Mezzanine

I was cranky about a long day at work when I came home. Andrea told me to just go to bed because I looked tired. That was at like seven. I didn't get up until about seven this morning. She thinks it's maybe a bad thing that I can sleep for so long. I don't know. I like it.

The first part of my dream was about my day at work. I was being monitored by some people in a control room while I was buying back textbooks. Then I woke up and sat straight up in my bed and pointed my finger like "I know what you're doing!!!" ha!

So then I went back to bed and dreamed that it was Halloween at my parents' house. They decorated the fromt lawn and made an obstacle course that the kids had to go through in order to get their candy. There was a zip line and a balance beam. This one kid tried to go on the zip line and make it to the front porch but he fell off into the bushes. I went to go help him and he had turned into a He-Man action figure. And for some reason I thought he was Skeletor. So I picked him up and brought him out of the bushes where he turned into a regular kid again.

Then I went into the house and there's a party going on. I went up to my room and hung out with some people and then the party was over and I went downstairs to the kitchen and started chopping onions and putting them in a tupperware bowl with green peppers. I was rinsing them under water and my sister comes out of no where and I don't know what she was doing, but I yelled at her and told her to just get out of the house because she's aggravating my parents!!!

Then I went upstairs and the walls of my room at all banged up and falling apart. So I called my friend Chris who I hadn't talked to in ages and he said he'd come over and help fix my walls. Maybe that's why I was so mad at my sister? She was the one who messed up my walls??

It's 9:18 pm and I just remembered another dream I had last night. I was reading the tutorial about dream content and I remembered this: I was driving down what I thought was a street in Atlantic City when I pass by the Tropicana where I stayed a few years ago. I was telling my sister that that's where I pulled in to do the valet service, neat, huh? Well, I pulled in again and we went into the casino where I think my mom and dad were. This is kind of fuzzy, but I guess we were on a vacation, and we were supposed to be going home, but Renee (my sister) checked us in for four more nights. I remember being mad because I didn't know how I'd explain this to Andrea! I asked Renee how she was paying for all this because she has no job right now and is generally without a job anyway. She said that my uncle taught her how to make marijuana popcorn. She brought me into some snack bar or cafe or something and people were in there eating it! They were all so happy that this had ever been invented! I think I then said I had to go to the bathroom because I vaguely remember something about a bathroom, but I don't remember anything else.

So my theory that my dreams get better as the night progresses is ringing true. Well, maybe not better, but I can remember them better.

I was camping. With my old roommates Mike, Stan, Anthony, and Lynn. It was dark out and my dog (who Lynn had to put to sleep three years ago) was there. We were pitching a tent. Someone said that we had to get ready to go to the parade downtown. So we walk over and there are six horses and Stan is getting them harnessed to pull like a flatbed thing that you ride on when you're on a hayride. So I got in and I had Addie with me and then she escaped from a hole in the back of the flatbed. So I stood up and said something like, "well, someone needs to stay here with the dog," and jumped off the flatbed. I chased after Addie but I couldn't find her.

There was something else about being in a grocery store but I can't remember why... and when I left the grocery store I was in a car driving to a neighborhood.

I'm going to make this quick so I can run to class and take my Art History final.

Part 1... I was at a high school football field with a track running around it and there was a big storm coming with a lot of wind. I was running track and then all these metal poles started coming at me from out of left field, just rolling in my direction... like pvc pipe but metal, like maybe ten feet long and an inch or two in diameter. So I started running away from them but one nicked me in the leg. Next thing I know, I'm in a house in the kitchen and someone's telling me they need to amputate my leg!!!

Part 2... I'm at the beach with my mom and we're looking for something to eat. We go down the strip and there are all sorts of touristy shops and some vendors selling chicken strips and fries and like fair food. So I ordered some chicken strips with honey mustard sauce and the guy selling it to me says I have to wait eight hours for it to be marinated! So I go looking around in some shops and I find magic mushrooms for sale. There are two plants, one's a fly agaric and the other one's brown with white spots. So I grab a baggie that was under the shrooms and pick the tops off of the fly agaric and bring it to the register. They were only 60 cents an ounce.

Couldn't remember any dreams from half the night. I kind of remembered one:

I'm outside in like a woodsy area. Maybe by a river. I'm walking along a path and I see this guy and his truck. Then there's this other guy and they're in a confrontation. The feisty guy is super short and he looks over at me and shows me that he has a gun on his hip. So I start walking away and I get on my cell phone as soon as I'm far enough away and call 911. They get on the phone and I'm telling them an address where we're at. (Which is weird because how can a woodsy area by the river have an address??) But I was confused anyway because I didn't know whether I was at North or South whatever street name I gave them. But the address was 1. And while I'm on the phone I find this waterfall and I think this is the only way to get away from the crazy guy with the gun, so I start going down the side of it and then I'm just like fuck it and I get *in* the waterfall and slide down to the bottom which ends up just being dry land.

So at the bottom I find this bmx looking type bike and I'm walking with the bike over to this little sheltered area where there are some teenagers hanging out. I think I told them that they need to get out of there because of the guy with the gun and I don't know where he went. So they start running up this spiraling staircase and I'm trying to follow but I've got this bike, so I can't go up the stairs. I find another way out and then I'm at a bridge but the water level has gone up and no one knows why. So there is no way to get across this river to the other side and I see some people coming to help us but they can't get across from their side either.

Andrea got up to get ready for work and that dream ended. I went back to sleep and dreamed up this:

I'm in some sort of recital. On a stage like the one in elementary school in the cafeteria. Someone's giving directions but I can't see who it is. There's another guy and a girl on the stage with me. I'm not sure what my part is. They's bobbing back and forth together and singing "row row row your boat" and whoever is giving the directions is telling them that with every word they have to perform a new action like put their hands up above their heads or squat down or whatever. I decided I didn't like what was going on here and it was too weird for me so I left and went behind the stage I guess and there was another room. Some people were shooting pool. I'm thinking, sweet, I can get in on this. When it's my turn I have this crazy impossible shot after sinking like three balls and I straight up scratched. I was so embarrassed that I went outside. It turns out that outside is my old next door neighbor's house so I look at my old house next door and whoever moved into it has expanded it and took all the siding off. I looked into the backyard and there were no more hills, it was leveled. And two cars just like my dad owns are in the backyard: a blue 75 corvette stingray and a GTO. I'm wondering if whoever lives there now has stolen my dad's cars!!

I guess I went in to investigate who lives there now because the next thing I know I'm in the house. Only, it's not the same floor plan (maybe it's not the same house??). Then some other people arrive and it's like a game of hide-and-seek. I'm trying to find places to hide and there are tons of doors and I don't know where they all go so I open them to look and I find a good hiding spot and then like five other people come and hide in the room I'm in. I don't even know what we're hiding from. Then I leave the room I'm in and find a door that leads to the attic. I go all the way up to the top and it's a cemetery!! And there's an alarm set up so that you can't go past the top step. I accidentally set the alarm off and I run back down the stairs and find a door that leads outside. Once I get outside I think I'm safe. There's a car parked in front of the house and four guys get out. They come over to me and I think they were all gay. They wanted to tell me to stay low and make sure that no one from the inside of the house can see me from the windows. Then they walk away across the lawn.

A couple of nights ago I dreamed that I was at Denny's with a girl from my Spanish class, Sharon. She ordered something and I said I didn't want anything. So the waitress comes over faster than if we had ordered Mexican and brings us something that did not look appetizing at all. It looked like some sort or scrambled egg concoction on toast. I looked at Sharon and she just says, "That is *not* what I ordered," and pushed it away. So I talked to the cook who I flagged over to the table after he brought someone else their food and he said, "sure sure, I'll be right back." He came back and brought me a bowl of my favorite Denny's meal, which is a sausage supreme skillet. I have no idea what happened to Sharon's food.

Last night Andrea and I watched The Cell.

We went to bed around eleven I think and I remember telling myself that I was going to remember my dreams when I woke up and that "I can control my dreams." I slept badly the first half of the night, then Andrea got up to go to the bathroom, then I did the same. I fell back asleep after she turned down the heat.

I dreamed that I was at my elementary school that I went to in Illinois. It was snowing and there was snow al over the ground. I was at the corner of the lot that was closest to my house where I lived right across the street. I remember that I was about to walk off in one direction when it hit me... I live in Virginia, Illinois is a few states away, I must be dreaming. I was elated and the biggest smile came across my face. I looked across the field to where the playground should be and I decided that it would be a great idea to run up this hill of snow and slide on my stomach across the field to the other side. So I did and when I got there it turned into a farmer's market and my parents were there. It was then that I lost control and lost the dream completely.

Later in the night I dreamed that I was at a bar or a restaurant. Andrea ordered some food and the waitress brought her three plates of french fries that were all half full. She told me she had something special for me and she brought me one french fry. I held it up to the light and there was something inside of it. Whatever it was was moving like it was alive. Then I squished the french fry between my fingers and the thing came out of the french fry and scurried away under the table. The waitress came back and said it was a Mexican cockroach french fry. I woke up and just thought how could someone get a live cockroach into a french fry??

I wanted to start out by quickly mentioning some of my reocurring themes in my dreams, just so I had them jotted down somewhere:

-schools (that I've attended and imaginary)
-casinos (usually doesn't start as such, connected with airports)
-airports
-houses that I don't belong in (like I've broken into)
-neighborhoods
-hamsters (usually LOTS at a time)
-driving straight up vertically
-amusement parks
-elevators
-stairs
-grocery stores

That's all I can think of at the moment. I'm sure I'll add to it as time progresses. This is just the historical information that I can remember.

EDIT: I have started school again and I have a busy schedule. I try to update as often as possible, but you may see just titles of dreams with no details filled in. Just be patient and keep checking back, the details will come as I have time. Thanks!!