Dream One: I'm a young boy, maybe 10 or so, and I'm with an older brother who has long dark hair. We're traveling inside a pod inside of a large dragon. (necessary background info here: In the dream, giant dragons roam the earth burning and eating anyone they see, so brave men hitch rides on the dragons, and put little inflatable houses under their scales. Then inflate them. Once inflated, the move the scales enough that people can hide underneath them, and the scales are so thick and strong the dragon can't get to the people underneath them. So houses are made INSIDE the Dragon's skin. I wonder sometimes how I dream this shit up, lol.) My brother is angry because he thinks we shouldn't be hiding from the dragons. He's convinced hat we can befriend the dragons by singing to them b/c our grandpa told him that when he was young. But Grandpa had never tried it and everyone laughed at the idea. This brother, who was probably close to 18 or 19, sneaks out of the dragons scales, and begins singing... The star spangled banner?! to the dragon, lmao. But it works, and the dragon begins to "sing" as well, which actually sounds like wind whipping through hallways or over bottles, only in different tunes and pitches. Then the dragon extends a giant claw, and the brother climbs up his finger, up his arm, and onto the Dragons back between the wings, and it takes to the air. I can just barely see my brother's foot from my space under the scales. I think it's amazing, he did it! He's braver than any warrior who ever inflated any scales, because he didn't just sneak, he got right out there in front of the dragon and proved us all wrong. Then I wake up. Dream Two: I'm at the card store where we play Pokemon cards. I'm looking at these pretty wooden chests that you have to purchase and paint yourself. They have faeries carved int he top of them, and they have mirrors inside, they look more like jewelry boxes, not something you'd expect to see in a card shop. A BIG missed reality check there, lol. I walk away from the boxes and move to another shelf to look at card books. The lady who works there walks up to me and asks me if I'm going to have enough money to buy anything. Really rude and uncharacteristic of her, another missed reality check. I tell her I don't have any cash on me, but as soon as my husband shows up with the money I'll be buying something for sure. Eventually my husband shows up, and I tell him what I want, but then I leave by myself and leave him and the kids at the card shop. I go across the street, and there's a building there I feel like I should go into. I do, and I see a big box that appears to be in the wrong place. There's a guy in the building with Curly brown hair and big kind eyes. I ask him if he can help me move the box to the place where it belongs because it's so heavy! He says sure, then takes his shirt off. He's very muscular, and he even goes to all the trouble of flexing a few times for me ^_^ So I do what any good BFF would do, I whip out my camera phone and take pictures and send them to Ambies while he's flexing and lifting. Then My kids and husband come into the room, and my husband starts talking to the guy, and I wander off to see what my kids are doing. They've found some toys and are making a HUGE mess with them. I make them clean it up. When they clean up, my husband is ready to go, so we leave. We're walking down the street, and it's dark in the dream, and I notice there are stones on the side of the road with letters and words on them. I wake up. Dream Three: I;m on my computer, and I click on a link. When I click the link, it drops me on some strange country road. I assume I'm in the county next to ours, and that if I walk a certain way I'll end up back at home. I actually tell myself that I shouldn't have clicked on that link not knowing where it would drop me, but then never realize that clicking on links don't deposit your physical body on roads, lol. After walking a bit, I Realize I'm going the wrong way, and turn around to walk to the other way. I come across a building that looks familiar, and remember that I can walk through that building as a short cut. AS I walk through the building, I remember it's an apartment complex and that I know some people there but it's been years since I've seen them. Just as I think this, I walk into a common room with a big screen TV and a few guys sitting around drinking beers and sodas and playing a video game. I try to sneak through without being seen, because I recognize them as an exboyfriend and his friends (though I never dated a guy like him, lol) I try to reason to myself that they knew me with long hair, and now my hair is short. Also, with my coat on, I look like a boy not a girl anyways. Just as I think I'm safe, the guy jumps up and says, "Hey, wait a minute! You look familiar..." And of course I just run off, lol. He chases me though, and I end up in a parking lot, where my BFF is parked waiting to pick me up. She gets out of the car when she sees me running, even though I'm yelling at her to get back in the car! Just as I'm reaching the car, the guy catches up and grabs my arm. He spins me around and looks me in the face, and he says, "It is you! You cut your hair!" I Look up at him, and he's so gorgeous, I'm actually embarrassed he's seeing me with my short hair (I have a love hate relationship with short hair, I either look great, or I look like a boy... there's no middle ground.) His own hair is dark and longer than mine, he's got a goatee thing going on, and his skin is a creamy tan, like coffee with milk in it. About the color of a native American guy I used to know, so maybe he was native American? Anyways, He was hot, and I'm finding myself embarrassed over my short hair, and I want there to be more between us, but then my BFF walks over and demands he let go of me. At that, his attention shifts to her, and he starts flirting with her. I'm really hurt by this, and I grab her arm and tell her, "lets go! This guys a creep!" and then drag her into her car, and I get behind the wheel. I'm trying to tell her in the car that I really still like him and it is NOT cool that she's letting him flirt with her (this bringing up ancient memories of ten years ago when she started flirting with the guy she knew I liked and had been flirting with for a couple weeks, and managed to make him like her in no time flat... This whole dream was full of insecurities and crap ) So then as we're stopping at the end of the apartments "driveway" the car wants to roll even though I've got the brakes on. So I back it up to keep it from being in the middle of traffic, only it keeps rolling forwards. Then it gets stuck in reverse! And the brakes aren't working either, so we're going backwards up the road, and freaking out. Finally I decide that I'm going to try to slow the car down by jumping out and holding onto it and using my feet as traction on the road. Ambies gets in the driver seat and pushes the breaks as hard as she can and steers the car towards the side of the road as I'm trying to hold it back and slow it down. Finally it's in the grass and going slow, so she takes the key out and we're safe. Then a car pulls up and a couple get out. The woman is dressed in purple and white, and I didn't pay much attention to the man because the woman started talking to me and he started talking to my BFF. The woman is insisting we can't fix the car and should let them drive us home, but I'm not comfortable with this and think I can fix our car. Then I call the police to see if they can help me ? But before they get there, the lady FLIPS out about me needing to get in the car with her, and with amazing strength she pushes me into her car and starts to drive off with me! I'm flipping out because my phone hit the group and I can't call anyone to save me and she won't stop. So I start trying to hit the car window to bust out, and she starts hitting me telling me to calm down and stop resisting, there's nothing I can do to get away. I start hitting her back, and punching and kicking her, and she's pushing me away with her arms, and my arms are too short to reach her to hit her anymore, so I lean back and start trying to kick her. My flip flop falls off when she grabs at my foot, and she licks my toes freaking me out and I pull back and kick her REALLY hard, but she acts like it doesn't hurt at all. Then stops the car and says we're here. She hefts me up over her shoulder and carries me inside an apartment like I'm nothing, despite the fact that I'm kicking and screaming and punching her spine with all my might. The she drops me not gently at all on the floor and I happen to get a handful of her hair as I'm falling towards the floor and her hair comes off! I realize it's a wig, and she's a MAN in drag, not a woman at all. I wonder how I couldn't have figured it out before, but then he was a really pretty woman, so it's not surprising. But what he does next isn't pretty. He starts puking because I hit him so hard, and it gets all over me YUCK! His lipstick is all smeared now and he says he needs to go clean his face off, and he walks into a bathroom. I take the chance to run to a phone and call 911. I try to tell them he's kidnapped me and when I tell the operator that he threw up on me she laughs at me. Then there's a knock on the door, and it's the 911 operator, and she's telling me she's here to open the door and it's safe to leave now. But then When I walk through the door she hands me a bill for being rescued. I flip out on her how it's supposed to be a public service to be rescued from criminals and kidnappers, and she isn't supposed to charge me $149.99 for it! Then I start lamenting my bills, and wondering how I'm going to come up with the money to pay this and get the car fixed... then I remember my BFF and ask if they police arrived in time to save her from the guy who was with the girl/guy, and the lady says yeah the police arrived and my friend was safe with her bill too! Then I woke up, thankfully. Dream Four: I'm at the grocery store with my mom and my kids. we're checking out, and she introduces me to the guy who's bagging our things. He offers to help us take everything out to the car. When we get tot he car, I realize that my car is there but so is my husbands, and I "remember" that mom's watching the kids, and we were at the grocery store buying food for them to eat at her house while she baby sits. I strap them in while she and the guy puts the bags in the car, then I walk over to my husbands car and start to get in. The bag boy comes over and starts asking about the car, and I tell him how it used to be min in highschool, and he asks if I'll take him for a spin (it's a silver '96 Camaro, that's a normal reaction from my friends, they want to ride in it because it's a sports car, lol) So I take him around the block, but before we get all the wy around, he asks me to stop because he sees a friend. He goes to talk to his friend, and I realize I'm no longer in my car, but standing inside an anime convention hall. I see a PONY, Princess Luna to be exact, walking down the hall, then realize it's someone in a really good costume. a couple of my own friends walk by, and I say hey, and they stop and I tell them how beautiful they look... they're cos-playing as flappers, but their dresses are really shiny as well and stringy. Then I decide I need to go, and the bag boy is no where in site, so I just leave him I'm back in my car somehow pulling out onto a road, when someone takes the turn into the driveway too sharp and hits the car behind me. I'm glad not to be in an accident myself, and just keep going instead of stopping to help :O then I find myself walking again, this time I'm trying to walk through a parade and I'm carrying my daughter. I soon realize this is a parade celebrating the day of the dead, and then my daughter drops her stuffed bunny. Where it lands there are a LOT of stuffed bunnies, and the little girls sitting there help me figure out which one belongs to my daughter. I wake up. These dreams felt way closer to my "normal", so I was much happier with last night than the last several nights. And, I had to make myself get up because I knew if I had anymore I'd waste an eternity at the keyboard, ha ha.