2/28/19

My dream was a hodgepodge of seemingly unrelated incidents. It started at our city park, which was a picnic area and a modest swimming pool. In the dream however, I ran into an old high school friend, who I'll call Mary D.,  and we reminisced about how quaint it used to be. It had evolved into a theme park with amusement rides, several restaurants, and an olympic-size pool. She asked me to cut open her suitcase, which she couldn't get open. I just happened to have a chain saw and when I tried to cut into it, I cut along a seam which destroyed it beyond repair. I offered to buy her a new one, and we walked out of the park, suitcase in tow. I woke up several times, and kept returning to the dream, which included several misc. settings, including the home I grew up in.

2/27/19

1. I was with a group of lawyers in one of their homes. We were getting ready to go to court for a huge and potentially lucrative case. I noticed that the lining of my suit coat was fraying and coming loose. So we used a couple of diaper pins to reattach it. Then I discovered that I was missing a dress shirt, and we rummaged through our host's closet and found a couple of rumpled blue shirts. As I was trying one on, I woke up.

2. I was at a rich acquaintance's home and he was giving a small group of us a tour of his wine and beer cellar. He was boring us to tears pontificating on the merits of the various strains of hops he used in his craft beer making. A couple of the totally uninterested guests kept commenting out loud about wanting to go across the street to buy ice cream cones. Again, I woke up with a start.

2/26

1. There's a white down comforter that stretches all around the world. I'm putting little black dots on the edge of it with an inked pencil eraser. A news flash comes on announcing that if the comforter catches fire and completely burns, the oxygen around the earth will be depleted and life as we know it will cease to exist.

2. This one involved a football game where touching the side of a particular building with a football counts as a touchdown. A young black kid is standing next to the building and keeps hitting the building with a football while repeating "touchdown...touchdown...touchdown."

3. The lead singer of a popular rock group (like Radiohead) offers to perform at his girlfriend's garden center, even though he's pretty drunk. As he sings I notice his mouth is shaped like a turtle's and he doesn't move his lips while singing. I wander around the shop and see a lot of seed packs for white flowers. A young kid offers the singer a white toy car and the singer tells him he doesn't accept gifts, however alcohol would be okay.

4. I'm on the first tee at a golf course with three friends. They've already teed off and are already on the fairway looking for their balls. I notice that all the balls in my bag are either slashed or are badly misshapen, like they've been melted. I buy three new ones from the pro shop and as I try to tee off, I see they're all in the same shape. The next foursome is getting ready to tee off. So I decide I'm just going to quit golf and have them tell my buddies to go ahead without me and I'll just drive around for a couple hours and pick them up when they're done.

2/25

#1. I was participating in a marathon which was largely held indoors. A tall blond guy was trying to beat me in the race, and in fact, that seemed to be the whole purpose of the race. At one point, we ended up in a large cafeteria, where we were supposed to stop and eat a piece of meatloaf before continuing To continue, we had to figure out which exit, which were unmarked, connected to the course.

#2. I was on a bus touring colleges in southeastern Michigan. This was taking place after a day of high school classes (bear in mind, I graduated from high school many years ago). We were all complaining about the number of schools we had to tour in one afternoon. Eventually, we came to a girl's home to drop her off. It was a beautiful mansion, and I introduced myself, mentioning a mutual friend, and I told her how pleased I was that the home still remained in her family after all these years.

2/24/19

In real life, there've been warnings that Sunday would bring strong winds and a number of power outages. In my dream, power was indeed knocked out. We were in some remote location in a five room ranch house with several other families. We discussed how the utility companies had done this on purpose. We were trying to figure out which family would take which bedroom, and assess how much and what type of food was on hand and how we would divide it up for the duration of the power outage.

2/19/19

Two dreams last night. In the first one, I was a combination of Winston Churchill and viewing a scene of a movie, through the lens of a movie camera. It was in a WW!! aircraft flying a victory lap around the city of London just after the end of the war. The city was a combination of architecture of the time and some more modern buildings mixed in.

In the second dream, I was in the kitchen of the Czar's palace in Russia. My wife was a nanny, preparing a breakfast for the young Czarinas. My wife made a comment that when she served breakfast, they would shout "Yea!" I commented that they would shout, Yippie-eye-oh-cayay!" They started to repeat this in unison, over and over and I thought to myself that I'd created a monster and that I was a bad influence on them.