The Dreams of Hannah

I dreamed that it was this fall and I was getting all ready to move into my new dorm. It was a co-ed dorm and I was all set to be on the same floor as a bunch of NLDCers, rooming with Jessica Lococo and Elizabeth. I remember Tim McMeen and Ben were across the hall, and there were other NLDCers scattered around the place. But when I got there, someone told me that I was the new RA, and had to sleep in a different room. Turns out the "room" I got to sleep in was really a lounge/kitchen area, and I had to sleep underneath a pool table. I kept saying I didn't want the room (or the responsibility) and tried to sneak back to the NLDC corner, but they told me if I did that I'd get kicked out of.

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I dreamed I went to this grocery store to get something. Every time I went inside, though, this woman training Dobermans would get into my car and try to train them in there and I'd have to wait for her to get them all out of the car before I could get back into the car. This was like a regular deal. Then one day I came out of the grocery store and just had this general idea that something was wrong. I didn't know what exactly. I went out to the car and the woman was sitting in there with her Dobermans, like always, so I just decided to get a ride from a NLDC team that happened to be passing by. As I turned to leave, though, my phone rang. I answered it, but the only noise was this weird groaning noise. Someone I was with explained that it was the woman from inside my car, calling to try and tell me that the Dobermans had chewed her face off.

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I dreamed that for the family reunion, we all went to go see a production of Cats. For some reason Bryce from NLDC was there, too. When we got there and sat in our seats, Bryce decided that the seats weren't good enough, so he stood up and yelled, "EVERYBODY MOVE DOWN SIX ROWS!" Surprisingly, everyone did, and we somehow ended up in the second row in some very good seats.

The play went on, but after the third song, the female lead stubbed her toe on something and proceeded to swear a bunch. My parents were both upset because all my little siblings were there. The actress apologized to all of us, although she did refer to us as "young hoodlum doodles." Then she began to cry about how terrible a show this was and how much she wished it were better. Uncle Andy then helpfully told her all the things he didn't like about the show, but that she shouldn't feel bad about it. Somehow this did cheer her up and she managed to go on and finish the show.

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I dreamed I went down and visited NLDC again and watched everyone at the coffeeshop. My sister Bekah was there for some reason. They were all working on this skit that seemed to have a completely different plot with every team that did it. I wandered around, watched skits, a lot like I did in real life when I went down. (When we left, Pastor Dave shouted to everyone to "put their clothes in the hamper." Apparently people had taken to bringing down large piles of clothes they did not intend to wear that day, and there was a laundry hamper set aside to hold these.) I was talking with several of them and found out that Peach's parents had moved to some town called "South Boyd" in New York, and that Hiner was going to school in New York City. This suddenly brought back memories of a team that included John Brooks, Brittany Miller, Dusty, Peach, Mark, and Hiner. They went to NYC and filmed a music video (that I watched and it looked professionally done) of them skating through a snowy NYC without skates, just skating over ice with their feet. All to some 80s music. Very Footloose abandoned warehouse.

I also remember one point at which Erika filmed a similar music video where she sang a weird salsa version of some awfully grim Bible verse about God promising to a nation that he would destroy you, and the video was all set in a hospital and Erika played a dead person who kept rising from the dead to sing more about it and everyone else would sing and dance around her bed.

Labels: brittany miller, dusty, erika, jessica hiner, john brooks, mark, nldc, pastor dave, peach

I dreamed a New Life team (including Peach and Nathan) came to see me in some state. However, they told me that to see me, they'd had to mortgage a house for me to stay in. Peach came to get me wherever I was at and told me to follow her to the van. Then we ROLLED across this huge yard to get there, where Nathan was impatiently waiting. He kept rubbing it in that they'd had to "mortgage this house," and that he HOPED I had fun with them, because it cost them a whole lot of money.

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I dreamed that I had just learned that Clay was going to Sauk, and I felt bad because I'd never welcomed him to Illinois, and I was probably the only person I knew here.

There was something else where I was with my NLDC summer tour people, and we were at this house that wanted us to participate in these weird sculpture contests.

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I dreamed I went to church for some sort of special presentation, and it turned out to be the New Life Drama Company performing for us. They did some sort of weird song-related skit where they all danced around with cardboard cutouts of cars in front of their faces. Afterwards I tried to talk to one of them (who was actually Brett from DTS/KSK) to let them know that I was interested in joining up with them. So he gave me this card and told me to fill out. It was some sort of "I made a decision tonight" card but there was no "I want to join NLDC" option. I asked him about this and he gave me some vague answer I decided I'd have to think about. So I told him that and asked him if I could talk to him again later that evening about this. He glared at me and informed me that later on he'd be WAY too busy hanging out with his friends to talk to me.

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