Dare to Dream

Dare to Dream

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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of… ~ Nastassja Kinski

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This is a dream I had this morning, November 27, 2018.

I was at a library with my daughter and grand-daughter. Not sure where what library it was…never seen it in real life, but it felt familiar.

I’d turned in some books, one of which was called ‘Dare to Dream’ or something like that. There was another name similar, but can’t remember it now. Anyway, it had pink on the cover, and was sort of like those ‘for Dummies’ books, or along those same type of books. Maybe it was ‘Dare to Dream for Dummies’? I’m thinking it was a book on the subject of using your imagination when putting together scrap books. (I’ve actually been trying to get back to my scrap book making, but my imagination has been on the low end lately. I guess the book would help?)

Well, I’d turned it in, but then decided I wasn’t done with the book, and wanted it back to re-check it again. But, I couldn’t find it. I went to the shelf where it was supposed to be usually, but it wasn’t there. I looked all around, but nope, not there anywhere. So, I asked the librarian about it. They said it had already been transferred to their other library across town, and I could probably find it there.

So, we went over there. For some reason we were walking in this downtown area that may or may not have been a real place I’ve seen before. I get the feeling I’ve had dreams about this downtown before. There are tall and old buildings, empty sidewalks, it’s cold and gray, and the wind is blowing. It’s kind of dark and spooky, but still day time. It’s just the buildings, and being in the shade of them that makes it that way.

Well, we finally get to the other library, and go down a cement ramp to get to the door. Just as we get there, a guy comes out pushing a library cart with books on it. He’s actually the guy who does the story time thing for kids at the library (a real person I’ve seen before). I say we were going in just for a minute to find that book I was looking for, but he says they are closing already. Since he was sort of a friend ? he says he’ll let us go on in, but just for one hour. So we do go in, while he busies himself in the office with paperwork.

I look at all the shelves in this library, and finally, finally find the book, and take it from the shelf. Yep, it’s the one…’Dare to Dream’. It’s the same pink cover and everything.

That was all of the dream, but somewhere in there, and I don’t know why, my grand-daughter was sitting in a high-chair.

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I have a lot of recurring dream about libraries (and thrift stores). Do you have many of the same subject dreams? Mine most always have some spooky element to them, too. How about you? I’d love to hear about them! 🙂

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~also posted for NanoPoblano2018

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© 2018 BS

Just Creepy – Q & A

Just Creepy – Q & A 

Game on – series 2 – Just Creepy

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Here are some fun and spooky questions I found over at ‘A Guy Called Bloke & K9 Doodlepip.

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Q1] Favourite all time creepy monster or villian?

The Fiend, which was a brain that attacked people. It was an old B & W movie around 1958, and gave me nightmares for a long time. I’ve never forgotten it.

Q2] Pumpkin Pie or what is your favourite pie at Halloween?

I like pumpkin pie, but we don’t usually fix a pie for Halloween.

Q3] What is something you most assuredly wouldn’t want to bump into in a darkened alleyway?

A dirty, infested dumpster.

Q4] Have you ever dabbled with the dark side .. l don’t mean Bloody Mary either l mean Ouija?

Yes, both, and more.

PQ5] What’s your most favourite Halloween movie that you just have to watch over, and over and over again every Halloween? [Link Please]

Hocus Pocus.

 

Q6] Are you superstitious? [How so?]

Not really, but I will knock on wood sometimes.

PQ7] If you found yourself trapped in a horror movie which one would it be?

Hocus Pocus, because it’s a little scary and a lot of fun.

Q8] On the subject whilst we are here, have you ever played Bloody Mary?

Yes, and scared half the kids in the neighborhood, who ran screaming out of the house.

Q9] Oh golly jeepers, you have awoken in the night to hear footsteps in the house .. who you gonna call?

No one. I’d get up and investigate.

Q10] So it’s dark and creepy, and you have just been dared to visit the local Cemetary would you do it?

Yes, in a second! Our local cemetery is known to be haunted, but I’ve never had a chance to go out there at night.

Q11] After watching a scary flick, can you just go to bed, or do you have to do something cheery first?

I’d just go to bed. Movies are just pretend.

PQ12] It’s Halloween, you are music master at the party, what are your first five songs going to be played to kick start the night?

Abracadabra – Steve Miller Band

Ghost Busters – Ray Parker, Jr.

Symphony for the Devil – Rolling Stones

Thriller – Michael Jackson

Purple People Eater – Sheb Wooley

 

Q13]  Favourite all time scary creepy spooky book?

The Demonologists, by Ed & Lorraine Warren. I had to get it out of the house, and couldn’t finish reading it. Actually, I did later on finish reading it, but still scared me.

Q14] You have been invited to the ultimate Monster Mash party and it’s fancy costume – who are you going as?

A witch. I almost always dressed in costume as a witch when I was a kid, and even later on.

PQ15] Are you doing anything for Halloween this year? If so what?

Handing out candy for the kids who come by trick-or-treating. I’ll put out a few decorations like my ghost tree.

Q16] You are a juinor witch going onto ‘sleepaway camp’, you have to take a familiar with you and your choices are:

Black Cat ***

Toad

Owl

Bat

Rat

Critter

What are you going to pick and why?

Black cat. Cats are cool, and we have a couple of black cats already.

Q17] You have been chosen to make the tea cakes for the party and they have to look spooky what are you going to make?

Round tea cake cookies with icing to look like spider webs.

Q18] How old were you when you saw your first horror movie – what was it – provide link?

The Fiend on TV (see above) when I was 7 or 8. At the movies the first one I saw was called, “Gorgo”, who was a dinosaur, or sea monster.

Q19] Are you easily scared?

No.

PQ20] Are you deleting any questions, if so which ones?

No.

Q21] It’s Halloween, you have three choices which do you pick? Party, TricknTreating or staying at home curtain closed watching spooky stuff?

Staying home watching spooky stuff.

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© 2018 BS

Countdown to Halloween – Day 2

Countdown to Halloween – Day 2

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Poem # 2

“SPOOKY’

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Spooky noises

Screeching voices,

Werewolves start to howl…

Candles lit,

Don’t get bit,

By vampires on the prowl.

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© 2018 BS

 

31 Days of Halloween – October 3rd 2017 – Spooky

31 Days of Halloween – October 3rd 2017 – Spooky

JNW’s Halloween Challenge

This Week’s Challenges: October 1 – 7 (OWPC, WW, JHC)

Today’s prompt word for the challenge is, ‘Spooky’.

To join in this fun challenge, just click the above link to find the deatils. 🙂

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HIDE OUT – ONE WORD PHOTO CHALLENGE

HIDE OUT – ONE WORD PHOTO CHALLENGE

This Week’s Challenges: July 16 – 22 (OWPC & WW)

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This week we have ‘hide outs’. To join in the challenge, and see other entries, just click the above link.

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Here’s a tree I saw in a local park. It had a big thing on the side, sort of hollowed out. That would make a good hide out for some critter, I think.

Here’s the opening to our attic. It is in the garage. It looks spooky up there, and I’m always thinking maybe someone is hiding out up there, or has been living up there for years, and we don’t know about it. I think they spy on us, through little holes in our ceiling. 🙂

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ONE WORD PHOTO CHALLENGE – ELECTRONIC

ONE WORD PHOTO CHALLENGE – ELECTRONIC

One Word Photo Challenge: Electronic

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Here’s a photo of 2 of my electronic, hand-held games. It’s called 20Q, and is very fun to play. 🙂

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20 Q (the game)

Based on a parlor game called Twenty Questions, Robin Burgener, in 1988, invented a hand held electronic game he called 20Q. He was experimenting with using AI – Artificial Intelligence.

When you turn this game on, it will ask you to think of something for it to guess. It has a display screen that you can read it’s questions, and buttons you can push, to log in your answer, either yes, no, sometimes, or unknown.

This ‘toy’ will ask you a series of 20 simple questions. As you keep answering the questions posed, the device will build on them, to ultimately guess what you were thinking about.

In between the questions, it will make funny comments to you. On the package it comes in it states that it can read your mind. One of the comments it makes, is that it is spooky how it knows what you are thinking. 

It is not programmed. It somehow ‘learns’ from every answer you give, and every time turns out different. Most of the time it guesses right!

I have two of these 20Q games, and have been amazed at how it can even do this. It occasionally does miss the answer, and will make a funny comment about how you can’t win them all. 

I think it is a bit weird to be holding a sort of ‘mini brain’ right there in my hand. Like it says…it’s spooky!

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52 WEEKS PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK # 3 – SELF-PORTRAIT

52 WEEKS PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK # 3 – SELF PORTRAIT

https://thegirlthatdreamsawake.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/52-weeks-photography-challenge-week-3-self-portrait/

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Today the topic is ‘self-portrait’. I think we’re supposed to put a photo of ourself on here. I don’t like most of my photos of me, and I’m the one that usually takes the photos of others. However, I’ll play along. Halloween is my favorite holiday, so I like to get into the spirit of the day. Seems I usually like my sorta spooky photos! It suits me, as I’m all about the spooky, and the ghosts! 🙂

  

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OCTPOWRIMO – POEMS – DAY # 31 – SCARECROW

OCTPOWRIMO – POEMS – DAY # 31 – SCARECROW

Today is the last day of the OctPoWriMo poetry challenge…31 poems in 31 days. It’s been fun again this year. I’ve met some fantastic poets, and learned a few things along the way. Until we meet again, I wish everyone the best in your writing adventures! 🙂

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SCARECROW

The scariest thing I’ll ever see,

Is a scarecrow staring back at me…

What’s going on in that head of straw,

Grinning with his sewn on maw?

Seeing with unblinking eyes…

Take it from me – a word to the wise.

You can’t trust the rustle of wind in his hair…

In a cornfield maze, you must beware.

Go out there on a sunny day,

Believe me you will lose your way.

It’s a trick the scarecrow loves to play…

A ruse to keep you there all day.

Now, if you dare the cornfield row,

And if you feel you really must go…

I’ve warned you well, and now you know…

Never turn your back on a spooky scarecrow.

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OCTPOWRIMO – POEMS – DAY # 27 – SPECTER’S PRAYER

OCTPOWRIMO – POEMS – DAY # 27 – SPECTER’S PRAYER

I’m not going with the prompt today. It was to be something whimsical, and about happy endings. As it is coming near to Halloween, my favorite time of year, I wanted to do this one today. 🙂

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SPECTER’S PRAYER

Twisting, turning in their graves

Souls want out tonight.

Tangled in their silken shrouds,

No one hears their plight.

A Specter of their former selves,

They claw with bloody nails…

They struggle inside their coffins, dark…

No one hears their wails.

Come closer, you who walk nearby,

Release us from this plane.

Our spirits now just ectoplasm

That death will not lay claim.

Sobbing now, we feel the chill

Of centuries gone by…

Please rescue us, oh mortal ones…

You see…we did not die.

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OCTPOWRIMO – POEMS – DAY # 18 – I AM THE GHOST BESIDE YOU

OCTPOWRIMO – POEMS – DAY # 18 – I AM THE GHOST BESIDE YOU

Today we were given a phrase… Things aren’t always what they seem…

Words we could use to give us an idea were … mystery, double life, a person or object

To continue with my Halloween, and spooky theme, for this time of the season…I give you this one. I’m saying it is ‘free-verse’ as every word just flowed out…like magic. I think because this is my favorite thing to write about.

Dare you read it?

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I AM THE GHOST BESIDE YOU

Why can’t you see me?

I never planned on being a Ghost…a Ghost of myself.

Flitting around you, I beg for attention…validation…

I am me…a Soul in transition…pain…

Why won’t you see me? I am here beside you.

You look right through me…like I’m not real.

It’s so hard…so hard…I want to be heard.

I need to know you still think of me…still love me.

I am transformed…not gone, not forgotten, not dismissed or diminished as

A strange sound, a confusing coincident of you know-not-what.

I don’t mean to scare you. Please feel no fear. I need your warmth…your love.

I ache to be near you.

Am I the cold chill you feel when I reach out to touch you?

Yes, it’s me.

Am I the wisp of mist you think you see, from the corner of your eye?

Yes, it’s me

Am I the moaning sound you think is the wind through the cracks?

Yes, it’s me.

I’m screaming out to you. I have been here all along.

I have not forgotten you. I give you signs…

Give me a sign that you still care…that you recognize that sudden small flash of memory.

Yes, it’s me, recognizing you in that moment.

I had to leave this life, this mortal realm.

It wasn’t my choice, you see. Please believe me…believe in me,

As I am still here with you…as I am.

I live in your heart, in your thoughts…I am still me, loving you, with all my Soul.

Am I the silence, when you sense that you’re being watched…yes, it’s me…I am near.

Yes, it’s me…still loving you with all my Soul…I am me…

I am the Ghost beside you…

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