Saturday, April 24, 2004

Okay, I had to make a list of things from my dream last night so that I didn't forget everything while tkyping. It was insane and multifaceted. At first, some friends and I were on the street, and we just broke into song. I decided to conduct, so I conducted while the others sang, though I think that they somehow had instruments and started to play them. It was a song I didn't know, but somehow did know, if you understand what I mean. We sounded wonderful, and I loved conducting. I felt empowered and useful. At some point I whacked my hand on Remy's bed and woke myself up. Yes, I was conducting in my sleep. Hehe...

Then I was in the jungle. I believe I was on a research internship of sorts. I was in a tent trying to tie or untie or cut my shoelaces, and while I was doing this I saw a beaver walking around outside. I think he was tied to another small creature. I didn't realize how odd it was to see a beaver in the jungle, but i was very excited since I've never seen a beaver in the wild before. Then I saw the person I was working with in the jungle (though it was hot and dry...) and went over to him. He had another assistant whom he kept telling to fill in holes. Don't know why so don't ask. Then things changed a bit, and I think I was the one in charge of the research and investigation. But my dad was there, too. He was carrying three chickens to protect them from my dogs, who were also there (all four of them: Charlie, Shadow, Bear, and Lightning). Dad couldn't hold the chickens very well, and dropped Dixie, and Shadow almost got her. I yelled at my dad, "Why didn't you just f**king ask for help??" and he looked at me angrily. I don't know if he said this or I just knew what his look meant, but he meant to say, "You should have helped without being asked!" I felt bad, but I was angry at him for not asking and endangering the lives of the chickens. My dad also clarified that he was angry at me for the following reason: He had seen the ring on my finger. Why didn't I tell him I got engaged???
I almost lauged. The ring was a gift from female friend, but not an engagement ring. I didn't know how he could think it was an engagement ring when it was just, like, a piece of black wire.

Then I was back in the jungle and older. I had an actual engagement ring (dunno why, it looked like a gold wedding band). I was more watching then participating. I kept wondering what I would do with the ring. I hoped that I didn't just chuck it out the window, since it seemed very expensive and could bring in a lot of money. I knew that the engagement had been broken off, that I had been dumped or something. So, as I watched, I tied the ring to a fishing line (isn't this a scene from the movie Big Fish?) and went fishing in a nasty little jungle pond outside my hut. I felt a tug, and tried to pull it in, but just got a bunch of pond junk. I assumed the ring was still on there and tried fishing again, but got nothing. I pulled my line out and found no ring. I was somewhat upset. :(

Then the scene stayed the same but the characters changed. I think I was a teenage girl, and I had two female friends with me. We went fishing with a long line but no bait. One of the girls went to the other side of the pond and one went right in the middle. After a while we felt a tug and the other two girls ran over to my side of the pond, dragging whatever was attached to our long fishing line with them. We pulled out an Alligator/Crocodile/very large Cayman. We realized that it was either chasing something in the water or it was about to attack the girl who was in the water. How frightening.

Then things changed AGAIN. I was by myself, but still female, and was setting up my camp. Then I had been there for a few weeks, but my view was no longer first person. I was watching the girl, not being her. She was on the phone calling back to the United States talking to the guy who HAD been leading the research efforts before her who had left her in charge. As my view zoomed out, she was putting large glasses around her feet to catch all the blood that was dripping down her legs... Apparently she had forgotten to bring any feminine hygeine products with her. Yeah, how... gross. Sorry about not putting in a filter, but this is my dream. Pure, unedited, uncut. The parents were going to come visit or something, and she needed them to bring some hygeine products with them.

Then she and a friend were putting a plastic fitted sheet on her bed so that she wouldn't stain anything and they went to bed.

Blah blah scene change! Last scene, I promise.

I went back to High School and was in a gym class. The teacher was having us rollerskate/blade, even though none of us had skates or blades. We were just supposed to make movements like we were doing so. One person did have rollerskates, and that was Kim from theatre company. (I really don't know why she comes up in my dreams so much) The game was that we were supposed to all "rollerblade" to one of the 6 basketball hoops around the gym (each was given a letter A-F) and do...something. I wasn't very clear on the directions. I also never heard her yell out "A," so I was wandering around the gym waiting for instructions while all the others were at basket A. Then she would yell out a command and we were supposed to fall on the floor and stop moving. I did that pretty well. I knew that kim had stopped when the command came, but the teacher said she was "out" anyway. Then the teacher said she had to leave the room for a bit, and I assume she was just trying to trick us into moving so she could call us out. I then had a vision of her being angry about some relationship between her daughter and Kim, and realized thet THAT was the reason she had called Kim out. She had some sort of personal vendetta against her. The teacher wasn't trying to get any of us out; I think she went to her office to get a hard drink. Then the game changed, but I just started spinning on one foot like a figure skater or something. I kept going and going and going, and had my eyes closed to keep from getting too dizzy. As I did that, the rest of the class was supposed to do 5 or 10 pushups or something and then the first one done would get a prize. When I stopped spinning, I looked and saw that none of the high school weaklings could do pushups. I knew that I could, so I went over and assumed the position. But because of my dizziness, I couldn't do more than three. I was very frustrated! But that, i think, is the end of the dream. I even missed breakfast :( .

In case you were wondering, this is the list I wrote before I typed out the whole dream so I wouldn't forget any of the important stuff that happened (if you can call any of it important in any way):

conducting
jungle
dad and chickens
ring
fishing
alligator and friends
setting up camp
female bleeding
in gym
pretend to roller blade, unlike all others, superiority
kim also skates
teacher problems, friend's mother
twirl on one foot forever
have to do pushups, too dizzy