DREAMING OF THE STARS

 DREAMING OF THE STARS

Level: Intermediate

Not everyone can remember their dreams, and considering their sometimes x-rated content we can be happy that our consciousness lets us forget more than we´d like to remember. But then not every dream is a nightmare, and sometimes happy dreams can introduce us to people we´re never likely to meet in the real world..

Have you ever dreamt of a famous person? Perhaps you have dreamt about shaking hands with me? Or seen me round a spiral staircase in a white ballroom dress, sparkling with diamonds? Perhaps I have even said a few words to you and then you spent the rest of your dream buzzing around like a big bumble bee?

According to the website Dreammoods.com (a guide to the meaning of dreams), dreaming about famous people can have several implications, not all of them positive. In fact, a star cameo usually means that your aspirations are higher than your potential and that you´re facing imminent disappointment, and if a friend becomes famous, you are insecure over that particular relationship. Mainly, though, a crush or obsession with a celebrity in your day to day life allows them to cross over into your dream life and the meaning therefore is that you are obsessed.

Our cultural dreamscape or collective unconscious is already saturated with the mugs and jugs of celebrities. Contemporary culture is built on their images and mythical statuses, and we are as likely to know more about our favourite film actor or rock singer than our next door neighbours. It is actually surprising that dreaming about famous people isn´t much more common. How often have you heard a friend tell you about the dream they had last night featuring an all-star cast?  Hardly ever, right.

But there are some stars who are forever cropping up in dreams. Some even have their own fanpages or forums for sharing dreams about them. We are going to read a fan´s dream about one such star…

 We will call the celebrity X.

JENNY´S DREAM: 

Jenny from El Paso, Texas: I know I'm not the only one out there haha so here's a place to share all of y'alls dreams about X! :] I've had plenty but here's my favorite one even though it did make me somewhat angry ;]

                          

 Ok so in my dream, I was on vacation with family in Florida and my mom and I just so happened to go to the grocery store.

 I was in another aisle when my mom started talking to some lady with an accent. I walked over to them and my mom introduced us and I couldn't help but think that the lady reminded me of someone. We said our goodbyes and later my mom told me that the lady had invited us to dinner at her house.

 I was a little weirded out but I didn't object.

Later when we were at the house, I saw that it was super huge! When we walked inside we were greeted by the lady and she led us to the living room. She sat me down and motioned for my mom to go in another room with her and left me by myself.

Being the nosy person I am (tee hee) I got up and started to look at all the pictures that were in the room and it wasn't until then that I realized that the lady was X´s sister! (not sure which one)

 I gasped and started shaking and when I turned around to call my mom, Mama X and the whole X clan (brothers and sisters only) were standing there smiling from ear to ear including my mom and X  herself.

I started laughing and crying all at once and everyone started cheering and applauding. X  then, opened her arms and motioned me into a hug while I cried in her arms and she just held me and told me not to cry.

I looked up at her and I said, "Ohmygosh X I love you so much! Are you real?! Is this really real?! Am I dreaming?!"

 Then X said ,"No this isn't a dream, this is real." And then low and behold, I wake up right after she says that.

I literally woke up saying Noooooooo!!!! I was so mad that my wonderful dream wasn't real at all, but I was happy to meet X in my dreams :]

Can you guess the celebrity? That´s right it was Celine Dion!

Glossary:

Dream - sonho

Nightmare - pesadelo

Shaking hands – apertando a mão de alguem

Spiral Staircase – escada

White ballroom dress – vestido de baile branco

Bumble Bee – abelha ( a big one!)

Crush – liking someone a lot because you´re attracted to them

Consciousness - consciencia

Unconscious - inconsciente

To crop up – a surgir

Vacation  - feriadas

Grocery Store - mercearia

Accent - sotaque

To be weirded out – to find something strange

Nosy - intrometido

Cheering - aplauso

Applauding – aplaudindo

Low and behold – an expression that emphasizes something surprising

TASK ONE : LISTENING

´I am your lady´by Celine Dion

If you do this, you will improve your English by 0.00000000375 per cent. Listen to this Song by the Freddie Kruger of Celebrity Dreaming and fill the gaps. The missing words are at the bottom of this post, but first try just by listening. When you´re ready, you can read the lyrics on the net or off this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbBCUbt_DO4

The _________ in the morning
Of lovers sleeping tight
Are rolling like _________ now
As I look in your eyes

I hold on to your _____
And feel each move you make
Your voice is ____ and tender
A love that I could not forsake

'Cause I am your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you _______ me
I'll ________ that I can

Lost is how I'm feeling _____ in your arms
When the world outside's too
Much to take
That all _______ when I'm with you

Even _____ there may be times
It seems I'm far away
Never _____ where I am
'Cause I am always by your side

'Cause I am your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you ______ me
I'll ______ that I can

We're _______ for something
Somewhere I've never been
Sometimes I am _________
But I'm _____ to learn
Of the power of love

The sound of your heart ________
Made it clear
________ the feeling that I can't go on
Is light years away

'Cause I am your lady
etc.

TASK TWO: Keeping a DREAM DIARY in English

Why not keep a dream diary for the following weeks. Don´t worry if you usually have difficulty remembering your dreams, actually this becomes easier by keeping a diary. Perhaps you´ll find answers to your deepest questions, see the future, communicate more effectively in English or who knows but you might even receive a visitor in the form of a Canadian Diva.  

Task One – Missing Words (not in the correct order!)

SUDDENLY/ BODY/ WARM/ REACH FOR/ WHISPERS/HEADING/ ENDS/ LYING/ THOUGH/ THUNDER/ WONDER/ FRIGHTENED/ BEATING/ REACH FOR/ READY