#koni dreams

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I had a dream that I was travelling with a supersonic train that went through Europe. The views were beautiful.

When we passed through what we thought was Switzerland, ladies were running next to our train enriching us to stop, but we were going too quickly. The train proceeded and lined next to the tracks were hundreds of coffins, woven from reeds, with people in it dying or dead. I wondered what was going on there. Why didn't they have normal coffins? Why weren't they getting medical help? My conclusion was that they were too isolated to and the train passing was their only view to the rest of the world.

We continued on to Sweden where we needed to switch trains. But Sweden didn't have a platform like Brussels did and I had to go through tests first. Two of these involved water and I was pissed because I didn't know about this and didn't get water resistant clothes and was worried about my phone getting damaged.

The second water test was jumping into a deep pool and proving you could deal with the feeling of water going up your nose because that was what boarding the train would feel like.

I passed and was allowed to board. As said, Sweden didn't have a platform. So you had to make the jump into the speeding train. Basically you needed to jump, and because of the speed of the supersonic train, at the last minute you would be pulled through a tiny hole and be teleported into the train.

I asked if they were sure they had pondered the implications of teleportation and if they were sure I would still be the same. They said loads of people had done it like this and they all said they were fine afterwards. I thought, well of course they would. But I made the jump anyway and it was very scary because the train only picked me up at the last moment.

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Dreamed I could fly but that I hid the fact by dressing up in a Victorian nightgown and carrying one of those gas lamps so people would think I was just a ghost.

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Had a dream I had to take an exam (will I ever be free of those) and it was high summer, and as I was walking to the school via the parking lot I walked by a lot of goth kids. Like. Loads. Obviously the newest trend in teen land. But since it was so hot they had adapted the fashion. The goth clothes were all made from strips of fabric so they had a lot of air ventilation. And I felt so proud of them for adapting.

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For those who've been enjoying my dream journaling, here's three dreams I had as a kid that I thought would make a good story someday if I had the Skills.

The pigs

This is a dream I had when I was 4-5 and it scared me off of my parents for a while. In the dream, there was a disease that turned people into pigs, transferable by touch. I was very scared of this happening to my parents (my dad works with pigs) but they just brushed it off. Then we went to church on Sunday, and the pastor brought in pigs that used to be people to go into a vat of holy water and be "cured". We all had to put hands on them. I begged and begged and begged my parents to leave but they marched on towards the pigs.

Can you imagine what I felt when I watched Spirited Away years later? For reference, this dream was in like 1995 and Spirited Away is 2001.

2. The screws

This dream I had when I was 7 or 8. In it, my mum and I were walking though the tree lane but inexplicably got lost as it became a forest. After a long walk we came across the house of a wizard who was willing to help us. He showed us a door and when he opened it, we would see my father and sister at home. My dad was pacing worriedly and my sister was sitting at the kitchen table. We took a step forward through the door, and were home in the kitchen! We told everyone what had happened, and my dad wanted to see this wizard for himself. So the next day he took me walking again, even though I didn't want to, and once again we got lost. We came across the wizard's house again but he wasn't there. My dad started going through the house, even though I asked him not to, and found the door. This time, we couldn't see our kitchen on the other end. My dad stepped through anyway, and turned into a pile of screws.

My parents were very confused when I came to their bed in the middle of the room. I was crying, it was dark, I couldn't find my dad at first because he wasn't in his usual spot on the edge of the bed and I was blubbering about him being screws.

3. The bride

This dream I had as a teenager. In it, there was a young woman who was excited because it was her wedding day. The people dressing her up were very sad,however, but they wouldn't tell her why. When her dress was ready, and she asked again about why they weren't happy for her, one of them said: "The living dance in white but the dead dance in black." The bride went down one of those big stairs towards the dance hall and saw her groom downstairs, dressed in black. All the guests turned towards her, and she noticed they also were all wearing black. And as she descended the stairs, the colour of her dress darkened.

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I dreamed there was a new themed restaurant in town. The theme was the sea. The first course had mermaid tails made from some kind of pate but we arrived late and missed that. The second course had a sailor's leg made from jelly.

For that there were a load of guys dressed up like those from the Terror. So we'd taken @myfavoritedemons along who'd dressed like a little sailor boy for the occasion. Sadly this meant he kept being mistaken for a child (and also had morphed into one of those little boys and couldn't reach the table). I kept trying to get the Terror actors to acknowledge him and get him into the conversation but they weren't interested and I felt sad that he came all the way from America from this and was now having a bad time

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Weird dream last night. I was running from some threat, so I started up an online help program. Only it turned out the last step in the program would end all existence. So as I felt myself fading out, I paused the program so everything returned to normal, but I couldn't do anything on any other computer anymore without finishing the program.

Then evil man eating pigs arrived that I had to run from. "It's ok!" they said. "We're cool and nice vampire pigs! Like in Interview with the Vampire!"

To which I replied, "Well you obviously didn't even watch the show because otherwise that wouldn't be your pull. I can't trust you," and I hit the program button again.

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Things my sleeping mind has made from my wife's cute soft sleeping noises:

a creaking ship

a woman being drowned

one particularly annoying audience member correcting the pronunciation of 'moulleux' over and over again as I was trying to interpret something

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Had a dream where I had to go somewhere by elevator. The elevator aged you - I had to thirty years up which was taking the elevator a number of floors down.

When I got into the elevator, a twenty year old woman was on the floor. She was completely unresponsive. I saw her age when we went down. I got out of the elevator, saw my friends who had also aged. The elevator went on with the woman inside. Did she get in as a baby which made her get older but not more developed?