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Friday, February 24, 2006Last Night's DreamAs with all dreams, the memories of it started to fade the moment I woke up. Even after going through it a few times right after I woke up to help remember it, and more pieces did come back because of that, it's still not whole in my memory. I don't remember how it started. And the beginning it kind of fragmented, I'm no longer sure which order three pieces went in. And now the harder I try to remember, the more my memory of it is littered with memories of what I know to be dreams from other recent nights.One of the earliest three scenes I remember is being outside on what was a college-like campus judging from the building structure, though I think it was actually a pseudo-downtown like shopping area. A tall building across the street. The building next to me had a part of it that was only a second story and people walked under. Anyway, it was snowing. I assume it had just started snowing because there was little to no accumulation on the ground, but was snowing hard. People were rushing to get out, to get into cars and drive, to get home. I walked... Another of the earliest three scenes I had come to the bottom of a really steep hill, and because it was or had been snowing, this hill had a ton of snow on it. People couldn't get up it, we were worried about being stranded because we couldn't go any further and it was snowing. Somehow I managed to scramble up the hill without taking anything with me but one object I can't remember now. I vaguely remember the feeling of being followed, as in not chased so much but in that I needed to keep moving for some reason. When I got to the top, I moved around, and found that behind this very large branch that was lying across most of the "road" at the top of the hill, it was like a downed tree due to it size, but I don't remember being it long enough. Actually I do know I didn't look off to the side to see where it ended, so it may have been a downed tree. Anyway, I found that on the other side of this lying tree there was almost no snow at all! It was much like the shelter a cave would provide, no wind or snow, except it was behind and partially beneath a lying tree. The other earliest scene I remember was in a house/hotel of some sort. Lots of people were there, I almost want to say were taking refuge there but that would only be if these three scenes occurred in the order I have written them. Anyway, I wandered throughout the house looking for an empty room. I don't remember why I was looking for an empty room as I sort of remember that I wasn't planning on staying. It was either than I was looking for a place to change or that I was curious as to what the place looked like and then I noticed that behind every door was someone else or a family or the belongings of a person or of a family either dumped there or partially unpacked that indicated that area had been claimed. I was on the second floor (I feel like I think I was) and finally I came to the last a room/area I was going to check (I kinda think I remember the top of a set of stairs on one side of it?). I looked around and turned around. I guess I then recognized who was there because I started talking to her as if I knew her. I only said a couple sentences I think, one being a comment on the state of things in the house. But I don't remember the exact words. Next scene up was in a school-type situation with other students. Definitely not college, we were younger than high school even I think, though maybe not as the scene involved a lot of that high school-type drama, no it was more like Junior High age and drama. Remember, these aren't individual dreams I had. It was one long dream, each scene transitioning completely and relevantly to the next even though I can't remember most of the transitions now. So anyway, we're in a one room school type deal. The teacher is quite taller than us students, as they always where when kids are in that school age group, even the short teachers. And we had some sort of quiz that day. *insert students' groaning* There was one student in particular who apparently was my rival. She was a little shorter than me, and I think a year younger. But she really had a need to be better than me, and said some really persnickety things to me. (I think this was the person I had talked to in the house scene, morphed into this girl just as I had morphed into a student.) I don't remember what the quiz was on, I do remember we took pens and scribbled to fill in these large boxes that corresponded to which answer we thought was right for each question. Some stuff here I don't remember, but it turned out the quiz was in parts as we went back to it twice I believe, the stuff happening in between I just don't remember. But by the end we were using markers/highlighters (our pens had turned into them), moving them horizontally back and forth to fill in these giant ovals, larger than our hands, filling in only one in the row of ovals for each question (the boxes had turned into them). I barely remember the teacher and what she or he said, but I have a vague memory of the teacher not being one that we liked and acting a tad either mean or angry. It's 9:12, past time to get up and get out for work. I haven't gotten to the parts I remember the most. Hopefully I'll take time at work to write them out today. Here's a reminder list of the rest of the dream for myself: - Clothing & rival - Lace up thingy, and various ways attempted to get it right - Bathroom with concern parent - many walking sticks - circus or carnival - little animal, do you know me, eyes change - Roll to see who wins - Taken over - defeat threat - "fight" to be released - Introduced to parents and siblings, bowing - sorting sticks in holders |
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