December 8, 2010
Saelee's Search
I was some guy who lived alone in my parents’ old house in North Carolina. Someone was hiding in his house, and he searched for thirty minutes without finding the intruder. He realized this was because he had checked the best hiding places first; the guy was just hiding in the bathroom. To help people like this guy, Saelee had us design a searching algorithm that would determine the quality of each possible hiding place and search for intruders in order. It was designed to throw a random assortment of good hiding spots into the poor hiding spot portion of the search just in case the intruder was good at hiding. I asked my professor what he wanted us to use to do it – just for more structure on the assignment, really – but he insisted that he would be ruining the assignment if he helped us with it.
Cats Come from Meat
This dream has been omitted.
Symbol of Ingenuity and Teamwork
I went to a famous theme park resort with Lyra, Axis, a Chinese guy, and his girlfriend. Lyra was in human form. Ivanov appeared, except he was ten years older and looked like he was wasting away. He pointed out a red symbol painted on the ground in front of a water slide. This, as we were asked to recall, symbolized the ingenuity of engineers and their unparalleled teamwork. He told us to take a picture there together to commemorate the occasion. After that, he hopped on the slide in his suit, apparently oblivious to the fact that he was getting it soaked. He waved goodbye to us on his way down. All of us laughed. It was refreshing to see someone his age with so much energy. We all sat down on a stone bench by the red symbol, but Axis quickly observed that we couldn’t get a good picture like that… Someone would have to stand up and take the photo. They agreed that I should set the camera to take a picture after thirty seconds and set it up somewhere. I spent a lot of time trying to set it at the right angle… I didn’t have a tripod, so that made my job a bit of a pain. It kept falling over. The pictures I managed to take were blurry or cut people out. In the end, we decided to take two pictures and have Justin edit me in with photoshop.
The dream jumped. We were getting food at Chick-fil-A. The Chinese guy was driving. They gave us our food without asking for money, so he started to slowly drive away, thinking we would get a free meal. The manager followed us, though, so he stopped and paid. Nicole didn’t understand why he thought he was going to leave without paying. I tried to explain his reasoning to her, but it was pointless.
Rachel's Clones Defy Death
I was watching Glee with Nicole. Kurt was chasing after someone in the street while it snowed, but then he got hit by a truck and died. Rachel made thirty clones each of herself, Peter Griffin, and some random guy. She took them to a huge computer lab and instructed them to learn how to resurrect Kurt. Since they didn’t have to eat or sleep, they were able to work much more efficiently than normal humans. By the time Rachel returned to the lab, they had already solved the problem. Kurt was astonished at his own revival. He stabbed Rachel in the heart, killing her. He had the clones revive her just so he could see how to do it! This time, though, some drugs Rachel had administered to the clones began to wear off… The original Peter Griffin clone escaped. Kurt had to take his place. The clones were like robots; Kurt stood no chance of acting as a substitute for one.
Thousand Foot Tall Rats with Acrophobia
I was in bed with Nicole in my room from the North Carolina house. We were watching a special on TV about Australian wildlife. The narrator explained that Australia was known for its disproportionately large animal life with respect to the continent’s small size. On the other hand, some animals – like a rat he described – were really tiny. The rat lived primarily in the mountains, so it thought it was several thousand feet tall. As a result of its innate fear of heights, the rat was prone to rolling and crawling around on its side instead of standing on all fours. Nicole pointed out that it was like the mouse we found one morning that kept rolling in circles. The show went to a trivia question which asked whether Australia was a top destination for vacations or honeymoons. A woman held the question on a cue card. When the narrator was done reading, she shrugged and scratched her head. Nicole and I found one of those Australian rats in my bed during the commercial break. It gradually became interested in leaving the room, so we let it. I wondered what would happen if we introduced it into the American rat population… It came back into the room a few times, but it always went right back outside. I was worried it would jump on my face.
Notch and Skies of Arcadia
Notch posted on tumblr about working for the Skies of Arcadia development team. Allegedly, he had been in charge of the game’s soundtrack. I realized I had been a fan of his work since I was a kid.
Symphony the Retrial
I was in a room by myself, calculating decimal digits of pi. Ben came into the room to ask if I felt like roleplaying. I told him I didn’t, but Nicole started begging for me to roleplay with them… I gave in and logged onto Agharta. Symphony was level 835, but her job was only level one. Her class had been changed to “Retrial.” I told Ben about it as I attempted to earn the levels back. I figured someone had accused me of cheating because I was so far ahead of everyone else, and in order to respond to these accusations, one of the administrators had taken away my job levels. One poring got me to job level 836. I forgot to change jobs before warping to Thor’s Volcano, so I remained a “Retrial,” whatever that was. No matter which outfit I put on Symphony, the sprite remained exactly the same: like a novice. I thought I had taken Sympony’s lolita outfit off, but I still couldn’t get into my skills. I found the outfit in my equipment window – which made no sense, given that those haven’t been equippable for months – so I took it off. I was able to change to “Retrial Archer.” Ben was about to ak Sess about my situation… It really seemed like someone was trying to punish me, but then I found an NPC that gave me some clues.
He offered to make rubber ducks out of obsidian, iron, and gold. There was a warning at the bottom of the NPC’s text box about keeping obsidian in your inventory too long. I decided that was why my character had her job level reset. I made five rubber ducks and scattered the remaining obsidian pellets in the street. I went to a building in eastern Prontera to pick up Nicole. It was supposed to be a school. I found her coat and Chopper bag out on the street corner, though… She was standing by the road, waiting for someone. “Charlie” hadn’t come yet, she explained… I told her she should’ve just gone to school.
Challenging the Level 37 Shadow Lord
I ventured into an abandoned house with Nicole and some other people. We were playing some kind of Kingdom Hearts-based MMORPG. We made our way down to the bottom floor, deep underground… Along the way, we had to fight a number of shadow beings. This girl tried to follow me into the bathroom, so I locked her outside the room. Someone, she became trapped in the bathroom, and I found myself standing outside it… Her brother found out about this and got mad at me. I tried to swim up through the sewer system into the bathroom since no one could get the door open. The pipe connected to the toilet was clearly labeled, and it was large enough for me to fit inside. Like in Minecraft, the physics system was wonky enough that I could float upward in water regardless of the fact that it was pouring down in the other direction. Unfortunately, I couldn’t hold my breath for more than a few seconds in the putrid water, so that wasn’t going to work. I found a stairway under the sewer water. It led to a black door. I hit the door with Apheri, breaking the shell of shadows encasing it. It turned into a glowing, white and gold door. This led to a boss, I assumed… So I asked if anyone needed help getting there and pulled up the map to check their positions. All of the map markers started moving toward me. I figured that girl had gotten out of the bathroom somehow. We all went through the door and found ourselves in a black abyss with nothing but a tower of glowing obsidian blocks. Some of the blocks were labeled with numbers and images of what we called shadow lords. The shadow lords I had defeated previously were glowing with white light. The others were just marked with numbers indicating level suggestions. Most of the blocks were blank. I decided I would go for the one labeled “37.” Nicole warned me that I was the only one above that level (I was level 38, I think, and most of our party was around level 30). The low-level players would die quickly, she said. That didn’t change my mind. I knew I would get a new weapon for going through it.
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December 9, 2010
Bird Cage in the Sky
Nicole and I were playing Minecraft. Up above the clouds, we found a bird in a cage and a treasure chest. They were suspended in the air by a platform made of lightstone, but we couldn’t build anything high enough to reach them, it seemed… Until I found a spot where the platform above us was two blocks tall instead of one! I put some dirt down and made a staircase out of the lightstone platform. The chest was full of spicy foods. When I opened the cage, that crazy bird flew right past me and took a seat on the top of the tower we had built under the platform. It glanced around while Nicole and I examined the cage. I locked her inside as a joke. The bird didn’t think it was very funny… It flew back and flapped around me, dropping feathers left and right. Nicole suggested that it was afraid of me. I just swatted at it as I stepped away from the cage. When I walked away, it calmly flew into its cage… Nicole didn’t seem to bother it.
The dream jumped. Nicole announced that Norway had just been taken over by an army of skeletons. She said it was because their medical care sucked. She also mentioned filling a Ragnarok map with clones of Elita and killing them all for fun.
Waterfall Survival Simulation
Several times in the few hours before I woke up, I found myself in a river. Canyon walls surrounded me, and I was close to a waterfall… I knew I wouldn’t be able to get out of the canyon in time. I was swept over the edge of the waterfall and fell to my death. I appeared back at the top to try again. This repeated itself with little variation. Breaking holes in the canyon walls didn’t help. I finally realized I had a section of ladder on hand. I placed it on the canyon wall and managed to get out of the water. From there, I was able to dig a place to sit out of the wall. I rested there to prepare for the climb out of the canyon.
My Death as a Dirt Bike Racer
I was a dirt bike racer. My goal was to get the fastest time on a certain course in order to save little girls with cancer. I kept crashing on the little hills leading up to the final big one… After I gave up, I found myself being pushed into a wall. I could do nothing but dig a tunnel into the wall to prevent being killed. The material the wall was made up of was like sand… It fell right on top of me, and I barely got out of the way in time to avoid being crushed. I kept digging as I was swept against the wall by a moving perspective camera. In the end, I was crushed against the wall and died.
Babies and Pokemon Stadium
My parents were standing outside my dorm building with a baby. I could see them below my window in the snow. When my mom spotted me looking down at them, she held the baby up toward me. I didn’t feel like I knew them… And anyway, I was on the second floor. What was this woman doing trying to hand me a baby? I couldn’t afford to take it, so I hoped that wasn’t what they wanted. I opened my window just in time to hear my mom defensively shout at someone that she definitely wasn’t trying to abandon her baby. I asked what they wanted. Before I knew it, they were in my room! I was playing Pokemon Stadium (and losing pretty miserably). My dad made fun of me when I accidentally picked Flareon instead of Jolteon to counter a Blastoise. She survived, at least! The match was set up so that two fainted Pokemon on either side would result in a loss. I had already lost one of mine. I managed to knock out the Blastoise with some kind of weird tree Pokemon covered in caked layers of dry mud. The opponent brought out an Electrode, and it self-destructed, so I won the match.
The dream jumped. Nicole was telling me that she wanted seventy-seven children. I said I didn’t even want one yet; she reminded me that it would be difficult to prevent that. I didn’t think so.
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October 10, 2010
Demon Slaying and Imitations of Will and Grace
I was playing one of those unforgiving, mind-numbingly hard games like Demon’s Souls. The monsters were just 3D renders of Tibia’s classic monster sprites. There were demons everywhere by the spawn point, so I retreated to the beach. I killed a few weak monsters and gained some experience. Sometime later, I tried to get into the temple by the spawn point, but that was a terrible idea. I died in one hit when a demon spotted me. I found a dungeon full of gnomes. They agreed to help me find the demons. I also got a ton of tools from their workshop. We marched toward the temple together, and I figured we would capture the building without much trouble… There was some kind of glitch that prevented the gnomes from taking damage if they attacked at a certain angle. I messed it up, though, and the gnomes were all killed. I escaped with my life. I had this weird encounter with a blob monster in a cave… There were sticks strewn about the cavern floor, and I pretended they were alive to fool the blob. It grew as a show of superiority, but I started growing larger, too. I stood over the blob without fear. A medusa and a couple of demons approached, however, and I decided to retreat.
I took Nicole up onto a mountain overlooking the temple. There were too many demons to get down to the entrance safely, but we were able to build a floating platform above it. Someone was playing soccer with the demons down below. A German guy on our platform started cheering. I understood that Germany’s football team was practicing for the World Cup by playing this game. Nicole tried to talk to the German guy in his native language, but when he said something was “fantastich,” she thought he said “franzoesich” and offended him a bit. Nicole played the game by herself for a while after that.
The dream jumped. I was watching TV with Nicole in my great-grandparents’ old kitchen (from when they lived in Louisiana). She wanted to watch every episode of Will and Grace. The show seemed like it was actually something else… A group of old ladies pretending to be robots quoted GLaDoS a couple of times, and Nicole broke out into laughter.
The dream jumped. I was planning to create an online game. After coding a dynamic memory allocator, I was feeling up to any challenge… I quickly realized I would have to start small, though. I asked Nicole for her help. We were lying in bed together, and for some reason, I had soiled my pants! I excused myself to the bathroom and urinated in the tub. I had to turn off the faucet because someone left it running. I figured it had been running for several hours.
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October 11, 2010
Nicole and Sicks
I was at the grocery store with Nicole and her mom. I helped by giving the cashier our coupon for grapes. The total came out to $18.95 or something like that, but I thought it was $95.18. I kept telling her mom to give the guy two dimes, that way she would just get two pennies back. Her mom started getting really angry and told me she couldn’t do it. When I finally understood, she handed me the change to put back in her wallet. I had all three of our wallets in my pockets… For some reason, all of the packaging disappeared. The grapes were no longer attached to the vine, a big pack of jujubes Nicole’s mom had gotten were all outside of the box, and most frustratingly, a ton of gumballs which had been liberated from their package as well were rolling off the counter. The cashier just sort of pushed entire handfuls off the counter, getting 70% or so in a bag we had on the floor. After it was all off the counter, he helped us pick candy off the floor. It didn’t bother me that we were going to eat dirty candy. When that was taken care of, the cashier agreed to help carry our stuff to the car. We walked outside… But no one could remember where we had parked. We checked most of the parking lot before Nicole used some kind of tracking device to determine that we had parked inside an old hotel. They had some sort of parking garage in their basement, it seems.
The dream jumped. I was at Andrea’s house. Nicole was living there with Andrea, some girl from Australia, and Noah Puckerman – except we called him Sicks Puckerman. I should note that Sicks was definitely into Nicole… It was no secret. Instead of a normal door, the entrance to her room was a cat door cut out of the wall. This wasn’t a problem for Nicole since she had turned into a black cat. I could just barely squeeze through. I stopped myself on the way in, though, because the Australian girl was changing. She had her back turned toward us, but she wasn’t wearing any pants. She looked over, saw me, and smiled. Sicks and I talked about how she seemed too young to be so comfortable with getting naked in front of guys. Sicks suggested that she probably just had a good time with some guy in Australia. I asked if he knew how old she was. She didn’t look any older than fifteen. He said that was “free” in Australia. Nicole was taking a while, so Sicks reminded me that he had a doctor’s appointment in a few minutes. Since he didn’t have a car, that meant one of us had to take him. I squeezed through the door and found Nicole sleeping on a square pillow. I gently shook her awake and asked her if she wanted me to take Sicks to the doctor. She got really mad and started hissing at me. When I asked why, she started asking me strange things like why I sometimes hugged her tighter than others. She suggested that I didn’t really think she was pretty. I worried she was just making excuses to try to get with Sicks, so I tried to stop her, but she scratched my face, hissed, and ran off. Every time I came close to her, she just hissed again and kept walking.
Before I could leave, Andrea’s mom came down the stairs and saw me by the door. She asked if I had seen Abigail. I knew she was talking about a really old cat… For some reason, I thought we had taken her with us to the grocery store and forgotten her. I told her I hadn’t seen Abigail lately, so she made me search the room. I had to look through the entire room before I found the fuzzy, white cat hiding under Andrea’s bed. I brought her to Andrea’s mom along with a plastic ball she loved to play with. Her mom just gave me a dumb look and asked where the other ball was. I had to search the whole room again to find a second plastic ball. Apparently, this cat was so hardcore that she needed two balls to play with. Anyway, I finally made it out of the house, and Nicole was crying in the car. I tried to sit in the front with her, but Sicks was already there. When I got in the car, Nicole bombarded me with questions. I tried to explain myself, but she wouldn’t listen to me. Sicks was mad, too; he wanted to hurry up and go to the doctor so he could get his drug fix. There was a lot of ice on the road, and Nicole kept skidding through turns… She also slid through two red lights. We didn’t get pulled over, fortunately, but a couple of people passing by us gave us dirty looks for running the red lights.
We stopped the car in an empty parking lot for the purposes of roleplaying. We were going to continue the One Piece storyline indefinitely. I was Luffy, Sicks was Franky, and Nicole… Well, she was some kind of fish woman. I’m really not sure who she was supposed to be. We both chased her by stepping on lines of tape set up in the parking lot. If either of us made a mistake, we would be disqualified from whatever bizarre game we were playing. Near the end, I got lazy and started skipping steps, but no one said anything about it. I got sick of the game altogether, grabbed Sicks by the throat, and announced that Franky needed to die. I brought back my fist and began to enlarge it; I was going to annihilate him with Gear Third. Nicole grabbed me with two octopus tentacles and urged me to stop. She asked out of character what Franky’s real name was (she thought it was Elvis). I told her it was Cutty Flam, but Robin was probably the only one who knew about that. Since I was about to kill off Franky (actually, I really just wanted to kill Sicks), I asked her what we would do if we changed One Piece’s storyline. She said we should just keep going and see where the story ends up. Either way, she wouldn’t let me kill him. I figured that was more evidence that she and Sicks were secretly getting together…
First Visit to Giza
Something about pyramids, and there was someone meeting me on top of one. That’s all I remember, though, so it’s not very conclusive.
Slave Trade and Gaming Restaurant
This guy visited a slave farm and asked the owner about a girl he had fallen in love with. The slaves were bred like animals and sold to the highest bidder. The owner didn’t believe the guy was who he said he was; he claimed to be a wealthy business tycoon, and everyone assumed he would have nothing to do with the slave trade. The girl he was looking for saw him as he left. She managed to escape the slave farm and follow him down the road. A video game themed restaurant was built around the street with several huge screens set up on each side. The guy sat down next to me and told me he hadn’t been able to find his girl. I wished him luck in finding her someday. A few girls from the nearby slave farm sprawled out at my feet and tried to entice me, but I wasn’t interested in them. I watched some people nearby playing Super Smash Brothers.
Dad in a Barbie Costume
I rode the train home from my parents’ house. Big Bird was rowing down an artificial river in a gondola while singing about homosexuality. I wondered why Sesame Street’s writers were trying so hard to show everyone they weren’t homophobic. As the train continued along, I found an expired check in my pocket. It had expired a month ago… That was $38 I would never see.
The dream jumped, and I was in the car with my parents on the way to a Halloween store. When we arrived, my dad picked out a Barbie costume for himself… It was supposed to be “Ballerina Barbie,” according to the box. He even wore the tutu. My dad asked me to be a Pizza Hut pizza. Before I could explain to him that both of those costumes were horrible, he had to take a work-related phone call. My mom and I decided to leave the store without him.
Rescue Mission on Venus
In this dream, Austin had accidentally been drawn in by Venus’ gravitational pull on a voyage across the solar system. Nicole, Symphony, and I set out to rescue him. We converted Nicole’s dad’s jeep into a spaceship and blasted off into outer space.
The dream jumped. I was on the surface of Venus with Nicole and Symphony. The natives – green, gummy-headed aliens with plasma pistols – weren’t too happy about our presence. Nicole and I couldn’t breathe on the planet’s surface, so we had to move between patches of oxygen trapped on the surface of the planet. Symphony followed me to one, but I saw that Nicole was suffocating, so I had her save Nicole instead. The aliens nearly shot me with their plasma guns. Austin found us within a few minutes, and we all ran back toward the jeep. Nicole and I discovered that the spaceship was too heavy to fly. Symphony helped us take the top off, and for some reason, we ended up with a completely different vehicle. The metal plates on the outside of the jeep were left behind. I asked Nicole if she wanted to take the license plate, but she said it would be too hard. We were risking capture already as it was. The jeep’s discarded frame quickly rusted in Venus’ atmosphere.
The dream jumped. We were back at my parents’ house. Apparently, Austin had just been in the garage the whole time. Nicole and I had been running around the garage… Just hallucinating… Symphony was nowhere to be found. My dad had purchased a toilet-shaped chair that he could fill with soda and suck out through giant tubes. He was going to put it in the bathroom, but Chelsea and I told him that was insanitary.
Wario in Agharta
I was roleplaying on Agharta as Wario. That’s right, I completely ripped off a Mario character. He had traveled to Morroc and fallen in love with a girl who smelled like cookies. She shot bullets and cookies out of a toy gun for little reason except that it matched her natural scent. Elita and Symphony moved to Morroc (totally coincidental). Elita explained that she wanted Symphony to have access to the best libraries in the world, and Morroc was the place for that! Actually, that makes no sense, but it did at the time. Elita decided she didn’t like Wario, so she was going to beat him up. He wrote “WAHAHAHA” in the sand to stop her. Indeed, it stopped her, but only because she had no idea what it said. She read it as “LALALALA.” When Symphony asked what was written in the sand, Wario just laughed at them and ran away. He decided he was going to swim across the world to prove his love for the cookie girl.
Slot Machine Theft
I was in my math class. Our professor kept transforming into a lizard man. I accidentally left my coat hanging on the back of my chair, but I didn’t notice until I had already walked a couple of blocks in the snow. I thought about getting it, but I didn’t want to be late for computer science. Amar walked next to me for a while and asked if I wanted to grab lunch somewhere. I told him quite bluntly that I wasn’t interested, but he thought I just really liked the food at the commons. Either way, he left. I was the first one to reach our computer science classroom. My professor was on his laptop in an office watching a new addition in the Charlie the Unicorn series. I decided I would have to watch it later. I found a slot machine in the corner of the room. It was unplugged, and it seemed like it still had money in it. Someone else said they thought about stealing it, but they didn’t want to get caught. I didn’t see how that was possible since it didn’t even belong to our professor. As I was carrying the slot machine out, however, he stopped me. One of the other faculty members had lost a slot machine a couple of days ago, and he didn’t want me to get arrested for it. I put the slot machine back. Somehow, I ended up washing dishes in a tiny basin of water…
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December 12, 2010
Grades at 6:30
I checked my final grades online. The first one on the list was “Operating Systems” (which I haven’t taken yet). For that class, I had received an A. I mistook this as the grade for my systems programming class. I scrolled down. All of my grades this semester were As. I couldn’t understand why… I was almost positive I wouldn’t get an A in systems programming. I checked the time, and it was 6:30. I woke up and saw that it really was 6:30, but no new grades had been posted.
A Wedding and a Wooden Computer
Nicole and I were getting married. We had gathered mostly my family, but some of Nicole’s, too. Nicole and I sat at the front of the chapel together while a bunch of little girls lined up on the altar to give us cards. I wondered who they were, but I couldn’t tell… The priest got up on the altar and had each girl pick a two-digit number. This would be used to determine their order. The first girl in line insisted on picking five, though, so they just let her go first. The girl walked up to me, and I realized it was my cousin Alicia… Except she looked like she was ten, maybe even younger. We hugged, she gave me a card in a red envelope, and I passed it on to Nicole. The next girl came up. This time, it was my cousin Ashley – again, still way too young. I hugged her, took her card, and whispered a thank you for coming. My cousin Britney was next, and it was disturbing how much makeup she was wearing (child or otherwise). She gave me her card first, hugged me, and then kissed my forehead. I kissed her cheek to be polite. It felt like plastic.
A phone on the altar started ringing. It was the church’s land line. When the priest picked up, a woman asked him if he was aware that the number had been listed as an emergency contact number. I could hear everything she was saying, but it didn’t seem strange to me. Any and all updates to Ben’s state in the hospital (uh…) were to be forwarded via the phone immediately. Due to legal concerns, she wasn’t able to identify the person who set up the emergency contact information, but as Nicole and I made eye contact, I knew she had done it. Even at our wedding, she wanted to hear about changes in Ben’s condition right away. I smiled. The woman on the phone got so angry that Nicole would have her call a church, of all places… Somehow, this turned into another matter entirely. The woman had reason to believe that Nicole had also stolen a key from a big corporation. Nicole insisted otherwise, of course. Someone had given us a wooden computer as a wedding gift. Although I call it a computer, it wasn’t shaped like any modern computer… It was like a cylinder with a hexagonal base. By turning a wheel on one side of the computer, I could drive it to run at about ten thousand operations per second – not bad for something made of wood. The speed could be increased by turning a key in the bottom. The specially made key was only granted by the corporation Nicole had allegedly stolen one from. When I realized this, Nicole gave me the key. It was obvious she hadn’t intended to steal it for this purpose; we had only just found out we were getting this as a wedding gift. I figured I might as well unlock the device while we had the key, though.
The woman calling the church, presumably from some hospital in Australia, started yelling at Nicole. I kept wondering if she could afford such an expensive long-distance call… Apparently, she was now convinced that Nicole had stolen the key to unlock our wooden computer, ignoring the fact that it was just given to us. She swore to have every wooden computer from that company recalled and to shut down the church we were getting married at. The priest was heavily offended by this threat and hung up on her.
The dream jumped. I was walking down Nicole’s street. For some reason, it was really busy… I crossed Washington with a couple of other people I didn’t know. There were multiple left turn lanes for some reason (there aren’t really any turn lanes at that intersection). The guys turning got mad at us for crossing even though the crosswalk indicator told us we could cross. I headed down Washington alone. Before long, I started seeing these futuristic school buses all around me. The angry woman from the hospital appeared. She was shouting into a megaphone at people in an attempt to figure out Nicole’s identity. She said that since I recognized the school buses, I had to know where Nicole was hiding. I bluntly told her that didn’t make any sense. I just kept walking, and she kept yelling… I thought about turning in our wooden computer to the company when I learned that the device had been recalled; they were offering $100,000 in exchange for it. I decided not to. Something about giving in just felt wrong…
The dream jumped. I walked into the church and immediately saw Nicole asleep on a bed set up in the foyer. She was still wearing her wedding dress. I ruffled her hair in her sleep as I walked by. The chapel was basically empty, save for a couple of really devoted family members… My mom asked where “Lisa” was. For some reason, I recognized that she was talking about Nicole. I told her about the bed by the front door. People started flooding into the room and filling the pews when they learned that I was back. I got up and stood at the back of the room, waiting for Nicole. Eventually, I tired of waiting for her and asked why she wasn’t coming out. My mom reminded me that the groom wasn’t supposed to see the bride before the wedding ceremony. I wondered what had happened to that superstition… Before, Nicole had been adamant about adhering to that as long as I could remember, but she hadn’t mentioned it earlier when we were sitting together in the chapel. When Nicole finally came out, Claude from Along Came Polly (that half-naked island guy at the beginning, you know the one) walked out with her. Fortunately, he was wearing a suit. They sat together at the front, and Claude asked if he could say a few words before the wedding. I considered just kicking him out because of his reputation.
Flying Alone on Christmas
My dad drove to the airport to pick me up alone. It seemed that Nicole hadn’t been able to come with me to visit my family on Christmas after all, so she was staying home for the week. He tried to cheer me up, but I just wasn’t interested.
Spray Painting Gangsters
I was standing on the corner of Washington and Westmore. Nicole was there, too. These three guys came up to us with a skateboard covered in what looked like mold. They were dressed like gangsters. One of them said he needed to test their new paint and pulled out a can of spray paint. He sprayed it all over my back without my permission. I objected, but it made no difference. They just kept spraying. They emptied a whole can of spray paint on the back of my shirt and one on Nicole’s, too. Afterward, they thanked us and let me keep the skateboard… Although they warned us it might not be safe to touch. We brought the skateboard back to her house and set it up against the back wall. I wondered if it was really a good idea to keep it inside…
Exploring an Empty Hotel
I was in a hotel or a high-class restaurant with several floors (maybe a combination of both). Matthew and I got in an elevator together. We didn’t see any other people in the building. It was like they had all just vanished…
At the Gingerbread House (Lucid)
This dream has been omitted.
Execution of an Unsuspecting Rodent
Cleo brought a mouse into Nicole’s room. She left it on the bed for us to find, and as soon as I realized what it was, I flung it across the room by snapping the blanket upward. The mouse died when it hit the wall.
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