two dreams

• first one I realized I was dreaming and started to take over and do whatever I wanted because I knew I was dreaming and I could do whatever I wanted... then I woke up.
• second one involved terrorist activity at a school. weird.

why am i awake right now?

unpleastant dreams

sunny with a chance of semi's

To my cousin...

Last night I dreamed we were somewhere, maybe a family gathering and we got in the car to get something to eat.  You were telling me where to drive and you had me stop somewhere and then take another couple turns.  We rounded this bend, which was like a 180.  There were a lot of hills and valleys, we were in a valley with dessert hills, very high, around us and there was also a ledge off to the side.  We didn't drive that far and then suddenly all the cars around were stopping because there was a huge semi halfway in the ditch with half of it sticking up above the road. 

It was bigger than a normal semi would be, so the end of it was sticking up really high into the air. We weren't sure what it was at first but then I realized. You were not very interested with it because you were thinking about the food ;-)  

The end of the it was kind of swinging around and I had to do a few evasive maneuvers so the end of it didn't break off and fall on us. 

The funny thing was it didn't seem at all scary.  It was just like if you're walking through a living room and there's a table in the middle so you walk around it. Even though eventually I had to crawl out of the window of the car which was hanging over a ledge and walk around the edge of the car - with my hands - to get back to land.  And yet, like I said, totally not scary, and zero effort.

The day was really bright and sunny and seemed like it would have been warm if I actually felt weather in my dreams. 

I'm remembering a lot more of my dreams since I moved my bed the last time.

retelling stories

I woke up from a dream this morning where I was talking to someone while babysitting (or something strange like that. babysitting? weird dreams lately.)  

In the dream I was retelling a story I heard in ASL class last night. That in itself is weird. I've never told a story while dreaming before. Come to think of it, I don't do a lot of talking in my dreams... weird, never thought about that. I don't really talk at all in my dreams.  I can't think of one I've ever had where there's any talking. Strange. 

Ok, so I did have that dream the other night where I was punching people that said things I didn't like. But the thing is, there were no words, like spoken words. I didn't hear anything. I don't think I have sound in my dreams. Or maybe I just can't remember it? 

Maybe I will remember it in some future dream now that I've thought about it.  

Even in this dream I know I was "talking" to the person but there was no words.  It's more like you just look at them and they know what your'e saying.

Anyway, here's the story. Apparently it made some sort of impression on me because it made it into my dream.

The story is about this Russian guy who came to the US and he didn't know that much American sign but was fluent in Russian sign. He meant to say, "I'm from Moscow". But apparently the Russian sign for "Moscow" is the same as the American sign for "menstruate" - lol!

It was even funnier when the teacher told the story because there was this deaf guy helping her out for the day and he saw her sign it before she said what it meant to the rest of us. Right as she signed it he turned his head away and did one of those half-laugh, half-embarrassed sounds. Which created an excellent effect in the story telling, making us all wonder what she was about to say.

funny dreams

No really, I was laughing in my dream. I'm pretty sure I've never laughed in my dreams before. At least not the ones I remember. I tend to have very solemn dreams. Solemn and strange, but not funny. Ever.

But I had three different dreams that I remember last night. The all involved friends. The first one was kinda solemn and I don't actually remember it anymore. I did when I woke up the first time but not anymore. I remember the feeling though. It's like a black and white with no sound kinda feeling.

The second I remember more of. There was me in the Bronco and Jill was there. We were driving down some road but then the road ended, at least the paved road did. And there was this sand road going downhill that I wasn't sure I should go down, but she pushed the Bronco and we went down. (That description may sound a little confusing but in my dreams things don't really follow the rules of the regular physical world. So while we were in the car initially, she was able to push the car down the hill from behind and then we were all transported down together, even though we weren't actually in the car anymore. Maybe I just switched from first person to third person perspective - I don't really know. Like I said, it doesn't make a lot of sense usually.) So we're flying down this hill. Fast. Like not really rolling on the wheels but just hovering over the ground and rolling down really fast and it ends at the ocean. (And it's night, forgot to say that earlier.)  So needless to say I can't stop the car in time and we go crashing into the ocean. 

Now, to start off, this actually does sound like a lot of my dreams. I'm driving and then I'm out of control and then it's over. But this is different.

We open the doors immediately and the water is up to the seats already, which on the Bronco is pretty high! So we jump out and I'm thinking I'm going to loose the car but then I decide to just grab on to the back of it and pull it out and it works. Easily! With no effort. I just pull it back onto the sand and leave it there to dry out. I'm pretty sure I was having a good time at this point. I was in quite a jovial mood.

There's a cliff behind us and some sort of workout place up on the edge with big windows overlooking the ocean. We go up there and we're walking down a hallway and I don't remember everything anymore but Jill falls down on the floor laughing hysterically and then I'm laughing too. I think it's because we just drove the Bronco into the ocean and she thought it was really funny in an, "I can't believe that just happened" kind of way.

And then I wake up. 

Ok, third dream. This one involves Mel I think and Jake is there too. 

This time we're trying to drive up this really huge cliff (it's a theme apparently) to this city on the top of a plateau.  The car won't make it up so we end up climbing (but it doesn't take long, like a second). We get to the top and it's bland desert-like city. Sand on the ground everywhere, no paved roads, but roads nonetheless. The buildings are all one story and the color of sand.

We run into this guy who says something mean and I start beating him up.  Then something else happens which I'll just leave out. About the beating up though. I've never beat someone up in my dreams before. And this was weird, like a movie in a way. Where it didn't hurt me at all to hit the person and there were thwacking type sounds when I did and he just lied there on the ground not fighting back. And come to think of it, I don't think he was hurt either. Strange. Lots of new strange dream experiences.

Come to think of it a lot of my dreams are just me observing strange places. Either that or being chased but never caught (but always about to be caught). Or the third kind, which are the ones where I'm driving and out of control. Occasionally there will be a flying dream but often I have to try really really hard and can barely get off the ground. Like I'm trying to hard and it's making it not happen.

Anyway, in the next "scene" I'm inside some party with Mel but Jake is gone now. She says something that I don't like and I punch her in the face. (she probably won't read this, but I can picture her offended reaction if she did). And then I think wow, that actually hurt my hand, this must be real and not a dream. So I apologize and tell her, "Sorry, I thought I was dreaming still." Like that's supposed to make some sort of difference??? I don't know. Then I think I just wander around being confused as to whether I'm dreaming or awake. 

I was probably pretty much almost awake by then. It was like noon and the 3rd time I'd woken up this morning. Every time I woke up before though, it was like I barely woke up and was totally pulled back into sleep. 

It made for an interesting morning.

stupid dreams

in my dream last night it was snowing and everyone was driving faster than normal and spinning all over the place.  i was going a safe speed trying to avoid the cars flying around me. i was about to go down this hill. i had my foot on the brake but when I started down the hill the angle changed and it was just a straight drop and freefall down. crunch.  

yeah. nice, huh. no dreams where I'm driving a car are ever good. they usually involve the brakes not working, me not being able to see where I'm going, meteors falling from the sky or some other crap like that.

except this time there was someone else in the car too and they had a hand on some of the controls. that was different. and so was the fact that I crashed at the bottom. i never crash. i'm always out of control, but I never crash.

stupid dreams

cooking dreams

Someone woke me up by calling this morning and in the middle of the conversation (who knows why) I suddenly remembered what I was dreaming about. Cooking!! I think it stemmed from a conversation I had with Jemma the the night before.

icy roads and hot wheels

Last night I dreamt that I was driving on some back road.  A nice twisty one in the Lotus but it was night or getting late and then it started getting cold outside.  And then the road got icy.  It was ok for a while but it was also getting really steep.  It was so steep and icy that I couldn't drive any further.  So got out and I put the car between my teeth so I could take it with me and started climbing up this rope with it.  It was small, like a hot wheels and I was "climbing up the road" on a vine.

dreams

Last night I dreamt I was part of some giant evacuation, like from a natural disaster or something. I had to coordinate everything because there were a lot of people and everyone else was completely incompetent.