Barrow-Down Dreams - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Celuien · 06-05-2006, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oddwen

Lalwendë's real name was Leroy Brown.

Here's a weird dream...

I was back in the high school I attended in 11th grade. BW and SpM were two of the teachers. (They weren't fighting.

) I got sent by one of them (I forget which) to welcome guests to the school, who turned out to be Bethberry and Mithalwen. We went to the auditorium - inexplicably connected to the kitchen of a house I lived in 10 years ago that's actually a good 3000 miles from the HS - and listened to them give a lecture. Which I couldn't hear, and when I could hear it, I couldn't understand because it was in an unidentifiable foreign language. Other Downers (sorry, I can't remember who), were also in the audience and looked very intent on listening. At the end, everyone cheered.

I also had a dream that various moderators PMed me for being off topic and a general nuisance on the forums. I was threatened with being banned if I didn't behave myself.

littlemanpoet · 06-07-2006, 03:58 PM

I didn't see any request for interp from Celuien, so I'm not doing it without permission.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diamond

How does being buxom and funny make me a healer?

The nurse part, you nit.

Being funny helps too. Buxom has to do with .... you don't want to know.

TGWBS, I think your dream is almost completely a processing of your recent conversations with Formy and your desire for things mythical and beyond the mundane and/or present. That Formy goes and you don't, especially suggests the desire for something Formy has but you don't. You can sense it but you can't go there....

Celuien · 06-07-2006, 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

I didn't see any request for interp from Celuien, so I'm not doing it without permission.

Well, anything I've posted here is fair game.

Analyze away, if it's not too boring a dream.

Oddwen · 06-07-2006, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diamond

How does being buxom and funny make me a healer?

Quote:

Originally Posted by LMP

The nurse part, you nit.

Being funny helps too. Buxom has to do with .... you don't want to know.

I think I've got it...overcome with jealousy over Nilp and Lhuna's adoption of Mith as their Downsian mother (funny, I've always considered her a sister!), with devastated tears I dreamt up a suitable alternative:

Diamond18 is my Mother Figure.

Nurse = motherly concern
Funny = love and ease
Buxom = umm...nourishing

And I think she's older than me...by a couple of months?

Move over, Dr. Dream.

Diamond18 · 06-07-2006, 08:56 PM

Er... can I be your big sister figure instead? You know, the older sis you look up to, who started developing before you, who always gets the boys....

(I'd better stop before other people start having strange dreams about me. I mean, tgwbs's signature is sure to warp the minds of everyone he comes across.)

So. I'm not sure if I should be admitting this in front of God and everyone, but I had a strange dream last night in which I was reading ATM2 and I came across a post by Eomer which was rather a bit close to being tawdry and, well, R-rated. In the post, Aimé visited a brothel. It was rather reminiscent of a sequence in Monty Python and the Holy Grail... the temptation of what's-his-face, the chaste knight. Only Aimé didn't take much tempting. I read it and thought, "Ha ha, Eomer's gonna get banned."

Lhunardawen · 06-07-2006, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elempi

That Formy goes and you don't, especially suggests the desire for something Formy has but you don't. You can sense it but you can't go there....

Eerily, tgwbs, I can think of something that perfectly fits this explanation...but I could be wrong.

I guess it's about time to say my dream. A few RL days into Kath's game I dreamt that it was reduced to a mere show of hands. Everyone was seated in a circle, with some on the floor and some on a sofa. "Who thinks Durelin (she's the only person mentioned that I can remember) is a werewolf, raise your hands," Kath said, and a few hands were raised. I saw nothing more - nothing about Night roles and wolf conversations and actual lynchings. For that last one, I don't think my mum (real mum, not Mith) would have allowed anyone to splatter blood all over our living room, anyway.

Mithalwen · 06-08-2006, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

I saw nothing more - nothing about Night roles and wolf conversations and actual lynchings. For that last one, I don't think my mum (real mum, not Mith) would have allowed anyone to splatter blood all over our living room, anyway.

Not sure I would be terribly keen either, my darling, fanged fur-baby .... the cream carpet has coped with its share of red wine and black coffee spillages over the years ... but blood is a real pain to get out. Much better to do the actual slaughtering in the bathroom... yes I have been watching too much Suburban Shootout.....

Oddone - don't be jealous... I'd love you to be my sister, my own one is quite hideous so I will happily trade her in for someone who actually likes me. I don't have many close relatives so I am really touched to have an expanding cyber family

littlemanpoet · 06-07-2006, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diamond18

Er... can I be your big sister figure instead? You know, the older sis you look up to, who started developing before you, who always gets the boys....

(I'd better stop before other people start having strange dreams about me. I mean, tgwbs's signature is sure to warp the minds of everyone he comes across.)

So. I'm not sure if I should be admitting this in front of God and everyone, but I had a strange dream last night in which I was reading ATM2 and I came across a post by Eomer which was rather a bit close to being tawdry and, well, R-rated. In the post, Aimé visited a brothel. It was rather reminiscent of a sequence in Monty Python and the Holy Grail... the temptation of what's-his-face, the chaste knight. Only Aimé didn't take much tempting. I read it and thought, "Ha ha, Eomer's gonna get banned."

Any interpretation I come up with for this is just not safe. I've already deleted two! One was about loquacious libido and the other about cheeks.

the guy who be short · 06-08-2006, 07:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lhuna

Eerily, tgwbs, I can think of something that perfectly fits this explanation...but I could be wrong.

Most probably.

Actually, I think it was slightly influenced by being jealous that so many other people kept having BDer dreams and mine seemed to have stopped. They used to be something quite particular to me.

Maybe I'm merely jealous nobody is testing me for insanity.

Orominuialwen · 06-08-2006, 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Celuien

Not Bad, Bad Leroy Brown?

Or Encyclopedia Brown?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mith

I don't have many close relatives so I am really touched to have an expanding cyber family

Could I adopt you as an aunt, then? I'm not at all close to any of my real aunts and you're much more fun. How could I go wrong with an aunt with such a love of choral music and Lord Peter Wimsey?

I had a terrible BD dream last night. In my dream, I logged on to the 'Downs and the background, instead of being black, was a sort of swirly dark blue and green. There was a big notice on the forum's main page saying that the 'Downs was permanently closed and would never reopen. I remember crying a lot in the dream. The eerie thing is that when I woke up, I had tears in my eyes and all over my face. The dream must have gotten to me so much that I actually cried while I was asleep. It was probably the second saddest dream I've ever had, after the dream I had where my brother died.

A few weeks ago, I dreamt that I got a text message from LMP. I was in a parking lot somewhere when it came, and I remember wondering how he had gotten my phone number. The message turned out to just be notifying me that LMP had PMed me.

I had this last dream several months ago. In it, Kitanna and Firefoot had decided to join my robotics team. It was right before we were supposed to leave for Chicago for our competition and someone had decided that it would make more sense for them to come to Madison and stay here the night before, rather than just going to Chicago (which would be a lot closer in RL), so I decided that they would say at my house the night before setting off for Chicago. I think there might have been more to the dream, but that's all I remember of it now.

Anyone is free to analyse these in any way they see fit!

Celuien · 06-08-2006, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Orominuialwen

Or Encyclopedia Brown?

Now that's just plain scary. Did Encyclopedia grow up to be bad?

littlemanpoet · 06-10-2006, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Orominuialwen

I had a terrible BD dream last night. In my dream, I logged on to the 'Downs and the background, instead of being black, was a sort of swirly dark blue and green. There was a big notice on the forum's main page saying that the 'Downs was permanently closed and would never reopen. I remember crying a lot in the dream. The eerie thing is that when I woke up, I had tears in my eyes and all over my face. The dream must have gotten to me so much that I actually cried while I was asleep. It was probably the second saddest dream I've ever had, after the dream I had where my brother died.

This needs no interpretation. I think I'd cry too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Orom

A few weeks ago, I dreamt that I got a text message from LMP. I was in a parking lot somewhere when it came, and I remember wondering how he had gotten my phone number. The message turned out to just be notifying me that LMP had PMed me.

You secretly wanted to hear from me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Orom

I had this last dream several months ago. In it, Kitanna and Firefoot had decided to join my robotics team. It was right before we were supposed to leave for Chicago for our competition and someone had decided that it would make more sense for them to come to Madison and stay here the night before, rather than just going to Chicago (which would be a lot closer in RL), so I decided that they would say at my house the night before setting off for Chicago. I think there might have been more to the dream, but that's all I remember of it now.

I'm not sure what robotics means compared to anything else; you'd have to tell me more about it. I don't know how your Downs relationship with Kit & FF differs (or not) from others', but this seems pretty straightforward to me too: you wanted to connect with these two - - - bring them right into your own house - - - which in dreams is akin to bringing someone right inside yourself.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 06-11-2006, 10:52 AM

Oh Doctor Dream, I beseech you...

In my dream, I drove soberly for four companions very remarkably less so. Upon my discovery of a herd of deer in the middle of the road I was on, with headlights half-blinding me in my rear view, a bear arrived.

And then Tollin came. I almost think that Anguirel came out of the woods, but I cannot remember. I forgot most of the dream when I woke up.

littlemanpoet · 06-12-2006, 03:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Oh Doctor Dream, I beseech you...

In my dream, I drove soberly for four companions very remarkably less so. Upon my discovery of a herd of deer in the middle of the road I was on, with headlights half-blinding me in my rear view, a bear arrived.

And then Tollin came. I almost think that Anguirel came out of the woods, but I cannot remember. I forgot most of the dream when I woke up.

You sobre, driving: you in control
four friends, drunk: aspects of you that are not in control of you
driving: you going through life
herd of deer: obstacle that poses threat to your life but is not intrinsically dangerous
half-blinding headlights from behind: something in the past that is obscuring your vision
bear: potential threat

Was the bear after the deer? You?

Feanor of the Peredhil · 06-12-2006, 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Was the bear after the deer? You?

The bear massacred the deer in front of me while my drunken companions expressed confusion at our lack of motion.

littlemanpoet · 06-12-2006, 08:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

The bear massacred the deer in front of me while my drunken companions expressed confusion at our lack of motion.

Well that's rather a critical detail to leave out!

*LMP glares @ Fea*

Now, the headlight in the rearview mirror could be blocked by merely putting a hand in the way. Did you do that? Whether you did or not, the situation from the past still is powerful enough to cause your perceptions of what's before you to be altered.

But the bear is seen massacring the deer regardless of the glare of headlights. The killer is animal, the victims are animal. What does the driver think of this?

Here's the important thing: whatever terrible thing that is going on, represented by the deer massacre, has caused your life (you driving the car) to stop moving forward. There's confusion, but it's subdued. Enough. That's all I can come up with. Have fun with it.

*************

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lommy

I had been on the 'downs whole night though I was supposed to clean my room. I was playing survivor, if I remember correctly. Then, I didn't have time to clean and went to sleep without doing that. When I woke up at morning, I had got an SMS. It said "I sent paavo to clean up your room. Have a nice day. See you in the 'downs. Cheers, Anguirel." My phone said that the number where the SMS was from was just 30. Nothing else. I was left wondering how Ang knew my phone number and how had paavo got in so that no one had noticed.

room = self
downs = pleasure
cleaning = responsibility
clean + room = taking care of yourself
Paavo = someone else takes care of you for you
30 = ?

How do you see paavo?
How do you see Ang?

littlemanpoet · 06-08-2006, 08:56 PM

Man, I had this all typed up then forgot to save it when I decided not to post it until getting permission. Maybe I can recall it all....

Quote:

Originally Posted by Celuien

I was back in the high school I attended in 11th grade. BW and SpM were two of the teachers. (They weren't fighting.) I got sent by one of them (I forget which) to welcome guests to the school, who turned out to be Bethberry and Mithalwen. We went to the auditorium - inexplicably connected to the kitchen of a house I lived in 10 years ago that's actually a good 3000 miles from the HS - and listened to them give a lecture. Which I couldn't hear, and when I could hear it, I couldn't understand because it was in an unidentifiable foreign language. Other Downers (sorry, I can't remember who), were also in the audience and looked very intent on listening. At the end, everyone cheered.

high school: formative and educational
BW & SPM: authority figures
welcoming: you represent education
Bethberry & Mithalwen: familiar & honored pair
auditorium connected to kitchen: educational connected to nourishing
lecture: (do you remember who the lecturer was? A BDer?) educational again
can't hear & can't understand language: Whoa!

pretty obvious.
Other Downers hearing & understanding: also obvious
cheering: agreement and acceptance

Rather sad. Here's a place with all kinds of potential and you're even a model student there (sent to welcome). Educational and nourishing but stuff is being tuaght that you can't hear most of, and when you can, it's in a language you don't know. Missing out on something really worthwhile. Reminds me of the "missing categories in the mind" theory of knowledge: There are some Barrowdowns - perhaps Tolkienian - things that your dream-self is missing out on. Deep dream.

Wow. That was rather serious.

Quote:

I also had a dream that various moderators PMed me for being off topic and a general nuisance on the forums. I was threatened with being banned if I didn't behave myself.

Easy: fear of not pleasing others

Celuien · 06-08-2006, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Do you remember who the lecturer was? A BDer?

I think it was either Bethberry or Mith. They disappeared on the way to the auditorium.

Interesting. Education is a big, big thing in my family.

Maybe my subconscious is telling me to post on the Books forum more often. When I first joined, I was there frequently. Now I'm slacking outside of Werewolf and RPs.

Bêthberry · 06-15-2006, 01:12 PM

I had the most bizarre dream the other night.

Mithalwen and I were discussing Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope heroines and trying to decide which one would make a good Arwen, Galadriel, etc. We bogged down over agreement on whether Miss Bates would make a good Ioreth. In fact, things got so heated that, erm, *cough*, a mud wrestling exchange broke out. At the loud and boisterous sounds of BDers hooting and hollaring their raucous cheering for various sides, I woke up!

Even more bizarre, when I checked out this thread, I find Celuien's dream:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Celuien

Here's a weird dream...

I was back in the high school I attended in 11th grade. BW and SpM were two of the teachers. (They weren't fighting. ) I got sent by one of them (I forget which) to welcome guests to the school, who turned out to be Bethberry and Mithalwen. We went to the auditorium - inexplicably connected to the kitchen of a house I lived in 10 years ago that's actually a good 3000 miles from the HS - and listened to them give a lecture. Which I couldn't hear, and when I could hear it, I couldn't understand because it was in an unidentifiable foreign language. Other Downers (sorry, I can't remember who), were also in the audience and looked very intent on listening. At the end, everyone cheered.

Some kind of elven osanwe?

littlemanpoet · 06-15-2006, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

a mud wrestling exchange broke out.

Even more bizarre, when I checked out this thread, I find Celuien's dream:...

Some kind of elven osanwe?

Well. Celuien? Are you sure it was a lecture and not a mudwrestling match?

Bethberry: did you enjoy it?

Bêthberry · 06-15-2006, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Well. Celuien? Are you sure it was a lecture and not a mudwrestling match?

Bethberry: did you enjoy it?

It as in dream or as in mud wrestling?

Celuien · 06-15-2006, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Well. Celuien? Are you sure it was a lecture and not a mudwrestling match?

Quite sure, though at my high school the terms occassionally seemed interchangeable.

(Okay, okay, it wasn't that bad, but I hated high school, so I can make fun of it if I want. So there.)

Osanwe might well be involved.

Encaitare · 06-15-2006, 09:43 PM

My dream last night involved the Downs for a bit. In the first part I was trying to scale these walls and obstacles, I think it was in a forest. I don't remember it very well, though. The part I remember most distinctly is that Saucie showed up in a later part of the dream where were were in some fancy place all dressed up. Of course, Saucie looked nothing like himself, he had very white hair and looked rather haggard and quite unshaven. But it was him all the same.

Anguirel · 06-16-2006, 12:17 AM

I've had my first Downs Dream-or meta-Dream. Basically I dreamt that I dreamt a dream with weird Celtic imagery involving the Triple Goddess in the form of Diamond, Fea and Jenny, woke up (still in the dream) and decided to submit it to the Barrow-Downs, but then got distracted and swanned about in London for a bit. Then I really woke up.

JennyHallu · 06-16-2006, 05:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anguirel

I've had my first Downs Dream-or meta-Dream. Basically I dreamt that I dreamt a dream with weird Celtic imagery involving the Triple Goddess in the form of Diamond, Fea and Jenny, woke up (still in the dream) and decided to submit it to the Barrow-Downs, but then got distracted and swanned about in London for a bit. Then I really woke up.

Oooh...omnipotence and omniscience!

So I've got that going for me...which is nice.

Interesting that the three of us are getting grouped together. (Anyone else seeing a wolf-team?)

Diamond18 · 06-16-2006, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Ang
Triple Goddess in the form of Diamond, Fea and Jenny

Ang, I like the way your subconcious mind works. Now if we can only get to the point where you dream that I am The sole Goddess....

Quote:

Diamond and Jenny as their current avatars. The fact that on encountering Audrey Hepburn in the subconscious world (not for the first time) I now instantaneously identify her as Diamond is...curious...

Excellent! I knew it was time for a change when Oddwen started dreaming of me as Daffy.

Quote:

Jenn
Interesting that the three of us are getting grouped together. (Anyone else seeing a wolf-team?)

We'd be invincible.

06-07-2006, 08:56 PM	#5
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	Er... can I be your big sister figure instead? You know, the older sis you look up to, who started developing before you, who always gets the boys.... (I'd better stop before other people start having strange dreams about me. I mean, tgwbs's signature is sure to warp the minds of everyone he comes across.) So. I'm not sure if I should be admitting this in front of God and everyone, but I had a strange dream last night in which I was reading ATM2 and I came across a post by Eomer which was rather a bit close to being tawdry and, well, R-rated. In the post, Aimé visited a brothel. It was rather reminiscent of a sequence in Monty Python and the Holy Grail... the temptation of what's-his-face, the chaste knight. Only Aimé didn't take much tempting. I read it and thought, "Ha ha, Eomer's gonna get banned." __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression. Last edited by Diamond18; 06-07-2006 at 09:00 PM. Reason: spelling

06-11-2006, 10:52 AM	#13
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Oh Doctor Dream, I beseech you... In my dream, I drove soberly for four companions very remarkably less so. Upon my discovery of a herd of deer in the middle of the road I was on, with headlights half-blinding me in my rear view, a bear arrived. And then Tollin came. I almost think that Anguirel came out of the woods, but I cannot remember. I forgot most of the dream when I woke up. __________________ peace

06-16-2006, 12:17 AM	#24
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	I've had my first Downs Dream-or meta-Dream. Basically I dreamt that I dreamt a dream with weird Celtic imagery involving the Triple Goddess in the form of Diamond, Fea and Jenny, woke up (still in the dream) and decided to submit it to the Barrow-Downs, but then got distracted and swanned about in London for a bit. Then I really woke up. __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso

06-15-2006, 09:43 PM	#23
Encaitare Bittersweet Symphony Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise Posts: 1,814	My dream last night involved the Downs for a bit. In the first part I was trying to scale these walls and obstacles, I think it was in a forest. I don't remember it very well, though. The part I remember most distinctly is that Saucie showed up in a later part of the dream where were were in some fancy place all dressed up. Of course, Saucie looked nothing like himself, he had very white hair and looked rather haggard and quite unshaven. But it was him all the same.