Shredded Street Drug

[after a 'Nightmare on Elm Street' Marathon] 
No dreams of Freddy... but I did dream that shredded cheese was the new street drug.

I recall walking down the steps of an old cobble stoned building, like a basement or back alley to confiscate a gallon sized Ziploc bag from my youngest sister - it was only half full and it had taken her months to get that much... the ability to get just a pinch of the stuff was terribly difficult to obtain.

HQ & The Great Glass Elevator

We were in NJ at the HQ for work - Jonathan and Marie were both in the elevator with me - it was as if we were going to a Christmas party - we all had tins of various food creations with us - I expected we were going up to the top floor - but after the elevator had ascended for some time all of a sudden we took off diagonally and up and over as if we were on a roller coaster.... It reminded me of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - took your breath at first, made your heart race - and then you balanced and enjoyed the ride.

Anytime I have a dream like this I wonder if I am moving in my sleep...did I visibly startle when the elevator caught me off guard?

Self Baked Bread

We couldn't afford to buy bread - and some were scoffing at having to make our own... as if they were too good.  It was soft and I had them try it.. they were resistant to say it was good due to their previous protesting.  

I was cooking something on the stove... my middle sister was there... she had been dipping into chili she made on the other burner... I asked her if she wanted some of what I was making.  She said she didn't want to take if it was going to have to last a while...

Dad was in the background and made some crack about not liking meat, very sarcastically of course.- But it wasn't a jab at me.. he was just trying to be funny.

Onesie Date Avoidance

Shopping for ranges and baby clothes with the world traveler - his sister had a baby and I helped him pick out a onesie that was perfect, though a bit bigger than the baby's current size. - We ran into a girl that worked at one of the stores that he had gone on a date with in the prior month, but had been avoiding... she still seemed interested in him... he, as usual, wasn't really interested in anything.

There was some mix of backyard green-ways and UFOs - but I'm not sure if that was a dream or a thought - it's very vague.

Mechanical Snack Wine Bar

In a wine bar discussing excel formulas that control mechanics while snacking on garlic bread and brussel sprouts. Odd bunch.

Painting a Closed Minded Cove

Family vacation up to the woods - I snuck away to find my own peaceful place to take some nature photos - it was a very small cove where the ocean spilled in and was a clear aqua blue - 2 huge birds sat on the short swells and were most interested in my camera - but you had to worry about their beaks - they could do serious damage to your face.

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At a gathering of people I knew - a couple of them I was not aware were so closed minded - to the point that they ended up chasing my best friend's partner down the street with the intention of harming him - I was so disappointed and angry - my friend and his partner left unscathed... but I stayed and pleaded with the perpetrators trying to talk sense into them and get them to actually think about what the fuck they were doing and why...As if I were going to miraculously change their views.

I went to my friends house to check on them - visibly shaken they sorted mail making sure what had to go out went out including check donations to various charities.  

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Painting ceramics - tan for wood, blue for accents..

Liquid Smoke Action Shot

The alarm clock began to smoke...but not to worry, it was still ticking... venturing out into the backyard to jump in a 3 person deep dogpile formation onto an inflated slip-n-slide to catch the perfect action shot on the camera...all while putting off an all day roadtrip to later in the evening.

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At a hardwood store purchased half gallon liquid nutrient supplements - they were mostly to be used by recovering addicts - for some reason I identified with being one of them.

Scorpion Fragments and Dirt Clumps

Night 2 no sleeping pills - more fragments, up and down all night.

Stuck in an unfamiliar bathroom infested with scorpions - I had a trusty knife to chop them up - first the tails then the bodies- but there were so many and in corners - up on shelves - varying in size - and I was only in socked feet so I was worried still about them on the floor and stepping on them...

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It was like living in the past and the future at the same time - as if time travel existed on another planet - so going back in time, meant you could travel to the future on a different plant. - walking into a saloon which is supposed to be old western - and finding people in modern steampunk gear having a party.

Forced to move several times - each time having to be kept further and further from the one person you want to be closest to. - each move the scenery more bleak and bland - making it really difficult to find the beauty you make yourself seek in all things. - finally in a place literally in the middle of nowhere on some unknown planet- surrounded by large dirt clumps piled all around the estate - the one that you want to be connected with is viewable through a port window - trapped in a glass room - unable to have any contact other than visual - which just extends the torture of the lack of everything else.  Why such punishment?

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I was back in the town I grew up - living at my best friends house again as I had done after the fire - but the time was present, not past - I remember walking out of the house into the front lawn and everything around me was as if no time had past at all - so more mixing of time states.