Museum, Hotel, Farm, Ballroom - oh, and celebrities

I was in some sort of museum. It was under construction - scaffolding and sheets covered parts of exhibits. There were marble statues, and Baroque art, and a large, incomplete Egyptian wing. I was there with a toddler who wasn't mine. His name was Max. We found another toddler wandering around, who was named Ian. Ian jumped down a hole in the floor of the Egyptian wing, and emerged out another lower section next to some hieroglyphics, which he started to draw over. Then there were people in the wing, and Jonathan Groff, dressed in his "Taking Woodstock" outfit, tried to swim backwards up the hole (from the hieroglyphs to the hole), which was now filled with water. It took him way too long to do so, and when he came out of the floor he looked really upset.

We lost Ian - like he wandered off through traffic on a street at night in the rain. I looked for him, but I don't know if I ever found him. Same thing with Max - he just sort of dissipated somewhere in the dream. I think I found the people who were supposed to be looking after him, and I yelled at them.

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Third person - in a hotel, in the honeymoon suite, two characters from the show "Supernatural" were having really loud sex - Dean and Alex (Alex is a girl). The other rooms were making jokes about it. Then the couple who actually paid for the room came in, and threw a remote control at Dean's head for ruining their night.

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I was in a farming computer game, and it ran a little bit like the movie "Australia" and a game of Risk. Every turn I could take action based on how much land I owned, but I only owned five squares (?) of like a fifty square board. So I tried to grow some crops, and raise some cattle. Then this guy sent a tornado and destroyed all my stuff. So I walked off to the town council meeting - down a dirt path to a big white barn. Things were in black and white, and there was a black man in the audience in overalls, and all the farmers were being really racist towards him. I think it was the guy who plays Lafayette from "True Blood." I couldn't get any of the men to listen to me, because they were too busy making fun of the black farmer. And when I tried to tell them my problem, they just laughed at me too. I went back to looking at my farmland from above, trying to figure out how to win. I seem to remember flashes of cast iron stoves and old creaky furniture and tools too.

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I was going through True Dungeon at Gen Con, in the giant Marriott ballroom. I was a bard, but there were only two other people in my party. Nothing looked completed, and there were no monsters. We made it through to the end, and were just about to leave, when we passed three cut out sections of wall. From these sections, randomly, jumped out three giant animatronic centipedes, each the size of a man. We fought them - well, the two other girls in my party fought them. I provided support. They looked amazingly well done. So we went to claim our experience points, but they told us we had to go again because nothing was set up properly, except for the dire centipedes

This was the last part of the dream, and I remember some people were wearing...sparkly princess hats and veils? The place was well lit, as opposed to how it usually is (dark). And at times it didn't look like a ballroom, it looked like a glade in a wood.

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Okay - so this dream had no flow. If I were a director, I would accuse this of being nothing more than a montage of bits. What is cool is that I remember the beginning as well as the end of this dream. Some of the middle bits are hazy, the dialogue forgotten, but this is a pretty full dream, despite my brief descriptions.

Iron Man Sunset

Extremely fragmented dream - because I woke up awkwardly (loud noises):

- Sunset over a clear water pond. Nephew was with me, and I told him to that the catfish came out when the sun went down. Then there were catfish in the water - giant polka dotted catfish. By that I mean they were pink and peach colored, with dark spots on them. The males were pinky-peach, the females had spots. One got caught on a hook by accident, and was pulled up from the water. It was taller than me, and a man gingerly removed it from the hook device and put it back in the water.

-I was in a car, watching a semi. The semi's back tires went off the road, and I thought the lady driver would recover, but then the whole back end went off the road and the truck flipped over. We were on Hwy 231, by a Walmart, except the whole road was raised, like a highway ramp. Her truck was filled with groceries...

-Robert Downy Jr. as Tony Stark (very hazy here). I think there was some sort of chase, or was he avoiding people? An apartment and a silver car. For some reason, I think he had a bag of onions in the front seat.

Fishing

Ah, another dream about my favorite element: water

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Daytime. I was fishing on a pier. Next to me were two men in a rickety row boat. There was another little girl on the pier next to me, and maybe another man. I could see the shadows of fish in the water. The lake was big, but I could see the trees that made up its borders. The water was bright blue green, like the shallow waters of the Caribbean. Except it wasn't clear - it was cloudy.

Suddenly, I found myself swimming on the far side of the lake. The water was cold and murky brown. "In them waters there is where you can catch alligator, catfish..." One of the men in the rowboat was saying. I did not feel like eating alligator or catfish, so I swam back the pier, and the warm green water. The man continued listing fish as I crossed through different patches of the lake. I got to the pier and pulled myself up. I could feel fish brushing against my skin.

I grabbed a fishing pole, except the pole was snapped in the middle. I tried to cast, and threw a long cast to the far shore of the lake. I felt a tug, and tried to reel in the fish, but my line got tangled with one of the rowboat men's lines. We tugged together, and I knew that I had lost my fish. The man was really excited for some reason. We tugged and reeled, and finally we pulled out a large trophy. It was his lost trophy.

"Great," I said. "I love fishing for other people's prizes."

"Yours is out there too," said someone. And I could see the top of my trophy sticking out of the water, lodged I guess in the mud of the lake. I started to cast again....

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I did not recognize anyone in this dream. They all seemed like rural strangers, friendly in a rural way.

Small dream

I have only one sentence for this dream:


I was Sacajawea, and I was rollerskating.


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There - psycho-analyze that!

Rube Goldberg dance

Sigh - I really could use a dream that wasn't so overtly weird...

Okay, so I was in three theater productions at once. All of them were on these tiny little stages. Each theater piece followed the other, and each was set up like some sort of crazy rube goldberg device. In one I had to jump up the outline of hill, except the outline was made with buckets of water. So I had to jump up buckets of water, then jump down them. There were metal cymbals, pinwheels, and champagne glasses. I had to duck around and spin. It was all very hectic. Finally, I landed, and there was applause. Everything shifted, and the next show started. The second show had lots of little houses on hills, and I was supposed to...I think I was supposed to dance around them (but it's hazy now and I can't remember). It was like being on a conveyor belt, and having to act different for each scene piece.

I remember spotlights, and cheering - it was theatrical, and though I was getting tired of putting on the shows, it never occurred to me to stop acting.

The hiatus

The hiatus over the past month was me abroad, getting my teaching certificate.

Did I dream? Of course. I did not, however, write them down. In fact, I only really remember two dreams, one of which I will share:

I was overlooking a large city at night. I was standing on a cliff. The city had an orange/purple glow, as big cities do at night. Overhead, I saw a streak of green light. I grabbed a pair of binoculars to get a better look. It was a comet, streaking overhead. I wanted a better view, so I jumped off the cliff, and flew up over the city to watch the sky.

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Nice. Simple. Hopeful.

The Creepiest Angel of All (Nightmare)

This may be my only attempt at putting a nightmare onto this blog. We'll see.

This is the last thing I saw before I woke up:

A bed in a darkened room. On it was the filthiest naked angel lying on his side. He was covered in hair, and his chest was coated with oil or sweat. His face was about a foot long, and a mouth full of sharp teeth. He had auburn hair that curled down to his shoulders, and big, creepy eyes. In fact, his face looked like a gross human-esque version of Hades from Hercules
A woman climbed into bed with him, but I couldn't see her in full. More like I could see one of her legs,an arm - just pieces.
"I can't help it," he said. "I just love her so much." He then proceeded to tear the woman apart with his teeth. It was violent, and the dream fell into disjointed images of what was happening

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I hate it when I have dreams like this. That stupid face will stick with me for several days now *shudder*

There was more to this dream - A theater, a show - but the end is what woke me up at 6am