Marsha Marsha Marsha

I was in another place, Lincnoln I think. I was with another woman. It was Ryan, I and the girls. I think we were inside a four walled structure with no roof. I even think there was grass on the ground. Maybe the walls were more like a fence enclosure. For a while in the dream I couldn't remember her name. I only remembered that I knew her and that I should know her name. Near the end of the dream it came to me. Her name was Marsha and was someone we used to go to church with when we lived in Lincoln. She was cordial and showing us around. I can't remember if she offered that she was divorced or I inquired where her husband was but he was not there because they had divorced.

phone calls from beyond

I was sitting in a large room with my old boss and coworker. My boss was lounging on a couch, my coworker was sitting on the floor. I think my coworker/friend and I were texting back and forth. Then I remember getting a text and replying. My boss said "I've seen some texts from one person on there and I wondered who they're from" I replied "a friend". It was strange.

Then I was in another room with my current staff. I think we were talking about floodplain permits. There was a bed and I was getting ready to go to sleep. It was like work/home and everything happened in the same place. I laid in bed and on the left side of where my heel was sitting there was a hole, like a mouse had chewed through the matress. My heel kept falling inside the whole and it drove me nuts. I remember saying to one of my staff, as I laid in bed "so I bet you can't figure out which side of the bed I normally sleep on" because I was obviously to the left side of the bed while the right side was perfectly made. I think she laughed at me.

Then I was walking into a McDonals with Maddie and Annie. As I walked through the glass double doors I took a phone call. I think originally the call was on my cell phone. There were a lot of people in the McDonalds. Almost, or maybe even all of the seats were filled. I was standing next to one of the garbage recepticles and a two-seater table where twoJapanese men sat. Annie was playing in the middle of the two of them on the bench seat. One of the men kind of looked at me funny. Anyway I stood there talking on the phone with my mother. I was very excited to be talking to her because it's been three years. On the other end of the line, somehow I know my grandma is with her. I keep on talking, really happy about doing that and I realize that I would love for my girls to be able to talk to her. So I start to call Annie over to the phone. This is kind of hard because Annie is enjoying herself at this table with the Japanese men. Finally she starts to come over and I turn my attention back to the phone... I am going to tell my mom that she is going to talk to Annie, her three year old granddaughter. I call "mom...........mooooom.....mom" but I never get any answer. I realize that she's no longer there and she will not get to talk to Annie. It was a very sad moment of my dream. I woke instantly.

Dream fragments from the week

I remember fragments from the last couple of nights dreams.

Recently I was dreaming of a river. There were times when the river traffic was very low and not many ships on the river. At other times it seemed as congested as Chicago at rush hour. In one of the congested moments I remember seeing a tall white boat with several decks. It was surging forward, almost as if it was passing other boat traffic, and then it tipped up on its front and sank almost immediately top first into the water. I remember looking at that scene thinking "oh my goodness there must be a lot of people on that boat/ship". I was thinking about them rushing to doors and trying to free themselves. I watched the boat for a long time. After a bit I thought that it was quite a lot of time and worried they wouldn't survive. I kept watching the water for survivors to pop out. Finally I saw a lot of bodies. I looked closely to see if they were swimming but none of them were. I realized they were all dead. I was sad.

Then a couple of days ago I only remember that in part of my dream there was a small pig, alive. He was cute. Then I remember seeing the pig and he was dead. He was all black and the back of him was split open. Large black spiders were crawling out of his body.

Kittens and pythons

I walked through an urban part of a downtown and at times I walked through apartment buildings. Carrie D-S and I were together. She wanted to attend church. I told her that I didn't care which church we went to. I mentioned a nearby Methodist church and a Lutheran church. She walked into a chuch, which I realized to be Catholic. I asked her, why are we going here when neither of us can take communion. She never answered me. We sat in a small room with two or three pews that faced a wall. I thought it was the room to honor Mary, but I never saw a statue of Mary. Carrie was holding a baby who was playing with a loaf of bread. When the priests came down the steps from the main sanctuary area they appeared to come to offer us bread, but noticing that we already had bread they walked on.

After the church thing I remember walking by an opening/stairwell to an apartment building. I heard kittens mewing inside. I walked over and saw at least two kittens and the mother cat sitting in the stairwell, scared. I called to Carrie. Then I pulled up the wraught iron gate and scooped up the kittens. They were scared because there were two pythons in the stairwell waiting to eat them. We walked up the stairs to the next level. A door to an apartment was not locked and we entered. I put the kittens and mother cat inside. I remember walking around the apartment looking at everything. I think later the pythons may have also been inside the apartment but they were no longer a threat to the cat/kittens. I recall the kittens or pythons having some interesting abilities to pick up glasses, pour wine, etc. Very strange. Near the end of the dream, the owner came home. I walked down and told the owner about the situation. They were friendly. Then I told the animals to come out and the snakes shocked the owner a bit.

Europe

I was along a beachfront. The tide was supposed to come in. I was with one or two other children. I was young. I remember waiting for them to be able to go out and swim. There was a mother there. I am not sure if it my mine or one of the other children.

I was in Europe, I think. I was at a coffee-type bar. I remember there being a young boy with short dark hair, who was very well off, sitting on the counter between the coffee machines. One of the servers took a plate, put some time of pastry/scone onto the plat. Two other bowls were on the plate. One had some kind of chocolate sauce and the other was some type of cream. The server who had short dark curly hair cut the pastry, dipped it into the sauces and fed the boy. The boy was somewhere between 8-10 years old. He exuded a sense of entitlement. It seemed strange to me that he wouldn't feed himself. The staff seemed very intent on pleasing this boy.

I remember being in an indoor mall inside a store. The store had no windows along the backside but had a glass front facing the interior of the mall. The store appeared to have a wide variety of merchandise but I was very interested in the art pieces.

Unsettling

There were some pretty strange things going on in the series of dreams I had last night. I think I woke up at one point having trouble breathing (stuffy nose perhaps).

I remember walking on water that had a thin piece of ice. I recall it cracking and shifting under my feet but I never lost ground or fell. It was unsettling.

In another part of the dream I was with my mother. She and I were sleeping in the same bed. I got up at one point and started looking in the sheets for a stone that had separated from my bracelet. I found one larger diamond and continued looking for a saphire. I think I may have found the saphire.

I looked out the bedroom window, which appeared to be the same as my house in Lincoln. I looked over to the neighbors house and there was a moving truck. It appeared they were moving into the house next door.

I can remember feeling unsettled throughout the dream. I also remember thinking that when my mom died my dad was with me and when my dad died my dad was with me. I distinctly remember thinking about this as being strange as if each of them came back to life when the other was dead so that one of them was always with me.

Alaska

We flew to Alaska. Once there we stayed with someone we knew, I think. I do recall being in some kind of apartment style building. I was with another girl. She and I were walking to her apartment and another woman was following us. I think I had Maddie and Annie with me and this other woman that I was staying with because the woman following us wanted to steal my daughters. I also remember being in another part of this Alaskan town, in a children's clothing botique. The same woman following us owned the botique if I remember correctly.

At some point I had a conversation with some other adults about whether or not schools ever close. They told me that schools never close because of snow. I remember thinking, well there's snow on the ground right now and then it occurred to me that snow is such a regular occurrance that a snowstorm wouldn't close the schools.

I think I had some relatives in town also, but I cannot remember who they were.

Stadium

I was in a stadium, football I believe. I was with Tony F., a friend of mine from my last job. He was watching the game from a balcony type seating. I think I had to take an elevator to get there.

I remember taking a break and going back down during the middle of the game, but now I cannot remember who I saw when I was down there.

Going somewhere

I was with another woman, a friend I think. I cannot remember who I was with. We were somewhere together. We were staying in the same room. The room we stayed in had no exterior walls. It was night and got very cold. We slept together in one large bed.

Then I remember being in work situations. I was preparing to meet with Mayor Suttle. At one point in the dream the two of us had a conversation. He wanted my help with things. I agreed to help. Other people thought I was interested in working for him, but I was really only helping provide assistance. I remember being in the Omaha planning department office waiting area, which did not look like it does actually. I saw a collegue in the waiting area and we started talking. I remember hearing the planning director's voice, and seeing the back of him as he walked away but we never spoke.

Spa

I was with a group of other people. We were staying in a large room. It was some type of retreat-spa. It was for therapy or something like that. In the beginning we were all staying in one room and we had cats. There were cat beds all over the place. Both of my cats were there. They were just wandering around leisurly.

Then we were in more of a classroom group setting. There was an instructor. She was having us do some activities. Then there were other parts of the facility. We could go to parts of the facility for a variety of services. There was an area for facials, hot tubs, etc. There was also a beach and a couple of people and I had talked about going out to the beach on the last day. I saw the group was doing a group activity and I had missed it. I walked into a room, hoping to become part of the activity. When I walked in I realized I was in the wrong class. I disrupted the class briefly. Then I found my class. They were all in a fairly small indoor pool. The instructor had everyone swimming to one side of the pool, so they were all in one giant cluster. The idea of the activity is that the people were supposed relax and use each other to stay afloat. I never joined the activity. I just watched and talked to the other instructor.

Then I remember thinking that this was the last day. It was getting dark out so we were not going to be able to go to the beach.

Then we were in a bus. We stopped at a town/village in a mountain area. I think we were in another country. It may have been somewhere Africa, which doesn't really make sense. Maybe Alaska. I'm not sure. I got out my camera and took a couple of pictures. It looked like a pretty normal small town from afar. No paved roads. Everything was dirt. I remember finding another woman from the group, who was mentally disabled, and held hands with her as we walked into the village. That was it!

Iraq

I was travelling bo boat to Iraq with a group of people. I remember being in the water, on top of the water, at one time. I think I was floating on a thin piece of wood at some point.

Land use

There was a bed sheet. The sheet looked like a parcel map. It had different intensities of red. on it and some parcels seemed to be getting darker.

Evil Emu!

I remember being on a trip and in a wood cabin. I think I was part of a mid sized group.

Then there was an area, outside of a cave. I remember being afraid of something. Some kind of animal/being that was inside the cave. From the corner of my eye I saw something run past me. It scared me. The quick blip I saw looked like a emu but with a very large beak. I actaully woke up with a racing heart.

When I went back to sleep I was with people I knew. We were together, I think in a school classroom. We were talking about baseball teams. Duane Dowd was there. He was looking at a magazine or sheet of paper with some team logos. I told him my dad was a player for the (Detroit) Tigers. I think my friend Michelle (from my last job) was in the dream but right now I cannot remember how she was involved.

Parallel

This dream is from two nights ago.

Again, very strange. It has some similar images from another dream I had awhile ago. The one where there was a train line going through the town. It was pretty similar but in the last dream the train tracks were running through a fairly urban area with covered tracks.

In this dream there was a city. It seemed very barren. I remember seeing lots of red hues like adobe, brick on the buildings, reddish dust dirt, etc. I remember being in the dream, walking around. I think I saw myself in the third person. There were relationships happening in the dream. There was also talking between the people and I think the discussions were relative to how and what could cause a person to die and end up in a parallel dimension. I told you it was strange. I remember seeing the dream in two hues. One was more alive as in the present and the other was dull as if I was dead. There was a conversation about an act that would cause people to die and cross over, which happened to me in the dream. The colors in the dream turned dull and more reds which symbolized that I had died. There were more people on that side, of those who had died but could not be seen in the brighter present dimension. I think there was some kind of discussion about how one might cross back over. I remember a tree, and I think climbing the tree. I walked through a fairly substantial portion of the city which was made up primarily of brick two and three story buildings. The area was fairly urban in nature. I remember seeing streets, the railroad tracks which did not have any train cars. I think there may have been some representation there with trains coming into the dream as a way to move between dimensions. I remember feeling sad that I had died. I think people were moving around in the dream as if continuing on with business as usual on both dimensions.

Shared home, again

Last night there was a pretty large, loud, storm in the area. I woke up several times in the evening. At some point in the mix I had this dream.

I was living, or perhaps staying temporarily, in a house with several other people. I recall being in one part of the house playing with little figures and a dollhouse next to a window. I must have been a child. I remember seeing one of the people who live in the house arrive in a car with another person and walk into the house. I thought "they live in this room so I am going to need to leave". The next thing I remember I am with an older gentleman. I don't recall feeling like he was a family member. I remember feeling like I wanted to stay with him (I was a child). We were able to stay together briefly. This is going to sound really bizzare, but I think we were floating on a fairly calm body of water, like a swimming pool. (I chuckled as I typed that) I remember the water being very blue. Perhaps it was a water bed. There was not anything inappropriate going on, we were just laying next to each other, maybe hugging. The dream ended with that. It was pretty strange and I remember that this dream seemed to have more emotions than images.

Glass people

This dream was two nights ago so I do not remember much. I remember being in a room, I think a living room, at dusk with my mother. Amanda, my niece, was there. There was a glass cabinet near the front of the room that had several small glass figures (I think a little form of a person - you know like the symbol for the restroom) in several different colors. I think I had a short conversation with my mom about them, how she had purchased many of them to give as Christmas gifts. I believe she was allowing Amanda to pick out her Christmas gift.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

This dream was the day before yesterday. The order of my posts got messed up because I posted about three dreams at the same time. I'm just glad I retained enough to type out three dreams at the same time!

There was a really interesting house. I remember that it was very white inside. The walls were white, appliances were white and furnishings were white. I remember that it appeared very white everywhere, almost institutional. But it was clearly a residential home. It had several wings to it where there was a single bedroom with attached bathroom but there were common areas where everyone comingled. I recall near the end of the dream being in the rear of the building which included laundry facilities. I think there may have been some workout equipment there. In the end of the dream I remember someone baking a batch of fresh Tollhouse cookies. I remember seeing them come out of the often, soft and warm. I'd like to think I enjoyed eating at least one in my dream, but I don't remember that part!

Old Asian pieces of estate

There was a basement, which oddly enough I think was more like the outside. There were vendor type people set up in the area almost like a yard sale. Items were marked for sale. I remember looking at several very detailed Asian pieces. I think I purchased a couple of things for gifts. I can't remember who the gifts were for.

Then I remember being in a basement and looking through items that were part of my dad's estate. There were, again, many pieces that were intricate Asian pieces of medallians, pendants, button-type items. There was some special significance almost mystical with these pieces. There was a lot of mystery and mystacism with both this dream and the one from the previous night. Mythical, fantasy, etc. Both were similar with that type of overtone.

Mansion spirits

Two nights ago I was in an old multi-story house. It was a residence. I think it was victorian. The house was filled with spirits. I remember a woman spirit floating through the building and I think a child. Maybe similar to Madeline's age. It was fairly bizare (ya think?).

Puppies

I don't remember as much about this dream even though it was just last night. I remember being in a house. It was pretty dark. I had a young dog. It was a small dog but I don't remember anything about what he/she looked like. Then there was suddenly another dog (like a grey schnouser) and she had one puppy. The puppy was cute, obviously, and I remember going out to look for my other dog that was instantly missing when the new dog with puppy showed up. I think there may have been part of the dream where I was in a camper with someone.

Swim team!

Two nights ago I dreampt I was at a school. I was in high school again. I remember a building with lots of rooms and corridors. There were sleeping corridors in the school as if it was a boarding school. I believe that I was starting the school a little late. Somehow I was interested in the swim team. I think I had a friend who was also. The swim coach gave me my gear and when I put on the suit I realized that I was being put on the varsity team! I was so excited and shocked. I think my friend was not given the same suit and was not on the team with me. The last thing I remember was the swim coach telling me to go out with the team and do the routine that they had been practicing up to this point. I remember going out there and faking it pretty well.

I think earlier in the dream I was looking for someone in the corridors. I remember finding my room that had a tall dresser in the room. I think at one point I was in a very large shared bathroom, like the shower area or something, with another kid who was being picked on. I befriended them. That's all I remember two days later...

Woken up

I was in a house with a bunch of relatives. My mom was there, my maternal grandmother and grandfather were there. There were some other people that I don't think I knew. I believe they were friends of my grandparents. I remember that my grandpa was laying down in a bedroom at the end of the hall. I think everyone though he had died. I was sitting in the room in a rocker next to his side of the bed where he lay very still. It was not dark out but it was dim. I don't believe there were any lights on in the room. I think I may have been talking or reading to him. Finally I decided to leave. As I left the room I turned back and said "goodnight grandpa" and as I walked out he said back to me "goodnight!". I remember feeling astonished as if he had come back from the dead. I told eveyone and they were all very excited. My mother came up to me and just said "thank you!" and looked so happy that I woke him up, or come out of a coma or whatever was keeping him the way he was. I remember thinking that I didn't really do anything special but I felt very happy too. As if I finally got to talk to him after all of these years.

After a bit we all went outside. It was winter because there was snow on the ground. We were all following each other in a line, headed somewhere I don't recall. I remember having a snow shovel and using it to clear the icy snow from the walk. It was a lot of work. I remember getting to one part of the sidewalk where it was a cliff type dropoff on one side and the grass then street on the other side. It was sunny outside but must have been cold since we were all wearing winter coats.

I wish I could remember the rest because it was equally bizarro.

Okay, I also remember being in a downtown. It was night. I was headed up to a room where a friend lived. I had to climb up some crazy ladder to get to the door. I remember there were two young people in the apartment. They were alone. I think I was rescuing them from some bad situation. I think one was happy and the other was not.

Vicodin dreams

I know I had several wacky dreams last night which I will attribute to the vicodin. I can't remember any of it now.

Mountain travel

I don't know why this last attempt didn't get saved. Now I get to type the whole damn thing again. I don't really have time for this. I was late before and now I am really late!

I was driving up a hill toward a mountain range. I don't remember if anyone was in the car with me. I think I was driving an SUV. There may have been people with me but the conversation was not registered in my dream. I remember thinking that I could only drive partly to my destination and the rest would have to be by trail.

I finally reached the top of an area and could still see the mountains around me. I was on the top of a hill with a large capsule on it. It was the tip of an old space shuttle. I was in the capsule with my mom and dad. It was large inside and we were walking around looking through the many windows in the capsule. I saw a bunch of rockets aimed and shooting at the capsule and top of the hill we were on. I rememer saying to my dad that I was glad we were in the shuttle because it was probably one of the few places that could withstand the impact of the rockets since it was designed to re-enter the earth's atmosphere. The bombs were blowing up all around us but we were nice and safe inside. I don't remember my mom saying much.

I was then inside a doctor's office. I was working part time for the doctor's. I was assigned to a female doctor. She was talking to me while she was getting dressed. I could see the mountains from the inside of the office.

I was also in a gym or cafeteria. I remember being in a place with a lot of people and there being lockers. I spoke to a couple of people to find out where I could lock up my purse. I think one of them gave their locker to me. Maybe it was a school. Something like that.

In the end of the dream I was driving again up a hill away from the mountains with a couple of business collegues. We were talking about the town that we were in. I remember someone saying that the town had a population of 18,000.

Break-in?

I was driving a black SUV and parked it outside of the place I was staying. I am not sure if I had recently moved there or if I was staying with a friend. When I walked around the rear passenger side I noticed that someone had tried to break in to the car. There was a crow bar jammed into the rear passenger side window. I yanked it out.

Gathering

I wish I could remember what happened earlier in my dream, but it's long forgotten. I do remember being with a lot of family. I think there was a wedding. I am not sure whose wedding we were attending but Ryan's family was all there. There were separate buildings where events were taking place. I recall being in one where we were eating a meal together and another where we were sleeping.

Cruise Ship

There was an earlier part of the dream where a childhood friend was there. Her name was Michelle Peterson. I can't remember what we were doing or why she was there.

The next part was when I was in a cruise ship. There were lots of people there. It was almost like a group of us were together, actually we were. A leadership group. We were all in class together. I recall there being some older men there too and at least one or two of them were judges. They kept making passes at some of the young women. The keys to the rooms were very strange looking, like squares with points that came out like one point of a star. The rooms were more like very large capsules with almost nothing in them. I went into one of the judges rooms with another girl. He was sleeping in a chair. There was an adjacent room with a large flat screen tv on the wall. Then I remember going to another room where the leadership group was working on a project or listening to a speaker. For some reason I was allowed to miss part of the presentation. When I came in they were getting ready to eat. I think they were making blackberry pancakes and had received some strange chocolate candy bars. I think my high school friend friend Dave Jarzynka was in the group. Both of them are on facebook now after not having spoken with them for many years.

Candyland

I needed to post this earlier but have been busy. Thus things are not as clear as they were. I do remember being in a large room with some crazy contraptions. The contraption was really colorful like brightly colored candies. It had lots of pieces that stuck out like little basins. I think I was filling them up with water.

Then I remember being in an office. My desk was out with everyone elses. The discussion with the other employees was related to plants. There was a large plant and we were trying to decide where the plant would go.

Environmental Talk

I was on a college campus and there were debates and discussions happening. Ryan was sitting at an eight foot table, wood veneer top without anything on it. A person was sitting in a chair across from him. I remember he was eating popcorn and chewing with his mouth open. He was supposed to be talking to/debating with the other person. They were talking about wind energy and other environmental issues. Then I was walking along some of the buildings up to a courtyard area. There was a group of people performing a musical. One of them was Dave Fanslau, a collegue. He was singing and acting.

Various inappropriate themes

I'm not sure what was going on last night. I can't even write about these dreams. Lots of different people and strange things going on. Crazy. I was trying to decide if any parts were decent enough to write about but none of them really were. Could be because I was out drinking last night! Post pina colada warped zones.

Tipsy House

I was in a backyard looking toward the adjacent neighbors house. They were constructing a new house. The house was being built on a tilt. I called it the tipsy house. It was a two story house without any of the housewrap or siding on it.

Then I was inside a normal house with the Jacksons. Someone knocked on the door. Ryan answered the door with John. It was a police officer with someone they had arrested. They asked m to come over and answer a baking question. I remember that I was not really presentable but went over to the door to help. Then I recall walking into the bathroom of the Jacksons house but not really sure what I was doing in there.

Planes

I was travelling in a very large plane. I believe we were taxiing up to the airport. I order to get to the airport we had to go up a very steep hill. I remember thinking "are we going to flip over backwards?" I was worried and uncomfortable. I remember something stuffed in my cupholder. I can't remember what it was. I believe in the very end I exited the plane. I don't know where I was going.

Corn on the Cobb

I was looking at a piece of corn on the cobb. It was already cooked. Someone standing next to me showed me that inside the kernel there was a bug. They told me that if a bug got into the kernel I could tell because the outside would have a little slit. Then you can peel it open and find the bug. I remember thinking "I must have eaten bugs in the past. That's gross, but do I really care?".

Spiders and Mexico

I was preparing to go on a trip, a acation. I rode in a helicopter over a body of water. It appeared to be an ocen type water. I believe we went to Mexico. My brother, Kevin, was flying the helicopter. It was the strangest thing. Flying over the wawter there were tons and tons of planes and helicopters making the same trip, some going in the same direction and some opposite. It was like an air traffice freeway. Everything was orderly but I was very uncomfortable because I don't like to fly. We arrived and the people from customes checkecd us in. I remember feeling very nervous because I did not have a passport. hey never checked for it. Next thing I know I am in the hotel room. My bagg is unpacked and scattered across the floor. I tell Kevin that I forgot to pack any toiletries or some other important things. I am upset because I have to buy new and am not sure if they will have items similar to my typical products.

Then I am younger in a house with two strange older men. Not really older, but in their twenties. It's like they're babysitting me. They're carrying around these plants. I remember thinking, oh that looks like marajuana. I pretent that I don't know what it is and i pretend taht I am tired and want to tak a nap. They let me lay down and the marajuana is under the bed. I have a cell phone and attempt to call someone, I think Kevin. I talk to someone and find out that it is San Fransisco marajuana and that my mom and dad may have planted it beside our house. Next thing I know I am naked in the bed. I am probaby in my pre-teens. I throw a temper tantrum at one of the guys and he backs off.

Then I remember being in an outdoor setting or backyard. I remember looking up at the side of the house with someone and pointing out a special tree branch that is literally hooked to the house. On it are some kind of fruit or olive or something. Some kind of food. I said that my mom had hooked it directly to the house. Then we were looking at some spiders that were nesting on the eave. They were pretty large tarantula spiders. There were two of them, obviously mates. At one point the female spider grabs the male, shoves him through two wood bars and then situates him the way she wants so she can mate. Then she prepares a cacoon-type thing from her silk and lays eggs or has the babies. She does this a lot in the next few parts of the dream. Soon after I look in the backyard and there are spiders and nexts everywhere. There was an outdoor couch across from the tarantuals and someone was sitting on it. There were two other large, but not tarantual sized, spiders black fuzzy with large white fuzzy dots on the body chasing each other around the top of the couch. I mention something to the person sitting on the couch because the spiders are just about ready to climb all over them. Then I left.

Water...again

For some reason water is pretty important lately.

I don't remember much of last night's dream. I remember it being very simple and having something to do with my coworkers. I remember being in an office that really didn't have good natural light, or perhaps windows at all. I remember it looked very dated in the office. It was a large open area with the desks scattered around the office. One coworker was in the office. I went to the refrigerator and looked in the freezer. There were lots of little plastic cups, like the kind that have the vanilla fudge swirl ice cream - the kids sized cups, but instead of ice cream they were filled with banana bread (I made banana bread and mini-muffins last night). I opened one up and presumably ate it. I comments about something to a coworker but can't remember anymore what it was.

Then i was at a beach. The water looked more like ocean, versus carribean or gulf. It was darker and choppier. There was some type of structure that was footed in the sand but went out into the water, like a dock. But people were just sitting on their floaties and lounging in the water. There were no boats. I remember at one point realizing that I did not have my new swimming suit but someone had packed my other suit. I borrowed a floatie and laid on that in the water. That's all I remember.

Old aquaintances

There were so many parts to this one. It was really strange. None of them seemed to have anything to do with the other. I was with a group of girls, one of them was an old elementary classmate Michelle Peterson. We were Job's Daughters, I think. We were in some town for a competition and stydying for a test. I remember waslking to a large hall where we were going to take the test. Then we were inm a house for a sleepover type event. I remember being upstairs in the bathroom getting ready. here was a linen closet in the bathroom. The hairspray was in an aerosol can and it kept spraying at me. It was in the linen closet and every time I opened the door it would move toward me and spray. I remember telling someone that it was mad at me.

Then I was inside my old house in Lincoln. My childhood house. It wasn't exactly the same, but it was supposed to be my house and it was very similar. I walked down the stairs and someone told me that my brothers were in the living room. That they had both arrived overnight. It was Christmas time. I remember Ginny Trauthen and her husband were there. They are longtime friendcs of my mom. They were sitting up on barstools in the eat-in kitchen area. My mom was there too, sitting in the kitchen area. I walked over to my brothers and they said they were there to help divide my parents inheretance. I looked at them and sighed. I told them that mom and dad told me I could have everything and divide it up so that I got what I wanted first, then I could give them what I want them to have. Kevin looked very mad about this. I think they were both disappointed. I told them that there would be lots of things that I don't want but special sentimental things I would keep. I remember saying "The Christmas star, that I am going to keep". (we didn't have a special Christmas star so it seemed strange) Ginny T. told me she was proud of me for standing up for myself. Then I walked out the back door and looked at the backyard. Instead of being able to see houses behind, there was a tall retaining wall with exposed dirt. It was 50-60 feet tall. I was thinking i needed to sue the adjacent developer because the view had completely changed.

Then there was another part of the dream where I was nearby a beach in a one story house. It seemed to be a vacation house, or at least that I was only there temporarily. I think I was younger because there was another young boy there. He and I were flirting with each other. I remember walking around the sandy yard aimlessly. I can't remember anything of importance happening in this part of the dream.

India and a new house

I was in India with a family. It was like an exchange situation. I remember greeting the mom and dad of the girl I was staying with. The mother was feeding me all of these things that I think were supposed to be healthy or have some ritual significance. I remember spicy beans and some drink that had jam or something in it. It was strange. Then I remember jogging down a rural road. I think the girl from India was also a runner and we met up along the road.

Then I remember being with Ryan and the girls in a two story white house. It was like a farmhouse but there was another house right next door. There were lots of doors in the house to get out of any side of the house or get outside from every room. There was a piano in two differeent rooms. One was light blonde wood, or yellow. The neighbor came over to say hi (a guy) and I had recently taken everything out of the first room of the house, except for the piano. He mentioned that it was interesting that there was nothing in the room. Ryan mentioned that we may use it for a playroom, which I didn't like. I told the neighbor that the woman who lived in the house before us left me the piano in her inheretance. The neighbor seemed shocked. Then I remember going outside and there was a lot of rain water. There was a wheelbarrow that had plant material in it that was full of water. I dumped the water out so the plant material wouldn't drown. Then the ground was flooded. It seemed odd that the entire side yard could become flooded from just the water in the wheelbarrow.

Motocycling on ice

The last couple of nights I've had work dreams. I've dreampt about the County Board and one night ago it was something with my current employees. Last night I dreampt that I was riding a motorcycle or a scooter with one of my staff on the back. We had on helmets and were trying desperately to get to someplace. It was really important to get there. It was night and it had snowed. The wheels kept sliding from underneath us. It was really hard to drive on the ice. That's all I remember.

Trucks, Mayors and failed crossings

A lot of my dream was about this open house I am having for wind energy systems. I remember my boss mentioneing that we had to make sure the whole thing went off perfectly and that we should have a full scale mock up. I tol the consultant and they created one. It was horozontal thought which was very strange considering that you have blades/toros going super close to the ground. I remember lots of people attending the open house and lots of discussion between my boss and also with the consultant. Then I remember being iaround my old work's city hadd. The area around city hall was different. It had a lot more trees. I was watching from about a block away. I was looking at the mayors black truck. I remember it had an acronym on the back that meanst you could shift into drive or reverse at any time. Like it was some kind of flexible shifting thing. I went over and took his truck and drove it around the block. As I was coming back around and could see city hall he was walking out of the building watching me. He walked over and I drove the truck as if I was planning to pick him up. He was very angry. I told him that I only took it so Icould see what it was like to drive. There was another part of the dream where I was watching the mayor ome out of the building and he was walking with Michelle, my old planning assistant. They were walking next to each other, almost like they were together. I took photos of them walking out together, close ups/ Like a private investigator.

Then I remember taking the Mayor's truck down a muddy road. I got out of the truck and was walking over a muddy bridge with two other people. I think one of them was the communications person from the county. We were trying to walk across this mud bridge. When the first woman started to walk across it, the bridge started to collapse. She came back. I tossed out the idea of running very quickly across it (like they do in cartoons) but the other two didn't think that would work (smart ladies). Then we walked over to another area that had a thick wire across a body of water. We started to shimmy ourselves across that wire and it started to dip. We knew it would hold us, but I don't like water and didn't want any part of me to get in the water so I shimmied back up, held onto the overhead bar and did a flip to get myself righted on the ledge. Once there I walked over to another area and looked at crossing that way. It was actually a bedroom. I remember a doll laying on the bed across the way.

Houses

I'm already forgetting. Every morning I want to get right on the computer to type my dream, but I think my husband will find that very suspicious, so I don't.

I remember moving to a new house. It was a very new house. Looking from the outside, it was very plain and tan in color. I think my mom was with me. She directed me to the correct house. It did not have very many details. The garage was important because I spent a lot of time looking at it. It had a very very steep grade going up into the garage and was in the shape of a triangle in that the larger part was near the house and the narrower part was at the front of the building. It was very strange and I remember thinking that winters and ice would be difficult but then resolved that since the grade was so steep the melted snow would just run out the front of the garage. After thinking that I heard Madeline say she was going to move some things around in a crawl space off the garage. There was a very small door on one end of the upper part of the garage (the part that leveled off with the house) and she was already inside. There were no lights and I wondered why she wasn't scared.

Then I was at an auto dealership in some other city. I know I was not at home because I needed to trade my car for one that I could drive home. I traded in the Volvo but all they had was a mini-van. I told them no and came back the next day. They had another Volvo but it was not as nice. I believe I took the other Volvo. It was raining when I left.

I think the dream fragmented in other areas but I cannot remember them now.

county board

A couple of nights ago I dreampt about being with two or three county board members. It was very much a work related dream. I remember talked with one about the soils on his property, seeing an aerial view of the property as he told me how to get to his house. I don't recollect anything of significance coming out of the dream. I do remember looking down a very long outdoor corridor, probably a street right of way, toward something. I think it may have been a tornado. It's typical for me to have bad weather dreams in the spring and summer.

Travel

Beginning of dream jad to do with some type of underground tunnel system. The entire building, and that is an understatement, was underground. Something was happening where some type of acid water was coming from these large, gigantic concrete tubes from the ground. We had to evacuate the underground buildings because it was thought that the acid water would flood out the underground building. So we came out of the structure, which essentially led to water, a large ocean type water. We were fighting a bit of a current along a chain link fence. The acid water never overtook the structure.

The dream jumped to travel. I was traveling to NYC or I was already in NYC. For part of it I was alone. I remember being on or waiting for a train. Then I remember driving along a divided highway. On my right were shops. The Jaarsma Bakery was along there. I was in the passenger seat of the vehicle. An older gentleman was driving. He was showing me things.

Then I was inside a two story building. It was an architectural and engineering firm. I knew a few of the people there from Ryan's former work. It was very large, darke, lots of metal and glass. One point I was walking through a corridor with a small group of people. I sat in a cubicle with a friend while another person spoke with her. I remember sitting in a chair back behind the desk in a corner, behind her computer. It was very cramped.

Then I recall being in a house, or condo I am not sure. Boxes had just been moved into the place as if I just moved there. I received a phone call from a woman, whom I was supposed to meet for lunch. She was telling me that she had a gun and was going to kill herself. I remember thinking that me and the couple of people that were going to her house for lunch should not go, because she may try to kill us. After she hung up the phone I called 911. There was some confusion as to where the woman was located, whether or not I was calling the correct 911 and whether or not they would help her.

Kids, pools, mothers and groups

I was in a house and here was a cute guy. I must have been younger because I really wanted him to notice me. Finally he did. I flirted with him to let him know I liked him. I think we may have kissed but since it was early in my dream I cannot remember. He had dark brown hair and was very handsome.

Then we were in an outdoor above ground pool. Ryan and the girls were there. It was a strange pool. It had boulders attached to the outside. The neighborhood kids were interested in swimming, which was okay. The pool was very very deep and clear. I remember swimming around in the deep parts with Annie or Madeline and looking around. It was almost as if there were windows at the bae so you could see out, like a zoo exhibit. I remember walking in and out of some nearby houses but no details about that.

Then I was with a group of people and we were driving through a town. I remember walking alone across a railroad track and freeway in the daytime in order to reach a strip commercial building on the pother side wehre the group of people were. I think there were three guys in the group. We were stealing or doing something illegal. I think we may have had costumes on to conceal their identity. We were driving around hanging onto the outside of a vehicle. It was raining so we had raincoats on. Then I recall being inside a building that was concrete and several stories tall. I don't remember any windows. At some point I needed to use the restroom and I had to travel up and down a series of stairwells that were very confusing to get to the restrooms. At the end of the stairwell there was a large open room with freestanding concrete walls. Behind the walls were secret experiments. They were building some types of robot/machine for some task. I think it was a competition between three or four different groups. I remember catching a glimpse of part of the robot. Then I remember running outside, being with the group of people who were stealing, grabbing onto the back of a van and driving away. When the van stopped I ran ahead and jumped into the back of a convertible (that had the top down). The entire back of the car was a big fluffy bed. Two girls and one boy child jumped in back and the woman driving must have been our mother. She said she was going to take us all home, become our mother again and we would all live together as a happy family. I remember being skeptical, as if this woman had at some point abandoned us and I ask (or maybe it was another child) are you going to just be our mother or are you going to try to have more children in addition to us? She answered that she was going to be our mother and not have any more children. I felt like we were all biologically related and that the other children really were my brother and sisters. I believe the group of people I was stealing with may have been this group of children/siblings. And the woman really was our mother.

Target, books, snow OH MY!

Several things going on.

We were in a cab and they drove us (not sure who "us" was) to Target except the first building was completely deserted. He drove a little further in the same parking lot and there was another Target store. There were just three or four cars in the lot. We got out and went inside. It was empty. I can't remember what we were looking for.

I remember being inside a house. I had a suitcase on the floor. Actually I believe there were several suitcases. I had pillows, clothes and books. I went into the room and closed the door. Another person, a younger girl who had been showering and was wrapped in a towel came in and tried to take some of my books away. I toook them back and closed the door. She had the key and unlocked the door and took books away again. I went over, ripped them out of her hands and told her that they were my books and she needed to stop acting like a child. I closed the door, locked it again and went to continue to pack my bags. She stayed outside in the hall and cried. I continued to pack up my bags. At some point I realized I was at the Jackson's house. I was ordering a book online for Michelle. It was some very special unique book that she was very excited about.

We (or maybe it was just I) finished packing up and I remember walking out of the house with my friend from work Carrie. She was recently pregnant. I remember talking with her about her daily miscairrage risk. Today was a three. The number three was marked above the outside front door. Inside the house, coming out just after us was another woman, a therapist. She was both of our therapist. I told Carrie I was sorry the risk was high today. She told me not to worry about it, everything would be fine. So we walked over to my car. We had to walk through icy snow that was in globs on the ground and hard to walk through. Imagine when it snows then partially melts leaving a hard crusty icy snow. That's what was on the ground. It was very bumpy like an egg carton. Once we got to the car she and I were driving down the road. It was auddenly dark the and very snowy on the ground. Along the right hand side of the road was a strange contraption. Very thin netal machine with some kind of overhead arm that was attached to a wire. There was a man in the front seat of the contraption. Carrie asked what they were doing. I remember answering that I didn't know and they were probably doing something, but then I realized and told her "Oh, they are clearing snow from the railroad tracks". They zipped along and continued to clear the snow. Then I woke up. (I typed this with my eyes closed while recalling the dream)

Fragmented recollection

This one is hard to remember. Last night I remember being with a man and his wife. His wife was agitated with him. She ended up leaving. He and I remained in the house, I believe it was his house. I think he and I had some kind of relationship. I remember a suitcase on a bed.

Crazy messed up sh*t

Last night was just about as wacky as they come. It's even a little uncomfortable but in the spirit of my new blog I will lay it all out there for you.

The dream was very fragmented and I am already starting to forget parts. I remember being in a city, traveling through a couple of neighborhoods with my friend Duncan. I believe his wife was with him too and they were moving back to where I lived in the dream. I was showing them my old neighborhood. I told them that a fire had consumed the neighborhood and it literally looked as though it had been hit by a tornado, except that the trees were all black and crispy and portions of homes remained with fire damage.

Fast forward to sequence number two: I was in a county board meeting, speaking on an item. This part I've already started to forget. I don't remember what was happening here. If it comes back to me I will edit my post.

Fast forward to the final, and most disturbing, part of my dream. I was with my mother in either a house or a car. I think I was sitting in a recliner and she was in my lap. She had her head on my chest and kept trying to nurse (I was fully clothed). I kept shoving her away and telling her no, and to quit trying because it was "disgusting". Eventually I let her suck my thumb and she quit trying to breastfeed. Weird, huh? That's what I thought too.

Trapped

This dream actually happened before the last post about the river. It's a few days old and the details are getting fuzzy.

I was in a building, I presume a school. Something, I don't know if I knew in the dream what it was, was keeping me from getting out. Some type of invisible force or presence pressed upon me to keep me trapped in the building. At some point I made it out to the school yard which was surrounded by a 6' chain link fence. I searched all over the yard trying to figure out how to escape, all the while the unseen presence kept me in fear. At some point I was able to find a way out and the last thing I remember is running as fast as I could away from the school yard along a sidewalk into a tree'd neighborhood.

Overcoming

Last night I had a strange dream. I am sure there were many parts to it, but what I remember is what happened right before I woke up. I was driving in some kind of open vehicle, maybe like a 4-wheeler with a co-worker. His name is Chris and he works in the GIS department. He and I talk occassionally, he's a nice guy and I can't for the life of me figure out WHY he would be sitting next to me in the ATV, which was a two-seater. I was driving the vehicle and he was sitting in the passenger seat. We were coming upon a river. I recall looking down and the sand turned to mud and we came upon a river that was cresting the track/road. The road was more like a railroad track in appearance, was very narrow. We continued forward and as I looked ahead I realized that the muddy river water had completely crested the track. I was very nervous. I don't like water I can't see through and the idea of being pulled by a current is very fightening to me. Coming upon this scene is one of my biggest fears. As we got to the deepest point, where we could no longer see the ledge of the track Chris leaned over the side of the vehicle and grabbed the edge of the track, I presume to make sure we didn't get pulled out by the current. Now the likelihood of something as simple as that working in that particular scenario is quite unlikely but in the dream it seemed perfectly logical. And it worked. We were able to cross the river without incident, aside from getting very wet and muddy. I can only assume that this dream has something to do with facing fears and working through tough situations. Apparently my brain was trying to tell me that everything will come out okay in the end.

Dreams

I occassionally have an interesting dream. I think "I should write that down" and never do. Many of the really crazy ones I still remember, even from many years ago. So I decided to start this blog. :)