Thread: D.F.'s Dream Journal

5/28: Last night was a pain. Though I'm still recovering from the "Kaylee DeFer" incident that happened to me a few weeks back, everything seemed normal now, though on that Sunday, I watched a marathon of Law & Order: SVU, and there were two episodes where girls were the villains, "Mean" (a murdered teenager was believed to be a bully) and "Influence" (a character played by Brittany Snow claims that three teenaged guys attacked her in a public bathroom, and in addition, she refuses to take care of her medication and listen to advice from a rock star--that was the season finale a few weeks back). The thing was that the girls being prosecuted in "Mean" were telling all about Brittany, and a blood-curdling scream is heard as the young woman is hitting her hands on the door, but the prosecutor is holding her back. In "Influence", when one of the jurors reads the verdict for the deranged teenager, police are grabbing her and she is screaming, which startled me a lot. That also leads to...
...this. And for the last few days I have been dreaming about a woman with brown eyes and curly brown hair. I wonder what she wants? Is she mysteriously alluring? I don't even know her name, yet every time I sleep on the floor with my sleeping bag, she seems to be wrecking everything. Could this be Rachel Bilson trying to tell me something? Well, I wasn't going to write on Memorial Day, but hey--I'm doing it anyway... I'll let you know when more dreams come about, OK?

5/31: The strangest dream just happened to me last night, actually. A few friends and I were at a movie theater (sadly, there was no Jun Kazama), and I'm actually writing this to sacrifice watching Law & Order: CI (I already know Camilla (Taylor Roberts) was arrested for the young musician's murder by Det. Robert Goren--he softly put her hands behind her back and handcuffed her and although she's going to be charged for his murder, it's her parents that caused the disaster).

Enough about that Vincent D'Onofrio and Taylor Roberts nonsense, let's get on with the dream. Vincent D'Onofrio and Jim Davis (Garfield's creator!) had minor roles as a Tekken 5 arcade unit was seen in the background. Some fake Japanese was heard being said--by somewhat of a girl's voice. I thought it was little kids. They were being confronted by an evil man who had a voice mixed between Jon Cryer, Viggo Mortensen, and Dennis Hopper mixed with an unplayable Tekken 5 boss from unknown origins, the unholy, HUGE behemoth Jinpachi Mishima--the stage eight final boss that gives many Tekken fans lots and lots of headaches.

The character played by Vincent D'Onofrio doesn't know Jinpachi Mishima just yet, and neither does the character played by Jim Davis. The girls being confronted by this villain were scared of the Jinpachi-like raspy voice, as their scared and trembling little voices (actually, they sounded a little like girls you'd normally hear on The O.C.--when Summer and the now-dead Marissa are shouting) rang a bell in my ears all day. It was actually a character played by Shawn from The 4400, or to make things a little easier, Patrick Flueger. I took a look at the screen to see what was going on at the time of the scared shouting, but that's all I could remember. Oh yeah, and the usher wouldn't let us in yet. Unlike Shawn, this character's hair was a bit wavier. I also couldn't remember what he was wearing, but he sure was evil.

After seeing that episode of CI again, I can still feel the effects of the dream inside me. Sometimes I'm left wondering if Vincent D'Onofrio, Christopher Meloni, Kathryn Erbe, or even Mariska Hargitay has ever dreamt at night of Patrick Flueger and lived to tell the story in New York. And sometimes I wonder if Garfield's creater, Jim Davis, has ever dreamt of Shawn and lived to tell the story. I'm starting to think that Patrick Flueger in dreams is a supernatural human being. Oh, and unlike Shawn, he was a bit more handsome like the "Families" episode of Law & Order: SVU when he had curly hair.

Now, I've never seen The 4400 before, but if anyone who watches that show on USA has any information about Shawn, feel free to post or e-mail me; I would gladly appreciate it. I really need to cheer up after this.

Tonight, I'm preparing for a lucid dream by playing PlayStation 2 games in Japanese (the developer Sonic Team as usual). I think that's what caused the dream I had on 5/30/06. The last time I had a dream of a demonic Patrick Flueger, I saw a Japan video on YouTube while playing Wheel of Fortune, developed by Atari. I even tried to complete the "Normal" challenges on SmackDown vs. RAW 2006 by THQ, but all I got was "The Top of the Cell" using John Cena to defeat Randy Orton in the cage. I play Sonic Team games Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog with Japanese voices turned on NOT to see if I can get a lucid dream. I do this to show how much of a fan of Sonic I am. I didn't know the series came from Japan in the first place. As a dream expert, I've dreamt of Japan many times, but can't seem to remember where I was once I woke up. I heard it's a beautiful country to visit over on the Pacific Coast. I'll let you know if I dream of Japan again! Oh, yeah, and one more thing IF the dream comes: Jun Kazama NOT included!

Last night, I had one of the most unwanted dreams ever. I was in a memory of a high school in Los Angeles, California--and one of the students, played by Laguna Beach star Kristin Cavallari was talking with a friend. A teacher, played by Ron Perlman is fed up with the girl talk and sends ALL of the girls to detention. This teacher HATES girl talk, and that made me furious -- Shane McMahon was being blamed badly. I woke up after expressing my hatred badly towards Shane McMahon.

Then when I woke up, I was talking about how Shane McMahon shouldn't have been in that dream. I got an idea that dragged Shane McMahon and Ron Perlman into a "running gag", which is a hallmark of comic and serious forms of entertainment. It seems that every time I think of this running gag, I always end up hearing the Sonic 3 & Knuckles "Game Over" theme because Shane McMahon got attacked by someone meaner than him!

On Sonic the Hedgehog (6/23)'s 15th anniversary, the worst was yet to come. It was late at night at a cousin's house. I felt worried about a TPiR contestant. All of a sudden, when I close my eyes, I see Jun Kazama trapped under something. I failed to save her, so she commits a running gag by the trademark screaming in pain. The dream told me what to do (at the bottom of this post). No serial killers were stalking her. She just lost her balance and fell into something.

It was the classics that night. One of my childhood fears on The Price is Right, Magic # (a pricing game with a freaky design), showed up after Jun Kazama "died" in Act 1 of the dream.

Then a few days later (6/26), I am in western Raleigh (near car dealerships), late to a financial aid meeting. I wind up thinking about Jun Kazama and that scream of pain.

After that was all over, I went to a game store in Garner and purchased Tekken 5 all because of the 6th "Jun Kazama"-driven dream in my life. I won't have to worry about YouTube not showing any videos of the character losing and screaming in pain anymore. In fact, T5 comes with Tekken and Tekken 3 (both arcade ports), lightning fast gameplay on a PlayStation 2 GD-rom. Thanks to the T5 purchase, I can feel more ideas coming. This marks the sixth time that I've dreamt of Jun Kazama in my life.

7/6: On 7/3, the worst thing happened while I was watching WWE Monday Night RAW.

No, not D-Generation X) was actually telling Triple H and Shawn Michaels (IF they were poorly played by Charlie Sheen and Sam Rockwell) to screw Vince McMahon, the WWE chairman, over.

Bad news happened in the form of the "R-Rated Superstar" Edge and his girlfriend, Lita. She beat the covergirl for a women's magazine sponsored by WWE, Torrie Wilson that night by cheating.

And then came the Main Event, which was for the WWE Championship (in which a fan favorite of mine, Rob Van Dam, was holding at the time)...a Triple Threat match containing another fan favorite of mine, John Cena, hoping to win the title. Both would compete against each other and that pathetic villain, Edge (which I now think was poorly played by Brad Pitt). Moments later, Cena successfully destroys RVD with the F-U but is hit with the championship belt from behind by Edge, who pins RVD to win the title. Angry, I slam things to the ground. I load Tekken 5 and have Jun Kazama attack 23 people. Edge got away with Lita, so I destroyed them with the Undertaker in SD! vs. RAW 2006 (SmackDown! vs. RAW 2006 - PS2) before Jun attacked 23 fighters.

But that also led to another RAW fan favorite, Randy Orton (this is where the dream comes in) being ATTACKED by a teen punk girl. THIS was her FOUL attempt to kill people close to the character of Edge, who is now a villain. What I don't get is that she didn't like the RAW Diva Search, and wanted the bad guys dead so she would remain. That's foul play in my book. If I would've known better, that was Samara Morgan of The Ring--matured version of Samara--wreaking havoc on the WRONG person, and other villains in the dream. Her name's Kelly Stables. There are songs by real artists, but I have to hear them to know what it's like, though. I'll let you know if even more weirder dreams like this come...

10/28: It's been a while since I last posted (I have to work on a third book, R.A.C.E.R. 41 3: The New Generation), so I had to catch up.

So far, things have NOT been looking good for Shane McMahon in my dreams. He's been ridiculed by The Price is Right contestants (he lost a pricing game) at the behest of producer Roger Dobkowitz, had his thoughts intercepted by numerous playings of Tekken 2 in a college dorm--while nobody in there was playing with Jun Kazama, and even denounced by Tekken's executive producer Hajime Nakatani (read the credits every time you beat a game)--as well as being hunted by numerous women's organizations and being made sick to his stomach as well.

While D-Generation X may be having trouble, it seems someone from The Covenant, Chace Crawford, decided to send a message to Randy Orton, Edge, and Lita by dressing up as one of my friends from high school that they were going to be treated like the McMahons. The character of Justin Blaine is loosely based off one of my friends from 2002 to 2005 at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School (then Southeast Raleigh High School) that I don't know very well, but every time I saw him, he would always have painted his fingernails--in a Jeff Hardy-like fashion--black. In the R.A.C.E.R. 41 series Blaine is a punk-dressed club bouncer from Cary, North Carolina. Did I mention he's only 19?

A week back, I did have a dream of riding on an Amtrak with a young woman sitting across from me, but that was the second part of the dream. The young woman she resembles is Shiri Appleby, and unlike Chace, Shiri does NOT appear in The Covenant. The first part was getting new ideas for the story like the villainous racing team--and the Shawnee Smith Racing Team was the result after that dream.

And then a dream happened last night where Casey Novak (Diane Neal) from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit along with Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) were being too tough on a young woman, and the scenery outside (they were inside) was reminiscent to Jun Kazama's grassland stage from Tekken 2, remixed in Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, in which the original T5 had the dark scenery.

I have been doing well this year about making new friends at Wake Technical Community College, as well, in case you're wondering. I have to get Shannyn Sossamon's New Generation story done. I'm almost there, too.

12/15: December 5-7 was a killer. First off, someone broke the 1-day solo record on Wheel of Fortune, leading me to think that Kristin Cavallari cheated. After Kari Merchant's big killing with $122,650 a few weeks ago, the worst happens. It seems every 12/7 there is a wild card dream. 12/6 comes around, and I am in a huge house where girls are kidnapped by an evil Japanese samurai (Walker, Texas Ranger, anyone?), and here comes the hero with his sword ready to save them. I don't see the girls, but I am forced to tell everyone about Pearl Harbor at school the next day. I even add the Attack on Pearl Harbor article to my Watchlist at Wikipedia. I didn't even think of Jun Kazama at all, either.

The "Wild Card" rolls around with a blast from my past. Around 1994-95 at Henry Adams Elementary (my last years at that school--I miss it) I used to obsess over a girl...and twelve years later in the dream she's starring in a movie, and allowing everyone in Raleigh and Cary to come see it. Well, in the dream, I was on the VIP list; she must have intended to tell the bouncer that people she's met from elementary to high school sit in a private boat. It was so luxury, even Kristin Cavallari from Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County could afford it. I couldn't remember the rest since I was constantly moving around in my sleep. She's changed the last time I saw her, and that's all I have to say.

Since then, I am currently near the end of Class GT100 in R.A.C.E.R. 41 3: The New Generation, getting ready to introduce a new sponsor, Racing Team Taylor Kitsch. Now Kitsch, like Chace Crawford, starred in the recently released film The Covenant. Also starring is Steven Strait and Toby Hemingway. The villain is played by Sebastian Stan, in case you're wondering. Now I'm just waiting for this bad year to end.

Week of 5/13: Hope you've had a great 2007! I've recently been knocked down so many times this year--and I keep forgetting to post regularly, but no dreams have been coming...until Mothers' Day....

...which led me to think that Amy Dumas (that's Lita to you WWE fans) was trying to set Shane McMahon up...when I'm in this room with a window. At first I thought Shiri Appleby was to blame...until I see a big building (the room is shaped like a replica of my room in an apartment I live in) outside when the city government cut all the trees down. The building is actually a generator, but it seems as if Lita was arguing with Shiri.

I'm then warped to Asheville, North Carolina (which coincides with the story I'm writing) where this country restaurant has never lost its touch has some customers, but I'm sidetracked by this girl, er...young woman. It is believed she resembles an actress. Her (the actress) name's Kate Mara, but I don't know much about her. The mysteriously alluring character was supposed to be loosely based off the life of one of my friends at Southeast Raleigh High School in Raleigh--but I have so many.

This wasn't the first dream where Lita was in control. (for those of you WWE fans reading this entry, Jeff Hardyand John Cena were NOT in the dream; they were behind the scenes, ordered to protect Lita at Vince McMahon's request.) Monday, March 27, 2006 was the first time I had a Lita-driven dream. Lita-driven dreams are dreams where there are more than 2 girls with interesting attributes but with a downside of strange sceneries. If one of those two things happen with her old entrance music playing the wrong chords, then I know it's a dream with her or other girls as the subject.

I guess this came after having a hard time coping with evil things (ranging from seductive girls to a psychotic William Hurt)...and when I woke up on 5/14/07...I thought that Amy "Lita" Dumas and Shiri Appleby had actually took Shane McMahon's leg off (an idiom meaning to injure badly), and now I'm starting to think that Vince didn't cause this.

I had a feeling the dream was telling me that I would be introduced to another actress, in which she was one of the subjects on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deustch (sp?). Her name's Gina Gershon, but unfortunately, I know absolutely nothing about her. Could there be a change of dream storylines? Only time decides... :p

That's the emoticon to describe this month. Mysterious characters, strange lucid settings, everything. So confusing.

The dream debacle started in June when I was watching a WWE program and saw that Randy Orton had turned VERY evil. Well, a girl who had a striking resemblance to Nikki Reed decides she's had enough. As weeks progressed, the girl had the unique ability (a la Rebecca Locke from the failed FOX crime drama The Inside) to morph into other characters her gender in parts of California. I also remember throwing things across the room when Orton got his way, which may have caused it. Her story DEFINITELY does NOT belong on Lifetime. It should belong on Sci-Fi, a channel for mysterious creatures. Everyone in my dreams refers to her as the Dreamshifter, a mysterious character who eliminates violent villains.

Orton's attacks after a Superstar is defeated on RAW are defined as a swift kick to the head that makes people pass out, and the victim is carried out on a stretcher. The attack worried me that a woman could be a possible victim.

Come late-July, Randy Orton does the same thing to Dusty Rhodes (like other people he's claimed he's ended the careers of) when he should've done it to his son Cody, and what happens? College students at both UC Santa Barbara and Riverside (as well as UCLA and CSU Fullerton) have HAD IT with Orton in my dreams that week, so they (including former Price is Right contestants who attend the colleges shown above) show me around their campus, as I thought Stephanie McMahon (who writes the WWE's scripts) teamed up with teen drama writers like Mark Schwahn (One Tree Hill) and Josh Schwartz (The O.C., Gossip Girl) to provide a mini-story about California's most prestigious colleges (the ones described above, again...) to make me cheer up, and make all villains in WWE and TV and movies fear the youth. I don't see what college students have to do with Randy Orton's actions, but it's a road that shouldn't be taken ever again. That's a bit too harsh and just wrong. I just don't think a tour around UC Riverside OR Santa Barbara OR UCLA in dreams is the right way to go...not just yet.

On 9-29-07, things took a turn for the worse. I had already had a bad week, or in my terms, the worst week EVER. While bad people on TV were parading about, things were not looking good for Camp WTGDMan1986. By Saturday, I had tried to work on a project, but poor timing struck, and I had lost it once the person's voice I tried to record lost the game badly. The result was so bad, I ended up in tears.

When I went to bed that night, I had a dream that can only be described by two things: Science fiction (think The Six-Million Dollar Man/Woman and Bionic Woman) and way out in left field. There are city buildings outside the window, and what looks like a doctor's office in crystal paneling is actually a test room for a subject. Inside is a handsome man being worked on by a group of scientists and resembling Nathan Scott from One Tree Hill, what I watch with a friend sometimes. The subject had brown eyes and hair, but the hair was longer than Nathan's clean cut through most of the seasons. The actor? His name's James Lafferty, but I thought he was mean at first. Not true. I woke up in a groggy mood and wondering about something. That was the first time since 1997 that I had dreamt of something that was way out there. Whenever something like this arises, I always quench it by doing something related to something I had got since then or earlier, like a year (usually Killer Instinct, a response to '90s fighting games).

With that out of the way, I can focus on what's important, though I haven't updated my dream journal in a while. And as for James Lafferty...go figure...

10/20: James Lafferty did it again.

This time, I dreamt he possessed a contestant on The Price Is Right when Drew Carey was hosting. The Showcase results were up, but a cute girl in faded blue jeans, a pink tank top and black Converse sneakers (classic Chuck Taylor hi-top, white shoelaces)--the runner up, lost the Showcase to him when it was revealed (I didn't see that part) that she went over. I believe he won, but they didn't show how much he won total. He had a short-sleeved yellow shirt, brown eyes and brown hair with glasses, black shoes and dark blue jeans. The top winner, feeling no remorse, I think tried to rub it in on the runner-up, which wasn't very nice at all.

11/2: Despite having a bad Halloween week (bad example of a funny video on an episode of America's Funniest Home Videos aired on 10/28 sparked the blaze), the dream that Friday, I thought, was too complicated to explain. I'm at a store in a mall (with lounge chairs!), and I run across this girl with natural (not dyed) red hair, blue eyes and glasses. Sitting in the other lounge chair is what I thought was James Lafferty playing a random character, but the young man was smaller (James is 6'2") than he was. When I woke up, I accidentally drove the thoughts away when I listened to a song I hadn't heard in a while called "It's About Time" by Lillix whilst I was trying to write the latest chapter of one of my stories. If I hadn't said it before, I'll say it now: I like to visit mall retail stores when I don't have class. I like going to stores such as Wet Seal, PacSun, H&M, Aéropostale, Hollister, etc. But that running into a girl part wasn't expected, either.

11/16: Remember when I was talking in DVchat about arcade games and one of my friends on campus? Despite having yet another bad week, my subconscious mind while I slept was trying to process the image of the mastermind behind the disaster. All of a sudden, I hear the "Game Over" music from DarkStalkers (first heard in 1994; Night Warriors, Vampire Hunter use this jingle), but not in its arcade form. It sounds like as if it were to be on a Sega Genesis (Editor's note: A DarkStalkers game by Capcom WAS planned for the failed Sega 32X, but it was scrapped at the last minute around 1995 or 1996.). At the end of the jingle (which played twice for no apparent reason), there's a cutscene in poor audio. Couldn't make out what it was. And then I wake up.

This dream happened because of my opinion of a NEXTEL Cup race, and I thought bad things were happening because of my opinion of who would be the champion after the Homestead race (Jimmie Johnson retains the championship; however, he did NOT win the last race).

I cannot see what Morrigan Aensland (the Succubus from the 1994 horror fighter arcade game DarkStalkers by Capcom; this game later spawned two sequels, Vampire Hunter: DarkStalkers' Revenge in 1995 and Vampire Savior: Lord of Vampire in 1997, respectively) has to do with my opinions on Hendrick Motorsports, the bad week I had, or the dream afterwards. Moreover, I'm pretty sure she's not the mastermind. However, it always seems that she comes to mind when someone mentions this underrated game series. In 2009, the series will be 15. All I'm praying for when it comes to her, is if Capcom releases a new DS game for the arcade, PS3, Wii, or X-Box 360 by that time to celebrate 15 years.

There are three words that describe this dream above: That's Just Wrong. A dream of Morrigan Aensland is definitely "out in left field". And don't get me started on dreams that Capcom is creating more bizarre fighting games...

11/27, 28: On the 26th, James Lafferty struck yet AGAIN. Instead of possessing a contestant on The Price Is Right as a ghost in an attempt to embarrass attractive young females and defeat Drew Carey, he decides to plan an attack on Meredith Vieira on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, possessing yet another male contestant doing the same exact thing as the Drew Carey dream on October 20th, though the walls looked like a mansion, keeping the floor as the current Millionaire set. I don't exactly get what James Lafferty has to do with being on TPiR or WWTBAM, but if he studied real hard to be on those shows, he would be a Double Showcase Winner (come within $250 or less away from the Showcase's Actual Retail Price without going over) or win $1,000,000 with all Lifelines (50-50: takes away two wrong answers, leaving 1 right and 1 wrong; polling the audience: they vote on what the correct answer is with an electronic keypad; phone a friend: call a random friend to help you find the correct answer) intact.

1 day later, flashback to 1994. I log on to DreamViews and find a forum about dreams of seducing girls, remembering that dream incident in 1994 where I saw kaleidoscopic visuals and heard a girl groaning in pain. I had always called her Amanda since then (she appeared after the pink kaleidoscopic visual faded away). I didn't get the name of the other woman who appeared after a blue kaleidoscopic visual, however. I'd be surprised if this dream recurred again. I was 8 when I first got this dream. I'm 21 now and I'm curious to know what actress this Amanda character resembles. I'd be surprised if I find out in a later dream.

11/28: Yep, that's right. This marks the fourth time that James Lafferty has visited my dreams. Instead of attacking Drew Carey and Meredith Vieira, he decides to attack the old grounds the late, great Peter Tomarken used to host. That would be Press Your Luck, an old 1980s game show aired on CBS from 1983-86 at CBS Studio 41 (Select episodes in 1984 were taped at CBS Studio 33. It is now referred to as the Bob Barker Studio.), but, however, they were using the Gameshow Marathon set taped at CBS Studio 46, and Ricki Lake was hosting instead. This cute girl that may have won as the top winner on The Price Is Right had spins passed to her by (you guessed it) ANOTHER male contestant James tried to possess as a ghost. She hits BIG BUCKS in square 12 for $10000 + ONE SPIN in square 4 two times before losing it all to a Whammy in square 12 (when Peter or Ricki make the call of a Whammy hit, a foghorn sounds; the sound effect was remixed in 2006 for Gameshow Marathon; Peter simply says "Stop at a Whammy!", while Ricki acts more dramatic, adding the "Oh no!" line whilst the studio audience groans followed by "You stopped at a Whammy!" before an animation plays that mocks the player and right before the Whammy cards (4 total) pop up; hit 4 and you're out of the game), where the BIG BUCKS square is also located (there are 18 squares lined up in a big square up to down, left to right and 3 square values, cash, prizes, or a "whammy" that bankrupts you for a total of 54 slides that flashed in random order while the light bounced from one square to another while beeping noises were heard; the show is known for its famous battle cry from many contestants of "Big Bucks, No Whammies!" whilst their face was being shown in the middle of the screen during their spins). I didn't see the whammy animation (animation could have been a weightlifter, Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, Michael Jackson, etc.); I woke up at 2 in the morning, not realizing that I had slept on the couch for too long.

Just WHY is he testing his new power of becoming invisible in my dreams and possessing a young male contestant to wreak havoc on attractive young females who play these game shows at CBS Television City? (and for the record, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is NOT filmed there; it's filmed in a studio in New York) Maybe the dream's telling me he'd like to go on The Price Is Right and try to win both Showcases? Or maybe win a new car? I'll never know the answer to that for a while.

12/12: I guess I'll never even see what James Lafferty has to do with winning on game shows. He attacked The Price Is Right and Drew Carey again!

Instead of being the top winner, the contestant he possessed was the runner-up, and HE won both Showcases! Except I was placed in a random house in California with a friend watching the possible 5th DSW (which happened 3 days ago in 2008). When a player is a Double Showcase Winner, and either Bob Barker or Drew Carey announces the difference (as there's a $250 or less difference), more than 300 people are on their feet cheering and screaming loudly as usual; an example is the 35th season (also Barker's last) opener and Drew Carey's first DSW show on 11/1/07. My subconscious mind said that James Lafferty can only win on game shows five times; the exception was that CBS game shows can be played again if he didn't like the outcome.

I don't see how blaming Shane McMahon for a violent episode of Criminal Minds where something vicious happens leads to him being defeated when James Lafferty scores the DSW (clangs and klaxons go off when someone's within $250 of the Actual Retail Price of his/her Showcase) when I went to bed that night.

I swear comedy legend Carol Burnett's the one directing these game show dreams involving James winning big! I guess CBS tried to take back all the violence and try to make me laugh. It seems that every time I watch The Price Is Right, there's an unexpected DSW (that's an abbreviation for Double Showcase Winner) now and then. Now I'm waiting for dreams when James Lafferty will stop cheating by possessing contestants and play game shows at CBS Television City for real...HE could be the 6th Double Showcase Winner of the Drew Carey Era of The Price Is Right!

3/4: After having a bad day (Nathan and Haley breaking up on One Tree Hill, cute girl winning the Showcase on The Price Is Right), all I could remember was a teen scene: the road trip and loud college rock music playing in D minor. I saw something that looked like a preview of an episode.

3/8, 13: The next dream made no sense, as it showed me around some parts of Illinois. The one on 3/13 tried to show me around California with some references to the show Greek on ABC Family, but it went too fast.

3/18: The kid (he's born in 1985) teamed up with James Lafferty (also born in 1985) to appear in a dream involving University of California-Santa Barbara like the 7/29/07 dream I had after getting upset with what happened that day. That led to a dream where I was going on a tour of some of the most beautiful colleges in California, but this was split into three acts. Acts 1 and 2 were a tour of UCSB, and it didn't make much sense. In all of these dreams this month, there's always been a young man with I think green eyes and brown hair. His name's Scott Michael Foster, and I've heard so much about him. He plays on shows Greek on ABC Family and quarterlife on NBC, but that was canceled after one episode. In act 3 last night, Scott and James were characters playing students at UCSB playing a mock Price Is Right for a business class. James and Scott's characters made it to the Showcase (that's what I think it is)...and Scott's character wound up going over. James did too (this is called a Double Overbid; in other words, neither player wins their Showcase), but the host, another student at UCSB dressed as either Bob or Drew (but wearing sandals!), misread the Actual Retail Price of James' character's Showcase; instead, he read $2,243 instead of $22,243. I can't remember how much they bid, however. I think my dream was telling me never to forget the 4/2/07 episode of The Price Is Right where a contestant from that same campus won a kitchen group, $1,000 in the Showcase Showdown and a 2007 Dodge Nitro in the Showcase. He came within nearly $800 of the Actual Retail Price of his Showcase to walk away the big winner on his taping with $37,995 on Bob Barker's last season (season 35). If he did that well on the Million Dollar Spectacular, Drew Carey version, he'd not only be a Double Showcase Winner, but he'd also win $1,000,000!

Now I'm starting to think that both James Lafferty and Scott Michael Foster are trying to bet who can appear in my dreams the most playing the most wackiest characters that not even Drew Carey or Carol Burnett could come up with, taunting each other and trying to see who can make the better impact. That might have been one of the funnest dreams I might have had in a while (in fact, ANY dream involving The Price Is Right guarantees fun 99.9% of the time). I might have learned something else, too: if anything in life goes horribly wrong, just have a positive attitude. I'm not sure if The Price Is Right teaches viewers to have a positive attitude in life, no matter what the problem may be. I just might stick to that...

5/30: Well, it's happened again. It seems every even year on this date, the most wildest lucid dreams have happened, starting with 2006. However, this time, it was an incarnation of a dream I had in November of last year--the shopping mall, but it was another one in California, with some dark blue and orange hues.

Earlier this week I had gotten worried about the number of deaths caused on Memorial Day weekend in Los Angeles. Somehow I kept thinking that in one incident, a former contestant on The Price Is Right was involved in a fatal accident near Laurel Canyon or in Cathedral City, and on Friday, I thought that a young actor (youngest cast member from Seasons 1-4) was involved in the plane crash in Riverside County, killing 2 in an 'experimental' plane. Maybe my dream was trying to tell me that I should stop reading these harrowing news stories--and telling me that they loved shopping in malls like me and they weren't involved in those news stories as to what I was thinking? (one report on CBS 2--the Los Angeles affiliate of CBS--quelled my fear, saying in a video that there were two women in their 40s involved in an SUV rollover (whereas the text said a woman in her 20s) that also caused a man in his 70s to sustain fatal injuries as well, and I was terrified all this week because of all of these bad things happening to L.A. It's one of my favorite towns ever... (sorry about sounding like a girl when I said that))

Back to the dream: so I was walking inside the mall with a friend--like always, it was jam-packed in the usual California shopping mall (was it in inner Los Angeles? Covina? Hemet? Mission Viejo? Riverside?) shopping for
a lot of stuff you'd need to survive California life. Some were more in the "wants" category rather than the "needs" category, though.

This is a much better dream than the one 2 years ago with the movie theater, and I thought a character played by Patrick Flueger (an antagonist) was making life a nightmare for two female protagonists, as I thought that day when I posted in this Dream Journal.

Those days are long gone since 12/7/06, as I thought a dream figure resembling a friend from my past life I'd rather not mention (1994-95 year of my childhood) killed off a demon that's been there since 2003 wreaking havoc everywhere I went in dreams, never to be seen again.

I really don't mind about California dreams--they almost as always happen almost all the time! I love hearing about Hollywood, Los Angeles, Covina, Los Gatos, San Diego, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and Hemet (seeing that I lived in Salinas at one point). And then again, I'm a L.A. Lakers (one of 2 teams from Los Angeles--the other is the Clippers) fan when it comes to the NBA. They just--in a crucial Game 5--destroyed the 2007 defending champs San Antonio Spurs (another favorite team of mine) 100-92 to face the Boston Celtics (another favorite team of mine again) in the NBA Finals next month, a rivalry from the '80s that I didn't even know about when I was born. I'm 22 now and I think I can understand. Now if we can only get the NBA back on NBC...

Maybe that dream I had last night was a refresher and a reminder to me just to love California the way it is, despite what the media may think about Orange County. Once again, I'll stick with that, whatever the lesson in California dreams may be!

6/25: Wow. After seeing an episode of The Price Is Right Million-Dollar Spectacular I had gotten upset about when the episode first aired on 5/7/08 (a Wednesday), I smiled when it re-aired last night. $120,000+ won including the Showcase (it's the show in the 2nd batch; you must come within $500 of the actual retail price of your own Showcase to win both of them and $1,000,000). The young woman who won all those prizes doesn't even have to worry when tax day comes...yeah.

The happy moment disappeared when I tried to record (using a microphone and Sound Recorder) an Illinois real estate agent on Deal or No Deal trying to close a deal at $28,000+ when it (the microphone) semi-died.

I went to bed that night...at nearly 2 A.M. in the morning! What looks like a mixture between Regis and Kelly's talk show and Rachael Ray's in the mornings is the scene for yet another lucid (3rd since Scott Michael Foster dream on 3/4/08) and a young woman I think is my age (I'm 22) with brown eyes and brown hair is talking about her life and rumors speculating about in show biz. It seemed as if everyone in the audience in the dream was looking straight at her like she was the cutest little thing--even celebrities in the audience people were supposed to spot at the start of the show, like [COLOR=DimGray]Dustin Hoffman and Drew Carey, for example. She was talking about all sorts of things like most stars would do on morning talk shows. But here's the thing: When she tried to fix her hair, the set would get brighter and brighter. It's like everyone had fallen under her dream character's spell. I'm getting shy as I write this...it seems as if this dream was delicate and fragile. Is this Live with Regis and Kelly mixed with Rachael Ray or is this a deleted scene from Gossip Girl?! DECIDE ALREADY!!

I couldn't control myself when I got up in the morning to watch The Price Is Right, either. There were two times when announcer Rich Fields was laughing audibly: one coming from a commercial break, and the other when Drew found out Rich stumbled on a prize copy (The One-Bid item was a refrigerator but he had the wrong prize copy and said a digital piano), and Drew thought they were going to edit it out. Instead, the camera cuts to Rich Fields laughing and saying "DARN!". All I could think about was that girl in my dream while laughing and bearing it. I couldn't even pay attention to what Wink Martindale was saying on Tic Tac Dough (early '80s) or even what Pat Sajak was saying on Wheel of Fortune (1994-1995 season) because of her.

The other two should have seen this coming from a mile away. The actress? Her name's Leighton Meester --and before I burst out into uncontrollable laughter, let me just say she plays the villainous character of Blair Waldorf on the CW show Gossip Girl. I feel so embarrassed writing this as much as I feel like laughing uncontrollably.

That's also the second time this year a dream character has appeared as a leading role in my dreams. It's obvious I don't ask for any dream characters' names in fear they might go haywire or other unwanted results. Wow...

But why did I HAVE to dream of her? Was it something about her I needed to know? That I'll never know.

Week of 8/13: Remind me again why I'm not supposed to watch any of the Poison Ivy films on Lifetime? I did that a month ago, and look what happened? I wind up dreaming of what's going on in one of the main villains' minds (the villain in turn is from Poison Ivy 4: The Secret Society)--and it's the leader of the secret society in an East Coast college that virtually owns the campus.

Had I not snooped in to watch the flick on Lifetime's "Pick Your Poison" (where three of the Poison Ivy flicks (the first one with Drew Barrymore as the villain, Lily starring Alyssa Milano, and the recent one as described above, but aimed at college kids)), none of this would have happened. I've had two bad days going on three, and my last two dreams have gotten...uhhh, extremely lucid. My subconscious mind can't draw this Azalea person yet, but I know that she has brown eyes and brown hair and in her 20s (as like two other dream characters 2 years ago in 2006). It appears she is more seductive than the Amanda Lafferty character I mentioned mid-November 2007 that was in my dreams back in 1994 (yes, I can remember dreams back then too. ).

I wish I knew more about this dream character that keeps stirring up trouble, but my dreams aren't providing enough information or better settings. I sure hope the rest of my week is better than this...

8/14-15: Wow. I get SO upset over "Azalea" after having so many bad thoughts, and what do I get in return? The same thing from last year that the dream character resembling James Lafferty went through: game show dreams. Nobody's taught her about The Price Is Right yet, but there'll come a day. She went all the way on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (Meredith Vieira syndicated version) and won $1,000,000. Wow.

I'm watching a repeat One Tree Hill (SoapNET, Season 4 (2006-07)) episode as I'm typing this dream report up, but I wish I could know more about this dream character seductress like a previous thread I had posted in a year ago. I was 8 when I had dreams like this (Translation: it was 1994 and I thought I was too young to be dreaming about that stuff). It's like in this dream, Drew Carey doesn't even like this "Azalea" person and he wants to change her for the better. I'm not sure if that's a good idea...

(I may have to check back here again if a follow-up lucid dreams happen...)

Week of 10/12: Remember when I said on these forums something about arcade games and women? That's what I got on 10/11-10/12. I had once thought that it was a seductress and she was evil, but now I'm having second thoughts.

If this were late-1993-mid-1994, I wouldn't have realize back then that I had became a chick magnet (heh heh...) in my dreams, as I was being confronted by seductive women (+1 African-American; 1994-2003; couldn't get a name) almost every time in dreams.

So I win 1st place in an arcade racing game in either a bowling alley or a shopping mall with windows at night which reveal the city lights (in most of these games, first place awards a free game), and blocking my view is a young woman in her 20s standing 5'7" with blue eyes and brown hair. She appears again on the October 12 dream with a group of people when I have a dream of my apartment in my room and I'm seeing this YouTube-like clip.

By the time October 13 came, the seductress didn't appear this time. I'm in a basement in a random house trying to install a Konami arcade game in what would be called their "game room" when all of a sudden, I hear something that belongs to Namco: the jingle from Pac-Mania, a 1987 pseudo-3D version of Pac-Man when you clear the Jungly Steps stages and you get a screen telling you to play all four worlds again starting with Block Town. The order of the levels in this game are like this: Block Town, Pac-Man's Park, Sandbox Land (?) and Jungly Steps. I'm thinking that this was the start-up or boot sequence when the game was installed. I couldn't tell if it was any of the Thrill Drive games, Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2 or Winding Heat by Konami because I don't think there was a steering wheel on the cabinet.

I gotta stop playing the Streets of Rage games after 12:00 AM just to beat the stage 5 bosses on the ship in SoR1...

11/20: I've never seen a shopping mall dream repeat itself since 5/30/08. Is this a first? It happened in the 3rd act of the dream and I was walking into a store that looked a little like Barnes & Noble with a woman in her 20s, where I was like a bodyguard, except she only wanted music CDs in the music section of the mega-store that sells books, magazines, and yes, even coffee (I think she liked rock, metal, pop-punk, "power-pop" or whatever satisfied her).

So the two of us are just browsing around the music section of the store (of course the mall was full of people) until the camera cuts to a young woman (the one I was with) with reddish-brown hair and blue-green eyes, resembling Silver, or the actress behind her, Jessica Stroup from 90210 (the new one that débuted on September 1, 2008 on the CW) and dressed in a short-sleeved black buttoned-down shirt with some designs and black loose-fit jeans and a black 2-row pyramid belt, a belt with metal studs, usually silver or platinum. She asks me if I had heard of this artist or band. The last time I had this dream excluding the May 30, 2008 dream, someone resembling James Lafferty from One Tree Hill was shopping with a young woman (this happened November 3, 2007) at a mall.

That's the second time I dreamed of a mall setting this year. Like I said before, I like browsing around Aéropostale, Hollister Co., PacSun, etc. whenever I get a chance to visit my local shopping mall. I even managed to buy music CDs from there (music by Paramore, Motion City Soundtrack, and most recently Jack Johnson). I mean, I don't have a problem with shopping mall dreams; it just seems every time I recently visit one, I get another dream about one days or even weeks later. I'm just curious to know...who was it that threw that 90210 girl in there randomly? I suppose I'll never know the answer to that one. Until next time...WM86

12/29/08-1/3/09: The lucid/vivid dreams kept on coming. No matter what the dreams are, there are interesting people. In fact, the dreams on 12/29 and 1/3 were the ones with interesting female dream characters - possibly stemming from a dream I had on 11/20/08 where I had protected this dream girl who looked a lot like actress Jessica Stroup at a mall by shopping with her.

Like the dreams on 5/13/07 where I had seen a view of the city outside my window, it happened again - except I saw a building with a punk dream character with dyed red hair in her 20s walking with a young man (who didn't look anything like James Lafferty from two years ago (2007)).

A few scenes later - in a replay of 2006 - I'm in the studio audience at CBS Television City, studio 33 for The Price Is Right with colored curtains, eerily similar to Bob Barker's era (1972-2007), but I saw current PiR host Drew Carey on stage making jokes with the contestants. No contestants were with him, so you could say that I had a dream of what went on during the commercial break that the viewers don't see at 11:00 AM Eastern/11:00 AM Pacific (2:00 PM on the East Coast - As the World Turns is on on most of the CBS affiliates). I now know that there's a morning taping and an afternoon taping. I can't even recall how many Price dreams I've had in my life, but I know I've been watching the show for 20 years (1989) now along with Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! (ABC holds the rights to the syndicated versions). I also know that people who watch The Price Is Right all their life are called "loyal friends and true". And I'm one of them! (and don't even think of calling the Showcase the Showcase Showdown.)

On the last days of 2008, however (back on topic to another female-like character), I had seen flashes of this emo/skateboarder-style woman presumably in her late teens-early 20s with brown eyes and brown hair being a little too arrogant and it required me to talk some sense into this dream character before anyone else got hurt. And before I could do anything, I saw a yellow half-pipe with word writings on it. And then all of a sudden strange music starts playing in the background, D-minor to F. No sign of the girl - probably because the dream went a little too fast, skipping over crucial moments.

I can't believe I'm saying it, but these are the coolest dream characters I've ever came across, and may be some of the most vividest dreams I've ever dreamed of. Or have I been playing certain songs by certain artists (t.A.T.u and Avril Lavigne, for example) and bands (Paramore and Hey Monday, for example) too many times that might have caused this?

Whew, I sure said a mouthful. I don't even know what other dream characters may show up next. Until next time...WM86

1/15: I had the worst day ever. Like when I dreamed of James Lafferty on September 29, '07, I wake up cautious the next day. It seems January 15 is the time the most weirdest dreams come (the former was December 7 back in 2004). I'm at this arcade and here is this "intense" game over screen that is scaring the crap out of everyone...and you know what's worse? It was a racing game! So I see people get the "game over" screen as they play (they ran out of time during the race), and I could feel my heart rate rising as I fell to the ground, fainting repeatedly.
The next part of the dream made no sense; I was on a school's campus and it was a bright day outside.

I'm starting to think that when I have a bad day and I start to blame the source, the subconscious mind gives me a vivid dream to cover it up. Either it must have been something I ate, or that Namco arcade game in the dream must have gotten bizarre.

I'm not sure if the game in the dream was a remake of the Final Lap or Ace Driver series (Final Lap is a sequel to Pole Position and the computer opponents really don't challenge you, as you can have up to 8 players linked), either. I checked Wikipedia and then this strange yet interesting font site made by someone from Japan that lists all the arcade games that Namco had built for more information on both Ace Driver (started in 1994, ongoing with a 2008 arcade game called Final Turn, or just simply, Ace Driver 3) and Final Lap (1987; series ended in 1994). I remember at one point getting vivid dreams about Sega arcade games and a bizarre Sonic arcade game (the game looked like it was released around 1984 or 1985, but in reality Sonic made his debut in 1991), but nothing is as crazy as a dream of a bizarre arcade racing game by Namco.

The only racing game by Namco I know about is the Ridge Racer series (1993-present), just after I got upset in 1995 after running out of time in a bumper car mini-game in the Sega Genesis game by Codemasters, Cosmic Spacehead. The only racing games by Sega I know about are the Daytona USA series (started in 1994) and the SEGA Rally series (1995-present). I played the former in 1996, and the latter 2 in 1997. I started to get a feel for these games...until the Gran Turismo series by Polyphony Digital showed up and changed everything I knew about racing games forever, and I started to have dreams about a silver Skyline with a long spoiler (Nismo GT-R LM Road Car/Road Going Version) around 2004. Sometimes I just wonder when I can dream of exotic cars and road trips again? That would be nice...