Barrow-Down Dreams

[Volo]

Had a dream, a part of it had something to do with WW or some depate in it, it was actually very contradicting to what the real situation was, though I can't remember a thing in what way it contradicted, and what.

Another, the bigger, part of the dream was... surprise surprise! Kath coming once again into Finland. She was going to go to some smaller town in Finland, but would stay in Helsinki for a day (Gah, wrote "Day" again...). We went to some museum which was actually in the railwaystation building. It was full of all kinds of medieval stuff. Then we walked in the forest near my house and there Kath reminded me that she wished to see Lommy. I called her and found out that she didn't even know that Kath was in Finland, though Lommy didn't sound surprised in the least but a bit frustrated. Lommy asked how long Kath would stay, and when I told her that Kath would be leaving already the next day, she told that she'd come by to say hello later in the evening. Well, Lommy didn't come after all.

Funny that this time Kath had short hair.

[Lalaith]

Note to self: don't skim-read posts.

I just looked at this in the context of the rest of the discussion

They just re-released Red Tuborg

and thought to myself....I don't remember Abba doing an album called Red Tuborg....

Guy - I'm sorry the Smiths job didn't work out. I'll get my dream-self to call in a few more high street favours, if you like....

[Oddwen]

Two nights ago I had a dream about Lalwende and Davem - except they were living in a Sims house I guess, because in my dream I kept telling Lal to plant strawberries, but she wanted to plant tomatoes and peppers.

They had a huge argument about a greenhouse for their produce, and then I thought "Wait - this is the Sims. I can just cheat their finances up so they can afford one." And so I did.

[Diamond18]

Last night I dreamt that I was watching gymnastics on TV with Rikae and Macalaure. There were incredibly difficult algebraic equations flashing across the bottom of the screen, and these were the scores for the gymnists. Rikae thought it was all very exciting, but Mac was unimpressed. Then the cat woke me up.

[the guy who be short]

Mac should be fond of algebra...

I dreamt that some people were complaining to a postman that he kept delivering letters late. His defence was "Even if I delivered them earlier, people who wake up very early like morm and SpM wouldn't receive them before they left for work."

In a separate dream, The Ka posted a meme on LJ, but it was weird because she removed all the questions and replaced them with keywords instead.

[Volo]

I had an extremely complex BD/WW dream last Night.

At the moment the things I remember are two powerful men (lords of some sort), Boro and Morm having an argument about WW while sitting at a great long wooden table. I sat there on the other side and tried to interfer the talk, but since I didn't have access to a computer that day, I couldn't say anything in the game (although they were discussing there at the same table).

Later I was skiing with Nogrod in a forest outside the castle/house where the earlier discussion took part. I asked Nogrod for advice in WW. The things he told me left me in complete awe in the dream, but now they feel more than funny as one of the wisdoms was "ask questions all the time".

[Diamond18]

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

Mac should be fond of algebra...

Fond, perhaps, but not easily impressed.

[alatar]

Bare with me...like a melting icicle, this post eventually comes to a point.

Sleep escapes me, but dreams rarely do.

Never been much for sleeping. Back in the day, three hours a night was efficient as long as once a week I could catch a power nap for 45 minutes. In the college years this was done in deserted hallways having a bench or two consecutive seats on which to crash. Even with that, still, one eye was always open as you just never knew.

Much older now, and now I wouldn't mind sleeping a bit longer, but the opportunities are few and far between with the kids. Five contiguous hours would be excellent; 5-7 hours in 45-180 minute bites is more the norm. Still, things change, and lately we've been on the upswing.

A typical night has me sleeping on the couch with the youngest. She's been a challenge, and we've (obviously) stood on our heads (while juggling) to keep her asleep and from waking the others. Anyway, she sleeps on one side of the couch, and I sleep half-seated with my feet between her and the edge so that when she wakes up, I know it. Keeps her from hitting the floor. Also keeps me from sleeping deeply.

After that, lately around 3 AM, me and the little one seek out my wife, who may or may not be sleeping in the master bedroom - she may have had to deal with one of the others and nightmares, wet beds and the sometimes coughing fit.

From then I may sleep to sunrise - or not - when I give up and get up to start the day and the coffee.

Side effects of sleep deprivation: being constantly tired (duh!) and being more prone to hallucinations. I've learned to deal with both. On the bad nights (like when I've seen every hour of the clock), I try to skip out on intense activities the next day like brain surgery as you just know you're going to make a mess of it. Oops! The hallucinations are like being color-blind - you know that you're seeing something differently than everyone else, but you learn to work with that version of reality, seeing grey and saying "green" (or, more like seeing a Balrog and saying "box."). The hallucinations aren't really vivid - just for a fleeting moment you see something and, given a million choices, your brain calls it wrong at first glance. Anyway, but that's more like waking dreams in some way, but I've not had any that involved the Downs, and so I digress.

One benefit of being awakened multiple times during the night as one tends to remember more dreams. If you wake up, you remember the last dream that you had. If not, the dream gets overwritten by the next one as you cycle through REM sleep during the night. And if you’re lucky, you can wake up, sort out the last dream a little, add some ‘better’ ideas, and fall back asleep, having front-loaded the imagery. Upon waking again after the next REM cycle, you can have had an even better dream than the first time. Or not.

Another effect of days with no sleep, at least for me, is that I tend to get emotions. Not emotional, as on any normal day I have few to none (they were surgically removed at birth during an experiment gone awry), but emotions. These, to me, are a stranger experience than seeing a car floating through the air. Suddenly I'm sad while watching all of the people leave the warm comfort of their last hope to march out to their freezing deaths, as seen in 'The Day After.'

It’s completely fictional, but at that moment, I care.

Odd, that. Best guess is that my anger towards Peter Jackson regarding Gandalf in the Return of the King Extended Edition was due to momentarily acquiring emotions. Argh! Anyway, so fast forward (or backward if you consider 'now' to be the current time) back to the Downs, back to when the amnesty went into effect. I had been reading some of the uglier posts. Briefly fell asleep, and had one of many dreams that concerned the Barrow Downs, and this one stuck out.

The main detail - I'll skip the list of cameos and description of the setting and surroundings - was that there was a poster, who in my dream was represented as having three heads. Where the face should have been there were…more like wolf, or werewolf heads, as you could see the brown hairy snouts protruding from the nose area, and it wasn't like you could see them if you looked dead on the person. It was only when he/she/it thought that you were looking away that these ghost-like three heads were visible. And it were if the pseudo somewhat visible head inside the three virtual wolf heads shook like it was a video projection from a shaky lens. I felt myself shuddering, as there was more to this person than was apparent. Something was wrong. Sickly dead wrong, as this person sought to cause despair. Dressed well, as so for all intent there seemed to be no problem, but there were the teeth, the sharp teeth of a predator which you could only see when you weren't supposed to.

I woke with the feeling that there was a wolf loose amongst the sheep that graze the green pastures of the Downs. A virtual wolf, looking to kill, to mindstomp, and soon it would begin stacking up prey, like (I presume) in the werewolf games where each morning brings bad tidings. Said nothing at that time - but due to those darned emotions I actually considered this to be some evidence that there was a problem. So I said nothing, and watched and waited, but found nothing. But still...

...just can't shake the feeling that there’s a wolf about.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I dreamt last night, between dreams of an ex coming back to haunt me, having to take another math class, accidentally vandalizing the apartment my parents lived in when I was like two, and somehow being at a water park where there was cream instead of water, that my brother's girlfriend created an account here and posted something that was intelligent up until the last paragraph, which was frightening.

She was banned shortly thereafter.

[the guy who be short]

Originally Posted by Hookbill

It does worry me how often I turn up in your subconscious doing odd and stupid things...

No need to worry. Everybody does odd and stupid things in my dreams, especially me!

[Thinlómien]

I had a dream that I now remember only vaguely. I was holding some sort of BD meeting in my home. All the guests (Fea, morm, who was called Molli or Molly, by the way, Rikae and some other people, but I don't remember who they were) were in the living room, chatting, but I was in my and my sister's room because I had to do something annoying, clean the room or change clothes or something like that. Happily, one of my guests, Mith, was keeping me company. I was a bit annoyed because I had to waste time on the stupid things and could not talk with my guests. Mith sat on my sister's bed and tried to cheer me up.
Mac was constantly sending me either PMs or smses (I don't remember which) saying he was so sorry he couldn't come and asking things like "what's up?" and "how is the party?". In the end I however managed to be done with my duties and I and Mith joined the others and we all ate dinner with my mum and my sister, and I thought it was wrong that they were there, because they aren't 'downers.

[the guy who be short]

TGWBS' dreams:
Feanor 11
Hookbill 6
kath 6
Lhuna 6
formendacil 5
littlemanpoet 5
Saucepan Man 5
Encaitare 4
Eomer of the rohirrim 4
mormegil 4
mithalwen 4
the phantom 4
Anguirel 3
Brinniel 3
lalwende 3
orominuialwen 3
Rikae 3
Barrow Wight 2
davem 2
Diamond 2
Durelin 2
Lalaith 2
Mac 2
nilp 2
Oddwen 2
the only real estel 2
Thinlomien 2
Alatar 1
beren87 1
boromir 1
bucktardo 1
Celuien 1
dancing spawn of ungoliant 1
Farael 1
Firefoot 1
Fordim 1
Gilgalad 1
glingleglingleglinglefairy 1
Guinevere 1
Heren Istarion 1
holbytlass 1
Meneltarmacil 1
Nogrod 1
piosenniel 1
Rune 1
Shelob 1
sleepy ranger 1
the KA 1
wilwarin 1

TGWBS: 49 different people in dreams. 121 dream-people. 89 total dreams. Average 1.36 people per dream. 1 new person dreamt of every 1.82 dreams. Started dreaming 19/05/2005 (809 days ago), so 1 new dream every 9.1 days.

Oddwen's Dreams:
TGWBS - 10
Diamond18 - 7
EomerotR - 5
Hookbill - 4
Thinlomien - 4
Davem - 3
Fea - 3
Formy - 3
Lalwende - 3
Mithalwen - 3
Nilp - 3
the phantom - 3
Bethberry - 2
B88 - 2
Estelyn - 2
Glirdan - 2
Gurthang - 2
Menel - 2
SPM - 2
TorEstel - 2
Volo - 2
Bethberry 1
Da BW - 1
Durelin - 1
Elf-warrior - 1
Encai 1
Kath 1
malkatoj - 1
Nogrod - 1
Oliphaunts_rule - 1
Spawn 1
TomBrady12 - 1
Zali of Willowbottom 1

Oddwen: 33 different people in dreams. 81 dream-people. 41 total dreams. Average 1.98 people per dream. 1 new person dreamt of every 1.24 dreams. Started dreaming 17/05/2005 (811 says ago), so 1 dream every 19.8 days.

Lommy's dreams:
Kath - 9
Anguirel - 6
mithalwen - 6
Rikae - 6
Rune - 6
Macalaure - 5
mormegil - 5
Spm - 5
Boro88 - 4
Dancing Spawn of Ungoliant - 4
Diamond - 3
eomer - 3
Lhunardawen - 3
LMP - 3
Roa - 3
Aganzir 2
Celuien - 2
durelin - 2
Fea - 2
Glirdan - 2
Legate - 2
Sleepy Ranger - 2
tgwbs - 2
alatar - 1
Cailin - 1
Caranlondien - 1
Dunwen - 1
Estelyn Telcontar - 1
Firefoot - 1
Fordim - 1
Hookbill 1
Jenny - 1
kuruharan - 1
Lalaith 1
Lalwende - 1
menel - 1
Nilp - 1
Paavo - 1
piosenniel - 1
the phantom - 1
Wilwarin - 1

Lommy: 41 different people in dreams. 104 dream-people. 52 total dreams. Average 2.00 people per dream. 1 new person dreamt of every 1.27 dreams. Started dreaming 01/06/2005 (825 days ago), so 1 new dream every 15.9 days.

So, in conclusion, as of today:
Lommy: 41 different people in dreams. 104 dream-people. 52 total dreams. Average 2.00 people per dream. 1 new person dreamt of every 1.27 dreams. Started dreaming 01/06/2005 (825 days ago), so 1 new dream every 15.9 days.
Oddwen: 33 different people in dreams. 81 dream-people. 41 total dreams. Average 1.98 people per dream. 1 new person dreamt of every 1.24 dreams. Started dreaming 17/05/2005 (811 says ago), so 1 dream every 19.8 days.
TGWBS: 49 different people in dreams. 121 dream-people. 89 total dreams. Average 1.36 people per dream. 1 new person dreamt of every 1.82 dreams. Started dreaming 19/05/2005 (809 days ago), so 1 new dream every 9.1 days.

Compared to this on 14/05/2007
TGWBS: 43 different people in dreams. 86 dream-people. 68 total dreams. Average 1.26 people per dream. 1 new person dreamt of every 1.58 dreams. Started dreaming 19/05/2005 (725 days ago), so 1 new dream every 10.7 days.
Oddwen: 29 different people in dreams. 66 dream-people. 34 total dreams. Average 1.94 people per dream. 1 new person dreamt of every 1.17 dreams. Started dreaming 17/05/2005 (727 says ago), so 1 dream every 21.4 days.
Lommy: 40 different people in dreams. 82 dream-people. 43 total dreams. Average 1.91 people per dream. 1 new person dreamt of every 1.10 dreams. Started dreaming 01/06/2005 (713 days ago), so 1 new dream every 16.6 days.

Compared to this on 21/03/2007:
TGWBS: 38 different people in dreams. 75 dream-people. 60 total dreams. Average 1.25 people per dream. 1 new person dreamt of every 1.58 dreams.
Oddwen: 28 different people in dreams. 62 dream-people. 31 total dreams. Average 2 people per dream. 1 new person dreamt of every 1.11 dreams.
Lommy: 28 different people in dreams. 51 dream-people. 27 total dreams. Average 1.89 people per dream. 1 new person dreamt of every 0.96 dreams.

Some graphs to come...

[Lhunardawen]

Does anyone know how to recover lost BD-dreaming (and dream-recalling) abilities? I swear I had at least a couple of BD dreams during the past few months, but I could never remember who was involved in what.

Jay's and Lommy's lists beat Oddwen's because I'm not in hers.

[Rikae]

Originally Posted by Diamond18

Last night I dreamt that I was watching gymnastics on TV with Rikae and Macalaure. There were incredibly difficult algebraic equations flashing across the bottom of the screen, and these were the scores for the gymnists. Rikae thought it was all very exciting, but Mac was unimpressed. Then the cat woke me up.

Algebra is much more exciting to Lit majors, methinks.

[the guy who be short]

I had yet another incredibly boring dream last night; I think I only report these to keep my dream-count ahead of Lommy's.

I was on LJ (again) and Oddwen posted yet another of those memes where you enter your LJname, and it comes up with random things about people on your friendlist. This one was to see who her internet-family were. I remember she was excited because I came out as her internet-brother.

[Thinlómien]

First dream consisted of me talking in MSN with three 'downers. I don't remember what I talked about with Mith. I had just killed Kath in ww (I was a wolf) and she said to me: "Well, I guess I'm flattered, but I can't imagine myself eating any female person, you know." Before I could reply to her, she went off and the pop-up window (where the discussion had been) vanished. I was writing some word and when the window vanished, the end of the word was actually written to a new window, where I should have said hi to Cel. So, instead of "hello" I said her "rawly". She answered "rawly" with no surprise, it seems she thought it was just a new way of greeting she hadn't come across with before.

In the other dream I wondered what my ww-role should be. Hookbill insisted I must be a married dwarf. I said I didn't want to be a married dwarf, but an orc from the Borneo rainforest.

Explanations?

edit: Now I remember what I talked about with Mith. She said she had seen Boro in RL and I was surprised because I didn't know that.