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 2019.03.31 The totalitarian powers that be are keeping us in cells; musicians pair up with each other to compete; the winner moves on, the loser is killed (or at least, taken away and not seen again). Each time you have the option to keep the same instrument or change to a random new instrument. I'm not a musician; I'm one of the team that helps prep the musicians before their competitions and listens to them practice. One of the people in my room is my friend, who is performing on oboe, the instrument he studied. After he finishes practicing, a girl comes in on cello. It's also her instrument, but her arms are shaking and she can't get a consistent tone/pitch. "You've got this," I say, secretly and guiltily proud that my friend will probably win. She breaks into tears and the three of us hug her. She mumbles something angry that I don't hear, and I struggle to figure out how to word some sort of "things will be better after this, o...

Dreamed on 2018.01.21 Me and Alfons and Diggs and Charlotte and folks knew the zombies were coming, so we rushed to the hair salon and worked on getting hair cuts. It came down to my turn, but there wasn't much time left, what with the zombies coming. "Diggs, I said. Diggs, you go first." "You're sure?" he asked. I was sure. Diggs got his hair done, and now there's really no time, cause the zombies are coming. "Your turn. Come on now." The hair stylist said. "No," I said, shaking my head. "There's no time, let's go." "What are you thinking, man," Charlotte said. "You need a haircut!" "No," I said. "It's too late." My crew looked horrified, but the hair stylist nodded knowingly. "I get it, man. It's bold, but I get it. One day years from now you'll look back on today and know that this was the turning point. This was the day you didn't get ...

Dreamed on 2017.04.19.0706 Family of 4-5 on the third floor of an apartment building. Family is arguing/debating something about food. Girl goes down a floor via the stairwell and is standing near a broken window when she overhears a LARGE group – an army, really – approaching from outside. The leader of it gives his quick commands to the rest while they clean and prepare their semi-automatic guns. “Either they die or they become cattle,” he says. The army breaks into the ground floor. The girl wants to warn her family, but then what? They could do nothing about this. She feels paralyzed. She considers hiding, but ultimately decides to just get caught quickly and obviously so she doesn’t get shot. She sits right where she was already, in the corner of a landing at the stairwell, in the light of the window, and puts both hands in the air and waits. As the army files through, no one sees her. She starts to yell, “Hey! I’m here. I surrender!” and still they all run right past her, i...

Dreamed on 2017.01.17.0936 Walked for several days to get to the new apartment I'll be living in while going to school. Rachel walked with me. Along the way, I met a talking ermine who accompanied us on the journey and became a very close friend. Upon arriving, I invited him to move in with us, but he apologized and said he had a wife and kids he had to get back to. I invited them all to move in with us, but I had to go inside and move in now and he had to go back to them, and once I went through the door we wouldn't have contact again. We made a plan hoping to meet up outside at the bench at some point, but with no guarantee that it would happen. Later, sleeping in a terrible half-destroyed cabin with a collection of other students. Staying quiet in the night so we don't get in trouble. At length and after some suspicion, snuck down into a basement. Attacked by black birds; turned into an owl to fight back and killed them. Collected the feathers. Resumed normal shape. ...

Dreamed on 15.11.17.2352 In a large supermarket? or movie theater? Struggling to get out among the masses of people in light of the event. I make it back to the house earlier than Rachel and start securing the house--see her, greet her excitedly, finish securing the house together. Realize that one of the rooms (the greenhouse-y room where we grow... peppers? mushrooms? something like that that we've managed to grow in this dusty world--is open to the outside except for flaps of plastic and can't be secured. Men show up in motorcycles and we hide and listen and watch as they find the greenhouse and talk about the vegetables--they leave without taking any, but we know they'll be back now. What can we do in this world if we don't want to live by violence, but we still want to live?

Dreamed on 2016.12.28.0819 Epic battle for our combined nations is raging -- swords, fire storm, monsters, catapults, and all of it set in the ruins of an ancient labyrinthine castle half-excavated. The two other kings and I (and a servant) join up and plunge further into the ruins - we are driven and purposeful when a woman stops us. Safety, this way, she says. Logically, I say no. We are not here to find safety or to run from our troubles. But she offers safety once again and we accept even though it goes against our interests and makes no sense. When we each take her hand I feel mine burn as if I'm touching the flames of hell, but then of course, suddenly, I don't feel that because that wouldn't make any sense. I don't wonder how each of us has taken her hand. She leads us deeper and deeper into the ruins, into places never before explored, away from the war, and we find the ruins give way to exceptional halls and she leads us ultimately to a banquet hall and giv...

Dreamed on 2014.12.28.0758 world is getting overpopulated and heading nowhere good -- more and more pod-like programs are popping up to employ an shelter people (by sweeping them off to companies far and away) who have particular skills. I, having a mix of interpersonal and IT skills, go into a tunnel that will interviw me for a superadvanced job. it's beter for me but people try to latch onto me and faollw me. I lay on a conveyor belt while getting asked a series of questions. It happens too fast and I don;t give good answer but it doesnt seem to matter. At then end it's explained that I'll do well as a super spy to help seave the world.. They explain that we'll be in dangrous situation and will die sometimes, but reveal that they have a cloning technology. They stress taht even though they can use that to bring us back, we still die. So if you are going to die while on a mission, somehow relay info back first, because it won't be in your new body's head....

Dreamed on 2014.10.11.0828 Note: Play "sometimes our dreams float like anchors" by William Elliott Whitmore in the background (it was stuck in my head when I woke up). At a large party with people. I have a friend/neighbor with me. Decide to go underwater for a bit and record a video (I have a new goPro that I want to play with -- it's a fingertip --about as thick as a finger print -- and it records whatever I'm pointing at. This works well, as my suit is also set to propel me by pointing with that same finger whenever I accelerate by a gesture with my other hand. We cruise around for a while and find cool bubbles to film (note that our suits cover our face and let us breathe automatically, and this whole transition from air to water is second nature by now. Water can be scary because of the waves and forces that can move you suddenly, but air can be equally scary because you notice gravity more, you move slower, waves that manage to hit you in the air do more t...

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 2014.06.18.0720 We debate going back to help, but then the city explodes in a nuclear inferno. The portal opens nearby and we step through. On this new planet we try to live more honestly by forgetting tools -- we do well at this for a time, but we need spears to hunt with. The simian creatures who dwell here already hurl sharpened sticks and slash at us with sharp rocks, so that's fair if we use them to fight back. Some of the tribe has resorted to cannibalism and we've turned, really, into two antagonistic tribes -- men and women. It is not safe to go out alone anymore, especially with my wounded hand from my latest simian fight. A mixed gender group of us bridges the gap and goes on a mission for something.

Dreamed on 2014.04.03.0314 After every storm, it seems, another of the ancient concrete bridges between our villages crumbles. I took a new route today and, when caught in a storm, found shelter that - from the message written on the bricks - was found by a football team who had built it of bricks together an age ago.

Dreamed on 2014.05.21.0614 accidentally summoned a jotun in an abandoned building. ran. then distracted it with runes. got it on my side by praising it, asking it questions, and teaching it english. not sure what to do next.

Dreamed on 2014.04.19.0712 I'm a kid in a game show kinda thing. We've done a hockey like event where I had some cool moves, and it ends, and we start arguing about which team is better (there were like 10 teams involved). Eventually the judges say okay, for this next one, whichever team was first gets a special challenge. So who wants to have been first? We go in, and it turns out that the more people from our four person team we cover in worms/earwigs/little bitey things, the more of a benefit we get. We need to survive and make it to the other side of the gym. A bunch of nonsense fighting happens (including hiding in a giant telescope), and then I manage to escape from the other side of the gym, alone, into a post apocalyptic world in which all that matters is escaping the cannibals. Also, paper is the most important thing ever. Scientists want to catch kids to experiment on them, taxis try to trick you into taking a ride (and not coming back), and gathering pieces of ...

Dreamed on 2014.04.15.0620 Ian and I struggling to walk from the outpost at the very north pole to iceland over great ice sheets, etc. BEAUTiful landscapes. Rather dangerous and hard to navigate with just a map and a compass though. We almost turn back after one of the nights a large group of us spend at the old remains of an old burnt out hotel because the wind is so strong that nobody can think. Literally, no one could think. There was this one guy just standing with a blank look on his face and staring while leaning into the wind, and I was like, "Hey! Hey man!" and he didn't respond. When I went around the corner I saw Ian huddling there all depressed at what was happening, but we talked and decided we could do the journey together just the two of us. It was something of a competition, so we left the others behind. When we made it back to an outpost we checked everyone's progress via map and saw that someone had gone several hundred miles across open ocean f...

Dreamed on 2013.08.19.1010 Set in the future, high tech civilization and uber government surveillance dystopia. waiting on top of a platform near a high speed rail with my car parked in an alleyway beneath. The governments knows I'm here and have my car there, but they don't know that I know that they know I'm here and have my car there. They're planning on me doing something small then escaping in the vehicle, so they're ready to seize me at the bottom. I also don't think they know that I'm only one of many who have planned to do things all across the city-state. The time comes and I do something... some act of sabotage... unsure what. Then I drop down onto the passing train, leave my car behind, ride for a while, ditch the train near a jogging trail into a forest, and run in. After a time, run up a fallen tree to a small platform and wait out of sight of all. Except I had been running next to a guy who saw me do it and is causing trouble. I eventually ...

Dreamed on 2013.07.05.0932 Post apocalyptic surviving in my parents' house with a dozen or so of us. Not living in the whole house, because we don't trust the dark. Sending expeditions to other parts of the house, etc. Also, for a while, fighting skirmishes on the driveway. I got to wear my new armor. The ones we'd tried to make peace with wouldn't accept peace, so we had to do what was necessary to defend ourselves, and we were the better prepared for war.

Dreamed on 2013.05.26.0813 Post local apocalyptic surviving in an abandoned church-like structure.The entrance, which had symbolically never closed, was difficult to close. The dead rise with the setting sun.