March 20th
Had a dream that I was applying for another study abroad with NYU, and I was sort of going in and out of it and being MIA from my job - in my absence they hired Tina Fey, so I felt a little better. In this new place where I was sort of in a different country but not really, I was trying to buy food in the cafeteria and there was a huge line, where people kept cutting. It went over hedges and on rocks, until we finally got a measly place where I grabbed some weird gummy candies, chicken strips and such. There were also some donuts and rugelach that looked like crumbs in a bag. They sold reusable plates. Elyse was also there. In the souvenir shop I asked my dad to get me a huge stuffed pizza that glowed in the dark and had a smiley face. I was picking up all these leftover things from people's old rooms, like Sailor Moon cards and small plastic food boxes. I couldn't believe that I hadn't picked them up when I was still in the dorm alone. The people that had remodeled the dorms said it was hard as they found so much, like an old TV covered in dust. But there were some places with holes where they found gold and money that was hidden; they used it to buy a $300 Sega. I thought it was odd that someone could get their hands on gold in the first place.
I went to a huge auditorium where they introduced teachers, one of which was an expert on the macabre. I had $500 of bills and coins in my hands the whole time - I also found some crackers and asked if anyone wanted some. At one point I went over to this guy's desk to apply - he was flirting with some guy on the phone who was handling billing. I went through all the documents but didn't have my W2s. I also was missing some important essays, and he urged me to write in different languages about my experiences. The auditorium was an old library, and the librarian was away. We found some old books and a bunch of German wooden puppets. I told him I would fax over the documents right away. Justin Timberlake also happened to be there. I was worried that trying to go to this study abroad thing with R just being on vacation would be too much, and I was also worried I wouldn't get accepted in.
Labels: europe, food, money, paperwork, travel, work
Jan. 19-20Unfortunately, that's all I can remember right now. Perhaps the rest will come back to me at some point, when I least expect it.
My sister worked at this amusement part in a seedy area of Keansburg. She had made this 1st person shooter video game and then was showing us around. I saw pictures of her in this newspaper. I was trying to gather them in my hands. Also, my stepfather was Jeff Bridges and he gave me little pieces of paper with the amounts of money he owed me.
In another, there was a salon that was also selling ice cream - people were swarming the place, digging their hands into big bowls of it. One of the hairdressers (a dark skinned, brunette dude) led me to this elevated seat where he (I guess) was giving me a haircut. Then I remember I paid, but I don't think I gave him a good tip. I was still there going through old school papers, and I found an old fortune cookie fortune that said something like "You no snow" which we thought was quite funny. Then they put up a sign in the salon which announced they were requiring a large tip (however, the sign said "5.3333 to 17" or something equally in-cohesive.) They were not letting me leave until I paid, and I was anxiously trying to dig through my wallet for money.
Jan. 22
I was a boy and I was trying to find my way through this department store. I had my little sister with me. There was something I needed to find, so I went to the upstairs portion. However, when I finally reached the top I realized it was an adult novelty store/peep show, so I hastily made my way back down the escalator trying not to provoke attention. Coming out the door, two cast escaped and we were chased by policemen. That cats were scared but we calmed them down.
At another point we were waiting outside and were approached by a bully. Somehow we beat him and hid the evidence in two bags we were carrying, then innocently sauntered away.
The dream after this one was that Ryan and I were a brother and sister duo (that wasn't really brother and sister), and we were in this sort of foster family pretending to be younger than we were because we were really aliens/cyborgs/something not normal. I kept switching between being the main character and seeing that girl from an outside perspective. At one point there was a pelvic exam on top of the hood of the car, which we tried to protest against. Then we were in bed and my dad was tucking us in, and we felt odd since we were being treated like we were 5 or 6 when we felt in our 20s. I walked around and oddly felt as if I was smaller than everyone even though I wasn't. Other children exclaimed "Wow, you're getting so tall." I walked around, crawling a bit, pretending to play the part of a small child. There was a boyfriend of one of the family members who was a suspicious guy.
I explored and saw someone on TV getting angry because his house was made of ice. He kicked in the door and it fell over, cracking a small piece off. Inside this piece of ice was a small diamond that made them rich. I carried this diamond away in my mouth and placed it in a saucer on our end table.
Not sure how this came next, but R was on a conveyor belt net going over a dump. I climbed on and Bill Murray followed. He pointed out that there was a human brain at the green checkpoint ahead. It was small and he picked it up to give to me, so that I could study the human brain better. We went around in a loop (we were slightly worried we would fall.) In the center was a large drill encased in glass.
Suddenly I was the R (male) part of the dream, and I realized that my "sister" and Mr. Murray had gone down into the "C" middle portion of the lot, where they were taking a tour of the drill. I followed them in, and all of sudden there was an alarm: they were evacuating because of an explosion. R (or I) ran through this flash threshold and into this dreamy, neon cavernous world that almost seemed to be upside down. There was fire pouring down like lava. I saw myself turn into an alien of some sort (but really my head just looked like a giant, doughy dumpling, with a big split for a mouth.) A voice informed me this was to ensure I could survive in the environment. I entered another threshold and was inside a futuristic looking department store, with different areas of products being sold. I found Bill Murray, slightly greyed, and the girl as well. But she had aged about 16 years and was now a grown woman, though still possessing child-like manners.
We perused a shelf of beauty products, where I found a glittery lip balm. We took it along with us and urged Bill to follow. We exited the threshold and were back to "reality", only older now. We also realized that we were being followed by a robot that looked like IG-88. Bill expressed his disdain - he had known that this was going to happen.
I'm not really sure what happened next - what the string of events actually was. I know at some point in the dream I was walking in Prague towards my old apartment in Nusle. I had just passed the corner where I had waited for the tram and was wondering if it was the right place. I figured I might as well move forward and see if things looked familiar. The homes looked like slightly upscale brownstones.
Labels: aliens, animals, Bill Murray, diamond, family, Jeff Bridges, money, prague
March 1st
- visiting farm with some weird art performance where a guy dressed like Hitler dances with a pig decorated with swastikas
- stopped on a camping spot in a pretty spring forest where I saw a bunch of baby animals that had been born; there was a family of foxes that looked at us, and I described them as having the faces of children and fuzzy wisps of fur
- visited an arcade as Robin Williams' daughter and ordered chinese, where I kept finding broke utensils in my food; tried (and failed) at stealing someone's quarters....there were also some weird coins with cameo like designs on them
- realized that there was an apartment open above ours...went and investigated and found that it was gigantic and looked out to the water with castle-like buildings in BG. the kitchen was airy and big (modern looking), there were four bedrooms: one was european looking with a slanted ceiling and four paned window, one had its own bathroom; i was talking to the people who lived there to see if Ryan and our two roommates (?) could move in at some point; then my uncle J and G hyrbid started yelling about the government and money and saying we couldn't stay, so we fought and I ran back to tell Ryan we needed to get the apt ASAP
Labels: animals, arcade, baby, birth, dance, food, hitler, money, nazi, pig, spring
Sept., 1 2007 - Dream about being in Jurassic Park; also about going back to a graduation/reunion at my high school/college/middle school, and talking about doing a biography. Telling everyone to laugh at my jokes. Didn't like my outfit (an 80's poof dress with poofy sleeves).
Sept., 4 2007 - Epic about being on this caravan with a bunch of people. The [rich guy?] gets drunk and dies; then we have to go on, tracking the woman who killed him and tried to kill others. We go on a journey to find her.
Labels: 2007, animals, caravan, childhood, clothing, dream, jurassic park, money, murder, template, test
