Thread: Liza's Journal

--October 12---

My dad and I still weren't speaking. I was some kind of a writer and had to record some kinds of events that I can't recall right now.

My dad kept making fun of me to my mom because I'd wince and flinch away every time he'd 'accidentally' touch me. One of my parents' really good friends was having her 23rd birthday [she's much older in real life].
In the dream, her name was Lena. She and som eother people were supposed to come over and my dad kep talking to her on the phone, telling her to come.

I was putting shoes on and my dad walked into the room.

He said : "Did you know it's Lena's birthday today? She's turning 23. Isn't that great?"

I didn't say anything and he just kept talking as if everything was normal and it wasn't. I couldn't stand his voice and left the room. I went to another room where my mom was having a conversation with someone else. THe room also had the bed that my dad build years ago in Ukraine. I sat on it and started writing something and muttering under my breath.


--October 12, dream 2

I was back in the U.S. in Alabama with my friends Cassie and Leebo. I invited Cassie to go to Ukraine with me cause my family (including my grandparents), were working on something important and I wanted her to help out. Cassie said yes. She flew to Ukraine and Leebo had to take me there on a horse. He sat on top of the horse and I sat in the cart that it was pulling and had the reins.

We somehow got to Ukraine on the horse and rode out onto the road. There was a truck in front of us and Leebo wasn't stopping the horse even though we were about to run into it. I pulled on the reins that said, "Whoa, watch where you're going."

He got mad at me because he said it was my job to stop the horse and that he was just sitting in front as a lookout.

Cassie and I met up on the other side of the road from the apartment where my grandparents lived. Cassie started to cross the street but a car almost ran her over and I pulled her back. Then the light turned green and we crossed.

In my grandparents' apartment, my grandpa was sitting on the living room couch. I introduced Cassie to him in Russian (for some reason it took me a few seconds to remember her name). Then my grandma came by and I introduced Cassie to her, too. I kept having to translate everything that everybody was saying back and forth.

Grandma said, "Weren't we supposed to be working on that thing?"
Me: "That's why Cassie's here. She's helping us with the thing."

Oct 13, 2005

My grandpa told us about how he was captured when he was in 'the war'. The war wasn't over yet, but he was not fighting anymore.

Me and my friends Olga and Lee Helen were captured. We were taken to what looked like a giant cafeteria with tons of other teenagers.
Everyone was talking. We were told that we'd be taken to another place later and never see our parents again. For some reason, it didn't seem too bad.

I remember whoever captured us was arguing with us about something. I'm not even sure what it was. Some guy kept watching us to either make sure that we didn't eat any radioactive apples or to eat some himself (he worked for the 'kidnappers').
Once in a while I remember me and him and Olga going into this hot cage with an over below it

Every now and then we had this class in another room, where the young teacher gave free T-Shirts to those who did well. There was a lot of T-Shirts hanging in the front of the room.

A guy named Jason [he was in one of my art classes back in the U.S. in real life] didn't bother learning or handing in his papers. When the teacher asked him a question, she always gave him a large white T-Shirt with writing on it.

I remember picking up a stack of those T-Shirts that she gave Jason and then putting them back.

After the class we were always taken back to the "Cafeteria." The tables were long and wooden and had plastic, round, darkish-blue seats. It reminds me of the cafeteria that my high school had back in Alabama.

One day we saw buses outside. For some reason, everyone was kind of excited about leaving. It was like and adventure. I kept thinking about going on the bus and then flying in a plane with my friends.

The first bus was filled by little kids who had nothing to do with us.

We all went outside (all the people in the 'cafeteria').
Someone said: "There's the bus!"

Everyone started rushing onto the bus. Olga swung her arms and accidentally hit me in the mouth. I stumbled to the side.

When I got on to the bus, I found Lee Helen and Olga sitting in the same seat (there was room for 3 people per seat and Lee Helen was sitting by the window).

They just sat there, silent and expressionless, and from above Olga's face reminded me of my friend Jill.

My tooth hurt where Olga accidentally hit me.

Me: "Dude, you almost knocked out my tooth!" I giggled.

All 3 of us started laughing and Olga said, "Sorry."

I heard someone calling out my name in the seat behind ours. it was my friend Shana. She leaned forward, smiling: "What's up, girl!"

[[There was something else going on with the guy in the cage who kept talking about radioactive apples. There was also something else with Jason. I remember jumping on their backs or something, but can't remember any more details. ]]

October 14

My parents moved to something that was called the X-Box apartment. I had to go with them. It was really high up in a skyscraper.

I wanted to escape. I considered jumping off the balcony, but there was talk about peope trying to do that using balloons and watermelons as parachutes. It didn't work.

So I kept running up and down the stairs in hopes to escape. I kept trying to find a restroom in the skyscraper, but couldn't find one. Ther was also something that had to do with my friend Katya [an old friend of mine from Ukraine]. I always passed a bicycle on one of the floors (I think it was the 3rd, but I'm not sure).

I ended up going outside, where my parents were having a picnic with some friends. One of their friends stood in the middle of the street in yellow speedos and sang pop songs. There were laughing women on the side and they sang along.

Someone brought out a amera in a brown leather cover. They whispered about it to one of my parents and tried to make sure I didn't see it. I saw the camera and ran.

I found myself in another tall building nearby. I needed to use the restroom. ,There was lots of people in the 'lobby' and one blonde middle-aged lady said that her kids were having a party and I could go there.

I went up to the kids' apartment. Everything was loud and tons of people were playing with toys and bubbles. The woman had 3 kids - youngest son, slightly older daughter, and oldest son.

The daughter and oldest son said I could go in these special pants. That was their toilet. I said 'OK', but there was a bunch of people running around, so I tried to cover myself up with a curtain. It took me forever to pee because the little kids kept running up to me and talking.

Then a girl came up to me witha toy shark.

Girl: "Someone broke the horn on my shark!"
Me: "Aw, that's sad. But sharks don't have horns!"
Some other overly obese dude: "Yes they do."

I think they meant the fin...

October 16

I decided to start a bar with a male friend. We built the bar itself out of cardboard and got everyone in school to donate crystals to glue onto the cardboard. But the students didn't want to part with their crystals, so we decided to have them sit under the cardboard and hold them.

In the end, my partner decided to just glue makeshift letters from A to G across the 'bar'.

I thought it was stupid, but people were really interested in it and before you knew it, the whole school was in there, listening to the cd player.

A pie was being baked in the oven. An african american classmate came up to me and said, "I hope you don't mind your cellphone being baked."

Me: "Well, I don't, but my parents are going to rip my head off."

He got his girlfriend to turn off the oven and dig my cellphone out of the pie. It still worked.

I remember thinking that I should have done this without a partner.


October 16, dream 2

Cassie and I went to a theme park...



October 17

I had to be trained in secret to become part of either Australia's or England's royal family. I took classes from the queen, king, servants, etc. I still lived in the U.S. then.

There was a bad storm coming and I had lots of money because of my future occupation. I decided to give my former boss, Ms. Bruce [real life person here], and a friend, Leebo [another real life person], a few thousand dollars each so that they could find a way back if the storm carried them away.

Somehow, I ended up in Judge Judy's courtroom, sued by Leebo for giving him money. The royal family was ther. There was a sea in the courtroom, under the seats and podiums. You could easily lean down and touch it.

Judge Judy was as mean as ever. She asked me why I gave Leebo money and whether Leebo had been plannig to move to Australia anyway. He had, but I didn't know about it until we were in court. I was determined not to cry in front of Judge Judy, Leebo, or Ms. Bruce.

The Royals started talking about Australian TV shows and I said that I just started watching one and still needed to get used to the accents.



October 18

I was hanging out in a cafe filled with other teens. We were having fun and meeting people. I was on a date with some guy. The cafewas separated into sections and each section was divided with a semi-transparent door.

Suddenly, we heard screaming in another section. Everyone in our booth got quiet and a voice came over the P.S., telling us that there is nothing to worry about. I saw a dark figure passing in front of the door in another section. I knew it was some kind of monster.

I begged the chef to come with me. He was a middle aged, chubby man in his white chef clothes. He had the hat and everything. Other workers were yelling at him not to follow me, but I led h im into the bathroom. I stood on the toilet seat and opened up a hidden closet. Somehow, I came to believe that it was the chef's mouth and it was where the monster had come from. I told the chef to look in as well. There was a huge, pinkish-purplish-brown, half melted tongue.

Me: "This is what your tongue looks like. We have to escape."

I knew the monster and the other workers would get us soon. I saw a small window in the wall. I knew the chef wouldn't fit through it because of his size.

Me: "We can escape through this window." (I didn't want to tell him that he wouldn't fit)

He said he couldn't and I asked him to at least help me escape by holding the door. He reluctantly agreed as I slid up the glas and removed the 2 safety nets in the window. I climbed out and jumped onto the grass. It was already dark and hard to see. I ran back toward the large hotel that I was staying at. As soon as I got through the sliding glass doors, I told a worker to lock all exits and entrances.

[blank....]

I was with the same guy that I was with at the cafe. A bunch of girls from my school decided to have a dance recital for our boyfriends [scary, I know]. We made all t he dances sluttier than we would have if our dance teacher was there. The guys liked them (and it was fun ^_^). We only got through 2 dances before I woke up.



October 18, dream 2

My dad's ex-boss Abi, came to visit us in Australia with another co-worker. We had to get to our house by swimming and walking.

When we got home, the "adults' went to talk and drink in the kitchen and dining room. My sister and I had to share a computer. Internet came either from the computer or a beer funnel.

We each got 30 minutes on the computer at a time. Masha (sister), got mad at me for talking to her for too long because it was wasting her computer time.

My dad, boss, and the co-worker had to swim across the sea to get somewhere (or a part of the sea). Later, the news said that the water was full of crocodiles and sharks.



October 19

I was either on a plane or a train, going over to Australia. There was about 20 or 30 people in there with me, but I had a seat to myself. There was solme hot punk-ish looking guys in there. One of them looked like my friend Kevin [real person]. He was either with his mother, or his older girlfriend. She was blonde.

I started digging through my backpack in my seat. I tossed out a couple of jackets and CDs. There was a guy that looked like Kevin on one of the CD covers. I got out my CD player (not the portable kind), and started listening.

I was closer to my destination in Australia and going somewhere ona bus. I saw my stop and stuffed my jackets and CDs back into the bag. I hesitated and didn't get off the bus. THen it started moving and someone outside needed to get on. The bus stopped and Kevin and his mom/girlfriend got off along with me.

I tried to find my way back to the house in Australia. Just then, a group of friends ran up to me said said they found a dead girl. I asked them where and they led me to a junk pile with lots of towels. I saw bits of blonde hair and pale skin.

Me: "So go take her to the police!"
One of the guys: "We're afraid to touch her."

I got a metal pole thing and threw the towel off of her. I turned away. The guy and the rest of them stood there for a second. Then, the guy picked her up. I started eating something. My mouth was full of peaches. Then I started trying to crack open a sunflower seed. Suddenly, there was this CRUNCH and a horrible smell and taste in my mouth. I ate a bug. One of the kind that has white and black stripes on its wings.

I almost freaked out becuse it was gross, but the rest of them told me not to worry, because it was 'just a bug'.

Some lady on the street told us to stop being so loud.


October 19, dream 2

I told my mom about how she promised that my sister (Masha), wouldn't take Yoga classes the same day as me. When I woke up it felt as if the conversation really happened. I couldn't shake the feeling that I really talked to my mom about that. In fact, yesterday evening I was thinking about having the exact same conversation with my mom because I didn't want my sister to take Yoga on Thursdays just like I do. She takes it on Mondays.

October 20, 2005

There was a guy and a girl who were just friends. They lived in a mountainous setting.

The guy (in his late teens), came up to his mom and asked her something. He ended up doing something with a frog (non-sexual, perverts). There was a door with the frog's name in the bathroom and a hole for it to jump in and out.

The guy resigned from the basketball team just when the team got really good. His mom had blonde hair, the girl had long, brown hair.

The guy and the girl were laying on a grassy cliff after the guy's team won a b asketball game. An other guy from the team (average looking or worse), came into the water and shouted up at them, describing how he and the guy worked perfectly together.

When he left, the girl jumped into the water. She dared the guy to jump in, but he said he might not make it. From one side of the cliff, he really couldn't, but from the other side he could, so she knew he was making excuses and taunted him playfully.

They were just friends, but you could tell something had happened with them in the past to break them up.


There was a flashback. The guy and girl were on the same school trip. The girl had shorter, wavy hair. They didn't know each other then. There was a yellow school bus nearby.

The guy came up to the girl and said, "I see a beautiful lady."

Girl: "I betcha you're gonna make out with some frat girl at a party."

The guy shrugged and walked off to the side. The girl stepped onto the bus and came out on the other side to come up to him.

The guy introduced her to his mom. She had shorter hair then, too, but still blonde.

The flashback looked like something out of the 80s. The girl's jeans weren't flared and she had something that strangely resembled a moustache on her face. She was really pretty when she got older, though.

The guy told his girl that his mom was in some trouble before. She fixed it and he looked up to his mom very much.


The entire dream was very fuzzy and I wasn't a character in it. It was like watching a movie.

Wow...this keyboard sucks...and I have like 10 dreams to post >.< I'll do that later.

Oct 20, 05 -- Lucid Dream

I have no idea what happened. I was in the dream, but I watched myself from someone else's eyes. When the dream became lucid, me ad 2 blonde girls were leaning over a washing machine.

I could see clearly. My hearing was better and sounds were more 'realistic' than my other dreams, but they still seemed blurred and dream-like.

I stood by the kitchen counter, the 2 girls leaning over the washing machine in front of me. At first, I wasn't moving, so I decided to walk forward and say something. As soon as I tried to move, I felt my wrist trembling, almost twitching (my real life wrist, not my dream wrist. I knew I was lying on my left hand). I feared that I would be pulled out of the dream and stopped trying to move. At this time, I was "in" my body in the dream. I kept looking at the dream from either my eyes or seeing it as a spectator. It reminded me of seeing it as if from different cameras.

The 2 blonde girls pushed me forward and one grabbed my hair. I didn't feel her touch me...I just saw and heard her. She pulled me up to her and pecked me on the cheek. It was gross. (watching as a spectator). It was then that I woke up.