February 2, 2012

Oh man, I'm stressed out. I had a weird dream this morning.

I dreamed that my husband and I were at this resort casino type hotel with his mom and aunt, and another female relative I didn't know. We were in an arcade, and we were all playing games. I started playing something, and then realized that everyone else had wandered off, leaving me alone. Then I saw that my husband left a whole pile of clothes near me, and I was immediately pissed that I had to carry his extra clothes around with me.

I looked around for him, all the while stopping here and there to play games, including one that had something to do with pushing quarters all over the place, and something to do with RC helicopters.

Finally, I see my husband, and he's playing a game surrounded by a huge crowd, with this redheaded chick hanging all over him. So I go up to him, and say, "Who the fuck is she?" And she says, "Who the fuck are you?" And I ask, "Didn't you tell her I'm your wife?" And she was like, "Your wife?" She was getting really pissed off, and I said, "I guess he didn't tell you he has three kids, either?" So she gets all pissed and storms off, and my husband and I get into a huge fight, which basically is me telling him to find his own hotel room.

So, I'm so pissed off, and I walk away, and I'm wandering around trying to find my hotel room, and I'm starving, and it's really late at night and I'm exhausted. I finally find an elevator, and there are dozens of people waiting to get on. When I finally get on, there's all this snack food in piles all over the elevator, and I realize this is part of the free buffet I remember seeing advertised.

Then I finally find another buffet, but everything just looks like disgustingly rich desserts. I mean there's blueberry muffins, but they're covered in Blueberry cream frosting, there's chocolate, and coffee cake, and all I want is some real food. I finally find the front desk and ask them if there is any real food to be had and they give me a number to call, and tell me to go call from my room. Then I remember I can't find my room, and I'm freaking out, and the sun was coming up, so I realized I'd been up all night wandering around.

January 30, 2012 Nap

So, I woke up from my nap laughing.

I had a dream that I worked in this office building that had no windows. I worked in an interior office with a few other people.

I knew I had to send my grandma a package, and I can't remember what one item I really needed to send her, but for some reason I packed it in a box full of sex toys.

Then, I was dreaming about moving, and having to take all my medication with me. I had all the bottles, but I opened each one, and they all had the wrong pills in them, and they were all mixed up. Then I found these pills that looked like thick blue flowers, and they looked like maybe they would fizz in water, so I thought maybe they were some sort of antacid, and then I realized they were clothes dye for the washing machine.

Then suddenly Fox's Pack N Play was in the office and he was in it, and all of my pills (and the clothes dye) were all spread around in the bottom of it, and I was freaking out that he was going to swallow them.

Then there was some sort of office function, and when we walked out of the office building, we were in the middle of a cheesy amusement park.

I walked around the amusement park for a while, and then decided to go back to work. As I was walking, I passed a ride that looked like the submarine ride at Disneyland, but it had boats floating on it, and I was shocked to see that one boat (which could have held like 50 people) only had 1 family in it, and the children were up running around like wild people, and I was afraid they'd fall in.

Then the next ride was also a kind of a boat ride, but each car was like 4 little one person cars attached to each other. Then I noticed there was a little girl in one of the cars, and the car was mostly submerged in water, and the little girl was spitting water out, as it hit her in the face.

I initially thought the ride was broken, but I kept walking, and saw the adults in the next car also submerged. I wondered aloud, "Why would anyone want to ride this ride?" and I didn't realize my boss was behind me and he was the owner of the amusement park and I didn't want to offend him, so I said, "I could see the attraction if it was a hot day, it would feel really good."

So, I get back to the office and I open the door, and there's this long sloping hallway I have to walk down and the lights are off, so I turn on the lights and I see my favorite waiter bending one of my co-workers over a desk, so I hurry around a corner, but then I peak back and see who it is, and I know in my dream that I've walked in on them before, so I apologize to them, and hurry to my office. I'm startled because one of my coworkers are in there, and he explains everyone left for the amusement park and turned off the lights, but he was still there working.

So, I tell him what I saw, and he tells me it's impossible because my friends Candace and some other chick I don't know, but I know in the dream, and I suddenly hear Candace talking, and I'm very confused.

Then the other chick comes in and starts talking to us, and it's like she's my friend, but I have no idea who she was.

January 30, 2012

I had some strange dreams last night about Vampires and Werewolves, and not the sparkly or sexy kind. These vampires were ruthless—like disemboweling ruthless.

I had a dream about trying to get out of a parking structure, while the vampires were killing most of the other people in there, and we made it to some sort of convenience store, where the clerk was able to somehow manage to save us, by convincing a vampire that he wouldn't want to hurt us. Then we found out she was a werewolf, so I couldn't figure out why the vampire didn't kill her, because they were mortal enemies.

I don't remember much more, except for a lot of running, and really graphic, violent death.

January 28, 2012

I had some weird dreams last night. There was a lot about working in an office, and being worried I was going to be late for something.

There was the awesome mall food court that I dream of regularly that has tons of amazing pastries and all sorts of different foods.

Last night it was something specific, but I can't remember what now, but we were going between two different kiosks to compare the product.

Then we went to a beach to listen to one of our friends do a reading. It was the Indian doctor from Heroes, but in my dream he was a Muslim, and he was giving this long talk, and we were all a little afraid that crazy conservative Christians would try to assassinate him.

Sticking out of the water was the head of a whale, and it appeared dead.

As we all turned to leave the beach, you could see this giant whale tail, and I realized that it was the tail belonging to the head in the water.

Then I looked down, and realized I was walking over bones, and it was a huge whale skeleton.

That's the last thing I remember.

January 27, 2012

So I had some weird dreams last night.

First I dreamed that we bought this amazingly beautiful Victorian house with a huge front yard.

For some reason there was like an old cart out in the front, and the mailbox was on it, and an old 1960s metal office chair and some boxes. We were talking about doing something specific with the space, but I can't remember what, and we were talking about moving the mailbox somewhere else. Then we looked out across the street, and noticed our neighbor's mailbox was at the street. Then we noticed there was a mailbox in front of our house, and we realized the mailbox on the cart was just junk, and we were talking about throwing everything on the cart away, when 3 cats and 2 dogs came crawling out of the boxes and junk.

Then we found a weird locket in the house, and we were suddenly in an episode of CSI where the locket was the calling card of a serial killer, and we found out he had killed the family that had lived in the house before us, and he'd never been caught. I started trying to lock all the windows and doors, but some of the doors wouldn't latch, and then there was a room into the foyer that didn't have a door, and I kept trying to latch the front door, but it swung both in and out, and I couldn't get the lock lined up to the door.

Then I had a tween daughter who was playing dress up with her friends, and they decided to go up into a turret that happened to be part of the house, and they were dressed as princesses.

Then I was in a room, that I think was supposed to be a dining room, and the floor was crazy. There was like a rectangle of about 6 x 12 of linoleum, and that was ringed with green shag carpeting, and then there was another square of wooden floors, also with a border of carpet, and then there was another space of wood floors, different from the other, also with a carpet border.

It was a strange and stressful dream.

January 25, 2012

Had some very weird disjointed dreams last night.

I was in a big house with this girl Kristin I used to know. There was something weird going on. We had a dog and a coyote, but somehow I knew they were actually people in disguise.

I followed Kirstin as she was walking to the bathroom, and I hid outside the door and watched her step on a scale. She then put a stool on the scale with her for some reason, like she was trying to make her weight higher than it was. Then she broke into all sorts of weird ballet/gymnastic moves on the scale.

Then we were downstairs and there were a ton of people there, and we had all these designer clothes we were trying on. And there were this man and woman, and they were some sort of agents, and we were supposed to do whatever they told us, and I was demanding to speak to their boss.

The coyote and the dog tried to get into the house, and that was weird, too. My son Fox was there, but they wouldn't let me take care of him. He was crying and I knew he was hungry, and I was screaming for someone to feed him. I was really, really upset.

Then they told me I could speak to the guy in charge, and it was Dr. Drew Pinsky, and I had to go down to the radio station to talk to him.

I woke up while I was trying to find parking at the radio station.

January 21, 2012

I had some confusing dreams that had to do with traffic, and there was snow or something.

Then I had a dream I was home with Eric, and we were in my old apartment in Fremont.

There were two old Christmas presents on top of the fridge. There weren't tags on them, but I knew I had bought them for someone, but obviously did give them out. I suggested we open them. Eric seemed reluctant, but finally relented. I swear it smelled of chocolate, and I was hoping for a gift basket filled with food, but when I opened it, it was this weird purse filled with little, obviously used toys.

Somehow this sparked a discussion between Eric and I about decorating the kids room. He told me he wanted to decorate Ian's room in Toy Story 3, but I've already bought new decorations for Ian's room, and this started a huge fight.

I woke up to Eric waking me, and I was apparently thrashing about in my sleep.

January 20, 2012

I dreamed about the same restaurant I dreamed about night before last. This time I was there waiting for Jon Hamm. I was interviewing him or something.

He came and joined me at my table, but I don't remember any of the rest of the dream.

January 19, 2012

So, I dreamed I was back in high school. I had this class, I think it was social studies, and the teacher was Bradley Cooper.

We were having a test, and he left the room, and we were supposed to know what we were supposed to be writing, so I had no idea. More students came in after me, and when they asked what we were supposed to be doing, I told them that we were supposed to be writing about transportation. No one seemed to know the real answer, so that seemed like a good idea.

After class was over, I went to my dorm room (I've dreamed of these dorms before. A big red brick building with interior corridors that is reminiscent of a Hilton). I hung out there for a while, and then there was some sort of end of school party out in one of the courtyards at school.

Bradley Cooper was there, and he was just sort of smiling at me, so I figured the test was no big deal.

Then a female teacher approached me and started reading me the riot act for what I had done in Bradley Cooper's class. I was trying to tell her to calm down, that it was no big deal, he wasn't even mad at me, but she was freaking out.

Then I had to use the bathroom, so I wandered around for a while looking for a restroom. I found one, but it was filthy, and all the toilets were right at the edge of the stall door, so when you opened the stall, the toilet was literally right there. There was no way to sit on them and shut the door. Plus every single toilet was nasty.

So, then I decided to go to the local hang out, which was in a strip mall in Irvine, though not any strip mall that actually exists in Irvine, but one I've dreamed about before (as a strip mall where I've gone to the grocery store, and in another dream, the restaurant was a goth club). We were meeting at a little restaurant, but when I got there, the place seemed abandoned.

Then Bradley Cooper found me, and totally started freaking out about how I led everyone astray in the class, and how it was totally wrong of me, and just letting me have it. Oddly, I still got an A on my test, though.

Then somehow my dream shifted, and I was in the desert, and there was a huge fire, and we were training as fire fighters or something, and they were also doing rocket testing. One of the rockets crashed right near us, and the instructor told us that was an example of what not to do.

Very weird.

January 17, 2012

I had some really weird dreams last night. A lot of them involved entertaining my step mom's family (though it was all people I didn't know at all, I just knew they were her family). I kept trying to go to bed, and people kept walking into the room I was in and making noise, or expecting me to babysit their children.

Then there was a big family hike up to some mountain village (a mountain I've dreamed about before).

Then we were all back down in the desert and they were having a race, and all these people were on different types of motorcycles and strange dune buggies and stuff, and there were some spectacular crashes, and I noticed all the spectators were getting badly sunburned.

Then we were all back in the house, and I tried to go to sleep, but there was what looked like poop on the couch I was trying to sleep on, so I assumed someone's kid had taken a dump on the couch. I got up and kept commenting on how badly sunburned everyone was.

Then we were all going to go look for fireworks, and we were all walking down the street in a big group, and then we started ditching through buildings and stuff, and the next thing I know, we're being chased by a deranged killer, and we're running through warehouses and stuff, trying to escape.

It was weird.

January 15, 2012

I haven't been getting much sleep, so I haven't been remembering my dreams. I spent all day today in bed with a migraine, and had some interesting dreams, though.

I had a dream that it was like medieval times, and there was a big group of us that were friends, and one of our female friends had been taken hostage by some evil powerful guy, and we were going to break into his castle and save her.

There were guys and girls in our group, and the guys were going to find a way to sneak in, and the girls and I were going to pose as prostitutes and sneak in. We were all dressed as wenches, and we managed to break into a courtyard. However, we couldn't quite blend in, because apparently the whores had a curfew, so we were caught and going to be punished.

In the courtyard there were all these iron cages, and each iron cage had this contraption that was like a metal ball with razor sharp points on it. When you got in the cage there were these two handles and you had to hold them above your head to keep the ball from dropping on you. Obviously after a while your arms would get tired, and you'd basically torture/kill yourself.

I saw that there were all these other females in these cages, and a lot of them were still alive, but impaled on these devices, and none of them were making any noise, because somehow I knew that if they made noise, they were kept in the cage for longer. So, anyway, they're trying to put me into one of these, and I just start screaming.

I could see the friend that we had come to save through a doorway, so I started screaming louder, hoping to draw her attention. Luckily she came out, and when she saw who we were, it was like we suddenly had the element of surprise, and we all pulled swords and started fighting our way out.

We met up with all the males of our group, and there was basically tons of sword fighting, and some people didn't make it out.

That's about all I remember, but the torture device was really, really vivid.

January 11, 2012

I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. I was dreaming about abandoned amusement parks. They were really creepy.

I also have some vague recollections about living in a house that was split into different apartments.

There was also something about Disneyland in there.

I'm learning my dreams are pretty boring.

January 10, 2012

Last night I was dreaming about work. My office was basically a cube farm in the center of a hotel lobby. I've had dreams of this hotel lobby before. In the past it's been a casino, an office, and a hotel.

There was something going on and I was at odds with one of my co-workers. In reality she had been an old boss of mine that I had become really good friends with, but for some reason won't talk to me anymore. Anyway, she was mad at me about something.

One thing that is usually common to the office in a hotel lobby setting is that there's always a huge buffet of food set out. I have no idea why.

I had a new boss, and he looked like Jon Hamm. Somehow he asked me and two of my co-workers to go to lunch with him. We decided we were going to walk, and as we were leaving the office, I was hiding from my co-worker/old boss that was mad at me, because I didn't want her to see I was going out with the boss.

We decided we were going to walk to lunch, and the street we were walking down is one I've had dreams of before. I got to talking to one of the chicks that was going to lunch with us, and she was heavy like me, and before I knew it, we were way behind, and I was embarrassed  because I was sure it was because we were fat.

We walked for what seemed like forever, and then turned a corner and started back tracking. At that point, I was suddenly in a car, and we picked up my boss and the other chick and started driving to the restaurant.

That's about all I remember.

January 9, 2012

Last night I had dreams about being at the beach. There was a square parking lot that was really hard to find parking in (I have dreamed of this parking lot before, sometimes it's attached to a mall, and sometimes it's attached to an office building). Last night it was attached to the beach. It was sort of sunken, and the beach was up some steps from the parking lot. There were several parts of the dream that involved me trying to find parking.

The beach also had this long boardwalk that had shops on each side. The shops were elevated above the ocean. I've dreamed of this boardwalk before.

In my dream, a lot of the dream was about needing to get to the beach to pick up my brother-in-law. It was night time during the entire dream.

At one point, I was shopping, and I went into a store that had the most gorgeous little girl dresses. Everything was navy and white with flowers or stripes, and I really fell in love with one particular dress. It was too expensive, though. The woman who ran the store was an older Persian lady, and was actually my psychiatrist in real life.

Then, I was suddenly in a department store shopping with my mom. They had navy blue patent leather shoes that matched the dress I liked. They were super expensive, too, though.

Then in my dream I was back in the store, but they didn't have the dress I wanted. They had another dress, though, and I bought that one. Then I was trying to hide the fact that I had spent $150 on it. I didn't want to let my husband know.

Then the shop keeper came out and invited herself to my house for dinner, which was very odd. Then she slipped me a bag that had the shoes that matched the dress and all sorts of accessories. I was so stoked, because it was definitely more than $150 worth of stuff.

That's about all I remember.

January 8, 2012

My dream is a little fuzzy now, since I waited so long to write it down. I had to be out of the house early this morning, though.

I had a dream that included my ex-boyfriend, Ross. That always weirds me out a little since he died a few years ago, and he wasn't the nicest boyfriend. In my dream he was just a non-romantic roommate, though. I don't really remember much except being mortified about getting caught without a towel walking from my room to the bathroom.

This blog has really helped me realize my dreams are really kind of boring. I hope something interesting happens soon. =)

January 7, 2012

So, my sleep was all chopped up last night, since my 4 year old decided to take my space on the bed, and I ended up sleeping on the floor for part of the night, and then on the couch, and then finally back in bed. For most of the night I was on the floor.

I don't exactly remember my first dreams. I know there was something post-apocalyptic about it, and there were Roman soldiers.

I don't remember my dreams from on the couch.

When I finally got back in bed around 9am, I had dreams about walking around an apartment complex, and there were tons of spiderwebs. Then I noticed that there were tarantulas crawling on the webs. Then I started freaking out, because if there were that many tarantulas around the apartments, there were probably tarantulas in my apartment. I remember walking along the paths holding my youngest son, trying not to get too close to the spiders.

Weird.

January 6, 2012

I had a dream last night that I was house sitting for my dad and stepmom. In my dream they had this really big house with tons of windows and lots of dogs.

It was night time, and I knew there was something malevolent out in the dark, but I didn't know exactly what it was. I kept walking around the house making sure all the windows and doors were locked, but it seemed like every time I did the rounds, different windows would be open. They also had a sliding glass door that was open so the dogs could get in an out. Then I noticed that the slider had a dog door in it, so I closed the door, only to find out there was another door right next to it that was open. I spent all night trying to close windows and doors to be safe.

January 5, 2012

I had this strange dream that I was driving around with a friend. I was taking her home, and she happened to live on the Tustin military base. I was telling her about how I had lived there when I was younger.

At the gate, I was trying to convince the Marine he should let me in, but he was getting surly, and then finally my friend showed him her ID and a piece of paper that looked sort of like a parking ticket, and he let us in.

We were driving around the base, and the houses had gotten really nice there. We could see the hangars and I asked her if she'd ever been inside. I was telling her how enormous they are up close, and she commented that one of them was 20 miles long.

We got to her house, and she had two kids. One was a teenage boy, and he was playing guitar. We ended up at some community center where we were all hanging out and her son was playing guitar.

That's about all I remember.

January 4, 2012

I'm a little disappointed with my dreams so far this year. I usually have very vivid, movie-like dreams, but not so much yet.

So, last night I had some very disjointed dreams.

I remember being in a mall looking for lunch, and visiting a food court. It is important to note this is a mall I have dreamed of before, but not one that I've ever visited in real life. It's a nice mall, and the food court is amazing.

I then dreamed that I walked into a room of elderly people that were debating politics. I remember using some comic strip-like pictures trying to convince the elderly to be more liberal.

I don't really remember much else. I didn't get much sleep last night.

January 3, 2012

I had a lot of really weird dreams last night.

The first one that I remember had something to do with driving late at night on the freeway. There was a lot of traffic. I don't really remember much about that dream.

The next dream I had I was working in an office. It was a total cube farm, and for some reason, my mom worked there, too. She was having some issues with her computer and I was trying to help her, but I can't exactly remember what was going on.

Then we went over to another cube, and John Bernthal from The Walking Dead was in there, and he was putting all of this really nice meat into a roasting pan. The pan was like the size of the entire desk, and he must have been loading like 50 steaks into this pan. My mom said, "Look at that beautiful meat." To which I replied, "And the food looks pretty good, too." LOL

So, for some reason, even though they were obviously making a huge meat meal at work, we decided to go out to lunch. We were driving around looking for a restaurant, and we were in this strip mall, that was basically like 10 different restaurants all next to each other. It was vaguely like Restaurant Row down in the San Marcos area.

Next thing I know we're in a restaurant, and it was just this giant room. It was like a ballroom. There was a buffet set up, and just tons of empty tables, with just a few customers milling about. We couldn't find a hostess to seat us, though.

I then had a dream about a parking lot that was very similar to the parking lot of a shopping center that was near my old apartment in San Diego. However, there were all these really weird bushes that had potatoes growing on them. I was having a hard time getting out of my parking space.

The last dream I had, my brother and sister-in-law called me and told me they were at a coffee shop that was so amazing, they were serving giant hot chocolates. I decided to go down and meet them. I ordered the hot chocolate and sat next at a table next to them. When they called my name to get my hot chocolate, my sister-in-law got up to get it for me, and there was a giant cup on the tray with two machines. One was a coffee machine and the other was just this weird looking machine, and my sister-in-law set the giant cup under the coffee maker, but all of this hot chocolate started pouring out of the other machine, and it was pouring everywhere, and I was trying to tell her that she had the cup under the wrong place, but she wasn't paying attention, so there was hot chocolate everywhere.

Then we all decided to leave, and we were walking across this big grassy area to the parking lot, and we passed a bunch of guys, and I suddenly realized I wasn't wearing clothes, so I hurriedly tried to put my pajamas on. Then when we got to the parking lot there were all these big trucks with KC Lights on them. Then we got into my brother and sister-in-law's car, but it was a giant bed. And I was about to pull up the covers, when I realized that I drove my own car, so I had to get up and go find it.

January 1, 2012

I'm sure I had this dream because I was playing Skyrim before bed.

I don't have a lot of recall about last night's dream, but it involved being with a small group of people and battling monsters. At times I was right there in the action, and at times it was as if I was just watching a video game. There was a particular way our group was going, and there were a number of monsters that needed to be fought in a certain order. I think we had to try repeatedly to complete the task, because I remember at one point, being back at the starting point, and having to explain the proper route to go. I think at that point we decided we had to get through the gauntlet of monsters, because the bathroom was on the other end of the map. LOL

One of my teammates couldn't wait, and went running straight for it, pulling every monster in the area onto him, and then on to us, after he was overwhelmed.

That's about all I remember from the dream.

A Year of Dreams

I have decided that I'm going to try to document my dreams everyday for a year. I tend to have extremely vivid, strange dreams, and I think it will be interesting to write them down. One think I find fascinating is that, while I don't have recurring dreams, I do have dreams that often take place in the same locations.

Next blog will be my first dream of the year.