Old House and Cake

We were living in our old house again, even though Mark was old enough to be writing things. I was in law school and living there, I remember going into the bedroom Mandy and I shared and having my laptop set up and stuff. I had some kind of oral surgery done. I walked into a classroom full of 1Ls (first year law students) and realized I was in the wrong place. Mark was mad at Mom for something, and instead of just writing her a note like he used to in sacrament meeting, he wrote on a cake. The cake was beautifully decorated, but had Mark's less than neat handwriting on it, saying something not nice to Mom. (I don't remember exactly what it was.)

Sorry, I'm Taken

For the past two nights I've had a dream with a similar element: there has been a guy interested in me, but I had a boyfriend. These occurred in the midst of other elements of the dream that don't seem similar at all.

Two nights ago, I remember Mandy and Josh and Joel doing something with me, but I don't really remember what. Then I was with Danny, and he looked like he did back in high school, not like what he looks like now. He was acting like he did in high school, too, always wanting to put his arm around me or hand on my back or arm or something. I was a little shocked, saying "Aren't you engaged? I have a boyfriend!" and not wanting any of his physical contact. (He is engaged, and I do have a boyfriend, btw.) Then Nick was there, and of course I was letting Nick put his arm around me and stuff, and once he came and sat right between Danny and me and Danny got jealous.

Last night, I was with my flag football team at some sort of football camp. We were also having some sort of church meeting. I was outside talking to one of our coaches about relationships and stuff, he was sort of dating a girl, but was also interested in me. He kept texting me and asking me to do things (even though we were standing right there talking to each other) and I would text back that I was really busy, and he was like "you have a boyfriend, don't you" because if I didn't I would have made time for him no matter how busy I was.

The Office and Garbage

I haven't yet watched this week's episode of "The Office." Yesterday a friend was asking me if I had, maybe that's what prompted this dream.

"The Office" now had a cafeteria lunch room, with people serving what you asked for as you saw it behind the glass bar. This was to be the new central setting of the show, and the show was exactly like it was originally, except it was taking place in a lunch room and the focus was not Pam and Jim's relationship, but Dwight and Angela having a child.

Apparently Angela did get pregnant with Dwight's child, but didn't want to tell him because she now had another boyfriend. The child was actually a wookiee, but somehow she hid it and got pregnant with her new boyfriend's child.

Fast forward about 3 years, and somehow the new boyfriend is out of the picture, and Dwight knows about his child, and it is a child, not a wookiee. The child was standing on one of the tables in the cafeteria. I don't remember a ton of details beyond that.

I remember at one point I was in the cafeteria, I'm not sure if I was one of the characters or myself, if I was a character I think I was Pam, but I really don't know. Anyways, I could tell that one of the cafeteria workers was going to fall in love with a worker from the office, and apparently it was me. I was going through the line, and I wanted more salad, and the lunch guy didn't want to give me more because the onions in the salad had caffeine in them, and he knew I didn't drink caffeine. I told him it was negligible amounts, I would be fine.

Jim had for some reason taken the LSAT. Dwight was looking over the records and was mad because he thought Jim had cheated or taken it when he was too young or something.

Oh, "The Office" now took place in Utah, as Angela was referencing Bountiful, and I think I walked out of the lunchroom into downtown Provo.

After the office, Nick gave me a piggyback ride and we walked over to one of my old roommate's apartments. We met her as she was leaving, she was going to go visit a friend, but said we could go in anyways. I was concerned there would be drama, since the person she was going to go visit was the sister of Nick's old girlfriend, but then I remembered he was still on good terms with the sister. We went into the apartment, and there were several stacks of garbage sitting there. I decided we should be nice and take them out for her. Then I realized they were sorted into plastic bottles and aluminum cans, and there wasn't any other type of trash, so she must have been about to recycle them and get money for them. I didn't know where the recycling place was, so we couldn't do anything.

Cruise, Board Game, and Aliens

So last night I was on a cruise ship with my family for at least part of the dream, maybe all of it, I'm not sure. By family I mean my immediate family, a couple of aunts, and a cousin or two. We were on a raft out in the ocean for one of our excursions, and had to fight to stay on the raft as we went through the waves back to the ship. It seemed like Joel was being honored for something, for getting his Eagle or leaving on his mission or something, and I was too, but I was late because I was doing something in our cabin. The whole time we were in swim suits, in the water, even through the honoring, we were just standing in circles in two feet of water.

Part of the dream, it seemed like everyone was put under some kind of spell, and for some reason we were the ones who could get people out of it, by playing this board game that looked like Monopoly, except you only went around the board once, because half way through we somehow got people to take this potion or drug or something that made it so they weren't under the spell anymore. Yeah, not sure what was going on there.

The other part of the dream was kind of like an alien or zombie invasion or something, and we had to figure out who was a zombie/alien and who wasn't, and then it ended up that we were aliens and some of the people who we thought weren't aliens actually were, and we teleported back to hour spaceship and tried to figure the whole thing out, and it kind of felt like we were the family on Wizards of Waverly Place or something.

NCIS, Disney Channel, and Inception

A pretty good dream last night.

So at first I was in a secret relationship with Tony from NCIS. I think we used him investigating things as a cover for us to meet up. Of course in the show they rarely go do stuff alone, they usually have another agent with them, so maybe I was working for NCIS too. I don't remember for sure.

After he came to my house one morning, the scene morphed into a locker room scene from a Disney Channel movie. A Disney Channel movie has a locker room scene seems kind of sketchy, but it seemed to have Disney Channel type stars/characters in it. They seemed to either be in on my routine for meeting up with Tony or we were hiding it from them too.

Here's where the dream morphed into Inception, with one girl dying and us going to a dream within a dream to bring her back. Not sure on the details, but that's definitely what seemed to be happening.

The Great and Spacious House

So one of my friends has just moved into a new house with her husband and two little boys. I have yet to visit them, but last night in my dream I did.

The house had 4 bedrooms upstairs, and 4 bedrooms downstairs. I spent most of the dream upstairs, admiring the spacious yet strange bathrooms - one of the toilets didn't have an upper tank, and one of the bathtubs had a door in the side of it, the kind you see that are built specially for old people who can't lift their legs high enough to step into one.

My friend and her husband are just renting until they can build a house that they have a lot for, and I remember asking in my dream when they think they'll move, and why they would move when they have such an amazing house right now. Granted, they are renting, but why not just buy it?

Disneyland with Nick

I used to have dreams all the time on my mission about going to Disneyland, often with other missionaries for zone activity or something. Well, last night was the first dream I've had about Disneyland in a while, and Nick was there. Not bad.

We somehow had extra tickets, so we were going to use them to get lots of fast passes at once. We didn't have a lot of time. Splash Mountain and Space Mountain were a lot closer together in my dream than they are in real life. Nick had the tickets, but wasn't sure we could pull this off, so I took the tickets up to the ticket booth in the front of the park and asked if we could print out all of our fast passes there. Sure enough we could, but at first I was confused because the times on them were in military time, and noon was when they started counting over at 00:00 and not midnight, so the fast passes read something like "valid from 22:00 to 2:00." It seemed like the window of time we had to redeem the fast passes was really big, but once again we weren't complaining. We'd somehow just managed to get several fast passes for several rides at once, and if we had a longer time to use them, the better for us.

Between Splash Mountain (which looked more like a wooden roller coaster in my dream) and the ticket booth was one of those water slides where you ride down in rafts, like Yosemite Sam Sierra Falls at Magic Mountain. This ride has appeared in other Disneyland dreams.