Captain Sleepalot's Dreamtime

[Captain Sleepalot]

This will be my dream journal thread, so let's kick it off. (LDs will be highlighted in blue) Sunday Afternoon (08-12-07): I was in a minivan with my mother and the character "Reggie" from the now-defunct (but soon to be revived) series Dead Like Me. Reggie was in the backseat, and she was playing the role of my little sister. My mother was driving us to my older sister's house in the small town that I grew up in because she wanted to pick up a couch that my sister was giving away. We were discussing the fact that Reggie would be going to college someday, and I was telling her that she would get into whatever university she wanted to. As we entered one of the smaller roads in town, the cars in front of us veered off the road in a frantic manner. A man with a golden flat-top haircut swerved wildly on his white and blue motorcycle, and he screamed in pain as a gunshot rang out. It became apparent that a sniper was perched on the rooftop of a house (I play a lot of FPS games IRL). I became frantic and told my mom that she needed to gun the engine and take a side road immediately. With both hands firmly at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel, she calmly told me that she wasn't a person who broke the speed limit laws and that I should calm down. I started yelling at her and then she looked at me and told me to watch my mouth and attitude in front of Reggie, who was simply staring at us. I looked back at her and apologized, and told my mom to hurry up before we all got shot.

[Captain Sleepalot]

08-13-07: I was at a home in the suburbs preparing the rooms for a new white kitten. The kitten was asleep, so I was trying to plug up any exits and holes in the wall so that it couldn't escape. The kitten woke up and went straight for the door, and disappeared into a closet.

[Captain Sleepalot]

08-15-07: I was at a music store looking at different instruments. There was a group of guys setting up a PA and various guitars. There was a drum kit and an organ setup near me. They started playing a song, so I jumped in on the organ and we played a totally dischordant song that made no sense musically. They then told me that I did a good job but that there were some notes that I shouldn't have hit. Then a guy got on the drumset, and they said "This is how the song was supposed to sound!", and played some power rock ballad.

[Captain Sleepalot]

08-16-07: It was nighttime. I was in the suburbs, at a strange house that I had the impression I was a guest of. Everyone in the house was going to sleep, or had been asleep for some time. I had a plan to sneak out of the house and go several blocks to another house, where a girl waited for me. She was my new girlfriend, apparently, and she and I had set a time to meet in secret.

[Captain Sleepalot]

08-18-07: I was in the downtown area of what appeared to be Dallas. My girlfriend and I were on the top level of a parking garage next to a hotel. We were surrounded by skyscrapers and a four lane freeway ran right next to the garage. I was talking on the phone to someone, telling them we were about to come home, when suddenly a large passenger jet came roaring toward the downtown area. As it passed dangerously close to the top of the garage, I could make out the red and white patterns painted on the nose and tail. Smoke billowed out from one of the engines, and the plane whined as it sunk lower and lower, finally passing out of view behind one of the skyscrapers. We then heard a loud "BOOM!" and saw a large mushroom cloud begin to form. Panicked, we jumped into our rental car and sped out of the garage onto the freeway. As we weaved around the traffic, a television inside the car was telling us about an incident on another freeway just up ahead. Apparently two people had stopped traffic to get out and fist fight...so we slowed down to see what was going on. As we slowed, we saw two cars parked on the shoulder, and three people shouting at each other. One of them was throwing shoes at two of them, and they were returning fire with sandals. Finally one of the men jumped into a river that ran along the freeway. At that point, we resumed driving and suddenly a woman and man were sitting in the backseat. The woman was apparently the one who had been throwing shoes at the two people. She was telling us about how they wouldn't leave her alone and that she was tired of being intimidated. Her husband then said that she was in the hospital for two days because of injuries from the sandals, but that she was okay now. We then made it to the airport, which was about fifteen miles out of town. As we were going through the security, I had to be searched several different times because there were small steel ball bearings imbedded in various parts of my body. When that was over I told my girlfriend that we were better off just driving home, even though it was a 20 hour drive. I said this to her because I had an overwhelming feeling that our plane was going to crash. She reluctantly agreed and we got back into the rental car and left.

[Captain Sleepalot]

08-19-07: I was at a fleabag motel room in the bad part of a city. I had the impression that I was waiting on someone, and that they would meet me there sometime late at night. For some reason I had all the lights turned out in the room, and was getting settled in and ready to lay down on the bed. As I was about to lay on the bed, I heard some scratching at the door. My heart started pounding because I knew that whatever was on the other side of the was not friendly, and was not the person that was coming to meet me. My first instinct was to climb out the window, but suddenly I realized I was in a dream. I knew that I had a choice, and I chose to open the door and face whatever it was. The scratching had turned into knocking and an almost violent shaking of the door handle. I took a breath and turned the deadbolt lock, wondering what was going to be waiting for me on the other side of the door. I gripped the doorknob, turned it and whipped the door open as hard as I could. All I could see in the doorway was a deep darkness, but there appeared to be movement in it, as if a swarm of large fleas were undulating wildly in midair. I briefly made out a figure in a coat, wearing an old leather cowboy hat, with long greasy black hair. The breath left my lungs and sheer terror gripped me, and I was sucked into the darkness as the ghostly figure whispered something in my ear. Then I woke up.

[Captain Sleepalot]

08-24-07: I was staying at a hotel with my family (mother, sister, brother), and my girlfriend was coming from another town to stay with us. It was one of those cheap hotels where the doors to the rooms are on the outside of the building, and I was walking around the upper balcony trying to find a vending machine. As I was making my way back down the stairs to the ground level, I heard shouting and a commotion coming from the room my family was in. Then I suddenly knew that they were in danger, and that someone had taken them hostage. I made sure to stay out of their sight, but I wanted to follow them because it looked like they were leaving. Somehow I had the intuition that they were going to take them into some tunnels. So I followed them in the tunnels, and we ended up in a long concourse. I stayed behind them enough to stay out of their sight, and by this time there was a crowd of people in the concourse. We passed several shops, like you would see at an airport, but the last shop was a drive-through wedding chapel. As I passed it, I saw a female limousine driver about to pull out of the chapel with two newlyweds in the back. I heard someone say "Oh yes, isn't it nice that we have a wedding chapel here?" After the wedding chapel, the floor turned into the moving sidewalks that are also found at airports. This took me to an escalator, which went down. As I got down, I saw that I was entering an underground concourse of some sort, and that there were three different directions. I chose to go straight and somehow knew that the kidnappers could be found nearby. By this time the kidnapper had turned out to be my mother, and she was holding my little brother hostage. There was someone with me, so we entered a series of rooms that it turns out they were staying in. There was no one there, so we searched the rooms for evidence. I told the person with me that we should search my mother's room to see if she had any money hidden. By this time two people came into the room and they made it clear that they were part of the kidnapping group and would kill us. After a brief struggle, they ran away and I followed them out into a hallway. This hallway seemed like the hallway of a school, except instead of classroom there were rooms that people lived in. As I ran down the hallway screaming, suddenly a large African American man came out of a room and started shouting at me like a drill instructor. As I got closer I could see his uniform, and I snapped to attention and started yelling responses back to him like I was a recruit of some kind. But I was telling him that my brother had been kidnapped and that I was getting him back. So he went into his room, and I kept running down to the last room. In it was one of the kidnappers - a girl that I work with IRL. I was so mad that she was involved, that I kicked the door down and grabbed her by the hair (she was laying on the bed in a drug-induced haze). I slammed her head against the wall several times and demanded to know where my brother was. She just smiled and said that another guy was on his way, and that he knew martial arts, had dangerous weapons and was going to kill me. She then passed out from all the drugs, and it was apparent she was having an overdose. My compassionate side kicked in and I threw her over my shoulder and ran out of the building looking for help. I saw a police officer and told him to get an ambulance because she had overdosed and was about to die. I also told him that there were kidnappers that I had to take care of and he told me to leave the girl with him and go take care of my business. So I ran back inside and was in the underground concourse again. As I was making my way back to the escalator I came in from, I saw a man walk in from another branching hallway with a gun. He was pointing at people and it was apparent that he was a crazed shooter of some kind. So I ran faster and took off into a smaller hallway with an exit sign. As I went through the exit, I saw a guy on rollerblades with a walkie talkie, and he was apparently giving instructions to the shooter from outside. He saw me and took off, and I ran in the opposite direction. I was running toward a group of kids in a grassy park, apparently it was a college campus. I figured that I was probably safe from the gunman but I turned around and saw him coming out of the exit. I ran toward a group of tennis courts, and he walked slowly closer to me, pointing the gun at people and threatening them along the way. I then decided to flank around him and cut across the street to a little shopping center, because surely he wouldn't find me there. As I made my way across, another gunman came out from the shopping center and I was basically trapped. I realized that I was dreaming and decided that the only way I could go was up. So I jumped into the air and barely missed catching myself on some telephone and electrical wires. The gunman from the shopping center, a blonde haired kid, asked me how I did that. I told him that we were all asleep and that when we die we are simply awakening from this dream. I then woke up within the dream and found myself sitting in a rocking chair of some sort. I had the idea in my head that I was an old man and actually at the end of my life. Then I woke up for real.

[Captain Sleepalot]

08-24-07: I was in a large city with my father. It was night, and we were on our way to an event of some kind that he had been invited to. I was on the phone with my cousin, trying to tell him where we were so he could meet us. He said he would call back and he hung up. As we approached the parking lot where our vehicle was, my cousin called back and said that he had found a car and to meet him somewhere. He said he would leave the car there, running, until we brought him back to it. After ending the call, I told my dad that I thought my cousin had stolen a car and dad agreed that was most likely what had happened. Dad and I got into the vehicle, which was a conversion van. As I was driving it out of the parking lot another vehicle almost hit us. I forgot about meeting my cousin somewhere and instead just drove off to the event. We got to the event, which was held in a theater hall of some sort. Through the double doors in the lobby I went, and was greeted by a pro-wrestler dressed in casual black clothes, and a large empty theater. He told me the event was being held in the lobby. As I got back to the lobby I saw that there were in fact many chairs setup facing a screen. There was a poster somewhere that indicated the event was a drum performance. I got scared because all I had was the head for a kick drum, and not the shell, so I mounted it up as best I could to a chair and waited. Suddenly more people started falling in and I realized they were all family. This was a family reunion of some sort. My sister told my nephew that he couldn't have any more granola bars until he had eaten the ones she gave him. I looked in my hand and realized that I had orange flavored granola bars. After saying hello to some of my family, I left the lobby and went into a back area in which there were a few hotel rooms. I was laying in a bed trying to figure out what to do with my time. I decided to start picking up the room and that I was going to go online and play some video games. I signed into a military shooter game and was greeted by a female inside the game who seemed to recognize me. Her gamertag was "Sarah_Powell". The virtual world looked very realistic, and as she talked to me she also used sign language, which I thought was weird. I don't remember what she was saying but I remember only managing to say hello because I was distracted by something else. Suddenly I was hearing a narration from a disembodied voice that was similar to that of comedian Larry David. He was telling me a story about once a woman he had mistaken for a fan became obssessed with him and wouldn't leave him alone, and he proceeded to tell me about a humorous incident involving her on the bus.

[Captain Sleepalot]

08-25-07: I was driving through a neighborhood trying to find a church where I was to have a meeting with some people. As I got close, I was pulled over by a plainclothes female police officer. She had on a pair of acid washed jeans, a white long sleeve cotton shirt and a faded lavender ballcap. She asked if I knew why she pulled me over, I said no, and she didn't say anything. She just started searching my car, telling me it was routine. I told her that I would be in trouble if my mom found out and she said that she knew I would and that was too bad. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was in an office building looking for a bathroom, when I finally found one. Suddenly Jeff Garlin from "Curb Your Enthusiasm" barged in and started telling me about some business deal that he had setup for me. I scolded him on bathroom etiquette and told him to stay out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was laying in a bed with an ex-girlfriend, she was reading a book and I was just laying there. She said that she still thought about me sometimes and missed when we were together. I told her that I rarely thought about her but agreed that we had been in a good place for a while.

[Captain Sleepalot]

08-27-07: I was at a party with my girlfriend. It was a small house owned by a person who ran a local live music club, and several of his friends. There were a few bands staying there that night, as they were on tour and had just played a show that night. I remember walking into the bathroom and trying to walk around in there without the light on, because I didn't want to attract attention to myself. After fumbling around in the dark for a few minutes, I left the bathroom and started walking around the house. I entered a room and saw someone from work as well as another person sitting on the bed. The person from work was very drunk, as was the person on the bed, and they both said something to me. My girlfriend walked in and I introduced everyone, then left the room. People were milling about in the living room, talking, and some were walking outside to have a smoke. As I walked outside I realized that I was dreaming when I saw a HUGE city just across the lake from where we were. I looked in awe at the intricate detail of the city lit up at night, and it seemed to stretch from horizon to horizon. As I was now (somewhat) lucid, I told myself that I could do anything in my dreams. However, at that point I wanted to explore my immediate environment. I looked around at my surroundings, and noticed that there were several cargo containers right by the party house. As I was walking around them, I saw an old acquaintance and asked her what she was doing. She said that everyone was going to a show and that she was looking for a ride. I told her to wait, as I was looking around, but that I would catch a ride with her when she found one. She didn't seem to be paying attention and went on with her quest. I jumped around a bit, enjoying the feeling of lucidly walking around my environment and getting a bird's eye view of the whole thing. Then I woke up.

[Captain Sleepalot]

08-28-07: I was in a house with my girlfriend and some guy who we were letting stay with us for a few days while he waited on our other friend to come get him from another town. We were sitting around talking when I noticed a storm cloud outside, so I went to the window to check it out. I saw a VERY low hanging storm cloud (as in five feet from the roof of the house), and sheets of rain falling directly to the west. I also noticed more clouds moving towards the house, and so I went back into the house. The guy staying with us saw the clouds as well, and I asked him if it would be best if we went to the house directly north of ours (which was my childhood home), or if we should stay in the house we were in. As soon as I asked it I realized we should stay in the house we were in for safety reasons, and said as much to him. So I went back in to inform my girlfriend that there was a storm. She was text messaging some people when I told her that she needed to get ready because of the storm. She got frightened and said she was going to take a shower. At this point I was glad because I wanted to read her text messages to see what she was saying. I was still looking through the phone for text messages when it rang loudly and my girlfriend heard it. It was my father, who was on his way to the house with several other people. He directed my attention to a news broadcast which talked about a tornado that was coming directly toward us through the small town where I grew up. After seeing the broadcast (and noticing Stormtroopers from Star Wars standing guard at the town borders for some reason), I realized that the tornado would hit us soon and that we should be prepared. I also realized that it was possible I might die in the tornado if I wasn't safe. I told my girlfriend that I was going to get a matress from one of the beds so we could put it over ourselves in the closet when it came time to hunker down. I looked at the home across the way and noticed a few people walking up to it trying to get in. I asked someone if those were the people who lived there now, and they said yes. I decided to get a closer look at it. As I walked up I noticed a huge wooden pavillion that was constructed in the middle of the large yard of my childhood home. I noticed several other smaller ones located around the yard as well. There was also a new addition to the home painted the same grayish color as the pavillions. I was on the phone with my mom by now, making sure she was okay and that the tornado missed her. She was very frightened, but said that she was safe. I was describing the changes that the new owners had made to my childhood home, and also explained that there was now a McDonald's and Subway located behind the house. She said that was interesting and that she was looking to go to Disney World in Florida soon. She asked me if I could spare $119 to pay for part of my sister's expenses to go there with her. I hemmed and hawed because I didn't want to part with the money. I told her to go to Disneyland in California because it was more fun, and that if she did not only would I pay for my sister I would go to. She said it was more expensive to go there and I told her it wasn't. By this time my girlfriend, my father, my sister, and some other people were walking along the beach, watching the tornado from a distance. We were making our way to McDonald's when one of my sister's friends came out of it and started talking to my girlfriend. I used this moment of distraction to check my girlfriend's text messages again, although everytime I couldn't find the text messages menu and most of the words for the menus on there were scrambled. My dad sent my sister into McDonald's to get some food, and we all kept walking down the beach, apparently oblivious to the large tornado heading straight for us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My little brother and I were playing hide and seek at night in some bland suburb. As we did so, I was running to go hide and I saw two black dogs sitting close to each other. They at first started barking loudly then calmed down. I saw they were protecting a litter of newborn puppies, and I decided that I wanted one for a pet. I called my brother over and he brought my sister and other family members. As we were looking in the dark for the perfect puppy, I noticed they had changed shaped and now looked like brown chicks (as in, baby chickens). So these brown chicks were running around on the ground, and they were also burrowed into the dirt, and I accidentally crushed one while I was leaning on the ground, as I didn't know it was hiding underneath the topsoil. I finally caught a few of them and we took them into the house. I put them in a box in the closet, and left them there while I looked for a flashlight. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was at a bar on a Friday night, waiting for friends to arrive so we could party all weekend. The entrance to the bar was located next to the entrance to a restaurant, and to get to the bar you had to walk up a wooden staircase. When I got to the top I saw my cousin standing there. I gave him a hug and asked where he has been, since I hadn't seen him in a long time. He said he had been in prison for a while, but was obviously out now and wanted to show me what he had been up to. We went into the backroom of the club, where there was someone smoking something. My cousin pulled out a cigar and told me he had been selling these cigars that were laced with some sort of new super-crack cocaine. He led me down another stairwell and we were suddenly in the projects, in a near-abandoned apartment building. He gave one of the cigars to a junkie, and lit it for him. The junkie smoked it, and suddenly some shouted that the police were coming, and we all took off running. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was night, and I was riding a bicycle through a suburban neighborhood that I didn't recognize. I knew there was a specific house that I had to break into in order to retrieve some documents that some criminals had stolen. I got into the house and was looking through a safe that I cracked when a guy walked into the room with a gun pointed at me. He was one of the criminals, and said he was going to shoot me. I somehow wrangled the gun from him and shot him by accident, so I left on the bicycle. As I left the neighborhood, a police cruiser began to follow me so I cycled into a concrete drainage ditch and jumped one of the slopes to clear a chain link fence. The officer came into the ditch as well but was unable to jump the fence. From that point I knew the police would be looking for me, so I knew I had to get rid of the guns (which were actually toy guns). So I frantically searched for a trash bin, and found one behind a supermarket. There were a bunch of kids congregated around it, so as they talked I crushed the toy guns with my hands and threw the pieces into it. A cop appeared and started questioning everyone just as I threw the last piece in. I somehow left without being apprehended, even though I was sure they were going to catch me and put me into prison the rest of my life. I ran through the neighborhood behind the supermarket until I came to a small elementary school. One of the teachers told me that a professor there was in on the criminal conspiracy, and she knocked him out and put him in a car.

[Captain Sleepalot]

08-30-07: My family and I were going to a restaurant to celebrate my brother's admission into college. The restaurant was located in an airport, and we decided to go ahead and eat there since my brother's flight was leaving that day. We all came in and settled down into tables, which were not yet clean from the last party that was sitting there. The waitress came over to take our orders and I ordered some sort of breakfast item. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was at a house with several people, and we were all getting showered and dressed and ready for an outing of some sort. I was looking for my shoes, and couldn't find them, and started asking my niece where she put my automatic dancing shoes. She laughed and said she didn't remember, so I asked my mom. She suggested I look on the floor in the living room, so I walked in there. There was junk all over the floor, and people sitting in recliners talking. I sifted through the junk on the floor and finally found my shoes. Some girl came into the room and asked me if I was taking her on a date. I said I wasn't sure, and that I didn't know who she was. She and I and several other people left the house and I told them to drop me off at the public park while they all went shopping, because I wanted to ride a skateboard. I said that I knew they would think I was immature for riding a skateboard but I didn't care.

[Captain Sleepalot]

08-31-07: I was getting dressed when suddenly a group of people came running through the hall outside my room. I quickly finished putting my jogging clothes on and joined the group - it was apparent to me that we were going to get some exercise. We went outside into a parking lot and began to stretch, and finally started jogging in a circle in a haphazard fashion. There was a jogging leader who said loudly that we needed some organization to the run, so I started calling out bits and pieces of various running cadences. The bits and pieces didn't make sense all strung together, and after about three or four minutes I decided I needed to go back inside and take a shower. Most of the rest of the group were still running, except for a few other people who came back in for showers as well. One of them was an attractive female who went to her room to take a shower. I took off all my clothes, grabbed a towel, and decided that I was just going to walk into her shower naked and see what happened. I got to her door, and could hear the shower running and see swirls of steam coming from the bottom of the door. Then I woke up.

[Captain Sleepalot]

09-01-07: I was in a dormitory of some kind, packing up my stuff to leave because I had flunked out the previous semester. Feeling dejected, I hid myself in a bathroom for a while as I tried to get the courage to say goodbye to some of the friends I had made during the semester. I urinated in the toilet but it immediately began backing up so I moved to the sink. As I was relieving myself feces exploded from nowhere and were now all over clothes that I had been packing into a suitcase. Someone came in and said they smelled something foul as I tried to cover up my stuff and hide the smell.

[~Anthriel.Sai/Tsuyko//.]

Wow! Interesting last post. Brings new meaning to "I feel like shit." Pardon, but I had to laugh at that lol. But overall, nice journal so far! Keep at it. It seems you have excellent recall, nice. Thats something I currently habe to improve on.

[Captain Sleepalot]

Wow! Interesting last post. Brings new meaning to "I feel like shit." Pardon, but I had to laugh at that lol. But overall, nice journal so far! Keep at it. It seems you have excellent recall, nice. Thats something I currently habe to improve on. Thanks, I sometimes have trouble with my recall too but I find that it's obviously strongest when I start writing immediately after waking up. Otherwise, I generally forget them within 30 minutes of waking unless it was sufficiently powerful to leave an all-day impression on me. 09-03-07: I was at my father's house. There were several people there in dark suits, and I had the feeling that we were going to caravan to a funeral later that morning. I went into the bathroom to get ready for the day, and began by brushing my teeth. As soon as I began brushing, I looked in the mirror and noticed that there was a huge gap in the bottom row of my teeth. I panicked immediately and began to feel my gums, which by this point were bleeding. I saw some teeth on the counter so I grabbed them and began trying to put the jagged and sharp teeth back into the bloody holes in my gums. As soon as I had one set of two or three securely in place, another set would fall out and I would grab them quickly and try to shove them back in, all the while creating more of a bloody mess.

[Captain Sleepalot]

09-05-07: I was in a school building with my brother. There was a large creature chasing us around and trying to smash us over the head with its large fist. It was a large boned creature with gray fur, and had a face similar to the beasts from "Where the Wild Things Are". Its flaws were that it was slow moving, dumb and very nearly blind. It had chased us up some stairs and onto the second level, so I hid underneath a cardboard box. My brother did the same and as soon as it turned its back we ran for the door. My brother said he was going to stay hidden on the first level and that we should split up. I said okay and ran for the exit door, which took me to the courtyard. I ran across the courtyard until I reach a set of stairs and bolted up three flights. I glanced back and noticed the monster had not followed me, so I felt reasonably safe. I went inside and saw that the classrooms looked deserted, but after a male teacher walked by with a stack of papers in his hand I realized that it was just so early in the morning that classes hadn't started yet. I decided to run down to the second level to see if I could hear the monster coming for me. As I got to the second level, I noticed that it was devoted nearly entirely to a gift shop and common area. There were several people milling about the second level, including a teacher who said he had a study sheet for a quiz ready and would sell it to me whenever I wanted. I realized that it was mostly adult students hanging around the common area, and for a moment I felt embarrassed for basically playing hide and seek with the monster. A mentally disabled man walked by in houseshoes, sweatpants and a tshirt. I ran back upstairs to see if I could find a place to hide. As I got back upstairs, a female teacher told me that she had enrolled me in her friend's class and that it would be a lot of fun. She ushered me into a classroom where another, slightly older woman was dancing. It was a dance class. The instructor was dancing a crazy dance, and the woman who brought me there was awkwardly dancing as well. I started dancing a little bit, then realized that I needed to find a disguise of some kind. I asked the lady who had brought me in there if she had a wig. She said "I have that old B.B. King wig, if you want it." I said yes and she pointed to the room across from the dance class. I walked into it and there was a bed in the corner with a few clothes strewn about. There was also a handbag, and she said to look in that because she remembered leaving it in there. I did not find a wig but did find an old dress with a huge rose stitched into the side. I had a quick vision of me wearing a blond wig, my head and body covered tightly by a sheet while wearing sunglasses. I knew that I had to have a disguise if I was going to sneak back past the monster.

[Captain Sleepalot]

09-06-07: I was in the downtown area of a city with a group of people. We were driving in a stolen car and I was riding in the backseat. The backseat had two bench seats that faced each other, and as we passed a police car I deliberately stood up as if to mock the officer. There were two or three other people in the car, and we were all part of some crime organization. We were driving around looking for another group of criminals who we had planned on stealing from. We saw the group of people we were looking for but only observed their movements, and drove on toward our headquarters which was in an industrial area. I got out of the car and went to talk to the leader of our crime group, as well as the number three in command (I was apparently number two). I was telling them about the money we were going to steal, as well as a large amount of drugs that we could steal form them and resell to another crime group in Denver for half price. The leader said he didn't know if it was a good idea. I asked him "So what, you think we should just knock over vending machines for the rest of our lives?" He thought about it and then said that he decided to give the number three in command $500,000 of whatever profit we got from the deals. I didn't think this sounded right and I pointed out that I would be doing all the work. We all three hopped in the back of a pickup truck and rode silent as it took us to an apartment complex downtown. Number Three and I hopped out and started walking toward the complex. We passed the initial apartment buildings and walked on to a set of condominiums. As we got to the door and knocked, I realized we were picking up my grandmother to take her somewhere. I shook my hand and motioned to Number Three not to talk about our crime business in front of her because I thought the police had planted a bug or made her wear a wire. He didn't seem to know what I was saying and before I could explain she opened the door. I walked in along with Number Three, and we sat down on chairs in the living room as she said that she would be a few more minutes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was in an airplane, except I seemed to be situated in the nose of the airplane in one seat, looking out of the transparent covering of the plane. Suddenly in front of my face there was a manifesto of sorts written by a Republican politician. It said something about protecting the country from terror and made a reference to only certain people having full rights. Then I was in a body of water and watched as several birds with half of their heads chopped off walk up to me on the water. As they did so the voice of the Republican senator continued to narrate his manifesto. Then a snake with a very short body jumped out of the water and bit my thumb. At this point I was scared to be in the water so I made my way to shore. The only problem was that there was no shore, only a small wall with a doorway in it. I swam to the doorway, shuddering at the thought of what might in the murky water. Near the doorway there was a group of people swimming, and a chubby little girl came out of the water and smacked the back of her head against the concrete that was at the base of the door. She cried for a moment and a woman that I somehow knew was her aunt said she was going to be okay. I got out of the water and walked through the door, and was back in my grandma's house.

[Captain Sleepalot]

09-07-07: I was outside, and it was snowing everywhere. It was clear that I was in a game environment except the environment was real. There were about 10 of us playing, and the goal was to get a vehicle and use it to be the first to get across a map and capture an objective. I could tell that everyone else playing it with me was not that experienced, so I took the opportunity to let them run around wildly for a few moments. I then grabbed a gatling gun and took off running toward a bridge. As my friends and family got into firefights at different points on the map, I saw a pillbox entrenchment at the top of a hill. I ran into it and saw my great uncle using wizardy against members of my own family. It was apparent that he was a rogue sorcerer, and I knew I had to stop him before he killed our family. I shot him with a few well placed rounds while he was looking and obliterated him with magix bullets. My dad came into the room and I told him what I did, and I said it was for the good of the family. He reluctantly agreed and reminded me that my little brother had a birthday party we needed to get to. I left the entrenchment and went to the river that separated one side of the map from the other. There were a ton of people playing in the water, even though it was freezing temperature. There were also people playing on the snowy beach. I saw two nude women facing me at the bottom of the hill on the riverbank, and they started to talk to me. At that point some nephews and neices of mine swam up to the shore and started throwing large chunks of ice at some other kids at the top of the hill I was on. I noticed that my neice was about to throw a large glass ball that I had given her as a gift, so I told her not to. She threw it anyway and it shattered, and I just shrugged and walked down the hill. When I got to the bottom I could see we were all lining up to sing to my brother for his birthday and get the cake line started. Before we could start, my brother (who didn't look anything like my brother IRL) grabbed a piece of cake, put it on a plate, and handed it to another uncle of mine. My brother then said that he was going to serve all the cake to us first, and then get some for himself just to save time. We cheered.

[Captain Sleepalot]

I was at an airport waiting to get my ticket to board a plane. My parents had purchased the ticket so I could fly to New York to visit my brother. It was snowing outside and there was low visibility. When I got my ticket I went to the window in the concourse and saw the plane. It looked like an old military plane from WWII. It had large propellors and seemed to be made to carry cargo. I told my mom that there was no way I was flying in it. Everyone told me that it would be okay for me to go ahead and fly in it but I refused, so they called a car service to come pick me up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was purchasing gift items for someone in my family at a store in a mall. I grabbed a large bowl that held a candle. It was marked $49.99. As I walked to the cashier I also grabbed an extra candle. I put them both on the desk and when the cashier rang the items up he informed me the total was $120. I handed him my credit card, but thought that there was only $100 on it. He ran it and it was rejected, and I explained that I knew there was only $100 on it. He shook his head and gave me the rejection receipt as I tried to work out how the transaction came to $120. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was watching a thug of a man hold another guy down in a hole that was cut into a wood floor. In this hole was a tank of some kind filled with water. The guy he was holding down was blindfolded and had his hands tied behind his back. He held the guy down until he was (seemingly) dead, then pulled his body out to show to another guy who was tied up as well. He grabbed the other guy and went into a different room. I was watching this from a closet with two other guys who appeared to be brothers of the man who was drowned. After the thug had thrown the guy on the floor, he doused him with some kind of acid. The brothers and I went to see if the guy was still alive and found that he was. They grabbed him and took off back toward the closet while I stayed on the lookout. They shoved the blindfolded man through an open window in the closet and climbed out. I followed them out of the window to see them jump in a car and take off. There was a woman with black sunglasses and a blond wig sitting in the parking lot behind the wheel of a red sports car. I somehow knew she wasn't there for me, though, so I took off running, trying to catch up with the brothers in the car. Suddenly a man in a gray suit (underneath which was a gray turtleneck) ran out with a silenced pistol. He started shooting at me and I ran into the alley. I went through someone's back yard hoping I could shake the guy. From the house I ran across the street where the brother's had parked their car. One of them jumped out and starting shooting a machine gun at the man with the pistol. Carla from Scrubs came out of a building and looked at a bystander who had been shot, and pronounced him dead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was in a SUV with my brother, my nephew, and my father. My father drove the SUV to the back yard and parked. We all got out and I got a key from him so I could open the door. As I was walking around the house I saw my brother and nephew attaching bungie cords to a tent and securing it to the SUV and also a tree. They told me that they did this so the tent wouldn't blow away in the wind. I went into the house and saw my niece and my sister in the kitchen. My niece was looking at my wallet and asked if she could photocopy my drivers license so that she could trace it onto paper. I told her fine and then went into the bathroom. I looked into the mirror and saw that the purple shirt I was wearing was soaked in sweat, so I took it off and turned on the air vent over the toilet. I reached up to it in hopes of getting some cold air on my hot torso, but at the most it was coughing up warm air. I finally put the shirt back on and went back to the kitchen. My sister told me she wanted to show me what my niece had made so we went into another room. My niece showed me a diorama she had made in a cardboard box. There were figures made out of clay - a large elephant, a person with a big head and a machine gun for an arm, and several smaller creatures. She said she based it on my life and adventures, and I told her I was very impressed. She asked my sister if she could work on it more and she said no, because she had some more homework she needed to finish for school. My sister then looked at me and said "I know she's creative, but I really want to make sure she does well in school so she can work at Wal-Mart." I started to ask her why her only hopes for her daughter would be to have her work at Wal-Mart but I woke up.

[Captain Sleepalot]

09-09-07: I was at a bar. It was night time, and there seemed to be a live music show going on. I looked at myself in the mirror and noticed that my hair was slicked back and i was wearing a country & western shirt with black jeans and black shoes. I was in some sort of room beneath the dance floor, so I decided to go up and see who was out. I crawled out from underneath the dance floor and saw two people I know. I said hello and they said something back to me, and I walked toward the door. As I did so I noticed several people dancing wildly to rock n' roll music. I made it to the door and walked up a small ramp to what appeared to be a normal bar. It seemed almost similar to the chain restaurant Chile's or T.G.I.Friday's, and it was really crowded. At this point my girlfriend was with me. As we walked through a sea of familiar faces I decided I didn't like any of those people so we sat down next to three guys at a table that I didn't recognize. The three guys didn't know each other or me, but apparently we had all grown up in the same area. They tried to lamely give me a high five but gave up as soon as they started it. At this time I noticed my girlfriend was sitting at another table talking to a friend of ours. Some other random guy had sat down next me and we were all drinking. There was a girl sitting at the booth behind ours so I started talking to her and she mentioned that our waitress was cute. It was hard to hear her because more people were showing up, the music was loud and everyone was getting more and more drunk. I saw an old acquaintance of mine try to kiss my girlfriend, but she wisely dodged the kiss and sat down at another booth. I told her that it was smart of her not to kiss him unless she wanted a disease of some kind. I told her I needed to go to the bathroom. I went to the bathroom and walked to the nearest urinal. As I started to relieve myself I noticed that the urinal was already full and was overflowing but I had to go. Then two drunk jock guys walked up to the stalls next to me and were conversing loudly as they peed all over the wall and the floor. One of them turned to me and belligerently said something. I just ignored him, but then he pulled out a safety pin with blood on it and poked me in the cheek with it. I grabbed the safety pin from him and knew there was about to be a fight, as his buddies were egging him on and he started taking swings at me. I grabbed his arm and poked his hand with the needle several times, and lectured them on being drunken idiots. I left the bathroom. I caught up with my girlfriend again and we went walking toward some tunnels that were beneath the club/bar. As I did so I remember thinking about an old friend of mine and saying something about her flaws being revealed. This took us to a deeper tunnel in which I found an amulet of some kind. As we were searching for the lock that the amulet fit into, I could hear my friend talk about how she lost the love of her life. I was searching the floor for clues, and could only see the names of movies in alphabetical order. I was looking for "The WIzard of Oz". I finally found it, and found a small gold box fastened to the wall. Inside was a small gold contraption with a lock on it. The amulet didn't fit, but my friend appeared and told me it was unlocked. She encouraged me to open it and I did. This apparently opened another door and she offered to take me and my girlfriend in there. We agreed and she was talking to us as it got really dark and we saw white rats strewn about. Most of them were sliced open with guts that looked like raw hamburger meat spilling out. They were all alive, though, with only a few gnats flying about. Some of them moved, and she told us that they had a habit of fighting with each other but not dying. Finally we reached the end of the darkened tunnel, and simply saw a small rounded cave with a bench in the wall. There was a skylight above us, and she said that she would come here to think but went crazy one day in here by herself. We left the cave. When we got out, it was daytime and I had the impression that I had fallen asleep in the cave. I wondered what I had missed, and also what kind of drunken stuff I had done the night before. My girlfriend was no longer with me so I wondered where she was. There was a guy asleep on a chair in what appeared to be a waiting room of some kind, and I took a cigarette from him. I lit it up and went outside to find my car. As I could not remember what happened the night before, I searched for my car in the parking lot. I saw that it was crashed into some trash bins so I ran over and got into it. I then realized I didn't know where my key was but then saw it sitting on the passenger seat. I started the car when I saw my girlfriend on a motorcycle up ahead with my sister and one of her friend's. Some more of my sister's friends were in a car behind them and they took off. I followed them a few blocks to what apparently was my sister's house. It was raining hard, and there was mud and water puddles everywhere. I drove as close as I could to my girlfriend, who was now somehow in the car and not on the motorcycle. She got out but before she could get into my car my mother and grandmother came out of the house and started talking to us. I was embarrassed because I was hungover, disheveled, and probably smelled like smoke and booze. My grandmother asked for a hug and then asked us to show her our back and legs because we had been sunburned. I showed her the front of my legs as I was wearing shorts now, but didn't feel like doing anything else.

[ReTcHeDmOnKeY]

Awesome read man, lots of entried with heaps of interesting stories. Keep them comming ^_^

[Captain Sleepalot]

Awesome read man, lots of entried with heaps of interesting stories. Keep them comming ^_^ Thanks mane, I'll definitely keep 'em coming as I can. 09-12-07: Walking through a town with several people carrying luggage; I see a woman I used to work with and she talks about another person that we both used to work with. I ask her what the other person is up to and she says that the last she heard she went to San Diego to become a stewardess. We are all still holding our luggage when the group leader announces we have arrived at our destination - a restaurant. We all walk through a dining area to a room near the back. In this room, which is pretty small and carpeted, there is a large table. I toss my luggage on top of the table and immediately get under the table. A few other people start sitting down, then I realize that I need to get out from under the table before too many people show up in the room and I stuck underneath it. I scoot out from under it when I see Justin Timberlake sit down. He is talking to a few people in my group and holding a celebrity tabloid magazine. He is saying something about how Britney spears is telling lies about him in the various magazines, and that he is pissed about it. By this time the room is completely packed with people and we await our instructions. Someone comes in the room and announces that we will be going to our destinations soon. He tells a few of us to get ready because we are going to entering a game of some sort. There is a console in one end of the room, which is suddenly devoid of most of the people who were just in there with us. Two of us sit down at the console and begin playing. The first game was a sort of Mario Bros.-type game, only the protagonists are a large human-looking rabbit and some random space character. As soon as I start really playing I am thrown into the game itself, and find myself in a two story house. There are other players jumping around, and one person shoots a lazer beam through a small object in the ground made of glass. The glass shatters and the player runs off. I get down on the floor and shoot through a glass window myself, when I see a tripod with a machine gun attached to the top of it. This tripod is located in the middle of the backyard, but the controls are located on the second floor where I am. I look for and find the trigger button, and shoot off a few bursts of ammo. I turn the machine gun toward the neighbors house because I want to see some destruction. I have to go down to the yard itself to move the tripod to face the house. When I do, a young girl and her friend walk out of the house as I am shooting. At this point I am only shooting at various glass things they have hanging from their house, but once the kids come out i stop. The girl sees me shooting at her house and grabs her friend by the arm to take her back inside. I notice that the machine gun is shooting by itself now but that it is only shooting birdseed. I grab the gun from the tripod and start completely spraying the birdseed (which sticks to whatever surface it hits) all over the neighbors house. The owner of the home walks out and sees the birdseed everywhere and asks "Where did all of this come from?!" Apparently she can't see the birdseed-gun that I have behind my back. As soon as she goes in I resume shooting the birdseed on the house, when her brother comes out of the house and says that he wants to make some cookies. Someone from my house says that he would challenge the brother to a cookie bake-off if necessary. The brother responds that he makes the best cookies and the challenge is accepted.

[Captain Sleepalot]

09-21-07: I was in a hotel with several other "contestants". It was a live action video game contest of some sort. I had to get through several different levels or rooms in the hotel before I could make it through to the prize round. I had a machine gun of some sort and I was fighting Nazi enemies in the hallways of the hotel, which had cameras mounted in every room. I made my way into the second floor suite, and saw two beds and a television. Thinking that I was going to take a break, I started watching the television when I saw a van pull up outside and several new contestants got out to begin their levels. I got out of the bed and grabbed my gun, when my girlfriend walked in with the staff of a humor-video website. They were filming a prank in the hotel and my girlfriend was part of the gag. She didn't react well to the prank though, and everyone was disappointed in it. I got mad at the people who created the prank because I thought they were disrespecting my girlfriend, and I told them to get lost.

[Captain Sleepalot]

10-29-2007: I was at a university and was just getting back to campus after a break of some kind. Everyone was getting settled back into the dorms and there was an excitement in the air. I made my way to a math class and then realized that I had not studied nor attended it last semester, when it was actually a two-semester class. This made me panic as I realized that my classmates were taking tests on material that I hadn't even started to learn. I eventually just left and wandered the hallways. I saw the door to a restroom and went in. As I went in, all of the urinals except one were taken so I rushed to that one and relieved myself. The guy next to me was trying to make chit-chat, but I ignored him. For some reason there was a woman in the men's bathroom, washing her hands. I had the strange thought that if I had an affair with her, her husband would probably never find out because we would fool around After that interlude, I walked back out into the hallway and my cell phone rang. It was a friend that I knew from work, he was telling me that he was going to quit the job and go with another company. As I was talking to him about this, I walked into a large auditorium where one of our bosses was giving a speech of some kind. I tried to make my way to the stage, where I had a seat, without alerting anyone to the fact I was on the phone. I failed in that, as several people including my boss stopped what they were doing and stared at me. Sheepishly, I walked quickly out of the auditorium. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was then at my childhood home, and I remembered that earlier in the dream, my mother had called and told me that my brother had gone to the hospital because he was sick and passed away due to complications. I broke down crying and went to find a phone to call her and make sure that this wasn't true.