The nightmare before Chrismas

The Dreams:
I went to some kind of concert with some friends, but this part is faded and vague in my memory.
Then we went to the mall. Aaaaaaaaaaah! No that's not the scary part. heh.
We were walking when one of the girls suddenly stopped at a makeup kiosk and started asking me what color lip stick she should get. Apparently she was insane. I told her pink. She asked which pink. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Okay, that's not the scary part either. lol.

Then one friend and I went home.
We were in the garage talking about how I thought some friends were going to try and scare us by pretending there were aliens in the house. It was dark, but the garage light was on. It flickered and then I saw the body of the lipstick girl on the ground and she had peed pants and I was pretty she was pretending to freak us out. Then I saw a guy run past her freaked out and then the head of an alien. I moved towards her for some crazy reason. When I got in the kitchen the alien wasn't there. She was definitely dead.

I woke up.

Dream 2:
I came back to dream one at first. This time I was at the house and was role playing the alien thing with my wife. She was inside I was like a GM watching over her. I asked her where she wanted to go and she said the back yard. Then I asked which way in the yard. One way took her across the windows. I now floated backwards and saw that an alien was in the living room and would see her even if she crawled along the ground if she went one way.

Dream 3: Not sure what triggered the change, probably got woken up by cranky baby just enough to change but not enough to wake up.

I was in the predator ship facing the predator. He was looking at me and I was wondering if we had a truce or not. And was anticipating his buddies showing up any second. Next thing I know I'm surrounded by aliens and the predator is standing there. I look at the predator hoping he'll save me and he's just standing there holding some kind of gun thing. I keep thinking I hope he doesn't shoot them while they are standing next to me because the acid splash would not be nice. The aliens stand still. No idea what happened but next thing I know, they are gone and I'm standing alone in the hall by the trophy wall. I see the alien skull with many other skulls. I go through a small round portal and end up in the cockpit of the ship.

3 of the predators jump through the hole after me and then I woke up again.

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The House the Strange People Built

In my dream a few nights ago, we bought a house from and old family friend: Susan Palm. I think she was selling because she had to move, not really sure. I do recall that she looked like she did about a decade or so ago, but I was more current age.

The house had a living room with a vaulted ceiling and you could see there was a nice loft like area up above where some of the bedrooms were. She let me know that she had rented the top half of the house to someone for another 6 months and as part of the deal I would let them live up there for the rest of the contract.

It was a nice huge house at a good price so I had no problem with that. 6 months of rent would actually help us out. I vaguely recall the final payment amount worked out to about $3000 per month. And the renters were paying $1000 per month.

At this point I vaguely recall running into the renters, but not what was said.

I went around a corner behind the steps and found a toilet sitting next to a storage area under the steps. The rest of the house was a light almost sea spray green, but this area was a much darker blue green favoring the blue. There was a filing cabinet in one corner that was up against some kind of large black box. As I was checking it out a midget came cartwheeling into the area (this was not the renter I'd talked to earlier). When he stopped I noticed that his arms and legs were cut off at about the knees/elbows. He looked at me and said: "Check it out. I bet I can hide between these." and he motioned at the black thing and the filing cabinet which only had a few inches of space between them.

Sure enough, though, he turned his head in and squeezed right into the spot. The black box looked metal but had a bit of flex to it, not much though. Next thing I know he's calling his mom and telling her bet she can't find him. In comes cartwheeling and older lady midget with the same exact legs and arms problem. She couldn't find him until he poked his head out. At this point I noticed there was a dark area behind the filing cabinet so the guy gets out of the way and I move the cabinet and find a little cubby area behind it. Inside are some really, really old magazines and newspapers that I decide must be worth a fortune so I decide to take them to an antique store or maybe antiques road show.

This part of the dream fades away and the next part I remeber, I'm sitting in a room with a ton of relatives including my Grandparents on my Dad's side. Not only is she alive, but she looks like she did in my childhood and is clearly still married to Grandpa, who also looks much younger. My dad and Uncles are there and someone is in a bed, but I can't recall who.

At this point the dream ends.

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The banker and the jeweler

Continuing the school theme again!

I was at a University with Darin, Carlos, Eric and someone else, might have been Adam. We were all going there and it was lunch time so we went to the cafeteria. I recall standing in line and going out to where the tables were. It was a very cool veranda on a dock thing. You had an awesome view of the sea. I remember walking out holding my food tray and then looking at my wallet for some reason.

My wallet had 2 parts held together be velcro. As I pulled it out of my pocket one part fell on the floor and the other part was nowhere to be found. I started to panic and Darin commented that it was a dumb design for a wallet. I agreed and ran back to the other side to look for it. I just couldn't find it. I was missing some money, a couple credit and my ID.

After that I need to hit an ATM for some reason. But I had Kesi, Arriana and N'tan with me now. I went to an ATM in front of a jewelry store. For who knows what reason I let them go into the jewelry store while I used the ATM. The ATM was a small box made of mostly clear plastic with a weird black dial on it. There was voice activation also. It kept asking me inane questions. Like the usual, mother's maiden name, but this is an ATM! I started getting frustrated cause I couldn't get my money! I looked down and realized I wasn't wearing pants, so I put some papers I was holding over the front of my undies. I looked into the jewelry store and realized that the kids were wearing jewelry...

I tried vainly to get my money again, then gave up because now the ATM had a line. I went in the store and the kids were covered in diamonds. Tiaras, necklaces, bracelets, the works. I was bout to get mad when I noticed the old lady sales people were adoring the kids. One looked at me and said it was fine. The manager, however, didn't seem so pleased. He walked up and informed me that I could have it all for only $32,000! "That's only $10,000 per child." I scoffed, but realized he was definitely implying buy or get out. I gathered the children and returned the jewelry.

There was a little more but I don't recall anymore.

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Administrator Carrero

In my dream last night I went to a High school for a job interview to be the Principal, but they kept calling it the Administrator. I walked around the school a little bit first to get a feel of it. For some reason I was wearing a nice shirt and tie and sports jacket with sweat pants.
The students were fairly cordial and I recognized a few. I can't recall now who they were for sure, but I think they were all people I used to know who were 10 years or so younger than me. (A bit old to be in High School now, heh.)
One of the teachers was also someone I knew but I can't recall who now either.
After awhile I started looking for the Principal's office, but I couldn't find it, so I called the guy I had the interview with. He started talking about how they were looking for a Janitor job, too, but the Janitor might be coming back so it could be temporary.
He then started asking me interview type questions. Every now and again I asked him where we should meet, but he'd dodge the question. While I wondered trying to figure it out for myself and answering his questions I ran into my stepdad sitting in a waiting type area outside the offices.
I instantly realized he was waiting to get the Janitor job. I quickly explained to him, while keeping up my phone conversation, that the job might be very temporary. As I did this one of the other guys, who was apparently also waiting for that, left. My step-dad nodded to let me know he got it, but I knew he was pretty desperate for a job. I then headed back through the offices and found an empty one the looked a lot like it should be the Administrator's office but it was really tiny.
I looked to the side of because a lady walked past me. There was a hallway mostly blocked by square lockers stacked up on the floor. There wasn't enough space for me to squeeze through but it looked like this lead to somewhere else. I felt like maybe a teacher's lounge.
I turned to leave and saw my step-dad again. It's a little fuzzy what happened next, but I remember the phone call ended and I finally found the interview guy. It was Richard Dreyfuss. He told me I did very well and passed the test. I was going to get the job. There were some introductions and at some point I woke up.

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Bars and stars

Couple nights ago I had a dream where Melissa and I went to a bar/restaurant place. This was more bar than restaurant though. Lots of people, many wearing leather jackets. It strikes me we were looking for something or someone.
At some point we had to start running from somebody, so we went into a hallway behind the bar that had some small businesses in it. One of the businesses was actually open so we ducked in there.
Turns out it was a small church having a service. We stood there for a few minutes as their service ended with a song. For some reason I talked to the pastor, but in this dream there were no words. It was like we just somehow knew what was needed to be known.
Next thing I know the pastor has donned a red head band and sleeveless brown leather jacket and is sitting on a huge motorcycle. Some kind of Harley but totally modded. The rear tire was huge. I jumped in back and he started to take off. I vaguely remember that someone else was gonna take Melissa and that we were fleeing from some kind of criminal gang, maybe a mob.


Last night I had a dream that the whole family was up in Oregon; I'm guessing Portland area. We were crashing at someone's place. I recall getting up and thinking I had to get to class. I walked outside and my cousin, Tony, was there so we carpooled to the college.
When we got there we realized it was Saturday so there were no classes! Doh. I went to turn around but Tony said he had stuff to do anyway. So I went back without him.

It gets a little jumbled here. Not sure how much is not remembering versus dream weirdity. I recall being at the house (a beat up old victorian) and seeing our baby, Kai. I held him then I saw Melissa. I said something about having stuff to do and then I recall seeing Tony in a truck in the driveway. I gave Melissa the baby and got in my truck (don't have one in real life, both trucks were huge Ford F-350s, older ones). I recall us both going up the street in separate trucks, but for some reason Tony got out of his and into mine and there was something about me taking him back to his and us carpooling to save gas. Why we didn't start that back at the house I don't know.

We headed into town, it strikes me we were going to school again, but this time we decided to cut class because I saw a county fair like thing going on and wanted to see if I could find any old friends of mine. (Almost like Tony and I had time looped back to earlier in the morning).

We went by the festival thing, but for some reason we couldn't stop. I swore I saw an old buddy so I yelled his name out the window: "Dusty". (This is silly because Dusty was an old buddy from Santa Cruz, CA not Oregon!)
I was able to stop in an old abandoned parking lot a little ways away. Soon Dusty caught up with us and I was stoked at seeing an old buddy. We talked a little when a buddy of his came up and Dusty asked if I remembered him. I looked. It struck me that I should but I just couldn't place him. He then walked right up to me and flipped up his sunglasses. It was weird because they weren't the kind that could flip up, so he was still wearing shaded lens, but somehow they had changed a little so I could see his eyes, which were an eerie shade of blue. The almost looked like they were swirling, but I still didn't recognize him. At this point I'm not sure what we said, but something to the affect of catching them again later, but having to go since it was getting dark.

Tony and I jumped back in the truck and started driving. It got dark, really dark and the windshield of the truck fell off. I had to grab it real quick. It was like it had turned into one of those glass windows in the back of a camper shell that flips up. The top was only held on by 5 flimsy plastic clasps. I was desperately trying to get them to rehook, while Tony took over driving and pulled us to the side of the road.

Once pulled over, I got out and started fiddling with the clasps but 3 of them seemed to be broken and the glass refused to stay attached with only the other 2 holding. As I was doing this, I felt something brush my leg. I turned and saw wolves walking back and forth on the side of the road. I told Tony to turn the headlights on but now I realized the whole front end of the truck was missing. It was as if a giant sword had cut of the engine compartment and dashboard. I wasn't too worried, but I knew we needed to get out of there.

Here it gets weirder. The wolves started gathering around us, so we started moving with me holding the windshield in place, but we couldn't move very fast. (And, yes, the front end was still missing so I don't know how we moved at all!) The wolves circled the truck and then all of a sudden it was morning and they scattered. We were relieved, but then it flashed to night again and the wolves' eyes glowed in the headlights. We stopped and a car went buy us. The headlight glow disappeared and it was pitch black for a second. Then it was morning again and Tony and I just drove away.

Fairly sure I woke up at this point.

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Spy and chase

There was a beginning part to this dream, but its near gone. I vaguely recall infiltrating some terrorist organization with some buddies.

The first part that is coming back to me was a group of us going to this very nice old house where there was a meeting going on for this group. The house had a mini theater that even had tiered seating. A ton of people were there listening to a guy speak from a podium. I wasn't paying any attention to what he was saying, I was looking for our contact. Someone else was taking care of noting what the guy said.

I got up and changed seats when I noticed Sayid from Lost walking down the aisle. I quickly ducked into a seat next to one of our guys. I warned him to keep his face covered because Sayid was coming. After Sayid sat down a few rows down, we looked up and around again. I told the other person I didn't know why Sayid was here and that I was going to find our contact.

As I was leaving the theater I found her. The contact was a 12 year old little girl. She held my hand and gave me a tour of the place under the guise of me taking her to the restroom.

She pointed out where the back rooms and the big stuff was going down. I went towards the doors, but she told me she wasn't allowed back there it could blow our cover. So I told her to wait in the hall and I approached alone. One of the doors was partially open, so I creept up to it and listened. I could see part way into the room and there was a single guy standing over a folding table looking at some papers. I think one of them was a map. I was trying to get a better look when the door swung open. I ducked around a corner and ended up in the kitchen with several people just looking at me. I waved and kept walking through.

It's a little fuzzy but I met up with the girl and several other people in my group in the foyer. They were leaving and noted that the "talk" was over and somehow they may have been noticed. We hurried out of the house. As soon as I got out the door, I grabbed the girl's hand and started running. I looked back and noticed we had been spotted by a guard, but one of our guys took him out.

I jumped into a white suv that looked a bit like the old style hummers. It had 4 tubes on the top and one tube on each side. As it turns out these were rocket launchers, because I immediately stuffed a rocket into the driver side one and blasted it into one of the vans the bad guys were getting into.

The chase scene is really fuzzy. I recall a train and a crash and losing the hummer truck thing and then trying to hide and get away. Somehow me and the girl ended up riding with a British bobby in one of those tiny bobby cop cars they have a British TV that are comically tiny. He was speeding through the streets helping us get away because he believed us and knew that there was corruption at the station so we needed to get to someone higher up.

I vaguely remember being on a semi rural road by train tracks when we pulled over at a junk yard and he went in leaving us in the car. I recall seeing one of the bad guys up the road a bit cross the railroad tracks, but the rest is gone.

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Hardcore snow

In my dream last night, I was practicing baseball with some friends at a park with a baseball diamond. It was my turn up at bat but when I got to the box, I realized I forgot to bring a bat so I turned away to grab one but the pitcher threw the ball anyway. I turned and snagged it with my empty right hand right before it would have hit my leg.

I was about to chuck it back to her when the sky grew dark. I looked up and saw clouds rolling in. I turned to the catcher and told her: "We can still play for a little while, but that it's going to rain. Trust me, I know rain. I can smell it coming. We have maybe ten minutes."

I then looked up again and saw really neat cloud formations in the distance over the hills. The clouds looked like they were streaking downwards. Similar to real life except much more dramatic, it almost looked like mini-funnels flowing to the ground.

Then it started to mildy hail, which put everyone into a panic and they started running for their cars. I walked. As I walked I watched as a huge blanket of snow just dropped and completely covered the snack shack in one shot. This startled me. I looked up and watched as, in the distance, whole clouds seemed to be falling to the ground.

Not far to my left a "cloud" of snow fell onto the baseball field. I started moving faster to my car. I was almost to it when a huge blanket of snow fell on it and the car in front of it, completely covering both. I was just standing there pondering it when I woke up.


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