My first vivid dream in a long time

[pseydtonne]

One of the side effects of caffeine is that I don't really dream. The summary opinion among my friends who've quit is that you're never really getting enough sleep when you're caffeinated so you don't get enough delta sleep for the body to switch into dreaming REM sleep. In any case, I finally had an honest to goodness dream last night and I just remembered it.

I was in Syracuse for some reason. I remember feeling stuck there but trying to convince myself it was temporary. I was doing some kind of performance art where I'd pushed an old maroon Saab into a muddy creek. I remember it was significant and was helping some charity that I do this. Then four seconds after the bubbles stopped it dawned on me that I'd driven a borrowed car into a river silt and had not figured out whether I could get it out. It wasn't that deep into the ground: get a winch and pull 'er out. Still, I think someone needed the car to get home from campus.

Yeah, I was on a college campus. I think it was the local community college, OCC. I'm really only guessing by the state of the dining hall, which is all I remember other than the ravine for campus settings.

I recall the person needing to get her parents' car home wasn't too concerned but I was. I recall there being a woman in her forties with a slight German accent trying to guide me.

I also recall some kind of video game at the end based on the old cartoon character Danger Mouse trying to crawl his way out of the wreckage and silt I had created to the grass. If he fails, he turns into a sod monster. The sod monster has moss for a haircut and basically sits and stares. If it's not getting enough air because it's below the water table, it dies.

Yes, this was my dream. I totally don't get it. Any ideas?

Comments

[starburstlvr.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't know where to begin with that one. I know with my dreams I can usually pick out where I had done something or saw something that showed up in my dream.

I took a class for a semester on Fellini. I had some truly strange dreams during that class that had nothing to do with anything. The professor said I wasn't the first person who experienced weird dreams while studying Fellini.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

That ... kind of sounds like all of my dreams (which reminds me, I should start posting them). Do you normally understand yours? :)

[dimers.livejournal.com]

I totally don't get it. Any ideas?

Your subconscious is trying to make up for lost time, so it crammed elements from five dreams into one time slot? =)

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

As an aside, that explanation for caffiene and lack of vivid dremaing fails to account for the fact that the first type of sleep that is made up after being sleep-deprived is REM sleep - it's too damn important to skip, moreso than any other type of sleep (yes, even deep-healing delta is behind REM). I think that you have an easier time *remembering* both having dreamed and what you dreamed when you go off caffiene than that you had less REM sleep.

[graciana.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad someone else is having these bursts of "remembering what I dream" sleep besides myself. :)

It's sounds like your mind is psyching itself for the trip. I remember feeling stuck there but trying to convince myself it was temporary. Maybe the whole dream was a big sum-up of how you emotionally feel going to Australia. I know, it's a stretch of an idea, yet if you think about it...it kinda works.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the best answer I've received. That helps me put a bow on it. Now let's see what I learn tomorrow morning.