Thursday, April 30, 2009

Showertastic

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

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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.

Friday, April 24, 2009

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.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Space Travels

I haven't been remembering lately.
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Speeding through space on a space mobile. Running away from something.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

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."

Friday, April 17, 2009

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.
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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.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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.
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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.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

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.
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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.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

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.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

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

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

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.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

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.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Ehhh

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


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