Dreambabble

Often when I wake up in the morning, I’m left with “dream residue”… just before reality completely settles back in, my mind is still working busily away on the dreams I had the night before. This is normal, I’m sure… but just lately, something interesting has been happening, that never happened, to me, personally, before. I was wondering if it happened with anyone else, and what interesting things did you come away with:
Just before waking up, I hear my dream voice* talking to me, almost desperately, telling me to remember something. Sometimes I remember it, other times I don’t. I certainly don’t sweat it when I don’t. What makes me laugh is the things I do remember - and wonder why in the world did my dreamego think it so gosh darn important that it warns me frantically to not forget it? For example, just this morning, before I woke up, I was “reminded” not to forget these words - get this: “Kayser e Kaiser e Chiara”. WTF? I don’t know what the “e” means, or even if I spelled the words correctly. Is Chiara the Kaiser of Kayser? Another morning, I woke up trying to hang onto a weird bunch of letters I had seen in my dream “RHIONO” and my dream voice* tells me “It’s an anagram you must solve!” I wake up and think, cool, I left myself a puzzle. The best I can figure is “Orion H”, like, Orion the Hunter. It’s my personal favourite constellation, as it’s the first one my father ever taught me when I was a little girl. Other than that, I stumped myself.

I wish sometimes I could remember more of my dreams, so I could inspect the brain dumpage that occurs there every night. Maybe I could make a movie out of the salvaged bits, and critics would call it “A mind trip!” “Surreal!” “One of the biggest ‘thinkers’ of the year.” And people would have theories: “The Kaiser stands for the father figure in her life, you see, and you can see this manifested as her favourite hamburger bun.”

Anyone else “remind” themselves not to forget something as they are waking up? What kind of weird, cryptic messages did your dreamself leave for you to decode in the morning? Did any ever make any sense? (Besides “I was watching a DVD last night, and fell asleep, and Bruce Willis came to me in a dream and told me to wake up and turn off the DVD player, and I did!”) I mean the really cryptic ones, like Twin Peaks-style (though not necessarily as creepy).

*It sounds like me, talking to myself, in my head. My sleeping alter-ego.

Erg, I had meant to post this in MPSIMS. Is it okay here?

I experienced a very similar phenomenon just this morning.

In my dream “voice,” I was listing ideas for a self-help book of “life-advice snippets.” I believe I was trying to tell myself to remember to jot down these ideas when I woke up.

When I woke up I realized how inane some of the clever little snippets really were:

  1. Always carry two pencils, because you’ll never know when you won’t need one.

  2. Always be wary of strangers, because you dont’ know what they’re going to do to you … or what you’re going to do to them.

and so on …

That’s exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about. It cracks me up when I’m wide awake, but when I’m just beginning to wake up, I feel it’s a matter of life and death to remember these silly, nonsensical things. When I finally wake up, the dream fog clears and I’m thinking “Paperclip pie? Chaka Khan is going to tour with Elvis Costello? Write a book called “Sing it, Peewee”? Don’t forget to leave my keys in my underwear drawer? Keep your pockets full of cricket lips? WHY?”

It’s been happening so much lately, and it never has before. I’m not under any stress, my life is relatively calm at the moment. No kids to worry about, just my husband and my kitties, no job to stress over, I’m a housewife, and when my chores are done, I take leisurely strolls to the Locks or Shilshole Marina, or stay home and paint or use my oil pastels. Pretty darn laid back. Maybe that’s why my dreams are so urgent? Balance?

My last dream / hallucination through illness consisted of creating a sport where points are scored for crossing your legs in certain ways :confused: but, the important part, as I was waking up I can remember my dream self telling me some important detail to a murder mystery that involved two sets of twins, twin boys and twin girls, that were switched to be “fraternal” twins of a boy and girl each. That way one pair could be moved cross country for an alibi. Now if I can remember who was killed, and where, when and why then I may have a decent story going. :smiley:

I don’t have dream voices in the morning, but often when I read before going to bed, as I’m drifting into semi-consciousness, I’ll hear a long stream of babble, often in the style of whatever it was I was reading. I can never quite listen to what it’s saying, as I’m always half-asleep when it happens and I don’t remember to try.

On the other hand it could be have been an anagram of “O Rhino!” which was the first phrase of an ode in praise of the rhinoceros and is now the greatest work of poetry that the world has never seen…

Grim

Well, I have this weird way of talking to people in my dreams while I’m waking up. Like I’m in class… and teacher says: “Answer to this problem?”

I wake up and say “22.” look around HUH?

My friends also tell me that I talk in my sleep a lot, and sometimes in German. Double huh. I never noticed that.

Odd…

My dreams are completely coherent, like real life, but they’re situations which I’d never, ever be in. :dubious:

I should start writing mine down. :slight_smile: Anastasaeon, why don’t you write yours? It’d be cool!