Camp Hate; Snow Explosion; That Chipper Bastard

I was at some sort of summer camp or something with lots of girls. The girl who was my roommate secretly hated me so I not so secretly hated her back.

It was in a house like my grandmothers with tons of weird little rooms. I finally figured out there was an extra bathroom. I looked in and saw that it even had a full bath, but when I went in I saw the huge tub had actually had the bottom cut out and filled in with a garden.

Up on a mountain overlooking the building with the camp. It was covered with snow, and it felt like I was with someone and we were wandering around for a long time, desperate to get back. Finally, we set off some sort of explosion to bring people to us. I flew up in the air and down incredibly slowly, like I'd figured out a way to slow down time so I wouldn't crash and hurt myself. I landed in the soft snow and saw I was saved.

There was some obnoxious camp counselor type who was trying to be everybody's pal. He asked if I had any questions about a bunch of stuff but I just wanted him to fix my computer. I was really rude to him, and as I stalked off, I thought to myself that I wouldn't have been as rude if he hadn't been as chipper.

Sorting 3D glasses; King Herring; elderly cat

Back at work again. I was sorting a stack of photographs and pulling what looked like 3D glasses out of the stack.

On my way to a vacation spot. I was going over the water--in a boat--swimming?--and then a giant serpent thing leapt out of the water and rocketed up. It was huge and kind of flattened. I think it was a King Herring but later when I was describing it some people thought it was like a later life stage for a boa. I should have been terrified but instead it was really cool.

Someone's elderly cat? I was trying to play with it and it hissed and ran away.

Climb the vine

Another one of those dreams where I was sort of watching/participating. There was a young woman who was an actress or a prostitute. She eventually fell in with a wealthy Japanese business man on a train, and at first he was nice to her, but then pretended not to speak any English and she explained she could speak a little Chinese but no Japanese and he sort of shunned her but pointed out a first class train seat she could take.

There was a switch to a huge tree or vine. There was a main guy about to go on a quest. He had planted the tree to make his mother better, and she was, but she said he was sick now. Two men (but I was one of them) scrambled up the tree. It was enormously tall, and on the other side, there was a big shimmering amusement park. I could almost reach a weird sort of scaled ferris wheel--it was like a giant snake skeleton, but made of silver metal, and rippling. Instead, the scene shifted to a show on the ground. I could only see little bits at a time, like a movie camera just zooming in. There were two beautiful dancers, and it slowly became clear that one of them (point of view switching so I was her) had a lobster claw for a hand. A circus barker was setting her up on a date with one of the explorers.

Something about M suggesting glasses to me?

Work; Rom-Com pierogi; Art& pirates

I dreamt I was back at work. There were lots of new little cubicles to work in which I had never noticed before. I got in very early and did some slightly sneaky task but I was setting up the computer right when K got in. I went to a small conference room and we decided to watch a movie.

I was in the movie. It started out as a romantic comedy about two friends who have made a pact to have a baby. It takes place in a darkly lit bar that sets out free food. I was one of the characters, and I was mostly interested in tracking down the different types of pierogi. There was one in a spicy szechuan type sauce, deep fried ones with cheese, bland boiled ones with tomato sauce, all set out in awkward vessels, like a big deep Chinese vase, served with chopsticks, or in a steam tray that kept moving. At the end of that section, the guy of the couple is setting up a fake baby shower page and laughing.

The second half of the movie was on a voyage. The kid is now about seven, a precocious homeschooled boy named Sloane who keeps pointing out that Sloane could also be a girl's name. It was very beautiful. We were on a river, then we went to an art exhibit. Everything was in reds and browns, and there were modern sculptures made with packets of mint chewing gum, which I could smell.

We lay out on a promonade by the river. Suddenly a woman who had been one of our party and a bunch of her followers showed up, coming up out of the brick promenade as if it were water. They were pirates! I got up to fight her. She had a long kitchen knif that I wrestled from her, and she smiled and pulled out her sword. We fought and I won.

I thought I was oooout!

Dreamed I had to go back to work. The offices were unrealistic, but everything else was horribly true to life. I had to try to schedule a meeting with out suitemate, who started crying.

Went into a high fashion store and tried on shoes. There were only left feet on display, and I wanted to see if I could walk in a pair of enormously high bottle green velvet high heels. I settled on a very beaten up pair of black lace up boots.

Old college friend D was playing a concert. He played a violin with two bows and performed all kinds of tricks with it. Eventually he stretched out the violin so he could bounce on the strings. Someone in the hippy audience started calling him a douchebag and I went back to her and whispered kindly, "Maybe you're being the douchebag."

I fell back asleep after having anxious thoughts about needing to print something out. I dreamt I was in a copy center, but the basement had been converted into a theater. The play had started and I thought it was pretty good, and then I saw actors in red and yellow motorcycle outfits with huge, pointy-snouted helmets, and I laughed because I realized it was a show I'd read a good review about. The helmets were supposed to represent mouse snouts and there was some Kraftwerk/Autobahn inspired musical number, and all the children in the audience were called up to race around. I got confused, thinking they were going off track, but it didn't seem to matter.

The dream switched suddenly and I was walking through neighborhoods with my childhood friend M and our buddy W. I had accomplished my printing chore. Suddenly I realized I had no idea how I had gotten there and I said, "Hey, I don't think this is real." I grabbed on a wooden piece of a porch and felt the texture of it, but I still was sure I was asleep. But I couldn't seem to wake myself up or change anything, so I kept going and forgot I was asleep.

We came to an outdoor party of women doing crafts. We got to talking with them and the hostess got a cloth pouch for me and began filling it with buttons, saying she was never going to use them. They were very pretty, pink and orange with metal filagree designs on them.

Conquering story; Beagle Box

I was on something like a college campus, being taken on a tour. There was a story about how some prince conquered some land and it wasn't clear if I was hearing the story or telling it, but eventually I was in it. The views were great--I was above the landscape, and it was like for different sections being told there was a different director or artist. There were gardens and lots of marble statues, mostly of defeated generals. Finally, in a long open hallway, there was a wizard character. A bird flew onto his shoulder and it became his story. It turned into an illustration or cartoon where there was no background, just the prince's frightened face as he was dragged along by a ferocious peacock. The feathers dragged all over the view.

I was with an old man who was walking outside. He looked like Steve Martin. We came across a bunch of distressed dogs. They were maybe being put into a kennel or having to travel. He picked up one dog and said, "Now you get to go in a beagle box!" and showed the dog how he could hang upside down from the wires on the crate by his claws.

The dogs owner was a hippy young man who took the dog away and berated the old man. The boy and the dog clung to each other, wailing.