May 15th 2013

Liz Simins. We were trying to get to a venue within a gigantic cruise ship or cargo ship. She was there the whole time and we talked about things like video games and her thoughts on various unrelated subjects that I can't remember. Steph and Michael were there and argued about things as normal. There were other people with our group that I recognized but can't remember, and there were other people that were not part of our group that were going to the same place: to see the a band, possibly blind pilots? We kept going and going, at a brisk pace but never really running. I wish I remembered the rooms we went through... I think some of them had a video game-like puzzle element to them. At one point we had to jump to a different ship that was adjacent to the one we were on... since both ships were going in the opposite direction, and going fast, it was difficult to make the jump (and quite scary).

There was one room in particular that I remember, at the bottom of the first ship. It was some sort of shop and had all sorts of trinkets and miscellaney. I remember following Liz around and we looked at a small section that had only Legos. I didn't recognize any of the sets, but they looked manufactured (cohesive style and extremely well-made). Liz picked many of the sets up to look at them. The walls were dark but definitely a normal commercial material, like the walls at Pac Sun or Hot Topic. Lighting was interesting... there was plenty, but the source seemed to be behind some fences or wires or something, so that the light sources were split into rays and rarely came directly to my eyes.

We kept running through the ship and eventually we had to jump to yet another cruise ship, but I was behind and couldn't quite make it. I ran up a flight of clanky metal stairs as fast as I could, swinging around to my left as soon as I reached the top and leaped for the next ship... the ship had passed and no one was looking back for me. I fell into the water-- it was cold and dark and I didn't fight it at all. I just felt lost. Somehow, I was able to rewind the entire sequence and try it again, with slightly different but equally unsuccessful results. I rewound three times before I felt despair and woke up with a sad feeling.

May 14th 2013

I had two dreams separated by a few moments of consciousness.


Gymnasium classroom stats
Found myself in large gymnasium with rows of high school chair-desks taking some kind of class. It was early on a Saturday morning. I remember wearing my brown trench coat in class and taking it off because I was too hot. Nat was in the class after mine (same subject), and when everyone from my class left, I went over to another gymnasium that was attached by a regular sized door to reassemble my stuff and put on my coat. I heard the class start and the next teacher (not sure if it was the same teacher) was very mean and kept yelling at students, telling them they were stupid. Eventually I went back over into the classroom and there were many empty seats so I headed towards where Nat was sitting. The teacher made a comment about how I was late and I told him that I was in the previous class. Being unable to throw me off, he pointed to Nat and told me what an angel she was compared to me. I told him that she was my girlfriend and he shut up about it. I took out my books and took of my coat with great satisfaction, but when I began working with Nat on the subjects, I was extremely confused about how to do the work. None of the numbers or words made sense anymore and I realized that I had never taken a stats class.  Then I woke up.


Party in Seattle
It was strange because I was not fully awake when this dream started. I heard a mom and a kid outside (facing the ceiling, the window was to my right) and thought I was at 5120 N Glenwood Ave. When I opened my eyes, the room was completely different and brighter than I expected, despite the drizzling rain outside. I turned to my right and instead of seeing a normal window, I saw a sliding door (clear glass with white borders) and it was completely open, as if the doors were missing. The bed I was laying in was right next to the window, and the mom and her kid were very close to the door.  The mom and the little girl were both Asian. The little girl jumped around and played in the rain (must have been around 10yr old) and the mom was grilling something (typical black ufo outdoor grill) kept telling her (in Chinese) to calm down and to stop goofing off.  They did not notice me for a long time. Only when the mom was finished and they were going back inside (ostensibly, next door) did the mom notice me and give me a bashful smile.

I don't remember going outside, but apparently I went out the front door and went all the way around to investigate the back yard.  It had stopped raining and the mom and her little girl were there again. I spoke with them in Chinese and we made light conversation, but I don't remember about what.

I then ran into an Asian girl about my age and we talked for a bit before she left. No idea who she was... though in hindsight she sort of looked like Alice (old family friend, a bit older than I am).  As I tried to get back in the apartment, I walked into a bar-- it was really cool. Something between a cross between the arcade bar I went to with Kevin and Mickey in Seattle and a bar from Bioshock (the first one). One of the bartenders waved me down and said, "I've got bad news..." and pointed at where my apartment door was. It was closed (the door automatically locks), and I realized that I had not brought my keys with me. I was sort of upset for a moment for locking myself out (other people in the bar sympathized with me, as if it were normal to be living directly connected to the inside of a bar). I peeked in the window of the door (it had windows in the upper part and some sort of cloth covering that looked like a drape over it. There were so many people inside, sitting in a room I did not recognize! I quickly knocked on the door and someone let me in-- Sitting on an L-shaped sofa were Ryan Kelly, Kevin (Mickey's BF), Mickey, the Asian girl that looked like Alice from before, and a couple other people I did not recognize. To my left (after entering the room completely) were the mom and the little girl. Right behind me my brother was sitting on another chair (maybe a folding chair or stool). Everyone was debating about where to go. Kevin really wanted to go to some punk bar and Jin was giving him shit for it. Everyone else was talking at some point but I don't remember anything else that was said. I then remember confirming that I was in Seattle. Then I woke up.



Initial notes for remembering:
same apartment, but possible in seattle? it was raining and an asian mom and her kid were right outside the window, which went from the ground up and was right next to my bed
kevin (mickey's bf)
ryan kelly
big jin
mickey
other random people, random asian girl that let me back into the apratment when i locked myself out, apartment was attached to a bar that was a cross between the pinball bar in seattle and something from  bioshockk\

March 2nd 2013

***From before this point, I either dreamed less or did not have as much time to write down my dreams. The format has changed a bit, but they are still dreams that I've had***




I found myself looking at some sort of living portrait of Hellen (from high school, with pink hair). She was looking at me looking at her.

I remember having to go to Elissa Cohen's house. It was a strnage three story mansion with boards and ladders leading to different platforms. After climbing to a certain platform, I played violin with Sewing Pattern (I could only clearly remember seeing Angie and her keyboard), but it wasn't

a Sewing Pattern song, and I can't rmember the song at all.

Then I suddenly found myself in some kind of acapella workshop, directed by Jenna Steinberg. I think I saw Caitlin Liston and Armin in the mix.  I can't remember what kind of music we did because I was so bad at singing but no one seemed to care. At the very end, Jenna begged us to do a "Frosty the Snowman" arrangement, and I had to get my violin out. I remember jenna signaling me to pizzicato and smiling and laughing. Several other people also got instruments out, but I only remember hearing a really good blues guitar player playing along with me. Someone had the arrangement on their ipod and I listened to it (through a single black earbud) and was able to pick out a melody, I clearly remember the fingerings:

all notes of the same length

g0
g low 2
g1
g low 4
g3
d low 1
d
d low 4
d3
d1
d2
d
g low 4
g1
g low 2

this last part was taught to me be the guitar player

half-beat rest
pick-up low 1 to g0 and loop

We started the arrangement of "Frosty the Snowman", and for obvious reasons, what I was playing did not match the music at all. I was confused and eventually stopped trying to make it fit and just played the tonic or melodic notes. The arrangement was basically just the original melody with different layerings of the same melody and getting faster and faster. The last note I played (presumably the tonic) was an A on the E string, trilling to Bb.


Helping Jin tao jump on top of a garage roof from a lawn chair

The Landboat

Definitely another odd one.

I found myself on a faux sailboat (it had an engine and we weren't really using the sails), except I wasn't on water.  Me, Nat, and a couple other people that I can't fully remember were running this little raft around a large field.  The boat had wheels and the engine was motor in the back like most boats.  It was good fun sailing around this field.  The field reminded me of the field near Bala Cynwyd Middle School-- the one down the street on the opposite side. There were fences along the perimeter and a roads on all four sides, though you couldn't easily tell since it was so big and there were so many trees in the distance.

Eventually we sailed into a street and down a big hill (still on the street).  The pavement was smooth and damp. It had probably just rained, since the sky was overcast as well.  I don't remember seeing any houses around, just neatly trimmed grass, and trees-- all a lush green from the dampness. We rolled down the sloped street through an intersection and then turned right into a long driveway.  The driveway actually led to Nat's parents' house, where we parked the boat in the garage.

There was another wheeled-boat in the garage, and Nat's mom tried to get us to fix it.  We tried to but were unsuccessful.  We started rolling out of the garage and down the driveway again on the original landboat and that's when I woke up.

Pantsless Tennis

One of the weirder ones...

I found myself in a large gym with a tennis net set up in the middle.  There were large cubbies for clothes and equipment behind me and I was not wearing any pants, or any underwear for that matter (but I was wearing a t-shirt).  Nat was on the other side and wanted me to play tennis with her, but I had to get to French class, which was apparently my first period high school class.  I grabbed a white tennis racket that was in my assigned cubby, as well as a pair of boxer briefs an a pair of socks.  I attempted to hit a tennis ball that I found on the floor back and forth with Nat as I tried to put on my underwear and socks-- it was nothing short of difficult.

Eventually I did get my underwear and socks on and told Nat I had to get to class.  I found myself jogging down a hallway of a high school, presumably still in just my underwear.  The whole time I was thinking about how to explain to the French teacher why I was late, or if I should even try to explain myself and just resign to bowing my head and making no excuse.  I eventually reached a stairwell that was placed where two hallways met.  By this time I was pretty warm, but I felt good from the jogging.

Devin's Inspiration in High School

A silly dream, short but sweet.

I remember Devin talking to me, documentary interview style, about how much MegaMan helped and inspired him in high school chemistry.  He even had a poster showing many characters and referred to it.  Something about plasma shields and the concepts behind that...

Fancy Restaurant, Giant Cathedral Robot, and Puppies

After some dead time I finally had a dream that I can sort of remember!

It starts in a large building that must have been a hotel with a restaurant attachment.  The inside was ornate, some rooms had beautiful red and brown patterned carpeting and others had wood floors. None of it was well-lit, as restaurants tend to be.  It was daytime outside, and I saw natural sunlight spill through the many windows-- some were greenhouse style and extended beyond the shade of the main structure.  The walls were combination lacquered wooden panels and fancy wallpaper.  Ornate wall lamps were distributed evenly so that corners unaffected by sunlight still had a warm incandescent glow.

Waiters and hosts in suits and fancy hotel uniforms bustled about, bringing food and drink to the patrons and taking away empty plates and glasses.  The patrons were dressed up as well, most of them looked older.  I remember my parents were with me, as well as Mr. Arden.  My parents said something but I can't remember what.  Mr. Arden was angry because we had played a wedding there a while back and the person that was supposed to pay us still had not done so.  He strutted off in a huff to find the person responsible for our pay.

...

Just around the corner from this building was a field.  By around the corner, I don't mean a street, or other buildings.  The world outside seemed to have "edges" and "separators"-- big, somewhat pixelated, unnatural walls reminiscent of the world boundaries in Zelda: Ocarina of Time.  The restaurant/hotel that I was in was in a corner made by these boundaries, although with enough space that there were small, flat fields of grass in all directions.  Around the corner made by these partitions, however, was a path to a large, uneven field and sloped upwards a bit at places, to the point where you could not really see over it.

I found myself driving an old-timey automobile (small, flat, two-pane windscreen, thin wheels and tires, and I think it was a crank engine) onto this field.  The whole area was quite muddy and the car slipped around as I drove.  Mickey and Jin were in the car with me, as well as one other person that I can't seem to remember.  We slipped around as we drove along, and as we got farther up the hill, we were able to see to our left the most beautiful waterfalls I've ever seen, complete with color saturation and lens flare.  There were at least four or five different waterfalls, on two different tiers, and amazing, quasi-futuristic structures on either sides of the river and falls.  The waterfalls were deep and colorful, shimmering green and blue in the sunlight.  The hill we were driving on ended along the waterfall mostly as a sheer cliff.  We drove towards a big, cathedral-like structure that was red with black detailing.  It was almost gothic, but had a modern feel to it.  A big, pointy steeple pointed towards the sky.  Directly below that was the facade of the building, with a big circular ornate window.  It reminded me of Notre Dame.  Below that, just in front of the entrance, there was a huge platform, at least 20 square yards.  A lone pedestal protruded ominously out of this platform, right in the center. I swung the car around and drove back towards the restaurant/hotel.  As we drove along the uneven ground, the car began to slip towards the cliff.  For a few moments, I felt sheer terror as I tried my best to maneuver the car.  Despite lots of slipping and a very close call, I was able to drive us back to safety.

...

After driving back to safety, I found myself back at the cathedral-like structure again, standing in front of the pedestal on the platform.  My sister's voice rang in my head: "Did you remember to bring the key?  Did you remember to bring the key?"  I did remember to bring the key, and the key looked something like large beer bottle cap, except about the size of a pringles can top.  The sawtooth edges were sharp and the entirety of it was a bronze color, with designs I can no longer remember on the top.  I placed the key on the pedestal in an opening that fit the key exactly and turned it three full rotations.  The pedestal was apparently a complex piece of machinery and I could see and hear gears whirring underneath me.  The key then turned into a button, which I pressed and held down.  The circular area around the pedestal dropped into the ground like an elevator, and began moving back up and down rather quickly, causing me to almost lose my balance as I continued to hold the key button down.  I then realized that this movement was to adjust for the entire building transforming into some sort of giant robotic machine on four legs.  The transformation was exhilarating, and having control of this behemoth was pretty much the most awesome thing I've ever experienced.  The building/robot/machine turned out to be so big I had to focus on piloting it to avoid crushing the buildings along the waterfalls and rivers.  I rode the giant machine all the way down river past the restaurant and realized that I was suddenly in a small European city.  I tried my best to avoid the cute little houses but ended up demolishing quite a few anyway.  I felt bad, and then I realized there were people around, too, and started trying to avoid stepping on them.

//

I found myself in a closed room, like a small foyer or side room in a country house, with four puppies that were actually quite large.  They were skinny, short hair dogs with a long slender snout.  They were all mixed colors, brown, black, and white.  I was demonstrating to Nat how I could tame them by looking into their eyes directly and getting closer to them.  The puppies started whining and acting scared, backing away from me gradually.  Nat then got upset so I showed her that this was not doing any harm, and as soon as I stopped they jumped all over me, licking my face.  I rolled around and played with them, laughing the whole time.