Scenes from my Dreams

 Notes: This was surely induced by sleeping in the actual bed after sleeping on the couch for a week or two straight. The Dream: I was laying on the floor of a room that I'm pretty sure was indoors and carpeted. My old coworker Robyn was there with my coworker Stephanie, and they were discussing things completely unrelated to me. Stephanie had a notebook crammed full of papers, and as Robyn was asking Stephanie questions, the pages in the notebook were flipping like a gust of wind was blowing them to the next page. I moved toward the notebook and began flipping through the pages myself. Each page had a concert photo in the center of it with a paragraph or so of text above it. At first, the photos looked like they were taken from a cell phone. Simple photos from the crowd at low quality, but as I flipped through them they improved in quality, though were consistently a full stage shot with the crowd in them, taken from the back of a venue. I remember seeing my photography friend Jen...

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: I recently made some canvas art with "dream" written on it and hung it next to my bed as a morning reminder. I actually think it's help with dream recall. The Dream: I was in some sort of small restaurant, it was built in the center of a movie theater. The wings to each movie screening were around the restaurant, so if you stood in the middle and turned around, you'd see double doors in all directions. There was a bar area in the center, where I was standing when my friend/co-worker, Daniel, walked up to me as if he was meeting me. A woman bartender came up to us and asked what kind of menu we wanted. I looked and Daniel silently as if asking him if he wanted food or not and he said, "I'd rather eat after the movie." I wanted to eat at that moment, but I said, "Okay." and went along with it anyway. Instead, I tried to order a drink, asking for a "Dirty Shirley." The woman looked at me annoyed and confused and asked what was ...

Notes: Uh... I didn't seem to have any concept of time or order in this dream. I can recall "scenes" in detail, but I have no idea what sequence they happened in. Foods Eaten: Chai Tea The Dream: I was in a very dimly lit room. The wall to my right was lined with bookcases of varying heights. There were two other people in the room, but I'm unsure of who they were... and then there was Marilyn Manson standing on top of one of the shorter bookcases. He was dressed in his typical black, with large platform boots on. He had a pair of sunglasses on as well, and was holding a microphone. I don't really recall him "singing" but I do remember he became the focus of my dream, and he moved his face within inches of mine. His head was tilted down, so I could see his eyes peering at me over the sunglasses. He stared directly and said something in his raspy whisper voice, but I can't remember what he said. I remember it struck me as strange and I gave it a...

Notes: I quite literally JUST woke up from this. I kept some odd sleeping hours yesterday/last night. More on that later. Foods Eaten: Uhh, I had some mixed nuts about 30 minutes before this nap. The Dream: I was walking around what appeared to be a large and pretty upscale hotel lobby. The entire interior was a deep sapphire blue color, and there was an elegant spiral staircase in the middle. I recall walking up the stairs and ending, then walking back down them and through the lobby again with my parents. Except this time someone called my name out from the stairwell. Looking up, a male, a familiar face that I can't seem to put a name to, made eye contact with me. He appeared to take off running down the stairs toward me, while I made my way back to the stairs to run up them to him. We must have missed each other and I got distracted by something else, as I ended up in a sort of break room type area. The left wall had a microwave and small fridge with a nice looking brown co...

Notes: I think the excessive amount of potatoes I ate at my parents house yesterday influenced this one... Foods Eaten: Steak and corn Dream Location: A random kitchen The Dream: I'm sure there were things that occurred before this, I recall it being a pretty adventurous dream, but this is the only part I remember... I was standing in a kitchen, it was large, but old. I don't remember many details aside from those about it. I was cooking potatoes, covered them in olive oil and italian spices. I'd thrown them in the oven, and I think I forgot about them until my dad appeared to remind me that they were probably done... And again, I'm sure there was more that happened after this...

Notes: I had this dream and another last night. Let's see how well my memory wants to work. Foods Eaten: ACP Dream Location: A kitchen The Dream: I'm sure more had happened prior to this, but I recall standing in a kitchen with a friend I haven't seen in a while, Holly. I'm pretty sure we were baking cupcakes, but we were also talking about something strange - though I'm struggling to remember what... I remember when I woke up, I was thinking about how weird it was that I could hear her voice in my head so precise and exact as it actually is.

Foods Eaten: Chicken Pasta The Dream: I had just walked into an open white room with a number of office desks in it. The building seemed to be shaped like a modern church more than anything else. A secretary type woman greeted me and handed me some papers to fill out, which was a prequel for a job interview I was about to have. I sat down to fill the papers out, but my mom came into the building and interrupted me. I asked her if it could wait, in an irritated tone, but she said she had something important to tell me. I dropped the paper work and we went for a walk elsewhere inside the building. From what she was telling me, she was implying that I was not my father's child, I was someone else's and dad had adopted me. I was furious with her and refused to talk to her, even though we continued walking together. We went outside and walked down a paved sidewalk that ran straight through an empty field of grass. The sidewalk eventually continued into a small forest of trees t...

Notes: I'm sure there was more to this dream, I just don't remember any other part of it. Foods Eaten: I don't remember, but this dream inspired me to have nachos for dinner... Dream Location: Some random building The Dream: It all started in a plain kitchen with a black and white tiled floor. The room was older, not well kept. I had just made a plate of nachos and was serving them to TJ. He ate one and informed me that he didn't like them.... Being the good girlfriend I am, I decided to try and make them again. I don't recall doing any actual cooking, so I guess I just magically had a plate of nachos and handed them to TJ again. Same results, he took one bite and said they still weren't good. Well apparently, I was desperate to get him to like my nachos, so I magically produced some nachos a third time. I delivered the plate to him, he took one bite and simply said, "Not bad." I took this as acceptable... and... the end?

Notes: Another very vivid one, but I seem to be unable to remember some key details in it. Foods Eaten: Alfredo Dream Location: In a house in the middle of a field, in a different house, in a candy factory and in a restaurant/bar. The Dream: It all started in a little house on the prairie. The house was old, typical white sideboards, and located in the middle of a very large wheat field. I think TJ was working at the field as a job, but I don't really remember seeing him there or conversing with him. In fact, I don't remember much about being in the house, except that there was a violent thunderstorm... And then I ended up in another small house. Apparently TJ had gotten a new job, working for an older man. TJ let me tag along with him to his first day, where the man was instructing him on how to build something. We were all standing in what seemed small enough to be a little hide away in a basement. The ceiling of the room was slanted, and there was a storage door. ...

Notes: A slightly humorous dream. Foods Eaten: ACP Dream Location: TJ's house The Dream: I was at my boyfriend's house, sitting at a dinner table with him and his parents. There were a large number of bowls full of spaghetti noodles on the table. TJ's dad was sitting at the head of his table. I was to the right, and TJ was to my right, with TJ's mom across from me. We all had typical dinner and conversation, until I started helping clean up. While the three of them were still cross-table jabbering, I began combining all the bowls of spaghetti into one bowl. I figured it was just wasting space, and even though some of the spaghetti had different sauce or spices, that it was all close enough that it wouldn't matter if it was mixed together. No one made any comment until when I put a lid on the bowl and started standing up to go put it in the fridge. TJ's dad suddenly and sternly said, "Liz! Did you just put all the spaghetti into one bowl?" I p...

Notes: This dream was pretty detailed, but it didn't make a whole lot of sense. I wasn't making any smooth transitions. Foods Eaten: Steak Dream Location: Scattered around, a track, a fancy house and a restaurant The Dream: I recall being on a track of some sort and running around. TJ was running around with me, or I was following him or something.. For some reason I specifically remember being sweaty and my mom showing up and commenting on it. She also said something about somebody's husband, but I didn't know exactly what she was talking about and had somehow inferred that she was marrying someone else that wasn't my dad. I ended up following her, I guess, into a house. It was very elegant and mansion like, with high ceilings and expensive looking floral patterned furniture. I chose to sit on a couch. My mother was no longer around, but some very nerdy looking guy walked in the room and sat on a chair across from me. He started talking to me, but I was co...

Notes: ...I hate daylight savings time. Slept short and like crap. Foods Eaten: Stuffed Fish Dream Location: Some version of my house... The Dream: I think I had just returned to my house from vacation, and I remember it being some time in the middle of the night, around 1:00am. For some reason there were lots of chocolates and candy bars set up in dishes on our dining room table. I'm not sure why, but I was being sneaky about taking them, like I thought they were my dad's and he would get mad if he saw me eat them. Whatever the case, one of my parents ended up stashing them away. I kept pacing through my house, I must've been unpacking my stuff. I remember thinking that I should send TJ a text to let him know I got home safe, but I decided not to since it was late and I didn't want to wake him up. Eventually I ended up going to bed, I remember looking at a clock and it being 4:00 am. I thought about how I was going to dread going to work in the morning, so I ...

Notes: I read my lucid dreaming book last night, the section I read about "what you expect" is what happens. Though I wasn't lucid, I can see sort of that playing in this dream. (Expect TJ to be angry, expected his mom to not know if I played innocent, expect TJ to not know if I pretended.) It's curious. Foods Eaten: Ice Cream Dream Location: TJ's House The Dream: I was at some variation of TJ's house. He had just left to go to class or some such, and I was the only one at his house. I walked into the kitchen and pulled out a plate and fork, preparing to find something to eat. I opened the fridge and set the plate with the fork on top of it down on a shelf in there so I could get something else. I'm not sure what happened with the food idea, but I guess I abandoned it. While TJ was out, some daring part of me decided I wanted to put my 350z in their garage. When I went to the garage, TJ's Trans Am was already there. I went inside and grabbed...

Notes: This one is kind of funny in retrospect. Dream Location: Skewed version of TJ's house The Dream: I was sitting on a red couch across from a TV in what seemed to be a strange version of TJ's house. TJ is on the opposite end of the couch, we are sharing a blanket. His parents are sitting in chairs across from each other in the room. There were a bunch of random cats walking around the room, one was perched on the back rest of the couch. I was petting it absentmindedly. I moved forward slightly to adjust myself, but felt something gently push on my stomach. I realized there was a tiny orange kitten that looked like a very miniature version of my cat, sitting on my stomach. TJ tells me they had found a bunch of eggs, and a couple kittens had hatched from them, but they still had the other eggs... Moments later, TJ also decides that he's hungry and going to cook something for dinner. As we go to the fridge, he pulled out a container of eggs from the fridge. At firs...

Notes: I slept like a rock last night, was abnormally tired. I know I had another dream aside from this one that was about school or going to class or something, but the only detail I remember was looking at my class schedule, so not worth writing much else about it down... Foods Eaten: Steak and potato Dream Location: My Kitchen The Dream: I was in the kitchen of my house, I'm pretty sure I had just recently walked in there. My mom was there, and I'm pretty sure TJ was also with me. My mom asked me to carry something out to our garbage bins in the garage, not sure what it was, but when I grabbed it, I also picked up a chocolate chip muffin. I walked out to the garage and opened up the garbage can, throwing whatever it was in there. When I went to close the lid of the garbage can, it swiped the side of my muffin, and I remember being disgusted and wondering how many nasty things had been in the garbage can. I picked off the side of the muffin that hit the trash can and...

Notes: Another really random odd one. Foods Eaten: Don't remember... Dream Location: Richard's kitchen-ish. The Dream: I was standing in Richard's kitchen, everything was pretty normal, except it seemed much brighter than actuality. I was walking around the kitchen, with what appeared to be pizza dough in my hands, except that it was much more gooey and yellow - like it had been covered in eggs. I just kept pacing around the kitchen, kneeding the dough and dropping pieces of it everywhere. Richard came in the room and immediately got upset with me for leaving disgusting goo all over his kitchen... I only remember him yelling at me for a minute, then I walked out of the kitchen and down his upstairs hallway, still moulding the dough. Woke up?

Notes: Finally had an excessively vivid and detailed dream. Foods Eaten: Eggnog Dream Location: It was at a sort of strip mall, outside. Lots of stores. The thing that seemed most out of place in hindsight was that there was a stadium attached to the strip mall... with a regular sort of store entrance. The Dream: I was at CVS with my dad. I'm not totally sure why I was there, but I knew my dad was dropping me of at a UNC basketball game after we left. I also knew that the stadium where the basketball game was at was right next to the CVS. My dad asked me if I was ready to go, I told him to hold on a second. I was walking through the aisles until I got to the back of the store and noticed that they had a relatively nice looking buffet bar. There was tons of food, but I was suddenly looking specifically for yogurt, which was conveniently lined against the back of the buffet. I picked up a cup of cherry flavor, and promptly told my dad I was ready. When we left the store, m...

Notes: I'm really failing with the dream memory lately... Foods Eaten: Hot Buffalo Wings Dream Location: Large Building/Mall? The Dream: I was immersed in a TV show or movie, I think. I was watching Agent Scully, from the X-files, standing with three other girls. They appeared to be outside of a large building, probably a hotel. The three girls caught a bus or taxi to go somewhere, Scully said she would catch up with them, and started running after the bus in her high heels. Suddenly, I was in a large mall, with my little sister. We had just run up an escalator, and ran into a large department store. There were shelves surrounding us, and they were stacked high with cans of soup. My sister grabbed a can of chicken noodle soup and exclaimed, "OH! I looove chicken noodle soup!" Most of the rest of the guts of this dream are lost in my memory. The dream ended with an actual credit roll, right before the alarm clock woke me up.

Notes: Pretty sure Mac n' Cheese is the cause of some of my weirdest and longest dreams. And if your curious about why I dream so specifically of Pomeranian dogs, I really want one, but parents nor boyfriend will let me keep one at their house right now... I clearly enjoy dreaming about them though. Foods Eaten: Mac n' Cheese Dream Location: At a hotel or apartment complex that was right on a very large lake. (The place seemed familiar... but I can't identify it) The Dream: I was in either an upscale hotel room or an apartment/condo. All the furniture was very fancy, there was a balcony outside, and the outer most walls were lined with windows and elegant white curtains. The carpet was a plush white, and my cat, Cinnamon, plus a Pomeranian puppy were sitting on it, along with two other dogs (that I now can't identify in my awake state) . The puppy was calm at first, but then bounced up and bolted into the other room. I called, "Pom Pom!" and it came r...