dog dream

some people were looking for a new dog, so naturally they came to me.  i owned a dog shelter in an old, dead tree with a giant spiral staircase going up the trunk.  the man said he was looking for a chocolate lab, so we started going up the tree.  we found a chocolate lab but the back half looked like a dachshund and the front half looked like a beagle.  he didn't want it, so we kept going.  i could see his wife out of the tree and i said i didn't think we had another one but we could keep looking.  we made it up to the top of the tree where i had built a nest.  i told a new person that i tried to build it so it would hold my weight and i could sleep in it.  she told me i would just have to cut the two wires that connected to it and make one shorter wire.  (???)
and then!  i was in a giant room with a swimming pool, but it was also a band hall.  i found a book about clarinets and inside the front cover there were pictures of all the different kinds.  the biggest one was the pantheon contrabass clarinet.  i found carleigh and said, "hey, see that tallest chair up there?"  i pointed to one of the thousands of stacks of chairs lining the walls.  she couldn't tell which one i was talking about.  i pointed it out and said it's under the big U in that painting.  she still couldn't see it so i changed spots with her and said, "well, from right here, it's right in between that skinny guy with the glasses and that girl wearing the fruit dress."  she finally saw it.  so i said, "that's the stack of chairs i would have to sit on top of to be able to play this," and i showed her the picture of the pantheon contrabass clarinet.  she giggled, because obviously, it was funny.
then someone next to us said something about the skinny guy and the fruit dress girl thinking we were making fun of them.
and then evie woke up.

this! :)

so, crazy dream.
the moon crashed into the earth, causing the earth to spin faster.  that made days last only a minute and there was only one one-minute daytime per week.  it was very cold and the only way for the people who survived to keep warm was to burn "spheres."  "spheres" looked like little knots of silver jewelry and people had to find them to use them.  there were different groups of people who banded together and worked together to find the spheres and survive.
i found one group of people and stayed with them for a little while.   while i stayed with them, some of us went to siberia to look around.  one of them was named wolf.  while we were there, we found this very large sphere mine and started gathering some up.  eventually we were attacked and had to leave.
a little while later, i decided to leave these people--who were pirates and lived in the english channel--to find a new group.  apparently the pirates were bad people.
i found a new group of dogs and started staying with them, helping them find spheres.  after some time, i told them of the big area of spheres i found in siberia with the other group and told them that i didn't think those spheres belonged to anyone, that they were undiscovered and that we should go get a bunch of them.  i told them we couldn't go through the english channel though because that's where the pirates were and they would attack us.
we finally made it to siberia and the pirates were there.  the two groups joined together to harvest all the spheres.  these funky looking monster things came and started to attack us.  i had to choose two people from the pirates group to fight the monsters so we could escape.
we made it back to the pirate's home and gave half the spheres to them and then took off back to our house.  on our way, the pirates decided they wanted all the spheres and they came to attack us.  we got back to our house before they caught us though and we were ready to fight when they arrived.
at some point, i escaped and started running through this really nice building that was kinda out of place in the dream.  some people started chasing me and i found an empty room and went in there to hide.  the people came in and started talking about all the pirates and the dogs and betting on which one would win.
they looked through a book that had pictures and information about each one.  they were characters in a video game and the people in the building were talking about whoever betted on wolf to win was going to make a lot of money.  all of the dogs found me in this room with the people and we started attacking them.  apparently, the whole scenario of the moon crashing into the earth and having to use spheres to burn so we could stay alive was some sort of weird video game to people.  like the hunger games.  it was so weird.

at our latest ultrasound evie kept showing off her legs and sticking her toes in her eyes!  April 18, 2012

fringe dream

so, here's another dream to add to the list of weird dreams.

a bunch of people i know were doing a play.  about half way through the play, they had an intermission.  during intermission, a lot of them were getting mad at each other, and many of them were getting sick.  in fact, mad eye moody had died of dehydration in the back room.  they asked him if he wanted to go to the hospital and he said yes-even though he was dead.  so one of them went to tell the audience the rest of the play was canceled and we all loaded up in the back of a truck.  we took a hay ride to the hospital.

but...we never made it to the hospital.  on our way there, i decided that i just wanted to leave, and a bunch of people agreed with me.  so some of us got off the truck and went to find our cars.  i got in my car but i couldn't find my way out of the maze of giant pick ups to leave the area.  and it was all muddy.

then i was in a weird looking laboratory with walter and peter bishop and olivia dunham.  we were investigating the disappearance of a scientist.    we decided that she wasn't dead, just disappeared and we could bring her back but we hadn't figured out how yet.  peter went over to the funky looking old washing machine thing and took a piece of paper out of his pocket.  he wrote the scientist's name on the piece of paper.  "maggie sr."  and then he opened the lid of the washing machine and put the name in the part where you would put bleach.

that didn't work.  we still had to figure out how to bring her back.  so we were all in walter's study, looking at all his old journals.  i saw a list of ones he told us to look at.  one of them was 12.2.  12 was the journal number and the 2 was the page number.  peter said, "hey, i thought you said you didn't have a 12.2!"  walter ignored him and handed me the book.  and suddenly i was walter.  i turned to page 2.  it was the table of contents but it was labeled "law of everything index."  i started laughing and peter and olivia looked at me.

i said i had figured it out.  "the law of conservation of mass explains it all!"  i hurried them over to the washing machine and said, "we can't use energy to bring her back from nothing!  we have to have something in there of hers.  that will make the transfer of energy complete."

so suddenly we were in her bedroom closet.  peter said, "okay, so let's give her an outfit" and he chose this ugly green velour jumpsuit but it looked like a business suit.  i found an undershirt and then i thought that she might need panties.  i started looking through her drawers and couldn't find any.  then peter said he found some and held them up for me to inspect.  i said they would do.  so we put all the clothes in the washing machine and turned it on.  over a few seconds peter and olivia slowly disappeared and i apparated from one side of the laboratory door to the outside where i could see in.  the scientist reappeared and was writing on the chalkboard.  i smiled and walked around the corner.  a man started talking to her and asked where she had been.  she didn't know--she was very confused.  but we brought her back so i was very happy.

i started jogging through a hospital trying to find peter and olivia so we could leave.  a few minutes later i found peter, sweeping the hallway.  "hey, what are you doing?" i asked him.  "it worked, it's time to go."  he looked at me and asked if it was lunch time.  i said no, it's just time to get out of here.

then, i was back with all the people from the beginning of the dream.   i was trying to get to my car and get out before the mud took over the whole place.  except we weren't outside trying to get our cars, we were in a control room, and getting to my car was like a video game.  i had to hurry and get to the car before the mud made me drown.  it took a couple of tries before i could get to the car, then a couple more tries before i could move the car.  but i kept drowning.  i said, "this is stupid.  it's just a video game.  i'm going to skip this part and go on."

so i got in my car and drove through the building, onto the stage where the play had been earlier and destroyed all the set.  i drove through the building until i found the front door.  i crashed through it and down the steps and into the street.  i looked up and all the buildings.  it looked like las vegas.  i told myself to drive away from all the buildings because that's where they had my car trapped and if i go back, they'll get it again.  so i kept driving away.

and then after i woke up, i was thinking that the scientist needed a bra.  we didn't give her a bra.

happy valentine's day!

today was the very best valentine's day ever!  we went to the doctor to have an ultrasound and found out the sex of our baby!

we're having a girl!  she is the most rockin' little girl ever and i can't wait to meet her!

and sean got me a really perfect necklace from james avery.  woo!

the joker

So…I’ve had this dream before—several times.  I don’t know why.

I’m in this house that used to belong to my grandparents—but it’s different, a lot bigger.  There were many people there.  Fighting a war.  Against the Joker.  And the Riddler.

We’re moving from room to room fighting against all the Joker’s men, shooting back and forth.  At one point, I get shot in the arm but it doesn’t hurt.  However, we’re losing and I take some of the blood from my arm and wipe it all over my face and try to pretend to be dead so none of the bad guys will come hurt me.

At some point, all survivors are ordered to a large gathering room.  They told us it’s just a surrender and we won’t be hurt, so I get up and go to the room. 

I found Carleigh and told her, “I always have this dream when we’re in this house.  It’s weird.  How can I always have the same dream?”

Then we went to the large room and everyone was lining up.  It was like trying to go through customs at the airport.  Suddenly, I remember from the last dream that this is a set up.  The Joker is pretending to be at peace with us, and when we all get in here, he’s going to blow the place up.  I remembered that in the last dream, he was covered in a grey trench coat and a grey hat.  I found a little man going through a line in the grey coat and hat, and picked him up, turned him upside down and started beating it on the table.  It turned out that it wasn’t a man.  It was a container of Anti-A serum with a grey dropper top.  It broke in my hand as I was hitting it on the table.  I had to pull glass shards out of my hand and it was gross.

I never found the Joker, but we never got blown up.  I guess I moved on to another dream at that point. 

wolf machine dream

**inspired by The Hunger Games and Divergent, i'm sure of it.  

My family was visiting Japan when Mount Fuji erupted 20 years ago.  I was 3 years old at the time.  The eruption destroyed half of Tokyo and over three-quarters of the population perished.  Survivors were put into districts according to social status.  All non-Japanese people were placed in district 6 or 7, depending on how many children they had.  At that time my family was placed in district 6.  My older brother was 10.  When my younger brother was born, the government moved us to district 7.  The government was trying to control the number of people living in Tokyo.  The lower districts were discouraged from having children.

When I turned 23, the president came to district 7 for a visit.  We became friends, and he let me move up to district 1.  On my way there, I visited the other districts.  Each one looked the same.  There was one building where everyone lived.  All the business and government offices were in this building.  The government offices were on the 5^th floor—the top floor—of each building. 

When I reached district one, the president took me to my apartment.  It was on the 5^th floor, next to a large room that no one ever entered, it seemed.  One night, I snuck out of my room and hid around the corner.  The president snuck down the hallway and went into the large room and I snuck in behind him.  The room was full of young women that the president used in any way he wanted.  Disgusted, I ran out of the room and down the stairs.  I pulled the fire alarm so everyone in the building would have to leave.  After the “all clear” was given, we all walked back up the stairs and I went to bed.

The next day, the president sent someone to my apartment and invited me to his office.  when I got in there, there were a lot of people standing around a TV.  Every year the district made a music video making fun of the previous year’s number 1 hit.  We sat around the TV and watched it.

Suddenly, the office turned into a large auditorium in the center of the town.  It was a big ceremony to congratulate the women in the secret room for making the video, and to give an update on all the districts.  A State of the Union, I guess.  I was standing near the edge of the room, when a wolf machine moved toward me. 

He said, “It’s time.  Represent us!” 

I asked, “Are you here?  Ready?”

“Yes,” he said.

“All of you?”  I wanted to be sure.

“All of us,” he said and snorted.

I walked around some of the people sitting and listening to the president speak.  I walked up the center aisle and hopped up onto the stage, next to the president.

“And what would I do without my most trusted advisor?” he said and put his arm around me.

I held up a small plastic disc with the number 8 in the middle, and pulled a knife out of my pocket.

“I am the representative for the rebels in district 8!” I yelled at the crowd, showed the district 8 disc to the whole audience, and stabbed the president in the heart.

A riot broke out and all the district 8 wolf machines ran into the audience and started ripping apart the people who supported the president.

coyote dream

we were out in the backyard of this house we used to live in.  the dogs were in a big cage about the size of the backyard, but there was no official fence so other animals could get in.  the dogs were in the cage for protection from the rabid coyote.  the dogs weren't baron and gunner.  it was baron and winnie, but winnie was baron's sister instead of gunner's sister, and she looked exactly like baron, but more feminine.

we let the dogs out to potty and the coyote came toward us.  we got the dogs in the cage as soon as we could and then someone came through a gate beside the house.  i looked over to see who it was and why they dared enter the territory of the coyote.  it was dennis quaid.  and he had only one arm.  i told him to look out because there's a coyote over near the dog cage.  he said he knows...the coyote is the reason he only has one arm.

the next thing i know, dennis quaid has the dogs out of the cage, playing with them.  i yelled at him to put my dogs back in the cage so the coyote doesn't get them.  he did, and said we need to get rid of the coyote.

carleigh came out with a gun.  she handed me a bottle of saline and said to spray it in the coyote's eyes to distract him and she will shoot him.  so i sprayed the saline in his eyes and his eyes dilated and he sat down next to the cage.  carleigh pointed the gun at him and fired it, but no bullets came out.  she tried again  but nothing happened.  i said, "dude, what's wrong with your gun?"  she said she didn't know.  dennis quaid said, "hey, that guy has a gun" and pointed to a big guy.  the guy showed his gun to us but said we couldn't use it.

having to think of another way to kill the coyote, carleigh said to keep spraying him with saline, and she bent over the coyote and started cutting something on his back.  she said keep spraying him and he will die.  she went inside the house.

after a few minutes of spraying him with saline, the coyote put on a pair of sunglasses, blocking the saline.  but i had just run out of saline anyway.  then the coyote said, "man, this sucks.  look how black everyone looks."  and he started thrashing around trying to kill everything in his sight.

i ran inside the house and found carleigh.  she asked if it worked.  i said "no, he put on some sunglasses and now he's just pissed off!"

....then gunner jumped on the  bed and woke me up.  :-)