Congrats, Julie! What's funny is that Octo and DCD's house added rooms over time, which was very surreal to me. The house literally doubled in size, it became a resort!
Congrats, Julie I love your winning haiku! Excellent topic, Octo. I totally meant to write some, I'm obsessed with dreams. I annoy JPX with the recount of my nightly dreams frequently. He can't take that I remember every detail and feel compelled to share them with him. Octo, he said you did the same to him growing up.
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.
"HHD Results! Wake up, already!"
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you can ask JSP -- after reading his, i totally called "destination: space" as my favorite.
i'm very happy to have made it to the final round, despite my long hiatus.
congrats julie -- a fine bit of scribing.
*cough*nepotism*cough*
April 18, 2010 1:12 AM
Congrats Julie, well done!
Great topic Octo, virtually limitless possibilities.
These 2 from Stan really amused me, I could just picture him doing it:
Super Mario
When I flew in "64"
I flew in my dreams
Same way: get red cap
Then three long jumps and I'm off
Tried it in the park
April 18, 2010 4:27 AM
Hm...I don't think it's nepotism, exactly, but I think the boob picture might have helped my cause.
Thanks!
April 18, 2010 6:12 AM
Congrats, Julie! What's funny is that Octo and DCD's house added rooms over time, which was very surreal to me. The house literally doubled in size, it became a resort!
April 18, 2010 7:39 AM
congratulations, julie!
great topic, octo. glad you got the dawn treader reference.
i too have bizarrely practical concerns in sex dreams.
yes, the falling-into-the-eye-in-the-arm dream was both real and recurrent.
April 18, 2010 8:28 AM
Congrats, Julie I love your winning haiku! Excellent topic, Octo. I totally meant to write some, I'm obsessed with dreams. I annoy JPX with the recount of my nightly dreams frequently. He can't take that I remember every detail and feel compelled to share them with him. Octo, he said you did the same to him growing up.
April 19, 2010 9:23 PM