The date listed is the date of the morning after which the dream happened. I think it's silly that I think this needs clarification. But you know, just in case I become famous one day and this stuff needs to be documented. I'll have the most extensive memoirs of anyone ever in the history of time.
10.30.07 - Irina from high school was in this one. I went to see an opera, and she was one of the main stars. In the parts when she was not singing, she was free to walk about the opera house, as were the guests. It was really weird --- very casual. She and I sat at a bistro-type place, and I remember thinking that I should only order water because it was too expensive, but I sat with her and she ordered a bunch of chocolate cakes and extravagant desserts, her "usual". I think she got into trouble. I don't remember what else happened.
10.29.07 - I took Byron to Brent House, but Brent House was a large cathedral. Somehow, I thought this was natural in my dream. Also, a wedding that went completely wrong --- no reception, no marriage certificate, no groomsmen. People showing up late, including the groom?
10.10.07 - I was an archaeologist looking for the lost tomb of this Ancient Egyptian prince. I found a hole in an artifact in a museum, and I knew that was the passage. I couldn't remember where I put my camera, then I remember putting it on the table by my futon (which really did happen in real life).
08.xx.07 - I was invited to a wedding with my family, and I didn't even know the people who were getting married. The next banquet room over, Richard was getting married. So, I decided to crash that wedding. I took my family with me. We weren't on the guest list, but I guess I had made friends with the wedding planner, and so she let us in. I felt like Richard was glaring at me angrily throughout.
08.xx.07 - I can't remember a whole bunch of these I used to remember!
06.30.07 - Karl picked up all of my boxes and cleaned my apt. by the time I woke up. Laundry machines behind a secret door. Lots of them. I auditioned to be Peter Pan, and I got it. I watched other girls audition and they were really bad.
06.29.07 - I was at a hotel for a conference. There were vendors for food in each hotel room, but it only looked like they were there. There was a mirror that projected the picture of a person at the ground floor to your room, and you could communicate with him/her to ask for food. Each different kind of food had a different tube and different vendor inside. There were slushies and corn dogs (hot dog on a stick). There was a long escalator, and at the top, you felt weightless if you didn't put your foot down hard enough. There were arcade games/Circus Circus type games. Also, there was a movie place that showed pornography, and they laughed at people as they walked in.
03.xx.07 - I dreamt that I kissed someone who wasn't Karl. And then I stopped myself and told him that I had a boyfriend.
03.xx.07 - I used my pepper spray on someone who was really far away.
02.28.07 - I haven't remembered my dreams in a while! I dreamt that I was at home, and we were about to leave for somewhere. I don't know where we were going. But, everyone was out the door, and I was still inside. I was watching the grapes sing in the refrigerator. I remember not doing anything particularly important, and thinking so. I realized that they might leave without me, but I waited for someone to come and get me. A couple of ladies who were staying with us walked in the front door, and I asked them if my mom had driven away with the others yet. And yes, she had just driven away "like a mad woman." And, then my alarm clock rang and I woke up, just in time to feel all depressed.
01.24.07 - I dreamt that I went shopping at Ikea with Lorena. (Analysis: Later that day, I received an email from Lorena, asking whether I wanted to buy Girl Scout cookies from her daughters! I don't hear from her every day, so it's pretty coincidental if not prophecy. Then, a couple of days later, these two guys from Sweden came to tour our lab/research space. I think this has no correlation, but it's still interesting that Ikea is Swedish and there were Swedish people in the scanner room!)
01.23.07 - I dreamt that my teeth were really sensitive. I remember trying to brush them, and they'd hurt a lot and be really flimsy. Pushing against them, they would just move in the direction of my force, and HURT. A lot! (Analysis: This nightmare made me very aware of my teeth --- whether I brushed them and how well I brush them. That day, I remember going to get breakfast, and then thinking about whether I brushed my teeth. I hadn't! So, I went to brush them. And then, I brushed after breakfast, too. And after lunch. And, as normal, before I went to bed. It was a crazy toothbrushing day.)
12.10.06 - I think we may have been at Disneyland, in Adventureland. I'm not sure now. Anyway, we were trying to get from point A to point B, which may have been in to a show or something. I remember someone telling Gary that he wouldn't know whether I liked him back unless he tried something daring. Well, when he was leading me in to the show or something, he put his hand on my derriere. I took offense to this and told him to go away. I had heard his friend telling him that my reaction would tell him whether I liked him, and that's why I hesitated first in answering. Afterward, it was either Alex (Duong) or Ben (DuPree) who led me in to the show, and even though I probably like both of them half as much as I like Gary, I let him lead me in because he was proper enough to lead me in by the small of my back instead of... you know, further down.
12.09.06 - (Thank goodness, I got a good night's sleep and finally [FINALLY] remembered my dream.) I was at the reactor; there were large grandstands surrouding the pool. Bill Schroeder was there. He stood on the floor surrouding the pool of water. All the students sitting in the stands to the left of him flocked to the floor to stand behind him. Then, he started walking. When he passed me, I got up to join them. BUT, Schroeder yelled at me for not walking down BEFORE he was going to cross the place where I sat. Gary was further down in the stands, and he did it the right way. I think it had something to do with a Jewish holiday. I remember seeing Rebecca (Schoenberg-Jones) sitting in the stand, drawing a graph about why our celebration was not right. She said the cookies were not kosher. And, I think it was, she said, because there were eggs in it. After the parade, we all went to fix things, like in an E-drill. I remember a lot of freshmen doing nothing; just sort of standing around. I went to join Cindy and a couple others, and I remember thinking to myself -- why did I put myself here when I don't like working with them? So, I left that group and joined Ariah at trying to make a pulley work to lift and lower things into the pool. I remember thinking, why the hell are we doing this during an E-drill? This seems too hard to accomplish in 1 hour. This should be maintenance! But I guess Ariah figured something out. I took two trainees with me somewhere else so we could work on something else entirely. Somewhere in all this, I remember distinctly holding Gary's hand. I can't remember when... maybe right after Schroeder yelled at me.
12.03.06 - I was one of Barker's beauties in some kind of stage show he was hosting. There was one scene I was watching, then afterward, all the rest of the beauties appeared on stage in lingerie. I was upset that they decided to take me out of that number, and I remember looking at one of the other girls in a lingerie piece, thinking that I'd look much better than her in the outfit (b/c she was so plump). Bob (Barker) yelled at me at that point. He told me I was fired because I missed the cue to go put on lingerie. So, I guess they didn't want me out of the number. But, I was fired now. So, I had to walk on this ladder, which was horizontal, across a giant tank of water to exit the building. I talked with Bob outside a little later, and he was very emaciated, his skin was darker than on television, and he was almost bald. Apparently screen makeup and lights do wonders for you! And he called me 18, even though my number was 13 when I was selected. And, he told me that getting the cues is everything. That's it.
11.26.06 - Lady with a polar bear, taking the 4 bus round in circles, making floats/puppets/decorations for Renn Fayre parade or Colin Diver inauguration. Rachel Barnett was there, and she thanked me for something in front of everybody. The polar bear turned into a brown bear. (I was thinking about drawing a polar bear yesterday. We also took the 4. Hm.)
11.21.06 - I dreamt that Joevanie and I were a couple. He and I went so well together, and I hugged him and told him I loved him over and over again. He was carving an ice sculpture for me of me. And, I was so happy. (Analysis: I did, in fact, like Joevanie. He does seem like a surfer guy, which is what was portrayed in the dream. I think this is what I want: a relationship, and one in which both parties are completely happy and completely satisfied.) I also dreamt about being in a small auditorium (like a high school gym), and we were singing about something. And, I had a third dream I can't remember off the top of my head.
11.17.06 - I dreamt that I went to see The Price is Right and I was looking at myself sitting in the seat I was sitting in at the real taping. Christina was sitting next to me. And, I dreamt that a certain somebody called me and left a really long message on my answering machine, telling me that she's pregnant. I also had some really really good chocolate.
11.11.06 - I think it was Byron in my dream, although it could have been someone else. We went to some kind of event, and Mozart (W.A. Mozart) was there. At the end of the program, they asked all of the Young Mozart Scholars (or something like that) to step forward. I thought they were going to recognize good musicians. Turns out they were going to recognize people who submitted a request form so that they could meet Wolfgang and have proof that they did. Apparently you couldn't go up there unless you were sponsored by a person who nominated you. The guy I was with (Byron or not) did not have either of his sponsors present, and so his parents asked me to go and pretend to be a sponsor person. I went. They started calling up names, and no one was going forward. I knew that the guy I was with didn't want to go up. Anyway, people started going up to the front. And, they shook his hand, and a lady pinned two safety pins on a pants cuff for each of them. And, all it meant was that they met Mozart. When they got to Byron, I think he asked Wolfie a question instead, and the question was answered; the lady forgot to pin him. End of story. Mozart left. So, after all this, he had no proof that he had met Mozart. BUT, he was happy to have actually talked with Mozart (instead of just shaking his hand), and that was enough. (Analysis: How am I so good about dreaming about things that are related to the present?! We're going to see a Mozart concert tomorrow at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. I know I'm going to keep my ticket stub and my program, so I can prove I was there. Maybe my dream is telling me that it's not the ticket I need. It's the memory of the event. I need to live in the present more, instead of relying on my ticket stubs and pictures. It's true. And, it seems true that Byron would ask Mozart a question (probably about politics or something) instead of shaking his hand and leaving.)
11.10.06 - First of all, I remember waking up a couple of times, thinking: crap, I didn't force myself to lucid dream. Dammit. But, I did dream about having the best birthday party ever. And all of my friends were there; there were lots of desserts and candles and singing and music. We were in some kind of old-tyme general store. I distinctly remember Candy being there, holding my homemade cake. James (the undergrad guy) gave me a hat. And then (in my dream), I checked the clock, and it was 11am, and I realized that I had missed Hania's class. I told all of my friends, who were about to sing happy birthday to me, to come back after class to finish the singing and partying and such. (Analysis: I think the thing I liked about this party was that it was (1) it was a surprise party. I've surprised a lot of people in my life, but I've rarely been given that in return. And, (2) all of my friends were in the same place at the same time. It was reminiscent of the dinner in Ann Arbor with all of my friends from the REU. And, well, some of my circles of friends just don't know the other circles of friends, and I'm always split when it comes to whom I want to share a special day/time with. I think I also mentioned that I like being punctual; and that's why it's so important for me not to miss a class. I've only inadvertently missed half a class once, and I was sick at the time [but still tried to go to classes].)
11.09.06 - I dreamt that I went on a date with Mikey Kannard (sp?). You know, the guy from Mock Trial. Bobby Ray something from the People v. Brunetti (?) case. Anyway, we went to the movie theatre, and I asked him if we could see the Borat movie (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan), but he said he had already seen it and he didn't want to see it again. (Analysis: I never had a crush on this guy, so I don't know why he's in my dream. But, I do want to see Borat, but I'm fearing that everyone has seen it. My brother already saw it. It's getting to be a week old or so already!)
11.08.06 - The four of us (Andrew, Erik, Xiao, and I) were all working for Monsters, Inc. (have you seen that movie?). We went up this wallless elevator, and at the top, my skirt got caught on something, so we lowered the elevator, Erik got off to adjust some knob far away, then the elevator went up again without him. Then, we were all screwed after that because none of the rest of us knew what to do next. Apparently we were supposed to activate the doors before going into them. We had to call Erik on his cell phone to ask what to do next. (Analysis: Sounds like asking him to come back to make copies. We need him. He's so much smarter than the rest of us. I wish he'd spend more time in the office. I feel like I haven't talked to him in ages.)
10.29.06 - I had to give CPR to my friend's baby. I don't remember which friend. And, none of my friends have babies. (Analysis: Scary prophecy. Don't let your babies come near me.)