Nighmares of a Geisha, Dreamed 9-??-11

I was an Asian Geisha practicing walking in those strange platform shoes. My dad was visiting and staying in the extra bedroom of my apartment. I wasn't sure if he knew about my job as a Geisha. I was afraid to tell him for fear of upsetting him. My dream was to be a movie star and escape from the world of the Geisha. I was planning a schedule.

I was standing by a picnic table in a corn field next to a set of train tracks. A guy with a baby had missed his appointment. I gave some bread to the people on the train that happened to be passing by. A lady and young girl appeared by the table. From the train a hand grabbed them and took them away.

A big scary guy came buy looking for a fight. I squished his head on the ground. My eyeballs fell out of my head but were still attached by nerves and stuff. They almost stretched to the ground. I had to suck them back into my head.

Awkward Endings, Dreamed 8-25-11

I was in a drug store looking at lip gloss with a few other girls.

I returned home to the very large house I was living in with several of my friends and the girl that one was dating. As I pulled up to the house I saw smoke pouring out of the house. My 3 friends and the pregnant girlfriend were piling into the car. I became very panicked. They said something along the lines of 'this would have been easier if you would have come home later."

I went into the house. There were still people in the house despite the smoke. The house wasn't on fire as I was lead to believe. As I investigated I glared at the remaining people, whom I didn't know. I began taking a few of the boys' belonging that they had left behind, specifically a puzzle and a stuffed team mascot. I was packing my bags, preparing to leave.

Cake Chase, Dreamed 8-7-11

I had to deliver cakes. I was familiarizing myself with my route and the 3 stops I was supposed to make. There was a man in the car with me. Our task turned into a car chase. He got shot. After finishing my current cake delivery I took him to get help.

The car chase turned into a shootout. I had to kill people with bullets that cost the same amount of money as the cakes I was delivering. A guy asked me to shoot him in the chest first and to please avoid shooting his junk. I shot him with the $7,000 cake bullets.

The world was covered in frosted mountains.

I married the last guy I tried to kill. We had a baby but it wasn't mine.

There were lots of people with children. There were chatty Indian ladies.

On the Run, Dreamed 8-7-11

I was getting ready to play softball. I was tying a bandanna across my head when an alien burst through the door. He told me to finish tying it and then lower my hands slowly. He made me and the other people in the locker room leave at gun point. Outside armies of aliens were marching around.

I managed to escape. It was dark and I was running down a residential street with a small group of people. We were looking for a place to hide. A few of the houses already had people hiding inside. Some of the houses had been trashed like they'd already been searched. We chose an empty house and were followed into it by the actual family that lived there. They gave us permission to hide there.

The family consisted of a mother, father and little girl. Other men came into the house and were yelling at the husband. They shot him in the face as the rest of us cowered in fear. The little girl didn't realize what had just happened. I had to wipe the blood spattered on her face.

Haunted House, Dreamed 8-7-11

I went into a haunted house with a bunch of friends. As we were walking down the hall from the entrance to the 'haunted part' one of the guys I was with was taking pictures with his phone. He was attempting to get a picture of a ghost. I was jogging to catch up to the group and my phone fell out of my hand and smashed. There were two AA batteries in it.

The haunted room was wide open and you could see all of the attractions. First you had to stand on a panel in the floor. The tour guide hit a trigger and the panel slid you a few feet to the right.

There was a dotted line all over the room we were supposed to follow. The dots weren't evenly spaced or sized, like they let a small child paint them. They looped around furniture and doubled back on themselves in some places.

The tour guy slapped the wall and a desk next to us started shaking and making noise. I ran to the rest of the group while pretending to be scared. There was a book case against the wall. When you tapped a specific book the covered changed and the book appeared in the hand opposite of what you tapped it with. I grabbed a friend over to show it to him and made him tap the book.

There was what appeared to be a big inflatable geometric structure. It looked like randomly stacked blue squishy cubes. It was an optional part of the tour to climb to the top of it and swim across to the other side. It was hollow and filled with water.

There was a clear green sheet hanging from the ceiling with two puppies sitting on the other side. There were dotted lines that went up the side of the wall and across the ceiling. No one in the group tried to follow those lines.

This is Not a Toy, Dreamed 7-22-11

A plane was plummeting from the sky on it's way to crashing. Inside of the plane people were rolling around on the floor. The rapper Ludacris may have been on the plane. The dream was fading in and out like the effects in a bad sci-fi movie. Things were also cloud colored for a while.

The plane shrunk to the size of a toy and landed in a net. The passengers, who had also turned into toys, rolled out of the plane. The ninja turtles survived the crash. They were talking as they rolled out the plane. Raphael was a just a head, the size of a human head. When he realized he had no body he started screaming. The doll size passengers that had come out of the plane were charred but still talking. Will Smith had been piloting the plane.

The net was in a beach house. There were a bunch of people hanging around in the house. An autistic boy was frolicking outside. I showed him a sand dollar/paper snowflake and he didn't like it. He wanted me to put it away.

The water level at the beach started to rise. People started running around panicked. The group of people I was with were ranked by how well they handled the high tide.

I was watching footage of the rising water on the news. There was lots of flooding. There was a quick flash of a sea serpent jumping in and out of the roiling water. I was playing Operation by myself. Another person came over and asked if they could play too.

Throat Pain and Dolphin People, Dreamed 7-19-11

I had a sore throat. A lady I met in a thrift store diagnosed me with throat polyps. I was sad because it meant that I needed to have surgery. I went looking for the nose and throat doctor I had gone to once. In my search I found a very heavy man laying on top of a small girl. They were having a discussion.

Once he got up I asked him about my throat. He said he was a stomach doctor. He mentioned the name Skeety. The name sounded familiar to me. He was referring to my oncologist from Pennsylvania. I went to Skeety and he told me I didn't have throat polyps and I didn't need surgery.

I was at a lake, it was raining. I could see giant fish jumping out of the water. I spotted a dolphin. It turned out to be an acquaintance of mine. I started to walk away from the lake. The dolphin people tried to take the humans hostage. My acquaintance noticed me and said she wasn't going to be very nice. I asked if she was punishing me.

We were at a park near the lake. There were celebrities there dressed as the characters from Grease. Angelina Jolie was dressed as Danny. She grabbed a girl by the waist and started dancing with her.

A ridiculous underwater battle ensued.

Fuzzy Bunnies, Dreamed 7-16-11

There were bunnies in the mall, in the town where my parents live, on the floor in two lines. They started squeaking when I walked in. There were baby bunnies in a box and they followed me. I put them in my guinea pig cage in my bedroom. There was birdseed in the cage. They wanted to burrow under the blanket.

Carnival Wedding, Dreamed 7-15-11

I was at a carnival. There was a man with a money bracelet. There were people wandering around dressed in costumes but no one was performing. One of the guys from the Twilight movies was there but he had a face in his neck and in his arm and had stitches.

A friend of mine was there. I ended up going somewhere with her boyfriend. I had to explain to her what happened. We had snuck out through a secret back door to get to a wedding. My mother and brother were there sitting at the tables. A co-worker of mine was also at the wedding. The wedding was outdoors.

The bride was scared that something bad would happen. She got really nervous every time the door opened. The door on the wedding side was the secret carnival door on the opposite side. Bad things would only happen when the door was opened.

Car is Cooked, 6-23-11

I was driving my car in a plaza. People were staring at me because I was parked in from of a store. My tires had all popped and my tire axle had melted. I called my dad and told him about my car. He gave me an address where I should have my car towed.

I saw my ex-boyfriend and I put my dad on hold to say goodbye to him. He was looking very sharp. When I picked up the phone again my dad scolded me. I called AAA.

There was a cooking competition at a club in the plaza. I was looking at all of the food. They told me I could still be a part of the club as long as I recited the motto. It has something to do with the need for people to be open minded and not to hold the club responsible for allergens.

I looked out the window to see my car was gone. It was 3am. A friend of mine was at the club goofing off. I went outside to call a cab. There were a bunch of shady people around the corner of the building in pickup trucks. I tried to ignore them while I looked for the cab company's #.

Monster Wedding, Dreamed 6-18-11

I was laying on the couch in the living room. The living room had an open layout and there was no outside wall on one side of the room. There was a bathroom door and another door on the other side of the room. I was looking at the skyline outside.

Someone sent me an angry text because I had missed my wedding photos. (I think I was the groom.) I could see in my mind's eye that the girl (my wife?) was pregnant and covered in blood. She got made and stormed down the aisle. It was pretty typical behavior for her.

I noticed a giant monster storm in and start blowing fire. The buildings in the skyline started to burn. I got scared and rolled onto the floor. The monster came over to my wall-less house and torched my back. I screamed. The monster came up beside me, now normal sized. It was talking to me. A girl came over and whispered that she was scared for her safety and the safety of her baby. She handed me a gun and I tried to shoot the monster point blank. I was trying to distract his attention away from the pregnant girl. The gun didn't fire and the monster made fun of me for it.

Royal Neighbors, Dreamed 6-15-11

The Royal Couple build a small house in my parents' back yard. After they build the house, our property was swarmed with paparazzi. My family and I basically ignored them.

There were water bottles for pets hung on the clothesline in the back yard. I accidentally let 2 squirrels into the house. It was hard to let them go.

I needed a pair of underwear so I went to the toolbox behind the house. Kate came out of her house and asked me what I was looking for. When I told her she offered me a black pair. She also offered some other clothing and jewelry that I could borrow. I only borrowed a piece or two since I don't wear too much jewelry.

One of her fan girls came over and started pestering her. I tried talking her out of being so obsessed.

Family Outing, Dreamed 6-3-11

I was walking along in the woods barefoot. Adam from Mythbusters was driving down a mountain road. He made a left turn. Something went wrong with his car and he ended up going down an embankment. I saw him with the hood of his car up. I went down to help him. I saw my brother on the road and told him to go find my dad who is a mechanic. My dad mentioned something about a rod being bad but he actually replaced a platen.

Adam had found a ride and waved to us as he drove by the house. I thought maybe he was filming nearby and might let us watch or participate.

I wrote something in my dream journal. The cover looked like sheet music.

I was on the flat roof of a building. My dad was sitting in a chair on a hay, sloped awning at an impossible angle. He kept tilting back and I thought he was going to fall or that someone would fall into his lap and knock him off the awning.

There was a flea market across the street from the building we were in.

Unwanted Visitors, Dreamed 6-1-11

A girl who used to be a friend (but with whom I had a falling out before we stopped speaking to each other) showed up at my parents' house. I had started talking to her civilly before realizing that we were no longer on speaking terms. I asked her if she broke into the house. She said she knew the code to open the garage door. I made a mental note to change the garage door code.

My college aged brother texted me asking me to pick him up from the high school and bring him a hoagie from a store downtown. I needed to leave soon so I wouldn't be late but the girl kept talking to me. I was in the garage messing with the thermostat. The garage doors were acting strange and wouldn't stay closed.

I kicked the girl out of the house. She had been filing her nails with my nail file. I told her I really didn't want to be friends anymore. She admitted to my dad that she had broken into the house by pouring water into a device at the end of the driveway and then hitting it with a stick.

My brother showed up at the house still wanting a sandwich. A woman left a package outside of the door. She commented on something while pulling out of the driveway. A creepy acquaintance of mine was in the driveway. The garage doors open again. The acquaintance touched an expensive car that was sitting around. I yelled at him to to stop touching the car and to leave.

Indiana Jones the Musical, Dreamed 8-19-11

I was in a show directed by the high school theater director. The show was a theatrical version of Indiana Jones. The whole thing was a mess and very unorganized. The backstage area was a mess... props, costuming and people were all over the place. The stage was the driveway at my parents' house.

We were in the middle of the dress rehearsal and I still didn't know what my role was. During the rehearsal, I took the script (which was also a mess) to the director and asked who I was supposed to be. She told me I was playing Indiana Jones. I was confused as to why she told me that. I was trying frantically to memorize the lines and listen for my cue. It was difficult to listen for it since there was so much going on back stage.

When it came time for Indiana Jones's entrance a young guy that I LARP with went on stage to play him. I was relieved that I wasn't actually supposed to be there since I didn't know the part. I went back to the director to ask what my actual part was. She told me I was the librarian.

I hid the script in a really heavy book to take onstage with me. I didn't know any of the lines. She also eliminated a few of the small roles of patrons talking in the library and gave me those lines. I went on stage and started my scene, something happened in the middle of it that stopped the show.

Scaly Babies, Dreamed 5-3-11

I was at my parents' house. I kept referring to my 'baby' which just so happened to be an alligator. It tail was peeking out from under the bed. When I called to him he came out and I pet him like he was a puppy.

Someone else in the dream kept referring to another 'baby.' That one was a big, long snake. Both animals were wrapped in blankets. When the snake was on it's belly it looked like a snake but you turned the snake on it's back you could see that it had a human face and arm nubs. I gave him a belly rub.

Weddings and Blinds, Dreamed 4-28-11

The royal wedding was taking place in a random church in the United States. There were no guards present and no spectators lining the street. I was outside watching the procession into the church since my wedding was going to be there next.

They walked a bison into the church for some part of the ceremony. The bison started freaking out and people were frantically trying to escape. I ran and hid in a dugout on the other side of a fenced in field to watch the mayhem. One of the solutions they had come up with was to bring in another bison to see if it calmed the first one down. It didn't help, watched the chaos with binoculars.

My friend called and asked if that was my wedding causing such a ruckus. I told him no. My brother was also hiding with me. My parents came and found us.

I was in some sort of mall. There was a guy in front of me carrying 4 sets of window blinds. There were also two girls with a shopping cart nearby. He dropped a set and one of the girls picked it up and put it in her shopping cart. I mentioned to her that those weren't hers and she should return them. The other girl didn't realize what had happened and though the blinds belonged to her and her friend. I managed to return the blinds to the guy and ended up helping him carry them to the catacombs under the store.

Downstairs there was a bar. Two people sitting at the bar were holding microphones and singing in weird voices. I saw a friend of mine in the bar but it was now in the back of the bus.

A Toast to a Job Well Done... Sort of, Dreamed 4-22-11

I had broken into the apartment of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. I was there to set a trap. The were part of a rival gang. I covered their desk with candles containing explosives that were set to go off and kill the couple.

The other people helping me and I opened some champagne to celebrate. The glasses we were drinking out of were made of wax and started to deform while we were using them.

Later my team and I had to come back to the apartment to check and see if our trap had worked. The explosives (which were actually fireworks at this point)had gone off but didn't cause any damaged. We were very disappointed. While we were up there we got word that the landlord was on her way up to the apartment so we had to get out fast. (The landlord was the director of a musical I was in in real life.)

I was in charge of getting rid of the evidence so I put the candles in my purse. When I tried to lift it, the purse was too heavy to carry. I dumped out some of the contents (which were random odds and ends) in the top drawer of the desk. I escaped by driving my car down the steps and through the alleyway gate.

Not Sure What to Call This One, Dreamed ??-??-??

Since it doesn't take long to forget a dream I try to write them quickly as soon as I wake up. Sometimes it's early in the morning and I write my dreams half asleep and/or with my eyes closed. This usually leads to fragmented statements and terrible handwriting. Most of the time I'm able to interpret that and form a somewhat coherent story. I have no idea what this journal entry is supposed to mean so I will type it as it's written.

"Drove home! Tear in fabric of time. Three boys trying to rob attach through basement. Floating logs that turn into ladders. Boys and parents skin melting. Little girl evil. Mom begged for Vicoden to kill her. Chased out by girl. Peeing acid like man. Other girl in flower bed. Carried her in cat case. My car was in cat case. Ran to 911 cause line was busy. Shoulder down highway. Other people jogging. Reported to lady at counter. Long line for scholl emergency. Old lady ride home?"

I swear I'm not crazy...

Eerie Winds, Dreamed 5-29-11

I was at a camp in the woods getting ready to larp. I was sitting at the top of stone steps sent into a mountain overlooking the rest of the camp. People were playing even though the game hadn't started yet. There was a 'U' shaped path with trees in the middle of it. At the bend of the 'U' were several large cardboard cutouts of monsters.

The players were approaching the cutouts and starting to engage them in combat. All of a sudden a huge gust of wind came through and lifted the cutouts high above the trees. The players were freaked out and scattered. I noticed several people in costume who would never larp in a million years.

I was scared too so I ran to the building at the top of the mountain. There were several girls inside barricading the door with mattresses. One of the women was holding an infant.

Alien Hide and Seek, Dreamed 5-28-11

I was in a dark room filled with glowing jars. The jars has small alien fetuses inside of the them. The people giving us the tour insisted they were monkey fetuses. I was handed a jar and told to dissect it. I was very uncomfortable about doing that so I refused.

The cops arrived to the building and people started to panic. The people giving the tour finally admitted that they were aliens and asked us to help the living aliens escape. There were 3 or 4 alien-human hybrids of varying degrees of alien-ness that needed to escape. They were adult aged Asian-American-aliens.

We ran outside and dressed the hybrids in costumes. Through a series of elaborate hiding places and people switching we managed to allow the hybrids to escape. Our tactics would have never worked outside of dream life to help them escape. Eventually the cops realized that there were people missing from their perimeter but by that time it was too late.

Show Must Go On, Dreamed 4-1-11

It was opening night of a show that was being put on at my house. All of the light bulbs in the basement had been loosened so that the light wouldn't act as a distraction from the show. I was running around with the script trying to find our place in the show. One of the lead actors didn't show up so someone had to read their part.

The first scene I was supposed to have been in was canceled and I was very upset. The current scene was taking place in the lot next door. It was filled with water and boats. Fireworks were being shot off to simulate battle artillery.

My next scene took place on the deck in the back yard, it was a wedding. We decided to wing it. The crowd started to surround the stage. The actor playing my husband started going way out of character. He was pointing out to the audience how hot some chick he had seen was. He got off the deck and walked with the audience to the tree line.

I was upset again because my scene was ruined. I hung my body over the railing and started to cry. He finally returned and we started the wedding. The ceremony was very simple. A man in the audience started to mouth off to me. He then called me 'tits' so I kicked him out of the show while still in character.

There were a whole bunch of balloons and streamers floating through the air. They had come out of the woods and were drifting over the roof of the house. I started to feel unsteady standing on the deck.

Sad Fluffy Dog, Dreamed 3-28-11

I stole a big white fluffy dog. My parents' front yard was completely covered with white fur and dandelion seeds. Wind currents were carrying the fur and the seeds all over the place. The dog was sad because I had stolen him. I was planning a yard sale to sell some cats and random junk. At some point I planned to return the dog to its rightful owners but it had already bought a ticket home.

Bomb Raid?, Dreamed 5-10-11

My dream took place in the 70s. There were two married couples hanging around on one of their front lawns. The woman of the other couple (who was wearing a bathing suit and towel) and the man who was my husband went into the other couple's house. The man from the other couple and I got mad so we started slow dancing together. They came outside and were not very happy about it.

The nuclear attack alarm went off so we ran downstairs to our bomb shelter. Our hiding place was right in from of a large glass window (go figure). The sky got dark and the alarm continued to sound. We wondered where our sons were.

I went outside to check. My younger son was in a car with another person. It was dangling over a GIANT crater in the ground. The police officer said he'd applied for a permit to rescue them but it was rejected so he cut their tether loose and the car plunged into the crater with the two of them inside. My other son (who is actually a co-worker of mine, 10 years my senior) made it home. He looked like he know he was in trouble.

Catalyst Shower, Dreamed 3-28-11

My mother and I were at the mall which was like a continuous, long hallway with stores on both sides. It was snowing outside and the mall was packed with people. All of the stores were closed.

I was in a shower stall in a bathroom in the mall. I was participating in an experiment. We were given pills to halt aging by preserving the body. I was also taking birth control pills. The doctor sent another participant of the experiment into the bathroom to complete some sort of task. Once his treatment reached a certain point he became violent. I was scared when he walked into the room.

The water in the shower stopped and I was still all soapy. There were 2 more people in the room with me. One was in the shower and the other was outside of the shower. I had to turn the faucet off and on to get the water to start running again. I started brushing my teeth in the shower. The doctor left the room to find the remainder of the anti-aging treatment.

Part of the mall hallway was totally flooded from floor to ceiling. The water looked like it was contained by glass walls to to either side. There were no walls, just a strange prism on water. A girl stuck her face into the water and stretched her neck to an abnormally long length.

Sleepover , Dreamed ??-??-??

There were a bunch of people sleeping over my parents' house. I woke up and they were all played a game outside. I was mad that no one woke me up to play since I loved that game. It was 1pm when I woke up and they had been playing since 4am. I got dressed, noticed a pimple on my face and popped it.

I tried to see what other activity everyone wanted to do after their game. Some people wanted to sleep, someone was writing a letter and a few people had already left. We decided to go to a mall in CT (despite being about 4 hours away from it at my parents' house).

And Everything Was Messed Up, Dreamed 3-25-11

(In real life I am part of a community theatre production of Ragtime, this tid bit will help the dream make a little more sense... I think. The actors in my dream in no way resembled the real actors.)

During a performance of Ragtime the actor who plays Coalhouse's little nephew jumped up on stage and ran into the backdrop house. Some of the other actors and I were behind the house. Coalhouse was mad and asked me and the actor who played Booker T to go out in front and glare at the kid until he left the stage. We did and when he left we returned to the area behind the house and the show continued. My parents were in the audience.

The Sarah character had a song to sing but the pianist started playing the wrong music. I jumped off stage to find the right music and put in a cassette tape so she could start.

At intermission I took my script to the restroom. There were men and women in the restroom and it was PACKED. I cut in line and told the lady I was in the show. There was a grassy hill in the bathroom with a little cottage/outhouse sitting on top of it. I went into that little bathroom room thing.

After I was done I ran back to the stage while freaking out. I couldn't remember any of my lines (I have 2 lines in the real life show). I was relieved that the first act was done by us hiding behind the wall and reading from out scripts.

I was shopping for chocolate vases in the backstage area with the actors playing Sarah's friends. We were wearing prom dresses.

Clothing is Stressful, Dreamed -18-11

I was shopping for clothes with a friend. She was giving the sales girl in the store a really hard time and we ended up leaving long after the store closed. We found my car in the parking lot first so I drove her to her car. The parking lot was filled with pot holes and random, wandering debris. Two guys morphed into a human/bug/alien thing that walked in front of my car.

I found my mom in the parking lot outside of a camper/truck. She had given all of my dirty laundry to the Mexican woman in the truck to wash. The inside of the vehicle had been converted into a laundry room. I was mad at my mom for doing that. I got even angrier when the other woman in the truck mentioned the paint. The inside was still under construction and being painted. The women had managed to get paint all over some of my clothes. I gathered up my clothing while spouting obscenities at the women.

At some point I asked a girl in the truck, who looked about my age, if she knew a person I went to high school with. At first, my mother and I had thought she was the girl we were asking her about.

Home Sweet Hobo, Dreamed 3-17-11

I was at an interview for my research thesis. There was one person doing the interview and two people observing. We were at one table and another set of interview people were at the table sitting next to us. Occasionally the interviewers would switch tables from me to the other interviewee. The interview took hours and hours and hours. I went into the bathroom so I could print out a journal article. The paper came out into the toilet.

I walked down a big set of stair into the lobby of a big, expensive private school. My eyes were covered in glitter, Ke$ha style. I was next to someone talking to an old classmate of mine. The classmate was attending medical school. I don't think my classmate recognized me.

I went home to the half of a double I was living in. A hobo was living in the other side of the house. He was sitting on the porch when I got back looking all disheveled and hobo like. Inside of my half, my ex-boyfriend's mom was cooking pans and pans full of mushrooms.

Ballet Suicide, Dreamed 2-17-11

A girl studying ballet at school tried to hang herself in her closet by attaching the other end of the rope to one of the administrators on the other side of the door. She was hoping to take him with her when she dies. I found them both, untied him and took her down from the closet bar. Her belt was attached to a bunch of irons.

Several other ballet students were also trying to commit suicide. One of the guys was really creepy looking. He had bad skin and was wearing ballet shoes.

Out to Sea, Dreamed 2-17-11

My dad was trying to impress a married woman. He took her out on a row boat into the clear tropical ocean. Her husband and I were also in the boat. I was a little boy during this portion of the dream. We were just chatting and hanging out. At one point we filled the boat with water and were churning it up with our oars.

The lady said she wanted to go home. Trying to help my dad impress her, I told her there was a secret stone wall (only a few feet tall) under the water that she could use to walk back to shore. She and her husband started walking back through the ocean on the wall. In the dream, I could see a cool aerial view of the entire length of it. By the time they reached the shore the lady was sun and wind burnt and cranky.

My dad and I (back to my young woman self) were sitting on a dock with a bunch of people. Brittany from Glee was standing near us, looking around. We were related to her but she didn't know. She glanced over at us and told us we looked familiar. Her calves were the size and shape of breasts and her socks were shaped like bras. We had to let her know that we were related by doing some sort of activity with another, distant family member.

Iron Chef College, Dreamed 2-1-11

There was a large group of people who had come to my house to play or watch an Iron Chef type competition. I lived in a typical college town house, a little grungy and a little run down. The entrance fee was $10. One of the spectators tore a $20 bill in half to pay their fee.

All of the pantries and the fridge were fully stocked. To play, each team got a scrap of paper w/ 3 ingredients listed. There was a whole pile of ingredient cards on the table. They had a half an hour to make a dish with their ingredients. My housemate and I were the co-judges. After we had sampled the dishes, the spectators were allowed to try.

The first dish presented was a hoagie roll filled with spaghetti-os with a side of linguine in red sauce. The pasta was entwined with something like looked like purple tinsel. Before the other team presented their dish there was a knock on the front door and a group of clueless, slutty looking girls walked in. They asked us about Jeff's party. I told them Jeff no longer lived in this house and that we were having a cooking competition.

After they left I went back inside. There was another knock on the back door. Another group of people tried to come in because they thought this was Jeff's party. I tried locking the back door. The screen door locked but the main, wooden door didn't fit into the jamb. In the process of trying to get that door shut and locked I ended up ripping the door off the hinges.

The next day Jeff stopped by to apologize. He was a very good looking man. He insisted on making it up to me for last night's inconvenience.

Rare Earth Bugs, Dreamed 2-26-11

I was at a shopping/residential complex with a bunch of people. There were stores and old houses and a bunch of other random buildings. I was grocery shopping with my mom when I felt a pinch on my back. I went to check and found a small bug latched on to the outside of my shirt. It was beetle shaped and had two pincers shaped like 'L's coming from the bottom of it's body. The 'L's were facing away from one another. The bugs would stick their little 'L' pincers into you skin so they were hard to get out. The bugs were all different shapes and sizes but had the same coloring.

I pulled the bug off and it really hurt. All of a sudden I felt more pinches and notices I had a lot more bugs attached to me. I was trying to get them all off. By this point I was freaking out because I hate bugs. Someone mentioned that the bugs ate rare earth elements and that's why they were so abundant here. I spent the rest of the dream trying to get rid of the bugs. Though they were supposed to be everywhere, I didn't notice anyone else covered in them.

At one point I realized a small bug had gotten under the skin in the palm of my right hand. There was a bump under my skin. I asked someone to get it out for me. They didn't believe me since my skin was too soft. Apparently the bugs like to burrow into rough surfaces.

There was a house in the complex where a bunch of younger people were living. The cops were coming through to bust up a party. I went through the hallway to warn some of the kids. By the time I got there mostly everyone had left. In the last room at the end of the hall two people were poking their heads out from the door. I told them that the cops were coming and they got very flustered. They thought they were going to get in trouble for being roommates of the opposite sex. They made it a point to let me know that they were both gay. I told them the real reason the cops were here and I carried they both down the back stairwell.

Sad Song, Dreamed 2-22-11

I was Mr. Shu from Glee (even though it didn't look like him) at a bar in my dream. I was talking to someone in the army. I was looking as Mr. Shu from the army man's perspective but I didn't know what he was saying. Every time I returned to the conversation he/I looked worse and worse. I was more ragged and bloody. The final time I spoke with the army personnel I told him I was dieing.

They let me sing a very heartfelt song on stage while people came by and tried to comfort me. After the song the woman at the bar got an email from his/my wife saying she would be there right after she puts some gears away. Up until this point I hadn't told her he was dieing.

Look Under the Bed, Dreamed 2-21-11

On the same day of every week (I want to say Tuesday) my brother and I would set a trap under our parents' bed for our dad to trigger. We would rig up a combination of frogs, snakes and iguanas. They were all tied to the trap and when he's step on it they were set free. We would set it every single week with a different animal combination. Eventually my dad started to get mad because our prank was getting old. We had a revelation that we shouldn't have done it so regularly because it ruins the surprise.

Apartments and Crafts, Dreamed 2-9-11

I was apartment hunting with a friend. We found two nice apartments with a great view of the city. A large group of friend and I were with the apartment complex employee looking at the inside of the apartment. My friends burst into song and the apartment lady got mad. I was yelling for them to stop singing because I knew if they didn't we wouldn't get the apartment.

I ended up going with another friend into the city to make an arts and crafts project. We needed a large roll of drafting paper and were choosing between different types. I was also trying to go into a co-worker's parent's furniture and spice store to find a specifically shaped piece of foam.


(This one was another quick dream I had that night)

A friend of my brother had graffitied the outside of our parents' house. One of them was dedicated to me. It had aliens in it.

Pig Trauma, Dreamed 2-9-11

(Recently one of my 2 guinea pigs passed away in real life. He's the little brown one in the picture.)

I was cleaning my guinea pig cage. I couldn't find my living pig and I thought that he had died too. I was chatting online with someone speaking as my guinea pig. I went to find him and eventually did. I was trying to give him a bath in the toilet and he pooped in the water. While all of this was going on the person online was still chatting with me, telling me what my pig was thinking.

Sleeping Zoo, Dreamed 2-9-11

I was at a friend's house. There was a long, wide hallway scattered with live, teddy bear sized 'koala bears.' They were fluffy and pastel colored with light speckles. There were also similarly colored and sized horses and jungle cats. People were scattered around in the hallway either sleeping or playing with the animals. Some of the animals were ferocious.

My friend was at the end of the hallway bundled up and cuddled up with her housemate. Her housemate woke up while I was standing near them. He shook his head and suggested that I didn't wake her up.

I was sitting on a bed when an article of clothing, also on the bed, began sliding off. One of the pastel animals was sleeping inside of it. I grabbed it in time to pull the animal back on the bed before it hit the floor.

Rough Day at the Office, Dreamed 1-25-11

I was at my parents' house for the holidays but I was still scheduled to go into work. (I work 4ish hrs away from my parents' house...) I was making my lunch and getting ready to leave when I realized it was 3 pm and I should have been at work hours ago. My dad still insisted that I be home early from work that day.

The office was very sparsely populated. There were no cubical walls or desks anymore, just chairs at round tables. One of my coworkers was using a stair stepper in the middle of the office while working on her project. I was sitting at a table working on something when another coworker sat down next to me with a children's book.

I was receiving angry emails from a coworker who I am on very good terms with. He was mad that I missed his deadline by coming in late. I was trying to still get my part of the work done despite the fact even though I was afraid he'd take the credit away from me.

Mini Dream, Dreamed 1-24-11

I was working with the cast of Glee, specifically Mr. Shu, to help a supersonic transport to take off in the middle of a city street. Some of the other members were scattered around the street busying themselves with other tasks. I don't remember any of the details, just that.

Beach Front Property, Dreamed 2-5-11

I was at my parents' house. The front yard, instead of grass and streets, was a beach. The trees were still present, they were just growing out of the water. I was sitting in the surf pulling shells and unusual rocks out of the water. The water was very clear and the sand was a peachy sort of color, very clean looking.

The very impractical bathing suit top I was wearing came untied. The strings were made of hemp. A friend in the dream came over to help and retie the strings. He started to get a little too handsy in the process. Later in the dream he and I were married and had adopted a child. We were shoveling 'coal' the was mined from the water. The 'coal' looked like iridescent pink and green rocks mixed in with a few small, colorful seashells.

A bunch of people were in a classroom playing hangman on the chalk boards.

Sweatshirt Brawl, Dreamed 1-29-11

I was with my mom walking along the sidewalk outside of my apartment complex. I spotted a girl wearing the same sweatshirt as I was. It was a shirt from when I was in a play about 7 years ago. I called her over to see if we recognized each other. She came over with my high school pre-calc teacher. The teacher started yelling at us, trying to pick a fight. Another girl came over, a school mate from elementary school, and hit my mom in the face with an apple juice bottle. That started an all out girl brawl.

I could only remember bits and pieces from last night.

1) I dreamt I was living in my parents house with a white fluffy pet llama. It would follow me around and nudge me so that I could pet it. I started petting the llama and it rolled on the ground so I could rub his tummy. I called my brother into the room so he could see how friendly the llama was. The llama was leaking and squirting bodily fluids all of the walls of the house. My brother and dad were really grossed out by the llama so I had to go around and clean up the walls.

2) I was trying to think of ways to decorate my walls and decided that I wanted an Arlen Spector wall (several random pictures in frames arranged all artfully). After a min or two I decided better of it and decided on a space themed wall instead. I also discovered I have 3 more pairs of dress pants to wear to work that I couldn't find. (I really wish they were real pants so I didn't have to buy new work pants.)

3) The final set of dream fragments dealt with a soap opera that took place in the middle of a canoe race. I was in the water with the villainess and the object of all the ladies's affection. We weren't in the canoe's just treading water while the race was going on around us. I don't remember too many more details except that the villainess killed the heart throb. He drowned and sunk to the bottom but when I went to look for him I was in a kitchen looking in the bottom of a soup pot partially filled with soup. He wasn't there... :(

Train Sewer Bed Frame Bomb, Dreamed 1-12-11

I was riding in a train that didn't really look like one on the inside. There was a large round central room that contained the guts and random equipment of the train. I saw that it was filled with shelves and small squat canisters (maybe 4-5 inches in diameter and 4-5 inches tall).

An evil guy replaced (or changed) one of the canisters. It was glowing yellow with a red digital clock readout on the front. He informed us there was a bomb in it and around the bomb was a gaseous neurotoxin. The evil guy managed to escape.

I was part of a team to get a rid of the canister. Somehow it had fallen into a hole in the train's floor. It rolled along a series of pipes and conduits (like a mini sewer system) down and away from the train. We followed it's location by looking for the glow.

I ended up in a room in my parent's house filled with bed frames. The frames were hollow metal with open ends facing towards the ceiling. The canister had some how gotten stuck in the walls or under the house. We realized it was there because of the bed frames. My digital clock was keeping track of the bomb countdown.

We figured out that the detonation was pressure based. We had to keep it under pressure by holding the top of one of the bed frames shut with the palm of a hand. There were a bunch of people in the room (presumable the other people from the train) watching. I said I needed someone to keep their hand over the frame opening. A little kid wanted to do it and I told him no. Some of the adults got mad at me for 'not being fair.' I got mad at them for not understand the seriousness of the situation. I let the kid try but he wasn't able to plug the hole properly. I took it back from him and let a few other people try.

I don't remember leaving the room but I must have left and returned. When I came back the hole was covered in several different colors of duct tape. The pressure had started to leak out so I tried to fix it with more duct tape. Someone came in and yelled at me for being in that room alone.

The clock started ticking down really fast. I started running and yelling for people to evacuate the house. When I was at the front door I saw that there was a whole bunch of people outside running toward the house. I yelled at them, telling them they were all idiots and they should be running the opposite way. At that point everyone did turn and run away from the house.

When the countdown ended we all fell to the ground (as a result of the release of the neurotoxin). I was only at the end of the property. I looked back and saw a skinny black kid carrying a frail elderly black man on his back out of the front door.

Pregnant Exploration, Dreamed 1-6-11

I was wandering around with a group of people in some sort of maze/building with lots of doors. Through each door there was a different 'world' completely discontinuous from anything else in the building. One of the doors led to a world flooded with about 4 feet of water. There were a bunch of wooden beams and things built out of wood in the water. We needed to pass through a gate in the fence but the wood was rotten and broke when I tried to get through.

Anytime we transitioned from one world to the next I never dreamed of a way out. We just ended up back in front of another door.

Four other girls and I were the only ones left in the group. We were all newly pregnant. We continued to explore different worlds through the mysterious doors. As we continued our bellies were showing the pregnancies more and more. At the point when I was just starting to show one of the other girls told me that I would be able to feel the baby. I touched my stomach and could feel a small baby shaped protrusion under the skin.

Two girls eventually miscarried. The fetuses had been cleaned and were displayed on trays, they looked like giant mouse fetuses. Later in the dream I was aware that I had also miscarried by willing myself to do so. I didn't actually see it happen, I just knew. The other two girls were significantly showing near the end of the dream.

One of the doors we went through brought us into a house fill with Caribbean men obsessed with candy. Though there was candy in the house a few of the guys were sent out to find candy. We took it as an omen that it was time to get out since something bad was going to happen. The last door we went through took us into a sort of Elk's Club for pregnant women.

Bedroom Aquarium, Dreamed 1-6-11

I was in my parents' bedroom which was filled with about 4 feet of water. There was a hologram map floating on the surface of the water. You could point at different areas on the map to change the location. There was a mini (a few feet long) orca whale swimming around under a blown up map of Alaska. While playing with the map and the whale a terrifying looking (full-sized) octopus floated out of the depths of the water. The octopus has huge yellow eyes and a creepy smile.

I left the bedroom and went out into the hallway which was not filled with water. The octopus followed me. It deflated and sort of flopped to the end of the hallway. Since there was no water it just kind of laid there all deflated and gross looking. I was so freaked out I started calling for my mom who was downstairs in her sewing room. After a minute or two it managed to get up and walk back into my parents' bedroom.

A similar event happened to my brother. A man that was the same size and shape of the octopus but wearing yellow plastic coveralls had followed him out of my parents bedroom telling my brother that they could be friends. A bunch of muscular little people (a few inches tall) wearing the same yellow coveralls came out of the room and attacked the floppy man with paint balls. In the dream I sensed they were somehow related to the floppy guy. After being attacked the floppy man deflated. My brother had the man's body on a platter. He was very disappointed to have lost his new friend.

Pool Party, Dreamed 1-4-11

I was leaning against a swimming pool that came up to about my armpits. It was only deep enough to fill it with a foot and a half of water. It was L shaped, the size of a standard rectangle pool and looked like it was made out of black marble speckled with white. They was also a bridge over the short leg of the L. The pool was inside a house. The room it was in was scattered with clothing and other random objects on the floor. There were also a few people milling about the room.

The pool was filled with scalding hot water. A dog and two little gum creatures were swimming around in it. I was afraid that the gum creatures would get lost in the pool or eaten. At one point I think I was also in the pool.

I went to go with some random guy to change our clothes. He told a friend of mine that he could use the back room to change since we were going to change in the bathroom. We were both changing in the bathroom (among other things) when my mom bust open the door. I got freaked out and curled into the fetal position on the floor.

I went back to the room where the pool was trying to collect my belongings. I found one of my guinea pigs buried in a pile of clothing on the floor.

I was walking home when I passed two African people selling raffle tickets. The tickets were attached to random objects contained in a fish tank. There was a small vase, some really strange stuffed dolls, tiki idols and other trinkets. The guy I was with bought us two tickets. The first ticket was on the bottom of the vase. The 'lottery number' was actually one number and a bunch of television show names. It took the lady a while to decode what prize the ticket corresponded to.

We ended up winning a glass tree about a foot tall. It was clear with red apples on the branches. All of the prizes were in a china cabinet. The lady was about to move on to her next customer when the guy I was with reminded her that we still had one more ticket to choose.