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Dreams that make you question your own sanity

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
I suppose everyone has them..those dreams that are just so out there and weird that you wake up doubting your own mental health. I woke up from one of them this morning....a totally OUT THERE dream that seemed to have the entire history of UFO conspiracy/conjecture/theory rolled into one big gooey ball of WTF! Maybe it was the result of a bad combination of late night Taco Bell, too many chocolate-mint wafer sticks and the inhalation of a lot of polyurethane stain fumes. Or maybe it was the result of my expansive brain solving the riddle of UFOs, abductions, experimentation and cattle mutilation. Or maybe I'm just bonkers, off my rocker, out to lunch, two fries short of a Happy Meal.

Whatever it is, I hope I don't have another dream like that anytime soon....it was disturbing to the extreme.

OBIO
 
What's the world coming to?...

You shouldn't have let the cat out of the bag O!

Now everyone's gonna think you've been talking to me! Gone to the other side, stark ravin', plain mucho loco!

Goody, now there's 3 of us!!! :jump: I've been dubbed the banana, do you wanna be a mango or just a plain fruitcake?
 
OBIO said:
I'll take fruit cake. I have always liked fruit cake.
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A man after my own heart, I too love fruit cake and the darker it is the better I like it.

I still miss my mother's Christmas fruit cake and it literally was to die for. I must get the recipe off her as she's in her late 80's now and still living in the UK.

She used to start it in late September or early October, gathering together the dried fruit which would then be soaked for a couple of days in good sherry to plump them up. The cake was then baked and once cool it would be placed into an old biscuit/cookie tin with the lid bound in clear tape to make it 100% air tight. A couple of days before Christmas she would drag it out of the cool 'pantry' where it had been kept to 'mature' and start on the finishing touches. After being released from it's tin she would skewer the top of the cake and fill the skewer holes with brandy then on would go the marzipan/almond paste which covered the top and sides preventing the brandy from evaporating and allowing more of it to soak into the body of the cake. Next, she would prepare the sugar paste icing (never the hard crunchy stuff) and to make the icing adhere to the marzipan she would paint the cake with neat vodka as the icing was applied. Once it was iced the final decorations were done (usually intricate flower arrangements made by hand out of sugar) and it went back in the tin until the big day. The mixture of tastes were truly unbelievable and had to be experienced to be believed and it was especially good when eaten together with a chunk of well matured cheddar cheese.

Slurp! My mouth is watering just typing all that out!

p.s.

I can't help with your dream but rest assured that you're not the only one who gets weird dreams from time to time. I sometimes have vivid dreams and many times I dream in colour too. The scariest one for me was the one where my youngest daughter died in my arms and there wasn't a thing I could do to help her. I woke up soaked in sweat and in a wild panic after that one! I have found that certain things will trigger a dream event and now I tend to avoid eating crackers and cheese before bed as that is guaranteed to set me off!
 
I often dream of things I've recently watched on TV... not good after watching Criminal Minds or shows of the like.

When programming or making terrain scenery, I often dream of that. Sometimes I solve problems I've had. Usually dreams are just nonsense... the subconscious mind trying to make connections where none really exist.

Just after I retired, I had dreams for a bit of working in the factory... woke up bored and tired. Just my subconscious missing the old routine.

Dick
 
my family and i watch those "criminal" shows all the time,all the CSI's,the two NCIS's,criminal minds,harrys law,unforgetable,grimm,body of proof,the list goes on,,,and i too have found myself dreaming of murders and mayhem....thankfully im on the side of the law in my dreams,,,,,to the comment about having a loved one die in your arms,,,when i was a "new" fire fighter,,id taken the love of my life out on a date,dropped her off at her house and id gone home,while i was prepairing to get into bed..i heard this gawd awfull grinding crash up on the main road,,,and minutes later my pager went off for a bigrig vs car crash,,i went to the scene,,,i just ran on foot in my summer yellows,when i looked,,i was shocked,,the car was distroyed,,,couldnt even reqognize it as a car and a peterbuilt was on top of it....there ws a body visable inside so i crawled in and started C-spine stablization,this person was a mess,,,i wont go into details..but i couldnt make out if it was male or female...the eyes met mine and i saw the life leave....then CHP called the time of death and i was relieced from C-spine,,,,at that point,CHP asked me ,since i was in the car to grab the registration out of the glovebox if i could find it,,,well i did,,,i looked,,human curiosity will do that,,,and i almost had a heart attack,,it was my girlfriends car,,at which point i realised she still had on the blue dress she had on for our date,,,i then found her purse,,,,was the absolute worst moment in my life
 
Sure wish I could have dreams like that..........

.......all I ever dream about is chasing rabbits.
 
luckydog said:
Sure wish I could have dreams like that..........

.......all I ever dream about is chasing rabbits.
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Hehehe..:icon_lol:


Could be worse...


You might have dreamt of being a golden egg laying goose ...


only to find out the next morning that your bout of constipation is now gone!

:kilroy::icon_lol::icon_lol:
 
Lucky Dog

I have wondered what it is that my dogs dream about. I have a 12-pound 3/4 Chihuahua 1/4 Jack Russell Terrier mix named Brutus and an 8-pound Chihuahua named Hazel. These two dogs are 100% house dogs....they live in the house, only going outside for walks, potty trips, some fetch time in the yard. When they dream, they growl, howl, run. I have imagined that in some dark corner of their little brains, there is a pocket of ancestral memories and they are reliving their wolf ancestors' hunts for large game or some such. Hazel has never seen a rabbit or a squirrel. The only game she has seen are a ground hog, some small song birds and the two ferrets we used to have. I have heard that little dog growl with such ferocity that it made the hairs on my neck stand on end. What could an 8-pound Chihuahua be dreaming about that would have her sounding like she was a 150-pound Gray Wolf defending its food from an 800-pond Grizzly Bear?

OBIO
 
(icon: a ten ton cat:icon) Here kitty kitty...

OBIO said:
Lucky Dog

I have wondered what it is that my dogs dream about. I have a 12-pound 3/4 Chihuahua 1/4 Jack Russell Terrier mix named Brutus and an 8-pound Chihuahua named Hazel. These two dogs are 100% house dogs....they live in the house, only going outside for walks, potty trips, some fetch time in the yard. When they dream, they growl, howl, run. I have imagined that in some dark corner of their little brains, there is a pocket of ancestral memories and they are reliving their wolf ancestors' hunts for large game or some such. Hazel has never seen a rabbit or a squirrel. The only game she has seen are a ground hog, some small song birds and the two ferrets we used to have. I have heard that little dog growl with such ferocity that it made the hairs on my neck stand on end. What could an 8-pound Chihuahua be dreaming about that would have her sounding like she was a 150-pound Gray Wolf defending its food from an 800-pond Grizzly Bear?

OBIO
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No doubt about it O...You're looking more and more like an old favourite aeroplane of mine;

WACO!

Are you sure its not the building project for Mrs O that's doing this to you? (It certainly happens to me sometimes)

Well, this thread has taught me two things;

1. There's at least one SOH admin with a sound bill of mental health.

2. At least one learned member of SOH shares a deep appreciation for the finer points of Ma's dark fruit cakes, especially the Christmas ones.

They're exactly how you describe them.

Tell you what I'll do TK, I have my Grandma's original recipe for what you've been describing (and getting me drooling all over my keyboard), as I can't bake a cake big enough to go round here, I'll post up the recipe for it here.

Got a real good'n for Christmas pud too if anyone's interested...Nahhh thought not!
 
I'm usually a fairly deep sleeper, but this morning it wasn't my dream that caused some ruckus - it was my wife's. I was already up and making the first internet delve of the day when she, still firmly esconsed in bed, very clearly and distinctly told someone in her dream that someone else had committed a certain act in their head. This was very clearly and distinctly said, and no, she wasn't saying it to me and acting like she was asleep - I confirmed she was out. I've known her for 24 years and have never heard her say anything even remotely like that. I don't talk like that either, so I'm somewhat at a loss about what to say. Maybe long-pent-up frustrations coming out in her dreams.

OBIO - we own a medium-brown short-hair 12-pound long-nosed chihuahua named Sophie. She is a rescue dog who can't stand my brother-in-law, for some reason. When she sees him she goes absolutely able-sugar, begins screaming at him rather than barking - and grows a mohawk that goes from the top of her head to the base of her spine. I've never seen a dog do that before in my life. Wish I could get a picture.
 
nigel richards said:
Tell you what I'll do TK, I have my Grandma's original recipe for what you've been describing (and getting me drooling all over my keyboard), as I can't bake a cake big enough to go round here, I'll post up the recipe for it here.

Got a real good'n for Christmas pud too if anyone's interested...Nahhh thought not!
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I'll look forward to both recipes Nigel as I like Christmas pud almost as much as I like fruit cake. I usually got the task of making the Christmas sherry trifle around here as the 'colonials' had never experienced it before I came over (shock, horror!) but I haven't made one for a few years so maybe this year I will bang one out again. It was a family tradition when I was a kid that my brother and I got any left over sherry trifle for breakfast on Boxing Day morning!
 
Crazy is fun... Dreams are definitely a window into who we are though and how we cope with day to day problems and even the past, at least that is what I think.. I very seldom dream of TV, thank god, because I think I would have to hit the delete button on the DVR if that was the case.. I often dream that I am still a cop and I am doing the job and its like no time has passed, or I dream about people I have known that are not in my life anymore or my Rose (my profile picture) and we are headed out for a walk on the beach and absolutely no time has passed since her death.

Then there are just the crazy ones, its funny that the first post was about UFO's because I have been having those a lot lately.. Who knows huh?
 
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Tako_Kichi said:
I'll look forward to both recipes Nigel as I like Christmas pud almost as much as I like fruit cake. I usually got the task of making the Christmas sherry trifle around here as the 'colonials' had never experienced it before I came over (shock, horror!) but I haven't made one for a few years so maybe this year I will bang one out again. It was a family tradition when I was a kid that my brother and I got any left over sherry trifle for breakfast on Boxing Day morning!
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Next weekend I'll have both recipies up here for you TK...piece of cake!
We should prepare both, 3-4 weeks before Christmas as they substantially improve in flavour.
Until then, in addition to the brandy, try and get hold of a good bottle of good old English stout; Mackesons, if its still in existence.

Trifle; you are definately a true gourmet Sir! Another favourite of mine, with lashings of whipped double cream (Jersey if you can get it) and a thin sprinkling of grated dark chocolate over the top.

SPman said:
A slab of rich, dark fruit cake with a mug of steaming tea for breakfast...........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
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One of life's true pleasures!!! Indeed, a true Gentleman's breakfast.
It seems Obio's thread is a real gathering of true fruit cake admirers. Love it!
SPman, is that W.A. as in Western Australia Sir?
 
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