What were your childhood dreams?

ballsymchugh

according to this lady, it's every little girls dreams to own a pet monkey.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/my-monkey-alvin-died-from-depression-after-he-was-stolen-court-case-29751186.html

I've wanted a monkey since I was a child. I think it's every little girl's dream to have a pet monkey, so when my husband bought me one, I was thrilled

i'm not sure if i remember any sane person saying anything like that.

there is a serious side to this case, but that quote just makes the whole thing bizarre.

The Dom

I wanted to marry Penelope Pitstop.

Muise...

I wanted to be an astronaut.

Then Challenger.

theblaqueguy

My childhood dream was

To be a leader not a follower
Because
I'd rather be a dick than a swallower

dockleaf

Not sure if it is every little girl's dream, but would definitely be up there on my seven year olds list! Would have loved a pet monkey myself as a little girl. Maybe I'm insane though.:D

darkpagandeath

Monkeys are pets now must be a great laugh being locked up in a cage in someones gaff ?

dockleaf

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Monkeys are pets now must be a great laugh being locked up in a cage in someones gaff ?

Did you ever see that monkey in Friends? Think he was the same type of monkey.

Muise...

When I was seven there was a man in town on market days with two skinny little monkeys in knitted clothes and you could pay him to get your picture taken with them. We were never let, which is just as well because they were horrible little scobie biting yokes.

sok2005

I wanted to be a mermaid. Failed.

Wibbs

Muise... wrote: »

I wanted to be an astronaut.

Same here. Sooooo much. None of this near earth orbit malarky either. I wanted to go out there. Mars I figured as an 8 year old was next after the moon. I also wanted to be a geologist so mixin the two on mars I would have filled the suit with pee in my glee. Pilot would have been first on the list, but then at 9 I discovered I was very shortsighted and that broke my little heart cos I knew game over. It didn't help that my mathematical abilities would be bested by Coco the chimp.

Then I fell back on geology, well more paleontology. Mad into collecting fossils I was. Drove my dad demented asking him to stop at road cuttings on family holidays Even when we went continental I'd be climbing over rocks, finding fossils and the odd stone tool(the latter were all over the place in France once you got your eye in). It's all probably illegal now. But adults tend to leave weird 8/9 year olds alone so maybe you could still get away with it. If you're weird and 8.

The One Who Knocks

A horologist.

(1:40)

itac

I wanted to be an archeologist...
I was quite the tomboy and the thoughts of being allowed to essentially dig in the mud all day and find loads of cool dinosaur bones and roman/viking remains and hitherto unexcavated castles and suchlike made it seem like the best job ever.
Then life got in the way of my plans.* Silly life : (

Also, reading Wibbs post has brought back memories of my rock "collection". Two old plastic lunchboxes filled with the most colourful cracked and weirdly shaped rocks I could spot over the years. Alas, we moved house when I was 11 or so, and my parents declared said collection "lost in the move". I have my suspicions about that story...


*said plans may have just been the idea that 8 yr old me would somehow turn into a kid archeologist overnight instead of actually learning how to become one...

pablomakaveli

I loved dinosaurs when i was young and aspired to be a paleontologist. I had loads of dinosaur toys and collected every issue of those Dinosaur magazines that they used to sell in the 90's.

I'm kind of glad i didn't follow through with it though. The idea of the slow painstaking process of removing dinosaur fossils from rock doesn't sound like much fun anymore.:pac:

Bipolar Joe

Fireman, or a Guard. As close to a real super hero as you can get. That or Christian Slater from Heathers.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

I wanted to be a writer, and here I am, writing in the main forum on the biggest website in all of Ireland in my spacious dimly lit bedsit, with a toilet in the same room like a king, with a fridge full of food I collected from the local soup kitchen, with a fine pair of shoes that I paid over £30 for only 12 years ago, living the mofo dream up in here! YOLO!!!

Eeden

This little girl wanted to be a cowboy sooo badly. When I was five I talked my mother into letting me get my hair cut short, since I had never seen a cowboy on TV with long hair. My dad was unimpressed - "Are you happy? Now we have five sons!" (I was the only girl with four brothers).

I hated my new haircut so much that the whole cowboy idea went straight out the window! (I guess it may have been a little bit unrealistic, as we lived in a large American city.)

Fbjm

I wanted to have a non 9 to 5 job involving music. I'm currently in America studying to be a music therapist, so so far so good.

sky88

Footballer or wrestler

Im an accountant

Wibbs

pablomakaveli wrote: »

I loved dinosaurs when i was young and aspired to be a paleontologist. I had loads of dinosaur toys and collected every issue of those Dinosaur magazines that they used to sell in the 90's.

Funny enough, though I was mad into paleontology I wasn't pushed on dinosaurs at all. *Cue lifetime ban from the paleontology forum* Really early life and human evolution was what did it for me. When you find and hold a stone tool in your hand and realise that the last person who held this was many thousands of years ago and if you go back 50,000 years they weren't even "human" like us it really melts your head. Well mine anyway. Even moreso when the thing is still sharp enough and still usable. :eek: When freshly made, flint is easily sharp enough to shave with and obsidian is sharper than any surgical steel, by quite a ways.

Mint Aero

I dreamt of being an adult and living on a diet of chocolate. I couldn't wait to be a grown up so I could eat a tin of roses every day.

Then I got old and it's all boring crap I eat.

tim3000

I really wanted to be an archaeologist/paleontologist after seeing Jurassic Park as a five year old. I also collected those Dinosaur magazines. My dream was to go to the Gobi Desert and excavate a Protoceratops fossil. When I was 15-16 for transition year I finally got to be an archaeologist for 2 days digging up human skeletons. It was very cool, but back breaking work. Still have an interest in history and geology though.

Teyla Emmagan

Archaeologist. Raiders of the Lost Ark made a BIG impression on me.

And I really wanted a talking parrot. All because of Enid Blyton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_Series

My mother said she nearly moved out I went on about that damn parrot so much.

My name is URL

Probably astronaut too.. but not because of some desire to explore or help scientific endeavour...

..mainly SuperTed

r3nu4l

I wanted to be a Scientist (Biologist) and I also really wanted to be a writer.
I achieved both of those dreams but neither have brought me the riches my 6 year old self thought they would!

liliq

I wanted to be a vet. Was never a fan of people so figured animals were a better bet.

Also had an obsession with being able to fly. Dreamt about it on a regular basis.

deseil

I wanted a Duck, a Donkey, an Ice Cream van, a Bakery and a sweet shop Have none of the above but theres still time

Muise...

liliq wrote: »

Also had an obsession with being able to fly. Dreamt about it on a regular basis.

I initially read the thread title as sleep dreams. I dreamt I was flying a lot as a child, and falling, and I liked the falling dreams too . Still have them the odd time.

Czarcasm

I was about six when I first saw the film "Gone With The Wind", had a profound effect on my life as I wanted to be Rhett Butler, and Scarlett O' Hara was my ideal girl. Then about eight years of age I watched E.T., and that had me think about life, planets and dimensions far beyond the known universe.

I was 12 when I said to my mother "Computers are the paper and pencil of tomorrow!". She laughed dismissively suggesting the idea would never catch on.


That was 25 years ago. She's never accepted nor come to terms with the fact that I chose computers over teaching or the priesthood!

Frosty McSnowballs

I wanted to be an archaeologist / Paleontologist / Stunt Man or a soldier.

Man I wish I was a stunt man.

.Henry Sellers.

I wanted to be a Binman because they get to ride on the back of the bin lorries, it looked cool. After Jurrasic Park I upgraded it to being an Archeologist.

I wanted to be a mechanic.

I still want to be a mechanic.

Fr_Dougal

I wanted to be a businessman that wore suits and had a briefcase.

Irish Guitarist

I think I wanted to team up with the Autobots and fight the Decepticons.

Super-Rush

I wanted a monkey.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055566855

Lucyfur

For years, my son wanted to be a speed bump or a hammer head shark.

Now he wants to be Steve Jobs.

I wanted to be a plumber.

Witchie

I wanted a monkey too. I remember Belfast zoo was closing down and my dad said he would get us a monkey. My brother and I were all excited and started planning what we would do with it, teach it to dance, get it to play football, dress it in cute clothes, put it in the basket in the front of my bicycle etc. Then dad told me he was joking! We were heartbroken.

I also wanted to be an archaeologist. Never happened coz as I grew up I liked the thoughts of rats and worms less!

JuliusCaesar

Me? I wanted to own a sweet shop. Then I could eat as many sweets as I wanted.

In secondary school, I wanted to be a journalist.




I became a psychologist, realised I HATED writing (although I love *doing* research), and as for sweets - meh.
But as I love my job, I'm happy. Very happy.

Micky Dolenz

My dream was to be able to eat coco pops when ever I wanted.

Fox_In_Socks

Wibbs wrote: »

Same here. Sooooo much. None of this near earth orbit malarky either. I wanted to go out there. Mars I figured as an 8 year old was next after the moon. I also wanted to be a geologist so mixin the two on mars I would have filled the suit with pee in my glee. Pilot would have been first on the list, but then at 9 I discovered I was very shortsighted and that broke my little heart cos I knew game over. It didn't help that my mathematical abilities would be bested by Coco the chimp.

Then I fell back on geology, well more paleontology. Mad into collecting fossils I was. Drove my dad demented asking him to stop at road cuttings on family holidays Even when we went continental I'd be climbing over rocks, finding fossils and the odd stone tool(the latter were all over the place in France once you got your eye in). It's all probably illegal now. But adults tend to leave weird 8/9 year olds alone so maybe you could still get away with it. If you're weird and 8.

Dad...? Is that you?:pac:

I was almost exactly the same, though in reverse. The geology and paleonthology first and space/military geek after. Never went out foreign fossil-hunting, but I did bring back home huge rocks in the parent's car from the beach that I could barely lift (they were rare though) and happily cut them open to get at the fossils with hammer and chisel.

As time went on, my options and reality conspired against me as regards taking up archeology or paleonthology as a career, though I still keep an eye out when walking on the beach.:)

bigron2109

To become a fireman. My mother even brought me to a fire station and i got to go down the Pole.

Applied for a role with the fire Brigade a couple of years ago but got no where.

beakerjoe

I wanted to be a wrestler and i still do!