Dreams with or without pirates

Dream One: I was in a really old and crumbly office building along with a few other people. There were cubicles and moldy papers scattered everywhere and in some places there were pools of dangerous liquid (just like the acid pits in Portal) that you had to jump over. We had bread and we were trying to make sandwiches. I went out exploring in the office building, and after going down several floors, I found a refrigerator with mysterious meat in it (I think it was spiced beef?). I figured it was better than nothing, so I made an epic journey to bring it back to the others (I had to jump over a lot of acid pits on the way back). Then we looked at the bread and looked at the mystery meat and asked each other "???? How to make sandwich????"

I was walking along some sort of huge temple place with my sister - it was all white marble, and there was a kind of altar place, and we ran up the stairs and jumped around for a while on the benches. After we had played around enough to feel really sacrilegious we stopped and headed down the hallway.

We went down to the changing rooms, where we were recruited to do some terrible godawful hybrid/chimera science experiments where we would combine some sort of living organism with a robot. I could see what the results were going to be beforehand, and only one would turn out well - my sister was going to make one that turned out like the cyborg guy from Teen Titans, I forget his name (Is it just Cyborg?) - while the rest were awful, twisted creations. We were separated into different changing rooms and I sat down on a bench and was handed the organism thing (don't remember what it was exactly) and a Buzz Lightyear toy for my first combination. The Buzz Lightyear toy had these green translucent plastic wings and I took them off and stuck them in the organism and it turned out okay, not as bad as I thought. I did a few more and stopped after a while.

I think something may have happened in between here, but my sister and I ended up at a convention/holiday celebration of Chinese parents. There was a performance going on, with people up on stage dancing and singing. My mom asked me if I knew what they were saying, and I thought I understood some of it (but I don't remember any of it). She explained to me that they were singing the procedures for entering a certain secret Chinese society, which would help you out in times of need. It was very complicated and I wasn't sure I really got it at the end.

After the performance was over, we went into the changing rooms to change. Apparently both men and women had gone into both changing rooms, so it didn't matter which one you went into. I went into the men's changing room, since I had been in there before making the science experiments and my stuff was still in there. Everyone got all mixed up though, so my mom and sister and cousin ended up in the other changing room. I got my stuff and headed for the door to go find them in the other changing room, when I noticed two things: 1) there was a HUGE spider over the door, and 2) I had forgotten my towel. I went back and got my towel and gingerly walked through the door, being careful to stay as far away from the spider as I could. There were actually guards inside the women's changing room, which was weird, and there were a few women sitting around wearing towels. My mom + sister + cousin weren't there, though, so I headed outside to the parking lot to look for them.

I found their car - a white Hummer with license plates related to the postal service, I think - and got in. We backed up and drove out of the parking lot. The Hummer had big holes in the floor (one in front of each seat), so if you stuck your foot through it would touch the ground. I wasn't sure if the holes were actual holes so I tried it while we were driving (stupid...) and indeed, my feet were swept along on the ground for a little bit before I got smart enough to pull them back in. We were driving to go get dinner and my mom asked us where we wanted to go - Chipotle or McDonald's? I knew my sister would say Chipotle but I wanted to go to Taco Bell, since that was usually where we went after going swimming (we always got lazy with dinner after swimming).

We were all in different classes, and I was in class #1. The classes were numbered by how well each class did on their tests, and today the administration decided to mix up the classes to try to get underperforming classes to do better. So we had a kind of field trip to a public bathroom (...worst field trip destination ever) along with the last class (classes were grouped by biggest number-smallest number). While we were in there, I started playing tetris with our school supplies (it was electronic, not in real life). It was hard and getting harder, because the shapes started to get irregular. Andrew came over and made fun of me for being so bad at tetris.

Then the falling school supplies changed into the last class's supplies, and Andrew made a big deal over the fact that they were mint color pencils, markers, etc. Mint as in mint condition, not mint flavored/colored. (While test grades decreased with class number increase, the quality of school-provided supplies increased.)

I dreamed, woke up, laid in bed for a while, and forgot my dream.

I was Perry Smith, and I had just taken a Vienna bus all the way up this hill to rendezvous with Dick and this detective friend of his. We met up but it turned out we needed to get out of the city, so we tried to catch any bus we could. We just missed the Red line express bus (the bus driver looked at us but didn't open the door) and had run all the way across the street to see if the Vienna bus was coming, when I saw that the Vivienza bus (not a real bus, seems to be some lame variant on Vienna I had made up), which was also an Orange line bus, was coming, so I ran across the street to catch it (must have forgotten for a moment that I was Perry) and got on (the other two guys followed me).

Suddenly I realized I knew the bus driver, and I said (I quote), "Arrivederci! In my opinion, my chassis's condition is positive!" and he said "Welcome aboard." "These are my friends Cobb and Tom Smith," I told him, and we all got on the bus. I was kinda surprised that Dick didn't try any smooth talking, but I looked back at him while we were getting on the bus, and his lips were really thin and blue, so I guess he decided to let me do the talking for once and just be "Cobb".

The bus driver was real nice to us - he took us home with him and feed us a full dinner, and we stayed the night at his place. If you've read the book you know that Dick was always interested in the women, so it wasn't surprising when, lying in bed, he said, "Hey Perry, this guy's nice and all, but what's so good about him?" I was prepared for this and replied, "Just wait until you meet his war lover. That's the stuff."

I didn't have a dream last night but I had a few yesterday afternoon - I was out sick and I slept all afternoon.

Dream One: There was a huge city apartment building complex, and there was a boss monster at the top floor (it turned out to be hiding in the stairwell near where I eat lunch at school - that was also part of the apartment building complex). After trying to reach the top floor for a long time (the stairs were suuuuuuuper long), I gave up on beating the boss and went back down.

I met Sammy and we walked along this really wide bridge with lots and lots of lights hanging from it. After something happened (I don't remember), we ended up in front of another gigantic apartment complex, painted green and pink, where I lived. The door (along with the garage doors) was on the second floor and you had to jump up really high to reach it, and I could barely grab onto the doorsill with my hands.

My stomach wasn't feeling very well, and I think I have the stomach flu. Anyways I threw up in the middle of the night so I had two dreams, one before and one after.

Dream One: My stomach (which wasn't feeling so good) was some sort of clue in the case of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, the two men who murdered the Clutter family - we are reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote in English. I was trying to persuade my stomach to give up the secret clue by lightly rubbing it (this was probably because I was actually doing that when I fell asleep). I ran from one place to another related to the crime, rubbing my stomach all the while. In the end I never did figure out anything for the detectives. I woke up and went to throw up. Euck.

Someone (don't remember who) was moving into college, I think, and they were trying to figure out what of the leftover stuff in the dorm room to keep for the school year. There was a very nice and cozy leftover need, which we persuaded her to keep, but she wouldn't keep the covers and wanted to throw them out, which caused a huge uproar among us onlookers because it was such a waste. There were other pieces of furniture (chairs, dressers) too. After a while I got bored and went over to the TV.

I was in a video game coded by one of my friends. You started it up via the TV and pressed start, and you were in the game. There was probably more to my dream before this (I think there was something about collecting a bunch of stuff, maybe like Pokemon) but I got to this part of the game that I always hated. You flew out from this platform and landed down in this pit. I had forgotten what happened next but I knew something bad would happen so I partially hid in the a part of the pit that was a little lower than the other parts. I waited for a while, and then hundreds of small colorful plastic balls flew down at me. I remembered that I hated being pelted by the colorful balls and that what I was supposed to do was avoid the low part of the pit, but it was too late, so I held a silver dinner platter in front of me to shield against the colorful ball onslaught. After a while it stopped. You were supposed to put the balls into a puzzle to move on to the next room.

I started working on the puzzle, but after putting only a few balls in, a bell rang. I was a servant for General Petrov (I always had been), who owned and ran the oil factory located under the whole place, and he was calling all servants to aid in the arrangement of foods for tonight's dinner, which was important because an inspector was coming over for dinner. I dropped the balls and, along with another servant, started arranging noodles on a plate. They were the rice noodles that turn transparent when you cook them (Vermicelli? Not sure.), and there were normal brownish ones as well as pink ones. The other servant twisted the noodles into a spiral, sort of like a roll, and I followed suit with the pink rice noodles. There were other foods as well, but the only other one I remember is tofu skin/pork rolls.

Then Inspector Sarka showed up for dinner, and I helped serve the dishes. General Petrov talked for a while, and eventually the conversation turned to the oil factory. He said something along the lines of "Of course, after this I will show you around the factory." and then there was an awkward moment and Inspector Sarka said "Oh, I actually already inspected the factory before I came to dinner..." and then General Petrov said "Excellent! That's great news! Then of course everything is wonderful!" and there was another awkward pause and the inspector said "Uh actually no... there was a leak in your factory and it has been deemed too unsafe to work in and has to be shut down." and the general said "Oh." OOH, SHUT DOWN, GENERAL. (Did not say this out loud though.)

Dream One: For some reason I had decided to join FBLA. (This may have been influenced by the "Join FBLA!" poster I saw yesterday.) The time for joining wasn't for a while later in the day, so to kill some time I went over to the FBLA fraternity house (in my dream there is one) for a while. I drove there and met Kat there too, and we went in through the garage. Apparently I had gone in with the impression that there was a swimming pool inside, but there was, in fact, no swimming pool, which was disappointing. I met a few people there and I think I was practicing being a businessperson or something. After a while, I got tired of it and went outside.

I walked around the neighborhood for a while, and I was confronted by some random people. They got into an argument, and I escaped from the scene by turning into a ghost (!) and going through a nearby wall.

Dream Two: Something about Hogwarts. I think I might have been a student there. For some sort of qualification test (surprisingly, to get me as a student or something, like a reverse college application process), the Hogwarts faculty had to perform a "spinning". Spinnings consisted of spinning around something on a rope. Very fast.

They usually did their spinnings with something else, but they didn't have it, so they used a chicken (a real live chicken at first, but at certain times later in my dream it briefly turned into a cooked chicken, one sort of like a rotisserie chicken that you might see at the supermarket). I remember being in my old house (except everything was flipped backwards) and going to look at the spinning. As I was getting close to the place where they were doing the spinning (where the laundry room used to be), part of the house turned sideways so that it was at a different angle to the rest of the house. I was somewhat surprised, but it seemed right because originally the angle had seemed a little weird and now it was right.

I haven't had a dream in a long time:

We were excited, that much I could see, to begin a new journey into the unknown. It was the first day in a new high school. The building renovation had been completed. We walked in through the doors, inhaling the fresh smell of paint (some of us gagging in disgust), and spread out to find our ceiling-to-floor lockers that would not open. Some people sat perched on water fountains. Some tried climbing on top of the lockers, only to find there was no space there.

It was a strange day. Andrew, Lauren, Jenny, and I set off to explore the neighborhood around the school. We hiked up a steep hill lined with various townhouses (much like in DC) and concert venues. Andrew, Lauren, and I stepped into one of them and found ourselves in what appeared to be a museum. The walls were lavishly decorated in lush red velvet with a glittering grand piano in the center. Suddenly, seats formed beneath us, and we began listening to a concert.

Then, we were late! We were late for a very important date. We dashed out of the concert hall and began sprinting up the street. The city townhouses gave way to a  stage in a forest. A football team was standing on stage doing cheers... And Lauren was replaced with Jenny. 

Then, we were late again! We ran away from the stage to a football stadium. It was half time. I had to explain the game to Andrew, Jenny, and the now-reappeared Lauren (though in real life I know next to nothing about football).

Dream One: I was reading a book, and someone asked me to go do something. I told them I would come, I just wanted to finish a few more pages. Then just a few seconds after I said that, I flipped two more pages and I was done with the book.

Dream Two: Diana sent me a Tumblr link on Google Chat. She was saying something about "THE VOICESSS THE VOICESSSSS" and she was freaking out a lot, but I didn't see what was the big deal. I opened the link and it was pictures of the kids and trolls from Homestuck, and when you clicked on them they talked (in what I guess was this person's version of each character's voice). I thought it was kind of cool and I clicked on a few of them.

I think I probably had a few other dreams but I don't remember them. These two 100% could have happened in real life, I had to think for a while to make sure they hadn't actually happened yesterday.

EDIT: Remembered another one.