Alter-ego

Dream recorded 01/31/11

Inside a creepy industrial building. Something about going near a weird wall that could morph into an elevator thing or let you walk through it. Something about some kids getting too close to one of these morphing walls and they disappeared.

I was with a guy who could transform into this crazy alter-ego form of himself, who was amazingly gorgeous: strong, agile, had short dark hair, very handsome face with eyes that were green on the edge changing to gold in the middle.

Gorgeous but scary because while transformed you could see and feel the evil burning inside of him. Though he was struggling to internally supress and fight the evil, he didn't know if it could completely overcome him at any moment and turn him into an evil being for good. He tries to stay in his normal form because this keeps the evil from consuming him.

Something is going really wrong and we realize we have to get out of here. Bad things are happening around us; we try to get out of the building... and find rooms where people are dead. There is blood everywhere and severed limbs and other gruesome gory things. I am terrified out of my mind. The guy transforms into his alter-ego and picks me up with his strong arms so I can bury my face into his chest and not see the horrifying scene around us, and he carries me while running through the rooms to get out of the building.

Somehow we finally get outside and are on unkempt, partially yellowed grass. It is a peacefully warm day, the sun is shining and there is a road nearby, separated from us by a tall barbed wire fence. We realize we were inside some kind of secret underground lab thing, because from out here you can't tell at all that underneath us there are rooms full of terrible things.

A poisoned land

Dream recorded 08/15/11 at 8:30am

Across a very large expanse of the world there is a slow poisoning from toxic gas seeping out of some thin black piping that spands the land. Some areas are worse than others.

If you breathe or stay in a badly poisoned area for too long, you can die quickly. Organized cleanups are taking place, where you can volunteer to help suck up the gas with a vacuum type machine.

I've got one of these vacuums and I think of cleaning up a particularly bad area, or at least helping it a little. I cross a bridge to get there, then start sucking up the gas with the machine.

I realize the area is much worse than I thought, and I start to feel ill. My lungs feel terrible and I imagine them to be looking splotchy like the radiation badges used in Battlestar Galactica.

I hear someone calling my name and looking for me. I shout out so they notice me. At the bridge I suddenly realize the bridge (which is about 15 feet long) goes over a huge deep canyon. It is slippery and has no guard rails. I'd been thinking about other things and somehow hadn't noticed this when I initially crossed over.

I hesitate because it is very scary. A person is on the main side, encouraging me to come over. I am feeling worse by the second due to the toxic gas poisoning, and my lungs are quickly getting more coated with black splotches.

Finally I run across... I lose my balance near the end, but manage to grab on the edge of the canyon with my hands, narrowly escaping falling into the canyon. I pull myself up, really freaked out but manage to safely get back onto land.

Earlier dream: I forgot most of it, but something about konnyaku and something else about ice popsicle molds.

Green olives

Dream recorded 8/22/11 at 5:45am

Erik had eaten so many green olives that his thumb was slowly turning into one!! He was also eating raw white mushrooms.

Secret toilet code

Dream recorded 08/06/11 at 7am

I am in a weird house/cabin/building/medical clinic/mall. There is an ice cream kid selling candy and snacks. One of the snacks looks like a shinkansen bullet train. I buy one and like it. I want to buy another, but now the ice cream kid is gone. I look up his location at some sort of computer terminal, and see where he is. I think, "that's where my sister is, too".

The place is now more of a medical clinic. We are waiting to see a doctor. I am uneasy because other sick patients are there, and it is making me feel queasy to look at the other patients. I am also worried that treatments might backfire and make me feel worse.

I am next to a bathroom. Something about a secret code to contact people via toilet. You knock on the toilet using the code, and people travel through them.

"Constructive" criticism

Dream recorded 08/27/11 at 7:15am

Casey and I are at a student art show, where people are showing off their sofa and chaise designs. We walk around, looking at the work, and come across a nice chaise design that looks fancy. It has swirling gold-leaf covered wood details, and cushions with elegant patterned peach-pink fabric.

The prototype is made out of styrofoam, and was designed by an eight-year-old girl. She is fair-skinned, with long maple blonde hair. She is very proud that we like her design.

Casey makes a couple constructive criticism suggestions... but then pulls out a saw and starts slicing into the foam prototype!! I am mortified. I grab him and beg him to stop. He does... briefly; then starts cutting again, saying how the design could be a little nicer if you "just changed it this way" (and he is trying to show how, I guess).

I am shouting for him to stop ruining this little girl's work. Finally Casey stops. I run to the girl, who is now crying. I hug her and apologize profusely, feeling absolutely terrible.

My alarm goes off and wakes me up.

Lenny's gigantic sparkley blue hat

Dream recorded 08/27/11 at 7:15am

I'm with a large group of friends in college (both real and made up people in my dream). We're outside on some small side street. There are small bleacher-like things on the side of the road, and a bunch of us are sitting on them.

For some reason, we are holding white ropes. Everyone has their own. Lenny comes by and picks up the other end of everyone's rope. Then he waves them around, as if he's Santa Claus directing his herd of reindeer. Everyone is laughing and saying how clever Lenny is.

Then a group of gorgeous women come by and put a GIANT sparkley blue hat on his head. It is humongous, with lots of intricate gold trim, tons of glitter and huge feather plumes. The hat is probably about 1/3 the size of Lenny.

Everyone is commenting on how amazing this is. Some people are snapping photos. I am trying to find my camera in my purse.

Lenny does more "reindeer directing" gestures with his amazing hat while kneeling on the ground and surrounded by beautiful women. Finally, he gets up and gives the hat back. I'm sad that I didn't get to snap a photo in time, and hope I can get a copy from somebody else.