Weird Dreams about Climbing

I just woke up from a dream in which I was lead rope soloing a tower in Sedona with my Revo. Some tourists were cross-country sand skiing on oiled skis and their dog fell off a 30’ cliff (recent thread here). The dog (an Aussie shepherd) survived, and proceeded to run over to me and drop a big steaming deuce on my rope and ground anchor. I yelled at it, of course. The owners then hucked the cliff on their skis, came over, and berated me for not being friendlier to their dog. I asked them to replace my rope and they told me to go fuck myself. Then I woke up.

Anyone else had bizarre nighttime dreams involving climbing?

I had a dream two nights ago that I was ice climbing some massive cliff in Patagonia (I've only ice climbed a few times btw.) I get to this huge ledge/cave and my college classmates are there, and they are all getting ready to rap down. I then realize that I have no rope and that I'll have to rap down with them. Then the entire mountain starts rocking around in a circle and it feels like it's going to throw me out of the cave, but none else seems to be worried. Then part of the ground falls away and it shows that the cave we're in is actually just bunch of ice and snow stuck to the rock and its slowly just falling down. I look down the hole and its a thousand foot straight drop to the ground. I decide that I'm going to just  top out and walk off the mountain, so I do this mantel where I'm terrified my foot will slip and I'll fall all the way down. But I do it and I make it to the top, where I'm greeted by some random guy who says there is no walk off I gotta rap, but he has a rope there, so I begin rapping and then I woke up. 

Not dreams but I've had people look at me like I'm stupid because I asked them to keep their unleashed dog away from my pack and gear on the ground while I was belaying someone. I love dogs. Worked professionally with dogs for almost a decade. But if a dog pees on my stuff there's going to be problems. I just don't understand why people let their dogs run loose at crags. Or even worse, keeping them on leash and letting them walk up to other people's gear to check it out.

Please lets not turn this into another dog thread.

I sometimes have a dream about checking in at the airport and realizing I forgot to pack my gear. Then everything is in slow motion.

I know it's an anxiety thing. It might stem from the time I actually was checking in and didn't have my driver's license. This involved a cab trip back home and just barely making the flight.

F r i t z wrote: I just woke up from a dream in which I was lead rope soloing a tower in Sedona with my Revo. Some tourists were cross-country sand skiing on oiled skis and their dog fell off a 30’ cliff (recent thread here). The dog (an Aussie shepherd) survived, and proceeded to run over to me and drop a big steaming deuce on my rope and ground anchor. I yelled at it, of course. The owners then hucked the cliff on their skis, came over, and berated me for not being friendlier to their dog. I asked them to replace my rope and they told me to go fuck myself. Then I woke up.

Anyone else had bizarre nighttime dreams involving climbing?

Turn off your computer for a couple of days.

Luca Keushguerian wrote: Please lets not turn this into another dog thread.

It's simple, dogs have no place in a climbing dream. Leave your dog at home. Period. 

What stage of quarantine madness is dream-posting on Mtn Project?

Wait til ya dream about falling ...

Bill Czajkowski wrote:

Turn off your computer for a couple of days.

I work as an IT manager. 

F r i t z wrote:

I work as an IT manager. 

Well, I hope you enjoy weird dreams about climbing. And maybe goats.

Smoke gonja at night
No dreams

Not a dream. But my doctor once prescribed me too much prednisone. I was sitting in Advanced Macroeconomics hallucinating that I was climbing Gelsa. Everything was so clear but the professor was standing in the middle of the pitch. 

Climbing dreams are the best!  My usually involve working through a sequence over and over, seems like boulder problems.  Sometimes successful, tho not always.  So much fun to wake up and have that on the brain!

To the surprise of no one, the first night I spent on a portaledge, I had a dream that I slid off the side of it.  I woke up with a jolt to that weightless sensation to find myself perfectly safe in the middle of my ledge.

I had a very marginal moment on a free solo. Marginal might be an understatement. That was fodder for a wealth of crazy dreams. Haven't gone ropeless on anything harder than easy alpine since then either. The dreams finally subsided when my subconscious figured out that I wasn't going to do that to it again.