Author Archives: Kevin
Dream 11th May 2012
I turn up for work but find out a mafia boss is in control. He takes an immediate dislike to me and starts pushing me around and telling me I will never work here again. A little later I stop and find myself pouring acid on his dismembered body. I am unsure if I murdered [...]
Dream 21st July 2011
I handed someone a baguette however they refused to eat it until I verified the use by date. In the meantime I took a bite then noticed the baguette was a year past its use by date. I turned the baguette over and it was covered in mould and fungus.
Dream 18th July 2011
I am in a hotel carrying my father or an old man up some stairs to his room. When we reach the room it is bigger than I thought and seems to be partially submerged in water. Some others join us. We seem to be waiting for a nuclear war or some attack.
Dream 8th July 2011
I am driving a campervan in a canal. There are other cars using the canal as a road. I notice a large fishing boat coming toward us in the opposite direction. I try to swerve to avoid it but drive straight into a net. I jump out the van into the water and watch at [...]
Dream 2nd July 2011
I am a manager in an office and I have just employed Morrissey to work for me. He doesn’t seem to be coping too well with the tasks i’ve assigned him.
Dream 22nd June 2011
I am standing inside a large building which may be a bank. There are hundreds of school children around me panicking. An alarm is going off as there is some type of emergency which may be fire. I hear a voice in the background shout “everyone to the next room.” I watch as everyone runs [...]
Dream 3rd April 2011
I am in an office or classroom. To my left I can see bundles of paper on fire. To my right there is a discussion or negotiation on how to save the paper from burning. It is not long before I realise that it is Morrissey’s lyrics that are on fire both his lyrics from [...]
Dream 26th March 2011
A woman has appeared for an interview. I have already done her previous interview so I go in search of someone to take over. I am away for a long time and when I return my mother and a middle aged man are interviewing the woman. I become angry and bend down to whisper something [...]
Dream 13th March 2011
I find myself at what seems to be a train information kiosk. I am looking for a timetable to find out the last Fife circle train but its late and no matter how hard I look I can’t find the timetable anywhere.
Dream 12th March 2011
I am walking to work as I notice my reflection in a window. My face and neck is covered in red blotches and spots. When I arrive at work there are no seats for me. I soon realise that the room is in fact a classroom from primary school.
Dream: 8th March 2011
The train arrives at the station however I am unable to get into the first carriage as there are too many people. I push my way to the second carriage but notice that there is no roof. I feel cheated and embarrased but get on the train anyway.
Dream : 28th February 2011
I kill someone and spend the remainder of the dream trying to hide the body so that I wont be discovered. This proves more difficult than I could have imagined as I was unable to relax and shake the feeling that one day I would be caught.
Dream 23rd February 2011
I am walking down some stairs when I notice a friend walking out a supermarket wearing his pyjamas. He calls to someone called Watson and then finally sees me. We walk for a while as he tells me about his “illness” which has kept him in his pyjamas for several months. A little later I [...]
Dream : 19th February 2011
I am sitting on a wooden stool on the pavement when three school girls walk past me giggling. One of the girls decides to push me off the chair. This angers me so I pick up the chair and smash it over her. I walk away in case the police arrive. I walk into a [...]
Dream 14th February 2011
I suddenly realise that I have left my dog in a small locker for over week. I run to the shop where he is locked away and ask for him to be released. The man behind the counter opens the locker and my dog walks out half its normal size and I watch as it [...]
Dream: 2nd February 2011
I am walking on Cowdenbeath High Street. I watch as a woman crashes her car into a shop. I keep on walking. I am aware the woman is crying and now walking behind me. I hear her call my name. She asks me if I would look after her baby. I refuse and walk on. [...]
Dream: 31st January 2011
I am in a large marquee tent which seems to be a post office or government agency. I have 3 letters in my hand. I hand over the letters to a woman sitting at a desk. I tell her that I was expecting 3 cheques to be attached to the letters. The woman walks away [...]
Dream: 30th January 2011
I am travelling down an escalator toward an underground station. When I reach the bottom, I watch a man pick up a living room sofa and hold it aloft above his head. He asks me to follow him. I decide to pick up a radio which is playing what I think is spiritualized but I [...]
Dream: 28th January 2011
I am standing in my parents garden watching 20 North Korean air stewardesses in light blue uniforms dancing hand in hand in a long line.
Dream Journal Entry 27th Dec 10
I observe four young children stab another child voilently with a penknife. I do not feel any sympathy toward the child as it does not appear to feel any of the stab wounds. As I walk away I throw down a larger knife for the children to use. I now find myself driving R around [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 14th November 2010
I find myself in a large shopping cente. I walk into a shop which becomes a holiday resort with a beach and a swimming pool. There must be at least a hundred people around the pool enjoying their holiday. I look more closely at the surroundings and the foundations of the pool seem to be [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 9th November 2010
I walk into a classroom or lecture hall which appears to be where a previous employer is now located. I seem to be asking for my old job back and then signing a contract. However, I know that the wages will be low. I walk into another room and put on a radio which is [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 8th November 2010
I find myself in a concentration camp or complex where people have been brainwashed. They seem to be walking around to the same step. However, I am not part of this and seem to be able to think freely. Someone hands me a glowing circular object and I throw it over the wall and jump [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 6th November 2010
I seem to be in bed watching a screen or computer monitor showing share prices. There are others in the room. I recognise two people as work colleagues. There is girl in the room who may in fact be a man as everytime she turns away and back again she seems to grow a beard. [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 5th November 2010
I break into my parents house and wander around. I am unsure why I am breaking in however I take some money and letters from a drawer and leave. I return the next day and again break into the house. This time I notice that there is a light on. I realise my father is [...]
The Colour of Dreams
Hoss (2010) carried out a content analysis of 38,063 dream reports to investigate the significance of colour in dreams. According to Hoss, most of our dreams contain some colour content although we rarely recall the colour upon waking. The focus of the study was on the frequency of specific colours rather than whether dreams contained [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 13th May 2010
I have my final exam today even although I am not at university. It seems to be for mathematics or something similar. The dream seems familar and I believe I have been here before. I realise that I havent studied for the exam and I have now run out of time. It become apparent that [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 12th May 2010
I can see my uncle pulling into the driveway and I fear the worst. I turn to my sister and tell her to go upstairs out of the way. I walk outside the front door to meet my uncle. I ask him what is wrong. He immediately tells me that my mother has committed suicide.
Dream Journal Entry: 25th April 2010
I am walking down a street. I can see my dog in the distance. I appear to be walking him although I do not usually walk him off the lead. In the distance I can also see a woman carrying a lot of black plastic bags. I watch as she picks up my dog and [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 29th March 2010
I am walking home at night when a drunken man approaches me. The man tells me he has just killed someone in a fight and is looking for somewhere to hide. I watch as the man breaks into a car. He points a gun at me and tells me to get in the car. Dreaming [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 28th March 2010
I find myself in a basement which could also be someone’s bedroom. My dog appears and encounters an identical dog hiding in the corner. I watch as the two dogs collide with each other. My dog walks away out of the room but I notice that he now resembles a centipede as he is three [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 25th March 2010
I find myself in a small gym hall wearing a suit. On a bench in front of me there is a small paper banner which reads “Kevin is an artist.” I feel awkward and quickly grab the banner and hide it in my pocket. I suddenly notice that I am not wearing a shirt under [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 20th February 2010
I am driving in the snow around a corner when I stop suddenly. There is a fish at the side of the road. The fish is alive and doesnt seem to need water to survive. I do not move the car as I don’t want to run it over. A car stops behind me. The [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 30th January 2010
I find myself in a lecture hall. I look up at the wall and I can see a religious symbol which seems to change shape each time I look at it. I realise I am waiting on a religious speaker appearing on stage however I have the feeling that I am not going to agree [...]
Dreams and Depression
According to Griffin (2004) dreaming and depression are connected. People who are depressed seem to dream more than “healthy” people and they also have more intense dreams. The reason for this is that a depressed person spends a lot of their time worrying and reflecting internally on the negative.
Sexsomnia (Sleepsex)
Using 11 case studies as a basis for their research, Shapiro, Trajanovic & Fedoroff (2003) use the term sexsomnia to describe a sleep disorder where people have been found to inititate sexual acts (masturbation, intercourse with partners or even sexual assault) while asleep.
Geomagnetic Activity and Dream Bizarreness
Lipnicki (2009) reported an association between local geomagnetic activity (GMA) and the bizarreness of dreams. Lipnicki analysed the dreams of a young adult male which were recorded over a period of 6 1/2 years. Dreams were self-rated for bizarreness on a 1–5 scale.
Dream Journal Entry: 20th December 2009
I find myself walking down a hill in a housing estate. It is late at night. As I get near the bottom of the hill I notice that a hedge is on fire. I run over and can see that it is in fact not the hedge that is on fire but a sun lounger [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 7th November 2009
I find myself stuck in a lift with a work colleague. I look down and I can see a lizard has attached itself to my leg. I remove the lizard to reveal a large green vein. Dreaming Location: Stockbridge Edinburgh Time Recorded: 7.00am
Dream Journal Entry: 31st October 2009
I find myself sitting on a pavement. I think to myself I would like to live in Manchester. I then realise that I am in fact in Manchester. I stop a man in the street and tell him that Manchester is a good place to live if you are a student.
Dream Journal Entry: 30th October 2009
I watch myself skateboarding on TV or in a flash movie. I seem to be performing dangerous stunts and falling over however I never see myself injured. The image fades into another and I wake up. Dreaming Location: Stockbridge, Edinburgh Time Recorded: 7.00am
Dream Journal Entry: 28th October 2009
I am walking with my father and we discover an old building. There are some paving slabs lined up against a wall which look out of place. I accidently knock one over and and this starts a domino effect and slabs start smashing and falling all around us. We decide to run. After a while [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 27th October 2009
I watch a dog give birth to five large dogs outside on the street as it walks. I stop and tell the dog to lick the other dogs. Dreaming Location: Stockbridge, Edinburgh Time Recorded: 7.45am
Dream Journal Entry: 13th October 2009
I remember listening to an editors song in my dream. Dreaming Location: Stockbridge, Edinburgh Time Recorded: 7.00am
Dream Journal Entry: 12th October 2009
I am climbing a flight of stairs as the lift is not working. As I reach the top of the stairs I notice two footballers sitting on a bench and both appear to be injured. I go outside and find myself hanging onto a car as it drives off. I seem to be comfortable and [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 10th October 2009
I remember the name Ray Parish on waking from the dream. Dreaming Location: Alnmouth Time Recorded: 10.50am
Dream Journal Entry: 7th October 2009
I find myself in a science museum or old university. It is a large building with many rooms and floors. It appears to be an open day and people are able to wander the building freely. I am climbing black and white tiled steps when I realise I should have taken my bag ( I believe I have left it in my previous lecture). I wander around looking for the
Dream Journal Entry: 5th October 2009
I am in a train. I seem to be holding a TTV camera in my hand. I am taking some photographs however it is extremely dark. The conductor approaches my friend B. He asks B if he wants to meet a famous film director who is sitting at the back of the train. B nods [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 4th October 2009
I seem to be on holiday with my family. I am staying in an expensive hotel or cruise ship. We are being filmed for a TV show or documentary. I am sitting at a table with my father who looks completely different to how he does in reality. I realise this however I accept that [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 3rd October 2009
I appear to be in Mongolia. I am with R and another unknown female. We are walking together inside castle grounds. I look down and notice the ground is covered in large stone patterned slabs. The woman speaks to a Mongolian man who seems to be a security guard for the castle.
Dream Journal Entry: 2nd October 2009
I find myself walking on a bridge in Edinburgh. I am listening to the new Ian Brown album “My Way” on my ipod. I click to track 2 however the song I was expecting is replaced by a new version or remix of the Stone Roses “Ten Storey Love Song”. I become distracted as a [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 1st October 2009
I am standing outside a house. I remember a man in a field running toward me with a limp. He is looking for assistance as he has just injured his ankle. There is a woman behind him shouting “but his eyesight is fine”. I think back and realise that earlier in the dream I had a [...]
Quantitative Approach to Dreams: Schneider & Domhoff
Schneider & Domhoff take a statistical and objective approach to the study of dreams. Individual dream reports are collected in sleep laboratories, college classrooms or from individuals who are keeping a dream journal for personal reasons. The dreams are not interpreted but are analysed using a content analysis system that was originally developed by Calvin Hall in order to find consistencies. Domhoff advises that 100-120 dream reports in each sample
Dream Journal Entry: 6th September 2009
I find myself sitting on a couch with R. We seem to be in someone’s living room. I look around and I can see other people sitting on couches. I look behind me and the singer from Edinburgh band Meursault is singing and playing an acoustic guitar. He seems to be playing what’s up by [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 31st August 2009
I am in bed and I notice two men outside my room in the hall. I recognise one of them as Sean Connery. The other man has a pneumatic drill and he is about to cut a square in the floor. Dreaming Location: Stockbridge, Edinburgh Time Recorded: 9.15am
Content Analysis of Dreams – June 2009
In June 2009 I recorded a total of 22 dreams. The most dreams I recorded in one day was four on 14th June. The longest dream report recorded was 749 words on 13th June, the shortest was 47 words on the 19th June. The average length of a dream report was 316 words.
Dream Journal Entry: 27th August 2009
I am at work. The office looks identical to how it would in real life. Everyone seems to be finishing for the day. I walk into the toilet to urinate but notice the light is off. I switch the light on. Someone must be in the cubicle as the door is closed. I switch off [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 26th August 2009
I am in a large mansion or library and I seem to be taking part in an organised run. After running for a while around bookcases and various obstacles I realise that I can take a short cut and win the race. After taking the shortcut I encounter a pack of dogs that seem friendly [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 25th August 2009
I am walking in a pedestrian area of Edinburgh in my dressing gown. I stop and speak to a woman who asks if I am getting a taxi. I tell her I am just going to walk. I continue. I now seem to be in Leith. I walk into a supermarket. The supermarket is extremely [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 23rd August 2009
I am in bed. I pull back the duvet and start to shower in bed. I notice there is a naked blonde girl at the bottom of the bed. She seems to be a lot younger than me. I become self conscious as I realise I am naked. I speak to the girl about my [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 22nd August 2009
I am staying at our second home and realise that it is not our main home and I should go back. I am with R and we seem to have been away for a while and forgotten that we have another house. I park the car outside the house and open the door. I walk [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 21st August 2009
I am walking toward a coffee shop with two strangers. A car passes us and I recognise the passenger. In order to get to the coffee shop we walk through a carpet shop. I pretend to be interested in a rug as I seem to like the colour on the back of it even although [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 20th August 2009
I am sitting at a desk at work near the kitchen. I seem to be working late. I am writing in a notebook or doing homework. There is someone sitting on my left and someone sitting on my right.
Dream Journal Entry: 19th August 2009
I am standing outside my old Primary School with my father. I can see M in the distance behind us but I do not wait for him and keep walking toward Natal Place. I seem to be going to my grandmothers house. M finally catches up with us and J also appears from nowhere. I [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 18th August 2009
I wake up within the dream. I am in bed. I believe I am awake. I notice that my bottom tooth is loose. I pull the tooth and it breaks off. I wake up. Dreaming Location: Stockbridge, Edinburgh Time Recorded: 7.30am
Dream Journal Entry: 17th August 2009
I am lying in bed outside the public swimming pool. A friend is lying in the bed next to me although I do not recognise him. He asks me if I will be going swimming at 8.30am as he has been invited by a girl. I look up and tell him that I am too [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 16th August 2009
I am at work sitting at my desk. I look around and everything seems to be identical to how it looks in real life. I notice that we have two people visiting the office however I begin to panic as the three computers next to them are showing pornographic screen savers. I jump out of [...]
How to Interpret Dreams: Expectation Fulfilment Theory
I have been recording my dreams in a journal for a number of years now. The main reason in doing so has always been for ideas and inspiration for my photography, however recently this has changed. I have never really felt the need to find out the actual meaning of my dreams and every time [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 14th August 2009
I appear to be in my own house in Stockbridge although the inside of the house has changed. It is dark outside. I look out the living room window and I can see a group of people in the street kicking and smashing cars as they walk. I seem to be peering through the blinds [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 13th August 2009
I am walking with R on a road in the countryside. R suggests we go to Fraser Island which is just around the corner. I turn around and say: yes, I would love to go as I didnt go when I was in Australia.
Dream Journal Entry: 9th August 2009
I walk into supermarket and pick up a bottle of vodka. There is no lid on the bottle so I take a drink. I keep walking but hold my hand around the top of the bottle to make sure no one can see that it is opened. After a while, I try to hide the [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 7th August 2009
I purchased a caravan which I intend to use as a house. I notice the caravan seems to have an exhibition inside. As a walk around I can see that there is a large pile of photos in holders on the floor. I pick up a few as a man explains them to me. I [...]
Dreams and Stages of Sleep
Initially when we close our eyes we lightly drift in and out of sleep and can be awakened easily by external noise. Muscle activity slows down. The eyes move slowly and occasionally we see flashes of images which may be visual thoughts. There is also the possibility that we may be awakened suddenly by a [...]
Hobson: Activation Synthesis Theory
This theory of dreaming was first proposed in 1977 by Hobson and McCarley. At the onset of REM sleep, random signals (known as PGO spikes) arise from the Pons (a structure located on the brain stem) and travel up the mid brain to the cortex. This stimulates the cortex and the brain tries to make [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 20th July 2009
I am in a bus with R. We are on holiday in another country. We seem to be on a tour. I notice a campsite so press the button for the driver to stop. As I walk down the bus I notice a man with a chainsaw which immediately changes to a knife. He seems [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 18th July 2009
I am in a hotel. There are three of us and we seem to be on a tour of the hotel. I stop and wait outside one of the rooms and I can hear the hotel manager speak to two male guests. He advises them that businessmen can bring their own mattress. As he continues [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 13th July 2009
I am in my parents back garden listening to J’s band playing next door. I listen to them play Digsy’s dinner by Oasis which J sings. I pick up a large pot which seems to be full of urine. I pour out the urine over the back fence. I think about putting paving slabs down [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 7th July 2009
I am in a house which may be my house. I walk into the bathroom and look up and there is no ceiling. There seems to be Polish and Nigerian builders working away upstairs on the ceiling. Two of the workers are looking down at me. I say to someone in the bathroom: Should I [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 6th July 2009
I am sitting in the shade at our hotel. I am watching our own personal buffet being set up in front of us. It seems to be food we had the previous night at the Mexican restaurant.
Dream Journal Entry: 5th July 2009
I am on a bus sitting near the back. I notice that someone is giving out REM sleep tablets. A little later I am sitting in the living room in my parents house. My sister is speaking to my mother, however my sister seems to be a cat. I watch the cat whisper in my [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 4th July 2009
I am watching someone making burgers out of rat meat. Dreaming Location: Dominican Republic
Dream Journal Entry: 3rd July 2009
I am in a hotel. I open a door and there is a baby or small child hiding there. It appears to be lost. The child is strange as it is acting more like a dog or toy than a human. I pick up the child by the back of its jumper and say to [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 2nd July 2009
I appear to be in Dunfermline holding a tennis racket as I walk in town. I met up with an unknown man who may be M but I am unsure. We walk down a steep hill to an underground car park. We both sit on a balcony watching the people below playing tennis. It seems [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 29th June 2009
I intend to build an extension to the hotel resort. I believe that it will take me a while however as I have been put in charge of the hotel I will have to see it through till the end. I watch a piece of paper fall to the floor but it is difficult to [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 28th June 2009
Exhausted on waking due to lack of sleep previous day. Remember dreaming and likely had longer or more REM periods of sleep than usual but no energy to write down any dreams. Dreaming Location: Dominican Republic Time Recorded: 8.30am Had 30 minute snooze and remember a dream or sequence of images. The image sequence seemed [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 27th June 2009
Only had 1 hour sleep on 27th. Nothing Recorded. Dreaming Location: Manchester Time: 5.00am
Dream Journal Entry: 26th June 2009
I am in Stockbridge walking down my own street to the shops. I walk into a new shop which has just opened. It appears to be an internet cafe. I walk around and sit down through the back at a computer.
Dream Journal Entry: 25th June 2009
Nothing Recorded. Difficult to remember any detail of the dream.
Dream Journal Entries: 22nd & 23rd June 2009
Nothing recorded for these two dates. Found it difficult to remember any detail from any of the dreams and felt extremely tired on waking. Dreaming Location: Stockbridge, Edinburgh
Dream Journal Entry: 21 June 2009
I can see a large building which may be multi-storey flats. I get the impression that it is just one house with many floors. At the side of the house there are hundreds of bodies pilled up against the wall. It appears that there was a war. The bodies seem to have been pilled neatly [...]
Dream Journal Entry: 20th June 2009
I appear to be a prisoner in a house. I seem to be plotting my escape. I am aware that other people are being held in the house but I seem to be the only one who has the ability to make a break for it.