1-2-11

I'm working in a factory and I'm eating some kind of gelled substance that's made of industrial waste. I throw it away and only become aware that it could be toxic after I eat some of it because I thought it was part of my lunch or something. I decide to eat some rice, pea pods, and turkey. I begin eating when I see some of the same food going down a conveyor belt and think that maybe the stuff was cooked in the same vat as the gel stuff and throw it away. It leaves a sour aftertaste.

Then I'm in a classroom and I'm watching a video with kids learning a song about either a judge or judgment and someone is pointing their middle finger at the camera. I think maybe this isn't appropriate for school. I walk outside and when I do, I wake up.

12/31/10

I'm working in my capacity as a teacher's aid and my student is off somewhere else while I'm trying to figure out if the paper with math answers on it was for period D (last period of the day) or the grade on the paper. And I couldn't remember when his class was or where. I'm thinking I should look through my stack of papers and see what needs to be done.

Now I'm standing outside in front of a car in a driveway looking at a blue folder with papers inside it and the top one talks about an incident. I figure it's an incident or safety report and I figure my student got himself into some type of scrape. Sure enough, I realize the top paper goes on the bottom and I need to start reading in that order.

Apparently he was wearing a wristband that read something like Green Meadow View Choir church. He was climbing on a ladder and somehow got it caught and almost knocked himself onto the ground. So I'm trying to find by reading if this has to go home with him to get signed by his parents or not. A strange man comes up next to me and wipes off a CD with a cloth. The weather looks overcast, much like it is during the winter before a snow.

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12/30/10

This time, I'm actually riding a bicycle and having a hard time getting my legs to peddle up hill. I'm also with students, but in what capacity now I can't remember. I neglected to write it down right after I woke up.

12/28/10

This is part of a larger dream, but many details I can't remember now. What I do remember is I'm working one-on-one with a student with disabilities (something I do in reality). I have to get him to his next destination somewhere and he had taken apart a box with some kind of helpful equipment in it. I had already instructed him to put it back in the box because were were going soon, but then the transport vehicle arrives (mini bus) and I am frantically getting the thing back in the box and taping it up to hold it shut.

I finally get him on the mini bus with his package and other items and then get my coat but by the time I get out there, the bus has already left without me. I see it up the road but it's too far for me to run after it. I think about hopping on a bicycle when I remember I have my own car.

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12-1-10

I'm in a stall with a door that has a substance like milk pouring down it and beside the wall. It's raining outside and I open the door so that the rain can wash it off.

Then I'm getting dressed for my sister's wedding. Here, my sister is much younger than in reality, her skin is dark like an Hispanic's and her hair is jet black, unlike in real life her hair is whitish and she's not getting married. I'm trying on a dress with a floral pattern that is way too short for the slip I need to wear underneath it. As I'm putting on my nylons, my brother-in-law is getting dressed in the same room dressed only in his underwear.

Then I go outside in the too short dress and see a lynx and its growling at pedestrians and I hurry and run to go into a trailer nearby and the wild cat is chasing me. I wake up before it can get me.

11-30-10

I'm crouching in a bedroom, ducking between the bed and wall and trying to hide my head. A lightning storm is occurring and the lightning is like a meteor shower, with balls of electric charges plummeting to earth, making a hissing sound followed by a loud bang. The "lightning" shape and color resembles huge snowflakes. In the corner of the room, some sort of electrical gadget is lighting up with every crash, with the snowflake pattern appearing through the glass portion of the thing. A boy of about 12 yrs. is frantically gathering up coins in boxes which he claims are his. He decides to hide with them outside while sitting on a chair under a blanket. Somehow he escapes the onslaught of lightning.

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11-26-10

I'm looking up in the sky and it's nighttime. There's a huge globe that is silver and gray in color that seems to be illuminated from a light source. Then I notice the orb has land masses that are shaped like our earth and wonder how it is I'm able to see the earth from earth. The earth is positioned so as Australia is the south pole.

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8-16-10

Last night I had a series of short snippets.

I'm back in school and I ask how many credits I need to graduate. I'm told I have enough and I decide to quit the semester rather than completing it because I can graduate now.

Then I'm talking to someone sitting behind me and I'm looking out a window to a frosty morning. I'm telling this person that the kids in the school I used to work at that needed extra help graduated because of me and the other teacher's aid. If it weren't for us, they wouldn't have graduated. I say this because I"m disappointed at how schools are now cutting costs and important jobs.

Then I'm being invited to a banquet. The banquet is pastries of every sort. I remember that I need to watch my sugar intake and only talk a couple of things.

Then I'm standing in front of a classroom and am testing to see how well I can see with the glasses I have. I know I need a stronger lens and need glasses to see closeup. I'm looking at the blackboard trying to read what's on it.

Then I'm in a lobby area of a school and realize it's the school I worked at in 09 although it's different. A teacher greets me and recognizes me and asks what I'm doing here. I say that I'm subbing but I know I havent been asked to sub that day. I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm just there. My former co-worker Bev is here too but she is subbing today. There are also two women I don't know and they are both dressed similarly and wearing their hair in the same style. They both look like they came out of the 1800's. They are saying they both have contracts to work here, this same school we used to work at. I'm jealous and say "You have contracts?" Then I smooth it over out of embarrassment and say "Oh, yeah. You do need contracts to work here." They both walk off and Bev invites a student to come over and talk to me. He flirts as a joke and another student sits on the table and leans against me and I'm very annoyed and run off.

Then I'm in a parking lot and it's nighttime. My car is covered in snow and a plow is parked sideways off to the side of it. I have to walk in snow up to my waist to get to it. I get in and there's a pile of snow in the passenger seat. I worry it won't start but it does and I drive out and start spinning. I spin around and around and fear I may hit the plow but I dont'.

Then I'm floating down a hallway and wonder if I'm thinking and awake or dreaming.

end

8-10-10

I've forgotten most of the dream now, but one thing I do remember is trying to get to the next level. That level was upstairs and I'm carrying a folder with papers in it. I sense that I'm at work, working with students and I have folders on them. I'm in a basement and I must climb "stairs" that's actually a lift that I have to climb up on to get on. I lack the physically ability to do this and look for another way to get upstairs. I end up climbing another platform to get upstairs on a lift.

7-21-10

My cat Wiley is poking his head out the window but it's not open enough to let him all the way out. It's nighttime and he sees something that got his attention. I go over to look and see the listless body of a gray kitten in the window sill. I pick it up and it's still partially alive but I don't know if I can revive it. It appears to have wounds on it's body as if something had begun to eat away at it. I hand it to my mother to take care of.

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7-10-10

I have made toast. The bread was made with eggs that make the bread unusually thick. The eggs, which are very large and silver, come from birds that hatch them on roof tops where it gets hot during the summer. This is how they incubate. The birds hatch fully grown and resemble seagulls but are very aggressive.

I'm living in the house I did growing up and some eggs are in the living room waiting to hatch near the wood stove. I want to remove them but fear the eggs are coated with a poison and could hatch in my hands. I go outside and see about 5 or 6 ready to hatch on our rooftop.

End

6-21-10

I'm talking to the secretary of a school and explaining that former administrators, some parents and teachers have gone missing. No one seems to remember or even care. Then a man that reminds me of the former head master of the private school I used to work at lifts up tiles on the floor near the secretary's desk and it looks like clothing neatly folded inside the floor. Then the secretary moves things around and we see the top of a head and a foot. Now everything appears to be floating in water and the stuff is on top of other clothes and body parts. I'm freaked and say that must be the missing people. The secretary puts everything back and finds it all amusing. I'm told to go back to work and I'm left wondering why no one cares what happened to these people.

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6-19-10

I'm working on a project for school. I'm a student but I'm not sure what school, grade, or course. My assignment is creating artful scenes using construction paper of different colors. The teacher, who reminds me of my education professor at community college, exams what I have done thus far and the different sheets of construction paper I have. I've already made something with a rhyming verse on it and a title page. The color is yellow with words written in silver glitter.

The next thing I'm creating is the figure of a woman kneeling next to the Lincoln memorial in Washington D.C. The paper I use for this one is brown and I cut out the woman and the monument. I decide to make her dress blue with gold glitter. The cut out of the monument, when viewed from a side angle, resembles a bird. And it's a light yellow.

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6-13-10

I'm in my house and every once in a while a young Asian man brings me some leather wallets and places them on the kitchen table. I'm not sure why but I guess it's so I can sell them for him. I decide to buy one. It's like soft gray felt and decide that I will give him $20 for it the next time he comes back. I also think he might be a muslim, but don't know why.

Then I enter a garage that's been renovated into a church. What's weird is that it's cluttered with old technology like stereo record and tape players. I ask a man there about it and he laughs and says that he can't afford the new stuff right now. I see he has chairs, some of them desk swivel chairs and some plastic. There are about a dozen of them and I assume that is for an audience for his sermons.

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6-11-10

This is part of a much larger dream, but this is what I remember. I'm coming out of a big barn that's contains a lot of animals including horses, ponies, and goats. I'm on a bike that won't go fast enough for me. Perhaps my legs arent' strong enough, but these animals are chasing me and gaining.

I finally end up at a house and I'm with a woman who insists on leaving the door open. There are two black leopards lying down beside the car and I fear they will wake up and come in. I plead with her to close the door and finally she does and the leopards wake up. Then I notice the window has no pane or screen. It's just open and I yell that we've got to cover the window before they come in.

That's all I remember.