Friday, April 30, 2004

Dream Journal - 04/30/04

I was sitting at dinner out with my wife one night, and a few tables over was sitting a bunch of people from the place I used to work. I remember getting up to go say hi, and asking a couple of them (a married couple who have since moved out of state) how they were doing.

That's all I remember at this point. Funny, it just flashed to me, and it feels like a memory from a while back, and not just a dream.

Interesting, a friend of mine who stayed with us a couple weekends ago worked at the same place just after I quit (in fact, he took over my position) so he knows all the same people. We did a Google search for them to see where any of them were today. Couldn't find either of the married couple. Maybe my subconscious was still curious.

Thursday, April 29, 2004

Dream Journal - 04/29/04

When I was growing up, my best friend lived down the street from me. His house was (to me) a mansion: two stories, old, kinda run down (but not trashy), interesting old barns and maids quarters on the property.

Anyway, I dreamed I was going back to his house for some reason. It was all run down and parts of the upstairs were collapsing in. I went inside, there were boxes and crates of things stacked everywhere. It was very light outside and I could see dust motes flying about. I knew I had to find something, so I poked my head into a room. In the middle of the room was (I thought, in my dream) my friend's sister - early 20's or so - and she was hanging from a noose. Still alive, not apparently in much pain. She looked at me with a scared look in her eyes. I didn't panic and pulled over a table under her feet. Her feet didn't quite reach, so I found a knife somewhere, climbed up, and cut her down. I carried her down and she was trying to recover when her mom walked in - age appropriate to when I knew her. I said, "Mrs * - how are you?" She didn't answer, and walked on by, ignoring us. Then my friend walked in (who I haven't seen since high school), and he ignored us too. Last I remember was getting ready to leave, I looked at his sister and told her to call me if she needed me - whenever, whatever.

What's strangest about this is he had three older sisters in real life, and I don't think this girl was any of them. Her face looked familiar to me, but I can't place her right now. I just thought, in the dream, that she was his sister.

Friday, April 23, 2004

Dream Journal - 04/23/04

I dreamed I was with a group of people somewhere in Florida, at a resort of some kind. Not really Disney, but somewhere like that. Some of the younger people had been to a casino resort nearby and had come back with interesting reports. I was with a couple of folks and made a joke about gambling - innocuous joke, not dirty or anything - but one of my friends suddenly got sullen and withdrawn. A few minutes later somebody told me the first guy was recovering from a major gambling addiction, and the joke offended him. I tried to apologize to him, but he wouldn't listen.

Segue to the casino, we've gone to visit. (for the record, I don't gamble - I went to Vegas last spring and spent and lost about $2.00.) All I remember is sitting on some steps in a big room somewhere with tables and machines and lights flashing, and this...showgirl, well, more like a casino girl, sitting on my lap. I was naked, but not aroused for some reason. She was playing with my feet and pulling off my socks and tickling my lower legs, playfully. I felt a little embarrassed, but enjoyed it like you would a massage. (can't quite figure out how she could be sitting on my lap and be able to reach my feet while still sitting up straight. Her arms must've been 4 feet long). She was nude from the waist down as well, and I was running my hands up and down either thigh, and around the rear, just caressing.

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Dream Journal - 04/21/04

I dreamed I was playing softball with my church team in a very wooded park somewhere. Another team needed players so I and a girl from my team (I don't know who it was) went to theirs.

I realized I'd forgotten my batting glove, so I ran home (which somehow was about a 5 minute jog away) to get them, and on the way back it started to rain and the game was cancelled.

Several of us took shelter in a shed, and after that all I remember is telling either that girl from my team or another woman something about the movie "The Wiz".


This dream only came back to me when I was in the shower - when I first actually woke up, it was like a door had slammed shut, consciously keeping the memories from me.

Sunday, April 18, 2004

Dream Journal - 04/18/04

All I remember was I was walking through a kind of apartment complex, and there were people sitting and laying around in the hallways. They were all black - whatever that means, I have no idea - and my goal was to walk around them and get outside. I think I did - that's all I recall.

I don't know what would have brought that one on.