Inside the crazy nighttime mind of Annie...

[Annie]

Hello! My name is Annie and I'm new to this site, and I want to share my dream experiences with the rest of you and discuss them.

First, I'd like to say that I'm just a teenager, because that might have something to do with... something.

My dreams have become a rather significant part of my life. Some of them are incredibly sad or creepy (i.e. my father getting beaten to death in the garden in the backyard), happy and peaceful and full of sheer joy, or just bizarre. (Most fall under the "just bizarre" category.) I don't keep a dream journal because the dreams that are particularly bizarre/sad/etc. are etched into my brain for a long time. I've just started to look into the whole astral projection/out of body experiences thing, so I think that some of my dreams may actually be OBEs.

I'll start with "dreams" that I had when I was very young; 4 or 5 or so. When I'd lie down in my bed and get relaxed, I would feel as if my bed was spinning very fast. After that, I would "dream" that I was out on the front lawn in the very early morning when the sun was just coming up and the sky was a cool blue. I would be standing hand-in-hand with a circle of other children my age, but I knew these children were angels. They never told me they were, I just knew. I'm pretty sure they wore white, flowing robes and I'm pretty sure I was wearing one, too. We would start spinning around in a circle and we'd laugh and I remember it being incredibley fun. We would spin incredibly fast, and the rest of the world would get blurry except the faces of the angels. Then it felt like I would rise out of my body and be floating above the circle of spinning angels, and I would whir around as if I were flying. They were incredible dreams and they happened almost every night for some time (I don't remember how long, exactly), and I was very sad when they stopped coming.
What's odd to me about these is that my best friend Liz had the exact same experiences when she was that age. There is a lot I can say about Liz, but for now I'll just say that she's a very gifted individual... she can see auras, read others' feelings, and heal her physical wounds (like papercuts). I know she can heal herself because I've seen a cut on her finger disappear within two days.
I was wondering if these "dreams" were actually OBEs. They felt incredibly real and I think I could control myself in them.

On to more recent dreams.
I often have dreams about water parks. They've been coming less frequently lately and are being replaced by flying dreams (more on that later), but I remember they started after I went to the first "real" water park I had ever gone to in my life, "Treasure Island" in the Wisconsin Dells. I had so much fun there... I have always felt a close connection to water and I'm a very good swimmer, even though I've never had formal training. (I don't mean to toot my own horn here ) Maybe these dreams were happening simply because I love water parks. Most of the water park dreams are less realistic than the angel dreams and others.

The flying dreams:
They've been coming very frequently lately, as in, at least once a week. In all of them that I can remember, I can control myself. Flying is as effortless as taking a step - usually all I have to do is jump in the air, wiggle my feet, and pump my arms and I can go as high as I like. The power seems to come from my thighs; the muscles tingle in a weird way. Sometimes, I get that same tingly feeling when I'm awake. I have no idea what that's all about...
Anyway, these are definately incredible dreams. They're all very vivid and may be OBEs.

Now I'll explain the dream where my father was beaten to death.
First, I was outside my school in the early morning. I don't know how I got there, I just knew that I hadn't gotten a ride like I usually do. It was almost as if I flew there. But, I realized I didn't bring any of my stuff with me, like my backpack or anything. As I thought "I should call Dad and have him drop off my stuff," I saw my family's silver truck parked, with my dad and my brother sitting inside. So, I got in, and my dad and my brother were being really mean to me, saying things like "How could you forget your stuff? Are you retarded?" And then I went into a hysterical, bawling fit, saying things like "I hate myself... why can't I do anything right?" and my dad and brother laughed at me! This, of course, made me cry harder. In this dream I owned a factory that made shiny, round bulbs. I have no idea what they were for, but they looked sort of like Christmas ornaments, only there wasn't the little hook-thingy. They were just shiny, colorful balls. For some reason, my dad dropped me off at my factory, and I wasn't going back to school. I thought to myself "Wow, I've had a really bad day already..." so I yelled "Stop Production!" and all the machines froze. I went around my factory (I wasn't walking, it felt like I was flying with my back nearly touching the ceiling and I was looking down) telling the workers they could all go home. I figured "I've had a bad morning, so I get a day of rest, and so should my workers!" After they had all left, I "appeared" at my house, sitting in my chair and petting my cat. It was unusually quiet and the TV was off, and I felt like talking. My brother wasn't home, and, like in many of my dreams, my mother simply wasn't there. I knew my dad must have been outside, so I carried my cat with me into the backyard (I don't know why, it's always a hassle when she gets outside because she runs off, and in my city it's legal to shoot stray cats). I saw a dark, shadowy man stroll out of the garden, so I immediately hid behind the big bush in our yard, and I saw him pass the corner of my house and towards the front of my house and the street. He was wearing a striped polo shirt, and some of the stripes were red, but I don't remember the other colors. It was bright outside, but he seemed dark, as if there was a shadow on him and only him. He was carrying what looked like the blunt end of a poker that you use for poking logs in a fire, but the fattest end was hinged... it was rather odd looking. He was swinging it in his hand, and I heard him say in a strange, stupid-sounding voice, "Oh well." I immediately started worrying. I looked at the garden and saw a dark shape amongst the tomato plants. "Oh, no," I thought. I walked into the garden and saw my dad laying on his side in the garden with blood all around him... (I was holding my cat the whole time, mind you), and with one hand I pressed on his shoulder like you would if you were trying to wake someone up. "No, Dad, please, no! No, no, no..." I said in despair... then I woke up.
It pains me to think about it, and that night I cried myself to sleep because I had a terrible feeling about that dream. It all seemed so real...
When I told my dad about the dream, he said, "That's really weird, because I've been having dreams about you telling Mom that I'm dead."

This dream occured only a few nights ago. The next night, I dreamt that my brother, who is sixteen, was sent off to war. He was apparently melted because he was in a dune-buggy type vehicle, and a bomb exploded near him and it got too hot... but later in the dream I found out he wasn't really dead... it was really weird and I don't really remember it.

And now, the "Just Bizarre!"
I have no idea what these dreams mean. Some of them include events such as...
-peeing almonds (yes, I mean going to the bathroom, and instead of urine coming out, almonds did)
-going on a field trip to the dentist with my class, and the hallway had colorful, spherical, uncooked noodles all over the floor, then running away and meeting a giant poodle and becoming friends with it, then hearing a phone ringing and later discovering it was a pair of goggles making the sound, then me asking the poodle in a British accent "Is the phone a banana, or is it a cherry?"
-having the entire Chinese population come over to my city in Wisconsin and having a competition whose rules I didn't know but I won it anyway
-Cars flying over huge, crystal-clear waterfalls and lakes

and many, many more that I can't remember at this moment!
And who could possibly forget the occasional classic naked-in-public dreams? Some of which I don't care that I'm naked, other people care, everyone cares, etc. etc...


So, what are your thoughts/opinions/comments on "The Crazy Nighttime Mind of Annie?"

[unclesirbobbyrobson]

Hi annie. Its always difficult to understand someone elses dreams. I jhave studied them anbd found that they can be understood but its not easy. But some detailed personal knowledge is often needed and also informatuionn about the dreanmers current state of mind. For instance if you felt totally frustrated the night before then in some way the dream swould touch on this theme. They speak their own language and do not try to help you decode them. But look for clues. If you were peeing almonds then look up peeing in the dream dictiuonary. Most dream dictionaries emphaise how peeing symbolises a wish to get rid of bad experiences and let go of tension. So then look to issues that invcolve you relieving tension and try to see wehat the dream could mean.

Peeing almonds wouild be very painfuol so that peeing almonds dream may link to the following conceptual feeling "I found it really diffiult and painful letting go of those frustrations. I must have seemed ridiculous to the peeople around me by how I was acting(any one peeing almonds would)."

Thats maybe not the meaning of your dream but thats how they are interpreted. Only you can really mae such conncetions

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"That printer. It cost a fortune and is always breaking down. I will never buy another Epson printer again. They are designed to break down". These were the exact feelings that one dream captured. Yet its only with experience that you can understand the symbolism. The topic was not linked to precisely.

We tend to link dreams to faraway places and other planes of existence. But once you understand dreams you will find out that they tend to link to feelings that are all too familiar. They capture immediate feelings about relationships or the general frustrations of life. The symbolism maybe diufficult to understand. But tahts simply because dreams talk in a language that we do not fully understand. That is made worse because dreams often make no attempts to help us understand their meaning.

The following pages above all help you to learn the basics of dream interpreting

Dream symbolism and dream dictionary interpretation - How to interpret dreams Interpreting dreams
Dream symbolism - How to use dream symbols Triggers for dreams
Dream dictionary - A modern and well researched dream dictionary Dream dictionary