The One with the Jogging, Mushrooms and Paparazzi Photo

I was jogging in a residential neighborhood with a client of mine who is a runner.  In real life, it has been raining a lot, so there have been a lot of mushrooms lately, which I love looking for and taking photos of.  

So as we were jogging, we were seeing them on people's lawns, including some really nice chanterelles, and I had to stop to take some photos, even though I felt bad for pausing the jogging.

I don't remember how the two parts were connected, but then it came up that a friend of mine (Garrett) had been involved in something of a scandal, because a photo had been taken of him -- I don't remember for sure, but I think he was buying drugs, and I seem to recall it was at a place like the Boatslip in Provincetown.  

The photo was black and white and old looking, and reminded me of the photo of Jack in the Shining at the end. 

The One With the Lab and the OB/GYN

Took elevator to the 13th floor but there were only like 10 buttons. I figured out how to get to secret levels. At one point near the end of the ride, the elevator went sideways - but rotated on its side and was still going up.

I got to medical lab where Roger from work was trying to do something – he was like professor X. I knew that in order for it to work they had to be on the same frequency. There were two psychic things that needed to communicate or something. Roger was one. The lab was working on some drugs to enhance psychic powers.

So I and Tom Sizemore - who was up there two and like my partner, started looking around. The door opened and I said 'hide!' and we dove down and hid behind one of the beds - like hospital beds but futuristic. A huge tall guy and another guy (I think he was a childlike old guy kind of like in Akira) came in. I thought they were bad guys but I'm not sure. We got up and kept looking. Apparently time starting running out and they started moving faster. I was going around opening drawers and stuff trying to find a liquid that was the proper color to inject into him.

When I was near the door something happened and someone dropped a whole bunch of these little things that were like the tips of needles, but they were small, like diabetic prick needles. It was like a tall filing cabinet tipped and knocked into someone, like someone was doing something on the other side of the cabinet.

I started to help them pick them up. I knew someone was there who was causing more harm than good and they wanted them to leave. I said that I would leave if they want, but this woman said, 'Dan, I'm an OB/GYN and I'd like you to stay and help if you could.' I agreed and she asked me to paper the beds.

I found a big roll of paper like for the hospital beds, but not attached to one of them, and pulled out a big sheet and wrapped it around a pillow. I said I thought it looked like carbon paper and the OB/GYN said it was carbon paper. I noticed there were rolls at the foot of the beds for papering them. I laughed and said, well we'll get imprints of this person's head at least. I used the regular paper to paper the bed (the pillow still had the carbon paper).

That's all I remember.

The One When My Family Goes Out to Eat / The One Where I’m a Vampire

I went out to eat sushi with my family - My Mom, my Dad, my sister and my Aunt Susie was there. It was Sakura but it was in Northampton on kind of a hill and we had to drive up a really steep road to get to the parking lot. Once we got there, the parking lot was small and we had to park illegally. We were the first ones there for the whole day - it was because it was Chinese New Year and sushi is Japanese food. We sat at a round table and ate a ton of sushi - it was the first time eating it for everyone except me and I think Aunt Susie. The guy that owns Sakura was there too. We got a jar of tobiko and there was a price sticker on it for $2.99. I was surprised it was so cheap.

There were kids sitting at a nearby table playing with chopsticks and one flew over to our table. They kept switching people's chopsticks and the one that ended up at our table had little notches in it like they were making lincoln logs out of them. On top of the sushi bar was a plate of sushi - like samples - that people could go up and smell to make sure it was fresh. I did this.

We talked about how we haven't spoken to Aunt Susie in a long time and how Dawn and I used to call her 'goo goo' (which means Aunt in Chinese). She and my mom almost got into an argument about how they stopped talking. Susie said Mom used to say stuff about her boyfriend, Peter. They were civil, but there was definitely tension between them.
For dessert we had a big plate of Oreo cookies on the table but my Dad had a piece of cake.

Next thing I remember I was a vampire and going around killing people in the restaurant. The family was gone at this point. I went outside and continued. At this point it was night and dark out. I had fangs and sharp claws and remember feeling invincible.

Sometimes I would feed (although I do remember biting necks, I don't remember sucking any blood), sometimes just kill. I was looking for someone specific, a guy (Bryan maybe?) – I think I wanted to kill him, but he went to some mountain/hill. A monster that resembled the sewer monster from X-files told me. There were other monsters in the dream but they were on my side. I was definitely a 'bad guy.'

There were pills in the dream that made me/monsters stronger or made humans strong like vampires. One girl that was similar to a slayer but not as powerful was chasing me for a bit. I had to run from her at first but then I took a pill and picked her up and threw her off a balcony. She was the only one that threatened me - otherwise I still felt invincible.

At one point I remember being in a public bathroom, sitting on the floor across from the sinks, leaning back so they couldn't see me in the mirrors (apparently the vampire-mirror thing didn't apply). I was going to kill the kids (a lot of the people I killed were teenagers or young adults - like 16 - 23 years old) as they came in the bathroom. I couldn't tell if was a guys or girls bathroom - but there were both guys and girls in it.

I didn't recognize most of the people in the dream except for my family and the guy from Sakura. All the other people were people I didn't know.