I Had A Post-Katrina New Orleans Dream

[Dingfod]

While I slept off last night's graveyard shit today I dreamed I was in an almost completely looted-out grocery store in New Orleans. As I stood near the checkout stands I saw three very obese young ladies, perhaps 350-400 pounds, in very stressed t-shirts and sweats leaning over one of those open top freezers. There was one single frozen turkey in the bottom, one of those white plastic wrapped genetic mutant Butterball turkeys with the orange plastic netting covering it. The first young lady reached in to grab it, but it was not quite within reach. She leaned further in by grabbing onto the next young lady's shirt sleeve. Just as she managed to get a hand on the turkey, she fell into the freezer, dragging her companion with her, who, as she was falling grabbed the third young lady, who also fell in with the other two. The three of them were wedged in headfirst, legs flailing in the air, unable to extract themselves from their predicament. A young man in t-shirt and jeans walked rapidly up, leaned in and grabbed the turkey and then ran out the broken glass door. Standing there watching this spectacle was a young lady wearing a loose black top over a white skirt and flip-flops that from facial features appeared to be a sister to the other three. She just stood there with a sad look on her face, a very pretty face surrounded by golden curls. I could tell she had also been fat like the others at one time, her skin hung loose on her body, her still large breasts rode low on her frame. I remember thinking as I woke up, "I wonder if she had gastric bypass surgery?"

How silly was that?

What could this dream possibly mean?

Have any of you had dreams about things that go on in disasters?

[lpetrich]

Interesting. I myself have had lots of weird dreams, though I've not tried to record any of them.

It's still an open question what the content of dreams means -- or if that content is anything more than mental doodling.

[WinAce]

While I slept off last night's graveyard shit...

Come on, man, just because you're an atheist doesn't mean you have to desecrate the dead like that... :P

I've had dreams about cities being destroyed, or trying to escape in an apocalyptic situation. The scariest were the ones which involved my loved ones' or friends' demise.

[Dingfod]

Interesting. I myself have had lots of weird dreams, though I've not tried to record any of them.

It's still an open question what the content of dreams means -- or if that content is anything more than mental doodling.I tend to agree that dreams are just "mental doodling", or just the brain sorting out the data it has stored, but there are a lot of people that seem to want to assign a lot of meaning to them.

[Ymir's blood]

I tend to think that dreams can tell us something about ourselves. Mostly things like concerns and fears. That doesn't necessarily mean that the information they give is worthwhile. The subconscious is irrational and its 'advice' may be more harmful than anything else.

Generally speaking, it is better for me to be unaware of my dreams. They tend to involve frustrating or frightening situations. The ones that aren't nightmarish are so weird as to be almost frightening.