Scenes from my Dreams

Foods Eaten: Greek Salad The Dream: I was driving a car with Trevor and my parents as passengers. We were going somewhere called "The Domes." I had been paying attention to the road, and although my family was exchanging conversation, I wasn't absorbing any of the surroundings. At some point, I finally looked up and realized the road was going through these golfball-esque domes. At some point we stopped and got out while inside of one of the domes. There was a bunker-like building that we were walking around. My sister was now there, too. For some reason, we were walking around turning door handles trying to get into other rooms, but they were all locked. Except one, which my sister called out to me saying, "This one isn't locked!" But when we went to turn the handle, it got stuck halfway - like the feeling of someone else trying to turn it from the other side of the door at the same time. We backed away and sure enough, a tall girl dressed in a leather...

Notes: I'm almost certain this dream tried to get me to go lucid twice - first with the noticing of the clocks and secondly with falling asleep while food was cooking. Damnit brain, why didn't you catch on? Foods Eaten: Taco salad The Dream: I was in a car, I cannot remember whether I was the driver or a passenger. I was at a T-intersection with a stop light and there was a house on the right. The house looked fairly old and entirely symmetrical, with a partial concrete gate at the front and a paved (but not well taken care of) sidewalk leading up to it. I remember thinking the house must be divided, like a duplex, and for some reason I knew it was an AirBnB. Although I don't recall thinking about the house being a place where I was supposed to stay and I don't remember pulling into it, I eventually ended up inside of it. It was two stories, with a "floating" staircase. There was a bedroom on the lower floor that I went in and noticed a shelf with a dig...

Notes: Having lots of dreams with band members in them lately. Clearly excited for ShipRocked. The Dream: I was at an Amorphis concert in an unknown venue. Papa Roach's vocalist Jacoby was off to the left of the stage, on the general admission floor, rocking out with everyone else. I noticed him and went to talk to him, subconsciously thinking about the photo book I made that I wanted to show him. He was excited to see me, gave me a hug and proceeded to talk to me in his typical, over-hyped manor. The conversation didn't feel like it lasted long before he said he had to go, but that we could catch up later. I debated following him out of the venue and running to my car to get the book to show him before he totally disappeared, but I didn't want to leave the show, so I stayed through the end. I'm pretty sure the "venue" ended up just being in someone's actual house. I vaguely recall talking to a few women while I was hanging around after the show, but ...

Foods Eaten: Apparently Mint Cookies & Cream Milkshakes make for some impressive dreams. The Dream: There's a lot I seem to remember, and a lot I don't seem to remember, and some parts that are out of order or I don't know if they were connected to the same dream or if they were completely different. I'm starting at what I think came first, and would make sense in logical world. Trevor and I were in my car. He was driving and I was trying to use my phone as GPS and relay the directions to him. The GPS image had done that thing where it flips you around before it knows what direction you're really headed, and because of that I told him to turn the wrong way. I didn't immediately realize my mistake until we were a mile down the road and I said, "I think we went the wrong way." Trevor made an annoyed sound and gave me a frustrated look to go with it, but I told him to just keep going. He argued with me for a minute, but I urged to just go the new...

Notes: Went to a bar with a couple members of Papa Roach after their show in Orlando on Tuesday this week. Foods Eaten: Shrimp, Spring Rolls, Carrot Cake (odd combo resulting in dreams. I'll take it.) The Dream: (I recall there being more before this, but my dream memory isn't clear of it...)  I was driving in my car, it was relatively late at night - dark out, probably around 11:00 PM. I had been in touch with the drummer of Papa Roach, Tony, and was on the way to his house. Somehow I knew when I got close, slowing down to a crawl as I drove by a few small townhouse/apartment looking complexes. The buildings were all on the left side of the road, one story, four houses per complex. All the buildings were painted white and definitely didn't look well kept. When I thought I got to the right building, I called Tony to verify. He told me to go one more building down and his would be the first house in the complex. He then said that he wasn't there yet, but was on hi...

Notes: I mostly want to note that I watched a mini-documentary yesterday about a woman who was somewhat brutally killed by her boyfriend. She was somewhat of a hero, saving a younger girl in the process - and the video showed a photo of her post-mortem. I kept waking up last night, not because the woman was actually in my dreams, just because I would picture that exact photo in my sleep. I don't feel like she was trying to haunt me or anything, I wasn't generally scared, just genuinely disturbed and felt/feel sorry for the loss of her, despite not knowing her. Foods eaten: Stir Fry The Dream: I was in a building, it felt familiar, like a work environment (in consciousness, I don't recognize the building at all) . I was sitting at a round table when someone walked by and asked if I was coming to join the potluck. I must have agreed, but before leaving, I recall kneeling on the floor near a bookshelf. I want to say there were toys on the ground that I was playing with......

Notes: I had to get up at 5am, so this was one of those dreams where you're clearly just paranoid you're going to miss your wake up time the whole night... Foods Eaten: The Dream: I was at a bar somewhere in Florida with my friend (and ex) Nate and his girlfriend Marlese. My sister was also in town hanging out with us. I looked at my phone and realized it was 2am so I said, "Shit, I have to get up at 5am, I better go home and get some sleep." Making the decision, I start walking to my car. Nate and my sister are in tow to say goodbye. My sister hung back a little ways, letting Nate and I walk down a flight of stares into the parking lot by ourselves. Halfway down the stairs, Nate turns to look at me and our eyes lock and we had one of those moments where our past relationship was clearly flashing through our minds. Although I'm consciously aware that his girlfriend and my sister are only a few steps away, Nate and I lock lips anyway, spending the ni...

Notes: So the night before last, I took a B-vitamin, drank orange juice, and ate a banana - all which are supposedly helpful inducing lucid dreams and dream recall. In case you didn't notice, yesterday I didn't remember having a single dream, much less lucid. However I definitely had one that was all over the place last night! Foods Eaten: Greek Salad, Ice cream Dream Location: Some sort of apartment room, in a car, a downtown somewhere... The Dream: For some reason, my first memory is inside of a sort of distraught disheveled room. The carpet was a murky brown color, and it had that really fuzzy shag texture. The walls were a lighter sort of brown, and they were paneled. There was an ugly sofa in the room. My parents were sitting on it. I'm not totally sure what the situation was, but I seem to recall accidentally pushing my dad or leaning on him and him responding in pain. I asked what was wrong, and he said, "Internal bleeding around my chest." I asked ...

Notes: I don't remember terribly much about this one. Foods Eaten: Pasta, Salad Dream Location: On a road The Dream: I was in a car, driving along an empty road in the dead of night. It was drizzling rain out, which didn't bother me. But as I continued to drive, the rain got heavier, and I decided to turn on the windshield wipers. I flicked the switch, and noticed that I accidentally pushed it too far and had turned my windshield cleaner thing on. I moved the switch back, so that just the wipers were going. As I kept driving, I realized that even though I had turned the cleaner off, it was still spraying on my windshield, and it was spraying so much that between the rain and it, I couldn't see the road at all. I hit the switch a couple times again, frustratedly trying to turn it off... but every time I hit the switch it just kept coming out faster. And suddenly it kicked in that something wasn't right and I was dreaming... and unfortunately woke myself up.

Notes: ... Foods Eaten: Cheesey stuff Dream Location: Mostly in a parking lot The Dream: As far as I can trace my memory back, I am sitting on a hardwood floor somewhere with TJ. He is holding a bag of Starburst, which he opens up and proceeds to eat one. Now I'm in a car with my parents, I think it's our Jeep. My dad is driving, my mom is in the passenger seat. I am sitting in the back with TJ. I look out the rear window and notice my friend, Wes, is driving behind us. Though I don't remember the conversations that were taking place, I do remember that we were on the way out to eat - and for some reason, I feel like it was probably going to be at an Italian restaurant. Looking to the right, I saw my sister filling up a car (not sure which one) , at a gas station. She waved at us, and my dad turned right into the gas station. Wes followed. We all got out of our cars to talk about where we were going to meet. The conversation some how turned into my mom breaking ...

Notes: Sporadic memory. Foods Eaten: Taco Salad Dream Location: Field, Shed... The Dream: I was standing under a shed in the middle of a vacant field. There was an area to the back with a desk/podium thing. A lady was standing behind it, checking passports or some such, as if we were at an airport. I walked over to her and handed her something, I'm not sure what. Moments later, my dad showed up and walked over to myself and the lady. I'm not sure if he said anything to her, but she told him to, "Go over there (pointing) , flip the gray switch, flip the white switch up, and then pull on the black switch." My dad went to the area she pointed and followed her instructions. Upon completion, a flood of lights in the room came on... (Not sure if this was a completely different dream or a transition or what...) I was in my 350z, with TJ in the passenger seat. We were trying to get somewhere, but I had taken a wrong turn. I suddenly realized that we were in a fiel...

Notes: I actually had this one a couple days ago, but I just now had the (re)memory of it. Dream Location: Half on a cruise ship and half driving through Kentucky... The Dream: I was on the top deck of a cruise ship. There were some other people with me, but I don't recall who. I only vaguely remember running down three flights of stairs with these people... Transition... I'm now inside of my car, in the passenger seat. TJ is driving, I asked him, "How far away from Kentucky are we?" He responded with, "Not very, we can take a detour if you want." I don't think I responded, but moments later we ended up in Kentucky. We turned down a seemingly deserted road, surrounded by autumn trees. I noticed my sisters best friend, Sam, walk through a path in the distance. I pointed her out to TJ, who drove towards her. She saw us, and came over to the car. I rolled my window down to talk to her. She asked if we wanted to go inside, then pointed to an apartme...

Notes: Cruise backlog. Dream Location: I guess my old friend, Tana's house. The Dream: I was driving my 350z around, seemingly aimlessly, but I eventually ended up at my old friend, Tana's house. Her driveway somehow wrapped around her house (which actually looked nothing like her house), but it turned into another street running parallel to the one she lived off of. Unfortunately, the driveway was in terrible condition, and I decided to pull my Z off of it and into the grass on the side instead for safety. Apparently, I was bringing an unfinished puzzle to Tana. The puzzle had a picture of a mother and daughter painted on the left side of it. When I got in her house, Tana's mother had just handed her a present. Tana opened it, revealing a poster with the same mother and daughter pictured on it. She adored the poster, giving me a quick spiel on why it had so much meaning to her, though I don't recall what the reasoning was. I told her, "Well that's cool...

Notes: Backlog of cruise dreams. Dream Location: My driveway The Dream: I was in our driveway in the driver's seat of our Prius. My dad was sitting with me in the passengers seat. It was clearly not good driving conditions, our street was covered in snow and ice. I managed to get the car out of the driveway and onto our street, but discovered that whenever I ran over what looked like ice, it would break and turn into a puddle of water. For some reason, I kept speeding up and driving very incautiously, given the conditions. My dad expressed extreme annoyance, though I just kept repeating the action.

Notes: I most certainly was woken up by my alarm clock during this one, but holy crap it's a lot of senselessness. Foods Eaten: Mac & Cheese Dream Location: New house? The Dream: I think there were things going on before the part that I remember, but my memory starts inside of a car, with a girl I met from a game - I know her better as "Narissa", though her name is Jessica. We were driving up an unfinished rocky road, when I looked over and saw an old acquaintance of mine, Ryan Whitehead. He was sitting in a chair, under the porch of a very freshly built house. Jessica and I stopped and got out of the car, then walked over to Ryan. Some part of me knew that there were other people nearby doing construction work on the gravel road and more houses, and Ryan was supposed to be working for them, so I simply told Ryan, "Lazy bum," then continued on my way. We walked straight into the house Ryan was sitting on the porch of. It was elegant, with a large e...

Notes: ... Foods Eaten: Mashed Potatoes & Ribs Dream Location: Not fully sure, inside a car at some point The Dream: I don't remember much in particular about this dream. I know the my co-worker Dan and his wife Lynn were there, and two of "his" kids were there - but the two kids were actually my cousins Mary Anne and Nate. At some point, we were in a car. Dan was driving, his wife in the passenger seat. I was in the middle of the back seat, with Mary Anne to my left and Nate to my right. I think we were trying to run away from something... like the end of the world maybe. I remember we stopped somewhere, everyone got out of the car. I think we were camping for a night. I'm not sure why, maybe I dropped something, but I ended up having to crawl underneath the car for whatever reason. When I got underneath it, the car started lowering itself, trapping me under it and then sealing itself to the road. I was struggling to find a way out, with no luck... a...

Notes: I was beat last night... went to a Sister Hazel concert and passed out hard. I remembered the dream this morning, but not much of it anymore... hoping something will re-trigger the memory. Foods Eaten: French fries Dream Location: Mountain? The Dream: We were in my recently ex/in-limbo boyfriend's mustang, he was driving. I was in the passenger seat. We were going up a steep mountain, with no railings on the side. Every time he turned around a corner, I thought we were going to die. We reached the mountain top and got out... Memory currently ends there.

Notes: Found this one in an email from a couple years back. The Dream: I was driving down a highway at night and everywhere I looked there were coffins and gravestones, or crosses with flowers, just sitting on the highway. I don't know what happened, and I'm not sure who else was in the car with me but suddenly I heard, "LIZ! Are you okay?!" Accordingly, my dream went completely black and started spinning. When I woke up, I was considerably freaked out.