Loftwings and Demons

Had a dream that I was with some people and we were fleeing pursuit in a car. The person driving was someone we knew in the dream but who doesn't exist in real life. In the dream she also did a lot of planning for how to avoid being found. We all played board games with each other when we found places to hide for a while. It was definitely a stress dream but also one of the more interesting dreams I've had in a while.

Last night I dreamed I kept forgetting to wear my mask in buildings.It is a very common theme of my dreams that I forget something important, and ever since the pandemic started this one has been one of my most common 'forgetting' dreams. I can't think of a single time this has actually happened to me in real life though since I don't even go outside without wearing a mask anymore.

Last night I dreamt I was late to work, which was the boring part, but the reason I was late to work was I had to take food I'd been cooking out of the oven. And one of the foods I was cooking was a pumpkin, except when I cut it open it was actually pumpkin cake and naturally I had to eat some of the pumpkin cake. Then later as I continued on to work I got stuck in an elevator.

But the important part was eating pumpkin cake. Who cares about the rest? I wasn't late to work in real life, just in the dream.

Had a very vivid dream where I had to navigate through an enormous building while wearing my face mask.  I don't remember too much about it, but the visuals just made a strong impression on me.  I'm not sure if it was supposed to be a college building or something else, but I get the sense it was some sort of public building, so maybe.  My dream architecture almost never resembles real places I've been, so it really went all out with size.  I got the sense it was miles long, possibly with tunnels to other buildings.  Despite my descriptor of vivid for this dream the only descriptions that come to mind are...grey walls...dim hallways...bright large multilevel rooms with carpet, with some people milling around...me having conversations (about what?) with people (to whom?)...me occassionally opening a door and seeing the forested green outdoors, only to immediately go back inside.  So, I remember some aspects strongly, but I feel like I have trouble conveying the essence of it because I don't recall a narrative thread (if there even was one to begin with).  It's just that the visuals in certain parts of my dreams sometimes feel sort of chiseled into my memory, hence why I may describe a dream as vivid but also not remember much about it.

I do know my subconscious loves making up buildings though.  I had completely different buildings in yesterday's dreams and those I know *were* supposed to be college buildings, though they were instead tall towers shaped like human torsos or hands with amusement park rides inside them and there was no pandemic.  Also that one I do remember the narrative thread of.  I was a college student again in the dream and trying to pass a class but unable to find the classroom/remember to attend/do the work I needed to do to pass the class.  This is an incredibly common dream for me, I guess because of my anxieties about being on time or getting things done, even though I don't generally fail to accomplish either of those things in real life.

Had an especially vivid dream last night that I don't remember very well because I didn't write it all down as soon as I woke up, but here's what I recall:

I was on a bus and trying to get somehere.  I got off somewhere partway there due to some uncertainty about my destination, and went into a building.  Then I realized I wasn't wearing a mask and neither was anyone else, so this suddenly became a Covid anxiety dream lol.  But there was also a story to the dream I don't remember that was a lot more important than all this.  And the main character was a woman who I can't recall very much about except remembering that the important plot centered around her and that she was very worried about what was going on. 

I think maybe some sort of magic was involved?  I don't remember for sure, though.  And I was basically an unimportant side character that just happened to be around to observe all this going on.  I wish I remembered more of this dream.  The most visually memorable and comprehensible parts were also some of the most mundane: me trying to ask the bus driver if I should get off at a certain stop,  the street I got off at, the escalator in the building, the distressingly unmasked faces inside the building.  But who knows about the actual important stuff that was happening?

I am such an annoying side character to not pay enough attention to the actual momentous occurrences in my dream.  What was that story about?  Can I have some dreams where my dream-self isn't focused on getting dream-Covid?  I don't think dream people can give me real plague, and I'd like to remember whatever story my dream was trying to tell.

Sometimes I have these extremely intricate dreams that are just so bizarre that I have trouble putting them down at all simply because it all seemed so cohesive and logical in the dream but in actuality none of it made any sense at all, so I'll have these dreams with incredibly complex plots and high stakes but all I can write down in my dream log is, just, fleeting snatches of images and out-of-context actions.  It's just a jumble of images and snippets of conversation and events that I have trouble making any sense of at all.  Nevertheless these kinds of dreams can be incredibly vivid so I'll wake up with the memory of some intense imagery and a sense of urgency.

Had a very vivid dream last night: There was some sort of weird parasite that was rehydrated and brought back to life in a bathtub. It was supposed to be a tapeworm but looked more complicated than a tapeworm in the dream. This was somehow related to the rest of the dream but I couldn't explain exactly how.

There was no pandemic in the dream, and I went on a vacation in a nonexistent real world location. My brain is really good at making up stuff, though it usually focuses on the inside of single buildings or on making up college campuses. This was a whole town it just made up. There were restaurants and shops and grocery stores and houses, even a bus system. At one point I was riding on the bus in the dream with a real person I know somewhat but have only really talked with a few times and she got off unexpectedly, so I talked to the bus driver, who stopped to let me out, and went looking for her. I did find her, and it turned out she was visiting her parents and siblings in a blue house in the town (which is of course is not where her relatives live in real life since again, the entire town was all made up).

In another part of the dream, I was in a grocery store, and then later in an office building fleeing from some made up person or creature and trying to save...I think they were rock-people or shapeshifters or something? I dunno. And I think I may have been some sort of shapeshifter? Anyway, I think I was able to shrink one of them down and get them out of the office building.

And that was my dream.

I had a dream where there was a robot uprising in this robotics lab and it was *marvelous*.  The robots took control of the lab from the people who'd been exploiting them and while they were suspicious of me (since I was a human who had just been hired to work at the lab, in fact I was me in the dream, though with much enhanced mental abilities from what I have in real life), they treated me politely and fairly.  I was a bit nervous about some upcoming task they wanted me to perform, but the sense I got in the dream was that it was because it was important to humanity and not because it was malicious or intended to harm me or others.  Obviously that last part was just my huge ego having some fun, but anyway I just thought it was a cool dream, and it was a particularly vivid one too, though some of the details that stood out were odd.  I remember there was a huge room filled with puzzles, and a lot of the robotics lab looked more like a mansion than a regular lab.  I think in my dream the rich CEO guy running it was operating out of his own home, though, so there was an in-dream justification for that part.

I had a weird dream last night about a guy in a moving go-cart which was also a cardboard box stalking me.  This guy wasn't anyone I've ever known or encountered in real life or a character from any fictional work I'm familiar with, just some random person my brain made up.  When he got too close I closed the cardboard box on him and this caused him to flee, I think.  On his cardboard box go-cart.  I'm...not sure what to make of this dream.  It was kind of a nightmare I guess, but not nearly the most frightening one I've had and was even less scary to me on waking because of how bizarre it was.

I had a dream last night that I was discussing Star Wars and Lord of the Rings with someone.  I can't remember enough to describe much beyond that, though I remember enough to know that wasn't the only thing that happened in the dream.