Manic Dreams - For Fun!

..... I've wanted to be an airline attendant too! Wanted to quit my job. Also was sorely tempted to quit and become a travel agent!

Then again, I've also wanted to quit everything and go work on some boat!

I get a lot of silly job ideas for myself. I love teaching, but sometimes I'm just like "I NEED TO DO THIS!!!!" or "IT WOULD BE SO COOL IF I DID THIS FOR A FEW YEARS TOO!!!!!!!"

This is a great thread. I never knew I had so many hairbrained ideas, haha!

Let's see...

As you know I write and I work on multip projects at a time. I work on them in shifts and sometimes none at all. I still get it in my head that if the right person (agent/editor type) came across my work I'd be a best sellf..... errr.... seller.... >.>

I graduated from my vocational school and then went on an hour long planning session with my husband about how I was going to go back to school, get my psych degree, become an office manager and work my way up to being a psychologist with my own practice.

As a teen I had a dream of starting a homeless shelter for teens only to get them off the streets. It's a major problem in our city. So, my plan was to build a boarding school type of place where teens could live and go to school, and they would have an address so they could get part time jobs, too so they could get on their feet once they got their diplomas.

Also as a teen I had this idea that I was going to buy a laptop, put a mattress in the back of my truck, and take off to see the country. I would write as I went and work in diners or whatever I could find in the places I stopped to make extra money....

my strangest one (this isn't really a dream, it's just something that happened to me)

was thinking what would happen if everyone- all they did was bounce down the road.. and the only 2 words they could say was puppy and ball. that's it!

dunno why i thought of that... but it well cracked me up!. my mania seems to bring out the funniest ideas

dreams though... a wishing computer. you just tell the computer what you want, then you reach down to the cd rom drive and get it out of the slot!

computer... get me some chicken wings!

and their we have it- just reach for the drive and pull out the bowl of wings.... yeah.... will never happen, but what's wrong with thinking about it

Computer! Make me a sandwich! Haha, that would be awesome!

I wanted to manufacture glow in the dark clothing hangers! That way when I need to sneak/go in/out at night, I wouldn't need to put the light on in my room and disturb Jordan! Keeping in mind that Jordan is very bossy btw! So placid and on her own buzz most of the time, not really noticing me until I'm getting dressed up to exit.

Then she's all "and just where do you think you're off to?" or "are you coming home tonight or will I see you at breakfast?" She might as well have added "missy" to those! Once or twice she's tried "But I wanna spend time with you!!!!"

But I told her I don't tolerate emotional blackmail ******** and that she should cut it out if she doesn't want me angry... She hasn't attempted it again. Haha, kudos to my daughter, she's not a mommy button-pusher! Well not yet anyway, I still have to experience teenaged Jordan

Anyway, I forgot the hangers because she vacated my room

Speaking of wishes, I wish for a wallet that refills itself everytime I open it lmao

I thought of some others...

I want to make the perfect mood tracking app... that reads your mind without you having to enter in anything just in case you forget.

I wanted to turn my comic into a series of flash games. (No idea how to make flash games...)

My comic... that's another one... I wanted some major diabetes compnay to pick me up and turn my comic into a funny / intellectual/ educational thing and pay me to make comics all day. I was really upset when none of the diabetes reps seemed to care if I asked them to look at it. (now I realize they are not even able to make those decisions, LOL.)

At vocational school I wanted to re-write the entire series of books so the girls who were not good students could better understand them. Then I wanted to return as an instructor (which isn't too far fetched in reality and I still hope I can do that someday.)

I once decided that I wanted to join a cult. Just to see what it was like to be brainwashed and really religious.

Of course, I wasn't sure how to go about doing that, and I don't like lying. And I'm very much not religious. And I couldn't exactly be brainwashed if I was attempting to join it just to see what it was like. So I gave that one up after I confused myself!

Oh, and here I was going to get to bed at a "normal" hour...
Brain's too fuzzley atm. Damn there are a lot of them. So there might be a part II. (Apologies in advance.) Some of these really sparked some memories though...
Love this. But why join a strike? Make your own! Wait. Didn't I see you guys out there just last week?
Ooooh, yeah. Brain's been there and has the t-shirt. Filled the backyard with tons of branches someone (a boss actually, lol!) was going to haul to the dump. Peeled 'em all and made some stuff too. With a considerable lack of proper tools. What a bunch of crap. (Ok, one piece was pretty cool. Caveman construction, but cool... and actually lasted a couple years. Which was much longer than it took for my enthusiasm to disintegrate...)
Haha, Shattered, sounds about right! That's the kind of stuff I think about while laughing by myself cleaning a bathroom half the night...Oh wait. All the time.
I actually did get into some really out-of-character infiltrations. Finding out I had BP explained a LOT. Because I hadn't know what on earth possessed me to do such a thing(!) So embarrassingly out-of-character that it still kind of freaks me out, and it was years ago. I'm a people observer for sure, but was it really necessary to go into the damn hives to do so?! (Not cults, but ... kinda on the fanatical side of things.)

Languages, check. Did a bunch for real (with classes and stuff). But the DIY Irish while living nowhere near anyone who spoke it? Yeah, that didn't last long... (Have you seen how many letters one does not pronounce in the words?! Not to mention 4 dialects.)

Name about any DIY making-stuff-the-hard-way endeavor out there, and I've gotten carried away with grand schemes over it. Ok, not "any", but there are a lot. Log house construction, underground housing, wine making, hand sewing, hide tanning (yeah, this from someone who can barely get raw chicken into a pan...) and so forth, ad nauseam (haha, double points).

The frightening thing (if it isn't enough so already) is that much more will likely come to mind tomorrow...

Such philanthropists here though! Apparently my dream's only been to work till my hands fell off while gibbering on in multiple languages laughing over Gumbies on a jello trampoline. Hell yeah, I'd be doing demonstrations!

Dark heart....yesterday I was going into imagination land to try and put myself to sleep or at least slow down a little from the hypomania. I also created a mental health center. Inside it were a plethora of large tunnels that ended up in light filled rooms for discussion and therapy. There was a sign above each tunnel that stated the illness. Bipolar, anxiety, panic, art therapy, color therapy, massage, addiction......in the center was a beautiful arched dome with paintings and stained glass done exclusively by patients. The tunnels fed off the main atrium. The entire building was surrounded by forests, streams and rolling green hills. Anything and everything a person would need or want was available and all who left became well.

Pretty wierd that we both had similar thoughts! Maybe one day it could happen! Dream it into being!

How about a magical manic hairdresser!! So we can shave all our hair off and then have an instant regrow in case we changed our mind.

Oh - while wandering around in the store I remembered another hobby I got into:

I wanted to do cake decorating. Was convinced I'd be EXCELLENT at it instantly. I've still never used fondant, and I am still sometimes convinced I'd be amazing at it without any practice at all!

I like this idea. I'm starting to feel better than when I first signed on.

I have had so many of these...

I was going to remove, strip, stain, varnish , and rehang all of the casing, trim, and moulding in my old Victorian I used to own. I got it all down, stripped and stained and ready to go but the day I moved out, it was still sitting on sawhorses in the corner of the garage. And in a million pieces with a "map" and lettering system that I made up and drew out. Bad news there.

One I thought of but miraculously recovered and didn't do was when my son was taking piano lessons and he was getting burned out and I was convinced that all he needed was a brand new full size keyboard and stand with a sweet bench and pedal. I priced out this great set for him and was ready to go but waited then heard of some used gear that I snatched up instead. Good thing too because he decided not to continue taking lessons a couple months after and that is what I'd planned on spending a portion if my income tax on.

Haha, Blue -- I thought you were going to say the ones we need to salvage the haircuts we think are a really great idea in the middle of the night, with dollar store scissors, a youtube video ("How hard could it be"??!) and no skill.

(Heheh, last one got some of the back of my hair chopped short, but not the rest -- one would never mistake it for "on purpose" -- before giving up the logistical nightmare. Made an appointment the next day, oh yes.

bluewave: That sounds like the perfect building for the mental wellness center! haha. I didn't have a plan for the building. This could be a joint effort in mania!

BlueIanna: The hair that grows back would have been good the time I did shave my head... It all started out as this idea to have a cute pixi cut and ended up with 1/2 an inch of hair on my head!

Chesire: The cake decorating reminds me that when I used to work at Pier One they offer for you to go to school to become an interior designer! I was so ready ready to jump on that except that I hated that job and ended up quitting, because pandering store-credit cards was "against my religion." Then I had the idea come up again when I used to watch a DIY show on TLC that I can't remember the name of.

treehugger: I'm so glad you didn't spend all that money on a piano! That was a close call.

This kind of sort of reminds of that time I thought I could re-upholster the chair in our sun room. I got as far as ripping apart the back cushion and then lost interest. But since we still needed the chair I took the fabric that I had bought for it and literally just safety pinned it in place. This was about a year ago and it's still held together with safety pins to this day!

I just remembered one of these wild ideas that I had last weekend:

I was pretty damn convinced that I could discover a new area just by tromping off along the trails late at night! It was most certainly something I thought I could do. Even if I knew it would be somewhere that was a discovered place in the daytime. lol! (I was drunk at the time and was off on a hunt for adventure and exploration!)

Every now and again I get a wild hair up a dark place and think I can tackle a huge project, like rearranging the furniture and cleaning everything to the baseboards in every room in my 3,000-sq.ft. house! Some other wonderful ideas I've come up with were going to Ensenada over the Labor Day weekend with two people I knew from work (actually DID that one to much regret), starting a direct marketing business (but couldn't figure out a product to sell), painting the house and planting the hundred flowering plants I'd bought (I did manage to get most of them in before they croaked, but the painting never even got off the ground).

Another one was buying a motorhome and cruise around the country.....thought we'd go to Florida or Arizona for the winter, New England for the fall, the mountains of Colorado for the spring, and the coast of Maine for the summer. I'd work temp nursing jobs to put food on the table and gas in the motorhome, and my husband would hunt and fish for most of our meat dishes in order to save money for side trips to all the places we wanted to visit.

That dream ended with the advent of grandchildren, and regretfully will remain only a dream.

I was going to solve the mysteries of the universe. That's all I'm saying, the rest is confidential.

But I waaaaaanna heeeeeeelllllllllllppppp

There's been times where I've been fairly convinced that if I just READ more non-fiction books that I could easily be a real-life version of Sherlock Holmes.

Unfortunately for me, I'm not a huge fan of reading textbooks, and I certainly don't have the patience to memorize them! But I AM good at observation! haha. So maybe someday.

(See, I'd be GREAT HELP!)

I love this!

My plans
1. I was going to work out how to grow brain tissue, with the intent of curing brain injuries, strokes etc. (I was in high school at the time.)
2. Change our understanding of the brain with my new theory of consciousness.
3. Started a campaign to get dogs allowed on public transport where I live.
4. Planned to convert part of the house into a rock climbing gym. (I did knock one wall down during that high!)
5. I have no idea how many 'best selling' novels I have started, but not finished.
6. Planned to petition for lamotrigine to be put on the PBS for bipolar, which would mean the government would subsidise the cost.

There have been many more, but those were some of the ones I went quite a long way with!