The One on the Tropical Vacation

Jose and I went on vacation to some tropical location.  We were walking along the beach and I wore my new Earthrunners sandals.  There was a hole in the sand, and when I looked inside, there were these interesting clams that had multicolored stripes on their shells and large clam beards.  When I picked one up, there was a label on them that said "Shrimp Clams".  

A guy walked by with his wife and young boy and was asking me what I was looking at, but he only spoke Spanish.  I didn't know the word for clam so I said "camarones clams" and asked Jose what the word for clam was and he said, but I don't remember what it was.  

Then the guy asked us for our opinion on which of two sunglasses he had we liked better.  There was one pair that had white mirrored lenses but the eye frames were too far apart for his face.  The other had amber lenses and looked better but the frames were too narrow and kind of made him look cross eyed.  I told him I liked the white ones better.

I took my sandals off and waded in the water for a bit, which was super warm, and then realized my sandals were supposed to be good in the water so I tried wading while having them on.

We wanted to take a photo near a sign near the beach, but there were a ton of people hanging around it, so we ended up going onto a stairwell to take a photo there, and then man with the glasses and two other guys came to take the photo with us.  We never took the photo because his wife and kid went downstairs into a lower level where shops were to go to the bathroom and we were waiting for them.  An older couple who were waiting for us to move (although I thought they were just hanging out on the stairs like a lot of people were) to go downstairs got a little frustrated and the wife said "let's just go down this way instead" and I apologized because I didn't know they wanted to get by, and they should've just said something.

I vaguely remember walking around a store, looking for the bathroom (I had to pee in real life) but the only "bathrooms" where these big tables you sat at that had holes in the side that you peed into.  What women did I have no idea.

Next thing I remember we were at a restaurant and Alexa was sitting to my right - she came along on the vacation with us.  At one point we were looking at her iPad and a photo came up of her lying her back with her lifting up her waistband, like a teasing photo like she was going to take a sexy picture.  She took the iPad back quickly because she didn't realize it would come up and she was a little embarrassed but only because the guys that wanted to take the photo with us were at the table with us too.

On my iPad there was a photo that she must've photoshopped and added to my iPad as a joke - it was her with an erect penis and she was holding onto it like she was masturbating but was crying - it was supposed to be "how'd I get this?"  I was asking her how she got it onto my iPad - did she guess my passcode or had I left it unlocked (the latter was true in this case).  I asked her to take it off and she did so by tearing off a paper card at the back of my iPad with the photo on it.  While we were on the trip, I had this like paper cardboard cover put on my iPad (maybe from the resort) and I noticed there were two more that were put over the original one.  

That's when I woke up and immediately texted Alexa about the photoshopped pic.

Dream Themes: Peeing

The dreams you're most likely to remember are ones where you wake up in the middle... you just don't have time to forget about it while you continue your rest.

Often, people remember the last dream they had just before waking up for good in the morning... and one thing that comes along with waking up is your morning pee.

I find that I incorporate real-life sounds, feelings, etc. in my dreams. I recall having a dream where I was outside, and in real life, my mother opened my bedroom door to wake me up. In my dream, a door appeared out of thin air and opened just before I woke up.

I have seemingly countless dreams where I have to pee... sometimes I actually get to pee (and, contrary to popular belief I do NOT actually pee the bed), but most of the time I'm stuck endlessly getting interrupted.

Sometimes I walk into a bathroom and all the toilets and urinals are so disgustingly filthy I can't bring myself to use them.

Other times, I'll be in a bathroom with dozens of urinals or toilets, I get ready to go, and someone will come in and - with all the free spaces - will come and stand right next to me.

I've had dreams of peeing into the strangest locations - once a beautiful gold or bronze bejeweled bowl, I remember.

I just looked up "urine/urinate" in one of my dream books, "Dream Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Understanding Your Unconscious Mind" and it says, "Dreams in which we try to go to the toilet but it is mysteriously locked or closed, may be due to the need to pee during the night." (p. 394)

It was interesting that two of my other dream books didn't even go near the subject. Perhaps it's too "dirty"????

I know whenever I have the dream I wake up and always have to go...

See dreams in the blog that have to do with peeing.

The One with Ella, the Presentation and the Threat

I had to give a presentation at work and I was in a hallway that was like the hall around an arena where they serve food and stuff. I went to the bathroom and was peeing and this guy I went to High School with, let's call him Rob, was all of sudden standing next to me. He just kind of looked at me and this necklace I had around my neck (might have been just a silver chain) and then he went and stood next to another guy. Then he started hitting that guy, and they were kind of slapping at each other. The other guy washed his hands quickly and left. I washed my hands and left shortly after.

Then I was back in the hall way and Rob came up next to me and seemed kind of angry. He was telling me about this guy Jacob Brown or something like that and a story about him that I had to do with. Then I looked at him and said, “That was a dream!” It was a dream I had and posted it on my blog. Then Rob said, “You put that up on YouTube?” In my dream I said yes, but YouTube, Facebook and blog were like all the same thing. Then he kind of halfway pulled a knife out of his shirt and I stepped back and was like, “Oh my god, someone help me!” But no one working at the food places heard because I said it softly. But then he didn't do anything anyway and went away. I went on to my presentation.

Gina from work and I both had to give presentations and I think before all of the above happened, we were in a meeting trying to figure out a problem at work, but the time was getting close so we had to go get our notes. I got mine and went to the auditorium where we were giving them. I had to walk through another auditorium where two people were really annoying people coming in because they were repeatedly telling people to take their seats even though people where just coming in and whatever they were doing wasn't starting for a little bit.

I got to the auditorium where our thing was taking places - it was just for practice I think - and there were already a few people in there and one woman was practicing her speech. I took my seat.

The next thing I remember I was in someone's living room - I think in the dream it was in the house or apartment a woman that lived on the next street from my parents' house. The rug was weird in that it was like a normal run but had long, 4 inch pieces that stood straight up like a really long shag carpet but the long pieces weren't as densely packed together. But we were all watching Ella Fitzgerald sing. In the dream I loved the way she spoke between pieces. She seemed so nice and had this southern black accent that was just dripping with honey. We made it through about 7 songs before I woke up.

The One with the Earthquake

I was living in either a condo or an apartment -- the inside looked like the one I used to live in, but the outside was different. I got up to go to the bathroom and I heard a loud noise. I thought it was my fish tank when the filter doesn't get enough water.

I shut off the Golden Girls which was playing the the living room. I looked out the window and it looked like they were doing construction, like taking up the pavement in the parking lot or something.

 I looked a bit closer and it was obvious there was an earthquake and there was a big crack, a fissure, not too far away. There was a bunch of damaged cars that looked like they got ran over by a huge monster truck or something, all the cars in a row.

 One guy came to get stuff out of his truck, but the guy that was working nearby told him to get back. I asked them, “What's going on, was there an earthquake?” And there was an aftershock as I was standing there. He replied, “Yeah, if you're going to stay inside...” And I said, “Should I?” And he was like, “No, no, not really - go get your stuff.” I went back inside and started getting dressed and went to go pee, then I started gathering stuff up to put into a suitcase to take out.

I remember being asleep in the dream, feeling something (the earthquake) and incorporating that into my dream (in my dream).