Your dream needs editing 🤣🙂🤣🙂ha! Very clear the finding your " home" not being lost and finding your joy and orientation and place and think your dream reminder how happy , lucky , grateful to be in your life you get to have now 😍😇🥰 you made me realize I don't even remember my dreams anymore so now I will ! Always had the showing up to class with no clothes or forgetting something impt but those dreams are both anxiety and true in real life 🤪🤣😂
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I remember a knight in armor outside my bedroom door at night. In the backyard, I’d look down from my window and see an American Indian with a feather solemnly standing staring at our house. After my father died, he would visit me in my dreams. I remember asking him oncewho is outside my bedroom door and outside the window? He told me they are there just to protect you, but if they make you nervous, I can ask them to go away. I said they don’t make me nervous, but it is something I think about every night. He said maybe it’s best they take a few steps away. I didn’t think much about it when I woke up. As the days went by, I realized they weren’t there anymore. And now I miss them. Not so much the knight because he would just stand there facing the door, opening the door, I would expect to see him. The Indian I do miss. He would stand solemnly by the pool wrapped in a blanket looking up at my second story window. I don’t know why this never occurred to me before, I’ve been looking at old Christmas photos and noticed my little boy pajamas. One with armored knights and another pair, my favorite, with feathered Indians. The visitations stopped when I quit wearing pj’s.
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing.
Love how your unconscious has given you the gift of validating your healing and hard work. Thanks for sharing this dream. I have a micro memoir about a recurring dream in my WIP. You'll have to let me know if your eyes glaze over...lol!
Ha. Maybe I should have thought this through. I hate to think I've made other writers feel self-conscious about their dream prose.
Nah, I know it's considered a no-no so I think it's great that you're bringing it up. Not everything is black and white. Like "never use adverbs." I mean, yeah, lazy adverbs are worth omitting but if they serve the narrative, like a pithy dream, then, why not?
HI I have been awakened by my dreams during the night after doing my homework as I try to insure what I am writing about is the correct time, place related to my bf. Trying to put in place past events...to write authentically!" writing in dream.
I love knowing this about you, Marjorie!
I've had many recurring dreams, some obvious Freudian digging deeper into my subconcious (exploring underground rooms) or looking for a higher purpose (driving a bridge road straight up into the sky, aware of keeping my foot on the gas so I don't "backslide"). What I'm most interested in are the alternate paths in those dreams - the exit right before the bridge to the sky, for example. What if I turned off there? I've been dabbling in the attempt at lucid dreaming. So far, the farthest I've gotten is a) sleep paralysis which is fucking terrifying and b) awareness that I'm dreaming, and the ability to make some choices, but not all.
My son was obsessed with lucid dreaming but I don't think he got very far with it. I love the idea of trying to take the exit in a dream. Thanks Jodi.
This is a true story . After talking about dreams yesterday , I DID remember my dream last night and YOU were in it . So guess subconsciously followed writing assignment to pay attention 🤪 AND we were in same room talking about my not accessing computer properly and you were nice but I felt embarrassed I couldn't do it . SO THAT is my recurrent dream .. feeling embarrassed or lesser that I should have done better . ( BUT you were understanding and also said you took care of it so thanks ) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dreams aren't logical because this seems to be about not being a great student and I just read your homework assignment for this week and it's gorgeous. It made me cry.
That's what I mean about following your assignment on my dream . Think I love this class and memoir and you so much because it's all about sharing cringeworthy flaws and no one judges . And it's soul filling . And so funny that we SPOKE same day about dreams and finding meaning and that's exactly what happened !! So deeper meaning is feeling accepted and " seen and heard " I think . In dream , also funny since I was embarrassed also I didn't electronically pay for class properly and .. wait for it .. you said you took care of it . HA!!!!!!!! So I didn't mind you hacked into my account . Even dreams with meaning are funny sometimes
I tend not to remember the specifics of my dreams—more themes than specifics—but last night's is still somewhat visible because I'm just up. I was cleaning a room in the house where I grew up—organizing, dusting—because people were coming over. In fact, they were already filtering into the dream. I then had to get somewhere, and it was a long trudge to the train station. But when I got there, I'd left my wallet at home. My search for something is common, and it could have played in my dream theater last night because of the piece I'm working on. I'm tightening up various passages, but I'm not quite sure I have nailed my "dig deeper." It's better than v1, but my Muse is not yet satisfied.
A writing dream...
I love that you finally feel at home and comfortable in your own skin. ❤️
I keep having recurrent dreams of my teeth falling out. The last time I had this dream, five teeth fell out of my mouth and I carried them in my hand frantically telling the dentist to screw them back in. LOL!
I think this is a somewhat common dream. But yikes.
As an adult, I very seldom have dreams that contain any sort of narrative elements or even visual elements. They're mostly impressions or sensations, and they don't generally feature real people, places, or things from my life. One of my therapists had the theory that my dreams were like that because I spend so much time consciously trying to work out my problems that my subconscious doesn't have enough material. When I was a kid, though, I had recurring nightmares about nuclear annihilation.
That's a scary kid dream to have. And I love your therapist's guess.
Your dream needs editing 🤣🙂🤣🙂ha! Very clear the finding your " home" not being lost and finding your joy and orientation and place and think your dream reminder how happy , lucky , grateful to be in your life you get to have now 😍😇🥰 you made me realize I don't even remember my dreams anymore so now I will ! Always had the showing up to class with no clothes or forgetting something impt but those dreams are both anxiety and true in real life 🤪🤣😂
Maybe a lot of dreams are just anxiety taking the wheel.
Thank you, Suzanne.
Think good way for anxiety to get out of Dodge through dreams for sure !! Drink hot cocoa tonight so you only have pleasant publishing dreams 😍😇