The One with Hide and Seek and the Vote

 The first thing I remember was me hooking up with a friend of mine (that I used to work with) in a big, old house.  The friend was also the project manager of a big effort and there was a vote about to take place.  I was a key vote, but the project manager was trying to stall the vote for some reason.

I was hiding all over the house trying to avoid Jen (who is a woman that I used to work with) who was trying to find me so the vote could take place.

I hid behind furniture and in closets.  Two other women found me in a closet and commented, "Oh, you're back in there" and laughed.  Once, I pulled down the stairs to the attic (the kind that fold up into the ceiling) to trick Jen into going up into the attic.

At one point, I ran out of the house and started running away but had to go back because if they knew I left the house, it would count as an absence and the vote could move forward without me.

The One With The Liver Cancer

Last night I had a dream that I had a tumor on my liver that had metastasized.  The dream occurred on a Friday and a dentist was due to remove my liver on the following day, in the evening.  It wasn't a transplant - they were just going to remove the liver, but it meant I was going to die - they essentially were going to put me down.

So the whole dream, I knew that I had about a day and a half to live and most of the dream was trying to get everything in order.

I wrapped up work where I'm currently employed and went to the place where I worked previously and returned a folder of work that I had kept with me for many years for some reason.  I was trying to make sure that all the loose ends of my life were tied up.  Mxxx, a lady I worked with was still there and I returned the work to her and updated her with what needed to be done.  Outside her office was Kxxx, I guy I worked for at my current employer and he was sitting at the desk in his office, but the desk was pushed against the door frame, with him facing out.

Next, I remember being in a house with a little African American girl that I don't think I knew in the dream, but I was telling her about stuff.  She was probably about 8 or 9 and she said, "Do you know what you're doing?  You're saying goodbye."  I said that I knew, and I started crying.

Then I was outside in her yard and the kids from her large family were walking in a line, single file, toward the house.  There were probably 10 or 12 kids.

I went to my parents' house next, and my mother and father were doing some work in the garage.  I asked my mom to call the dentist and ask for another week so I could have more time to get my life in order.  I wanted to sit down with my parents and let them know how my stuff and money needed to be allocated out.  My mom said that they wouldn't do it, but I remember telling her that it doesn't hurt to ask.

While my mom was making the call, I left the garage and stood in the driveway with my sister.  The little girl down the street was playing in the road near her house and I hid behind a tree so that she wouldn't see me and come over.  But the little girl's mother threw a frisbee into a large bush in my parents' yard, so the little girl headed over.  While I was in the driveway waiting, I heard my mom tell the doctor's office that the little girl had said that she was upset because Uncle Dan had pouty lips and looked confused.  She made that up to try to convince them to move the appointment.

My mom finished the call, and the administrative assistant named Joanne told her that the doctor wouldn't or couldn't move the appointment and that I'd just have to resent it.

I woke up in real life, recorded my dream on my phone, and when I went back to sleep I re-entered the dream.  The only thing I remember from the second round was that Jxxx was ignoring me even though I was dying.  He said that he had other stuff to do.

The One with the Necklace and Stolen Cell Phones

I was over my uncle's, in a finished basement at something that resembled a sleepover. Two guys (both from work) and I were in a bed trying to sleep, but it was obviously difficult to get comfortable with all of us in the same bed. I took my pillow and a blanket and started to head upstairs to sleep somewhere else.

On the stairs, on the vertical part of one of the steps, was some sort of stickers or something (maybe Christmas-related stuff?) on display for sale. It was as if my aunt had a mini store going on in her home - like when people came to visit, she would try to sell them something. At the top of the stairs, kind of like it was the topmost stair itself, was a cash register for handling such transactions.

My cousin was in a room upstairs with her daughter and I remember thinking it was weird for her to be up so late.

Then we were somewhere else, in a car, driving into a gas station type of business. At this point I think I knew that my parents were divorced and my mom did not have custody of us (not sure if my dad did, either). We were looking for my sister and she was with my aunt and uncle at this gas station. There was a table outside in the parking lot with a bunch of cell phones and something else for sale. It seems my aunt and uncle (and maybe my cousin, too) had stolen the phones and were selling them there at the station (because maybe they knew the owner?).

Near the gas station was a house that my mom used to live in. It was boarded up and looked dangerous and it indeed was condemned.

My mom had a necklace that fell down the sink and she managed to get it out after some guy told her how to do that. When she retrieved it, she had to do so from the faucet, not from the drain. The necklace was damaged. This part appeared to be some sort of flashback because at the end of the dream, there was some sort of revelation that my mom had always worn a necklace that was made from the remaining parts of the original necklace that had fallen into the sink. I remember the new necklace had a clasp where one end is a closed circle and the other is like a post shaped like a bar that is inserted into the circle.

But it seemed like we were trying to find the original necklace but we finally realized that is what happened to it... she had been wearing it all along and we had forgotten that was remade.

The One with Dan the Vampire Slayer

I moved into this old house with like 5 floors. Some guy that resembled Wesley from Angel was my realtor and he ended up borrowing money from me ($50). I found that one set of keys was missing. Next door, the house was filled with kind of rowdy kids - like it was a college frat house or something but coed. They were smoking pot in the car and stuff.

At one point, I was walking into the house at night and as I shut the door, the latch didn't catch and the door swung open again. And instantly, in kind of bluish light, all the kids from next-door are standing in the front yard, on the porch, etc. One of them (seemingly the leader) was leaning up against a tree near the road smoking a cigarette. The door swung closed and open again and they were all gone.

I have no idea how I got from there to the next part, but all of a sudden I know that the house next door is filled with vampires and they are attacking the house. I have this big wooden stake but the end is kind of splintered from overuse. I am also with two other people that are like Wesley and Cordelia. Killing the vamps was like it is in Buffy - they kind of disintegrate. After killing the first round of vamps, I stuck the stick into a potted plant - I had a hunch that the soil was sacred soil. Because there was blood and stuff on the stake, it sizzled in the dirt. Suspicions confirmed. Apparently the house used to be an old parochial school and was on consecrated ground.

Second round of vampires. The three of us are running around trying to dodge these arrows the vamps are shooting at the house, through the windows and walls. When I moved around the house, they followed because somehow they could sense where I was in the house because I was 'the slayer.' At one point I was on the floor next to the wall dodging all the arrows and stuff crashing through the wall. Then all of a sudden, [Female Friend 1] appears for a moment. Apparently the head vampire was her ex husband, but his name in the dream was [Female Friend 1's son's name].

Then this couple comes over because they found a set of keys in their house and someone told them to come over here or something. I threw some dirt on them to make sure they weren't vampires. For some reason, I have the idea in my head that the keys were taken for some guy that is in jail that could help us out. Then the third round starts, and all of a sudden [ex-coworker 1] is next to me holding a bunch of wooden grill skewers. I grab them and stick them in the dirt so that they would be effective against the vamps.