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early:

+ dad, S blvd., car battery, speed detector? ("giving it away free, someone will steal it")

+ (f) of course everyone chooses my brother-in-law's family, they have the new video game

+ (f) I suddenly notice (although I feel I've known all along) that the famous statue is missing from the big building.

+ "reek", fast car, fast food drive-through, get stuck our car is too long

+ son, brown monitor (red and green blow up), explosion/meteor house outside window, "oh that's not good", jump out to douse fire, go to hose/faucet, turn it on, trying to find the end of the hose among a huge jumble of hoses

+ I'm on my way to museum (LH) in shorts and no shoes, should I take my motorcycle? restaurant kiosks set up along the brick of of the L's house on HC, 3 kids there (2 girls, one boy, a girl and the boy are siblings, 10-12 yo, I'm same age). We talk about things, go for a ride, someones says "hey we could do a double date!" I agree. I'm driving up hill, powerful minivan going fast, enter private drive, crazy people there with chihuahuas jumping around like fleas, turn around and run to exit, they're closing the gate, don't make it, security guards at gate, they don't want people to take out the (dogs?). My friends captured but I'm freed, I return to save them, pull them back to the gate, their hands and feet are bloody and deformed because the captors forced them to wear old opened cans as shoes.

On the way out the foam in the garage is all exploding. I'm shooting a foam blobs from a gun at the garage door to force it open, trouble aiming, eventually get it open.

Outside, (Captain Kirk?) gives the order to eliminate the foam blobs, but not all of them because we have to eat something?

WBTB

later:

+ ex-gf DB in cafeteria, looks just like when we were dating, hurry over to see her before she leaves, haven't seen her in years, she's suddenly gone when I sit down and say "Hello"

+ in apartment, with ex-gf DB, calling ex-gf DB who lives across the country, get her answering machine, hear her voice saying something on the greeting, doesn't quite sound like her, but her college roommate then speaks and has a gritty gravely female voice, that was definitely her roommate and not DB. DB is with me during this call to DB . She sits on the couch and I straddle her and start making out. She has a runny nose and a small drop of liquid is hanging off the end of her nose. I decide not to wipe it away and to start making out with her anyway, I'm insistent but she' largely non-responsive. I leave a message that DB and her roommate should travel and come and visit us.

+ childhood home, look down to deck, DD (jr hs bf) is lounging there. I dramatically roll off the window sill and slowly float down to him, doing a "ta-da!" entrance. Look over railing down to lawn, which is covered in deep green lush grass, and see a pride of lions (4-5) lounging around there. I go down to the back lawn and there is a thought of someone taking care of them and wiping the butt of one of the lions (I give him a baby wipe?). I return back up the stairs and I do not want to have any part in cleaning up their giant turds.

+ grad school friend (N&A) AT it turns out was born in Germany and so should be fluent in German. View of her childhood home [false] in France, overhead map. Outdoor scene where I "remember" [false] being on vacation in Cr. Stone formations in the hillside, open fields around. Walking by hillside and observing stone stratas. See a tiny church in a yard farther on that now supposedly has been finish, wife points it out excitedly to me. Priest at first doesn't want to stop but then everybody is rapturous at our return and gives a big tour. The area up on the hill has been developed and now 4-5 finished houses stand up there, I say "yay!" and everybody applauds. Walking through area with tons of cages full of little kittens. Im looking for the older can I "remember" from last time. Turn back, then a strange gnome thing / animal leads us on a further walking tour, down rope ladder bridges, saying things, and I'm making rhyming puns of everything it says.

+ outside with DB, walking around, touring, the guy says "hey let's play a round later at the golf course" and I agree enthusiastically. DB runs up a hill quickly and I think I'm not so young any more to keep up with her but I try (man she can go fast).

Talk to some people at the door of a house, a funny older man is there, he comes out, someone asks if we kept an eye on our wallet the (last time something happened), the man is sitting on a sloping hill counting his money, and is angry that we tried to set him up with a women (who is stealing his money?).

+ flying, water, ring, boat to NY
I start running down F @ S outside childhood home. I soon lean forwards with my hands behind me at my waist (like rudders) and take off flying. There's is some guy following me, a friend. I get to A and hang a dramatically rolling left "banking" high up to the right before straightening out. The friend is following me and I want to show off. So I do a vertical loop-de-loop and am a bit concerned about face planting into the pavement at the bottom of the loop but I pull it off fine. Then something weird happens with a large fence to the right, my friend is hanging up there?

I'm continuing to fly above the roadway down the typical path we take down the hill. The road is replaced with deep, vivid blue ocean water. I think for a second about going back home for my swim goggles but decide just to continue forwards. The water color is really striking.

I'm on my way to New York to buy a ring for my wife. Should I have invited her along? Maybe she would enjoy the trip. It's too late. I'll have to call her and ask her her ring size over the phone.

I'm getting on a boat to take me to meet my brother in law in New York to buy the ring. The captain says we're starting out by stopping in New Orleans. I think Whoa, NO is *way* out of the way to NY! I wonder how many times per day they make this round trip, and that people rely on shippers to have a regular schedule so they can move the things they need to move.

+ in park, at a stake/marker to underground area. I see things in the far distance across a large open field. Then I go underground and come up and I'm much farther along the field and the things I saw in the distance are much closer. I'm with two boys and we're hopping with long strides over the ground. I notice and say how depressions in the ground when we walk over it (or just before we step on it?)

+ at a picnic table with family. My mother is sitting across from me and gives me a cup of some sort of fish-fruit juice. I taste it, it has a mildly floral flavor. I say it doesn't taste of fish, just fruit. (She says it must taste of fish?) She says it's very good for you.

My brother in law is operating (across the table from me on my left next to my mother) a large spinning knife sharpening system. He's going to sharpen the knife. My mother places her hands into the metal thing for some reason, I tell her to get her hands out of there.

early:

+ zappy box, guy with everything, plugs large thing into outlet with very specially shaped plug

+ (impression) college football game?

later:

+ baby beach, aftermath of battle, I recognize [false] colleagues crawling up on to beach, wounded, a guy is crying for help to save the baby, "save it! help!", bone/branch is stuck in its cheek, guy tries to pull it out but baby screams in pain, it has all sorts of strange bone/weird things growing out of it, it killed its mother giving birth to it

+ dragon drugs, addict-henchman packing up pile of orange/white drug capsules in back of car, tries to stuff a handful in his sock ("no stuffing them in your socks!" and smack him on the [butt?]), he tries to set aside another pile and chastise him again. Someone asks how do we know they're not poisoned? Get the addict to take one, he lies down on the sloping ruffled concrete ground [childhood home driveway?].

A dead black dragon / flying dinosaur falls from the sky onto a nearby leafless tree with a "whomp!" sound (glance at it then ignore it, just saying "it's probably time to get out of here")

+ (new world/level?), pirate bar, agressgion with store owner, "you've changed" he says
I arrive with my group to a new level/world location. There is a building with a large sign outside (red neon?), we go inside, it's a pirate bar. The "captain" is a middle aged buxom woman lying (passed out?) on one of the tables, dressed up like a male pirate captain. My group sits around one of the table. I sit on a small sofa/love seat nearby the "captain." (Narrator?) tells me that I must make the captain want me to stay. I may have to risk the mission by bluffing that I'm leaving. I stand up so that the captain can see me and be impressed by my attractiveness. I say "well, we're going to have to go now" and move to leave. The female captain gets up and asks me to stay. I offer her to come and sit with me.

I'm in a store trying to get a (weapon?) from the shop keeper. I say I've been to the (pirate bar) world. He doesn't believe me. I get very angry and say "I can prove it, I can take you there" in a vicious, hard-toned voice, getting right up in his face (he is wearing sunglasses and has different colored eyes?). He says "you've changed!" (I used to be wishy washy and now I'm a badass). I realize it's true, I'm strong and confident now.

+ wedding / joke
I'm observing the preparation for a wedding. Outdoors, a large estate. I'm not sure if the wedding is going to be here, or not. It is my sister's wedding. They're putting up a cross at the altar. Sister asks to put up the draping over another place. I look at the main cross and see that it is a mixture of a cross and a star of David. I'm on the side of the thing so I have trouble getting a clear view of the symbolic patterns. My father makes a complex joke about the powers of the universe being displeased about this mixed symbology, ending with "Hawkin' and consuming'" a pun about Stephen Hawking.

+ book store: poker books, blackjack books, I recognize some covers for blackjack books I've read, I think some are about the Hi-Opt system and other systems. I may like to read the poker book because I don't know how to play poker. I see a Russian board game (based on chess, every piece is a queen?), then my eye is caught by sheet music on the lower shelf: chamber music pieces for group of recorders + <my instrument>. Read the music, evaluate the notes ("that one is outside my range, must be for the bass clarinet"), hear a chorus singing, it's lovely but where will I find a chorus to play with us?

+ drive on road with wife, 7-eleven on the left, that's there our sons S2 gets his (game cards/gum/candy?), see game/gift/candy store on left, pull in. A woman there mistakes out minivan for hers, she places a hand on top of the roof in the middle of the windshield and holds on, and looks at the bumper which has fallen off, realizes that it's not her minivan. I tell to the attendants at the gate/crossing guard that we will only be a short while and so will not need to pay.

Inside the store a young female staffer tells me all about their pricing plan. It's a long detailed explanation about how they charge by the amount of time you spend in the store, and how this allows them fine-grain control over costs in order to make a profit. I couldn't care less about their profit and wonder what would happen if people just didn't come to the store. I'm checking out at the cashier, and ask how much it costs. Answer is $2/3. I get out cash from my wallet and offer them to take the amount. I see in the pile that they take that there is a $5, they're taking too much. I ask again how much and they say $8.

+ vote boat
Congress is in session (on a large open boat, like a cruise ship, there is a big important vote coming up, and one group has lost. I and some of the (senators?) are pouring out a large container of fertilizer into the water. This has been captured on video by another senator on the other side who had been camping out under our boat in scuba gear (for a long time?) waiting to capture evidence of wrongdoing. The boat is arriving under heavy attack helicopter accompaniment, but now we're in trouble.

+ naked really fat woman, sitting on a stool (in the back hallway of my childhood home?) I look at her again and notice she is indeed naked, I get a full view of her *bleep*, which is mostly shaved except for a "puff" at the top, and I say "ugh" and look away.

+ In the "DV chat game", Sensei has logged in as a new user as a joke, and immediately asks "am I having a lucid dream!?" like a newbie would. I answer him and say "no, you can only get lucid if you eat Lucid Dreaming Kibble! [dog food]", in an attempt to make the newies eat dog food. I think the admins may not like my comment.

Then we're swinging swords around some small (mini?) boat, and I on purpose swing mine too far to the left where some octopus thing is standing, and hit some its tentacles, drawing blood.

WBTB
Very long BTS. 1-2 hours at least. Determined to sleep and get lucid.

+ some people are planning an attack, they're moving in, they cock their semi-automatic pistols. A female among them keeps trying to do the same, but no bullet ends up in the chamber. Someone leans over, flips off the safety on her gun, then she cocks it and a bullet lands in the chamber with a "click" sound.

+ smiling girl across fence, she has a slight gap between her two front teeth. She's looking right at me, she's cute. Two girls walking by me, I tell both to come over to me, transition.

+ LD#153 in former adult home, looking out kitchen window, see into neighbor's kitchen window, I'm freaked out by motionless white people figures standing there, I think they're mannequins put there by the neighbors to deter burglars, I'm trying to see if they're looking at me, at first there were one or two, but then 4-5 standing around the window. I'm crouching down. Fast food wrappers/boxes? I slink back to the window to see if the mannequins are there, I catch a glimpse of that pure white color again, but then I realize that I'm dreaming. I stand up and start walking. I lose visuals. I repeatedly try to "pull off the covering that's blocking my vision" but I can't feel anything with my hands and visuals never return. I then find myself floating in bed, my arms waving around like crazy not under my control, I just go with this and enjoy the weird sensation. I feel a sudden kind of painful all-body jolt, then several smaller ones.

I then have a FA "in my room", and I see my wife standing at the foot of the bed, already up, talking to another woman who is sweeping up a lot of white plastic bread loaf package ties which are scattered all over the floor. I look around and see that there is no headboard on the bed, but a lot of colorful linens, and think this is the reason my arms could wave around so freely (the headboard is gone). My wife asks the woman, "How many juniper berries does it take to make a pecan pie?" The woman answers that all at the berries are gone, people have come and picked them off of our bushes. I plan to lay in wait with a weapon and catch the thieves and shoot them.

+ raid on the wealthy family, father defiant at first, detective threatens him, father and mother give in and write statements including joint statement. Later the father is showing off military equipment that was the gift of his cooperation

+ (f) tickets to the movies, assigned seats just inside the door

+ freaky white ghost in childhood home: basement door open

+ "LOTR": gandalf was really the small weird alien, not the tall guy

BTS

+ bought a cabin on H4; with S2 back in the US, girl "recognize" woman, don't remember why I returned

+ lids peeing on lawn; grab bewbz

+ red bikini sexy time

+ manager LZ putting his laptop and screen on my crowded home desk, trying to find a place for it

+ sexy time with older woman, she's on top, feeling her up, she moans/sighs in my ear

+ S1 trying to see my NSFW collage in childhood home

+ talk in hallway at work, I look to my left again and see DeHo has appeared. DD, SC, walk hallways at company "S" empty desks, old computers, young woman prints me a badge, walk to "cube", company "B" president P is standing there, I'm holding 2-3 coffee mugs in hand, I say "it never fails, as soon as you leave your desk, the company president comes by for a visit"

+ (f) in a (space ship?) which flies at the speed of light, me and another guy are taking a trip to Paris, we should get a good view as we fly over the city

+ hippo swallowing thumb/hand, descend escalator (have to sneak on? Get called back several times to the top?) to below-ground, large, open casino, pockets of poker players, almost empty blackjack pit, players sitting at 1st base, do I want to sit at 3rd? watch BJ dealer deal a hand, he fumbles with the cards, I wonder if players mind that he mixes up the cards, dealer picks cards up off the table and declares this to floorman, dealer turns over a card (ace of spaces?) and verifies the markings on the card that it is genuine.

+ working concessions at a fair, being lazy, hawking the games when my manager comes up behind me, seeing the place I used to sit and work a repetitive boring job and glad I'm not doing that any more

+ mountain valley bright green pine trees, "There is nowhere you can see trees like that except in the pacific northwest." The trees are amazing, all different shades of green, against a blue sky.

+ flying through tall tree'd dense forest, marking the appearance of orientation stone obelisks that mark the rest stop up ahead

+ hiking up hilly/rocky path, there is a mountain spring flowing here. This is a great place to build a homestead, if this water supply is reliable.

+ (f) scrambling over a very large boulder, trying not to slide off. I notice that somebody has installed small lights on the edges of the boulder in cracks, that shine onto the boulder to illuminate it better so people can climb it. I wonder who did that, this is sort of an out of the way place.

+ wake up in bed, doughnuts with frosting on other bed, see MaDa (live in SaRa) walking by outside the (glass wall), expect him to see me and come he doesn't, I think "hmmm." Then he's there and giving me a stack of checks, we have a frustrating conversation about the cost of the (private school?)

+ observing a soccer game outside, my son S1 is making a lot of goals. It is a fierce rivalry on the field, but my son and the other team's goalie are friends off the field and talking together behind the goal after a point.

+ (f) kids have built a technology of putting things together with a stapler that doesn't bend the hooks of the staples

+ hiking on a steep sloping hill in Nevada, the path is very narrow (about 1-2 inches) and rust colored dirt, and the soil is loose and I slide down with each step, but try to keep my eyes on the path. I'm looking for water. I'm walking with my orange cat held under my left arm. Up ahead I see a gas station on the left. As I approach, the windows are dark and I think it's closed. I want to buy some water. I look inside and see an old woman attendant, I go in and I have trouble voicing my desire but I want to say I want to buy some bottles of water. She has me go outside and see if ("Johnny?") put the sale water outside. I go out and talk to a guy there. I'm getting a large rectangular tub filled with water. I tell him to fill it up to teh top. The guy says "without a lid, it will slosh out in the car." I realize he's right.

+ nuclear attack convertible and food, trying to close the roof in time
There is a nuclear attack coming, I tell all my friends to take cover and to get out of the way. I'm preparing to jump into my convertible [false]. First I quickly throw in a bunch of cellophane wrapped foods/snacks in order to survive after the bomb hits. Then I get in to the driver's seat, and I'm desperately trying to quickly activate the automatically closing roof. I'm pulling on various buttons on the left door console.

Afterwards, I have an impression of wandering through ruins in a group, and encountering a large dump truck on a lower level getting filled by workers (?)

+ fast bus, throwing me high in the air from my seat on bumps, crash on railroad tracks, slap the (8-year-old boy) driver
I'm riding in a medium-sized bus. Not many other passengers, just a few. The bus is going really fast. It hits a big bump (like a rail road crossing) and this tosses me high up in the air (I feel very light) and I fall back down to my seat. This happens again shortly. Then the bus crashes on a railroad crossing on the tracks (on its side?). I'm hurrying to get off the bus with my backpack, which gets stuck in the door for a second as I'm trying to push my way out. The driver is an (8 year old?) boy standing a few feet away, with a neutral expression on his face. I walk up to him, screaming [in a foreign language], "You almost killed everybody!". He shows no reaction. I get furious and slap his left cheek hard with my right hand. He starts to show a reaction and "slaps" (very weakly, just a pat) my left cheek. I then slap hard his right cheek with my left hand.

+ Looking in a mirror trying to incorporate a gaudy long teal-and-black scarf on to my snazzy black suit in a way that looks good. It's really hard because this scarf is such a contrast to my nice black suit. I'm trying different ways of wrapping the scarf around and placing it underneath the jacket. I'm noticing the color and patterns on the scarf. I'm preparing to enter the next room. I think actually the accent of color from the scarf is very complimentary. Some friends come in and want to see me, I pull my jacket closed across my body, hiding the scarf, and say no free previews. I see my instrument on a stand as I walk by.

+ sneaking at night past enemy base, I move through an opening (in a fence) and jump arms/headfirst down a stone wall to a lower level and flying. I bank to the right and on that lower road I see friend who is on other team. I enter room, and see F. J.O. (SHoA OC) is lying on the ground on his back, dying from old age, my parents enter room and fall down on top of him, crying.

+ I'm walking along the edge of a large swimming pool to my left, outdoors & daylight. I'm walking with a girl who has an injured hand: a puncture wound or a bad insect bite on the back of her left hand. I'm holding her hand in mine as we walk and putting my right hand over the injured hand to make it feel better. I'm attracted to her and I'm trying to decide if I should kiss the back of her hand or not. We reach the end corner of the pool, and I decide I will kiss her hand, so I lean over and do so, and I think she likes it. But as I do, another, hotter & younger guy appears standing on her right side, and is even more bold than I am, and he kisses her at first on the right side of her neck, and then again on her front, around her collar bone. I think he's stolen my thunder.

Just around the corner of the pool on the short side of the rectangular pool there is a typical public pool ground-level diving board. The guy gets up on the board and walks out about half-way, and is telling something to us, and then he falls off the right side of the board into the pool (on the side away from us). He does this either as an on-purpose goofing around or it was an accident, I don't know. It's now my turn to get up on the board, and I say "I haven't done this in years!" I take a few quick steps and make a small hop on the end of the board, and dive forwards into the pool doing a front flip. I hit the water on my back, and continue the front sommersault in the water. When I surface, I think that my rotation in the water took longer than it should have, and that something wasn't right about it.

+ sitting in some lobby/atrium with a guy at a table, he gets up and I notice he has no shirt on, he's a young guy in his 20's perhaps. He gets two plates of food from the bar (Hmm, I didn't know they had food available there), and brings them back and places them on the table. He may be offering me some.

+ view of a man standing still about 10 feet from me, twilight/partially dark, someone else is shining a flashlight up and down over his body. I notice that the flashlight beam has an image of a large bear's paw (Russian bear?) that shows faintly on the man's body. As I'm watching, someone shoots him, and I see an abdomen wound appear on him. The slowly sinks to his knees, hovers there a few seconds, and falls forwards, dead.

+ I'm in the lobby of a dentist's office [IWL I have a dentist appt in the morning!], waiting for my appointment. I think that this dentist has a "5/500" policy: if you're late to your appoint by over 5 minutes, you must pay "500." I wonder if that works both ways: if I'm here on time but the dentist doesn't take me on time, does he have to pay me?

My son S2 is finishing an appointment. He may be late for school. I stand up, I hear his voice behind the door. I need to pee, I start walking towards the bathroom, I see the desktop computer on the table and I decide that I should log out of it so that nobody can read my emails. As I'm walking towards the bathroom a female staffer walks on my left and says something jokingly about the bathrooms being busy. I enter the bathroom and close the door, and notice that the door frame where the door meets the door jam is not straight: it is curved in an elongated "S" pattern. In places there are 1-2 inches of open space between the door and the door jam, so I can see out to the staffer's desk which is opposite the bathroom, and that means that she can also see in.

+ party with friends on tables (folding?) (outdoors, dim): someone's brought hors d'oeuvres, take-out from some place, which are not the main meal: piles of bacon (I eat a slice!), some deep-fried lasagna (one friend sticks his finger fully, sideways, into one entire piece of the lasagna and then takes it out, I say "No way, no you HAVE to eat that piece!"

+ (f) I'm outside some conference center building with glass walls, inside a seminar is going on. I'm in just my underwear, and am very self-conscious about this, I try to sneak by the conference without being noticed. There is an opaque door to another room in the building past at the end of the hallway, I open it and see a pair of light/white shorts there, I wonder if they'll fit? I'm then walking back by the seminar room, and I look down and see I'm wearing light/white shorts and a white T-shirt. I'm relieved that I found a shirt, but I have a brief thought that I do not remember putting on the shirt.

+ gay flying stone statue
I'm outside with friends in daylight, and I notice a huge stone animated flying statue is coming for me. It's about 15-20 feet tall and proportionate, like a large museum statue. It swoops down to pick me up, and I reach my arms up so it can do so. I have some thought like "(if I weren't awake?) I should (check to see if I'm dreaming)". Then the statue tells me we're going off to "party" with another guy, and I'm dubious about this because I think it's sort of an orgy-like party, and say "uh, can we bring some girls?" The statue says "no." I decide to go with the flow and kiss the statue's stomach: it is cold and hard just like stone.

+ airplane, canoe races, cooking
On a passenger airliner that has crash-landed in the ocean. I'm standing at the large hatch which is mostly closed but opened just a bit. The crew had the great idea of keeping the passengers entertained by arranging canoe races in the ocean I imagine the large swells of the open ocean going up and down, making it very hard to keep a canoe upright. Then I'm DO flying around outside looking for canoes [don't see any ever] and think one of them has gone so far that they can't find their way back to the plane.

Then I'm zipping around above the waters DO, it's now a lake, and there now are sports fliers in mini-(helicopters? jetpacks? some flying device) zipping around the water. Maybe they can help save some people. One such group is set up near the short, and a group of passengers is asking for their help with a young boy, who is bleeding. The hobbyists are reluctant to help the entire plane but agree to take the boy to get stitches.

At the hobbyist's house, it is a dinner party with wine. Several adult female friends [unknown] are there with me, but the hosts, who are preparing dinner, are being very cold towards them and I think that's rude. I'm drinking wine from a fancy goblet. One female friend is standing in another room and (looking into the host's wine cabinet/cellar?). I go into the dining room and there is a table set up with wine glasses, I want to bring some to my friend. I'm holding the bottle and am about to pour a glass, when I notice that glass is full of water. So I pick it up, drink all the water, put it back down on the table, and pour the remainder (about 1/2) of my glass into the glass for my friend.

I pick up the glass and move towards the living room to give it to her. Everyone's moving to the living room to watch TV. I say "yes, it is time now to go stare at moving pictures inside a box!" There are a lot of young kids, mostly girls, sitting on the floor in the living room watching TV. It's one large family we know [true]. Their mother is sitting with them, and I give her the glass of wine. She tosses it back in a single gesture, sloshing most of it onto her face and the floor. I'm confused by this and as I keep looking I realize it's not the mother but one of the daughters I gave the wine to! I'm a bit concerned but I also think it's funny. The little girl has a huge grin on her face. I crawl back to her mother a bit back on the carpet to the right and say, laughing "If <name> is behaving funny tonight, just realize it's because FryingMan got her drunk!"

+ playing with (stuff) of one girl, another girl is there, then another girl shows up, I start bouncing them on my knees (I have three legs?) to keep them all happy (!?)

+ sexy audition, do it with the hostess, put the LEDs in the weird electronic boards at the end

+ (vivid, present) walking along weird ridge line high in the mountains (with MR?), terrified of the heights, don't want to step away from the cliff still for fear of falling, practically hugging the ground. Later I'm evading a lion?

+ (impression) football game?

+ I'm in a multi-level parking garage, typical gray cement structure. I park my car? I'm riding a bike, and ride along a nearly vertical surface between two levels, the lip at the top of the wall is curved and I think my tires have enough traction to hold me vertical on this wall. I do stay vertical but can't make my way up over the lip to the upper level, the upper level is about at the level of my hips on my left, so I lean over, lying my body down on the cement floor while still straddling the bike, and flip the bike up and over on to the upper level (and keep riding off?). There's a guy up ahead giving directions, and I follow the arrows to the way out. I'm having a bit of trouble peddling, (I see someone else peddling and they have no problems?).

+ In a party room. In the corner I'm pouring cups of a red drink, placing one cup into another cup below it so as not to spill (but a little spills anyway?). There's a middle-aged woman wearing a white blouse nearby, someone carrying something bump into her and spills several blotches of what looks like olive oil on to her white blouse, I glance at the stains but don't pay it more attention. (This was in the "left corner" or the room). In the right corner of the room there is a guy announcing something, and it seems funny to me because he's using a sterotypical American advertisement "announcer" voice, and I start making fun of it and talking in the same way. I explain that in America they talk in ads like this (they already know that, though). There's some box on the ground we're taking things out from?

Then one of the emcees, a young woman, reaches over and picks up a clarinet and starts to play. The sound is beautiful with a pure tone, totally accurate clarinet sound. I watch her fingers change positions (forked fingering) as she switches between different notes.

summaries for now:

+ holding girl on (water slide?) kiss a bit at the bottom; people see and disapprove; flying, want to go faster, see spiderman?; with a child, I'm severe with it?; in public gathering dissing me, I'm ashamed; escape down magic ladder; dejected and ruined, they pour 40 gallons of runny chocolate pudding on my head, I want to drown in it or cut my wrists and die.

+ in house, room with crying teen girls, my sons, S1 test results via prisoner basketball game; observe player of game in person

+ teaching young female intern the system at work, she knows it already and wants to give it a poor name

+ erotic moment with wife goes bad as she rejects me for not being sexually attractive; motorcycle; gas station, shower (naked), no slippers/floor, pee down to 2nd level of bathroom, get stuck, swing on rope, climb back, "they'll kill you", check out/get phone, see guy get back hurt by worker, call wife she's left message she's furious I answered phone brusquely (it was the gas station guy I say, tell whole story), she doesn't believe me, "prove it" she says

+ hiking/exploring on the massive mountainside carvings/statue
The scene [or my memory of it] begins with a group emerging onto a large open area outside high up on a mountainside. Ahead of me is a young asian man (with a small mustasche?) whom I think previously was on our team but has switched sides to the enemy?
I "know" that the place we are is very special massive carving on the mountainside, of a Chinese dog/dragon head. There are huge golden pillars/boulders to the sides, and I look up at the face of the cliffs and see the huge eye carved there. I see in the very far distance, a flat land far away and far below, and know that the carvings on the mountain are quite well seen from even that far away.

I'm looking down at the ground and see all sorts of very colorful stones/rocks. I want to take one or more with me, but I do not know if I have any spare weight left in my luggage. I look at several, and one in particular catches my eye and I pick it up and turn it over and look at it all around: it is a grayish stone covered with beautiful pastel blue and green polka dots.

Another stone has a clear crystal part and a deep reddish-brown translucent part, and I turn it over and see some bits of salami wedged into the rock. Of course, because this is a salami sandwich rock! I pick out the bits of salami.

I see more rocks, like flint/shale, sharp, ragged edges. I pick one up and turn it over, there are large scarab beetles (?) on the bottom. I move up a path picking up other rocks, and there are mussels inside chambers if you lift off the covers.

My colleague CC (companies "3", "b", current company "s") is there and says he's hungry. I ask if he's eaten those beetles from the underside of that other rock. He says yes, I say "even with all those gross wiggly legs!?".

+ visiting anderj101's new room, playing his piano
I'm hanging around a (dorm?) and [pretty sure it's] anderj101 comes up with pictures of his new room! He applied for and got a room for himself, the picture has a couch on it. I go to see his new room. In the picture there is a small square hard (wood?)-floor dance area where he teachers dance classes to kids. I think that those classes are probably why he was approved to get this room all to himself. I see the small area on the picture, and inside the room I see the same area but it's smaller. I look again and it's more reasonable sized now.

Inside the room we both hold out our arms to our sides and spin around in circles, and I say "oh boy, So Much Space!" I revel in all the open space in this room.

I move to sit on a couch, and I feel like I'm so comfortable here I want to sleep. But I say that "I'm just going to sit here and close my eyes and imagine things (decorating options?) about this room" but really I intend to sleep.

I get up and turn around and want to play on anderj101's piano. He says "well don't play that old one, it's out of tune." So I sit down on a (square cushioned?) stool in front of the digital piano which is a shiny, deep burgundy color, and very curvy/swoopy in shape. The keyboard is on the ground with no stand so I can't reach it. Anderj101 says "most people pick up the keyboard and put in on their laps." So I do that. I position my hands to start playing the intro to Arthur's Theme (Christopher Cross), but then I notice that all the keys above middle C are missing and there are only little circular buttons where the key would press down to activate the sound, and realize I can't play this.

I try to play anyway, and position my hands and try to play, but the whole keyboard is now flexible and bending up and down in peaks and valleys and the keys are all sort of squished close together, and I give up after just a bar or two.

We're outside now walking in to some door and I say "love songs are the most fiendishly difficult to play." Anderj101 says "yeah and girlfriends always want you to play those love songs." I say "so you might as well have to be a concert pianist!"

Inside the door I'm standing close with a group of people, one of whom is VTch who comes up, he comes up from the back and around the crowd to stand in front of me. He says someone apparently had been squeezing him very hard on his arm.

+ at work, watching a color printer in action
I'm at a job that I never go to much, it is a moonlighting job. I wonder if I can ask the president for my paycheck, and if I picked it up last time since I don't come around very much. I'm standing at printer, against wall, then I move to the one in the middle of the room which is managed by the IT guy who's desk is right there in the middle of the room. This is a color printer and it has a very special way of printing (dots?). I watch the process of a large long piece of paper has various color designs painted on it in a waterfall pattern.

+ (f) at a party, something about getting beer?

No recording during the night, so earlier dreams area bit fuzzy, but they were definitely also vividly experienced.

+ riding some powered sled with my wife, on snowy hills, we're sort of spinning out on the turns, I try to bring it under control. We're then inside some place, like the lobby of a motel, two twin young men are there with short black hair, we say something to them and talk with the staff there a little, those twins are a bit strange.

+ in the (underground) basement of childhood home, hey I can see out to the garden from here from under the house, I go out to the garden, look back at the house and notice that the hole is huge, anybody could walk in there, I should repair that. Neighbor boy PG my age is there, grown, and with a long thick black beard, his parents are there too, I go and shake his hand.

+ to the side of busy traffic road, cops walk past me to interrogate a guy on a motorcycle, he's starting to shake uncontrollably from being nervous, he's claiming everything is fine but the cops's questions are pointed, and the guy ends up admitting more and more fault ("Yeah, it's not my motorcycle, but my friend let me ride it! Honest!" and so on like that). I'm relieved they didn't stop and question me. [WBTB residue! I looked out the window during a waking and saw two cops questioning and searching a shady charater]. I cross the busy street and continue my escape down some stairs, the stairway bends and turns and there are strange metal struts framing all the walls, I'm getting the feeling I'll be trapped here, but I miraculously find an exit back up to above ground and go out. I see my wife in the distance waving to me and smiling, she's really happy to see me, we go on to do other things [forgot].

+ in (the park of childhood neighborhood?) I see a man who I know has been helping me throughout (my dreams?). I say "sorry to take up so much of your time." He answers "yeah, it's taken pretty much all day." I start to think I may be shared dreaming with him! I get very excited and ask him "Hey did I earlier tell you all about a motorcycle? [earlier dream]" and he said yes and starts telling a story, as he does this I have a DO view above a road in wooded hills with traffic below. Then I'm with some girl (unseen) who's moving besides me and talks about flying. I ask her, amazed, if she can *actually* fly. She says that if you practice visualizing it then it (seems real?). At this point we're flying DO over a forest landscape for a while, enjoying the view.

+ driving in a car in old CA neighborhood (MR, ML?), I'm thinking about our foreign visitors who've been staying with us [false memory]. I think we should go up to my folk's house, but I wonder if the trip there and back would be too tiring for our guests. I'm trying to think how long they've been here and when they need to return home, I realize it's probably at least a week away.

On the curb outside someone's house I notice a big red S is planted there, it is the "S" from the logo of a Safeway store. It sort of looks like a dollar sign? Sort of surprised by this.

Back in "our house" I hear the voice of my son S1, he sounds very excited and in fact a bit tipsy/drunk. He's talking very animatedly with his friends in another room. I want to go see what they're up to. I approach a set of white double doors, open them, and enter the room. S1 is sitting on the floor with two friends, I say "Hi!" [in a foreign language], and S1 says "Hey, dad, what are you up to!?" I say "I just came in for a drink." Then I'm standing over him and he now seems as he was about 9-10 years old. There's a little mini-fridge next to us and it's open and I see two tall bottles, son S1 is being very friendly and says "here dad, you could have this guava juice." I see there is also a bottle of ginger ale there.

My wife is trying to organize some board games on the floor of this living room area, I notice a bunch of boards and pieces of paper and things there.

I'm holding a bottle of soda and walking through the living room opening it, it starts to fizz over wildly so I quickly close the cap and open it slowly, letting out the gas pressure a little by little.

My sons are talking about the young chess player DN. They're saying he got into [my childhood home's] high school or university there. He's very famous, all the bloggers are talking about him. I wistfully think that if my kids had only applied themselves more they could have been successful chess players as well. Son S1 is standing at the counter with me and is saying "I lost my other one, like usual." I see he's holding a chess game's score sheet, and ask where the other one is. "I lost it, I told you." he says.