Fighting like Ducktales

In the beginning of my dream, I was out somewhere close to what seemed to be the Augusta medical center. I remember taking hold of some sort of balloon and flying over the medical center. As I looked down, I could see into the main "hall" or whatever, where it was like the ceiling was made of glass (which I think it is in the actual center).

As I looked down into the glass encasement, I realized it was night time, or getting close to, and I saw several streams of what looked like white Christmas lights light up within the building. At first I had some sort of fear of this, but it soon dissipated. The lights were strung from the middle of the room, like they were coming from a chandelier, and I think that they either came on as I flew over head, or they did some sort of flickering on and off as I approached or soon after I had landed.

When I "got out" of the balloon, or whatever I was in, I ended up going into this building. After I got in there, it somehow felt like my old bedroom in Mike's (former step-father) house (the one above the downstairs bedroom, the one in the back) although it looked like some sort of room full of rock cliffs and such.

I ended up running around, and Matthew (brother) was in there, but he somehow looked like some evil character from Ducktales. In fact, he looked like one of the ducks, although he wasn't happy at all. Eric (brother) and the other kids my mom used to babysit were there, too, and Eric was trying to blow Matthew up with stuff. One of the things he was trying to use was an exploding basketball. I think he got him once towards the beginning of the whole thing, but soon after that, every time he'd throw the ball at Matthew, or on the ground near him, the ball wouldn't explode. It was almost like the ball had to be thrown with a certain force to explode.

Finally after chasing Matthew around all over the place with this ball, at one point Eric and I were up on top of this ledge (about where the closet was in that room) and he threw the ball at Matthew, and it exploded. It didn't hurt Matthew, really. It just took him out of the "game", I think.

Either way, mom got really mad at Eric, and she called him downstairs and made him go into the kitchen. When he went in, he went under the table "like he was supposed to", and sat there holding on to the middle leg(s) of the table. Finally he had to come out and talk to mom about what he had done, and he started to cry just as he was coming from under the table. He was really worried about mom being super mad at him, although I'm not sure what he was afraid that she was going to do to him.

So when he came out from the table, I gave him a big hug and hold him that it was going to be okay, and that mom wasn't going to do anything "bad" to him because of it. He seemed very comforted by this, and so he went to talk to mom.

Downtown with the Pole Vault

I was in downtown Savannah (along River Street) with Grandmamma, and I think Matthew (brother) may have been around there, too, but I'm not sure. Anyway, she had gotten me a pole for the Pole Vault, and I was wanting to try to use it, but I think that the weight limit was less than what I weighed. I think it was about 130 lbs. The reason for this was due to the fact that it was a retractable pole. It "folded" up inside itself sort of like an antenna, and the far point of it (the one that stuck in the ground) was, well, pointed. It was almost more like a spear than a pole vault pole. It seems that I tried to try it out despite the weight limit factor, but I'm not really sure.

Something about Merillat

I don't remember what the majority of this dream was about, but I just know that I was at Merillat. I'm not even sure if I was working, or if I was just visiting, but I remember being back around the area close to the gang-rips and where they put the first auto-chop saw, although I didn't see the chop saw there. Also, it was pretty dark, almost as if a lot of the lighting was out, and just about the only light coming in was through the big doorway back in the panel-layup room.

Wreck on Icy Roads

I had driven over to "grandmamma's house" (which was actually over close to the Augusta/Rockingham line there where the school bus used to turn around) and I think I was in a big light green pick-up truck. I was going over there to take her trash away, and as I was throwing her stuff in the back, Mom showed up.

While we were putting more stuff in the back of the truck, Grandmamma was telling us how Grandaddy had said that he was ready to "go" soon before he died, almost as if he had willed himself to die because of knowing that his body wasn't going to make it much longer anyway.

After this, mom got in the drivers side of the truck, and grandmamma got in the passengers side, and they started to drive out. I noticed that it was cold and that there was a layer of ice forming on the ground. They weren't going very fast, and so I was walking along with them up to where the driveway met Keezletown Road. When they got up there, I told mom to stop because I was going to offer to take the trash anyway mainly because of the roads being like they were.

When she went to stop, the truck just kept on sliding and went right out into the middle of the road, and a Jeep Wrangler that was heading towards Weyers cave tried to stop as well to avoid hitting the truck, but it smashed right into the side of the truck instead. I basically saw the truck almost "fold" around the Jeep. I got very very angry at this and I was throwing something around and yelling and carrying on because I felt that it was my fault because I had tried to make mom stop, and she ended up not being able to because of the ice.

Mom and grandmamma got out of the truck, and the guy got out of the Jeep, and I was still throwing my fit because of the wreck. I think that they all ended up talking for a while, and I knew that I was going to be in serious trouble, although, I'm not sure if they even ever approached me about it. I felt like I could feel their anger coming out towards me as well, but I don't think they ever directly expressed it to me. I think that I remember something at one point (but I'm not sure if this was before or after the wreck) about grandmamma crying really hard and me giving her a big hug.

Choir of for the Rich

I was in some sort of school, and I was doing a lot of walking around. I think that it was some sort of "special event" or something that was going on, sort of like a bunch of plays and art exhibits and choir performances. I was walking around with someone, but I'm not sure (as of this point in the dream) who it is. I can't even really remember what I was doing around there. I feel like I may have been somewhat dressed up, and that maybe I was even supposed to perform at some point, although I never did.

After some time, me and whoever I was with walked into one auditorium where they were going to be having this really big choir performance. I found out from talking to someone in there that this particular one was going to be for "the rich people". I kind of rolled my eyes and thought "oh brother" and walked out. I think I went around a couple of other places, and by the time I ended back up outside of that same auditorium, the performance was going on.

I go over to peek in the window of the door just so I could catch a glimpse of all these rich people gathered into one place, and Sarah (who it turned out I was with) ended up opening the door. I just about jumped and tried to pull her back, telling her that she couldn't go in there because the performance was in queue, but I think that she told me that it was over now anyway.

So we walked away from the door and around through some other auditorium seating (which was out in this "lobby" like area outside of the actual auditorium) and wound up finding her parents sitting in the back row of seats. They were talking with some friends, and Sarah went up and asked them something, and then when she was done, we turned to walk around a little more. The main auditorium was off to our left, and we started heading in that direction. I excused myself past a dark haired lady and headed back towards that door, just as all these rich people were coming out.

Out in the Woods on a Hike

I remember being out in the woods somewhere, and it was almost like I was on a hike or something, and at the end of the hike was supposed to be a river or some other body of water. At one point I met up with Sam (tall guy from school) and and a female friend of his (who it seems like I knew, too, but I'm not sure of who it was), and I think we all talked for a minute, but I can't remember what about.

I think I also remember something about driving to or from work during the night, and Mike (manager of Papa John's) was at work then. Actually, I think that what it may have been was that he had sent me out on a run to Tybee Island, or at least was thinking about it. I got back to the store, and Mike was still there, and I think Bob (one of the drivers) was there, too, along with some others. I think there was some question as to whether or not I had checked out the Tybee run, or maybe just whether or not it NEEDED to be checked out (and possibly still taken).

The Capture of the Cane and the Journey Home

I think I started out and I was on some sort of quest or something to get a special cane or staff from somewhere, but as it turned out, some other guy with "lower interests" had gotten to it first. I think that I spotted him in an airport or something, and so somehow a group of people and I got it from him, and I tried to pack it up with my stuff so I could go home. It wouldn't fit in any of the luggage I had, so I just had to stack it under some of my things to make sure it wouldn't get lost.

After putting my things onto the back of a bus, I boarded the bus and rode around for a bit. I was needing to get to the airport so that I could go home, although I'm not sure if it was the same one that I had started out at or not.

After riding around for some time, I knew that time was growing short for me to board my flight, and so I finally got the driver to stop down at the end of the terminal and let me out. (Somehow my things had already made it onto the plane) So, as I got out of the bus, I saw my plane down at the opposite end of the runway taxiing up to my end to then take off. Since the plane was no longer at the terminal, I didn't quite know what I was going to do about getting on the plane. I decided to run down to where the plane was coming towards me and hope that the plane would stop and let me on, but it didn't. It went right past me up to where the bus had dropped me off. It then turned around and started to head back. I decided that instead of running up to it again, I would wait where I was and wait for it to come to me.

So when I did, when it got close, I started running in the same direction so that I could catch onto it's landing gear and pull myself on. When I caught onto the landing gear, I was suddenly on board in the belly of the plane, just above the hole for the gear. I looked down, and Sefton (from Papa John's) was grabbing hold of the gear and pulling himself on top of it. The gear then raised up and he just lay on top of the metal wheel cover (which looked kind of football shaped) and waited out the flight. I then laid down where I was, facing the back of the plane, and I thought about how cold it must be on that wheel cover.

I noticed that the belly of the plane was pretty empty. There were a few things around here and there, and the area that the floor covered was huge, and out in front of me off to the right a little was a translucent area on the body of the plane that let in a little bit of light, which reminded me of an old warehouse with frosted or paint covered windows. I think that we then fell asleep there and just waited for the journey home.

The next thing I remember is that Sefton and I were out in the middle of this field area kind of like Avebury Hill, and mom and my family and several others who were familiar to me (but I can't remember who) were there and helping me and Sefton pack our things into the back of mom's new Aerostar (Ford's old mini-van), and I think that John (from Papa John's) was adjusting the seats around and stuff and helping us pack our things in there.

The next thing I know is that after all the greetings and hugs and everything during this time is that I'm finally "home", which was at Mike's (former step-father) house. I was outside, and I think I remember seeing someone walking along the road, or maybe I was the one walking along the road for whatever reason, but I ended up going inside, and it was very clean in there. Also, I think that everything as far as the building and stuff was finally complete.

Anyway, I walked over into the kitchen area, and Jay (from Papa John's) was there with my mom, and mom was just finishing up some cleaning, by where the stove was, and Jay was in front of the sink. When I walked in, he looks at me and then points over to where mom is finishing the cleaning and says, "Holy shit! Look how clean it is!!" He was pretty excited about it. I think I may have walked around for a short bit, and maybe I even went back outside, but I'm not sure.

Chris Farley and David Spade New Movie

I started out driving around in Harrisonburg, and I think I had a couple of friends with me. I remember going around through several stoplights and heading downtown.

Somehow during my trek between the mall area and downtown, I no longer had my car, but I was on a bike, I think. I remember going faster and faster down a hill and across several streets, and I was passing several people who were walking, and it seems that I may have even jumped over a couple of them as I got towards the bottom and hit the places where the street and the sidewalk met at those little "ramps". I was slightly worried about leaving my friends behind, but I knew that they'd just catch up with me.

Finally I got to where I was going, which was a theater downtown. When I got there, there were several people standing around outside, and Stephen (friend from school) and whoever was with him finally caught up to me. We went inside to see what movies were playing. We had been wanting to see a movie, but we didn't know which ones were playing. I remember almost running in, following behind Stephen. We passed the ticket counter, which was this huge walled in area in the middle of this really big room, and we went looking at all the posters. Finally we decided on the one that had Chris Farley and David Spade in it. Sometime during all of this I saw Scott (best friend from elementary school), too, but I didn't get a chance to say anything to him.

Finally we got into the theater and sat down, and I think that Stephen and "the other guy" were sitting behind me, and I was kind of in a row by myself. The movie started up, and it started out as something about Chris's father had this sort of dirt mound looking hut that he (Chris) was supposed to take care of. This thing was kind of out in some sort of hot looking dirt field, almost as if it was in Texas or New Mexico. Then Chris and David met up, and the next thing I know, they're going around in some town doing stupid stuff. (just like in their movies, I guess).

Anyway, they didn't seem to be getting along very well, and at one point, they were supposed to be doing something about picking each others nose. I think that they were supposed to do it at the same time, but one or the other kept goofing up, or was purposely trying to do it differently, and so they ended up getting mad at each other. David started walking away from Chris, and Chris was following him, and then David ended up falling into this little hole in the street that was about a foot across and was full of water. When he fell in, Chris jumped down to try to save him, but he couldn't.

They were doing some strange stuff with the camera views at this point, almost as if we were supposed to be seeing this from David's view, and I even remember the camera being down in the water looking up towards the hole, and Chris was there reaching down into the water to try to help him out. It was almost like David was purposely trying to not let him help or something. During this scene, I remember feeling like holding my breath, and I was thinking that was kind of funny because I wasn't even in the movie, but it made me feel that way.

After the scene was over, I heard several people in the theater gasp for breath because they had been holding their breath, too, and I heard several laughs and some murmuring going on after it because they thought it was funny and cool how the movie made us all do that. Right after this part, I started looking through a book that I had with me. I had this thing that was like a black Lego block that was about 12 sections long, and I was placing it over the columns of letters in the book to shift them over to fix how the book was printed. It was like I could push down on the Lego piece, and it would "click" into place and I could slide all the letters under it over as far as I needed. It turned out that it only needed to go over one space, but I had to do this with several columns.

As I was working on the last page, (and the last page was really messed up for some reason) I noticed that there was a girl sitting next to me in the row, and I think she said something to me, and I started watching the movie again. (it wasn't like she told me to put the stuff away and watch the movie. Whatever it was that she said was "cute and funny" and it was almost like it made it so that I couldn't concentrate on what I was doing anymore, so I had no choice as to whether or not to watch the movie)

Anyway, it was the end of the movie, and David was sitting on this mound that had belonged to Chris's father. He was either reading or writing something, and Chris was standing near by. They were talking just a little bit, and it had turned out that David HAD gone into that hole on purpose to get away from Chris. Chris was talking to him to try to convince him to be his friend again, but David wouldn't do it. Chris finally let him go about it and left, so the movie ended on a sad note.

Then everyone in the theater got up and was leaving, and I was trying to get a glimpse at the girl that had spoken to me during the movie, but I didn't want her to catch me gawking or anything. She had short (shorter than mine, but not "boy cut") dark hair, and she wasn't super model thin, but she wasn't fat, either. She was just kind of average in size. I was trying to get a look at her face, but for some reason I found it terribly difficult to.

As we were leaving the theater, we ended up in the main corridor of the mall, and there were all these desks set up, and everyone had to take a seat there. I don't think that there were enough desks, and so some people had to stand. I felt that I knew what we were going to do, but I can't really think of what it might have been. I was just looking for a seat or a place to stand just as the dream ended.

The Yard Inspector

I was at mom and Pat's (step-father) house, and I somehow heard from someone that "the inspector" was going to be by the next day to inspect our yard. I didn't know what needed to be done for our yard to pass, but whoever it was that told me that he was coming also told me that he was back there now just looking around to see what we needed to do before he did the actual inspection, and that I was free to go back and talk to him to find out what needed to be done. So

I headed back there, I saw a guy that had dark hair, a mustache,close cut beard, and glasses, and he was carrying a clipboard. I started talking to him about what needed to be done, and he walked around with me and showed me. One thing was to cut the grass. (it was pretty tall... above our ankles) and another was to clear up the line that separated our yard from the Garber's field. That meant to tear up any of the corn stalks that were over in our yard, including the ones that were growing inside of the chicken house. (???)

So he left, and I think I kind of dawdled around for a short bit, and then maybe even ended up going to bed. I think what I did was plan on getting up pretty early to do those things because I didn't think they'd take me very long. So I got up fairly early the next morning and I went out to start tearing up the stalks in the chicken house. I think I got part of that done, as well as part of the line between our field and the yard, but I think it was also taking longer than I had anticipated, and so the time for the inspector to get there was running close. I decided to leave the mowing of the yard for now because that was a "minor" thing from what he was saying.

While I was inside the chicken house, I think mom was there with me, but I don't really know what she was doing. I think she helped some, but it also seems to me that for some reason she was against the tearing down of the stalks.

Glimpse of Ivy

I don't remember the whole dream on this one, but all I know is that I saw some sort of glimpse of Grandaddy Bailey's old yard (in Ivy). I think it was night time, or close to it, but I'm not really sure. I think I was out in the "back yard" area close to where that little house was in the corner of their old yard behind that fence.

Mad and Matthew and Burnt Pizza

I was driving home along Rt 11 like I was going home from school or something, and I met up with Jason (from Papa John's) at the post office. He was getting lottery tickets (the scratch-n-win kind) and he asked me at one point if I had some change I could give him. I gave him enough to get one, and then he got one and then asked me for some more change. He said that he had won another ticket and that he needed the change to get it, so I gave it to him.

The next thing I know is that I'm at home (mom's and Pat's (step-father) house), and I'm cooking a turkey and making pizza. While I'm waiting for these things to finish (they were cooking in an oven like what's at Papa John's... the turkey included) I'm talking to Theresa (ex-girlfriend) on the phone. After I'm talking to her for a while, I look over at the oven and see that everything is backing up, and that the pizza is burning because it's being kept inside the oven. I drop the phone and run and get these things out of the oven (without even letting Theresa know what's going on). After I get them out and set them around to cool, I go back over to the kitchen sink and pick the phone back up and tell Theresa what had happened. She was okay with my dropping the phone.

Then while I'm talking to her, for some reason Matthew (youngest brother) gets really mad at me, and he goes to another phone and clicks the button to hang it up, and it hangs up the phone on me. I got really pissed at Matthew and I was yelling at him, and I think I may have even tried to hit or kick him (but if I did actually do it, it didn't phase him at all) He then starts trying to get on the phone, and I'm trying to keep him away from it, and I end up following him to his room. He gets on a phone in there, and so I try the same thing of hanging him up from another phone, but I can't get it to work. I then try to get a hold of Eric (younger brother) (he was down at his dad's house) from mom's and Pat's room and Matthew goes and does the same thing. I can't figure out why he is so mad and keeps hanging me up, but it's making me madder and madder by the moment.

Merillat Reborn (and still breaking down)

I was working in Merillat again, although it seemed to be in a new building (which feels somewhat like a church to me), and everything was drastically rearranged. It seems to me that everything had a conveyor for each separate piece that was produced, and at the end were all these slanted tables that the things ran down onto, and we had to take them from there and stack them behind us on the rolling conveyors (like the type that pervaded throughout the floors of Merillat).

I was at the end of the thing, stacking the pieces that were coming down the line of the conveyor to me. Up in front of me I could see Dot (from Merillat), and also a guy that looked a lot like John (the first shift clean-up guy, also from Merillat), although he also looked like a similar guy from Kroger's that has a big afro (but he's white as can be). He was stacking wood from a conveyor up farther ahead of me, more towards the middle of the plant. I was in the back of the plant. I think I kept leaving my station and walking around some because I think that something kept slowing things down, and so I didn't have a whole lot to do. Although, when it did get busier, I had a hard time making myself get back to work.

Towards the beginning of all of this, the air/dust system shut down, and the sawdust from the overhead pipe work came pouring in. We had to evacuate the place, and when we did, we all ran outside, and then into another part of the building that WAS a church, and we stayed in what looked like a choir dressing room for a short time, and then when they got everything fixed again, we went back in and continued working. After trying to work some more and ending up walking around again, the whole thing happened again with the dust system. The first time we left, we exited through the right side in a door in the back. The second time, we exited through the left door in the back. (well, those were the ones _I_ went through each time. Each one was used by people each time)

Anyway, we ended up in the choir rehearsal room again, and I sat down on the carpet next to someone that I knew but can't really remember. Perhaps an ex-girlfriend or something. I just know that I seemed to be the only male in there. The ex was on my right, and I was facing the door that everyone was coming in through, and there was a little wall that came out into the middle of the room to separate it into two parts, and I was kind of at the end of it.

Then a girl named Julie whom I had known in middle school showed up (she was the one that had trouble with her legs, and I saw her some years later, and she was in a wheel chair) and she was on my left. She had something that was very small, almost like a pill or something, and she was talking about how good it was. But I don't think that she meant as in taste. I think she meant as in what it did and the energy that it gave her. Almost as if it were a holy thing. I wish I could remember what it was, but I can't. It was soon after this that we went back into the plant, I think, and then the dream ended.

Movie

I was in an apartment that was supposed to be mine (although it reminds me of the one that Mary (ex-girlfriend) lived in in Waynesboro for a while) and I'm watching this movie about some sort of monsters or something. It seems like it was supposed to be a Japanese anime, although it seemed very realistic, too.

It also had some game-like qualities in that I was making some choices within the movie and living part of it out, and in other parts I just seemed to be watching. The part that I remember the "movie" beginning in is in this cave like room where this old warrior has just died, and there's two swords on the ground. A green sort of plastic looking one, and a metal one. I (or someone) picks up the metal one and slashes it through something in the ground that is supposed to be part of the some monster that is getting ready to break through and destroy everything. In slashing through this part of it, it splits it wide open, and then it seems to whither away. One monster down.

Then as "we" (whoever else was with me, but I have no idea who it was) were leaving through this cave network, more and more monsters start showing up, chasing us and destroying everything around them. We finally make it out to the surface, which was in the middle of a large city, but so did the monsters.

At this point, I was way above the "central skyscraper" and I could see the monsters coming out and destroying the ground around it, and then destroying the skyscraper itself. After this, they went on to destroy the rest of the city. Then, either the movie was over, or I just had to leave (I don't remember which) but either way, I left and went to school. I was walking around the halls like it was during lunch.

I think I first met Jason (from Papa John's) close to the cafeteria steps and I asked him some question (but I don't remember what) and it seems to me that he didn't know the answer. So then I started walking around. I think I may have gone down to the cafeteria briefly, but I didn't stay down there. I breezed into the room that had been Coach Con's room, but whatever I was looking for wasn't there. So I went back up and continued up the stairs up to the second story.

As I was walking up there, I met up with Scott (best friend in elementary school) and Stephen (friend from school). I talked to them briefly, and then I think Scott had to go do something, and so he left, but Stephen went with me to Mrs. Yager's room (biology teacher) . I think we had class in there for a little bit, and then we were done for the day or something, and so I went downstairs again and walked out in the direction of the office and out to the parking lot.

I went out and got into my car (and even though it was supposed to be the afternoon, the sun was where it should have been in the morning) After I got into my car, I looked around and I saw Mike and Robin (from Papa John's) in their truck in one of the parking spaces behind me. We waved to each other, and then I backed out and started to drive down to the end of the parking lot to leave. My car wasn't doing very well, no matter how much I pushed on the gas pedal, and Mike and Robin were right behind me.

Finally my car started working better again, and I drove down to the intersection at Rt. 11. When I got there, the guy from Kroger's (the one that told me his alcohol story) was there, and I got out of my car to help him stock the shelves that were there. (which were there instead of the wall that gets painted by the art classes every year) So we started stacking bags of dog food. Someone was helping us for a little bit, but they ended up leaving shortly.

We were trying to stack the bags of dog food in between these sort of flimsy metal grate dividers. He was pleased with the way I was doing it because of I was able to get them stacked upon one another and then some off to the side of them as well, getting more than most people into a stack. After I was done there, I ended up going back to the apartment, and Theresa (ex-girlfriend) was there. Some younger kids had somehow followed me there, and so they were wanting to see the movie as well. I tried to warn them that it was really scary, but they didn't care. They wanted to see it anyway.

So they, along with some adult (I think it may have been John, the youth pastor for Pleasant Valley Church) came in to watch it. I went and told Theresa that they were wanting to see it, and she basically told me that if they get scared, it's they're own fault. I agreed and started it up for them. It picked up at the same place with the old warrior that was getting ready to die. He said something about killing the bears, but I wasn't sure what that was about. I then realized that the bear livers that were left behind (like in the game Nexus) could help him (and us) out and make him better enough to help us instead of dying, so I went around and gathered several of them.

Metallic Green Paint

I think I started out at work (Papa John's). I was there helping everyone get ready for a busy Friday night. We were slapping out dough, and I remember something about Larry (from work) telling me that he didn't feel well. From the way we were situated, he was over where we normally keep the thin crusts, and there was some sort of table and wall (like the red one behind the thin crusts) that he was behind, and I was out on the main floor area at one of the big tables.

I think I was wanting to let him go since he wasn't feeling well, but I was also worried about getting slammed that night and not having enough people there to help. After slapping dough for the pizzas for a little bit, I left and went home for some reason. I think it was to get ready for work that night. (this was happening earlier on in the day)

At one point I had to go back outside to do something with my car, although, I think that I had borrowed Adam's (tall skinny guy from work) car to drive home for some reason. (and even though he drives a little white car similar to my Corolla, in the dream it looked like Mike's mom's car... like a big dark blue Caprice or Impala)

When I got out to where I had parked on the roof (it was like the apartment also doubled as a parking garage, and that I could park up on the roof), I saw that there was this dark green metallic paint that was still wet that was all over the outside and inside of his car. I looked around at the whole thing, even down under the front bumper at the engine, and it was everywhere. Someone had done this as a prank while I was inside. I then found my car, and found that they had done the same to it as well, although, mine was only partially done because they had evidently run out of the paint.

In looking at the cars, had gotten some of the paint on me and on my clothes, and so I went back inside to wash it off. I remember that the inside of the apartment was only as wide as my current bedroom (at the Commons in Savannah), but there were some short dividing walls that divided the place at various intervals the farther back you went. The front of the apartment was very open and well lit, but I'm not sure if it was because the front of the apartment WAS open, or of there was just a lot of glass in that front wall that let in a lot of light. So I finally got to the bedroom, which reminded me a lot of the room at the end of the hall in Aunt Irene's house on Clark Street. I also remember a glimpse of my old bedroom from home. (the one downstairs that Nick (step-brother) eventually got)

Anyway, after realizing that I couldn't get any of this paint out, I became very angry and got into my car and sat in the painted seat, and drove back to Papa John's. I think I had to park in a parking garage and then walk down and across a street, and then around to the opposite side of the block to get there.

When I finally got there, I started yelling at Mike (the store manager) and asking him if he "was the fucking moron that did this", and he told me he didn't do it, but Bozo did. (Bozo was a short blond guy that was very redneck-ish) So then I yelled the same at Bozo even though I knew that asking him like that would make him mad and start to fight. He yelled back that he did, and then I started yelling at Mike again because I knew that he was in on it and he didn't do anything to stop it.

So after being pissed around there for a little while, and someone mentioning the green paint that I had on my clothes and on the side of my head and face, I started to leave the store with Adam. He was also pissed about something (although I don't think it was about his car that I had borrowed) and he told me something like I had "better not be expecting any sex". I looked at him funny and snapped back that I wasn't. We then got into his car (the white one that he normally drives). I sat in the back behind him, and as we were riding to wherever we were going, his cellphone rang, and he answered it and then handed it to me. Somehow I knew that it was the company that made the green metallic paint that was all over everything, and that they were going to tell me how to get it off of the stuff. I think they started to tell me, and then Adam had to stop and get out of the car for some reason, and so this somehow interrupted the conversation.

As I was sitting there in the car, I noticed that it was starting to get dark out. He was off to the right side of the road doing something, although I'm not sure what, and I happened to glance into the rear view mirror. I saw a car a approaching from behind, and I knew that it wasn't going to stop and it was going to hit the car with me in it. But instead of trying to get out or anything, I just sat there and watched it. Finally the thing hit the car in the rear, and I lurched forward. Adam saw it happen, and instead of being mad that someone hit his car (because he DID leave it sitting in the right lane of the road after all. He hadn't even pulled over to parallel park) he told me to get out and "let 'em know it", which I think meant to go off on them or something.

So I got out, and so they knew I was okay, but instead of saying anything to them, I walked up and stood next to Adam. Then I turned and looked at the back of the car, and I could see the big dent that was in the back of it from the car hitting it, although I didn't see the car that had hit it anywhere around. I saw people trying to drive around it, and then I saw a big truck that was some dark color, but I'm not sure what color it was. It came right up like the car had done and hit the back of Adam's car. I mean, it really pounded into it. It pushed it all the way down to the end of the street and then across the road that crossed at the end of the street (it was a T intersection) and over the side of the road, which was a steep bank. The guy turned left, I think, and then pulled off to the side of the road and got out.

Adam and I walked down there, and by the time we got there, several people had stopped to look off the side of the road to see what had happened. We looked over the edge of the road, and his car was sort of sitting in a tree, but at the same time it was on the side of the bank. We were trying to figure out how to get it out of there, and I think that we had come up with some sort of solution, but I don't remember exactly what it was.

Then all of a sudden I was walking back to the parking garage, and the place where I had driven in a while back was now blocked off. They were letting people out, but no one was allowed to drive in. The gate and stuff had been torn down some how, and there were some police around directing traffic, as well as the yellow police lines and orange cones. One of the police was saying what had happened (although I'm not sure if he was talking to me or to someone else and I was just overhearing). It had to do with a wreck that was just up the street at the next intersection, and it had something to do with the guys first gear, but I don't know how that caused the wreck. The wreck that had caused it was separate from Adam's wrecks. I think I then started to walk up to my car, but it was about there that the dream ended.

Super Save, Sefton, and the Technical Pens

I was at Super Save (grocery store in Weyers Cave) with Sefton (from Papa John's), and he was needing to buy some technical pens for something, and he was just about to purchase them and I remembered that I had some that he could come over and use if he wanted. He said okay, and so he ended up not getting them. Then we left, I think, and ended up back at the store later, and I was feeling bad because whatever he needed the pens for was past due, and even though I had told him he could use mine, I had never arranged a time with him to come and use them, and so now he was going to be in trouble.

Jason Delivers to Mariah Carey and The Dave Matthews Band

It was late at night at Papa John's, and I was closing with Jason (one of the drivers). I think that it was supposed to be a Sunday night, and things weren't very busy. The phone rang, and Jason got the phone, and while he was doing that, I decided to start doing the dishes. There were lots of dishes to be done.

After Jason got off the phone, he rushed back and told me that Mariah Carey and The Dave Matthew's Band were staying in a hotel downtown, and that they had ordered pizza. I think that he had told them that we don't normally deliver that far out, or maybe I just assumed that he had. He was all smiling and his face was somewhat red. I could tell that he wanted to take it, and I told him that if something like that ever came up again, and we were slow like this, that he could go on ahead and take it. He said okay, and then I continued to work on the dishes some.

Then after a little bit he said that he was going, and for some reason I needed to follow him out part of the way. So I was following him, and we ended up heading downtown. I realized that he HAD taken the order and he was taking it to them. I was happy for him because he'd be able to meet them this way.

So as we got part way downtown, it was raining, and I ended up kind of sliding around or something, but somehow my doing so prevented Jason from doing it, too. I slid off to the left and up kind of onto a median strip or something, and I noticed that there were some black kids out around that area, and I was glad I hadn't hit them.

The next thing I remember is that I'm back in the store working on the dishes again. By this time the water has grown somewhat chilly. All three sinks were really full (within a half an inch from the top of the sink) and I was wanting to make the water warmer, not just so it would feel warmer to me, but I knew that it would help out with getting the junk off the dishes, too.

About this time, my mom and two little brothers showed up, and so I was telling them about Jason going to see the famous people in the hotel. They thought that was pretty cool, and then they just kind of hung around and talked to me and tried to find out what I was doing. I told them about the water being cold, and someone said something about using candles. It doesn't seem to me, though, that it was mom, but it was some woman figure, almost as if it had been an angel or something like that. It turned out that what I was supposed to do was take hot candles and put them down into the water to heat it up. I think that I tried it along with whoever was showing me, but it wasn't heating up the water very well.

So I ended up draining some of the water out and running some new hot water in. I think that just before I put the new water in, I was IN the sink looking out, and I realized that the part of the sink that I stand in front of was cut away, and that there was a chance of the little bit of water that was left in the bottom getting out and making the floor wet. Then I ended up getting out and putting more water in there to clean the stuff, and it was about that time that Jason got back.

He was just telling me that he actually got to meet them, and I thought that was really cool. Then soon after this I went to Pizza Hut to get something to eat, and I had some friends there. I don't remember who they were, though, but they were being really nice and joking with me. They were having some sort of trouble with getting my small pizza made, but I can't remember what the trouble was. After piddling around there for a little while, I think they finally got my pizza, and I ended up leaving, at which point the dream ended.

Bob and Skiing down the Snowy Moutain

I was with Bob (from Papa John's) and we were at my old house in Virginia (mom's and Pat's (step-father) current house) I don't remember how it started up, but there was something about somehow "falling" and landing on top of this huge mountain that was kind of in our back yard (over where grandmamma's trailer is) and skiing down the side. I know that either I was trying to get Bob to try it out, or he was trying to get me to try it out, but either way, we each had a set of small skis that we were supposed to use.

I remember something at one point about getting into a dark colored car (which was sitting between the chicken house and the other building) with Bob and some other people, but I don't remember exactly what we were doing. It almost seems like we were going to drive up to the mountain (even though the only way to ski was to "fly" and then fall onto the mountain and take it from there.)

Soon after this, we were wanting to do this again (evidently we had already done it at least once) and we went out in back of the kitchen again, but all we could see in that direction were clouds. We were waiting for it to clear, and there was something about thinking that maybe the mountain was no longer there. As we discussed this and stood and watched as the clouds swirled around and such, it seemed that we were almost arguing over it, but not in a negative manner. It was a positive argument, almost as how one might argue philosophies that they ran they're life with.

After a short while, the clouds finally started to clear, and whoever said that the mountain was gone was right. It had vanished, almost like the mountain itself was made of snow and had melted away. Realizing that we now had nothing to do, we were bored, and the dream ended.

Bathroom in the Sewer

There was something about being around or on a school bus, and I was on the stretch from the stoplight from my high school heading towards Mt. Sidney. I don't remember why I was there, but something tells me it wasn't anything really dealing with school.

Then something else I remember is being in these sort of tube like halls made of metal (kind of like a sewer), and there were doors in parts of it, and I was searching either for a bathroom in general, or a specific bathroom, but I was talking to some young guy about trying to find it, and eventually I did. I even remember seeing someone in there, although I'm not sure if I saw someone ELSE in there, or if I saw ME in there. Either way, I was looking from the doorway to the bathroom and saw someone near the toilet.

Toilet in the Tub

I was in a bathroom that looked very similar to the one I have here at the apartment (in Savannah), but it was in someone else's house. I can't remember if I had gone in there to just use the bathroom, or if I was planning on taking a shower, but whatever happened, I ended up disassembling the toilet and some other stuff and placing it into the tub. I think I was then trying to rinse all that stuff off at the same time that I was trying to take a shower, but I knew that if I got caught having all this stuff in the tub, then I'd be in serious trouble.

I remember someone coming and knocking on the door, asking me if I was going to be out soon, and I jumped and I said yes, and then I started trying to put everything back together. I first placed this kind of cube shaped piece to the toilet back in the floor for it to rest on, and then I picked up the toilet and I had to slide this sort of pointed or chisel shaped part down into the cube, and once I did, water refilled the toilet. I then started cleaning up the other stuff, but I think my alarm came on during that time and woke me.

Key in the Palm of Your Hand

I had been in some city and gone through some caves to get to various parts of that city. Some of the caves were short and narrow, just like a regular hallway that went either steeply up or down, and others were like huge cavern rooms that had many hallways branching out of it and were full of stalactites on the ceiling and such.

At one point, I had made it to the "far" side of the city, and Nick (step-brother), his girlfriend (someone I didn't know), and some others were with me. I remember seeing us all out on a boat dock on a small pond or a river perhaps, and I knew this thing about "keying in" words on the palms of my hands to give me certain abilities. There was one that allowed us to float or almost kind of fly, and there was another that allowed us to be invisible. I know that to become invisible, I had to "key in" the word "deer". To key something in, what I had to do was have my palms facing each other, and then try to think of how I would type it on a computer keyboard, using my palms as the keys. So, to key in "deer", I used my right index finger and tapped it on my left palm for the "d", and then tap twice with my right middle finger on my left palm for the "ee" and then my left index finger on my right palm for the "r". (and I know this isn't how I use the letters on the keyboard, but somehow it was how it worked in the dream) After I completed this sequence, I was invisible. I can't remember, though, how long I would stay invisible. I think it may have been just until I decided that I wanted to be seen again.

Anyway, at this point on the dock, I remembered seeing Amanda (a girl from school) use the "fly" key to make it so that she could just walk right off the end of the dock and not fall in the water. She was able to just keep walking, or even perform some action close to ice skating along the level of the dock.

Then a little bit later, I was just with Nick and his girlfriend, and we were in some sort of old building that was being used as a hardware store. They were wanting to go home, but they felt lost and didn't know how to get there. I knew the way through the caves, but for some reason I didn't want them to know about the caves, and so I decided to go back through them to get back home, and then find another way to them that I could bring them home by. So I told them to wait there, and I'd find a way back home. They agreed, and so I left the building and went down the street and behind this tall building that had a street and an alley way running behind it. It seems to me that there was also some sort of roof over this part, and as I went around the right side of the building to get behind it, off to my right (across this alley from it) was the huge entrance to the cave. I went in there, and I used my invisible and fly keys to be able to zoom through there to get back home.

The next thing that I remember was that there was a group of us again that were outside of a doorway that felt like it was in a building very similar to Stewart Middle School. I think it was supposed to be Kate's (from Canada) apartment or something, but we couldn't get in because someone that was standing outside didn't think we should go in because none of us were Kate.

So I somehow ended up typing in some key that allowed me to look like Kate, and we were able to get in. Then as soon as we got in there, it seemed that everyone thought that I really WAS her, and so I had to make myself invisible so that they couldn't see me and they started to get somewhat upset. I think it wasn't long after that when the real Kate did show up, and I don't remember her being very happy, or people being happy with her, either.

Quake with John Ritter

I was in the back of a station wagon (like the Olds that mom used to have) and I was playing Quake on Matthew's (brother) gameboy. I thought that it was pretty cool, and I also noticed that the gameboy was black, and that there was some sort of cable coming out of the back that was plugged in to something, but I'm not sure what. Whatever it was, though, was making the game better.

After a little bit, I'm no longer in the car, but sitting in what sort of looks like Mom's and Pat's (step-father) living room. I'm on the sofa, and I'm still playing the game, although the far side of the room is not the living room. It's all open space, and it's kind of like a huge castle or something. I turn somewhat to my left (to where the far left corner of the room would be) and in the game I send out several grenades, although, I'm seeing them shoot out from the back of the gameboy and really go out into this open area of the castle that's in front of me. I probably sent out about 20 or so, and they all went through this iron gate that was keeping any of the monsters (which I had yet to see any) from coming to me. After a little bit, they all started exploding.

I sent out some more just to be sure, and I saw this boy peek out from around the brick wall and look over in my direction. He wasn't getting hurt by the grenades because they were part of the game, and he wasn't. He was real. Then after the grenades were done and the gate opened, I turned off to the far right corner of the room, and there was a doorway down in the bottom corner of the wall. This wall was really tall, probably around 50 to 75 feet tall.

I then shot a grappling hook or something with a rope attached to it over the wall, and I felt it hit a wall that was behind it. I knew that it had stuck in. Then all of a sudden, John Ritter was there, and he was angry with me because I had almost hit his son in the head with that grappling hook. He told me that I had to call him and tell him that I was sorry, so I picked up a cell phone and called and told the boy that I was sorry that I had almost hit him. He didn't say a whole lot, but he wasn't really worried about being hit, either. He knew the game I was playing, and evidently his dad didn't.

Then after John left (through that door in the bottom right corner of the far wall), I followed after him, and I found his son. I found out that he had a gameboy, too, and that he also had Quake, and so I offered to play with him. So we got set up to get ready to play it, and then we got sidetracked somehow.

We were in his house (sort of) and it turned out that it was storming outside, and that the house was actually part of a boat or something, and that it started rocking back and forth pretty quickly on the choppy water. The boy's mom came through, and I made some comment to her about it (maybe like some sort of joke or something) and I remember him smiling and taking whatever I said lightly, and none of us were really worried about the house rocking so much.

Then the son and I started up the gameboys and started playing. His gameboy was the typical white one, and then I still had Matthew's black one that was somewhat bigger and had more buttons and stuff. So, instead of us playing it together, he ended up watching me play it on mine.

It turned out at this point that Quake now had Mario in it, and that you had to get to a certain point with him to be able to do the Quake stuff. I did all sorts of stuff, making Mario jump here and there and going into all these pipes and stuff, just like it was a regular Mario Brothers game. I think that I took some sort of wrong turn near the end of the level, and I had to go through all this extra crap to get to the end so that I could do the Quake thing, although, I think the dream ended before I got to the end and actually got to play Quake.

Mike the Truck Driver

About the first thing I remember is that I'm in a tractor trailer on Interstate 81 with Mike (manager at Papa John's) and he's driving us north on a rainy day. I was sort of sitting there watching how he was driving, and he was explaining some of it to me. He then asked me if I knew how to drive it. I'm not sure what I said, but he ended up having me to try to switch the gears. The gearshift had 3 or 4 buttons on the far side of it (where one's fingers would sit if they were on it) and it turned out that those were the clutches, and depending on which one you held down, it would switch it to a different gear for the same position as another button. (meaning that if I used the farthest left button and put the gear shift into the upper right position, it would be in third gear, but if I used the second button, that would make it 7th gear, and so having the total of 4 buttons, there were 16 gears in the truck) I tried to do this, but for some reason I wasn't doing a very good job with it. I think that maybe I didn't know what gear the truck was in already, so I didn't know which clutch to use. I think that I must have somehow got it, and all of a sudden I was sitting in the drivers seat of the truck.

I ended up driving onto this campground and I almost ran the truck into the river, which happened to be inside some building. The trailer ended up swinging around, though, and hit against some pole that was there, and whatever we had in there fell out and into the river. I don't know what it was, but I remember knowing that it weighed 600 pounds, and I didn't know how we were going to get it out.

The next thing I know, I'm out of the truck and I'm on the campground with this group of people who were all pretty familiar to me. They may have been people from work or school or something, but I'm not sure. I know that two of them were Robin and Natalie. (both from work)

I went down to that building that the river was in, and I went in and looked down by the pole into the water, and sure enough, there was that thing that had fallen out of the truck. I was getting ready to reach down into the water and pull on this rope that was attached to it, and I realized that me, Robin, and Natalie were all naked. I was trying not to look at them (especially Robin because I kept thinking "Yuck, she's older than my mom!")

After a moment I went to try to reach down into the river again and I was afraid of what might be in the river. (such as life forms of whatever kind, or gross debris or something) As I looked closer at the river, I realized that it was a man made river, and that the walls were made out of cement, and that it was somewhat like a pool, although the water was flowing in from one side of the building, and out the other side.

I stopped and looked around for a moment, and I took some notice to the building I was in. The bank I was on was completely flat, but slanted at about 10 or 15 degrees, and there was a big frosted window on the wall opposite of me, up about 20 feet or so. The building was about 30 to 40 feet tall at the sides, and where the roof peaked, it was probably about 50 feet.

I then refocused my attention to the thing in the water. I leaned out and rested my left shoulder against the pole (which was about a foot and a half from the banks edge) and I reached down and took hold of the rope. I thought again on the weight of this thing, and even though I knew that it was 600 pounds, I knew that if I concentrated, that I could lift it out. So I started pulling on the rope, and it came out just fine. I think I set it up on the bank, and then went back outside to the rest of the group. I think that either me or Natalie or Robin was telling them about how I lifted this thing out of the water, and everyone thought that was pretty cool.

He Used His Tongue To Shatter Them

There was something about being in some sort of either big old house, castle, or church, and there was some sort of "evil being" there that we were either trying to get rid of, or totally avoid. I think that there was some way that it had a way of using it's tongue and reaching through the door and grabbing people or things and pulling them back so hard and fast that they either shattered or splatted (depending on their nature to do so) upon contact with the door. It seems that we somehow stopped him from doing this, although I cannot remember how.

School Teams at Church

I think I started out outside of Pleasant Valley Church, and I was going around in the parking lot over near the lawn mower shed. There were several others out there too. They were people that I had gone to school with. The main ones I remember being there right then were Angela and Stephen.

The next thing I can remember is that we were inside and down in the basement in the youth room or something, but I can't really remember what we were doing down there. It was almost like we were having a meeting or something. Then I think there was something about going back outside (but this time we were down by the playground) and someone was putting a lot of us on teams. They placed Stephen and I, along with Josh (also from school, his mom knew my grandmother) and someone else I can't remember on a team, and they told us to go over with the rest of our team.

The four of us were glad to be on the same team because we knew we were going to kick butt, and then we found out that the "rest of our team" happened to be Ronnie (friend from school and church), and so we really knew that we were going to win at whatever the heck we were going to be doing. Then I think that there was something about driving around either to or from my house and to or from Weyers Cave during the night, but it was somehow illuminated by some light fog and spotlights or stadium lights.

The Long Walk

About the first thing I remember was that I was in a place that is much like Crozet (close to the "cabin" I used to live in). Rasheed (from Papa John's) and I were there walking around after having driven there. We were kind of out in the woods, and I saw a buck with a decent sized rack of horns on him looking at us, so I tried to point it out to Rasheed, but he couldn't see it. I even got right up on his left side and pointed with my hand straight out in front of his face, and he still couldn't see any where I had pointed, although I could still see it standing there, only 50 or so feet away. Then more started showing up, and I think that this worried us or something, so we ended up going into this building-like cave to "wait it out" till they were gone.

While I was in there, I started looking around and realized that there were sheep around in there. At first I almost started to worry about that, too, especially when the man that owned the sheep showed up out of nowhere (kind of from behind a water trough is where he came from). He looked meek enough, but I was scared that he was going to do something to us. He then started doing something with the wool of the sheep and was telling me and mom (Rasheed became mom at some undetermined point) about it. We realized that he was a pretty good guy, especially when he offered to help show us the way out of the wooded area to get back home.

We walked out and through the woods and ended up along this road. I seem to remember thinking something about how many months it would take to get to where we were going (I don't think we were heading home any longer by this point), and that I wanted to say bye to Eric and Matthew (brothers) before we headed out.

So the next thing I know, I'm in this brightly lit (by indoor lighting, not by natural light) cream colored room. In the direction I was facing, there was a washing machine in the right corner of the room, and to it's left was a doorway that had a small flight of stairs going up and outside. I was over by the washing machine, and I knew that Eric and Matthew were taking a bath (physically, they seemed to be pretty young to me (maybe between 5 and 7 years old), but I knew that they were still older than that, even though they did also seem somewhat younger than they actually are).

I went closer to the washing machine, and Eric popped up. I reached over and gave him a kiss on the right cheek, and I started to cry because I was going to miss him. When I pulled back, he was crying, too. Then Matthew popped up to the right of Eric, and I did the same with him. After kissing Matthew's cheek and telling them that I was going to miss them a lot, I started walking off to go on the long walk with mom. I could still see them both standing up out of the washing machine with red and pouty faces.

School Daze

It started out that I was in a new city (I'm thinking it was Savannah, although I'm not so sure) and for some reason, because of my age, I had to go to high school. Before I ever made it to the school, I met up with John (a curly headed headbanger from high school) and he was picking on me (just as he had done somewhat in middle school and high school). I somehow got away from him and finally made it to school. (although, now that I think of it, it was night time)

I was coming in the back way, which looked a lot like the doors that headed out to the art room at For Defiance High School. When I walked in, there were automatic doors and escalators around, and I had my schedule in my hand, but I didn't have any idea where to go. I realized that I was in Johnson High School (here in Savannah, even though I've never been there in waking life) and that I needed to find Natalie (girl from Papa John's) to have to to show me where the classes were.

I remember looking down at my yellowish card several times, and even though I knew what it said in the dream, I cannot remember now what it said. I knew that Natalie was somewhere one the top floor of the school, and so I set out to find her. After going up several flights of stairs and passing several people I knew from high school (Anne and several others that I knew from seeing at lunch) I finally made it to the top.

The set up for the stairs was strange. It was like there were at least 5 or 6 stories, but there was this huge open space around which the stairs wound, so if you were to go to the balcony and look over, there was a space the size of my apartment that was 6 stories deep. Anyway, when I got to the top, I found Stephanie (a girl from school) and tried to find out where my classes were. (somehow my goal went from finding Natalie to finding Stephanie)

I remember thinking that they'd better give us forever to get from class to class because of the sheer size of the school. By this time it was time for lunch, and so I started heading back downstairs to the cafeteria which was in the basement. I was getting lost on the way down because the stairways were now placed in some odd areas.

At one point I was in the boys bathroom, and I passed by John (a guy from Papa John's). I asked him where the stairs were to go downstairs, and he told me that they were "right over there on the right" and pointed out my way. I went through this little hallway and at the end were two flights of stairs. One going up (on the left) and one going down (on the right) so I guess I ended up taking the ones going down and I ended up in the cafeteria finally.

I saw that they were serving the same old "school pizza" that we had nearly every day in school, so I got in that line, thinking that I'd go sit with Stephanie and the group. While I was in line, John showed up again and was picking on me. I somehow lost my place in line because of this, but he finally left and so I got back in line. At this point, the pizza was all gone, and so all that were left were cheeseburgers. I was getting ready to get one of those when I saw that there WAS some pizza left, so I went and got that.

I then went and looked for my place to sit, and I think John came and was picking on me again. (now that I think of it, it was daylight in the cafeteria) I think that I finally found the people I knew and sat down to eat.

The next thing I know was that I was back in the hallway again, looking for my class, and I realized that I had already graduated from high school, so no matter what the age requirements were for going to school, I still didn't have to go because I had already finished it. I was very happy for this, and so I think it was right after this that the dream ended.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

About the first thing I remember is being in some sort of warehouse, and the Turtles had just been "done away with" (or so the bad guys had thought) It was like they didn't know I was there at all, though, and so after a while of seeing the bad guys tromp around and such, I saw the Turtles sneaking back in and getting their weapons from where the bad guys had put them.

The 5 of us then proceeded to go around though the warehouse, kind of sneaking around, and they were getting ready to fight them and take them out. During doing this, though, the Turtles were still goofing around and doing stupid stuff and saying stupid jokes, just like in the movies. In fact, this reminded me a lot of the second movie. I think that the bad guys even had something that they were growing to defeat the Turtles.

Anyway, at one point, there were a bunch of bathroom stalls off to the right side of the big room we were in, and so we each got into one because we heard the bad guys coming and we needed to hide for a bit. I was thinking that we'd have to stand on the toilets and squat down so that we wouldn't be seen at all but it seems to me that they didn't do that. I think they just sat down. Soon after this we were out and we were running into another big room.

Under this really tall platform was this thing that looked like an arm, from the elbow down, and missing at least 2 fingers off the hand. It was surrounded by a bluish field because it was supposedly frozen. It turned out that this thing was what the bad guys had been growing, and it was something that had evidently been alive before, because the Turtles knew exactly what it was and were so completely surprised that the bad guys would even consider bringing back such a horrible entity because it had the power to destroy them and us.

I think at about this moment it unfroze and started chasing the Turtles. I think that they fought it for a little bit, but then they ran back out the door that they came in, and at this point, I was standing where this thing had been at the first place.

Killing of the Japanese Cranberry Phone Gods

This one started out, and I was doing a backwards fly-over of Japan, and there was some voice talking about how the people of the land were having such troubles. I don't remember exactly what it said the troubles were, but there was something in there about the telephones and the cranberry trees.

As I was doing this backwards fly-over, I was looking around, and I saw many people on the very steep, but very lush, mountain sides carrying around baskets, but having trouble walking, and stumbling over the terrain and each other. I think that they were gathering the cranberries. Almost all of them were wearing white (or very light colored) garbs and the rice-patty hats (or whatever they're called).

Then I was suddenly in an elevator heading up to the top story of one mountain with a bunch of scientists or something. When we got up there, we found out that what was causing all these problems with the people were the gods that had taken over this mountain. I saw one of the people I was with go and try to defeat one, and they told me that their bodies were easy to beat, but their spirits (I think) were not. After the bodies were gone, there was this little mean looking piece of v-shaped rice with nasty eyes. When the scientist tried to smash something on top of it, it ended up somehow repelling whatever the scientist was using and then somehow killed him. Me and the others quickly hurried back down the elevator.

When I got down there, I made one walk around the building/mountain and when I came back to the elevators, there were two of them, and there was a person in each one. A female was on the left, and a male was on the right. They were in their late teens to early 20's. The guy was talking about how he had gone up and tried to defeat the gods, but he had gotten so scared of their "mean looking rice" that he wasn't able to get out of the elevator. Evidently it was the same case with the girl, although I don't remember her saying anything.

I then got in the elevator with the guy, and we went back up to the top. He was planning on fighting the rice again. When we got back up there, we both left the elevator, and I followed him. He ended up finding the rice, and somehow did something that made it so that he could smash it and kill it.

I then picked up the dead piece of rice and went into a laboratory which had a lot of scientific paraphernalia. I looked around, trying to figure out what to do with the dead rice and found a jar full of them. So I picked it up and opened it and put the one I had with me in there, and then closed it back up.

I then headed home, which was to mom's and Pat's (step-father) house. I went to go in to the kitchen door, and it was very early morning time. I thought that everyone would be asleep, but when I started in the door, I saw mom there eating breakfast (she was sitting at the end of the table closest to the stove). She was wearing her purple tank top thing that she normally wears around the house. She turned and saw me coming in, and I think she was upset that I had been gone all night and that I was still up.

Then all of a sudden, Aunt Irene and either Eric or Matthew (brothers) were in there with mom, eating breakfast as well. Aunt Irene was now where mom had been, Mom was on the side to Aunt Irene's right, and Matthew or Eric was on her left. Aunt Irene was started talking about how Brian (her son) had been staying up late, too, and sleep a lot during the day. I then tried to make up some story about that I had been in the attic killing spiders, and that's what the jar was from. I ended up leaving, but I'm not sure where I went because I think that's where it ended.

Weight lifting with Larry

Larry (a guy from Papa John's) and I were at the Nautilus doing some weight lifting. We were over where the stair masters are, and one of the first things that I did was get on my bike (which I had just so handily brought with me) and I was trying to ride that on the treadmill, but it wasn't going very well. I didn't really know why, but I didn't really care, either. Eventually I got off the bike and the treadmill and I was sitting on some machine (I'm not sure which) and Larry was off to my right using the pull-down machine (the one that's like doing pull-ups, but you bring the bar down to you instead)

He was trying to set the weight on it, and so he put the peg in the second hole down. He tried it out, and we realized that the weights were in 100 pound increments, so he took it out and put it in the first hole. Then after he just kind of sat there for a bit talking with me and some other people, (and I think that one of the subjects that came up was Tara from Merillat) he got up and went off to do something else.

So I moved to his machine, and I was going to try it out, but I got sidetracked with talking to some guy for a little bit, and then I got up and walked over and found Larry. We decided to go walking around through the Nautilus, and so we went through this back hallway that was as wide as the Nautilus itself and sloped upwards as we went. We passed some door off to our left and looked in, but I don't remember what was in there. Maybe some sort of class room or such.

Then as we were walking again, off to our right was Tara doing the "sit and reach" stretch and I said hi to her. Right after we were out of earshot from her, Larry commented on how good she looked, and I told him that what was better was that she had a twin sister. He laughed about that and then we kept going.

Eventually we were in some sort of huge class room that was a lot like a church. We were up in the balcony part, although, he wasn't Larry anymore. He now reminded me more of Urion (a friend of Nick, my step-brother), and I was following him across and out the right side door to wherever he needed to go. He was looking for something for me, I think, but I don't know what.

Jesus Quest And The Post Of 121

I was in a place that looked much like the dairy barn back at home (the upstairs part) and I was doing something that I had been told to do by following clues or something of some sort. When I accomplished whatever it was for this particular clue, another one appeared in writing, and I think it even "read itself" to me. It was telling me that I had to "just go to 121", meaning marker 121 along the river. (Although I don't know which river... just THE river)

So I was suddenly outside, and I was looking at some sort of map to see where 121 was, thinking that I wouldn't have to go far. I didn't see it on the map where I thought it should have been, so I just hopped into the river and started to float downstream.

Another guy was there somewhere and was telling me that the only time the water gets rough is when you have to go over more than 3 or 4 rocks. Soon after that, I saw some rough looking places approaching, and so I just went down the middle of them, knowing that would be the smoothest part of the rapids. I kept floating along (kind of on my stomach) and watching off to my right to look for marker post number 121, but I didn't see it.

As I got down towards the end of the river, I saw where it branched off to my right at a 90 degree angle, and then right ahead of me was some sort of hotel. (Into which the river flowed) So I ended up going into the hotel and looking around in there.

I saw Dot (from Merillat) in there and talked to her briefly about the quest and then just some chatter, and when I found out that she didn't know where 121 was, I headed out on my way. I walked all around through the hotel, across balconies and up an down huge winding stair ways. I ran into a second person and asked them if they knew about 121, and they didn't know where it was, either. I then went back outside to the river and looked around. I jumped back in and started heading back up, and then when I came to the 90 degree branching point, I went off on that. I looked at my map again, and saw that it looked like this:








The "start" is where I started my original float down the river. There were several numbers marked between start and the hotel, but I don't remember them or the messed up order they were in. So, when I left the hotel, I went up where the river did that funky number, and then I ended up right next to the dock and found a white post with 121 painted in black on it.

When I got there, I was taken into the dock (into?) and it was like a huge church (again). I was standing there behind where the preacher would stand, and I was in this little hall way. Jesus was standing there with me, and I knew that he had me going on this quest to do this stuff. When I looked out to the sanctuary, I saw people practicing for a play or choral performance, and it seems to me that several of them were dressed in winter coats with hoods and such. Jesus told me that the next part was to invite them all over and serve them hot chocolate and fish. (I think) Then he disappeared.

For some reason I didn't invite them to my place for that stuff, but I never really ended up going back there, either, I don't think. Even though I didn't do so, I wasn't very worried about not completing the quest. The dream almost ended there, anyway. But there was one thing that I noticed, and that was that Jesus didn't have this personality of being super mellow and super proper. He just seemed "normal" He was relaxed, but joked around and showed emotion. (which he doesn't seem to do that very much in the "big book") As an example, at one point I either said or did something that made him kind of slap is forehead and then lower his head into his hand and shake his head, kind of giving off a sense of "Doh!"

A Rose is the Key

I was watching a movie in the living room of mom's and Pat's (step-dad) house. Jen (daughter of Janet, whom I worked with at Papa John's) was there watching it, too, and it seems that it was supposed to be some sort of scary movie. It was either about monsters or ghosts, or maybe even both.

The next thing I know is that I had to go, and I was outside in a semi-wooded area where there were several buildings lined up in front of me and it was sunny out. They were kind of average sized single story houses, and each one had a short cement room built onto the back. Somehow I knew that this guy was looking for his dead wife, who was "buried" in one of these cement rooms. He didn't know which one it was supposed to be, but he had to look for the one with "the rose growing out of the crack in the wall". I specifically remember hearing someone tell me that, but I don't think that anyone was around. It was almost like narration or something.

I then looked in front of me and saw that the house I was standing behind was the one that he was looking for because one of these pink carnation looking flowers (those are what the roses looked like to me in my dream) was growing out of a hole in the wall that was at about eye level. I then saw this guy approaching from my left, and he was comparing his flower that he was carrying to the many that looked just like it on the other houses. He was looking for the one growing out of the hole. I believe then that I asked him if his wife's name was June and I think he told me it was Joan. I think I then mentioned that "in real life, her name is June" and he was like "oh, okay". (???)

I then turned and ran through the lightly wooded area behind me to the road that was up on the hill. There was a guy on a tractor or something up there, and he was being chased. I then climbed up onto the tractor with him and I saw that he had some small thing with him, but I can't remember what it was (although I knew at the time exactly what it was, and it seems that it was maybe some sort of small alien or something, but now it just looks like a croissant to me). That thing was why he was being chased, and so we turned and hauled ass down the hill between the trees and losing whatever was chasing us.

I then got off the tractor at the bottom of the hill and met up with the guy that was looking for his wife. He had finally found the house I had been standing behind and found that it was the one he had been looking for. I think he then opened some sort of door on the right side of the concrete enclosure, and he handed me the rose and told me I had to do some sort of chant with it to be able to go in. I was fearful about doing it because I was afraid I was going to see something that was scary to me, but I ended up doing it anyway.

After I did, I looked off to my left, and there was a window there. I could see inside, and it looked somewhat like a library, and I saw this tall and thin girl in there. Her face looked somewhat like Sissy Spacek, but I asked her if she was Christine (tall girl from elementary school). I think she said "no", but I think she ended up letting us in anyway. When I went inside, it was very much like a small and cramped library, and there were several women in there, and I realized that they were all dead! It was like some sort of spirit library in there.

After looking around briefly there in the front, I went to the back and through a doorway that took me into an old room that looked like a cross between Pleasant Valley Church's library and some sort of stage. I became fearful of that room for some reason, and I think it was because that guys wife was in there, but I couldn't see her or something, so I ended up leaving again.

I went back out into the main part of the library and up to the front desk and I had some chit-chat with the ladies there for a little while. I was then getting ready to leave, and one of them (an older dark haired lady) put up her hand for me to touch. When I touched her hand, at first it seemed almost like jello, like I was going to pass through it, but then her hand was more solid, and I was surprised that for being a spirit, she was so solid. She was amazed to feel warmth again (from my hand) and I commented that she did not feel cold as I had expected. I think it was at this point that I left and that my dream ended.

Faking Sleep the Video Store

I just remembered a glimpse of a dream that I had before the above one. I think I started out at Fort Defiance High School in the cafeteria, and I was getting lunch, but it was towards the end of the lunch break, so they didn't have much left. It almost seems that I was able to pick and choose out of what was left and get it for free.

I know that there was some sort of interaction with someone both in the lunch line and out in the cafeteria, but I don't remember who it was or what happened. It was something fairly neutral, though. Nothing really good, but nothing really bad, either.

I left there and went to some video store, although it seems it was late at night. I somehow was in there after they had closed, but whoever had closed up had put in a movie and was watching it. By the time I came in, I think they had fallen asleep. It almost seems as though the person was Cindy (a girl from school), although I'm not certain. Anyway, I ended up laying down next to them, and the next thing I know, either someone else is there to open the store, or the person that had been in there had woken up. They found me there, and so I tried to act like I was asleep because I could tell that they weren't very happy about my being there. I think that eventually I either let on that I was awake, or they left, but either way, I think I gathered up my stuff and got ready to leave.

Aliens All Around And Missing Brains

I was at Mike's (former step-father) house. It was like I was upstairs in the "back" bedroom and I had just woken up. Mom was there, too, but it almost seems as though she was either just laying there resting or going to bed. I then left and went downstairs to the bathroom and took a shower, and right when I was finishing up, Eric (brother) came in and said he needed to take one, too, so we basically traded out.

After a little bit I was standing outside of the bathroom, and the door was open, and I could see Eric's form in the rippled glass of the shower, although I could see his eyes clearly. After he finally got out, there was something about him having to go back in to soap up. I asked mom about it, and she said that he hadn't been using soap for a few weeks.

I then went out to the kitchen, and there was something on the back porch. It was this really nasty looking alien. It was much shorter than me (maybe about 4 feet tall) but it looked somewhat like the alien in Independence Day. I noticed, tho, that it was very scraggly looking, almost like it was deteriorating. Parts of it's head were missing and such. Either mom or Matthew (youngest brother) were wanting to go out to the back porch to the freezer to get something, but they couldn't since it was out there.

I think I then went to the front door, but there was one there, too. I was going to try to slip outside and not let it in, but when I did, it got in. I then went back and got it's attention like it was a dog or something and I had it to chase me out. When it got out there, I hurried and ran back in and shut the door. I think I went to the back porch again and looked out, and I noticed that more of the head of the one was missing, and it seems that I was thinking that it was missing it's brain.