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Posted: 12-10-2011 15:27 Post subject:

and I thought it was only me that had dreams about bizarre inconvenient toilets Laughing

Posted: 12-10-2011 19:45 Post subject:

Posted: 12-10-2011 20:00 Post subject:

I too dream about bizarre inconvenient toilets: they have no doors, or the cubicles are too narrow to get into, or they're blocked Eek Eek

Posted: 12-10-2011 21:24 Post subject:

Yes, I have exactly the same sort of dreams.
It shows how seriously our subconscious minds take toilet training!

I've been surprised in the past, how it is possible to toilet train young people with even quite severe learning difficulties.

Then again, plenty of pets, not just those superior creatures, cats, will try to restrict their toilet habits to one particular corner.

Posted: 14-10-2011 02:04 Post subject:

I have weird dreams featuring really weird or gross, dirty toilets, too. They're always missing doors, or have no toilet paper, or the toilet paper is lying on the floor in a puddle.

Posted: 14-10-2011 08:49 Post subject:

One of the theories about dreams is that they're all actually about yourself. So every person, animal or building is an aspect of your own character.

If I have a weird dream which sticks with me, as some do, I apply this theory and it works every time. The more bizarre the dream-images, the clearer the message from my subconscious. Toilet imagery is particularly explicit. Laughing

Posted: 14-10-2011 17:14 Post subject:

Bathroom dreams. Last one I remember the inside of the bowl was lined with fur, and I didn't want to use it (luckily enough!...)

The usual anxiety dreams of:
- Unprepared for an exam
- Unprepared for a school play
- Unprepared for xmas / someones birthday
- Driving a car / lorry and having defective brakes
- Hanging from a ledge / cliff by the fingertips
- Not being able to open eyes (usually before wakening)

Have been able to read before in dreams, though not whole novels / articles, but short sentences / titles / snippets of text.

Eating - usually tasteless. The other night I had a dream I had a fast food meal but it was tasteless (or whatever taste was in my mouth before a morning cleaning of the teeth).

Have at times recognised that it was a dream, but haven't summoned the power yet to gain full lucidity, more like watching a film, being drawn in but being aware that you are an observer not a participant.

Posted: 17-10-2011 02:30 Post subject:

Well, here's a dream for you all to consider. It means nothing, but it's decidedly odd. Quite recently (the link will give you the exact date) I had an anxiety dream in which I was wrongfully arrested (which has in fact happened to me). The policemen took me off to somewhere or other, but along the way, they made a detour because they had secret religious beliefs which I presumably wouldn't talk about if I knew what was good for me. They went to a cemetery flanked on one side by a very old church, and on the other by an even older wall which was massive, but crumbling into rubble. This took place in the middle of the night. The wall had niches at multiple levels containing presumably holy objects which the policemen prayed to, but which I couldn't see. Also, attached to it at various places were strange objects made from a putty-like substance, mostly of a Halloween-like nature. One was a bat, and another crudely represented the head of a witch. Seeing that one of these objects was lurking directly behind a crucifix, the most intelligent-seeming policeman (who, by the way, was black) performed a brief Latin exorcism, causing the object to turn into some sort of quasi-alive slug and crawl away. Then he looked at me with immense seriousness and said only: "The plague!"

The Fortean aspect of this is that on the menu bar of my computer is a website called "one surrealist a day", which does exactly what it says on the tin. Moments after waking from that particular dream, I clicked the link, as is my daily habit, and saw an obscure but pretty good Salvador Dalí painting I had never seen before.To be precise, this one:

http://onesurrealistaday.com/page/22

You can presumably see why that freaked me out! Of course, Surrealism and Dadaism have many Fortean connotations. If somebody has anything to say in a different thread on this subject, I'm sure we'd all be very interested.[/url]

Posted: 12-09-2013 19:02 Post subject:

Going back to the original post, I found somebody who looks like that ringmaster demon:

http://i1.likes-media.com/uimg/7fadfa87747b496b2533d2527745dc42.600x