10

I catch _____ in my kitchen trying to steal food. I sneak up behind her and see her grab a cereal bar. I surprise her, causing her to drop it when I say "I don't think you'll like that, it's all natural and made with real fruit." She picks it up, looks at it and says "Eww, really?" and hands it back to me. She leaves my kitchen and I'm surprised, but not too surprised, that that worked.

9

The new president of the United States is not Barack Obama but a big intimidating black man with a presence like Michael Clark Duncan's. He is pacing back and forth and making everyone in America extremely nervous. I am standing in the oval office, part of a small group of reporters. Nobody has any idea what is going on.

8

In a comic book store with Lanneau and my friend Peter from high school. I am surprised to see them there. Peter shows me a comic I've never heard of, Pulse Star. Its cover is black with a big pale face, eyes missing. Lanneau's phone rings and I see the name on the display screen says DonnaLee, my aunt. He laughs nervously, says "that's weird. she never calls me,"and ignores the call. Peter says she probably sat on her phone. Then his phone rings again and he doesn't take it out of his pocket. I start looking for Umbrella Academy comics and try to ignore it. Then it rings again and I can tell by the way he looks at me as he answers it that they are having an affair.

7

Putting on a sweater, it gets stuck on my belt as I try to pull it down. One of my arms is stuck up in the air while I tug at the sweater with the other one. I think I look really funny and ask people walking by to stop and look. I ask if it would work for this stage show that I'm developing called Dumb and Dumber and I have to explain to everyone that I would be alone on stage, it's just a one man show, and nobody thinks its funny. That new fat guy from SNL was there and I thought he would laugh but he didn't get it either. 

6

I am running around a familiar apartment complex at night with my cousin and my brother. We are climbing walls, running up and down stairs, and sliding down rails, having a good time. There is a possibility of trouble so we try not to be too loud. There are white cats in the well lit parking lot. My brother starts shouting to me. I run across the parking lot to meet him behind a small building. He asks me about an email address, postalservice@yahoo.com, says that I'm using it and he wants it. I know this isn't true but I think about it and I start to remember having set it up. A light comes on in the small building, I say Just take it!, and we run away in opposite directions. I can see my cousin standing on the roof. He's safe. I hide behind a car.

Dream Fragments

1/22/09 

Freestyle rapping in a record store

1/23/09 

I might be a robot. There is a feeling of imminent doom.

1/24/09 

Superman pulls my blanket from me, causing me to roll off the bed. I wake up before I hit the floor.

5

I'm attacked by a coworker but we aren't at work, we are in a very nice living room. He gains the upper hand and injects a yellow mixture into the bottom of my foot that is supposed to make me become more like him. Things calm down, I'm on a white couch, there are red pillows, he's sitting on the floor.  We are catching our breath and I tell him not to take it personal, but I'd much rather be me, than be him. He looks defeated and I feel sorry. 

4

I am at a mall with Shawn and Lily. We are in an alt. clothing store. Lily tells me that the shirts there remind her of shirts that Jenna designed.  I know that Jenna stole the designs for her shirts from someone else but I don't tell Lily. I need a sweater and think about buying a Red Hot Chili Peppers hoodie but am worried people will judge me for wearing the logo of a band that I don't like. Then I think I see a Pavement hoodie but when I look closer it says Peachment. I've never heard of them before but I decide they are probably a metal band and I don't like them either. There's also one for Stray Cats, which seemed funny to me. All the hoodies are gray with black print and I have to reach real high to pull them down. Shawn is talking about some designer. Rocco or Coco B., and how he's really impressed that the store carries that brand. I roll my eyes because I think he's acting stuck up.

3

I am cleaning up my aunt's house by pushing things around with a long stick. There are two dogs asleep against the far wall. A big neon sign hangs over them that says Sleeping Dogs Do Not Touch or something like that and I'm afraid of what they might be dreaming. As I'm thinking about this, my aunt appears and thanks me for cleaning but asks why I didn't move the dogs. I look back and the sign is gone. 

Later, I'm standing at a toilet and I have to pee but I can't pull my shorts down. I try to pee through one of the legs of my shorts and I make a big mess. There's a sign on the wall that says not to make a mess. I feel embarrassed. I hear someone coming and now I'm naked. I rush to put some clothes on.

2

I'm a child and I'm with my dad, at the front door of our house, he's putting a jacket on me and we're about to go outside. I'm looking at the dining room table. There's a very brightly lit chandelier hanging over it. I ask about my mom and my dad asks sarcastically, "Are you going to take care of your mom? No, that's for Billy Joel." When I wake up, I'm asking myself, Billy Joel?

dream fragments

1/13/09

Fat boy, looks like a potato, makes me feel angry

1/14/09

a diamond ring,  beautiful, awe inspiring

1/16/09

bald man wearing khaki coveralls, name tag says Penis, is a bully

1

I am somewhere desolate and I've been put in charge of rationing foods. There's another guy there who doesn't like that. We argue about it inside of a broke down bus. He says he'll be back and he stomps away. I go to Target. I'm buying basketball cards. My friend _____ is there. She is younger, thinner, and better looking. I recognize that I've been here before. We are in the toy section when I grab her hips from behind to determine if she's fat. I think I'm being sneaky. She asks what I'm doing and I take a picture of her.  I tell her that I could get some better pictures if we could leave Target. She agrees. We leave and it is sunny.

A Dream Within a Dream

A dream within a dream can represent something in life we feel no control over or it could be our self conscious trying to wake us up. I recently dreamt that I was floating in a swimming pool, awoke to find myself in a falling airplane, then awoke again in my bed and late for work. 

Hakeem Olajuwon only dreams of waking up.