My dream last night felt amazingly real, and was inspired by the movie Never Let Me Go.

As the dream started off, I think I was a newcomer in a colony of people who were all about my age. Everyone felt familiar, like I'd known them for years, and yet each new person that came still brought a thrill of new experiences with them. We all became close within hours of meeting one another because we simply felt a common bond.

As the dream went on, I came to realize that we were all clones with very similar genetics. We were encouraged (perhaps by our genes, perhaps by the situation in which we were placed) to have very intimate relationships with one another. In fact, when a common attraction formed between two of us, their relationship moved from a "separate" or "single" status to a "tangled" status, which is something that both persons know right away when it happens. There is also a third, more intimate, relationship level, but I didn't know what it was called. I remember moving into a "tangled" status while rubbing feet with someone else in bed.



At one point a girl and I were planning to fall asleep in order to take on and kill Freddy Krueger. At first we were going to sleep in the same bed, but if one of us got killed, I didn't want the others to suspect that the other had done it. Also, I wanted to tell one of our colony-mates what we were doing so that they would know what happened if we both died. But then there was someone in my bed, and I started snuggling with them instead of falling asleep to fight Freddy.

Also at some point I dreamt that I was "putting makeup on" by applying shoe polish to my face.

December 15th, 2011: I had a dream last night that I had a long blonde wig on and was trying to get it styled right using a brush and techniques I learned by watching Jana Giboney (basically physical assault). Then I realized it was a wig, took it off, and my own hair was also out of control. It was practically a mullet!

December 11th, 2011: Last night I dreamed that I was visiting Reading, Pennsylvania. While there, I found a JellyBelly store! They actually didn't have that great of a variety, but they had all my favorites. My sister was an employee there, but wasn't working there at the time when I visited. Another employee showed us how the jellybean-picker-upper machine worked, and it very nearly crushed A.j. Morales, who was with me. I spent a lot of time crafting my order, which consisted of the NUMBERS of certain flavors instead of the poundage. I requested 50 watermelon, 50 cotton candy, some others, and then 200 marshmallow.

This weekend I am house and dog sitting for my friend and coworker Cortney. There are 5 dogs (3 little yappy dogs, 1 big old Weimeraner, and 1 older dog, who sleeps in the bed with me). I went to bed early last night, and woke up at 3:30 absolutely sure I could hear one of the dogs peeing on the floor. I jumped up, yelled, "NO!", and quickly took the dogs outside to go to the bathroom. When I got back up to the room, no one had peed, I had simply dreamed it.

Last night I was driving home from a trip. The scenery was California-y (can you say, "hills"?), but I was excited because I was heading to see my Michigan friends. I saw a fast food restaurant at which I wanted to eat, but it was late at night so I was unsure if they were open. I pulled into the parking lot, and it seemed that their drive-thru was open, though the dine-in area was closed. I drove off and shortly thereafter realized I had forgotten to get food! I found a large parking lot in which to turn around, but I took the turnaround too quickly for the wet road and began to slide right toward a house. I had a feeling that I could control the slide, so I locked up my brakes and turned the steering wheel. I must not have controlled the slide properly, because I then found myself walking to my friends' house.

It began to rain, first lightly, then harder and harder. I was walking in front of closed shops through their parking areas. At one spot, in between the parking lots of two different shops, was a set of perhaps 6 steps. Each step was four or five times higher than your average step, so I had to climb down while water cascaded down the stairs, soaking me(perhaps this is a good time to mention that I climbed a waterfall on Sunday). Eventually, a girl pulled over and picked me up from beside the road. She asked where I was going, and I told her my friends lived nearby, and I could show her how to get there. I could not remember the road names, but I knew I could identify the proper turns when I saw them. Of COURSE I was unable to identify those proper turns, and I got us terribly lost.

All I knew was that we had to turn around, then turn right and head uphill until we reached Sunset Boulevard. She did not believe that I knew where I was going, but found an intersection in which to turn around in front of a house at which a party was taking place. I hopped out of the car so she could turn it around (doesn't make sense, I know) and found myself amongst the crowd of people leaving the party. Jimmy Grainger, whom I knew from high school, walked out, totally drunk, with three ugly girls helping him out to the car. He challenged me to a fight, and I decided to take him up on it. We squared off and I kicked him right between the legs.

The end.

Because of the game Bully, I dreamed that I had left my bike at the mall. I took my truck to the mall to go pick it up, but the mall had just closed. I sweettalked the ladies just inside the door to let me come in and get my bike. While I was in there I thought maybe I owed it to the lady who ran the kiosk bookstore to buy something, so I asked if she had anything new by Stephanie Meyer (dummmmmmb) but while she had novels about vampires, Stephanie Meyer had not written a new book for the Twilight series. I couldn't decided what to purchase and thought I might just grab a book at random, since I had to buy something to show my appreciation!

I loaded my bike into my truck and drove into town (I don't know which town, but I think it was a little country town). Night turned into day and I came upon the site where people were setting up for a parade. I got out my bike and hopped on it only to see there was a huge gash out of the front tire, which was now clearly flat and useless. I got out my phone to look up a good place to buy a bike tire. As I was waiting for my phone to load, I looked over and saw a van set up as a mobile shop with sports equipment. There was an older gentleman working in the van and I went over to ask him where the best place would be to get a bike tire. As I was asking him this, my bike turned into a water bottle and I could no longer figure out why I was asking for a place to buy a bike tire!

The older gentleman started walking with me and we came to my parents' house. We went right up to the third floor to my bedroom which was filled with oversized books. One in particular which he was showing me was about sea creatures and such. I felt like he had talked to me about this subject before and I felt bad for not remembering more about it. My dad started coming up the stairs and the older gentleman walked out of my room.

As my dad reached the top of the stairs, I saw Charlie pulling at a pair of pants my dad was using as a dog toy. I reprimanded him for using clothing as a dog toy, which would only encourage the dogs to chew up people's clothes. My dad was sheepish about it but didn't stop. He continued as Charlie pulled him through my room. I walked around the third floor hallway to the back corner and was laying on the ground when my dad came out the door from the back room with Charlie.

I wandered downstairs and was suddenly sneaking into a secret passage that went underground. I knew I was being followed by someone (I think I knew it was Eric Shaeffer) and wanted to stay out of sight. I jumped up onto some stairs and was trying to pull myself through a doorway I had never seen before. I couldn't get my foot out of the lower hallway without much effort. I worried that Eric might have seen my foot! After getting my foot through the door, I continued sneaking up and found myself in Calvin's second, rarely used, chapel. I was super excited about having found a secret way in and was contemplating creating a Phantom-of-the-Opera-type persona by coming in when the building is locked and playing the organ and all hours of the night.

I was crawling on the floor in the dark toward a stage and saw something move on the ground. I thought it might be a dust bunny but kept watching it. It moved again, and it was actually a real bunny!

I turned back to the stage and saw someone move. Then I saw someone else move! Then the lights came up and a song and dance number began! One person was dressed as a statue with one large Mickey-Mouse-type glove on his left hand. Then I saw that the lead role was played by Meredith Bytwerk, who was a friend of mine while I was at Calvin. I couldn't see how she was still attending Calvin. Either she was still a student after 7 years so that she could continue to have roles in the theatre company, or she had gone back to Calvin to work in the Theatre department so that she could continue to take roles in the productions!

She was dancing and singing as she came out closer and closer to me. Then she was startled and looked over my head past where I was laying secretively on the ground and said, "Eric Shaeffer!? What are you doing here??" (Let's keep in mind that there's no way Meredith would know Eric) Apparently Eric was sitting in the chair next to where I was hiding and I had not escaped his pursuit as I'd thought I had. Then he pointed down to me so that Meredith saw me, too, and she was doubly shocked.

The end.