Sunday, September 12, 2010

Biking & The Spa

*** Dreamt Sept 11-12, 2010 ***

I was at some sort of Spa where everybody was SUPER snotty. It was one of these super-ritzy all-inclusive places where you'd stay for an extended period of times (at least days) and in addition to massages & mud baths & those type of spa-activities, they made you exercise and they managed your meals and stuff.

A big group of people and I were going to a lower level to sit in a sauna or something, and the people up ahead of me were saying super obnoxious, irritating stuff (I don't remember what they were saying specifically, I just remember being super bugged). So I decided I needed to get out of there and get a pizza.

The next thing I knew I was on my bicycle, riding in the neighborhoods surrounding the Clearfield Amphitheatre. I knew I didn't have much time before they noticed I was missing at the spa so I was trying to hurry back. I came around a big curvy hill and there was another guy on a very small bicycle. As I went to pass him he somehow hooked his arm around my front tire and WOULD NOT let me pass. I was sortof trying to kick him off, when he finally let go and turned into a driveway at his house.

I stopped for a minute and looked back, and then thought, "whatever, he's not worth getting into something with." So I started to pedal away when he shouted something to the effect of, "What, aren't you man enough to face me?" I stopped again and looked back, shocked. He wasn't looking at me, but I knew he was talking to me. He was raveling up a hose in his yard and kept goading me with more remarks like that. I noticed that he had two good-sized dogs in his yard, and I was pretty sure that's what'd given him the courage to shout at me. I didn't know what to do...I was torn between just leaving and going over there to yell back, but face the potentially dangerous dogs.

About then I woke up.

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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Baseball & The Bride

*** Dreamt Sept 7-8, 2010 ***

I was playing baseball in some sort of an organized league. Not as organized as a city league...more like an inter-office league or something like that. I noticed that although we had a full team of 9 players, our opponents only had 4 - a pitcher, 2 basemen, and an outfielder. I figured they just couldn't get enough people together, so this should be an easy win.

I went to bat, but instead of using a traditional bat, I was using a huge (at least 6 or 8 feet long) tree branch that had lots of small twigs and branches coming off of it. I found it was surprising easy to swing considering its size, but I still missed the first couple of pitches. On the 3rd pitch I hit a grounder and ran to first base.

When I got to 1st, I found there were 2 privacy screens setup, creating a "V" right next to the base. The way the "V" was angled, though, it provided privacy from the other bases and outfield, but you could easily see into it from 1st. Standing there in the shade of the privacy screens was a girl I didn't recognize dressed in a bridal gown. I think she'd just had her picture taken, or was getting ready to have it taken.

I'm quite certain that she was somehow part of the game...I think she may have been on my team and had already gone to bat before me.

About then I woke up.

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I told this dream to my friend at work who had a degree in Psychology. His initial interpretation was "If you ever wanna make it to 1st base, you've gotta get married!"

This interpretation made me laugh out loud, but I pointed out to him that "first base" is just kissing, and I've - shockingly enough - done that before.

He replied, "Oh yeah..." and began a dream interpretation research mission. His research into dream interpretation yielded the following elements:
1 - Being at a baseball game represents contentment and peace of mind.
2 - PLAYING in a baseball game represents the desire to set and achieve goals and can mean that the dreamer feels a need to stop goofing around and focus on goals.
3 - A tree branch represents growth, new life, or relationships.
4 - Shades signify something secret or hidden.
5 - The presence of a bride often signifies purity, but can also (more obviously) signify a partnership or spouse.

My co-worker's final interpretation: I'm pretty satisfied with my life as is, but I need to stop "playing the game" and get married, but I don't know who I need to marry.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Mitch...err...Marty!

*** Dreamt Sept 5-6, 2010 ***

I was with my friends Chad and Mitch and the 3 of us were riding our bicycles through some neighborhoods. When we got to wherever we were going we went inside and found ourselves in a big rec-room with lots of tables set up and lots of doors around leading to side rooms. The place was filled with some pretty shady-looking guys. I was pretty sure that this might be a gang club or something. Then I remembered that we were there for part of Chad's community service that he had to do, and that this place was some sort of correctional facility.

While we were there Chad decided he should get a tattoo. I tried to tell him it was a bad idea, but he'd gone off into a side room to get his tattoo before I could stop him.

Mitch and I decided that we needed to find Chad and get out of there, so we found him and told him we needed to take off, when suddenly Mitch was gone. Chad and I started looking all over for him, but suddenly it wasn't Mitch we were looking for, it was "Marty". I have no idea who this "Marty" is, but in my dream we needed to find him.

The facility didn't seem very big when we were coming in, but now that we were leaving it was gigantic. We decided figured if we headed for the door that we were bound to find Marty somewhere along the way. We asked people as we went through the various rooms on our way out, and everybody kept pointing in the direction of the exit.

When we finally got to the exit there we found Marty along with his wife and two kids. His wife was wearing a police uniform and looked EXACTLY like Marty except with long hair. Also his two kids looked EXACTLY like small versions of Marty.

We left the place and it was me, Chad, and Mitch again. They were on bicycles and I was walking. We'd made it about half way home when I realized something was wrong and asked, "Wait a minute...didn't I have a bike earlier??"

Chad replied, "Aw shi---!!"

The three of us turned around and started heading back so I could get my bike, and then I woke up.

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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Vampire Sea Food

*** Dreamt Sept 3-4, 2010 ***

This dream starred Milla Jovovich playing the character "Alice" from the Resident Evil films. The only difference was in that in this dream she was also a vampire. Somehow a group of people who wanted to kill her trapped her underwater in the ocean. She was in the remains of a sunken ship and in addition to the people on the surface trying to kill her by shining sunshine (I don't know how!!) into the water at her, there was a huge school of eel-sharks circling the sunken ship.

She was able to stay underwater without breathing by periodically taking a bite out of a passing eel-shark, but she had to be careful, because if she got too close they would try to bite her.

She somehow made it out of the ocean and was walking down the street when a group of creepy zombie kids came after her. They'd been sent by the same people who tried to kill her in the ocean. She somehow had the ability, however, to turn them to be on her side, so suddenly instead of coming after her, they were now walking with her.

Then I woke up.

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This was a rather cinematic dream, which I can only assume was created in response to the number of commercials I've seen lately for "Resident Evil Afterlife" and "Piranha 3D".

It was kindof odd that I wasn't in the dream at all. At one point when she was taking bites out of passing eel-sharks I saw a Point-of-View shot through her eyes, but never was I a participant in the dream.

Friday, September 3, 2010

"Nazis in the Morning"

*** Dreamt Sept 2-3, 2010 ***

I was one of the newest member of Cirque Du Soleil. We went through several of the routines in my dream, although now I can't remember what they were.

After we were done with practice I went over to Amy Porter who was also a member of the Cirque Du Soleil troop. I told her how exciting this all was and she told me that her favorite of all the routines was the "Nazis in the Morning" routine. The routine consisted of a lot of girl acrobats jumping on a trampoline VERY high up between two steel girders which crossed at one end to make a lying-down "V" shape. The girls would spring up between the girders, then turn to be horizontal so on their way back down they'd actually land across the "V" with their hands on one girder and their feet on the other. For the first few girls this was fairly simple, but the later girls had quite a chasm (the first girls stayed in place across the "V", so the later girls had to be further away from where the girders crossed) to stretch across. The last girl literally caught the "V" with her toes and fingertips. The routine was called "Nazis in the Morning" because during the routine there was a song playing that had the lyrics "Nazis in the Morning".

Then I woke up. I immediately went over to Amy to tell her about that dream. She thought it was weird that I'd had a dream with her in it.

Then I woke up AGAIN. For real, this time.

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Dreams within dreams are so nuts!! It's so bizarre to have the double wake-up thing happen.

Amy (who was in the musical "State Fair" with me last year) made an appearance, I'm certain, because the day before I'd noticed that she'd sent me a facebook friend request. The rest of the dream, though, was just bizarre.

It's funny about the "Nazis..." song, in my dream I could hear the song and it had a real melody and I could sing along with it, but there's no way I can remember how the song went now.