Barrow-Down Dreams

[Glirdan]

So this morning, I was up at about 9am after going to bed at like 3am (oh summer, what have you done to my sleeping patterns!?!?) and decided I was going to take a nap.

Once I fell asleep I somehow drifted back to the land that was Bostonmoot, back in Nienna and Brinn apartment. Only difference was that for some reason, their apartment was in Toronto, Ontario, and not Boston, Massachusetts. And for some reason, I had a bought a ticket to go down to go see the Finns but I never bought a ticket to go back home. I remember that I was sitting at the kitchen table with Wilwa and Boro for sure and I believe Rune, Shasta and Alona were all standing in the kitchen and Wilwa and I were supposed to leave the next day to go home. Only problem was I didn't have a previously paid for ticket OR money to buy one. And I kept saying stuff like "I didn't want to buy a ticket because I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to go!"

I also vaguely remember Fea phantom, Brinn, Nienna and Formy all walking into the kitchen at random points just to listen to my madness.

Oh, and the Finns never showed up :P

[Thinlómien]

Glirdan, you're mean.
tp, you're hilarious.

Writing two dreams before I forget them...

In the first one, there was some sort of 'downer convention. I was talking with THE Ka and she said, looking slightly embarrassed: "Apparently Aganzir thinks I have nice bones." (You who don't know, she actually really does have some sort of obsession on hip bones. Dont know why. Btw the italics represent a very specific way of pronouncing the word "bone" which makes it means hip bone especially.) I nodded: "I'm not surprised. I always knew you must have nice hip bones, otherwise she wouldn't like you so much." Agan happened to be near and said: "Oh yes, she has nice bones. But not everybody has. For example Kath doesn't have very nice ones." Poor Kath was unhappy and ran away to sulk, but a big 'downer group (with me, Boro and Nog among others) surrounded her and gave her a mass hug to make her feel better and forget Agan's evil words.

In the other dream Nog, Greenie, Agan and me were travelling in the States by foot and accompanied by Boro and a stray dog called Cleveland. We passed by a zoo and stopped at the parking lot in front of it. Boro wanted to go in the zoo and take his own dog with him (the dog didn't feature in the dream before). "Wait!" we cried. "They will kill your dog if you take it to the zoo because they don't want any foreign bacteria to their animals!" But Boro had already walked too far and didn't hear us and soon diappeared behind all the cars. I had to stop him. "Cleveland! Find Boro!" I shouted. The dog obeyed me and started running towards the zoo gate. The leash was too short, so I was almost dragged behind the dog since he was running faster than me. I realised I had to let go of Cleveland so he could run and find Boro before it was too late and I could always come to them later and explain the situation. The dream ended with me letting go of Cleveland's leash, but when I woke up I knew Cleveland had managed to stop Boro and he and his dog were safe.

As so many times before, I'm tempted to ask what would Freud say...

[Boromir88]

Wow, a happily ending dream that doesn't see me being torn apart by rabid nationalistic zoo animals. I like your dreams Lommy.

As far as what Freud would say...clearly the stray dog being named Cleveland means you miss Ohio, and you want to stop back here again, so I can take you to the Cleveland Natural History Museum. Fabulous place that it is.

P.S. received my powercord, and letter. Glad you're all having much fun on your There and Back again journey.

[the phantom]

Yesterday I had a dream about Hurt & Heal, featuring Mac, Tuor, and Pitchwife (and others I cannot recall). Perhaps you won't find this dream entertaining, but it's definitely one of my favorites.

We were playing with some sort of new Hurt & Heal system set forth by Mormegil. The rule was, whichever category we picked (Ainu, Monsters, Lonely Mt Dwarves, etc), we had to include ALL characters that qualified. Given that fact, we obviously had to be more specific- eg rather than "Elves", we would have to go with "Elves of Doriath".

Well, someone (I believe it was Mac) suggested that the new thread be "Men of Brethil", and this idea was well received by everyone. I, on the other hand, was dead set against it, as I had my own ideas I wished to put forward, and so I tried to convince everyone that "Men of Brethil" was a bad idea.

(We weren't having this talk on the Downs, but rather on some sort of voice-chat thingy on the computer.)

My primary argument was that there were simply too many men of Brethil, and that our list would be far too lengthy. Naturally this point was contested and Tuor asked me to start naming them to see if my point was true. I started rattling them off- "Turin, Niniel, Dorlas, Brandir, Ebor, Manthor, Avranc, Hardang, Handir, Hareth, Haleth, Haldad, Haldan..."

I was doing well, but I realized there were only a dozen or so left, and that I'd have to look up half of them to be able to name them, and even then it certainly would not be enough to push the total up to an amount that would discourage my fellow Downers from playing the game. In short, I was definitely on the losing end of the argument.

So I did what any decent chap would do in this situation- I started making up names.

Realizing that there were so many beginning with "H-A-L", I figured I could come up with a score or so of real-sounding false names, and if I rattled them off quickly and with confidence perhaps they would be accepted. So, I proceeded, mixing in false names with a couple of real ones- "Halbir, Haldar, Halbad, Halbeth, Halden..." (I was doing splendidly!) "...Halran, Haldorn, Halmir, Halbuguz, Haldir..." (Crap! Did I really just suggest "Halbuguz"? I hope no one caught that.) "...Haldin, Halthan, Halrad-"

"Wait a minute!" Pitch interjected. "Halbuguz?"

Crap. Busted.

And then I woke up. And frankly, upon waking I was still rather upset with myself for my slip-up. "Yeesh, that was stupid. Halbuguz? I mean, really, you're supposed to be smarter than that, Phantom! *grumble grumble* Man, I'm an idiot. *eye roll* Seriously, Halbuguz?"

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I had a dream the other night involving Folwren had an electric tea kettle. The dream involved her saying that she didn't know anything about electric tea kettles until Aganzir informed her of them. Folwren said that she got hers from eBay, but, unfortunately, it was only 140 volts, and didn't heat water up as fast as its British counterpart.

The strange thing is, I don't even know if Folwren drinks tea...

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

I don't remember really anything about it other than Aganzir was doing something dastardly and we all enjoyed watching her do it.

That isn't really out of ordinary, you know!

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

"Apparently Aganzir thinks I have nice bones." (You who don't know, she actually really does have some sort of obsession on hip bones. Dont know why. Btw the italics represent a very specific way of pronouncing the word "bone" which makes it means hip bone especially.)

Because I like all kind of things that protrude from one's body (ie. noses)? I think they're aesthetic. However I don't think I touched anybody's hip bones (at least on purpose) during the trip! So I can't really tell you what I thought of Ka's or Kath's.

Originally Posted by the phantom

So I did what any decent chap would do in this situation- I started making up names.
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"Wait a minute!" Pitch interjected. "Halbuguz?"

Hahaha that's hilarious!

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

she didn't know anything about electric tea kettles until Aganzir informed her of them.

It's definitely easier to make tea with an electric kettle!

I had a couple of short dreams during the last month. It's likely I actually had more, but I can't remember anything else.

I had a dream I had bought a Moomin book to Fea but forgot to give it to her when I met her and found it in my backpack a week or two later. I was sorry I hadn't given her anything, but when I woke up I realised that wasn't quite the case.

Then I had a dream we Finns visited Shasta's mother who was a rather interesting person. I couldn't for the life in me remember Shasta's name and called him by Gwath's name. That was very weird of my subconscious because I never thought they resemble each other particularly much.

In the last dream I remember, I found out Inziladun was in fact Bill Clinton.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

That isn't really out of ordinary, you know!

I know.

It's definitely easier to make tea with an electric kettle!

It is indeed! I only wish I owned one...

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

In the last dream I remember, I found out Inziladun was in fact Bill Clinton.

I don't think I look like him! And if I'd been acting like him, my wife would probably not be as serene about it as Hilary was.