Batman Suit

So, when I was a freshman in college, I had a friend with a Batman suit. He wore it to football games and snowball fights and stuff. Pretty fun.

In my dream, I was with my husband in some high-rise apartment where we apparently lived. And the mail-man actually came all the way up to deliver our mail right to us. One day he showed up to deliver mail wearing a Batman suit. So cool, especially since my husband LOVES Batman. I told my husband about my friend from freshman year who had one. The mail-man overheard me, and came in and took off the mask, and guess what? He was my friend from freshman year. We hugged, I said "didn't your wife just have a baby?" (thanks to a little Facebook stalking) and he asked about me getting married this year. After that it was super awkward.

Missing Coat, Intruder, and Assembly

So many dreams last night. Let's see if I can remember half of them.

In one dream, I was in a big school that had two gymnasiums. (Gymnasii?) They were huge. You could remove the wood panel floor, and underneath there was a foam pit. I think I was supposed to be cleaning the gym. But I was also coming up with interpretive dances. It was really cold outside, so I had wore two coats. When it came time to leave, I could only find one of the coats. My parents and my little brother appeared, and my mom and brother were wearing coats that looked exactly like the one I couldn't find. My mom was going to give me hers, and I got really upset, because I didn't want her to be cold for my sake. Really upset. Like I was still mad when I woke up.

I also had a dream that our neighbor got into our apartment in the early morning to use our shower, because hers wasn't working. Awkward. Because there we are in bed, and somehow she manages to get through the locked and chained door into our bedroom to get to our bathroom. Hasn't she ever heard of knocking? (I'm sure she would in real life, but this was weird.)

I had a dream that there was a big law school assembly. All of the clubs and organizations got to perform skits or songs representative of the kind of things they did. We were also going to announce the new board members for the next year for each club. In one club, we decided to do away with externships in our club. (Not that externships have ever had anything to do with clubs, but it was a big deal in the dream.) We figured it would allow us to concentrate our efforts elsewhere, and people could still get externship credit through other school programs.

Realistic: Watching Football

I had a dream that my husband and I were at my parent's house, watching football. Not too exciting, especially compared to the past few dreams, and it probably accurately depicts what will be happening when we head home for Christmas for a few weeks. I then woke up and went back to sleep and dreamed some incoherent stuff.

Variations on an Apartment (aka Dreams of a Frenzied Mind)

Studying does strange things to my dreams. Maybe because I'm trying to process so much in so little time.

Anyways, one dream, I was cleaning my apartment with my little brothers. There was this giant rat/mouse/rodent (almost a ROUS) that somehow kept getting in and living above one of the windows. Joel took it outside twice, and the third time I chased it out with a broom. I think it kept sneaking back in when I'd go outside to check the fuse box. (The fuse box really did have to be checked several times last night, prompting that part of the dream.) I swear I woke up to something furry going across my face.

In another dream, the apartment had the same layout but was expanded to be bigger and had an upstairs bedroom loft, so my whole family could move in.

In yet another dream, a house had a similar layout, only now I wasn't part of my family. I wasn't me, I was someone else, a rebellious daughter whose parents had separated. I lived with my dad and siblings (not real ones, dream ones), and kept sneaking out with this car to drive across these fields to where my dream mom lived. I wanted to get my parents back together. There was this roller coaster track that kept close around the house that I couldn't seem to cross. Then one of my dream older siblings (b/c I don't have real older siblings) brought home this guy who was perfect for me. (And he's nothing like my husband in real life, who really is perfect for me.)

I also may have had a dream (or it may have been part of one of the above dreams) about trusts... Stupid studying taking over my dreams.

So there you have it, lots of dreams in the space of not much time.

NCIS (Ok, Mostly Abby and McGee)

My dream last night was definitely NCIS - at least Abby and McGee. They were working together and were attracted to each other (as usual - in the show they often get jealous when the other one has the possibility of dating someone else). McGee was trying to woo Abby again (after not really trying for several seasons) and finally just asked her what he could do. She responded that he should stop trying so hard.

Anyways, the case they were working on had this family with two little girls. I don't know why Abby was there investigating, because she almost never shows up at crime scenes. And I don't really remember any of the rest of the NCIS team there. But whatever. I'm not sure what they were originally investigating. One of the little girls may have claimed to be haunted by a ghost or something. Not sure why that would warrant an NCIS investigation. And I don't know what the Navy connection was. Anyway, they started investigating this family somehow, and then they realized that the mom was on welfare because she said the dad died in a fire, but in reality he was a pilot and still lived with the family. Welfare fraud! Why is this on my mind? I turned that paper in 10 days ago!

Ok, there actually is an NCIS episode where everyone thinks the dad died in a fire and so the mom collects VA benefits from his death, but in that episode no one knew he was still alive.

Smart Phone and Funeral

Yesterday I saw my friend's new smart phone and asked her how she liked it. Apparently it prompted my dream. (I don't have a smart phone.)

In my dream, I had a smart phone. I don't remember what it was being used for, but it was there, and it was good and fun and exciting and whatever smart phones are supposed to be.

It was also my uncle's funeral in my dream. And of course in the dream it was nothing like it was in real life. In the dream it was in a two story chapel. And before it a bunch of my cousins and I were meeting up at the temple.

Not a bad dream, just unexpected. (But are any dreams really expected? Besides the ones I have all the time? (like Burn Notice, Disneyland, etc.))

Power Rangers

I haven't watched Power Rangers in years. Yet I have some vague memories of what it was like. Each Power Ranger had a different color, no one knew their identities, they fought with martial arts, and they had a secret base where they could take off their helmets but not the rest of their uniforms.

In my dream, their secret base was at a house or hotel that was at the top of a hill. It had an outside pool, and no fence. How could this be their base? Anyone could walk up the hill to the pool and find them. Inside, there was a big dinning room table, and one of the Rangers had written a bunch of notes on sticky notes and stuck them all under the table.

In my dream the Power Rangers also had crystals that gave them their powers. (This may or may not have been part of the show, I don't remember.) They could wear their crystals when they weren't in their suits and still have their powers. And they could teleport. (Also may or may not have been part of the show.) The Pink Ranger's parents were going to vacation in Hawaii, so all of the Power Rangers were going to go too. They were just going to teleport over. The Pink Ranger crafted her crystal into a belly button jewel so it could be seen when she was on the beach wearing a bikini. 

First Amendment Superpowers

I had a dream where the First Amendment gave people superpowers. Not that they were able to think and speak freely and clearly and be understood. Superpowers like telekinesis, flying, and changing the molecular structure of things. And someone was going to use these powers for evil. Several of my law professors who could use these powers were gathering together to see if good could overcome evil.

And it may have been at an amusement park. (Haven't had one of those dreams in a while, they used to happen all the time.)

Trial Competition Preparedness

This week I have a trial competition at law school. Last night Nick was helping me work on my opening statement and one of my witness direct examinations. So then I dreamed that Nick is my partner in the competition, and I panicked because we haven't worked on his closing statement yet. Grateful to wake up and realize my real partner is more prepared than my dream.

Multiple Burn Notice Dreams

I've had a few Burn Notice dreams this past week. (What else?)

In one dream, Michael Westen had his arm around me, and kissed me on the forehead. Yet it didn't feel like he was cheating on Fi or I was cheating on Nick, it was more of a brother-sister relationship. Michael and Fi were hiding from whoever was chasing them. They were in a thrift store getting clothes to disguise themselves. The chasers showed up, so Mike and Fi sneaked out the back door and drove away with both seats reclined so no one could see who was driving. Then they were in an abandoned house, and there were two Michaels. He was being tortured, but I'm not sure why or by who.

In another dream, Fi was being blackmailed (hm, sounds familiar, like the current season or something) by a gang that worked out of a funeral home (not familiar). My youngest brother was also in the dream. Besides that I don't remember too many details.

Non-narrative Dreams

I'm not going to try and tell a story about the dreams I've had the past few nights. They wouldn't make any sense. And they'd probably be disturbing. I'm just going to list elements that were in them. That alone will probably be disturbing enough.

• I was engaged, and a friend was going to drive me and my fiance to the airport to go get married. I hadn't packed anything.
• My family was helping build a temple. The outer walls of the temple were glass windows, and the outer rooms had lots of comfortable couches in them. The inner rooms were the ordinance rooms.
• My youngest brother was still a baby.
• I didn't have my shoes with me when I was leaving the temple, so I couldn't leave, because my feet would get dirty and I wouldn't be able to come back in.
• I was about to get married, and kept going back and forth from the dressing room to the chapel where everyone was waiting. No husband ever in sight.
• There were ghosts everywhere. And not just regular ghosts. Ghosts that had been axe murderers. Still carrying the axes. No one was too horrified.
• My youngest brother was now a toddler, and he died. I don't know how, but he was glowing which meant he was a spirit now. And so I had him fly up so he would be in heaven. No one really mourned his death.
• My mother and another woman had several miscarriages in the winter because it was too cold and their bodies couldn't keep the baby inside. No blood and mess though, just a cracked chicken egg that would fall out of them. My mom didn't mourn this either.

So much of this list disturbs me. Like why did no one care about the axe murdering ghosts? And why was no one, especially my mom, sad about the death of my brother or the miscarriages? And why did the miscarriages look like chicken eggs? And why was I dreaming about any of this in the first place?

Married Couple Roommates

The house I currently live in is split up into several different apartments.We have a nice big kitchen, and a great room that is divided into our living room and bedroom. This was the setting of my dream:

I came home to find another newlywed couple moving into my apartment. We were going to share it. All of my living room furniture was moved so they could set up their bed. It now looked like a hotel room. I was so mad. There are several other apartments in the house they could have moved into! (Not really, the house is full.) If we were going to share an apartment, couldn't we at least get one with two bedrooms? Yeah it would be more money but if we're splitting the cost with another couple it would still be cheaper than what we are paying now. Still a pretty terrible idea though.

Burn Notice Black Holes

I had another Burn Notice dream last night.

Michael and Fi got engaged. Michael was living in a house, not his loft, and the roof got blown off and/or burned up. After this destruction, everyone (Mike, Fi, Sam, and maybe even Jesse) went back to the loft. Whoever was trying to get Michael came in. Then these black holes appeared, one sucked up the bad guys, one sucked up Mike and Fi. They might have been more like worm holes, because everyone had just been teleported to different locations.

I woke up and told my husband this dream, and he just said "don't get sucked up by a black hole."

Research and Bus Schedule

This week is my fall break. I should be enjoying the week with no classes, right?

Last night I had a dream that I was researching for my substantial writing paper that I'm doing this semester. I woke up so stressed out about it, and didn't sleep well the rest of the night.

I also had a dream that I was at BYU waiting for a bus to take me to the airport to fly home for Thanksgiving. I wanted to stop at a store or something on the way to the airport. I kept trying to look the bus schedule up online to see if I would make my flight on time. The airport seemed to be in the next town over instead of an hour away.

Late Night Confusion

Last night I dreamed I was at a law school review until one in the morning. For some reason I was studying in a bed, and a married guy wanted to sit there too, so I kept moving further away from him so as to not give off any impressions of anything. All while sitting through a review session. Then I went home to a house that was a cross between the house we lived in during elementary school and the house we lived in during junior high and high school. The hallway with the bedrooms was L shaped, but my parent's bedroom was on the end right before you go downstairs.

When I got home, I was on the phone with my mom, telling her about it, and told her that I'd come in her room to talk more. I was trying to be quiet, even though the people in the other bedrooms were having a loud conversation. These people were other people I've met during law school. I was probably going to have to share a room with one of them and sleep in the day bed that night.

When I woke up from this dream, I had no idea where I was. The room was so dark. I could see the window, and it was on the same wall as the window in my elementary school bedroom, but the bed was facing a different direction. Then I heard someone move, and I wondered who I was sharing a room with. It took me a minute to remember I was married and this was Nick sharing a bed.

I knew I'd have to blog this experience, and so the dreams the rest of the night had me trying to write this down, in one dream on the kindle. One dream I was lost in Europe and was going to have to swim through a river to get to the airport to get home, so I had to find a way to waterproof all the electronics in my backpack.

Funeral/Piano Recital

I was at my cousins' house for a funeral and piano recital. Why they were having both in the same day I'm just not sure. Between the funeral and the piano recital they served pizza and breadsticks. Why that instead of regular funeral food I'm also not sure. Anyways, I ate the last of the breadsticks, after I thought I had checked to make sure that everyone who'd wanted to eat them had the chance to. Apparently I either missed some people or misunderstood, because I got in trouble for eating the last breadsticks.

Mission Conference

My mission didn't do any mission-wide conferences when I was there. The best we got were a few joint zone conferences. Nevertheless, in my dream last night, I was on my mission, at a mission conference. I don't remember who my companion was at the time. And I didn't recognize the apartment. But I must have been being transferred, because I was packing up and saying goodbye. Not only was it a mission conference, but a mission activity. And what else were we doing besides playing flag football, my favorite of all p-day activities? It even started to snow, but that never slows me down. I didn't recognize all of the elders playing football, only a few of them. Nevertheless it made me miss my mission, and all of the wonderful missionaries who were such a strength and support to me through my hardest times. I woke up really loving them and really missing them all.

Ferris Bueller

I had a dream I was watching "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Only it was much more like "The Wonder Years." Apparently I think Fred Savage and Matthew Broderick look alike or something. I then thought I had been watching it on a Clearplay or something, and that all of the parts with the older sister waiting at the police station had been edited out, because I hadn't seen them, and thought those were the best parts.

Stalker

I had a dream that this mentally handicapped person was stalking a young girl, and it was really scary. I was part of the team that was investigating and trying to catch him so we could keep the girl safe and put him in an institution of some sort. There was a definite pattern to the incidents so we didn't think it would be very long before he was caught. But then he planted the evidence we were suspecting to find, and went and did something else. So this type of thing is cool when it's on a tv show like NCIS, but not so much when you're the one trying to figure it out. The Stalker eventually shot himself in the head, which ended our problem of trying to catch him, but unfortunately he was the son of a couple that I know, and so they were grieving. They went to the cemetery to communicate with another dead relative who would appear from time to time. This time they were going to receive comfort concerning their dead son.

Pooh Sticks

Do you remember the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and the game Pooh Sticks? They'd stand on one side of the bridge, through sticks in the river, and then go to the other side of the river to see which stick made it under the bridge the fastest. For some reason the game we played in my dream a few nights ago reminded me of this, though it's not that similar, as you'll see.

I was at some sort of black light restaurant/club/resort/lounge/facility where there were little tables scattered around a big room, with a large fountain/reflecting pool in the center. Oh, and there was a second story that was open to the main floor. I, with several of my friends from high school, were playing this game where you would throw things from the second story into the reflecting pool, and then throw something else and try to hit the first thing you threw. There was some sort of point system by how far it went and if you could hit something that was already down there.

One of my friends threw something so far that it either splashed all of the tables around the pool or it didn't land in the pool, or maybe both. So he got in trouble. And of course he didn't think it was fair that we could play without getting in trouble but he couldn't. I remember trying to explain to him that the game was for reasonable people, and he had never been reasonable. While thinking of the word reasonable, the definition of reasonable in torts flashed through my mind.

My husband was there, mingled in with my high school friends, but I didn't seem to know him very well, and I remember thinking "I could marry this guy," and then was like "wait, I already did."

Engaged With No Groom

I've had several strange dreams this past week that I haven't blogged. A couple of them have been quite violent. One dream I was kissing Nick in Chicago, and I missed them both.

Last night's dream, I was less than 2 weeks away from my wedding, with invitations out and everything planned, kind of like real life, except I didn't know who the groom was going to be. I wanted to be engaged to this one guy, and although it seems that we had been close, we hadn't talked in a while and he didn't love me near as much as I loved him. Then there was an old boyfriend who I kept running into at Disneyland, and he was more than willing to marry me, but I just didn't feel right about marrying him until after we'd kissed for a while, and every day I went through the same thing (not feeling good about it until after kissing for a while). I didn't know why I had planned a wedding when I didn't definitely have a groom. I didn't know who I was going to marry, because the person I wanted to marry didn't really want to marry me and I didn't particularly want to marry the person who wanted to marry me. When I woke up it took me a minute to figure out the dream wasn't real, and I was so grateful to be engaged to someone who loves me as much as I love him.

Narnia and Pirates

No my dream didn't have Pirates in Narnia, but rather one dream about Narnia, and one dream about Pirates.

In my Narnia dream, I was Susan, and there was another family of brothers and sisters who were going to be rulers in Narnia, except that the end of the world was coming, and in my dream the end of the world was this huge flooding river. The oldest boy got swept away in it, and so I jumped in to save him. We got out of the river, and instead of the lion Aslan, everyone worshiped this big panda. I was shocked to see so much had been saved/preserved/rebuilt of this panda shrine. While we were there and I was in awe of everything panda that was there, the boy started hitting on me, trying to put his arm around me and stuff.

In the Pirates dream, Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swan were both after something, a passport maybe, that couldn't get wet. They kept stealing it from each other, spraying each other with water, and of course when one of them had it stolen, then they'd act like that was what they wanted, even as they tried to get it back.

Baby, Kidnapped

This dream is actually from several nights ago, I just haven't gotten around to blogging about it, and the fact that I remember the dream several days later must be significant right?

I dreamed that I saw a baby get kidnapped by a man. A round middle aged man with glasses and a combover. Awesome, right? I remembered the license plate number of the car he drove away in (and it was an unusually long license plate number) and followed him. Because I followed him I was able to inform the police and they were able to get the baby back.

I couldn't sleep after this dream.

Weird Responses to a Medical Condition, FHE, and Musicals

Last night I dreamt I, along with my siblings and grandparents, were at the house of some people who were apparently my mom's old friend from high school. She has diabetes, and my siblings and I were all sensitive enough that we tingled when we touched her because of the diabetes. Weird.

I think my sister was trying to present a Family Home Evening lesson to them about the importance of connecting with our ancestors, but it wasn't going so well.

All over their house they had books and records and everything from Broadway Musicals. Which meant I was loving life. I was reading the music and playing it on the piano and singing along to the records (yes records). The songs were beautiful, and I wanted to use one of them for my wedding song. Too bad I don't remember any of them to write them down and earn money on what will become hit songs.

Burn Notice (my most common dream subject in the past year)

Another Burn Notice dream. My subconscious can't wait for Season 5 either, apparently. I was with Mike and Fi, and Mike had been invited to some house for something or other, and we didn't know if it was a trap or not. Mike of course wanted to go inside anyways. When we went in, there was a man with his two adult children. We were left alone with the adult children, and the son started talking and, without realizing it, gave us some information that we needed to know. So Fi and I wrestled them to the ground while Mike went and found the book in their house with more info.

Burn Notice Season 5

Burn Notice Season 5 premires in 8 days. But in my dreams it premired last night. How did I know it was Season 5? Michael was actually trying to have a good relationship with Fi, yet because he wasn't there all the time she was still having problems with it. From what I know of what Season 5 is going to be like, Michael starts out back in the CIA, so Sam and Fi have to hold down Miami without him. Yet Michael and Fi are living together... Yeah it was a pretty awesome dream. Michael's mom was in it, I spent some time with her in the dream. Don't remember what we talked about.

Sleeping on the Couch

Last night I slept on the couch. Sometimes it's too hard to actually make it to my bed. Don't judge me.

Anyways, I woke up around 5:30 and noted it was starting to get light, and that I probably wouldn't be able to go back to sleep if it was light out. I was wrong, and the following dreams ensued.

At first I wasn't aware I was asleep, because I was dreaming that I had slept on the couch, woken up and saw that it was getting light outside. Only the front door had been open all night, so I could see through the screen that there was this massive rainstorm, and the wind was blowing, and so the sunrise was a beautiful pink and purple poking out between the dark grey clouds. I crawled off the couch to close the door, thinking that I might have a better chance of sleeping if I couldn't hear the wind and rain, and would have slightly less light. The door wouldn't close all the way. I kept trying to push it closed, and it kept not closing all the way. I think it was the wind, and maybe a welcome mat that got wedged under the door, that kept it from closing. Finally I was able to close the door, and as I did a grey cat rubbed up against me. Great, I thought, now my roommates have a cat.

Then I dreamed that my roommates and friends that they frequently had over came into the living room where I was sleeping on the couch and set up a barbecue, and started cooking a delicious balanced breakfast of steak and gourmet pancakes. (What, you don't have that for breakfast all the time?) Both the steaks and the pancakes looked amazing, with the steaks being cooked with some herb that was making it delicious, and the pancakes having fruit and cinnamon with them. They were nice and offered me some. I don't think I ever ate any of it though.

I also had a dream that I was on Tower of Terror (debate-ably one of the best rides at Disneyland/Disney California Adventure). At one point, a rope was shot into the passenger car and I caught it, and it started out as a new part of the ride, where then we are pulled into a new hallway in the Twilight Zone. Somehow, it changed, and I was pulled onto a mountain, with creepy shadow dust ghosts that I had to eliminate.

These dreams all happened in an hour and a half.

Law School Storyboard Assignment

Last night I dreamed I was in a class at law school. Our assignment was to write a storyboard for a mock trial, and we had to convince one of the witnesses to testify a certain way to affect the outcome of the trial. We had to do it for homework, and then I realized when I was sitting in class that everyone was doing it again. I got up and explained to the professor that I did it for homework, so I shouldn't have to do it again in class. Weird.

Movie Dilemma and the Obnoxious Cat

Last night in my dream I was going to see a movie with my little brother Mark. We were standing in a really long line waiting for tickets. They were making new versions of Star Wars, kind of like they are making new Batman movies. I realized that both the new Empire Strikes Back and the new Batman movie were coming out on the same day, June 25, and how were Nick and I ever going to decide which movie to go see at midnight, since I love Star Wars so much and he loves Batman so much? Then I realized that June 25 was right in the middle of our honeymoon (it's not in real life, but in the dream) and then I wondered how we were going to go to either movie.

I woke up and then kind of dozed off again. I was living with my family in a huge house with a spiral staircase that went through all three floors. My room was in the basement. For some reason we had a Christmas tree set up downstairs, even though it wasn't the Christmas season. I wanted to lay down on the floor and read. We had a kitten, and of course she wanted to sit right on top of what I was going to read. She also wanted to destroy the Christmas ornaments that were within her reach.

Sent Home and Ignored

Last night I fell asleep without getting ready for bed (unwashed face, unbrushed teeth, light on, etc.). I woke up at four in the morning, turned the lights off, and then had a hard time getting back to sleep. I finally did go back to sleep, which I know because I had this dream.

I was somewhere with my family, and my brother who is currently on a mission was there with us. At first I thought he was just on a vacation from his mission, and I thought how nice that would have been if I could have had a break from my mission and then gone back to the rest of it. Then I found out that he had been sent home for dancing shirtless for 20 hours straight. I was devastated. I cried, and wanted to know if there were any way he could go back out and finish his mission. Yeah it was a stupid thing to do as a missionary, but it didn't really break any commandments, so he should still be temple worthy, right?

Also for part of my dream a family that is close to my family was there. In real life the wife of this family is giving me my bridal shower, but in my dream I was so confused because she didn't even want to see my engagement ring, she seemed to ignore me.

Harry Potter Adventures and a Body Piercing Husband

Last night in my dream was kind of like watching Harry Potter. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were there, with Hermione being really anxious about whatever quest they were on. In some ways it was like a video game, because if they didn't accomplish their goal they went back to the beginning and started again.

Then it seemed like I was going to be going on an adventure with them. I was married to some guy who had decided to get 4 piercings. I walked in as he was about to get one in his shoulder, and he already got two in his lip and one in his eyebrow. I kind of flipped out, really not happy with the lip or shoulder piercings, but didn't have a problem with eyebrow or ear piercings. So I went off to change clothes to get ready for my adventure with the Harry Potter crew, and ignored all of the instant messages my husband was sending me.

Graduates

Not many details of a dream today, just general musings. I finished my second year of law school a week ago, and since then I've had several dreams about the people a year ahead of me who are graduating, about them graduating. Last night they were giving gifts to each other. I think a few nights ago they were taking their last final. In all of the dreams, it rarely looks like the law building, usually some other strange place. I have no idea what it means.

Mountain Lion Attacks

Last night I was going to get eaten by a mountain lion. I was in this huge building with stone rooms, and just outside were these animal cages. I don't remember what all the animals were, but one of them was a mountain lion, and it escaped and was in with some of the other animals (maybe a crocodile, but I wasn't worried about the other animal eating me). I was trying to calm it down by putting something over its eyes, but that only sort of worked. It still wanted to eat me, and may have had hold of my arm.

Season 3 of Burn Notice

More Burn Notice dreams. It was like watching season 3. You don't need more details than that, you can watch it yourself.

Creeps in the Woods and NCIS-ish

Stress must definitely induce weird dreams. I have a paper due today, and what was one of my dreams about? Yeah, that class, and all the people in it, and turning it in.

In my dream (and in real life), several of the people in the class stayed up all night working on their papers. One person in the class who has several kids realized after pulling an all nighter that her home wasn't in nearly as safe as a neighborhood as she thought. It seemed so nice and secluded in the woods by day. But by night? All sorts of creeps surrounded it and looked in on her children. One of them actually came inside in the morning and got one of her children to run off. It was really scary. Most of our class gathered at her house for support (and to turn in our papers) and several of us were making huge batches of cookie dough (I have no idea why). I called my parents to tell them there'd been an incident but I was safe, and they didn't hardly ask me any questions about it, even though they'd heard a news story about police in the woods going after a prostitute who preyed upon children.

My next dream still took place in a cabin in the woods, and my professor from the class the paper is due in was there, but those are the only similarities to the previous dream. It was an NCIS dream, where Abby installed a scale in the elevator so that anyone who got in could see how much they weighed, and she decided she was getting fat, so she was going to go on a church retreat to lose weight. Tony and McGee went to see her off, where Tony convinced McGee to ask Abby out, which turned out to be really awkward but she went for it anyway. Then we were up in the cabin (we being McGee and Abby, me, my professor, and my professor's mom, and maybe my dad). My professor's mom was doing a presentation, or recapping a speaker she'd recently heard, and mentioned that she knew me or had met me or was related to me somehow (or all of the above). I didn't remember this until she said it, and then I had vague memories of driving someplace with her.

And with all that, I woke up with a pounding headache (probably from the stress and not enough sleep).

Burn Notice at the Lake

I had another Burn Notice dream last night. (And I haven't even watched an episode since Thursday! Withdrawals?) During the dream, I was either helping Michael and Fiona help someone, or being helped by them.

One person lived in this house on a lake, and were being unfairly persecuted and prosecuted for something little like dog poop being where it shouldn't, when they just hadn't had the chance to clean it up yet. So he was trapped inside this house with a bunch of kids. I think we were trying to get them out by taking a raft over the lake, because I remember laying on the raft with a kid, trying to get to the other side.

Ghosts

I don't remember all the details of last night's dream. It seemed that there were these ghosts, and they were only visible to those people who had known them before they died, or something, or I was just special to be able to see them all, thought they were see-through. I was sorting them somehow, getting some of them to leave this room of this big cabin. One of the ghosts fell in love with a girl who was still alive. We figured out how to make them all come back alive, but some of the ghosts were really hostile to this couple that was in love. They might have interfered so that they all came back to life except this one ghost, and then we had to decide if we wanted to do it all again, or just have the girl die so they could be together.

The Most Beautiful Room

Last night in my dream I was visiting Nick at his work. The facilities were really nice. There was a woman there who thought she could get me a job there. After trying me out on a few things, she took me into this beautiful room that looked like it had crystal windows everywhere showing the most beautiful scene and sunset and you could see the temple, and there were pews everywhere, kind of like it was a little chapel the employees could meditate in whenever they want. There she whispered to me that the only job she could offer me was to clean the paintings/artwork in the building, but for $50 an hour. I told her at that pay rate I would only have to work 1 day a week, which was great because I already have 2 jobs lined up. She said it probably wouldn't take more than that anyway. Later I learned that the beautiful room wasn't really full of crystal windows, but rather crystal panels that could show any scene. I was a little bit disappointed with this. In the building, I also found a lounge that was set up as a poker lounge, with decks of cards and gambling chips and statues that I needed to clean.

I don't understand it at all, I'm still just struck with the beauty of that one room.

Studying Induced Dreams

Last night I stayed up late studying for a final, and then woke up early to continue studying for it. Too early, perhaps, as I took ten minute naps ever twenty minutes while studying. But these brief naps led to strange dreams, mixing the truth of what I was doing with the dream world of other people and places.

In one of these mini-dreams, I was surrounded by my former roommates, talking about something I don't remember anymore. In another one, I was back home in California, dreaming of doing what I was really doing (namely, waking up early to study for a test, interrupted by many a cat nap) when I realized my youngest brother had literally stayed up all night playing computer games or something. What was more, he somehow managed to persuade my gramma to stay up all night with him, and I couldn't believe it.

Burn Notice Around Worktables

Would you believe that I had another dream starring Mike and Fiona from Burn Notice? Awesome. No explosions though.

Mike and Fiona were in some sort of class, it might have been a strange music class where everyone sat around worktables. This class was on the first floor of a building. Mike was always late, it seemed there was someone on the top floor of the building who wanted to coerce him into doing something. and he was always trying to run up and down stairs between the two rooms.

Jeans and Gang Kids in Detention

Nick and I were going to church at the stake center in Valencia. For some reason, we had decided it was fine to go dressed in jeans and sweats. About half way there, i got a really bad feeling, like if I were going to wear pants to church, I should at least wear nice ones. I got Nick to turn around so we could go home and change, and maybe make it on time.

Then I was at some sort of youth detention center, though it might have been at the stake center and mixed with mutual. But there was a detention center part of it. There was this gang kid, and he thought one of his friends was dead but he wasn't. All the kids had books with drawings of their tattoos, and we were trying to find this kid's book to see if he really was in the gang or if he was the innocent twin.

In both dreams, it might have been a holiday, like Thanksgiving or Christmas or something.

Yet More Burn Notice Dreams

More Burn Notice dreams last night (and I haven't even watched an episode in over a week!).

A lot of it was Mike and Fiona playing their games with each other, wanting the other one, flirting with someone else to make the other one jealous, doing something to please the other one to have it backfire, the likes.

That's not to say that they weren't ever on any jobs. They were. At one point they were somewhere up really high, throwing what looked like arrows off down to buildings or a museum complex or something. At one point they were also rescuing a large group of people from something, and may have been in caverns.

All Over the Map, and Trying On a Wedding Dress

Two dreams last night. The first one, I was moving somewhere for the Summer. I think I was going to Canada, to stay in my great-grandparents' house. I was afraid I wouldn't remember how to find it, because it had been so long since I'd been there, but the dirt road wound around and basically ended in front of it. It was a huge house, lots of windows in the front, lots of bedrooms, lots of pictures on the walls. (That was how I ultimately knew it was the right house, I could find pictures of us on the wall.) Then a bunch of guys I knew from college showed up, they didn't know I was going to be there. It ended up being ok. Then I ended up going to Texas for the summer, and it was on the beach, and Nick came to see me.

There was also a part where I was discussing with Nick a girl I know who is on a mission, and in my dream she was serving in Australia, yet somehow the mission borders had changed and she was in the mission that combined my and Nick's missions. Because Chicago and Arizona are right next to each other, and Australia is in the United States. Weird, I know, but that's the dream.

My next dream I was going to try on my wedding dress, and some guys that I was apparently close to were waiting for me. One guy was with me in the dressing room, and his or somebody's dad walked in while I was in the middle of undressing completely and started talking to us and I was finally like "Why don't you two finish this conversation somewhere else so I'm not standing here naked." They did leave, but I never got my dress completely on. Then the dress shop was in the same place where a gym was, and so there I was, half dressed in the under-slip or something, and everyone had to go sit on the side of the room by the wall. There were a lot of guys there, and I was annoyed with how they were just watching all of these girls change, and there was this girl I was specifically annoyed with because even though she was fully covered, some of her clothing was flesh colored so she still looked half nude. The trainer of the gym called something, and so everybody ran over to the opposite wall to get some sort of weights and run outside, and while everyone was outside, that was when I was going to finally get my dress on to get it fitted. But then we couldn't find the dress and slip anymore, someone had put them away, and then we forgot my shoes. So I don't think I ever got measured.

There was also a moment in one of the dreams where Nick and I were already married, it was nice.

Kidnapped Baby and the NCAA Bracket

In my dream last night, a couple who have just had a baby had their baby kidnapped. They way to get the baby back? Correctly predict the right NCAA basketball bracket and solve other clues pertaining to the bracket to figure out where the baby was. It was weird. It seemed like we predicted one of the games wrong, yet still figured out that the clue to where the baby was being kept was in another game and were able to follow that clue. I don't know if we ever got to exactly where the baby was, but there was a lot of running up and down stairs and climbing rocks to try and get there in time.

NCIS

I had an NCIS dream last night. Half the time I was myself, and half the time I was McGee. It was awesome. There was an emergency training drill, and only Gibbs and I knew it was a training drill. Everyone else thought it was real. I had to climb up into the ceiling tiles of the room I was in, so that it looked like I disappeared, making everyone think I was kidnapped. After I was with the rest of the team again, Ziva came up to me (I was McGee at the moment) and looked me in the eyes and told me that while I was missing, she received a revelation from God about me, and that she could marry me. Then Tony walked in, making that really awkward, because he was apparently now attracted to her. When I was myself, Tony was with Ziva and McGee was with Abby, yet I was flirting with Tony and McGee at the same time.

Weird, but so awesome.

The Russian Prince and the Sound of Music

Last night I dreamed I was somewhere in Eastern Europe. I know this because I fell in love with some sort of Russian prince. I don't remember why I was there, but one of my mediation advisers was there, so maybe there was some sort of conflict that was being resolved, and afterward the prince and I realized we loved each other. There was a baby there that I think was ours, though I don't think we were married. However, after realizing we loved each other, we didn't spend much time together.

It then morphed into some sort of Sound of Music scene, where we lived in a big mansion that was kind of like a stake center, and there were a bunch of kids running around. One of the girls ran outside to get something, and her sister was really afraid she had gone outside in pants instead of dressed up like the princess that she is, and was only slightly less ashamed to see that she had gone out in a "fashion dress" (that's what she said in my dream) rather than her formal dress. We were all supposed to go somewhere, but somehow some people got locked inside the cultural center part of the stake center mansion. I was trying to pry open the double doors, only to realize that each of the double doors was actually a double door itself, if that makes any sense, and so I had to pry open the middle of each door, and that worked to get everyone out.

Engagements

Yesterday I found out that a friend got engaged. So naturally, last night I dreamed about going to her wedding. We (and I'm not sure who I mean by we, a bunch of friends, I guess) decided to surprise our friend at her wedding by packing as many people into the sealing room as a show of how much we love her and support her and are excited for her. We were even trying to sneak people who don't have temple recommends in to let them in on the fun. (I would never do such a thing in real life.) Some of those friends we were trying to sneak in don't even know the friend who just got engaged, we just wanted lots of people there.

During or after the wedding, I realized that I was engaged, but not to Nick, to a guy from my past whom I haven't spoken with since last November. In my dream I realized that even though we were engaged, we hadn't spoken in like a month. I called him to ask him if he still loved me and if he still thought getting married was a good idea, given our current lack of communication. I don't know if he had a response.

I woke up, and for a moment was a little confused. I had forgotten that I am engaged, or thought I was engaged to this person I haven't talked to in so long. Upon realizing it was all just a dream, I was very grateful to be engaged to someone who loves being with me and talking to me every day.

The Theater (sort of)

A guy in my law school class was in a play, and in the dream he was somehow the father of four children from a family from my mission. (Now, that family only has three children, and only two of them were born when I was there, but whatever.) I don't remember if he was just playing their father in the play or if he really was their father. It might have been some sort of festival where there were many plays in a row.

There was another part of the dream that escapes me right now.

Time Traveling in Star Wars, and a Dance Show

I think my dream last night was Star Wars time traveling. (No, I haven't read the book where that actually happens. Yes, a book like that exists.) Padme somehow went back in time from Episode 2 to Episode 1 to have Anakin save something differently, but didn't tell him until after, and then in Episode 3 he wanted her to have him do the same thing for Episode 2. I wish I remembered more details there.

I was also attending a dance performance of some kind, where a company did lots of little skits. Corbin Bleu was one of the dancers, and last minute he was put into a skit where he hadn't normally been, so he didn't do as well. Then between skits they projected a music video from "That Thing You Do," but instead of being that song, it was a song like LFO's Summer Girls or something ridiculous like that.

Wedding, Housing, and Burn Notice

It's been almost 5 hours since I woke up, so let's see how much I can remember of my crazy dream last night. It seems to have something to do with my wedding and Burn Notice (does anyone else see these as common themes?).

I seemed to be getting married soon on June 12, because then we would have a palindromic wedding date, 2-12-12. (Yes, I know June is supposed to be the month 6, and I know that this year is 2011, and that I'm actually getting married July 30, but dreams just make sense like that. Don't worry about it.)

A couple I know who is getting married in June moved into a house south of Provo in Price Canyon that had something in the water that made them extremely ill. And I don't mean like they were throwing up ill, but more like it changed their personalities and made them go crazy, and they barely got saved in time to regain their sanity. So when Nick and I were looking for a place to live, we wanted to avoid a similar situation. But my aunt owned said house in Price Canyon, and was offering the place to us for way cheap, and we were trying to explain why we would rather live in Provo or Orem because we would save on gas getting to school and work everyday.

I don't remember how Burn Notice fit into everything. But I know Michael Westen was there. I want to say he was chasing a bus that had a bomb on it, perhaps solving the poison water problem. I wish I remembered more of that part.

An Article About Interpreting Dreams

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41158549/ns/health-behavior/

So this isn't a dream that I had, but an interesting article about how we really can find meaning in our dreams about things that are going on in our lives now. I need to be better at going back to the dreams I've blogged and trying to figure them out. It is really fun and informative when I get the chance to do that.

Chicago, BYU Basketball, and the Mall

Let's see if I can straiten out any of the jumbled thoughts of dreams that I have.

I had a dream I was in Chicago again. Of course, it looked very little like what Chicago looks like. It does look like what Chicago has looked like in other dreams I've had though. It seems there were 2 families from my mission, from separate areas, that I kept getting confused because both of the mothers in the family had the same color of hair and the same number of kids. I don't remember much else.

Then I was back at BYU. It looked nothing like BYU, but it had to be BYU, because we were at a basketball game where we had beaten the other team so badly the coach didn't know what to say to the team in the locker room. We of course rushed the court, and members of my ward were there. It seems like Jimmer was too, but I don't think he personally had much to do with the dream. There were some weird guys there to sabotage something, and one guy had a chain around his neck that he took off to go to the court, and it got wrapped around the coach's ankle, and he was mad. Then this one girl and I were trying to sneak around to do something, and ended up being kidnapped by her used to be boyfriend (though in the dream they were still dating) and for some reason he thought we were the same person even though we look nothing alike. I had to sneak around so he wouldn't figure it out.

Then it was like I was living in a shopping mall or something, or had an apartment on one level of the mall. I was still sneaking around from the earlier part of the dream. I was going to go see "The Little Mermaid" at the theater on the bottom floor of the mall with people in my ward, yet I didn't have my wallet with me, so I had to go up to the top floor where my apartment/room was. Instead of finding an elevator, I ran up the down escalators (no wonder I was still so tired when I woke up!). In my room, my bishop's wife and someone who seemed like a senior missionary were talking about my brother and whether he would ever marry a girl that they know.

A Vampire at My Wedding

This vampire was not a Twilight vampire, but a Dracula vampire. Meaning if she touched you, you would be contaminated til she died. She was about to get my mom, so we cut her head off, but that wasn't enough, we had to drive the wooden dagger through her heart. This all happened at my wedding reception.

Then we were outside, looking for another place to have the reception, and we came across a place that looked like a duplex, like there were two front and back doors right next to each other on the same building. But when I walked to the side, I could see straight into the window and through the whole building to another window leading to the outside again. I was confused.

Burn Notice Again!

Last night I had another Burn Notice dream. It was awesome. It had the feel of the end of the last season, with Michael and his team up against everyone. His team still had Sam and Fiona, but no Jesse, me instead. Part of the dream took place right in front of my house back home. We were standing in front of it, and the other guys were inside, and somehow sent us a text message or something that fried all of our phones at once. At one point, we had one guy tied up in a room, with some sort of ultimatum that if he died then we would die. Sam was the one who was getting messages between us.

Could-have-been Real Conversation.

Have you ever had a conversation in a dream that could have been real? Last night I did. I learned some details about something that is happening in someone's life yesterday, and in my dream I was discussing what I had known before with the person who revealed the information. Not in a gossipy way, but definitely in a "I want you to know that this is safe with me and I don't think anything less of you" way. The part of the dream that wasn't real was that I might have been back on my mission, even though I didn't have a companion.

Ice Cold and Held Hostage

So many dreams last night!

One dream, I was on some sort of camping trip, where I went swimming in ice cold water. Not just ice cold water, but water that was literally freezing into big blocks of ice while I was in it. However, I wasn't cold while I was in the water, only when I got out of it. I put all my clothes and everything up on the rocks, got in the water, and then the tide went out so when I got out of the water I had to climb up a ways to get my stuff.

The next dream, I was working with the Timpanogos Legal Center board (that in real life I am on), which offers pro bono legal work to low income people. One of the professors from the law school was in a classroom with us, and someone came in wanting us to help find is son or brother. Apparently we weren't helping fast enough, because he attacked. First he just tried to punch the professor, but then he brought out a exact-o knife box cutter. The professor was able to fight him off, but then he came after me. At first he was coming after me the same way, but then he got it under my neck and scratched me enough to draw blood. I heard the professor say to call the cops because there's blood, and then I woke up rather than see if I was going to get killed or not.

Ok, I know I had at least two other dreams that I swore I wasn't going to forget, and of course now I can't remember them.

Shot!

I had a dream that my brother Joel was shot. It didn't hit any major organs, but either messed up a lot of muscles or partially paralyzed him because he was really weak and had a hard time walking without crutches/canes. He was really slow getting from one place to another because of this, and really sad that he couldn't go to a football game with us or play football with us (us being our family) because he couldn't walk fast enough by himself. There was some banquet thing that he was going to that required him to walk on some sort of carpet or runner that went up and down this grassy hill. My parents went with him, and there they met up with a girl who my brother wanted to date and her parents. My parents were hesitant about her at first, but later decided they liked her.

Elders in Law School

Where do I even begin with last night's dreams?

Ok, there were a bunch of guys from my mission who were first year law students, and I was (am) a second year. I was surprised that so many of them were in law school without me knowing it this late in the year. One of the elders with whom I am very good friends was suddenly married, and then asking me about Nick, yet transformed to look like Nick (yet he was not Nick, as is evidenced by our conversation). He was saying very reassuring things about our relationship, and then tried to kiss me on the forehead and the cheek, the way Nick sometimes does, and I was a little weirded out, like "you are not Nick, you are married, what are you doing" even though it felt really good.

Ok, I don't remember the other dreams, but they were just as weird.

Too Busy

I can remember two dreams, though I think there were more. And I don't remember the order that these dreams occurred in.

In one dream, I had gotten married, but we had not yet had sex, for two or three days after the wedding. I guess we were just too busy doing other things, and I didn't want the experience to be rushed, I wanted to wait until I had time to fully enjoy it instead of feeling like we were squeezing it into a small time frame that we had available to us.

In another dream, I was really concerned with telling Nick's roommate that God had a hand in me talking to him and giving him hope with regards to a situation that he is now in, only in the dream he told me that things weren't going as well as they are in real life.

There was something else about a video game that I don't remember.

Harry Potter, Burn Notice, and A Large House

Three weird dreams last night, can only remember two of them, and figure I should blog now before I forget even more details.

The first dream I was Harry Potter, filming the last movie. Of course, my dream was nothing like the plot of Harry Potter. A dog was central to the story, and I had to protect the dog because someone was trying to steal it or injure it or something. So at night, between filming on the set, I would take the dog back to an apartment with me. I don't really remember much more than that.

The second dream had to do with Burn Notice, and had the same feel as the Harry Potter one, except I don't remember anything that happened in it.

The third dream happened after I woke up and went back to sleep. I was with my family and another family in my ward back home. We were staying in some sort of house that was several stories tall, with a winding staircase that went around the whole house to get you from level to level. The house was also near a body of water, maybe the ocean, and there was a lot of rain, so it was under threat of flooding (though I don't think it actually did). There was a new washing machine and dryer, really nice, but for some reason we couldn't leave the dryer on when we weren't home or were asleep. My grandparents were there, and we were trying to get my Grampa to read the Book of Mormon. He seemed to say that he would, but then tried to change his commitment to another book.

Desert Wedding

I had two dreams last night, and from what I can remember, both have to do with weddings and deserts.

In the first one, I think I was going to get married, and there were a ton of people out in the desert, and to get where I was going to get married we had to trek up some cool rock formations that look like something out in Moab. Only I wasn't walking. I was being pulled in a rolling suitcase. Like I climbed inside and was zipped up. Five people were, actually. Most of the suitcases were pale pink, but one was hot pink. I don't know if we made it up there or not.

In the next dream, I was once again going to get married, and for some reason we (me, my parents, and my little brother) drove to Arizona to find my wedding dress. We didn't stay at a hotel, but some sort of church that was used as an overnight place for whoever needed it. So people were staking out places to sleep on the couches and stuff. And there were a lot more couches, and they were really big. Since the place was used as an overnight stop for a lot of people, all sorts of stuff was set up to entertain kids. Like some sort of wii game where you had to follow a path around. Mark (my little brother) did one level all right except he didn't walk backwards through part of it like you were supposed to. Some of the levels you were flying, and if you didn't reset something, if you died enough times it was game over, but if you reset something you never got a game over. We were supposed to meet a couple of people from a family in my ward back home to help me shop for the dress, one of the girls who has just gotten married and her mom. Only instead, her brother came.

Backyard Wedding

I had a dream last night that my highschool boyfriend was getting married, at my house. Now he actually is getting married soon, but definitely not at my house. I didn't talk to him much in the dream, and even less to his bride. She made sure to turn off the DVR over our TV, because that was somehow going to affect the lighting and colors of the wedding.

Our yard was a lot bigger and open, there was no fences to any of our neighbors yards, and we no longer were on a hill, so all of the yards were at the same level. This meant that the reception spilled over into all of the other yards. I walked into my neighbor's yard, and instead of having a pool as they do now, they had a shed with 5 washers and dryers.