http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: On-topic anxiety dreams en Sat, 30 May 2026 06:39:32 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263909 Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:10:05 +0000 sallyhinch 263909@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've realised that the only bike-related anxiety dreams I have are about POP... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263882 Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:13:49 +0000 chdot 263882@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Realised my anxiety dreams are about missing trains that I’ve got a bike or ‘this train only’ ticket for. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263878 Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:59:58 +0000 threefromleith 263878@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo I only have very vague recollections of watching 'Potty Time' on telly as a kid in the 70s. </p> <p>It's something I'd love to watch again now as an adult, though! </p> <p>Mind you, my current anxiety dreams are potty enough.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263819 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 14:08:52 +0000 gembo 263819@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@threefromleith, the other goon Michael Bentine had a whole show that was puppets fighting the First World War with cake. The exact premise of Michael Bentine's Potty Time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263818 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:28:03 +0000 threefromleith 263818@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Cyclingmollie 'The First World War fought with cakes' sounds like a lost Goon Show script idea (or Q / Q6 / Q9 sketch outline)</p> <p>Are you sure you're not a medium channeling the spirit of Milligan? ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263814 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:44:25 +0000 Cyclingmollie 263814@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fever dream: try to find the setting in Adobe Dreamweaver that controls fever, fail, wake, repeat endlessly until finally waking drenched in sweat feeling so much better. Another time - the First World War fought with cakes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263810 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:51:05 +0000 unhurt 263810@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo, @bax: do you need a dream soundtrack? (Link via a friend who understands my interests.)</p> <p><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/10/13/557324946/how-dan-deacon-collaborated-with-rats-to-make-his-latest-film-score?">For Rat Film, a new documentary that explores Baltimore's complicated history (as told through the city's rat infestation), electronic artist Dan Deacon developed an elaborate system to get the rats themselves to make the music.</a></p> <p>("rat theremin performance/experiment" - not quite up there with "Not rat piss pasta but mumps." but still quite a pleasing arrangement of words.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263806 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:02:00 +0000 gembo 263806@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Crime watch needs a live audience doesn't really work on catch up </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263804 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:56:10 +0000 dessert rat 263804@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>First ever bike theft anxiety related dream last night - came back to bike to find only a totally stripped frame d-locked to the railings. Thankfully the all the components had been reassembled and then tie-wrapped to the branches of a nearby tree.</p> <p>That then gave way to the more common 'in public with only a towel' dream. It probably means something, but familiarity provides comfort, so I'm OK with it.</p> <p>Isn't this news providing much needed reassurance that all is well ?</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/oct/17/bbc-axes-crimewatch-after-33-years">Don't have nightmares, do sleep well</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263800 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:11:47 +0000 gembo 263800@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ Bax San,as Jonathan Franzen would issue - the rats are down the bottom of the garden, the cats sometimes bring em up. The mice come in for the fudge. But stay downstairs. Being ex vegan there is never any feather in my pillow or duvet. Bladerunner is 2049.</p> <p>My dreams last night had strong rat opening before going under, like big rat head nutcracker figures but dreams went aliens visiting anglosaxon village. Standard policier set in Glasgow where the culprit was the son of the chief social worker and then long and enjoyable James Joyce recitation thing which included Annie Lennox telling me she was in a band called the eurythmics. (Bumped in from the severe weather thread). Quite a vivid and constant night possibly caused by the sainsburys onion Bhaji left over from tea that needed scoffed before bedtime. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263797 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 08:24:49 +0000 I were right about that saddle 263797@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Are we on fever dreams? I once had a three-day effort that involved endlessly disassembling and reassembling Beinn Bhrotain, all the while chanting its name.</p> <p>Not rat piss pasta but mumps. (A sentence that here gets its one fleeting outing into type before sliding back into well-deserved oblivion.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263791 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 23:35:07 +0000 minus six 263791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@JELBERENCE</p> <p>sage advices you offer</p> <p>keep 'em coming</p> <p>this forum needs you </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263790 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 23:29:03 +0000 morepathsplease 263790@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For those of us susceptible to suggestion - can we have more threads of this ilk please? I expect the collective imagination to deliver. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263787 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 23:01:17 +0000 minus six 263787@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>An entrepreneurial cottage industry there for sure, unhurt</p> <p>For those jaded by DMT... try our all new rat piss blotters</p> <p>Nine days of unspeakable horror in the tenth dimension</p> <p>Better than Bladerunner 2048 in IMAX 3D, or your money back </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263786 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:51:57 +0000 JELBERENCE 263786@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Go, wash your hands<br /> and wipe your floors<br /> and heat food through<br /> and boil uncertain water<br /> A little time<br /> spent on such chores<br /> could rescue you<br /> from a life somewhat shorter </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263785 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:46:14 +0000 unhurt 263785@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Friendly enough and just want live and let live, but they have no concept of bladder control</em></p> <p>Aw, my pet rats were't THAT bad for peeing on stuff. They did steal biros and like to pull on earings / nose rings with their teeth though... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263784 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:43:19 +0000 minus six 263784@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, but you don't need to dream, gembo-san</p> <p>For they are waiting for you now at the edge of your bed frame, peering over that goose down duvet</p> <p>Friendly enough and just want live and let live, but they have no concept of bladder control in polite company</p> <p>i killed King Rat with a brick and regret it to this day</p> <p>To realise that me and that rat were ultimately one and the same</p> <p>And one lifetime away, he'll be the one wielding that brick </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263783 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:30:46 +0000 gembo 263783@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hoping to avoid the rat dream now tonight, I really hate the rat dream. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263778 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:46:25 +0000 minus six 263778@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One time i was cooking pasta with a few slithers of bratwurst, one of which fell to the kitchen floor but i swooped it up so swiftly that it was surely still safe to eat</p> <p>Well it certainly wasn't safe to eat and had fused with the rat piss on the lino and i ended up with a nine day unabated 40c delirium fever </p> <p>Alas I didn't dream of bicycles as it was all inescapable interdimensional impossibilities of lovecraftian non-human origin</p> <p>Remember to wash your kitchen floor, kids. it might look clean, but rat piss remains invisible to the naked eye </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263777 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:25:44 +0000 unhurt 263777@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can I apologise to everyone who was induced to have an anxiety dream via subliminal influences in this thread <strike>and also mention in passing how nice it would be if someone came and washed / gently fettled with two of my bikes so I don't have to</strike>?</p> <p><strike>I also like it when people bring me cake and tea.</strike> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263776 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:23:18 +0000 unhurt 263776@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Unhappily, I never got to draw a clever comparison of digital technology infrastructure and cycling infrastructure. </em></p> <p>Not in thesis but does exist inside your head, right? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263772 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 19:31:25 +0000 weezee 263772@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well if you ever find yourself in the market for a long-winded treatise on pedagogy and theories of technology in digital teaching at third level, I am your woman. Happily, I managed to squeeze in rant about algorithmic biases, digital natives tropes and binaries engendered by the fake news debacle. Unhappily, I never got to draw a clever comparison of digital technology infrastructure and cycling infrastructure. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263764 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:24:50 +0000 I were right about that saddle 263764@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Have utterly failed in getting the Weezettes to address me as Dr Mummy though.</em></p> <p>Oh, well done. Can you elliptically hint as to which subject we should all defer to you on? Is it deliciously esoteric? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263753 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:27:00 +0000 weezee 263753@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@amir, I have an anxiety about relating my dreams to others for fear they are too boring and repetitive. I think reading the following as a child started it all (read to the end...)</p> <p>from 'The Diary of a Nobody'</p> <p>"Gowing and Cummings had dropped in during the evening, and I suddenly remembered an extraordinary dream I had a few nights ago, and I thought I would tell them about it. I dreamt I saw some huge blocks of ice in a shop with a bright glare behind them. I walked into the shop and the heat was overpowering. I found that the blocks of ice were on fire. The whole thing was so real and yet so supernatural I woke up in a cold perspiration. Lupin in a most contemptuous manner, said: “What utter rot.”</p> <p>Before I could reply, Gowing said there was nothing so completely uninteresting as other people’s dreams.</p> <p>I appealed to Cummings, but he said he was bound to agree with the others and my dream was especially nonsensical. I said: “It seemed so real to me.” Gowing replied: “Yes, to YOU perhaps, but not to US.” Whereupon they all roared.</p> <p>Carrie, who had hitherto been quiet, said: “He tells me his stupid dreams every morning nearly.” I replied: “Very well, dear, I promise you I will never tell you or anybody else another dream of mine the longest day I live.” Lupin said: “Hear! hear!” and helped himself to another glass of beer. The subject was fortunately changed, and Cummings read a most interesting article on the superiority of the bicycle to the horse." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263748 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:42:32 +0000 amir 263748@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Congrats Dr Weezee</p> <p>My anxiety in dreams generally centre on whether my dream is too boring and repetitive </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233&page=2#post-263746 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:26:30 +0000 weezee 263746@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats Subject to ratification by university senate blah blah blah. Have utterly failed in getting the Weezettes to address me as Dr Mummy though.</p> <p>Slightly more on topic, I often have 'where's my bike?' moments within dreams that contribute to sinister atmosphere &amp; feeling trapped. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233#post-263708 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:25:29 +0000 I were right about that saddle 263708@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@weezee</p> <p>I had an anxiety dream last night about whether you passed or not. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233#post-263697 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:34:09 +0000 weezee 263697@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had my exam-to-end-all-exams (PhD viva) a month ago. Over the summer by day I was calm and quietly confident in my preparations. By night every possible way it could go was played out in my dreams. The most memorable was a painfully drawn-out 'Who wants to be a millionaire' version with dramatic lights, music &amp; pregnant pauses before I was asked a question. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233#post-263648 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:44:53 +0000 jdanielp 263648@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For some reason I'm tempted to have cheese for supper. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18233#post-263645 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:20:31 +0000 gembo 263645@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some folk on here seem quite susceptible to suggestion? Or were eating cheese for supper? </p>