FryingMan

argh, too many dreams and no middle of the night recording, it's all sort of a jumble now and a lot of content slipped away.

Way late to bed

01:50 bedtime

almost asleep after about 15 minutes, then wife asks me question, get upset that sleep process disturbed, take 2mg melatonin to make sure I fall asleep

11:10

+ scored my first touchdown in the women's (!!) collegiate football league on an interception; in a house saying "did you see my play on TV?"

I'm standing on the sidelines of a women's football game in a stadium on a gray, cold, and rainy day in Oakland. I see the stands of fans, the coaches, and notice the light rain streaming down diagonally. Standing facing the field I hear the visiting coach say to the home coach "I'm sorry that your players have to play in this sort of weather." Either I or the home coach says/thinks the weather isn't always this bad.

It's dark and I'm on the field in a play on defense. The play begins and the quarterback goes to pass, she passes and a blocker jumps up and tips the ball, it's coming down now and I'm near it, I may get it, I lunge for it and I catch it! I've intercepted the pass, and we're waaaaay down on the other end of the field, can I make it? I give it my all and run for the far end zone, anticipating tacklers but none catch me. Can my heart last all the way there? Near end zone some (now) defenders appear, they may stop me right before the goal link, no, I must make it, and I make it, store the touchdown, and raise the football into the air in celebration!

I appear in a small bathroom in a house, a young woman is there, and the place is filled with pine tree branch tips full of tiny budding pine cones. I leave the bathroom into the living room, I sense my best friend MR is there, and I say, "did you SEE IT!? My first … women's … collegiate…TOUCHDOWN" I'm trying to figure out if they saw it on TV they indicate they did.

+ desperately trying to close screens of NSFW content on laptop as wife enters room, instead they multiply and fall off the screen as sheets of photographs

On a laptop with NSFW screens up, wife enters room, I quickly hit the close screen key but the screens don't close (dream sign) (well actually they do close but there's always another one popping up or sitting there behind the one just closed). She comes around to my side and I have to close the screen to hide the content. She starts talking about something but all my attention is focused on clearing those screens. I close some but there seem to be an unlimited number of them. At some point the screens of images become physical photographs which pile up on top of my hand sitting in between the keyboard and the mostly closed screen.

+ I'm in the underground railroad saving slaves, hide them in the shack, the prosecutor is biased, grizzled train engineers won't give up their black comrades

I see a shack by the side of the road, either a chicken coop or a run-down vendor's daytime market shack that no one will look in, we can hide the slaves in there. Scene inside with the slaves, talking. I'm thinking we won't get any help from the local prosecutor since he's biased. I approach a train outside and see the grizzled, sooty, stern faces of the engineers, they will not give up their black comrades.

+(f) two teens hung to die(?), hands bound around their chests

+ deserted drug dealer houses, bowling alley in son's room, 7-10 split close-up

Driving by houses on the left, look and see they are deserted, I say yes those are the houses of rich (drug dealers?) better not to go in them (?). Inside, talking with the owner, I notice in his son's room there are two full-sized bowling lanes. I want to bowl, do they work? Yes, we go in and clean up the stuff that's piled on the lanes and bowl a few balls, they start returning on the ball return mechanism but something's blocking them.

I then see a close-up of the end of the alley where there is a 7-10 split, there is a narrator talking about the (pro?) bowler trying to hit the split, I see the ball appear, it's heading for the 10 pin, it has heavy spin, I see the ball appear/approach the balls several times, it's coming from the left (like from a left-handed bowler) towards the 10 then swerves to barely clip the left edge of the 7 pin which slooooowly falls over and then rolls around to eventually slowly knock over the 10 pin, he made the spare!

+ peeing in a strangely decorated bathroom (made to look like a scummy public rest stop): asphalt floor, toilets are just depressions in the ground, grates to the outside

I walk into the bathroom, and am struck at how it looks: it looks like a spartan outdoor public toilet, the floors are made of asphalt, there are doors and windows to the outside covered with metal grates, and the toilets themselves are just depressions in the asphalt floor. I'm thinking a mess was made by some guy peeing from outside up through the high window grate into the bathroom.

edit: I'm promoting the above to a dream from a fragment, it was too long for a fragment and had me looking at and thinking about things.