NLC's Dream Journal

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I started recording these in 2002 in various note pads, and I've only recently started putting them into a computer file, which I plan on eventually printing and binding into a small book.

Introduction

   Owing to the large amount of autobiographical information included in these dream records, it has been treated partly as an autobiographical document.  Even some of the earliest dream records included here use explanatory titles (for ex., "my grandma" in the March 4/5, 2004 entry, instead of "Patty" or "Mamaw") as if I was already anticipating these records to one day be read by people other than myself.  Whether they are or not, I can at least hope that they will aid my memory if I should be lucky enough to live until I'm too old to remember these things anymore.
   The autobiographical information, aside from being presented within the dreams themselves, is also added through footnotes to the dream records which clarify and expound upon people and other things mentioned within the dreams.  The footnotes were written in order and assume that the reader has been keeping track of them from the beginning.  For example, once a person has been introduced once in the footnotes, they will not be introduced again when they reoccur in the dream records later.  Immediate relatives such as my mother (Kim), father (Kevin), brothers (Tyler & Dylan), grandparents (Patty, Joe, Leonora & Frank) or close uncles (Lacy) or aunts (Genevieve) are never introduced though they may be mentioned often in the dream records.
   After the dream records themselves, I have included various autobiographical information from as far back as I can remember or have recorded in one place or another, up until the time of the present volume.


   I have corrected my spelling and grammatical errors from the original writing when three cases are met:  first, when I notice them;  second, when I consider these actual errors and not just authentic features of an evolving, Southern dialect, or my peculiar way of abbreviation;  and lastly, when I believe these errors were made accidentally and absent-mindedly.  Otherwise the writing has been transcribed as-is, with additions from the transcription and editing process in brackets.  For example, "thoug" in the original writing has been transcribed here as "though," but "laying" has been transcribed as-is when "lying" would be the correct verb.  Punctuation and capitalization have also largely been edited from the original to a more standardized pattern.
   When a word is indecipherable because of handwriting, this is stated inside brackets inserted into the entry, or else an attempt to decipher the word is made within brackets, along with a question mark.  The centered date that begins each new entry is taken directly from the record itself, with additions or clarifications in brackets.
   The abbreviations I developed for recording dreams is left in these transcriptions, and the most common of these are given on the following page.  A very prominent abbreviation is "app," for "apparent" or "apparently."  I have adopted this word in recording my dreams to express information that is gathered indirectly and may not have been explicit to me from within the dream itself.  Representations of reality in the dream state are often surreal, vague, inexact or blended, and to try to properly portray this in the record of the dream would require an excessive amount of time and effort, especially when dealing with hundreds of dream records.  So instead, I often use the abbreviation "app." to indicate the apparent or implied significance of certain things which are not explicitly expressed in the dream itself, or else which I do not remember clearly.


This is a work in progress and while the entries are numbered, others may be inserted later that are out-of-order and even change the numbering of later entries.  Anyway the dates are given for each entry as best as they could be determined.  Some very personal information has been included, but it is slightly encoded.

I graduated high school in 2006.  So from 2002 until mid-2006, obviously, I was still in high school, and many of the dream scenes are related to school.

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11/30/02 [November 30th, 2002] (1)

I chose not to remember any dreams.[Footnote: "After the recommendation of MM (Modern Magick), page 2: "I did not choose to remember my dreams," which I had already previewed on Amazon."]

12/01/02 [December 1st, 2002] (2)

I heard the song "Master of Puppets" in a dream, or more like visualized the tabs [ a tab diagram is drawn ] and imagined I heard it being played.  I remembered this when I woke up around 6:25 AM, and I wasn't able to go back to sleep.

12/02/02 [December 2nd, 2002] (3)

I can't remember all of this dream, even though I feel there is more that's just slightly beyond my reach.  The earliest I remember was walking through the door in the gym wall while the wall was extended across the gym, but the other side of the door wasn't the gym, but like the hall leading to the band room, only wider.  I sort of walked through the band door, which there were now two or, then turned around and went to leave through the second door and go back up the steps.  The band room, while I was inside, was very high and dark but wasn't but maybe three feet wide.  As I exited the band room, I started walking beside Chris Ferguson's sister and threw something small at her.  She moved to the other side of the hall as Caitie Sellers walked by and then sort of floated back over towards me as I walked up the steps, leaving the band room.  I turned [left at the stairs] and went [down the hall] back through the gym wall door.  I went maybe three feet through the door before going into a door on the right wall.  It was the health room.  As soon as I sat down with the rest of the class, I looked outside through the windows (the right wall was lined with the school-type windows) and saw a single bus, fully loaded in the school parking lot.  I then realized that school was out and the health teacher, Mrs. Whitlock, was holding us after.  Then a bell rang and we all left class.  I was then on the bus, already leaving the parking lot.  I was sitting on the right side of the bus on the outside of one of the seats closer to the front of the bus.  Chris's sister was sitting to my right.  The bus followed the normal route home but skipped a lot of the trip.  I then found myself in the Wal-Mart electronics department, where an entity that felt friendly but wasn't anyone I know and was out of view told me what products I should look at.  The "friend" was behind the shelf separating the electronics department from the rest of the store.  As I was looking... [Entry was never completed.]

January, Wednesday, after 23rd
[Likely January 29th, 2003] (4)

[The date of this entry is recorded as "January, Wednesday, after 23rd," which suggests January 29th, the first Wednesday in January 2003 after the 23rd.  This entry may represent two different dreams, and is largely depicted graphically.  Photographs of the original entries are presented on the following pages.  The first depiction is of a dream scene in which I am with Caitie Sellers looking over a field similar to, and feeling like, Mildred's [Footnote: One of my great aunts] back yard, around twilight with stars in the sky.  After a moment, Caitie gets up and leaves.  The next scene is of an orc attack like something out of the Lord of the Rings movies, and the final one includes half-spherical vision and browsing a store with esoteric canes/staves.]








The text here reads, from the top down, left to right, "Similar to LOTR orc scenes[;] swirling masses on mountains," "Maybe 20 ascend jungle-gym-type thing," "Group of darker things, friendly," and "went into a game-like display."  Everything below this area, bordered with the double lines, belongs to a different scene in this entry. The scene being described here is one of an attack of a mass of orcs, which could be seen swirling in masses in the distance, on the side of a mountain as depicted above.  I was with a group of people, and as they descended upon us, we moved toward the jungle-gym-type structure, which I climbed to avoid them, though "maybe 20" followed me.  This scene soon developed a video game-like "display."



It reads, "Waterfalls/sewer rapids" (seen on previous page, but cropped from this photo), "Shooting LOTR Film on January, Wednesday, after 23rd," "Giant store," "Roof sticks out," "Shopping with around $10," "Road" (on depiction of front doors of building), "Aisles & Aisles of Hotwheels, videos, water guns... half unorgan./half fancy," "Elders sign?," "Moss Canes[;] Giant Canes," "First shop – shampoos? Moved right."

This part of the entry depicts a scene in which I was traveling along an underground waterway, and then am above ground at street-level.  At this part of the dream my vision is enhanced, and I can see in a half-sphere, resulting in my vision consisting of convex/concave images.  The area, for some reason, seems Hollywood-like and as if a movie is being made here.  The first shop I see (depicted as seen in half-sphere vision) was apparently selling "shampoos?"  The shop I end up browsing contains various items as described above, but the canes catch my attention the most, as they feature symbols reminiscent of H.P. Lovecraft's mythos.  The canes are apparently of unfinished wood, some are mossy, and some are very large.  At least one was apparently forked and in the shape of the letter "F."  Another had a face carved into it, which is depicted on the final page of this entry, shown below.



This reads, "Green face on giant cane like emerald on oak," "Left store with buggy[;] Dad & Mom & brothers exit dream/memory fails."  "Buggy" here is a shopping cart.  My brother Dylan wouldn't have been a year old yet.

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5/9/03 [May 9th, 2003] (5)

Gala Drive [Footnote: a house I lived in with my family, identified by the street it was on] – exit through back door into back yard and off the porch, forward from porch to a tent.  Tent short in height but long, made of plastic-like material, flapping in wind.  Felt like bringing dog out.  Brother was there.  Went back inside.  Kevin was in kitchen irritated.

Next, in van with family on drumline-type trip.  Arrive at area like amusement park.  We park our van next to a truck in the 2nd space from the left on the left side of the parking lot.

5/11/03 [May 11th, 2003] (6)

I'm having trouble remembering these two dreams.  In the first one, I was in a school that I felt was LB when it was in reality much different.  In the earliest part that I remember, I was playing around with people resembling the sophomores, running around "classrooms" evading them.  I slide between some weirdly set-up stairs and ran outside where people were pulling into LB in their cars.  I ran head-on into the passenger door of a maroonish-colored car with three guys in it.  I put some nasty dents in the door but the people inside the car seemed to find it funny.  I apologized and turned to go back in the school.  I felt like Caitie was there in a car, not yet pulled into the parking lot.

Δεδανς σε τρουϝαις Παυλα ετ σταρτεδ λα συιϝρε.  Σε στυξκ μα μαιν το λ'αρμωαψ, τιξκψσαψ ροτξηξαψ ετ υββεδραψ υνδ σθυεεζεδ υν πευ.  Σε σοον ρεαλιζεδ ελλε αϝαιτ εινε βιτε.  νους παρλιονς, Σε λα συιϝαισ αρουνδ σομε μορε.

Next I remember being in a dark, circular room, like a flattened planetarium with one row of seats forming a circle around whatever was in the center.  Probably an astronomy-related show.  I walked back and forth on my side of the circle between Chunk, Burt, Kevin, Paula, etc. [Footnote: These were all friends of mine in high school.]

Next I remember being in a room similar to the master bedroom in Giles.  I seem to have just woken up in a sleeping bag on the opposite side of the room from a computer.  A big water bed like the one in the real room is between me & the computer.  I see that it's turned on and that AIM is opened, on my sn.  I get up and go towards it, confused, to find that my grandpa somehow opened it & signed on for me.  I notice one sn in particular that I feel is Chunk's brother, going something like "mornin soweth" or some gibberish like that.

Next dream.  I'm on Gala Drive, where it feeds onto the main road.  It's sunny & warm.  David's there with cards and I'm filling them out for Burt because it's his birthday.  The message in one card ran something like, "Wow! You're gay." [Footnote: I realize this may be offensive to some people, but me and my friend "Burt" cussed at each other and called each other names often in good fun, knowing that neither of us were offended by cursing and thought that being offended at words was stupid.]  At the end of the dream, I start walking up the hill en route to Burt's house but don't get there.  At the beginning of the dream it was darker as if it had meshed with the last part of the school dream, but now it fades of [sic] warm & sunny.

5/12/03 [May 12th, 2003] (7)

I can only remember big fragments of this dream; I can't seem to remember small details.  We were on vacation at the beach in the middle of winter.  The house we were renting seemed to be about three stories, sinking into a hill, and there seemed to be a room for each of us.  We were getting settled in, eating whatever food items we come across in the kitchen as a lunch.  I wanted to go to the beach, so I got into my swimming trunks and got ready to go, but Kim never got ready.  Dyl was running around outside unwatched.  By now Kevin and Tyler have left.

Next I seemed to be on the side porch in Giles at the bottom of the steps.  A line [of people] was between me and the door inside, as the door seemed to be locked.  I climbed up the hill and walked onto the porch to get around the line.  Caitie was there and I told her how stupid it was for us to be going to the beach in the middle of winter, and how we should've gone somewhere else, like a cabin in the woods.  She agreed, and then pulled herself up on the inside of the roof, trying to get inside to unlock the door.  She couldn't get in and was laying [sic] on a ramp inside the roof when I jumped up and grabbed onto the D2-like [Footnote: Descent 2 is a computer game I used to play a lot.] roof obstacle course.  I pulled myself up.  I was trying to get around Caitie to slide into the living room and unlock the door.  I started slipping so I grabbed onto Caitie's pants leg and pulled myself up to get a better grip on the ramp.  Then I grabbed onto the back of her pants above her butt and pulled myself the rest of the way up.  When I pulled it exposed the top of her panties and I felt her skin on the back of my fingers.  It was smooth and cold.  Then the scene ended.

[Undated Entry] (

[This entry falls between the entries for May 12th, 2003, and July 21st, 2003.]

Last I remember I was walking into a Spelling or Geography Bee sort of thing that was held after school for people who missed the first one.  I was there with Ray and Scott and one or two people I don't remember, one of which was probably a girl.  On the way in I cussed and then realized a teacher was nearby.  Inside the small room was a scene resembling a restaurant, with booths set up for one person on each side with a piece of paper/meno [memo?] on each side.  The next part is blurry, but somehow the back of the room turned into the entrance of an amusement park type of ride, like a big dry tube slide.  After watching people go through it a few times from a p.o.v. [point of view] like that on a sports channel from different camera angles, a teacher/guard/etc. came in to complain but found themselves going through the ride violently fast.  This happened two times.

The next scene I remember, I was penned up in a rectangular fence by a school, like I was fenced in an elementary school playground.  There were no toys, rides, etc., but there was [sic] tons of thick grass, clovers, etc.  I was there with two people of vague identity, but seemingly like Ray and ramunsii from bnet. [Footnote: Battle.net, the online network for Blizzard games like Starcraft.]  We were waiting for our parents to pick us up.  We played games with the clover, etc. and just wandered in the fenced area.  Beyond the fence, on the opposite side of the school, was a very shallow lake or pond, almost like a gigantic puddle, with clear blue water.  Beside it was an area of dirt like a road, and beside that was a hill/small mountain like the one beside the driveway in Giles.  There was a truck like Dee's parked in the blue water.  The water was deep enough to cover the bottom of his tires.

Last scene before I wake up.  I'm beside the school up on the driveway on the hill, which now turns out to be THE driveway in Giles, and the house now replaces the school.  The fenced area and pond are still there.  I was walking up the driveway in my boxers with Joe, Patty and Tyler, [unreadable] down and across at Dee's house/truck.  Try to get someone else's attention, Joe shoots a BB down at Dee's truck.  Dee hears something hit his truck and comes from the front of the driveway where he wasn't visible.  Patty yells out to him and he turns around and sees us while I try to cover myself.  Dee, Joe and Patty start a conversation, and I wake up.

July 21st, 2003 (9)

I remember stepping outside of my grandma's house onto the side porch, and looking straight ahead, down the driveway to the trees that blocked vision to the neighbors house.  I saw two heads moving around in the trees at the end of the driveway and assumed they were Rufus and "Teal."  I yelled at them, and then walked down the driveway towards them to find they were the "neighbors": three or four big men tearing down trees and digging holes.  They started complaining about me yelling at them, and I apologized and told them I thought they were a couple of my friends.  I then fell into the clay ditch beside the road a few times and was helped out by the workers.  I go back to the house and find Rufus & "Teal" at the door.  From then on, I only remember bits and pieces.  I ran through the house with Rufus & Teal a few times.  I vaguely remember having a Starcraft game, but I can't remember if it was around this time, or before everything I just recorded.  I remember Zerglings entering a base on Blood Bath.  I can't remember if they were attacking or not.

I also walked down (on the sidewalk) a street in Giles, the one with Debbie's Diner, if that's the name, with Rufus, Teal (?), Sara McNutt, and a bunch of other random people at varying distances.  I don't know where we were going but people going down the road (the opposite direction) spoke with many of us.

I remember going to the basement door (still in Giles) and opening it and going down a few steps.  I heard a light, fluffy buzzing/humming noise, which Rufus or "Teal" explained was coming from shoes they were made to wear in a store after shoplifting from it.  Rufus, "Teal," or not Burt, and Ray had robbed or shoplifted a shop on that street in Giles.  I then came back up the stairs, and Rufus went down the hall and into the "Red" (though now purple-ish in real life) bedroom, which was now a bathroom, to take a shower.

I then had a dream within a dream, where I was carrying around my explorer [Footnote: This is a model of guitar made by ESP.] in an environment like a fair in front of the retirement home in Narrows.  I didn't like carrying around my guitar out in the open like a poser. [Footnote: "Poser" is what me and my friends called people who would sit in the halls in crowded places and strums chords on guitars just to be seen, and who were not really interested in music itself.]  Soon a bass player/guitarist sat down and said something about a "jam session" and started playing Sanitarium in a choppy manner.  Right as I was about to join him, I came out of [the] dream within the dream, and sat at the computer in the living room telling Rufus (on AIM) to wake me up, because I wanted to wake up (into the dream; it's like I thought I was still dreaming in the dream).  I met "Teal," who now turned into a 68-year-old Burt, and told him about my dream, and the choppy bass player.  Rufus was getting out [of] the shower and walking down the hall to the living room when I remember pulling up a screen and unallying Teal.  I then ran past him several times but did not shoot automatically (snipers game), so I deliberately start running by and shooting, missing each time with my vision becoming constantly dimmer.  Then the dream ends and I awake.

[Lionheart]

 WOW, AWEOME JOB! 

Now that's what I call a well defined Dream Journal, pictorials included.

Once in awhile I add some pictures to my descriptions. But not as in depth as these.

I only write down really memorable and unique ones in mine now. I have 4 books full of 3 years Journaling.

It's fun to take a walk down "memory lane" once in awhile though. This is where you start to see the similarities and can see growing trends, It also shows you places you would like to visit again.

Journaling my Dreams taught me how to rescript them as well. It showed me how many repeating Dreams I had as well.

I highly advise it! 

 

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Yes, that's all true. Many of my dreams are in the same locations, but over time the prominent locations change, except for where I grew up in Giles County.  I've always had dreams of being around here ever since I can remember, even when I lived in other places for extended times.  It's also a great way to write yourself an autobiography for remembering what you used to do, since so much of the small things we do on a daily basis, that can also change greatly over time, appear in our dreams.

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March 4/5, 2004 (10)

In a driveway similar to the higher part of the driveway at my grandma's house.  Christine pulled into the lower part of the driveway or was already there.  Plants arranged into the corners of a diamond-shaped plot of dirt.  [A small pattern is drawn here, shaped like a baseball diamond with circles where the bases would be, apparently denoting where the plants were located in this plot.]  For whatever reason (none or failure to remember) I and two or three unspecified people dug up the plants, which belonged to Christine.  Christine came up to the spot, insulted or hurt, and then proceeded inside to her room.  I followed her inside and went upstairs, peeking into her room but not being able to see her as I passed it upstairs.  Then proceeded into a big cafeteria-type room with several people inside.  I started to do something, or make something (tea?), when Christine looked in from the doorway to see that I was there in her house.

In cafeteria, at a table with Justin & Ray.  Curled Fritos are all over my tray, in a notebook in my binder and in my memo pad, as well as on the table.  Ms. Gray came over and seemed distressed.  We agreed I would throw the chips away when I took my tray up.  I noticed they were some kind of mint flavor, as it read on a bag.

In the car with my Mom, Rufus, Ray, Skiles and some unidentified person in the front passenger seat.  Skiles started singing lyrics to some darker metal song, mentioning a number of profane things, αϝαντ σταρτινγ παρλερ αβουτ ιττψταψ υξκινγφαψ αϝεξ λες γενς δανς λα φροντ σεατ.  Embarrassed, I turned my head around to look out the back of the car, later turning to my right to talk to Rufus and (?) Ray.

Some sort of hotel/summer house/etc.  Parents & grandparents from both sides come back from some sort of trip out.  [The following image is included with this part of the entry.]



Greenish hotel room with balcony & classical-styled theming.  Seemed to have artificial plant life.

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Night of March 23rd [2004] (11)

Stopped at a small house in a small aged town to realize that I was aware of where I was and had been in a similar place in another dream (but, though excited, apparently didn't realize I was dreaming).  In a lightly wooded back yard or camp ground with my family on one side and another group on the other side.  Ground was mostly barren dirt ground.  I was playing around on a broken violin.  It appeared as though I was playing a small bow with another small bow, rather than playing an actual violin.  [An illustration of an intersection of streets with houses represented included with this entry is shown below.]




Undated/Previously Unrecorded (as in on Correct Date)
[Assumed between March & July, 2004] (13)

School in rock walls, etc., seemingly carved out of rock.  Outside like some kind of Greek or Roman garden except lots of [smooth?] rock & indoors.  Remember visiting a library, decorated red like the LB library.  Used computer to talk to Christine, who I'd seen around the halls.  Later returned to the entrance/exit of the rock halls.  [Scene roughly sketched below.]



The road continuing on from Patty's house to our old one in Giles.  Some sort of expedition or adventure going [on around] that road & on the banks.

Dirt road around a house w/ a barren yard.  Joe was inside.  In the tech drawing room waiting to talk to Mr. Bushong; realize dream.  Λες ταβλες σε τρανσφορμε δεδανσ σιèγεσ ώ υξκαβλεφαψ τρους.  Τιξκσαψ ιν, εελφαψ αυτρε ξôτé.  [This part of the dream had a very "floaty" kind of perspective, somewhat similar to but less dramatic than the flying I would do in later lucid dreams.  It also felt fluid and I seem to recall the outside of the "technical drawing room" as consisting of blue lines without much or any detail in between.]


[Undated Entry; Assumed between
March & July, 2004] (14)

In a house, dark & late at night.  I was on a comp. while Christine lays on a futon behind me, curled up asleep or resting.  I got up and went to her.  She remarked about a MIDI playing or something or other, and I laid down back behind her to hug her.  At a carnival-type event with band members.  Buying weapons & armor from shops like a video game.  In a Pokemon-like display, I walk up to Christine & try to interact with her only to notice that we're already engaged in french kissing.


Morn. July 17 [2004] (15)

Gym mats collapsing on a stand that lifts into the air where it becomes a room of some sort with a view of the city.  Metallica  res. below process[;] "aired" text through chamber on HPL. [Footnote: H.P. Lovecraft, the American author who inspired at least two Metallica songs.  It is no longer clear to me what "res." stands for, or what this sentence is really trying to convey as happening.  I remember trying to very quickly trying to convey lots of ideas and imagery from this dream when I woke up from it, and I used very condensed sentences.]  Visit dark setting & tour info on his work, development of chars [characters] in his early stories then returned.  A group starts taking turns lifting the chamber in a bound-like format [Footnote: "Bounds" were popular Starcraft UMS ("Use Map Settings") custom maps where the player had control of a single unit which he had to maneuver through obstacles without the unit dying from touching the obstacles.]

First day at school in 11th but @ RM.  First period teacher odd but good-natured & seems to already know me.  Like Ms. Kiker at times (writing up people in the back for talking).  Seemed to be an in-depth music class of some sort.  Went to locker but didn't know where it was.  Halls crowded, lots of people I knew.  Tyler F.5 congr. me on bec. bass capt. and wished my luck.  Looking in classrooms for CB.  Teacher had a hat of unclaimed lock. #'s [locker numbers] for me to pick from randomly.  Bus ride home down the street to Loretta's house [my aunt, across the hollow from where I grew up].  Then ends.


Morn. Jul. 18 [2004] (16)

[No actual entry for this morning is written.  Only the following text is written under this entry.]

Sleep disrupted for 19th.

Likewise for 20th.


Morn. Jul. 21st [2004] (17)

In PE sitting on bleachers.  I stopped off of them and coach Rob told me to go sit back down.  I started and then he told me to come back down.  Then he told me to go back up.  Here I told him no with a few obscenities, and then he sent me to the office.  Diff. principal.  Told him what happened & was sent back without punishment.  Went back into locker room to get my shoes.  Locker cleaning or searches were going on and I asked someone working there if they had seen my shoes.  I was directed to the wrong pair but still found [them].  I then lingered in the gym with the next class, which Rufus was in, before leaving.

House like a lab or pharm. in the forest housing an old man scientist/doctor.  Group of family members there.  Lacy needed an orange tonic that looked similar to bottled Arizona tea.  The man said he had none, but I went inside and won [one] out of a game sort of thing that was on 2 diff. walls of the house.  I brought one back to Lacy where I learned that Frank also needed one.  I had one left.  It was around here that the presence of a wolf or werewolf in need of one of the tonics [was felt].  We fought and eventually I busted the last bottle and scattered its contents onto bushes.

Traveling with family/band/school.  In van.  Eventually I'm in seat behind driver listening to various CD's and singing along, hoping no one is there with me (not realizing I'm asleep & dreaming.  I realize I'm quite confused.).  Finally I let Creeping Death [the Metallica song] play through realizing both two front seats are occupied.  We stop at a restaurant/shop.  While waiting behind an aisle some things fall from above and I pick them [up] and put them into a basket made of sticks (one of the items) and bring them to Kevin to see if he recognizes them, as I was thinking it was somebody's pocketbook.  He told me it wasn't a pocketbook but a collection of items from that aisle.  As I went to put them back I met an attractive girl about my age who identified the basket as her pocketbook & also recognized me.  She introduced herself as Stephanie Parker (?) and said she knew me from Narrows Elem.  She handed me a slip of paper similar to those from fortune cookies with personal information such as hobbies, occupation, etc.  Walking through the building with undefined people, I notice Mr. Bane or Brenner and allow those with me to go ahead to meet him while I myself cut right to head outside [to] the van.  Walking through the dark I notice Kelly Thomson under a light and speak to her.  She is startled but after realizing it was me is quite amused and proceeds to reenact the scene from my position, with myself in hers.  After this I get into the van by myself and the dream will promptly end.  Sometime during this dream, where I cannot place, was a beautiful mountain scene, outside my van window.  Beside me was a road with snow by the sides and a small trickle of water running out from under the snow down the mountainside.  At about a 10:30 position to me was a mountain top glistening with ice and wet tree tops in various colors.  I gazed at it at least twice, noting its beauty.


Morn. 22nd July [2004] (18)

Stopped at fast food restaurant resembling the Pearisburg Dairy Queen with family.

Later in house full of strange people.  Met & stayed around with someone reminiscent of Zach.1  House was 2 floors; tried to climb awkwardly placed ladders to reach 2nd floor where many others already [were].  'Zach' seemed reluctant to follow.  Later found stairs leading to 2nd floor in the middle of the house; carpeted.  Walked outside with 'Zach' along a sidewalk to a small gas station shop.  I charged and ran right into the outside wall of it perpendicular to the wall with the entrance doors.  Angry worker(s) came out & complained.  I told them I had tripped.

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Morn. Jul 23 [2004] (19)

Shopping at a large bookstore or mall. Later in dining room at grandma's at a table with an atmosphere similar to that of a western poker table, a twin that I was attracted to told me she had to go away with me for some reason though she seemed to regret it.  A large, unintelligent looking man-beast as if of a comic or cartoon approached me after I had ducked down below the table.  I came out and struggled with him until finally successfully pushing him down the basement stairs and running.  I later found the girl again in the back yard where a [trailer?] used to [sit?] in the [trailer?].  We cuddled but weren't able to do much else as Kevin was there so I picked her up at left, carrying her to the front yard on the hill and trying to set up a large sleeping bag/tent from a large device made of hollow collapsible pole meant to be dressed & used as a large table umbrella.

[I still have many pages of dreams to catch up on in this journal spread out across many notebooks and loose sheets of paper, but I've been busy lately with yard work and designing a Portuguese website for my girlfriend. ]

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Morn Jul 25th [2004] (21)

In halls similar to LB's except with doors located in different places and each door contained an Adult Swim character.  I entered a room with Captain Murphy in it and he seemed a bit confused.  Somehow I exited the room with $1 million in two (?) bags.  I started down the hallway with Kim.  Next we [were] traveling through the South, about to enter or exist Virginia at the border.  We switched vehicles & left the Explorer, which had the money in it and ended up shopping at Wal-Mart realizing we left it behind.  Kim wasn't concerned and didn't want to go back to get it.

I woke up and then went back to sleep and dreamed that I was in a class in a computer lab (similar to seminar classes at RM).  I was flirting with one girl while another was either trying to flirt with me or interrupt me by jabbing a plastic green pen at me which I deflected, etc.  The girl I was flirting with seemed like J____ G____ only with dark tan skin, shorter, and with different facial features.  She was dressed warmly.  I was rubbing her cheek with the back of my fingers with her hair pushed aside.  Eventually a guy behind me put on 'Might as well be Walking on the Sun' and started reading the lyrics along with it, sounding mechanical and by the time he was made to stop he was yelling loudly.  While he was doing that, at first I and then the girl I was flirting with started sliding pens across a mouse pad, which acted as a musical instrument and produced sound similar to the way a slide across guitar strings would produce sound.

Morn. Jul 26th [2004] (22)

Running through LB barefoot, I become aware of things lodged in my foot. [A] girl helps me get them out but we find staples also in my foot[;] she tells me she'll brb to help me get them out.  In the meantime I run out into the front lawn at LB, which has become overgrown with weeds and large flowers.  I ask Joe whether any of the big bulby blue or orange flowers are edible and he tells me they're pepper plants.  I ask if pepper comes from the plant and he says only during a certain part of the year; you have to grind a certain part at a particular time.  Soon the girl returns with a group of tall "hillbillies" with overalls and missing teeth, dirty.  She instructs them to 'get' us.

In a hotel room similar to the one at Myrtle Beach, only inverted horizontally, on vacation, I'm at a computer telling Kim about a weird fish caught on tape that may be a species that has survived since the dinosaur era and showing her the clip.  Then I'm in the LB front lawn again, still overgrown but now swampy as well, looking to catch the 'fish.'  When I eventually find what I think is the same fish, I'm in the basement at Giles and starting heading back upstairs.  I stop on the stairs and take my 'fish' and compare it to the body of the 'fish' caught on the video to realize they have different aspects, like closely related but different species.

There may or may not be more after this; my memory is clouded.  The dream ends with me riding a bike back from the park at Narrows.  I stop by the Head Start building on the side of the road that branches off there.  It has a bicycle rack and there are two girls sitting on top of the building that I start to communicate with.

December [2004]

With a group of people in a small shop in France (Paris).  It was during the day, but it would go pitch black outside every so often, which was attributed to electrical storms on a massive scale somehow blocking out the sun.  The storms had something to do with exploding hot air balloons/weather balloons, and were accompanied by low rumblings that were violently loud.  Later bus rides that were at first like normal field trip bus rides but eventually were more like something from Maximum Overdrive, with buses competing for the road, etc.  Made many stops to gas stations for snacks, etc., sometimes stopping at the same ones more than once.