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dream Dream: Saturday 02 January 2016 09:07

Hígado

Tags: Alberto Yu Lee

Yu Lee and I are in Spain, in a bar, and the barman is Alberto who used to own the bar my dad and Sue frequented daily a few years ago. We are there for lunch, and when we get there we order a beer and a couple of tapas.

After our first round of food, we decide to order more because we are still hungry. I call Alberto over and start talking to him in Spanish. I tell him that we want to order some more food, and tell him that Yu Lee doesn't like it when there isn't a proper menu. He says that there's no menu because they change the dished that they serve daily, and I agree that it isn't a problem. He then runs through the food options and one of the the options is Liver (hígado). I ask him how it comes and he tells me that it is a special dish and the liver is raw. I order the liver and a couple of other things and he tells me that it will be a while because the liver takes a while to prepare.

Throughout the conversation I keep mixing up Spanish and Italian words (just like real life) and it takes a real effort to keep talking in Spanish. At some points in the conversation I really slow down and feel like I have to think about every word, and I tell him that my Spanish is not so good because I've been learning Italian.

After we finish making our order, we decide to go out for a walk to pass the time while the food is being prepared. After walking around for a few minutes we decide to take a short cut back but end up getting completely lost. I start to feel stressed because the food will be ready and we won't make it back.

Eventually we come to a place that looks familiar. We are on the edge of a beech, and there is a river cutting in-land in front of us, and in the distance we can see a huge red suspension bridge. There's a sign with a map of the area on it, and we realise that we can't cross the river here and will have to walk for miles to make it back to the bar.

dream Dream: Thursday 24 December 2015 08:00

Drinking at a Bar

Me and Yu Lee are at a bar, and Jonathan from Charles Tyrwhitt in Cambridge is behind the bar. There are several other people at the bar in front of us, and just as we get there Jonathan disappears out the back to do something.

We wait at the bar for quite a long time, and eventually he comes back and serves the other customers. When it comes round to our turn he apologises for keeping us waiting and takes our order.

I order a beer, and Yu Lee orders a non-alcoholic cocktail which has lots of pineapple juice in it. Jonathan says that he thinks the lemon juice cocktail is more refreshing, so Yu Lee says she will have that one instead, but then Jonathan says "You shouldn't just order the lemon cocktail because I think it would be better. You should order what you want."

Yu Lee thinks about what he says and changes her order back to the pineapple cocktail.

dream Dream: Monday 21 December 2015 08:10

House Viewing by the Sea

Tags: Yu Lee

In my dream, Yu Lee and I are trying to move house, and have a property viewing in a house at the seaside.

We arrive at the properly early, so we decide to have a look around before the viewing. We walk around the block and find our way to the back of the property, and there is a large metal gate leading in to the back of the garden. We look through the bars of the gate and see the owner or the estate agent showing another person around. They see us through the gate and say that they'll be finished soon, and I tell them not to rush because we are early anyway.

We make our way back round to the front of the house and after a while we knock on the door and go inside.

I don't remember the tour of the house itself, but after a few minutes the owner takes us out the back to view the garden. They then lead us down to the beach, which doesn't make a lot of sense looking back on it now, because we'd clearly seen a gate leading out onto the road early in the dream.

The atmosphere out on the beach is very strange. There is a large bridge above the beach, presumable with a large road on top, like a motorway bridge but a little wider and quite a lot taller. There are large concrete pillars holding it up. The colours of everything are kind of grey and not a lot of light seems to actually reach the beach.

Even though the beach is completely shadowed by the bridge, people are still hanging out on the beach as they would on any other beach. All of a sudden a massive wave comes in and we are in the water. We manage to stay at the water's surface which is now a couple of storeys high. almost at the top of the concrete pillars.

The water doesn't quite reach the top of the bridge, but we can see another wave coming in and this time it's even bigger. The owner of the property tells us we have to hold our arms in a certain position to avoid being completely submerged.

I woke up before the wave hit us.

dream Dream: Monday 21 December 2015 08:00

Mum's Credit Rating

Tags: Mum

I don't remember a lot of the details of this dream, but I was talking to my mum about her financial situation. She has some crazy idea about paying for something, but said that it would mean missing a mortgage payment.

The main part of the dream that I remember is being very frustrated and telling here (repeatedly) "Whatever you do, don't miss a mortgage payment!"

As usual, Mum was being stubborn and didn't seem to agree...

dream Dream: Wednesday 16 December 2015 08:30

New School / Peeing Vinagre

Tags: Mum

I dreamt that I was still living at home with my mum (in our old house in Slough), and I was at the point where I'd just finished one school and needed to start the next. We'd been applying to different schools but there was one that was much better than the rest.

We received a letter saying that I hadn't gotten into the good school. At this point I basically gave up and tried to get used to the fact that I was going to the crappy school, but Mum wanted to call the school and try to get them to change their mind. I argued with her that it was a waste of time, and at one point I even got quite annoyed with her, but she didn't listen and spent a while making phone calls.

I went upstairs to my room and could hear my mum on the phone downstairs. After quite a long time she called up to me that it worked and they'd offered me a place! I felt relieved.

We had a workman in the house, doing some kind of building work. It was about 8 o'clock in the evening so I don't know why he was still there. The builder was doing something in one of the upstairs rooms, and had loads of tools and materials in Bob's bedroom, but I think he was doing some work in the bathroom.

I went downstairs and talked to Mum. She was in the middle of ordering me a new bed, and she said that as I'd gotten into the good school after all, I'd be needing a different bed instead. I chose the one that I wanted and we ordered it. I'm pretty sure we were looking in a printed catalogue so I have no idea how she ordered it.

A few minutes later the door went and I answered it. The delivery man handed me a package full of screws and nuts and bolts, and I realised it was the hardware for my new bed. I couldn't understand how it had gotten here so quick.

I needed to pee so I went upstairs, but for some reason, instead of going into the bathroom I went into Bob's bedroom. There was a cardboard container on the floor that had previously been filled with screws or something, that the builder had left behind. It was made out of the same kind of material as a paper cup and looked pretty waterproof so I decided to pee into it. I only peed a little bit, and it burned on the way out, and my urine was dark brown. I stopped even though I wasn't really finished and took the container to the bathroom. As I poured it into the toilet it fizzed and I realised it was because it was very acidic!

I peed some more into the toilet and it was really uncomfortable because of the burning sensation. As I continued, the urine fizzed some more in the toilet. I realised that this wasn't normal and went downstairs to tell Mum, but then I woke up and my dream ended.

dream Dream: Wednesday 02 December 2015 08:06

House Party in a Big House

Tags: Mike Will

In my dream I'm living somewhere else, in a house that's much bigger and more luxurious than my real house. The house is 3 floors tall and each floor has quite a lot of rooms on it. I've invited a lot of my school friends round for a house party. There are people everywhere, but the only people that I specifically remember are Mike and Will.

Mike tells me that he went to another party the previous night and that he's still a bit hungover from it. He pulls out a bottle of something and pours us some drinks. I ask what it is and he says it's a Red Bull cocktail. I'm hesitant to drink it because of the caffeine content and I tell him and Will that I normally don't drink vodka and Red Bull because it stops me from being able to sleep, and that it's unpleasant being drunk and tired, but still being unable to sleep.

In the end I give in and drink the Red Bull cocktail and they do to. It's really alcoholic, and shortly after drinking it Mike lays down on the floor and falls asleep. Will tells me that he needs to use the bathroom, and I can tell by the sense of urgency in his voice and the fact that he looks terrible that he's going to be sick. I start directing him to the downstairs toilet but he starts to run up the stairs and finds his way to the upstairs bathroom.

A little while later I see Will again and he tells me that he was sick all over the toilet seat. I say "That's disgusting," and he tells me not to worry because he's cleaned it up already.

dream Dream: Monday 30 November 2015 08:05

The Top Floor / 800 Metre Race

Tags: Yu Lee

My dream is set in some kind of educational institution which is basically a cross between University and school. At the start of my dream I am in the student union building which is basically a pretty tall tower, and I've just finished eating in a restaurant on one of the lower floors.

Yu Lee wants to meet me and she asked me to meet her on one of the upper floors. I travel upstairs and wait for her.

The top of the building is like a medieval castle, almost as though a castle has been built on top of a modern tower block. I'm outside, and there are walls and towers around me, so although I'm quite high up it's impossible to tell as there is no way to see past the castle walls that surround me.

While I'm waiting for Yu Lee I look up at one of the towers and notice a large brown plant towering above it. I wonder how such a large plant could have gotten there, and wonder if it was planted there on purpose or was just a weed.

After a few minutes Yu Lee turns up and we head off. She tells me that this isn't actually the top floor, and that you can go even higher, inside the castle towers.

We head off an inside one of the towers. There are lots of people everywhere, and I think to myself how the building feels like a self contained city with all of its shops, bars and restaurants and so many people. We head up the tower and emerge into a hallway that must be inside what appeared to be the castle walls from the lower level.

We wander around for a while and it's a lot quieter up here. There are still a few people hanging around, but it feels like a secret place that not many people know about. There are quite a few restaurants up here and we say that we'll have to come back another time for lunch.

A little while later we head outside and are definitely up in what appeared to be the castle ramparts from the previous floor. We walk for a while and I notice a lot of trees and large plants, and then I spot the large brown plant that I was looking at earlier. It's not planted in any soil, and long wooden roots seem to be coming from inside the brickwork and from over the edges of the walls. The entire scene has a magical feeling to it and I feel a sense of wonder at the trees growing so high up in the top of the tower.


The next thing I remember is being in a completely different place. This time I'm outside in a grassy area and we're having a PE lesson. The teacher tells us that we're going to be having an 800 metre running race, and we position ourselves on the track ready to start. I ask the teacher if we just have to do 1 lap and she says "yes".

A couple of seconds later she blows a whistle to start the race and everyone starts running. I'm not running at full pace because I think that 800 metres is quite a long way to sprint, and I want to save some energy for the end of the race, but everyone else accelerates quickly and leaves me behind. As I'm running around I can't believe that the track is really 800 metres long.

I start to accelerate but I can't keep up with the other runners. A few minutes later I cross the finish line in last place. Everyone stops running apart from one other guy who keeps on running and starts a second lap. The teacher tells us that we were supposed to continue, and that we'd only run 400 metres. I protest that she told us to stop after one lap.

dream Dream: Thursday 08 October 2015 07:49

Expensive Beer

Tags: Yu Lee
Semi-Lucid Dream (L1)

This was my first night back in my own bed after spending two weeks in Italy, and the first dream I had was about being on holiday!

I had the feeling that I was in Spain, although I definitely spoke Italian at one point. I don't remember many details of the dream, but I do remember one section of it in detail.

I'm on my own: Yu Lee is on holiday with me, but at this particular moment she is somewhere else. I'm in the middle of a town centre and looking for somewhere to have a beer. I end up talking to a couple of other tourists and we go to a bar together, and we choose a bar that specialises in local craft beers.

The bar isn't inside a building: the actual bar and some seating are in the corner of a busy square. Also, the bar has several containers of different beers on the counter top, each of them looking like a giant cardboard carton with a tap at the bottom.

I ask the others what beer they want and they choose one, so I decided to have the same one too and order three beers. The barman fills up three glasses from one of the containers and I get my money out ready to pay.

I put my hands into my pockets, and instead of having my wallet with me I just have loads of loose change, so I get it out and spread it over the bar to count it. The weird thing is that instead of being gold and silver, most of the coins are all black. I look at them closely and realise that looking directly down at the pile of coins, the ones at the top of my vision are black, and then they fade back to being normal coin colours at the bottom of my field of vision.

At that moment, I realise that this is a "rendering bug", and that I am dreaming, but for some reason the coins aren't displaying correctly in my dream. I become lucid, and thoughts race through my head of all the things that I can do, but then I think to myself that whenever I try to fly or do anything like that, the dream always starts to fade out. I decide that I can't be bothered with that, and I allow myself to lose lucidity.

By the time the barman has come back to me I am no longer lucid. I ask him how much the bill is, and he tells me that each of the beers is €74.00! I tell him this is a rip off, and he tells me that it's clearly marked on the board. When I look at the board I can just about make out the prices but they aren't very clear.

I grab my glass and say "no thank you", and pour it into a bin behind the bar. I walk away from the bar and leave the others there.

dream Dream: Sunday 06 September 2015 09:32

Rocket

Tags: Dad Sue Yu Lee

Me and Yu Lee are in Spain with my dad and Sue, sitting outside around a table. The weather is nice with a clear blue sky, and the sun is already getting low in the sky.

We're sitting around talking, when all of a sudden I hear a noise, like a jet engine. I can tell that it's really loud but really far away.

My dad says "Watch this, I've seen this loads of times and it's really good," and points towards a spot on the horizon. I look where he's pointing and notice a rocket rising up above the hills and trees in the distance.

The rocket is enormous and red, and as it rises I notice that there were 5 or 7 small white objects attached to it. (I know it was an odd number as one of them was in the centre of the rocket with an equal number of the other white objects on either side.)

The rocket flies straight upwards for a while, and then all of a sudden the white objects detach from it and fly off. I suddenly realise that they are small white vehicles, like miniature versions of the space shuttle.

"They're doing a test flight. Normally they launch these massive satellites into space," my dad explains to me.

The next thing that happens has me in awe. The rocket slows its ascent, and then starts to descend slowly towards the ground. It doesn't turn it's engines off but merely reduces the throttle, and maybe 10 seconds later land back in the same spot that it took off from.

I think I've been reading a little bit too much about SpaceX!

The dream felt very surreal, and I was completely captivated by the rocket.

dream Dream: Monday 10 August 2015 07:45

Funeral Music License

Tags: Atta

I am with a group of friends, although they are not people that I know in real life. I think there might be one other male in the group, but the rest are females, and one of them in particular bares a striking resemblance to "Thirteen" from House.

We are out somewhere, in a city, and we spend most of the day hanging out and going shopping. After doing this for a couple of hours, we decide it's time to do what we got together for, which is to get a license to play music at the funeral of one of our friends that died recently.

We go to some kind of government building, and there is a massive queue of people. We join the back of the queue, and the we realise that everyone's queuing to be allowed through a doorway and into another section of the building, where there is another queue. We were queuing to queue!

After a short while we reach the front of the first queue, and then are split into different queues inside. The whole process seems unnecessarily complicated, and surprisingly we are at the front of the queue in no time and heading into an office.

We are split up and interviewed separately. When I go in, the guy who's interviewing me is in his 40s. He starts by asking me why I want the license, so I tell him that I want to play at my friend's funeral, and he asks which instrument I want to play and I tell him that I'm going to play the clarinet. He asks a couple of other questions, and then tells me that I qualify for the license, and all I have to do is pay the licensing fee.

He takes my credit card and slots it into a machine, and then asks me to enter my pin, but the keypad is really strange. It has loads of buttons on it, including all of the letters of the alphabet, but is not laid out like a normal computer keyboard: the keys are not square and are arranged in a series of intersecting circles. The whole keypad is made out of brushed metal and is tricky to use.

I look at the keypad, and after a few seconds I find the part with the numbers. It's similar to the numerical pad on a standard keyboard, but all of the keys are arranged in two concentric circles. I hesitate for a few seconds while I try to remember my pin number.

"Come on, you've taken up enough of my time and are holding up the queue!" the man says to me angrily in a raised voice.

I get really angry at him and basically tell him that if he wants people to be able to enter their pin numbers quickly, he should get a standards keypad!

I eventually manage to enter my pin, and take my card and go outside where the others are waiting. I explain what happened inside, and how I found it surprisingly hard to enter my pin because I don't really know the number, but have memorised the positions of the keys on the pad.

A little while later, I bump into Atta who used to work with me at WorldPay. He moves me away from the rest of the group, and in a quite voice asks me if I can lend him 100 dollars to buy a new mattress. The then explains to me that he wouldn't be able to pay me back immediately, but would pay in instalments over the next few months.

The last thing I remember is thinking that he couldn't be doing to well now that he's started work as a contractor!