East Coast Wobble

Dreamed on 2020.01.02 We get the call to move out, and it startles us, but we do it. High energy, but focused, like a wolf pack, dressed in black. "This block?" "Naw, next. Some cabs. 010, I think is one of the numbers?" We run to the next. An uber, some cabs, and a small bus are pulling in. People are hopping in places, but we ignore the bus; they just want in on the action. I see a guy I know -- the older one, angular face, more... I don't know, South American features? -- I get in the same car as him. "Where we headed, cabbie?" "You know I can't say; security feature. I can confirm the code on your phone though." "I don't have the code, don't have a phone; just was told to get in." Cabbie shrugs and is right; it's not their problem. "You in? We going?" "Yeah, let's go." The city is a wreck. I mean, it's 2:30 AM on New Year's Day, and I thought that'd be enough anarchy...

Dreamed on 2019.01.20.0821 I was swimming laps, but we got cut off by the garbage truck driving by. I did the thing I do when cars cut me off (lean back, look aghast, gesture with arms out), and they just flipped me off. My swimming shift was done, so I got in the lifeguard chair. The garbage workers WERE the current olympic swimteam, just doing their thing to get the pool ready for their workout. One of the kids, who was also one of my students, picked up a coffee tin full of water and slung it at me, water and metal and all. He missed. I tried to protest, but he picked up an empty blackbean can (full of water) and slung that too. I had to dodge -- which is hard in a lifeguard chair, yeah? -- so that it didn't rip a chunk of my nose off. Anyway, accusations were made and they (the Wolves) showed up gang like saying things like, "What, he threw a can of water at him? He works at a pool. It's just water" and being all defensive. Anyway, I owned the land and ended up...

Dreamed on 2017.07.21.0424 Some anarchist/terrorist guy attacks the grocery store I work in and tries to escape, but I slow down my perception of time and take off after him. I'm in something like a Goliath from StarCraft, but the top section is capable of flight, which I use. I track him as he leaves the store, then send a barrage of missiles and bullets. He fires back with machine gun like things. We take it out into the parking lot and continue firing with no one taking any damage and the rockets just falling around him on the ground without exploding. Eventually I just get point blank and we're both shooting each other and the bullets aren't doing anything, as if it's a laggy computer game or something. So I suggest dude just leaves and goes home and doesn't come back. Like, ever. Please. And his wife agrees with this very happily and so he agrees to too. After I think they leave, I realize I should pick up all the rockets in case ammunition starts working aga...

Dreamed on 2017.02.07 In order to recruit for the Homeless and Runaway Shelter Volunteer Club at the Elementary School (recruiting volunteers, not runaways), we decide to gather all the school clubs together and announce their names to see who wants to join ours. Somehow that makes sense because we can see who is only in one club or something? Also peer pressure. After calling a bunch of club names and having about 20 kids total join us, one really pale little kid stands up angrily and screams, "What about club Hydra?" So the announcer apologizes and announces this thing called Club Hydra that doesn't exist as the kid stands up and angrily joins us. Several of us teachers murmur to each other "Isn't Hydra, like, actual Nazis?" and "We don't want the Nazi kid!" and "Does he not know?"

Dreamed on 2014.08.07.0458 Abducted off the street to serve as a cultural advisor to Kim Jong-un. He is driving the car this time to show his power, rather than being driven and showing weakness -- he came off as weak in the past during a physical competition we were both part of. Yesterday he made a show of killing his old driver, saying it was sad because he was a good driver, but then laughing like it didn't faze him. I ask him -- as politely as possible -- how he felt about what he just did: sad, angry, amused, etc. I say I am expressing genuine curiosity. He explains a concept about significance: "The repeated patterns around you gain significance based on how often you see them and what you associate them with. If you see the same necklace everywhere in a certain context, it begins to matter to you and mean something to you in a certain way. So it is with this." That's all he explains and it doesn't really make sense to me. I ask if I can stay nea...

Dreamed on 2014.07.22.0434 everyone was talking and hanging out in the parking lot asI was getting read yto go to my dirst day of school in my new job. i aplogoize to shawn who's been looking for a job for a long time and what supposed to get one before me we thought . anyway, I have to leave becuase I don;t want to be late, and it turnes out i can just fly there so I do. i'm at my parents house. as I fly over the beatuiful trees i zoom oiut more and everything is made of legoes and i move the lego piece then come down and landand i'm back in first prtdon mofe, but it's a computer game. first i escape from the bad guy's hideout (which is easy because I'm just leaving and I basically say , ":no no, it's cool, I'm one of you" to the guard as I run byt. then i''m in the street in an impovereish and kind of post apoc world and I'm eating grapes, which in the computer game, heal you. I'm just eating them cause their'e good....

Dreamed on 2014.07.19.0837 Back in high school! I'm supposed to go to gym class, but evne though my gym class in in the field, I've been asssgned to finish the test for my swimming class so I go to [REDACTED]'s gymclass. it turns out that they're not doing tests anyway, so I hang out and swim around for a bit. There are kids who are asking qeuestions that I help, and I become a sort of TA for the class. One kid has a question in spanish that I help with, then I talk with parents who are picking their kids up at the end. I realize at one point that I should have been at my actually assigned class, but we decide that it's fine. In the dream I'm in this strange region somewhere between student and teacher.

Dreamed on 2011.08.25 Older person going back in time as a younger (teenageish) person. Party at a teenager's house, with a secret governance council thing to rule on some social drama issue (in a real serious The Outsiders sort of way). Helping clean up after they leave (helping little kids find and put away all of the fancy silver silverware.

Dreamed on 2014.04.17.0755 The man was stuck in a loop, and someone had figured that out and committed a crime. It took me a while to realize he was stuck in a loop, since that's not the kind of thing that happens usually. A big loop, like, a Groundhog's Day loop, except time still passes for everyone else while he does the exact same thing everyday. The kitchen table was covered in dust except for the spot where he always sat each morning and night for his food. The carpet, even, had a path worn from the same tired footfalls he placed in the same spots each day. Lucky going shopping was in his daily routine (followed by a burger for lunch at the diner next door), or lack of food may have brought him down. The newspaper he read each morning was tissue paper thin now, and started to shred, but I could still read the date from ten years ago on the paper. Subsequent research told me that this had been the day the old man's wife had been murdered by an intruder in the hou...

Dreamed on 2013.07.02.0910 Returning to that damned orphanage one last time, but I know I must still follow all the rules. I'm late returning for the big clean, so they make everyone wait for me, but I am good at what I do and I have a system. Though known for my disobedience and rebellion I work fast and soon have everything up to standard -- it's poor and sloppy where I know they won't check, but in other places even the pieces of hay that make up the floor are aligned with each other.

Dreamed on 2013.07.17.0651 Something about having quit other jobs and applying to be a surgeon -- but not a surgeon yet, because I need more training, so just a nurse, first. After that i have trouble driving because of all the construction, so it turns out I'm walking up a hill. I'm being socially awkward and walking too close to other people, but it's not my fault, it's a very slippery hill and I can't get traction so I have to walk slow. Sold some necklaces to a shop in a tunnel at our vacation home. picked out a nice one to give to rachel, but I broke it -- looks like an easy fix, though. We argue back and forth about who should fix it (i should because I broke it, I say). Eventually they relent and let me take it home broken (the string is cut), but they give me a discount. I try to take a picture of it but my camera is on the fritz, so I realize I can use my computer to take a picture. Voting for official city hero.. go Rachel!

Dreamed on 2014.02.07.0547 As the assistant principal comes into my studyhall to take over so I can leave, I'm about to shout at them to sit down, be quiet, get to work, stop (literally) climbing the walls and playing basketball and standing on desks and being loud, but he puts a finger to lips and pretends to sneak and explains that he wants them to not even notice that he's here -- he doesn't want to disturb their reading. I look around at the chaos, then wake up.

Dreamed on 2014.03.02.0520 Line up of kids need to get injections to prevent mosquito bites. Several of us are working to give them. I've given them plenty of times before. The tools are pretty much a leather-working awl, a little surgical knife, a tub of honey, and a sewing needle. The first kid comes up, I prep the tools, I explain the process (put some honey on the scalpel and add a tiny bit to the bloodstream for it's antiviral/antiseptic properties), and then I don't do it. I keep finding myself taking the tools out of my mouth (not in a painful way, but it in a let-me-hold-these-in-my-mouth-while-doing-something-with-my-hands-way. Eventually I stare at the honey coated scalpel and realize that I'm stalling because I have no clue how to do this, or even why honey is involved in the procedure. I feel guilty for holding up the line, and making the kid in my seat scared. Later, I am an out of favor healer that was once chosen by a god ... possibly, I am Asclepius,...

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 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 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.