The Sick Note

I started out at home office, and Kim (my step-mom) was working there.  She came to me and asked me to deliver a sick note to her supervisor, Deborah (transportation supervisor in home office), so I took it and tried to do so.

I wound up wandering through most of home office before I went up several stories and went into the "outer office" where the secretary sits for Ernst (President).   Here is the layout:

The door at the top of the outer office leads to a bathroom and the door/hall on the right side of Alan's office leads to various business offices.  Ernst's secretary was situated between the hall door and the door to Ernst's office on the same wall, facing the back wall.

I had turned to go towards Ernst's office at first, but I realized I shouldn't be walking in there unannounced, so I turned and went back past Alan's office to go to the business offices.  I was just getting ready to go into that hallway when I saw Kim again.  She asked me to keep trying to get the sick note to Deborah and then left.  I went into the hallway for the business offices and found Deborah coming out of one of the offices on the left and gave her the note.  I then turned to leave the way I came in.

Once I got back out to the outer office, I went to the back wall and went into the bathroom.  The door that was there went directly into a toilet stall of a larger bathroom.  The toilet was on the wall opposite of the door, and there was a "regular" stall door to my right.  Beyond that was the rest of the bathroom.  It was a general public bathroom just like any other except for the extra door that went out behind me.  I closed the door behind me and proceeded to use the bathroom.

When I was nearly done, I heard someone come in through the other door to the bathroom.  I could see a little over the top of the stall door to my right, and there were two guys in gray suits that came in.  They were laughing and joking around and I saw one heading towards the stall I was in.  I looked down and realized that the door was not locked, so I quickly locked it.

The guy stopped in his tracks and glared up at me.  He had fair skin, dark eyes and short dark hair.  He was furious that I was in there and started yelling at me for being in there.  I didn't really care much so I finished up using the bathroom and got ready to leave when he started beating on the door.

He took several steps back and then took off running at the door.  He hit it full force and the whole stall shook.  He backed up and did it again.  I knew that when he hit it this time everything was going to start collapsing, so I hurried and started backing out the door behind me back into the outer office area.  Just as I did, the stall started to collapse around me, and actually the way the stall door came crashing in from him hitting in kind of squished me out of the stall and out into the outer office.

I started running from them and they were chasing me.  As I ran through the outer office area again and over towards Ernst's office, I saw Paul (father-in-law) there.  I chatted with him for a few moments, kind of giving him the breakdown of what was going on, and he said something along the lines of how he could probably help take care of my problem with the two guys that were chasing me.  I think I declined because I wanted to try to solve it myself first, so I thanked him and kept running.

I went back through all the office areas, such as through the business office area and wherever I had first met up with Kim, and I wound back up with in the outer office area.  Once I was there, I ran back into the bathroom.  I didn't see the guys around and I thought I was safe in there.  They came through the other door again and the whole thing of smashing against the stall door happened again, ending with me going back out again the way I came in.

Black Hole [on the] Sun

I was at Grandmamma Miller's house with mom and Em (my wife) and possibly one or both of my brothers. There had been some sort of news broadcast talking about how there was going to be a sudden surge of sun spots, and that a gigantic storm on the sun was going to cause one of the biggest sun spots ever seen.

After a short bit, we were outside on the north side of the house, which faces the Garber's farm.  While we were out there, the sun storm happened.  There was a big explosion, and I could see all sorts of solar flares going out into space, and when it was done, it had a huge sun spot right in the middle of it that was all strange and had a bunch of tendril looking things coming out from it.  It was like a ragged hole was torn in the surface of the sun facing the earth, and the sun seemed very dim all over, very much like this:

I think I was expecting people to have a more terrified reaction to the thing, but for the most part, no one seemed to really care about it.  I kept looking at it because I was just amazed, but I didn't really know what to think or do about it.

Soon after all of this, Em and I had made a call to a new dermatologist for me.  We were trying to set up an appointment, but for some reason we were having a hard time figuring out when I was supposed to have my appointment.  It pretty much ended up that they didn't set a specific appointment for me, but they said that they'd call later in the day to let me know.  I said okay and we hung up.

I'm not sure what we did between the time of the original call and receiving the call back from them, but at about 5:00 PM they called back and said they had my appointment setup for 6:00 PM.  I wasn't anywhere near ready and I didn't think I would make it there in time.

I started running around trying to get ready to go, but it seemed like all sorts of stuff kept happening that was keeping me from it, yet there wasn't anything in particlular that I can remember.  It just kind of felt like one of those times where I wasn't doing anything and yet I couldn't seem to get going even though the appointment was very important to me.

Time ticked by and eventually it was about 6:30 PM and I still hadn't left.  I was going to try to give them a call to see if they could hold my appointment for me, but just like with getting ready, it seemed like I just couldn't make myself get around to it.

House on a Pole

I started out somewhere on Afton Mountain. I wasn't driving, but I was traveling some how. I could have been flying or walking or climbing, but I'm not sure which.

Anyway, while I was there, I wound up meeting up with Rich Z (from work) and we wound up going to my house. The house turned out to be the little rented house I lived in for a couple of months while I was in Savannah, GA. He was supposed to be helping me out with fixing it up or something.

Once we got there, we went inside. We were walking through the house trying to decide what needed to be done to it when the house lifted up all of a sudden and went up in the air 100 or 200 feet.

While it was up in the air, I had a dual vantage point of what was going on. I could see the house from the outside, seeing the big wooden hydraulic telescoping pole that it was sitting on top of, but I was also still in the house, feeling it moving and jerking about, almost as if it were swinging from the end of a rope rather than sitting on a giant pole.

The house eventually went back down, and Rich and I resumed our walk around the house as if nothing had happened, or as if it had at least been a known feature of the house. Then the house shot up again, swinging around more wildly this time, and there was a loud cracking sound and the wooden pole below the house snapped. I felt the house falling for quite some time, tumbling about and the wind blowing around wildly, but eventually the house landed and stopped.

Even though the pole had broken and the house had fallen, I wound up leaving through a trap door in the floor of the house and I started shimmying my way down the pole. On my way down, I noticed that there was a big hole, like a knothole of a tree, and it was full of ants. I thought to myself, "Great! I just can't seem to get away from ants!" (in waking life we had a couple of ant problems over the past few weeks and I'm tired of it.)

As I looked around for a way to get around the ants without getting them all over me, I saw that the wooden pole was now a big limbless tree trunk, and the house was no longer on top of it. I decided that I just need to go past the nest of ants quickly and I'd be okay. I did that and finally got to the ground, and Rich was there waiting on me to resume talking about the house.

Death of Sarah

[This dream was from a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't write it down at that time, so I guessed on the date, and I don't remember large chunks of it now.]

Em (my wife) and I were in our house, and it was a bit dark and rainy or stormy outside. We had all of the lights off in the house and we were in the kitchen area.

At some point before this, something had happened to Sarah (an ex-girlfriend) and she had died, and somehow Em and I had come into possession of her body wrapped in a big thick black plastic bag. We had had her for a number of days and we were waiting to get rid of her, but I'm not sure what we were waiting for.

So we were in the kitchen, and Sarah's body was over in front of the oven. To keep her from smelling up the place, we had to open the head end of the bag, hold her mouth open and pour a bunch of Lysol into her throat. After we did that, we closed the bag back up.

Some time later we picked her up and we were dragging her from the house, but I don't remember what happened after that.