Stealing from Pyramids; Cooking Fish

This dream was odd:

I was in a sort of Chinatown/Egypt/Venice area - by that I mean there were canals, pyramids, and Chinese writing. The place was like an amusement park, except there were more guards and very few fun things to do.

I was in a raft, and I was good at going around the canals and not getting stopped by guards. There was a Chinese woman with me, who threatened me with something...but I cannot remember what. I had to do what she said, or she would expose me? I asked her what she wanted, and she explained her plan, which was in essence to rob the pyramids. I was outraged, but couldn't think of a way out of it.

So we moved through the darkened canals inside the giant pyramid, until we found a sort of tea shop with giant glass and metal jars. She started taking down jars and dusting off the writing so that she could find the ones she wanted. She took two metal jars which looked ancient, and we left. The guards were half-heartedly after us, but I made it to a side door, and the woman disappeared. Then I was on my own, trying to nonchalantly make it out of the pyramids.

At some point after this - there was search for the woman? I feel as though there was some sort of inquiry, or hunt, but I cannot remember if it was me they were looking for, or the woman.


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I was at a cooking school, which looked a lot like my old high school. They were teaching us about cooking fish, and all the rare fish in the world. I was sitting on a gym mat with my partner, and we couldn't stop giggling for some reason. I would suggest salmon, and he put his forehead on my shoulder and started to laugh. Then he said he had some freeze dried fish - Brum? - in a cooler, and I was impressed. I started listing off vegetables we could make as side dishes, but got distracted when he started to kiss my shoulder and neck.

We got scolded for laughing, and not taking the fish course seriously. I turned to kiss my partner....


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And then woke up. Worst. Wake up moment. EVER.

Also - from what I can tell, there is no such fish as a brum, or a brun, or a brom. Oh well.

The Briefest of Scenes

I was in a Sherlock Holmes story - complete with Robert Downey Jr.
(which I guess makes this a Sherlock Holmes movie)

"What do you make of this?" He asked me, handing me a pair of old fashioned saddle shoes. I looked at them. On the side of one of them was carved an intricate mathematical problem. There was a big formula inside a square roots symbol. I tried to decipher it.

"But that's...that's impossible," I said, because according to my calculations, the answer to the math problem was the solution to the square root of negative one.

"Precisely," he responded.


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hooray for celebrity dreams!

Inception a la Menagerie

A beach - I was on a tour bus and we arrived at a large beach. I got off the bus, but I had to carry this old woman on my back. I didn't really want to, but I did it anyways. She kept asking me if the little crabs on the shore were "sugar crabs." I finally found them and pointed them out to her, as well as these pretty stratified stones left in stacks in the small tide pools. I carried her to a nearby staircase built into a dune - made of metal and glass. Crawling across on one of the staircase platforms was a giant snake - it was black, red and white with a sort of diamond pattern on it, with a large diamond shaped head. That meant it was venomous. It looked about and finally slithered away into the dune grasses. After it was gone, I set the woman down and told her to follow the steps. Then I climbed the stairs.

Over/around the next bend I saw two big clouded leopards. They were wild, and I wanted to photograph them, but as soon as I thought that, they leaped over a fence and back to their cage. Then I noticed there were employees around, in blue shirts. I decided to go and get my camera from the bus. As I tried to go back to the beach, a giant white tiger appeared at my side, sort of wuffing at me. - it was more white than white and black stripped. I put my hand on its neck and it led me back. At this point I noticed a new structure in the top of a large mountain/cliff - it was a grey concrete visitor's center. There was a toy/food truck driving around.

At some point I was walking along what looked like scaffolding, and I saw that Samantha from Sex and the City was trying to train this red macaw to not say dirty words. Then there were monkeys. They started mating, but it was awful - they were sinking their fangs into each other. I ran away from them when they started leaving their cages.

Suddenly, on the horizon I saw a giant thunderstorm. We (?) were back on the beach, but not near the buildings. All the zoo staff were packing up. I could see a dozen bolts of lightning interlacing from the clouds to the ground, and four black funnels were picking up dirt. I grabbed D. and we moved. He didn't want to go, but I was yelling about the storm. It was towering closer now. We made it to the staircase, but the wind was so strong I had to pull us up to each stair slowly. I didn't want to hid in the parking garage with the others - I wanted to be inside, in the bathroom where there wouldn't be any windows.

The wind was so strong - there was no rain.

We made it inside, to the bathroom, when the building started to collapse. The bathroom floor caved in under me, and I fell to the basement below....

And then I woke up in 2008...or 2006. I woke up, and P. was laughing about going to college. He had just got some sort of ridiculous exercise equipment that looked like half a jungle gym, which he wore on his shoulders. I was shocked, but then I was filled with relief to realize that I could do the past 3 years over. That none of it was real. I kept asking to confirm that I had just been asleep - that whole years had gone by in a dream.

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At some point in this dream - I met a British African man who I remembered from somewhere. I told him so - and he seemed to agree with me? I think he was wearing a mask - either he was wearing a mask, or he was carrying a bunch of feathers - I can't remember

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It's good to have such a clear dream, even if it is sort of a movie rip-off. There was more, but I can't remember it...I find it interesting that all the animals I saw where bigger than normal, except for that parrot.

Update

I have been dreaming. But I don't remember them very well.

For instance - I had some sort of dream that featured velociraptors, paintball, Chevy Chase, and going for ice cream in an ice storm at night.

I've also been away from my paperback dream journal. And I guess I've been a little lazy.