The Varsity

Dream 3/30/2017

     I've come to watch a high school soccer game. First the varsity girls are up and then the varsity guys. I run around on the court a bit before the game starts. When I look at the girls on the team I become self-conscious and tell myself to get in shape. I start planning in my head to run more and go to the batting cages to practice my baseball skills so that maybe I could go out for the team. The game starts. I sit in the bleachers. Turns out it isn't a soccer game but rather a hockey game. There isn't any ice on the court, instead, it is just a normal, wooden gym floor.

     During the game, a girl from the stands stands up and makes an announcement. She raises a book in the air and says it was written by her friend and she needs our support. I think her friend is sick. I watch the game some more. It is three vs three. I always thought hockey games had more people on the court than that. A little girl on the bottom bleacher raises up a sign to the rest of the fans. Her sign has about a hundred words on it and they are small. Most people wouldn't be able to read it. I hear her talk to one of the older girls saying, "I brought my sign but they won't let me show it because there are too many words."

     I decide to leave before the game is done. I walk down a hallway and get into an elevator. I hear a family walking close behind. I try to shut the elevator door before they get in but in a panic I push a bunch of random buttons and nothing happens. The family walks into the elevator. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Here Kitty Kitty

Dream 3/30/2017

     I'm driving over to my sister's house. She lives with a nice family. When I'm walking up to her door, I see a mother cat and her kitten walking beside her. I think they are Himalayan. I pick them up and put them in my Jeep. I also see my recently deceased cat, Rupert, walking around outside my sisters house. I put him in my Jeep as well.

     The nice family is home but my sister isn't so I decide to leave. The cats open up my door and jump out, so I run to grab them and put them back. Somehow, in the driveway, I have been blocked in by a camper. I try to squeeze through but then I hit the family's water pump next to the driveway. I get out, jump in my sisters truck, back it up a bit to make space, return to my Jeep and drive away.

     Later, in my sister's house, the nice family and my sister and dad stand around talking about the cats that I found outside. They talk about a black cat and how talented he is. They say that he can open doors. Dream ends.

I wake up.

The Land of Lost Socks

Dream 3/29/2017

     My name is Tom. I'm a young child. I attend elementary school. Today is my first day. Somehow, my underwear gets dirty so I take them off. My teacher shows me to my seat next to a boy whom I deem a pest. I play with blocks with each letter of my name inscribed on them. I put them together to spell my name, Tom. I remember my dirty underwear. I need to hide them somewhere. Behind me is a cupboard. I need to hide them in the cupboard. I look over to my teacher. She is sitting in her rocking chair rocking back and forth. I slowly open the door to the cupboard but it makes a loud creaking noise. The noise grabs my teachers attention. I quickly move my chair back, slamming against the cupboard. I want her to think the noise came from me hitting my chair against the cupboard. She walks over and opens the cupboard. She pulls out a zip lock baggie with underwear in them. They aren't mine though. She announces to the class, "Whose dirty underwear are these?"

     The closet in the classroom is like an attic. It goes about a hundred feet and opens up to the hallway on the opposite end. It's really dirty so me and my nephews decide to clean it up. I hear my dad down the hallway in another classroom substituting. At the opposite end of the closet under a bunch of toys, I find pairs of socks that I lost a long time ago. I get the idea to pick up the major items in the closet and then have a Roomba vacuum let loose for a couple hours to get the rest. Dream ends.

I wake up.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Dream 3/29/2017

     I take a group of about ten of my friends to go see the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's one of my favorite movies. They've never seen it before. About a third of the way through the movie my friends complain that the movie is too slow and boring. They all stand up and walk out. I decide to go with them. Dream ends.

I wake up.

My Girl

Dream 3/29/2017

     I work at a thrift store. Every time somebody brings in a guitar I have to check it out. I love guitars. I'm over in the guitar section looking at some of the new merchandise when some co-workers ask for help in the back. The backroom is a giant warehouse. At this time we are setting up a huge number of chairs for a ceremony. I help with the chairs but we don't have enough. That night a thousand people gather in the warehouse and find their seats. On the big screen, we watch the movie "My Girl." So much has been cut out of the movie. It's like watching a whole different movie. I stand up at the end and voice my complaint to the crowd about the movie.

     After everyone leaves, we have an end of the world party. A few of the guys go out to get some ice cream but get drunk instead. On their way back to the party, they crash the van and tip it. I decide to go out and get myself an ice cream sandwich at a nearby gas station. I get lost. I never return to the party. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Tanks

Dream 3/28/2017

     We live in a desert. We travel through the desert to a trailer where a couple of girls have a business. To make money they entertain guests with skits and fun stuff. After a couple hours, we decide to leave and return home.

     On our way home, we encounter a fleet of tanks owned by McDonald's. I run and hide in a nearby cave. I can see the tanks patrolling outside. One tank rolls over to the cave and sticks the barrel of his main gun inside the entrance of the cave and shoots, BOOM! The shot misses me. I am unharmed. He shoots again, BOOM! Once again, the shot misses me. He backs out of the cave and moves on. Another tank comes along, sticks the barrel of his main gun inside the entrance of the cave and shoots, BOOM! This time I am hit, but my injury isn't life threatening. I make a run for it.

     My house is on top of a mountain. If I can just make it home I will be fine. All of the patrolling tanks see me. At one point hope seems lost, then I start to fly. I fly up to a random house and hide for a moment on the roof where the tanks cannot see me. Then I take off again and fly up to my house.

     When I enter my home, I notice a group of people are lying down in the hallway. Some seem dead, others are moving slightly. When I walk over to the moving ones, the button "X" pops up on the screen. It's a quick time event. I push "X" and the person stands up and leaves the house. I do this until there is nobody left. I walk into the living room and see the girls from the trailer are sleeping on the couch. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Legendary

Dream 3/24/2017

I start crying in my living room. My sisters and brother-in-law are there. I fall to the ground, sobbing and I pull a blanket over my head. They comfort me. They know why I am crying. I feel as though I've wasted my life away and I have no purpose. My older sister reads me a quote from Abraham Lincoln which reads, "someone once asked me how I became such an historical figure. And I told them 'if you live your life as though you are a legend, then you will be one.'" Dream ends.

I wake up.

Miscellaneous

Dream 3/24/2017

     I'm hanging out inside a barn with a friend. The friend's cat is roaming the barn. The little fur ball is nineteen years old. My friend tells me that the cat and his dad used to cuddle together. A giant, hairy, red and black spider starts approaching us. My friend tells me that the spider and the cat have been friends for years. I'm a bit uneasy about the spider. Wherever I walk, the eight-legged freak follows me.

     I walk to my dad's camper. He tells me that he is thinking about getting back into church and possibly preaching again. I ask him why. He tells me that it all started the other night when his neighbor Tony came over for a bonfire and Tony started preaching.

     Inside our school there is a legend that in the basement there is a secret door that will lead to a tunnel system under the city. We roam the basement but cannot find the door.

     We rent the movie "Never Been Kissed." We know a teacher at our school who we want to reenact the movie with. We go out shopping for her. In a store front, we find mannequin heads with crazy hairstyles. We choose the one with blonde dreadlocks. We dye our teachers hair black and white but never give her dreadlocks. I have to live with my teacher. She tells me to always be quiet in her house because she doesn't want her neighbors to know she is here.

     The teacher has a small gathering at her house. "Never Been Kissed" is playing on the television. I see my friend Kevin who was in the barn earlier. I ask him why he left the barn. He said it smells really bad. I tell him that I will help him clean it up so that it won't smell anymore. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Accident

Dream 3/23/2017

   
     My class decides to put on a Thanksgiving dinner. All of the classmates and their parents gather to eat. After finishing up, we go to an amusement park. I get in a ride I think called the Cobra. As the ride twists and turns, the bolts in my seat come loose and I am throwing fifty feet away into a lake. Many of my classmates jump in to save me. I am unharmed. When they pull me back to land, I am speaking another language. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Terror Simulator

Dream 3/23/2017

     I am a part of a simulated event where half of the people are given guns and the other half are shot. I am on the side who gets shot. The event starts. I stand in one spot because I know there is no use in running. A young woman walks up to me and shoots the person I am standing next to then turns the gun to me. BOOM!!! I fall to the ground.

     I start to re-evaluate my life. I pray to God that He will forgive me for the life that I've led. As I lye on the ground, I feel a cold wash over my body. A blackness starts to take over my vision and my hearing starts to go.

     The event ends. The side with the guns announces that they shot us with red food coloring. All of the dead people stand up. I stand up as well. After inspecting myself I realize that I am fine. After a couple hours we start round two. Once again, I am on the side that dies. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Foreign Relations

Dream 3/20/2017

     My family and me are visiting Canada. One day, we decide to eat at a fancy, two-story restaurant. My sister Morgan gets lost in the restaurant so I try to find her. A man, probably the host, shows me around. I spend all my time looking for her when she was eating with the family all along. Now the family is done eating. I regret not dining with them. Nothing stings like regret. I wave at a cute woman as her and her boyfriend walk out. She says something about a hottie over there, talking about me. She walks over to our table and tells her boyfriend to close his eyes. she goes in to kiss me and pulls back. Then she goes in again and kisses me on the lips, slobbering all over me.

     I am in Peru, sick as a dog, sleeping in a disease ridden bed, hoping to get back home to America.

     A ton of teenagers occupy my old church in Anderson, Indiana. New life church is a now a big volleyball court. All of the older kids are playing and partying late into the night. It is my bedtime but I stay out. I don't feel comfortable around the older kids. I feel very self conscious.

     My friend Joel Doty is up on stage playing a song he has written. I am holding his old guitar that he gave me once upon a time. He steps off the stage and starts talking to me as I put his old guitar in its case. I have trouble latching one of the buckles on the case.

     A parent of one of the kids puts a movie on the projector. He wants everyone to see it. I'm not completely sure what it is about except it has to do with injustice in some form. I lean over to the kid and tell him, "if you think this is bad, you should've seen me in Peru." Dream ends.

I wake up.

Convergence

Dream 3/17/2017

     My school takes a day to visit an amusement park that is located in a valley. Standing up on a hill, you can look down and see the rides, booths and lights of the park. At the top of the hill is a giant buffet. One buffet has been overlooked and forgotten about and the food has become old and rotten. Some guys that I am with smell the food and laugh about how bad it is.

     I study sharks. I have a partner. Her and I study sharks together, or we are supposed to. One day she gets into a boat and takes off without me. I run and jump off the end of the dock to make it into the boat but miss wildly. I fall into the water. Behind me is hundreds of people watching me fail. We rediscover a bull shark which has been thought to be extinct. We film him swim around underwater. He can't seem to close his mouth.

     I am helping with the concession stand. My job is to fill the drinks. The way that I know what drink to pour is the manager will put a colored dot on the cup. Depending on what color the dot is shows me what drink to pour. It takes me a few tries to get it down, but I eventually get the hang of things. Dream ends.

I wake up.

High School Blues

Dream 3/16/2017

     In high school, I walk to my locker to get the books for my next class. I see that my top locker is open which is weird because I never use my top locker due to the lock that I can never get open. I walk to my next class. I open the door and realize I'm in the wrong class. The room I am standing in is an advanced college English class. Everyone is staring at me. They all yell at me to get out, telling me that I don't belong here, that this class is for smart people. I need to go to the "regular" English classroom.

     I have a homework assignment to take something from the school and refurbish it into something new. A fellow student offers to help me. We grab a metal trashcan and sit on the gym floor. He does all the work. He turns the trashcan into a colorful tree with animals and fruit springing from it.

     I walk out to the student parking lot and my guitar and amp are set up to play. I pick up my guitar and the strings shock my hands when I strum them. As I continue to play, fire shoots from my amp. A guy named Matt walks over and asks to play my guitar. I warn him that something is wrong with it. As he begins to play, fire once again shoots from the amp and smoke starts billowing from the guitar. He puts it down and leaves.

     I start to pack everything up into my Jeep. A fellow student named Tim offers to give me a ride home. He jumps into my Jeep, as do I. I ask him if he has ever driven a Jeep before and warn him that he can't make speedy sharp turns or he could tip the vehicle. I tell him that I know three people who have died from flipping their Jeeps. He drives me home taking a different way than I take. Dream ends.

I wake up.

-Awkward Things-

Dream 3/15/2017

     I'm a part of a program put on by my school. We have never practiced. The program is a train wreck. It's full of awkward silences where the conductor is showing students the lines they never rehearsed. During one of these awkward silences, I grab the conductors attention and double check my lines. She says that she will signal me when it's my turn. The audience sits in their seats quietly except after every students disastrous run through of their lines, they stand up in a roar of applause. Pity applause. After the show, I call my friend Milo Yiannopoulos and tell him what happened. He gets a total kick out of the whole thing.

     Later on, I am trying to convince a stranger that VHS is far better than Blu-ray. I am looking out the window when the world starts to shake. An earthquake is happening. I yell to my mom to get under the doorway in the kitchen. She does. We both do. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Ohio State Penitentiary

Dream 3/10/2017

     I'm on the way home from a class field trip. While driving through Ohio, we pass Ohio State Penitentiary which is a spooky, abandoned and haunted place. It's a location in which ghost hunters love to investigate because of the history and supposed hauntings. It looks like a large building has fallen over onto the penitentiary and is just lying on top of it like the building in the movie "Cloverfield." As our school bus passes OSP I act as a tour guide and direct everyone's attention to it. I tell them some of the spooky facts about the place.

     Up the road a bit is a strawberry tree. One of the girls on the bus tells the driver to stop. She says she always stops to pick strawberries from this exact tree, it's a tradition in her family. She gets out and picks some of the red fruit. She eats some but says they are too bitter. I try one and agree.

     My sister, some friends and I escape the bus and walk back to the spooky penitentiary. We make camp in the front room. Most of us stay there because it isn't as scary and there is a TV. A few of the people go off and explore the haunted location. At one point, we hear a knock at the front door. I go and put my face to the floor to see under the door. I see boots. I open the door. There are four people outside who want to explore the penitentiary. Two of them are normal but the other two are dressed as clowns. We let the normal ones in.

     While everyone else explores, we stay in the front room and play Super Mario World on our Super Nintendo. At one point, a baby down the hallway starts to cry. It's the child of one of our friends. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Cowboy Men

Dream 3/10/2017

     I am visiting a mall today. I enter at the far end of the mall where barely any stores are found. It is very quiet where I am. I have my open carry gun on my hip. I cannot however carry a gun on both hips because that is illegal and if I do, the security will shoot at me.

     A shooting occurs, but not with me. A few bad men are having a shootout with the malls security. The security shoot and kill the bad men. I watch the whole thing. When no one is looking, I walk over and steal the dead men's guns. I tell my friend who is with me, "it's always a good idea to be near a shooting when it happens because you can always get free gear." I put a gun on each hip. The security in the mall sees me and starts shooting. My friend and I run outside.

     When we get outside, we have a shooting competition with a few firefighters. The firefighters are about a mile away at their station, but we can see them from where we are. Each side has to shoot toward the other and see what they can hit. The person who hits the coolest thing wins. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Graduation Day

Dream 3/10/2017

     It's graduation day. The way the ceremony is set up is that when our name is called, we will zip on a zip line over the audience onto the stage. The students stand in a building opposite the stage at a large second story window ready for their names to be called. The speaker calls my name along with my friend Josh. We zip on two parallel lines together toward the stage. We aren't connected to the lines by a harness, we are only hanging on tightly. We could easily fall and crash into an audience member.

     I make it to the stage, grab my diploma and exit stage left. My friend, Tim and his family are having a private ceremony in a small room next to the graduation. Tim's sister is up on their small stage posing like a model. Tim's dad tells him that he needs to do the same.

     I return to the large graduation ceremony. When I return, I see four parade floats moving toward the stage. The first one is full of witches. The next one is full of priests. I can't see the last two. Since I am dressed as a priest, I run to that float and jump aboard. Another students joins the float with me. I wave at the crowd hoping that my mom sees me.

     When the service is over, I find my mom and ask her if she saw me. She says she did. Dream ends.

I wake up.

State-of-the-art

Dream 3/10/2017

     Our high school has remodeled its gymnasium into a beautiful, state-of-the-art gym that rivals even NBA arenas. A person is giving each class a tour of the gym one at a time. Our class sits about half way up the stands as the gentleman speaks about the improvements that were done. I look down at the far end of the basketball court, under the stage are seats for where the choir and band sit during the game. The orchestra members are practicing now. They are wearing blue tuxedos. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Peeping Tom

Dream 3/10/2017

     I am given the responsibility of cleaning the girls bathroom at Liberty Christian Elementary. It is night, so there shouldn't be any girls in the school. I need to clean the outside of the windows. Since the bathroom is on the second floor, I grab a ladder and lay it against the outside wall of the school and climb to the top. When I get to the window, a girl in the bathroom sees me and runs out of the room. I don't know what anyone is doing here at night, let alone a child. I get nervous and climb back down. I know she must think I am a peeping tom. Later that night, I get my sister to check out the bathroom to make sure it's clear, then I continue the cleaning. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Playtime

Dream 3/10/2017

     Today I am visiting my cousin DJ in Illinois. The whole family plays a game of some sort in the backyard. Everybody is running around as if we are playing tag. I've never played or heard of the game before. I couldn't describe it for you even if I wanted to. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Shootout

Dream 3/5/2017

     Back at Liberty, I have a basketball shootout with a fellow classmate. We have to shoot from the three point line. The other student makes three out of four shots. I am really feeling the pressure. I have to make all four shots to beat him. While trying to concentrate, a group of boys have a scrimmage at the same goal that I'm shooting on. I get upset with them and tell them to move, but they don't. I walk over to the coach and tell him that I can't do it. I can't concentrate with those kids playing around.

     I give up and walk back to class. Suddenly, I am completely naked. I find a couple t-shirts at my desk. I put one of them on. My biology teacher is teaching while a guest lecturer sits at his desk. The guest lecturer keeps interrupting my teacher with remarks trying to get a laugh out of the class. Eventually, my teacher becomes upset at the guest and tells him to quit talking. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Death of a Loved One

Dream 3/5/2017

     One of my high school teachers has died. We attend his funeral at Oberland Cemetery. Hundreds of gatherers sit off to the side while the students stand by the casket. I along with a few other students, help to lower the casket into the grave.

I wake up.

Bus Station

Dream 3/5/2017

      My old biology teacher from high school walks me to a bus station. We are both taking a bus to parts unknown for reasons unknown. The bus station looks much like a Sam's Club. The seats of the bus are set up more like a roller coaster. My teacher walks to the bathroom while I check out the vending machine. The choices in the machine are odd. Usually you will get the offer of a bag of chips or a candy bar, in this machine they are offering entire boxes of granola bars and big bags of chips. Each selection is six dollars. I skip that.

     When my teacher returns, he tells me that bus riders are very nice but if you start acting like a jerk, they are vicious. The bus takes off. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Mad Girl

Dream 3/4/2017

      I am visiting Kristen, my sister, at her house. She is having guests over. A few girls that I've never met as well as their dads. Trying to be slick and cool in front of the girls, I say something that offends one of them. She reads me the riot act and then steals my cell phone. She leaves. I tell her dad that I will give her five minutes to return my phone or else I am calling the police and pressing charges. All the girls and the dads slowly walk out of the house and down the street to where the girl has walked.

     I go to the back room of the house to sit down and watch TV. Eventually, all of the girls walk back into the room, including the girl who stole my phone. She lies down next to me on the bed but doesn't say anything. She tosses my phone over my way. I lean over and say, "I am sorry." She responds, "It happens." Dream ends.

I wake up.

Marathon

Dream 3/2/2017

     I am running a marathon today along with the rest of my school. It is also the last day of school. I am near the front of the pack of runners. Near the end of the race I get confused about which direction to take. The layout of the course is done very poorly. No one knows where to go. I run up onto a highway, although there are no cars. I hit a dead end. I run back down and start asking people where the race ends. They tell me that it ends at a nearby school.

     As I enter the school and run through the finish line, I pretend to run in slow motion and hum very loudly the melody to "Chariots of Fire." The people at the finish line laugh as I run through. Several teachers are sitting near the finish and I go and sit on one of their laps. After this, I need to fill out "end of school year" papers. I get my papers and take them back to the teacher.

     I need to go and visit my sister, brother-in-law and nieces and nephews to see their new house. The house looks downright creepy. The walls and floor are dark wood with no paint. There doesn't seem to be any working lights. Everybody shows me their rooms. My brother-in-law opens a hatch in the floor that leads to the cellar. He tells me that this will be a room for two of the kids. I ask him if he is joking but he genuinely thinks it's a great idea.

     I leave the house and head back toward town. My teacher stops me and tells me that I forgot to turn in one paper. I quickly fill it out and submit it. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Blizzard

Dream 3/2/2017

     My mom and I go out for a drive on a harsh winter night. A blizzard has recently made its way through our town and left snow covering the roads.

     I think my mom wants to do some Christmas shopping so I point out a store that I see called "Parents, Have You Been Good?" It sounds like a Christmas store to me. My mom doesn't want to shop there. We drive to an office instead. Creed Bratton from "The Office" and from the band "The Grass Roots" works here. On most of the computers in the workplace, the desktop contains files having to do with the state of Texas. The files are named "All About Texas," "1000% Texas," and other files that hint at the idea of visiting or moving to the lone star state.

     Mom and I drive around the back of the office following a road that is hard to see. It's clear that no snow plows have been through here. The only way to read the road is from previous car tracks. We go up onto a hill. At the bottom of the hill is a giant lake. As we start to descend the hill, our car starts spinning out of control. We come closer and closer to the lake until BAM! We are in it. Very quickly our truck is submerged in water.

     We travel back in time to where we were at the office with Creed Bratton. We are outside the office in the back walking through the snow. Creed starts singing a song to the melody of those old Dominoes buffalo wings commercials. "Gotta be! gotta be! Dominoes! buffalo wings!" Dream ends.

I wake up.