Definitely had some dreams last night, but I couldn't keep them clear in my head and by the time I finished brushing my teeth they were completely gone.

The Dark Blue City

I was walking briskly with Bryan Meaux through what I thought at first to be and extremely dark version of Chicago or some other city.  After reflecting on the images I remember, it does not seem that it was Chicago at all.  It was night, and everything was black or dark shades of blue.  Everything seemed geometric and mostly at right angles, but it was very realistic despite the uncanny perfection.  Passersby and cars in the streets only appeared as shadowy forms.  There were small, white squares and rectangles of street lights and building lights, but nothing seemed to be affected by them and everything remained dark and with a bluish hue.  I assumed that we were headed to work, but nothing seemed familiar.

Bryan mentioned something about being late, and I assured him that we would be okay because it was only 8:30 (PM, I assumed).  I found nothing odd about this.  Towards the last leg of our journey through this dark  blue city, there was a huge overpass to cross what seemed like several streets.  The structure was shaped like a large trapezoid, with the larger side facing downwards, and the two sloped sides making the covered stairwells with escalators on either side.  The bottom of the trapezoid was cut out by the streets that the walkway overlooked.  The whole thing seemed unnecessarily large, and it was of course dark blue with even darker blue windows.  Bryan and I walked up the escalators and I checked the time on my watch (iPod nano watch, same one I wear every day).  It was 9:10, and we were supposed to be at our destination (work, I think?) at 9:00.  We started running up the escalators and down the narrow corridor of the structure to the other side.  Bryan got ahead of me.

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I was inside a large building.  I couldn't tell if this was the "work" that Bryan and I were headed to, but Bryan was nowhere to be found, and I actually have no recollection of either being or seeing myself.  It appears that I was some sort of invisible consciousness floating around that could see and hear.  However, I was aware that the building was in the same dark blue city as before.

The huge room that I was spectating in was shaped like the outline of a square with one side cut out, so that the middle of the square was filled, leaving only three hallway-like rooms (from the top down, the rooms would've looked like this: |_| ).  The ceilings were up several hundred feet high, so you couldn't really see the true shape of the ceiling lights.  The rooms had gray carpeting and off-white columns evenly spaced throughout-- the walls on the outer edge of the rooms were dark blue, with windows showing the outside to similar shades of blue.  The inner walls were white, and I could not tell what was within big square column that made up the inner walls of three combined rooms.  There were performers either performing or rehearsing, I couldn't tell, but they ran about and danced, acted and sang and moved set pieces around in all three rooms.  I remember metal framed chairs with patterned upholstery (the kind you would find in a hotel conference room) being used as part of the set. I did not recognize any of them.  At the end of what I can remember, one person began singing very loudly, and a bunch of people told him to go to the other end (around two corners) as no one could hear him since he was in the wrong place.  He quickly began maneuvering over to the right location, still holding out a long note.  I don't remember what he was singing or any of the specifics of what the actors were saying and singing.

Melissa's Mansion

I can only remember fragments, but it seems that all the the fragments were based around this huge mansion or estate, with huge pieces of land around it also belonging to te same person. The pieces that stick out the most are the pyramid, the kitchen/tv room, and one of the side entrances (I don't remember seeing the main entrance).

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The side entrance was simple: this part of the mansion, about three or four stories high, had a few roman columns outside and floor to ceiling (third story ceiling) windows. The sun was setting and shone through the perfectly clean glads beautifully and there was a door which was all glass partitioned by white dividers.  intricate white wooden patterns also helped support the large windows. Where the windows ended towards the main part of the mansion, ancient red brick met with it. All along the perimeter outside there were all sorts of beautiful plants-- most of them seemed tropic, and all grew out of a bed of small, dusty grey rocks.  I walked around and admired the beauty of it all, a cool breeze picking up now and then, blue skies with wisps of clouds and vivid green grass carpeting the area, knolls rolling here and there about twenty yards out.

At the end of my time there my family showed up and I greeted them there at the side entrance. My brother goofed around and examined the plants and I remember clearly seeing that my mother was impressed with the whole place as she strolled about with her arms crossed. I only remember seeing shadowy out-of-focus images of my sister and father in the background.

Continuing outwards from the side entrance, the landscape changed dramatically. The grass turned into grey dirt or rubble, and everything became a bit like another planet.  Moutains could be seen in the distance, against a startlingly beautiful backdrop of pitch black sky and stars. This backdrop appeared out of nowhere, as the sun was setting at the time when I first walked into this alien world.  The setting made complete sense, for about 50 yards into this grey, desolate expanse, a pyramid which is exactly like the one in Mass Effect (video game) stood, about two stories tall.  The pyramid was a faded brown, with carvings or etchings of what look like heiroglyphs all over, except the top, which was smooth and jet black.  I scaled the pyramid easily and stood on top for a while, but nothing eventful happened.  When my brother had appeared in the dream, this was the first place to which I led him.

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The kitchen was not very big, considering how large the mansion was-- it seemed more compact, like in a large apartment.  It was extremely messy, with pots, pans, dishes, and an assortment of kitchenware both used and unused strewn across the floors and stacked on the counters.  Melissa Ramirez turned out to the the owner (or at least the hostess) of this mansion.  There must have been a dozen people there in addition to me, Melissa being the only person that I recognized (or can remember at this point).

I remember Melissa offering me tea.  She had made a certain kind of but I wanted something different, so there were two teapots.  The pots were quite small.  I recall searching for a clean teacup and saucer for several minutes, rummaging through plates and dirty cups and saucers until I found one that I found acceptable: a thinner-than-usual, tall teacup (akin to a tulip wine glass) and a saucer that was grooved to match the ring at the bottom of the cup.  Melissa made boiled water without fire somehow, and made the tea directly in the pots, then poured them into two flat, cylindrical containers with only frames for lids (the lids were circles circles with parts cut out, sort of like a radioactivity symbol).  The containers were then drained back into the teapots and then poured into the cups.  For some reason, I ended up with with goat cheese in my tea (the goat cheese appeared in the containers).  I recall that it still tasted pretty good, even with the cheese (maybe it was intentional?).  At some point, Melissa warned me that her friend had a habit of taking her shirt off while watching TV.  After the tea was poured, we went into an adjacent room that was dark and illuminated only by a medium sized TV and the light from the kitchen.  This room was just as messy as the kitchen, but instead of pots and pans, there were clothes, papers, and other things that one might find in a living room.  A large L-shaped combination of couches were centered around a coffee table in the middle.  Blue and gray TV light danced across the faces of the other people who had migrated ahead of me and Melissa into the TV room.  Lo and behold, there was Melissa's friend, whom I did not recognize at all, taking her shirt off while on the couch, a deranged but harmless smile stretched over her face.  No one seemed to care that this was happening, and neither did I.  The TV showed and old video of someone's wedding.

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The above dream was vivid, but when I awoke, I could only remember fragments, and not necessarily in order.  Something happened before the kitchen/TV sequence, but I cannot remember what. Something happened afterwards, also, before the side entrance sequence.  My family coming to visit was the very last part before I woke up.

Cartoon Creatures in the Snow

It was cartoonish and seemed animated in a style reminiscent of early flash animations on the Internet. There were four of us, none of us were human, and we were walking down a snowy sloped road in what must have been a forest.  Snow-covered Pines and Evergreens stood silently all around us, but I could see the whole group clearly (third person view), as if watching a movie.  There was a living snowman with glowing eyes that hopped along, two others whose forms  I can't recall, and I was some iteration of the abominable snowman, with pale blue skin and white fur all over.  We sauntered slowly down the hill and chatted (in English). I felt similar to how I felt playing through winter towns in the Tales of series, particularly Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Destiny II.  From the chatter the only part I can remember is the snowman interrupting me and saying something along the lines of (I remember some actual speech, but nothing complete): "That's nothing!  My [insert government structure] does [something sinister] to control its people!".  I responded with surprise, indicating that I did not know such things were happening.


The four of us reached the bottom of the hill where it become somewhat of a snowy suburb, still in animated cartoon style. I ran my hand gently along a wooden fence, where some of the triangular tops had broken off.  The side of the house the fence belonged to had white with red, green, blue, and white Christmas lights. The house itself had white paneling.  We walked along the side of this house to go into the back yard or to cut across to the next street, I can't remember, and then I woke up.

High School Reunion and Tie Shopping

There was supposed to be some sort of high school reunion, and I was staying with Adam Barber at some sort of house or large multi bedroom apartment.  It was a bit messy, with clothes and papers lying around. Adam and a girl I know (can't remember) were going out but I was not invited. They got ready and at the last second invited me. I ran around the place trying to get ready as fast as possible as they were waiting outside and threatened to leave without me. At some point the house turned into a distorted version of LM which I now recognize from a previous dream, with a few tweaks. I couldn't get to the front as there was a huge fence when I tried to go around the side and I couldn't climb over or slide through certain small openings (built into the design) of the otherwise normal chain link fence.

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I was tie shopping in a huge department store and there was a round wooden table covered with ties-- it looked like it had been nearly organized at some point but had become a mess due to customers ruffling through the arrangement. All I wanted was a black silk tie like te one I typically wear, but there just weren't any that matched. I kept finding ones that were almost the right kind with similar but incorrect texture, color, material, or size.  Saw a second table not too far away but never got to it before I woke up.