I Dreamed a Dream

[BlakeMason2]

@PostITnoteGUY Did you therefore die in your dream? What was that like?

[MattieSongbird]

I had a similar dream about turning off all the lights in my house (but not the one I currently live in), and the lights coming back on. Then a chair starts moving towards me all by itself. I put my hand on the counter, turn to run away, but my hand is stuck and I can't move then I wake. wtf?

[johnofjordan]

Have you been consuming wine before bed by any chance? Hallucinogens? lol

For some reason I genuinely expected you to find Guy Richie in the shower instead of the woman...

[therealeeeo]

Hilarious. I rarely remember my dreams anymore. My wife did wake me up about 3 weeks ago because I was apparently howling in my sleep. I do remember waking up and thinking of being fairly horrified by a dream, but other than that, I have no idea what I was dreaming about.

[FantasticBabblings]

By comparison to yours, yes mine was kind of fun. Yours is horrifying. I haven't had that specific dream, but I have often dreamed that someone was trying to kill me.

[andymooseman]

WTF indeed.

Maybe we should all do this. Wake up from a vivid dream & turn the camera on, before we forget it? :)

[FantasticBabblings]

Dreams are fascinating. I would love to hear one of yours.

[CelticRobot]

Almost laughed untill I cried at the end of this vid

[FantasticBabblings]

I guess that's good :)

[logicaust]

[1]

I'm going to go with this, since I'm up and interested & totally unqualified. TH epart about turning the lights off, then finding them on; if you were trying to take meaning from it, I'd say it was a manifestation of frustration. You do things, they "seem" to be done at the time, then you find that they are not, and that's quite upsetting (as it would be to anyone).

[logicaust]

[2]

Then the "Siamese" dress; I'll go out on a limb, an uneducated limb (hey I don't "know" you, so I can't really make literal sense of this even if I wanted to) and say that this represents the manifestation of what you are reconciling your mother to be. I say mother, but perhaps this is unnecessarily sexist or ignorant. The kitchen holds meaning, but in what context, I don't know. It is, definitely, part of your personal story, one which I'm not privy to.

[logicaust]

Then, there is the clothed woman. The fact that the woman is black seems to be very striking, apart from the fact it is a random stranger in your home. Note again, I don't know the context, nor perhaps the multiple layers that contribute to this. "Why a middle-aged black woman", I ask myself. This, too is significant, because you've explicitly attributed this to the dream. Finally, there's the matter of the Chinese man at the end.

[logicaust]

[4]

I truly do not know what it portends, but I'll go out on a limb and say that teh Chinese Man is a representation of reflection; your own personal reflection. I say this because your first thoughts upon meeting this man was to grab a camera and record the moment. This is perhaps the sub-conscious intervening: me & your subscribers know that you'd grab something interesting/important on camera if you found it. Perhaps it was this hat "woke" you up from your dream?

[logicaust]

[5]

Sorry if I'm unnecessarily prying, Phil; I don't mean to. I'm just fairly preoccupied right now & would like something to occupy me, which this does.

Peace.

[FantasticBabblings]

Your explanation is interesting. It's more of an explanation than any that I have. If it was one or two symbols I might venture a guess, but there were so many packed together that I am flummoxed.

[PappyStu]

I went back to the old farm one time... Never again... Memmories are a fragile thing not meant to be messed with... I find dreams have annoying things time an time again requiring undone repetition... Your dream ends like many of mine in that you are trying to do something and awake wondering what it was you were trying to do... or rather what the message was... Having just woke before watching this I wonder if my comment is nonsense...

[FantasticBabblings]

As much as I want to avoid the old house, I keep coming back to it in my dreams. I think it might be all the pictures I went through to do the video for my brother. Most of them were at that house.

[TamHickey67]

Dreams can certainly be weird!

[aajunior]

Dreams can be some traumatizing stuff. I get a lot of WTF moments.

[FantasticBabblings]

This one wasn't traumatizing, but odd. The traumatizing ones I try to forget as soon as possible.

[GhostWhisperBlues]

At the last beer summit you told me you might move back home, then I told you to come on out to Brooklyn, and you just know how much I love Madonna. I had a few dreams where she lived here. She has family that does. But I'm not going to even go into *my* interpretation of why she was setting a fire.

Clearly you should come to Brooklyn if you move.

[FantasticBabblings]

I mentioned I would probably move back to SC when I retire - for financial purposes. Brooklyn is slightly less expensive than Manhattan but it is still too expensive. SC is really, really cheap by comparison. My standard of living would be much higher than I could afford here.

[GhostWhisperBlues]

I remember all that. But I still told you to move here. Maybe that's why you dreamt that.

[qiranger]

Man, that is a strange dream. I never remember my dreams.

[FantasticBabblings]

I rarely do except when I first wake up. I used to keep a dream journal but I stopped.

[ProfMTH]

Lights going on and off by themselves in Brooklyn, eh? Sounds like Sheepshead Bay to me. ;-) Seriously, it's amazing what trips our brain can take us on while we're sleeping.

Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving.

[FantasticBabblings]

I don't know what part of Brooklyn it was. I had never seen it. Which makes me wonder how I knew it was Brooklyn.

[fehquig]

It's been a while since I remembered a dream that clearly...

[FantasticBabblings]

I don't often. But this one was vivid and if I hadn't recorded this right away it would have faded.

[GhostWhisperBlues]

...and not because you decided to go X-rated like certain people named Ian Crossland. ;)

[Ranblv]

Sounds like a scene from a david lynch movie.

All we need is agent cooper to make sense of it.

Cool of you to make the effort to share it.

[FantasticBabblings]

All it needed was a dancing midget. Maybe tonight.

[333holly333]

My favorite part of this video was when you said, "I went to sleep...as if one could go to sleep with all this spontaneous combustion happening around you..." :D

Dreams are fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

[FantasticBabblings]

All night I had strange dreams. I can only remember the one just before I woke. I'm so glad I have a working smoke alarm. These fires are worrisome :)

[geroldkid]

Weird dreams are great(well, sometimes), because they reflect more with your real life far than a good or a bad dream.

[FantasticBabblings]

Perhaps my real inner life, but damn. I ain't got no mannequins in the kitchen or strangers in the shower. Of course, depending on the stranger, that might not be a bad thing.

[MISSBEBEBLUE]

letting go of past and opening new doors to new things........ listen, cause this is important part.........you gonna document it all so we all can see......right?

I'm excited!

weeda

[FantasticBabblings]

I'll document what I can. I like your optimistic interpretation.

[MISSBEBEBLUE]

Ha...that's funny....I didn't know that was an interpretation.....I thought that is what you said......wait a dog-gone minute....it is what you said.

P.S. Don't forget the camera!

[f3xpgm]

Have you been looking at Guinness World Records book?

[FantasticBabblings]

No. Nor have I been drinking a lot of Guiness :) I'm just naturally weird.

[f3xpgm]

Funny that you reply now! I'm hearing you on Occam's Razor! ;)

[RadicalPaddy]

Wow, I love having strange/abstract dreams, even if I wake up screaming it's always worth it for the creativity boost it gives me!

[FantasticBabblings]

This one was definitely strange and abstract.

[MrVisions]

Those houses wouldn't by chance be in Amityville, would they? I think psychologically you are devastated that Oprah is hanging up the towel (pun intended) and you are hesitant to express your sorrow, in case some one ridicules you (The mannequins) I think Madonna was just doing the soundtrack.

[FantasticBabblings]

No, they are in South Carolina. But I think you may be onto something with the Oprah idea.

[moomay11649]

WOW! What a weird dream!

What the hell were you smoking before

you went to bed Phil? Hahaha!

Luvs,

Mooz

[FantasticBabblings]

Nothing Mooz. I was just high on life ;-)

[BoomerChick55]

Wow, that will keep your shrink busy for months.

[FantasticBabblings]

I wish Carl Jung were still alive.

[MadBadVoodo]

Crazy shit man!

5/5

[strangeparty]

I love the conjoined mannequins with laughing heads image.

[Castaa]

It sounds like David Lynch is directing your dreams.

[daligoddess2006]

LOVE IT! Great dream. Sorry about the houses though, that is sad.

[heatherlynblue]

omg, lol.  awesome dream.

[OhCurt]

If anyone wonders where David Lynch is, the answer is clear: he's busy directing dreams like this one.

:-)

[pkingo1]

I'm suprised you were able to turn off the lights in the dream, as it never works in mine :).. I also read on the internet that it is a general rule that you can't switch lights on/off in dreams, which is kind of weird.

[nancyleeould]

I wish I could remember my dreams.

[oneiblind30]

Odd.

[audionautix]

Everything in the dream is some aspect of yourself. Sometimes disowned aspects that we don't want to see or accept.

[FruityMcGayMan]

my dreams are super crazy

[audionautix]

Aren't dreams facinating? Dreams are like unopened letters to ourselves. Everything in the dream means something but you won't find the answers in any "dream translation" book. That's because all of the symbols are intensely personal. A tiger to you may mean something completely different to me.

[GhostWhisperBlues]

Very true. A dream is an art to be interpreted by the one who had it.