The Dreams of Hannah

I dreamed the youth group was trying to think of a game to play. Jasmine and I both had this specific game in mind, where you take picture of people's heads, then cut them up into strips and mix and match them. Finally Jasmine snapped her fingers and said, "I know what it's called! 'Stuck To Your Face'!" I was pretty sure it was actually "Ask Your Face", but I decided not to debate it with her. So we started taking pictures of people's heads, except we couldn't remember whether we were supposed to take pictures of their faces or the backs of their heads, so we compromised and took pictures of the tops of their heads.

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I dreamed that Caitlin, Jen M., and I went to Cornerstone. It was a long complicated dream but I'll try to write down what I remember about it.

The festival took place in this giant, white, very sterile-looking building. Each floor had two rooms in it, and each room had a band in it. I was looking for ApologetiX, but they were on like the very, very top floor. So Caitlin and Jen and I wandered up there looking for them and on the way we found Jenni D. and Tiffany and some other girl I didn't know. Jenni was being very loud and obnoxious, however, and Caitlin kept going, "Are you SURE you know this girl?"

We saw the stairs that would lead us right up to the ApologetiX room, and we started toward them. We passed a table with a blue tablecloth on it. A woman was standing in front of it, and she came toward us and snapped at us, "I'm responsible to make sure none of you get lost. I'm your group's sponsor." There was a plate of cookies on the table behind us, and she suddenly yelled, "EAT A COOKIE!" Jenni and Tiffany and the girl I didn't know began chatting with her, and I sneaked upstairs to see ApologetiX.

The concert was apparently in progress, but it was about the lamest concert ever. There were couches everywhere on the stage and each of the guys was lying down on a couch with a guitar (whoo... five guitars and nothing else) sorta lazily playing it and not doing much else.

I went back downstairs, where Caitlin and Jen were waiting for me. Well, not really waiting, as they had found two pianos right next to each other and were busily leafing through songbooks to find something for the two of them to play. They were all songbooks of Russian and Ukranian folk songs, though. I said something like, "Oh, I wish I was talented enough to play an instrument!" Jen said, "You sing, though, right?" I said, "Er, well, yeah..." and they both started begging me to sing something from the songbooks with them. However, as I don't speak/read Russian or Ukranian, I had to decline.

Labels: apologetix, caitlin, jen m, jenni d, tiffany

I dreamed there was this huge lock-in at the church. B'qi and her sister Sarah were both there, but I kinda left Sarah on her own. It was the most boring thing in the entire world. They had set up rows and rows of computers in the gym and just had people play on those. In Paula's office there were more computers and Lauren S. was teaching people how to do weird stuff on them. At one point B'qi and I went into a room with the computers and I tried so hard to find one that was free but for some reason B'qi and I couldn't get a computer next to each other. These Indian dudes kept taking the computers right next to B'qi.

At one point Sarah came up to me and asked how long she had to stay there. I told her I thought it ended at 12, but then noticed to my dismay that it was only 9:00 instead of 11:45 like I thought. B'qi and I walked off to see if Mom, who was there with us, drove on her own or rode in the church van, cuz if she drove on her own we could get a ride back earlier. While we were trying to find her, however, all we found were these people playing a video game and this very distressing image of a mother carrying around her daughter who had no legs. She didn't even have real prosthetic legs, just these weird metal things. This woman sat down next to my mother and said something about Elphaba.

There was another link to Elphaba, too. I had been playing "Wicked" on the youth group's jukebox but Sarah J. just gave me this weird look and switched it to something else and then I felt horribly bad for playing non-Christian stuff at a Christian retreat.

There was also a part where B'qi and I wandered out behind the church and I was discussing some lyrics I'd just discovered in POTO and how stupid they were. It was a reprise of "Angel of Music" sung between Christine and Meg at the very end, and one of Meg's lyrics was something like, "Christine, you're talking in riddles, now come look at the loons" which is indeed a pretty stupid lyric.

And there were these guys who were trying to start a gang or something and get everybody fighting, so they were prank calling some guys to try to get them to come over and attack their houses, except it wasn't really a prank call, they just called them up and insulted them. The telephones they used looked like old video arcade games. The guys they were insulted kept yelling, "YOU WERE THE ONE WHO LET OUR PIGS OUT!" and once when they said it, a bunch of pigs came jumping out of the arcade games into the gym and started running around. Weird.

Later on in the evening, I was standing around listening to the music (which was still "Wicked", actually), and Canaan came up and asked me if I wanted to dance. I'm thinking, "Erm, it's a youth group retreat. It's probably against the youth group rules." So I said, "I'm not allowed to, and I don't know how," and then laughed because apparently that was a line from a movie. Canaan said, "Oh, it's okay, no one'll notice, and I'll teach you." So he took out this PAMPHLET of how to do all these different ballroom dances and started going over it with me in detail, except he wasn't content to stick with one dance, oh, no, he was like, "Okay, we'll do one step of the waltz, then we'll do one step of the tango, then the polka, and then the fiddle-dee-dee," and I was just getting very confused, as I had no idea what was going on. I kept thinking, "Can't I just learn one dance and then practice that one for a while?"

Labels: b'qi, canaan, lauren s, mom, phantom of the opera, sarah j, sarah m, wicked

I dreamed the youth group people going on the Appalachian trip came to stay at my house. We put most of them in the attic, but a bunch of people from Ohio showed up too. They called themselves the Roses. I didn't want them in our house but we put them in the attic anyway. I remember talking to Trudee and being a bit freaked out because whenever I said ANYTHING she would burst out laughing really, really loud. I remember thinking, "Hmm. I never thought I was quite that witty," and then wondering if she was okay.

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I dreamed I had a slumber party and invited Manda, Abbie, and Lisa. At one point Lisa left to go talk to Mom, so she instructed Manda and I to tell each other a secret. I thought and thought of one to tell her and finally I thought of one: "I have a secret that I told B'qi." Her secret was even lamer, it was a quote from Ella Enchanted (except it wasn't really, it was something like, "I can't believe she's wearing that!"). I said something about Abbie should see the movie, and she said, "No, the real question is, 'When will you read the book?'" Apparently she was simply making fun of the fact that I liked the book but not the movie and she hadn't seen either one, but that statement it confused me a lot.

Labels: abbie, b'qi, ella enchanted, lisa, manda, mom

I had a very long dream where LOTS of stuff happened. Here's what I can remember.

Elizabeth, Bekah, and I were coming out of the store with bags of groceries and putting them in our car, which was parked in an alley behind the store. Mom was still in the store, Dad was fixing something in the alley behind the car. Elizabeth got behind the wheel. I warned her not to touch it, but she drove like four feet forward. I yelled at her, "You KNOW better than to try driving!!! You know you're not allowed to do that!" She replied, "Okay, I'll fix it," and drove four feet backward, except she went a bit crooked and drove over Dad's thumb. I began yelling, "ELIZABETH!! You drove over Dad's thumb!" Dad must have gone slightly nuts from the pain or something, because he then proceeded to stand up and smash his head through the wall of the building next to us. The wall wasn't very sturdy, it was pretty much just plaster, but still . . . he smashed his head through a wall.

Mom came out and we went home, where, needless to say, Dad wasn't doing very well. He was in more medical trouble from the smashing of his head through a wall than his thumb being run over by a car. Our solution was very simple. We cut a hole in our own house wall and had him sit there with his head in the hole. At one point I walked by and he pulled his head out and said, "I think it's working, I feel less dizzy now!"

As for Elizabeth, we decided it would be best if she moved out since she had caused the family so much pain, so she packed up her bag and took a train off somewhere.

While we were saying goodbye to her, Nathan's friend's little sister Allison (what a complicated connection) showed up and said, "You can come to my house for dinner." I followed her through all sorts of back roads. Eventually we came to several gardens. Next to one of them was an arbor, which was where we had to go. Allison leaped over the gardens and made sure to land her feet in two holes by the arbor. "You have to put your feet in the holes," she instructed me. I did my best and somehow did manage to leap over the gardens and land in the holes.

We traveled for a bit more and then arrived at her house, where we entered by the window. Right under their window was their sink. Allison wandered in to ask her mom if I could stay for dinner, while I decided to sit in the sink. (I didn't want to come all the way into the house until I knew if I was welcome.) This was an unfortunate position for me, however, because right next to the sink was the dinner table with all sorts of piping hot dishes on it, and sitting in the sink meant I was dangling my feet over the food. I kept worrying dirt from my shoes would slip off into their spinach.

I was welcome to dinner, and we ate, Allison and her mother and me and a few of the girls from my middle school Sunday school class and an old man. After dinner, we went out to the back yard and went swinging. The old man started talking about a movie he'd seen that was complete trash. It was apparently a finding-treasure-in-the-desert type movie, except he said the only funny part was "when the heroes were trying to hide and had to hide in a parade for a chicken suit."

The scene changed and I was now in that same situation as the movie heroes. (But I wasn't in a movie.) It was nighttime and there was a string of cars and people marching along in front of this giant in a chicken suit, or maybe a giant walking chicken suit, I'm not sure. There was a yellow car riding along next to the parade, and my Sunday school girls and I tried to reach the car so we could escape, but we were always just behind it. Since we couldn't reach it, we decided on an alternative - we would instead all lie down in the street, grab onto the ankles of the person in front of us, and have the person at the very front do the army crawl forward, pulling the group with them.

Next thing I know, it's the end of the Extreme Faith retreat. I've been working with the middle school girls (although the guys are there as well) and Ashi is at the host homes setting up a bunch of tables. Most of them are ministry-related tables where they can sign up to work on a ministry team or some such thing. There's also a table where they can talk to a counselor if they want to. Ashi asks me to man the "Quantum Leap" table. I said, "Isn't a quantum leap where the particles jump from orbit to orbit without being anywhere between?" He said, "Exactly." I said, "Well, I don't know much about physics, I don't know that I'm the best person to man that table." He replied, "Oh, don't worry, it's just where people can find out what a quantum leap is."

I guess I defy him or something, because I don't go to the Quantum Leap table, I go to the counselor table which already has two people sitting at it, but it looks like there's room for more. While I'm sitting there, Kaci H. (who is the host for this event) walks by and drops a pink note next to me. I pick it up and attempt to read it, but it's written in text talk, badly misspelled, badly hand-written and is overall very difficult to decipher. I managed to pick out the first few words: "Hannah - u r so aw3sum! U r lik3 H4m4n!!! 2g3th4 w3 c4n m4k3 this youth thing wrk!!!!!!" with like a billion smiley faces in there. Which is all very nice and pleasant, except for "You are like Haman". I'm not sure that's at all a compliment.

At another point in the dream, my father got a tape of ancient Arabic music from Jeff K. I look at the tape and it turns out Jeff gave it to him because the tom-tom player or someone has the exact same name as Canaan (first and last). Canaan is not a common first name and his last name is not a common last name (at least not a comment spelling of it), so I'm definitely surprised. I try to point this amazing coincidence out to my father, however, and his response is something like, "Oh. Exciting." I kept trying to point out how the chances of this were probably quite, quite small, but he still didn't get it.

Labels: ashi, bekah, canaan, dad, elizabeth, jeff k, kaci h, lance m, mom