Fountain Pen Related Dreams?

[Frangipani]

Okay, I've been having really weird and vivid dreams lately.

 

I was just taking a nap and had a dream about fountain pens for the first time!

 

In my dream, I remember looking at Nathan Tardiff's blog. He was announcing that he was changing the name of Noodler's ink to N♥♥dler's. He also redesigned the beautiful Noodler's ink labels into horrible MS Paint monstrosities.

 

I checked FPN to see the reaction and people were threatening to boycott Noodler's. I was afraid Nathan would shut down Noodler's due to all of the criticism (hah), so I sent along an email saying I loved the new changes.

 

Anyway, it was very strange, but I'm wondering, have you guys ever dreamed about anything fountain pen related? Either a specific brand like I did, or just using pens in your dreams, or anything really! I'm curious to know.

 

[Vendome]

My mum had a book on dreams, so will try and dig it out next time I visit my folks. In the mean time I found this on a dream interpretation site...

 

Dream of ink means bad news.

 

Pencil or Pen Dream Meaning

 

Pencil Dream Psychological Meaning: Pens and pencils are probably being used by your dream as phallic symbols. However they are also symbols of self-expression. Take careful note of anything you write or see written in the dream. This may be a cryptic message from your unconscious.

 

Mystical Meaning: Dream lore says that if you dream of a pen that will not write you’ll be charged with serious breach of morality!

 

To stop my wacky dreams I stopped eating cheese before bedtime.

[lovementos]

Just last night, I had a fountain pen-related dream. It involved me being tested by the college admins and me joking with my nursing classmates that they expelled me. One of my classmates decided to help me by taking my Visconti HS and disassembling it because it could be used as evidence in my favour. Something along the lines of "I couldn't have written that exam because I used this certain ink". I can't remember what ink I used though.

[Sonnet]

I just had a dream last night and fountain pens made a brief appearance. The dream mainly involved something to do with trains but at some point, I'd stopped to grab a bunch of pens from my collection, but I was in a rush. Weird.

[rochester21]

I once dreamt of finding a whole bunch of fountain pens. I woke up excited, looked around for them, but there weren`t any. It was just a dream...kind of a disappointing way to start the day.

Edited May 19, 2013 by rochester21

[Nashten]

I've had a few, and one bad one.

The bad one, the fountain pen fell out of my pocket while walking and it rolled down on the road and a car came and squished it. I threw a complete fit and then woke up. Pen was on the desk still, thank goodness, back to sleep.

My best one was receiving a box from my friend and they told me "I dunno whats in the box... So whatever you get is yours." Lo and behold, a big red Parker Duofold, Pelikan M1000 and a Waterman 52, all with stub nibs, oddly. The 52 had so much dry ink in it, every movement of it made a CRUNCHing noise.

[Ebu]

I am lucky enough to witness amazing dreams everyday, and I have seen some fountain pen related dreams; one of them being pretty amazing.

 

1) I was walking up a staircase. It was pretty modern looking, all white, metal and shiny. When I reached the top floor, I walked out and realized I was in a department store in China. I looked around and everything looked quite interesting. I walked around a bit and stumbled upon a fountain pen section. There were some very cool Japanese fountain pens and I was just drooling all over the place. Then I saw a sign saying 999,99 ¥. I asked my dad how much € that would be. Thats where my dream ended. I just looked it up and it is around €7... bargain much? ( )

 

2) I was walking around through some narrow streets, when I walked past this very dark, abandoned looking store. I looked inside and saw the store owner. She smiled and showed me some special vintage fountain pens and dip pens. All sorts of nibs and inks. That was really amazing. I walked out of this store, walked out of the street and saw a fountain pen stall next to a bridge. One specific pen got my attention. From what I remember, it was a pearl white/ light blue coloured pen. I also saw a vintage Lamy Safari. This made me go "what did I just witness?" when I woke up.

[Beckwith]

Had a dream last night I was moving into a new apartment, and the old tenant had left behind several boxes of extremely nice pens. Actually, the boxes were nice too. The only pen I explicitly remember was a Visconti Voyager demonstrator.

Edited May 29, 2014 by Beckwith

[nogoodnamesleft]

Maybe, but I hardly ever remember my dreams.

[Runnin_Ute]

Don't remember my dreams, so no idea if I have ever dreamed of fountain pens...........

[inkstainedruth]

I'm pretty sure I did a few weeks ago, but don't remember it now. I often have very weird and vivid dreams, but unless I think about them and/or write them down immediately upon waking, they fade extremely quickly.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[JotterAddict62]

No dreams, I'm living in the real world of pens.

[discopig]

I had a few dreams about fountain pens over the months. In one of them I dreamt I lent some of my pens to someone and the pens came back to me with the tines of the nibs snapped off. I was actually pretty upset until I woke up.

Edited May 30, 2014 by discopig

[flyingfox]

I just had a weird, pen-related dream.

 

I was at a hotel, filling out a check in form. But somehow I am holding a green onion in my hand. Obviously it is not writing at all, I am frustrated and looking for other pens, but all other "pens" they had were green onions as well...

 

The whole dream was weird (the process of getting to the hotel was unnecessarily difficult, and- once I somehow I got into the hotel, it was my old college dorm room that I had to empty out in two hours, and there were a few more twists and turns afterward...) Wonder what that all means??!!

[GTOZack]

I just had a weird, pen-related dream.

 

I was at a hotel, filling out a check in form. But somehow I am holding a green onion in my hand. Obviously it is not writing at all, I am frustrated and looking for other pens, but all other "pens" they had were green onions as well...

 

The whole dream was weird (the process of getting to the hotel was unnecessarily difficult, and- once I somehow I got into the hotel, it was my old college dorm room that I had to empty out in two hours, and there were a few more twists and turns afterward...) Wonder what that all means??!!

*offers onion rings*

 

I had a dream being a tank commander singing off documents with a Montblanc L139 and assigned to a new tank alongside five other crew members. I remember walking to a garage which had long heavy shredded camouflage canopy that housed a brand new PzKmpf VI King Tiger.

I began a novel about an perspective experience of a WWII tanker, so sometimes these dreams are a source of inspiration other than the books. still a work in progress.

[I like mango cheesecake]

I read this thread a few days ago and said, yeah, right. FP dreams?!?!?!?!? I'm not that crazy!!!!!

 

Well, last night I had a disturbing dream that I ground my 149 B nib to a stub and used a grinding stone used to sharpen axes. I ground it down way past the feeder. I proceed to write with it and it wasn't performing well enough so I ground it down with a belt sander. I went all the way to the grip section. I looked at it and then put it away. That's when I couldn't dream anymore dreadful thoughts and it ended there.

[penrivers]

I read this thread a few days ago and said, yeah, right. FP dreams?!?!?!?!? I'm not that crazy!!!!!

 

Well, last night I had a disturbing dream that I ground my 149 B nib to a stub and used a grinding stone used to sharpen axes. I ground it down way past the feeder. I proceed to write with it and it wasn't performing well enough so I ground it down with a belt sander. I went all the way to the grip section. I looked at it and then put it away. That's when I couldn't dream anymore dreadful thoughts and it ended there.

Well, do not check Freud books. .

[Fountainer]

I had a dream of writing on the famous Rhodia-paper. Lucky me, now i know what it's like! It had a kind of plastic surface that didn't leave the ink wet for too long but gave a specific feel of feedback when writing and prevented fibers to come off from the paper. I'm not sure if i wanted to buy it though...

 

I also tested two pens from random friends on the Rhodia. One with a really tiny EF nib and one more decorated M nib pen, and then there was a weird necklace made of coral, capable of acting as a dip pen, but that i didn't test.

 

I also dreamed about finding a really long green Aurora Optima pen from a street and took it to a bookstore next to it to ask if it was lost from them. They said that an angry customer left it on street because of the badly aligning blind cap that was unable to be fixed. The salesperson was greed and demanded to keep the pen without giving any reward to me though i knew what it was worth. Finnish law demands to give 10 % reward of the value. Optimas are really short pens in real life. That has bothered me when thinking should i buy one.

Edited February 3, 2015 by Fountainer

[unigami]

I had a dream that I was riding my bike and two Parker Duofolds were rolling down the street. I stopped, picked them up and they were in pretty good shape. Took them home, rinsed 'em under some tap water, and they looked absolutely new. Then I took the cap off one to try writing with it and there was a note in the cap. That's when I woke up....!

[inkstainedruth]

Weird bit of sychronicity, having this thread revived.

I had a dream a couple of nights ago where I the Pelikan M200 Café Crème that is on order came, only it was actually a demonstrator. Except that the cap, section and blind cap weren't clear -- they were brown just like on the pen I'm waiting for, making the pen look a little odd (and I guess sort of frankenpen-ish). Or maybe it was two pens, the demonstrator and the real one.

I suspect that there is no great significance to the dream, though, because earlier I had been on FPN and one of the threads I had been reading that day was the one where someone was soliciting opinions as to whether to get a Pelikan demonstrator or the new M800 series Stresemann....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth