WTF brain?
Aug. 21st, 2010 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tripperfunsterLast night I had a very involved, detailed dream about being cast as the lead in the play Oliver! (you know, the orphan and the pick pockets?)
Now, aside from the fact that I am 42 year old curvy WOMAN (too old, too fat and too female for the role thanks), I also had not attended a single rehearsal, recieved a script or learned any of the songs. And yet, because this was a dream, it was opening night.
Oddly enough, I wasn't terrified, and didn't have stage fright, I was just feeling really badly that I was going to ruin the play for all of the people that had worked so hard on it.
I didn't even have a costume. I WAS WEARING A SKIRT! (which is better than naked ....)
I managed to fake my way through the opening song (which was "Have a cup, drink it up.) WTF?, but my 'dancing' was off, because I hadn't learned the moves.
I asked for a script in the intermission, but no one had one handy. They also didn't have a costume for me, and I was flummoxed as to why they never bothered to CALL ME TO COME AND REHEARSE. And why they went ahead without me anyway.
I've had odd stage dreams before, but usually with a band, and i just flubbed my way through the song, EXACTLY LIKE I HAVE MANY TIMES IN REAL LIFE.
And why? Why can't I just have great sex dreams or something?
Tell me about your stoopid dreams.
Now, aside from the fact that I am 42 year old curvy WOMAN (too old, too fat and too female for the role thanks), I also had not attended a single rehearsal, recieved a script or learned any of the songs. And yet, because this was a dream, it was opening night.
Oddly enough, I wasn't terrified, and didn't have stage fright, I was just feeling really badly that I was going to ruin the play for all of the people that had worked so hard on it.
I didn't even have a costume. I WAS WEARING A SKIRT! (which is better than naked ....)
I managed to fake my way through the opening song (which was "Have a cup, drink it up.) WTF?, but my 'dancing' was off, because I hadn't learned the moves.
I asked for a script in the intermission, but no one had one handy. They also didn't have a costume for me, and I was flummoxed as to why they never bothered to CALL ME TO COME AND REHEARSE. And why they went ahead without me anyway.
I've had odd stage dreams before, but usually with a band, and i just flubbed my way through the song, EXACTLY LIKE I HAVE MANY TIMES IN REAL LIFE.
And why? Why can't I just have great sex dreams or something?
Tell me about your stoopid dreams.
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Date: 2010-08-21 07:35 pm (UTC)Or I'm a samurai warrior in outer space cutting people (aliens?) up with my sword.
No middle ground for me!
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Date: 2010-08-23 02:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-21 07:40 pm (UTC)I love how self-possessed you sound in your dream. :)
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Date: 2010-08-21 08:48 pm (UTC)Actually, my dreams are a lot like watching television. And if something gets too scary, I "change" the channel or wake myself up. I think that comes from me having horrible night terrors when I was a child. I was so afraid of falling asleep, I had to learn to control the way I dream.
Interestingly enough, when I do appear in my own dreams, they are situations like the one you described. Being the lead in a play that I just learned about minutes before opening night and no one having a script. I feel bad for everyone else, but it seems to go well enough.
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Date: 2010-08-21 09:05 pm (UTC)And I barely have a crawl space for an attic. I dunno where they got the whole flight deck, let alone the elevator to lift the camels onto the deck up there. It (the flight deck) even stuck out of the back of my house. How was was this supposed to be "stealthy"? (and where were the camels being stored? not in my bedroom, which was right below the flight elevator...)
Even in my dreams I'm nit-picking. :D
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Date: 2010-08-23 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-21 09:49 pm (UTC)But, but, but, I woke up before I came and I almost never have them.
My favourite dream is the one where I can spread my grey sweater and fly. It´s very real and I have to practice the flying because I tend to drift off to the left =)
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Date: 2010-08-21 11:35 pm (UTC)I had 3 fucked up dreams this week!
1. Was that there was a Blades sequel. And it was mainly about Jimmy. Except, he was born as a rainbow puppy before turning human.
2. Have you seen/read Misery, the story by Stephen King? If not it's about this fangirl who kidnaps and tortures a famous writer to force him to write a book. Anyway, in my dream, I was sitting on that ladies lawn and she had broken my friend's knee and...she was singing "When We're Human" from The Princess and the Frog...
3. Last, due to travel anxiety earlier that evening, I had a dream there was a second Otakon and Keith was being a little shithead and forcing us to go and I bought train tickets. Then he didn't show up and I was pissed and suddenly in Boston running after busses.
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Date: 2010-08-24 05:35 pm (UTC)i have dreams that my husband is being a complete A-hole to me, and I wake up mad at him. Oddly enough, he is a great husband and is NEVER an asshole. Why do I dream that he is???
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Date: 2010-08-22 12:38 am (UTC)So, he starts doing this elaborate stage quality dance that is a cross between traditional Stereotyped Russian dancing and like, breakdancing. It was so weird, but... Really good.
He gets all done and I'm like "I didn't know you were classically trained in Bolo dancing!' and his family informed me that he performed for years.
When I woke up, I could not look him in the eye without laughing at him. It's now our inside joke of the day.
Bolo dancing. It's gonna be huge!
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Date: 2010-08-24 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-22 12:49 am (UTC)I'm still not sure what my brain was trying to tell me there.
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Date: 2010-08-24 05:37 pm (UTC)I dont' know what the hell either. ;D
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Date: 2010-08-22 02:05 am (UTC)I do have one recurring one that seems to crop up when I'm especially stressed out. IRL, due to a bizarre series of events too long to explain, I have a BA but no high school diploma or GED. In the dream, something happens and I have to return to high school. Not only will no one tell me what classes I have or where to go, but usually I get in trouble for not having a uniform and fail at least one test and get told I shouldn't have skipped ahead to college. o.O w... t... f...
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Date: 2010-08-24 05:39 pm (UTC)Why? I wasn't a great student, but I managed to pass everything!
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Date: 2010-08-24 05:40 pm (UTC)And yeah, I hope someone had video, 'cause I'd love to see me fake my way through a three+ hour play. :D
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Date: 2010-08-24 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-22 01:22 pm (UTC)Talking about it makes it seem totally stupid though, so here goes:
I was at Uni, having lunch with friends and my mum walks up to me asking me if she could speak to me privately for a moment. We go outside and she hands me a wad of cash, 20 and 50 Euro bills and then says that's all she's ever gonna give to me and that she never wants to see me again, because of what I'd done. Then she left.
The dream continued with me running around and trying to find out what I supposedly had done and if I now remember correctly, my mum kicked me out of her life, because I supposedly sent and I quote "malicious emails" from her computer...
O.o
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