Burning Man dreams

Burp! · Post by **Burp!** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:31 am

Don't know about you folks, but every now and then I have a dream that involves being at Burning Man. Curious to hear some of your dreams.

For me, in most cases Burning Man has moved to a new location, usually some place city like, as in lots of concrete and buildings. The last one I had, Burning man was in the city, completely fenced in, every one had to camp on a big black top. On the other side of the fence was this real huge basketball court area, where non BM attendees where playing basketball all day and all night. The BM people were yelling at them because the constant dribbling of the ball was keeping everyone awake at night. Pretty funny.

T.

Lorgasm · Post by **Lorgasm** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:35 am

My playa dreams vary. Not too many really stick out in my head right now. However, I do remember one where the camp sites resembled more like booths at a fair and one where it was just me sitting on a towel next to a cooler; like a typical beach scene. There will be more to come I'm sure.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:30 pm

I tend to have one or two right after coming home from the event. Most involve thinking I am sleeping in a tent.

skygod · Post by **skygod** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:28 pm

I have had a couple where I'm walking in the dark, there's color and lights in the distance, can see shapes of people walking nearby, can't remember where I am or find my way back to camp. Not a nightmare: I am not particularly worried about being lost.

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:13 pm

Had one last night set in a city-like environment, fabulous men were gifting fx make-up and pedicures and bindis, or were constructing eleborate jeweled filigree silver masks right on your face; the male amd female sections were seperate, which was odd, and I accidently took off with a silk evening gown, didn't realize I was clutching it as I hurried to catch up with my friend. I actually felt guilty in the dream.

golgotha-a-go-go · Post by **golgotha-a-go-go** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:36 pm

Remarkable! I have had numerous dreams of Burning Man being held within a city, buildings in sight, the Man in a distant area of the city, nowhere in site. Frequently, we are all fenced in and I get the feeling of a street fair and nothing more. Sometimes a bike ride takes me to another small town where other perplexed Burners stand on corners hanging out around the locals who look stupefied at the costumed Burners. This type of dream has recurred many times for me.

Any thoughts on the roots of this dream?

RegRad · Post by **RegRad** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:58 am

I have at least 2 a month after I went for the first time last year. They were very intense when I first got home, at least 3 a week in Sept 05'.
I have had both desert dreams and dreams where it has moved to a city or town. One was even in some farm country.......

skygod · Post by **skygod** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:09 pm

AntiM wrote:accidently took off with a silk evening gown, didn't realize I was clutching it as I hurried to catch up with my friend. I actually felt guilty in the dream.

Stolen watermelons taste the sweetest.

tarri · Post by **tarri** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:19 pm

I'm so glad to see this topic! I've been having Burning Man dreams for years, about once a month, and they're always in a city, too! I've thought extensively about this. I'm always REALLY disappointed, and long for the desert. I can never find the man either.

I finally decided it might have to do with my intent to bring the whole thing home (to the default world) with me and create it in my life and community.

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:55 am

Ive been dreaming of the event for 2 months now, at least 5 times a week i wake to try to remember it all, Its pretty much simular...Like a giant circus...people doing really cool tricks with fire, costumed up, and funny is I seem to know EVERYONE personally, One dream/nightmare was I was leaving for burningman, I for some reason had to meet everyone in LOVELOCK,NV????? We got there, talked to the greeter, saw the mini-map 3-d(structures and all) on a table, then we were loading up to go, for some reason I couldnt find my ticket and was going to have to drive all the way back to reno to find it, and realized my 13 yr old daughter had snuck into back seat, so I had to run her back anyway. But I was searching my mind in the dream for where the hell I had put my ticket....? which purse, backpack, magnet on fridge...etc ( My ticket IS at will call...hince not knowing in my dream where I put it)
Only had the one about not being ABLE to GET there...most are the circus!
P.S. Im a virgin! Ive never been, so Its kinda fun going there 5 times a week, figure maybe Im bracing my brain for overload! hahahaaa
I love it!

farfromhome · Post by **farfromhome** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:47 am

Many of the dreams I have are about the Black Rock Desert itself, but there are a couple about Burning Man. The one that jumps out at me is the one in which the Man, wanting a cup of coffee, steps down off his stand and walks to Center Camp to get a Cappucino, gets pissed off when they ask HIM to pay, he gets indignant and says "But I'M the Man!!" and thets gets dragged off by a group of drugged out Hippies screaming "Fuck the Man!!"

The whole scene is played out in about a minute... I have had it 4-5 times now..

Am I the only one who has this dream?

:shock:

ubu · Post by **ubu** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:40 pm

was cruising the open playa last night in my dreams, just two days after I gave in again to the migratory instinct and decided to go. I seemed to be flying from spectacle to spectacle in the dark and realized I was dreaming. I cruised around, hoping I would not wake up too soon, as I often do in Lucid Dreams. nice!

You playa heads are nuts! see you out there again.

ravenluv · Post by **ravenluv** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:15 am

the burning dream phenomenon seems unusual. i don't recall other events that had such an effect on my dreamlife. my burning dreams began immediately after my first burn.

my burning transplant dreams show the event in a natural area. i've never lived IN a city and spent little time living just outside of them. when i think of 'home', i think of nature. this leads me to wonder if the burning transplant dreams are about manifesting the burn at my other homes.

in the time leading to the psyche burn, the dreams became very strong, quite strange and, as i saw later, 'reflective' of what would happen later at the burn. my intuitive smarts were elevated as well.

psyche was an intensely strange journey. it offered unbelievably 'right-on' gifts and helped 'answer' important questions. yet, the ones it didn't answer were just as important. soon after i left brc, during my long drive into the sunrise, i realized that regardless of the wonders that i had seen, my future was just as much in question as it ever was.

hmmm...this is the first time i've seen the synchronicity between my state upon leaving the last burn and this year's theme. when the theme was announced i was deeper into zennish pursuits of 'now' than ever before. i felt a disconnect as a result. yet, it is appropriate to my state upon leaving the last burn. and also to that of new orleans, of course.

(not that most of this does, or should, matter to anyone but me. still, there is always that off-hand chance that someone out there experiences this realm in roughly the same peculiar way that i do and....well, i needn't say the rest.)

i had no burning dreams for many months after the last burn. i've had a few in recent months and they have been gloomy and subdued. i've probably 'known' since last year that i wouldn't be going this year and my dreams are reflective of that.

for a long time now i've been thinking that rain would be a factor this year. i hope that's not true, or that if it is it turns out to be the right thing at the right time for the greatest number of souls in attendance.

i'm sure that, though i've known for a long time that i would probably not be going, i will still very much miss being there this year, regardless of the whether the weather is 'bad'. perhaps i can dream about being there!

bright and gloomy : the wind

ubu · Post by **ubu** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:19 pm

cool. I keep avoiding the burn, or trying to, and the years that I don't go, I also dream about it. It is more about the place, the utopian-survivalist space in the imagination, where we throw of the shackles, roll away the rock from the tomb, and just work and dance. work and dance. making our day and night amongst the stars. A carfree city after the apocalypse. taking responsibilty for your own infrastructure.

decompression last year was a party that really truly rocked without all the surveillance that you get at the burn, without the controls, without control of public acts of sex. Not that there is ever much, or not that it is without discretion, but just to have the controls taken away, the shackles.

Fourth of Jplaya rocks apparently, with fire games like the burns of old.

Ok, so I am going again this year. One last time. although I said that last year. ha!

Burning Man dreams

Burning Man dreams

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sweet dreams not made of these