Dream Update: Week 9

March 11:
For the longest time, I dreamed about being at work and putting together code sheets. Yay.

Then I dreamed about driving a big white truck without proper stickers for mean, nasty old guy. I was super nervous because I knew I didn't have the right stickers, but then I couldn't stop the truck at any of the stop signs so that didn't go so well.

Later, I explored an underground gym equipment storage place with Chuck. I discovered a corner that was filled with different puzzles, but I had to leave because it was too interesting and I knew I was going to get sucked in.

Later, I was an adventurer in deep jungle somewhere. I remember trying to pull stitching from a shirt I had with me, but I pulled wrong part and shirt fell apart instead of just the sleeves coming off.

Then I was walking on forest trail with old woman and few others. There were brown and blue eggs all over trail that we had to keep avoid stepping on. From behind us a duck with a million little ducklings ran between our legs and over out feet to get to the lake.

March 12:
A huge tub of gumballs spilled everywhere. My dream was like I was a video camera, rolling in front of them and through them and behind them. It was like a roller coaster. They rolled down streets and bounced off walls. The kids caught some of them in their mouths.

I dream that my parents lived in my old church. My mom was upset that she couldn't find her laundry basket where upon I realized that Zack and I had borrowed it and didn't bring back (sorry, Mom!). Later I was at a youth retreat. I dreamed that my brother Tyler was a baby and he took a nap. Then I was in a play where I went off script to give a speech about why D&D is fun and everyone should play–it was quite impassioned.

March 13:
Dreamed that I had a roommate and that I had decorated room for her birthday with streamers and glow in the dark stars. When she got home and saw it, she got crabby about it and how much work it would be to tear down. I was sad.

I went off to live in a tent by myself and some Northwestern runner girls tried to comfort me. Kyra, my sister-in-law, came to visit and told me she thought that her sister was going to be proposed to at the Christmas moon-watching event at Lake Superior. We went to the event in order to prevent the proposal. Kyra's mom gave me a candle and a lighter, but then the candle went out. I found a cold fireplace with one large log in the middle so I set my candle there where it was protected from the wind so I could try to relight it. The result, somehow, was flame everywhere and I ended up lighting the fire instead of candle. Everyone sad because that fire was not supposed to be lit until the last day of the festival. Apparently, they put log in there "the November prior" which somehow meant over a year, despite the fact that they burn the log just before Christmas each year.

I went down and sat on a rock by the lake and was sad. Tyler came paddling up in my kayak and we talked a bit. He tried to turn and paddle away, but splashed me with water. I told him to stop splashing. He tried to go again, but was still splashing. Then he accidentally hit someone's legs under the water with the paddle and they started bleeding and the paddle broke. He got embarrassed and his car appeared on the water. He loaded kayak into car and drove away.

March 14:
I dreamed that I had been hanging out in downtown Duluth and was trying to take a subway. I rode it once okay, but the second time I tried to get on, I couldn't get all my stuff off before doors closed, leaving them behind on the platform. So, I had to ride end to end while the people I was going to meet up with waited for me. Driver stopped at far end and smoked, so I had to wait for him.

I ended up waiting at mall where I ran into my cousin Jamie. She was there to connect with a witch who was going to tell her future. We went to attic place looking for something for the witch. My aunt Diana and other cousin Stephanie there too, digging through all this junk. Diana was going to steal special rocks from Jamie, but I found them first.

Later, I was on a cooking show talking to Chef Ramsey about how I don't understand chicken and waffles (which is true...I really don't get it). MoMai was competing on show but was considering quitting because everyone was mean to her. I told her, "Are you proud? Don't quit until you're proud."

March 15:
I dreamed a lot about being at work and doing boring work and it was lame.

But later, I was on the show Shark Tank and pitched my product confidently. They all said no. Then they said I talked too loud. I felt tears well in my eyes but refused to let them fall. Laurie from Shark Tank told me I needed to be stronger.

As I left my parents old bedroom (because the TV set suddenly changed into that), the sharks said "Where's Jenna? She needs Jenna."

I went to my mom's old quilt room, which had three doors but I locked them all so I could cry by myself, but then my dad was there sewing a double-decker bullet holder (that's what he called it. I don't know what that means) so I couldn't cry then either. I never got a good cry in.

March 16:
I was rooming with Jenna again, and she and I went to audition for a play at Northwestern. But we arrived separately and when I got to campus there was a confused boy and his mom trying to find MacFaden (which is one of my clients at work...but also apparently a building at Northwestern in my dream). I explained where it was, but he and his mom didn't get it. They were holding up traffic so I jumped in car with them and guided them to the building, which was placed behind Erikson. Then I  asked if they could give me a ride to MaHa so I wouldn't be late for the auditions. They asked, "What's MaHa?" I realized then that it was 7:13 and I was already late for auditions.

When I did arrive (about two minutes before auditions were over), I didn't know the songs, story or script. Afterwards, I was feeling super sick to stomach and went back to dorms where Jenna was eating Subway. I told her I felt sick and that auditions had gone poorly for me. She ended up getting the lead role.

March 17:
I was planning a D&D session where I wanted there to be an effect that, in a certain zone, if you rolled a 1 you would become invisible (but otherwise able to speak and act normally). Zack disagreed. Hunter and Carter, brothers-in-law, were also there along with Natalie and Mason (my niece and nephew) but Natalie was just a baby. I made them laugh by pretending clown nose was stuck on my face.

When I left, I was walking on dark street past these guys who looked like the three Musketeers (like the feathered hats and big gloves and everything) except there were four of them and one of them had a lute. When I was a little bit past them I turned around and one of them threw a sword to me. I missed catching it and it fell to the sidewalk, much to the dismay of the little audience that had gathered around us. We walked a little further and another of the Musketeer guys tosses scimitar to me...which I also missed. I grabbed a bag from one of the other guys. The bag was filled with metal rings which I took out, and crowd got excited for a show, but I said "I actually have no idea what to do with these things" and gave them back.

Later, I found lady with cupcake in small box. She thought I knew how the old "cup cake in the box" trick worked, but I didn't. So she instructed me through it. I put finger in top of box and pulled tab that opened the back of the box which then also pulled cupcake out just slightly so that I could look at it, get a little taste on my finger and then "magically" determine what kind of cupcake it was. The cupcake in her box was something disgusting (vinegar and something). It was a stupid trick, but I had a talking reindeer mascot who was very impressed by it, so there was an upside.

We used my deer's antlers tied to a post to make a tree prop.

Then I was in a group of adventurers being led by Aladdin on walkie-talking through a street and dungeon filled with traps. Going by his memory and our descriptions of where we were and what we were seeing, he'd jump in with a "Wait! No! There's a trap here!" as we're running through trying to escape bad guys and lava and such. As we approached the end, he joined us to cross finish line. As soon as we crossed the finish line and started high fiving, the floor pulled back and we fell into fiery pit where we had to fight the boss monster.