Dream: It's a bird! It's plane! It's... an eyeball!

[rachelmanija]

I dreamed that in a superhero world, one of the caped crusaders had a head completely covered in eyeballs - layers of them, so that his head was about the size of a watermelon and appeared to be entirely made up of eyeballs. His superpower was that he could send his eyeballs, individually or in a swarm, to fly through the air after bad guys and

Comments

[rachelmanija]

I haven't been recording most of my dreams lately because they've been endless iterations of:

- Forgot to turn in paper.

- Forgot to study for test.

- Forgot to put on clothes.

[rachelmanija]

I don't ever get to the point and laugh part either. My naked in public dreams focus on the horror of the forgot-to-get-dressed realization, and on my baffled, guilty, horrified thought process as I try to figure out how the hell I could have forgotten something so fundamental.

[isabelknight]

For some reason, my naked-in-public dreams are always of the "I left the house with clothes on, and then they started to disappear, and ANY SECOND the people I'm talking to are going to notice" variety. For extra horror, in recent years, this dream has started to combine with my "giving a lecture and all my writing materials disappear" dream, so I have nightmares about hunting for a whiteboard marker mid-lecture and then realizing I'm not wearing pants anymore. No-one ever notices - it's just the endless, desperate attempt to act like everything is normal and keep them distracted until I can finish the class.

[sienamystic]

Hah, my one teaching anxiety dream had to do with a marker disappearing on me as I fumbled around for it while my students peppered me with questions and I tried to look nonchalant.

[isabelknight]

God, I hate that dream, even without the disappearing pants. It sometimes plays out in real life too - a classroom will have five markers, all of them dry, and I will have inevitably lost my last precious one of my own under the coffee vending machine while rooting through my bag for change before class.

I teach a lot of lit courses, and the only thing worse than trying to explain meter without being able to write on the board is trying to give a lecture on the Miller's Tale without being able to draw little farting stick figures.

[jinian]

I was just wondering if anyone had a "clothes disappear" version of this dream rather than a "forgot clothes" one!

Depending on how you feel about actual disappearing clothes stories, you may or may not want to watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xrRWYouKy0