Glasses and Needles

I had a dream where the nose pads on my glasses were replaced with sharp pins. It hurt to wear my glasses but I couldn't see anything without them. My eyes are 20/700 and 20/600, do you know that what I see at 20 feet, someone with perfect vision can see at 600 feet? I need to to be 6 inches away from the laptop screen to be able to see the letters clearly.

Impaired vision blows. However we get to wear awesome glasses frames without looking like tools.

Forgetting How To Run

I had a dream where I forgot how to run. Rather than forgetting out right, it was more like instead of running the way I usually do, I "ran like a girl."

Which is a ridiculous notion, because most girls run completely fine. It was more like I "ran like an anime girl."

You know, arms swinging side to side in front of me instead of forward and back at my sides. It was really frustrating because I could only go so fast, and I knew I could run faster, if only I could run the way I normally do.

I'm a young guy, 23 this year, but I feel as though I'm reaching the age where things start to slow down. I won't retain information as quickly. I'll have learned something, forget what it is that I learned, and only retain the knowledge that I did learn it at one point and should be able to utilize that information....

C'est la vie

Dorm Room Antics

I dreamed that I was moving into college dorms. It wasn't my first time doing such a thing in my dream, and it isn't in real life either. I lived in college dorms my freshman year at UMD. Living in ellicot was ridiculous. I had the single bed that was on the ground, since I was the first person there.

I had two other roommates, and they were stuck with the bunk bed.

Anyways in my dream I had moved in and my roommate was already settled in on the bottom bunk. Good for me, I said what's up and took the single bed. I set my stuff down and then left the room. I must have been gone for hours because when I came back it was dark in the room. All you could see were the ghastly glows of people's monitors with their screen savers on.

Roommate A welcomed me back and said he'll introduce me to roommate B.
Roommate B turned his light on and put on his glasses. What do you know! It was my roommate from freshman year. The other roommate A looked at us and said "I guess you already know each other?"

What a shock.

The next day I return to the room to find out that we had somehow gone from a triple to a 5-bed room (a pentle? pentuple?). Since the addition of a new bunk and 2 new desks meant that everything else was shifted. The table that was at the foot of my bed wasn't even my table. My desk was further down and it made no sense. But I reasoned "its okay, i have the single bed, my desk can be further away"

Usually I forget my dreams but this one came rushing back to me somehow.

League of Legends

I play this game called league of legends. Some days I won't play at all, other days I'll play for 4 or so hours. It's my most played game as of late. So it's no surprise that I had a dream about LoL.

In the dream I was at my cousin's home playing his console. Recently I have been seeing him more, as we've seem to have adopted a tradition of Wednesday night dinner's at my uncle's.

Anyways he had a game that was a side scrolling action game. Think battletoads, streets of rage, double dragon, contra. I only mention so many because they're the games I grew up with and probably had a large impact on my dream.

Basically it was that game, but with a League of Legends theme. You would run around bashing weaklings as your hero, using your skills, or navigating terrain obstacles. One area required you do a running dash / dive so you can get through a narrow hole. There was water and swimming and people doing somersaults as they jumped.

I remember trying to select a hero after my cousin beat the first level (basic rule - exchange controllers upon beating a level[if the level were sufficiently long], or upon dying[l2p]). I wanted to save my character's set up so I could choose him again quickly but all of my cousin's slots were occupied by sion, and kogmaw. I'm not sure why but there was a LOT of kogmaw in this dream. (never played him. played against him twice)

My First Time

Well that was an interesting experience. I just had my first dream in high definition. High definition for me is a resoundingly crisp and large image, where if you look closely enough you can see the rays shooting red, blue, green.

I have no idea if that actually happens but it happened in my dream. I had been watching The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and I fell asleep during one of the episodes. The screen was paused with a close up of her face. Between the blurring of dreams and reality I saw that image in high definition, playing at glorious 1080p as I glanced at my pillow.

I didn't know my pillow was HD equipped, but now I am glad it is

I dreamed that I was in the audience of a talent show (like America's Got Talent). There was only one judge and I happened to know him. Perhaps I was there on his behalf. I was sitting on the front right side of the auditorium with a bunch of asian people and there was an asian band performing on stage. Their first song was awesome, and their second song started off with a small asian kid playing an intro.

I noticed the shape of his guitar and said to the guy next to me "hey that kid has a mustang." But upon closer inspection I realized it only had 4 strings. I corrected myself "wait its a mustang bass." The guy next to me said "no its actually a mustang violin."

Mind blown. It did look very odd.

Anyways the kid kept messing up so they restarted the song with a piano doing the intro, however when they started singing it was terrible and the judge had to cut them short.

I wonder if expressing these dreams will one day come back to bite me in the ass.

I work for a catering company part time. Officially, I'm a contractor that is hired by them whenever a job comes up. That means there are no benefits and they dont pre-tax my paycheck. I get an email from them when a job comes up and I confirm or deny if I'll be able to make it. So sometime last week I got an email for a job this saturday. In my dream I went to the job, only to find out that the job's location was at my parents' home. I had assumed the job was pretty big because a lot of people were staffed, but when we got there our boss told us that he'd be cutting half of the people.

The staff grumbled amongst themselves and dispersed. I too was cut, which meant no money for me. Discontented, I walked around (since we were at my parents' house) while the staff went about their duties. It was 1:00PM and dinners don't start until 6 or 7. That's one of the best parts of working a catering job. When you get there it gets busy as you set up tables, chairs, silverware and glassware. But if you get done early you do nothing for like an hour. Getting paid to relax is pretty nice.

So the staff and my mom cleaned and set up. After the initial surge of cleaning, the staff drizzled off and began to disappear as they took their breaks. I clearly remember seeing the place a mess and my mom was the only one cleaning, with no staff around. Disappointed in the word ethic of my peers, I grabbed a broom and helped out. (My mom had been sweeping and the floor was littered with things like mr. goodbar wrappers to). Feeling slighted that I could have been paid for doing all that work, I went to my room to lie down.

When I got there I was surprised to see a girl from the staff lying in my bed. I guess she really wanted to relax. Slightly annoyed I ignored her and crawled into bed. She looked at me and we started talking. We were hitting it off but I was really tired so I said good night and closed my eyes. At this point she put her arms around me and we cuddled. Taken aback by how forward she was, I decided to see how far it would go. I turned around, put my arm her, and then put my leg over hers. I had my other arm resting on me when she grazed it with her leg. She said "oh is that your penis?" I laughed. I took her hand and put it on me and said "no, thats my penis." She jerked her hand back, lifted the blanket, pulled aside her pants to reveal a secret and said "I have a penis too."

The odd thing is if this happened in real life I'd probably have a bit of an over reaction. But in the dream I was just like "oh okay thats cool, we can just be friends." We spent the next bit talking about her experiences as a transvestite (I should say him, in my dream he considered himself a male). He said people would always confuse him to be a girl because he was so pretty.

Later we head downstairs to the sunrom where more of the staff were napping. I noticed some were sharing blankets while those who didn't have blankets were shivering. I went to get blankets for them and they thanked me.

Guests started arriving so I went to get dressed. My sister had decided to wear a sleeveless tux. I joked be careful you don't get confused as part of the wait staff. Then noticing my own attire, I went back up to change into a blue shirt instead of a white shirt.

And I can't remember the rest. My house was a lot bigger than it actually is. I remember 4 guys talking in the family room, and most people were milling around in the living room. That's odd because the living room (aside from the dining room) is the room my family spends the least time in, ever. We only go there to get to the sunroom. The only memory I have of my liviing room is the one christmas we had there and when I played chinese chess with my then girlfriend.

The end.

...This usually never happens

Well that usually never happens. I had a..somewhat private dream. The fact that I had such a dream isn't an issue. Its normal and healthy for males with an active subconscious to have dreams of that nature. *cough*

I'll spare you the details, but what was interesting about the dream was I was having problems satisfying my partner. I woke up mildly irritated, confused, and horny. What a terrible way to start the day. I only got 5 hours of sleep too.

My laptop's itunes serves as an alarm clock (via isnooze). When it rings, it plays a random song in your library or a selection from a playlist of your choosing. Usually have a selection of active, energetic, pump-up music to get my heart rate going in the morning without too much effort on my part. A small window appears with two buttons. A giant "SNOOZE" button a very tiny "stop" button. My vision is pretty bad, so I have to glue my half-shut eyes about 2 inches away from my screen and then search for the mouse pointer. You know when you're in a dark room for awhile and the lights come on, and everyone goes "ahh!" Yeah, its like that, only the light is right next to your face.

I need to figure out how to keep the dreams coming though. Seems my dreams are most vivid when I'm exhausted from lack of sleep.

Infidelity

Who's at fault, when cheating occurs? Is it the responsibility of the person the relationship to say no? Or should the outsider be at fault. Words like homewrecker are thrown around but isn't that just the easy way out? Blame the outsider when the relationship could have internal strife.

My dream was me making out with a girl on a long bed/couch. We were under covers in a living room. There was another guy at our feet who was napping and the girl's boyfriend was siting on an adjacent couch too busy playing video games to notice what was going on. It was risky because we had to keep quiet but her skin was so soft.

and then I woke up

This dream was a lot more fresh 3 hours ago when I woke up breathing heavily and scratching at my arms.

Heres the set up

Me plus a girl who was my girlfriend, another couple, and a bear with a unique voice and mannerisms. We were on some sort of camp or tour. Now, the bear that was accompanying us hopefully had way more experience in the woods than us. We were looking for something...like a type of tree or water. Now this bear was being pretty hilarious the entire time so maybe he was just distracted but we come up to this tree and we all decide to climb it. The bear however doesn't climb and we soon find out why. Partway up the tree we see a bunch of wasps. The wasps landed on my right arm and then everything kind of slowed down. You could make out the fine fluttering of their wings. They raised their heads as their abdomens lowered and their stingers pierced my skin. I used my free left arm to smash, squish, pluck, flick, and fling them from me. I jumped down from the tree and we ran away. But soon there was a pain in my right arm. A small bump formed and grew. The pain swelled in proportion with the stretching of my skin. And when my skin couldn't hold it anymore (which is strange because skin is pretty damn elastic) it popped, pain shot through my right arm, and an larvae crawled out of the whole.

It was then I realized that the wasps were not stinging me, they were laying their eggs in me! And then dread...as my eyes glanced to my left arm, bumps were starting to form. And then the all too familiar pain...

And then I woke up

Grades

I dreamed that everyone (teachers, friends) were talking about my BMGT340 grade. Surprisingly the grade I got in my dream was similar to my actual grade.

Exam schedules can really bone you. Honestly if I had 4 hours of separation between my CMSC313 exam and my BMGT340 exam it would have been no problem.

CS Go Kart Race with WoW nerds

I had this dream after waking up around 8:14. I looked outside and the sun was rising. Oh shit, its 8:14? I had an exam at 8:00AM...I was supposed to study at night and then take the exam but I didn't get any studying done and to top it off I'm late...oh wait..its only 8:14PM. Back to bed. Two hours later I was refreshed with a new dream in mind.

A friend of mine sent me a CNN article about dreams, particularly the "failing an exam" recurring dream that happens in people well after their last final. Relating that to my misunderstanding that I had slept myself into failure earlier today and what do we get? I don't know, but my attitude here should be "Bring it on."

I don't mean WoW nerds offensively. It just seems a good way to describe video game playing, drag machine racing geniuses that smoked the CS department in a drag race through portals (a la Portal). However the portals were more like the green spheres from Half-Life 1.

The set up for the dream is a bit fuzzy, but basically my CS class was tasked to build a go kart and our competition was a group of WoW players. Possibly it was another class, but all I remember is they high fived each other and talked about WoW. I'm pissed at my CS class because only half of us showed up, and versus the collective brain power of the WoW nerds we needed all the brain juice we could get. We end up racing through Van Munching through various portals and in the final stretch I blacked out. (I was the race car passenger -- btw "man you really like tide.")

I came to a few moments later, amidst a cheering crowd with flashing lights and the weird muffled sound you get whenever people cheer in movies. But then I looked up and noticed the WoW guys shouldering their kart and walking into a portal and disappearing.

"Who won?" I asked..I woke up.

Train, Planes, other Planes

This dream came out of nowhere when I was taking my two hour nap before my business marketing final. In the dream I had brought my guitar to class. The teacher (unrelated to business finance, looks more like a teacher from a science class in high school) looks at the guitar comically and says "no..no way..there is no way you brought this guitar to class. He then takes my guitar (it was a blue metallic strat) and places it on a table near the door with...surprise surprise, my bass!

Turns out it was a music class because a girl performed a lick and we had to analyze it.

Sometime later this video started playing. I can't tell if I was imagining the video or if I were watching it on a laptop or something. Basically it was like a cheesy flash video that people make with interpretations of song lyrics. (Going Down - Misheard Lyrics comes to mind).

I cant find what melody I was biting but basically the song was "Oh baby i'm a train, oh baby i'm a plane, maybe another plane, oh baby I'm a train." And with every change the image would change from one hilarious picture the next. Images include Uncle Thomas the tank engine from an episode of Cleaveland show, to a picture of an army commander driving in a tank, where the driver mistakenly floors it and the tank shoots off.

Then I woke up.

Dream Blog

I heard it was a good idea to keep a journal of your dreams. It can server as inspiration for songs, movies, conversation pieces. I will do this now.

Unfortunately since it's online I have to keep my laptop next to me. The first thing I have to do when I wake up is write as much down as I can remember. Unfortunately the first thing I do when I usually wake up is go back to sleep.

See you tomorrow morning.