Barrow-Down Dreams

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

We were at my house (which looked nothing like my real house) [ . . . ] (Lhunadaga-hime)

Maybe it's the house you'll have when you're a teacher and all that.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I know this is a pathetic dream, but I mention all my BD-Dreams here and that is not going to change now.

I dreamt that Eomer repped me for my latest post in Terry Slogan and that it was worth 111 points.

[Thinlómien]

Well, I'm not sure if this is so special either... Anyway, I dreamt that I was sitting on a bench with Nilp and Agan, and Mith was lecturing to them that they should be flirting. Then I joked something about Volo, and Agan and Nilp laughed at it very much but Mith didn't get the joke.

[Gwathagor]

Weird dream: Brinniel showed up at my house and we spent a terrific day hanging out and chatting and doing random fun things in New York City (strange because I live on the West Coast, not the East).

[Mithalwen]

This one wasn't much fun - I would explain that I was really quite tense on Saturday night because I was anxious about the Charity sea swim I was going to do on Sunday (and for which I felt underprepared) and I was also curious / anxious about whether we had won the werewolf game in which I had a spat with Nogrod about being glad I wasn't one of his pupils.

And so I had this dream in which I was in his class, but he wasn't at the front. Instead his voice was coming from a loudspeaker behind us. I think he was talking in English but I couldn't follow since it was distorted by the loudspeaker
and accented and for some reason I only had a text in French (which I do understand well) to follow and though I could read the words I didn't have time to work out each part before he asked me questions on it - which I couldn't answer. It was so annoying that I felt as if I hadn't slept at all and it was only when I realised I had been dreaming and looked at the clock that I accepted I must have been asleep.

I think it was werewolf related version of a recurring dream I have (no doubt when there are things I have not done which I ought to have done) which is that there is an essay I have to do for my degree which has to be submitted the next day and either I haven't known about it or have forgotten and it is a long essay and I haven't read any of the books and I don't understand the question and there is no hope of an extension since it is so long since it was set. It is terribly realistic even though it is longer than I want to think about since I graduated and have a post-grad qualification yet the logic of dreams means I wake up in a cold sweat that my BA isn't valid. Clearly I have a guilty conscience.

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

I had a dream Ka got a personal title. She picked Always Evil. Sorry.

Well, you can keep dreaming miss, since I'm now working my way towards being one of the last Downers to recieve a title, let alone settle on one. It's because I'm unofficially, but at a consistent level evil. It's recognized, but hey, there are others with far more of a glamorous track record.

The night before last, before I started my first day at my current job, I ended up having Downer-related normal anxiety/worrying dreams. There was several of them but I could only remember about one where I was up to my gills in bussing trays and dirty dishes, and out of the corner of my eye I see several Downers.

They're scattered all over the place and seem to be doing fine with their plates, so I rush to the back of the kitchen to unload some more dishes, then when I come out I pass Hookbill at a table where he has a few tea mugs and small plates stacked nicely and then at his right is a huge haphazard stack of dishes with green slime all over them. I roll my eyes and somehow take the obvious Alien plates back again, then I end up meeting Nogrod, Lommy and her mother at a table which ends up going nicely (I'm sorry Lommy, whenever you appear in dreams nothing bad really happens, must be what Agan calls 'evil' and I see as relatively fine). Rune was there too, but he kept buying only drinks which would fill my tray too soon so I kept having to go back and forth with drink glasses.
Gradually our forum began to invade the dining area, then I realized I was the only one there from the Downs working, and then the dream ended.

Now I'm more afraid if this actually happens, which I don't think it will. Mostly, for the Alien presence, since most of my human customers would probably be eaten in the process. Come to think of it, I like that idea a little bit...

~ Ka the 'Evil' Busser/Server

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Originally Posted by THE Ka

I come out I pass Hookbill at a table where he has a few tea mugs

Am I really that English?

Amusing dream, Ka. I'm sure if your restaurant got invaded by Downers, it would be something like that. Although, if Alien was there, where was The Phantom? (as far away as possible, I imagine).

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I think it was werewolf related version of a recurring dream I have (no doubt when there are things I have not done which I ought to have done) which is that there is an essay I have to do for my degree which has to be submitted the next day and either I haven't known about it or have forgotten and it is a long essay and I haven't read any of the books and I don't understand the question and there is no hope of an extension since it is so long since it was set. It is terribly realistic even though it is longer than I want to think about since I graduated and have a post-grad qualification yet the logic of dreams means I wake up in a cold sweat that my BA isn't valid. Clearly I have a guilty conscience.

Doesn't everyone have dreams like that? Mine usually involves exams for which I've somehow forgotten to study... although actually something not unlike your scenario happened to me in real life this year.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Well, I'm not sure if this is so special either... Anyway, I dreamt that I was sitting on a bench with Nilp and Agan, and Mith was lecturing to them that they should be flirting. Then I joked something about Volo, and Agan and Nilp laughed at it very much but Mith didn't get the joke.

Oh I can be thick about jokes...but I think Agan would make a delightful daughter in law... and I would be the last person in the world to discourage flirting... it helps the world go round

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I had a dream last night that was really weird, but it did have Downs-ish qualities to it...

My mom was surfing the internet and came to the Downs and was logged into another account, I asked her why she was not logged into my account... She said that she "accidentally" got an account on the Barrow-Downs. Which is really weird, because she hasn't even read TH or LotR...

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I had a somewhat Downs-ish dream last night... well what I can remember of it anyway... But what I remember of it, it almost felt real.

I was on the Downs doing what I normally do and I checked the Paper Telephone thread to see if the current game was over and then I looked at some other threads as well... But what really caught my eye is that Hookbill had posted on the what do you assign threads, I had checked the Shire thread first, he said "I know I shouldn't be posting on this thread but..." and that's about as far as I got when it faded into another dream.

I also had a dream a few nights back that different Downers were winning contests to visit other BDers, that was a good dream... except for my grandma was in it and bothering me...

[Gwathagor]

Whilst I was at the beach I had a curious Barrow-Downs dream. In it, several Downers showed up at my house - I think they were Thinlomien, Brinniel, Legate perhaps, and maybe Kath or Hookbill - and began helping out with yard-work and various chores around the house. They all spent the night downstairs, but their sleeping bags caught fire randomly. Fortunately, no one minded. It was all rather odd.

[Thinlómien]

I've had some 'downish dreams lately, but as I haven't been around, I've forgotten a lot since I haven't written them down. Sufficient to say that according to my subconscious Rune would come to Finland if he gets a frog-ride and a frog to hug, Legate is a murderer (and the best swordsman of our time), puts soap to his food (it's a Czech habit, makes the food more healthy) and watches drag queen books with me. Also, he reputedly made a song with Greenie, it was called "The Ode to the Stabile System" and it praised the governments of Finland, Czech Republic, Zimbabwe and some other countries, and the Catholic Church in Congo.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

My dreams are always related to what's going on in my life. Since I'm back on the 'Downs, is it any small wonder my dreams are as well?

Doesn't bother me any... I like dreaming about you guys.

So I'm walking along a boardwalk. There seems to be a street carnival of sorts occurring to the left of me. Behind me are the people I'm with.

And it doesn't occur to me who I'm with until I see three people walking toward me. Legate and Lommy, and Rune.

And I gasp. And I'm delighted. Because I'm with Nogrod, the phantom, A Little Green, Rikae, Mac, and several others.

And basically it's just like the shindig involving hairy lumberjacks... except cooler because I was there too.

And because we were next to a beach.