non-lucid

I'm at an amusement park at the Jurassic Park attraction. It's like when you stand in line for a ride in Universal Studios or Islands of Adventure and it's all set up like you're walking through a movie set. I'm working there with about ten other people and we're actors. I'm walking around like I'm hunting dinosaurs and someone says that the people will be coming to get in line soon. So now there are people in line and my part is to act like some killer bug that has been turned over on its back and can't flip back over. I'm thinking Gregor Samsa from Kafka's Metamorphosis. But I don't have a costume. It's like third person now and I can see myself acting like a complete asshole.

Next thing I know it's a water ride and I'm watching the boats come out of the ride and going down that last drop into the water. At one point, I see a little kid that's under an overhang under where the boats come out. Every time a boat has come out the water rises and I see that where this kid is, the water will go right up over him and he'll drown. So I yell for hem to stop the ride and I can see the people on the boat thinking they're going to go over the edge and then they stop. Some guy runs out and grabs the kid and brings him to the first aid place that's right there. I'm looking over a guard rail on the side of the attraction area and I feel in my mouth like hardening wax. I start spitting this wax stuff over the rail and it's like Halloween wax lips. But it won't stop coming out of my mouth and it's uncomfortable. So I go over to the first aid area and the kid that just got rescued is experiencing the same problem. It's starting to be like an epidemic. Then I wake up. All freaked out.

I was driving to work and pulled my car up into the parking garage, but it was more like the valet area of the Tropicana Hotel (in Atlantic City where we just stayed for vacation). I pulled up into a restricted area and a parking police person pulled up behind me and I stuck my head out the window to tell them that I'm leaving. They left and I got out of my car and I see a cash register. I get behind it and start ringing people up. I rang up the same girl like three or four times and I got confused about how much change to give her back. Somehow I called a manager and told them I needed to count down my drawer and figure out how much change I owe this girl.

I guess I gave up on waiting for someone to come, so I got back in my car and drove to a neighborhood and parked my car and got out. I walked around and found I was at a school. It looked like my college campus, but it was really a daycare. There were people in blue shirts giving a tour and when I walked into all the different rooms, there were different activities going on for all the kids. I left and went looking for my car and didn't remember where I parked it. I had my key chain and I kept hitting the lock doors button to make the horn honk. I would hear it and run off in that direction. I swear I was all over the neighborhood looking for my car. I finally found it and the last thing I remember is driving around running red lights.

Underprivileged Kids Camp

I'm at some event. Like I'm in a hotel and there are all these other people there I guess training to be camp counselors. All the hotel rooms are enclosed in glass instead of walls so you can see everything that's going on in the rooms. I've lost the person I came there with. I'm looking all over the hotel for them. I walk to the end of this hallway and there's some people on a couch and I recognize one is this girl Beth who I was seeing briefly before I got together with Andrea. I think nothing of it really and I go peek my head into the room at the end of the hall. Inside this room are four people playing video games. One is my ex Missy! I ask them if they saw whoever I was looking for and they said no so I left and kept looking. I saw Beth get up off the couch and go into the room I was just in.

Slot Machine Hunting

I leave the hotel with the camp counselor training and now I'm in a casino. I've got a device that is pointing out where the loose slot machines are. Funny, it seems like I'm in a computer lab from school because of the way the machines are set up. Every machine that my device pointed out (it was a little electronic circle that beeped louder and faster when it detected a good slot machine) had someone sitting at it already. So I just hung around and waited for someone to get off their machine. Finally this one girl walks away and I notice that the machine still had nine dollars left in it. I barely sit down and the girl comes back saying she had just gotten up to get a drink. So I get up and apologize and she gives me some money. It's foreign.

I walk around and try to find a place to exchange this money for American money. I walk up to the cashier and tell him of my dilemma. He has behind him a big board telling the exchange rates of different countries' money. I don't know what country my money is from, so I just hand it to him. He says he can't exchange this money because it's from a communist country. I'm sort of upset and he says just kidding. He looks at my money a little more closely and tells me that it's worth $1500. I think, well, I'm only going to be here for two days, why not give me half of that and I'll keep the rest here in the bank. So he gives me some paperwork to fill out with a fancy pen that writes in purple glitter. I had it back to him and he gives me the money.

Next thing I know I'm with my mom, dad, and sister and we're on the way into the casino and I think we have to cross the casino floor to get to the parking garage. I'm telling them I'm going to get the car. In order to get into the casino, they're doing some sort of security check and you have to take your shoes off and they give you slipper boots instead. Like Isotoners. I'm arguing with the security woman and some lady breaks through the line and she looks like she's insane. She's just running back and forth trying to get out of the casino and she can't figure out how to go out the bank of glass doors. The security lady tries to stop her and when the woman runs back my way I try to tackle her. I end up not getting the slippers and I walk toward the man in the cashier booth.

Lucid Casino #2

I approach the cashier desk. Behind the counter are two men and a huge vault that requires both of them to open it. One of the men is wearing a white button up dress shirt and boxers but no pants. Once the doors are open money starts pouring out of it, but it's like huge coins the size of frisbees. They're not making any clanking noises as they're spilling out onto the floor. I realize that because of this, I must be dreaming. I hop over the counter and confront the guy in the boxers. I realize that he's just a dream character and I can do whatever I want. I must have been feeling particularly naughty so I tried to grab his package and realized it was abnormally small. I felt bad for him and went over to the other guy. I think I went inside the vault and there were packages of baseball cards all over the place. I was mentioning something about how I used to collect baseball cards and then I look at the guy and realize he looks like Anthony Edwards from ER. I asked him if he wanted to put his hand in my pants and he said yes. Right as he was going to, I felt myself slipping out of the dream and I woke up.

Spiderman @ the Mall

I fell back asleep and had another lucid dream! I'd never had more than one in a night! I have a hard time remembering how this started, but I was in a mall, and I remember something about Spiderman being there. Like visually I remember him, but not in what context. So I get the idea that I can jump all around from floor to floor in the mall. I remember thinking, "wow, this is what my subconscious thinks a mall looks like." I'm performing some crazy acrobatics and gravity defying maneuvers. I was looking over the railing from the second floor and I just hung over the edge and my feet slipped and I was falling, but I made invisible wires come out of nowhere to anchor me to the ceiling so I wouldn't hit the ground. I remember a big Christmas display. Then I was jumping through what looked like a Halloween display. I think this was my longest lucid so far.

Porn Store Klepto

I really wish I could remember what this one was about. I think it had something to do with stealing sunglasses.

2/11/09

Bomb the School

I'm in an auditorium at school. Andrea's sitting next to me sticking long skinny things in my mouth and I'm annoyed at this. I think one thing was a q-tip and I bit it in half. I left and found a classroom with a pizza and cheesebread on a desk at the front of the room. I am telling myself that it won't matter if I take some of this pizza because I'm just going to blow up the school anyway. I take half of the pizza and stick it on a napkin and walk out of the classroom.

Next thing I know, some administrators are telling me to find my ex boyfriend Mike because they suspect that he's going to blow up the school. That's odd, I thought that was my plan?? Anyway, I go outside and look for him and I see him walking away from me across the yard. There's a creek and it's all swampy, but daylight outside. I have lost track of my pizza and am now crouched in the swamp following Mike. He sees me and starts walking toward me. He says everything's ok, everything's just fine, but I grab him by the waist and tell him not to go and that everything's not fine!! I woke up because my alarm wet off.

2/10/09

Steam Makeup

I must be at the mall but it feels like a more intimate setting. I'm watching a woman put makeup on a girl, but it's no ordinary makeup. In order to "seal" this makeup, she's got to use a hand held steamer to the girl's face. I watch her smear some liquid makeup on this girl's nose and then steam it so it stays. When she moves the steamer away, the girl's nose is a shade or two darker than the rest of her face.

I must be really interested in what's going on, so I walk up and have a conversation with the woman who's applying the makeup. She looks like she's airbrushed... sort of. I tell her that I really only use makeup to cover up blemishes and that I have roseacea. She shows me where she has covered up her own blemishes and it looks decent enough. She offers to do a demonstration on me.

I sit in this chair that is really poofy and it's hard for the woman to reach me. So I sit up on my knees and lean forward. She puts the liquid makeup on the left side of my nose and puts the steamer up to it. I can feel the makeup getting hard. I touch my face when she's done and it feels like plastic! I look in the mirror and it's kind of shiny and obviously something's different about that part of my face. I'm pissed. She brings me over to a table and on it are plastic discs in a box. She said these are samples of textures that the makeup can turn out like. I think it was still in the experimental stages. I remember seeing four other girls waiting their turn and they were all looking at new tennis shoes they had just bought.

The Bum in the Bathroom

I believe I had just left the makeup extravaganza and I had to go to the bathroom. I'm walking down the street now looking for a fast food place or a gas station to go to. I find a "community center" and dip in. I find the bathroom and go in. It looks pretty nasty, but I have to go. I go into a stall and pull my pants down. To my left is a cut out area from the wall separating me from the next stall. There's a homeless man in there asking me if I'll give him a hand job!!!! I was shocked and told him absolutely not and that he's in the girls' bathroom anyway, what is he doing there??

I am pissed because I can't go to the bathroom and pull my pants up and leave. I go to the boys' bathroom. The door is closing, and it's not a swinging door like on most public bathrooms, it's got a doorknob on it. I turn the knob and a guy asks me if I'm coming in or not... he has no clothes on. I figure I don't care what's going on in there, I have to pee. So I go in and find a stall, and this bathroom is so much nicer than the girls' room. There are tons of guys in there. I think I threw off the plan, though, because from under my stall I can see the guy putting his pants back on. THEN when I look up, my door is open and everyone is watching me. I close the door and look up and the guy who let me in is peeking over my stall!!!! So I say the hell with this and leave.

I'm still on a mission to go to the bathroom. I am on the street again and I find like a club and there's a band playing. I go in and find the bathroom. It's huge. I go into a stall and the toilet is right up against the wall so I have to sit off the side of it. The stalls are short and I could see some girls coming in. Now my wall has disappeared again and I watch them go into a stall a few stalls down. I look up and there's a ledge with some cds on it. There are maybe forty in the stack. I grab them and start flipping through them. They seem like pirated copies of movies. All the titles are hand written. One says, "Conspiracy Theory, Rare."

As I'm looking through these cds I can feel myself taking a shit. I look around for some toilet paper, but all I can find is a calendar on the wall. It looks like someone had made it themself, not like one you buy in a store. So I grab a few pages and wipe. I knew this was ok because the pages were from January and it's February now. I go to stand up and this girl is standing on the outside of my stall and she freaked me out being there. I flushed the toilet. She handed me some jewelry and said she had found where I buried it. It was a really nice gold ring with channel set purple stones, maybe tanzanite, and a necklace. The girls who came in earlier are now behind me and they look in my toilet. Apparently I needed to flush again. So I do. Now the girl who just handed me the jewelry says something about do I remember the four people I killed? I'm indignant because no I do not remember that!!! The dream faded after that.

The Lunch Line

The first thing I remember is something about a parking garage. I think I met up with some people and then we went to lunch. We get in the cafeteria and go our separate ways to get food. I can remember being in the lunch line and there was a weird chicken dish. And it was so confusing where to go to get a drink. And people were butting in front of me! It was very hectic in that lunch line! I got really frustrated and I think I woke myself up!

Night of 2/8/09

Filling in for a Jonas Brother

I'm on a stage. Playing a guitar. With two of the Jonas Brothers. (I think I had just seen them on the Grammys, that's why I had this dream. IRL I know nothing about them and don't care to.) I have an awesome electric guitar! It's baby blue! All of a sudden, we all decide to find a member of the audience and give them our guitars and let them play. I walk out into the crowd and I see my ex boyfriend from elementary school, Dave. I don't think he recognizes me because he doesn't say anything. So I find a guy in the crowd and give him my guitar. I tell him that he'd better be good and not let me down. I go sit in the audience and Dave comes and sits next to me. "The first half of my life," he says. I think he's referring to our childhood. When I wake up I realize that he moved away fourteen years ago, which is half our lives ago.

Night of 2/7/09

My Lost Ring

Backstory: I had this really nice sapphire and diamond ring that my dad got for me for a birthday. I don't know when it dawned on me that I couldn't find it. I've been looking everywhere for it for more than a year now. I keep wondering if it's just somewhere that I haven't looked yet, but I think that maybe it was stolen. My parents' house is always really busy and there are people always coming in and out so there's a good chance that someone just went in my room and helped themselves to it.

So I'm in a house that I don't recognize as my own. I think I'm in a finished attic because I don't see any windows. In the corner of the room is shelving built into the walls and some drawers. I look in one of the drawers and find a jewelry box. I open it up and tucked into the corner is a piece of paper. Written on it is an apology from my ex Lauren saying that if I just keep looking, I'll find my lost ring. I don't know why I never saw this note before and I start looking in all the corners of the box and there are drawers in the box and I keep finding all this jewelry! I go back to the shelves and find more boxes to look through and it seems like it's just all jewelry all different kinds. I don't have the feeling that I'm snooping around someone else's stuff, and that note was just for me, so it must be my room. I just keep looking and looking and don't find my ring.

The Souvenir Shop

I'm at what seems to be a beach souvenir shop. I'm looking through a shelf of suntan lotion. All the bottles are clear and shaped like Bond #9 perfume bottles. They all have different names on them of suntan lotions and they're not in any particular order. I don't know exactly what I'm even looking for. I take a bottle up to the register when I see a display of those drink mugs that you put in the freezer and there's liquid in them that freezes to keep your drink cold. I walk over and start looking and see one with a picture of the Simpsons on it. I think my dad would want it so I take it to the register to buy it.

School / Grocery Store

Next thing I know I'm in school. It's my old middle school. I'm walking around finding these gold coins all over the place. I'm just walking around looking at the ground finding these coins. It didn't feel like I was in a video game or anything, though. I had the notion that it was a competition and whoever found the most coins won, but only a certain group of people was looking for the coins because not everyone was looking for them.

I made my way to class still looking for coins and it must have been Spanish class because the teacher was handing back our group compositions. I got my group's back and gave a high five to the other guy I was working with because we got a hundred "because we're awesome!" is what I told him.

Now I'm in a grocery store. Instead of looking for gold coins, I find class rings all over the place. I saw one and it was from a student who went to Harvard and I stuck it in my pocket. Then I realize that they're part of a display but I didn't put the ring in my pocket back where I found it. (I think I'm a klepto in my dreams, I'm forever finding stuff and putting it in my pockets!) I find my way over to the vegetable section and see my ex Mike standing there looking at vegetables. Someone else, a girl, walks up and asks what he's wearing, and I say, "of course it's the Cool Water I got him when I was on vacation in Spain." (Which it true, I did go to Spain and bring him back Cool Water.) He must not have noticed me until then and turns to me and says that he's so glad to see me and things aren't working out with "Sara" and he still has feelings for me and he knows I still have feelings for him.

I woke up wondering what was up with 2 of my exs coming up in one night.

Night of 2/6/09

Two-Sided Beach

I know I've had dreams in this location more than once. I start at a beach. Nice sand, beautiful water, but there aren't really any waves, so it must not be the ocean, but a lake or a bay. I wade out into the water and there are tons of people, almost too many to be able to get anywhere in the water. I don't think I've gone too far when I see the other side of this body of water and it's just another beachy shore. This is strange to me because I've never been to a place like this IRL and it comes up in my dreams enough that I recognize it.

You're in Middle School?

I'm in a school hallway and I'm walking somewhere. I see teachers as they're coming out of their classrooms and each one of them is doing that thing where you make glasses on your face when you make the "ok" gesture with both hands and flip them upside down so that the "o"s are over your eyes and your other fingers are cupping your chin. I'm really happy as I'm walking down the hall and I do it back at them! Everyone's smiling and having a good time with this.

So I make it to a staircase and realize I'm on the second level. On the staircase are students eating lunch. They've got their food all spread out and they're sitting in little groups eating and talking. There is no way to navigate my way down the stairs unless I sort of shimmy down the banister. So I start going down the left hand side with my butt on the railing and my hands balancing me and my feet are tiptoeing over the kids' food. I finally get to the bottom and see that it's the lunchroom. I stop at a table and start talking to a girl who's by herself eating lunch. I don't remember what was said, but I asked her was she like a sophomore or junior and she said she's only fourteen and in the 8th grade. I was stunned that she was in middle school because she looked much older and was acting so mature.

Night of 2/5/09

Breaking into Victoria's Secret

I wish I could remember how this started. I was just so stunned when I woke up from this that I could only focus on the end.

I'm in Victoria's Secret at a mall. I think I was shopping for something, but I'm wearing my new pajamas (that I just bought from Victoria's Secret yesterday!!). I look at the door and it's two glass doors that are closed and locked. A mall security guard comes up and opens the doors and comes in. He doesn't see me, so I sit down in a chair and pretend I'm asleep. Or a mannequin. I don't know which. I think my eyes are open though, so I see what was going on. The security guard comes in with a guy and a girl and they're both wearing dangly earrings.

Next thing I know, I'm being interrogated by the security guard and the guy with the earrings on and now he's only got one earring in. The security guard asks me how I got in there and I said, "I don't know, I'm dreaming, I must have dreamed myself in here!!" (Makes perfect sense, right? Like I knew VS was a real place and I could really be in there, but not after it was closed. I'm stuck with not knowing whether this counts as lucid or not.)

I go on to explain that, "All I know is that this guy was looking for his earring and he had two before and only one now. Then you start interrogating me about how I got in here." I was so confident in my answers. I'm amazed that this happened in my dream... that I told someone I was dreaming.

Michael Cera at Toys 'R' Us

I'm at a toy store riding a BMX bike around. I ride around until I find that there's an event going on. My boss comes up to me and asks me to introduce the pro bike riders who are doing a demonstration. I get off my bike and grab a microphone and there are bleachers and people sitting everywhere. There are a couple of pro bike riders going up ramps and doing tricks. I walk down into an area that's kind of like a big box. There are no ramps, just walls. It's a special area where the bikers can go straight up a wall without a ramp or anything. I'm not even saying anything into this microphone, I'm just watching. One biker rides into the wall, goes up it and launches into the air. He does a flip and it looks like he's going to land on his side, but as he lands, he lands on a peg on the back wheel and just spins around parallel to the ground.

I leave this area and walk around looking at the crowd now like I'm security. A few other employees and I are talking when we see a biker, who is now on a motorcycle, crash into a little girl who is walking with her mom and little sister!! I run to the store manager, who can't be bothered about this, and she tells me to go find Jeff. I find Jeff and I'm yelling his name cuz he's in the area where the demonstration is and it's hard to hear because the crowd is cheering so loud. So I grab him and bring him to where the accident is. As I'm walking there, I accidentally step on the little sister's hand because she was crouched down with her mom checking on the girl that just got crashed into. She freaks out and screams, "I'm going to need an x-ray!!!!" And starts crying. SO I walk away.

I go down the aisles and I see people in brown uniforms putting stuff on the shelves. I figure it's the overnight crew. There are some Oakley sunglasses in a box by the baseball bats, so I grab a pair and put them on. They're like fake plastic little kid sunglasses. I should have known. I push them up onto my head. I see some employees by the cash registers talking and walk up to them. At one of the check out aisles, I see little tubes of M&M's and have a moment of clarity and realize I'm dreaming, but it fades as soon as I grab one of the tubes of M&M's and open it and pour some into my hand. I turn around and one of the employees is Michael Cera from the movie Superbad. I look a him and ask him point blank in front of everyone else if he would like a blow job. He looks so surprised. So I grab him by the hand and lead him to the restrooms. We go into the handicapped stall and he unzips his pants. He looks down and seems embarrassed because his penis is so small. I turn around and see that there's a mirror on the wall. I look in the mirror and see Michael behind me and now he has a penis growing out of the front of his neck. It is the worst penis I have ever seen. It has like polyps all over it and is bumpy and just bad.

Next thing I know, Michael and I are in the parking lot outside and I'm telling him I just couldn't do it, and I'm sorry, but I think he has an STD. He says, "STD stands for Southern Texas Defense!! I don't have that!!!"

Wow.

Night of 2/2/09

There were four parts to this dream and I remembered to write them down when I was in Social Justice class:

- kick Missy out
- Zelda video game
- $20k for killing guy on boat
- "Odie" dog's personality

I have an ex named Missy who I hate. we were at a party and she was there. I didn't want her there and made a big fuss about it and had her kicked out. this actually led to the last part about "Odie." I remember driving somewhere and someone was talking about this dog that had multiple personalities and when he was evil he went by "Odie."

it started out wth me being a spy on a boat and there was a bad guy on a boat (which I somehow hijacked) and I killed him. when I got back to shore there was a big party and someone said I got $20k for killing the bad guy. I remember thinking "great now we can pay off all our bills!!!"

no idea what the Zelda video game is about.

Night of 2/1/09

Walking on Water

I was with Shannon who I work with and we were driving somewhere in a beach area... the biggest thing I remember about this dream is that we had to cross a lake or some body of water and we got out of the car and Shannon just stepped out onto the water and started walking across it. There was a bridge under the water that we couldn't really see, but she knew it was there. I remember having dreams like this before.

Home School

I'm with Andrea and we're walking down a street in like Carytown. It's dark. There's a line of people waiting outside of an ice cream parlor. I see some people I know that I don't talk to anymore and hook arms with Andrea and walk a little faster to get away from the people in line. She pulls away and starts talking to someone else in line. I'm frustrated so I keep walking and make it to a building that I suppose is our apartment. I walk in the door and it's a classroom with desks and people in it. I'm confused so I start yelling and tell everyone to get out because this is my house and what the hell are you people doing in my house?!?!?

No one leaves. They look at me like I'm crazy. Then I see this girl that I knew from elementary school. She's crying and freaking out for some reason, so I go over to her, and she's under a desk. I hold her and kiss her on the head and tell her it's going to be ok. I look over and see Andrea sitting in one of the desks. I give her a look like, "help me!" and then I wake up.

Hmmm.

1.) In an airport. At the check-in counter. I think I was a spy. I was trying to re route my trip through 23 different cities so that the people following me couldn't find me. Then I walked out and found my mom and dad in a chauffeured car and we went to a copy shop. I said I needed a notepad for my planner.

2.) At my parents' house. In the kitchen. Danielle, Jen, and Jen's girlfriend Heather are there. Danielle's phone's T9 isn't working so she hands it to me to fix. Then I get mad and throw her phone at Jen and tell her she needs to get out of the house, I don't even know why she's there. So I go to punch her and she dodges it. So I put her in a headlock and bring her to the front door and tell her to leave. She and Heather go to the car and Jen's just generally bitching. It's pitch black outside. Then everyone from Jamie's house across the street come outside and start heckling Jen and Heather. I look down the road and see a horse drawn carriage pull into someone's garage and some kids on a swing set. Then a mack truck comes down the street. The front says "Richmond Times-Dispatch." On the side, it says www.bearbackers.com. Then Jen comes up to the front porch and sets off fireworks. A cop driving down the street does a u-turn and chases after her. I turned to Danielle and asked her, "Is this really happening??" It just seemed like it was too much going on. I feel like I was lucid for just a moment because I figured out that I was dreaming.

whatever you do, don't go to that website!!!

OMG I haven't had any worthwhile dreams lately. I had one where I was skydiving and I landed in front of my grandma's house... One where I was outside and went down some stone steps in pitch black darkness on stilts made of toilet paper tubes and I found a laptop computer when I made it down the stairs... and a bunch more that I don't even remember. My memory for my dreams has been pretty shitty lately. I'm not really stressed out or anything but school has started back a few weeks ago so maybe I just don't have room in my brain for dreaming *and* remembering them. We'll see.

OK, I remember last night's dream. I was at the Superbowl, but I don't think I was supposed to be there. I was on the bottom level and it was all indoors. There were different rooms and I kept looking into them. I found one and it was right on the fifty yard line. The Bears were playing (they're my favorite team). It was like a conference room and there were people in suits all over the place. I sat down at a table and a guy in a suit offered me a slice of pizza. I wasn't interested in the pizza and the guy in the suit told me that if I wanted anything I should ask the waiter and I could have anything I wanted... there was no menu or anything. I said I wanted a quesadilla. After looking around the room for a while, one side was just a solid window that was like right where the action was, the waiter came back with my quesadilla. I don't remember much else.

01/26/09

The Hispanic Lady Talking About Shrooms

I'm driving on a highway and I get off on an exit that leads only to a parking lot. So what else is there to do but park the car? I get out of the car and I start taking a small dog for a walk. I'm in a townhouse complex but where I parked is the only parking for the entire neighborhood. All the rows of townhouses are set in a grassy area and there's not even really any sidewalks. I'm walking this dog and he's just a super cute and friendly little brown and white fluff ball.

All of a sudden, the dog banks to the left and runs to the end of this row of townhouses as I'm chasing after him because he's still on the leash and runs up to the porch of the house on the end. The inner door is open but the outer glass door is closed. A woman comes to the door and opens it to let out a medium sized dog and my dog and this other dog are like hanging out. So the owner and I sit on the porch and I told her something like, "my dog must have wanted to see your dog!"

Then, in Spanish, we start having a conversation about how she was just involved in a car accident. She was turning a corner and she ran straight into two cop cars. I asked her for a cigarette and she goes into the house and brings out a cigarette and a yellow clear Bic lighter. I hand the lighter back to her and tell her that I have a lighter in the car. Then we start talking about a book she's reading about shrooms. I tell her, "no way! I'm reading the same book!!!" So she brings me into the house into the den and starts showing me all the books she's reading. They're all wrapped in clear plastic like they're collector's comic books or something.

Then it's time for me to leave and I get my dog and we start walking back to the car. Now I'm at a busy intersection and as I'm about to cross the street, this little rice burner car comes barreling across the street and comes within inches of hitting me and my dog! I was so scared that I picked up my dog and ran across the street crying because my dog almost died! Then I get into this car with this red headed guy who I think was Darryl, a guy I knew briefly in high school. I ask him if he would take me to drop off my Netflix at the nearest mailbox.

Grey's Anatomy Bus Accident

I'm in a hospital. There's been a terrible accident and the waiting room is full of people. There's a guy with no arm. His arm is actually behind the check in desk hanging from the ceiling. I tell him I'd love to help him, but I have some people to check on and I'll be back in a few minutes. He seems really calm.

I walk down a hallway and peek into all the rooms and see that everyone has visitors. I feel like this is strange because it feels like it's two or three in the morning. Everyone's hugging someone. Then I walk into a room and see Dr. Sheppard and Dr. Bailey spooning in a patient's bed asleep. I think I woke them up somehow and Bailey gets all mad at me because she's just been in surgery and needs a nap! So she gets up and I guess goes off to find another bed. Dr. Sheppard asks me if I have the patient's medication and I get it out of my pocket for him and hand it to him. I see that the bottle is filled with white pills and there's one dark blue one in it. I tell him that's my ibuprofen and I put it in there because I didn't want to get pocket fuzz on it. I leave the room and Bailey comes out and starts bitching at me again, so I go and hide in a bathroom.

I get out of the bathroom and remember I have to find the guy with no arm. I go back to find him and he says he wants to introduce me to his wife and two little girls. His wife is a girl I went to high school with, Tiffany. I give her a big hug and tell her I'm so sorry. She seems not to care that her husband has lost his arm, either. They're either in denial or they're taking it really well, I think! So Tiffany takes me into the waiting room to meet her twin daughters. They look like they're eight years old. She grabs one girl's wallet and opens it up and hands it to me. It's a learner's permit. I'm wondering how old these kids are and then how old I am because there's no way Tiffany can have fifteen year old daughters.

So I start talking to the girls. They're both very smart and they're working on homework. Go figure, it's Spanish homework. So I start helping them with it and I see that they've drawn pictures in place of words they don't know. So I ask them who drew these and that I thought it was a combination of the both of them and they said yes... this whole part of the conversation was in Spanish. Then Tiffany starts writing down the side of the page, "dance dance dance." I looked at the one girl and asked if she liked Justice and all I could think about was D.A.N.C.E. "Do the dance... do... the... dance!" She looked at me kind of puzzled at first then caught on to what I was talking about.

1/25/09

Watching a Scary Movie

I'm not in a theater, but I can tell I'm watching a movie because I'm not acting or affecting the action in any way, and I'm not involved as like a third person scenario.

There's a man and he kidnapped a kid. I can't remember what was leading up to this or what the scene was, though. Next, there's the kid in a pit with an angry snarling beast of a dog. It's like a german sheppard on steroids. The man comes back and puts some gross looking food in like a trough for the dog to eat. He says that it's human body parts and the only way the dog will eat it is if he mixes in his own food with it.

Then somehow, I guess my brain made a connection with food and the next thing I remember is making a wrap with turkey and cheese and tomato and lettuce on a tortilla in like a convenience store.

Shoe Shopping

I'm at a place like Famous Footwear or DSW and I'm looking at a wall of shoes. (I remember having a couple of shoe shopping dreams before sort of like this.) They're all skate shoes and tennis shoes. They're all on SALE!!! So I start picking out shoes and it's like I can't stop! I find four pairs I like and I think they all have some sort of purple on them. I go up to the cash register to get rung up and there's a huge pile of unsorted socks next to where I'm supposed to be rung up. I start going through and finding matches and they're on sale, too! So I end up with four pairs of shoes and a ton of socks and I'm ready to walk out and I think, Andrea's going to be so mad that I bought all these shoes... maybe I can put them up on ebay. Ha!!

Army Video Game

I'm in the woods and there's a dirt hill with little spaces cut out into it. It's in a semi-circle shape and all flat on the top. In front of this "hill" are dog crates. They're plastic with a metal grate for a front door. I see that people are getting into them and other people are handing them laptops. It's for a video/reality game. These people in the dog crates will be navigating people in the woods playing an army game. They are set up with laptops and headphones and infrared goggles. When they get into their crates, people push them into these holes into the side of the hill.

A guy I used to work with, Scott, goes into his crate and freaks out and says he can't do it, so I get into the crate and put the goggles and headphones on and they push me into the hole. I'm looking at the computer screen and I see tanks and army men shooting at each other. I doesn't seem like the game is really taking place in the woods I was just looking at.