Pregnant with 2, but not Twins

The other night I had a dream that I got pregnant when I was already pregnant. So I was pregnant with two babies at the same time, with two different due dates. I was both 23 weeks along and 6 weeks along. (Or something like that.) I am so glad this isn't possible in real life, for so many reasons.

Taylor Swift

Last week I had a dream that I met Taylor Swift. Not at a concert or anything, but walking around town. She was really quirky. She said her producers wanted her to sue someone for copyright infringement for copying one of her songs, but she didn't want to. The dream ended with me giving her relationship advice.

I woke up and told my dad I gave Taylor Swift relationship advice in a dream. He said that would ruin her career, as all she sings about is the breakups.

Apartment Hunting

Last night my dreams all had a theme.

In the first dream I had my husband call up one of my old friends and ask him if we could buy out his apartment lease. I wasn't sure how we'd get his roommates out so we could have the place for just our family. I then realized the apartment was three bedrooms, not two, and what would we need a third bedroom for? Then we reasoned it would be ok because we would probably have two kids by the time we moved out of the apartment.

In my next dream, we went to look at the basement apartment of a coworker who happens to live around the corner from us. He wasn't there to let us in, but it was unlocked so we let ourselves in. The current tenants' things were all over the place. It was one giant room, studio apartment style, but so much bigger than our current apartment. Even without the walls, I wanted it.

I woke up several times in the night, but this dream continued the rest of the night. I kept finding myself back at this home, both in the basement apartment and the main part of the house.

Second Mission

I had a dream last night that I went on a second mission. I was happy to go, but it was a lot harder to not hug guys this time around. I realized I must have gotten really used to it since my first mission.

I was with my companions looking for clothes to wear. Then we were packing for transfers.

I was surrounded by other missionaries in a gym, like a zone conference or transfer meeting or something (maybe transfer meeting, since I had been packing for it), and I really wanted to hug all the elders. At some point I realized I was pregnant, and wondered what they would do with a pregnant missionary. Then I remembered that it was ok because I was married. My husband showed up at the transfer meeting, also on another mission, but we weren't on a couples mission. If I thought it was hard to not hug the other guys, it was nothing compared to how hard it was not to hug my husband. Eventually I gave in and did it anyway, with him sitting in a chair and me standing behind him with my arms around his neck.

Being Bold: At Work, In My Family, In My Faith

I had a lot of vivid dreams last night.

I had a dream I was at work, with the other women at work, only the work we were doing was a little different than the usual legal work we do. We were in teams and had all sorts of projects that we would get points for. Some projects were games, like how many items we could pick up in a certain time period. Others were chores, like baking and doing dishes. We might have had small legal projects, but the other things stood out more prominently in my dream. A male supervisor came in and got on one coworker's case for not doing dishes. I stood up and chewed him out for not treating us the way he treated the men. They got to work on complex murder cases and never had to do dishes. They never got chewed out for not getting things done on time. We got the menial tasks. Afterward, I was really afraid of backlash, but all the women were really proud of what I'd done. A few things changed, but the supervisor was still very dismissive of women and their ideas. One woman had asked about the legality of releasing a prisoner, and he didn't even listen to all that she had to say before telling her it wasn't possible. I chewed him out for that, too. I explained that he was technically correct, but he could have been a lot kinder by listening to everything she had to say and explaining why it wasn't possible right now but how it could be possible in the future. Once again I was afraid of backlash that didn't really come.

I had another dream I was talking to my cousin about her daughter, who had suddenly developed separation anxiety. I hoped that my desire to work part time after having a child won't cause separation anxiety for him or her.

In another dream, I was talking with a couple who had marital and spiritual problems. The husband might have been mad at the wife for having mental health or drug problems. I told the wife that I didn't understand everything she had been through, but that Jesus Christ did. The couple felt the love of God as I said that and we're able to heal. They had two children who had died that they were finally able to be at peace about.

A Mansion and Ghosts

So many strange dreams last night! I can't even remember them all. I know I had dreams of my brother dying. Once was playing football. These dreams made me really sad. I had a dream my parents lived in this huge mansion with a tower. I was staying in the tower because I liked it there. I think it was Christmas. Even though the mansion was in Ventura, CA, it had snowed. My parents were really sad to tell me something, it might have been that I was adopted. Some carolers came to the door. I knew them from night school. My parents invited them in. I didn't want to be seen, but I was on the ground floor level and couldn't make it up the stairs to get back to the tower without being seen. I could make it down the stairs to the basement though. From there I could take the elevator to my tower. The elevator went side to side as well as up and down. I wasn't let off near my room though. I was on the roof, and the snow had melted and there were people everywhere. It was a huge party. My parents were giving away holiday cake pans as party favors. I ran into some mission friends at the party, and we were talking about how on our missions we would hang out and sleep in the tower. (I think that relates back to an earlier part of the dream that I can't remember.) After waking up and telling my husband of that dream, I fell back asleep and had another strange dream. I was in the mansion from the previous dream. I wasn't in my tower, but I was on the second story. To my surprise, there was a door going to the outside which was opened just a crack. Standing outside were a couple of men dressed in clothes from another century who wanted to talk to me. Because I was a little bit freaked out, I said no and closed and locked the door. Then my mom opened the door. They again asked for me, but she told them I wasn't available. The started leaving. I asked my mom what they had wanted to talk to me about, and she said she didn't know. I got curious, and followed them until I caught up with them. Their faces were pale. I figured they were ghosts. I followed them back to an apartment which was full of ghosts. They said they needed my help with the neighboring apartment. It had a bathtub full of poop, and this was a problem for them. They had removed a piece of the wall in the closet so I could get in to the adjoining apartment. I slipped in. In the first room I entered, there were a baby and toddler. In the back room, I saw the parents watching tv with two more babies. I picked up a baby and ducked behind one of the couches so they wouldn't see me. Staying out of sight was harder than I thought it would be, because even though I was behind the couch they were sitting on and they were looking toward the tv, there was a mirror on the wall that I could be seen in. Eventually they discovered me. I told them I was a maid sent by the home owners association. They were happy that's why I was there, and even cleaned up the bathtub on their own.

Babies

The other night I had a dream with several babies in it. Or I had several dreams about babies. In one dream I was holding my cousin's premie baby. I think something was happening where we needed to protect her but I'm not sure what. In another dream, some friends had a baby. I couldn't figure out who the baby looked like, because he didn't seem to look like either one of them. Then I realized the baby had his mom's eyes and his dad's chin. In yet another dream, I was taking care of my visiting teacher's son. I wanted him to go down for a nap because I had work I needed to do. But he wanted to play Duplos (the Legos that are bigger so that younger kids can play with them without the choking hazard). I think I did lay down to cuddle him to sleep, but I don't know of he ever fell asleep.

White Collar and Burn Notice

White Collar met Burn Notice in my dreams last night. They were being filmed in the same area, and it was not New York or Miami. It was a town that must have been really far north because it was really cold there. So cold that there were streams of warm water running through the town in a canal system that people traveled in rather than walking on the roads. Not only were the shows being filmed in the same place, they were using the same actors. They would film one episode of one show, then the main actors would switch out and they would film the other show. I'm not sure what either episode was about. My next dream was all White Collar. Neil lived in a different apartment but was still under house arrest. Sarah was pulling off some scheme. I think they stole a bunch of little stuff from a Walmart type store. I don't know why or how they thought they were going to get away with it though. Sarah was also running some scheme to get guys to buy her lingerie. And this fat girl was in love with Neil and really thought she would have a chance if she could get rid of Sarah somehow.

Encounter with the Police

I had a dream I was running from the police for some reason, I can't remember why. I know I had a handcuff key in my right hand and a couple of manuals in my arm. Maybe I was trying to break someone out of jail or something. Anyway, I was running around with my visiting teaching companion, and one policeman got us in a big conference room. There was a big table and lots of chairs between us. He was focused on me, like he knew I had the handcuff key or something. He tried shooting me with his taser a few times, but I was too far away, even with the little wires that shoot out of the taser. Finally he got me, but it really didn't hurt. In fact, I could barely feel it. While I was being tased, my visiting teaching companion escaped out of the room and down to a lower level of the building. I also managed to put the handcuff key in my pocket, hoping it wouldn't be found. I don't think it was the policeman talked to me for a minute, then was ready to let me go. And that's when he started hitting on me. He asked if he could see me in December to go to a promenade. At first I was confused, then realized what he was asking me. I told him he'd see me in court if this incident led to a hearing, but I don't know if I'd see him again outside of that. He didn't seem too let down, and even still had some hope that I'd change my mind and go out with him. I went off to find my visiting teaching companion. She had been attacked with water balloons filled with paint, but had either dodged them all or was already cleaned up. We walked through the mall, hoping we would blend in enough with everyone else there to get to where we wanted to go.

Forgetting the Dead

I had a really disturbing dream last night. My brother was dead. And the worst part about it? I forgot he had died. I thought it had just been a while since I had seen him. And then I realized he was dead and had to mourn for him all over again. Lots of tears and everything. And of course I felt worse for forgetting that I had already gone through this. When I woke up I had to figure out if he was really still alive.

Shopping and a Big Black Dog

I had a dream last night that I was at the mall shopping with my best friend, her baby boy (toddler), and a couple of her cousins. We would find something to Buy, then we would all chip in money to buy it. Then the cousins wanted to buy a lacey thong, and they wanted to spend a lot more than I was willing to spend on it. When I objected, they made fun of me. I left. My best friend and her little boy followed me. When we were almost to the parking lot, there was this big black dog. The little boy wanted to go pet the dog. When he was really close, the dog barked really really loudly. This made the little boy, and his mom, cry.

Admin Law Finals

I had a dream that it was finals week. I didn't think my finals load was too heavy. My husband and I were going to meet up with a friend and have him follow us home. We decided to wait by the freeway exit for him to get off. We pulled into one of two short side streets to wait for him. I parked on the wrong side of the street, in what happened to be right in front of my admin law professor's house. We decided to go inside while we waited. We thought we'd text our friend to tell him where we were, but we were near the mouth of a canyon and didn't have service. Inside my professor's home, there were several people in the class discussing the final. For some reason I thought I didn't need to take the final, but as the dream went on I became worried that I had missed the deadline for it. The professor was asking about one student, who had become so stressed out from the final that her health was declining. I may have had a gps tracking anklet on. Then it was a few days later, and the next semester was starting. Since I didn't know if I had missed the final, I signed up yo take admin law again. I figured that when grades came out, if I had passed it I could drop the class. Another girl was retaking it, though I don't know if it was for the same reason, or if she planned to drop it after grades came out. At first I tried to avoid taking the bus to campus, and figured out a way to do this, but then ended up taking the bus to campus anyway. The bus had seat belts, but mine would not stay buckled. I got frustrated with the bus route, which turned at almost every corner, making what should have been a short ride home a rather long one. I don't know if the route was always like this, or if it only did this because of the extensive road construction in the area.

Cheap Haircuts

Last night I had a dream with an ex-boyfriend in it. Something about me and him and an old roommate and my husband trying to find a cheap place for a haircut. We were at a crowded mall or store and were going up and down stairs checking out hair cutting stations. I don't know why any of this is significant but I woke up very grateful to be married to my husband and not this ex-boyfriend. I had other dreams that I would have remembered if I had blogged them as soon as I woke up, but by waiting a few hours they have fled my mind.

Burn Notice Meets NCIS

So my dream started out with a party at some apartment complex where everyone was divided into groups for a scavenger hunt or something. Jeffrey Donovan, the actor who plays Michael Westen on Burn Notice, was at the party.

Then he was Michael Westen. He was exchanging a memory card or something with a "bad guy" by breaking in somewhere (or just sneaking in) and acting like a repair man, and cutting a rectangular whole in the wall, filling it with putty, and sticking the memory card in the putty. But then McGee from NCIS was investigating, and ended up figuring out Michael's plan.

Then there was this other dream where I was flirting with some guy to get him to confess that he'd committed some crime. (Me flirt? Yeah right.) I think it worked.

Queasy and Lego Pirates

I had a dream that I was with my husband's family. I was queasy, and so they kept asking me if I was pregnant. I kept saying "Not yet!"

Then I was playing Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, but it turned into a kind of Peter Pan, with Jack Sparrow being Captain Hook, and Will Turner being Peter Pan.

Nightmares

My dreams last night were nightmares. I was having an NCIS dream, and when the team went to investigate the dead body, they found a whole house full of booby-trapped bodies, so that members of the team were being attacked. It was very gory and graphic and I can't get the images out of my head, no matter how I wish I could.

I woke up, told my husband, and was finally drifting back to sleep when I had a dream that a snake was attacking another snake that was then attacking me. Also nightmarish.

Refrigerators and the Broken Thermometer

I had a dream that my parents got a huge new house. In the basement was a huge kitchen with 10 refrigerators. I wondered why you would ever need that many refrigerators, and then I realized that the previous owners of the house must have had a floral shop and stored the flowers here. I wanted one of the refrigerators to be mine so when I buy a house of my own I won't have to buy a refrigerator too.

I had another dream (or extension of the same dream? I don't remember) where I was taking my temperature, and the thermometer must have been broken, because once it said I had a temperature of over 300 degrees.

Decisions and Ex-Boyfriends

In my dream last night, I was trying to decide which bar review course to use to study for the bar this summer. It didn't calm me down or provide me with any answers, because I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep because I was wondering which one to use.

Two ex-boyfriends also showed up in my dream. One of them I am still friends with, the other I would be ok if I never saw again. In my dream, my mom kept asking about why I didn't have a better relationship with the second ex-boyfriend the way I did with the first. I got really annoyed with this line of questioning, and responded that I was happily married, so why did it even matter?

I had a dream that my husband left for work without giving me a goodbye kiss, and I was devastated. Then all of a sudden I was in a condo similar to the one we stayed at on our honeymoon, and he came back with a grocery bag full of things we didn't need, like really uncomfortable toilet paper when I had just bought some good toilet paper, and wearing a suit, both of which confused me.

Once Upon A Time

I think that is the name of a TV show where fairy tale characters are suddenly in the real world. I have not every actually watched an episode of the show. But that is what my dream was like. Either that or a real world person was suddenly in a fairy tale world. I don't remember other details.

Burn Notice on the Beach (redundant?)

I had another Burn Notice dream. It's been awhile. The dream seamed pretty extensive, only now that I've waited so long since I woke up to write it down I can't remember too much of it. I do remember that a lot of the dream was on the beach. (Burn Notice is set in Miami, and there is usually at least one scene with people in bathing suits per episode. So I'm not sure why the dream being on the beach is significant.)

In the dream, Mike was going to marry me. I was flattered, but I could tell that he still really loved Fiona and wanted to be with her. I couldn't understand why he wanted to marry me. He insisted on me though.

Sam was there too. He and Mike were working on a job, but I don't remember the details of the job. Except that it was on the beach.

Chicago

Last night I dreamed I was in Chicago. Oh Chicago, how I miss you.

At first I was there for a conference, something like the Faith and Scholarship Symposium that I recently attended, at the University of Chicago. In my dream, the University of Chicago was up where the University of Illinois at Chicago was. A guy from my law school class was there with his wife and kids, and I was telling them all the things they could do in Chicago with their kids. Unfortunately that information was not very helpful for them, as they'd already done most of it. I was waiting for my husband to come meet me to go to the dinner for the conference, but I don't know if he ever found me. To get to the conference, you had to go across this bridge, and on one side you had this fabulous view of the skyline (which is one of the most beautiful things). On the other side, you could hear the gunfire from the gang wars going on in the rough neighborhoods on the south side.

There may have been more but I don't remember.

Additionally, I had a dream where Bart Simpson was riding a segue-way around these garages. 

NCIS Eats Out

I had an NCIS dream last night. Everyone on the team, except for Gibbs, was a lot younger, like college age. We were investigating some crime, and for some reason we couldn't continue, so Gibbs took the team out to lunch at some Asian food restaurant and told us we were going to take a break until August. I was at the restaurant, and had a lot of gum in my mouth that I had to take out before I could eat.

I also had a dream with one of my brothers and my sister in it, but I can't remember what we were doing.

Pre-Babysitting in a Strange House

I was with my mom in California, and she drove me to this family's house so I could babysit their children. This family resembles a family in Utah. My dad was going to meet my mom and they were going to go out to lunch. For some reason, we drove around and parked in the back of the house, then I went through the house and my mom went through the back yard for us to get to the front. I called my dad, and he was still at work, which confused me, because his work is a commute away, and I thought he was taking my mom out to lunch. Inside the house, there were a lot of open areas for the kids to play, but the ceilings were so low, even I couldn't stand up straight inside. The house had a basement, but I never went down there. It also had a second story. I didn't spend much time with the kids. I felt tired, so I curled up on a chair with a towel over me to keep warm to take a nap. I awoke to my dad telling a story about me to the couple who lived there, and it was a story that is totally likely to happen - me waiting for him to pay for something instead of getting it myself. My mom said something about me never winning anything, about how this other young married couple had won some great prize that was going to make life easier. I remembered how my husband and I actually had won an extra set of movie tickets, I just hadn't told her. My finger was injured and crooked (though I think this was because I was sleeping on it funny, and it hurt in real life and so it had to hurt in my dream too)*. More and more kids kept coming over from the neighborhood, and I wondered how many kids I would have to babysit, and how many of the neighborhood kids had asked their parents before coming over. I was on the stairs (or in a loft just at the top of the stairs) watching all of these kids come in, and went down to ask how many kids I'd be watching. I was wearing long, billowing sleeves, and twice they caught on something, once a light switch, once a corner, and it tugged me back so I couldn't move forward until I unhooked the sleeve. There were a lot of TVs in the house, and I was told to go turn a certain one on to a kids show that the little boy wanted to watch, but I was going through the TV guide and couldn't find it. I was watching some great movie about a woman who was trying to get a man to do something by reminding him of his love of books, and it was supposed to be this great movie, while I was scrolling through the guide looking for this kids show.

*A lot of the time my physical state influences my dreams. The other night I fell asleep with my head on my husband's shoulder, with the end if the bone in his arm right on my cheek. In my dream my mouth was stuck a certain way open - I couldn't close my mouth to talk normally, and I couldn't open my mouth any further. Moving my head slightly so that I didn't have the pressure on my cheek resolved the problem in my dream. Also, a lot of the time when I need to pee, I'll dream I'm pregnant.

Beach, Protest, and Cruise Ship

I had a dream that I had gone to the beach with a few friends, and we happened to be on the east coast. While driving home in a mini-van, some girls in the back seat were using my Star Wars blanket, and so I used my friend's comforter from her bed. Apparently we were all cold. While getting on a free-way ramp, we saw that there was a protest, and hundreds of people were walking on the free-way, so we couldn't drive anymore. Some of us got out and walked, and figured we'd meet up with the van again later. We ended up walking into this coastal town that was in a harbor and there was so little land that the houses were floating. I ran into my little brother there, and was excited to see him, but confused as to why he was there.

After waking up and falling back asleep, I had another dream. This time I was on a cruise with my husband. I didn't realize we were nearing a port until I looked out the window and saw us speeding by all these houses. It made sense to me, since it was sunrise, and in my mind cruise ships get into port at sunrise. The cruise ship was part submarine - it couldn't go all the way under the water, but it could raise and lower itself so the deck was higher or lower to the sea.

Burn Notice and Camping

I had another Burn Notice dream. Mike had run off to keep everyone else in his life from getting hurt by all the mega villains that kept showing up in this dream. (They made it pretty violent.) Fi and Sam kept trying to find him to help him. They stopped by Madeline's house, and found that he had been there quite often in the time that they hadn't seen him. This of course made Fi mad.

The night before, I had a dream that I was camping with my parents and little brother and a few families from their ward (except that in real life one of the families is from my current ward) a week before I was to get married. (The week before my wedding I was at my sister's college graduation and helping my sister and brother-in-law move.) We were having this family home evening, and one of the moms said something about how wonderful it is that I am getting married because I am so good with toddlers. I started giving a lesson out of a sports magazine, and the article we were reading was not appropriate for kids. So we switched to another article in the magazine, about a black couple who got married in the temple. (Yeah, I have no idea what that has to do with sports.)