the puzzle at the edge of the world

I had a strange nightmare on Friday morning. It involved someone who I have absolutely no animosity towards, and I'm pretty sure vice versa, threatening to kill me and then slashing my hand two times with a knife! Then I slashed him with a knife in return and held his arms back behind his head, while I called 9-1-1. When the dispatcher answered I calmly and dispassionately related the violent events, which made me feel very empty and fraudulent. I thought she would think that I should be more genuinely emotional and panicky, if the situation was truly dangerous. I also admitted to the dispatcher that I had some complicity in the situation, since i had retaliated with some more bloody hand knifing. Then my mom showed up. She was acting very intense.

"I am here for the puzzle," She said.

I was still on the phone with 9-1-1. "Huh?" I said.

"The puzzle. I am here for the PUZZLE, I was told you have a Puzzle."

She said it like she was some kind of CIA agent or something. And I assumed she meant a jigsaw puzzle. It was so unlike my mother in real life to be so suggestive, it woke me up.




Then when I fell back asleep, I dreamed I was a member, with three other girls, of this really ultra cool awesome HOUSEBOAT CLUB. We even had a treasurer. And a box of brussel sprouts-looking green nuggets that we sold to raise money. So we got on the boat and everything was going swimmingly, until I found myself suddenly without warning whizzing through the air and looking back to see the wonderful house boat gone, everyone afloat in the water. I kept waiting for it to resurface, and I worried about my books that were on there that I had just been reading! All my favorite books! But then George Chen floated up to me and informed me that the houseboat had gone over the edge of a huge waterfall.



I looked over to see the waterfall in question, and couldn't believe we had chosen such a precarious location for our houseboat club. Looking at the waterfall gave me the feeling of when people assumed the world was flat, and at some point in your journeys, it would just end and you would go over the edge. George told me that the Houseboat Club was over, our treasury had been confiscated and we were not allowed to hold meetings anymore. I was so bummed out. It had been this really important, fun thing in my life!

an alien, a crystal ball and judge judy

This week in Dreamland:

I had this really trippy feeling dream about an alien. It started off as pretty ordinary, I was at work, and it was a lot like my job really is, except that for some reason, there was this thing where if you were an alien you got some "fine" or "fee" waived. Except that scenario "obviously" never happened, so we didn't have to worry about it.



So I was at my desk, when a student worker came and told me someone asked to see me (the supervisor) about having their fine waived. I was thinking it would be the usual routine--I would go out and say there are no exceptions (unless you are an alien, which you are of course not). Except when I walked out to the counter to my delight and shock I was face to face with this weird white alien with three different- sized eyes, all positioned lopsided on his face. It felt so weird! I woke up right away.

(weird like this):



I also had an awesome dream about being in my car


and thinking to myself how bored I am with the city I live in, when suddenly the car was riding up the track of a roller coaster and we were about to get to the top to make the big scream-inducing plunge! I was nervous!



But when I got to the top, instead of falling, I was surrounded by all these crystals and plants and I had this feeling that I could ask any question or pose any problem I had and it would be solved. I wasn't sure how to get started though, but suddenly a crystal ball appeared! I couldn't wait to try it out! I was super excited. I asked "who am I going to marry?" first, which I think is really funny because It felt like I was asking that because I felt conditioned by my childhood imaginings of "fortune tellers" and what questions you should always ask them. Then I saw an image of a man form, but I didn't really care that much about this. Then I asked a question I truly wanted answered, about why something had happened in my past, and I saw this whole scenario take place in the bowl, using goldfish to act it out! It was amazing, I really understood what it was showing me!



And finally, last night I dreamt I met Judge Judy! In the dream, I was reading a book of "fan fiction" based on her show (ha!), on a grocery store floor, when she came up and sat down next to me and put her head next to my head. I asked her questions about how she is able to be so unmanipulated and unaffected by people who are upset and arguing!

E.T.'s head

On Friday night I dreamt about touching E.T's head! He was in a swimming pool! Naturally! His head felt like a rubber costume. This was really exciting to me for some reason!



It all had something to do with a movie I was watching in the dream that had an ending/resolution like the one in the movie "Magnolia". and this was important.



Then last night I had this strange but mundane dream: I was at work, and I went upstairs to the department I used to work for. There was a new guy there, who had replaced me, he had been working there for a week, and so far no one had trained him how to do my old job. I started showing him what I did, like how to put tattle tape stickers on DVDs and CDs (which is not what I did at my old job). I was really detailed in my explanation, even though in real life I always feel like a control freak if I get too detailed in my instructions.



He was small and blond, with glasses. Kind of like this:



Then we went on a walk through campus and suddenly we were in New York (naturally).
We sat down on a lawn to enjoy the scenery, and then an ocean wave from out of nowhere rolled up on to the grass and washed him away! I was like "oh dear! I guess he's gone!"

Maybe it has something to do with me wanting to be more detailed and focused?

pregnant man

Last night I dreamed I was talking a pregnant man into giving birth! He was really upset about being pregnant.

the future of the future

My dream last night:

I got arrested for going to a playground where some homeless people had gathered at night. My sister was one of them, but for some reason that i wondered about later, i didn't take her home with me.

A cop stopped me while I was driving away from the banned spot, and he pulled me over at the edge of a dark cliff. Even though he was kind of a conservative, so I didn't like him, we started to tentatively become attracted to each other, so he took me out to dinner.

At dinner, he pulled a fortune out of his pocket.

It said:


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menage-a-trois bike ride

Last night i dreamt that I was riding a bike, with two other people (a blond girl and my roommate) superimposed on to me, riding it with me. All three of us had our hands on the handle bars and our feet layered on top of each other on the bike pedal, but mine was the bottom one, so i was mostly responsibly for pedalling, and i was afraid i couldn't brake and that they were going to get really mad at me when we crashed. It was stressful! and also not physically possible.

The Terrible Game

Last night I watched this silly movied called, "Gymkata".



It was made in 1985 and starred an Olympic gymnast who was sent to a fictitious country called Parmistan (!) to participate in a brutal game that the country played every year, in which the losers died violently! The idea was for him to win the game, using a mixture of gymnastic skill and karate style killing, so that the country would host some kind of star wars weapon detection site for the US. The movie was based on a book called, "The Terrible Game":



Afterwards, I dreamt that I too, had to play a terrible game! My challenge was to beat my opponent in getting ready in the morning! Like the movie, the loser would be killed, and I thought about what it would be like to really die, as I shampooed my hair in my assigned bathtub. There were all kinds of soaps and hair products for me to choose from to make getting ready that much harder, and I scrambled to find the right conditioner! I had started out really confident that I could beat my opponent with my choice of soaps, but I started to panic when I couldn't find the chamomile one I had seen earlier. Time was running out! So much pressure! I kept looking at the bottles and not knowing what to do! ahhh!

and then I woke up.