6-6-10

The first part of the dream, I'm back working at my old place in the wood mill. Funny thing is, it's not full-time but an on-call position like the job I do now. It's extremely dusty in here and I'm thinking I;m glad I don't have to do this every day.

I take a break and talk to some women who are education technicians (which is what I now have a degree in). They tell me, as we sit in a classroom, that it's hard to spent as much time with the students that they need when they have to run the machines. It's like the two jobs are connected and I suggest finding someone full-time to run the machines (but not me) so they can spend more time with the students.

Later, I dream that I'm a guest at my friend's house. The friend is my religious cousin but in the dream she's not married and has no kids. The house is huge, with many rooms and paneled. The guest room contains a bed that appears to be under the floor boards that are smooth and newly waxed. I turn back the covers and it's a normal bed. I decide to go to the bathroom and on my way to finding it, the house is full of guests and it's spitting snow outside. I think about leaving mainly because I didn't pack an overnight bag but also because of the weather.

As I find a room that resembles a bathroom, people go in and stay a long time. I head toward it when someone else beats me to it. I wonder down a hall and see a sink and a toilet and think I'm in luck when I realize that the toilet is directly under the sink and there's no way I can use it. A former Headmaster of the school I used to work at shows up and goes into the tiny room and closes the curtain that's in the doorway. I see it's easier for him to use and I go on further and see that another bathroom has a very long waiting line. Its so long that people begin leaving in groups to go down the road to use the local drugstore's bathroom.

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6-5-10

I'm late for a class but I'm not sure if it's for science or language arts. Someone puts a graded paper in front of me. It was a paper I did in English class and I got an 83. I was glad I passed, but the grade isn't that impressive.

So I'm told I need to go to science. I enter 2 different rooms and am told I'm not on the list. I enter the third door that has the word "Health" written on it. I ask "Am I supposed to be in this class." There are two other women here besides the instructor who tells me "Yep." So I have a seat in front of a long bar/counter. It has different flavor teas to choose from. I'm looking for one with a chocolate flavor but all I see are clear boxes in a rack and I have to turn the rack around to read the labels. One of them is the flavor of what looks like a chocolate toffee caramel bar and I take that packet.

I go into the room where the instructor and two other women are and proceed to pour a powder into a cup and pour boiling water over it when I noticed a strange man has entered the classroom and taken my seat. I tell one of the women quietly"He took my chair." She gets right up, to my surprise, and goes over and tells him to move. He's not happy about it and slams his stuff into the next seat over. I go to my chair and set my cup down and he asks me to hand him his coat that he left over the back of my chair.

Then the instructor starts showing a movie on a small tv screen. It looks like an old western film and I have to stand up because I can't see over the bar while sitting. I take a sip out of my cup and its full of a grassy hay substance that I suppose is the tea. I don't taste anything.

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5-12-10

It's early morning and I'm drifting in and out of sleep. I dream that I'm a substitute in a classroom with only 3 students, two girls and a boy. The room is dark orange with little tools for teaching except a whiteboard and a marker that's drying up. I have no lesson plan except a list of subjects to teach. One subject is "social studies" so I decide to do a lesson about the 7 continents. I say to the kids, "Let's have a contest to see who can list all the 7 continents." I hunt for paper and pencils for them and can't find enough for all 3 students.

Then a teacher enters the room and tells me I have a message. I assume I need to call home. I go outside at a table and pick up a thing that has a radio dial on the side that, instead of showing where you are on the dial for stations, it shows little pictures that are crooked that remind me of those little signs that come up in an old fashioned magic 8-ball with the liquid inside. I try to figure out how to make a phone call on it when I remember I have my regular cell phone in my purse.

I never get my message because it's now time to go back to work. I enter the classroom and a picture that shows a tank with bundles like tarp rolled up being pulled by an elephant reads: What technologies will we see in the future? It reads "Science," "Engineering,"(that was represented by those strange bundles) and--I think---"Space."

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5-5-10

I got up early and went back to bed after breakfast and had the following dream.

I'm on my laptop and discover a new site that's like a cross between Twitter and Facebook. I thought I'd join, even though I dont' have a Facebook account. The site had images of wizards, witches, gothic castles, and gnomes. You can contact anyone on twitter through it and I sent some messages to people I follow.

Then I try to get out of it and nothing would happen. I stay on the page and spent the rest of the dream working to get out of the site by shutting off the laptop and trying to find a place in the control panel in which to delete the download. No luck. I knew then that I had downloaded a nasty virus.

I end up at the office of my doctor (now retired) who somehow manges to get my laptop back from the virus. The laptop now is also the size of a flat tv screen and flexible. I can bend and twist it without breaking it. I thank her and she says "You're appointment was actually tomorrow." I say "Damn" and walk off and the site (I forget the name of it now) is back on my screen. I know I have to go back tomorrow to get the computer back on line.

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I think this is based on the fact that a political message board I frequent and moderate was recently hacked and is now toast until further notice.

4-27-10

This was part of a larger dream, but this part I remember. I'm in a room with a large mirror and I am admiring a new red hat. It's like a top hat, silk, with a small cloth pattern rim and a ribbon for which to tie under my chin. I also see laid out on the bed some old clothes I remember wearing years ago and had forgotten about it. I'm thinner than I am in reality, and this may explain my delight in seeing them and knowing I can wear them again.

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I am trying to lose weight so this may have inspired the dream.

4-10-10

I'm walking in line with a group of people. Suddenly, my old friend Chester shows up and he's wearing a gray suit with a striped ascot and vest. He holds my hand and says he's getting married---to a woman. I'm puzzled by this because he's gay. I ask him when and where is the wedding. "It's Thursday at the bank." I ask "Why the bank?" but he lets go of my hand when he sees the Headmaster of the school I used to work at. He takes him aside and it appears he's asking him a favor, but for what I don't know. I walk on.

Later, he catches up with me and I ask "Why are you marrying this woman? She must be really special for you to be marrying any woman. Or does she have money?"

"She has money," he replies.

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3-31-10

In the first part of the dream, I'm working in a unit that's part of a fire department and rescue. During this time, I'm sitting at a desk and either listening to lectures or just writing stuff. Not much is happening and I wonder why I'm even here considering I dont have the physical strength to put out fires, let alone rescue anyone. I decide it's time to leave.

The next scene I'm walking through a field heading home. In the field are kids playing softball and just running around. The field is hilly and I'm walking up and incline slowly when I see, over my left shoulder, a truck flying through the air. It has wings on each side like an airplane. It's flying upward toward the clouds. Over my right shoulder I see a pink pig blimp with wings. It lands in the middle of the kids softball game.

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3-17-10

I'm walking barefoot in a shack and there are huge crabs walking the floor. I try to avoid stepping on them. The mother crab has long pincers that resemble human hands. The babies are crawling everywhere and seem to be growing at an alarming rate.

Later, I'm in a shipping area and see a huge hand coming out of one of the boxes and its like a gorilla's hand, but I know it's another crab and I yell to someone to watch out, because there's a crab in the box with a claw the size and shape of a gorilla hand.

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2-27-10

My cousin Judy comes over to my place with a fish and she needs to put it in water. It's a beautiful fish with long flowing fins like a Beta. I put the fish in a bowl that has a fish like a Beta but much smaller---and aggressive. I tell her that we must find another home for her fish because mine is picking away at her and it's starting to thrash around and I fear the little one will kill it.

The scene changes and now I'm cornered by a man with tattoos who is supposedly my husband. He doesn't have much for hair and he's wearing a tank top. He starts for my throat and I get away from him and run into the arms of another man--more handsome, with hair and no tattoos.

I forget the rest but the dream has me waking up to still trying to avoid this guy.

2-13-10

I'm a passenger in a car driven by a woman I don't know in reality. We are riding blind, it's pitch black and the roads are icy with snow falling off the trees. The road is narrow. We swerve and just miss an on-coming car.

this is part of a larger dream that's slipped my conscious mind at the moment. maybe I'll remember it later.

2-11-10

I'm with a group of people in a setting that has rows of houses with backyards with different things happening. I head over to the one that is about to have drag races. When I arrive and stand around with the other people, I notice I'm not wearing pants, just underwear and a long t-shirt. I tug at the shirt to keep it down and look around to see of other's are in their underwear only, but I'm the only one.

Next scene, I'm in a factory setting and I'm looking up at equipment that has a round silver disk, probably for ventilation. Something black crawls over it and I shriek. "What is that thing??" It's body is like an ant and has eight legs like a spider. The disk is about the size of a dinner plate and the thing covers most of it. I'm freaked out by it and then wake up.

1-20-10

I'm a guest in a hotel. The room is especially large and I'm about to take a shower when I enter another part of the room and there's a group of people in a large shower, all naked, taking a group shower. Now I'm naked and trying to cover myself as I try to find a shower not in use. The room is full of people now and I find my clothes among all the other guests belongings and put them on and get into bed. It's a large bed and a few other people get into it with me.

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1-13-10

I'm with my friends Sylvia and Frances. We are in a shabby, dusty, and dirty apartment which has furnishings that are old and worn out. We are living in this place because it's the only apartment dwelling that allows pets. My friends have a cat, a Savannah and it stays on a cart with blanket and pillow. It growls whenever someone tries to remove it or the furnishings of the cart. I stay away from it and it's OK as long as people leave it alone. It's big and dark in color.

Earlier, I was living in an apartment but it got rented out to someone else and my friend Lucy found this apartment next door to hers. Then Sylvia and Frances move in with me with the cat. I don't remember much else, but the part with the cat is most vivid.

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1-8-10

The dream fell into a series of events, all of which I can't recall, but I'll relate what I can remember...

I'm in a gym and my hair is wet. I'm thinking I just come out of the shower. A young man grabs me by the ankle and I end up on my back. He's on me now and all sweaty. We embrace and I put kisses all over his face and mouth. At this point I'm not concerned about the sweat.

Then I'm in a room working on some kind of project that involves something resembling a small brush like the kind used to put on mascara. Now I'm in a kitchen and the thing is flying through the air on its own. Someone else is with me and I try to kill the thing. I have something like a fly swatter and the thing morphs into a small cloth doll and I swat at it because its unnatural. When I finally hit it, it falls and then becomes a goldfish. The other person here encourages me to step on it but I don't have the strength (mental strength?) to kill it.

Then I'm an assistant in a class of unruly kids. One of them threatens me with a chair but he's stopped by a large man (the principle?). The kid, probably around 16, is wearing a leather jacket and he descends stairs ahead of me as we all head out the door.

That's about all I remember.

12-29-09

It's winter and very cold. I'm bundling up in heavy coat, scarf, earmuffs, and mittens and getting ready to be picked up for a ride to school. I'm constantly chided for being late or not getting ready on time, I think by my mother.

Then I'm at school and I'm given an assignment to work with a girl with a very bizarre birth mutation---she had three eyes, her left eye resembles marbled glass as does the one in the center of her face where her nose would be. The bridge of the nose is still there, but instead of nostrils is that weird eye. I don't know if I can work with her or not because it just freaks me out, but I tell the instructor that I will try.

Then I'm outside and looking up at the sky. The whole sky is covered by a gray sheet cloud except for one opening where the sun is shining through. There are flocks of birds circulating this opening and the opening seems to be a swirling vortex. The birds fly into it and get as far as the top but can't go any further above the cloud. They seem to be pecking at things in the swirling vortex, food particles perhaps. I wonder if they can't go beyond the cloud is because of the high altitude and wonder why they are so drawn to that area.

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