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I dreampt I was riding my bike on rocks in the dark. I was wishing I had a mountain bike instead of what I was riding.  I got to an empty city and I found my way inside a house.  I could hear voices but sometimes where I heard them was where I had been but I could not get back. The doors seemed to lock and unlock at random. All of the windows were sealed.  Some of the doors where in places I could not reach like over staircases in the ceiling. I felt I was running from someone but I also thought the voices were not who I was running from.  I found a family of only children.  The oldest girl was taking care of everyone and their parents were gone.  The parents must have found a way out and not a way back in, or they left deliberately. Everyone was terrified of being separated in the house so we all went everywhere together. One night during a storm I was reading the children a story and there was a ghost of a woman on the outside of the window and we were scared she would come in and take the children.  Everyone ran and of course, things got mixed up with people on different floors of the house.  The house seemed to rearrange itself to keep us apart. When I looked out the windows I never saw people but sometimes I saw things change like one night a house would have Christmas lights up. I don't know how we all escaped but later in the dream, we were all in a field for some sort of festival and we had to climb these very tall trees to scare a mass of crows away. The field was covered in marshmallows and some of the kids stopped to eat them but the adults ran for the trees and climbed up with wasps nests on sticks to make the birds leave. From the top of the trees, we could see that one of the children in our family was eating the marshmallows.  When we looked back again she had disappeared.  The girl never appeared again and I don't know where she went. We reminisced about this later in the dream and years later in life on a phone call.  I was on the other end of the call with the oldest sister who was now married to a man who was helping raise her siblings and their children.  The house was decorated for fall with the banisters all done in garland and leaves.  As we talked the sister looked at a replica of the wasp nests used to scare the crows away.  She wondered where her little sister was and then I woke up. 

Long Way Home

April 1, 2018

I dreampt I was running in the neighborhood around my parents house.  It seemed like hours.  I wanted to run a half marathon so I kept going but I got slower and slower.  I wanted to get the miles in so I stopped doing loops and just headed out.  I somehow ended up in the next city but I was too tired to get home. I stopped at a train station but I didn't want to ride the train I just wanted directions.  I was going walk on the wooded bike path that ran along the train track but it was so dark and I worried my cell phone flashlight would run out. Then I thought about walking home on the train tracks but it was still so very dark.  I think I took an Uber and they dropped me off at a dog shelter.  It looked so familiar but when the people came outside I didn't know them.  they wanted to hug and I worried they were fake.  Like they were supposed to pretend to know me but they really didn't.  I don't know how or if I got home. 

I dreampt it was Halloween and I had all these people at my house that I didn't know.  I kept looking out the peephole of the front door but I didn't see any children yet.  I did see a lot of cars parked up and down the street.  When I looked outside again I saw people congregating in the street and in the intersection.  They were all adults.  When the doorbell first rang I saw an adult but no child so I didn't open the door.  Every time the doorbell rang there were more and more adults on the porch and soon they were all around the house.  No one spoke. 

A boy was in bed in his room and he had a phone with an app that showed where people were.  It was like a special gps for family members.  He told his mom that his dad was on the app and in the house but mom said no that can't be true because they were divorced and didn't live withe them.  She said she would go look but I somehow knew that she she would not come back because the dad was going to kill her.  I don't know what happened to the boy.

I remember dreaming about eating barbecue.  

I dreampt I made these hybrid hermit crab creatures and some of them I was really scared of and they kept getting bigger.  I knew I had to kill them to stay safe but I still loved them too. 

Long Walk

March 7, 2018

I dreampt I was in the tv show The Handmaid's Tale.  I knew my group of men and women had been captured.  We were too be executed.  We didn't have to wear handcuffs.  Where do you hide dressed like that?  Red robe, big bonnet? I was in a school walking down long tiled hallways.  I wanted to do one last act of violence against the state before I was killed.  I saw candled along the walls for school children.  They were tiny votive candles.  I thought I could start a fire.  I tried to smash the candle holders but they were unbreakable.  Defeated I relit all the burnt out candles in the hallway and kept walking.  I didn't have a guard, I don't know how long it took.  I stopped to look into classrooms and no one noticed.  As I walked by windows I saw an image of a woman dressed like me but it was not my reflection.  As I entered the window, the imaged appeared at the opposite end, we closed paths at the middle where we again exited at opposite ends. I never did see the other woman's face.  At the exit to the building I began to head down some steps when I saw a pile of discarded clothing, maybe lost and found for the students.  I thought about using a candle to set it on fire.  I visualized many scenarios but chose none of them.  As I got to the door two things happened.  The my executioner appeared and I found a family festival outside in a common area.  Despite is uniform and strange weapon meant to kill me, no one reacted to either of us being in the crowd.  As we walked the man showed me his weapon.  It was not a gun and meant for defense.  It was supposed to kill me by decapitation or by slitting my throat. He had half of the weapon with him and half was in the building we were headed too.  Once inside the building he offered me a piece of cinnamon pastry he has made.  The man talked a bit about how the layers were uneven and what he would differently next time.  As we talked I heard noise from outside.  I knew my friends were being executed as part of the family celebration.  I begged him to stopped it.  He went to the window and I grabbed ahold of his jacket which oddly enough felt like satin.  When it got quiet the man turned around and I knew it was my turn. 

Evil Baby

July 16, 2017

I dreampt about a group of people that kidnapped an evil baby that was the reincarnation of their last leader.  They didn't want to wait for the baby to grow up and they didn't want to put the baby in a really deteriorated corpse.  The baby didn't have the strength to move from body to body like a possession. They found a body of one of their followers that had recently died.  He was in a coffin but it was filled with water and herbs to preserve him and keep his body flexible. A woman in the group lifted the dead mans hand out of the water and he was very pale with super long fingers.  He also had a long dark beard. He seemed to be wearing a robe like other people.  It made me think they were druids. To move the baby into the adults body they needed a book that was at the library but there was a post it note over the barcode saying something was wrong with the record so the just stole the book.  The story was the life of their leader and it was told in verse.  The book was supposed to tell them how to get the soul of the baby into the corpse.  They had to kidnap a group of girls but the girls were adept at escaping each challenge unhurt.  A lot of the challenges were riding in roller coaster with no seat belts of safety harness.  I woke up before the spell was completed. 

I also dreampt about a little boy with polio who was hiding in a bathtub but I never saw what he was hiding from nor did I figure out how he got in the bathtub.

I dreampt I was trying to get dressed for work and I couldn't pick out jewelry that I liked. I was wearing this really crazy outfit that was one red and one green velvet slipper with knee sock that alternated with these knee high blue boots.  I was wearing a skirt that was plaid ruffles in the front with a longer cape like back made of really cheap material like a kids first sleeping bag. I know I had a watch and a bracelet that said my name.  I can't think of what the top looked like. 

Books and Birthdays

10/3/16

I wrote a book and while I was riding on a bus I showed another woman.  I fell asleep and when I woke up she had taken my book but no one would help me look for it since no one has seen it.  The next day at work an advanced readers copy of my book arrived by it didn't have my name on it and it was from a totally different publisher.

I threw a birthday party for one of my storytime kids though I didn't know the kid or even recognize the name.  We had cake but not much else. The party was at a family members house but you had to get there through a museum.  There was a baby outside on the front porch that we fed strawberries but when my friends drove over with a book we fed only certain letters to the baby. We never did sing happy birthday. 

Outreach

March 2, 2015

I dreampt I was doing Storytime in a Mayan ruin. They made me keep my music outside and my bucket of egg shakers had bugs in it. Weirdly none of the parents or kids seemed to mind.

the house took the boys

August 12, 2016

last night i dreampt we lived in an old house that wasn't complete. there was an old section upstairs that was sealed off. the floor was covered in tiles with pictures of tiny animals that looked like amebas but i think were Mushi, creatures from the spirit world that i saw in an anime. i met a lady at work who was adopting four children and i realized the two boys could draw so i took them home and i took the lock off the sealed portion of the house. i gave the boys paper and crayons. i cant explain this part but its like the house took the boys as an offering and we were able to finish the house.

outgrew glasses

April 17, 2013

I dreampt I was at a friends home to help their son put his contacts in, also in the dream he was a very young age so I have no idea what he would need contacts. weird