I dreamt last night that I went to Malari Barber's house. I was going there to prank her, but the prank didn't happen. Someone else was coming with me (maybe Mark or Monaca) but they stayed out in the yard when I went into the house. Malari's house, in my dream, was gigantic! It was a pretty psycho place. I think there was a bowling alley, and a jukebox, and pinball machines, and a bar... Very cool place. But as I was just about to go up some stairs, I heard Mal's dad coming down... but it was like 3 am! He apparently works very early in the morning :) So I ran from those stairs and dived down some other stairs (into the bar area with the pinball machines). I eventually got lost in her house before waking up...

Last night I got a job! Well, I dreamt I did at least, I've already got a job in real life. For a while I've wanted to try out getting a normal job though, so I did it in my dreams. I apparently had already applied and gotten the job, and was showing up for my first day and some store with clothes and stuff (maybe hardware too, but I'm not sure). I went behind the service desk to the racks of employee clothes. I was wearing my boxers underneath my blanket, which I was carrying around with me to cover myself up. I talked to a bunch of people and eventually got a uniform. Then I saw a bunch of girls from my high school, included Heather Mayer, Molly Patwell, and Lauren Gibson. It was weird to see them there, and I was scared that Heather wouldn't want to see me, but she smiled and gave me a hug (and I was still only wearing my blanket!!!) At some point some girl wanted to share my blanket because she was cold, and I warned her that I was not very clothed underneath. She didn't care, and shared my blanket anyway. How naughty of me! I went over near the exit and sat against a wall, and suddenly my parents were there, along with my sister, and like 3 other people from home. Once again, it was weird to see them there. I think there was more involved, included some part with my dad's friend Ron back in the storage area, but it isn't very clear.

There was another part about playing in the snow, as well. I think I accidentally picked up some yellow snow at some point (Randy [my suitemate] said something about yellow snow this morning, and that's what reminded me about this part). I think we were having our snowball fight in a huge awesomely cool tree fort. Neat as can be!

Three nights ago: Some dream about showing Kelly around campus in a sled... when there was no snow. Three interesting things about this:
1. Kelly already knows her way around campus, so why would I have given her a guided tour?
2. Why the heck were we in a sled?
3. A lake was situated in the middle of the ampitheatre in the KE apartments. A lake does not exist in the ampitheatre in the KE apartments.

But as for last night:
I can't quite remember the order, but the dream consisted of two parts.

In the one part, we were having an end of year concert of the chorus at Calvin, except the chorus was made up of people from my high school chorus. I remember there not being very many people, and I was the only guy there. The altos stood waaaaay on the left side of the stage and the sopranos stood alllllll the way on the right hand side of the stage. Johanna Hilton was standing in the middle. I was trying to get both sides to move to the middle without being too conspicuous since the concert was starting, but they were all pretty retarded about it. I finally went up on stage, and couldn't decide where to stand. I ended up standing between my friend Steff and Lindsay Stish on the top row behind a music stand. Then we all sat down and started singing. I was going nuts both because we were sitting to sing and because I didn't know the music. The music was on the stand in front of me, but it was both way too high to look off of while sitting and turned around to face the audience. I went to take the music off of it, and lindsay looked at me and shook her head. Apparently we were supposed to have the music memorized. Oops. I took the music anyway but couldn't read it.
After the concert, I didn't go home, but went to Diane Eversmeyer's house I think, a friend of my dad's. I got there before anyone else, so I went right on in through the open garage and left the door open. It was really hot outside, since I was apparently in Florida, but it was nice and cool in the house. Then I got nervous because I had left both the garage door and the door to the house open. I ran down to close the door, and then the garage door, but someone was pulling in the garage when I got there. He got out of the car and I started to close the garage door with the button with some difficulty (I'm not experienced with garage doors, since my family doesn't have a garage). He instructed me and I finally got it down. Then I went inside and laid on the floor to take a nap, but there was a xylophone under the covers with me, and I started playing it while Diane decided where I should sleep while I was there. I was very excited because school was over, but then I realized it was only Thanksgiving Vacation, and I still had to go back for finals and a few more classes.
Going back to school was the second part of my dream, upon which I will expound later, when I don't have to go to breakfast and class.

So in the vampire dream, I was in someone's attic or something rearranging old junk. I also remember that I poured a glass of water on someone's head :) . But other than that, the rest is lost.

Last night, though, I had ANOTHER x-men dream. It was freaky deeky cool!

Apocolypse (an unbeatable enemy in the X-men) had me trapped in a dark, hidden room that was situated within a mall. He also had a girl trapped, possibly my sister, but I couldn't tell. We weren't really tied up or anything, we were just locked in a room with a couch and a TV. Apocalypse was forcing me to use a machine that would let him control the world or something, but I didn't want to comply. For some reason, he didn't know how to use it, so I had to learn how to do so. THe machine was sort of like an old computer, 80s style, and the key component that I had discovered consisted of 8 small green stone pieces similar to Pies from Trivial Pursuit. You know, how they're kind of shaped like pieces of a pizza and arranged in the same way? That's what made the machine run. What Apocalypse didn't know was that I had stolen one of these pieces and hidden somewhere (I didn't even remember where I had hidden it... I knew that was going to be problematic at some point...). So I kept "trying and trying" (or at least looking like I was trying) to get the machine to work, but it wouldn't because it was missing that pie. Apocalypse left for some reason, and the girl and I escaped. I found some other friends (I'm guessing we were supposed to be mutants, but we never used our powers in the dream) and we started running. The mall we were in was freakin psycho. It was very large and there were people everywhere, but I don't think there were even any stores. *shrug* There were large curtained off sections around as well. As i was running up a set of stairs, my dad was running down. I said that Apocalypse had made a typo, and I needed my dad to make one too, or something. My dad said he didn't know what a typo was, and he didn't know how to write one. Yeah, I know, weird. I told my dad to run because Apocalypse was returning to the mall. I started to run back down the stairs, but I knew Apocalypse was coming that way, so I ran back up. I knew I had to hide, and there were a couple curtained off sections in the hall I was in. So I ducked into one, but saw the curtain was still moving, so I had to get away from there. I ducked into an adjacent curtain room, but was foiled by a moving curtain again. The next curtain I tried to duck behind, but Apocalypse was right behind me... The curtain was rotating and I knew he was on the other end and on the other side... that was kinda scary. I ran. and ran some more. Somewhere in the middle of the mall there was a place I could duck under... It was kind of like the underside of some benches, but under there there was a whole system of tunnels I could hide in. I went to the end of the tunnel I had come in to look for my friends, who eventually came by. I tried really hard not to draw attention to myself from anyone but my friends, but people kept turning and giving me weird looks. My friends, after hearing me, walked over, and I swear that I saw Katie Sall walking past them, behind them. My friends and I ducked into the tunnel system, but it had simply ceased to be, and I couldn't find it again. So we had to decide between jumping into one of those hedge mazes that suddenly appeared next to us or to run in the mall. We ran. I follwed my friends, but when I turned to look behind me and turned back, I couldn't see them. There was one store, and it was very girly. All pink with purses and makeup and dresses and stuff. I heard a countdown going in my head and knew I had to get out of the store by then. I couldn't make it, and when the countdown reached 0, a clerk asked me "Can I help you?" and I screamed, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!: I don't understand why, but hey, it's my dream. Deal. I think that's all I remember, except for one part where my friends tried to make me where a dress to be more inconspicuous. Yeah, I didn't go along with that plan ;) .

I wonder if someday, these will all be analyzed and the secret to my existence will be revealed?

Previously, in Jesse's head:

So I've been watching a lot of the original x-men cartoon series on DVD, so I have definitely got mutant on the brain. Last night I went with my dad to buy a car or something, and we looked through a bunch of different ones that were all pretty nasty, and he picked out the ugliest truck I've ever seen, despite my pleadings. He went inside and I followed; I asked if I should take the car home or if I should wait to follow him home (to make sure the car he had just bought didn't break down or whatever...) and he said I should probably wait. So I went outside, planning to wait. But outside there was a large protest against mutants, a social party of which I was a member. My power this time was to control electricity and lightning. I snuck past the protestors over to the edge of the woods and frolicked where a bunch of other mutants were. I kept telling one of them how I would LOVE to just freak out the protestors with a bolt of lightning or something, but alas, I did not. Then I was back at our house, and I saw my dad pull in with the nastugly truck. He came in and I apologized for not waiting, and didn't know why I hadn't waited. He kept giving me a disappointed look. I asked if it was because I was a mutant, and he said, "yes." He explained that he thought mutants were freaks, mistakes of nature, etc. Obviously, that hurt. I don't remember much more from that section... but then there was the vampire dream...

Last night:

My parents and I went to the bank and to the post office, only to realize that the post office had moved. I had known that the post office had moved, but had forgotten. I was trying really really really really hard to remember where the post office moved to, since I knew I'd been there before. We were running out of time (because it was around 2:15... and apparently post offici in my head close at 2:30) and I was getting really frustrated at myself and very apologetic to my parents. As we drove around looking, we stopped near two houses in the county, and it suddenly clicked! I yelled to my dad, "over here!!!" and ran to the house on the right. We went down the steps on the side of the house to the back door and knocked, but no one answered. My dad went in, and my mom and I followed. My dad went traipsing through the house to find the mail lady, but my mom and I stayed near the door (I'm pretty sure we felt pretty sad about busting into some lady's house). I saw the woman coming down the stairs, and surprisingly she seemed to show no offense at our uninvited entry into her abode. My dad was coming around the wall next to the stairs, and I said, "she's over here." My dad came around the wall near me, but the woman went around the other side of the wall looking for him. They did this once again and then finally found each other. My dad gave her the package he had, and we left. I was then suddenly on the way home on a michigan highway with remington, but the highway number was 568, which just happens to be one of my favorite roads from back home in Pa.

Then I was sitting in a room (a hospital room maybe?) and Seth walked in the door. I miss him a lot. :(

I had another dream about school and remington last night, but I don't think he was naked this time (thank goodness!). I wish I could remember it, but, well, I can't. Blame it on the AD.

Ah, finally. I've at last had my first dream about returning to my sophomore year at Calvin College. Here's how it went:

I came into the dorm and saw Remington (my roommate for this year, we talked on the phone last night. hmmm... I wonder what inspired the dream!?). He was outside our room, and I think he was checking it out to plan rearranging. I said hi to him and kept walking. Suddenly it was night time, and i turned around and saw remington standing there with Brie... but this time Remy was naked... He was walking all around the dorm with Brie in his birthday suit, and finally went back into the room. I then walked back past our room towards the lobby and it was suddenly day again. I saw carrie wegman, but now her name was Jill (she looks kind of like a Jill i knew in High School). I recognized her mom and said, "Hi, Mrs. Jill." She greeted me as well, but didn't seem to remember me. how sad. That's pretty much all I've got in my memory banks. I'm excited to be going back to school in a week!

I wish these would actually post correctly... I don't understand why they don't, but I'll keep puttin them up so I can remember... maybe someday it'll work correctly

Last night I went back to school, but instead of my college friends being there, my friends from high school were there. I remember seeing Donna, and Missy, and Johanna, et al. At first, though, I was walking along the street on campus and came into one of the buildings to see Arnold Schwartzenegger, who, apparently, was one of our new professors... I asked him what we should call him, and he said to call him Professor Estelle. hehehe... I wished that he would have said to call him Prof. Terminator, cuz that'd be cool. But he didn't. Then I left and started walking back along the street. I looked to my left, and sitting at a table next to an escalator (outside...) were the previously mentioned high school friends and others. They all turned to me and smiled... all of them had braces. Somehow I had known that donna and missy had braces, but Johanna's were new, and she smiled extra wide to show them off (but the sun was glaring off of them and into my eyes...). I went over to sit down, and realized that I had braces, too. We started having a conversation, but everyone was muffled cuz of the mouthgear. It was hard to understand anyone, even myself. I stood up to leave, and Johanna pointed out a big sign hanging up over my head. For some reason it had my name on it and an arrow pointing to the right, which I knew was towards the beach. Apparently I was supposed to give some sort of performance or something over there... but I woke up before I could go rock out. :)

I know I know... I haven't posted a dream for a while, but that doesn't mean I haven't had them...

For example, 2 nights before leaving for Peru, i dreamt about leaving for Peru. We were together as a team, and we had to cross a river. Everyone else had gotten across, and I was on a ship crossing the river. It suddenly got smashed into a gazillion pieces and I fell into the water. But then I was a piece of wood, and so was everyone else. We couldn't talk and couldn't find each other. We could only make weird grunting noises... I was sick at the time (Lyme's disease... woohoo) and tossing and turning, so I was half awake the whole time. Pretty bothersome. I missed my mommy.

Last night, I dreamt that I went back to high school and was sitting through some classes and such. After one of the classes ended, I went to a room down the hall and found Dan Trusty there, getting ready to teach a class. I asked if he was teaching science, and he got a confused look on his face. I also said something about him being Dan Test and Jen being Jen Trusty... I don't get it either, so don't worry. After school, I went outside and found Kelly MacAvoy and started bragging to her about how I could drive home and she had to stand outside in the cold waiting for her mom. She swore, I remember that much... Then I was walking to my car and two guys from my school asked me how old I was and why I was back in high school instead of hanging out with my friends. I didn't have an answer :) .

another dream.

oh man, I have so much to put here, and so little time... I'll start with the dream I had about a week ago:
(In case Jon reads this blog at all, I apologize that my writing style here is so immature, but it jumps around to match my dreams)

I remember being in a large building while a banquet of sorts was taking place. My family was with me, but I went upstairs to check out the library. I searched through the stacks in the library (there weren't many) and found a large collection of Simpsons DVDs, a find that excited me to the extreme. :) The dream switched at some point, though, and I was then standing in a room with high ceilings and windows on one wall. I was with someone that resembled Cyclops from the X-Men, but without the eyewear. A girl was there as well, possibly Storm from the X-Men. On the other side of the room, an adversary was awaiting us. Cyclops jumped forward and claws came out of his hands (yeah, I guess I get my X-Men confused in my dreams...). But he checked them, and they were extremely flexible, like they were made of rubber. He poked me with one, and it didn't hurt at all. I realized the problem and explained to him that he had to "transform," thus becoming something more dangerous to fight the bad guy. He claimed to not know how, but I encouraged him to concentrate very hard, and offered to fight first to show him how it worked. I started running towards the bad guy and concentrated really hard on turning into a large cat of some sort, but could feel no changes taking effect. I stopped running and kept concentration, tightening every muscle in my body until my stomach was sore. (There was a car there or something, but it really has nothing to do with the dream. I just remember leaning on the car when my stomach hurt) As I tried and tried to transform, I started to think that maybe I WASN'T a superhero like I believed. This realization was devastating to me, and I began to feel depressed. Suddenly, I heard the word "RAPTOR!" from behind me (I think this may have connections to a friend back at Calvin :) ) and Cyclops jumped over my head in raptor form, ready to fight the bad guy. I woke up, and found myself desperately depressed and wanting to cry. Woo! ARENT MY DREAMS GREAT??? :'(

Also, a few nights ago I had another odd dream. At first I dreamt I was riding a four wheeler, but then I think it was like a hummer or something. But either way, I was riding with a female friend of mine (i'm not trying to hide who it was, I really don't remember who I was with.) and we were driving out past the edge of my property, and it opened up into wide open farmland that was very dry and dusty. I could remember having gone out there recently, but it was more green and less brown before. I tried to stop the hummer, but it kept going. I believe we almost drove into a river... but it finally did stop, and we got out and checked the place out. It was desolate and deserted; no one was left. We went into a small cabin, and I found an old pistol and some bullets, and took those. I couldn't find anything else to loot, because someone had already ransacked the place. Then, suddenly, I was aware of someone else outside the building... well, it was more someTHING than someone... there were zombies outside the building coming after us. We ran outside and started running away from them. I don't remember much of what happened at this point, but I do remember that at some point in the story, I was back inside a house and some "family" was with me (they weren't my family, they were someone else's family *shrugs*). But a few of them were zombies. I asked the mom what was going on, and she said that they had made a deal with the zombies. They could have a few of their kids if the zombies let the "family" have some of THEIR kids. very weird, very freaky, very inspired.

My poor poor roommate...

So last evening I start screaming in the middle of the night, right? I guess I was screaming, or yelling, or something... but I woke my roommate up, and he woke me up, kind of. I apologized I think, and tried to explain, while still half asleep, that I had seen some black thing on the edge of my bed and thought it would attack or something. Poor Remington, he has no idea what he's getting into.

Saturday night, after playing Thief for many an hour...

Laura, Kim Webster (from theatre) and I were walking through a dark stone hallway underneath a very large mansion. We came across an opening on the right side of the hall, and Kim stood watch as Laura and I went down the steps through the opening to explore. At the bottom we saw many undead and ghosts, and quickly came back up the stairs to check on Kim. She was fine, so we went back down, but the ghosts and undead were gone. We heard Kim scream and started running up the stairs, Laura ahead of me. A spectre started coming down the stairs and floated right though Laura, who fell over dead on the stairs. I ran back down the stairs and fell down at the bottom. I assume I died as well.

I wonder if maybe I've gained back a sensitivity to horror, violence, and mysticism in games, in order for Thief to give me nightmares?

One of last nights dreams:

I was at a shoe store, and saw a rack of shoes that were cheap because they were on sale. (Red line sale!) I bought a pair of them, very excited that i could save money on new shoes.
I took them out to show Kelly and Anna while we were sitting on a bench somewhere. The insides of the shoes were bright flourescent green and the outsides were hot pink.
Anna took one and started laughing, and said something like, "you BOUGHT this?" And i said, "yeah, cuz they fit, and they were cheap. I don't care about style!" Then i held one up to my foot, but it was waaaaaay too small, so i was like, "i'll just take em back!" But Kelly was looking at the receipt and it said, "all sales final." I wanted to cry, but I decided i would still try to return them, and convince the salesperson to sympathise with me. ;)

I'm sorry, dad, that I wasted money in my dream. :*(

In my dream last night, I was driving on a road near my college with my dad in the passenger seat. He was adjudicating my driving ability, and kept making annoying suggestions and criticisms. The last thing he said was to drive slowly before he jumped out of my car and disappeared (while i was driving...). I was rather sleepy, and my eyes kept drooping. I took a turn onto some road that starts with a K and could see 28th Street a while ahead. I was going way too fast, and could not possibly stop before i got there, and ended up driving across 28th street past traffic. Fortunately I wasn't hit by any cars driving on 28th, but another car was coming from the opposite direction (it was grey... thats all i remember about it) and it was completely in my way. I tried to swerve around it, but hit it and a few other cars, damaging my car pretty badly. I drove a few blocks farther to the Shelfords (who now live in a duplex, by the way hehe) and parked on a side road. I walked into their house (it was very nice, spacious and well lit) and saw eric, stacey, and my sister sitting on a couch to the left. We talked for a bit and I said something about totaling my car, and Mr. Shelford came in and said he had just seen my car and it was fine. I started arguing with him but gave it up. Then eric and i went outside, and rachel herber was with us. We started running around the block, and I asked why... Eric and rachel said something about how the whole youth group was racing around Eric's block, but everyone was going very slowly, so we were going to beat them. I saw Eric turn a corner very far ahead of me (due to his superior athletic ability ;) ) and rachel was right behind him, but turned and waved to me and then followed eric around the corner. thus was the end of my dream.

*shrugs*
Shelfords, Car crash, dad instructor, sleepy eyes, rachel herber eric run

Just a placeholder, no time to write it all:

Chucky from childsplay (throwing him out the window as clay?)

Horses in the back yard on the truck
Dogs tied up in the field
Horses loose
Mine comes back gently
Charlie gets loose, i thought he disappeared, but he just slipped out
Tying up charlie
Someone bringing another dog
Check the gender
Whole youth group searches for horses by barn
I find food for them all, french bread pizza... dropped on ground
dad shows neighbors yard.

Afterwards, flying somewhere in michigan for a performance/meeting
still dressed in back yard clothes
need a ride back to grand rapids to get clothes
but we take a plane... too late
buy new clothes?
Military complex type building, Jeff and Candi

OH, I also dreamt about candy again. I dreamt that lent was almost over, and I couldn't resist anymore, so I decided to end lent early and eat a snickers bar. I was naughty.

Last night was fraught with dream snippets. The longest dream took place first in my own back yard, and then in my imaginary version of my back yard. I think i could draw it if I tried. This imaginary backyard has made an appearance in many of my dreams. When I think about it, it's VERY similar to my real backyard, but somehow its... backwards. Like my normal perception of it is reversed or something, I dunno. But there are other differences too, like the fact that my pond is extremely long in my imaginary backyard. But like i said, this first part takes place in the real backyard:

I was walking from my neighbors house towards mine when I heard 2 guys arguing across the pond, on the path. I believe they were arguing about hunting, but I'm not sure. One had a gun (somehow I knew this...) and I could see him in my head as he pulled out this handgun and shot the other guy in the stomach (a stomach that was quite large). Suddenly, there were people from my youth group on the path with the two guys, and Kairsie stole the gun. She started jogging down the path towards the bridge, and I was suddenly beside her. She was talking about how if she held the gun a certain way, she might be able to shoot my chicken (she had better not! That chicken has survived so much already!!!). Then I was up at the house, and I saw the large man that had been shot running towards me. I couldn't see any blood or anything, so I thought maybe the other guy had missed, but then the large man told me he had been shot three times. I went inside to call 911. I couldn't find any of the hand held phones, so I had to use speaker phone. The phones kept freaking out each time I would call, and I couldn't get a call through, so I couldn't get help for the man. I was angry at my dad for not fixing the phone lines (because they really are quite screwy...)

But that all didn't matter anymore, cuz now I was in my imaginary back yard. I was walking alongside the pond while some girl from youth group (I couldn't tell whom) was walking through the pond looking for something. We had to hurry though, because we were leaving on a trip or something, and the other people from youth group were waiting for us on the other end of the pond. We headed back and saw heather young, seth, and tim waiting for us and looking quite annoyed. It ended there though.

Now I was back in my dorm room, and the door opened. My roommate's parents came in and told me they were kidnapping drew for his birthday (sounds similar to a certain youth group i know). So they pulled him out of bed and left the room with him. I was excited cuz I had the room to myself. But then I woke up and saw that drew was still here :( . Oh well!

So that's pretty much all I remember from last night. If you have any silly made-up interpretations, let me know!

From Spring Break:

I had a dream the night after watching Run Lola Run (a movie in German, with English subtitles. I was enjoying how much I could understand...). I dreamt that I was riding in a car with a German man, in Germany. He was speaking to me in his native language, and I was loving it cuz I could understand. Then he began speaking to me in English; I got really angry at him. I wanted him to keep testing my comprehension, but he was speaking in my own language. That's all I remember. :D

I gave up Candy for lent (yes, im minimizing my sugar intake...)
So far, I've had three dreams about candy since lent started:
1. I bought a lollipop from a vending machine and put it in my mouth, but took it back out before my mouth touched it
2. I ate some sort of candy, and then started feeling bad for doing so
3. I remembered eating candy, and regretted it

I predict that my next dream will include God smiting (smoting?) me for eating candy during lent. Life is odd.

I think last nights dream was simple... We'll see how long it turns out:

In the dream, I had stayed up for a very long time (like last night [went raving] but longer). It felt similar to the youth group new years party, where we stay up til after 7am and don't go to sleep til we go home after that. So I had gone home, and got on the computer for a sec and was planning to go to bed very soon. It was odd because my computer was back in the room in used to be in a while ago (it's now in my room at home). So yeah, I was on it, and I was messing around with mp3s and trying to make a playlist. I think I was also playing a game in the background. I decided to use Windows Media Player to make my playlist because of what my suitemate told me about how cool it is (it keeps track of the songs you listen to at certain times). But just as it was coming up, I looked at the computer's clock (when I had started, it was almost 9am). When I checked, the time was 1:30pm! I was so mad at myself cuz i wasn't asleep yet. Then the time was switching around between 9 and 11:30 and 1:30... I couldn't tell which was right, but knew I should go to bed.
So I went to my bathroom to brush my teeth and the mirror was all fogged up (something that often happens in my dorm). I began trying to brush my teeth, but was having trouble due to the combination of not being able to see myself in the mirror (*shrugs*) and my arms beings sore (also true IRL [in real life]). So yeah, that was pretty much it. Comments are always appreciated! Head to http://swyftx2.blogspot.com to put it up.

Wow... I'm a psycho

Last night I had a horror movie dream. I'm not sure if the whole thing was that way, but all that I can remember was. I'm not going to go into it all I think, but I'll give general gists. Near the beginning, I was at a cabin with a bunch of friends, and I kept finding corpses in the bathrooms (in the showers, hanging over toilets, etc.). I didn't want to freak out my friends, so I didnt make a fuss.
One corpse, though, was lying out in the open right by the door to the building (which was now an apartment building, and not a cabin) and was covered by a blanket. I kicked it (don't ask me why!!). Well, that corpse wasn't quite dead; there were two people, a 25ish woman and her son. They served as the transition into another phase of the dream, where we were in that woman's apartment and we knew there was a killer on the loose somewhere nearby. Well, a bunch of people came over, and I just KNEW that two of them were working in cahoots in the murders, but no one would listen to me. The whole time I was expecting Chucky from Child's Play to pop out of closets or something. I can't remember many details, except that i had called 911 and they had given me a different number to call that had something to do with Oil (NO BLOOD FOR OIL! -thats where the thought came from). The very last part of my dream... I was seeing from somebody else's eyes, but I couldn't tell whose... it could have been the killers! This person was going into the bathroom, where the lady who owned the apartment was in the tub. There was a message written in blood on the wall behind her, but she didn't seem to see it. There was also a big whole in the wall, that the person from whose eyes I was seeing decided to check out. Then this person went out into the hall way. There was a fake rat sticking out of a similar punched-through hole there, and then another hole nearby. Then there was a long slow-motion sequence in which the person from whose eyes i was seeing (which turned out to be the owner of the apartment, the main character of my "movie") got scared and jumped back and there was another woman there that was equally scared... she had a gun that shot little tiny pellets, about like a millimeter in diameter i guess, at high rates of speed like a machine gun. She was shooting it and was turning, shooting these pellets in all the walls until she got to the main character's face. She looked delusional, like she thought the main character was the killer. She kept shooting these little pellets into her face, and the camera view switched to the face itself. You could see little tiny holes popping up all over it... and then larger holes started to appear. That's where the dream ended. I also could "hear" loud screaching, like nails on a chalkboard type sounds, though that whole last sequence. That's when I woke up and didn't want to go back to sleep.

Hooray (or dismay?) for snow!

Last night I found myself driving to my friend Steff's house. But there were a number of aspects that help add weird-dom...
1) I was in my monte carlo.
2) It was snowing, alot.
3) I was driving on paths in the woods.

Those three things made the experience very exciting. The monte carlo, as you may know, is not a very good car to drive in the snow. I remember a specific time a year ago when I had to leave it by the side of the road and walk home. That was exciting. *rolls eyes* In my dream, snow had completely covered all the windows, including the windshield, and I could get the windshield wipers to work. So I had to open my window and lean my head out to see where I was going. But either way, I doubt I ever would have gotten to Steff's house, cuz I would have gotten lost on the paths in the woods! There was something else that had to do with my back yard and running away from something, but I don't remember it clearly, so you'll have to do without it! Sorry!
-Dreamer of dreams

Dreamstop - Instant Free Dream Analysis

Once again, last night was dreamful (there are a couple dreams in the past week or two that I haven't posted, I've forgotten 2 I think, I'm sorry...). But in the past evening, I dreamt I was back in high school, and we were quickly approaching graduation day. I was in a wrestling practice room with Shawn Hunter from Boy Meets World, and we saw a small black piece of string in the corner of the room. I went over to examine it and it jumped onto my hand. Suddenly it was under my skin, and I knew instantly that I had a parasite that was easily contractable. I told shawn to run away so that he didn't get the parasite too. I looked at my hand, and could see the little black worm moving quickly underneath my skin. It had already reproduced, and there were two of them. I knew I would be getting very sick soon, but I didn't want anyone else to have to get the same thing. The rest of my dream consists of me telling many people to stay far far away from me so that they didn't get my parasite. Some of the scenes from my dream include my kitchen, a school dance, and other places within the school. The only persons I think I remember from my dream other than Shawn Hunter are Remy and my momma. My mom was taking care of me while i had the parasite, and Remy wanted to talk to me and I wouldn't let him come close. I think I've forgotten alot of the dream, but that's the main drift. Very gross. (I was also rudely awakened this morning, and felt sick some more... didn't help...) So yeah, yet another dream by jesse.

Jesse the Alligator hunter...

Last night's dream was (hold on, trying to think of an adjective other than weird or odd) curious and peculiar. It's not all that clear, but I believe I was on a class trip gone wrong in either Africa or some big tropical island somewhere. We were next to a river, and a really really obese kid fell into the water (no one i know in real life, just some made up kid, didn't even see his face in my dream, maybe, if i were to examine it, it's about me and how i feel about my personal image hahah). He couldn't get back out, so I jumped in to help him. We swam over to some rocks jutting out of the water with ledges and such... As we neared the rocks, we were approached by a small alligator. It was heading straight for the other kid, so I attacked it and it started opening it's jaws. I grabbed them and held them shut trying to suffocate the alligator. It eventually did die, and I threw it up on one of the rock ledges. Then I started helping the fat kid (I think its okay to say that now, cuz it was probably myself) up onto the rock ledge. I had to completely shove him up out of the water and was cutting my hands and feet on the rocks. After he got up, another alligator came, and I wrestled him as well. I left this dead one in the water and climbed up onto the rock myself to find a very capable leader similar to Indiana Jones there willing to help my class. I looked over next to me to see the alligator, but it was just a big slimy piece of rubber. Wow, I can think of alot of interpretations for this, but I'll leave that up to you. Feel free to put that in the Random=Good Blog if you'd like.

Anna goofs off at work! Direct quote:

"it makes work that much more enjoyable when I can goof around with everyone that I work with."

HAH! CAUGHT!

*the sneak

"I went to a U2 concert!"
"In your dreams!"
"Exactly!"

Once again a very exciting and weird dream last night. I was at Meijer (for all of you back home, Meijer is the big supermarket here. It's like Wal-Mart and Giant rolled into one.) and I was getting ready for a concert. Yes, a U2 concert. In Meijer. How sweet is that? Of course the screen and stage were very small... But that was okay. It was a U2 concert so I was excited. I was there with Brie, and we were both really hungry. We were looking around for some food to buy, and Brie said she couldn't see anything. But there were vending machines all around us and we were in the middle of a supermarket... but hey, we couldn't find any food.
Suddenly we weren't in the supermarket anymore, we were outside and it was summer, but there was still a U2 concert being set up. I was no longer with Brie though... Now I was with Lauren Lutz, and she kept bugging me to play a game with her, though I would have felt stupid playing this game in front of people while waiting for the concert to start. But we played anyway... I kinda remember what the game looked like, but it wasn't anything that exists now. Maybe I'll make it! I remember the hardest part was fitting all the pieces back in the box when the concert was about to start. I finally figured out how to get them in (Lauren kept pulling more pieces out of nowhere that I had to fit in the box.) and got up to listen to the concert, and noticed that the sun was really in the Band's eyes. Then I realized it wasn't U2, it was just some guys warming up or something. I saw up on screen the names of some groups that were going to open for U2, and the only one I remember from the list was Andy Hunter, which got me excited. But then there was still lots of time before the concert started, and I was suddenly back inside Meijer, so I went shopping.
I was looking through all of the DVD's and CD soundtracks and saw one on the rack that was from a Disney movie about mice (but it was quite the same as American Tale, which I don't think is disney anyway). I was listening to the songs that the screen was showing/playing, and realized that one completely reminded me of a certain someone back home, so I was going to buy it for her.
But suddenly I was IN the movie... I was a small mouse stuck in a sewer. I was standing underneath a grate, but knew that there was some sort of hunting bird outside of it waiting for me. There was a vulture inside the sewer with me, but he was my friend and I didn't have to worry about him cuz he was a scavenger, not a hunter. He was the one that warned me about going outside. Suddenly the hunting bird swooped into the sewer and I started running. I was going much faster than he was because i was running through very small pipes and he was a very large bird. Suddenly, out of a pipe that went off to the side, I heard the loud croaking of a frog. I knew this to be trouble, because some frogs hide in the sewers and throw their voices to trick little mice like me into running to them. I didn't have a choice but to go straight, and suddenly a huge long tongue came out of a tunnel to my left and grabbed me and started pulling me that way. I grabbed the edge of another perpendicular tunnel and pulled myself out of the tongue's grasp, not before seeing the huge, monstrous frog that was trying to eat me. I was actually semi-thankful for him, because I knew he would eat the bird that was chasing me (that or the bird would eat HIM and be satisfied...)
I kept running and a wall opened up in front of me. I ran in and realized it was a little mousey elevator. Within the elevator, who do I find but Feivel! He was carrying a ring that he wanted to give to someone, but I kept telling him not to go out of the elevator at that level because he would get eaten. He wouldn't listen to me though and left. The last thing I remember is seeing alot of rings on the floor in the elevator as it took me up to safety.


Go me, I rock as a mouse.

It's like a tri-corned hat!

Last nights dream was... well... once again... odd. (Hey, I wouldn't want to disappoint you!)
1. In the first part, my friend Seth came out to visit me at college. I remember having a conversation as we got ready for bed, but don't remember it really.
2. At this point, I dreamt that I woke up and looked down from my bed to see my roommate and his girlfriend on the floor. She was sprawled out and he was up against the wall, upside down, with his feet up in the air against the wall and his shoulders down on the floor. He looked at me and mouthed the words, "How did I get here?" I had no answer for him. I just got down and grabbed my books for class and started reading and "fell asleep" in my dream.
3. The third part was the tastiest! I went over to my dad's friend Diane's house to dogsit for her I believe, and I saw her cute new puppy in her enclosed back porch (both the porch and her puppy don't REALLY exist, but hey, that's what my imagination is for!) but oddly the puppy seemed remarkably like Nelda, a new addition to Heather Young's household. I started off by just holding her choker collar as we walked around, but that was uncomfortable, so I found a leash and took her around. There was another puppy there that kept distracting Nelda from her... puppily duties... so I told that one to go away and we started walking. We went down a trail and along side it there was a tree with huge, beautiful, scrumptious looking berries on it, even bigger than the one's Diane gave me last summer. I woke up as I was eating them. It was very good.

With the blessings of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (see, the whole 3 part theme again... *cough cough Creation Fall Redemption cough*),
Taj

I'm a robber... and i've come to steal your quilts!

I had a dream last night, but I put off blogging it for too long, so I don't remember all of it. All I remember is that I walked into the back entrance of an inner city grocery store on a very very hot day, and i had a gun to the owner's back. But she was okay with that, like it was a plan that we had come up with earlier so I could steal whatever I needed to survive without her getting in trouble for just giving it to me. So I left after getting my groceries, but then I came back for some soda. I went up to something like a drive in window to buy some at the same store, and the guy in the window shot me, i think. yeah, interesting.

Cough Cough Hack Hack Dream....

I've been having trouble sleeping lately, since I've got a nasty cold with a stuffy nose that doesn't let me breathe through it, so I have to breathe through my mouth and that chaps my lips like crazy! But yeah, overall crappy feeling results in overall weird dreams. Last night, I think my dream was in 3 parts. In the first part, I was playing some sort of human monopoly game or something like that with a couple people in a suburban yard. But we were playing that sidewalk squares were the squares that we counted our moves by. Then I was sitting up on a grassy hill next to a gas station playing cards with Eric and a couple other people. I had been dealt a really bad hand four times, and in my fifth hand, I had two jokers. In the game, eric accidentaly dealt me an extra card, and so he had to choose randomly which card to take from me, and I got very pissed when he took a joker and whined that I didn't get to shuffle my hand yet. So I shuffled and he redrew the random card... only to pick the joker again. So I hit him. Then I was back in a suburban yard in front of a small nice house (I suddenly remember that something in my dream went on within the house, but I can't remember it). I was out front with a very old man and two middle aged men. One of the middle aged men was singing a patriotic song while the other was singing an anti-patriotic song that got the old man very angry. Then they all started singing "Gee, I wish I was back in the army," a song sung in the movie "White Christmas," that I remember watching with my mommy. Whoa, almost completely forgot the last part of my dream! Okay, in the last part, I had told my sister I would come sing with one of her classes, and followed her into a building and into the kitchen there. She was washing her hands and complaining about something when I noticed that her waist was frightfully small. I thought maybe she had given up eating or something, but she said it was because of her high neckline that her waist looked small. Yah, I don't get it either. So we went in to sing with her kids, and I had to go to the bathroom. Mandi told me that there was one kid who really wanted to see my vampire teeth, and I didn't want to let him down, but had to go to the bathroom. So I ran downstairs. Nate Gehman was with me and also had to go to the bathroom. I stopped at the first bathroom and he continued on to find another. I had a hard time locking the door, but when I got it locked i was worried I wouldn't be able to get it open again. I sat down and heard the kids upstairs start singing. As they sang, my sister came down and into the bathroom and started making bubbles in the sink next to me. When they started singing the next song, it was about bubbles, so she somehow got the bubbles to go up through the air vents and into the room upstairs. That's when I woke up I think.

...Insert Dream(s) from vacation here...