Dreams

“Strange dream last night.. I know I must have seen a movie advertisement or SOMEthing..

anyways.. was backpacking.. along a mountain ridge.. was working my way across this place.. and suddenly realized that this plane I was watching was going DOWN.. right about where I was standing..

made my way down off the trail a bit.. finding a place where I was thinking the rocks might shield me.. thinking that the plane would slide right OVER me.. only to realize that it was skidding just short of where I was.. over my head basically.. a few yards uphill.. which sounded good..

until I realized that the water dripping down over the rocks above me was plane fuel.. was desparately trying to find a way not to get FRIED.. knowing the airplane fuel was sure to explode shortly.. not good..

so glad I woke up.. but ended up sitting downstairs in my favorite chair for a little bit.. because the dream was so intense.

Anyone else ever have a 'backpacking' dream?”

“Last weekend at Whitney Portal....before I went to bed, the camp host was looking for a bear that was wandering around in camp. I slept in my truck with my pack, since we had a 4am start. I dreamt a cub was outside my window, looking in, and I was trying to take a picture thru the tinted window, but the red-eye flash wasn't enough, and the photo wouldn't take. Then I woke up.

This past weekend we saw a real bear and I followed it and took about 30 photos. Should have them up on the website tonight!”

“I've had some pretty strange dreams while backpacking, but none about it, that I remember.”

“I had a dream I was hiking in the Ozarks and I met up with bacpac. Man that was scary.”

“I was with two buddies and we were gearing up to climb a mountain. I was going through my equipment and was worried that I didn't have enough equipment. The weather was looking iffy and I couldn't find a hat, for instance. We looked at the mountain (it was as if there was a camera mounted up there) and saw a hut or cabin at the summit and people milling about. We looked shortly thereafter and huge, dark clouds had moved in and completely obscured the summit.

There was some heavy-duty symbolism going on in that dream for me at the time...”

“I had a backpacking dream but I can't tell about it Sunshine may read this. LOL!”

“On my last trip, I dreamed that Gabreille Anwar and I had a couple of Poontoli's and then tested the force constraints on our thermarests. It was a good dream.”

“*lol*... wishful thinking spam?

anywayz.. ya.. I have had dreams WHILE backpacking.. and do look forward to backpacking trips again this fall.. but can't say i have ever dreams of being backpacking while at home.. hMm.. musta been that hiking trails book I was reading before I went to bed.

:)”

“I dream about scary stuff after it happens. I am never scared at the time it happens but later on I will dream about it. It is always in Grand Canyon and it is usually about some dumb place with lousy footing and a straight drop. My in dream defense is to go ahead and fall--a trick I learned as a little kid to make falling dreams not so scary.”

“oooooooh... I Hate those 'falling' dreams!

I had a weird one just last night. It looked like the Tonto Plateau and we were camped next to a tiny butte, only 8 or 10 feet high. Who was there...? Bobcat, Miss Grundy... a bunch of folks. I think you were there too, MP, *G*. And everyone had these damn answering machines that wouldn't quit beeping! I woke up and my machine was beeping... *VBG*”

“Well there was this time I was walking along the Cimmeron river in Colorado Springs Colarado and it was like the earth was suking me under. It pulled at each foot each step I`d make and the going was awful. I`d about made it half way across a sand bar that reached out into the river and I was making my way to the other side. The more I walked the more it pulled down on me and I was going under to the knees. Try as I might I couldn`t beak free of the grip the earth had on me and I was down past my hips in no time at all and still sinking into the unknown. The more I tried to free myself, the faster I`d slip from seight, till only my head and one shoulder was sticking out. I freaked out and went to screaming for all I was worth and two men walking in the woods nearby came to my rescure.

They got a big tree limb and ran it out to me and I tried to pull free again and they pulled, but I was stuck so hard they couldn`t free me.

One man stayed with me while the other ran for more help. It seemed like it was hours, but in truth it didn`t take him that long at all and four more men showed up with him. They had a big ladder and a bunch of ropes and they set in trying to get me out of there. One of the men worked his way out on the ladder and placed a rope around my shoulders and him and another man did pull me free after a time.

Oops, that wasn`t a dream, that happened,..sorry. I guess I don`t have a dream I can share, but it seems like it was, I was four years old when that happened.

Maybe it was just a dream...LOL”

“I have the peeing dream. I dream about using the bathroom, and wake up needing to use it. I drink soda too late in the evening, lol.”

“Lipstick, I totally have the peeing dream, too. I had it really bad while I was pregnant. A drop of liquids was like a gallon of pee. I had to get up about 4 times a night.”

“I have often dreamt of me and Mtngal in a hotspring.”

“I only dream about backpacking while at work.”

“newgirl, the baby must have been sitting on your bladder, I suppose, I've never been pregnant.”

“Find out what your dreams mean

Just ran across this today. Might prove interesting.”

“When I dream, that means I've slept in too long.”

“Yep, she sure was. For nine whole months, the oppressive weight of a child on your bladder.”

“WOW! My ego just doubled in size. :o)


OK, bacpac, I'm waiting for you to shoot me down.


Hey ski, that site doesn't work so good. It wanted key words. I typed "man" and I got handsome man. I guess I should have stated "ex-husband." The I typed in "cooking over fire" and got "cooking is a good omen,,, fire means a contridiction" I guess I should have been more specific and stated, "cooking ex-husband over a fire." Moooooohahaha!






OK, OK, so I made that all up but it was fun. :o)”

“People just didn?t understand.

I?d awaken from a dream in a cold sweat. Dreams of bad things happening to neighbors or friends: accidents, fires, illnesses, livestock losses and the like. They?d seem so real that I would telephone the subject of my dream in near panic only to find that all was well. They would laugh and tell me I needed to take some time off and get some rest. That was until they would call back days or weeks later to ask how I knew it was going to happen.

The dreams were so lucid that at first I would have trouble separating them from reality until I learned the trick of looking down. I could never see my body. It was as if I was just floating there as a helpless observer, unable to effect the events unfolding before me.

I decided it was best if I didn?t try to warn people as my calls were not taken kindly to. Instead I started a journal of these dreams. I?d supplement them with newspaper articles and police reports of the actual events. In retrospect, those writings would prove to be my undoing when authorities investigating a particularly grisly crime uncovered them.

I called them prescient dreams. They had other names for them: witchcraft or voodoo.

If not for my many good deeds and character witnesses, my fate would surely have been much worse. Incarceration, institutionalization or perhaps even execution.

What was eventually agreed upon was banishment. I was given some supplies and equipment and told to never show my face again.

This is the story of how I became known as the Mad Troll of Trail Talk Gulch.”

“Awesome, Violin!!..

but prescient? my gosh.. I had to look that word up.. :)”

“So,... I`m there in fits of slumber and thinking about the next days events and tyring to plan it all out as I drift off into la la land. The woods are alive with spiders and walkingsticks and every few steps I make I have to clear `em off my face or get `em outta my shirt. This pesky spider is trying to eat my face off and I slap down on the bugger with enough force to drive it deep into the ground, but instead of hearing it pop, I hear this blood curdling scream. I bolt upright and almost have myself a runaway then and there.

Seems while in my sleep, my hiking partner`s hair brushed up against my face and my hand came down hard and fast right between his eyes.

He didn`t find that as funny as I did for some reason and for the rest of what turned out to be a sleepless long night for both of us, he cussed me, non-stop and loud. And I used to think his snoring was bad...lol”

“I had a weird dream last night. I had a dream that I was at Dhutch’s house with a bunch from TT after a hike and there was this creek beside her deck. My dog Honey was stuck down in the water and I was trying to get her out. Dhutch comes out of the house all dressed up for an important meeting or interview or something and she starts kidding around trying to push me in. I was trying to save my dog and got pissed at her so I threw HER in. She comes out of the creek madder than, well, a wet Michigander. She’s ranting and raving saying, “DO you know how long it took me to get ready? I’ve got to be there in 10 minutes!!!”.

She was so mad she hated me and everyone else was pissed at me too. I woke up this morning feeling so guilty and sad. Please forgive me Diane! I’ll never do it again! :(”

“I had a dream last night......

My daughter....who is 21 and I were going to Paris, France......on the way to the airport my glasses broke..so we stopped by the mall and the man behind the counter took his merry ole time fixing them...and then the time came to write the check to pay him, I couldn't think and kept messing it up....at this point, I started yelling......"I am going to Paris,France" and shaking my fists in the air!!!....wooo hoooo...I felt much, much better.......”

“I had the weirdest dream the the other night... I dreamed that I figured out how to float in the air. I swear for a second after I woke up... REALLY...I swear I thought I could! I was tempted to try...but then I felt it was a little too silly. HAHAHA

That was weird.


I wish I could float dammit.”

“You've got to stop licking those postage stamps there gemmie ;-)”

“Double-check the origin of the mushrooms on the pizza you had earlier.”

“omigawd the worst of nightmares! LOL...

Last night I dreamt there was a HUGE LLBean store on top of Katahdin. I was up there with my full backpack wandering around talking to the hundreds of people who were up there. I started down the mountain (after running in to monkeyboy and skeetahbait) and someone mentioned that I didn't have my pack on. Couldn't find it anywhere.

Finally I went in to Bean's and asked the return people if they'd seen it. Sure enough, someone returned my backpack and some stuff that waas in it.

Man was I mad. Then a ranger gave me a tour showing me all the roads and buildings on Katahdin. Different gear that I had found at Bean's appeared and disappeared...

It just kept going on and on until I woke up. One minute mad cause of the mess on Katahdin, next mad cause of my missing gear. Weird.”

“Twiggy you need to get further south more often , its a classic case of cabin fever :P”

“Don't I know it! but south??? wash your mouth out...
November is button-up-the-house time, but December is coming right up!

How are you doing, and how are those grandbabies?”

“:-(”

“He meant south to Freeport, now that the people from away are gone.”

“oh! well smack me upside the head and call me blondie! :)

I've banned LLBean (except for the necessities) which may be why they are in my nightmares.”

“It's your guilty conscience.”

“I forgot to post about the dream I have on the first night of the Mammoth Cave trip!!!!

All I remember was a bunch of us were at a party at someone's house and birch and Crash Bang were seriously kicking the crap put of 2 guys that tried to crash the party. Crash was running one guy's face into the side of the house and birch was stepping on the other guy.

I had to be laughing in my sleep on this one, because I remember laughing so hard in the dream, I spilled my beer.”

“LOL @ Wounded Knee...

But I only buy boots (necessity) every 3-4 years, bitpusher!”

“According to Freud the LL Bean store signifies your latent unfulfilled desires own a pair of sheep, like Noah and his Ark you desire both a male and a female sheep so that you may watch them in the heights of their sheepish intimacy. The fact that the LL bean store was on top of Katahdin shows that you are afraid what other will think of your voyeur desires for the sheep. The pack is your self esteem which has been lost because of your inability to cope mentally with your sheep fascination. You keep on traveling back to the LL Bean (aka the sheep) to fulfill your lost desires but you are unable to obtain your goal (The pack) because you are not emotionally strong enough to express your desires for the sheep. The ranger is the sheep salesman that tries to "show you the way" to buy your sheep but you are unable to face your desires openly and go sheep shopping properly.

You need serious help.”

“LMAO!
I agree, I need serious help...
:D”

“The dream means you need to take a trip to the Adirondacks soon. Some place like the West Canada Lakes Wilderness. A place where you won't run into those type of people that seem to frequent Bean now days.”

“can I bring my Brownie Troop with me?”

“Those yankee woman are cold.
They will cut you. ;-)”

“I blame Matt! He lets anyone join___no screening or security check on new members.

And since he permits the trolls to do whatever they want, I suspect that he is trolling himself.”

“I'd have to agree with DeoreDX's evaluation that you need serious help, except for the sheep thing... that's just plain weird!

Have you checked if any of your gear is missing?
>8~o”

“last night i dreamed mapleleaf and i were breaking into someones home, while they were still there, and stealing their dog! but i think we left them a check for $20.99, or something like that. whatever it was, it seemed fair in the dream”

“First of all I would ask are you and Mapleleaf struggling with something (either between yourselves or together against something/someone)? I would think that you are divided in your mind if the struggle is something honest or dishonest, right or wrong, though you feel it might be the former (honest/right) as evidenced by your act of paying and your view of it as 'fair'. Whatever it is, the dog is an interesting issue of itself and might indicate something of the natural/animal world involved in whatever you (two) are struggling with. Or it is you struggling, yourself, and desiring to share the struggle with someone significant in your life. Of course, I could be COMPLETELY wrong here. If so, sorry, it's just a few thoughts.
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“"First of all I would ask are you and Mapleleaf struggling with something "

yes, we are struggling with our unrequited love

later on in the dream, bacpac gave me some lunchmeat, and i hid it. he found it, and gave it to me again. i hid the salomi again, and again he found it. over and over i hid the salomi from bacpac, and he found it. we made a game of it and giggled like schoolgirls. what do you think it means, doc?”

“hiding the salami, huh? I think your a pervert.....LOL. No, seriously, perhaps your frustrated (in a simple way) with your inability to accomplish a task that you deem important, but no so important that your life depends on it.”

“are you reading this out of a book?

p.s. i made the second one up”