The Dreams of Hannah

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 I went to an ApologetiX concert with a huge amount of people, and more wandered in about halfway through. We were in like the very, very front row, and the guys all knew me and my friends. I also kept recognizing people from other concerts and saying, "Weren't you at the concert in Kewanee a few months ago?" and they'd go, "Yeah! I remember you!" So we were all hanging out with each other.

At some point they come out to play "Stairway to Heaven" and Karl's guitar has grown. Well, actually just the neck. It's now about twelve feet long and keeps bumping into the audience. Not only that, but someone out in the audience has another guitar, and the neck of Karl's guitar ends up getting tangled up in the strings of that guitar. He sits there on his stool, joking and saying, "So who's going to help?" but everyone else seems to just be laughing and having fun, so I do this swan dive under a chair (I'm not sure why it was entirely necessary but oh well) and untangled it and the concert went on. Yay, I saved the day.

Labels: apologetix

I dreamed that a large group of people from our church were going to that ApologetiX concert I went to last week (except it was in a completely different auditorium). It was me and my sisters, Mom and Dad, PJ and Dacia, Emily A., Sammy E., Pastor & Jane (yeah, totally their kind of music... NOT!) and Marissa from my Spanish class, and possibly others.

I was sitting in the very front row with Emily, Sammy, and Marissa. At one point Emily started talking and I kept trying to shut her up cuz I wanted to hear what was going on. There was a woman onstage (she looked like this storyteller that taught a workshop at our local library) and she could hear what Emily was saying, and she turned and snapped, "Hush! You're a disgrace to the people of [my town]!" Which was an odd thing to say, seeing as how Emily doesn't even LIVE in my town.

So from then on Emily just whispered, but apparently she was right in front of a mic or something, cuz the band could hear her onstage. After one of the songs, Karl looks at her and goes, "YOU DESERVE TO HAVE YOUR EYES GOUGED OUT!" and I was like "Whoa, Emily, what did you SAY!?" but she wouldn't tell me.

The concert ended and I just hung around with the band for awhile (they kept making fun of me because I was walking weird... I really WAS walking weird, I would have made fun of myself as well) and suddenly I realize that the rest of my group has left. I ask where the phones are but then realize I can't call home, they JUST left and it's at least an hour's drive home. So in an hour I'll call them and wait around an hour for them to come pick me up. I keep looking around for someone I know who can maybe take me home, but don't see anyone.

I decide to stay for the evening church service. One of the ladies tells me, "Oh, yes, we have a very evolutionary church." So I'm sitting in a pew, waiting for the service to start, when Bethany wanders in crying. I say, "Oh, they left you behind too?" and she nods, so I invite her to sit with me until it's time for us to call them. Then Bekah and Elizabeth wander in crying, and I think, "My word, they left EVERYONE behind!"

The church service was pretty freaky. This dude in a suit stood up and crouched over the podium and looked menacing while the words "Listen To Thee, O My Lord" were put up on a screen. (Which doesn't even make SENSE.) I think the dude might have read a psalm, but it really wasn't much of a service.

Labels: apologetix, bekah, bethany, dacia, dad, dalmus, elizabeth, emily a, jane m, marissa from spanish, mom, PJ, sammy e

I dreamed that I went to the church for drama. Jayme and Dianna and I were meeting earlier, so I was there at 5:45. I went downstairs, but Jayme and I spent the whole time debating whether or not ApologetiX was a good band. She claimed that J. spent too much time "screaming the story instead of actually singing". Which beffled me, so I just said carefully, "Well... er... I generally think he sounds about as good as the artist they're parodying." Turns out the only one she'd ever heard was "Rock That Tower" which is a fun song but totally not their best. Then at 6:00 Kayla's dad turned up and said we needed to get over to the other building for an AWANA's skit. So we got up and left.

On our way up, Cindy (from Spanish) stopped me in the hallway and informed my mom had had a breakdown of some kind. So I went to the bathrooms, where I found my mom... er... like... SOBBING in the ladies' room. I asked her what on earth had happened, and it turns out there were a few reporters covering the AWANA's night. She said something like, "I know I shouldn't get so upset over something like this, but it just bothers me so much! I know I shouldn't have this fear of the media, but..." And I kept being vaguely comforting: "It's okay, Mom. It's okay. You'll be all right." Weird.

Labels: apologetix, cindy from spanish, dianna, jayme, kayla, mom

I had a very, very long dream... Let me see what I can remember of it.

I dreamed I went to see ApologetiX in concert again. And we got there like an hour early. (Instead of half an hour late like usual.) And J. was telling people that he would need volunteers during the show to dress up in Bible costumes. So me and all my siblings volunteered. (Heh, that oughta give 'em enough.) So J. and Karl took us into this back room and were explaining to us what we needed to do. There was a huge pile of Bible costumes in this other room and at some point during the show we were supposed to go back, put them on, and come out and dance on stage. Except Karl ends this informative lecture by saying cryptically, "Meet us in 25 at 9:10." I try to ask him to explain it and he just rolls his eyes and says something like, "You're not very bright, are you?"

However, I somehow figure it out what's going on, and at the very beginning of the show J. points to us and we all go back and change. Except (and this was weird) for a few seconds I didn't see the dream from my point of view, but from my dad's. He was waiting for us to come out of the room, looking for me for some reason. When I came out I was dressed in a red robe and fake beard. (LOL.)

So we all go up on stage. Oh, yeah, and the song we're dressing up in Biblical garb for? "Good News Boogie." Er, yeah. Nothing to do with a Bible story. It's about the BIBLE, but doesn't exactly fit with a lot of people in robes jumping around on the stage. Well, if I could even GET up on the stage. I kept falling off of it and the guys from the band keep laughing and pulling me back on. Oh, yeah, and J. was lip-synching. *gasp*

Then suddenly I'm watching a trailer for this crazy comic heist movie where twin guys are supposed to be assassinated by these twin girls who in turn are on the run from these killer twin guys, who are running from even MORE killer twin girls. I remember that the sets of twin girls were played by Mary-Kate and Ashley, and Hilary Duff and Hilary Duff. The guys were played by Nathan's friend Lance (he played both twins in one set) and then some other dude I don't remember.

There was a scene where they were all chasing each other in a mall, up and down these huge escalators, except some of them would go REALLY REALLY REALLY fast and you'd just have to like hold on for dear life or you'd get thrown off and go flying across the mall.

There was also a portion of the dream where like the entire drama team and my family were going to visit the Sandons in IN. Leonie came with us but then she found out that her family (HER family, the ones from Germany) were there and she was like, "Could you just hang me with them?" That was when I noticed that she had that odd habit of saying "hang me" instead of "drop me off", and I was trying to figure out why she said that.

I also remember a scene where my family was driving (I think on the trip to IN) and we drove past a theater which was playing Phantom of the Opera - the play - and I tried to beg Mom and Dad to let me go see it, but they wouldn't. How mean.

Labels: apologetix, dad, hilary duff, lance m, leonie, mom, olsen twins, phantom of the opera

I dreamed that Mom and all my siblings except Nathan had mysteriously vanished, so Dad, Nathan, and I were moving to this new house. On our way we stopped off at B'qi's church/school where there was an ApologetiX concert (why does my mind keep linking B'qi with ApologetiX?) and for some reason we didn't want the band so see us so we kept sneaking around.

Then I walked into one of B'qi's classes and wandered around looking for her, and suddenly she was in the back of the room walking toward me with her arms outstretched to give me a hug. And then I called her "Anuncio".

Labels: apologetix, b'qi, dad, mom, nathan

I dreamed I was listening to this radio station and looking at their schedule for what they were playing. They were doing some sort of marathon-type thing except not really. They had all these singers and bands and for an hour would just play music from one band. Then the next hour it would be only music from this other band. And so on. So Hour 1 they played ApologetiX, but I found I'd missed that. Hour 6, however, was just starting, and they were playing stuff Lea Salonga sang. (An entire hour of that?)

Needless to say, I wanted this, so I ran off with a cassette tape so I could tape this and listen to it later, too. The only working cassette player with radio is in my mom's room (in RL too) and so I went to see if I could use it. Mom opened the door and I suddenly remembered she had been really cranky that day. So I tentatively asked if I could do this, and she said, "Sure! I'll just sit in a chair outside, if you don't mind!" I had a sneaky suspicion I'd somehow offended her, but I couldn't think how.

Labels: apologetix, lea salonga, mom