An Ocean of Dreamery... er, Scenery

I have had two awesome dreams. One last night and the other when I crashed on my couch (I love crashing on my couch). Consistently, I have awesome dreams. They always keep me going, making me wake up happy, even when the days are turning crummy. Lately they have ended in a strange complex puzzle, though the last two were not.

I had some vivid dreams of playing hide and go seek with a whole bunch of people, and my cat was "it". The theme was a lush seasonal-tropical world, with lots of hills and mountains. I remember running and running, though the child's voice that was counting to 20 did not grow distant, like it should, with each step. I ran up some pretty thick jungle, then heard "20!" and kept going. Then, I saw everything from my cat's perspective... only in the 3rd person. My cat charged after my direction with ease, found me, and ran up. I turned around like I was being attacked like a monster, throwing my arm in the way to deflect the blow. My cat didn't claw me, but sort of hugged me (like it does to my leg in real life), though I knew i was caught.

Later, with stunningly colorful scenery (intense!), I drove all over the place looking for a place to live. I quickly went over the deserts of Utah, through Nevada, through the dense industrial area of Los Angeles, up the lush areas to the North, before settling on an apartment by the freeway with a beautiful island off in the distance... had a feeling of Hawaii, but not so packed. My dad met me there, with this huge aparment (more like a house, but it was an apartment) and... I remember the MASSIVE window with a curtain blowing because of wind that I couldn't feel. You could see the dazzling (and still intensely colorful) ocean in the distance, and the Island... but there were few people around, and that highway... -sigh-

I woke up to my dad and sister finally arriving back from Utah. I got ready for work and left. Once there, I began work on drawing hands... It's starting to look pretty good, when I don't rush it. I also did some more studying of japanese. Quite a well spent work day... again!

Once I got off work, I ran over to Nicole's house to give notice that I wasn't off today, but tomorrow! I have big plans on my day off, and that's why I couldn't hang out with her today... until I found out I work today and not tomorrow (good thing I checked the schedule!)! So, I was ready for her barbecue.

Her house has tons of food, which is strange for a house with 4 college girls. I mean, college people should *lack* food, but they have 2 fridges plus food piling out of cabinets all over the place, brimming with food. High on the hog, no doubt!

Anyway, I notified them, but felt very tired. So I crashed on their couch (which was a lot like my Aunt's couch... a nice nostalgic moment there...) for a while, but got up to crash on my couch at home.

I had the second dream there.

Again, the colors were intense and beautiful. I dreamed I was on a plane, bound for a land that I wasn't sure of... until I jumped out of the plane onto Japan (the pilot said this was planned), with my parachute. Once there, I found lots of Japanese people, and rode a bike all over the place... To an old temple that had a few trees around it... though past the few trees there was nothing but field for long distances. The wind was harsh, though I didn't mind. It was beautiful. You could see the dark clouds coming in. I picked up a MASSIVE picture book of Japan (probably 1 meter by .5 meters in length), with each MASSIVE page having a picture of a place, and a MASSIVE kanji on the other MASSIVE page stating the place name... Even pages had 1 Kanji, odd pages had the picture... sometimes a picture would cover 2 pages, though. Anyway, after thumbing through it a bit and posing for Japanese people who were wowed by my existence, the storm was getting intense around the area. The ocean was far off, but in that intense color that pervaded everything, I could see that the water was very choppy, so I ran off to the temple place (it seemed more like a house than a temple). Inside, I turned around to close the massive gate-like door, and saw, in that intense color, what dark cloud low to the ground, so thick you couldn't see through it, with debris flying everywhere in a beautiful torrent. I closed that door (which turned to glass), and watched and felt this thing smack into the building, rocking it like mad before I woke up.

The dreams I have are so great. I hope that, if the linking of minds happens in the future (you never know. The future will definitely be a funky place), I will be able to share it with people. The complexity in these dreams are staggering. My mind generating and taking care of all these little details everywhere... just amazing!

Anyway, I woke up, and there was my brother. I was planning on going to the barbecue that Nicole was having and with Ben being there, I decided to take him. So, off we went to Nicole's house. We discovered a lack of Boca Burgers (ALOBB) and went to the store, came back, and found that we'd have to wait an hour before everyone else got there

So we went to Eric Anapolsky's house.

Once there, we got our LAN party straightened out. What's more, we demo'ed even more games that Eric had on his computer and then decided to take Eric with us when we went back to the barbecue.

Once there, we found that the four girls and Trevor were there. we all played some card games while the food cooked. Then, we ate. About the time that everyone finished their meal, the owner and some other guy (worker?) of GNUGames showed up, and there was a massive discussion. Very intense, very fun. Though, I think Trevor wasn't enjoying himself that much. Mainly because the discussion was fast paced, and it seemed like it wasn't always going in the direction of talk that he would wish for. But, this is all just speculation! Lots of nerdly, not so nerdly, crazy claimed, exciting discussion happened, and I think practically everyone there was at least a little bit more knowledgeable before the party end (I enjoyed talking to the GNUGames people). Then, it was time to shove off.

I took everyone home, and got home with lots of messages, though it was late, I was able to respond to 2 of them (and spent a good 2 hours doing so).

YEAH!

This Dream is Tied to A Horse That Will Never Die
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