Home Away from Homeless

June 29, 2017

I dreampt that I was at work and then I was driving home but I decided not to go home. I dreampt that there was a huge homeless shelter complex near where I lived and that i wanted to spend the night to see what it was like.  I already had a bag packed so I must have been thinking of doing this before I left that day.  It was dark when I got there and there were people just milling around outside and in this big, dark lobby area.  It seemed all the light came from the sign outside to the glass window where you apply for entry.  I had to fill out forms and the man asked me about things I had with me like if i has a sleeping bag or blanket. I had both.  I brought my cell phone but later realized I didn't have my charger. Honestly I don't know why they let me in because I'm sure I was still in my work clothes and I had a lot of nice stuff with me. I felt it was obvious that I wasn't really homeless.  I wasn't there to report on any thing it wasn't a social experiment. I checked my phone a lot and no one seemed to notice when I didn't come home.  I don't remember sleeping.  The next morning I found some people that I knew from work were there and also a lot of kids in general.  The building seemed much nicer during the day.  I had a job in the facility for at least that day but it was making change for people and I wasn't very good at it.  I think i left after that but I don't recall if I got car or how I got home or if I went back to my other job. 

Nothing good

June 25, 2017

I dreampt my friends had a little bridge that was mostly made of 2x4s.  It wasn't very big and underneath instead of water there was straw.  I set the straw on fire which burned the bridge. I didn't stay to see how much damage was done. As soon as the straw caught fire I pulled up my hood and started walking downhill away from their house.  As I walked it got really dark but no matter where I went in the woods I could hear my friends talking about the bridge saying they couldn't get mad at the fire because it was natural like a storm.

I dreampt I packed clothes for work because I wanted to drive in my flip flops but when I got to work I realized I hadn't actually packed any other shoes. 

I dreampt my friend from another department who was now the security guard and she had a gun. 

I dreampt I went to a business but it was closed so I walked back to my car and as I did I got really sleepy and disoriented.  Eventually I began to crawl to my car and I kept narrowing missing things I didn't want to touch on the ground like poop. 

Art imitates life

June 24, 2017

I dreampt I checked out some really titillating books from the library and they were fascinating but I was also horrified.  It was like a scary movie where I was curious but also sickened.  I wanted more books like them but I was afraid to take the books back to the library and have the staff see what i had borrowed.  Never mind that I could have just put them in the bookdrop. 

I dreampt I was going to run a race with someone and we were trying to make arrangements for where to leave our cars in the neighborhood nearby but my dog was with me and I had couldn't figure out where he should stay.  At one point I got the time of the race wrong and then later I left my dog in the car for a long time and felt terrible .  In my dream we never go the the race or at least i woke up beforehand.

I dreampt I was at a deli that was part of a restaurant that was downtown in a big city.  I was startled to see a treat I had wanted for some time and I got so excited that I cried. I paid in cash and it took a long time time because i kept finding foreign currency in coins in my purse.

I took my dog for a a walk at an apartment complex I used to live in and while we were walking i realized i had another dog.  We went home I found I had a three legged blonde/tan girl dog who was waiting at the top of the stairs for us.  Then I went to my art class but I had a really hard time because I didn't have any inspiration and we were supposed to have written a four page story ahead of time to base the visual project on but I didn't know about that part or just didn't do it.  We had to make something 3D.  Mine was going to be huge, taller than me but then i found out the due date so i changed mine to more like a shoe box.  It was supposed to have all these layer represented time and history and growth in the story.  We had to finish the work at home but i didn't have any of the supplies.  suddenly it seemed like it was time to go and we all went next store where some people and myself had to work at the coffee shop while other students got more time to work on their art. this was about the time my dog woke me up.

Puzzle Pieces

June 23, 2017

Last night was a lot of little bits.  I dreampt the library started to run a snow cone shop and it was a mess.  The ice maker was under the fridge and no one put water in it and the signs didn't make sense and no one had a menu.  Basically it was me not making people the drinks they wanted or handing them cups was sugar water.  

I dreampt a friend and I were refugees but in our country.  There had some a cataclysm so we couldn't just go home. I felt like we weren't that far from where we usually lived but we lived in this tiny apartment that I think was one room and a bathroom but it didn't have water or electricity.  Sometimes we got care packages from planes.  It was a strange experience because I think the apartment was from social services and i had never thought about how small the houses were but now that i was in one I didn't like it. 

I have a very common dream that repeats where I am in a school but I cannot find my classroom and the building is just enormous. At one point I looked down the stairwell and it was like the flyer throwing scene from 10 Things I Hate About You where the building just seemed to get bigger and bigger.  

Modern Ice Age

May 27, 2014

Have you seen the overly large animals at the science museum that used to roam the earth during the ice age? The saber tooth tigers, mammoths, huge sloth and beaver? I dreampt that giant horses were alive, they were orange and white like huge tabby cats and they were enormous in a way I cannot describe. I've seen draft horses and in my dream they were bigger and carnivorous. It was fantastically terrifying, it was like the book Scorpio Races by Maggie Steifvater.

Buildings

May 13, 2017

I dreampt about a lot of buildings.  I was walking around town climbing into old buildings and trying to guess what they were.  One of the buildings was a small one room church and it was missing a wall and also half filled with dirt so there was a giant mound of it in the center of the building.  I dreampt about a house with a garden in the backyard and also a big city with bridges over water. I dreampt we were on a driving tour like a safari but we had to leave and we couldn't figure out how to get to the exit so we drove places that we weren't supposed to. There was a building that I knew was a bar but the roof was curved so that the walls went up and then came back down on the other side so really there wasn't a roof.  It was more like an airplane hanger.  It wasn't very tall though so maybe it was a polebarn?  I know I had a drink while I was there and I met a friend from another job so I think is still too young to drink. 

I saw a house that was haunted, there were dead people under the house.  If you wanted to escape the house you had to put someone else under the house to take your place.  I saw a very stereotypical haunted movie girl with long, dark hair and a white dress and she was being dragged under the house but it seemed like the house was an illustration while the girl was real so it all seemed like the prologue to a movie with narration.  The girl had her hands up over her head and as she was pulled lower and lower her features started to disappear and like first her eyes went one at a time and I think they had Xs on instead like she was becoming a doll.  Then while she was sinking lower she was crying and the man who was escaping was yelling "who do you choose," because she could put someone else under the house as an offering instead.  The girl was really scared to make someone else go through this so she just stayed under the house. 

Modular Beds

May 6, 2017

I dreampt it had snowed and it was night time but no one had their lights on.  I took my dog for a walk but it was so slippery I kept falling down. My dog didn't fall so he ran and ran and dragged me behind with the leash.  We stopped at a house and  I don't think I knew the owners but I went inside some how. The two siblings, a brother and sister were trying to go to bed but they couldn't which was odd since their parents were asleep. The children had these beds were like small sectional couch sort of in an 'L' shape. The little boy kept insisting that his pillows were the wrong since but since the pillows were in these plastic covers to make them more modular I just told him that the pillow's shape and size were being distorted by the cover. The bed was made of these modular parts so you could add a headboard or make the bed another shape.  I think the little girl was only awake because her brother was keeping her up.  Eventually they both went to sleep but I don't know how I got home or where my dog was. 

All Together Strange

May 5, 2017

I had a very strange overlapping sort of dream that kept coming back to the same house.  In part of the dream I had to change clothes but one of the bathrooms was in use and one of the bedrooms had a big puddle on the floor.  I found a bathroom to use in the house where there was a bridal salon attached but then the toilet broke and they blamed me when I all I did was put on a new outfit.  Then I went to work and we were hosting a viewing for someone who had died. We were running it like a party and I had a guest list.  The urn was on the front desk and it was huge, nearly two feet tall.  People came to the funeral with their dogs but then the dogs all got away so we had to find them. While chasing dogs I ran by the house from before and also out on the bike path.  I saw people trying to catch an injured cat and it turned out one of the dogs I had caught was really friendly.  Since the cat was badly hurt we imagined the cat would come out and lay down with the sweet dog just to get some rest. After all this I dreampt I took a nap but people kept coming upstairs to ask me things. Sometimes when I woke up I was in the dream house and others I was in my own house.  I didn't really wake up though I dreampt waking up too.  Later watched Big Bang Theory but the girl characters revealed that they had spies all over town who they could call to check in on the boys and they used them to get the boys to do the what they wanted like come home in time for dinner. Somewhere in the middle I dreampt I was a student at a Japanese high school and we had to go upstairs but each grade was on one floor.  This was labeled but not in a way that made sense to me.  After the meeting which was more like a business meeting we got to go home early but I couldn't figure out where the ground floor was. 

Elevator Up

April 4, 2017

Dreampt I was on an elevator that was rectangular and really narrow but half of the floor was open.  You walked in the door and then up a little ramp and stood on a bench near the opening in the floor. The gap was covered with a black rubber mat to keep you from falling into the gears and getting crushed.  The mat sort of bowed downward and you could see some of the gears on the sides where the mat didn't totally reach the wall. It was thoroughly terrifying but after I reached the ground floor and another gentleman got off the elevator, I just went for a walk downtown and wandered into some gift shops to look at books, coffee mugs and Hanukkah candles. 

I drove a teen from the library home and she had her dog with her.  The dog had a harness but no leash so when we got to her home which was either a hotel or high rise apartment, I had to walk the dog buy holding the harness. The dog was huge, like Husky colored Newfoundland.  He dragged me along from door to door until we found the teen's family.  I don't know why I was walking the dog.  I don't know why the teen couldn't tell me which door was hers. 

You sank my battleship

March 14, 2017

I dreampt I went on vacation and we had to stop and pick up a friend who was a guy but when we got the theme park all the people in the car were girls.  It was a movie theme park so maybe Disney.  We took a tour but then we started to wander around.  We found a lagoon outside just off the basement and in the lagoon was a tethered submarine.  It wasn't clear why it was tethered to the bottom of the pond when they could just turn it off.  The Sub would occasionally move and sink.  There was a lady nearby at a standing desk like when you get seated at a restaurant.  She saw us go down to the water on the ramp but didn't say anything right away. Then she asked if were on the tour and we told her yes so that seemed ok.  Three of my friends climbed out on the submarine.  IT started to move. I really felt the sub was alive somehow and I didn't climb out on the sub.  When the submarine moved I was really glad I didn't go in the water because despite the tether I was still scared of it. 

Stand With You

March 11, 2017

I was standing on the sidewalk and I saw a man in the street with his hands over his head. He was facing another man who had a gun. I didn't know how long they had been standing there. I stepped off the curb and stood next to the man with his hands up. I raised my hands too. We did not look at each other. I faced the man with the gun but he was hard to see because the sun was coming up over the hill.

Change Up

March 10, 2017

I don't know why but we were at this deserted mall and we broke into a store that sold makeup and costumes.  At first the store was really small the the longer I dreampt the bigger the store got.  As we searched for things more people began to arrive.  By now the store was the size of a roller rink.  We were all dancing in a circle and the announcer would call out a theme like a decade and we would run to the back room and find new costumes to where because yes at this point everyone was in costume.  I had this crazy white outfit with huge pants and pockets.  You had to run back out and join the circle all while dancing.  I think maybe you would win something but then we would do another round and start all over. I met a girl with a unique name and she said her mom had a twin that was her uncle, which is odd cause that is out it works. But her name was her mom's name and I knew someone with that name.  Now I can't recall what the name was but it felt really important at the time like were about to figure that we distantly knew each other. 

Hamtaro

March 1, 2013

Dreampt I had a creek running through my yard and these giant river otters came to sunbathe on the rocks. I also dreampt we couldn't find a parking spot because all the ones available were on an incline and the parking brake was broken. Then a friend and I lived in this human sized hamster Habitrail city and we had to wear these harnesses so we could sleep in the tubes without sliding around. You could clip to the wall and work on whatever you needed.

Cold Meds

February 20, 2017

I dreamt I hired a neighborhood boy to drive me around but one day while I was in the backseat he got out and sprayed the car with a really big water gun and I got wet. It was a little confusing since sometimes the car had windows but other times the car was a convertible with the top down. I couldn't go to work like that so I got really angry. The boy wouldn't drive me back to my house so he drove back to his house and he said his big sister was going to drive me. She was really mad at me and tried to explain that her little brother had been sick and somehow this explained his bad behavior. Then she drove me to an outdoor market and she was gong to just leave me there but she then chose to go shopping. I realized I didn't have any money or my phone. She let me use her cell phone but it was like an old Nokia and I had to type everything which seemed really hard in the dream. Also I couldn't remember anybody's phone numbers. I asked if I could call Uber and people at the shops for like you should try this new app it's just called Grr. Eventually my mom and her friend pick me up and drove me home what's weird is I spent most of the dream worried about having not walked Hubble and also that I was going to be late to work.

Pasta Before Bed

February 17th, 2017

I would like some quiet dreams tonight, not like last night where a friend's mom was cooking us a fish dinner, I got a phone call reminder to walk a friend's dog and someone came over to return a book on clowns that had to be back by noon. Also we all lived in a housing complex of just log cabins and it was snowing.

I dreampt I had a table where you filled back the top and instead of a sewing machine popping up it was a tiny red piano.

I was on vacation at the beach and I had a coupon for souvenirs but I couldn't figure out what store to use it at and while I was running around the stores were closing for the evening. 

I was thrift shopping with a friend and she kept bringing enormous stuff up the register that we couldn't get in the car.  Once she brought up a giant bell.  It was't stuff that is usually big like she would bring big furniture.  She brought items that in most day to day experience are smaller like a mailbox but its the size of a dog house. 

I dreampt we had these weird creatures and we they had to keep them in water but the tub wouldnt stay full.  One of them was like a puppy and a seal, like a polar bear but with a long tail that was also fuzzy.  The other one was really scary it was small and skinny and you could see its ribs and tiny arms and it had an evil face like the monsters from the movie Alien.