Bridger's Oneironautic Expeditions

I'm in Iceland getting a ticket to view some kind of large fossil bed in the ground. The whole area is next to a volcano and everything is covered in snow. After entering, I walk around the side and find a deep, perfectly rectangular hole going down about 50 feet. My girlfriend comes up and asks if I'd like to go see the movie they're putting on inside another building. I say yes and follow her inside.

I'm camping out in the woods with some friends. For some reason, I have my tent flattened down with my stuff still in it. The tarp is luckily still over the top but it's all just flattened on the ground. A bout of rain is coming, but I can see blue sky behind it so I don't think it will be an issue.

I'm in a small pool doing a lap in the water. The pool only has two lanes and has an 'L' shape to it. Around the corner of the 'L', the pool rises up several feet. like a ramp. I get up it no problem and coming back down I'm just able to glide through the water without effort. The water maintains the ramp shape through here like it has Minecraft physics. I get back around the corner and I'm paddling hard. I feel like my technique is good but a person yells at me from the side saying my strokes are too long. I get out of the pool and go sit on the side. A couple of ladies start talking to me about the swimming and areas where I can improve. A guy, similar to Oliver, comes up and starts trying to sell me on some kind of course for swimming but I politely decline. I leave the swimming area and begin driving to the mountains to go to a ski resort. The roads are very slippery though and I slide up to a roundabout first, and then a stop light.

I'm driving a car following my dad who is in another car. We are driving down a street and he's about a quarter mile further up the road. I see him do a weird turn and he heads off to the right. Once I make it to where he turned, I see that it's a railroad crossing. The first crossing is fine but there's a second one with lights flashing for an incoming train and a busy road right on the other side of it. I have to wait for traffic to clear before pulling out and through the crossing. I feel like I'm playing Frogger as I pass over the oncoming traffic from the left, but have to wait in the middle of the road for traffic from the right to clear. After crossing, I end up in a tight parking lot for some kind of popup carnival.

I'm in a restaurant looking for a specific guy that bought be some food before and now I want to give him some food too. I'm carrying the plate when I find him just sitting down at a table. It looks like his girlfriend is also with him as I come up to the table and offer the plate to him. He declines it though, probably because of the girl sitting there, so I walk away with the food still in hand.

I'm at a small airport in some kind of tropical place. I'm leaving to go back home and trying to find the correct gate for my flight. Everything is fixed, that is, each gate is set permanently for where a flight is going to and have the city names printed on placards above each one. The airport is also divided into different sections for different airlines. I walk to the section where I came from but it's not the correct place for me now since I have a layover somewhere else going home.

I'm outside in the backyard of my house. I've set up the bed sheets in the grass out here to sleep on as I'm about to head out on some kind of mission and will be woken up in the middle of the night. I crawl from the edge of the sheets towards the middle, but sink into the ground at one points due to a small sinkhole. I make it to the middle and start to get comfortable, pulling the comforter on top of me. I'm feeling really sluggish and tired, but still need to get under the actual bedsheets as well. I slowly maneuver to get underneath them along with the comforter and get to sleep.

I'm walking around on some kind of game map, with wild terrain separated into areas of different enemy difficulty. Me and some others are searching for something, so we cross multiple rivers trying to find it. We end up in a high difficulty area and see a group of enemies wandering about a couple hundred yards away. I begin taking some rifle shots at them and land one hit before they're all coming at us. They fire back and I'm forced into cover. The other guys I'm with run around a corner on the hill we're on and I rush around to join them. I realize too late though that there is a large drop off right there and so I fall quite a distance into a large body of water.

I'm taking some kind of ritualistic medicine in an unfamiliar setting, outdoors maybe? It's facilitated by a couple other people who are watching me. I ask if this is some kind of psychedelic, and they respond with something along the lines of, "You're going to meet someone". Sitting in a chair, I start to feel some of the effects, getting very dizzy and out of body. I lean back, expecting to just lay there, but the chair falls backwards and I spill out onto the ground. I'm aware that I'm just lying there, but I can't move to get up. The other people bring me to a more comfortable position.

Other fragments from the night:

I'm wearing a costume that's all black and very form fitting, like the Black Panther from Marvel, but I also have a wide-brimmed hat and bandana I'm wearing as a mask. I'm in a store where I still need to go through checkout for the extra items I just got for the costume.

I'm getting on a tram that is taking me and many other people to an airport. The cars of the tram are open air, with no seats, just railings on all 4 sides. I get in one and start talking to some other people who have boarded as well.

I'm at a river with another person. They are explaining how they are making a makeshift dam. A center block of concrete has already been poured and water running around it has washed out any loose rock so it is now just a solid part of a much larger rock. He triggers the buildup of water by moving a log over the remaining stream and the dam is put into action. I take a small boat over to one side of the water, but he releases the stream at the dam, so I'm pulled with the current back towards it. I narrowly escape capsizing and falling into the water with the help of the builder who pulls me out. Later, I'm with a group of guys who don't have a place to stay for the night up in the mountains. A couple offers beds to us in the loft of their house. I am very grateful to them but everyone else just walks in and finds their bed.

I'm with a friend and some others on the mountain skiing. I don't know why I'm skiing rather than snowboarding but I'm keeping up with everyone just fine anyways. We try getting some air off a side hit and it works pretty well. After navigating through a difficult part of the slope, we take a break. Someone asks me about my skis and I tell them how I haven't skied in over a decade now but it's just like riding a bike coming back to it. I remark to my friend how I should go put some sunscreen on as I can fell my face starting to burn.

I'm playing a role in a story I'm telling myself. The narrative involves the invention of gunpowder by a god, which is me. Some door must be opened and there are piles of explosive material right outside it. I toss some more closer to the door and then prepare a fuse. I spend a while experimenting with what seems to be the best combination of ingredients to spark correctly. I make little piles for each one on a tray then press down on it with a rod that has a hollow cone shape on the end. When pressed down all the way, the powder ignites. I find the best candidate and light the fuse, which is a trail of the gunpowder, using the same rod. The door explodes and I walk away towards the edge of a lake. I begin to fly, rising above the clouds thinking that this must be where the gods live. I see nothing but clouds though and end up getting a stomach lurching feeling looking back down at the ground. I fall fast and splash into the lake.

I'm with a coworker who is describing to a manager how he set up a mock plane in the air in a warehouse to mimic shooting down into targets below. It had all sorts of cables attached to pull it off. Later, I'm doing some assistant work at an airport where I'm waiting for a lady to write down the names of all the passengers. She calls out my name when she's done and I glance over the paper. I find it strange that there are so few names listed, only 20 or so, and that they are written in different colors. Later, I'm with a bunch of people at a little house having a party. It's after everyone's been drinking quite a bit and people start puking. I find my way outside and do the same in some bushes off to the side.

I'm on top of a skyscraper on some kind of contraption set up by some people in the military. It feels scary since I'm so close to the edge so I'm grateful when it's over and I move back away from it. Someone from our group wants to go again through so we wait while the guys set it up again. The guy walks in a very military fashion with straight strides all the way up to the edge, then turns abruptly to follow the edge over to the contraption. Later, I'm at a golf course at the turn. My dad shows up as well and orders one of the strawberry adult beverages they have.

I'm packing up my camping gear inside a building. Some friends are there as well and one hands me some trash to take out. As we all finish packing, we start walking out and enter a new building. This one resembles a cafeteria and has quite a few people sitting or walking around. Our group decides to do something crazy to get everyone riled up. We end up running around and eventually back outside. It feels like we're now in a car of some kind as we navigate through a construction zone towards a stadium. As we start walking again, I notice that it's rainy and dark outside. Because of the rain, workers at the stadium are limiting the number of people walking down the stairs to the entrance. I wait at the top as the other group descends and then they allow us in. The stadium is also dark and not covered so it is still raining. The stage towards the middle though is massive. I find my group sitting together on the right side actually just underneath some coverage from the rain so that the seats are dry.