Gave My Shirt Away

One of those dreams where you really just don’t want it to end because it feels so real and so happy.

I was on vacation, visiting my family on the east coast somewhere. Maybe D.C. but felt more suburban. Odd that a good dream would involve them as they normally stress me tons. One of my friends/crushes from h.s. was there for some reason, KG. KG was hanging out with us, shopping dinner etc. We started to hit it off. We both kept looking for reasons to see each other again. At one point it was cold out and I gave her my button down plaid JCrew shirt. When we said our final goodbye I noticed she was still wearing it and said nothing, hoping it would give me an excuse to visit again. My mother dropped us all off at some kind of gas station / convenience store. Then everyone was gone except my brother. My brother and I went back into wherever we were staying to start packing. I started getting anxious that KG had not called or texted to say goodbye. Part of what made this feel real is that I was, in the dream, remembering something a counselor had told me recently, about the separation I seem to force often between what I think I should do and what I think I want to do. In the course of it I noticed I had three voice mails. I eagerly started to listen to them. The first was my mom, who had gotten lost on her way home and needed us to call her to help her find her way. I shouted to my brother to call her so I could listen to the rest of my voicemails, which I feared now would all be from my mom. My brother mumbled some response. The second and third voicemails were also from my mom, but while I was listening to the third I actually received a call from KG, who I initially assumed was calling about my shirt, but was actually calling to make plans to go shopping before my flight. I was happy. Reciprocation is the best part of crushes, tho this one was sorta 2 decades late. Anyways, the dream started to end when I was again asking my brother to call my mom. I woke up wanting to go back into the dream, trying, and failing.

Spiders

Had an intense dream about spiders and spider webs.  I was cleaning out the laundry room in my childhood house.  I was knocking down spider webs with a broom.  Eventually I noticed larger and larger spiders, finally realizing that the largest were about 1 foot across and had glowing red eyes.

Hammers

Don’t remember any details but this one just popped into my head… I was in a crowd. A guy named Spike in a funny costume ran by brandishing some kind of gun back in our direction. He didn’t fire. People explained that this was Spike. I couldn’t see him anymore and then suddenly large chunks of metal were falling into the crowd. Someone shouted that they were hammer heads, and that Spike was using his hammer brothers gun on us. I spent the rest of the dream trying not to get hit, taking cover, etc.

Security

Dreamed that Y was telling me about security concerns at my new workplace. He told me that there aren’t many problems, but that there was an incident when his team was staying at nights to use the office theater.  They would watch movies and whatnot…  but they kept getting a feeling that they were not the only testers in the theater, as if another tester was in the theater with them.

Then one day, Y was picking up his backpack in the theater after some movie watching and discovered that the mysterious tester was somehow hiding behind it.  This was shocking and I wanted to know what happened next, but my alarm went off!  I never got a good look at the assailants face in my dream – he was literally cloaked in shadows.

On a Mission

Was at the Canal Locks museum with L.C. Had to steal something but we were’t sure what. Got conflicting directions telling us to go places that didn’t seem to exist and we were running out of time. L.C. finally figured out what we needed, and found it. We tried to make our escape back towards the canal. It was clear we were either racing with someone or being pursued (maybe both). Then, a group of three stopped us. They were the bully sort. One was Michael S. They demanded to have what we took. Maybe they had guns. Michael grabbed it from L.C., and I started screaming at him trying to make him realize he was doing something really bad just for some stolen mini liquors. I didn’t understand why we had been assigned to get this and was getting really frustrated. Finally Michael and the others gave up and started walking across a bridge back towards the locks. Suddenly we so red laser dots on those three and realized someone had guns trained on them. We hit the ground and s tarted yelling for them to do the same. Shuffled across the bridge with heads low. A bunch of special-ops looking soldiers in black surrounded us. Then, Denko (from Heroes) came out of the canal locks admin building. He was wearing his typical black leather coat. He started yelling about how we didn’t stick to the plan aas he instructed. I countered with something about the liquors being worthless and he stormed off. Then, Robbie. S. was there trying to calm me down and listening but I got the sense he was just humoring me. I got mad at him and stormed off. I saw a popcorn machine (like at a carnival) and some kids and then the alarm went off.

Credit Cards Rejected

Dreamed that Y and I went to get dinner somewhere. For some reason we had to pay multiple times. Then we went to a nearby grocery store to pick up snacks. At the checkout (which was at a window/counter rather than an aisle, we were each trying to pay a balding man with a red beard. Our credit cards were both being rejected, even though we used them to pay at the restaurant. We both asked him to try it again. The people in line behind us were impatient. The guy behind the counter had to run across the parking lot to try mine for some reason. It was raining and he got wet. Y disappeared somewhere, I’m not sure where. The people behind me were getting quite impatient. The woman behind me offered to pay my bill with cash. I explained that I had cash and could pay for it. The guy returned and said “Yeah, we’re not going to accept this” (referring to my credit card). He then said “Your friend has the right idea trying to call it in” (referring to Y). I then asked if I could pay in cash and he said yes. Then, alarm went off.

Rapids in Washington

Long time since I entered a dream but this was a doozy.

Was in Washington State. Went shopping with A and her friend Br. There was some kind of natural disaster and people had to get out on boats. I think we had an inflatable raft. We got out and had fun on the water. Suddenly, we were on a lake. We wanted to go back the way we came but a female police officer told us the way back was closed due to boats getting flooded. We tried going back that was but we saw that the way was definitely closed off by what looked like large swans. We chose an alternate route that brought us to rapids. It was really choppy but eventually we got to a landing where we were able to take the boat out. I thought we had gone a long distance like to Redmond but it was only downtown Seattle. The three of us went into a nearby mall. I think we went shopping. Then we decided it was time to go. Br had to go to the bathroom and A and I went to blow up the boat by a payphone again. We presumed that Br would want to take the boat again to go back but we were unsure. At the payphones someone who resembled one of my former D.D. students seemed relieved to see us and asked for change to make a call (maybe to call a cab). I didn’t want to give her change so I made a big deal of the fact that I was there to inflate my raft/boat, not to make a call. I had change and was sort of hiding it. A said that she would give her the change, which took the pressure off me. The student thanked us and asked if we wanted to split a cab back home. I said we were going to take the boat and wondered if all of us could fit in it. Around then, my alarm went off.

Nemo Genie

Lots of dreams last night, but I can only remember the most recent.

I was in a school auditorium, waiting for some kind of diversity presentation to start. Many students from EARS training were also in the audience. When the presentation finally started, they were showing a Disney movie on a TV screen on the left side of the room. It was Finding Nemo, except Nemo and his father were replaced by two small swimming Genies (i.e. from Aladdin). The voices were being done by two men on stage. I don’t know who they were, but they were singing a song that’s not in Nemo. On screen the two Genie fish were swap to a statue, and from the singing I could tell it was a statue of a character called “Spock Octopus”.

Fruit Picking

Dreamed that I was at A’s house picking fruit with her sister S and and her mother.  Another small boy named Ben or Sam was also there.  We all climbed he tree and started shaking it.  But I was really high up and started to get scared about falling.  S was doing some really dangerous stuff swinging from branch to branch.  It was a courant tree in their back yard.  It was really hard to shake these fruits out.

Mystery Hunt Headache

Last night I dreamt that I was at the Mystery Hunt in Cambridge, MA.  We were working on a puzzle where all they gave us was a large sheet with this design on it:

The distance between Rte. 13 and Rte. 61

Tony and others were there.  We had no idea where to start.  Belinda was the person who gave us the large sheets.  Then she gave us more copies saying we would need them.  Someone (maybe Tony) suggested that it was a plot of the distance between two highways.  Someone else confirmed that it was the plot of the distance between Rte. 13 and Rte. 61.  Knowing this gave us that puzzle rush but we did not know what to do with the information.  We were trying to fit them together and I realized I had a pounding headache.  Then, I woke up with a headache.