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Dream 1: Ice Storm, Kids, and Failed RC

In Wellington – at the library, I think. My lab-mates are with me, I believe. It starts to rain ice, and they go inside a building for shelter. I walk around a bit. Some guy says something about the weather, and that my Jeep should be OK even though my lab-mates would have to stay there. I go back to my Jeep. Now the Jeep is my old truck. There is a bunch of stuff in the back, some of which is hanging out and has been shut in the tail gate. There is a kid there, messing with the stuff. Then there are two kids. The kids won’t leave me alone. Finally, I ask them where they live, and they point to a brick house across the street. It belongs to Mrs. (somebody, I forget the name. Something like Woolenscraft). I say to the kids “let’s go back to your home”. They are agreeable, and I walk them across the street. We enter the house. There are a bunch of kids there. It turns out to be an orphanage, or something. I locate Mrs. Woolenscraft and turn the kids over to her.

Back across the street, something prompts me to do a reality check. I try counting my fingers, but have trouble. There seems to be a little bit of a finger on one hand that I keep counting, and I think this might be throwing off the count. I might try a nose pinch RC or two also. For some reason, I won’t believe that this is a dream.

Because of the ice storm, I go back to my old apartment. Nobody seems to be living there, and I spend the night. I also bring in a bunch of stuff from the truck and it starts to look like home again. I figure, since no one is living there, I might as well move back in. The next morning, I think I should probably get in touch with the landlords and let them know I have been there. I also realize that I haven’t been paying rent. I think maybe I should pack up and leave soon, in case anyone shows up.

Dream 2: Bingo

We stop into some kind of business (library, hotel, restaurant, or something). But once inside the door, it seems that the whole thing was just a front. The “lobby” is just an entranceway, with apparently nothing else inside. But there is a small sliding door in front of us, that one can push open. When this is pushed open, it reveals a set of stairs going down into a secret bingo place. It’s kind of like an underground casino, but they just play bingo. They also have cookies. I help myself to the cookies, and I think I also look for a place where I can sit down and possibly join in the bingo playing.



Fragment 1: Night Adventure

In an apartment. There are a couple of other people involved, I think. Someone is trying to sneak in, or break in, at night I think. I wait in front of a door with a guitar to whack them on the head when they come in. Something also happens with people spraying cans of compressed air. They went into a place where there wasn’t much air to breathe. Then they realize it works better if they spray the air in their faces so they have something more to breathe.

Fragment 2: Playing Lurkers

Playing lurkers.

Afternoon nap:

Dream 3: Wandering Around in a Building

Aunt D— and Aunt R--. I see Aunt D— go by, and think to myself how much “that girl” looks like Aunt R—(at first I don’t recognize her). Then I realize who it is, and try to say hello to her. By now she has become someone else, a beautiful girl who is less closely related to me. Along the way, someone gives me a bag with some food in it – including a piece of meat that I call a “pork chop”.

Now we’re in a hotel. Dad and Mom are with me. At first it’s just Mom, I think. We are looking for food, walking through a food court sort of area. Or maybe we’re looking for a bank at first, or both. There is a place where there had been a bank, but is now part of another store. In this store, they have a story time for kids. We end up in a hotel room. It turns out that I actually live in this building, a couple of floors down. We still aren’t sure what to do about food, but I point out that I have the “pork chop” and other stuff in my refrigerator. My Mom asks me how much oatmeal is there. I’m not sure, but I make a reference to the miracle of the loaves and fishes and go to get my small bag of food.

I go downstairs. Down to the basement of a hospital or school or something. [I’m not too sure about how this part fits in, or even if it’s the same dream]. There are people wandering around – students, trying to find their way around the building. Someone asks me if I know where “the Hall” is. We discuss this for a bit. There are some things with stairs and elevators – some guy gets off an elevator and finds he is in the wrong place. I get on an elevator to go back upstairs.

I find myself helping new students collect items for their classes. This includes cardboard vacuum cleaners for a class that my advisor teaches. They ask me what he is like, and we discuss this briefly.

Scenes that might have been part of this dream:

Discussing a clock called “Hogswell”. It seems to be located at Hogwarts.

Walking along, thinking about how it would be nice to live somewhere where technology such as automobiles and the internet were outlawed. I think about starting my own place where that was the case. Ambulances could still run, but other people wouldn’t be allowed to run automobiles. My Mom and I discuss how much productivity is lost because of internet addiction.

Fragment 3: Christian Radio Show and Wrapping Paper

Listening to a Christian radio program, I think. Someone is either being interviewed or has called in, and while he is talking the host says something like “don’t say it, don’t say it” as the guest seems to be getting into something that would open a can of worms. The guest says it, and the host or co-host says “he said it!” That seems to be ok though. Now there is something about a large roll of wrapping paper. We are stretching it down a hallway, and I am standing on top of it. This hallway is connected to another hallway, where more wrapping paper is stretched. This imagery seems to be related to the talk show, or to ministry in general.

Dream 4: Unknown Park

A geography-related dream. Discussing a location with someone. There is a place called “Unknown Park”. Someone is saying that this took its name from something that had to do with a classic rock band. There is something complicated about another place to the north, with a part that had a similar name, from which this park took its name. I begin speculating about the classic rock band (it seems to be the Electric Light Orchestra). They are still touring. I wonder how old they are. Then I start ruminating about time, and how things get old and decay. It feels like a tragedy to me. We are walking along, and I fret about this. I think to myself how even the traffic lights will decay and fall apart after time.

Fragment 4: Lurkers

Playing lurkers. There is a swarm of players from the red team just above the blue team’s base. Someone says something about how it would be better if we stuck together. I then try to rally our team together to attack the red base, and type “charge!” into the chat. I try to storm the red base. I think I make it, but get killed. I might try once or twice more, I don’t remember.

Note: the bingo speakeasy picture above is a little different than what was in my dream. It looks cooler. Also, what kind of animal is that in the bottom left?

Fragment 1: Plants

Looking at some leaves. There are some vines growing too. They seem to be growing quickly. Then there is something where I’m looking at “goldenrod” – a plant with little yellow flowers on it (although the leaves look more like ragweed). There is a patch where many of these are growing...



Fragment 2: Quiz

Taking a quiz or exam. Something about the questions and/or grades...

Fragment 3: Empty Apartment

Looking inside an apparently empty apartment. It is, in my dream, the apartment where I used to live. I have been walking around in the neighboring apartment, but think it might be nice to look into my old apartment.
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January 11th, 2024

Dream 1: Flea Market Carnival

Mom and/or Dad and I are at a flea market/carnival type place. The flea market part seems to be indoors, and out back there are rides and games. I think it started out with Mom and I stopping in here for some reason. We had been heading to a business to the south. We went up a road that climbed up a hill, and Mom was telling me that we had been there before. But I don’t remember it. She thinks maybe I wasn’t with her when she went there before. We stop in to the business, and while we are there I decide to look around. The store is owned by someone that we used to know. Mom comes with me as I look around. There is an aisle of candy. We keep walking around, and now I think it is Dad that is with me and not Mom. The store is set up so that there are two bays, or wings. We walk down one, and go outside. The carnival is out there. There is a carousel. One of the songs it is playing is “And the Band Played On”. I sing along, but as I start singing the music stops playing.

Dad wants to join a race, I think. We walk around to the back of the building, where you are supposed to be able to sign up for the race. But in order to run, you need special shoes, and they don’t have enough pairs. While we are here, I think Dad realizes that there is the other side to the store. I tell him I’m going to go in and check it out. I go in and look around, but this side seems to be mostly furniture. It’s one of those places with labyrinth-like rooms. I walk around a bit and decide to come back after not seeing much interesting stuff. But I’m a bit concerned I won’t be able to find my way back out. I find a room that I came through...

At some point there is a canal inside the store, I think. On this canal is a sailboat. There are people on this sailboat who seem to be running from someone. It is discovered that they are on this boat, so they sail down the canal for a bit to try to escape. Then they jump out and roll down a hill, I think. There is a scene in which calculations are being made involving how far they roll down the hill and how that relates to how visible they are. At this point, the “people” are also Santa Claus hats, and I’m tossing them down the hill. One of them is about to make it to an area of tall weeds, where they might be able to escape...

At some point, it seems that I was back with my Dad (or someone else) at the race area. We were moving on from the foot race, and we see that there is a dog race taking place. It is all puppies, I think. My friend M—is officiating.

It seems like there were gravestones, or monuments of some sort inside the store (unless this was a different dream). There is something about a ring on a string. Some kids are doing something with this. Anyway, we follow the string, and it goes down through a register vent. It apparently leads to this place with gravestones (or so my notes say). My brother and I are doing something with these, I think. There is something about how “everyone takes care of their own pet”. There are pets associated with the gravestones, suggesting that there is more to these monuments than meets the eye. I get down on my hands and knees and start investigating...




Fragment 1: Sewage

Something about sewage being drained into a pond down a hill a little bit from a house. This is against a regulation or something, and they have to stop draining the sewage there. People are unhappy about this, but I point out that draining raw sewage into a pond is unhealthy. I mention that it might have been better if it were a creek with flowing water.

Looking for tea, or plants to use for tea. This might have been on the hillside above the pond where the sewage was being drained.

Fragment 2: A Bit Lost

Walking back to my grandparents’ former house from somewhere. It’s one of those situations where I am far away but on foot for some reason. I also don’t seem to know how to get back. But I have a GPS, and I bring up the map. I look for a way to get to a major road. At some point I’m driving again. I think there are people supposed to be following me. I pull over and wait for them to catch up, but they don’t. I get annoyed, thinking it was discourteous of them. Then I’m not sure if they were behind me or in front of me.

Fragment 2: Kid and Dog

There is a knock at the door. I look out, and there is a kid standing there. I think his mother is standing behind him. When I open the door, he says something like “can you please watch your dog more carefully?” It is explained that a dog apparently bit him, or something. He thinks it was our dog. He points out our dog. As we talk, I get the idea that he was messing with the dog, and the dog either defended itself or was playing. I get annoyed with the kid’s attitude and say something about how people who mess with other people’s dogs deserve to be bit. I even say something like “they even deserve to be put into the hospital”!

Fragment 3: Looking for a Pencil Sharpener

In the lab. I need a pencil to write something down, but my pencil is dull. I go to the lab next door to see if they have a pencil sharpener. They do indeed, but while I’m there I realize that I have one in my pocket.

Fragment 4: Final Episodes

I decide to watch the last two episodes of Andromeda (which might also be Blakes 7 in this dream). The final episodes seem to go back to an original cast that was in the pilot episode. I might be watching this on a huge screen

Fragment 5: Holograms

Someone is showing off these sheets of plastic that have those holograms on them – the ones where as you tilt the surface you see a different picture. This one is fancy, in that you see more than two pictures as you tilt the surface.

Fragment 1: My Friend the Actress

My friend H- is in a movie (or TV show). She seems to play a villain. I watch the first of these. In the movie, she is very beautiful (she’s pretty attractive in real life, but in the movie she was exceptionally well presented). I find her later and tell her that I saw her in the movie.

Dream 1: Disorientation Party and Brainwashing

Some young people (college students?) are having a party. I am at the party, and as I walk around, I notice how weird it seems. There are a couple of people dressed in what looks like plain-colored business attire. A girl gets up and jumps on a scale, and then jumps back down. She and another guy are comparing weights, or something. I continue walking and go into a room where there are a bunch of picture frames. There is something odd, like the pictures in the frames are missing or off center, or something. Someone begins to explain to me that this is a party in which things are intentionally mixed up, so that people won’t have a “point of reference” and will become disoriented. Indeed, many aspects of the surroundings don’t seem to have logical coherence to them – even the games, like the girl jumping on the scale.

But then I start explaining to the guy that there is one thing that ties everything together. Then I stop and say we should wait until we get away from other people because I don’t want to ruin the experience for them. When we get to a less crowded place, I explain that since the intention is to disorient people, that intention is what ties everything together and gives it coherence. But then as we continue walking, I realize that this technique has been used for brainwashing (not sure if it really has or if I just dreamed it). Since it has been used in the past, maybe it really does work.

Now, this starts to tie into a plot. There is a family that has moved into a small town. Things seem normal at first. There is a man and wife and a couple of kids. The parents read to the kids. But as things progress, it appears that they are being brainwashed by some people in the town. On closer inspection, the books that they read appear to have propaganda material in them. There seems to be a similar disorientation attempt as in the party, people doing weird and random things. The children, for example, will alternate from crying to being happy when the parents look at them and then look away. One child puts on a creepy mask.

There is a cake shaped like a frog. It looks tasty, but is also reminiscent of something disturbing that happened. My Mom (?) and I are going to eat it, but I wonder if she wants to because of its resemblance to this thing. She says it’s ok. As we slice into it, there are words revealed on the slices. These seem to be disturbing somehow.

I, or someone, catches on. There is a scene where this person is laying on a couch. Some things happen, involving a bag with pickle juice being poured onto this person as part of a plot. This person eventually goes undercover as a woman. He rides a scooter or bicycle to work (?) stumbling around and appearing drunk (but possibly just not used to the high heels).

Some of this might be taking place at my Aunt’s house, or in her barn. Anyway, I have her house mentioned in my notes around here and I don’t quite remember what was going on with that.

Dream 2: Family Get-together and Silver Coin

My family is having a get-together at my grandparents’ house. I’m still in my pajamas as people begin to show up. But that’s ok, as it seems that others are still in their pajamas as well, even though it’s afternoon. The get-together is apparently taking place in the evening. I have one of those scenes where I’m struggling to get dressed quickly. I don’t remember if I get fully dressed or not, but I join the group at some point. People are exchanging gifts. There is a big to-do about a large silver coin (about the size of a plate). It might have belonged to my grandfather, and the family took it and had it cleaned up as a gift. We are passing it around and looking at it, and my mother accidentally breaks it.

[Not sure if this part belongs here, but it makes sense so I’ll put it here] I go to find a broom to clean up the shards of the mirror. I go outside and look around, apparently thinking that there is a broom (or large stalk of grass, which I think would work too) in a garden or behind a compost pile. As I approach the spot, the broom seems to be gone. I turn around and see one in another location. I get this one, and go back into the house.

My mother had been given a fancy vacuum cleaner as a gift. But she doesn’t like it. In fact, she is telling my grandmother how much she hates it. My grandmother tells her that it isn’t very nice to say that. I take the vacuum and start cleaning with it. Someone goes on and talks about how people were planning to give her attachments for the vacuum as gifts. My mother then pretends that she likes the vacuum, seeing that my brother (and maybe other family members) are in the adjacent room. My brother makes some sarcastic remark, which seems to hint that he overheard my mother talking about how she hated the vacuum cleaner.

At some point, not sure if it’s in this dream or where, some kid runs around trying to find a place to throw up. He ends up throwing up off of the edge of a dock in a harbor, in front of some girls.

Fragment 2: Three Arbys’

Someone is talking about how it sounds bad to say that he hopes someone dies. Or is glad that they are dying, or something. But then he explains that “how many Arby’s do you need all together?” There are three Arbys’ restaurants together in one small location, two of them right next to each other. I mention how this seems to be the case with fast food places – they will tear one down and build a new one right next to it.

Fragment 3: Pumpkinhead

Someone is fighting a creature with a pumpkin for a head. It was kind of threatening at first, but the person gets the upper hand. Pushing it so that it’s leaning out over a bridge, she starts slashing at its neck with a sword. Now the Pumpkinhead starts pleading that it has a wife and six children, or something. The woman attacking the Pumpkinhead slashes off the head, but it doesn’t seem to phase the creature. I think it explains that cutting off its head doesn’t really do much, for some reason. [I get the idea that this dream was inspired by watching a few episodes of Attack on Titan before going to bed. But I can’t specifically prove that, so I won’t count it for points]

January 8th, 2024

Fragment 1: Kids Games

Some kids are playing. This involves some toys and some screaming. Someone is concerned about one of the toys being lost somehow. Later, there is a corpse and a severed head. The severed head is discarded in some kind of tunnel system below where the kids were playing. There is a close-up of the head, which eventually shrivels and/or explodes. I speculate that perhaps that was why the kids were screaming.

Dream 1: Kid Gets Arrested

We are standing around outside. The police show up, and there are blue lights (sort of like the lights on a police car, but also kind of like Christmas lights). I walk around something, and come back to where I started. By this time, the police have arrested someone. It appears to be an adolescent. I worry at first that there might be some violence when they arrest him, but he goes quietly. They toss him next to a corpse. This was his friend, I think. But he had murdered his friend. Anyway, he lays there with the corpse, and it seems like he doesn’t care that his friend is dead. In other words, he acts like the corpse is still alive.

Fragment 2: Games

Egg toss game. I missed it this year and last year, but I watch video clips to see if I missed anything that was actually fun. The game appears to involve people tossing eggs into a black plastic bag, after which my advisor shows up and counts the eggs that made it in. There is some other stuff about trying to find out who a girl is, or something. She had broken an egg on her head. She and another girl have made cookbooks, apparently. They have a show online, or a bunch of videos on youtube or something.

Fragment 3: Distracted

Reading(?) at my grandparent’s house. My friend M-- keeps wanting to talk online...

Fragment 4: Circus

A woman wants to get a job with the circus. Someone is showing off their elephant and trying to think of something the woman could do. The guy with the elephant shows how the elephant can lift its foot so that the woman could put her head under it if she wanted to, as though the elephant were going to pretend to crush her head...



Fragment 5: Guard Dog

...A dog. He is supposed to guard some sort of a small structure that people climb over a wall inside of. Someone and I climb over the wall inside, but this is OK and the dog doesn’t attack. Instead, we go out and see the dog. It pretends to attack, or something...

January 7th, 2024

Fragment 1:

Riding in the truck with Grandad. He’s 90 now, but still seems to be decent at driving. We are going somewhere, and then come back. By this time, Grandad is Uncle D--. He is driving pretty fast, and as we come into a garage, the man who is waiting there dives out of the way as though we were about to run into him.



Fragment 2:

Talking to M--.

I remembered the following after entering my competition score for 12/7. I will add these to 12/8 score:

Fragment 3:

There is a swimming pool. The water is fairly clean. But there seems to be something scattered on the bottom. It kind of looks like bubbles. I decide to go for a swim. Instead of entering through the shallow end, I decide to jump into the deep end. I jump in, and resurface. I mess around a bit. My beige coat seems to be in the pool with me...

Fragment 4:

In a basement. I need a hammer. I find two hatchets, with hammer-like backs to them...

Fragment 5:

Playing lurkers. They have made an update where there are sort of 3D bricks now. If you place some of the blocks, it makes it look like a 2.5D game. They are kind of golden. I find an enemy team member in the lower left-hand corner of the screen, and block him in. Then, I think I try to get him back out, or something.

On the street doing something. There is a shootout. People get killed. Some chasing going on? Later, there are monuments on the street where people had been killed...On a train. My friend M- is there. My mother thinks she has caught M trying to con me, and is being spiteful toward her. I get off of the train somewhere, then realize I left a bag on board. I retrieve my bag.

Something going on at Church?

I got derailed from my normal routine (such as it was) recently, and hope to now get back to journalling. Some things from past weeks:

- Driving on that road to the south that I dream that I'm driving on now and then

- Pond, property behind my grandparents' old house (I think)

- Tea (Christmas?)

Hmm, hopefully I remember more soon.

6.11.2023

Mostly fragments from last night. I took some diphenhydramine (the generic form of Benadryl) to help me sleep and to take care of some allergies. I seemed to be rather knocked out, although I’ve done that before and still had decent dream time.

Fragments

(1) At a church. I want to avoid someone (maybe one of the pastors?). My cousin is another pastor at this church, and as I go around the building to one of the doors people start coming out, including my cousin. We greet each other. He has some beard or something going down to his chest...

(2) Back at the house we lived in several years ago. I look out the window and see my nephew (who is 8) drive in in a red SUV. He gets to the corner of the house where the driveway turns to go behind the house, but gets stuck. I stand there watching while he gets out and tries to push the vehicle by himself. Then I think maybe I should at least try to help. We push the car into a garage that is now next to the car...

(3) Something about a little girl falling down. Maybe hitting her head on the wall. I think I try to comfort her, or keep her from crying...

(4) Something about tinkering inside of a computer. There are brackets to hold wires in place. I feel as though Servalan shows up around here somewhere...

(5) My mother and perhaps other family member(s) are visiting the lab I work in. My mother says something about how it doesn’t appear that my robot is very complex...

(6) In a library. I go looking for a book. I might also feel a bit creeped out for some reason, as though I’m thinking of scary things and find myself there alone. I come across a service desk and some other people...

6.10.2023

Bedtime around midnight, awake after 7 (from my notes it looks like I wrote 7:04, but my handwriting is a bit messy). Had had the following dreams:

The Machinery Sound Hypothesis

Walking along, and talking about noise. I say that at any given point in time, you can hear the sound of some machinery. At first I claim it’s a specific type of machinery sound, but then I just say it’s machinery. There is a screaming sound, which turns out to just be a kid playing somewhere. We walk under or next to some fans, and think about this machinery sound idea. There is something about boxes in our way. Something about walking around, and hoping to find some new place. I think that this is a new way of looking at things, and suggest that if we think about things in this way (the sound idea, or in different ways, perhaps) we might be able to find our way into a new dimension. It’s like the story Flatland – there may be other dimensions, we just don’t see them. Maybe because we never look in that direction, being influenced by our surroundings and the chain of events...Then there is something about a little girl in the hospital. She has been in there a long time, and the machinery noises that she hears are from the hospital. It is part of her world. I feel a little bad, not sure if I was making fun of her...There is also something about someone wanting to do something romantic (for their parents?) and they hitch some machine up to an old buggy to make a sort of horse and buggy. Looking closer, it seems that it was this little girl in the hospital bed, and she hooked a motorized wheelchair or something up to the bed.

Old House and Ice Cream

In an old house. It might be my apartment, actually. Something about a piece of the old house stuck in a part of the newer infrastructure – a furnace or something. Someone is interested in this piece of the old house. That’s in the basement. Upstairs, I’m in the house I lived in a few years ago. At the top of the steps, I drip some water on the floor. I think I should wipe it up, and reflect on how I’m glad that the floor is carpeted now so that I won’t have to worry as much about someone slipping. As I wipe the floor, I also see that there is a broom covered with snow. It has made a mess, and is causing there to be a watery mess at the top of the stairs. I decide I should take it down to the basement. In the basement, I look for a place to put the broom. There is a little room that I take it to, where some other cleaning tool is, I think. There are also some people in the basement, and someone jokes about the broom and witches. There is also some joke about holding the broom by the proper end and not getting burnt by flames that shoot out of it, or something...There is also a scene that seems to take place around here in a restaurant/ice cream place. I tell someone that if I worked there I would constantly be sampling the ice cream out of the soft-serve ice cream dispenser...

Fragments

(1)...Talking with one of the girls that lives in the apartment next to me about why I’m moving. I explain it’s because they want this to be undergraduate housing. She says that she would have expected them to tell her to move too, since she graduated a while ago...

(2)...In the lab with my friend K. She pulls a bunch of hair off of her head, apparently having just cut it. She says something about having kids that will cut it anyway (?).

(3)...Moving over a large drop-off. I feel like I’m going to fall, and have a massive “jerk-awake” thing.

After a cup of coffee and reading I went back to sleep. Woke up again at 10:30.

More Machinery

There is a game that combines multiple games – like Monopoly and Risk, but it’s a computer game. Someone is doing something in one area (or property) and then jumps into a submarine, boat, or airplane and leaves for somewhere else. Then he’s flying an airplane. It also converts into a land vehicle. There is a scene or two about trying to land somewhere, and then he brings it to rest on top of a moving machine. The machine is like a large tank, and looks a bit like something from Star Wars – like an Imperial Walker, but without legs or a head. There is a woman with the man now. She might have grown up on the back of one of these things – people were living on them, I guess? Anyway, something about her makes her resonate with the movements of the machine, and she will eventually start bouncing so much that it will alert the people inside to our presence. We/they think about what to do. She could hold on to the rails at the side. Someone says something to the leader like “It’s up to you to hold the troops”, or something. He then suggests that he hold this woman. She is reluctant at first, being shy to be so close to him. But it seems to be the best course of action, so the two of them tie themselves to the top of the machine together...

Money

...I stop at a bank, or maybe I buy something. I’m given some money, one of the bills being a $2 bill. I get kind of excited at this, and the woman giving me the money then gives me a $3 bill. I get excited about this too, since $3 bills are even rarer than $2 bills. Then she hands me a picture of an elderly lady, as though it’s supposed to be something exciting too. I stare at the picture, trying to recognize it and not sure what to tell the woman. I don’t seem to recognize the picture. There is a little picture of a “MGM trophy” below the picture (not sure what that is, but it made me think maybe this was an actress). It also seems to list her birth date as 1934...

PBS, the Abominable Snow Monster, and Food

We are watching a TV show. It is a special – the third (or 100th?) episode or year of something. Something like the Muppets, Sesame Street, or Dr. Seuss. This episode is kind of odd – a bunch of things from over the years put together. It’s pretty funny, but at the end there is a more sentimental thing with designs that become (I think) an animation of a tree. It’s so touching that I almost tear up. I suspect that this was the original ending to the show, and over the years they added more and more things. So this episode was mostly meant to be funny, but the ending was still touching because it was the original ending. This is PBS, I think. They are doing a special as part of a fundraiser. I mention how when I was growing up PBS was mostly telethons and “Doo-Wop” reunion concerts, and joke that they should make a fundraiser show about that...

Then there is something about a Muppet-thing that looks like the Abominable Snow Monster from Rudolph. We notice how close the resemblance is, and wonder if that was a coincidence. Something about looking up at the Snow Monster from a certain angle makes it look especially similar. Except for the teeth, which are a little different. At this point, we’re out near a couple of houses. I think maybe they filmed the Abominable Snow Monster scenes on the porch railing of one of the houses, and then used the same footage for this other TV show. We hang around outside of this house, and then I see my brother and someone else have gone around and inside the house. They come out to the porch (or what looks like it was once the porch but has now been walled into a sort of kitchen). A lady is there, and they start cooking some food. My brother gets to squish a hot thing onto a griddle with a special tool, which looks fun to me. Then there are some pickle-like things. Eventually, we take these things to a table nearby and start eating. I take something off of what looks like a trellis/pergola, and then worry that that ruined the scenery.

Fragment

(4) In Hawaii. My Mom and I are there, and I get excited because I see a filming location from Hawaii 5-0.

6.9.2023

Bedtime 1:00am. Woke up around 3:40am and took notes on the following dreams:

Fragments:

(1) I’m upstairs in a house. It is windy outside. I’m rummaging around, looking for a particular stuffed animal I think. I’m talking to the other stuffed animals as I do so...

(2) Walking along the sidewalk in an old town. It’s dark, and the town is mostly empty and run-down. There is a noise like gunshots, and I go running around a corner to hide. Not because I actually think anyone is shooting at me, but because “it’s boring in this town and I might as well pretend that something is going on”. I then walk back the way I came and look for an open business that I can go into...

(3) My Mom and I are sitting at a table (?) next to a wall. Someone drops a candy stick over the wall. I catch it, although I feel like my Mom needed it for something. We’re using the candy sticks for something, and she needed a specific one. I sample it, and think it might be grape, which my mother didn’t really want/need anyway...

(4) Something about a palm tree up on a sort of ledge...

Back to sleep. Woke up again and looked at the clock at 7:39am. Remembered the following dreams:

Christmas

It is Christmas, or Christmas Eve. My Dad is coming out, and I’m a bit worried that I didn’t buy enough presents for everyone (especially my Dad – I feel like I’m one short). But surely I did buy enough, I just don’t remember them all at the moment...right? I’m a bit nervous. I think my Dad arrives, and I go upstairs to wrap presents. I see that I have a couple things for him – a shirt that I just picked up being one of them. The presents are kind of boring, but at least I have three of them. When I wrap them, I notice that the wrapping paper is kind of transparent, which is disappointing. Then I realize that my mother has joined me in my room. I think she is gift wrapping also. I quickly try to hide the presents that I bought for her, but am worried that she saw them already. Then she leaves and I go back to wrapping, wondering if I should try to buy something else last-minute for her. Also, it turns out that R, a girl I know from the University, is coming. She and I had apparently gone out together a while back, and there is some ambiguity as to whether or not we are dating now. I don’t really want to date her, I don’t think. I think about buying something else for her last minute as well.

These fragments might be part of the same dream:

...Outside, we have a garden. It is kind of weedy though. My parents are talking about something, maybe about the garden. Also, we have some chickens that are supposed to be laying eggs soon. My mother has been looking for eggs, but hasn’t found any yet. I see a couple eggs next to the house. They are huge and long, and look more like squash than eggs. We take them inside...

...Doing something in the kitchen sink. Someone says something about having to have the stinky mugs there while cooking, or something. (There was a scene with tea or something, that might have happened around here). There is also something about the sink leaking (?), and my Mom finding out that that could do damage to the foundation of the house (?)...

The Cowboy and the Inventor

Petting a dog. It might be one of the dogs we had when I was younger. I tell her she’s a good dog. Then I’m reading a book. In this book, a man is walking back from somewhere at night. It is supposed to become a little scary, with him meeting a ghost. But as the story progresses it turns out a little differently than expected. There is a stage coach. What looks like a person made of energy floats out of the stage coach (mostly invisible to people, I think). It messes with people. In one scene, it opens a shed door, which almost falls on someone. A guy standing there points it out just in time for the person to either dodge it or to catch the door before it falls on him.

It turns out that this is some scientific advancement, and the inventor is trying to show it off to people. There is a conversation in which some cowboy-type and the inventor (who is wearing a black outfit and a priest’s collar) are discussing what might be going on. The inventor suggests that perhaps this whole thing is just someone trying to educate people. The cowboy disagrees – saying that whoever would do this kind of thing would be untrustworthy. Meanwhile, there is some gooey stuff in a creek below. The inventor decides it would be a good idea just to leave without revealing his invention. He gathers up the gooey stuff I think, and climbs back into the stagecoach with a woman. The cowboy then introduces himself as “Pee Pee Pee Pee Ho Ho”. The inventor and the woman drive away, singing a song to a tune closely matching the Funky Chicken. The words are as follows:

Pee Pee Pee Pee Ho Ho
Pee Pee Pee Pee Ho Ho
Pee Pee Pee Pee Ho Ho
Pee Pee Pee Pee Ho Ho

Fragment:

(5) Looking at houses, thinking to myself that some of them were built more recently than others. Something about the power lines...

6.8.2023

Once again I jotted down some notes soon after I woke up, but didn’t journal until about 9:00 this evening.

Fragment:

...I’m with someone, or some people. I do a reality check by pinching my nose and breathing. I can still breathe, but I seem to be busy or distracted at the moment and don’t really focus on what I’m doing...

Action and Andromeda

...With the crew of the Andromeda, or at least Tyr Anasazi. He makes some pun. I don’t think it’s all that funny, but I think I laugh politely. Then I make a pun:

“What do you get when you cross a Nietzschean and a Decapod? A perfect 10!”

Tyr doesn’t find it to be funny, but I thought it was rather clever myself.

There is a scene in which someone is selling chocolate covered things. Strange things, I think. I drop a phone into the vat of chocolate, and then act as though I’m going to eat it. The joke here seems to be more about eating something without paying than eating a cell phone. I don’t really do it, I don’t think.

There are some other scenes that I’m having trouble recalling at the moment. I seem to remember this dream being kind of enjoyable, or at least interesting. The following might have been part of it:

We need Donald Trump for some reason. We want to convince him to help us. He seems to be off by himself, and may be reluctant to help us. I suggest that I be the one to talk to him, since I’m more of a conservative and I voted for him in 2016. I go to some construction, kind of like a large dam. There are stairs, and a skywalk, I think. Chains hanging down too, as though to work some machinery. Trump is out on the skywalk, and I rush up the stairs to try and get to him. However, I misjudge which floor he is on and end up on the wrong floor. Someone else gets to him though (Tyr?). I feel like there is something about someone being compared to a guardian angel, and perhaps Tyr is arguing with Trump that he’s not a guardian angel.

Hebrew and Cake

I seem to be on a couch, talking with someone online, or watching something online, in Hebrew. I try to write comments in Hebrew, but I don’t really understand what I’m saying. I copy and paste a phrase that I typed into a Hebrew-English translator online to see if I might have said something inappropriate...There is something about evangelism in the Middle East, or South Asia. There is a map showing where Christianity has spread. I seem to have a job doing something with the line on the map, expanding it northward. Maybe digitizing it on a computer. Then my mother makes a cake, and frosts it to look like the map.

Some Things

This might all have been one dream, so I’ll count it as one.

My brother is sleeping. My family is going to do something, perhaps go somewhere. But he keeps on sleeping, and I start to doubt that we will be going anywhere. I ask my Mom about it, and then decide to go outside for a walk...

...I go into a restaurant. I have a backpack and a shovel (?) with me. I look for a place to set these down while I get food (or do something). I see a little nook in the wall to my right, and think maybe I will set them in there. But then it looks like that might be where people can order, and I don’t want them to be in the way. I look around for a place to sit. The seating in the restaurant is set up like a classroom almost, with things in rows rather than individual tables with space around them. I have a hard time finding somewhere to sit where I won’t be right next to someone – it’s kind of crowded. Then I hear someone call me, and see some people that I seem to know from somewhere. I go over to them and start talking.

...I want to get tickets to a fair. Something about buying them. They are put on a stick, and I put the stick in my shirt pocket...

6.7.2023

Jotted down some notes in the morning, but didn't write up my journal until the evening. Things might be a bit fuzzy and choppy in my recollection.

The New World Order

Someone wants to establish a new world order. They seem to be up front about this, but it looks dangerous to me. It appears to involve arrows being shot at us at one point, as well as road construction. But it’s more than that – like some totalitarian regime. I try to keep them out of my room (while I sleep?) by blocking the door with things and trying to make sure the gap at the bottom of the door is covered up. Trying to carry around some long poles or something. There is a cat or two wandering around also. Some arguing about the cat? Maybe the cat is an antagonist? At one point, I’m lying in bed, and the antagonists have sprayed some kind of slime, some of which has landed on my bed and a lot of which has pooled up beside the bed. It might acidic, or radioactive, or something. But when I touch it, it just kind of feels like shampoo. I start to roll off the bed into the slime, which rather than being dangerous just seems kind of fun...At another point, I’m trying to go from a basement area up into another part of the house. There is some kind of fabric over the door, so that I can see on the other side but I don’t know if the people on the other side can see me. Also, someone has placed large rocks on the door, as though to block my entrance. It seems like I was going up the steps, but now am trying to turn around and go up steps again to leave and the rocks are in my way. Something about people in a room off to the right...Another scene, in a room that looks like it might have clothing racks in it?

Fragments

(1) ...Someone is playing with the intestines of a dead person. Someone's aunt, perhaps? Then they start examining the body more like a cadaver for medical school. It seems a bit gross to me...

(2) ...I go into a restroom. There is a plastic bag with what looks like gold in it on the wall of one of the stalls. On closer inspection, it turns out to be solid oxygen. I dissolve the oxygen, and there is something about it being in my blankets so that if I breathe in I get a breath of fresh air...

(3) ...Something about Myst ages...

(4)...There is a battle going on. This seems to be a planet with a lot of lava on it. Someone goes running down a sort of tunnel...

6.6.2023

Rough night’s sleep again. Bedtime 3:05am, awake at 6 something, back to sleep after 8:05, awake at 11:17.

Teaching Class, and the Israelites

I’m teaching class. The class involves the machine I have been making for my research, and explaining it to students. But first I start with a lecture, I think. Partway through, I realize nobody is in the classroom any longer. They have all moved to a different classroom. I go over to this classroom. H- (Dr. B-) is sitting in the back of the room. She is apparently partly in charge of the class, and it makes me nervous to have her sitting there watching me. I’m also a bit nervous because now I’m kind of late, although I have a valid excuse since I thought I was already starting class in another room. H offers to teach, but I decline the offer. I start teaching, but am having trouble. Then the students start messing with the machine, and I try to get one kid to stop messing with one of the parts especially. There are some extra pieces of plastic laying around, and I tell the kids that breaking those pieces would feel like breaking the pieces of the machine...

...(possibly the same dream) I get my pants wet, and then consider jumping into a creek...

...Something about the Israelites. Someone is supposed to start a fire in a temple. She goes missing. I talk with some guy from the Middle East about whether or not I should go try to find her. He explains something about his culture, and I reply with something about my culture, and being a Christian. Meanwhile I’m picking up some green powdery stuff and putting it into a bin. Some people dressed sort of like knights go off to find the girl, I think. I think in the end I decide to go too...

Fragment

Something about the Grinch. When the Grinch was little, he looked like a cat...

6.5.2023

My Mother came to visit today. I slept late, and she woke me up. As a result, I didn’t put a lot of effort into dream journaling this morning. I don’t know how these things fit together, but I feel like this first part might have been all one dream:

Missing Out... Sinking Boat... Where’s my Hat? Where’s my Coat?

...I had been taking a nap, but when I woke up I found that a bunch of people had gathered together for something. I walk over and it seems that they are having a theological discussion, but I’m not sure. Then I go back to my room, but realize I might be missing something fun. I go back, but people are leaving now. There had been a lot of kids in this room, watching a movie. Next to the room was what seemed to be a large rock overhand, with a large fire burning beneath it. I hear from someone that Kira Nerys (from Star Trek DS9) and Seven of Nine (from Voyager) had been there. I think to myself that I will never sleep during the day again, for fear of missing something great like this...

...Someone getting off an airplane talking about how they were on the same flight as Taylor Swift...

...Some guy comes along (I’m in the front yard of what might be my grandparents’ old house, or a house I used to live in, or a mashup of the two). This guy is looking for a drink, and find a garden hose. He asks if he can drink out of it, but I’m hesitant because the water comes from the well and I don’t know if the well is contaminated. He drinks from it anyway. It seems to be night now, or at least getting dark. The man goes inside, and decides to take a shower in our basement shower. I find him the shower curtain. He also has trouble finding how to turn on the hot water, and I help him with that...

...Someone has taken my hat, and maybe my coat too, and has not returned it. I go looking for it. I go into my cousin’s room in a hotel/conference center that we seem to be staying at. We are all packing up to leave, but I don’t want to leave without my hat...At some point I think I’m crawling over a second floor railing and maybe dangling down to a counter (like a hotel check-in counter below)...At another point I go into someone’s apartment in their house (also one of my Professors’ houses, I think this guy is his son). We just barge on in. There is a bed to the left, and a fireplace to the right. Also a set of drawers, I think. It might be a nice place, but the house is a little run down...

...Now at a family vacation spot by the lake. There is a boat that is supposed to be coming in, and someone is supposed to meet them at the shore. There is a place called “dock street”, or something, where the boat is coming in. The boat comes in, and there is something on it that we want to chase away by stirring up a swarm of insects that are on the front of the boat. Somehow, the boat escapes and slips out into the water. Then it goes underwater. There were people on the boat too, and I fear that they have drowned. I go through this thing where I feel responsible for killing people, and then realizing it was probably just a dream (without becoming lucid) and then forgetting it was a dream and feeling bad again...

...I go into a store, and want to buy a present (for my Grandfather?). There are some kind of green balls being sold. I think I had bought some, but I lost them. I decide to buy a few more, and they want to charge me something like $50 for 5 of them. I ask if they will take $40. They make a sound as though agreeing, but they aren’t really. At first I’m a bit worried that they will give me less for less money...

...A hotel room. Something had happened and they are just now cleaning up. The hotel room is reopened, but just has a TV sitting on the floor and looks like they just restored the minimum of furnishing...

Fragment:

(1) Someone has a package of frozen waffles with a lot of ice on them. I think I start knocking off the ice.