| Dreams January 2005 |
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"Terrified by Louis and His Neon Poodles" 01/28/05 I was at school trying to find my car in the parking lot. After extensive searching I realized that it must have been towed. I couldn't find any signs posted that said who would tow cars, so I decided to go to one of the offices to find out. My mother was walking to the office with me when I literally ran into Louis. I gasped and secretly wondered if he had something to do with the disappearance of my car. He seemed friendlier than ever, which disturbed me because he and I were not on the best of terms. He focused on talking to my mother, who agreed to follow him to a nearby room. I ran after her, not really wanting her to extend the conversation with him, when he came out of a room with two poodles. Both were formerly white, but one had its fur died neon green and the other was dyed lavender. I commented on this, but Louis corrected me that they weren't dyed, they were bred to be those colors. He also told us that there were pink ones as well. I could already hear my mother asking if she could have one, which made me cringe. "Teaching English in Tokyo" 01/24/05 I got off a plane in Tokyo and went into what looked like a conference room. There was some paperwork for me to fill out, but I noticed that there was another American girl there. I was so relieved that someone else spoke English. I told her that I was in Japan to visit my friend Midori. The girl told me that she was in Japan to teach English, which made me realize that I was going to do that also. We agreed to exchange phone numbers so that we could call each other later in the week. Somehow my car was out on the adjacent street and my cell phone was in the car. I told the girl that I wasn't even sure if my cell phone would work in Japan, and I couldn't remember Midori's phone number, so if my phone didn't work, then we'd just see each other at work. I tried to write down my phone number, but I kept writing down 937-1555. I knew this wasn't actually my phone number, but I was too lazy to walk out to my car to check what my number actually was. It bothered me that I couldn't remember my own phone number. "Arguing About Wine" 01/22/05 Julius and I went to the store to buy wine. I suggested that we buy cabernet because I knew he really likes this type of wine. He said that we were not going to get cabernet because he knew my favorite type of wine is riesling. I said that I didn't mind getting cabernet, but if he wanted to get riesling, then that was ok with me. I begin to pick out a bottle and he argued with me that he didn't want me to accept riesling just because he said so. I got tired of this argument, so I left and went to the mall to shop without him. "Replacement Boys" 01/20/05 Julius was visiting me at my apartment, but he needed to go to down to valet parking to get something from his car. He told me he would be right back and left. I was already in bed, but I wanted to stay awake until he came back. After a long time I feel asleep, but when I woke up I saw that all of the lights were on in the living room. I assumed that Julius must have come back, so I walked out there. Waldo was standing in my living room and I realized as I stood in the doorway of my bedroom that I was completely naked. I was so embarrassed to be naked in front of him and tried to hide myself behind the wall, but I knew that he could see me. "Stalked by Louis" 01/18/05 I was walking along a street when I saw Vivian drive past me in a tiny car with a male passenger. I wondered if it was her boyfriend, but just after they passed me the car exploded in the middle of the street. Amazingly Vivian was able to escape from the car and pull the male passenger to safety, even though the entire car was engulfed by flames. The passenger seemed to be ok, although he was a little bit red. I assumed the redness was from burns, but these burns looked mild for being stuck in a fire-engulfed car. They came over to me and sat on the steps of a nearby apartment building. Both Vivian and the passenger seemed relatively undisturbed by the recent occurrences. I realized that I had to call 911. The operator asked me if I had an emergency, but when I described the situation to her I could tell that she didn't think this really was an emergency. Vivian, her passenger, and I sat there for the longest time, but an ambulance never came. Eventually I called 911 back, but now the operator told me that we had been waiting an hour and no ambulance had come, so no ambulance was going to come, and I should probably just drive anyone to the hospital myself. I relayed this to Vivian, but she said she'd take her passenger to the hospital herself. I asked her how she was going to get there, given that her car had just exploded, but she calmly explained that her car was fine now that the fire was out. I ended up convincing her to get into my car, but then she morphed into Jillian and the male passenger disappeared. Jillian was trying to give me instructions to find her parents' house, but she seemed to be lost. Eventually we found the house, except that it really looked more like a store or office building. There were glass doors and it was attached to the college dorms where Jillian and I lived. I don't know why we had been looking for her parents' house because we did not go inside. Instead we went into the dorms. I walked with her to her room, but just as we passed I looked through the glass doors on the room beside mine and saw that Louis was lying in bed. I gasped and asked Jillian to look and see if it really was Louis, but this was really unnecessary because right as Jillian turned to look, Louis sat up in bed, smiled a maniacal smile and waved to us. I felt absolutely terrified. I quickly walked to Jillian's room and then ran to the elevator. I was afraid that Louis was going to come get me. I went upstairs to my room, which was weird because my room had also been on the lower floor beside Louis'. My roommate was a blonde girl who I had known in college. I wondered why I didn't sign up to have a single room, but I was glad not to be alone at the moment. Eventually I realized that I had to go down to my other room and I thought that Louis probably wouldn't even have the balls to talk to me. When I got to my other room I saw that my roommate was a girl who is one of the biggest overachievers in law school. She and I have always been friendly, but it was disturbing to me that she acted as though we would be instant friends. I realized that tomorrow I needed to apply for a transfer to a single room both to get away from Louis and this roommate. "Talking to J on the Anniversary of Tax Season" 01/16/05 I woke up and realized that it was January 15th, the one year anniversary of the day in real life on which J ended our friendship by telling me that he couldn't ever see me because it was "tax season" and therefore he was apparently permanently busy. I looked to my right and saw a large circular opening in the wall near my bed. I thought that this opening must have been a window, but there was no glass. There was a cable passing through the opening and shortly after I noticed the cable J slid through the opening by hanging from a handle that glided along the wire. I did not want to talk to him and was actually terrified that he knew where I lived and then just barged in. He sat on the floor beside my bed and tried to talk to me as if everything were ok. I just wanted him to go away. No amount of apologizing could ever undo the pain he caused me. I told him this angrily, but he kept trying to talk to me. I rolled over and pulled the covers over my head, trying to ignore him. "Turning off an Alarm" 01/16/05 I was in bed when I realized that there was an alarm going off somewhere in my apartment. I got up and struggled to find it. Eventually I did find it and saw that this alarm was similar to the type of packaging that over the counter pills come in. I turned and saw Julius coming out of my bedroom to help me. Together we pushed four batteries out of the plastic, in the same way you would remove pills. I was so afraid for some reason, but I was glad that Julius was there and that I wasn't struggling with this problem alone. After we removed the batteries the alarm was still going off. I turned and looked at Julius and realized that there must be another alarm somewhere. Then I realized that it was just my alarm clock going off in real life. "Sampling at a Cookie Convention" 01/11/05 I discovered that Julius was writing bad checks. My discovery greatly troubled me because I really liked him, but I realized that I couldn't hang around with someone like that. I realized that I would become corrupted and that I would enable his crime. This is the last thing I needed as I was trying to be admitted to the bar to practice law. I called Jillian and told her that I was really sad, although I didn't disclose the details of Julius' crime. Jillian suggested that I get my mind off of my problems by going with her to a cookie convention. We went, and it was amazing. Everywhere there were stands filled with cute cookies to sample, so we sampled them all. Many of them were giant cookies shaped like friendly characters. I stood by one such cookie when a man who resembled Candelario came by and broke off a small piece of the cookie to try. When he did so I was sprayed with crumbs of what appeared to be Oreos. I frowned and he encouraged me to sample the cookie too. I tried it and discovered that the head of this character was a thick molasses-like chocolate mousse with Oreo-like crumbs on top. The body of this character was made out of large chocolate cookies with white marshmallowy filling in the middle. I called Jillian over and encouraged her to sample the same cookie. Meanwhile a recording played that told us all of the details about the cookie that we could ever want to know. I still felt sad about Julius. I wish that he could have been there with us, but I knew that I would be ok without him. I almost felt happy. "Pregnant Without Insurance" 01/10/05 My abdomen felt extremely swollen/bloated, which caused me to realize I was pregnant. I couldn't remember the factors that had led up to me becoming pregnant, nor could I remember who the father of this child was. I was terrified because after just having graduated from law school I was temporarily without health insurance, and realized I would definitely need insurance during a pregnancy. I thought about getting an abortion because this whole pregnancy seemed like a disaster. In real life I would probably not get an abortion, but in this dream I was seriously considering it. But then I remembered that Jillian had told me that she had an abortion a few years ago, so I decided that I did not want to get an abortion because I would become like her. "J Has Big Ears and Is Too Liberal" 01/06/05 I met up with a new friend for lunch. This guy happens to know J, so when we saw J sitting alone at a cafeteria table, the new friend suggested that we go talk to J. I was reluctant, but I tried. I felt so nervous and was definitely on the verge of tears. Then at some point I was thinking to myself that this friend of mine had been right when he said J had large ears. I was thinking that if J just got a less conservative haircut then his ears would look more normal. And then I realized that there was a sharp contrast between his conservative haircut and his liberal attitude about politics. I decided that although there were numerous reasons why J and I could never again be friends, the main reason was that he was just too liberal politically. I consider myself to be somewhat liberal, but he was practically in love with Al Gore, which turned me off. |
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