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.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Before bed: worked; went to friends' place, got high and went to Bangkok Thai (although i thought we were going to One Night in Bangkok it was still excellent); got Half Pints Stir Stick Stout and vanilla ice cream and Dad's cookies and went back to their place and made beer floats and ate cookies and watched "Suckerpunch" (a terrible movie with videogame graphics); watched some videos on Youtube (Seth Macfarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy); walked to another friend's place and watered his plants; while walking home a young couple was in a nasty argument but a friend was with them patiently attempting to help them work it out and they said they'd be ok; went on Facebook, watched music videos.
To bed at (not written down)
9:48am
1. A chasing dream. Being pursued up and down staircases. I'm looking down from above into a opening in the floor into something that's not a pit exactly. I jump down into the opening and there is an explosion of balloons and confetti for the birthday of an older woman. The burst occurs at the top of the area that i jumped from; the balloons don't quite reach the top. At the bottom i sink under the confetti and balloons to be away from people and relax. I am feeling a bit anxious. There is a short discussion about being wary of homeless people and someone says, "Elderly women prefer soft penises."
To bed at (not written down)
9:48am
1. A chasing dream. Being pursued up and down staircases. I'm looking down from above into a opening in the floor into something that's not a pit exactly. I jump down into the opening and there is an explosion of balloons and confetti for the birthday of an older woman. The burst occurs at the top of the area that i jumped from; the balloons don't quite reach the top. At the bottom i sink under the confetti and balloons to be away from people and relax. I am feeling a bit anxious. There is a short discussion about being wary of homeless people and someone says, "Elderly women prefer soft penises."
Friday, August 12, 2011
Before bed: watched "Buffy" and stretched; worked; went to band practice but there was no power there so we cleaned up and then jammed at one of the other member's house and had some food then jammed and worked on songs; began typing the last month of dream reports.
To bed at 12:22am
8am
1. I looked in the fridge at work and found the berries i had in there (that had in real life been eaten and spilled on the bathroom floor by another staff) were still in the fridge (when, like in real life, i assumed they were eaten by someone). I felt very embarrassed that i had gotten so huffy about it.
To bed at 12:22am
8am
1. I looked in the fridge at work and found the berries i had in there (that had in real life been eaten and spilled on the bathroom floor by another staff) were still in the fridge (when, like in real life, i assumed they were eaten by someone). I felt very embarrassed that i had gotten so huffy about it.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Before bed: work; played a bit of guitar at work; went to the Fyxx with one of my siblings and one of their kids; watered my friend's plants and watched a bit of the new "Tron" movie at his apartment.
To bed at 12:24am
8am
1. Something about organizing a show for our band and something about making sure we played on time.
To bed at 12:24am
8am
1. Something about organizing a show for our band and something about making sure we played on time.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Before bed: made a recording of a song i wrote after waking up in the morning; worked; met two friends at Mondragon for a few minutes; had supper while reading "Stylus"; went with a close friend to see Lyle Lovett and His Large Band at the Burton Cummings Theatre which was a fricking wonderful event; went out after to the Elephant and Castle and had some debates and ping pong balls and glasses were sent sailing onto the street from balconies above; walked home and received some pot cookies; hung out with a friend in the park and discussed drinking and martial arts.
To bed at 1:30am
7:00am
1. Looking at Facebook pictures of a happy, sunny, summer road trip taken for a party (birthday?). People in the pictures were from later high school (mostly? maybe a one or a few people not from high school). There were balloons, drinks, and outside the vehicle showed us driving by a high, sheer rock face.
2. I'm leaving a city, driving a black Jimmy-type truck (i think with one of my parents). Suddenly i'm unable to stop speeding and i think the car is spinning out of control. Setting is sunny in summer.
To bed at 1:30am
7:00am
1. Looking at Facebook pictures of a happy, sunny, summer road trip taken for a party (birthday?). People in the pictures were from later high school (mostly? maybe a one or a few people not from high school). There were balloons, drinks, and outside the vehicle showed us driving by a high, sheer rock face.
2. I'm leaving a city, driving a black Jimmy-type truck (i think with one of my parents). Suddenly i'm unable to stop speeding and i think the car is spinning out of control. Setting is sunny in summer.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Before bed: went to the airport with my friend to see him off; saw a family member there that i didn't know was going on a trip; worked; watered the plants at my friend's place; came home in the rain and a friend came for a visit; talked with one of my parents on the phone; talked to a close friend about going to a concert but they couldn't go so i called another friend to go with; had a long chat on Facebook with another friend about romantic relationships and how crazy they can be; got a pile of free CDs from a friend in our house
To bed at 1:05am
7:20am
1. Driving around downtown of a city that was like a combination (but not exactly) of Winnipeg and Calgary (but more like Winnipeg, around the area of Broadway and Main). Streets were nearly deserted. Lots of criss-crossing, one-way streets. I was trying to figure out how to get somewhere (i don't recall a destination).
2. With one of my parents or an uncle or aunt driving home from being out west (maybe around the foothills around B.C./Alberta?). We pass a restaurant my dream self remembered eating at (but my real life self was never there).
Fell back asleep until 8am.
To bed at 1:05am
7:20am
1. Driving around downtown of a city that was like a combination (but not exactly) of Winnipeg and Calgary (but more like Winnipeg, around the area of Broadway and Main). Streets were nearly deserted. Lots of criss-crossing, one-way streets. I was trying to figure out how to get somewhere (i don't recall a destination).
2. With one of my parents or an uncle or aunt driving home from being out west (maybe around the foothills around B.C./Alberta?). We pass a restaurant my dream self remembered eating at (but my real life self was never there).
Fell back asleep until 8am.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Before bed: Went to a friend's to learn about the plants i would be taking care of; then we went to see "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"; then we back and i stayed at his place to go with him to the airport the next morning.
To bed around 11:30pm
I actually wrote down a dream or two but can't find the piece of paper i wrote on! I did not sleep well and had tense, anxious-type dreams.
To bed around 11:30pm
I actually wrote down a dream or two but can't find the piece of paper i wrote on! I did not sleep well and had tense, anxious-type dreams.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Before bed: walked to my friend's house and had a cappuccino (i never drink coffee) and enjoyed it while hanging out with his family; went to the Half Pints anniversary and had STIR STICK STOUT ICE CREAM FLOATS!!!; went to Stella's with the same friend and had a good talk; read "The Karamazov Brothers"; had a nap; felt not good (napping usually makes me feel crappy); wrote a journal; went out with a friend and felt WAY better; earlier in the day emailed two friends i hadn't talked to for a while.
To bed at 1:21am
8:50am
1. At my parents' place taking a non-sexy shower with one of my friends and wearing some crazy tights i got in real life from our house's yard sale.
2. A dream about a musical acquaintance.
3. At Voyageur School (my real life elementary school). Security guard comes to check on stuff. I tell him, "Better safe than sorry," he is confused/suspicious/doesn't totally understand me. It's a nice summer night.
To bed at 1:21am
8:50am
1. At my parents' place taking a non-sexy shower with one of my friends and wearing some crazy tights i got in real life from our house's yard sale.
2. A dream about a musical acquaintance.
3. At Voyageur School (my real life elementary school). Security guard comes to check on stuff. I tell him, "Better safe than sorry," he is confused/suspicious/doesn't totally understand me. It's a nice summer night.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Before bed: worked; had band practice; talked to one of my bandmates about relationships; took the bus home; talked to a close friend on the phone; received the Baron from one of my housemates; hung out with a friend along Osborne and went back to his place and hung out with out another friend too; walked home and watched three guys steal a life preserver off the Osborne Bridge and wondered if i should go confront them about it but didn't
To bed at 4:35am
Didn't record any dreams.
To bed at 4:35am
Didn't record any dreams.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Before bed: worked; couldn't make it to my niece's birthday party; talked to a friend on the phone; invited by a different friend to attend the Half Pints Brewery anniversary on the weekend; brief talk to another friend on the phone; played soccer; talked to one of my housemates in my apartment; made a cover and song list for CD i made the other day
To bed at 12:30am
6:20am
1. I'm at a yard sale being put on my family and the family of a close friend; the sibling and partner of my friend are fighting. My friend is slimmer, with shorter hair than in real life. It is the afternoon, sunny, and summertime. Amongst the items are bad scary movie and crappy clothes. I'm hanging back, wearing a mask. I think my friend hasn't seen me, but everyone can tell who i am and as i walk away my friend asks, "How do you want to ____" (hang out? come outside? go for a walk?...i realize in typing this now that it appears the question seems like it should start "Would you like to..." but i think it was more a matter of negotiating boundaries, but this is a guess). Just after she wonders if the two people arguing will have sex in one of their cars.
To bed at 12:30am
6:20am
1. I'm at a yard sale being put on my family and the family of a close friend; the sibling and partner of my friend are fighting. My friend is slimmer, with shorter hair than in real life. It is the afternoon, sunny, and summertime. Amongst the items are bad scary movie and crappy clothes. I'm hanging back, wearing a mask. I think my friend hasn't seen me, but everyone can tell who i am and as i walk away my friend asks, "How do you want to ____" (hang out? come outside? go for a walk?...i realize in typing this now that it appears the question seems like it should start "Would you like to..." but i think it was more a matter of negotiating boundaries, but this is a guess). Just after she wonders if the two people arguing will have sex in one of their cars.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Before bed: worked; went to my parents'; talked about a family member's health while getting a ride home; thought about love; wrote a journal entry.
To bed at 12:49am
8:00am
1. Working in a health grocery store with a close friend. I'm not wearing shoes. He wants me to try some food and i tell him i alreayd did. This dream morphs into:
2. At the same friend's apartment. Two female friends are cuddling and i join them but i'm not entirely welcome, but very soon i am. Kind of friendly, kind of sexy. My friend and one of his roommates is are wearing matching space (1980s style?) jumpsuits--pastel green with white. Talk about traveling and getting deals at thrift stores. People think there's nothing good in Alberta.
To bed at 12:49am
8:00am
1. Working in a health grocery store with a close friend. I'm not wearing shoes. He wants me to try some food and i tell him i alreayd did. This dream morphs into:
2. At the same friend's apartment. Two female friends are cuddling and i join them but i'm not entirely welcome, but very soon i am. Kind of friendly, kind of sexy. My friend and one of his roommates is are wearing matching space (1980s style?) jumpsuits--pastel green with white. Talk about traveling and getting deals at thrift stores. People think there's nothing good in Alberta.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Before bed: worked; got a call that my great uncle had passed away and tried to make arrangements to fly Ontario for the funeral tomorrow but didn't have enough money to afford the trip; renewed my driver's license; came home and received a drunk call from someone as i was getting ready to go to Folklorama; went out with a friend but didn't make it to Folklorama but got a drink and gelatti; watched an episode of "Buffy"
To bed at 12:34am
6:50am
1. Characters from "Buffy"--Buffy, Willow, Xander, Cordelia--fight a demon. The only way to get to it is to take a potion through the rectum that really hurts and wind up in another place (another dimension?). Xander is the last to go and arrives somewhere at a table. A creepy man thinks Xander is a woman and treats him like a sex slave, but Xander doesn't know why because he doesn't realize the guy thinks he's a woman. Xander laughs at him and is attacked but fights back and runs out and there is weird stuff in hallways (?). Willow is floating down a mall hallway with two demons who might be spirit guides and/or powerful but ambivalent ones. They tell her she is a great universal power or something.
2. Christmas and i'm at someone from Book Club's house. There are lots of small animals--rodents, bugs, a pig--escaping.
To bed at 12:34am
6:50am
1. Characters from "Buffy"--Buffy, Willow, Xander, Cordelia--fight a demon. The only way to get to it is to take a potion through the rectum that really hurts and wind up in another place (another dimension?). Xander is the last to go and arrives somewhere at a table. A creepy man thinks Xander is a woman and treats him like a sex slave, but Xander doesn't know why because he doesn't realize the guy thinks he's a woman. Xander laughs at him and is attacked but fights back and runs out and there is weird stuff in hallways (?). Willow is floating down a mall hallway with two demons who might be spirit guides and/or powerful but ambivalent ones. They tell her she is a great universal power or something.
2. Christmas and i'm at someone from Book Club's house. There are lots of small animals--rodents, bugs, a pig--escaping.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Before bed: read; made a CD; worked; made perogies; read; typed and retyped and deleted and retyped a letter to someone; read. Feeling...a hazy, anxious kind of fear, a lack of direction. Also stoned by the fucking heat and humidity.
To bed at 12:20am
1:30am? 2:30am?
1. Zombies. On a sailing ship with people and we are escaping zombies. Some people on board are infected. When they go to vomit out the windows we or i push them out.
2. Something about scheduling at work. White t-shirt. (I don't remember what the last note meant.)
3. Very vivid dream that i am sick.
To bed at 12:20am
1:30am? 2:30am?
1. Zombies. On a sailing ship with people and we are escaping zombies. Some people on board are infected. When they go to vomit out the windows we or i push them out.
2. Something about scheduling at work. White t-shirt. (I don't remember what the last note meant.)
3. Very vivid dream that i am sick.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Before bed: read; laundry; talked to a friend for a long time on the phone; jammed with a friend; went to a barbeque where also played ping pong outside (two martinis and a small schluck of caramel liqueur and i was ready to sleep); walked home ready to sleep.
To bed at 12:50am
6:00am
1. An artist friend tells me she needs a new vibrator and asks about what to buy. We're lying down facing each other but nothing is "happening."
2. Trying to wash my armpits in the shower/bath which is full of water, although i'm fully clothed and wearing a big backpack. Somehow i'm "in" the music industry making a commercial album and realize the sound is not punk at all (i think?) although i'm telling people it has punk influences.
3. Daytime, summer. I'm in some backyard trying to avoid cops. One is batting away insects and doesn't notice two people i know. The people i recognize are one of the people from the office at work and an elderly female relative. It is then nighttime, still in summer, and i'm walking into a backyard of a house where a dinner party is. I'm hanging out with or helping a guy around my age who might need a walker for stability (or something?) but i don't go in because there is someone i met recently in real life that i don't want to see.
8:40am
1. In what i think was my bedroom upstairs in my parents' house. I'm on the computer and i see an attractive, nude woman (on the computer? or outside? i didn't make a note about where). Suddenly i'm next to her and i'm not wearing clothes and she is shocked. She is not quite pleased that i'm there, and i'm trying to get close to her and she is trying to get me to leave her alone.
2. (Earlier than the previous dream, i think.) At some place sort of like camp or someone's huge yard. Winter, nighttime, beautiful clear sky, sometimes with snow falling. There is a tractor pushing snow and i joke with the driver (i think my notes say that i didn't actually see a driver in the cab). I see a treehouse which looks impossible and frightening to climb up to from the bottom of the tree. I blackmail someone living up there by catching their dog and getting some kind of information before giving back the dog.
To bed at 12:50am
6:00am
1. An artist friend tells me she needs a new vibrator and asks about what to buy. We're lying down facing each other but nothing is "happening."
2. Trying to wash my armpits in the shower/bath which is full of water, although i'm fully clothed and wearing a big backpack. Somehow i'm "in" the music industry making a commercial album and realize the sound is not punk at all (i think?) although i'm telling people it has punk influences.
3. Daytime, summer. I'm in some backyard trying to avoid cops. One is batting away insects and doesn't notice two people i know. The people i recognize are one of the people from the office at work and an elderly female relative. It is then nighttime, still in summer, and i'm walking into a backyard of a house where a dinner party is. I'm hanging out with or helping a guy around my age who might need a walker for stability (or something?) but i don't go in because there is someone i met recently in real life that i don't want to see.
8:40am
1. In what i think was my bedroom upstairs in my parents' house. I'm on the computer and i see an attractive, nude woman (on the computer? or outside? i didn't make a note about where). Suddenly i'm next to her and i'm not wearing clothes and she is shocked. She is not quite pleased that i'm there, and i'm trying to get close to her and she is trying to get me to leave her alone.
2. (Earlier than the previous dream, i think.) At some place sort of like camp or someone's huge yard. Winter, nighttime, beautiful clear sky, sometimes with snow falling. There is a tractor pushing snow and i joke with the driver (i think my notes say that i didn't actually see a driver in the cab). I see a treehouse which looks impossible and frightening to climb up to from the bottom of the tree. I blackmail someone living up there by catching their dog and getting some kind of information before giving back the dog.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Before bed: rested, read, went for a long walk; had a very emotionally reverberating conversation with someone; talked to some others about this conversation and my feelings; walked to a friend's place to pay for our jam space; went to a local wrestling show with friends (was great); came home and made a fruit salad then went to a friend's birthday party; went on Facebook; did some writing; went to bed rather stoned and drunk.
To bed at 1:41am
8:50am
1. At an event/compound connected somehow to my parents' backyard where there are wild-domesticated animals (dogs). I keep thinking i see injured or dying dogs but when i get closer i wonder if they're actually sleeping. A sunny, summer afternoon.
To bed at 1:41am
8:50am
1. At an event/compound connected somehow to my parents' backyard where there are wild-domesticated animals (dogs). I keep thinking i see injured or dying dogs but when i get closer i wonder if they're actually sleeping. A sunny, summer afternoon.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Before bed: worked; band practice; checked Facebook; felt very fatigued; thought about being in love
To bed at 12:52am
7:08am
1. (This dream occurred way earlier in the night.) I am at my parents' place with a folk-musician friend and one of us was getting ready to leave. She starts flirting with me and kisses me, but i have something in my mouth to spit out, plus when i come back from the bathroom (?) someone from my soccer team has dropped stuff off for me and an old love i wrote to someone i had a crush on a long time ago is there. Then some of family shows up and as they're coming in i am talking to someone i was once very close to and we are friends, and the musician friend is gone. One of my parents comes over and says to my friend, "Oh, i just wanted to say i see you have a new boyfriend," but this is not true and it feels a bit awkward after it is said and the person who said that goes into the basement a bit embarrassed. I go to confront the parent who said that, and i jump and fly down the stairs without my feet touching the steps and ask why they said that.
2. (This dream occurred closer to 7am, i think). Something about family, specifically one of my siblings and other family members.
3. Something about one of my closest friends?
4. At my work, and the storage area is in a different part of the store than in real life.
8:53am
1. Exploring a cave on a school trip with my siblings.
2. My family is in my parents' gazebo about to talk about a family member who is not doing well. One of my siblings points out to the other that they both used to be in the same grade (this was never the case in real life).
3. I'm facing off against a kung fu master in his mansion. I'm trying to decide if i should smash his computer or not. I decide it is up to him but i still throw it down but don't smash it. Then i jump over a barrier through an opening in the floor that is surrounded by a railing. I fall onto a huge cardboard box at the bottom that breaks my fall. "They" (a group? the kung fu master?) come after me and i have to pick where to run or hide. I try different doors in the darkened basement where i apparently am. I take off down a pitch black corridor which becomes the cave where i explore with my siblings. (This dream probably preceded that one.)
To bed at 12:52am
7:08am
1. (This dream occurred way earlier in the night.) I am at my parents' place with a folk-musician friend and one of us was getting ready to leave. She starts flirting with me and kisses me, but i have something in my mouth to spit out, plus when i come back from the bathroom (?) someone from my soccer team has dropped stuff off for me and an old love i wrote to someone i had a crush on a long time ago is there. Then some of family shows up and as they're coming in i am talking to someone i was once very close to and we are friends, and the musician friend is gone. One of my parents comes over and says to my friend, "Oh, i just wanted to say i see you have a new boyfriend," but this is not true and it feels a bit awkward after it is said and the person who said that goes into the basement a bit embarrassed. I go to confront the parent who said that, and i jump and fly down the stairs without my feet touching the steps and ask why they said that.
2. (This dream occurred closer to 7am, i think). Something about family, specifically one of my siblings and other family members.
3. Something about one of my closest friends?
4. At my work, and the storage area is in a different part of the store than in real life.
8:53am
1. Exploring a cave on a school trip with my siblings.
2. My family is in my parents' gazebo about to talk about a family member who is not doing well. One of my siblings points out to the other that they both used to be in the same grade (this was never the case in real life).
3. I'm facing off against a kung fu master in his mansion. I'm trying to decide if i should smash his computer or not. I decide it is up to him but i still throw it down but don't smash it. Then i jump over a barrier through an opening in the floor that is surrounded by a railing. I fall onto a huge cardboard box at the bottom that breaks my fall. "They" (a group? the kung fu master?) come after me and i have to pick where to run or hide. I try different doors in the darkened basement where i apparently am. I take off down a pitch black corridor which becomes the cave where i explore with my siblings. (This dream probably preceded that one.)
Friday, July 29, 2011
Before bed: worked (started the shift by cleaning up after last night's party); had band practice; (the next two notes about what id did before bed i don't quite understand): cooking (did i cook something that night?); Androids (wtf?); watched "Buffy" (OK, that makes sense).
To bed: (didn't write down what time)
8:32am
1. Navigating the subway or above-ground train and bus system in Calgary with my family while visiting relatives there. Something about maps. One of my parents is a bit upset. There were some exchange students from somewhere in Asia taking pictures.
To bed: (didn't write down what time)
8:32am
1. Navigating the subway or above-ground train and bus system in Calgary with my family while visiting relatives there. Something about maps. One of my parents is a bit upset. There were some exchange students from somewhere in Asia taking pictures.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Before bed: worked; went to Don Pedro's for supper with my friend's brother and some of his family and friends before going to see Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers at Pantages Playhouse Theatre (my friend sold me his ticket); met two other friends at the concert that we sat immediately next to although we didn't even know where we were seated; went out afterwards to the King's Head and talked about the concert and about relationships; stopped by my work for a birthday party and dancing; walked home; checked emails about going camping at Clear Lake.
To bed at 3:01am
Didn't record any dreams
To bed at 3:01am
Didn't record any dreams
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Before bed: worked; helped a family member move (very stressful); at the end of moving felt like i was about to faint but didn't; came home and checked my messages then went to bed
To bed at 1:45am
Didn't record any dreams.
To bed at 1:45am
Didn't record any dreams.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Before bed: worked, cleaned my apartment, went out with someone and had both a wonderful and eventually very painful time together.
To bed at 1:38am
(Didn't write down the time i woke up)
1. A bright, sunny afternoon but with lightly overcast skies (so not direct sun, and not blue skies...sort of whitish). I was at Omand's Creek and there bleachers set up and filled with a crowd who came to watch a children's group performing, or possibly it was a children's festival. Suddenly some guy stands up near the front of the crowd, he's drunk, with a group of other men who are also drunk, and yelling at another man. Then the man he is yelling at is either in the stands or far away--if he is in the stands he jumps over the side and starts running or if he's farther away he turns and hears he's being hollered at and starts running. I had first been behind the bleachers noticing this occurrence when i'm now on the other side. The guy is being chased after, and it's evident he has a developmental and possibly also a physical disability. He's attacked and knocked around by the drunk guys who i think were men of Aboriginal descent who are then gone when i get to the guy who was being chased. There are receipts scattered around him and i start trying to help him find the "important" one he needs to find. I ask him if he is OK and if a certain receipt is the right one, and he gets frightened of me. I responded with frustration that i am trying to help him and he starts freaking out and then takes off and runs away and people are staring at me thinking i was hurting him.
To bed at 1:38am
(Didn't write down the time i woke up)
1. A bright, sunny afternoon but with lightly overcast skies (so not direct sun, and not blue skies...sort of whitish). I was at Omand's Creek and there bleachers set up and filled with a crowd who came to watch a children's group performing, or possibly it was a children's festival. Suddenly some guy stands up near the front of the crowd, he's drunk, with a group of other men who are also drunk, and yelling at another man. Then the man he is yelling at is either in the stands or far away--if he is in the stands he jumps over the side and starts running or if he's farther away he turns and hears he's being hollered at and starts running. I had first been behind the bleachers noticing this occurrence when i'm now on the other side. The guy is being chased after, and it's evident he has a developmental and possibly also a physical disability. He's attacked and knocked around by the drunk guys who i think were men of Aboriginal descent who are then gone when i get to the guy who was being chased. There are receipts scattered around him and i start trying to help him find the "important" one he needs to find. I ask him if he is OK and if a certain receipt is the right one, and he gets frightened of me. I responded with frustration that i am trying to help him and he starts freaking out and then takes off and runs away and people are staring at me thinking i was hurting him.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Before bed: last day of camping; got a ride back to Winnipeg; went to a friend's birthday party and played word games; went on Youtube
To bed at 12:45am
6:34am
1. A close friend walked from Main Street (where the Times Change(d) is) to some other place to meet me. Cops came by and saw she had a beer and let her keep it, but came by again later and asked her to pour it out. A nice summer evening.
2. Connected to the last dream, i'm at an outdoor party with different beers.
3. Wintertime. I'm at my parents' house. From the vantage point of the upstairs bathroom window i see a machine coming towards the house, and i realize it is going to hit the house! It does. I swear out of the window at three young women who smile skeptically. I apologize and talk to the driver (who may have been from England?) and his two buddies. He, or maybe all three, were drinking. I tell him i'll have him arrested. I drag him to my parents' place. I ask one of my siblings if i'm overreacting and am told i am. I decide i might not have him arrested.
4. Carrying milk canisters full of (fresh?) milk out to a car. One can is bent, so is its lid. An older woman (possibly one of my dad's relatives? or one of my mom's?) is helping me (or saying goodbye). She doesn't quite know me due to having Alzheimer's. Night time in summer.
5. Daytime. An music acquaintance leans over and kisses me.
To bed at 12:45am
6:34am
1. A close friend walked from Main Street (where the Times Change(d) is) to some other place to meet me. Cops came by and saw she had a beer and let her keep it, but came by again later and asked her to pour it out. A nice summer evening.
2. Connected to the last dream, i'm at an outdoor party with different beers.
3. Wintertime. I'm at my parents' house. From the vantage point of the upstairs bathroom window i see a machine coming towards the house, and i realize it is going to hit the house! It does. I swear out of the window at three young women who smile skeptically. I apologize and talk to the driver (who may have been from England?) and his two buddies. He, or maybe all three, were drinking. I tell him i'll have him arrested. I drag him to my parents' place. I ask one of my siblings if i'm overreacting and am told i am. I decide i might not have him arrested.
4. Carrying milk canisters full of (fresh?) milk out to a car. One can is bent, so is its lid. An older woman (possibly one of my dad's relatives? or one of my mom's?) is helping me (or saying goodbye). She doesn't quite know me due to having Alzheimer's. Night time in summer.
5. Daytime. An music acquaintance leans over and kisses me.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Before bed: worked; driven home by my manager after getting tomorrow off to go camping; had drinks on the steps with two people who live upstairs; was invited to play keeper for another soccer team for $50.00; went to a Fringe Festival play with a close friend ("Hedwig and the Angry Inch", play was awesome); went to the Times Change(d) for supper and drinks and met a fellow there named Lou and talked to the owner a bit
To bed at 12:55am
6:15am
1. Just before waking up had a fairly violent dream take place on a moving train. A guy was going to escape so a woman stabbed him saying she wished he was like someone else (or that someone else was like him?).
To bed at 12:55am
6:15am
1. Just before waking up had a fairly violent dream take place on a moving train. A guy was going to escape so a woman stabbed him saying she wished he was like someone else (or that someone else was like him?).
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Before bed: worked; bought a fan and brought it to our band's jam space; had drinks and Smoke's Poutinerie for the second time with our band (we didn't jam); our band went to see Dark Dark Dark at the West End Cultural Centre; there was a brief conversation between the singer of DDD and i after the show about their band coming over since they needed a place to stay but they didn't end up coming although i did get the apartment ready for people to stay.
To bed at _____ (i didn't write it down. Was after 1am, i'm sure.)
8:30am
1. Saw Natalie Imbruglia and Patti Griffin playing a show in a basement somewhere and i tried to video it on my phone (i don't have a cell phone in real life, and the one i used to have didn't have a camera on it). Woke up in the morning or after the concert and went to check on people at the concert, at least to check on a friend who our band played a show with a while back and his girlfriend. They had done lots of cocaine and were passed out but OK but had some weird pictures on their phone. Suddenly i'm in my parents' basement thinking about doing cocaine with a friend's voice in my head encouraging me to try it.
2. Showering with two disheveled women of aboriginal descent; not a sexy incident, just getting clean. The shower area is like the one under the cottage of some friends. This was was after walking around a big garbage dump or thrift store drop off at a community centre in Winnipeg's West End on a lovely summer evening. There were lots of clothes and i noticed a lot of housecoats.
3. Something about a vacation somewhere?
To bed at _____ (i didn't write it down. Was after 1am, i'm sure.)
8:30am
1. Saw Natalie Imbruglia and Patti Griffin playing a show in a basement somewhere and i tried to video it on my phone (i don't have a cell phone in real life, and the one i used to have didn't have a camera on it). Woke up in the morning or after the concert and went to check on people at the concert, at least to check on a friend who our band played a show with a while back and his girlfriend. They had done lots of cocaine and were passed out but OK but had some weird pictures on their phone. Suddenly i'm in my parents' basement thinking about doing cocaine with a friend's voice in my head encouraging me to try it.
2. Showering with two disheveled women of aboriginal descent; not a sexy incident, just getting clean. The shower area is like the one under the cottage of some friends. This was was after walking around a big garbage dump or thrift store drop off at a community centre in Winnipeg's West End on a lovely summer evening. There were lots of clothes and i noticed a lot of housecoats.
3. Something about a vacation somewhere?
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Before bed: worked, came home, watched "Buffy", went shopping, met a close friend and hung out (as i type this i'm not entirely sure, but i think we went to the Yellow Dog), came home
To bed at 1:23am
4:35am
1. Same person i hung out with earlier and i are hanging out. It is Christmas Eve, but sometimes it is the middle of summer. We're sort of at school. I see her washing up. She talks about hanging out with a friend who i guess is a guy she knew from high school but she explains that nothing happened with them.
2. Angel (from "Buffy") has been given an undercover identity as _____ Moloch (i forgot the first part of the name when i was making notes), as a school teacher. Either Angel or i am unsure whether to believe the person who told him this.
To bed at 1:23am
4:35am
1. Same person i hung out with earlier and i are hanging out. It is Christmas Eve, but sometimes it is the middle of summer. We're sort of at school. I see her washing up. She talks about hanging out with a friend who i guess is a guy she knew from high school but she explains that nothing happened with them.
2. Angel (from "Buffy") has been given an undercover identity as _____ Moloch (i forgot the first part of the name when i was making notes), as a school teacher. Either Angel or i am unsure whether to believe the person who told him this.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Before bed: worked, came home, went to Smoke's Poutinerie for the 2nd time, had drinks with a friend from Book Club at Johnny G's and then saw a Fringe play (a terrible, rock opera version of "Hamlet"), came home, went on Facebook
To bed at 12:37am
3:55am
1. (I woke up with the distinct impression i heard the phone ringing, but it wasn't.) On waking up i had a strong memory that in the last few weeks Book Club was doing some kind of play and wasn't doing it well.
2. I was either going on a journey or at some camp-like place. There were lots of famous actors there, such as Jim Carrey. People were sleeping.
(My notes suggest that what i wrote after the last section is from the same dream, but i'm not sure that's correct. The following are my exact notes).
<< -church memories ("Every dirty song i know i learned from people at church" i thought to myself during the dream) >>
7:10am
1. At the Fringe Festival. Some artist or beggar writes a song for a lover of mine from real life (?) about me (i'm not actually there in the dream, or i'm the beggar, but not myself) making vegetarian/vegan food for her. Before this part i'm on the computer on some website with some kind of form to fill out that kind of looked like the following, and by using the form, the site would pull up recipes for you:
He is a ______ She is a ______
vegan vegetarian
2. I'm in a comic book store that's a bit dingy. (If i remember this dream correctly now as i write it, the store was packed full of comics and i was really excited to be there. Walls were wooden and old. Kind of a warm feeling in there.)
3. Hanging out with a guy i did support work for in real life and others. We're in a big room with chairs, the guy i did support work with is friendly.
To bed at 12:37am
3:55am
1. (I woke up with the distinct impression i heard the phone ringing, but it wasn't.) On waking up i had a strong memory that in the last few weeks Book Club was doing some kind of play and wasn't doing it well.
2. I was either going on a journey or at some camp-like place. There were lots of famous actors there, such as Jim Carrey. People were sleeping.
(My notes suggest that what i wrote after the last section is from the same dream, but i'm not sure that's correct. The following are my exact notes).
<< -church memories ("Every dirty song i know i learned from people at church" i thought to myself during the dream) >>
7:10am
1. At the Fringe Festival. Some artist or beggar writes a song for a lover of mine from real life (?) about me (i'm not actually there in the dream, or i'm the beggar, but not myself) making vegetarian/vegan food for her. Before this part i'm on the computer on some website with some kind of form to fill out that kind of looked like the following, and by using the form, the site would pull up recipes for you:
He is a ______ She is a ______
vegan vegetarian
2. I'm in a comic book store that's a bit dingy. (If i remember this dream correctly now as i write it, the store was packed full of comics and i was really excited to be there. Walls were wooden and old. Kind of a warm feeling in there.)
3. Hanging out with a guy i did support work for in real life and others. We're in a big room with chairs, the guy i did support work with is friendly.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
During the day: house had a yard sale; went to soccer; went to my parents' place for supper; came home and had a beer with one of my housemates that he gave me; watched some "Buffy"
To bed 12:31am
6:10am
1. On a Hutterite colony, hanging out/working there? I ask a Hutterite man about Hutterite things. I choose not to eat with Hutterite women out of respect. Sunny afternoon. Weird Al Yankovic is singing "Amish Paradise."
2. I'm at the apartment of a great aunt, with a friend from my volunteer crew at Folk Fest.
3. Doing support work (with a guy i used to work with in real life). The guy i'm working with is living in the country and it's my last shift. I'm shoveling and he is in a good mood.
(At the end of dream three i have a note about Weird Al singing "Amish Paradise" with an arrow pointing to the first dream.)
To bed 12:31am
6:10am
1. On a Hutterite colony, hanging out/working there? I ask a Hutterite man about Hutterite things. I choose not to eat with Hutterite women out of respect. Sunny afternoon. Weird Al Yankovic is singing "Amish Paradise."
2. I'm at the apartment of a great aunt, with a friend from my volunteer crew at Folk Fest.
3. Doing support work (with a guy i used to work with in real life). The guy i'm working with is living in the country and it's my last shift. I'm shoveling and he is in a good mood.
(At the end of dream three i have a note about Weird Al singing "Amish Paradise" with an arrow pointing to the first dream.)
Sunday, July 17, 2011
During the day: Hung out with a very close friend for a couple hours; then went to a party at my friend's apartment. Had strawberry daiquiris. So hot people were sticking to one of the chairs.
Didn't write down what time i went to bed.
Didn't write down time i woke up and wrote down dreams.
1. One of my parents is driving across the lawn. I ask if they're drunk, and they get kind of upset and say no.
2. I find the bag i left at Folk Fest (in real life i did lose a bag there). I'm very excited.
Didn't write down what time i went to bed.
Didn't write down time i woke up and wrote down dreams.
1. One of my parents is driving across the lawn. I ask if they're drunk, and they get kind of upset and say no.
2. I find the bag i left at Folk Fest (in real life i did lose a bag there). I'm very excited.
Friday, July 15, 2011
During the day: worked; went to a Fringe Festival play with a friend (play was without dialogue, and acted by players in expressive masks; then together went to the Yellow Dog, then Shannon's Irish Pub; then walked home; forgot to call a bunch of people; talked lots about being in love
To bed 12:20am
8:05am
1. At Folk Fest hanging out with people from Discreet Boutique (where i work). They have camper vans with tarps behind the chain link fence.
2. Waiting in line at the Yellow Dog to see three bands, a friend from work is behind me licking/kissing my neck.
To bed 12:20am
8:05am
1. At Folk Fest hanging out with people from Discreet Boutique (where i work). They have camper vans with tarps behind the chain link fence.
2. Waiting in line at the Yellow Dog to see three bands, a friend from work is behind me licking/kissing my neck.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
During the day: worked; went to the King's Head with a friend and talked about events from around Canada Day to around Folk Fest; then we went to a creepy play at the Fringe Festival; once home realize i want some alone time but that i will be busy doing stuff everyday until August and hope to find time to relax.
4:18am
1. I'm having sex on the beach and in a hotel room (?) with a supermodel (tanned, long legs, brown hair, slim). I'm sitting down and she begins to slide down on my lap (her back to my chest) and i have a minor start since i'm not wearing a condom and i point it out even though i say i want to not wear one but then i let her slide down without me wearing a condom. Lots of kissing and a bit emotional.
2. A pamphlet on how to sell diamonds to tourists on the beach in hotels: "Have a home base that you stop by once an hour." Pamphlet encourages non-aggressive sales.
7:50am
1. Preparing for some kind of war/battle. I enter through the basement door in someone's house, and end up in Beetlejuice land (sandworms, rollercoaster, etc.). Somehow it's the house of a warehouse dancing friend and she doesn't want people going after the sandworms with knives from the kitchen because her mom just came home.
Dream turns into:
Taking a bus near Polo Park (west of PP, going south). I sneak into a secret area where a bunch of parts were delivered to an army guy who is going to make a robot to fight the sandworms (or, and?...another robot?) but a general will be inside the robot.
4:18am
1. I'm having sex on the beach and in a hotel room (?) with a supermodel (tanned, long legs, brown hair, slim). I'm sitting down and she begins to slide down on my lap (her back to my chest) and i have a minor start since i'm not wearing a condom and i point it out even though i say i want to not wear one but then i let her slide down without me wearing a condom. Lots of kissing and a bit emotional.
2. A pamphlet on how to sell diamonds to tourists on the beach in hotels: "Have a home base that you stop by once an hour." Pamphlet encourages non-aggressive sales.
7:50am
1. Preparing for some kind of war/battle. I enter through the basement door in someone's house, and end up in Beetlejuice land (sandworms, rollercoaster, etc.). Somehow it's the house of a warehouse dancing friend and she doesn't want people going after the sandworms with knives from the kitchen because her mom just came home.
Dream turns into:
Taking a bus near Polo Park (west of PP, going south). I sneak into a secret area where a bunch of parts were delivered to an army guy who is going to make a robot to fight the sandworms (or, and?...another robot?) but a general will be inside the robot.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
During the day: worked; with two friends had supper and saw "Midnight in Paris" at the Globe; came home and walked to the LC with a friend from our house and got a bottle of wine which we drank on the steps and ate pasta and talked about love.
To bed at 11:53pm
5:23am
1. A "Robin Hood" type movie. After a battle, Sheriff of Nottingham watches Merlin (?) change into a wolf and disappear (maybe it was Robin Hood that changed into a wolf?). Daytime in a snowy field. Sheriff is sporting a smirk on his face. Switch to another scene and i am walking/running by Omand's Creek where there are other runners with dogs. I call for Patches (our family dog who died a few years ago in real life), but she doesn't come. I'm a little worried, but try to stay calm. Coming over the side of a hill/riverbank i see a dog similar but not actually Patches mostly frozen in ice. I get to the dog and there is slight movement in its eyes although it was also run over. I hug it a bit and it just barely moves. I call people over to start helping cut a block of ice around the dog, hoping to slowly melt it and save the dog, but thinking it will die before i can save it.
2. (Either just before or just after the previous dream.) Something with familiar people. Garage sale/Folk Fest combination. There might have been a girl trapped in the ground and/or chained up outside? Darker outside, evening or night.
Forgot to write the next time i woke up
1. Got an email from one of my family members that was barely comprehensible but it was a suicide note. I started crying and raced to his room, expecting to find only his body, but he was alive and had not tried to take his life. His head was shaved and he was acting sort of crazy. Possibly he was still contemplating taking his life or was about to do it.
Again, time unknown
1. I went to get Patches from a house, or just stopped into some house with Patches and was looking up to leave when i or Patches (i didn't put a pronoun in my notes) realized someone was breaking in. Lots of doors, trying to close doors to rooms but they wouldn't seal off the rooms. Two people break in. I have a shovel, but suddenly they live there (when breaking in, they were two men; when they are living there, they are two women). I try to coax the two girls upstairs to leave the house (? maybe to fight or something?) but they are scared because i have the shovel. I put the shovel down.
To bed at 11:53pm
5:23am
1. A "Robin Hood" type movie. After a battle, Sheriff of Nottingham watches Merlin (?) change into a wolf and disappear (maybe it was Robin Hood that changed into a wolf?). Daytime in a snowy field. Sheriff is sporting a smirk on his face. Switch to another scene and i am walking/running by Omand's Creek where there are other runners with dogs. I call for Patches (our family dog who died a few years ago in real life), but she doesn't come. I'm a little worried, but try to stay calm. Coming over the side of a hill/riverbank i see a dog similar but not actually Patches mostly frozen in ice. I get to the dog and there is slight movement in its eyes although it was also run over. I hug it a bit and it just barely moves. I call people over to start helping cut a block of ice around the dog, hoping to slowly melt it and save the dog, but thinking it will die before i can save it.
2. (Either just before or just after the previous dream.) Something with familiar people. Garage sale/Folk Fest combination. There might have been a girl trapped in the ground and/or chained up outside? Darker outside, evening or night.
Forgot to write the next time i woke up
1. Got an email from one of my family members that was barely comprehensible but it was a suicide note. I started crying and raced to his room, expecting to find only his body, but he was alive and had not tried to take his life. His head was shaved and he was acting sort of crazy. Possibly he was still contemplating taking his life or was about to do it.
Again, time unknown
1. I went to get Patches from a house, or just stopped into some house with Patches and was looking up to leave when i or Patches (i didn't put a pronoun in my notes) realized someone was breaking in. Lots of doors, trying to close doors to rooms but they wouldn't seal off the rooms. Two people break in. I have a shovel, but suddenly they live there (when breaking in, they were two men; when they are living there, they are two women). I try to coax the two girls upstairs to leave the house (? maybe to fight or something?) but they are scared because i have the shovel. I put the shovel down.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
During the day: went to work; went to dinner with Book Club; went on Facebook
To bed at 11:17pm
9am
1. At Folk Fest with someone who wove together three sticks (looked kind of like an American Football goal post) and tried to sneak in wearing a volunteer vest.
2. Talking to a cousin about her dad after her dad and mom (my uncle and aunt) and maybe she too had moved into a house nearby mine. I said, "Sometimes i think your dad moves quickly, like he can paint a whole house in a week or two, sometimes it takes a year." Dream takes place in Winnipeg north/west end in mid-evening in summer. There was more of this dream or other dreams in this area of the city.
3. (The following are exactly my notes.) Some "haunted" type dreams. Vampires.
4. Blowing my nose. LOTS of snot pours out in huge, white globs into the sink, then the mucous coming out is very watery, but still lots.
To bed at 11:17pm
9am
1. At Folk Fest with someone who wove together three sticks (looked kind of like an American Football goal post) and tried to sneak in wearing a volunteer vest.
2. Talking to a cousin about her dad after her dad and mom (my uncle and aunt) and maybe she too had moved into a house nearby mine. I said, "Sometimes i think your dad moves quickly, like he can paint a whole house in a week or two, sometimes it takes a year." Dream takes place in Winnipeg north/west end in mid-evening in summer. There was more of this dream or other dreams in this area of the city.
3. (The following are exactly my notes.) Some "haunted" type dreams. Vampires.
4. Blowing my nose. LOTS of snot pours out in huge, white globs into the sink, then the mucous coming out is very watery, but still lots.
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