The Dreams of Hannah

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 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

I dreamed I went to the drama murder mystery party, except it was at my house. We had discovered who the murderer was, and now were waiting for kids' parents to come and take them home. Amber was pacing around outside on the front porch, and Chloe was with her. I went upstairs, where Dianna, Amanda, Jayme, Joey, and Canaan were gathered in the bathroom. I went in and started talking with them.

Chloe came in at that moment, except her eyes were sort of glazed over and kept twitching, as if she couldn't see very well out of them. I asked her where Amber was, and she said, "Oh, you know her. She's still downstairs."

Suddenly I knew Chloe was a real killer and had killed Amber. There was a sharp knife on the bathroom floor, and I picked it up but knew I wasn't strong enough to try to attack her, so I gave the knife to Dianna. Dianna walked toward her and tried to stab Chloe in the chest, but Chloe pushed the knife back up toward Dianna and somehow got a hold of the knife. At the point, she slashed Dianna's throat several times and then stabbed her in the stomach. This is the most gruesome dream I have had in my entire life. I could *feel* the pain of the knife cutting me open, even though it wasn't really me, it was Dianna. I woke up in a panic and couldn't go back to sleep for forty-five minutes.

Labels: amber, canaan, chloe, dianna, jayme, joey a, manda

I wandered over to Trudee's house looking to borrow a chicken or something, and she was obviously not having a good day. She was like stomping around the house (which was HUGE) and not telling me whether she was even going to let me borrow a chicken or not. At one point she threw open the fridge and snarled and me, “Get something to eat,” and then stomped out of the house.

So I stood there a bit befuddled, and then decided to find a chicken on my own. (If she wouldn’t give it to me I’d just TAKE it.) So I wandered around looking for one but couldn’t find it. And then Canaan started suddenly appearing in a room, saying something weird and mystical and generally unhelpful in a British accent, and then disappearing. Like one time he said, “The carrot…is under…the rock!” and I think another time he said, “Don’t…put the shopping bag down…just yet!” Which always left me going, “Uh… okay… thanks? I think?”

I don’t think I ever DID find the chicken, either...

Labels: canaan, trudee

I dreamed I was in a small group in some acting class with Manda (who was mad at me) and Canaan (who was mad that there were no Christian heavy metal bands... ??) and Tyler (who was mad because of something else I don't remember). We all like sat around in a circle and just stared at each other and didn't DO anything.

Next I remember sitting in the sanctuary with Alesha H. who was apparently also in the class, and we had to make up our own play and perform it. So Alesha and I worked on Cinderella together. And.... there were songs in it?

Labels: alesha, canaan, cinderella, manda, tyler

I dreamed that the youth group was going back up to see the ComedySportz people again. On the way up, I was in the church bus, but the benches were placed like... RANDOMLY. None of them lined up or anything, which bugged me a lot. Anyway, I was sitting in one seat and Christie was across from me and suddenly I started like swaying all over the place, and my seatbelt kept giving me more and more room until I realized that one side of the seatbelt wasn't attached to the seat anymore and I was like... floating around the room. So I started looking around to find a place to sit, but all the seats were taken or suddenly disappeared, except for this one seat was backwards. So I sat in that.

We arrived at the ComedySportz place and parked somewhere, at which point Christie said I needed to put these pants on. ("Well, I guess I'll just... put these pants on... oh, man! It's the Thnikkaman!" anyways...) So I put them on but I was wearing a skirt underneath and MAN did that look stupid. LOL. So I go outside and realize this looks really stupid, and on top of that we have to walk through this.... MOAT or something that separates us from the building. So, yeah, we wade through this waist-deep water and finally get there. I make a comment about how stupid the pants-over-the-skirt looks so I take the pants off and TA-DA! my skirt is DRY because the PANTS got wet instead! Looks like Christie's idea wasn't so bad after all...

So we go on into the building except for some reason people keep looking for the kitchen so they can get cookies or something. I go in and sit down at one of the tables. Suddenly my dad and Canaan show up and they're both eating these pieces of paper that I had with me. I remember being ticked that they were devouring my to-do lists.

Then the improv people came out and man, were they boring. They all had fake names, too. Like one of the girls was named "Sunset Boilavahd" (LOL, that's how they pronounced it anyway). And the ref was really boring. His name was Stan King and he was like, "Erm.... uh... yeah... let's, uh... I guess you should meet 'em, huh? Um... okay..." I remember thinking, "This is really sad."

Labels: canaan, christy, comedysportz, dad, sunset boulevard

I dreamed that I was at drama and Jayme decided we were going to go thru the "And Then There Was One" play again for the next several practices, but focus on different people every time. Like nitpick them, I guess. She decided 'twould be Clayhorn and Mimms today. We get ready to start the scene and by a strange coincidence I am wearing my Mimms outfit 'cept the apron is tied around my neck and my Sunday skirt instead of the black dress. And Canaan is wearing his butler outfit, I think, except in hindsight it was nothing LIKE the butler outfit. It was like a green and red toga. *blink* Yeah.

We start going thru the scene. And we get as far as when he's supposed to pop up from behind the couch. So not very far. And he's not behind the couch, he's sitting on it. I'm a bit confused as he's supposed to be behind the couch, and sort of stop and look at Jayme, who says, "This is just a rehearsal. Don't worry. Just sit on him."

Needless to say I'm a bit taken aback by this instruction, and Jayme says, "Let's go back to your last line." But nobody can remember WHAT my last line is. (Thinking on it while I'm awake it would be, erm, my very first line. Since I only say one line before he's supposed to jump up. Hmm.)

I hunt around in my folder and finally find the script, except it's in an actual book instead of just a bunch of stapled papers. I open it up and realize my last line is something in FRENCH. I tell Jayme about this and she says, "Oh, yeah, we cut all that stuff out." I look through the script and discover there is a lot of stuff we never did in our performance.

Kayla goes up to practice next and I'm reading along with her in my script, but she reads one of the cut-out parts... a scene 5, where she rants and raves about the insanity of '60s music. But she also mentions "Hairspray." Whee!

At some point, too, Bethany was wheeling herself around in a wheelchair... hmm..

Labels: bethany h, canaan, jayme, kayla

I had this really, really long rambling dream. I'm going to try to recount as much of it as I can. I was in the living room when I look out the window and the church van is pulling into our driveway. It's full of teens. (Well, not full, on later count there were only like 7 people.)

So I go outside and they open the door and tell me that they're going to some coffee place to hang out. So I say, "Okay, hold on, let me go check with my mother." So I go inside but can't find Mom anywhere, and when I turn around, everybody has followed me inside.

Now I can see who's there - it's Amanda, Angela, Canaan, Hannah A., and Katie. Except Angela and Hannah A. are all dressed up in these fancy gowns with LOTS and LOTS of makeup on. I don't see Katie and Manda at that point, but I assume they're dressed up too. "I'll be back in a moment," I say. "I'm going to go change."

They whip out a pair of shorts and hand them to me. "Don't bother," they say. "Just wear these." So I put them on and say, "This is as dressed up as I get." Then I notice Manda's just in shorts and a T-shirt, too, so I don't feel so stupid anymore.

We decide to go upstairs and hang out at the top of my stairs and make prank phone calls to people. (Uh, yeah, this is definitely a youth group appropriate activity...)

So we were doing that upstairs and having lots of fun when suddenly Manda stands up and says, "A few days ago Tyler shot a globe and killed himself." (Okay, note on this - the globe obviously was in my head because I had been listening to the Princess In Pink audiobook, where somebody tries to drop a globe on their head to kill themselves.)

Nobody seems very surprised or even dismayed at this news, they all just nod and then we go back to our prank phone calls.

Later, I'm cleaning out my basement and decide to go out with the youth group again. Mom asks me what I'm doing and I say, "I'm feeling very social today. This may never, ever happen again." So she says okay. So instead of calling people up and inviting them out to do something, I go upstairs and turn on my radio, because I know that I'll hear our prank calls on there. (Hardly hanging out with the youth group, but ah well.) But the radio's playing a prank call that's like horribly obscene (really it wasn't, it was a conversation about Tweety, it just struck me as being obscene) and I sit there thinking, "We didn't do that... did we?"

There was also something where Amanda tells me as we go out to the van (apparently we decided to go somewhere after all) something about her mom being mad at someone or someone being mad at her mom... I wasn't quite sure.

Labels: angela w, canaan, hannah a, katie, manda, mom, tweety, tyler

I had a dream that we were doing our big production with the drama team, except it was like half-musical and nobody but me showed up for the first act. So Jayme was really ticked and had to take over the first act pretty much herself.

Then it was the second act and a bunch of other people showed up to be in it, including people who aren't in the drama team (like Jennifer from M-ville) and people who aren't even in the church (like Kay from my first semester of Spanish class). The finale of the second act was us holding this giant net above everybody's heads, and the net had hot air balloons painted on it, and it looked like there were hot air balloons above everyone's heads. We would pick up the net and it would sort of hoist itself up in the air.

So I was hanging around with Amanda and Kay and Jennifer, when I decided to go through and untie all these plastic hoops from the net. There were a bunch of plastic hoops tied onto the ropes at the edge of the net, and I decided they shouldn't be there, so I went through the first half of the net untying them while Rach(a?)el S. was singing on stage. Then Jayme walked past us yelling, "HOLD ON TO THE HOOBLES! HOLD ON TO THE HOOBLES!" And I realized that all the hoops were SUPPOSED to be on the ropes. So I, being the responsible person I was, ran off and decided to talk with other drama people outside.

Then it was almost time for us to go onstage, but we still had a few more minutes. We were all standing outside the church holding onto the net. And Jennifer said, "I can't WAIT until I get the Internet. Just think... I'll be free!" And I said, "That's what I thought." (??) And somebody next to me (it was a guy, but I can't remember who it was... might have been Canaan) said, "OH! I thought we all had to go around and share stories." And I was like, "Uh, yeah, HAPPY THOUGHTS TIME!" (Um... yes, this DID make sense in the dream.)

So then I decided I had time to mess around for a bit before I had to go onstage, so I ran around the church. I realized when I was at the opposite end of the net that we were about to start, and I panicked and ran back around the church back to where I started from, just in time to pick up the net and march in with everyone else. So we got the net up in the air and everybody was ooh-ing and aah-ing over the lovely hot air balloons.

Labels: canaan, jayme, jennifer l, kay from spanish, manda

I had a long involved dream last night that I'm going to try to recount.

I do remember I was listening to Lea Salonga sing "On My Own." I have a vague feeling that I WAS Eponine...

But then that changed, and Amanda, me, and some other girl who I can't visualize (might have been Carly, but I just have this feeling she had dark skin) were sitting near the door of this room. I think it was a Sunday school room. We were having a co-ed Sunday school lesson that day, and instead of sitting in a chair, I sat by the door. Amanda came and sat by me and this other girl sat there, too, so that we were in a little triangular pattern, completely blocking the door. I remember feeling a little sense of "awww" that my friends were willing to sit on the floor to make me feel like I wasn't completely out of place.

Then the guys started coming in, and they had to step over our heads to the middle of the circle and then over our heads again to get out of the circle. As Tyler came through, he commented, "Oh, how cute, they're all sitting together!" But then Canaan and Allen showed up, and Canaan was complaining about us blocking his way.

I remember, then, sitting in a pew (but in a tiny little church - still supposed to be Harvest Time but the building was really little) and singing a song called "Brilliant Soldier" that someone from the church had written. It wasn't really much of a chorus, it kept mentioning times on the clock, like 10:30 and 2:25.

Then we were in the Sunday school room again, and Abbie was telling me how she could put the words to "Brilliant Soldier" to the tunes of five popular songs. So I was trying to figure out. I could almost put it to the tune of "Complicated" (but it actually turned into "So Yesterday" because it had that bridge in the middle: "At least not today, not today, not today...")

And then we were at youth, and I suddenly remembered that PJ was resigning as youth pastor and just working on the sound board instead. It had been a sudden decision, but nobody seemed to care that he was gone. In his place, was this dude dressed up kind of like the scarecrow from The Legend of Zelda, except he was supposed to be "Brilliant Soldier" (yeah, like the song). It was all like a VBS program except it was for us,and nobody caught on except for me that it was all weird. Then I looked over toward the sound booth and PJ was wiping a tear from his eye, almost as if he was going, "What has this come to?"

The only thing I remember after that is talking to Amanda and saying, "Don't you CARE that everything has changed?" and she said, "What?" But she only seemed to be concerned about my cousin Mandy - apparently she knew something I didn't.

Labels: abbie, allen, canaan, carly, lea salonga, les miserables, manda, mandy, PJ, the legend of zelda, tyler