Todays topic is just for some exploration and (hopefully) a break from the day to day drawl of "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" that marks the passage of recent days/months/years.

The topic is dreams. Do you remember them? Do they tend to have a pattern? And what (if any) meaning do you ascribe to them? Or alternatively, have they helped you with an issue in real life?

Though I only remembered the occasional dream for much of my life, that pattern seems to have flipped in recent times (not really world events related, far as I can tell). Some patterns that have manifested recently are:

1.) Elevaters.

Though I am afraid of heights in reality, I often find myself riding up and down elevators in dreamland. One time getting shot (then waking up) when someone seen me then the door opened.
Another time, I happened to run into my boss when disembarking on the 60th floor of a building. He told me to go to the window and take a photo because the view was beautiful. So I found myself walking though a Chicken Chef restraunt on the 60th floor of a highrise . . . In New York City.

Canadian prairie dwellers . . . Yes, THAT Chicken Chef LOL.

2.) Traveling to Camping Trips I never arrive to

This one usually involves close friends and coworkers, generally random activities and normally innocuous acts which we normally don't think twice about (such as eating out, or driving). Though there is a destination in mind, i've yet to arrive to the fun and the fire.

3.) Family Squabbles

I've more than once, found myself telling various family members off and (with great difficulty) running away from them.

In one recent one, I exited a moving vehicle and it took 4 blocks for someone to notice (then I awoke). In another, the same family member angered me, making me throw something (breaking it), and run again. And last night, I found myself doing the same thing into a snow storm in a Winnipeg suburb after a political conversation resulted in a member saying something racist.

4.) Dropping Out

An interesting reoccurring dream of the last few years (since 2012, really) has been that of me leaving a school situation due to being overwhelmed. It usally involves me walking around knowing I need to get stuff done, but it is all . . . To much.

To which I wake up in this frame of mind . . . Until I remember that I graduated in 2012.

5.) Unfaithful Parkay

This one isn't reoccurring. It was a one off that occurred in 2013 (I recorded it) that was so odd, it stuck to this day.

In the dream, I fond myself in a music video of sorts. I found myself watching a women in bright white dancing around a tub of Parkay margerine (only the lettering was orange instead of blue) as Rihanna's song "Unfaithful" played in the background.
Part of the reason it fascinated me was because though the Parkay aspect was recent (I worked in a grocery cooler quite a bit then), I had not heard the song since at least 2006 or 2007.
It was also odd since it was a long forgotten song that wasen't even an infamously irritatingly memorable song that EVERYONE knows the lyrics to (for example, My Humps).

For me, dreams are nothing more than a fascinating look into the mind (see what it does with the information therein). They don't have any affect on my reality short of if they become part of a piece of poetry or other fiction. Or maybe a drawing (another hobby i've started experimenting with).