Make Your Mark

 I dreampt about a man and woman lying in bed at night.  The woman was sick and it was hot in their ground floor apt in a rundown tenement.  The setting was a slum area with stone streets. The couple had the door open with the screen latched but she woke up during the night sure she heard someone try to force the door. She got up to look out the screen and she saw a man in a hat walking down the lane just outside the lampost light. She watched him step into each doorway and tinker with something before moving on.  She woke again later and though it wasn't dawn, there was too much light outside.  She saw that the city was burning.  The woman woke the man and they ran out of the city up onto a hill.  Later it was revealed that the man in the hat was pretending to be the gas meter inspector but instead of marking down how much gas each family used he was opening the valve and letting the gas fill as many homes as he could.  The man forged the signature of the real workman who couldn't write but used magic calligraphy to mark the paper with stitches in the form of a tiny grasshopper. 

MTA

Some context, over the weekend I fell asleep outside at a festival while listening to The Drab Irish Band play the song MTA which might be better known by the Kingston Trio.  A few days later I had this dream.

I dreamt I was at work and I had clients to see but I needed to shower first.  My job was in a massive vacation complex that was a planned city with an amusement park, a variety of houses, and restaurants and was whole autonomous from the outside world. It might have been physically separated from other cities by a dome of some kind. The schedule was very chaotic and the whole time I was trying to get ready my boss was explaining all the time slots.  None of this made sense as we had a lot of new staff that couldn't be booked the way she had them. I grabbed all my gear and started walking from the showers to my job which was upstairs and across a walkway but I dropped some of my stuff and started sliding on a moveable walkway that shuttled me to a series of tunnels that also had movable walkways.  I couldn't get back through the door I had come through so I had to get on a monorail that operated in the tunnel that I think was only for staff. AT this point I knew I was going to be very late for work. The train would pass by windows so we could see the city outside.  Sometimes the train would run on an elevated track around the city.  the only way to get back to my stop was to ride the train all the way around the course back to my original starting point.  There didn't seem to be a way to communicate from outside the train so I couldn't tell my boss I was going to be late.  Time didn't seem to be moving consistently as we were on the train into the night and the train emerged on the elevated track just as the sun was rising over the water inside the city.  I don't think I could see outside the city so maybe the ocean was part of the vacation city grounds? At one point it felt like we were getting closer to our starting point but then the train never stopped to let anyone off or on again.  I realized that the time between the last two stops on the train at been over a month and I woke up in panic knowing I couldn't really leave the train. 

Rats!

I dreampt I was in my childhood bedroom.  I was asleep and my feet were sticking out from under the covers.  As I slept a white rat came and bit my feet repeatedly.  In the dream, I woke up but the rat continued to follow me and bite me.  I then woke up to my real life but at first, I could not move or speak.  As I lay there I feared the rat would be real and would bite me for the third time that night.

That same night I dreamt my teeth were falling out but as they did each tooth was revealed to be ornately carved like ivory. 

I dreampt I had a pair of rhinoceros in my house, a mother and son. The mother was full grown but the baby rhino was the size of a kiwi fruit.  We had to move the rhinos to lots of different rooms and whenever I went in the room to get them the baby rhino who ram my hand a few times before biting me repeatedly. 

Foundation

I was in a house with a garage underneath that you could access from either the front or the back of the home so it was like the house had an underground drive-thru.  In the garage, there were two black cats the size of martens who were fighting. It made me think of how Merlin saw dragons fighting under the foundation of King Arthur's castle in progress. (I read this in Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy) The fighting causes the structure to constantly fall down.  I worried about the house until I woke up.  

I dreampt I invented a filter for car windows that worked as a photo filter.  The filter used a search tool to look for images from the same year the car was made.  If you sat in the car the filter would put a glamor on you to update your appearance to a particular year so your clothes, hair, and makeup were historically accurate. For some reason, I didn't sell the technology but I just applied it to more and more vintage cars that I kept in my driveway. 

Genre Mashup

I dreamt I worked in a cafeteria. I leaned under the counter to collect dropped change. As I stood up I got my head and knocked myself out. I woke up nearly an hour later and a coworker drove me to urgent care in his jimmy buffet themed classic car. Then I woke up.

I dreamt I helped a friend cut up a designer bag while we were in the store so she could have the zipper. 

I dreamt I made this pineapple dessert where you removed the core and filled the center with almonds and other ingredients.  Once you baked it, you could eat the pineapple by pulling off a segment at a time like monkey bread but because of the inside filling each section was a little a tiny pineapple upsidedown cake. 

I dreamt I was on break at the grocery store and the only thing we were allowed to eat was fried chicken.

I dreamt I was trying to get two bicycles out of my bedroom but I kept marking the walls. While I was cleaning I also found a cute elephant figurine in my room that was blue and gold. 

I dreamt I owned a light grey/silver suit with a white vest and blue tie. We were at a hotel with an indoor pool and a glass ceiling. 

Of course, I also dreamt I was in college again.

And I dreamt about my favorite television show Smallville.  Clark was trying to get high on drugs but the drug had kryptonite in it.  He collapsed at work, it was a park or a nature preserve. He wouldn't let anyone call 911 so the staff, including a friend of mine from grade school, got him into his truck so he could drive home.  I noticed that his boots were untied.  No one realized how badly Clark was shaking and that he couldn't drive so they just walked away and left him sick in his truck in the garage. 

I dreamt I was doing a dance routine, mostly tap, with Ray Charles.  We sang his music, mostly Busted over and over while dancing in the hallway at school.

I had a long dream about high school that combined elements of the school I work at now such as being in class as a student with my actual students from work.  I dreamt that I took my lunch bag to school but didn't pack a lunch so I planned to go home on my lunch break but instead  I left in 3rd period and skipped math. On my way home I couldn't go straight down the road because of a detour so I turned left only to realize the road was flooded and frozen.  I managed to veer around and miss the water.  I careened through the intersection I had just been in and ended up in frozen water on the other side of the road. I had to get my ice scraper from the trunk so I got out of the car and waded in the frozen water so I could get to the trunk.  After this, I just went back to school without my lunch.  I also somehow ripped my pants.  I spent recess stuck on a giant indoor swing for two people. I got very dizzy but the other person would not stop the swing to let me off and we were moving too high and too fast for me to jump.

No Bite

I dreamt a man was letting his huge dog bark and snap at me.  I was crying and telling the man to get his dog and I sort of fell back into my car and locked the door from there. I drove off and it was suddenly night time and I was driving on a boardwalk.  I kept narrowly missing obstacles and a few I drove through but they had no effect on the car.  I did break off the rear windshield wiper. 

I dreamt I had a wall of climbing plants in my house on the second floor but there were holes in the floor so that the plants could come up from the basement.  I could tell that many of the plants had been cut off just at the baseboard and would probably die soon. 

I dreampt I was at a folk concert where the lead singer did the moonwalk across the stage and then stopped the music so he could tell us a ghost story.  I was in the audience eating a slice of white cheddar cheese. 

I dreamt we lived in the desert and I went outside because a little boy and his dog were on our property. They had come to see a pack of Black Leopards. When I went out I met an African Lion who didn’t bite me but was very aggressive and kept circling me and throwing me again/into the bushes and trees.

I dreamt my grandfather took me to meet André René Roussimoff aka Andre the Giant. *Note that both my grandfather and Andre dead.

I dreamt my sunroof cracked and my car filled with snow

I dreamt I was waiting to pay for a Little Debbie peanut butter cream pie and I was going to use coins because it was only 79 cents.

I was having the wildest dream about someone trapped in a cursed suit of armor. It was scary but very engrossing.

I dreampt I bought a house with a barn in the back and when I went to clean it out I found two vehicles.  I was told I could sell them both and I was very excited about all the money I was going to get. 

I dreamt I bought bourbon with my meal at McDonalds.

I dreamt I was at a dept store and I was trying to find Hanukkah books to read in storytime.

What the Bees Said

 I dreamt I was biking to the park. I was going to turn right into the side street entrance but I was going to fast to really make the turn. Just when I tried to make the turn a car pulled up in the lane so instead of swinging wide and trying to save it I had to just keep going straight. As I kept biking I moved passed a guy standing by a large blue trailer, it looked a bit like it could have hauled cars but the ramps were flat and covered with boxes. The man wanted me to help him unload the boxes but I think he thought he was a kid so he only offered me like a couple of bucks to do the job. I really didn’t want to do it and then I realize that the whole trailer was covered with bees.  It wasn't just that the bees were on the trailer but they were coming out of the metal framework as if their nest was inside. I thought I’d be nice and help which isn't like me at all. When I picked up one of the boxes I got stung twice on my right leg. Mad because well of course I got stung, I stopped and walked away. Then realized I had left my bike by his trailer near the cab.  When I turned around and went back for my bike I could see that one of the truck's front tires was flat and that the whole rig was tipping over from the imbalance. Since my bike was at the front of the trailer near the flat tire I grabbed my bike and tried to ride away before it fell on us.  And then I just woke up.

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a lot of really weird dreams about working in a children's museum as a musician, I had these Boomwacker sorts of percussive instruments and I wandered around the museum sort of making up tunes wherever I went. Also, I was sleeping on a couch at a press conference which was confusing because in the dream I was asleep on the couch but also watching myself on tv during the same event. At one point we were watching old VHS tapes and reading Far Side cartoons.

I dreamt I had one of those tall fake soda bottles people use as piggie banks but mine was full of coffee creamer but I still kept it in my bedroom and not the refrigerator.

I also dreamt I was renovating a van or mobile home or some kind of large vehicle that I was going to travel and live in. It was parked in the back of my house for the most part but it had those sliding bus doors and sometimes when I was working the doors would open and I would be in different places even though no one was driving. I was asked if the van was intended to fly and no that wasn't the plan but apparently it could beam itself places or time travel maybe?

multiple dreams about eagles in the house and me working to open windows and doors to let them out

fun end of the world adventure dream with Martin Freeman as Everett Ross from the Marvel franchise and Benedict Cumberbach as Khan from the Star Trek (2009) movie.

I dreamt I was at a mall that had public showers but I didn't use them because I was looking for my lost cell phone

I dreamt that someone drove over the lawn at my mom's house, they went through the fence by the garage, down the hill, and then out the fence again at the bottom of the hill and then they drove away but we caught them because the car has a chrome decal the length of the car that said Reese's Pieces. also, dad was there and he's been dead for 10 years but in my dream, he was wearing jean shorts and we were cracking up about the whole weird situation.

I dreamt my sister was my next-door neighbor and our yards were connected so the dogs could come over but also the yard from fence to fence was covered with a canopy of umbrellas that looks like Chihuly's Persian Ceiling installation. 

I dreampt the tile wall in my shower had a horizontal crack in it that flexed in and out as if there was airflow behind the wall.  The wall stretched several times before it fell on me while I was bathing.

circular floorplan

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. 

inside outside upsidedown

Last night I dreamt my hands were covered in bees

I dreamt I was in prison with the students from my school and my job inside was working at a pharmacy or hospital, we spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to steal the drugs

I dreamt it was raining inside my office job and I had to sit at my desk under a golf umbrella

I dreamt I was in a game that was a mix of Farmville and World of Warcraft and you could kill people to steal their farms. I made a tree fall on a man while he was driving his tractor. also in the dream, I looked like Tom Cruise from the movie Far and Away.

I dreamt a drunk Superman was crawling down the sidewalk to the restaurant he owned now that he was retired. Inside there was a man who wanted to kill him but of course, Superman didn't care and insisted on eating a snack while the man threatened him. Superman dug around in the cooler eating pepperoni and other things until he fell asleep. He wasn't worried bout the mad man since no one could hurt him more than he'd already hurt himself.

I had to write a fashion blog.

I dreamt I left homemade cupcakes at the supermarket in some Tupperware and when I came back no one had eaten any so I just took them home again

I dreamt I was driving with my seat fully reclined and I navigated based on what I could see from the sunroof

I dreamt I was trying to make falafel and the kitchen was full of dogs I had never met before, also I couldn't find the feta cheese. And I couldn't find a place to lock up my bike and two men were barbecuing on my lawn.

Last night I dreamt about great horn owls, taking my dog to the vet, and a house with many garages that were hidden by transforming doors.

I also dropped the knob came off my windshield wipers and they ran perpetually

My dreams last night involved a lot of running, stairs, lockers, lock and clocks.

I dreamt I visited a high school and for some reason, I lied to them and told them that my high school was older than I wanted to tour of their high school. They were big holes in the walls but instead of going into the classrooms they were just big open spaces like black holes.

I know you aren’t supposed to interrupt a funeral procession that’s on the road but last night I dreamt I interrupted graduation. Fortunately, no one was hurt and it turns out I know how to drive my car up steps

no options

December 27th, 2013

I dreampt I saw two girls that are eating ice cream for dessert with peanut butter when they hear yelling they say it’s in Bulgarian. They look to a window where a truck is parked among farm fields and a line of men is being unloaded. The men have green drab uniforms and backpacks with bedrolls on top. And they are here to be killed maybe shot. One man in line begins to cry he looks back at the leader who I know is the cruelest. The leader says if the man can reach the next field they will let him live the man says thank you. The man thinks all he has to do is run fast and he will reach the other side. He reaches for the fence to climb over he feels the sting of the electricity and knows then that he will die anyway. He knows he will stay trapped on that fence until the electricity kills him or that the leader will shoot him if he is able to get free. Then I just sort of snap awake. 

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.   

Probably Just Stress

I dreampt I was driving on the freeway and in a city and water was flooding across the road in front of me and behind me.

I dreamt my car died and the bank gave me a busted up station wagon.

I dreamt I woke up and I went into the bathroom and I had a tank top on and on my shoulder there was this large brown crusty almost like a giant wart. I could tell that the mass was moving and I stuck my hand or fingers into the wart and I pulled out what was either a very large mouse or a very small rat.

Mad Cow

I dreampt I was attacked by at cow.  I was walking on a trail in a grassy field.  There were a lot of rolling hills so the view was obscured in places.  As I came around a curve I saw a calf in the road that maybe had been hit by a car.  I approached the calf when I heard another cow, I assume it was the mother.  She charged me, knocked me to the ground and began to trample me.  I felt I could not get up , if I tried the cow would just keep pummeling me.  I heard someone yell and try to stop the cow.  What I remember next is seeing a young man on a stretcher because an ambulance had arrived.  I heard someone talking about "going into shock."  I could feel my body shaking with fear and pain.  

Balance

I dreampt I was blowing my nose because I felt congested but with each blow another nose piercing would come out of my nostril. 

I dreampt I had to go to a funeral that was also at my job and I had to work at my job right up until the time of the funeral.  All the other staff had to set up the services so I was alone on a very busy desk and miserable because I was so busy and miserable because I had just lost someone. 

I was taking a shower in the closet in the guest room, all the contents had been removed so they wouldnt get wet but nothing was protecting the walls or wood floor.

I dreampt I was riding on the back of my father's motorcycle that was also amphibious and when we rode into a marsh I saw that the bike was being pulled but a very large rabbit.  We had to stop at a station at one point and get a new swimming rabbit.  As we biked we debated the height of some local hills.

I dreampt a tornado came straight down out of the sky and it hit the ground and the ground exploded and it was super fast but the explosion was in slow motion so you could see the concussion wave obliterate everything.

I dreampt I was driving on a narrow dirt road that was along a river and the road became even more narrow but I just kept driving.  The road was washed away and my car fell in the river.  Some water got in my car but the engine didn't die.  I was able to bob along until I found a low bank and I drove my car back up on the road like nothing had happened.