The Dream Thread

[Butterscotch]

I dreamed it snowed, for some reason I had to sleep out in the snow. I had a little fort, and blankets and the cat came to snuggle with me, but it was very uncomfortable, as you can imagine.

Later I dreamed that someone had opened the windows and turned on the fan in the computer room, and I was cold, but couldn't shut the windows or turn off the fan, because everyone else in the room was hot.

When I woke up I discovered I had kicked off my blanket.

[TBustah!]

I had a string of really wierd ones last night (or today, rather, I've more or less gone nocturnal these days because of all my night classes).

Anyway, in one of them, Mom and I were walking around in the middle of nowhere, when a yellow Toyota taxi minivan showed up. I knew right away it was the Cash Cab, but mom wasn't too stoked (which is wierd, because she watches that show all the time). Anyway, we got in and played the game, but only had time to answer one question (which we got wrong) before stopping to get something to eat at a fast food place (Of course, that never happens on the show : before continuing the game. For some reason, I wasn't wearing underwear underneath my shorts, so I put some on in the van (right in front of Mom and Ben Bailey, the host/driver guy on the show! I would never do that in real life, I don't even like to go shirtless in pools) before heading inside the restaurant.

We invited Ben to have lunch with us and before continuing the game. He accepted, but for some reason, sat away from us at another table. He was also gonna drive go karts with us when we got to our destination (apparently, Mom and I were headed to some sort of amusement park after Dad and Daniel met us at the restaurant), but I guess he got bored waiting for us, and he took off. Dad and Daniel showed up at the restaurant, and we all ate together.

There was a group of girls the next table over (who were maybe middle school age) from Canada. Apparently, we were all somewhere away from home (my guess is Arizona, because of the things that happened in the next dream sequence) because we introduced ourselves and said we were from Nevada. One of the girls got real excited when I said this, and asked Daniel and I if either of us went to UNR (Daniel does), because she wanted to go there. Daniel and I told her that could probably be arranged, as a lot of foreigners go to UNR (they really do, Daniel's girlfriend used to be roomates with a bunch of girls from Japan).

It ended right about there.


In the next one (which seemed to take place after the first), I was in Yuma (at least I think it was Yuma or some other part of Arizona, because Dad's side of the family was there) during some sort of holiday. It seemed like Christmas at first but then I remembered that Christmas was months ago, and it suddenly turned into Easter (ever had that kind of thing happen in a dream?).

I checked the voicemail on my cell phone, and I had a few new messages.

One was from one of my high school teachers who I haven't heard from in years, who was claiming I posted something nasty about him on the internet (the irony is, this particular teacher is one of the few that I actually got along with! :, and for some strange reason, he said that he considered me "a great pokey-mon trainer".

Another one was from some dude who's voice I didn't recognise that apologized for the way he'd been treating me lately. I don't know who it was, or what the heck he was talking about.

There was at least one other message, but I don't really remember it. It think it may have had something to do with a guy I was selling stuff to on ebay.


There was something else that happened in Yuma. but I can't really remember it. I think it had something to do with my relatives.



I've gotta stop eating octopus weiners before bed. ;D

[Butterscotch]

In my dream we were watching Ghost Hunters. It was a special episode where the TAPS crew was investigating a fake haunted house (like set up for Halloween) and had to use their ghost-hunting skills to debunk the various attractions. My family was watching the show because we were going to have our own Haunted House and we wanted to get some ideas.

We had the idea of having someone (my brother, I think, or maybe my dad) dress as Frankenstein's monster and stand perfectly still, and then move and scare people. To put a new twist on an old idea, we set up a box with a button that you pressed to make the monster move, so that people would think it was really real, and then have the monster move unexpectedly.

[TBustah!]

I remember the last part of the dream now.

I wandered into the back room of a post office. I noticed a group of kids that were digging through a bin with packages of various sizes in it. I joined them, and found a box that contained new license plates of a design that hadn't been released. They were for some state I'd never been to. I dug a little more, and found more boxes like it, each with new plates for a different state inside. I tried looking for Nevada's, and then the kids suggested I look for Arizona's (once again, these three dream sequences all seemed to take place somewhere in Arizona), but then I noticed the security cameras on the wall behind us, and so I ran away.

I know it was just a dream, but I dunno why I thought to look for Nevada plates in an Arizona post office. Y'know how cartoons and whatnot show people in prison making license plates? I always thought it was something they used to do but not anymore (I figured that it was done on an automated line by now), kinda like how prisoners don't wear stripes anymore, and that they just show it on TV because it's traditional or whatever. But Nevada's license plates are still made in the prisons (here in Carson City, actually, where we have three of them), and I'm sure it's not the only state that does this.

So, there's no reason a new license plate would ever be mailed across state lines.

[BorderWolf]

In a weird dream I had a few days ago. I dreamed that I was walking around a town and that it was a warm summer night and saw in the middle of a street some concrete barriers that are sometimes used to prevent cars from crossing lanes. On the other side of the barriers was more of the town, but it was a cold, snowy winter night. Anyone who walked through the small openings between each would be wearing the clothes that would be worn for that season, and not at all puzzled why the seasons changed to the opposite. But for some reason I was puzzled by the whole thing.

[Butterscotch]

I had a weird, oddly realistic dream. In my dream, I was in my bed, half-asleep, when my mom came in and started cleaning my closet. I pretended to be asleep, and watched her through half-closed eyes. She climbed up onto the shelf and was pulling boxes down. Finally I tried to ask her what she was doing, but couldn't, as I had lost my voice.

Since I had trouble speaking, my mom called my job for me to tell them I wouldn't be able to go to work. Then my brother and sister-in-law came over.

The dream seemed so real that when I woke up I was surprised to be in my bed. My throat was sore (it had been a bot sore last night, before I went to bed) so I tried to talk to see whether I had lost my voice or not. I hadn't.

[Butterscotch]

I dreamed that a popular webcomic artist that I follow on Twitter tweeted about The Reborn, recommending it to her fans. She even left comments on it, and I got lots of hits and comments.

I was so disappointed when I woke up. ;_;

[TBustah!]

I actually had one pretty similar to that a while back.

Basically, the same thing happened (but with PSSV instead of your comic), and instead of it being recommended, the artist was kicking around the idea of a crossover with her own comic in her author comments on Drunk Duck. But her readers didn't like the idea.

I can't even win in my dreams. ;D

[Butterscotch]

I had a confusing dream the other night. It was apparently set before my brother got married, but after my step-dad had his heart attack, which is impossible, as my step-dad had his heart attack several years after my brother was married.

It was Christmas Eve, and my family was hanging out. For some reason we were living in the house I grew up in, though it's been nearly twenty years since we moved away. My step-dad's mother, Pat, was there, although she died a few months ago. Suddenly Bill's face turned a funny color and he was in pain. We realized he was having another heart attack and called 911. My sister got scared and sat between me and my brother.

The ambulance came and took Bill to the hospital. I had nothing to do, so I decided to pack a bag for my step-dad figuring he'd be in the hospital for a few days. Pat came in and gave me a suitcase to use. It was supposed to be a Christmas present for Bill, but she wanted me to use it now. I got upset because I couldn't find Bill's jeans until I realized he wouldn't want to wear jeans in the hospital, so I packed his sweatpants instead.

We all went outside to walk to the hospital. It turned out that our house was actually on the Seaside Heights boardwalk and the hospital was only a short walk away. (In reality, the nearest hospital to Seaside is in Toms River, and it's a bit far to walk) It was too late to visit though, so we stopped at a restaurant. It had been remodeled since our last visit and we were disappointed.

[Butterscotch]

I had several odd dreams lately, but I've forgotten most of them. Two that I remember pretty well were both Harry Potter dreams.

In the first dream, Hermione had gone home for the summer. For whatever reason her father didn't want her returning to Hogwarts, so she had to use magic in order to get out of her house. She found a broomstick and enchanted it so it could fly. (Obviously my dream broke lots of rules about underage witches using magic...)

Hermione's house looked familiar to me, though it's not any place I've ever been.

In the second dream, Harry and all his friends from school were having a party. The party was being held at my grandparent's house, which in my dream was owned by one of Harry's friends' families. Dudley was there too, for some reason and he was very scared of being around all the witches and wizards. Luna was very kind to him and tried to make friends.

The party broke up when they were discovered by the Weasley's. Ron was getting scolded by his family, while Harry wandered around the neighborhood. He didn't want to return to the Dursley's house, so he went back to my grandparent's house and started cleaning.

The dream went on from there, but it stopped being about Harry Potter and started being about the Brady Bunch, so...yeah....

[Butterscotch]

I had two odd dreams last night:

In the first one, I was at work. There was a new worker in the department, but she wasn't wearing the proper uniform. She was wearing the green polo shirts that we wear, but she had on short-shorts, and knee-high socks. It tends to get cold in my store, so she was shivering.

I went into another room and saw pieces of paper dangling from the ceiling by strings. On each paper was a criticism of a worker in the store. Mine was that I'm too sensitive and I was so upset that I nearly cried.

In the second dream, Oprah Winfrey picked me up to take me somewhere. A car sped by us and the driver wasn't wearing a seatbelt, which upset Oprah, so she got on her cell-phone and called the police. While she was driving. Yeah.

We arrived at a large building. At first I thought it was a school or a college, because classes were being held there, but it was also an aquarium, and Oprah and I sat on a bench, looking at an especially large tank. The aquarium sold refreshments, including two brands of lemonade and the vendors began arguing over which was better. Oprah bought a glass of one brand, and it wasn't any good; then she treated me to a large glass of the second brand, except they used jars instead of cups, so it looked rather like a urine sample.

[Angel]

My boyfriend said he had a dream about me being mad at him and i wasn't talking to him he woke up all scared.. i feel sorry for him since he knows i wouldn't be mad at him. I guess he has a fear of losing me.

[Butterscotch]

I often dream about driving over bridges; last night I dreamed that my family was going to take a bus home from a vacation. The bus was very big, more like an airplane than a bus with three rows of seats. There was some confusion with my ticket, as the attendant didn't take it, and I worried that if we crashed there would be no record of my being on the bus. My fears increased when another attendant instructed us to hold onto flotation devices.

The drive was short, but fast and crazy, careening over a system of bridges. We never crashed and made it home safely. I went into my room, but it looked different, rather like my grandmother's guest bedroom with two beds. I suddenly realized that I had to take care of my pet mice and was noticed a very tiny one in the cage. It was a baby, almost too young to be separated from its mother and it needed special food. It fell of my hand and behind the bed. I grabbed a flashlight and looked behind the bed, but I couldn't find it. I was scared to move the nightstand between the beds for fear of accidentally crushing the mouse.

I woke up before I found the mouse and was really upset that I didn't know what happened to it.

[Angel]

I had a dream of just going on a car ride woke up when i got to where ever the car ride was going... to.

[Butterscotch]

I dreamed that I went to a coffee shop with a bunch of relatives. I've never been to a fancy coffee shop before (not even a Starbucks ^^ and I wasn't sure how to order. There were two lines: one for regular coffee and one for fancier drinks, like lattes and flavored coffees. I wanted something fancy, but since I wasn't sure how to order, I tried to hide behind my relatives, but I somehow ended up in the regular coffee line.

The regular coffee came from a dispenser, like a soda fountain. Milk and sugar also came from dispensers, but these dispensers were up pretty high, and even I had trouble reaching them and nearly spilled my coffee. I wondered how short people even reached the milk and sugar at all.