Happy St. Patrick's Day!

     I feel like I dreamt the entire night last night, and I even woke up around 3am overwhelmed by the amount of information swarming through my brain, so I'll try to sort it all out for you.


Before 3:00am-
     I was in my grandmother's house, which was now owned by mom's aunt (family side switch).  We were in the kitchen, talking about something ludicrous, which is normal for my aunt.  Out of nowhere, this loud banging comes from downstairs.  Three loud thumps, then it stopped.  I asked her what it was, and she told me it was just the water heater refilling.  So we continued talking about the dishes and their friends, when a majority of my family showed up, and all wandered around the house.  The thumping started again, but it didn't stop, so I asked my aunt why this was, and she told me that with 16 people (I specifically remember her saying 16) tend to use up a lot of water, so it was normal that the heater would be running low frequently.  We then ate a meal consisting of ribs, all kinds of raw fruit, and some desert I don't recall.
     This dream had a lot more to it, something about frolicking through a field (which will be referenced in the next dream) and something about ghosts and music, but due to me waking up, then falling back to sleep, I don't remember any detail or order.


After 3:00am-
     I was staying as a foreign exchange student in China, and my host family's son was my age, and we shared a room.  I woke up (in the dream) early, around 5 I think, to my neighbors pounding on the floor above us.  I turned to my Chinese friend, and he told me that this happens a lot, and it's just something you have to get used to.  So we got dressed and ready for the day, and I decided I wanted to travel around, and see some neighboring countries.  So we left the house, and we were in a place similar to a Final Fantasy Overworld map, where everything is shrunk down, and we were gigantic.  He told me where I was allowed to go, and the places I couldn't visit was because of my "limited passport".  Well I really wanted to go to Slovenia (which isn't even near China) and it was "off-limits" so I went anyways.
     When I stepped over the country, I entered this building, that was simply a hallway that led to an elevator.  I climbed in the elevator and the door behind me locked shut, and a voiced spoke over a loudspeaker type system.  He told me that I had entered the country illegally, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.  The elevator then went down, and opened into a room with two doors, labeled by gender.  I entered the men's room, and inside was what looked like a long and narrow sports bar.  All of the booths were occupied, and the bar was full.  Numerous people welcomed me, and I was really confused.  The voice continued speaking to me, and I could talk back, but it was as if I was the only one hearing it. I walked through the bar, and into a hallway with cells on either side, except they were all very well furnished, and didn't seem so bad.
     After walking past about 10 cells, I entered a huge recreation room, with exercise machines, a basketball court, a large auditorium, and a large carpeted room with nothing in it.  It was in that room where I was greeted by the warden, and told were I was supposed to go, and what I could and could not do while in prison.  The warden was tall, thin, and bald.  He resembled the warden from The Longest Yard.  After our short chat, I went to my cell, and fell asleep.  The next day, I woke up with a massive rash covering my left leg from lower thigh to the bottom of my foot.  It was red, raised about an inch, blistering in some spots, and charred in others.  It was also pretty itchy.  I went to the infirmary, where it seemed the warden worked in his free time, and told him about my rash, he gave me some cream and told me it was probably poison ivy (maybe highly exaggerated poison ivy, but it looked more like someone lit my leg on fire).
     I then had a flashback to skipping joyfully through a field.  This field was 100% poison ivy.  I went to the large carpeted room, where there was a large gathering of prisoners, all chatting and hanging around.  I met up with some friends I had 'met', one of which being Adrianna (a friend I have in real life), and I told her about my poison ivy.  She then showed me her legs, and she also had the same rash.  The flashback returned to me, and I noticed that she was also there in the field with me.  I put on my cream, and it stopped itching, which made me happy.  The warden then came into the room, stood in the middle, and told us that the special moment (he had a word for it, but I don't remember what it was)had come when the prisoners had achieved absolute happiness and that there was a dance party starting now.  Instantly, loud party music started playing, and the warden started doing this really goofy dance in the center of the room.  The prisoners erupted with joy, started dancing and laughing and really enjoying themselves.


     I woke up (for real this time) at 8:00am to my neighbors above me blaring loud music, stomping on the floor, and screaming over the music to each other.  I laid in bed, hoping to fall back to sleep and re-enter the best prison ever, but I couldn't due to my obnoxious neighbors who decided St. Patrick's day should start at 8:00am (probably earlier since I heard the music for a while in my dream before waking up).

Dream Blog Entry #18

     I went sky diving with Fergie last night.  As I plummeted, we fell past a sky hotel, and Tech N9ne was on the balcony.  we fell through clouds, which made it difficult to breathe, and hard to judge how far from the ground we were.  As we came out of the last layer of clouds, we noticed that the ground was coming up quicker than we thought, and deployed our parachutes.  Fergie's chute didn't open, and she plummeted through the forest, but managed to survive.  I landed on the balcony of my hotel room, and was greeted by the rest of the Black Eyed Peas, and we waited for Fergie to get back.  When she returned, her face was broken, and the Peas kicked her out of the band because she refused to get re-constructive surgery.  Shortly after, I shook hands with the band members and drove away in a solid black Hummer.


     I also dreamt that my mom came to visit me at my apartment.  First thing we did when she arrived was totally clean the whole place.  Once we finished, we made beef and mushroom soup (sounds nasty).  We started by roasting a large amount of beef, and in a separate lasagna dish, we boiled noodles in a mushroom broth.  As it cooked, we got ready for bed, and played with two random cats that showed up.  The beef was done roasting, so we combined it with the noodles in the lasagna dish, and i placed the dish of soup under my pillow, so i could wake up and eat it in the middle of the night.


     These were both probably the weirdest dreams I've had recently, and I have no clue where any of the subject matter from either dream came from.  But apparently, Nyquil + Pokemon = weird dreams that are easily remembered.

Dream Blog Entry #17

     So last night I had a rather awesome dream.  I had an epic battle with a fish, and lost my friend in the process.  I was a ninja, my friend was a salt water loving goldfish, and we both weilded long, dull spears against our whitefish enemy.


     The fight started in a grocery store, and we broke brooms and mops to fashion our spears.  We headed to the fish aisle, where numerous aquariums lined the shelves, and the whitefish was there taunting us.  I started the fight by shattering a large fresh water tank, and filling the aisle with water for us all to swim in.  I then swam to the other end of the aisle and broke open a salt water tank, creating small bubbles of salt water that my goldfish friend could swim through to stay alive.  When he swam through these salt water spots he also gained a sort of speed boost, and would rush the whitefish enemy and attack with amazing speed.


     After a few of these speed attacks, my goldfish friend tired out the whitefish enough for me to land the finishing blow.  I jabbed my spear at the whitefish, the dull end ruptured its scaly side, and killed it instantly.  Once the fish was dead, the water in the aisle drained and left my goldfish friend flopping on the floor, gasping for water.  Along with not being able to 'breathe' he had a gaping hole in his side from the fight.  Hastily, I searched for a salt water tank to put him in, but I failed, and he died in my hands.  I mourned for a while, then filled a cart with food, checked out.


     At the register, I was greeted by a nice lady, and she quickly scanned all of my items and asked "cash or credit?"  I replied with, "My fish just died" and she paid for my things for me.  I then woke up to my alarm.

It's 2:20am and I'm going to sleep...

     Today was pretty lame...  I woke up around 2pm, no dreams that I remember well enough to post.  First thing I did when I woke up was get on my laptop (like usual) and check the basics for anything new.  Facebook was dry as ever, nothing new on youtube yet, still too early, and the blog was just as I'd left it for the past week, with a few more views, but nothing note worthy.  My roommate and I went to Kroger, stocked up on taco stuffs and carbonated beverages, then we came back and I wasted a few hours playing Black Ops.  Long story short, nothing special happened today.


     Granted, it is Friday, so Fringe, my favorite t.v. show, was on.  I won't ruin anything in case you missed it, but I wasn't exactly happy with the way things went, but the other 90% of it was just as awesome as normal.  But anyways, it's now 10pm, and I'm not tired.  I got back on facebook, and talked with my friend Jordan for a good while, watched my subscriptions on youtube, then played some League of Legends with my brother.  After losing miserably twice in a row, I quit, and chatted with my brother about life and the future.  I vented a bit about my boredom and general displeasure with my lack of employment and decided I needed a better way to fill my days while I wait for a job opportunity.  So I started drawing again.  The reason I'm writing this instead of talking about a dream I had, is because when I asked my brother to give me an idea of what to draw, he told me something like this:


     "No matter what suggestion I give you, you're just going to shut it down.  It doesn't matter what I tell you, you aren't going to like it.  Your imagination isn't something I can turn on for you, that's something only you can do."


     This lit me up.  I got that feeling you get the night before you drive to Cedar Point or Disney; pure excitement.  This rush of feel-good ignited that spark that I lost long ago.  Just as he told me, his idea didn't make the cut, but his suggestion, along with the blissful music of Iron & Wine, got me drawing again.  I spent and hour drawing and shading, and I now have the will to return to bed.


     I feel like my days are filled with uselessness, and waking up late and playing games all day are exactly the reason.  And because I don't feel like the day was fulfilling, I find it difficult to sleep.  When I lay down, my mind races and I can't shut it down.  I haven't rested enough lately to actually dream.  Tonight, I'm setting my alarm for 11, and when I get up, I'm going to work out, eat a good lunch, and hopefully hang out with some friends.


*     I'd like to thank anyone who reads this blog.  Having an audience to share my dreams and thoughts with is indescribably awesome.  Hopefully my subconscience will have something to post for you all soon.

Dream Blog Entry #16

     It's been a while...  I had all kinds of dreams while I was "away" (lazy) but nothing truly worthy of posting.  But I feel that it's been too long, and last night's dream was worthy.

     I first remember walking through a forest.  I was headed north, trying to get to some town or village to see someone (blame Final Fantasy 6).  As I walked, I came across this odd little town-ish thing.  There were four or five building visible, and they all had a sleek, Master Chief green metal theme.  A few people were walking around outside, and they were all wearing suit-uniforms that matched the green metal coats on the buildings.  As I entered the town, I was approached by Blair Brown (Fringe's Nina Sharp), and she escorted me into one of the buildings, and sat me down at a table.  She reached down and pressed her thumb into my knee, and immense pain overwhelmed me.  She told me that I had a fracture on my knee cap, and she knew this because the town has an advanced radar system that analyzes every organism within range.  She then proceeded to tell me that they installed this radar system because the local animal population has been infected with some potentially ecosystem devastating disease, and this system helps them find the sick animals and treat them before they infect more species.

     After hearing more about the animals and such, I left the town and continued on my northward journey.  As I reentered the forest, I gained this weird enlightened feeling, and woke up shortly after, retaining that rush for a good 15 minutes.

Dream Blog Entry #15

     This one's a doozy.  There was a lot of random scene changes, but that makes it interesting right?


     It started with an aerial view of a basketball court in the middle of some field, surrounded by forest.  The court was fenced in, and the fence was about 20 feet high.  There was three people playing basketball, and one kid got shoved through the fence wall, literally.  Although he didn't fall into hundreds of small cubes, he was obviously shocked at what happened.  Shortly after re-entering the court (by pulling the bottom of the fence up, much like a table cloth, and crawling under) A old homeless looking man stumbled up toward the court.  He was grunting, and had zombie-esque features.  The kids freaked out, and scrambled out of the court on the other end, and ran into the woods.  My view of the incident went from aerial, to an over the head look of the person who got pressed trough the fence, and after the zombie appeared, I became a physical person, and joined them in running through the woods.


     As we ran, we quickly became separated, and I was alone.  I could hear random screams as i ran through the woods, and the forest slowly transitioned into a Walmart type store, and I was now crawling through the aisles.  When I got to end of the aisle, I turned, and in the aisle next to me was one of the other kids from the basketball court, except he was now a 2-3 year old baby, who was still a coherent speaker.  We crawled through the store, and came across a worker who noticed the baby.  He radioed to someone, and said, "Lost baby in Aisle 13, and I think it has a gun."  So we ran from the guy, who was trying to capture my baby-friend.  We evaded him, by tricking him into thinking we hid in the changing rooms, and throughout the whole ordeal, we joined up with the other two people who were playing basketball with us, and we all came across a giant train that went around the entire store.


     We all climbed onto this train, and started singing this huge song about what all happened, made of each other, and about trains.  As we traveled around the store (backwards, mind you), the store transitioned into a hotel-type complex, and we got off the train at the lobby.  There was a security guard there, who escorted all of us out, except for the baby.  On the way out, I saw a can of Pringles, and snagged them, because Pringles are awesome.  When we got outside, I called my mom, and told her that the baby was still locked inside, and we needed her help to get him out and to get out of this strange town.  I asked a local where we were, and he started a college history style lecture about all the things that happened here, but managed to not tell me anything about what town or state I was in.  So I told him that he was useless, and that I have a baby locked in this building, and all he's doing is making things worse.  So he comes back and says, "Sorry I spent 14 years of my life studying this town's history and no one ever wants to hear about it."  So I told him that I was sorry that he wasted his life studying something so useless, and he should just go away and stop wasting everybody's time.  I then turned to another local, who instantly told me that I was in Tomaha.  At this moment I woke up to my mother calling me, granted it was 1:30 pm, so I don't blame her.

Dream Blog Entry #14

     I was staying at some gigantic hotel in Japan.  The rooms were very thematic, all representing some specific element.  My room was all about the ocean, my neighbor's was about birds.  As I was laying in my bed, trying to sleep, A small blue orb started floating around the ceiling of the room, leaving a faint, glowing trail behind it, and it passed in and out through the ceiling.  Someone staying with me noticed it, and asked me if we should do anything about it.  I replied, "No, I like it.  It's mesmerizing, and I don't feel like we're in any danger".  So he rolled over and quickly fell asleep.  I stayed up for a while, watching the orb, and after about 15 minutes, it hovered over my friend, and I started seeing a face form in the orb.  It was of some old Japanese guy, and he told me his name was Chen.  After trying to talk with him for a while, I inevitably woke my friend up, which startled Chen and he dissipated.  I thought nothing of it, and walked over to my neighbor's room (As Chen disappeared, it went from night to day).


     I entered the room, and both of my neighbors were walking around, doing their hair, in the nude.  I made no comment, and proceeded to tell them about Chen, and asked what they wanted to do that day.  We decided to go to a water park, and as I headed back to my room, I mentioned how glad I was that they were both naked, because I, unknowingly, was naked as well, and it would be really awkward if I was the only one.  When I got back to my room, I threw on my swim trunks and a shirt, and we all headed to the elevator.  We took the elevator to the lobby, but stopped to add more passengers from the 4th floor.  Distracted by the 3 nude and oiled-up girls sitting outside the elevator on the 4th floor, I didn't notice that Chen got on the elevator, until we were getting off on the ground floor.  I told my friend and neighbors that it was him, but he disappeared into the crowd of tourists and natives too quickly for me to point him out.


     Suddenly, we were waiting in line for a ride at the water park, and as we were climbing a set of stairs, my group and I noticed that two older women were wearing one piece swim suits, that had a square cut out of the back, which fully exposed their butts.  We chuckled about it, and park officials made them leave the park.  We made it to the top of the ride, and hopped in a raft that took us downstream, directly back to our hotel.  It was a white water rafting type ride, and lasted for what felt like 10 minutes.  We headed back to our rooms, and I hit the 4th floor button to see if the girls were still sitting there, but they weren't, and when we got back the room, my and my friend changed back into our normal clothes and talked about Chen.  Right as my friend laid back on his bed, an invisible force pulled him into the bed, and he couldn't fight against it.  On top of him being sucked into the bed, it felt like the room's air didn't have enough oxygen in it, and even though we could both breathe fine, neither of us gained enough oxygen from it, and after trying to fight against Chen for a while, I succumbed to the lack of oxygen, and woke up short of breath.


     This was probably the most vivid memory of a dream I've ever had.  I remember the hair color, skin tone, vocal tone, and general behaviors of every important character in this dream, but due to the fact that I saw all of these characters naked, I'll refrain from detailing them, and leave that to your imagination.