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OK - my daughter is in college, taking ENGLISH. She has a wacky teacher who insists as part of their assignment that they write a daily dream journal. The only problem is, neither my daughter or I ever remember our dreams! So now she has to come up with about 50 dreams, and is just at a loss. Do you mind sharing your dream last night? She would really appreciate it!
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Saturday, October 9, 2014 - Kaitlyn and I before the Happy Haunted 5K at ESPN Wide World of Sports
I find that really odd that the teacher would require that. There are many people who do not recall their dreams very often. Has your daughter discussed that with her teacher?
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I had a weird dream last night. I was getting married and when my I had a party to announce my engagement, over 50 men I had been married to before showed up to tell me I needed to remarry them instead.
I thought this was a funny dream - I will celebrating my 22nd anniversary to my high school sweetheart on Friday.
Feel free to borrow my dream - I had some crazy college assignments too.
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Last night I had a dream that I was on my DCL Alaskan cruise and I had forgotten to pack any pants . I was running around trying to figure out where I could get some pants and I was very late to (our first) dinner. If there are any psych majors out there, I'm not sure I want to know what this one means .
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I find that really odd that the teacher would require that. There are many people who do not recall their dreams very often. Has your daughter discussed that with her teacher?
I honestly can't remember what I dreamed last night. It must not have been that interesting.
Last night's dreams were really weird, no more pretzels before bedtime!
1. My car broke down on the way to work and I was afraid of being late so I started to hitch hike. The Flintstones picked me up in the Flintmobile and I had to run all the way to work.
2. We moved into a new house that was bigger than the one we have. When we started moving in our stuff, we found one room completely filled with cheap stuffed animals from some carnival and we didn't know what to do with them.
Those were last night's dreams. But I have a recurring dream that an actor doesn't show up for a show and I have to go on stage for them. I know none of the lines, I can't find a script, and I have to wing it. Usually, I'm in the wrong costume as well. I hate work dreams!!
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One of my undergrad professors in psychology told us once that dreams are the garbage that your mind is throwing out. I always liked that idea, especially since I usually have some pretty wild and vivid dreams.
I can't remember last night's dreams, but the night before I was dreaming that DBF's brother and sister in law brought us a stove as a gift during their recent trip to Michigan. It was made out of plywood and required that we assemble the working inside parts. I remember DBF running around with a bunch of tools and parts telling me that I was going to have to wait to cook anything until he was done.
I find that really odd that the teacher would require that. There are many people who do not recall their dreams very often. Has your daughter discussed that with her teacher?
Yes. She has discussed it with her repeatedly. Neither DD or I ever remember our dreams! So this is a tough assignment for her. The teacher said she is trying to train the students to 'lucid dream', or in other words, for them to control their dreams. Neither of us can figure what this has to do with an ENGLISH class. DD tried and tried for the first few weeks, sleeping with a pad of paper by the bed and a pen in her hand, but, nothin. So DD has resorted to making stuff up every day! She is running out of ideas, though, as well as time to write them all down...
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Neither one of these are recent but feel free to borrow them.
1) A friend of mine showed up at my work to take me to lunch. However he showed up naked except for a beret & socks & shoes with his dog & a penguin. My friend, his dog, and the penguin spoke french but I couldn't understand them when they did.
2) A friend's sister had a bed in her office instead of a desk. She was sitting on the bed propped up against the headboard & I was laying beside her with the sheet pulled up over my head. My friend was kneeling on the foot of the bed bouncing up & down while his sister tried to convince him to do something.
Neither one of these are recent but feel free to borrow them.
1) A friend of mine showed up at my work to take me to lunch. However he showed up naked except for a beret & socks & shoes with his dog & a penguin. My friend, his dog, and the penguin spoke french but I couldn't understand them when they did.
That is a great dream. I usually remember mine. I'll have to post if I have any this week.
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I don't often remember mine, but when I do I get scared: they're usually about people dying and when I dream they die, they tend to die soon afterward.
She could incorporate some recent events or even just ordinary events into her "dreams"; dreamt that she was in Tokyo DL, and there was another earthquake, a tree fell on her dorm (house, apt. whatever), she couldn't have children so her mother (at an advanced age for pregnancy) had some for her, an Easter bunny came into her home and stole all of the eggs because there was an egg shortage, she was shopping for clothes with a friend and couldn't find any that were small enough/big enough/the right color/the right season, she had a cat and it morphed into a dog, she was a sporting event (basketball, football, roller-derby, car races) and one of the players (or car, ball, etc) fell into her lap knocking over her soda and making her wet and sticky - causing a trip to the restroom where there was a llama taking a bath in the sink? - you could go on and on. I'm assuming that the "dreams" don't have to be too detailed.
This does sound like an odd assignment! Hope your DD can figure out enough "dreams" to write about! Tell her to use a few google searches to find "Odd dreams" or something like that also.
What an odd assignment! I have a lot of dreams that I'm running.. Not running toward or away from anything, just running for the enjoyment of running. I'm severely out of shape so this is something I've never been able to do, but have always wanted to.
I also had a dream a few nights ago about getting in a fight with a friend's mom. The mom has always kind of struck me as someone who doesn't really like me, I think she sees me as a bad influence. The whole thing came out in the dream and she told me I wasn't as "good" as she was and it was weird. Very odd. I had not been thinking about her mom before I went to sleep or anything, but it is something that's always aggravated me, and we've been friends since 4th grade.
I had a dream I woke up and there was a spider (one of those big black ones!) on my husbands head normally I would freak out but this time I just went back to sleep. which I would never do normally I would freak out.. and last night I had a dream my dog was sleeping with the spider..
so I guess she can write about sleeping with a spider LOL
Two recurring dreams that I have (and lots of other folks do as well I think):
1. I'm back in high school and I don't know what my schedule is, where my locker is, or what the combination is. So I'm having to find out, and I'm having trouble getting to the front office because there are too many people in the halls.
2. I'm back in college, and it's the day of finals, and I find out that I forgot to drop some math class (it's always math) and now I'm having to take the final but I haven't ever been to class. (Now why I don't just ditch it all is beyond me.)
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The only problem is, neither my daughter or I ever remember our dreams! So now she has to come up with about 50 dreams, and is just at a loss. Do you mind sharing your dream last night? She would really appreciate it! 
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. I was running around trying to figure out where I could get some pants and I was very late to (our first) dinner. If there are any psych majors out there, I'm not sure I want to know what this one means 
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DD tried and tried for the first few weeks, sleeping with a pad of paper by the bed and a pen in her hand, but, nothin. 
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