Caved In

Last night I dreamed I was at a Divine Comedy show (kind of like SNL for BYU). I somehow got to be part of one of the skits, and so I went down in the basement of the building where the show was to prepare for it. While I was down there, the building caved in, and I was trapped in the basement with a few people. It seemed like there was a way out by climbing up this hill, so they were sending people who were trapped in other parts of the building down to escape that way, but those of us who were already in the basement couldn't escape that way. We did have working cell phones though, I guess we had phones that had two modes of getting service, since a lot of phones normally don't work in the basement.

One guy trapped in the basement with me was super quiet and introverted at first, yet later on in the dream we were flirting. He managed to take and develop a picture of the room as the cave in happened, and captured right there in picture it was caused by an alien coming through the ceiling. Even with the picture no one would believe us and we couldn't prove it.

Spoiled Milk

Last night I had a lot of random little dreams, most of which I don't remember. But I do remember one.

I went grocery shopping, and upon returning to my apartment my friend help me put groceries away. Much later that day, I realized that the milk was put on top of the fridge with the cereal, not inside the fridge to keep it cold. I was furious.

Princess Leia

Last night I was Princess Leia. I didn't look like her, I looked like me, but that's who I was. I was getting on a cruise ship with Han, Luke, Luke's wife Mara, and a couple of my kids, when we realized that the secret service who were supposed to be protecting us were going to try and kidnap us. (That happens a lot in the Star Wars books, just so you know, the attempted (or actual) kidnappings.)

Luke and Han went one way, while the rest of us went another. We went up and down the cruise ship on a couple of levels, and finally I climbed down the outside of the ship and took off running toward a secret service guy who was in a mini van. I guess he didn't recognize me, because he threw me the keys so I could take off driving all over town, leaving my family behind.

When I returned, there had been a hotel built up around the ship in an L shape, which was where we were supposed to live. We (me and my family) walked around it for a while, then I climbed down the back again.

It was weird, that's all I have to say.

Fake Diamonds and Stairs

I dreamed I was going to get engaged, and my boyfriend got me a ring with fake diamonds, and not in the style I like. I was like "what is going on?"

Also, it seemed that I was living in a hotel with everyone else in my ward, and I was going up and down stairs a lot.

Sorry, that's all I remember. But thought it was worth blogging anyways.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

In my dream last night, I was a missionary again. At one point I was with some of my companions from my real mission, and I got a couple of packages from my mom's old college roommates, and at first I thought they were a mistake, like they should have gone to my mom but somehow the names and addresses got mixed up. I later figured they were supposed to come to me. Both packages had a book in them, published by the same publisher. I think one of the books was to prepare someone for marriage, the other I don't remember.

Then I was with a little Asian companion (I don't think it was Sister Jung, my real Korean companion). We were actually at my house back in California, I'm not sure why, and we had a really nice dark wood banister, but it was broken at the top, and I felt so bad about it, like it was somehow my fault, even though I had no idea how it broke. This little Asian sister had seen me hit another sister with a shoe once, so when she was upset with me and we were packing to go somewhere (back to our mission president, perhaps?) she gathered up a lot of shoes and was going to hit me with them. I had to almost wrestle her to get my arms around her and tell her I was sorry that she'd seen me do that to the other missionary but it really isn't appropriate behavior, and that I wouldn't ever do that to her and so she shouldn't do that to me. She gave in, almost crying that she'd never had a tangerine. (Was that why she was mad at me, because she'd never had a tangerine?)

One other note. From my house in California, you could see across a body of water to see Salt Lake City. Like the temple was right on the water, and my house was right on the other side of it. It was beautiful, but doesn't make sense for a lot of reasons.

Vampires

Last night's dream was very vivid and beautiful and eerie at the same time.

I went to see two movies in one day, and they were like the Twilight movies in that there were Vampires, and Edward Cullen was one of them, and the Volturi, but there the similarities ended. (OK, the titles of the movies might have had been similar to the Twilight titles, but I can't remember them exactly.)

Also, I may have been going to see movies, but part of the time, especially in the second one, I was in the movie, part of the action, my life in danger just as much as any of the human characters.

There were several well-known actors in the movies. Orlando Bloom was in the first one, either as the leader of the Vampires or the leader of the militia that fought the vampires, I don't remember exactly. Miley Cyrus was one of the three evil women vampires that hung out around the evil vampire leader in the second one, who looked just like one of the Volturi leaders in the second Twilight movie. Robert Pattinson was Edward Cullen, but he wasn't in the dream all that much.

Ok the plot. The first movie, my sister married Edward Cullen, but we didn't know that he and his family were vampires, though not the evil vampires. There was a big battle between the militia and the evil vampires, who liked to just sweep through the countryside and kill all of the humans who lived in their way. It was set mostly in an older time period, with most of the vampires and militia wearing Revolutionary War era clothes (my sister and Edward did not seem to be in this time period, and wore normal clothes of today). Most of the buildings were rural wooden farm buildings and stuff too. The vampires looked a lot like they do in the Twilight movies, except they didn't get sparkly in the sun, and they were more blue (making them zombie-ish?). Both sides of the conflict, the militia and the vampires, were trying to prevent the common folk from figuring out that the bad guys were vampires, probably to keep us from freaking out. I'm not sure how we escaped in this one, but we did.

The second movie was a lot more intricate and long. At the beginning, we were starting to figure out that my sister's in-laws were not normal humans. The setting for this one was more medieval, with stone cities in some areas (and still rural wooden ones in others). One of the elders from my mission, who just got home and who I have not yet had the chance to talk to, was in this part of the dream. At one point we (we being the group of people I was with the whole time, I'm not sure who they all were) were fleeing from the evil vampires, and somehow one of the streets we were running down was all of a sudden a river, and we had a boat, and this elder turned into a mermaid (ok, a merman) and so he was able to swim and pull the boat faster. Then we found out we had apparently been fleeing the wrong direction, and ended up running into the evil vampires. Once during the movie, Edward was able to step in and say "they are under my protection" and so the evil vampires couldn't get us while he was there. Another time we were in battle in some wooden structure, and this elder was on top of this tower (at tower in a barn like thing? whatever, that's how it was) and managed to fight off the vampires all night, which earned him a lot of respect from the vampires, so they didn't want to kill us right away now, because they were afraid he had some sort of super power. This is the part where I got to walk around and see the inner workings of the evil vampires, like the three evil ladies with the leader. There was also a little girl with them, and I don't remember if she was an evil vampire too or just kept hostage by them to turn into whatever they wanted her to be.

So despite being part of the action, they were still movies, because I remember going home afterward and telling my parents about them.

Death and Dating Hayden

Definitely strange dreams last night. I wasn't sleeping well, which means my dreams were very jumpy and it's hard to tell what order the dreams came in and which were thoughts I had when I was awake.

I had a dream that my brother Joel was dead. It was completely an accident, but it was my fault. Like some sort of strange car accident where he was decapitated, and I had been the driver or something. It could have happened when anyone was driving, but it happened when I was, so of course I was blaming myself, but nobody else really was (which was a good thing). I did go out to a car and for some reason the windows and locks had the same control so I was having a hard time locking the doors and keeping the windows rolled up at the same time. My dad came out to help me and I started crying that I missed Joel.

I then woke up and remembered that he's not dead, just on a mission.

Then I went back into a feverish sleep (I didn't really have a fever, but it was the kind of sleep you have when you have a fever, where you're back and forth between hot and cold the whole time and are generally tossing and turning and frustrated). I dreamed I was dating Hayden Christensen. Sort of. Or he was trying to date me. Or something. I wasn't opposed to dating him, but it seemed like he talked more to everyone else in my family than me, so we never got around to discussing it and I had no idea what was really going on with our relationship. My family would be like "Is Hayden coming over?" and I was like "I guess so, I don't know, haven't you talked to him more than I have?" I did kind of like the part of the dream when someone (maybe my dad) asked him what he's doing (like with his life, school, job, etc.) and Hayden replied "Have you ever seen Star Wars Episode III?" but not in a prideful way, he was really humble the whole dream. I think he was a member of the church, and had tried acting onstage in theaters in several cities and hadn't been too successful with it, and that's how we ended up in the same city. Like I said, he was really nice, I just didn't ever know him that well.

Burn Notice

So I had dream about another one of my favorite TV shows, Burn Notice. It's the show that came to mind when I first heard the song "Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions" because the show has plenty of explosions, and Michael Weston is one cool guy.

Anyways, the dream. I was at some event (like some big outdoor dinner or something) with all the people in the show, and they were doing a job. I think they were trying to do surveillance on someone who would be there, but it ended up that at the event someone blew our cover and we found out that we were under surveillance by some other method. So we had to scatter and meet up later.

I didn't have Michael Weston's real name programed into my phone with his cell number, I think because the first time he met me he was using an alias.

My dream didn't take place just in Miami, like the show, but rather all over the country.

I was then doing a job with them where I was driving a boat, and Fi was in a white bikini.

At the end of my dream, I decided to leave their team, to marry someone else who had been working with them. It might have been Jesse, but it didn't look like the Jesse from the show. There was also an older married couple who had been working with us too, but they were also leaving. We were meeting up at some restaurant that had been instrumental in my last job, and saying goodbye. The restaurant was definitely not in Miami. I remember something about San Diego in my dream, but it looked more like a mountain/woodsy area, so I'm not sure where it was.

All in all a pretty awesome dream.