Not really sure what I should title this :P

[flugnugget]

Alright, since my dreams tend to be a bit odd (well, I guess nobody has "normal" dreams, per se, but mine can be very random, I mean. This dream was particularly... I don't know, it felt more or less real) I'll start you off with a bit of a background of me. I'm 18, I was recently fired when I could not make it to work due to a complication of a family emergency (I cannot drive myself to work, as I cannot afford the insurance necessary to drive.) and have spent a lot more time sleeping odd hours and playing computer games. (Not that I haven't ever played a lot of computer games ) Admittedly, I've never had a girlfriend and my friends are few. (I have social anxiety because of my Autism, more specifically I have Asperger's Syndrome, and cannot really interface with girls as much as typical people my age. As such, I think this is why I turned to video games and the internet, its easier for me to communicate and express myself in written form, although I do write colloquially. I've been told my social skills are good, but I generally try to avoid interaction that I do not have to partake in. Most people don't even know I have autism until I mention it because I don't show my symptoms like most people with it.)

A few different things I noticed about this dream were the presence of two races from a game known as "World of Warcraft" which is a game that I played for a month or two, but my interest in it is waning. The orcs and the draenei woman I saw were from this game.

So anyways, here's my best interpretation of the dream. Note, its very disjointed because I couldn't remember it all at once, and tried to write it quickly as possible. I had been up for a few minutes prior, trying to figure out some of the feelings I had been left with when I woke up. I apologize if it becomes unusual, but I'm new to this dream interpretation idea, and I'm trying to get into it, as there are times that I dream alot, and others which I dream less, and I've been having numerous recurring dreams through my life with no real purpose within them. Needless to say, I hope to learn alot from my dreams and find out what they mean, and hopefully learn through other people's dreams as well.

Now on to the point of this thread (its a copy-paste from notepad. Excuse any grammar or spelling errors, like I said, it was purely on the fly, trying to get it in written form as fast as possible.) I'm sorry its so long as well.

Here goes-

I think I went somewhere, not sure where, to be honest. I meet a draenei woman, she seems familiar to me, and I feel an amazing sense of attraction to her. I cannot remember the details much between this location and the next location I end up at, which seemed like some kind of kiosk or shop?

I went to this kiosk thing and talked to the people running it, but I don't remember what we talked about. They were both males. I remember a street seller coming up, giving myself, and the two people running the kiosk thing little inflated gloves on sticks (wtf?) It was night or late evening, I think.

Oh, prior to the kiosk, I remember something now. I remember that there was some kind of hair salon kind of place, it had the detailing of a location in a game, it seemed VERY familiar. It had gravity lifts for getting up and down from the second level, which was some kind of indoor balcony overlooking the lower floor. The whole of the building was very small inside, and I meet this strange woman who also seems familiar to me. We discussed something, but I cannot remember what it was, I just remember that the conversation was very odd and abnormal. It was sunny outside before this. Now that I really think about it, I'm not sure this was before or after the kiosk.


After this conversation, I leave, apparently wearing just a shirt and underwear, the people around me don't seem to think it unusual at all, but I still felt anxious about being outside in my underwear, but I didn't seem to have any inhibition about freely walking around. I made a phone call, or tried to rather, to my mother, but could not seem to remember the phone number. I was mistaking it with an old home-phone that we had when we first moved into the area, actually, as a matter of fact, it was very fuzzy to me, but I think it was our phone number before we lived in this state, which was MANY, MANY years ago. (How could I remember even part of that number now is beyond me) It was sunny, perhaps maybe cloudy outside. I don't remember seeing the ocean though at any point of being around this boardwalk.

and then something happened. I walked up some stairs outside of the building that I was just in, going back along the side of it walking along what seemed like a board-walk of some kind. I gave up on the phone, I think, and turned around and walked back down to the "main drag" of the dream location (the road with the kiosk, and the building I was in) and noticed the area was under contruction. For some reason, the draenei woman I remembered, she was up on top of an excavator (I don't understand why. I think she was dancing) and for some reason, the bolts holding it together blew out, and the whole thing collapsed in a cartoon fashion on top of her and a few other people. I remember how desperate to find her I was, to make sure she was okay. The other people trapped were an orc and I think another orc, both males, presumably the construction workers.

Eventually someone found her right about when I did, and she was propped up against the shovel of the excavator, but was not underneath any of the collapsed equipment. She seemed unconcious, and I remember a flooding sense of anxiety and worry, I remember feeling upset at the situation, but I don't remember crying. I also remember the sense of relief that she was okay. She comes to, and seems to go through a lengthy waking animation (the best way of describing it. It really was an animation, it didn't seem very... fluid, the transitions were disjointed, kind of switching from one position to the next, eventually leading to her laying horizontal on the ground. My guess was it was an interpretation of her sliding from the sitting to the laying position.)

After this, I don't remember what happened in the gap, but I then remember her standing on the sidewalk afterwards, on the street parallel from the boardwalk, but on the other side of the kiosk and the indoor place I was at earlier. I remember nervously trying to think of something to say to break the ice, still retaining obvious social anxiety from real life. I don't remember much after that, but I then remember finding her myspace account, seeing pictures of her as a draenei doing various random things (I don't know why, the pictures made no sense.) such as a picture of her tail (her tail, tail, not the inappropriate one some of you may be thinking. Draenei have tails in the Warcraft lore...) and such. I don't remember any self-taken pictures. Then for some reason, I remember seeing, and I don't remember if this was on the myspace account or not, but I remember seeing a costume kit (you know, one of those cheap-o bags that have an expensive, low-quality costume in them that you'd find at a grocery store? One of those.) of a draenei woman, and I vaguely remember seeing a human female, but I'm not totally sure of that. I just remember seeing this bag with draenei details, the tail, the ears and the horns, the hooves and such, and I think there was a "skin" of sorts in the bag as well. I think I was suprised? (There are people whose hobby pertains to dressing up in costume of different characters from cartoons, lore, games, etc, and I think this was an allusion to this person being one of those people.)

Ultimately, the dream ended shortly thereafter, but I'm not sure which parts came first. I just remember waking up with a feeling that I knew her, she seemed so familiar. I had feelings for her, apparently, in the dream, but they went unrealized, never having been able to communicate my feelings for her, and I don't think she was aware of my feelings. She was beautiful, too. I cannot understand most of what any of this means. I'm kind of writing it as I go, trying to make sense of it as I remember bits and pieces. The only thing that was instilled into my mind was that feeling upon waking up. My mind was abuzz, I felt a sense of energy, trying to figure out who she was, why she seemed so familiar and why I had feelings for her. It wasn't just lust, it felt like love, so I had to have known her from somewhere else, and she does seem familiar but I can't remember if it was a dream I had before in which she was a part of, or what. I don't remember another dream with a Draenei woman in it. As far as I know, everyone else was a human, or at least to the best of my memory.

[unclesirbobbyrobson]

well dreams can link to your own feelings. They use metaphors. You have been playing lots of computer games but maybe the pleasure of that has worn off now and that getting fired is no longer the pleasure it once was. For a few days you can sit back and play games but just like your interest in this game... the pleasure has warn off.

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One way of telling how vital dreams are is to study people who are deprived of sleep and dreams.Sleep deprivation is very dangerous if it continues for extended periods. If you are deprived of sleep for several days then you will slip into madness. The reason for this is that sleep and dreams are linked to vital brain functions.

During the day we store up new thoughts and experiences within short term memory blocks. So if we are deprived sleep these become overloaded. The mind has no more space to store new feelings so these are merely forgotten.

During sleep vital brain waves emerge. Beta waves and theta waves are only ever detected within the brain at night. These help us process through those new feelings and experiences stored in short term memory. We integrate these new feelings into long term memory blocks. So if you do not sleep then you will not be updating your thoughts. You will not be building a bigger picture.

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[flugnugget]

Interesting. Thanks for the insight and links. I'll have to start making it a habit of logging my dreams now, it seems.


Thank you!