17

I'm a really good public speaker and I'm chosen by the New Orleans Hornets to be their press secretary. I ask why me and someone with the team tells me that I'm the best. I can remember standing at a podium and fielding questions from reporters.

16

At a hotel bar, I see my brother and two friends buying drinks. They all look beaten down so I ask what's up and my brother tells me how they had partied all night with this other group of guys, fell asleep in this other room, and when they woke up everyone was gone and they got stuck with the bill. So now they were just spending the rest of their money on drinks. I wrote "WHAT A WASTE" on a napkin and handed it to my brother.

Then I move to this big booth and there's a group of guys in suits there and I realize I'm not in a hotel bar but a really classy strip club, These guys are telling racist jokes, something like if you're blind and talking to a black guy throw your drink at him then lick his face to tell how tall he is. I was mad about hearing this racist joke and so got up and tried to leave. But then a bouncer stopped me, a big black guy, and told me I had to pay my tab. I told him the joke and he shoved me back to the bar where I was handed a bill for 300,000 dollars. I couldn't figure how I had spent so much and refused to pay but the bar tender told me I would have to wait to see the doctor.

So I wait outside for this doctor to show up. I'm in a parking lot and I see him coming, I get scared so I turn around and go back in.

I'm in a grocery store. I'm not alone but I can't remember who was with me. I've got bread in my basket but it's the wrong kind. The people I'm with are checking out but I want to switch my bread. I can't find the bread aisle. I go to the front of the store and find a big pile of jackets and put one on. I leave and someone stops me outside and asks for their jacket back. Now I'm cold and I go in this sauna type room. There's this weird complicated pedal system to get cold water to turn to steam and I try operating it but I end up getting a cold shower. I'm fully dressed though, wearing blue jeans. I give up and soaking wet I go back out into the cold.

I get to work and my boss tells me that next time if I'm cold, I can ask to borrow her jacket.

15

I am part of a group of soldiers or fighters of some kind. Inside a warehouse, men enter with missing or damaged arms or legs and I control a stockpile of replacement arms and legs. I cannot see the fighting but I can hear it, rap music plays in the room that i'm in. It feels good to say encouraging words as I attach new body parts and send guys back outside. I'm unshaven and wear a white coat like a doctor's but I keep it unbuttoned, my shoes are untied. Katy is there at a computer. People check in and she tells them where to go. She's wearing thick glasses and a pearl necklace. I try to talk to her but she just tells me where to go. She points to a sad family in an isolated corner. Her wristwatch is hot pink and I feel dejected.

14

Sitting at my room mate's computer, he's in the kitchen talking but I don't know about what. I'm watching a movie but I don't remember which one. Or I'm listening to all the songs in his itunes and making fun of him. And he gets mad and tells me to get up, he is standing in his door way now, and I very arrogantly tell him that I'm not going anywhere.

13

My family has adopted a black urban youth. I watch him and my brother trying to get along but fighting over my dad. the black kid says, "he's not just your dad anymore, he's our dad now." My brother looks like he's going to kill him. They leave and I start to look for my other brother who I find under a couch in a room that my grandmother is cleaning. I ask him if he wants to go see a movie but he tells me that he's helping our grandma. So I go to my mom and she says that she'll go see a movie with me. We pack some snacks in her very big purse.

12

As I was falling asleep, I could feel myself moving faster and faster until I imagined myself a passenger in a driverless pickup truck. It kept running red lights until it was hit by an 18 wheeler which didn't take long. Then I opened my eyes and rolled over and fell right back asleep and I thought I was in that truck again, I started playing with the radio. No music, talk about the weather, lots of static and I could hear birds, and then I found that TI and Justin Timberlake song and I watched them perform it, through the windshield of the truck, it was dark and rainy, every thing was in grey tones underneath the street lights.

my favorite Dream video

This video recreates a beautiful acid night, wearing those fireworks glasses I like to buy around the fourth of july, maybe getting a little drunk and dancing in a parking lot while Rockin' That Thang plays on a car's stereo.

Celebrity look-alikes:

C bear and The-Dream.

11

In a dark room with my friend Priscilla, possibly underground. There is a wall of monitors playing security video feeds that keep changing. One of the monitors shows a concert. A band is playing and there's a mysterious woman watching from the side of the stage. I recognize the band, Less Than Jake, and the video changes. Now a group of young girls in the back of a car, one is my friend Allie but younger. They are talking about the Warped Tour. The video changes again to show that I am driving the car and it is raining. This makes me uncomfortable so I leave the room.

I come out inside my parents house and its christmas. I see my dad sitting on the floor, opening a gift. I'm standing next to my brother. My dad's gift is a new mattress. He appears happy but I say frantically to my brother, Oh God, but they're getting divorced! My mom is watching from the door way of their room and I think How could I have been so stupid?