Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 9:11am

To bed at 12:48am
Contemplative, thinking lots, hard time falling asleep. Took over 1/2 hour to fall asleep (this is unusual). Felt like getting up and doing something but wanted to sleep. Played soccer at 9pm, came home, did some baking, read for a bit, watched a part of a movie.

6:35am

1. A friend had just acquired two bookshelves and a side table for me. I was excited for the bookshelves and kind of ambivalent about the end table. Lighting was dimmer. We were in some kind of building...apartment/office building.

2. I was at work talking to people about different toys, telling them silicone is the best, most hygienic material for toys, but we only had two toys made out of silicone left.

3. I was going to work for the first day (i think it was the first day?) at a new job in a mall (bigger than Polo Park, i think). The new job was at a clothing manufacturer or sewing shop. At least one friend from my real life job was working there. I had to go take off my hoodie and maybe other clothes to get ready and change into work clothes. I was a bit nervous about the new job. We would be working at a counter at the front of the store, and then the clothes stretched far back behind the counter on long racks.

4. (This dream may have been in a continuum with the last one.) I was watching a movie in my parents' basement with a friend from my real life job (different person than last dream) and a family member. I was on the right of the person from work, and i leaned against their feet and my family member was to their left, and i used a pillow (or possibly pillows?) to cover their feet. We were all sitting in the corner of the basement on a couch that fit in the corner (couch was not straight but at a 90 degree angle...my parents' had a couch like that in the basement).

5. This was the dream before waking. I was at a talent show and the next performer was a dancer from Kazahkstan. He was kind of boring-looking, with a frumpy suit and old glasses. Maybe in his late thirties. He was wearing a head covering. I was moving stuff off the stage to give him room for his routine.

7:42am

1. I was more in a removed observer, narrator position in this dream. The setting was in the Jim Crow laws segregated southern USA. The 1st student with dark skin was coming to the school, and was escorted by a police officer. Their was a huge crowd of onlookers, some of whom were taunting the student, and maybe throwing things at her. Then, a man in a military uniform, a big, barrel-chested man, with dark skin struck one of the people assaulting the student and asked, "How does it feel?" The person he struck replied, "Not good." So the man in uniform said, "OK, let's all have a meeting about being cool," and then spread his arms wide and waved them about a bit. Then, the scene shifted to men in suits nearby watching everything from a limousine or some kind of CIA vehicle, and were starting to get out. They may have included Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. One of them asked, "What is it with these people and stepping stones?" (Stepping stones meant "getting ahead".)

2. I was in a huge school/castle and the master (sort of like Dracula) told those of us around him that he wanted all the doors locked and then he was going to either show us something or enjoy an activity after he said, "There's nothing like ____ intersex" (possibly meaning eating someone). As me and someone from my real life band went around locking doors, a feeling of fear was growing. I was going down empty hall ways and staircases and would sometimes see the other person locking doors, or see people walking around. In a lower level of the building, which was like a mall, were two middle-aged women without shirts flirting with a middle-aged biker guy with tattoos and a leather vest, sunglasses and a skullcap. He was saying how he used to be a rock and roll performer. Then someone who looked like a friend of mine was in a staircase that i was rushing down after trying to lock a door that someone on the other side was trying to open. The person i thought i knew was sitting at the bottom of the stairs and i was sliding under the stairs to hide. The person i thought i knew was not wearing a shirt. They introduced themselves but was not who i thought it was.

Woke at 8:30am with my alarm.