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The Night of a Thousand Dreams
(dreams collected from the night of 21 March 2004)




1. Katie Platte
my sister and i were sitting around looking at magazines. the magazines came with lots of free samples. one had all these bras and underwear. the bras were small so i gave them to my sister and the underwear were really funny. one pair were maroon and were designed by rampage for people who wanted to look like they were wearing a thong but didn't really want to have underwear going up their butt. we got other stuff too like nail polish pens. next i was still in this town but in a cafeteria and lots of my friends were there. we were sitting around watching tv and talking in different areas. we were also smoking weed. it was illegal so we were trying to be stealthy but it wasn't working. this one really christian girl in my painting class was smoking crack which annoyed me so i went over to talk to my friend from high school who is an art student at the school of the art institute of chicago. he told me about this show i had to see. 2 women and one man, and a woman and a man who were little 12 inch people decided to make the trip to the show. it was a very confusing drive and i don’t think we ever made it. we were supposed to be heading west from MI but we eventually ended up in cleveland where we decided to stay. i was very happy because cleveland looked like london. there were those houses that were all connected to each other and chimneys and winding roads and statues. it was really hard to get off of the elevated expressway and it took us hours but finally we got a hotel. there was this bar that was actually a TGIfriday's restaurant that was converted into a new orleans jazz club for us. the man who was on the trip (we called him captain, or principal) loved this bar and paid extra for the exclusive club in the basement. we couldn’t find him there when we wanted to leave so we asked the waitress and she pushed a button on the fire place and the fire went up into the chimney and revealed an elevator which went down to the club below. it was nasty and leather with huge drinks that were mostly all rum. we got him and left. there was another young man that we picked up on our trip because he had traded a lightbulb for a car but realized it didn't work well and the papers were wrong and he needed to get somewhere. the very small 12 inch man fell in love with him. this made the 12 inch woman angry. it was very confusing because the two men wanted to make out and stuff but the size difference was frightening. so we finally decided we'd go to the art museum in cleveland. it was exactly like the chicago contemporary art museum. my grandma showed up so we all got in cheaper since we were bringing a senior. the collection was weird. the first story was large islamic ceramics. then you had to take these tiny stairs to see the prints which were all done by high school students and mixed with chinese pottery...we decided to leave cleveland. it took us forever to get onto the elevated highway. i always dream about elevated expressways. and then we drove forever and got really bored and i wasn't alowed to drive and the tiny people couldn't drive the van so the others were getting tired since it was very late.





2. Melissa Selmon
I walked into this huge football stadium and it seemed as though the steps never ended. As I began to walk up the stairs I noticed that it was really windy. It seemed like I was walking forever. I remember as I got to the top of the stadium it was getting harder and harder to walk because of how strong the wind was blowing. I finally saw the top of the stadium and it turned into this huge white house. I suddenly saw my best friend Alicia (from my old neighborhood when I was younger) holding a baby. She was sitting outside of the house in a chair. She smiled at me and all of the sudden the wind stopped and I opened the door to the house. As I entered the house it turned into a neighborhood with these huge hills. These two girls began to follow me and talk to me as if they had known me for a while. We were all talking about how steep the hills were and where I had parked my car. As I was walking I saw houses that I remembered from my old neighborhood as I was growing up.





3. Renee Meyer
I was in a relay race that pitted boys against girls. I had to run the race against a grizzly bear. The bear could communicate with growling and stood on his hind feet. As I was running I turned into a taller person who could run faster.





4. Katie Bajema
I dreamed I was putting pictures up on my bedroom window so that no one could see in. Then I was in my dining room, and my mom was helping me plan my wedding. She wanted it to be a morning wedding so that we could have pancakes at the reception. I, on the other hand, wanted an evening wedding. There were a lot of people in my house, and many of them were in the dining room eating. Someone took the last sweet roll, and I talked him into giving me half of it. Then we were toasting my grandma, and I had to use someone else's wine glass. My dad was off in the corner on the computer playing piano on the computer keyboard. He wanted to show me how to play piano. I told him that I wanted lessons. He said he would show me how he got on the six o'clock news. Then I was in a gym, and there were all these people around me. We were being yelled at and formed into groups. Each of us was given shaving cream, and when someone would get sprayed, they would get upset and find a replacement from the sidelines.





5. William Caldwell
I dreamt that I was playing football here at GVSU and was successful at it. I am on the football team here and usually when I think about something before I go to sleep, I dream about it. That happens a lot with football so I dream about it often.





6. Michael Marsh
I found myself standing on a sidewalk in front of a shopping district, like an outdoor strip mall. the walkways and streets were packed with pedestrians. everyone seemed to be desperate and wanting, like they were waiting for some big event. riding down the street towards me was a man on a motorcycle. he was cutting his way through the crowded streets. he came up near to me and started to do some tricks on his bike. he kept screwing them up. he was going very slow and was bumping into things (like I did when I first started to ride). I remember laughing at him as he did this. he didn't care....next I'm with a group of people, much smaller. the world was changed, it was like a post-apocalyptic type of setting. we are on a mission, I'm their leader. I carry a sword. we were moving from building to building and were trying to sneak into a certain one. once we entered the building we came across a spirit-demon like thing, it was bright green and was like a ball of energy, there was some words spoken and the green thing morphed into a saw blade and spun toward us. I slashed at it with my sword....





7. Paul Wittenbraker
I filled a couple of large glass jars with peanut butter.





8. Brenda Wittenbraker
Paul and I are riding double on a bike (not a tandem). I am in the front and Paul is in the back. We are riding on a sidewalk and there are storefronts to the right. We came to the corner and had to stop for a traffic light. We were negotiating stopping the bike and waiting at the corner to turn left. When the light changed one of us said "let's go". There was a car there waiting to make a right-hand turn - but the driver signaled us to go ahead with a smile and a wave. So together we rode across the crosswalk and as we approached the other sidewalk there were lumpy gray remnants of snow. We negotiated how to ride down the sidewalk on the lumpy gray mass (so not to dump the bike).





9. Brett Colley
I found myself at a conference, where interview tables were lined up. I was walking back and forth among them, almost as if I were on a conveyor belt. No one seemed to be anticipating our appointment - just humoring me. Tables kept sending me to other tables. This is dumb (so obvious). I kept telling these interviewers that, unlike the other applicants, I'd be able to work on very little sleep, were that to prove necessary. And also a major selling point: I don't really get cold (at which point I would awkwardly expose my arm to them, which was quite bluish-purple). I'm certain that there were some more interesting aspects, but I forgot them.





10. Justin Tiemeyer
I was at some sort of amphitheater that somehow existed inside of a video store in a local Cascade strip mall. Basically, my entire high school graduating class was there and I was able to see some old acquaintances of mine. Some of us had gathered outside to see that local officials were coordinating something with some sort of special forces. Something was wrong in our town.

A man with a walkie talkie was speaking with a pilot and there were two airplanes in the sky. Over the top of the grocery store was one doing special moves, something the man with the walkie talkie had asked him to do to specify that he was the plane. The plane flew over us once and dropped some sort of fuming briquette. All of a sudden everyone was instructed to go inside because we were being quarantined or fumigated or something. With some strange burst of courage, I first made sure that everyone else was inside. I encouraged a boy named Tim to go inside and he zoomed inside on the back of a yak. Just outside of the door was my friend Brian Lichterman, who appeared to want to die outside with the fumes. I nearly had to carry him inside. Later, at the assembly he thanked me.

We found that we were all inside of automobiles outside rather than the amphitheater. We were to remain parked, but I didn't like the idea. With the fear of the area law enforcement, I drove our car recklessly to a better spot. I broke through two closely parked cars and pulled up beside a pond. We filed out of the car.

My friends and I went into the pond and somehow we knew that whatever contagion was going on was over now. We drank and bathed in the water. There was an environmentalist with various instruments. I asked if the water was safe, and she said 'it would seem so, but we haven't gotten the test results back yet.' In other words, she wouldn't advise us to be playing around and drinking the water yet, but we ignored that.





11. Nathan Cramer
I had a relatively unpleasant dream about my future sister-in-law. She expected me to clean up her dog's poo and I didn't really want to do it. We got into somewhat of a fight, but then I was awakened by the plumber who had come to fix our leaky toilet. Perhaps there is a link between the two... you decide





12. Bill Hosterman
In my dream I was listening to a reading of poetry by a young man. There was a crowd of people at the poetry reading, and people were talking about the man reading the poetry. Everyone agreed that the young man reading the poetry was a master of nuance because he could take ordinary poetry, and read it in such a way that it implied great emotional content. He would use voice inflections, pauses and stuttering to increase the emotional and psychological content of the poetry. I remeber that by the end of the poetry reading, some members of the audience were awash in emotion.





13. Anne Hale
my dream included talking to steve klamm on a sidewalk in downtown grand rapids about the architecture of the buildings, then it morphed to a parking lot where i was with my friend i work with during the summer, and he was explaining his favorite style of dresses to wear (? haha), and then his mom called us inside the building, and that's all of the specific stories i can remember from last night's episodes.





14. Erica Eash
I was at some gathering with my boyfriend and all of his friends from the graphic design program were there. I ended up sitting by this girl that i strongly dislike from his class, and she tried to embarrass me by spilling milk all over me. The milk, however, was in a squirt bottle and it didn't squirt out when she tried to squirt it on me. So, before she could get it to work, I grabbed my squirt bottle of milk and sprayed it all over her. Now, she is a huge priss, and was flipping out and screaming because her hair and clothes were ruined. She was so mad, that she started chasing me around the house and all of the other designers were on her side, so they were all chasing me too. I made it out to my boyfriends car, while he was fighting them all off so i could get inside the car. I made it in, and eventually he did too, and we drove away before they could get us. That was my dream. Strange i know, but as you can imagine when i woke up i was feeling very happy because I had spilled milk all over the girl i despise. It was rather gratifying.





15. Mark Schierbeek
my dream last night was one of the weirdest dreams i've ever had. i was outside of a restaurant with one of my friends. his face was not recognizable. anyways we sat for a while waiting and he started to attract all of these flies and bugs. they began to swarm around him covering his body. i was so embarrassed because there were two girls watching us. after a while one of the girls came up to us and said, "that's all right. that happens to her all the time, and it was just that time of year." i don't understand it at all but that was my dream.





16. Amy C. Taylor
I had a dream that I sewed my boyfriend a camouflage pillow before he went home for the summer. I drove over to give it to him and it kept getting bigger and bigger while I was driving, and by the time I got to his apartment, it was too big to get out of my car. So, he had to stay here at Grand Valley over the summer instead of going home because I couldn't give him the pillow





17. Jessica Sheren
I had a dream that I was attacked by these animals I was trying to feed.





18. Jacquie Harley
My dream was fairly alarming, as it was more of a nightmare than a dream- certainly not of the "happy" category. I was at my mom's old house- in a slightly not so picturesque part of town- and we were all hiding inside because there was an announcement on the news about a killer being on the run from the local prison. "He" had stabbed a whole slue of people- hence the reason "he" had been in prison in the first place. I had heard something moving around in my backyard, and realizing that our dog was outside I opened the backdoor to let him in. I opened the door and I stooped down to reach for the leash, I happened to glance up and stared in awe. There were Tiki torches burning all over my backyard, I slowly walked out into the yard and looked about me, I noticed something long and wooden being surrounded so I walked closer. It was a horse trough, I walked up to it, and slowly glanced inside, there was dozens of decapitated heads floating in the trough water, I grabbed my dog and ran as fast as I could back into the house. Everyone was gone, I started to walk cautiously through the hallways, not knowing what to expect. I heard a noise and ran from the house. I was apparently running to my dad's old house knowing that the killer was right on my heels. The road seemed to be on a steeper, and steeper incline. I began to claw my way up the hill with my nails. Eventually I made it in the house and locked the door right behind me. I turn to the living room to find my childhood friend lying in a puddle of blood.





19. Kimberly Carter
In my experiences of having dreams, I usually dream about what i think about or dwell on the most during the day or at night before i go to sleep- sometimes i dream about the last thing i think about before i go to bed. But, i had a dream last night about my old house in N.C.-or at least it was the same set-up as my old house-what i mean by that is that i'm not positive that's where i was, but that's how i'm describing it. i sensed my mom wasn't around but she still was a part of our lives somehow. My dad and my sister were sitting on the couch (old couch, ugly browny colors) and the couch was pushed all the way up to the T.V. and they were watching and old black and white something on T.v and i saw my self outside of my body in an empty room behind my sister and dad-looking at myself picking living bouncy balls out of the walls-they had faces and i had a handkerchief on my had as though i was working for my sister and dad cleaning up after them. all the balls were telling me to set them free, so i don't remember putting them in a bucket, but i do remember pouring them out over the railing on the front porch, and they bounced away. That's all i remember, but i think i had a dream about them because i talked to both my sister and my real dad from North Carolina yesterday.





20. Becky Siegwart
I dreamt that i was at Taco Bell in Michigan and the drive through window was really low to the ground, so i crouched down and ordered a vanilla ice cream cone. My friend Zona was standing behind me screaming "All I want is a bean burrito!" but she got an ice cream cone from the lady. Then we went over under some trees and sat on old dirty mattresses that were on the ground and i started saying how i think there's a mistake and that we should still be in Jamaica . Zona replied that no, our time was up in Jamaica and i argued that i didn't even remember taking the flight home, and she continued to argue back, so I stood up and and yelled at her "Hey, I know I'm dreaming and when i wake up I'll still be in Jamaica and that'll prove it!" And then i woke up and i was still in jamaica





21. Jason Edwards
i'm watching a film in my dream, and the film becomes my dream. a young girl is sitting in a spherical glass honeycomb structure with a lighthouse-like apparatus in the middle of it that doesn't seem to be operable. the windows are amber-colored, translucent and thick, so i have no sense of the surrounding scenery. it's night-time. there is another person there, dressed in black. his demeanor is menacing, and he's going to kill the girl, which she is aware of. suddenly, instantly, the sun rises and he's no longer there. she looks up to see that he has wedged himself into part of the ceiling to escape the sunlight. his appearance is different, monstrous. his skin is loose and leathery, his features are bat-like, and he's no longer wearing clothing. she knows that she could open the door of the structure and flood it with sunlight, but she doesn't. they both calmly wait for the sun to set again, without saying anything.





22. Lindsay Porter
So my dream last night started out in a restaurant like Chilis or something and I was eating endless chicken tenders with my mom. I apparently had to get a blood transfusion and I was scared so she started sticking needles into her arms to show me it would be ok and then all of the sudden I had a bunch of needles and tubes in my arms while I was eating and I started crying so she gave me activity books and I started doing connect the dots to pass the time. Then I got up and it turned into a prep school of some sort and I walked into this classroom that was really a football field and there were a bunch of girls I knew running around so I walked off because I couldn't play and I ran into a girl I used to work with who is rather large but in this dream she was like a size 2 and I was so happy for her and couldn't believe how she had changed, then I ran down the stairs and woke up.





23. Michelle Froh
I thought so hard about dreaming last night before I went to sleep that all I dreamt about was the possibility of me having a dream, very lucid. Also I slipped in and out of small dreams always realizing after a short amount of time that I was dreaming and then I would tell the people in my dream that in fact they weren’t real and they would agree and I would wake up and start a new moment of dreaming about dreaming.

side note- I took Valerian root before I went to sleep which is an herb alternative to sleeping pills. It was strange. You know the moment you fall asleep, you never remember the moment your body shuts down...well I was fully aware of my mind and body shutting down and in that state the last mental image I remember seeing was a strange object falling into water and the splash was all water except one glittery drop that flew towards me and that is when I fell asleep.





24. Robyn Kane
I dreamt that my parents were late for my graduation/show. I was to meet them at a restaurant. I was walking back from the bathroom when I saw Michael Jackson sitting at a booth. He said Hi and asked how I was doing. He told me that my parents sent him there as a graduation gift to tell me that my parents were going to send me to get a hair cut and highlights because they felt I was much more self confident when I would get my hair done. I cried because I thought it was so sweet!

I had a dream that I went to Renee's house, only it wasn't Renee's. She had three sets of siamese twins, but they were very strange. One was crawling and coming out from his back was the torso and head of another baby. I was petting them. Tommy wasn't around because he was jealous, because Renee was only fostering the babies so that she could get something.

WEIRD!





25. Ed Wong-Ligda
Dream One,

I'm at some kind of entertainment venue. A female group has just performed. For some reason I wish to know the color of their hair. Then I feel I need to know their ethnic background. No one will tell me anything and I'm thinking, there must be posters of the performers. Why don't they just show me one of those? The people seem to be trying to intimidate me, so I head for the front door. Going out at the same time are two Illustration students from GVSU.

Dream Two,

I'm in an English classroom, but my art class is working on art projects. A teacher from another department walks in and wants to make an announcement about a writing contest. I tell him that this is not an English class and ask him if there is any visual category in the contest. He says that there is. I don't believe him. Then he gives a student $5.00 to buy candy for the class. The student goes out and comes back with five small pieces of chocolate with cherries in the center. I wonder how a whole class is going to share five small pieces of candy. I also resent another teacher coming into my class and winning over the students by bribing them with candy.





26. Grace Dufty
I am in a classroom at my high school. As I work on a paper I glance up at the students working on computers in front of me. I hear the cheerleaders across the hall practicing and then I pay particular attention to the girl two seats away telling me repeatedly that I have to save the seat next to me for "Mike". I tell her okay but she won't leave me alone. My friend Jen from work is sitting to the right of me. She is speaking to a woman at a computer who is with her mother and son. This "Mike" guy finally shows up but I refuse to look at him. The woman gets up suddenly and tells Jen that she has to leave immediately for work and asked her if she could keep an eye on her son and mother. Jen willingly accepts and tells her not to worry but the woman seems desperate and frantic.

I am now in my parent's home and am watching the older woman and her grandson on my back porch. I tell them not to move and that I will be right back. I go to do something inside but when I return a few minutes later, the woman and child are gone. I start to panic thinking that my mother is going to kill me. I run around the house yelling noises because I do not know the names of the two people I was supposed to be watching. I look out the front door and notice that there are random cars driving on our lawn coming from the back yard and leaving out the front yard. There are about three cars and I don't recognize any of them. I go back inside except that instead of the whole first floor being ground level, I am in the basement but the first floor is in it's place. I go to a side room where there is astroturf for the floor and sheer white curtains surrounding me in all of the windows. I see a very old white pick up truck start driving towards me at full speed in the side yard and as it gets closer, I notice that the driver is a man about 40 who is scraggly looking with a dirty beard and white painting clothes. There is a woman in the passenger seat and 3 people in the back. There is also a dog in between the two in the front seat. I am not sure if they see me through the curtains but they stare as if they are looking directly at me. I am scared to death and I don't know why. I lock the door in the side room with the curtains. A door slams and I quietly sneak up the basement stairs and peek around the corner into the kitchen. The man is now inside my house, having entered through the front door and is taking off his jacket and hanging it up on the doorknob to the side porch. He knows I am standing there and he calls out "Girl, come here. I won't hurt you!". I somehow run past him while he is in the kitchen and grabbed the portable phone on my way to the front door. I am very slow at running as if I want to stop and look and talk to the man. I ask him why he is there and what he wants. He tells me that he is going to rape me and then "grab my ass". I ask if he is serious and he keeps repeating the same thing. I yell something and then he tells me he is just kidding but he did want to tell me that he hooked the front door so that I couldn't leave. I charge the door knowing that he doesn't know that this house is so old that there is no way to stop anyone from getting out. I notice that the small hook on the door has just been twisted and I slam my body into the door and the whole thing falls to the ground. The second I get into the yard I turn on the phone and dial 12-1-1. The number 9 has been changed to a 12 and I scream at myself for being such an idiot. The phone is still on and I try to dial 9-1-1 but I can't. I look in the front yard behind me and see that there are three cars parked in front of my house but I don't know whose they are. I debate on whether to run to my car and take a chance in him coming out the side door as I try and unlock and start my car, or if I should just start running down the street towards downtown. I head towards my car slowly and the side door opens...THEN I WAKE UP.





27. Kolee Kellogg
The dream started with me looking at one of those 'fake' newspapers. On the cover was a picture of Jesus with a UFO in the background. I think the headline said something to the affect of "Jesus Abducted!". This sent me into a trance where I was trying to see Jesus but it was snowing so hard that I couldn't see him. All I could see was a glowing light coming from where he was. There was also a great heat coming from the light. Then there were dark streams that led to the light. When I looked down I realized that the rivers were herds of rats. As they began crawling on me I became very frightened and woke from my trance. My roommate was there holding me and telling me that everything was okay. She then began to show me how she had redecorated the kitchen. It was very bright and stylish with a lot of yellow. My boyfriend was setting the table with more yellow plates and large merlot glasses.

I think it was then that I realized my landlord was there and planting columbines. She was planting them in a shape that looked like a three tiered bulls eye. I was really worried that she was planting them too early and that they would freeze, but I decided not to tell her. I am back in the kitchen and talking to my boyfriend about the visions I had been having. He couldn't hear me though because there was loud punk music playing in the back bedroom. I went back to turn it down but in the back corner of the room was a man hiding with his back facing me. I went back and told my boyfriend that he had to come look. He dismissed it as just another vision but followed me anyways.

* I realized I totally had forgot something. Throughout the dream my boyfriend had been leaving to take trips with celebrities for college credit. He had just returned from a camping retreat where he shared a tent with Tommy Lee Jones. I was very jealous that he would not take me along. He said that it actually wasn't very good the last time because there was a crazy guy that was trying to kill him.*

Yea, so, my boyfriend followed me to the back bedroom where the man was. As we entered the room the man turned around and revealed that he was wearing a white phantom of the opera mask and red wig. He had an old fashioned pistol that he pointed at my boyfriend. He told me that this was the man that wanted to kill him and we turned and tried to run away. The man caught up with us on the porch and my boyfriend tried to fight him for the pistol. The man compromised by allowing my boyfriend to take a test that would prove that he was impolite and should be killed. The man then wrapped my boyfriend in toilet paper and held a Zippo lighter. He handed my boyfriend a list of the questions that he would be asked. The man then began to phrase the questions in a conversation where my boyfriend would fill in the answers. He got through the first few questions all right, but could not answer the mans question about the Beach Boys. The man then lit my boyfriend’s feet on fire with the lighter. He was able to struggle free though and I took the lighter. They were still fighting so I held the lighter under the mans nose with the gas going to try to kill him, this of course wasn't working so I tried to light it, but feared setting my boyfriend on fire. My boyfriend then set him free and decided that the man was just crazy and didn't deserve to be killed. I then reminded him of the gun and my boyfriend was able to grab it just in time. He held it to the man’s head and I begged him to shoot because otherwise we would be running from him the rest of our lives. It was then that I woke up.





28. Laura Fuson
Sunday night i dreamt that my parents were really mad at me because i took my dogs up to school with me. My friends were my accomplices and then it jumped into me talking with my roommate at school about our sociology exam.





29. Laura’s friend Nikki
I also asked my friend Nikki what she dreamt about Sunday night and she said that she dreamt that she was on stage for her big recital for dance and she was wearing the wrong outfit and couldn't remember the dance moves.





30. Emily Sharpe
I had a dream last night that my current boyfriend now was an adult film star when he was in high school. I did not know him in high school. Even though I knew he was a virgin till he got to college, he told me it didn't count as sex if he did not "complete the deed". I found out about his crazy antics in high school when I was looking on his computer and found all of the videos saved on it. I woke up after that and this morning I asked him if he had any experience in the adult film industry.





31. Sigrid Danielson
I am walking outside with a familiar, but unidentified, man. My impression is that we are in California. The grass is green, there are palm trees, and chain-link fences enclose backyards shaped like rectangles. As we walk next to one of the fences, a "giraffe" without a neck gallops past us. I announce, "That looks like a giraffe, but it’s not." My companion says, "What is it?" I wake up.





32. Carlos Dominguez
it always starts out with me walking the neighborhood in which i grew up... the houses are just like that of a neighborhood just years from being run down.. but the homes are giant and old... you can feel the history of the people that come from the homes... but as i walk and pass up homes that are familiar to me...i begin to feel a strange and almost frightful perpetrator following me so i begin to run... as i turn the next block corner i run into a home i have never seen and it is a HUGE home.. i run into the home and immediately i am amazed with all the fine detail.. the magical nature of the rooms... and it reminds me something you would find in the castle of Harry Potter... i quickly go from the foyer to the next room... and it feels as if the whole house changes... and as i keep wondering i feel safe from the perpetrator.... but the things i see just amaze me.. i can see platforms... half rooms as if looking into a dollhouse profile... and i even see the three stooges more than once.... i do not really encounter any other people other than the Jeffersons.... and the Stooges..... but as i continue through the home.. it then becomes like my home.... and i see myself sleeping and see that i am moving and running... while laying down.... it is strange to see this..... then the scene rapidly changes.... and i am again being chased.... i am running through desert now.. and a lot of sand... then it is a street... i am then on a bike.. and now back on my feet... finally i have the courage to turn and see what it is that is chasing me and find that it is a lion... i turn.. it roars... i calm... it disappears... and once again i find myself waking thinking i wet my bed....





33. Chris Marsh
I was on holiday with friends from my theater class. Late at night I slipped away from the group and came across a tropical party at an upscale resort. After being accosted by the snooty people at the party, I went to walk on the beach. There I saw an older woman being assaulted by two men in a Volkswagen, so I picked her up and carried her up a staircase to a large wooden deck behind the resort. Then I left her and walked through the resort hotel looking for help. I snuck back out to the party and saw the woman's husband talking about wanting to kill her tonight. Shocked, I ran back to find her, but somehow ended up on the stage of my high school auditorium. I slid in from offstage and startled a group of young actors. I kept asking about the girl, but no one knew who I meant.





34. Emily Vagts
I only remember being in a car with my brother and my dad and we were going somewhere but i was not in a seat it felt like i was somehow hovering in between, at the end of the dream it seemed very important to me that i remembered this and then i woke up...





35. Kirsten Strom
Cedar and I had bought a new house that was decorated throughout with very bright colors. I was showing him the house as if he had never seen it before, but everything seemed new to me too. Later, I was living in a different space with a girl from my high school as my roommate (We weren’t friends in high school, and I can’t remember her name, but I think she might have been in my gym class once). I was sitting at a table working on some kind of project when she came into the room. I started to sing in a really high voice that song from the 70s, “Close to you” (Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?…) because I wanted to annoy her, although I don’t know why.





36. Jenny Pope
I was in a class that was taught by a lady that physically looked like a cross between a teacher I had in grade school and a teacher I had in high school. She was really disorganized (which is a trait of the high school teacher). I did a project for her class that was about new age breast implants and I thought that the only way I would really know how they worked would be to do it myself. So, the implants involved a roll of plastic and a long stick. The procedure goes as follows: Take stick, roll the plastic around it and it melts (it kind of looked like the consistency of hot glass, very fluid). Then put it next to the breasts and make new bigger ones by putting a layer of clear plastic around them. The good thing about these was they were supposed to come off, but the doctors were having problems with them. It was supposed to be sorted out by the time I tried them. I put them on for class, and then I tried to get them off and the doctors didn't know how. To top it all off when I turned in the actual assignment, the teacher who was scattered and disorganized told me that my project was a day late and my marks were going to be lower because of that. So, I had a late project AND big boobs that would not come off.








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