Dream Journal
I was in a new town spending some time with friends. I spent the night at Danielle’s house. Her bed was hard and the room cold, making it difficult for me to sleep. The boiler went out and her little brother went outside to unscrew and then tighten a valve. He unscrewed the valve too far and lost it.
The next morning I drew a crude map to my next friend’s house on “Seth Street.” My friend didn’t really live on “Seth Street,” but I used it because it was a generic name for the main street in town. The map showed that this main street was a giant loop around the entire town.
A cab picked me up and I showed him the map. He pointed out that “Seth Street” was the real name of Danielle’s street.
I hopped on the back of his motorcycle and we drove around a bit trying to find my next friend’s house. All of the houses were numbered randomly and did not sit in a straight line. I told him that the family had six kids, so it was probably a large house. We swerved in and out of a handful of houses until we found the right one: a large mansion.
I walked inside the mansion and find the family finishing breakfast. Pam sat at the table and is the friend I was going to see, but this is not her house of her family.
She jumped up and, before saying hello, introduced me to the oldest of the kids in the family, a girl, who hugged me tightly instead of shaking my hand as I expected. I was introduced to all of the kids who each hugged me. I could barely understand their names, so I just hugged them back.
I asked the butler what they were saying and why they were all pointing over my shoulder. He points out that all of their names were listed on the wall there in the dining room. They all had names like Te, Ta, and Ti.
No wonder I couldn’t understand them.
Themes: Pam & Tina
B knew that someone was following him taking pictures, so he asked me to pose for a few ‘juicy’ shots with him (we were not romantically involved at all); I agreed.
We pretended to make out, making sure the photographer got some great angles and shots. Getting into it, I pull my sweater over my head realizing too late that I was not wearing a bra.
He became instantly aroused and forgot about faking it for the photographer. It turned into a very hot-and-heavy petting. He grabbed my breasts, rubbing my nipples with his finger and thumb, and I curled my hand around his tree trunk of a penis.
I was at a wedding. The bride had shoulder length blonde hair and a round face; Melissa was the groom.
Just before the ceremony started, Melissa and the bride left the sanctuary by the back doors. The bride came back and, instead of waiting for Melissa, pulled one of her bridesmaids over next to her and proceeded with the ceremony.
I watched all of this happen from behind a half wall on stage behind the minister. I walked down a side aisle and saw Melissa standing on the balcony at the back of the sanctuary. I could tell she was hurt and angry that the bride had gone on without her.
Afterwards I put my arm around Melissa and guided her towards the exterior door to leave. We passed an office, and inside sat the bride talking on the phone. I left Melissa in the hallway and went inside the office.
She got off the phone and I asked her, “What the fuck were you doing?” I then slapped her rather limp-wristedly and called her a bitch. I knew that my slap didn’t hurt her.
Themes: Melissa
I was at a cabin on a lake one bright, sunny summer day with a male relative about my age and a younger female relative. An asteroid was coming, and I knew its trajectory would hit this very lake. I knew all of this because I had dreamed about it before.
I couldn’t convince anyone to believe me. I wanted everyone to get in the battered white truck and drive as fast and as far away from the lake as we could.
I watched the asteroid’s fiery tail as it bulleted through the atmosphere. Everyone believed me, but it was too late. The asteroid hit and the little cabin blew into tiny bits. We were able to hide very low to the ground and our lives were spared.
The dream repeated, and this second time people believed me that an asteroid was coming. The girl and I jumped in the back of the truck while the man drove it as fast as it could up the hill and away from the lake.
I saw the asteroid’s tail and knew we were too slow.
The dream repeated again, and we were able to get away from the lake soon enough. We barreled down the twisty hills away from the lake and came to a small town where there was a traffic jam.
We ran a red light and the police arrested us for acting disorderly. They did not believe an asteroid was coming.
They brought us to the police station where we escaped and ran through the concrete parking garage looking for a car to steal. The small town was still too close to the lake.
As we ran past one car with its doors open, we heard a radio news report about the asteroid. We felt smug that we knew about it before the news.
Now that the general populace had heard about the asteroid, the traffic was worse than before. And one police officer who hadn’t heard about the asteroid was still chasing us on foot. We were running out of time to get away from the asteroid impact. I wondered if we oughtn’t stay in the underground parking garage, if that would be safe.
Themes: End of the World
B was dying. He had a bit of white foam coming from his lips. I leaned over, pulled on it, and out came a white string-y thing similar to an extremely long lougie. Then he collapsed on the floor. Perhaps I pulled out his soul?
He revived a bit and I suggested he see a doctor.
Themes: B
I was in my grandparents’ dining room with my parents. They all wanted me to take a picture of my Mom, Dad, and Grandpa. I knelt in front of their patio doors and they sat in chairs with their backs to the table. My parents were acting cuddly; I told them to lean closer to Grandpa so he didn’t look so separated from the picture. He wasn’t very responsive.
I was walking down a school hallway with a lot of other teens toward my next high school class. I was not wearing pants. I thought about how it felt an awful lot like a dream, but I knew that I was not in a dream.
Tina had my pants, and she was just ahead of me in the hallway. I only needed to catch up with her. As I caught up to her, I saw another friend (also without pants) put mine on. What was I supposed to wear?
Themes: Pam & Tina
It was the beginning of winter and I was holding a baby. B decided that we had to go to my parents’ house on his motorcycle. I argued with him about it because it wasn’t safe for the baby and it was so cold out, but he insisted. I couldn’t convince him to not go.
I climbed on the back of his bike, put the baby under my dark blue sweatshirt, and wrapped my arms around her instead of around B. The wind was very strong and cold, so I periodically put my face inside the collar of my sweatshirt and blew warm air onto the baby’s face. I was afraid she was going to die: neither one of us were properly dressed for the temperature and wind.
We pulled up to my parents’ house and three of my brothers are building the support joists for the new deck. It was really sunny and warm; Rodney, John, and Marty were all sweating with the work.
Marty’s joist contained a lot of rotten wood that wouldn’t lay right. He was getting really frustrated with it. Rodney’s joist was really strong and progressing quite nicely. John had gotten bored with his joist and headed inside.
I went into my parents’ basement and saw B had a pet baby deer. The deer ran up to me like a happy dog. I was afraid that the deer would jump up on me and hurt the baby. I held it away with my arm as best I could while holding the baby with my other arm. I told B that he had to get rid of the deer because it was endangering the baby.
A woman from a deer sanctuary/refuge came to take the deer away. She was very nice and promised the deer would have a good home.
A group of about 20 little white aliens stood before me and a few other people. We were afraid they would take control of is and our world, so we rounded all of them up and planned to ship them off of our planet.
I realized that they weren’t very intelligent; they were more like alien pets and were no threat to us. They were really cute: short, round, and smooth. We decided to keep them like our servants.
Themes: Aliens
I walked out of a house in a nice, quiet suburb like those seen on television. The neighborhood was empty of people and cars except for a black and a yellow sports car parked at the curb. I jumped into the driver’s seat of the black car and sped off. The yellow one took off behind me.
I stopped at a red light and the yellow car pulled up to the line on my left. The windows in both vehicles were down and I saw that Kelli was driving the yellow car and Rachael was her passenger. The light turned green and we sped off, both of us trying to go as fast as we could and yet not competing with the other. We were simply enjoying speeding next to each other.
When I got back home, my boss’s parents were inside and told me that they had bought two new washer/dryer sets for the office. I got up on top of the top loaders and walked around their edges inspecting them. I was very excited that they were brand new and not second hand; I would have never been able to afford them.
Themes: Kelli