23rd and 24th February

My dreams these nights were both ridiculously intricate and long and they're just random images in my head now so I'll just bullet point some key facts from both of them (as they were kind of similar too)

• There was a church in both of them and I was inside the church
• One I was doing a murder mystery with friends which took place in a church, supermarket and the school.
• The other I was exploring an old church and I remember long winding stairs and a suit of armour. 
• After the church I went to school, I was late
• Somebody's dog had died the night before 
• I was painting all day. I think I was painting things related to this topic.

Today I'm going to make a mindmap of all the dreams I've had, including some of the meanings and see what I can come up with. 

21st February

Had two dreams last night.

Dream number 1 I was trapped in my bedroom with the blinds gone and metal bars in their place and it was like I was in a zoo and people kept stopping outside and looking in and I felt very humiliated.

Dream number 2 was more fun. There was some kind of festival in town and everybody was all dressed up and my friends and I were dressed up as princesses. I had tattoos again and we were sitting under these big canopies eating together and then we went on a bouncy castle. Fun.

20th February

Dreams have been escaping me recently! Last nights is there, but barely.

• I was at my grandma's house and there were a lot of ferrets just running about the place so I decided to leave.
• Went to the fairground.
• I was watching the carousel and realised the horses were real and looked in a lot of pain so I set them free (how?) and they all flew away one by one.

I've started doing artist samples and I'm really pleased with how they've been turning out! I've also been collecting primary and secondary images and I just have loads of ideas in my head of what I want to do, I need to start getting them down on paper! 

16th & 17th February

I completely forgot to write these dreams up but I did make a note in my phone of what I remembered most, so here they are:

• I was made to play violin in the school orchestra
• I got distracted by a puppy on the way to the performance.

My dream from Friday night was quite sinister and I again woke up rather panicked.

• My parents were away and I was staying in a hotel by myself. They had warned me not to go back to the house.
• I went back to the house
• Over the course of three days, body parts appeared through the letter box; fingers, ears, you get the idea
• I painted the entire house to keep my mind off it. (Why didn't I call the police or run away?!)
• On the fourth day there was a torso in the hallway. I did run away then.

15th February

After two nights of not remembering anything from my dreams, I had one last night that was extremely vivid. Well, it was more like two actually.

The first consisted of breaking into somebody else's house with a group of people I barely know to use their waterslides. There was a boy there who I realised was my sisters boyfriend (dream boyfriend, it wasn't actually him) and that he was with some other girl in the house so I left to tell my sister that he was cheating on her.

The second was a little more interesting. I was going to a festival but I had to walk there so I set off. I was just walking along my street when I noticed a ballerina dancing in front of me. She was very beautiful and every so often she'd stop at someone's garden to pick a flower. It must have been summer because everybody's garden was full of pretty flower bushes. I was watching the girl when she bent down and took something out of her shoe. She stood back up and flicked her hand so quickly it was a blur and a man at the end of the street suddenly fell to the floor with a slit in his throat. I didn't feel the need to do anything, I just followed the ballerina as she continued along the street. I watched her pounce on a lady walking her dog but then I woke up. Quite strange.

So memorable things from these dreams are breaking and entering, cheating, ballerina, flowers, knife and then watching people get killed by said ballerina I suppose. I don't think I'll be painting exactly that however.

February 12th

Felt very panicky when I woke up from this dream.

I needed to get on a train to get to the gym and it was summer and extremely hot. When I got near the train station I noticed it was very busy and as I ran down the stairs I saw my train pull away. I waited ten minutes for another one in ridiculous heat with people pressing around me from all sides and when I eventually got on a train it was no better. I sat down as the heat was getting too much and noticed a hole in my pants so I stood back up and tried to grab onto a hand rail but some girl put her sweaty hand on top of mine so I jumped off at a station that wasn't even mine.

10th February

I remembered my dream a little better last night and as soon as I woke up I made a little note of major events on my phone.

• I roller-bladed to school (very well, I might add)
• I think it was near the end of the school year because we were all sitting around not doing much talking about going to Edinburgh and the summer, but then the head of sixth form told us we couldn't go away because they had planned a trip for the whole of sixth form
• We went on this trip instead, which was to the beach.
• Because we live in England, it was rainy and blowing a gale but that didn't stop us all riding horseback along the beach for the entire day.

The things that are still sticking out in my mind are the roller blades, beach, and horseback riding. I'll probably record my dreams for another week or so to make sure I definitely have enough to work with and I'm starting to take photos of objects or settings from my dreams so I can start turning them into paintings. :-)