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As I was running one of my standard nightmares – T-Rex chasing me through rubble – I realized that I was really his nightmare—last stupid mammal, can’t catch the darned thing…FRUSTRATION!.
So I holed up and asked him “Hey, why don’t we team up and pick on whoever it was that stuck us in each other’s nightmares?”
He said “I might, but I’m pretty sure it was you, you batherder*!”
*not positive he called me a batherder, but that was what it sort of sounded like….
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One supposes it can be difficult to make out what a T-rex is saying.
Mildly related:
http://io9.com/5898920/do-science-fi...curring-dreams
The dog, the dog, he's at it again!
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When the time machine is finally made, I suppose one of your great, great, grand kids will travel to 65million years ago and search for a troubled/sleepless T-rex.
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When the time machine is finally made, they already have...
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I'm sorry - because I suspect it was me... <.<;
(I had a funny dream recently, a variation of the labyrinth dream - I found a way out, but then decided to go back and take a door through a wall. I ended up in the space between the walls of the labyrinth, able to look into the rooms of the labyrinth and the nightmares other people were having at the same time - things that I hadn't seen before. It was... amusing.)
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:> My nightmares seem to follow the rule 'the worst possible situation the might still be survivable'...
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I had a similar one once.
I was being chased through a hedge maze by a werewolf. Every time it looked like I had a way out, he'd jump over the wall and cut me off.
Finally, I turned down a dead-end path. As soon as I realized it, I spun around only to see the wolf land in front of me. He raised his hand and I stared up at the claws dangling over my head, and thought, "I don't like this. I want something different."
He brought his hand down, tapped me on the shoulder with one claw, and said "Tag. You're it." Then vaulted over a wall and left me all alone.
That's the first time I remember deciding to change a dream in progress. The rest have all involved falling from a great height and choosing not to hit the ground. In those I end up soaring over the town. Sometimes it's the town where I live, sometimes it's some county place with vibrantly colored rolling hills.
I'm Not Evil.
An evil person would do the things that pop into my head.
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Lol!!Originally Posted by LookingSkyward
Amusing. I've never had such a dream. Interesting!
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At least you guys have interesting dreams. I'm stuck with being in school and not knowing what or where my next class is.
And I've been out of school 40 years!
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
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Yup, informal poll of former submariners for nightmares yielded 'being back on the boat and not remembering how to do something vital'. Mine are usually more dynamic. :>
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Yeah, I have "back at work" dreams as well. The interesting thing about both the school and the work dreams is that in both cases the setting is completely fictional, bearing little or no resemblance to anyplace I actually worked or went to school.
I've never, as far as I can recall, dreamed about hurling pumpkins!
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
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I've had a handful of "back to school" dreams (and yes -- is former school). As in, Why do I have to be in the 5th grade again?? The desks are too small, etc.. Humiliating!
Any work-related dreams revolve around having foolishly "up and quit" my job for no reason and I don't have another lined up.Then I'm frightened and ask for rehire (which I do get). Weird.
You've just jinxed yourself, and will dream of hurling pumpkins tonight! I just hope for your sake the dream pumpkins don't get revenge on you.I've never, as far as I can recall, dreamed about hurling pumpkins!
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Last night I dreamed I was at EPCOT, and I ran into astronaut Ron Garan in the Seas pavilion. I asked him how the simulated undersea base in the pavilion compared to actually living underwater in the NEEMO habitat, but I woke up before he could tell me.
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Sounds like that T-rex was 'talking through his teeth' .
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When I was in the Navy one guy in my shop started a whole slew of other people having the same dream when he complained of dreaming about being chased by a T-rex in the hanger bay. I had the same darn dream two nights later, after some others had it the previous night and complained to the first guy about it.
I had to run from the back of hanger bay two to the front of hanger bay one and it really got exciting when you came to the divisional doors because they don't park aircraft close to where they close so you had about fifty feet of wide open area you had to cross before you could duck under another aircraft.
It would have got me but its foot got hung up on the tie down chains holding some yellow gear in place.
Anywho, I'm actually posting to say I just woke up from an odd though mild nightmare. I was washing my dishes and either trout or crappie were rising and hitting the surface whenever I turned to put a dish in the rack. Nightmarish only in the fact that at first I didn't realize I was dreaming, so I was a touch confused. It wasn't until the third time it happened that I realized I was dreaming. Of course I had to lean over the basin to see where they were swimming off to and I saw something BIG rising fast and that woke me up.
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"I saw something BIG rising fast and that woke me up"... that's how all my water dreams end :>
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Oh, I just hate a dream wherein a conversation goes unfinished -- especially when it's a reply you want to hear. Or an action sequence is just getting really interesting, and you wake up. Dang it!
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I had "back in school but totally unprepared" nightmares for at least a decade after I finished college, but they did stop eventually. For whatever reason, I've never had an "at work but totally clueless about it" nightmare ever, at least not that I remembered.
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heh. I've had moments on the job that were "at work but totally clueless about it" - but I was awake. I suspect the leftover submarine dreams are the final subconcious check before deleting old, complex proceedures no longer in use.
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I don't think I had the "clueless at work" ones until I retired! I'm not sure if I ever had the school ones while I was actually in school, either.
When I was working, I used to invent stuff in my dreams. It was always completely brilliant, but I could never remember what it was in the morning, just that I'd invented the greatest thing since sliced bread and now couldn't remember how it worked. I actually tried sleeping with notebook and pencil next to me so I could wake up and write it down. Never did.
One morning I awoke and realized that I had not only had one of these dreams, but remembered it with crystal clarity. I leaped out of bed, grabbed a pencil, and started sketching. Then I started looking at it. It was utterly ridiculous. It violated nearly every known law of physics, and probably some unknown ones as well. I don't invent much in my sleep any more, and if I do, I don't worry about it.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
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I've noticed that phenomenon; you aren't so much dreaming of seeing/creating something great as you're dreaming the feeling of seeing/creating something great.
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Perhaps you "jinxed" me, because last night I dreamed a couple of friends, my husband and I were being chased by a T-Rex. We ran behind a gated chain-link fence (as if that could hold off the dino).I called out to Mr. T-Rex to stop, don't eat us, we hadn't done anything wrong!
What a big scary mouth with those HUGE teeth -- yikes!
It backed off. *whew*
Never dreamed of a dinosaur before.
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:>
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Internet Science Time!
The ease at which T-Rex nightmares are triggered through even the mildest suggestion (evidence: Big Don's story, Buttercup) proves that there is some deep, hereditary memory engrained from a time when man lived alongside earth's greatest predator.
No further proofs needed. Thank you, and don't forget to use my real name when you build the statues and quote me in future science texts.
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Watching Jurrasic Park before bed may help...
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I definitely see your point, Fazor.
I remember that movie stressing me out SO badly. Walked out of the theater with an anxiety level and definite nervousness.
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Nope. I've made up my mind. It's proof of retained survival instinct from a long-lost ancestor that we have no other evidence of. Don't try to suggest otherwise.
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I've come up with what I thought was absolutely brilliant music in my dreams, but more likely it has about the same standing as your inventions. On the other hand, I once dreamt a poem that became the basis of a full-length Doctor Who fan fiction story.
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I don't often 'invent' music in my dreams, but there have been a few dreams where I would be playing guitar and be able to play some song I don't actually know how to play. Once I woke up and remembered it well enough to know what chords I was playing, and tried it. It was actually the song . . . though not nearly as good as I was playing it in the dream. Just a basic rhythm riff.
Not that that's "supernatural" or anything. Being able to recognize basic chords in a song and then playing them back is something that any *good* musician can do. I just can't do it very well.
. . . Awake, anyway. :-P
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well, the ancestor probably looked something like this.Nope. I've made up my mind. It's proof of retained survival instinct from a long-lost ancestor that we have no other evidence of. Don't try to suggest otherwise.
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