Remote Dreaming (mostly forgotten), dream habits, by Nat Ward

i was bad and didn't write it down fast enough...

so I missed some, but the gist of it was as follows,

crap....now I can't remember....
I remember remembering in the shower...
and now it escapes me....feh!

just on the tip of my brain,
people...gun shot wounds....someone famous, not winston churchill but someone like that...

people standing behind a desk.

actually, while I'm writing, in my dreams I have two themes I remember over and over again.

One is that in my dreams there is a version of Grinnell (my college) that is always Grinnell, but in no way architecturally like grinnell. The real Grinnell is sorta faux collegiate gothic, the dream Grinnell is extravagant high victorian gothic. Lots of greenhouse like collonades, victorian windows with cast iron frou frous, stairs, lots of stairs, rooftops we wander over, long dark halls with lots of dirty windows not letting in much light, but giant windows.

And the other theme/thing is very often my dreams follow the following plot.

I am someplace public (county fair, britney spears concert (no joke)) with a girl, we go through an entry/arch/door/hole in the hedge into a private place (often lush and green, under trees, very middle earth). She will kiss me and a bit later we will be attacked by a threat.

In the ones I remember the girl was often some girlfriend of a friend, and the threats are always a bit odd. One was slavers that instead of dogs had cupids that snapped their bows like whips and the arrows bent and lengthened until they stuck someone and they fell asleep. From them we hid in the sub basement of a buddhist temple and as we ran i dove into the eleveator and the whip/arrow just missed me as the doors closed.

The first half is wonderful but turns to terror of the last bit.

This type of dream happens yearly at least.

There's also the third standard which involves driving up a hill and then the car misses a turn and tumbles to the bottom where its banged up but still drivable. Except the time it fell in a lake and I almost drowned. These are scary.

Oh, and one where I ran along a boardwalk that went through tunnels along a beach and over water and it was failing right behind me and there were alligators. But that was just a one-off.

Oh, and one of my faves. I am riding a bike down a treelined/trellis covered path with a girl on the back and as we ride it turns into a hover bike flying just above water and an alligator is following us very quietly with a v shaped wake in the water. But its very happy and nice. This too is a one off.