Dream of the Week: Movie Teamwork

I’m in a movie theatre with others and a few kids about 10ish sitting behind me. The movie has just ended. People are leaving and I’m looking for my other pair of shoes. I have a pair of yellow flip-flops on, but my outside shoes - black pointy ballet flats - that were under the seat in front of me are lost. I crawl under the seats and see several other shoes, none of them my own. A few people try and help me finding shoes that fit my description, but none of them are right. I’m frustrated on the ground not finding them. I stand up and someone says that there’s a fire. The theatre goes dark and everyone needs to leave. I look, see nothing and say, “there is no fire” and everyone agrees that yes, there is no fire and there never was one.

I go back to looking for my shoes and finally give up, angry. The kids behind me see that I’m mad and I feel bad. I change my tone, talking to them happily, suppressing my frustration. Their parents don’t really buy it, but I continue on. We then walk of the theatre. Directly outside the theatre (room not building) is a large “hill” of a stair/seats combo leading to the ground to exit the overall building. Everyone decides to walk down except for me and a kid. We ride down in a cardboard box over the seats, with light sparkling by as we gain speed. We land with a prat fall crash and laugh as we get up.

I’m looking up at a wall filled with picture frames of all sizes. I don’t notice what’s in the frames, but become aroused by them. I’m confused as to why I would feel that right now and remember that this often happens in dreams. I think, “Oh, this is a dream!” and become lucid.

I look outside the front door of the theatre and see a flock of birds flying. I launch up to fly out the door and join them. Once outside, I’m just on the ground again, in a different setting then the birds. I’m standing in the middle of a street of and a group of runner guys are running toward me. I make loud claps at them to get their attention as they run by me. A few keep running ignoring me completely while others are freaked out that I have made this loud clapping sound at them. One of them slows down and stops before me, kind of running in place. I ask him, “why are you here?” to which he responds, “Oh you’re cute! I’m on the team.” I laugh at how this guy reacted, totally unexpected. I then ask him, “well what do you represent?” and he says, “I’m teamwork! I represent collaboration.” I wake up. 🤝

Quick Reflection:

I was in New York for work this week, my first extended period of time with jet lag, reduced sleep, and very little time for downtime and recovery. Most nights, I went to sleep late and got up early (though Melatonin helped), getting less than 6 hours, 5 days straight. As you’d expect, this tax on my sleep had an impact on dream time resulting in only 14 dreams recalled (when I normally hit 20-25+).

On the amazing upside, I reached a HUGE milestone this week, hitting my 1000th dream recorded in detail. That breaks down to 808 non-lucid dreams and 193 lucid dreams (19%) with many other stats and data slices too. I’m a huge data nerd, so these big numbers are really fun for me! So excited to continue along this path.🎉

⚡️Lucid, ⏱Recurring, 🕷Nightmare