Before bed: planned to go meet someone from work at their other work to get a tour with the possibility of maybe taking a position there but couldn't get a hold of them; worked; bussed to a place on Osborne and delivered some gift certificates; bought some beer and wine and a Lyle Lovett album; bussed home; talked to some friends on the phone; rollerbladed to band practice at one member's house; our band went to our jam space after to meet with an art collective to discuss sharing the space (still no power) and hang out and have beer floats!; hung out after with one other band member and got high and ate pizza and had a fire at their house and they went to bed and i slept on the couch after i watched an episode of "Family Guy."
To bed at 3:30am (?)
Woke up around 10am?
1. I was at a bar that was a cross between Billabong and Café 22 on Corydon and i was standing near a four-feet high partition talking to some friends. A young woman walked by and someone wanted to introduce us and at first i wasn't interested in meeting her. When she came closer i thought i wanted to, and someone said her name was Kate (not a person from real life). We had just started talking and i realized i didn't want to talk to her anymore since i realized i was dreaming and she wasn't real.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Before bed: felt sick when woke up; worked; took care of my friend's plants; decided not to go to my friends' house for a bbq but another friend came over for a visit; went on Youtube
To bed at 11:36pm
6:51am
1. A friend and i are having a dinner party. I'm on the way there, it's winter, and i'm in a back lane, in the afternoon, and i find a pair of incredibly long rollerblades. There is no sole liner inside, but i try putting them on walking/sliding with them, but can't really move. (Maybe i ended up removing them and just walking?) By the time i get back to going to the party i'm late.
2. I'm at the church i grew up in, in the sanctuary. A recent pastor is speaking and makes an analogy of Jesus with the cross by talking about fishing with someone. After the service (or maybe during?) i'm suddenly in a multi-generational Sunday School class. A younger parent in the church is teaching and gets mad at a young man who would be from my Sunday School class, and tells him to meet her by her office. Outside of the class we hear her yelling. I start walking over. There is a youth event and a friend from my Sunday School class stops me and says, "At least you'll be there in spirit," meaning to make a joke about my belief in spirits. I respond, "I'll actually be there."
3. Talking to one of my dad, he says i look more like his mom than i do like him, but on my mom's side he says i look more like my mom. It was a heartfelt moment.
4. At work, but the power is out, or flickers in and out. The store appears more like the basement of the store. People have to walk through a broken down area to get to one small area of the store. Lights keep going out. I consider making a corridor with some big rolls of paper (i would hang the paper from the ceiling), but someone comes in. I offer the customer--the customer is older, bigger, shorter, friendly, not physically attractive-- some food from a deep freeze. She chooses lasagna which is already prepared, but i need to boil i in a big pot on the nearby stove.
To bed at 11:36pm
6:51am
1. A friend and i are having a dinner party. I'm on the way there, it's winter, and i'm in a back lane, in the afternoon, and i find a pair of incredibly long rollerblades. There is no sole liner inside, but i try putting them on walking/sliding with them, but can't really move. (Maybe i ended up removing them and just walking?) By the time i get back to going to the party i'm late.
2. I'm at the church i grew up in, in the sanctuary. A recent pastor is speaking and makes an analogy of Jesus with the cross by talking about fishing with someone. After the service (or maybe during?) i'm suddenly in a multi-generational Sunday School class. A younger parent in the church is teaching and gets mad at a young man who would be from my Sunday School class, and tells him to meet her by her office. Outside of the class we hear her yelling. I start walking over. There is a youth event and a friend from my Sunday School class stops me and says, "At least you'll be there in spirit," meaning to make a joke about my belief in spirits. I respond, "I'll actually be there."
3. Talking to one of my dad, he says i look more like his mom than i do like him, but on my mom's side he says i look more like my mom. It was a heartfelt moment.
4. At work, but the power is out, or flickers in and out. The store appears more like the basement of the store. People have to walk through a broken down area to get to one small area of the store. Lights keep going out. I consider making a corridor with some big rolls of paper (i would hang the paper from the ceiling), but someone comes in. I offer the customer--the customer is older, bigger, shorter, friendly, not physically attractive-- some food from a deep freeze. She chooses lasagna which is already prepared, but i need to boil i in a big pot on the nearby stove.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Before bed: work; went to band practice but there was no power at our jam space so we went to one member's house and practice in the living room and did our whole set through twice!; once home (fairly late) i realized i still needed to water my friend's plants and i really wanted to go to bed, but i bought some tortilla chips, ate them with salsa, and put on my rollerblades and went to water the plants then rollerbladed home and went to bed after watching some clips of a movie
To bed at 1:27am
8:30am
1. I was having band practice in my apartment, and we were recording the session with my answering machine. I wanted to try practice one song without guitar but everyone said we didn't know it well enough yet. Possibly someone from book club was in the band instead of one of the actual members. While taking a break, i went to listen to a song by a local Winnipeg vocal group called Antiphony and i wanted to sing along but although i had the lyrics in the CD case--which were in a weird format, sort of like a bus schedule--the song was way to complicated. Band practice sort of fizzled out and then possibly this dream morphed into the next one.
2. A few people from book club were all having a birthday party at the same time at the house of one of the people who was having a party (the house wasn't their place in real life). A few of the people in book club (some who were having a birthday party, some not) were ready to go to bed early.
3. At camp, with a rolling landscape and lots of tree. It is a nice summer evening, sunlight is almost all gone, a kind of blueish-black. Another counsellor was feeling suicidal, so i went to talk with him as he walked around. (He is mostly one actual person i worked with in real but not quite, maybe also a little bit of someone i met in a student group at the U of W.) Then another staff is with us. As we're talking, we're all suddenly in a little lean-to, or room without walls or we're in a shelter in some trees. A senior staff (not a director, but someone like that) comes to suggest the other staff (not the suicidal one and not i) should go back to the kids and then this senior staff is comforting the suicidal staff in an embrace and then senior staff looks at me (suicidal staff can't see) and gestures with his eyes (and maybe mouths the words) to ask if i think it's worth talking to the staff who is upset. I indicate in the affirmative. The senior staff leaves. The staff who isn't doing well asks if i've ever drunk a lot of alcohol and i respond, "Oh yeah, i've done lots of drugs," and i am partially proud of this feat and also trying to make the other staff not feel embarrassed in case they have and want to talk about it.
To bed at 1:27am
8:30am
1. I was having band practice in my apartment, and we were recording the session with my answering machine. I wanted to try practice one song without guitar but everyone said we didn't know it well enough yet. Possibly someone from book club was in the band instead of one of the actual members. While taking a break, i went to listen to a song by a local Winnipeg vocal group called Antiphony and i wanted to sing along but although i had the lyrics in the CD case--which were in a weird format, sort of like a bus schedule--the song was way to complicated. Band practice sort of fizzled out and then possibly this dream morphed into the next one.
2. A few people from book club were all having a birthday party at the same time at the house of one of the people who was having a party (the house wasn't their place in real life). A few of the people in book club (some who were having a birthday party, some not) were ready to go to bed early.
3. At camp, with a rolling landscape and lots of tree. It is a nice summer evening, sunlight is almost all gone, a kind of blueish-black. Another counsellor was feeling suicidal, so i went to talk with him as he walked around. (He is mostly one actual person i worked with in real but not quite, maybe also a little bit of someone i met in a student group at the U of W.) Then another staff is with us. As we're talking, we're all suddenly in a little lean-to, or room without walls or we're in a shelter in some trees. A senior staff (not a director, but someone like that) comes to suggest the other staff (not the suicidal one and not i) should go back to the kids and then this senior staff is comforting the suicidal staff in an embrace and then senior staff looks at me (suicidal staff can't see) and gestures with his eyes (and maybe mouths the words) to ask if i think it's worth talking to the staff who is upset. I indicate in the affirmative. The senior staff leaves. The staff who isn't doing well asks if i've ever drunk a lot of alcohol and i respond, "Oh yeah, i've done lots of drugs," and i am partially proud of this feat and also trying to make the other staff not feel embarrassed in case they have and want to talk about it.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Before bed: worked; went to the Fyxx with my siblings; walked home; went shopping; ate food; cooked; washed dishes; started composing a letter and stopped after an hour or so
To bed at 12:27am
5:20am
1. Getting ready for the first day back at school with my brother and sister; but it's the first day back at the school i left in grade one combined with the school i started in grade two. (I don't recall if my dream self knew what grade i was going into.) The three of us were talking about how all the other kids have darker clothes (darker meaning, rougher, more like grunge/goth/punk styles) than us. I was wearing grey sweatpants with a rip in one knee and either a black patch underneath or i was wearing black sweats underneath. I was both a child and an adult as i go into the school and look my classroom. Or, i'm passing quickly from child to adult. As i walk through the halls some kids say, "Hi," to me like i'm a student, others as though i'm a teacher (or at least an adult, or maybe just an older brother). Then the school becomes a university (not a combination of the universities i attended in real life, and not masquerading in the dream as a particular university) and as i descend a spiral staircase there is a group of cooks/bakers/servers giving away free cinnamon buns. The buns are these crazy things that were deep fried and covered with icing and blueberries. Then i'm in a restaurant like Stella's on Sherbrook and asking about the ingredients in different dishes. My server is someone i went to elementary school and high school with and i ask her if some Asian rice dish is made with vegan rice. She calls back to a guy in the kitchen area who is someone i also went to elementary school with but haven't seen in years and when he responds he's calling out from inside a nightclub. He says he wouldn't recommend anything on the menu at all. He and i glance at each other and i can't tell if he recognizes me although i recognize him. There may have been one other person from my elementary school as well.
2. (This dream took place before the one above.) One of my siblings and i are hanging out in Winnipeg's North End or maybe the Maples. They walk me to a bus stop on a corner, where apparently i have a small bungalow house that used to be a business. I step inside my house while my sibling uses a pay phone outside. I come out and they're gone and i'm worried that they thought i wasn't coming back or that something happened to them. I then feel the need to rush inside my house and lock the front door--which is like the front door at the store i work at in real life. I soon go out to catch a bus right outside my house. I think the time in the dream world when i was catching the bus was 6am-ish.
8am
1. (I think this dream happened just before i woke up.) I am adult riding a small mountain bike around Hamilton and Cavalier (close to my parents' place). It is a bright, sunny, summer afternoon. I'm looking for a certain school which is in the area in real life. I'm riding through a different school's playground that has a friendly-looking sign that says something like, "If you're in this playground and you're over 18 years old, please go to this adjacent playground." So i ride through an open fence gate into the other playground and pass people leaving the school who are coming out of a wedding.
To bed at 12:27am
5:20am
1. Getting ready for the first day back at school with my brother and sister; but it's the first day back at the school i left in grade one combined with the school i started in grade two. (I don't recall if my dream self knew what grade i was going into.) The three of us were talking about how all the other kids have darker clothes (darker meaning, rougher, more like grunge/goth/punk styles) than us. I was wearing grey sweatpants with a rip in one knee and either a black patch underneath or i was wearing black sweats underneath. I was both a child and an adult as i go into the school and look my classroom. Or, i'm passing quickly from child to adult. As i walk through the halls some kids say, "Hi," to me like i'm a student, others as though i'm a teacher (or at least an adult, or maybe just an older brother). Then the school becomes a university (not a combination of the universities i attended in real life, and not masquerading in the dream as a particular university) and as i descend a spiral staircase there is a group of cooks/bakers/servers giving away free cinnamon buns. The buns are these crazy things that were deep fried and covered with icing and blueberries. Then i'm in a restaurant like Stella's on Sherbrook and asking about the ingredients in different dishes. My server is someone i went to elementary school and high school with and i ask her if some Asian rice dish is made with vegan rice. She calls back to a guy in the kitchen area who is someone i also went to elementary school with but haven't seen in years and when he responds he's calling out from inside a nightclub. He says he wouldn't recommend anything on the menu at all. He and i glance at each other and i can't tell if he recognizes me although i recognize him. There may have been one other person from my elementary school as well.
2. (This dream took place before the one above.) One of my siblings and i are hanging out in Winnipeg's North End or maybe the Maples. They walk me to a bus stop on a corner, where apparently i have a small bungalow house that used to be a business. I step inside my house while my sibling uses a pay phone outside. I come out and they're gone and i'm worried that they thought i wasn't coming back or that something happened to them. I then feel the need to rush inside my house and lock the front door--which is like the front door at the store i work at in real life. I soon go out to catch a bus right outside my house. I think the time in the dream world when i was catching the bus was 6am-ish.
8am
1. (I think this dream happened just before i woke up.) I am adult riding a small mountain bike around Hamilton and Cavalier (close to my parents' place). It is a bright, sunny, summer afternoon. I'm looking for a certain school which is in the area in real life. I'm riding through a different school's playground that has a friendly-looking sign that says something like, "If you're in this playground and you're over 18 years old, please go to this adjacent playground." So i ride through an open fence gate into the other playground and pass people leaving the school who are coming out of a wedding.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Before bed: paid bills; worked; watered my friend's plants; read "The Brothers Karamazov" (less than 100 pages left, now!); looked for the original version of the movie "Fright Night" at a pawn shop; went to see "Cowboys and Aliens" with a friend; debated bit
To bed at 1:10am
Woke up twice during the night due to hollering outside but when i got up to check on the source the first time there was no more sound and the second time just sounded like someone was really angry but not that anything terrible was happening)
4:08am
1. (Don't recall this dream at all and will just write the notes i took.) <
6:18am
1. Catching a bus in South St. Vital, missed one. Then missed two more. I ran after the next one and called my friend using my cell phone (i don't have a cell in real life) to tell her i am almost at the bus stop where she was waiting for me.
2. This dream took place at night and the location was right outside the house i live in, on the sidewalk. Two people who used to live in the house in real life were hysterical/homicidal and were carrying guns and firing them at each other or at anyone around or maybe at me. They were either after me, or each other, or everyone...i forget. There was some kind of a scuffle that left both of them dead (i think) by my hand (maybe?). Then, a demolition crane (or whatever...a wrecking ball) was brought to our house and began destroying it starting with the awning over the steps (which in the dream was way bigger than in real life...the awning covered more of the lawn, i mean). As the house was being destroyed, or maybe just after, a group of people and i without a belief in supernatural powers did an atheist blessing over the house. (Then there is a part of my notes i don't understand that appears to read <> followed by <<"I got shot last night.">>).
3. A man with very dark skin is arrested for playing guitar in a dance hall in Winnipeg in the early 1900s (possibly 1902? There was a specific year in the dream but couldn't exactly recall it on waking) and this was not allowed, although he may have been allowed to play other instruments. Since hanging would not be abolished for twenty years, the police (or some other group or somebody else) planned to hang the man. Then i, or someone else (they would've been "the fool" in older stories), said, "In the story of the man who held his bread over the other man's roasting pig to get flavour in his bread, the man with the bread pulled out a coin and hit it so that it rang, paying with the sound of the coin for the scent of the pork. Therefore, this man should have to pay for playing guitar in the dance hall by simply not being allowed to play in the dance hall anymore, but it would be OK for him to play other instruments." I am followed by a dog.
4. Possibly in the dream with the guns and house demolition, or some other dream but different, i think, from the one above, i was followed home by a mangy dog. (In "Cowboys and Aliens" the main character is followed by a mangy dog.)
To bed at 1:10am
Woke up twice during the night due to hollering outside but when i got up to check on the source the first time there was no more sound and the second time just sounded like someone was really angry but not that anything terrible was happening)
4:08am
1. (Don't recall this dream at all and will just write the notes i took.) <
6:18am
1. Catching a bus in South St. Vital, missed one. Then missed two more. I ran after the next one and called my friend using my cell phone (i don't have a cell in real life) to tell her i am almost at the bus stop where she was waiting for me.
2. This dream took place at night and the location was right outside the house i live in, on the sidewalk. Two people who used to live in the house in real life were hysterical/homicidal and were carrying guns and firing them at each other or at anyone around or maybe at me. They were either after me, or each other, or everyone...i forget. There was some kind of a scuffle that left both of them dead (i think) by my hand (maybe?). Then, a demolition crane (or whatever...a wrecking ball) was brought to our house and began destroying it starting with the awning over the steps (which in the dream was way bigger than in real life...the awning covered more of the lawn, i mean). As the house was being destroyed, or maybe just after, a group of people and i without a belief in supernatural powers did an atheist blessing over the house. (Then there is a part of my notes i don't understand that appears to read <
3. A man with very dark skin is arrested for playing guitar in a dance hall in Winnipeg in the early 1900s (possibly 1902? There was a specific year in the dream but couldn't exactly recall it on waking) and this was not allowed, although he may have been allowed to play other instruments. Since hanging would not be abolished for twenty years, the police (or some other group or somebody else) planned to hang the man. Then i, or someone else (they would've been "the fool" in older stories), said, "In the story of the man who held his bread over the other man's roasting pig to get flavour in his bread, the man with the bread pulled out a coin and hit it so that it rang, paying with the sound of the coin for the scent of the pork. Therefore, this man should have to pay for playing guitar in the dance hall by simply not being allowed to play in the dance hall anymore, but it would be OK for him to play other instruments." I am followed by a dog.
4. Possibly in the dream with the guns and house demolition, or some other dream but different, i think, from the one above, i was followed home by a mangy dog. (In "Cowboys and Aliens" the main character is followed by a mangy dog.)
Monday, August 15, 2011
Before bed: woke up at my friends' place and had breakfast there; came home and did laundry, played music, bought groceries and talked on the phone with friends and family; had supper with a friend; played soccer; did dishes
To bed at 12:15am
Woke up once or twice during the night VERY sweaty
5:09am
1. A dream about going bald. (I've been thinking about this with some frequency recently, wondering if my hairline is receding. I think the dream indicates i'm starting to obsess about it.)
2. Something about sleeping with a guy i'm barely acquainted with in real life. (My notes don't indicate, and i don't remember, if this was sexual or not.)
3. I'm in downtown Winnipeg, being driven around in funny circumstances (i don't know what this note means unless it refers to the bit that follows): i'm in a small cart that looks like a basket--a small one that would fit in the palm of my hand--attached behind a car. I could just squeeze into the cart with my knees pulled up against my chest. In what i think is the same dream, a group of people are sitting in a circle downtown. (My notes say i don't know if it was day or night, or else was both, or else switched back and forth.) They were discussing religion (maybe i was involved?). They are each filling, or are asking me to fill the blanks in the following sentence: "If i were to _____, i wouldn't ______." The question somehow refers to the Bible. My answer is long-winded and boring. There is at least one person in the dream i know, and he is a combination of a few different people i know in real life all of whom are named Dennis (in real life).
4. (Last dream i had before waking up.) I'm in downtown Winnipeg (different dream than the last, i think) at night with a Mag Lite. I'm using it to peer inside car windows. I hear barking and realize there's a dogfight going on nearby. Then i figure out that it's not a dogfight, but some people are throwing dogs out of a second or third story window of an old apartment block or warehouse for fun. Horrible feeling. Part of me doesn't want to go check thinking, "It'll be fine," which is the same part of me that doesn't want to wake up and write down my dream. (Weird and intriguing correlation there.)
To bed at 12:15am
Woke up once or twice during the night VERY sweaty
5:09am
1. A dream about going bald. (I've been thinking about this with some frequency recently, wondering if my hairline is receding. I think the dream indicates i'm starting to obsess about it.)
2. Something about sleeping with a guy i'm barely acquainted with in real life. (My notes don't indicate, and i don't remember, if this was sexual or not.)
3. I'm in downtown Winnipeg, being driven around in funny circumstances (i don't know what this note means unless it refers to the bit that follows): i'm in a small cart that looks like a basket--a small one that would fit in the palm of my hand--attached behind a car. I could just squeeze into the cart with my knees pulled up against my chest. In what i think is the same dream, a group of people are sitting in a circle downtown. (My notes say i don't know if it was day or night, or else was both, or else switched back and forth.) They were discussing religion (maybe i was involved?). They are each filling, or are asking me to fill the blanks in the following sentence: "If i were to _____, i wouldn't ______." The question somehow refers to the Bible. My answer is long-winded and boring. There is at least one person in the dream i know, and he is a combination of a few different people i know in real life all of whom are named Dennis (in real life).
4. (Last dream i had before waking up.) I'm in downtown Winnipeg (different dream than the last, i think) at night with a Mag Lite. I'm using it to peer inside car windows. I hear barking and realize there's a dogfight going on nearby. Then i figure out that it's not a dogfight, but some people are throwing dogs out of a second or third story window of an old apartment block or warehouse for fun. Horrible feeling. Part of me doesn't want to go check thinking, "It'll be fine," which is the same part of me that doesn't want to wake up and write down my dream. (Weird and intriguing correlation there.)
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Before bed: hung out with my grandma; read "The Karamazov Brothers" (almost finished!); went out for supper with a friend and then went for a walk with them and stopped at another friend's to check how his vermicompost was doing walked along near the river; went to my friends' house for a fire and lots of drinking and laughing and some snacks; watched videos on the website www.animalsbeingdicks.com before going to bed and laughed more
To bed around 3:30am?
I woke up maybe around 10am and remembered a dream but promptly forgot it. The dream was something amusing and fun.
To bed around 3:30am?
I woke up maybe around 10am and remembered a dream but promptly forgot it. The dream was something amusing and fun.
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