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dernwyn
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Jun 13 2008, 3:29pm
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That was some party - aren't you glad ones like that don't occur in waking life!
I shall give your suggestions a try, and see if my subconscious will cooperate. I can recall snatches of dreams where I was aware I was dreaming - maybe that helped in the remembering.
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"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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Hengist
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Jun 13 2008, 3:49pm
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1. What has been one of the strangest dreams you’ve had?
Probably the ones that come true.....
2. You win $10 million (or 10m in your local denomination!). What is one outrageous luxury you’d spend your money on?
A private island..... or the way property prices are going a one bedroom flat 
3. What sport/cultural/community event would you walk over hot coals to attend?
West ham or England winning a footballl tournament, though this might come under question 1
4. How do you react to a massive electrical storm overhead?
ooOOH aaAHHH ooHH Arghhhh that was close!
5. What does it take to get you onto the dancefloor?
A crowd to hide in, no cameras and large amounts of alcohol
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Elberbeth
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Jun 13 2008, 4:02pm
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These were a little hard to answer
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1. What has been one of the strangest dreams you’ve had?
Not strange, exactly, but terrifying -- I have had several dreams lately about being in the path of a tsunami -- supposedly it means I'm feeling overwhelmed by something(s). Gee, you think?
2. You win $10 million (or 10m in your local denomination!). What is one outrageous luxury you’d spend your money on?
Well, today $10 million isn't really a lot of money when it comes to outrageous. Can't think of anything that would fall under that category.
3. What sport/cultural/community event would you walk over hot coals to attend?
Uh, probably none.
4. How do you react to a massive electrical storm overhead?
We don't really get them here, very, very rarely. I guess just stay away from the windows.
5. What does it take to get you onto the dancefloor?
Music. And a partner. I love to dance, but my husband is reluctant to get out on the floor, even though he's a good dancer.
"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."
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grammaboodawg
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Jun 13 2008, 4:57pm
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*snigger* I'm getting to know me with these, too
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Here goes:
1. What has been one of the strangest dreams you’ve had?
I was rich, thin, tall and smart.
2. You win $10 million (or 10m in your local denomination!). What is one outrageous luxury you’d spend your money on?
I'd buy a home in NZ, a private plane, and I'd take my entire family with me for Winters in NZ and summers in US. Of course, that's after I pay off all my kids' bills.
3. What sport/cultural/community event would you walk over hot coals to attend?
Wow... nothing comes to mind. Can we say "apathy"?
4. How do you react to a massive electrical storm overhead?
I applaud. GO, GOD, GO! I fill my thermos with hot water for cafe vienna; check that the matches are next to my oil lamps; and enjoy the light show. I live out in the country where 90 percent of my view is unobstructed; so I can see for MILES and enjoy the show :D
5. What does it take to get you onto the dancefloor?
Good music and no one else in the room ;)
"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
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Elberbeth
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Jun 13 2008, 5:01pm
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I sometimes have dreams where I can fly
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but I can only get a couple of feet off the ground. It's a strange feeling. I'd like to be able to soar, even if just in dreams.
"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."
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Lunamoth
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Jun 13 2008, 5:22pm
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I sailed away to China, in a little rowboat to find ya...
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1. What has been one of the strangest dreams you’ve had?
This one wherein I was being chased by ghosts, and I was a giant yellow mouth. I had a pill popping problem too... oh wait, must have been playing too much PacMan that evening... *scratches head*
2. You win $10 million (or 10m in your local denomination!). What is one outrageous luxury you’d spend your money on?
Does quitting my job count? I'd think it pretty luxiurious to not have to work. And then I'd take a really long holiday travelling around the world.
3. What sport/cultural/community event would you walk over hot coals to attend?
Not much of a big event kind of person. Maybe the Hobbit premiere in NZ.
4. How do you react to a massive electrical storm overhead?
"Ooh, cool! Oh, guess I'd better go 'round unplugging my stuff." Then I settle down with some candles lit for when the power inevitably goes out and watch the show. I don't fear storms at all.
5. What does it take to get you onto the dancefloor?
Getting out to a club in the first place? Just a good song really. The types of clubs where I go dancing, it's not unusual for people to show up alone and just enjoy the dancing for its own sake.
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Annael
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Jun 13 2008, 6:11pm
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I taught myself lucid dreaming in college, and one of the things I worked at was improving my flying. I finally got to the point where I could go up about 100 feet above the ground and soar for miles. I had one dream where I flew along the coast for a long time. The trick for me was lying flat and spreading my arms out as soon as I leapt up into the air.
The most that we can do for one another
Is let our blunders and our blind mischances
Argue a certain brusque abrupt compassion
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Anorien
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Jun 13 2008, 10:05pm
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Yeah, our baseball team kinda sucks this year. But they are trying. I think at one point they had won 116 or 117 games. That was one of their best seasons. This season, not so much. Oh well.
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Ainu Laire
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Jun 13 2008, 10:41pm
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1. What has been one of the strangest dreams you’ve had?
Wow. Where do I begin. I have so many strange dreams that they all rank high. One of my favorite strange dreams was the LOTR/HP/SVU crossover. Watching Dectective Stabler and Detective Benson burst into Hogwarts and go after Gandalf was one of the more amusing scenes from my dreams.
2. You win $10 million (or 10m in your local denomination!). What is one outrageous luxury you’d spend your money on?
I'd build a house that resembles Rivendell. Mmhmm.
3. What sport/cultural/community event would you walk over hot coals to attend?
Conventions ^^ With Tolkien sessions ^^ Thankfully I'm going to the Comic Con this year, yay!
4. How do you react to a massive electrical storm overhead?
Hope that my electricity doesn't go out so I'm not ridiculously bored. XD
5. What does it take to get you onto the dancefloor?
Pretty much nothing. The only requirement is that I have good food first. Then I'm out there- helps if there is someone I know out there too.
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a.s.
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Jun 13 2008, 11:44pm
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Well, it was a "silent" planet, come to think of it!! LOL //
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"an seileachan"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
"I suppose you are real?" said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive.
But the Skin Horse only smiled.
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Woodyend
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Jun 13 2008, 11:49pm
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2. You win $10 million (or 10m in your local denomination!). What is one outrageous luxury you’d spend your money on?
I'd build a house that resembles Rivendell. Mmhmm.
This is my dream house. All I need is the money.
http://img.qj.net/...otr2_qjpreviewth.jpg
It is also my wallpaper.
May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!
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Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
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Sunflower
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Jun 14 2008, 1:05am
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...my most humerous dream.
(*puts down pickaxe, adjusts goggles against frozen glare, and tears mind out of "At The Mountains Of Madness" with difficulty...I have a HP Lovecraft compendium on my lap and.....WOW. I've been meaning to do this for a while....now I'm finally getting around to it..."finding out what influences the director has and what makes him creatively tick"...I did it with PJ in 2000 and now, before HB2, I'm doing it again....More another time....*)
I've already related one of my frightening ones, what I call my "Beren" dream, in which I was hunted by a mysterious someone for some unknown crime--of which I knew I was innocent--through an icy forested wilderness hell, with only the far-off blinking red lights of unknown origion to guide me, dimly glimpsed through canopies of black, shadowy, crackling branches. Beren journeyed through the unknown--fiery?--hell of Dungortheb; I wandered through a frozen torment. Unfortunately, I awoke before I could discern if there was one such as Beren waiting for me, after I had passed through the last sinister canopy of trees!
Most of my dreams are like Dreamdeer's: existentially surreal. I am always in a hurry to scribble them down. One dream I will never have to write down, however: the most frightening of my life. I call it my "Muad-dib dream" because it was a real waking dream....not so much a dream of visions as it was an awakening of feeling, a dream of the soul, a spiritual quickening. I may not have been able to "see" the future, as Paul Atriedes did, but I certainly got a glimpse of a past as unreal. And yet, it WAS all too real. Stories, family history, all too recent, made flesh....I can't ever relate this on TORN but suffice it to say that it was a day and a moment I've been running from since.
Sometimes your unconscious guides you in dreams. This dream was inspired by something all too real. It was on the night of March 21, 1992, the night I went to my first U2 concert. (If my friends were reading this, they'd groan, "Oh, NO....not them again..." ). Well! That's the first warning about this dream. The 2nd is: I was reading a book on the band at the time, and I was in the middle of a chapter that described their trip to see Ireland win the World Cup that year.
I dreamed that I was at the concert, and I was somewhere in the first 10 rows. Somehow I knew that the World Cup was on that night and Ireland was playing and the band and crew were paying attention to the score, as the game was going on during the show. During the show, I noticed that Bono was pointing at several people in the audience and security were taking notes. After the show it became clear why. The "chosen" were invited backstage to a huge room where a giant TV screen was set up with the game on. As of yet nobody had scored. No, I don't know who they were playing. Of course, the Guinness (and Black Velvet, and other beverages) started flowing too, with the band leading the way. Then the food came, and pizza was prominent on the menu. As the night wore on, the mood became more and more somber, then the other team scored and the band burst into tears, even Larry, for it meant Ireland lost. During the festivities, Edge had lost his hat and was now bareheaded in public, which for Edge is a grave calamity. (At the time, and as far as we fans know, it still is.) Bono, deep in his cups, reached over and found a piece of pizza, which he proceeded to place on Edge's bare head, cheese down, of course. And then the dream ended.
Now, I have to get back to Lovecraft's dreamscape of Antarctica....my God, now I can see why Del Toro wants to make this....I now know what "Lovecraftian nightmare" means and I'm afraid I'll really have one!
If I do have a HP Lovecraft-inspired nightmare I'll be sure to relate it on TORN...*SHIVER*
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Sunflower
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Jun 14 2008, 1:21am
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..for questions # 2, 3 and 4:). I'd go to NZ at the drop of a hat! I'd also follow Howard Shore around when he's on tour.
As for question 5? A dancefloor? It depends on the song involved and the qualifications of the man who wants to escort   me there...
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Woodyend
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Jun 14 2008, 2:14am
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Oh I forgot the first thing I would do if I won 10 mill.....
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May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!
~~~~~~~~Gandalf~~~~~~~
Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
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Aerin
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Jun 14 2008, 6:41am
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flying takes no effort on my part -- it's as if I were filled with helium -- except that steering is tricky (not very responsive), and I worry about dodging electrical wires and other obstacles, and about getting up too high.
I also have recurring dreams about witnessing a plane crashing nearby -- seeing a plane, realizing that it's too low and surely going to crash, and then seeing an explosion. I've had airport dreams, as well, in which I and others are walking long and convoluted routes through a huge terminal, trying to get to an elusive (possibly nonexistent) flight.
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Kelvarhin
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Jun 16 2008, 1:42am
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but the person who said it was pretty one-dimensional, so maybe that's why she only ever dreamt in black & white. That's how she sees the world too.
Didn't mind the "rant" I was pretty flabergasted by her very confident assertation that I was wrong, (I don't know my own dreams?? ) but she was always like that, so I guess I just shrugged it off.
Glad to hear it's not unusual to dream smells too.
{{{Dreamdeer}}}
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Yet happy and gay
Kelvarhin's Universe
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Kelvarhin
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Jun 16 2008, 1:49am
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Try having it crop up year after year
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the only thing that changed was the friends who were with me 
The other dream, hubby reckons sounds like the opening of a novel by TORns favourite author lol
Think I prefer your one 
There he stood
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Yet happy and gay
Kelvarhin's Universe
In the land of TORnadoes...where the brilliant play (with thanks to grammaboodawg :) )
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