Aug
14
i was thinking yesterday about what to do with my hair, and damn if my subconscious didn’t come up with a great solution for me while i slept:
the top of my head was shaved, so i looked like a bald middle-aged man with an extra-long fringe. then, a guy tattooed a 2D globe on my scalp. there were place names tattooed on there, too. the rest of my hair was dyed black and hot, hot pink, and seemed to have gotten a lot longer. it was sort of dreaded, and also had some plush characters from spiderman sewn into the locks.
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Aug
11
dreamed i was driving myself and a couple other people to a museum in downtown philly. i thought i knew exactly where i was going, but still managed to get off at the wrong exit on the highway somehow. there didn’t seem to be a way to get back on easily, so we decided we’d try to walk there. we had to balance on some slightly submerged piping to get where we thought we should go, but it ended up being a dead end. we were all concerned about getting our cameras wet.
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Aug
07
a parade for something or other was going on. i was furiously shooting photos, when all of a sudden a horse that was pulling a float collapsed. the float skidded wildly out of control, as if it had been a car and not horse-drawn. it came swinging towards where we were all standing on the sidewalk. i desperately tried to pick up my grandmother by the armpits to get her out of the way, all the while calling for someone, possibly a sister, to help me. we ended up getting out of the way in time, and were hanging out near a fire engine, when i realized that the horse float had crashed right where my brother had been, and i set off to go try to find him and see if he was ok.
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Aug
06
a dream from a couple of nights ago:
at work, trying to close the library at 5:00. two guys decide they don’t want to check out the books they’re interested in, and take off out the door with them. after chasing them down, and getting the books back, i return to find even more people are in the library. of course they all need help, and while i am helping some, another one heads behind the counter to try to use my personal computer to look things up. while scolding her, a family slips in to see the show that apparently takes place in the library: a huge (maybe 4 times life size) wooden sculpture of a dancer with joints is suspended from the ceiling. it is maneuvered by ropes to perform an elaborate dance, just barely avoiding crashing into rafters. when i finally get to leave the library, it is 7pm.
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Jul
17
seuss was involved in some kind of shady deal, and the place we were waiting to meet his guy had alligators swimming outside the back door. when the guy showed up, he tried to punch seuss in the head (which was part of the normal routine, apparently) but seuss was too quick and dodged him. a little later we realized our little dog yolanda was out back with the alligators. seuss didn’t seem concerned that the alligator was gnawing on her tail, until it pulled her under the water. then i had to pry the thing’s jaws open while seuss pulled yoyo away.
in another part of the dream, i was either working or shopping in a sort of odd-job type store. you know, they had all kinds of stuff, from household supplies to books. i was really excited to see that the children’s book section had a bunch of books by a favorite author of mine that i hadn’t read before. but i got called to help a customer, and when i finally was able to get back, all the books i was interested in were gone, and the entire section had been ransacked. there were also a whole bunch of posters that i was looking through, and some of them had pictures of really cute pitulls on them. i considered buying one, but either changed my mind or got distracted. there was an old man who was a coworker of mine, and he seemed to be really hitting it off with another old man. not sure if that guy worked there too, but i could see that they had secret crushes on each other. i whispered to my coworker that it was ok, he’d lived a long time resisting his gay urges, and he deserved to have some happiness before he died. later, i saw them tenderly feeding each other snacks.
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Jul
13
i wish i could stop dreaming about death.
in last night’s dream my dad and i were hanging out in the woods, looking at snails, when a bear cub appeared. i quickly looked around and saw the mother, and realized we needed to get out of there. my dad and i started to move away slowly, and then when we got to a gravelly embankment, i started to climb it like a maniac, only to find that my dad couldn’t keep up with me and was being attacked by the bear. i found some kids in the woods and snatched their cellphones to call for help. i found out later from a newspaper that he died (i had been under the impression that he was mauled, but would be ok).
later in the dream, or maybe in another dream, i found out that one of my dogs had died. i remember crying about my “sweet snuggly bed buddy.” i don’t know how he was killed. but in a flashback to a few days prior to all these deaths, i was assisting a photographer i know in rigging up the dogs to zip lines so that they could launch through the roof and deliver messages. there was also a part where she was taking photos of me lying on a hassock with my mouth open, and a part where my mom was tearfully trying to get her to download the pictures of my dad off the camera before anything happened to them.
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Jul
11
was at a meeting, or conference and suddenly bees started filling the room. there were so many bees they were just dropping out of the sky. i went out of the building and sat on a bench where the bees kept coming, but i just sat quietly and they didn’t sting me. after a while a huge flock of little birds appeared with such a flapping of wings and started eating the bees.
i went to the library, which i was supposed to be off from for the day for the conference or whatever, and tried to tell my boss all about the bees and the flock of birds, but she wasn’t listening, and was trying to get me to do some work, even though i wasn’t done at the conference and needed to get back.
at a woman’s house and she, or her daughter, had a guinea pig, a hamster, a rabbit and a little tiny dog with super-tight curly hair. they were all running loose, and i was desperately trying to get them back into their cages, but they would start fighting and stepping on each other, and then there was a cat in the mix, and it was peeing on my hands while i was trying to shut it in its cage.
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Jun
30
in one part of the dream, i was tending to a pool full of jellyfish, “flat sharks” and some other kind of shark. the flat sharks had sort of long noses, and were basically star-shaped if you looked at them from above, and kind of flat, like a ray. someone decided that we didn’t want to have the creatures in the pool anymore, so we began pouring salt all over the water to sizzle up the jellyfish. then we caught all the sharks and packed them into boxes. i got really upset about this, because i knew the sharks were going to die, and i started frantically trying to find a shark rescue place in the phone book and on the internet. eventually i gave up, resigned to the fact that they would all be dead before i could find a new home for them since they were in boxes, and not in the water. killing the jellyfish didn’t seem to bother me, however.
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Jun
30
was riding my bike with seuss and my childhood twin friends K and A to go to a bike repair shop in mt. ephraim. it was really more like an auto body shop: lots of guys working there, tons of parts hanging all over the place. i got sent up to the 2nd floor to look for what i needed, and it was a counter for the bike shop in the middle of a huge barn full of cattle. on one side there were a bunch of bulls mating with heifers, and on the other side were slaughtered cow carcasses hanging up on meat hooks. i was crying to the girl behind the counter that this was really upsetting me. then a song came on the radio that the girl was really into, and as she was singing along, she leaned further and further over the counter, until she was close enough to lick me. seuss came up to see what was taking me so long, and i told him we were going to take the sales girl home, which he was just fine with.
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Jun
22
my grandmother was getting married to her nephew. somehow this was ok with everyone. my father’s side of the family was attending, and there was some crazy weirdness about strawberries in a crisper drawer and a gun being shot through it which seemed to be a flashback to something that had happened in my very young childhood between me and my cousin johnny. i was supposed to be responsible for the photography, of course, and my camera was acting real slow, i was missing shots left and right (this due to a slight meltdown i was having yesterday about the state of my photography skills). my sister was riding horses all around the property the wedding was taking place at, and i wanted to get in on it, so i chased her, plunging through a field of wildflowers and over a bridge just before the dogs woke me up to go to the bathroom.
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