Star Wars Librarian

*I had this dream in two parts, separated by several days. 

I dreampt that Luke Skywalker was on a ravaged planet and that everyone had to leave due to constant attack.  Luke met a librarian (who was dressed like the Priors from Star Gate SG1) on the planet who kept all of that world's knowledge in himself. He was not able to escape.  He insisted on making sure everyone else got away.  He gave Luke the knowledge of the library.  He was supposed to put the knowledge in Luke's mind but somehow he didn't upload it properly.  Luke flew away with the last of the refugees and was fine for a while.  About a week later he began to get sick.  He seemed distracted and forgetful.  It was revealed that the information should have been safely stored in areas of the brain that humans do not usually access so it wouldn't have made a difference to his other functions.  Instead, the information was roaming his entire body, overwriting systems and taking over both his body and mind like new programming. Eventually, the library would take over his either gaining full control as a new sentient life form or putting Luke in a coma. They had to contact another librarian but they really need just one librarian.  They needed a man called Lantern.  He came to the ship through space and entered the airlock with no suit.  He was an Asian man of age indeterminate who seemed both older than he appeared but also very strong and in no way tired from his trip. There was a sense his appearance had changed over the years as if shadows of his other looks were lightly overlayed on his most current appearance.  It was clear he had once had very long hair. He also had a shadow of facial hair mostly about his jawline.  The man was named Lantern. (yes I realized that its racist to use a word associated with many Asian festivals and traditions, in my dreaming mind Lantern was used to represent how he was able to guide people with knowledge and also this was a dream not an intentional slight).  Lantern was able to use the force to help the knowledge in Luke coalesce in his abdomen. As the information was gathered it was visible running along his limbs and as more information was collected the light seemed to rise from deeper inside his body like seeing a submarine surface at night. Lantern was able to retrieve all the knowledge simply absorbing it through his hands.   After he left with the library, Luke returned to normal.   

Inside Out

I dreampt someone told me the door to the storytime room was jammed or stuck so i went to see what was going on. It was an accordion door and it looked like it had been smashed so that it stuck outward into the dept. When I got out it open I found all these thick black theater curtains that went up much higher than a library ceiling. As I pulled them all back I realized I could see the sky and that the track for the curtains was also for a roller coaster. The track was badly bent and warped. I could hear many coasters all on different tracks. When I turned back to the library all i could see was a field that had once been a paved lot so that patches of concrete were interrupted with grass. I called my coworkers into the room that should have bene set up for a big program and we watched the roller coasters crash into the ground one at a time. Later in my dream or maybe before I was at a garage sale and then the garage sale was in my program room so we moved the furniture all around and had this weird craft program and talent show thing.  It was very chaotic.  The garage sale from earlier had been happening in a house down the street but once inside it looked like the store Ollies and there was stuff just stacked everywhere.  i really wanted a specific chair and to look at rugs but no one would help me. I don't know how the sale got into the library.

Someone was trying to break into the house. I kept telling people but one person went back to sleep and one person never came and one just walked away. First I saw him at the back room and as i ran to check all the windows he appeared at each one as if he could get in at any time he was screwing with me. I called 911 but the voice of the dispatcher just got softer and softer. I remember yelling for help over and over but then I just woke up.

Last night I dreampt Sir Ian McKellen was in my basement doing laundry. I offered him a beer in a Harry Potter glass and he said oh well at least the beer is from Michigan.

Luke Skywalker and young Obi Wan Kenobi had a light saber battle in space while free falling from a ship to a hovering city.

Sick sleep

November 28, 2017

I dreampt my family and I took a bus to Canada to swim in a river which is odd since in the dream we did a lot of walking in what felt like a dry river bed.  It was very gravelly and we walked under a lot of high way overpasses. We were supposed to take a bus there. It took many buses even though the price listed sounded like was all one trip. The price listed said it would get you to a certain place but left out the part that you had to change buses a lot and each time you did that it would cost more money. 

I heard a man say in a voice over that it takes 9 minutes to fully wake from dreams and then I watch a video montage of scenes in movies that were supposed to represent then this. Most of the scenes were of people who were already awake. Oddly I recognized nearly all the films but once I woke up I couldn't name any of them.

I was in a library on a college campus and I had to leave but I didn't want to go out the main entrance.  I kept going down the stairs and the railing was a double metal bar that was flat that I think you could easily slide all the way down on.  When I got to the bottom I still wasn't in the basement and there was definitely light coming in the windows.  A tiny gate that I could have easily stepped over was at the bottom of the stairs with a sign warning not to go beyond. To my right through a glass door I saw people working, maybe archivists.  And the to the left I saw an intricate metal door made of clockwork pieces. It was connected to an actual clock that was laying face up on the other side of the door and as it ticked the characters on the face of the clock moved around. 

Also on this college campus I was walking with a friend and talking about an upcoming reunion.  We saw digital signs to honor the dead from our class who hadn't graduated but the names were for people from high school who were still alive. 

I had to get my umbrella from where it was hung off a railing but instead of going around to the top of the platform where I hung it, I interrupted two very tall people who were kissing and rudely told them to get it for me.

I was living in a trailer and I never went outside.  The windows had fake mini-blinds that were made of partial board but mostly folded paper. The bathroom had two rooms and one them them had a hot tub and also a magnifying mirror like at the dentist.  We didn't have a lot of food but there was bread and bananas and also food from someone's catering job.  They brought the food in big buckets and one of them was full of little juice bottles.  People seemed to come and go from the house but I never saw a door. The mini-blinds kept me from being seeing people approach.  I liked not being seen but I didn't like not being able to really look outside. 

I saw a woman transforming into the character Pennywise from It but she kept smearing the makeup and I couldn't tell if it was on purpose. 

I got hand sanitizer in my coffee but I drank it anyway.

I was babysitting a child over the computer but I kept seeing beer ads in the feed.

I was introduced to an event planner that only did weddings and funerals. 

Doll Baby

January 16, 2017

I dreampt I did storytime in the basement of my parents house.  The room was really full and a man told me that 88 people were there.  Every time I tried to sing a song the stereo would start to play.  A lady from another library was there helping me but she didn't know what was wrong.  Sometimes the song was in another language.  I remember specifically that we tried to sing The Green Grass Grew All Around and the Sleeping Bag Chant. Every time I turned to the stereo and back to the group there were fewer people but it also seemed like they were taking their seats with them.  At the beginning of the dream we faced the stairs but by the end we had all turned around had our backs to the stairs and the stereo was in a cabinet under the counter.  I could see all these power strips and I got so mad that the stereo was on that i just tried turning all the power strips off. I left one on because i thought it was the wireless for the library.  I know the other staff and I discussed calling a manager but the name we used was for someone that wasn't in IT but instead from cataloging so that didn't make a lot of sense. At one point I could see a doll changing the stereo and it was a ghost doll and she had been changing the songs, making them faster and choosing languages I don't know.  I don't know if the doll belong at the house since I had never seen it before.  I don't think any of the storytime kids brought the doll either.  I remember that the doll had brown almost black hair and not clothes. 

Late for dinner

December 22nd, 2016

I dreampt I was having friends over for dinner.  I was making mac and cheese but i had it in the drawer under the oven where the pans go so I don't know how it was getting cooked.   I found a hair in the dish so I went upstairs to sleep but a friend was in my bed watching tv. Somehow that day I ruined two pairs of shorts or really it was the same pair of shorts but I ruined them twice.  I think the inside of the house was the house I am in now but the outside of the house was decorated with large glass blocks that were hollow and each one had a miniature garden inside. 

I also dreampt I was hosting anime club at the library and my teens pretended to be cats and tore down all the paper streamers the room was decorated with. 

reruns

September 4, 2016

I dreamt I was watching a tv show that was a mix of Supernatural and Stranger Things.  They dressed Sam up like a scarecrow decoration and left him in a wagon and there was the scene with Barbara in the pool from Stranger Things. Only it was a girl with long hair and she was already dead because she was jumped by mean girls in the bathroom and they gave her an IV bag of something thick like pudding but somehow it dehydrated her until she died.  After that they threw her in the pool. It was hard to tell if it was still a show or if I was there too but I wasn't scared so I am guessing it was still tv.  

Then I dreamt I was designing a Harry Potter Teen program for the library and I invited a teacher called Professor Lambic, ironically my favorite Belgian beer.  We were going to make edibles wants and I was told that someone had been to a program where thats the only part the teens would do and nothing else.

Also mom had this giant contraption in the garage that used those ramp you drive a car up on so can work in it. The whole maze was made of metal from swing set slides and other random things. I don't recall what the device did. 

might as well be a nightmare

Does dreaming about work count as overtime?

the only roller coaster i like

December 16, 2013

I had the best dream, I was hiking in a swamp at night and I found this twisted bridge that I had to pull myself up on to. it was was metal and really narrow, it was an abandoned roller coaster! I followed it all around the park and then the sun came up so I went back to work. in what dystopian world do we have no roller coasters but the library is still open? 

August 5, 2011

I did dream the IT guy from the library was trying to help me set up a Farmville LAN party.

library events

November 14, 2014

Last night a friend and I were planning library events in my dreams that involved laser tag and a chance to pilot the Wright Flyer.