The Dreams of Hannah

I had an extremely complicated dream that mostly revolved around trying to make it to Travis's graduation party. One time it turned into an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All these birds started dying in the air and just dropping to the ground. Then dead sheep and bugs dropped from the sky. A flea bit some supporting character who doesn't exist in the real show, and it sucked ALL his blood from his face, and he turned brown and looked like he was made out of crumbly marble. He was still alive, but he wasn't able to talk or really do anything with his face. And Buffy was acting totally weird and licking things and being no help at all.

Then Dad and Uncle Andy and I were walking through a shop and I realized it was a Buffy-themed shop. I thought, "I should totally get Travis something from here! He's such a Buffy fan!" (Which he's not.)

Then I was driving my dad to Sauk, when I realized I really needed to get to that party. I drove what I thought would be the way there, but I ended up going over a little river in a ferry and ending up in a little amusement park on an island. Mom was there, and Dad said he'd just ride to school with her, so I could make it to my party.

I ran back over the river which really wasn't all that deep, and ran up the stairs, where I gave a little ticket to the blind ticket collector, who was just sprawled out on the stairs leading up to the land. He was blocking half the stairway but was just taking tickets from there. I also talked to a little girl while I was trying to get to my car, but I don't know what happened there.

I drove until I found myself at a steakhouse. I went in and there were a bunch of people I knew, including a guy who I thought was Travis until I looked a little closer. Beth A. and Tyler were both there as well, and they told me I should hang out with them for awhile. But I knew I really needed to get to Travis's party and only had like a half hour left. So I inexplicably sang them a song about how I'd be back in like 15 minutes.

When I went outside, I couldn't find my car. I looked for it everywhere in the parking lot but couldn't find it. Then I realized the crew from inside would probably try to sabotage my car because I was leaving them. I looked and, sure enough, they were siphoning gas out of a red car. I chased them off and then realized they'd gotten the wrong car anyway, my car was right behind that one.

I got in it and started to drive but couldn't figure out how to make it to Travis's from here. Suddenly I was driving using a steering wheel in the back seat of the van, with people smooshed all around me, including Lococo. Joel and Elizabeth were in the seats ahead of me and I was getting very frustrated that I couldn't see over their heads as to where I was going. They kept yelling, "Turn here!" and I'd try to turn but then they'd yell, "NOT THERE!"

Labels: beth a, buffy the vampire slayer, dad, elizabeth, joel, lococo, travis, tyler, uncle andy

I dreamed that for some reason I had written characters that were inspired by Krystle and Tyler in my last NaNo effort, and I told them this. They decided they wanted to read it. They asked if they could come over and borrow the books, so I told them sure. However, when I went to go look for the books, I couldn't find them anywhere, no matter where I looked. They finally showed up at my house and I was still going nuts because I couldn't find the books anywhere.

Labels: krystle, nanowrimo, tyler

I had this long bizarre dream that was made up of bits and pieces.

At one point, I was watching a movie (I believe it was "Gattaca", on Anna's recommendation) and observed this very gruesome image of someone who had no lower body, it had been blown up or something, being half-dragged, half-carried off down a hallway. The person didn't seem to be upset about it, in fact they looked rather bored. I can't even remember whether it was a man or a woman.

At another point, I was at my home with a group of women from some church. One of them was complaining to me about their drama team. One of her anecdotes went something like this. "We had this girl who was so sweet, but boy, did she get the giggles! Last year our Christmas play for our church was the story of this girl who had been beaten but she went to business school, and we really wanted to show her getting beaten so we could show WHY she went to business school, but this girl - any time anyone tried to hit her . . . You just could NOT believe that someone like her would go to business school."

Tyler apparently also lived on our street again, and every day, at his mother's request, he'd ride up and down the street in a fire engine with a megaphone blaring some sort of song mix he especially made for his mother. He also was into making wax faces of people he knew. I found one that was supposed to be me, but it didn't look like me at ALL. It didn't even look like a person. It looked like a purple squished banana.

There was something else about a test for my French class too where we were saying things that, far as I know, don't exist in French, like one of them was "Dancevitovo". Also it made me really depressed because then I got my test back and I had misspelled just about everything on the page.

Labels: anna, gattaca, tyler

I dreamed that I was watching an improv comedy team (like ComedySportz), except they were in the Centennial Auditorium. I was sitting very near the front, and was watching them. Tyler was orchestrating part of it, and he announced a new game. He asked if anyone in the audience wanted to play it, but only got a few volunteers. Whenever he got a volunteer he would throw them a slipper. He looked at me and asked me if I'd be willing to be one of the volunteers, and I said sure, and he tossed me a slipper and said something odd like, "One slipper for Miss Joy." He also said something about how I had a loud enough voice to do this game. (?) He got the rest of the people he needed, and then announced the name of the game: Bachelorette Kiss. I got the impression that this was not the type of game I should be playing, so I handed off my slipper to the person next to me, and watched them play the game. I don't remember what the actual game was - it involved the people on stage miming whatever the person with the slipper said. The people on stage also had a Christmas tree.

Then it was intermission, and I was on the other side of the auditorium, talking with a bunch of girls with pink shirts on. They were all from California, and turns out one of them was Keni, one of Sara's friends (except she looked like Leslie J. with pink hair). Once Keni found out I was coming to California, she invited me to a birthday party. Her mother (who didn't look at all like her real mother) was behind her and said, "Oh, good idea, and you can invite Heather, and Stripes!" But Keni made a face and said she didn't really like "Stripes" anymore.

Suddenly the CaliGirls and I were standing around a tiny... well, I don't know what you'd call it. It was like a concession stand only it sold merchandise from the store Claire's. Jasmine was working there so we were all standing around chatting with her. At one point she said, "This is the most boring job in the world." I replied, "Yeah, looks like it." This remark made her go off into peals of hysterical laughter, which surprised me, as I didn't think that was really that funny a statement.

Labels: comedysportz, jasmine h, keni, leslie, tyler

I dreamed I went to Extreme Faith except it turned out to be a NaNoing weekend. Yeah, we had to write 50,000 words in one weekend. The best part is we didn't have computers or typewriters or anything, we all just had these tiny little 60-page notebooks that we would pull out and write stuff in. I remember Chloe and Tyler and Manda were all part of it. And Holly M., who I haven't seen in ages. In fact, Holly tried to give me one of her notebooks - a little red one with white bunnies all over it - but I didn't want it.

Labels: chloe, holly m, manda, nanowrimo, tyler

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 B'qi had snuck down to Illinois to visit Tyler. (?) Except she only ever referred to him as "actor."

Labels: b'qi, tyler

I dreamed that I was listening to "When Radio Was" - a radio show that plays old radio programs from the '40's and '50's - and it announced that the next show was "Affair" by Tyler J______ (somebody I know), as performed at Sterling Christian School. I remembered learning that Tyler had written a show to be performed at SHS, so I am not sure why it was being performed at SCS, especially as I had seen the posters for it and it looked like rather a racy show.

I wanted to get this recorded on tape, so I ran into my parents' room and put a cassette in the stereo and started it recording. Then I walked back to my room but on the way, peeked into the little boys' room. Mom was in there, holding Seth, whose eyes were glowing. No, not glowing... They were giving their own light, actually. Bright green light. Mom was panicking, saying, "Oh, Seth, please, please don't have green eyes!" So I turned to him and, in mock seriousness, said, "Yes, Seth, don't have green eyes!" And the glow from his eyes faded until he just had normal green eyes. But they looked kind of like stones. Very shiny and freaky.

Then Seth spoke, although somehow he had turned into Joel, and he said, "I'm five foot brown." Which for some reason struck me as hilariously funny and I started laughing and then I woke myself up laughing. Heh...

Labels: joel, mom, seth, tyler

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 dreamed that Dad and I were in NYC and we had purchased $70 tickets for Wicked. The show started at 7:30, but Dad was working on his laptop until 9:00. Then I realized we were late and told him and he was like, "Oh, I forgot," and I yelled at him (I felt bad though because I forgot too...).

Then at some point Karrissa was a DJ on a showtunes station and Tyler and Amanda were doing the Energizer to the tune of one of the songs she was playing on there...

Labels: dad, karrissa, manda, tyler, wicked

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

I had a dream last night that Dad and I were in the Chicago area while SEMP was going on. I don't remember why we were there, but we decided to drop in on Wheaton College and see how SEMP was going.

I thought that we had to have a pass or something to get in, but apparently we didn't, because we went right into the parking lot (which was very small, I might add) and heard PJ talking and shouting orders. We went into this small brick building where half the youth group was hanging around (even people who aren't even in the high school yet, like Macie).

Apparently all the people who were hanging around had gotten sick and couldn't go out witnessing. I remember Amanda and Tyler and Macie and Abbie and Natalie were all there. Tyler kept running to the bathroom to throw up.

Then I decided, for some reason, to visit the bathroom and see what it looked like. It was seperated from the rest of the building by a curtain of golden tassels and the toilet had a golden rim and I remember thinking, "Wow, this is a pretty nice bathroom..."

Natalie opened the curtain at that point. I think she had been looking for me because it was time to go or something.

And thus ended my dream.

Labels: abbie, dad, macie, manda, natalie, PJ, semp, tyler

I had a dream last night that I went to Circa 21, a local dinner theater. It was me, Tyler, and the guy from The Matrix who works the computers and tells them where the phones are and stuff. I can't remember his name. Anyway, he got up and said he was going to the restroom . . . and our waitress shot him. I remembered thinking absently, "This place isn't as friendly as it used to be . . . "

And Nabal from the Bible appeared in my dream. Except he was really Abednego. Ack. All these Bible characters were getting mixed up in my head.

Labels: circa 21, the matrix, tyler