Wednesday, September 12, 2007

The One with the Gorilla

Apparently I was staying at the school for a Martial Arts tournament because I had some bags that indicated that I was staying over for about a weekend and I had my weapons with me. I had a roommate - some guy that I did not recognize in the dream. Heather, Aimee and Mia were like one person that morphed into each other.

The Gorilla would lock the bathrooms at night and slept in the hallway near my room. If I had to go to the bathroom, I had to use the bathroom down the hallway, escorted by Heather. You didn't HAVE to have the escort, but it was safer that way. My roommate and I were waiting for Tina to come in and sneak us out - to escape. She was helping people escape, but could only take a couple of people at a time.

I went to the bathroom with Heather, using the girl's bathroom at first. I thought it was the only one. Then I had to use the bathroom again (I think I went back to my room first for a bit) and went to the boy's bathroom. I went for a very long time and then once I was done I had to go again. I had to go into this big sink that reminded me of a sink that would be in an art class for some reason. Heather was standing really close to me and she switched to Mia. I yelled at her for standing so close while I was going and she kept trying to look.

We started walking back to the room and I saw Tina and my roommate and maybe one or two other people with backpacks on like there were going to leave without me. My heart started pounding because I was scared I wouldn't escape, but they said they wouldn't leave without me. I asked if I should go back and get my bags, and Tina said maybe I should so I would have a weapon. She was carrying something like a tire iron. I thought about my stuff and said 'f that' I could get new stuff. If I got caught the gorilla would kill me/us. But all of a sudden I had my steel fan, which I was showing to Aimee for a minute while we were waiting for Tina for some reason. I was showing her how it could be used as a weapon.

We started to leave and I asked where the Gorilla was and Heather said 'In the cell checking the bathroom.' I wasn't worried that the Gorilla would notice we weren't in the room, but if it caught us outside the room, it would kill us. We got near the bathrooms and I saw the shadow of the Gorilla behind a door (had like frosted glass) and knew it was coming out so I ran toward the bathroom but didn't hide there because I knew it would check the bathroom. I whispered to a kid 'hide!' and went into another room - kind of a big empty room with some tables against the wall - kind of like a band room with no stuff, or a banquet hall room.

Then I woke up.

The One with the Coffins

I was helping the guy that did my home inspection prepare some coffins (well more like wooden crates) for a family that died. I was helping him with the kid’s coffin – I was helping him remove burned-on lettering like on lumber from the store. We were using paint thinner and Q-tips. The kid’s clothes, a tennis racquet and some other plaything to be buried with him were in a paper bag. I saw cockroaches coming up from a hole in the ground and I was freaked… I didn’t know what they were at first and my Mom identified them. The inspection guy wasn’t going to bury the kid – he said that was an old law (that they actually had to bury him). I think he was going to sell the body? The cockroaches were huge – like 4”. I don’t really know what a cockroach looks like, but these kind of had these little shield things behind their necks.

When the inspector first came, he drove a pickup truck, and starting putting duct tape around the bottom edge of it, saying they were supposed to have measured it – like he was going to run out of the tape. He didn’t.

Another weird thing: Today I read CNN and there was a story about a man that was arrested in Atlanta for not actually cremating/burying people!! He kept them behind the crematory.

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.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

The One with the Toilet That Saved the Town

I was jogging outside in a place that seemed familiar in the dream with Tim, John and Tina (I think) from work. I remember commenting that I wished I had worn pants because I didn’t like the feeling of things touching my legs when I ran (like tall grass and twigs and stuff). Tim starts running faster and I speed up to kind of race him – John and Tina fall behind, going at their own pace.

We get to this big building with these big aqueduct-looking things. They were kind of water-slide shaped – but bigger and made out of concrete and painted blue like the bottom of a public swimming pool and the paint was cracked and peeling – like the place was old and not kept up. The plant growth in the area indicated the same thing.

One of the aqueduct things acted like a water slide into a large pool and Tim slid down it into the water, which was fairly far down. I stood at the top and watched Tim and noticed when the wind blew, when it rustled certain leaves on this one tree right near the edge of the pool, it would make this warbling sound.

I looked closer and on the leaves there were these clearish little bubble sac things with insects inside. Tim looked at them with me and as we poked at them with a stick, it became apparent what they were – but like Tim was reading something about them but there was nothing to read. He said that the purpose of the building was that when the insects were messed with (as we were doing), the pool would flood and when the water touched the insects, somehow the insects would poison the water and the water would flow out and poison everyone in the surrounding towns.

I noticed nearby there were other aqueduct-slide things, some pointing out into the forest and stuff. The water started to fill the pool and we looked around for a way to try and stop it. There was a bathroom near the pool – with just a toilet inside. I had an idea and opened the back of the toilet up and fiddled with the ball so that the toilet would never fill and it would just run. By doing so, it would keep the pool from getting full enough to poison the towns. I think next we were thinking of breaking the whole toilet but I woke up.

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.

Sunday, August 29, 2004

The One When I Was Trying To Go To China

I kept dreaming that I was going to China but I kept being late getting to the airport.  I think at one point my luggage was at the airport and gone but I was not.  At first my dad was taking me, but I missed that and had to switch flights.  Then he was gone and my mom was going to take me but then we were watching TV and lost track of time and I missed the second flight!

Saturday, August 16, 2003

The One With A's Ankles

Last night I had a dream that I was over A.’s but I wasn’t supposed to be there.  We were friends and were hanging out.

She was wearing a short skirt or short shorts or something and she had really young looking legs, though I think her ankles were kid of big.

A guy came to deliver something and she made me hide behind a chair because I wasn’t supposed to be there, but the chair had a open bottom – like a papazan chair or something so the guy could still see me hiding.  He looked down, saw me and gave her the package.  But then he wanted a ball so I threw it to him.