I don’t want to lose my job
It wasn’t quite a nightmare, but it was a dream that has been cropping up regularly since I started my new job. Last night I dreamt that I was at work in the office and the latest edition of our newspaper came in. Everybody said it was great, but then I looked at the front page and there was a glaring error, right there in front of me.
The error, of cause, was all my fault. I’d somehow left a stray dividing-line running through a column of text. The disappointment I felt was unreal.
The reason I have this dream is because every week, as we approach deadline, I have to lay out and edit pages, and I always worry about messing up. If I mess up the layout of a page and it goes to print, I would get into serious trouble. Obviously, I don’t want to fail in this job. I’m still on probation and have only been working there about three months. Thinking about it, I can’t remember if my probationary period is three or four months. Either way, I don’t want to get fired.
I’ve had a few dreams of this nature, all involving me making some mistake with the paper and feeling ashamed of myself and worried about losing my job.
Dreaming of sex
I had quite a racy dream last night in which I was having sex with my ex-girlfriend, one from England whom I haven’t seen for more than a year. It was a strange dream really, and I don’t why I’d have a dream about my ex.
It might just be that I’m really horny. It’s not often that I have dreams of a sexual nature, but they usually occur when I haven’t been thinking of sex for a prolonged period. I guess that makes sense, but it’s often the people I dream of who I can’t figure out why they are there.
I don’t think that dreams of sex mean that you want to sleep with that particular person, but I’m yet to work out what they do mean.
Lucky for me
Not exactly dream related, but I was hella lucky this week. In a moment of stupidity, I lost all my data from this blog. I wiped out an entire database by mistake, and thought that I had lost all of my posts. Lucky for me, I have a really cool webhost who told me that the server makes daily, weekly and monthly backups of my entire server, databases and all.
After a brief panic and some fiddling, I got back all my data and this blog is alive once again. Let this be a lesson to everyone, whether you dream or not: don’t forget to back your blogs up because there will always come a point when you or your server does something that causes a data loss.
If I’d had to start this blog again, I may have just packed it in, because I would have lost several months worth of posting. That would have been so not cool. Sure as hell, I will never try and do something with my databases that I only think I can do. It always pays to double check when you’re messing with your blogs.
Tobi.com online boutique
I came across the website Tobi.com recently. It’s branded as the next generation of online shopping. It’s cool because you can buy the latest fashions and even speak to an online stylist who can help you out with what you’re after. The site looks pretty swish and is easy enough to navigate, and the list of brands is vast. Boyy, BB Dakota, AG Jeans – the list goes on. I saw a pretty swish diesel jacket in the store too.
There are also lots of sale items, offering discounts of up to 80%. That’s pretty sweet. If you’re a fan of paige jeans or vince sweaters then this is definitely a website you’ll want to check out.
There are lots of women’s fashion stores online at the moment, but a lot of the time when I browse them I find that the websites are poorly designed and use too much flash. At least Tobi.com doesn’t slip up in that respect. If you’re a woman looking for the hippest threads, or you want to find an easy way to buy your girlfriend or wife a great gift, this is the sort of website that can make your life easier.
Dreaming of making money again!
I think I’m starting to become obsessed with this whole make money blogging thing. I’ve started dreaming almost every night about making money on the Internet in some way. I don’t think it’s because I actually want to make money, but it’s because I’ve started doing this thing and I really want to succeed, for whatever reason.
Most of the dreams I have are about some of my schemes paying off and being successful, while other are about weird stuff like meeting bloggers I’ve never met before. There is simply too much stuff going on in my head about all this stuff for my brain to process.
It’s kind of funny that I’ve been having all these stupid dreams, but I’d much rather be dreaming about other things. I’ve been having a lot about flying and falling recently, and these are actually the dreams I enjoy the most. There’s just something about jumping the length of a football pitch and being able to control it that really appeals to me. I’ve been enjoying the whole thing so much that I’m starting to think I might like to skydive in the real world; that’s something I’ve always said I’d never do. How dreams can change you!
Dreaming about making money online
Last night I had a dream about making money online. I know why I had it. Obviously, it’s because I’ve been thinking a lot about making money blogging. I was using my laptop and had logged into my Text Link Ads account to track my affiliate earnings. Recently, in the real world, I’ve been annoyed that I haven’t been making any money with my affiliates.
Anyway, this dream was ultimately a disappointment because it wasn’t real. I was logged into my account and looking at my earnings. They looked normal, but then all of a sudden the numbers started spinning like on a fruit machine. It was like I’d won the jackpot and I was over the moon.
I was making millions of dollars as I watched my laptop. It was great. And then I woke up and remembered that I hadn’t made any money through Text Link Ads for a while. It’s like that dream when you’re a kid and you get a really cool toy only to wake up and realize you don’t have it. Ah, such is life.
A dream of digging up the past
Another very strange dream last night. This time I was back in the village I used to live in and I was wandering around seeing how everything looked. It was pretty much the same as I knew it, only some of the road was being dug up by JCB diggers. I walked past that area and made my way to my friend Ben’s house.
I haven’t seen Ben for years but I recently found him on Facebook, so I suppose that’s why I was dreaming of him. I had my old skateboard with me for some reason and I was keen to skate to Ben’s house.
When I got there, I pulled the hood on my hoodie up over my head and went to the front door. Ben answered and we chatted. I noticed that he was wearing the exact same blue hoodie as I was. Ben’s mum then appeared and said that I looked like Frank Sinatra. The whole thing was totally surreal.
Ben was all grown up, but I don’t know why I had gone to see him and not somebody else. The hoodie I was wearing was my favorite jumper for about three years. There were so many flashes to the past in this dream, but I don’t understand why they were digging up the road. Maybe that signals that nothing stays the same.
Bloggerwave can make you money online
I’m going to start using Bloggerwave every now and then to start making money with this blog. I think it’s a full-proof way to make money on a casual basis with paid posting. If you haven’t signed up for bloggerwave, you may as well do it. They’re still quite small at the moment, but once they get bigger they could be a real money-spinner.
Who the heck is "H"?
I had a dream about a friend of mine. In the dream, my friend Gavin was walking toward me and I was really pleased to see him. For some reason, he was really angry with me. He told me that he was angry because of a person named “H” whom I had apparently known before Gavin. He was angry with me just for knowing this “H”.
The problem I had was that I couldn’t remember who “H” was and what Gavin was on about. I woke up and tried to figure this one out, but couldn’t. What could “H” possibly symbolize? Thinking about the letter and what it makes me think of, the only thing that comes to mind is “H” from the British music band Steps. I hated that guy because he was very annoying whenever he was on TV; kind of like a hyperactive child.
Could he somehow be in my thoughts? I can’t think for what reason, nor can I fathom why Gavin would be talking about him. It’s a mystery.
Eating strange things
I had a really weird dream recently. I know where it comes from too. I was at a club (real life) with a group of friends, and on the video wall they were playing the Jackass movie. Although we couldn’t hear the soundtrack, it had subtitles and you could see what was going on (Jackass is quite visual as it is).
Anyway, some guy was dared to eat horse shit for $200 and he actually did it, although he was gagging pretty heavily as he did it. I remember feeling quite repulsed at watching him do this, but he got 200 bucks so I guess he was happy.
A couple of weeks later, I had a dream that it was me eating the horse shit, and I was gagging throughout the whole ordeal. I remember being in a field, but I don’t know why I was there, whom I was with, or for what reason I was horse shit. I just remember the very real sensation of gagging but no quite throwing up.
Why this dream chose to come out as it did I’m not sure. What do dreams about throwing up mean anyway? Maybe there’s something inside of me that needs to come out. That would tie in with the night out I had, as there was one among the group who I feel I need to talk to about something, but haven’t been able to do so as of yet. Now could be the time.
Of course, I may have read this all wrong.