Trial and Error

Had one dream in multiple pieces....the power of the snooze button

One piece was a bunch of women being rounded up and shoved into trucks. (something to do with studying women history and the feminist movement? ) I see Gloria Steinem in a wheel chair being pulled up to the bed of a truck. I run to her grab the arms of the chair and roll it to the end of the truck. The chair is already tied in, and I know I am going to get nabbed any second. I tell her that even if I can't help her now I will get help her get out of this. (I think we were in a team in a earlier part of the dream I don't remember).

She leans forward and says "What can you possibly do to help me now?". It seemed like a harsh question, and I was hurt that I was failing her. I decide to read her the license plate number of the truck. I look down but am having trouble deciphering it. (Not enough trouble to get lucid....but you know... - _ -). Surprisingly the numbers do not change after multiple viewings and after a bit I finally get the whole number to her. It was 48484867. I get dragged away.

Second part: I was in some sort of prison that looked more like a dungeon. It was made of green brick and the entire surrounding seemed moist. I was in a wheel chair and was suddenly confused why I needed one. I tell the person I am with that I can walk and that I walk all the time. I go to stand up and my legs feel week. My calves can not support my weight and I become quickly unbalanced catching myself on the chair for support. I am confused as to how this happened (the memories were of myself walking irl, so CLOSE to being lucid DX)

Third part. I am leaving some kind of class and know that I am being forced to go to this one location. My surroundings look like a large scale college campus all made of orange brick with small patches of grass and courtyards. As I approach where I much go I get some kind of vision of what happened their before: An evil man is talking to a girl in a stone chair and he describes to her all the torturers he will present her with ending with impaling her over and over until she can take no more. I see that the only way to stop him is the yell the word "claws" and say a four digit word that has relevance to me. I think I could say 4867 because that was the end of the license plate number. I begin to get frightened as I approach the same location as the vision. I see the chair and the workshop the man walked out of. I walk in not knowing what will happen.

A creature appears made of brown feathers and earth and sleek black claws. I jump, and let her begin walking me backwards toward the chair. She looks at the walk where there is paper with something written in Spanish. She has some kind of reaction to it and I begin to see a human face of a young Mexican girl. I ask her if she is a Mexican girl, she seems to understand what I am saying but does not respond, she continues to guide me to the chair. "Did he do this to you once? Did he make you this?" I ask. She slows her pace and begins to think about what she is, and how she got to be that way. We begin to talk. I am still scared out of my mind because I know that the man will come out when he pleases and I can not leave, but I thought if I could help this girl we could escape together. I think I can use the numbers I saw in my vision to stop him, but who knows if it will really work. We talk and talk until I wake up.

All of these dreams are complete, as in I don't recall segments missing, but they are short and not complete story lines. They also all took place next to each other, slowly moving across some kind of dream layout.

#1 I was returning to my high school film class to visit and I ran into my old film teacher Mr.R. I waved but he did not see me at first, or pretended not to notice to be funny, but finally he saw me and I gave him a hug and asked him how he was doing. He seemed almost confused at my reaction, like I had not been gone and we still saw each other all the time.

#2 A friend from school Vlad was talking to me about another friend from school LaLa. We were sitting at a round table in an outdoor courtyard-like area almost like a large patio. The table and chairs were black metal lots of it formed into the shape of vines forming the table. He was saying that he thought that LaLa liked him and I was instantly confused and uncomfortable. I start leaning back and forth in my chair as some kind of nervous habit, and as the conversation continues I lean further and further back until I would have fallen in real life. (Clearly not obvious enough for me to notice I am dreaming however XD)

I asked him why and he started explaining that he was in love with her and was hoping that she felt the same way. (If you knew these two in real life you would know how awkward this is XD) I ask for an example of what he means and he describes how when she finishes something she stands a certain way and poses in her victory, like she is showing off for him. I explain to him that it is most likely just that she feels awesome and knows that she is awesome and is congratulating herself and not to over react. He says ok and looks at her on the other side of the courtyard a few tables away.

#3 I was showing someone how to make link noises while pulling themselves onto a large box. Because that is the only proper way to climb on to a large box. XD lol.

#4 I look into the sky and see part of a rainbow. I figure it is just a jet stream with very unlikely refraction but decide to make a joke and yell "Look everyone it's Poptart Cat!" a few people laugh and look. Suddenly my vision is like a camera and it zooms into the front of the rainbow to show that it really is poptart cat. (The movement was a lot like the movements in he show Firefly when they zoom in and out of approaching vessels). We are speechless on how poptart cat is here and we watch as it turns toward us. We are all taken back, and it continues to approach. As it gets closer we see that it is a giant mechanical poptart cat and is on a collision course. We all start to run to get out of its wake and it hits the ground and bounces over my high school (where I had started in #1 now further away) We watch as it hovers back up and comes for us again. People begin shrieking as it approaches and yell "Why me, why me?!!" I notice however that it is not after the crowd, but after me specifically. I try to run in a way it would be difficult for the giant metal breakfast treat feline to follow but it continues to pursue until I wake up.

Me, 2 of my roommates (S and L), and a whole bunch of other people were being held captive by this older woman at her home. Everyone in the dream except for the woman, were pre-teen to teenager age (for whatever reason). There was no kind of security or fence or anything to keep us from leaving...we simply couldn't. It was the feeling of being trapped and having no alternatives than to stay and bide time, with no idea what

On the ground outside I find a piece of paper I printed out the last time I tried to escape and I have a false memory. It was of me frantically running away from the woman in a ripped up white shirt and was blocked by a group of policemen that physically forced me back into her captivity. I tell someone in a great state of fear that she owns the entire police department for a 20 mile radius and can use them at her whim. (I somehow knew that there were thousands of policemen in the 20 mile radius and that they could easily over power everyone she was keeping captive).

On the paper is the address of the house we are being kept in. I figure this information could prove useful so I tear of the address and put it in my pocket, almost getting caught by the woman telling us to go back inside. I get sudden anxiety hoping she has not noticed me. It seemed almost like she had but was not going to make a big deal out of it and we went inside.

I go inside with a bunch of others, all wearing white shirts, and my roommate S (dressed normal) was there and she started to try and convince me that we needed to leave and there was nothing in our way. I knew of the police ready to catch escapees, so I told S we needed to bide our time. Since S and L were not cooperating the woman made me lock the in this strange cell in the wall. L lays on what I amuse is the bottom bunk of a bunk bed with the expression of a gangster not caring what happens as long as you look cool doing it. (Which is hilarious since that is NOT her personality at ALL XD) I was not concerned because I knew that when we had I plan I would be able to open the door. The door was composed of bars as well as thick transparent plastic. I put my hands on the plastic (or glass or whatever) and she does the same on the other side. I tell her we just need to bide or time before we get out, and I walk away.

Dream fragments from the last week or so...

#1: I was sitting with my roommates in what almost seemed like Muni seats but were in a building. A creepy guy comes and sits near us (common on muni) and we all get tense, wishing he would go away. My roommate L however, goes and sits next to him, whispers something in his ear, and the creeper leaves the area. We are all confused, but happy he is gone. Later in the same dream I was bitten by the pokemon Gastly on my left arm. It hurt a lot but I kept my cool because I didn't want the Gastly to think I was an enemy. There was something involving money I don't remember.

#2: Most of the dream is gone..... (sad because it was awesome!) but we were climbing through vents to save a group of our friends who had been kidnapped.

#3: (The repercussions of watching over 7hrs of x-men cartoons and going directly to sleep. lol.) There were many different vignettes of scenes from x-men (totally fabricated dream scenes) One was Professor X persuading Nightcrawler to come back to the institute and stop hiding in his closet at home by bribing him with pizza. Another Wolverine was jumping of some kind of man made cliff onto helicopters. And the last one was Scott and Jean crashing a helicopter belly up and their seats sliding out of it upside down (with massive complaining as the characters often exhibit).

dreams that were one after the other a couple nights ago...

The first one was very long and interesting but I only remember one part due to my alarm
I was returning to what I think is my friends house, or at least I had met her their near the beginning of the dream. It had become over run with people all of which who were barfing. I tried to ignore it and find my friend in the chaos but the smell of it was so overwhelming that I had to leave. I remember being disgusted that everyone there was so drunk that they were barfing their guts out, and I left before barfing myself.

Dream from the next night:
I was driving (which was strange because I have never had a drivers license) and suddenly the entire road turned into several green bicycle lanes. I look for a place to turn away but there are no roads to turn onto. I drive into the lanes and begin avoiding bicyclists in a panic. After a bit of driving I start to think that it is not going to turn back into a normal street, but decide that it is to late now and that I should just keep going.

I am stopped by the police that begin to arrest me for driving in the bicycle lanes (I realize after awakening that I have no idea what their transportation was). I instantly begin to argue that there was no where else for me to go and that the way it was set up was ridiculous. They say: prove it. I walk back to the street (which I was magically next to again even after driving) and begin to point out the lack of exits to a different street when suddenly I see a paved area. My heart stops for a second until I realize that it is a paved bicycle lane. I continue to walk down the road, and it is awhile before I reach a street I could turn off of. I start to walk next to it and get stuck in very deep mud. I am unable to move but this does not stop me from complaining. The police want to fine me but I continue to make the point that there is not enough time or warning for me to have made any other choice. They finally agree to not fine me and are nice enough to help me out of the mud before continuing on their way.

I know this was the last of a few dreams, but I don't remember the others--this is the most boring one though.

I was running a film festival for school and I was facilitating the entire event.
People started showing up and they all wanted pancakes. I started making pancakes but not fast enough for the people that wanted them. And for some reason no one would sit down without me first putting a chair down for them. (it had a slight resemblance to diner dash in view and action).

I at some point sat down with a friend from school Alyssa G. and she was talking about it is almost her birthday and she is turning 26. I was confused because I thought she was WAY younger that that (irl she is 19) I tell her it is a week until my b-day and I am almost 21. She is surprised at how young I am. Suddenly my old friend Alex I. is there and he is talking to me about school. He says that we are going to graduate at the same time and we should plan making a film together. I was confused because even though we started at the same time irl he dropped out for a while and started going to another school in a totally different major. I decided not to bring it up and just agreed to what he was saying.

I go back to making pancakes and am putting one at each station people are sitting at. I then have the extremely lame epiphany that "when people eat pancakes, they want more then one! they want a stack! " I start making them faster. But all at once I know that no more people are coming and I tell everyone to take the pancakes at empty seats. They do, and everyone is good to go.

I stop and relax until cleaning crews come to clean up the event.