The Secrets We Keep

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you know you did something wrong, but instead of confessing you just kept a straight face while denying any knowledge of it?

I can't think of anytime in particular, but I know I've done it at least a few times.  Not saying that I'm proud of doing so, but sometimes it was the easier way out. And just to clarify, I'm not talking about big, bad, illegal things, I'm referring smaller things like eating someone else's sandwich from the work fridge, or pretending to be sick just to avoid hanging out with your friends, and to clarify again, those were examples, I have not done any of those before nor do I ever plan to.

I'm not sure if my dream was hinting at anything in particular, but it did feel like it had something to say about the matter of concealment.

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I was back in high school and was on a field trip with my class.  We were walking through the city and taking note of wildlife activity.  There wasn't much to see for the most part, just old buildings and empty parks, the trip was pretty boring so far.  Then we started walking underneath a large, stone bridge with a nearby pond and there was a family of ducks.  They were jumping into the pond from a small grassy hill; they were so cute, there were a lot of little ducklings :D  

Then all of a sudden a stream of fire and gas erupts from the ground a few streets away.  I know seeing something like that in real life would be freaky, but in this dream world, "random inexplicable environmental occurrences" are normal; they don't happen often, but when they do, we just ignore them.

The field trip was over and we were back in the classroom while the teacher was explaining the next group project.  Suddenly I felt mischievous... *shifty eyes*...The teacher's back was to me, and my classmates were in their own little worlds, so decided to set a nearby book on fire.  One thing to note here is I didn't use a match or lighter, I set the book on fire with my mind (oh yeah :D) I knew I was the only one with that ability, but I never told anyone so when the teacher turned and asked who did it I just looked as clueless as everyone else.  I could tell the teacher was trying to figure out "whodunnit", but in the end decided to believe it was a "random inexplicable environmental occurrence"....(phew!)

Then dream continues and fast forward, I was in university, sitting with a different set of classmates, though the teacher was the same one from before. Again I suddenly felt mischievous and decided to set another book on fire...*shifty eyes*... and again denied any knowledge it when the teacher asked who set the fire.  The teacher was definitely suspecting me as she was giving me the interrogating stare...but I held my ground and kept a straight face.  With no evidence linking me to the fire she had no choice but to again attribute the fire to "random inexplicable environmental occurrences"... (phew!).

 Though as soon as the teacher started the lesson again, one of my classmates turned to me and laughed and then whispered that he knows it was me who set the fire because he remembered the last time a mysterious fire appeared I was there too...(oh dear!)  I didn't realize any of my old classmates were with me.. :/  He didn't tell the teacher though , thank goodness, lol...(phew!)

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I'm not sure why I was so mischievous in my dream, but I guess it's best to let that side out sometime, and it best be somewhere safe, lol.  

Another interesting thing to note (at least for my records), the one classmate who knew I set the fires is someone I knew in real life, all the other classmates were random people, and funny to say, I think he'd keep that info a secret in real life too, lol.

Thanks a lot for reading, I hope you enjoyed, let me know what you think :)  and I'll try to have some art in the next dream blogs :)

Until next time, sweet secret dreams :D

Anna

MIND THE CONNECTIONS

Hi everyone,

The night before I had a pretty fun but hectic dream. 

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I was with group of people exploring a dangerous forest. It was sorta like a video game. We had health bars, we were wearing armour, and had weapons, and we sometimes found weapons on the ground or could buy them from a store.  I remember buying what was considered the strongest sword of the land (it looked sort of like Cloud's Buster Sword from Final Fantasy Vii), but when I equipped it, it caused me to lose all my health because it spewed out electric shocks :|  Strangely I didn't die, I just felt really tired afterwards.  Supposedly I didn't have the right gloves to hold the sword (if only the store clerk told me beforehand...). 

Another very powerful sword was being guarded by a white mantis ray with a unicorn head. The first time we encountered it we just ran.  The second time, I decided to go for the sword and actually managed to grab it, but then the unicorn mantis kept chasing me and the group shooting projectiles at us.  We had to hide underwater in a special protective pond that had a piece of land in the centre which was the reason for the barrier.  Thank goodness for the island.  But the barrier didn't last forever and we had to run again, but I didn't want to run anymore, so I took out the dangerous sword I bought at the store and wrapped it with a ton of armour cloth hoping I wouldn't get shocked again.  And it worked :D. I was able to hold the sword without losing health, I aimed the sword and shot a charged beam at the unicorn mantis.  I knocked it down, and again we ran, lol. 

Then I all of a sudden I was at my sister's workplace while they were having a party.  I was there to learn about special printing machines that print images based on the connections you make with someone, so the more acquaintances and friends you make the more different images the printer can turn out.  It was a neat machine :)

Then I was looking at a new house with my father and sister. It was a big house, and nicely furnished with tables and appliances, and it had a garage, but I didn't like the stairs leading to the second floor.  There were too many small steps, and too many small landings.  It took a long time to get to the top.  One of the rooms had a second potential buyer who was already setting up their stuff in the room, we were a little shocked but continued looking.  The realtor was trying really hard to sell the house, he even cooked us dinner and made cake for us. The food was all setup in the second floor kitchen. I don't remember eating, but we finished the house tour and told the realtor we'd think about it.  He gave each of us a squishy orange foam house toy on the way out.  

Then I went back at my sister's workplace and stuck the house on one if the cork boards, funny enough someone else also came to stick up their foam house toy, turns out the competing buyer was one if the workers, lol.  Then I woke up.

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I enjoy having such active dreams, but I usually wake up tired :|  I wonder if that's the dream's doing, or if I just need more sleep?  I also really want a foam house toy now; it was like stress-ball material and so cute, lol.

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed, until next time, stay active and sweet untiring dreams :)

Anna

INTO THE STORM FOR GUMMIES

Hi everyone,

How've you been?  Sorry it's been like forever since my last post :(  I definitely want to post on a regular basis, so here's hoping this will be a good start :)

The night before I had this funny and scary dream that a big thunder and lightning storm was heading into the city, but instead of going home, I went to a grocery store :|


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I was with my boyfriend walking around and shopping in Toronto's east end, close to Cabbagetown when I hear people shouting that a storm is heading our way.  At that time, the weather looked fine to me, the sun was shining and not a cloud in the sky.  I didn't know what the people were talking about, and my boyfriend and I were heading home anyway.  So we ignored them and continued walking on. 

Then out of nowhere, big gusts of wind started blowing at us; garbage started flying around, and the trees were starting to get bent out of shape.  I was starting to get worried, but still no clouds in sight so I thought it might have just been a freak little wind storm.  My boyfriend didn't think much of it either so we just continued at our regular pace.  Lots of people started running, I could tell they wanted to get home ASAP.  I had no fear, I was so close to home... but...OH DARN!  I forgot to buy something :O 

I'm not sure what, but I knew I needed it.  It was at that moment, the clouds started rolling in and the winds were picking up again.  I told my boyfriend I needed to go back to the store.  He tried to talk me out of it, but I convinced him I'd be fine; the store was only 10 mins away, and I knew I could make it home before the storm arrives.  He was reluctant, but let me go, while he headed the rest of the way home.  Now, it was my turn to run on the streets (how ironic, lol...), but as I had thought, I was at the store in no time :D 

At the back of the store there was a window through which I could see the storm starting in the west end of the city so I knew I had to be quick, but instead of just grabbing what I needed, I saw sour gummies on display and I figured since I was there anyway, why not grab some (my boyfriend loves sour gummies :D ).  But "some" turned into "a lot", and the storm was only getting closer every time I looked through the window.  I went in to pay for my items, but all the lights are off, and there's another person ahead of me, and he's just talking like nothing's going on :|  I was giving him the evil eye the whole time until he finally got the idea and left.  The dark setting was definitely eerie, but the cashier was nice and quick with my transaction (thank goodness).

As I stepped out of the store, the sky turned the darkest shade of grey, the winds were gusting like crazy, flashes of light and bangs of thunder were happening all over, and raindrops were coming down like they were all racing to the ground.  Why did I buy the gummies again? Aye....:(  I had no choice, I had to get home before things get even worse, so I started running, but strangely instead of shoes, all of a sudden I was wearing platform high heels :|  I don't know whether I was being punished for ignoring the storm warnings, or because I spent so much time deciding which gummies to buy.  Sad to say I didn't run very far before falling over, so I took them off, and that's when I woke up.

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Thanks for reading :D  I hope you enjoyed my little stormy errand.  Funny thing is I don't think I bought anything other than gummies at the store, lol. 

Not sure what this dream is trying to tell me other than maybe to not think so long about small decisions, and to do what I'm supposed to do first and then what I want to do if I have time.  What do you think this dream is trying to tell me?

Until next time, stay warm and dry :)


Anna