Our House

I know I haven't posted in a while, actually have been thinking about taking this blog down. But as I'm waiting on the phone with my car insurance company to pay a bill because the online payment system is down, I thought I'd go ahead and describe last night's dream.

I dreamed my parents bought a house in a nice, very fancy new neighborhood.  For some reason I was still living with them.  It was up on the top of a hill, and kind of at a corner lot in the neighborhood.  It was winter when we moved here.  Because I remember the lower porch/deck had carpet on it, and I wondered if it would get ruined when the snow melted or if it rained.

When I went walking one way, there was a little community center/clubhouse type building.  I saw several teens and middle school age students.  Heard them talking about how they'd be going to the middle school I used to teach at, but then the high school students were going to a different high school than what I would have thought.  Inside the building I found this room that had a bunch of books and stuff on a shelf that was high up.  I went and started adding books as I looked through what was on there.  A doctor came in, and started kind of holding my leg like he was examining it while I was standing on the table to put things on the high shelf.  He was cute, but also told me I needed to not tell people he was doing that, and meet him later.

As I left the building, I found something.  I can't remember what it was now. But I was showing it to some women about my mom's age as they were walking through the neighborhood, and they were trying to say they'd take it and find who it belonged to, but then pointed me through the trees to a different area of the neighborhood.  So I walked that way to do whatever it was I was trying to do.  On my way back to my mom's house, I saw people heading down the hill through the forest to an outdoor amphitheater type of place.  They were announcing some song that included a part by Willie Nelson.  But then the people who came to the stage to sing didn't actually include him. There were people sitting in the stands, and others sitting on blankets out in the grass. And it wasn't winter anymore.  And there were more and more people walking down that way.  I was excited to get back to my mom's house and tell my stepdad about it, because I thought he'd enjoy the live music.

And, that's about all I remember!

Home Sweet Home

I've had some vivid dreams lately, but haven't been able to get to a computer before I can't really remember them anymore. Well, last night's were very vivid.  I even took a minute to type one into my phone notes before I went back to sleep, and then I had more vivid dreams that I will remember and write int his post about.

My dream started at a store, pretty sure it was the Kohl's store nearest where I live.  They were having a good sale on Bobs, like buy one get one free or something like that.  First I found a pair that was really neat colors and grabbed it. Then I saw a pair that looked like the old fashioned saddle shoes and I just knew I had to have those also.  I was carrying both boxes when the store decided to close and shooed us out, not making me put down the shoe boxes I had.  So I took them home, to the house I grew up in.  She was getting ready to take all the dogs she had outside.  For some reason she had like 8 dogs, and she was bringing them outside and then putting them on the leash.  There were mostly dachshunds, but then there were one or two bigger dogs in the group.  There were people walking down the street, and of course that meant some of the dogs had to bark, making it harder to get the dogs on their leashes and to do what they were supposed to do.

Once back inside, my mom went to get ready for work like she sometimes did in the old house, in her master bathroom.  I went and started getting ready in the hall bathroom.  Then my mom and stepdad went to work.  Leaving me home to take care of their dogs and my two dogs.  The front door of that house is right by the staircase to go down to the basement.  And so when the dogs needed to go out again later, a bunch were downstairs and the ones upstairs, the bigger ones, were jumping over the railing and landing on the steps to get around to get first in line to go outside.  My dogs, little bitty dachshunds, were trying to do the jump as well.  Dora tried and got stuck, but on the side where the living room was so that she didn't fall down the stairs and get hurt.  I was only able to get about four of the dogs on leashes and then when I went to go outside, the other dogs not on leashes kind of pushed through the door with us and I couldn't get them to stop.  Another parade of people came down the street and I was able to find most of the dogs.  But one dog, the smallest one, probably my Dora, I didn't find until I saw her in a cart riding with a little handicapped boy who didn't want to give her up. But I got her back by going up and taking her.

Next I remember being back in the house.  We were in the back living room and watching tv, along with a big picture window open to see the stars outside.  Now we never had a picture window in the back, so not sure where that came from. And the window was up at the top of the wall, so you could only see up into the stars and not into the yard behind the house.  It was like you could see the Milky Way, it was so pretty. I kept asking my mom what it was, if it was the Milky Way and she got a little irritated with me for asking her so many questions. Then all of a sudden it was really light outside like it was day.  I went through the house trying to look out the back windows to figure out what was going on.  I got to my parents' bedroom and looked out and saw it was someone with a spotlight that was shining it on our house, and kind of doing signals with it because all of a sudden a line of people came out from the yard to the side of ours and started running toward our house.  I tried to get my stepdad's attention, and he was sitting on the toilet in the master bathroom.  I couldn't really see him, just a dark shadow in the dark bathroom.  So then I went to get my mom's attention. She was out in the laundry room which had a door to the back yard.  She looked out the little diamond shaped window in the door and pushed it shut, but acted like she couldn't see anything out there.  So I told her she needed to lock it.  And she did.  Then when we looked out, it was like all the people had stopped when they got to these big tents and were eating food.  That's where the first dream stopped because I woke up.

When I went back to sleep, I had gone to a party somewhere with a bunch of work friends from the middle school I used to teach at.  They were doing some kind of food samples.  Next thing I know my mom is doing one of those parties at the house I grew up in.  And there's someone's little kid there.  It's not my niece, because it is an older kid.  But I get stuck watching them.  And I have to keep them away from the rest of the party which is out on the back deck I guess.  I see my mom come through the house and go with a cousin of mine to go back out.  I ask her when someone is coming to watch the kid so I can go to the party before it starts. And she tells me the party has already started, and no one is going to come watch the kid, I have to watch her. Then I get really upset that I am being excluded from the party when it was my idea to have it.  And that's about all I remember from that.

My own analysis goes like this.  I think the dealing with all the dogs comes from both dealing with her two dogs when I've gone over to let them out and they're not cooperative.  As well as from dealing with my two dogs who are not always cooperative, and that happens usually when there are neighbors outside to see the dogs making feel stupid.  I think the jumping over the railing thing came from when I ordered pizza last night and one of my dogs jumps high enough his little head shows up over the baby gate that I have to keep them in the living room.  He jumps pretty high, he's pretty little.  I'm guessing the work people showed up in my dream because I got on Facebook last night and saw a bunch of them went to the Royals' game last night, although separate, not as a group.

Weird, vivid dreams. 

Wild and Crazy!

So I've been having trouble remembering my dreams enough lately to blog. But last night's were extremely vivid and extremely crazy, so I'm going to try to get them down now.  As always I can't remember every little bit, and there are in between parts that kind of blur out, but I will tell about the big scenes that I remember.

I remember living with my mom and stepdad, as an adult, in a house that is often a part of my dreams.  It is a weird house, and I know that in some dreams certain parts of it have been haunted.  But not last night.  Anyway, it was in the evening, and one of my college boyfriends had stopped by, let's just call him by his nickname at the time, Beavis.  And he and I were hanging out, in my bedroom.  Well, let's just say that he was there wanting the same kind of thing we mostly did in college.  And so we were talking, and then the next moment he was laying on my bed, undressed and expecting e to come over.  But my door was partially open, and of course, my stepdad was still up and about the house.  Even when I shut the door, I knew that at any time my stepdad might come open it.  So I told Beavis that he should get dressed and we'd have to wait until my stepdad went to bed.  I went on down to the kitchen area where for some reason dinner was being made and everyone was getting ready to eat.  Beavis came down holding my jeans and a shirt and told me they would need to be washed.

For some reason there was a dog, or maybe it was a cat, which would be weird for me to be trying to let a cat stay in the house since I am allergic to them.  But I was trying to convince my stepdad to let the cat stay as well.

Now, it was storming, and we were in a room that is new to my dreams.  It had lots of tall windows and you could see the lightning flashing outside and the trees waving around in the high winds.  Now for some reason I now had my own house right next door, right outside the windows we were looking at, where the tall trees were.  And I heard a crack and I  yelled for everyone to move as one of those trees came crashing down on top of my parents' house.  We all heard it hit and ducked, but it didn't really come through the roof or anything.

My guess at interpreting is that I've been doing some daydreaming about guys lately, and that is probably where the college boyfriend stuff came through.  I've not been daydreaming about him, just meeting a guy, and so I'm guessing he was a familiar face to stick in for my subconscious.  I used to daydream about guys all the time, but lately I realized most of the time I have old cat (dachshund) lady dreams, of a house that would have a fenced yard for my dogs.  I decided maybe I needed to start daydreaming/dreaming about guys and maybe that would bring one into my life?  Who knows.  I'm guessing the storm part of the dream was because it seems like it has been raining constantly lately. The tree falling probably had to do with all the things that have been damaging my car and then having to have my stepdad fix them for me when he can.

Dr. Who?

 

So I woke up this morning remember almost all of my dream!  And then, I got busy doing things at work and have forgotten a lot of it. So I decided to go ahead and try to start blogging what I did remember so that maybe the other parts would pop back into my head as I was typing.

I'm not a Doctor Who fan.  It's not that I don't like it, I've just never watched it.  And I'm sure I'd probably really enjoy it, but I already have so many shows that I watch that I just don't want to let myself get involved in another one.  However probably due to all the stuff we have to do with the show at the bookstore where I work, I'm guessing that is why it was in my dreams last night.

I remember something at the beginning about how I was going to do some complicated type of degree.  I'm guessing it had something to do with the International Baccalaureate program we have at school and all the testing we've been doing and will be doing the rest of the school year.  But I was worried about getting to my class/test whatever on time.  And for some reason I needed my parents to drive me, but they wouldn't help me out.  It was my mom and stepdad I think.  Which is weird, they've always been there for me when I need them for something like that.

So then I get to school and am looking at all the things I have to do in this classroom and thinking that maybe I don't want to do whatever this thing is that I have to do.  And after kind of discussing it with one of my professors from back when I was in library school, we decided that really it wasn't anything that was going to help me any, and so it would be a waste of my time and stress to do it.

Next thing I remember is being in a girls' bathroom at school, although it kind of looked like a fitting room in a store, and I was getting dressed in some type of Doctor Who costume, with the maroon and gold scarf I think?  Maybe it is in my head because of the books I ordered that arrived at school and I'm getting ready for the students.  But then in my dream, two students came in and were also changing into costumes, and one of them is an 8th grade girl we have that I know is really into Doctor Who and was telling me how awesome my costume was. 

I can't remember a lot of what happened after that.  I remember coming out in my costume and there being a kind of cute guy there, and me hoping he'd be impressed by my costume because he was a  Doctor Who fan.  I'm guessing that part may have had something to do with the new guy at work last night.

So that's all I can remember for now.  If I think of any other parts I may come back and add to the post later.  I just feel like there was more to talk about!