3/24/08

I'm in some sort of prison or concentration camp with both men and women and we are wearing uniforms. We are snaking our way forward through corridors made out of clear plastic, and the plastic is sectioned off into individual stations. I'm carrying a shaving razor and at each station I "draw" something onto the plastic in front of me. Everyone else seems to be doing the same thing: draw something, erase it with your sleeve, then move forward to the next available station. The pace is generally quick but it isn't forced, so the order in which people are situated to each to each changes. The close I get to the front of the room where these plastic corridors are set up, the less abstract the art around me becomes and the more time is spent on it. At first I would just draw a circle or curved line or something, but then I draw a dollar sign with an x through it. Then I see Ryan Gregston next to me paint a self portrait and so I try to paint a portrait too. I make just a couple strokes and the painting seems to be finished; someone compliments me but I don't think it is very good. I say that I forgot to add the mouth, which I thought I did, but then I look and sure enough there is a mouth on the painting. The wall that I'm painting on is the last of the corridors, and this one isn't clear. I look around the corner to the opposite side of the wall and there are some very big paintings hung up that are pretty good. There is yet another portrait, as well as a painting of a bluish couch in a dark room with textures that look like burnt or over exposed film. I ask if it is a type of lacquer that gives that affect, and Mark tells me that the coating is called "Sherwood."

All the prisoners then are seated at the end of the corridors into an open space in the room, where we hear from the prison warden. He explains that we will be able to paint more often, but unfortunately there isn't enough capacity for everyone to be able to paint every week. Then he talks about providing education for the prisoners who are Mexican, but that they aren't allowed to paint because they can't speak English. The prisoners he is talking about were apparently illegal immigrants. Then Chris Dunham and Mark look at me like they are about to leave, so I am getting ready to follow them when Mark tells me to grab a hold of a paper banner that is sitting next to me. Without thinking I do so and stand up, and he and Mark on the other side of the banner start running around the room and shouting over the warden, "No resolution without revolution!" There is no backing out now so I join them even though I have no idea what I'm shouting about, and so we circle around a few times until the meeting is broken up. I'm afraid that I'm going to be beaten up or killed by either the guards or fellow prisoners. Someone dressed like secret service then grabs me sternly and gives me a trash bag to start cleaning up. I smile and comply, and Mark is doing the same.

I'm in a field or park near some houses and I see this guy playing with some sort of kite that is connected by two strings to a pole. (Missing details). Now everyone is gone and the sky looks like it's on fire, when someone points to a tornado in the distance. It is huge and massively destructive, but we aren't worried because it seems that this tornado is the climax to some sort of holiday and was expected. Then things get crazy and the houses near by start bursting into flames while I try figure out how to get away. I somehow "wake up" and it is the next day and I'm driving in my car. I call Matt and see if he is ok, and then I call his dad to make sure that I can get a hold of him in case of an apocalyptic emergency like the one that happened the night before.

2/19/08

I'm at my house with my parents and the Christmas tree is up when the doorbell rings. Before I open the door I can see there is a little girl on the porch holding something, but she is gone when I open the door and go outside. On the front patio is a table full of food, a desk, and a giant whip that is resting on the desk. The whip is made out of plant material and has both fuzzy and spikey hairs on it. I pick it up and accidently break it near the handle, but when I put the two pieces together they fuse back to how it was. There is a riddle/poem on the desk that I wish I could remember, but the gist was that I was suppose to whip my dad to death and then by eating the food, my mother and I could join him in the underworld. I remember discussing with my mom whether or not it was a trick. (Luckily I woke up before I had to whip my dad).

2/18 nap

I'm at the Coyote house in the loft but it looks like a different loft. There is a tiny creature hopping around that looks sorta like the deer from Princess Mononoke. I ask the girls how often they take it outside to pee and they said they don't. At that point it peed on the ground, and I suggested getting it a litter box since it is so small. Then Garrett is there using a sponge on a mattress because the creature had peed on one of the girls' beds and if you don't clean it ASAP it will stink up the whole house.

2/17/08

I'm outside of some run down castle thing with a Katie and Maggie and some other anonymous friends and I notice that the sun is moving ultra fast around the sky. When I say around I mean exactly that; the sun is low in the sky and looks like it might set, but will take forever to do so. Then I look again and now it is night time and the sun is actually the Earth and we are all on the moon. The Earth looks incredibly close but still small, almost like I can reach out and touch it. It looks amazing but a bit frightening, and the curvature of the moon is so sharp that Maggie and I are afraid we are going to fall off the edge. I imagine myself holding onto the bottom of the moon as my feet dangle into space. Then I see some guy is gliding along what looks like the edge of the moon to me, but he isn't afraid and says he's going mountain boarding. I'm still backing away from the edge so I don't fall into space and Katie grabs my hand to reassure me.

2/8/08

I'm in a video game where I am character who can perform different moves depending on how many star points I have collected. Minor moves like spells and sending out spy planes only cost a couple of stars, but transformations cost about 6 stars (out of the 8 that I had). My non-transformed state was a little creature, and then I changed into an alligator. The biggest transformation was a horseman with a flaming sword.

I am in the dining commons and I am eat soft serve with pink merengue.

2/5/08

I am indoors in some sort of warehouse when I get in a heavy duty elevator and start going up really high. I recall holding something red in my hands but I can't remember what it was. I reach the top and walk on steel I-beams extremely high up, so high that others around me are afraid we are going to drift into space. I assure them that we won't because the sky is still blue, and in fact fighter jets keep passing by in front of us. I look below and am watching four boys play a game on a soccer field. This game is being televised and the cameras are right by us, but we are angry that our seats are so bad so we block the cameras with our bodies. The object of the game is to kick the ball to one end of the field, then to maintain control of the ball and kick it back to the other side. If you manage to make a goal then it is bonus points. The pair of boys that are dominating are blonde and have white square framed glasses, and the boy that is clearly the best player refers to himself as "The Bad Boy."

I am on a hillside and see a scrawny looking teenager running towards me, followed by a zombie/frankenstein looking monster with a Santa hat on and a circular saw. I realize that he must have seen the movie "Black Christmas" and that the creature came out of the screen at him. I decide to start running too and end up diverting the zombie's attention so the kid can get away. We are in a house now down a corridor and I am trapped. The zombie comes at me and tries to saw my feet, which is stupid of him because all I have to do is jump at the right time in order not to get cut. Now I have a circular saw of my own and each time he tries to saw my feet, I jump and then come back at him to take a chunk of his feet off, starting with the toes. He keeps trying to harm me to no avail, and eventually I manage to saw of his feet so he can't chase me very well anymore. I make a run for it and see the front door of the house, but I need to ascend some stairs to get to it. I go up the stairs and they just end in mid air, apparently because this is a model home and the stairs are only there to show potential homeowners where the stairs would be if they chose a reversed floorplan (I know, it doesn't make sense). So I go back down the stairs and choose the staircase on the opposite side and escape.

I'm watching Mitch Hedburg and he tells a joke along the lines of:

So my friend walks into my kitchen the other day and asks me if I'm drinking alcohol. I tell him no, I am drinking orange juice. So he asks me, "Then why do I smell vodka?" And I told him, "Because I like my orange juice with vodka."

I am on my way to a party at the coyote house and Garrett is in the car. He realizes that he left a half finished drink at my house in my room so he calls James Peel to come bring it to him. I get angry at him.

2/1/08

I was brought to the side of a long stretch of road on a clear and bright night in an old black car. Uniformed men patrolled up and down the road trying to make sense of the sight before them. Hundreds of lions, 22 male and rest obviously female lay along the road either dead or extremely apathetic. Their cubs had been killed and they were forced out of Eden where someone had usurped the throne. Behind me a felt a powerful presence, but I could not turn around to look at it. Instead I watched the face of a patrolman who looked over my shoulder at the villain, which began to shift and stretch downward. An incredible power surged through me, dangerously intoxicating. A narrator explained what was happening (I believe the narrator was myself), and as the man's face contorted and melted into an unrecognizable and horrific mess, I named the power behind me: Desire. Immediately the intoxicating feeling left me for emptiness and exposure, and I sat up out of bed with my arms extended(though I believe this was still a dream). I then fell back into the dream and felt the power of what I believe was God. This power was not "pleasant", but good and lasting. Again I sat up and reached forward (again, still asleep), frightened and full of prayer.

Driving through the English countryside I see cliffs and naturally made tunnels and overpasses in the shade. We thought of stopping for a picnic.

1/25/08

I am at the top of a dark castle tower after just having defeating an enemy I can't remember with some companions whose images also elude me. I do remember however, that this wasn't the first time that I had fought this villain, and that it was not going to be the last either (he seems to have an uncanny ability to reincarnate). Now I am alone on the tower facing in the open air, when suddenly I am being chased by red and green lasers coming from another tower in the distance. The lasers are from a scope, so I crawl down the steps getting cover so that whatever sniper is aiming at me cannot get me. Before long I reach the bottom of the castle and am resting in an enclave on the shore. I am watching the tide and the night sky when the green laser catches up. It belongs to a horseman (or maybe it was a centaur): he is glowing blue and has horns, and then mocks me for relying on physical strength in order to defeat him. He throws objects at me using his mind, while I use a red laser to very slowly (but surely) hurt him. I am unsuccessul, and so the entire dream starts over again until I face the horseman again. I don't remember how many times this repeated, but I believe at least a couple. I finally manage to dodge his mind powers and defeat him, and after he and his horse (or just him?) collapse, there are treasure chests strewn across the beach. I open the chests and find some armor (one piece was a cloak). My success reveals to me a new part of the castle, where two creatures are enthroned: a wizard and another horseman (which I assume must have been the leader of the horseman creatures, unless it was the very same horseman reincarnate and tamed). The wizard congratulates me, and when the horseman speaks a panther-like monster comes from the opposite side of the room. My laser doesn't harm her, and she is too fast for me to get close enough to hit her with my sword. I am now back at the beach where I killed the horseman, and make my way back to the throne room. When I speak to the enthroned horseman now, there are metal poles slowing coming out of the ground around him. I yank one out as it is rising, and then another. The first is midsized and the second is much longer with a slightly curved and bulky end, like a field hockey stick. They are also quite heavy and I can only weild one of them efficiently, so I choose the long pole and get into a low stance. The horseman agrees that this is what I should do. When the monster comes this time I am ready: I swing the staff and it magically has incredible reach. I hit her in the side and send her across the room. I continue to hit her, sometimes before she can even hit the ground. I defeat her with ease.

Maggie and I are arguing over the importance (or according to her, lack thereof) of eating breakfast. She claims that I eat to much for breakfast, which I retort is not true since I only have a bowl of cereal and some cottage cheese in the morning. She still says that that is too many calories to eat in the morning, but I think that is ridiculous. I explain to her that eating a full breakfast in the morning gets your metabolism going and prevents you from being much hungrier later in the day, which would result in eating many more calories at lunchtime than you would otherwise need.

1/22/08

I am watching a movie on the Sci-Fi channel with the Warrens about a house/hotel/prison where ants keep people in small rooms or chambers (some of them barely large enough to fit a person). The ants make these people play music for them constantly, so in each room there might be a flute or a piano or a combination of instruments. I can see into the building as if the front wall was ripped off of an apartment complex, but that description doesn't really do it justice. None of the rooms are the same size, the walls are jagged and there is a skeleton in every room except for one; where a man plays the piano. It looks more like seeing a slice of an archaeological dig: the skeletons seem to be suspended, and the compartments look very 2 dimensional. The only time this man can stop playing the piano is if he is eating, using the toilet, or sleeping. The ants know what he is doing by his heart beat. He then enters what must be his kitchen and lo and behold there is another man there, who looks a bit overweight, tired, dirty, and incredibly sad. The two kiss, which at that point Rick Warren becomes disgusted and shuts off the television. I try to explain how lonely they must be, and how a homosexual relationship may be the way that they are coping with their terrible situation, but he doesn't want to hear it. Kay luckily agrees with me and sympathizes with the characters, but it's time for me to leave.

1/21/08

I'm dreaming that I am asleep in my bed, and Garrett comes back from rock climbing with Katie Adnoff and they are talking. I feel someone touching the back of my leg but I am really tired and don't feel like investigating. Then whoever it is is playing footsie with me, so I reach back and start massaging the feminine foot (now assuming it is Adnoff). Then I wake up from my dream and call Katie Robison and Tori and tell them about my dream via speakerphone. They agree that it was pretty weird that I was dreaming about my nap being interrupted. Then I realized I was still asleep.

I'm watching a movie with migrants, w/ a soundtrack that is partially be Jeremy Enigk but they are all upset because they thought the entire soundtrack was done by Enigk (maybe they thought we were seeing The United States of Leland). Garrett thinks the main character in the movie is "ballsy".

I'm on a fishing boat with Matt Warren and I want to go for a swim in the ocean. He doesn't want to, and I am about to when I notice a stingray in the water with a bucket of ice cream next to it. The stingray isn't moving much, and I ask my mom to hand me my harpoon (the one with the hook, not the regular one). She hands me the regular one anyway, and somehow the stingray is now on board without injury. I'm thinking about the best way to kill it when my mom starts stabbing away at vital spots: eyes, mouth, spine, etc. I'm very upset with her because she was so abrupt and was insulting me for taking so long, and I wanted to do it anyways (I'm the one who found it afterall). So I take the ice cream and start eating it and notice it tastes a little different, but it's still pretty good. My mom tells me that sailors and pirates capture stingrays and milk them in order to make icecream on long journeys. It makes sense to me, but then I start to wonder why this particular bucket of icecream was only half finished and then thrown back into the ocean. Was it bad perhaps? Then suddenly I am captured by pirates; real ugly and mean pirates that I think are going to kill me, but I ask them to throw me overboard instead. They hurl me into the water and I start to swim, but then they call to me and show that they have a female companion hostage. They say "we can throw her in too, but then she'll just drown anyways." They want to make some sort of deal, so they bring me back on board and tie us up. I black out, and when I wake up there is a third person tied up; male. More and more people are showing up as pirate hostages, and before long we start talking. It turns out that they are all band members of different bands, and they were making a movie that wasn't expected to turn out so well. I'm not sure if the pirate capture is part of the movie, but I agree that it is pretty boring because all we are doing is sitting around talking. One of the guys makes a terrible, nonsensical joke: "Joey Lawrence is so dumb that when he broke up with Blossom he broke her heart." We all give him looks that confirm what an idiot he is, but this starts up a debate about whether supposed rumors that Joey Lawrence's Dad is gay are in fact true.

1/17/08

I'm in a class with prof. Callaway and a friend from high school, Raed Mustafa, is in the class too. Callaway had recommended a book for Raed to read and asked him if he had read it yet. Raed said no because he had a bunch of other books he wanted to read first (in fact he was carrying several books in his hands). Callaway blows up and starts ranting about how irresponsible Raed is etc etc., and I get really pissed off that he is making such a big scene in front of the whole class; so I tell him so. I'm really worked up and going on about how inappropriate his behavior is and that he should settle this sort of thing during office hours. I unintentionally am leaning in rather close to him and he looks at me as if he is preparing to fight me, so I ease up.

1/13/08

I am in a parking lot with Cameron and some other friends standing next to our car. We see some Middle Eastern (or maybe they were Latino?) guys doing the same. They notice us. We then walk into this building where there is a bouncer and we give him some ticket and he lets us in. Apparently we are getting a tour and introduction to some new religious movement based on Germany’s appeal to divine right of the monarchy. A really burly man (who looked more Russian than German) spoke to us in front of this movement’s symbol: a scepter being grasped left diagonally by a hand, with the bottom part of the scepter shaped like a cross.

I was at a house in the middle of the woods with a ton of people having a party. Suddenly someone tells me that we need to leave right away because the police are coming and they shoot at anybody they see. Apparently they come every single night and kill or arrest everyone, which makes me wonder why having a party out here is a good idea in the first place. We leave and I have a ton of stuff to carry for some reason, and I am trying to load my things onto a donkey and get away. The road is really treacherous and the donkey is struggling, so I start running on foot when I see headlights coming up behind me. Some of the guys ahead of me are yelling at me to get down on the ground, but I try to surrender by putting my hands up. They start shooting. Somehow I am on a very tall bridge now and so I do a back flip off of it and into the water below. I sink down to the bottom and accidentally take in a breath full of water. Fairly certain I am going to die, I swim around and take a look at things before it fades out.

1/8/08

#1

I'm in squad A of a military operation whose job is to attack giant stilt-like creatures with balls of their coordinating color. When I hit them with the right color, they turn into mice and run away. The reinforcements arrive, who line up some women and hurl water bottles at their abdomens.

#2

I'm with Tim Bagdanov, Rachel Prandini, and two other males. I can tell we are in England because the cars and buses are driving in the opposite side on the road. I almost get hit by a streetsweeper. Then we talk to a man who looked poor and it turns out he is an exterminator. I see his car which says "Get rid of those bitch pests." I guess we were trying to get somewhere and so Tim and one of the males jump on board a bus as the doors are about to close, so I jump on through a different door towards the back of the bus. I then see them realize that they are on the wrong bus and they jump back off as the doors are closing, so I have to squeeze through the closing doors at the back before the bus leaves. I got angry at them for almost inadvertently ditching me. So now I think we are trying to find our way back to our hotel, but Rachel apparently has a car and is staying someplace else down the highway. Rachel then argues that men and women need to sleep in the same room if gender relations are to improve.

#3

The dog pooped on the carpet because he's an absolutist.

#4

Some screaming match with my mom until my voice goes hoarse. One of the issues at hand was her frustration with me over a white balloon that I let float out the door.

#5

Outside in some marshlands trying to find a way to escape from something. I am trapped in some muddy water and a HUGE pig comes and tackles me. I wrestle the pig and finally make my way to some people dressed like tribesmen, even though they were not. They are taking turns standing on hot coals, but not walking across them. A big guy burns his feet and I help pour water over them.

#6

Dimitri(who then changes into an anonymous person) somehow manages to steal my personal information and tells me that he is going to somehow use my LSAT score so that he can get into law school and I won't be able to. We get into a fist fight and I am hurting him really bad, and I look at my hands to find blue lines all over my knuckles in strange, unsuspecting patterns.

1/7/08

#1

I write a puppet show for an unknown event, but it turns out that it will be televised and performed by professional voice actors. I am relieved by this since I was suppose to perform in another play the same day and was scared about remembering my lines. The president, John Stewart and a Nintendo Wii make their way into the program as well as a song about burning the house down when you are three years old.

#2

I am staying at some house where I need to be in by eleven thirty pm because the owners like to go to sleep and lock up the house. I am late two nights in a row the second night because I got way tooo high and forget where I was. They are angry but I don’t really mind, I just make my way upstairs and go to sleep.

#3

I'm inside a building with a television crew who are interviewing people and receiving letters from people for Rick warren's reality show – the prize is a position as a pastor at Saddleback. Rick comes and interviews some people too. Hee asks a woman to say something sad about herself, and then tells hera happy thing. His happy thing he got from someone in the car outside, which was “Why does a (I forget) rape a duck?” We never hear the answer, but supposedly it's funny. My mom stands outside witih ricks entourage wearing a mink.

1/4/08

#1

Hunting through chambers for something, thinking it was probably an alien species, with a big guy and a teenage girl as my partners. Big metal doors and computers. We come to the last door and easily take down the three human enemies inside, where we find our lost comrade. At first I think they were holding him hostage, but now I realize that he is probably a traitor. The big guy has a taser which he gives to the new guy, but he tells him that it is joint-activated. Whenever the new guy wants to use it he has to radio the big guy and he will activate the taser with a separate button that he carries. We are about to leave when the new guy is worried about the weather.

#2

With a group of children we play in a slimy surfaced ocean, tossing funnel shaped Frisbees and the bloated corpse of a man. The man has been dead for some time, because even the sharks and fish don’t seem to want a bite. We backpedal through the water as it gradually gets deeper and I can no longer touch the bottom. I catch the Frisbee for the first time and throw a long pass to a little girl who almost catches it. The funnel spins across the water for a long time, changing directions and moving in spirals. I get out of the water and run and slide on my heels across the slimy concrete that leads to the waters, going a few feet before the pain sets in and I lose speed. Two boys are impressed and want to know how far I could go with some practice, so I measure out an estimate. They start to try it and can’t go as far as I did. I see Josh Collins on some monkey bars attached to a cliff, doing gymnastics with his coach for some competition. We get ready for a 200 meter dash across the water.

1/2/08

#1

There are more deaths by taffy pull this holiday season than anything else. Be safe.

#2

A man wakes up from his hospital bed and into a movie trailer He is obese an is taken into the care of his ex wife, who also lies abut having gained weight. He movies into her home with her new husband; a gruff paralytic who is not thrilled by his presecence. Outside a truck pulls up and he enters the passenger seat to be greeted by a woman who gives him a glass of wife. It doesn’t sit well with his medication and he passes out into the care of his ex wife, who is now a beautiful woman. She says something along the lines of “My names Pam and I’m a 34 A size B; I;m sure were going to get along” There is sarcasm in her voice. The woman in the truck compliments her on her self-assurance and beauty. In the house they all share a meal, while the woman explains she is there to meet their daughter; a preteen who has entered a writing competition and shows promise. The movie trailer narrator explains parts of this.

#3

Asclause- a reason you give for loving someone

#4

I was at a huge, old structure called “the tower of love”. It is built on the side of a cliff and goes up maybe a hundred feet, but flat slabs of rock stacked on top of each other make up the base, which goes all the way down the cliff about 800 feet. I tried to climb up the side and accidently broke off a piece, but I’m not sure if it was already broken and I just knocked it loose and out of place. Dcided to get out of there when the security gguard athes me and tries to figre out why I in such a hurry. I try to explain to him mwhat happened but I have a bunch of mouth retainers in and a newl developed speech impediment.

1/1/08

#1 - Quest for the Chocolate Sunglasses

Soda hat is engineered to be used up reraly quickleyy all at once in your stsem, so once it is gone you are thirsty again. Kristin and I ook for someplace to sit in aa sort of table of mazes with our trays and we wanted to get some chocolate covered sunglasses that we saw from afar but no we cant find the booth and are caught in the maze. I was looking fo clues on the phone with some ialian woman or something and these guys or Mario lopez kept asking me questions. She brought me here, to the town center where I saw the chocolate covered sunglasses and som other things too.

#2 - Lemonade Rancher vs. Johnny Law

An election takes place n asmall town that as been previously facing a drought. The new mayor is a popular man, kindof like georg Washington. I come outside the gates of the ranch to meet with the previous mahoy and the sheriff, who are not happy. I get into a fight with the mahoy and roll iin the mud due to the new refreshing rain. The ask me nitpicking questions so as to cite me for minor offences, but I see right through their plan. I guess ou even need a permit to sell lemonade, and I point out how ridiculous it is to see on the nightly news that there is a lemonade selling scandal over at the ranch. They sort of agree or are forced to agree with my reasons and leave.