Water

Sunday March 13, 2011
I was standing on a very rickety bridge, or perhaps a pier, looking out over the ocean. I was with other people, who i never saw but who were theoretically behind me, and I think we were at some sort of aquarium.
I walked out to the edge of the structure, when suddenly an earthquake/wave/strong wind occurred. I was swept around and fell off of the structure. I was expecting to fall into water immediately, but I didn't. I fell for a long time, till I was fairly confused. I curled into a ball in mid air and waited to hit the water. I knew I was in the air because I could breathe, but I didn't open my eyes, so I didn't know how far the water was. I felt a sharp pain in my legs and suddenly I knew I was in the water and being pulled in different directions. I floundered around, trying to find the surface of the water, but I seemed to be under the bridge. Eventually, I found the water and I heaved myself over the edge of the bridge.
At this point, I saw myself get out of the water, rather than actually being me. I knew I was looking at myself, but somehow I was both inside and outside my body.
There was also something about an otter exhibit and tracks in the mud, but i can't remember what was going on.

Documentary

March 2, 2011
I was at stage tech, doing work, when the teacher came up to me and said someone wanted to talk to me. I went to the lobby and this random women was sitting there with 5 other students, saying "We want to talk to you!" Slightly creeped out, I asked her what was going on. She never explained, but as far as I could tell, she was making a documentary about my life, and the other people were sitting around to make me less awkward. She proceeded to ask me lots of personal questions. I was really confused, but I answered her questions for a long time.
Eventually, she shook my hand and said we would continue another day. All the students came and congratulated me, but I never got a chance to ask what it was that I had that made my life so interesting.

Myself and I

February 28, 2011
I was chasing after a girl, down a long winding passage with very little light. Eventually I caught her and grabbed her arm. She turned towards me, and I realized she was me. Confused, I watched as our actions mirrored each other. There was also some stuff that seemed extremely deep at the time but now just seem silly.

I. Need. Sleep.

February 26, 2011
I was observing my parents talk to my history teacher. For some reason I was dressed very strangely and was sitting at a desk being rude and sarcastic to people. My parents were having a discussion in hushed tones, discussing my recent attitude change and telling my teacher all about my math grades. I looked to my right and I saw a mournful looking girl, standing in jeans and a t-shirt, wind blowing her hair back dramatically. She had dark brown hair but apparently I recognized her as me, but with brown hair. I stood up, and she stared me straight in the eyes and told me "it's time Heather. We can't delay any longer." I nodded, but looked down and whispered "I should have told them. I never wanted it to be this way. For them to see me like this." Again she nodded.
Soon, we had somehow progressed into a strange building, with the girl and I leading a group of people. At a large door, I stopped, and the girl went through. Everyone else mysteriously disappeared and I told her I couldn't go through the doors. She nodded, and explained that we had always known I wouldn't be able to go through, because of who we were. I suddenly got mad and started yelling that I could change my fate. She sighed, looked at me again, and then slammed the door, thus locking me out. I pounded on the door for awhile, but eventually gave up.
The next part of my dream I was in a park, digging a hole. I'm not sure why or how, but I do remember that I knew i was digging, even though I wasn't physically digging.

Jobs

February 22, 2011

I was walking across a park with a friend, trying to follow after two men, who were conversing with one another. My friend kept insisting that it wasn't safe and that i should obtain some sort of weapon, but I told her it was okay, that the man was giving me a job and would protect me. At the edge of the park were stone steps that went down, and the men in front beckoned to me and then went down. I told my friend not to worry, since at worst all that would happen would be that I would be sold as a sex slave. Apparently I was totally unconcerned with this, though my friend kept freaking out about it.

I Can Not Explain My Subconscious

February 8, 2011

My dream started in Carmel-By-The-Sea, a very small town next to the ocean. I was going downtown to get a meal with my brother, but most of the stores were closed. We decided to go to a burrito place. They were very busy, because they also sold tickets to compete in horse races. After some mild confusion about ordering, I found myself participating in one of these races.
For some reason, it didn't occur to me that this might be a bad idea. The system was fairly complex. First one had to sit on a ski lift and then jump on to the horse. After that, you had to run around 3 times. Somehow I mysteriously won this race and was allowed to leave.
Next, I was picked up by my Uncle and was driven to their house in the woods. I'm not really sure why, but the first thing I did was check my facebook. On it, it appeared someone had hacked in and changed my picture to some weird shot of me in a scandalous outfit. My cousin/brother, who appeared to be related to me in an unknown way, leaned over my shoulder, and I hurriedly tried to close the screen. Unfortunately, the window I had shrunk exposed another picture, this one of my relation's mother and that one shrunk to reveal a strange picture of my female relation. Thoroughly confused, I asked "how did those get there?" till I realized that all three of our accounts had been hacked.
Embarrassed, I went downstairs, down some rather nice white spiral wood stairs, into another part of the house. There, some women made me really uncomfortable and I freaked out and started to run. She chased me, caught me, and then started to hug me despite the fact that I was really uncomfortable and feeling inappropriately approached. I eventually curled into a ball and lay there sobbing, till she stopped trying to hug me.
Later, i saw my friend, and she tried to hug me (as friends will) but then saw me cringe. She laughed about it, thinking it was nothing, and tried to hug me again, but stopped when I fled. Chasing after me she asked me what was wrong, and I explained that my aunt had tried to hug me. (This apparently made sense at the time.)
Much later, I was in the Arctic with a different friend, and she was complaining about the taste of horse meat. We were starving, I think, so I yelled at her and told her we didn't have anything else, but she went and looked for fishing supplies instead.
Suddenly, I was in a park area, on some sort of race/treasure hunt. There were all these paths and rooms, and something about taking a short cut over the grass, but i don't remember.

Drinking?

February 2, 2011
Somehow I was standing at the counter of a store with one of my friends, asking the person a question. My friend walked toward the back room and as I went to follow, the women said "she's not allowed". I quickly figured out that this was some sort of bar, so I convinced the person i wasn't going to do any drinking. She still refused to let me in, which aggravated my friend. My friend proceeded to yell at me for an embarrassingly long amount of time and then storm out.
There was also something about digging, but I can't remember what.

My Cousins

February 2, 2011

I was in a car somewhere, driving past some older buildings. Suddenly, I saw a smoke trail coming from one of the nearby buildings. It appeared that a factory was on fire. Soon, the fire spread and people were running away quickly. I had been driving the car and I stopped, unsure of what to do. At that moment, however, a water main exploded inside of a building, sending water everywhere. My family and I jumped out of the car, but then moments later realized we could drive away to a safer point, and we piled back in. We then drove around back of the building.
Somehow, we ended up at some cousin's house. I was standing around awkwardly, telling them about the adventure. They showed me my room, and I went inside to investigate.
It appears I had fallen asleep in the dream, for when I woke up inside the dream, I decided to investigate the cousin's house. There were all these random people who were milling around, and it was very confusing. I eventually found my brother, and there was something about going to school, but i'm not sure what was happening

Well, This is Confusing

January 30, 2011
I was in class somewhere, and my teacher was standing near my desk passing back papers. Suddenly, he stood up and proposed to me. Mysteriously, I said yes, and he looked very happy. Later, however, I realized how dumb an idea it was to decide to marry my teacher, and I proceeded to try and think of ways out of the problem. My possible solutions included telling him I was gay, running away from home, and telling him I already had a boyfriend. Apparently, my dream self did not seem to think that TELLING HIM I DIDN'T WANT TO MARRY HIM was a feasible option. I proceeded to think over my options and talk to my friend, A, about the situation to see if she could help.
When I reached her, she was both my teacher and my friend. It was odd, and more than a little confusing, but I proceeded to have a conversation with her about herself, except not the friend part of her. After the conversation, she turned into her teacher side (only she looked female but was actually male? It was very confusing) and told me she was glad I was marrying her. It was too confusing for me, and I just nodded and then ran out of the building.
Much later, I was walking in an unknown place, along an older dirt path. On either side of me were green fields, and straight ahead was a short wooden gate. Up ahead, I saw a person I knew, a girl name B. I ran up to her, for she was standing on the path almost waiting for me, and asked her to help me make it through "the levels". She was wearing a great deal of makeup, and all black clothing, and I stopped short, for she had normally been the kind of girl to wear normal things. I again asked her to help me, but she laughed and told me I would have to figure them out on my own. She then proceeded to walk away, despite my best efforts to stop her. Crying slightly, I ran up the path till I came to a world of bright neon colors. This part of my dream was confusing, and not especially memorable, but there were bright flashes of color everywhere, and loud sounds, and something about storks that could jump 50 ft in the air.
After what seemed like a very long time, I was returned to earth, by the math building at my school. When I was on earth, something about the world I had come from was bothering me, and I was very pale. Seeing B again, I asked her why she didn't tell me. Quietly, she told me I had to figure it out on my own. Somehow, my dream self connected all this to the part where I was marrying my teacher, and I ran to find my teacher, to tell him my answer to his proposal (which I had already accepted. But my dream self had forgotten that part)
When I found him, I told him I couldn't marry him. Confused, he asked me why not. I told him something, something that was personal and deep, and he nodded. I smiled, having released this unknown bit of information and finally having found my true self. He then wished me luck, telling me that he understood why I couldn't marry him.

My Family is Weird

January 22, 2011
I was walking down a road in the rain, trying to find my friend, M, who was giving me a ride home. I saw M in a nearby parking lot, under a tree, and she threw me the keys because she wanted to stay dry. I tried to catch them, but she threw them through the air without much accuracy, and they started to slide down the middle of the parking lot. In a desperate attempt to catch them, I lunged, tripping and falling on my face in the process. Then, to make matters worse, it started to rain heavily.
Later, I was watching my aunt rip everything I owned in half. Confused, and apparently still wet from the rain, I went outside feeling depressed. I started to stroll down the road a bit, looking down with my hands in my pockets the whole time. I hadn't noticed that my friend M had come out of her house and was looking at me. She looked quizical and asked someone (who neither 'me' nor my dream view could see) "will her family ever be normal?", to which the someone replied "no, they never can be". He/She replied as though making a sad prophecy of some sort, and M nodded slightly.

My First Remembered Dream of the Year

January 17, 2011

I was in an attic of some building or possibly the basement. There was dust and rotting supports everywhere, and someone was explaining something to me. Soon, I noticed that spiders were literally all over the place. I also noticed they were crawling all over my body. Thorughly creeped and grossed out, I fled and tried to get them off me. I noticed there were also strange scorpian shaped black things on me which would occasionally spawn black spiders. I tried to remove these things but they were suctioned on to my skin.

Later, I was in a house that I was not supposed to be in. It appeared to be the kind of house with house tours, and suddenly I heard someone come in. Unfortunatly, my hiding spot was very obvious and they discovered me, which was really awkward for me.

Even later, I was in the sound booth of the theatre trying to run mics, but for some reason I had plugged the antennas in incorrectly and there was a loud keening sound and a bright flash. Whilst blinded, I tried to plug in the antennas in the right spot and eventually succeeded. I then had to run them through the lighting board. For some reason, we then had to pause because an actor needed to know how to act like a scared little kid.

In a brief 4th section of my dream, I was hiding and watching kidnappers take my friends.

College Life

December 30, 2010

I dreamed that for some reason I was going to Brown University, despite the fact that I had not graduated high-school. My parents hadn't really informed me of this plan ahead of time. Rather, they had told me we were visting my brother, N, who currently goes to Brown. I packed lightly, and when we got there, I felt rather small and young. My parents led me to my brother's dorm, and I met some of his friends and stuff. Then I went into a different room, just to see what it looked like, when my parent's informed me I was going to school there as well. Confused, I put down my stuff and looked around.
My dream shifted, and I had been there for a little while. I still didn't have a roommate, and I was confused as to where all my classes were. I went across the hall, where my brother's dorm room was, and asked him to take me places. He was annoyed that I didn't know my way around the place, and requested that I find a new guide as soon as possible. Annoyed, I called my parents, explaining the problem. We decided that the best plan was for them to come back and then give me rides to my classes until I learned my way around. Just as I was getting used to this idea, my roommate walked in. She was strangely enthusiastic, but she told me some various rules that she wanted us to follow. I immediately agreed, though I forgot most of them immediately.
A little stressed about my strange "college life", I decided to go swimming with my family. We somehow were altogether, and were walking out on some balcony. For some reason it was night, and we couldn't see the bottom of the ocean/water that we were trying to dive into. Discouraged, we decided to go swimming another day.
Returning home from our trip, I decided to take a shower and try out the dorm bathrooms. Mysteriously, it was both Christmas, New Years, and Halloween. People were finding dead bodies, covering them in blood and ketchup, and laying them out under trees. It was supposed to be the preparation for some sort of Halloween tag game. A little creeped out, I took my shower and headed back to my room, only to discover a random person lying on the ground next to the window, apparently hiding. When they saw me, they jumped up and yelled "Party!" and then covered me in ketchup, I immediately ran to go take another shower.
I have a vague recollection that other people kept doing this to me, but I'm not sure how it was resolved.

Disobeying Instructions

December 22, 2010

I was at tech and walking through a meeting that my teacher was in. Wanting to get out without bothering the meeting too much, I asked my teacher (K) if a certain door that I saw to my left was the exit. She said that it was not, but that the area behind the door was rundown and dangeous. She then directed me to a different door.
When I got out of the room, I immediatly went to go find my friend M. I told her what K had said about the door and we planned how to get back there. We returned to the room I had come from, but everyone was gone. We went and opened the door that I had been instructed not to open, but it had changed from a normal door to a double door such as would open to a meeting room.
Inside, we were greeted with an enormous number of rows of bookshelves. Going up to each row were a variety of step stools and ladders. Running around through the isles, I discovered that the back of the room was quite a long way back. At the back was a carpeted area like a library with tons of craft items that I identified as belonging to a Sunday school group.
Looking back, I saw K looking sternly at the door to the room. I also saw that I had been followed in by many of my fellow classmates. They were being admonished for being in the room. Realizing how bad it would look if I returned to the front of the room, seeing as she had specifically told me not to go here, I searched for another route out. I saw a door at the back and opened it. Going through, I saw it opened into a swampy/muddy meadow. The meadow was surrounded by a small fence. Turning back towards the direction I had come, I saw houses and various buildings that seemed to be hidden from the public eye in every direction except the one from which I as viewing them.
Worried that my absense would be suspicious, I hopped the low fence and decided to go back to class. Sneaking along on the side of the houses, I again saw K looking stern. I immediatly fled back to the meadow, where I saw my brother, N, and my friend M. Telling them to turn around, we surveyed the various routes we could now take. We eventually got back to the theatre by going through a museum and ending up at the front of the theatre.
K was a bit confused why we appeared at the front of the theatre, but failing to have enough evidence to blame us for the large number of people in the forbidden room, she let us go.
N and I returned home, at which point we wandered into his room, which was mysteriously many stories up and overlooking the roof of MIT. Noticing a trap door on the roof, we decided to investigate, having learned nothing from our previous escapades. We dropped down into a small room. Various people wandered by, one of whom gave us a small tour.
The rest of the dream is fuzzy.

What's Up With my Trapdoor Obsession?

December 12, 2010

I was going upstairs to the booth for some play in a day, but some woman was following me, trying to find the bathroom. As I went up the stairs, the stairs split into two, and I told the women the bathroom was on the left most staircase, but it was very easy to take the wrong one. We continued up the stairs and I pointed out the bathroom, realizing I had never actually been inside. I decided to go in, because of curiosity, and I discovered a very strange room. I heard a small sound as though a door was being closed, and then I saw a trapdoor in the ceiling swing back and forth. Creeped out, I told the woman I was going to go investigate. I clambered up and discovered a small crawlspace area. It was too inconvienient to explore at that very moment, so I decided to crawl down. Just as I was about to, I noticed the passage connected to a trapdoor later on, and decided to find the other end.
I decided to go up the other staircase, and discovered a small removable part of the wall. I wanted to climb up and explore, but I was a bit too short. Eventually, with help from the women, I climbed up and discovered some various items that I had remembered having but couldn't remember where I put them. I decided it would be best to wait for my friends who i normally explored with, but as I was coming down I saw 3 guys on the step watching me. Though I only knew one of them, I told them what I was doing. They asked to come up, and since I didn't want to be rude, I let them. Soon, however, one of boys found a stash of props and tried to put them in a backpack to steal. I told him not to, and convinced his two friends to stop him. The boy picked up his friend, apparently named Calvin, threw him against a post and broke his neck. He then continued to steal things. The other boy, Simon (I don't know how I knew their names), and I were obviously worried by this. I started down the stairs to a balcony and started screaming for help. My mother, who was on stage, said "oh, that's heather's voice I hear", which made everyone on stage think I was joking. I looked up and saw Simon struggling with the other boy.
Then there was something where I went downstairs to find I had been given an acting role. Later, however, my friend came up to me and told me something about shadows, which related to my trapdoor experience and my acting role no longer being needed.
At this point, I woke up.

Dreamity Dream

December 8, 2010

I was chasing after my friend Melanie, but I'm not really sure where she was going. She ran across a field and I followed her, until she ran past a muddy fence, at which point I stopped. I had the feeling that she was playing a game and I was following, without being included. Thus, when I stopped at the gate, I saw her behind some bushes laughing with someone, and feeling excluded, hid behind a nearby tree.
There was also something about having the key to a door, and wanting to figure out what was behind the door. I unlocked a small gold lock and opened the door. I then found myself in a library. I talked to the librarian, who was my boyfriend apparently, and then wandered off. Some girls going by whispered about how my boyfriend was having an affair with a student, which was weird b/c he was a student. He went over to them, to disprove it or something, and suddenly they both discovered a dead body. The body was the "girl" with which he was having an affair.

I Need to get Back Into the Habit of Remembering my Dreams

November 28, 2010

I dreamed that I was underneath the school gym, in a small dusty area that had lots of boards. At one end of the tunnel was a dimly lit corridor, which seemed to house various doors and a lot of keys. The keys were on pegs, and rather out in the open, but there was a teacher constantly guarding them. I kept trying to sneak past the teacher and get the keys, but I kept being too cowardly. There was something about a gun being pointed at me, and perhaps some sort of chase scene, but I can't really remember what was going on.

Play in a Day

November 27, 2010

I was stage manager for Play in a Day, but nobody remembered, so my job was given away. I decided to rehang lights, but I didn't get very far. I came downstairs and then some lady on stage yelled "anyone up in the booth". I told her I was now downstairs and she looked at me for a moment and then said "that can be fixed". Later, when I had taken back my position as stage manager, we were standing on the stage watching one of the rehearsals, but everyone kept yelling at me for not giving standbys early enough.

Theatre Related Dreams

November 25, 2010

I was trying to help clean up the set after a production in the theatre, but I was mainly causing trouble. I tried to cut off various heavy beams that were above my head, but it didn't seem to do anything but hurt those below. I went outside and was explaining how ny schedule was going to be really exciting when I was a senior, but everyone ignored me.

Secret Passageways and Location Troubles

November 20, 2010
I was at Paly (my high school) and was going to help with the play. For some reason, the building was set up very oddly. Upstairs were the seats, but they first passed by the booth, which looked over the seats to the stage. The booth had a set of benches in it, and it was very spacious. One wall of the booth had a wooden door, which opened to several flights of stairs. I went into the booth, but realized that my brother was doing my job for some reason. I wandered back out and sat with my parents, but soon realized I didn't want to watch the show with everyone else. I went into the booth and through the wooden door with some girl who I recognized in the dream but I can not recognize now that I am awake. We went down 3 flights of stairs till we got to a dirty, thin, wooden passageway. I saw a rat go past my foot, which was mysteriously lacking a shoe. I continued through the passage, aware that I was not supposed to be there till I reached some stairs. I continued up them, with my mysterious friend behind me, until they ended. They opened up to a very large drop, which I failed to notice until I had already stepped off. I grabbed the wall and proceeded to awkwardly dangle. I saw a small ledge a few feet away and stretched out my foot to reach it, whilst simultaneously looking down. Below me was a table, which I hurriedly jumped on to, as well as some various desks.
Once down, I appeared to be inside the tower building of my high school (basically the office area, for those of you who are not my brother), though it had a small conference room to the side. A man saw me when i dropped down, but only told his comrades that I was volunteering to clean up and then sent me off to his office. Once out of view of all the conference people. I tried to get out of the building through a near by hallway. On my way out, I saw a creepy looking set of doors that were about mid-way up the wall. My friend, who had turned into 3 other people, whispered to me that the door was where "the rules are gone but the passage way continues" which is really creepy in retrospect. At the time, it seemed a perfectly normal thing to say, despite the fact that it was nowhere near the other tunnel.
After getting out of the building, I looked behind me and I appeared to be walking out of a building that was in San Jose on the Standford campus, which, again, made sense at the time. i checked the time, realized the play was almost over, and ran back to Paly, which was suddenly in the middle of the campus.

There was also something about running through grass.

I'm Behind.

Sorry for the delay, I've been a bit busy

This was sometime around the 10th-12th of November.

I dreamed that I went out into my backyard and I saw all my childhood memories in a long line. At the end of the line, the memories were dusty and faded, and I tried to relive them to make them brighter. Each time I relived them, less dust settled, but they grew less and less realistic. One was a girl (my younger self I suppose) who was climbing my play structure and scaring a squirrel in the nearby orange tree. Each time I replayed the memory, she would take a longer time, slowly becoming older and thus heavier. Eventually, I realized it was futile to go back to the past and I tried to get out of the memory, but I had suddenly become the child of my memory. It was very unfortunate.