in the muddle of the night

[fflo]

Typing my creepy-scary dream into my phone just now, I produced that typo. It was the middle of the night in the dream too.

Thinking of the "if"/"of" typo I am so plagued by here (phone), I wonder how long it will be before the qwerty keyboard arrangement is no longer the smart phone keying layout. It may be that we/humanity (soon or soon-ish) won't even be keying character-by-character, I suppose.

This is the week I've also been haunted by the lollipop rendering. Is that the title of a spy novel or something? No. But it could be. Maybe with a kindergarten teacher as the hero. I say "also" here (above) because the creepy dream has a haunting element. Maybe. I don't really know what all it's saying, but I know its emotional flavors, as well as the people/players/figures involved, and I wrote it down so I won't forget it. No matter how much I think I'll later recall much or most of a vivid dream, I almost always seem to lose it, along with the recollections of having had and having recalled it, by the next day, even if I try to fix it in my head with thought. I might just suddenly recall that I had a dream with x person in it, when I see or think of or talk to x person, say.

Do you remember your dreams? Do you try to? Want to? What kind of dreams do you have? What kind do you like having? How often do you fly in your dreams, suddenly remembering that you have the ability, just by leaning slightly to the front, a little on tiptoe, and believing you can? How often do you want to go back to sleep to see if you can pick up where you left off in a dream you were enjoying? That happens less often to me than it used to, and not just because I now know how rarely it works.

Answer any/all/other dream questions below, if you'd like.

I'll remember tomorrow that I dreamed. But I might not remember until I see it again that I posted this, in the muddle of the night.

Comments

[custardfairy.livejournal.com]

In the muddle of the, I go walkin' in the...

I have answers, but time is not on my side. I will type them up later and place them here for you to peruse at your leisure.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I don't often remember my dreams. Maybe once a month, at most, I'll remember a fragment. Usually the fragment is very boring and much like ordinary life: "I dreamed I was in my office working. There was work to do and I was doing it." I prefer to have dreams that make a more interesting story, though I also prefer that they not be horribly traumatic. I almost never have traumatic nightmares though. I used to have them as a child, but starting in my teenage years I just stopped having them. In my adulthood, even when I've sometimes dreamed that unpleasant things happened, there is rarely the element of terror that there was in my childhood nightmares.

I have never dreamed that I could fly, ever. I've also never really had a lucid dream. I've maybe a couple of times in my life realized I was dreaming, but the realization woke me right up.

Considering how rarely I remember my dreams, and how much more rarely I remember anything more than a fleeting fragmentary glimpse of some entirely ordinary scene, I suppose that of the times I actually remember something of substance from my dreams, I pretty often want to go back to sleep and continue the dream. When I was younger, though, beginning in late childhood and continuing in young adulthood, I very frequently had dreams in which I was reading a book, invariably the most fascinating book I'd ever read in my life, and invariably I woke up just when I got to the best part, and invariably as soon as I woke up I remembered virtually nothing of the plot or anything about the book other than the fact that it had been fantastic. It was very, very hard to accept the fact that when I put my face back into the pillow and tried to go back to sleep, the book never came back.

[paperkingdoms]

I don't remember dreams very often. But I tend to find that when I do, they're dreams I've been having variations on repeatedly... at least for a while.

When I wake up with a thread of a dream I often want to remember more, but usually find trying to remember more just makes it all fall apart.

The dreams I tend to remember tend to be groups of people I know, possibly mixed together, doing something that all made sense at the time, but doesn't really. I don't ever remember flying in a dream.

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

I remember my dreams, but usually just the action adventure ones or the ones that disturb me on some level.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I often remember my dreams, but often forget until reminded. Frex, this post reminded me of last night's driving dream, where I was coming home, but had gotten lost on I-75, and was in some small town in Kentucky, and they were closing the road for an impending parade, and I was trying to get through town before it started.

Some years ago, I started writing my dreams down, and that improved my dream recollection. But it reached the point where my dreams started to become my hobby for a few weeks, and I felt I was overdoing it.

I often have dreams about places--places I used to live sort of mixed up with places I've been and places I've never been.

I enjoy surreal sexual dreams and flying dreams. And yes, I'll remember that I can fly. Sometimes I can just levitate by pulling up my legs and floating. Sometimes I flap my arms like swimming. Sometimes I can just push off like Zero G in space.

Lucid dreams, where you know you are dreaming and play with it, are fun, but usually when I start to manipulate the dream, I either wake up, or believe that I woke up, so I can't do the impossible, at least not the way I want to.

I've had a number of dreams with music in them. I was able to remember this dream tune last May: Dream Tune from May 11, 2013

I arranged it while awake, and embellished it with a "B" part, but the melody is straight from the dream.