07
Jan
2005
9:52

Compliment or curse?

The other night I had a sex dream about a WDer. Now first off, I don’t really remember any details at all so there will be no saucy details. I just realized later in the day that when I awoke, I realized that I had the vague and fuzzy memory. I remembered who it was and possibly some of the activities, but it was all really vague to the point that I almost didn’t even realize I had dreamt it.
I think I kind of put it out of my mind at first because I felt weird about it. Later when I had come to terms with it, I told Jess (neither one of us has any hangups, weirdness, or jealousy about things like that) and she was just jokingly disappointed that she hadn’t been involved.
I just thought I would put this tantalizing bit of info out there because now I find it amusing, and I’ve been crap at blogging.

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12 Responses

  1. Jess says:
    January 7, 2005 at 10:28 am

    Obviously I know who was in your dream, but I think it’s cruel to tease your stalkers like that! Should I drop hints?

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  2. Heath Allyn says:
    January 7, 2005 at 10:30 am

    No way! Besides, some people might not want to know if they were getting hot and heavy with me in a dream!

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  3. Annika says:
    January 7, 2005 at 11:12 am

    I’m with Jess. More details! (I hope it was Will. Is that…wrong of me?)

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  4. Heath Allyn says:
    January 7, 2005 at 11:25 am

    OK, it was a female. I’ll tell you that much.
    And I’ll tell you it wasn’t Annika. I only tell you this to demonstrate that appearance or lack thereof in a sex dream bears no indication of anything, becaus Annika rules and is probably on many people’s lists of people they would like in their sex dreams. Therefore if it was not you in my sex dream, don’t feel bad. It doesn’t mean you’re not super sexy. We all know how logic plays no part in the formula the brain uses to generate the weird ass things that can happen in dreamland.

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  5. Jess says:
    January 7, 2005 at 5:08 pm

    Yeah, but a female what?
    Sadly, Annika, I believe that any four-way between us and our spouses will go boy-girl-boy-girl. (We can have our fun after the boys have fallen asleep.)

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  6. Delle says:
    January 8, 2005 at 3:57 am

    This reminded me of your Sex Terrorists post on the WD way back when.
    I’m guessing it was someone who was in LA at the party. Or are we not supposed to be guessing?

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  7. Min says:
    January 8, 2005 at 3:15 pm

    From the first sentence, this entry made me laugh and laugh.
    I had a sex dream about a male WDer last night! I was considering blogging about it, but now I don’t have to because I’ve just commented here.
    Heeeee!

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  8. P@ says:
    January 9, 2005 at 1:03 pm

    It was kellytheslayer, wasn’t it? That vixen!

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  9. Simon says:
    January 12, 2005 at 12:42 am

    I am… something.
    *checks feelings*
    Huh. I’ll get back to you.

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  10. Delle says:
    January 14, 2005 at 3:10 pm

    Did you realise this was going to be such a popular entry? I guess the combination of WDers and sex is to most of us, even if it is just of the dream variety.

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  11. Chainsaw says:
    January 15, 2005 at 6:02 pm

    I never have sex dreams about people. I have “love” dreams. It always involves lots of hugging, hand holding, gazing into each other’s eyes, and telling each other about the things that we love about each other. Sometime we cry because we’re so overwhelmed by our feelings.
    And I have them about pretty much everyone I’m friends with.
    I’m so lame!

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  12. CosmicAvatar says:
    January 25, 2005 at 10:53 am

    I’ll go with Delle’s theory.
    And, heee.

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