Garbage Sashimi, Jumping Bean Scorpions and Him

In this dream, he lived across the street from me...in the beginning we would try and fail to see each other - things like leaving my garbage cans with him with the excuse that "I'm out of town" so I can come back and get them when I return.  I hated it... I hated the secrecy.. I hate that I'm dreaming about him still.

One time I really was going to leave town... a work trip at 6-something AM to Irvine... It was 6 something the night before and I was still not fully packed... I had 2 suitcases that contained a hodgepodge of things from my last work trip.  Another neighbor up the street gave me fresh fish and we decided we were going to sashimi it up and enjoy it together in my place.  As we walked back to my house I could feel his eyes on me... watching from the 2nd story window... trying not to be detected. 

Earlier in the day I had had incident with his wife while driving... she wouldn't slow so I could merge and it forced me to drive up on the lawns to get around her.  

Later in the evening walked the sashimi neighbor back to his place and we encountered a jumping bean type scorpion... I tried to step on it... and was running through my mind how I could cut it up with a knife.

Grandpa and the Styrofoam Cinder-vator

Grandpa Johnson.. whom had passed away last year.. was alive and well and came to the childhood town I grew up in to meet his great grandson... he even rode his motorcycle.. the one he had gotten in the accident that shattered his knee.  Dad met him there while the rest of us were out doing something else... it was as though I was the dead one watching from a distance while he got to spend some time alive.

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Was in some elevator at work... but it for some reason it was in a mall (I hate malls!) - I got in even though it was going a floor down and I needed to go up... after I got in and the doors closes it started making weird sounds and a square in the ceiling became loose and fell into the elevator.. then we saw someone up there pushing a replacement block through the hole.   We screamed.. but it only ended up being styrofoam painted  to look like a huge cinderblock... somehow I knew Marie was going to enter the elevator on the next stop so we decided to get under this fake block and act like we were dead to scare her... The elevator stopped and the doors opened... she didn't fall for it... but we all laughed nonetheless.

Now the elevator unit was being driven around the mall to the other side to continue it's journey of up or down.

Kevin Bacon and the Soup Swing

Had to hide a family in the cellar to try and keep them safe from vampires on the hunt... the hatch was located under this huge oak tree and we covered it with leaves... but when I looked up I noticed that Kevin Bacon was in the tree and witnessed the whole act.

We gathered the sisters and the 2 babies and 2 more bystanders and ran to the car to escape... drove away just as the car was being approached... turned to look in the backseat and realized at least 1 of the bystanders was in process of changing into what we were attempting to escape from.

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Bought something like 9 cans of soup.. when I got the receipt they had charged $19 per can

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Was meeting someone at a restaurant and excused myself to use the restroom.. the waitress pointed to follow the signs... they lead to outside the front of the establishment to what looked like an iron swing with a hole cut in the middle.  I wasn't comfortable with this idea of going in public but I had to go... so I pulled down my pants and peed through this metal swing lifting my legs so as not to get splashed as urine hit the cement below.  When I walked back in to return to the person I was there to meet... I realized they had actually built restrooms inside... the potty swing they just kept for aesthetic historical purposes... ooops.

Plucked Snakes of Sodomy

Walking through the downtown of an unknown city... we walked into a parking garage where there was a room rigged with security cameras catching a violent forced session of sodomy involving 4 latex clad men...including one rigged up in chains from the ceiling....this act was followed by a punishment of castration that included the removal of the penis... we  had witnessed the whole incident first hand - but it flashed to a small CCTV screen fuzzy with green tinted film where we watched the now unconscious man danging from his bound wrists - with only a small slit where his male parts used to be.  I think I was in too much shock to really process anything about what I just saw...

We had to continue walking through the garage to get a ticket to retrieve our car - then it dawned on me... we should get the car before the ticket - otherwise it might end up costing us more for the time it takes to find the car and drive out - I left my mom to get the ticket while I tracked back to get the car.

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Dad was acting weird... I asked him if I could take a sample of his hair... I was going to drug test it..but I gave some excuse like it was for a science project as to not alarm him... he told me no... and went to sit and watch a movie with Mom on the couch... Mom knew what my intention was and plucked a hair for me.. it still had the follicle attached so I remember thinking... I can run DNA too...

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I was in the backyard digging in the dirt to try to find worms to feed... a turtle I think? that part is a bit fuzzy - as I dug I unearthed a smorgasbord  of earth worms, except one of them had a head like a snake... I paused worried about it's bite... I remember asking someone if they knew if snakes of this nature existed - they could not confirm nor deny...

Haunted by Furry Feeding Tubes at Christmas

Pat was chopping large logs from branches at the bottom of a pine tree that was planted in a wooden pot.  It was like a natural Christmas tree he planned to keep up all year.... he piled the logs at the base of the tree.

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I was in a haunted apartment... I levitated on the bed twice and saw shadows pass windows... I was too scared to move. 

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I had somehow snorted a dog toy up my nose...the kind that is half tennis ball, half stuffed animal... when I went to retrieve it only half of it came out and I could feel the other half would soon close off my airway... I was able to get it out before it was too late... it felt like pulling out a furry feeding tube from your nose...total recall style... surely I must have gagged in my sleep.

Violence and Hope

I was a 3rd person in a tree-house - where a teenage girl was talking to her new boyfriend... her old ex-boyfriend who had stalker qualities climbed up and exploded thinking she was doing much more up there than just talking... I had to hold him back.

His parents were in the driveway of the girls house destroying any piece of property they could in retaliation support of their son.  The mom was a short heavy set lady and she broke one of tail-lights of the car that belonged to the girl's dad.  Someone in defense of the family under attack took a bat to her... I remember her rolling around on the ground while this person repeatedly hit her with a bat and kicked her... then someone walked up and shot her point blank in the face through her open mouth.  

I could not believe what I was seeing.

There was some glimmer of hope in all of this violence... the younger son of the mother that had been beaten and shot was in the house standing behind the girl's dad and mom - this was an interracial couple.. the dad white, the mom black... and he said something about having been taught by his parents that it was a sin.. it was wrong... but that he liked both of these people and didn't see why people had a problem with them being together.  (though he said it in the most simplest-innocent kid way possible) and I just felt this feeling of hope... that not all hope is lost... he had been taught to be strongly judgmental....yet at here a mere 5 or 6 years old he was already questioning it.

Vegas Passouts and Stevie Wakeups

Went to Vegas with Pat and Brandon - we got separated and I ended up in this club where you can make your own flavored champagne - I wanted mine to be blood red...I went a little overboard and ended up passing out on the bar - but it wasn't like a drunk pass out.. it was almost narcoleptic... it actually reminded me a lot of one of the times I blacked out on Vodka and Raspberry Crystal Light - but again it was sleepy, not drunk... I came to and continued to drink my drink while I walked through the halls of a house...

I ended up meeting Pat and Brandon in one of the rooms and we all had to sleep in the same bed...coordination left Brandon sleeping on top of both of us. 

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Went to see Lindsey Buckingham perform... after the performance he asked who could help him break down and pack up... I volunteered having had been through the experience last summer when I toured with Joe's band in CA. I was taking his stuff and packing it into the back of a long semi.. or tour bus... he came out to give hugs and he had my phone... he kept changing between LB, Eric Clapton and George Harrison. He gave me a hug then I saw Stevie Nicks.. I hugged an assistant and kissed her on both cheeks.. and I went to give Stevie a hug and said "Man next time I'm bringing Bill!!" 

Then I woke up and found Bill had text me at 3:30a in the morning - a picture of his XM radio playing Gold Dust Woman during his earlier than normal drive in for a site conversion. I hadn't seen the text until I woke up... I love those connections.

Botched Barracuda Blocks

It was like we were reunited after some major tragedy, my family and I... there was a closeness felt as we walked on a wide side-walked path through a park of sorts.  We overheard/witnessed another Dad and his struggle to emotionally connect with his daughters -  I laughed and pointed out to Dad he wasn't the only one...he laughed and I could feel a sense of relief come over him.

We arrived at these docks that edged water full of barracuda... we were there to fish for them.. they were brilliantly colored, yet still dull - it's hard to explain... it was a dark red to deep orange color with white frames to make a blocky pattern.

Mom was always at one with nature... and I remember thinking of her as Pocahontas and she dived right into the water and swam underneath with her long black hair flowing behind her - this was her comfort zone.

I don't remember it happening... but I remember a deep shredded gash in my thigh caused by a bite from one of the barracudas...and for some reason someone though it was reasonable to use a hunters knife to slice open my other thigh to match - though it was clear one was a much cleaner cut than the other.

Focus was now in a hospital... I was watching someone on the table that was supposed to be me - but I was watching from across the room.  Doctors were preparing their tool to fix the issue... a bone saw but with large sanding, dremel type attachment instead of the saw.  Next I remember seeing chunks of flesh fly after a misjudgement the doctor made... I went closer to inspect and can't remember if I actually saw or just anticipated seeing an amputated limb..... the doctor passed out and I woke up.  

Unkept Creepy Compromised Co-Mingling

It ended up that we were going to live together after a death of his grandmother.  The house was a blend of my house, and some other house I've never been.  In dream it was the grandmothers house - and a house I had once rented in the past.  He was cleaning up some garbage and threw it all in the garbage can - I was right behind him and grabbed the recyclables from what he discarded and started moving them to the 2nd receptacle that I had designated for recycles.  His frustration finally came out - the adjustment of living with another person and having to compromise.  He said, that's fine that we do that, but can we move these somewhere else and I'll tell you why.  I knew why, I lived there before - there had been a leak since the recycle can was not solid - I went on to agree and say yes let's move them and informed that while I was living there I intended to have the flooring replaced. - this satisfied him.

I was being given a tour of the house - and one of the rooms was a studio/salon.  He mentioned that I was going to be asked to 'help out here' by some ladies that run their business - I said that is fine, but do they realize I sometimes work 12 hour days in my normal job? 
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There was a creepy guy on the freeway that we had to keep tabs on... he finally pulled over and we all ended up in a heated swimming pool.  He had 3 or 4 girls hanging on him in the pool.. myself and 3 other people kept to ourselves on the opposite side and didn't fully enjoy ourselves until mr creep and his entourage left.  Swimming in dream is a lot easier/different than i can recall in waking life - ha.
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Later was walking with someone else - only someone I know of - we were walking on a small dirt path through a big unkept field... He started singing/making up rhymes in his overwhelming excitement to have stumbled on 2 small pot plants - big enough to yield him an immediate use of each.
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Then arriving at an event - they were dividing the color from the black and white leopard print body suits - they were segregated and not allowed to co-mingle.

Headline Worthy Orders, SATX

In another state for a weeks long training - seemed as though there was really only 1 good place to eat.  One of the  ladies in the class faxed over her food order on a presidential letter-headed paper - but the American flag logo in the oval was upside down.  I witnessed people in class made fun of her behind her back and it made me sick.

Although the orders were faxed in, we had to pick them up.. there was no delivery.  I had been once before and verbally tried to explain - others needed visuals - so the instructor drew on the whiteboard and on the floor.  It was off of a 4-5 lane freeway - you had to be in the lane for the San Antonio, TX exit.  He went on to explain that on the way back, this is one of the rare instances it's OK to cross 2 lanes of traffic at once, traffic permitting.   As he drew with his blue marker on the floor to demonstrate the lanes and the merge - I saw it in real life - and watched as a taxi did just that - 2 lanes at once to get over to where he needed.

The next day in the local newspaper - all of our faxed in order sheets were the headline story on the FrontPage - including the upside down logo next to one with the right side up logo.. 2 people in class had used the same letter heads.

Mine was the 6th one on the page - and there were multiple notes written on mine from others from work/the class....Bill was with me and I showed him... something about my order was supposed to be a prank on him... but I can't remember the punchline.