Thread: Schmaven's Dream Journal of Randomness

6/29/08

Impatient Bus Drivers - I get on a school bus and my friend Ben is already sitting in one of the seats. The bus driver isn't on the bus yet for some reason. I sit down across from him and put my bag next to me, when I suddenly have to go to the bathroom. I tell Ben to tell the bus driver to not leave without me and that I'll be right back, and I get off the bus. I run to the front of the line of buses and get on, as this bus has a toilet in one of the seats. I almost just stand and pee into it, but it's awkward with everyone able to see me standing there, so I sit down. Before I can even unzip my pants, the bus starts moving. I yell to the bus driver to let me off and he says he will, but keeps on driving. We drive down this windy road and almost leave enter onto a main road when he slows down the bus and opens the door. I jump off as it's still moving and yell "Thank you!" as he drives off. Then my bus comes by and stops only briefly enough for me to get on. I sit down next to Ben and he tells me "sorry, I told her you'd be right back, but she didn't care"

7/01/08

Drunk Unicycle Skills - I'm at my ex-girlfriend's house, in her garage with her and her friend. We decide to go on a bike ride, but they both take off before I have a chance to find a bike. I don't remember drinking but I'm drunk at this point. I see one, but I am holding 2 plastic bags of milk and decide to cut open the tops with a swiss army knife. Once they're open, I put them in the water bottle holder. I start to pedal out of the garage and as soon as I start going down the driveway, I am now on a unicycle (still with the bags of milk) and I almost lose control. But this unicycle has training wheels so I don't crash. It's dark out and I don't see where my ex and her friend went. Her mom drives past me and asks me what I'm doing. I tell her I'm trying to find them and she tells me to be careful. I take a right down a side street and stay on the right side of the road to be out of the way of traffic. But a hummer is coming straight at me on the wrong side of the road. It avoids me at the last second, but scared the shit out of me. Then a Mazda SUV passes me and I recognize it as my ex's car, and when I look back, it has it's blinker on and is turning around. She passes me and then stops. Right when she stopped, I tried to stop on the unicycle, but lost control and flipped over onto the side of the road. I was still drunk and she seemed mad at me for being drunk. It also turned out to be her birthday, and I didn't have anything for her, but her friend did and gave it to her in front of me. Then I notice a black cat lying in a cat bed next to where I crashed. I grab one of the bags of milk and squirt some on the cat's foot, and it licks it off. I dump more and more milk on the cat and it keeps drinking it, but now is soaked in milk, and the bed is also drenched. When I dump the milk on the bed, it forms a puddle for a few seconds before being absorbed.

The Grassy Porch - I'm at my ex-gf's house and her mom is paying me to take care of it while they're away on vacation or something. But before she leaves, she points to a bunch of grass growing on the porch and wants me to mow it. I crouch down and look at how tall it is and say the mower will just go over that without touching it. But then she points to a more grassy section of the porch and tells me to mow that part. I look again and it looks mow-able. I drag the lawn mower onto the porch and mow all 10 square feet of the grassy part. Then I am down the street petting their dog. The dog lays down on my leg and rolls on it's back, so I scratch it's stomach. Then it rolls back over and falls asleep.

7/03/08
For these dreams, I woke up and was about to write them down, but instead just went back to sleep a few times, so I don't remember a lot of the details. I'm surprised I even remembered this much. I actually had a dream where I wrote them down in my dream journal.

Who's The Winner? - I'm with 5 kids on four wheelers, and we're in some kind of game show. They are asked how much money the highest paid child actor made in a year. One kid says $750,000, and the others guess around $10,000 and all act surprised at the one who guessed 750,000. I think "wow, they're all in for a real surprise to find out that one kid is going to be the closest" Then the host is about to reveal the answer but I get woken up by a foot cramp.

Bag B? - I'm walking along a road with my mom and we pick up these lettered plastic bags. We have A, C, and D. My mom says "Should we look for B before we go home" and I tell her we probably should. I have a feeling that it's further down the road, and then to the right, so I go that way. Instead of finding bag B, we find a beach. I tell her I'm going to find a football, and she asks "what is a football?" I tell her to hold on and I'll show her. I run down to the water and find a normal football, and a nerf-football. I grab the nerf one and throw it at her yelling "This is a football!" She then says, "Oh, I know what that is." and throws it back. She missed me by about 10 feet and the football just kept bouncing straight away from me as I chased after it for around 50 feet. As I ran past some people on the beach I was like "wow, this football just keeps going, wtf" I finally caught it and threw it back, but I missed her by even further, but the football just stopped when it hit the sand. I also notice 3 other footballs lying around on the beach.

7/05/08

Indecisive - I'm in a convenience store, looking for something to eat, but I can't decide what I want. I keep looking until everyone I was with has left the store, then I decide to just find something later, so I leave to join them. I get in the car and we drive down the street to some random house. I see a cop drive by and get slightly nervous, but don't think too much about it. Now inside the house, we're sitting on a couch, some random chairs or the floor. There's around 10 people inside. It's kind of a basement I guess based on the window really high on the wall with the view of the grass and the road. All of the sudden this huge 3 ft green bong starts getting passed around. Then someone repacks it and it goes around again. I recognize almost everyone there.

Wanderer - I'm in a car with my ex-girlfriend, her brother, her mom (driving) and my friend. We pull up to this huge building which looks like 3 buildings connected together in a |_| shape. We get out of the car and her brother is mad at me, but I don't know why so I just give him a pat on the back, say something nice, and leave towards the building. Inside, it seems kind of like a school, although not quite. It has huge hallways that seem to go on forever, and a ton of rooms everywhere. I decide to see what else is in the building so I wander off into one of the side buildings that's connected to the middle part where we went in. I find 4 elevators and push the call button. Once inside the elevator, I notice that I'm on floor G, and there are 1, 2, 3, and L floors that the elevator goes to. I try 2. The elevator starts to go down, and outside the window in the elevator, I can see I'm now underground. It stops and I get out on the 2nd floor. I wander into a classroom and it's filled with people, the teacher tells me to sit down, so I do. We're playing some random group activity game, so I sneak out to explore the floor some more. It's just a square of hallways that doesn't lead anywhere but to the rooms around it. On the wall there are a bunch of posters with random parts highlighted. I start to read one of the ones highlighted in purple, but I hear someone coming, and I go around the corner. I hear them coming towards me again, so I keep going around until I find the classroom again, and go back inside. They pass by, then I sneak out once again and go back to the elevator. I get back to the main building and find a bunch of people I know in a living room looking room, with a couch and a TV. Then some old woman comes in and asks if anyone has taken a tour of the other wings yet.

Motherload - I'm playing that flash game, 'Motherload' only I have a space ship, and can fire lasers, and instead of drilling down, I fly around to see what else there is in the game. (I had gotten to the part with the devil, but he kicked my ass after a 15 minute fight so I said fuck it). It turns out there were a bunch of huge alien ships also with lasers that were trying to kill me, but there was a free health recharging station nearby. The further I got from it however, the more dangerous things got. There were laser traps on the walls, liquid magma falling in a waterfall that I had to fly through, and random shit on the ground that would damage you. I flew 8 screens to the left and this alien ship swallowed mine and spit it out surrounded by an orb. Then a claw came out of no where, and I was sucked towards it (I assume from the mystery orb) like a magnet. Then I was shot away with 1/3 health. I navigate back and get full health again. Then my friend Sarah gives it a try and makes it to the same spot, but gets swallowed and attacked by the claw so she tries to make it back to safety. On the way back, everything moved around so there were new obstacles and shit to get past. Now however, it was a 3D game, and I was an omniscience looking around the 3D level for a safe route for the ship to go. I show her some way around a moving laser, and through a crack in a giant door. We get back to the safe area and get a call, with a video of a woman saying all of our previous contacts have been eliminated, and now we have to do missions for this girl who called us. I think "woohoo, maybe this game has an actual story line". Then she hangs up.

WoW - Some girl is playing world of warcraft with some strange add on that makes it so the keyboard can go through menus in the game, and it makes a weird clicking noise with each move from menu option to menu option. She's trying to decide which dungeon she should raid with her party members, and is going through all of them on a map. She selects one that has a picture of a rock mouthed cave with lava on the inside. Immediately, me and my friend Ben are inside that cave, only it's not a game anymore, it's real. There is a pool of lava, and a giant creature inside the lava with its mouth open. Inside its mouth is the entrance to the dungeon, but me and Ben don't want to jump in it's mouth. There is also a lily pad looking thing in the lava in front of its mouth that isn't on fire or melting or anything. We spin it around so it looks easier to get on. This causes the creature to look angry and move towards us. It sneezes lava on Ben's arm and Ben yells "ow, holy crap that's hot". Then it wipes its nose on Ben as well, covering him with lava boogers. Ben frantically wipes it off and isn't burned that badly. We ask each other how the hell we're supposed to get inside of that thing. Then the girl shows up with a 4 ft block of cheese and asks us if we're ready to go.

Moving On - I'm at a house party, upstairs in the kitchen while most people are downstairs and there's some hot girl sitting in a chair. I go over to her and she tells me that I have to get over Steff (my ex-gf) and the way is to yell that she's a bitch and I don't need her. I look around to see who's nearby then I yell "I don't need that bitch anymore, I'm better off without her!" Then the girl hugs me and says "There, doesn't that feel better?" I tell her it does.

7/07/08

I Want More - I'm walking with a girl I know towards a bedroom for some hanky panky. Before we make it to the bedroom, with one hand she gave me a 3 second shoulder massage that totally relaxed my entire body. It was the most amazing feeling ever. I nearly fell onto the floor and had to stop walking. I tell her "Holy shit, that was amazing" and she says "Just imagine what a BJ will feel like" (sadly the dream ended there )

I don't own a bicycle in real life - I'm riding a bicycle down the street and am doing wheelies and endos with ease. I start to slowly pass a group of people and one of them says, "look, isn't that Alex?" I don't say anything to them, but instead bust out a ridiculous wheelie. A good 15 seconds of just balancing on the rear wheel, no pedaling. (I can only do short / lame wheelies when awake) I got to a building and did an endo, just balancing on the front tire for a really long time it seemed. And I kept picking up speed while doing it. Then I was in the building doing wheelies past a bunch of naked chicks posing for pictures.

Hit and Run - It's really dark out, and I'm on a sidewalk, standing in front of a girl who is on the phone when suddenly a sports car comes speeding by and hits her below the waist, knocking her to the ground. She yells "fuck, you took out my legs!" The car comes back and 2 guys get out of it. She hands them a gun and pleads for her life. One of them says, "Is it loaded?" She tells them it is and is then shot in the face. I notice someone looking at us through a window of a nearby house and suggest that we run. The guy with the gun takes off down the sidewalk really fast, and me and the other guy run along the road following him. It seems like my legs aren't moving as fast as they should and I'm barely going at a jogging speed. I also notice that the road is well lit and there are a lot of pedestrians, so I move over to the shadows under some trees in between the sidewalk and the road.

Too Random for a Title - Me and 2 friends are in some guy's driveway. In this driveway there is a giant blue van from the 80s that looks kind of like a space shuttle. It has enormous 3 ft long side mirrors that are sticking forwards so when standing on the side of the van, we can see ourselves in the reflection. We laugh at how ridiculous looking the van is and are making fun of it when suddenly the owner comes out of his house and tells us to come inside. We follow him in and he opens the door to his garage which has 3 really nice looking small sports cars with cool graphics painted on them. We go back into his house and one of my friends is holding up some random flat object on the wall and my other friend is handing him scotch tape to tape it up. I was the last one in the house, and once I get to them, he starts handing me the tape as he rips it off to give to my other friend. There is now a double thick layer of scotch tape all around this thing, and I have a piece of tape on each of my fingers waiting to hand it to my other friend. I start to have trouble keeping the tape from sticking to itself, and even more trouble getting it unstuck with tape all over my hands. We finish taping it up and the guy asks us to stay for dinner. Then we are in my house at my dinner table, each with a bowl of ziti with marinara sauce and that Parmesan cheese that you grate by turning the lid of the container. I finish my plate and it is quite delicious. Still hungry, I go to the kitchen where the strainer is still full of pasta and refill my plate. I walk back to the table and there is already a full plate in my spot, and a full plate in my hands. I sit down and dump the extra plate onto my already heaping plateful and think to myself "This might be tough to get down"

Punch My Ass - I sit down on a couch next to some kid and he asks me how dangerous Mark (my step brother) is. I have a dream memory of Mark killing a bunch of people so I tell him "You don't want to know, trust me" I then add "He could knock me out in 1 punch". The kid tells me to let him punch me in the ass next time so it doesn't knock me out and "it doesn't hurt as bad". I think about what it would be like to have someone punch me as hard as they could in the ass and tell him "I probably wouldn't be able to sit for weeks though"

Fear of Pain - I'm in a kitchen and a guy is standing on the other side of a counter and some shelves with cups and other assorted kitchen stuff on them. He is holding a mean looking butter knife and is yelling at me to punch him in the face. I don't want to, but he keeps yelling at me. So I throw some weak-sauce punches at him, hitting him a few times and missing other times. He keeps yelling for me to hit him for real. I don't want to put all my strength behind a punch in case I hit the shelves or the knife because that would really hurt my hand. But he keeps yelling. After a while, I get pissed at him for yelling at me so much, so I decide to really give it to him. I punch at him as hard as I can, hitting him in the face and chest and breaking one of the shelves. I stop punching and am shaking with anger. He stops yelling at me and I start to think "I did it".

Until days like today when I decide to copy it over.

7/08/08

The Package - Me and another guy are trying to get to a heavily guarded package in the woods. (I don't know why) But there are hundreds of enemy soldiers trying to stop us. The guy I am with has an automatic rifle, and I have a sniper rifle. We move through the woods killing countless bad guys until we come to a small clearing. We run across under fire and make it into another thick section of woods. We're now surrounded and the fighting starts to get too close for the comfort of a sniper rifle. We kill wave after wave of guys in camouflage shooting at us from all sides. There are so many, that we're hiding behind a fallen tree, unable to move from so many people shooting at us. There is finally a pause in their assault and I can see the package just 20 ft away from us. I run up and grab it. It looks like a small white bean bag, the size of a wallet. It also feels like a bean bag. I feel kind of ripped off that this was what we had to fight through countless bad guys for. I run back to the fallen tree and tell him to run for the hill we came from while we still can. We get to a good spot and I see a guy with a guile suit and a sniper rifle running through the clearing towards us. I snipe him along with others in an attempt to clear the way to safety. Soon they stop shooting at us and there are a lot of normal people around. I look through the scope at some people in the distance and see just normal people. Then some girl and her friends come up to us. The girl asks about the bullets I was using. I show her that they have a paint filled tip. She wants to see a demonstration, so I have her stand back a few feet, and shoot the ground in front of her. She is splattered with black paint all over her legs and less splatter on her torso, and arms. I tell her the paint is just in case I miss, but if I don't miss, the bullets are indeed lethal.

Child Abuse - I'm on a crowded city street in some Asian country at night with two people I know in the dream somehow. One of them is Asian and has a baby stroller with him, but is 20 feet in front of us. We're following him, but he is getting further and further ahead of us. We start to run to catch up, but he's really fast, even with the baby stroller. He darts in between crowds of people, sometimes with the stroller on 2 wheels from the sharp turns. Running after him, I bump into a family and excuse myself as I continue the chase. I start to get closer and I see him cut in front of traffic, into the middle of the road where there are no cars. He turns around and starts running down the hill. I run into the street after him and chase him down the hill for a few feet, watching as he gets further and further away. He then turns left, dodging some cars and is back on the same side of the road and turns up the hill towards me. I run in front of traffic to that side of the road and cut him off. But I'm now exhausted from the intense chase, and only have enough energy for one last step. I leap out trying to block his way, and fall on my stomach with one hand trying to pull myself into his way, and the other hand out stretched reaching for him. He then runs past me and continues up the hill and out of sight.

To preface this dream, I had just woken up after a good 8 or 9 hours of sleep, but was feeling like 10:30 was still too early to start my day, so I rolled over for a quick power nap to start my day.
Dream Guide? You Decide - I'm in a room and see a door in front of me. I remember having just rolled over in my bed so I know I'm dreaming. Everything starts to fade slightly, like when I stand up too fast after sitting for too long, but I just use my other senses to get around like when it happens in real life until it passes. Then I get the idea to say "Where is my dream guide?" and immediately I see a beautiful girl in the doorway and make eye contact with her. I just sense that she is my dream guide, and don't think to ask if she is or not. All of the sudden, I'm standing on the ceiling, and am really disoriented because everything is now upside down. She walks over and we give each other a big upside down hug (first upside down hug for me). Then she is standing on the ceiling with me and everything no longer seems upside down. I ask "is there anything you're trying to tell me?" and she answers, "go to userve.net and play level 11 with the machine guns and just look at the scenery." I take a moment to try to comprehend what she had just said, and it almost makes sense. Then she asks "Isn't there anything you want to ask me?" I think about how I have applied for so many jobs and don't know which one I really want so I ask "which job would I be better off with?". She says something sympathetically about how many shitty jobs there are out there and how they're always the easiest to get and goes on to say I should go for the job my friend's dad offered me. I ask her about the landscaping job I was inquiring about that pays really well that my mom's friend Jim said he'd get me into. She says "Jim already has a job." Then she asks what I want to get out of the marine corps. I tell her I don't want to join the marines. We're now lying on a bed and she changes her appearance to another hot girl and tells me to count how many bug bites she has on her chest. I count at least 10 of them all on her boobs and say "I see at least 10". She tells me she'll see me after the next day and to play with her hair. I tell her my hands are cold and she breathes on her hands in a way that tells me to do the same. I give my hand a breath of hot air but it's still cold. I decide to warm it up on her nipple, but this didn't go over very well. I apologized and started to play with her hair. I grab one of her curls of hair and run it through my hand.
Then I am awake and rubbing my pillow with the same hand.

7/09/08

Armageddon - There's a small group of soldiers in a swamp, with two of them in chairs with the backs facing the jungle and the others just standing around. It's dark outside, and myself and 5 others are crawling up through the swamp towards them. We hit some thick jungle growth and the soldiers hear us and begin calling out for us to show ourselves. Then some creature kills the two in the chairs by cutting open their stomachs without anyone seeing it. One of the guys yelling out to us turns to his CO and says "damn, what was that thing?" His commanding officer looks down at him in shock, then the guy looks down at himself and there is a large bone looking thing sticking through him and out his stomach, he then drops to the ground. The creature kills all but one person and myself out of everyone. But this one survivor is infected with some virus from the creature and looks really pale. I help him back from where I came from. We walk through the swamp and come to a sewer system. I open a gate and lead us back up the sewer into a town. I hold him up as we walk towards his car, but he pushing himself away from me to puke. He pukes uncontrollably for a while, then looks okay, but then pukes some more. I tell him once the puking stage is over, it's not bad at all. He doesn't believe me and I get the feeling he's going to try to find some way to kill himself. We're not on a sidewalk going up a hill towards his car. Ever so often he stops to puke, once nearly hitting a group of people. We get to his car and he tells me to get the onion rings from the center console. I approach the car and some mean looking kid is in the driver's seat. I ask him to get the onion rings from the center console, but he gets out of the car and says, "How about this instead?" and pulls his hand out of his pocket and flips me the middle finger. I tell him, "Come on, this guy is starving, he's been puking his brains out." But he says there are no onion rings. Then we meet this girl who is walking buy who the guy knows. She is on her way to see the fireworks so we follow her. We go back down the hill and come to a gas station at an intersection. She starts to take a left to go behind the gas station and up another road, but the guy stops and says he's not going any further. She says "There's a great spot to watch them over here" trying to persuade him. He just looks angry and tells me to come with him back to the car. I just want to see the fireworks so I don't go with him. He starts to walk off, then turns to me and yells "Fuck you!" and stumbles up the sidewalk. The girl and I start to walk up this road when we start to see a bunch of shooting stars. One of them was really bright and also really loud. It looked like a plane going way too fast, and on fire through the sky. Then it exploded on the other side of the horizon. We see more shooting stars, but these are huge ones, we can physically see them burning up and falling apart in the atmosphere. They're also really loud which makes me think they're dangerously close. The fireworks start behind us, so we walk back a bit until we're in a good spot to see them. They look amazing. Then the biggest shooting star of them all shoots over us. It lit up the sky, and shook the ground it was so loud. The ground continued to rumble after it disappeared below the horizon. I yell to the girl over the fireworks "Holy crap there's a lot of shooting stars tonight" and think 'I wonder if that huge one is going to hit earth?' The fireworks are being shot off of a long dock, and they have huge roman candle like things spraying off of the dock as well. The girl says she's cold and asks to borrow my sweat shirt, I tell her we can share it because I'm cold too, so she puts her hand in the sleeve and I give her a hug to keep her warm. Then the fireworks stop. I tell the girl "That can't be the end, where was the grand finale? wtf" She agrees, and a few seconds later, the grand finale is launched. During the fireworks, at least 100 of these huge, bright, loud shooting stars are shooting overhead, making the sky even more awesome to look at. After the fireworks ended, we split up, and I head back to the guy's car. I get there and we're about to leave, but he asks me if I want to bring back my cat and my goat. I think for a second and can't remember how my cat or my goat would get 300 miles from home, and how we could even fit them in his car with all the other people he has to give a ride to. Then I tell him "yeah, I probably should look for them, I'd hate to leave them here"

Clown Car - I'm on my way to class to turn in a lengthy homework assignment, but first I have to pick up my car from the shop. I get there and find my car parked in some tall grass with a bunch of other cars everywhere. I still have about an hour before I have to get to class so I look around at all the used cars for sale and see if I see any I'd want. There are a few, but they're priced at $10,000 which is over my budget. All the ones I can afford look like crap, or have foot-emergency brakes, which suck ass, and I'm never getting a car with one of those again. After a few minutes of looking around, I decide it's time to head to class, so I get in my car and pull it around the lot. I get to a road block of traffic cones next to a building and one of the workers comes out to talk to me. He says "I wouldn't drive that thing if I were you, there's still something wrong with it." I ask him what it is, and he says it'll only take a minute to fix it and to take it down to the other shop. He and a coworker get in the car and he drives it with me in the passenger seat to my high school and drops me off in the parking lot, then drives towards the other shop. I wait around for a bit and start to get nervous about how much time it's taking them. I look at my watch and I'm already 30 minutes late for class. I go into the school and their clock is 30 minutes slower than my watch. I hope that my watch is just fast and that the school has the right time. Then they get back with my car and say it's fixed and ready to go, but they need a ride back to where my car was. Somehow, there are now 6 of them. I get into the driver's seat, and there are 2 of them in the passenger seat, and 4 in the back, doubling up on the driver's side. I have no room to move my seat back, and can hardly even get inside. I try to get my foot over to the gas pedal, but I can't get past the steering wheel. I move my seat back a little bit and am able to get all the way into the car finally, but I'm hunched over the steering wheel to the extreme. I look at my watch again and my class has just ended. I think 'son of a bitch.' I get out of the car, and my mom is there. She asks why I'm not going to class to hand in my homework. I angrily tell her "it just ended."

Lawn Mower Skills - I'm with my dad, my 2 half brothers, and my half sister, all following my dad somewhere through a strange city. Somewhere along the line, we lose the two youngest, and it's just me, my half brother and my dad walking along. We finally notice that the 2 are gone so we wait to see if they find us. A few minutes later, we see them walking with each other up the sidewalk, crying. They make it to us and we tell them not to get lost again. Then we're walking down this really steep hill, that looks like it had the grass recently mowed, and there is a lawn mower nearby (one of those lame walk-behind ones) But the hill is at least an 80 degree angle. I think of how hard that must have been to mow. I also notice a huge tree stump that looks like it had been hit by the lawn mower. I tell my half brother that I hate hitting tree stumps with the lawn mower, and then we walk down the hill towards some old brick building.

Beach Problems - A large group of people with myself come out of a cave and into a clearing at night, with a beached boat to the left. There is a sword tied to part of the boat that some guy is trying to get untied, but he can't do it. I tell him to try using a rock to cut the rope. He manages to cut one part of the rope, but not the right part that would've freed the sword. Everyone I'm with starts slowly walking down to the shore line and takes a left along the shore. I tell him I'll help him. I grab the same rock he was just using to smash the rope, and notice that it has really sharp edges. I saw through it, trying not to cut my hand on all the sharp edges and free the sword for him. I start to wonder why he was hitting the rope with the rock instead of cutting it. Cutting it worked really well. He thanks me and runs off with it. Then I'm in a dilemma, there's a girl staying by the boat who I like, and another girl leaving with everyone else that I like, and I don't know which one to go with. I decide to stay with the one by the boat.

Orange Shirts - I'm with my friends Ryan and a girl I know, helping Ryan fold shirts and hang them in his 8 ft long closet. I get bored and hide a pile of shirts he was about to hang up behind another pile. He looks around and seems shocked that they just disappeared. I can't help but laugh at this point, which gave it away that I had something to do with the disappearance. He looks by me and finds the shirts. He starts hanging up more, and I grab two of the white ones, and sneak them away to the same spot. Then I get an orange highlighter and completely fill in all the white on those two shirts with bright fluorescent orange. It only takes 15 seconds even with a highlighter, and the orange is so bright, it's hard to look at without squinting. I wait for him to notice the bright orange shirts, but he seems oblivious. I stand around as he hangs up some more shirts, then he goes "Oh wtf! Dammit" as he sees his now bright orange shirts. I laugh and then wonder where Ryan and the girl went. I look around and through a small hallway, I see Ryan and the girl in another room lifting weights. I think they might be mad at me for the orange shirts, and wonder how Ryan was doing curls while lying on a mattress.

7/10/08

Nightmare (if you've gotten a DUI before) - My friend Tim and I just finish a few alcoholic beverages and walk to my car for me to bring Tim home. I suddenly feel really drunk so I ask him if he wants to drive. He says, "No way man." so I get in the driver's seat (scared shitless that I'll get pulled over again). It's dark out and I'm having trouble keeping the car on the road so I turn on the high beams. The entire road lights up spectacularly and I think 'wow, that makes things easier.' I notice some cars approaching and I try to turn off my high beams, but I have no coordination with my drunken arms and manage to hit just about every switch but the one that turns off the high beams. The cars pass and my high beams are still on. I look over at Tim and say, "Shit, I'm too drunk to even turn off the high beams." I look around for gum to mask the alcohol smell in case we get pulled over. I remembered how when I got my DUI in real life, the cop told me he could smell it on me, even at a 0.031% BAC the bastard (if you're under 21, that counts as a DUI). I can't find any gum so I stop at a restaurant we happen to be driving past. We go inside and find my friend Sean already in a booth waiting for us. I just know he has gum. We sit in the booth and I ask him if I can have a piece of gum. He hands me the package of eclipse spearmint with 3 pieces left in it. I grab 2, and give it back to him. He rips out around the last piece of gum so it's still sealed in the foil, puts the inside part back in the box, and throws the box over his shoulder. I watch as the box flies into some girl's shoulder and falls to the ground. The girl turns around, sees it on the floor and asks if it's gum. Sean quickly replies, "NO!" in a silly voice. (It's so clearly gum, she must've been blind or something). She catches the sarcasm-ish tone in Sean's voice and picks up the package expecting gum inside, but soon finds that it is empty. She looks at Sean and tells him, "Ha ha, very funny." I'm now chewing a huge wad of gum and decide to finish the drive to Tim's house. We get back in my car, and instead of leather, I now have a beaded seat cover. I think nothing of it, start the car, and drive off into the night.

The Family I Never See - Somehow I arrive at my dad's house and walk up to the front porch. Once I'm on the porch, I remember that no one uses the front door, and I usually go in through the garage, but since I'm already there, what the hell. I open the door, and my step mom is in the kitchen doing dishes, and in the other room I can see my 5 half brothers and sisters all watching TV or playing a game or something. I say hi to everyone, and the kids seem excited to see me. Me oldest half brother (Noah, 13) gets into an argument with my youngest half brother (Oli (short for Oliver), 5) and Noah ends up really pissed off at him. To get even, I watch as he gets on his skate board and does random shit on it in front of the window where Oli is watching. This makes him really jealous and Oli starts throwing a fit because he can't play on the skate board. During this entire revenge boarding, Noah is singing a song he entitled "The Tribute Song To Oli", which only makes him more mad. Oli runs off, and Noah gets off the skate board and we go back inside. Now in a hallway by some stairs with Noah, I hear my dad yell from across the house, "Oh no! Oli stepped in poop!", and then in a quieter voice, "Oli, go step on Noah's feet." Noah runs off and I look around at all the family pictures on the wall. My dad who never has a mustache is sporting a giant mustache in these pictures. I hear my dad calling me over, so I go into the TV room where he is sitting on the couch. He asks what I think of the picture in there with him in it. His eyes look really tired, but everything else is normal (crazy mustache excluded from normal), so I tell him, "You look fine."

My dreams seem to randomly stop mid-story a lot of the time. I guess in the story of life, all stops would be mid-story. But even so, it's like partway through a conversation sometimes, then I'll be in another dream. Either that or my memory is going.

7/11/08

I tried to go to sleep last night from 2:00 am until 7:00 am with no success (5 hours is my limit for laying in bed without either sleep or at least some hanky panky). However, I did get a brief 1.5 second clear as day image of some guy with a mustache looking right at me. It was around 4:00 and I was really trying to fall asleep, then BAM! crazy mustache guy in my face. Like inches away from my face. But just as fast as he scared me with his creepy stare, he was gone. I think he had glasses too.

At another point, I had music stuck in my head from hours before I went to bed, and while listening to it, I got some weird audio hallucinations. I don't remember what I heard exactly, but the music started to sound strange, it's harder than I thought to explain. This too lasted only a few seconds.

My diagnosis is either insomnia or inadvertent WILD failure (if the mustache guy wasn't as shocking, I think that might've been the beginning of a dream.)

7/12/08

Last night, I got blasted and passed out on a couch for 6 hours. I'd say for me, the effects of alcohol on dreaming is shitty recall. The moment I woke up, I knew of 4 different dreams I had, but I could barely remember anything from any of them. Here's what I do remember:

Cereal - I'm sitting at my kitchen table, with an empty bowl and a half full box of my favorite cereal. I pour it in, and somehow, it all fits inside the bowl. I'm surprised by how half a box of cereal can fit into one bowl. It wasn't even that big of a bowl. Then I felt bad about eating all the cereal, so I dumped some back into the box and then poured myself some milk. The cereal was so delicious and fresh tasting, that I ended up finishing off what was left in the box.

Problem Hole - I'm looking out at the top of our well in the back yard and notice that there is a hole in it, and it's spraying out water. My step dad comes over and says, "There's your problem right there, look at all the water coming out of that thing" (referring to our flooded basement).

I know there's more, but it's like when you forget the name of some show or something, but you know you know it, like if you heard the name of it, you'd be like "oh yeah, that's the one" only I'd have to see something that reminds me of it.

7/13/08

No dreams Probably because I woke up soaked from rain, closed my window and slept for another 3 hours without writing down any dreams I may have remembered at that time.

7/14/08

So this makes more sense, my step dad divorced my mom, but all his stuff is still here, so we moved it into the basement for him to pick up. Also, we got a new TV that kicks ass. Our old TV was probably 20 years old.

42" Flat Screen TV - I go downstairs to watch TV, but my mom is already in the TV room watching it. And instead of our new flat screen TV, she's watching our old TV. The new one is gone. Also, all of my step dad's stuff that was in the basement is gone. I ask her what happened to the TV, and she says "Steve took it." I tell her, "wtf, that was our TV, why did he take it?"
"It was technically half his, and he's compromising on the mortgage price." she replies. I say, "That's bull shit, that was our TV." and walk away, angry that Steve took basically everything from the house including the TV.

7/17/08

Before going to sleep, me and a friend played like 4 hours of this random zombie game where you had melee weapons and 2 different guns (with not enough ammo) and had to redo certain levels to find silver pieces for some ware wolf boss. It was a good button mashing zombie fighting game with sweet combo moves.

Zombie! - I'm in the middle of a big cobble stone street in the afternoon. There is a huge stone stairway next to me, and the sky is covered with clouds giving it a solid white / gray color. Me and 2 other people are walking along the road when suddenly, a zombie is in front of us. One of the people with me ran up the stairs to get away and was yelling back for us to follow him. But the zombie was right in the way, slowly trying to grab onto us. Upon hearing Mike yell back to us, the zombie turned and started to climb the stairs towards Mike. I thought 'now is my chance, his back is turned.' and I punched the zombie in the back. But I hesitated sort of and gave it a weak punch, but it was enough for it to start coming after me.

7/18/08

Fireworks Store - I'm in a small store that sells exclusively fireworks. The kind that are illegal in most of the northern states. I'm browsing around, looking at all the fun looking bottle rockets and such, trying to decide which ones to get. A massive bottle rocket, about 3 inches in diameter, with a big red cone on the top caught my attention. I walked over to where a bunch of them were sticking out of a box to get a closer look. I pick one up, and almost immediately I am woken up by my friend's alarm clock.

I really thought that everything was real in the dream, when the alarm clock went off, I jumped up and was scared awake, thinking the rocket just exploded.

I have noticed a strong correlation between drinking, smoking, and dream recall. It all started after pulling a random all-nighter, followed by some steady partying. Since then, I'm lucky to remember 1 dream a night. Another possible reason for my poor recall could be that when I wake up, I get lazy and go back to sleep without writing down anything. I'm sure I forget some dreams in the extra 1 to 2 hours of off and on sleep after I wake up.

I'm going to try to eliminate the lazy morning syndrome (LMS) tomorrow, but still have the drinking factor, and see what happens with my recall. I don't want to attribute it to the alcohol just yet. In the past I've remembered a lot of dreams after a night of drinking, although on those occasions, I woke up to an alarm clock instead of just willy nilly on my own.

7/20/08 - Damn LMS!! I'm going to use my alarm clock again and stop sleeping my mornings away / forgetting dreams.

7/22/08 - I woke up today with my cell phone alarm after 6 hours of sleep, after drinking, and I know I had 3 cool dreams. But I didn't write them down or anything so they're now gone from my memory.

7/23/08 - Same deal as yesterday, but I can almost remember them. It's like the dreams are right in front of me, I know they're there, but I can't see them. I know I remembered them right when I woke up. I had the chance to write them down but I missed it. Don't underestimate the power of dream journals.

I'm hoping for some good REM rebound since I've been on this partying streak of good amounts of alcohol + under 6 hours of sleeping on couches. I love summer.

7/24/08 - Woohoo, success kind of. I remembered at least 3 dreams, but still didn't use a dream journal so I only remember little bits of them. Waking up to my cell phone alarm (I set it kind of on the quiet side) got me straight awake, and I actually remembered my dreams because I got woken up in the middle of one. I didn't drink the night before, and I slept so deeply. Shit, now I only remember 2 of those dreams, I'm not sure what the 3rd one was. Definitely a good idea to write that kind of stuff down if you want to remember it. I know there was more to these dreams, but this is all I remember now, 2 days later:

Birds - I'm standing outside my garage, about to go inside, when I hear a wood pecker making a lot of noise trying to peck the roof of my garage. I stand there and watch as it repeatedly hits it's beak on the metal edge of the garage roof. Then I notice another bird also watching it do this. I think, "oh, it must be a mating thing" and almost walk away when suddenly a fisher cat is up there with them just sitting there. I look at it and it jumps off the garage and runs away. I tell my friend who was waiting in the garage for me, "I didn't know we had fisher cats."

Weird Train - I'm at some sort of mini-train station, with a stairway over the top of any train that goes by. I'm trying to make my way onto the top of one of these trains that goes by slowly. I almost get onto one of them, but it's a tricky jump. I also notice that the train goes through a tunnel like in that movie 'Wanted' where you have to literally lay down to avoid being squished, so I decide to just ride the train instead of getting on top of it. I get into the next one that goes by, and some weird guy is sitting next to me with his shirt off. I start to get kind of creeped out by him and then I see an entire family of weird people (at least 15 of them mostly not wearing shirts) all camping in some field that the train goes by. The guy tells me that it's his family and they don't like him anymore that's why he's riding the train. I feel bad for him and try to tell him something to make him feel better. Then I jump off the train and watch as it goes off along the tracks with that weird guy still on it.

7/25/08 - I woke up after a night of drinking on my friend's extra mattress, remembering no dreams from that night. I also took an extra hour and a half to wake up that morning than I should've, and in my opinion, that's no good for recall.

7/26/08 - Just nothing. I actually don't remember deciding to go to bed last night, I just woke up in the same clothes, in my bed (still with stuff on it that I didn't move out of the way), with my drink half full next to me. I don't remember any dreams, or even getting into bed. I'd say drinking too much takes dreaming out of the equation 100% of the time. But not drinking too much still allows for dreams, you just have to be ready somehow to remember them the next day.

7/27/08 - Ok, having a dream journal handy would've helped today. I know I had dreams last night, but I didn't remember them any longer than a few minutes after I woke up.

In Conclusion: For me, drinking only suppresses my dreams when I black out. Otherwise, it's just a case of having my dream journal handy to write them down before I forget them. One thing to watch out for is waking up, then going back to sleep without writing down any dreams, I forget most of them whenever I do this. A temporary substitute for using a dream journal is re-living the dreams in my head, scene for scene, at least once or twice after I wake up. When I do this, I can remember the dreams for at least 2 days before forgetting them. So drink, but don't black out, and dream away!

7/28/08

Peace Pays - I'm walking in between some buildings at night with my dream girlfriend (DGF). We come to a street and start to cross it. Halfway across, 3 asshole-looking guys come up to us. 2 of them grab me by each arm and hold me in place while the 3rd pushes me from behind just as the other two let go. I nearly fall to the ground, but catch myself with some fancy footwork. I walk up to where my DGF is, put my arm around her and keep walking, trying to ignore the 3 others. Now on the other side of the street, we are walking in between more buildings, slightly up a hill. The 3 guys surround us, and one pushes me then yells, "Do you wanna fight me?" I side-step over from the force of his push and tell him, "No, I don't want to fight." and keep walking with my DGF. The 3 guys fall back and stop bothering us.

We come to a field in between what looks like the UVM Redstone campus and lay down in the grass. The sky is still really dark, and the field is softly illuminated by random light posts surrounding it. Out of no where, my DGF gives me an amazing HJ in the field. I tell her, "I'll be back, I'm going to change my pants." and run into one of the nearby dorm halls. I run all the way up the stairs to the fifth floor and open the door, but nothing looks familiar. I think 'shit, I live on the fourth floor' and run back down a flight of stairs, and down the hall into my room. Once in my room, I start worrying about if those 3 guys are harassing my DGF or not. I change clothes as fast as I can and run back down the stairs.

Outside again, I see my DGF sitting in the field and the 3 guys are talking to themselves, walking towards her, and looking suspicious.
I don't remember any more.

7/30/08

I remembered two dreams today, but since I woke up 12 hours ago and didn't write either of them down yet, I only remember one.

Friends (not quite the show) - My friend's Ryan and Andrew, and myself are in a run down house in the winter time. I can see a large 3 story building out one of the windows and I just know that someone bad is inside. I start to think of what we should do, when Ryan suddenly lights the fuse to a cannonball looking bomb. "Oh shit! Throw it!" I yell to him, because he's just standing there in the middle of the room with it. He goes to throw it out the window, but it hits the wall and rolls back to him. He picks it up again and the 3 of us run outside into 6 inches of snow. He throws it at the large building and it smashes through one of the windows on the top floor. I hear it explode, but can't see anything.

Then my other two friends (in waking life) Shawn, and Will, with 5 other random people I only know in the dream come up to us. Will and Shawn draw swords and Will says in a very serious tone, "I'm sorry, but we're going to have to kill you" (referring to the 3 of us). I start to panic and think 'this can't be happening, they're our friends.' They step towards us, behind them the other 5 are standing, watching us scramble away.

We are backed up against a large snow bank and Andrew falls down. Shawn and Will ignore him as the 5 others hold Andrew on the ground. Will takes a brutal swing at Ryan with all his strength. Ryan jumps back, but the tip of the sword hits him in the leg. Immediately I see a blood stain grow down his pant leg. At this point, I'm terrified that we're going to be killed. I look around and no longer see Shawn. The 5 people are still holding down Andrew, and Will is focused on Ryan as he tries to jump out of the way of his swings. I put my hands up and slowly sidestep behind Will, then behind the 5 people. I make a run for the large building and make it inside. There are no lights inside, but the brightness from outside provides enough light through the windows. I start walking down the main hall when Shawn steps out in front of me from one of the side rooms with a grin on his face. He pulls his arm out from behind his back and he is holding another cannonball looking bomb. The fuse is lit. </end dream>

I only remember this one because I replayed it in my head a few times after I woke up.

7/31/08

Damn the snooze button. I hit snooze for over an hour this morning, just as an automatic reaction to my alarm clock making noise.

Hookah - I'm sitting on a couch that's right next to an opening to another room. I have a hookah set up in front of me, and my friend has another hookah set up 10 ft to my left. Some guy walks past me and brushes up against the hookah, knocking out one of the hoses. I pick it up, and feel that it has some water inside from when it was cleaned. I blow into it, causing water to spray out the other end. I attach it to the hookah and move the coal to the middle of the foil. The guy comes back into the room, this time not hitting the hookah.

Overkill - I'm in the driveway of a house and call the cops. I tell them I need help. Moments later the police and the Canadian police show up. Then another town's police arrive. I start to wonder why I called the cops in the first place, because now I don't need any help except help getting rid of them all. The Canadians hand me a piece of paper that I'm supposed to fill out. I tell them that I'll be right back, and go into the house.

I go up to the 2nd floor where a guy I know is drinking a beer. I tell him that I don't know what to do about all the cops in the driveway. He hands me a beer and says, "don't worry about it." After finishing the beer, I go back down to the driveway and all the cops are gone.

Beer - I'm at some beach on a lake. There is a good section of sand and also some big rocks on the left side of it near some fallen trees. I have some beer with me, and look around for a place to put it while I go swimming. I see a nice spot behind a rock and under a tree where no one would accidentally trip over it, and it's also quite hidden. I put my open beer in the sand there and go into the lake.

I don't remember what I did in the lake. Coming out of the lake, I find my beer, finish it and realize that it was my last one. I then remember that my house is within walking distance and has beer in the fridge. I start walking back along an old dirt road with grass growing in the middle of it in between tire tracks. At first, it goes through the woods, then out of the woods, it winds up a huge grassy hill, past some random house. At the top of the hill, it connects to another road that leads to my house. Almost at the top, I see a group of hot girls walking along the road. They notice me and laugh. I see another group of hot girls further down the road. I continue along and come to my house after a while.

Inside my house, there is a giant fossil skeleton of a dinosaur hanging from the ceiling / standing on the floor. I assume it's always been there and go to the fridge. I finish one beer on the spot, then grab a few to bring back to the lake.

8/01/08

I guess I did sleep. I tried to WILD, but didn't let my awareness drop enough, so it took a long time to get to sleep. I didn't think I slept at all, but then I remembered these 3 dreams so I guess I did. It seemed like I was awake from 1:30 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. when I heard my mom get in the shower.

Dream Premonition - I'm at my ex-girlfriend's house, outside in her yard. All of the sudden I see something fall out her bedroom window. I can't tell what it was. I go inside, and I hear her tell her mom, "Mom, Tookie (her cat) died, so I threw him out the window." I then feel sad because I liked Tookie, and I hadn't seen him in nearly 3 months.

Command and Conquer - I'm at my ex-girlfriend's house again, and I remember having the previous dream. I'm about to ask Steff if her cat is okay, because I had a dream where he died. But before I get the chance to, I see Tookie walk by, so I pet him. He seems happy to see me and rubs against my leg. I go up to Steff's room and ask her if she wants to play command and conquer generals. She says she does, so I go to find an extra disk. I go into another room where my computer is, and find the expansion disk. I think it'll work for the original game, so I bring it over, but she already has it running without the disk. I go back to my computer and create a few maps with snow terrain. She doesn't want to play a winter map, so I randomly generate one without any snow, with 2 huge mountain ranges cutting across the map, separating each starting area with only 2 paths to each other's base. There is an open area in the middle, and on top of each mountain is a plateau with a small path leading up to it. I think it'll be a great spot for a few airfields.

We start the game and quickly I have a decent sized group of tanks and minimal defenses. I send the tanks up the right side of the map and find that side of her base un-defended. I destroy a few power plants and a barracks before she sends in a shit load of jeeps with machine guns. I stop attacking the buildings hoping that the tanks will auto target the jeeps and make quick work of them. But they don't and I lose a tank. Then I focus fire each of the jeeps, but there are too many and I lose all the tanks. I scroll back down to my base just in time to see a nuke destroy most of it, leaving what it didn't destroy in flames. I try to have one of my units repair some of the buildings, but the radiation kills them all.

We decide to play again on the same map. This time I spread out my base more so I wouldn't be as devastated by a nuke, and built a few airfields as well. After a while of just focusing on my base without attacking, I am nuked. But the losses are minimal, so I nuke her base, which isn't spread out, destroying a lot of it. Then I send in a bunch of migs to finish off a few buildings. Somehow she managed to keep things together and she sent a group of hummers with machine guns down into my base. I wait for the migs to reload and then take care of them having only lost 1 building. Then I send a construction dozer up the trail to try to get to the top of the mountain, but the trail from my base leads to the mountain above her base. "Even better" I think, as I fill the plateau with airfields and anti-aircraft guns. Shortly after finishing this, I notice I have lost all power, so I check what happened and I was nuked again. I nuke her base, then have the migs do air strike after air strike, first on her anti-aircraft guns, then on everything else.

After the game, we're in her room with Tookie. He's laying partially under the covers and doesn't look so well. I pet him and he looks happier. He tries to rub his head on my hand a few times, but doesn't have the strength. Then he stops moving completely and dies. I can't believe he died. I get really sad and start to cry. Steff asks why I'm crying and I tell her, "Tookie just died." She tells me, "So. You don't have to cry about it." I don't think she knows that me and Tookie were friends.

We then go to her living room where her mom is sitting in a chair, visibly upset. I tell her how sorry I am that Tookie died, and give her a hug. Then we all talked about something, or did something for a while, but I don't remember what it was.

Bicycle Reunion - I wake up and decide to drive to my friend's house, because he said I could park his car in his spot (he doesn't have a car). Before I leave, I notice that I have a really long group of 3 hairs hanging in front of my face, at least 4 inches longer than the rest. I pull them out thinking, "how did I not notice this until now?" My plan was to go downtown and find out about getting a parking pass for UVM.

The next thing I know, I'm at my friend (Andrew's) house, walking down a hallway. I see his room mate and ask him if it's okay if I park in Andrew's spot. He tells me it is. I don't know where Andrew is, but his door is closed and I don't want to wake him up, so I go out into the driveway. I don't see my car anywhere, but walking further down, I see that it's in the far spot, behind other cars.

I cross the street and get on my bike, which was leaned up against a telephone pole. I start to ride down the sidewalk but there are 2 other bikes in the way. I almost hit them, but at the last second, slam on the front brakes, stopping instantly, and almost flipping over the front wheel. I carefully navigate in between the two bikes, bumping into one, but I hold it up and re-balance it before I go. Then I'm riding down a huge hill, on the sidewalk. There are some people on the sidewalk that are giving me weird looks. I then notice there is a bike lane in the road, so I decide to give it a try. It is really wide, and there are a ton of people riding bikes on it. People are going both directions on it, which makes it hard not to hit anyone. I'm trying to avoid hitting the oncoming traffic, as well as the oncoming bikes, while passing all the slow people going the same direction as me. It's quite an intense ride.

I turn left and go down another road with a bike lane. Three bikes are coming straight at me, so I go to the right, nearly getting hit by a bus as they go by. Then I see my dad stopped in the bike lane, on a bike with my baby half sister on the back in one of those baby seats they make. I'm surprised to see him and yell, "Hi dad!" He doesn't hear my so I yell again, "Dad!!!" He looks over and is just as surprised to see me. Then my half brother Noah rides up and stops his bike next to the road, on a grassy hill. We all move to that spot and sit down. "What are you doing?" I ask my dad. "Oh, we're just going to bed bath and beyond." he says. I ask him why, and he tells me, "I have a $749 gift card to bed bath and beyond, that means a year's supply of clothes for everyone (referring to his 6 kids)." I don't know what to say to that, so I just tell him, "That's cool, I have a total of $11 both on me and in the bank."

My step mom pulls up in front of us and tells us to get moving, so we all get back on the bikes and start to ride again. This time I'm following my dad, who is going so slow, that I can barely ride my bike that slow. I watch as he does 1/4 of a pedal, then coasts for 30 seconds. The whole time, I'm swerving back and forth, trying not to tip over, and pedaling backwards to try to stay balanced. We get to his house, and I hear an obnoxious phone ringing. I look over and my step mom pulls out 2 cordless house phones. She looks at one, not knowing what to do, so I hold my hand out and she gives it to me. Then she looks at the other one and it stops ringing. The one she handed me isn't even on. I give it back to her and she takes both batteries out. In the time it took for that to happen, my dad already made it to his driveway, 50 ft away and is now playing with my half sister with a really loud and annoying musical toy. I just watched, and tried to figure out what could possibly be so annoyingly loud, and yet still so fun for a baby, but couldn't tell what it was.

Then I'm back in my room, having no memory of how I got back, and also not questioning how I got back. I suddenly notice that I have another group of hairs that is really really long, hanging in front of my face. I remember the previous group that I pulled out, and this one was a lot bigger, involved more hairs, and was longer. I don't know how I didn't notice it earlier. I go to pull it out as I did with the other one, but it just yanks at my scalp with no success. I pull again, harder, but it hurts a lot trying to pull that many hairs out. I grab half of them and pull again, but the pain is even greater. I go to the bathroom and look in the mirror to see what's going on. A row of hairs, 2 inches long just above my ear, are all wound together into this 1 ft long strand that falls just to the right of my right eye. I grab 3 of them, and give another pull, but my head is sore from all the previous attempts, and this only makes it worse so I decide to leave it for another time.

8/03/08
I didn't go to bed this night

8/04/08
After 14 hours of sleep...

Flying Ball - Myself and some kid are running up a stairway to the top of a tower in a hurry. "Quick, we have to signal England!" the kid tells me once we reach the top. He then blows into this huge 30 ft horn, but can't really make any sound from it. He tries again with no success. He steps aside and I give it a shot. It takes a lot of breath to make any sound. I try it once more, this time giving it everything I have. I feel my face turning read, and my lungs start to burn, but I get it to make a booming noise that continues for a second after I finish.

Then we're in my front lawn playing rug bee with a bunch of little kids, using a football. I dive and block a pass to the ground, and expecting people to dive for the ball, I cover it up, but no one goes for it. Then everyone decides that they want to play soccer instead. I suddenly become aware of a bleacher full of parents next to my front lawn. They all pull out basketballs from nearby. I turn around just as someone from my team starts the soccer game with a kickoff, sending the ball soaring over everyone, and down behind a barn and down a hill of horse manure about 100 ft away. I think, "well that's the end of this game" but then someone runs after it and kicks it back at us. The ball bounces on the roof of my garage, then rolls off to the driveway.

All I remember from the beginning of this dream are random scenes of walking through a small town, going in and out of little one room buildings. It was really sunny.
Lost and Found - I go through a door to a huge room with a gray stone floor, and stone walls. There are two massive barred windows on the far wall, letting in enough light to see. There is a king sized bed in between the windows, and the left wall is covered with giant cabinets, about 4ft wide by 6ft tall, and 4ft deep, slanting downwards and to the right for some reason. I quickly recognize that I've been here before and go over to one of the cabinets. None of them are locked. I open it up, and reach down inside pulling out my wallet, cell phone, and school ID. "I knew I left these here" I thought to myself as I put them in my pockets. I leave the room and there are 2 people standing in another room with a weird circular design on the floor. I tell them that I lost this stuff nearly a year ago and can't believe I found it after all this time.

The After Party - I'm in a small dorm room that has suffered a severe party. There are empties everywhere and at least 3 people passed out on random furniture. I suddenly have a snow shovel in my hand and am helping clean up by shoveling the bottles over a fence. During this, half the room is open to the outside, and happens to be next to my driveway. I keep shoveling empties and garbage over a fence and it's all landing next to another fence that keeps in my mom's horse, making quite a heaping pile. Then my mom comes by and tells me that I'm going to have to clean all that up. I don't see the harm in just leaving it there, none of it actually made it beyond the horse fence, so I stop shoveling and think nothing more of the fence. Then the room is totally enclosed, and is back to being a dorm room again. Now more people are awake, and I am dumping left over beers into a jug, and putting the empty bottles in a paper bag. A girl who I don't know, who was sleeping earlier walks towards me holding 2 plastic cups. It looks like she's trying to hand me one of them, so I reach out for it and grab it. She doesn't let go of the cup, and gives me an angry look before walking out of the room. I tell her, "sorry, I thought you wanted me to dump that into the jug." She doesn't reply and is out of the room seconds later. I look around and see my friend Aubrey laying on a couch and we both agree that the other girl is weird.

I remember that there was a long lead up to this part in the dream, but I forgot what it was.
The Bus of Death - After a long day of something, a group of us walk back towards our bus. I'm the second one back and I immediately notice a 50 cal. machine gun mounted on the side of the bus next to my seat. Also, there is a truck filled with junk cars about 40 ft in front of the machine gun, and random other junk cars far to the left just outside some woods. I fire a few shots into the junk cars in the truck, but then think, "what if the bullets go through the cars and the truck and out the other side... I better not shoot at those." So I turn my attention to the cars at the tree line. Because of the way the gun is mounted on the side of the bus, I can't use the sights, but can see what I shoot out the window. The 50 call. is below the window, poking out through a hole in the bus siding. I tell the other kid on the bus that I can't use the sights but I'm going to try to hit the cars by seeing where my first shots go and adjusting my aim from there. I squeeze the trigger and hear 5 shots discharge, but I can't see where they went. I decide it's too dangerous to play with and sit back down in my seat to wait for everyone else to get on the bus.

8/07/08
I intended on just sleeping for 20 - 30 minutes, but being intoxicated, that turned into 3 hours and this dream:

No Brakes! - I'm sitting in my car in the parking lot of some store. It's raining slightly, and the sky is completely white from the clouds. I look out my window and notice a girl walking past. She looks at me and I realize it's my ex-girlfriend. I think of what an awkward coincidence it is to see her here and decide to be on my way. I put my car in reverse and try to turn around by backing up and turning to the left. I hit the gas too much, and am soon backing up way too fast for the turn and lightly scrape the corner of a parked car. I think, "shit, I hope no one saw that." and look for a way out of the parking lot.

There is a road directly ahead of me, but I can't see a way onto it from the parking lot. I decide to just drive over the grass to get to the road, and suddenly my mom is in the passenger seat. She frantically asks me, "what are you doing?!?" and I tell her to see if anyone is coming from her side as I swerve onto the road. "That's better." she says. Somewhere along the road, I notice that the brakes aren't really having much effect on my speed. I tell my mom about this and it doesn't seem to phase her. I'm driving around 40 mph I'd guess and say, "Watch this:" as I stomp on the brakes as hard as I can, pulling up on the steering wheel for extra stomping power. The car barely slows down at all. She tells me to stop because it isn't safe, and I tell her to just calm down, it'll be fine.

Then we're inside some huge room, with one corner walled off with an open door. There are windows along each part of this mini-room, with the blinds down. Inside I see the manager for vector marketing from when I went to the training, and he is listening to a report being read by one of my fellow trainees. I look around the larger room and notice about 15 other people, most with their parents. I sort of recognize most of them from the training. I start worrying about not being prepared with a report today, but I then notice everyone is currently working on their own report. Then my mom comes up from behind me with a huge piece of paper with some general points we have to cover listed on it. Everyone else has a similar sized paper, but theirs are filled with more writing that they've been doing.

8/08/08

Beer and Pizza - Me, Ben, Andrew, and 3 other people are sitting down at a table and order food to eat. I only have $10 so I get a small pizza and after seeing everyone else ordering a beer, I order one too. After ordering, 2 of the girls sitting with us get up to go to the bathroom. We talk while waiting for the food. I tell Ben about how I saw some girl I knew, but didn’t know her name, and he told me her name. Then I was like, “oh yeah, that’s right!” The 2 girls who went off to the bathroom come back to the table and second later, a bunch of the restaurant’s staff come over to give us our food and beers. We’re surrounded by them, and I don’t really have much elbow room. A single slice of pizza on a plate is placed in front of me, so I eat it. Then another plate with the other 3 slices is switched with my now empty plate. The service is amazing. I finish another slice and then I realize my beer was just over to my left. Ben is about to help me open it with his open beer, but Andrew reminds us they’re twist offs. So I twist it off and take a drink before going back at the pizza.

Random People - I’m at my house and go downstairs to get a drink of water or something. I go into the kitchen, and it is filled with people. The only person I know is Jason, and he seems to know everyone else there. I make some attempts at humor, but no one notices. Jason seems to barely acknowledge my existence here. He and one of his friends are talking, and standing right in front of the cabinets where the cups are. I reach past Jason and open the right half, but it’s empty. I say out loud, “what happened to all the cups?” and then try to open the left half, but the kid won’t move out of the way. This whole time, there are also people behind me, crowding me in like too many people trying to fit onto a small train.

Damn Splash Back - I’m at a friend of a friend’s house and am going through his fridge when I get the urge to pee. I notice a toilet like compartment inside the fridge, so I start peeing in it. I grab a Tupperware container and hold it to block the splash back. The water basin is really high up, so splash back was beginning to be a problem. I also had to stand on my tip toes to make it in. I got some pee on a part of the fridge that was clean, so I wipe it off with toilet paper and close the door.

Then Ben comes into the room and asks me if I’m ready for the guitar hero competition. I tell him he’ll probably beat me, because of how insanely good he is at it. But he tells me I almost beat him last time, and all he does is play expert songs now, so any other difficulty is harder for him. There are 2 other kids also going to this competition. It is a two hour drive from where we are, and Ben tells me that if we could lucid dream for long enough, we could just fly there. But instead, we have to drive. I think, “Yeah, if we could all lucid dream at the same time, it would be a lot easier to get there”

8 days of mystery... I don't even know what I did, let alone dreamed about.

8/16/08

Drugs - My friend Andrew and I are smoking out of my hookah at the end of my driveway in the middle of the night. It's really quiet, and warm outside, very relaxing. I see headlights approaching, then a car comes over the hill and slows down suspiciously. I see someone jump out of the passenger side door and run into the woods on our side of the road, then the car continues towards us. We get the feeling they’re after us. We both run down the driveway. I’m having trouble moving my legs, they burn when I try to force them to move, and even then, I only have about a third of my normal range of motion.

About 50 ft down the driveway I remember that I left the hookah at the end and whoever is after us would surely mess with it. I turn back to grab the hookah and still can’t move my legs very well at all. I'm sort of galloping on all fours, pulling myself forwards with my arms in an attempt to go faster than my lame legs will allow. I grab the hookah, and the hoses as fast as I can, leave the rest of the stuff and run. My legs move fast enough for a slow jogging pace now. We get to the end of my driveway and turn to look back, I see what looks like them coming down after us. We go into my garage and look again, seeing no sign of them anywhere.

Relieved, we go back and set up the hookah again. The end of the driveway is a sweet spot, there's hardly any wind, and you can see a lot of the stars. We head back to my house after the hookah session and Andrew hangs a mystery bag on a plastic thing that is sticking out from the side of the garage at head level. I suspect it’s a small bag of weed, because I see him roll up a bag himself and put it in his pocket after.

Then I’m in the car with my mom and it’s now day time. We pull into our driveway, and she parks right next to the bag. I try not to look at it and hope she doesn’t notice it, but she gets out of the car, and stands right next to it. I get out and there’s nothing there but the plastic thing now. I know she took it.

The Joker Wins - I’m in a small town at night, inside a huge church. The Joker from batman is planning on destroying the entire town and is talking to us from beneath a huge layer of gel like stuff. I am really close to him and can only see his face through the gel. He tells us to run away if we know what’s good for us, then asks us if we want to see what’s under the mask. Without waiting for an answer he pulls the gel off his face, clown mask and all. He has the most demonic clown face I’ve ever seen, then kind of turns into a ghost and chases after us.

I'm now watching the town cop who never drinks in 3rd person. He is in a small one room house, trying to think of how to stop the joker. He is now having a few drinks, first some wine, then some beer. Suddenly his window opens and some strong wind blows a bunch of stuff around his room. Papers fly out the window, and an armored glove / sleeve, holding a knife comes to life, and begins crawling towards the cop. He starts freaking out, asking why all this is happening to him. It looks like a severed arm, but with no skin showing. Kind of like one of those fake arms you hang out of the trunk of your car on Halloween. It crawls closer and closer to him, swinging the knife dangerously as it approaches.

This Made Perfect Sense At The Time - Something about good and bad energy. I could see energy, and pick which type I used and watched the effects it had. Good energy destroyed bad energy, and made you feel better. They were like gray blocks floating around in this white cloud like background. All I could see was this white color, with good and bad energy floating everywhere. It would get used up if I did something, or I could directly use the energy pieces and feel it absorb into my body.

I've been slacking on the DJ lately

8/19/08

Breakfast - I'm near the deli-meat area of the Hannaford supermarket near my house. There are a few tables with chairs around them, and a few people are sitting down and eating big meals. I decide that I'm going to make a breakfast sandwich. I find an egg, and also a small thing of boiling water. I put the egg in the water, but it breaks open and goes all over the place, mixing in with the water. I find another egg, and also another thing of boiling water. These boiling water things are small, black, rectangular, metal containers with silver metal cylinders spinning at the bottom of the water. I have no idea what their purpose is. I carefully place the second egg into this thing, and look around for an English muffin. I find one, and try to rip it in half, but end up ripping the top half in half, so I have 75% and 25% of a muffin. I put it back in the basket and look for another one.

I see a piece of delicious looking toast in the middle of a table, with two people sitting on either side of it, eating something else. I go up to them and ask if it's anyone's toast. They keep eating and don't say anything. However, they do look at me, so I know they heard me. I conclude that it's probably theirs if it's on their table. To my left, behind the deli counter, I see the top of a bag. I go over to investigate and it's a full bag of English muffins. I take one out, rip it in half with no problems, and put it on one of those conveyor belt toasters.

While waiting for it to come out of the toaster, I spot some cheese about 20 ft away on a table. I start to walk towards it, but my legs won't move that much. I can manage to take steps the distance of one of my shoes. Anything further than that, and my legs stop moving, and I fall down. I strain against this invisible force preventing me from walking normally towards the cheese. I see the two kids who had the toast and ask them if they know what could be wrong with my legs. One of them says, "It happens to soccer players sometimes." I think it must be because I over-worked my legs somehow and they're recovering, and hobble along on my way to the cheese.

At the table with the cheese on it, I see that it's the same cheese they use at McDonalds, the huge 18 inch stack of cheese slices, wrapped in plastic. The top few slices are really yellow, and kind of crusty, so I rip a few inches of slices off the top, and grab one of the good slices of cheese. I struggle back to the toaster, nearly falling with each step as I try to move my legs more than 1 ft forwards at a time. I see that the muffins have gone through the toaster, but they need another few seconds before they're satisfactorily toasted. I toss them into the machine, and grab a Styrofoam base, and a lid for my sandwich.

The muffin comes out, and I butter it, put the cheese on one side, and walk over towards where the egg is. As soon as I stop fighting with my legs and accept that they're not going to move fast, they begin moving normally again. It is such a relief, and an amazing feeling to walk with ease now. I pull the egg out of the water, and crack it onto the muffin. Somehow, it is not hard boiled, but instead, looks like it was cooked on a frying pan. I put the top of the muffin on top of the egg, and take a breath of this amazing smelling sandwich before putting the lid on.

I'm now at the check out area, and have 3 other things I'm getting, but I forgot what they were. I notice that she didn't check what was in the Styrofoam container, so I tell her that I also have an egg and cheese muffin sandwich. She nods, and pushes a few buttons on the register to add it to my purchase. I look to my right and can see that it is starting to get really bright outside. The sun is just over the tree line now, and it has that morning look in the sky.