Date of dream: Friday, October 31, 2008
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... i am back at the veterinarian's office in Lithonia where i worked for five years. Dr Henry is there; he is only working prn as a locum tenen. Debbie G is there also (even though she quit when he sold the practice and we all left). i feel so joyful to see her! i run up to the counter while her back is turned and when she turns to face me she says "your hair has gotten so long and you have grown into a beautiful lady." this makes me so happy and i really want to hug her, but i can't remember if i got a chance.
there are some kids there working. they have already done the morning walks. i am in the cat exam room with one of the kennel-kids and a black pug-like dog. the dog is upset, growling. the owner is there too and she seems hostile. i go into the "big-dog" exam room. i notice that the isolation entrance now leads directly into this room. i think how that makes sense, even though it pisses me off that the new doctors (who are jerks IRL) changed any little bit of Dr Henry's perfectly designed animal hospital. i feel regretful about the way things turned out; i miss working there, for him. but i abhor change and cannot condone the crappy way the new vets (husband and wife) are running the business and treating the long-time employees of the practice. i head to the back of the hospital to get away from the new vets and be alone with my thoughts. i walk back to the kennel but enter a room that seems to be between the treatment area and where the kennel should be. there is a girl and a guy back there and the lights are kind of off. there are a lot of "toys" around; it kind of reminds me of my kindergarten class, or the children's area of the Janiff Branch library in norfolk. it looks very interesting. then the girl asks my if i want to join in the circus class. it seems that there is some sort of educational program for children being put on or hosted there. i tell them "no, not yet" - i just don't feel comfortable joining right in without any experience. but i stay in the back near some stacks of school chairs and turn of the light switch for the presentation. the guy puts on a mask and funny hat shaped like a very tall cone with different colors in horizontal stripes around it. he is juggling. the girl is pointing glowsticks at some drawings on a chalkboard. they enthusiastically deliver mundane information to a group of children (and a few parents) and then at the end have a little quiz over what was learned. the girls shouts out "HOW MANY CATS!?" ubercheerfully, and the children respond, equally enthusiastically, "SEVENTEEN!" the girl congratulates them on their rightness. then she asks "HOW MANY ANIMALS!?" and the children shout out "SOME!!!" and the girl gleams at them "that's RIGHT! there are SOME animals!!!" now all of this seems a little peculiar to me and this continues as i back out of the room and into the kennels. i am yearning to visit the kennels and see the boarders and all of my favorite pets. but when i enter i notice everything is very strange. there are lots of birds [IRL we maybe had two birds board the entire 5 years i worked there]. there are also lizards [never happened IRL] and aquariums, filled with water, with fish AND amphibians swimming around. and not just one, a bunch of these. i think this doesn't make sense; we NEVER had anything like this when i was here. and the layout is all wrong. it's not the same kennel! i feel angry that they would have the audacity to alter the hospital, designed by the genius Dr H himself! i notice that there is one cage that has two lizards in it. they are practically on top of each other and there are only about three inches between the level of the cage that they are sitting on and the "ceiling" of the cage. on top of them in the same cage but divided by the "ceiling" is a buff-colored DMH cat (like the outside cat Dreamy IRL). he is looking at the lizards with a calculating expression. i worry for a moment that he can just reach in and grab them, but them realize that the ceiling is separating him enough that the lizards are safe. i walk the kennel, looking in all the cages for one of my beloved favorites, one of the old regulars. there are many more cages; the kennels is much larger and lit by windows along the top, therefore much brighter as well. i notice that a couple of the cages are open, the dogs just lying languidly within. they seem depressed, not like when i worked there. no waggy tails, no barkyness. i also notice that almost all of the dog cages have a chew-ring/collar on the outside of the cage. something seems strange. the animals just aren't happy. i feel let down. i decide i am only going to work when Dr Henry is working, because nothing is right without him. i walk out of the kennel, but on my way out i notice that the last cage on the bottom near the door has two strange dogs in it. or i it a two headed dog? i exit the kennel and as i walk back through the "circus" area the "son" of the new vet (dr toler) asks me if i saw his dad "jojo." i think that is weird i thought toler's name was jamal. but i walk back into the kennel and look at the strange dog and realize that the dog has "jojo's" fface - the head of a black man - dr toler.
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this dream took place during my first snooze on the alarm clock - which lasts eight minutes
i don't think i can classify it necessarily as a recurring dream, but i have so many dreams that i am back at deshon animal hospital. those were good times, and Dr Henry was probably the best person i have ever and will ever work for. i admire and respect him. he is a genius.
in retrospect, it strikes me as odd that i did not smell the kennel in my dream; normally i do
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Date of dream: Thursday, October 30, 2008
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Lucid Intent? Yes
Lucid Technique: Other
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Brian and i are looking at a house that is for sale. park outside on the street. i notice that there are four beach chairs in the front yard, the kind you sunbathe in, only they are all lined up in the shade. i think this would be a perfect yard for sunbathing, even though the yard seems to be predominately shady. there is also a little pine-straw garden in the front behind the chairs. there are four crape myrtle trees planted right in a row and there is a fig tree (that is really a vine) interspersed among them. we enter the house only to discover that another couple just snatched it right from us. somehow they already have all of their stuff moved in. the husband is peculiar, but he leaves to go out for a jog. the wife is pregnant. she is slavic and she has a very long intriguing name that i can spell but can't pronounce. she says that most people call her "socksy," even though the abbreviation of her name should be pronounced "shashi." Brian and i talk to her for a while, especially about how the "garden" makes no sense with the trees the way they are, but we feel like she is sneaky and lying to us about something. we are also jealous that she snatched the house.
Andrew and i are discussing war with shashi, but then Mama tells us that we have to leave make it to the "race" on time. Andrew gets in the back of the van; Mom is driving. Linzy (one of my bridesmaids) is there too, only she isn't really Linzy, but i just know that is who she is "supposed to represent" in my dream. she is in a pink strapless dress (ugh) and she needs a better pink bra, because you can totally see her black bra all kinds of sticking out from under the dress and it is not doing a very good job of securing her new big boobs. it is late at night now when we arrive at the hotel. i have taken my shoes off and climb back in the van to retrieve them. as i stand outside the the rear of the van putting my shoes on, i knock Linzy's suitcase openon the ground. i quickly repack it; she has everything rolled. i am wearing a wedding dress (not mine IRL) with jeans on underneath.
it is the next day and we are getting ready for the race. i am going to be roller-skating on ice to retrieve a jar of honey. while i wait for my turn, i stand on the wooden deck (sort of like where you get on the log flume ride at six flags); i even think there was water. there was a wooden beam over to the side. i am waiting for my group's race to begin and lean against the beam when i notice a spiderweb with writing in it (like in charlotte's web). there is a stop sign tacked to the beam above it. the stop sign says ALEXIS and the web hanging from it says "good job". there are two more; the second stop sign says ALEXIS and the web says [i forgot what, but something along the lines of the first] and the third stop sign says ALEXIS and the web says "call a loved one". i realize that if i take the webs o the judge that he will realize that i am supposed to be the one that wins the race. i take the first one over to him, but he tells me to hang on a second, and while i am waiting for his attention, i accidentally tangle up the web into a mess of cob. i ruin the second one as i try to take it down. i walk back over to where i was waiting to begin with, and i hear an announcement over an intercom that the race is over; someone already found the honey. i feel like this is not fair; i didn't even get a chance to race and i was all nervous and excited. i am upset that the judge didn't even get to see the miraculously cool spiderweb signs. the judge says that the gymnastic race event is up next. i feel sad. i decide to call my Daddy. i sneak off around a corner for some privacy. i think that Brooke W is looking for me, but Dana D sees what i am trying to do and distracts Brooke, telling her i went another way. i feel grateful for Dana's helping me hide. as i sit in the corner trying to ring my Daddy, i notice a really awesome Fox racing suit laid out on a bleacher. it is just my size, but it is the prize for whomever wins the gymnastic event. there is nobody around (except a few people training, but they can't see me at all) and i really want it badly and am tempted to steal it, but i decide not to because it would be wrong. i feel stressed out that i can't reach my Daddy at work and i know he isn't at home.
suddenly dr Wiedmer walks out of an exam room. he sees me sitting on the floor with my phone and asks what is wrong. there is a patient behind him at the counter that has an entire case of vials of liquid darvocet. dr W is trying to figure out how he could have gotten it. i look in the guy's chart and see that i had written the prescription and that dr W had just signed it, but the way that i had written it out could have been interpreted two ways, and had obviously been filled not in the way we intended. i feel bad because i feel like it was really my fault instead of the pharmacy's, even though they should have called us before filling it. i am covering for Concetta in clinic; she is working in xray (for me?). i help dr W figure out what is going on, but in the meantime, the patient becomes impatient and walks out of the clinic. i think we can't let him leave with all that darvocet! even though it was filled, it WAS a mistake, and nobody could take that much without dying, so he must be planning to sell it. i run after him to tell him to come back, that i will make sure that dr W is right with him next. i tell him that i will make sure he gets whatever he needs, if only he will come back. i just know that we have to confiscate that darvocet somehow, and i know dr W will know what to do about it. i reach him near the xray slots by the scales. i notice it is much brighter than usual. the man - his name is jeff something - seems to be wobbly. i catch him by the arm. he smells like alcohol, like he has just swallowed gallons of beer and whisky. he reeks of it; i don't know how it went unnoticed before! he passes out in the hall and falls to the floor. i feel like this is an emergent problem, like he is in an alcoholic coma and death is imminent. a male orderly (tall, dark-haired, and thin - Paul V?) helps me get him up and back to and exam room. Archie tries to rouse him and i ask him who his doctor is. he mumbles "dr Wilson." i say "no no not your neurosurgeon, who is your medical doctor?" he says "[somelongfirstname] Davis." i think no wonder he has kidney problems (which makes no sense). i walk out to the counter. Concetta comes out from xray and says "it's weird to be here at work but not be working with dr Wiedmer."
[TRANSITION] *IRL- as i do every day, at 5:00 AM an alarm awakens me to take my temperature for NFP charting. the heat is set to 70F and because of this, my nose is stuffy, (which i find to be one of the more miserable states in life). i get up, pee, turn on the fan, and crawl back in bed, feeling certain that i will be unable return to sleep until i have to rise for work. i decide to put my earbuds in and listen to some mid-theta-wave binaural beats. i have only tried this once before (for about a week) but was unable to find a comfortable way to make it a habit, and due to changing circumstances, never revisited the wonderful (two hour?) looped cd that my brother made me two years ago. at any rate, i am lying in bed, listening to a (not near as good as my bro's) recording of said waves and do not feel drowsy in the slightest. in fact, i start doubting the theory completely, thinking if i am lying here in an alpha-wave state, thinking about all this crap, just listening to some theta waves is not going to change my thinking alpha waves inot theta waves just because i can hear them because my alpha waves are the ones that are hearing the theta waves.*
AND THEN all of a sudden, completely awake, still contemplating the above, i see the butterfly room from the chattanooga aquarium. there is a man sitting at a desk at one side, some bleachers behind him. i hear my voice in the butterfly room say do you think theta waves and binaural beats work? (and i am still awake and i know that i didn't really say anything, but i can HEAR it, not like i thought it) and then dr Payne (who is also in the butterfly room) says "well, you know, some things like that can work; what do you think about it?" (addressing this last bit to the man at the desk). as dr Payne is speaking, he is standing in front of a small square table with a white table cloth and he is stacking plates on it and then folding a flap of cloth over the plates and then more plates and then a flap of cloth up and then more plates. and i think to myself this is really weird because i know i am awake but the vision is so tangible; i FEEL like i am there. i can smell the flowers in the butterfly room and i can sense the gentle breeze of things floating around me. but i feel so heavy, like sludge.
[so i guess it does something] TRANSITION
i am at dinner with my family. someone (a "cousin") is getting married. we go out to dinner to celebrate (at the "Apple Barn"). many congratulatory toasts at dinner. when we are leaving, i notice that my cats are all in the parking lot. i also see Turtle (deceased) there. i want to take her with me, but i know that she is not really alive. Butter and another cat are hanging out around her. i think there are flies flying around her mouth, but i squint and try not to look too hard because i don't want to torture myself. i try to round the cats up, back to the car. i put one of them in the kiddie seat of a shopping cart (either Feral or Skittish) and push him back to the car. now i am at "my" old mellow mushroom, only it is laid out nothing like a restaurant IRL. it has three or four stories. it is very dark. i haven't got an appetite; i'm feeling unwell and have only picked at my pizza. it is time for dessert and i have some banana pudding with mini-pretzels instead of nilla wafers, but before i get to taste it Lindsey J takes it away. the onde blmother of the brother of the person my cousin is marrying is going to make a speech. she is greek. the brother is a chef there and he announces her. he has longish curlyish blackish hair and is slightly goodlooking in a mysterious way. i don't want to listen to her speech and sneak off. everyone goes downstairs to hear her, but i lag behind. i go up to the second level and notice a sign behind a door that says "BEWARE OF HAMSTERS" as a warning not to fear them but to avoid stepping on them. i go upstairs to the top. there are two doors, the one on the left leads to NOWHERE and it is painted. i remember that i helped paint the scene on it. the one on the right leads to bobby b's room. there is a sign next to the door that says "this room is closed." it is a pretty sign that i always had wanted and i take it down and put it in my purse. i know that it indicates that he has given up and left. i enter the room. art everywhere, some of it is mine. i am looking for some shorts to wear. i know i have to wear shorts for the meeting and that he still has some of my clothes. i open a chest of drawers. it is filled with another girl's clothes. i don;t know why, but this really pisses me off. i wonder why he thinks he needs to act so melancholy, when in fact, he's not even there, he has completely moved on. i can't find my shorts, but whoever the girl is has lots of cool socks that i am jealous of. i see some baseball memorabilia and decide i better get back downstairs with everyone else. i go down a few flights of stairs and get to a basemen. i see a hamster run under a step in a hole. Skittish sees it too and starts running really fast in circles over and over like crazy. i notice some hamster poop on the floor by some boards.
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Date of dream: Saturday, September 13, 2008
Level of Lucidity: N/A
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Lucid Intent? No
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... i am in a house with at least ffour ffloors. it is a ffriends' house whom i am visiting. my ffriend has many brothers and sisters - there are at least ffourteen of them. i have to pee. some of the kids are watching a movie downstairs. they are sitting on a brown leather couch. i don't want to use the downstairs bathroom. i go upstairs to the ffourth floor and end up in a very large room like a den where the ffather and one of his ffriends are. also one of the boys is up there. they are on the lefft side of the room watching a game on television - the washington redskins i think. they are laughing and shouting at the tv and generally having a good time. the little boy is imitating their every move. he's only about nine i think, but you can tell he just wants to be one of the adults. i walk in the room and over to the right; there is a walk in closet with a toilet in it. there is also a small safe open on the ffloor. as i am sitting on the pot peeing, the ffather's ffriend walks into the closet. i hold up a big poster or something so that he can't see me and say "i'm in here!" he says "sorry! i didn't realize." i say that it was the cleanest toilet in the house and ffinish peeing. i go back out into the room. the ffamily has a little kitten; i pick him up and start playing with him. he is so cute ...
[transition]
... i am at the gulf with Brian. we go out onto the beach and play in the ocean ffor a little bit. then we are inside again. we want to go back out onto the beach but when we get down there again, we notice something seems wrong. there are large sections of sand taped off so no one can walk through them. we tiptoe between two taped off sections and get down to shore and notice that not many people are even trying to squeeze down between the sections to the beach. there are very ffew people playing in the water. we walk out into the water and realize that the tide has come up really ffar and the water is really deep. i see dolphins playing ffurther out in the ocean. we don't stay in too long; we ffigure out that the beach police are trying to keep people away ffor saffety. there must be a storm coming. the sky looks very dark and ominous. i notice in one of the taped offff sections are some little navy converse lowtop shoes sitting in the sand. i go back up the beach, walking through the grassy dunes.
melanie L says i can borrow her fford explorer. i am a little apprehensive to drive it, since i have never driven an SUV, only compact cars. i drive it to the beach. Brian is there and he backs it up on the sand. then i drive again, i end up in the driveway at 209 west mcGinnis circle in Virginia. melanie L pulls up in a VW bug and pulls it up the liitle hill on the grass in the yard. i can't believe she just drove on my parents lawn! she gets out of the car and looks up at me and says "don't people park on the lawn here?" and i say "no; you are the first person who has ever driven on this lawn." i want her to move the bug ...
i am on the beach again, but it is different now
... we are in antarctica. Brian and i are getting on a ship that is going to be exploring around the antarctic ocean. one of the ship's crew members is being interviewed ffor a national geographic show or something. he's balding and he's not wearing any kind of hat or gloves or anything. just a coat. in ffact, all i am wearing is a pufffy coat and jeans. i have on my doc marten's which are pretty warm, but i want to change into my sperry's in case i get my ffeet wet. i do think it is a little strange that it is SO cold and i manage to stay warm in just a good puffy coat and jeans. i go back inside the ship and take my coat off, because i don't want to adjust to wearing it inside and be cold when i go back out on the deck. there is another girl there. she is making coffee and scrambled eggs or something. Brian asks iff i am about ready to go back outside, because we are going to see some really neat stufff. i tell him i have to pee and i'll be right there. i go into the little bathroom (like on an airplane). the seat looks kind of gross so i line it with toilet paper, but i use a ton. while i'm in there, someone knocks on the door, trying to get in. i say "just a minute." i notice some ffeminine products set out on the counter, and i think that it's weird that they are there; they just seem oddly out of place somehow. i get my coat on and go back out on the deck with Brian. we look out and see a group of seals playing in the ocean. i am sure one of them is a silkie ...
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[there was so much more to all of this, little intricacies that made the dream so interesting and ffeel so tangible. things that are hard to describe with words. but i've been up an hour now, and they are slipping away]
it's intriguing to me how i can wake up in the morning and reflect on my dream and ffind all the things ffrom real liffe the previous day or week that played into my dream.
thursday evening i watched cheaper by the dozen 2 and nanny 911. the first one, course, is about a family of fourteen. and the episode i saw of the latter involved a man who would order his wife around while he watched football, and his obstreperous eldest son who was learning to be just like his dad. (thankfully, this had a happy ending, in true nanny 911 ffashion).
brian and i went to the beach a ffew months ago, and the entire time we were there, the "no swimming" flags fflew. there was a square section of sand taped offf to keep people out, apparently protecting the hidden sea turtle nest there. and of course, we did see a school of dolphins playing in the gulf.
yesterday we met with a wedding photographer. she brought her two children with her, who played on the playground as we talked. the little boy took his shoes offf and left them out on the playground; they were navy converse lowtops. affter the meeting Concetta, Brian and i were driving home and talking about cars. i mentioned that one of our coworkers drives an explorer, which was surprising to us. i said i only like to drive compact cars.
just before i went to sleep, i was thinking about how soon we'll need to turn off the AC and switch to heat.
and then we went exploring in my dream
ha!
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