Valet Cafe and the Speedy Lizard

MORNING OF FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I had just seen a movie with the Movie Meetup group from real life. We had gone for our usual post-movie dinner, this time at some fictional, greasy spoon cafe on the side of the road. I remember we were all standing outside talking. An Asian girl was there with our group, and she was obviously drunk. She kept flirting with every guy, including me.

It got later and later as we stood out there. One by one, people began to leave. I remember saying goodbye to Lisa. As she drove off, I wondered if it wasn't time for me to go as well. Then I realized I had to get my car back from the valet--yes, valet--at this greasy spoon cafe! It took forever for them to bring my car around. Eventually I saw them pulling up with it--only to realize it wasn't my car at all, but some celebrity's car, as the valet explained to me (I can't remember whose). He began filling it with said star's luggage.

I must have finally gotten my car, because I next remember being at home. I was talking to Lisa on the phone. I kept hearing a skittering, scratching noise and hoped I didn't have a mouse in the house. Suddenly, a huge lizard came scurrying out from behind the couch. I called it "a gecko", but it looked more like an iguana. Only it moved insanely fast, almost like the movements of a squirrel!

I've got nothing against lizards, but having a super-fast, largish one careening through my apartment was a bit unsettling. I opened my front door and tried to move the lizard toward the exit. Every time it got near the open door it would pause, as if considering leaving, but then would turn and continue running about the place.

Little Dinosaurs

MORNING OF JANUARY 10, 2010

This whole dream felt like I was inside a movie. I was actually in the scenes, watching things, aware of the "story", but I never interacted and it seems no one ever saw me.

I first recall being in a small backyard where some members of an African American family were having an argument, while others were trying to break it up. I looked down and noticed a little yellow songbird of some sort hopping around the feet of the scuffling individuals. I was shocked that it would so calmly approach such a ruckus, and also concerned that it might be inadvertently hurt.

Next, I walked up to the backdoor of the house. There was a small handicap ramp attached to the porch, and on this tramp I saw several tiny little lizards crawling up towards the open door. Upon closer inspection, I saw that the lizards walked upright, and looked very similar to tiny T-Rex's! Not wanting them to get into the house, I formed a blockade with my hands, and when they reached it they turned and went back down the ramp.

Now entering the house through the kitchen, I looked down to see a Triceratops about the size of a domestic cat. It was eating and drinking out of stainless steel food dishes! I was quite shocked to see it, and then I heard a narrator's voice explaining how, before dinosaurs became extinct, people used to keep small ones as pets. Amidst my shock, I was also thinking of The Flintstones.