Mezzanine

12/08/2009

Retail

This wasn't much of a dream. I'm working somewhere that seems like a mix between the school bookstore and PacSun. I have some 3/4 length sleeve hoodies to hang somewhere but they don't seem to fit with the theme of the displays on the walls. There are cabinets that have like small banners around the center of them with names of what goes in the cabinet sort of by theme. Upon closer inspection, it seems that it's a toy store theme and the things that belong in the walls are legos and various video games. But it's clothes hanging up there instead. In fact, one cabinet had VCU tye-dyed hoodies with patches on them of various alcoholic beverages. If I could draw, these were amazing sweatshirts.

Then, of course, I have to go to the bathroom, but I don't remember what happened on the way to the bathroom, just that I woke up and went to the bathroom.

Performance Anxiety

This was from Sunday. I'm in the bathroom and there are people in my stall waiting for me to go to the bathroom and I can't go! Which isn't really that weird because I hardly ever actually *go* to the bathroom in my dreams.

11/28/2009

Hotel Bathroom

I'm in a hotel room with some nondescript dream friends when they all get the idea that it's time to go to Islands of Adventure in Orlando, FL. They all start getting ready and I tell them that I'm already ready. Then at the last minute I decide that if I'm going out, I'd better shave my legs. So I go into the bathroom to actually *go* to the bathroom and I end up standing up while I'm still peeing and getting it on my foot. Then I look at the floor to see that the toilet is leaking and there is water all over the floor by the toilet and the sink and the bathtub. I must have told someone to call the front desk because someone in a french maid outfit comes in to inspect the leak. At this point, I'm in the *other* bathtub standing up shaving my legs. (In my hotel bathroom dreams, they are usually huge with multiple fixtures like this.) I'm completely naked, but I don't care that the maid is seeing my goodies. I may even be showing off a little. Then someone yells that they're leaving and I'm so mad that they're going without me.

Professor Training

I'm at a university somewhere and I'm talking to my Spanish professor, Dr. Sims. He's an older man with thinning grey hair and a not so small nose and glasses. I tell him I'm on my way to my office which is in this building over here, and I point it out to him. He made a joke about something the building and we part ways and I walk to my "office." I open the door to my office and it's a huge lecture hall with kids in it and a professor conducting a class. The professor looks my age.

I walk in and look for my name on the walls above the sections of students and find it and go up to the top level of the lecture hall. I walk across a row of people and sit down to find that Dr. Sims is right behind me. We start talking, but I don't know what about. Then the professor who is teaching is explaining something about the three "C's" of something and then she dismisses class. I walk down and out of the room and find myself attending a seminar for new professors. I sit with a group of people who I've just met and one guy gets up and leaves. He comes back and presents me with a nice Cross pen and says I'm his new best friend. Then someone mentions that we have to take a physical education class "so we can be healthier than and look better than the students." I see my friend Jesse and he says he has to take some class for phys ed that he doesn't like, and I said, "what about golf? you love golf!" and he looks up and says, "yeah, I do!" then the crowd begins to disperse.

11/26/2009

She's Too Young!

I'm somewhere at a beach or river... a body of water. I'm in the water with my clothes on. I get out and there are two cars full of people who in my dream I know but I have never seen them in real life. I walk up to someone at one car and ask for a towel...

scene change... I'm walking through the front door of the house of someone from the cars. There are two young girls living there. One walks from one room to another wearing only a towel and flashes me! I follow her because she winks at me. I go into her room and realize that I'm in sort of a dorm room. There are posters on the walls, but what catches my eye is a big display of tacky tourist magnets from tons of different cities and states. One in particular is from Myrtle Beach and looks like a key chain that I have. Something happens in my brain that makes me realize that if this girl has this magnet, she must be twelve or thirteen years younger than me... making her sixteen or seventeen years old.

I ask her where the magnets all came from and she covers my mouth with her hand. I kiss the palm of her hand and then wake up. I really wanted to know where this was going, so I tried to go back to sleep, and sort of ended up in the same place, but can't remember what happened.

You Wanna Throw Down?

I am running through a dark alley and I run into a couple of friends. I ask where they're headed and they say the name of a girl, which I can't remember, but they say not her house, but the bar that's named after her. I run off...

I jump down a flight of stairs to a restaurant and almost knock down some girls coming out of the bathroom. They get shitty with me and follow me back into the bathroom. One goes into a stall and I kick the stall door open and see her sitting on the toilet giving me the biggest "boo" face I've ever seen! She was so sad that I opened the door on her! Then her friend got shitty with me again, and I said, "You wanna take this outside and throw down??" Instead of going outside, I wake up and go to the bathroom.

10/11/2009

I remember three things. I remember waking up panicked but I can't remember what I had a nightmare about. Then I remember walking out of a building, maybe a hotel, seeing a girl I went to high school with who was on the forensics team with me, Elizabeth J. She looks at me and says, "you are such a pimp, look at all those ladies waiting for you!" I'm kinda startled and just say hey to her then walk up to all these hot girls who were waiting for me.

Then I remember running. Someone was chasing me. I ran around the back of the building I came out of to like a loading dock area. Then I wind up inside a fast food restaurant. I look for a place to sit down and I take a seat next to a family. I think I got on my cell phone to make it look like I was taking a call so I would just blend in so the person chasing me couldn't find me as easily. Then my sister comes up to me: she's the one that was chasing me! I freaked out and yelled at her.

Then I'm in my grandmother's house in her bedroom. I walk into the bathroom and there's one of the hot girls from before getting out of the shower. She acts all modest, like, no, don't look at me, and puts on a towel. I hit on her and ask her if she really wants that towel on. I don't think I was getting anywhere with her, so I go into the next room over and it's supposed to be the room I always stayed in when I visited my grandmother, but it's my sister's room. The only things I see in there are stuffed animals. Tons and tons of stuffed animals. Floor to ceiling. All different animals, colors, shapes and sizes... even some clowns.

Side note: I remember when I was younger having a dream where I was in my grandmother's house and approaching a closet door that was just ready to bust open because the closet was so full. Maybe it was the stuffed animals trying to get out! Also, I remember waking up from this dream just kind of sad because I felt like this really spoke to me about how my sister is never going to grow up and be a functioning adult. It must really suck for her.

10/08/2009

Date With Criner

All I can remember is a guy I work with who is a total misogynist being really sweet on what seemed to be a date. I remember being in his car and then getting out of the car to go somewhere and I left my shoes in the front seat. The car's a convertible but I feel safe that no one will take my shoes. Upon coming back to the car, I find that my shoes are in fact gone, but my cell phone and iPod are still there.

Mike Boger's Uncle's House

I'm driving somewhere in a wooded area with Mike Boger. (We've had a falling out recently over his choice of women he dates.) We drive to what looks like a dead end, but it's like a mountain of beautiful flowers! I tell him to stop so I can take a picture. It seems like he's still driving very very slowly to screw up my picture taking on purpose because none of my pictures are turning out right, they're all blurry. So I yell at him to damnit, stop the car!

He stops the car and we get out. He says this is his uncle, the Duke of ____?___'s house. We approach the house on the side of the beautiful flower mountain and there are horses in a barn. They have flowers all over them, too. My pictures of them didn't turn out, either, because they were moving around too much. So Mike goes up a staircase into the house and I'm thinking, shouldn't he call first to let someone know he's there? (He is famous for showing up unexpectedly.) I follow him up the stairs to find another smaller white horse in the house. Someone comes around the corner and says I must be Mike's friend. He takes me into the living room where there are a couple of dogs and... another horse. I don't find it strange that there are these horses in the house, though.

I look out the window and see a beautiful lake. It's crystal clear and the water is so blue. Mike suggests that we go sail in his boat. (This is so weird, he totally has a boat that I had forgotten about... but it's not a sailboat.) I tell him I have to go to the bathroom first. I go to the bathroom and there are floor to ceiling windows, but there are also sheer drapes covering them. I can see out the window through the drapes at his family chillin on the wraparound porch. I'm done going to the bathroom and I walk out to the porch. I'm looking out into the lake and I see two horses swimming and playing a game in the water. Upon closer inspection, they're dunking a yellow Nissan Xterra and another smaller car into the water. It will pop back up and they will dunk them again. They seem to be having a lot of fun with this.

I find my friend from high school, Shelley, in another room. She's telling me to get my sunglasses and get ready to go to the boat. We walk out of the house and down a long walkway covered in like... I guess it's astroturf... the stuff on a miniature golf course. We get to the end and there's a dock for boats extending really far into this lake. I try to take more pictures. Then I wake up.

10/07/2009

Captured!

Funny, I don't remember being captured, but I sure am a captive. I can see a city in ruins because we're in the middle of a war. I don't know where I am, but I feel like I'm in Iraq. My captor is an Indian man who looks like the wedding planner from the movie "Monsoon Wedding." (I can't find a picture!) He's in love with me. I think we were making out. Next I'm in a house of some sort and I'm in a bedroom. But the door has one of the panels cut out of it so I can see what's going on outside. There are some people trying to break into the room next to mine, then they try to get into mine. It's a bunch of Indian kids! They're pissed off and have knives and are trying to cut me through the door! They're pushing on the door and I'm pushing back so they can't open it. They get it open just enough for a small black dog to come into my room. I'm ok with this. Then I turn around and find out I'm actually in a bathroom and I turn back around to the door and the kids are gone, instead there are people waiting in line to go to the bathroom. I turn around again and I see my friend from middle school, Chris Lennon, going to the bathroom or washing his hands, I can't tell which because his back is to me. He turns around and I see that he is actually a woman. I'm so floored by this, but I still remember I'm a captive so I tell him, I've been here for a month and a week, how did he get here?? Somehow I end up getting his phone number that he wrote on a piece of paper that read that his name is actually Christie.


Mark's House

Now I'm playing basketball in my old neighborhood in Illinois with my old neighbors Mark and Skip. This is strange because I never really played basketball with them and now they're being particularly nice to me. Mark starts to go home, so I follow him and he sits on his porch. I see his mom inside through the glass storm door. I open the door to say hey and she says to close it so I don't let the air conditioning out. I ask if I can come inside and she says yes. I ask if I should take my shoes off and she says no. I get inside and she says she's making waffles and pancakes for breakfast. I sit down but tell her that I hate waffles and pancakes (which I totally do!). When I look at my plate, though, I see pizza. So I start eating it. Everything's pretty normal and she asks me how long I've been back. I tell her only a couple of days. She asks what I'll be doing for work. I tell her that I work at Barnes and Noble and think for a minute. I tell her that I can't really fly back and forth and commute to work, so I'll probably just get transferred to a store here in Illinois. I was standing on the stairs as we're having this conversation, then I come downstairs and start playing with the dog. I feel really welcome here. Just good vibes.

10/05/09

OK, so school, life, etc. happened. But I was in Spanish class the other day and someone mentioned having "one of those dreams where you wake up and go to the bathroom and go back to bed and then you really wake up." Yes, totally, a false awakening, right? Yeah, that's what it's called! So I realized I totally miss my DJ. Here's some catch up dreams:

Lately I've had a few dreams where I've been really pissed off at my dad. In one dream, I recall he had something really hot and pressed it to my face and was burning me with it and I was screaming at him that he doesn't even know what he's doing!!! In other dreams I'm just frustrated and mad at him.

Last night I dreamed I had a fight with my sister on the phone. She said she was moving to Quebec. I told her I don't believe her because she lies all the time (true), I can't trust her (true), and I wish I didn't get stuck with a shitty sister like her anyway (also true)!!! It felt so so good to get that off my chest, even if it was only in a dream.

I had a lucid where I couldn't gain control and I just remember it being a strange situation so I just rolled back into normal dreaming.

OK, here's a weird one: I'm in a pet store like digging hamsters or guinea pigs out of the dirt in the floor... but they're in habitats and they're really hungry because they've been underground for so long. I try to get them some food when I walk by a wall of aquariums of various exotic fish. They look prehistoric. One tank has the lid off and there's what appears to be a tiny shark spitting water at me!! Then I hear a voice overhead saying that the end of the world is coming and there's nothing I can do to stop it.

I have some more dreams of being in the bathroom and people walking in on me as usual.

I had one last night or the night before about being a bird... and having a bird buddy with me watching some other birds hunt for worms. We decided they were from the Philippines. Then one little bird who was hurt was looking for some worms and I felt like he was scared that the other birds would attack him. So my bird buddy and I went and scooped him up and brought him to safety. The little hurt bird thanked us and said we should smoke with him. So we started smoking what looked like some thorny stems of plants and I don't even know how we lit it but we were smoking it! (I love the uncomplicated nature of dreams sometimes!)

Anyway, I've had some pretty bizarre dreams as you can tell, and I hope to get more into my DJ on a regular and get into have more memorable lucids!

It's good to be back!!

2/10/09

Steam Makeup

I must be at the mall but it feels like a more intimate setting. I'm watching a woman put makeup on a girl, but it's no ordinary makeup. In order to "seal" this makeup, she's got to use a hand held steamer to the girl's face. I watch her smear some liquid makeup on this girl's nose and then steam it so it stays. When she moves the steamer away, the girl's nose is a shade or two darker than the rest of her face.

I must be really interested in what's going on, so I walk up and have a conversation with the woman who's applying the makeup. She looks like she's airbrushed... sort of. I tell her that I really only use makeup to cover up blemishes and that I have roseacea. She shows me where she has covered up her own blemishes and it looks decent enough. She offers to do a demonstration on me.

I sit in this chair that is really poofy and it's hard for the woman to reach me. So I sit up on my knees and lean forward. She puts the liquid makeup on the left side of my nose and puts the steamer up to it. I can feel the makeup getting hard. I touch my face when she's done and it feels like plastic! I look in the mirror and it's kind of shiny and obviously something's different about that part of my face. I'm pissed. She brings me over to a table and on it are plastic discs in a box. She said these are samples of textures that the makeup can turn out like. I think it was still in the experimental stages. I remember seeing four other girls waiting their turn and they were all looking at new tennis shoes they had just bought.

The Bum in the Bathroom

I believe I had just left the makeup extravaganza and I had to go to the bathroom. I'm walking down the street now looking for a fast food place or a gas station to go to. I find a "community center" and dip in. I find the bathroom and go in. It looks pretty nasty, but I have to go. I go into a stall and pull my pants down. To my left is a cut out area from the wall separating me from the next stall. There's a homeless man in there asking me if I'll give him a hand job!!!! I was shocked and told him absolutely not and that he's in the girls' bathroom anyway, what is he doing there??

I am pissed because I can't go to the bathroom and pull my pants up and leave. I go to the boys' bathroom. The door is closing, and it's not a swinging door like on most public bathrooms, it's got a doorknob on it. I turn the knob and a guy asks me if I'm coming in or not... he has no clothes on. I figure I don't care what's going on in there, I have to pee. So I go in and find a stall, and this bathroom is so much nicer than the girls' room. There are tons of guys in there. I think I threw off the plan, though, because from under my stall I can see the guy putting his pants back on. THEN when I look up, my door is open and everyone is watching me. I close the door and look up and the guy who let me in is peeking over my stall!!!! So I say the hell with this and leave.

I'm still on a mission to go to the bathroom. I am on the street again and I find like a club and there's a band playing. I go in and find the bathroom. It's huge. I go into a stall and the toilet is right up against the wall so I have to sit off the side of it. The stalls are short and I could see some girls coming in. Now my wall has disappeared again and I watch them go into a stall a few stalls down. I look up and there's a ledge with some cds on it. There are maybe forty in the stack. I grab them and start flipping through them. They seem like pirated copies of movies. All the titles are hand written. One says, "Conspiracy Theory, Rare."

As I'm looking through these cds I can feel myself taking a shit. I look around for some toilet paper, but all I can find is a calendar on the wall. It looks like someone had made it themself, not like one you buy in a store. So I grab a few pages and wipe. I knew this was ok because the pages were from January and it's February now. I go to stand up and this girl is standing on the outside of my stall and she freaked me out being there. I flushed the toilet. She handed me some jewelry and said she had found where I buried it. It was a really nice gold ring with channel set purple stones, maybe tanzanite, and a necklace. The girls who came in earlier are now behind me and they look in my toilet. Apparently I needed to flush again. So I do. Now the girl who just handed me the jewelry says something about do I remember the four people I killed? I'm indignant because no I do not remember that!!! The dream faded after that.

The Lunch Line

The first thing I remember is something about a parking garage. I think I met up with some people and then we went to lunch. We get in the cafeteria and go our separate ways to get food. I can remember being in the lunch line and there was a weird chicken dish. And it was so confusing where to go to get a drink. And people were butting in front of me! It was very hectic in that lunch line! I got really frustrated and I think I woke myself up!

Girl Scouts Slumber Party

This starts weird. I'm in a public bathroom somewhere. I don't want to sit on the toilet seat so I'm straddling it, however, I'm hovering with my one foot against the wall and the other is trying to get to the side of the stall to prop me up right, but my pants are at my ankles and it's difficult. Then a little girl comes into my stall!!!

Now I'm in like the den of someone's house. I still have to go to the bathroom. So I find the bathroom here and go in. I sit on the toilet and I'm trying to go but can't. I can hear people yelling for me outside the door. Then this girl from grade school, Renee, pokes her head in the gap between the door and the floor. She is lying on top of a brown paper grocery bag. I told her she could use that as a sleeping bag. She said something about using my green girl scouts card. I said I could only think about yellowcard right now.

I'm over trying to go to the bathroom. I walk out of the bathroom and Emily says to me that while I was in there her mom made us stuff to eat. I look on the mantle over the fireplace and there is a bowl full of cinnamon rolls. I'm really excited about this. I haven't had one in a long time! I look around some more and on a table are cheese danishes. On another table is a glass jar full of what looks like peanut brittle on clear glass rectangles. Then Mallory walks by me completely naked and asks why I haven't picked something to eat yet.

Stoned With Danielle and The Creek

I'm at Danielle's apartment. We have to go somewhere so I'm looking for my clothes to put on so we can get out the door. But I'm already clothed. I find a pair of socks and put them on over top of the socks I already have one. I feel like I'm stoned. Everything feels heavy and extremely difficult to do. But I don't remember actually smoking anything. I think I stared at the coat rack for a good while until she snapped me out of it. I put on my black and white Adidas coat and went out the door. As soon as I got outside I realized that it was summer and took off my coat.

Danielle says it's so nice that she wants to go for a ride in the convertible. I ask her when she got a convertible! I was looking for her silver Acura. She jumps across this creek that is in the middle of the parking lot to get to the other side to her car. I tell her she's crazy and I'm not jumping across that creek because I'll just fall in and that would suck. Then this car pulls up and parallel parks next to the creek. Ok, maybe creek doesn't describe it well enough. It's much deeper than a creek. Like six feet deep. There's like an embankment on each side that's grassy and then the water in the middle. So this car parks and is hanging over the edge like it's going to fall in. I'm watching it and sure enough it falls right in. Then three guys get in and try to get the car out. One guy gets the entire top of the car like it's a toy race car that you can switch the tops on. He pulls it out and comes over to my side of the creek and puts it over my head so that we're both under the top of this car. I'm kind of freaked out by this because I don't know what this guy's intentions are.

Next thing I know, I'm throwing my two sheep that I sleep with out from under the car so that if we fall in the creek they won't get wet. I have no idea what happened to Danielle and why she isn't helping me. So this guy is walking too close to the edge of the creek and I feel like we're going to fall in. Like I'm on the very edge. Then everything stops and the guys acted like it was a joke. So I ran away.

Board Shorts in the Locker Room

I'm in a locker room and some girl says that I have to try on all these board shorts that someone left in there. So I do and they're all huge on she and I. She said they were some guy's and they were a size twelve. Which is weird because I wear a size ten jeans and guys shorts are in waist sizes not whatever made up sizes girl clothes come in.