Finally, more dreams

This is going to sound crazy, but I haven't dreamt much since I went to the chiropractor. Well, really I've still been dreaming but I don't remember them!

But,
Feb 19/20
I dreamt that I was in another country with a group of people I know, and we were in a shopping mall (shocker) and there was some high alert emergency or something and they went into lock down and weren't going to let us leave, so obviously, me and Erin Duncan turned into mosquitos and flew away.
Also, there was some really emotional thing happening with a close friend of mine but he wouldn't talk to me about it and I was really worried about him.

Feb 20/21
I had a strand of dreams that involved the titanic.  One part was trying to escape it since it was sinking, another part was my mom telling me stories of when her and my dad were on the titanic, and another was being on the titanic trying to convince 4 'victims' that it would be ok to play a board game with me. 

I know, its bizarre.

Dreams? What dreams?

Feb 12/13

Something about karaoke, laundry, not having shoes, running from someone, a shopping mall, larger than life board games, and i think maybe las vegas...

Sooo there has been a sudden change in my dreaming habits.. I have still been dreaming, but Friday and Saturday I could not remember anything about my dreams. I could only remember that I had a dream about something.  Then this morning I can only remember little things. Obviously, I'm used to having lots of vivid, detailed dreams..  but, I've been waking up feeling so refreshed, though! 

Only because of this blog, I've noticed a couple more patterns, at least recently.  Stores and shoes. (needing, looking for, trying on or not having shoes). I don't know what it means, but there ya go!

February 9/10

I was at IUMC at some sort of reunion for my old youth group.  I was in the kitchen washing dishes with Ashlee, a friend from college-not from youth.  I went to use the restroom but it was being completely remodeled so I had to go down stairs.  The downstairs bathroom had been completely remodeled and now was a very luxurious room with bathtubs.  In dream world, there was a door to a closet in the church where we all had left our hand prints and names.  When we looked for the door, we thought they had painted over it and we were really upset. Then we realized they had just covered it with paper and you could easily peal it back and see what we had left there several years ago.  My hand print was red and green and had my name and my ex-boyfriend's name, as if we had had only one hand print.  He was there, and we both looked at it and recognized how naive we had been.

Next, I was dreaming I was at Montevallo, and attending a formal celebration- celebrating montevallo in general and graduation.  We were all sitting in white folding chairs in rows.  Behind me there were all the bus drivers for Montevallo (we all know in real life there are no such thing..) there were dozens of them.  They were talking about how they had really seen a change at montevallo for the better over the last couple of years.  The details they were describing implied there had been a spiritual movement in the culture of montevallo, and how much more of a joy it was to work with the students there.  I was overwhelmed with excitement for the ripple effect that was happening from the lives of students being impacted by Christ, to the faculty, and to the southeast!
Then there was a speech from some head honcho, who was talking about renovating fuller, and he announced that Main would also be renovated! The crowd cheered! 
All the graduates lined up, preparing to go graduate(that included me).  Apparently we had to wait in line to take one final graduation test. It was going to be ten questions.  I was in line next to a friend who used to go to montevallo but transferred a couple years ago.  Everyone around us was nervous that they may fail this last test, but we had a defiant attitude. There was no way we were going to let them not graduate us over a 10 question test, when we had spent 4 years passing classes.  Then the dream kind of just ended.

February 8/9

I didn't think i'd post about the dreams from last night cause they're just random, but I remembered the idea of this blog is to help make sense of it all.

I dreamt that my aunt Beth took me shopping and I had a $100 gift card.  I had purchased 3 things but I only remember one.. an awkward pair of capri's that we were trying to return.

After that, I dreamt I was in a taco bell with people I don't know in real life. Apparently one of the guys (who was indian) didn't know anything about his family, and I had secret information about his mom.  I was trying to tell him without any one else knowing (I was trying to pass a note)
Then the focus changed, because another dream-friend showed up, apologized for being late, and offered to get us discounts on our food cause she worked there.  The taco bell had become more of a formal restraurant, and she went to a computer moniter and start pressing buttons to apply the discount and reimburse us for the extra money we paid.  Then the manager started eyeing us like we were up to no good, cause we were cheating the system.  Everytime we help ourselves to refills she acted like we were theives.

I only remember a 'still frame' from a 3rd dream I had. I was in a house, and there was something to do with a kid. That's all I got.

Til next time...

Once Upon a Dream!

Another common theme is theatre.  I have had countless dreams about College Night.. but most of the time we're not in Palmer, we're in my high school's auditorium. College Night is this week, so that's probably why it popped up last night, but it is something that I dream about often.


February 7/8-

I dreamt that I was in the Purple show... I had a very small part.. we were in a scene that was in a old country store and I didn't know the dance I was supposed to do.  I kinda made it up as I went, but it didnt matter cause there were so many people on stage doing so many different things, that no one really noticed or cared.  The next night, I still didn't know the dance, but I didn't even get the chance to try because me and some other girls that I apparently lived with were running late (because I couldn't find any shoes to wear) and we actually missed the whole performance all together. 

Also, the Gold show was something about being "clean" and they kept making digs at the purples about "cleanliness" hahah, i don't even know.

I've really gotta start bloggin this stuff earlier in the day, cause I coulda told you so much more about this dream earlier today.  Maybe I'll remember more details tomorrow.


ALSO,  one night a couple weeks ago I dreamt that I was a waitress at a Cracker Barrell and we were preparing for George W. Bush to come there to eat.  I think it was a holiday.  Now, this is crazy right here... Tonight I went to a Cracker Barrell in Attalla, AL to meet with a couple about Campus Outreach... I've never even been to Atalla, let alone the Cracker Barrell.  OK, I know you're probably thinking that every Cracker Barrell in the daggum nation looks the same... but it was a very odd deja vu feeling. 


I also want to point out that I don't have any crazy beliefs about my dreams, like they're speaking to me, or predicting the future or anything.  I think a lot of the ideas that dreams are magical or whatever is hocus pocus... but if you haven't caught on yet, my dreams are weird, and I just don't know what to think about them sometimes.

I told you! I dream A LOT!

There are a few things a dream about fairly regularly.  I'm hoping keeping this blog will help me notice more patterns.  I'll mention them as I go.  I have had several spiritual-type dreams that are also very emotional.  I'm not an outwardly emotional person in real life, but in these dreams I'm not holding back at all.  I've also been dreaming about highschool a lot.  I think its because I'm living at home again.

February 5/6-

I had a dream that a friend of my dad's had died.  I was hysterically crying and intensely regretting not having shared the gospel with him.  I really don't remember anymore details than that, but you can bet that weighed heavy on me all day Sunday.

February 6/7-

This morning I could have given you a ton of details of this dream, but now I'm only remembering pieces. (another reason I'm starting this blog.. I forget these dreams!)  I know at one point I was in the choir room from highschool. I was teaching math, and then I was teaching something where we needed instruments.  Something super dramatic was happening and I ended up having to "check-out" of school and leave early...

Also, I dreamed I was at a women's retreat with C.O. and I was talking to sara parker about time management. haha, random.  Renee was there, and she was giving us all relationship workshop type activities to do.  I had some big epiphany (that doesnt make sense in real life) that I just had to explain to Renee. It was something about realizing I was single, but I had been acting like or thinking like I was in a relationship. I dunno.  This retreat was at "the river" but it had been raining a lot lately and everyone was concerned about us being safe while we were there, because the water was rushing really fast like rapids and was really murky and muddy.  But, we were still going to swim in it, and I couldn't wait.  (we never did though.)


That's all I got.

At some point, I'm going to write about the time I dreamt Amy's arm got bitten off by an alligator... and other old dreams that I feel are worthy of recording.

Oh, one time recently I dreamt Kristin had a baby.. she was named Kendall Grace.
I'm super sleepy right now, so I'll go get some more material! Goodnight!

I should be dreaming right now.... but...

Ok, so, like my last entry, most of these will probably come from my phone.  That's why the capitalization and punctuation and such may be off. 

February 4/5 -

I dreamt I was on the quad at Montevallo, walking with a couple of friends.  There were a ton of people around that I knew, some were from college, some were from highschool.  All of a sudden, all of my highschool friends who (in dream world) had also gone to montevallo, crossed paths.  We all talked about how it was such a shame that we all went to college together but never really kept in touch... and that we should have a get together for the 10 or 11 of us that were there.  I specifically remember Stephen Butt, Brandiese Berry, and Allison Shaw and Kim.

Then, scene changes a bit, cause all those people were gone, and now I'm in the back of a pick up truck with a bunch of Alpha Gams.  We're riding down that road in front of the delta chi house toward downtown montevallo. By the time we get to the light and turn left, we are no longer in a pickup truck, but now we are all riding horses... in formal dresses. Because, obviously, we're on our way to an ATO date party.  We get to the ATO house, and each of us is worried that our dates, who had asked us to come via facebook, would be awkward for any reason.  I go into the house, nervously looking for my date who I don't know very well... (flashback to a real life scenario right there!) At some point... the ATO house becomes very similar to a gigantic shopping mall, with escalators and different 'stores' where you and your date could do all kinds of different fun stuff... I can't describe it, but it was awesome.  BUT, I still don't know where my date is.  So I'm looking around, and find some dorm rooms... where I run into an old frenemy (who I had dreamt about a couple nights before) I preceded to tell her about how I had dreamt about her recently. btw, this girl appears in my dreams semi-often. 

Since its been several days, I don't remember much else of the 'plot' of the dream.. but I know it ended with some characters from the tv show GREEK, and the house inflating.

At some point in this dream, and I'm not sure when... I was in Main, the dorm I lived in in college, climbing up the middle stairs.  (I also dream about Main a lot)  BUT, when I'm on the 2nd or 3rd floor, the stairs are really damaged and I start getting really anxious about going up them...  There were other people with me that were takin' em like champs, but I was certain that I would fall to my death over them.  There was also a point in the ATO "shopping mall" house where there were weird stairs I had to go on to get into a certain room.  Apparently stairs were a theme... there were nasty dungeon-y stairs going into the ATO house, and multiple escalators. 

i dont really expect anyone to read this blog, even though part of me wishes you would.  the other part tells me you dont care about the insanely detailed dreams i have every night.  which is probably good since these are actually messages from my subconscious.  who knows what its telling me. basically, this blog is more for me than you, but for the slight chance that you are as intensely intrigued by my dreams as i am, read along.