RTFM

All night long I have had an immensely strong craving for semi-pulpy orange juice. I must find some.

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I was in an Avatar-esque video game type of world. There were no monsters or blue people, just humans at a training facility/campus.

It was my job. I was just hired on and was going through my instruction manual. It was as thick as a phone book and I was getting bored with it so I lied and said I had read it all. Next thing I know, I'm on a flying ship and we are still doing basic training. First step, float around in space and learn how to navigate with only your own body. I am so anxious to jump out of the ship that I forget my breathing mask. I jump out with no oxygen mask on and immediately try to swim back to the ship. I hold my breath and try to push my body back. It's too far and I'm not moving fast enough so my body instinctively begins to grasp for air where my brain knows there isn't any. I pass out and see my body (in third person) drift back into the cargo part of the ship.

I wake up back in the training facility. I decide to read more of the instruction manual. I notice a co-worker from my real job sitting next to me doing a higher rank worksheet, or taking notes or studying. I ask him for help and he gives me words of encouragement. He scoots over next to me and helps me understand the manual. Now there is a tour group coming around. I wonder what my commander would say if she saw me next to him and then I decide that I don't care.

I'm now at another obstacle for training. It is a platform with lines and cris-crosses all over the floor. Another trainee jumps and dodges over the lines and I notice that the lines indicate where motion triggered lasers will come down. She dances through them with ease, demonstrating to a far off tour group. I decide to try next, just for fun. I jump over two and then as I'm trying to exit the platform I went too quickly through two lasers. I underestimated how close together they were. One cut my middle finger off and the other made a deep gash through my arm. It hurt, but it was a quick sensation, no blood. The other girl sees this and she suggests I get a new clone before we go on our next training session because if someone notices that I have 4 fingers, they will be really mad. I agree with this and head off to the cloning place.

It's a huge white building, it looks very similar to the White House but it is smaller. There are butlers running around and tediously polished, white marble floors. I try to hide my hand and pulling my sleeve down to hide my arm. A butler asks me where I'm going. I lie and say that my commander asked me to get a new clone. He asks for my permission slip, I didn't have one.

I am overcome with the feeling that I am not good enough and I wonder why I can't do any of the things the other recruits could.

Shinning, Shimmering, Splendid

I just got back to LA from my Houston holiday vacation. I like the airport. People surprise me sometimes. Rarely, but sometimes. I need a new sketchbook.

There was a man who had a Texas themed merchandise cart near the gate I was waiting at. He was stout and waddled with a heavy southern accent. Normally, I've noticed people working at those kiosks look so angry and bitter but not this guy. He greeted everyone as they walked buy, if they were looking or not and smiled happily in their direction. He struck up small conversations with the other airport employees as they went by and just kept on smiling. His enthusiasm made me smile as well. One lady got up from where she was sitting and sat somewhere else. The man noticed a wallet left on the floor and went one by one to everyone sitting around my gate asking if it was theirs, until the lady who was previously sitting there claimed it. People who love what they do no matter what it is make the world a better place.

Peeking through the gaps between airplane seats I saw a girl, maybe 3 or 4 years old sitting in front of me on my flight back to LA. Even though I dislike children, she was adorable, as adorable as a little girl could be. She was watching a Disney DVD on a laptop or something similar, princesses with high-pitched voices dancing around the screen. We started our decent into LAX. She turned for a brief moment away from the princesses and opened the window blind. She said "Daddy! I can see the world!" as her eyes widened, her voice quieted, "I can see it... down there."

On a tight leash

I had two small dogs on leashes. One was white and one was grey. I named the white one "Asparagus" but I kept forgetting his name and calling him "Pickles," he corrected me every time and was getting frustrated. The grey one was named "Pirate." I was taking them for a walk and we got to a big grassy area in front of my house. I told them to pee before we go inside. They were not dogs, they were bunnies and they were hopping around and peeing every time they landed a hop. They were jumping all over each other and jumping around me, I was getting tangled in the leashes. I said "OK Pickles, let's go home now" and he frowned at me and said "Asparagus."

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For some reason I decided to rob a gaming/hobby store. I wasn't doing a good job of being stealthy, since I thought it was a bad idea the entire time. I broke into the store and it was a mess in there, maybe they were packing up or moving, I don't know. I grabbed a box of Magic cards and some card protectors. That was all I took. I looked up in the camera in the corner and really didn't want to go to jail. I ran off. I was keeping an eye on the store from a distance to watch the police when they came. I realized that I had looked directly into the camera and probably left my fingerprints over everything. I still had no idea why I did that and I really didn't want to go to jail. I notice my friend standing outside the store, subtly trying to look for me, I guess he knew I was there. He was going to take out his phone and call me. I wanted him to leave because he looked suspicious.

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I was at a school where we had to wear uniforms. I was walking through the campus watching everyone else walk around or play catch or study.

Swept away by the wind.

I was in class, we were in small groups collaborating on what kind of game we were going to develop for our project. It was either break time, or class was over so everyone was going outside. I walked outside of the building and started walking down a side street. Every corner I turned I was greeted by more of the beautiful Victorian architecture that could only come from one place, Savannah, Georgia. I followed all of the traffic laws while I was walking around, I never went the wrong way down a one way street. It was time to head back so I turned down the corner of the nearest street (going south) and a very strong wind was blowing north. It was very animated, the way I saw myself standing there. I was making a very scrunched face to brace from the wind and I had one leg out at about a 90 degree angle getting ready to take a step. I couldn't take a step in that direction so I had to go around and avoid streets going that way until I made it back.

I was at my house now, or a place I recognized as my house. I think I was playing Warcraft on my laptop, but it was being projected on the wall, to scale. I was kind of in a daze and I moved my monitor (which coincidentally controlled where the projection was on the wall) around until the image was taking up the entire wall and ceiling and was totally distorted. I laid down on my back, laptop still in my lap and just stared dreamily at it until someone started talking to me.

It was someone I knew, a roommate I guess, she wanted to show me something in the backyard. We walked through the back door and she shows me a new wooden play set that she had put together. I was ecstatic! For some reason I went back inside.

A while later, I went back outside to get a better look at our backyard, this place seemed new to me (maybe I had just moved there?). When I went outside this time, everything was moved around from the last time I was here (maybe a few hours ago). There was a new wooden play set in place of the other one, this one was stained with a very dark wood stain. The set I had previously seen was moved to another area of the yard, now with oranges growing on it, oranges growing on vines, vines entangled around the wood. I look at the far end of the yard and I see all of my college friends in swimsuits, eating pizza and playing around on a little kid's water slide (nothing out of the ordinary). I walk closer to the oranges, the taste of oranges forms on my taste buds as I near them. The oranges growing here are huge! As I round the corner of the wooden trellis, the oranges are bigger and bigger. The ones on the far side are nearly a foot in diameter. I ask out loud "How did these oranges get so big?" but no one responded.

I reach out my hand to touch them.

Banana suit

I was jogging, early in the morning around a neighborhood. I was feeling good about myself for actually taking the time to excersize. I looked at the time and saw I was already late for work so I tried to sprint the way back to my apartment. It was really difficult because I was out of shape.

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I was walking with a friend on a path, down a hill. There were lots of trees around, like a park. We were going to class/work/somewhere. My friend Dave was walking in front of me about 100 feet away. I wanted to catch up with him, but the faster I went, the faster he went. My friend was also trying to catch up with him so she got on her bike. He got on his bike, seemingly out of nowhere, and was still ahead. Now I could no longer keep pace with either of them. I continued walking on the path in a faster than normal walk.

I notice two of my friends on the same bike. This was a very unusual bike. The person in front had one big wheel and the other person had two smaller wheels, even further back was another wheel with a set of training wheels attached. They are having difficulty trying to ride this bike. The wheels are turning sideways since they are not level, they are turning sideways because the bike is not level and it was very entertaining to watch. I think the bike had orange on it. The wheels also looked as if they were from 3-4 different bikes.

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I was at a very small vinyl toy convention. There were only a handful of booths in a moderately sized lobby of an office building. I was browsing around, when I saw some friends buying toys from a specific booth so I headed in that direction. The lady who was selling the toys was a young-for-her-age 40 year old woman with blonde hair and a kind of motherly aura about her. As I was walking up to the booth, I heard my friends say "Thanks, Mum!" and walk off to their next purchases. I went over there and said Hi to her and she came out from behind her booth, I guess she was taking a break. We go to sit down at the tables provided and she talks to me like we are good friends. She tells me that her favorite designer is DOMA and I agree.

A group of 4-5 people enter through the glass double doors and they are dressed as different trademark DOMA designs. I instantly regret not bringing my new camera and pull out my cell phone and ask Mum to take a picture of me with them. Three of the costumed people head off to the other side of the room but one of them sees that I wanted to take a picture and comes over to me. He is very attractive from what I can see and he gets behind me so we can pose for the picture. He hugs me, and I get overwhelmed because he is so close and is holding me tightly. A feeling rushes through me and then Mum takes the picture. I say thank you, and he goes off to find the other dressed up people. Mum and I start to head out of the lobby, and I turn around to see if I can make eye contact with the guy again, All I see is a girl dressed in a graphically stylized banana suit. She is wearing white tights and black heels. Her face isn't visible and she is dancing and talking to a group of people she knows.

I've got a haunch

I was walking on a beach towards an ancient stone city. There was an open air market going on and I was browsing the goods of goblins, gnomes and other fantastic creatures. I was extremely overwhelmed by all of the handcrafted jewelry, trinkets, armor and weaponry. I wanted to buy everything.

I noticed that I had started rising off the ground. I turned to look over my shoulder and saw wings emerging and stretching out to their full wingspan. Small, light grey down feathers were floating to the ground. My wings were different shades of smoke. They beat slowly and were still carrying me upwards. I was still in shock and did not know how to control them, so I quickly became tangled in the branches of a nearby tree. It was extremely uncomfortable and I was struggling, but eventually I got the hang of it and flew out of the tree.

It still seemed like my wings were deciding where to go and I was just following. They took me up higher and higher until I noticed that I was scaling the walls of a seemingly infinite stone tower. I passed through the first layer of clouds and landed on an open area of the tower. There was nothing but stone over hangs and walls going into different corridors. The tower was cylindrical and maybe about fifty feet in diameter. It was not a live-able place, it's existence was for another reason.

I was walking around the floor of the tower, trying to find out why I had come here, when I notice that I am not alone. There is a woman up there who I seem to recognize. She gives me a very worn, thick, leather bound book. As soon as I open the book, it begins to rain. While I'm skimming through the pages, the woman tells me that I need to get in touch with the magic inside me. She says that there is a war about to be unleashed on the land and I must go rally the different races of the world to fight against the oncoming evil.

The woman says that all of the merchants from the market have started preparing themselves for the war and that the gnomes were on their way. I must quickly try to convince the giants and the humans to help before it is too late. She hands me a map pointing out where the humans and the giants dwell. I unfurl my wings and set off to "Unicorn Isle," land of the giants, with spell book and map in hand. A girl, a friend, is following me.

We arrive in a place that is barren and smokey. The sand and the broken mountains are all shades of red and orange. There is a haze everywhere. We spot an "island" where it seems the rubble has been assembled into Stonehenge-like formations. My friend tells me that is where the giants are. We head over there and something in the back of my head reminds me that I should not let the giants know that I am magical because they will feel inferior and get angry. The girl tells me that she needs to get something out of a lock box that is being guarded by the giants and that I will need to distract them while she picks the lock.

We land in the midst of the giants, who are maybe about 10 feet tall with pale skin, a lot of flesh and little clothing. They are more like ogres to me. They do not seem to be phased by our intrusion. My friend eyes the lock box and I struggle for something to do. I cannot pull out my spell book because the giants will see, I dig deep into my memory and remember something from when I was quickly skimming the spell book. The only spell I know is how to conjure a haunch of meat. Luckily for me, these giants love haunches of meat. I stand behind a pillar and conjure one and offer it to one of the giants and lure him away from the box. I keep conjuring haunches of meat for the giants, mainly because it is the only thing I can do. I look in my peripheral vision at my friend, who has successfully gotten the item out of the box and closed it. The meat is enough to convince the giants to help, they like me now. I tell them to prepare for war and head to the beach.

I fly off to rally the humans, while the girl goes back to the tower with the item.

I arrive at what looks to be a very industrial, metal and concrete area. Everything is very military-esque in color and appearance. There is a cylindrical building near where I have landed, but I cannot see anyone inside of it. I notice another building on a platform of the same style. I observe from afar for a while. It seems that the humans are doing some sort of ceremony or send-off. All of them are middle to late aged white males, dressed in army green military uniforms that have hints of dark, saturated red. Maybe some red stars. (I remember red stars on green) They are all happy and smiling. I walk over to one man who looks to be in charge and he tells me of their recent military accomplishments and is very happy to see me. He pats me on the back and enthusiastically agrees to help in the war. He will have his men there as soon as he can. They will march the entire way to the beach.

I arrive back at the tower where it is beginning to storm, lightning and all. I can see something dark coming through the clouds.

My alarm goes off, I tried desperately to fall back asleep. I wanted to see if I won. I wanted to keep fighting and lead them to victory. I guess I'll never know.

Return Policy

I was in a mall with a large tote bag. I was leaning with my back against the wall, tote over my shoulder and netbook in hand. I was opening my netbook and the screen kept tilting backwards, there was no resistance. It just kept tilting all the way back even if I repositioned it. I looked in my tote and I had the receipts for it so I closed the netbook, put it in my tote and kept on walking.
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I was on a full school bus of people, sitting next to my friend. My friend was holding a huge bouquet of flowers. Hidden throughout the bouquet were fake butterflies on sticks. There was a monarch among them and it caught my eye. I reached for it and the entire bouquet wilted instantly. The flowers were not dead, but they all drooped over. My friend looked at me in disappointment. An athletic built guy who was a few seats up and across from us had a huge book of CD's splayed out across his lap. He picked up an "Nsync" CD and said "here this might cheer you up." He had a CD player and headphones on but instead he put his finger through the center of the CD and used the other hand to spin the CD really fast on his finger. He then used his index finger from the other hand to play the song with his nail. It played quit playing games with my heart (Is that really NSync? hell if I know).
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Beached

I was in an SUV with some people I know, squished next to a co-worker who I think has crush on me. He was trying to snuggle next to me. I felt kind of zombie-like, nothing seemed to phase me.

We were on our way to the beach.

I was keeping to myself on the way there, just taking in the sights out of the car window as they blurred by. I recognized the scenery to be very similar to where my beach house is in Galveston, Texas. I'm carefully looking at the houses we pass by to see if I can find my house. I see a lady dressed in a bright royal purple bell bottomed suit with an over sized matching purple top hat. I immediately recognize her to be my mom's realtor. I vocalize my discoveries.

We pull into a driveway of the house we are staying at and start walking to the beach. I can feel my co-worker's longing stare on my back but I just keep walking emptily towards our destination.

We get to the beach and it's overcast and slightly chilly but the water is warm. I start looking through tide pools in search of hidden eco-systems. Everywhere is covered in seaweed that is rotten and dead in shallow pools of water. In one pool, a family of crabs are grasping to the seaweed and they are dead and beginning to rot. Their shells are mailable and flattened. I can smell the bitter sea salt now. In all of the tide pools, there is an abundance of sea life that has all been desecrated. I can't seem to take my eyes off of this sea turtle. It is still in it's entirety but it's shell is now concave and it's limbs are lifeless.

I head to the outdoor showers and wash the sea scent off of myself.

As I round the corner of the showers, there is a locker area filled with flip flops and puddles of diluted ocean. I walk passed the locker area into a picnic area where there is one long picnic table. Everyone I came to the beach with is there, talking to my mom's realtor. I'm watching them talk but I can't hear comprehend anything.

So Inappropriate.

I was asleep. I felt someone climb into bed with me and I ran my fingers through your hair over a familiar head. I open my eyes and you look up at me with deep concern in your eyes. I can't believe it's you and I want to know why you are sad. You said you just broke up with your girlfriend and you love me and want to be with me. I welcomed you into my arms.

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There was more to this, I just don't remember. It probably wasn't significant to me.

People come into your life for a reason.

"In a perfect perfect world you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you'll never see again. Until walking on your own is unsupportable."

- Neil Gaiman, Bitter Grounds

Check the CD pocket

I was in a house with a family. They were not my real family, but in my dream they were. I had two brothers.

My siblings and I snuck out of the house to sign up for a summer camp that was located ontop of a floating island. We took the flight up and went to the Welcome Center. We picked out an apartment that was close to where we were, then we pulled out the map of campus and realized the place where we had "classes" was 76 miles away, so we asked for an apartment closer.

My brothers set on their way before me so I was alone to find my way there.

The next thing I know, I see these two really tall and lanky guys walking off somewhere. I want to follow them because they are extremely attractive. A girl, who I know in real life to be one of my coordinators at work, shows up and suggests that we follow them! So we set off following them from a safe distance, I am equipped with my brand new camera.

They round a corner into an alley and as we are rounding it as well, we found out they knew that we were following them. One of the guys says "You are Drew right?" I blush, smile and say "yes." The four of us continue on together.

They stop at this beautiful meadow surrounded by marsh. It is like an oval shaped meadow with tall grass and cat-tails fencing it in. The boys start trying to find tiny critters while I get my camera set up. I take it out of the box and start taking macro images of tiny flowers. Every time I spin the focus button, it puts another, slightly different tiny flower into focus. I scroll through the flowers quickly and it reminds me of a kaleidoscope. I can't believe how beautiful everything is.

I let the girl borrow my camera for a second and I go over to where she is. Right next to her is a tiny tadpole perched on a leaf. As I walk over, it nose dives into the shallow water as if the leaf were a diving board.

I ask for my camera back so I can mess with it. As I'm looking at it closer, I notice it has scratches on it and parts that are missing and compartments that are open. I'm surprised that "newegg" would send me such a thing! I find that the battery slot has 3 different kinds of batteries in it, there is some sticker residue on one compartment and I guess in the attached CD case, there are CDs. I look through the CD's left in the CD pouch and they are all burned CDs from, I guess, the previous owner. At this point the girl comments "oh, I love that firefly song!" (I really hate that song) Then, I find a camera manual from the previous owner that has something written in red pen on it. It says "this is proof that it had a previous owner." My manual was still in the box so I knew I had proof now.

My Favorite Bottle of Milk

cake, milk, aunt, artist, costume rejected.

Trashy Heroes

I was walking with a guy I dated briefly and we were heading towards an amusement park. We were heading there to fill out applications to become "Death Knights." (I thought about this term when I woke up, it is nothing similar to the Warcraft version of a Death Knight.) It wasn't something we were doing for fun, it was almost a requirement, or a next level of school, or something you had to do to be respected in society.

We walked through the big iron fences surrounding the amusement park and through some big gates. For the most part the park was empty (maybe it was down season and only open to Death Knights and applicants) but there were people walking around. I look over in the distance where the Death Knight school is and I notice some of my friends who have already passed the test and challenges to become one.

One girl I see is named Liz and she is walking lifelessly straight forward with astute posture, her skin is dark grey, faded and ephemeral smoke haze hangs around her. She is slightly transparent with eyes glowing a soft, ghostly white. She is wearing a black blazer, the only thing that stands out as not being transparent. The contrast of the deep black to her skin is only met by the blood red tie she is wearing with it. The only thing coursing through my mind is that I cannot wait to join them as a Death Knight.

I already know the ins and outs of being a Death Knight, but in my head I never knew you had to fill out an application, I just thought it came to you when you were ready. I already knew that when you became a Death Knight, you would no longer go through life as yourself, instead you would create little dolls (similar to the characters in Little Big Planet) to act as yourself in whatever you needed. While your dolls were living life for you, your time was free to study higher classes of arcane magic.

I realized that I had just stopped in my tracks to admire my friends so I popped out of my daze and kept walking towards the application booth. My friend was now sitting on a fence taking a phone call, I went on without him.

As I enter the booth, there is one girl ahead of me and she is handing the receptionist all of her paperwork. I panic because I didn't know there was paperwork. I am frantically looking on the counter for the correct paperwork while the other girl is finishing. The receptionist turns to me and I ask her if the form I am holding is the proper paperwork. She sighs and hands me a stack and starts asking me questions. She asks me what the name and address of my general physician is and I can't remember. She said to take the paperwork and come back tomorrow.

I sulk out the exit door of the booth, steal a longing glance in the distance again and start to walk out of the park.

- - -

I remember being in a trashy super hero costume, with a trashy guy who is also in a trashy Superman costume and we are walking towards an elevator. There is a group of children in costumes following us to the elevator and we close the door before they can make it on. In the elevator we start making out and we ride the elevator up and down twice.

Nostalgia

I just got my wisdom teeth pulled the other day, so I am going to sleep with gauze in my mouth. I had a dream that I was eating cheese and I wake up in the middle of the night chewing on my gauze, gross.

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I was driving home from somewhere and I took a short cut through the parking lot of my Elementary school. I was in a hurry so I was a little speedy cutting through there. As I was at a stop sign, a teacher came running out and said that she had to write me a speeding ticket. I was complacent because I actually was going pretty fast and I felt bad so I parked my car and I followed her inside the building.

I stepped into the building and I was in my 3rd grade classroom with, what I assume, was my entire class. We all appeared to be children phsyically, but mentally we weren't. My teacher was very young and happy. She asked us if we remembered writing on a piece of paper what we wanted to be when we grew up and then she handed each of us our papers.

I opened my paper and it said "I want to redesign Aribo dog toys like Star Wars." Grown up me had forgotten what these "Aribo" toys were so I googled them. They were like My Little Ponies, but dogs instead of ponies. I then came to the conclusion that 3rd grade me was freaking awesome. We all discussed if we had or had not accomplished our life goal set by us in 3rd grade. I concluded that I did, because I am an artist and it sort of relates.

My teacher took us all on a field trip to a science or biology lab. I just remember talking to one girl the whole way about how our outlook on life changes so much over that many years. We get to the lab, which is in a different part of the building, and there are a variety of plastic sculptures of anatomy and organs. I saw older kids taking them apart and putting them back together, like they were studying. The funny thing is that one of the "older kids" was my little sister.

Picking up good Vibrations

This dream is very Firefly-esque. My friend David and I were on a space craft with some other people. We had a case that originally contained two devices, but one was stolen. Our mission: retreive the stolen device. We learned that the devices generated supersonic vibrations at two conflicting wave lengths. When activated simultaneously, the conflicting vibrations would somehow distroy the world.

We landed the ship on the planet where we knew the missing device to be located. We mounted on gryphon type animals and flew off to the tower where the device was.

---I don't really remember this part---

After we secured the device, we brought it back to the ship and my friend and I engadged in congradulatory celebrations.

armor

in the attic, suit of armor, victorian dress, snobbish, dinner, french, get the armor

Run

I just wanted you to know that if I was her, and a guy like you were chasing after me, I would stop and let you catch me.

Squeakuel

Freeway, car on fire, town, teaganj, alvin and the chipmunk comic book drawing with guy from work. It had a witch.

Home

Mission Viejo, cliff, hiking, mud, dancing, tube socks.

tiny witches

Tiny witches pulling the curtains, hamster in my back pack

Outside, Harry Potter?, Kiss, Elves, Palace

No Shoes, No Service

At the Mall with Mandy, lost shoes, found "steven Boscoe"

watermelon

seeds in your ear. get them out.

Green

green necklace. abby.

Four leaf clover

I was hiking somewhere with a large group of people. Maybe we were tourists or something. The scenery was pretty dry brush, similar to what you would find if you went hiking in Arizona or the California hills.

We wandered into some sort of old structure. The people who lived there told us to stand against the chain link wall. Someone in the group noticed that the fence might be an electric fence. Someone else stated that if everyone peed on the wall it would prevent the electric charge from touching us. So all the men peed on the wall. I was standing next to a man and I said "don't pee on me!" and he peed on part of my leg and I said "you peed on me! you peed on me!"

The bad people set the charge on the electric fence and we were all still alive! The next thing I know I was climbing somewhere.

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I don't know if this is part of the same dream or not.

I was running through a neighborhood with my little sister. I seemed younger than I really am. We were running from people that were trying to find us in a black car. We got to a cul-de-sac and saw a very high up tree-house. We climbed up to the tree-house and hid behind it.

As we were waiting for the black car to go away, I was looking down at the ground and notice these huge, clover-like plants. I started looking to see if I could find a 4 leafed one. I saw one.

The black car went away and we still stayed hidden. Then we saw a limousine pull up behind the house and we assumed that was the owner. We climbed down and jumped halfway to the ground. We looked into the limo and saw a Japanese lady with a body guard and 2 other ladies in the car. I asked her if we could get a ride to wherever she was going. She agreed, so my sister and I got in the limo.

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I was in a very old house, with tons of huge antique paintings on the wall. I was visiting the family that lived there because I needed a place to stay for a while. It didn't seem like I knew them very well and I'm not even sure if I was myself. There were purple streaks in my hair.

I took a bath and went into the bedroom where I was staying. Shortly after, this girl not much younger than me, crawls into bed and asks if she can stay with me tonight. She seemed very frightened so I said it was OK. She had pink streaks in her hair. There was another bed next to where I was and a younger boy, who was her brother occupied that one.

The girl kept checking the time. Soon she pulled up the covers and stared frightened into the dark of the room. Something happened and then shadowy figures were showing up at the end of the room where the balcony was.

We checked around the bed for weapons and we found 3 fencing swords. Now there were two girls next to me, one of them had tiny fencing swords and an extremely sharp knife. I gave a sword to the young boy and the other girl and I kept one for myself. We sat on the bed, anticipating what was coming.

The figures started getting closer. As their forms started to take shape we noticed that they were gnomes, also equipped with fencing swords. I fenced as best I could, trying to take out as many as possible, but I soon found out that fencing is a lot harder than it looks. It is especially hard when you are standing ground on a bed. My sword was very bendy and if i swung it too fast it was worthless.

I managed to take out two gnomes while everyone else was struggling as well. Everyone but myself had lost their weapon and was trying to do their best not to die. There are some taller ogre looking swordsmen at this point and we hear a voice say that there are 2 more waves of 10 swordsmen on their way. I think to myself that I can't possibly manage this on my own.

Courting

I was somewhere with a few friends. They were trying to seduce me. I went to a restaurant with a fairly overweight guy and he bought me fried chicken. There was a Mexican band playing. We went to his place.

As soon as I got inside, the guy was no longer there. Someone else was and this new person was in the shower. While he was in the shower, I was trying to find something sexy to wear.

Arctic Adventures

I was exploring, I can't remember if I was alone or not. The terrain was covered in snow and ice, almost like I was in a gigantic glacial cavern. I remember trying to think of ways to stay warm and I dug holes in the ground. There might have been a decommissioned vehicle crashed and surrounded by snow.

I was outside now, crossing a small creek on a beautiful sunny day.

- - -

I went to a college reunion. Tons of people that I knew from college were there and we were all talking, reminiscing and spreading news. It seemed like these reunions were common, and that we were part of a secret club or society.

The person in charge called our attention and we all sat down and waited anxiously. He was announcing why the few people that weren't present couldn't make it. Most people were on vacation, and then he came to the name of one of my ex boyfriends' (The only one that I very much particularly dislike). He said that he was murdered.

I burst out in tears and I was bawling (This is really weird, I really don't like this guy). I kept crying and crying that I "always knew the Indians would get him." I couldn't believe they had actually found him.

Oh, the things you will see

I was driving home from Echo Park today and I stopped at a stop light. I looked over at an apartment complex and saw some things.

First, I saw a lady leaning out of her window feeding pigeons. Her window was being flooded with a swarm of pigeons. I don't really think I've seen a pigeon lady before now. It reminded me of Home Alone or Mary Poppins.

Second, I noticed something hanging from the story above the pigeon lady. I didn't see it for long enough but I'm pretty sure it was a sock monkey tied to the top of the window. It was being held there by a noose made out of string. There it was dangling, right above the pigeon lady. I wonder if she knew.

American Splendor

I left work on my lunch break to go to Target with my friend Mandy. I needed to pick up a few things and then get back on time. Target didn't have the things we needed, so we drove to American Apparel, which seemed to be a lot further than I remembered it being.

When we got there, it was already time for me to get back to work and we were in the middle of no where. I told Mandy that we needed to leave and she said "No." At this point several of my friends were there at the store and we were all sitting in a circle on the floor in the middle of the store. I reached for my cell phone to say that I was running late and it was no where to be found. Then Mandy says that she took my cell phone so that I couldn't call work. She was very angry this whole time. None of my friends had their cell phones with them and the store wouldn't let me use their phone. I asked where the nearest pay phone was and they told me it was 3/4 of a mile away.

It was cold outside and we were in a very bad neighborhood. I took one step outside and saw a really creepy guy standing at the corner, so I went back inside the store. I begged for Mandy to give my phone back and she wouldn't. She had hid it somewhere that I wouldn't be able to find. I pleaded that I was going to get fired and I really needed my job. She didn't care, she wanted me to have a "fun day off." Hours and hours went by and it was dark outside. I was crying and crying because she had no idea how important my job was and didn't really care.

I think I did end up getting fired, and I had no idea what to do.

Pyramids

Break the disks of time and get lost in the flood.

Mermaid Spectacular

I think I had several dreams last night and I remember bits and pieces of all of them.

- - -

It was a long time ago, in another century, in the south probably. There was a rich white family having dinner and then a father figure rushes in and warns everyone that a giant wind is coming. The family puts down all of their things and run out the door with the man. The only people left in the dining room were the African American slave family, they picked up all the food off of all the tables and took it with them as they ran out the door to a shelter.

- - -

I was in a room with some people I know. We were planning to build a game. We were discussing what items we would need to start the game. Some how these items turned into food. I said I wanted to make a cake for the game. They asked me to explain and I just said that the cake wasn't for the game it was for us to eat. Then another girl says that she would rather have paninis and we argued over which one we would have. Finally I gave up and told her to go make whatever she wanted to.

Then a big wind came, perhaps it was kind of like a tornado. It tore down the walls and the ceiling, but it was in a gentle way. There wasn't any loud noise, I just remember floating.

We floated down to my friend's house because it was her birthday that day. She just pulled up in her car and opened the door for us. We all went in and sat down in the living room. She stepped out of the room to prepare some food and we all signed a birthday card for her.

- - -

There was a huge swimming pool. It was fluorescent blue from the chlorine. There was a huge audience outside of the pool. In the pool was a huge structure like a giant Cirque du Soleil set. There were lots of girls and dancers posing all over this structure. Some were dressed as mermaid, others as princesses and all of the costumes were bright, saturated colors. We were performing a sort of acrobatic syncronized swiming routine. I was dressed as a princess. My costume was pink with sequins on it and a huge toole skirt. I had black theigh-high socks and garters underneath the skirt.

There was music playing. All of the girls seemed to be competing for attention, not really working together in any way. At one point we all flew down to a lower level of the structure on harnesses and then we were supposed to get cut loose and dive into the pool. My harness (of a single strand of fishing wire) didn't get cut loose in time. I was sitting on a ledge about 3 feet above the shallow end of the pool, trying to cut the string loose. I tried to bite it but it wouldn't cut. Finally, a performer next to me cut it for me, but I was too late to catch up to the other girls. It didn't really bother me, I guess the routine was only a suggestion. I pulled my skirt up so you could see the tops of the garters (I think I had a swim suit underneath) and kicked my legs through the water splashing it all around. I did this gracefully, of course.

Teeth

I was going on a tropical vacation with someone who I acknowledged as my boyfriend. I have no idea who it actually was. We were sitting on a paddle boat off of the shore when a boat full of dark skinned tribal looking people pulled up next to us. They were wearing very primitive clothes and had primitive spears as well. They carried us onto their boat where other tourists were seated as well and we were kidnapped.

They didn't speak English. One of the men, who was slightly younger than I am, gestured towards the necklace I had on, suggesting that I give it to him. The necklace was a small mask carved out of wood on a thick black string. After my boyfriend nodded at me, I gave the man my necklace, not wanting to cause trouble. He put it on. My boyfriend had a similar necklace on and offered to trade it for mine. The man agreed and tied my necklace around my boyfriend's wrist. The boat was moving this whole time.

We finally arrived at what looked like an ancient temple or civilization. Something out of Indiana Jones, or Legends of the hidden Temple. It almost looked like a "set" instead of the real thing. They forced the group of 10 or so tourists onto a narrow piece of stone in front of a long hallway. The group of tourists consisted of mostly adults in their mid 30's to 40's in stereotypical tourist attire and a family of four with two younger girls around 8 or 10, one in a wheel chair.

We were all standing there, looking down a long, narrow hallway. The men urged us to start walking down the hallway. The walls were very decrepit stone and covered in moss and weeds. There were small stone ledges jutting out of the walls and on those ledges were clams. There was a wide variety of sizes of clams, the largest probably about 6 inches length wise and 3 inches wide. They were blue with swirls of purple and inside the mouths of the clam, there were teeth and a tongue. The mouths almost resembled horse mouths except the colors were tones of darker blueish purple to match the shell.

The men were getting bitten by the clams and hitting the clams. I felt bad for the clams and I looked at one more closely. It opened it's mouth and I slowly and cautiously put my finger inside the mouth in a very non-threatening way. The teeth were very brown like soap scum. I brushed the teeth of the clam with my finger and it smiled. It made a pucker face and I gave it a kiss. The men said that I shouldn't be friendly with the clams and that they were vermin. The man hit the top of the clam with a spear and then pulled a tiny, baby clam from underneath the big one that I was looking at. I told him to stop and he replaced the baby clam next to the other one.

We continued moving into another hallway. The hallway looked almost exactly the same except there were now vines and instead of stony ledges there were what looked like tarnished metal boxes. The men made us walk through this hallway one by one and they said we had to open one of the boxes from the hallway. One by one people went through the hallway. Three different things happened as the people opened the boxes. The most common outcome was that an ape like creature that resembled a puppet from a labyrinth type movie came out and scampered away on the wall. Sometimes nothing happened. Sometimes a swarm of insects came out and if you didn't reach the other end of the hallway fast enough, they would devour you as if you were turning to dust. Everyone made it across safely.

We were lead to another hallway, this one was exactly like the previous one except we all had to go through as a group. We still had to open the boxes. It was fine until one of the boxes had the insect swarm and the entire group panicked to run to the other end of the hallway. We all ran one way only to have the men point spears at us and tell us to run the other way. We started running and running and we all made it. The last two people left were the small girls, one pushing the other in the wheel chair. They hit a snag in the floor and tripped right before the end of the hallway. The swarm caught up with them and devoured them with nothing left. The parents were in hysterics and everyone was crying but we had to move on.

We were out in a more open area of the temple now, light grey stone was complimented by beautiful sunlight and yellow-green vegetation. There was an elevator that we were slowly making our way to. We saw a plump man with white hair get in the elevator and my boyfriend and I stepped into the elevator with him. It was going up and as we reached the second floor, the plump man said "not yet" and vanished as the elevator went down with the two of us inside. The door opened and the rest of the group got in the elevator. We went up to the second floor again, this time it worked.

The room looked like a museum. It was covered in nic nacs and paintings hung all over the walls. As I looked closer I noticed that it was a collection of items with the images of Santa Claus on them from all over the country and from years and years of collecting. Then I realized the man we saw in the elevator and the curator of this place was, infact, Santa Claus.

Showertastic

I censored my dream from yesterday by not posting it. So I am posting today's.

- - -

This was a very long and complicated dream because I slept very soundly last night. I woke up and remembered 90% of it and now, after my shower, I only remember a tiny piece of it.

I was in a touristy part of a town with people who were filming a T.V. show of some sort. There was someone there that I have been attracted to for a long time and never had the courage to talk to him. I saw him pass by and I grabbed my things and went to take a shower.

It was a communal bathroom so there were both males and females in the bathroom. All the shower doors were frosted glass so you could see through them a little bit. The shower was huge, it had steps, a sitting area and a tub all in one. The actual shower faucet was the kind that you hold with the flexible hose connection. As I started taking a shower I noticed that the door kept coming unhinged. It was coming unhinged in a very weird way but it made sense to me in my dream. Imagine the plastic bending and warbling so that the hinge slipped out. I said to myself that it must be the heat from the shower warbling the glass door. I couldn't get the door to stay closed and I dropped the faucet accidentally while trying to fix the door. So I started posing in the shower door like people do in movies or shaving commercials to try get someone to come over. Someone did come over, got in the shower with me and fixed the door and left. There was a lot sexual tension.

I forgot to mention that one side of the shower opened into a garden, although no one was in the garden. As I was showering a bird that looked very angry flew into the shower and started pecking at the faucet. I turned on the faucet and sprayed it on the bird until it flew away. It then came back with another bird and they both were trying to peck me so I sprayed them both and they flew away angrily.

I got out of the shower and went to meet my friend somewhere else and help her pack to go home. When I got to what looked like the garden near the shower area, I saw mounds and mounds of garbage bags, packing boxes and crates. My friend was already there, waiting for me with her parents. I remember being scared that something was coming to attack us or rip the bags and all of us picked up something and started carrying it away.

Moving Stairs and Teddy Bears

A small group of male friends and myself were heading to my beach house for a weekend excursion. The beach house we finally arrived at, did not resemble my actual beach house at all. The interior was very eclectic and soft, beach colors (white, light blue, soft blue, light and dark wood).

As we walked through the door, the group of us were standing on a circular platform that seemed to be floating about 2 or 3 feet off of the floor. All the small decorations seemed to be hanging on invisible walls. There were circular wooden staircases curving up and around the platform, to get to the second floor. One of my friends asked how do we get down if all of the stairs only went up. We were several feet off of the floor at this point. I simply flipped a switch and a staircase came out of the wall and moved as if motorized over to our platform. Everything was slowly turning in a circle, except the platform. We walked up and down the stairs for a while as I was giving the tour.

The next thing I know I'm in the living room and the friends I was with are no longer there. Now there is a living room full of female friends. All of us are 12 or 13 years old, including me. We were all talking and gossiping. I had made two batches of cookies and set them on the table at the far end of the room where some people were sitting. I announced the presence of the cookies and everyone sitting around them grabbed one until they were gone. We continued talking and we all had teddy bears.

The next thing I know, the beach house is under attack, I don't know from what and I can't explain it. It's unclear to me what was going on, I just know I was scared and everyone was scared and we were trying to defend our house. We decide to call our teddy bears for back up, and they come to life and help us. I don't know what they did, or what we were doing I just have a strong image in my head of a very beat up section of the house with dust and debris everywhere and a brown teddy bear that is covered in dust and soot and partially torn slowly gets up from the floor like a battle wounded soldier.

There was more... I don't remember the rest.

I liked this.

That's a Shame

My friend took me to a baseball stadium. Aparently we were getting a tour of the stadium, but there was no game going on at that time. We climbed up to the highest point in the stadium, which was higher than any real stadium could go. Imagine looking down at the field from about half the distance an airplane cruises. As we sat down and listened to the tour guide talk, I lovingly leaned against my friend and started to close my eyes. Through halfway open eyes, I look across from where I was sitting (I had my back turned to the balcony). Through a closed glass door, I saw my friend's friend from Australia. He was making funny and confused faces at us, wondering why we were there together and why I was leaning on him. I wasn't embarassed.

Space Travels

I haven't been remembering lately.

- - -

Speeding through space on a space mobile. Running away from something.

Traveling

I saw a lot of people in the airport while I was traveling.

There was a very tall man with neck length stark white curly hair. The kind that is perfectly curled. The man's face was very rectangular and and the curls came to a point at the top of his forehead. He was very pale and combined with his earth toned attire, and thin black rimmed glasses, his hair was almost glowing. Around his neck was a black badge holder that you would get from a convention or something and it was empty.

Two nuns, who after a long delay in our flight scheduled shouted "Hail Mary!" when the plane finally took off. Both had the name "Sister Mary ____."

A young boy that was watching a brother and sister playing together from across the room. He had a longing grin on his face to have a playmate.

Two mothers with daughter's named Sarah and Sara. They were discussing how they both knew Sarah's with an "H" and Sara's "without an H. The dialogue was similar to this:
"My daughter is also named Sarah"
"Is it Sarah with an 'H' or without?"
"With the 'H'."
"Oh, her name is Sara without the 'H'."

A husband and a wife who both resembled toads. They both had glasses and were very round with scrunched necks. The man was dressed in varying shades of grey green and had a greyish vest on. The vest had 4 inner pockets. The man had 6 sticks of string cheese that he kept splitting up and moving to various pockets inside his vest. On his lap was a leopard print suitcase. The woman was in a pastel pink matching sweat suit and had overly long fake nails painted bronze. With the tip of her fake nails she was pealing a string cheese.

A 60+ y/o man who resembled Indiana Jones. This man had a PHD and was an Engineering proffessor who ran away to his sanctuary in the mountains every weekend. We held a great conversation, but later I found out that, this man, who is 3x my age was trying to hit on me. He wanted me to become the "eve" in his "garden of Eden."

Bongo shoes

I was in a mall with my friend. We were walking towards the escalators when we see this girl on the second floor put on some new shoes. She has a white and green top on, some orange and red stripped shorts and grey socks with rainbow colored bars down the front and back that lit up when she moved. The shoes she was putting on were green with the same bars on the bottom of the shoes that lit up as well. She quickly ran down the escalator and started dancing and singing "look at my bongo shoes!" Every time she hit a different bar to the floor, it would make a different bongo tone.

We continued up the escalator.

The mall was really huge so my friend said she was too lazy to walk and that she wanted to drive. So we went out to the parking lot to get her car which was a white VW bug with no roof... the overall style/size of it resembled a bumper car at a carnival. I didn't know what we were doing but pretty soon we took a side entrance to the mall and were litterally driving through the mall and through the stores. Aparently all the stores had a driving route built in already, just most people don't use it. I felt really awkward and embarassed because some stores had displays set up infront of the driving routes, since they were hardly ever used, and they had to move them to let us through.

The next thing I know we are no longer in the car anymore and we are outside a small antique furniture shop in the mall. We go in and start looking around. My friend goes to the back of the store and notices a tiny little cage with 4 tiny little animals in them. She tells me to come over and these animals look like really small, soft, long-haired pigs. I don't even know if they looked like pigs we just called them pigs anyways. My friend looks at the owners of the shop, who are very attractive men our age and says "I didn't even know that angora pigs existed! I wish I could have one." They both say that we are welcome to have them, because they can't take care of them anymore. We gather them up and go on our way. They aren't pigs anymore, they are small bunnies.

- - -

I was swimming with my sister in a natural pool/river/lake... something. There was a small waterfall. The kind where there are multiple little streams of water trickling down the side of a rock. Some of the water was coming out of holes in the rocks and also out of the holes, frogs were shooting out. Picture a little kid being shot out of a really fast slide at a water amusement park. Except about 10 holes and tiny frogs one by one popping out with jets of water.

Lizards in my nose

There was another one.

I was going to an amusement park with two friends. I don't remember who they were. We were waiting in the lobby in a very long line trying to get into the ride we wanted. It was almost closing time for the actual park... I think we were going into a "Downtown Disney" sort of place. It's not very clear. I was looking around the room that we were currently in, we were on the second floor of a building with a bright pink interior and there were escalators down the middle. Out of one door comes a girl dressed as Barbie, and she goes through an "employee's only" door on the other side of the room.

The line moves a little and we walk into the next room.

In that room are a lot of bars and restaurants and I'm looking around to the bar/restaurant to the left. It sort of resembles an airport hallway, none of the places have doors, they are just small compartments in a row. I notice that I recognize someone in that restaurant and all of a sudden the person in front of me grabs my necklace. I turn around and I realize I know that person and the two other people that she is with. They were from my middle school. They walk into the restaurant next to us and I follow them. It turns out that it was a birthday celebration for a guy I barely knew in high school.

I look around and I recognize everyone as people from my past, some that were my friends and some that I talked to in passing. They had no relation to each other, other than that I knew them at some point. Some people are at the bar and everyone is eating barbecue, I sit down and just look around trying to figure out why all of these people are here and how I ended up here.

I smell the barbecue all around me and decide it's time to get some food. So I get up and walk over to the table where someone's mother is serving the food. She tells me there is only pork left and anything sounds good to me at this point. I watch her cut the pork and underneath a piece of meat, there were two dead, cooked lizards. Imagine a cross section of a pig's head, without the brains/bones or anything just small pieces of meat. The lizards were small like geckos and I could tell they were bright kelly green underneath the charred exterior. Across there back there was a stripe of iridescent flecked scales. I thought they were beautiful and I wasn't disgusted at all.

There has been ambient chatter in the background, but this is the first dialogue that I distinctly remember. The lady says "someone forgot to flush the lizards out of the nose." I said "it's ok, just give me the part that wasn't touching them." So she hands me a plate of meat from the other part of the mound and I take my plate and sit down at that table. I look across the table at a very young boy maybe 11 or 12 and he very much resembles one of my closest friends from my childhood. I stare for a while and then I ask him if he knows my friend. In my head I was thinking that maybe he had another brother. The boy laughs and says "I don't know, maybe we are his kids." I look around to see who the "we" he was talking about was, and I notice there is another boy and a girl who look like they could all be related. The only thoughts that went through my head were "why would he do this to me?" "who has he found?" "why would he get married?" and things along the lines of that.

- - -

note: The friend from my childhood mentioned above is named Kristofer Schroder. We have been friends since we were in preschool and have been distantly close since then. Our relationship is a wonderful story on it's own so I won't get too deep into it. He is in the navy right now. He is not married and he does not have kids. Although he does have one brother and one sister.

May I come in?

I was in this field or meadow place that was just covered in beautiful yellow and yellow-green. It was extremely vibrant, littered with little specs of white flowers. The sky was blue, but not so blue that it was fake. There was a single tree and on the horizon you could see that the meadow was bordered with a forest. Someone was there with me, I don't remember who.

As soon as I took in my surroundings, I looked up at the sky and saw dark grey clouds flooding in. They weren't slowly flooding in like clouds do, it was sort of a mass of smoke that seemed to have a purpose. I watched curiously with the "someone" until the edge of the smoke mass started forming a point. I thought that I had seen something like this before, on shows where clouds form into tornadoes. This was more animated than a real cloud and after it formed a point, the point fizzled away. I sighed a bit of relief but before I could soak back into bliss, a tornado appeared. We started running and after a while I was somewhere else and the someone was not with me but I didn't seem to be worried about them at all.

I was in this really medival city, all the architecture was dark, there was no more color left in my surroundings besides the dark forrest green of the few trees. The architecture was very gothic and it kind of reminded me of the underground architecture from Pan's labyrinth. It was hard to determine if I was in the present, or centuries ago, or both at the same time.

The tornado was still chasing me.

I was running, trying to find some small niches to hide in, like the tornado could see me and was trying to suck me into it. The tornado seemed to disapear when I was in small places and as soon as I was out in the open, it would manifest again. Sometimes it was small, knee height or sometimes it was twice my size (still not that big, it was a personal tornado). I found this alley that had a gate at one end and lead to a hallway. I propped myself up and had both my feet on the wall, like a very crunched up X shape, not touching the floor. I looked through the gate and saw the tornado pass through the hallway without "seeing" me.

I ran to the nearest apartment, more like a dwelling, or the nearest sign of someone living there. An awkward, mid 40's, socially inept man answered the door and I walked in.

This is one of the first things I saw this morning.

It's always somewhere new

There were flashes.

I was in a really old house or warehouse and it was very open and decaying. It started to flood. Other people were there too.

- - -

My family was coming into town to visit me. I must have been somewhere in Europe or Canada because the currency was different. We were going somewhere and I suggested that we take the train because I always took it very frequently and it would be the fastest way to get there. It was more like a subway mixed with a monorail or like those ones you ride at the airport. We got on the train and suddenly I had no idea where we were going.

At one point the train slowed down in this beautiful flower shop. The potted flowers went on as far as I could see and the shop was 3 stories high. At this point the train was going up almost like the tip of a roller coaster before you start. As we got up a little higher I noticed that my mom and my sister had wandered away to look at flowers and could no longer get back on the train so my friend and I hopped off the train and realized we were on the second level of flowers with no way down (It was like the really high up things at home depot where you have to get someone with a really long pole to get it down). So we both picked up a potted flower and smelled it. I couldn't smell it. I was looking around for a way down and I found the metal support for the train tracks and slid down it like a fire pole. I met up with my family at the next closest train station which happened to be very close to where we were. We paid the ticketer 7clasps which was the currency there. I looked down at my purse and picked out what looked like a quarter and a dime and handed it to the attendant. She gave us each bright purple wristbands and we got on the train.

I reassured my family that we were still going the same way and as I looked back up to the second story of flowers, I realized that I still had no idea where I was going and we could be going the exact opposite way of what we wanted. I didn't say anything.

The Bare hand and Naked Bush

Last night my family and I were somewhere that I assumed was a part of L.A. that I had never been to. We were trying to find a restaurant to eat breakfast. We were driving around the parking lot and I noticed all of these handsome men wearing shirts and aprons but no pants. I wanted to know what they were doing and how that was legal. We found the place we were looking for and after we ate we went to sit at a table in the nearby park.

I was looking around and I noticed that the place those men were working was a barber shop called "The Bare Hand and Naked Bush" where they would cut any type of hair. So I kept looking, I noticed that several of the customers were naked in the barber chairs. I remember hearing one of the men outside say "this used to be a strip club and now it is the only barbershop where we dance too!" There was a woman in the waiting room of this shop getting lap dance by two extremely overweight women, one dressed in all pink and one dressed in black and silver. I looked away from there to notice a mother and her son coming over to the table. Her son was maybe about 7 or 8 and was completely naked, holding a magazine and had a brand new haircut. They sat down at the table next to us and she began dressing her son. I thought for a while about why a mother would bring her son in there and then dismissed it.

We were still in the park but somehow my family was no longer there and one of my friends was sitting there with me. These two attractive guys come over and start talking to us about a meeting we should go to later. They had neck length light brown curly hair almost in dreadlocks and seemed to be quite younger than me, maybe 17 or 18.

I don't remember what happened for a while. The next thing I know, I'm still in the park and I'm sitting in an arm chair underneath a basketball hoop and a lot of kids are throwing bean bags into the hoop without asking me to move so they could play. I got up and moved.

My friend and I started walking through the park and then she mentioned that we should get to the meeting. I asked how to get there and she told me to go first. In order to get there I seemed to just float on the ground and drifted through the air, through a portal and ended up on the other side of the portal on a beach and the tone was very gray-purple.

About 30 seconds later my friend arrived by my side. She said to follow her and I did. On this beach were tons of strange creatures like snakes with heads that looked like venus fly traps. Crabs that were slightly altered tones of the environment around us and tiny shells with snails in them. The tiny snails were bright blue, purple and pink and I picked up a blue one. I said absentmindedly to my friend "I wonder if there is a quest to get one of these as a pet." That was definitely a world of warcraft reference. She confirmed that there was a quest to get one as a pet and I happily walked on with the blue snail in my hand. We kept walking and we saw the two curly haired boys from earlier and another one with them. They looked like they were doing their job. I think they were fishermen of some sort and two of them were trying to wrestle something in the water. The one that was not occupied started walking over to us and everything faded away.

These are Easter macaroons.

What to do

I only remember part of my dream last night.

I was with some friends in an unknown town maybe on an island, I'm not sure. I just remember we found this snack machine that resembled a popcorn popping machine combined with an antique automated piano. When you put money in, it would give you some garlic bread on top of several sheets of paper. We kept putting more and more money in and I just left the garlic bread in the machine and took the sheets of paper. Printed on the sheets were what appeared to be random biology pages from a text book. Anatomy drawings of animals, skeletal structures of animals and descriptions of each one. I kept them and I was going to give them to you because I thought you would like them. Finally, after I ran out of quarters, I ate a piece of garlic bread. It wasn't so bad.

This is from the Ok Go concert last night

Let's go fly a kite

This happened at Echo Park

There was a homeless guy at the park looking through trash cans. A couple was going for a walk and looked as if they had just gotten back from the grocery store. They offered him some food, since they had plenty. He said no, politely. The man offered it again. Judging by his body language he was probably reassuring the guy that it was O.K. to accept the food. The homeless guy then turned his back towards the couple and crossed his arms like an angry child. He shook his head no, over and over again until the couple began to walk off. He went right back to looking through the trash can, picked up a paper cup... took a drink and put it back in the trash.

Strangers

I was talking to a stranger on the internet. He said he wasn't happy studying what he was studying and that he was doing it to keep the family business together after his education. He wanted to do something else. I told him to do what he wants to do and I hope he does.

Ehhh

sharpie and bored. i want to draw someone besides me. it kinda looks like stained glass and Jesus. what the hell.


me: bloggin ain't easy
alex: if you got blog problems i feel bad for you son
alex: i got 99 comments and spam aint one

Mes chaussures

something i felt like doing

Truck art

found on the way to work