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Post by th3int3rn3t on May 23, 2011 5:59:45 GMT -5
On a few posts I have seen people describe dreams that they have had about bonnaroo, and I always find them to be very interesting. Last night I had one of my own and as soon as I woke up i decided that this thread needed to be made so that people can share all the dreams that they have had about our favorite time of year.
My dream: This dream managed to last the entire night, and continue on even though I had been woken up several times. Basically it was me and my friends setting up our tents and things, but bonnaroo was held in a giant open building this year, and the lights were off. We took a long time setting everything up because we wanted it to be the perfect arrangement. Meanwhile, nobody seems very excited except for me and a couple in their mid 50's who are setting up camp next to us. Due to this, I leave my friends to go help the couple. When I get to thier site, I notice that they are setting up a bunch of strobe lights and lasers, and for some reason I'm now carrying a large amount of glow sticks. So now there are more people at their tent too, and more and more keep coming. The whole time I just want music to start playing so we can have a good time, but it never does. I just wait there for roo to actually start and it won't, and I'm now not allowed to do anything but sit there and wait. And then I woke up. Stupid alarm clock.
Mine are never normal. I dreamed I was walking around between camp sites and Jennifer Aniston sees me and starts talking to me and following me around. I enjoy having the company, but otherwise completely ignore her, and she keeps following me and talking to me like I'm the celebrity.
Post by icantenough on May 23, 2011 7:16:53 GMT -5
my dreams always involve me missing it, but the other night for some reason i was at Roo on wednesday and i realized that they started parking people not in BFE and all the tent only area and i started freaking out because i still had to go back home and pack and by the time i got there, there wouldnt be anymore good camping areas.
Post by falcozappa on May 23, 2011 10:58:05 GMT -5
Strangely enough, I've had both a Bonnaroo dream and a Jennifer Aniston dream (dunno why) recently. In the former, I'd got to the end of Bonnaroo and realised that I'd not seen any acts that I'd intended to see. In fact I'd missed pretty much everything. It might sound like a bad dream, but waking up and realising that it didn't actually happen was quite a relief. Better than waking up from a good dream and realising that you didn't win the lottery/can't fly/don't posses the power of telekinesis. For the latter, I was somewhere watching TV, and after a few double takes noticed that Jennifer Aniston was there too. I knew that Friends was going to be on next, and thought that I should turn it over as she wouldn't want to watch it. But then I thought that she might take that as an insult. I don't often remember my dreams, so it's strange that I happened to remember those two.
My dreams about Bonnaroo are always about trying to get there. Like luvaluva, forgetting my ticket, being in line forever, or trying to pack and something important is missing. It's a panic inducing dream.
Post by trooperchumpkin on May 23, 2011 14:30:39 GMT -5
Mine usually involve not being packed and having to pack last minute. I had one last night where everyone showed up at my house to pick me up and I was still sleeping. They woke me up and I was frantic to pack everything. And for some reason I kept yelling to "Hurry UP and make some pb & J sandwiches" The weirdest part is these dreams never involve anyone im going to roo with, usually strangers. I did notice that compared to last year ( which was my first) Ive had alot less worst-case scenario dreams.
Post by onesweetla83 on May 24, 2011 15:02:03 GMT -5
I've had two dreams about Bonnaroo so far. In the first one I brought my dad, and we didn't see a SINGLE SHOW. And before I knew it, the festival was over. In the second dream, I got there - and it didn't look anything like Bonnaroo. There was a huge carnival there and you could camp at the main stage. Oddly, I prefer the real roo.
Only 7 more days of work before my vacation starts!
Post by girlnectar on May 24, 2011 15:11:36 GMT -5
I dreamt I was on my way to bonnaroo and waters were over the road so I couldn't get through. I tried swimming but, despite effort and determination, I went nowhere. My therapist says this may be due to my financial struggles. I am from South Dakota and have no choice but to drive. (a lot less we'll have to spend (thanks bush) oh, Did I say therapist, I meant fiance
Post by thebigbuddha on May 24, 2011 16:39:21 GMT -5
I've had a couple incredibly vivid, insane and random Bonnaroo dreams. A couple of them shared elements from other posts on this thread, proving the collective consciousness and experience, I think.
One involved taking my little brother, who in actuality is 21 and in my dream was like 5. I couldn't watch him because I was completely zonked out on things I had come across at the festival. I started panicking about where he had run off to when my attention was drawn away by giant glowing disembodied heads in the sky. There was also a shooting range with the faces of various republican officials as the targets. It seemed a bit violent for Bonnaroo, but I was completely into it.
I also had another where for some reason I was taking my Grandma. With stops at various family members' places in Kentucky and other places she had to go, we didn't make it there until Saturday night, had missed most of the bands and they wouldn't let us in. In waking retrospect, I don't think she would have enjoyed most of the bands anyway.
All the other dreams I had usually involve showing up way too late, missing it entirely, attending it at another location, or it being a completely transformed event that I still knew to be Bonnaroo.
Strange, I had one of the freakiest dreams I've ever had last night and it was about roo. It was strange, I had arrived, and realized that my paycheck had not been deposited the day before and therefore I barely had any money. As I was fretting about this, a group passed by and heard, and showed their sympathy by giving me free drugs. Only, it wasn't a real drug, it was some kind of bright neon blue liquid in a plastic packaging similar to nerds rope. Being that this was in a dream not real life, I decided to drink all of it. Then I just remember wandering into "Centeroo" which was nothing like real life centeroo, and wandering around. I found my way over to some sort of stage that was basically a giant storage crate with about 5 rows of 20 fold up chairs, where MMJ started playing.I got a few songs through and then left for somewhere. Next I remember following signs to the What stage which led me back to the giant crate I mentioned earlier. After realizing stand up was going on in there, I realized there was another sign pointing to the real What stage, and so I went in the pit and watched AF, which included a dance off between myself and Win in the middle of a song. I also remember that none of my friends in the dream were my real friends. Very strange.
I've never been to Bonnaroo and I've already had about three Roo dreams in the past week. They are all kinda fuzzy, but the first was about me and my friends at the campsite, the second was about us walking to Centeroo, and the last (which I remember the most) involved us actually seeing music.
Robyn was on stage and she was playing the beginning of the song "Dancing on my own." I was right in the front, but as she kept playing the whole place got extremely loud and tons of people started pushing towards the front. This created a sort of wave of people and I got flung backwards, landing behind everyone.
Nothing too exciting or crazy, but I figured I'd at least share that I've had THREE dreams already and this will be my first Bonnaroo.
Mine usually involves it being Saturday morning at Roo and I don't have half of my gear since I forgot it at home. I also don't have a schedule and don't even know who is playing. I have vaiations of this dream all the time.
Post by popsicle sarah on May 25, 2011 8:28:45 GMT -5
Just woke up. Had a roo dream last night, they are pretty frequent this time of year.
So Mike and I had just arrived at roo and the first band playing was Ratatat (there were other bands playing, but apparently they all sucked). So this band sounds nothing like Ratatat. We are about 20 row back (in seats, there are sseats) and there's a DJ playing right in front of us, part of the show. I'm not sure how but we make quite an impression on him and he invites us backstage between sets (they play like 5 sets lol). The first time we go back there we see them drinking 5 GIANT bottles of tequila. Mike was taking pics for facebook and got really upset because he tagged a photo wrong and couldn't untag it. Meanwhile MIA is playing at the same time on another stage, but the only people there are children... everywhere! It's like a kids bop version of MIA. So weird, this is way different from the bonna-dreams I normally have.
Post by Det. Jake Peralta on May 25, 2011 8:38:12 GMT -5
I had a dream the other night that I got in line thursday, and did not get into roo until sunday night.... only to catch the last 5 min. of Widespread's set, after that 5 min. roo was over and I had to drive back home 10 hours...
Last night, I dreamed that Day Parking consisted of cars lined up on the side of Bushy Branch with their emergency flashers on. You just left your car there in line with the flashers on.
I just had a dream my roo buddy and I had walked to Centeroo, but not paid any attention to where we camped or any landmarks. It was dark when we started heading back and we had absolutely NO IDEA what direction even to start in. So we just hung out in the Bonnaroo General Store, which had electronics for sale.
Mine usually involves it being Saturday morning at Roo and I don't have half of my gear since I forgot it at home. I also don't have a schedule and don't even know who is playing. I have vaiations of this dream all the time.
This happened to me last year, for reals. In the pre-excitement of going to Bonnaroo, I packed all my t-shirts and underwear a couple days before leaving. Thursday morning I woke up to find out I had absolutely no clothes and spent the next four days going commando, switching back and forth between the shirt I wore in and the shirt given to me for volunteering. Anywhere else I would have been pissed, but this was Bonnarooooo!
In one dream, I got there and there were a few people sitting around a campfire. One guy turned around and yelled that there was a spot for me around the fire and to come sit down. I realized that the guy was Billy Joe Armstrong from Green Day. The band was sitting round the fire playing guitars and singing. I asked what was going on and they said that the festival doesn't start until tomorrow. This was a pre-party. That's when I woke up.
In another dream, I was at What stage waiting for Ozzy Osborne to come on. He was the headliner that night. Instead of Ozzy showing up, a bunch of evil elfs came on stage driving clown cars. It was boring so I left to see what else was going on. I heard Tom Petty playing in the distance and ran to Other Tent to see him. When I got there I realized that it wasn't Tom Petty playing but it was a guy that looked just like him and sounded like him but it wasn't him.
I've also had a Bonnaroo sex dream. I won't go into any details but it was weird.
i had a crazy Bonnaroo dream last night. So my group and I all loaded up and headed out. But somehow the farm was a cruise ship, and I was really excited because my cabin was close to the Centeroo part of the ship. I don't remember the ship actually setting sail, I just remember being pumped about being so close to Cruiseship Centeroo. (I am guessing this is my mind hoping I don't get BFE again.) I woke up before any shows started, which sucked, but at least we'll be at the farm in 8 days!
Post by Chris Major on May 31, 2011 16:59:59 GMT -5
Love this thread.
Two nights ago I had a dream that my friend and I showed up to Bonnaroo before the gates opened, and there were cops/security surrounding the perimeter of The Farm preventing anyone from walking in. For some reason we weren't with our car, and were walking up to the cops at the edge of the property, looking in and seeing everything in the distance all set up with all the lights on (it was around dusk I'd guess). Well, we see one cop in front of us that seems to be in charge, who is none other than David Morse of Treme fame in his New Orleans PD uniform...
So we ask him if we can pleeeeasee just go in and out quickly to get some vendor food because we are starving, and he finally gives in and agrees because David Morse seems like a really nice guy. He tells us that he must accompany us though, and invited us to step over this magical imaginary line (like walking from the baseball diamond into the corn in Field of Dreams). The moment we take our first step across the perimeter line onto the property the entire place lights up, funky music comes out of nowhere and the cops start boogying including David Morse who is dancing his ass off. My friend and I start dancing and jiving with them all the way into Centeroo with various Bonnaroo staff all lined up along side us doing choreographed synchronized dances like we just walked into a musical.
Post by grizzlepickle on May 31, 2011 17:26:09 GMT -5
Had a Roo dream last night where I dreamt about the best possible campsite setup for our huge crew in TO... This morning I diagrammed it out at work, and I think it just might work famously!
Had a Roo dream last night where I dreamt about the best possible campsite setup for our huge crew in TO... This morning I diagrammed it out at work, and I think it just might work famously!
These are the kinds of dreams I was hoping to hear about in this thread!
btw I had another one about 2 nights ago... Last year before roo I got a carton of cigarettes from a local tobacco shop, and in my dream I was doing the same thing this year, and my dad came in (100% anti-smoking/drugs/alcohol kind of guy) and he bought a carton also, and we walked out together and he handed it to me and then all of a sudden I was on my way to roo. - this dream was probably caused by my lack of smoking due to a terrible sinus infection, and an e-mail i recently got from him where he said that roo sounds like alot of fun.
Post by waitingfornextyear on Mar 21, 2012 8:12:44 GMT -5
I just woke up from a dream where I was bartending at one of my previous places of employment and Phi (whom I've never met) was really drunk and causing problems. Strange. Does this qualify as a Bonnaroo dream? If not, can someone move it to the Inforoo Dreams thread?
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I just woke up from a dream where I was bartending at one of my previous places of employment and Phi (whom I've never met) was really drunk and causing problems. Strange.
