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.

Sleep Deprivation Does Strange Things to my Brain

October 22-24

Over the past few days, here are some snippets of my dreams

1) I remember that I was moving into some house, but I hadn't seen the house prior to moving in. I was sitting at a table with some girls saying I had just moved in and was about to see my house. I got up from the house and went inside. All the boxes had been put down, and my parents were mysteriously not around, so an unknown person (who I can only assume to be my friend) and I went exploring. Firstly, the house was very dark and dusty, some what similar to an old Victorian house. I had been told that they had been unable to find the body of the previous owner, so my friend and I were scaring each other by pretending it was buried in the house somewhere, with a knife in the body. As we went down some very creepy stairs, I found a room with a small couch and many doors leading to different rooms. One room was a tiny bedroom and I supposed it to be my room b/c I hadn't found mine yet. The next one was a small closet. As we neared the couch, I noticed the light switch was part of the couch, which doesn't make sense now, but made sense at the time. Mysteriously, a very gaunt dog was running around the house, so I followed it to where it was digging in some damp earth in a nearby room. In the earth I found it was digging up a will, so I asked the dog and it told me that it was the previous owner's will, and that the previous owner was in the other room. Freaked out, I went back to the room with the couch, which mysteriously had a large number of choir people practicing for a rehearsal. Trying to get out of their way, I decided to go outside, at which point my memory fails me.

2) I dreamed that my friend and I were presenting a project but she didn't know any of her part of the project.

3) I went home to try and do my homework and my Aunt and Uncle were taking the sheets off my bed. Confused, I asked them why they were in my house at all, to which they replied they were "just visiting". I went to my mother to complain that I didn't want them in my room, but she didn't do anything about it. Outside, in the backyard, my dad had parked a new car, which was black and had doors that rose up into the air when opened. Confused, I wandered around my house/yard for the remainder of my dream.

Digging to Canada

October 10

I was in a grassy area and Nick and I were hiking along. We got to a point where the path became too watery, so we put on some snorkling equipment. We never ended up using it, as we were soon on a dock area looking for my dad. We saw him on a boat trying to get everyone to turn around, and only succeeding when they got to the opposite bank. When he got to our side, we got in the boat and I was mysteriously flung through the air into the water and had to be rescued.
Next, my dad, a random person, and I were being chased by some sort of army. We decided to dig a tunnel to Canada to get away from the french which made sense at the time. We dug the tunnel until he hit an underground bathroom and I told my dad we should just escape but first he decided we should let the French try and get in. We did this, and all the French came in and attacked us. There was one girl that was about to kill me, but I told her it didn't really matter seeing as everything was always taken from me anyway. While she was distracted I hit her over the head, allowing her to be a "loss" w/o getting killed, which was part of a point system to determine who won the battle. After it was over, I saw the girl again and looked at her in a disappointed way for some reason.

Considering my Lack of Actual Physical Fitness, I Seem to be Very Active in Dreams

October 9, 2010
I was in the middle of an area surrounded by snow, and I was running as fast as I could away from this bear. For some reason I kept getting stuck in the snow and slowing down by large amounts but the bear was still unable to catch me. At some point I was able to push it on to another bear and, while they were fighting, I fled. I then saw my brothers and some friends who were looking at the bear fight, saying they were going to "catch the person who did [that] and teach them a lesson". Scared that they would be mad at me, I continued to run, trying to get to the top of a nearby hill so I could be out of sight.

There was also a small part of the dream during which I was inside a building and was trying to find "the inconspicuous passerby" who ended up being a random women that I passed while going through a doorway.

Rhode Island and Camping

October 8

I was supposed to be using some strange spatula shaped tool to clean grit out of the tires of a car, but the reason why was somewhat unclear. I seemed to be on a camping trip with a large number of people, and they were having burgers with melted candy fillings for lunch.
There was some point where I was in a house doing important things but I can't remember.
There was also something about a wheelchair and a trip to rhode island.

Schedule Issues

Oct 6

I was at some school campus on my bike and was going around corners exploring. As I went around a corner, I found a broken down area under some stairs with lots of boxes and broken down crates.
Later, I was with my friend's Katie and Emma and tried to leave her house, but there were all these scheduling problems due to the PSAT and such. It's rather unclear where I was or what was going on.

Sorry For Forgetting to Post My Dreams

September 29
First there was something about me dancing in a show that i really did not want to be in. For some reason it was very embarrassing and when I complained to my brother Nick about it he said that we should never mention the event ever again.
Then, I was riding on horse back across some trail seeing wild deer that looked liked donkeys everywhere. One male deer charged my horse, and I didn't know what to do. My dad said, "duck" which wasn't very helpful.
Lastly, I was in a bookstore having bought a present for my mom, but having picked out a dull book. I was trying to exchange it, but for some reason I had to go through a long ordeal. I don't know where I was, but it had giant staircases and impressive arches, and despite the fact that the bookstore started on ground level I kept exiting from the first floor and having walk down stairs. Those stairs were very thin and had books everywhere. The shopkeeper kept disappearing into this strange upstairs area, but I didn't want to follow them up there for some reason, so i kept having to wait for them.

Note: I seem have misplaced multiple dreams that I had written down. I think I recycled them. Sorry about that.

Escaping

September 19

Though I can't remember my dream in full clarity, there were some parts I remember very well, but I'm not sure how they all connect.

At one point, I was running down a hallway, and discovered a natural ladder that had formed out of strange boxes on the walls. I climbed up the ladder and escaped from the people that were chasing me, but I discovered that I was actually in plain sight from anyone below me if they bothered to look up.

Later, I was with my sister/friend in a similar situation, and she escaped but I didn't. Then, I became her, and ran off over a hill and through some water to escape. I/She came across a hiking trail and pretended to be hikers so as to cover our escape.

School Related Strangeness

September 18

The first part related to strange cheerleaders being jerks at school. There was this giant chase and something about a glove. I don't remember what happened, but it ended in one of them pouring a gallon of vinegar on my head.

Next, I was looking through this random guy's backpack, and noticing that his teachers just gave him terrible grades no matter what he did. I found this unfair, since some of the comments in the writing section included things about pronunciation. When his teacher came over, I made rude comments when she couldn't pronounce words, but it didn't make sense because we were discussing another language at the time.

Then I was trying to camp out like the early settlers, only I was in the courtyard of my school. There was all this sand on the ground, but the wind was very windy, and it was blowing everywhere. I dug myself a ditch, but then all this wildlife was everywhere and everyone else fled. I had fallen asleep in the pit, and woke up to find everyone gone and lots of wild animals running around. I ran, leaving my stuff behind, into a random classroom, which turned into my house.

Why are my Siblings Always Insane in Dreams?

September 15
My dreams were all stress-filled and confusing.
I was sitting on some dock with my brother Nick, thinking about going across the shore to get my brother Alex, when Alex decided to walk across the lake in strange dressy clothing. I yelled at him because I thought he was going to make the boat wet but he ignored me.
At one point I was chased by a deer and was getting kicked and bitten as i fled.
There was also something about food shops and alarms when I opened books.

Snow

September 13
Last night I dreamed I was camping/ hiking through snowy mountains. First, my brother and I climbed a giant rock pile, but he got to the top whereas I gave up. Seeing his accomplishment, I tried again and got to the top. Each time a new person went by, I would climb up to point out my skill
Then my brother and I decided to climb up a random peak, but the snow was slippery, and I couldn't keep my balance. I kept falling over and sliding part way down. Soon we gave up and came back down, past these strange groups of people. We found my dad, who was making a fire, but before we finished, there was a rockslide.
It was very odd, as it seemed to just flow down the mountains with tons of rocks and swept everything in it's path aside. It hit our campsite and I was caught in the landslide. I decided to stay limp, because struggling caused me to sink, and soon I got out of the snow. I couldn't find my dad, mainly because I was using a technique I remembered my dad telling me, which was to cover my eyes and walk, so as to protect me. Because of this, I couldn't see. It was a fairly stupid dilemma.

Disjointed

September 11
Last night was very disjointed. It started put with some dream about running through snow and being almost hit on the head by a giant animal. Then, I was at a school, and was looking at the man who made the popcorn fill his butter machine. I looked in the mirror and saw my reflection. I was with 2 other people, and their reflections didn't show them, but a person who was inside of them. Mine, however only showed me, and I was confused. Later, I was explaining it to my mom, and she thought it meant I had come back with the most difficult extra person. (I assumed she meant back from the snow area.) in my dream, I had a fuzzy understanding that everyone else's extra selves were temporary, but mine was very permanent. It was scary at the time.
There was also a confusing part where I told some group of people I was gay, but then took it back. The crowd then turned into highschool students, and we were all running around in random classrooms, and talking about terrible t.v shows.
Then some strange things about Harry Potter capes happened, but I can't remember very much.