MORNING OF APRIL 12, 2011
I was in a Japanese restaurant to pick up some take-out. A Japanese lady in full Kabuki attire stood at the front desk. When she told me the total for my order, I realized my debit card was not in my wallet. I began to panic, because I couldn't remember when I last used it and where I might have lost it. Even though it was not crowded in the restaurant at all, the lady quickly became very irritable with me for taking up her time.
Oddest of all is the fact that throughout this entire dream, there was music from the "Katamari Damacy" video game soundtrack playing in the restaurant.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Games in the Basement
MORNING OF APRIL 11, 2011
My parents and I went to my grandmother's house, only the house was a fictional two-story home. Supposedly we were the first ones there and were expecting other family members for a big get-together, like perhaps a Christmas or Thanksgiving holiday.
While we waited on the others, I went into the furnished basement of the home, where there was a huge TV and various sorts of technology hooked up to it. I entertained myself playing a video game. I think it was based on the 80's He-Man cartoon, though it was on one of the modern day systems and looked very high-tech.
At one point my dad came in and was asking me about the game, and I think he even tried to play it. Then one of my cousins arrived, and he and I reminisced about some of our childhood experiences.
My parents and I went to my grandmother's house, only the house was a fictional two-story home. Supposedly we were the first ones there and were expecting other family members for a big get-together, like perhaps a Christmas or Thanksgiving holiday.
While we waited on the others, I went into the furnished basement of the home, where there was a huge TV and various sorts of technology hooked up to it. I entertained myself playing a video game. I think it was based on the 80's He-Man cartoon, though it was on one of the modern day systems and looked very high-tech.
At one point my dad came in and was asking me about the game, and I think he even tried to play it. Then one of my cousins arrived, and he and I reminisced about some of our childhood experiences.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
A Pretty Girl, A Zombie Attack, and an Art Contest
MORNING OF APRIL 10, 2011
In the first of three remembered dreams, I was a dating a really beautiful girl. She was petite and had really nice, long brunette hair and dark features. I was unbelievably happy that things between us seemed to be going well.
Later I showed up at some crowded public event and saw her sitting with another man. She didn't know I was there, but I overheard her talking to the guy about how she hated going out with me. She had started doing it under some pretense--I can't recall what she said it was--and couldn't wait until she could get out of it.
Of course I was devastated to hear this, but thought it was a believable outcome and couldn't believe I hadn't seen it coming.
In another dream, it was late at night and I was walking around the track I usually go walking at early on weekday mornings. The only difference was that a nearby grocery store was located right across the street from the track in the dream.
I overheard a girl talking on her cellphone and looked up to see her walking across the street from the grocery store parking lot onto the track. At this point I was finishing up my walk and was headed to my car in the track parking lot. It turns out the cell phone girl was parked beside my car, and we entered our respective vehicles at the same time and proceeded to leave.
Somehow both our cars ended up stuck in mud, or sunk into a ditch, or some similar obstacle. We couldn't move. I remember as I sat there spinning my wheels, I looked into my passenger seat and saw two birthday cards, one with Tinkebell, and one with Disney's Princess Tiana. I knew that both of them were meant to be given to my friends' daughter, Cailey, on her upcoming birthday.
Anyway, the girl and I got out of our cars and began discussing our predicament. Then we noticed a car nearby us that is filled with zombies! One guy in the car, who looked a little bit like Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter movies, was not a zombie, but he was too terrified of the zombies to actually flee the car. I remember the girl and I pleading with him to get out of the car and run with us! It was a very, very intense scene in the dream. I remember feeling just terrified.
We finally pulled the guy from the car, and the three of us piled into an SUV with a couple of other people in it, and began fleeing the zombies. As we drove, a middle aged man with an English accent began narrating our escape from the back seat. I wondered if this was the beginning of the final Harry Potter movie, and we were somehow in it.
As the man continued narrating, Eric, who was suddenly in the car with us, began asking me questions about some poster contest we had supposedly entered years ago. I was annoyed, because I couldn't hear the narrator when he was talking, and I was desperately trying to prove my theory that we were stuck in a movie. Somehow only hearing what the narrator said could help me with this.
There was one other dream in which it was a given fact that every April, I hosted a contest at my deviantART gallery online. Each week I'd give a theme and participants would turn in a drawing inspired by the theme, and there would be a winner each time. Only in this dream, I had forgotten to start the contest at the first of the month, and was rushing to start it late.
My first challenge for contestants was to draw something inspired by just the word "dinosaur". Fro some reason my dad, who is not an artist and in no way follows or cares about cartoon art, decided he wanted to join the contest. He practiced drawing and actually turned in a decent drawing on a dinosaur. There was some kind of actual process and "story" as he was talking to me about learning to draw the dinosaur, but it all gets lost in a blur of events in my memory.
I recall the second contest I posted was to draw something inspired by a specific Arnold Schwarzenegger 80's movie (one that doesn't exist in real life). My dad wouldn't join this contest, because he'd never seen the movie and didn't want to watch it because it was rated R. I explained to him that contestants only had to enter ONE of the challenges for the whole month anyway, so he didn't need to turn in another if he didn't want to.
In the first of three remembered dreams, I was a dating a really beautiful girl. She was petite and had really nice, long brunette hair and dark features. I was unbelievably happy that things between us seemed to be going well.
Later I showed up at some crowded public event and saw her sitting with another man. She didn't know I was there, but I overheard her talking to the guy about how she hated going out with me. She had started doing it under some pretense--I can't recall what she said it was--and couldn't wait until she could get out of it.
Of course I was devastated to hear this, but thought it was a believable outcome and couldn't believe I hadn't seen it coming.
In another dream, it was late at night and I was walking around the track I usually go walking at early on weekday mornings. The only difference was that a nearby grocery store was located right across the street from the track in the dream.
I overheard a girl talking on her cellphone and looked up to see her walking across the street from the grocery store parking lot onto the track. At this point I was finishing up my walk and was headed to my car in the track parking lot. It turns out the cell phone girl was parked beside my car, and we entered our respective vehicles at the same time and proceeded to leave.
Somehow both our cars ended up stuck in mud, or sunk into a ditch, or some similar obstacle. We couldn't move. I remember as I sat there spinning my wheels, I looked into my passenger seat and saw two birthday cards, one with Tinkebell, and one with Disney's Princess Tiana. I knew that both of them were meant to be given to my friends' daughter, Cailey, on her upcoming birthday.
Anyway, the girl and I got out of our cars and began discussing our predicament. Then we noticed a car nearby us that is filled with zombies! One guy in the car, who looked a little bit like Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter movies, was not a zombie, but he was too terrified of the zombies to actually flee the car. I remember the girl and I pleading with him to get out of the car and run with us! It was a very, very intense scene in the dream. I remember feeling just terrified.
We finally pulled the guy from the car, and the three of us piled into an SUV with a couple of other people in it, and began fleeing the zombies. As we drove, a middle aged man with an English accent began narrating our escape from the back seat. I wondered if this was the beginning of the final Harry Potter movie, and we were somehow in it.
As the man continued narrating, Eric, who was suddenly in the car with us, began asking me questions about some poster contest we had supposedly entered years ago. I was annoyed, because I couldn't hear the narrator when he was talking, and I was desperately trying to prove my theory that we were stuck in a movie. Somehow only hearing what the narrator said could help me with this.
There was one other dream in which it was a given fact that every April, I hosted a contest at my deviantART gallery online. Each week I'd give a theme and participants would turn in a drawing inspired by the theme, and there would be a winner each time. Only in this dream, I had forgotten to start the contest at the first of the month, and was rushing to start it late.
My first challenge for contestants was to draw something inspired by just the word "dinosaur". Fro some reason my dad, who is not an artist and in no way follows or cares about cartoon art, decided he wanted to join the contest. He practiced drawing and actually turned in a decent drawing on a dinosaur. There was some kind of actual process and "story" as he was talking to me about learning to draw the dinosaur, but it all gets lost in a blur of events in my memory.
I recall the second contest I posted was to draw something inspired by a specific Arnold Schwarzenegger 80's movie (one that doesn't exist in real life). My dad wouldn't join this contest, because he'd never seen the movie and didn't want to watch it because it was rated R. I explained to him that contestants only had to enter ONE of the challenges for the whole month anyway, so he didn't need to turn in another if he didn't want to.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Patton and Remy Do Improv
MORNING OF APRIL 4, 2011
Some friends and I attended an improv comedy show and were surprised to learn that comedian/actor Patton Oswalt was doing a guest role in the performance. Patton did his whole improv segment on the stage by himself.
His only prop was a puppet of Remy the rat, the character he voiced in the Pixar film, Ratatouille. It was very unique seeing him improv a whole scene against the puppet he was also voicing.
I vaguely remember standing in the lobby of the theater afterward, discussing the performance with friends. I'd taken a few pictures and we were looking at them on my camera.
Some friends and I attended an improv comedy show and were surprised to learn that comedian/actor Patton Oswalt was doing a guest role in the performance. Patton did his whole improv segment on the stage by himself.
His only prop was a puppet of Remy the rat, the character he voiced in the Pixar film, Ratatouille. It was very unique seeing him improv a whole scene against the puppet he was also voicing.
I vaguely remember standing in the lobby of the theater afterward, discussing the performance with friends. I'd taken a few pictures and we were looking at them on my camera.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
On the Run in the Secret Rooms
MORNING OF APRIL 3, 2010
There were a couple of older adults, and two or three people around my own age. Most of them were fictional dream characters. One of them was a girl I apparently had a crush on. We were all on the run from something. I think supposedly some kind of Nazi-like government had taken control and we were trying to stay in hiding.
One of the older ladies knew of a secret room inside the building we were in. It led into several other secret rooms that obviously had not been visited in some time. The lady explained to us the function these secret rooms had served in the past, but I can't remember it now.
We spent some time in these rooms, just hiding silently, hoping to evade capture. During this time the fictional girl I was crushing on and I seemed to grow much closer. That was the one silver lining of our scary ordeal.
My final memory involves us deciding to sneak out of the secret passageway, leaving the building completely and going out into the woods. We were walking a long a huge dirt trail cut through a thick forest. I can't remember what else happened.
There is some snippet of a second dream I recall. I was talking to an ex-girlfriend and her sister, and in the dream they supposedly also had a brother. They were teasing the brother because he had "mom hair". I can't remember what supposedly constituted "mom hair" in the dream. They just called him "mom" sometimes.
There were a couple of older adults, and two or three people around my own age. Most of them were fictional dream characters. One of them was a girl I apparently had a crush on. We were all on the run from something. I think supposedly some kind of Nazi-like government had taken control and we were trying to stay in hiding.
One of the older ladies knew of a secret room inside the building we were in. It led into several other secret rooms that obviously had not been visited in some time. The lady explained to us the function these secret rooms had served in the past, but I can't remember it now.
We spent some time in these rooms, just hiding silently, hoping to evade capture. During this time the fictional girl I was crushing on and I seemed to grow much closer. That was the one silver lining of our scary ordeal.
My final memory involves us deciding to sneak out of the secret passageway, leaving the building completely and going out into the woods. We were walking a long a huge dirt trail cut through a thick forest. I can't remember what else happened.
There is some snippet of a second dream I recall. I was talking to an ex-girlfriend and her sister, and in the dream they supposedly also had a brother. They were teasing the brother because he had "mom hair". I can't remember what supposedly constituted "mom hair" in the dream. They just called him "mom" sometimes.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Dinner with Genevieve
MORNING OF MARCH 26, 2011
I remember Genevieve, the lead singer of one of my favorite bands, Company of Thieves, was one of my circle of friends. We had all been hanging out together, but at one point in the dream Genevieve and I were having dinner alone. That's when I realized that we were "dating", and as the reality sunk in and I felt really excited. This is pretty much all I can remember.
I remember Genevieve, the lead singer of one of my favorite bands, Company of Thieves, was one of my circle of friends. We had all been hanging out together, but at one point in the dream Genevieve and I were having dinner alone. That's when I realized that we were "dating", and as the reality sunk in and I felt really excited. This is pretty much all I can remember.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Jesus!
MORNING OF MARCH 24, 2011
A new movie had just come out, directed by and starring Ricky Gervais, and titled, Jesus!. Some friends and I went to see this film one night, only now it was a play instead, though it still starred Mr. Gervais.
The venue looked similar to a small venue where I often go to see actual local theater. The small audience sat in folding chairs lined up in front of a stage. When the play began, for some reason, I chose to sit on the edge of the actual stage to watch it. It was a great seat, but I suddenly realized I should probably go sit with the rest of the audience, lest I block someone's view, so I did.
Somehow plush bears factored into the play. They looked like a cross between "Lotso Huggin' Bear" from Toy Story 3 and Care Bears. I was holding one at one point, and I think I'd accidentally carried it with me from when I'd been sitting on the stage.
At one point, former child star Gary Coleman came and sat down near me. It never entered into my mind that he's actually dead now. He climbed up on the stage and played on a piano while singing (I'm sure his appearance in this play stems from the use of a Gary Coleman in the actual play, "Avenue Q").
Suddenly, but without notice, things changed so that it was more like we were watching a movie in a theater as opposed to a live play. There was a scene where the characters went to Disney World. My mom, who was now apparently in the theater with my friends and I, asked me how they could get away with showing Disney World in this movie. I told her because this was a Disney movie.
The next scene in the movie took place at a wrestling event, like WWE or something. One of the wrestlers was named Jesus, and this was the supposed twist of the movie. And from here the movie evolved into some sort of sci-fi action thriller that looked a little like Tron: Legacy.
My next memory comes after the movie. I was sitting at work with my friend Richard (who doesn't work with me) and one of my actual coworkers. We were discussing our likes and dislike about the movie. We generally agreed that it was "okay".
And then I was walking in to my parents house for a visit. My mom was cooking supper, which was huge chunks of what looked like roast beef, each skewered to a giant, softball-sized shrimp. She said they were easy to cook because you just take them out of the packet, skewer them, and cook them.
They actually did look pretty good! Around this time my dad got home, obviously just returning from some sort of lengthy trip. He told me he couldn't believe I'd go see a movie called Jesus! when I don't ever even go to church.
A new movie had just come out, directed by and starring Ricky Gervais, and titled, Jesus!. Some friends and I went to see this film one night, only now it was a play instead, though it still starred Mr. Gervais.
The venue looked similar to a small venue where I often go to see actual local theater. The small audience sat in folding chairs lined up in front of a stage. When the play began, for some reason, I chose to sit on the edge of the actual stage to watch it. It was a great seat, but I suddenly realized I should probably go sit with the rest of the audience, lest I block someone's view, so I did.
Somehow plush bears factored into the play. They looked like a cross between "Lotso Huggin' Bear" from Toy Story 3 and Care Bears. I was holding one at one point, and I think I'd accidentally carried it with me from when I'd been sitting on the stage.
At one point, former child star Gary Coleman came and sat down near me. It never entered into my mind that he's actually dead now. He climbed up on the stage and played on a piano while singing (I'm sure his appearance in this play stems from the use of a Gary Coleman in the actual play, "Avenue Q").
Suddenly, but without notice, things changed so that it was more like we were watching a movie in a theater as opposed to a live play. There was a scene where the characters went to Disney World. My mom, who was now apparently in the theater with my friends and I, asked me how they could get away with showing Disney World in this movie. I told her because this was a Disney movie.
The next scene in the movie took place at a wrestling event, like WWE or something. One of the wrestlers was named Jesus, and this was the supposed twist of the movie. And from here the movie evolved into some sort of sci-fi action thriller that looked a little like Tron: Legacy.
My next memory comes after the movie. I was sitting at work with my friend Richard (who doesn't work with me) and one of my actual coworkers. We were discussing our likes and dislike about the movie. We generally agreed that it was "okay".
And then I was walking in to my parents house for a visit. My mom was cooking supper, which was huge chunks of what looked like roast beef, each skewered to a giant, softball-sized shrimp. She said they were easy to cook because you just take them out of the packet, skewer them, and cook them.
They actually did look pretty good! Around this time my dad got home, obviously just returning from some sort of lengthy trip. He told me he couldn't believe I'd go see a movie called Jesus! when I don't ever even go to church.
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