Been a while since I’ve had a dream decent enough to log, woke up this morning to a pretty good one:

• I meet a blonde-haired blue-eyed girl in a writing class, Alina.
• She is from Russia.
• Write a script together for an assignment.
• We end up seeing each other more, going on dates, etc.
• Dinner at an Italian restaurant on the patio, wine, sunset.  And afterwards we race up the stone stairs outside the restaurant.
• Months go by.
• We are at some park in the city, there is an outdoor event.  There is a river nearby, and a huge grassy lawn with people listening to a classical orchestra.  Everyone has blankets, coolers, etc…picnic supplies.  The music drifts over the crowd.
• We dance together, making fools of ourselves but not caring.  At the end of the song we fall down into the grass back at our picnic spot laughing. We are, without a doubt, big time in love.
• But then she gets a scared look on her face.
• She starts to run away and I chase her.
• “Alina! What’s wrong?” I yell.  But she pays no heed.
• She reaches the water’s edge and starts to swim for the other side.  She is an amazing swimmer I realize.  There’s no way I will catch her but I try anyway.
• I see her reach the other side and run up the hill towards some buildings.
• I finally reach the other side, and run up the same way she did but she is gone.
• It is a 4-way intersection with city buildings on each side.
• She is nowhere to be seen.
• I search for hours.  Calling her name and asking people on the street.  Nothing.
• I return to the park and search there. Nothing.
• I search over the next few days everywhere I can think but don’t find anything.
• A bunch of time passes (months I guess?).  I am back at the park and see a Life Guard station (as in the main house where all the guards live, not the chair at the beach). It actually looked like a Coast Guard Station House, but I guess this was as close as my brain could get to what a Life Guard House would look like.  I decide to go ask them if they have seen Alina.
• I walk up the steps to ask this group of people if they have seen her.  I start to describe her, “Blue eyes, blonde hair, etc..”  They all apologize saying they haven’t seen her.
• I thank them and turn away which is when I see a towel hanging from the railing.  It is blue with white stripes and I realize it’s her towel.  I remember now that she had taken it with her when she ran! (somehow this towel is unique enough that I know without a doubt that it is hers)
• I whirl back to the small crowd assembled on the stairs to the house. “That’s her towel!” I exclaim while pointing at the towel. “Hers!  She’s here!” I start shouting her name and one of the lifeguards in the back gets up and runs inside.  As she does I realize I was a fool, she was sitting there all along but her hair had been dyed brown instead of its normal almost-white blonde.
• I chase after her inside and we are in a kitchen.  She backs away from me, terrified.  She ends up in the corner of the room and falls to the ground crying, trying to get further away but unable.
• “Alina.  It’s me.” I plead as I slowly enter the room, “Don’t you remember me?”
• She clearly doesn’t, I can see that.  How can she not remember me I think to myself, but then I realize that I didn’t immediately recognize her either.  How long has it been?
• I start to tell her all the things from our past, writing class, the dates, dancing in the park.
• A light of recognition enters her eyes, she looks up at me and she whispers, “The script.  We wrote a script together.”
• “Yes!”
• As the full set of memories comes back to her she gets up and runs to me, wrapping me up in an interlocked hug with her head in my neck and begins to weep.
• “I was so scared.” she says.  “I saw him there and then he was after me, and the only thing I knew to do was run.”
• “It’s ok.” I say, “He’s not here now.” I reply.
• “No, you don’t understand.  He’s still here in the city, looking for me.  I need to leave.”
• “Well then I’m coming with you.” I reply.
• “To Russia?” she asks.
• “Yes.”
• “You would do this?  For me?”
• “Absolutely I will.”
• “Ok, but first we need to rescue my brother.  He is in a school here, but it has fences.”
• I am confused at first, but then realize she means the junior detention facility (I forget what they’re really called).
• Well, I think to myself.  This should be a snap, how hard could it be to get someone out of Juvie?
• “Ok, ” I say, “I will get your brother and then we will all leave together”
• “Yes, thank you!”, a look of immense relief appears on her face, and new tears, the good kind, begin to fall.  She hugs me tighter and kisses me.

The scene fades away and then fades back in with me and a police officer standing outside a huge concrete wall with razor wire on top.  Outside of this wall is a smaller chain-link fence (which is at most what I was expecting).

• This is the wall surrounding the juvenile center? I think to myself.
• I have somehow gotten the police officer into helping me get through the wall into the center, but I can’t remember how, or why.  I remember we both had reasons, perhaps he has someone he needs to rescue too?  In any case, I think to myself, we need to get in here.
• [the dream is beginning to fall apart now since it is losing continuity, but I still remember pieces]
• The officer walks up to the outer fence, in which there is a door with a number lock on it (the kind you would press the “code” to get in).  This fence is outside the big concrete wall and is just normal chain-link.
• “We can just climb over?” I say.  But then I realize the officer is quite portly.
• “No.” he replies and gets some sort of weird-looking gun out of his pocket.
• He shoots it at the lock and sparks begin to fly.  Ohhh, I think to myself, a taser.  I guess that works too!
• The officer gives me an admonishing look and walks up to it.
• “Open it.” he says.  Pointing it the door handle, next to which is a computerized lock which has been blasted open, wires spill out and circuit boards are visible inside of the lock’s open panel.
• I think for a second and then instead of grabbing the door handle I take a stick and lay it across the handle and the broken lock’s panel.  When the stick touches both the door and lock the electrical connection is completed, sparks fly across as the final energy from the taser is released (maybe it had been stored in the capacitors of the lock mechanism?).
• The officer gives me a look.  Was that of approval or something else?  Had he known about the shock and was hoping I would get electrocuted instead?
• The officer opens the door and steps through to the concrete wall ahead of us, and I follow him through.

There are bits and pieces that follow this, but I was clearly waking up at this point.  As I woke up I thought “noooooo” and immediately tried to go back to sleep (which never works of course).

My alarm hadn’t even gone off yet and I wanted to see how this dream ended.  How did I rescue the brother?  Was this cop really trying to help me or not?  And do me and Alina finally escape this man from her past that is chasing her?  So many questions!

But now it is nearly 8:10 and I have to get up and go to work…

• Paddling down river
  • Curves and loops
  • Last corner see ocean
  • Taste water – “It’s definitely the ocean, water is getting salty.”
  • Make it to beach.  Go swimming but keep accidentally getting PFD on.
• Swimming Pool Laps
  • Race K
  • Keep losing because my arms hit stuff, or lane is too narrow and arm hits pool “gutter”
• Band Girl Setting Up on stage
  • “Weren’t you here this morning?”
  • “Yeah, we were here to wait around to look at a house.” (which ended up turning into the river trip to the ocean.)
• Movie Premiere
  • Couches are empty. “Journalists” out in lobby don’t take seats.  Invite to Band Girl could would have been room.
  • Fireplace has smouldering logs.
  • Joke about how journlists will review the movie as awesome without having seen it “Food was great, as was the roaring fire!  The at-capacity seating…”

I Am The One

• Two brothers in bunk beds.
• One declares “dude…I think I am the one.” (a la Matrix).
• As soon as he says that, a blue shimmery “force field” surrounds him.
• Other brother says “yeah right”.
• Brother one says “No, watch, I’ll prove it to you.  I can fly.  Push me off the balcony.”
• They both go over to the balcony which is a wooden rickety structure like the one in Life of Brian.
• Brother 2 pushed brother 1.  As soon as he does the blue glow transfers to the brother who pushed.  The other one tumbles off the balcony, not understanding what just happened.
• I realize what to do.  So I touch the brother still on the balcony, and now I am The One!
• I take off flying and bomb around the city blasting through buildings and stuff.

The Game

• Computer game.  The mission is to protect this woman from men who are trying to assassinate her.
• In this city where there are tons of people.  Every once in a while a man dashes out of the crowd with a gun and you have to try to shoot him.
• After a while the security group goes faster and I can’t keep up, so I cut a corner trying to reach them, but miss.
• I am crossing a bride trying to get back to the group when on of the assassins rushes past me.  He is too fast and I miss him.  He can also run faster then me and I am unable to pursue.
• End Dream

This was a pretty cool one:

• In some sort of casino or possibly a mall with a Japanese girl, and we have apparently been friends for a long time.
• She has lost her job and is crying that she’ll have no money to live.  She has to find a new job.
• She runs away and I chase after her.  Only seeing glimpses of her as she rounds corner after corner.
• I finally find her in a restaurant (pretty sure it was a Friendly’s).  She is kneeling on the floor in front of a booth containing a family of four.  She is pleading for a job from them.
• I grab her to console her and walk her away and try to stop her sobbing.
• We make our way back to the hallways of this mall and she stops where a group of five or more people have also stopped and are looking at the ceiling.
• One of the tiles from the ceiling lifts away and a man’s head appears in its place.
• The crowd starts throwing money at him and in return he takes down notes on a pad of paper.  The girl I am with looks at me with a mixed expression of fear and excitement and says “I have to!”  She opens up her purse which is hanging around her neck and takes out the last of her money.  She wads it up and tosses it up to the man in the ceiling.
• The tile gets replaced and everybody stands around waiting.
• After a short while the man returns and starts handing wads of cash to some of the people.  Aha!  I think to myself, this is some sort of strange way to gamble.
• A gigantic wad of cash is given to the girl, hundreds of thousands of dollars!  This will set us both up for life!
• That’s fine and dandy, but first we need to make ourselves blend in and get away because what we just did was apparently highly illegal.
• I grab some food on a tray from a cafeteria and follow her over to some seats in an upper terrace.
• On the way our gambling receipt blows off my tray of food.  This is not good.
• I try to track it down only to have it blow into a pile of other papers surrounding a trash can.
• Before I can find it someone else does. An old Japanese lady.
• The receipt has our names on it I remember.
• She begins pointing at the two of us and yelling.  I can’t tell what she’s saying, but I already know.  “Those two are the ones that won all that money!  Get them.  Call the police!”
• We dash around the corner trying to find a place to hide.  We crash through some doors onto a balcony with a staircase leading down four stories to a road below.  The stairway has no corners or kinks, just one long set of steps down against the side of the building.
• Unfortunately we can already see police starting to congregate looking for the illegal gamblers.  there is no escape down that path.
• We turn and go back inside and see a bunch of men running into the men’s room.  We recognize some of them from the same group that we gambled with.
• “Comon!” I say.
• We both enter the bathroom and she runs for a stall to hide in.
• I talk to the doorman at the front of the bathroom.  “Do you have any hair dye?” I ask.  “Something to change black hair into something else?”
• “Sure any of these” he says while passing his hand over this odd-looking panel of buttons.  “Or you could just use the soap. That works too.”
• I call for the girl to come over.  She exits the stall and joins me at the front of the bathroom.
• She starts putting the soap in her hair, and it sort of works, but there are only highlights appearing, not the desired total hair color change we were looking for.
• She asks me to do it for her, and I oblige.  But I must have used too much because her hair goes completely white and then starts to melt and fall out.  I watch in horror as her once long black hair falls in clumps to the ground and starts smoking.  “What is this stuff?” I think to myself.
• The clumps on the floor actually start to burn from the heat of the chemical reaction happening.
• The doorman seems unfazed, as if this happens every day (“It probably does.” I think to myself).  All he does is grab a hose to try and put the fire out, but since it is a chemical file it does little but to spread the flames around.

This is where the dream ended.  If I were to turn this into a story I would back up a bit and continue with my first thoughts after I woke up.  In this revised ending:

• The hair dye works perfect and we get the light brown or whatever color we were looking for.  I also use a pair of scissors to cut her waist-length hair up past her shoulders.  It’s not a great haircut, but it will serve our purposes.  (Edit: I suppose I need to do something about my looks as well, perhaps I also dye my hair, or shave it off or something).
• As soon as we finish trimming her hair we hear police closing in. We need to hide.  The doorman sweeps away the hair into a wastebasket and we both dash into one of the stalls together.  We put down the seat on the toilet and both climb on top (to hide our feet from police should they peer underneath).
• The police start searching the stalls one by one, and we hear them check the one next to us.  When they finish (we hear the stall door closing), we silently get down, crawl under the middle divider to the stall they just checked and perform the same feat of getting up on the toilet seat cover (thankfully the seat was already down in this one).
• Ahh, I forgot to mention, there is fairly loud music playing in the bathroom, this helps us crawl under the stalls without the police hearing.
• The police finish their search, satisfied that “the gamblers” are not in here, and leave to search the rest of the building.
• We wait a while, exit the stall, give the doorman a gigantic tip, and slip out into the crowded mall.

• College dorm
• ground floor
• one entire wall is a window
• window continues underground so that I can see the dirt and stone below, kind of like a giant ant farm.
• snakes everywhere falling through from the grass above in front of the glass and then disappearing into the building foundation.  “I should get someone to look at that”, I think to myself.   There are copperheads and even a giant yellow python that goes on forever as it slithers by.
• There are also channels with water from recent rains (was raining this night for real).  They go up, down, mostly at right angles, and are flowing with a stream.
• all kinds of critters use the water channels for transport including a school of yellow fish that I see go fluttering by.

Not much to report on here:

• Went to the moon with friend from work
• Special new kind of craft
• A bunch of other people on it, I think it might have been a public vacation” type deal
• On the lunar surface we come upon the remains of an alien
• It looks like some sort of reptile, or at least it used to.
• The body is “deflated” and all that remains are the bones underneath the spacesuit which is now hugging the bones like a ziplock hugs the food inside after being purged of air
• The rest of the alien’s “fleshy parts” are strewn in front of the suit in what was clearly a violent explosive decompression of body through the suit.  They’re still red and pink but frozen solid.
• We all get uneasy and crawl back through the portal into our spaceship to return home.

Big Dream #1

My cousin and her husband, a musician duo, were invited to open for some Hollywood comedy awards show. The three of us arrived in Hollywood and went to the venue (one of those theaters that they do awards shows in).

They played a couple songs and then said “Thank you everybody, that’s all for us, but stick around because there’s a lot more show coming up.”

So while they go off stage I talk to Jack Black for a while, and someone else…maybe the guy that plays Ray Ramanoe’s brother. Anyway, the second act starts and it’s Teller (from Penn and Teller) and Seinfeld doing this back and forth comedy bit where one guy sets up the joke and the other finishes it.

They start off slow but start getting smoother and smoother. The back and forth jokes switch to more of the same lines said over and over. Then suddenly it starts to sound musical which is my cousin and her husband come back on stage and join in.

Haha! Surprise everyone! Crowd goes wild while the four of them play this song together.

Big Dream #2

I was up on an Island with family and my uncle was taking a bunch of people out on a boat for a joyride. My dad and I were in small dinghies down by the bow of the boat helping with the lines or something. My uncle went to nudge the stern of the boat away from the dock by using the two engines, one in reverse and one in forward, only to have the bow hit the dinghy I was in and wedge it against the dock.

I was in no danger, but this prevented the boat from rotating and it caused the stern to hit some rocks or something. The boat became disabled and floated out into some larger body of water where it became stuck in the sand and they had to wait for the Coast Guard or someone else to arrive and tow them back in.

My uncle came back while everybody else had to wait on the boat and said something like “Well if this isn’t just perfect.  What a day this has been.  Oh man.”  He then set about moving stuff around in some storage shed, probably to fashion something to help get the boat unstuck.  My dad and I found some tractors and started riding those around the pier.  Troublemakers!

Pretty cool dreams. I also had dreams that:

• I was looking for a house in Colorado, but there were only four for sale in the entire state, and none were close to mountains.
• I switched apartments with two friends in my apartment complex, but forgot to move almost all my stuff or tell the apartment office.
• I recorded a song and then submitted it to some professional review site for critique. After implementing his suggestions (swapped out some chords and implemented the “Moibius Technique” whatever that is supposed to be) it sounded amazing.