Way to step up, folks! It's funny how HHDs of late accumulate more slowly than they used to: but then by the end of the day you've got over 50 poems.
I'm grouping my favorites by type:
Generally hilarious and cool haikus
AC said
the dawn treader found
an island where dreams come true
sounds good but isn't
Which was great because I was thinking of that very scene when deciding on whether to include the more daydreamy kind of dreams in the topic.
"Dreams come true here? That's great!"
"No, not daydreams. Dreams"
There was also a priceless array of work dream haikus, which I felt were best summed up by these three:
Stan:
Dreaming about work
Happens almost all the time
Can't I just be done?
Cat:
I hate those work dreams
wake up feeling exhausted
yet day's just starting
AC:
work dreams are unfair
we don't get time-and-a-half
union, anyone?
Haikus that captured the fantastic weirdness of dreams
Cat:
When I was a kid
Dreamt my Barbies came to life
they were pinching me
In the horror movie they'd eat you or stab you or something, but then when it "really" happens they're just petty little mean things, pinching you. Yes.
AC:
an eye in an arm
helplessly drawn forward i
fall into the eye
Eeeew! You dreamt that?! Eewww!
JSP:
Friends getting murdered
Sociopathic natives
Pole vault over shrubs
It's all basic nightmare until that last line. "Shrubs?" Was this happening at a backyard barbecue? "Pole vault?"
Julie:
Awesome baby's room
Ocean waves come through the door
Take away laundry
Julie had actually told me about this dream, and it wove itself in haiku form admirably.
Haikus that revealed stuff deeper into the writers' heads than I probably expected
JPX:
Sex dreams are the goal
I had one that was so real
Woke humping the air
Wow, dude. That's, uh...
This where I point out that I always wake up before things really get going in sex dreams, on two occasions becuase I stopped to look for a condom before going further. In a dream! Dammit. They really drilled that stuff into your head in the late eighties.
50PageMcGee:
weird oral sex dream
'cept instead of vagina
it's a cheeseburger
That brings up all kinds of questions, most of them logistical.
Haukus that personified dreams I have had myself
JPX:
Used to dream of toys
Would try to wake up with them
True, I still do this
Not only do I also have dreams like this, JPX himself stars in most of them. For instance when I said this:
A toy dream I had
Omelette critter with handles
Hammerhead rode it
I was referring to when I dreamt that JPX and I got to see all these preview toys for the original Star Wars line, and Hammerhead (the cantina dude) had this animal he rode on that was like a big, flat, round slug. It had a single antenna in the middle of its back that split into two handlebars. The toy looked like a life size omelette with handlebar antenna and a Hammerhead figure standing on it. Awesome.
And this poignant pair from DCD:
Hate confrontations.
Yet, in dreams I crush people
with my righteousness!
Every point - Made!
They surrender at my words!
I'm tough. In my dreams.
Oh man, soooo there.
In the end, it came down to three. The runners-up are...
JSP:
Look out your window
Me and my sky bicycle
Destination: space
Yay. Pretty much what I didn't know I was looking for when I solicited your ambitions. And that last line is a gem. "Destination: space." Should be a TV show.
The other runner-up is 50PageMcGee's:
after my car wreck
months of dreams interrupted
spider-crack visions
Very nice. Personal, shocking and satisfyingly visual.
But the winner is from my loverly lady:
Julie:
Extra room in house
Coolest room I've ever seen
My recurring dream
That one completely nails a recurring feature in dreams I've had since childhood, with one important difference. In my dreams, that extra room is usually just another confusing element in an already odd task. Like the time I dreamt that one Christmas we received a real-life spacesuit from the world of Space: 1999, and the corner of the living room had been turned into a huge fishtank that we could swim in while wearing the spacesuit. And when it was my turn, nobody could find the helmet, not even in that extra room in the house. Damn.
But in Julie's dream, that room is the coolest room she's ever seen. That's great! What a positive thing to shoot for next time I'm trying to direct my dreams.
We're also having a yard sale tomorrow, and so all this deep thinking about the space in the apartment is resonating nicely in my skull.
And, additionally, this evening when I gave her my camera so she could watch some footage I'd shot earlier in the day, afterwards she secretly took a picture of her boob.
