Don't Drink and Drive

~I dreamt that I went to a coworker's party, (which I had decided not to go to in real life on the basis that it would be overrun with drugs and alcohol) with Yamaha, a guy who is six years older than me but won't leave me alone. But the party wasn't at my coworker's house; it was at my high school. The dream skipped over the party itself, but it seems that everyone spent the night there. In the morning, I met Yamaha at his car but he was still somewhat drunk - I was clear as a bell as usual, not having drunk at all. He had started balding and he had lost his shoes, so he insisted that couldn't drive barefoot because it is illegal (I learned that yesterday). He also appeared to be missing his arms, but they were actually just tucked inside his t-shirt because he was cold. I told him he was too drunk to drive me home and I would find my own way.~ Not A Partier

Tea: This is just a further acknowledgement, by your sub-conscious, of your relatively straight-edged nature. Even if you are confronted by temptation (the alcohol of the party) you stay on the straight and narrow. What's interesting is that you appear to conflate this with youth. Most people tend to say that teenagers are the criminals, ruining America and doing all sorts of awful things (rainbow parties, for instance, are supposedly the scourge of the nation, and you and I both know that those are a complete myth). You, however, see your youthful innocence as more pure, and less corrupted by the illegalities of adulthood. It is your older, drunken friend, after all, who has gone bald. The hidden arms indicate that there is something wrong with him that causes him to drink. However, when the arms come back, it is your subconscious telling you that he doesn't actually have issues.

Nyx: This dream is basically a verification of your responsible decision not to attend the party. You may have felt insecure about not going, especially if this guy was pressuring you to go. So, this dream serves to reassure you that you made the right decision by showing what would have happened had you attended the party, with Yamaha. However, the fact that the dream passes over the party itself suggests that you do not have very much experience with parties, and are not really sure what would have happened during it. Alternatively, your experiences with parties are that you don't remember a thing, although by your refusal to drink, this is probably unlikely.

Obnoxious Houseguest: Well, since he doesn't have arms, he clearly can't be drinking anyway, Tea, because he would not be able to hold the bottle. If he's not drinking it though, I could use a drink, have you got anything better than beer in your wine cellar?

English Notecards

~I finished writing my big junior year research paper last week. For the month until that point, I was constantly researching, making these weird note card things, and writing. Now it's done, and I'm very glad, but I had a dream last night that I had another thirty notecards due the day after vacation and I hadn't started them yet.~ I Have English Neuroses

Tea: If you can't figure out what this means, you're a complete and utter imbecile.

Nyx: If you are a complete and utter imbecile, check out this webcomic.

Your English Teacher: Watch out. This might predict the future.

Kayaks and Brains

~I dreamed that I was at the sailing school where I work, but I wasn't working. I was taking a class, which kept alternating between kayaks and Lasers (a kind of sailboat, generally for the more advanced students). My old chem lab partner was in my class. I wanted to ask him if we had gotten some of the same classes for our schedule next year, but each time I thought to ask him, I couldn't say it, or he wasn't there. At one point, we were sitting in our kayaks, partially beached on a tidal island, and I finally asked him, to which he replied, "Don't you worry your pretty little head about it," and kayaked away. Later, the class kayaked into a sort of underground cave place with tile floors and pillars. My coworkers were helping everyone dock and get out of their kayaks. I got out and was wandering around through a maze of rooms. I went into a room where all the lighting seemed to shine up through the floor, and was somewhat reddish but also somewhat greenish. My lab partner was there, without a shirt on, and his chest seemed huge and muscular, so much so that I wasn't sure if it was him. He was tapping the center of his chest with his finger, but he didn't see me. He appeared to be alone in the room, but suddenly someone I couldn't see said, "Don't do it!" But it was too late; my lab partner reached up and stabbed something that I could not see into his chest where his heart would be, and something fell out, which I knew to be a brain, even though it didn't look like one. It was purple and red and looked somewhat like a jellyfish but wasn't translucent. It had huge, blinking googly eyes with purple, veined lids and long, thick eyelashes. My lab partner's chest was normal and incision free. Someone said, "Oh no! His brain fell out!" and he gave me the joking downcast-eyes "I did something bad and I know it" look he would when he messed up a lab. For some reason, I responded, "Don't worry, that was only his spare brain!" People laughed, and then I woke up. Just a pointer - I do not have, and have not ever had, a crush on this guy. ~ From Julia

Tea: That you are taking classes at your workplace indicates that you are seeking improvement at your job. The presence of your lab partner, a school buddy, fits with this as well. However, you are having trouble translating the skills that you learned from school, your reading 'riting, and 'rithmatic, to the oceanic environment. The underground location with the tiled floors and pillars and mysterious light is something beautiful, yet hidden, probably related to the heart that your lab partner pointed to. However, your education and indoctrination into more rationalized methods of thinking have led you to think with your brain instead of your heart. You've buried your heart, and even though it's "bad" and you "know it," you falsely assert that you've still got plenty of heart left.

Nyx: Well Tea, I don't agree with the last point. The brain belongs to the lab partner, not the dreamer, and they are two separate entities. The fact that his brain falls out of where his heart would normally be suggests that he is smarter than you think he is, and his conversations with you, while they seem innocent and purely from the heart, are more devious than you could imagine. Chasing after him to ask him a question, and being constantly unable to do so, suggests that there is something more important than your class schedule that you want to ask him in real life. Why do you want to know if he is in your class? Being unable to ask him if he is shows a tendency to nervousness when it comes to talking to this boy. It could be that the real reason you want to know if he is in your class is to find out if you get to spend more time with him. You profess that you do not have a crush on this guy, but something about him intrigues you, as your subconscious imagination of his brain is so quirky and unrealistic.

Cynthia: His brain falls out of where his heart should be, so clearly he is saving his heart for you. You've noticed that he has a crush on you, and constantly makes witty comments, as shown by his putting out his brain for you. His flirtatious intent is further shown by the thick eyelashes and personality of the brain; you don't find him to be just an ordinary chemistry nerd. He's YOUR chemistry nerd, and you are possessive of him, as shown by you wanting him in your class next year, perhaps to be your lab partner again.

Kissing Ooh La La

~A guy I know from school who I think is kind of cute but also kind of creepy was in the spare bed in my room when I 'woke up.' However, I didn't think anything of it and started changing into normal clothes, and he woke up while I was topless, so I went to put on a different shirt, but then it got stuck on my head and he had to help. Once he got the shirt over my head, he wouldn't let go of my wrists, saying something about "can't let go," "God," "Jesus," and loving arm muscles, which is absurd because I barely even have arm muscles at all. He kept leaning closer and closer, and his eyes went all swirly and hypnotic, and then I kissed him, and I could feel braces that I haven't had for three years pressing against the insides of my lips. Then he disappeared in a puff of smoke, and all I wanted to do was find him and keep on kissing.~ Artemesia

Nyx: Well, first off, you are feeling like you are younger and more immature than everyone else, as shown by the fact that you have spontaneously managed to regrow your braces. Braces are also associated with insecurities, so perhaps you are hiding some inner fear...and perhaps that fear is that you will one day wake up to finding a sketchball with good bone structure in the bed next door. The fact that you do not sufficiently freak out about the creeper in your room (I know I would!) does show, however, that you are capable of handling extremely bizarre, not to mention awkward, situations maturely. The fact that the two of you managed to go lightspeed on the whole relationship thing in your dream is yet another sign of developing maturity and confidence. The fact that he starts muttering religious nonsense in your face and having hypnotic eyes shows that you think he's very devoted to something, like religious people are devoted to church. However, him running off so quickly suggests that you doubt his sincerity.

Tea: I'm going to disagree with Nyx on this one. He's saying unintelligible things because you don't understand him. You like him, but you still think he's creepy and out of reach. There is also probably some element of religious symbolism. You are probably conflicted about your religious beliefs; they are beautiful, and yet they scare you. You can't escape your religion because it is everywhere, and in the same way, this boy refuses to let go. You also feel that when you do embrace it, you will become young again, losing the control you've gained over your own life. When you seek this control again, you lose the religion, but you still want to have it both ways. You clearly need a more open variety of religious beliefs. I recommend Unitarian Universalism (but I'm biased...)

Tea's Father: You're both looking at this far too analytically. He's trying to kiss you, but you've realized that, just as I tell Tea every time she mentions a boy, they are only after One Thing, and I think we both know what that One Thing is. Stop letting him hypnotize you. Remember- he's only after One Thing.

Welcome to Dream Unweaver

Tea's introduction:

We (Tea and Jackie for the time being, but we plan on developing better names. Well, Jackie does, anyways. Tea came up with it for her own blog, and Jackie rolled with it, but she's never been a huge fan) are dream interpreters. A dream is like a passage from Shakespeare; it has a clear surface meaning that does tell a story, but if you burrow into the text, you can find layer upon layer of interpretations, and you can use these interpretations to better understand yourself.

However, it's frightfully difficult to interpret one's own dreams. One really needs someone else, with a clear, unbiased perspective, to do it for them. Hence us, the dream unweavers, picking your dreams apart to determine what they actually mean about you. Every post offers three points of view: my own, Jackie's, and the alternate perspective. Plus, you are free to add your own.

If you have a dream you'd like interpreted, email us at dreamunweavers@gmail.com. We solemnly swear that we are up to only good, and will not give your email out to any nasty corporate interests who will send you spam. Like you, we abhor spam. It's horribly disgusting stuff.

Sweet dreams.

Nyx's Introduction:

I still don't like the name Jackie. So I am now Nyx, after the Greek goddess of the night - and I just realized that that's kind of an appropriate name for someone who professes to know how to interpret dreams. Total coincidence, I swear. Yay for parallels.

But really, yay for parallels. Because your dreams parallel your life - usually. Obviously, putting too much stock in what your dreams are telling you will probably drive you mildly mad. However, I daringly conjecture that finding out what your dreams mean is inexplicably amusing. Additionally, their analysis adds serious bonus points if you're using your dreams as a conversation starter in an awkward situation. So, chalk up some charisma and tell us your dreams!

-Nyx