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Thinlómien

01-31-2009, 08:27 AM

Just face it, Lommy. Everyone at one stage in their BD life has had a crush on you! At least all the Americans have (your subconscious said it first).Oh goodness. :D But like Agan claims, the Europeans like me even better. ;)

I had two BD dreams last night. The first one involved Legate, The Might, Gollum and a girl 'downer who looked like Amy Winehouse coming to Finland at the same time. Not much happened expect TM and the Amy Winehouse girl obviously had something going on between them, and so did Greenie and Gollum. (Poor Greenie, always paired up by people's dreams. :D)

I also had a dream that involved a ww game that involved hunting deer and driving rally. Rikae, Fea and tp were wolves, Mac was the cobbler and Rune, Menel and Agan were some sort of gifted, probably seer, ranger and hunter, respectively.

the phantom

01-31-2009, 01:33 PM

Just face it, Lommy. Everyone at one stage in their BD life has had a crush on you!
Are you trying to tell us something, Groin?

Careful lad. Legate will fly over here and behead you. Trust me, he's very on edge about this sort of thing. He once warned me that he'd kill me if I didn't stop talking to Lommy every day. I was talking to her every day because we were Werewolves together. But he didn't care. No explanation was good enough.

So yeah, we just had to finish out the Werewolf game without speaking. Quite difficult. But I wasn't about to put my life at risk.

And now I shall share a very odd dream that I had last weekend. I was running a fever at the time, and we all know that sick-dreams are totally weird and awesome.

So I was at my church. My dad was playing the piano as usual. And I was playing the drums as usual. Nothing weird so far.

Then someone announces that Aganzir has arrived, and that she will be performing "The Lion King". The music starts. I'm playing along. I can't see Agan (my view is blocked by something) but I can hear her. And then the song changes (I don't even know what song it was originally) and Agan is playing a great violin solo. And my drum set somehow changes into a piano, and I continue to play it with my drum sticks, hoping that no one will notice.

And then Agan is playing a guitar (quite well, I might add). And one of my drum sticks changes into my violin bow and I'm suddenly holding a violin, and naturally I'm supposed to take over the part Agan had just been playing. Then I recognize the song- "Dead to the World" by Nightwish. And Aganzir and I proceed to totally rock.

And I wake up. The music is still playing in my head.

The end.

(good luck making any kind of sense out of that)

Groin Redbeard

01-31-2009, 02:21 PM

*Draws myself up with a look of displeasure* All of us? All of us Americans??? Or do you mean all the Texans?
I am just interpreting what her conscience is telling her.;)

We Texans are very hot blooded about our women, it comes from living in 90 degree weather all year 'round. Lommy lives too far north for my taste. She would want a penguin for a pet!:eek:

Careful lad. Legate will fly over here and behead you. Trust me, he's very on edge about this sort of thing. He once warned me that he'd kill me if I didn't stop talking to Lommy every day. I was talking to her every day because we were Werewolves together. But he didn't care. No explanation was good enough. Speaking of him, I dreamed I fought Legate the other night!:D He was climbing some sort of lamppost and hacking at me with a sword. I chopped the lamppost down, but he fell on me with his sword!

Maybe Legate is trying to send me messages with his mind, phantom!

Legate of Amon Lanc

01-31-2009, 03:52 PM

Careful lad. Legate will fly over here and behead you.
What? Texas sword massacre?

Speaking of him, I dreamed I fought Legate the other night!:D He was climbing some sort of lamppost and hacking at me with a sword. I chopped the lamppost down, but he fell on me with his sword!

Maybe Legate is trying to send me messages with his mind, phantom!

Oh my!! But still getting better with your dreams, Groin! And it's not the first time somebody would dream of me fighting people with a sword - I'm beginning to wonder if I should not start to consider these dreams as important...
Which makes me wonder, where can one easily pick up a sword...

But I can ensure you I am not sending you any messages with my mind, Groin. I could always write you a serious PM, eh?

Thinlómien

02-01-2009, 12:10 PM

But should I be flattered? :rolleyes: :Merisu:

(Although this makes me a little worried - this is not the first time I am discussed in this tone on this thread... ;))

Kitanna

02-01-2009, 05:51 PM

A few nights ago I had a Barrow Downs dream, unfortunately I can't remember it. What I do remember is Rune as Karl Marx and Abe Lincoln had formed a super hero group together.

Rune Son of Bjarne

02-01-2009, 06:24 PM

Scchhh. . .my true identity must not be revealed!

Thinlómien

02-04-2009, 11:55 AM

My subconscious goes murderous again... I'm so sorry... :D I dreamt that Groin died and his obituary said "He looked like an Elf"... :D Sorry Groin... :D

Aganzir

02-07-2009, 09:12 AM

I had a dream tgwbs went to the same school with me and on our way to the metro station after school we talked about the organic shop run by Nogrod.

Groin Redbeard

02-07-2009, 02:05 PM

My subconscious goes murderous again... I'm so sorry... I dreamt that Groin died and his obituary said "He looked like an Elf"... :D Sorry Groin... Heaven forbid it!:eek: Aule preserve me!

I actually went to the mirror to see if I did look like an Elf after I read that!:D

Eönwë

02-08-2009, 09:44 AM

I had a Barrow-Downs dream last night, but I can't remember much except that we were actually living a Werewolf game.

Feanor of the Peredhil

02-09-2009, 08:56 AM

I had a dream this morning, shortly before waking up, in which Rikae was scheduled to read her Master's thesis publicly. So I went, and listened, and I think we may have been on a boat, however I also think there were a lot of bookshelves. She was still pregnant in my dream, and as she read the first twenty pages or so (sorry, dear, I don't remember what any of it was about), I listened to two older gentlemen who were standing, partially obscured, by the shelves. They said something about her being a very promising student, I think.

Then there was a party after, and the only person I knew was my own personal Kelly, and from across the room/boat I heard Rikae call, "Person I don't recognize!"

And I looked up, and she said, "You must be Fea, since I know everybody else."

And then I introduced Rikae and my Kelly, and we all chatted for a bit, and Rik told me that Mac was at home napping.

TheGreatElvenWarrior

02-12-2009, 05:10 PM

So, I just had to post this... Even though I'm on the school's computer and technically not allowed to do this...

I had a dream the other night that I decided that for some reason I was going to get myself a new account on the BD, I was typing in my new username which had something to do with penguins, or pandas... Anyway, my friend was at my house and wanted to put exclamation points after the words... I let her, but I got annoyed... I can't remember what happened next though... Lachrymose.

Rune Son of Bjarne

02-15-2009, 07:23 AM

I had a Barrow-Down Dream this morning, but suprisingly it was not totaly obscure. . .nobody had turned into a tomato or anything of the sort.

I dreamt I was waching telly and as I was searching the channels I noticed that Brinniel was on danish tv2. She was participating in the danish version of "Who wants to be a millionaire" and she had reached the final question, of course she got it right and won the million. My reaction was to sit down infront of the computer and start creating a congratulations threat on The Barrow-Downs.

When i awoke I sat down infront of the computer in order to finnish the threat, it took me a while to figure out that it is sunday(who wants to be a millionaire is on mondays) and that it had all been a dream.

Rikae

03-02-2009, 02:20 PM

I just came here to post the dream I had, and noticed Fea's - it's a bit scary, considering that by the next to last night of Shasta's game, I knew her role precisely because I knew the role of everyone else. (Yep, I kept my promise not to dream of you, Fea!)

Now, I've been hoping to have a 'downs dream I could post for quite some time, and now when I have one, it's about the one 'downer who doesn't need his ego inflated any further than it already is. :rolleyes: Well, anyway:

I dreamed that the phantom (the cartoon one featured in Hookbill's newspaper, not the young man in formal wear that we know from Volo's photo page) had some kind of illegal, underground business involving trains. So he painted a car like an old-fashioned train engine and drove through town in it, and when someone asked why, he said "I'm advertising my business". There were, of course, no legal repercussions, because he's the phantom. ;)

Hookbill the Goomba

03-02-2009, 02:40 PM

I dreamed that the phantom (the cartoon one featured in Hookbill's newspaper, not the young man in formal wear that we know from Volo's photo page) had some kind of illegal, underground business involving trains. So he painted a car like an old-fashioned train engine and drove through town in it, and when someone asked why, he said "I'm advertising my business". There were, of course, no legal repercussions, because he's the phantom. ;)

Blast! You've just given away the plot for volume 57 of The Phantom and Alien. ;) :p

Oddwen

03-25-2009, 07:34 PM

I seem to have had two in sequence dreams in the past week or so. The only Downer involved whom I remember is the phantom - last night, we were racing on roller skates and beating each other with hockey sticks. He was making a good pace even with the oversized flowy cloak. The helmet kind of ruined the look though.

Oddwen

03-29-2009, 12:15 PM

Mkay. So. Apparently me & my family were taking a trip, and we decided to stop at this nasty rundown strip mall. On the sign, rather falling down, I see a dull orange sign that reads "Phantom and Alien".

"Sweet!" I say.

"Ugh," my sister says, but I drag her in anyway.

The place is very tiny, very dark, and very crowded. There's some non-Downer minding the counter, who informs me that Hookbill is not in this day. I peer into the back*, but there's no-one there. I am crushed.

Then, a young lady named Wilwarin6538 rushes in, late for her shift.

Me and my sister buy some Alien-shaped chocolates, which hopefully do not contain wasps. As we are leaving, we hear news of dictator-for-life Kath's illness.

*Ugh, typical customer behavior.

Hookbill the Goomba

03-29-2009, 12:35 PM

Mkay. So. Apparently me & my family were taking a trip, and we decided to stop at this nasty rundown strip mall. On the sign, rather falling down, I see a dull orange sign that reads "Phantom and Alien".

"Sweet!" I say.

"Ugh," my sister says, but I drag her in anyway.

The place is very tiny, very dark, and very crowded.

If there ever was a shop dedicated to The Phantom and Alien, I would make sure it was as run down and dark as that. It seems to fit. :D
But those Alien chocolates were probably made with medical waist. ;)

Mnemosyne

03-29-2009, 12:41 PM

If there ever was a shop dedicated to The Phantom and Alien, I would make sure it was as run down and dark as that. It seems to fit. :D
But those Alien chocolates were probably made with medical waist. ;)

I hope you'll carry Spring Surprise.

TheGreatElvenWarrior

03-31-2009, 03:54 PM

TheGreatElvenWarrior

04-09-2009, 03:44 PM

I hate to double post but...

I had this dream the other night that apparently had Eonwe in it. My family and I had ventured into London, but for some reason it looked rather like some place in the states, although I cannot pin point where (also there were photos of American footballs on the walls of buildings) Anyway, we were walking and there was a ferocious battle happening, and Eonwe was right in the middle of it, or so I thought. I was talking to him when he had spare time, and he told me that he didn't know anyone named "Eonwe".

I should also mention this here:
About a week ago I had a dream involving Hookbill, though I cannot remember exactly what happened, but it had something to do with hills, and it scared me.

Oddwen

04-09-2009, 06:53 PM

About a week ago I had a dream involving Hookbill, though I cannot remember exactly what happened, but it had something to do with hills, and it scared me.

Were they...book hills? :eek:

Aganzir

04-10-2009, 09:16 AM

Last night I had a dream I visited Nerwen who lived in a two-storey house in the middle of a desert. She had several cats, at least two horses, and a SUV. I think her house was wooden and painted either light yellow or light green.

Aganzir

04-11-2009, 05:12 AM

I had a dream Bêthberry had been locked in my room and destroyed my bed, a bookshelf and a painting while trying to get out. Then Kent2010 and a newbie whose name started with T began to flirt with her.

Also, Nilp followed me and threatened me with suicide.

Aganzir

04-18-2009, 06:11 AM

It seems I'm triple-posting...

Anyway, last night I had a dream Shasta got kicked out of school and was almost hit by a car right after that. When I met him shortly thereafter, he was sitting on a bench, utterly exhausted. One of his teachers came and started yelling at him, so I had to carry him to another bench.

A few nights ago I also had a dream I learned Nerwen was studying in Helsinki. I wondered why she hadn't told us since it would be nice to meet her.

Formendacil

04-20-2009, 11:09 AM

It's rare enough when I remember a dream, rarer when that dream is about Downers, but I had one last night.

Not that it was an especially exciting dream, plotwise... basically, it consisted of me chatting with Fea--except that I wasn't actually chatting, but was instead standing beside her while she was doing computer stuff, talking to her in much the same manner as if we were chatting online. I think Fea may have been on the Downs, werewolfing or something, but apparently it didn't interest me.

So, instead, when, as most chatversations do, we hit a lull, I started wandering around her massive computer room--apparently the top floor of a luxury skyscraper or something. She had your command computer station in the centre of the room, lit up, while the rest was unlit, and mostly empty--although there was a computer monitor in a nook on the wall, like a search for books station in a major bookstore or library.

For whatever reason, boredom maybe, I went to see what was being shown on the monitor, and ended up getting a rather Del Toro-esque tour of the "world of eyeballs" that ended with some very freaky octopus-arms that had eyeballs instead of suckers, and which apparently some massive spiders in South America have--and there was one in the display case next to the computer.

This thoroughly gave me the jibblies, and Fea was kind enough to dispassionately take a moment out of her whatever-she-was-doing on the computer to tell me it wasn't so bad.

I know that Nienna was also haunting this place, but she ignored me completely.

Thinlómien

04-20-2009, 11:21 AM

I dreamt that alatar, ably assisted by Folwren, sent me a rather belated birthday letter. It was in a green envelope and something like one cm thick (one cm = a bit less than half an inch for you ignorant Americans ;)). They had also sent brief letters to Noggie and Greenie so that they wouldn't get jealous. :D The letter included the actual letter written by alatar and Folwren, lots of photos, mostly of Finduilas and Mith ("Mith is not going to like this," I thought when finding out about it) and a card that had lots of 'downers' names - Boro, phantom, Shasta, sally, Fea at least - and said that they had not been able to write to me themselves but alatar had promised to put their names to the letter for me.

Quite a nice dream, eh? :)

Mnemosyne

04-20-2009, 11:41 AM

Finally got my first dream, and boy was it weird. Actually, weird because it was relatively normal... if that makes any sense whatsoever...

Somehow I was talking to Legate (online, I think), even though I have never done so in my life. Maybe I was griping about the state of affairs in the world or maybe just in America (I've been drenching myself in right-wing propaganda lately) and Legate explained that he was considering eventually immigrating to America and then began to explain, quite eloquently, how it was still a land of great opportunity in a rather touching modernized display of that old "melting pot" idea that made me so nostalgic I forgot about my complaints (a lot of Czechs settled the area I'm currently living in, so yeah).

And the first question I asked him in response was "So when will your blushing bride be coming over to join you?" :eek::eek::eek:

And then I began planning all of the 'Downer meetings that could take place as a result. *facepalm*

What this says about me: Apparently I am highly nationalistic and a shipper at heart?

So, Legate, I ask you: when will we Americans have the opportunity of attending your wedding? (pleasedontkillmepleasedontkillmepleasedontkillme)

Legate of Amon Lanc

04-20-2009, 12:30 PM

So, Legate, I ask you: when will we Americans have the opportunity of attending your wedding? (pleasedontkillmepleasedontkillmepleasedontkillme)

*kills*

*makes a duck soup and saves it for the wedding*

(Hereby the answer ;) )

Aganzir

04-20-2009, 01:48 PM

*kills*

*makes a duck soup and saves it for the wedding*

(Hereby the answer ;) )
You know, duck soup goes bad quickly. ;)

(Annina says: Don't steal our honey! :D)

I had a dream I was eating pork and at some point I realised it was actually Rune.

Mnemosyne

04-20-2009, 02:52 PM

You know, duck soup goes bad quickly. ;)[/B].

Ship it to a subarctic clime and let it freeze outside to keep it from going bad (or, you know, just stick it in the freezer). Soups' flavors are supposed to improve with age.

...Why am I telling you this?

Thinlómien

04-20-2009, 03:00 PM

...Why am I telling you this?Because no one wants to eat rotten duck soup. Seriously. ;)

satansaloser2005

04-21-2009, 12:07 AM

I had a dream last night that Fea held a press conference at which several of us were in attendance. Phantom was in charge of security, with one of those Secret Service communicators in his ear and everything.

Of course we all thought the press conference would be about something huge and Earth-shattering, like Fea had decided to stop flirting during Werewolf games or something. Nope. She wanted us all to know she was getting rid of her LJ.

Random much?

Mithalwen

04-23-2009, 11:21 AM

I had a BD dream last night - I had to organise a meeting of Rune and Kath in London and go up my self for some reason taking three Newfoundland dogs. They were meant to be puppies but were absolutely enormous but very sweet.
Then I got a big envelope from Aganzir which had lots of notes in tiny writing on slips of paper like post-it notes but not sticky which fell out , but the main thing was a calendar which I was a bit puzzled by because it was the one I had (in the dream) sent her for Christmas and I couldn't understand why she had sent it back to me but covered in notes (the calendar is real it is however the one my Australian cousin sends me!).

I didn't get a chance to read any of the messages because the phone was ringing again and the dogs were pulling me in the other direction. Then I woke up.

Rune Son of Bjarne

04-23-2009, 03:41 PM

Even in dreams me and Kath's planned meetings ends up as failures. . .it cannot be a good sign.

satansaloser2005

04-23-2009, 03:46 PM

Even in dreams me and Kath's planned meetings ends up as failures. . .it cannot be a good sign.

*blinks*

I read that as me and Kath's planned weddings....:rolleyes:

:Merisu:

Eönwë

04-23-2009, 04:58 PM

I read that as me and Kath's planned weddings....

not such a rare occasion nowadays, is it? ;)

satansaloser2005

04-23-2009, 05:19 PM

not such a rare occasion nowadays, is it? ;)

Aw, Steve, that's nice, but I'm not interested.

(Sorry. I know, I'm a horrible person. I just couldn't resist)

I had a Barrow Downs daydream today during class. Does that count? ;)

Kent2010

04-23-2009, 05:25 PM

Then Kent2010 and a newbie whose name started with T began to flirt with her.
-Agan
I am curious to know how I appeared in your dream? What did I look like? :D

I must say though that is the first time I have ever been accused of flirting or at least to be so overt about it that everyone can tell. :p

Aganzir

04-24-2009, 10:31 AM

I am curious to know how I appeared in your dream? What did I look like? :D

I must say though that is the first time I have ever been accused of flirting or at least to be so overt about it that everyone can tell. :p
I don't remember. I can't even remember if I was there to witness it, or if I just learned you had done so, or if it happened on the forum.
And haha my subconscious is like that.

**

Anyway I have no idea how I've had this many BD dreams lately, but I had yet one last night. We were playing werewolf in person. It wasn't any BD get-together, the game just happened really. Kath and sally lived next door, and I lived with Nog. I was a wolf with Kath, and while everyone else was asleep, we rummaged through decks of playing cards and tried to find out who was the seer, wondering if it meant something that Nog (who was snoring loud in another room) had drawn the Narya icon on one of his cards.

Then about five other players (don't remember who) woke up and joined us for tea, and Kath and I tried to pretend it was by a mere chance that we were awake at 4am. Fortunately they didn't suspect anything and we got to continue killing later.

But it was cool to be a wolf. We were able to make enormous leaps.

Mithalwen

04-27-2009, 11:49 AM

Even in dreams me and Kath's planned meetings ends up as failures. . .it cannot be a good sign.

I don't think the dream lasted long enough for it to be classed as a failed meeting...certainly there hadn't been quite as many phonecalls as last time :Merisu: A good omen maybe that the day after I met a Newfie - not a regular occurence ...

Thinlómien

04-27-2009, 12:20 PM

I dreamt that I was studying in a Philippine Uni and doing some courses with Lhuna... don't remember much, except that she was funny and had a Romanian friend whose name she could not pronounce. Nilp also showed up at the campus, but he was just slacking around, and somehow I found out his e-mail address was ilovefinland@yahoo.com. :rolleyes::D

the phantom

04-27-2009, 12:48 PM

During my WW game I had an interesting dream.

I was a Werewolf and so was Greenie and we were plotting our kill. She suggested offing Lommy and Legate. (I have no idea why we were somehow able to kill two people in one night.)

However, I disagreed with her kill choice for personal reasons. "Lommy and Legate refused to be in my last Werewolf game. I think they don't like me very much. Killing them would just make things worse." I was feeling very blue indeed. What did I do to them? I'm always nice, aren't I?

Greenie patted me on the back and said, "Oh no, Phantom, you're being silly. Lommy and Legate love you. They really do."

"Really?" I asked, in need of more reassurance.

"Of course," said Greenie with an encouraging smile. "Besides, it's time for those two to go."

Now in real life that wouldn't have worked. Such a quick transition between "Aw, poor Phantom" and "We should kill them" would sound quite suspicious, and make her reassurances look very insincere indeed, but in the dream it worked just fine. Even looking back I'm not actually sure if she was meaning to lie to me or not. And I'm certain this has something to do with getting a dozen PMs or so from Nog which all contained some variation of "Greenie is sneaky" and "Greenie scares me".

Thinlómien

05-02-2009, 02:27 PM

I had a rather scary and intriguing dream last night. (And one more 'downer got killed by subconscious. :rolleyes: )

I was living together with Lari and Mira and some other girls, possibly Nienna, Fea, Brinn and/or Aganzir. We lived next to a graveyard where there were buried many people who had committed suicide. The graveyard depressed Lari a lot, and one day she just went there and did not return.

A bit later, I was walking past the graveyard and saw an old woman sitting there. I realised I had seen her there several times before, so I went to ask her what is she doing in the graveyard. "I'm looking for a spirit who took her own life because she could not bear the anguish of the dead anymore," the woman replied. "Lari," I said reflexively, realising she must have killed herself. The woman grinned maliciously. "Now I have a name to call her with and I can summon her!" she laughed. "Lari, I bid you to come." And Lari's ghost came. "Now, kill her," the woman commanded and pointed at me. Lari's face turned purple, because she did not want to kill me and she was trying to fight against the command. "You cannot command her for you don't know her full name!" I shouted at the woman, and then I turned to Lari and said: "Lariren Shadow, do not attack me!" And she didn't.

The old woman was very displeased by this, so she summoned the guardian of the graveyard, a warrior spirit from the Middle Ages. He was a huge man wielding a two-handed sword. Lari drew her sword too and they started fighting. Lari was losing, the man was stronger and more skilled, and the hem of her dress was so long that she kept almost tripping over it. "I'm sorry..." Lari cried while fighting. "I never was as good at sword fighting as Mira." She was parrying more and more weakly: the man had the high ground. I realised Lari could not last long unless she'd manage to get to the high ground. But as long as the man was aiming ferocious blows at her all the time, she had no way of doing anything else but parrying.

So, I had to interfere. Desperately, I drew my fruit knife with an extraordinarily short blade and started stabbing the man's thigh. He paid me hardly any attention, until he did what I wanted: tried to get rid of the nuisance and aimed a horrible strike at my direction. I knew all along I had no way of parrying it with the fruit knife, nor could I properly duck it. He hit me on my hip and there was a horrible wound. Before he could attack me again, Lari, who was now on the high ground and behind his back, started attacking him again and he had to face her. I continued hitting him with the fruit knife and finally, I had my knife at his throat. "Shall I kill him?" I asked.

"It is not fair if you kill him, it is not a fair duel if you interfere!" the old woman shouted. I shrugged. "I know... and I even couldn't kill him with this pitiful knife."

And then, I woke up. I never discovered how the fight ended, which is quite sad. However, I think the dream was rather cool (despite poor Lari committing suicide) and I especially like how it could be read as a reflection of one of my favourite scenes in LotR... ;)

Thinlómien

05-03-2009, 12:37 PM

Hahahaha, I had a dream that Mirandir was desperately in love with the phantom and was ranting about how she'll miss him (because he was leaving the 'downs for a week or so) on her LiveJournal. :D

alatar

05-03-2009, 08:34 PM

I dreamt that alatar, ably assisted by Folwren, sent me a rather belated birthday letter. It was in a green envelope and something like one cm thick (one cm = a bit less than half an inch for you ignorant Americans ;))
Belated, I can believe, as I lack a calender and am genetically predisposed to not know what day it is. Ignorance of the metric system, such as relating cm to inches, ("It'll never catch on...tis only a fad."), that too may be true. But *writing* a letter...now that surely is the stuff of dreams, not that I cannot 'write,' but that my handwriting is not so much 'atrocious' but more 'very specific to the writer's needs.'

Legate of Amon Lanc

05-04-2009, 03:49 AM

Today I had a dream about the Tears of Mirrormere RPG, it was so that Groin wrote a post about some Dwarves in Erebor, one of them was Thorin Oakenshield, discussing the fact that Moria has apparently been overrun. Thorin actually said that "it has been a year since the Orcs breached the gates of Moria", and I thought "ah, now I see, so the plan was to actually leave the situation now and move one year further... so I guess now Thorin and the other Dwarves are coming to help, while the rest of the Dwarves in Moria are driven further and further into Khazad-Dum? But I wonder, is this canonical? In the sense that - should not Frár, Lóni and Náli have died already during the first attack of the Orcs - you surely can't tell me the Dwarves are holding the Bridge for the whole year!"

Well, an interesting dream it was...

TheGreatElvenWarrior

05-10-2009, 11:45 AM

Last night I had a very strange BD dream, well two dreams really.
The first one was rather uneventful, I had just gone onto this website and it said the only two people that weren't members were Hookbill and Lommy.
In the second dream, I was hired to make cardboard cut-outs of BDers. I made a cut-out of Rune, Volo, and Legate. I had to apologise to Rune, in person, because his wasn't finished. Although when I walked over to get it out of a train car, it was. Apparently it was finished by Laurinque...

Strange dreams....

wilwarin538

05-27-2009, 08:04 AM

I had an interesting dream last night. I dreamt that my Latin teacher gave us an assignment and it was to design a unique Werewolf game. :rolleyes: It included all the rules to how the game should work and such, since people in my class wouldn't know how it worked. When I saw the assignment I was shocked and approached him, figuring he had to be a Downer. He ended up being Nilp. :eek: Obviously not the real Nilp, since he is far younger then my teacher...perhaps one of his "other" personalities ran off to Canada...:p

mormegil

05-27-2009, 08:43 AM

The other night I had a dream that Kath and I ran into each other. I have no idea where I was, although the latter part of that dream I was in Brazil so it may have been we were both down there. Anyway I introduced Kath as 'Kath' to my wife and kids. We were just shaking hands and then my dream shifted and Kath was no longer there.

TheGreatElvenWarrior

05-27-2009, 10:54 AM

I had a dream about Hook and Oddwen a couple nights ago. They came over to my house, and while I was trying to entertain them, my mum told me to a take a shower, I was not pleased. Of course, when this was happening, I was trying to pawn my little brother's TARDIS t shirt off on Hookbill because he likes Doctor Who. (Well, it think that 'like' is an understatement) Athought, for some reason, I don't think my little brothers clothing would fit Hookbill.
Don't know what happened to Oddwen though...

Oddwen

05-27-2009, 11:26 AM

Don't know what happened to Oddwen though...

*gulp*

satansaloser2005

05-30-2009, 08:13 PM

Hahahaha, I had a dream that Mirandir was desperately in love with the phantom and was ranting about how she'll miss him (because he was leaving the 'downs for a week or so) on her LiveJournal.

Why are you reading my LJ?!?! And how dare you confuse me with Mira!!!!:mad:

Don't know what happened to Oddwen though...

I ate her.

*gulp*

Exactly. :p

In other news I had a dream about Rikae. I was in my house, playing around on facebook, and just happened to see a post from her when my door bell rang. I went to answer it and it was her! So I let her in and after saying 'thanks for coming over' or whatever I look at her and all of a sudden fainted. Just from being in the same room with her. You know what that means....

++RIKAE

++RIKAE

Clearly a telepathic wolf child. :Merisu:

Anyway, when I woke up I had my blanket covering my face like I was a six year old hiding from monsters or something. It was....interesting.

TheGreatElvenWarrior

05-31-2009, 09:57 PM

*gulp*Nothing bad, of course.

I ate her.
Exactly.

Oddwen

05-31-2009, 11:06 PM

I dreamed that Groin Redbeard (though he had Eonwe's avatar) posted a new topic urgently requesting news of his favorite webcomic, which hadn't updated in a long time. I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to reply to him that the last news post from them had been over a year ago, and to give up already. One such attempt was to put the reply in some sort of video, which was stupid. I don't think I ever succeeded in replying.

The webcomic involved penguin characters somehow.

Boromir88

06-02-2009, 10:27 AM

I had a terrifying werewolf dream.

I was at home, and in RL I am irrationally afraid of my one neighbour, so in my dream somehow that meant that I thought he was a werewolf. I heard all this clanging and banging from across the street, and walked into my neighbours yard with my shotgun (no silver bullets though, so not sure why I believed that would help?) The door burst open and out came my neighbour who was transforming into a WW (it was like Lupin as a werewolf - but I haven't watched HP in ages so...who knows?) I turned and ran back towards my house, and he chased. Then little Max came running around from the back, and I was yelling for him to go inside, because eventhough he barks up a storm about everything he is a big wimp. So, Max was barking and then he cowered at the sight of the WW, but the WW began to chase him. I fired two shots, I guess I hit him with one, because the WW turned and came back after me. It's only a single shot, so I went to reload and then the cliffhanger, I woke up.

satansaloser2005

06-03-2009, 09:12 AM

Heh. Nice one, Boro. ;)

So I had a dream about the Hurt and Heal thread last night. No joke. Apparently when I woke up the game was over already and I'd missed this huge flurry of cross-post slaughtering. Morm's trying to sort through all the posts to determine a winner, and it ended up being....me. Lol needless to say he accused me of cheating.

Thinlómien

06-03-2009, 04:05 PM

I had a weird dream that included me, Noggie, Greenie, Agan, Legate, Volo and Boro running around my school, robbing role garments and accidentally alarming the guards by pushing the "Crime" button on the elevator. :D

I also had an even weirder dream full of scary things and I was appointed "the Barrow-Downs Mommy" at some point there. :rolleyes: *blames Boro and Agan*

Eönwë

06-11-2009, 03:51 PM

I had a dream in which Noggie found a way and decided to reset his post count, so that it would say that he'd only posted 363 posts. His reasoning was that it made him seem like a more respectable member or something...

Well, it made sense in the dream...

Boromir88

06-18-2009, 07:58 AM

Very odd dream, it doesn't make sense and it cuts off in the middle, but I guess that's what dreams typically do. :rolleyes:

So...Lommy, Rikae, Mac, my friend Erica, and myself were in The Hub (it's this foodcourt place on my campus). Rikae and Mac were talking about how for a foodcourt, the Asian place was pretty good (and if you really were to eat there, I would probably agree, for campus foods...it's one of the better places). The real action was going on across the table though, where Lommy had this large metal bucket, full of water, and she was ripping open/dumping in all these salt packets. She was trying to convince us that a mixtur of salt and water was better at putting out fires than just water.

All of us looked confused, but Erica (who's a Lab tech and wants to eventually be in forensics) was arguing about how it doesn't make any sense...water will put out fire by itself, mixing in salt did nothing. Lommy said it was magic and she was going to prove it, because this could put out dragon fire, and regular water wouldn't.

It cuts to us being outside, Mac and Rikae, no longer with us (I guess they had no interest in dragons, and their fire being squelched by Lommy's salt water :p). Anyway, it had cut to being outside, Erica and Lommy were running way ahead of me, and yelling at me to keep up because they didn't want to be late (late for what...who knows?), but somehow I was the one who got stuck with carrying the bucket of salt-water, so it wasn't that easy. And the last 'leg' of the dream, sally is out there selling apples. She was trying to get me to buy her last apple so she could go home, but due to Lommy and Erica hastling me to catch up, I really had no time to hear about apples or to buy one and so I just left sally there and hopefully she would sell that apple soon enough. (I bet it was poisoned anyway! :p)

The end.

Thinlómien

06-18-2009, 08:48 AM

Hahaha, Boro, that was an interesting dream. Now I know what to do if I ever meet a dragon. :D

Mithalwen

06-18-2009, 08:53 AM

Maybe dragons "are" simply giant fire breathing slugs...

TheGreatElvenWarrior

06-18-2009, 03:22 PM

I had a dream about Paper Telephone two nights ago. I had a dream that instead of passing Paper Telephone through the internet, we sent it by the post! It was all on paper and at the end all of the drawings and sentences were not sent, but given to me by Nogrod! And all of the people playing Paper Telephone were there. I remember that on Hookbill's picture, he had put a black and white photo of his face on it that reminded my of William Hartnell.:eek:

Hookbill the Goomba

06-18-2009, 03:31 PM

I remember that on Hookbill's picture, he had put a black and white photo of his face on it that reminded my of William Hartnell.:eek:

It wasn't THIS (http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1830/91/9/508873931/n508873931_1287833_884.jpg) picture by any chance was it? :p

TheGreatElvenWarrior

06-18-2009, 04:21 PM

It wasn't THIS (http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1830/91/9/508873931/n508873931_1287833_884.jpg) picture by any chance was it? :pIt might have been, I don't remember anymore. Of course, I have seen that picture previously. It might've been on your blog... Who knows. *shrugs*:D

Oddwen

06-18-2009, 08:25 PM

I dreamed a few nights ago that The Barrow-Wight sent out invitations to a large Downer gathering overseas. I was very upset because it would be fairly impossible for me to go overseas, so I was working hard to get one set up here in the states.

I remember campaigning for the meeting to be in Wyoming, and running around crying "Formendacil! Brinniel! Gwathagor! We can make this happen!".

Hookbill the Goomba

06-22-2009, 05:40 PM

I had a dream about Ents a few nights ago! There was something about some endangered creatures living in our back garden and I had to find them. To help me in the search, the phantom, Kath and Squatter came along. Although, the phantom was annoyed at me the whole time for not making him awesome enough in the comic strips. :(
When we did find the creatures, an Ent came along and took the little squirrel-like thing away. I followed the Ent through the village and he eventually came back to my house and asked for some tea.
Then I woke up. I had left my curtains open, which is unusual, but I looked out of the window and saw next door's tree swaying quite a lot. For one, brief but magical second, I almost believed it was an ent. :)

Oddwen

06-22-2009, 06:36 PM

When we did find the creatures, an Ent came along and took the little squirrel-like thing away.

Sounds like Ents dislike chat-skwerlz just as much as our moderators. :D

Feanor of the Peredhil

06-28-2009, 08:06 AM

I'd noticed that I had a few PMs from Mith regarding something that may or may not have gone on between me and Eomer. I ignored them, partly because I had a dinner date with the phantom's family, and I was running a bit late, and partly because I had no idea what she was talking about and figured I could sort it out later.

At the phantom's: his mother and father look suspiciously like my aunt and uncle, though they most definitely are not, and the phantom most definitely isn't my cousin, and lo! there is an adopted baby in his household as well as theirs. While his mum cooks dinner, his dad plays with the baby in the extremely elaborate dining room (think long dark wood table, heavily ornate, with high backed chairs and oil paintings on the walls).

I wander the house and come across-

His pretty blond sister in the shower!

Mildly embarassed, I tell myself it wasn't my fault, because she was showering with the door open, and I really couldn't have avoided seeing her without her clothes on, not unless I'd stayed in the dining room or something...

After dinner - which flew by in the sort of rush only dreams can provide - the phantom and I were upstairs. Fade to black.

Next thing I know, I'm at home (dream home, which resembles nowhere I've ever been), and I'm on the Downs and I check my PMs, and there are like 13 new ones. There are the three from Mith about me and Eomer, then there are two from people who want to know the truth of what happened in that fade-to-black moment, and there's one from Morsul saying something completely unrelated to any of it, and (gasp!) The Barrow-Wight himself sent me a PM titled 'teh Phantdom???' And some newbs have also sent me PMs that want to know things about me, and then-

I wake up.

:eek:

:Merisu:

Morsul the Dark

06-28-2009, 08:12 AM

Me, random? Ah we've never met, yet you know me so well!
:p

Edit: ... of course now I'm curious what I PMed you about...hmm...

Legate of Amon Lanc

07-07-2009, 07:16 AM

I just came home and my brother told me: "This week, on the night from Saturday to Sunday, I had a dream... that I picked up a girl on Fungoltch and Shcmurt!"

The dream, he says, went like that he was in metro and at one station, he walked around some girl, who was just saying something that sounded like "Fungoltch". He turned to her and asked: "Fungoltch and Shcmurt?" And she was like, "Yes", and then she went into a carriage and he shouted after her: "Moldutch!" and she replied: "Gimifril!" (for reference, see Fungoltch&Shcmurt comic strip #3) And then she came back and they started to talk.

Hookbill the Goomba

07-07-2009, 08:00 AM

I had a really weird dream the other night...

The phantom, Esty, Legate, Lommy and I were in a disused hospital being chased by a gang of thugs lead by Simon Pegg. :confused:
We spent a lot of time rushing up and down corridor and bundling through weird barriers until, at last, it came to a final showdown where the phantom stabbed mr Pegg in the heart with a load of old syringes. Lommy and I had to drag the body into the garden. Legate and Esty were left to fight off the rest of the thugs.
When we got back it turned out that Legate had been taken hostage and was being questioned in one of the underground cellars.
We rushed down there, passing many wards full of skeletons in lab coats, cobwebs and rats. Legate was refusing to answer any of the questions and eventually bit one of the questioner's hands off! :eek:
We managed to rescue Legate by getting Esty to distract them with a tuba. Once we got back to the outside, the police were surrounding the hospital. Davem and Lalwende were there, but they talked the police out of arresting us.
That was nice of them.

Make of that what you will...

Nerwen

07-11-2009, 07:20 AM

A few nights ago I had a dream where THE Ka turned out to be a representative– or maybe the CEO– of "Ka Industries", a powerful and highly sinister multinational entity which had something to do with snakes. Everyone was quite shocked.

Pitchwife

07-14-2009, 11:05 AM

It's finally happened! After six and a half months of virtual undeath, I had my first Barrow-Down Dream.
During today's afternoon nap, I met davem at a calligraphy workshop. It was in a pub, and my non-Downer wife was there too, besides several nondescript other people. We were supposed to turn a page-long text - preferably a quotation from Tolkien - into an illuminated medieval-style manuscript. davem (who looked only vaguely like his picture on the photo page, but I recognized him although we've never met in RL) was dissatisfied with his own writing and drawing skills and said his attempt "looked like Orc's work" (which didn't do it justice), while I realized that I had forgotten to do my homework and composed a nonsense text that read a lot like Five-Word Story instead of illuminating.
(Obviously inspired by the 'Elvish' Silmarillion thread)

the phantom

07-28-2009, 11:04 AM

I had an interesting dream last night.

I woke up, went to my computer to check the Downs, and found that I had about five or six green rep boxes next to my name (and a couple were bright green). I wondered how this had happened so suddenly, so I went to check my reps.

I only had ONE new rep, and it alone was somehow responsible for leaping me up several hundred points. The rep was this-
"Hee hee. Look how powerful my rep is now! :) ~Legate"

I went to view Legate's profile, and he had rows upon rows of bright green rep boxes, and he had also started a thread in each sub-forum entitled "Look at my boxes!"
it came to a final showdown where the phantom stabbed mr Pegg in the heart
But I love Simon Pegg's films! :(

Oh, and Fea, in your dream I hope you didn't mind being introduced to the family. They insisted upon meeting you before we had any "fading to black" moments. ;)

Feanor of the Peredhil

07-28-2009, 01:14 PM

Oh, and Fea, in your dream I hope you didn't mind being introduced to the family. They insisted upon meeting you before we had any "fading to black" moments. ;)

That's family for you... :Merisu:

TheGreatElvenWarrior

07-29-2009, 02:41 PM

I had a rather interesting dream last night...
Last night I dreamed (among other things) that I was hired to babysit lal and davem's child, their female child. I remember telling her about her parents on the BD how much better they made this website. I then proceeded to tell her that I was a BDer too, she was not very impressed. I took her out somewhere and she climbed up this rope and that is where I stopped dreaming about that...
This child, who does not exist had a very strange name too. It reminded me of Nienor... But it wasn't.

satansaloser2005

07-29-2009, 03:22 PM

Last night/early this morning I dreamed I had a creepy boyfriend/stalker. He didn't meet me on the Downs nor did he seem to even have a Downs account, but somehow every time I logged in I had like thirty reps of a creepy (read, mostly inappropriate and occasionally illegal:eek:) nature, all from him.

Boromir88

07-30-2009, 09:05 AM

I had a very strange dream about a 'Downer who I doubt was ever a member, and I hope she never will be.

Name was SlythGirl and she was a total Harry Potter fan, and that's all she wanted to talk about on the 'Downs. I had a PM from her asking if I would go to this HP convention. And as I was leaving my house (for some unknown reason) SlythGirl must have been stalking me, because she was outside, grabbed on to me and tried to drag me away to her HP party, or whatever it was...she kind of looked like Loony Lovegood, only dirty blonde hair.

The End

Please don't try to explain this to me, I would hate to be the cause of anyone's trauma. :rolleyes:

Rikae

07-30-2009, 09:37 AM

The other night, I dreamed that Mac and I were hosting a party (actually, I think it was another wedding reception), and this guy who looked like Nogrod showed up and started complaining that the food was cold. I gave him a reheated bowl of the lentil soup Mac made for dinner on Monday. :p

Nogrod

07-30-2009, 12:06 PM

I clearly wrote too much about cooking in the last WW-game... :rolleyes:

Oddwen

08-04-2009, 10:21 AM

Last night I dreamed I was one of the privileged first few people to view volume one of TheGreatElvenWarrior's webcomic.

It revolved around this man who pranked the wrong radio station, and "won the prize" of being king over a whole other world. The guy was force-marched across across an icy world to this castle, where he found more than he bargained for in his queen and subjects. He was still learning their rudimentary magic when war broke out between his kingdom and the GIANT DEATH ROBOTS next door.

The drawings were fluid and graceful, the action well-packed, and the Second Doctor kept making his way in there somehow. Two thumbs up, TGEW, and I can't wait to read volume two. :D

TheGreatElvenWarrior

08-04-2009, 01:49 PM

Thinlómien

08-16-2009, 06:31 AM

While I was on InterRail, I had a dream where Sally was dressed up in a rococo-style dress and teasing Anguirel, which in my opinion served him right because I thought he looks too much like Barack Obama.

Go figure. :D

Rune Son of Bjarne

08-17-2009, 11:50 AM

I had a dream about Encai last night.

I was in New York and walking down Amsterdam Avenue, apparently I was supposed to meet Encai there. . . The setting all of the sudden changed into a beach in Miami. Here i found Encai relaxing with some friends, we all went to dinner with my father and then we went biking on the beach.

wilwarin538

08-19-2009, 06:38 AM

I had a very simple dream last night.

I dreamt that I checked on the current WW game at the end of a Night phase, and Boro had simply posted "ToNight the villains killed 4 people." And the number 4 was written in blue for some reason. And that was it, I never discovered who the 4 were, or how it was even possible for them to kill that many at once.

Mysterious. :eek::p

Boromir88

08-19-2009, 08:32 AM

Mysterious.
Or your continued paranoia that I will miss the DL has now grown to implementing whatever I feel like and you are trying to usurp me! Usurper! :p

Interesting enough, I had a BD-related dream yesterday. I rarely remember dreams and the BD ones seem to be fewer in number, but this was very clear and very strange.

I need to set up a bit, because well I just like the drama and suspense, plus the BD dreams typically follow a pattern and I don't know why...

1. There is some sort of involvement with fictional monsters, like werewolves and dragons. The recent one involved vampires.

2. Sally always appears in a cameo role. She somehow invades my dreams, but serves no purpose to the story, she's just always there. :p

Ok...dream time.

Alona and myself went to a giant Taco-John, this was the largest one I had ever been to. We ordered and sally was the cashier. There was no exchange of words, sally simply took my money, put it in her pocket and walked away. (In real life this would seem very strange to me, but apparently my dream-self had no problem with this)

Alona's got a table, and what was strange is we were the only 2 people there, I have never seen a Taco-John that wasn't at least half-full, and this place was a mega Taco-John. I go on an epic adventure in search of a bathroom, and enter this long, unlit corridor. I pass open doorway, after open doorway until one of the rooms was quite clearly the kitchen. Hey it was Lommy and Agan! I didn't know they worked at Taco-John. I was super-excited, until they saw me and looked like I was fresh meat for them. That is when a guy with the strange resemblance of this dude (http://www.buddytv.com/battleimages/usr3409917/3409917_82cdd3f8-cc26-47ec-a192-f53405e4a89e-dr.carlisle-cullen.jpg) from Twilight came in and he was telling me to leave. Then he was calmly talking to Lommy and Agan about resisting the sweet smell and getting back to work.

The End. (I guess I smell sweet to Lommy and Agan vamps! :p)

I bet I had this dream because I saw Twilight for the 1st time about 3 days ago, and was not impressed with it...I do not understand the hype with that movie.

alonariel

08-19-2009, 03:43 PM

I bet I had this dream because I saw Twilight for the 1st time about 3 days ago, and was not impressed with it...I do not understand the hype with that movie.

You're my hero for saying that.

And after only a couple conversations, I have already invaded your subconscious. My plan seems to be working... *evil cackle*

alonariel

08-19-2009, 03:47 PM

Alona and myself went to a giant Taco-John, this was the largest one I had ever been to. We ordered and sally was the cashier. There was no exchange of words, sally simply took my money, put it in her pocket and walked away. (In real life this would seem very strange to me, but apparently my dream-self had no problem with this)

Alona's got a table, and what was strange is we were the only 2 people there, I have never seen a Taco-John that wasn't at least half-full, and this place was a mega Taco-John. I go on an epic adventure in search of a bathroom, and enter this long, unlit corridor. I pass open doorway, after open doorway until one of the rooms was quite clearly the kitchen. Hey it was Lommy and Agan! I didn't know they worked at Taco-John. I was super-excited, until they saw me and looked like I was fresh meat for them. That is when a guy with the strange resemblance of this dude (http://www.buddytv.com/battleimages/usr3409917/3409917_82cdd3f8-cc26-47ec-a192-f53405e4a89e-dr.carlisle-cullen.jpg) from Twilight came in and he was telling me to leave. Then he was calmly talking to Lommy and Agan about resisting the sweet smell and getting back to work.

The End.

A Taco-John? I've never been to one of those, heh. So we walk in, order (hi, Sally!) and then grab a table? Sounds like a first date. ;) Then you ditch me - Boro, how dare you! - and run into a couple vampires. Then you wake up.

Well, obviously Twilight has got you in its claws. Quick! Read something substantive that doesn't kill brain cells and promotes mental illness!

satansaloser2005

08-19-2009, 03:50 PM

1. There is some sort of involvement with fictional monsters, like werewolves and dragons. The recent one involved vampires.

2. Sally always appears in a cameo role. She somehow invades my dreams, but serves no purpose to the story, she's just always there. :p

Well I am rather pale....:eek:

And I knew you couldn't get me out of your head. :Merisu:

Boromir88

08-19-2009, 04:49 PM

And after only a couple conversations, I have already invaded your subconscious. My plan seems to be working... *evil cackle*
You shouldn't consider it a big victory. It doesn't take much to invade my subconscious. If you are interesting or mysterious enough to spark my curiosity, you're a sure lock to be in my dreams.

A Taco-John? I've never been to one of those, heh. So we walk in, order (hi, Sally!) and then grab a table? Sounds like a first date. ;) Then you ditch me - Boro, how dare you! - and run into a couple vampires. Then you wake up.

Well, obviously Twilight has got you in its claws. Quick! Read something substantive that doesn't kill brain cells and promotes mental illness!

Well for anyone who doesn't know, I just want to tell you I would never take anyone to a Taco-John for a first date. It may sound intriguing, but all it is a Taco Bell and Long John Silvers in one location. I've seen 2 in my area, but I don't know if it's all that common across the country. Taco-Johns, Long John Tacos, Long Taco Silvers...whatever you call it, I would definitely take you to a different place. Plus, I'd like to point out, I was in search of a restroom, that is not ditching...it just so happened, on my search, I found the vampires Lommy and Agan.

*runs to pick up his stained, tarred up, loose pages copy of Lord of the Rings*

And I knew you couldn't get me out of your head. :Merisu:
The thing is, is I don't even know if you were a vampire...I don't even know if you were actually the cashier. You were just there, took my money, and then gone. The strangest part being I was completely fine with that in the dream. I seriously hope your random appearances continue, because those provide some of the most amusing parts in my dreams. :D

Thinlómien

08-19-2009, 04:52 PM

*starts stalking Boro in hopes of getting to bite him* :p

satansaloser2005

08-19-2009, 05:05 PM

Om nom nom....:rolleyes:

Is it just me or is Boro saying he hopes I'm in bed with him more often?:Merisu:

(Yes, that was below me, but I liked it. Hehe.)

wilwarin538

08-19-2009, 05:53 PM

Or your continued paranoia that I will miss the DL has now grown to implementing whatever I feel like and you are trying to usurp me! Usurper! :p

Stop trying to foil all my evil plans!!! Foiler! :p

Laurinquë

08-20-2009, 06:03 AM

I woke up at 3:30 this morning after a rather odd dream. I dreamt that davem lived only a few miles from my house and that I had walked over there to have tea with him. Upon arrival, I apparently decided that the best course of action would be to sit on top of his car and wait for him to come out - which he did shortly and I was treated to a very puzzled look.

I woke up as soon as he looked at me; and all I can recall about him is that I had taken some liberties with his appearance. My subconscious needs to spend more time on the Barrow-Downs photo page I think. ;)

Laurinquë

08-20-2009, 09:39 AM

So I went back to sleep only yo have MORE Barrow-Downs dreams. Lots and lots of them.

First, I dreamed that I met Hakon (in the dream an ebullient ten year-old) in an outdoor cafe in Seaward, AK where we discussed salmon and had to duck every time this bizarre helicopter/kayak (it turned into a kayak when it touched water) circled over or heads. In the end I broke the helicopter/kayak by throwing a cracker into its engine. Hakon did not approve of this.

Then the dream switched to kitchen which I was doing a terrible job sweeping for Ibrîniðilpathânezel (or was is it Gwathagor?) before we threw a massive Barrow-Downer party. Whose ever house it was I remember that the person had a lot of children and vegetable marrows, which were growing all over their house, and I kept tripping over them.

I do not remember much from the party we threw, and I recall that I was confused in my dream about why the dream kept switching about from place to place and why I didn't remember how I got there. What I know is that all the European Downers were there and that a good time was had.

And than suddenly we (we being Nogrod, Thinlómien, A Little Green, The Phantom, Brinniel and others I don't remember) were at this GIANT church thing. You had to take this rail car to go from one end to the other. I'm not sure, but I think we may have been there to hear Formendacil give Mass or something. Then, very realistically, I realised I had forgotten my camera started to go into hysterics before The Phantom offered to let me use he use his iPhone. I remember squealing "Oh thank you, thank you so much! I have no idea how to use it!"

The last dream I had before the alarm clock went off (noo!) was one where Brinniel and I were driving at high speeds down a road going through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The mountains were indescribably beautiful and very realistic in my dream; mist clinging to the tops of them and steep valleys dividing the serrated peaks. Huge rocks lined road and we had to swerve around boulders and drive over tiny rope bridges (I was annoyed with Brinn because she kept pointing out things of interest instead of looking where she was driving.) and all while the road became narrower and narrower. There were also a good deal of vegetable marrows growing along side the road too, do not inquire.

And that's it for my night on the Barrow-Downs. I have to go to school now. :(

Eönwë

08-20-2009, 10:58 AM

I have to go to school now. :(
You start school that early in the year?

Mnemosyne

08-20-2009, 02:36 PM

You start school that early in the year?

Welcome to the States, comrade.

Eönwë

08-20-2009, 02:42 PM

Welcome to the States, comrade.

But then again, you start your holidays so much earlier.

Thinlómien

08-20-2009, 03:10 PM

I had a long dream which is escaping me, I remember Roman soldiers carrying an orphan baby around looking for a caretaker for him, an imaginary 'downer girl who wore eyeliner on her eyeballs (eww), a murder mystery in my grandparents' house and most amusingly, a very very malicious looking Form dressed in black trousers and a clean white shirt and his cheeks looking very red. Quite a nice mess, eh?

Aganzir

08-23-2009, 07:14 AM

Boromir88

08-23-2009, 03:19 PM

In my dream Boro dreaded sharp objects, such as needles - and swords. Not knowing this, I jokingly placed a sword on his throat (he was just randomly sitting somewhere and I happened to pass by with a sword). It provoked a reaction I didn't expect: he started wriggling and shaking so violently that I sort of lost my control of the weapon and it made a cut on his lower lip. He looked bewildered but I comforted him by telling I sometimes bite my lips to make them bleed since I so enjoy the taste. :)

Interesting Agan...hmm, many people are dreaming of me lately and they all seem to be the strangest of things, it's kind of funny, yet disturbing at the same time. Oh, and I do not like needles one bit, definitely not, but swords I have no problem with. Well, I should say swords that don't chop off my lips! :p

Aganzir

08-23-2009, 03:28 PM

Nah I don't think that dream was weird compared to some others I've had of you.

Hurting people and blood are completely normal dream topics for me. :smokin:

Hakon

08-24-2009, 10:40 AM

I had my first Barrow Downs related dream last night. What I can remember is that it took place in some random village and a husband and wife turned out to be Nazgul. They were getting hunted by the village. They both had robes like the black ones the Nazgul have on in the movies except the woman's were purple and her husband's were orange. The barrow downs related part is that the husband Nazgul was Boro. That is all I can remember, I know there was more but I can't remember it.

Boromir88

08-25-2009, 10:32 AM

The barrow downs related part is that the husband Nazgul was Boro. That is all I can remember, I know there was more but I can't remember it.

Ooh you think I'm a black-robed agent of despair, me likes. :p If you could only remember the mysterious wife, it would be perfect. :D

Although it's really difficult to remember dreams. The day after someone leaked a desire to me about shooting stray cats (awful I know :rolleyes: ), I had some foggy dream that I don't recall all that well...it just involved Mith, Fea, and me at a store and something to do with cats. That's all I remember.

Mithalwen

08-25-2009, 10:52 AM

Well I think I dare speak for Fea on this one, as well as myself, if we had been around cats would not have been being shot...

Hakon

08-25-2009, 12:53 PM

Ooh you think I'm a black-robed agent of despair, me likes. :p If you could only remember the mysterious wife, it would be perfect. :D

I remember the wife was a downer just not which one.

Last night I had another somewhat barrow downs related dream. I don't remember any of it just a note I found this morning that I wrote to myself. Which lists out something about a big second story room with wood floors, weird plants and a younger me in a shirt I recently bought. It also says I was in the room with someone I used to know, a girl named Chloe and TGEW. The note also says that apparently I was viewing the dream as if it was a video playing on the hulu websites video player. That style of a video.

Boromir88

08-25-2009, 07:16 PM

Well I think I dare speak for Fea on this one, as well as myself, if we had been around cats would not have been being shot...

I haven't heard of anyone shooting cats inside a store, but I guess in my dreams anything is possible. Considering Lommy going from someone who wants to go on a search for a dragon to a blood-sucking vampire. But I assure you it had nothing to do with shooting cats. We were in the checkout, and it's the only part of the dream I can remember...someone talking about the proper way to groom cats.

Laurinquë

08-26-2009, 12:15 AM

I remember the wife was a downer just not which one.

Last night I had another somewhat barrow downs related dream. I don't remember any of it just a note I found this morning that I wrote to myself. Which lists out something about a big second story room with wood floors, weird plants and a younger me in a shirt I recently bought. It also says I was in the room with someone I used to know, a girl named Chloe and TGEW. The note also says that apparently I was viewing the dream as if it was a video playing on the hulu websites video player. That style of a video.

I'm sure TheGreatElvenWarrior will be thrilled you dreamed of her! For your short time on the Downs you really seem to be worming your way into many dreams - been in any cafés in Seaward lately? :p

A Little Green

08-26-2009, 01:50 AM

I had a dream a few nights ago that some "veteran" 'Downer started a thread called "Annoying new members" or something like that where older 'Downers ranted about how the BD used to be a nicer place with nicer people and which specific new members they dislike. I was very shocked because I had always regarded the 'Downs as a friendly and welcoming community.

Then, fortunately, I woke up and was happy to realise that no such thread exists.

Morsul the Dark

08-26-2009, 06:02 AM

Boromir88

08-26-2009, 09:16 AM

Then, fortunately, I woke up and was happy to realise that no such thread exists.

One does...you just have to have the super-secret password. :eek: *Goes to check what I said about Greenie in the mystery thread when she first joined* :p

Feanor of the Peredhil

09-04-2009, 09:35 AM

I dreamed we (me, Nienna, Brinniel, Mira, Lari...) hosted a massive Barrowdowner party. Now as some of you know, this isn't so far from the potential truth.

But in my dream, instead of everybody arriving to Boston, the party was at some house in Oriskany Falls, NY. O'Falls is a very little town, just a few hundred people, and new people visiting would be noticed right away. Especially if you have accents.

So in my dream, I'm actually napping when everyone arrives. I wake up in time to see Volo, Rune, Agan, and a bunch of others who I can't remember to identify now, but were definitely Barrowdowners.

I get dressed. Jeans and a camisole. Strangely, the same outfit I was wearing yesterday.

I welcome everybody properly.

There is a party in the parking lot of a grocery store that used to be called Tucker's. The town seems very curious. We invite them to join us. Rune is an excellent dancer. I think Encaitare is there. By this point, there are at least 30 Barrowdowners, and somebody says something about writing classes, and I say, "You want to talk to them," pointing out half of my grad school, who've apparently been dancing on the fringes for quite some time now, "they're all writers."

Then I remembered that I needed something from home, so I left the party at a jog, on the far side of the road, hoping inexplicably that nobody would see me jogging, and crossed the road, and went down North Street, and now this is where it gets a little wonky. The house I was aiming for was one I lived in as a little kid. It's green, and it's right after the large building that houses a couple shops, the bank, and the post office. I pass those buildings, and find a green house, step up onto the porch and realize I'm at the wrong place. So I go farther down the road, wondering if my distances are messed up because I usually do this in a car and now I'm on foot. I get far enough down North Main to see the house that marks where the road that goes to Grandma's house cuts across, then I go back and try to figure out where my house went.

Except by this time, the ground is covered in snow and ice. So I'm slogging my way back, and there are kids on ice skates, and there's this one little girl with a sled that keeps intentionally ramming it into the backs of my feet while I walk.

I try to get them to go away. They tell me some sob story or something, I don't know, but by the time I get back to where my house is supposed to be (between the post office and Cruella's house (her name wasn't really Cruella, but she was terribly mean to us as children, earning her the nickname))... The house isn't there, it's really cold, it's sleeting, and there are kids on ice skates trying to run over my feet with the blades.

I get to the corner across from the parking lot where I left the party and lo! Everybody's gone home. The town is deserted. Just me, and some creepy little children that want to run my feet over.

/Barrowdowns dream

Eönwë

09-04-2009, 11:40 AM

Scary stuff, Fea.

Feanor of the Peredhil

09-04-2009, 02:45 PM

What? It was nice, except for the creepy ice skate kids...

Eönwë

09-04-2009, 03:38 PM

Well, I meant the ending. Reminds me a bit of the short Ray Bradbury story where the man gets turned into a child again... can't remember the name now.

Hakon

09-05-2009, 12:47 AM

I had my first werewolf related dream and third barrow downs dream. Well sort of werewolf related. Well the only werewolf related part is the words Night Guard.

The dream was in some fantasy world and it took place in a castle where some guy named Lord James lived. In the dream a young man named Steven informs the lord the Night Guard is in place. Oh and in the dream Steven is Eönwë. Anyway after Steven informs the lord, the lord then asks Steven if that is the case then who is coming into the room now. They both look and it is another young man who mocks James saying quote "They are coming for you. Only this time not for your money but for your soul. Your pitiful soul." Anyway then the mans own sword stabs him in the stomach, I think it was James that did that. Anyway the dream ended with a oily substance leaking from the dead mans body and entering the room from the corridor and the sound of a beast slowly making its way to the room. It can be heard crawling and dragging itself into the room. I woke up after that but my guess is if I kept dreaming the beast wold have killed James and Steven. Also another thing is that in the dream James kept switching between looking like what I thought some downers looked like and some I had seen pictures of. Those people were Legate, Boro, Hookbill and some more people I do not remember.

Fea, the end part of your dream with the kids trying to cut your feet off with the ice skates makes me think of a Stephen King story where there are a bunch of psycho children trying to kill someone on a frozen lake.

Thinlómien

09-05-2009, 04:09 AM

A few nights ago I had a dream that Nogrod brought me an obituary of an American sf author. He looked rather sad: "see, Pitchwife is dead, isn't this him?" I checked the birthday, it matched and so did the interests. "And he said he was from the States and that he did a bit of writing... he never just told us he was really a writer!" I started feeling a bit numb, and sad, and went to tell Legate the news. He was absolutely crushed by it, he started crying a lot. I was feeling incresingly numb, thinking So Pitchwife is really gone... do I have to be the one to tell this to everybody in the ww game?

It was a rather gloomy dream, certainly not anything very nice although the atmosphere surely could've been more depressing. Pitch, welcome to the club of 'downers whom my subconscious has killed. :p :rolleyes:

Pitchwife

09-05-2009, 07:03 AM

Thinlómien

09-07-2009, 03:23 AM

Lommy, I'm really touched to see how much you and your family mourned my death:)! Luckily, rumours of my demise were greatly exaggerated. And I'd like to point out, that while I do a bit of writing, I'm not 'really a writer' in the sense of published or even with anything finished in my drawers; I'm also German, not American, and have never said otherwise. (Maybe you confused me with Stephen Donaldson, whose books I got my nick from?)
But thanks for letting me be in your dreams; you can be in mine anytime you wish! (Now who was it again that has that Bob Dylan quote as his sig?)I think it was Nilp...? Anyway, I knew you're not American, but my subconscious seems to think differently. ;)

Last night I had a bit more pleasant BD dream for a change. I was visiting Mac and Rikae in their house. Rikae and I were laying in a cuddly pile on their bed and Mac was sitting at the edge of it with their kid Annika on his lap. We were talking random stuff and I was asking if Annika can eat solid food yet. Eventually, I got up and walked around the bedroom and admired the artwork on their walls: they had a lot of paintings and drawings there, some of them made by fellow 'downers and a few made by Rikae herself (she turned out to be a very good painter). I remember seeing THE Ka's and Fea's artwork, as well as a sketch of Celeborn by Aganzir which had very lively eyes that seemed to follow you when you looked at it from different angles. I was chatting about the drawings and paintings with Rikae and Mac (of course complimenting Rikae for her lovely artwork) and thinking we should all thank the 'downs for having such wonderful friends.

I quite liked this dream.

Morsul the Dark

09-08-2009, 05:20 AM

It's not often I dream of the downs but here''s one...

I was in a book store and bought a book called
Middle-Earth Real Estate; It was a book with photos from around the world that resembled places in MiddleEarth imagine my surprise to learn the photos and accompanying essays were written by Downers but the weird part was it came with an extra DVD with "Commercials" for the properties;

Fea was sowing of the "Rivendell" Property
Hookbill showed of the Glittering Cave(Which is the only one I can actually recognize in real lfe as the manmade cave at the Linderhof Palace in Germany)
H-I was in Ireland(I'm Guessing) Selling Hobbiton plots
and Formen was there... I don't recall what he was selling only that he was doing a Really Cheesey infomercial style of selling...

What's sad now that i think about it is I dreamt abbout sitting around watching TV....:rolleyes:

Pitchwife

09-09-2009, 09:34 AM

The other night, I dreamt a bunch of other people (none of which were specifically familiar from RL) and me were camping in the mountains with caravans and tents. We had gathered there to hunt trolls, of all things, and equipped ourselves for the purpose with all kinds of improvised weapons and armour or protective clothing, most of them looking like cobbled together from scraps and rubbish.
The first troll we met was only about a foot tall, but fought viciously, and it took a serious concerted effort to kill it, which made us somewhat apprehensive of facing a full-grown specimen. Next thing happened was we were visited by a large troup of witches - picturesquely ragged hags riding on broomsticks or branches, arriving accompanied by Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries or something similar. They had come to warn us about some really big trolls that would be coming down our valley pretty soon. We got all excited and not a bit worried, but when some time passed and the trolls didn't show up, we relaxed and decided to have a party with the witches instead. Next morning everybody was pretty hungover, so we decided to disband without having seen another troll.
What makes this a Barrow Downs dream is that one of the people in our company was Nogrod. He looked somewhat older than on the photos I've seen and had a grizzled beard. He and I were among the last people leaving the place and had a nice little conversation (of which I remember nothing) while packing our things. It seemed this wasn't his first troll-hunt, and during the fight with the mini-troll he and maybe two or three others, unlike the rest of us, had made the impression he knew his business. (Obvious WW echo!)

Rune Son of Bjarne

09-29-2009, 10:08 AM

I dreamt that Lush and Squatter tied me to Squatter's mazda and drove to Italy, here they convinced me that it was good idea to rent office space and not pay for it. . .they claimed they had found some loophole in the italian legislation.

Feanor of the Peredhil

09-30-2009, 09:08 AM

I dreamed last night that Mac, Rikae, Lari, and Mira were all visiting me and Nienna in the house I lived in as a little kid (same house I couldn't find in my last BD dream, actually).

Mac, Rikae, Lari, and I decided to go for a hike in the woods behind the house (in reality, there aren't woods behind the house, there's a small yard with a tree, backed by a huge building, with another road on the other side of it). As we started climbing the hill, I commented that it was questionable for us to head up into the woods at twilight, and Rikae seemed surprised I'd say so. She asked why.

I explained that these woods have a mountain lion in them. And bears.

At that point, Lari (who may have briefly served the dual role of being Rikae's mom), said that she wanted Rikae, not Mac, to lead the hike, because Rikae had grown up here.

I was a little confused, because I didn't know Rikae had grown up in the same small towns I had, but I figured, okay... we'll just deal with wildlife if we see any.

Before we've even gone fifty yards more up the hill, a bear comes down out of a tree. A little black bear, but even a little bear is much bigger than a human.

I said, "Back up slowly, don't make any sudden moves, and we'll walk back the way we came."

We all back up slowly, walking away, watching over our shoulders.

The bear follows.

We are very concerned.

We hear a loud noise and look over. There are two wolves attacking a squirrel.

We curse.

We speed up our slow walking away, trying not to draw attention, trying to get back to the house.

After maybe twenty feet, the wolves decide to chase us, as does the bear.

At this point, we quit trying to play it cool and we all run for it.

Of course the animals are faster than us...

The bear chases one of the wolves, which conveniently distracts them both, but we're still having to deal with the much bigger wolf that apparently wants to eat us.

I yell, "Mac, stick!" and he obligingly ducks off the path and grabs a large stick to beat the wolf with.

He weilds it like a baseball bat, waiting for the trajectory of the wolf to bring it into reach, and then swings.

Problematically, the stick is rotten, so it breaks on impact, and doesn't really hurt the wolf.

We're still running, and at least the wolf is momentarily dazed.

It attacks again. Again, Mac whacks it with the rotten stick (which breaks again).

The bear and wolf lose interest in each other and start barreling after us down the hill.

I should mention, the hill was snowy by this point. We were slipping and sliding, crashing into trees, but at least it slowed the predators down too.

We got to the house, finally, and I slammed the door and locked it (the bear was outside), and Mac and Rikae embraced, and Lari ran upstairs to cry in Nienna's room, and I took several deep breaths, and Stick yelled at me for letting everyone go hiking where there were wild animals and they could have died.

Nienna

09-30-2009, 09:27 AM

That seems like pretty typical Fea dream. I like the part where Stick and I are smart enough not to go hiking in the woods.

Rune Son of Bjarne

10-07-2009, 04:03 PM

Last night I had a rather obscure BD-Dream which I am already having trouble remembering, so I trust you will forgive me if it becomes slightly confusing at times.

I was hosting a BD-Gathering and I had borrowed my mother's house, which for the occasion had changed appearance and location. It was still a red bungalow, but it had grown larger and was now located close to the airport( normally it is in the western suburbia). First Squatter arrived, I was too busy to keep him company so I went to school, when I returned Fea, Lush, Nogrod and Valier was there, this was quite a surprise as I did not remember ever giving them the address. When I came home from work the following day it had happened again, this time Bethberry, Mith, Brinn and Lhuna had arrived.

One night Boromir and some other downers where due to arrive, while waiting for them we sat around the table playing cards and talking. Then I received a phone call from Boromir telling me that he had been shot and had been taken to hospital, this resulted in me freaking out and I tried to tell the others the terrible news by screaming it at them. I failed, because Lush and Valier refuse to shut up, they kept talking very loudly so that I could not give people the news. All of the sudden Boromir stood in the living room grinning at me. . . I thought it was a very poor joke and asked him to leave the house and not return. He decided to ignore that request

The next day we were supposed to have a party, unfortunately this collided with a disco opening in the cellar. . . Which meant that when I opened the door to let some of my Irish friends in, they were followed by at least a dozen strangers. At first I thought it was my friends, friends and therefore did nothing about it, but when I realized the mistake I showed them the door and then the direction of the cellar. I then realized that it had made some of the downers uncomfortable to have non-downers around. Fea got so depressed by it that she went to a small room in the other end of the house, I went after her and asked her what was wrong, but just as I sat down next to her the room transformed into a lift. Instead of a bungalow the house had transformed into an extreme high-rise building and we were at the 50th floor, the lift started to decent with an unbelievable speed and when we reached the ground masked men entered the lift and abducted Fea.
Then a quest to rescue Fea started, I sailed down a river in a canoe, not knowing what to do. . .until I met Henry Ian Cusick, who in this dream portrayed Fea's father. Together we hunted down the evildoers in his speedboat and we almost caught them, but a battalion of storm troopers started firing at us and we had to defeat them before we could continue the chase. In the end we recued Fea and got her into the lift together with Danny Devito who was to be her bodyguard. When I finally made it back to the house everybody except the downers where gone, apparently they had spend the time playing my munchkin board game.

Boromir88

10-07-2009, 06:30 PM

Very amusing dream, Rune...sounds like something I would actually do, but you best not give me an ideas to try in Boston. :eek: :p

Mithalwen

10-09-2009, 11:35 AM

I don't know if this counts but I had a weird dream last night or rather early this morning. In my dream I was woken by animals scurrying around the room which I thought were mice. I started screaming (fortunately only in my dream) and the creatures turned into ridiculously cute Disney style creatures who begged me to let them stay.

They may have started doing housework a la snow white. I was a bit reluctant since there were a couple of penguins and I happened to know that baby penguins are hard to raise (one got nicked from a local zoo a while back). But the other animals assured me it would be fine and I decided that it it had managed to survive so far under my kitchen cupboards it would probably be ok. Then all I thought was...Lommie is going to be so jealous that I have cute pet penguins...(talking animals seemed completely unremarkable). Then I woke up to find I was clutching my alarm clock which should have gone off about an hour earlier and which I must have switched off in my sleep and had ten minutes before I should leave for work...

Thinlómien

10-11-2009, 10:56 AM

That's cute, Mith. :D

Thinlómien

10-14-2009, 06:58 AM

I dreamt of a BD meeting in Helsinki. There were lots of non-'downers present (like some people from my Uni and Legate's RL friends), but also a healthy 'downer representation: Nogrod, Greenie, Legate, Aganzir and me hosting, and at least Rikae, Mac, Fea, Nienna, Lari, Brinn, Mith, Esty and Boro visiting. The first thing we did was to go to see some church.

We took a bus, and in the bus Rikae was talking a lot and giggling in a very loud and fake manner all the time. When we got off the bus, Greenie confided in me in a very disappointed voice: "I don't like her. I think she's annoying." I happpened to agree, but decided to wait until making judgements. So I said: "Let's give her some time, she's just shy so she can't be herself in such a crowd. Mac is shy too, you know."

When we had seen the church (which looked suspiciously Italian, not Finnish), we decided to make our way back, but before we could arrange anything, Fea said "see you at Nogrod's place!" and disappeared with Lari and someone else, possibly Boro. We others started making our way to Nog's place. At some point, Nogrod noticed Nienna was missing. "Where is she?" he asked. "I think she booked a room in a hostel, so she has gone there," I replied. Nogrod frowned. "She should have known she could've stayed the evening with us anyway, it's not even 8pm yet."

Soon we arrived to the yard of the block of flats where Nog lives. Suddenly Rikae spurted away from everyone else and to the road. She got almost driven over by several cars. She was standing on the pavement on the other side and shouting something. Mac followed her and tried to cool her down, but she was running to the road again. We all watched the scene in utter confusion. "She has one of her fits," Brinn whispered to me and I was led to realise that Rikae suffers from some strange mental illness.

While Rikae was having her fit and Mac was trying to restrain her from getting driven over by the cars, a police car appeared. A policeman (who looked exactly like the cop in Edward Scissorhands) came out holding a little girl on his arms. We immediately recognised her as one of Rikae's daughters. "She was in an accident. Her leg and arm are broken, but she's ok," the policeman explained and left us with the girl. Someone had to take care of the girl and her family was busy elsewhere, so we (everybody present, but especially Nog, Brinn and me) took her to Nog's flat. Nogrod, who was actually a doctor, put her leg and arm in splints and Brinn and I made her some hot chocolate while we waited for Rikae and Mac to come to her.

Then, either the same or the following night, we all went to a bar. We met Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan there, and together we raised a glass for Gondor.

Interesting, eh? My apologies to Rikae, my subconscious did mishandle her quite badly!

Rune Son of Bjarne

10-14-2009, 01:37 PM

I dreamt that Squatter invited me to stay at his palace, here we spend alot of time walking arround a pool. At one point Squatter bought two scratchers and we one £ 8.000.000 on them, but for some reason I only recived DKK 80.000 on my bank account. . . anyways I was happy because I could pay off my debt and go to Boston.

The scene changes, I am in some random flat. Here I am told that it was all just a dream and that I did not win any money, but Cosmo Cramer shows up and tells me not to worry, he will get me some scratchers and it is a sure thing that I will win. It turns out he just bought some magazines and wrote some numbers on them.

All of the sudden I am back in my own room, here squatter is sitting on my sofa with a big grin on his face, he looks at me and says "we won". Proudly he shows me the scratcher he had previously hidden behind his back. . . I get all exited, that is until I get a look at our winnings, they are at a total of DKK 10

Loslote

10-14-2009, 07:35 PM

Last night I dreamed that everyone was playing WW, and we couldn't manage to kill a wolf! Which is admittedly not that strange in itself, but the wolves never managed to send in their vote on time, and there was never a nightly killing. Finally, the mod (I don't remember who it was) realized the problem - he'd forgotten to make any of us wolves. :rolleyes: ;)

Feanor of the Peredhil

10-19-2009, 07:57 PM

While I can't remember most of the details, I know I dreamed the other night that a Barrowdowner who worked in a local department store gave me $263 dollars for accurately guessing who the wolves were in the Werewolf game that was going on (which I wasn't actually playing in).

Apparently the players had a pool going to see if I would - without knowing there was money bet on it - figure out who the bad guys were.

When the BDer gave me the money, I was greatly surprised, but neatly tucked the bills into my Spiderman wallet (yes, I carry a Spiderman wallet). I chose not to inform everyone that the reason I knew the wolves' identity was because one of them was complaining about the game to me.

Yes, I have dreams, apparently, about WW games I'm not even playing in. Dreams in which I'm still not playing.

But dreams in which people give me money for winning bets I didn't know about.

That would be a neat world...

Boromir88

10-22-2009, 07:29 AM

This one's a little foggy and I must make sure I temper it down, but it was pretty strange considering relatively recent RL conversations.

My roommate was jealous when I got a letter, from the UK, in the mail one day and was depressed that he didn't know anyone in another country he could write to.

So, in the dream there is this large envolope from Britain and I don't check who it is addressed to, because I figured it was for me. I open it, and it is a 'Downer book, written and illustrated by Sauce. There was a penguin named Lommy, a dwarf named Kuru, a baby phantom, a Princess Fiona looking character named Esty, and another character named KATHrynn (written and bolded exactly like that), but I don't remember a picture/character for Kath. I also don't know what the cartoon was about, or what Sauce had written, just the various 'Downers as characters in his book.

Then my roommate came home, and I was excited to show him what I got in the mail. He was jealous and sad again, but looked at the envelope and got real angry. It was addressed to him! :rolleyes: Which then provoked much yelling and arguing about opening other people's mail, and the last thing I remembered is he threatened to sue me for opening his mail, since it was a federal offense.

The end.

Boromir88

10-27-2009, 12:31 PM

Another exceedingly strange dream previous night.

I do not know where we were, but it was a giant gathering, and many different groups of people were there.

I was with the group all made up of Barrow-downers. Rune was there, as well as Mith, sally, Nienna, Lari, Form and many many more, whose faces escape me.

Anyway, so there are also several other groups and apparently I said something that offended one of the other groups. Esty, who was the appointed leader of our BD group informed everyone that I had to leave the premises imediately, because I said something very offensive (so offensive I guess she did not want to repeat it :p) and the group I offended wanted me booted.

Rune was livid, because I was his roommate and he was worrying about rooming by himself when everyone else wouldn't have to. Plus heavily laying into me on how I could say such despicable things to get me thrown out of this social gathering. I went back into this great hall, where everyone was together eating, to say my goodbyes. It looked like one of those Hogwatz feasts...just spectacularly delicious looking food. Rune had a plate full of carrots, vegetables, and greens, and Form was quite vocally telling him to start pelting me with food, because I deserved it. Nienna was calmly saying that he shouldn't, because my punishment was severe enough, and she didn't even think what I said was all that bad (thanks! :D).

Rune, I guess compromised and just threw some carrots at me...and the dream ends with Form egging Rune to chuck the entire bowl of mashed potatoes (and gravy) at me, he knew that he wanted to.

I wish I knew what I said now. :(

Rune Son of Bjarne

10-27-2009, 02:10 PM

The carrots I might be willing to part with, but mashed potatoes and gravy? Never!

satansaloser2005

10-30-2009, 07:42 AM

So I had a dream last night that I got on facebook to check the thread for the Epic Party of Epic. Form was on there chatting to someone about something completely random (and I'm pretty sure Nienna shouted 'cookies!' for whatever reason) but then it just got weird. Phantom joined the group and joined in the conversation. His name? It was listed as Ruth Wilson. :eek: Bwah?!

Nienna

10-30-2009, 01:33 PM

Laurinquë

11-08-2009, 01:40 AM

So, in the dream there is this large envolope from Britain and I don't check who it is addressed to, because I figured it was for me. I open it, and it is a 'Downer book, written and illustrated by Sauce. There was a penguin named Lommy, a dwarf named Kuru, a baby phantom, a Princess Fiona looking character named Esty, and another character named KATHrynn (written and bolded exactly like that), but I don't remember a picture/character for Kath. I also don't know what the cartoon was about, or what Sauce had written, just the various 'Downers as characters in his book.

Oh! To get post like that! :D

Anyway, a few nights ago I had a dream that TheGreatElvenWarrior, Boromir88, Aganzir, Rune, Hookbill the Goomba, and I were all sitting in a lofty flet amongst leafless Mallorn trees in Lothlorien. I'm not sure what we were discussing, but we were enormously excited and plotting something. At any rate we soon rushed off to take a train to Mirkwood and work our mischief there. I don't explicitly remember it as being Mirkwood but it certainly looked like it with huge trees and shadows of deepest purple. Even so it seemed bright because apparently we had night vision. Odd. But the was one extra tall tree that glowed with a golden light that we were trying to get to but unfortunately the train wouldn't stop and we had to keep going.

I don't remember anything after that other than a vague recollection of muffins but hey, Barrow-Downers and Middle Earth both in one night! Can't get much better than that.

Boromir88

11-08-2009, 02:44 PM

And especially if it had something to do with muffins too...mmm...Blueberry or choco-chocolate chip. :p

Aganzir

11-09-2009, 10:48 AM

Ooh Lauri that sounds lovely! Even though I'm a great fan of weird dreams with lots of action, my favourites are still probably those that are the most beautiful visually. Especially if they have to do with climbing trees. :cool:

Boro, when it comes to muffins, you're reading my thoughts.

Anyway the other night I had a dream I was in the States with Lommy and our friend Annina. I left our hostel in search of a teashop, and on my way there I saw Kath (who, in the dream, was in the US in student exchange) having a chat with Fea, Nienna, Mira and Lari on the street. I passed them by and said hi, but they didn't see me.
When I had got my tea and came back, only Kath and Mira (who was wearing a light blue satin dress) were left. This time I stopped to talk to them, and soon Fea (who was remarkably tall) and Nienna returned (and I noticed Sleepy Ranger was there as well). They all were very surprised to see me - apparently we had told no one about our trip. :rolleyes:
Then there comes a tall man with a short beard, and I recognise him as Form. The true gentleman that he is, he greets me by kissing my hand. ;) And suddenly also Boro is there and starts telling a story about two kids in his school getting mixed up with each other (apparently it was something very serious). But in the midst of his story we had to move on since a bum came to relieve himself against the wall we were standing next to.

Laurinquë

11-09-2009, 09:46 PM

Ooh Lauri that sounds lovely! Even though I'm a great fan of weird dreams with lots of action, my favourites are still probably those that are the most beautiful visually. Especially if they have to do with climbing trees.

Usually my dreams are much more madcap (see my earlier BD related one) but I still prefer saner BD-related ones to more surreal dreams of disappearing custard staircases without any Barrow-Downers. BD dreams make me feel like I've actually had a chance to meet all you wonderful people!

Oh and by the way Aganzir, have you ever had the opportunity to come to the States whilst awake? I'm afraid teashops are rather few and far between here. We only have one teahouse in the entire state and it's a rather shabby affair. But with the highest number of coffee stands per capita (in the US), coffee can be found on nearly EVERY street corner in Anchorage.

Boromir88

11-10-2009, 12:08 AM

And suddenly also Boro is there and starts telling a story about two kids in his school getting mixed up with each other (apparently it was something very serious).
Fortunately besides the incident I really did describe to you, nothing that serious has happened to me yet! :p

Oh and by the way Aganzir, have you ever had the opportunity to come to the States whilst awake? I'm afraid teashops are rather few and far between here. We only have one teahouse in the entire state and it's a rather shabby affair. But with the highest number of coffee stands per capita (in the US), coffee can be found on nearly EVERY street corner in Anchorage.

But you can still get tea from most coffee places...erm well the coffee places I am most familiar with I should say, Starbucks and Jazzmenn's.

Mithalwen

11-10-2009, 10:44 AM

But do they serve it with ice cubes? I do try not to be a stereotypical Brit abroad but it never occured to me that I would have to specify I wanted the stuff hot... :(

Boromir88

11-10-2009, 11:52 AM

But do they serve it with ice cubes? I do try not to be a stereotypical Brit abroad but it never occured to me that I would have to specify I wanted the stuff hot... :(

Yes, almost any drink now you can get either hot or cold. I would think in the middle of a blizzard, and 20 F degrees outside you would not have to specify that you want it hot. However, they still ask "hot" or "iced", they must be required. :rolleyes:

skip spence

11-10-2009, 12:09 PM

I've had two Barrow-Downs dreams, not very recent ones, but what I could remember of them when they came I can remember still.

In the first the Downer, for there was only one in the dream, had a fairly secondary role. See, me and a (non-downer) friend was climbing a mountain. I'm sure it was a mountain although it didn't look like one at all - in fact, I'm quite certain we never even went outside. No, this climb was more like a mix between an Umberto Eco novel and a computer game. In order to get higher, to reach the next level, me and my mate had to complete cryptic and mysterious tasks in what looked like a huge gothic library, with loads of dusty old books and wide stairways covered by red carpets. But it was a mountain and we were climbing it.

Each time we completed a subsection of the quest, Lommy and her friend Annina came to visit us. Can't remember what we were talking about, but it was always a very nice reward to see the girls after reaching a higher level. It never occurred to us that is was strange that they, unlike us, apparently did not need to do any difficult stuff in order to get higher.

The other BD dream took place in a crowded bus. All the seats were taken and I was standing next to the enclosed box where the driver sits. In the front-most seat, the one almost up beside the driver and the only one in in the bus that doesn't come in pairs, Lalwende was seated. When we recognised each other both were shaken, because apparently we had some kind of romantic history together, something that had ended. For a moment it looked like Lal was beginning to cry, but then she pulled herself together and started dancing, first sort of stripper-like holding a pole (those that can be found on buses), then very close to me. I can't remember any music though. I've only a faint idea how Lal actually looks like irl, but in my dream she was very attractive, and wore black pumps and a short skirt. I knew she was just playing some kind of trick on me though, and although the dancing was alluring, I could not by any means give in to the temptation, and just stood there dumbstruck.

:confused:

Aganzir

11-10-2009, 04:56 PM

BD dreams make me feel like I've actually had a chance to meet all you wonderful people!
Yeah, that's true. It's silly but people visiting my dreams makes me feel as if I know them better afterwards. Or rather, dreams can have a heavy effect on how I view people. An example, which is not really the best possible one but which it amuses me to post: the other night I had a dream I was talking about sex with Legate (I'll spare you the details, but suffice to say he talked some... quite unexpected stuff :p). When I woke up, I didn't remember my dream but had a feeling I had had a personal chat with him which had helped me to know him better. It was pretty funny when I suddenly realised where that feeling had come from.

Nope, I've never been to the States yet, but I'm bound to end up there sooner or later, what with my love for travelling combined to all you awesome people I know. ;)

Skippy those are quite funny, especially the last one. :D The first one is more like cuute.

Thinlómien

11-11-2009, 01:36 PM

I recently had a dream where I popped to Sally and Folwren and a gang of their friends. They were sitting on the stairs of a white wooden church and singing religious songs and watching the sun set. I joined them and they tried to make me sing with them but I didn't know the songs.

THE Ka

11-11-2009, 05:20 PM

Oh and by the way Aganzir, have you ever had the opportunity to come to the States whilst awake? I'm afraid teashops are rather few and far between here. We only have one teahouse in the entire state and it's a rather shabby affair. But with the highest number of coffee stands per capita (in the US), coffee can be found on nearly EVERY street corner in Anchorage.

Lol, sounds like Seattle. Though, Starbucks and Tully are fighting for the city, but there are a large number of tea shops in the northern neighbourhoods.

I had a short dream monday night that I was in the architecture building working on a drafting project and Form popped up to beat me over the head with my t-square.
I needed it, but he said I could have it back after I drew something for paper telephone. Then one of my instructors came in and pointed at a sign saying, "If you're going to beat the students, use the appropriate rulers, please.".

Guess I was feeling guilty?:rolleyes:

~ Ka

Legate of Amon Lanc

11-19-2009, 05:00 AM

I haven't had a proper BD-dream for a while, but tonight I had one where I was living in a small cottage at US-Canadian border, and I have invited several 'Downers to come to my place. Apart from Lommy, Nogrod and co. who for some reason managed to live in the same town (or what it was) too, I have invited three other 'Downers. One of them was possibly Fea, who actually, thinking of it, was more like Rikae, and she was the first one to arrive, but then she disappeared again and we had to wait for her. As meanwhile, Form arrived, but I didn't think there was much to do, as we were not all there yet, so I just put him into the kitchen, he was sitting at the table and waiting and doing nothing. Then somebody arrived who was Squatter/Morsul/Pitchwife, but actually turned out to be a somewhat annoying person, a loud fellow who made mess wherever he came. He said he was going to wait in the kitchen for the third person to arrive (resp. come back), and meanwhile I went upstairs to my room to play some computer games. Then I sort of thought that my guests may be bored, so I went downstairs, only to find out - and this is the part of the dream I remember the most clearly - that Form ate some food from my fridge (which I permitted him to), but he ate what seemed like ridiculous amounts of it. The most shocking was the fact that he ate about three quarters of a cucumber (a big one) just without anything to eat along with it. But he seemed very happy, so I didn't protest.

Pitchwife

11-19-2009, 10:53 AM

Then somebody arrived who was Squatter/Morsul/Pitchwife, but actually turned out to be a somewhat annoying person, a loud fellow
Can't have been me. I'm rather quiet and well-mannered.
who made mess wherever he came.
OK, I confess - it was me after all!:o:D

The most shocking was the fact that he ate about three quarters of a cucumber (a big one) just without anything to eat along with it.
What's shocking about that?

Legate of Amon Lanc

11-19-2009, 03:14 PM

What's shocking about that?

It just seemed shocking in the dream. I doubt it would have shocked me in RL, but the impression in the dream was that it was ridiculous amount of food and that it must have been weird to eat it alone.

Mithalwen

11-20-2009, 11:10 AM

Yes, almost any drink now you can get either hot or cold. I would think in the middle of a blizzard, and 20 F degrees outside you would not have to specify that you want it hot. However, they still ask "hot" or "iced", they must be required. :rolleyes:

I wasn't asked... and since they were trying out a new waitress on me amd poor Milly looked like she should be drawing a pension rather than embarking on a new career and looked utterly downtrodden by life and petrified, there was no way on earth I was going to ask for it to be changed. So I drank the iced tea that was almost indistinguishable from the glass of water they gave me free save for an unpleasant twang and left a good tip. The sandwich was fine though.....

Laurinquë

11-26-2009, 10:30 AM

Well, I've done it again. More Barrow-Downs dreams. I blame it on having only eight hours of sleep in the past seventy-two hours. That, and a broken alarm clock that refuses to die.

But back to my fascinating story. In my dream I was walking along this grassy lane, having just come back from sliding down a pile of metal snow and into the ocean, when I spied a most interesting scene. Legate was leading a seance with Thinlómein, Lindale, and Guinevere and all of them were standing in a circle with their arms in the air and apples on their heads singing some mournful balled. They stopped singing as I approached saying something like "My subconscious must be having a field day!" to which they responded to by holding up candid photos of me. Apparently, Legate had been following me around for the past six weeks or so and taking pictures which he had then sent to celebrity magazines and sold for exorbitant sums of money. And then just as Lindale was about to reveal what it had all been about my drated alarm clock woke me up. I may have to throw it into a snow bank for revenge.

Anyway, thank you for providing me such an entertaining night, but you have a lot of explaining to do. :p

Legate of Amon Lanc

11-26-2009, 11:03 AM

Wehoaoough?

Okay, it didn't happen to me for a long time to be in a BDer's dream, but it probably never happened to me to be in a role like this. Wehoaoough? (Yea, I seem to like that word.)

Laurinquë

11-26-2009, 11:07 AM

I'm sorry, I should probably have a discussion with my dreaming mind about that. It is getting out of hand.

Pitchwife

11-26-2009, 12:26 PM

sliding down a pile of metal snow
Metal snow? Sounds pretty surreal. What does it look like? And is it soft or hard?

Laurinquë

11-26-2009, 03:50 PM

Metal snow? Sounds pretty surreal. What does it look like? And is it soft or hard?

Very shiny and prickly. ;) Most of my dreams are Salvador Dali-worthy in their surreality.

Eönwë

11-27-2009, 05:41 PM

Very shiny and prickly. ;)

And heavy?

Most of my dreams are Salvador Dali-worth in their surreality.
Don't worry, mine are often worse. :rolleyes:;)

Legate of Amon Lanc

11-29-2009, 11:43 AM

I wonder if this had triggered something, as I had a BD dream after a quite long time today. I had a dream that I was on some holiday camp and among other people there were also some 'downers, namely Lommy and Groin Redbeard. I recall that at one point we were inside some building which looked like one of these big cinema halls and Groin was telling me about some computer RPG, where he got stuck and he disliked the fact that he had recruited Morsul the Dark as a NPC character into his party (i.e. Morsul was just a programmed character in the game). He said that Morsul-NPC was very unreliable, and he compared him to several characters from other games, especially to one Dwarf from Baldur's Gate II (if anybody knows it, I don't know the character's name, but it was some evil dwarf which could become a member of your party) and then somebody said that actually one character in a computer game was also modeled after Groin, and that was the Disciple from Knights of the Old Republic II (a soldier who was also a librarian and eventually could become a Jedi Knight).

Morsul the Dark

11-30-2009, 07:32 AM

For the record... I'm unreliable in person of course my NPC would also be and if you mean Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II the dwarf was Borador The crazy Pyro bombmaking Dwarf One of the BEST Games EVER my friend and I spent hours upon hours upon days and days and even weeks playing the stupid game!! shh... what's that... chattering... Skwerels!

Legate of Amon Lanc

11-30-2009, 08:12 AM

So in other words, my dream-imagination was not that far-fetched. Good to hear that ;)

Morsul the Dark

11-30-2009, 08:15 AM

However my character in the game was awesome! untouchable especially with my buddy playing the necromancer we kicked behind!

Boromir88

11-30-2009, 08:36 AM

I had a dream which involved Hookbill and another Downer who I forget. Anyway the Downer said that Hookbill and I both had nice voices, but for different reasons. Then Hookbill says that he doesn't like his voice, because it's not strong enough for a teacher's voice. My sub-conscious imagines that Hookbill sounds similar to Edward Norton here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eos0AuSqrU8). :smokin:

Thinlómien

12-18-2009, 05:30 PM

I had a few weird BD dreams last week.

In the first one, Rikae was posting on Facebook a top three of the "best-looking men ever". The #1 was Rune and the #2 was Skip, and I have no idea who was the third. Rikae commented on her top three: "I like tall, blonde guys." I remember thinking: "But Skip isn't tall or blonde!"

In the second one, Morsul was sort of haunting me. I was in the States and he was just following me everywhere in disguises. He came to speak to me, faking to be a Mexican (?) scientist, probably named Alejandro or something like that. He was obviously rather obsessed to stalk me. It was quite scary.

My apologies, Rikae and Morsul. :D

Inziladun

12-20-2009, 07:21 AM

I have now joined the ranks of Barrow-Downs dreamers with a dream involving Lommy.
In this dream, I was looking through Wikipedia and came across an entry for some company, the real or imagined name of which I don't remember, which sold laundry detergent. There were photos of people who had been the 'face' of the company at one time or another, and among them was Lommy, who had apparently portrayed a character called 'The Ice Princess' in TV commercials.
In the accompanying photo, Lommy was dressed in full 'princess' attire, looking like a cross between Glinda the Good Witch from The Wizard of Oz, and The Queen of the Night from The Magic Flute.

Rune Son of Bjarne

12-20-2009, 05:33 PM

Boromir88

12-21-2009, 10:24 AM

Dream Time.

It was a dream about my quiz bowl team, but we must have been playing Laurinque's school, because she was the reader of the match and I kept score. sally was the only person in the "audience" (as you can imagine these matches don't get populated by the public, only parents, possibly teachers, and the occasional creeper - I guess this would make sally the last? :p)

Anyway matches consist of 24 toss-up questions plus bonus, and Laurinque was looking extremely bored at reading. She kept yawning and sighing, looking frustrated that she kept having to turn the page of questions from one to the next. Onquestion 18 she stops and asks me "When are we getting to the Tolkien questions?" I said "He usually shows up two or three times a year, so it's hit or miss." She got up and walked out. The End.

skip spence

12-22-2009, 03:34 PM

Laurinquë

12-22-2009, 09:24 PM

It was a dream about my quiz bowl team, but we must have been playing Laurinque's school, because she was the reader of the match and I kept score. sally was the only person in the "audience" (as you can imagine these matches don't get populated by the public, only parents, possibly teachers, and the occasional creeper - I guess this would make sally the last? :p)

Anyway matches consist of 24 toss-up questions plus bonus, and Laurinque was looking extremely bored at reading. She kept yawning and sighing, looking frustrated that she kept having to turn the page of questions from one to the next. Onquestion 18 she stops and asks me "When are we getting to the Tolkien questions?" I said "He usually shows up two or three times a year, so it's hit or miss." She got up and walked out. The End.

As far as I know my school does not have a quiz bowl, but if we did I'm sure I would be just as impatient as you imagined me. What's the point of doing it if there are no Tolkien-related questions? ;)

Thinlómien

01-17-2010, 08:56 AM

Me, Noggie, Greenie and Agan were touring the States and meeting 'downers.

First one I witnessed us meeting (but it was implied we already seen seceral others before) was the phantom. He was touring us around some old ruins in some valley. (What ruins are there in the US, asks I...)

Then, we found ourselves in some random local gym. Rikae's kids were there, in some kids' corner, messing around. We stayed there waiting for Mac and Rikae, but it took a very long time. I was wishing there was someone aged 10-12 present so that Nog could teach them football (soccer). In the end, he ended up teaching Rikae's oldest kid anyway. I wasn't there to witness the actual arrival of Rikae and Mac, for the next scene took me with it...

(and here we have a change of characters - it's now Kath and Annina the 'downer-party gatecrasher touring the States with me and Agan, not Nog and Greenie...)

We were in a gothic-style clothes store with Brinn. She was trying on a pretty turqoise and black dress with a corset. "Gorgeous", Agan commented when Brinn came to show us how the dress looked. When she had left to change back to her normal clothes, I said: "I don't get how she manages to look so cute." "Gorgeous", Agan corrected me. "Both at the same time", Kath resolved with the very typically kathish bright smile.

Next we were in a café/bar terrace thingy with a stylish old lady who was apparently my grandma. Kath was asking me, Agan & Annina something about our friendship, and we somehow ended up talking about eyes. "No one has dared to analyse Kath's eye colour yet", Agan pointed out, and by that she meant none of the 'downers we had met on the journey thus far. "Maybe Boro will dare", I said. This all had to do with Kath having so charming eyes that no one would look at them for a long time because they would be scared they'd go crazy.

Then Kath, Agan, Annina and Lady Granny went to toilet and I was left to sit at the table alone. Granny's pint of beer and some money she had left for the waiter were left on the table. I hadn't sat there alone for long, when a huge and ugly guy emerged and grabbed the coins in one hand and the beer in one hand and started walking away. "Hey! That's granny's beer!" I exclaimed and snatched the pint back, spilling a little beer on both myself and the guy. He looked at me very angrily, and tried to take the pint back. He grabbed it, and I knew he was stronger than me, so I just flipped the pint over and let all the beer fall to the ground before the guy could snatch it. He gave me a very angry look and walked away.

"What did you do that for?" asked a voice behind me. "You could have got yourself beaten. And your granny lost her beer anyway."
I turned, and saw Boro. I gave him a defiant look. "At least he didn't get the beer either. And I must admit I misjudged him... I thought he would've given up if I managed to snatch the beer back."
Boro shook his head. "Guess what you are? A lot."
I raised an eyebrow. "Yes?"
"Stubborn."

~The End~

Boromir88

01-17-2010, 12:52 PM

"Maybe Boro will dare", I said. This all had to do with Kath having so charming eyes that no one would look at them for a long time because they would be scared they'd go crazy.
Funny thing, one of the WW games in Boston I looked over to Kath for a while, to which she said something like "Like looking into my eyes?" and I said "Nope, trying to figure out if you're a wolf" but secretly, I must admit Kath's eyes are quite charming. Or maybe it went the other way around, I forget...:rolleyes:

"What did you do that for?" asked a voice behind me. "You could have got yourself beaten. And your granny lost her beer anyway."
I turned, and saw Boro. I gave him a defiant look. "At least he didn't get the beer either. And I must admit I misjudged him... I thought he would've given up if I managed to snatch the beer back."
Boro shook his head. "Guess what you are? A lot."
I raised an eyebrow. "Yes?"
"Stubborn."

Heh, I can imagine having this convo, and I don't know if it's brilliant or scary. :p

Rune Son of Bjarne

01-22-2010, 09:15 AM

I was at my grandfathers house at my birthday and alot of downers where present, but unfotunately I can only remember the last part of the dream.

I was packing my bags with all my gifts, most people had already left except for Shasta and Fea who where sitting talking in another part of the house. I carried my bags to the car, when I realised that I had forgotten the bottle of Glenlivet that somebody gave me. I went back to search for it, only to find Fea and Shasta drinking from it (straight out of the bottle). . . They just looked at me and said "don't worry, it is not ours".

The rest of the dream is a haze, but there where talk about "giving birth to a whale"

Formendacil

01-22-2010, 02:01 PM

I also had a post-Bostonmoot influenced dream last night. Alas, I can't remember as much as I could when I woke to go to the washroom in the pre-dawn hours, but I do know that it involved some sort of a getting back together--and presumably in Boston, because Nienna was at the centre of the getting back... but it was a very strange airport that had a strong resemblance to a Christmastide shopping mall.

It was a Moot-reunion of sorts, I know--or it should have been--because there were a number of other Downers from Bostonmoot about: Rune, Boromir, and Shasta are the only ones I actually remember now... and precious little of them--but I do remember that Boro was wasted and lost his shirt at some point.

Eönwë

01-22-2010, 03:32 PM

I do remember that Boro was wasted and lost his shirt at some point.
Was this a normal occurrence at Bostonmoot? :p

Formendacil

01-22-2010, 04:54 PM

Was this a normal occurrence at Bostonmoot? :p

Never while I was awake... but I did go to bed first most nights. :p

Shastanis Althreduin

01-22-2010, 06:00 PM

Thinlómien

01-26-2010, 02:49 PM

First off my apologies to Rikae... she seems to appear a lot in my dreams and always doing something weird... I have no idea why. :D

Well, anyway, in my dream there was a 'downermoot in Finland. I was sitting in some room, talking with Di, Mac, Rikae and the three-year-old wereduckling, who was sitting on my lap. I was actually mostly talking with her. She said something that implied she can count. "Wow, can you count?" I asked. "Yes," she said, feigning modesty. "Can you read?" I asked. "Of course," she replied. "She never told me that," Rikae observed in a dry but amused voice. I looked at her instead of her daughter. "So she's just showing off?" "Yes," Rikae replied, "she loves to show off to new acquintances."

Rikae and Mac left for the kicthen. Soon after I followed them. In the corridor I ran to skip who was teaching Greenie how to fight with two swords. "No, you don't do it like that," I groaned. "Definitely not!" added Rikae from the doorstep of the kitchen. We almost had a fight over which one can demonstrate the proper way to do it. In the end, Rikae took the swords and showed Greenie what to do. Skip (who had, it came up, posted videos about Avatar on YouTube with the nick PeterTheOrc) was left to observe from a distance.

Once Rikae was done with the demonstration, she went to the kitchen. I followed her soon enough. When I entered, she was holding a huge glass bowl in her hands. The bowl was full of the liquid that olives are packaged with and there was even one olive floating on the top. "Can I drink this?" she asked. "Sure," I said, unsure if I heard her correctly. She sniffed the contents of the bowl with obvious pleasure while Mac, standing very straight behind her, gave me a slightly embarassed but a little defiant look. I shrugged. "Although, if you don't mind me being your new health advisor," I said to Rikae, "you shouldn't really drink that. First off, it has a lot of fat. And more importantly..." "even more salt," Mac finished the sentence for me.

I don't know if Rikae ended up drinking the stuff or not for I dashed off to the parking lot to pick up Kath and lead her to our little meeting.

Rune Son of Bjarne

01-28-2010, 01:00 PM

I had a rather weird dream and of course I do not remember most of it, but it did include the Phantom.

It started out with Phantom and I meeting up at my univeristy, for some reason there where all sorts of security meassures in place. . . I am not quite sure why.

I knew it was Phantom, but for some reason he was a hughe black guy wearing a suit and constantly eating lobster. After spending some time at the university we went to an award-show. They were both giving out awards for people who had done special work for the black comunity and then there was awards for wizards. I had been nominated for a wizard award. . .

I spend the night collecting guns that I magically made fit into a suitcase, later this suitcase was stolen. I went to ask Phantom if he knew what had happened to my guns, but he knew nothing. Oh by the way, Phantom was now an old bearded white guy. . .constantly drinking tea.

Boromir88

01-28-2010, 03:15 PM

I had a rather weird dream

You too? :p

Mine involved someone murdering Lommy and me getting arrested by Mira (who was a detective). I told Mira I found 2 penguin-designed rings and the killer must have taken them from Lommy, because she ALWAYS wore her penguin rings. However, I refused to answer Mira as to where I acquired the rings, which then I was arrested for tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice, and being a ____.

The end. So, I guess this means either I murdered Lommy, or I was trying to protect the real murderer? Ba, ba, ba, ba, bum. :p

Nerwen

01-29-2010, 04:35 AM

That's nothing. I dreamt Future!Hakon was some kind of ultra-powerful politician, crimelord or possibly both, and basically ran the entire world.:eek: He was purchasing Greenie (at her current age, oddly) as his latest concubine.

At the moment I managed to wake up, he was inspecting her very critically, with a horrible sneer on his face, and saying she was overpriced, because he didn't believe she was a natural blonde.

So, uh, yeah, sorry about that.

Pitchwife

01-29-2010, 12:52 PM

I dreamt Future!Hakon was some kind of ultra-powerful politician, crimelord or possibly both, and basically ran the entire world.
I guess he'll be delighted. Russian mobster with a vengeance...:D:D:D

Loslote

01-29-2010, 07:40 PM

That's nothing. I dreamt Future!Hakon was some kind of ultra-powerful politician, crimelord or possibly both, and basically ran the entire world.:eek:

Both. Always both. And...um...wow.

Thinlómien

02-24-2010, 08:17 AM

Nerwen and Boro, you are creepy.

I'm 100% sure I had another BD dream involving Rikae doing something weird, but I have forgotten it. Instead, let me entertain you with how (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=624346&postcount=330) my subconscious treated Sauron (the Seductress).

satansaloser2005

03-17-2010, 08:46 AM

So last night I dreamt that people were chatting over at Lottie's admin thread, and she'd made a bunch of drastic changes to her game. Then Brinn posts and complains because it's too simple now and she doesn't want to play anymore because it's below her. I'm pretty sure she was plotting to give herself a role just for kicks and giggles, but before we could start the game I woke up.

I may or may not have checked the admin thread this morning anyway. :rolleyes:

satansaloser2005

03-17-2010, 08:48 AM

Feanor of the Peredhil

03-19-2010, 11:18 AM

wilwarin538

03-19-2010, 12:27 PM

For just the part with Glirdan (which is kind of the most epic, not gonna lie), it's near the bottom. And he's blue. And twelve. And immortal.

And sort of epic.

The whole dream was epic. I'm impressed.

Boromir88

03-19-2010, 02:37 PM

Hahaha, yes it was. I want a tiny blue man to help uncover my fate for me. Actually, I want it to be Glirdan, because that's awesome, but I guess he's already taken? :( :p

Thinlómien

03-20-2010, 03:16 AM

Well, I had a rather weird dream too. I was spending time at my grandparents' with my mum and Greenie. I found out my mother had bought a small package of some kind of batteries called "throb in". The logo, however, was really unclear so I first read "th robin" and I thought "Laurinquë!" immediately and lo! that summoned her and TGEW right into my grandparents' kitchen. They had been touring Europe and planning to visit Finland too, but Helsinki instead of some random countryside house near the eastern border. I apologised to them that there weren't any sights or nice places around, but they weren't too sad.

Followed an episode of me trying to find them beds because the house was crowded with visitors already. Greenie and our cousin (who is actually the same age as Lauri :)) didn't quite approve of my arrangements, because I made our girls' bedroom quite crowded with taking two more people in and I made Greenie sleep in a smaller bed than before because TGEW was taller than her. In the end, we fit in relatively comfortably and I was just hoping TGEW and Lauri wouldn't get traumathised by the slightly crowded and weird lodgings. :D

Then, we weren't in my grandparents' house anymore, but some random high school. Laurinquë - whose hair was now blue - was looking very distressed. She was sitting in the school canteen with a guy who obviously had feelings for her. "So you like someone else?" the guy demanded. "Yes," Lauri admitted in a small voice. "I like Sam." "Sam? Is that a guy or girl?" the guy asked. Lauri didn't answer, so the guy's face started turning slightly red. "So you like girls? You were cheating me all along!" Lauri looked as if she was in the brink of crying and she just stood up abruptly. "Hey, everybody, Lauri here likes other girls!" the guy shouted. Some heads were turned. Lauri fleed and the guy followed, shouting "she likes girls! she likes girls!". Lauri ran upstairs and the jerk kept chasing her.

I was hanging around there at the end of the staircase and saw the situation. I decided to help Lauri and - don't ask how - we decided to lock the guy in a toilet. We forced him in and tried to close the door but he put his fingers between the door and the door frame - his bad, he was soon howling in agony. We opened the door just enough so that he could snatch his hand free and then closed it firmly and locked it. "Keep him there at least for an hour, preferably longer," I told Lauri in a very serious voice. Lauri nodded and smiled and we went for tea in a nearby café.

Mes apologies, I have no idea where that all came from. :D

Kath

03-20-2010, 10:01 AM

Just read that dream of Lommy's that I was in, and Boro:

Funny thing, one of the WW games in Boston I looked over to Kath for a while, to which she said something like "Like looking into my eyes?" and I said "Nope, trying to figure out if you're a wolf" but secretly, I must admit Kath's eyes are quite charming. Or maybe it went the other way around, I forget...
I think you said that if you were looking into my eyes when you asked if I was a wolf then you'd know if I was lying ... you were wrong. :p

Also Lommy, thank you for the eye compliments! :D

Glirdan

03-20-2010, 01:45 PM

I had a really epic set of dreams that involved, at the very least, Nienna, B88, Rune, and Glirdan.

But I don't feel like retyping or copy/pasting (that would need editing for 'Downs regulations), so I'm just going to link to the blog post where I wrote about it. Warning: there is a bit of cursing, but apart from that it's nothing bad. For those who don't care about the significance behind the title of the blog (http://fiftymg.blogspot.com/2010/03/dreaming-im-gonna-die.html), just skip to the italicized parts.

For just the part with Glirdan (which is kind of the most epic, not gonna lie), it's near the bottom. And he's blue. And twelve. And immortal.

Bahahahaha!!!! So I'm super stoked that I'm a blue 12 year old that is a vessel of fate!! At least we are doomed to eternity together Fea!! *Snuggles you lots*

Oh, and Boro, I would TOTALLY be your little blue twelve year old sidekick....getting lost in Boston....BAHAHAHAHA!!!

Definitely an epic dream Fea

Gwathagor

03-21-2010, 04:07 PM

So last night I dreamed that my sister and I were hanging out with Fea, and that the two of them hit it off remarkably well - such that moments after meeting one another, they were shopping and doing crafts. Simultaneously.

Feanor of the Peredhil

03-21-2010, 04:40 PM

I love shopping! And crafts!

Rune Son of Bjarne

03-21-2010, 04:48 PM

I dreamt about Mirandir last night.

I had gotten very famous for jumping like a jedi and for picking up gold lying on rocks, somehow Mirandir managed to take all the credit for it and she got her own talkshow.

Gwathagor

03-21-2010, 05:04 PM

I love shopping! And crafts!

And crafty shopping.

Nerwen

03-22-2010, 09:41 AM

I had a Barrow-Downs-related dream recently. At least I think I did. It was something about all of you being down at the beach-house, and playing real-life WW, and the dead people had to go out on the balcony for some reason. Then maybe it started getting serious. Somebody might have got murdered or something. I'm not sure.

You see, either I basically don't dream as rule, or I don't remember my dreams... it's sort of sad. I seem to have a surprisingly boring subconscious, at least compared to everyone else.:(

Still, the Hakon-and-Greenie one was interesting... There may be hope for me yet...

Loslote

03-25-2010, 04:05 PM

I had a DownerDream last night, but I don't remember most of it. All I know is, it had Nog's Head and a strange combination of Lauri and Alfred the Asperagus from VeggieTales, and Lauri the Apsperagus was talking about horticulture.

Aganzir

03-28-2010, 05:44 AM

I had a BD dream for the first time in a looong while.

I was making a recording (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=16377) with Kath, Legate, alona (which is weird since I've never had any interaction with her), a she-Downer I don't remember, and a short, annoying, red-haired guy (who actually reminded me of the Dwarf (http://img7.xooimage.com/files/7/9/5/nabot-213bfb.jpg) in the Once Upon a Time... series), except that it didn't happen online but in real life.

When we were finished, Kath and the Dwarf guy went to a bar. Shortly after they had left, we heard horrible shrieks. I went to see what it was about and lo! there was a huge bear that held Boro upside down in its deadly hug. I tried to hit and kick the bear but it barely even noticed it, so finally I just stuck my fingers in its eyes. The bear fled, bleeding, and I told Boro to try that trick next time. He said there was little he could do, hanging upside down.

Boromir88

03-29-2010, 07:59 AM

Ignoring the spam...I had a BD dream last night. I recall Rune, Greenie, Agan, Lommy, and a "copy and pasted" Kath. But before I get to that...

I went to see what it was about and lo! there was a huge bear that held Boro upside down in its deadly hug. I tried to hit and kick the bear but it barely even noticed it, so finally I just stuck my fingers in its eyes. The bear fled, bleeding, and I told Boro to try that trick next time. He said there was little he could do, hanging upside down.

Aww you would even protect me from a bear! That's awesome. :D Most people I know would probably run away.

So, my dream...I find it hard to explain, because I was dreaming that I was telling people about a dream I had, in a dream...yes strange.

I was getting on one of those doghound buses you take for long roadtrips. Greenie and Rune were already on the bus, and I just had to tell them about a dream I had. Apparently I can just copy and paste people into dreams, because I thought...this is where Kath would be, this is how she looks, and boom she was pasted into my dream. However, she was a copied image, so she couldn't move or talk of course. (To the joy of us all! :D)
I couldn't do the same for Lommy and Agan, so Rune gave me their stand-ins. The Penguin and the lion. I sit behind Rune, next to the copied Kath and Greenie sat in front of Rune, and I began telling them about another dream I had.

Recently I found out my former cross-country coach left his wife because he entered into a relationship with one of his 17 year old runners. This is where it's tricky because apparently I was telling Kath that story from a previous dream, and now I was telling Greenie and Rune. Rune makes a funny, but terrible inappropriate joke I won't type here. Than Greenie does a Kath impersonation and claims that Kath always tells her "John is a freak."

If that wasn't odd enough, Agan and Lommy majically transformed to life and want to know when they come into my dream. I said I couldn't remember what Lommy was doing, but Agan was doing some strange dance and asked me to join. Then Agan said "Oh you mean this one! It's my favorite I'll teach you." jumped up and started dancing :p

The End.

Aganzir

03-29-2010, 09:42 AM

Aww you would even protect me from a bear! That's awesome. Most people I know would probably run away.
I'm ever so gallant.
Although I assume the dream just means that I've finally forgiven Borobear for killing me in Saucie's werewolf back in 2007. ;)

Agan was doing some strange dance and asked me to join. Then Agan said "Oh you mean this one! It's my favorite I'll teach you." jumped up and started dancing
It was probably tango. Be prepared to dance the woman's part. :p

Oddwen

03-29-2010, 09:59 AM

I dreamed that McCaber and I were visiting Diamond18's house in preparation for the Finniship of the Ring's visit, and her cats really liked me.

So I've got that going for me, at least.

Feanor of the Peredhil

04-04-2010, 08:00 PM

Dreamed last night that there were six evil wizards. Dancing ritualistically around a bonfire.

I had to kill them. Bullets wouldn't work. Knives wouldn't work. I had to shoot them with griffin-fletched arrows.

Rather conveniently, Rune had six of them, specially made in Denmark. It was a skill passed down from his Viking forebears...

So then I had my bow, and the six arrows, and I had a decent vantage in a bombed out building from which to shoot.

And then I sniped the evil wizards and saved the world while Rune talked with the other guy (who might have been B88).

the phantom

04-14-2010, 09:41 PM

A week or so back I had a curious dream. Since I had been playing Left 4 Dead in the hours leading up to bed, the theme of the dream was quite understandable- I was attempting to escape from a zombie-infested building. That in itself would hardly qualify as odd, but there was a twist. Have you ever seen Signs? Well, in that film, the aliens react to water the way we would react to some extremely strong form of acid. In my dream, these zombies had that same weakness. I was literally taking them down with a squirt gun.

Unfortunately my water pistol didn't have much of a reservoir, and I was continually forced to backtrack to my starting point to refill before thrusting out again. Each time down my chosen path I was getting closer to escape. But then I hit a snag, and also encountered the individual that qualifies this as a dream of the Barrow-Downs variety.

There were two rooms leading off the final hall. The second was quite problematic- it was a wide opening and it was just crawling with zombies, and they were too tightly packed for me to use my usual method of attracting one at a time into attacking and wasting them with the water pistol. No, no- if I walked past the room it was likely to rouse the whole mob, and I simply didn't have the ammo for it. But the room before the final room held the solution! I slowly opened the door and what did I see through the crack? A sink, and atop the counter next to it, a hose! Ha ha!

But now peeking the rest of the way into the room, this one contained zombies as well. Only three- but I recognized one. It was none other than Lari! And oddly enough, she and the other two zombies were talking! (As opposed to staggering about and drooling, the two staples of zombie-ism.)

I had to use their hose, that much was clear, but I didn't wish to slay Lari-zombie. She was quite clearly a zombie, desiring to feast upon human flesh and the like. She wasn't truly Lari any more. And yet, it looked like Lari, and sounded like her, and I just struggled mentally with the idea of gunning her down. (The season 2 Buffy/Angel dilemma is so clear to me now!)

So, I did what any intelligent chap would do- I strolled in and attempted to reason with the zombies. (Please note that I strongly discourage this approach in real life! I'd feel terrible if someone read this and attempted to follow my strategy and ended up a bit dead as a result.)

Lari and her zombie pals were put off by my water gun, and I could tell that they had both the urge to cower in fear and to try and kill me before I had a chance to act. After a minute or two however, they slowly came around, and started to at least half believe that it was possible I wasn't there to kill them, but truly wished to borrow their hose and sink. And then Lari said something that really surprised me. "Lower your gun and give me a hug then. If you truly don't mean me any harm and want to be friends, give me a hug."

Needless to say my heart started pumping a bit quicker. Place myself within the arms of a violent creature with super-human strength? That would completely compromise any advantage I had in the situation! But in the end I decided it was the only way. I gave Lari a hearty squeeze, making sure that the water gun was visible (to discourage her from getting any ideas about squeezing me to death), but on the other hand trying not to brandish the weapon too much (I didn't wish to provoke her friends or give visions of treachery).

After several tense and awkward seconds it was over, and I was told I could use their hose and sink. I had it working in no time and went out into the hall and to the next room and blasted the mob of zombies into oblivion. My way out of the building was clear! But then, a thought- what if, as soon as I'm out, Lari and friends change their mind about eating me and rush me from behind? She was an evil zombie after all. She couldn't be trusted!

But it would be so very low to repay her kindness by spraying her with her own hose. What to do? After giving it some thought, I compromised- I popped into the doorway and sprayed the legs of Lari and company, rendering them incapable of pursuit, but leaving them quite alive.

And then I dashed to freedom.

The end.

Thinlómien

04-15-2010, 03:34 AM

I had a long and weird dream including bears and Leonard Cohen and various others, but to spare you I shall only tell the BD-related part: Agan and Morsul were trying to instruct me (and other people) to play a strange card game. One of the cards in the game was "Inziladun", he looked a lot like one card in Middle Earth: The Wizards card game except that he was sitting in some sports car in the picture. Agan, who heard more of the dream, also wanted me to mention that at some point there Legate and a guy who looked like Rune were taking a shower in the same bathroom at the same time (but there were too showers and before you ask, no my dream didn't show them there :p, they just went there Legate first and then the Runeish-looking guy later before Legate had come out).

Legate of Amon Lanc

04-15-2010, 03:52 AM

This looks like a bunch of BD dreams recently, I had some dream to(I almost wrote toDay! :rolleyes: ) where a large group of 'Downers was on some sort of tour in some historic city, could have been somewhere in southern France or Italy or something like that, there was a huge castle on top of a hill in the middle of the city and a part of it was an old church tower, very high, with a steeple. We have sort of split while touring the city, because everybody wanted to see different parts of it, and I remember Morsul and Fea and I think Mira went to the tower, whereas I went alone to a burning building (yeah, it was being burned down at that time) somewhere on the further side of the town. The other 'Downers around there included people like Loslote, Rune, possibly Sally. I don't really remember any particular events, just sort of moments or pictures of people being here and there and visiting the historical places, but not any actual action in the dream.

Brinniel

04-18-2010, 09:26 PM

I had a dream where a bunch of BDers were at my house (in Idaho). We were playing a game where we threw a stuffed animal (I think) to each other and whoever dropped it has to sit out. So of course when it gets to me, I drop it. I mutter to Sally, who's next to me, that she'll never have to worry about getting out because I'll end up dropping it every time since I'm not good at these types of games. So I have to sit in my own little square while everyone else wanders off to do their own thing. After awhile, I don't hear anything and freak out worrying that everyone left the house without me, but then I notice all the cars are still parked in the driveway. I discover all the BDers chatting on the patio in the backyard and having a really great time. But I can't partake in the fun because I'm still out and must stay inside.

Not exactly a happy dream, yet it's something that's perfectly applicable to my RL. Ever since not long after Bostonmoot when my semester began, I've been crunched down with schoolwork. I spend long hours at labs (I'm at one now and obviously not being productive), all-nighters writing papers, long days at classes and work...I often don't get home until after 9 or 10. I have a short time to eat, catch up online, finally relax...and then sleep (which I only get 3-4 hours of typically). Needless to say, I have absolutely no time whatsoever to chat with BDers, and barely any to talk with people on Facebook. Meanwhile, everyone else is chatting with everyone, keeping strong connections, particularly those made this winter. I observe, but can't partake. After all these months of barely talking to BDers, I'm afraid I've lost these connections I've made, and at worst, friendships. My own fault for not trying harder, but nevertheless it's frustrating. The good news is that I'll be forever done with school in two and half weeks which means free time again. I only hope it's not too late for these lost connections to be remade.

Wow, I probably just depressed everyone (sorry). Though it's really strange how dreams can reflect your RL conflicts...and I just had to mention that.

Everyone else has so much more interesting BDers dreams. I'm jealous. I usually can't remember mine.

Laurinquë

04-25-2010, 10:38 PM

This afternoon I decided to take a nap. This is unusual because I had just got up from eleven hours of sleep about four hours previously. I blame too much sleep for the events that 'happened' later.

In my dream I was on the computer. And naturally, being on the computer, I went on the Barrow-Downs. BUT in my dream the BD had gone through a massive renovation. My User CP contained a list of 'reviews' about my posts; the latest one being from Aganzir. It read a lot like a snippet from a book review, made me sound like a great author. ;) Thank you Agan!

There were a number of other changes as well, I remember freaking out because all the threads had been reassigned to different areas and I could not find them. And then there were all these new members with weird and wacky avatars. It was like I had been asleep for many years and had gone on the Barrow-Downs of the future. Avvies were bigger and the whole style of the place was different. And did I mention it was changing as I watched? It was. It started out looking as it does now, all black and green. But then it started looking more and more like Facebook--a black and pink Facebook with lots of dead people. Few of my old acquaintances were there and I was all alone with people I didn't know and inside jokes I had never heard.

What does this say about me? Nothing good I imagine. It rather reminds me of Brinniel's post. Barrow-Downs angst. :(

I've been crunched down with schoolwork. I spend long hours at labs (I'm at one now and obviously not being productive), all-nighters writing papers, long days at classes and work...I often don't get home until after 9 or 10. I have a short time to eat, catch up online, finally relax...and then sleep (which I only get 3-4 hours of typically). Needless to say, I have absolutely no time whatsoever to chat with BDers, and barely any to talk with people on Facebook. Meanwhile, everyone else is chatting with everyone, keeping strong connections, particularly those made this winter. I observe, but can't partake. After all these months of barely talking to BDers, I'm afraid I've lost these connections I've made, and at worst, friendships. My own fault for not trying harder, but nevertheless it's frustrating. The good news is that I'll be forever done with school in two and half weeks which means free time again. I only hope it's not too late for these lost connections to be remade.

Wow, I probably just depressed everyone (sorry). Though it's really strange how dreams can reflect your RL conflicts...and I just had to mention that.

Just to let you know Brinn, this sounds like my life. I don't think that everyone has been having a good a time as you think they have. Things always sound better when you weren't actually there. I'm really sorry that you are having to go through this. At least you did get to go to Bostonmoot at all. Us Alaskan/Finnish/everyone else Downers did not. You will be able to renew any 'lost' connections you made when you have some more time on your hands. :) Good luck with school.

Loslote

05-05-2010, 07:10 PM

I had a rather alarming dream last night...a whole bunch of Downers were running away from Velociraptors. Fea was being a sort of cheerleader, telling us to run faster and giving us "encouraging" raptor trivia ala xkcd, but Nerwen, Sally, Shasta, and Boro all disappeared, presumably caught by the raptors. Eventually the "raptors" caught up, and it turned out that it was the European Downers, running away from what they thought were the raptors, so we were just running in circles. The four that disappeared had just gotten bored and started to play Whist. Then we were all laughing, and The Phantom was petting a cat...I don't remember if he was being all evil mastermindish by petting the cat, or if it was just a cute kitty. :rolleyes:

Boromir88

05-05-2010, 07:18 PM

I would pay $50 to see phantom pet a cat...no joke, that would be a polaroid moment. heh :p

wilwarin538

05-14-2010, 06:43 AM

My first Downs dream in a long time:

I dreamt that since I'm so sick I forgot to post on the current WW game on Day 1. So I ended up remembering like 3 minutes before DL, and instead of looking at what the votes were I decided to try to read through the thread. It was only 2 pages; the first pages was all people posting a picture of the avatar of the previous poster, and the second page was all people voting for me. Shasta then just posted saying: "Wilwa is dead" in really big letters with a picture of a dead butterfly. Then either Fea or Mira (I wasn't sure which it was in the dream), sent me this picture which I can't remember and it was accompanied by this voice clip that I think may have talked about Vampire Diaries and cookies and a rediculous amount of swearing. ha. Then suddenly I was in a room with a bunch of strangers, but I think they were supposed to be Downers (they just didn't look like what you guys really look like), and I was trying to defend my absence.

There could have been more, but I can't really remember. It was weird. :D

Legate of Amon Lanc

05-23-2010, 03:49 AM

I had a 'Downs-related dream today after some time. Its main feature was that Bethberry started to spam the forum with threads with names like "I think Eru actually didn't exist and it was Goldberry instead" or "The River's daughter had actually defeated all the trolls of Gothmog's guard and killed Gothmog as well". It was not difficult to think where she got the inspiration, I was only wondering whether it was a joke from her part or whether she decided that she meant it seriously and was only encouraged to post it now.

the phantom

07-03-2010, 05:47 PM

While resting this afternoon I had an interesting dream involving the Finn's trip.

I was in some sort of giant room filled with maps, and on the central map on the table I was watching a glowing dot snaking its way across the country (it was the Finns). I was surprised because the route they were taking back east was more northerly than I expected. On one hand I was happy as I realized they would be coming back to Omaha, but on the other hand I knew they were wishing to go through Texas to New Orleans and I wondered why they were off course.

My phone rang and it was Nog, and he explained to me that all their maps were stolen, their GPS was broken, and no one in that area could help them get back on the right road because no one understood Finnish. But just after he said that, I heard him exclaim, "Boro!" and then he said, "No worries, Boromir happened to be passing this way and he can help us out."

I continued to watch their travel path on the map, and now it was headed south through Colorado, heading for Texas. "All right. Back on track now," I thought. But then a PM from Nog popped up on my screen which read, "No phone service any more, but Boro helped us out. He said many great things about going to South Bend to see Notre Dame, so that's where we are headed."

I PMed back quickly saying, "Um, just where do you think Notre Dame is?" seeing as they were going the wrong direction. He PMed back, "Boro said it was in Idaho, which according to his map is just a few more hours south of here."

There were so many things wrong going on that I wasn't sure where to begin, but I decided that perhaps I would just say nothing, seeing as they were in fact back on the course they had originally intended to take. So, I PMed, "Well done. I'll meet you in South Bend," and prepared to leave for my cousin's house in Austin, Texas, with the intention of intercepting Nog and friends when they arrived there looking for Notre Dame.

But just before I left I stopped and wondered, "What if, after I leave, Greenie PMs to consult on the route?" (we had discussed this previously), and in answer to my question a PM from Greenie popped up on the screen- "I can't PM you- I'm asleep."

Relieved, I hopped in my vehicle and set out for Texas (aka Idaho, aka South Bend).

That is all.

Pitchwife

07-03-2010, 06:00 PM

a PM from Greenie popped up on the screen- "I can't PM you- I'm asleep."
phantom, you've just made me laugh tears. You're a genius even in your dreams!:D:D:D

Loslote

07-04-2010, 12:48 AM

Well done, Greenie - exceptionally prompt and helpful. :p

TheGreatElvenWarrior

07-04-2010, 02:23 AM

Well, I can't say that the dream I had last night related to other Downers (other than the fact that I was sleeping with other Downers at another Downers house), but I can say that it had something to do with the Barrow-Downs.
I had this dream last night that I went to bed with about 1820 posts (like I have now) and went to sleep (to have dreams about Aganzir, I'm pretty sure) only to wake up and find that I had reached the 2000 post mark. :eek::D I don't know how I got there or how I managed to make that many posts whilst asleep, but I know that those posts were good posts and there were a lot of them. It was exceedingly strange.

I had another dream two nights ago that involved Aganzir, Ka, and Lauri. I don't remember really anything about it other than Aganzir was doing something dastardly and we all enjoyed watching her do it.
Funny how Downers who you spend some time with find their way into your sleeping mind. ;)

THE Ka

07-06-2010, 10:22 PM

I had another dream two nights ago that involved Aganzir, Ka, and Lauri. I don't remember really anything about it other than Aganzir was doing something dastardly and we all enjoyed watching her do it.
Funny how Downers who you spend some time with find their way into your sleeping mind. ;)

...Are you sure that wasn't a dream and actually something she did to the vampire-folk of Forks? ;) Or that we all did?

I was mostly worried all of you would hear me say something in my sleep and it'd be too weird, even for the barrowdowns. :p

~ Ka

TheGreatElvenWarrior

07-06-2010, 11:28 PM

...Are you sure that wasn't a dream and actually something she did to the vampire-folk of Forks? ;) Or that we all did?

I was mostly worried all of you would hear me say something in my sleep and it'd be too weird, even for the barrowdowns. :p

~ Ka
Perhaps that bit was based off of reality. ;)

I sleep as sound as a log during the deep hours of the night. I move around a lot, but nothing really bothers me. Not that anything you would have to say would be any weirder than what I have said.

Glirdan

07-11-2010, 11:34 AM

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

07-12-2010, 12:25 AM

Glirdan, you're mean. :p
tp, you're hilarious. :D

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

07-12-2010, 12:37 AM

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

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. :D

the phantom

07-21-2010, 10:36 AM

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

07-21-2010, 02:29 PM

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... :confused:

Aganzir

07-22-2010, 03:16 PM

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! ;)

"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. :p

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! :D

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.