The Dark Half

Just so you know, I do have other dreams besides the ones I put up here. But usually, I try to put up the most pieced together ones I can remember, or the most striking. I usually (now) remember a dream 6 out of 7 days of the week, sometimes even all 7.

This dream is also jumbled, and it makes me a bit angry, but I'll do the best I can with it. I remember being outside in my driveway with two other people, one I think was my brother (who was only my dream brother, as he was rather fat and blond) and another was some guy I can't quite place. We were putting together something or working on something sitting down, but I don't remember what. I called out "Molly!" and this rather large spider (though still real-life sized) came jumping towards us on the pavement. I didn't dare touch her still, but I fed her a bit of meat that I had. Apparently I had trained a spider to come to it's name. How creepy is that?

I was singing "Eyes on me" from Final Fantasy while we worked and Molly ate, and the unknown guy was telling me to sing more! More! But my voice would crack when it got to really high notes and I don't know why he wanted me to keep singing. I got up when I heard sirens. Apparently one of our neighbors' (in a big apartment complex that doesn't exist) near our house, house had exploded. Something relating to the fact that she was a food hoarder and she had kept soup from 7 years back and it caught fire or something equally as ridiculous. It also had something to do with a plane or the fact that the woman was a flight attendant but I don't remember why.

My parents then came outside dressed in all white. Mother had a long curved knife at her hip. They told me they were going shopping or something. I said "Uh, you guys are dressed like you're in the Boondock saints and are going to go kill some people". They quickly ASSURED me that they were only going shopping. Of course I knew better, but what do you do when your parents come outside dressed in flowing white like angels (of death?). They gave me instructions that I was to drive to see my grandparents the following day (and we were going on vacation? So I had to meet them hours away from where they actually live) and they would meet me there, because they had "Things" to take care of first.

After they left, I went to change clothes. My dream snapped to an interview like scene of my dream-brother who was talking to the "camera". He said something along the lines of "Yea, I know I shouldn't have done that cocaine, but it was just pure white working-out power. Pure work and muscle! Usually when I work out I get a stomach ache". Seriously he was this fat kid with blond curly hair, I don't know who he was kidding.

When I came back outside, the my brother and the other guy was gone. I went near a window of my house and called for Molly, who came bounding along. I remember still being frightened to touch her in my dream, though she seemed to be my familiar. I fed her some green thing, when out of the corner of my eye I saw a little girl peering at me from inside my house. It was immediately understood that this was an alternate dimension, and if I were to go around and enter my house, she would not be there, it would only be my own house. I looked at her, looking at me.

She was obviously in a darker realm. She was younger than me with dark brown eyes, translucent skin, and her dark brown hair pulled into a ponytail. She made a terrible, horrifying face that left its imprint on the window as if she had blown hot air and carved her face into it, and it stayed like that. She did it to another window and I was frightened. But as I stared longer, I saw that there may be more than meets the eye. Eventually I saw a flicker of something, a spark in her eyes.

And she smiled. Not in a creepy way, but in a genuine way. I couldn't help but smile back.

Then we threw water balloons at each other (at the window), where mine popped and trickled down the walls, but hers merely bounced back at her. I woke up.

Dreams

That'll Teach me to go to Bed with a Headache

This dream was one I just had during a nap. I chewed too much gum yesterday and now my temples are sore and I didn't sleep well at all last night and subsequently developed a headache because of it. So, I took a fancy nap for 2 hours and this is what happened. Seriously, what in God's name is wrong with my brain? This dream has no real time line at all that I can recall, so I'm just going to name some bullet points that I can remember, but in no real order.

• I was in a college dorm of some sort, with my friend Sydney, and we were walking around, I'm pretty sure looking for a lesbian we could hook one of our friends up with (?), but I don't remember the friend. Now, I think I had just moved there or something, because I didn't know anyone else and I was very surprised to find that all the girls walked around in their underwear here. I distinctly remember thinking, 'Oh my god, guys would kill to be here right now, it's like a freaking movie'. We were distracted from our lesbian quest, and instead went to Sydney's room where her dog, who is Bentley (that piece of shit ugly stupid dog that I hate). Apparently, Bentley won't behave and keeps peeing all over her rug and stuff. She didn't train it so I had to teach her how to train it, which consisted of me getting up, rubbing his face in it, spanking him, and putting him in a crate. Oh how lovely and vindictive my brain sometimes is :]
  
• Next thing I remember is I was in some kind of aircraft with 6 or 7 other people, all of which are pretty much nameless to me. But we landed at this random place, 12 to 15 feet off the ground, but there were stairs leading down. I remember someone yelling "Hey, don't fall off! Use the stairs!" which I was already doing, but then I look over and some chick I'm with totally falls off the stand and face plants into the ground. Idiot. To my left there is a street going downhill, with a covering over it, so maybe it's going into a tunnel, or there's a walkway above it. Point is, to my left there are 8 models. Two of them are a pair of twins, but they are dressed differently (this strikes me as strange to dream about). Apparently the street is vacant because they're about to do a fashion show or something down the street. They are bickering amongst themselves like idiots. The show begins. To my right there are rows and rows of bleachers, pretty much full up, like a football game, but for these models. People are DRUNK. They are falling out the sides of the bleachers like ants. There's so many people falling I don't understand. We quickly run down the street, probably screwing up the show, to avoid getting hit by falling people and the weirdness of it all.
• I am showing Jonas a picture of something hilarious/bizarre/sick I found to cheer him up. We are in some random house. The picture is of some Asian guy that had killed a giant octopus, and chopped off the body/head part, and climbed into and wore its tentacles on his legs and rearranged the rest so he could take a picture in a library. Half man, half octopus. I remember being disgusted, but when I looked closer it looked like he had built the octopus tentacles out of Lego's. One really can't be sure.
• The part I remember vaguely, right before I woke up, was that my mother was near me and I said something along the lines of, "Wouldn't it be fun to birth me again?" and she responded, "I think twice is enough, don't you?"

O_O Seriously, what is wrong with me. I was only asleep for like an hour and a half.

Finally a Lucid Dream

I'll keep this one short, but I was having a lot of trouble sleeping last night so it seems like a good time to have a lucid dream; when you just can't get comfortable and it's a while before you slip between reality and dreamworld. Maybe this is why I finally had one. Anyway, in every lucid dream I've ever had (except one) I always try to fly. It's pretty much an instant thing, "Oh, this is a dream!.... I CAN FLY!" And what is strange is that every time, even though I know it's a dream, I still have to find some way of helping myself fly. In only one dream I used faerie dust, but in every other dream it is usually an umbrella. I'm not sure why but it seems like a good idea at the time.

So, I think this dream started at my grandparents house. I never realized how many dreams I had there, or maybe it's just a coincidence that I've been having them a lot more lately for whatever reason. Anyway, it was a group of me and some friends and we were walking around doing something, I don't even know. I remember one of them pointing out that there was something creeping around in this giant bush, like some creature or monster or something. This is when I realized it was a dream, so it was pretty immediate. One transition period later, I was in some random town that of course I've never been in. I was with my friend Rachel, the girl that shot me in the last dream (lol). And so I wandered into this shop, they sold Festis (My first Swedish product in a dream, yea!!!) Of course, they also happened to sell umbrella's and a variety of other random snacks and things. It was sort of like a gas station store where it had some useful traveling gadget's, but that was about it. So I got myself this umbrella and went outside and jumped in the air and flew around!

Usually in these dreams, even though I know I can fly, there is something in my head telling me that it's just not possible, so I usually can't fly that high or I will fly up really high and then have to land, or I can only jump impossibly high. I was lucky enough in this dream that I could fly around for a long time so that was pretty awesome. I remember seeing the look on people's faces when they saw me take off, and I just laughed and it was sooo sweet. Anyway, I finally landed and my friend was like "Dude, what about me!?" I'm like good point, so I go back to the shop where I got the umbrella and they're all out of the umbrellas that I used. I'm pretty pissed but I'm like 'Okay, this is a dream, so I can just make this happen right?' So, I close my eyes and I'm trying to force my subconscious into creating more umbrellas and it won't work (it usually doesn't). Luckily I found some in a pile below the stand that people hadn't seen (or maybe it actually did work this time?). So I took one, a different color from my own and went out of the store and gave it to her.

So we went around flying a bit, didn't go up more than probably 750 feet, but that was out of choice, not limitations. I'm not too much of heights person. Anyway, I don't remember much else from the dream, but I do know that when I woke up it felt like I was already awake... does that make sense? Like when you fall asleep with your eyes open and you're just suddenly awake and staring, and it feels like you skipped a step? Well that's what this was like.

Zombies (Part 2)

So I go back to sleep and I am at an abandoned house and it's very dilapidated, but quite a bit larger than the house in my kitten dream. You know the deal, windows bored up, gutters falling off and swaying back and forth a bit, paint crusting off, abandoned, ominous. The works. So I'm here, and I'm with my friend, though at the moment I can't remember who it was. I don't know if this is a crime scene or what but there are a few police cars and some people mingling about and people looking around oddly. Well I don't know what happened, but someone screamed and there was an explosion as one of the cop cars went up in flames. Then there were suddenly like 4 or 5 zombies. For all those zombie buffs out there these were the flesh eating kind, slack mouths, made moaning noises, but were much faster than they should have been so people actually did have to run.

We had some following us as we ran away all over town and by the time we had made it back to the abandoned house, there were at least 20 or 25 of them (having turned citizens into zombies as they ran all over town). So now that we have outrun them for the time being, it's time of course, ladies and gents, to go INTO the house. Of course all the doors and windows are boarded up and "lucky" for us, there's a strange hole the we can make our way into the house, So it's sort of like climbing in a half muddy hole, half cave, and we have backpacks on, I don't know why. It is a very tight fit and even if you aren't claustrophobic, it gets a bit scary, and I have to take off my backpack to even fit in this hole. My friend behind me was more scared than I was so I pushed on and encouraged her to do the same. Eventually we had made it into the house.

It gets a bit blurry here, but the point is zombies eventually made it into the house and the hunt began. I mean, I've never been in a zombie apocalypse... have you? So somehow I got a gun and started shooting at zombies. But then after a while the dream sort of lost focus on zombies and people I know sort of were showing up in the house. This girl I know, Rachel, was there and we both had guns, I guess for zombie shooting, but somehow we got into a fight, I'm not sure. The point is that I might have shot at her and then she started shooting at me so I ran off and I went through this doorway into a room and she shot once, twice and missed. I tripped and fell and I was laying there with my back on the ground and she was in the doorway with the gun pointed at me. I was begging her not to shoot me, knowing that I was being a bit hypocritical since I shot at her. I closed my eyes and begged her not to shoot me. I heard a gun shot and it made impact.

I did not wake up. I felt what it was like to be shot. I think she shot me in my right lung but I can't be sure. I didn't feel much pain but more like a creeping numbness that swept through my body to my fingertips and my legs. My nerves stopped working correctly and I couldn't move the way I used to. My speech was slurred and my vision became blurry. I couldn't breathe. My consciousness started to dim and I felt her presence laying beside me, though I'm not sure why, maybe I shot her as well. But this sort of awful pressure descended upon me and though it didn't really HURT, it was not a pleasant feeling. I knew I was dying and all I could think was, "So this is death. She shot me. This is dying... what comes next?"

Kittens (Part 1)

I had two dreams last night. The first dream began when I was at my house. There is a huge valley outside my house in the 'back yard'. It's too hard to explain so I'll just leave it at that. Anyway so I look down and I see this baby white tiger is stuck in something and so I go over and I pull it free. Then I just start to walk up to my house (weird because there's no way I wouldn't try to pet it or do SOMETHING, but w/e). So I'm walking up to my house and then I see these two full grown white tigers running from the top of the hill to the valley where the tiger is. All of the sudden I remember this random folktale that says that when a baby white tiger is all alone in a valley, other white tigers will come and kill it. I don't know how my brain comes up with this stuff.

So I rush down to safe the tiger and these things look more like white lions than white tigers, but w/e. So obviously we can communicate, I don't know that they can talk, but we know what each other is saying and I try to convince them that he's just a baby kitten and they shouldn't kill him and they say he needs to die. At this point there are like 18 or 19 adults circling me, but the leader of them feels bad for the little runt and decides finally that he can live. I get to keep him! Yay!

So then a transition period, and I'm at "my house" except it's really some dingy, dilapidated house in the middle of nowhere. I have put my tiger cub in my house to chill. Then I'm outside and all of the sudden I see two stray cats (house cats) and I HAVE to save them. So I snatch them up and put them inside. Then I see some kittens, well hell I HAVE to save them too!! Then there's more and more, all of different ages and colors and sizes and....

I basically turned into the crazy cat lady.

Still though, AMAZING dream with lots of kitties! Yayyy. So then I wake up and immediately go back to sleep, only to be in a new dream about...

Zombies.

The Hunt

So I was sitting at the terminal of an airport I've never seen and I was sitting next to some random people, but as is with most dreams, everything was weird. The seats were on the ground and sort of tilted back and I had my passport, plane ticket, purse, and cell phone on me. Some people that were sitting next to me came and went and I distinctly remember this sketchy looking chick sit down next to. Of course, I get up to do something and come back and I remember she had two passports and I was like wtf but I didn't say anything because what do I know?

She gets up and leaves and I look through my stuff to find out that not only is my passport gone, but my ticket to Europe as well. I begin to panic because the ticket is worth like $150o. After frantically searching and harassing the people next to me what they saw, I head to the front desk and tell them my things are missing on the off chance they might know something or can help me. Miraculously, someone has turned in my passport but not the boarding pass. My flight leaves in like 2 hours, at 6 p.m., so I'm basically screwed unless I can find it (at least in my dream, anyway).

Then there was some transition period where I found out where these random people were and I asked around and after some threatening of lives, some meek, round boy told me that he had indeed seen my ticket and it was this girl he knew. (Funny enough she's a girl in my Animal Behavior class but I've never talked to her before. I'm probably going to look at her funny the next time I see her.) He told me that she had shown him the ticket and was bragging about it or something. I asked him where she was and he said she was running a marathon today. Anyway, another transition period later I found her and confronted the little thief. Of course she denied it and took off running.

It became difficult to find and catch her because of all the other runners in this race. We weren't on city streets or anything, it was a weird jumble of rooms and trails, I don't know. Eventually I found her by the edge of this drop off thing. There was a fence and below it was water and in the middle of this there was an island with the largest anaconda snake I've ever seen, curled up and very much awake. I demanded she give me it back because I knew she had it. She honored my wishes by turning into a dog and sliding through the railing and before I could grab her, she had fallen into the water in the enclosure below. I watched the dog paddle to the edge while the huge snake slithered into the clear water, looking for its next meal. It was a close race but the dog made it to the edge quicker than the snake could reach it. She turned back into a person and ran off. I continued the hunt.

I finally found her up ahead and she was running really fast so I had to and I was exhausted (probably reminiscent of how far I had to walk last night and how tired I was all night). I finally caught up to her and got the ticket back somehow. I had already missed my flight though, and I woke up to the thought of hoping the airline would let me switch it for a later time.