Running From Black People

Morgan Strain = anorexic girl from elementary/middle/high school

My family was trying to go to a restaurant. We put our name in, and waited for a long time. I left for a little while to go somewhere with my friends, and when I came back my family was still waiting. Eventually the waiter came up and told us that they couldn't seat us anymore because it was now the end of their lunch hours, and seats wouldn't be available until dinner time which was in another hour. We might have waited, but dinner prices were more expensive so we didn't want to pay the extra money. We were all upset, but I was especially mad because I couldn't understand why they would be so unfair to customers. I think I yelled at the waitress and then continued to complain under my breath. We left and tried to go to another restuarant but it was the same situation somewhere else. I think we just gave up.
I was driving around with Yashar and Shaney. Yashar was driving. We Pulled into Morgan Strain's driveway in my mom's Jetta, then backed out of it really strangely. I was now wearing an elaborate white dress, which looked a lot like a wedding dress. I told Yashar that I had to leave but he wouldn't listen to me. I told him a couple more times, and he started to speed up. Shaney started to get upset. I opened the car door, then tucked and rolled out of the car while it was still moving. I started to walk on this path back down the street we were on.
I was with my family and we were walking outside near the edge of Irvine at night. We went too far past Jamboree, and were now in Tustin. The only people around were black, and most of them were driving huge trucks. I was trying to protect my family and kept making sure they were really close to me as I walked. I felt like there was no safe place to walk, because the sidewalk would dissapear or get too thin. I tried to walk with them in the street but we almost got hit by a car. Black people were yelling at us and making fun of us or threatening us. Eventually we all got too scared, and tried to run across the street back toward Irvine. Someone started to chase us, so we dodged in to a balloon store that a persian guy owned. We started telling him what happened to us as if we were filing a police report, and the owner might have been on the phone with the police. A black guy started to come into the store, so I ran behind all the shelves and into the back of the building which was a series of passages.
I was driving in my Audi around Irvine. I was driving to wierd places I had never been before. I made a left on a street to try to get back into a more familiar area. I saw a sign that said detour through Irvine High, so I took that. I was driving wrecklessly because I was kind of eager to get back to a more familiar area. I was now on a razor scooter and trying to figure out which road I was supposed to use. I went to the far left and was riding on gravel.

Thank the Governor

Night of: July 28
People Involved: Kyle, my brother, Minnie, my mom, Russ, Barney McGrane (cultural anthropology/Buddhism/meditation professor)
Number of Dreams Remembered: 4

Kyle was on the computer, checking my many email addresses. He read the emails and deleted them as he wished. I got upset and yelled, "Don't delete that! Don't go through my emails! Why are you doing that??"
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I was picking at a hangnail, and the skin was totally ripping off. It ripped off in a perfect rectangle and it was bright red under the skin, but not totally bleeding. It somehow changed locations to my foot; then my brother came home with Minnie and was limping. He said that he had injured his foot. I, too, had to limp.
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I went to Laguna but forgot to bring my brother's Pink Panther dvd. I brought stuff from the apartments and Russ for my mom, but she said she had already received that stuff, so she gave it back to me.
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I was in a long line to get into a summer school class. I was kinda wedging towards the front, and cutting in front of people, but not purposely. I was just trying to make space. I accidentally cut in front of Barney McGrane and his wife; he smiled and said to go ahead, but I let them go ahead. After that, everyone started going ahead of me.
When I finally got to the front, I was supposed to collect about 4 or 5 different pamphlets/school materials from a table, but I was taking forever and couldn't figure out which to pick up for some reason. Everyone else was grabbing stuff. I was really slow and took out pictures from my wallet for some reason. The first picture was of Barney McGrane, me, and some other students. I kinda wanted to show him the picture, because I didn't think he remembered me.
Unable to figure out what I was supposed to pick up from the table, I went to find a seat. The classroom looked like a gigantic restaurant with circular booths. I sat in one that had only one guy in it, and I think he was Mexican. I couldn't figure out which way I was supposed to face since the booth was circular. I wanted to be able to see the front of the classroom, but it was hard to figure how.
The teacher said that we were going to do introductions, but the class was gigantic, so only a few people were going to say what college they were from, what their major was, and what they are doing for work at the moment. I thought about what I do and if people would think it was cool or not.
During the introductions, I went back to the table so that I could get the materials I needed. On the way there, I overheard a bunch of people gasp as someone said what school they were from--apparently he was very smart.
I got the stuff I needed, then sat in a booth. Someone across from me gave an introduction and said, "I'm really glad how far the country's come with racism." Someone next to him said, "Yeah... thank the governor." There were two very young black kids sitting on either side of an older white man, and the kids started arguing, but in a joking way. Since the kids were sitting on either side of the white man, they were basically yelling right in front of his face, and he was just sitting in the middle of it awkwardly. Spit was flying out of their mouths as they were yelling and the older man was getting a little sprayed. To calm them down, I said, "Easy there."
The kids looked at me and all the materials I had, and thought I had picked up way too many items. Then it was time to open our books and begin the class. That's when I woke up.

In retrospect: The racism thing must've come from talking about the email that Kyle got earlier and Chris' response to it. Also, Barney was probably in the dream because we talked about Buddhism/my classes with Barney last night, too.

My Head Is In the Gutter

Michael = friend who used to live in my street when I was in elementary school
Emily = friend, girl who lived downstairs from me at SC

The first Dream was something about being in someone's backyard and trying not to get caught. I was in a hot tub with Michael and some other guy was there.
I was at school in SC and it was very chaotic for some reason. People were running around everywhere, but I was just sitting on a bench looking at a book of sex positions. This girl wearing a green shirt came up to me and very suggestively asked me if she could borrow the book. I immediately said yes and she walked away with it. I then realized I was absolutely retarded for not following her, so I went after her. I walked up the stairs that lead to my building and found Emily sitting on a chair, and the girl laying underneath it, reading the book. I was kind of thrown off by Emily's presence, so instead of just talking to the girl I awkwardly said hello, and we all just kind of stood/sat/layed there.
I was in a hotel room with Theo. The room was someone else's, but they had left, so we were in it. I was debating weather or not to "do stuff" with Theo. Well, eventually we were doing stuff, and there were a bunch of Disney movies playing in the background. Then Theo's sister (she actually looked more like Shayna's sister in the dream), who had apparently been sitting in a chair at the computer the whole time said "the people next door are going to hear you". I suddenly felt really freaked out by the fact Theo's sister could have potentially witnessed what was going on and kind of wanted to die. Theo nicely asked her to leave, but she refused, so I think Theo and I left. Then there was some kind of chase going on, and eventually Theo and I were forced out of the hotel room because cops were inside searching it. I was naked when they made us sit outside and when I asked if I could put my clothes on this other cop said no, I pointed out that my clothes were sitting right next to me, then the cop said okay. I think the reason they were searching the apartment had something to do with the people who were actually paying for it, but I felt like it was because of Theo and I.

Frispee

I was playing Frisbee with my dad and some other dude. I have no idea who the other dude was, but we were playing at the park in Dana Point by the harbor off Golden Lantern (I think it's called Lantern Bay Park or something).

I was at some academy or something with my parents (yep, both of them). I guess we were trying to get me into the school for some reason. We had to give them a fake last name for some reason. I think it had to do with being middle class. We weren't rich enough to pay for the school, but we weren't poor enough to get a scholarship, so we tried to make it look like we were poor so they would give me a scholarship. The fake last name was "Hicks." I didn't like the whole idea of lying to get me into the school, so i was in a really bad mood. Then, they wanted us ALL to take a urine test. My mom and dad went first, and then it was my turn (we were all using the same...jar for some reason). I was wandering around the bathroom and got lost or something (it was like the biggest bathroom ever...like...a bathroom wonderland or something). I found a room with urinals, but there was a bunch of girls hanging around in that room for some reason. I walked around a bit more, and then just said, "screw it, i'm doing it here." So as soon as i was about to do it, i woke up.

Kinda weird that my dad was in BOTH of these dreams and i didn't realize i was dreaming. Stupid Brian. You go squish now.

New Text Message

Night of: July 27
People Involved: my sister
Number of Dreams Remembered: 1

My sister sent me a text message saying that hanging out on Saturday is off.

In retrospect: I talked with her earlier in the day and agreed to hang out on Saturday.

Do Not Pass Go; Do Not Collect $200**

Night of: July 26
People Involved: Kyle, my mom, my brother, Uncle Kumar, my dad, Chris
Number of Dreams Remembered: 2
**Special: Recurring dream, psychic powers

Kyle stole a car again, but this time, I was in it, too. We drove around, and I pretended to be scared whenever I saw people because if we got caught, I wanted the excuse that I wasn't part of the stealing. I believe the driver changed during the course of the driving. We started getting chased by cops, so the driver turned into a gated neighborhood. I heard sirens coming through the neighborhood and continued to pretend I was scared. I saw a firetruck coming our way, and a crap load of people watching what was going on. I knew we were going to get caught.
So we got out of the car and I put my hands up. 4 of us got handcuffed--I have no idea who they other 3 were. The handcuffs were weird because they not only went around the wrists, but also my thumbs. I was actually able to take the thumb ones off, though.
I got to go home before going to jail. My mom and my brother didn't seem too upset about me going to jail. When thinking about leaving the family for a long time, I thought, "I better hide my stuff so they don't go through it and see what I have--I have a lot to hide." Neal wanted to borrow one of my books, so I let him have that, and I kept the Part II of whatever book it was because I was reading it. I think it might've been The Hitchhiker's Guide because it looked like the Bible, and my Hitchhiker's Guide looks like that. I asked my mom how long my sentence would probably be, and she said, "6 months, but I decided that if you ever went to jail, I'd bail you out after a month." She also said that it would cost $100,000. I thought about Kyle and how he'd probably get stuck in jail for longer. I also thought that if I use my excuse of not being part of stealing the car and just a passenger, he might get a longer sentence... but I told my mom that it wasn't my fault. She said they'd never believe me. I also thought about jail and worried that I might get butt raped.
I got to the jail place, but it wasn't anything like a jail--my mom and brother came with me and we got to stay in a hotel room. Dunkin' Donuts, which was part of the building, called us and said that we should come down for donuts because "it may be your last time."
This turned into me going to get food with Kyle... the jail apparently let us leave. I said to Kyle, "Are they letting us go?" When I said that, I felt like I jinxed it, so I said, "I hope they don't build us up to think that we're leaving just to disappoint us."
Kyle and I, walking to cars to get food, split up, and I went with some black guy. I got in his car, and we started driving, but someone important told us to stop. The black guy waived like it was okay for him to go, but the man yelled at us to stop, so we did. The someone looked to be an older family friend. He also happened to be in front of my house and at my family's party. When he stopped us, he called for someone else--Uncle Kumar.
Uncle came out and said that the black guy could go get food "on one condition: that Justin stays." I accepted quickly, got out of the car, and went to shake his hand. It was a very awkward handshake--it was pretty much only the fingertips. I could sense his disappointment in me for going to jail. I got the same vibe from others at the party. I could also see my dad in the background.
Somewhere in the middle of this, or maybe after or before, Kyle and I had a mystery to solve at the jail. Me, Kyle, and some random girl listened to the story, and then explored when we got the chance. We found some flowers and Kyle wanted to pick some for the girl we were with. The flowers had jewels on them, and Kyle was about to pick one--but I interrupted and told him he should pick a different one and hurry up. He picked it and handed it to the girl, but she was already carrying about a dozen flowers.

In retrospect: First, this is a recurring dream that Kyle steals a car and I'm part of it. I'm not sure what the meaning is there, but I have a slight idea. Now some similarities between the dream and real life: I think the thumb handcuffs were in there because I was wearing fake rings to work on Monday (I was dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow for no reason). The feeling of taking the fake rings off was just like the thumb handcuffs.
Hiding stuff from the family is always on my mind.
Neal borrowing a book that looks like the Bible is because of The Game. Neal borrowing a book in the first place is because of the The Game.
The butt rape part may be because Sublime's "Date Rape" plays at work often.
What's crazy is that my sister called me the next morning and said that the KUMAR'S are having a PARTY on Friday, and asked if I wanted to come. They maybe have a party once every six months... probably less often than that. That's nuts. Oh, and I had no idea that they were having a party until after the dream.
As for all the other things... I have no idea.
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Chris had a clone who was much younger than him, and I wanted to hang out with the clone to see if he acted like Chris... and to see if I could change how Chris is now. It was basically Chris as a kid--maybe not a clone at all. Who knows.

Random People Everywhere

Marissa = My best friend from when I was 2 until about 14
Miss Paddock = My immensly fat sixth-grade teacher
Kristin = annoying person from high school
Charlie = half-japanese guy from SC who acts like he's hispanic
Yo-Hey = another half-japanese guy from SC who acts like he's hispanic, Charlie's friend

I was at Marissa's house and it was her birthday so I was going to spend the night there. That night we had a party, and all I really remember are Charlie and Yo-Hey being there, and everyone was very drunk. There was something about a car, and I think someone barfed.
The next morning I wolk up at Marissa's and she was acting kind of pissed off at me. I started making breakfast in her kitchen. After I had cooked and eaten my breakfast, I started to heat up some lunch for myself ahead of time. My lunch consisted of minestrone soup and some sort of thick yellow drink, both of which were in glass bowls. I took the soup and drink off of the stove and put them on the counter, but they both continued to simmer just by being on the tile. I covered both of them with suran wrap and kind of stared in confusion about how the tile was heating my food. Then I realized that it was stupid of me to start making lunch right now because I wasn't going to be hungry for a long time.
So I went in to Marissa's room to talk to her, and was starting to feel very awkward because she was so pissed off at me. Also, I was starting to seriously regret making lunch because I would probably end up going home before I ate it. I noticed that she had cleaned her room this morning. I wanted to ask her why she was upset but I don't think I ever did.
Later on in the day I was walking around on this lawn. I had on a mask/glasses, that was a clear plastic thing that went over my eyes and had fake flowers glued all over it. It was strapped to my head and I was walking around wearing it and thought I was really funny. I walked by Charlie and Yo-Hey who were confused and kind of amused by my behavior. I sat down on the lawn to talk to someone, maybe Marissa.
Marissa and I got on a shuttle from UCI that took us to the airport to go to New Zealand. I got there and put my bag through security as a carry-on and sat down in front of the security checkpoint to wait with the rest of my group. One of the people going was Kristin and we were sitting there talking. I realized I should have checked my bag because it was so big, but decided I would wait to do it. I then realized that I had forgotten my CD player, my CDs, and my cell phone charger. I was devestated that I would not have my CDs for a whole month, and asked Kristin if I could go get her CDs from her car. She said I could, and told me her car was in the back and to the right of the parking lot. So I set off to find her car, then realized I had no idea what it looked like, nor did I have the key to open it. I got really upset, and found a woman in the parking lot and asked to use her cell-phone so I could call my mom. I told her it was in emergency, then realized it really wasn't, but I took her phone anyway. I was trying to dial the numbers and they wouldn't work or I would keep putting it in wrong. So I just got really freaked out and upset and gave the woman her phone back and went back inside. When I got there, I saw that everyone was beggining to go through security to wait at the gate. I called my mom and asked her to bring the things I forgot to the airport. She said she would but was being really slow about it, and didn't seem to understand the urgency of the situation. I told her I was at gate 41 at John Wayne airport, and begged her to hurry. As I was sitting there waiting I saw Theo and other people I knew from school in the group to go on the trip. I also noticed that while I had been gone, Theo and other people had put a bunch of ringtones on my phone. Then I saw Miss Paddock standing next to me wearing an apron and chopping onions. She was saying how she couldn't believe I had forgotten those things and now I was in danger of missing my flight.

Game Over

Night of: July 25
People Involved: me, baby, me
Number of Dreams Remembered: 1

I was driving a car, and had a feeling I was going to get into an accident. Sure enough, I was in one, and it was pretty bad... it reminded me of the accident I was part of that happened on the freeway at 2 a.m.
I immediately thought, "Crap... I might die. Let's see what happens." This is where it pretty much turned into a video game. I got out of the car and was running, but I was controlling my running with a controller. I ran because I knew my car was going to blow up. As I was running, I got hit by a car--it was basically just like GTA. I got back up and tried to keep running, but I knew that I died, and I thought, "Maybe I could do better next time."

In retrospect: I haven't played GTA in like a week or two.

Sleeping In

I just remember trying to sleep on the floor of my mom's room because it was the coolest (temparature-wise) room in the house. It was really irritating because i couldn't sleep for more than about 5 minutes at a time (little did i know i was actually fast asleep at the time). I kept waking up and looking at the clock, but it was only 8 or 9 o'clock. When i finally woke up for real, it was almost noon, and i had missed a phone call that didn't wake me up.

The Game

Night of: July 24
People Involved: Tracy, my mom, Kyle, Courtney (Kenley's friend), Velia (from work), Greg Reed (random guy from high school), Brian, Billy Blade (from work), Brian's mom, Brian's sister, Chris, Eez, Danielle, Dave Hamilton (from work)
Number of Dreams Remembered: 3

Tracy and I slept together. She asked if I had been with other girls since the time when we were together. I said "no" because in the dream, I actually hadn't. I sensed that she had been with other guys. She also asked me if I was reading books about how to get girls, and mess with their minds in order to do so, and I told her that she was too smart to fall for mind games. She saw a picture of herself on the ceiling in my room and said she looked way better in the picture than she did in real life. I told her otherwise.
My mom was around, so I was talking with her, and there was a tv in front of us. Tracy started typing to me through the tv--it was like instant messenger, but my mom could read it, too. I was embarrassed and worried what Tracy would say "in front of" my mom, so I tried to distract my mom or pretend not to see it, but I knew my mom was reading it. Tracy typed that she was "getting ready for POG" and I don't remember if I knew what that meant, but I think it was either about sex or a game.

In retrospect: I've been reading a book that claims there's an underworld of pick-up artists that aren't good looking but can get any girls they want because of "social engineering" and things like that. The author claims to have received lessons on what to do and it worked. This has to do with The Game.
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Kyle and I were hanging out with two of his male friends that I didn't know. One of them had a girlfriend like Kyle, but wanted to go out with Courtney, as did Kyle.

In retrospect: Ask me in person if you really want to know. This has to do with The Game.
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A guy wanted to connect his laptop to work computers, so Velia halped him.
Kyle, on the other hand, was trying to steal a fast car, and I was helping by shooting people. My perspective was through the scope of a sniper rifle, and the people I shot looked like they were 8-bit Nintendo drawings.
Kyle eventually got a car, and this somehow turned into us chasing another car. The car reached a "Wrong Way" exit with spikes, but managed to get by--Greg Reed came out of the car, opened a panel in the ground, and pushed on a lever inside of it that brought the spikes down. Even though we saw this happen, we didn't know how to get past the spikes without popping the tires. A little girl came up, opened the the panel in the ground, and pushed the lever down. The spikes went down so we could drive through. I didn't know who the girl was, but I remember thinking that she was incredibly smart for her age.
This transferred to me, Kyle, and Brian trying to get tickets to play in a huge game with lots of teams. We weren't able to get tickets because it was too crowded. Billy Blade was around, and asked me to try on a sweater that some girl was wearing so that he could see what it looks like on a guy. He also gave me a newspaper for some reason.
I saw Brian's mom and sister, and they had tickets for the big game, and were going to give them to us. I think they were going to leave them at a door.
Chris was around, and some guy with a tiger was abusing Chris socially. To prevent a fistfight, Chris gave the guy money, but he kept yelling at Chris... so Chris kept handing him money. We decided we should leave. I wanted to say "bye" so I went to find Brian. On the way, I saw Eez, Danielle, and Dave, so I said "bye" to them, and then said "bye" to Brian.

In retrospect: This has to do with a Game.

Ryan's Dad Ruins Dreams

I had a lucid dream!

Alyssa = bitchy roomate from Santa Cruz
Jordan = Alyssa's boyfriend, my friend

I was traveling to sacramento with someone (I don't remember who) and when we got there we ran into Jordan and Alyssa and some other people we knew from school. I was really surprised and excited to see them both. I gave Alyssa a hug, and then went over to Jordan and he and I gave each other a huge hug and he kept kissing my cheek. We just kind of stood there arm in arm and I was wondering if this was going to piss Alyssa off. I think all the people we ran into there were watching some sort of show.
Then it was night time and I was riding in a police car with Jordan. He was actually wearing a police uniform and driving the car, and I think he had somehow stolen the car and uniform as a joke. We were driving through the woods in Santa Cruz and were lost. Another cop walked up to the car to talk to us at some point, but believed Jordan was a real cop and just asked him a question or something. So the cop left, and Jordan and I came to a fork in the road. We decided to take the road on the far left because it looked like it went uphill. We took it and it eventually came to a clearing with a huge parking lot on a cliff.
Jordan parked the car, and when I got out of it I didn't realize that we were right on the edge of the cliff, and I fell backwards off of it. I fell for a couple feet, but then hit a platform and Jordan helped me climb back up. He said something about how I should be more careful. It was now sunny outside, and there were a bunch of people sitting in a group the grassy clearing. As we were walking over to them, this dog started to run toward me like it was going to attack me. I kicked the dog away, and it kind of flew through the air for a while, then landed on it's feet and started to run at me again. Jordan had now turned in to Ryan, who was standing next to me just watching. This is when I began to realize I was dreaming because while the dog was running at me the second time, I really didn't want it to bite me, so I willed myself to succesfully kick it again. Then I realized that I was controlling what just happened, and now I was in total control of this dream.
I turned to Ryan and was like "Ryan! We're dreaming... we can do whatever we want". And Ryan was like "what are you talking about?" and then I just took his hand and we both jumped off the edge of the cliff. I started trying to fly, and Ryan didn't really get it so I let go of him and he floated back to the ground. I had to work really hard at first, like kind of kick my feet and swim through the air, but because the cliff we had been on was so high, I had plenty of room to get used to it. Eventually I was just soaring over a desert and then this huge suburban city and doing flips and stuff in the air. I flew around for a long time, and felt like I had to land for a little while. I came back to the ground and kind of got sucked back into the dream again. I went to a show with a bunch of girls. I was waiting for it to start and I noticed that water was starting to collect on the ceiling. I realized that something was leaking, and then a huge pipe burst somewhere and the whole room started to fill with water. Then as I was leaving I thought to myself "oh wait, duh, I'm still dreaming, why am I doing this". So I started to fly again.
I eventually flew to a big city with a bunch of skyscrapers. Before I went to sleep the night I had this dream, I had been on the phone with Theo and he was saying that if he could control his dreams he would try to be spiderman. So I decided that sounds kind of fun, and I would try that. I started swooping between buildings like spiderman, but I couldn't get the web to come out of my wrists so it wasn't working. I gave up on that and just did some more regular flying. But at this point I had done a lot of that so I decided to land and think of something else to do.
I landed on a huge tower thing way up in the air. Ryan's dad was there. He was talking to me and distracting me and I knew he was going to suck me back into the dream. I got too stressed out about it and wolk up.

As this whole dream was going on, there were some other dream themes going on that would kind of drift through my mind. I think Ryan's dad was part of some huge drug-related mind-control operation, and Ryan was one of his victims, and I was supposed to be but I was resisting it. Also I would occasionally be able to see this huge map of California that showed where Ryan was at the time. He was apparently doing a lot of traveling, because there were dots everywhere. The only place I remember him going was called "bobo".

The Problem With Small Cars

I was driving around town with Kyle for some reason (don't ask me what town, because i have no idea). I found out at some point that Kyle was with me because i was supposed to drop him off somewhere afterward so he could work on his homework or something. I also found out that the homework was for some sort of auto-shop class. I think we were on some sort of mission as well, but i forgot what it was, so i think we decided to just goto Dairy Queen instead. I was getting completely lost, but Kyle kept assuring me, "I know where we're going. Just keep going straight." All of a sudden, i noticed that i was driving really fast for some reason and having trouble controlling the car. I also heard sirens behind me, so that worried me, but i didn't see anything. THEN, some car going even faster than me came and clipped me. The damage on his car was a lot worse, and i almost kept going, but i decided to stop. However, when i went to park, i parked right next to a gutter, and my car fell in somehow! I was pretty pissed about that because the damage to my car wasn't too bad, but now i was gonna have to get a crane or something to get it out of the sewer (Kyle and i had gotten out of the car before it fell in somehow). When the driver of the other car got out, it was a little black kid who looked about 12. For some reason, it never occurred to me that he shouldn't be driving in the first place. The cops came, and they seemed to realize it was the kid's fault, but he kept trying to place the blame on me because i had my earphones in. The cop told me that i should know that thursday-sunday you can't have earphones in or something like that. That's all i remember.
The accident seemed very GTA-esque, but i haven't played in like 2 weeks.

The Teddy Bear Thief

I really don't remember much at all from these now...

I was in a grocery store. Someone had stolen a teddy bear that was very valuable.
Then I was in class at a school and trying to find a chair to sit in. The room was set up like an elementary school classroom in that it had tables with multiple chairs at each one, as opposed to individual desks. Every table had a computer for each person that sat there. When I finnaly found an open seat I saw that there was a laptop at it instead of a PC, so someone must have brought their own computer and that must be their seat. I don't think I ever found a seat, and probably ended up sitting on the floor. Then the teacher came in and it was a substitute. The teacher started doing this elaborate fireworks display for the class, which culminated with him sitting on a bed surrounded by flames and exploding fireworks, and somehow jumping out of it unharmed. In the dream I thought this was very silly, and started thinking about how teachers feel obligated to entertain their students, as opposed to just teach.
I think I left the class and went to talk to Ryan. We were sitting in this vacant field and I started talking to him about all these things I have been wanting to tell him in my waking life. In the dream I explained myself perfectly and he was understanding. After we had finished talking we were walking up this road on a huge hill in the dark. There were a lot of people walking up the same hill, and on the side of the road there were bushes with huge pink flowers on them.
I eventually went back to the teddy bear dream. Theo was with me now in front of the grocery store and I had somehow recovered the stolen teddy bear. I was standing in front of a drop-box that was specifically there so that someone could anonymously return the teddy bear. There was an old man in a wheel chair who might have been the teddy thief, and he was now sitting there paralized with his back turned to me and one arm in the air. Theo and I were debating about weather or not I should return the bear. I wanted to keep it, and Theo was trying to convince me that it was the right thing to do for me to return it. I think I ended up running away with the bear, becase I remember dodging store employees and running through brown double doors.

There's a NEW Mexico?

FINALLY, a day dream!
I think i was in the church parking lot with Peter Glynn (from church), and he was running around trying to make plans for lunch or something. He kept going around to different family members, and he also needed a ride, i think, but he couldn't decide who to go with. Some people left and came back for some reason, and it was really weird. Somehow, we ended up in a movie theater, and i think i was supposed to go see something with my mom, but i was following Peter around trying to make plans still, i think. Also, I think Anastasia was there with some of her friends, but i don't think i actually saw her. I think i just...sensed her presence...or something. I don't really remember how it ended or anything.
Before i left church today, Peter invited me to go to Molly Blooms to eat with his family, but i didn't go. Also, i was kinda talking about Anastasia (who i haven't seen at church in a couple weeks or so) with some people there as well.

I was somewhere with dale, and it started out just him and me. We were in one of his vehicles, and he was driving around this campsite being really reckless. He was driving through people's campsites doing all kinds of crazy things: hitting tables, driving through fire rings, and blasting loud music of course. The cool thing was in the area he was driving through that WASN'T campsites, there were these sheep...goat...ram...things running around, and he would plow through them, making them do all kinds of weird tricks and stuff. They would jump over and hit each other and stuff, and i was really entertained. Then, all of a sudden, Shelly and Sarah were with us, and there was a bug in the car. Now, most of us know that i don't do real well with bugs in general, but this was insane. It had a web like a spider, but it had pinchers and a tail stinger like a scorpion. At the time, i thought "that makes sense, they're both arachnids," and i had never seen a scorpion in real life before, so i just kinda went with it (logically, not...bravery...ly). THEN, it started FLYING, and i lost it. I wasn't the only one who lost it, but i felt a little embarassed with the two girls there. They were screaming and stuff, and we were all swinging at it, and Dale was yelling, "KILL IT! KILL IT!" I started to feel pressure at this point because of that (plus, it seemed like a very logical solution to me), so, while i usually don't like to smash anything with a stinger with my bare hands (ie. a bee), i started clapping. It was kinda dark and hard to see, but i finally got it, and the girls started laughing and saying, "That was cool, it was like, trying to make you clap to a beat or something." I think we all felt much better with the bug dead, but it was still stuck to my hands, and i had to kinda peel it off. Somehow, it was still pretty much in tact, with just a little squishy smashed part, so we decided we were going to save it for posterity or something.
When i woke up, i started to have second thoughts about going back to New Mexico next week. We're still going, of course, but i just hope we don't run into any bugs like THAT.

Inundated, but Promoted

Night of: July 22
People Involved: my mom, lady at work (I forget her name)
Number of Dreams Remembered: 2

I was overloaded with school work, and I didn't think I'd be able to finish it all. My mom tried to help me by making a list of things to do.

In retrospect: Yay, another school dream... and again with the feeling of inundation, if that's a word. At work on Thursday, I took a 4 hour class about prioritizing tasks and managing time.
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I was at work and I was going to get promoted. I had to go through a few interviews with the same lady, and I don't think the dream lasted long enough to get the promotion. I did know how much the raise would be: $20,000.

Attack of the Chinese Dragons

I forgot a lot of stuff from these...

I was looking at a lake and somehow seeing it from aerial view. When I was looking down I thought I saw something in it but I assumed I was imagining it. Later on I was closer to the lake and saw this huge dragon inside it. It was kind of like a huge snake, and somewhat resembled a chinese dragon. I also noticed there was another one and that they were now aware of my presence, so I left. As I was leaving the lake I met this woman who had a book and a baby with her and I asked if she had seen the dragons. She said she had and had already written it down and reported it. This dissapointed me because I had planned on telling someone about the dragons so I would get credit for the discovery. The rest of the dream consisted of me trying to escape from the dragons (who were now following us) and I had my sisters with me so I was trying to help them escape too. There was a woman there helping us and we were all trying to get to an airplane. As this woman was ushering my sisters and I into a room, my sisters fell too far behind and the woman shut the door without them. I tried to open it and go back but the woman stopped me, and then there was a big explosion from behind the door where my sisters still were. I finnaly got the woman to let go of me, and went back in to the room. My sisters were both standing there unscathed amidst tons of debris, staring behind them. I went over and grabbed them and pulled them back into the room with us, and we kept going.
Somehow we ended up in an airport and now my sisters and I were waiting to get on an airplane to take us back home. Apparently we were in a different country at the time the dragon thing was happening because we were supposed to get on an international flight. While we were waiting in the airport one of my sisters would keep dissapearing, then I would find her and the other one would dissapear. I finnaly got both of them and the three of us got on the plane, which was more like a huge lounge with different rooms and stuff.

Me Like Hockey!

Oooh, i just thought of another dream from that last block (i know i could've just edited the post, but i didn't feel like it).
I think i was at a hockey game, but i wasn't watching it at all. I was off to the side, and i noticed some people "sneaking in." Then, i realized that i was right there with them doing the exact same thing. This worried me that i was going to get caught for something that i wasn't actually doing. Then, i remembered that i still had my ticket in my pocket, so i should be OK. At some point, i decided that i was in the movie D3: The Mighty Ducks. Now, i realize that wasn't the case, but at the time, i was thinking that D3 was the one with none of the original characters, but there were a bunch of "wanna-be" characters. Actually, now that i think of it, the coach from D3 was in it, so that's probably where i got that from. Anyway, we were in the locker room, and i think i was some sort of Assistant Coach or something. I don't know, but the kids seemed to look up to me for some reason. The Wanna-Be Charlie kid was really sad, and started writing on the floor. I looked down and saw the words "Justin Sucks." (Apparently, the best player on the team was named Justin, and i guess he missed what would've been the winning shot in the game or something). I asked the other kid that was there what the Wanna-Be Charlie kid's name was. I thought he said "Luther," so i yelled, "LUTHER!" He corrected me, and i think he said his name was "Luthus." So i said, "Fine! Luthus! Come Here!" He Came over, and i pointed at the ground. "WHAT DOES THAT SAY???" He responded nervously and said, "Justin...is really great." So i yelled again, "What does it REALLY say???" He clammed up and looked like he was gonna cry, so i told him to go in the corner or something. Then, i turned to someone else, and said that it said, "Justin Sucks," and i asked him if he knew WHY it said that. Everyone shook their heads. I told them, "Because he didn't PASS THE PUCK!" I turned to Justin and said, "If you PASS right there, that's an automatic goal!" (and there was a flashback to the shot he missed where there was someone wide open to his left). After the locker-room scene, there was a montage of a bunch of games where the team was winning thanks to good passing and stuff.
I watched a basketball movie called The Pistol a couple nights ago. I'm not sure if that had anything to do with this dream. Also, the ticket i was thinking of was the ticket from the concert i went to last night.

Poop Soccer Sex Magik

These are in random order because i don't remember what order they were in, and i'm hoping i'll remember more dreams as i'm writing because i know there were more.

I was playing Dodgeball in a gym with a bunch of people, and the balls kept changing. By the end, we were using soccer balls, and people were making soccer ball snowmen as decoys. I think i was the only one confused by them.
Who wants to play dodgeball?

I was at a school that vaguely resembled my Junior High, but it was like a saturday or something, and we were just hanging out playing games. However, it was a really STUPID game where we were throwing poop at eachother for some reason. At first, it was kinda cool because i was the "thrower," so i didn't get hit at all. I think there were two teams, and some of my teammates got hit because the other team was able to reflect some of the poop back. The weirdest part was how i was throwing the poop. I wasn't throwing it with my hands because i didn't want to touch it. Instead, i was flinging it with my shirt somehow. After the game was over is when it got ugly. People started throwing poop randomly (people from the other team to be specific). I didn't appreciate this, and i ran and tried to hide. I escaped unscathed, luckily. In my flight, i found that there was some sort of event going on at the school as well because there were a bunch of booths with candy and stuff. I think i saw eez there briefly, but i'm not sure. For some reason, i was talking to Rebecca Brown (random girl i used to know...she lived in San Clemente, but my family knew her family from kite-flying...later on, she worked at Hollywood Video while i was working at Blockbuster) for a while. I lost her, and all of a sudden i had a bunch of stuff in my hands. I tried to return them to the booths they belonged at, and i believe i succeeded. Then, i found my mom and we went home.
I think the finding my mom part was because i was with my mom last night, so she was my ride.

I was laying down in the woods for some reason, and Mandy Moore and Claire Danes were trying to seduce me (and doing a damn good job of it). I think i "cut" Claire Danes for some reason and ended up making out and stuff with Mandy Moore.
I'm pretty sure the reason for the cut was because i was watching Elimidate before i went to bed. Why it was Mandy Moore and Claire Danes, i have no idea, but i ain't complaining.

I'm not sure if this was a dream because i think i was awake, but i might've just been waking up. Also, it relates to one of Justin's dreams, so i have to mention it.
I saw My Favorite Band on stage playing Cowboy, but while they were playing it, there was a slug bug under a giant blanket floating in the air (going up and down with the music). At the end of the song, the blanket fell to the ground, and the car was gone!
Obviously, this goes along with Justin's magic band dream, the reason for it was because we were listening to MFB in the car last night. Also, that reminds me, i saw the word "Sorbit" (possibly "sorb-it," i forget) on a bottle of Excedrin the other day. I thought that was interesting.

Haven't Talked to Them in a While

Night of: July 21
People Involved: Tracy Steel (ex-girlfriend), Chris McGlone (good old friend from elementary/high school that I haven't talked to in years), Kyle Hart
Number of Dreams Remembered: 3

I was trying to explain to Tracy that I'm not out to get her with everything I say; I'm just trying to be nice.
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I had a work dream about allocating product.
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Chris McGlone and I saw what seemed to be a young Kyle running. We may have been watching a video... I'm not too sure. I said, "That's Kyle when he was younger!" and Chris McGlone said it wasn't. I was bothered by that because I was really sure that it actually was Kyle.

Bed Bugs

I couldn't decide if I wanted to post this or not because its kind of disturbing... it's just gross... (not sexual).

(Jared = ex-boyfriend from high school)

I went to stay at Jared's house with his family for my birthday. I got there and was talking to his family and then got in to a bed that was on the side of the room. I pulled the sheet over myself while I continued to talk, then Jared came over to join me. He lifted the sheet and started freaking out, and picked up a handful of something from the bed. I turned over and saw that the whole bed was filled with dead meal worms. I hastily got out of the bed, while Jared started putting the meal worms into a box that was already filled with these thick wooden screws. Jared started to have a nervous breakdown, as he carried the box from the bed to the bathroom. I just kind of stood there worried and confused.

Briggity Brak and the Last Crusade

I was in some building and there were a bunch of nazis around. I had a couple people next to me that were on my side, and then there was like some sort of head nazi guy across the room. To my left were two big doors that were controlled by a switch in the room i was in (unfortunately, it was close to the nazi guy). I had some sort of machine/gattling gun in my hands, and i was using it to threaten the nazi guy from opening the doors and letting all his buddies in (with THEIR machine/gattling guns...i had stolen mine from one of them). It was an interesting situation because i threatened to shoot him if he opened the doors, and he threatened to open the doors if i shot him. Very interesting standoff. He started to say something that worried me, and i decided that i had the better ground and that i could take the guys coming through the door, so i shot him, and he opened the doors. Little did i know i only had about 3 bullets. Right after i shot him, i turned toward the doors and got off about 2 shots before running out of ammo, so the guys started charging in and i was screwed. I tried to run, but there was a long wall that i had to run across before i could get behind it to protect myself, so i tried doing sommersault maneuvers to make it harder to hit me, but it didn't work. I got shot a couple times in the side, and i felt that nice warm getting shot feeling, and then i got shot right in the throat. When i made it to the safe spot, it was too late. One of my buddies came to help me with a cloth or something, but when he saw the blood spewing out of my neck and me short of breath, he just gave a disappointed look, threw down the cloth, and walked away. Then i woke up.
I did an Indiana Jones marathon about a week ago, so that definitely had something to do with this (the first guy i shot was the main bad guy from The Last Crusade, and the thing he said that worried me was similar to what he says in the movie right before he shoots Indy's dad). I'm not sure if the sommersault maneuver was me trying to be like Indiana Jones or trying to be like Link because i've been playing a LOT of Zelda lately.

Waitresses Make Me Uncomfortable

I forgot most of these but I figured I'ld put them up anyway

Me, Brian, and Justin were with this huge group of girls. They were all dressed up really nicely and all of us were meeting at someone's house to go out to a restuarant. So we all went to the restuarant and all of the chairs and tables there were mismatched. Some of them were huge, some were small, some were square and some were round, but they were all made of the same dark brown wood. Since we were with such a big group of people we had to split up among different tables, so me and brian sat down at this big round table, but no one else sat there with us. I opened the menu and was having trouble focusing on the items so I couldn't really decide what to get. I also thought I noticed that every single thing on the menu had meat in it. The waitress came up and asked what we wanted and I told her "water". Then she stared at me and I assumed she wanted to know what I wanted to eat as well, but because I didn't know I just ignored her and hoped she would leave me alone. Eventually she did and asked Brian what he wanted, and he told her and he asked if she also wanted to know what he wanted to eat. This kind of pissed me off because Brian was smart enough to place his order correctly, and I felt embarassed.
We were supposed to go to another restuarant after this one, but since I was not enjoying myself when we were ready to leave this first restuarant I decided I wasn't going to go. Brian decided to not go either. So he and I left the group together and I think just hung out at his house for a while.
I forgot a bunch of stuff in between. But I was now walking in Santa Cruz through the woods to this tree house that was out there. I was dressed like a metal head. I had a huge long-sleeved band t-shirt on that displayed some gory artwork, black pants, and big black boots. I was also carrying a black backpack with me. So I got to the tree house which was all contained inside the trunk of a redwood, and was walking around in it. Everything in it looked very small but somehow I fit inside of it perfectly. I was there either by myself or with a friend for a while, but then this group of guys showed up and it was obvious that they were there to cause trouble. I wanted to leave so I wouldn't get involved but I couldn't find my backpack. I looked all over the tree house and was starting to get worried that one of the guys had taken it. I asked someone where it was and they told me, so I eventually found it crammed underneath a shelf. Right as I had found my backpack I saw that cops were starting to show up outside. Now I was afriad of getting in trouble, so I snuck out the backside of the tree and got to a road as fast as I could. As I was leaving I noticed three of my friends all riding a bike toward the same direction I was going. In the dream, these three friends were people I haven't talked to forever (aubrey, kirsten, and alex). So I started walking along side of their bike, and the cops didn't notice me. I kept having to avoid huge piles of mud as I walked. I really wanted to step in one though just to feel the squishyness and see my foot sink into it.
We walked down a road to an ice cream shop, and when we got there I ordered this rainbow colored ice cream with almonds on it, in a cone.

House

Night of: July 19
People Involved: ?
Number of Dreams Remembered: 1

Some guy had purchased a house for $40,000 down. I thought to myself, "Man, I should do that with the money I save from working!"

In retrospect: I was watching House before going to bed the night before. Coincidence? That's a long shot. I've also been reading a book about purchasing properties, but the last time I read some of it was over a week ago.

Attacked By Snakes

I went to Kendra Nelson's house with Jace for some reason, and he had to clean their backyard or something. It seemed like a very bad time to do this because there were a bunch of people over. Not only that, but there were snakes EVERYWHERE. I went to throw something away in the trashcan, and there was a giant snake poking its head out. There were some big ones outside too. Roger Gales made fun of me for being afraid of them. Don't really remember anything else.

What the Flush?

Night of: July 18
People Involved: Patrick Kane (best friend in 2nd-4th grade), Brian, my mom, Kyle, Chris Tsutsui, Chris Wilson, Jeff Schnayer
Number of Dreams Remembered: 4

It was the end of the semester at school, and I hadn't done ANY work for two of my classes: ceramics and history. I tried to figure out what I should do about that... I could try, with one day left, to write like 3 long papers for history and study for the test, and do all the ceramic work, or I could do all the ceramic work and take an "F" in history. I decided that since I didn't really need school, I could take the "F" and then take the class again at a junior college.
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I went to the movies with Patrick. Some guy threw his fork really hard at the wall, and it stuck. An employee there told me to move because I was too tall, and my shadow was falling on the screen.
After the movie, it was about 1 a.m., and I wanted to go to Brian's house. I didn't know how to get a hold of him, so I drove home. There was a really weird looking guy walking alone... I sensed he was bad. I then went on AIM, and didn't realize that I wasn't supposed to until later. My mom came home, and she doesn't like it when I leave home that late, so I didn't go to Brian's.
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Me, Kyle, and some girl were playing a Chuck E. Cheese-like game where you throw a soft ball through a tiny hole. It was Kyle's turn, and he was missing it from pretty close, so I told him that he would improve if he tried it from farther away, and then moved closer. He actually made the shot from far away after a few throws.
Me and Kyle saw that there was a model contest going on and saw some girls racing to get their pictures taken--one of them was Nicole Richie. Kyle decided he could take pictures of me with some girls, so we wondered who we should get. I decided that two blondes would be good.
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I was at Chris Tsutsui's house, and we were going to play video games with Jeff Schnayer and Chris Wilson. I brought my Playstation 2, but I couldn't figure out how to plug my second controller in to make it work. A fat kid was with me, and didn't know what to do either. I realized that I brought my N64, too, but it was missing that back part that I lost, so I borrowed theirs. We played Mario Kart, and I sucked at it. I kept making loops around the track and didn't collect any of the items to beat the other players.
Chris Wilson went to the bathroom, and all of a sudden, he came out and water was shooting up from the ground. He said that when he got up off the toilet, the whole thing shifted over, so water came out of the ground where the toilet was. We shifted the toilet back over the hole and Chris Tsutsui said to Wilson, "You better apologize to my mom." Chris Wilson responded, "No," sarcastically. He also said that he wasn't sure if he had broken the toilet by flushing twice. I then took toilet paper, wiped my butt, and threw it at the toilet. I missed. The guys said "Ew," so I picked it up, threw it in the toilet, and flushed. It worked just fine.

In retrospect: No comment.

Get a Job!

I dreamed that i finally talked to Jeff Girard, or rather...he talked to me. I guess we were at some sort of church function, and he talked to me and said something like, "Are you ready to come work for me?" I excitedly cut him off and said, "yeah, but i'm gonna be gone in a couple weeks." Then he asked something like, "What's it gonna take to get you to come work for me?" I assumed he was talking about money, so i tried to avoid the question (that reminds me, i still haven't gotten paid from when i worked for paul like 2 weeks ago...) and i said something along the lines of, "Well, i'm not actually ready to WORK yet, but if somebody's gonna train me, i'm ready to be trained." This appeared to make him sad, and he said something like, "yeah, it doesn't look like that's gonna happen." That obviously made ME sad, and i figured it was time to start looking down other avenues for work.
This dream was NOT very encouraging, but i definitely need to talk to Jeff. This is something i've been stewing over for months (and this is the first time i've dreamt about it). I've been hesitant to open communication with him because i don't really know what to say, and i'm afraid he'll say something like what he said in the dream here. Last time i talked to him at the office didn't go very well because the main guy i was supposed to meet wasn't there, so, basically, Jeff said, "go home and play with it, and see what you think." ("it" being Flash). This didn't really do anything for me because i still have no idea what i'd actually be doing for him. I keep putting off calling him because i've been hoping that he would come up and talk to me. See, the conversation went very smoothly and easily when he came up to me in the dream, but i don't know what i'd say if i were to open the conversation. At first, i was thinking this meant i should call him tonight, but then i remembered that there is a church function on thursday that i wasn't really planning on attending. Perhaps if i go to THAT, then he will come up to me. That'd be swell.

My Underwear Again?**

Night of: July 17
People Involved: Tom Hanks, Ms. Rebel (High school Spanish teacher for 3 years), George Bush, my mom
Number of Dreams Remembered: 4
**Special: Recurring underwear

I was in a movie, and I knew I was, but I wasn't acting... if that makes sense. It was a haunted house/horror movie, and Tom Hanks was a very scary looking guy under a bed. He dragged a kid underneath it, and I tried to hold onto the kid.
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I was in a classroom, and talking with a girl. She leaned at me like she was going to kiss me, but somehow I knew she was doing it as a joke. Nevertheless, being attracted to her, I decided I'd move the extra 2 inches closer and kiss her. After that, we looked at each other and I giggled. I immediately thought that I should've kissed her longer.
This changed to me sitting in class, and we were all working on a crossword puzzle. Everyone must've been having a hard time with it, because Ms. Rebel (my Spanish teacher for 3 of the 4 years of high school) started writing the answers on the board. Having trouble reading it, I fell behind. It didn't matter, though, because the guys next to me thought I was funny. One of the guys wanted to move in with me.
All of a sudden, George Bush, acting as the Principal, made an announcement about why everyone's test scores were incorrect. I was then outside, watching my teacher burn the U.S. flag and spraying people with a firehose. Her mom was watching, too. I wondered if it was illegal to burn the U.S. flag.

In retrospect: I have no idea why those people were in the dream, but Francis asked me if Kyle was moving out of my apartment--'cause Francis wouldn't mind living with me--so that's where the "move in with me" part came from.
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I was approaching a big house in the snow, and there were 3 cars outside of it, and I knew that they were bad guys.
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I went on a vacation and took off my underwear for some odd reason. This somehow transferred into my mom going through my stuff to find my underwear, but I knew it wasn't there, yet I didn't want to explain what happened to it.

In retrospect: Second dream with my underwear mentioned. What's the deal with that?

Totally Tiffany

Night of: July 16
People involved: Tiffany
Number of Dreams Remembered: 2

I was in bed with Tiffany and I was wondering if "something" was going to "happen." I didn't know what she was thinking, and I didn't really know what I was thinking either. Stuff happened--I'll leave it at that, and not explain how much happened.
After, in order to get together again, she said that we should go see David Copperfield. I said, "We've seen it twice before (we haven't, but we had in the dream)." I went on to explain that I'm really busy with work, and that I sleep soon after coming home from work... then on weekends, I stay up late, and have to "catch up on sleep" during the week, so I'm even more tired. I then said, "If I just listened to my body about when I'm tired, everything would be fine." Right after that sentence, I woke up, then fell back asleep.

In retrospect: Tiffany was on my mind because I went to Barnes & Noble in Anaheim the night of the dream.
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Tiffany survived a really weird accident, and wasn't injured at all--a tidal wave crashed on top of her car while she was driving.

In retrospect: See above.

SUV

My family and I had gone on vacation and rented a car. We rented a giant SUV, and as we were trying to drive it through this small street, these guys on the street started making fun of us. They were self-righteous-liberal types of college students, and they started saying how insensitive and materialistic we were for having that car and all this shit. My mom was driving, and as they were yelling at us she slammed on the breaks, reversed back to where the guys were and was like "what'd you say to me, ass hole?!" and threw a cup of water out the window at the guys. This apparently really surprised the guys, who were now drenched, and they started giving my mom praise for sticking up for herself and stuff, but it seemed like they were actually just scared she would beat the crap out of them or something, so they were trying to save themselves. As we drove away me and the rest of my family were congradulating my mom on her victory.

Totally Tubular

My old best friend Joey (who i haven't talked to in years) was visiting, and i was telling him my story about how i changed schools between 5th and 6th grade while he was driving around. It was really long, i kept getting interrupted, and he seemed to have lost interest, but i continued anyway. My mom was also in the car for some reason.
I suddenly found myself on a river with the Nesbitts (from my church), and we were doing innertubing stuff being towed by a speedboat. It was uber-fun, and my old best friend Brad (who i also never talk to anymore, but was part of the story in the previous dream) was there for some reason.

What Size is Your Underwear?

Night of: July 15
People involved: my mom, Neal, Dave Nguyen (old high school acquintance), Brian
Number of Dreams Remembered: 2

I bought a new pair of gray jeans that were kinda flared at the bottoms, but not as obvious as real bellbottoms. I was a bit self-conscious in them. My mom said that she liked Neal's new pants, and instead of saying the same thing to me, asked me, "Do you like how yours fit?" When she asked that, I noticed that my pants were much tighter than I originally thought (they physically changed).
This somehow transformed into a clowning exercise (that I learned at Buddha-camp). Everyone stands in a circle with a partner, and then some people start walking along the inside. Their partner then follows them and imitates their walk, and slowly exaggerates the imitation more and more until it's very clown-like and as exaggerated as possible. I was the walker, and some guy followed me, imitating. After we were done walking, he was still imitating me, and that kinda freaked me out.
I ended up standing next to Dave, and he noticed that my pants were tight, so he asked, "What size is your underwear?" I responded with either "12" or "20," and he said, "oh cool."

In retrospect: This was all one dream to me because I was wearing the same gray pants the whole time. I was dreaming about new pants because I was thinking about buying some yesterday (we're getting 50% discount this weekend). Instead, I got a System shirt. I have no idea why Dave appeared in my dream; I'm pretty sure I haven't thought about him in a really long time. As for the clowning exercise, it might be on my mind since I mentioned Buddha-camp in these logs two nights ago.
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I also had a dream that Brian went on (g)AIM again.

Swimming the 5

The last dream of this sequence was punctuated by me trying to remember my previous dreams, and as a result the dream I was currently having got tottaly scrambled and I can't remember most of it. This phenomena also made me forget a lot of my previous dreams.

I was in the car driving down the freeway to Los Angeles. However I wasn’t wearing any clothes and the freeway was covered in multiple feet of water, so I was really lying on my back floating/swimming down the freeway. I was trying to hold on to this water bottle as I floated. I think I was the only one traveling in this fashion so I was self-conscious about the other people who were on the freeway and in their cars completely clothed. I think I seamlessly alternated back and forth between the nude swimming and actually driving a car. I arrived at my destination which was apparently the greyhound station in downtown LA. When I got there I was wearing a gray jump suit and long socks with no shoes. I went to buy a ticket but I had no money so I decided to go back home. But rather then get straight back in my car I sort of wandered around the station for a while. I went up a flight of stairs and saw a girl in the bathroom putting on makeup and I wanted to talk to her. I had noticed that the stairs were very strange because they had big holes in random spots and seemed really dangerous. So I decided to mention that to her and say how terrible it was because some unsuspecting kid could fall through those holes. So I did and I don’t think she was really interested in what I said, and then she started freaking out because she had just lost her earrings somewhere on the stairs. So I said I would help her find them and we began looking around the stairs for them. I really wanted to find them so I could get her attention and I spotted these two small gold hoop earrings sitting together next to a step. Even though I already knew they were hers and I was really excited about finding them for her I casually asked “are these your earrings”? And she said they were and was totally excited I had found them. Then she asked if I could give her a ride back to her house and I said that would be fine. So we got in my car (which was a gray/silver prius) and the whole time I was driving she was like painting or something, and I was helping her so I wasn’t paying any attention to the road. So as I was driving down the freeway the car would start to go in excess of 90 mph but I wasn’t really paying attention very well so I didn’t realize I was speeding. At one point when I turned and looked at the speedometer we were going like 100mph and I was like oh shit and slowed the car down and got it back under control. Then I turned and informed the girl that we were going really fast and she was like “um, yeah, I know”. At this point I felt like I had really freaked her out. When I dropped her off at her house she got out of the car and just started to go inside and I was really sad because I was hoping she would give me her phone number or something. But, she didn’t so I just left.
Because I was kind of sad about the girl, in stead of driving home I just kind of drove around aimlessly for a while. I drove up to my old high school and it had an amazing view from it that I didn’t remember. So I stopped to admire the scenery and this married couple showed up to do the same thing. I don’t remember what the wife looked like, but the husband had blonde curly hair and was wearing a red collared shirt with blue pinstripes, jeans, and glasses. The couple started fighting with each other and accusing each other of being lazy or not loving the other person and all this stupid crap that a married couple would find about. It was a pretty emotional fight and they actually got out of the car and were pacing around and getting agitated like they were about to physically fight each other. It started to ruin the whole atmosphere and it was making me feel awkward so I left.
This is the dream that got fucked up: all I really remember now was being in the desert and seeing this big white car that had two square yellow headlights. The car kind of looked like this really ugly classic convertible or something. We all might have been there because there was some sort of car race. I think Justin was there. Shayna was also there and she was talking to me about buying plane tickets to come see me. I was really confused because it would make absolutely no sense for her to fly to my house. All the sudden our conversation turned into us communicating through email and I was totally wondering what the fuck was going on.

Death Right Around the Corner

Night of: July 14
People involved: Chris, Kyle
Number of Dreams Remembered: 1

I was Less Than Jake--I somehow represented the whole band. I was in a park with Kyle and Chris, and we saw a pursuit. Someone was in a car, running from 4 cops in Beetles. The suspect got out of his car, and I decided we should be heroes. Chris and Kyle asked for guns, so I gave them one each. The suspect ran towards us (and everyone else that was in the park), and people started shooting at him. A girl and a guy climbed down from a tree because of the commotion, and the girl started putting her pink shirt back on. I assumed they were in the tree having sex.
I hid behind a wall, and the suspect came around it and stood right in front of me, assessing if I was dangerous, and figuring out if he should shoot me or not. As he was doing that, someone tried to shoot him, so he fired back. He realized that I had a gun, so he shot right at me from a short distance, but must've missed. I brought out my gun from behind my back and tried shooting him, but the bullets were really slow--the gun sucked. When I realized that my weapon was useless, I started running away, while firing more shots. One shot was decent; the bullet came out kinda fast, but still not hard enough to penetrate his skin. The bullet bounced off of him, and looked like it hurt. He then must've shot me, because at that moment, I knew I was dying.
Some people helped me walk to a safe area indoors, where I collapsed to the ground and crawled around. I saw a box of Tyrannosaurus Rocks cds, so I gave them to a lady and told her, "Give all of the band's money and cds to less fortunate kids when this is over." Then I started crying.

In retrospect: I think I was dreaming about a guy running from the cops because of the conversations me, Brian, and Carley had last night about getting robbed.

Peanut-Butter-Coffee-Pot-Head

Here is an explanation of all the random people involved in this dream...
Anna: next-door neighbor form Santa Cruz
Erin: next-door neighbor from Santa Cruz (Anna's Roomate)
Shayna: roomate from Santa Cruz, good friend
Charity: family friend
Buckley: Charity's dog

I was in some sort of strange situation at someone's house in Santa Cruz. Theo was there and there was this bitchy Hispanic girl there. I think I said something about being attracted to her boyfriend or it was something that otherwise pissed her off and she wanted to fight me. I was the one who jokingly suggested the fight in the first place, but then she was serious about it. So everyone in the room got all quiet and was watching us to see what would happen and she was kind of pulling me toward her and at first I was like no this is ridiculous im not going to fight you. Then because everyone was like "yeah, fight her!" I just kind of gave in and punched her in the face. I hit her a couple more times and pulled her over to the other side of the kitchen so her head was in the sink. Her head suddenly turned in to a broken coffee pot and when I picked it up peanut butter poured out of it and fell in to the sink. Everyone saw and congratulated me on winning the fight.

I was at school in Santa Cruz and packing up to leave. I forgot to pack the umbrellas so they were locked in the room and was sad because it was raining and I wished I had them with me. But I got back into the room because other people who hadn’t left yet were still there. Anna and Erin were in the room talking. Me and Shayna tried to talk to them but they were ignoring us and that really pissed me off. I figured that they were probably just going to miss each other a lot so they were paying a lot of attention to each other. I think I did something rude to them like kicked them or said "fuck you guys"...maybe both. They still continued to ignore us and probably didn’t even hear us at all but Shayna was worried about me having done that. Then Shayna and I went out to the road to wait for the bus down to the base of campus. I realized my mom might not even be there yet so I opened my phone to call her and then right as I did that she pulled up. I noticed that she had both of my sisters, Charity and Buckley in the jetta. This really pissed me off because there was no way I was gonna be able to fit all of my stuff in the car with them in it. So I told her that and she got kind of testy like she always does in my waking life. I noticed that Charity looked like absolute shit, like she was really tired or something. Her eyes were sunken in and her hair was really fucked up and her face was all pressed. She had a lot of black eye makeup on. I ignored how she looked, though. Buckley got out of the car and Charity didn’t put the leash on him right so Shayna had to hang on to him. I was about to get in the car to go to the base to get my stuff, but then I had to say goodbye to Shayna. We hugged each other and started crying (it was exactly like what actually happened when I left school this year). Somehow my mouth had ended up open and I hoped she didn’t feel all the spit that was now on her shoulder.

I met some people who did shows where they danced, but fought each other as they danced. We sat down at a table to play cards. We were in Irvine and I could see one of the fields that are off Jeffery in the background, I think we were in a parking lot outside. The whole time the following conversation was going on I was playing with a stack of change and trying to line it up and do all that obsessive-compulsive kind of fidgeting with it. We were talking about random stuff then I started talking about survival of the fittest and why curing diseases fucks up the gene pool because people who would have naturally died out don’t, so we allow those diseases to continue to exist, which really doesn’t help the problem because it is passed on to other generations. I explained it completley in depth and absolutely perfectly in the dream (I don't remember my exact words anymore though). While I was explaining this irritating practice, I noticed a broken journal sitting on the table. The metal bindings were bent outward and the pages were askew. I also noticed this one guy start to pay attention to me talk and seem interested in me. For the rest of the conversation he would look up and listen to me and I felt like he took me more seriously after that. Then I started talking about school and I explained my living situation to these guys. And I started talking about how they should all go to school because it’s really fun but they were all like no no and were really opposed to it. I couldn’t understand why. This one guy explained to me that he lived with three other people however there were eight sets of moroccas in his house. And the way he said it was like he was trying to get me to understand something about the humor or misfortune or irony of the morocca situation that I obviously was not getting.

Fat Fat Man

I was back in the dorms at Long Beach, but they were not the same dorms. I believe i had come from Justin's apartment, and he was bored, so he followed me back and hung out. We were all just hanging out in the common room type place talking and stuff. I think there was one other person that i knew, but he disappeared. The weirdest part was when the RA came (he was actually a real RA from Long Beach, except like 10 times fatter). We were all just talking and stuff, and then we heard this strange high-pitched grinding type noise. So, we looked around, and i saw a little hole (about 3 inches in diameter) being sawed out in the wall from the other side. As soon as it was finished, i ran over and yelled, "HELLO!" Then, another hole was made a few feet lower for some reason. Once that one was finished, the RA poked his head out and said something like, "I know you guys are gonna stay up eating all night, so let me just hear you say 'Mmmm' before i goto bed." We all just kinda looked around, and then he squeezed his entire fat body through that tiny hole and said it again. We all said "Mmm," and he seemed satisfied. He squeezed back through his little hole at which point i was thinking, "Man, he's like a cartoon." But, i don't think it occurred to me that it was a dream. This part was really weird because all of a sudden we could see through the wall like it was glass or something, AND the area behind the wall was filled with some kind of orange water. The fat fat man was trying to swim down to the bottom, and he kept swimming to different corners to get pockets of air and stuff. There was a point when i literally thought he was going to die, and i couldn't do anything but watch. I guess he finally made it because we moved on to other things. We were talking for a while, and then the other guys there started harrassing me because i'm small. They were grabbing at stuff i had, and i said something like, "I hate it when people steal stuff from you and then say, 'hey, you wanna buy this?'" That was obviously a stupid thing to say because then they did just that. Then, it got a bit out of hand, and i had two guys grabbing me and tickling me and stuff, and the two guys i knew (Justin and some other dude) had left, so i was helpless. That continued until i couldn't take it anymore and woke up.
I have no idea why i dreamed of any of this, but i think the rest of my dreams last night had to do with pirates because i just saw Pirates again last night. Also, it appears that i dream of Justin too much, and i don't even live with him!

Magic Band**, Water-Work, and Brian's Drinking Logic**

Night of: July 13
People Invovled: my mom, Neal, Rachel Thompson, Brian Foster, Mark Dearden, Steve Schner, Dustin G., Brian Leobe, Jessi Rickmers, Barney McGrane, Kyle, Brian
Number of Dreams Remembered: 3
**Special: Out-of-Body view, recurring theme

My mom was forcing me to see a movie by myself. I asked Neal for directions to the movie theater, and he told me them, but I was retarded and couldn't remember them, and didn't think of writing them down. I remember thinking that it was a right on Cabot and a left on La Paz Rd... but that's it. This somehow turned into a surprise for me: it must've been my birthday or something, 'cause my family, and a ton of relatives I didn't know were going to together in a gigantic limousine to see the movie.
When everyone was in the limo, the perspective of my dream changed to bird's eye, and I was out of body. It was like playing--yep, you guessed it--GTA. While seeing the limousine move, my mom explained that it's the size of 14 cars. When she said that, the limo turned from being long, to short and really wide... and I could see the 14 cars that made it up. That probably makes no sense, but it's perfectly clear in my mind.
We ended up going to a concert, not a movie. It was a small theater with a low stage. The band started playing, but made it way more fun to watch by doing tricks--like spinning around in balls while playing and performing magic. Rachel (supervisor at work) told me that the band name was "Sorbit" and that they were an "Action-Band" kind of like "Plan B" (that's the name of Phil's old band).
I was a little jealous that I hadn't thought of the idea of mixing magic with music (ironic, I know), and thought about joining the band somehow. Just then, I realized that there were like 30 people already in the band, and a ton of them were from my high school. I recognized Brian Foster, Mark, Steve, and Dustin. There were also many people in the crowd that I know, or used to know, including Brian Leobe (my best friend in elementary school) and Jessi Rickmers (from Buddha-camp). I hugged Jessi and put my arm around her.

In Retrospect: I woke up realizing that the magic-band was my idea, and that it was the best idea ever. As time went on, I realized that it wasn't that great of an idea, but still kind of cool.
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I was on a school trip with Barney McGrane (buddha-camp professor) and Kyle, with a bunch of other people that I don't know. Kyle and I were on a water ride with inner tubes, and as we went down the ride, we had to approve allocations. I didn't think it was a good idea to approve them so quickly without looking them over, but Kyle just approved all of them as fast as possible. When the ride was over, we went back to our rooms, and I told Kyle that I thought it would be a good idea to go on the computer and unapprove them. Some people showed me how, so we unapproved the allocations.

In retrospect: I have no idea what the water rides were all about, but the rest is all about my job.
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Brian was over at my apartment and said, "Alright... Let's start drinking 'cause I know I'm going to eventually anyway." I was surprised.

In retrospect: This is officially a recurring theme. Work is also a recurring theme, but that's broad. This isn't.

Old School Hollywood Baseball

Night of: July 12
People involved: Jason Alexander
Number of dreams remembered: 2

I was watching tv in my apartment, except my tv was a big screen. Jason Alexander was announcing baseball, and it was live. The camera showed the audience a lot, and I thought that their helicopter camera might be able to see me watching the game through my blinds... I was hoping that would happen, but it didn't.

In retrospect: I was watching tv, and fell asleep on the couch. When I woke up, Seinfeld was on... but I didn't start by watching Seinfeld. I'm pretty sure Jason Alexander announcing the baseball game was just him talking while I was sleeping.
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I was outside on grass practicing a performance for some sort of talent show with a girl. I think we were singing and marching in rhythm to "Pirate" by My Favorite Band or a Green Day song, and there was a supervisor.

Kyle's Mean, But I Know Nothing

Night of: July 11
People involved: Kyle
Number of dreams remembered: 1

Kyle got a job working with me, and on the first day of work, he was making fun of my supervisor. I didn't laugh at the jokes so that my supervisor wouldn't be pissed, and I was really upset that Kyle would do that, especially since I had referred him.
This somehow transferred into me working at a store. A customer started walking up, and I basically already knew that my answer was going to be, "I don't know, because I'm new here." The customer asked me if I knew the name of a song, and even though it has nothing to do with work knowledge, I still didn't know the answer.

In retrospect: I turned in an employee referral form for Kyle, and at the time of the dream, he was to have a phone interview with the company in less than 6 hours. On another note, I dream about Kyle way too much.

Longest Dream Ever

Another explanation of random people...
Ryan: friend of mine
Theo: friend, x-boyfriend
Anna: Theo's old roomate (not next-door neighbor Anna, different one)
Erin: next-door neighbor from school
Charity: family friend
Hope: Charity's niece
Sam: one of my sisters
Kresge: name of my college within Santa Cruz

And just for the record.... I have no idea where the Harry Potter references came from.

I was at Target with Ryan and he still worked there. I was walking around the store while they were closing and grabbing birthday preasents for ryan and stuffing them into a bag. I did not want to pay for them so I was thinking about stealing them but it was more likely I was going to end up just handing the bag to Ryan then leaving.

My mom came in to Target while I was there to buy warm clothing for my sisters because they were going to try to live in a car in this gorgeous place but it was freezing cold there. I went with my mom to see the place they were going to live at and it was in this beautiful area with hills and mountains and ice caps and a big lake at the bottom. I really wanted to see what was in the valley between these two beautiful mountains. So my mom got closer and closer with the car and the closer we got the more I wanted to go right between the mountains and actually be there rather than just look at it from a distance. But... we didn't go there.

Me and some people were running from a cop. It was at school in Santa Cruz but the landscape was very desert-like. I went into this building that reminded me of how the classrooms in Kresge look. I kept going through one door then climbing in a passageway it had then it would reach another door and I would go through that one until my journey had turned into this complex maze of passageways and I had completely lost myself in it. I got to the top level and it was Erin’s apartment. Erin and like three other girls were all in the room sleeping. I went through their room to the balcony and saw that there was a way for me to get down but I would have to make a pretty big jump and I wasn’t sure I wanted to try it. I was sick of running so I just stood on the balcony and decided to pretend I had been there the whole time and deny my involvement in the chase. Erin asked me what was going on and I don’t remember if I explained to her or not... I don’t think I did. So the cop came into the apartment and started interrogating me and showing me a list of places I had been. He said he trailed me all the way to here so he had followed my exact path. I had been trying to say I wasn’t a part of it at all but never really said I wasn’t and I just acted really nice so he assumed I was a part of it. He was making me sign a huge list of all the places I had been and I had to sign under each individual place. I was signing everything then realized that I hadn’t been to a lot of these places (apparently I somehow remembered every exact door I had gone through and where I had been). While I was doing this I realized there was a ladder from Erin's balcony that I could have climbed down if I had decided to keep running, and was kind of mad at myself for not doing it. So I pointed out all the incorrect places to the cop and started crossing them off the list so I wouldn’t sign them. And he was confused as to how that was possible because he was entirely sure he had done a perfect job of following my path.

Then all the sudden we were in a contest and Charity, Hope, my sisters and some other people were there. We were in this huge canoe thing and we were trying to sail across a lake. There were powereded ingredients in the boat that we needed for the next task and we had to keep them dry. The boat kept flipping over. One of the times it flipped over was because charity stood up and flipped it, I hung on to the edge of it so that even though everyone had fallen out I could still keep the boat right-side up. I wanted credit for what I did but no one noticed it. I think Hope was in the boat or it was some other baby girl but she was really really tiny like the size of an apple or something (but visually when someone would get closer to her she wouldn’t seem quite as small). Everytime the boat got flipped over she was my first worry because she would start floating away and I would get really scared. Once I ordered Sam to grab her at the last minute. There were other teams that were also in canoes trying to reach the other side which was this dock thing. I think they were supposed to use the powdered ingrediants to begin cooking their assigned objects on the dock. When we got to the dock a lot of the people from other teams had fallen out and gone back. Our team had lost a lot of ingredients. No one else on my team had made it up on the platform yet and I could see that we were really far behind so I waited there for them. I was in a yellow bikini and dripping wet. I was leaning up against a pole on the second floor of the dock. These two guys pointed out my bathing suit and I felt stupid so I defended myself by saying that my mom had bought the bathing suit so I didn't really want it in the first place. All of the other groups were huddled in little circles planning things out. I just stood there and waited.
Now none of my family members were on the team so it was me and Theo and some random guys, and we were in an apartment somewhere waiting for something. At this point we were so far behind in the race that it was basically considered cheating to continue with it. All of the other teams had gotten to this place way before us but since they went on it was now completely deserted. So we waited there and Anna showed up and I felt like she had disappeared forever. She brought a huge shaggy gray dog with her. I was so excited to see her I went over and hugged her and was crying. We were brewing these huge rainbow bags of tea that looked more like water balloons and they sort of glowed and changed color and had a symbol in black on each of them. One of the people on our team was Hermione but she was disguised/had been turned into as an old man in some convent type of place. I think the tea was to change her back to her normal self so we could save her. So now the team was me, Theo, Anna and some random guy. We were all making a break for this building across the street. These scary-looking guys in a very nice car drove up. There was one in the driver's seat and one in the passenger seat and they looked exactly the same and some how strangely ape-like. They both had those little cell-phone ear pieces and had the look of very important business-men. They were very creepy and Theo said they were his bosses of some sort and we probably didn’t have to worry about them. So we were all running for an elevator that was inside this apartment building across the street from the one we were in. Someone started to come out from around a corner so we all scattered and me and Theo went into the same elevator, Anna and the random guy disappeared. Two other guys got in to the elevator with us and we were very scared that they would bust us. But we all just kind of stared at each other and decided that neither party was threatening to the other one. So the other two guys pressed a floor (all of the floors in the elevator went up to the hundreds and you could press any combination of numbers to get to a specific floor) these guys went to something like 162 and the elevator flashed a marquee title of the floor and said over a speaker “liquid chronic” (which in the dream was some sort of hard drug). One of the guys was a little asian guy that looked like Ishiro Suzuki, and he suddenly looked really stressed out and agitated. So the guys got off and then Theo pressed the floor he needed to go to which was “3”, when we did that the elevator said that access to that floor was not allowed and automatically started taking us to floor “7”. I gasped and looked at theo and said “seven!?” trying to que his excitement because I had realized that 7 is the most magical number. But theo just had an irritated and upset expression on his face and said “seven? I don’t want to go to floor 7”.

Random Roommates

Ok, this is weird. I was in an apartment or something with a bunch of different people, but it was like...a beach paradise at the same time. That makes no sense, but i remember having a plasma screen computer in the apartment, and then the view zoomed out, and i was actually on a beach, and the screen had this effect going on. It was pretty amazing. I don't remember who any of the people were, but i think one or two of them were famous, and one of them reminded me of Jace's friend Tessa. I guess Justin was there as he appears later, but i don't remember him being there at that point. There was also a bunch of asian guys trying to get me to play WoW (i don't know why i'm dreaming about WoW so much). At some point, we all decided we had to go somewhere, so we started driving, and then got in a huge pile-up, but all anybody seemed to care about was Justin's laptop, like it was the cause of it or something? Perhaps we weren't even driving at all, but he was just simulating it on his computer, and then it froze. I do recall seeing a birds-eye view that slowly zoomed out as the pile-up was occurring. Justin pulled out his laptop, and stretched all the cords all the way out for some reason, turned it off, unplugged some stuff, plugged it back in, and turned it on again. It seemed to work, and he had a very strange desktop when it booted up. It looked like a still shot of a Basketball celebration which brought me back to another dream (at least i think it was another dream) where i had been watching something like the division II college basketball 3rd place game. It was a great game that went into overtime, and it was exciting throughout. I was watching it in an apartment (not sure if this was the same apartment from THIS dream), but this one was mine. I think i've had multiple dreams in this apartment, and the weirdest part is that my roommate keeps changing throughout the dreams. Sometimes it's francis, sometimes it's Emily Glynn, and sometimes it's a COMPLETELY random guy named Colin Foulke. Anyway, i asked Justin WHY that was his desktop (because he hates basketball), and then it started to move. It played a video of the celebration after that game i had watched, and at one point, one of the players kicked something and yelled, "THIS IS YOUR DESKTOP!" or something to that effect. I thought, "Wow, that's AWESOME. Perfect desktop...video" I think that's around when i woke up to hear two guys arguing outside about someone speeding down our street. Oh, and another person i recognized from the dream was Jace's friend Dominick who made it sound like we were actually IN that basketball game, and we were debating how many points our best player scored.
No idea why i dreamed ANY of this. Back to sleep...i hope.

Grand Theft Auto: Pizza Hut

It was thursday. I was heading to school. I was running a little late. I got to the class to find no one but the teacher. "What the...hell?" i asked. She told me we had a day off today. I exclaimed, "great! i don't come on monday or wednesday, but i show up on tuesday and thursday, and they're both days off!" I got back home, and i was talking to my mom, and she asked if i was going to take a shower. I told her that i had already taken a shower, gone to school, and come back.
I think the reason i dreamt this had something to do with the fact that i woke up earlier to record my last dreams, and i heard my mom waking up as i was going back to sleep, so i had woken up before my mom, but she didn't know about it.

I was eating lunch with my parents' friends Ed and Gail (actually, i think it was just gail at this point). I have no idea where we were, but i went outside a couple times, and we were parked on a hill. Earlier, i had gotten an email from Tiffany with a picture of a tunnel that she was going to be going through on some road trip, and she seemed to think that this would be the highlight of her trip (also part of the dream). Where i was looked a LITTLE like that picture. After we finished eating, Gail left, and i left after her. At least, i THINK we were eating, because i found myself eating pizza shortly afterward with someone else, but i don't remember who. Whoever it was left, and i didn't want to eat there alone, so i stuffed half of a piece of pizza in my mouth and tried to carry the rest of the pizza out to my car. When i got outside, my car was gone! I panicked and started looking around frantically. This was particularly bad for me because i was still on my road trip somewhere, so i was pretty much dead. Looking to the right, i could see my car driving away. I thought to run, but it was too far away, and i'd never be able to catch it. Looking to my left, i saw Ed and Gail driving away in their car. I immediately ran to them, grabbed the side of their car (they were just pulling out of their parking spot, so they weren't going very fast), and yelled, "You gotta save me! somebody stole my car!" I got in the back seat, and Ed pulled out his cell phone like he was gonna give it to me, but then he didn't, so i was a bit confused. I started to think, "this has to be a dream," and i tried to get myself to wake up. I succeeded.
I know exactly why i was dreaming of pizza. As i was trying to get back to sleep after my last entry, i felt hungry, and i had a craving for pizza. However, i didn't have a craving for pizza from the place we usually go, but i had a craving for Pizza Hut. This got me thinking about Pizza Hut and how their pizza smells a lot better than it tastes. I came to the conclusion that if their pizza tasted as good as it smelled, they'd have the best pizza in the world. That's actually really funny because as i was thinking about it, i wanted to tell someone, and i thought of posting it in the blog, but it wouldn't fit, and now it does! ;D
Now, why i dreamed of my car getting stolen...*checks out the window* *phew* still there.