East Coast Wobble

Dreamed on 2013-07-06-0637 Realize that I've instinctively put on lifeguard shirt and started patrolling school pool grounds -- oops; I sneak out as carefully as I can without being seen. Haven't worked there in years.

Dreamed on 2014.02.0639 Rewatching videos from our wedding -- we are outdoors walking in formation towards the altar. Rachel and I are there as well as four bridesmaids, all of whom are dressed rather elaborately -- I recall a geisha, a clown, and a victorian looking outfit, and I forget what else. I can't remember how we're dressed -- maybe in normal wedding gear. When we get to a specific spot in the aisle, Rachel and I start sprinting towards the altar, while the other four start sprinting away in random directions. This was on purpose, but I'm not sure why. Then I'm kayaking around town, which is difficult on dry land, but I make it work as best I can.

Dreamed on 2014.02.0846 We're all inside the completely empty hull of a giant boat during a storm. There's a loud crash as each mast breaks one at a time and crashed through the deck with a pile of rubble that we below must dodge. Each one that does is followed by a short report on an ancient crackly radio. Once all four giant masts have crashed in, we are no longer moving and must evacuate before the whole thing crushes us. I explore and find a winding passage up onto the deck, which is made of crumbling asphalt. After I explain the route to others, I climb over fallen debris to our locker area and look through my things. I snag my stormcrow knife that I got at Ragnarok last year, a haversack, a quiver, some arrows, several pencil sharpeners (for sharpening new arrows), a waterskin, and several other odds and ends. I find my dad analyzing the site of one of the collapses. He explains what happened, and we make a plan for where to go.

Dreamed on 2014.02.25.0428 apartmnent sitting and buildig pyramids with legos and constructoblocks. ELABORATE PRANK TO MUG ME IS TO PRETEND I'M A GHOST AND fail to EXORCISE ME SO THAT WHEN I THINK no one can see me they can just come and knock me over and take my stuff. but i get my allegy medictine back.

Dreamed on 2009.09.15 With the van already loaded full, and stranded at our destination by the sudden flood of rainwater and melting snow, we had no choice but to return home by boat. This was not a significant problem. The difficulty arose when we were forced to attempt loading up the solo canoe and two kayaks with the rest of the boxes and furniture that had to be moved from my parents' house to the apartment. Many things were tucked inside the boats or tied to the outside. My brother's decision to strap an armchair upside down to the back of his kayak was probably one of the more problematic issues we dealt with. As far as I can remember, though, we got off onto our journey safely.

Dreamed on 2013.08.16.0848 Driving back to the family reunion -- grandpa is driving, I'm riding along, and Lisa and Ryan are in the car -- there's a house with a sign worth seeing, so we pull off the road, drive up a gravel driveway, and look at the sign. The building is closed, but we read its hours and decide to come back tomorrow. Now grandpa is still driving, but my dad is in the passenger seat and Rachel and I are in the backseat. As we drive down the gravel road, I realize we are going much too fast, considering the cliff on the other side of the main road and how sharp of a turn we'll need to make. We drive off the cliff. In the air, I exchange a glance with my mom (who is apparently in the car now) and kiss Rachel and squeeze her hand. This sort of thing always happens in dreams, I think, but this time it's different. With all of us waiting silently in the car, the car lands. At one point it seems to be sitting, undamaged, like normal, and we realize we ar...

Dreamed on 2014.02.09.0415 Large multi-day battle between the Romans and other Dag units and a bunch of the rest of us -- scrappier germanic types of groups. Real fighting with real weapons and real death (but we hang out at houses afterwards and kinda act like it's still just Dagorhir. The dream does not include any fighting though -- the whole dream is an after party at Orion's place). We talk about how the germanic tribes had better skill and tactics at first, so we were totally winning on the first night of the fight. But where we thought we were awesome and assumed it would continue the next day, the other team knew their limits and asked the Greek/Roman gods for help. For that reason, they trounced us on the main day of fighting.

Dreamed on 2009.09.16 I move quietly, careful not to disturb the boat parked on my left, or any of the tools hanging on the walls to my right. I think I can see a clear path to the door on the other side. This is dumb! Who ever thought to make the sidewalk go THROUGH people's garages? And considering that it does, even, which is a big consideration, why did they leave their doors open? I feel like I'm trespassing, though I know I'm not. Ridiculous. Navigating through other people's garages. Reaching the far door, I open it, hoping to see a long and clear sidewalk stretching out in front of me. I stumble and fall. No, not a long sidewalk, but not another garage either. A pile of hay. I have fallen two feet into the edge of a pile of hay, which must be at least five feet deep where I swim in it. And there's construction equipment – two cranes, here, scooping at the hay. I'm in the hay they're scooping at. Okay, no need to worry. If I stay quiet they ...

Dreamed on 2013.08.08.0845 Wrestling competition that I do very well at, though it takes a while, so when I eventually return to the room to announce victory for our team, people had already forgot about me. Then POV racing remote control cars.

Dreamed on 2014.02.19.0802 moving into the basement of an old woman's house. She's friendly enough, and her little yappy type dog is friendly too, even if loud. While Rachel is setting up one of our rooms in the basement, I realize that there's a sub-basement below that and I decide to use some of the space there as my closet. The next day, the woman volunteers to drive us home (to Wisconsin), but we have extra time so we decide to stop in St. Louis halfway through the day. Now I'm in my parents' minivan and my dad is driving and the whole family is in it and we're driving out on some sketchy wooden docks onto the river. There's a 1-2 foot gap between some of the section of floating wooden bridge, and I'm trying to say that this is a bad idea, we're supposed to walk here not drive, and can we go park somewhere? But the car makes it alright. Then we get to the last one and there's a five foot horizontal gap AND the last platform is five feet a...

Dreamed on 2014.02.18.0601 In the swamp with strange creatures. We are giant bat-like moth-like creatures that look like we're made of a mat of dead swampy leaves (wingspan of three feet or so). Imperfect camouflage, but pretty good if you're up against a wall just right so that no one can see the edges of you. But there's a giant monster sort of predator that rises from the water and the muck, called the Carcassonne, much like us but with a wingspan of 10 feet and actually made, from what we can tell, of dead leaves and slime. No face, no limbs, no visible mouth. It'll fly through you and cut you in half or enfold you in its embrace, and it's super aggressive. Some think it's a myth when I explain it, but then it rises from the water nearby and we must all hide well.

Dreamed on 2014.02.17.0352 "But it's the obvious thing if we're both going to be downtown today." "Really? I mean, I don't feel safe. Someone could steal her, or she could get lost or something." "No, Bee's a good dog. Anyway, she's ready for this. This is what people do. We'll bring her down and let her go in the middle of the city. Then at the end of the day we'll go back and she'll be there." "Oh, alright." Anyway, we drop her off in the middle of the city and then walk for a while and she follows us. Then I have to clean up a mess she makes in a Subway - clearly she got into the potatoes at home. Later, I'm emailing a younger friend of mine who's in a creative writing class. He asks me at what age I considered myself a real writer / what is the ideal age before you can be a writer. I gave two answers. I think I won't be a real writer until I'm 112 years old. Also, when did you ever w...

Dreamed on 2013.09.13.0634 At a restaurant. I work for the president (Bartlett, from West Wing), but he's in league with gangs/mafia, clearly. They come in and take over the top floor of the restaurant, and I figure I ought to see him, so I request an audience and am granted one, leaving disgruntled family eating dinner. I am clearly not a mafia person. I see him, we exchange a few words, he introduces me. I recognize some of the people as good fighters but jerks from Dagorhir/Belegarth. As I go downstairs, I get into a long conversation with one of the guards about a musical instrument he has. When I get back to my table, my family has left. Then Rachel and I are walking back to our car, and in the parking ramp there are people in martial arts uniforms practicing with foam swords. I see them, and they notice that I have some in my car, so we talk for a while. Then I notice something in my mouth and I realize that one of my fillings has chipped off. Then there's a gaping ...

Dreamed on 2013.08.17.0655 In preparation for a family reunion unrelated to last night's dream, I'm helping my parents get their house ready for company and I receive a phone call from someone I've never heard of, who is apparently the son of my relatives Bruce and Lisa (not Olson). Over the phone he sounds like a pretty young kid, but he says he's about my age and named Fennec. I later confirm this with my mom. Also I'm out at a restaurant and get some FANTASTIC looking dessert to take home (like a large pan of creme brulee bars), which I forget about, and Rachel left her pile of things outside the public bathroom, and I found it all an hour later when I went back to use them anyway, and the chef at the restaurant who delivered the dessert (apparently I was the first one ever to have ordered it, and he was very proud) also gave me a thing that was 9 short logs all interwoven in a flat thing that can be burned for good luck, so I take that home for the night's...

Dreamed on 2014.02.07.0547 .THE DRAGON rumbles below and I, as the doorman, open the door when The Stepmother returns to claim one of the other princesses in the room. I watch Snow White's dress turn a GORGEOUS crimson as they walk away together. None of the others in the room say anything, and I close the door, knowing no one will ever see her again.

Dreamed on 2014.02.15.0256 Using google's anti-corporation tech to take down a company. I am a scientist and my colleague is a doctor. Whistleblower activated traps around the company which set up safe zones and we're keeping certain others away. This is a very in-person robotic google product compared to most of their services.

Dreamed on 2014.02.14.0634 We are guests in someone's house. We've been sleeping for a while and are trying to figure out what time it is. Some clocks say one thing, other clocks are 70 minutes ahead of them. every device I open to check the time is a few seconds away from shutting off, but I stop the count down and check. then realize there is a storm and the house has a glass roof. The wind is strong and I see whole trees picking up and getting flung by above us. Trying to wake Rachel up so she can go take shelter with me elsewhere. She's sitting up, but her eyes are still closed and she's still asleep.

Dreamed on 2014.02.0529 go under cover at several stores in order to complete a study of which stores' employees are better or worse at avoiding annoying and time-wasting small talk. The one I'm at in the dream failed, and I tell them so. Why would I care about the superbowl? Anyway, I start organizing some of the furniture in their displays, dusting, and turning lights on, until I see two students from last year discussing things at a table. They're planning to move into an apartment soon (for school) and are looking at different options. The apartment I'm living in right now (according to the dream) and several others I've had recently are right there (different hallways open into sample rooms which happen to have been mine) and I talk about why the current one is better than all others. These apartments bear no resemblance to any which I've lived in in non-dream life. Then eventually Rachel and someone and I have to escape from the building which is filled ...

Dreamed on 2014.02.12.0519 Get a haircut, end up making change in part by receiving a large mango. Everyone makes fun of me for it. Give "mango" (which is now a pomegranate) to Andy, who turns into my brother, at youth group which is in hidden underground passage with secret entrance and high tech security "in case of flooding." I think creepy Ken Ham is in charge of the group, in a militaristic way.

Dreamed on 2013.07.29.0804 "Yeah," I told the bus driver, "I actually quit the Haven to have more freetime. Now I'm just TAing one section of ESL on Thursday evenings, so I need to get to Van Hise again. I know it's only Monday, but I need to plan my route; it's been a while." "Is that enough to get by? Only working one night a week?" "Hah. We'll see. Hopefully I saved enough over the winter." (I don't say what I think, which is, "well yeah, I've saved plenty. It's not hard.") "Well good luck to you." We drive through the streets of Madison a bit. I suggest that I get dropped off right next to Union South so I can get some food and hang out a while before walking back to Van Hise. Driver says "okay". As we drive, the scenery changes and it starts to look cartoony -- and dark. Especially on the right side of the bus the hill/graveyard becomes solid black with some glowy purple ed...

Dreamed on 2014.02.10.0400 frankenstein boxer - absorbed others powersa read onterview. actually died and student saw me die befpre coming baxk phoenixlike [Note: Sometimes I write the basics of a dream down at 4AM, or whenever I wake up, assuming I can fill in the details at 6AM when I get up. Often I can. This time I have no memory of this, and I've decided to leave it here in all its glory.]

Dreamed on 2014.02.09.0415 Elaborate dream about helping one of the Penn State astro-grads move out of his apartment on Pinckney street (in Madison, WI). It starts off normal enough (except for how much cereal he has - like, literally, fifty boxes each of four types of cereal stacked on a giant pallet). It gets weirder when they set up a prezi in the moving van to show us what to do and some of my jewelry is broken and my keys are missing. I'm dressed very stylishly though. There's also an apartment opening up that has a job connected with it. You get paid 200 dollars per month to live there, but you have to be a candy striper as a job (literally putting stripes on candy), and that's all you get paid. We make fun of the job/apartment. As I'm helping, I'm dressed very stylishly in a top hat, cane, and long-tailed coat. Maybe a cape, too. All black and silver. Also, the other apartments in the building are so crowded that people have to leave their musical instr...

Dreamed on 2014.02.08.0852 People letting their dogs out everywhere, mostly on leashes. Our dog (not Bee, some kind of papillon silliness) looks super friendly, but is super scared of all other dogs and will bite them in the face. I try to explain this to people -- it's not a behavior, but a specific disorder that she has -- but they keep saying it won't be a problem and getting their dogs too close. I manage to keep them away until one without a leash runs up, so I pick up our dog and run away. Then, suddenly, every waterspout in the field turns on and there is nowhere to stay dry. The dog and her companion are next to me and rather than being dogs, now they are something aquatic -- like blue sea slugs (glaucus atlanticus) -- and they can talk. We discuss the meaning of the word agnostic and the philosophy of uncertainty, until my brother (not my real life brother, but I'm not real-life me either) comes up and says we're late to swear fealty to the king. Also, our ...

Dreamed on 2013.03.05.0600 At a campground with main building. We were staying in the building, but some friends set up camp outside I got up in the morning, went out and greeted them, and they started getting ready for the day. Then some other campers there -- gruff looking biker-types who I’d apparently met the day before -- reminded me that I had to open the valve that morning. I apologized profusely and rushed back to the main building hoping that I’d be able to do it in time. So I turned a thing and there was a rushing noise, and when I returned the entire field was under three and a half feet of water. The biker-guys seemed content. I called to the friends in the tent to apologize to them (they had it all set up with gadgets and electronics and whatnot inside), but they didn’t mind -- the water was staying on the outside, even with the tent door open. So I shrugged and moved on to a different part of the dream.

Dreamed on 2011.08.28 spilled huge amount of sewing needles at a party -- had to clean them all up all of them

Dreamed on 2013.08.07.0926 Bears seal off the snow tunnel into their dubstep room and dance in cute little ways. At the zoo. Also, bears are starting to learn a human-like language.

Dreamed on 2013.08.10.0915 Unreal Tournament, but real life, and in an old and converted nuclear facility. Also, only the tusken raiders were there to fight, the rest of us were just running about trying to survive. Don't even have weapons. I go outside the facility briefly, but there's too much solar radiation. Most of the walls are sandstone like.

Dreamed on 2013.08.15.0910 I lost my leg as a civilian from a terrorist missile in the US, so now when I'm trying to lifeguard, I have a bit more trouble swimming, climbing out of the pool, etc, especially because this pool has a current the whole time. Still, I do well enough.

Dreamed on 2013.08.18.105 After the discovery that some of the necklaces I made out of thrift-store and inherited gems included particularly amazing stones that might be quite valuable, I end up displaying all my jewelry (and jewelry making supplies) to be viewed and potentially purchased by the public. Everyone is looking around and talking about things, but the couple who made me do this event, a Japanese couple from Colorado, end up deciding that they want everything. They want the fancy stones, and they want all my other stuff just so no one ends up with something that looks too similar. They plan on melting my other supplies down (even though most of them are rocks, gems, etc) and making gaming dice out of them. They offer me $2437.00 for it all. I know that I want to accept this price, but I don't want to seem too eager, so I think about it for a while and at length say, "Yeah, that'll do it." So the man begins to pull out a checkbook but a girl (a friend ...

Dreamed on 2012.08.29 I was a simple thing under the creature’s spell -- it had frozen me turned me into a doll with a plastic shell and soft insides. It (she?) knocked me about and grabbed me by the wrist to swing me up into the air and then let go. I flew in slow motion, landing headfirst against the pavement, my thin plastic head fragmenting and the raw eggs of my brain splattering across the pavement. I lay there, my eyes a computer game view upside down on the floor, and I was dead.

Dreamed on 2013.07.03.0801 Rode my horse to the beach, but they don't allow pets. Horse isn't a pet, but will probably have to stay in the parking lot anyway?

Dreamed on 2014.02.07.0547 Solving fraction problems by using a small light projector with dials that you twist until you get the numerator and denominator. Rachel said one of her coworkers got it from a session at AAS. Very finicky, so I spend most of my time entering the problem. I think it's subtraction with different denominators? Maybe division? We talk about the guy whose machine this is and make fun of him for never using the machine to its full fraction calculating potential. As I turn more knobs for brightness and color, eventually I wake up having never found out how to find the answer with this technology.

2011.08.30-DREAM Playing some weird board game I don't fully understand. Then Trav is over.. it's 2am and we're cooking, but I'm not sure what he's cooking Vicky* is on the counter, and she got into the donut frosting. Vicky..... I have to go into town to get something, so I head out.... once I get around the corner (we were at my parents' house) I realize I forgot the car and am walking, and that that won't work, it'll take too long. On the way back, I find my computer I dropped. Then I realize that trav brought plenty of ingredients, I don't need to go into town anyway. Then sorting through books with Tylor.  *Vicky was an ancient/tiny/frail miniature schnauzer.

Dreamed on 2011.08.06-DREAM Meet some cranes who are evolving who ambush me... can pick up a knife/lighter.... they ask how I stay warm in winter; I show them fire/doors/inside. I teach them how to go inside (they are in a fenced in preservation-y thing) but I don't teach them why it's dangerous for them to be going inside (cameras, etc).

Dreamed on 2009.09.14 “Shhhhh, .. get the – how'd you get the lock so fast?” “It was already open, I dunno. You think he's home?” “No, I definitely saw him downtown. He couldn't be back yet. Should be busy with his gig, yeah?” “Yeah. Alright. Go ahead, see what you find. I'll follow you.” The room looked like a teenager who had just awoken after three hours of sleep. The couple picked their way through the flotsam. “Eh, what's this?” “Shit, I dunno. Computer guts? Percussion equipment? – Hey! I found an IPod!” “Alright. Let's get some tunes.” “Rock!” Eventually, they found what they were looking for. “I found the bed, and you're right – it won't do!” “It's just so .. small, and ... ugly.” “Exactly.” “So what do you think, can we do it?” “Well... there's room. I think I might be able to come up with something. Take some pictures of the space and the stuff... when we get back, I'll check it for style and find a new...

Dreamed on 2009.09.11 The house was a sprawling thing, hugging the rocks and cliffs of the hill in a way that, while perhaps initially fearful, had given way to a calm and organic trust. While conventional wisdom would count three separate floors for the house, the new owners knew that conventional wisdom did not apply here. Some rooms were higher, lower, above, or below other, but they were not separate floors, even though the porch out back from the kitchen did have stairs that went to the lower bedroom and a ladder up to the study. It was a quiet and waiting place, a place where the imposition of ticking clocks would be a sacrilege on the timelessness that let you swim in each intaken breath, and not worry about anything that someone else thought needed to be done. While the rest of his family was moving in, a young boy sprinted down a flight of stairs, through a hall, out a door, over a bit of porch and onto a rock, a huge section of bedroom exposed like a bald giant's sk...

Dreamed on 2011.08.25 Brother and I are alone at my parents' house, hanging out, cleaning, etc. Others are going to be home soon. We come in off the back porch (into the downstairs) and I bump into a chair that starts rocking. As it does, it makes this really loud and annoying bass-y “WHOOBWHOOOB” sound. The thing is, it kept making noise even after I stopped the chair. I asked my brother if he heard anything, he said no. I described the sound, and he said, “Wait, well yeah. You’re just hearing that now? That’s not a chair, that’s the east coast wobble. Everyone hears that all the time on the east coast.” Then I woke up and it was our AC unit making the noise.